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Tag: air powered car
On Sale in 2011: Air-Powered Car from Zero Pollution Motors
I enjoy science fiction, but I must admit that I’ve never read any of the works by Jules Verne. I know. It’s terrible, but I have never really taken to reading. I think it’s because books don’t come alive to me, as they did for Bastian Balthazar Bux (the kid from The Never Ending Story movie. Or was that a book? Sheesh!). Anyways, I always wished that reading would appeal to me, but I have not been hooked…yet. [Note: I’m hoping one day I will be a reader of many books. Sometimes I think reading is an acquired taste, while other times I just figure that it’s a lot like taste buds – they change over time. One day you love a certain food and hate another type. Five years later and there you are loving the food(s) you once hated. But I digress. Big time.]
Back to Jules Verne. Here are a couple of quotes from Jules Verne:
The Mysterious Island (1874): “Water decomposed into its primitive elements (Hydrogen and Oxygen), and decomposed doubtless by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as a fuel.”
Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863): “Our modern cities, with streets a hundred meters wide and buildings three hundred high, and which are always maintained at the same temperature, and with the sky furrowed by thousands of aero-cars and aero-buses!”
Jules Verne predicted a lot of stuff. Water used as a fuel. Water-powered vehicles. Aero-cars. Aero-buses. In Paris in the Twentieth Century, Verne even predicts the internet (in telegraph form), televisions, the electric chair, calculators and high-speed trains which run on compressed air. Sounds like a bunch of 20th century hogwash, right? I jest. Many of his predictions have become a reality, and now it seems that Zero Pollution Motors has realized the vision of using compressed air as a fuel for automobiles. Here are some of the designs of the first air cars, cars powered by gas and air:
Air Car Designs from Zero Pollution Motors
I know. I know. It’s more weird car designs. There must be some scientific law that states: “All cars with new fuel technologies must look really weird.” Regardless, ZPM is hoping to sell these cars in the United States as early as 2011, and the price tag will be $18,000-$20,000. That’s pretty good for a car that gets about 100 mpg and runs on compressed air and a small conventional engine. I dunno. I think it’s pretty cool. You can read more about it here if you want.
How the Air Car Works
I like the idea of all of these energy efficient cars, but I’m still waiting for a perfected version of Mr. Fusion. Just imagine if Doc Brown hired the ShamWow guy to sell Mr. Fusion. I’d own four of them like five months ago!
Doc Brown Pours Beer into Mr. Fusion in Back to the Future
I mean, I can run on beer. Why can’t a car? Just kidding. I don’t run. And I don’t drink beer. But I still think the notion of using trash as fuel is terrific!
Bonus: Just because you may want to know who invented the compressed air technology for cars – it was a dude named Guy Negre. Here he is, standing between two air cars from ZPM:
Guy Negre and 2 Air Cars from ZPM
They don’t call this thing an Air Pod for no reason. It looks like an escape pod from a submarine. If only submarines had such awesome escape pods.
MDI Air Pod (Air Powered Car)
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John Gerdy
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blog, Education, John Gerdy, football
Another Case in Point for Athlete Rights
Two articles this past week caught my attention as they highlighted, once again, the hypocrisy of the NCAA relating to its attempts to improve athlete welfare and rights.
The first recounted how in an effort to loosen restrictions and penalties for athletes to transfer, the NCAA established the “transfer portal” in October 2018. The portal allows an athlete to apply for a waiver of the requirement to sit out a season upon transfer to a second institution. When the athlete declares his intention to transfer, he is placed in the “transfer portal” where the request is reviewed by an NCAA committee. The committee has the ability to waive the one-year residency requirement if it can be documented that “mitigating circumstances outside the student-athlete’s control and directly impacts the health, safety or well-being of the student-athlete.”
Predictably, as a result of this loosening of transfer restrictions, the number of transfers has increased. And also predictably, many coaches do not like it.
“It’s too easy to let the kids quit”, said Dave Clawson, head football coach at Wake Forest. And James Franklin, head coach at Penn State commented, “How do you have discipline and structure and tough conversations in your program if there’s always a Plan B, an outlet with no real percussions?”
But true to form, the NCAA can’t help itself in its efforts to retain control over their players’ lives, educational experience and athletic careers. As a result of the coaches’ displeasure, the NCAA recently voted to tighten those restrictions to make it more difficult to obtain a waiver.
Coaches always talk about players “loyalty” to the program. But this is not about loyalty. It is about control of “their” players. Of course, loyalty is never mentioned when a coach leaves at the first opportunity for a better job or contract. When athletes transfer to another school, they are required to sit out a season of play. Coaches, on the other hand, can leave for another school and coach immediately and often a higher salary.
Last week, there was another particularly alarming article by Paula Lavinge of ESPN that provides another glaring example of why the NCAA should revise its rules to, at a minimum, allow every athlete to transfer one time without penalty.
A recent survey of college athletic trainers, conducted by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, revealed concerns on the part of trainers about college coaches having too much influence in medical decision-making. According to the survey, about 19% of college athletic trainers reported that a coach played an athlete who had been deemed “medically out of participation.”
Further, according to the survey, about 36% of respondents reported that a coach has been able to influence the hiring and firing of sports medicine staff. And of athletic trainers who reported that happening, 58% then reported being pressured by a coach or administrator to make a decision “not in the best interest of the student-athlete’s health.”
Those are staggering numbers!
They are numbers that clearly illustrate once again, that big time college athletics, particularly the sports of basketball and football, has little to do with loyalty or education. It’s about business and winning. And the key to winning is to control your “assets”, which in this case are the players.
If I arrived on campus and discovered that the coaching staff was willing to play players who had been deemed “medically out of participation”, I’d want to get out of that situation ASAP! And for good reason. I might be the next player to be pressured to play while hurt. Or, if the program had become so abusive and “toxic” as was revealed at the University of Maryland’s football program after the death of Jordan McNair in June 2018. In such situations an athlete who wants to transfer out of such a toxic environment should not be penalized by having to sit out a year. Further, he or she should not be required to explain or justify that action to anyone.
If the NCAA is so committed to education, then programs need to stop being run like professional sports franchises. If college coaches don’t want their athletes to respond to programs being run like businesses by thinking of their own welfare rather than being blindly loyal to “The Program”, then stop running programs like a business. And how can you expect a player to be “loyal” when his coach can leave the program for greener pastures at a moments notice without penalty? If players felt they weren’t simply “cogs in a machine”, and clearly playing a young person who is injured, long-term health ramifications be damned - is more than ample proof that they are perceived as cogs in a machine, then don’t run your programs like a professional sports franchise.
Meanwhile, the NCAA will keep talking about how they are working diligently to increase athlete rights and benefits and making the games (particularly football) safer. And coaches and administrators will continue to talk about how college athletics is about education and providing a safe, healthy well-balanced academic, social and athletic experience.
And then a study is released that, once again, highlights the hypocrisy of talking about athlete rights, safety and education while behind the curtain, reveals a that big-time football and basketball, and increasingly other sports, is not about those things at all. It’s about, business, winning and generating money. What is so striking about this study is how it reflects the cavalier attitude and lack of commitment of coaches and administrators to quality of life and health and safety issues and issues relating to athlete rights.
At the end of the day, the broad issue of athlete rights has far less to do about whether athletes can earn some extra money using their name and image or whether they get an extra $1,000 added to their scholarships. Rather, it is about the fundamental “Deal” that is struck between an athlete and a school’s and its coaches and administrative staff. The Deal is simple: the athlete provides his talent, often sacrificing his body to do so that the school can fill stadiums, win games and generate money in exchange for a safe, healthy well-balanced college experience and a legitimate opportunity to earn a meaningful degree. Cleary, the athletes are meeting their end of the bargain. Stadiums are full, television is tuned in and the money is flowing. If the findings of this study are even close to reflecting accurately, the control and influence coaches have over health and return to play decisions relating to athletes, it offers another very clear indication that the NCAA and college athletic establishment’s claims regarding concern for athlete safety, welfare and rights ring as hollow as ever.
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Five times in the last letter, the central leadership of his departure was known as the oldest anti-African meritorious minister
2019-01-12 06:01:54 category:Global
Deng Tietao
According to public information, Deng Tietao was named Deng Xicai, born in October 1916 in Kaiping City, Guangdong Province, and a member of the Communist Party of China. He is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, professor for life at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, supervisor of doctoral students, and executive director of the All-China Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
He was the deputy director and vice president of the Teaching Affairs Department of Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the director of Deng Tietao Research Institute of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the former member of the First Drug Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Health, and the lifelong director of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is also a member of the Fourth and Fifth CPPCC Consultative Conference of Guangdong Province.
For 80 years, Deng Tietao has provided a Chinese medicine program for the treatment of myasthenia gravis, a worldwide problem. When SARS broke out in 2002, he first put forward the plan of Chinese medicine to prevent and cure SARS, which was praised as the oldest anti-SARS meritorious minister. In 2003, he was hired by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine as the head of the expert advisory group of anti-SARS. He was awarded the Special Contribution Award of Chinese Medicine against SARS by the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
On July 1, 2009, Deng Tietao was jointly evaluated as the first master of Chinese medicine by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the former Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
According to the Yangcheng Evening News, Deng Tietao wrote in his will: The greatest legacy I can leave to my children and grandchildren is benevolence and benevolence, serving the people wholeheartedly.
Professor Liu Xiaobin, a disciple of Deng Tietao and deputy director of Deng Tietao Research Institute, said in an interview that while his bed was dying, Deng Lao was still thinking of doing traditional Chinese medicine and announced that the award-winning funds of Qihuang Prize of Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine would be used to treat myasthenia gravis and cardiovascular disease.
Reporters noted that in order to promote and protect traditional Chinese medicine, Deng Tietao has written to the central leadership five times in recent decades at a critical moment in the development of traditional Chinese medicine.
In the 1980s, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) declined over a period of time. Deng Tietao was engaged in the health care work of Marshal Xu Qian. In 1984, he proposed to Xu Qian that I help you see a doctor, you need to save traditional Chinese medicine.
In his letter to Xu Qian, he wrote: For quite a long time, traditional Chinese medicine has not been paid attention to, and there has been a lack of successors and skills. If we dont spare no effort to rescue traditional Chinese medicine, it will be too late to excavate it when the old Chinese medicine is old. The development of traditional medicine has been written into the Constitution, but we have lost too much time. We must take decisive measures to make it revive at an early date.
Xu read forward and added comments to the letter. Hu Yaobang and Qiao Shi also gave instructions. Finally, Cui Yueli, then Minister of Health, gave instructions for only seven days.
According to the Peoples Daily, Hu Yaobangs instructions at that time were to seriously solve the problems of traditional Chinese medicine. Soon after, the State Council agreed to establish the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
The second was in 1990. At that time, the central government planned to streamline its institutions, and the Chinese Medicine Administration planned to streamline them. On August 3, Deng Tietao joined seven other well-known veteran Chinese medicine practitioners in the country and wrote to Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, requesting that the functions of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine can only be increased, not weakened.
On October 9 of that year, I received a reply: I agreed to strengthen the functions of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in administering the work of Chinese medicine throughout the country. Eventually, the Chinese Medicine Administration was saved. This event is called Eight Lao Shu in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
In 1998, the tide of merging Western Hospital Schools with Colleges and Universities of Traditional Chinese Medicine rose throughout the country. Deng Tietao and seven other veteran Chinese doctors wrote to Zhu Rongji, then Premier of the State Council: Chinese medicine is a promising field of knowledge economy, we must not ignore it; Chinese medicine is small, Western medicine is big, reform must not grasp the big and relax the small.
In November of that year, veteran Chinese medicine doctors received a reply from the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Later, the merger of Chinese and Western hospitals and schools was urgently stopped. This incident is called the second Eight Laos Letter.
In April 2003, during the fight against SARS, he wrote to Hu Jintao, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and Wu Yi, then Vice Premier of the State Council, suggesting that traditional Chinese medicine should intervene in the fight against SARS. He wrote: Chinese medicine is a arsenal and should play a role in the treatment of SARS.
A week later, he received a phone call from Shejing, then Vice Minister of the Ministry of Health and director of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Your letter has been received by the General Secretary and his instructions have been given. Thank you!
In 2004, Deng Tietao, then Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council, put forward his views on the management system of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2006, when the farce of abolishing traditional Chinese medicine spread, the elderly voiced again to defend traditional Chinese medicine.
In the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, Deng Tietao has been practicing himself. Since 1978, he has enrolled postgraduates. He has trained 27 postgraduates, 15 doctoral students and one postdoctoral student. In 2004, at the age of 88, he also took two disciples, Ding Lei, CEO of Netease and Liang Dong, host.
During the hospitalization, he had a few words that impressed me deeply: the first sentence: to leave life and die outside the hospital. The second sentence: A man with a clear conscience is a real gentleman. His disciple Professor Liu Xiaobin recalled.
Source: Wang Zheng_N7526, responsible editor of Beijing News
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Private route may be shortcut for some O-level grads
Her O-level grades were good enough for her to earn a place at a junior college or a popular diploma programme at a polytechnic.
But instead of taking the conventional routes like most of her peers after receiving her O-level results two years ago, 18-year-old Celine Low pursued an 18-month diploma in management studies at SIM Global Education (SIM GE), a private institution here.
Ms Low, who graduated with the diploma last September and is now pursuing a business degree from RMIT University through SIM GE, said the shorter time to finish her studies was a draw.
With module exemptions from her diploma programme, she is on track to finish her degree in 2018, two years ahead of many of her peers. “I knew what my interests were. I wanted to learn about marketing and managing a business,” said Ms Low.
While the costs of studying at a private school are higher, “I think choosing the private route was the right decision for me”, she said.
Other students choosing to pursue further education at a private institution after the O levels cite similar reasons, including the variety of higher education options and the shorter time it takes to claim a diploma or a degree.
Major private institutions here said their enrolment of O-level holders has been steady over the last few years. An SIM GE spokesman said its foundation studies and diploma programmes see an annual intake of more than 500 O-level holders. Currently, the private institution offers two foundation studies and four diploma programmes, in areas such as accounting and international business.
PSB Academy said O-level student enrolment for its diploma courses, which typically takes between 12 and 24 months to complete, is “fairly consistent” every year. Last year, it had an intake of about 1,000 O-level holders. It offers 11 diploma programmes in areas such as retail management and industrial engineering.
Some private institutions, such as Kaplan Singapore, have even introduced new diplomas. Kaplan, which has more than 25 diploma programmes across eight disciplines such as law, introduced two new diplomas – in property management and Web technologies – last year. It takes an O-level holder about 10 months to complete a diploma at the school.
Besides attracting students looking to complete their studies in a shorter time, private schools also provide a route to further education for those who did not fare well at the O levels.
Mr P. Danush’s grades did not qualify him for a place at a junior college or a preferred polytechnic course. After his O levels, the 19-year-old took up a four-month professional certificate in business management, followed by an eight-month diploma in tourism, hospitality and events management at the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS).
Mr Danush, who is now studying for an advanced diploma in tourism, hospitality and events management at MDIS, said the private institution has given him a chance to pursue his interest.
“I’ve always wanted to be part of the tourism sector,” he said. “So I am glad that I have a chance to pursue this passion.”
Article by Calvin Yang
Source: The Straits Times© Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Permission required for reproduction.
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Betsy DeVos' staff denies rumor she's leaving education secretary job
"The rumors are just that…rumors. The Secretary has no plans of stepping down."
Author: Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press
Published: 10:52 AM PST November 12, 2018
Updated: 3:10 PM PST November 12, 2018
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she's not going anywhere with Democrats taking control of the U.S. House in January, despite rumors to the contrary.
But if she stays, her life is almost certainly going to get a whole lot tougher.
On Monday, in response to a question about rumors circulating that DeVos, a Michigan billionaire, Republican backer and former school-choice advocate in the state, might be looking at stepping down, her press secretary, Liz Hill, knocked down the suggestions.
"The rumors are just that…rumors," Hill wrote in an email to the Free Press. "The Secretary has no plans of stepping down."
There is almost universal agreement, however, that DeVos — who has made only rare appearances on Capitol Hill to testify with Republicans in charge of both chambers of Congress — is going to be asked a lot more questions in the future.
It also means that departmental policies on issues such as civil rights, school choice, sexual assault investigations, transgender students' access to bathrooms and student loan repayment are all going to come under close scrutiny.
And if a Democratic-led U.S. House doesn't have the power to force the Senate to enact changes, it can — and likely will — still try to force that chamber's hand on votes and repeatedly call DeVos before key committees to question her.
Educators' unions are already looking forward to the change: A day after the midterm elections last week, the National Education Association put out a statement saying the shift "will serve as an important check on President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos." And the publication Education Week noted that a Democratic takeover of the House Committee on Education and Workforce means "increased oversight of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos."
DeVos — a philanthropist and state party official who had no education background when Trump nominated her — has been controversial in the office since Day One. She was confirmed in February 2017 on a tie-breaking vote in the Senate by Vice President Mike Pence.
Besides pushing school choice proposals, she has criticized efforts to provide additional funding to under-performing schools; proposed rules that would decrease the number of investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and assault, and said she wouldn't stand in the way of school districts using federal funds to purchase firearms for protection.
She was also roundly criticized for flubbing a question on CBS's "60 Minutes" when she said she had no idea whether Michigan's schools were better or worse off because of her school choice efforts. During her confirmation hearing, she was also drubbed for seeming to not know details about some programs and for suggesting —jokingly — that some districts might need access for firearms to protect them from grizzly bears.
She has been a focal point of anger against the Trump administration since taking office, as well, and for her security detail, which is expected to cost some $8 million in the next year.
DeVos, however, has earned praised also — including from those who believe that changes in sexual assault investigation policies will provide more of a balance to the rights of the accused.
Writing for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education research organization in Washington, President Michael Petrilli said DeVos overcame a bumpy start and "grew into the role as secretary." The question is whether she decides to stay and face a Democratic House certain to hold her to a different standard.
"The question facing Secretary DeVos is whether to participate in these show trials," he wrote last week. "She has another option ... She can choose to step down and gracefully exit a thankless, no-win scene."
Petrilli went on to say she should do so, arguing it will "take some wind" out of Democrats' attacks and deny teachers unions a talking point headed into the next Congress and the 2020 election.
Contact Todd Spangler at 703-854-8947 or at tspangler@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tsspangler.
© 2018 Detroit Free Press
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Photo by: Jaime Valdez
Aug 26, 2018; Portland, OR, USA; Seattle Sounders forward Harrison Shipp (19) jumps over Portland Timbers goalkeeper Jeff Attinella (1) in the first half at Providence Park. Mandatory Credit: Jaime Valdez-USA TODAY Sports
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Sounders beat Timbers 1-0 and extend win streak to 7 games
An own goal in the 76th minute gave Seattle a 1-0 victory over Cascadia Cup rival Portland on Sunday night, extending the Sounders' club-record winning streak to seven games.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 9:27 PM PDT August 26, 2018
Updated: 9:27 PM PDT August 26, 2018
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An own goal in the 76th minute gave Seattle a 1-0 victory over Cascadia Cup rival Portland on Sunday night, extending the Sounders' club-record winning streak to seven games.
It doesn't matter how...
The breakthrough for @SoundersFC! #PORvSEA // Heineken #RivalryWeek
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— Major League Soccer (@MLS) August 27, 2018
Seattle also pushed its unbeaten streak to 10. The Sounders (11-9-5) have won five straight on the road.
The Timbers (10-7-7) have lost four straight after a 15-game unbeaten streak.
It was the third and final meeting between the teams this season. The Timbers won the previous two, but because of the unbalanced schedule, the first meeting (a 1-0 Portland victory) won't count toward the three-way rivalry with the Vancouver Whitecaps.
The Cascadia Cup was started in 2004 by the supporters of the three teams. The winner is determined on by points at the end of the season, and the Timbers are the defending champs.
Portland had the best chances in the first half, but Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei saved a shot from Andy Polo in the 10th minute and another from Sebastian Blanco in the 24th.
The Timbers made 14 shots in the half (compared to Seattle's two) but couldn't manage to score. In the end, the Timbers had 22 shots to Seattle's six.
The two sides tussled a bit in the 64th minute with Blanco and Seattle's Brad Smith both handed yellow cards.
The Timbers again threatened in the 71st minute, but Samuel Armenteros' header floated just over the net.
The lone goal came when Timbers defender Julio Cascante tried to clear a cross from Kim Kee-hee but instead it deflected into the net.
Clint Dempsey, last season's Comeback Player of the Year, missed his fifth straight game because of back problems. Dempsey is one goal shy of Fredy Montero's career record of 47 goals with Seattle.
The Sounders were also without Victor Rodriguez with a hamstring injury.
Portland defender Larrys Mabiala did not play because of a thigh injury. Liam Ridgewell returned to the starting lineup for the first time since May 19. He had a quad injury and also missed time with the team after the birth of his daughter.
The Sounders were coming off a decisive 5-0 victory over the LA Galaxy. Portland fell 3-0 at Sporting Kansas City.
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KNX Still the First Choice for WorldSkills
20.07.2017 KNX Still the First Choice for WorldSkills
Gold Standard Continues to Inspire Young Talents for Modern Building System Engineering
Brussels - No professional world championships without KNX! From 15-18 October, young people from all over the world will once again be coming together to let their passion for their professions run free and pit themselves against one other in 51 disciplines at WorldSkills 2017 in Abu Dhabi. These young talents will not be missing out on the worldwide standard for house and building systems engineering this year either. KNX remains the essential technology for the discipline of electrical engineering and the first choice for these young contestants from more than 40 countries.
For the participants, the continuation of the long-standing partnership between WorldSkills and KNX means that they can also work with the gold standard at this year's "World Cup for Professions". With this standard, they are already regularly making use of advanced solutions in their daily work and education routines. In past years, KNX has proved itself not only at WorldSkills, but also at EuroSkills, AsianSkills and AmericanSkills - the regional offshoots of the professional championships - and has at the same time stoked up youthful enthusiasm for modern house and building system engineering.
"Studies prove that KNX has not only firmly established itself in the most important markets in the field of intelligent building networking, but has also placed itself at the forefront of technological advances. KNX is therefore a real future technology and we are looking forward to making it available to the specialists of the future in Abu Dhabi", explains Franz Kammerl, President of the KNX Association. The growing importance of KNX on all continents was also key for the organiser of the professional competition when he decided to select KNX as the ISO / IEC 14543-certified technology for WorldSkills 2017.
"WorldSkills and the KNX Association are natural partners," emphasises David Hoey, CEO of WorldSkills. "Together, we are at the forefront of progress which is driven by new technologies and constantly redefines what is required in terms of professional and technical skills and abilities. As a global technology leader for intelligent building networking, the KNX Association is a strong partner for WorldSkills Abu Dhabi 2017", says Hoey.
As a global platform for the promotion of professional excellence and developing the skills of young talents, WorldSkills is supported by 77 member states and regions. The primary goal of the organisation is to prepare the young talent of today to be tomorrow's specialists for the jobs of the future. This is done via international cooperation between industry, governments, and educational institutions, as well as through the exchange of knowledge. "In this context, as in the previous years, the professional competition will demonstrate the implementation of remarkable craftsmanship and practical knowledge in electrical engineering with KNX. WorldSkills 2017 will therefore once again be an excellent event - not just for KNX, but also for a whole generation of young talent," underlines KNX President Franz Kammerl.
Further information at www.worldskillsabudhabi2017.com and www.knx.org
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What is the conviction of cyber crime defamation in India?
Date : 19-02-2019 10:38
Cyber defamation is publishing of defamatory material against another person with the help of computers or internet. If someone publishes some defamatory statement about some other person on a website or send emails containing defamatory material to other persons with the intention to defame the other person about whom the statement has been made would amount to cyber defamation. The harm caused to a person by publishing a defamatory statement about him on a website is widespread and irreparable as the information is available to the entire world. Cyber defamation affects the welfare of the community as a whole and not merely of the individual victim. It also has its impact on the economy of a country depending upon the information published and the victim against whom the information has been published.
STATUTORY PROVISIONS GOVERNING CYBER DEFAMATION IN INDIA
INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
The Indian Penal Code, 1860 contains provisions to deal with the menace of cyber defamation.
1. Section 499 of IPC:
Section 499 of IPC says that whoever, by words either spoken or intended to be read, or by signs or by visible representations, makes or publishes any imputation concerning any person intending to harm, or knowing or having reason to believe that such imputation will harm, the reputation of such person, is said, except in the cases hereinafter excepted, to defame that person.The offence of defamation is punishable under Section 500 of IPC with a simple imprisonment up to 2 years or fine or both.
Section 469 of IPC says that whoever commits forgery, intending that the document or electronic record forged shall harm the reputation of any party, or knowing that it is likely to be used for that purpose shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine
3. Section 503 of IPC :
Section 503 of IPC defines the offense of criminal intimidation by use of use of emails and other electronic means of communication for threatening or intimidating any person or his property or reputation.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000
The Section 66A of the Information Act, 2000 does not specifically deal with the offence of cyber defamation but it makes punishable the act of sending grossly offensive material for causing insult, injury or criminal intimidation.
Section 66A of the Information Act, 2000
Section 66A of the IT Act says that any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device:-
any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; content information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, or ill will, persistently makes by making use of such computer resource or a communication device, any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
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In Indonesia, One Group Fights to Reform Zero-Tolerance Cannabis Laws
Bethan Rose Jenkins
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While many nations are moving toward an acceptance of legal cannabis, Indonesia continues to enforce some of the deadliest cannabis laws in the world.
The Southeast Asian archipelago is home to nearly 261 million people, and despite a harsh no-tolerance drug policy, cannabis remains the most widely used illegal substance in the country.
Other countries in Asia are slowly warming to the idea of cannabis reform. South Korea adopted a very limited (CBD only) medical cannabis law last November. Malaysia is expected to follow in the near future. Most recently, Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly signed off on a bill to allow cannabis to be used for research and medicinal purposes.
With an ideal climate for cultivation—and a province that produces a well-known medicinal variety called Aceh—why is cannabis so taboo in Indonesia?
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Indonesia’s Draconian Cannabis Policies
Indonesia’s cannabis laws don’t permit the production, possession, distribution, or sale of cannabis. Encouraged by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte and his brutal efforts to fight his country’s illicit drug problem, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo—also known as Jokowi—has publicized plans to lift a moratorium on the death penalty for drugs.
Under those plans, authorities would be granted the power to shoot drug dealers and traffickers on sight. But those plans have yet to be put into action.
People daring enough to buy or grow cannabis on Indonesian soil face serious risks if they get caught. Farmers who grow cannabis can face the death penalty or a minimum fine of 8 billion rupiah (equivalent to US $550,000) based on a 2009 law enforced by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN). The death sentence can be leveled on anyone found guilty of cultivating as few as five cannabis plants.
The death sentence can be leveled on anyone found guilty of cultivating as few as five cannabis plants.
Even so, a large portion of Southeast Asia relies on Indonesia’s illegal cannabis grows. An estimated 30% of cannabis consumed in Southeast Asia comes from Indonesia’s Aceh region.
“With such a large number of users and such a high demand, Indonesia is now the largest drug market in Asia, attracting both local and foreign dealers,” the chief representative of Indonesia’s National Anti-Narcotics Agency, who goes by the single name, Sulistiandriatmoko, told the South China Post.
How Did Cannabis Get Here?
At the turn of the 19th century, the Dutch brought cannabis to Indonesia from India in order to grow it as a source of fiber.
Traditional use of Indonesian cannabis can be traced back to the scenic province of Sumatra, especially the Aceh region on the island’s northwestern tip. Its climate is ideal for producing high-quality cannabis, including a pure cannabis sativa landrace strain which shares the region’s namesake.
Traditionally, cannabis was planted among other crops as a natural pest repellent. It was also widely used for its intoxicating properties. In the 1920s, the Dutch colonial government introduced restrictions on cannabis use, production, and distribution.
It was outlawed completely in 1971 as a Class 1 narcotic. Under this law, anyone caught with five grams or more of cannabis can face the death penalty.
The Aceh strain’s high quality and potency make it a high-demand export, and the Acehnese people have been caught shipping it by the ton to the rest of Indonesia. In 2015, 800,000 cannabis plants were destroyed by the Aceh Besar Police. Since then, Aceh cannabis has accounted for 95-98% of seizures.
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A Pro-Cannabis Group Comes Forward
Despite the country’s draconian penalties, one group of activists continue to push forward and make progress on drug law reform.
The legalization advocacy group Lingkar Ganja Nusantara (LGN) aims to change the way cannabis is regulated for recreational, medical, industrial, and spiritual use.
“Our work focuses on advocating for legal cannabis regulation, particularly by convincing Indonesians that the cannabis plant should be regulated,” says LGN founder Dhira Narayana.
Narayana started LGN in 2007, when he and a team of activists launched a Facebook group called “Dukung Legalisasi Ganja,” meaning “Support Cannabis Legalization.” The group includes people from the Indonesian cities of Bandung, Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi, Surabaya, and Makassar.
In 2015, in an effort to understand cannabis and help spread public knowledge and awareness of the plant, LGN obtained the country’s first medical cannabis license from the government.
“This research is a crucial element of our work in Indonesia, considering the relatively higher level of credibility of scientific research and information,” says Narayana. “Other forms of knowledge that are based on local cultural practices are now seen as subordinate or outdated.”
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The group also sponsors public events and film screenings to educate people about cannabis and cannabis policy reform. In 2016, they participated in the Global Marijuana March, despite the government’s harsh laws against the plant.
Showing that they care about the environment and sustainability, LGN has also conducted large trash clean-ups and tree-planting events. They also focus on maintaining relationships with medical patients who use cannabis, and their families, to better understand the plant and its many uses.
The Political Climate Needs to Change
Cannabis prohibition affects even the poorest Indonesians. In 2017, the Sanggau district court in West Kalimantan province sentenced a man named Fidelis Arie Sudewarto to eight months in prison after the authorities caught wind of him growing cannabis without permission. He grew it for his cancer-stricken wife.
Tragically, after Sudawarto’s arrest, his wife’s cannabis supply stopped. With no treatment, her health deteriorated and she passed away while her husband was locked up. To make matters worse, Sudawarto was also fined 1 billion rupiah (equivalent to US$75,000).
Pro-cannabis groups like the LGN slammed the decision after the court ruled that Arie had no permit to cultivate cannabis and supply the drug to his wife, despite the fact that he did not supply cannabis to anyone else.
“I began to see the LGN movement as part of a revolution due to the fact that it requires a fundamental paradigm shift and involves a large number of people in Indonesia.”
Dhira Narayana, Founder, LGN
Despite all the work the LGN has done, high-level change will have to come from those in government power. LGN’s Narayana plans to wait for President Jokowi’s second term in 2019: “We believe that we first need a government that is more [politically] stable and open to push for regulatory approaches toward cannabis. In this first period of the current President Jokowi’s government, there are still many political and legal issues that prevent any real progress to be made on the issue of cannabis.”
Legalization, even if only for medical purposes, would give the Indonesian economy a boost. With ongoing support from cannabis advocacy groups like LGN, and an already-existing culture of growing in the Aceh region, Indonesia could one day become a leader in cannabis production.
“I began to see the LGN movement as part of a revolution due to the fact that it requires a fundamental paradigm shift and involves a large number of people in Indonesia,” says Narayana.
“We are confident that Indonesia can contribute greatly to the world in the development of this valuable crop, both in the process of cultivation and in further expanding its medicinal applications,” Narayana adds. “I hope I could help inspire other Indonesians to find the courage to fight for the cannabis plant. The planet better be ready for us.”
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Could Cannabis Be the Next Antidepressant?
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Experiential evidence has long told us about marijuana’s value in combatting stress, depression, and anxiety disorders. Emerging research on the body’s endocannabinoid system has substantiated these claims by showing that there’s much more going on in the brain than a high.
The US federal government approved a study that would allow researchers at the University of Arizona to evaluate cannabis’ benefits in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). And there was much rejoicing, but we have a long way to go before the plant’s antidepressant and anti-anxiety effects are acknowledged by political forces.
This week’s roundup of studies is dedicated to the merging of cannabis and mental health, a union we hope to see bloom in upcoming years as research continues to bolster what cannabis patients and advocates already know.
1. A Potential PTSD Cure in Cannabinoids?
A few weeks ago at the Canadian Depression Research and Intervention Network (CDRIN) Conference, a professor from NYU announced an upcoming project that would explore the efficacy of a marijuana-mimicking pill for PTSD patients. This study piggybacks off the discovery that PTSD sufferers have a shortage of natural marijuana-like chemicals called endocannabinoids. Cannabinoids like THC and CBD found in the cannabis plant can help correct those deficiencies.
Unfortunately, synthetic marijuana pills containing one isolated compound are less effective than marijuana flowers and whole-plant extracts, which contain hundreds of therapeutic compounds working synergistically. Still, baby steps are better than no steps at all.
2. Endocannabinoid Receptors Linked to Happiness
When cannabis is consumed, chemical compounds like THC bind to receptors throughout the brain and body. Receptors centralized in the brain are called CB1 receptors, and a recent study analyzed these structures as they relate to subjective reports of happiness. Their findings have nothing to do with cannabis consumption; rather, they discovered that subjects with certain genetic variations of these CB1 receptors reported higher happiness ratings.
What does this have to do with cannabis? We aren’t sure yet, but given what we know already about cannabinoids and their special relationship with these receptors, this study could motivate further exploration of the endocannabinoid system as a target for cannabis-based medicines.
3. Antidepressants and Cannabinoids Team Up
In the United States, antidepressant medications are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs while cannabis remains top dog among illicit substances. Amazingly, very little research has been conducted on the interaction of the two even though they are often used in conjunction. Last month, however, a Polish study scratched the surface by discovering that antidepressant medication prompted an increase in the body’s production of natural endocannabinoids.
As much as we’d like to tell you exactly what this means for cannabis and antidepressant users, not even the study’s authors are sure. Still, the results have researchers asking crucial questions about the endocannabinoid system and its regulatory role in brain chemistry. This system, discovered only within the last few decades, holds exciting medical promise, and it’s difficult to remain patient while laws continue to block its exploration.
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“Veyo will fail”, predicts CEO of UK’s biggest conveyancer
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Crawford: “confusion and frustration” at claims made by Veyo
The chief executive of Britain’s biggest conveyancing firm, myhomemove, has predicted that Veyo, the online portal launched yesterday by the Law Society and Mastek, “will fail”.
Doug Crawford’s comments came as he unveiled a new version of myhomemove’s eWay online service, which he promised would help “revolutionise conveyancing”.
Mr Crawford, whose business is regulated by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, said: “Veyo will fail – but not for the reasons some might think.
“It won’t fail due the inadequacies of its case management system, or because its claims to create a trusted community seem to rely on levels of due diligence that are way below what is already available in the market.
“It won’t even fail because a chain view is of very limited value if you can only see a few parts of the chain.
“Veyo will fail because, it appears to us, that the Law Society don’t understand customers – they don’t even it seems understand their own members, law firms, and how they now work.”
Addressing delegates at myhomemove’s annual conference last week, Mr Crawford went on: “There is still a huge part of the conveyancing market which is made up of smaller firms staffed by highly skilled and motivated conveyancers, working hard to do a great job in difficult circumstances.
“Many of these Law Society members have been vocal on the Law Society Gazette and other forums about their confusion and frustration at the claims being made by Veyo’s marketing.
“’Highly misleading’, ‘illusory’, ‘insulting’, ‘hilarious’ and ‘alarming’ are just some of the words that have been used to describe the bold claims being made by Veyo about the level of market interest, and about how it will change the conveyancing market.
“Based on the reaction of many of their members, the Law Society, appear, at best, to have been extremely naïve in allowing such claims to be made by a joint venture that carries their name.”
Mr Crawford predicted that the number of firms active in conveyancing was “likely to reduce considerably” in the short-term.
“But, for those small firms who really do want to be serving conveyancing customers well, and are willing to back themselves in doing that, the technology needed to support them is increasingly accessible – but it isn’t Veyo.”
Mr Crawford said a new version of eWay, built to be ‘mobile first’, would be tested next month.
“The new version of eWay is built on a completely different infrastructure and will allow us to continuously improve our online experience for clients,” he said.
“Our plan is to move into testing during June, our first live pilots start in July and run into August and we aim to roll out with full launch during September.
“eWay is already market-leading and this new version will raise the bar even further and help us revolutionise conveyancing.”
Mr Crawford said myhomemove had been “for some years now” the largest conveyancing firm in the country and was on course to complete 54,000 transactions this year.
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Thinking of buying an electric car? Here's 10 things you should know
John Hayes lectures at University College Cork and previously worked in the automotive industry. He is the lead author on energy systems, power electronics and drives for hybrid, electric and fuel cell vehicles. Here he provides 10 tips if you are thinking of buying an electric car.
Here are some points to consider before buying an electric vehicle (EV).
More an more people are moving towards - or at least considering the move towards - electric vehicles (EV's). Here are some things you need to consider first.
1.Range – is it a reason to be anxious?
The infamous range anxiety is a much talked-about topic for electric vehicles (EV). Let’s do the numbers. The typical Irish driver travels about 50 km a day. The kilowatt-hour (kWh) is the unit of measure of battery size. Each unit can result in about 3 to 6 km of driving for a typical battery-electric vehicle (BEV). The typical BEV on sale in Ireland now comes with a battery pack sized from 28 to 60 kWh. The luxury cars from Tesla are from 75 to 100 kWh. The 40 kWh BEV has a published range of about 270 km. This is over 5 days’ range in the battery on good driving days. This range will drop by approximately 20 %, as the battery ages over the 8 years for which it is guaranteed. A further drop in range of about 30 % can be expected due to the use of heating, air-conditioning or defrosting on very hot or very cold days. Thus, the range, in several years’ time, could be as low as 150 km in adverse weather conditions. However, that is still close to 3 days driving for the typical driver.
Driving aggressively, driving up and down hills, and carrying heavy loads will also reduce the range. So drive less, lighten up, and slow down if you want to maximize the range.
2.Hybrid or fully electric?
The hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) features two energy sources on the car: a battery with an electric motor combining with a high-efficiency petrol engine. Examples are the Toyota Prius, the Lexus RX 450h, the Ford Mondeo and the Hyundai Ioniq.
The battery and the electrical system enable the engine to run in the most efficient mode. The car can drive quietly in electric mode for several km when it is inefficient to use the engine. The fuel economy of a HEV is about 50 % greater than that of a conventional petrol car.
The big advantage of the hybrid is that you get improved efficiency and reduced emissions, while not having to worry about range.
3.How much do you save a month?
Battery electric car drivers can save hundreds of euro every month. Essentially your fuel is free at many public chargers, or is cheap-rate night-time electricity at home. There are serious savings to be made on fuel.
4.Power - are electric cars as powerful as petrol engines - can they pull my horsebox/ trailer?
One of the great things about an electric car is the acceleration. The zero-to-100 km/h can be unreally fast and is thrilling for many drivers. Of course, don’t be accelerating too hard because it’s (i) dangerous, and (ii) not good efficient driving. Many EVs are not designed for towing, and so be sure and check on whether you can tow or not.
5.Did you know – NASA has been putting electric cars on Mars for decades?
The two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on the planet Mars in January 2004. They were to last 6 months while they searched for signs of water on Mar’s surface. Spirit lasted 6 years and Opportunity died in June 2018. Opportunity completed a marathon on Mars in March 2015 – it was covering about 10 m a day. It eventually ran out of energy and died when it got stuck in a crater and its solar panels could not get recharged by the sun.
6.Tax - is the road tax cheaper?
EVs carry the lowest road tax. They are cheap to run after initial purchase… unless you have to replace the battery outside of warranty (see No. 9).
7. Maintenance - do they have to go to a special mechanic if something goes wrong?
Yes, you must go to trained mechanics for service and repairs as battery and hybrid cars have powertrains which are quite different from a conventional car. The garages, which sell electric cars, will have the highly-trained mechanics and technicians which your car requires.
8. Do the tyres and brakes wear more?
One of the wonders of electric cars is regenerative braking. When you hit the brakes in an electric car, the computers on the car actually tell the electric motors to capture the energy of the car as it slows down and recharge the battery. So, it’s quite likely that you don’t use the actual brakes at all. This saves a lot in term of wear and tear on brakes, and creates free energy for the battery!
No matter what car you drive, it’s important that the tyres are at the correct pressure. If the tyre is under-pressured, then you’ll end up using excess fuel. If the tyre is over-pressured, you’ll have a bumpy ride. Driving at the wrong tyre pressure is also dangerous.
9.What about battery replacement costs?
This can be expensive for a battery or hybrid electric car. In general, the batteries are warranteed for 8 to 10 years. This may lead to the need to replace the battery as the car itself can last for 12 to 16 years. While battery replacement is likely the best environmental option, it will raise the overall cost of ownership of the vehicle, and also drop the resale value of older vehicles.
10.What comes next for technology?
We will likely be seeing hydrogen fuel-cell EVs in Ireland in the next decade. These vehicles will run like an electric car but are powered by compressed hydrogen instead of a large battery. The big truck or bus running a long distance on hydrogen will have one emission from the exhaust pipe – water vapour!
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Temperatures set to drop as easterly air flow hits the UK
Many areas throughout the UK recently saw a pleasant rise in temperatures, but these are set to dip again over the next few days.
The UK is currently experiencing an easterly air flow, with high pressure to the north and northeast of the UK and low pressure to the south, meaning that the country will continue to see an easterly air flow throughout the next few days.
Many areas throughout the UK saw a pleasant rise in temperatures yesterday (8 April), but these are set to dip again over the next few days.
April 10 is set to be a mostly fine and dry day with variable cloud cover and occasional sunshine. However, it will turn cold overnight, with mainly clear skies and a widespread frost.
‘Feeling colder’
Met Office Meteorologist, Nicola Maxey, said, “Although there will be showers or rain across parts of the southern half of the UK at times these will slowly move southwards leaving all parts dry and fine, if rather colder.
“The average temperature for the UK as a whole for the whole of April is just 12C so although feeling colder temperatures will only be a little below average for the time of year.”
The weekend is set to be largely fine and dry with sunny spells for many, but with a few scattered showers possible in the east.
“Generally rather cold, with widespread overnight frost,” adds the Met Office.
Looking further ahead
Looking further ahead, the Met Office UK outlook for Saturday 13 to Monday 22 April explains that after cooler conditions clear, temperatures are set to return to those expected at this time of year.
“Following the colder interlude, temperatures are likely to recover to near-normal, with warm conditions likely at times, especially in the south and west,” the Met Office said.
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1994: A look back at the big stories
Grunge lost a legend in this year
Published: 16:09 Friday 21 April 2017
This week in 1994, Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died in a New-York City hospital four days after suffering a stroke. He was 81.
The then US President, Bill Clinton, announced Nixon’s death at the White House, praising his predecessor as “a statesman who sought to build a lasting structure of peace”.
Not everyone shared Clinton’s view. A polarising figure who won a record landslide and resigned in disgrace 21 months later, Nixon received a scathing obituary by celebrated Gonzo writer Hunter S Thompson, who described the former president as “a crook” and an “American monster” in Rolling Stone magazine.
In other news, Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland became the first person to reach the North Pole alone and without help after a 52-day trek dragging a sledge across the icecap.
“He reached the pole and sent a satellite transmission saying: ‘Expedition ended - want pick-up’,” his spokesman, Hans Christian Erlandsen, told the media.
Back on home soil, the Prime Minister hailed a double dose of good economic news: a drop in unemployment and a £4 billion windfall on the public debt.
But the figures failed to dent speculation among many Conservative MPs that John Major’s days as Prime Minister were numbered.
The City was not impressed either and noted gloomily the possible inflationary pressures of a slight rise in average earnings.
Major stayed in power for another three years before going on to lose the 1997 general election, in one of the largest electoral defeats since the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Italy’s “marriage of the century”, between a 93-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man, was called off this week in 1994 when the couple appeared to have eloped after news of their planned wedding had made international headlines.
Margherita Bazzani and Andrea Pezzoni were to have exchanged vows at a registry office in Turin but the couple failed to put in an appearance as a horde of reporters and cameramen waited outside.
Mrs Bazzani, a wealthy widow, said the week before that she had thought of adopting Pezzoni, a biscuit maker, but that marriage was quicker.
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The mandatory Disclosure Pilot Scheme may not start in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales (“BPCs”) until 1 January 2019, but it seems the courts are already taking the new rules into account. In one reported case, the High Court has ordered a separate “list of issues for disclosure”, which will have to be jointly completed by the parties as part of the new Disclosure Review Document required under the Pilot Scheme.
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Bernie Just Revealed His Full-Throated Embrace of Capitalism
Posted By PoliZette Staff On April 15, 2019 @ 8:24 PM In Border Security,Constitutional Freedoms,Drain the Swamp,Election 2020,PoliZette | No Comments
“When you wrote the book and made the money, isn’t that the definition of capitalism and the American dream?” Brett Baier of Fox News pointedly asked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday night.
The venue was a town hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The context was Sanders’ wealth — revealed after he released 10 years’ worth of tax returns on Monday showing that he had been “fortunate” even as he pushed for a more progressive tax system.
At the same time, Sanders refused to say why he would not volunteer to pay the massive new 52-percent “wealth tax” that he himself advocated imposing on the country’s richest individuals, as Fox News [1] also pointed out.
The returns showed that Sanders and his wife, Jane, paid a 26 percent effective tax rate on $561,293 in income — and made more than $1 million in both 2016 and 2017.
“What we want is a country in which everyone has an opportunity,” Sanders insisted on Monday night. “A lot of people don’t have a college degree. A lot of people are not United States senators.”
Sanders robustly defended his wealth, as he has before — which some people have said is hypocritical.
Related: Bernie Sanders Reveals He’s a Millionaire After Lucrative Book Sales [2]
“This year, we had $560,000 in income,” Sanders admitted. “In my and my wife’s case, I wrote a pretty good book. It was a bestseller, sold all over the world, and we made money.”
“If anyone thinks I should apologize for writing a bestselling book, I’m sorry, I’m not gonna do it,” he added.
Fox News [1] also noted the following about the town hall event on Monday night:
Pressed by anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum as to why he was holding onto his wealth rather than refusing deductions or writing a check to the Treasury Department, Sanders began laughing dismissively and, in an apparent non sequitur, asked why MacCallum didn’t donate her salary. (“I didn’t suggest a wealth tax,” MacCallum responded.)
“Pfft, come on. I paid the taxes that I owe,” Sanders shot back. “And by the way, why don’t you get Donald Trump up here and ask him how much he pays in taxes? President Trump watches your network a little bit, right? Hey, President Trump, my wife and I just released 10 years. Please do the same.”
Sanders had earlier mentioned his 2018 best-seller, “Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance,” as the reason for his comfortable financial status.
“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he quipped to The New York Times [2] recently.
And in Gary, Indiana, on Friday, Sanders said with a bit of testiness to a Daily Mail [3] reporter, “I didn’t know that it was a crime to write a good book. My view has always been that we need a progressive tax system, which demands that the wealthiest people in this country finally start sharing their fair share in taxes. If I make a lot of money, you make a lot of money.”
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[1] Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-takes-stage-at-fox-news-town-hall-after-emerging-as-apparent-dem-frontrunner
[2] Related: Bernie Sanders Reveals He’s a Millionaire After Lucrative Book Sales: https://www.lifezette.com/2019/04/bernie-sanders-socialist-says-hes-millionaire-lucrative-book-sales/
[3] Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6919133/Bernie-Sanders-says-wont-apologize-writing-best-selling-book-millionaire.html
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Love, Justine
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Do You Cook At Home?
"Do you cook at home?" has become my second to least favorite question people ask me, next to "Where are you from?" Now that I'm married, often times the first thing I'm asked, particularly by women of my mother's generation, is "Do you cook at home?" Then of course, followed by "What do you cook?" It actually started when we moved in prior to marriage, but even more so now.
The question always baffles me, because I think how do they think I've been taking care of myself this whole time? How else do I nourish my body? Do they think I just eat instant ramen and mac 'n cheese out of a box all the time? I don't even like instant ramen.
What's worse is their reaction when I respond yes. "Oh really?? Wow, what do you cook?" When they ask what do I cook, I'm still more baffled, and really just offended, because it feels like they're implying they don't think I know how to cook. I cook food, that's what I cook. If they're asking what kinds of cuisines I cook, well, I'm an Angelena so I cook and eat everything--kale, quinoa, guac, and vegan cheese included! I know that no one truly means to be offensive, but it's really just so backwards, because when has anyone ever asked Chris if he cooks at home or what he cooks? Actually, someone did ask once if he ever makes me crepes, but that's just because he's French. However, it's not like they're asking because they want to trade recipes--I do make a pretty mean chorizo mac 'n cheese, but no, they're not asking for that.
The reason I find this question so offensive is because it assumes that I as the woman should be cooking for my husband, that I alone hold that responsibility. It assumes that my role as the woman is in the kitchen. It would be very different if they asked "what do you two cook at home?" That question I totally welcome and consider sweet, because it implies that we cook together, or that sometimes I cook and sometimes he cooks without assuming antiquated gender roles. It shows that us as a couple take care of each other and share in equal parts our responsibilities.
In truth, I do most of the cooking. As an only child whose mother pampered him to death, Chris has learned that I won't be his mother. I won't be my mother for that matter. My dad is actually a fantastic cook and does some of the cooking when he's actually home; but my mother comes from old world ways and is oft unintentionally an offender of gender inequality. It's just the way her brain has been wired and conditioned. You won't hear her yelling at my brother over chores the way she does with me, and I don't even live with her anymore. But my mother is 58 and I don't expect to make her see the light and change her ways--even though sometimes my mouth can't help itself and we try anyways.
Instead, I make sure that in my relationship with my husband, we are partners. The reason I knew Chris was the one in the first place, was because I knew I had a partner in life. He showed me early on I'd never be alone, and that I'd never have to carry the weight of the load on my own. Of course, it's not about equal weight and equal responsibility all of the time--if only life were that fair. I've learned from witnessing my parents' own marriage, that in relationships, sometimes one partner must pick up the slack of the other, because sometimes life gets a little heavier for the other, and vice versa. But that's why we're in this together, right? That is the beauty of marriage.
So, if you ever have the urge to ask a newly married woman if she cooks at home and what she cooks, please pause a moment and rephrase that question to "Do you two cook at home?" If we really want to achieve gender equality, we have to start with how we speak to each other and how we speak of women.
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Who is a parent? – High Court issues ruling in sperm donor father case
June 20, 2019 By Marino Law
Masson v Parsons [2019] HCA 21
Yesterday, the High Court of Australia ruled that a sperm donor was a legal parent with the inherent rights and roles that arise therefrom.
Family law issues rarely arise for determination in the High Court however an issue as unique as this was considered appropriate for consideration.
In 2006 a girl was conceived using sperm from a known donor.
The donor father remained in close contact with the family, introducing her to his family and volunteering at her school. In Court the man was known as Robert.
The child called the donor “daddy”. She had a sister (not the same donor father) who also called the man “daddy”.
The legal stoush between the donor and the Mother arose when the Mother, with her same sex partner, decided to move to New Zealand.
The donor father did not agree and sought to challenge their proposal in the Family Court of Australia.
At the initial trial, the donor father was successful, with the Court determining that there was more to parenthood than biology and concluding that “the children will do best if Susan and Margaret make the long-term decisions about their future in consultation with Robert. Susan and Margaret were not permitted to relocate to New Zealand.
The Mothers appealed this decision, relying upon NSW legislation which specifically dealt with the legal rights of a sperm donor in same sex IVF treatment. They were successful in their appeal.
Robert sought and obtained leave to appeal to the High Court given the apparent conflict between the Commonwealth Family Law Act and the NSW legislation.
The Constitutional issue resulted in the Commonwealth government intervening and supporting Robert’s case and the Victorian Attorney General supporting the Mother’s case.
The High Court found, by majority that the NSW law was not applicable, and the Commonwealth definition of parent should be applied.
It stated that “the term sperm donor suggests that the man in question has relevantly done no more than provide his semen to facilitate an artificial conception procedure on the basis of an understanding that he is thereafter to have nothing to do with any child born”. It found that those were not the facts of this case.
The successful High Court appeal returned the parents to the original Family Court orders, requiring consultation with Robert about long term issues and time arrangements.
The High Court ruling will have far reaching impacts upon donor arrangements and for this reason, it is recommended that when there is a known donor providing genetic material for IVF or Surrogacy, a known donor agreement ought to be entered.
Whilst not legally binding, the statement of intentions contained therein will have an impact on any court proceedings which may arise in the future.
Marino Law’s Family Law Partner, Abbi Golightly has extensive experience in issues relating to donor assisted fertility and all other matters pertaining to assisted reproductive technology as it impacts family law. Contact us to discuss your needs in relation to these types of matters on 55260157.
Filed Under: Family Law & Divorce, News Tagged With: Accredited Family Law Specialist, Custody, family law, High Court of Australia, Masson v Parsons, parents, same sex parents, sperm donor, who is a parent
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American Exceptionalism: Point/Counter-Point (Article/Video)
Greg Smith and Grace DeKoker
Filed under Multimedia, Opinion, Point/Counterpoint
Is America truly exceptional? That is the question we seek to answer in this issue’s installation of Point-Counter point. The LION’s Managing Editor Greg Smith faces off against LION’s Editor-in-Chief Grace DeKoker on how great America really is. You can also watch a video version of this debate located below. Or, you can watch the video in a new tab on LTTV’s Youtube account.
The best country on Earth
America is, and always has been, the best country on the face of the earth. No country is as free and as rich as America is, and no other country has done more to propagate its blessings throughout the world. Although it’s not perfect, it is by far, as Abraham Lincoln once said, the “last best hope of earth.”
It’s important to recognize what America does and has done for the rest of the world. Not that its influence on the world has been perfect, but no other country’s influence on the world around it has been better. Here’s why.
The last century saw bloodshed beyond the scope that the world had ever seen before. More people died at the hands of evil people than had died in all the world’s history before 1900. It was the military intervention of America that decisively won both world wars and stopped the Holocaust. America stopped the Soviet Union from spreading its communist, totalitarian, and murderous evils throughout the world. America is the most powerful force fighting terror and has been for the last two decades. No other country could have done what America did in the past, and no one can provide the kind of world leadership America provides today. Our geopolitical enemies such as Russia, China, and Iran would love to see us sit in the backseat because we are all that stands between them and immense power and influence to form their geographical spheres of influence and the world, for that matter, according to their wills.
When America makes a foreign policy mistake, it is because it does not take a stand for what is right. In 2015, America (i.e. President Obama, without approval of any treaty by the U.S. Senate) entered into a deal with Iran. The deal gave Iran about $150 billion, only in exchange for slowing its nuclear program by a decade at most. The Iranian is an open terror sponsor whose explicit goal is to eradicate Israel, which is the most democratic country in the Middle East. This agreement, which is strangely similar to the agreement Neville Chamberlin entered into with Nazi Germany in 1938, could have resulted in disaster in the region and world. Thankfully, America recently withdrew from the agreement, taking a stand for democracy, human rights, and global stability and security. A nuclear Iran is something that no one else, and scary few in America, would be willing to prevent.
America was exceptional from its founding. No other country had ever before been founded upon the notion that people had certain freedoms that were given by God before the state had even existed. The people did not exist to serve the state, but the state existed to serve the people and protect their individual rights. Beyond that role, the state had little reason for existing, so although bad individuals will always try to usurp the power of the state for their own ends, the system America’s founders put in place has always foiled those bad actors and kept the structure intact for posterity.
The simple idea that reordered the importance of the state and the individual eventually allowed for limitless economic, social, and ideological potential to be realized because without governments encroaching on productive and meaningful individual activities, a society becomes an environment for the best of humanity to emerge.
What makes America great is also the classical liberalism it embraces. Classical liberalism is not something that is natural. It is not based on preference towards or against any particular gender or racial group. It’s the idea that all people are capable of virtue, but also evil, regardless of their background and should be evaluated as individuals.
The biggest problem with America today is that people have lost gratitude and appreciation for these values. People are all too often complacent and ignorant. Their complacency comes from ignorance of how much worse off they and the world could be without America. They think they see a problem and an easy fix, but all too often that fix involves tearing town the system or parts of it that protect individual freedoms.
An example of this is the unofficial reorganization of the powers of government between the branches. The executive and the judiciary gain more and more power to make sweeping decisions that actually impact Americans’ day-to-day lives. Many do not object to this development, where the least democratic branches become most powerful, because they like the decisions being made. But before we ever decide to change something about our society, we should first ask why things were this way before, and at what cost and for what gain are we taking action.
The structure to our public life and discourse also contribute to America’s greatness. We enjoy freedom in our private and public lives because the basis of the American miracle is the realization that total ideological homogeneity and coercion into action determined by an authority is not necessary to create a virtuous society with a somewhat common culture.
This sort of “live and let live mentality” put into practice works if a few conditions are met. The first is that when given choices between good and evil, people will generally choose what is good if those surrounding them do the same. In the Declaration of Independence, the phrase “pursuit of happiness” does not mean whatever is expedient and whatever makes us feel good now. Thomas Jefferson, a student of history’s great minds, knew happiness as Aristotle knew it, which is the pursuit of what is good and meaningful. Psychologist Jordan Peterson points out that what is meaningful is usually, if not always, the opposite of what is expedient, so expedience is the opposite of happiness.
America’s freedoms are designed to let people pursue what is good freely, as God created us to do, except the government adds the stipulation that pursuing what is bad, should one choose to do so, will be punished if it harms others. And beyond that, all that the American system needs is to stay in place.
We can debate and disagree without destroying our system. That destruction happens by losing sight of what is important and what unites us. But unfortunately, the public discourse now centers on, from the left and from the right, why this system does not work. Populism (again, on both sides of the aisle) has its appeal because it deflects the blame for people’s problems onto society and institutions. People become ungrateful for what they have, and the next thing they know, it’s all gone.
Not quite there
by Grace DeKoker
I am grateful to live in America. Not many other countries would grant me the opportunities that America does, like being able to vote on the leaders of the country, nor would I be able to pursue my dreams like I can here, like getting an education so I can become anything I want to be. It is a nation preaching freedom, which includes freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly. You can’t be punished for criticizing the government—it is encouraged to voice one’s political views, to make your voice heard for the sake of making our country better. That is why I have to make my voice heard; I love America, yes, but I love it so much that I simply cannot be happy with where we are at as a nation.
America doesn’t rank very well on the world stage. We are seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, and 16th in corruption. We are within the top 10 most racist countries, top 20 for gun-violence per capita, and one of the only countries that does not offer paid maternity leave. We lead the world in at least two categories though, number of incarcerated citizens per capita, and defense spending. Thirty four percent of all billionaires are American, yet the U.S. poverty level is the highest in the developed world.
What is happening? What is to blame for these frightening statistics?
Bipartisanship. At least partially- the division of the United States into two wildly different political parties leaves our nation divided on nearly every major issue, and unless the three branches of government all have a majority of the same party, it is unlikely much change can happen. George Washington’s Farewell Address advised against a party system, for fear that it would divide the country. His prediction was unfortunately correct, as people are compelled to declare themselves Democrat or Republican, even if they only agree on a few main goals of the party. Politicians can end up falling into the party that would advance their own agenda, versus what may be best for the country or for a majority of citizens. Voters will end up circling a party on their ballots, not a candidate, because in the end, they want the people in power to help them individually, not the country as a whole. Such a fact makes me truly sad, and it hurts to see my country become so divisive.
Politicians have become so self-serving to their agenda that they often look past basic morality for the sake of getting what they want. The most recent example is the Brett Kavanaugh hearings; Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward, told her story not for attention, but because she felt it was important enough to risk the ridicule and mockery she would receive. Despite her testimony, the Senate voted 50-48 to appoint him to a life-long position on the Supreme Court. He could be affecting decisions made on abortion, gun control, and presidential control of agencies.
America was founded on strong principles: freedom, democracy, equality. The founding fathers’ ideas of such principles were certainly skewed for the era; I’m not saying they were flawless people. But when such ideals are put into a modern lens, the results are still disappointing. Yes, children have the opportunity to get an education- but without gun laws, they risk being shot and killed sitting at their desk. Yes, laws prevent workplace discrimination, but the wage gap between men and women is still twenty two cents. Yes, we live in one of the wealthiest countries, but over 40 percent of college graduates have not paid their loans off by the time they are 35. Yes, America is land of the free, but not for the immigrant children locked in cages, not for the sexual assault victims’ whose stories fall on deaf ears, not for the women and minorities who still are treated inequitably.
I think America can be exceptional. I think if we sort out corruption in our government, listen to the complaints from our citizens, and focus on upholding the same values our country was founded on, real progress can and will be made. The U.S. is surviving, we’re doing alright- but why settle for mediocrity? Why not strive for exceptionalism? With the right people in power, and a strong backing of American citizens, we have made strides before. We can do it again.
Lars Lonnroth, Managing Editor of Breaking News and Multimedia Content
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Greta Markey, Managing Editor
It’s easy to describe your team as your family, but for Illinois Water Polo Player of the Year Victor Perez ‘19, this was literally the case. This season, Perez had the opportunity to play with his younger brother, Sebastian Perez ‘21.
“My favorite memory [of the 2018 IHSA state tournament] was watching Sebastian score against Fenwick [in the semifinals] to put us up 3-2,” Victor said. “His celebration was too funny. He was going nuts.”
LT boys’ water polo finished its season by placing third in the state tournament on May 17-19. They beat Evanston 7-3 in a low scoring quarterfinals, lost to Fenwick 5-4 in overtime of the semifinals and clinched third place by beating Conant 12-8.
“[Conant] wasn’t a very clean game for us,” John Reilly ‘18 said. “We were all tired physically and mentally from our loss to Fenwick, but we finished our season with a win.”
The team’s loss to Fenwick came as a surprise, as LT had beaten them three times during the regular season and were entering the state tournament seeded first by Illpolo.
“Losing to a team that we knew we were capable of beating was difficult to cope with,” Reilly said. “Everyone gave it their all from the first swim off to the final overtime period. To endure such a physical and tiring game only to lose during overtime makes you feel a little defeated.”
Despite the loss to Fenwick, the team finished its season with an impressive 30-4 record, co-captain Max Zator ‘18 said. Throughout the season, the boys learned how to play together and built strong team chemistry.
“I’m most thankful for how tightly knit our group was,” Zator said. “We had such an understanding of how each other played. This season with these guys is something I’ll never forget.”
The boys varsity team is graduating seven seniors; however, Victor remains confident that next season will be an exciting one.
“We have three returning starters and two players from the bench who got a lot of playing time this season,” he said. “I’m excited to see how we grow next year.”
Among the returning starters are underclassmen Sebastian and Bob Bolan ‘20 who added a lot of talent and character to the team, Joe Gilger ‘18 said. Gilger also has some words of advice for the returning team as a whole.
“Respect your teammates,” he said. “If you do that, you will not only win more, but the sport will also be more fun. It all stems from respect.”
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LIUNA Praises Senate Passage of Immigration Reform
“A historic step forward for our nation’s 11 million aspiring citizens”
Washington, D.C. (June 27, 2013) – LIUNA General President Terry O’Sullivan made the following statement on the passage of comprehensive immigration reform by the U.S. Senate. “LIUNA has long been a fierce advocate for fair and far-reaching immigration reform that strengthens our borders, provides a clear and concise path to citizenship, levels the playing field for honest employers and allows everyone in America – immigrants and non-immigrants – to work free from harassment, intimidation or exploitation.
“We are pleased that the Senate passed long-overdue comprehensive immigration reform today. I commend the Gang of 8 and the Senate for showing leadership on this extraordinarily important issue. While this bill is not the bill that we would have written ourselves, it does contain the main immigration principles that LIUNA has been advocating for. We will all benefit as a country with the enactment of this bill.
“We encourage the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Senate’s framework for a balanced, bipartisan solution to our nation’s broken immigration system. It would be tragic to come this close to passing the most significant immigration reform measure in the past 30 years only to see it collapse under the weight of unreasonable requirements or be transformed into nothing but a false promise for millions of aspiring citizens who love America.”
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Settlement reached in case of UCSB professor who assaulted pro-life students
By Calvin Freiburger | October 14, 2015 , 10:33am
The University of California-Santa Barbara and pro-life students have reached a settlement in the case of a feminist studies professor who attacked them on campus.
As Live Action News reported last year, Joan and Thrin Short, the daughters of Life Legal Defense Foundation Vice President of Legal Affairs Katie Short, were handing out informational flyers during a pro-life event in one of the campus’s “free speech zones” when Professor Mireille Miller-Young approached them. She began loudly berating them, grabbed Thrin’s sign, and repeatedly pushed the students when they attempted to retrieve it.
In the wake of the incident, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Michael Young sent an email to UCSB students implying that pro-lifers “provoked” Miller-Young by “hawking intolerance in the name of religious belief.” In July 2014, Miller-Young pled no contest to misdemeanor grand theft, vandalism, and battery.
However, the Life Legal Defense Foundation notes that “the University never disciplined Prof. Miller-Young for her misconduct. Neither the University nor the faculty even initiated an investigation that could have resulted in discipline,” and filed suit against UCSB for “demonstrat[ing] that it has no problem, in principle, with a professor who commits crimes like this on campus, as long as it’s done for the ‘right’ reason.”
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but the plaintiffs are “very satisfied.” Katie Short expressed hope that it will “serve as a warning to pro-abortion faculty and staff at campuses around the country who might be tempted to interfere with the exercise of free speech by groups with whom they disagree.”
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Of the 186 complaints received, 74 were against the Indian Army, according to home ministry data. Photo: Hindustan Times
Jammu & Kashmir tops list on rights abuses under AFSPA, Assam second
2 min read . Updated: 29 Jul 2017, 01:55 AM IST Shaswati Das
Data released by home ministry in response to RTI query shows Manipur ranks third, after Jammu & Kashmir, Assam in human rights abuses under AFSPA
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New Delhi: Even as it mulls over the future of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the northeast, the Union home ministry has released data revealing human rights violations under the controversial Act are the highest in Jammu and Kashmir, followed by Assam. The documents which have been made public through a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Venkatesh Naik, a human rights activist, show that Jammu and Kashmir tops the list of human rights violations committed under the AFSPA, with 92 complaints against the Indian Army and paramilitary forces in 2016. Assam comes in second with 58 complaints, Manipur third at 21, while Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh follow next at five and six complaints, respectively.
Of the 186 complaints received, 74 were against the Indian Army. Death in army encounters saw 24 complaints. Death in army firings saw 16 complaints, while there were 21 cases of alleged fake encounters and 10 cases of rape and abduction.
The home ministry has made it clear that all security personnel deployed in conflict zones governed by AFSPA have to abide by a strict code of conduct.
“For preventing human rights violations under the AFSPA, guidelines have been issued for the armed forces. Violation of these guidelines by members of the Armed Forces makes them liable for prosecution under the Army Act and the respective Acts of the CAPFs (central armed police forces)," a home ministry official said on condition of anonymity.
An army officer who did not wish to be identified said the human rights cells of the Army and the CAPFs closely monitored alleged human rights violations.
Experts and former army officials, however, stated that in conflict regions such as Jammu and Kashmir—given the recent onslaught of stone-pelting on the forces—“human rights violations" took on a very different meaning.
“If a soldier rapes a woman, he deserves a punishment that’s severe. There is no other punishment. But for situations where civilians are throwing stones at the soldiers or hindering security operations, the soldiers have to defend themselves because civilians there who pelt stones at forces don’t care for the lives of a soldier," said Gaurav Arya, defence expert and former Indian Army officer.
An expert on the issues of the northeast, however, stated that the matter was totally different in the region—with Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur and Nagaland under AFSPA, the armed forces enjoyed impunity despite gross violations.
The expert said that a majority of the “encounters" carried out in the northeast were staged.
“There is a huge mafia nexus in the region, especially Assam that identifies people who can’t leave a trail and whose disappearance will not be reported. They are then sold to the security forces, passed off as ‘militants’ and killed in ‘encounters’," said Kishalay Bhattacharjee, author and expert on northeast India. On 14 July, in a breakthrough judgment, the Supreme Court for the first time took cognizance of 1,528 cases of fake encounters under AFSPA in Manipur, ordering a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into 97 of them.
Ordinarily, if there are human rights violations, the complainant can approach the police station, which conducts an immediate inquiry into the allegation and then lodges a first information report (FIR). The security forces too conduct parallel semi judicial processes. At the same time, the CBI can also be ordered by a higher court to investigate or re-investigate such allegations.
Ajai Sreevatsan contributed to the story.
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Immune System Conditions
Symptoms of Lupus Vs. Rheumatoid Arthritis
Niya Jones
Niya Jones is a physician and medical writer. She is board-certified in internal medicine and has a special interest in cardiology, particularly as it relates to health care disparities and women's health. She received her medical degree and Masters of public health from Yale University.
Autoimmune disorders such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis can cause a wide array of seemingly unrelated symptoms. Lupus, also known as systemic lupus erythematosus, is a systemic illness and can affect any organ system. While rheumatoid arthritis is commonly thought to be limited to the joints, it can also affect the skin, eyes, heart and lungs. Because both disorders may cause multiple symptoms, diagnosis can sometimes be tricky. Additionally, some people have an overlap syndrome, meaning they have features of more than one autoimmune disorder. Special tests are useful when the diagnosis is not clear-cut.
Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis can cause joint pain. (Image: Suze777/iStock/Getty Images)
Lupus Symptoms
Lupus can affect any organ in the body, including the brain, heart, digestive organs, kidneys, joints and skin. As a result, it can lead to any number of symptoms. Nevertheless, certain symptoms are considered classic lupus symptoms. Many people initially note skin rashes, particularly a butterfly-shaped rash over the nose and cheeks. Profound fatigue, mouth sores, hair loss and joint pain are common. Shortness of breath and chest discomfort due to inflammation and irritation of the tissues surrounding the heart and lungs may also occur. Kidney inflammation may result in blood in the urine and the urge to urinate frequently. When the brain and nervous system are affected, visual disturbances, muscle weakness and seizures may occur.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
Joint pain and stiffness that are most intense in the morning are considered hallmark symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Any joint in the body can be affected by RA, but the hands and feet are most commonly involved. Bumps on the skin, known as rheumatoid nodules, may form near joints. Additionally, people with RA often experience severe fatigue due to anemia. RA can also cause complications that affect the heart and lungs. For example, fluid may accumulate around the heart and lungs due to RA-induced inflammation. People with RA are also at increased risk of premature heart disease and a condition called pulmonary hypertension. A persistent cough, difficulty breathing and chest pain may occur if heart and lung disease remain untreated.
Overlap Symptoms
People may experience a spectrum of symptoms that does not allow for a concrete diagnosis of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. People with features of both disorders have an "overlap syndrome." People who have previously been diagnosed with lupus, for example, may go on to develop rheumatoid nodules and joint pain that is consistent with RA. This type of symptom overlap is most often seen in postmenopausal women with lupus. Likewise, people who initially experience joint pain and are thought to have RA can later develop neurologic or kidney problems that are typically ascribed to lupus. Blood tests can help to make a diagnosis, but when an overlap syndrome is present, even lab tests may be inconclusive.
Historically, steroids have been the mainstay of therapy for both lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Joint pain, skin irritation and fatigue due to lupus or RA often improve with steroids. Since steroids can cause numerous side effects, especially when used over the long term, other therapies have been developed. Medications known as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs, are often used to treat RA and lupus. Like steroids, DMARDs reduce inflammation but also slow progression of the underlying disorder. Commonly used DMARDs include methotrexate (Rheumatrex, Trexall), hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) and azathioprine (Imuran). Biologic drugs, which are a special class of DMARDs, are also used to treat people with severe RA. Examples include rituximab (Rituxan), entanercept (Enbrel) and adalimumab (Humira). The biological medication belimumab (Benlysta) can be used to treat lupus. A combination of medications is often required to treat overlap syndromes.
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Sean C. Fifield - Overview
Sean C. Fifield
sfifield@lockelord.com
Sean Fifield's practice focuses on intellectual property protection and licensing, general business contracts and financing, and merger and acquisition transactions. Sean is a member of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Merger and Acquisitions practice groups and the Business Technology industry group.
Sean regularly handles matters involving the protection and licensing of copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and related intellectual property rights. He is experienced in the negotiation and drafting of patent licenses, trademark licenses, software licenses and other agreements governing a wide range of intellectual property rights. Sean also regularly negotiates information technology licenses and agreements, including application service provider arrangements, information management and outsourcing transactions. Sean has prepared forms of licenses for the products of a number of software vendors and custom software licenses with software vendors on behalf of a wide variety of clients.
Sean advises and assists clients with their selection, screening, registration and protection of trademarks in a wide variety of industries, including consumer food products, manufacturing, specialty chemicals, podcasting, banking, insurance and other financial services, hospitality products, restaurant services, specialty apparel, video games and entertainment. Sean also assists clients in the publishing, entertainment, podcasting, financial services, software and other industries in the protection and licensing of their copyrights.
In connection with assisting clients in the protection of their intellectual property, Sean regularly prepares and responds to cease and desist letters involving infringement or allegations of infringement of trademarks, copyrights and patent rights.
Merger and Acquisitions; General Corporate
Sean's practice also involves merger and acquisition transactions and financing transactions, particularly transactions focused on the transfer of intellectual property assets or involving technology businesses. Sean also regularly handles matters relating to corporate governance, and the negotiation of a wide range of agreements, including consulting arrangements, sales contracts and distributorship agreements.
Intellectual property matters in which Sean Fifield has assisted clients include:
Represented an oilfield services company in the negotiation of a development agreement and technology license for drilling rig monitoring systems and software
Represented a health care benefits company in connection with the negotiation of an alliance agreement involving the development of wellness software apps for wearable personal devices
Represented a pharmaceutical company in negotiation of multiple license and settlement agreements permitting the launch generic pharmaceutical products
Represented a specialty food product manufacturer in negotiation of merchandising license agreement with a major film studio
Represented a public transit agency in the negotiation of agreements with vendors and other public transit agencies for the development and operation of a mobile application for fares across multiple transit systems
Represented audio systems manufacturer in the negotiation of an exclusive merchandizing license from an international consumer lifestyle brand
Represented pharmaceutical and cosmetics specialty manufacturer in negotiations with major pharmaceutical companies involving supply agreements for components used in Rx and OTC pharmaceutical products and cosmetic products
Represented pharmaceutical and cosmetics specialty manufacturer in negotiations with specialty wholesalers and retailers involving supply agreements for finished OTC pharmaceutical products and cosmetic products
Represented specialty minerals supplier in connection with the licensing and implementation of SAP enterprise resource planning software for the client's worldwide operations
Represented manufacturer of skin care products in the negotiation of an exclusive license of a national cosmetic brand
Represented component manufacturer in the negotiation of a joint development and supply agreement with a Fortune 500 white goods appliance manufacturer
Represented component manufacturer in the negotiation of a joint development agreement and technology license for the use of biometric identification devices
Represented specialty minerals supplier in the negotiation of services agreements for the outsourcing of its e-mail system and IT help desk
Represented IT consulting firm in the negotiation of usage tracking software development and implementation project for a Fortune 500 media company
Represented manufacturer of wafer production machines in the negotiation of a joint development agreement and underlying technology license with Fortune 500 corporation for the next generation of client's devices
Represented a multinational pharmaceutical company in the renegotiation and expansion of an agreement for the outsourcing of its IT department
Represented publisher of a magazine in the preparation of a form of subscription license agreement for access to an archival database of back-issues
Represented a non-profit provider of a database in the negotiation of a license agreement with a local governmental entity for the use of the data in the provision of social services
Corporate transactional matters in which Sean has assisted clients include:
Represented an insurer in the termination of a joint venture and acquisition of 100% of the equity of a Florida property and casualty insurance company and the simultaneous divestiture, through a reinsurance transaction, of its participation in an insurance joint venture in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
Represented a global pharmaceutical company in the acquisition of a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company
Represented a generic pharmaceutical company in the acquisition of ANDA portfolios in FTC-mandated divestiture process
Represented hearing care product manufacturer in acquisition of provider of business and performance management solutions to independent hearing care practices for approximately $150 million
Represented payment processing services provider in the sale of its business to a private equity purchaser for $225 million
Represented health insurance company in the $65 million acquisition of a health information technology service company
Represented specialty minerals producer in the $50 million acquisition of a mine in South Africa
Represented a manufacturer of component and subsystem devices in the $55 million acquisition of a manufacturer of radio remote controls
Represented a manufacturer of component and subsystem devices in the $65 million acquisition of a manufacturer of proprietary touch sensitive user interfaces
Represented a bank holding company in the acquisition and recapitalization of a national bank
Represented the shareholders in the sale of a medical receivable collection business utilizing certain proprietary software
Regularly represent a hearing care product manufacturer in connection with the establishment of joint venture and financing arrangements with distributors of its products
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Humana Inc.
A Locke Lord team led by David Kendall and Jon Biasetti (both of Chicago), assisted by Sean Fifield (Los Angeles), Tim Farber and Rebecca Hemmings (both of Chicago) and Chris Flanagan (Boston), represented Humana Inc. in the closed sale of the stock of its wholly owned subsidiary, KMG America Corporation (KMG), to Continental General Insurance Company (CGIC), a Texas-based insurance company wholly owned by HC2 Holdings, Inc., a diversified holding company.
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Locke Lord assisted Zydus Cadila, an innovative, global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of healthcare therapies, in the acquisition of all of the shares of stock of Sentynl Therapeutics Inc., a San Diego-based commercial-stage specialty pharma company that specializes in marketing products in the pain management segment.
GN Hearing
Locke Lord represented GN Hearing, one of the world's largest manufacturers of hearing aids, in its acquisition of Audigy Group, a provider of business and performance management solutions to independent hearing care, otolaryngology, otology and neurotology practices and leading University programs in North America.
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Locke Lord represented BluePay Processing in its sale and recapitalization in a transaction with TA Associates, a private equity firm based in Boston.
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New family musical at Lyric
Shelley Koppel
Your Voice News & Views
STUART — The best way to introduce young audiences to the delights of live theater is to take them to see live theater. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of opportunities in the area for family-friendly, high-quality entertainment.
Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach has created Riverside Theatricals, a division of the theater that will focus on the creation of new musicals. The first, “Poodleful, A K9 Mystery Musical,” will be presented at the Lyric Theatre in StuartSept. 25.
The show, written by Ken Clifton and DJ Salisbury, is based on the book “Pansy at the Palace” by Cynthia Bardes. It follows the adventures of Pansy the poodle and her “person,” Avery, at the glamourous Palace Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Jon Moses, the Riverside’s managing director and chief operating officer, said that it is a long-standing desire of Riverside Theatre CEO Allen Cornell and musical director Clifton to create new works.
“We’re starting with children’s productions,” Moses said. “It’s a little niche of the market we felt was underserved. We wanted to help beef up the amount of entertainment for younger families.”
The show begins with Pansy as a “poodle in waiting,” looking for a person to adopt her. When Avery comes long, the two are very happy. Then a mysterious theft happens that threatens to close the hotel. Pansy helps solve the mystery.
For Moses and the creative team, choosing this particular production was a matter of timing.
“We just so happened to have the book in front of us,” Moses said. The author, Cynthia Bardes, had dropped off a copy of the book to Allen. She’s local and accessible. When you’re looking for new works, there are things in the public domain and those where you have to negotiate permission with the author. She’s fond of the theater and we were able to quickly contact her and negotiate it. She was thrilled we were using her book to launch a new project.”
The cast of six for the show is made up of young professionals.
“They’re all fresh out of college,” Moses said. “They are with us for the entire year. The show opens at the Riverside Sept. 18 and at the Lyric Sept. 25. We have an engagement in Gainesville Nov. 12 at the Florida Theatre Conference. We’re hoping to pick up additional dates. All of the actors are also in one show or another in the two Main Stage shows. It’s an incredible opportunity for young performers.”
Moses said a second production is in the works. While he wasn’t ready to give out details, he said it would be for children and families.
“You have to start at a young age,” he said. “That’s why we’re starting the way we are starting. We’re building the audiences for tomorrow by getting them accustomed to the theater.
“Poodleful” will be presented at the Lyric Theatre Sept. 25. Tickets are $15. Visit the website www.lyrictheatre.com or call the box office at (772) 286-7827.
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Bride in TV showdown
A fearless bride made the most nerve-wracking day of her life even more scary by taking on the wrath of three other soon-to-be wives in a TV wedding showdown.
Sophie Tague, 23, married postman Mark, 28, and pitched their Wilmslow wedding against three other couple’s ceremonies in the ultimate battle of the brides - Living TV’s programme Four Weddings - to prove she was the best at planning a big day.
Every bit of her day was scrutinised by the brides, from her lovingly-chosen dress, carefully-selected venue and prudently-picked-out wedding breakfast.
With St Anne’s Fulshaw picked as the church and Alderley Edge’s Festival Hall as the reception venue, Wilmslow’s wedding options were analysed against choices in Brotton, Somerset and Ilford.
Cameras mingled with the Tague’s 170 guests. And while they missed out on the prize of a luxury honeymoon, they came in an honourable second place.
Nursery nurse Sophie, previously Sophie Bell, of Chapel Lane, said: “When I signed up for the show, I started to think, ‘oh gosh what have I done’?
“The other brides really look at everything you do and you get nervous about what they might say.
“We hardly noticed the cameras and were excited when we watched it back, but a bit worried because we didn’t know where we had come in the competition and what they would say about our wedding on TV.
“The brides were quite nice but one said she didn’t like my dress, and I thought ‘oh no not my dress!’.
“It’s something quite personal but you can’t take it too seriously, when you choose to go on the programme that’s what you put yourself up against.”
The couple, who have been together for five years and met on a night out in Wilmslow, appeared in the fourth episode of the series which has become popular as a feast of bitchy brides, two-faced compliments and back-stabbing.
The Tague’s big day was pitched as the ‘DIY Wedding’, with Sophie making a lot of her wedding day essentials herself.
She added: “I was happy with that, I love making things and we were on a budget.”
Sophie has attracted a few favourable comments since her brush with fame, especially among parents at the Kidsunlimited nursery she works at on Gravel Lane. She said: “We don’t regret doing the programme at all, it was still our special day and we will always have it as a memento.”
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Xenophobic attacks in townships across South Africa, May 11 2008
Jun 13, 2018 News South Africa
Sign made by victims of xenophobia and worried African expats outside the Cape Town central police station, 2018.
On May 11 2008, an outburst of xenophobic violence in the Johannesburg Township Alexandra triggered more xenophobic violence in other townships. Firstly, it only spread in the Gauteng province. After two weeks, the violence spread to other urban areas across the country, mainly Durban and Cape Town. But it also emerged in townships in more rural areas such as Limpopo Province. The violence consisted of attacks both verbally and physically by inhabitants of the townships on other inhabitants. The victims were called foreigners, referring to their nationality being non-South African and predominantly Zimbabwean and Mozambican. As a result many houses were burnt, 342 shops were looted and 213 burnt down. Hundreds of people were injured, thousands chased away and the death toll after the attacks stood at 56.
Xenophobia is the fear of everything strange and foreign. It is also used to describe the resentment and dislike towards foreign people. It derives from the Greek: xenos (stranger, foreigner) and phobos (fear).
These attacks are condemned by the South African people. There was also a huge outcry in many townships to condemn this most criminal behavior.
Mainly the influx of Zimbabweans who fled the dire conditions in their homecountry were blamed for the misery in the townships. Also other African immigrants, mainly Nigerians, Somalis, Congolese, Ethiopians, Malawians and Mozambicans were affected by the violence.
In 2008 around 20,000 foreign immigrants sought safe shelters in the Western Cape. They were housed then in more than 100 ad-hoc shelters in community centers, churches and the city’s six safe zones most of the immigrants however have been reintegrated in their communities.
Tags: xenophobia, township, cape town, south africa
COSATU march in Cape Town
Portrait: Roger Young for HAYO magazine
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Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 28, McHenry, IL 60051
RotaryClubofMcHenry@gMail.com
The following are frequently asked questions regarding the Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”):
What is the Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation, Inc.?
The Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation, Inc. was incorporated on December 13, 2007 as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation. It is a publicly supported organization which commenced formal operation in 2008 in cooperation with the Rotary Club of McHenry (the “Club”). The Foundation is operated exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or the corresponding revisions of any future United States Internal Revenue Law). For Federal tax purposes the Foundation is considered a publicly funded charity.
Both the Club and the Foundation are located in McHenry, Illinois, and their members, officers, and directors are from the greater McHenry, Illinois area.
The Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation, Inc. is an Illinois not-for-profit corporation organized to receive gifts and make grants for charitable purposes that benefit our community. Use of Foundation funds and other resources focus on youth, education, and seniors with an emphasis on the community of the McHenry area first, and then the greater McHenry County area. Some of the available annual charitable/service projects budget can be used for International projects, which is consistent with Rotary International objectives.
The Foundation Board governs the Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc. The Foundation Board is elected by the members of the Club (who are simultaneously members of the Foundation). The Foundation Board consists of the current Club President, current Club Treasurer, and five (5) members at large (which generally include the Club’s current President-Elect).
The objectives of the Foundation are:
To accept any gifts of money, fund raising proceeds, and the investment income therefrom (in each case on such terms and conditions as the Foundation deems advisable) to be used to fulfill the general objectives of the Foundation and, as applicable, such uses as many be established by the donor of specific funds (so long as such restricted uses conform to the general objectives of the Foundation).
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What is the difference between the Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc. and the Rotary Foundation (sponsored by Rotary International)?
The Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc. is based locally in the greater McHenry, Illinois area. Through its Foundation Board and Members (who are simultaneously members of the Rotary Club of McHenry), it is operated for the benefit of the greater McHenry area, in keeping with the objectives of Rotary Club of McHenry Charitable Foundation Inc.
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Some peace along the Highway of Tears.
September 25, 2012 12:23 PM Subscribe
Over the last forty years, many young women – most of them indigenous – have been murdered or gone missing along northern British Columbia's Highway 16, now nationally known as the Highway of Tears. Nobody knows just how many have disappeared: estimates range between a handful and hundreds. Their families have spent decades fighting institutional racism and governmental bureaucracy in a tragic tale that has seen no conclusion. Since 2007, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police have been investigating eighteen of these cases as part of Project E-Pana. Today, the RCMP announced its first major development: the death of Colleen MacMillen, who disappeared in 1974, has been linked to American serial killer Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in an Oregon prison in 2006. Previously on MeFi.
posted by avocet (16 comments total) 22 users marked this as a favorite
Wow. I have to agree with the previously link that it's scarier in a way for this to be confirmed the work of multiple killers.
posted by 2bucksplus at 1:07 PM on September 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
I drove the full length of this highway back in 1999 and saw more bears than I've seen anywhere else in my life. I assume the RCMP and coroners know enough about that to rule it out for most cases, but for the missing people it does make me wonder.
posted by crapmatic at 1:09 PM on September 25, 2012
Thanks for this post. I had been wondering about this lately as my next door neighbour growing up had a sister who disappeared along that road and it has haunted them ever since. The huge disappearance of so many woman that passes by silently every day just guts me.
posted by kanata at 1:11 PM on September 25, 2012
posted by 2bucksplus at 1:07 PM on September 25 [+] [!]
It's a systemic problem. You have a lot of very marginalized people in one area, and no safe way for them to get from one place to the next, over a very lonely stretch of highway.
That is much more serious than a single serial killer, and has much larger repercussions for the people it affects. They've been discussing ways to mitigate this lately, things like an affordable transit system to get people from one town to the next. Money is the limiting factor of course, not just for the individuals, but for the municipalities themselves.
It's a problem of race, gender, and economics. These are some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in our society. This should have been dealt with years ago, but as with Pickton and his pig farm, even once the police notice that these women are being preyed on, they're slow to respond. The belated responses often target the criminals, but almost never target the circumstances that create these problems. It's a god damn travesty.
posted by Stagger Lee at 1:34 PM on September 25, 2012 [19 favorites]
I drove this road a few years ago. Starting in Houston, there are signs at the outskirts of every town and hamlet warning girls not to hitchhike. It's quite chilling. And on the outskirts of every town and hamlet, notably Moricetown and New Hazelton, there are girls hitchhiking. It was sad and chilling.
posted by KokuRyu at 1:39 PM on September 25, 2012 [3 favorites]
Uh, yeah. It ain't the bears.
It's racism, it's colonialism, it's classism, it's misogyny, it's poverty, it's criminal neglect, it's ignorance.
It ain't the m'rf'n bears.
posted by Catchfire at 1:47 PM on September 25, 2012 [11 favorites]
Prince George and Terrace are pretty goddamn mean towns for some. Black bears are not the problem.
posted by KokuRyu at 2:10 PM on September 25, 2012
It's things like this and Juarez that make me really wish I could believe in supernatural monsters. It would be so much easier to deal with the idea that it was chubacabra, vampires, werewolves, or some other monster you'd see on your favorite crappy CW show.
The reality is much, much worse.
posted by teleri025 at 2:32 PM on September 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
The sad truth is that it's a poor rural area and the majority of these women were most likely killed by someone they knew. Men in the area know they can get away with abducting and killing women because it'll be blamed on an outsider so they do. The rates of violence against women in poor rural areas and in native American communities simply make this the most statistically likely outcome, by a huge factor.
Disappearances get blamed on a serial killer who's just passing through by the families and community and criminally inclined men feel even more like they can get away with killing a girlfriend or abducting and killing a local girl. I bet there are both men and women in those communities who could finger the killers right now.
The story in Outside magazine about the snowboarder who murdered a young teenage girl is exactly what I'm talking about. A sense that other people have gotten away with it and they can too.
posted by fshgrl at 2:34 PM on September 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
I'm writing my geography MA thesis on Canadian memorial highway landscapes: the Highway of Heroes and the Highway of Tears. Somehow I completely missed both existing MeFi posts while they were still open. Felt the need to issue a disclaimer though I haven't self-linked – just kept it to news links and articles not yet posted to the blue – but this is a narrative of violence that I've been immersed in for the last while. The interview process has been traumatic, at times. Bearing witness to these stories... no, I am not going to make this post about me or people involved with my project.
I didn't see any bears though, only some really playful sea otters in Prince Rupert.
posted by avocet at 2:52 PM on September 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
Bears kill pretty few people, and they don't go out of their way to dump bodies where they can't be found. Also, if they could be said to be gender discriminatory, they tend to kill more men than women, so it's unlikely they're responsible for a string of attacks on female hitchhikers.
posted by jacquilynne at 3:31 PM on September 25, 2012 [1 favorite]
As I've mentioned before, this is where I grew up, way back when. I've driven or been driven up and down Highway 16 literally thousands of times over the decades.
It's a very odd thing to think about the place in this way, more than 20 years after I moved away. Back in the 1970s, it seemed like the safest damned place in the world to grow up in some ways, and a dangerous frontier in others. My hometown (well, from the time I was 6 years old or so, when we moved there from Ontario), Fort Saint James, had the highest per capita murder rate in North America for a few years running in the early 80s, and articles in major US newspapers appeared about it. This is a town of 4000 people now, and was just slightly smaller back in the day.
It was and remains a place of stunning natural beauty (leaving out the massive clearcuts, usually just set back far enough from the roads that you can't see them). Hunters and fishermen and -women, seekers after wildnerness from all over the world would show up in the summer and autumn, and still do.
But, yeah, even though it was one of those places where nobody locked their doors, much, and where kids felt genuinely safe and parents unconcerned, it was far from bucolic. I remember there being what in a bigger place might be called race riots, with young aboriginal, euro, and Pakistani men -- since the 70s there has been a large group of Pakistani immigrant families there -- chasing each other around with baseball bats and rocks. A Friday or Saturday night without 'the floor show' -- the fightfights and subsequent boot-fuckings that happened in the parking lot of 'the Zoo' after it closed down at 2am and the drunks spilled out looking for trouble and/or parties to go to -- was inconceivable. It was (and still is, to an extent) a rough and ready, hard-drinking, frontier mill town. You could hear gunfire late at night, sometimes, usually from the reservation (which I say without meaning to be racist -- it was simply the way it was), where quality of life, substance abuse and poverty had probably reached its lowest point before or since. There was a bunch of wanna-be biker bad boys who raised hell and started fights and many of whom got permanently banned from town, or made good, or died.
But at the same time, it felt weirdly safe to me growing up there, other than the usual array of high school bullies and stuff to face down, things that every kid everywhere has to deal with. As I said, it certainly was beautiful and quiet, if lonely and isolated, and instilled a love of nature in me. There were no drugs, other than weed and mushrooms, even if there was a lot of booze, and although one or two kids died every year from drinking and driving or passing out in a snowbank, it felt like City Problems were something we were able to ignore, even if we had our own special set of Small Town Problems.
But then just last year, a kid from a well-known family in town was arrested coming out of a spur road -- one that I remember canoodling on in my mom's car with my girlfriend when I was a teenager -- having just murdered a girl and disposed of her body. In the last 5 years or so, the dots were finally starting to be connected about the deaths and disappearances of other girls, stretching all the way back to the 70s, and now it seems like the dark side of the place -- one that my own personal memories tend to minimize, looking back through the rosy lens of nostalgia -- is right at the forefront.
It's a good thing if it helps to bring the bastard or bastards who murdered these girls to justice. It's a good thing if the publicity of it all means that there's a smaller chance of it happening again.
But it does kind of hurt a little, having a place that I loved (or at least that I love in retrospect, even if I didn't care for it so much at the time and burned to get out) recognized and labelled as a Zone of Fear and Death. All the more so because my elderly mom was mayor of that place for more than 16 years, starting right around the times things, for the village as a whole at least, started to get better in the mid 1980s. Her legacy for the village is secure, but it makes me a little sad that during that same time, horrifying things were happening, even if it is good that they are coming to light.
It's not about me, I know. It's just very strange to read about my isolated Northern Canadian childhood home here on Metafilter.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:34 PM on September 25, 2012 [17 favorites]
I have a relative who is a Crown (a criminal prosecutor) in regional BC. She has lots and lots of work.
Thanks for posting this, avocet. I hope you'll be able to put your work up on Projects when it's done.
I read a lot about the Highway of Tears after the last MeFi thread. It's not just any old sad story, it's a fascinating topic in the way it brings together so many complex issues. I'm glad to see it getting some respectful attention in the media - that Vancouver Sun series is quite good.
stavros, if it helps, I tend to think this sort of thing stands out more when the general environment improves. I don't know if that's because of the contrast, or if it's a way some people have of angrily reacting to social change, or it's such a difficult problem to fix, or all of the above or what. But I take an interest in true crime stories, and it really seems to me that the worst events come to light in communities that are trying to improve. I hope the towns along Highway 16 can continue their efforts to get better, because they've got reasons to be proud of where they live, and the people there are more than just sensational fodder for tabloids.
posted by harriet vane at 8:25 PM on September 25, 2012
This is what Fort Saint James looks like, by the way. That's my mom waving from down there on the bottom right.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:32 PM on September 25, 2012 [2 favorites]
KokuRyu writes "I have a relative who is a Crown (a criminal prosecutor) in regional BC. She has lots and lots of work."
Ya, both levels of government have been busy making more thing illegal and making the punishments for existing crimes harsher without actually proportionally increasing funding to either prosecutors or public defenders.
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New York Extends Pay Equity Act to All Protected Classes
By Jennifer R. Budoff, Michael S. Arnold
The New York State Legislature has passed an amendment to New York’s Achieve Pay Equity Act (the “Act”), which will prohibit pay discrimination against any employee based on his or her membership in any class protected by the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”). The new law will also make it easier to prove pay discrimination. It is anticipated that the Governor will sign the bill into law and it will take effect ninety days thereafter.
You may recall that in late 2015, Governor Cuomo signed a series of bills entitled the “Women’s Equality Agenda” that made significant amendments to the Act, with the goal of providing additional protections for women in and outside the workplace. The bills expanded protections for women beyond what was required under the Federal Equal Pay Act by limiting the basis for pay differentials between women and men, excluding certain pay differential policies, and broadening the definition of “same establishment”. You can read our prior post on that here.
The new amendment to the Act significantly expands the protections to not just those based on sex, but also based on any of the protected classes set forth under the NYSHRL. Specifically, the definition of “protected class” under the NYSHRL includes: age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, or domestic violence victim status.
In addition, it may now be easier for employees to establish pay discrimination under the Act. As currently written, an employee must establish that their job is equal to the job of a higher-paid co-worker, i.e. that their job requires equal skill, effort and responsibility and is performed under similar working condition. However, under the amended Act, employees may also prove pay discrimination by showing that the employer is paying them less for performing “substantially similar work” when viewed “as a composite of skill, effort and responsibility performed under similar working conditions.” So, while the initial equal job standard remains in place, employees may now instead look to this relaxed standard requiring equal pay for substantially similar work. Among other things, this more flexible standard will require employers to look beyond just an apples-to-apples comparison – two people in different roles may still be doing work that is similar enough to make them comparators for purposes of complying with the Act.
Employers should note that the amended Act will still allow for pay differentials based on seniority, merit, quantity, or quality of production, or a bona fide factor other than a protected class, i.e. education, training or experience. However, the bona fide factor cannot be based on, or derived from, a protected class related differential in compensation and must be job-related and consistent with business necessity. In addition, an employee will still be able to overcome the bona fide factor exception by demonstrating that: (1) an employer uses a particular employment practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of status within one or more protected classes; (2) an alternative employment practice exists that would serve the same business purpose and not produce such a differential; and (3) the employer has refused to adopt such alternative practice.
Currently the New York State Department of Labor (“DOL”) provides training webinars to help employers understand their responsibilities in connection with pay equity, as well as policy recommendations previously provided to Governor Cuomo in order to assist with closing the gender pay gap in the state. However, the guidance has not yet been updated to account for these changes in the Act.
In particular, there is no guidance to address the reality that most employers do not know whether their employees fall into certain protected classes in order to properly detect and correct potential discriminatory pay practices. Many employers have data around gender, race and ethnicity (typically via EEO-1 reports) or are otherwise aware of an employee’s protected classes as self-evident, but other categories such as predisposing genetic characteristics and domestic violence victim status are neither self-evident nor often voluntarily disclosed by employees. In those cases, employers typically would not seek out that information for the purpose of conducting an audit, or if they did, they would be well advised to first seek guidance from counsel to do so in a way that avoids backing into a separate discrimination claim.
We will continue to monitor for the Governor’s signature, as well as revised guidance from the New York State DOL. Given the anticipated quick turnaround and the fact that plaintiff side attorneys have increasingly set their sights on litigating this issue, we recommend New York employers work with their human resource professionals and/or counsel to begin doing the following:
Analyze current compensation structures, including salary and bonus amounts, with a specific focus on how and why the company calculates differences in pay for certain positions or for certain positions that may be considered similar;
Review job descriptions, including required skills and education to ensure that they are up-to-date and accurately reflect the jobs;
Review employee handbooks and other employment-related contracts to ensure compliance with the law with respect to evaluation and pay practices; and
Review written policies relating to seniority, merit-based or productivity-related compensation to confirm that they are in line with permissible pay differentials noted in the law.
Some employers may also want to take this opportunity to conduct a more complete compensation audit, inclusive of a statistical sampling of jobs and employees at the company. However, keep in mind the potential burden in doing so as employers are no longer accounting for only gender, but all protected classes. Employers that elect to perform an audit should consider hiring an outside consultant to perform the evaluation for purposes of efficiency, credibility and outside expertise. But, be aware that using an outside consultant brings with it a lack of in-house expertise and a higher resource spend. Employers must also look to conduct the audit in a way that will create and preserve an attorney-client privilege should litigation or external audits occur, making inside and/or outside counsel’s assistance critical during the process.
Finally, if discrepancies are uncovered during the review, employers should work with their human resources personnel and counsel to implement appropriate corrective actions, including fixing pay practices and remedying disparities appropriately in order to avoid potential exposure under the amended Act.
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Signed Aces Album 2006
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The American Fighter Aces Album is a 543 page book that lists alphabetically and chronologically from the first "Ace" in World War I to the last "Ace" in Vietnam. The Album contains a mini biography, many with a profile picture, of the 1,442 United States military pilots to obtain "Ace" status by being credited with at least 5 aerial combat victories. The album also contains a brief history of the American Fighter Aces, a listing of the aircraft flown by the Aces and their opponents, as well as a listing of the Aces with 20 or more victories and those that, at the time of printing, had received the Medal of Honor. The 2006 album was signed at the 2006 AFAA Reunion in San Antonio, TX. There were 18 Aces in attendance at the reunion, but the number of signatures varies by album.
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Financial services executives should be remunerated appropriately
14 March 2019by Mike Taylor
Financial services executives should be paid properly for what they do and what they are expected today and rewarded for exceptional performance, according to former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Professor Graeme Samuel.
However, speaking on a panel at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF), Samuel made clear he did not believe commissions should be a part of the equation, stating: “I don’t like commissions”.
The CMSF panel was discussing changing cultures within the financial services industry in the wake of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, with the panellists agreeing that corporate culture was set from the top.
Importantly, the panellists – Samuel, Professor Jill Klein and Northern Trust Asset Management president, Shundrawn Thomas – all agreed that companies should not necessarily resort to the employment of outside consultants to address cultural change.
Samuel said that when he was part of the panel addressing issues at the Commonwealth Bank, he was impressed by the “can we, should we” test.
He said that test entailed not only asking whether an organisation could legally do something, but whether those contemplating taking the action would feel either proud or ashamed if their decisions were then reported in the daily newspapers.
Samuel said it followed that if people believed they would not be proud of their actions, they should not proceed down that path.
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Permalink Submitted by BCW on Fri, 2019-03-15 09:09
Whilst I have a lot of respect for Professor Graeme Samuel, clearly on this issue he doesn't have a clue. Indicating that financial services executives should be paid properly for what they do and rewarded for exceptional performance then rejecting commissions is nonsensical. Call them commissions, bonuses, incentives or whatever, they need to be paid for delivering exceptional performance. In my view to everyone from the cleaner to the CEO. The problem isn't with the commissions or incentives per say se. The problem is in the lazy way that performance metrics are set. If they are set purely against sales with total disregard to customer service, regulatory compliance etc, that is exactly what you will get - sales and nothing else. Goals need to be set using a range of measures and should include gates where appropriate. For example, those in business development should not receive their sales commissions unless they have passed through their compliance and customer satisfaction gates. This stuff isn't rocket science but unfortunately most organisations are too lazy to implement such arrangements. Happy to assist any organisations that need a hand with this.
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Entrust Datacard to Acquire Market-Leading General Purpose Hardware Security Module Business from Thales
Entrust Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure issuance technology solutions, today announced that the company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Thales’s market-leading General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP HSM) business, nCipher Security, which has been operating as a separate stand-alone business within Thales since January 2019. Thales is divesting its nCipher GP HSM business, in accordance with Regulatory Clearances necessary to complete Thales’s forthcoming and previously-announced acquisition of Gemalto and to ensure a strong competitive market leader in the HSM market.
General Purpose HSMs are a core component of Entrust Datacard’s solutions and are an underlying part of the security infrastructure of the company’s public key infrastructure (PKI) and secure socket layer (SSL) offerings. The acquisition will allow the company to not only further extend its ability to provide its customers with solutions that meet their demand for high assurance use cases – but also address the increased demand for data security stemming from regulations such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the electronic identification, authentication and trust services (eIDAS) regulation. The acquisition strengthens the Entrust Datacard technology portfolio that secures data and identities across internal, cloud and hybrid networks, and from more frequent and sophisticated cyberattacks. It also provides a proven, trusted platform that enhances and extends the security of applications at the heart of the digital initiatives of today and tomorrow, including the Internet of Things, digital payments, card issuance and blockchain.
“This acquisition is an excellent complement to our expertise in both cryptography and hardware and will extend our ability to meet the evolving security needs of our customers globally while allowing us to accelerate our own growth,” said Todd Wilkinson, president and CEO of Entrust Datacard. He continued, “The Thales General Purpose HSM solution, known as nCipher, has a strong market position based on a wide range of use cases, brings with it exceptional talent and offers us the ability to develop even more comprehensive solutions for our clients.”
“nCipher Security is delighted to join Entrust Datacard. There is a powerful synergy between our solutions and the combination of our organizations will accelerate innovation for our customers as they embark on initiatives such as mobility, cloud and IoT to grow their businesses and simultaneously strive to protect data and manage ever-growing cyber risk,” said Cindy Provin, Chief Executive Officer of nCipher Security.
The transaction is subject to the successful completion of the acquisition of Gemalto by Thales, the approval of Entrust as a suitable purchaser by the European Commission, US Department of Justice, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and New Zealand Commerce Commission, and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Additional information about the acquisition will be released once the transaction is closed. The acquisition is expected to be finalized during the second quarter of 2019. Financial terms of the acquisition will not be disclosed.
Click here to read the Thales announcement: Thales signs a definitive agreement to sell its GP HSM business to Entrust Datacard
For more information about Entrust Datacard, visit: www.entrustdatacard.com
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Part Time Teaching Licenses: New York
The state should offer a license with minimal requirements that allows content experts to teach part time.
National Council on Teacher Quality. (2011). Part Time Teaching Licenses: New York results. State Teacher Policy Database. [Data set].
Retrieved from: https://www.nctq.org/yearbook/state/NY-Part-Time-Teaching-Licenses-7
New York offers a Visiting Lecturer license with minimal requirements, although it is unclear whether the license was designed to be used part time.
According to state requirements, "at the request of a superintendent of schools, a license may be issued to an individual who has unusual qualifications in a specific subject." The Visiting Lecturer License is designed to supplement the regular program of instruction.
The state does not provide additional guidelines for obtaining a Visiting Lecturer License.
http://www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/certificate/typesofcerts.html#lecturer
Offer a license that allows content experts to serve as part-time instructors.
It is unclear whether the Visiting Lecturer License serves as a vehicle for individuals with deep subject-area knowledge to teach a limited number of courses without fulfilling a complete set of certification requirements. It appears that this may be the intent of the license; however, state policy does not describe the conditions of employment, whether it is for part-time or full-time teaching or requirements that candidates must fulfill.
Require applicants to pass a subject-matter test.
Although this license is designed to enable distinguished individuals to teach, New York should still require a subject-matter test. While documentation provided by the applicant may show evidence of expertise in a particular field, only a subject-matter test ensures that Visiting Lecturer teachers know the specific content they will need to teach.
New York recognized the factual accuracy of this analysis. The state added that in February and April of 2011, the Board of Regents discussed a proposal for a new alternate route to teacher certification, Transitional-G. This route creates an expedited pathway for subject matter experts, specifically individuals with advanced degrees in STEM, and related teaching experience at the postsecondary level, to become certified high school teachers in mathematics, one of the sciences or a closely related academic subject area. Adoption of these regulations is anticipated in 2011.
New York is commended for creating a new expedited pathway for STEM experts. Transitional G is a path to full certification. This goal recommends an even more expedited way to allow such experts to teach on a part-time basis. This may be particularly useful for small districts that may not have high enough enrollment to necessitate a full-time position in certain subject areas.
Part-time licenses can help alleviate severe shortages, especially in STEM subjects.
Some of the subject areas in which states face the greatest teacher shortages are also areas that require the deepest subject-matter expertise. Staffing shortages are further exacerbated because schools or districts may not have high enough enrollments to necessitate full-time positions. Part-time licenses can be a creative mechanism to get content experts to teach a limited number of courses. Of course, a fully licensed teacher is best, but when that isn't an option, a part-time license allows students to benefit from content experts—individuals who are not interested in a full-time teaching position and are thus unlikely to pursue traditional or alternative certification. States should limit licensure requirements to those that verify subject-matter knowledge and address public safety, such as background checks.
The origin of this goal is the effort to find creative solutions to the STEM crisis. While teaching waivers are not typically used this way, teaching waivers could be used to allow competent professionals from outside of education to be hired as part-time instructors to teach courses such as Advanced Placement chemistry or calculus as long as the instructor demonstrates content knowledge on a rigorous test. See NCTQ, "Tackling the STEM Crisis" at: http://www.nctq.org/p/docs/nctq_nmsi_stem_initiative.pdf.
For the importance of teachers' general academic ability, see R. Ferguson, "Paying for Public Education: New Evidence on How and Why Money Matters," Harvard Journal on Legislation 28 (1991), 465-498.
For more on math and science content knowledge, see D. Monk and J.R. King, "Subject Area Preparation of Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers and Student Achievement," Economics of Education Review 12, no. 2 (1994), 125-145; R. Murnane, "Understanding the Sources of Teaching Competence: Choices, Skills, and the Limits of Training," Teachers College Record 84, no. 3 (1983)
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33% Lok Sabha Lawmakers Charged With Murder, 83% Are Crorepatis: Report
As many as 10 members of the outgoing Lok Sabha have declared charges of murder against them while 14 have criminal cases related to attempt to murder.
All India | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: March 28, 2019 17:13 IST
The report was prepared after analysing affidavits filed by 521 of total 543 members before 2014 polls.
As many as 10 members of the outgoing Lok Sabha have declared charges of murder against them while 14 have criminal cases related to attempt to murder, reveals a report by the election watchdog, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
The ADR on Thursday released the report which said that as many as 174 (33 per cent) of total sitting 521 members of the current Lok Sabha declared criminal cases against themselves before 2014 Lok Sabha elections while 106 (20 per cent) declared serious criminal cases such as murder, attempt to murder, communal disharmony, kidnapping, crimes against women.
It said the report was prepared after analysing affidavits filed by 521 of total 543 members before 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Out of 10 members who have declared cases related to murder, four are from the ruling BJP, one each from Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Swabhimani Paksha, and one Independent.
Among the 14 members of Parliament who have cases related to attempt to murder, eight are from the BJP, one each from Congress, Trinamool Congress, NCP, RJD, Shiv Sena and Swabhimani Paksha.
There are 14 members who have declared cases related to causing communal disharmony - 10 from the BJP, one each from Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
Party-wise, 35 per cent (92 out of 267) BJP members have declared criminal cases, while the number is 16 per cent (seven of total 45 members) of the Congress, 16 per cent (six of total 37 members) of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), 83 per cent (15 of total 18 members) of Shiv Sena, 21 per cent (seven of total 34 members) of Trinamool Congress have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
Similarly, 22 per cent (58 out of 267) BJP members have declared serious criminal cases like murder while the number is 4 per cent (two of total 45 members) of the Congress, 8 per cent (three of total 37 members) of AIADMK, 44 per cent (eight of total 18 members) of Shiv Sena, 12 per cent (four of total 34 members) of Trinamool Congress have declared criminal cases against themselves in their affidavits.
As many as 430 or 83 per cent of the total 521 members are crorepatis and the average assets per sitting MP for Lok Sabha 2014 elections are Rs 14.72 crore, finds the report.
Two among them have not declared their PAN details and 24 have not declared income tax details.
Party-wise, 85 per cent of BJP MPs, 82 per cent of Congress MPs, 78 per cent of AIADMK MPs and 65 per cent of Trinamool Congress MPs have declared assets worth more than Rs 1 crore.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Jayadev Galla is the richest MP with the declaration of assets worth Rs 683 crore while BJP MP from Rajasthan Sumedha Nand Saraswati has declared lowest assets of Rs 34,000.
A total of 96 Sitting MPs have declared liabilities of Rs 1 crore and above and 14 of them declared liabilities of Rs 10 crore and above.
TDP MP Srinivas Kesineni has declared liabilities of Rs 71 crore against the assets worth Rs 128 crore.
When it comes to education background, one has declared that he is illiterate.
As many as 126 (24 per cent) have declared that have an education qualification of 12th pass or below while 384 (74 per cent) have declared having educational qualification of graduate or above.
As many as 206 (40 per cent) members are 25 to 50 years while 281 (54 per cent) have declared their age to be between 51 to 70 years and 34 (6 per cent) to be above 71 years.
Out of 521 sitting MPs analysed, 66 (13 per cent) sitting MPs are women while 455 (87 per cent) are men.
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Moore PD Investigating Deadly Auto-Pedestrian Crash Involving Runner
Wednesday, August 23rd 2017, 9:33 PM CDT
By Lisa Monahan
MOORE, Oklahoma - Moore Police are investigating the deadly auto-pedestrian crash that killed 29-year old Robert Griffioen.
Griffioen was hit by a truck while jogging near Main and Broadway, in front of the Moore Police Department, Sunday.
Police have been reviewing evidence in the case, including surveillance video of the incident.
"It is clear the driver will be at fault in this," Sergeant Jeremy Lewis explained, "Just looking at the video, there is no indication at all that he intended to stop at any point until he struck the jogger."
Lewis explained the 18-year-old driver of an F-250 appeared to be speeding when the truck ran a red light and hit Griffioen as he jogged into the crosswalk.
"It is like everyone's nightmare," said wife, Stephanie Griffioen.
She explained that she and her husband loved running and kept running, despite many close calls with cars.
"You don't really think it’s going to happen to you... and it is just hard to wrap my mind around, right now," Griffioen said she suspected the driver was distracted at the time of the crash.
Police have told her they believe that was the case, although they're not sure what the distraction was.
Sgt. Lewis said it appears the driver was not trying to beat the light. It was red before the truck approached the intersection.
When questioned at the scene, the driver told officers he did not have a cell phone.
"We are just, right now, trying to figure out why was he at fault? Why did he blatantly run a red light?" said Lewis.
Investigators are waiting for the driver's toxicology report to be completed before turning their findings over to the district attorney.
Meanwhile, the community is rallying around the Griffioen family. A GoFundMe site has been established to raise money for his wife and son.
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Petition challenges Ranil Wickremesinghe’s parliamentary seat
11 Dec, 2018 | 9:16 pm
Written by Staff Writer 11 Dec, 2018 | 9:16 pm
Colombo (News1st): A petition has been filed with the Court of Appeal seeking a writ of quo warranto to prevent Ranil Wickremesinghe from functioning as a Parliamentarian, citing he is a shareholder of a private company that entered into agreements with government institutions.
The petition was filed by Colombo Municipal Councilor Sharmila Gonawela.
The petition claims Ranil Wickremesinghe is a shareholder of Lake House Printers & Publishers and according to the companies annual reports he is 09th largest shareholder from 2014 and 2018.
It adds the company had printed checkbooks, Employee IDs, Credit and Debit Cars for Bank of Ceylon, People’s Bank and National Savings Bank which were established as public enterprises by Parliamentary Acts.
The petition goes on to note Ranil Wickremesinghe from 2014 to 2018 had personally enjoyed dividends from these contracts.
The petition cites that Ranil Wickremesinghe can no longer hold a position in parliament according to section 91 (1) (e) of the constitution. Sharmila Gonawela in the petition requests the court of appeal to issue an interim injunction order preventing Wickremesinghe from functioning as an MP until the petition is taken up and concluded.
5 individuals including Ranil Wickremesinghe, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam and General Secretary of Parliament Dammika Dasanayake have been named as respondents.
Speaking to the media Colombo Municipal Councilor Sharmila Gonawela stated that a similar case was filed against Rajitha Senaratne and he lost his parliamentary position. She noted that Ranil Wickremesinghe has entered into agreements with a reputed government sector entity and obtained financial benefits without revealing it to the country, therefore, they are challenging his parliamentary position.
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Michelle Yeoh Dissects a 'Master Z' Brawl and Contemplates Taking on Dave Bautista
By Andrew Whalen On 4/12/19 at 3:35 PM EDT
In Crazy Rich Asians, Michelle Yeoh plays Eleanor Young, the imposing matriarch of a powerful Singaporean real estate family, who stands opposed to her son and heir's American girlfriend (Constance Wu). While no stranger to dramatic roles, Yeoh's flair for action, including starring roles in some of the most successful martial arts movies ever made, gives her a special insight into the ways power, force and conflict are built on screen.
"When I'm doing martial arts movies, I can kick ass and you can feel the visual movement and power," Yeoh told Newsweek. "But this woman, Eleanor Young, she moves very quietly, very elegantly, yet most of the time she commands respect and attention. If a look could kill, you would be tumbling down the stairs."
Yeoh jokingly added that sometimes it was necessary to remind herself not to actually kick Wu's character, Rachel Chu, down the staircase (where they have their most intense clash of personalities in Crazy Rich Asians). Yeoh speaks in action movie terms, so it's no surprise that when her long-time collaborator Yuen Woo-ping—a famed director and martial arts choreographer, most widely known in America for designing action sequences in movies like The Matrix and Kill Bill—came to her for his new movie Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, she leapt at the chance.
"I did this movie because of him. When Master Yuen says 'Michelle,' I say 'Yes! When, where, how?'" Yeoh said. "He's like a mentor—like a big uncle—he's such a good friend and it's always fun to work with him, because you know he will always push you to your limits and he'll always get you to do something new."
While the first three movies in the Ip Man series dramatize the life of the Wing Chun master most famous for training Bruce Lee, Master Z: Ip Man Legacy instead follows Cheung Tin Chi, a fellow Wing Chun master still stinging from his defeat in Ip Man 3. Played by Max Zhang (The Grandmaster, Pacific Rim: Uprising), a martial arts wushu champion in his own right, Cheung tries to keep a low profile as a shopkeeper and single father, but soon finds himself embroiled in a power struggle between a gang boss and her jealous younger brother.
As Cheung Lok gang leader Tso Ngan Kwan, Michelle Yeoh brings both the cultivated calm that placed her at the contemplative heart of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the wicked sophistication that's made her portrayal of an evil galactic empress a highlight of Star Trek: Discovery.
Master Z showcases Yuen's endless inventiveness with outrageous action sequences, like a high-wire brawl among creaking neon signs above a Hong Kong nightlife district. It also pits Zhang against contemporary action standard-bearers like muay thai monk Tony Jaa and the indomitable Dave Bautista. But despite the overflowing spectacle of Master Z, the fight between Kwan and Cheung is a series high point, pitting an icon of martial arts cinema against one of its rising stars.
Michelle Yeoh and Max Zhang in "Master Z: Ip Man Legacy." Well Go USA Entertainment
For much of Master Z, Cheung butts heads with Kwan's younger brother Kit (Kevin Cheng), who peddles drugs in Cheung's neighborhood, against the wishes of his gang boss older sister. Despite a temporary alliance, Cheung and Kwan find themselves at odds about what to do with Kit, leading to a confrontation in her office, which happens to coincide with Kit's big power play. As Cheung fights Kwan in her office, Cheung's friend Fu (Xing Yu) holds off Kit's mob of machete-wielding goons. Excerpts from the fight appear in the Master Z trailer (up top), which also includes a scene where Cheung and Kwan demonstrate their martial arts mastery by tussling over a glass of whiskey.
“We sat there, we looked at each other, we said, ‘Let’s go for it, man,’” Yeoh said of the subtly acrobatic scene. “We never spilled it. I think Max and I were challenging each other.” Well Go USA Entertainment
"At the end of the day, it's really like a big dance piece. When I fight with Max Zhang, he's so good. It's like finding the perfect dance partner," Yeoh said of the fight between Kwan and Cheung. While each fight sequence is a complex ballet of violence, Yuen's process is surprisingly improvisational, even if the final result looks like it took weeks of diagramming and rehearsal.
The fight between Kwan and Cheung, including the huge mob fighting just outside of Kwan's office, took a total of seven days to shoot. "There are no rehearsals," Yeoh said. "We get in and learn our moves right there and then."
While the actors are in hair and makeup at the beginning of the day, Yuen's team of stunt men and women are choreographing the action elsewhere on the set. "He has a general plan, a master plan, and he'll have a rough idea or two—how many are coming into the fight, the instruments, what can break. It's wonderful when you walk onto a set and you can see, 'Well, that table is gone, that cabinet is probably going to break,'" Yeoh says, describing Yuen, 74, at work. "You basically just stand there and watch the maestro. He works very closely with his stunt people, these men and women who have been with him for the longest time. And they feed off each other. They'll throw in some moves and he'll come in and—you know how old he is, right?—he'll just get in there."
Yuen directs by example, his precision setting a high standard for each blow. "If it's a good take, he'll just move on. The only thing you ever hear is how to make it better. There's no pat on the back, no bravo. We'll be dancing around and he'll just be like, 'Okay,'" Yeoh said, describing Yuen's reserved approach to directing actors, which she characterized as different on American and Hong Kong sets. "I remember Dave Bautista would say to me, 'Did I do something right or wrong?' I told him, if he doesn't come up to you and say anything, you did it right."
"We talk about work less and less each time because we have such a shorthand," Yuen told Newsweek, describing his long working relationship with Yeoh. The two first collaborated on 1993's Tai Chi Master, starring Jet Li. A year later, Yuen directed Yeoh in Wing Chun, a rare woman-led martial arts movie in a genre dominated by men.
"It's a different era," Yeoh said. "Nowadays, it's all done in a much, much safer environment. When we started doing this in the 80s, the safety standards were not as high and we didn't have the help of CGI, which means we had to use wires that could be hidden in-frame, because we didn't have the budget to erase them."
Like Jackie Chan, who famously ends his movies with a blooper reel of stunt injuries, Yeoh has taken plenty of licks for the genre, including a tumble off the hood of a moving car in 1992's action classic Police Story 3: Super Cop and a torn ACL while filming on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
On a high-impact film set, trusting yourself and your sparring partner is a must. "All of it is really down to choreography and the discipline of being fit and being accurate, because nothing is worse than when you're supposed to kick someone in the chest and you kick them in the head instead," Yeoh said. "That is the greatest respect to the people you fight with—you have the confidence that you won't accidentally hit them."
“Your mindset is to remember the moves right away, to register and perform it right there and then. It’s challenging, physically and mentally," Yeoh said. "We take ownership in our own style." Well Go USA Entertainment
But Yeoh revealed how even fights that go as planned take their toll. "After a full day of physical fighting like this, you look like somebody threw you down a flight of stairs a few times. There's just no escaping it, because there is contact. And it's not just hitting each other once or twice. Each take consists of eight to 15 moves in one go."
Padded costuming can dampen some of the impact, but Yeoh opted to do her Master Z fight in a half-sleeved blouse, her officious appearance a striking contrast with the scene's brutality. "We were fighting each other with our bare arms. I was black and blue by the end of it," Yeoh said. "With those kinds of fights, I usually wear a long blouse or a jacket for a little padding. If I had to fight Dave Bautista, I would wear a bomber jacket, man."
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Why North Carolinian boats are fishing off New Jersey's coast -- and how a CSF might help
Fishing boats now travel more than 250 miles to catch the fish that used to be in local waters, says Princeton University's Talia Young
19-Feb-2019 2:05 PM EST
Credit: Talia Young, Princeton University
After considering the difference between the fish counters at a Whole Foods market (top) and the Chinatown fish market (bottom), Princeton University's Talia Young decided to build a community-supported fishery program (CSF) that connected fishing crews with culturally and economically diverse communities. "Fishing communities need to sell their fish," she said. "If there's no market, none of the rest of it matters."
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Newswise — As the oceans warm in response to climate change, fishing boats in the Mid-Atlantic that focus on only one or two species of fish are traveling more than 250 miles farther north than they did 20 years ago, while others catching a wide diversity of species have not changed fishing location, reported Talia Young, a postdoctoral research associate in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton.
"In fishing communities, people's well-being and the environment's well-being are intricately tied together," said Young, who is a David H. Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow. "We know that climate change is affecting natural resources. We can see how it is affecting when things are blooming, where species are distributed, and -- because fish are mobile -- we're seeing dramatic changes in the distribution of fish in the ocean. But in order to fully understand how climate change is affecting the world we live in, we have to understand how it's affecting the environment, the animals that live in the environment, and also the people that interact with and depend on those animals."
The Northwestern Atlantic Ocean, the patch of sea located off the coast of the northeastern United States, is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the ocean. Young was intrigued by the intersection of the ecological effects with the economic ramifications for the people who depend on commercial fishing.
"What we wanted to do was see if and how harvesters are responding to species changing location," said Young. "We found that large North Carolina-based trawl vessels, which are fishing primarily summer flounder and Atlantic croaker, were fishing off the coast of North Carolina in the late '90s and now, on average, are fishing 250 miles north, off the coast of New Jersey. That is a really big change."
To track the movements of fishing vessels, Young and a team of colleagues analyzed millions of logbook data entries, aggregated by "fishing communities," which the researchers defined using a combination of landing port, gear and vessel size, with a cutoff of 65 feet to distinguish large from small boats. This concept of "community" grew out of interviews in fishing communities by some of Young's colleagues, who found that this particular combination of geography and fishing strategy reflected groups of harvesters who share knowledge, practices and relationships.
The team found that while large trawlers may follow the fish -- even when that means sailing from the Outer Banks to the Jersey Shore -- smaller boats (that cannot travel hundreds of miles per trip) have instead often diversified their catch or given up fishing. They also found that large vessels based in New England that were already fishing a wide variety of species have not changed fishing location.
"Extensive research has been done on how climate change is affecting natural resources like fish and trees, but there are many people in the world who are dependent on natural resources, and there's been much less work looking at them," said Young. "This paper is the first we know of that empirically and quantitatively documents how people who rely on those natural resources are adapting to those changes."
From fish harvesters to fish eaters
As she learned more about how climate change is affecting fishing communities, Young became increasingly interested in the importance of markets for the fish harvested in those communities. "Fishing communities need to sell their fish," she said. "If there's no market, none of the rest of it matters."
Young started thinking about how seafood consumers affect seafood markets, which led to a quantitative analysis of West Coast seafood buyers, to understand how different kinds of seafood supply chains may affect both fishing economies and ecosystems.
"I saw harvesters and fishing community advocates trying to expand the 'American' palette beyond salmon and cod fillets, and it seemed to me that they were missing an important market," Young said. "Lots of Americans -- many of whom are people of color -- eat a wide variety of fish and shellfish species that are caught locally or domestically, like whole fish, squid, eel, lobster, clams, abalone and whelk. They don't need to be convinced about how delicious they are. ... So I began thinking about what would it look like to build a community-supported fishery program (CSF) that connected fish harvesters with local, culturally and economically diverse communities."
Young created Fishadelphia, a CSF inspired by the success of community supported agriculture programs (CSAs) that provide members with vegetables every week of the growing season. Fishadelphia's day-to-day operations are planned and coordinated by a group of high school students at Mastery Charter Thomas Campus in South Philadelphia, where Young taught science before getting her Ph.D. Young's current research includes an examination of how alternative supply chains like Fishadelphia affect stakeholder knowledge about and interest in each other.
Fishadelphia is about to start its third 16-week "season," during which freshly caught fish will travel from the Jersey docks to the charter school every other week from Feb. 21 to May 30. The CSF charges its members $160 for the season, or $20 per pickup, a price that is cut in half for families of students at the charter school or anyone eligible for SNAP benefits. For each pickup, the students put together information sheets that include facts about the species available that week, the name of the fishing vessel that caught them and its captain, and recipes.
"Princeton has made all of this work possible," Young said. "It was a collaboration with Princeton researchers -- especially Emma Fuller [a 2016 graduate alumna] -- that got me interested in studying fishing communities in the first place, and EEB has been a warm and welcoming home for this work. Simon has been an incredibly thoughtful and supportive mentor. And a Princeton Environmental Institute intern, Atarah McCoy [of the Class of 2020], helped us get Fishadelphia off the ground."
Princeton's location is also key, said Young. "New Jersey fisheries are diverse, economically important and ecologically interesting. We're in the most densely populated state in the nation, with intense cultural diversity, and it's exciting to build programs that capitalize on both these natural and cultural resources at the same time.
"Between climate change, regulatory disputes and fleet consolidation, American fishing communities are facing a host of challenges right now, and the idea that immigrants and people of color and poor people could help provide a uniquely American solution for some of these challenges -- that is exciting," Young said.
"Adaptation strategies of coastal fishing communities as species shift poleward" by Talia Young; Emma Fuller, a 2016 graduate alumna; Mikaela Provost; Kaycee Coleman; Kevin St. Martin; Bonnie McCay and Malin Pinsky, another postdoctoral research fellow in Levin's lab, was published Nov. 27 in Marine Science (DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsy140). This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (DBI-1052875), an NSF Coastal SEES grant (OCE-1426891), and grants to Dubik, Fuller and Young (GRFP DGE: 100014190, 1211972 and 0937373). Additional support was provided by the David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship Program, the Nippon Foundation -- University of British Columbia Nereus Program and NSF DEB-1616821. Fishadelphia is supported by the USDA Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) and the David H. Smith Conservation Fellowship. Its partners include the Heritage Shellfish Cooperative, the Fishermen's Dock Cooperative in Point Pleasant, Randall's Seafood, Maxwell Shellfish, Viking Village, Lund's Seafood, Community Voice Consulting and Working Landscapes.
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A creative, feisty forward, Grabovski was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the fifth round (No. 150) in the 2004 NHL Draft.
The German-born Grabovski remained in Russia, where he was playing for Neftekhimik. He joined Dynamo Moscow in 2005-06 before signing with Montreal and heading to North America to start the 2006-07 season.
The 5-foot-11, 186-pound Grabovski spent most of that season with Hamilton of the American Hockey League, scoring 17 goals and 54 points in 66 games. He played three games for the Canadiens and made his NHL debut on Jan. 6, 2007, against the New York Rangers. During the AHL postseason, Grabovski had four goals and 11 points to help Hamilton win the Calder Cup.
Grabovski started the following season with the Canadiens and scored his first NHL goal on Oct. 22, 2007, against Manny Fernandez of the Boston Bruins. He played 24 games with Montreal and 12 for Hamilton that season.
On July 3, 2008, Grabovski was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Greg Pateryn and a 2010 second-round draft pick. In his first season with the Maple Leafs, he had 20 goals and 48 points, ranking third among NHL rookies in each category. Following the lockout-shortened 48-game season in 2012-13, when he had nine goals and 16 points, Toronto bought out the remaining four years of his contract, making Grabovski a free agent.
Grabovski signed a one-year contract with the Washington Capitals on Aug. 23, 2013. On opening night of the 2013-14 season, he had a hat trick and four points against the Chicago Blackhawks.
After one season with Washington, Grabovski signed a four-year contract with the New York Islanders on July 2, 2014.
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Traded to Toronto by Montreal for Greg Pateryn and Toronto's 2nd round pick (later traded to Chicago, later traded back to Toronto, later traded to Boston - Boston selected Jared Knight) in 2010 NHL Draft, July 3, 2008.
Signed as a free agent by CSKA Moscow (KHL), September 25, 2012.
Signed as a free agent by Washington, August 22, 2013.
Signed as a free agent by NY Islanders, July 2, 2014.
Traded to Vegas by NY Islanders with Jake Bischoff, NY Islanders' 1st round pick (Erik Brannstrom) in 2017 NHL Draft and NY Islanders' 2nd round pick in 2019 NHL Draft for Expansion Draft considerations, June 21, 2017.
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BBC Three’s move online delayed until 2016
Nick Levine Apr 23, 2015 10:33 am BST
The corporation originally wanted to make BBC Three an online-only channel from autumn 2015
The BBC has postponed its plan to move BBC Three online until 2016.
The BBC announced in March 2014 that it was planning to make BBC Three an online-only channel from autumn 2015. From this point, the service will be available solely on iPlayer. However, the move has now been delayed while the corporation waits for its governing body, the BBC Trust, to approve its proposals for the channel.
“Once we have the Trust’s final decision, we’ll start doing more online and in social, building up to a move online -[but] only after Christmas,” BBC Three controller Danny Kavanagh told Broadcast magazine. “You simply can’t turn around something as groundbreaking as this overnight. We won’t be rushed. We will do what’s right for our fans, not to satisfy deadlines.”
Earlier this year (2015) the BBC Trust launched a full public consultation into BBC Three’s move online, allowing licence fee payers to have their say on the corporation’s proposals for the channel. The BBC Trust is expected to deliver its final verdict in June.
According to the corporation’s proposals for the channel, which is now being considered by the BBC Trust, the new online-only BBC Three will “allow the use of new forms and formats [and] different durations” in programming, with content to be based on what the BBC calls “two key editorial pillars”: Make Me Laugh and Make Me Think.
BBC Three was launched in 2003 with a target audience of viewers aged between 16 and 34. The channel’s biggest hits over the last decade include Gavin & Stacey, Little Britain, The Mighty Boosh, Torchwood and Being Human.
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Please Stay Off The Pitch After Peterborough Clash
At the conclusion of Sunday's game with Peterborough United, the players, management and staff would like to return to the pitch to show you their appreciation of your support.
However, fans are reminded that at no time should supporters encroach onto the pitch.
Five minutes after the final whistle Dean Holden and the squad will return to salute and thank you for your support over the last 12 months.
It is against Football League regulations to enter the playing area and your co-operation on this matter is greatly appreciated.
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Home »About NAIT » Newsroom » New dean named for School of Applied Sciences and Technology
New dean named for School of Applied Sciences and Technology
Stewart Cook has been named dean of NAIT’s School of Applied Sciences and Technology, a role he filled as interim dean since September 2016
Cook began his NAIT career more than 20 years ago as an instructor in the Machinist program, holding progressively more senior positions including associate chair and chair of the program. He became an associate dean in the School of Skilled Trades in 2012. Cook has also represented NAIT in Havana as an instructor for Corporate and International Training.
In addition to being a long-serving academic staff member, Stewart is an alumnus, having completed the Machinist apprenticeship program in 1989.
NAIT’s School of Applied Sciences and Technology offers degrees, two-year diplomas and one-year certificate programs to prepare learners for a wide range of in-demand careers in science and technology. There are more than 40 programs in the school that include the natural sciences, environmental management, sustainable design, digital media and graphics, photography and broadcasting, mechanical and electrical engineering technology, and information systems technology.
Kevin Shufflebotham, vice-president academic (interim)
“We’re thrilled to recognize the talent and commitment Stewart brings from within the NAIT community. We were impressed not only by his leadership skills, but by his dedication to this institution and its values.”
Stewart Cook, dean, School of Applied Sciences and Technology
“This is a great group of people to work with, from the instructors and support staff to the leadership team. I see huge potential here and I look forward to being part of it.”
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is a leading Canadian polytechnic, delivering education in science, technology and the environment; business; health and trades. With nearly 60,000 credit and non-credit students and a 95 per cent employer satisfaction rate, NAIT grads are essential to Alberta’s prosperity. Known for hands-on, technology-based learning, NAIT engages with business and industry in applied research and innovation and provides corporate training around the world. Recognized as one of Alberta’s top employers, NAIT provides outstanding returns on investment for its graduates, partners, the provincial government and the people of Alberta.
Interim dean Stewart Cook to fill position on permanent basis; has more than 20 years experience at NAIT
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A Complete Timeline Of Nick Jonas And Priyanka Chopra's Whirlwind Relationship
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra just got married on Saturday, December 1st.
Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra officially made it down the aisle this past weekend on Saturday, December 1st. They even had not one, but two different weddings to celebrate their respective religions. Tons of celebrities made special appearances at their wedding and the whole thing looked like it came straight out a fairytale.
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The couple is so cute together that it's easy to forget that they've actually only been together for around six months in total. They got engaged after only two months of dating. This has definitely been the year of spontaneous celebrity engagements, and Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra were one of the many couples who got engaged after only a few months of dating.
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While some couples engagements were short-lived (ahem, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson), we're so happy to see that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have joined the ranks of Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin. The couple is officially married and their ceremony was extra in the best way possible.
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Their relationship has been an absolute whirlwind, so it can be hard to keep track of how they ended up making it to the aisle. So let's take a walk down memory lane and see just how the couple started and how the events that led to them tying the knot.
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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra first started talking all the way back in 2016. Nick actually first reached out to Priyanka via Twitter and suggested they go on a date. This led to a friendly but slightly flirty texting relationship, according to PEOPLE. However, the pair didn't meet in person until the year after.
The couple's first meeting in person was in 2017. They met at the Vanity Fair Oscars party, and Nick even got down on one knee and he recalled that he said, "I say, ‘You’re real. Where have you been all my life?' Like, loud" – foreshadowing much?
That same year, the pair also went to the Met Gala together, not as a couple but as Ralph Lauren’s guests. A week before they attended the iconic event, they met up for a drink in New York. The actress even invited the singer back to her apartment after but was disappointed when Nick didn't kiss her, according to Vogue. "It was too respectful if you ask me," Chopra told the outlet.
While none of their 2017 encounters led to a concrete romantic relationship, it clearly laid the groundwork for a whirlwind 2018.
Rumours started circulating in May 2018 that the pair was dating. They had kept in touch after their Met Gala date, but it wasn't till 2018 that the couple became more solid. In May 2018, a source told PEOPLE, "They’re flirtatious and have been hanging out and text all the time" and said that Nick and Priyanka's relationship was "very casual" – because casual usually leads to an engagement, right?
They were spotted hanging out together in public on several occasions in public, and there were even some flirty comments left on Priyanka's Instagram by Nick.
The couple made it Instagram official in June when Nick Jonas posted a picture of Priyanka accompanied by a heart-eye emoji on his story. This was the first of many Instagram PDA posts to come, but we are not complaining because the couple is cute AF.
They also met each other's families that month, proving that their relationship had gone from casual to serious real quick. Nick brought Priyanka to meet his family at his cousin's wedding, and weeks after in late June, the singer flew to India to meet the actress's family. "It’s a huge deal that Nick brought Priyanka to his cousin’s wedding," an insider told PEOPLE. "He’s dated a lot over the last couple years but it’s never been anything serious, so this is a big step."
Just two months after the pair began dating, they decided to take things to the next level and get engaged! Fans were absolutely shook because they did not see it coming at all. The couple got engaged on July 27th while they were in Greece, PEOPLE reported.
The pair made their engagement Instagram official on August 19th, a few weeks after Nick popped the question. They both posted the same photo to Instagram. Nick Jonas captioned his post, "Future Mrs. Jonas. My heart. My love" and Priyanka Chopra captioned hers, "Taken.. With all my heart and soul".
The world subsequently freaked out again, with their engagement announcement posts garnering a collective eight million likes on Instagram.
The couple celebrated their engagement and enjoyed the honeymoon phase with different dates and public outings, such as double dating with Nick's brother Joe Jonas and Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, who are also engaged.
They also continued to show all the love to each other on Instagram, posting adorable pics together.
Proving this engagement would lead to a wedding and not a break-up, the couple reportedly got a marriage license from a courthouse in Beverly Hills, California in November, according to The Blast.
The adorable couple made their marriage official and tied the knot on December 1st. They made people all around the world jealous of their extravagant, beautiful wedding.
If you thought they couldn't get any more extra, the couple had not one, but two wedding, one honouring each of their respective religions. The two also shared photos of the wedding to their Instagram accounts. The wedding looked like an absolute dream and we're excited to see what's next for these newlyweds.
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MagazineThe Cities Issue
To build the cities of the future, we must get out of our cars
Remaking healthy urban areas means repairing damage done to communities once blown apart to serve the automobile.
SHANGHAI, CHINA Near the center of this city of 24 million, China’s largest, the Yanan expressway crosses under the North-South expressway. The country has gained half a billion city dwellers since 1990—and nearly 190 million cars. “It’s truly almost incomprehensible what happened in China,” says American urban designer Peter Calthorpe, who has worked there extensively. With nearly 300 million more people expected in cities by 2030, Chinese planners say they’re changing course, prioritizing walkable streets and public transit over cars.
By Robert Kunzig
Photographs by Andrew Moore
This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.
The purpose of cities is to bring people together. In the 20th century, we blew them apart. One day last year, Peter Calthorpe took me on a drive through some of the wreckage. He wanted to show me how he proposes to make cities whole again.
Calthorpe is an architect who in the late 1970s helped design one of the first energy-efficient state office buildings, which still stands in Sacramento, California. But he soon widened his focus. “If you really want to affect environmental outcomes and social outcomes, it’s not shaping a single building that matters,” he says. “It’s shaping a community.”
Today he runs a small but globally influential urban design firm, Calthorpe Associates. In his spare, airy office in Berkeley, the charter of the Congress for the New Urbanism hangs framed on the wall, denouncing “the spread of placeless sprawl.” Calthorpe helped launch the group in 1993. The struggle is long and ongoing.
We waited until late morning for the traffic to settle a bit, then got into Calthorpe’s midnight blue Tesla and set a course for Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco on the far side of the distended metropolis.
WELWYN GARDEN CITY, ENGLAND A century ago, when British urban planner Ebenezer Howard envisioned two “garden cities” north of London, people were starting to flee overcrowded cities in Europe and America. Some of Howard’s ideas still seem forward-looking, such as the way he gave Welwyn residents easy access to both green spaces and the metropolis—London is just a half hour away by train.
“The problem with urban environments that are auto oriented,” he said, as we wound our way toward the Bay Bridge, “is that if there’s no choice, if the only way to get around is in a car, lo and behold, people are going to use cars too much. Too much for the climate, too much for people’s pocketbooks, too much for the community in terms of congestion, too much for people’s time. I mean, every way you measure it, it has a negative—no walking is a prescription for obesity. Air quality feeds into respiratory illnesses.”
In the 1990s Calthorpe scored a breakthrough: He helped persuade Portland, Oregon, to build a light-rail line instead of another freeway and to cluster housing, offices, and shops around it. “Transit-oriented development” sealed his reputation as an urban visionary; in Beijing, I met an environmental scientist who has taken many Chinese planners to visit Portland. It was less of a new idea, Calthorpe said, than a call “to reinvent the old streetcar suburb, where you had fabulous downtowns and you had walkable suburbs, and they were linked by transit.”
On the bridge, despite leaving late, we hit stop-and-go traffic.
In Calthorpe’s utopia, in China or America or elsewhere, cities would stop expanding so voraciously, paving over the nature around them; instead they’d find better ways of letting nature into their cores, where it can touch people. They’d grow in dense clusters and small, walkable blocks around a web of rapid transit. These cities of the future would mix things up again: They’d no longer segregate work from home and shopping, as sprawl does now, forcing people into cars to navigate all three; they’d no longer segregate rich from poor, old from young, and white from black, as sprawl does, especially in the United States. Driving less, paving less, city dwellers would heat the air and the planet around them less. That would slow the climate change that threatens, in this century, to make some cities unlivable.
To do all this, in Calthorpe’s view, you don’t really need architectural eye candy or Jetsons technology—although a bit of that can help. You need above all to fix the mistakes and misconceptions of the recent past.
BAKU, AZERBAIJAN This oil-rich capital, the country’s largest city, has followed the Dubai model of urban development: trophy buildings first, an overall plan later. The Flame Towers are meant to evoke flares at natural gas seeps; at night, simulated flames dance on their facades, which are covered with LEDs. The skyscrapers house an upscale hotel, luxury apartments, and a mall with a Lamborghini showroom.
South of the San Francisco airport, Calthorpe turned off the Bayshore Freeway. We were headed for Palo Alto, where he grew up in the 1960s, but we’d really come to drive El Camino Real—the road once traveled by Spanish colonists and priests. “It was the old Mission Trail,” he said. “And right now, it runs through the heart of Silicon Valley, and it’s just low-density crap.”
Town after town spooled by, tire shop after U-Haul dealer after cheap motel. El Camino is one of the oldest commercial strips in the western United States, and it’s not the ugliest. To Calthorpe, its interest is not as an eyesore but as an opportunity. Not many people live on the road, because it’s mostly zoned for commercial use. Yet Silicon Valley is desperately short of housing. Tens of thousands of people commute in cars from throughout Northern California. In Mountain View, home of Google, hundreds actually live in parked cars.
Along the 45-mile stretch of El Camino between San Francisco and San Jose, within half a mile of the road, there are 3,750 commercial parcels occupied by a motley collection of mostly one- or two-story buildings. Calthorpe knows this from the software he and his colleagues have developed, called UrbanFootprint, which draws on a nationwide parcel-by-parcel database and a series of analytical models to game out visions of the future for cities to consider. If El Camino were lined with three- to five-story apartment buildings, Calthorpe explained, with stores and offices on the ground floor, it could hold 250,000 new homes. You could solve the Silicon Valley housing shortage and beautify the place at the same time, while reducing carbon emissions and water consumption and wasted human hours.
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS In the city’s historic district, the new Market Hall aims to inspire with its originality—but also to create “a space where we could celebrate and we could meet each other,” says architect Winy Maas. The arched apartment building covers a food market that’s open daily, as well as bars and restaurants.
In that 45-mile “ribbon of urbanism,” children would walk to school again. Their parents would walk to the grocery store and walk or bike to work—or jump on public transit to head up or down the strip. Transit is the key: It would have to be ubiquitous and fast. But it wouldn’t be light rail this time, Calthorpe said. That’s too expensive now, and a better technology is coming.
It’s one many urban planners are terrified of: driverless autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Calthorpe himself thinks that, if AVs are left to individuals or the likes of Uber or Lyft, they will metastasize sprawl. He wants to harness the technology to benefit communities. Down the center of El Camino, on dedicated, tree-lined lanes, he would run autonomous shuttle vans. They’d arrive every few minutes, pass each other at will, and stop rarely, because an app would group passengers by destination. On their protected lanes, as Calthorpe envisions it, the little robots wouldn’t run over people—and the technology wouldn’t run over our world with its unintended consequences.
Calthorpe is a onetime hippie, but of the techno-friendly Whole Earth Catalog kind. In the late 1960s he taught at an alternative high school in the Santa Cruz Mountains, helping the kids build geodesic domes. The valley below wasn’t yet nicknamed for Silicon; it was still the Valley of Heart’s Delight, covered in fruit orchards. In the foothills, an interstate highway was under construction, to relieve congestion on El Camino and the Bayshore Freeway. “In those days, you couldn’t even see the valley,” Calthorpe recalled. “It was just a sea of smog. It was just really clear that something was profoundly wrong.” Today there’s less smog, but the city is still broken, and on his good days, it still seems fixable to him.
When the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual meeting last year in Savannah, Georgia, the keynote speaker was Jan Gehl, an urban designer from Copenhagen. An oracular octogenarian, Gehl is revered for his simple insights: Architects and urban designers should build “cities for people” (the title of one of Gehl’s books, translated into 39 languages), not cars. They should pay attention to the “life between buildings” (another book title), because it’s crucial to our well-being. Gehl has spent decades observing how people behave in public spaces, collecting data on which kinds encourage civic life and which tend to be dispiriting and empty.
“There is great confusion about how to show the city of the future,” he said as we sat at an outdoor café on a square shaded by live oaks. From time to time a horse clopped by, pulling a carriage full of tourists. “Every time the architects and visionaries try to paint a picture, they end up with something you definitely would not like to go anywhere near.”
SINGAPORE Can a high-rise city be a garden city? Singapore subsidizes vertical gardens like these on the 627-foot Oasia Hotel. Designed by a local firm, the building is cooled by 54 species of trees and flowering vines, which attract bugs and birds—and soothe jangled nerves.
He opened his laptop and showed me a Ford Motor Company website called the City of Tomorrow. The image showed a landscape of towers and verdant boulevards with scattered humans and no sign of them interacting.
“Look at how fun it is to walk there,” Gehl said dryly. “There are only a few hostages down there among the autonomous cars.”
“Towers in the park,” as New Urbanists call this kind of design, is a legacy of modernist architecture, whose godfather was Le Corbusier. In 1925 he proposed that much of central Paris north of the Seine be razed and replaced with a grid of 18 identical glass office towers, 650 feet high and a quarter mile apart. Pedestrians would walk on “vast lawns” gazing up at “these translucent prisms that seem to float in the air.” Cars would whiz by on elevated expressways. Cars, Le Corbusier thought, had made the streets of Paris, “this sea of lusts and faces,” obsolete.
Like most of Le Corbusier’s ideas, the Plan Voisin was never built. But his influence was nonetheless global. It’s seen in the notorious housing projects of American city centers—some since demolished—and in the corporate office parks that dot the suburban landscape. It lives on too in the dozens of entirely new cities now being planned and built all over the world, especially in Asia. Many of those cities claim to prioritize walking and public transit, says Sarah Moser, a McGill University urban geographer who has studied them, but most in fact don’t. Putrajaya, Malaysia’s new federal administrative center, is a good example: Half of it is devoted to green space. But as Moser points out, “it takes a lot of walking to get from building to building.”
The influence of Le Corbusier is felt especially in the new urban districts that China has slapped up over the past four decades. Calthorpe, who spoke at the Savannah conference, argued that those regiments of identical apartment towers, lined up on quarter-mile-long “superblocks,” have something in common with American suburbs, as different as they appear.
“There’s one unified problem,” he said, “and it’s sprawl.” The essence of sprawl, he explained, is “a disconnected environment.” People living in high-rise towers in a park can be just as disconnected—from their neighbors and from the unwalkable street below—as people living on suburban cul-de-sacs. In China’s new towns, narrow streets lined with shops have given way to 10-lane boulevards, crowded with cars rather than bicyclists and pedestrians. “The social and economic fabric is being destroyed,” Calthorpe said.
Sprawl happened in the United States for reasons that made it seem like a good idea at the time. Millions of soldiers had come home from World War II to overcrowded, run-down cities; their new families needed a place to live. Driving to the suburbs felt liberating and modern. In China, sprawl happened for good reasons too.
In People’s Square in Shanghai I toured an exhibit on the city’s history with Pan Haixiao, a transportation researcher at Tongji University. When he arrived as a student in 1979, traffic was already terrible, he said—not because there were so many cars but because of “the very fine urban fabric,” the dense network of narrow streets. In those days, it could take Pan two hours to go downtown from the university, less than four miles away.
Wouldn’t it have been quicker to walk? I asked.
“At that time, we didn’t have enough food,” Pan said. “If you walk, you’ll feel very tired. We were always hungry when I was a student.”
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA Transit binds a city: When La Paz sent its first cable cars sailing over congested mountain roads in 2014, it linked mostly poor El Alto to downtown, 1,300 feet below. By 2018 nine lines were carrying 250,000 people a day. Cabins arrive every 10 to 12 seconds.
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA The Orange Line cable cars pass over La Llamita cemetery. A 10th line is scheduled to open this spring and an 11th in the future.
In the 40 years since Deng Xiaoping decreed the “reform and opening” of China, as its population swelled to 1.4 billion, the country has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. It has done so essentially by drawing them from the countryside to factory jobs in cities. China’s breakneck urbanization is all the more remarkable for having been preceded by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, which sent millions of people the other way, from cities into the country.
“After the Cultural Revolution, the first thing was to make everybody have a home and have enough food,” said He Dongquan, a Beijing environmental scientist who is China director for Energy Innovation, a U.S.-based think tank. He grew up in the ’70 and ’80s in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, an industrial city his parents had helped build. It’s now economically distressed—but in its prime it gave young He access to electricity, clean water, and education, for which he considers himself lucky.
As the urbanization drive began, He said, there was a rush to build apartments—and the quickest way was to churn out cookie-cutter towers on superblocks. The financial incentives were powerful, and not just for developers; Chinese city governments can get half or even more of their local revenue from selling land rights. Urban design niceties were overlooked—although following the dictates of feng shui, the towers generally were lined up in orderly, south-facing rows.
Just as with American suburbs, which helped realize millions of American dreams, the results are great, to a degree. The average Chinese family now has 360 square feet of space per person, four times the average of two decades ago. But the spaces between the buildings are uninviting, He said, so people don’t use them.
“Everybody feels lonely and nervous,” He said. Fearing crime, residents demand fences, turning superblocks into gated communities. The city becomes even less friendly and walkable.
Meanwhile, in the past 20 years, the number of private cars in China has gone from negligible to nearly 190 million. Beijing now has seven concentric ring roads rippling outward from the Forbidden City. Seventy percent of the transport infrastructure investment in rapidly developing cities is for cars, said Wang Zhigao, director of the low-carbon cities program at the Energy Foundation China, an internationally funded nonprofit.
Public transit is excellent, by American standards, but not good enough to lure enough people out of cars. Part of the problem, in Beijing and other cities, is the sprawling urban form—the legacy of all those years of building hastily. “If we don’t make the urban form right, it will be there for hundreds of years,” Wang said. “If we continue to provide a driving environment, people will drive, and we’ll still be high carbon, even with electric vehicles.” China still gets most of its electricity from coal.
How will we get around cities in the future? One promising possibility is driverless minibuses, which are getting a trial at Gardens by the Bay. Photograph by Andrew Moore
A decade ago, Wang and He got wind of a new development called Chenggong, in the southwestern city of Kunming. Planned for 1.5 million people, it was a typical Chinese new town: The main street was 90 yards across from curb to curb, 200 from building to building. “We contacted Peter and some other experts then, and they were shocked,” Wang recalled. “They said, ‘This street is not for human beings.’ ”
The Energy Foundation flew Calthorpe and an architect from Gehl’s firm to Kunming to talk with city officials. “That first lecture, they started buying into the ideas,” Wang said. Ultimately the Energy Foundation paid for Calthorpe to redo the plan for Chenggong. “It was already planned, and they already had started the infrastructure,” Calthorpe recalls. “They had already laid out the superblocks.” Where it was still possible, he divided each one into nine squares, like a tic-tac-toe board, with smaller roads. He put the buildings closer to the street, with stores on the ground level below offices and apartments.
The project, still under construction, became the first of many that Calthorpe and a young colleague, Zhuojian (Nelson) Peng, have worked on in China. It got the attention of the national housing ministry. And it reinforced a change in mind-set that already was bubbling up from Chinese urban planners—one that then got ratified in a startling way. In 2016 the Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, the highest organs of the state, issued a decree: From now on Chinese cities were to preserve farmland and their own heritage; have smaller, unfenced blocks and narrower, pedestrian-friendly streets; develop around public transit; and so on. In 2017 the guidelines were translated into a manual for Chinese planners called Emerald Cities. Calthorpe Associates wrote most of it.
“We were a little surprised,” said Zou Tao, director of the Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute in Beijing, who also contributed to Emerald Cities. “For more than 10 years we’ve been telling people to do this. We’re still getting used to it—and still figuring out how to make it happen in the real world.”
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA One of sub-Saharan Africa’s first light-rail lines, financed and built largely by China, opened in 2015. Carrying more than 100,000 passengers a day in packed cars, it has begun to transform the capital, allowing workers to reach jobs far from their homes. In Africa’s rapidly growing cities, sprawl is an epic challenge.
Chinese urbanization is at a turning point. The government aims to move nearly 300 million more people—almost equal to the entire U.S. population—into cities by 2030. China faces both a shortage of decent affordable housing and a housing bubble, because many people invest in apartments and keep them off the market, said Wang Hao, a planner who spent 20 years at the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design. “Half the people have moved into the city; the other half can’t afford it,” she said. The government is trying, all at once, to design cities more humanely and sustainably and deflate the housing bubble without crashing the economy. No one is sure how to do all that, Wang said.
The key test may come in Xiongan, a 680-square-mile stretch of swampy land, including a heavily polluted lake, about 65 miles southwest of Beijing. In April 2017 President Xi Jinping announced, again to general surprise, that he wanted to build a new city there. Ultimately it could house five million people and relieve congestion and pollution in Beijing. Last summer, when I visited the site with He and a vanload of planners, all that had been built was a temporary city hall complex. Chinese tourists strolled the treelined streets. An autonomous shuttle bus circulated experimentally and emptily.
PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA The federal administrative center was planned in the 1990s to relieve congestion in nearby Kuala Lumpur. The new city has devoted more than a third of its area to green space—but walking distances are long.
Xi has declared Xiongan a project for the millennium. A video in the visitors center shows a low-rise, small-block, and extremely green city. It isn’t supposed to be completed until after 2035—an eternity by Chinese standards—but the master plan approved in December suggests it will be consistent with the Emerald Cities rule book. Calthorpe hopes to design part of it.
“We’re trying to solve all Chinese city problems,” said a landscape architect I met, a woman who preferred not to be identified. “We’re not sure we’re going to. This place will be an experiment.”
The next morning, He took me to see a more spontaneous experiment: a trendy arts district called 798, which lies in northeastern Beijing between the fourth and fifth rings. We waited until midmorning for the subway crowds to thin out—during the morning rush, the queues at some stations stretch all the way outside, because everyone is leaving one district to work in another. The nearest station to 798 was a few superblocks and about a mile away. Fortunately, dockless shared bikes have lately invaded the capital. We rented a couple and pedaled off.
It was a warm late-summer day, with a blue “meeting sky”—African heads of state were in town, He said, so the government had shut down smoke-spewing factories outside Beijing. The 798 district occupies the site of old factories that used to be outside the city too, before the city engulfed them. After the government closed the complex in the 1990s, artists began occupying the low brick buildings. Gradually a neighborhood of galleries, bars, and shops emerged. The blocks are small because they were laid out for a factory compound.
“This is very close to Portland,” He said, as we strolled the narrow streets. “We always take Portland as a good example.”
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Planners face a big challenge: fighting the sprawl that has disconnected so many communities.
In an alley under a large, idle smokestack, we sipped cappuccinos, discussing the dramatic ideological change in Chinese urban planning. Undoing the effects of 30 years of superblock construction, He said, won’t be easy. “Given the scale and the economic challenges, it will take 20 to 30 years. You see points, small pieces here and there. We hope that over time, all the urban landscape will change.”
In the U.S. landscape too, islands of hope are emerging in the sea of sprawl.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, an architect and urban designer at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, one of the most sprawling cities on Earth, keeps a database of them. In 2009, when she and June Williamson of the City College of New York cowrote their book Retrofitting Suburbia, they reviewed around 80 cases of suburban spaces being transformed, mostly into something urban—that is, denser and more walkable. Today the number of projects in the database has grown to 1,500. Across the country, Dunham-Jones told me, developers are adding buildings mixing residential and retail to some 170 office parks. As online shopping kills hundreds of malls, she said, around 90 are in the process of “becoming the downtowns their suburbs never had.”
Market forces are driving the transition. The nuclear family for whom suburban subdivisions were envisioned is no longer the statistical norm; only a little over a quarter of all U.S. households consist of people with children. Young people are looking for an urban lifestyle, and so are many of the parents they left behind in the suburbs. In the little towns around Atlanta, as elsewhere in the U.S., Dunham-Jones said, “main streets were mostly killed off in the 1970s. Now that the malls are dying, those main streets are coming back.”
SHANGHAI, CHINA An elevated walkway allows pedestrians to survive the Mingzhu Roundabout in Pudong and to navigate among the widely spaced office buildings and malls. Roughly a quarter million Chinese die on the roads each year; more than half are pedestrians or cyclists.
In Duluth, Georgia, 25 miles northeast of Atlanta in Gwinnett County, I visited one. Gwinnett was farm country until sprawl hit like a tsunami, Chris McGahee, Duluth’s economic development director, told me. From 1970 to 2008, the county’s population ballooned from 72,000 to 770,000, Duluth’s from 1,800 to 25,000. “When you leave to go to college, you come back and can’t find anything you remember,” McGahee said. “Except in downtown Duluth, there’s a little string of eight buildings that are more than a hundred years old. For some reason, they survive.”
McGahee started work in October 2008, at the height of the financial crisis. Out of the pain grew opportunity. “What the recession did for us is make land affordable,” he said. Over the next few years the town managed to buy 35 acres around those eight buildings along the railroad tracks. The buildings were nothing special, just little brick relics from the late 19th century. But they had charm and emotional weight.
They’ve now become the nucleus of a restaurant district with a music venue that offers experiences people can’t get online. Around that Main Street, the town is working to have 2,500 units of housing within a 10-minute walk. Townhomes are selling out before they’re finished, McGahee said. He lives in one and walks to work at the monumental city hall, which faces a large green.
The most ambitious revitalization project in the Atlanta area is the BeltLine: an effort to breathe new life into a 22-mile loop of abandoned railway lines around the city center. Five segments of the loop, about a third of the total, are now a paved trail for walking and jogging, biking and skating.
“The economic story is a wild success,” said Ryan Gravel, who first envisioned the BeltLine in 1999 for his master’s in urban planning at Georgia Tech. The $500 million that Atlanta has invested in it has stimulated four billion dollars in development, Gravel said, mostly on the city’s east side. Where the Eastside Trail crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue, for example, a giant old Sears, Roebuck warehouse has become the Ponce City Market, a food hall, mall, and office complex. A Ford factory that once made Model T’s is now loft apartments.
But Gravel’s idea was that the BeltLine could bind the fragmented city more powerfully: It was meant to be a streetcar line as well, one that would spur economic development and affordable housing in the places that needed it most—the African-American neighborhoods in the south and west of the city. MARTA, the Atlanta transit authority, has built one small streetcar line and has a $2.7 billion expansion plan. But it has no plans to build the whole 22-mile loop anytime soon. Gravel worries that “the promise won’t ever be delivered.”
He grew up in Chamblee, a suburb to the northeast, “going to the mall, stuck in traffic on I-285,” he said. “Practically every year they added another lane.” Then in college he spent a year in Paris. He discovered a functioning subway and the joy of wandering the streets aimlessly. “I learned how to walk in Paris,” he said. He came back to Atlanta to be part of changing it.
From the Ponce City Market, we walked south to an old telephone factory, where Gravel plans to open a café and forum to bring people together to talk about the Atlanta they want. Joggers and cyclists and pedestrians streamed by us on the trail. The rail line had always been a physical barrier that separated neighborhoods; now it’s a place that connects people.
“That’s kind of beautiful,” Gravel said.
A century ago, as the Ford plant on Ponce de Leon was starting to churn out Model T’s, Atlanta was shooting outward along streetcar lines. Many major cities in the U.S. were doing the same, stretching tentacles of rail into the countryside and building villages around the stations. Until after World War II, Los Angeles had the world’s most extensive urban rail network, more than a thousand miles of track.
“That is what creates the urban form,” said Joe DiStefano, a longtime colleague of Calthorpe’s who runs the UrbanFootprint business. “Berkeley is a walkable place because the urban form was generated by the investment in a streetcar system.” Even in spread-out Los Angeles, most places were within walking distance of a transit stop, until the city and the country shifted, DiStefano said, “until the automobile made it possible for us to travel broader distances on our own—the automobile, and trillions of dollars of investment in the infrastructure to move it.”
Los Angeles became the paragon of car culture. But these days it’s trying to move out of that trap—back to the future. Since 2008, Los Angeles County voters have twice approved, by two-thirds majorities, half-cent hikes in the sales tax to pay for an extensive transit expansion—in part, no doubt, because they hope it will get other people off the freeway. “We have soul-crushing congestion,” said Therese McMillan, chief planning officer for Metro, the transit authority. The Expo light-rail line to Santa Monica was completed in 2016; the Purple subway line is being extended nine miles, from downtown to near UCLA; and a light-rail line is planned to the southeast—along an old streetcar right-of-way.
Transit alone can’t fix Los Angeles; ridership actually fell last year. “Driving’s too cheap, housing’s too expensive,” said Michael Manville, an urban planner at UCLA. People have to pay to ride transit, but not to drive the freeway or to park in most places. Meanwhile, an affordable-housing crisis brought on by gentrification and citizen resistance to multifamily housing pushes low-income people, the ones most likely to ride public transit, to the fringes of the metropolis, where public transit is sparse.
Change is happening: In Santa Monica I met one architect, Johannes Van Tilburg, who has designed 10,000 units of housing near transit lines in the past 15 years. But can the whole fabric of a sprawling city be changed?
“I think the answer is absolutely yes,” DiStefano said. It took us only 50 years to blow up a walkable urban form that had endured millennia, he said; we could undo that in another 50. DiStefano worked with Calthorpe on the El Camino thought experiment. “That corridor is Anywhere, U.S.A.,” he said. The same opportunity exists on strips around the country—the same opportunity to create walkable, connected cities to house a growing population, without cutting another tree or paving another mile.
Before Anywhere, U.S.A., is reimagined, however, it’s likely to be hit by the next explosive new technology. Self-driving cars should ultimately be safer than human-driven ones. Bombing along bumper to bumper in 60-mile-an-hour platoons, they may increase road capacity and reduce the space we devote to parking. But by the same logic, they could also dramatically increase the number of vehicle miles traveled, as robotic Uber and Lyft taxis deadhead around the metropolis 24/7, waiting for fares, and as personal-AV owners leave them spinning in traffic to go shopping. And consider, finally, the new impetus that robotic chauffeurs could inject into urban sprawl. If your car becomes a self-driving office or living room or bedroom, how far would you be willing to commute in it?
How about if your car were a plane? In a hangar south of San Jose, I got a glimpse of a future that may not be far off. The hangar belonged to a company called Kitty Hawk, and it contained four little aircraft with cheerful yellow fuselages. Each wing had six electric propellers pointed upward. Cora, as the plane is called, takes off like a helicopter and runs on battery power. It has two seats, and neither is for a pilot—Cora flies itself. A pilot on the ground monitors its progress, taking control remotely if necessary.
Former Virgin America CEO Fred Reid, who oversaw Cora until early this year, explained the rationale for self-flying planes. He began by showing me a video of that soul-crushing traffic in Los Angeles. “There’s no doubt in any thinking man’s or woman’s brain that this is not only going to happen, it has to happen,” he said. Kitty Hawk has a bunch of competitors.
Across the U.S., renewed desire for an urban lifestyle is sprinkling suburbia with new ‘downtowns.’
The initial market for Cora would be as an air taxi, Reid said. You’d arrive at LAX, say, and a Cora would whisk you a thousand feet above the traffic, flying a predetermined route. It would be relatively cheap, he said, closer to an Uber Black in price than to a helicopter. Being electric, it would be quiet and relatively green. Also, Reid added, “we try to make our planes pretty.” He pictures thousands in the skies above L.A.
I’d take one in a heartbeat, I realized.
But what will it be like, I asked Reid, to have thousands of these zipping around the skyline? You’re inventing a new technology that has just as much revolutionary potential as automobiles. What kind of world will it make?
“We’ll figure it out,” Reid said.
Maybe we will. But it might be wise to do some of the figuring first. We didn’t have to go completely nuts about cars, allowing them to become the tail that wagged the urban dog. We didn’t have to rip up all the streetcar lines. We didn’t have to forget that cities are for people—and we don’t need to do it again.
When Gehl started his career in 1960, Copenhagen was choked with cars too. Gehl began as an architect in the modernist tradition, designing the kinds of buildings that he now dismisses as “perfume bottles”—sculptural compositions rather than humanistic ones. But he changed course, and so did his city. Copenhagen has committed to becoming the world’s best city for pedestrians and cyclists. It’s working. Two-fifths of all commutes now are by bike.
The point is not that bikes are the answer; it’s that we can be thoughtful about the shape of our cities. “Waking up every morning and knowing that the city is a little bit better than it was yesterday—that’s very nice when you have children,” Gehl said. “Think about that … Your children have a better place to live, and your grandchildren have a better place to grow up than you could when you were young. I think that’s what it should be like.”
Senior editor Robert Kunzig focuses on environmental issues. Photographer Andrew Moore is known for his large-format documentary photography. This is his first feature for the magazine.
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SeaWorld Announces Major Expansion Plans for the Future
Monday, November 09, 2015 SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld Parks and Resort Orlando
SeaWorld Entertainment held the company's Investor and Analyst Day today.
During this presentation, President and Chief Executive Officer Joel Manby shared with investors and analysts a plan to build on the company's strong business fundamentals by evolving the guest experience to align with consumer preferences for experiences that matter – to learn more about the natural world, the plight of animals in the wild, along with family entertainment and attractions.
The plan includes a new approach to in-park activities as well as greater connection to the company's award winning television programming that highlights SeaWorld Entertainment's world-class veterinary care and animal rescue operations. Other elements of the plan include a more simplified approach to value-based pricing, investment in new attractions, and an ongoing focus on cost control as part of a larger commitment to financial discipline. In addition, Manby announced several new business initiatives, including partnerships with Panasonic and Evans Hotel Group.
NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND NEW HOTELS
As a part of a multi-year partnership with Panasonic Enterprises Solution Company, Panasonic will become an Official Technology Partner of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and its Parks. Panasonic Enterprises Solution Company provides advanced technology solutions serving sports, entertainment and retail industries.
"Panasonic is very pleased to be chosen by SeaWorld Entertainment as their new technology partner," said Jim Doyle, President of Panasonic Enterprise Solutions Company. "There are endless possibilities when it comes to adding technology to update and enhance the guest experience throughout all of the parks. Panasonic looks forward to delivering the most cutting-edge technology solutions to impress and amaze."
Manby said after the presentation that a key objective of the Panasonic partnership is to use technology to better connect park guests with animals and the company's 23,000 employees, now known as ambassadors, with the larger goal of inspiring a shift in behavior.
"We hope that experiencing animals in our parks moves our guests to a deeper understanding of the plight of all animals – and an increasingly threatened natural environment -- and inspires those guests to help conserve the world we share," Manby said.
The company also announced Monday that it has signed a letter of intent with Evans Hotels Group to explore development of a resort hotel on SeaWorld's leased land in San Diego. Evans owns and operates well-known resorts and attractions in San Diego County, including The Lodge at Torrey Pines, Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa, the Bahia Resort Hotel and the Bahia Belle and William D. Evans sternwheelers. The Evans partnership is part of SeaWorld Entertainment's strategy to look at opportunities and partners to develop resort properties in or near some of its parks.
"We are delighted to partner with Panasonic and Evans Hotels, companies that have such well-established reputations for quality and innovation," Manby said. "We are excited to begin deploying Panasonic technology solutions to enhance the guest experience in our parks and to explore resort development opportunities on Mission Bay with Evans Hotels."
"Evans Hotels and SeaWorld Entertainment have been pioneers in helping to make Mission Bay the leisure and entertainment destination it is today. Our companies have each served the local community and visitors to San Diego for more than half a century. This project is an exciting opportunity for our iconic brands to join together to create the ultimate resort experience," said Robert H. Gleason, President and CEO of Evans Hotels.
NEW "SEA RESCUE"-THEMED RIDES COMING TO SEAWORLD PARKS
SeaWorld Entertainment's management also announced that the Company's Saturday morning family television programs, Sea Rescue and The Wildlife Docs, have been renewed by Litton Entertainment through summer 2018. The award-winning and Emmy-nominated shows are number one in ratings in their respective Saturday morning timeslots on ABC. The shows document the Company's long-standing commitment to assisting wild animals in need – more than 27,000 to date – and the sophistication of animal husbandry and veterinary care in its zoological parks.
A new roller coaster themed after Sea Rescue will open in 2017 at SeaWorld San Antonio, while new dark rides will make their way to SeaWorld Orlando and SeaWorld San Diego that same year.
"Animal rescue is part of what we have always been and a key way we are different from other theme park companies. These shows are part of a larger strategy and we are looking to transform what guests experience in our parks and what the public learns about us," Manby said. "In developing new experiences in our parks we want guests to explore, to be inspired and, ultimately, to act and we feel our parks are uniquely suited to creating meaningful and fun vacations – experiences that matter.
"The overwhelming majority of adults – nearly 95 percent according to research we have seen -- tell us that they believe that visiting a zoo or aquarium can inspire conservation," Manby said. "We see a growing trend within our core guest demographic that a vacation can and should be more than just fantasy and entertainment. Guests want to know that they're making a difference for the world we share and our parks deliver on that promise."
NEW SEAWORLD ORLANDO WEBSITE
A much easier-to-use SeaWorld Orlando website will debut very soon, highlighting special offers and helping future Guests to create their own tickets, add more days, include special experiences, and more:
THEATRICAL KILLER WHALE SHOWS TO BE PHASED OUT IN SAN DIEGO
As part of that commitment, Manby announced the company has initiated production on a new orca presentation for its San Diego park. The new experience will engage and inform guests by highlighting more of the species' natural behaviors. The show will include conservation messaging and tips guests can take home with them to make a difference for orcas in the wild. The current show, One Ocean, will run through 2016.
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SeaWorld Announces Major Expansion Plans for the Future Reviewed by OTPN Administrator on Monday, November 09, 2015 Rating: 5
I love Seaworld and am very excited that they are upgrading various aspects. We are really looking forward to Mako. We were passholders at Disney for years and just felt over time they really didn't care if we were there or not. We spent far too many days dodging walls and construction. Seaworld always makes us feel welcome and the staff is genuinely nice. Granted Disney has a ton of stuff that Seaworld couldn't even dream of, but once the kids got tired of it, Seaworld still remains a great day for the family.
Disney is like walmart... everyone shops there, but no one wants one in their neighborhoods.
Construction walls are Disney growing and providing more, yep, they suck, but they are a sign of a resort that is growing and changing. Its either construction walls, or stale, and I will take walls everyday. People hate on the oddest things. Once they start DHS people will be upset with all the walls, rather than excited that they are getting 25 acres of new things.
(Full disclosure... yes, I wish they built things faster!)
Darren Cooper November 11, 2015 at 7:48 AM
I wonder if that jet ski ride will be built with jet-ski's in mind... no harness and no seat belts. Just hold on tight and make sure you don't fall off!
Lol.. Darren, you know that's not going to happen. Would be great if they did though.. Lol. Thanks for the smiles.
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VILLAINOUS ZIMBALIST JOINS THE 'HOTEL' FAMILY
Jay Bobbin , Tribune TV LogTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
When the ABC series Hotel begins its fourth season at 10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, on WFTV-Channel 9, a familiar face is checking into the St. Gregory for an extended stay.
Last season's episodes ended with Victoria Cabot (played by the late Anne Baxter) willing half of the San Francisco hotel to manager Peter McDermott (James Brolin), and he's about to have a big battle for control on his hands. Victoria's brother-in-law is firmly opposed to the idea of a family outsider having so much power at the posh establishment, and he's determined to do something about it. This new character will be played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr., who will assume the role of Charles Cabot for the new season's first seven segments.
"He's a little bit thorny," veteran actor Zimbalist said about the role. "He's abrasive, and the only thing that can be said in his defense is that he is this way because of his business philosophy. His posture regarding McDermott is one of total disagreement about the way to run a hotel. He wants to get Peter out. Charles isn't really a scratchy guy, it's just that his point of view is totally different from McDermott's . . . and from most other people's. He also resents the fact that Victoria left her share of the St. Gregory to a non-Cabot." Dina Merrill and Ralph Bellamy also will guest-star in the early episodes as other Cabot relatives. "Charles tries to enlist their help," Zimbalist said, "but they both turn against him."
Though he is usually cast as a heroic figure, enhanced even more by his years as the star of the long-running series The F.B.I., Zimbalist embraces the opportunity to play a villainous type for a change: "I fully expect to be the subject of cursing. However, this is just a job for me, and a very enjoyable one because it's a lovely company to work with. I have played heavies before, but usually with some sort of mitigating charm to them. This fellow has some of that, but he's much heavier than most of the parts I've played."
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Why America Is Scrambling to Dig Into Southeast Asia
New trends and breakthrough thinking in politics, science, technology, business and culture. It’s futurism at its best.
Because economic growth in Southeast Asia could help spur jobs and income everywhere.
By Steven Butler
Nothing seems to turn on construction companies like talk of sexy infrastructure projects — long-legged railroads, polished ports and hot new highways. That’s why Southeast Asian countries — like Indonesia, which expects to double its power consumption while rolling out more than a dozen airports and two dozen seaports over the next several years — are getting so much attention these days. The excitement about possibilities in the region for American companies such as Caterpillar, one of the world’s biggest construction equipment makers, is palpable. “We at Caterpillar love roads,” says Ann-Marie Padgett, who’s responsible for the company’s advocacy with Southeast Asian governments, “especially ones that are not yet built.”
They’re not the only ones. Over the next five years, an estimated $2.8 trillion will be spent in Southeast Asia on infrastructure for boats, trains, cars, electricity supplies and other areas, according to the Asian Development Bank, which facilitates economic development there. And the building bonanza has the U.S. government scrambling to get a piece of the action for companies based here. In fact, it’s creating a new one-stop shop with services of up to 10 agencies that are scattered across the government and aim at helping American businesses overseas, and businesses are pushing hard to impress those who are doling out lucrative contracts.
After years of trailing China, Southeast Asian economies are getting ready to move into the fast lane. An opening has popped up as China’s wages have rapidly risen, making them too expensive for many export industries. Meanwhile, the country’s growth has slowed significantly even as it has kept pouring money into factories and buildings, meaning that the investment bang for a buck just isn’t what it used to be. The spectacular crash of the Chinese stock market only further illustrates how much air has escaped the Chinese growth bubble.
Whether U.S.-based ventures can actually walk through the door is another question.
But before Southeast Asia can really take off, countries need to fix their plumbing — in more ways than one. Around 60 percent of a product’s cost sourced from Indonesia, for example, is tied up in costly transportation expenses, compared with an average of 6 percent in other regions, says James Carouso, director of maritime Southeast Asian affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Electricity expenses can also climb off the charts — 40 cents a kilowatt hour for diesel generation in Indonesia versus about 12 cents a kilowatt for American consumers across different sources of electricity.
Still, as any developed nation has learned, these are fixable problems. And, naturally, nearby countries seem to be growing increasingly nervous about their own building plans, prompting some to go public with major initiatives. In May, Japan announced a $110 billion fund to support Asian infrastructure investments. That seemed vaguely like one-upmanship, following a controversial move where China launched the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, whose investment capital is expected to reach $100 billion. Part of the brouhaha: The U.S. government earned a diplomatic black eye when it failed this spring to dissuade close allies like Britain, Australia and South Korea from joining the bank, arguing unsuccessfully that existing institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank could do the job.
All of these diplomatic (or, in this case, not so diplomatic) moves have consequences. Padgett, for one, cites America’s failure to join the bank as a lost opportunity, saying it will now be “exceedingly difficult” for the U.S. to shape the governance of the new bank, which is widely welcomed in the region despite some fears of Chinese economic domination. David Dollar, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, notes that this kind of behavior “plays into the narrative” of China being on the rise, as America declines, but that it ultimately might not sting economically. That’s partly because the new bank has promised an “open procurement” policy, meaning that anyone can apply for finance, including U.S. companies.
Whether U.S.-based ventures can actually walk through the door is another question. Tien Le, economic counselor at the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, says that American companies have a good reputation in many areas — for, say, being high-tech, or strong with standards linked to the environment, ethics or employing local labor. “But in practice,” he recently told conference attendees at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington, “they are lagging behind” as companies in nearby countries scoop up most of the business. That’s because, unlike officials in the U.S., many other governments walk in offering complete projects that are already planned and financed — even if all their promises don’t eventually pan out. Some of the issues at hand? Cost overruns, environmental problems and the use of illegal foreign labor, Le says. “We hope for more U.S. government involvement,” he adds.
That’s what Carouso has got in mind. He’s working to open an office in the region that will house everything from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Foreign Commercial Service to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. If it sounds like a confusing alphabet soup, it’s easy to see why these agencies with different functions might need to be in one place. “Hopefully, this one-stop shop will make it easier for private companies to put together a package,” Carouso says.
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Scituate parade organizers seeking candidates for mayor
Mary Whitfill The Patriot Ledger thelittlewreck
Feb 5, 2019 at 6:42 PM Feb 5, 2019 at 8:00 PM
SCITUATE — The longtime organizers behind the town's popular St. Patrick's Day Parade says fundraising to support the event is off to an unusually slow start with just a month and a half to go.
Ed Kelley said it typically costs about $65,000 to put on the parade, which will be held March 17 this year and typically draws tens of thousands of people. More than 25 percent of the money usually come from the annual race for "Scituate Mayor," but six weeks out from the parade not a single person has signed up for the mock election.
"That would be a big dent in our fundraising if we don’t get any candidates," Kelley said Tuesday. "We can start the race as soon as we get at least two people."
Between two and five people sign up each year to run for Scituate Mayor and host events to raise money for the parade. Every dollar raised at events, or donated to a specific candidate online, counts as a vote, with the winner of the "election" riding in the parade as the mayor.
"Look at it this way, people watching on TV," Selectmen Chair John Danehey said at the board of selectmen's televised meeting Tuesday night. "If nobody has thrown their hat in the proverbial ring, you’ve got a really good chance of winning."
Last year's winner was Sylvia Killion, owner of Sylvia’s by the Sea on Front Street.
Selectmen approved the parade's special events permit Tuesday night, and Kelley said planning is otherwise going well. The parade will start at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, and the Mad Hatter's Ball, a fundraiser hosted by the parade committee, will be on Saturday, March 9 at the Barker Tavern, 21 Barker Road.
The Grand Marshals Dinner, a traditional Irish meal attended by local law makers, will be at The Mill Wharf Restaurant on Thursday, March 14. The winner of the mayor's race is announced at the dinner.
For more information, visit weloveaparade.com.
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Carrie Talbot
Cities: Skylines is getting a co-op board game in October
Developer Paradox Interactive’s announced that it would be launching a series of board games based on some of their biggest and probably best-beloved titles at their PDXCon last year. Now, we’ve got our first good look at one sure to excite fans of its metropolis builder – Cities: Skylines will soon be a board game.
Now that Crusader Kings, Paradox’s strategy RPG, is being transformed into a board game via Kickstarter, it looks like it’s now Cities: Skylines’ turn to hit tabletops, as spotted by Kotaku. BoardGameGeek has some details on the upcoming game – it’s a co-operative board game based on the PC title, in which players will work together, rather than against each other, to build a thriving city. Information on CoolStuffInc, where it’s up for pre-order, indicates that you’ll have to take into account the factors that can thwart your ambitions, such as the environment, crime, education, traffic, and perhaps most critically of all – money (or lack of).
There’s not a lot of specific information about the playing pieces yet, but judging by the pictures it doesn’t look like the skyscraping or Monopoly-like smattering of plastic constructions you might perhaps expect. Instead, it looks as though you will use a combination of Tetris-like pieces representing your builds placed on the board, building cards, what looks like some kind of progress tracker card, and other paraphernalia to achieve your ultimate outcome – the happiness and prosperity of your city’s residents.
CoolStuffInc’s page says that the number of players is one to four, the play time is around 40 to 70 minutes, and the expected release date is given as October 25, though this could change.
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Keen to get building with your buddies? Hopefully the tabletop will drop later this year as expected, but in the meantime check out our guide to the best management games on PC – when you’re sitting pretty in charge of a fruitful factory or a rockin’ rollercoaster park, you’ll be glad you did.
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6.5 Right to Restriction of Processing
Each data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European legislator to demand restriction of processing from the data controller where one of the following applies:
- the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the data controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
- the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the deletion of the personal data and requests the restriction of its use instead;
- the data controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by the data subject for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims;
- the data subject has objected to the processing pursuant to Article 21 Sec. 1 of the GDPR (DSGVO) pending the verification of whether the legitimate grounds of the data controller overrides those of the data subject;
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by GO Europe GmbH, they can contact us at any time. We will then arrange restriction of the processing.
6.6 Right to Data Portability
Each data subject has the right granted by the European legislator to receive the personal data concerning them that was provided to a data controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. They have the right to transmit the data to another data controller without hindrance from the data controller to which the personal data has been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 Point a of the GDPR (DSGVO) or Article 9 Sec. 2 Point a of the GDPR (DSGVO) or of a contract pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 Point b of the GDPR (DSGVO) and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller.
Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 Sec. 1 of the GDPR (DSGVO), the data subject has the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one data controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may contact us at any time.
6.7 Right to Objection
Each data subject has the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, at any time, to the processing of personal data concerning them which is based on Article 6 Sec. 1 Point e or f of the GDPR (DSGVO). This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
GO Europe GmbH may no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Where GO Europe GmbH processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning them for such marketing at any time. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. Where the data subject objects to GO Europe GmbH regarding the processing for direct marketing purposes, GO Europe GmbH will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal data concerning them by GO Europe GmbH for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89 Sec. 1 of the GDPR (DSGVO) on grounds relating to their particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
The data subject can exercise their right to object by contacting us directly. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services and, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use their right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
6.8 Automated Decision-Making in Individual Cases, Including Profiling
Each data subject has the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning them, or significantly affects them in a similar way, as long as the decision
- is not necessary for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or
- is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject and which also lays down appropriate measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests or
- is not based on the explicit consent of the data subject.
If the decision
- is necessary for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or
- is based on the explicit consent of the data subject, GO Europe GmbH must implement appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the data controller, to express their point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to assert rights concerning automated individual decision-making, they can contact us at any time.
6.9 Right to Withdraw a Data Protection Consent
Each data subject has the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to the processing of their personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to assert the right to withdraw the consent, they can contact us at any time.
Each data subject can contact us directly and at any time with regard to queries and suggestions concerning data protection.
6.10 Right of Appeal to a Data Protection Supervisory Body
Each data subject affected by the processing of personal data has the right to appeal to a data protection supervisory body against the processing of their personal data by us.
7. Legal Basis of the Processing
In cases where nothing else has been regulated in the description of the respective data processing operation in Chapter B. of this Privacy Policy, the following regulations apply.
Article 6 I lit. a of the GDPR (DSGVO) serves as the legal basis of the processing forGO Europe GmbH in cases where consent must be obtained for a certain processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary in order to fulfil a contract where the contractual party is the data subject, Article 6 I lit. b of the GDPR (DSGVO) serves as the legal foundation. The same applies to processing operations which are necessary to complete precontractual measures, such as in cases of queries related to our services and products. If Olympia Business Systems Vertriebs GmbH is subject to a legal obligation which necessitates the processing of personal data, Article 6 I lit. c of the GDPR (DSGVO) serves as the legal foundation. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary in the vital interests of the data subject or to protect another natural person. In such cases, processing is based on Article 6 I lit. d of the GDPR (DSGVO). Processing operations could also be based on Article 6 I lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO). This legal foundation is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the previous legal foundations in cases where processing serves for protecting a legitimate interest of GO Europe GmbH or a third party, and if the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the data subject do not override the first-mentioned interest. Such processing operations are permitted by us because they are explicitly mentioned by the European legislator (cf. Recital 47 Sentence 2 of the GDPR (DSGVO)).
8. Consideration of Legitimate Interests
In cases where nothing else has been regulated in the description of the respective data processing operation in Chapter B. of this Privacy Policy and the processing of personal data is based on Article 6 I lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO), our overriding interest lies in the execution of our business activities and the economic interests linked to them.
9. Data Protection When Using Our Contact Details
In cases where you use the details provided on our website (such as our e-mail address or fax number) to contact us, the personal data you enter to do this is only processed for the purpose of establishing contact.
Where the reason for your contact is an interest in our services or products or in the fulfilment of a contract drawn up with us, Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. b of the GDPR (DSGVO) serves as the legal foundation. In all other cases where you make contact, we have an overriding interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) regarding data processing due to the communication initiated by you.
We store the data required for processing contracts until the legal guarantee and, if necessary, contractual warranty deadlines have expired. We store the commercial and tax-related data required for legally defined periods, normally ten years (cf. § 257 HGB (German Commercial Code) , § 147 AO (Revenue Code)). The data processed in order to complete precontractual measures is deleted as soon as the measures have been completed and it is clear that a contract will not be concluded.
The personal data stored by us for legitimate interests is stored until the purpose of establishing contact has been achieved. You have the right to revoke data processing performed on the basis of Article 6 Sec. 1 f) of the GDPR (DSGVO) and not for the purpose of direct mailing for reasons which result from your particular situation, at any time. In the case of direct mailing, you can revoke processing without specifying any reasons.
Recipients of personal data processed according to this regulation are IT service organisations (particularly hosts) with which we have a corresponding order processing agreement in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
10. Data Protection for Applications and Application Procedures
We compile and process personal data from applicants for the purpose of completing application processes and, thus, based on a precontractual measure in the terms of Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. b of the GDPR (DSGVO) and our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) in employing staff.
Processing can be completed in electronic form, e.g. if an applicant submits application documents to us in electronic form, such as per e-mail or via our contact form. If we draw up an employment contract with an applicant, the data submitted for the purposes of processing the employment relationship is stored taking any legal regulations into account. If the data controller does not draw up an employment contract with the applicant, the application documents will be deleted manually two months after the rejection decision has been announced, provided that deletion does not prejudice any other legitimate interests of the data controller. Other legitimate interest in the terms related here is, for example, a burden of proof in a process pursuant to the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG).
Due to the digitised nature of the application data submitted, recipients of the processed personal data are our IT service organisations (particularly hosts) with whom we have concluded the appropriate data processing agreements in the terms of Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
11. Changes to These Privacy Policy Provisions
GO Europe GmbH reserves the right to modify these Privacy Policy provisions at any time taking effect in the future. The currently valid version is available on our website. Please refer to the website at regular intervals to ensure you are aware of the currently applicable Privacy Policy provisions.
B. Special Provisions Regarding Data Processing on Our Website
1. Acquisition and Use of Your Data
The scope and type of acquisition and use of your data differs according to whether you visit our website simply to view contents for informational purposes or whether you want to take advantage of services we offer, e.g. on concluding a contract on the website.
2. Informational Use / Acquired Data / Cookies
(1) When the visit to our website is purely informational, meaning you do not complete any bookings or transfer information to us in another way, we only collect the personal data which your browser transfers to our server. If you want to view our website, we collect the following data which is technically necessary in order for us to allow you to view our website and ensure stability and security (the legal basis is Article 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO):
- IP address
- Date and time of query
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (actual page)
- Access status / HTTP status code
- Respective data quantity transferred
- Website, from which the request is received
- Browser
- Operating system and its user interface
- Language and version of the browser software.
(2) The data processed according to Sec. 1 of this regulation will be stored for the specified purpose for a period of max. 30 days and then deleted.
(3) In addition to the data previously mentioned, our cookies will be stored on your computer during the course of the using the website. This occurs due to our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) in optimisation and economic operation of our online service. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard disk and assigned to the browser you use and enable certain information to be copied by us to the location on your computer defined by the cookie. Cookies cannot execute a programme or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the overall online service more user-friendly and effective.
(4) Use of cookies:
a) Our website uses the following types of cookies, whose scope and method of functioning are explained below:
- Transient cookies (see b)
- Persistent cookies (see c).
b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed. They mainly include the session cookies. These store a so called session ID via which various queries from your browsers can be assigned the basic session. This means that your computer is recognised again when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.
c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a prescribed time which can vary according to the cookie and can cover several years. You can delete the cookies in the Security Settings of the browser at any time.
d) You can configure your browser setting according to your needs and, for example, reject the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. We would like to point out that in such cases, you may not be able to exploit all the functions of the website to the full.
(5) Recipients of personal data processed according to the above paragraphs are IT service organisations (particularly hosts) with which we have corresponding order processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
3. Matomo
This website uses the Matomo (www.matomo.org) analytic tool which is operated by InnoCraft Ltd., 150 Willis St, 6011 Wellington, Neuseeland, ("Mataomo") which acquires and stores data based on our legitimate interest in a web analytic service for statistical evaluation of user behaviour for optimisation and marketing purposes pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO).
Data collected in this way could be used, for the same purpose, to create and evaluate pseudonymised usage profiles. Cookies can be implemented for this. Cookies are small text files which are stored locally in the buffer memory of the internet browser of the website visitor. Cookies enable recognition of the of the internet browsers, amongst other things. Data collected using Matomo technology (including your pseudonymised IP address) will be processed on our servers.
The information generated by the cookie in the pseudonymous user profile is not used to personally identify the visitor to this website and is not merged with personal data concerning the bearer of the pseudonym.
If you do not agree with the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, then you can subsequently object to the storage and use at any time with a click of the mouse. In this case, a so-called opt-out cookie is stored in your browser, with the result that Matomo does not collect any session data. Please note that the complete deletion of your cookies will result in the opt-out cookie being deleted as well and possibly re-activated by you.
4. Google-AdWords
On the basis of our legitimate interests (ie interest in the economic operation of our online offer as defined in Art. 6 (1) lit. DSGVO), we use the Google AdWords service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain on our website View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Google AdWords is an Internet advertising service that allows advertisers to run both Google search engine results and the Google Network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-set certain keywords that display an ad on Google's search engine results only when the user searches for a relevant search result through the Google search engine.
Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European data protection law
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.
The purpose of Google AdWords is to promote our site by displaying interest-based advertising on third-party websites and in Google search engine results, and to display advertisements on our website. If an affected person reaches our website via a Google ad, a so-called conversion cookie will be placed on the data subject's device by Google Inc., which will expire after thirty days and will not identify the data subject. If the conversion cookie has not expired yet, the conversion cookie will check whether certain subpages have been accessed on our website. The conversion cookie allows both us and Google to understand whether an affected person who came to our website via an AdWords ad generated revenue, ie, completed or canceled a purchase.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie are used by Google to create visitor statistics for our website. These visit statistics are then used by us to determine the total number of users who have been sent to us through AdWords ads, in order to determine the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads for the future , Neither our company nor any other Google AdWords advertiser receives any information from Google that could identify the data subject. By means of the conversion cookie personal data, such as the internet pages visited by the affected person. Each time you visit our website, your personal information, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is transferred to Google in the United States. This personal information is stored by Google in the United States. Google may share this personal information with third parties.
The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, at any time by means of an appropriate setting of the Internet browser and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser would also prevent Google from setting a conversion cookie on the affected person's device. In addition, a cookie already set by Google AdWords can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software.
Furthermore, the data subject has the opportunity to object to Google's interest-based advertising. To do this, the person concerned must access the link www.google.com/settings/ads from each of the Internet browsers they use and make the desired settings there.
Additional information and Google's privacy policy can be found at:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en/
5. Use of Offers on Our Website
Where you want to take advantage of the services offered on our website, such as orders from our online shop which are subject to charges or use of our contact form, it is necessary that you enter more personal data. For further details, please refer to the following provisions.
5.1 Data Processing for the Purpose of Concluding Contracts
(1) The personal data, which you provide during the ordering process, is necessary in order to conclude a contract with us (e.g. information on contractual party) or is legally necessary (e.g. tax regulations). A failure to provide the personal data means that a contract cannot be drawn up with you. In the case of some payment procedures, we need the necessary payment data in order to refer you to a payment service commissioned by us.
If you send an e-mail to us prior to concluding a contract, submit a query via a contact form or conclude a contract via our website, we process the data received to complete the precontractual measures and answer you queries in respect of our services and products, for example.
The processing of the data you have provided is completed for the purpose of fulfilling the contract or completing precontractual measures pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 b of the GDPR (DSGVO) and fulfilling legal obligations pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 c of the GDPR (DSGVO).
(2) The recipients of this personal data processed according to these regulations are payment services, shipping services, IT service organisations (particularly hosts), if necessary merchandise management system, if necessary suppliers (drop shipping) with whom we have drawn up the corresponding order processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
(3) We store the data required for processing contracts until the legal guarantee and, if necessary, contractual warranty deadlines have expired. We store the commercial and tax-related data required for legally defined periods, normally ten years (cf. § 257 HGB (German Commercial Code) , § 147 AO (Revenue Code)). The data processed in order to complete precontractual measures is deleted as soon as the measures have been completed and it is clear that a contract will not be concluded.
5.2 Online Service Form - Cash Register Support
(1) During the voluntary use of our Online Service Form - Cash Register Support, you are requested to provide information on your forename, surname, your e-mail address, if necessary your telephone number and the reason for your query / contact (message). A compulsory field for your query is simply your e-mail address. The information is acquired and stored purely with the aim of replying to your query.
(2) When you register, we store the IP address used and the time of the registration. The purpose of the process is to prove your query and, if necessary, be able to clarify any possible misuse of your personal data.
(3) The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the consent explicitly granted by you in accordance with Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. a of the GDPR (DSGVO) as well as our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) in answering your query regarding our services and offers as well as providing proof of any possible misuse of the e-mail address used. Also, the legal basis for processing your personal data is Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. b of the GDPR (DSGVO) because the query serves to complete precontractual measures.
(4) Following your confirmation, we store the information you have provided via the contact form until the purpose of your query has been fulfilled. The personal data beyond that which is stored compliant with Sec. 2, is stored for maximally one month following receipt of confirmation.
(5) Recipients of personal data processed according to these regulations are IT service organisations (particularly hosts) with which we have corresponding order processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
5.3 Online Service Form - Service Support
(1) During the voluntary use of our Online Service Form - Service Support, you are requested to provide information on your forename, surname, your e-mail address, if necessary your telephone number and the reason for your query / contact (message). A compulsory field for your query is simply your e-mail address. The information is acquired and stored purely with the aim of replying to your query.
(3) The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the consent explicitly granted by you in accordance with Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. a of the GDPR (DSGVO) as well as our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) in answering your query regarding our services and offers as well as providing proof of any possible misuse of the
e-mail address used. Also, the legal basis for processing your personal data is Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. b of the GDPR (DSGVO) because the query serves to complete precontractual measures.
5.4 Online Service Form - Other Queries
(1) During the voluntary use of our Contact Form, you are requested to provide information on your forename, surname, your e-mail address, if necessary your telephone number and the reason for your query / contact (message). A compulsory field for your query is simply your e-mail address. The information is acquired and stored purely with the aim of replying to your query.
e-mail address used.
5.5 Newsletter
(1) By providing your consent and specification of your e-mail address, you can subscribe to our Newsletter with which we can inform you of all our latest information and offers. The goods or services purchased are specified in the declaration of consent. The compulsory field for sending our newsletter is simply your e-mail address.
(2) To register for our newsletter, we use the so called double-opt-in process. This means that, following your registration, we send an e-mail to the e-mail address specified in which we request confirmation that you want the newsletter delivered to you. If you do not confirm your registration within 24 hours, your data is blocked and automatically deleted after one month. Furthermore, we store the IP addresses used and the time stamp for the registration and confirmation. The purpose of the process is to prove your registration and, if necessary, be able to clear any possible misuse of your personal data. Following confirmation of the newsletter, we store the information you provided in accordance with Sec. 2 for the purpose of sending the newsletter and providing proof of a possible misuse of your e-mail address in accordance with Sec. 2.
(3) Furthermore, we complete a performance measurement by enclosing a so called "web beacon" with every newsletter, i.e. a pixel-sized file which is downloaded by our server when the newsletter is opened. Within the scope of this download, information is compiled on the browser you are using, the ID of the click, details of your e-mail address and concrete e-mailing, your IP address or DNS name and the time of the download. This information is used for technical improvement of the services according to the technical data, or target groups and their reading habits according to the location of viewing (determined with the aid of the IP address) or the access times. The statistical analyses also includes determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they were opened and which links were clicked. Due to the technology used, this information could be assigned to the individual newsletter recipients. However, it is not our intention to observe individual users. The evaluations serve to provide us with information to determine the reading habits of our users and adapt our newsletter contents to the users or supply different contents according to the different interests of the users.
(4) The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is the consent explicitly granted by you in accordance with Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. a of the GDPR (DSGVO) and, with regard to the data processed pursuant to Sec. 2, our legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 Sec. 1 lit. f of the GDPR (DSGVO) for a performance measurement of our advertising efforts and as well as providing proof of any possible misuse of the e-mail address used.
(5) You can revoke your consent to receipt of the newsletter and cancel the newsletter at any time. To revoke the subscription, simply click on the link provided in every newsletter e-mail or send an e-mail to datenschutz@olympia-vertrieb.de or send a message to the contact address stipulated in the Legal Notice.
(6) Your e-mail address is only stored for the newsletter distribution for the duration of the requested registration. The other data, stored in accordance with Sec. 1, will be deleted maximally one month after you have deregistered.
(7) Recipients of personal data processed according to these regulations are IT service organisations (newsletter service, particularly hosts) with which we have corresponding order processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR (DSGVO).
telephone number and the reason for your query / contact (message). A compulsory field for your query is simply your e-mail address. The information is acquired and stored purely with the aim of replying to your query.
We do not use any "social media plug-ins" on our website. We only provide links to the following social media services:
Service provider: Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
The data compiled, should you visit the Facebook site, is set out in the privacy policy notice from Facebook at: www.facebook.com/help Options to protect your personal privacy within the Facebook website are provided at: www.facebook.com/policy.
Service provider: Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
The data compiled, should you visit the site, is set out in the privacy policy notice from Google at: www.google.com/privacy Options to protect your personal privacy are provided at: www.google.com/dashboard.
We meet organisational, contractual and special technical measures complying with state-of-the-art technology in order to ensure that the Privacy Policy provisions are maintained and that the data processed by us is protected from coincidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction and against access by unauthorised persons.
More about Olympia: www.olympia-vertrieb.de
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B.C. eyes provincial truce on movie subsidies
Cost of film tax credits nearing $400m per year, Finance Minister Mike de Jong says
Sep. 19, 2013 8:00 a.m.
The 2010 movie Tron: Legacy was made in B.C.
Finance Minister Mike de Jong says B.C. is seeking a truce in the long-running subsidy war with other provinces over Hollywood movie production in a bid to contain the high cost of film tax credits.
He made the comments Wednesday at a forum on the economy and jobs at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, where Vancouver Coun. Adriane Carr asked what the province will do about high unemployment in the Lower Mainland film industry.
“I think we’re being played in Canada,” de Jong responded. “We’re being played one province against another. And the time has come for us to get smart and sit down as provinces and say ‘Here’s what we agree to do in Canada’.”
De Jong said B.C. has already begun exploratory talks with Ontario and Quebec on a reformed approach to film tax credits.
B.C.’s expenditure on film tax credits is nearing $400 million a year.
He said that’s paid out as a percentage of a production’s costs – no matter whether it makes or loses money – treatment other sectors can only dream about.
“I defy you to find a business in British Columbia that wouldn’t like to tally up their labour costs and send it to the government and get a cheque.”
De Jong said B.C. will continue to invest in film tax credits to support the industry, but said the province is at its limit.
“We are not either able or inclined to send more British Columbia tax dollars to a production house in Hollywood,” he said, to applause from delegates.
Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Minister Shirley Bond said production numbers in B.C. are up this year, including major shoots involving actor George Clooney.
She said the government is considering opening a film office in Los Angeles to help sell the advantages of shooting in B.C.
Provinces press for training changes
Regional real estate sales down so far in 2019
Real estate sales in the northwest and Bulkley-Nechako regions of British Columbia… Continue reading
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Home » Country Artists » Carrie Underwood » Carrie Underwood, Runaway June and Maddie & Tae Pay Tribute to Country Women Who Paved the Way [Watch]
Carrie Underwood, Runaway June and Maddie & Tae Pay Tribute to Country Women Who Paved the Way [Watch]
Lisa Konicki
While Carrie Underwood was being honored at the CMT Artists of the Year event on Wednesday night (Oct. 17), the expectant mom used her performance slot to pay tribute to the women of country that came before her.
Carrie began the tribute with a solo performance of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man.” Decked out in a black and gold mini dress, with baby bump front and center, Carrie belted out an acapella version of the classic hit.
“Sometimes it’s hard to be a women,” Carrie began the song. “Right, am I right ladies?” she interjected before finishing the tune alone. It was then the stage opened to reveal Carrie’s 2019 Cry Pretty 360 Tour mates, Runaway June and Maddie & Tae, joining her on the stage for the tribute.
[MORE: 20 Must See Looks from the CMT Artists of the Year Red Carpet]
The all female performance took on Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” with Madde & Tae kicked off The Judds’ “Rockin’ with the Rhythm of the Rain.” Next up, Martina McBride’s “Independence Day,” followed by Runaway June taking lead on Faith Hill’s “Wild One.” Carrie took it back for Reba’s “Why Haven’t I Heard From You” before breaking into Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.” She closed the performance by using her powerful vocals on her current single “Cry Pretty.”
Prior to her performance, Carrie received her award from Keith Urban. She thanked CMT for the event and went on to give props to all the women in the country music industry.
“I definitely want to say to all the incredible, amazing, talented women who have been on this stage tonight. You are not here because you are women, you are here because you are dang good. And it is an honor to share this stage with you.”
cmt artists of the year, Tribute, women
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Eli Powell, MD
Dr. Eli Powell is board certified in Orthopedic Surgery and sub-specialty board certified in Orthopedic Sports Medicine, with decades of experience treating professional, collegiate, and recreational athletes.
Dr. Powell is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, earning his medical degree from the University of Florida, and completing his Orthopedic Surgery Residency at the University of Washington.
He had numerous assignments as a military orthopedic surgeon both in the US and overseas. As Chief of Orthopedics at the Air Force Academy, Dr. Powell served as the Head Team Physician and Chief of Sports Medicine for the Falcon’s Division I NCAA football, hockey, and basketball teams from 1998 to 2004. While serving as the Chief of Surgery at Wilford Hall, the Air Force’s largest medical center in the world, he deployed to Balad Air Base in 2005 and served as the Commander of the largest theater hospital in Iraq, earning the Bronze Star for his service. He completed his military career as the Hospital Commander at Elmendorf Air Force Base where the hospital was selected twice as the outstanding hospital in the Air Force in 2008.
Dr. Powell has numerous publications in the orthopedic literature and was recently inducted into the prestigious American Orthopedic Association (AOA); he is the only practicing Alaskan orthopedic surgeon selected for membership. A physician for the US Men’s National Alpine Ski team, he was awarded the 2017 J. Leland Sosman award for outstanding medical coverage and service to the US Ski Team. He also supports our Alaska community by serving as head team physician for West High School and co-head team physician for UAA since 2008.
Dr. Powell is an avid outdoorsman and also competes in Olympic-distance Ironman triathlons throughout the year.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
General Surgery Internship (1987-1988)
Wright State University/Wright-Patterson Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Bachelor of Science, Distinguished Graduate (1983)
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Society of Military Orthopedic Surgeons (SOMOS), Past President
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS)
Orthopedic Trauma Association (OTA)
American Orthopedic Association (AOA)
American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine
Arthroscopy of Shoulder, Hip & Knee
Hip, Knee, and Shoulder Replacement
Trauma and Fracture Care
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David Lingmerth
Tranas, Sweden
FEDEXCUP Rank
FEDEXCUP Points
OWGR
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Wife, Megan; Leon David (12/22/17)
PGA TOUR: 31. 126-150 Prior Season’s FEC Points List (Reordered)
Korn Ferry Tour: PGA TOUR members who are not eligible for the PGA TOUR event occurring simultaneously with this event.
Superstitions included never using a No. 2 ball in competition.
The Arkansas Razorbacks are his favorite college team and the Washington Capitals are his favorite pro team.
Would round out his dream foursome with his dad, his uncle and his grandfather. His uncle, Goran Lingmerth, was a kicker for the Cleveland Browns in 1987.
Not many people know he can play the drums.
PGA TOUR Victories (1)
2015 the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide
Korn Ferry Tour Victories (1)
2012 Neediest Kids Championship
JOINED TOUR
Korn Ferry Tour: 2011
PGA TOUR: 2013
Played in 26 PGA TOUR events, making 16 cuts and recording four top-25s. Best result came at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier (T11). Finished No. 143 in FedExCup points.
Made the cut in 17 of 23 starts during the 2016-17 campaign, with his lone top-10 finish (among six top-25 finishes) a T5 at the Quicken Loans National. Advanced to the FedExCup Playoffs for the fourth time in five seasons on the PGA TOUR, finishing the year No. 94 in the standings.
Dell Technologies Championship: Finished the season with a missed cut at the Dell Technologies Championship, the second Playoffs event.
THE NORTHERN TRUST: Entered first FedExCup Playoffs tournament at No. 103 in the standings and jumped 16 spots to No. 87 after T29 finish at THE NORTHERN TRUST, with even-par 280 at Glen Oaks Club. One of three players (Bubba Watson, Harold Varner III) to advance to Dell Technologies Championship from outside top 100.
Quicken Loans National: After holding the sole lead through the first three rounds of the Quicken Loans National (including a one-stroke lead over Daniel Summerhays after 54 holes) closed with a 3-over 73 to finish T5, three strokes shy of the Kyle Stanley-Charles Howell III playoff. Fell to 0-2 in converting 54-hole leads/co-leads on the PGA TOUR. Opened the week with rounds of 65-65–130, tying the 36-hole tournament record set by Tiger Woods in 2009. In addition, two-stroke lead through two rounds matched the largest 36-hole lead at the event, held by K.J. Choi (2011) and Hunter Mahan (2012).
ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf: Finished T5 at the ISPS HANDA World Cup with teammate Alex Noren on the Sweden team at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Australia in late-November.
Advanced to the FedExCup Playoffs for the third time, thanks to eight top-25 finishes in 21 starts through the Wyndham Championship. Of those, one was a playoff loss early in the season. Kept himself alive through the first three of four Playoffs events, before ending his season after the BMW Championship at No. 67 in the FedExCup standings.
Olympic Men's Golf Competition: Represented Sweden when golf returned to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Finished T11 in the 60-man field.
World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational: Entered the final round of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational one stroke off the lead. Closed with a 2-over 72 to finish T7 for second top-10 of the season.
CareerBuilder Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation: Followed a third-round, 10-under 62 in the CareerBuilder Challenge with a 7-under 65 in the final round to come from five strokes back and force sudden death with 54-hole leader Jason Dufner. When the duo each claimed par on the first extra hole, No. 18, they returned to the tee with darkness setting in. While Lingmerth's approach shot found the water hazard, a Dufner par was good enough for the win. His 62 in round two tied his career-low score, first posted in the final round of the 2013 CareerBuilder Challenge. His weekend scores of 62-65 contained 15 birdies, one eagle and no bogeys.
Banner year, highlighted by his first career PGA TOUR win and three additional top-10 finishes that resulted in his second start in the FedExCup Playoffs. Made it through the first three Playoffs events, before ending his season ranked 37th in the FedExCup standings after the BMW Championship.
Quicken Loans National: Finished third at the Quicken Loans National in his third start--third/2015, missed cut/2014 and T54/2013. Recorded his fourth top-10 of the season, finishing T6 at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational.
The Greenbrier Classic: Over the Independence Day weekend, posted a 6-under 64 in the third round of The Greenbrier Classic en route to a T6 with six others, at 11-under 269. The 64 marked his lowest round since posting a 7-under 63 in the second round of the 2014 FedEx St. Jude Classic.
the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide: Held the 36-hole lead before falling three strokes behind 2010 champion Justin Rose after 54 holes at the Memorial Tournament. Rallied Sunday to force sudden death with Rose. Sank a six-foot par putt on the third extra hole at Muirfield Village GC to claim his first PGA TOUR title in his 68th career start. Before the event, had missed four cuts in his previous five starts.
Played in 26 PGA TOUR events, making 14 cuts and recording two top-10s and four top-25s. Finished No. 128 in FedExCup points.
Web.com Tour Championship: Wrapped up the Finals with a solo sixth at the Web.com Tour Championship, closing with 65 Sunday at TPC Sawgrass' Dye's Valley Course in Ponte Vedra Beach.
Hotel Fitness Championship: Started the final round of the first Korn Ferry Tour Finals event, the Hotel Fitness Championship, tied for 26th. Vaulted up the leaderboard with a 64 Sunday, good for a T4. A check for $41,333 was supplemented by an additional $22,035 in the next two events in Charlotte, N.C., and Columbus, Ohio, enough to ensure he would regain his PGA TOUR privileges in 2014-15.
Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial: Making his 40th TOUR start, finished T5 at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in May. Closed the tournament with matching weekend rounds of 4-under 66. Had come to Fort Worth having missed his last five cuts.
The Honda Classic: Posted four par-or-better rounds at PGA National in March to T8 with Sergio Garcia, Stuart Appleby and Luke Donald at The Honda Classic.
Finished the season No. 75 in the FedExCup, with runner-up finishes at the Humana Challenge and PLAYERS Championship. Nominated for PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year.
The Greenbrier Classic: Overcame a 1-over 71 in the first round of The Greenbrier Classic with three rounds in the 60s at The Old White TPC to claim a T9.
THE PLAYERS Championship: Coming off five consecutive missed cuts, made the most of a home-field advantage in his first start at THE PLAYERS Championship in May. Went from a tie for 10th (4-under) to a tie for sixth (8-under), to a share of the lead (11-under) in the first three rounds at TPC Sawgrass before an even-par 72 resulted a in T2, with Kevin Streelman and Jeff Maggert. The performance set a new mark for best finish in the event by a rookie, previously a T3 held by Fulton Allem (1988) and Camilo Villegas (2003).
Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation: Lost in a playoff at the Humana Challenge in his second career PGA TOUR start. Was defeated in the playoff with Brian Gay and Charles Howell III on the first extra hole (No. 18) when his approach shot went in the water. Gay won the playoff over Charles Howell III on the second extra hole (No. 10) with a birdie-3. Posted a bogey-free, 10-under 62 in the final round to get into the playoff. Despite the career-low score, the Swede struggled statistically in the final round, hitting just eight of 13 fairways and 13 of 18 greens in regulation. The statistical exception, however, was on the putting surface, where he needed just 21 putts in the final round.
Finished the year No. 10 on the Korn Ferry Tour money list and earned his PGA TOUR card for 2013.
Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch: Ended the season with a T9 effort at the Web.com Tour Championship in McKinney, Texas.
Neediest Kids Championship: Earned his first career win, at the Neediest Kids Championship. Opened with consecutive 66s to get to 8-under but stumbled with a 74 in the third round to fall four shots off the pace. Rallied in Sunday's finale with another 66 to win by one stroke over two-time winner Casey Wittenberg. Was nearly perfect on the last day when temperatures maxed out at 52 degrees. Had five birdies in his first 14 holes and was up by three. Closed with three pars and a bogey at the last hole to finish at 8-under. Had to wait 45 minutes to see if any of the nine players still on the course would match his 272 total at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. Earned the win when Wittenberg missed birdie putts on each of the last two holes. Victory was worth $108,000 and vaulted from No. 27 to No. 7 on the money with only three events left on the schedule, locking up a berth on the 2013 PGA TOUR.
United Leasing Championship at Victoria National Golf Club: Was a playoff runner-up to Peter Tomasulo at the United Leasing Championship in early July. Fired a 4-under 68 on the final day at Victoria National GC and was the clubhouse leader at 11-under 277. Got into a playoff when Tomasulo, playing in the final group, bogeyed the 72nd hole. Lost the playoff on the fourth extra hole after his tee shot found the water and he made bogey. Second-place payday moved him into No. 23 on the money list. Enjoyed a terrific ball-striking week in Indiana, finishing second in both Driving Accuracy and Greens in Regulation.
Amateur Highlights
In his junior year at the University of Arkansas in 2008-09, earned second-team All-Southeastern Conference, Ping All-Central Region and honorable mention All-America honors.
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Council's decision to create hundreds of extra pupil places at Kettering Science Academy is questioned
Kettering Science Academy will be having a new 8m extension built.
A Kettering councillor has questioned whether Kettering Science Academy should be given £8m for a new extension to take in hundreds more pupils as planned.
Speaking at the Northamptonshire County Council cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Cllr Eileen Hales said she had concerns that the school, which is graded as requires improvement by Ofsted, is the right place for the county council to be increasing pupil numbers.
The county authority is spending £8.2m on an extension for the school, which will see its numbers rise by 300 with an extra 60 pupils per age group. The new extension will consist of a separate three-storey building and will house 16 classrooms, a dining and common room, library and ICT facilities. The school is run by the Brooke Weston Trust.
The county authority is also spending £4m on an extension at Kettering’s Southfield School. The improvements are part of plans to increase the number of school places in the town after an ‘unprecedented demand’ in the town has meant that Year 7 and Year 8 places across all Kettering schools are at full capacity.
Cllr Hales, who represents the Windmill Ward in Kettering, said: “I have got concerns around extra money going into KSA when you look at Ofsted.
“When you look at their reports you have to go back to 2011 when it was satisfactory – the last three have been needing improvement. They had a monitoring report that was done in December and they have still got concerns there around the quality of teaching in the school, there is a vast turnover of agency staff and there is also a big worrying thing about the funding to disadvantaged children and especially those with SEND and the number of children that have been excluded.”
Cllr Fiona Baker, the cabinet member for the children’s services, said: “There is a big need in the Kettering area to provide places for secondary school children. We are putting forward a plan of assistance for the school to improve them.”
In a later response to Cllr Hales’ comment Dr Andrew Campbell, CEO of the Brooke Weston Trust, said: ‘We are proud of the progress that is being made at Kettering Science Academy, which is an ambitious and rapidly evolving school. Its significantly improved Progress 8 score last year placed it as the third most improved school in Northamptonshire, demonstrating that strategies put in place are yielding positive results. We are looking forward to working in close collaboration with Northants County Council and other schools in the town to expand numbers on roll and secure a bright future for local students.”
Almost all of the money from the extension is coming from the Basic Needs Grant – money given to local authorities to create new school places. A scheme was also looked at to increase the capacity at Kettering Buccleuch Academy and this may come forward at a later date.
A report considered by the cabinet made clear the extensions were being proposed for financial reasons.
It said: “Alternative options considered included the construction of a new secondary school in Kettering. However, the latest demographic data indicates that although additional capacity is required, this can be met through provision of additional capacity at existing secondary schools in the town rather than a new school. This represents a cost-effective solution compared to that of a brand new school.”
A consultation is being carried out by NCC and will survey opinion from parents, other schools and the council. Regional schools commissioner for the area Martin Post will make the final decision about whether to approve the increased admission numbers for the tow schools.
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Sudan's Transitional Military Council Cracks Down On Protesters NPR's Noel King talks to Sudanese activist Dalia El Roubi about the violent crackdown Sudan's Transitional Military Council is undertaking against demonstrators. Dozens of protesters are dead.
Sudan's Transitional Military Council Cracks Down On Protesters
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NPR's Noel King talks to Sudanese activist Dalia El Roubi about the violent crackdown Sudan's Transitional Military Council is undertaking against demonstrators. Dozens of protesters are dead.
NOEL KING, HOST:
Protest organizers in Sudan say more than 100 people were killed when security forces attacked a pro-democracy demonstration earlier this week. Sudan's health ministry, which is controlled by the military, disagrees about the number. They put the death toll in the 40s. The protesters have been demanding fair elections. Sudan's longtime dictator, Omar al-Bashir, was forced out in April. Earlier today, I talked to Dalia el Roubi. She's a Sudanese activist and a member of one of Sudan's opposition political parties.
Hello, Dalia.
DALIA EL ROUBI: Hello. Thank you for having me.
KING: We're glad to have you. Dalia, can you give us a sense of what's been happening on the ground in Sudan for the last couple of days? What have you seen and experienced?
EL ROUBI: Unfortunately for me, I woke up on Monday at 6 o'clock in the morning to the sound of gunshots, which my son had woken up for. I was not present in the sit-in, but the sit-in has been strong and there from the 6 of April. And all of the changes that have happened in terms of the regime change and even the military council has changed twice already. And this all happened while people were in the sit-in. So at that sit-in, which was the leverage of the revolution which was - which were - been pushing the negotiations forward, people were shot at around 5 o'clock in the morning on Monday. The shooting was intense. Over, like, hundreds and hundreds of cars came in, RSS cars and other security service cars. They came in and burnt the tents of the sit-in. They also shot at people. There's reports of rape, as well as the beatings, excessive beatings.
KING: When we spoke to you back in April, you said the plan was we're going to continue these sit-ins until this regime is gone. Now that you have sit-ins being attacked, people being killed, what is the way to move forward? Are you going to keep on with the sit-ins despite the obvious and evident danger?
EL ROUBI: The sit-in itself has been emptied. The area that was there for over two months is now just a burnt area. There are no people in there. But there are protests coming from different neighborhoods and different states across the country. These protests are very determined. However, the violence is excessive, and the regime will continue if we don't resist. This is an example of how we didn't believe that the regime was over. This brutality is a glimpse of what the RSS has been doing in Darfur for many years. And the excessive brutality is what this country has been enduring for over 25 years now. The glimpse is important I think for people in Khartoum to realize that it's not over.
KING: And how are protesters feeling at this point? Is there optimism about the future of a democratic transition in Sudan?
EL ROUBI: I think there is a lot of shock. A lot of us are trying to regroup. And obviously, we're not going to stop fighting. We're not going to stop resisting. The claims by the military council that, you know, there will be an investigation has not been accepted. The negotiations will be very difficult to move ahead with. They've also called for an election in nine months, which they claim will be free and fair. But within the nine months, it's not really possible to actually have free and fair elections because it's 30 years of dismantling civil society organizations and political parties and unions and things that are required for an actual election. And democracy is not just about elections. So the assumption that this event of elections is going to create democracy is untrue.
KING: Dalia El Roubi is an activist in Sudan.
Dalia, thank you so much for joining us.
EL ROUBI: Thank you.
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Minneapolis School Mourns Receptionist And Janitor Killed In Explosion, Collapse : The Two-Way Ruth Berg had worked at the school for 17 years and was engaged to be married. John Carlson, in his 80s, was an alumnus who loved handing out ice cream bars to students.
Minneapolis School Mourns Receptionist And Janitor Killed In Explosion, Collapse
August 3, 20171:35 PM ET
Camila Domonoske
A day after an apparent gas explosion and partial building collapse killed two longtime employees of Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, students and staff are remembering Ruth Berg and John Carlson as kind, warm fixtures of a tight-knit community.
The disaster Wednesday came mid-morning, as contractors were working on the building and workers suddenly began to warn of a gas leak. The exact circumstances of the deadly explosion are under investigation.
After the blast and building collapse, rescue workers saved several people on the roof. The students attending summer school were in a different part of the building, but two staff members were missing. Crews searched through precarious rubble for hours in the hope they might find survivors.
Instead, they found the bodies of Berg and Carlson.
2 Dead After Explosion, Building Collapse At Minneapolis School
Carlson, whose age has been reported as 81 and 82, was a grandfather figure to students at the private Christian school for 14 years. He'd attended himself — graduating in 1953, according to the academy — and sent his kids there. "After retiring from his first career he came back to work at the school," the academy says, calling him "Minnehaha's biggest cheerleader."
The custodian was famous for handing out Dilly Bars, the Dairy Queen ice cream treat, to students and visitors in the hallways.
Last year, Minnehaha Academy's student newspaper ran a profile of Carlson. They described him pulling a large trash can, "his eyes bright with kindness":
"Making his way into the Campus Room, the man pulls a small plastic package from under his arm and holds it towards a student whose books are open on a table.
" 'Here's a Dilly bar,' said custodian John Carlson. 'Keep going. Do a good job. Get good grades. Have a Dilly bar.' ...
" 'I'm kind of an outgoing person and if I see students standing around I like to say "hello," ' he said. 'To do the job is important. I've got to put in a good day's work, and I try to do that. But, I also enjoy conversing with the students.' "
Carlson told the student reporter he wanted to teach students "friendliness and a Christian attitude," emphasizing "the importance that education has, but also to lead a good life."
"He was super sweet and super friendly to everyone," student Roddy Macdonald told the Fox 9 local news station. "He loved being here."
"He loved the school, the people, and the kids — you could just tell," said a woman on Facebook, who described meeting Carlson while visiting the school as a prospective parent. Carlson was out of Dilly Bars that day, and brought them books as a present instead.
Carlson wasn't supposed to start his shift until Wednesday afternoon, after the explosion, Minnesota Public Radio reports. But he had a doctor's appointment in the afternoon, so he started early.
Ruth Berg, a receptionist at the school, had worked there for 17 years. "She welcomed everyone with a smile and was always willing to go the extra mile to help our students, families, and staff," the school said.
"That's kind of what she's known for, is her smile," a student told Fox 9. Co-workers on Facebook described her as "the sweetest person" and "a sweet friend."
Berg was engaged to be married, and planning a wedding for the fall, Minnesota Public Radio reported Thursday:
"Berg was supposed to have been fitted for her wedding dress today.
"Mark Burrington, her fiance, said their September wedding invitations arrived just a day before the blast. Burrington said he talked to her on the phone about having lunch, then heard the blast at the school just down the street from his home.
"He ran into the damaged building to search for her.
" 'The first hallway I hit, there was a lot of like debris and stuff, and it literally looked like a bomb went off,' he recalled. "You turn the corner to go down to the office where she sits ... As soon as I turned the corner, you could see the daylight, and I knew, you know, there's something wrong.' "
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> Funding
Bradford children's centres under threat
Seven children’s centres in Bradford are at risk of closure as the council looks to make savings of £2.4m in the next two years.
Bradford Metropolitan District Council, which runs 41 children’s centres, is proposing shutting its seven ‘Phase 3 children’s centres’, which it says were the last to be developed and are located in low-need areas.
If the plans, which are currently out for consultation, go ahead, the council says it will increase the catchment areas for the remaining centres or continue running outreach services in the same areas but from different buildings.
The Labour council is also proposing to move early learning provision from four locations to two, one each in Bradford and Shipley.
Councillor Ralph Berry, executive member for children and young people, said, ‘Over a year ago the Government cut the Early Intervention Grant by a third, which means we have continued to maintain the children’s centres at our own cost.
‘We have now been forced by the Government reductions to look at ways we can continue the services throughout the district but from less centres.
‘We will be discussing ways in which some centres can be managed by partnerships and I am aware of ideas that are already being discussed to secure their future viability.'
A decision about the proposals will be made by the council next year.
Bradford’s Conservative group has accused the Labour council of ‘intentionally targeting’ children’s centres in wards that are represented by Conservative councillors.
Councillor Glen Miller, leader of the Conservative Group (pictured), said, ‘There are no proposals to close any children’s centres in wards represented by Labour councillors. Colleagues and I are inspecting the budget proposals in detail, to ascertain whether the targeted removal of the children’s centres is part of a wider campaign to punish areas where residents don’t vote labour, by reducing or removing services generally.’
Councillor Jackie Whiteley, who represents the wards of Burley and Menston, added, ‘Some of the threatened centres have only been open for three years and have steadily increasing numbers of children using them. We are told that the service is being retained where the number of deprived children is highest, but the proposals take no account of children who are just as deprived, but live in small pockets of deprivation in more affluent wards.
‘As these wards are often rural and thus isolated, it will be very difficult and costly to families of limited means to travel into the larger deprived communities, which will result in the service effectively being removed from vulnerable children who are already isolated by geography.’
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Previously known as Margaret Durante, the personable young artist from Potomac, Maryland, felt she really wanted fans to know her as Maggie Rose, the name all her family and friends call her.
“Sharing the name that I’ve been called by my family and friends with my fans is just another way to open up a part of me to them that they haven’t seen yet,” she says.
The route to Nashville had a few learning detours but nothing could halt the deliberate steps of this spunky singer and songwriter when she made up her mind where she wanted to be. It is crystal clear when you listen to her sing that she could easily find success in any genre of music and although her fiery personality and dynamic good looks might be indicative of a rock star, she says her heart and soul are what led her to country, albeit a more edgy form of country.
“I want women to hear [my music] and be like, ‘Yeah! Right On!’ It gives women empowerment definitely, but also I want people to be entertained by it. A lot of the music, for me, is very coming-of-age. It’s about finding out who I am, not just as an artist, but as a young woman growing up, being on my own in Nashville.”
Her bio states, “Maggie has a gift for penning insightful songs and delivering them with emotional punch. Working with legendary producer James Stroud, [she] has crafted a debut album filled with potent songs, each one anchored by her riveting vocals.” Well now, that pretty much sums it all up so there is little need for me to insert my two cents since I agree completely.
Her album is a good listen from first song to last. It kicks off with the up-tempo “Fall Madly In Love With You” and then she kicks it into an even higher gear for the cleverly written “I Ain't Your Mama”. All of the songs are lyrically strong and musically solid so selecting a favorite track was difficult but “I Ain't Your Mama” and the beautifully melodic “Put Yourself In My Blues” both get five stars from me. Most of the songs on this album are so “in your face”, but in a weirdly good way, and all of her songs are delivered with an emotional intensity that can be felt.
In June 2011, her music video "Maybe Tonight" debuted in Great American Country's Top 20 Country Countdown videos at #1, making her the first ever artist signed to an independent label to do so in the history of the show. My guess is that it won't be the only #1 for the beautiful and dynamic firecracker affectionately called Maggie Rose.
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Fox cancels ‘The Mindy Project;’ show reportedly moving to Hulu
By Elizabeth VanMetre
Bad news for fans of "The Mindy Project."
Fox has decided not to renew the romantic comedy for a fourth season, EWreported.
This comes after the third season left viewers on the edge of their seats, as Danny began his journey to India to mend things with Mindy and meet her folks.
Despite this speed bump, it might not be the end for the show. Universal Television, the show's producer, is in talks with Hulu about additional seasons and they are reportedly interested.
The cancelation of the show doesn't come as much of a surprise due to its low ratings, only bringing in 2.5 million viewers during its finale, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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KOCH FOODS SETTLES EEOC HARASSMENT SUIT
Koch Foods Settles EEOC Harassment, National Origin And Race Bias Suit
Poultry Supplier Pays $3.75 Million to Class of Hispanic Workers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Koch Foods, one of the largest poultry suppliers in the world, will pay $3,750,000 and furnish other relief to settle a class employment discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. The EEOC charged the company with sexual harassment, national origin and race discrimination as well as retaliation against a class of Hispanic workers at Koch's Morton, Miss., chicken processing plant.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Koch subjected individual plaintiff/intervenors and classes of Hispanic employees and female employees to a hostile work environment and disparate treatment based on their race/national origin (Hispanic), sex (female), and further retaliated against those who engaged in protected activity.1 EEOC alleges that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities. Further, a class of Hispanic employees was subject to retaliation in the form of discharge and other adverse actions after complaining.
All this alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed its suit (EEOC v. Koch Foods of Miss., LLC, Civ. No.11-00391 DPJ/FKB (S.D. Miss.)) on June 29, 2011 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC's case was later consolidated with the lawsuit previously filed by plaintiff/intervenors, Maria Cazorla, et. al. v. Koch Foods of Mississippi, LLC and Jessie Ickom, Civ. No. 10-00135-DPJ-FKB. The plaintiff-intervenors were represented by Southern Migrant Legal Services, a special project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, in Nashville, Tenn., and Robert McDuff, of the Law Office of Robert McDuff in Jackson, Miss.
The three-year consent decree entered today by Judge Daniel P. Jordan III provides for $3,750,000 in monetary relief for the victims. In addition, Koch Foods will take specified actions designed to prevent future discrimination, including implementing new policies and practices designed to prevent discrimination based on race, sex or national origin; providing anti-discrimination training to employees; creating a 24-hour hotline for reporting discrimination complaints in English and Spanish; and posting policies and anti-discrimination notices in its workplace in English and Spanish.
"We commend Koch Foods for its commitment to settle this case, which contained serious allegations of harassment," said EEOC Birmingham Regional Attorney Marsha Rucker. "The significant monetary award, the corrective measures in this decree, including EEOC monitoring, should prevent this kind of alleged misconduct in the future."
Bradley Anderson, the EEOC's district director for the Birmingham District Office, added, "We take allegations of abuse seriously. No one working in America deserves to be harassed in the workplace, and, as evidenced in this lawsuit, the EEOC will engage in vigorous law enforcement efforts to protect workers."
Koch Foods is an international poultry processor that deals in fresh and frozen foods. Its corporate headquarters is in Park Ridge, Ill., and it has locations in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Koch Foods employs approximately 14,000 people.
Preventing workplace harassment through systemic litigation and investigation is one of the six national priorities identified by the Commission's Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP).
The EEOC's Birmingham District covers Alabama, Mississippi (except 17 northern counties) and the Florida Panhandle.
The EEOC advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. More information is available at www.eeoc.gov. Stay connected with the latest EEOC news by subscribing to our email updates.
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Media|Hip-Hop and R&B Fans Embrace Streaming Music Services
Hip-Hop and R&B Fans Embrace Streaming Music Services
Future and Drake's new album opened at No. 1 this week by a wide margin, an example of the popularity of streaming music services among hip-hop listeners.CreditCreditKatie Darby/Invision, via Associated Press
By Ben Sisario
On this week’s music charts, “What a Time to Be Alive,” a new mix tape by the star rappers Drake and Future, opened at No. 1 by a wide margin, it was announced on Monday — a victory for Apple, which had an exclusive deal to release the album first.
But the album’s success is also the latest example of the extraordinary popularity of hip-hop on streaming music services. Throughout 2015, on outlets like Spotify, Rhapsody and Apple Music, releases by hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues acts including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, ASAP Rocky and the Weeknd have consistently posted far higher numbers than those in other genres.
Those results reflect a banner year for hip-hop and R&B music, with a crop of acclaimed albums and a generation of influential stars. But music executives say they are also an indication of the way that listeners consume music these days, with hip-hop’s younger, mobile-connected audience leading a shift away from downloads.
Songs from “What a Time to Be Alive,” which came out Sept. 20, were streamed 40.3 million times around the world in its first week, including 35.1 million times in the United States, according to Apple. Earlier this year, Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” was streamed 48 million times in one week, according to Nielsen. Mr. Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” opened with 38 million and the Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind the Madness” started with 57 million one week and 52 million the next.
By comparison, the best week for a rock act this year was Mumford & Sons’ “Wilder Mind,” with 15.4 million in May. Back in 2012, Mumford & Sons set an early record on Spotify when its album “Babel” opened with eight million streams in the United States.
Steve Berman, the vice chairman of Interscope Records, which released Mr. Lamar’s album and Dr. Dre’s “Compton: A Soundtrack,” said the trend reminds him of the arrival of the tracking service SoundScan in the early 1990s, when more accurate data from retailers showed that rap albums by acts like N.W.A. were far more popular than had been thought.
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“What we’re seeing is the truth about consumption,” Mr. Berman said.
Unlike downloads or CD sales, which are both slowing, streaming services show how many times fans actually listen to the songs they select. For the first eight months of the year, hip-hop and R&B songs — which are often connected on so-called urban radio formats, and tracked together by data services — represented 17 percent of album sales, but 26 percent of all streams, according to Nielsen.
The reasons for this disparity are not entirely clear, executives say. In addition to the young demographic of the hip-hop audience, one reason may be the genre’s increasing turn toward promotion on social media; acts like Drake and Nicki Minaj, for example, are highly active on social media, and streaming sites like SoundCloud have become the preferred outlets for new acts.
Another factor may be the influence of Apple Music, the company’s new streaming service. According to one analysis last month, the programming on Beats 1, the company’s Internet radio station, has leaned heavily toward hip-hop and R&B acts like Drake, the Weeknd, Fetty Wap and Dr. Dre. “What a Time to Be Alive” was first promoted on Beats 1, where Drake has his own show.
“This isn’t limited to just the biggest new releases,” said David Bakula, a senior analyst at Nielsen. He pointed out that more than 60 percent of the streams in R&B and hip-hop involve songs that are over 18 months old. “It shows that fans of the genre are streaming the latest hits as well as songs from prior years,” he said.
On Spotify, hip-hop’s share of the top 500 artists is up 16 percent over last year, and 24 percent since 2012, according to that service. On Pandora, the leading Internet radio service, four of the top five acts with the most “station adds” — the number of times listeners choose their names of the artists, or their songs, for listening — are hip-hop and urban; the only other top act is Taylor Swift, according to Next Big Sound, a data-tracking service owned by Pandora.
Over all, the number of songs listened to on streaming services like Spotify, Rhapsody and Apple Music, where users choose the songs they listen to, doubled in the first eight months of 2015 compared with the same period last year, according to Nielsen, while song downloads were down 10 percent and album downloads were flat.
The growth of streaming has moved so fast, said Mr. Berman of Interscope, that it is hard to set the numbers for what counts as a breakout hit.
“It’s too early to set the benchmarks,” he said. “They’re changing too fast.”
Correction: Sept. 28, 2015
An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the name of Kendrick Lamar’s recent hit. It is “To Pimp a Butterfly,” not “To Pimp a Buttefly.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Hip-Hop and R&B Fans Embrace Streaming Music. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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On Average, how often do we move home?
The latest research by Zoopla analyses the average turnover of properties at local authority level across the UK to find the average number of years British people live in their homes before moving.
In addition to calculating the national frequency, Zoopla also reveals that when it comes to the least frequent movers, the capital dominates, with nine out of top 10 places being represented by London boroughs. In top spot is Kensington and Chelsea, home to some of the UK’s most expensive property, where homeowners stay on average 35.5 years in their properties - just under 15 years more than the national average. The only area outside of London in the top ten is Oxford, where people stay on average 31.2 years in their homes.
When it comes to those who are the most frequent movers, people in Dartford and South Derbyshire take the top spots, where homeowners in these areas stay on average 15 years - five years less than the national average. These two areas are followed closely by residents in Salford, Greater Manchester, who move on average once every 15.2 years.
Regionally, those in the East Midlands are the most frequent movers, changing properties on average once every 17.9 years, followed by homeowners north of the border in Scotland who tend to move once every 18.7 years. Meanwhile, those living in London tend to move the least on average (every 26.2 years). Londoners are followed by homeowners in the South East who tend to stay just under a year less (25.4 years).
According to the figures, British homeowners stay in their properties for just under 21 years (20.8) on average.
Laura Howard, spokesperson for Zoopla, comments: “These results contradict a common assumption that UK neighbourhoods are becoming more transient. They show that, once you’ve managed to buy a property to call home and set down roots in an area, there can be little motivation to move again.
However, this is not necessarily down to complacency or a sense of inertia. While we might love our city, town or village, most of us still want to ‘improve our lot’ with a move, which usually means climbing the property ladder. But house prices have risen exponentially in the last two decades and many people are unwilling or unable to take on the cost of the ‘next rung up’.
For agents the often-lengthy spells between homeowners moving underlines the importance of building a strong and enduring reputation in the community – for example, having excellent knowledge of the local property market and being reliable and transparent.
A solid local reputation coupled with consistent and relevant communication will put agents at front of mind when homeowners eventually do make that life-changing decision to sell up and move on.
Forward-looking agents will also ensure they provide current renters – often prospective first-time buyers – with an excellent customer experience, including offering information and guidance, with a view to securing their custom and loyalty further down the line.”
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Off-radar lobbying damages us all
September 09, 2016 by Mark Glover
Mark Glover, chairman of the APPC, says that public cynicism around parliamentary lobbying would be greatly reduced if the participants were more committed to being openly registered
There should be no question that lobbying is a legitimate activity. It is not just above board, it is also absolutely critical to allow government to speak to business and vice versa. It underpins good policy-making and without doubt helps improve the quality of legislation and regulation. If there is a valid reason for lobbying to take place, clients need to know it is being done transparently, by professionals and within strictly regulated guidelines.
Reputational risks exist in situations in which unregulated lobbying takes place. That is why any organisation that is thinking about using a public affairs agency should be sure they are using one that adheres to the highest standards of ethical and transparent behaviour.
The Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) is the leading self-regulated body for agencies in the UK’s public affairs market, whose members are both third-party lobbyists and in-house practitioners. The APPC sets exacting requirements for its members by having a clear, independently administered code of conduct and a quarterly published register, listing all an agency’s clients and the consultants lobbying on their behalf.
If agencies or individuals are lobbying but do not comply with an independently reviewed code of conduct, it is difficult to expect policy-makers to have confidence that the people they are meeting are committed to best practice. Put simply, unregistered lobbyists put their own reputation and those of their clients at risk.
Corporate, voluntary and public sector organisations should not expose themselves in that way. If you are an agency, the safest way you can protect your brand is to sign up to the APPC and abide by its long-standing code of conduct. What is more, clients who use APPC-registered agencies can be assured that the people representing them are abiding by a clear set of rules.
The vast majority of recent lobbying stories, or ‘scandals’, have not involved lobbyists, let alone third-party lobbyists. In fact, most were sting operations, whereby journalists pretended to be lobbyists.
One has only to think of the Sunday Telegraph’s stories on lobbying involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind in 2015, in which no lobbyist was involved.
Stories about lobbying that do not include lobbyists do a lot of reputational damage to the public affairs industry. The more transparency we can bring to the conduct of public affairs practitioners, the clearer it is when someone has acted inappropriately.
A further concern is that while 80 lobbying firms comply with our code of conduct, many in-house lobbyists are not covered by either the APPC register or the register of consultant lobbyists, which means a lack of scrutiny of their behaviour.
We would like to see the Office of Consultant Lobbyists extend its register to include in-house lobbyists. If we are to create a level playing field within the public affairs industry, in-house lobbyists should meet the same standards of behaviour as consultant lobbyists – the overwhelming majority of meetings that ministers take with lobbyists are with in-house lobbyists.
The APPC believes there should always be a separation between lobbyist and legislator to avoid any conflict of interest and this is what our code of conduct is designed to achieve. An APPC member cannot make any sort of payment to a peer or an MP. APPC members are not allowed to employ peers, MPs, Welsh Assembly members, members of the Scottish Parliament, Northern Irish or London Assembly members.
While 80 lobbying firms comply with our code of conduct, many in-house lobbyists are not covered by either the APPC register or the register of consultant lobbyists
APPC members are also prevented from employing anyone holding a parliamentary pass. We would also welcome greater clarity regarding the parliamentary rules concerning people who sit as peers while also working in public relations companies that conduct public affairs activities.
For example, if one of our members were to break the rules by employing a peer, the consequences would include disqualification from being an APPC member. If someone working for an APPC-member company is awarded a peerage, their agency would be given some time to take action, but if there remained some sort of financial arrangement between the agency and the peer in relation to public affairs activity, it would be impossible for the agency to remain a member of the APPC.
Positive reputation
It is important that public affairs practitioners operate in an industry with a positive reputation. For that to occur there must be clear rules about how lobbying is conducted. The more assurance the public, industry and government have that all activity is fully transparent, the more they will be confident in such things.
One of the key ways in which lobbying is regulated is the Government’s Statutory Lobbying Register. The APPC has campaigned vigorously for this list to be reformed to include in-house lobbyists.
The exclusion of in-house lobbyists on this register makes it virtually redundant. Their absence on this list may in fact act as a block on transparency, because it misses off the vast majority of people who meet with and influence ministers and senior policy-makers. At the time of writing, only 135 firms had registered.
The APPC believes there should always be a separation between lobbyist and legislator to avoid any conflict of interest
Lobbying is undertaken by just about every sector of society you can imagine, from large corporates and law firms to small think tanks and charities. Each has a legitimate reason to lobby but to achieve proper transparency they should all be listed on a statutory register. With this in mind, it will be fascinating to see how the new register in the Scottish Parliament operates.
Set to launch later in the year, this Holyrood Register takes a far more comprehensive approach (it includes in-house lobbyists) and does not charge registrants to participate. One hopes that Westminster policy-makers keep a close eye on these developments north of the border, before considering any further legislation in the UK.
Public affairs is a critical profession that should be carried out by professionals who comply with exacting standards of behaviour. APPC membership ensures those standards are met, helping the public to better understand and trust that lobbying is being undertaken properly and transparently, and, ultimately, is a valuable contribution to society.
Why clients seeking public affairs support should work with APPC member companies
Clear and independently administered code of conduct
Transparency through publication of quarterly register of clients
Disclosure through quarterly register of all public affairs staff
Ban on any financial relationship between lobbyist and legislator
Inappropriate access curtailed as staff cannot be parliamentary pass-holders
Brand protection through using professional political consultants
Mark Glover, the founder and CEO of Newington Communications (formerly Bellenden), was elected chairman of the APPC at its AGM on 23 May 2016, taking over from Iain Anderson. Glover intends to use his time as chairman championing the need for clients to demand APPC membership in their tender processes for public affairs contracts, and to ensure clarity and proportionality in the demands placed on member firms by a growing burden of regulation around lobbying.
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College Fjord (Scenic Cruising), Alaska, United States
Discovered in the northwest corner of Prince William Sound during an 1899 research expedition, spectacular College Fjord and its glaciers were named after prestigious east coast schools by the college professors who first laid eyes upon their majesty. Stretching for miles, these massive rivers of ice tumble down from mountains and through valleys, dipping into the pristine waters of the fjord. There you'll have a chance to watch the awe-inspiring process of glaciers calving, or dropping enormous pillars of ice into the sea, as they crack and land with a thunderous splash – a once-in-a-lifetime experience not to be missed!
College Fjord not only boasts the world's largest collection of tidewater glaciers, but it features magnificent snowcapped mountains as far as the eyes can see. Plus, during the summer, it's not unheard of to catch a glimpse of one of the area's 40-ton humpback whales feeding in the waters of the fjord.
It's a magical wonderland of epic proportions, so breathtaking you won't want to blink!
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U.S. shale oil to rule world markets for years to come: IEA
The U.S. will dominate global oil markets for years to come, satisfying 80 per cent of global demand growth to 2020 as the shale boom keeps OPEC under pressure, the International Energy Agency said.
“The U.S. is set to put its stamp on global oil markets for the next five years,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a report published today. OPEC’s surging rivals, which also include Brazil and Canada, will leave little space for the cartel to expand even after its production curbs expire this year.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is riding high right now, defying the skeptics by going deeper than their pledged cuts and maintaining them for long enough to deplete bloated oil inventories. However, according to a Bloomberg article, the ensuing price recovery has “unleashed a new wave of growth from the U.S.,” said the Paris-based IEA, which advises most of the world’s major economies.
Thanks to the shale boom, new U.S. supply will cover more than half the world’s oil demand growth to 2023, the agency said. Production from the prolific Permian Basin will double over the period and the country’s total liquid hydrocarbon output will rise to 17 million barrels a day from 13.2 million last year.
The bullish forecast kick-starts the annual CERAWeek conference, a gathering of thousands of oil executives, traders, bankers and investors in Houston.
The American surge and a slightly weaker outlook for global demand growth make uncomfortable reading for OPEC. The IEA slashed projections for the amount of crude needed from the cartel, indicating its supply cuts would need to stay in place until 2021 to avoid creating another prolonged surplus.
Closer to 2023, global markets will start to tighten and the IEA warned that more investment is needed to meet growth in consumption and to make up for production lost to natural declines.
OPEC will struggle to start new production of its own. The IEA’s five-year outlook for new output capacity from the group was reduced by about 62 per cent from the previous report. The group will add 750,000 barrels a day by 2023 — just 2.1 per cent — as gains in Iran and Iraq are offset by economically troubled Venezuela, where capacity will slump to the lowest since the 1940s.
There’s a risk the wider industry may also fall short after an unprecedented drop in spending from 2015 to 2016, and little sign of a rebound in the subsequent two years, the IEA said. According to Bloomberg, constant investment is essential because the world loses about 3 million barrels of output each year — equivalent to the production of the North Sea — as oil fields age and their reservoir pressure drops.
As a result, by 2023 the level of spare production capacity that could be used in the event of a disruption will be the lowest since 2007. That increases the risk that prices will become more volatile, the agency said.
Still, that process isn’t happening as rapidly as previously feared. Despite expectations that lower investment would accelerate the depletion of maturing non-OPEC oil fields, the opposite is happening. Lower operating costs have so far offset the impact of reduced spending.
The average decline rate eased to 5.7 per cent last year, compared with 7 per cent between 2010 and 2014, the IEA said. That shift was aided by a “remarkable deceleration in decline rates” in the North Sea.
Global oil demand will increase by a total of 6.9 million barrels a day to reach 104.7 million a day by 2023, with China remaining the “main engine of demand growth.” That’s an average annual growth rate of about 1.2 million barrels a day, little changed from last year’s forecast.
(Bloomberg News)
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Lisa Valera and her husband Manuel sign up for Obamacare at the Community Service Society. | AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
New York Obamacare enrollees, by ZIP code
By DAN GOLDBERG and BRENDAN CHENEY
Saturday marked the beginning of open enrollment for New York State of Health, the health insurance exchange created by the Affordable Care Act.
So far, things are ... OK. Healthcare.gov, the federal government's website, did not implode as it did last yearr, but most experts, including the ones at the Congressional Budget Office and the federal Department of Health and Human Services, expect smaller numbers during the current enrollment period, which lasts until Feb. 15, than were seen during the open enrollment last year.
But New York, if state health officials are to be believed, could once again be a standout. Donna Frescatore, the executive director of the state's health exchange, predicted that an additional 350,000 people in New York will enroll in a private plan, only slightly below last year's figures.
To try to understand where the Affordable Care Act had the greatest impact and where it had room to improve, Capital took state data on sign-ups during the first year of Obamacare and broke down enrollees by ZIP code. The data is current as of Sept. 19, the most current data published in this form. The accompanying chart allows you to see how many enrollees there were in Medicaid, private health insurance plans (Q.H.P.) and Children's Health Plus for each ZIP code in the state. (An asterisk means fewer than 50 people enrolled.)
Click on the image above to go to the interactive map. The map shows the whole state by zip code. You can zoom in to see more of any area. Please allow a few moments for the map to load because it is a large data set.
The data shows that participation on the exchange was roughly proportionate with the population. Not surprisingly, people who lacked health insurance tended to be those with lower incomes.
Looking at Capital's map, you can see that in most ZIP codes above Interstate 84, twice as many people signed up for Medicaid as enrolled in a private health insurance plan.
Most of the ZIP codes on Long Island and in Westchester and Rockland are more evenly split between Medicaid and private health plans.
In New York, approximately 370,000 people signed up for a private insurance plan last year, and about three-quarters of those received federal subsidies to offset their premiums. An additional 528,000 signed up for Medicaid.
New York State health officials, using projections from the Urban Institute, estimated that after three years, 615,000 New Yorkers will be enrolled in private plans purchased through the exchange and 513,000 will have signed up in Medicaid, which would cut the state's uninsured rate in half by 2016.
The Urban Institute's projections severely underestimated the interest in Medicaid, but it isn't clear yet if they similarly underestimated the private insurance numbers.
“What we don't know is are 370,000 people going to sign up each year, or of that 615,000 people did the majority sign up in the first year and we will have lower rates of newcomers in the second two years,” Sara Rothstein, of the state health department, said earlier this month. “And I think there are a lot of arguments that could be made both ways.”
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Home » Resources » Blog » Stem Cells in the News - July 2017
Stem Cells in the News - July 2017
We have captured this month's most interesting, innovative, and maybe some of the strangest examples of stem cells in the news from around the world.
A Lifetime Supply of Healthy Blood Cells from Vascular Endothelium
Researchers at Weill Cornell recently published in Nature that they have found a way to reliably and efficiently convert vascular endothelium cells to Hematopoietic Stem Cells (HSCs). In mice, these HSCs are fully functional and can supply them with healthy blood cells for a lifetime This finding could help answer a huge question in regenerative medicine: how do stem cells constantly replenish their supply? If this method can be scaled up and moved to human trials, it could provide new ways to treat and cure blood disorders, such as leukemia and sickle cell anemia.
Korean Biotech Company to Unveil Alzheimer’s Drug in Japan
The Korean Biotech Company, Nature Cell, has announced that their Stem cell-based Alzheimer’s treatment is going to market in Japan this fall as a clinical trial. AstroStem is a therapeutic agent using adult stem cells isolated from adipose tissues from the patient and delivered intravenously back to the patient in repeated doses. The treatment is already approved for Rheumatoid Arthritis in Japan, and the company, along with their Japanese counterpart, R-Japan, expect approval to recruit for trials by late August.
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Dr. Hans Keirstead, a Professor at University of California, Irvine, has entered into a new kind of challenge, and this one is not for research grant money. Dr. Keirstad is running for for a seat in congress! Dr. Keirstead’s career has straddled the line between academic research and biotech, starting several biotech companies of his own, and he believes that Washington is in need of more scientists representing the US government. His main platform? Medical breakthroughs and advancement are not at odds with economic development. Look for him on the ballot in the 2018 election!
Sour, Bitter, Sweet - Tongue Stem Cells Determine How You Taste
A team of researchers at The Monell Center, in Philadelphia, PA, have found that a progenitor cell in the tongue gives rise to the 3 cell types that compose the mature taste buds. The scientists grew the progenitor cells into organoids to study gene expression during taste cell generation. The team believes that they can use this information to drive specific maturation of these cells to influence and encourage healthier eating.
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Scientists at the Hubei University of Medicine in China have published findings demonstrating the role autophagy plays in development and growth of cervical cancer. Autophagy markers, Beclin 1 and LC3B, are expressed higher in tumorsphere cells associated with cervical cancers and within cervical cancer stem cells. The researchers concluded that when expressed in cancer stem cells, these autophagy genes promote expression of proteins that facilitate their maintenance withina the tumor.
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Undiagnosed Genetic Disease Leads to Huge Relief for One Man
A remarkable story out of China where one man went with undiagnosed Hirschsprung’s disease for over 22 years. Hirschsprung’s is a genetic condition in which your colon never develops the nerve cells to provide the bowel contractions and relaxations necessary for natural bowel movements. This man likely developed this condition at birth, but at age 22, had a massive blockage that doctors had to surgically remove and it weighed over 29 pounds! The man has elected to remain anonymous, but we can bet he is feeling much better, and now with his diagnosis, will be able to avoid this from happening again!
Using Current Drugs to Kill Cancer Stem Cells
Scientists at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have uncovered a unique protein, Sam68, that is expressed in cancer stem cells and can be exploited by certain drugs to kill cancer stem cells. This information could be used to create more targeted and effective therapies using current drug options. The team worked backwards to determine different ways cancer stem cells can be killed in blood cancers, colon cancer, and prostate cancers.
Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells Found to Play Role in Respiratory Disease
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have drawn a connection between Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells (MPCs) and respiratory disease. The team found that these MPCs develop an adaptive structure around damaged tissue in the lungs of mice with pulmonary fibrosis. The team does not know if these adaptive structures are helpful to repair damage, or contribute to the damage in Pulmonary Fibrosis, but they have analyzed the gene expression in these MPCs and have identified certain biomarkers that could be used to detect pulmonary disease earlier.
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Opera Essentials: Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Our quick introduction to this fabulous Baroque opera.
By Rachel Beaumont (Product Manager)
21 October 2015 at 12.09pm | 2 Comments
Mary Bevan and Louise Alder in rehearsal for Orpheus, The Royal Opera and Shakespeare's Globe © 2015 ROH/Shakespeare's Globe. Photograph by Stephen Cummiskey
Orpheus loves Eurydice – but Aristaeus loves her too. Aristaeus calls on the help of Venus, goddess of love, who has her own reasons to hate Orpheus. However, Venus’ attempts to turn Eurydice’s head fall on deaf ears, so in anger she brings about her death by serpent-bite. The Fates advise Orpheus to use his powers as a musician to win Eurydice back from the Underworld – and meanwhile Eurydice’s ghost drives the guilt-ridden Aristaeus into madness…
A Spectacular Showpiece
Italian composer Luigi Rossi (c1597–1653) is best known for his wonderful songs, and wrote only two operas. The second of these, Orpheus, was written in Paris, where Rossi followed his exiled patron Cardinal Antonio Barberini. Rossi and Barberini arrived at a time when Cardinal Mazarin’s influence meant that Italian culture was much in demand, and soon after his arrival Rossi and his librettist Francesco Buti secured the commission for the first opera written specifically for France. Rossi produced a spectacular work incorporating many different styles and forms, including the influence of French dances, and music that allowed ample opportunity to use the lavish French stage effects.
A Highly Original Orpheus
The Greek myth of Orpheus has inspired operas from the very beginnings of the art form. Many of these have focussed on the central couple – but Rossi’s version is very different. His and Buti’s story introduces a host of subplots and secondary characters to surprise their sophisticated French audience, from trios of Fates and Graces who lead the hero on his way, to a comedy duo of a satyr and an old woman, who provide acerbic ironic commentary on even the most tragic of events. The result is a thrilling kaleidoscope, as Rossi and Buti tell their story with deft rapidity through a series of fast-moving solos, ensembles and dances.
Theatre by Candlelight
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, is a meticulously researched reconstruction of an archetypal Jacobean theatre. This intimate theatre has a seating capacity of just 340, and though it is equipped with modern lighting almost all productions are exclusively lit by beeswax candles. The theatre’s opening in January 2014 was soon followed by the first collaboration between The Royal Opera and Shakespeare’s Globe, a sell-out production of Francesco Cavalli’s L’Ormindo. Directed by Kasper Holten and performed with the Orchestra of Early Opera Company, the production received five-star reviews across the board.
This new production of Rossi’s Orpheus is directed by acclaimed English opera director Keith Warner, who has previously directed Der Ring des Nibelungen and Wozzeck for The Royal Opera. For Orpheus he is joined by regular collaborators designer Nicky Shaw and choreographer Karl Alfred Schreiner. Christopher Cowell, whose credits include L’Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, provides the translation. The Orchestra of Early Opera Company returns under the baton of Christian Curnyn, while the largely British cast includes many up-and-coming artists and three singers from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.
Orpheus runs 23 October–15 November 2015 at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe. A limited number of tickets are available through the Globe’s website.
The performance captured on 30 October 2015 will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 November 2015. Find out more.
21 October 2015 at 12.09pm
This article has been categorised Opera and tagged background, by Keith Warner, essentials, Francesco Buti, introduction, Luigi Rossi, Opera Essentials, Orpheus, Production, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe
Andrew responded on 22 October 2015 at 2:15pm Reply
Presume you mean 30 October, not September, for the performance to be recorded for broadcast?
Chris Shipman (Head of Brand Engagement and Social Media) responded on 22 October 2015 at 2:43pm
This has now been amended.
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Workers vote to close Goodyear plant early
AKRON (July 22, 2008) — Workers at Goodyear's Tyler, Texas, plant have voted to close the facility earlier than expected, a Goodyear spokeswoman said.
The plant — which ceased tire production last December as Goodyear opted to exit some segments of the private brand tire business — has remained open as a rubber mixing plant. It was scheduled to shut down permanently in July 2009 when the current labor agreement with the United Steelworkers union expires.
Last week, the union ratified a new contract proposed by Goodyear to allow for an early end to the facility.
The spokeswoman said the company has not yet determined a closing date, but it most likely will take place before the end of 2008.
Goodyear also has scheduled a series of layoffs at the plant to take place in August, during which the company will release 110 of about 160 workers still employed there.
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Program Results Report
Massachusetts Ex-Smokers Rated Negative Ads as Most Effective
Author(s): Nakashian M
From February 1996 to August 1998, Lois Biener, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research examined the reactions of adult residents in Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.
Launched in 1993, the program included a media campaign, worksite initiatives and other efforts to improve the public health of residents by reducing death and disability from tobacco use. Researchers resurveyed 1,544 adults who had participated in the 1993 Massachusetts Tobacco Survey, the baseline assessment for the program.
The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) national Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP).
Non-smokers and those who quit smoking rated anti-tobacco advertisements that elicited strong negative emotions (e.g., those that were sad or frightening) as most effective.
All respondent groups (smokers, non-smokers and quitters) rated anti-tobacco advertisements scoring high on positive emotions (e.g., those that were humorous or entertaining) as ineffective.
Many smokers working in places with "smokefree" policies reported people smoking in the workplace and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. As a result, workplace smoking policies, in general, had no effect on smoking cessation among workers since these policies are often not enforced.
Continuous employment in workplaces that enforce smoking bans (as evidenced by only minimal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke) is associated with smoking cessation. Smokers who worked continuously in such workplaces between baseline and follow-up were seven times more likely to have quit smoking than smokers continuously employed in workplaces with higher levels of exposure.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969, 88’
“Fassbinder’s second film, which became not only his first claim to fame and author status, but also gave him [...] valuable operating capital for years to come.
Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
“I love movies. Pictures about passion and pain. Lovely!
It’s a waste of time being nice to servants.”
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“This is the kind of thing Douglas Sirk makes movies about. People can’t live alone, but they can’t live together either. This is why his movies are so desperate. All That Heaven Allows opens with a long shot of the small town. The titles appear across it. Which looks very sad.
“I find women more interesting. They don’t interest me just because they’re oppressed – it’s not that simple.
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North Korea military parade ditches missiles, features floats and flowers
With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea staged a military parade on Sunday focused on peace and economic development, filled with colored balloons and flowers to mark the 70th anniversary of the country’s founding.
A sea of spectators watched the parade as tens of thousands goose-stepping soldiers and columns of tanks drove past a review stand where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un took the salute.
Unlike in previous years, there were no inter-continental missiles on display. And there were no nuclear tests to mark the day, as has happened in each of the last two years.
North Korea routinely uses major holidays to showcase its military capabilities and the latest developments in missile technology.
But that has been dropped this year, underlining Kim’s stated aim for denuclearizing the Korean peninsula and his recent meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and summits with U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The theme for the celebrations this year was unifying the Korean peninsula, divided since the 1950-53 Korean War. Floats on unification passed by a throng of North Koreans waving unified Korea flags.
“All Koreans should join forces to accomplish unification in our generation. Unification is the only way Koreans can survive,” said an editorial in North Korea’s party newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
Kim and Moon will meet in Pyongyang on Sept. 18-20 for the third time this year and discuss “practical measures” towards denuclearization, officials in Seoul have said.
Kim was seen laughing and holding hands up with a Chinese special envoy as he oversaw the festivities at Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung square on a clear autumn day. Kim waved to the crowd before leaving but did not make any public remarks.
North Korea has invited a large group of foreign journalists to cover a military parade and other events to mark the 70th anniversary of its founding.
That includes iconic mass games that Pyongyang is organizing for the first time in five years, a huge, nationalist pageant performed by up to 100,000 people in one of the world’s largest stadiums.
Earlier on Sunday, Kim visited the mausoleum where his grandfather, the country’s founder, and his father lie in state, according to state media.A concert on Saturday night attended by the titular head of state, Kim Yong Nam, and foreign delegations featured little in the way of martial messaging or images, with only a few shadowy American bombers shown briefly in footage of the 1950-1953 Korean War.
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Home Rock Soundtrack Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 ( Free Download )
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 ( Free Download )
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Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody " The Original Soundtrack "- 2018
Artist: Queen
Title: Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack)
Label: Virgin EMI
Genre: Soundtrack, Rock
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Total Time: 01:19:43
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite,consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre.
When it was released as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the same version was re-released following Mercury's death,eventually becoming the UK's third-best-selling single of all time. It is also the only song to be the UK Christmas number one twice by the same artist. It topped the charts in several other markets as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and The Netherlands, later becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time selling over six million copies worldwide. In the United States, the song originally peaked at number nine in 1976. It returned to the chart at number two in 1992 after being used in the film Wayne's World, which contributed to the revival of its American popularity.
Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound.
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Voting plummets as California undergoes…
Voting plummets as California undergoes sweeping demographic change
Betty Sandoval, of Fontana, shows off her “I voted” sticker after voting at Oleander Elementary School in Fontana June 3, 2014.
Turnout as percentage of registered voters. <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=6355240">View larger image</a>. (Bay Area News Group)
By The Sun | thesun@dfmdev.com |
California has tried to make casting a ballot as easy as ordering a pizza online.
We’ve scooped up potential voters when they come to the DMV to renew their driver’s licenses. We’ve let Californians register to vote on smartphone apps. We’ve set up voting booths at city halls around the state weeks before Election Day. We’ve sent registered voters mail-in ballots every election.
But while 17.8 million Californians are now registered, more than for any other gubernatorial general election in the state’s history, voting experts project that Tuesday’s could be the first general election in which turnout falls below 50 percent. That’s a far cry from the record 80 percent that cast ballots in 1958, when Democrat Pat Brown beat the GOP’s William Knowland in a Republican-leaning state.
Yeah, this election has mostly been a snoozer — mostly because Pat Brown’s son, Jerry, is expected to win a fourth term in a landslide. But the problem is bigger than one election. With the exception of slightly better turnouts in the last few general elections, the Golden State’s voter participation has been slowly declining for half a century.
One big reason is the state’s sweeping demographic changes. Simply put: White Californians tend to vote a lot more than other Californians. Although whites now make up only 39 percent of the state’s population, they’re 57 percent of voters who show up.
In the next quarter century, 8.3 million more Californians will become eligible to vote, 8 million of whom will be people of color. So it will be a tougher task getting people to the polls, unless attitudes toward voting change.
Few people know that better than Carlos Marroquin.
“The Hispanic community here is huge, but they don’t vote,” said Marroquin, 28, who lives and works on San Jose’s heavily Latino East Side. “All we do is complain.
“We don’t get anyone to power. I feel frustrated,” added Marroquin, who helps run his family business, which provides support services to immigrants. “There are things that need to change (but) if we don’t vote, it will be the same thing.”
Voter registration drives often are paired with citizenship drives in his neighborhood, he said, but those who are just becoming citizens “probably don’t feel that they’re part of this country yet. As immigrants, it takes time to realize that this is your new country.”
Another reason for the drop in voting is that California voters are increasingly choosing to register to vote without stating a party preference. And those voters are less likely to turn out than partisan voters, said Mindy Romero, who directs the California Civic Engagement Project at UC Davis’ Center for Regional Change. The reason is that information provided by parties — and the get-out-the-vote pressure they exert on their members — is a big turnout driver that nonpartisans don’t experience, she said.
So if the Golden State doesn’t find new and better ways to convince people to vote, demographics dictate that turnout will only get smaller in the coming decades, she said.
“Instead of seeing how low we can go, maybe we can get a little ticked off,” Romero said, adding that California should be striving to do better. “I would love to see this become a rallying cry.”
Among the possible solutions: letting people register and then immediately cast a provisional ballot at polling places on Election Day.
That could boost California voter turnout by almost 5 percent, according to a 2011 research paper co-authored by R. Michael Alvarez, a Caltech political science professor. Based on other states’ experiences, the paper predicted, about 9 percent more people ages 18 to 25 — and about 5 percent more Latinos and newly naturalized citizens — would vote.
A 2012 California law was aimed at making Election Day registration a reality. But the law won’t take effect until the secretary of state certifies VoteCal, California’s first centralized, statewide voter registration database.
Repeatedly delayed by technical setbacks, VoteCal isn’t expected to be up and running until mid-2016.
But some experts are skeptical that even Election Day registration will be enough to turn the turnout tide.
“I still don’t think it’s going to move the needle too much,” said Eric McGhee, who studies voting behavior and political participation at the Public Policy Institute of California.
Instead, he said, getting nonvoters to become voters means “reaching out to them and convincing them to change their minds” with a message they understand from a voice they trust.
Candidates and parties often give lip service to wooing first-time voters, but most actually seek the most bang for their buck by focusing on people who have voted a lot in the past.
Public agencies such as the Secretary of State’s Office and county registrars, as well as some nonprofits, work to persuade nonvoters to sign up. But they lack the money and personnel that campaigns and candidates have — and thus make little progress.
Some say California and the rest of the country should take a page from several dozen nations that require citizens to vote. In recent elections, the top turnout was down under: Australia chalked up a 93 percent turnout in its 2013 presidential election. Anyone who didn’t cast a ballot had to provide a valid reason or pay a $20 fine, which if left unpaid could increase to $170 and result in a criminal conviction.
Turnout figures for Brazil’s just-completed presidential election — for which citizens last weekend waited in long lines at the Brazilian consulate in San Francisco — aren’t available yet. But the country had an 82 percent turnout in 2010.
In Brazil, voting is compulsory for literate citizens ages 18 to 70, and scofflaws must pay a fine and risk not being able to renew passports or other government documents.
Still, McGhee said, punishing nonvoters is “not realistically on the table” in America, where citizens see voting as a right, not an enforceable duty.
Another suggestion that’s gaining in popularity: Just pay people to vote.
Surprisingly, California law already allows payment for voting in nonfederal elections. And Los Angeles is now mulling a lottery-like chance of cash prizes to those who cast ballots.
But McGee doubts that paying voters will prove to be “politically feasible” on a larger scale.
Romero also questions whether government can do much to increase turnout. Instead, she said, nonvoters instead need to hear about the importance of voting from the lips of people who are their own age and background.
“Particularly with youth, personal contact makes a huge difference, especially from peers,” she said. “Show them the how and the why — why it connects with their lives. If you get them when they’re young, voting is habit-forming and you’re much more likely to keep them voting for the rest of their lives,”
There’s no better place to reach a diverse cross-section of California’s youth than its high schools, Romero said, and two new laws authored by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, might help a bit. One requires high school government classes to teach the importance of voting as well as how to register, use a voter information guide and vote. The other lets high school administrators designate students as “voter outreach coordinators” during voter-registration weeks every April and September — just the kind of peer-to-peer contact that Romero says is crucial.
Of course, early intervention won’t always work.
Kaitlin Manalo, 18, said she registered to vote at the urging of her government teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School. But Manalo, now a San Jose State student majoring in finance, won’t cast a ballot on Tuesday.
“I kinda feel guilty,” said Manalo, who is of Filipino descent. “But it’s not really on my radar. I don’t have time, and I don’t pay attention. I’m not interested. The candidates aren’t appealing — and the ballot measures aren’t affecting me.”
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UCLA loses to Washington State, but keeps…
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UCLA loses to Washington State, but keeps control of destiny
QB Luke Falk (4) led Washington State’s game-winning against UCLA Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/ Pasadena Star-News)
By Clay Fowler | cfowler@scng.com | San Gabriel Valley Tribune
PASADENA >> Fittingly, a flag landed on the Rose Bowl turf just after Washington State landed its final blow.
The Cougars completed the game-winning 75-yard touchdown drive with three seconds left in Saturday night’s 31-27 victory over UCLA.
The pass interference call on Gabe Marks’ 21-yard touchdown catch was declined, but a season-high 13 other UCLA penalties were not.
Bruins quarterback Josh Rosen set a UCLA record with 57 pass attempts, and he appeared to have finished a spectacular comeback with a 37-yard touchdown run that gave UCLA a 27-24 lead with 1:09 to play.
Jim Mora, who was 31-0 as the UCLA head coach with a halftime lead prior to Saturday night, was less concerned about the game’s final minute and more focused on the miscues and four field goals UCLA settled for despite outgaining Washington State 554-426.
“Everyone is going to focus on the end of the game and the last play,” Mora said. “But there were so many things that led up to that point.”
The loss didn’t cost UCLA (7-3, 4-3) a shot at the Pac-12 South title, courtesy of a double-overtime loss by Utah earlier Saturday. Only Utah and USC, who are tied atop the division, remain on UCLA’s schedule.
Having a resurgent season, Washington State (7-3, 5-2) certainly was no slouch, but the Bruins did plenty to beat themselves.
UCLA cost itself 75 yards in penalties and failed to score touchdowns on four of its six trips inside the Washington State 20-yard line. Before a 50-yard catch on a fruitless final play of a first half UCLA ended with a 16-14 lead, the Bruins had outgained Washington State 316 yards to 139.
“We didn’t finish in the red zone like we wanted to. That’s really it right there,” said UCLA receiver Jordan Payton, who tied a school record with 14 receptions for 152 yards. “We finish on those drives in the red zone and eliminate those penalties, it’s like an ongoing theme every week. We have to get better. It’s the biggest game of the year coming up, so this has to go away very fast.”
Rosen finished 33 of 57 for 340 yards, but given the red zone struggles, his 37-yard touchdown run with 69 seconds left in the game was the only time he was involved in a scoring play. Regardless, the spectacular scramble down the sideline seemed to have won the game for UCLA.
“It was excitement,” said safety Jaleel Wadood, whose interception with 3:13 to play set up Rosen’s go-ahead touchdown run. “But as you could see, the defense couldn’t get too excited because there was still time left to play.”
Washington State quarterback Luke Falk, who finished 38 of 53 passing for 331 yards with an interception and two touchdowns, wasn’t fazed by the three-point deficit with a little more than a minute to play. The redshirt sophomore on pace to break the Pac-12 single-season records for passing yards and touchdowns calmly led his team 75 yards in seven plays, taking one final shot at the end zone before what would have been a field goal attempt to send the game to overtime.
“Obviously a very disappointing loss for us,” Mora said. “We struggled on offense to finish and we finally had a good drive and a great play by Josh (Rosen), and then we came up short at the end. It’s a very disappointed locker room.”
UCLA’s offensive dominance in the first half was best illustrated by a 94-yard drive finished off by a Nate Starks 14-yard touchdown run for a 13-7 UCLA lead with 4:14 left in the second quarter.
The Bruins offset their glaring statistical advantage when the Cougars only had to go 14 yards for their second touchdown after Ishmael Adams fumbled a punt with 2:32 left in the half. The three-play touchdown drive was the only Washington State possession for the entirety of which Falk was out after an apparent head injury. The Cougars quarterback was slammed to the turf during the previous series and taken into the locker room.
Falk returned to start the second half, promptly leading an 11-play, 47-yard touchdown drive capped by a 4-yard pass to Gabe Marks for a 21-16 Washington State advantage.
“(Falk) came back from what looked like a serious injury and had a good second half,” Mora said. “We will look at the film, We will regroup and we’ll go play a good Utah team in Salt Lake City on Saturday.”
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Clay Fowler is the sports features and UCLA basketball writer for the Southern California News Group. He has been working for SCNG since 2006, when he moved to Southern California from his native Texas. He was born and raised in Dallas and graduated from the University of Texas in 2002. He lives in La Verne with his wife and son. He is probably craving Chinese food right now.
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Home 0Trending Elway insists Flacco is still in his prime at age 34
Elway insists Flacco is still in his prime at age 34
ENGLEWOOD | John Elway insists Joe Flacco is at the top of his game at age 34 even though the former Baltimore Ravens quarterback hasn’t thrown a pass in the playoffs since 2015.
“Joe is a perfect fit for us,” Elway said at Flacco’s introductory news conference Friday. “He’s played in a lot of big games, he has a lot of good football left in him. At 34, (I) feel like he’s just really coming into his prime.”
That echoed comments Elway made Wednesday when he told the NFL Network that Flacco’s “arm strength is still great” and “he’s just going into his prime,” even though the veteran QB was supplanted by rookie Lamar Jackson last season and didn’t play in the Ravens’ wild-card loss to the Chargers.
Elway, who sent a fourth-round pick to Baltimore for Flacco in a deal worked out five weeks ago, trusts he’s finally found a worthy successor to Peyton Manning — another Super Bowl winner who came to Denver for the second chapter of his storied career.
Flacco said he’d love to reach out to Manning as he tries to follow his lead in Denver.
“I am new to this. It’s completely different and obviously I’m going to find my way through it mostly on my own,” Flacco said. “But … it would probably be a huge benefit to talk to somebody like him, who has not only gone through it but has been successful.”
It also appears Elway is trying hard to sell his latest quarterback acquisition to an antsy and skeptical fan base that has suffered through Mark Sanchez’s flop, Trevor Siemian’s fall, Brock Osweiler’s flounder, Paxton Lynch’s fiasco, Case Keenum’s failure and Chad Kelly’s flameout in the three years since Manning retired.
No matter the motivation, Flacco appreciates Elway’s endorsement.
“I definitely feel that way,” Flacco said of being in his prime. “So, it feels good to hear somebody say that. I mean, shoot, with Tom Brady now quarterbacks are playing until they’re about 60 years old.”
Flacco, who’s 7½ years younger than Brady, said he’s healthy and hardy and can’t wait to get going.
“I’m as healthy as I can be, as a physical and ready to go as ever,” Flacco said. “So, I’m excited about what lies ahead for me and my future. I’m not putting a number on how much I’ve got left to play. I’m going to play as long as I can and hopefully they’re dragging me out of this building a long time from now.”
Flacco, whose last playoff appearance was a 35-31 loss at New England on Jan. 10, 2015, has three years and $63 million left on his contract with a 2019 salary of $18.5 million.
Flacco missed just six games in his first decade in the NFL and was Baltimore’s starter last season until he injured his right hip in a loss at Pittsburgh on Nov. 4. Jackson took over and went 6-1 to get the Ravens into the playoffs for the first time since the 2014 season.
“If I have to reflect back on that time in Baltimore, it was not very fun. It was miserable sitting there on the bench and not being able to contribute, not really feeling like you’re a part of the team,” Flacco said. “But if that’s what it takes to be in this situation right now and be as excited about it as I am and my family is, then that’s what it takes.”
The Ravens went 106-72 with Flacco as a starter, including the postseason, where his 10 playoff victories since 2008 rank second behind Brady among active quarterbacks. Nobody has more road playoff wins than Flacco’s seven.
“As we recall, there was one four or five years ago that was pretty painful here in Denver,” Elway said of Baltimore’s 38-35 win in double-overtime over the AFC’s top seed on Jan. 12, 2013, “and hopefully we’ll have a lot more of those miracles on our side this time rather than against us.”
Flacco heaved a 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones in the final minute of regulation when safety Rahim Moore mistimed his jump while going for the interception instead of the tackle. That play represents the Broncos’ Bill Buckner moment and it propelled the Ravens to their second Super Bowl title a month later.
Flacco said he’s still driven by his love for the game, not by his disappointing end in Baltimore.
“I’m really not trying to think too much about my past and why I’m here,” he said. “I’m really just trying to be excited for the fact that I am here and the offense that we’re getting ready to run and the team we’re getting ready to build.”
Notes: The Broncos re-signed TE Jeff Heuerman to a two-year deal worth about $9 million.
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Van Ness Avenue Construction Forecast: July 8 - July 19, 2019
Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - 10:25am
76X Marin Headlands Express
90 San Bruno Owl
Service Affected
Tentative schedule:
In the next two weeks crews are scheduled to work on water main installation, sidewalk replacement, restoring the street base, paving, installing a joint-utility trench, installing light poles, street light conduits, and potholing for upcoming work.
The work listed below is scheduled for daytimes, 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Planned night work is italicized. The night shift for construction is 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. During this time, neighbors are advised to anticipate construction-related noise and vibrations as crews work diligently to complete necessary night work.
The following Van Ness Improvement Project construction forecast is subject to change. For more project details, please visit SFMTA.com/VanNess.
Monday through Friday, July 8 through July 12
*Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Chestnut to Lombard Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Lombard to Greenwich Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Greenwich to Filbert Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Filbert to Union Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Union to Green *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Green to Vallejo *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Vallejo to Broadway *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Broadway to Pacific *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Pacific to Jackson *Northbound lanes from Lombard to Jackson will be shifted on the night of July 10 for the upcoming traffic and construction shift.
Clay to Sacramento (Monday to Wednesday only)
Sacramento to California Night work is also scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
California to Pine Night work is also scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Pine to Bush Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Bush to Sutter
Sutter to Post
Geary to O'Farrell
O'Farrell to Ellis
Ellis to Eddy
Eddy to Turk *Intensive noise is expected.
Turk to Golden Gate *Intensive noise and vibration is expected.
Golden Gate to McAllister *Intensive noise and vibration is expected.
McAllister to Grove
Grove to Hayes
Hayes to Fell
Fell to Market Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Market to Mission Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. *Intensive noise and vibration is expected.
Mission to Howard Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. *Intensive noise and vibration is expected.
Monday through Friday, July 15 through July 19
Lombard to Greenwich Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Greenwich to Filbert Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Filbert to Union Night work is scheduled Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Sacramento to California
California to Pine
Ellis to Eddy (Friday only) *Intensive noise is expected.
Turk to Golden Gate *Intensive noise is expected.
Golden Gate to McAllister (Monday only) *Intensive noise is expected.
Fell to Market (Monday only)
Van Ness Improvement Project The Van Ness Improvement Project includes San Francisco’s first Bus Rapid Transit system, utility work and civic improvements on Van Ness Avenue from Aquatic Park to Mission Street.
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VIDEO: Family's fear as relative with special needs faces deportation
Isabella Cipirska
Published: 10:51 Monday 29 January 2018
A 53-year-old Worthing man with special needs, who has lived in the UK for 14 years, faces being deported to Zimbabwe after a ‘genuine mistake’ saw him overstay his visa.
Dwayne Putnam, of Brougham Road, Worthing, who is autistic and has tourettes, has been told he has to leave the country – despite having ancestral rights to live in the UK and no family to care for him in his home country, according to his niece.
Dwayne Putnam (front) with family at his Worthing home
Alicia Minshull-Putnam, 28, has started a petition to publicise her uncle’s plight and said: “This is a very sad time for us and I feel sick in my stomach at the prospect of losing one of my uncles, who simply cannot survive without his family.”
Dwayne followed the rest of his family to the UK in 2004 on a five year ancestral visa, due to his grandparents being British. However his visa was left to expire for three years due to an oversight by his relatives – who admit this was a ‘colossal error’.
His family highlighted the situation with the Home Office immediately and were prepared to pay a fine.
But Alicia said they have been faced with ‘one obstacle after another’ in ‘a very long, painful process’ and – after several years and £10,500 spent trying to resolve the issue – the Home Office has decided that Dwayne must leave.
Alicia, who lives in Leconfield Road, Lancing, with her wife, worries about Dwayne’s health if he is deported and said: “He has no one to go back to, no place to call home.”
She said Dwayne, who lives with his elderly mother, Diana, and relies on her support, is ‘well-known’ in Worthing. He enjoys going to the town market on Wednesdays and chatting to people on the bus.
“He asks for nothing, and lives a very simple life without any burden on the state at all,” said Alicia, who works at Rectory House Nursing Home in Sompting.
“He has done nothing in life to deserve this and I feel he reserves the right to stay by his mother’s side to look after her, as she has done with him from day one.”
Dwayne has one chance to appeal the decision at a tribunal. Alicia said it might take up to a year for his case to be heard and in the meantime, Dwayne can remain.
She said of her uncle: “I don’t think he quite understands the severity, that this is the last chance.”
Alicia hopes her petition will raise awareness of Dwayne's situation - click here to sign it.
A Home Office spokesman said: “All visa applications are considered in line with the immigration rules and on the basis of the evidence provided.
"If applications are being made on the basis of medical circumstances, official supporting documentation must be submitted.”
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George F. Will: Why should socialists be held to fiscal standards that today’s ‘conservatives’ do not follow?
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a Fox News town-hall style event Monday April 15, 2019 in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
· Published: April 24
Washington • Pursed lips and clucked tongues signaled disapproval among the wise and responsible when, at a recent televised event, Sen. Bernie Sanders, the “democratic socialist” from Vermont, did not plausibly explain how he would pay for “Medicare for all.” The remarkable thing, however, is the quaint expectation that any political person should explain how he or she would align proposed expenditures and actual revenues. For decades, the implicit answer has always been the same: They won’t even pretend to align them.
Under a Republican president and, until four months ago, Republican control of both houses of Congress, the nation is about to run trillion-dollar budget deficits with the economy expanding and employment more than full: The unemployment rate is 3.8% and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 7.1 million jobs unfilled. As the birth rate declines, the population ages (approximately 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day) and the country is told to be alarmed because too many would-be immigrants are trying to enter the country and its workforce.
Yet Sanders is supposed to hew to some archaic standards of fiscal probity? Why should an avowed socialist be held to standards of fiscal candor and prudence that have no discernible adherents in the avowedly conservative party?
Congressional Republicans are led on a short leash by a president who, as a candidate, vowed to not touch entitlement programs that are significant drivers of the deficit, and who breezily promised to eliminate the national debt (currently $22 trillion) in eight years. (Today, that would mean eight reductions of $2.75 trillion, a sum equal to 63% of the fiscal 2019 budget.) Republicans, now thoroughly disarmed concerning the issue of fiscal probity, struggle to frighten the 2020 electorate with the specter of spendthrift socialists threatening the Republic.
The Manhattan Institute's Brian Riedl notes that this year, as the national debt, which was $10 trillion in 2008, heads toward $38 trillion in 2029, the federal government will spend $35,148 per household and collect $26,677 per household in taxes. Householders are understandably content with this arithmetic.
For guidance on how to think about what the political class does not think about (and wishes you would not think about), read “Welfare and Debt: A Moynihanian Assessment” by Chris DeMuth of the Hudson Institute. In 1986, when the national debt was a mere stripling, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., delivered an address titled “The Moral Dimensions of a Two Trillion Dollar Debt,” in which he pondered the virtue, for nations as well as individuals, of self-denial — forgoing present pleasures for future benefits. Even 33 years ago he saw that our public debt is morally “problematic”:
"The people who do the borrowing, which is to say elected officials, are not the ones who will do the repaying. The temptation is real to use debt not as a form of investment, but a means of consumption. Far from the denial of gratification, it can, and frequently does, reflect just the opposite."
DeMuth says that in 1986 Moynihan was "stunningly perspicacious" about "one big thing," which DeMuth calls "a transformation of the political economy of federal government." From the Founding until the fourth quarter of the 20th century, the political economy — the government's taxing and spending — had been used primarily to provide "public goods" such as defense, diplomacy, courts, infrastructure, schools, basic research. Suddenly, however, the political economy became "primarily a provider of private consumption by individuals." Yes, primarily. DeMuth:
"In 1960, public goods had accounted for about 75% of federal outlays net of interest payments on the debt, while 'payments for individuals' were the other 25%. By 1970, payments for individuals had grown to 35%. In 1986 when Pat spoke, payments for individuals had become dominant at 55%. Today they are 75% and still growing; public goods are now the residual 25% of our national government and shrinking."
What DeMuth calls the new "borrowed-benefits" budget norm is financed to a significant extent by borrowing from nonconsenting future generations. The benefits are current consumption "and are not going to generate returns to pay off the borrowed funds." This, says DeMuth, is just one facet of "our comprehensive rejection of constraint — not only in public finance but in politics, in constitutional structure, in rhetoric, and in culture."
The word that describes this is: "decadence." And the word that describes today's belief, which fuels apocalyptic rhetoric, about the supposedly stark differences between the parties, is: "nonsense."
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George F. Will | The Washington Post
George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Washington Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.
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Monopoly License to Telekom Was an Obstacle: Wale
Education Minister, Mathew Wale, has described the exclusive license granted to Our Telekom to operate as a monopoly in the country's telecommunication industry as "an obstacle to progress in information and communications technology and services in Solomon Islands."
Contributing to the debate on the Telecommunications Bill 2009, Mr. Wale said that the exclusive license was "immoral and that the monopoly could not be effectively regulated."
"We have seen that monopolies are very insensitive to consumer concerns and seemed to feel no pressure to changes behavior. We have also seen Sir that monopoly has been as an obstacle to new, more efficient and reliable technologies in the telecommunication sector," said Mr. Wale.
"As a monopoly they were never really interested in expanding services to remote and rural areas and would never respond to any, whether from the market or otherwise pressure to do so as a result."
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SCCM > Education Center > VCCR: Pediatric
Virtual Critical Care Rounds (VCCR): Pediatric is designed to better prepare students, residents, and fellows to contribute to the diagnosis and management of the critically ill pediatric patient during their pediatric intensive care unit rounds.
For questions, please contact SCCM Customer Serviceat +1 847 827-6888.
Prepare students, residents, and fellows to better participate in their pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) rounds. VCCR: Pediatric, the enhanced replacement for the Pediatric Resident ICU (RICU) program, features:
Professionally-narrated modules with clear learning objectives, engaging case studies, interactive questions, and a list of additional resources for further exploration
An extensive topic selection with lectures developed by content experts on each subject
SCCM’s efficient, learning management platform, which allows program directors to view and monitor participants’ progress throughout the courses
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
Recognize emergent conditions and describe appropriate interventions
Analyze case scenarios and explain treatment options
Recommend treatment strategies for critically ill patients based on medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic data
VCCR:Pediatric is available in two different formats:
Program Director-Led Course: An online, instructor-led course
Self-Directed Course: An online, self-study course
VCCR I: Pediatric focuses on the student level and includes 8 modules, each containing learning objectives, case studies, interactive questions, and a list of additional resources for further exploration.
Pediatric Airway Management
Blood Gas Analysis
Fluids and Electrolyte Emergencies in Critically Ill Children
Respiratory Failure in Children
Pediatric Shock
Sedation and Analgesia
Approach to the Child with Altered Mental Status
Program Director Led
Designed for program directors of students rotating through the pediatric ICU. Students use a state-of-the-art online learning management system to complete the lecture portion of the course, and pre- and posttests assure their mastery of the educational content. Course directors and coordinators can monitor the progress of participants in real time through their personalized administrative dashboard. Pricing is $650 USD for nonmembers, $620 USD for Associate members, $555 USD for Professional members and $520 USD for Select members.
Self-Directed
Designed for students rotating through the pediatric ICU. It provides a relaxed learning experience with access to the same didactic sessions found in the program director-led version of the course. Learners cover materials at their own pace from the comfort and convenience of their homes or offices and then assess their knowledge through the use of pre- and posttests. Pricing is $60 USD for nonmembers, $55 USD for Associate members, $50 USD for Professional members and $45 USD for Select members.
VCCR II: Pediatric focuses on the resident and fellow levels and includes 13 modules, each containing learning objectives, case studies, interactive questions, and a list of additional resources for further exploration.
Cardiovascular Medications
Shock: Assessment and Therapy
Status Epilepticus in Pediatrics
Acute Kidney Injury in Children
Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Acute Severe Asthma
Oncologic Emergencies in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Designed for program directors of residents and fellows rotating through the pediatric ICU. Students use a state-of-the-art online learning management system to complete the lecture portion of the course, and pre- and posttests assure their mastery of the educational content. Course directors and coordinators can monitor the progress of participants in real time through their personalized administrative dashboard. Pricing is $650 USD for nonmembers, $620 USD for Associate members, $555 USD for Professional members and $520 USD for Select members.
Designed for residents and fellows rotating through the pediatric ICU. It provides a relaxed learning experience with access to the same didactic sessions found in the program director-led version of the course. Learners cover materials at their own pace from the comfort and convenience of their homes or offices and then assess their knowledge through the use of pre- and posttests. Pricing is $60 USD for nonmembers, $55 USD for Associate members, $50 USD for Professional members and $45 USD for Select members.
SCCM Pod-VCCR11 Workup, Management, and Critical Sequelae of Burn Injuries
Richard Iuorio, MD speaks with Laura Johnson, MD, and Jim Reilly, MD, about the workup, management, and critical sequelae of burn injuries. Using a fictional burn case as an example, Dr. Johnson talks about airway considerations, resuscitation protocols, and fluid properties. The team then speaks about the use of antibiotics, and weighs the respective merits of colloids vs. crystalloids before ending the podcast with a discussion on ventilation strategies and indications for emergent escharotomy. Dr. Johnson is a trauma surgeon and burn specialist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, District of Columbia. Dr. Reilly is an Emergency Medicine resident at Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx. Published: 11/28/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR10 Pathophysiology and Management of AKI
Richard Iuorio, MD, speaks with Kianoush Kashani, MD and Jim Reilly, MD about the pathophysiology and management of acute kidney injury. Dr. Kashani delves into novel biomarkers and resuscitation of the sepsis-associated AKI, and he gives his expert opinion on the administration of radiographic contrast in the setting of acute nephropathy. Dr. Kashani is an intensivist, renowned nephrologist, and hypertension specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Reilly is an Emergency Medicine resident at Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of California, Davis, and then attended Boston University School of Medicine. His academic interests lie mainly in critical care, and he hopes to continue his training as a critical care fellow in New York City. Published: 11/14/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR9 Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Joshua Trob, MD about continuous renal replacement therapy. In the episode, the indications, timing of initiation, and intensity of renal replacement therapy are discussed. Dr. Trob is a board certified nephrologist in private practice, the chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Illinois, and the medical director of a dialysis clinic in Lake Bluff, Illinois Published: 7/13/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR8 Ketamine for Refractory Status Epilepticus
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Karen Berger, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP about refractory status epilepticus. In the episode, the use of continuous sedatives is discussed for refractory epilepticus with a focus on the novel use of ketamine in "super-refractory" status epilepticus patients. Dr. Berger is a neurocritical care clinical pharmacist at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, New York and the President-Elect for the NYC Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Published: 6/29/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR7 The Basics of Veno-Arterial and Veno-Venous ECMO and the Indications of ECMO Therapy
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Elliott Cohen, MD about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In the episode, the basics of Veno-Arterial (VA) and Veno-Venous (VV) ECMO are outlined and the indications of ECMO therapy are discussed. Dr. Cohen is the medical director of Advocate Condell's Adult ECMO Program. He is co-medical director of Advocate Condell's Intensive Care Unit and medical director of the medical center's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program in Libertyville, Illinois. Published: 6/8/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR6 Vasopressor Selection in Septic Shock
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Scott T. Benken, PharmD, BCPS-AQ Cardiology about vasopressor selection in septic shock. In the episode, each vasopressor agent is discussed individually regarding its receptor profile, adverse effect profile, and the comparative clinical evidence supporting its use in this patient population. Dr. Benken is a clinical pharmacist in the medical and cardiothoracic surgery ICU at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago, Illinois. Published: 5/25/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR5 Rumack-Matthew Nomogram and Acetaminophen Toxicity
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Nadia Awad, PharmD, BCPS about Rumack-Matthew nomogram and acetaminophen toxicity. In the episode, the toxidrome of acetaminophen overdose is outlined and the nuances (including clinical practice pearls) are discussed regarding the nomogram used to decide whether N-acetylcysteine is warranted for acetaminophen toxicity. Dr. Awad is an emergency medicine pharmacist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey and an Associate Editor of Emergency Medicine PharmD blog. References mentioned in this episode are available at http://empharmd.blogspot.com Published: 5/24/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR4 Common Sedatives and Paralytics for Rapid Sequence Intubation
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Joseph Muench, PharmD, BCPS about airway pharmacology. In the episode, the most common sedatives and paralytics for rapid sequence intubation are discussed, including concepts regarding dosing, adverse effects, onset and duration of effect, and clinical pearls. Dr. Muench (known to his listeners as "Pharmacy Joe") is the host of The Elective Rotation: A Critical Care Pharmacy Podcast and author of A Pharmacist's Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies. You can find the references mentioned in this episode at http://pharmacyjoe.com/VCCR Published: 5/17/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR3 Activated Charcoal in the Overdose Patient
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Frank Paloucek, PharmD, DABAT about the use of activated charcoal in the overdose patient. In the episode, nuances of activated charcoal including dosing, dosage forms, administration, and efficacy are discussed. Dr. Paloucek is a clinical professor and the PGY1 residency director at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, a fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, co-author of the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook, and an attending with the Toxikon Consortium. Published: 5/11/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR2 New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Septic Shock
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Ishaq Lat, PharmD, about new onset atrial fibrillation in septic shock. In the epsiode, the issue of rate versus rhythm control is discussed as well as the need for anticoagulation among this patient population. Dr. Lat is the associate director of clinical pharmacy services and a clinical pharmacist specialist in Critical Care at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Published: 4/26/2017
SCCM Pod-VCCR1 Treatment Approaches for ACE Inhibitor-Induced Angioedema
Sean P. Kane, PharmD, BCPS, speaks with Craig Cocchio, PharmD, BCPS, about angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor-induced angioedema. In the episode, a variety of treatment approaches for ACE inhibitor-induced angioedema are discussed, including fresh frozen plasma, ecallantide, icatibant, and conventional therapies for undifferentiated angioedema. Dr. Cocchio is an Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas and the Editor-in-Chief of the Emergency Medicine PharmD blog. References mentioned in this episode are available at http://empharmd.blogspot.com Published: 4/25/2017
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Guillermo CuellarShafer, Minnesota
Guillermo Cuellar was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1951. He grew up in Caracas and in the early ’60s he travelled to the United States to complete high school.
He studied ceramics at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where he majored in Art, French and Geology, graduating in 1976.
After a three year job with the World Wildlife Fund in Venezuela he returned to pottery in 1980. In 1986 he set up a studio in the village of Turgua, an hour southeast of Caracas, where he made pots for sixteen years.
In 1981 he worked as assistant to Warren MacKenzie, who was teaching in Caracas and with whom he regularly shared workshop experience from 1984 to 2006. Guillermo has taught workshops sponsored by the Venezuelan Association of the Arts of Fire and assisted in those given by MacKenzie, Linda Christianson, Clary Illian, Randy Johnston and Jan McKeachie, David Leach and Mark Pharis.
His work has been on display in the Venezuelan National Art Gallery, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, The Smithsonian Institution, The Northern Clay Center in Minnesota and private galleries in the United States, England, Venezuela, and Chile.
In 1992 he and other Venezuelan potters founded Grupo Turgua, a non-profit association of craftspeople dedicated to the support of hand made objects in Venezuela. From 1992 to 2005 Guillermo hosted twenty-eight group sales offering pottery, jewelry, photography, woodwork, drawing, weaving, Venezuelan native handwork and other creative expressions.
In 2005 he moved to the upper St. Croix river valley near Shafer, Minnesota. Here he established a home and studio with his wife, Laurie MacGregor, and children, Carlos and Alana.
In 2009 Guillermo was invited to participate as a host on the Minnesota Potters of the Upper St. Croix Valley Annual Pottery Tour after being a guest potter at Linda Christianson’s studio for the prior three years.
When not making pottery, Guillermo enjoys being on the beautiful and scenic St. Croix River.
I fell in love with clay in college in the ’70s, every waking moment consumed by the potter’s wheel and the unpretentious beauty of old pots. I discovered A Potter’s Book by Bernard Leach, a champion of pottery traditions of East and West. I wanted to be a part of the historical sweep of traditional pottery.
Ten years later in Venezuela I began potting full time. Warren MacKenzie was invited by a local potters group to come and teach. MacKenzie had apprenticed with Leach in the 50’s and, beyond becoming a friend, he shared his studio with me and his appreciation of historical pots. From discussion, from living with his collection of great pottery, his library and MacKenzie’s own work I avidly soaked up the spirit of the old pots I admired so much.
I do not consciously design my pots with drawings or plans. I set out to make teapots, for example, and the making process generates ideas, each piece responding to the one before. Subtle variations on simple forms often result in dramatic changes in the character and personality of a pot. Small details, accidents, a dent, texture, an accent, a curve of belly, a kink in a handle may all have surprising results. Even when making sets, each piece, like children, will have its own character.
Clay is infinitely receptive and expressive; it records the character of the maker, the circumstances of making and the use given to it. In use our hands can sense every mark, every ridge and dent, left by the hands of the potter. Maybe that is why so many potters love to cook, it gives us an excuse to handle and appreciate these wonderful pieces.
Exquisite beauty can be found in pots made primarily for use. They may dwell more comfortably in a home, a kitchen, or the dinner table, than on display in a gallery or a museum. But to me their significance comes not only from the preparing and sharing of food but also from bringing that unique beauty into our daily lives.
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Coartem(R) Dispersible, The First Dispersible ACT* For Children, Launched This Week In Africa By Novartis And Medicines For Malaria Venture
By Anna Ohlden | February 15th 2009 10:00 PM | Print | E-mail
Anna Ohlden
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, February 16 /PRNewswire/ --
- Regional events planned this week in Dar es Salaam, Dakar, and Maputo
- Builds on success of Coartem(R), Novartis' most-widely distributed medicine with more than 215 million treatments provided without profit
- Sweet-tasting and easy-to-administer, Coartem(R) Dispersible offers cure rates of more than 97% for uncomplicated childhood malaria cases
- Coartem(R) Dispersible is the result of a unique public-private collaboration between Novartis and the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture
Novartis and Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) announced today the African launch of Coartem(R) Dispersible. Coartem(R) Dispersible is the result of a unique public-private collaboration between Novartis and the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV). The announcement was made today in Dar es Salaam at the start of a week-long pan-African introduction of Coartem(R) Dispersible, which includes regional events in Mozambique and Senegal.
Each year there are nearly one million malaria-related deaths reported around the world(1). Nine out of ten malaria deaths occur in sub Saharan Africa, and the vast majority of malaria-related deaths occur in children. Across Africa, a child dies every 30 seconds from malaria(2).
Until now, many healthcare workers and parents have had to crush bitter-tasting antimalarial tablets for their children to swallow. Coartem Dispersible tablets enable parents to give the sweet-tasting malaria medicine to their children more easily and, in the process, ensure they receive full effective doses.
This new Coartem Dispersible tablet can help improve treatment and compliance saving many of the more than 700,000 children under five who die each year from malaria, said Dr. Daniel Vasella, chairman and CEO of Novartis. I am pleased that we can provide a clearly better formulation to help ensure children with malaria receive and can take an effective therapy.
A clinical study reported in The Lancet by Dr Salim Abdulla of the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania showed that Coartem Dispersible provides a high cure rate of 97.8%, which is comparable to that of Coartem (98.5%). Investigators also reported that it had a good safety profile(3).
The launch of Coartem Dispersible is an important milestone in the fight against malaria and marks the culmination of several years of successful collaboration with Novartis, said Dr. Chris Hentschel, President and CEO of Medicines for Malaria Venture. This could not have happened without the support of our funders who are all committed to malaria innovation and one day, eliminating this deadly disease.
The launch of Coartem Dispersible is a week-long series of regional events throughout Africa, focusing on malaria treatment, prevention and eradication. Coartem Dispersible events are taking place in Dar es Salaam on 16 February, Maputo on 19 February, and in Dakar on 20 February.
Coartem Dispersible builds on the enormous success of Coartem (artemether/lumefantrine 20 mg/120 mg), the leading ACT in Africa. Since 2001, in a unique collaboration with international organizations, Novartis has provided more than 215 million Coartem treatment courses for public sector use in malaria-endemic developing countries without profit. Thanks to production efficiency gains and increasing demand for Coartem, Novartis has driven down the cost in order to make it more accessible to people with malaria. After nearly halving the price since launch, the average cost of a full treatment course is 0.80 USD. For the youngest patients, a full treatment course costs just 0.37 USD through public sector sources.
As part of its ongoing commitment to patients and health workers, Novartis and MMV also provide malaria case management educational programs, which include hands-on training for local healthcare workers, customized training manuals, and user-friendly packaging to ensure that Coartem Dispersible is properly used and to improve patient compliance. Like Coartem, Coartem Dispersible will be provided to the public sector without profit to benefit those people most in need in the developing world.
In addition to Swissmedic, Coartem Dispersible is approved by 17 regulatory authorities in Africa. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, and Zambia.
The foregoing release contains forward-looking statements that can be identified by terminology such as can, may, will, improve or similar expressions, or by express or implied discussions regarding potential additional marketing approvals for Coartem or Coartem Dispersible, or regarding potential future revenues from Coartem products. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. Such forward-looking statements reflect the current views of the Company regarding future events, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results with Coartem to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. There can be no guarantee that Coartem or Coartem Dispersible will be approved for sale in any additional market. Nor can there be any guarantee that Coartem products will achieve any particular levels of revenue in the future. In particular, management's expectations regarding Coartem products could be affected by, among other things, unexpected regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; unexpected clinical trial results, including unexpected new clinical data and unexpected additional analysis of existing clinical data; the company's ability to obtain or maintain patent or other proprietary intellectual property protection; competition in general; government, industry and general public pricing pressures; the impact that the foregoing factors could have on the values attributed to the Novartis Group's assets and liabilities as recorded in the Group's consolidated balance sheet, and other risks and factors referred to in Novartis AG's current Form 20-F on file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Novartis is providing the information in this press release as of this date and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
About Novartis
Novartis AG provides healthcare solutions that address the evolving needs of patients and societies. Focused solely on healthcare, Novartis offers a diversified portfolio to best meet these needs: innovative medicines, cost-saving generic pharmaceuticals, preventive vaccines, diagnostic tools and consumer health products. Novartis is the only company with leading positions in these areas. In 2007, the Group's continuing operations (excluding divestments in 2007) achieved net sales of USD 38.1 billion and net income of USD 6.5 billion. Approximately USD 6.4 billion was invested in RD activities throughout the Group. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Novartis Group companies employ approximately 97,000 full-time associates and operate in over 140 countries around the world. For more information, please visit http://www.novartis.com.
Novartis was named a Super Sector Leader by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) in 2007. In the same year, 66 million patients around the world benefited from Novartis programs valued at USD 937 million. These initiatives range from drug donation and research programs to combat neglected diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy in developing nations, to patient assistance programs that help cancer patients receive the most innovative and effective treatments available. For further information, please consult http://www.novartis.com.
About Medicines For Malaria Ventures
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) is a non-profit organization created to discover, develop and deliver effective and affordable antimalarial drugs through public-private partnerships. To support this project and the largest malaria RD pipeline in history, MMV receives funding from BHP Billiton, the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, Exxon Mobil Foundation, Irish Aid, Netherlands Minister Development Co-Operation, Rockefeller Foundation, Spanish Government, Swiss Government, UK DFID, USAID, US National Institute of Health, Wellcome Trust, WHO/RBM and World Bank.
MMV is currently managing the largest-ever portfolio of antimalarial projects in collaboration with over 100 pharmaceutical, academic, and endemic-country partners in 38 countries. The portfolio includes 19 completely new classes of compounds. New and improved treatment solutions are urgently needed for the 2.4 billion people at risk from malaria. MMV is working to ensure that its products will have the greatest possible public health impact and, most importantly, save lives. For more information, please consult http://www.mmv.org.
*Artemisinin-based combination therapy
1 Children and Malaria. World Health Organization Roll Back Malaria Web site. Available at : http://www.rbm.who.int/cmc_upload/0/000/015/367/RBMInfosheet_6.pdf.
2 Malaria Fact Sheet. World Health Organization Web site. Available at : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheet/fs094/en/.
3 Salim et al, Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine dispersible tablet in African infants and children with uncomplicated malaria: a randomised, investigator-blinded, multi-centre comparison with the crushed commercial tablet; The Lancet (2008) www.thelancet.com; published online October 15, 2008 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61492-0
Novartis Media Relations Peter Shelby Novartis Pharma Communications +41-61-324-4470 (direct) +41-79-597-6353 (mobile) peter.shelby@novartis.com
Peter Shelby, Novartis Pharma Communications, +41-61-324-4470, mobile, +41-79-597-6353, peter.shelby@novartis.com
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‘The Attack:’ A man’s good life implodes in Tel Aviv
Originally published July 11, 2013 at 3:00 pm Updated July 11, 2013 at 5:46 pm
Ali Suliman plays a surgeon in Tel Aviv whose wife may have been a suicide bomber in “The Attack.”
Cary Darling
The Israeli-Arab conflict is stripped to its most intensely personal level in “The Attack,” a haunting and heartbreaking meditation on violence, choice, love and duty that is one of the most remarkable films of the year.
Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman, “Paradise Now”) is a lauded surgeon of Palestinian descent working in Tel Aviv. His life is about as good as it could get: He has just been awarded a prestigious honor by a medical society, lives in a sleek apartment with a beautiful wife (Reymond Amsalem) and has lots of friends whose lunchtime talk veers to where he should buy a vacation home.
But when a suicide bombing rips apart an area restaurant, and his wife is not only one of the victims but it appears she was the one wearing the suicide vest, his entire life collapses. Jaafari, a nonpracticing, secular Muslim, is forced to realize that the life he lived with his apparently secretly radicalized wife may have been a lie, and his Israeli colleagues and neighbors (as well as the police) are now questioning his allegiances.
On the flip side, Jaafari’s family, living in humble conditions in the Palestinian city of Nablus, don’t really trust him either, since he divorced himself from his Muslim roots years ago. He’s a man uniquely alone, with only his shredded belief system as company.
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Directed by Lebanese-born, French-based Ziad Doueiri (“West Beirut”) from a novel by Yasmina Khadra, “The Attack” has sparked controversy in the Middle East, where it has been banned by the 22-member League of Arab States.
While that makes the film sound as if it’s some kind of inflammatory screed, it’s far from that. Instead, it’s a superbly drawn portrait of a man who’s a victim of generations of violence, even though he bears no physical scars.
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SEDBERGH SCHOOL RECOGNISED FOR EXCELLENCE IN ANNUAL GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE AWARDS
Sedbergh School has won two Good Schools Guide awards, for boys taking Religious Studies Philosophy and Ethics at AS Level and for girls taking Geology at A Level.
Sedbergh School has been presented with these awards by the Good Schools Guide for out-performing all other English schools in its category or displaying excellent performance. The prestigious annual awards, which are in their 8th year, are based on a detailed analysis of the most recent examination results, and are designed to highlight consistently good teaching
Second Master Dan Harrison said, “We are delighted to be acknowledged in this way for our excellence in two of our Sixth Form subjects. This is the sixth time that our Geology department has been recognised for its excellence by Good Schools Guide and we are sure it will inspire and encourage all pupils who are working towards their AS and A Levels.
Pupils in the Sixth Form benefit from revision and study skills workshops run by Elevate Education, which has complemented the study taking place in lessons. The boys studying Religious Studies enjoy the rigorous class discussion work, which prepares them well for developing their written work and they represent half of the current A Level classes.
The School’s commitment to recruiting the highest calibre staff was recognised by a recent Independent Schools Inspectorate report, in January 2015, which rated the School as Outstanding, and this year’s A Level results were the School’s highest ever A*AB rate at 64 per cent.”
Ralph Lucas, Editor of The Good Schools Guide, comments, ‘Our annual awards scheme is designed to recognise and reward excellence in teaching in every subject area at both GCSE and A Level or equivalent. Our awards give individual teachers and departments where teaching is at its very best the recognition they deserve’.
The Good Schools Guide Awards are based on a series of calculations which take into account relative popularity and performance of the subject, absolute performance, and percentage of pupils taking the subject. The Good Schools Guide is the largest independent guide to UK schools.
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EXO’s Lay To Release New Song For Fans On Birthday
by A. Aspera
EXO’s Lay is set to release a new song from his upcoming Chinese solo album!
A post on the Weibo of Lay’s studio states, “While preparing for his solo debut, Lay will reveal the new song ‘what U need’ on his birthday, October 7, as a gift for all the fans who are waiting for his solo debut. It is a birthday present for all of you.”
The announcement is accompanied by a shot from the filming of Lay’s music video.
On September 28, a photo of Lay rehearsing the difficult choreography for his new album was also revealed through his studio’s Weibo, further raising the anticipation of his fans who are ready to support the singer’s upcoming solo album.
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Sowerbutts Furniture
Furniture of Distinction
(Continued)
In 1970 Sowerbutts house furnishers history reached the milestone of its Centenary year, but unfortunately one year later Harry died, leaving his widow Elizabeth and son Allan to continue the business. Due to their diligence the retail side of the business continued to expand and more showrooms were developed over the adjacent wine shop. In 1977 Allan’s eldest son Ian joined the business followed 3 years later by his brother Mark. It was at this time that the upholstery workshops to the rear of the shop at Victoria Buildings King Street were converted into more showroom space over three floors, effectively doubling the size of the display area hidden away above and behind the narrow shop frontage. Many customers are astounded how big the store is once inside as it is difficult to appreciate the size of the showrooms unless you have previously been in the store on all three levels.
Elizabeth never retired and continued to be in the shop on a daily basis until weeks before her death after a fall in 1984, in fact throughout the firm’s history no family member directly involved in the business has ever retired.
With the fifth generation in place the family looked to the future for further consolidation and joined the AIS buying group to offer customers the most competitive prices across a wide range of furniture and carpets. In 1985 to enable increased purchasing power and to offer quick delivery the business bought a nearby building for warehousing purposes and continued to expand. Despite the recession of the late 1980’s the Sowerbutts managed to survive and was well placed to take advantage of the country’s future prosperity. In the 1990’s Mark’s wife Elizabeth joined the business and all was well until 10 years later when Mark’s health began to fail and he subsequently died in 2004 aged 40 from the degenerative heart condition Cardiomyopathy.
Since Mark’s death further changes to the business have seen the cessation of flooring sales and fitting, allowing more space to be devoted to beds, upholstery and cabinet merchandise, increasing further still the ranges offered. In 2010 the business celebrated its 140th anniversary, with Allan still at the forefront after over 60 years of service, and Ian and Elizabeth committed to seeing the business evolve and adapt in an ever changing world. With a loyal team of staff and clientele we look forward to celebrating the next significant part of the company’s history which will be to celebrate the 150th Anniversary in 2020.
Why not call in to Victoria Buildings on King Street and be part of our history?
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H M Sowerbutts & Co Ltd
Victoria Buildings
10 King Street,
Lancashire BB7
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Members of AIS (Associated Independent Stores, buying group)
Tel Fax 01200 422 598
© Copright H M Sowerbutts & Co Ltd. 2012 All rights reserved Victoria Buildings, 10 King Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire BB7 2EP. Company No. 00580360
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Marc by Marc Jacobs : the electric collection from the designer
Born in New York in 1963, Marc Jacobs was immersed in the world of fashion when he was a teenager, a period during which he lived with his grandmother who taught him to sew. In 1981, he studied art at the prestigious Parsons School of Design before creating his first collection: a line of knitwear. The Perry Ellis brand opened its doors to Jacobs in 1989 and made him Vice President of women's pret-a-porter. The collaboration ended when the designer created his grunge collection, a style that created its own identity but which no longer met the expectations of the more traditional Perry Ellis brand. That's when Jacobs founded his now-famous brand: Marc Jacobs has become a synonym with prestigious international customers. In 1997, he joined Louis Vuitton as Creative Director for their pret-a-porter department. Today, it is a symbol of fashion chic that has become very popular. Launched in 2001, Marc by Marc Jacobs advocates a style that is classy, casual and fun. Creations with daring colours and patterns make for a modern look that asserts it's difference and good taste.
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The Union Executive & Council of Ministers
Three Organs of the Government
Legislature, Executive and Judiciary are the three organs of government. Together, they perform the functions of the government, maintain law and order and look after the welfare of the people. The Constitution ensures that they work in coordination with each other and maintain a balance among themselves.
When the Constitution of India was written, India already had some experience of running the parliamentary system under the Acts of 1919 and 1935.
In a democratic country, two categories make up the executive. One that is elected by the people for a specific period, is called the political executive. Political leaders who take the big decisions fall in this category. In the second category, people are appointed on a long-term basis. This is called the permanent executive or civil services.
The Constitution adopted the parliamentary system of executive for the governments both at the national and State levels. According to this system, there is a President who is the formal Head of the state of India and the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, which run the government at the national level. At the State level, the executive comprises the Governor and the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers.
The Constitution of India vests the executive power of the Union formally in the President. In reality, the President exercises these powers through the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister and Council of Ministers
Appointment and Selection
Prime Minister is the most important political institution in the country. The President appoints the leader of the majority party or the coalition of parties that commands a majority in the Lok Sabha, as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister does not have a fixed tenure. He continues in power so long as he remains the leader of the majority party or coalition.
After the appointment of the Prime Minister, the President appoints other ministers on the advice of the Prime Minister. The Ministers are usually from the party or the coalition that has the majority in the Lok Sabha. The Prime Minister is free to choose ministers, as long as they are members of Parliament. Sometimes, a person who is not a member of Parliament can also become a minister. But such a person has to get elected to one of the Houses of the Parliament within six months of appointment as minister.
Size of Council of Ministers
The 91st Amendment Act (2003) made that the Council of Ministers shall not exceed 15% of total number of members of the House of People (or Assembly, in the case of the states).
PM is Head of Council of Ministers
The PM is at the head of the Council of Ministers and the Council cannot continue to exist in the event of resignation or death of the Prime Minister. The term Council of Minister refers to all the Ministers, whether Cabinet, State or Deputy Ministers. The Council comes into existence only after the Prime Minister has taken the oath of office.
Responsible to Lok Sabha
The Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha. This provision means that a Ministry which loses confidence of the Lok Sabha is obliged to resign. The principle indicates that the ministry is an executive committee of the Parliament and it collectively governs on behalf of the Parliament.
The entire Council of Ministers seldom meets as a single body. It is the Cabinet, an inner group within the Council, which takes all major decisions and which shapes the government policy. While Cabinet Ministers can attend all Cabinet meetings as a matter of right, the Deputy Ministers and Ministers of State can come to the meeting only if they are invited.
Ministers may be chosen from either House of Parliament and a minister, who is member of one house, has a right to speak and participate in the proceedings of the other House, but he cannot vote there.
Types of Ministers
Council of Ministers is the official name for the body that includes all the Ministers. It usually has 60 to 80 Ministers of different ranks. The Council of Ministers consists of three categories of Ministers:
State Ministers
Deputy Ministers
Cabinet Ministers are usually top-level leaders of the ruling party or parties who are in charge of the major ministries. Usually the Cabinet Ministers meet to take decisions in the name of the Council of Ministers. Cabinet is thus the inner ring of the Council of Ministers. It comprises about 20 ministers.
Ministers of State with independent charge are usually in-charge of smaller Ministries. They participate in the Cabinet meetings only when specially invited.
Ministers of State are attached to and required to assist Cabinet Ministers.
Since it is not practical for all ministers to meet regularly and discuss everything, the decisions are taken in Cabinet meetings. That is why parliamentary democracy in most countries is often known as the Cabinet form of government. The Cabinet works as a team. The ministers may have different views and opinions, but everyone has to own up to every decision of the Cabinet.
Every ministry has secretaries, who are civil servants. The secretaries provide the necessary background information to the ministers to take decisions.
Nominal and Real Executives
President is head of the state and PM (Prime Minister) is head of the government. Article 74 provides for council of ministers headed by PM (head of government). Article 75 states that the Council of Minister is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha.
The Prime Minister is appointed by the President. The minimum age required is 25 years, as he can be the member of either house if not, must be within 6 months. In normal circumstances, the President can hardly exercise his discretion; the President's choice to appoint the Prime Minister is restricted to the leader of the Party with majority of Lok Sabha.
If no party is in a position to gain the required majority and if a coalition Govt is to be formed, the President can exercise his discretion in choosing the prime Minister. The President can choose the leader of any party, who in his opinion can form a stable Government.
Powers of Prime Minister
The Constitution does not say very much about the powers of the Prime Minister or the ministers or their relationship with each other. But as head of the government, the Prime Minister has wide ranging powers.
He chairs Cabinet meetings. He coordinates the work of different Departments. His decisions are final in case disagreements arise between Departments. He exercises general supervision of different ministries. All ministers work under his leadership. The Prime Minister distributes and redistributes work to the ministers. He also has the power to dismiss ministers. When the Prime Minister quits, the entire ministry quits.
While the Prime Minister is the head of the government, the President is the head of the State. In India, the head of the State exercises only nominal powers. The President supervises the overall functioning of all the political institutions in the country so that they operate in harmony to achieve the objectives of the State.
The President is not elected directly by the people. The elected Members of Parliament (MPs) and the elected Members of the Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) elect the President.
The President can be removed from office only by Parliament by following the procedure for impeachment. This procedure requires a special majority. The only ground for impeachment is violation of the Constitution.
Powers of President
All governmental activities take place in the name of the President. All laws and major policy decisions of the government are issued in the name of President. All major appointments are made in the name of the President. These include the appointment of the Chief Justice of India, the Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the states, the Governors of the states, the Election Commissioners, ambassadors to other countries, etc.
All international treaties and agreements are made in the name of the President. The President is the supreme commander of the defence forces of India.
1. The President can send back the advice given by the Council of Ministers and ask the Council to reconsider the decision. The Council can send back the same advice and the President is then bound by that advice.
2. The President has veto power by which he can withhold or refuse to give assent to Bills (other than Money Bill) passed by the Parliament. Every bill passed by the Parliament goes to the President for his assent before it becomes a law. The President can send the bill back to the Parliament asking it to reconsider the bill (Pocket Veto).
3. The President appoints the Prime Minister. Normally, in the parliamentary system, a leader who has the support of the majority in the Lok Sabha would be appointed as Prime Minister.
The Vice President is elected for five years. Election method is similar to that of the President, the only difference is that members of State legislatures are not part of the electoral college. The Vice President may be removed from his office by a resolution of the Rajya Sabha passed by a majority and agreed to by the Lok Sabha.
The Vice President acts as the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha and takes over the office of the President when there is a vacancy by reasons of death, resignation, removal by impeachment or otherwise. For example, B. D. Jatti acted as President on the death of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed until a new President was elected.
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Pruitt says EPA will create 'top 10' list of Superfund cleanup sites
By Darryl Fears
| Washington Post |
Jul 25, 2017 | 7:15 PM
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, seen here on June 2, 2017, said the agency will compile a top 10 list of Superfund cleanup sites and cut through red-tape to fix them. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt vowed Tuesday to cut through bureaucratic red tape that has slowed the cleanup of toxic Superfund sites and follow a task force's recommendations to act more boldly in holding companies responsible for past contamination.
Pruitt said the EPA is creating a "top-10 list" of key sites where nearby residents are in harm's way, so that the agency can aggressively address those locations. In recent memos to staff, he said that Superfund cleanup efforts would be "restored to their rightful place at the center of the agency's core mission," that his approach would target sites where decontamination is estimated to cost $50 million or more and that he would be personally involved in trying to speed lagging remediation.
There are 1,300 Superfund sites nationwide, and more than 100 have languished for at least five years with no formal remedy plan. Pruitt declined Tuesday to say which sites might make the list of 10, but in a discussion with reporters at EPA headquarters, he repeatedly referred to a landfill with radioactive waste outside St. Louis and a public housing complex saturated with lead in East Chicago, Ind.
The West Lake Landfill in Missouri is a particular worry. It has decomposing trash 150 feet underground that is radiating heat in what scientists call "a subsurface burning event." That is adjacent to 200 acres of radioactive waste dating to the World War II-era Manhattan Project.
Pruitt said he sat in Indiana with residents who were moved from their homes in East Chicago for fear of dangerous exposure to the contaminated soil. Their despair "was heartbreaking," he said. Yet the East Chicago cleanup has dragged on.
"Over a billion dollars have been spent at these sites," Pruitt said of the efforts nationally. "We need talent, expertise ... to make sure we have a detailed plan with a timeline and benchmarks." That is what's needed "instead of incrementally dealing with it."
Pruitt emphasized that the program "is an area of our agency where we are solely responsible. We don't delegate this to the states. It's our responsibility to remediate."
But many critics question his ability to turn around the issues, including regulatory delays and litigation, that have resulted in lagging progress. The administrator has defended a White House budget proposal that would cut his agency's funding by 34 percent for fiscal 2018 and would reduce funding for Superfund sites by $330 million a year.
That money is crucial to Superfund's success going forward. When Congress established the program in 1980, it gave the EPA power to force polluters to pay for contamination and created a tax on petroleum companies to fund the complicated cleanups. Those revenue streams, which created billions of dollars, expired 15 years later. As much of the funding dried up, the pace of cleanups stalled. The program now gets about $1 billion yearly.
"It's happy talk," said Nancy Loeb, director of the Environmental Advocacy Center at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law. "They're going to take 10 sites and try to push them along. What about the other 1,300 sites? The reason they're not moving is not addressed. We have Superfund sites, but we don't have a super fund."
When Congress adequately funded decontamination, she noted, the EPA could clean sites and then legally pursue companies to reimburse the cost. But the government now relies largely on the polluting parties to fund cleanups, "so we're dependent on the polluters, and it gives them the ability to manipulate and slow down the process," Loeb said.
Pruitt played down the need for funding as he unveiled the task force report and promised to follow its 42 recommendations. He directed EPA officials in the program to take immediate steps to prioritize and take "control over any site where the risk of human exposure is not fully controlled" and to prevent the spread of contamination from sites wherever possible.
He said officials should target funding for investigations of high-priority sites "that require more immediate attention" and use "enforcement authorities, including unilateral orders" to put pressure on companies that are reluctant to participate in cleanups.
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NewsPoliticsCouncil
Elizabeth Landmark developers to appeal after 180ft landmark plans for Northumberland refused
The team behind plans for the 180ft Elizabeth Landmark are to lodge an appeal after the landmark proposals were turned down by councillors.
Wednesday, 03 July, 2019, 08:46
The application, for the 56-metre steel sculpture on the summit of Cold Law, west of Kirkwhelpington, had been recommended for approval by council planners, both at this meeting and the previous one in June when members opted to go for a site visit.
And seeing the area, alongside the increasing public pressure – with scores of extra objections lodged and a protest group on Facebook attracting more than 500 members in the past few weeks – seemed to sway the committee that this was an inappropriate location for a structure of this kind.
The concept design by Simon Hitchens.
The planning application was was rejected by 13 votes to three at a meeting of Northumberland County Council’s strategic planning committee on July 2.
‘Local people have it right’
Coun Ian Swithenbank said that upon seeing one particular view during the visit, ‘I said to myself, no, no, no, local people have it right on this one’.
Reference had been made to the larger wind turbines already in the area, but Coun Jeff Reid said: “Those windmills are going to come to the end of their life and they are going to come down.
Cold Law
“If you build that there, we are going to be long dead and it’s still going to be there. It’s marking the landscape in an inappropriate way.”
Coun Trevor Thorne, who moved approval the first time round, said he still supported the scheme, but Coun Barry Flux, who proposed refusal, concluded: “The Wannies are wild, let’s keep it that way.”
Related: What’s it all about? The Elizabeth Landmark explained
The idea for the £1million monument, a tribute to the Queen and the Commonwealth, was first revealed last May by the owner of the Ray estate, Lord Devonport, with the design – Ascendant, by Simon Hitchens – selected from a choice of three last August.
It is described as ‘a thin slice cut north to south through the uppermost bedrock of Cold Law, tilted and elevated at the north end so that it points to the sun at its zenith on Midsummer’s Day’.
The aim is to provide a new cultural tourism destination, with a viewing area, small car park and pathways accessible to walkers and cyclists as well as motorists.
There would be no toilets, visitor centre or amenities, but signage would direct visitors to facilities, including pubs and shops, in Ridsdale, West Woodburn, Sweet Hope Loughs, Knowesgate and Kirkwhelpington.
‘Keep the Wannies Wild’
Representatives of the applicant had raised a number of points at the meeting such as how the landmark could benefit tourism, providing a link between other destinations, how it will not affect the openness of the landscape, and how other much-loved public artworks in the region – like the Angel of the North – were unpopular when first proposed.
But Emma Anderson, from the opposition group Keep the Wannies Wild, said: “This particular design in this particular location has caused a great deal of il feeling. Local people will never grow to love or be proud of this monument.
“This is desecration promoted as sensitivity in the name of doubtful art.”
The local ward member, Coun John Riddle, added: “I do not believe this is a fitting way to honour the Queen or the Commonwealth.”
He admitted that he quite likes the design, but that it is not appropriate in this location.
After the decision, Ms Anderson said she was ‘delighted’ and that she was ‘utterly amazed’ by how the opposition had grown through the Keep the Wannies Wild group.
She added: “I hope this is an end to it, I really do, I hope it doesn’t go any further, but if it does, I’m certain we have got a lot of people who are willing to chip in and do things.”
But a statement from the applicants said: ‘We believe that Ascendant: The Elizabeth Landmark will be a valuable asset to local communities and the North East of England, bringing national and international interest, economic prosperity through tourism and situates the site of the landmark as a cultural destination.
‘We have worked extensively to ensure the landmark has minimal impact on the flora, fauna and wildlife of the proposed location and after taking recommendations from Northumberland County Council officers and an independent assessor, we are hopeful that the project will be approved through the National Planning Inspectorate and we will be lodging an appeal during the summer.’
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Amy Cole
Regulatory Counsel
amc@stateside.com
Amy Cole, J.D., is a Regulatory Counsel in the Regulatory Services Division. As Regulatory Counsel, Ms. Cole ensures that clients are provided with timely and accurate updates on relevant regulatory developments and initiatives.
Ms. Cole is an internationally licensed attorney proficient in legal and regulatory matters affecting both American and Canadian jurisdictions. Prior to joining Stateside Associates, Ms. Cole worked for the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions where her primary focus was federal outreach. She also supported the Energy and Environment section at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she handled cross-border regulatory initiatives. Prior to that, Ms. Cole worked at the Ontario Energy Board in the Legal Services Division where she handled matters pertaining to provincial energy regulation. She received her Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law in 2011 and also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University.
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Colorful Self-Made bBllionaire H. Ross Perot Dies at 89
DALLAS - H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president, has died. He was 89.
The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
Perot, whose 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings by an independent candidate in the past century, died early Tuesday at his home in Dallas surrounded by his family, said the spokesman, James Fuller.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern fashion, however. After attending the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming a salesman for IBM, he went his own way - creating and building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
The most famous event in his business career didn't involve sales and earnings, however. In 1979, he financed a private commando raid to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
"I always thought of him as stepping out of a Norman Rockwell painting and living the American dream," said Tom Luce, who was a young lawyer when Perot hired him to handle his business and personal legal work. "A newspaper boy, a midshipman, shaking Dwight Eisenhower's hand at his graduation, and he really built the computer-services industry at EDS."
"He had the vision and the tenacity to make it happen," Luce said. "He was a great communicator. He never employed a speechwriter - he wrote all his own speeches. He was a great storyteller."
Perot first attracted attention beyond business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
Perot's wealth, fame and confident prescription for the nation's economic ills propelled his 1992 campaign against President George H.W. Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton. In June of that year, a Gallup poll showed Perot leading his major-party rivals, but he dropped out in July, then rejoined the race less than five weeks before the election.
Perot spent $63.5 million of his own money, much of it on 30-minute television spots during which he used charts and graphs to make his points, summarizing them with a line that became a national catchphrase: "It's just that simple."
His homespun quips were a hallmark of his presidential campaign. Other memorable lines included his take on negative campaigning ["let's get off mud wrestling"] and on getting things done ["don't just sit here slow dancing for four years"].
Some Republicans blamed Perot for Bush's loss to Clinton, as Perot garnered the largest percentage of votes for a third-party candidate since former President Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 bid.
Perot's second campaign four years later was far less successful. He was shut out of presidential debates when organizers said he lacked sufficient support. He got just 8% of the vote, and the Reform Party that he founded and hoped to build into a national political force began to fall apart.
However, Perot's ideas on trade and deficit reduction remained part of the political landscape. He blamed both major parties for running up a huge federal budget deficit and allowing American jobs to be sent to other countries. The movement of U.S. jobs to Mexico, he said, created a "giant sucking sound."
Perot continued to speak out about federal spending for many years. In 2008, he launched a website to highlight the nation's debt with a ticker that tracked the rising total, a blog and a chart presentation.
In Dallas, Perot left his mark by creating the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, helping finance the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and being a major benefactor of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He also provided help to families dealing with medical expenses or other challenges, according to those who knew him.
"He gave a lot to other people in public ways, but he also did it in private ways that nobody saw. There were thousands of stories just like that," said Meyerson, a longtime senior executive in Perot's companies.
Henry Ross Perot was born in Texarkana on June 27, 1930. His father was a cotton broker; his mother a secretary. Perot said his family survived the Depression relatively well through hard work and by managing their money carefully.
Young Perot's first job was delivering papers in a poor, mostly black part of town from his pony, Miss Bee. When the newspaper tried to cut his commission, he said he complained to the publisher - and won. He said that taught him to take problems straight to the top.
From Texarkana, Perot went to the U.S. Naval Academy, never having been on a ship or seen the ocean. After the Navy, Perot joined International Business Machines in 1955 and quickly became a top salesman. In his last year at IBM, he filled his sales quota for the year in January.
In 1962, with $1,000 from his wife, Margot - they met on a blind date - Perot founded Electronic Data Systems. Hardware accounted for about 80% of the computer business, Perot said, and IBM wasn't interested in the other 20%, including services.
Many of the early hires at EDS were former military men, and they had to abide by Perot's strict dress code - white shirts, ties, no beards or mustaches - and long workdays. Many had crew cuts, like Perot.
The company's big break came in the mid-1960s when the federal government created Medicare and Medicaid. States needed help running the programs, and EDS won contracts - starting in Texas - to handle the millions of claims.
EDS first sold stock to the public in 1968, and overnight, Perot was worth $350 million. His fortune doubled and tripled as the stock price rose steadily.
In 1984, he sold control of the company to General Motors Corp. for $2.5 billion and received $700 million in a buyout. In 2008, EDS was sold to Hewlett-Packard Co.
Perot went on to establish another computer-services company, Perot Systems Corp. He retired as CEO in 2000 and was succeeded by his son, Ross Perot Jr., In 2009, the Dell computer company bought Perot Systems for $3.9 billion.
Forbes magazine this year estimated Perot's wealth at $4.1 billion.
It was during the Nixon administration that Perot became involved in the issue of U.S. prisoners of war. Perot said Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked him to lead a campaign to improve treatment of POWs held in North Vietnam. Perot chartered two jets to fly medical supplies and the wives of POWs to Southeast Asia. They were not allowed into North Vietnam, but the trip attracted enormous media attention.
After their release in 1973, some prisoners said conditions in the camps had improved after the missions.
In 1979, the Iranian government jailed two EDS executives, and Perot vowed to win their release.
"Ross came to the prison one day and said, `We're going to get you out,"' one of the men, Paul Chiapparone, told The Associated Press. "How many CEOs would do that today?"
Perot recruited retired U.S. Army Special Forces Col. Arthur "Bull" Simons to lead a commando raid on the prison. A few days later, the EDS executives walked free after the shah's regime fell and mobs stormed the prison. Simons' men sneaked the executives out of the country and into Turkey. The adventure was recalled in Ken Follett's best-selling book, "On Wings of Eagles," and a TV miniseries.
In later years, Perot pushed the Veterans Affairs Department to study neurological causes of Gulf War syndrome, reported by many soldiers who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf war. He scoffed at officials who blamed the illnesses on stress - "as if they are wimps" - and paid for additional research.
Perot received a special award from the VA in 2009 for his support of veterans and the military.
In Texas, Perot led commissions on education reform and crime. He was given many honorary degrees and awards for business success and patriotism.
Former President George W. Bush said in a statement that "Texas and America have lost a strong patriot."
"Ross Perot epitomized the entrepreneurial spirit and the American creed. He gave selflessly of his time and resources to help others in our community, across our country, and around the world," Bush said. "He loved the U.S. military and supported our service members and veterans. Most importantly, he loved his dear wife, children, and grandchildren."
While he worked at Perot Systems in suburban Dallas, entire hallways were filled with memorabilia from soldiers and POWs that Perot had helped. His personal office was dominated by large paintings of his wife and five children and bronze sculptures by Frederic Remington.
Several original Norman Rockwell paintings hung in the waiting area, and Perot once told a visiting reporter that he tried to live by Rockwell's ethics of hard, honest work and family.
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