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VPN Protocol Wireguard Launches Official MacOS App
The brand new software is now available to download from the Mac App Store
Rebecca Duff
20 Feb 2019 13:50 GMT
WireGuard is a free, open-source VPN protocol that aims to provide a simple, highly effective VPN solution without the complex setup that often comes with traditional protocols such as IPsec or OpenVPN.
Following the success of the WireGuard apps for Android and iOS devices, on 16 February the developmental team announced both an initial version of WireGuard for macOS and also an app in the Mac App Store. The app utilizes Apple’s Network Extension API to provide native integration into the operating system’s networking stack.
Previously, it was possible to use WireGuard on macOS, but only if you installed certain tools before using a command line in the Terminal to establish a secure connection. The app makes this a great deal simpler, appearing as a drop-down menu in the Finder toolbar and allowing you to easily manage your tunnel and VPN settings.
One interesting feature is that you can choose to only activate the VPN connection in certain situations. For example, you can change the settings so that your web traffic will only be routed through the VPN if you’re connected to WiFi, but not if you’re connected via an Ethernet cable.
An email thread released by WireGuard’s original author, Jason Donenfeld, reveals that getting the WireGuard app onto the Mac App Store hasn’t been easy, calling it a “stressful saga” involving “rejections, appeals, and eventual acceptance”. He says that the user experience of this app should be excellent compared to the current CLI integration, though.
In order to use WireGuard to establish a VPN connection you’ll still need to use a VPN provider that supports it, although these are growing in number. Currently it can be used with AzireVPN, Mullvad and IVPN, with a handful of other providers (including Private Internet Access) investing in it in recent months. ProtonVPN has also advocated for continued research and development, implying a possible future investment.
According to WireGuard, there is a Windows client in the pipeline, which Jason Donenfeld states will have a very similar interface to the recent Mac release. The process could take a little longer though, as they’re writing a completely new driver to provide a faster, safer experience. Wireguard asks for “a bit of patience” while it gets things completely polished, and asks for people to get in touch if they’d like to help with the project.
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Prince William and Prince Harry Will Play Stormtroopers in the New Star Wars Film
The royals are taking on a galaxy far, far away.
By Maggie Maloney
As heirs to the British throne, Prince William and Prince Harry were basically born with impressive resumes. But their latest gig has the Princes tackling iconic roles like never before: they'll make a secretive appearance as Stormtroopers in the new Star Wars movie.
Back in August, John Boyega, who plays Finn in the franchise, teased that the Princes filmed a cameo in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Now, Boyega has confirmed the news, adding that Will and Harry will appear as Stormtroopers. While participating in The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Roundtable, Boyega reportedly said that seeing the royals "wrapped in Stormtroopers costumes" was a "strange contrast of a weird family," but called it "a great experience" overall. Sources at THR added that Tom Hardy and singer Gary Barlow are also making clandestine appearances in the new film.
Rumors have been swirling about the royals' role in the upcoming Star Wars movie since they visited the film set in April 2016. Back then, Will and Harry had the chance to live out their Star Wars fantasies, from hugging the one and only Chewbacca:
Prince Harry has made a new friend...
A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal) on Apr 19, 2016 at 6:07am PDT
To coming face to face with BB-8, a droid:
...and so has The Duke! pic.twitter.com/c9gOh4ACyA
And getting to actually sit in a Star Wars spacecraft:
Prince Harry receives some piloting advice from @HamillHimself pic.twitter.com/MKRO31ki2l
The royals seemed to fit in perfectly with the Star Wars cast:
Thank you @starwars for a fantastic day @PinewoodStudios! pic.twitter.com/cGUuFqh0qV
Surprisingly enough, Will and Harry aren't the first celebrity cameos in Star Wars history. Daniel Craig also made an appearance as a Stormtrooper in 2015's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And if you're currently thinking "how did I not know this?!" fear not: being Stormtroopers and all, the audience doesn't get to see their faces. Which means we sadly won't know for sure which Stormtrooper is Will or Harry.
THR's sources hinted that Will, Harry, Hardy, and Barlow all appear in the same scene opposite Boyega's Finn in an elevator, but we'll have to wait until Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released on December 15th to see for ourselves.
Maggie Maloney Associate Digital Editor Maggie Maloney is the associate editor at Town & Country and ELLE Decor, where she covers style, beauty, jewelry, and the many members of the royal family.
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TOP 10 TIGHT ENDS IN PACKERS HISTORY
We continue our Packers Top 10 series by looking at the tight end position. A position which continues to evolve as the emphasis on the passing game continues to increase in the NFL. Packers tight ends have come in several shapes and sizes but only a select few have been able to demonstrate exceptional skill and prowess in both receiving and blocking. Hopefully we have captured the essence of that select few in our top 10.
There was a single qualifying criterion used for eligibility onto this list:
Tight end must have been the player’s primary identifiable position for the Packers, for at least a 3-season period – this specifically excluded players who may have, on occasion, lined up “tight” but would be more commonly identified as having played in another position e.g. Don Hutson and Lavvie Dilweg.
1. Ron Kramer, Packers 1957-64
1st Round Draft Pick (4th overall) 1957.
NFL 50th Anniversary Team.
1st Team All-Pro (1962).
2nd Team All-Pro (1963).
Pro Bowler (1962,63).
2-time NFL Champion (1961,62).
Packers Hall of Fame Inductee (1975).
Packers All-Modern Era Team (1976).
Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Inductee (1971).
College Football Hall of Fame Inductee (1978).
University of Michigan Hall of Honor Inductee (1978).
NCAA Silver Anniversary Award (1981).
89 games played (67 starts) for the Packers with 170 receptions for 2,594 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Ron Kramer is regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern-day tight end position - he was one of the first players to be equally as effective as a blocker and pass receiver from the tight end spot. He was nicknamed “Lombardi’s twelfth man”, because with Kramer it was like having an extra man on the offense – a blocker who was equally adept at catching passes or a pass receiver who was equally proficient at blocking. The Packers’ Power Sweep was at its most effective when he was in his prime in 1961 and 1962. An all-round (football, basketball, track and field), all-time great athlete at the University of Michigan, Kramer was a 2-time consensus All-American (1955,56) before being the Packers first round draft pick in 1957. He would later become one of just a handful of players to have his number retired by the Wolverines.
With the Packers, Kramer was one of the driving forces behind two championship teams and a third that made it to the championship game. It is very likely that he would have gone on to the Pro Football Hall of Fame had he not requested to return home to Detroit, for personal reasons after the 1964 season. It was a request that Vince Lombardi obliged – with a heavy heart.
But Ron Kramer will always be remembered as a Packer great. His receiving numbers don’t compare to those of the modern passing era – although he does own the Packers career record for a TE for yards per catch (15.3).
For his pioneering role at the tight end position, for his influence on the Packers offense and for his skill and production in the field, Ron Kramer earns his place at the very top of this list.
2. Paul Coffman, Packers 1978-85
Undrafted Free Agent 1978.
3-time Pro Bowler (1982,83,84).
NEA 2nd Team All-Pro (1984).
2-time UPI & PFW 1st Team All-Conference (1983,84).
AP 2nd Team All-Conference (1982).
119 games played (102 starts) for the Packers with 322 receptions for 4,223 yards and 39 touchdowns.
As an undrafted free agent, the expectations weren’t high when Paul Coffman walked into the Packers training camp in 1978. Eight seasons later his Packers career ended with him sitting proudly atop the all-time receiving lists for a Packets TE in receptions (322), yards (4,223) and touchdowns (39).
Coffman and quarterback Lynn Dickey combined to be one of the top TE-QB partnerships of the early 1980s – highlighted by their 35 touchdown hook-ups, a record number for a Packers TE-QB combination. With all these receiving statistics, you can see that Coffman was a superb pass catcher from the TE spot – able to catch short and intermediate passes over the middle as well as being a deep threat, outrunning linebackers and safeties (he also owns the record for the longest reception by a Packers TE – a 78-yard reception from David Whitehurst against Miami in 1979).
Coffman was a willing blocker, even if he wasn’t quite at the level of Ron Kramer in this facet of the game – and that’s the primary reason he’s at no.2 on this list.
But as a pure receiving tight end, Coffman has no peer in Packers history. As well as holding all the career marks as previously described, he also holds the single season Packers tight end marks for receiving yards (814 in 1983) and touchdowns (11, also in 1983). Coffman is also the only Packer tight end to ever lead the team in receiving in a single season – 56 receptions in 1979. He was also the first Packers tight end to ever record a 100-yard receiving game (1979) and has 6 such games (the most for a Packers TE).
Paul Coffman was an integral part of one of the most exciting offenses in the team’s history. And his part in that will never be forgotten.
3. Mark Chmura, Packers 1993-99
6th Round Draft pick (157th overall) 1992.
CPF & FD 1st Team All-Pro (1995).
PFW 1st Team All-Conference (1995).
Super Bowl Champion (XXXI).
2-time NFC Champion (1996,97).
NFL Alumni TE of the Year (1998).
89 games played (62 starts) for the Packers with 188 receptions for 2,253 yards and 17 touchdowns
Chewy ended his college career as Boston College’s all-time leading receiver with 164 receptions (a mark which is still 4th on the school’s all-time list) before being drafted by the Packers in 1992.
A kind of 1990s incarnation of Ron Kramer in that he was an all-round tight end, Mark Chmura was a strong blocker with good hands and the ability to get open on short to intermediate routes. He wasn’t a deep threat but had deceptive speed and, more significantly, the ability and toughness to go over the middle and make the chain moving catch – he was also an end-zone threat.
Unfortunately, Chmura’s career was curtailed prematurely due to a neck (disc herniation) injury suffered in 1999.
4. Jermichael Finley, Packers 2008-13
3rd Round Draft pick (91stoverall) 2008.
Super Bowl Champion (XLVI).
NFC Champion (2010)
Jermichael Finley is likely to be remembered as a mercurial talent who never quite lived up to his undoubted talent – at least not over a sustained period of time - and yet for the period in which he was healthy, he delivered some of the best receiving numbers ever recorded by a Packers tight end.
Certainly, a better receiver than blocker, he notched up 2,785 career receiving yards – which is second most by a Packers tight end (behind Coffman). He also owns the Packer tight end record for most receptions in a single season (61 catches in 2012) and the second highest single-season yardage mark for a Packers tight end (767 in 2011).
Finley also had the biggest single day by a tight end in Packer history when he had 159 yards receiving against the Cardinals in the 2009 play-offs.
Unfortunately for Finley, he was out with a knee injury when the packers won Super Bowl XLVI, having played in only 5 games that year (2010). A helmet to helmet blow in 2013, which later led to a spinal cord contusion diagnosis led to his career ending after just 6 seasons.
5. Marv Fleming, Packers 1963-69
11th Round Draft pick (154th overall) 1963.
3-time NFL Champion (1965,66,67).
2-time Super Bowl Champion (I,II).
Drafted in 1963, Marv Fleming became the Packers starting tight end in 1965 when Ron Kramer went home to Detroit. Fleming fulfilled the role with great effectiveness for 5 seasons as the starter (7 in total) before himself moving on to the Don Shula coached Miami Dolphins… where he continued his hugely successful career.
Fleming is one of the very few players with 5 NFL Championships (3 with Green Bay, 2 with Miami) and 4 Super Bowl wins (2 with Green Bay, 2 with Miami). He was also the first player to appear in 5 Super Bowls (I, II, VI, VII, VIII).
An outstanding blocker throughout his career, he was prominent in helping both the Packers and Dolphins’ running games be as good as any in pro football.
6. Rich McGeorge, Packers 1970-78
1st Round Draft pick (16th overall) 1970.
Packers Offensive Player of the Year (1973).
College Football Hall of Fame Inductee (2012)
Rich McGeorge was an outstanding pass catcher and deep threat from the tight end spot for most of the 1970s. He wasn’t known as an outstanding blocker but more than made up for it with his receiving skills. McGeorge averaged 13.5 yards per reception, on 175 catches, which is the second highest per reception average in Packers tight end history. He is also the owner of the highest single season yards per reception average in Packers tight end annals – 17.1 yards per reception in 1971.
After his playing career was over he went to become a very fine assistant coach in the pros (NFL, USFL and XFL) and in college.
If you didn’t get to see Rich McGeorge play, think of him as the 1970s version of Paul Coffman – but on an offense that featured the run more than the pass.
7. Bubba Franks, Packers 2000-07
NFL Alumni Tight End of the Year (2002).
114 games played (94 starts) for the Packers with 256 receptions for 2,300 yards and 32 touchdowns.
Bubba Franks was a solid tight end between the 20-yard lines, but in the red zone he was a terror. He became Brett Favre’s go-to receiver in the early 2000’s when the Packers offense was anywhere near the goal line.
Franks played for the Packers for 8 seasons and snared 32 touchdown catches – the second most for a tight end in Packers history (behind Paul Coffman). He was previously an All-American at the University of Miami in his senior season (1999) which led to him being the Packers 1st Round Draft pick in 2000 – the last time Green Bay selected a tight end in the 1st round and the first time since Rich McGeorge in 1970.
Franks turned out to be highly productive in the red zone and an effective, if not prolific, receiver and blocker in other parts of the field.
8. Jackie Harris, Packers 1990-93
4th Round Draft pick (102nd overall).
2nd Team NEA All-Pro (1992).
60 games played (32 starts) for the Packers with 133 receptions for 1,620 yards and 9 touchdowns
Jackie Harris was a prolific receiving tight end in division 1-AA college ball at Louisiana-Monroe – ending his career as the school’s all-time leading receiver. This led to him being drafted by the Packers in the 4th round in 1990.
Harris had exceptional speed not normally found in a tight end, leading to some calling him a “wide receiver in a tight end’s body”. That speed came to the fore when hooking up with Brett Favre in the passer’s early days with the Packers – 1992 in particular, when Harris caught 55 passes, a mark which was the second highest in the league that year for tight ends.
In 1993, he caught 42 passes (despite missing 4 games through injury). Unfortunately, 1993 was his last year as a Packer – he left for the Buccaneers as a high-priced free agent in 1994. Never known as much of a blocker, Harris could have been one of the most prolific pass catching tight ends in Packers history had he stayed in Green Bay – nonetheless his four seasons were enough to earn him his place on this list.
9. Ed West, Packers 1984-1994
Nicknamed “The Toolbox” Ed West was a fine blocking tight end, who developed into a solid receiver as his career progressed. He was probably in the middle of the pack of NFL tight ends during most of his career, but he was able to play at a high enough level for long enough to play more games at the position (167) than any other player in Packers history. West played a couple of years behind Paul Coffman before becoming the starter in 1986 and sustaining his career through to the early Mike Holmgren era in 1994. In Holmgren’s offense though he was replaced by Jackie Harris and his Green Bay days were numbered. His solid play and longevity earns Ed West his spot on this list.
10. Gary Knafelc, Packers 1954-62
2nd Round Draft Pick (14th overall) 1954.
90 games played (50 starts).
Gary Knafelc started his career for the Packers at wide receiver, where he authored some memorable moments, before being switched to tight end by Vince Lombardi. He became the starter for a while before giving way to the number one player on this list, Ron Kramer. Knafelc was big for a wideout in his day - around 6-4 and nearly 220 pounds – hence his switch to the physically demanding tight end spot, where he was a little undersized. But he was a talented receiver with excellent hands and a willing blocker, who worked hard to make the Packers Sweep a success when he was called upon.
Many may be too young to remember seeing Gary Knafelc play for the Packers, but if you attended a home game between 1964 and 2004 you’ve probably heard his voice – he was the stadium announcer for the Packers for 40 years.
Near Misses:
Keith Jackson – Great receiving TE, Super Bowl winner, but didn’t meet the 3-year criteria
Donald Lee – 178 receptions as a Packer
Tyrone Davis – 71 receptions as a Packer
Richard Rodgers – holder of the Packers single game regular season receiving yardage mark
Gary Lewis – Kick blocker extraordinaire
Further info: How did we determine the Top 10?
The criteria used for determining the order of players on this list included:
Being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Being named to an NFL All-Anniversary Team
Being named to a Green Bay Packers All-Time Team
Being inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Being named to a 1st Team All-Pro, 2nd Team All-Pro, All-Conference and/or Pro Bowl Team
Subjective comparison
Being widely considered as a revolutionary player at his position
Influence/importance to the team(s) on which they played, also accounting for the success of the teams on which they played
Analysis of statistics including receptions, yards, touchdowns, games played, games started all with consideration to the era in which they were achieved
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In-Depth Analysis by Team of UMass Amherst Economists Shows Viability of Medicare For All
Comprehensive plan is estimated to reduce U.S. health consumption expenditures by nearly 10 percent, while providing decent health care coverage to all Americans
Contact: Robert Pollin
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of economists from the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) has found that the Medicare for All Act of 2017, introduced to the United States Senate by Senator Bernie Sanders, is not only economically viable, but could actually reduce health consumption expenditures by about 9.6 percent while also providing decent health care coverage for all Americans.
In a nearly 200-page report released at the Sanders Institute Gathering, the first major event hosted by the think tank founded by Jane O’Meara Sanders and David Driscoll, the senator’s wife and son, the economists outline seven major aspects of transforming the U.S. health care system, detailing step-by-step the actions needed to be taken to achieve truly universal health care and its potential impacts on individuals, families, businesses and government. The analysis, which was in development for 18 months, has received praise from 11 distinguished experts in the fields of economics and health care studies who have rigorously reviewed the researchers’ findings.
“The most fundamental goals of Medicare for All are to significantly improve health care outcomes for everyone living in the United States while also establishing effective cost controls throughout the health care system. These two purposes are both achievable,” says lead author Robert Pollin, Distinguished Professor in economics at UMass Amherst and co-director of PERI. “As of 2017, the U.S. was spending about $3.24 trillion on personal health care—about 17 percent of total GDP. Meanwhile, 9 percent of U.S. residents have no insurance and 26 percent are underinsured—they are unable to access needed care because of prohibitively high costs. Other high-income countries spend an average of about 40 percent less per person and produce better health outcomes. Medicare for All could reduce total health care spending in the U.S. by nearly 10 percent, to $2.93 trillion, while creating stable access to good care for all U.S. residents.”
The PERI research team of Pollin, James Heintz, Peter Arno, Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Michael Ash, found that Medicare for All would reduce annual health care spending to $2.93 trillion from the current level of $3.24 trillion. Public health care revenue sources that presently provide about 60 percent of all U.S. health care financing, including funding for Medicare and Medicaid, would provide $1.88 trillion of financing for the new system. Removing the other costs attributed with the current system would leave a gap of $1.05 trillion, which the economists suggest could be raised with a set of four proposals that will generate enough revenue to create a surplus of 1 percent for the system.
The researchers propose:
Continuing business health care premiums, but with a cut of 8 percent relative to existing spending per worker. Businesses that have been providing coverage for their employees would thereby see their health care costs fall by between about 8-13 percent. ($623 billion)
A 3.75 percent sales tax on non-necessities, which includes exemptions for spending on necessities such as food and beverages consumed at home, housing and utilities, education and non-profits. The researchers include a 3.75 percent income tax credit for families currently insured by Medicaid. ($196 billion)
A net worth tax of 0.38 percent, with an exemption for the first $1 million in net worth. The researchers state that this tax would therefore apply to only the wealthiest 12 percent of U.S. households. ($193 billion)
Taxing long-term capital gains as ordinary income. ($69 billion)
Under these recommendations, the researchers find that the net costs of health care for middle-income families would fall by between 2.6 and 14 percent of income. For high-income families health care costs will rise, but only to an average of 3.7 percent of income for those in the top 20 percent income group, and to 4.7 percent of income for the top 5 percent.
The researchers also find that based on 2017 U.S. health care expenditure figures, the cumulative savings for the first decade operating under Medicare for All would be $5.1 trillion, equal to 2.1 percent of cumulative GDP, without accounting for broader macroeconomic benefits such as increased productivity, greater income equality and net job creation through lower operating costs for small- and medium-sized businesses.
“Medicare for All will produce large cost savings for both businesses and households,” says co-author Jeannette Wicks-Lim, associate research professor at PERI. “Under our proposal, all businesses that now provide health care coverage for their employees will receive an across-the-board 8 percent cut in premiums. For families, our results show that Medicare for All will promote both lower average costs and greater equity. For example, middle-income families who now purchase private insurance on the individual market would see their health care costs fall by an average of 14 percent under Medicare for All.”
“This study is the most comprehensive, detailed, authoritative study ever undertaken of Medicare for All, and it points powerfully and unassailably in support of MFA,” said economist and public policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University, in reviewing the researchers’ analysis. “Medicare for All promises a system that is fairer, more efficient, and vastly less expensive than America’s bloated, monopolized, over-priced and under-performing private health insurance system. America spends far more on health care and gets far less for its money than any other high-income country. This study explains why, and shows how Medicare for All offers a proven and wholly workable way forward.”
In his review of the report, William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said the study “presents an objective, unbiased, comprehensive and thorough economic analysis of Medicare for All. Professor Pollin and his co-authors have set a new high standard for transparency and clarity in presenting their analyses, estimations, and conclusions. The research methods they used to estimate both the cost increases and savings are sound. The assumptions they used to generate cost estimations are based on the latest empirical evidence. Consequently, the conclusions of this study on the overall costs and savings of Medicare for All are reasonable and scientifically sound.”
“This stellar economic analysis of a single-payer, universal health care system for the U.S. is the first to sufficiently document each step of the calculations, enabling reproducibility of the findings. It is also the first study that thoroughly addresses the transition to and financing of a universal health care system for the U.S.,” said Alison Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis and Burnett and Stender Families’ Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University, in her review of the report. “Underlying the analysis is an interdisciplinary evidence base that has been compiled from literature spanning economics, health policy and clinical care both within the US and internationally. The methodology is sound and the assumptions are conservative with regard to their conclusions. Specifically, lower-end figures from the expert literature are used in the calculation of savings, whereas anticipated expenditures are based on the higher end of empirical distributions. Despite stacking the deck against Medicare for All, this analysis convincingly demonstrates the substantial improvements in cost efficiency that could be achieved by Medicare for All. I am confident that the Pollin et al. study will become recognized as the seminal analysis of a single-payer universal health care system for the U.S.”
Pollin and Wicks-Lim were joined in crafting the analysis by UMass Amherst colleagues James Heintz, associate director and Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics, Peter Arno, senior fellow and director of health policy research, and Michael Ash, senior research fellow and professor of economics and public policy.
The complete report, “Economic Analysis of Medicare for All,” can be found online here.
The full set of reviews of the report by economics and health care studies experts can be found here.
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PERI’s Garrett-Peltier Presents Research at DC Congressional Briefing
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A Nod to Women-Owned Businesses
Construction isn’t just for men, and neither is starting a construction-related business.
Women make up a small fraction of the construction workforce, and the C-suites of large construction companies also skew heavily male, but that doesn’t mean women aren’t making their mark.
In addition to the women in professional and management positions in construction — project managers, estimators, business developers, etc. — there are women who chose to open their own companies. We checked in with a handful to find out what it’s like and how they came to be in construction or a related industry. Many of these companies are a certified Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE).
Loving the independence that comes with ownership
Grainne Keane is principal and owner of Quality Excavation, Inc., in Chicago. “We are a demolition and excavation company, offering a full range of services from excavation and earth retention to demolition,” said Keane.
“We started out very small, with two machine operators, and initially I took care of all the paperwork. Fast forward 25 years later, and we currently have 22 employees on staff.”
“I would have to say the independence that comes with self-employment far outweighs the inevitable stresses that comes with the territory of business ownership. There is a constant learning curve in the construction industry, with changes in technology and regulations. As a result, we are always evolving and looking for new ways to improve the services we provide. On a person level, providing employment and opportunities for our staff to grow is very rewarding. There is also sense of accomplishment of being successful working in an industry that is dominated by men!”
Her best advice for women considering a career in construction: “Keep asking questions until the answers make sense. Every day is a school day.”
Growing a business while raising eight kids
Cheryl Obermiller is founder and owner of Obermiller Construction Services, in Harrisonville, Missouri, which provides asphalt, paving, concrete installation and trucking services and is celebrating its 25th year in business.
“I started the company as a small business to supplement the income for our large family,” said Obermiller. “I was doing percolation tests for septic systems and also provided inspection services for subdivision developers. After a few years I branched out into paving, which changed the entire direction of my company. I took on some large commercial clients and made a name for myself doing asphalt and concrete parking lot maintenance, repair and construction. Several years ago, I branched out into commercial trucking and now have a fleet of 15 dump trucks.”
Obermiller said one of her biggest challenges was surviving an embezzlement that put her accountant in prison. Now that she’s turned 60, she plans to sell the business to several of her children, who are deeply involved in the business.
“In my spare time, I raised a family of eight children, and just welcomed my 16th grandchild — because women in business have to be versatile, you know!”
Blazing a trail in estimating
Karen Sarnowski started Preferred Construction Management Co., Inc., based in New Jersey and Maine, with her husband out of frustration with her job in nursing. “I was fortunate enough to have past construction company experience — a prior general contracting company that folded during the early ’90’s’ recession.”
She thought she had the experience, organizational skills and work ethic to build a successful construction estimating company. “This was back in the days when there were few estimating firms out there. Today it is a bit different, with many firms across the country. But I was right; cost estimators were hard to find and in high demand.”
She said it’s been interesting to see the changes in attitudes toward women in construction. Back in the 1990s, men were surprised to learn that the woman who answered the phone was the one who had done their estimate, “not to mention that oftentimes I would be informing them of items they had not seen on the plans or in the specs,” she added. “Today, that reaction is pretty much gone. But, occasionally, there are still men out there that suggest that they would prefer to work with ‘your father.’”
Sarnowski said she believes including more women in the construction industry brings many benefits. “Science supports that woman pay more attention to details, and cost estimating and project scheduling are two areas where details are vital to the final product. This heightened attention to detail can likewise be valuable on a jobsite, too.”
Keeping road workers safe — and heading up NAWIC
When Catherine Schoenenberger answered a blind ad for a business manager in 1996, she had no idea it would lead her to a career in the traffic control industry. Today she’s the owner of Stay Safe Traffic Products, Inc., a supplier of traffic signs and safety products throughout New England. The company also offers flagger certification training.
“I appreciate and respect our road crews, who are literally in harm’s way all day long,” she said. “I love being part of the conversation and being part of the solution when it comes to infrastructure and compliance and safety for all road users. I am able to add value to my customers by knowing what will keep them safe and legal — protected on all fronts.”
Her two greatest supporters? “My husband, who is also my partner, and my mother.”
Schoenenberger was named national president of the National Association of Women in Construction in 2017.
Providing staffing services — and getting young people interested
Debbie Rodriguez is the owner/operator of several Florida branches of Quality Labor Management, LLC, a skilled staffing service for construction and other industries, and president of Competitive Edge Partners & Consulting, LLC, a subcontracting firm that provides staffing, material management, document management and OSHA training for construction and industrial trades.
She is also founder of iBuild Central Florida, a collaboration between the construction industry and educational system in Central Florida that aims to show young people and adults the construction career opportunities available to them.
Rodriguez came to the construction industry through trial and error — “life lessons through the school of hard knocks.”
“I did not have a lot of support when I started in this industry in 2000.” She recalled her first job managing a day-laborer company office in Jacksonville. “I was young and a woman in the construction industry, so I had a lot of negativity directed at me.” But she persevered.
“I love what I do because I make a difference in people’s lives every day.”
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FAQ - Bachelor of Science in Health Science
1. Is the degree available for students from every country?
2. Is the degree internationally recognized?
University of the People is accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission.
The Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) is listed by the U.S. Department of Education as a recognized accrediting agency.
3. Is it accredited in other countries?
We have not pursued accreditation in any other country – in many places, being accredited in the U.S. means that it is highly respected.
4. Do other universities accept credit transfers from University of the People?
Yes. UoPeople has a partnership, for example, with the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), whereby UC Berkeley will consider qualified, top-performing UoPeople Associate’s degree graduates, who wish to transfer to complete a Bachelor’s degree at Berkeley. This recognition is the ultimate endorsement of the value of our degrees and it offers a great opportunity for our students. UoPeople graduates have been known to be accepted into Master’s degree programs at universities around the world too. Students who wish to transfer their UoPeople graduate credits to another institution are required to discuss this with the receiving institution as the transferability of credits earned at UoPeople is at the complete discretion of the institution to which students may seek to transfer.
5. How many students will be accepted?
There is room for everyone in an online classroom and there is no limit to how many students can be accepted into UoPeople’s undergraduate programs.
6. Are there scholarships?
Yes. We have a variety of scholarships including the Fondation Hoffmann and Henry Schein. We will offer as many scholarships as we will have available. UoPeople will always remain dedicated to its mission of opening access to higher education worldwide and will continue striving to ensure that no qualified student will be denied studying with UoPeople due to financial constraints. We are here to open the gates for all qualified individuals in the world, regardless of financial, geographic, societal or personal constraints.
7. Who is behind the program?
Leading figures are heading the program’s Taskforce: Nobel Laureate and President Emeritus of The Rockefeller University, Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel; Chairman and CEO of Fortune 500® company Henry Schein, Stanley M. Bergman; Princeton University Professor Dr. Dalton Conley; and Columbia University Professor Dr. Darcy Brisbane Kelley.
8. Who wrote the courses?
A range of academics who are specialists in their fields, among them, Princeton University Professor and Former Dean of Social Sciences at New York University, Dr. Dalton Conley.
9. Who teaches the courses?
Our instructors are qualified people who volunteer and come from a wide range of universities and offer their services and expertise to help our students.
10. How are the Associates and Bachelor’s programs different?
The Associate of Science in Health Studies – is built on a strong liberal arts foundation and provides students with a broad understanding of community and public health theories and models and their application to real-world situations. It introduces them to the biological, behavioral, social and cultural dimensions of promoting and protecting individual and societal health and well-being. The program is appropriate for those considering entry-level opportunities in government, private and non-profit organizations as well as for those considering study towards a Bachelor of Science Degree.
The Bachelor of Science in Health Studies – is a rigorous program of study that provides a multi-disciplinary grounding in factors influencing the prevention of disease and the improvement of societal health. It provides an understanding of the social and biological causes of health and illness; covers the knowledge and skills needed to work in areas of disease prevention and promotion of health; and explores the role of policy, ethics and resources in the management of prevention programming and health service delivery. Opportunities for employment in this field are expanding, and graduates will also be equipped for continued study at the graduate level.
11. How many students per class?
12. How much time is needed?
15-20 Hours per course per week.
13. Do students study in cohorts?
No. Because we are an online university, and many of our students work while studying, we allow students to take breaks from studies if needed, and as a result, classes are mixed up every term.
We also believe strongly in making students part of the global economy by being part of the global village, and exposing students to all kinds of other students from different cultures, in order to broaden their horizons. This is what makes our students global citizens.
14. What careers/employment options would be available for graduates?
The health industry today is dealing with a distinct shortage of health employees and yet, at the same time, the scope of jobs in this field is expanding. Demand for health workers will grow at a higher rate than the overall average for all occupations. UoPeople is paving the way to bring relevant, quality higher education to the people and places where it is needed most.
Graduates of UoPeople’s Health Studies degree are trained for a wide range of positions. With a grounding in the socio-cultural aspects of the field, graduates will find a wide range of opportunities in governmental and non-profit sectors and will also be equipped for continued study within the medical field.
The scope of jobs in this field is expanding but examples of some of the roles that provide higher compensation levels that are likely to be in demand are: environmental health technicians, public health inspectors, health educators and community health workers. In addition, at the Bachelor’s level, graduates are trained to take up positions as managers in health-related nongovernmental organizations, health promotion program coordinators, public health information officers, medical writers, health and wellness managers, behavioral health program coordinators, health teachers, disaster preparedness researchers, and occupational health and safety specialists, among others.
15. Will UoPeople help its graduates find a job (will the University have a placement office)?
Preparing students for the workforce is a high priority of UoPeople. Beginning in the classroom, the rigor and quality of our accredited degree programs is ensured by world-class academic leaders and academic partners. Using the help of those who are behind the university, and by focusing on career planning – if needed – which, includes resume writing, interviewing, and job searching skills, UoPeople’s Career Service Center prepares students to find jobs after graduation. Networking is also an essential tool to building a successful career. At UoPeople our international community of students and faculty provides a global networking community. With students hailing from 194 countries and faculty from top international universities, corporations and foundations—the networking potential at UoPeople is vast!
Given all of these exciting options, it is not surprising that UoPeople feels confident that its students will be able to find jobs or advance in their current jobs.
16. Will UoPeople formalize any type of arrangement with companies who may sponsor employees to be accepted to the program?
We might have this in the future.
17. Can students fail? Can students re-sit? How many times?
Yes, students can fail, and they are permitted to re-sit – once.
18. Are there opportunities for classes to meet in person?
The university does not facilitate face-to-face meetings as this would be impossible due to the global make-up of the classes. We are aware of students who have organized in-person meetings with fellow students from the undergrad programs, and when Shai travels to conferences, he does his best to meet with groups of students (as was done in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Haiti, India, etc.), but in general, the answer is no – this is not something the university can facilitate.
19. Is there much support for students in an online classroom?
Absolutely. Highly qualified Instructors are assigned to classes of 20-30 students, usually representing as many countries, and the instructor is available to answer student’s questions and offer support. The University of the People student body hails from over 200 countries worldwide, inspiring interesting dialogue between peers, and offers students alternative perspectives to their own. University of the People’s pedagogical model is based on an online collaborative learning environment that promotes a culture of shared learning, dialog among peers, interaction and peer-to-peer teaching and assessment, and utilizes open-source technology along with open educational resources.
Peer-to-peer interaction is a hallmark of the UoPeople program and central to the learning process. The UoPeople small online classroom setting allows for a community of supportive collective peer thinkers and teachers. Professors focus on each student’s needs and provide full support; while creating a community for students to work cooperatively and assist one another. Students share their experiences, so that knowledge-sharing and motivational support occurs on a peer-to-peer level, creating an open space for students to learn, share ideas, ask questions, and generate solutions pertaining to their academic experiences. Students are also provided with technical support throughout their studies in the classroom.
Each student is connected with a personal Program Advisor at the commencement of their studies, who remains with them until graduation. The student’s personal Program Advisor acts as his/her support system throughout their studies. He/she will answer any questions the student may have, offer academic advice, discuss course selection, and offer encouragement throughout the student’s studies.
20. How are students graded?
Every week students have readings and are assessed on their homework. Students also have to take quizzes and are assessed on their contribution to class discussion. Every end of course they have an exam, some of which are proctored.
21. Are there networking opportunities?
Yes. UoPeople works hard to help further students’ networking abilities, offering a growing global community, making students’ networking potential international.
Networking is an essential tool to building a successful career. At UoPeople our international community of students and faculty provides a global networking community. With students hailing from over 200 countries and faculty from top international universities, corporations and foundations—the networking potential at UoPeople is vast! UoPeople uses Microsoft Yammer for its internal social media network. Here, students can network with other UoPeople students, even those who are not in the same class.
Beyond the classroom, UoPeople partners with worldwide leading corporations to open the door to first-rate networking opportunities for our students to broaden employment opportunities.
22. Aren’t there concerns about online degrees?
People have various opinions regarding online degrees because they are a new concept in contrast to the old tradition of physically attending school. Studying online is an effective and successful way to learn, and many of the best universities in the world, as well as almost all universities in the U.S. are offering more and more online courses, and many offer full degrees online.
There is also a strong movement for open platform education; this means organizations like UoPeople are working to bring education online in a more affordable manner. Our peer-to-peer learning, which teaches the students to study and interact with other students from around the world, is part of what works best in international companies, where people need to work with teams from around the world. More and more companies are beginning to recognize online degrees these days – so we believe it is just a matter of time before there will be a universal acceptance of online education and online degrees.
Moreover, one can look at who is behind the university to see the caliber of support and recognition.
23. Does UoPeople train nurses?
No. UoPeople does not train practitioners and we have decided deliberately not to do so because we are unable to provide in-person on the ground practice. We do however expect that a lot of our students will be practitioners who may lack the academic background to their work.
24. Are there internship opportunities?
Yes. Students who have completed at least 90 semester hours of the UoPeople Health Studies are eligible to apply for the internship. The onsite internship experience comprises 270 hours of meaningful, supervised internship experience as part of the program of study for the Bachelor of Science in Health Studies— Community and Public Health Track. The internship can be completed over one or two terms.
25. How do students take exams?
All exams are administered online. Some of the courses require being proctored.
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April 8, 2019 / 5:55 AM
NCAA men's national championship game: How to watch, time
Connor Grott
Virginia Cavaliers forward Mamadi Diakite (25) shoots the ball March 30 during the regional final of 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball tournament against the Purdue Boilermakers at the KFC Yum Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by Bryan Woolston/UPI | License Photo
April 8 (UPI) -- The top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers and Texas Tech Red Raiders go head-to-head in Monday's national championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
A first-time champion will emerge as Virginia and Texas Tech have never captured a national championship.
The Red Raiders are trying to become the first school since UConn in 1999 to win a national title in their first Final Four appearance in program history. Texas Tech advanced to the final with a 61-51 victory over Michigan State on Saturday in the Final Four.
Texas Tech previously reached the Elite Eight in 2018 but lost to eventual champion Villanova.
Virginia returned to its first Final Four since 1984 after a last-second win over Auburn in the national semifinal. The Cavaliers' redemption story began when the team became the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 seed in the opening round. Virginia lost 74-54 to UMBC in last year's NCAA tournament.
Here are the final results from the Final Four, with the TV schedule and game time for Monday's national championship game:
Saturday, Final Four
No. 1 Virginia 63, No. 5 Auburn 62
No. 3 Texas Tech 61, No. 2 Michigan State 51
Monday, National Championship Game
No. 3 Texas Tech (West Region) vs. No. 1 Virginia (South Region)
Full TV coverage of the Final Four and the national championship game is on CBS, starting at 9:20 p.m. EDT. Viewers can also live-stream all games on the March Madness Live site or the March Madness Live app.
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5 arrested in shooting at N.J. high school football game
Sommer Brokaw and Allen Cone
Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Five men face charges in connection with a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that injured three people, including two minors, prosecutors announced Saturday.
The shooting took place Friday evening during a playoff game between host Pleasantville High School and Camden High School, but Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner said the violence was unrelated to either school's students.
Authorities arrested Alvin Wyatt, 31, of Atlantic City, on three counts of attempted murder and weapons charges, and four other men on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and certain persons not to possess a weapon, Tyner announced Saturday.
The other four suspects are Michael Mack, 27, Tyrell Dorn, 28, Shahid Dixon, 27, all of Atlantic City, and Vance Golden, of Pleasantville, the prosecutor's statement shows.
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Ibn Abdullah, 27, of Atlantic City, was in stable condition at a hospital. A 10-year-old victim was in critical condition and a 15-year-old "suffered a graze wound" and has been released from the hospital, the statement said.
"Unlike some of the school shootings that have occurred on school premises throughout the country, this incident had nothing to do with the students of Pleasantville High School of Camden High School," Tyner said.
"The venue simply presented an opportunity for criminals to pursue their own form of petty vengeance against one another. As a result, an innocent child was caught and injured in their crossfire. Our community will not be held hostage by a few idiots intent on jeopardizing our safety and the safety of our children."
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Officials said they do not know what led to the shooting or the motive behind it.
"This was a problem that came to us, and while we'll handle it and we're well-prepared to resolve the issue and to deal with the ramifications of it, this isn't something that started here, but it is something that we're going to finish," police Chief Sean Riggin said at a news conference.
The incident occurred at 8:31 p.m. on the home side of the bleachers during the third quarter with Camden leading 6-0. More than 1,000 people attended the game, which will resume Wednesday at a "a neutral site that will be closed to the public," Larry White, executive director of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, said.
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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A shooting outside of a nightclub late Sunday in Kansas City left two dead and more than a dozen injured, police reported early Monday.
Trump's defense team calls for swift end to impeachment trial
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Violence in Iraq escalates, U.N. official calls for protection
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Another winter storm looms for central, eastern U.S.
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Thousands rally in Virginia for gun rights
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President Donald Trump touts trade deal at Farm Bureau convention
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DE13, DE14, DE15, DE21, DE22, DE23, DE24, DE3, DE4, DE45, DE5, DE55, DE56, DE6, DE65, DE7, DE72, DE73, DE74, DE75, DE99, DG1, DG10, DG11, DG12, DG13, DG14, DG16, DG2, DG3, DG4, DG5, DG6, DG7, DG8, DG9, DH1, DH2, DH3, DH4, DH5, DH6, DH7, DH8, DH9, DH98, DH99, DL1, DL10, DL11, DL12, DL13, DL14, DL15, DL16, DL17, DL2, DL3, DL4, DL5, DL6, DL7, DL8, DL9, DN1, DN10, DN11, DN12, DN14, DN15, DN16, DN17, DN18, DN19, DN2, DN20, DN21, DN22, DN3, DN31, DN32, DN33, DN34, DN35, DN36, DN37, DN38, DN39, DN4, DN40, DN41, DN5, DN6, DN7, DN8, DN9, DT1, DT10, DT11, DT2, DT3, DT4, DT5, DT6, DT7, DT8, DT9, DY1, DY10, DY11, DY12, DY13, DY14, DY2, DY3, DY4, DY5, DY6, DY7, DY8, DY9, E1, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14, E15, E16, E17, E18, E1W, E2, E3, E4, E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, EC1A, EC1M, EC1N, EC1P, EC1R, EC1V, EC1Y, EC2A, EC2M, EC2N, EC2P, EC2R, EC2V, EC2Y, EC3A, EC3M, EC3N, EC3P, EC3R, EC3V, EC4A, EC4M, EC4N, EC4P, EC4R, EC4V, EC4Y, EC50, EH1, EH10, EH11, EH12, EH13, EH14, EH15, EH16, EH17, EH18, EH19, EH2, EH20, EH21, EH22, EH23, EH24, EH25, EH26, EH27, EH28, EH29, EH3, EH30, EH31, EH32, EH33, EH34, EH35, EH36, EH37, EH38, EH39, EH4, EH40, EH41, EH42, EH43, EH44, EH45, EH46, EH47, EH48, EH49, EH5, EH51, EH52, EH53, EH54, EH55, EH6, EH7, EH8, EH9, EN1, EN10, EN11, EN2, EN3, EN4, EN5, EN6, EN7, EN8, EN9, EX1, EX10, EX11, EX12, EX13, EX14, EX15, EX16, EX17, EX18, EX19, EX2, EX20, EX21, EX22, EX23, EX24, EX3, EX31, EX32, EX33, EX34, EX35, EX36, EX37, EX38, EX39, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7, EX8, EX9, FK1, FK10, FK11, FK12, FK13, FK14, FK15, FK16, FK17, FK18, FK19, FK2, FK20, FK21, FK3, FK4, FK5, FK6, FK7, FK8, FK9, FY0, FY1, FY2, FY3, FY4, FY5, FY6, FY7, FY8, G1, G11, G12, G13, G14, G15, G2, G20, G21, G22, G23, G3, G31, G32, G33, G34, G4, G40, G41, G42, G43, G44, G45, G46, G5, G51, G52, G53, G58, G60, G61, G62, G63, G64, G65, G66, G67, G68, G69, G70, G71, G72, G73, G74, G75, G76, G77, G78, G79, G80, G81, G82, G83, G84, G9, GL1, GL10, GL11, GL12, GL13, GL14, GL15, GL16, GL17, GL18, GL19, GL2, GL20, GL3, GL4, GL5, GL50, GL51, GL52, GL53, GL54, GL55, GL56, GL6, GL7, GL8, GL9, GU1, GU10, GU11, GU12, GU13, GU14, GU15, GU16, GU17, GU18, GU19, GU2, GU20, GU21, GU22, GU23, GU24, GU25, GU26, GU27, GU28, GU29, GU3, GU30, GU31, GU32, GU33, GU34, GU35, GU4, GU46, GU47, GU5, GU51, GU52, GU6, GU7, GU8, GU9, HA0, HA1, HA2, HA3, HA4, HA5, HA6, HA7, HA8, HA9, HD1, HD2, HD3, HD4, HD5, HD6, HD7, HD8, HD9, HG1, HG2, HG3, HG4, HG5, HP1, HP10, HP11, HP12, HP13, HP14, HP15, HP16, HP17, HP18, HP19, HP2, HP20, HP21, HP22, HP23, HP27, HP3, HP4, HP5, HP6, HP7, HP8, HP9, HR1, HR2, HR3, HR4, HR5, HR6, HR7, HR8, HR9, HU1, HU10, HU11, HU12, HU13, HU14, HU15, HU16, HU17, HU18, HU19, HU2, HU20, HU3, HU4, HU5, HU6, HU7, HU8, HU9, HX1, HX2, HX3, HX4, HX5, HX6, HX7, IG1, IG10, IG11, IG2, IG3, IG4, IG5, IG6, IG7, IG8, IG9, IP1, IP10, IP11, IP12, IP13, IP14, IP15, IP16, IP17, IP18, IP19, IP2, IP20, IP21, IP22, IP23, IP24, IP25, IP26, IP27, IP28, IP29, IP3, IP30, IP31, IP32, IP33, IP4, IP5, IP6, IP7, IP8, IP9, IP98, KA1, KA10, KA11, KA12, KA13, KA14, KA15, KA16, KA17, KA18, KA19, KA2, KA20, KA21, KA22, KA23, KA24, KA25, KA26, KA29, KA3, KA30, KA4, KA5, KA6, KA7, KA8, KA9, KT1, KT10, KT11, KT12, KT13, KT14, KT15, KT16, KT17, KT18, KT19, KT2, KT20, KT21, KT22, KT23, KT24, KT3, KT4, KT5, KT6, KT7, KT8, KT9, KY1, KY10, KY11, KY12, KY13, KY14, KY15, KY16, KY2, KY3, KY4, KY5, KY6, KY7, KY8, KY9, KY99, L1, L10, L11, L12, L13, L14, L15, L16, L17, L18, L19, L2, L20, L21, L22, L23, L24, L25, L26, L27, L28, L29, L3, L30, L31, L32, L33, L34, L35, L36, L37, L38, L39, L4, L40, L5, L6, L67, L68, L69, L7, L70, L72, L73, L74, L75, L8, L9, LA1, LA10, LA11, LA12, LA13, LA14, LA15, LA16, LA17, LA18, LA19, LA2, LA20, LA21, LA22, LA23, LA3, LA4, LA5, LA6, LA7, LA8, LA9, LD1, LD2, LD3, LD4, LD5, LD6, LD7, LD8, LE1, LE10, LE11, LE12, LE13, LE14, LE15, LE16, LE17, LE18, LE19, LE2, LE21, LE3, LE4, LE41, LE5, LE55, LE6, LE65, LE67, LE7, LE8, LE87, LE9, LE94, LE99, LL11, LL12, LL13, LL14, LL15, LL16, LL17, LL18, LL19, LL20, LL21, LL22, LL23, LL24, LL25, LL26, LL27, LL28, LL29, LL30, LL31, LL32, LL33, LL34, LL35, LL36, LL37, LL38, LL39, LL40, LL41, LL42, LL43, LL44, LL45, LL46, LL47, LL48, LL49, LL51, LL52, LL53, LL54, LL55, LL56, LL57, LL58, LL59, LL60, LL61, LL62, LL63, LL64, LL65, LL66, LL67, LL68, LL69, LL70, LL71, LL72, LL73, LL74, LL75, LL76, LL77, LL78, LN1, LN10, LN11, LN12, LN13, LN2, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6, LN7, LN8, LN9, LS1, LS10, LS11, LS12, LS13, LS14, LS15, LS16, LS17, LS18, LS19, LS2, LS20, LS21, LS22, LS23, LS24, LS25, LS26, LS27, LS28, LS29, LS3, LS4, LS5, LS6, LS7, LS8, LS88, LS9, LS98, LS99, LU1, LU2, LU3, LU4, LU5, LU6, LU7, M1, M11, M12, M13, M14, M15, M16, M17, M18, M19, M2, M20, M21, M22, M23, M24, M25, M26, M27, M28, M29, M3, M30, M31, M32, M33, M34, M35, M38, M4, M40, M41, M43, M44, M45, M46, M5, M50, M6, M60, M7, M8, M9, M90, M99, ME1, ME10, ME11, ME12, ME13, ME14, ME15, ME16, ME17, ME18, ME19, ME2, ME20, ME3, ME4, ME5, ME6, ME7, ME8, ME9, MK1, MK10, MK11, MK12, MK13, MK14, MK15, MK16, MK17, MK18, MK19, MK2, MK3, MK4, MK40, MK41, MK42, MK43, MK44, MK45, MK46, MK5, MK6, MK7, MK77, MK8, MK9, ML1, ML10, ML11, ML12, ML2, ML3, ML4, ML5, ML6, ML7, ML8, ML9, N1, N10, N11, N12, N13, N14, N15, N16, N17, N18, N19, N2, N20, N21, N22, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N81, N9, NE1, NE10, NE11, NE12, NE13, NE15, NE16, NE17, NE18, NE19, NE2, NE20, NE21, NE22, NE23, NE24, NE25, NE26, NE27, NE28, NE29, NE3, NE30, NE31, NE32, NE33, NE34, NE35, NE36, NE37, NE38, NE39, NE4, NE40, NE41, NE42, NE43, NE44, NE45, NE46, NE47, NE48, NE49, NE5, NE6, NE61, NE62, NE63, NE64, NE65, NE66, NE67, NE68, NE69, NE7, NE70, NE71, NE8, NE82, NE83, NE85, NE88, NE9, NE98, NE99, NG1, NG10, NG11, NG12, NG13, NG14, NG15, NG16, NG17, NG18, NG19, NG2, NG20, NG21, NG22, NG23, NG24, NG25, NG3, NG31, NG32, NG33, NG34, NG4, NG5, NG6, NG7, NG8, NG80, NG9, NN1, NN10, NN11, NN12, NN13, NN14, NN15, NN16, NN17, NN18, NN2, NN29, NN3, NN4, NN5, NN6, NN7, NN8, NN9, NP10, NP11, NP12, NP13, NP15, NP16, NP18, NP19, NP20, NP22, NP23, NP24, NP25, NP26, NP4, NP44, NP7, NP8, NR1, NR10, NR11, NR12, NR13, NR14, NR15, NR16, NR17, NR18, NR19, NR2, NR20, NR21, NR22, NR23, NR24, NR25, NR26, NR27, NR28, NR29, NR3, NR30, NR31, NR32, NR33, NR34, NR35, NR4, NR5, NR6, NR7, NR8, NR9, NW1, NW10, NW11, NW1W, NW2, NW3, NW4, NW5, NW6, NW7, NW8, NW9, OL1, OL10, OL11, OL12, OL13, OL14, OL15, OL16, OL2, OL3, OL4, OL5, OL6, OL7, OL8, OL9, OX1, OX10, OX11, OX12, OX13, OX14, OX15, OX16, OX17, OX18, OX2, OX20, OX25, OX26, OX27, OX28, OX29, OX3, OX33, OX39, OX4, OX44, OX49, OX5, OX6, OX7, OX8, OX9, PA1, PA10, PA11, PA12, PA13, PA14, PA15, PA16, PA17, PA18, PA19, PA2, PA3, PA39, PA4, PA40, PA5, PA6, PA7, PA8, PA9, PE1, PE10, PE11, PE12, PE13, PE14, PE15, PE16, PE17, PE18, PE19, PE2, PE20, PE21, PE22, PE23, PE24, PE25, PE26, PE27, PE28, PE29, PE3, PE30, PE31, PE32, PE33, PE34, PE35, PE36, PE37, PE38, PE4, PE5, PE6, PE7, PE8, PE9, PE99, PH1, PH2, PH3, PL1, PL10, PL11, PL12, PL13, PL14, PL15, PL16, PL17, PL18, PL19, PL2, PL20, PL21, PL22, PL23, PL24, PL25, PL26, PL27, PL28, PL29, PL3, PL30, PL31, PL32, PL33, PL34, PL35, PL4, PL5, PL6, PL7, PL8, PL9, PN99, PO1, PO10, PO11, PO12, PO13, PO14, PO15, PO16, PO17, PO18, PO19, PO2, PO20, PO21, PO22, PO3, PO30, PO31, PO32, PO33, PO34, PO35, PO36, PO37, PO38, PO39, PO4, PO40, PO41, PO5, PO6, PO7, PO8, PO9, PR0, PR1, PR2, PR25, PR26, PR3, PR4, PR5, PR6, PR7, PR8, PR9, QC11, QC22, QC33, QC44, QC55, QC77, QC99, RG1, RG10, RG12, RG14, RG17, RG18, RG19, RG2, RG20, RG21, RG22, RG23, RG24, RG25, RG26, RG27, RG28, RG29, RG30, RG31, RG4, RG40, RG41, RG42, RG45, RG5, RG6, RG7, RG8, RG9, RH1, RH10, RH11, RH12, RH13, RH14, RH15, RH16, RH17, RH18, RH19, RH2, RH20, RH3, RH4, RH5, RH6, RH7, RH8, RH9, RM1, RM10, RM11, RM12, RM13, RM14, RM15, RM16, RM17, RM18, RM19, RM2, RM20, RM3, RM4, RM5, RM6, RM7, RM8, RM9, S1, S10, S11, S12, S13, S14, S17, S18, S2, S20, S21, S25, S26, S3, S32, S33, S35, S36, S4, S40, S41, S42, S43, S44, S45, S49, S5, S6, S60, S61, S62, S63, S64, S65, S66, S7, S70, S71, S72, S73, S74, S75, S8, S80, S81, S9, S98, SA1, SA10, SA11, SA12, SA13, SA14, SA15, SA16, SA17, SA18, SA19, SA2, SA20, SA3, SA31, SA32, SA33, SA34, SA35, SA36, SA37, SA38, SA39, SA4, SA40, SA41, SA42, SA43, SA44, SA45, SA46, SA47, SA48, SA5, SA6, SA61, SA62, SA63, SA64, SA65, SA66, SA67, SA68, SA69, SA7, SA70, SA71, SA72, SA73, SA8, SA9, SA99, SE1, SE10, SE11, SE12, SE13, SE14, SE15, SE16, SE17, SE18, SE19, SE2, SE20, SE21, SE22, SE23, SE24, SE25, SE26, SE27, SE28, SE3, SE4, SE5, SE6, SE7, SE8, SE9, SG1, SG10, SG11, SG12, SG13, SG14, SG15, SG16, SG17, SG18, SG19, SG2, SG3, SG4, SG5, SG6, SG7, SG8, SG9, SK1, SK10, SK11, SK12, SK13, SK14, SK15, SK16, SK17, SK2, SK22, SK23, SK3, SK4, SK5, SK6, SK7, SK8, SK9, SL0, SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4, SL5, SL6, SL7, SL8, SL9, SM1, SM2, SM3, SM4, SM5, SM6, SM7, SN1, SN10, SN11, SN12, SN13, SN14, SN15, SN16, SN2, SN25, SN26, SN3, SN38, SN4, SN5, SN6, SN7, SN8, SN88, SN9, SN99, SO14, SO15, SO16, SO17, SO18, SO19, SO20, SO21, SO22, SO23, SO24, SO30, SO31, SO32, SO40, SO41, SO42, SO43, SO45, SO50, SO51, SO52, SO53, SP1, SP10, SP11, SP2, SP3, SP4, SP5, SP6, SP7, SP8, SP9, SR1, SR2, SR3, SR4, SR5, SR6, SR7, SR8, SR9, SS0, SS1, SS11, SS12, SS13, SS14, SS15, SS16, SS17, SS2, SS3, SS4, SS5, SS6, SS7, SS8, SS9, SS99, ST1, ST10, ST11, ST12, ST13, ST14, ST15, ST16, ST17, ST18, ST19, ST2, ST20, ST21, ST3, ST4, ST5, ST55, ST6, ST7, ST8, ST9, SW10, SW11, SW12, SW13, SW14, SW15, SW16, SW17, SW18, SW19, SW1A, SW1E, SW1H, SW1P, SW1V, SW1W, SW1X, SW1Y, SW2, SW20, SW3, SW4, SW5, SW6, SW7, SW8, SW9, SW99, SY1, SY10, SY11, SY12, SY13, SY14, SY15, SY16, SY17, SY18, SY19, SY2, SY20, SY21, SY22, SY23, SY24, SY25, SY3, SY4, SY5, SY6, SY7, SY8, SY9, TA1, TA10, TA11, TA12, TA13, TA14, TA15, TA16, TA17, TA18, TA19, TA2, TA20, TA21, TA22, TA23, TA24, TA3, TA4, TA5, TA6, TA7, TA8, TA9, TD1, TD10, TD11, TD12, TD13, TD14, TD15, TD2, TD3, TD4, TD5, TD6, TD7, TD8, TD9, TF1, TF10, TF11, TF12, TF13, TF2, TF3, TF4, TF5, TF6, TF7, TF8, TF9, TN1, TN10, TN11, TN12, TN13, TN14, TN15, TN16, TN17, TN18, TN19, TN2, TN20, TN21, TN22, TN23, TN24, TN25, TN26, TN27, TN28, TN29, TN3, TN30, TN31, TN32, TN33, TN34, TN35, TN36, TN37, TN38, TN39, TN4, TN40, TN5, TN6, TN7, TN8, TN9, TQ1, TQ10, TQ11, TQ12, TQ13, TQ14, TQ2, TQ3, TQ4, TQ5, TQ6, TQ7, TQ8, TQ9, TR1, TR10, TR11, TR12, TR13, TR14, TR15, TR16, TR17, TR18, TR19, TR2, TR20, TR21, TR22, TR23, TR24, TR25, TR26, TR27, TR3, TR4, TR5, TR6, TR7, TR8, TR9, TS1, TS10, TS11, TS12, TS13, TS14, TS15, TS16, TS17, TS18, TS19, TS2, TS20, TS21, TS22, TS23, TS24, TS25, TS26, TS27, TS28, TS29, TS3, TS4, TS5, TS6, TS7, TS8, TS9, TS90, TW1, TW10, TW11, TW12, TW13, TW14, TW15, TW16, TW17, TW18, TW19, TW2, TW20, TW3, TW4, TW5, TW6, TW7, TW8, TW9, UB1, UB10, UB11, UB18, UB2, UB3, UB4, UB5, UB6, UB7, UB8, UB9, W10, W11, W12, W13, W14, W1A, W1B, W1C, W1D, W1F, W1G, W1H, W1J, W1K, W1S, W1T, W1U, W1W, W2, W3, W4, W5, W6, W7, W8, W9, WA1, WA10, WA11, WA12, WA13, WA14, WA15, WA2, WA3, WA4, WA5, WA6, WA7, WA8, WA9, WC2R, WD17, WD18, WD19, WD23, WD24, WD25, WD3, WD4, WD5, WD6, WD7, WF1, WF10, WF11, WF12, WF13, WF14, WF15, WF16, WF17, WF2, WF3, WF4, WF5, WF6, WF7, WF8, WF9, WN1, WN2, WN3, WN4, WN5, WN6, WN7, WN8, WR1, WR10, WR11, WR12, WR13, WR14, WR15, WR2, WR3, WR4, WR5, WR6, WR7, WR78, WR8, WR9, WR99, WS1, WS10, WS11, WS12, WS13, WS14, WS15, WS2, WS3, WS4, WS5, WS6, WS7, WS8, WS9, WV1, WV10, WV11, WV12, WV13, WV14, WV15, WV16, WV2, WV3, WV4, WV5, WV6, WV7, WV8, WV9, YO1, YO10, YO11, YO12, YO13, YO14, YO15, YO16, YO17, YO18, YO19, YO21, YO22, YO23, YO24, YO25, YO26, YO30, YO31, YO32, YO41, YO42, YO43, YO51, YO60, YO61, YO62, YO7, YO8, YO90, YO91
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United States | Program Director, Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries
+1-202-463-2571 ˙ lviscidi@thedialogue.org
Lisa Viscidi is the director of the Energy, Climate Change & Extractive Industries Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. A specialist in Latin American energy issues, Viscidi has written numerous reports and articles on energy policy and regulations, oil and gas markets, climate change, sustainable transport, social and environmental impacts of natural resources development, and the geopolitics of energy in the region.
Before joining the Dialogue, she was New York bureau chief and Latin America team leader for Energy Intelligence Group and subsequently a manager in the energy practice at Deloitte. She has also served as director of EntreMundos, a nonprofit organization based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Ms. Viscidi’s articles have been published in The Financial Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, and Foreign Affairs. She frequently presents at conferences and universities throughout the United States and Latin America and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, and other news outlets. She was called to testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere in 2017. Viscidi received a Fulbright Specialist grant in 2017 to teach a course on climate change and environmental policy at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá. She currently serves on the Leadership Council for the National Capital Area Chapter of the US Association for Energy Economics.
Viscidi conducted her undergraduate work in history at the George Washington University and the University of Barcelona and completed a master’s degree in Latin American studies with a focus on economic development and public policy from New York University. Viscidi speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Analysis See all
Clean Energy Auctions in Latin America
Long-term power supply auctions are an increasingly popular instrument worldwide for attracting renewable energy investment while cutting prices, increasing energy security, and reducing emissions. Latin America has been at the forefront of using auctions to boost renewable energy capacity. This study analyzes design and outcomes of government-led long-term power auctions with participation from non-conventional renewable sources in six countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Jamaica) since 2015.
Turmoil in South America and the Impact on Energy Markets
2019 has been a tumultuous year for South America. In recent months, mass protests have swept across several countries, including major oil and gas producers Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. Continued political and social turbulence will likely contribute to stagnant oil and gas production growth in these countries. Conversely, Brazil and Guyana are on track to become the region’s largest sources of supply growth.
Investing in Natural Gas: Options for Resilient and Flexible Power Systems in Latin America
Lisa Viscidi, director of the Energy Program, spoke about the production of natural gas in Argentina and the fuel’s role in the country’s energy transition on a panel organized by the Organization of American States’ Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas on December 13.
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Colombia: To Frack or Not to Frack?
For over a decade Colombians have been debating whether or not to allow oil companies to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to produce oil and gas from shale rock, a technique that has been controversial in many countries. The high court’s decision last week to uphold a moratorium on fracking suggests the increasingly polarized debate is far from over.
Sep 27, 2019 ˙Lisa Viscidi
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Electric Mobility in the Caribbean: Paving a Path to Sustainable Transport
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Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Mobility in the Americas
9:00AM - 12:00PM
General Secretariat of the Organization of American States
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Padilha Vidal Room (TL Level)
Deforestation in the Amazon: Drivers and Policy Solutions
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Press Mentions See all
There isn’t much more room for the administration to ratchet up sanctions against Venezuela, and increased sanctions would anyway be unlikely to spark Maduro’s fall.
You need rules that promote development of the local economy [in Guyana], but without setting standards that can't be met by the local industry.
EcoAméricas
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Bad Blood and Village Feuds
Bad Blood and Village Feuds – can villagers even remember what their feuds are about? Emma Quarrington poses the question and seeks some answers.
Sometimes I wonder whether my observations about village life here in France could be made elsewhere in the world. What’s certain is that the more rural the location, the more layers of tension exist, sometimes going back generations. On the one hand, village life is characterised by support and cooperation – in stark contrast to city life – but on the other, it produces intense relationships that can generate deep divisions.
When I first arrived, I was blissfully unaware of this. Gascon people are really friendly, and we interpreted the invitations for drinks or dinner as testimony that everyone loved each other. As a ‘foreigner’, you’re not really dug into village life, and you never will be. Even if your French is pretty good, you still miss the inflections in people’s language and some of the subtle details being communicated.
However, in our case, the more we became involved in village life, the more we began to sense something going on beneath the surface as factions appeared between families and neighbours. Bad blood and village feuds were starting to be noticed.
Living in a remote location, you depend on your neighbours in times of need. But familiarity can breed contempt – petty differences can turn into gigantic feuds. The relative anonymity characterising city life means that if someone upsets you, there is always the option of walking away and probably never seeing them again. In a rural community, this is impossible as relationships are just much more intense – you cannot shrug your shoulders and walk away. Then there is the gossip, on which some people thrive, exacerbating the situation. Here in a village, when people fall out, they fall out big style!
Once we got to know our neighbours a bit better, they began to share their views on other villagers, many of whom I didn’t even know. But on probing further and attempting to understand, we generally met a wall of silence, or at best gained a mere hint of the real ‘problem’. Clearly, bad blood and village feuds were not openly discussed.
However, we soon found that the subject of the World Wars caused tempers to rise, giving the impression that any ‘misdemeanour’ happened only yesterday. Given that one of the beautiful things about living in the French countryside is that families are firmly rooted here, it makes sense that the descendants of these families seem to carry on the same ancestral feuds as their forebears. It may seem extreme, but I guess it makes sense. If my grandfather or great grandfather had been shot by Nazis during the war because they’d been informed on, I too would feel angry; to be nice to ‘that family’ would be to condone what had happened.
I’m reminded of a story in Brittany about 20 years ago when a local mayor put on an exhibition about life in the village during the German occupation. He retrieved from the archives letters that had been sent to the then mayor informing on friends and neighbours – not for ideological or political reasons but because of petty jealousies or in an attempt to gain an advantage, whether land or money. The names in the letters had to be redacted in order to go ahead with the exhibition. It’s understandable: imagine your outrage on discovering that your relative was killed or put in a prison camp because of someone else in the village. That would obviously lead to bad blood and village feuds.
I sometimes wonder whether collective memory goes back further to the days of the Revolution or even the Middle Ages. Our village boasts a medieval tower, connected to the Salle des Fetes. Beautiful, historical, even romantic, the tower is also the village’s regular meeting room, and yet a large part of the village refuse to go the tower. The lady who manages it told me it was because the tower was for the ‘seigneur’ – the nobility – an ‘us and them’ mentality here in our little village.
In general, I try and stay clear of it all. I’m not French, not ‘du pays’, so I’ll never fully understand why these tensions exist, and I can simply enjoy the fact that people are generally very friendly and supportive. As one neighbouring mayor said: ‘Plus c’est petit, plus c’est compliqué’.
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LANY's 'Malibu Nights' Will Make You Want To Dance Alone In The Middle Of The Night, I Know I Did
If you don't mourn love by the end of it, have you ever loved?
Serena Wong
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Everyone has that defining album that becomes their go-to when they need a good cry. It reaches into their soul, brings out tears they didn't even know they had and brings on that movie montage -- you know, the one where you pass through time marching on resolutely during the day and stare off into the distance at night, wondering what's going to become of your life.
LA-based band LANY has made albums out of that style (four EPs and an album, really), combining perfect balances of synth and acoustic to create tracks that would be perfect to drop into a cinematic sequence. Their latest album, titled Malibu Nights, remains true to that style. Through nine tracks, the album cycles through the extended six stages of grief -- and leaves the listener asking who could be this cruel to hurt the songwriter so badly.
Four tracks had been released ahead of the entire album -- "Thru These Tears", "I Don't Wanna Love You Anymore", "Thick and Thin" and "If You See Her". All of them represented different stages of the album -- the first an acknowledgment that sure, things will get better, but not in the current moment -- the betrayal is still fresh, and maybe we should be allowed to wallow in it just a little before beginning to step on the path to recovery.
The second is a plea to just let us forget that we've been hurt and bruised this way, if not so that we'd be allowed to start healing and moving on. There's no point in trying to salvage what's been there -- the other person's moved on. This is the song you rage-dance to, but with all of your frustrations brimming at the surface -- why can't you just let them go?
"Thick and Thin" takes sadness and simmers it down to anger -- we go to war, as the lyric goes. What happened to the permanency they promised? Had they really not meant it when they said they'd stay no matter what the consequences? Did 'ride or die' mean something completely different from what we thought it meant? The time for mourning the death of the relationship is over: all we are is bewildered, and we'd really like some answers, goddammit.
"If You See Her" is an interesting take. It's the humane side of the death of a relationship. The other person may have hurt them, yes, but it's not like we were faultless on our side, either. We remember that being in a relationship with someone is a two-way street. The whole affair may be broken up, yes, but it also doesn't mean that we're not going to stop looking out for the other person.
While these four were the pre-released singles, it's the rest of the album that ties the whole thing into an experience you dance to in the middle of the night alone or in the dark of your room when no one's watching. (It's also highly recommendable to just lay in bed and listen to the whole album through if you're feeling melancholy.) They range from being the bridge between the beginnings of a breakup ("Taking Me Back") to echoing the confidence of having completely moved on ("Run").
Throughout it all, lyricless transitions remain the real star of the album -- "Thru These Tears" features a piano bridge that can be described in no other manner other than clarifying. "If You See Her" brings forth a synth sound in the bridge that glides right into your head and doesn't leave.
Everything can be found penultimating in "Malibu Nights". Aptly named after the album (or possibly as a song to encompass the entire album), the repeating cycle of soft piano chords throughout the song coupled with the lyrics make for one of the album's biggest emotional impacts. If you're not emotionally mellowed out by the end of the song, then there probably isn't a soul in you.
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Overview of Bee Sting Reactions and Allergies
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If you've ever been stung by a flying insect — a honeybee, hornet, wasp, yellow jacket, or fire ant — you already know how your body responds: Some people have relatively mild reactions to insect bites or stings, while others are highly allergic and have potentially life-threatening symptoms of anaphylaxis such as wheezing and swelling of the tongue and throat that make it hard to breathe.
But if you've never been bitten or stung, how it might affect you may be a mystery — and not one you necessarily want to solve. Even so, it's a good idea to understand the risk factors for having an encounter with an insect, to know how to recognize the symptoms that should receive immediate medical attention, and to become familiar with the types of stinging insects so that you can avoid them as much as possible and also be able to tell your doctor if you have a run-in with one.
Most people who are stung by a flying insect such as a honeybee, hornet, or wasp will at the very least develop a reaction at the site of the sting — typically pain, swelling, redness, and itching.
But although most people are not allergic to insect stings, thousands of people go to the emergency department or seek medical care for potentially life-threatening reactions to encounters with flying insects each year. What's more, according to a 2013 report by the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (ACAAI), the number of people who have allergies to insect stings is on the rise.
The ACAAI estimates that between 4 percent and 8 percent of children and 3 percent of adults have such reactions each year. What's more, the ACAAI reports that about between 90 and 100 people die from insect sting anaphylaxis each year.
Anyone can have a severe allergic reaction to an insect sting, but people who have a history of other allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis (hayfever) and asthma are at greater risk of being allergic to bees and other flying insects.
An anaphylactic reaction to an insect sting — meaning one that affects the whole body — can happen within minutes or take several hours to develop and can cause any or all of the following symptoms, usually within a matter of minutes to a few hours:
Itching over the entire body
Hives or swelling that spread from the site of the sting
Flushing (reddening of the skin)
A runny nose, sneezing, or postnasal drip
Itchy, watery eyes
Swelling of the lips, tongue, and/or throat
Shortness of breath, wheezing, and/or coughing
Stomach cramping, nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea
Lightheadedness, increase in heart rate, low blood pressure, or passing out
A sense of panic or sense of impending doom
A metallic taste in the mouth
Insects That Cause Venom Allergies
Besides bees (including honeybees, Africanized honeybees, and bumblebees), there are other flying insects that can sting or bite and, in people who are predisposed to them, cause an allergic reaction. These creatures all belong to the order Hymenoptera: yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants.
It's more important at the moment to seek medical attention for a severe allergic reaction to an insect sting than to identify which bug was responsible. But it can be helpful in general to recognize insects that can cause an anaphylactic reaction and know a bit about their habits (where they nest, for instance) so you can avoid them.
Honeybees commonly nest in tree hollows, logs or inside buildings. Away from their hive, honeybees tend to be non-aggressive but can be more aggressive when their hive is threatened or disturbed. Stings from honeybees are common when a person walks barefoot on a clover-filled lawn.
They are the only stinging insect to routinely leave a stinger in the victim’s skin, although other stinging insects occasionally do so as well. While there has been much written about removing stingers, the best method is whatever is quickest. The longer the stinger is in the skin (up to 20 seconds anyway) the more venom which may be injected.
Africanized (killer) honeybees are far more aggressive than domestic honeybees, which were created by cross-breeding African honeybees with domestic honeybees in South America for the purpose of greater honey production.
Their venom is essentially the same as domestic honeybees — meaning that a person allergic to a typical honeybee will also be allergic to Africanized honeybees. They tend to sting in large groups, sometimes by the hundreds.
Bumblebees rarely sting people because they are non-aggressive and typically mild-mannered. They will sting if provoked or if their nest is disturbed, but they are so loud and slow, a person usually has plenty of time and warning to escape. They nest on the ground or in piles of grass clippings or wood and feed on insects and flower nectar.
Yellowjackets are wasp-like insects that live in mounds built into the ground, they tend to be aggressive insects, and are a common nuisance at picnics and around trash cans where food and sugary drinks are abundant.
Stings on the lip or inside the mouth or throat can occur when a drink is taken from an open can of soda that a yellow jacket had crawled into. Occasionally, stings from yellow jackets can result in a skin infection because these insects can carry bacteria.
Hornets, including yellow and white-faced hornets, build paper-mâché type nests in trees and shrubs. These insects may be very aggressive, and sting people because of a mild disruption, such as someone nearby mowing a lawn or trimming a tree.
Wasps build honeycomb nests under the eaves of a house, or in a tree, shrub or under patio furniture. They tend to be less aggressive than yellow jackets and hornets, and mostly feed on insects and flower nectar.
Put simply, the best way to prevent an allergic reaction is to avoid being stung. Here are a few tips:
Hire a trained exterminator to treat any known nests in the immediate area; periodic surveillance for further infestation should be performed.
Avoid looking or smelling like a flower. Do not wear brightly colored clothing or flowery prints, or perfumes or other scents that will attract insects.
Always wear shoes when walking outside, particularly on grass.
Wear pants, long-sleeved shirts, gloves, close-toed shoes, and socks when working outdoors.
Use caution when working around bushes, shrubs, trees and trash cans.
Always check food and drinks (especially open cans of soda or drinks with straws) before consuming, especially at pools and picnics, where yellow jackets are known to be present.
Keep an insecticide, approved for the use on stinging insects, available should treatment of a nest be necessary.
Testing is performed using allergy skin testing or by performing a RAST. Skin testing is still the preferred method and the procedure is similar to testing for pollen or pet allergies. However, it may be necessary to use increasing concentrations of venom extracts to make a diagnosis. Allergists usually test for all stinging insects (bees, wasps, etc.) since studies have shown that people usually can't identify which type of insect stung them.
A person stung by only one insect may show positive allergy tests to more than one type of insect. In this situation, treatment using venom from all of the species is usually given.
It's not always a clear-cut case who should be tested for a bee allergy, but in general: Testing is not needed If a person has never been stung by an insect, or never had any symptoms (other than pain at the site of the sting) as a result of a sting, there is no need to perform any venom allergy testing.
Or, if a child under 16 years of age has only skin symptoms (such as hives and swelling) after a sting. This is because anaphylaxis will only occur in up to 10 percent of future insect stings. Or, if a child or adult has a large local reaction, where swelling occurs at the site of the sting only, it is not usually a reason to perform venom testing or to administer venom allergy shots.
This is because the chance of developing anaphylaxis with future stings is only about 5 to 10 percent for both children and adults. (A few studies show that these reactions can be decreased with the use of venom immunotherapy, and this may be required in situations where stings are frequent and the swelling disrupts a person’s quality of life or ability to work.)
Testing is needed if a person of any age has symptoms of anaphylaxis (see page 1) after being stung. That's because the person has about a 60 to 70 percent chance that future insect stings will cause a similar reaction. The chance of a reaction to a future sting will decrease over time but still remains at about 20 percent many years after the last sting.
Also, if there is a particular parental concern or the child is at high risk for frequent stings, venom testing and treatment is a reasonable option. People older than 16 with these same concerns should have venom testing and treatment, given a higher risk of anaphylaxis with future stings.
If a person is found to have a positive allergy test to venom, yet has had no symptoms with stings, the chance of developing anaphylaxis with future stings is approximately 17 percent.
The treatment of venom allergy involves the management of an acute reaction, as well as the prevention of future reactions. Epinephrine is the treatment of choice for anaphylaxis.
People with venom allergy are encouraged to carry a self-injectable form of epinephrine, such as an Epi-Pen or Twin-Jet device. If this medication is required, immediate medical attention is also needed, and the person should call 911 or go to the emergency room.
If itching or hives are the only symptoms, an oral antihistamine may be all that is required although seeking emergency medical attention is still advised. If symptoms worsen or swelling of the skin affects the ability to breathe, then epinephrine will be required.
If a stinger remains in the skin, such as with a honeybee sting, it should be removed quickly so that more venom is not injected into the sting. Do not squeeze the stinger or the site of the skin — instead, pull the stinger out with tweezers or scrape the stinger out with the edge of a credit card. Put ice or a cold compress at the sting site to reduce local swelling.
To prevent reactions to future insect stings, avoid being around stinging insects. If a person has experienced anaphylaxis, or whole-body skin symptoms (hives, itching, flushing, swelling away from the sting site) in those 16 years and older, then venom and testing are required.
Immunotherapy, or allergy shots, using purified venom from the type of insect to which a person is allergic, can cure venom allergy. Allergy shots using pure venom is given in much the same way as allergy shots for pollen allergy.
After a person is receiving appropriate doses of venom allergy shots, the chance of a reaction with future stings is reduced to less than 5 percent. After a series of venom allergy shots for at least 3 to 5 years, most people can stop the shots without a significant increase in the chance of allergic reactions.
However, some people with severe, life-threatening reactions from insect stings, or those who have had anaphylaxis from the venom allergy shots themselves, may require life-long venom allergy shots.
This is because a person’s chances of a reaction to future stings may slowly increase to as high as 20 percent many years after venom allergy shots are stopped. This topic is an evolving area of venom allergy research and requires careful discussion between a person and their allergist.
For those with severe allergies who must — due to occupation or hobby — be in a situation in which stings could easily occur, the option of rush immunotherapy should be considered. Accelerated immunotherapy such as rush, though it carries an increased risk of reactions, can result in control of venom allergies much more rapidly than "regular" allergy shots.
Some allergists perform venom allergy testing, either with skin testing or RAST, after venom immunotherapy has been given for a period of time. Venom immunotherapy can be stopped in the majority of people whose allergy test turns negative, although the test does not always turn negative, even in people who have received venom allergy shots for years.
Recent studies suggest that many children who begin allergy shots for bee stings do not complete their therapy. Keep in mind that allergy shots can cure a bee sting allergy and reduce the likelihood of a life-threatening allergic reaction in the future, but the full course of treatment needs to be completed.
All people with a history of allergic reactions to insect stings, including children with skin-only reactions and even those with large local reactions, should consider having some form of medical alert, whether a bracelet, wallet card, or scroll I.D. identifying their medical condition, as well as having an injectable form of epinephrine available for immediate use.
This EpiPen should be carried with you wherever you go. The TSA generally allows you to carry your EpiPen with you in your carry-on if you fly, but check ahead to make sure.
Bee stings are common, and allergic reactions can result in severe reactions or even death. That said, recognizing the symptoms of anaphylaxis and calling for immediate attention can decrease the risk of these life-threatening complications.
Most people with mild reactions will not need shots, yet allergy shots offer the option of a cure for those with serious allergies.
It's important to note one last time that most fatalities due to bee sting allergy occur in those who do not have a known allergy. Everyone should be familiar with the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis and how to contact emergency help if needed.
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STATUTES AMENDMENT (COURTS AND JUSTICE MEASURES) BILL
Mr TARZIA (Hartley) (11:25): I rise also today to support the Statutes Amendment (Courts and Justice Measures) Bill 2016 and to make a few comments highlighting the proposed amendment to part 7 of the Solicitor-General Act 1972 before it goes to the other place. As we have heard, the bill in question was introduced in late September of this year and it makes a series of changes to certain acts, being the Bail Act 1985, the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935, the Evidence Act 1929, the Solicitor-General Act 1972, the Summary Procedure Act 1921 and the Youth Court Act 1993, amongst others. I note that most of these changes are small in nature and they are for efficiency measures, in many respects, to better match up with other acts.
The bill, as we have heard, seeks to make changes to various acts in several ways, beginning with the Bail Act, after requests by the Chief Magistrate, where there is a proposed widening of the class of person who can witness a bail agreement or guarantee of bail to include a registrar or deputy registrar. Further to a request by the Chief Justice and the Chief Magistrate, I note that part 3 of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 and the Evidence Act 1929 is proposed to be altered as well.
From a request, I believe by parliamentary counsel, part 6 of the Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002 has been proposed to be amended to allow for recognition of electronic publishing of documents, and we have heard why that would be a good idea. Part 5 of the Evidence Act 1929, as requested by the Attorney's senior legal officer, I understand that there is to be an alteration to the current restrictions preventing unrepresented accused from personally cross-examining a victim, to include an offence of recklessly or intentionally causing harm to be consistent with the Criminal Law Consolidation Act, and so forth.
I want to speak briefly about the alteration proposed to the Solicitor-General Act 1972. We have heard that the Solicitor-General is, in fact, otherwise known as the second law officer of the state, with a budget of some $240,000 or so per year. The Solicitor-General is obviously appointed by the Governor with certain conditions and it is an extremely important role to fulfil for the state. We know that the next Solicitor-General will be appointed soon. We are not sure who that will be, but I have no doubt that it will be a highly qualified member of the state's legal circle. It might even be a barrister from one of the reputable Adelaide chambers, maybe Hanson Chambers, for example. Whoever it is, I have no doubt that they will do a fantastic job.
The Solicitor-General, being a senior statutory officer appointed by the Governor and the second legal officer after the Attorney-General, represents the Crown in civil proceedings and must provide independent high-level work and high-level advice to the Attorney-General. The departmental staff, in their very important work, also support the Solicitor-General. If the serving Solicitor-General is able to do an upstanding job of independently serving the law and the people of this state, I think we need to ask why they should be forced to leave after 10 years. I would have thought that a capacity-based assessment would be better than the imposition of a compulsory retirement.
I believe the role needs absolute unfettered discretion. There cannot be any potential distraction because this is an independent position. I understand that there may be an intention to perhaps cut costs where possible but, after that, what happens? As we have seen from time to time, often people who fulfil this role later end up in the judiciary. My real concern is: what happens when the government is a party to legal issues?
If the Solicitor-General became a member of the bench and the government was included in legal proceedings, that person may be involved, albeit on the bench. We have seen, unfortunately, just by the nature of what the government does, that it often has to go into litigation. This calls into question this concept of whether we should have capacity-based assessment and whether that should be for life or whether this person, whoever it is, should be forced to retire after a certain amount of time.
An independent judiciary is one of the most important—if not the most important—part of our system of governance in South Australia. It provides a balance but also a check on the legislative and executive arms of government. Under the Australian Constitution and the South Australian constitution, the judiciary is in fact independent of the legislature and the executive. The judiciary has obligations to the community to determine cases impartially and according to the law, whether they are between individuals or between a citizen and the state.
To do this, these sorts of positions and the judiciary must be able to exercise their judicial functions and their other functions without interference from the executive or the legislature. I believe the community must be able to approach the courts, even when legal action is against the government, and know that the government cannot interfere in a particular case because judicial independence ensures that the community can conduct legal action without fear or favour.
As the member for Bragg has pointed out, we on this side of the chamber will be supporting this legislation, but I would respectfully encourage the Attorney to rethink this part. We have not been given arguments as to why the bill seeks to provide a fixed term of 10 years. However, I hope that I have provided a little bit of perspective and context as to why some of us on this side have reservations about that. I look forward to following the debate in due course as it progresses through this place and the other place.
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Home News Regions Shenandoah Valley $10.3 million project will add 61 jobs to plant’s staff
$10.3 million project will add 61 jobs to plant’s staff
Published January 30, 2019 by Joan Tupponce
O’Sullivan Films has operated in Winchester since 1936.
It has 450 employees. Photo by Norm Shafer
Continental AG, the parent company of O’Sullivan Films in Winchester, chose the Shenandoah Valley plant over a company facility in Mexico for a $10.3 million expansion. The project will add 61 jobs during the next three years at a site already employing 450 people.
Big factors in Continental’s choice were the quality of the Winchester plant’s workforce and its consistent production track record, says plant manager Scott Krueger.
“We felt positive that this would be the right location for that expansion.”
The project will include extensive internal modifications and additional equipment at the plant. Jobs will be added in areas such as production, technical, research and development and support functions.
“The expansion will allow us to provide a greater range of products to the marketplace and also expand capacity,” Krueger says. “We will be making more and different products, especially in the market known as synthetic leathers.”
Continental, a German automotive products company, acquired O’Sullivan in 2017, allowing the Winchester facility to “take advantage of opportunities at a higher level,” Krueger says.
O’Sullivan began operations in 1896 in Massachusetts making rubber heels for shoes. It moved to Winchester in 1932 as O’Sullivan Corp. before becoming O’Sullivan Films in 2006.
The company has made automotive interior trim materials since the late 1940s. Today the Winchester plant provides raw materials to manufacturers. “We develop sheet products that someone can turn into another product,” Krueger says. “If it’s soft to the touch in a car — seating, instrument panels, door panels, etc. — we have the ability to make the material for someone.”
The company works with manufacturers in a variety of other industries including outdoor decking, and medical, residential and commercial flooring.
In connection with the expansion, O’Sullivan received a $188,000 grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund and is eligible to receive state benefits from the Virginia Enterprise Zone Program as well as sales and use tax exemptions on manufacturing equipment.
In filling new positions, O’Sullivan will conduct national and international level recruiting for certain jobs. “For our skilled trades, we recruit more locally,” Krueger says.
O’Sullivan already is one of the largest employers in Winchester. “It’s part of our community identity,” says Shawn Hershberger, the city’s director of development services.
Expanding the Winchester plant is a “vote of confidence for the leadership and works of this facility,” he adds. “We are a community that has seen a lot of recent job growth. It’s just another sign that this is a great place to do business.”
Harrisonburg retail center sells for $5.275M
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There is so much to do and see in this beautiful town. What would you most like to experience?
Select a category below to discover more about Annapolis.
Thanks to an incredibly picturesque waterfront backdrop, plentiful access to the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay, and an energetic, happy-to-be here pulse, Annapolis has quickly become a foodie's paradise.
Regardless of when you visit or how old your family members are, everyone's certain to have a a great time.
The Naval Academy has been training officers for the U.S. Navy and the Marine Corps since 1845.
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Whether it's name brands or specialty boutiques, it's all in Annapolis.
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Annapolis and Anne Arundel County are home to a thriving visual and performing arts community.
From quaint B&Bs, to high-end hotels, to sleeping on a sailboat in the Annapolis Harbor, there's no shortage of rooms available in Annapolis.
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At Lunch Two with Freya Waley-Cohen
Jan 24, 2020 13:00 - 14:00
A performance featuring music by the award-winning young composer Freya Waley-Cohen
A performance featuring music by the award-winning young composer Freya Waley-Cohen, including her arrangement of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, settings of five emotive poems by the influential German Romantic author whose poetry was a huge influence on Mahler’s composition. The concert also features a new chamber piece for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble, receiving its world premiere in this series of concerts.
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£6 under 26s/students
St Andrews Hall
St Andrews Plain
NR3 1AU
thehalls@norwich.gov.uk
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HIS EXCELLENCY MR. MARC ABENSOUR
AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO SINGAPORE
Voilah! Festival marks Singapore’s culture calendar with a showcase of the best of France-Singapore partnerships and innovation in the arts, culture and science. As a meeting point between French and Singaporean communities, this edition of the festival pays homage to 10 years of cultural cooperation between the two countries.
Beyond their intrinsic beauty, the arts and culture are important to inspire and galvanise communities. They have the ability to bring together audiences from various backgrounds and challenge our perspectives towards the issues of our time.
With climate change becoming the world’s new reality, Voilah! 2018 kicks off with a visit to the Arctic with French photographer Michel Rawicki. His photo exhibition, “Touched by the Cold”, documents the impact of climate change on this beautiful ‘white world’. On display at Gardens by the Bay, his work hopes to help raise collective awareness on the challenges of global warming.
There is also beauty in the lessons learned from history, and in tales to be told. In “Angkor: Exploring Cambodia’s Sacred City”, treasures from Paris’ Musée Guimet will be displayed at Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum. This initiative is part of a partnership agreement between both governments to introduce and present Asian art in Singapore, and dovetails with Singapore’s Chairmanship of ASEAN.
Under the auspices of the 2018 France-Singapore Year of Innovation, our artists have created works with new interpretations or technologies – be it Matali Crasset’s re-imagination of playspaces in the National Museum of Singapore; an interactive and immersive exhibition on Artificial Intelligence by Mathieu Briand; or sound artist and composer Tarek Atoui’s Southeast Asian debut exhibition that draws inspiration from everyday sounds.
On behalf of the French Embassy and the Institut Français, I would like to express my utmost gratitude to our Singaporean partners; it is with their support and initiative that we are continuously able to put French artistic and scientific talents on display. The long-lasting bilateral partnerships developed are essential and priceless.
I would also like to thank our sponsors, whose generosity is the main reason we can continue our commitment to sharing the essence of French culture with a passionate and enthusiastic audience in Singapore.
This year, I invite you to see the world in a new light as you uncover another facet of French innovation! May Voilah! 2018 embolden and empower you.
HOSSAN LEONG
ACTOR AND CHEVALIER DE L’ORDRE DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES
Voilah! French Festival Singapore has become a much expected cultural event, and I am so proud to be this year part of it: I have been invited to be the “Singaporean Patron for French Culture” (Yes, not joking!), and also to perform in the Opening Show of the Festival. Do not miss “The Rock’s Clown” on April 1st at Garden by the Bay, a fantastic and unusual performance mixing circus, humour and poetry!
Voilah! French Festival showcases lots of co-productions with artists from both countries working together: actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists sharing their idea of cultural innovation. It is a major opportunity to build bridges and connect cultures; I believe these links help us to know each other better, to share our passions, for a better and happier society.
Voilah Festival by Hossan Leong
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Thank you for visiting the "Climate Change News" page. You will find news ad nauseum in the lamestream media purporting man-made climate change by alarmists at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) but there is as much or more evidence by equally eminent scientists that suggest otherwise. I present facts here to bring balance to what you may have heard in favor of man-made climate change. ~ Rodney Spooner
Is Anything Wrong With Natural, Non-Man-Made Climate Change?
Guest post written by Mario Loyola.I recently asked an environmentalist this question: "If we found out that the planet was warming for purely natural reasons, would you be in favor of climate engineering to stop it, because the current temperature and sea level are the right ones for humans?"
He seemed appalled. "No, of course not, man," he said.
"Thank you," I said. And I meant it, because this fellow had just made a concession that is fatal to the central argument in favor of reducing carbon emissions: the risk of catastrophic climate change.
Mr. Loyola—author of "Twilight of the Climate Change Movement"—is senior fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
Checkmating The Left On Global Warming
"Wind and solar...are not the only power sources that produce little or no carbon dioxide emissions. Natural gas power emits only half as much carbon dioxide as coal power, and hydro power and nuclear power emit no carbon dioxide emissions at all. Natural gas and nuclear power are available on-demand, unlike wind and solar power that are extremely limited on cloudy days, low-wind days and at night. Hydro power is not quite an on-demand power source, but it is much more reliable and predictable than wind and solar. Because wind and solar require conventional power backup, hydro and nuclear power actually reduce carbon dioxide emissions even more effectively than wind and solar, and natural gas emissions become comparatively smaller relative to wind and solar."
Read more at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2016/05/05/checkmating-the-left-on-global-warming/#512f3bb9179b
Tectonic shifts triggered ancient ice ages
BOSTON, April 19 (UPI) -- Researchers have known that across the great expanse of Earth's geologic history, tectonic shifts and climate change are linked. Identifying more specific correlations -- cause and effect -- has proven difficult.
However, new research shows tectonic activity likely triggered the last two ice ages.
"I think we're the first ones to really link large-scale tectonic events to climate change," Oliver Jagoutz, associate professor of planetary sciences at MIT, said in a news release.
Read more about climate change at http://www.votefortheconstitution.com/climate-change-news.html
Shining Light on ‘Settled’ Science: There Is No ‘Climate Crisis’
The science of global warming is settled. At least, this is what politicians keep insisting. Why should they care? Well, it turns out that global warming has provided a pretext for massive increases in political control over the public. The science of global warming has been used to justify the banning of lightbulbs, shutting down coal-fired power plants, and even a possible sighting of the holy grail: increased taxation without end (to save the planet).
Janaury 2015
MIT Climate Scientist: Global Warming Believers a ‘Cult’
Last week, government agencies including NASA announced that 2014 was the “hottest year” in “recorded history,” as The New York Times put it in an early edition. Last year has since been demoted by the Times to the hottest “since record-keeping began in 1880.”
But that may not be true. Now the same agencies have acknowledged that there’s only a 38 percent chance that 2014 was the hottest year on record. And even if it was, it was only by two-100ths of a degree.
White House threatens to put brakes on alternative fuels
California Gov. Jerry Brown is among several prominent politicians in the West who have personally appealed to the administration to drop the rollback plan championed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asked the president to stop the EPA from proceeding, warning in a letter last month that the plan destabilizes state efforts to combat climate change and creates "loopholes for oil companies" to avoid reducing pollution.
But the administration is balancing a robust agenda to fight climate change with an alternative fuels program hobbled by setbacks and the messy politics of ethanol.
The Angry GOP Backlash to Obama's Historic Climate Accord
The leaders of the incoming GOP Congress said the president had it out for the American energy consumer and vowed to stop his enhanced regulatory scheme come January. “This announcement is yet another sign that the president intends to double down on his job-crushing policies no matter how devastating the impact for America’s heartland and the country as a whole," House Speaker John Boehner said. "And it is the latest example of the president’s crusade against affordable, reliable energy that is already hurting jobs and squeezing middle-class families."
Antarctic sea ice at its 2015 maximum
Antarctic sea ice extent reached its likely maximum for the year, at 18.83 million square kilometers (7.24 million square miles) on October 6, 2015. This year’s maximum was the sixteenth highest in the 35-year record. It was 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) above the average maximum daily extent computed over the 1981 to 2010 period of 18.71 million square kilometers (7.19 million square miles), and 1.33 million square kilometers (514,000 square miles) below the record maximum set in 2014. The date of the maximum was quite late in comparison to the 35-year satellite record. Only one year, 2002, has had a later maximum (October 12).
At the date of the 2015 maximum, Antarctic sea ice extent was greater than average in the Antarctic Peninsula region, the Weddell Sea, and the Wilkes Land coast area; and below average in the Ross Sea and Indian Ocean sectors.
Saturday, July 5,
Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year
For years, computer simulations have predicted that sea ice should be disappearing from the Poles. Now, with the news that Antarctic sea-ice levels have hit new highs, comes yet another mishap to tarnish the credibility of climate science.
Climatologists base their doom-laden predictions of the Earth’s climate on computer simulations. But these have long been the subject of ridicule because of their stunning failure to predict the pause in warming – nearly 18 years long on some measures – since the turn of the last century.
It’s the same with sea ice. We hear a great deal about the decline in Arctic sea ice, in line with or even ahead of predictions. But why are environmentalists and scientists so much less keen to discuss the long-term increase in the southern hemisphere?
In fact, across the globe, there are about one million square kilometres more sea ice than 35 years ago, which is when satellite measurements began.
In recent days a new scandal over the integrity of temperature data has emerged, this time in America, where it has been revealed as much as 40 per cent of temperature data there are not real thermometer readings.
Many temperature stations have closed, but rather than stop recording data from these posts, the authorities have taken the remarkable step of ‘estimating’ temperatures based on the records of surrounding stations.
So vast swathes of the data are actually from ‘zombie’ stations that have long since disappeared.
This is bad enough, but it has also been discovered that the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using estimates even when perfectly good raw data is available to it – and that it has adjusted historical records. Read more...
Thursday, July 3,
Gov’t Scientists: Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing — Because Of Global Warming
Government scientists are not only blaming global warming for the centuries-long collapse of western Antarctic ice sheets, but global warming is also being blamed for record levels of sea ice in the South Pole.
But past studies have shown the Antarctic glacier collapses are nothing new. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) put out two studies in the past year showing that Antarctica has gone through similar periods of glacier collapse in the past.
A BAS study from February 2014 shows that 8,000 years ago Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier thinned just as quickly as it has in recent decades — thousands of years before massive amounts of man-made carbon dioxide emissions were released into the atmosphere.
Not only did the Pine Island glacier melt rapidly in the past, it was also able to naturally reverse the melting.
Another BAS study from last year argued the current melt in the western Antarctic is within the “natural range of climate variability” of the last 300 years.
“The record shows that this region has warmed since the late 1950s, at a similar magnitude to that observed in the Antarctic Peninsula and central West Antarctica,” said a BAS study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, “however, this warming trend is not unique.”
“More dramatic isotopic warming (and cooling) trends occurred in the mid-19th and 18th centuries, suggesting that at present the effect of anthropogenic climate drivers at this location has not exceeded the natural range of climate variability in the context of the past ~300 years,” the study continued.
The Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia began erupting on May 30, vaulting ash, along with tiny particles known as volcanic sulfur aerosols, as high as 65,000 feet into the stratosphere. Dramatic images from the eruption show the mountain exploding like a mushroom cloud.
The ash grounded air traffic in northwest Australia and parts of Indonesia, since those aerosols are hazardous to modern high bypass turbofan engines and can cause them to shut down in mid-flight.
Giant volcanic eruptions — the most famous being the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, also in Indonesia — are well-known for their ability to temporarily cool the Earth. But this eruption, even counted alongside a concurrent one in Alaska, are not large enough to make much of an impact on the planet's temperature trends on their own.
The Sangeang Api volcano is located in the tropics, along the so-called Ring of Fire where the Earth's tectonic plates meet one another, leading to all sorts of geological hazards, from volcanoes to earthquakes.
Ash cloud (brownish hues) seen billowing away from the Sangeang Api volcano in Indonesia on May 31, 2014.
Frigid Winter? Blame 4,000 Years of Wild Jet Streams
The rainfall patterns reveal the jet stream was relatively "flat," moving straight and steady from about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago, the study reports. Then, about 4,000 years ago, the amount of solar energy reaching the Northern Hemisphere dropped. (This drop was caused by Earth's 20,000-year precession, the slow change in its rotation axis.) The change in the sun's energy altered worldwide climate, such as triggering a stronger El Niño/La Niña cycle and a shift in monsoonal rainfall over India and Pakistan. [10 Surprising Ways Weather Has Changed History]
The jet stream pattern also shifted 4,000 years ago, going from flat to curvy over a period of about 500 years, the researchers found. For example, the isotopes show more Arctic air moving south in the East, and more tropical air heading north in the West, consistent with wrinkles in the jet stream. The curves help explain why some parts of North America became colder or wetter, while others grew drier or warmer, Bowen said.
"We knew the changing seasonality of the climate in North America wasn't uniform, and we were able to link it to this change in the jet stream," Bowen said.
Sun to blame?
So was this winter's bizarre weather the result of natural climate swings? Not at all, Bowen said.
"All things being equal, with the solar forcing that kicked in 4,000 years ago, we'd actually expect to be heading the other way now and starting to decrease the jet stream curviness," Bowen told Live Science.
Several recent studies have argued that the jet stream's twists and turns are being exacerbated by climate change. That's because the jet stream's high-speed air current forms at the border between hot and cold air masses. As global warming changes the distribution of hot and cold air on the planet, the location and pattern of the jet stream may change too.
"Whether the Pacific-North America Teleconnection will continue to vary in the future as it has for the past few thousand years will have important implications in terms of water availability and climate in the western United States," said Max Berkelhammer, a hydrologist at the University of Illinois, Chicago, who was not involved in the study.
But until now, only a century of instrumental records have been available to model the jet stream's response to global warming. The new study "gives us a good look at natural variability so that we can gain a better understanding about how the jet stream has responded to past changes," said Lesleigh Anderson, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who was not involved in the study "This is what we need to know to better understand what could happen in the future with rising carbon dioxide."
I used to be a man-made "Climate Change denier" until I learned about geoengineering where science has delved into controlling weather patterns to create precipitation in certain areas and prevent it in others. This science isn't new and patents have been granted as early as the 1940's for what we have called "cloud seeding". How far has this science evolved? Is it possible to make it rain longer to cause more destructive flooding? Is it possible to cause an extended drought to make farms and ranches unsustainable and force farmers and ranchers into bankruptcy?
We are being led to believe that global warming is man-made because of increased C02 when the sun has just climaxed its natural several year cycle of increased solar activity that will be followed by its natural several year cycle of regression. Is there any link between the sun's increased solar activity and the increase of volcanic and earthquake activity? Volcanoes belch out far more C02 as well as other toxic gasses, ash and smoke into the atmosphere than any man-made pollution.
So, the question of man-made global warming versus man-made geoengineering still begs an answer..."
Is the climate chaos we have been experiencing recently an 'act of God' or the act of men acting like God?"
Give up meat, coal, oil, economic growth and national sovereignty - orders new IPCC climate report
The Working Group I report, released in September last year, admitted that there has been an inexplicable pause in global warming since 1997, which none of its computer models predicted. (In other words, the entire basis of man-made-global warming theory - which underpins Working Group III's demands for "decarbonisation" - may depend on a flawed assumption, unsupported by real-world evidence).
March 2014
Giant Virus Resurrected from Permafrost After 30,000 Years
A mysterious giant virus buried for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost has been resurrected.
The virus only infects single-celled organisms and doesn't closely resemble any known pathogens that harm humans.
Even so, the new discovery raises the possibility that as the climate warms and exploration expands in long-untouched regions of Siberia, humans could release ancient or eradicated viruses. These could include Neanderthal viruses or even smallpox that have lain dormant in the ice for thousands of years.
"There is now a non-zero probability that the pathogenic microbes that bothered [ancient human populations] could be revived, and most likely infect us as well," study co-author Jean-Michel Claverie, a bioinformatics researcher at Aix-Marseille University in France, wrote in an email. "Those pathogens could be banal bacteria (curable with antibiotics) or resistant bacteria or nasty viruses. If they have been extinct for a long time, then our immune system is no longer prepared to respond to them."
(A "non-zero" probability just means the chances of the event happening are not "impossible.")
No climate change impact on insurance biz: Buffett
While the question of climate change "deserves lots of attention," Buffett said in a " Squawk Box " interview, "It has no effect ... [on] the prices we're charging this year versus five years ago. And I don't think it'll have an effect on what we're charging three years or five years from now."
February 2014
Confessions of a ‘Greenpeace Dropout’ to the U.S. Senate on climate change
These judgments are based, almost entirely, on the results of sophisticated computer models designed to predict the future of global climate. As noted by many observers, including Dr. Freeman Dyson of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, a computer model is not a crystal ball. We may think it sophisticated, but we cannot predict the future with a computer model any more than we can make predictions with crystal balls, throwing bones, or by appealing to the Gods.
Climate engineering is not working: Researchers
This comes as a spanner in the works of those working night and day to evolve policies and mechanisms to arrest climate change. The implementation of climate engineering technologies as a last ditch effort to combat the escalating effects of climate change could, in fact, make things worse, assert a team of researchers.
Geoengineering Ineffective Against Climate Change, Could Make Worse
Current schemes to minimize the havoc caused by global warming by purposefully manipulating Earth's climate are likely to either be relatively useless or actually make things worse, researchers say in a new study.
Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute
While a trend of increasing drought that may be linked to global warming has been documented in some regions, including parts of the Mediterranean and in the Southwestern United States, there is no scientific consensus yet that it is a worldwide phenomenon. Nor is there definitive evidence that it is causing California’s problems.
Climate hubs courtesy of Executive Order
With this week’s Senate passage of the ‘Farm Bill’ and now via Executive Order, Barack HUSSEIN Obama has created seven regional ‘so-called’ climate hubs claiming they will help farmers and rural communities respond more successfully to the risks and effects of climate change…including drought, invasive pests, climate related wildfires, and floods.
July 22,
TRR: Chinese Smog is Saving the World
The most interesting new theory pits man-made pollution against man-made pollution. A Boston University study blames the lack of expected global warming on coal-burning electrical plants in China.
Artificial snowstorm brings chaos to Beijing
Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.
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postmortem May 14, 2014
House of Cards Boss Beau Willimon Answers Vulture Readers’ Questions
By Denise Martin
Photo: Netflix
Last week, Vulture asked readers to come up with questions for House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon. And you did! He couldn’t answer every single one, but he did respond to 13 frank inquiries (pun intended). We tried for more, but Willimon is as adamant as Matthew Weiner when it comes to keeping a lid on story lines for future seasons. Needless to say, spoilers aplenty if you have not watched all of season two, but read on to find out about why Clare’s backstory included a rape, the origins of the threesome, and whether or not Frank Underwood will ever lose.
Given the lines Frank has crossed in order to finally become the president (murder, etc.), is there any chance he can be redeemed? —kevin.klawitter
Hmm. We don’t really think about Frank’s story in terms of redemption, because that presumes he operates on the same moral compass as most people do. Frank has his own code. And in his code, power is the most important thing, so you either have power or you don’t. In his worldview, it’s not a question of doing right or wrong, it’s a question of, do you wield power or don’t you? So, redemption in the conventional sense … it’s debatable whether he’s capable of that or not, but it’s the lens through which he sees the universe.
If Frank actually is president for enough time to effect some change, what policies will he try to enact? Does he have any interest in positive change, or is everything connected to power/Claire/revenge? —christina.sweeneybaird
I think I answered that one in the first question.
Was it always your intention to go darker and more serious than the original BBC series? —Bridget646
The short answer is yes. The BBC version is fantastic. You’ll find no bigger fan of it than me. I think Andrew Davies did an extraordinary job adapting Michael Dobbs’s novels, but the tone of it is much more tongue-in-cheek and satirical, and we wanted ours to be squarely in the drama category. Also we knew that in our first season alone, we would have more hours of content than all three seasons of the BBC version combined. And into our second season, over double that. So it meant that we were going to have to dig much deeper into our characters, include a lot of new characters, and expand the stories. I think that the world of television has become much more sophisticated in the past 25 years. Audiences have come to expect that. So we knew that, from the get-go, we would have a show that was very different than the BBC version. In terms of it being darker, that’s debateable. The BBC version is deliciously dark, but we want our darkness to come at a cost, the way it does in life, and you see that from time to time in our show. I think you can’t have darkness without putting it in relief. Otherwise it is just pure satire. So we try to do that whenever we can.
Will Cashew be a regular next season? —daytimedrama
[Laughs] I guess that depends on whether SAG is willing to include other species in its membership.
The moment when Rachel bashes Doug Stamper’s head in was the most surprising moment. Did you want to make more room for Rachel to play in season three? Is she an uncaged bird now? —Lillian4444
I don’t discuss anything about stories for upcoming seasons. I will say though that it was a choice to make Rachel a much more important character in season two. Originally, Rachel’s character was simply listed as “Call Girl” in the first two episodes, and she was never intended to go beyond that. But when I decided to expand Peter Russo’s story and have him run for governor, which was not a originally part of this story, the gubernatorial race was meant for another character altogether whom we hadn’t cast. I needed to make big changes to the story in order to accomplish that. The reason why I wanted to shift that story to Corey Stoll’s character was because Corey was doing such a marvelous job, really dazzling us in every scene, so I wanted to give him more. And when I made that choice, I looked at all the other characters we had available to us and thought about who would be most interesting to dramatize his downfall, and that was the call girl, so she got a name. What we discovered along the way was this really complex, intriguing relationship between her and Doug. Once you make a discovery like that, you want to dig in and make the most of it.
Did you have any hesitancy about writing the rape subplot for Claire? It seems so often now that on TV dramas a rape backstory is used as a plot device to make ruthless or powerful women more sympathetic. See: Mellie on Scandal, Victoria on Revenge, Elizabeth on The Americans. Just wondering if you were aware of this pattern and considered any other options before settling on this one. —cyberrr96
We weren’t really thinking about other shows when we came up with that backstory for Claire. What really inspired it was seeing an early screening of a documentary called The Invisible War. That’s a documentary that focuses on the problem of sexual assault in the military. I was really moved by that documentary. At the time, when I saw the screening, neither the show nor the issue was nearly as visible as it has become. But I was already thinking of the character of Jackie Sharp, a woman who has served in the military. I was thinking about sexual assault as the most brutal expression of power. And I thought that for Claire, to have experienced that and to have found her own way to take the power back, was right in line with our show. Because our show’s subject is power, and it can express itself in a lot of different ways. There’s the brutishness of sexual assault, but there’s also the power of the survivor to overcome it, and in Claire’s case, to name names and to push legislation to curb it. That all seems right in line with our show and with Claire. It wasn’t a choice to try to make Claire more sympathetic. I have zero interest in strategizing the sympathy factor for characters. A lot of our characters are quote-unquote unsympathetic, but you can’t take your eyes off of them, you’re engaged in their stories, you want to see what they do next, and Claire’s a great example of that. Really, I was interested in the theme of power, and placing one of our stars at the center of it. And she also ends up compromising her own bill in order to achieve other political ends. That’s also right in line with our show. You see something that Claire truly and deeply cares about, and yet she has to make a choice as to whether she was going to be uncompromising in her pursuit of reform, or whether she was going to do her part to help Team Underwood achieve the presidency. Those sorts of choices that people make in Washington all the time are the center of our show.
Do Claire and Frank have a sexual relationship? —maddieolariviere
That’s a great question.
Why Meechum? Obviously the Underwoods have complete control over him already, he does nothing to advance their global domination or to advance the plot, other than to establish Frank’s bisexuality. Wouldn’t it have been more Underwood-esque to debauch, say, Jackie? —vmcartor
We don’t take a schematic approach to our storytelling. There are a lot of stories in our show that are causal: A leads to B leads to C. A lot of that has to do with political maneuvering. But there are also moments in our show and story lines that aren’t meant to add up in any rational way. I think that the Threechum scene is an example of that. If we didn’t access the irrational parts of Francis and Claire, all they would amount to is political calculation and sociopathy. But they have their human moments. They get drunk. They have desires. They have needs and whims like anyone else. In that scene, you see three people in a particular moment under particular circumstances, where something totally unexpected happens and yet happens organically. As it can in life. What I’m most proud of in that little story line was that the next day when Francis goes out to the car, Meechum says, “Beautiful day, sir.” Francis says, “Yes, it is,” and he gets in the car and back to business as usual as though it never happened. I think that’s a lot truer to life. Something happens, it happens unexpectedly, and we’re not going to make a big deal of it. There we see something that isn’t typically Underwoodian. It’s interesting that the person who asked the question used the adjective Underwood-esque. But if Francis and Claire only did things that were Underwood-esque, they would never surprise us and never surprise themselves. And as a threesome or any other encounter like that were mere calculation, it would have no mystery, and I think, in that particular case if it were Jackie, be quite sloppy on their part. With Meechum, they have someone that they fully trust. They have someone with whom this is possible, that they don’t have to worry about. Those are really the only circumstances under which something like that could happen. Otherwise, we’d really question their intelligence.
Will anyone eventually realize that with regard to Peter Russo, it would have been impossible for him to turn on the car in the passenger’s seat since keyless ignitions require you to step on the brake to start the car? Or has this been put completely to rest with the silence of Janine and Lucas? —eastcoastsnob
You should be hired on CSI immediately.
It seems like he’s won pretty much every battle and defeated (or murdered) pretty much every foe, so will you ever explore Frank actually losing? —sharipep
Another great question. I will say though that I think we have seen Frank experience loss. A great example of that is the sentinel episode, where we see what sacrifices he’s had to make in order to be where he is. There was a time in life where he could make a pure connection, where he could feel for someone completely outside of the realm of politics, and without consequence in a pure sense and it’s something that he can remember and be fond of, but he’s had to turn his back on that side of himself, with the exception of Claire, in order to live the public life that he lives. So there are lots of different forms of loss. In terms of political loss, I would say, in order to get Jackie Sharp on his side at the end of season two, he has to give up a certain degree of power, and so does Claire. So there are prices and costs for the choices they make. In terms of utter defeat, only time will tell.
There’s been talk about how the show’s attitudes reflects the current political mood, or at least the prevailing attitude of American people toward government (contrast this with The West Wing, 1999 through early 2000s). How much do you think that’s true, when it comes to the show’s popularity, and specifically the popularity of the more detestable characters? —shansquared
I think the American public’s relationship with Washington is a complex one. In our show, we portray an extreme. at times exaggerated, dark version of Washington. Of course not all of Washington is like that. In fact, most people, I believe, go to work in government with all the best intentions: They want to serve their country, they want to serve their fellow citizens. And there are a lot of politicians and staff who maintain that part of themselves throughout their entire career. Those people just don’t happen to be the ones that we focus on in our show. There are a lot of shows about Washington right now. I think Veep can reflect a certain comical and absurd view that we have of Washington. Alpha House takes the same approach. Our show takes a darker look. And The West Wing is still as popular as ever. Lots of people watch The West Wing on Netflix. So I don’t think that any one show can encapsulate either what D.C. is or how America feels about it. It’s such a vast and complicated place. I think that all these shows combined might begin to scratch the surface. But it’s reductive, I think, to assume that any one show can.
What I imagine the greatest perk of running a show like this would be is that people in DC would approach you all the time and be like, “YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW CLOSE YOU REALLY ARE TO THE TRUTH.” Please tell me if this has happened to you, and please, if possible, provide as many salacious, vague details as you can without getting into trouble. —ironypants
Kevin Spacey tells a great story, and you have to imagine him doing this in Bill Clinton’s accent, which he mimics perfectly. He was talking to President Clinton about the show, and President Clinton professed to be a fan, and he said, [in a Bill Clinton impersonation] “You know, Kevin, 99 percent of House of Cards is accurate. The one percent that’s not accurate is that you can never pass an education bill that fast.”
House of Cards BBC was a three-season story arc. Is there a possibility of House of Cards USA going beyond the three seasons? —cartmom1
I couldn’t possibly comment.
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Women of Ward 6
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Women of Ward 6: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933), A Major Figure in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Posted by Matt LaFortune 63.20sc on December 18, 2019
January’s Woman of Ward 6 is Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a prominent multi-millionaire American socialite and a major figure in the American women’s suffrage movement. She was one of the founders of the National Woman’s Party (NWP) and helped gain support for the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in Ward 6 is named for Belmont and Alice Paul, another key figure in the fight for women’s voting rights.
The Ward 6 Democrats are recognizing and honoring Ward 6 women who have made significant contributions to better our community for the 2020 anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Belmont was an important strategist and officer for the suffrage movement. She organized the first picketing for women’s voting rights ever to take place before the White House in 1917. When the National Woman’s Party headquarters in the old Brick Capitol was seized to construct the Supreme Court building, Belmont bought a large brick historic home now known as the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, located close the U.S. Capitol, and donated it for use as NWP headquarters.
Born in Mobile, Ala., in 1853, Alva Smith agreed to marry William K. Vanderbilt, grandson of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt during a party at the storied Greenbrier in West Virginia in 1874. William was an eligible young nouveau riche bachelor, but Belmont had a family name respected by society. Her father was unable to regain the family’s wealth and social position in the South after the Civil War. By marring Vanderbilt, she revived her family’s social position and financial status.
While married to Vanderbilt, she built grand houses with architect Richard Morris Hunt and once threw a costumed ball in 1883 for 1,200 people that cost a staggering $3 million. When the elite New Yorkers wouldn’t sell the Vanderbilts a box at the Academy of Music, she helped found the Metropolitan Opera.
In March 1895, she shocked society by divorcing Vanderbilt, who had long been unfaithful, at a time when divorce was rare among the elite. She received a large financial settlement said to be in excess of $10 million, in addition to several estates including Marble House, the Vanderbilt summer mansion in Newport, R.I. She remarried in 1896 to Oliver Belmont, heir to August Belmont, for whom the Belmont Stakes is named. After Oliver Belmont’s death in 1908, she took on the women’s voting rights cause and became an outspoken suffragist.
She spent her latter years campaigning wholeheartedly for women’s suffrage and bucking the status quo by including the rights of black women, who were often neglected by the movement.
She was a woman very different from her time and class, according to novelist Therese Anne Fowler, author of A Well-Behaved Woman, a novel about Alva Belmont, who defied convention at every turn. Fowler’s historical novel, which was published in 2018, is available in local bookstores and on-line. The book is currently in development as a possible TV series.
About the initiative: The Women of Ward 6 Initiative is a non-partisan recognition of Ward 6’s women. The initiative, in partnership with the National Woman’s Party, Capitol Hill Restoration Society and the Hill Rag will culminate in the 2020 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Marci Hilt is a retired communications coordinator and press secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. She currently writes and edits EMMCA MATTERS and is treasurer of the Ward 6 Democrats.
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UW study: Long-term breastfeeding sheds light on whether an infant becomes right- or left-handed
Health and medicine | UW News blog
Jackson Holtz
Bottle feeding infants is associated with left-handedness, according to a new study from the University of Washington. The study found that the prevalence of left-handedness is lower among breastfed infants as compared to bottle-fed infants. This finding was identified in about 60,000 mother-infant pairs and accounted for known risk factors for handedness.
The results provide further insight into the development of complex brain functions which ultimately determine which side of the batter box the infant likely will choose.
“We think breastfeeding optimizes the process the brain undergoes when solidifying handedness,” said Philippe Hujoel, the study’s author, a professor at the UW’s School of Dentistry and an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health. “That’s important because it provides an independent line of evidence that breastfeeding may need to last six to nine months.”
The study does not imply, however, that breastfeeding leads to right-handedness, Hujoel said. Handedness, whether it be right- or left-handed, is set early in fetal life and is at least partially determined by genetics. The research does sheds light on when the region of the brain that controls handedness localizes to one side of the brain, a process known as brain lateralization. Possibly, the research shows, breastfeeding optimizes this lateralization towards becoming right- or left-handed.
The findings were published online last month in the journal Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.
Tag(s): Phillipe Hujoel • School of Dentistry • School of Public Health
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Watermark’s Own Ingrid Jarrett in the Top 100
Watermark Beach Resort is proud to announce that our General Manager, Ingrid Jarrett, has been named as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women!
A true leader, Ingrid inspires the team at Watermark with her dedication, her passion for promoting the amazing South Okanagan, and her ability to ensure that our guests have a memorable experience while they’re visiting us.
We are so very fortunate to have her guidance and enthusiasm here at Watermark Beach Resort.
Congratulations Ingrid! And thank you for all you do.
Watermark Beach Resort’s Ingrid Jarrett Recognized as One of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by Women’s Executive Network Top 100 Awards
Distinct honour celebrates women making a difference in the workplace
November 22, 2017 (Osoyoos, B.C.): Watermark Beach Resort’s General Manager and VP of Business Development, Ingrid Jarrett, has been named one of Canada’s most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) at their annual ‘Top 100 Awards’. As a recipient of the prestigious RBC Champions award category, Jarrett received recognition for making a distinct and describable difference to the advancement of women in the Canadian workplace.
Announced November 22, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario, ‘Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards’ celebrate the professional achievements of strong female leaders in private, public and not-for-profit sectors across the country. The awards honour remarkable women in nine different categories, highlighting those who fearlessly push boundaries in their careers, amongst peers and for their communities.
As winner of the RBC Champions Award, long-time travel and hospitality veteran Jarrett was judged on the criteria of her position as a role model, impact on other women, influence as a change agent and demonstration of community service. Having spent over two decades building solid partnerships and boosting tourism for the South Okanagan and across BC, she is an accomplished industry pro who brings intense passion each day to her role at Watermark Beach Resort. Recognized as an innovator by both her colleagues and the industry, her core team comprises a strong female presence. Jarrett’s belief in the equal power of women provides a foundation for those she has mentored, with many now in leadership positions in some of the top corporate hotels in North America.
“I believe we all have the power to make a difference in the world, and make a difference for each other. Focusing on what is possible fuels positive change,” Jarrett says. “Winning this award, and being recognized as a member of the Women’s Executive Network, is an honour and privilege. It’s incredibly inspiring to be acknowledged among such esteemed colleagues and powerful female leaders, and celebrating the power of women in the workplace is something I’m proud to be part of.”
Jarrett’s impressive resume boasts experience at many of BC’s top hotels and organizations including Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Fairmont Palliser, Fairmont Hotel Macdonald and Fairmont Empress. She was also a key driver for the development of boutique hotels and resorts across the province, such as Nita Lake Lodge, Blackrock Oceanfront Resort, The Oswego and L’Hermitage. In addition to her role at Watermark Beach Resort, she runs her own successful consulting firm, Ingrid Jarrett Management, which provides leadership and strategic business development to tourism and hospitality companies. Highly involved in BC’s tourism community, Jarrett currently serves on the board of Destination Osoyoos; is vice chair of the Marketing Advisory Committee for Destination BC; and past chair of the BC Hotel Association (only the second female in 100 years to hold this position). Through her consulting, Jarrett travels locally, nationally and internationally for various public speaking engagements, presenting on topics ranging from economic development to tourism, hospitality and marketing.
Jarrett’s passions are deeply rooted in growing the South Okanagan’s culinary and agricultural tourism and have seen her partner with local producers and growers as the Convivium President for Slow Food Thompson Okanagan; as well as become a member of the national board for Slow Food Canada. One of her most valued causes is the regeneration of the Okanagan Sockeye Salmon and its ecosystem, working hand-in-hand with the Okanagan Nation Alliance. In support of this significant indigenous movement, Jarrett has presented twice at the Slow Food International conference in Italy, and educates resort guests and employees through Watermark’s innovative Hands on Harvest – a certified Canadian Signature Experience that advocates local producers, native ingredients and farm-to-table fare.
View the full list of ‘Top 100 Awards’ winners here; for more information on Ingrid Jarrett Management, email info@ingridjarrett.com.
About Watermark Beach Resort
Watermark Beach Resort is one of the Okanagan’s leading destination resorts. Located in Osoyoos, BC, Watermark is a stunning five-hour drive from Vancouver and Seattle, a two-hour drive from Kelowna International Airport, and a 45-minute drive from Penticton regional airport. Situated in Canada’s most unique desert landscape, visitors can take advantage of the country’s driest climate with the lowest annual rainfall. Showcasing the best of the South Okanagan, Watermark Beach Resort’s surroundings boast world class wineries, award-winning golf courses and one of North America’s up-and-coming cycling destinations. The lakeside resort’s amenities include extraordinary suites (complete with gourmet kitchens), the award-winning Restaurant at Watermark, hot tubs, steam rooms, an outdoor heated pool, waterslide, spa, onsite wellness team and facilities, Yoga, Pilates, SUP and more. Watermark Beach Resort is a proud member of the Trip Advisor Hall of Fame, and is currently ranked the number one resort in the Okanagan.
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Free Shipping Included! The Last Waltz (3LP) by Rhino at WA Tunes. MPN: LPRN3146. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band took the stage for the very last time at the Winterland Theatre in San Francisco for The Last Waltz, which has gone on to become one of the most heralded performances of all time. Joining The Band on stage throughout the evening was an unprecedented group of pioneers in music including Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young, among others.This smartly packaged reformat includes all the original
On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band took the stage for the very last time at the Winterland Theatre in San Francisco for The Last Waltz, which has gone on to become one of the most heralded performances of all time. Joining The Band on stage throughout the evening was an unprecedented group of pioneers in music including Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young, among others.This smartly packaged reformat includes all the original audio content from the 2002 version, and is a neat way to own this incredible compendium of work from some of the most legendary songwriters of our time.
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Years of Lead (Italy)
Period of social and political turmoil in Italy
Years of Lead
Part of Cold War
Aftermath of the bombing at the Bologna railway station in August 1980 which killed 85 people, the deadliest event during the Years of Lead
Late 1968 – mid 1988[1] (20 years)
Italy (mainly Northern Italy)
Resulted in
Eventual decrease of terrorist activity in Italy:
The kidnapping of Aldo Moro (1978) caused the fall of popular support for the Red Brigades
The Bologna massacre (1980) led to the dismantling of the main far-right terrorist groups
The Propaganda Due affair (1981) caused the decline of secret circles for several years[clarification needed]
Parties to the civil conflict
Italian Government
SISDE
CIA[2]
Far-left terrorist groups:
Red Brigades
(1970–1988)[N 1]
October 22 Group
Continuous Struggle (1969–1976)[N 5]
Workers' Power (1967–1973)[N 6]
Autonomous Worker
ŠtB[3][4]
PLO[4][3]
KGB[5]
Far-right terrorist groups:
Black Order
(1974–1978)[N 10]
Third Position
Include members of:
P2 Masonic Lodge[6][7]
SISMI[8]
MI6[9][10]
Magliana Gang[11]
CIA[12]
Lead figures
Giulio Andreotti
Aldo Moro †
Francesco Cossiga
Mariano Rumor
Franco Restivo
Emilio Colombo
Virginio Rognoni
Arnaldo Forlani Renato Curcio
(POW)
Margherita Cagol
(KIA)
Alberto Franceschini
Marco Donat Cattin
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
(fled Italy)
Franco Piperno
Oreste Scalzone
Franco Freda
Stefano Delle Chiaie
(acquitted)
Vincenzo Vinciguerra
Pierluigi Concutelli [it]
Mario Tuti [it]
Valerio Fioravanti
Alessandro Alibrandi [it]
: +90,000 soldiers[13][14] (1973)
Gladio: 622 members
BR: Several hundred active members
PL: 1,072 members & collaborators
O22: 25 members[15]
PAC: 60 militants[16]
AO: 200 members[17]
: 10,000[18]
: 600-2,000 members at varying times[19]
: 53 members
: 42[20]
Casualties and losses
Italy: 14[21] civil servants murdered
: 1 Air Force General Murdered, 1 Soldier killed, 2 wounded[22]
: 15 killed[21] and 3 injured[23]
: 32 killed, 1 Wounded[22][24][25]
: 4 killed
United States: 1 Army Officer Kidnapped, 1 Diplomat Murdered
BR: 12,000 Far-left militants arrested and 600 fled the country, at least 2 killed and 1 injured[22]
PL: At least 5 killed, 1 arrested
O22: 8 arrested[26][circular reference]
PAC: 1 injured in friendly fire incident
60 arrested, several tortured.
CS: (At least) 1 killed and 5 arrested
AO: 3 killed,[N 13] 200 Exiled[17]
: At least 3 arrested
: 53 arrested[11][27]
: 42 indicted
Total deaths (inc. civilians): 428 + circa 2,000 physical & psychological injuries[1]
1969 Hot Autumn
1969 Murder of PdS Agent Antonio Annaruma
1969 Piazza Fontana bombing
1970 Golpe Borghese
1972 Peteano Bombing
1973 Primavalle fire
1974 Piazza della Loggia bombing
1974 Italicus Express bombing
1975 Acca Larentia killings
1975 Murder of Mikis Mantakas
1975 Milan Police command bombing
1978 Murder of Commissioner Antonio Esposito
1978 Kidnapping of Aldo Moro
1980 Bologna Massacre
1981 Kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. Dozier
1982 Salerno Massacre
1984 Murder of Diplomat Leamon Hunt
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The Years of Lead (Italian: Anni di piombo) is a term used for a period of social and political turmoil in Italy that lasted from the late 1960s until the late 1980s, marked by a wave of both far-right and far-left incidents of political terrorism.
The Years of Lead are often considered to have begun with the Hot Autumn strikes starting in 1969; the death of the policeman Antonio Annarumma in November 1969; the Piazza Fontana bombing in December of that year, which killed 17 and was perpetrated by right-wing terrorists in Milan; and the subsequent death that same month of leftist anarchist worker Giuseppe Pinelli while in police custody under suspicion of a crime he did not commit.[28]
The term's origin possibly came as a reference to the number of shootings during the period,[29] or a popular 1981 German film Marianne and Juliane, released in Italy as Anni di piombo, which centered on the lives of two members of the West German militant far-left group Red Army Faction which had gained notoriety during the same period.
1 The "Hot Autumn" and widespread unrest of 1960s and 1970s
2 Chronology
2.1.1 Public protests
2.1.2 Death of Antonio Annarumma
2.1.3 Piazza Fontana bombing
2.2.1 Birth of the Red Brigades
2.2.2 The Golpe Borghese
2.3.1 Assassination of Alessandro Floris
2.4.1 Assassination of Luigi Calabresi
2.4.2 Peteano bombing
2.5.1 The Primavalle Fire
2.5.2 Milan Police command bombing
2.6.1 Piazza della Loggia bombing
2.6.2 First murder of the Red Brigades
2.6.3 Planned neo-fascist coup
2.6.4 Bombing of Italicus train
2.6.5 Arrest of Vito Miceli
2.6.6 Arrest of Red Brigades leaders
2.10.1 Kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro
2.11.1 The year with the most assassinations
2.12.1 More assassinations
2.12.2 The Bologna Massacre
3 Continued violence
4 Asylum
4.2 Brazil
4.3 Nicaragua
5 Terrorist organizations in Italy
The "Hot Autumn" and widespread unrest of 1960s and 1970s[edit]
See also: 1968 movement in Italy
See also: Hot autumn
There was widespread social conflict and unprecedented acts of terrorism carried out by both right- and left-wing paramilitary groups. An attempt to endorse the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) by the Tambroni Cabinet led to rioting and was short-lived.[30] Widespread labor unrest and the collaboration of countercultural student activist groups with working class factory workers and pro-labor radical leftist organizations such as Potere Operaio and Lotta Continua culminated in the so-called "Hot Autumn" of 1969, a massive series of strikes in factories and industrial centres in Northern Italy.[28] Student strikes and labour strikes, often led by workers, leftists, left-sympathizing laborers, or Marxist activists, became increasingly common, often deteriorating into clashes between the police and demonstrators composed largely of workers, students, activists, and often left-wing militants.[28]
Meanwhile, various far-right and neo-fascist militant and terrorist groups took advantage of the unrest and attempted to push Italy towards fascism through acts of terrorism.[citation needed] In the Cold War atmosphere in which there existed a strong fear of communism becoming a dominant force in Italy, these groups are alleged to have been backed to some extent by certain anti-communist and anti-leftist entities.[which?][citation needed]
The Christian Democrats (DC) were instrumental in the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) gaining power in the 1960s and they created a coalition. The assassination of the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1978 ended the strategy of historic compromise between the DC and the Italian Communist Party (PCI). The assassination was carried out by the Red Brigades, then led by Mario Moretti. Between 1968 and 1988,[1] 428 murders were attributed to political violence in the form of bombings, assassinations, and street warfare between rival militant factions.
Chronology[edit]
1969[edit]
Public protests[edit]
Public protests shook Italy during 1969, with the autonomist student movement being particularly active, leading to the occupation of the Fiat automobile factory in Milan.
Death of Antonio Annarumma[edit]
On 19 November 1969, Antonio Annarumma, a Milanese policeman, was killed during a riot by far-left demonstrators.[31][32] He was the first civil servant to die in the wave of violence.
Piazza Fontana bombing[edit]
Main article: Piazza Fontana bombing
The Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Rome and the Banca Commerciale Italiana and the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan were bombed in December.
Local police arrested 80 or so suspects from left-wing groups, including Giuseppe Pinelli, an anarchist initially blamed for the bombing, and Pietro Valpreda. Their guilt was denied by left-wing members, especially by members of the student movement, then prominent in Milan's universities, as they believed that the bombing was carried out by fascists. Following the death of Giuseppe Pinelli, who mysteriously died on 15 December while in police custody, the radical left-wing newspaper Lotta Continua started a campaign accusing police officer Luigi Calabresi of Pinelli's murder.[28][33] In 1975, Calabresi and other police officials were acquitted by judge Gerardo D'Ambrosio who decided that Pinelli's fall from a window had been caused by his being taken ill and losing his balance.[34][35]
Meanwhile, the anarchist Valpreda and five others were convicted and jailed for the bombing. They were later released after three years of preventive detention. Then, two neo-fascists, Franco Freda (resident in Padua) and Giovanni Ventura, were arrested accused of being the organizers of the massacre; in 1987 they were acquitted by the Supreme Court for lack of evidence.[36]
In the 1990s, new investigations into the Piazza Fontana bombing, citing new witnesses testimony, implicated Freda and Ventura again. However, the pair cannot be put on trial again because of double jeopardy, as they were acquitted of the crime in 1987.[37]
The Red Brigades, the most prominent far-left terrorist organization, conducted a secret internal investigation that paralleled the official inquiry.[38] They ordered that the inquiry remain secret, because of the unfavorable light that it could shed on other terrorist organizations. The inquiry was discovered after a shootout between the Red Brigade and the Carabinieri at Robbiano di Mediglia in October 1974. The cover-up was exposed in 2000 by Giovanni Pellegrino, at the time President of the Commissione Stragi (Parliamentary Committee on massacres).[39]
Birth of the Red Brigades[edit]
The Red Brigades were founded in August 1970 by Renato Curcio and Margherita (Mara) Cagol, who had met as students at the University of Trento and later married,[28] and Alberto Franceschini.
While the Trento group around Curcio had its main roots in the Sociology Department of the Catholic University, the Reggio Emilia group (around Franceschini) mostly included former members of the FGCI (the Communist youth movement) expelled from the parent party for their extremist views.[28]
Another group of militants came from the Sit-Siemens factories in Milan; these were Mario Moretti, a union official, Corrado Alunni, who would leave the Red Brigades to found another organization «fighter» and Alfredo Buonavita, a blue-collar worker.[28]
The first action of the RB was burning the car of Giuseppe Leoni (a leader of Sit-Siemens company in Milan) on 17 September 1970, in the context of the labour unrest within the factory.
The Golpe Borghese[edit]
In December, a neo-fascist coup, dubbed the Golpe Borghese, was planned by young far-right fanatics, elderly veterans of Italian Social Republic, and supported by members of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato, along with right-aligned entrepreneurs and industrialists. The "Black Prince", Junio Valerio Borghese, took part in it. The coup, called off at the last moment, was discovered by the newspaper Paese Sera, and publicly exposed three months later.[28]
Assassination of Alessandro Floris[edit]
On March 26, Alessandro Floris was assassinated in Genoa by a unit of the October 22 Group, a far-left terrorist organization. An amateur photographer had taken a photo of the killer that enabled police to identify the terrorists. The group was investigated, and more members arrested. Some fled to Milan and joined the "Gruppi di Azione Partigiana" (GAP) and, later, the Red Brigades.[40]
The Red Brigades considered Gruppo XXII Ottobre its predecessor and, in April 1974, they kidnapped Judge Mario Sossi in a failed attempt at freeing the jailed members.[41] Years later, the Red Brigades killed judge Francesco Coco on June 8, 1976, along with his two police escorts, Giovanni Saponara and Antioco Deiana, in revenge.[42]
Assassination of Luigi Calabresi[edit]
On 17 May 1972, police officer Luigi Calabresi, a recipient of the gold medal of the Italian Republic for civil valour, was killed in Milan. Authorities initially focused on suspects in Lotta Continua; then it was assumed that Calabresi had been killed by neo-fascist organizations, bringing about the arrest of two neo-fascist activists, Gianni Nardi and Bruno Stefano, along with German Gudrun Kiess, in 1974. They were ultimately released. Sixteen years later, Adriano Sofri, Giorgio Petrostefani, Ovidio Bompressi, and Leonardo Marino were arrested in Milan following Marino's confession to the murder. Their trial finally established their guilt in organising and carrying out the assassination.[43] Calabresi's assassination opened the chapter of assassinations carried out by armed groups of the far-left.[28]
Peteano bombing[edit]
Further information: Vincenzo Vinciguerra § 1972 Peteano bombing
On 31 May 1972, three Italian Carabinieri were killed in Peteano in a bombing, attributed to Lotta Continua. Officers of the Carabinieri were later indicted and convicted for perverting the course of justice.[44] Judge Casson identified Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra as the man who had planted the Peteano bomb.
The neo-fascist terrorist Vinciguerra, arrested in the 1980s for the bombing in Peteano, declared to magistrate Felice Casson that this false flag attack had been intended to force the Italian state to declare a state of emergency and to become more authoritarian. Vinciguerra explained how the SISMI military intelligence agency had protected him, allowing him to escape to Francoist Spain.
Casson's investigation revealed that the right-wing organization Ordine Nuovo had collaborated with the Italian Military Secret Service, SID (Servizio Informazioni Difesa). Together, they had engineered the Peteano attack and then blamed the Red Brigades. He confessed and testified that he had been covered by a network of sympathizers in Italy and abroad who had ensured that he could escape after the attack. «A whole mechanism came into action», Vinciguerra recalled, «that is, the Carabinieri, the Minister of the Interior, the customs services and the military and civilian intelligence services accepted the ideological reasoning behind the attack.»[45][46]
The Primavalle Fire[edit]
Main article: Primavalle Fire
A 16 April 1973 attack by members of Potere Operaio on the house of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) militant Mario Mattei resulted in his two sons, aged 8 and 20, being burned alive.
Milan Police command bombing[edit]
During a 17 May 1973 ceremony honoring Luigi Calabresi, in which the Interior Minister was present, Gianfranco Bertoli, an anarchist, threw a bomb that killed four and injured 45.
In 1975, Bertoli was sentenced to life imprisonment: the Milan Court wrote that he was embroiled in connections with the far-right, that was a SID informant and a confidant of the Police.[33]
In the 1990s it was suspected that Bertoli was a member of Gladio but he denied it in an interview: in the list of 622 Gladio members made public in 1990, his name is missing.[47][48]
A magistrate investigating the assassination attempt of Mariano Rumor found that Bertoli's files were incomplete.[44] General Gianadelio Maletti, head of the SID from 1971 to 1975, was convicted in absentia in 1990 for obstruction of justice in the Mariano Rumor case.
Piazza della Loggia bombing[edit]
Main article: Piazza della Loggia bombing
In May 1974, a bomb exploded during an anti-fascist demonstration in Brescia, killing eight and wounding 102. On 16 November 2010, the Court of Brescia acquitted the defendants: Francesco Delfino (a Carabiniere), Carlo Maria Maggi, Pino Rauti, Maurizio Tramonte and Delfo Zorzi (members of the Ordine Nuovo neo-fascist group). The prosecutor had requested life sentences for Delfino, Maggi, Tramonte and Zorzi, and acquittal for lack of evidence for Pino Rauti. The four defendants were acquitted again by the appeal court in 2012 but, in 2014, the supreme court ruled that the appeal trial would have to be held again at the appeal court of Milan for Maggi and Tramonte. Delfino and Zorzi were definitively acquitted. On July 22, 2015, the appeal court sentenced Maggi and Tramonte to life imprisonment for ordering and co-ordinating the massacre.[49]
First murder of the Red Brigades[edit]
On 17 June 1974, two members of MSI were murdered in Padua. Initially, an internal feud between neo-fascist groups was suspected, since the crime had occurred in the city of Franco Freda. However, the murder was then claimed by the Red Brigades: it was the first murder of the organization,[28] which, until then had only committed robberies, bombings and kidnappings.[33]
Planned neo-fascist coup[edit]
Count Edgardo Sogno said in his memoirs that in July 1974, he visited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief in Rome to inform him of preparations for a neo-fascist coup. Asking what the United States (US) government would do in case of such a coup, Sogno wrote that he was told, "the United States would have supported any initiative tending to keep the communists out of government." General Maletti declared, in 2001, that he had not known about Sogno's relationship with the CIA and had not been informed about the coup, known as Golpe bianco (White Coup), led by Randolfo Pacciardi.[50]
Bombing of Italicus train[edit]
Main article: Italicus Express bombing 1974
On 4 August, 12 died and 105 were injured in the bombing of the Italicus Roma-Brennero express at San Benedetto Val di Sambro.
Arrest of Vito Miceli[edit]
General Vito Miceli, chief of the SIOS military intelligence agency in 1969, and head of the SID from 1970 to 1974, was arrested in 1974 on charges of «conspiracy against the state».[33] Following his arrest, the Italian secret services were reorganized by a 24 October 1977 law in an attempt to reassert civilian control over the intelligence agencies. The SID was divided into the current SISMI, the SISDE, and the CESIS, which was to directly coordinate with the Prime Minister of Italy. An Italian Parliamentary Committee on Secret services control (Copaco) was created at the same time[citation needed]. Miceli was acquitted in 1978.[33]
Arrest of Red Brigades leaders[edit]
In 1974, some leaders of the Red Brigades, including Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, were arrested, but new leadership continued the war against the Italian right-wing establishment with increased fervor.[28]
There were technical conditions for ending terrorism: however, the political class was unwilling: the Italian left wing was less worried by the existence of an armed organization than by the possible abuses by the police against protesters. It did therefore ask for the disarmament of police during street demonstrations. Also in the ruling Christian Democracy), many underestimated the threat of the Red Brigades (speaking of "phantom" Red Brigades), emphasizing instead that of neo-fascist groups.[28]
The year before, Potere Operaio had disbanded, although Autonomia Operaia carried on in its wake. Lotta Continua also dissolved in 1976, although their magazine struggled on for several years. From the remnants of Lotta Continua and similar groups, the terror organization Prima Linea emerged.
On 28 February, student and right activist Mikis Mantakas was killed by far-leftists during riots.[33]
On 13 March, young militant of Italian Social Movement (MSI) Sergio Ramelli was assaulted in Milan by a group of Avanguardia Operaia and wounded in the head with wrenches (aka Hazet 36). He died on 29 April, after 47 days in the hospital.[28]
On 25 May, student and left activist Alberto Brasili was stabbed in Milan by neo-fascist militants.[28]
On 5 June, Giovanni D'Alfonso, member of the Carabinieri police force, was killed by the Red Brigades.[28]
On 29 April, lawyer and militant of Italian Social Movement (MSI) Enrico Pedenovi was killed in Milan by the organization Prima Linea. This was the first assassination conducted by Prima Linea.[51]
On 8 July, in Rome, Judge Vittorio Occorsio was killed by neo-fascist Pierluigi Concutelli.[33]
On 14 December, in Rome, policeman Prisco Palumbo was killed by the Nuclei Armati Proletari.[28]
On 15 December, in Sesto San Giovanni (a town near Milan), vice chief Vittorio Padovani and Marshal Sergio Bazzega were killed by young extremist Walter Alasia.[28]
On 11 March, Francesco Lorusso was killed by the military police (the Carabinieri) in the university of Bologna.
On 12 March, a Turin policeman Giuseppe Ciotta was killed by Prima Linea.[52]
On 22 March, a Rome policeman Claudio Graziosi was killed by Nuclei Armati Proletari.[28]
On 28 April, in Turin, lawyer Fulvio Croce was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 14 May, in Milan, activists from a far-left organization pulled out their pistols and began to shoot at the police, killing policeman Antonio Custra.[53] A photographer took a photo of an activist shooting at the police. This year was called the time of the "P38", referring to the Walther P38 pistol.
On 16 November, in Turin, Carlo Casalegno, deputy director of the newspaper La Stampa, was seriously wounded in an ambush of the Red Brigades. He died thirteen days later, on November 29.[33]
On 4 January, in Cassino, Fiat boss security services Carmine De Rosa was killed by leftists.[54]
On 7 January, in Rome young militants of Italian Social Movement (MSI) Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta were killed by far-leftists, another militant (Stefano Recchioni) was killed by the police during a violent demonstration.[54] Some militants left the MSI and founded the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari, which had ties with the Roman criminal organization Banda della Magliana.[33]
On 20 January, in Florence, policeman Fausto Dionisi was killed by Prima Linea.[54]
On 7 February, in Prato (a town near Florence), notary Gianfranco Spighi was killed by leftists.[54]
On 14 February, in Rome, Judge Riccardo Palma was killed by the Red Brigades.[54]
On 10 March, in Turin, Marshal Rosario Berardi was killed by the Red Brigades.[54]
On 11 April, in Turin, policeman Lorenzo Cotugno was killed by the Red Brigades.[28]
On 20 April, in Milan, policeman Francesco De Cataldo was killed by the Red Brigades.[28]
On 10 October, in Rome, judge Girolamo Tartaglione was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 11 October, in Naples, university teacher Alfredo Paolella was killed by Prima Linea.[33]
On 8 November, in Patrica (a town near Frosinone), judge Fedele Calvosa was killed by the Unità Comuniste Combattenti.[33]
Kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro[edit]
Main article: Kidnapping of Aldo Moro
On March 16, 1978, Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades (then led by Mario Moretti) and five of his security detail were killed. Aldo Moro was a left-leaning Christian Democrat who served several times as prime minister; before his murder, he had been trying to include the Italian Communist Party (PCI), headed by Enrico Berlinguer, in the government through a deal called the Historic Compromise. PCI was, at the time, the largest communist party in western Europe; was mainly because of its non-extremist and pragmatic stance, its growing independence from Moscow and its eurocommunist doctrine. The PCI was especially strong in areas such as Emilia Romagna, where it had stable government positions and mature practical experience, which may have contributed to a more pragmatic approach to politics. The Red Brigades were fiercely opposed by the Communist Party and trade unions: a few left-wing politicians even used the condescending expression "comrades who do wrong" (Compagni che sbagliano). Franco Bonisoli [it], one of RB's members who participated at the kidnapping, declared that the decision to kidnap Moro "was taken a week before, a day was decided, it could have been March 15 or 17".[28]
On May 9, 1978, after a summary "trial of the people", Moro was murdered by Mario Moretti with, it was also determined, the participation of Germano Maccari [it].[55] The corpse was found that same day in the trunk of a red Renault 4 in via Michelangelo Caetani, in downtown Rome. A consequence there was the fact that the PCI did not gain executive power.
Moro's assassination was followed by a large clampdown on the social movement, including the arrest of many members of Autonomia Operaia, including, Oreste Scalzone and political philosopher Antonio Negri (arrested on 7 April 1979).
Active armed organization grew from 2 in 1969 to 91 in 1977 and 269 in 1979. In that year there were 659 attacks.[33]
The year with the most assassinations[edit]
On 19 January, Turin policeman Giuseppe Lorusso was killed by the Prima Linea organization.[56]
On 24 January, worker and trade unionist Guido Rossa was killed in Genoa by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 29 January, Judge Emilio Alesandrini was killed in Milan by Prima Linea.[58]
On 9 March, university student Emanuele Iurilli was killed in Turin by Prima Linea.[59]
On 20 March, investigative journalist Mino Pecorelli was gunned down in his car in Rome. Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti were sentenced in 2002 to 24 years in prison for the murder, though the sentences were overturned the following year.[60]
On 3 May, in Rome, policemen Antonio Mea and Piero Ollanu were killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 13 July, in Druento (a town near Turin), policeman Bartolomeo Mana was killed by Prima Linea.[61]
On 13 July, in Rome, Lieutenant Colonel of Carabinieri Antonio Varisco was killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 18 July, barman Carmine Civitate was killed in Turin, by Prima Linea.[62]
On 21 September, Carlo Ghiglieno was killed in Turin by a group of Prima Linea.[63]
On 11 December, five teachers and five students of the "Valletta" Institute in Turin were shot in the legs by Prima Linea.[33]
More assassinations[edit]
On 8 January, Milan policemen Antonio Cestari, Rocco Santoro and Michele Tatulli were killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 25 January, Genoa policemen Emanuele Tuttobene and Antonio Casu were killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 29 January, manager of Porto Marghera's petrochemical Silvio Gori was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 5 February, in Monza, Paolo Paoletti was killed by Prima Linea.[64][65]
On 7 February, Prima Linea's militant William Vaccher was killed on suspicion of treason.[33]
On 12 February, in Rome, at the "La Sapienza" University, Vittorio Bachelet, vice-president of the Superior Council of Magistrates and former president of the Roman Catholic association Azione Cattolica, was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 10 March, in Rome, cook Luigi Allegretti was killed by Compagni armati per il Comunismo.[57]
On 16 March, in Salerno, Judge Nicola Giacumbi was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 18 March, in Rome, Judge Girolamo Minervini was killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 19 March, in Milan, Judge Guido Galli was killed by a group of Prima Linea.[66]
On 10 April, in Turin, Giuseppe Pisciuneri a Mondialpol guard, was killed by Ronde Proletarie.[67]
On 28 May, in Milan, journalist Walter Tobagi was killed by Brigata XXVIII marzo.[57]
On 23 June, in Rome, Judge Mario Amato was killed by the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari.[57]
On 31 December, in Rome, General of Carabinieri Enrico Galvaligi was killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
The Bologna Massacre[edit]
Main article: Bologna massacre
On 2 August, a bomb killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 in Bologna. Known as the Bologna massacre, the blast destroyed a large portion of the city's railway station. This was found to be a neo-fascist bombing, mainly organized by the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari: Francesca Mambro and Valerio Fioravanti were sentenced to life imprisonment. In April 2007 the Supreme Court confirmed the conviction of Luigi Ciavardini, a NAR member associated closely with close ties to Terza Posizione. Ciavardini received a 30-year prison sentence for his role in the attack.[68]
On 5 July, Giuseppe Taliercio, director of the Porto Marghera's Montedison petrochemical establishment, was killed by the Red Brigades after 47 days of kidnapping.[33]
On 3 August, Roberto Peci, an electrician, was killed by the Red Brigades after being kidnapped and held for 54 days. The killing was a vendetta against his brother Patrizio, a member of RB who became pentito the year before.[33]
On 17 December, James L. Dozier, an American general and the deputy commander of NATO's South European forces based in Verona, was kidnapped by Red Brigades. He was freed in Padua on 28 January 1982 by the Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza (NOCS), an Italian police anti-terrorist task force.[69]
On 26 August, a group of Red Brigades terrorists attacked a military troop convoy, in Salerno. In the attack, Corporal Antonio Palumbo[70] and policemen Antonio Bandiera[71] and Mario De Marco[72] were killed. The terrorists escaped.
On 21 October, a group of Red Brigades terrorists attacked a bank in Turin, killing two guards, Antonio Pedio[73] and Sebastiano d'Alleo.[74]
On 15 February, Leamon Hunt, American diplomat and Director General of the international peacekeeping force, Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 23 December, a bomb in a train between Florence and Rome killed 17 and wounded more than 200. In 1992, Mafia's members Giuseppe Calò and Guido Cercola were sentenced to life imprisonment, Franco Di Agostino (another member of the Sicilian Mafia) got 24 years, and German engineer Friedrich Schaudinn 22 for the bombing. Camorra's member Giuseppe Misso was sentenced to 3 years; other members of Camorra, Alfonso Galeota and Giulio Pirozzi were sentenced to 18 months, and their role in the massacre was deemed marginal.[75] On February 18, 1994, the Florence court absolved MSI member of Parliament Massimo Abbatangelo from the massacre charge, but ruled him guilty of giving the explosive to Misso in the spring of 1984. Abbatangelo was sentenced to 6 years. Victims' relatives asked for a tougher sentence, but lost the appeal and had to pay for judiciary expenses.[76]
On 9 January, in Torvaianica (a town near Rome), policeman Ottavio Conte was killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 27 March, in Rome, economist Ezio Tarantelli was killed by the Red Brigades.[57]
On 10 February 1986, Lando Conti, former Mayor of Florence, was killed by the Red Brigades.[33]
On 20 March 1987, Licio Giorgieri, a general in the Italian Air Force, was assassinated by the Red Brigades in Rome.[33]
On 16 April 1988, Senator Roberto Ruffilli was assassinated in an attack by a group of the Red Brigades in Forlì. It was the last murder committed by the Red Brigades: on 23 October a group of irreducibles declared, in a document, that war against the State was over.[33]
Continued violence[edit]
In the late 1990s - early 2000s (decade), a resurgence of Red Brigades terrorism led to further assassinations.
On 20 May 1999, Massimo D'Antona, consultant to the Ministry of Labour, was assassinated in an attack by a group of terrorists of the Red Brigades in Rome.
On 19 March 2002, Marco Biagi, consultant to the Ministry of Labour, was assassinated in an attack by a group of terrorists of the Red Brigades in Bologna.
On 2 March 2003, Emanuele Petri, a policeman, was assassinated by a group of Red Brigades terrorists near Castiglion Fiorentino.
In 2005, some suspected terrorists, known as the New Red Brigades (Nuove Brigate Rosse) were arrested. On June 13, the court of Milan condemned 14 terrorists. The leader was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Three suspected terrorists were found not guilty.[citation needed]
Asylum[edit]
France[edit]
The Mitterrand doctrine, which was established in 1985 by then French president François Mitterrand, stated that Italian far-left terrorists who fled to France and who were convicted of violent acts in Italy, excluding "active, actual, bloody terrorism" during the "Years of Lead", would receive asylum and would not be subject to extradition to Italy. They would be integrated into French society.
The act was announced on 21 April 1985, at the 65th Congress of the Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme, LDH), stating that Italian criminals who had given up their violent pasts and had fled to France would be protected from extradition to Italy:
Italian refugees ... who took part in terrorist action before 1981 ... have broken links with the infernal machine in which they participated, have begun a second phase of their lives, have integrated into French society ... I told the Italian government that they were safe from any sanction by the means of extradition.[77]
Brazil[edit]
Some Italian citizens accused of terrorist acts have found refuge in Brazil such as Cesare Battisti and others former members of the Armed Proletarians for Communism, a far-left militant and terrorist organization.
Nicaragua[edit]
Some Italian far-left activists found political asylum in Nicaragua, including Alessio Casimirri, who took part in the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.
Terrorist organizations in Italy[edit]
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^ Disbanded by Police.
^ Disbanded by members due to increasing police pressure. Most already joined the Red Brigades; others focused on politics.
^ Dismantled by police. Members merged into the Red Bridges and Partisan Action Groups.
^ Dismantled by Police.
^ Disbanded due to internal feuds. Some members merged into the Red Brigades whilst others formed Prima Linea.
^ Disbanded due to internal disagreements. Some members merged into the group Autonomous Worker.
^ Dissolved due to police pressure and members merging into the PAC, Red Brigades, and Prima Linea. Those imprisoned often associated with NAP.
^ Banned, some joined Ordine Nero.
^ Banned. Its members joined Ordine Nero.
^ Inactive & dismantled.
^ Dismantled.
^ Dissolved by police. Used by NAR as a cover name later on.
^ By a prematurely detonated explosive they were planting.
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^ Les réfugiés italiens ( ... ) qui ont participé à l'action terroriste avant 1981 ( ... ) ont rompu avec la machine infernale dans laquelle ils s'étaient engagés, ont abordé une deuxième phase de leur propre vie, se sont inséré dans la société française ( ... ). J'ai dit au gouvernement italien qu'ils étaient à l'abri de toute sanction par voie d'extradition ( ... ).
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Contiguous Coverage Does Not Excuse Late Notice
In an unreported decision, a California appellate court has ruled that a claim made during the first of two policy periods under claims-made-and-reported malpractice policies, but not reported until the second policy period, was not covered under either policy because it was reported too late for the first policy and was barred by an exclusion in the second policy for events that the insured "could have reasonably foreseen" might become a claim. Goings & Goings v. U.S. Risk, Inc., 2005 WL 3320863 (Cal. App. Dec. 8, 2005).
The insured convalescent home purchased consecutive claims-made-and-reported malpractice policies. The first policy period was from November 1, 2000 to November 1, 2001, and the second policy period was from November 1, 2001 to November 1, 2002. Both policies provided coverage for claims made and reported within the policy period, with a 30-day additional reporting period. Both policies also contained an exclusion barring coverage for "[a]ny 'Event, offense or Medical Incident' committed prior to the effected date of this policy if ... at the effective date of this Policy you knew or could have reasonably foreseen that such 'Event,' offense or 'Medical Incident' might reasonably be expected to be the basis of a claim." Both policies had a retroactive date of November 1, 2000.
On October 1, 2001, with 30 days remaining on the first policy period, the convalescent home received a letter informing it that a suit for medical malpractice was to be filed within 90 days. The actual suit was filed on October 16, 2001, and the convalescent home was served on November 6, 2001, six days into the second policy period. The convalescent home did not report the claim to the insurer until December 11, 2001, which was beyond the 30-day additional reporting period for the first policy. The insurer denied coverage, and the convalescent home filed suit.
The court held that there was no coverage under the first policy because the claim was made in the October 1, 2001 letter that unambiguously stated there would be a lawsuit, and the convalescent home failed to report the claim within the 30-day extended reporting period. The court ruled that the existence of continuous coverage, by virtue of the second policy, did not change the result and make the notice timely: "Nor can the fact of continuous coverage excuse an unambiguous requirement to report claims within one-year policy periods . . . . Yes, that means a claim in Policy 1 and a report in Policy 2 can indeed equal no coverage . . . ." The court also held that in the event the initial letter threatening suit did not constitute notice, the letter triggered the exclusion in the second policy since, in light of the October 1 letter, the convalescent home could have reasonably foreseen the suit.
The convalescent home also argued that because neither the letter nor the complaint indicated an amount of damages in excess of the self-insured retention, neither could be considered a claim under the policy. The court rejected this argument because the definition of claim did not state that a demand must be in excess of the self-insured retention. Finally, the court held that the insurer did not waive its defenses by providing counsel prior to rejecting the claim since the costs for the defense counsel never exceeded the self-insured retention, and the convalescent home did not argue it could have received better or more efficient legal counsel on its own.
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The Brahma Purana (abridged)
Hinduism Purana
The Brahma Purana (Brahma Purāņa) is one of the major eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of Hindu religious texts. It is divided into two parts: 1) the Purvabhaga and 2) the Uttarabhaga. The first part narrates the story behind the creation of the cosmos, details the life and deeds of Rama and Krishna. The second part contains the details about t...
The Sun and the Solar Dynasty
You have probably forgotten by now that Kashyapa and Aditi had a son named Vivasvana. This was the sun god, also known as Surya or Martanda.
Surya was married to Samjna, Vishvakarma’s daughter. They had two sons. The first son was Vaivasvata Manu and the second son was Yama or Shraddhadeva, the god of death. Yama had a twin sister named Yamuna.
The sun’ s energy was so strong that Samjna could not bear to look at her husband. Through her powers, she created an image from her own body that looked exactly like her. This image was called Chhaya (shadow).
Samjna told Chhaya, I cannot bear the energy of my husband. I am going off to my father’s house. Stay here, pretend to be Samjna and look after my children. Under no circumstances tell anyone, certainly not my husband, that you are not Samjna.
I will do as you have asked me to, replied Chhaya. But the moment someone curses me or pulls me by the hair, I shall be forced to reveal the truth.
Samjna went to her father Vishvakarma and told him what she had done. Vishvakarma kept asking her to return to her husband. But this Samjna refused to do. Instead, she went to the land known as Uttara Kuru and started to live there as a mare.
Meanwhile, Surya, who had not realized that Samjna had been replaced by Chhaya, had two sons through Chhaya. They were named Savarni Manu and Shani (Saturn). As soon as her own children were born, Chhaya no longer displayed as much of love for Samjna’s children as she used to do. Vaivasvata Manu was a quiet sort of person and he ignored the implied neglect. But Yama was not that tolerant. Besides, he was also younger. He raised his leg to kick Chhaya. At this, Chhaya cursed Yama that his legs would fall off.
Yama went and complained to Surya. I have not really kicked her, he said. I only threatened to. And does a mother ever curse her children?
I can’t undo the curse, replied Surya. At best, I can reduce its severity. Your legs will not actually fall off. Some of the flesh from your legs will fall off onto the earth and create worms. Thereby, you will be freed of your curse.
But nevertheless, Surya felt that there was some truth in Yama’s asking whether a mother would ever curse her children. He taxed Chhaya with the truth, but Chhaya would not reveal anything. Surya then grasped her by the hair and threatened to curse her. Since her conditions were now violated, Chhaya blurted out the truth.
In an extremely angry mood, Surya dashed off to Vishvakarma’s house. Vishvakarma tried to cool him down. It is all because of your excess energy that this has happened, exclaimed Vishvakarma. If you permit, I will shave off some of the extra energy. Then Samjna will be able to look at you.
Surya agreed to this proposition. With the shaved off energy, Vishvakarma manufactured Vishnu’s chakra (a weapon like a bladed discus).
Surya found out that Samjna was in Uttara Kuru in the form of mare. He joined her there in the form of a horse. As horses, they had two sons named Nasatya and Dasra. Since ashva means horse, the sons were also known as the two Ashvinis and became the physicians of the gods.
Surya and Samjna then gave up their equine forms and lived happily ever after.
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AP Investigation: Migrant kids held in mass shelters
“This is not a perplexing scientific puzzle. This is a moral disaster.”
AP Investigation: Migrant kids held in mass shelters “This is not a perplexing scientific puzzle. This is a moral disaster.” Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2018/12/19/ap-investigation-migrant-kids-held-mass-shelters/38769981/
Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, The Associated Press Published 4:06 p.m. ET Dec. 19, 2018
Migrant teens walk inside the Tornillo detention camp in Tornillo, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. The Trump administration announced in June 2018 that it would open the temporary shelter for up to 360 migrant children in this isolated corner of the Texas desert. Six months later, the facility has expanded into a detention camp holding thousands of teenagers. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)(Photo: Andres Leighton / AP)
Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.
As the year draws to a close, some 5,400 detained migrant children in the U.S. are sleeping in shelters with more than 1,000 other children. Some 9,800 are in facilities with 100-plus total kids, according to confidential government data obtained and cross-checked by The Associated Press.
That’s a huge shift from just three months after President Donald Trump took office, when the same federal program had 2,720 migrant youth in its care; most were in shelters with a few dozen kids or in foster programs. Some of the children may be released sooner than anticipated, because this week the administration ended a portion of its strict screening policies that had slowed the placement of migrant kids with relatives in the U.S.
Until now, public information has been limited about the number of youths held at each facility overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, even for attorneys representing the kids. But the AP obtained data showing the number of children in individual detention centers, shelters and foster care programs for nearly every week over the past 20 months, revealing in detail the expanse of a program at the center of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
A new phase: The data shows the degree to which the government’s approach to migrant youth has hardened, marking a new phase in a federal program originally intended to offer safe haven to vulnerable children fleeing danger across the globe. It’s been taking at least twice as long — on average two months rather than one — for youth held inside the system to get out, in part because the Trump administration added more restrictive screening measures for parents and relatives who would take them in.
That changed Tuesday when the administration ended a policy requiring every adult in households where migrant children will live to provide the government with fingerprints. All still must submit to background checks, and parents themselves still need to be fingerprinted. Nonetheless, officials said they could now process some children more rapidly, and hoped to shorten shelter stays that had dragged on so long kids sometimes wondered if their parents had abandoned them for good.
“It’s a pain we will never get through,” said Cecilio Ramirez Castaneda, a Salvadoran whose 12-year-old son, Omar, was taken from him when they were apprehended in June under the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which led to nearly 3,000 children being separated from their families. Omar feared his father had given up on him during the five months he spent in a Southwest Key shelter in Brownsville, Texas, with dozens of kids.
Ramirez was reunited with Omar last month only to learn that his son had been hospitalized for depression and medicated for unclear reasons and suffered a broken arm while in government custody.
“It’s a system that causes irreparable damage,” he said. “My son says they would tell him that because he wasn’t from here, he had no rights.”
Mental and physical harm: Experts say the deep anxiety and distrust children suffer when they’re institutionalized away from loved ones can cause long-lasting mental and physical health problems. It’s dangerous for all but worse for younger children, those who stay more than a few days and those who are in larger facilities with less personal care.
“This is not a perplexing scientific puzzle. This is a moral disaster,” said Dr. Jack Shonkoff, who heads Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child. “There has to be some way to communicate, in unequivocal terms, that we are inflicting punishments on innocent children that will have lifelong consequences. No matter how a person feels about immigration policy, very few people hate children — and yet we are passively allowing bad things to happen to them.”
Administration officials said increased need has driven them to expand the number of beds available for migrant children from 6,500 last fall to 16,000 today. Mark Weber, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees ORR, said sheltering children in large facilities, while not preferable, is a better alternative than holding them for long periods at Border Patrol stations ill-suited to care for them.
“This is an amazing program with incredibly dedicated people who are working to take care of these kids,” he said. “There are a large number of children and it’s a difficult situation, and we are just working hard to make sure they are taken care of and placed responsibly.”
Weber confirmed a number of specific shelter populations from the data the AP obtained. To further verify the data, reporters contacted more than a dozen individual facilities that contract with ORR to house migrant children. Reporters also cross-referenced population numbers previously collected by AP and its partners.
The children: The kids in government care range in age from toddlers to 17. The vast majority crossed the border without their parents, escaping violence and corruption in Central America, but some were separated from their families at the border earlier this year.
The care they receive varies greatly in the opaque network, which has encompassed 150 different programs over the last 20 months in 17 states. Some children live with foster families and are treated to Broadway shows, while others sleep in canvas tents exposed to the elements amid the Texas desert.
Through dozens of interviews and data analysis, AP found:
As of Dec. 17, some 9,800 children were in facilities housing more than 100 kids; 5,405 of those were in three facilities with more than 1,000 youths — two in Texas and one in Florida.
Texas had the most growth over the last 20 months in the number of kids under ORR custody. In April 2017, there were 1,368 migrant children in facilities or foster care in Texas. As of Dec. 17, the number was about 8,700.
New York had the second-highest number of children: 1,653, up from 210 in April 2017. Cayuga Centers grew from about 40 kids to close to 900; all are in foster homes.
The five largest providers, in order, are Austin, Texas-based Southwest Key; San Antonio-based BCFS Health and Human Services; Comprehensive Health Services Inc., based in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Cayuga Centers in Auburn, New York; and Chicago-based Heartland Alliance. Together they had about 11,600 children — or more than 80 percent of the 14,314 migrant youth in ORR custody as of Dec. 17.
The states with children in care are: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington state.
Kids continue to enter the system, though dozens of the care providers have been sued or disciplined before for mistreating children in their care. Now new litigation is piling up as attorneys fight to get migrant children released.
Abuse allegations: Staff members at a Southwest Key shelter in Phoenix allegedly physically abused three children this year, leading to the closure of the shelter in October, federal officials said. And a lawsuit filed earlier this year alleged that Latino youths at the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Virginia were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and many experts warn against institutionalizing children in large groups. Dr. Ryan Matlow, a Stanford clinical psychologist whose work addresses the impact of early life stress, said best practices minimize the number of children in any one shelter.
“Children are being treated as cogs in a machine, and their individual backgrounds, interests and unique identities are devalued as they are lost amongst the masses. This experience then becomes internalized, with significant psychological consequences,” said Matlow, who recently met with migrant children in custody. “There is no way in which a mass detention setting can replicate the experience and support that comes from family and community.”
The number of migrant children caught by immigration officials and then turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement has dropped under Trump: there were 49,100 in fiscal year 2018 compared to a high of 59,170 in fiscal year 2016, when a surge of youth crossing the border prompted the Obama administration to open emergency shelters at military bases. The average length of stay has increased, however, from about 34 days in January 2016 to around 60 days , according to government reports. In October, the average length of stay reached 89 days, according to data HHS provided to members of Congress, who shared it with AP.
Screening: Earlier this year, the Trump administration added new screening requirements that made it harder for parents and other relatives to get approved to take custody of the migrant children — including the fingerprint policy. That information has been shared with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, resulting in the arrests of dozens of would-be sponsors.
Under this week’s change, only a parent or individual directly responsible for a child will have to submit fingerprints.
HHS spokesman Weber said some fingerprinting requirements were necessary to ensure children are released to a safe environment: “Given the multitude of bad actors around the children, you really have to be careful.”
The ORR migrant children’s program has already cost taxpayers more than $1.5 billion, according to federal grant disclosures. Another $1.1 billion has been requested as part of the 2019 budget.
The facilities housing these children range from bucolic to jail-like.
Facilities: In a Baltimore suburb, Board of Child Care shelters about 50 migrant children amid 28 acres of cottages and grassy lawns; Rite of Passage in Arizona has about 100 kids sheltered at facilities that look like posh, private schools surrounded by trees and fields. Youth for Tomorrow, founded in Bristow, Virginia, by former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs to serve troubled teens, is housing about 110 migrant kids on its 215-acre campus with soccer fields and volleyball courts, music and art therapy.
Suspected gang members can be sent to several high-security facilities. An attorney for a Guatemalan teen held in the Yolo County, California, juvenile detention center for 11 months said his client was locked in restraints when he acted out and stung with pepper spray. Attorney Travis Silva convinced a judge to release the boy in November to his mother in Ohio. He’s now being treated for trauma and mental illness, said Silva, and shelter statistics show 14 other teens remain locked inside.
“He was locked in a cell, allowed one hour a day outside,” said Silva. “And outdoor time was anxiety-provoking, because that’s when there could be fights.”
At Tornillo, Texas — the largest of all the facilities — some 2,745 teens are held in massive tents. Staff aren’t allowed to touch them, except for fist bumps. They can’t hug.
“The programs vary wildly from place to place,” said Shana Tabak, who directs the Atlanta office of the Tahirih Justice Center, which represents immigrant women and girls. “The federal government has taken a haphazard approach to caring for these human beings.”
‘No deterrent’: Republican Congressman Will Hurd, whose district includes Tornillo, demanded that the government reunite the children with their families and shut down the detention camp by the end of the year, when the contract expires.
“Unnecessarily holding children for prolonged periods of time is no deterrent to illegal immigration,” he said. “All of this is a symptom of a broader problem, and that is that we’re not doing enough to address root causes of migration. We are the United States. We are better than this.”
Every kid comes with their own set of needs, many severe.
“We mostly have housed teenagers, some with their babies, and some sibling pairs whose parents have been murdered,” said Regina Moller, executive director of Noank Community Support Services in Groton, Connecticut. Noank can house up to 12 of the kids at a time and has been at or near capacity for weeks now.
Abbott House in Irvington, New York, takes kids with medical needs such as diabetes, cerebral palsy, depression and anxiety. It is housing 51 migrant boys and girls; the youngest is 3 years old, said medical director Dr. Luis Rodriguez.
A handful of boys are getting therapeutic intervention for sexual behavior or mental health issues at Friends of Youth in Seattle. “Most of these children are coming from great trauma and really terrible things have happened to them in their short lives,” said president Terry Pottmeyer. “They respond so positively, we see incredible results.”
This December, many will be enduring their first holidays without family.
Manuel Marcelino Tzah, a Guatemalan father whose 12-year-old daughter, Manuela, was taken from him and held in a Southwest Key facility in Houston for nearly two months, said his family is still processing the pain of separation and detention.
“She’s doing OK now; she is going to school and learning some English,” said Marcelino, whose immigration case is pending in a New York court near his new home in Brooklyn. “We really went through some difficult times, and sometimes she remembers it and is hit with the sadness of it. I tell her what happened, happened, and now we are here and struggling for a better life.”
Associated Press data journalist Larry Fenn and reporter Jennifer Peltz in New York contributed to this report.
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The “green” buildings of Perth
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS AND INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S CAPITAL
The tour starts at 235 St George’s Terrace, with a backpack on our shoulders and our gaze pointed skywards to admire the glass office tower designed by the architects fitzpatrick+partners. The building was awarded with one of Western Australia’s highest certification levels for its environmental sustainability, and is the first stop on the Sustainable Perth Walking Tour through the city centre organized by the Green Building Council (a regulator in charge of the Green Star environment certifications). The tour is a two-kilometre walk highlighting the Australian city’s leadership in the field of “green” buildings.
One of them is the Green Skills Training Centre, which has been named the “greenest” public building in the state of Western Australia, thanks to its super-modern solar power plant that produces 100% of the building’s energy needs as well as running the heating and air conditioning.
All across Australia, new buildings constructed since 2003 can be assigned a “Green Star” rating ranging from 1 to 6. The rating system is managed nationally by the Green Building Council of Australia.
In Perth, buildings are increasingly being designed as “green” right from the start. It’s not a coincidence that the city now celebrates a “Green Building Day.” The last one took place on June 1 in honor of sustainable buildings and was attended by construction firms, architects, technicians and city government representatives.
The idea of developing a city to be totally in harmony with the environment and user-friendly is now so deeply entrenched that in 2017 the city government launched a two-year program that offers economic support to business owners and landlords who commit to respecting “green” criteria. Last year the city also launched the “Strategic Community Plan,” a long term plan focusing on not just sustainability but also on the city’s overall development in order to make Perth a place with a high quality of life, and committed to energy usage, water conservation and dealing with climate change.
Perth: Important green projects for city development
Today Perth is the focus of a frenetic infrastructure program, founded on principles of environmental protection and innovative construction techniques. Topping the long list is the $2.6 billion Elizabeth Quay waterfront development. The international airport is getting an $1 billion facelift; $428 million is being spent for the “New Museum for WA” dedicated to the state’s history; and $1.2 billion is earmarked for the Forrestfield-Airport Link, a light railway (built by a consortium comprised of Salini Impregilo Group and Australia’s NRW) that will link the airport to various areas in the city giving a boost to business and tourism. Taken together, these new infrastructure works will help modernize the entire city, improving its transportation and liveability.
The Economic Context of Perth city
This big infrastructure push, accompanied hand in hand with a growing interest in protecting the environment, is deeply linked to the city’s economic vitality. The state of Western Australia, of which Perth is the capital, boasts a GDP of $198 billion which is 42% higher than the national average. Perth is a logistical hub, with four direct flights each week to the airport in Guangzhou, China, which serves one of the most developed areas in the entire world. This city of 2 million people (78% of the population of Western Australia) has posted an average GDP growth of 5.3% in the past 10 years. This performance has helped support investments and transformed the city into an economic hub to the point where 35% of the cities listed on the Australian Stock Exchange have their headquarters in Perth. All of these factors helped it reach seventh place in the Economist’s World’s Most Liveable City survey.
The Australian Experience in Green Buildings
“Green” buildings have been popping up across Australia in recent years, not just in Perth. The country boasts a multitude of innovative buildings and 20% of offices currently have a “green” certificate. The benefits of this choice are evident: buildings constructed according to “green” certification produce 62% fewer gas emissions than average, use 51% less water and recycle 96% of waste.
For example, The Commons building in Melbourne was named the country’s most sustainable building in 2014. Made up of 24 apartments, it has no parking spaces for cars -- just for 65 bicycles. Not only that: it was built from cement-covered “cells” that are so totally isolated from the exterior that no air conditioning is needed.
In Sydney the French architect Jean Nouvel (the designer of the Louvre Abu Dhabi) created the Central Park building, which received a Green Star rating of 5 in 2013. The building’s excellence comes from the fact that 70% of water consumed for domestic use is recycled, reusing such sources as rain water and irrigation water from the terrace gardens. The building also has its own natural gas plant.
This is the road Australia has taken and will continue to follow for the years to come. Its choice shows not only that it cares about protecting the environment, but also demonstrates a will to find innovative and high tech solutions to solve construction problems in a modern way.
The “green” buildings of Perth | Perth Panorama
THE CITY OF PERTH HAS A LARGE NUMBER OF BUILDINGS DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS
VISITORS CAN TAKE A WALKING TOUR TO ADMIRE THE CITY’S MOST INNOVATIVE BUILDINGS
IN 2017 THE CITY OF PERTH LAUNCHED A TWO-YEAR PLAN TO ENCOURAGE INVESTMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED ACCORDING TO “GREEN” CERTIFICATION PRODUCE 62% FEWER GAS EMISSIONS THAN AVERAGE, USE 51% LESS WATER AND RECYCLE 96% OF WASTE
IN AUSTRALIA 20% OF OFFICE BUILDINGS HAVE “GREEN” CERTIFICATION
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The last flight from Pan Am’s historic Terminal 3
TERMINAL 3 AT J.F.K. AIRPORT WAS A SYMBOL OF AVIATION’S GOLDEN AGE FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD
Architects immediately dubbed it “the flying saucer,” but for aviation aficionados and others who indulge in nostalgia for the golden age of jet travel, Terminal 3 of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport will always simply be the home of Pan American World Airways, or Pan Am.
The terminal’s construction was financed by the airline itself, which baptized it as the “Worldport.” But its nickname “flying saucer” stuck, because of a similarity with the round building’s large, slim, circular roof created to protect the airplanes and their passengers from bad weather.
New York Times aviation reporter Richard Witken best described the design’s function in 1957: “It will eliminate the huddled dash through bad weather by extending the roof like a huge oblong umbrella over the aircraft parking space.”
And it did. Inaugurated in 1960 and designed by the architecture firm Ives, Turano & Gardner Associated Architects and by Walther Prokosch of Tippets-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton, the terminal reflected a new philosophy of air travel in which planes needed to get as physically close to passengers as possible. With its radial form and a roof much wider than its base, which housed the passenger waiting area, Terminal 3 enabled pilots to park the jets directly beneath the roof so that passengers could reach the plane by foot or by uncovered bridges. Just as importantly, the terminal had a panoramic lounge called the Panorama Room where passengers could eat and a museum telling the story of Pan Am.
Pan Am decided to call the building the “Pan Am Worldport” in 1971 when it was enlarged to host the new fleet of Boeing 747s, becoming the largest terminal in the world.
Aerial panoramic view of Terminal 3
The “flying saucer” did its job for over 50 years, reaching its peak of popularity during Pan Am’s golden age in the 1960s and 70s, when it was widely seen as the most important and innovative airline in the United States. The fortunes of this landmark piece of infrastructure crumbled however in 1991 along with the fortunes of Pan Am itself, which went bankrupt. Delta Airlines scooped up some of Pan Am’s assets, and began to use the “Worldport” as its own terminal. But by then the facility was starting to show its age, and plans for a new terminal started to take shape. Delta started to invest in expanding Terminal 4, which it picked as its headquarters instead of the historic “flying saucer.” The construction of Terminal 4 took several years, and when it was finished, the flight operations in and out of Terminal 3 were moved elsewhere. On 23 May 2013 at 11:25 PM, flight 268 departed from Gate 6. It was a Boeing 747 leaving for Tel Aviv and – after 52 years of service – was the last flight to take off from Terminal 3 at J.F.K.
The terminal’s demolition did not take place immediately. The infrastructure is considered to be such an important symbol for the New York airport that a “Save the Worldport” movement sprung up to halt its destruction. An online petition to protect it was signed by over 3,000 people. The National Trust for Historic Preservation even went so far in 2013 to include the terminal on its list of “Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places” in the country.
It was the terminal’s owner and operator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, that poured cold water on any hope of preserving the terminal as a landmark.
“The old Pan Am Worldport terminal at J.F.K. served this region for more than a half century, but is obsolete for 21st-century aviation purposes,” said Port Authority spokesman Ron Marisco. “Unfortunately, J.F.K. is a land-constrained airport, and the space where Worldport is located cannot be set aside for preservation because it is needed for other aviation uses that will lead to job creation and economic growth.”
The Port Authority spokesman’s words could not be clearer. The old terminal was pulled down in 2014 to make way for an airplane parking lot. The Worldport terminal was not demolished to make way for something else, but as part of a renovation of its neighboring terminals, 4 and 2, which have been fundamental for Delta Airlines in positioning itself as transport leader in the skies.
The curtain fell on Pan Am’s Terminal 3, an infrastructure that along with the vanished airline itself was a symbol of the golden age of aviation across the globe for many years.
The last flight from Pan Am’s historic Terminal 3 | JFK Airport
TERMINAL 3 WAS INAUGURATED AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRPORT IN NEW YORK IN 1960 AND WAS PAN AM’S HEADQUARTERS FOR MANY YEARS
IN 1971 THE FACILITY WAS EXPANDED TO HOST THE NEW BOEING 747S, BECOMING THE LARGEST TERMINAL IN THE WORLD
TERMINAL 3 ENABLED PAN AM’S PILOTS TO PARK THEIR JETS DIRECTLY UNDER ITS CIRCULAR SUSPENDED ROOF SO THAT PASSENGERS COULD REACH THE PLANES ON FOOT OR ON UNCOVERED BRIDGES
ON 23 MAY 2013 AT 11:25 PM THE LAST FLIGHT TOOK OFF FROM TERMINAL 3 AT J.F.K.
THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN 2013 INCLUDED THE TERMINAL ON ITS LIST OF THE 11 HISTORIC PLACES IN THE COUNTRY MOST AT RISK
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France, India commit to increasing trade to 15 bn euros by 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron. (File Photo: IANS)
Paris: The dynamism infused in the Indo-French relations during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India in March seems to be building up as the two countries have committed to raising their bilateral trade from 9 billion euros to 15 billion euros in the next two years official sources said.
Besides this, boosting French investment in India was one of the several issues that Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj discussed with her French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian on Monday evening during her maiden visit to France.
The French have been keen to significantly enhance their presence in Indian business ecosystem, especially in areas where they have inhouse strengths, notably sustainable development, transport and smart cities.
The two ministers also discussed numerous international issues such as the impact of the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Treaty as well as the Iran nuclear deal. Regional issues such as terrorism and situation in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region were also discussed.
Sushma Swaraj thanked Le Drian on behalf of the Indian government for the unstinted support that France has given to India’s bid to be inducted as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as well as the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
According to a statement issued by the Indian External Affairs Ministry, Sushma Swaraj and Le Drian reviewed the wide gamut of bilateral relations as well as exchanged views on contemporary matters of regional/international interest.
“The two ministers reaffirmed the strong mutual ties and the expanding convergences which underpin the bilateral Strategic Partnership, now in its 20th year,” the statement said.
The two leaders also exchanged a letter of intent for collaboration in conservation of prehistoric monuments. This document which was signed between the Ministry of Culture of India and the Ministry of Culture of France will aid conservation efforts at the Bhimbetka caves in India and the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet in France.
Sushma Swaraj also called on President Macron on Monday evening and conveyed the personal greetings of Indian President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Minister Narendra Modi.
As part of her engagements here on Monday, Sushma Swaraj was also the chief guest at a ceremony held to name the Indian Culture Centre in the memory of Swami Vivekanand.
According to the ministry statement, Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday visited the India House, Maison de l’Inde, which is a hostel for Indian students in the University City of Paris. She addressed the residents of The India House, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year
An Indian community reception was held in honour of the visiting minister at the Indian Embassy where she addressed the members of community and emphasised on the importance attached by India on the links with the Indian diaspora.
Sushma Swaraj also handed over certificates of appreciation to Indian community organisations and individuals who have contributed to the Swacch Bharat Kosh.
She also announced that India will construct an Indian Armed Forces Memorial in Villiers Guislain, France, to honour the valour and sacrifice of the thousands of Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen who fought in World War I.
She also released a publication “States of India” prepared by the Indian Embassy which is meant for increasing awareness of the business climate and invest potential of various states of India and would prove to be a handy guide for French investors, chamber of commerce and others.
Sushma Swaraj arrived here from Italy on Monday on the second leg of her week-long four-nation tour of Europe which will also see her visiting Luxembourg and Belgium.
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These rules could save humanity from the threat of rogue AI
We urgently need an ethical framework to ensure the machines we are developing do not pose a threat
Image: Image by Tumisu / Pixabay
Jason Si Dean of Tencent Research Insitute, Tencent Holdings Limited
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The possibility of man-made machines turning against their creators has become a trendy topic these days. Undoubtedly, Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are no longer fit for purpose. For the sake of the global public good, we need something serious and more specific to safeguard our limitless ambitions - and humanity itself.
Today, the internet connects more than half the world’s population. And although the internet provides us with convenience and efficiency, it also brings threats. This is especially true in an age in which a good deal of our daily life is driven by big data and artificial intelligence. Algorithms have been widely used to determine what we read, where we go and how we get there, what music we listen to, and what we buy at what price. Self-driving cars, automatic cancer diagnosis and machine writing have never been so close to large-scale commercial application.
If data is the new oil, then AI is the new drill - and to extend this analogy, malfunctioning algorithms are the new pollution.
Image: Statista / Tractica
It is important to note that malfunction does not equal malevolence. Likewise, good intentions do not guarantee a lack of legal, ethical and social troubles. Already with AI we have seen numerous examples of such issues, namely unintended behaviours, lack of foresight, difficulties in monitoring and supervision, distributed liability, privacy violation, algorithmic bias and abuse. Moreover, some researchers have started to worry about a potential rise in the unemployment rate caused by smart machines replacing human labour.
Troubles are looming
Misbehaving AI is increasingly prevalent these days. A facial recognition app tagged African-Americans as gorillas; another one identified 28 US Members of Congress as wanted criminals. A risk-assessment tool used by US courts was alleged as biased against African Americans; Uber’s self-driving car killed a pedestrian in Arizona; Facebook and other big companies were sued for discriminatory advertising practices; and lethal AI-powered weapons are in development.
We are marching into unmapped territory - which is why we urgently need rules and guiding principles as a compass to guide us in the right direction. Technology ethics are more important now than they have ever been, and must be at the core of this set of rules and principles.
We should acknowledge some of the early efforts to build such a framework. Notable examples include the Asilomar AI Principles, and IEEE’s ethics standards and certification programme.
And in late 2018, Pony Ma, the founder and CEO of Tencent, proposed an ethical framework for AI governance, namely ARCC (available, reliable, comprehensive and controllable).
Available, Reliable, Comprehensible, and Controllable: ARCC
Ma’s framework can become a foundation for the governance of AI systems in China and beyond. Its aim is to secure a friendly and healthy relationship between humanity and machinery in the thousands of years to come.
Image: Tencent
AI should be available to the masses, not just the few. We are so used to the benefits of our smartphones and laptops, but more often than not we forget that half the world remains cut off from this digital revolution.
Advances in AI should fix this problem, not exacerbate it. We need to bring those living in developing areas, the elderly and the disabled into this digital world. The well-being of humanity as a whole should be the sole purpose of AI development. That is how we can ensure that AI will not advance the interests of some humans over the rest.
Take the recent development of medical bots as an example. Miying, Tencent’s AI-enabled medical diagnostic imaging solution, is currently working with radiologists in hundreds of local hospitals. This cancer pre-screening system has studied billions of medical images and detected hundreds of thousands of high-risk cases. The bot then refers these cases to experts. In doing so, it frees doctors from the daily labour of watching pictures and gives them more time to attend their patients.
Moreover, an available AI is a fair AI. A completely rational machine should be impartial and free of human weaknesses such as being emotional or prejudicial - but this should not be taken for granted. Recent incidents, like the vulgar language used by a Microsoft chatbot demonstrate that AI can go seriously wrong when fed by inaccurate, incomplete or biased data. An ethics by design approach is preferred here - that is, to carefully identify, solve and eliminate bias during the Ai development process.
Regulatory bodies are already formulating guidelines and principles addressing bias and discrimination. Firms such as Google and Microsoft have already set up their own internal ethical boards to guide their AI research.
Since AI is already installed in millions of households, we need them to be safe, reliable, and capable of safeguarding against cyberattacks and other accidents.
Take autonomous driving cars as an example. Tencent is developing a Level 3 autonomous driving system and has obtained the license to test its self-driving cars on public roads in Shenzhen. But before getting the test license, its self-driving cars have been tested in a closed site for more than a thousand kilometres. Today, no real self-driving car is being commercially used on our roads, because the standards and regulations concerning its certification are still to be established.
Besides, for AI to be reliable, it should ensure digital, physical and political security, especially around privacy. We have seen cases where personal data is collected for training AI systems without the user’s consent. Therefore, AI should comply with privacy requirements, protect privacy by design, and safeguard against data abuse.
The enormous complexity of AI systems means this is easier said than done. The hidden layers between the input and output of a deep neutral network make it impenetrable, even for its developers. As a result, in case of a car accident involving an algorithm, it may take years for us to find the reason behind the malfunction.
Fortunately, the AI industry has already done some research on explainable AI models. Algorithmic transparency is one way to achieve comprehensible AI. While users may not care about the algorithms behind a product, regulators require deep knowledge of its technical details. Nonetheless, good practice would be to provide users with easy-to-understand information and explanations in respect of the decisions assisted or made by AI systems.
To develop a comprehensible AI, public engagement and the exercise of individuals’ rights should be guaranteed and encouraged. AI development should not be a secret undertaking by commercial companies. The public as end users may provide valuable feedback which is critical for the development of high-quality AI.
Tech companies should be required to provide their customers with information concerning the AI system’s purpose, function, limitations and impact.
The last - but not the least - principle is to make sure that we, human beings, are in-charge. Always.
Every innovation comes with risks. But we should not let worries about the extinction of humanity by some artificial general intelligence prevent us from pursuing a better future with new technologies. What we should do, is tmake sure that the benefits of AI substantially outweigh the potential risks. Top achieve that, we must establish appropriate precautionary measures to safeguard against foreseeable risks.
For now, people often trust strangers more than AI. We frequently hear that self-driving cars are unsafe, filters are unfair, recommendation algorithms restrict our choices, and pricing bots charge us more. This deeply embedded suspicion is rooted in information shortage, since most of us either don’t care or don’t have the necessary knowledge to understand an AI.
I would like to propose a spectrum of rules started from an ethical framework that may help AI developers and their products to earn the trust they deserve.
On the one side, we have light-touch rules, such as social conventions, moral rules and self-regulation. The ethical framework mentioned above fits here. At the international level, Google, Microsoft and other big companies have come up with their own AI principles, while Asilomar AI Principles and IEEE’s AI ethics programme are well praised.
As we move along the spectrum, there are mandatory and binding rules, such as standards and regulations. We wrote a policy report on self-driving cars this year and find that many countries are making laws to both encourage and regulate self-driving cars. In the future, there will be new laws for AI.
Further along the spectrum, there are criminal laws to punish bad actors for malicious use of AI. To the extreme right, there are international laws. For example, some international scholars have been pushing the United Nations to come up with a convention on lethal autonomous weapons, just like the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons.
Any new technology, whether a controlled nuclear reaction or a humanoid bot, is neither inherently good or bad. Ensuring it is the former is down to us.
Jason Si, Dean of Tencent Research Insitute, Tencent Holdings Limited
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Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
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George Bodarky
12.28.16 6:00am
He is one of the most recognizable names in music history. Paul Simon has had a long and illustrious career both as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist. Simon has earned 16 Grammy awards, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, first with Simon & Garfunkel in 1990 and then solo in 2001. A new book explores Paul Simon's journey to musical greatness -- a journey that essentially begins in Queens, New York where Simon grew up. Peter Ames Carlin, the author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon, is our guest to this week's show.
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Chapter 150: Rankings
After forcing Ji Hanyan to retreat, the exam became like a walk in the park.
The three-man team wandered through the exam grounds at their leisure, walking through the different regions and cleaning up any other exam candidates they encountered.
They crushed everyone they encountered; no one was able to put up any kind of resistance against them.
They did run into the more powerful candidates, but next to Ji Hanyan, they weren’t all that strong. Their self-confidence rose to new heights as they beat candidates left and right.
On that day, the three of them reaped the most points since entering the exam grounds.
During this time, Su Chen wanted to find Li Qingyun and Bai Li, but no sign of them was found. It was unknown whether or not they even made it to the first region.
The first rays of the sun streaked over the horizon, and a loud whistle sounded out, signalling the end of the Hidden Dragon Institute’s three-day exam.
The exam candidates were beamed out of the exam grounds, once again appearing on the large plaza.
They lifted their heads up to look at the massive screens of light, which revealed how many points each exam candidate had obtained and their corresponding ranking.
After three full days of battle, the fruit of their efforts was now manifested. The exam candidates that had endured to the very end searched for their names on the ranking list.
From time to time, people would yell out things like, “I made the top six! I’ve got a spot in the Institute!” or “Dammit! Three points! I could’ve beaten him with just three more points!”
Joy, vexation, excitement, and anger could be heard in the students’ voices.
Of course, 99 out of a 100 were eliminated by the Hidden Dragon Institute’s cruel entrance standards. Most people were sorrowful and disappointed. Only a few showed excitement, and they were very jarring compared to their surroundings.
Most people were only focused on whether or not they got in, but some were aiming higher.
Jin Ling’er nervously searched for her name on the rankings list.
She started at the top and before long she found her name. She was placed tenth!
Jin Ling’er, 722 points.
“Whew! Made it,” Jin Ling’er sighed in relief.
Because Su Chen had taken a large handful of her points, Jin Ling’er had far fewer points than she would’ve liked. Although she furiously fought to recover the gap, in the end, she was only barely able to reach tenth place.
Even so, Jin Ling’er was satisfied.
In reality, the top three were considered to be on a different level than the rest of the top ten, but the differences weren’t too great. To Jin Ling’er, as long as she could enter the top ten, she could accept any other loss.
She scanned back up and found Su Chen’s name written next to the fifth place marker.
Su Chen, 814 points.
“Hey, congratulations,” Jin Ling’er said to Su Chen. “You’re in the top five.”
“Not much difference between that and tenth place,” Su Chen replied nonchalantly.
He spoke the truth. Fifth and tenth place weren’t very different from each other.
“Hey, at least you guys are in the top ten. What a pity, I only reached sixteenth place,” Fatty Wang sighed. He had fallen too far behind in the beginning, making it impossible for him to catch up.
“That’s not bad either. You should still be considered a seedling of the institute, albeit probably with a lower ranking,” Jin Ling’er comforted.
The three of them glanced at the leaderboard again. Ji Hanyan was the person with the most points. Even though she had lost to the three of them, it didn’t seem to affect her very much; she continued to furiously earn points the entire way through.
She possessed a frightening 1345 points, 500 more than Su Chen. Even the second-place candidate, Blood Demon Zhong Ding, was more than 400 points behind her.
On the leaderboard, Ji Hanyan existed in a league of her own. She was at the top of the rankings list with a point total that simply made others feel helpless. Aside from her, the rest of the top 10 had similar amounts of points.
Despite this, Su Chen’s name was still very eye-catching in this top 10.
This was because he was the only one without a bloodline attached to his name.
Although he was only fifth, the attention he drew was no less than Ji Hanyan’s.
“Su Chen? Who’s that? How can someone without a bloodline enter the top five?”
“I know him. I don’t know how he did it, but he somehow teamed up with Jin Ling’er, taking advantage of her in order to obtain so many points.”
“That’s because he defeated her and teamed up with her afterwards.” An exam candidate who was eliminated early on had watched it happen on the big screen.
“Rubbish, how could he defeat Jin Ling’er? I think it’s because he’s handsome, so Jin Ling’er was willing to submit to him.”
Discussions were ongoing in the plaza. All kinds of ideas were being thrown around. There were those who had been “mesmerized” by him, while others were beaten by him and were now slandering him. Many who knew about different parts of what had happened believed themselves to know the whole truth, and there was no lack of embellishment when they spoke about what had happened.
In any case, all kinds of ideas about what tactics Su Chen had used were being thrown around.
But no matter what they thought of him, the name “Su Chen” instantly spread far and wide.
Many people knew a new genius had appeared during this exam period. He had no bloodline, yet he had dominated this region’s competition.
Su Chen, however, was not particularly interested in the conversations going on around him. He was focused on the ranking list, trying to find Li Qingyun and Bai Li.
He found them pretty quickly.
Li Qingyun held onto 88th place with 236 points, while Bai Li was only one rank and two points behind him with 234 points. They were the second and third-ranked individuals from the Northface City region, and were both in the top 100, something which was quite rare.
Su Chen later discovered that the two of them had reached the fifth region.
But that was their limit. Not long after arriving there, they were forced to retreat after encountering some powerful exam candidates. They returned shortly afterwards.
Su Chen was still in the Spirit Burying Terrace at the time, so he never ran into them.
Those two also knew Su Chen was Demon Face. They were rendered speechless upon discovering he had even forced Ji Hanyan to retreat. They did not know of Su Chen’s plan to borrow their strength to progress forwards. Rather, they were counting their lucky stars that they hadn’t fought; otherwise, they would’ve been the ones to lose. If they had been eliminated, it would’ve been all over.
They actually felt quite grateful towards Su Chen.
The fourth-ranked person from Northface City was Lin Jingxuan, who took rank 178 with 115 points. Lin Shuyue was three points behind him. She was not fated to enter the Hidden Dragon Institute.
This was not particularly surprising. Su Chen had given Lin Jingxuan many Explosive Medicines to take with him. Naturally, since Su Chen had forced Lin Jingxuan into submission, he would bring him into the Hidden Dragon Institute and continue to use him.
These results were outstanding for Northface City
Su Chen’s placing in the top ten gave Northface City a lot of face, and would bring them a lot of benefits.
By latching themselves onto Su Chen’s coattails, the next Hidden Dragon Institute battle would occur five years earlier, and they could obtain at least five or six ranking spots.
Because of this, the Lord of Northface City, Yue Weixiong, was beaming with joy. He received congratulations from many of those present.
To him, this was a great political achievement of his, despite the fact he hadn’t lifted so much as a finger.
Even so, bureaucracy was exactly like that. If someone under your jurisdiction achieved success, that was also your success. If someone under your jurisdiction made a mistake, that was on you as well.
Such a great achievement would definitely be recorded in the official books, and would be included in all future official ratings. Yue Weixiong had earned this achievement without paying a penny, and no matter how he looked at Su Chen, he liked him.
He was heading towards the Su Clan to congratulate them.
However, an official registrar on the side saved him the trouble. He secretly said to Yue Weixiong, “Su Chen has no affection for the Su Clan. Half a year ago, he personally ruined his father’s Fourth Aunt, Yan Wushuang, angering his father to the point where he tried to kill Su Chen. Apparently, the two of them have not seen eye to eye for a long time, and Su Chen allegedly doesn’t even acknowledge Su Cheng’an as his father anymore.”
“How did something like that happen?” Yue Weixiong was startled for a moment, then lowered his head and muttered in thought, “If that’s the case, there’s no need to get too close to the Su Clan. Su Chen is now a seedling of the Hidden Dragon Institute, and his future potential is boundless. Since he’s not on good terms with the Su Clan, see if you can rope him in. Do you think we should offer our help to him to deal with the Su Clan?”
The official registrar said, “This little one understands Su Chen’s personality; he is someone who is very clear about his grudges. Judging from his actions, it seems that although he’s split apart from the Su Clan, he has no intention of dealing with them either. Perhaps he he decided they would simply walk different paths in life. There’s no need for you, sir, to deal with the Su Clan. Otherwise...... well, you know how it is. Families always argue with one another. If we meddle too much, who knows what will happen?”
“Oh, that makes sense too.” Yue Weixiong repeatedly nodded his head.
The official registrar said, “In addition, Su Chen has offended the Pan Clan. Although there are large clans that hold him in high regard, based on his personality I don’t think he would be willing to become someone else’s subordinate. We still don’t know how that situation will pan [1. Blame my editor if you want to blame someone.] out. Sir, don’t be too short-sighted.”
Yue Weixiong stroked his beard and said, “You’re not wrong, but Su Chen entered the top ten and lifted up my Northface City along with him. As the lord of the city, it would be callous of me to not express my gratitude. What do you think I should do?”
“Send them some gifts, but maintain your distance.”
Yue Weixiong pondered for a moment, then nodded his head and said, “Then it’s decided.”
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Demi Lovato to perform National Anthem at Super Bowl LIV
Nick Romano
Entertainment Weekly January 16, 2020
Demi Lovato makes her return to music’s spotlight even more bold. Announced on Thursday, the “Sorry Not Sorry” singer, 27, will perform the National Anthem at Super Bowl LIV this Feb. 2.
This will be Lovato’s second live performance since she was hospitalized in 2018 for a near-fatal overdose. She was previously revealed as a performer for the Grammy Awards, which will take place later this month on Jan. 26.
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Lovato joins a long line of divas who took the mic for the game’s musical kickoff, including Lady Gaga (2016), Christina Aguilera (2011), Beyoncé (2004), Mariah Carey (2001), Cher (1999), and the one who raised the bar for National Anthem performances, Whitney Houston (1991). Gladys Knight sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at last year’s Super Bowl.
Watch Demi perform the National Anthem at #SBLIV on February 2nd! 🏈 @NFL pic.twitter.com/Mr5aLH9H8k
— Team Demi (@ddlovato) January 16, 2020
At the Teen Vogue Summit in November, marking her first interview since the overdose, Lovato said, “What I see in the mirror [is] someone that’s overcome a lot. I’ve been through a lot and I genuinely see a fighter. I don’t see a championship winner, but I see a fighter and someone who is going to continue to fight no matter what is thrown in their way.”
She’s also working on a new album but mentioned that she’s “cautious this time around of jumping back into things.” Lovato added, “I’ve really decided to take my time with things, so when the time is right to release new music, I will put it out there.”
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Religious Beliefs In Nauru
Christianity is the largest religion in Nauru.
A Christian congregation in Nauru.
Nauru is the world’s third smallest country by land area, with only 21 square kilometers. With only 11,347 inhabitants, it is regarded as Oceania’s least populated nation. For a while, the economy of the island nation was nearly completely dependent on phosphate extraction from the droppings left by seabirds. However, once the deposits were severely depleted, the country experienced an economic downfall and large-scale emigration.
Christianity is the largest religion practiced in Nauru. The majority of Nauru’s Christians (two-thirds) are Protestants while Roman Catholics make up one-third of the Christian population.
The Largest Religion In Nauru
Nauru was initially inhabited by Polynesians and Micronesians about 3,000 years back. The first European to visit Nauru was John Fearn from Britain. He landed on the island in 1798. Gradually, Europeans started settling in Nauru. The locals traded food with them in exchange for firearms and alcohol. The former was used to fight the tribal wars. Gradually, the control of Nauru passed into the hands of the Europeans and Christianity became a popular religion on the island. The Nauru Congregational Church has the highest number of followers in the country. As of 2011, 35.71% of the country’s population are affiliated to this Church.
Nauruan Indigenous Religion
Prior to the introduction of Christianity in Nauru by Westerners, the people of the region practiced their indigenous beliefs. The Nauruan Indigenous Religion is a monotheistic belief system. Eijebong is the female deity worshipped by adherents of this religion. The indigenous believers follow their own traditional cosmology. Ancestral worship is an important part of the religion. Altars are built outside the homes where food is offered in honor of the family ancestors. According to the believers, Areop-Enap, a spider, created the earth and the sky. Today, only a few individuals in Nauru adhere to this religion.
Other Religions Practiced In Nauru
About 3 to 4% of the population of Nauru are ethnic Chinese. They primarily adhere to Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Other religions like Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism also have a small presence in the country. Only about 0.1% of the population, roughly about 10 individuals, adhere to each of these faiths.
This page was last updated on June 11, 2018.
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"Pokemon Go, Why It Matters for Real Estate"
By: Chris Sauerzopf
Entrepreneur. Husband and Father. Licensed Ohio Title Agent. A random assortment of fun stuff.
Pokemon Go. Really?
Pokemon Go. Really? Really? This whole Pokemon Go thing, I've got to be honest. My first reaction to this was I was annoyed. I've never been a Pokemon guy. I've never been a Pokemon fan. I just thought, "This is stupid. Why would I spend any time, invest energy, energy into figuring this out at all? Not interested." I then have to push past that. If there's a tension there from people or consumers, and I need to be aware of what's actually happening and going on. I have to push past that first reaction, which is, "This is dumb. I don't want to be involved with this. I don't want to deal with this." I have to adopt, adapt, or not be relevant. I have to figure it out. I have to see what it's about. I have to understand that there's a much bigger play happening here.
There's a partnership between Nintendo and Google. The value that this has brought to Nintendo already has been an eight billion dollar increase in their bottom line, in their cap, their valuation. If you don't think that Google is not going to do this and partner with other companies, other products, other industries, you're mistaken. Get in early. Adopt. Adapt. Understand the technology. Understand the bigger play that's happening. If you're a real estate agent, the idea of augmented reality, getting people to homes, getting people to open houses, getting people to offices, getting people to places, form A to B, it's a powerful thing. If your ea business owner, and your business is a hardware store, or your business is a restaurant, people have to eat.
Using this kind of technology and buying the mods that are available inside the game of Pokemon Go to get people into your business. They're going to be hungry. They have to eat. They have to put gas in their car. They have to buy equipment, electronics, all kinds of stuff. There's all kind of applications. I read something the other day where someone bought some mods from Pokemon Go, some of the things that were site specific that they could buy to get people to come into their store. They increased their business like that seventy-five percent. This stuff is coming. The sooner we can adapt to it, adopt it, leverage it, these become practical business solutions that we can use to monetize. That's my thoughts. Have a great day.
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Taking the Stand
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Updated March 1, 2005 11:59 pm ET
Putting a high-profile defendant on the stand is often seen as a move of desperation, the only way to rebut a case made by prosecutors. Most executives accused of wrongdoing, such as Martha Stewart or John Rigas, did not testify in their recent cases. But some have, successfully. Here's a look at executives who have testified in their own trials, including former WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers, whose testimony continued Tuesday.
Former top Tyco International Ltd. lawyer Mark Belnick took the stand in June...
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EXTENDED: “Aerosmith: Deuces Are Wild” Tour!
At Park Theater At Park MGM Las Vegas
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3770 S Las Vegas Blvd
America's all-time top-selling rock ‘n’ roll band, Aerosmith has announced 17 additional dates for their Las Vegas residency at Park Theater at the NEW Park MGM resort.The band has sold over 150 million albums worldwide and in 2001 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band's induction was unique and special because they are the only band to get inducted while having an active song "Jaded" in the charts. On June 29, 2008 the band released a video game with the creators of Guitar Hero called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith! On August 22, 2012 Aerosmith released a track called "What Could Have Been Love" which can be found on their fifteenth studio album, "Music from Another Dimension." The song charted #7 on the Japan Billboard Hot 100 chart in Novemeber of 2012. Due to hard work and dedication to their craft, Aerosmith will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Aerosmith's Las Vegas residency is called “Deuces are Wild” which may sound familar. Yes, the band has a 1994 track called “Deuces are Wild.” You can hear Aerosmith on the RADIO.com APP.
What are loyal Areosmith fans called?
Comment when you know it.
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2014 Stonewall Book Award Honor Books Winner!
New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who are about to take part in a 32-hour marathon of kissing to set a new Guinness World Record --- all of which is narrated by a Greek Chorus of the generation of gay men lost to AIDS. While the two increasingly dehydrated and sleep-deprived boys are locking lips, they become a focal point in the lives of other teen boys dealing with languishing long-term relationships, coming out, navigating gender identity, and falling deeper into the digital rabbit hole of gay hookup sites --- all while the kissing former couple tries to figure out their own feelings for each other. This follow-up to the bestselling EVERY DAY showcases David's trademark sharp-witted, warm-hearted tales of teenage love, and serves as a perfect thematic bookend to David's YA debut and breakthrough, BOY MEETS BOY, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2013.
Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult 12+
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Season 5 Winner of ABC's "The Bachelorette"
How did you get cast on “The Bachelorette”?
I was just walking down the street in the Loop one day and this guy with a notepad walked up to me and said he was recruiting for a TV show on ABC. I told him I wasn’t interested and didn’t want any part of the show. Well, first they had asked me a couple questions like, “Are you married? Do you have any kids?”
Randomly on the street?
Yeah. It was five questions, a 30-second interview. After that they called and asked me to send in an application. I was like, “Well, no. I said I wasn’t interested,” but they emailed me a month later and eventually flew me out to Los Angeles.
Did any of your friends give you a hard time about being on the show?
They did at first but they definitely liked the aftermath, ‘the trail of goodness’.
Do you still keep in touch with your ex-fiancé Jillian Harris?
I do. We just talked two days ago.
What’s the key to being able to remain friends with an ex?
I guess it depends on the kind of person they are. She definitely doesn’t want to talk to me as much as I’d like to talk to her, she’s still hurt by the whole thing. If you’re a genuine person and can’t be together, I think you should at least be friends. I respect her, she’s an amazing person but we were not perfect together. We are finally coming to this agreement where we can talk on a regular basis and she’s fine with it. I don’t think she is happy with me being so okay with it all, I think it hurt her initially but she is okay now.
Can you tell us what really goes down in the fantasy suites on the show? Is it as raunchy as we’d like to imagine?
I think so. I don’t know, I think so.
It’s kind of an awkward concept.
Well, it’s not like it’s a one-night stand. You kind of know the person. I can’t say from experience! I’m just saying it may happen.
Are you dating anyone now?
Describe your ideal first date.
I would say going to Sunda, Hubbard Inn, Hub 51 or anything on Hubbard Street. Maybe sushi and drinks then to Blue Frog for karaoke.
What would you consider the biggest turn off — a bad spray tan, too much makeup or unkempt fingernails?
It’s a tie between too much makeup and a bad spray tan. Actually, it’s too much makeup. Makeup scares me more than anything. When I write a book about my dating life, chapter one will be called ‘Makeup is the Devil’. There has to be a point in a girl’s mind where they say, “This is too much.” I respect it, just don’t abuse it!
How does the average Chicago girl rank in your book?
A seven.
A seven!?
Is that bad or good? I think that’s pretty good!
You’re a proud Michigan State Spartan. Are you loyal to all of your hometown state’s teams?
No, I actually adopted all of the Chicago teams as soon as I moved here. It was easy, seven years ago Detroit teams were terrible! The Bears were good, everyone was good, so I jumped.
Can you see yourself ever moving back to where you grew up?
I want to return to Michigan and raise a family in Grand Rapids. I love that town.
Where is your favorite place to watch a game?
Definitely the Boundary over on Division.
Since “The Bachelorette”, what have you been up to?
I am a partner in small software company. We build business applications and do consulting for businesses in the city. We’re all over the place but most of our customers are here in Chicago.
What is You’re Ed To Me all about?
It started with one of my buddies. One night we were out and he said, “You’re Ed to me,” and I loved it so I immediately bought the domain. At the time, we were still being talked about in the media so it was fun to get a reaction. I was getting 10,000 people a day hitting my site and I was just writing garbage. I could have written, “Today I brushed my teeth with my sunglasses on,” and people would be like, “Alright!”
Do you have any standout Chicago moments?
Oh, I have a great story. I was flying back from Dallas a couple of years ago and Mike Ditka walked by me in the airport. I walked up to him and shook his hand and said, “Hi coach, how’s it going?” He explained to me how he was trying to get on my flight and once I got on the plane — as I was sitting back in coach — I looked up and he was walking down the aisle. So he sits down next to me and we talked the entire flight home. When we were 15 minutes from O’Hare he asked what part of town I lived in and I said River North. He said he did too and was like, “You don’t want a ride, do you?”
Are you sure this wasn’t a dream?
No! So we stepped off of the plane and a limo picks us up and he drops me off at my front door. I got pictures of it! I was just shocked. He was such a nice guy.
Now that’s a great Chicago story.
Seriously! I don’t think you can top that.
Adam Sandler.
Photography by Natalie Probst
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<p>When she’s not hard at work tasting exotic foreign cuisine (Icelandic minke whale wasn’t as good as she had hoped), Rikki Frenkel studies architecture at Columbia University and coaxes bacteria to produce quantum dots at her local community biolab. Hailing from beautiful Cedarhurst, Long Island, she has built an exciting life out of creative indecision. Frenkel has lived in three countries while pursuing women’s studies, chemistry, architecture, and atomic force microscopy. She has questionable eyesight and prefers the world blurry.</p>
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<p>Sung won lim, Genspace NYC co-founder. Aspiring mad scientist. Biolaser coming soon to an enemy near you.</p>
David Benjamin is Director of the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and principal of the architecture firm The Living. Recent projects include Living City (a platform for buildings to talk to one another), Amphibious Architecture (a cloud of light above New York's East River that glows and blinks according to water quality and public interest in the environment), Proof (a series of design studios at Columbia that explore testing as a design methodology), and Architecture Bio-Synthesis (a collection of new software and wetware tools for design with synthetic biology). Benjamin received an M.Arch. from Columbia GSAPP, and a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University.
Chris Lin originates from Carlisle, MA where stop lights do not exist. He continued his love for small towns at Bates College before transferring to Columbia University in an attempt to become an Electrical Engineer. He has developed a keen interest in synthetic biology after experiencing the glory of iGEM.
Christina is a sophomore majoring in Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union. In addition to her engineering studies, she is also interested in the biomedical sciences and public service. She has many hobbies, which include swimming, playing tennis, and traveling to places.
David Isele is a recent Cooper Union graduate who is now pursuing his PhD in Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania. He has formally studied Electrical Engineering, Oil Painting, and Perception and he thoroughly enjoyed his wondrous though sadly brief excursion into the world of Biotechnology.
Jason Walker is a M. Arch Candidate at GSAPP - Columbia University with a BS in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University
Justin Fabrikant hails from the paradise of Santa Cruz, California. He studied Biology at Brown University while playing Ultimate Frisbee, his true passion. Justin is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture degree at Columbia University, but misses the rigor of science. Thus, he joined the Cooper-Columbia iGEM team in order to explore his most intimate love for the hack, Frankenstein, bizarre, and absurd world of synthetic biology.
Hi! My name is Mingyu Kim. I'm a Jericho High School student and one of the High School students at Genspace. I love wet lab and I love Biology! Bio-engineering is COOL!
Peter Liu is a junior at the Cooper Union majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in biochemical engineering. He joined the igem team this year to further his knowledge and lab skills in the field of synthetic and microbiology. In my free time I enjoy breakdancing, freerunning, and basketball.
When she’s not hard at work tasting exotic foreign cuisine (Icelandic minke whale wasn’t as good as she had hoped), Rikki Frenkel studies architecture at Columbia University and coaxes bacteria to produce quantum dots at her local community biolab. Hailing from beautiful Cedarhurst, Long Island, she has built an exciting life out of creative indecision. Frenkel has lived in three countries while pursuing women’s studies, chemistry, architecture, and atomic force microscopy. She has questionable eyesight and prefers the world blurry.
David joined Cooper Union in the summer of 2008 with a BS in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell University and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Rochester. Before joining Cooper he also earned an MD, did an intern year, and developed an interest in improving efficiency in the Emergency Room setting. He teaches several biology and biomedical engineering courses, helps direct the Kanbar Center for Biomedical Engineering, and serves as the college’s pre-medical advisor. He is always available to discuss new ideas for projects with a biology, medical, or biomedical engineering flavor. Outside of Cooper, David now helps create iPhone apps and workbooks for children. See www.Brain-go.com.
Sung won lim, Genspace NYC co-founder. Aspiring mad scientist. Biolaser coming soon to an enemy near you.
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Matthew Piziak grew up in Queens and New Jersey and is now studying Computer Science and Mathematics at Columbia University. iGEM taught him that programming bacteria is just as interesting as programming computers.
When not plugged in, Will Long attends the Bronx High School of Science. He enjoys coding in Python, Java, and DNA. Someone should tell his teachers to give him less homework, so he can actually sleep at night.
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The Zagreb Film Festival Public Relations Office and Press Service are in charge of dealing with all media and journalists' questions regarding the Festival and its programmes as well as of distributing press materials (texts, photos, film clips). Please do not hesitate do contact us if you have any additional questions.
During the Festival, the ZFF Press Centre will be located at the Europa cinema from Sunday, 16th October, to Saturday, 22rd October. Its opening hours run from 9am to 9pm.
At the Press Centre you will be provided with all the necessary information regarding the programmes of the Festival and press materials. You will also be able to collect your press accreditations and do the interviews scheduled in advance.
At the Press Centre the accredited journalists will be able to use the Internet, phone, fax as well as watch a part of the films from this year's programme in its video-bar. The films screened in the video-bar will not have Croatian subtitles. To view the films at the time of your choice, you will have to sign up at the Press Centre desk.
The accreditation request can be found on the Festival website in the Press section from 14th September to 9th October 2011. The accreditations are approved by the Press Service, which will send the notice of approval or rejection of your application.
We would like to point out that the submission of this request does not guarantee a pass will be issued. The accreditation passes will be available for collection at the Press Centre from the first day of the Festival, 16th October and latest until 21thOctober.
Media support staff (cameramen, photographers, organisers, etc.) will not be issued accreditation passes. If accompanied by a journalist/reporter, they have access to all the places accessible to the journalist/reporter in the presence of a member of the Festival's Press Service Staff.
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Like We Said, SAP Taking Over Naming Rights to San Jose’s HP Pavilion
June 5, 2013 at 1:13 pm PT
We’re not usually in the habit of reporting on the business of sports here at AllThingsD, but occasionally that world intersects with the interests of some of the world’s biggest technology companies. Today is one of those days.
As we reported in March, HP has withdrawn from the naming rights to the San Jose sports arena currently known as the HP Pavilion, home to the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. The new naming rights will go to the German software giant SAP. Affectionately known by hockey fans as the “Shark Tank,” it will now be the SAP Center at San Jose.
I just received the following statement from SAP:
“Shark Sports & Entertainment and SAP have reached agreement for SAP to become the naming rights holder of HP Pavilion at San Jose. We are pleased to be working together on this significant partnership that will continue to positively impact the venue as well as the city of San Jose and its residents. At this time the deal awaits approval from the City of San Jose.”
The change marks an early end to the naming rights deal that HP inherited in 2002 when it acquired Compaq Computer which was originally scheduled to run through 2016. (It was called the Compaq Center at the time.) The deal cost HP about $47 million over 15 years. NBC Bay Area is reporting that the payment to the Sharks from SAP will be a little less than $1.7 million a year and about $8.4 million to the city. It’s unclear how long the deal will last.
HP CEO Meg Whitman discussed an early out to the deal with Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-CEO and chairman of its supervisory board, at a routine meeting earlier this year. Plattner is the majority owner of the Sharks and recently bought out two other co-owners, longtime Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Kevin Compton and former VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos. His stake in the team is said to be north of 90 percent.
HP had wanted out of the naming rights agreement as the result of a wider evaluation of its global marketing and branding efforts. The deal was said to cost HP about $3.1 million a year, essentially pocket change to the $120 billion (2012 sales) tech giant, but perhaps less useful in a world where personal computers — Pavilion is also the name of HP’s primary PC brand — are selling at historically low levels.
Whitman and Plattner were said by sources familiar to the situation to have discussed the naming rights situation at a routine meeting earlier this year. (HP is a major SAP customer.) Asked by Plattner whether she intended to keep the naming rights on the arena through 2015, Whitman is said to have responded: “Frankly I’d like to get out of it.”
HP will still have access to the arena and to San Jose Sharks games. Sources say the company intends to hold on to a single luxury box it leases for the purpose of entertaining customers. Oddly enough, the naming rights for the luxury suites belong to another tech company: They’re currently known as Citrix Suites. No word yet on whether or not those naming rights are changing too.
The arena seats 17,562 for hockey games, and more than 19,000 for concerts. It hosts as many as 190 events a year, including the SAP Open, a men’s tennis tournament. It was briefly the home court of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors during a period when the Oakland Coliseum was under reconstruction.
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Issue #16 - 19 August 2015
The Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTs) field is steadily evolving and expanding. Provided below are links to recent publications, media articles, and other resources relevant to MPTs to keep you up-to-date. Please note that contents are neither endorsed by nor necessarily represent the views of the Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT), and that due to publication copyright and permissions restrictions, full-text versions of resources may not be publicly available.
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The influence of partnership on contraceptive use among HIV-infected women accessing antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda. Nieves, C.I., Kaida, A., Seage III, G.R., Kabakyenga, J., Muyindike, W., et al. (2015). Contraception, 92(2).
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It never hurts to have friends in high places. Check out the video Tim Durham's son ran in his race for Park Tudor class president in which he gets help from Marion Co. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, Ludacris and Barack Obama. Really classy stuff here. Birds of a feather flock together. Mayor Ballard may dispute Brizzi's claim that Durham's son single-handedly brought down crime in Indianapolis. Never let anyone tell you kids don't learn from their parents. WISH-TV interviews Carl Brizzi on his relationship with Tim Durham. Here's the transcript of the interview where he puts on his best Sgt. Schultz defense:
24-Hour News 8 reporter Gene Rodriguez: Let's talk about Fair Financial. You made the decision first to be on the board then you reversed that decision. Clearly the FBI was investigating him. Can you explain the red flags and why you decided to remove yourself from the board?
Carl Brizzi: I never attended a board meeting, never received any compensation. Tim and I are friends and we made a decision that that was something that I wasn't going to be involved in.
Gene: Now he ran your campaign and you traveled to the Super Bowl with him.
Carl Brizzi: He didn't run my campaign....he was a my finance director.
Gene: You traveled a lot. What does it say about your decision making when now you are learning all of this about him and you did spend a lot of time with him?
Carl Brizzi: We spent almost two and a half million dollars in the 2006 campaign. It's a lot of money. And uh, Tim's a friend and he helped raise a good bit of money and also contributed a lot of money as well. And so we've spent a uh vast majority of the money that we raised prior ot 2006 on that campaign and it was a tough campaign as you remember. Both sides raised a considerable sum.
Gene: You concerned about where that money came from now, knowing that you already spent it?
Carl Brizzi: Well, I think it's premature to uh judge. We didn't take any money unlike another campaign recently where the candidate withdrew from the race. We didn't receive any money from Fair Holdings or from Fair Financial.
Gene: However, what they are looking into is that he used those holdings as a personal bank account for some of his interests and some of his investments so arguably some of that money could have come from there and there's just no paper trail for it.
Carl Brizzi: Well, I think that's why we have to wait until the investigation is over before we jump to any conclusions about...you know...maybe that if, if that money did in fact come from other sources.
Gene: But you have to be concerned for your own political future, knowing what's going on and how closely related you were to him.
Carl Brizzi: Tim's a friend and I am sorry that this happened, uh, to him, and you know, Gene what do you do if a friend gets in trouble you just feel badly for them. I mean that's kind of where I am at right now and we're going to go about the business of putting the bad guys in jail.
Gene: Could you say that you are on the up and up and you weren't involved in any of this knowingly or anything like that.
Carl Brizzi: Of course, that's not even out there is it. No one is making those kinds of accusations. So, again we all have friends and um I feel badly for what has happened to him but look we've got to go about the business of prosecuting criminals and that's where my focus is right now and this is obviously a distraction but we are going to press on.
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Labels: barack obama, Carl Brizzi, ludacris, tim durham, tim durham II
Feds Drop Forfeiture Case Against Durham Less Than One Week After Filing Case
In a bizarre twist in the investigation of Indianapolis business tycoon Tim Durham, the federal government is dropping a forfeiture case it filed just last week accusing him of running a classic Ponzi scheme, telling reporters Durham isn't a risk. WRTV reports:
Federal prosecutors have dropped their effort to seize the assets of Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham.
The U.S. Attorney's Office on Monday withdrew the request to take control of Durham's assets, including his 36,000-square-foot home along Geist Reservoir.
The request was made because investigators don't think Durham is a risk. Federal investigators said Durham ran an investment scheme using one of his companies, Ohio-based Fair Financial.
Investigators had originally sought to seize Durham's assets in Indiana and California in a 10-page civil complaint filed last week.
The complaint accuses Durham and his associates at Akron, Ohio-based Fair Financial of telling investors their money would be invested in low-risk, high-yield short-term consumer debt.
The IBJ's Greg Andrew has this on acting U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison's decision to drop the case:
Tim Morrison, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said his office had filed the case Nov. 24 to ensure Durham’s assets would not disappear. “Having [received] appropriate assurance they are not being dissipated, that litigation stopped,” said Morrison, who declined to say who provided that assurance.
The short-lived case provided the first public disclosure about the case investigators are trying to build against Durham, 47, the co-owner of Akron. Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. FBI agents on Nov. 24 executed search warrants and seized records and computer equipment at Durham’s office in Chase Tower in Indianapolis and at Fair’s Akron offices, but a bureau spokeswoman would not say what agents were after.
Inquiring minds want to know who intervened with Morrison to reverse the government's action? Interestingly, no attorney filed an appearance on behalf of Durham or his companies before Morrison filed his notice of dismissal today. A federal judge must still rule on the dismissal. The case has been assigned to Judge David Hamilton, who has been in the process of transferring all of his cases to other judges in order to assume his new seat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, the Akron Beacon Journal reports that Fair Finance's Ohio offices failed to reopen today. Worried investors gathered outside the Akron office determined to get answers about the status of their money.
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Sherfick Enters Plea Agreement In Perry Township Constable Corruption Case
A former Perry Township deputy constable, Michael Sherfick, has entered a guilty plea in federal court on bribery charges arising out of the discovery by the FBI that badges and parking placards were being sold by the office of Perry Township Constable Roy Houchins. Fox 59 News' Russ McQuaid speculates that plea agreement could lead to additional charges in the case. (See video above). "Sherfick will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy and admit to accepting more than $30,000 in bribes to provide deputy constable badges, identification cards and parking placards to local business people, McQuaid reports. "A two-year-long Fox 59 News investigation has revealed that Sherfick played a significant role as a political fundraiser for republican Constable Roy Houchins and was well aquainted with campaign fundraising operations throughout Marion County," McQuaid says. Keep an eye on possible links in this case back to the Marion County Prosecutor's Office. See this earlier report by McQuaid from February, 2008. Anyone else see the irony here? There's been so much Democratic corruption in Marion County over the past several years that Carl Brizzi's office swept under the rug. Now that the feds are finally moving on local corruption, the targets are Republicans.
Damien Center's Financial Struggles
The Star's Chris Sikich has a story today on the Damien Center and its struggle to raise money in a tight economy. The organization recently hired Tom Bartenbach to serve as interim executive director for the HIV/AIDS service agency, a hiring that really turned heads of some people who remember his stint as executive director of AIDServe Indiana nearly a decade ago, which went bankrupt. Sikich describes Bartenbach without reference to his past service with that agency:
Bartenbach operated an Internet cafe for the past eight years in Seattle before moving back to his hometown of Indianapolis earlier this year to be closer to family. He took the reins at the Damien Center in August.
Before working with the disease, he was known locally for founding and operating Bartenbach grocery stores in Indianapolis from 1984 to 1993.
He sold the stores as national grocery chains began coming to the city. At the same time, as a gay man, he said many of his friends were dying from AIDS. He got involved with a group that delivered food to the homes of people with HIV/AIDS. From there, he began working with other such groups.
"The number of people that I have met over the years that have died . . . it seemed like we were going to a funeral weekly," Bartenbach said. "I went through a period early in life you expect to go through in old age."
He said the disease has changed from his early days of service, no longer mostly restricted to gay men. Now, it's spread to minority groups such as blacks and Latinos.
Fortunately, medical treatments have advanced.
"When I first got into this, we had been assisting people to die in 36 months or less," he said. "Now, we're teaching them how to live for 36 years or longer."
The story completely misses what the Star reported on back on October 15, 2002 about the agency that Bartenbach had run. "Indiana's only statewide organization that provides financial help to people with HIV and AIDS has mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars, with devastating consequences for sick people," the Star wrote then. A federal audit eventually concluded that the Indiana State Department of Health owed the US government nearly $800,000 in funds that were inappropriately distributed to about a dozen groups by AIDServe Indiana. The auditors complained that they could not find proper documentation for an additional $5.3 million and recommended that the state and the US Department of Health and Human Services continue trying to find or rebuild the paperwork to show if the money was spent correctly. Should people wonder about Bartenbach now being put in charge of the Damien Center? You bet.
Feds File For Forfeiture Of Durham's Geist Mansion And Other Assets
ACCUSED OF RUNNING PONZI SCHEME
The federal government filed an action in the Southern District of Indiana on November 24 seeking to forfeit business tycoon Timothy Durham's Geist mansion in Hamilton County, his Hollywood residence and other assets. The federal action filed by acting U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison charges that Durham and others acquired the property in question as a result of federal wire fraud violations that reads an awful lot like a classic Ponzi scheme. The complaint reads:
Timothy S. Durham, and his companies and associates, have been involved in a scheme to defraud numerous persons of money by convincing those persons to buy "investment certificates" . . . from Fair Finance Co., an Ohio company, upon the representations that the money given to buy the investment certificates will be invested in low-risk, high yield, short term consumer debts, and the investors will receive high regular interest payments on their investments. In fact, that money was not invested in the types of investments represented to investors. Instead, the money provided by victims of the scheme was used to make interest and redemption payments to earlier victims of the scheme, thereby lulling the earlier victims into believing that their money was being responsibly (sic), and enticing new investors into the scheme in order to fund payments to the earlier investors.
The federal complaint alleges that Durham wired $84.2 million of Fair Finance's funds to a Fair Holdings account at First Indiana Bank. Durham, in turn, wired those funds to 50 individuals and businesses, including the following:
U.S. Rubber Reclaiming (subsidiary of Obsidian)-$6.9 million
Speedster, Inc. (Durham classic car company)-$5.3 million
Danzer Industries (former parent company of Obsidian)-$1.8 million
RM Auctions-$1.4 million
Champion Trailer-$1 million
Playa Del Racing (IndyCar racing team of Durham's)-$804,000
Pyramid Coach (former subsidiary of Obsidian)-$730,000
Evaco Acquisition Corp. d/b/a Superline Trailers-$690,000
McDonald Investments-$495,000
Car Collector Magazine-$277,000
James Cochran-$30,000
Tim Durham-$100,000
The federal complaint seeks the seizure and forfeiture of the following assets claimed to be the proceeds of various wire fraud offenses:
Tim Durham's Geist mansion, 14353 East 113 Street, Fortville, Indiana
Tim Durham's Hollywood residence, 1227 Sierra Alta Way, Los Angeles
301 South 1st Street, Lewisville, Indiana
1326 Broad Street, New Castle, Indiana
Funds in two accounts at First Merit Bank in the name of Fair Holding
Funds in nine accounts at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank in the name of D.C. Investments, Inc., Fair Finance, Obsidian Enterprises and Timothy Durham
Funds in seven accounts at Key Bank in the name of Fair Finance or Fair Holdings
One 2008 Bugatti Veyron
This latest disclosure doesn't say much for the investigative prowess of our local news media in Indianapolis. Once upon a time, reporters had sources at the federal and local courthouse who could be counted on to tip them off when a case of interest got filed in their court. An Advance Indiana reader e-mailed a link to the Pacer entry for the case in the federal district of Southern Indiana. When the FBI carried out its raid of Durham's offices in the Chase Tower five days ago, reporters were only left to speculate what was transpiring. If they had simply checked court filings at the federal court house one block away, they would have known what was taking place.
UPDATE: The paid media is playing catch up now. See stories now at the Indianapolis Star, the IBJ, Fox 59 News, WTHR and WISH-TV. Gee, I wonder who their source was.
Labels: Fair Finance, Obsidian Enterprises, ponzi scheme, tim durham
IBJ Expose' On Fair Finance Likely Led To FBI Raid On Durham's Offices
It now seems likely that FBI agents were prompted to conduct a raid on the Indianapolis and Akron, Ohio offices of Tim Durham's Fair Finance and Obsidian Enterprises after the IBJ's Greg Andrews expose' on how Durham was essentially using the Ohio-based finance company as a personal bank account to fund his other business endeavors. Although the FBI won't publicly state the purpose of the raid, it urged people who had business dealings with the company to contact the federal law enforcement agency. The company, which had previously sold $207 million in investment certificates, filed a request to approve a new security offering of $250 million with Ohio securities regulators following Andrews' report on Fair Finance last month.
According to those latest filings, Fair Finance has made $177 million in insider loans, while the company's core profit-making business, customer-finance contracts, has declined in size to $24 million. Andrews notes the new filing shows that Fair Finance lost $1.78 million in 2008. The company's financial situation has grown worse since Ohio regulators held up approval of its new security offering since its two-year offering has matured. Andrews writes:
The figures are contained in a proposed offering circular Fair filed with Ohio’s Division of Securities Oct. 29. The company sought a new registration because an existing one from July 2007 was set to expire Nov. 24.
But instead of signing off on the new registration, Mark Heuerman, registration chief counsel, sent a letter to Fair’s attorney saying “the offering is impossible to review under our standards without further documentation.”
He asked for additional information on a range of topics, including documentation that would help him untangle the morass of insider loans.
“Please include sequential transactions on multiple levels where related parties engage in further transactions with related parties,” he said.
Ronald Kaffen, an Akron attorney representing Fair, characterized the back and forth as routine.
“That’s sort of standard procedure. You make a filing. You get comments back, and you respond to those comments,” Kaffen said.
The company submitted its responses Nov. 24, and the Division of Securities is reviewing them. In the meantime, because Fair’s prior registration has expired, it can’t sell additional investment certificates.
That could help limit losses if Fair were to fail, since new investor dollars won’t be coming in the door. But Klimek, the securities attorney, said he wonders if Fair can keep going without those infusions.
A crash crunch has led Fair Finance to take a number of steps this past year that raise further concerns. It sold millions of dollars in consumer finance loans to another Durham-controlled company, CLST Holdings, which has also been the subject of litigation. A company line of credit offered by Fortress Credit Corp. has been reduced from $50 million to $35 million. The offering also indicates the company has been selling off better performing finance contracts to raise cash. Even more concerning, Fair acknowledges that it has delayed repayment of principal on maturing certificates up to 60 days because payments due to investors has exceeded 10 percent of its cash collections.
The proposed offering listed Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi as part of Fair Finance's management when it was first filed. Brizzi has subsequently resigned from the company. Here's how the discussion of management describes Brizzi, whose name appeared directly below Durham's biography in the original proposed offering:
Mr. Carl Brizzi, Director, was elected Director in 2009. Mr. Brizzi is not affiliated in any other manner with Fair Financial. Mr. Brizzi is currently the Marion County Prosecutor, State of Indiana, elected in 2002, re-elected in 2006. Mr. Brizzi brought to the Prosecutor’s office his belief in victim-centered prosecution. He has been named a “40 Under 40” by the Indianapolis Business Journal, “Outstanding
Young Alumnus” by Valparaiso School of Law, and he was included from 2004 to 2009 in the Howey Political Report’s Top 50 Most Influential People in Indiana Politics. Mr. Brizzi is the father of four children.
Now there's a first. Someone actually mentions in their biography that they were listed on Howey's "Top 50 Most Influential People in Indiana Politics." As you can see by the proposed offering linked to on the IBJ's site, there have been numerous additions and deletions since the original offering was proposed.
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Labels: Carl Brizzi, Fair Finance, Obsidian Enterprises, ponzi scheme, tim durham
Tiger Woods A Victim Of Domestic Abuse?
Tiger Woods' early morning crash following Thanksgiving Day into a fire hydrant and a tree while leaving his Isleworth, Florida home seemed a bit strange when it was first reported. Although he was taken to a local hospital for treatment of facial lacerations, police noted that his vehicle's airbags never deployed. Police also initially indicated that his wife had broken the back window out of his Cadillac Escalade to help free him from the vehicle. Florida highway patrol officials emphasized that alcohol was not involved, though the accident remained under investigation and charges might be filed.
The celebrity online gossip site, TMZ, has quite a different take on the story. It says his supermodel wife, Elin Nordegrin, had confronted him about allegations of an extramarital affair and began scratching his face. When he fled the couple's home in his Escalade, she chased after him with a golf club and began striking his car several times. This distraction may have caused Tiger to crash his vehicle according to TMZ. The online gossip magazine also says Tiger was taking a prescription pain medication at the time of the accident for another injury to explain why he appeared out of it at the time of the accident.
Durham Associates Have Homes Listed For Sale
An observant Advance Indiana reader notes that three close business associates of Tim Durham all have homes listed for sale that can be accessed via the Internet. They include:
Business partner David Tornek has a 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 5700 square foot home in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado listed for sale at $2,600,000 with realtor Ann Kerr.
Fair Finance partner James Cochran has a 6 bedroom, 6 bath, 8700 square foot home in McCordsville, Indiana listed for sale at $1,299,999 with Dunville & Associates.
Business associate Shannon Frantz has a 4 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath, 4935 square foot home in Indianapolis listed for sale at $629,000 with realtor Paul Bates. Some of you may recall that Frantz is the blonde-haired, female companion that appeared in a photo with Durham, Carl Brizzi, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning and Archie Manning taken in the Bahamas after the Colts' Super Bowl win in Miami.
More Durham Fallout
In the wake of this week's FBI raid of the offices of Tim Durham's Obsidian Enterprises and Fair Finance in Indianapolis and Akron, Ohio, respectively, one political candidate has dropped his candidacy and a congressman is calling on the federal government to seize Durham's assets in order to protect investors. Marion Co. GOP Sheriff candidate Tim Motsinger, for whom Durham recently held a fundraiser, announced he will return Durham's contributions and drop his bid for county sheriff. A statement on his website reads:
In light of the recent investigations concerning the non-campaign-related business affairs of my campaign finance chairman, I have made the decision that it is appropriate to return any and all financial contributions and loans that my campaign has received from him or his affiliated businesses.
Unfortunately, this leaves my campaign in a non-competitive financial position.
Therefore, it is with regret that I have decided to end my campaign for the office of Marion County Sheriff.
I want to thank all the friends and loved ones that have supported my candidacy.
It is disturbing that Motsinger's campaign relied on Durham so much for financial support. According to Fox 59 News, Durham loaned Motsinger's campaign $200,000 from Fair Finance's funds. Yeah, you read that figure correctly. Marion Co. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has received over $160,000 from Durham in the past. He also faced the embarrassing disclosure this week that he had agreed to serve on the board of Fair Finance Co. He later resigned the board position after the IBJ began asking questions about the troubled company. Brizzi isn't speaking to reporters, but his press secretary issued this statement yesterday:
Mr. Durham recently asked me to serve on the Board of one of his companies, Fair Financial. While I initially accepted the position, I never attended a meeting of the Board, never voted as a Board member, was never involved in any of the business decisions of Fair Financial, and was never compensated as a member of the Board. Upon reading the October IBJ article and uncertain whether I had yet formally taken a position on the Board, I indicated to Mr. Durham that I was no longer interested in serving on the Board.
WISH-TV's Jim Shallow takes a number of other Republican officials to task for accepting political contributions from Durham, including Gov. Mitch Daniels, Sen. Richard Lugar, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, House Republican Leader Brian Bosma and Sen. Mike Delph. Interestingly, this same political reporter ignored $25,000 in contributions U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D-Indianapolis) accepted from Marla and Phyllis Stevens, who allegedly stole about $6 million from Aviva. His report says nothing about Democratic mayoral hopeful Brian Williams' past business ties to Durham. Williams was a co-founder of Obsidian Enterprises and served on its board. Although his resume has listed his relationship with Durham's company's, he quickly began contacting people yesterday, including this blogger, to distance himself from Durham. Shallow's report notes only one Democrat who received money from Durham. That would be U.S. Rep. Baron Hill. Both Hill and Durham grew up in Seymour. Daniels has received the most campaign money from Durham of any candidate at $200,000.
Unfortunately, many GOP candidates were encouraged by party officials to accept financial help from Durham despite plenty of warning signs that he was living far too extravagant of a lifestyle and had a number of legal disputes involving people with whom he did business. Candidates like Mike Delph had no knowledge of who Durham was until he ran for public office and accepted his contributions because party leaders touted him so highly. He plans to give up the money he received from Durham if the federal investigation reveals that Durham's money may have been the product of ill-gotten gains. The Marion County Republican Party asked Durham to host an annual holiday party at his expansive Geist mansion. Republican members of the City-County Council actually held their caucus to elect their leadership after the 2007 election at Durham's private offices atop the Chase Tower. Those same candidates will now have to cope with purging themselves with hundreds of thousands of dollars Durham gave them if this investigation ends where it appears to be headed.
There is news that Durham has links to the corruption case involving two Henry County law enforcement officers who are facing charges of ghost employment. Durham is listed as a witness for the state in that case according to WRTV's Rafael Sanchez. The two police officers involved in that criminal prosecution may have provided off-duty security work at lavish parties Durham put on at his Geist mansion. Those two police officers are represented by the same criminal defense attorney who is representing Durham, Indianapolis attorney John Tompkins. People might be asking if these two officers worked for the private security company owned by former Marion Co. Sheriff Jack Cottey, who is also tied to Tim Motsinger. Did Cottey's firm staff those parties? There was a story circulating around town awhile back about FBI agents being staked outside Durham's residence taking down the license plate numbers of all of the guests at one of his parties.
Meanwhile, there is even more fallout in Ohio where Fair Finance is headquartered. Congressman John Boccieri (D-OH) put out a statement asking the federal government to seize the assets of Durham and Fair Finance. The Akron Beacon Journal describes the offices of Fair Finance as "emptied" after the FBI's raid on Tuesday. It also notes the decision of Ohio securities regulators to put on hold a pending $250 million security offering by the company. That means the company can no longer sell securities in Ohio since an earlier offering by the company matured this past week. "The company routinely advertised consumer financial products that paid high interest rates and were not federally insured," the paper reports. Investors there worry that their investments with the company may be lost.
Brizzi Took Seat On Fair Finance's Board Before IBJ Began Asking Questions
The IBJ's Greg Andrews reveals that Marion Co. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi had agreed to serve on the Board of Directors of Tim Durham's Fair Finance Company but abandoned the position after Andrews begin asking questions Fair Finance. Andrews reports:
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said he agreed this fall to serve on the board of Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co., but changed his mind several weeks later after Durham told him IBJ was working on an investigative story about the company.
“The whole point of being on the board was to get an education on how this stuff works,” Brizzi said Tuesday morning, several hours before FBI agents conducted a surprise raid on Fair’s Akron headquarters and the headquarters of Obsidian Enterprises, Durham’s Indianapolis-based leveraged-buyout firm.
“It seems from the article you wrote that it is more complicated than I have time for right now. So I decided against it.”
Brizzi said that Durham told him, “This stuff is going on. You probably don’t need to be in the middle of all this.” . . .
Brizzi said had agreed to serve on the board because he was interested in learning more about finance from Durham, whom he described as “a buddy.” Durham also has been a major campaign contributor to Brizzi, who is in his second term as prosecutor. Campaign finance records show that Durham and his companies have donated more than $200,000 to Brizzi campaigns.
Brizzi, a Republican, would have served as one of Fair’s independent directors. One of the duties of independent directors is to decide whether to approve loans to Durham and other insiders.
Brizzi acknowledged he wouldn’t have been ideal for that role.
“If you are relying on your friends to educate you along the way, you probably are not as independent as you should be,” Brizzi said.
A source tells Advance Indiana that Brizzi's name actually appeared on Fair Finance documents listing him as a board member before he withdrew from the board. The Star's John Russell confirms company documents filed with Ohio regulators in October list Brizzi as a board member. "Brizzi was elected earlier this year as a director of Fair Financial, based in Akron, Ohio, according to a list of board members described in the company's recent filing with the Ohio Department of Commerce to sell $250 million in certificates of deposit," Russell reports. Russell's report seems to contradict Brizzi's comments to the IBJ's Andrews. Brizzi did not return calls to the Star responding to questions about his role on the board. Many concerned people have raised questions about the business relationship Brizzi has with Durham. In order to clear the air, Brizzi should fully disclose the entirety of his business relationships now.
Durham and his companies are now facing the scrutiny of the FBI, which raided his offices in Indianapolis and Akron, Ohio yesterday. Questions have been raised about Durham's use of Fair Finance to bankroll his other business activities. At stake is at least $200 million investors have made in the company. A debt of $168 million owed by Durham-related companies to Fair Finance that has matured now appears in debt. Ohio regulators have held up approving a new security offering of Fair Finance until the company answers questioned posed by regulators.
The photo above depicts a "Closed" sign on the door of Fair Finance's Wooster, Ohio office. A notice in the window said a new office location will be announced. Customers are referred to an office in Millersburg, Ohio.
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Durham Taken Into Custody By FBI In Los Angeles
Fox 59 News is reporting that the FBI has taken Tim Durham into custody for questioning in Los Angeles today. See video above. Fox 59 News describes his business empire as being in a state of collapse. The report indicates that the feds visited restaurants owned by Durham prior to today in search of incriminating evidence. Fox 59 News attempted to obtain a reaction from one of Durham's closest friends, Marion Co. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, who did not respond to press inquiries on the matter. If you have information about any of Durham's business activities that you would like to report to the FBI, call 1-800-CALL FBI. Advance Indiana understands that members of Ohio's Amish community may be the unlikely victims here as investors in Fair Finance. The high interest certificates of investment offered by the company were enticing to some investors, but they are not insured deposits like a bank offers.
UPDATE: A criminal defense attorney for Durham, John Tompkins, confirms that Durham was questioned by FBI agents in LA yesterday, but he says he was never taken into custody as suggested by Fox 59 News' report last night.
FBI Raids Tim Durham's Offices
Watch the local politicians start running for cover. The FBI raided the offices of one of their biggest benefactors, Indianapolis business tycoon Tim Durham, this afternoon. FBI agents began carting off files from Durham's top floor offices in the Chase Tower. A separate raid took place in Akron, Ohio where Fair Finance has an office. They're investigating Durham's Ohio-based Fair Finance Company and Obsidian Enterprises. FBI agents are remaining mum about the purpose behind the execution of search warrants on Durham's business today. This Advance Indiana entry on an IBJ expose' by Greg Andrews last month will give you a pretty good indication of what federal agents are investigating. See also the following possible related entries here and here. According to a recent filing with Ohio securities regulators, Durham's Fair Finance proposed a new securities offering that raised a lot of red flags in light of the IBJ report. Ohio security regulators have been dragging their feet on taking action to protect investors despite ample warning signs conveyed to them by interested parties; however, Ohio officials are holding up approval of this latest offering until questions are answered. That may set off a chain reaction as Durham's company may have desparately needed those new funds to pay off old debts. Durham is shown above at a lavish Halloween Party he recently hosted at his new Hollywood mansion for National Lampoon, another one of his company's that has faced securities fraud allegations. Durham is dressed up as the Mad Hatter character from "Alice In Wonderland." The IBJ has an online update on this developing story here. Political fallout analysis: No politician is closer to Tim Durham than Marion Co. Prosecutor Carl Brizzi. New disclosures of the extent of that relationship that will emerge in the coming days will probably end his political career. Durham recently hosted a fundraiser for Marion Co. GOP sheriff candidate Tim Motsinger. Aspiring Democratic mayoral hopeful, Brian Williams, is a founding member and sat on the board of Obsidian Enterprises. Reporters may soon begin asking some local politicians "what do you know and when did you know it?" Look for campaigns to begin purging themselves of Durham campaign contributions in short order. Brizzi has pocketed more than $150,000 in campaign contributions from Durham.
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Ballard Stacking CIB With More Conflicted Political Insiders
There isn't a campaign promise Greg Ballard won't break. Since becoming mayor of Indianapolis, Ballard has basically been conducting a public auction selling off the City to the highest bidders. This is once again reflected in the opportunity he passed up to clean up the corrupt Capital Improvement Board. Instead of appointing independent-thinking people who put the taxpayers' interests ahead of their own self-interests to the CIB, Ballard has announced a group of new appointees that is teaming with conflicts.
Ballard will replace the board's president, Bob Grand, whose law firm represented the Simons and their Indiana Pacers, with the Board's current treasurer, Ann Lathrop. She works for Crowe Horwath, a CPA consulting firm that relies heavily on government contracts. Because she is a former city controller and has strong political ties to people in government, she was hired by the Crowe Horwath (see water company deal) to help land new business for the firm through her political connections.
The list of remaining appointees don't get much better than Lathrop. Outgoing Chief of Staff Paul Okeson, who has just taken a job with a major city contractor and big political contributor, Keystone Construction, will be taking a seat on the board. Jim Dora, Jr. is a big hotel operator who just happens to own a hotel directly across the street from Lucas Oil Stadium. Carolene Mays, a Democrat, is the sister of businessman Bill Mays of 300 East infamy (the bar in the Julia Carson Government Center), the same brother who was recently tied to an insider trading scandal during the acquisition of a local bank on whose board he served. Carolene operates the Indianapolis Recorder, which her brother owns, a newspaper that serves the City's African-American community. Her newspaper went with the meme that guys like Monroe Gray and Ron Gibson were under attack because they were African-American; it had nothing to do with their public behavior and actions. Since when did we start putting newspaper publishers on public boards?
Ballard is reappointing Jay Potesta, a union boss for the Sheet Metal Workers union. Potesta's day job is to make sure as much of your taxpayer dollars as possible gets invested in public works projects that will employ his fellow union members at top dollar wages. He could give a damn less about the taxpayers' wallets. Ballard is also appointing David Shane, CEO of LDI, Ltd., a firm founded and chaired by businessman Andre Lacy. He previously served as an education adviser to Gov. Mitch Daniels. Shane is perhaps the only new appointee who might be capable of exercising independent judgment on the board.
If you had any doubt about Ballard's intentions, these latest round of appointees should leave no doubt in your mind. The guy is all about following the orders handed to him by a small group of elitist insiders who are all about lining their pockets at taxpayers expense. They throw Ballard free memberships to country clubs, treat him to expensive dinners, fill up his campaign coffers and take him on overseas junkets, and he's all too happy to turn over the City's checkbook to them to enjoy as they please. What a sell out of the first order.
Labels: CIB Okeson Keystone Venture Bales Pacers, Greg Ballard
Mayor's Chief Of Staff Resigns To Go To Work For City Contractor
More on "Pay to Play is the Ballard Way." Mayor Greg Ballard's Chief of Staff Paul Okeson has announced his resignation to take a job with Keystone Construction, another major city contractor that has contributed large sums to Ballard's campaign committee. Okeson told WTHR he couldn't afford to raise a family on the lowly pay of a Chief of Staff. Before joining the Ballard administration, Okeson worked as a government relations consultant for Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates, another major city contractor. Okeson will be replaced by Corporation Counsel Chris Cotterill. Coincidentally, Ersal Ozdemir of Keystone Construction accompanied Mayor Ballard on his junket to Europe this past week. I'm sure there's no connection between Okeson's new job, city contracts and political contributions. The Mayor's office expects to make more staff change announcements at a press conference tomorrow. Six new appointments to the Capital Improvement Board are expected to be made.
Labels: Greg Ballard
Zoeller Seeks To Recover Misspent Public Funds
Attorney General Greg Zoeller has brought a lawsuit against five former Chesterfield, Indiana officials he says misspent more than $259,000 in public funds. The lawsuit is based on the findings of a October 26, 2009 audit by the State Board of Accounts. “The claim that the town’s former top fiscal officer and the town’s former police chief hatched a scheme to defraud the taxpayers who employed them appears to be the ultimate betrayal of the public’s trust,” Zoeller said. Here are the specific allegations Zoeller has made against the former employees:
•Former town clerk-treasurer and town manager Christopher Parrish. The lawsuit alleges Parrish paid himself $31,535.91 in fictitious travel expenses and approved phony claims and improperly issued reimbursement checks for four other defendants. Parrish resigned from his town positions in January 2009.
•Former town marshal James Kimm. The complaint alleges Kimm submitted falsified mileage reimbursement claims to Parrish for destinations to which he didn’t travel and was paid $52,553.06. He also allegedly received $1,700 in petty cash reimbursements from Parrish. The State Board of Accounts audit noted that Kimm’s description for most of the out-of-state travel was to pick up military surplus from the U.S. Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office. When examiners checked with the DRMO, they reportedly found no record of anyone from Chesterfield, including Kimm, obtaining equipment from a DRMO location, the audit said. Kimm resigned as town marshal in January 2009.
•Joseph Brown, a former part-time police officer for Chesterfield who is half-brother of Kimm. The lawsuit alleges Brown participated in a scheme with Parrish and Kimm where Brown submitted phony claims for automotive repairs to town-owned vehicles that never were performed. The State Board of Accounts examiners reported that the street address of “Brown’s Automotive” listed on the invoices is a home in a residential neighborhood where there was no indication of commercial automotive work taking place. Brown received 24 checks totaling $115,391.44 between January 2007 and March 2008, the audit found.
•Christopher Walters, a former town maintenance superintendent, and his brother James Walters, a former town maintenance employee. The suit alleges the two former employees were part of a scheme with Parrish where they were paid $37,600 for repair work to town government buildings that never occurred, according to the audit. The suit alleges James Walters owes $13,002.88 for hours he was paid but didn’t work and owes $2,850 for tools improperly purchased with town funds. Christopher Walters allegedly was overpaid by $4,992.76 for hours he didn’t work.
Not surprisingly, Chesterfield's Town Council had no idea the employees were defrauding the municipal government before the State Board of Accounts released its audit.
Another Illinois Official Found Dead
It's a tough time for Illinois officials. The head of the Sangamon County Circuit Clerk's passport and traffic division was found dead in Lake Michigan near Buckingham Fountain in Chicago. Matthew Dennison was attending an Association of Illinois County Officials meeting in Chicago with his boss, Sangamon County Circuit Clerk Tony Libri, according to the Chicago Tribune, which reports the following:
Libri said he learned of Dennison's death when Chicago police knocked on his door at about 9 a.m., asking him to identify the body. Libri had few details of the case, but said he didn't suspect foul play or suicide.
"I had dinner with him last night and he was fine. He wasn't depressed," Libri said.
Dennison had worked with him since 1996 and is survived by his wife and three children.
"He's my employee but he's one of my close friends," he said. "He was a great guy."
Libri says he doesn't suspect foul play or suicide. At least three Chicago political insiders under investigation have allegedly committed suicide over the past two years. Did he decide to go for a swim in Lake Michigan this time of the year? The State Journal-Register says Dennison, a 40-year-old, may have slipped and fallen into the lake and drowned or had a heart attack. He was found early this morning wearing the same clothes he was wearing when he and Libri dined the evening before. Dennison also worked part-time for a local radio station according to the Journal-Register.
When I lived in Springfield back in the 1980s, Libri worked as a weatherman for WICS, a local NBC television affiliate in Springfield. I recall having fun with my roommate and his fiance' poking fun at him during his weather broadcasts. Later, my roommate's girlfriend broke off their engagement and wound up marrying Libri. Ouch! I always wondered what made her change her opinion of him. Libri is the current Sangamon Co. GOP Chairman and a very close political associate of William Cellini, a wealthy businessman and big-time political insider who is currently facing indictment on public corruption charges arising out of the awarding of state pension investment contracts in Illinois under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Ballard's Strange Set Of Circumstances
During the recent "Mayor's Night Out for Indy Youth, a young man, Kellin Thomas, asked Mayor Greg Ballard, "When and why did you decide to become the mayor?" Ballard's rambling response to this simple question reminded me of that moment during the 1992 vice presidential debate when Ross Perot's running mate, Admiral James Stockdale, rambled on about "Who am I and why am I hear?" moment. Here's how Ballard responded:
Okay, That's a good question. The uh. I really felt like the city was, uh, going in the wrong direction, and I just thought we could do a better job than what we were doing. That's really pretty much it. I, uh, do this not for me. I'm very candid about this. I spent 23 years in the Marine Corps. This is strictly public service to me. That's all it is. There is no ego in this for me. I'm just trying to do the right thing here for the city. I thought we could do a little bit better. I thought spending was out of control. I thought crime was up. That sort of thing. I thought we can do better. I think so far that's proven to be true. Spending is under control, crime is down and that sort of thing. I decided that. It's a strange set of circumstances when I did that. It was in the spring of 2007. I had just a couple of people asking me you need to look at that--look at running for mayor. I had something else in mind. I knew I was going to do public service again after the Marine Corps. My kids were growing up. It's time to go do something and the opportunity arose after a strange set of circumstances in the spring of 2007, that I won't necessarily go into--it might take 10 minutes to go through all of that but through a set of circumstances I was able to get the nomination and win the election.
"A strange set of circumstances?" I'll say. By the way, Greg "I'll end country club politics in Indianapolis" Ballard is throwing another fundraiser hosted by Hunt Construction Co. and Riley Bennett & Egloff law firm, both major contractors with the City of Indianapolis. So much for campaign promises to clean up city government. Pay to play is the Ballard way. His crack team of advisers are holding a press conference today at the scene of the latest murder in the City to reassure people in the near southside neighborhood while the Mayor is on his latest junket to Europe.
What's The Historical Significance Here?
Some guy buys a house up in Kempton, Indiana and learns that it was once owned by the grandfather of Barack Hussein Obama's grandmother, Ann Dunham, and suddenly thinks he's found America's next historical landmark. WISH-TV's Jim Shallow fell for the scam:
Shawn Clements loves showing off the Dunham house, a 19th century farmhouse that he purchased in 2004 with the idea of preserving it so that he could live here. When a neighbor told him to research the home's ownership he got big surprise. He found a copy of a land grant that shows the property was settled by Jacob Dunham in 1840. Jacob Dunham was Barack Obama's great-great-great-great grandfather. He is one of 11 Obama ancestors buried in the Kempton Cemetery.
And when word of the research got back to Barack Obama, he came to a potluck dinner at the Dunham home just days before the 2008 May primary election. Clements later got tickets to the Obama Inauguration and to an inaugural ball.
"This stopped being my house a while back," said Clements.
Let's not forget this is on Obama's mother's side of the family. Remember, that would be the mother he hated so much that he wouldn't take the time to visit her in her hospital room when she was dying from cervical cancer. "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites," Obama wrote in his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father". "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race," he continued. I guess it's easy enough for Obama to visit the former homes of his dead white relatives when it is politically expedient to do so.
This home has absolutely no significant historical value to Hoosiers or Americans despite Clements' feeble attempt to draw attention to it. Nobody remotely close to Obama lived in that home during his lifetime. We learn nothing about Obama from this home. At least with the James Whitcomb Riley home in my neighborhood of Lockerbie they can claim he occasionally slept in the home owned by a family friend, although Riley never actually owned the home or lived there for any extended period.
Rather than looking for history in some distant relative who lived long before him, some of us would simply settle on learning where Obama was born. His family can't seem to agree on which hospital in Honolulu his mother gave birth to him. If Barry would simply release his original birth certificate, we could put that to rest and we could mount the plaque recognizing his birth place in its appropriate place. You can bet that will continue to remain a mystery just like his school records. How many millions of dollars will Barry spend on attorneys' fees before it's all over to prevent anyone from discovering anything about his life story other than the lies terrorist Bill Ayers wrote for him in his so-called autobiography, "Dreams From My Father." Get that? Dreams from a father who walked out on his life when he was two and never came back.
UPDATE: It looks like the federal government is making Billy Carter's gas station down in Plains, Georgia a historic landmark that will be maintained by federal taxpayers. The cost is expected to be $17 million over the next five years. Unbelievable.
The Suburban Counties Better Wake Up Soon
One of the most outrageous assertions I've heard coming from Indianapolis officials on a task force looking at the Capital Improvement Board's financial woes is that the problem lies in the suburban counties surrounding Marion County not paying their fair share for the sports stadiums and convention center. What are these people smoking? State and regional taxpayers have poured tens of millions of dollars annually into this county to support these facilities. The state created a special taxing district several years ago that diverts general revenue funds into a fund to pay off the bonds on Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Convention Center expansion, which it expanded in size just this year. Residents of Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks and Shelby Counties are paying a food and beverage tax to pay for Lucas Oil Stadium and the convention center expansion. Following these self-interested Indianapolis officials' assertion through to its logical conclusion, I guess the rest of the state's residents should be demanding a share of the revenues generated to Indianapolis' economy because the center of state government is based here with all of those jobs and spending related thereto.
The notion that suburban taxpayers aren't paying their fair share is absurd. If you want to feed the corrupt inner city monster, then move to Chicago. Suburban taxpayers in Illinois have fed the Chicago and Cook County government monsters billions over the years and the demand for even more never ceases. Wake up, suburban counties, unless you want to be tapped even more to feed this monster called the Capital Improvement Board. And if you think it will stop there, think again. They've got more plans in the works to tax you for the benefit of crossing the county line into Marion County. The CIB is not your problem. Don't let them convince you that it is. "Regionalism" is just a euphemism for getting other people to pay for our out-of-control spending in Marion County.
Yes, City Should Blow Up Veolia's Sweetheart Deal
"Why shouldn't (the council) just blow this whole thing up?" the Star quotes City-County Councilor Ben Hunter, chairman of the Public Works Committee as saying during yesterday's meeting on the subject of the water company's 35% rate increase request. "You keep coming back and asking for more rate increases. Come back to me and tell me the efficiencies." The answer to Hunter's question is "yes." You should blow this whole deal up and stop the payoffs to the political cronies who cooked it up in the first place.
Candidate Greg Ballard promised to get to the bottom of the one-sided privatization agreement that allows Veolia to pocket about $50 million annually for operating the water company. That deal was brokered by the administration of Bart Peterson. City residents were told the water company purchase was necessary to prevent the company from falling into the hands of a foreign owner and to protect the pay and benefits of the utility's employees. After paying more than double what the company was actually worth, Peterson handed over control of the utility to the French company, which then cut benefits to the long-time employees of the utility. The one-sided deal has proven very costly to ratepayers, but it has financially rewarded lobbyists and cronies of Mayor Peterson who cooked up the deal. In another scheme, Mayor Peterson put more money in his cronies' pockets by exchanging the utility's fixed rate bonds with risky variable rate bonds from which it cost about $50 million in penalties to extricate itself.
Instead of renegotiating the one-sided deal after taking office and calling for a top-to-bottom investigation of what transpired under Peterson, Mayor Ballard took up where Peterson left off and hopped in bed with the contractors and lobbyists, even enhancing payments to Veolia at the same time we've seen water rates nearly double. Ballard is now looking for a way to sell the utility to a public benefit corporation like Citizens Gas & Coke. His plan, however, calls for jacking rates even higher to ensure higher profits to the potential buyer. Ballard then wants to use the proceeds from the sale to finance a bunch of capital projects being pushed by city contractors who have put close to $2 million in his campaign war chest. It would be nice if there was at least one actor in this process who acted in the interests of the City's residents and not themselves and their political cronies. This is Indianapolis though. What else should be expect, right?
Marla Stevens Indicted
A federal grand jury in Des Moines, Iowa has returned a four-count indictment against Marla Stevens in connection with the embezzlement of nearly $6 million from Aviva by her spouse, Phyllis Stevens, a long-time employee of the company. The Des Moines Register reports that Marla has been charged with conspiracy to commit one count of money laundering and three counts of participating in financial transactions with money derived from a criminal transaction. The couple has been active in GLBT politics in Iowa and in Indiana where they lived until five years ago and have contributed more than $175,000 to political candidates, including at least $25,000 to U.S. Rep. Andre Carson (D) and another $8,000 to his grandmother, the late U.S. Rep. Julia Carson.
Phyllis Stevens has been jailed since she was picked up by FBI agents last month in Las Vegas. A federal judge has approved her release pending trial, but she has not yet filed the $75,000 cash bond required by the court. Phyllis fled to Las Vegas after her employer confronted her with the allegations and after she attempted unsuccessfully to withdraw $175,000 cash from the couple's joint account at National City Bank branches in Indianapolis. Marla Stevens had been living at the Bellagio Hotel for months where she reportedly ran up $2 million in charges.
UPDATE: Phyllis Stevens has been released from jail after posting a $75,000 cash bond. Marla Stevens was released without bail after entering a not guilty plea with a federal magistrate.
Judge David Hamilton Confirmed To Seventh Circuit
U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton has just been confirmed for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by the U.S. Senate on a vote of 59-39 vote per the Indiana Law Blog. Here's the roll call vote. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) was the only Republican who voted in favor of Hamilton's confirmation. Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) did not vote.
Public Safety Director Candidate Resigns Job In White Plains New York
One of the four candidates rumored to be under consideration for Public Safety Director in Indianapolis, White Plains New York Public Safety Commissioner Frank Straub, resigned his job there late last week. The White Plains city council had planned to fire him at a special meeting scheduled for Monday according to The Journal News. Straub had been feuding with the council over work schedules for police and firefighters that the city negotiated with the unions, and that Straub claimed had saved the city over $400,000 in overtime pay and 2,600 hours of sick time. Other candidates for the vacant Indianapolis Public Safety position include interim Public Safety Director Mark Renner, IMPD Chief Michael Spears and Darryl Pierce.
Lugar's Wife Busted For DUI
Charlene "Char" Lugar, wife of Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar (R), has been charged with driving under the influence following an automobile collision in which she struck a parked car in McLean, Virginia last night near the couple's suburban D.C. home. Nobody was injured in the accident. Initial reports didn't suggest a hit and run, but that's now what Fox59 News is reporting. She's been charged with that as well. A police officer stopped her after noticing extensive front-end damage to her car. Lugar's office released this statement to Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, which makes no mention of the specifics of the charges against her:
"At about 6:30 p.m. last evening, November 18, Mrs. Lugar had a traffic accident in our McLean, Virginia neighborhood. A charge has been filed and a court appearance is scheduled for January. No other persons were in her car or the unattended car she hit. Thankfully, no one was injured. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed that this accident has occurred.”
Charlene Lugar has been released from the county’s detention facility, according to his office.
The Star has a brief story online here. While we're on the subject of DUIs, Sen. John Kerry's daughter, Alexandra, was busted on a DUI charge in Hollywood early this morning.
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Cultural Trail $13 Million Short
The costs of Indianapolis' downtown cultural trail have skyrocketed, now approaching $55 million. Over $28 million of the costs have been absorbed by private donations, including a $15 million donation from Gene and Marilyn Glick. A federal transportation grant has provided another $14.4 million of the funding to date. Another $13 million, however, is needed to complete the project as envisioned in time for the Super Bowl in 2012 according to a WRTV report. As a downtown resident, I enjoy the benefits that the cultural trail brings to my neighborhood, but it does seem a bit extravagant. I know some businesses along Mass Avenue are extremely upset at the disruption of traffic the drawn-out project has caused and the resulting loss of business. It will be a great boon to them when it's completed, if they can survive that long. The amenities it offers are very nice, but the cost of maintaining it once it is completed could prove problematic in future years.
Obama Administration Touts Federal Stimulus Spending For Non-Existing Indiana Districts
State GOP Chairman Murray Clark has a little fun with the discovery that Indiana has been awarded $5 million in stimulus spending for congressional districts that don't even exist. Clark quips in a press release:
Earlier this year, Democrats promised America that the unprecedented level of spending in the federal stimulus bill would be administered with the highest level of accountability and transparency. Despite their promises, errors and dubious account abound. This week we have learned that over $5 million of stimulus funds were reported as having been spent in Indiana Congressional Districts 00, 10, 11, 14 and 18, districts that do not exist."
"Reps. Joe Donnelly and Baron Hill voted for the so-called stimulus and its massive spending increases. What's troubling is that it continues to fall short of what the Democrats in Washington told the country. The reporting errors are an underlying symptom of the larger problem. As such, Reps. Donnelly and Hill owe an explanation to Hoosiers."
I'm not sure why the GOP always omits U.S. Rep. Andre Carson's votes whenever criticizing U.S Reps. Donnelly or Hill. He also voted for the stimulus plan. Clark's press release quotes from a Kokomo Perspective online story quoting U.S. Rep. Dan Burton's press release. Burton had this to say:
Back when President Obama first addressed the Congress after his inauguration, he said that Vice President Joe Biden would oversee the Stimulus spending because, 'Nobody messes with Joe.'
"Well, I think President Obama should know that somebody has messed with Joe. The imaginary 00, 10th, 11th, 14th, and 18th Congressional Districts of Indiana have, according to recovery.gov, made a tax dollar windfall of about $5.3 million, and 'created or saved' 9 jobs - all of which obviously can't exist in these fake districts.
"From the beginning, I said this program would be exposed to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse. Now, as we see these magical numbers from the Obama Administration, how can we ever be convinced that this money will be accounted for and given proper oversight? The answer is simply this: we can't.
"It's time to pack up this program, save the President from further embarrassments, use the remaining funds to pay down the debt and deficits, and cut taxes on capital gains, small businesses, and individuals so we can be 100% sure the money is used to create real jobs in real Congressional Districts.
Grant Rejection Leaves City Budget $1.7 Million Short
Here's a perfect example of why truth in budgeting is so important. The City of Indianapolis' 2010 budget includes $1.7 million to cover the cost of purchasing police cars for 50 new police officers, who are being funded by a federal grant, along with their uniforms, hand-held radios, training and pagers. The budget approved by the City-County Council anticipated that those extra costs associated with hiring new police officers would be covered by a grant from the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute. That grant has been rejected, and according to a FOX 59 News report, the City should have known that if it had conducted any due diligence before applying for the grant. FOX 59 News reports on the $1.7 million hole in the City's budget:
Fox59 News has learned IMPD has been rejected for a $1.7 million dollar grant to buy 50 new police cars. And, it appears more advance discussion with Indiana Criminal Justice Institute officials about restrictions for equipment would have let city leaders learn months ago they never had a chance to get grant money for cars.
"The equipment grants we give out are typically for $10,000 or less," said Neil Moore, executive director of the Justice Institute. "If you look at what we funded in the past you will see we don't fund cars for large police agencies."
IMPD was requesting $1.3 million for cars. The total request was $1.7 million dollars. The money is needed to match Federal money the city's taking to cover salaries for 50 new police officers in 2010. By taking the federal money the city has to guarantee it can buy equipment for the new police and cover their salaries after three years.
"We were a little surprised, we were counting on it," said Valerie Washington, CFO for public safety.
Grant papers obtained by Fox59 News say the city is in a current "tax crisis" and is 18 months behind in collecting taxes.
The city also asked for line items including $70,000 for 50 new police uniforms, $179,000 for 50 handheld radios, $140,00 for firearm training, $10,000 for training material, and $3,950 for 50 pagers for recruits. The entire grant was rejected about three weeks ago.
"Since then we've been working with the controller's office, the grant unit to find alternative funding sources," said Washington.
She also said the grant writers had consulted with someone at the ICJI about the requests for equipment. City officials say the federal grant description did cover allotments for cars. But Moore says local police agencies like IMPD know the Institute's history and rejection of funding for police cars.
"We only provide one or two cars for very small police departments in need," said Moore.
Discoveries like this will tell us whether the City-County Council actually approved a balanced budget for 2010 as advertised. The City claims it expects to have a $15 million surplus next year. I would point out that the 2007 65%, $90 million a year increase in the local income tax was supposed to include funding for 100 new police officers that had never been funded as promised earlier in his administration of then-Mayor Bart Peterson. Mayor Greg Ballard, simiilarly, didn't used those additional income tax revenues to fill 100 new positions. Instead, he is filling half of those positions using one-time federal grant money. How will we pay for those positions when the federal grant money is exhausted? We obviously don't even have the funding to purchase their police cars, uniforms, etc. This is why City-County Councilors should do a more thorough job scrutinizing the budgets presented to them and not simply rubber stamp what has been put in front of them by the Controller's Office.
Mother Of Wandering Toddler Works For FSSA
As if the Family & Social Services Administration didn't need another public relations nightmare, it turns out the mother of a one-year-old toddler who was found wandering a neighborhood alone over the weekend and unclaimed for nearly a day works as a clerk for FSSA. Tuesday House apparently had more important things to do Saturday night than look after her one-year-old daughter, including going out drinking with her friends and doing crack cocaine. WTHR reports:
The mother of a nearly one-year-old child found wandering a busy street now faces criminal charges.
Neighbors found the toddler walking on a sidewalk at 21st and Harding Saturday night. It took police over 24 hours to find her mother, 38-year-old Tuesday House.
A busy Indianapolis street after dark is where a little girl ended up after police say she was left alone.
"Mom left to go out, believed a friend of the family was there to watch the baby who was sleeping," said Sgt. Matt Mount, IMPD.
It was neighbors who noticed the toddler walking and crawling on a sidewalk along Harding street near 21st at about 8:00 pm Saturday night. They took her to a nearby store and called for help.
"We was knocking on every door trying to see whose baby it was," said Jimmie Cushingberry, witness.
But it wasn't until news reports showed the girl's picture that family members came forward. Uncle Eric Cosby, who said the little girl often stays at his home, was surprised to find she was missing.
He chalks it up to a big misunderstanding . . .
Early Monday afternoon, an interview with the girl's mother led to charges against her when she admitted to drinking and using cocaine the night her daughter wandered off.
Tuesday House told detectives when she left the house, a family friend was outside and the baby was asleep inside. But detectives say no arrangements were made to take care of the young girl . . .
House works for the Indiana Family and Social Services Agency as a clerk, although she is employed through a temp agency.
According to the WTHR report, House had been hired by a private contractor to work at FSSA. House was hired by Alpha Rae, a temporary employment agency used by FSSA to fill clerical positions.
May Calls Carson's Priorities On Fort Hood Attack Wrong
Seventh District Republican congressional candidate Carlos May criticized U.S. Rep. Andre Carson's recent suggestion in an Associated Press interview following the Ft. Hood attack by Maj. Nidal Hasan that left 12 Army soldiers and one civilian dead that the focus should be on Hasan's "mental health issues." "This is no way a reflection of Islam any more than Timothy McVeigh's actions are a reflection of Christianity," Carson told the AP. May called Carson's linkage of McVeigh and Hasan "misleading and irresponsible." While May rejected "any linkage between murder and Islam", he said he was troubled that Carson dismissed any connection between Hasan's actions and his religion. "However, for Carson to dismiss the facts pointing to Hasan’s associations with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who knew three of the 9/11 hijackers, and Hasan’s association with him going back to 2001 as mere mental illness is troubling," May said. "Carson is representing the twelfth largest city in the U.S., and is a former employee of IDHS who should be leading the effort for a thorough Congressional investigation."
It's refreshing to see a politician speak candidly on this issue. Virtually all of Indiana's congressional delegation and congressional candidates have remained silent on the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, seemingly afraid to speak their mind for fear of being labeled as "anti Muslim." The silence from our two Indiana senators, Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh, has been deafening.
Efforts within our government to deflect attention away from their own national security failures in failing to recognize Hasan as a threat to his fellow soldiers is reaching new lows. The National Enquirer is quoting a government source as suggesting Hasan is a closet homosexual who recently got dumped by his lover. Adding to the titilating tale is a suggestion in the story that Hasan is HIV-positive, claiming a cache of HIV meds was found in his apartment. The Enquirer writes:
The deranged Fort Hood gunman - accused of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others - snapped after being dumped by a lover, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.
Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan - an American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent - became deeply disturbed over his imminent deployment to Afghanistan. But his final decline into madness was triggered by his miserable failure at romance.
While the investigation is being kept under tight wraps, a top government source, close to the case, told The ENQUIRER: "There's evidence he was dumped by a lover."
The ENQUIRER has also learned the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist had a deep-seated inability to deal with women that stemmed all the way back to high school - and he may have had homosexual relationships.
"Hasan had someone he was seeing - a woman or even a man - or may have imagined the love affair," disclosed the government source. "It's quite possible the object of his affection had no idea they were Hasan's love interest.
"What's clear is that Hasan felt he was dumped by this person, giving him another reason for unleashing his mass assault. In his sick mind, Hasan may have believed that one of these innocent men he gunned down stole away his lover." . . .
Imam Mohamed Abdullahi, who runs the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md., where the psychiatrist attended prayer services, told The ENQUIRER Hasan may have been confused about his sexuality.
"Maybe he is a homosexual. He was clearly very troubled. In the Koran, there was a messenger who was a homosexual, and God destroyed him."
Among Hasan's belongings, confiscated by police at his apartment, was a cache of HIV prescription drugs.
Oh, the irony that people within government would now be attempting to portray Hasan as a mentally unstable gay men who is a HIV-positive. If Hasan had simply told his Army superiors he was gay, he would have been discharged in a heartbeat under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Earlier this year, the Army discharged 11 gay soldiers because of the policy. A West Point graduate, Dan Choi, received notice in May of this year that he would be discharged from the Army National Guard for speaking out about his homosexuality in a television interview. Choi spoke Arabic fluently and had recently completed a tour of duty in Iraq. More than 12,000 soldiers have been dismissed since President Clinton signed into law the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law in 1993. It's pretty sad that our military would view a soldier like Choi as a risk to the morale and well-being of his fellow soldiers, while turning a blind eye to Hasan's outrageous anti-American statements and praise of Islamic suicide bombers.
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Rash Of Suicides Hits Chicago Politicos
There is a pattern developing. A big shot political insider draws the scrutiny of federal prosecutors combating the corrupt Chicago political system. This is followed by the big shot political insider choosing to end his life. Today, long-time Chicago School Board President Michael Scott's body was found floating in the Chicago River. Hours later, an efficient medical examiner ruled his death a suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The Sun-Times writes:
The death of Chicago School Board President Michael Scott was ruled a suicide this afternoon by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He died of a gunshot wound to the head, officials said.
When police found his body early this morning, Scott was face down in a foot of water along the Chicago River downtown, a .380-caliber handgun under his body, a source said.
The 60-year-old Scott, Mayor Daley’s go-to-guy for years, had a gunshot wound to his left temple.
He left behind his cell phone on a ledge overlooking the river on the west side of the Apparel Center, 350 N. Orleans.
But he left no note, a source said . . .
An ashen [Mayor Richard] Daley said he saw no indication that his close friend was troubled, saying Scott’s death “is a shock for everyone.”
“No, no. None whatsoever,” Daley said when asked if he sensed Scott was struggling with personal issues. “Mike was always helping people with troubles" . . .
Scott was Daley’s long-time go-to guy but raised eyebrows earlier this year when he disclosed to the Sun-Times that he had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating how students were selected for the system’s elite selective-enrollment high schools . . .
Scott, a West Side resident, also had served on the Mayor's 2016 Olympic committee and as former head of the Chicago Park District.
In August, he was forced to answer questions about his involvement in a development proposal near the the proposed Douglas Park Olympic site.
He insisted he would not profit from the deal.
“I would not profit . . . not at all,” Scott told reporters at a Chicago Board of Education press conference.
He was responding to a published report contending he was “potentially positioning himself to cash in” if the Olympics come to Chicago because he was helping a group of ministers try to turn some city-owned lots across from what could have been an Olympic site into affordable housing.
Chicago eventually lost out to Rio de Janiero, which will host the 2016 Summer Games . . .
Scott owns Michael Scott and Associates, a real estate development firm.
West Side Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th) praised Scott on Monday, saying “he was a great individual who added value to every position he served” in city government.
Carothers — who was indicted in May for allegedly accepting $40,000 in home improvements, meals and sports tickets from a West Side developer in exchange for zoning changes that netted the developer millions — spent a year secretly recording public officials and real estate developers for the feds, the Sun-Times disclosed earlier this year.
On Monday, Carothers cut off a conversation with a reporter when asked whether he had recorded any conversations with Scott.
In October, a top adviser to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich with close ties to Mayor Daley died after ingesting a deadly combination of pain medications and rat poisoning. Reporting on the death of Christopher Kelly following his indictment by federal prosecutors and guilty plea, the Chicago Tribune reported:
Officials in Country Club Hills said toxicology tests show that Christopher Kelly, once a top adviser and political fundraiser for Gov. Rod Blagojevich, ingested pain-relief medication and rat poison in an apparent suicide in the suburb last month.
Mayor Dwight Welch said the test results had been returned to investigators. Police in the town have called Kelly's Sept. 12 death an apparent suicide, saying he ingested pills and the poison in a trailer at his roofing company.
Kelly was facing personal turmoil and mounting federal pressure to cooperate in the sweeping corruption case against Blagojevich after pleading guilty in two separate fraud cases.
And then there was the suicide death of Orlando Jones a couple of years ago shortly after he was contacted by federal investigators. The Sun-Times writes:
One of Cook County's top political insiders was found dead on a southwestern Michigan beach this week from a self-inflicted gunshot wound -- two days after
the Chicago FBI attempted to interview him about an undisclosed matter,
authorities said Thursday.
Orlando Jones -- a 52-year-old godson of ex-County Board President John Stroger, former top Stroger aide and married father of two sons -- had lunched with a lawyer Tuesday before disappearing that evening. His body was found about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the bottom of a set of steps leading to Gowdy Shores beach, a short drive from a New Buffalo, Mich., casino Jones had frequented.
Berrien County law enforcement officials said a handgun was found with Jones, who had a single gunshot wound in his head.
Undersheriff Chuck Heit said there was nothing that would lead him to believe "it was anything other than suicide."
Authorities recovered notes from Jones' South Loop home, including one referencing how unforgiving the news media tend to be, a law-enforcement source said . . .
The discovery of Jones' body came just two days after FBI agents approached Jones, FBI spokesman Frank Bochte said. Jones "cordially declined" to speak with Chicago agents. The FBI wouldn't discuss details of the potential interview, citing an ongoing probe . . .
Besides the Las Vegas matter, Jones had been interviewed by federal authorities some time ago about a separate, government-related deal highlighted in a Sun-Times story in Thursday's editions. That deal -- which involved an annual fee paid to Jones by an investment firm that does business with a state government pension fund -- had allowed Jones to be paid six-figure sums annually for a job he did in 2004.
Authorities, Stephenson said, wanted to know if now-indicted Highland Park businessman Stuart Levine played any role in helping Jones land the deal. Levine has been indicted along with Wilmette businessman Tony Rezko in a kickback scheme to defraud Illinois taxpayers using fees like the one Jones got.
Jones told the feds Levine played no role in Jones landing the fee, Stephenson said. He added that Jones was not asked about Rezko.
Like Jones, Rezko is close to the Stroger family, and Rezko and Jones have been business partners, records show.
Jones was in County Board President Todd H. Stroger's office as recently as last week. Todd Stroger was elected to the post held by his father, John, last year after the elder Stroger suffered a debilitating stroke.
Oh, yes, the Obama-Rezko-Blagojevich-Daley ties run deep in Chicago. The Chicago Way is becoming a pretty deadly business these days. Who will be the next victim? Will U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald ever get to the bottom of this deep cesspool? That can't happen without removing President Obama from office, along with his top Chicago political advisers, including Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod and ending the career of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and his corrupt city administration.
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PHANTOM PHOREVER – THE LEGEND LIVES ON
This legendary twin engine beast of Mc Donnell Douglas might not be the most versatile and agile fighter of the Hellenic Air Force, but it still remains an essential component of its Tactical Air Force planning. Today, HAF still maintains in front line service two F-4 Squadrons, while the aircraft is counting more than 40 years of service. The legend still lives on.
The history of the Greek Phantoms dates back to 1972, when Greece signed a contract with United States and Mc Donnell Douglas for the purchase of 36 F-4E. During that period of time, Greece made also a purchase of two other types of military aircraft, both of them highly capable and successful. These two aircraft were the French Mirage F-1CG and the American LTV A-7 Corsair II. During the late 70s and for more than a decade, Greece was one of the few countries in Europe with so many advanced and modern aircraft in its inventory, while it was the dominant force in the region of Balkans.
The new house of the Greek Phantoms was decided to be the 117 Combat Wing based in Andravida, close to Patra city. This airport had been built in 1955 and was used only as an Air Detachment unit. After this decision, the aerodrome of Andravida was completely renovated. The older infrastructure was reconstructed and new hangars were built for the aircraft maintenance along with modern shelters.
The pilots who were chosen to visit the United States to receive their training for the new aircraft were mostly ex F-84F pilots. The reason why these pilots were chosen was simply because this aircraft was the most numerous but at the same time the oldest aircraft in the inventory of HAF and was already being phased out. The first Squadrons which were destined to receive this modern aircraft were 338 and 339 Squadrons, both strike squadrons, equipped with the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak.
The first 36 pilots were sent initially to the United States in December of 1973 while the rest followed in January of 1974. All were transferred to Homestead AFB, close to Miami in Florida where 31st TFW was based, equipped with F-4C and F-4D aircraft.
The program was named Peace Icarus Ι. The first aircraft destined for the HAF, with serial number 72-1500 took off for the first time from Lambert airport in St Louis on the 29th of January 1974, with the test pilot of McDonnell Douglas, E.D. Francis at the controls. The F-4E variant was the most capable variant of the Phantom series, which performed its initial flight on 30 June 1967. It featured:
The upgraded J79-GE-17A engines, with 17,900 lb afterburning thrust.
A General Electric M61A1 six-barreled 20-millimeter Gatling-type cannon on the underside of the nose, with 640 rounds of ammunition.
An AN/APQ-120 radar. This new radar was much more compact than its predecessors, allowing it to fit into the nose along with the cannon.
A Martin-Baker Mark 7 “zero-zero (zero altitude, zero speed) ejection seats.
A tailplane with a fixed slat attached under the leading edge. The slat provided improved control authority at high angles of attack (AOA).
A seventh fuel cell in the tail above the engine nozzles.
Manual wing fold, instead of hydraulic fold.
Another main design feature of this improved version was the implementation of the leading edge slats. Those leading-edge slats, were being extended automatically when the aircraft’s AoA was exceeding six degrees, and retracted when the AoA was going back to four degrees. This feature was firstly introduced to the F-4Es in mid-1972 and was retrofitted to the older E models.
A historical moment for the Greek Phantoms was on the 5th of April 1974. During that afternoon, the first six aircraft touched down on runway 34 of Andravida airport. 15 days later, on Saturday, the 20th of April, the ceremony of the establishment of the first Phantom Squadron, 339 Sq, took place.
Due to the increased tensions with Turkey, a decision for a second purchase was taken after the completion of the deliveries from the first order. On the 22nd of October 1976, the Greek government announced the need for the purchase of an extra number of Phantoms. Finally on the 16th of July 1977 a second contract was signed under the name Peace Icarus II for the purchase of 18 F-4E along with 8 RF-4E photoreconnaissance Phantoms. These later Phantoms were delivered between 1978 until 1979 completing the original Phantom orders for the HAF.
The RF-4Es were delivered to 348 Squadron “Eyes” at 110 Combat Wing in Larissa. The second batch of the F-4E from Peace Icarus II enabled the establishment of a third F-4 unit, 337 Squadron ‘Ghost’, based also in Larissa. This unit assumed primary responsibility for the defense of the central and northern Aegean.
At the early 80s HAF had already three Squadrons of F-4E and one Squadron of RF-4E, making it one of the few Air Forces within NATO which had so many advanced Phantom aircraft. The serial numbers of the first batch of the F-4E aircraft from Peace Icarus I were starting from 72-1500 to 72-1535. The second batch of F-4E from Peace Icarus II had serial numbers 77-1743 to 77-1760 plus two other aircraft 74-1618 to 74-1619 which were originally ordered to cover two losses which had already taken place. The RF-4E had serial numbers 70357 and 70358 and from 71761 to 71766.
Picture Profile taken from Icarus Decals
All the F-4E Phantoms arrived in Greece with SEA camouflage (Vietnam) and had large light blue roundels. Later on many of them received an all dark blue camouflage, which was named “Aegean Blue”. In the late 1990s, the new camo of the so called “Aegean Ghost” was started to be applied to the Greek Phantoms. The process was not completed for all of them, because their retirement had already begun.
In July 1990, the US government decided to offer 28 F-4E from the Indiana Air National Guard under the Southeastern Regional Agreement (SRA). As a return, USA continued to operate its American Air Bases in Greece for another 8 years. The first 9 aircraft which belonged to the 131st Squadron of Missouri ANG, arrived in Andravida on the 3rd f August 1991. With their introduction, all the existing F-4s from the original Greek orders were allocated between 337 and 339 Squadrons, while 338 Sq received all the ex-US jets.
Despite the fact that the SRA F-4s were coming from older production blocks (these aircraft were from Blocks No. 36 up to 41), they featured advanced Navigation and Weapon-Delivery System (NWDS), Airborne Video Tape Recorder (AVTR), Have Quick radios, and improvements to the AN/APQ-120 radar to make it more capable in the air-to-ground role. All the SRA Phantoms were wearing the standard USAF livery (American Hill Grey) while they were equipped with the smokeless J79. Their serial numbers of these aircraft were:
– 67-0345, 0350, 0377,0381,
– 68-0318, 0361,0363, 0381, 0393, 0394, 0402, 0405, 0408, 0412, 0424, 0426, 0432, 0438, 0440, 0442, 0444, 0445, 0480, 0481, 0496, 0506, 0515, 0517.
The F-4E SRA were finally withdrawn on the 16th of December 2005, when the 337 Sq temporary terminated its operation by withdrawing all 28 of them in order to start the preparations for the acceptance of the modern F-16C/D Block 52+, assuming its role as lead interception unit in the northern Aegean.
Two years later the 348 Squadron fleet was also enhanced with 27 RF-4Es from the German Luftwaffe. Under the NATO treaty, Germany granted a large number of RF-4E to Greece and Turkey which were being phased out of active service. These 27 examples started to arrive in the spring of 1993. Only twenty of them were used for service and equipped 348 Sq, which were added to the remaining 5 RF-4E (three of them had already been lost in accidents), while at the same time the remaining ageing RF-84F Thunderflashes, were finally retired from service. The rest of the German examples were used for spare parts. They were all wearing the “Lizard” livery. Later on some of them received a different kind of “Lizard” painting and some of them received a Vietnam camo.
It is worth mentioning that HAF came twice very close to an agreement in obtaining other extra Phantoms. Once in 1987, when the Americans offered some F-4D which were being withdrawn from active service, but also from Great Britain which offered some F-4M Phantom FGR Mk 2, which were also being retired. Both offers were denied due to the fact that it was very expensive for the HAF to maintain all these different types in service.
Peace Icarus 2000: ‘The Legend Is Back!’
After 23 years of presence over the Aegean Sea, HAF decided to upgrade the F-4E Phantom II. In the early 1990s, it began to search for an upgrade program of the existing Phantoms. That was quite logical due to the fact that the aircraft was still a very capable weapon but mainly because the replacement costs of this type were enormous. Finally when the Greek government approved the funds for this program, two candidates offered their proposals. These two were the German DASA and the American Rockwell. The first had already upgraded the German F-4F and the latter was lacking of experience but was mainly based in the knowledge and the know-how of the manufacturer McDonnell Douglas, which had recently acquired.
The program was focusing mainly on the replacement of its radar, centered around the BVR capability with the utilization of the modern AIM-120 missiles. The upgrade of the electronic equipment and the extension of the service life of the fuselage. The final number of the aircraft which were going to be upgraded was 39! 29 examples from Ρeace Ιcarus Ι and 10 examples from Ρeace Ιcarus ΙΙ.
Current Camouflage pattern for the F-4E “Aegean Ghost”
Picture from DON COLOR
The winner was finally DASA (later on EADS), mainly because of its existed upgrade program. The contract, under the name Peace Icarus 2000, was signed on the 11th of August 1997, and the plan was that DASA was going to deliver all these aircraft by the end of 2000. The main systems supplier of the German company was the Israeli Elbit, which also had gained great experience through its own upgrade of the Israeli Phantoms, but also of the Romanian MiG-21s.
Only one aircraft travelled to Germany and was used as a tested of the upgrading program, while the rest were upgraded in Greece in the facilities of the Hellenic Aerospace Industry in Tanagra. This aircraft was 72-1523 and it was nicknamed ‘Princess of Andravida’ and it served as the prototype of the program. The prototype first flew on the 28th of April 1999 and the tests took place in the facilities of DASA in Manching, near Munich, Germany.
Apart from the new electronics suite, a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) was applied from the Hellenic Aerospace Industry to the entire fleet, in order to extend their structural life. One of the greatest tactical disadvantages of the Phantom, was the problem of its smoky engines. These aircraft were always spotted from miles away due to theirs smoke trails. This problem was greatly reduced from the modification of the existing J79-GE-17A to -17C standards. This modification was mainly the replacement of the ten combustion chambers, with newer ones along with the older fuel injectors and igniters. Some of the engines which were used to the upgraded Phantoms were -17C versions which had been taken from the retired F-4E SRA and some were modified version of the already existing -17As.
Fifteen months later and after the completion of 154 test flights, it was eventually returned back to Greece, where it continued some other trials for its weapons. Finally after two years of long delays the first aircraft were ready by the end of 2002. On December 18th, 2002, the delivery ceremony of the first upgraded aircraft from the Hellenic Aviation Industry was held in its facilities at Tanagra. At the end of this integration, the total number of the aircraft had been reduced to 36 examples due to three losses from accidents since the completion of this program.
117th Airwing Emblem
The F-4E AUP (Avionics Upgrade Program) Phantoms were all delivered to 117th Combat Wing at Andravida and were all painted in the ‘Aegean Ghost’ scheme, similar to the one of the F-16s. With this upgrade program, this old second generation aircraft had become a very capable multi role fighter which could oppose any 3rd generation enemy aircraft.
The upgraded Phantoms were equipped with:
New multi-role radar APG-65GY of Hughes, which was also installed in the F/A-18C/D
New navigation system H-764G of Honeywell, which is a combination of LINS and GPS
New datalink information system (DTS)
New radio altimeter ΑΝ/ΑΡΝ-232 CARΑ of NAVCOM.
New CPU-143/A central air data computer of GEC Avionics
New Multi Mode Radar Command of Elbit
New Have Quick II communication system AN/ARC-164 of Magnavox
New Collins TACAN navaids AN/APN-153Y
New multi-functional color displays on both cockpits
New Heads Up Display (HUD) of EL-Op
New Data Transfer Unit
New Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) system
New Hazeltine AN/APX-113(V) IFF advanced friend/foe identification system (AFIDS). This is the most disguisable feature of the upgraded F-4E ΡΙ 2000. There are four antennas on the top of the nose and are nicknamed “bird slicers”!
Concerning its weaponry, the main advantage is the ability to carry the new air – air BVR missile AIM-120B AMRAAM (it can carry up to four missiles), sacrificing their original AIM-7 capability. The aircraft can also carry the modern dispenser missile AFDS, AGM-65 missiles (A/B and G), smart bombs like GBU-10/24 Paveway II/III, Mk 20 Rockeye II along with other free fall bombs.
Compared with before the upgrade, the weapons system officer’s (WSO) role has now been upgraded to match the capabilities of the APG-65 radar that features multiple modes of operation. Furthermore, the use of the Litening pod is the WSO’s sole responsibility. An experienced WSO serves as the ‘brains’ of the tactical formation, providing regular situational awareness updates to other jets, increasing the probability of a kill in air-to-air missions or providing accurate attack parameters for air-to-ground missions. With this Litening II pod, F-4s can now also undertake non-traditional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (NTISR) duties and launch laser-guided bombs (or designate these weapons for other types).
Phantom Profile Shots
Squadrons:
338 Fighter Bomber Squadron
Callsign: Aris (Greek God of War)
The 338 Squadron was formed on December 24th, 1952, at Elefsis AB, as 338 Fighter Bomber Squadron, equipped with the F-84G Thunderjet aircraft. In May 1958 it was incorporated into the 115 CW at Souda AB till January 1960, when it was disbanded. It was formed again in August 1964 equipped with F-84F Thunderstreak aircraft.
In June 1974 the Squadron was redeployed at 117CW in Andravida AB, where the F-4E Phantom II were delivered. On 5th of August, 1991, the squadron replaced the old aircraft with upgraded version of F-4E coming from US stocks, the F-4E Southeastern Regional Agreement (SRA).
The emblem of the squadron took its present form in 1974. The God has been «modernized» in relation to the earlier emblem, since instead of a spear he is holding a 2000 lb bomb. At the background there is the international mascot of the F-4 Phantom, Spooky, as the squadron operates with this type of aircraft for more than 40 years. Inside the emblem there the inscription «H TAN H ΕΠΙ TAΣ», the phrase Spartan mothers used to say to their sons when they handed over the shield for the battle: «Return with the shield or (be carried) upon it».
338th Squadron Profile Shots
339 All Weather Squadron
Callsign: Ajax (the son of King Telamon of Salamis)
The 339 All Weather Squadron was formed on July 7th, 1952, in 112 CW at Elefsis AB. It was named initially 339 Fighter Bomber Squadron and it was equipped with F-84G “Thunderjet” aircraft, the first jets of the Hellenic Air Force. After being redeployed to several bases across Greece, in March 1971 it was finally redeployed to Andravida AB at 117 Combat Wing where it is based till today.
On April 1974 the first deliveries of F-4E Phantom II aircraft started, under the program Peace Icarus I. At the end of 1997, HAF decided to upgrade the aircraft purchased under the programs Peace Icarus I and Peace Icarus II. On December 18th, 2002, the delivery ceremony of the first upgraded aircraft was held in the Hellenic Aviation Industry facilities, and so began the integration of the upgraded aircraft in 117CW. The Squadron started to receive the upgraded aircraft in 2002 and the deliveries ended in October 2005.
Both Squadrons have dual tactical role of Ground Attack and Interception, but their main roles are Ground Attack for the 338Sq and Interception for the 339Sq.
S/N 71745 of 339th Squadron
The introduction of the F-4 in the Hellenic Air Force inventory in 1974 marked the beginning of a new era for the Hellenic Air Force. The new jet not only incorporated technological advances but also contributed to a major development in tactics and aviation mentality. At that time the Phantom was the most modern aircraft of the HAF but at the same time it was also a mature jet, battle-proven in the conflicts of South-East Asia, with multi-role capabilities and unique features.
For its time, the F-4E was comparable to the F-15E Strike Eagle of today. It featured two seats, twin engines, good performance, large payload, beyond visual range (BVR) capabilities, and day and night operational capability. Until the entry to service of the F-15, the Phantom was the fighter with the greatest possible thrust!
Today, Greek financial problems have impacted the military, but the Phantom still plays an important role in the defence of Greek territory. The name ‘Phantom’ is usually synonymous with the old saying ‘drink, smoke and make noise’. And yet today this jet is capable of fighting against modern opponents on equal terms. Despite being a “dinosaur” of another era, is still capable of not only engaging with more modern aircraft but also be able to maintain its dominance.
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By BrooklynVegan Staff July 28, 2015
Austin's 2015 Fun Fun Fun Fest announced its comedy stage and day-by-day lineup, and put single-day tickets on sale today.
The comedy stage includes Tig Notaro, Doug Benson, Eric Andre, Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, Sabrina Jalees, Jonah Ray and Kurt Braunoh...
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The Bullring shopping centre opened on 4th September 2003 at a cost of £530 million. The original 1960s building located there was actually the UK’s first indoor shopping centre.
The name ‘Bullring’ comes historically from the old market site where bulls used to be tied to an iron hoop (the ‘ring’) and then baited. During redevelopment, archaeologists found artefacts dating back to the 12th century!
The Bullring is designed as two interlinked wings, the East and the West Malls, that are linked by an underground passage.
At one of the main entrances is the unmissable sculpture of a 2.2 metre bronze bull, which is always a popular spot to get your photo taken.
The building’s design is intended to combine traditional and modern architecture. There is a glass ‘Skyplane’ roof to let in natural light, glossy white interiors and noiseless escalators that float you from one floor to the next. The outside of Selfridges department store is covered in 15,000 aluminium discs, like silver sequins, which gives it an eye-popping, futuristic look.
It occupies over 1.2m sq ft of retail floor space, and its three floors are home to over 160 shops, including 28 cafes and restaurants. The Bullring draws large shopping crowds. In its first year of opening, it was the most visited shopping centre outside of London. The average annual visitor footfall is 38 million, and over the Christmas period alone there are more than a million visits per week. It has even been designed so that the entrance doors can be removed to accommodate large crowds.
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There are lots of places for coffee and cake stopovers, including Starbucks, Costa Coffee, Muffin Break, Love Coffee, Druckers Vienna Patisserie and Chatime. For hungry shoppers wanting to grab a quick bite on the go there is EAT, Greggs, Subway and Baguette Du Monde, amongst others.
For a dining experience, the Bullring has Pizza Express, Pizza Hut, Wagamama, Nando’s, Cafe Rouge and the Handmade Burger Co, Chaophraya, plus others. It is particularly well-known for the large Jamie's Italian that faces out onto the high street.
Selfridges Foodhall features the international eateries Yo Sushi, Rossopomodoro, Ekachai Noodle Bar and Itihaas.
There are no supermarket shops or food markets in the centre itself, but there are plenty just outside.
Food choices available in the shopping centre.
The Bullring has a dedicated event space for fashion, beauty and food. This is usually an opportunity to find exclusive offers for the brands within the centre via fashion shows, student sessions and retail promotions.
The events page is online at https://www.bullring.co.uk/events/events-at-bullring. A Bullring Plus app is available to download from the app store for more information.
For young children there is a games area, Teenie Weenies, that is located just across from the centre in the Moor Street car park. This is split into two soft play areas: one for toddlers and children up to age five, and another for older children up to age eleven. There is also a supervised crèche for children aged three to eight.
Currently, there is a baby grand piano located on level 3 by Selfridges if you want to tickle the ivories.
The beauty of the Bullring is that it is friendly to all pockets, with a mixture of high-end and high street brands, so you can splash the cash or find a bargain - especially in the sales.
At the time of its opening in 2003, 91 of the 160 brands were new to Birmingham city centre, including Forever 21’s first ever European shop.
The shopping centre has been designed in a way to loosely categorise the shops floor by floor.
On the upper level is the higher-end fashion, such as All Saints, DKNY Jeans, Kurt Geiger, Ben Sherman, Reiss and Karen Millen, combined with mainstream brands such as Gap, H&M, Topshop and River Island.
At a mid-level there is fashion (e.g. Oasis, Warehouse, New Look and Dune) and lifestyle retailing (e.g. Boots and HMV) aimed generally at the younger customers.
On the ground floor can be found the more typical high street brands selling a whole range of fashion, music, footwear, health and beauty and mobile phones.
There are two major department stores in the Bullring: the fourth-largest Debenhams in the country and one of only four Selfridges in the UK. This Selfridges has won eight awards for architecture and retailing, and it spans all of the floors of the shopping centre.
The Entertainer is always a good stop-off if you’ve got children in tow or are young at heart as there is a wide range of toys and games, plus regular demonstrations, events and competitions.
The Bullring is, like any other major city centre shopping centre, busy from mid-morning and weekends. However, if you go early enough in the day it can still be quiet and relaxed.
On the doorstep of the Bullring shopping centre are the Bull Ring indoor market and the world-famous rag market. The first specialises in fish, meat, fruit and vegetables and household supplies. The second, the rag market, has a dazzling array of fabrics, haberdashery, fancy dress costumes, clothing, hosiery, household supplies and accessories and is well worth a visit, although do note that this is only open four days a week.
The Bullring’s opening hours are 10am–8pm Monday to Friday, 9am-8pm on Saturdays and 11am-5pm on Sundays.
Late-night shopping is available during festive occasions such as Christmas, but as this varies check the website for more information.
The general prices of goods in the shopping centre.
For The customer service desk is located on level two, helping with matters such as finding your way and lost property, plus local travel information.
For disabled customers there is a Shopmobility service offered in the Bullring during the Christmas period, which is run by the charity wmsnt Group. It is located on car park level 2 and it is possible to hire electric scooters and wheelchairs or manual wheelchairs. Visit www.birminghamshopmobility.com or call 0333 241 2747 for more information.
For members of the public, the centre provides a variety of different services. If you need to charge your phone, four ChargeBoxes in the centre can charge your phone for free for 30 minutes. On the Upper West Mall are Amazon Lockers offering a collection service for online Amazon orders to the centre. Car washing is available in both the Centre and Moor Street car parks.
For parents and babies, baby changing facilities are located throughout the centre.
The Bullring runs a Child Safe scheme and staff are trained in helping separated children and parents. A helpline number is given on shop windows throughout the bullring.
For children, the Teenie Weenies games area is located across the street from the centre in the Moor Street car park. This caters to children aged up to 11 and provides two soft play areas. There is also a supervised crèche for children aged three to eight.
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There is a grand total of 3,100 car parking spaces dedicated to Bullring shoppers. These are divided between 900 in Debenhams Edgbaston Street car park, 1,000 in in the Centre car park and 1,200 in Selfridges Moor Street car park.
There are 19 family parking spots and 35 disabled parking spots, plus free motorcycle parking. Prices vary by location. 2 hours costs £5 at the Bullring centre, £4.50 at the Debenhams car park and £4.50 at Moor Street.
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It is easy to reach the Bullring by public transport, including bus, tram and train. It is closest to Moor Street train station, but still close enough to New Street and Snow Hill so that it is within easy walking distance. The Bullring also has the use of 3,100 parking spaces split between three car parks.
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The UK’s second capital has become known as a shopper’s paradise. The Bullring is arguably the largest and most diverse shopping centre in the city, but there are plenty of others on its doorstep, as well as the whole high street to explore.
Birmingham’s history is founded on its emergence as a leading centre for its ability to craft, manufacture and sell goods. This heritage is now continuing stronger than ever.
It can be difficult to navigate around the large number of shops or to find the right exit especially on the lower floors, so take advantage of the touchscreen computers where you can browse a map.
In November to December of each year, Birmingham plays host to the largest German Christmas market outside of Germany. This begins right outside of the Bullring, making it an extra-special time to visit for the festive atmosphere.
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When I first began this research I had assumed that there was very little data on the museums that were founded in the late twentieth century. In fact, the contrary is true. A great deal of information has been collected about museums from the 1960s onwards. By our reckoning there were at least nine major cross-UK surveys, three that concentrated on Wales, two on Ireland, and one apiece on museums in Scotland and England. Dozens of smaller surveys concentrated on specific regions or aspects of the sector, Arts Council England keeps lists of museums across the UK, and the Museums Association runs a Find-A-Museum service. Why then, is it so hard to get information about the rising numbers of museums? In this blog I identify five reasons why this massive amount of data has not translated into information.
Lost data
The first major survey that falls within our time period is the Standing Commission Report on Provincial Museums of 1963. Very conveniently, it is available in print form from major public libraries, and contains both the final report of the committee and a complete list of museums sorted according to region. From there onwards, however, the raw data largely disappears from government publications on the subject. The 1973 Standing Commission report, for instance, enumerates the different types of museums and provides an overview of emerging trends, but it does not provide a list of museums or the information that relates to individual venues, which we need if we are to track the emergence and development of the sector. As far as we know, the original data that was collected for that survey and for subsequent surveys conducted by the Standing Commission has been lost.
Research on museums conducted by other organisations is similarly missing. In 1983, the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) undertook a large-scale survey of that sector, but they do not seem to have published a report, and initially we were only aware of the survey’s existence from a handful of references in other contemporaneous sources. After some time, however, we found photocopies of the typewritten lists and the original survey questionnaires lodged in a university archive. We have been less successful in finding the information associated with the ‘UK Data base project’ of 1987. The Museums Association, which ran the survey, has a small in-house archive and its historic materials are kept at University College London. Unfortunately, neither archive contains any of the relevant materials. No-body in either organisation has any recollection of the survey taking place or any idea of where the material went, although it is likely that the UK Data base materials were thrown out when the Museums Association moved offices earlier this century.
Indecipherable data
A second problem for researchers interested in the museums of the late twentieth century is whether the data is usable or not. One of the most important surveys of UK museums was the
Digest of Museum Statistics, otherwise known as DOMUS. From 1994 to 1998, it collected information on all accredited museums, some 1700, and generated a huge amount of material. When the project was closed, most of the paperwork was deposited in the National Archives and so researchers can easily find and download documents pertaining to the surveys. The problem is, the material is difficult to decipher. As well as some documentary material, the archive consists of three folders, each containing around fifty files that contain the raw data from DOMUS. All of the folders and files have coded names. The files comprise of spreadsheets with numerous columns that have similarly opaque headings. Some sheets are virtually empty, while others contain over two thousand entries. There is no explanation as to how these tables relate to each other, what the files or columns refer to, or how the user is supposed to decipher them. Using this data requires someone to unlock the coding system and re-constitute the original database.
Data that is not easily accessible
The Museums Association currently compiles the most extensive dataset relating to UK museums. Their Find-A-Museum service lists information on the whereabouts, visitor numbers, staff, subject matter and governance of around two thousand museums. However, the Museums Association is a commercial enterprise and accessing this data incurs a fee. Users must pay to join the association and cover the subscription charges for the Find A Museum Service, at a minimum cost of around £186 for an individual or £450 for an organisation. In addition, the data cannot be downloaded or manipulated, and can only be examined via the service’s own rather limited search engine. Find-A-Museum is intended for museum professionals who want to look up information on specific venues, and is not designed with researchers in mind, but it does mean that one of the most substantial data sources on museums to be available in the UK cannot be used for broader analysis.
Other lists and surveys of museums are compiled by the various government bodies that oversee museums, namely, the Arts Council England (ACE), the Northern Ireland Museums Council (NIMC), Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), and the Welsh Museums, Archives, Libraries Division (MALD). These organisations do not publish their data although they do make it available on request and without charge. In our experience, the four government bodies have been very helpful in the provision of data but we are aware that they do not have staff whose role it is to deal with such requests and there is no automatic or established mechanism by which data can be obtained.
Incompatible data formats
Having acquired data from the various surveys and lists conducted by ACE, NIMC, MGS, and MALD, researchers will find that each of the government bodies collects different data, with significant variations in the level of detail, and about slightly different kinds of organisations over a range of dates. The spreadsheets cannot be simply merged. Moreover, if researchers want to include historic data, as we do, this all has to be transcribed by hand.
Partial and missing data
On collating the available information, researchers might spot a further problem, which is that surveys and lists compiled by government bodies invariably concentrate on accredited museums. The accreditation scheme, which is co-ordinated by Arts Council England, establishes that a museum has achieved professional standards, but small independent museums often lack the staff or the know-how to apply for accreditation, or may not meet the criteria set by the scheme. Museums Galleries Scotland and the Museums Archives Libraries Division in Wales invite non-accredited museums to make themselves known and they do list such venues in their reports and on websites, although submitting data still requires a certain degree of professional capacity or interest. Thus as far as the official reports are concerned, small independent museums are routinely omitted. Indeed, the only survey to have actively sought information on such venues was the one conducted by AIM in 1982/3, and never published.
There are also other omissions. Properties owned by the National Trust register in some surveys and not in others, while few surveys include art galleries that do not have permanent collections, so established venues such as the Baltic in Newcastle or the Whitechapel in London rarely appear in the data.
Finally, information that is essential to a historically minded researcher is less relevant to museum professionals who focus on the current environment. Only one of the surveys registered the foundation dates of museums, and none have listed closure. Once the doors of a museum have been shut to the public, that venue ceases to appear in surveys.
In summary, then: Over the last five decades several associations and government departments have collected an enormous amount of information about UK museums. There is no lack of data. There are problems with archiving, making that information comprehensible and accessible, with sharing data across national and organisational borders, with collecting historical data and information on venues that do not reach professional standards or that do not quite fit an orthodox model of museums, and on compiling data. These factors help explain why researchers cannot elucidate recent developments within the museum sector and specifically the emergence of independent museums. There is a wider question, however, about why arts organisations seem to have been so poor at keeping, managing and sharing data. Thoughts on that matter would be welcome, as indeed would any clues as to the whereabouts of the data collected for the 1987 UK Museums database project and for Standing Commission surveys other than the 1963 publication.
©Fiona Candlin May 2017
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Required CPR Instruction Could Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes, Report Says
By Jacob Bell on July 2, 2015 2:40 PM
The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, called on state and local education departments Tuesday to make CPR training a graduation requirement for middle and high school students in the United States.
The request was part of a series of eight recommendations established in "Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time to Act," a two-year long report commissioned by the American Red Cross and various federal agencies.
Created under the supervision of a 19-member committee of experts, the recommendations took aim at improving outcomes of and responses to incidents of cardiac arrest—an "immense and sustained public health problem," according to the report—and included plans like establishing a National Cardiac Arrest Registry and national cardiac arrest accreditation standards for hospitals.
The report highlighted schools as ideal hubs for CPR training given their centralized resources and ability to reach students from an array of socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, and endorsed partnerships between education departments and advocacy organizations to incorporate training into school curricula.
"Young adults are kind of in that sweet spot of being physically capable of CPR, but ... not being held back by made-up fears like lawsuits or catching diseases," said Tyler Accardi, the director of the Student CPR program, which offers free online and hands-on CPR training to students and educators.
From his experience with the program, Accardi has found that students take to CPR education because it's engaging and allows them to be active in the classroom. Often, students also end up fueling an interest in CPR among their parents, Accardi said.
Research has also shown that students who learn about CPR spread that knowledge to their parents and peers. A study published in the journal Resuscitation in 2010, for example, found that high school students trained themselves and 2.8 additional people on average when they were given CPR self-training DVD sets.
In addition to its overarching recommendations, the report provided tips to schools for overcoming cost and time restrictions associated with CPR training. They included measures like condensing the CPR curriculum and training teachers to administer the lessons instead of bringing in health-care instructors.
Cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in the United States, with more than 1,600 people suffering daily from it and nearly 600,000 cases annually, according to the report. About two-thirds of all cardiac arrest strikes happen outside of hospitals, and only 5.5 percent of those victims survive to hospital discharge.
And while countries such as Germany and Norway have 80 percent or more of the public trained in CPR, less than 3 percent of the U.S. population receives CPR training annually, the report states.
As of January 2015, 22 states required high schoolers to receive some form of CPR education in order to graduate, according to ProTrainings LLC, an emergency-skills training organization and the producer of the Student CPR program.
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Mr. Catalano has been President of Catalano & Associates, a real estate company that engages in brokerage and property management services and in the rehabilitation and leasing of office/retail buildings since 1999. Mr. Catalano served as President and Chief Executive Officer of CCS Mortgage, Inc., which was sold to Flagstar Bank in 2000. He has served as director on Retail Properties of America that trades under the symbol of RPAI since the company’s inception in 2003.
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Debra has been CFO and Secretary/Treasurer of Catalano & Associates since 1999 when the company was founded.
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Joe Escalante, Owner, Kung Fu Records
Bitter Success / November 20, 2008 / Interviews, Lawyer / 8 Comments
Bitter Lawyer sat down with Joe Escalante in 2008 to talk about his career as a lawyer, bassist, popular radio talk-show host, and record label maven. And amateur matador. Here’s the interview.
Current title and employer?
Host of the Barely Legal Radio Program on Indie 103.1 FM. Owner of Kung Fu Records, Inc.
What’s a typical day for you?
I wake up at 5:00 a.m. because I spent the last two-and-a-half years as a morning radio host on the air Monday through Friday from 6:00-10:00 a.m. It was such a jolt to my system that I can’t seem to get back to normal.
On Fridays, I review some copyright law and a few stories I’ve collected about entertainment law issues that might be interesting to my listeners—like infringement suits and right of publicity cases. Then I make the 15-minute drive to the station and tease the program at 8:45 a.m. with whoever the morning DJ is that day. I give out the phone number: 877-900-1031.
Then I slip behind the board and set up the system to do a talk show, which isn’t automatic since I give call-in legal advice on a rock station. This is why I have to engineer the show because it’s just not set up for anyone but the engineer to talk to listeners and pick suitable callers. There is a great screener named Stephanie in another booth answering the calls and placing descriptions of their legal issues on my screen.
I take calls for an hour and do two live commercial reads for LegalZoom.com who have been an invaluable sponsor of anything I do. The questions range from stuff like “What’s the best way to pitch my TV show idea?” to “How can I keep my former cellmate from exploiting the songs I wrote in prison while he’s on the outside?”
After the show, I go to lunch in Culver City. Probably at Tokyo 77. Then I do boring email stuff and see if there are any problems with the record label to solve, and then I play the bass for a while.
I go to 5:30 p.m. mass at St. Augustine’s in Culver City, and then I take my wife out to dinner in Culver City (Brunello’s, Rush Street, Ford’s Filling Station, Paco’s Tacos, Tito’s Tacos), go to a movie or someone’s game night or something. It’s a big victory if there are no plans and we can see a movie.
Law School? Law Review?
I went to Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (class of ‘92). It was a blast—what a great school. I wrote an article there called “ASCAP, BMI, and the Sherman Anti Trust Act: Are Today’s Top Stars In Bed With The Blanket License?” It was published in the Western State Law Review. It made people in the TV business think I was a music expert, which I really wasn’t, so I had to try to become one.
Where have you worked as a lawyer?
I got a job in the Department of Business Affairs at the CBS-TV Network right out of law school. I had interned there in the law department during my third year after showing them the fancy title of my article that no one ever read, most likely. I mostly negotiated talent deals for people like Chuck Norris and William Shatner for four years and made profit model projections for syndication and foreign sales.
On my first day, I was handed a file marked “Beverly Hillbillies Reunion” and was told to call them all at home (because they don’t have agents anymore) and make some deals. I was in heaven. As payback to the guy at Western State’s Law Review, I let him listen in on Ellie May’s negotiations. That is a true story. Other than some consulting for UPN, this has been my only real job. Although I had to take on a few music-related clients to make ends meet while getting my record label off the ground.
You’ve been part of well-known punk band, The Vandals, since you were 19. Is the name in reference to the Germanic tribe that assaulted Rome or did you guys just like to break stuff?
It’s a pretty unoriginal name for a punk band, and there have probably been hundreds started in neighborhoods around the world with it. Ours probably only survived because of the vigorous defense of the mark I’ve been engaged in for 26 years.
To answer the question, we just liked to break stuff. I was more into traditional Viking Age groups like the Berserkers rather than 5th century scrounges like the Vandals.
Aside from the obvious contract and IP stuff, has your law degree ever come in handy with the band?
Being a lawyer saves you a bunch of money on things, but three years of law school will sap your creativity and make it very hard to write any more music. The process takes so much out of your brain and replaces it with so much other stuff—you are left with a new brain really. Try writing punk songs with that thing. It’s not easy.
We hear you’re an amateur matador. What’s that all about?
Like many Mexican families growing up just 90 minutes from the Mexican border, the Escalantes were regular attendees at the bullfights in Tijuana during the ‘60s and ‘70s. My mom was Irish, but she was an even bigger fan than my dad. When I grew up and finally started making money, I discovered I could spend some of it at a place called bullfightingschool.com. I got kind of carried away with it, and soon I was appearing in festivals all over Mexico. How embarrassing, right? Well, my wife loved the outfit, which is not shiny in the amateur world. It’s more like a mariachi look.
After I started hosting the morning show, I couldn’t train for real fights anymore, so I haven’t killed anything in a few years. I still train however. If you’re white, be an astronaut, if you’re Mexican, be a matador. That’s what I’m saying.
What drove you to go to law school?
I wanted to be important when I was little, so I got the idea in my head about second or third grade, and it never left.
What was your best moment as a lawyer?
Convincing Chuck Norris to sing his own theme song on Walker Texas Ranger in Season 2, which I still get a kick out of hearing. It wasn’t very legal, but I did have to secure the rights to the song.
What was your worst moment as a lawyer?
Having the casting department blame me for ruining their relationships with Hollywood stars because I wouldn’t pay them what they wanted. This was a constant occurrence at CBS. It was the source of most of the stress associated with that job.
Describe your “I have to get the F*** out of the law epiphany?”
It was one of those moments where a casting person had just told the president of the network that I had screwed up everything for the network because I wouldn’t pay some guy something. And then she was totally okay with lying about everything to save her own job. I decided it wasn’t worth it to be at the mercy of people who were stupid. Eventually I left CBS and started my own record label where people didn’t treat me like I was a robot just because I had a law degree.
You host a radio show called “Barely Legal” where you provide information to callers with entertainment-related legal questions. What’s one question that really irked you?
Every week, two or three people call to try and ask if mailing something to yourself creates copyright protection. I don’t always put them on the air, of course, but I don’t know why people haven’t realized that you can mail unopened envelopes to yourself and seal them whenever you please.
A funny, related story is when I inherited my grandmother’s piano. The bench was full of songs in self-mailed envelopes from the ‘30s written by my great Uncle Baron Keyes, who had a big hit for Don Ho and some other stuff. Hilarious, I know. I’ll work on the ending next time I tell that one, I promise.
At any point in your career would you have considered yourself a Bitter Lawyer?
I walked around CBS all the time bitter about the dividing line between creative and business affairs. Only “creative” people were allowed in certain meetings and to attend certain conferences. I was thinking, “Hey, I wrote Anarchy Burger, people! Lady Killer! Ever heard of that? No. 1 on KROQ, people! What do you think about that, Mr. Creative?! You created Major Dad. You think that’s creativity? I would keep that quiet if I were you!”
You probably know a lot of former lawyers. What’s the most intriguing post-law career you’ve heard of?
Well, anybody can take their money and open up a vineyard, but I’m impressed with our collection of TV Judges. They work about three or four months out of the year, they have all the prestige of being a lawyer and they’re having a blast. Here’s to you, TV lawyer.
Any advice for Bitter Lawyers out there looking to make a career change?
You need to develop a holy detachment from material delights. That’s what is making you bitter. You have too much stuff. You are afraid you won’t get to keep it if you change careers to finally become happy. You are in a prison of vanity. You have to free yourself from that, obviously. That’s the key to being happy. I also hope you married someone who can also develop this detachment for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, we can’t detach ourselves from our loans.
Read more about Joe Escalante and his work on the official websites for Kung Fu Records and Barely Legal Radio.
Filed Under: Interviews, Lawyer Tagged With: alternative careers, radio
Already Bitter 3L
Thanks Escalante.
Very inspiring.
Peach on, Brother Escalante
Law Dude
cool interview—thanks
this guy is a lawyer?
Truthmonger
Funny how Joe still thinks he wrote “Anarchy Burger” and ‘Lady Killer’ all on his lonesome. Another example of what you lawyers call “moral turpitude.” I hope he stands before the Bar on those claims before he dies. It’s hard for many of us original Vandals fans to think of a greater hypocrite, liar and thief than Mr. Escalante Esq.
Live Fast Diarrhea is still amazing. And now we dance!
Steve-O fan
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Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion Charges for Role in $200 Million Compounding Pharmacy Scheme
There is an old expression that says, “You can’t outrun the long arm of the law” and when it comes to healthcare, truer words were never spoken. The federal government keeps a close eye on anyone involved in the field whether it be clinically or behind the scenes, if they are able to bill the feds for services, materials, etc.
Unfortunately those who can bill the federal government for anything in the healthcare realm often try and turn this into a profit center by over billing, over charging, coding for procedures not done, or products not used/delivered. Often news stories pop up with information on some type of healthcare provider who overfills the tune of millions of dollars & expects never to get caught.
Well, here’s another example of why it’s just better to do the right thing in the first place. Read this amazing announcement courtesy of the US Department of Justice:
A Hattiesburg, Mississippi man pleaded guilty today for his role in a $200 million compounding pharmacy scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, which is the program that covers U.S. military service members and their families.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst of the Southern District of Mississippi; Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze of the FBI’s Jackson, Mississippi Field Office; Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman III of IRS Criminal Investigation’s (IRS-CI) Atlanta Field Office and Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service’s (DCIS) Southeast Field Office made the announcement.
Glenn Doyle Beach Jr., 46, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and tax evasion, before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett of the Southern District of Mississippi. Beach was charged in May 2018 in a 26-count indictment and had been scheduled to begin trial today. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 2, 2019.
“Glenn Doyle Beach and his co-conspirators stole hundreds of millions of dollars from federal health care programs, including TRICARE, which provides benefits to brave members of our military and their families,” said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. “The Criminal Division remains dedicated to rooting out and punishing this kind of misconduct, and to protecting America’s important health care programs from fraud and abuse.”
“While our men and women in uniform were defending the freedoms and values we hold dear, this defendant was selfishly stealing precious money and resources from their military healthcare system, TRICARE, to the detriment of us all,” said U.S. Attorney Hurst. “Our investigators and prosecutors are to be commended for their steely resolve in rooting out corruption and administering justice for victims. We will not stop until every last person involved in this criminal scheme has been brought to justice.”
“Fraud schemes of this magnitude disrupt the fabric of our health care system, ultimately damaging our nation's economy and costing taxpayers billions each year,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Freeze. “Today's guilty plea brings this case one step closer to justice and proves that the collective resources of all partnering agencies will continue to expose these schemes and will actively seek justice for those who participate in them."
Beach was an owner and the managing member of Advantage Pharmacy of Hattiesburg. At the hearing today, Beach admitted his role in a scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, by marketing medications known as compounded medications, which ordinarily are medications that are specially combined or formulated to meet the individual needs of patients. Beach admitted, however, that through Advantage Pharmacy of Hattiesburg, he formulated compounded medications without regard to the individual needs of the patients, but instead in order to increase reimbursements paid by health care benefit programs. Furthermore, Beach admittedly created a fictitious paper trail to mislead insurance auditors who attempted to uncover the fraud.
Beach further detailed a money laundering and tax evasion scheme that he and other co-conspirators used to conceal the fraudulent proceeds and evade taxes.
From approximately April 2012 through January 2016, health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, reimbursed Advantage Pharmacy and other pharmacies involved in the scheme at least $200 million, Beach admitted. The government seized more than $6 million in cash and other assets from Beach, which will be forfeited in connection with his guilty plea.
Since 2017, 11 other individuals involved in this scheme have pleaded guilty, and one was convicted at trial. The investigation is ongoing.
This case was investigated by the FBI, IRS-CI and DCIS, among other agencies. Trial Attorneys Kate Payerle and Jared Hasten of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mary Helen Wall of the Southern District of Mississippi and Sean Welsh of the Western District of Virginia, formerly of the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS), are prosecuting the case, with the assistance of Trial Attorney Amanda Wick of MLARS.
The Fraud Section leads the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which is part of a joint initiative between the Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to focus their efforts to prevent and deter fraud and enforce current anti-fraud laws around the country. Since its inception in March 2007, the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which maintains 14 strike forces operating in 23 districts, has charged nearly 4,000 defendants who have collectively billed the Medicare program for more than $14 billion. In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers.
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Duke Pays $112.5 Million Settlement for Research Fraud - Why You Cannot Believe Every Piece of Research You Read
It’s easy to believe things you see in print. It’s even easier to believe something written & endorsed by a major educational institution. One of the principle concepts behind science is a healthy dose of skepticism. This is twofold. Number one is that you cannot go into research thinking you know the answers, that can taint your interpretations. Hence the whole concept of double blinding experiments. Number two is that when reviewing the data, it must be viewed empirically & not just believed straight away.
That’s because there are always factors that you may be unaware of when reading a study and mentally digesting the data. One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to just blatantly assume that because a study was done at a well known and respected institution that it is guaranteed to be correct. Something many don’t realize is that research is a big money maker for universities. Most research is funded by grants or paid for my companies wishing to have favorable data published about their product(s). Because of that, before the study is even started the money can very well influence the study design and, once completed, it can affect what data is left in or left out. When a company is spending huge amounts of money for good results, the pressure to create those good results can affect things more than many people realize.
Today, news is breaking that Duke, a well respected institution, is paying $112.5 million in restitution for fraud related to research that one individual created.
Info on this breaking news was published by Duke Today.
Here is the story from the Duke Today:
Duke University will pay $112.5 million to the United States Government to settle Thomas v. Duke, a lawsuit alleging that a research technician improperly falsified and fabricated data from 2006 to 2013 to obtain research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies, the university announced Monday.
Duke discovered the possible research misconduct in 2013 after the technician was fired for embezzling money from the university, which also occurred over the same period. The payment to the government includes both reimbursement for grants received as a result of the falsified and fabricated data and associated penalties.
The Thomas v. Duke suit was filed by a former Duke employee under the False Claims Act, a federal law that allows people not affiliated with the government to file actions on behalf of the government against persons and companies that defraud the government. Persons filing under the act can receive a portion of damages.
“We expect Duke researchers to adhere always to the highest standards of integrity, and virtually all of them do that with great dedication,” said President Vincent E. Price. “When individuals fail to uphold those standards, and those who are aware of possible wrongdoing fail to report it, as happened in this case, we must accept responsibility, acknowledge that our processes for identifying and preventing misconduct did not work, and take steps to improve.”
Thomas v. Duke was filed under seal in federal court in 2014 -- after the research technician was discovered to have embezzled federal grant funds that had been awarded to the university, but before Duke understood the extent of her research misconduct. Duke reported this to the appropriate agencies and repaid the embezzled funds along with all grant-funded compensation and benefits that had been paid to the technician. The technician eventually pled guilty to two counts of forgery and paid restitution to Duke.
The university then launched a formal scientific misconduct investigation of the technician’s experiments. Those experiments involved measuring the lung function of laboratory mice using highly specialized equipment and were not connected to human subject or clinical research.
Following a detailed, three-year review of more than 50 potentially compromised research grants, Duke concluded that the technician had falsified or fabricated data that had been included in grant and payment requests submitted to the NIH and other agencies over the period of her employment. Duke also retracted scientific publications that relied on the data.
In response to the settlement, Duke immediately will implement a series of key steps to build on the university’s already wide-ranging efforts to improve the quality and integrity of research conducted on campus, including:
The appointment of a new Advisory Panel on Research Integrity and Excellence chaired by Ann M. Arvin, professor of pediatrics and microbiology and former vice provost and dean of research at Stanford University, and including Edward M. Stolper, William E. Leonhard Professor of Geology and former provost of Caltech, and Barry S. Coller, David Rockefeller Professor, physician in chief and vice president for medical affairs at Rockefeller University. The advisory panel will provide recommendations to President Price and university leadership for improving the structure and function of research administration, with a focus on promoting research integrity, by June 30, 2019;
The establishment of a new, integrated leadership structure for research to provide clear and consistent policy guidance, oversight and accountability for all research at Duke University and Duke Health;
A new initiative to promote values and a culture of excellence and accountability at Duke;
The creation of an Executive Oversight Committee, chaired by Chancellor for Health Affairs A. Eugene Washington and including senior leadership and faculty, and a related Faculty Advisory Committee to oversee the ongoing implementation of Duke’s research excellence initiative.
These steps build on significant work already completed to improve research integrity at Duke over the past decade.
Even before the Thomas v. Duke case came to light, the university significantly expanded its research education, training, oversight and accountability efforts. These improvements, including, some informed by this case, include:
Required science and accountability plans for all School of Medicine units;
Mandatory Responsible Conduct of Research training for all School of Medicine faculty and staff involved in research, with campus-wide implementation underway, as well as town hall meetings on relevant research integrity topics;
The appointment of Geeta Swamy as associate vice provost and vice dean for scientific integrity. Swamy leads the Office of Scientific Integrity, which includes the Advancing Scientific Integrity, Services and Training (ASIST) initiative, and oversees conflicts of interest, research misconduct, a new institutional research incident response team and the Clinical Quality Management Program;
Significant improvements in clinical research oversight, including the establishment of clinical research units, and creation of the Duke Office of Clinical Research and the Duke Translational Medicine Quality Framework;
Continued implementation of the Research Administration Continuous Improvement initiative.
“Through these efforts, many of which have been underway for several years, we aim to promote and adhere to the highest standards of research excellence and integrity,” Price added. “We continue to have great confidence in the high quality of Duke faculty and their research. This settlement, which results primarily from willful misconduct that took place in one laboratory, but which affected the work of many more researchers, should not diminish the life-changing and life-saving work that takes place at every day at Duke. Our difficulties in ferreting out and ending such misconduct remind us that important work remains to be done.”
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Fentanyl Linked Deaths are on the Rise - When Will the Idea of Treatment Instead of a Supply Interdiction Begin to Take Hold
The “opioid crisis” has been an unfortunate event in the recent history of medicine. However, what has been more tragic than the deaths and destruction it has left in its wake is the ongoing problems that no one seems interested in solving.
It seems that everyone in a government position has opted “all in” on stopping the over prescribing of opioids, which is in and of itself a good thing, but what they are failing to take into consideration is the individuals who are caught in the middle of this issue. Big pharma created a huge number of people who became dependent on opioids through no fault of their own. These folks are caught in a terrible limbo of being addicted and then being cut off from their supply of medication with no consideration of what will happen to them.
Legislators and professional licensing boards have put severe clamps on prescribing which has helped shut down “pill mills” and those unethical practitioners who wrote prescriptions for thousands of pills just to line their own pockets. However, as the supply of legally available medications has dwindled, caught in the cross fire of those wishing to end the “opioid epidemic” are the individuals who have been left dependent on those medications and unable to get those medications. Those poor individuals are left to twist in the wind in the horrible throes of withdrawal.
It seems to me that the one thing lacking in this whole fight has been a focus, even a remote focus, on the patients who are forced to go on a cold turkey withdrawal. That is as medically unethical as the over prescribing that created their dependence in the first place. Instead the focus of those who want to solve the problem has been on decreasing the supply.
Unfortunately, be decreasing the supply and access to these drugs, the problems “fixers” have created an entire population that has 2 choices, suffer the indescribable tortures of withdrawal or find another source of drugs that keeps the withdrawal at bay. Since no one in power has seen fit to be concerned about helping these people by providing detox treatment, many of these sufferers have taken it upon themselves to seek drugs on the street.
Now we are seeing a new crisis in development, deaths due to overdose of drugs obtained through illegal sources. If those in power truly want to end the drug problems in the US, they have to focus on treating the individual who are afflicted with this disease and/or dependence. Trying to limit the supply simply doesn’t work. We’ve been fighting a “war on drugs” since the Nixon administration and despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on interdiction, the problem continues. The focus needs to change to treatment and not supply stifling or jail time.
The CDC has released an article that discusses the increase in deaths due to street Fentanyl purchased by those abandoned in the “war on drugs” and left to fend for themselves. Trying to limit the supply will just force people to seek relief illegally and that is by far much more dangerous. Read on for CDC's take. If you would like access to the entire study, complete with graphs and references, it can be read on the CDC website in pdf
Abstract Objectives—Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, has been increasingly identified in drug overdose deaths. This report describes trends in drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl by demographic characteristics and geographic regions from 2011 through 2016.
Methods—Drug overdose deaths were identified from the National Vital Statistics System—Mortality (NVSS–M) multiple cause-of-death files (2011–2016) using International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision underlying causes of death (codes X40–X44, X60–X64, X85, or Y10–Y14). NVSS–M records for drug overdose deaths were linked with literal text from death certificates. Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl were identified using a methodology established collaboratively by the National Center for Health Statistics and U.S. Food and Drug Administration—referred to as the Drugs Mentioned with Involvement (DMI) methodology—supplemented with search terms identified using text analytics software. Fentanyl involvement was determined by the presence of any string term or phrase listing fentanyl, or any fentanyl metabolite, precursor, analog, or misspelling identified in the death certificate literal text fields (i.e., the causes of death from Part I, significant conditions contributing to death from Part II, and a description of how the injury occurred). Trends were evaluated using the National Cancer Institute’s Joinpoint Regression Program.
Results—The number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was stable in 2011 (1,663) and 2012 (1,615), and began to increase in 2013, rising to 18,335 deaths in 2016. The ageadjusted rate increased from 0.5 per 100,000 standard population in 2011 to 5.9 per 100,000 in 2016, with the increase starting in 2013 (0.6 in 2013 to 1.3 in 2014 and 2.6 in 2015). Numbers and rates increased for all sex, age, and racial and ethnic subgroups, and most public health regions. Adjustment for improved drug reporting over the study period did not change the trend patterns observed. Conclusions—This report illustrates the rise in drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl from 2011 through 2016 nationally, and by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and public health region. Understanding national trends and patterns for drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl may inform public health policies and practices. Keywords: National Vital Statistics System • national trends • mortality • death certificate literal text
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that has been involved increasingly in drug overdose deaths (1–11). In 2011 and 2012, fentanyl was involved in roughly 1,600 drug overdose deaths each year, but from 2012 through 2014, the number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than doubled each year (1). State-based analyses suggest that the recent increase in overdose deaths involving fentanyl may be related to increased availability of illicitly manufactured fentanyl (3,4,9–11). Illicitly manufactured fentanyl includes various analogs (e.g., acetylfentanyl, carfentanil, furanyl fentanyl) that vary in potency and can be lethal in very low concentrations (3). National mortality statistics on drug overdose deaths have traditionally used the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD–10) to classify and monitor drugs involved in deaths (12). However, ICD–10 is limited to broader categories (e.g., synthetic opioids other than methadone) that make it difficult to identify deaths involving specific drugs of interest (e.g., fentanyl or illicitly manufactured fentanyl analogs). The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaboratively developed methods, referred to as the Drugs Mentioned with Involvement (DMI) methodology, to analyze literal text data from death certificates to identify specific drugs involved in deaths (13). A recent study using the DMI methodology found that fentanyl was the ninth most frequently mentioned drug involved in overdose deaths in 2013 and the most frequently mentioned drug in 2016 (2). It also showed that deaths involving fentanyl often involved other drugs. For example, in 2016, nearly 70% of deaths involving fentanyl also involved one or more other drugs, such as heroin or cocaine (2).
This report describes the trends in drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl from 2011 through 2016, using mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System linked to literal text information from death certificates. Temporal trends, geographic patterns, and differences among demographic groups are presented.
This descriptive study analyzed National Vital Statistics System mortality (NVSS–M) multiple cause-of-death data from 2011 through 2016. NVSS–M contains information extracted from death certificates on cause of death and demographic and geographic factors (14). The study population was limited to U.S. residents. Drug overdose deaths were identified using ICD–10 underlying cause-of-death codes X40–X44, X60–X64, X85, and Y10–Y14. These underlying-cause codes identify the deaths due to acute toxicity from drugs (i.e., drug overdose) rather than to chronic exposure leading to death (e.g., liver toxicity) or adverse effects from therapeutic or prophylactic dosages of drugs. Drug overdose deaths include all intents (i.e., unintentional, suicide, homicide, and undetermined intent). Use of these underlying cause-of-death codes is consistent with other NCHS publications on drug overdose deaths and facilitates comparisons with other analyses using ICD–10-coded data (1,2,15).
NVSS–M records for drug overdose deaths were linked to literal text data from death certificates. The literal text is the written information provided by the medical certifier, usually a medical examiner or coroner in the case of drug overdose deaths, that describes the cause of death as well as other factors or circumstances that contributed to the death (16,17). Literal text from three fields of the death certificate—the causes of death from Part I, the other significant conditions contributing to death from Part II, and the description of how the injury occurred—was analyzed to identify the specific drugs involved in the overdose death.
Identifying drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl
results from an exploratory analysis of the literal text using SAS Contextual Analysis software (18). The DMI methodology (13) searches the literal text fields of NVSS–M data for mentions of drugs and for terms that provide context about involvement of the drug in the death (i.e., whether the drug contributed to the death). Drugs mentioned in the death certificate literal text are assumed to be involved in the death unless contextual information suggests otherwise (13). For example, “METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION” does not suggest drug involvement in mortality, but rather a type of bacterial infection. Similarly, the phrase “NOT DRUG RELATED” clearly indicates that drugs were not involved in the death even though “DRUG” is included in the phrase.
To supplement the DMI methodology, SAS Contextual Analysis software (18) was used to identify additional search terms. Linguistic rules were defined to search for new drug misspellings; precursors; metabolites; analogs of fentanyl, including those containing special characters, numbers, and dashes; and to identify forms that may be illicit (e.g., acetylfentanyl, carfentanil) or are brand or prescription forms of fentanyl (e.g., duragesic, sufentanil, remifentanil). The additional search terms identified using the contextual software were incorporated into the DMI methodology and are described in the Technical Notes. With the expanded list of search terms, the total number of drug overdose deaths identified as involving fentanyl was slightly higher than previously reported (7 deaths in 2011, 10 deaths in 2012, 14 deaths in 2013, and 23 deaths in 2014) (1).
Analysis For this report, the label “drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl” includes drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, whether prescription or illicitly manufactured, as well as deaths involving any fentanyl metabolites, precursors, or analogs as identified in the death certificate literal text (see Technical Notes). The numbers and rates for drug overdoses involving fentanyl were calculated and compared by demographic and geographic region. Bridged-race vintage postcensal resident population estimates were used to calculate death rates (14). Age-adjusted death rates were calculated using the direct method and the 2000 standard U.S. population (14). Unless otherwise noted, rates in the text refer to age-adjusted rates.
Geographic patterns in overdose deaths involving fentanyl are presented by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 10 public health regions. These regions are used for public health prevention, preparedness, and agency-wide coordination of HHS programs and policies (19). These regions, excluding U.S. territories, are:
• Region 1—Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
• Region 2—New Jersey, New York, New York City
• Region 3—Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
• Region 4—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee
• Region 5—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin
• Region 6—Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
• Region 7—Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
• Region 8—Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming
• Region 9—Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada
• Region 10—Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
Trends in rates for drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl were evaluated using the National Cancer Institute’s Joinpoint Regression Program Version 4.6.0.0 (20). Joinpoint software fitted weighted least-squares regression models to the rates on the log transform scale. Allowing one observed time point at each end and two for the middle line segments, the Grid Search Algorithm searched for a maximum of two joinpoints at an overall alpha level of p < 0.05 (21). Pairwise comparisons of trend segments among subgroups were also analyzed, with Bonferonni adjustment (20). Rates between subgroups were compared using a z test at the 0.05 level of significance (14). Unless otherwise stated, any mention of an increase in rates indicates a statistically significant change.
Assessment for improved reporting on death certificates
The ICD–10 multiple-cause codes T36–T50.8 provide information on the types of drugs or drug classes involved in the death. The ICD–10 multiple-cause code T50.9 indicates a nonspecific reference to a drug (e.g., “multidrug,” “polypharmacy,” “drug”). The percentage of deaths with an underlying cause of X40–X44, X60–X64, X85, or Y10–Y14 that had a multiple-cause code of T36–T50.8 is a measure of the specificity of reporting drugs or drug classes in drug overdose deaths. This measure was used to assess possible changes in reporting of specific drugs and drug classes through the years of the study. The percentage of drug overdose deaths coded with T36–T50.8 increased each year (75.0% in 2011, 76.0% in 2012, 77.9% in 2013, 80.7% in 2014, 83.1% in 2015, and 85.4% in 2016) (21,22).
To assess the possible impact of lower reporting of specific drugs in the years prior to 2016, an adjustment factor accounting for improved reporting of specific drugs over the time period was applied to each age-adjusted rate for drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl (i.e., by year, sex, age, race and ethnicity, and public health region). The adjustment factor assumed that the specificity of drug reporting had remained constant from 2011 through 2016 at the 2016 drug specificity rate; the adjustment factor was recalculated and applied to each age-adjusted rate for the stratified analyses (i.e., demographic and geographic groups). Results from this analysis show similar trends for both the observed and adjusted values (see Technical Notes). The following results reflect the numbers and rates based on observed values. The number of drug overdose deaths involving any particular drug in any particular year should be considered the minimum number, as there may be additional deaths in which the drug was involved but not specified on the death certificate literal text. All results should be interpreted in light of the improved reporting of specific drugs in the literal text over time.
Number and percentage of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl
Annually, the number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was stable in 2011 (1,663) and 2012 (1,615), and began to increase in 2013 (1,919), rising to 18,335 deaths in 2016 (Table 1). From 2013 through 2016, the number of deaths approximately doubled each year. From 2011 through the third quarter of 2013, there were fewer than 500 fentanyl-involved deaths per quarter (Figure 1, Table 1). Beginning in the last quarter of 2013 through 2016, the number of deaths involving fentanyl increased nearly every quarter to more than 5,800 deaths.
Crude and age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl
The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was 0.5 per 100,000 in 2011 and 2012, and approximately doubled each year from 0.6 (2013) to 1.3 (2014) to 2.6 (2015) to 5.9 (2016) (Figure 2, Table 2). From 2011 through 2013, there was no statistical change in the age-adjusted rates, but from 2013 through 2016, the rates increased on average by about 113% per year. The crude rates were similar to the age-adjusted rates for the study period.
Rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl by sex of decedent
For males, age-adjusted rates for drug overdose deaths were stable from 2011 through 2013, and then increased by 125.6% per year from 2013 through 2016 (Figure 3, Tables 2 and 3). For females, the age-adjusted rates increased exponentially from 2011 through 2016. In 2011, 2012, and 2013, the rates for males and females were similar at 0.6 to 0.7 per 100,000 for males, and 0.4 to 0.5 for females. Starting in 2013, the rates diverged, with the rate for males increasing more rapidly than the rate for females. By 2016, the rate for males (8.6) was 2.8 times the rate for females (3.1).
Rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl by age group
Exponential increases in rates from 2011 through 2016 were observed among all age groups (Figure 4, Tables 2 and 3). The largest average annual percent change from 2011 through 2016 occurred among young adults aged 25–34 (100.0% per year) and 15–24 (93.9% per year). The smallest average annual percent change occurred among adults aged 65 and over (41.6% per year). The rate for adults aged 35–44 was stable from 2011 through 2013, then increased by 123.7% per year from 2013 through 2016. In 2016, the rates were highest among adults aged 25–34 and 35–44 at 13.4 and 11.4 per 100,000, respectively.
Rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl by race and ethnicity
The age-adjusted rates for drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl increased exponentially among all the racial and ethnic subgroups examined (Figure 5, Tables 2 and 3). Rates for non-Hispanic white persons ranged from 0.7 to 0.8 per 100,000 from 2011 through 2013, then increased by 108.8% from 2013 through 2016. Non-Hispanic black persons had the largest annual percentage increase in rates from 2011 through 2016 (140.6% per year), followed by Hispanic persons (118.3% per year). Rates for non-Hispanic white persons were greater than other subgroups throughout the study period. The rates for non-Hispanic black and Hispanic persons were similar from 2011 through 2013, then diverged from 2014 through 2016. In 2016, the rates were highest among non-Hispanic white persons (7.7), followed by non-Hispanic black (5.6) and Hispanic (2.5) persons.
Rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl by public health region
Rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl increased exponentially from 2011 through 2016 for most public health regions (Figure 6, Tables 2 and 3). The greatest rate increases were in Region 1 (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, and VT), Region 2 (NJ, NY, and NYC), Region 3 (DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, and WV), and Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI), which increased 113.9%, 110.9%, 103.6%, and 102.2% per year, respectively. Rates were similar across all public health regions in 2011. In 2016, the rates for Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 were higher than for Regions 6, 8, 9, and 10. In 2016, rates ranged from 0.8 per 100,000 (Region 9) to 19.8 (Region 1).
This report illustrates the rise in drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl in the United States from 2011 through 2016. The number of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl increased from 1,663 in 2011 to 18,335 in 2016. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2013, the number of deaths increased every quarter. From 2013 through 2014, the death rate more than doubled.
The absence of drug-specific information on the death certificate does not mean that fentanyl was not present; rather, it may suggest that toxicology tests were not performed or were inadequate to detect the drug. Also, new fentanyl analogs are being identified with increasing frequency and are often lethal in very low concentrations. Detection of these substances requires new testing materials and continuous recalibration of toxicology laboratory equipment (16), both of which can be complicated and expensive, thus further contributing to variation in death reporting across the country.
The need to understand the factors influencing overdoses and deaths involving fentanyl has resulted in collaboration among public health agencies, medical examiners and coroners, and public safety agencies. These collaborations will contribute to better detection and reporting on death certificates, which in turn, will help improve quality of local, state, and national vital statistics data.
Fentanyl is increasingly involved in drug overdose deaths nationally. This report uses NVSS–M data, enhanced with literal text from death certificates, to provide a picture of temporal trends, demographic characteristics, and geographic patterns of fentanyl-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States from 2011 through 2016.
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More Information on Periodontal Disease and the Potential Increased Risk for Dementia
In case you haven’t noticed (and I’ll bet that you have) the mouth is connected to the rest of the body. Following that thought to its logical conclusion, therefore diseases of the mouth can also cause diseases of the body. For years now we’ve been seeing more and more data showing bacteria from the mouth showing up in infections and lesions throughout the body. The latest investigations have been seeing links between periodontal disease and dementia, up to and including Alzheimer’s disease.
While those of us in the trenches of clinical dentistry have been aware of these links for some time now, this type of information is not always something that makes its way into the general news cycle so often times the public isn’t aware of important information like this. However, recently a study that appeared in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society was discussed in an article in Forbes. When information gets into a publication like Forbes, I’m optimistic that the general public will soon be aware.
The study titled Association of Chronic Periodontitis on Alzheimer's Disease or Vascular Dementia included 262,349 patients and they were followed over 10 years (from 2005-2015). The study appears to be well done and solidly performed. It can be read in its entirety at the Wiley Online Library. Which also includes graphs and tables. A portion of the study is included below:
Dementia is considered one of the leading causes for increased disability‐adjusted life years among older adults.1 It was estimated that approximately 36 million people had dementia in 2010.2 Furthermore, the prevalence of dementia is expected to increase globally due to the rising life expectancy worldwide. According to one report using the United Nations worldwide population forecasts, it was estimated that 1 in 85 individuals will be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 2050.3 Interestingly, a 2014 study suggested that a 20% reduction of key exposures could lead to a 15.3% decrease in dementia prevalence by 2050, highlighting the importance of determining risk factors that could lead to dementia.4Therefore, the need is increasing to identify and manage risk factors associated with dementia. One such risk factor is chronic periodontitis (CP).
Multiple animal5 and human6-9 studies previously showed an association between CP and dementia. Most recently, a retrospective cohort study demonstrated that CP patients had a significantly higher risk of AD compared with those without CP.10 However, previous studies had limitations in the relatively small sample size, no consideration of dementia outside of AD, and by the lack of consideration of important confounders such as lifestyle behaviors. Because one of the suggested mechanisms of the risk‐increasing effect of CP on dementia is by inducing vascular damage,11, 12 other types of dementia such as vascular dementia (VD) may be at elevated risk among CP patients. Furthermore, lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity are all considered risk factors for both CP and dementia, and they are thus potentially important confounders that must be considered.
Therefore, further studies on the association between CP and dementia are needed using a large study population, with consideration of an extensive number of covariates, and determining the risk of other types of dementia such as VD. In this longitudinal population‐based study, we determined the association of CP on AD and VD using the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database using a wide range of covariates including smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity.
The study population was derived from the National Health Insurance Service‐Health Screening Cohort (NHIS‐HEALS). In South Korea, the NHIS provides mandatory health insurance covering nearly all forms of healthcare for all Korean citizens.13 Records from inpatient and outpatient department visits including diagnosis, drug prescriptions, treatment, and surgical procedures are collected. Furthermore, the NHIS provides biannual mandatory health screening examinations for all enrollees 40 years or older.14 The health screening examination consists of a self‐reported questionnaire on health behavior, body measurements including height, weight, and blood pressure, and blood and urine tests. From this claims database, the NHIS provides a part of its data for research purposes that include information on inpatient and outpatient hospital use, drug prescriptions, death dates, and results from health screening examinations. The NHIS database was previously used for multiple epidemiological studies, and its validity is described in detail elsewhere.14, 15
Among 313 537 participants aged 50 or older, we excluded 31 293 participants who were diagnosed with CP during 2002. Furthermore, we excluded 16 173 participants with missing values on covariates. Finally, 1942 and 1780 participants who were diagnosed with dementia or died before the index date were excluded, respectively. The final study population consisted of 262 349 participants. All participants were grouped as healthy (no CP) or diagnosed with CP during 2003‐2004. Starting from January 1, 2005, the participants were followed up until date of dementia diagnosis, date of death, or December 31, 2015, whichever came first.
This study was approved by the institutional review board of Seoul National University Hospital (IRB number E‐1801‐019‐912). The requirement for informed consent was waived because the NHIS‐HEALS database is anonymized with strict confidentiality guidelines.
Key Variables
CP was defined as being diagnosed with CP according to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD‐10 code K05.3), and having undergone at least one of the CP‐related treatments.16 The considered CP‐related treatments were subgingival curettage, periodontal flap operation, gingivectomy, and odontectomy.16 Participants who were not diagnosed with CP and did not undergo CP‐related treatment were considered healthy. Dementia was defined as being prescribed with dementia‐related drugs under a diagnosis for AD (ICD‐10 codes F00, G30) or VD (ICD‐10 code F01).17 The considered dementia‐related drugs were donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine.17
The considered covariates included age (years, continuous), sex (categorical, men and women), household income (categorical, first, second, third, and fourth quartiles), smoking status (categorical, never, past, and current smoker), alcohol consumption (categorical, none, 0‐1, 1‐2, 3‐4, and ≥5 times per week), physical activity (categorical, none, 1‐2, 3‐4, 5‐6, and 7 times per week), body mass index (continuous, kg/m2), systolic blood pressure (continuous, mm Hg), fasting serum glucose (continuous, mg/dL), total cholesterol (continuous, mg/dL), and Charlson Comorbidity Index (categorical, 0, 1, 2, ≥3). Household income was derived from the insurance premium, and body mass index was calculated by dividing height in meters by weight in kilograms squared.
Cox proportional hazard regression was used to determine the adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of overall dementia, AD, and VD according to CP. Furthermore, we conducted a stratified analysis for the association of CP on dementia according to subgroups of smoking, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. Finally, a sensitivity analysis on the effect of CP on dementia after excluding participants diagnosed with dementia up to 5 years after the index date was conducted.
Statistical significance was considered at P < .05 in a two‐sided manner. All data analyses were conducted using SAS software v.9.4 (SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC).
Table 1 shows the descriptive characteristics of the study population. Among 262 349 participants, 216 005 did not have CP and 46 344 were diagnosed with CP. The mean age for healthy and CP patients were 60.4 years (standard deviation [SD] = 7.7) and 60.2 years (SD = 7.3), respectively. The percentages of male healthy and CP patients were 49.4% and 56.8%, respectively. Compared with healthy participants, CP patients tended to have higher proportions of men, have higher household income, smoke, consume more alcohol, and exercise more.
Labels: Alzheimer's, Dementia, Periodontal Disease, Research
DMG Offers Two New CE Opportunities for Provisional Restorations
Live webinar and recorded podcast help clinicians enhance outcomes and efficiency
Those of you who are interested in great learning experiences are in for a treat. Two incredibly knowledgeable and entertaining speakers are going to be providing some great information courtesy of DMG. Dr. David Little and Dr. Gary Radz will both be bringing their clinical experiences, tips, and tricks to 2 different programs. I’ve known both of these gentlemen for well over ten years and I can tell you first hand that these guys are the real deal. After these programs you will have good info that you can immediately put to place in your practice the very next day. Quite honestly, I cannot say enough good things about these 2 individuals. They are not only tremendous teachers, they are tremendous human beings as well.
Make sure that you set time aside to get these 2 programs into your schedule. Oh, and be sure to patronize DMG for being gracious and smart enough to provide these programs.
Here is all the info:
DMG, a leading manufacturer of dental restorative materials and preventive products, announced a new webinar and a new podcast that offer continuing education on the
topic of provisional restorations.
At 7:00 pm ET on Thursday, March 28, 2019, David Little, DDS will conduct a live webinar titled “Solutions for Implant Supported Provisional Restorations.” The webinar will focus on a discussion of materials and techniques for direct implant provisionals as well as indirect techniques, including digital technology. The topic will be of great interest to any clinician who places implants, as provisional restorations play a vital role in achieving predictable and successful outcomes in implant dentistry.
Interested clinicians can register for the webinar at http://dmglearning.com/upcoming.asp. For those who cannot view the live webinar, it will be available on an on-demand basis beginning in early April at
http://dmglearning.com/training.asp. Both live and on-demand viewers will receive 1.0 CEU.
In addition, DMG has released a new podcast, “Efficiencies in Fabrication of a Long Term Provisional Crown.” Featuring an interview with Gary Radz, DDS, the episode discusses how efficiency can be enhanced in the fabrication of long term provisional crowns as well as in clinical applications and techniques while delivering excellent outcomes. The 15-minute episode, for which listeners will receive 0.25 CEU, can be accessed at https://vivalearning.com/member/podcast.asp?x_podcastId=115.
For information about DMG and its category-defining products, please visit https://www.dmg-america.com/.
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Off to the Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting
I’m off to Atlanta to lecture for the Thomas P. Hinman dental society and their superb Hinman Dental Meeting.
Over the years, I’ve been incredibly blessed to be given the opportunity to lecture at a lot of meetings, and the Hinman meeting ranks up there as one the most amazing experiences. It delivers top-notch education in a tremendous environment and is topped off by tremendous Southern Hospitality. The good folks at the Hinman Dental Society do a lot of wonderful things for the profession and the Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting is just one of them. I always have a great time when I’m there and I am truly honored to help carry on the tradition started by Dr. Hinman back in the late 1800’s. Dr. Hinman had a strong belief and focus on education and that has continued at the meeting to this day.
While I’m there, I’ll be teaching a hands-on course on Endodontics for the General Practitioner, a course on the benefits and science of clinical lasers, and one of my favorite lectures to present “Day to Day Technology” that is a chance for me to share about many of the tech tools that I use on a daily basis.
If you’re at the meeting, please be sure to look me up and say hi. If you haven’t decided on all of your courses yet, I’d be honored to have you participate in one of mine.
Here is the history of the meeting. After reading this, I’m confident that you will understand why I am so honored to be asked to be a part of it...
The History of Hinman
The Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting is sponsored by the Hinman Dental Society, a non-profit organization. The first meeting was held in 1912 by Dr. Thomas P. Hinman and was considered to be the first clinic strictly for serious-minded educational purposes. The meeting developed a reputation for devotion to detail and hospitality that continued to grow through the years with every meeting. These qualities are represented in the motto: Devotion to detail is the secret of success.
Born in 1870, Thomas Hinman graduated from Southern Dental College in Atlanta with his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1891. The following year, he joined the faculty of his alma mater and became Professor of Oral Surgery. Dr. Hinman held high offices in many professional organizations including the appointment by President Woodrow Wilson as the U.S. Delegate and Honorary Chairman of the Section VIII of the Fourth International Congress of Dentists in London. This nomination was considered one of the highest tributes in the dental world.
The first classes for the Atlanta Midwinter Clinic, later renamed the Hinman Dental Meeting, were initially limited to 40 dentists with strict focus on education. The attendee was honor bound to return to his state dental society and present what he had learned in a formal program.
By the late ‘20's, the clinic was attracting national attention. Year after year, featured clinicians and attendees spread the word about the informative programs offered and the extraordinary hospitality extended to them. As the meeting grew, the location changed. The first meetings were held in the Piedmont Hotel, the Ansley Hotel, and, later, the Biltmore Hotel.
Exhibits were introduced in 1942 with 14 booths appearing in the Ballroom at the Biltmore Hotel. The meeting then moved to the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium at Courtland and Gilmer Streets in 1944 followed by the move to the new Atlanta Marriott Motor Hotel in 1966. In 1977, the meeting expanded to the Atlanta Hilton and Towers, and in 1986, it shared space between the Hilton and the new Atlanta Marriott Marquis. With the continued growth of meetings and exhibits, the Society voted to move the meeting to the Atlanta Market Center, using exhibit and meeting space in INFORUM, the Apparel Mart and the Merchandise Mart. In 1998, the meeting moved to the Georgia World Congress Center.
In 2018, nearly 20,000 dental professionals participated in the 106th annual Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center and Omni Hotel at CNN Center. The exhibits program included representatives from nearly 400 companies occupying more than 800 booths. Attendees were housed in 23 hotels in downtown, midtown, and Buckhead. They traveled from all 50 states and as far away as Japan and New Zealand.
Today, the focus is still on providing the best possible continuing dental education, not just for the dentists but also, the whole dental team. The program addresses the needs of the general dentists, specialists, hygienists, assistants, front office staff, laboratory technicians and students.
The Hinman Dental Society today is comprised of 800+ dentist members, primarily located in metropolitan Atlanta. The membership responsibilities include service during the meeting each year. This service enhances the reputation for unparalleled hospitality to continue. The combination of outstanding education and hospitality ensures the position of the Hinman Dental Meeting as one of the top dental programs in the country.
The excess revenue of the Meeting is invested and then gifted in the form of scholarships to individuals and institutions that foster dental education whether at the undergraduate or post-graduate level. The society has provided nearly $8,600,000 in total giving.
Wolverine Solutions Group Notifies 600,000 Patients of Data Breach
The breaches just keep on occurring and I keep reporting them in an attempt to help you readers understand how important data security is and how vigilant we all need to be. If the professionals in this space are getting hacked, it’s that much easier for the bad guys when they turn their attention on us.
This latest event comes from the state of Michigan where a company named Wolverine Solutions Group has announced a breach that affected over 600,000 patients. The company "performs services for health-related business clients”. Among those clients is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Helath Alliance Plan, Three Rivers Health, North Ottawa Community Health System, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Covenant Hospital, Sparrow Hospital, and McLaren Health Care.
In September, WSG was hit by a Ransomware attack which caused hard drives containing patient data to become encrypted and therefore inaccessible. The company began to decrypt the files beginning on October 3rd and managed to get all files restored by October 25th.
The company began notifying patients and updated their announcement on February 27th, 2019.
Wolverine Services Group (“WSG”) performs services for health-related business clients, including various health plans and hospital systems (“Healthcare Clients”). We are posting this statement on our website as a precautionary measure and as part of our commitment to patient privacy. WSG takes patients’ privacy seriously, and it is important to us that you and the community that we serve are made fully aware of a recent security incident at WSG, which potentially involves personal information of health plan members and hospital patients.
On approximately September 25, 2018, WSG discovered that an unauthorized party gained access to its computer system and infected the system with malware. The malware encrypted many of WSG’s records, which made them inaccessible, in an effort to extort money from us. This is commonly referred to as “ransomware.”
Shortly after WSG learned of the incident, we began an internal investigation and hired outside forensic security experts to help us. A team of forensic experts arrived on October 3, 2018 to begin the decryption and restoration process. All impacted files needed to be carefully “cleaned” of any virus remnants prior to their review by forensic investigators. Most critical programs requiring decryption were restored by October 25, 2018, and WSG’s critical operations were running by November 5, 2018. However, the forensic team continued its decryption efforts on the impacted files to determine the type of information that was affected, the identities of our Healthcare Clients, and the specific individuals involved. Beginning in November and continuing in December, January, and early February, WSG discovered and was able to identify those Healthcare Clients whose information was impacted by the incident. The timing of our notices to impacted individuals has been based on these “rolling” discovery dates. The first notices were mailed on December 28, 2018. Additional notices have been mailed in February and further notices will be mailed in March.
As a result of our investigation, WSG believes that the records were simply encrypted. There is currently no indication that the information itself was extracted from WSG’s servers. Nevertheless, given the nature of the affected files, some of which contained individual patient information (names, addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, insurance contract information and numbers, phone numbers, and medical information, including some highly sensitive medical information), out of an abundance of caution, we mailed letters to all impacted individuals recommending that they take immediate steps to protect themselves from any potential misuse of their information.
WSG is taking steps to guard against identity theft or fraud. We arranged for affected individuals to have AllClear ID protect their identity. The following identity protection services start on the date of the individual receiving a notice letter and can be used at any time during the next 12 months.
AllClear Identity Repair: This service is automatically available to you with no enrollment required. If a problem arises, simply call 855-861-4034and a dedicated investigator will help recover financial losses and restore your credit.
AllClear Fraud Alerts with Credit Monitoring: This service offers the ability to set, renew, and remove 90-day fraud alerts on your credit file to help protect you from credit fraud. In addition, it provides credit monitoring services, a once annual credit score and credit report, and a $1 million identity theft insurance policy. To enroll in this service, you will need to provide your personal information to AllClear ID. You may sign up online at enroll.allclearid.com or by phone by calling 855-861-4034. You will need to contact AllClear to obtain a Redemption Code to enroll in this services.
We also want to note that following your enrollment, additional steps are required by you in order to activate your AllClear phone alerts and fraud alerts, and to pull your credit score and credit file. Additional steps may also be required in order to activate your monitoring options.
We recommend you remain vigilant and consider taking one or more of the following steps to protect your protected health information or personal information:
Contact the nationwide credit-reporting agencies as soon as possible to add a fraud alert statement to your credit file at all three national credit-reporting agencies;
Remove your name from mailing lists of pre-approved offers of credit for approximately six months;
Receive a free copy of your credit report by going to www.annualcreditreport.com;
Pay close attention to all bills and credit-card charges you receive for items you did not contract for or purchase;
Review all of your bank account statements frequently for checks, purchases, or deductions not made by you;
If you suspect or know that you are the victim of identity theft, you should contact local police and you also can report this to the Fraud Department of the FTC.
We also recommend that you regularly review statements from your accounts (i.e., account statements and Explanations of Benefits (“EOB”)) and periodically obtain your credit report from one or more of the national credit reporting companies. You may obtain a free copy of your credit report online at www.annualcreditreport.com, by calling toll-free 1-877-322-8228, or by mailing an Annual Credit Report Request Form (available at www.annualcreditreport.com) to: Annual Credit Report Request Service, P.O. Box 105281, Atlanta, GA, 30348-5281. You may also purchase additional copies of your credit report by contacting one or more of the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies listed below.
Equifax: P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, Georgia 30374-0241, 1-800-685-1111, www.equifax.com
Experian: P.O. Box 9532, Allen, TX 75013, 1-888-397-3742, www.experian.com
TransUnion: P.O. Box 1000, Chester, PA 19022, 1-800-888-4213 www.transunion.com
When you receive your credit reports, account statements and EOBs, review them carefully. Look for accounts or creditor inquiries, transactions or services that you did not initiate or do not recognize. Look for information, such as home address and Social Security Number, which is not accurate. If you see anything you do not understand, call the consumer reporting agency at the telephone number on the report, the company issuing the account statement, your provider rendering services or the insurance company issuing your EOB. Additional information regarding Identity Theft Protection is available here. We have also posted a list of Frequently Asked Questions, which is available here.
We take the protection of your personal information seriously and took steps to prevent a similar occurrence. We migrated to a different computer system that has added protections and trained our workforce in safeguards.
If you have further questions about identify protection services, please contact enroll.allclearid.com or by phone by calling 855-861-4034. We sincerely apologize to you and all our Healthcare clients for concern caused by this incident.
Wolverine Solutions Group
Labels: Hacking, HIPAA, Security
Even the Watchers are Vulnerable to Security Problems
In this world where data security is of the upmost importance for both confidentiality AND to avoid costly fines, even those who are in charge of enforcing the regulations must be constantly vigilant of their own data security.
The OIG (Office of Inspector General) or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has released a report detailing its penetration testing of several different HHS networks. Pen testing as it’s known stands for “penetration testing” and is basically utilizing any and all methods to get past security. This includes both hardware & software hacking over the Internet as well as “Social Engineering” which is convincing someone to give you information that they shouldn’t via some method of manipulation.
No matter who you are, everyone needs to be aware of the ways data can be compromised, and in actuality, it’s more common for social engineering to at least start the process than just straight out hacking. So even though HHS is in charge of enforcing the laws regarding patient data security, they also are subject to attacks and need to be prepared and informed.
To that end, the OIG ran penetration testing on 8 HHS Operating Division Networks and here is what they found:
We conducted a series of audits at eight HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) using network and web application penetration testing to determine how well HHS systems were protected when subject to cyberattacks.
Our objectives were to determine whether security controls were effective in preventing certain cyberattacks, the likely level of sophistication an attacker needs to compromise systems or data, and HHS OPDIVs' ability to detect attacks and respond appropriately.
During fiscal years 2016 and 2017, we conducted tests at eight HHS OPDIVs. We contracted with Defense Point Security (DPS) to provide knowledgeable subject matter experts to conduct the penetration testing on behalf of OIG. We closely oversaw the work performed by DPS, and testing was performed in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and agreed-upon Rules of Engagement between OIG and the OPDIVs.
On the basis of the systems we tested, we determined that security controls across the eight HHS OPDIVs needed improvement to more effectively detect and prevent certain cyberattacks. During testing, we identified vulnerabilities in configuration management, access control, data input controls, and software patching.
We shared with senior-level HHS information technology management the common root causes for the vulnerabilities we identified, information regarding HHS's cybersecurity posture, and four broad recommendations that HHS should implement across its enterprise to more effectively address these vulnerabilities. We also provided separate reports with detailed results and specific recommendations to each OPDIV after testing was completed. We will be following up with each OPDIV on the progress of implementing our recommendations.
Based on the findings of this audit, we have initiated a new series of audits looking for indicators of compromise on HHS and OPDIV systems to determine whether an active threat exists on HHS networks or whether there has been a past breach by threat actors.
We provided to HHS a restricted roll-up report of the results of our testing at the eight OPDIVs. The report included four broad recommendations that HHS should implement across its enterprise.
In written comments on our draft summary report, HHS management concurred with our recommendations and described actions it has taken or plans to take to ensure they are addressed. HHS also indicated that the OPDIVs have incorporated actions to address their individual vulnerabilities and that HHS will follow up with them to ensure that these have all been addressed.
We would like to thank HHS and its OPDIVs for the cooperation we received throughout the penetration testing.
Labels: Hacking, Security
Last Chance Online Registration for ALD 2019: Dentistry’s Laser Meeting
“The Laser-Systemic Connection: Lighting the Way to a Healthier Mouth and Body” is Taking Place in Dallas on April 4th-6th in Dallas, Texas
The Academy of Laser Dentistry (ALD), the only independent and unbiased non-profit association dedicated to improving patient care with the proper use of laser technology, is announcing that March 29th will be the last day to register online for its upcoming annual conference and exhibition.
We’ll still accommodate on-site registrations during the conference, but lectures are expected to be standing room only and several hands-on workshops are already sold out,” explained ALD executive director Gail Siminovsky, CAE.
Known internationally as “Dentistry’s Laser Meeting”, ALD 2019 is at the Hilton Dallas/Plano/Granite Park from April 4th – 6th. The meeting’s focus is “The Laser-Systemic Connection: Lighting the Way to a Healthier Mouth and Body.”
We’re very excited about the theme of ALD 2019,” said Siminovsky. “For decades, ALD members were the unsung heroes of oral-systemic health. First by applying laser technology to treat periodontal disease and more recently, by applying light therapy to help patients suffering from the oral mucositis side-effects of chemotherapy, TMJ, sleep apnea and other medical conditions.”
The educational tracks and workshops that support the laser-systemic connection theme include the following:
• Innovation, Wellness and Medically Compromised Patients
• Periodontal Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
• Photobiomodulation
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
The ALD 2019 program is rounded out by educational sessions and/or workshops on the following topics:
• Hygiene
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Endodontics
• Implantology
• Oral Surgery
• Laser Safety Training
• Financial Planning/Wealth Management
Kicking off ALD 2019 will be keynote speaker Charles Whitney, MD, the nation’s leading physician advocate for bridging the oral-systemic gap. Dr. Whitney’s specialty of heart attack, stroke and dementia prevention relies heavily on collaborating with dental clinicians to accurately diagnose and effectively treat periodontal disease.
Dr. Whitney’s presentation will help ALD 2019 attendees connect the dots on how to bring the message of oral-systemic connections into their practices, “I love watching the lightbulb go on in the eyes of my audience when they learn how to take the oral-systemic message to the streets,” commented Whitney. “I hope I can help ALD members recognize that on a good day they can save a tooth and on a great day they can save a life! “
What’s more, Dr. Whitney has seen first-hand the beneficial effects of laser dentistry on his own patients. In fact, he recently referred one of his patients to ALD incoming president Dr. Mel Burchman, who successfully treated the patient’s chemo therapy-induced oral mucositis with photobiomodulation therapy.
“Having Dr. Whitney as our opening keynote speaker will certainly set the tone for ALD 2019,” explains Siminovsky. “Our goal for this meeting is to be the world’s go-to event where the entire dental team can learn how to bridge the oral-systemic gap using laser technology.”
Watch the ALD 2019 preview video by clicking http://bit.ly/2TOAlOL. Register online until March 29th by visiting https://ALD2019.com.
About the Academy of Laser Dentistry:
The Academy of Laser Dentistry (ALD) is the only independent and unbiased non-profit association devoted to laser dentistry and includes clinicians, academicians and researchers in all laser wavelengths. The Academy is devoted to clinical education, research, and the development of standards and guidelines for the safe and effective use of dental laser technology. ALD was founded in 1993, with the merging of the International Academy of Laser Dentistry, the North American Academy of Laser Dentistry and the American Academy of Laser Dentistry. For more information, visit www.LaserDentistry.org.
Labels: education, Meetings
Benco and VOCO Announce New Partnership
Benco Dental announces a new partnership with VOCO, an almost 40-year global leader in the manufacturing of dental materials and technologies. This collaboration delivers VOCO’s extensive product line of high- quality direct and indirect materials and digital workflow technologies to Benco customers.
Benco Dental, headquartered in Northeastern Pennsylvania, is the largest family-owned dental distributor in the United States, offering a full array of supplies, equipment and services to dentists across the nation. Within the past 88 years, the company has developed distribution innovations that have become industry standards and in 2018, launched an Innovation Index. This key metric tracks the percentage of products sold that were introduced in the previous three years.
Based out of Cuxhaven, Germany, VOCO performs extensive research and development in the fields of direct and indirect restoratives, oral care and digital dentistry, setting new standards in the creation of innovative dental products and application aids to provide better solutions to dentists throughout the world. VOCO researchers partner and maintain close contact with over 150 universities and research institutes worldwide, and have been leading several research projects co-sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Research. This has enabled VOCO to act as a technological forerunner in several material development areas. As a leader in Nano-technology, VOCO products have received high praise and recognition in the U.S. with top ratings from The Dental Advisor, Reality and other independent institutes.
VOCO exports to over 100 countries on six continents. Benco’s national network includes five distribution centers and three design showrooms and features a highly-skilled team of more than 400 professionally trained sales representatives and over 300 factory-trained service technicians.
For details, visit benco.com or call 1.800.GO.BENCO.
Labels: Manufacturers
NSA to Release Ghidra Reverse Engineering Software Tool for Free Download
Your Tax Dollars at Work!
At a recent security conference, RSA, a new reverse engineering software tool was demonstrated by none other than the National Security Agency. The super secret government organization is the one that provides cyber security as well as cyber tracking. Osama Bin Laden’s courier was tracked to the house in Abbotobad by these folks. The group is so super secret about what it does that, for a while, the government would neither confirm nor deny its existence leading to the joke that NSA stood for “No Such Agency”. This cyber spying agency has been known to break into systems world wide to aid national intelligence.
That’s why this story is such a big deal. NSA’s Senior Advisor Rob Joyce demonstrated the tool which is called “Ghidra”. In addition to providing a demonstration to the conference attendees, Joyce also made the announcement that the NSA would make the program available for download and they’ve also made it open source. That means the program will be free and others can tinker and make improvements in it. Although not yet available, when it is you will be able to download it from this link.
Ghidra is said to be a very powerful SRE (software reverse engineering) tool. It is written in Java which means it is pretty much operating system agnostic. That will allow it to run on Linux, Windows, and Mac easily. Because it is in Java there isn’t even an install routine. Simply download and run.
This should provide some fun for tinkerers and some real help for professionals looking to peer into the inner workings of programs.
Of course it also makes you wonder. If the NSA is giving this away it must be no longer useful to them. What are they using now and how robust is whatever it is? This is one of those great mysteries that truly, for almost all of us, has no answer. Still it’s fun to ponder. These types of security things fascinate me. If you are a diehard gear head, get your hands on this tool and see what it can do.
‘Dozens’ of Northwestern Memorial Hospital Employees Fired for Accessing Jussie Smollett’s Medical Records
Here is an interesting story that I came across and I feel really compelled to share it with you. As regular readers of the blog know, I’ve got a serious interest security and since I’m also in the healthcare area, that translates to also being concerned about patient data security and PHI (Protected Health Information). Usually when I think of a HIPAA violation I think of some type of data breach where an intruder steals patient data. However, this case is completely different and even though it may not apply to very many dental scenarios (as dental offices have exponentially fewer employees) I think it still information that is pertinent to a security discussion.
While most of you in dentistry probably do not have a practice filled with celebrities, there are still some lessons to be learned from this story. The biggest and most important lesson is employees need to know that they can only access PHI if they have a legitimate reason to do so.
The following story is from the HIPAA Journal and details how Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago dealt with employees who choose to access the records of Jussie Smollett without proper authorization or medical reason to do so. It’s an article that provides some good lessons.
A major case of snooping on celebrity medical records has been reported that has resulted in ‘dozens’ of healthcare workers being fired from Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital for accessing the medical records of Jussie Smollett without authorization.
Jussie Smollett attended the hospital’s emergency room for treatment for injuries sustained in an alleged racially motivated attack by two men on January 29, 2019.
Following a police investigation into the alleged attack, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced that the Empire actor had been arrested on February 21 and charged with disorderly conduct and filing a false police report. The police allege that the attack was a hoax and that it had been staged by Smollett as a publicity stunt.
Curiosity got the better of some employees at Northwestern Memorial Hospital who searched for Smollett on the hospital’s system, some of whom accessed his chart and viewed his medical records.
Accessing the medical records of patients without authorization is a violation of Health insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules and can result in disciplinary action and, in certain cases, criminal penalties for the employees concerned.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital reviewed PHI access logs and took decisive action over the privacy violations. Employees found to have snooped on Smollett’s medical records were fired.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital has neither confirmed that Smollett was a patient nor provided information about the number of employees that have been terminated, stating that HIPAA prevents such information from being disclosed.
Some employees that were terminated have spoken to the media about the incident. CBS Chicago claims dozens of hospital employees have been terminated for the HIPAA violations while NBC Chicago has reported there have been at least 50 terminations for snooping.
Labels: HIPAA, Security
Colgate® Announces Recipients of the Colgate Award for Research Excellence (C.A.R.E.)
I’m always grateful for those who do research. Science is a difficult job, but without it advancement in every area of our lives would come to a screeching halt. The health sciences have expanded their knowledge bases exponentially over the last few years and we owe a debt of gratitude to those folks who toil everyday in a lab/research based world for that knowledge. Because of that, it’s always awesome to see companies recognize the scientists who work for all of this knowledge, doing so simply because they love what they do and want to see suffering end.
So I was excited to learn about this research recognition program that is done by Colgate. I want to express my gratitude to Colgate for providing these awards.
Colgate is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Colgate Award for Research Excellence (C.A.R.E.). The C.A.R.E. Program recognizes a new generation of academic researchers by providing up to $30,000 USD (per project) to support oral health research projects across multiple disciplines.
The four junior faculty members chosen to receive this year’s awards are:
• Abdelhabibe Semlali, MS, PhD — Laval University, Faculty of Dentistry, Quebec, Canada.
Research Topic: “Investigation of a Curcumin Analog (PAC) for oral diseases treatment.”
• Annie Shrestha, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCD (C) — University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry, Ontario, Canada.
Research Topic: “Injectable, Thermosensitive Scaffolds Modulate Immune Cells and Regulates Healing.”
• Brian Partido, MSDH, BSDH — The Ohio State University, College of Dentistry, Columbus, Ohio.
Research Topic: “Impact of peri-implant treatment using glycine powder air-abrasive debridement on the oral microbiome.”
• Keith Da Silva, DDS, MSc, FRCD (C) — University of Saskatchewan, College of Dentistry, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Research Topic: “Developing a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach to improve oral health for vulnerable children in Saskatoon.”
Proposals were reviewed by an independent, esteemed group of senior academic dental researchers. Winners were selected based on program criteria, which included innovation, clinical significance, originality, and scientific quality. C.A.R.E. grants are typically offered for periods of 12 months.
“The C.A.R.E. Program fosters the development of junior faculty by providing seed research funding to emerging leaders in academia at a time in their career path when it is most needed,” said Maria Ryan, Vice President and Chief Dental Officer, Global Technology at Colgate. “Every year, we look forward to meeting and supporting talented researchers in the early stages of their careers. We are pleased to fund innovative projects that promise to advance industry knowledge and perhaps even revolutionize the field of dentistry. On behalf of Colgate, sincere congratulations to the winners of this year’s grant awards.”
Established in 2016, the Colgate C.A.R.E. Program is designed to foster and provide financial support to young academic researchers. In order to be eligible for the Colgate C.A.R.E. grant, faculty applicants must be in the first five years of an academic appointment.
For more information about the Colgate C.A.R.E. Program for Young Academic Researchers and application guidelines, visit www.colgateprofessional.com/care-program (USA) or www.colgateprofessional.ca/en-ca/care-program (Canada).
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New Material Under Development May Increase Longevity of Dental Composite Restorations
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have been working on a way to improve dental composite restorations (white fillings). Currently the research team feels they have created a material that might be able to double the life of fillings. Currently the standard placement of composite fillings last somewhere between 5-10 according to the majority of studies done on the subject. OHSU researchers are hoping to double that.
Perhaps one of the best things about this discovery, at least for me, is that one of the researchers and developers is Dr. Jack Ferracane. I’ve known Dr. Ferracane for several years and he is well respected in the industry and a researcher at the top of his game. Many discoveries show incredible promise but fail to deliver. I’m optimistic that, with his involvement, this situation will come to fruition.
The team is using Thiourethane-Modified fillers to increase the strength of the material and this seems to show great promise in the lab and the results are intriguing and promising.
The original report can be found at nature.com if you want to see the tables or download and save it. In case you just want to read it, here it is:
Toughening of Dental Composites with Thiourethane-Modified Filler Interfaces
Ana P. Fugolin,
Daniel Sundfeld,
Jack L. Ferracane &
Carmem S. Pfeifer
Stress of polymerization is one of the most significant drawbacks of dental resin composites, since it is related to poor marginal adaptation, postoperative pain, and secondary caries. Previous studies have shown that thiourethane oligomers incorporated into the organic matrix represents a promising strategy to reduce stress and increase fracture toughness in dental composites. However, this strategy promotes a significant increase of the viscosity system, which may represent a challenge for clinical application. The objective of this study was to functionalize the surface of inorganic filler particles with thiouretanes and evaluate the impact on mechanical properties and kinetics of polymerization. Our results showed that composites filled with thiourethane-silanized inorganic fillers showed up to 35% lower stress while doubling mechanical properties values. This was achieved with no prejudice to the viscosity of the material and following a clinically acceptable photoactivation protocol.
Resin composites are widely used for direct restorative procedures due to their esthetics and generally acceptable mechanical properties. However, composite restorations last an average of only about 10 years1, with failures being more commonly associated with material fracture and secondary decay2. Stress generation has been hypothesized to facilitate bacterial infiltration and biofilm formation at the interface between the tooth and the restoration, and when combined with composite material degradation by hydrolysis and enzymatic attack, may explain the relatively short life-time of composite restorations3. Therefore, research efforts have concentrated on modifying composition to render the composite material less prone to stress generation at the bonded interface4, and more resistant to fracture5.
Recent studies6,7,8,9 have demonstrated the potential of a relatively simple approach to improve conversion and fracture toughness of dental resin-based composites, while at the same time reducing polymerization stress. It has been shown that the addition of relatively small concentrations of thiourethane oligomers to the organic matrix of resin composites and luting cements leads to a 50–60% reduction in stress and a two-fold increase in fracture toughness6. Since the additive is simply incorporated into the traditional composite during formulation, no modification of the normal operatory technique is required, which in turn should facilitate its translation to clinical practice6. These benefits are achieved through the presence of pendant thiol functionalities on the backbone of the thiourethane additive6. As it has been widely demonstrated for thiol-ene10 and thiol methacrylate reactions11, thiols, via chain-transfer reactions, lead to delayed gelation and vitrification in vinyl-based polymer networks. This, in turn, allows for greater conversion to be achieved12, and for modulus development in the material to be delayed to higher conversion values11, ultimately leading to lower contraction stress generation. In addition, thiol-containing networks have been demonstrated to produce materials with narrow tan delta peaks in dynamic mechanical analysis11, characteristic of more homogeneous polymer networks13. This, combined with the flexibility of thio-carbamate bonds, results in increased toughness8 and reduced polymerization stress14.
One potential pitfall of including pre-polymerized additives, however, is the increase of viscosity, which limits the amount that can be incorporated into the monomer matrix. The addition of thiourethanes above 20 wt% in concentration increases the viscosity of the monomer mixture, which prevents the incorporation of adequate amounts of inorganic filler, and also leads to a slight decrease in elastic modulus6.
One possible way to incorporate the thiourethane oligomer in the composite material and overcome the viscosity issue is to attach it directly to the surface of the filler particle via common silanization procedures15. Others have demonstrated the use of polymer brushes to functionalize silicon-containing surfaces16 with reported decrease in polymerization stress, as well as evidence for strengthening mechanisms such as crack deflection17. Considering the average surface coverage with conventional methacrylate silanes (about 5%) for a composite with 70 wt% filler content, it should be possible to incorporate an equivalent amount of thiorethane in the composite. In that case, the oligomer is distributed throughout the material through attachment to the filler particles, with no negative effect on the viscosity of the monomer matrix itself.
The aim of the present study was to examine different properties of resin composites containing inorganic filler particles silanized with a thiourethane oligomer obtained by the combination of tri- and tetra-functional thiols with different isocyanates. The hypotheses of the study were: (1) Filler particles functionalized with thiourethane will be easily distributed into a resin matrix without negatively affecting kinetics of polymerization and depth of cure, and (2) fracture toughness will be improved and stress polymerization reduced in the groups with thiourethane-silanized particles.
Thermogravimetric Analysis
The TGA results showed that the TU fillers had at least 48.5% more organic content than the commercially obtained methacrylate-silanized filler, i.e., particles functionalized with thiourethanes showed more oligomer available on the filler surface than the commercial particles silanized with methacrylate
Fracture toughness, polymerization stress, degree of conversion, and viscosity
Compared to the composite with the unsilanized filler and the control with a methacrylate silanized filler, the KIC was significantly increased by the addition of thiourethane-silanized particles, and polymerization stress was significantly reduced (Table 2). In terms of KIC, the exception was TMP:BDI, which presented values statistically similar to SIL-MA control group. In terms of stress, all thiourethane-modified groups presented lower stress than the control, except for PETMP:BDI and PETMP:DHDI, which had similar values compared to the control. In general, the addition of thiourethane-silanized filler particles increased or did not influence the final DC and the viscosity of the composites. DC values ranged from 42–50% (Table 2). TMP:DHDI presented higher values than the controls (SIL-MA and UNS) and PETMP:BDI, and similar to TMP:BDI, TMP:HDDI, PETMP:HDDI, and PETMP:DHDI. Viscosity results ranged from 15.0–11.5 Pa.s and, in general, thiourethane-silanized filler groups presented similar or lower values than the controls.
Polymerization reaction kinetics
There was statistical difference between the maximum rate of polymerization values (Rp max, Table 3). TMP-DHDI was greater than all groups, except for UNS and PETMP-HDDI. The lowest results were obtained for SIL-MA. Figure 1 shows the kinetic profiles for all tested groups. The degree of conversion at maximum rate of polymerization (DC at Rp max), used to estimate the conversion at the onset of vitrification, ranged from 7–14%, and showed a tendency for higher values with the groups containing BDI as the isocyanate, but which presented values similar to SIL-MA.
Depth of polymerization
The degree of conversion as a function of depth is depicted in the 2-D maps shown in Fig. 2. Similar or higher degree of conversion was observed for TU silanized filler groups in relation to the control groups at all depths. In many cases, the depth of cure is defined as the depth at which degree of conversion (or hardness) falls below 80% of the top or maximum value. In this case, all materials showed a depth of cure of at least 3.5 mm, the full depth of these specimens.
The addition of thiourethane oligomers to methacrylate-based resin materials has been shown to increase the degree of conversion and fracture toughness, while simultaneously reducing polymerization stress6,7,8,9. In those previous studies, the limitation for the incorporation of oligomers (at about 20–30 wt% of the organic matrix mass) was dictated by an increase in viscosity, which in turn precluded the incorporation of inorganic fillers to the level necessary to produce adequate mechanical properties6. One way to possibly overcome this limitation was tested in this present study: to functionalize the thiourethane oligomers with trimethoxy silane functionality, so that the oligomer itself could be later tethered to the surface of the inorganic filler particle via common silanization procedures15. In this way, we aimed to improve the distribution of the oligomer within the composite, and to harness the same benefits obtained with the incorporation of the oligomer directly in the matrix, but without the drawback of significant increase of the viscosity. In fact, our results have shown that even for the fully formulated, highly filled composite, the viscosity average for the TU-silanized materials were similar or lower than the control groups (Table 2).
In the present study, the concentration of thiourethane used in the silanization procedure was kept constant at 2% of the total mass of the silanizing solution. The resulting fillers were characterized with thermogravimetric analysis to determine the extent of final surface coverage on the particles. It is important to note that even the unsilanized particles showed some mass loss after the test, likely due to the presence of organic contamination. The same contamination is unlikely to be present on the surface of the silanized filler particles, given the fact that the silanization process entails exposure to organic solvent in an acidic environment. In addition, the fillers were kept in sealed containers after silanization, so it is reasonable to assume that the mass loss in those cases was due to mainly the silane coating. The percent of surface functionalization based on the mass loss ranged from 5.45–9.21%, with the TU fillers showing at least 50% greater functionalization in comparison to the methacrylate control (Table 1). Since the filler particles in all formulations had the same size distribution, this difference in part likely reflects the higher molecular weight of the thiourethane silane (around 5 kDa6) as compared with the methacrylate silane (around 0.25 kDa), rather than indicating a more extensive surface coverage. Other studies evaluating silicon-containing surfaces functionalized with polymer brushes found similar results and attributed the mass loss to the formation of a coat of brush heap structures at the surface16,18. In the current study, given the loosely crosslinked nature of the oligomer formed, the surface coating is likely less organized than a conventional polymer brush16. In any case, when the percentage of filler surface coverage was calculated based on the mass loss from the TGA experiment, the average thiourethane concentration in the six composites containing the TU filler was found to be 7.2%. This is nearly one third of the amount of TU added to the resin matrix in previous studies to produce the same effects, such as increased fracture toughness and reduced polymerization stress6.
Degree of conversion for the TU filler composites (except for TMP-BDI) was on average 5–7% higher than for the control (SIL-MA). Previous studies have demonstrated the potential of the chain breaking events caused by the presence of thiols to delay gelation and vitrification in radical polymerizations19. In this reaction, the chain-transfer events lead to a delay of the point in conversion at which monomer mobility limitations hamper polymerization and, thus, allow higher final conversion and delayed modulus development, ultimately delaying and reducing stress development20. Based on these mechanisms and our previous results obtained when incorporating the thiourethane oligomers directly into the organic matrix, it was expected that thiourethane-silanized materials would not only show increased degree of conversion, but that they also would be able to reduce the rate of polymerization and delay vitrification7. The delay in vitrification was estimated by the conversion registered at the onset of deceleration (Rpmax). Contrary to what was expected for the reaction rate, all of the groups containing the thiourethane-silanized filler showed equivalent or higher maximum rate of polymerization compared to the methacrylate control. However, all of the composites with TU filler showed equivalent or significantly lower DC at Rpmax. In any case, there was no significant correlation between the measured stress and the Rpmax or measured stress and DC at Rpmax. One possible explanation is that the overall concentration of thiourethane in the present study was lower, and therefore, the effects on network formation were not as marked as had been seen previously. In addition, because the incorporation of the thiourethanes to the filler surface did not affect the material’s viscosity, its effect on early mobility restrictions observed with the thiourethanes added directly into the matrix was not observed here. Even though gelation and vitrification were not directly assessed in this study, the kinetic profiles are strong indicators for those events21, and it can be speculated that these did not play a role in the decreased stress observed, which then must be explained by other factors.
A specifically low irradiance was used for the kinetics test in order to highlight the differences between the tested thiourethanes. However, to better reproduce clinically relevant conditions, selected groups (Sil-MA, PETMP:BDI and PETMP:HDDI) were evaluated for polymerization kinetics under the same conditions described previously but at a much higher irradiance of 650 mW/cm2. The results (Fig. 3) showed that the polymerization was much faster than with the low irradiance, as expected, but also that there was no significant difference between the groups in terms of Rpmax (3.04, 2.97 and 2.88%.s−1, respectively) and DC at Rpmax (11.8, 13.1 and 13.2%, respectively). Further, the TU-silanized groups showed 4–6% higher final DC than the methacrylate-silanized control, which is in agreement with our previous results22. In combination with the depth of cure data, this shows the general ability of the thiourethanes to maintain or increase the degree of conversion and improve homogeneity of the polymer network, likely due to the chain-transfer mechanism leading to the delayed gelation/vitrification, thus maximizing the degree of conversion before the reaction becomes diffusion-controlled11. Among the tested thiourethanes, PETMP–containing materials showed higher conversion than the control at the bottom of the specimen for two out of the three groups, whereas TMP only led to higher conversion at the bottom for the combination with the DHDI isocyanate, as shown in the heat map plots. This is at least in part explained by the fact that PETMP is tetrafunctional and TMP trifunctional, which results in higher concentration of thiol functionalities pendant from the thiourethane backbone6 available on the filler surface to undergo the chain-transfer mechanism. The cyclic isocyanate DHDI led to consistently high and more uniform conversion throughout the specimen, likely because it represented an intermediate between the stiff backbone imparted by the presence of the aromatic BDI and the highly flexible backbone imparted by HDDI. Interestingly, for the more highly crosslinked PETMP-containing TUs, the use of HDDI led to higher initial DC and then essentially equivalent DC as with DHDI throughout the specimen9,23. As the refractive index is expected to increase with the addition of any of the TU silanes, leading to improved light transmission22, the depth of cure was expected to increase for all TU-containing groups. However, as shown on the plot for percent cure in depth in relation to the conversion at the top, two of the three PETMP are actually the lowest depth of cure in percentage, but when PETMP is paired with DHDI the depth of cure is still high. In fact, the DHDI-containing groups present the highest values in terms of cure throughout, and at the greatest depth (though not the highest absolute conversion value at the top). The TMP groups present the best percent depth of cure with DHDI, and then even slightly better than PETMP when paired with BDI and HDDI. It is important to highlight that the degree of conversion is high throughout the specimens, so these differences are likely non-clinically relevant. In summary, this study demonstrates that TU-additives are capable of maintaining the high conversion at the top throughout the specimen much more efficiently than the non-modified control, and highlights the influence of the TU structure on depth of cure.
There was a significant 15–35% reduction in polymerization stress for materials containing thiourethane silanized filler particles. As previously mentioned, this was true in spite of the apparent lack of delayed gelation/vitrification phenomena, at least as inferred from the polymerization kinetics curves. In this case, other factors likely contributed to the reduced stress values observed. The TGA results demonstrate that the filler coverage with the thiourethane silane represents between 5.4 to 9.2% of the mass of the filler, as compared to only 3% for the methacrylate silane controls. Two factors need to be considered: 1. the same amounts by weight of each molecule were used during the silanization, and 2. each methacrylate silane molecule presents only one trimethoxy silane functionality, compared to multiple functionalities for the TU oligomer silane. Therefore, it is possible that the methacrylate silane formed a mono-layer of molecules, and the TU-silane likely formed a much thicker layer on the filler surface. Also, due to the greater complexity of the molecular structure of the TU-silane, even with a greater mass of silane, it is very unlikely that the surface was covered to the same extent as with the methacrylate silane. It follows that the stress reduction mechanism may stem from two factors. The first is the possibility for the surface of the particle to be more exposed (“unsilanized”) for the TU silane than for the methacrylate controls, which would then reduce stress because the filler particle in part actually acts as a void. This type of behavior was shown when non-silanated nanoparticles were used to fill dental composites24. However, this was not observed here, as the non-silane treated filler showed equivalent stress to the methacrylate-silane control. This suggests that the fillers acting as pores is not likely the explanation for this result. The second, and arguably the most relevant factor relates to the flexible and tough nature of the thiourethane networks, as extensively demonstrated in the literature7,9,23,25. It can be speculated that the presence of the TU around the filler particles acted to locally relieve the stress developed during polymerization, which then resulted in overall less stress generation in the composite. In fact, this mechanism has been proposed in other studies evaluating the efficacy of polymer brush functionalization on stress reduction at interfaces with silicon-containing materials17. Polymer brushes or tethered polymers may stretch away from the surface and accommodate for the change in free volume that accompanies polymerization26,27. Another possible explanation is active strand behavior, demonstrated recently for urethane-containing materials28.
It is important to note that the stress reduction (and also the effect on polymerization kinetics) were dependent on the molecular structure of the precursors used to synthesize the thiourethane silanes. Overall, the groups where the tri-functional thiol (TMP) was used as a precursor exhibited lower stress than groups containing the tetra-functional thiol (PETMP), which then correlates with the likely greater degree of crosslinking provided by PETMP. This has been previously shown in studies using dynamic mechanical analysis to evaluate crosslinking (via the rubbery plateau method)29. Therefore, the more crosslinked material likely produced a stiffer network around the filler particle, which was then less able to relieve stress. Interestingly, the use of more rigid isocyanate precursors (BDI, containing aromatic moieties) did not seem to influence stress development more or less than the other TU silanes, suggesting that the structure of the TU oligomer itself, independent of its base monomer structure, had the greatest influence on stress reduction. The loss and storage modulus obtained with dynamic mechanical analysis (data shown in the Supplementary Information) also demonstrate the lack of correlation between the TU structure and property development, corroborating the fact that the thiocarbamate-based structure has a greater influence on stress development and mechanical reinforcement.
The same mechanisms used to explain stress relief and ultimately overall stress reduction can be used to explain the fracture toughness results. Thiourethane silanized particle groups showed a 25–85% increase in fracture toughness compared to the control groups. Fracture toughness may be important to help predict the clinical behavior of the dental composite restoration as it is related to chipping and bulk fracture30,31. When thiourethanes are added into the methacrylate matrix, the improvement of the mechanical properties is attributed to the flexible nature of the covalent bonds formed between the thiol on the thiourethane with the methacrylate via chain-transfer reactions8, leading to a more uniform and tougher network14,32. In the present study, those flexible bonds were formed around the filler particles, a region where stress concentration occurs33. This, in conjunction with the tough nature of the thio-carbamate bonds in the oligomer structure, likely led to some crack deflection or crack shielding mechanism around the particles33,34, as has been suggested by nanomechanical analysis of silicon interfaces treated with polymer brushes. It is also possible that the thiourethane-based silane bonding to the methacrylated matrix was more efficient due to its multiple methoxysilane functionalities, which could have enhanced the filler particle-matrix interaction leading to an increase in mechanical properties. Furthermore, fracture toughness is correlated to tensile stresses build up around the filler particles, and the efficiency of silane treatment plays an important role in gap formation35. Therefore, it can be speculated that the interfacial bonding between the organic matrix and filler particles was strong enough to resist the polymerization shrinkage, creating fewer gaps. PETMP groups showed better performance than TMP (increase between 40–85% for PETMP groups versus 0–40% for TMP groups) which may be due to PETMP being tetrafunctional while TMP is trifunctional. The greater crosslinking improved the mechanical strength of the matrix around the particles, and while that likely resulted in less efficient stress relief, as described earlier, it led to reinforcement of the material overall. The isocyanate structure did not influence the results, though a trend could be observed for increased mechanical properties and decreased polymerization stress, which could be due to the more flexible nature of this material9,23.
In general, the results of this study demonstrate that the incorporation of thiourethane silanized fillers into resin composites led to increased conversion at faster rates than the control, while increasing fracture toughness, and reducing stress of polymerization. Even though the microbiological aspect was not considered on the scope of this investigation, these materials might be able to reduce gap formation, and hamper bacterial colonization at the bonded interface, ultimately helping avoid restoration failures due to secondary decay. Studies are underway utilizing a secondary caries model to test this hypothesis.
The experimental composites were composed of Bis-phenol A diglycidyl dimethacrylate (Bis-GMA), urethane dimethacrylate (UDMA) and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) at a 50:30:20 mass ratio. All monomers were purchased from Esstech (Essington, PA, USA). Photoinitiators were added to the monomers as follows: 0.2 wt.% of dl-camphoroquinone (Polysciences Inc., Warrington, PA, USA), 0.8 wt.% of a tertiary amine (EDMAB – ethyl 4-dimethylaminobenzoate; Avocado, Heysham, England), and 0.2 wt.% inhibitor (BHT – 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol; Sigma–Aldrich, St. Louis, MO, USA).
Six thiourethane oligomers were synthesized in solution in the presence of catalytic amounts of triethylamine. Two multi-functional thiols – pentaerythritol tetra-3-mercaptopropionate (PETMP) or trimethylol-tris-3-mercaptopropionate (TMP) – were combined with three di-functional isocyanates – 1,6-hexanediol-diissocyante (HDDI) or 1,3-bis(1-isocyanato-1-methylethyl) benzene (BDI) (aromatic) or 1-isocyanato-4-[(4-isocyanatocyclohexyl) methyl] cyclohexane (DHDI) in 60 ml of methylene chloride. In addition, 1 mol of 3-(triethoxysilyl)propyl isocyanate was also added to each of the six combinations described above – this is the source of trimethoxy silane to be used for the subsequent silanization step. The reaction was catalyzed by triethylamine. The isocyanate:thiol mol ratio was kept at 1:2.5 (with thiol in excess) to avoid macro-gelation of the oligomer during reaction, according to the Flory–Stockmayer theory21, leaving pendant thiols and trimethoxy silanes. Oligomers were purified by precipitation in hexanes and rotoevaporation, and then characterized by mid-IR and NMR spectroscopy6. The disappearance of the isocyanate mid-IR peak at 2270 cm−1 and the appearance of NMR resonance signals at 3.70 ppm were used as evidence for completion of isocyanate reaction and thiourethane bond formation, respectively36.
For the silanization procedures, thiourethane oligomers were combined with 65 ml of an ethanol: distilled water solution (80:20 vol%), previously acidified by the addition of glacial acetic acid (pH = 4.5). Thiourethane was added at 2 wt%, in relation to the solution mass. Five grams of neat barium silicate glass filler (average size = 1.0 μm; Kavo Kerr Corporation, Orange, CA) was added to the solution, kept under magnetic stirring for 24 hours, filtered, and dried for 4 days in an oven at 37 °C.
The TU fillers were introduced at 50 wt% to the monomer matrix with a centrifugal mixer (DAC 150 Speed Mixer, Flacktek, Landrum, SC, USA) operated for 2 min at 1800 rpm. All procedures were carried out under yellow light.
Control groups were prepared with a commercially available unsilanized (UNS) and methacrylate-silanized (SIL-MA) barium glass filler particles (average size = 1.0 μm; Kerr Corporation, Orange, CA). All photocuring procedures were carried out using a mercury arc lamp (EXFO Acticure 4000 UV Cure; Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) filtered at 320–500 nm (light guide diameter = 5 mm). In order to verify the achieved functionalization and its efficiency, the different filler particles were analyzed by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) over a temperature range of 50 °C to 850 °C at 10 °C/minute.
Fracture Toughness (K IC)
KIC was determined using the single-edge notch beam method. Specimens were fabricated according to ASTM Standard E399–9037 by filling a 5 × 2.5 × 25 mm (n = 6) split steel mold with a razor blade insert providing a 2.5 mm long notch in the middle of the specimen. The resin composites were photoactivated for 2 min on each side at an irradiance of 800 mW/cm2. The light guide was kept 7 cm away from the sample and a radiometer (Power Max 5200 – Laser Power Meter, Molectron, Portland, OR, US) was used to measure the power output from the mercury arc lamp and guarantee that 800 mW/cm2 irradiance reached the top surface of the sample. The bending fracture test was performed using a universal test machine (MTS Criterion, Eden Prairie, MN USA) at a cross-head speed of 0.5 mm min−1 and KIC was calculated according to the following equation (1):
𝐾𝑖𝑐=3𝑃𝐿2𝐵𝑊32{1.93(𝑎𝑊)12−3.07(𝑎𝑊)32+14.53(𝑎𝑊)52−25.11(𝑎𝑊)72+25.8(𝑎𝑊)92}Kic=3PL2BW32{1.93(aW)12−3.07(aW)32+14.53(aW)52−25.11(aW)72+25.8(aW)92}
where P is load at fracture (N), L is the length, W is the width, B is the thickness, and a is the notch length (all in mm).
Polymerization Stress
Polymerization stress in real-time was analyzed using a cantilever beam apparatus (Bioman) previously described38. The surface of the fused silica plate was treated with a thin layer of silane ceramic primer (3 M ESPE, St. Paul, MN, USA) and the surface of the 5 mm diameter steel piston with Z-Prime Plus (Bisco Inc., IL, USA). The composite was then inserted into the 1-mm gap between the upper rod and the lower glass slide and shaped into a cylinder, removing the excess. The samples were light-cured through the glass using the light curing unit for 40 s (n = 5) at 280 mW/cm2. Data were recorded for 10 min on a computer and the final shrinkage-stress calculated.
Kinetics and Degree of Conversion
Three specimens (8 mm in diameter and 0.6 mm in thickness), laminated between two glass slides, were cured and then measured with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy (Nicolet 6700, Thermo Electron Corporation, Waltham, MA, US) to calculate the degree of conversion (DC). The area corresponding to the methacrylate double bond overtone at 6165 cm−1 39 was recorded before and after 300 s of irradiation with the light source located 4 cm from the surface of the glass slide, delivering 20 mW/cm2 directly to the specimen. Real-time monitoring of the polymerization kinetics for 300 s was carried out on specimens of the same size at 2 scans per spectrum with 4 cm−1resolution.
Depth of polymerization – 2D Mapping with IR-Microscopy
Samples (2 × 5 mm cross-section and 5 mm depth) were prepared using silicon molds (n = 3) and photocured through a glass slide for 300 s at 20 mW/cm2. After 7 days dry storage, the samples were embedded in slow curing epoxy resin and then sectioned using a diamond saw (Accutom-50) to obtain two slices of 0.4 mm thickness. The degree of conversion of the vinyl groups with depth was measured in near-IR (6165 cm−1) using an IR microscope attached to a spectrometer bench (Continuum and 6700, Thermo Fisher). 2D surface maps of conversion were set up with 200 µm step sizes.
Viscosity was measured in a cone-plate rheometer (ARES, TA Instruments, New Castle, DE, USA). 1.03 g of each unpolymerized resin was placed between 20-mm diameter plates and tested at 1 Hz with a gap size of 0.3 mm (n = 3).
Data for each property was tested for normality and homocedasticity (Anderson-Darling and Levene tests, respectively), and then analyzed with one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s test for multiple comparisons. The significance level was set at 95%.
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Venezuela Post-Election Watch Live-Blog
5:05 PM EDT: International Representation at Maduro's Inauguration
Nicolás Maduro has just been sworn in as president of Venezuela. Despite the refusal of the United States and Venezuelan opposition leader to accept the legitimacy of the election results, an overwhelming amount of the region's leadership showed up or was represented at Maduro's inauguration today.
Reports say that a total of 61 diplomatic delegations, headed by presidents, prime ministers and vice presidents, among others were present at the ceremony. At least 17 presidents are reported to have attended.
All 12 of the UNASUR nations sent delegations to the inauguration, 8 of them headed by their presidents. All 33 of the CELAC nations (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) were also represented.
Delegations from Iran, including President Ahmadinejad, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East were present.
The following presidents attended:
Dilma Rousseff (Brazil)
Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia)
Raúl Castro (Cuba)
José Mujica (Uruguay)
Cristina Kirchner (Argentina)
Evo Morales (Bolivia)
Ollanta Humala (Peru)
Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
Porfirio Lobo (Honduras)
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves (San Vicente and the Grenadines)
Prime Minister Keith Mitchell (Grenada)
Prime Ministers from Saint Lucia, Antigua, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis also attended.
2:55 PM EDT: William Hague Recognizes New President
This message was issued by the Secretary of State for the United Kingdom:
On the occasion of the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the UK Government looks forward to working with the Government and people of Venezuela to strengthen our relationship and deepen cooperation in areas of mutual interest.
We are concerned by reports of violence following the elections and call on all sides to work together to reduce tensions and to prevent further incidents.
See message here.
The swearing-in ceremony of President Nicolás Maduro has just completed, but uncertainty still surrounds the US position, as that country has still not yet recognized the results of the elections on Sunday.
11:25 AM EDT: Carter Center Statement on Venezuelan Elections Calls for Peace and Dialogue
The Carter Center, an organization that is widely trusted in election observation, released a statement yesterday calling for “Venezuelans to express their differences peacefully” and for a “sustained national dialogue to facilitate democratic coexistence.” Key sections of the statement read as follows:
The premise of this dialogue should be the mutual recognition of the political actors. Without this, the country cannot advance. The dialogue should include discussion about the minimum agreements needed to find solutions to the major challenges Venezuela faces, as well as how to define the rules and institutions that guarantee conditions of fair play during electoral campaigns.
According to the constitution, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has the legal authority to accredit the president-elect based on the election results. At the same time, the losing candidate has the right to submit a legal challenge in conformity with the procedures established by Venezuelan jurisprudence, and to expect that this challenge will receive the appropriate consideration from electoral and judicial authorities. Citizens have the right to express their demands and opinions peacefully, with state guarantees of their political and civil rights, as well as their personal security.
Clear and transparent information about the voting process and results, including responses to complaints, enhances confidence in and legitimacy of those results. The Capriles campaign's formal submission of the irregularities they have identified, and an expeditious and full response from the CNE, should help to lower the tensions generated by the April 14 election results.
The Carter Center condemns all acts of violence, no matter their origin, and sympathizes with those wounded and the families of victims of politically-associated acts. The Center further alerts that expressions of verbal aggression and contempt for individuals create conditions for physical aggression, particularly in conditions of high tension like those Venezuela is experiencing at the moment. The Center encourages and applauds the adoption of measures and language to avoid violence or discrediting of those who think differently.
Read the full statement here. A complete report from the Carter Center is expected in the coming weeks.
11:10 AM EDT: CNE Announces Audit of Remaining 46% of Votes
The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, Tibisay Lucena, announced yesterday that authorities will conduct an audit of the 46% of voting stations that were not audited on election night. The CNE’s process will mirror that of election night, comparing printed receipts to electronic voting records in a random selection of about two-thirds of the voting stations.
Lucena was adamant about the nature of the process, reportedly saying that under “no circumstance should this be interpreted as a vote count of any kind.” This statement was perhaps related to remarks made by the head of Venezuela’s Supreme Court, Luisa Estela Morales, stating that a vote-by-vote recount, as demanded by the opposition, is impossible due to the nature of Venezuela’s electronic voting system. At the time of the announcement, many in the press characterized the Supreme Court as a pro-government body siding against the opposition’s demands, rather than focusing on the nature of Venezuela’s electoral system and guidelines.
In response to the announcement, Capriles accepted the CNE’s decision and asserted his belief that the irregularities were in “about 12,000 ballot boxes” that would be audited in the forthcoming process. He was also quoted as saying that this “will show the truth to the country”.
Assuming that there were no voting irregularities found during the automatic audit of a random selection of 54% of voting stations, it appears unlikely that the announced audit will uncover widespread acts of fraud or inaccuracies.
The start of the audit process, which is expected to take a month to complete, will be announced next week. Lucena explained the process by saying, “We will select a sample that will be audited for 10 days and a report of the results will be emitted. This procedure will be repeated every 10 days for 30 days in the presence of witnesses from both camps.” Lucena also stated that the CNE’s decision was motivated by the desire to “preserve a climate of harmony between Venezuelans, but also to isolate violent sectors that are irresponsibly trying to harm democracy.”
10:46 AM EDT: UNASUR issues a statement congratulating President Nicolás Maduro and calling for peace
The various governments belonging to UNASUR, the Union of South American Nations, issued a joint statement early today congratulating Nicolás Maduro for the results of the elections and as the new president of Venezuela. The statement also called for all parties who participated in the elections to respect the results announced by the electoral authority, the CNE.
UNASUR also reiterated their statements from Monday, just after the results of the elections were announced, that all objections, questions or extraordinary proceedings that are requested by election participants should be channeled and resolved within the proper legal framework. In this light, UNASUR looked favorably upon the CNE’s decision to audit the rest of the voting receipts.
Finally, UNASUR called for an end to all violent actions and attitudes that risked peace in Venezuela, and it launched a commission to accompany the investigation into the violence that occurred on April 15th.
5:36 PM EDT [April 18, 2013]: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) have sent an open letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to recognize the results of Venezuela's election. The letter from the UE - whose international affairs director was in Venezuela as an election monitor on Sunday - describes Venezuela's electoral process in detail:
Unlike the system here in the United States, which is neither uniform nor trustworthy, the voting system in Venezuela is a unitary system that incorporates some 15 audits and is approved by the competing political parties at each step. Because the Venezuelan electoral commission or CNE has been the subject of intense criticism by the opposition, we wish to review in some detail the nature of the voting process.
Prior to the election, machines are sent out from the assembly and service plant in Caracas. They are set up and tested to make sure everything functions properly. The morning of the election, each machine is once again put through its paces and, with the poll workers, party witnesses and soldiers present, it is unlocked with a code and generates a tape that indicates that no votes have yet been registered. For the rest of the day, voters follow a horseshoe shaped process: showing their credentials, then placing their finger in the fingerprint reader to generate their ID number and photo. This unlocks the voting machine, permitting the voter to continue on to the voting machine and press the picture of the candidate and party of his or her choice and then the vote key. The machine then issues a paper receipt with the name of the candidate, permitting the voter to double check that his or her vote was properly recorded. The voter places the folded receipt in a traditional ballot box. The final steps are to dip one's pinky finger in indelible ink and to sign and place a fingerprint in the registry as a final backup check.
When the polls close, 54% of the paper ballots cast are checked manually against the final tally issued by the voting machines through a “citizens audit” of polling stations that have been randomly selected, in the presence of the party witnesses The CNE waits to make its announcement of the results until the outcome was certain. This is the system that has been recognized by Jimmy Carter as "the best in the world."
3:26 PM EDT: Capriles is considering wither to attend the meeting of UNASUR
Estamos evaluando la posibilidad de viajar a Lima y estar presente en la Reunión de Unasur,en Democracia se cuentan los votos!
— Henrique Capriles R. (@hcapriles) April 18, 2013
Translation: We are evaluating the possibility of traveling to Lima and being present for the UNASUR Meeting, in a Democracy you count the votes!
1:50 PM EDT: Associated Press misreports allegations by the opposition
An Associated Press story contains some details on the specific complaints of the opposition candidate Capriles:
Government backers forced pro-Capriles observers out of 283 polling places at which 722,983 votes were cast, and the lack of witnesses raises the possibility of fraud, including double voting.
Menacing bands of government supporters turned pro-Capriles voters away from the polls.
There were 3,535 damaged voting machines, representing 189,982 votes.
Voting rolls included 600,000 dead people.
The opposition, which formally submitted their complaint to the CNE yesterday, previously released a series of slides on their specific complaints (available here). The AP seems to have misstated the number of alleged damaged voting machines, as the slides released by the Capriles camp show 535 damaged machines, not 3,535. This increases the number of allegedly damaged voting machines by a factor of almost 7.
In the context of this misreporting, it is also important to note that reports indicate the electoral body had voting machines available to replace up to 10 percent of the total. This would easily accommodate replacing 535 malfunctioning machines. According to all available information, broken machines were quickly replaced as needed on election day, allowing everyone to vote. Indeed our live blog from the election notes several instances where this was the case.
1:14 PM EDT: UNASUR Meeting Today on Venezuelan Elections
The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) will convene for urgent meetings in Lima, Peru, today to discuss the events in Venezuela following Sunday’s elections. According to press reports, the heads of state of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and host-country (and UNASUR chair) Peru will be in attendance. It is not yet clear whether President Rafael Correa of Ecuador will be able to attend the meeting, as he is traveling in Europe. His Minister of Foreign Relations, Ricardo Patiño, would attend in his absence. Paraguay, the lone South American nation that has not recognized Maduro’s election, has been suspended from UNASUR since its former president, Fernando Lugo, was deposed in a coup last June.
The reported goal of the meeting is to make a joint statement in support of Maduro and Venezuela’s democratic institutions ahead of Friday's inauguration.
12:15 AM EDT: OAS Recognizes Maduro’s Victory, Leaving Washington Further Isolated
On Wednesday, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) José Miguel Insulza recognized Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela’s elected president. This represented an about face, as two days earlier the OAS had released a statement in which Insulza did not recognize the National Electoral Council’s (CNE) declaration of Maduro’s victory, and instead offered to send a team of OAS elections experts to assist with a recount. Some of the media had misreported Insulza’s prior statements as representing the OAS, but in fact there was almost no support within the OAS for Insulza’s prior position, from anywhere other than Washington. His reversal was undoubtedly forced by the overwhelming opposition to his prior position from member states.
Beyond his decision to recognize the election results, on Wednesday Insulza said, “I have not changed my original opinion (advocating for a vote recount), I believe there is a need for dialogue in Venezuela; in democracy you can win by a single vote”.
The head of OAS’s most recent comments were the latest indication that Washington, in its refusal to recognize the results, is almost completely isolated in the world. Yesterday Spain, Washington’s only significant ally on this issue, decided to reverse its previous decision and recognize Maduro.
Mercopress reports that Insulza added that “we are respectful of the legal and constitutional framework of Venezuela” and “we would have liked a more calm process, but they have taken a decision and I respect and abide that decision.”
10:15 AM EDT: Capriles Officially Files Recount Request, U.S. Endorses It
A review of yesterday's news on Venezuela from today's Pan-American Post:
After two days of confrontational rhetoric and mass protests, Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has finally submitted an official request for a full recount to the country’s election authority, the National Electoral Council (CNE). Carlos Ocariz, head of Capriles’ campaign team, told reporters that they met for over two hours with CNE President Tibisay Lucena yesterday to request a full review of “ballots, meeting minutes, voting machines, records and files" associated with Sunday’s election.
El Nacional reports that President-elect Nicolas Maduro welcomed the move and said he would “fully and completely” accept whatever the CNE decides regarding Cariles’ request. Nevertheless, the appeal will not prevent him from taking office. Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in tomorrow, in a ceremony attended by a number of regional heads of state and official delegates. Anticipated guests include the leaders of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Honduras as well as high-level officials from Spain, El Salvador Colombia and Peru, among other nations.
Meanwhile, the United States government continues to refrain from fully accepting the results of the Venezuelan elections. Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry endorsed the recount, saying "if there are huge irregularities we are going to have serious questions about the viability of that government.”
In response, Maduro dismissed Kerry’s remark to local press. "We don't care about your recognition…We have decided to be, and we are going to be free and independent, with you or without you," the Venezuelan leader said.
It is worth noting that Kerry did not explicitly say that the U.S. government contested Maduro’s victory. According to Politico, when asked if he recognized Maduro as the winner in Sunday’s elections Kerry refused to give a yes or no answer. This is likely part of a strategy to avoid public confrontation with Maduro’s government, thus lending weight to his claims that the Obama administration is intervening in Venezuela’s affairs.
This approach was referenced yesterday by Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson. In a surprisingly frank interview with Bloomberg, she said that the Obama administration is actively avoiding responding to Maduro’s heated rhetoric, much as it did with Chavez. “It still doesn’t make sense to get in, you’ll excuse me, a pissing match with Nicolas Maduro any more than it did with Chavez,” Jacobson said.
4:31 PM EDT [April 17, 2013] : Smartmatic, the company that provides voting technology for Venezuela, describes the April 14 election
The firm notes that "some 15 audits of the voting platform were carried out, observed and certified by the country’s political parties." Smartmatic also highlights the fact that it "distributed the voting platform among 13,683 polling centers, able to receive 18,903,143 vote-registered citizens. In total, the election employed 39,282 voting machines."
Smartmatic also notes that its technology includes multiple audits, printed receipts of each vote, backed-up storage, and is 100% accurate. Beyond Venezuela, the company has been selected to provide technology to Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, among other nations.
The company also has an interactive map of Venezuela, which counts the number of registered voters, polling stations, and voting machines in each state. Click here to check it out.
3:22 PM EDT:International monitors call on U.S. to recognize election results
Election monitors with the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) issued a statement yesterday, concluding that the “process was fair, transparent, participatory, and well-organized.” The observers note that they “found a reliable system in which 54 percent of all votes are randomly audited on Election Day,” and that they had “witnessed one such audit in Caracas in which the paper ballots matched perfectly with the electronic votes.” The NLG statement goes on:
The NLG calls upon the U.S. to honor the Venezuelan election as the nations of the world honor U.S. elections without question. Moreover, as recognized by Jimmy Carter, Venezuela's election infrastructure, with its secure electronic system backed by paper ballots, is "the best in the world," and therefore deserves at least as much respect as our own.
As NLG member and international human rights law professor Daniel Kovalik states: "In the end, it is the Venezuelans who must decide their own future and leaders and the U.S., in the interest of democracy, must honor that decision."
The full statement is available here.
2:56 PM EDT: Former Brazilian President Lula critical of U.S. stance on Venezuela election
The Times of India reportson South American countries’ backing of Maduro's election and highlights comments made by former Brazilian president Lula da Silva:
Earlier, Brazil's former president Lula da Silva had acknowledged Maduro as the winner of the election and told the US not to interfere. "Americans should take care of their own business a little and let us decide our own destiny," Lula said at a rally in Brazil. "I want to ask for a round of applause for the election of Comrade Maduro in Venezuela," Lula said at a political rally in Brazil, blasting the US for questioning the Venezuelan election result. "Americans every now and then decide to criticize the results of an election," said the popular leader who was Brazil's president for eight years between 2003 and 2011.
1:12 PM EDT: Statement by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the elections in Venezuela
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission issued the following statement [PDF] today:
“I have been following closely events in Venezuela after the presidential election on Sunday 14 April. I regret the loss of life in recent hours and call upon all parties to engage in peaceful dialogue and reject violence. I commend the high participation and the orderly and calm conduct of the election, but I am concerned by the growing polarisation of Venezuelan society. I take note of the statements by representatives of both government and opposition on the need for an audit of the vote as well as the subsequent announcement by the National Electoral Commission of Mr Maduro's election. It is important that the outcome of the vote can be accepted by all and that appeals are duly considered by the competent Venezuelan authorities. I encourage all parties to engage constructively to promote good governance and transparency."
12:58 PM EDT: John Kerry's Remarks on Situation in Venezuela from :
"'We think there ought to be a recount. I don't know whether it's going to happen in the next days," Kerry told US lawmakers, appearing before them for the first time since becoming secretary of state.'"
'Kerry told the House foreign affairs committee that if "there are huge irregularities, we're going to have serious questions about the viability of that government."' "'But that evaluation has to be made, and I haven't made it yet."'
"He also said it was doubtful the United States would send a delegation to Maduro's swearing-in ceremony set for Friday."
'"If it's under contested circumstances, I'd be very doubtful of that," Kerry told the committee.'
Read the full Agence France-Presse article here.
12:54 PM EDT: White House Statement on Situation in Venezuela:
Statement by the Press Secretary on the Situation in Venezuela
The United States congratulates the Venezuelan people for their participation in the April 14 presidential elections in a peaceful and orderly manner. We call on the Venezuelan government to respect the rights of Venezuelan citizens to peaceful assembly and free speech. We also urge everyone to refrain from violence and other measure that could raise tensions at this difficult moment. The United States notes the acceptance by both candidates for an audit of the ballots and supports calls for a credible and transparent process to reassure the Venezuelan people regarding the results. Such a process would contribute to political dialogue and help advance the country’s democracy.
12:10 OM EDT: Democracy Now! on the Post-Election Today:
CEPR Senior Associate for International Policy Alex Main reports from Caracas on Democracy Now! this morning. On the program, he explains the audit of more than half of the votes that has already taken place, the violence following the opposition's refusal to recognize the results, and the regional response condemning U.S. interference. To watch the segment or read the full transcript, click here.
11:40 Am EDT: Spain Recognizes Maduro as New President
Spain has now recognized the election of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela, backing off from its earlier support for the U.S. position. This is a major blow to the U.S. efforts, and is similar to what happened after the 2002 coup, where Washington tried to put together a coalition of countries to recognize the coup government, but failed.
This will make it more difficult for the U.S. to maintain that there is an "international community" that has doubts about the results of the Venezuelan elections. It should be recognized that the U.S. government position is key to the current destabilization effort. If the U.S. withdraws support for this effort, it is extremely likely that Capriles will also give up his effort to de-legitimize the election.
From the Agence France-Presse :
"Spain has recognised the Venezuelan authorities' decision to confirm Nicolas Maduro as the winner of Venezuela's tight presidential election after initially expressing doubts over the outcome of the vote.
"Now that the constitutional and legal procedures have ended, the government of Spain respects the National Election Board's proclamation of Nicolas Maduro as the president-elect of the Republic of Venezuela," the foreign ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday."
11:15 AM EDT: OAS Meeting and Statements About the Election:
This morning, at a regular meeting of the permanent council of the Organization of American States, member countries have used the opportunity to congratulate the Venezuelan people and president Maduro for his election. Statements from Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay (as pro-tempore chair of Mercosur), Haiti (on behalf of Caricom), Colombia, Peru and Brazil have all been made thus far. The United States meanwhile, again reiterated calls for a recount. OAS Secretary General Insulza made a statement condemning the violence that has left at least 7 dead and calling on both sides to find a common way forward. The full video link will be posted here, later.
9:43 AM EDT: New York University Professor and Historian Greg Grandin, and contributer at The Nation:
From the annals of imperial asymmetry: On November 2, 2004, George W. Bush beat John Kerry 50.7 percent to 48.3 percent. Venezuela’s foreign minister immediately (either that night or the day after) recognized the results: “we will hope that in this second mandate we can improve our relations.”
Fast forward nine years, and Nicolás Maduro beats Henrique Capriles with 50.7% of the vote and the US refuses to recognize the result. “Look, we’re just not there yet,” said a State Department spokesman (who now works for wait for it -- John Kerry). “Obviously, we have nearly half the country that had a different view. And so we’ll continue to consult, but we’re not there yet.”
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and other Latin American countries have recognized the results, but Washington’s refusal gooses the opposition, who have ransacked and burned government buildings. There have been up to seven deaths. If anyone has any doubts about the flimsiness of Capriles’ claim that he was robbed, read this post by Francisco Toro, who is as antichavista as they come.
Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book, Fordlandia, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
9:20 AM EDT: Argentina Calls on U.S. to Recognize Venezuelan Government:
“With all humbleness we request the US government to recognize the Venezuelan government following free transparent elections” said Cristina Fernandez, adding “it’s the best way to achieve and ensure peace”.
Full report from Mercopress here.
6:30 PM EDT [April 16, 2013]: Today's State Department Briefing is up; U.S. is "not there" Yet:
According to State Department Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell, the United States is “not there” yet when asked if they were ready to congratulate Maduro on his election. Ventrell said that it was “difficult to understand” the “CNE’s decision to declare Mr. Maduro the victor before completing a full recount.”
The U.S. response stands in stark contrast to the reaction from the rest of the region, as noted below [6:18 update]. When asked why the U.S. was not ready to recognize Maduro’s election, despite statements from Mexico, Colombia and Brazil doing just that, Ventrell responded, “Look, we’re just not there yet, Matt. Obviously, we have nearly half the country that had a different view. And so we’ll continue to consult, but we’re not there yet.”
State Department Briefing on Venezuela:
The full State Department Briefing can be found here.
QUESTION: So, Venezuela.
MR. VENTRELL: Yeah.
QUESTION: You didn’t want to answer the hypothetical question yesterday, so – but the hypothetical has happened.
MR. VENTRELL: Okay.
QUESTION: So what do you make of the fact that they went ahead and certified the result without a full recount or a full audit? What do you make of the violence that has ensued?
MR. VENTRELL: So, Matt, as we noted yesterday, given the very close results, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles and a member of the electoral council, the CNE, as the – it’s referred to, called for a 100 percent audit, a recount of the results. Ruling party candidate Maduro also endorsed this idea. And we said yesterday, a full recount would be important, prudent, and necessary in ensuring that an evenly divided Venezuelan electorate is confident that the election meets their democratic aspirations. The OAS and the EU have expressed similar views. And there are also outstanding allegations of voting irregularities raised by the opposition.
So the CNE’s decision to declare Mr. Maduro the victor before completing a full recount is difficult to understand, and they did not explain their haste in taking this decision.
QUESTION: Sorry. You’re still sticking with this line that Maduro called for a whole – a full recount?
MR. VENTRELL: My understanding is he did endorse that idea at one point yesterday. Now, where he eventually ended up throughout the day – but there was a moment where he endorsed the idea of a recount and said there was nothing to hide. So those were his words.
QUESTION: Okay. So what’s your next step, or is there one?
MR. VENTRELL: We’ll be absolutely in consultation with the OAS, the EU, regional partners, and we continue to believe that resolving the voting irregularities and the calls for a recount would do much to ensure that the Venezuelan people feel included in the process and that their democratic aspirations are being met. So --
QUESTION: So you still think that they should recount the votes?
MR. VENTRELL: I mean, that’s been our position. That hasn’t happened.
QUESTION: No, no, even – no, after the vote has been certified, after the election’s been certified, you still think that there should be a recount?
MR. VENTRELL: Well, under the Venezuelan constitution, it’s ultimately up to the CNE to certify the election results, which they’ve done.
QUESTION: Well, I understand that, but what’s the U.S. position? Is the U.S. position that there still should be a recount?
MR. VENTRELL: Well, our position is that --
QUESTION: Or the Venezuelan people have confidence --
MR. VENTRELL: Our position is that – let me finish, Matt – our position is that resolving these irregularities would have engendered more confidence in the Venezuelan people in the quality of this vote. And so that is the concern we’ve expressed. But in terms of where we go forward, I just don’t have anything more for you today.
QUESTION: Well, okay. So are you prepared to congratulate Mr. Maduro on his victory?
MR. VENTRELL: We’re not there.
QUESTION: Why? The vote has been certified. He has been elected. So either you say, “Okay, and we’ll work with you,” or, “try to work with you,” or you say, “We don’t think that you’re the real winner,” or, “We think that there is no winner because the vote hasn’t been certified,” so – I mean, are you prepared to work with President Maduro, President-Elect Maduro?
MR. VENTRELL: Well, we said we’re prepared to work with whichever government comes out of this electoral process. Having said that, given what happened yesterday, we’re consulting with key partners, the OAS, the EU, other regional neighbors as we examine this. We have – the scenario is you have a deeply divided country, roughly evenly divided, and so we thought it was important to resolve some of these concerns, and that’s why we’re going to consult with some of our partners and concerned parties.
QUESTION: Well, do you – so do you or do you not recognize the result, the certified result, as being reflective of the wishes of the Venezuelan people?
MR. VENTRELL: We’re not making a judgment one way or another. This is a Venezuelan process under the Venezuelan constitution. The CNE does have this responsibility, but again, we’ve had our concerns, and many others, including the OAS and the EU, have had their concerns, too.
QUESTION: All right. Well, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil have all kind of – have all accepted the Maduro – Maduro’s victory. These would seem to be – at least Mexico and Colombia and to a certain extent Brazil – would seem to be some of your top friends in this region. I just am not sure why – when you reserve judgment, what are you reserving it for, because the vote’s already been certified?
MR. VENTRELL: Look, we’re just not there yet, Matt. Obviously, we have nearly half the country that had a different view. And so we’ll continue to consult, but we’re not there yet.
QUESTION: One last one?
QUESTION: Do you have anything on – do you have anything to say about the violence that apparently – I think that several people were killed.
MR. VENTRELL: Yeah. Let me be very clear on this. Violence has no place in a democratic electoral process, so we join in others in calling on all Venezuelans to refrain from violence at this time.
QUESTION: What about protests? There is a call for --
MR. VENTRELL: People, as we say in all countries, should be allowed to peacefully protest and make their views and their voices heard, but there’s no place for violence.
QUESTION: And what – following all these questions of Matt, yesterday the Foreign Minister of Venezuela Jaua rejected the OAS position. He also rejected Spain’s position. He said that Spain should care about their unemployment and not about what happened in Venezuela. These kind of comments that he’s saying, I want to know – tomorrow there is a special session of the OAS – if the U.S. is going to present the case tomorrow in the permanent council tomorrow.
MR. VENTRELL: I don’t have anything to preview about our activities at the OAS. As I said, we continue to consult, but I don’t have anything to preview in terms of tomorrow’s session one way or another.
QUESTION: But you are aware that there is high division in the OAS where Venezuela – it seems not to care about the OAS position, because they didn’t care about what Insulza said proposing – following the Inter-American Charter, right, to recount the votes and have the democracy of Venezuela in high standard?
MR. VENTRELL: One of our concerns – and this is broadly shared and this is, I think, why the OAS Secretary General made the statement that he did is – we didn’t have the kind of independent and respected international monitors that are common in so many other countries throughout the hemisphere. So that’s part of the concern that we’ve expressed, and the OAS was clear too.
QUESTION: If the U.S. has to evaluate the democracy of Venezuela from 0 to 10, where do you put it in this moment?
MR. VENTRELL: We don’t give grades from this podium, but thanks for the try.
6:18 PM EDT: U.S. Isolated in Response to Venezuela Election:
The United States and the Secretary General of the Organization of American States crassly declared their support for the opposition’s demand for a full re-count of votes in Venezuela. On Monday, the White House deemed a “100 percent audit” of the results “an important, prudent and necessary step.” The OAS also released a statement saying that Secretary General José Miguel Insulza “expressed his support for this initiative.” Insulza’s comment, contrary to some press reports, does not represent perspective of the OAS as a whole.
Looking around the region, though, one sees a very different picture. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Uruguay all sent official congratulations to Maduro for his victory. The Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) also recognized Maduro as Venezuela’s new president. Brazil’s foreign minister Antonio Patriota called the election a “victory for democracy.” Beyond these statements, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Guatemala, and Mexico, all offered their congratulations to Maduro for his election as president.
The U.S. response to Maduro’s narrower-than-expected victory tramples on Venezuelan institutions that clearly lay out the protocol following elections. The National Electoral Council (CNE) audits over half of the votes in the hours after the polls close. The body is able to do this due to the voting system’s sophistication and security, which Jimmy Carter describes as “the best in the world.” Furthermore, it should be noted that the pro-opposition representative on the Council has said publicly that he has no doubts that the results are correct.
Given the broad regional support for Venezuela’s democratic institutions, the U.S. call for a full re-count only serves to promote conflict, as was warned on this blog yesterday. Unfortunately this conflict has now escalated. Reports from Venezuela indicate that at least four people have been killed, government agencies and news agencies have been attacked, PSUV headquarters were on fire, and intimidating crowds were protesting outside the house of CNE (National Electoral Council) president Tibisay Lucena. Washington should not only unequivocally denounce the violence, but should respect Venezuela’s democratic institutions by recognizing the election results. Washington’s isolation in this case is likely to increase if this drags on.
6:15 PM EDT: CEPR will be live-blogging post-election events and analysis following the Presidential elections in Venezuela on Sunday, April 14.
The Venezuelan opposition has taken the position that the results of Sunday's presidential election are not valid, and are calling for a "100 percent recount." Perhaps equally importantly, the White House and State Department have publicly joined their campaign. This means that there is both an international as well as a domestic (Venezuelan) campaign to contest the results of the election, most likely regardless of the CNE (National Electoral Council). There has already been violence, and since this is the first time in many years that the U.S. government has refused to recognize the results of a Venezuelan election, there is a possibility of more conflict.
So far, the United States is the only government in the hemisphere to join the opposition's campaign against the election results. Most of the countries in Latin America have recognized the results and congratulated President Nicolas Maduro on his electoral victory.
This sets up a dynamic similar to that following the military coup in Honduras in 2009, where the United States was isolated with respect to the rest of the hemisphere (in that case the rest of the hemisphere was demanding the re-instatement of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya).
CEPR will be following both the international and domestic aspects of the current post-election campaign.
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High Court ruling may delay war crimes trials
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay may challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the constitutional rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
Kennedy said federal judges could ultimately order some detainees to be released, but that such orders would depend on security concerns and other circumstances.
President Bush was unhappy with the ruling. "We'll abide by the court's decision. That doesn't mean I have to agree with it," the president said during a press conference in Rome. "It was a deeply divided court, and I strongly agree with those who dissented."
Bush also said he would consider whether to seek new laws in light of the ruling "so we can safely say to the American people, 'We're doing everything we can to protect you.'"
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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Georgia Fall
Georgia Fall is a forward-thinking Country music group from a new era with a modernistic sound embodied by band mates Mellissa Baker, Paul Bain and Jason McGregor. Although the band themselves are fans of many styles, there are no crazy gimmicks here - just a passion for sexy grooves, rich harmonies and catchy hooks infused in their own Country roots! Described as "a fresh band with stand-out vocals and killer songs” by Golden Guitar award winner Lyn Bowtell, and “one of the hottest emerging acts on the music scene today” according to Paul Costa, Georgia Fall are definitely in good company.
On the back of the release of their highly successful debut album “Love The Hard Way” in 2014, Georgia Fall have kicked some major goals, beginning with two national tours with the likes of Paul Costa, Baylou, Travis List and Golden Guitar winner Kristy Cox. The band achieved multiple Top 10’s on the Country Music Charts and Australian iTunes Chart. Preparing for a busy year ahead, Georgia Fall have been hard at work writing and producing music for an exciting new release early in 2017. To coincide, the band will embark on another national tour ramping up in the coming months with a fresh new live show.
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Teetotum
For the sports ground, see Tee-To-Tum.
A six-sided Chinese teetotum
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of gambling spinning top. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin.
2 In literature
DescriptionEdit
A girl holding up a four-sided teetotum on Pieter Brueghel's Children's Games (1560)
In its earliest form the body was square (in some cases via a stick through a regular six-sided die [1]), marked on the four sides by the letters A (Lat. aufer, take) indicating that the player takes one from the pool, D (Lat. depone, put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil, nothing), and T (Lat. totum, all), when the whole pool is to be taken.
Other accounts give such letters as P, N, D (dimidium, half), and H or T or other combinations of letters. Other combinations of letters that could be found were NG, ZS, TA, TG, NH, ND, SL and M, which included the Latin terms Zona Salve ("save all"), Tibi Adfer ("take all"), Nihil Habeas ("nothing left"), Solve L ("save 50") and Nihil Dabis ("nothing happens").
Joseph Strutt, who was born in 1749, mentions the teetotum as used in games when he was a boy:
When I was a boy, the tee-totum had only four sides, each of them marked with a letter; a T for take all; an H for half, that is of the stake; an N for nothing; and a P for put down, that is, a stake equal to that you put down at first. Toys of this kind are now made with many sides and letters.[2]
The teetotum survives today as dreidel, a Jewish game played at Hanukkah, and as the Perinola, a game played in many Latin American countries. Some modern teetotums have six or eight sides, and are used in commercial board games in place of dice. The original 1860 version of The Game of Life used a teetotum in order to avoid the die's association with gambling.
A twelve-sided teetotum
In literatureEdit
A teetotum is mentioned by "Martinus Scriblerus",[2] the pen name of a club of 18th-century satirical writers.
In Louisa May Alcott's Rose in Bloom, a character learning to dance says, "A fellow must have some reward for making a teetotum of himself."
The 19th-century English poet William Ernest Henley wrote the Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things which opened with the lines:
The big teetotum twirls,
And epochs wax and wane
As chance subsides or swirls;
But of the loss and gain
The sum is always plain.
Read on the mighty pall,
The weed of funeral
That covers praise and blame,
The -isms and the -anities,
Magnificence and shame:--
"O Vanity of Vanities!"
In Lewis Carroll's fantasy Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's movements about the Old Sheep Shop provoke its proprietor (the White Queen transformed into a sheep) to ask, "Are you a child, or a teetotum?"
In Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend a line of strange-looking wooden objects sticking out of the river near the Plashwater Weir Mill Lock is described as being “like huge teetotums standing at rest in the water”. (Book IV, chapter 1)
In Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 dark comedy short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", one of the patients of the asylum is described as believing he had been converted into a "tee-totum":[3]
"And then," said the friend who had whispered, "there was Boullard, the tee-totum. I call him the tee-totum because, in fact, he was seized with the droll but not altogether irrational crotchet, that he had been converted into a tee-totum. You would have roared with laughter to see him spin. He would turn round upon one heel by the hour, in this manner – so-
Here the friend whom he had just interrupted by a whisper, performed an exactly similar office for himself.
Long dice (esp. "Lang Larence")
^ Teetotum at A.Word.A.Day
^ a b Strutt, Joseph (1903) [1801]. Cox, J Charles (ed.). The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England. London: Methuen. p. 305.
^ "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether" on poestories.com
Dreidel at BoardGameGeek
Teetotum at BoardGameGeek
Put & Take at BoardGameGeek
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Teetotum". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 503–504.
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5 Ways AI Is Already Being Used to Transform Business Operations
Digital technologies are changing the world as we know it, but a select few are responsible for the biggest transformations.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are at the forefront of that change, collectively driving both innovation and improvement.
The MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that more than 72 percent of respondents believe AI will have a significant impact on the technology, media and telecommunications industries over the next five years.
Almost 85 percent believe AI will allow their organizations to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage in the market.
But that change, believe it or not, is happening right now.
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Many of them can be used to improve existing operations, but there’s more, too.
Some of that information can be used to identify and explore all-new opportunities.
For example, data related to a particular product might reveal how customers are using the item, particularly in ways that were not originally intended.
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Product Development Is Getting Better Speaking of product-related insights, those same data points can be used to not only deliver a better product but also to come up with more accurate offerings.
Consider a product which launches to market with a host of features.
As it turns out, only a handful of those features are used.
More importantly, only one or two are really needed.
The incoming data can be used to design a better product that offers fewer unnecessary features but is more portable and more lightweight.
Another scenario might involve future-proofing a device that is prone to failure under certain conditions or environmental exposure.
A great example of this is how most smartphones now include a water-resistant coating to protect them from moisture and contact with liquids.
Personalization Is Now Possible With the help of AI — and a variety of other technologies — businesses can now offer completely personalized experiences to their customers.
Big data and analytics, for example, help provide the necessary data and insights to make it happen.
Something like 3D printing allows companies to shift manufacturing closer to the customer.
But AI is being used to connect and facilitate these disparate platforms, ultimately as a means to deliver unique products or services.
Through sophisticated AI platforms like b8ta, Amazon 4-star and AlgoFace, companies are building the kinds of personalized offerings that their customers need.
Speeding Up Communications Communication is essential for every business, both internally and externally.
Communication between teams and departments can help operations run more smoothly.
Communication between a business and customers builds trust and loyalty.
Modern AI is making all of this faster and more efficient than ever.
Consider chatbots or AI-based customer service assistants.
They operate day and night and can answer some of the most pertinent questions on the spot.
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Such a thing wouldn’t be possible with conventional strategies.
Even manning support channels 24/7 with manual reps would have slowdowns because people get tired or burnt out and all have varying moods.
The nature of AI means that communications are provided across the board, in a standard and more efficient way.
Predictive and Informed Measures What if it was possible to know how successful a product launch was going to be, well before a product was ever developed and mass-produced?.What if it was possible to see how customers would react to a particular announcement or news story?.What if a company could predict the market years in advance?.All of these scenarios are possible, and more, thanks to data analytics and AI technologies.
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Organizations now use the technology for a number of solutions, including customer research, risk management, sales and market forecasting, and much more.
The Future Is Here It seems crazy to think about, but AI is already transforming the world as we know it.
It will play a significant role in the future of business operations as well as the way organizations serve their customers.
Whether you’re talking about the use of AI for customer service chatbots or the technology’s use in contract management, there’s a lot to gain through its adoption.
As more and more companies leverage the power of AI, its impact on the world at large will grow to be monumental.
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Writing against Revolution
Literary Conservatism in Britain, 1790–1832
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Online publication date: September 2009
Print publication year: 2007
Online ISBN: 9780511484223
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Subjects: Literature, British History after 1450, History, English Literature 1700-1830
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Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society to achieve a stable future in contrast to the destructive upheavals taking place in France. Kevin Gilmartin explores the literary forms of counterrevolutionary expression in Britain, showing that while conservative movements were often inclined to treat print culture as a dangerously unstable and even subversive field, a whole range of print forms - ballads, tales, dialogues, novels, critical reviews - became central tools in the counterrevolutionary campaign. Beginning with the pamphlet campaigns of the loyalist Association movement and the Cheap Repository in the 1790s, Gilmartin analyses the role of periodical reviews and anti-Jacobin fiction in the campaign against revolution, and closes with a fresh account of the conservative careers of Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
'the strengths of this book are the detailed and persuasive readings of liminal texts … all such 'expression' was a tribute to the radical culture which forced it into existence.'
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Introduction: Reconsidering counterrevolutionary expression
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1 - In the theater of counterrevolution: loyalist association and vernacular address
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2 - “Study to be quiet”: Hannah More and counterrevolutionary moral reform
3 - Reviewing subversion: the function of criticism at the present crisis
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4 - Subverting fictions: the counterrevolutionary form of the novel
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5 - Southey, Coleridge, and the end of anti-Jacobinism in Britain
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The Strange Death of Europe
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
by Douglas Murray
I was somewhat skeptical that this would be a shallow and poorly articulated argument against immigration writ large, but instead the book is an intelligent argument on the risks associated with mass immigration of Muslims into Western Europe, and the massive cover up by the political elite and mainstream media on the level of crime and terrorism associated with it. I haven't read Taleb's book, "Skin in the Game," but I'm familiar with his argument, and Murray's book is a great example of politicians making terrible decisions who have no skin in the game that impact their citizens negatively.
Taleb argued, that a "bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.” The EU fits this definition in spades, but so do local politicians. Murray writes about a town hall meeting in Kassel, Germany that was video taped where over 800 Muslim immigrants were due to arrive over the next few days. Their district president, Mr. Lubcke calmly informs them that anybody who does not agree with the policy is free to leave Germany. At first the Germans attending laughed because he was joking, when they found out he wasn't there was great anger. It is ironic that immigrants with a very different culture and values are being imposed on various towns by the bureaucrats while the citizens who live there are told they're free to leave.
I was familiar with some of the higher profile crimes and terrorist events, but the author depicts a long laundry list of these crimes throughout much of Western Europe, and how the government and mainstream media attempt to suppress this news. Nonetheless, social media exposes it. For example, there was no denying the video footage of what happened outside a church in Germany where large gangs of immigrants were openly harassing women. The fact that the media and government attempted to suppress the news only made it worse, a further loss of trust. I suspect this is why we're seeing the rise of the so-called far right in Europe. Hillary Clinton recently said that Europe needed to solve their immigration crisis, because it is resulting in the rise of right wing groups? That is apparently true, but is that the only reason it must be resolved? Should it also be resolved for other reasons, such as the danger it presents to their citizens and culture? This why many Americans who despise President Trump will still vote him compared to a candidate on the left who always puts their own citizens last.
The best chapter in the book, was chapter 13, "Tiredness," which was a philosophical piece on why Western Europe has lost its sense of identity. He takes the argument back to colonialism to WWI and then WWII destroying their beliefs in all the ideas that defined Western Europe's culture. This collective guilt and lost moorings has resulted in a reluctance to more stiffly oppose immigration that threatens their identity, but they now question if they have one. It is a lengthy chapter that I'm not worthy of summarizing.
The author makes many interesting points and argument throughout the book, but one I found especially interesting is that Eastern Europe didn't/doesn't suffer from the guilt and loss of identity that Western Europe does, so they have imposed strict anti-immigration measures to protect their countries and cultures, and have openly called the Western Europe's policies suicidal.
The relevance to small wars is clear, any decent small wars analyst would discern that significant trouble is brewing, and attempts to conceal it by suppressing it in the media will only make it worse. Policy changes need to be implemented aggressively, yet humanely, to prevent the storm clouds from merging into a perfect storm. The author argues there are two probable outcomes, one is what I'm calling the perfect storm. The other is Europeans accept it, and Western Europe becomes multicultural, mostly Muslim, and people accept it, while Eastern Europe maintains their identity.
Europe is dying: a riposte
I found this article by a probably UK journalist of Pakistani heritage via Twitter and found it a worthy riposte. In particular this passage:
Europe faces real challenges today, with economic austerity, political dysfunction, and, yes, migration. Rather than declaring the continent “dead” — an extremist proclamation that can only generate extremist responses — it might be worth considering that every generation faces unique challenges for which they must find new solutions.
Link:https://theintercept.com/2018/12/25/...murray-review/
The Strange Death of Europe: a Brit's reply
I have listened to Douglas Murray a few times, he is a polemicist of a particular type, once labelled "neocon" and now more likely to be labelled a nationalist populist. A few years ago I read one of his books, it was well written and revealing - on a very different topic 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland.
His view of demographic change would be challenged by many others, notably Professor Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian of mixed heritage, whose book 'Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the future of White Majorities'. There are numerous reviews and this one is from London's main evening newspaper which ends with:
Whatever happens, anyone interested in preparing for the future would do well to read this book.
Link:https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle...-a3971311.html
What Murray appears to overlook is that it is not just Muslims emigrating to Western Europe. In the UK we have a Polish population of between 500k to 1m (shrunk recently) and very few of them are Muslims. Another substantial new community are the Africans, in the UK mainly from West Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa, mainly Eritrea and Somalia. They now outnumber the Afro-Caribbean community; together they now make up the largest group of regularly worshiping Christians.
There also can be reverse emigration, in the UK there is one community that has dwindled since the 1990's: the Bosnian refugees. They have largely been absorbed (unlikely I think), emigrated further or simply gone home.
Plus many Muslims are far from devout, except on special days and during Ramadan. In a curious way this lack of religious faith is seen in many communities.
Today we are told that immigration is driven by asylum seekers and refugees, especially those crossing the Mediterranean. Or a few years back the large inflow of Syrians to Germany. The biggest drivers for immigration for many years post-1945 was the anticipated demand for cheap labour, the decision to enable families to be united and the demand for skilled, qualified professionals - in the UK most visibly seen with doctors and nurses.
Changes in demography do not IMHO end with Muslim majority in the UK. It is far more likely that the UK will have a substantial mixed heritage population and Kaufmann argues that will take many decades.
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I appreciate the counter arguments, or more accurately arguments that provide balance. I still think that any nation that attempts to suppress the news, just as the U.S. media has done, by attempting to cover up the crimes committed by certain groups is little more than irresponsible deception that rightfully leads many to conspiracy theories. Get in the open and discuss it. Is it a trend? A one off? The same percentage of other groups commit the same number and type of crimes, etc.? Then expose reporting becomes less meaningful.
I also think national identity is important for the survival of a nation. Without it a nation doesn't have resiliency, and it easy for predators like Russia to weaken a nation and manipulate it to its will. Identifying as Christian, Muslim, Agnostic, etc. should be less important than identifying as British, French, American, etc. There are sound arguments on both sides, and they are both apt at pointing out the weakness of each other's arguments, but fall short of identifying the truth and solutions to problems.
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The objective of the paper is to identify the determinants of access to health care in rural Russia. We started out with the observation that the transition process has affected the provision of social services in the Russian Federation in general, and in rural areas in particular, owing to the overlap with agricultural reforms. Based on this observation we asked how the reduced role of the state and the concomitant decentralization of policy making has affected access of the rural populace to social services. A review of the available literature on this topic resulted in the formulation of the following three hypotheses. Firstly, that income is a determinant of access to health care. Secondly, that informal payments play an important role in determining access, and thirdly that there are large differences in access to health care services between districts. The hypotheses were tested using household data from a survey conducted in two regions of Russia in 2000. The results indicate that in the study regions, contrary to expectations, neither income nor informal payments are important determinants of access. However, there are large differences in out-of-pocket expenditures between districts, indicating that access to health care varies between districts.
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Magistrate judges in the Northern District are authorized to perform the full range of duties provided for magistrate judges under the applicable statute. In particular, the Court encourages civil litigants to consent to the jurisdiction of magistrate judges for all purposes up to and including bench or jury trial, with appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court sponsors a comprehensive program of judicially-hosted settlement conferences and other forms of alternative dispute resolution in which the magistrate judges play a critical role. In addition to their work on civil cases for which they have obtained the consent of the parties and on settlement conferences, the magistrate judges may handle pretrial case management and motions on cases assigned to the district judges. With respect to criminal cases, the magistrate judges exercise complete jurisdiction over petty offense and misdemeanor cases and handle preliminary proceedings in felony cases.
The current annual salary of the position is $194,028, and is set at the rate of 92% of the salary of a district court judge. The term of office is eight years, subject to reappointment for continuing eight-year terms thereafter. The judicial retirement system provides for vesting of a partial annuity after eight years, and, after 14 years of service, a magistrate judge is entitled to an annuity equal to the salary of the office, payable at age 65. The other benefits of federal employment apply.
To be qualified for appointment, an applicant must:
1. Be, and have been for at least five years, a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Territory of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and have been engaged in the active practice of law for a period of at least five years (with some substitutes authorized);
2. Be competent to perform all the duties of the office; be of good moral character; be emotionally stable and mature; be committed to equal justice under the law; be in good health; be patient and courteous; and be capable of deliberation and decisiveness;
3. Be less than 70 years old; and
4. Not be related to a judge of the District Court.
A Merit Selection Panel composed of attorneys and other members of the community will review all applications and confidentially recommend to the judges of the District Court the candidates it considers best qualified. The Court will make the appointment following an FBI full-field investigation and an IRS tax check of the appointee.
The term is expected to start in early 2020.
The individuals selected must comply with the financial disclosure requirements pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, Pub. L. No. 95-521, 90 Stat. 1824 (1978) (codified at 5 U.S.C. app. 4 §§ 101-111) as implemented by the Judicial Conference of the United States. An affirmative effort will be made to give due consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age (40 and over), gender, religion, national origin, or disability.
Applications must be signed and submitted personally by the applicant and received by June 17, 2019. Applications delivered in-person must be received by 4:00 pm. All applications will be kept confidential unless the applicant consents to disclosure, and all applications will be examined only by members of the Merit Selection Panel and the judges of the District Court. The panel's deliberations will remain confidential.
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Living Heart
Howse, Chris (2007). Living Heart. Darwin, N.T.: Charles Darwin University Press (CDU Press).
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'Your job is to meet with government and shape policy by advising them. Not to go to court' said Minister Ruddock. I wanted to keep suing the Territory and Commonwealth Governments in the courts the way I had been over the last 7 years. That's why I was in his office. 'But government would never listen to us.' I said. 'The interests of Aboriginal people are routinely trodden on, if they are not ignored outright and this ability to go to court is the only way we could conceivably get them to listen to us. Without it we would be worse than useless as advocates.' In 1999, some Aboriginal men employed a lawyer, Chris Howse, to seek out injustices to Aboriginal people wherever they may be found. And to agitate them in the civil courts of the Northern Territory. With a four wheel drive, a rented office and a complete lack of any secretarial help, he issued and brought to conclusion more than thirty pieces of litigation on behalf of the Aboriginal public including many coronial inquests. Talking to people. Getting their stories where they lived, be it never so remote. Getting back to Darwin and fighting in the court room. This was his modus operandi. Even if it caused a bit of trouble. It caused a great deal of trouble… This is the story of that abundant life of the Aboriginal Territory. Flourishing yet, even in the worst of strife. It tells of what it will take to transform how we approach the Aboriginal way. And how worthwhile things are to be done, not because they are easy, but because they are hard . Chris Howse worked as a barrister for several years in Melbourne. He has since worked as a criminal lawyer in the Northern Territory, and as Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee.
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Email Us Hannah KELLY was born on 2 MAR 1711 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number GDB5-KX. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Hannah KELLY was born on 23 OCT 1726 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died in 1810 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number 9KDQ-1W. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Spouse: Bartholomew HEATH. Bartholomew HEATH and Hannah KELLY were married on 8 AUG 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Nehemiah HEATH, Hannah HEATH, Elizabeth HEATH, Ann HEATH, Mary HEATH, Richard HEATH, Jesse HEATH, Moses HEATH, Anna HEATH, Judith HEATH, Martha HEATH, Richard HEATH.
Hattie E. KELLY was born on 24 FEB 1864. She died in 1878. SOURCE: "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell, his wife Who settled in Bow in 1768" By one of them, Concord, NH Printed by the Republican Press Association 1895. Parents: N. W. KELLY and Lavinia COLBY.
Horace P. KELLY was born about 1867 in Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died on 17 APR 1939 at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Elizabeth COLBY. Horace P. KELLY and Elizabeth COLBY were married on 11 JUL 1895 in Bow, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
Jane KELLY was born on 21 JAN 1711 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH.
Jesse L. KELLY was born in 1835 in Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine. He died on 2 APR 1878.
Spouse: Lucy Ann Peasley COLBY. Jesse L. KELLY and Lucy Ann Peasley COLBY were married on 16 DEC 1861 in Massachusetts.
John KELLY was born on 2 JUL 1642 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 21 MAR 1718 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Sarah KNIGHT. John KELLY and Sarah KNIGHT were married on 20 MAY 1663 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Newbury.) Children were: Mary KELLY.
John KELLY was born on 17 JUN 1668 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 23 NOV 1735 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number 9QJ4-WN.
Spouse: Elizabeth EMERY. John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY were married on 16 NOV 1696 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: John KELLY, Elizabeth KELLY, Judith KELLY, Captain Richard KELLY, Stephen KELLY, Mary KELLY, Hannah KELLY, Lydia KELLY, Daniel KELLY, Sarah KELLY, Moses KELLY.
John KELLY was born on 9 OCT 1697 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 27 APR 1783 at Atkinson, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. He has Ancestral File Number GDB5-D3. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
John KELLY was born on 22 OCT 1736 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB4-6W. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Joseph KELLY was born on 1 DEC 1683 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a will on 17 APR 1751. He died in 1761 at Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 6 JUL 1761 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Jane HEATH. Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH were married on 23 DEC 1706 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Mary KELLY, Sarah KELLY, Jane KELLY, Judith KELLY, Joseph KELLY.
Joseph KELLY was born on 22 JUL 1716 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number 9B0M-N2. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH.
Spouse: Elizabeth HASTINGS. Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth HASTINGS were married on 14 MAR 1740 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Mary KELLY, Elizabeth KELLY, Mehetibel KELLY, Joseph KELLY.
Joseph KELLY was born on 10 JUL 1749 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Son of Joseph Kelly. He has Ancestral File Number QNNP-PP. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth HASTINGS.
Spouse: Elizabeth COLBY. Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth COLBY were married on 16 DEC 1778 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Joseph KELLY, Elizabeth KELLY, Mary KELLY, Robert KELLY.
Joseph KELLY was born on 9 JAN 1780 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number QNNX-R1. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth COLBY.
Judith KELLY was born on 29 MAR 1702 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 20 DEC 1738 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number GDB5-GF. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Judith KELLY was born on 11 MAY 1714 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH.
Judith KELLY was born on 17 NOV 1738 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number GDB4-73. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Laurany Susanna KELLY was born on 15 APR 1824 in New Hampshire. (calculated from age given on headstone.) She appeared in the census on 2 SEP 1850 in Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. She died on 29 JUN 1854 at Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Warren S. COLBY. Warren S. COLBY and Laurany Susanna KELLY were married on 14 NOV 1844 in Newport, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. (SOURCE: FHL Number 1000976; COLBY, Warren, Marriage: Susana KELLEY; Date: 14 Nov 1844; Recorded in: Birth and Marriage Index for New Hampshire.) Children were: Ellen J. COLBY, Hannah A. COLBY.
Lizzie A. KELLY was born on 2 MAY 1865 in Campton, Grafton County, New Hampshire. She died on 14 FEB 1927 at Lancaster, Coos County, New Hampshire.
Name: Lizzie A. Colby
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Film Number: 2078690
Digital Folder Number: 4242863
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Collection: New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947
She was buried on 16 FEB 1927 in the Riverside Cemetery at Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont
Spouse: William N. COLBY. William N. COLBY and Lizzie A. KELLY were married about 1886.
Lois KELLY was born in 1765. She died on 9 OCT 1843 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: Stephen KELLY and Lois SARGENT.
Spouse: John SAWYER. John SAWYER and Lois KELLY were married on 6 DEC 1780 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Stephen SAWYER, John SAWYER.
Lydia KELLY was born on 31 MAY 1713 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number 9QJ4-4P. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Mary KELLY was born on 24 MAY 1678 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 5 DEC 1736 at Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: John KELLY and Sarah KNIGHT.
Spouse: William DAVIS. William DAVIS and Mary KELLY were married on 31 DEC 1700 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Sarah DAVIS, Abigail DAVIS.
Mary KELLY was baptized on 6 OCT 1707 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She was born in OCT 1707 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died before 1751. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH.
Mary KELLY was born on 31 DEC 1708 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number GDB5-JR. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Mary KELLY was born on 19 NOV 1730 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 15 JAN 1822 at Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. She has Ancestral File Number BVCS-DM. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Mary KELLY was born on 17 FEB 1740/41 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number QNM4-FV. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth HASTINGS.
Mary KELLY was born on 6 AUG 1785 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number ZNNX-QT. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth COLBY.
Mary Ann KELLY was born on 9 JAN 1816 in Massachusetts. She appeared in the census on 19 AUG 1850 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. She died on 29 JAN 1875 at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Harris COLBY. Harris COLBY and Mary Ann KELLY were married on 23 FEB 1833 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) Children were: William K. COLBY, Charles H. COLBY, Laura A. COLBY.
Mary B. KELLY was born about 1809 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Daughter of Samuel and Apphia Kellyey of Goffstown. She appeared in the census in 1850 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1860 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. She appeared in the census in 1880 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. (living with son Francis) She died on 24 JUN 1890 at Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
Spouse: Thomas B. COLBY. Thomas B. COLBY and Mary B. KELLY were married on 3 APR 1834 in Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. SOURCE: FHL Number 1000976; Marriage: Mary KELLY, Date: 03 Apr 1834; Recorded in: Birth and Marriage Index for New Hampshire. Children were: Francis O. COLBY, Henry Sherburn COLBY, Alfred E. COLBY, Lewis R. COLBY, Sarah E. B. COLBY, Mary E. COLBY.
Mehetibel KELLY was born on 25 MAR 1746 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number QNM4-H7. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth HASTINGS.
Minnie L. KELLY was born on 10 OCT 1860 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. She died after 1899.
Spouse: Moses Sherman SARGENT. Moses Sherman SARGENT and Minnie L. KELLY were married on 6 MAY 1880 in Delta, Fulton County, Ohio. Children were: Tom Fowler SARGENT, Louisa E. SARGENT, Frank Edward SARGENT.
Moses KELLY was born on 26 JUL 1721 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 17 SEP 1737 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB5-QS. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Moses KELLY was born on 12 AUG 1748 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 15 MAR 1749/50 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB4-BL. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
N. W. KELLY was born on 13 FEB 1836. He died in 1885. Was an employee in the Page tannery in Concord.
Spouse: Lavinia COLBY. N. W. KELLY and Lavinia COLBY were married in MAY 1862 in Hebron, Grafton County, New Hampshire. Children were: Hattie E. KELLY, Fred E. KELLY.
Orpha S. KELLY was born on 18 SEP 1828 in New York. She appeared in the census in 1860 in Woodhull, Shiawassee County, Michigan. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Woodhull, Shiawassee County, Michigan. She died on 20 NOV 1872 at Woodhull, Shiawassee County, Michigan. She was buried in the Graham Cemetery at Woodhull, Shiawassee County, Michigan The cause of death was listed as inflamation of the bowel.
Spouse: John M. COLBY. John M. COLBY and Orpha S. KELLY were married on 14 AUG 1851. Children were: Elmer D. COLBY, Herbert Kelly COLBY, Clarence COLBY, Carl Shutz COLBY, Clio Claude COLBY, Acassia COLBY, Sidney Manser COLBY.
Ralph Richard KELLY was born on 16 FEB 1927 in Plymouth, Grafton County, New Hampshire. (Son of Ralph Kelly and Myrtle Placey.)
Spouse: Ida May COLBY. Ralph Richard KELLY and Ida May COLBY were married on 22 FEB 1947. Children were: Vickie Ileen KELLY, Ritchard Irwin KELLY, Cynthia Jean KELLY.
Captain Richard KELLY was born on 8 MAR 1704 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 18 JUN 1774 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB4-0V. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Spouse: Hannah BARTLETT. Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT were married on 16 DEC 1725 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Newbury.) Children were: Hannah KELLY, Elizabeth KELLY, Mary KELLY, Stephen KELLY, Richard KELLY, John KELLY, Judith KELLY, Stephen KELLY, Easter KELLY, Moses KELLY.
Richard KELLY was born on 29 SEP 1734 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 14 MAR 1749/50 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB4-5Q. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Ritchard Irwin KELLY was born on 27 AUG 1952. Parents: Ralph Richard KELLY and Ida May COLBY.
Spouse: Deborah Jean SANBORN. Ritchard Irwin KELLY and Deborah Jean SANBORN were married on 10 SEP 1972.
Robert KELLY was born on 2 MAR 1789 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number QNNQ-07. (BOOK SOURCE: "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts" by David W. Hoyt.)
Parents: Joseph KELLY and Elizabeth COLBY.
Sarah KELLY was born on 14 AUG 1709 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Parents: Joseph KELLY and Jane HEATH.
Sarah KELLY was born on 6 OCT 1718 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number GDB5-PM. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Sarah KELLY was born on 2 MAY 1762 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Zebediah SILVER. Zebediah SILVER and Sarah KELLY were married on 17 FEB 1785 in Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Children were: Sally SILVER, Putnam SILVER, Benjamin SILVER, Joseph SILVER, Christopher SILVER, Ralph SILVER, Laura SILVER, Roxana SILVER.
Stephen KELLY was born on 9 JUL 1706 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died in 1722 at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB5-HL. Parents: John KELLY and Elizabeth EMERY.
Stephen KELLY was born on 29 AUG 1732 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 4 NOV 1736 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number GDB4-4K. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Stephen KELLY was born on 11 NOV 1740 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He died on 7 OCT 1784 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He has Ancestral File Number BL1X-DL. Parents: Captain Richard KELLY and Hannah BARTLETT.
Spouse: Lois SARGENT. Stephen KELLY and Lois SARGENT were married on 26 MAY 1762 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Lois KELLY, Stephen KELLY.
Stephen KELLY was born on 24 APR 1764 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.) He died on 22 SEP 1837 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury. Lists Sept. 29.) He was buried in the Church Street Cemetery at Merrimac, Essex County, Massachusetts Parents: Stephen KELLY and Lois SARGENT.
Spouse: Eunice SARGENT. Stephen KELLY and Eunice SARGENT were married on 10 SEP 1788 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (SOURCE: Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts to 1850 for Amesbury.)
Vickie Ileen KELLY was born on 12 NOV 1949. Parents: Ralph Richard KELLY and Ida May COLBY.
Spouse: Robert BEAUGRAND. Robert BEAUGRAND and Vickie Ileen KELLY were married on 30 NOV 1968.
Spouse: Earl WEBSTER. Earl WEBSTER and Vickie Ileen KELLY were married on 14 APR 1978.
Spouse: Harold Dennis KING. Harold Dennis KING and Vickie Ileen KELLY were married on 22 NOV 1990.
Betty KELSEY was born on 20 DEC 1916 in Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. She died on 11 MAY 2010 at Lacey, Thurston County, Washington. Her obituary appeared in the The Olympian, on 17 JUL 2010.
Betty Kelsey Colby
Betty Kelsey Colby, born December 20, 1916, in Northfield, Minn., to Dr. Raymond and Elizabeth Walsingham Kelsey, died on May 11, 2010, in Lacey, Wash. She graduated from St. Olaf College in 1939 and obtained a master's degree in social work from Western Reserve in 1941. On June 7, 1941, she married Carroll D. Colby, also a graduate of Western Reserve.
During World War II, she moved from the East Coast to the West Coast with her husband as his assignments in the Navy changed.
In the mid-1950s, she volunteered to set up a library in an elementary school in Abington, Pa., and then was hired as a librarian in the junior high school. These events were a major factor in her decision to get a degree in library science from Drexel Institute of Technology in 1958.
After graduation from Drexel, she moved to Kingston and lived at 87 Park Place. She worked in the Osterhout Library and in the library at the Veterans Hospital in Wilkes-Barre. After that, she established a library for the Luzerne County Community College. In 1968, she and her husband moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., where she was the geology and zoology librarian at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
In her leisure time, she loved to canoe, fish, camp and hike. She was also an avid bird watcher. While at the University of North Carolina, she learned how to cut and polish precious stones, a hobby which she continued into her retirement.
She enjoyed opera, listening to Milton Cross's broadcast of opera from the Met on Saturday afternoons, and later live broadcasts of the Met in theaters.
She is survived by her husband Carroll Colby, of Lacey, Wash.; her brother, Franklin Kelsey, of Seattle, Wash.; David Colby, her son, of Princeton, N.J.; her grandchildren, Jeremy Colby of Edmond, Okla., and Natalie Thomas, of Philo, Ill.; as well as five great-grandchildren.
Spouse: Carroll D. COLBY. Carroll D. COLBY and Betty KELSEY were married on 7 JUN 1941.
Infant Daughter KELSEY was born in 1752 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She died in 1752 at Chester County, Pennsylvania. SOURCE: 1. Memorials of the McMATH Family compiled by Frank M. McMATH of the Detroit Bar, P. 3,14,20,21,22,48,65,85,119,178,184.
2. Ordinance dates checked on IGI.
3. "American Ancestry" Vol. 1, p 144 by Joel MUNSELL Sons
Mother and infant daughter died of small pox.
Children #3 & 4 reared by their grandparents, James and Mabel Wilson.
@T4215@ Parents: John KELSEY and Margaret WILSON.
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Excerpt: "The shop owner was not moving, he was just standing there, holding his head between his frail hands. Blood was dripping from his forehead. It splattered on the floor and made Rorschach tests for tiny, vile critters."
People who are habituated to the dark become afraid of the exit light. Huddling in a corner can seem like freedom when you are scared. The first time you reached the light was in a room full of strangers with masks and shiny, sharp instruments with the smell of fresh blood and placenta lurking around like the scent of a killer. A part of you and your mother had to die in order to unlock that fleshy door. The womb is a capsule that came from outer space, to inner space, to outer space. First impressions last; I suppose.
Man is a strange thing, a beast and something more, continuously balancing on a wire stretched between predatory urges and a penchant for slipping into victim-hood when hope fades like a water stain in the sun just before the rain. Fragile, yet hardy, clever and often foolish. A survivor. A creator of its own destruction. Fused in an eternal moment where the Sun declares its useless love for a moon it can never hope to embrace in order to forget about the darkness at its ever revolving back.
He’s been running for a while now. Panting and sweating. Scared. A few hours ago he was just a normal man, whatever that might be. Since then he has become a murderer and a fugitive. It happened in one long instant. He didn’t think. He just acted on a wild urge. It overcame him like a demon in a horror movie and took the lasts remnants of his innocence away for ever.
John was only twenty-seven, and aging at double speed with every hard earned breath and with each passing second. The leaves of trees at the end of uncaring branches lashed at his face. He was running up the mountain. He was reaching for the one place he knew he would feel safe. There was a flat rock under a tree which overlooked the valley. Under the rock was a treasure. A thing he buried some time after he met her. Part of it had both of their names on it. It was his place of solitude and meditation.
He has known the agony of jealousy before, but earlier today it overcame him with such menace and force that it made him physically ill. It was as bitter as the grit from a sulfur mine.
God, she was such a beautiful creature. The first time he laid eyes on her his heart leapt like an acrobat that touched an open wire. Thick, dark hair flowed down her elegant neck. She looked like a prancing horse in an open field. (He loved horses). When she came to him the first time he couldn’t speak:
“How much is the bracelet?”
He just stared at her with a blank face, feeling like an absolute fool. Disgusted at his own lack of words. She turned to his colleague with a soft smile that broke his heart and repeated the question. From that moment on he was hooked.
“John, dear Johnnie; you owe me money. I can’t let it go man. I’m in a bad situation myself. Not getting any jobs. Everybody’s a fucking photographer these days, you know? Can you make a plan my friend? Please. I’ve got a kid.”
John’s heart sank. He was hoping that this wouldn’t happen so soon. He borrowed the money six months ago as start-up capital for a business idea that turned to be a romantic and foolish notion. The bottom fell out, and since then he has been grasping at straws blowing in a disgusted wind, like it emanated from the bowels of a farting dinosaur who devoured a bean field.
“Yes I know, I’m sorry. I’m trying. I’ll have to get a job first. Give me a few days. Let me get back to you.”
He did not relish the thought of getting a shitty job to pay off a debt. He was well educated with a good track record, but as things went there were no jobs for his kind at present. His generation were deemed to be the scapegoats who had to pay for the sins of their fathers. Besides that, he couldn’t disappoint Simon. He was a friend of many years. A real nice guy to boot. One of those rare, stable creatures that had the presence of a captain on an unsinkable ship. Sometimes he envied the man’s disposition, possessing a somewhat flighty and emotional nature himself. He felt too much, way too much; and it was more often than not a terrible burden he couldn’t shake loose.
It took many hours of walking and pleading before he finally landed the job at the store. At least it was an interesting store, it sold all kinds of eclectic goods the owner hunted down at garage sales and auctions. It was also situated in one of his favourite towns. Kalk Bay was one of his regular haunts since he was a child.
One dreary day he was standing under the arches, watching the dark, moody sky, sipping on a beer protruding from a brown paper bag while contemplating the bleakness of his future, when he saw her for the second time. She came walking up the beach dressed in white. The fabric of her clothes rippled lightly in the breeze. The contrast between her dark skin and hair and the white of her dress was spellbinding. He chucked back the last of the beer and steadied himself. Then he plucked up all of his courage and walked over to her.
She was deep in thought about her abortion. She could not guess how much it would affect her. It felt like something irreplaceable was torn from her soul. She felt empty, dark and heavy. She did not notice him walking up to her. The first notice she took of another presence was when he spoke. His voice was lazy and soft, and it comforted her instantaneously. She wanted to grab onto it like it was a buoy between swells in deep, cold water.
“Hi, I met you in the shop the other day, well kind of. Do you remember?” He was nervous and he hoped it didn’t show. He was wondering why he still got nervous in the presence of beautiful women, and if he would ever outgrow it.
She beamed a smile back. (She hid her tragedy well). The amazing energy and openness behind it both alarmed and comforted him. She was stunning.
“Yes, of course. You were the silent one.” She gave a demure chuckle, like a naughty child on the verge of discovering her sexuality.
He felt a strong emotion. It was unexpected and mysterious. He could not understand it. He was in its grip, like a floundering animal.
They got to know each other better over fish and chips and cheap white wine.
“I’m an actress. Well, I try to be, but it’s not easy. It’s hard to get work. I went for a casting yesterday. It went well. I’m hoping. Fuck, I need it.” She clenched her fists, re-opened them and grabbed the thin stem of the wineglass. She downed her drink and he ordered her another one. He felt a ripple of empathy pass through his conscious.
“Yes I know. It sucks to be poor. At least we can still eat and drink wine.”
Her demeanour suddenly changed as she exchanged masks. “Yes, absolutely. Let’s drink to that.” She lifted her glass like it was a trophy for losers.
Afterwards they went for a walk on the pier and discovered that they had much in common. They listened to the same music and read the same books. Both dreamed of traveling to India and Spain and living the life of carefree bohemians.
“Do you think it’s possible to live like that?” She was feeling much better all of a sudden. The moment they were cohabiting seemed clear and light. “How would we survive? The world runs on money. It’s a beautiful fantasy though.”
The fact that she said ‘we’ excited him. His young mind jumped to wild conclusions. Already he pictured them roaming the world on a whirlwind adventure. Already he was scheming on how to make it happen.
“Surely there must be a way.”
She laughed. She was amused by his naivety, but at the same time she felt a strong pull towards him. His spontaneity and exuberance was enticing. It was the tonic she needed to take her away from her pain. She also knew that it was a selfish thing. He was the medicine she needed now and no more, but he was there and things were evolving in the moment. Besides, he seemed to like her company very much. Nobody was forcing him. For the first time after her previous failed relationship and its brutal ending she felt good about herself. She was a queen again. His company was like a drug. They agreed to meet the following evening at a bar not far away. When she suddenly made excuses to leave he felt dejected, but he didn’t show it. He greeted her with a happy demeanour and walked in the other direction as proudly as he could. The stage was set.
He didn’t sleep well that evening. Partly because of the excitement of a novel romantic prospect, and partly because of the anxiety he felt for not having any decent money. How long will a girl like her be interested in a man like him? What has he got going for him except childlike dreams and fantasies? How could he change this?
On the following night het got to the bar early and went to sit in the darkest corner he could find. He waited and watched. His heart leapt each time footsteps in the passage announced the arrival of a new patron. He was anxious. After an hour she still did not make her appearance and he grew despondent. “It’s too good to be true. She’s not coming. Let it go.”
He bought himself a bottle of house-wine. He decided to become as drunk as possible before going home. He gulped down the wine, smoked and thought too much. The alcohol numbed him to a degree, but it could not kill his emotions completely. He kept clinging onto a picture of two young people in love travelling through Spain in a carefree state of passion and freedom. It hurt him like a motherfucker, but he clung to the image with a grim sense of attachment that wouldn’t fade.
Suddenly she appeared like a ghost from a fog. Beaming a smile. He melted on the spot. He became vulnerable and weak. He’s misery seemed to disappear like it never existed and his heart was filled with wild joy.
“I’m so sorry I’m late. I’m surprised you waited this long at all? I couldn’t get away from a conversation with a friend that’s having a crisis. I’m sorry.”
She was lying, of course. She completely forgot about their appointment. She was too busy drowning in her own depression, sitting at home in front of the TV, following the story-line of her favourite soapy in a daze of raw detachment as a result of a combination of wine and tranquilizers. At one stage a handsome man kissed a woman and she suddenly remembered of her appointment. She deliberated about going. She wasn’t sure it was worth the effort. She was not sure she had the energy to deal with a man and the things they expect from a woman. Then again, it was better than drowning slowly in a puddle of misery. She remembered his soft, comforting voice and decided to go.
He ordered her a drink and they started talking about whatever came to mind. He was already slightly sloshed and he sometimes fumbled for words. She noticed that and enjoyed his sloppy attempts to impress her. She was very much aware of her power over him, and it made her feel more secure. She knew she could direct the show from there on.
“So what is your ideal occupation? I can see you somewhere completely different than where you are now. You don’t look like the cashier type to me.”
He was hoping for this question. He wanted her to understand that he had ambition. “Oh no, that’s just temporary. I’ve got a bag full of plans. I probably have too many. I’m getting out of there as soon as I paid off some debt to a friend. I’ve got plans, big plans.”
His voice was a nice escape. She didn’t feel like talking about her own misery, so she goaded him on. “Tel me more. I’m interested.”
“Well I’m business minded. I have a few ideas. I just need to pay off my debt and build up capital. I’ve learned from my previous failures. I won’t make the same mistakes. Up till now it was school fees. The only way to learn is to fail, or so they say. Let me not bore you with the details. Let’s talk about the future and travel.”
They stumbled into her place late that night. They were silly with drunkenness. The TV was still on and the ghostly voices of bad actors played with schizophrenic shadows on the wall. They undressed each other. She asked him to tie her up. She was brave with intoxication. He was hesitant. It was not the type of request he expected from a girl like her, but then again he knew enough to know that one never really knew another person and that we all project the images we expected, wanted and needed on the people around us. And of course people start acting in accordance with this projection, and so the dance continues.
She opened a drawer full of silk scarves. Some were red and some were black. She went and sat on the bed and waited. The situation made him insecure, but he acted out his part as best as he could. When she was finally tied up he did not feel any sort of arousal at all. She tried to goad him, but it only made things worse. It was an uncomfortable situation. He apologized profusely but she consoled him and told him not to worry about it: “It’s a bit strange, I know. It’s your first time at trying something like this, it’s no big deal. You have to understand it first, maybe. Give it time.”
He untied her and they went to sleep. In the early morning after the effects of the alcohol wore off he regained his composure. He turned her onto her back and opened her legs. She seemed to have been waiting for this, and welcomed the act. The sex was rough and intense. She demanded it from him: “Harder!”
Afterwards he went to lie with his head on her belly. She played with his hair while she smoked a cigarette. He felt much better after that.
They fell into their strange relationship without much effort. She enjoyed the comfort and the sex. She also enjoyed being punished, even though he didn’t relish performing the twisted acts she demanded of him. She needed to suffer. She ate the pain like bread baked on a funeral pyre. She deserved it. She was paying off her debt.
He was in love. He made her forget about herself. He was a great escape. She was a queen to him, and her emotional distance made him want her more. He was slowly becoming obsessed with her and the idea he had of them as a couple. He wanted things to move faster. He needed to pay of his debt. He needed to provide her with entertainment and excitement.
Her jobs never came off. She got behind with her rent. She asked him to move in. He did, although he could not really afford to move out of the little room he rented. After a while, the financial stress threatened to break them apart.
“I’m not sure this is working any longer. In fact this is turning into a disaster. We are two months behind with the rent. What are we going to do?”
Her confession tortured him.
“We will make a plan.”
She gave a cynical chuckle: “You always say that. When are you going to get a real job? When will you own yourself and become a man?”
Invariably her attempts to make him feel small worked like a dark charm. He’s ego would rise to the occasion and he would become defensive and sometimes the hurt would make him lash out at her.
“And you? What about you? I don’t see you doing much.”
An argument would ensue. He would always feel like shit a few hours later and he would crawl back to her and apologize like a wounded animal seeking healing and forgiveness. He was in her power. She tolerated his pathetic displays. She had to. She had plans for him.
The tension became unbearable.
One day he was drinking on his own in the flat. She left him behind like she sometimes does, disappearing on one of her mysterious adventures. She demanded the freedom. He gave it to her. What other choice did he have? He was completely in her power.
Sometimes he imagined the things that she might be doing and it would drive him into despair, but she always consoled him when she got back. He trusted her. He had to.
After a half a bottle of whisky was finished he stood up and rummaged through her cupboards until he found an old stocking. He pulled it over his head and laughed at himself in the mirror:
“No way brother, this won’t work. It’s a mad idea. It’s not worth it.”
He drank some more. A bit later he got up and took a taxi to a mall. In the toy store he bought a fake gun and a Winnie the Pooh mask. He walked straight from there to a corner cafe he saw on his way over. It was only a few blocks down. He stuck the gun in the proprietors face, demanding that he empty the cash register. The frightened man handed over the money like he was giving away candy on Halloween. He took it and walked away. By the time the adrenaline kicked in hard, he was long gone. He bought another bottle, went back to the flat and continued to get drunker.
She needed more than he could give her, and she was on the prowl. She met up with some friends earlier, but she left them behind in search of her quarry. She felt dangerous and she needed danger. She recognized him immediately where he was playing pool in the corner of a popular club. He was confident and manly. He was also one of John’s older friends. She went and stood a short distance away and waited for him to recognize her. It did not take long.
“Hi, aren’t you John’s girlfriend? He speaks about you often. He’s crazy about you, you know?”
She has gotten used to the fact that she received much attention in public places. She liked it. It turned her on.
“Girlfriend of sorts I suppose. Yes, he should be, I’m fucking worth it. I’m a lousy cook though, but I clean up pretty well.”
She gave him an intimate gaze as she spoke and she made sure he held it. He felt uncomfortable and averted his gaze somewhere else after a few moments. She was beautiful, no doubt; but he had enough experience in these things to know that she was the dangerous type. In all probability highly unstable and manipulative behind her cool façade. He’s been around that block too many times before.
It was harder to seduce him than she thought it would be. He was obviously not the fickle type. He had principles, but he was no match for her. In the end he was still a man, and she was still a beautiful woman. He gave in reluctantly, rationalizing that he deserved it after a long spell of going solo. The drinks helped with this. He resolved to stay emotionally detached from her. She was a witch, and a clever one at that.
They went to his place. The sex was not spectacular to her mind. He was way too caring. She did not want to be cared for. She got enough of that from John. She just needed to be fucked.
Unlike him, she felt no remorse after the act. She liked having sex and she like playing the game. To her mind there was nothing to be ashamed of.
When she got back to her flat she found John passed out on the couch. An empty bottle of whisky lay on the floor next to a Winnie the Pooh mask.
“Odd” she thought.
She slipped past him, took a shower and went to bed. She had no dreams that night.
He was surprised how easy it was. He robbed places all over the Western Cape at random to ensure they couldn’t be connected. Sometimes he came away with more than he expected or hoped for. At other times he got almost nothing. It didn’t matter to him though. It has long since stopped being about the money. By now he’s debt was paid off and they were renting a fair sized cottage in Kalk Bay.
He’s main motivation now was the rush. The adrenaline. The danger, and the knowing that he was clever enough to get away with it. (Or maybe they were simply stupid?) Einstein’s theory of relative stupidity.
He told her that he got a decent job in the city managing a club and that he made good money. She didn’t bother to question him. She didn’t really care. All that mattered was that her life had some sort of stability. Sure they fought from time to time, but she was always in control so she could handle that. She knew exactly what to say in the right moment to make him fall down and whimper like a dog. She could be very cruel when she needed to be, but she also knew how to console him with her attention and her sex. He was like putty in her hands.
She continued to meet with Simon from time to time. Like John, he also succumbed to her spell. She had two lovers now, and she was considering getting a third. Her appetite was insatiable. Her pain drove her on.
The day came when he became too reckless and arrogant, and he almost got caught. More often than not he was semi-drunk when he pulled a job. It helped to calm him down. The last few weeks he was also in a fragile state of mind. He started to notice things about Carmen that made him suspicious. He suspected that she was hiding something from him. In the beginning he rationalized it as normal paranoia, partly stemming from the cocaine habit they have developed over the months, but as time progressed he started noticing things that nagged at him. The way she walked out of the room to have private phone conversations. The way she dressed and made herself up before going on her little adventures. The way she acted on her return. “Why did she always have to take a shower just then?”
Questions like these started plaguing him day and night. He decided to start following her. He had to know.
It seemed to be a fairly simple job. It was a pawn shop in Kuilsriver that specialized in trading second hand jewellery. He has been casing it for weeks and he also made a contact on the inside. She was a young and slightly bulky lady that worked the till and he found it easy to seduce her. He knew that they had a significant amount of cash on the premises after cash up on Saturdays. There would also be jewellery. It would be his largest and most daring job to date, but it was time to step things up. He’s confidence as a thief as well as a man has blossomed after his successes and he was getting good at this game.
He has also decided to upgrade to a real gun. He needed to know that he would be more secure in case things did go awry one day. Besides, he’s growing ego demanded to be taken more seriously.
It was surprisingly easy to get. All it took was a few enquiries at a dive bar in Salt River and some cash. The first time he held the pistol in his hand it scared him, but he soon got used to it. After a while he relished the feeling of power and control it gave him. It was a huge confidence booster.
He went to practice shooting in an empty field out of town and he found that the activity exhilarated him. Soon it was his favourite Sunday afternoon pastime. He would take some cocaine, a few beers and a joint and have a ball while imagining himself to be a soldier in combat, doing drills he googled on the internet and shooting up some props he managed to string together. It was also a great stress relief.
Their latest thrill was having sex in public. It was her idea. They would drive to the parking lot of a large shopping complex, go park in a far corner and get it on. The nervous tension with the added feeling of exhibitionism heightened their ecstasy. Combined with cocaine and a bottle of tequila it made them fly high, it almost felt like love; but it wasn’t. Not to her mind anyway. It was pure lust and adrenaline.
Once they got caught by an old man in a wheelchair where he sat silently observing, enjoying the show. They only noticed him after the act. She just laughed, but he got angry. This surprised her. She never knew him to be an aggressive type. He got out of the car and swore at the man while recklessly pushing him away.
“You sick old fuck!”
The wheelchair came close to falling over. From then on she noticed how his level of aggression rose from week to week to a point where she became very concerned about he’s mental state.
Finally the day game. He was confident that he planned everything as well as possible. He was wearing a different mask now, the Frankenstein persona suited his more aggressive style and it had a more intimidating effect. It was a perfect Saturday. Full sun and hardly a breeze. He smoked some cheese as he drove to Kuils River. It calmed him down and cleared his mind. He also sipped on a half jack. Just before he put on his mask in the parking lot he sniffed two fat lines. He waited for a few minutes until the full effect kicked in, all the while talking to himself in the rear-view mirror: “Don’t’ think, just do. Don’t think, just do.”
When he finally left the car in a jumbled state he dropped the gun on the tar. A young boy who walked buy stopped and gaped with an open mouth before running off.
“Fuck off you little shit!”
The words escaped like the first fiery balls of a volcano about to explode. He had an oppressing anger pent up inside him, and he was not sure exactly what the root was; but it’s been there for a while, building up slowly and menacingly. For a moment he considered not doing the job. Something was off. He could feel it in his gut.
“You’re just paranoid. It’s the coke. Pull yourself together man!” he chastised himself. He picked up the gun, put on the mask and headed for the security door. When he got there he banged on the steel frame and shouted her name out loud: “Sarah! Sarah!”
She was supposed to have it unlocked. A few moments later it opened with a click. Inside she was standing behind the counter, looking as afraid as a rabbit with a smoking bullet hole in one floppy ear. “Why did you call my name? You idiot!” she hissed like a snake on a hot stove. She jerked a thumb pointing to the back. “He’s there.” She semi-whispered it like she was uttering a profanity in an empty church.
He ran to the back. A middle aged Indian man was there standing with a mug and a smouldering cigarette in his hand. He looked up and his face went slack and ashen. John was pointing the gun at him and combined with his frantic demeanour and Frankenstein mask, it made for a terrifying spectacle.
“Okay motherfucker, as you might have guessed by now, this is not a visit from a priest. Show me the bling motherfucker!”
“Bling…?”
The man was dazed by shock and slow to react. He tried to say more, but he’s mouth was suddenly dry and stiff. He dreaded this day. He knew it was just a question of time, and now; here it was, like a feared curse that finally came to fruition. He’s mind was racing at the speed of the ever expanding universe. When he finally gathered enough of his sense to utter something it was too late…
John ran forward while taking the pistol by the front end. When he butted the confused man the gun went off and he could feel a searing hot pain emanating like a cosmic flash through the right hand side of his upper body.
“FUUUUCK! Fuck-fuck-fuck!”
The shop owner was not moving, he was just standing there holding his head between his frail hands. Blood was dripping from his forehead. It splattered on the floor and made Rorschach tests for tiny, vile critters.
John forced himself to regain his composure. He willed away the pain and worked himself up into a state of frantic resilience. Blood was pouring from his side and he was starting to sweat heavily. This made for a much more horrendous spectacle which shook the shop owner into some form of clarity. “Let me help you.” he uttered with a feeble voice.
“FUCK YOU MAN! I don’t want your help, I want your MONEY! Your jewellery.”
John branded the pistol in an unruly fashion. The fragile Indian realized things were getting dangerously out of hand and decided to comply as meekly and quickly as he possibly could manage under the circumstance. The sooner he could get this wild madman out of here, the better. He had a feeling he would survive the ordeal. The man did not seem to have the composure of a killer. He also knew that he was well insured. It was only money and jewellery after all. He scurried over to the till with John following him while breathing heavily. John took a white linen bag from his back pocket which gradually filed up with cash and jewellery. By the time he was ready to make his escape a few minutes later he was already starting to feel slightly weak. He knew he needed some sort of medical attention urgently. As he drove of he could hear the police sirens blaring in the distance. A few minutes later, as two police vehicles sped past him; he somehow managed to stay sane enough in order not to raise any suspicion. On his frantic flight he passed a veterinary clinic. He screeched to a halt and reversed into its parking lot. There was a mother and child with a poodle in hand who both stared in shock at the bloody man with the gun who ran past them into the building. Inside there were a few customers and a receptionist who looked at him in disbelief. A tiny yelp escaped form the girl at the counter.
“Where’s the doctor?”
She stared at him with a perplexed expression.
“The fucking vet, man!”
Moments later an elderly man dressed in white entered the scenario. He heard the commotion from the adjacent room and came to investigate. He assessed the situation in seconds and put his hands in the air while speaking with a soothing and calm voice, (being quite old he has long since made his peace and the fear of death did not have much on him): “Calm down, no need to panic. You can have the money. Take everything you need, but please don’t hurt anyone.”
“I don’t want your money old man. Look at me”, he pointed to his upper body, “I’m fuct man! I need help.”
The old man replied with the same steady voice: “Yes, I will do what I can, but you will have to come into the surgery.”
John thought about this suggestion for a few moments. He felt vulnerable and scared, but he couldn’t show it. He’s instincts told him that it was of vital importance that he stayed in control.
“What’s behind that door?” John pointed wildly with the pistol to another door across the room.
“Storeroom”, the old man replied.
“Everybody get in there, everybody except doc over here!”!” He motioned with the gun and his shocked audience complied without much hesitation.
Afterwards he got his wound disinfected and stitched up, holding the vet at gunpoint; while all manner of animals in holding cages loudly proclaimed their dismay of the situation.
Minutes later he was in the driver’s seat again. He took a few of the tranquilizers the vet gave him, chasing it with a few large swigs from the half jack. For good measure he had another two fat lines of coke.
He peered into the bag on the back seat. It was a good haul. Possibly his best yet. He felt slightly better.
When the combination of drugs and booze kicked in he managed to drive all the way back to Kalk Bay with relative ease. He knew he couldn’t go home like this. He needed time to think. He decided to take Boyes drive where he stopped at a lookout point. There was another car with a couple in it. The women was on top of the man in the driver’s seat and the car was rocking gently. He could see her naked bouncing breasts, but her dark her blocked her face. He stared at them as if transfixed in a trance. Then he recognised the man and his hart sank. He jumped out of the car and walked over. He peered in and at that moment she turned her head. Their eyes met and a wild anger burnt the expression of her sexual ecstacy deep into his face. The volcano erupted with tremendous force. He went blank after that.
He opened up the cavity under the rock where he stashed the ukulele and took it out. It was wrapped in a bright red cloth with intricate patterns on he bought at a shop owned by an ancient women who claimed she got her exotic wares from places like Tibet, Bhutan and India. She said that this particular garment came all the way from Kashmir and that it was pure hand-woven silk. It depicted a man and a woman in front of an ornate gate with a pyramid like structure in the background. The shop owner said it was symbolic of a man and a woman entering into a union that will make them enter the temple of eternal love.
In that moment it caused him immense pain, and he frantically tore it to pieces. He felt more calm after that and he thought about how close he came to dying a few hours ago. He put his hand on the side of his body and felt the tender wound where the bullet passed through him. He was thinking that it would have been better if the bullet entered his skull and killed him. He imagined himself to be dead in a parallel universe. He picked up the ukulele and plucked at the strings. He looked at their names carved on the bottom and laughed. He continued to play and the sounds it made seemed distant and unreal. He stuck his hand inside the body of the ukulele where he stashed the ring and the tickets. It was supposed to be the ultimate, romantic surprise. He has planned the whole thing over and over in his head for weeks. The two of them going on an adventure of a lifetime with a bag of cash. He smashed the ukulele against the rock and put the diamond ring on his pinkie. (He thought about throwing it into the bushes, but sanity prevailed). He read her name out loud on the one ticket after which he burned it. He drank some more and took enough pills to make him pass out. He only woke up when the frosty breeze that blew from the ocean made his teeth chatter. He knew he couldn’t go home now, but he had cash and a plane ticket.
He knew he was supposed to love Argentina. It was sunny, there was good meat, beautiful women and enough cheap wine; but the thing he carried within was too heavy and too dark for him to find pleasure in any of this. He walked the streets like a hollow man, stepping from one little bar to the next, staying drunk and hardly eating or sleeping. He was wasting away in body, mind and spirit. One late evening he collapsed in a dark door frame that overlooked a plaza where young couples groped at each other under dim street lights. He came to a great realization then:
There comes a time when a person’s feels like a ghost, something that should have been dead and gone. This can happen at any age, it all depends on the life that was lived, the choices that were made and how the dice rolled when it got set free to dance with gravity. This is how he felt now. As if he had no more right to be. As if he missed his window to escape the struggle because of some cosmic glitch that allowed him to slip into the impossibly narrow space between life and death. Like a breathless breath. Like the flattest end of a needles point. He felt as if he has missed his exit.
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The Valley of the Moon
by Jack London
Jack London (1876-1916) was born in squalor and rose to become one of the most recognized names in American literature. London's travel and adventure stories have made him a favorite not only among young American boys, but also among scholars and authors like George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway because of his ability to infuse his writing with his own unique philosophical beliefs. As an ardent Socialist, London's views were an often overwhelming mix of Nietzsche,… (more)
Jack London (1876-1916) was born in squalor and rose to become one of the most recognized names in American literature. London's travel and adventure stories have made him a favorite not only among young American boys, but also among scholars and authors like George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway because of his ability to infuse his writing with his own unique philosophical beliefs. As an ardent Socialist, London's views were an often overwhelming mix of Nietzsche, Marx and Darwin's theories on evolution and society, in whom he was thoroughly well-read. His 1913 novel, "The Valley of the Moon", chronicles the journey of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon, who leave Oakland, CA in the midst of labor strife to search for suitable farmland farther north. They find what they're looking for in the Valley of the Moon, a Native American name for the Sonoma Valley, where Jack London lived on his ranch for the last part of his life.
Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing (January 01, 2011)
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The complete maus analysis. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman 2019-02-28
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As the Germans being drawn as cats; cats being bigger and more independent tend to eat mice. Among the graphic artists who influenced Maus, Spiegelman cited , who had made early in such as 1919. It partly shows the frightful situation the prisoners of war found themselves in, as well as the great amount of joy the liberation brought them. In conclusion, the author had the intention to illustrate the positive state of being of Vladek before the war. Testimony After Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence.
The Complete Maus
It is such a simple drawing, small 566 Words 2 Pages In the book Maus it shows many structures in the way the animals are portrayed. Not only is it the first graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer prize, but its presence has been ubiquitous in academia—appealing to scholars interested in areas such as the image-text relationship, animal studies, postmodernism, history, memoir, Holocaust studies, and race, among others. Audience and purpose The audience for our panel is a rather extended group. Everyone has read one as a child, and that is exactly what they are: books for children. He is not forthcoming with Lucia about his intentions, though he has clearly dismissed the idea of marrying her because she has no money to bring to the relationship. He began another series of interviews with his father in 1978, and visited Auschwitz in 1979. Spiegelman shows numerous instances of Poles who risked themselves to aid Jews, and also shows antisemitism as being rife among them.
An descendant objected and threatened to sue for. The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival. This section contains 573 words approx. Mala and Vladek eventually reunite, and they move to Florida together. They emigrate first to Sweden, and then to the United States, where they begin a new life and a new family with the birth of Art, their second son.
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Through a detailed series of horrific experiences, Vladek and Anja manage to survive the Holocaust and a series of deportations and mass executions and eventually are liberated by the advancing allied armies. The story that Vladek tells unfolds in the narrative past, which begins in the mid-1930s and continues until the end of in 1945. After the birth of Richieu Anja suffers a nervous collapse, c. Slavery and the Holocaust were made to make these groups of people feel inferior to those who were in control of them. After this date, Vladek says, Lucia seemed to appear wherever he went, and was always trying to convince him to invite her home.
Holocaust and racism are two inseparable elements. With this separation it held different conditions and lifestyles for each particular group and the way they can properly function to do their own culture or social practices. Maus is not only a story of the horrors of the concentration camps, but of a son, Artie, working through his issues with his father, Vladek. Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative. The story jumps to 1986, after the first six chapters of Maus have appeared in a collected edition.
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Moreover, she is extremely frightened, since she pretends to be seeing this bear — a frightful animal, representing a German soldier. The third panel shows an overwhelming freedom, and the necessary happiness to come with it. Art asks after Anja's diaries, which Vladek tells him were her account of her Holocaust experiences and the only record of what happened to her after her separation from Vladek at Auschwitz, and which Vladek says she had wanted Art to read. In Williams, Paul; Lyons, James. She killed herself by slitting her wrists in a bathtub in May 1968, and left no suicide note. In 1977, he married Françoise Mouly.
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Vladek begs Art not to include this in the book, and Art reluctantly agrees. Trespassing Through Shadows: Memory, Photography, and the Holocaust. For one, this could show how after his father dies, he loses the piece of himself that is Jewish. Comics writer and critic objected to Maus 's use of animals and the negative depiction of Spiegelman's father. Through this analysis, Maus becomes an example of how the Holocaust has effected the lives of survivors and their children for decades. Cats are the Germans, who then prey on the mice the Jewish people.
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He survives a frigid train ride because he eats snow from the roof, he becomes friends with a Polish guard because he teaches him to speak English, and he teaches himself how to mend shoes and becomes the official cobbler of the camp. Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!. It is in the adaptation of living in a merciless world that the line separating right and wrong begins to blur. Artie, now a grown man, is visiting his father in Rego Park. Art shows how people will stand up and care for one another, even when it means putting their own life at risk. Analysis In Chapter 1, we learn that Art - both the author and the narrator of Maus - wishes to draw a book about his father's experiences during the Holocaust.
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Afterwards, features of postgeneration art will be presented in detail, as second generation literature and art mirrors the depression and horrid state of the mind of survivors. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so don't worry about it. The discussions in those fanzines about making the in comics inspired him. The publishers of the German edition had to convince the German culture ministry of the work's serious intent to have the swastika appear on the cover, per. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 bear some minor similarities, the difference between them are more clear, which includes whether the plot is linear and sequential, and the use of stream of consciousness, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. Vladek mounts a stationary bicycle and begins to tell his story.
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TIME FOR THE BIG ONE IN SARDINIA
Written on 14 June 2019 . Posted in Rally
ALGHERO, JUNE 13 2019
For Italian rally talent Mattia Vita, Rally Italia Sardegna this weekend is the big one. Not only is it his home round of the World Rally Championship, but it also counts for double points on the Italian Junior Rally Championship, which Mattia is contesting this year in a Ford Fiesta R2T.
The prize for winning the Italian title is a scholarship towards the Junior WRC next year, which is competing in Sardinia this weekend as well. As a result, this is a perfect opportunity for Mattia to compare his speed against those who regularly compete in the category. The Junior WRC is an established path towards the very top of international rallying: previous winners include Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier.
Rally Italia Sardegna, which has been Italy’s round of the World Rally Championship since 2004, is all about dust and gravel. Based in the seaside town of Alghero to the north of the island, the stages are some of the toughest in the world, with a soft and sandy surface that covers a hard base. One of the highlights of the rally is Micky’s Jump: a spectacular jump that is a regular fan favourite. Just getting to the finish of the rally is an achievement, as it’s very hard to judge the right pace.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP SITUATION
Mattia is currently third in the Italian Junior Championship standings, but the situation could evolve rapidly over the weekend as Sardinia counts for double points, with three rounds remaining afterwards. He’s competing as part of ACI Team Italia: Italy’s national rally team, denoting the country’s most promising talent, co-driven by Massimiliano Bosi.
The rally gets underway tonight (Thursday) at 4pm from Alghero, with the first spectator super special stage. There’s an early start on Friday, before the rally concludes on Sunday after a total of 19 special stages and 310 competitive kilometres, making this the longest event that Mattia has driven.
MATTIA SAYS
“Without a doubt this is the highlight of the season for me, as I get to compete on my home round of the World Rally Championship on the same stages as the best drivers in the world. This weekend will also be really useful for me to assess my pace – as the regular Junior WRC drivers are also competing, so I can directly compare my times to what they are doing. The Junior WRC is where I want to be next year, so this is really useful information.
“The start of my season has gone quite well, so I’m feeling confident, but I’m fully expecting Sardinia to be the toughest event I have ever driven. The shakedown this morning showed us what to expect: rough roads, hot temperatures and massive competition. This is definitely a rally where you have to drive intelligently, especially with our road position behind the World Rally Cars. The roads are likely to be rough and rutted, so it’s going to be vital to look after the car. Our plan for the rally is to do what we’ve always done: find our pace, stay consistent, and hopefully pick up the points that we need at the end.”
Rally Sardinia is one of the most popular events on the World Rally Championship calendar. Last year it scored first in the WRC rankings in terms of worldwide transmission, reaching 1515 hours. It’s a tradition for the event winner to dive into the port of Alghero after the finish on Sunday lunchtime: a refreshing cool-down from the 30-degree ambient temperatures!
ABOUT MATTIA
Mattia Vita began his motorsport career in karting with success in his native Italy and in Europe. He went on to race single-seaters in Formula 3 before making the switch to rallying, where both his father and mother have competed in the past. Last year, he finished just off the podium in his first international season: ERC Junior U27. For this year, he’s competing as part of ACI Team Italia in Italy and abroad, with the aim of contesting the Junior WRC in 2020.
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Profile: Rockford crime family mobster Salvatore Galluzzo
Posted by Gangsters Inc. on May 19, 2016 at 7:30am
With his death on May 4, 2016, at the age of 82, mobster Salvatore “Sam” Galluzzo closed the extensive file the FBI had on him relating to his involvement in the Rockford La Cosa Nostra family and possibly the Sicilian Mafia. Many in local law enforcement and at least one newspaper reporter felt that Galluzzo was the undisputed head of what remained of the Rockford crime family.
Galluzzo was born March 6, 1934, in Aragona, Sicily. Although nothing is known about his life in Sicily other than he worked on the family farm, he had moved to Rockford, Illinois, shortly after marrying Giuseppa Piranio in Aragona. Galluzzo’s time in Rockford in the 1960s consisted of raising a family and working at the various Rockford mob-fronted businesses. In February 1968 he attempted to get the city to pay for damages on his car relating to an accident with a loose manhole cover. In 1970 Galluzzo was listed as the owner of the Sta-Von Tap at 1051 W. State Street- this business had been secretly controlled by the Rockford LCN for many years and he was no doubt a “front man” for the business. Before Galluzzo “owned” it, Rockford LCN capo Charles Vince secretly held the liquor license in his wife’s name and transferred it to Galluzzo.
Around this time Rockford underboss Frank Buscemi was bringing many Sicilians into the Rockford area to help strengthen the “family” according to Rockford Police detectives. A later FBI file on Buscemi stated, “BUSCEMI is a long-time ranking LCN figure in the Rockford, Illinois, LCN group. BUSCEMI has personally stated that he has “sponsored” in excess of 20 Sicilian immigrants into the United States and has obvious close involvement with numerous pizza restaurants “owned” and/or operated by recent Sicilian immigrants.” Two of Galluzzo’s brothers, Natale and Michele immigrated to Rockford around 1970 as well as a brother-in-law, Salvatore DiGiacomo. Undoubtedly these men were some of those Sicilian immigrants “sponsored” by Buscemi.
In early 1971 Galluzzo was mentioned briefly in Rockford mob member Sebastian Gulotta’s FBI files. The bureau reported that Galluzzo had bought Gulotta’s house at 403-405 S. 3rd Street in the area near downtown Rockford but that was a rental property for him as he had been noted as living on the east side of Rockford not far from Rockford mob underboss Frank Buscemi later that year.
On December 19, 1971 Galluzzo was arrested for the first time in Rockford on an aggravated assault charge when he threatened Wayne R. Fisher, 23, of 517 West State Street with a gun over back rent. Galluzzo was released on $3,500 bond and was only given a fine in this case.
Galluzzo was arrested once again on August 25, 1972 when he was charged with aggravated battery in the stabbing of Filippo Mendez, 38, of 405 South 3rd Street. While at the Sta-Von Tap, Galluzzo demanded the $15 Mendez owed him. Mendez said he didn’t have it, Galluzzo slapped him and when they went outside, Galluzzo stabbed Mendez with a hook knife, leaving an 8 inch stab wound in his left chest. Galluzzo was held on $3,500 bond and again was only fined in this case.
By December 1976 Galluzzo had changed the name of the Sta-Von Tap to Night & Day Disco in response to the new music/dance craze that was becoming popular but that month the tavern allegedly had a break in. According to Galluzzo $3,708 worth of liquor, electronic equipment and money was stolen when someone took the hinges off a back storage room door.
On February 5, 1979 an arson attempt at the Night & Day Disco was quickly put out by Rockford firefighters; however, another attempt on February 12th destroyed the tavern. Investigators said several plastic containers containing a flammable liquid were found inside the vacant apartments above the tavern but no one was arrested for this. Galluzzo sued the insurance company for $201,778.21 in damages which included a $50,000 policy that he signed on March 30, 1978. It is unclear if the money was paid to Galluzzo but by later 1979 the liquor license was transferred to Frank A. Buscemi, the son of underboss Frank Buscemi. The younger Buscemi then opened up a popular nightspot called Plaza Suite at 640 Hollister Avenue. According to a former employee of the lounge, the elder Buscemi was really the owner and would make regular visits to check on his investment and it was also said that cocaine was being run in and out of the business regularly.
According to FBI files, in February 1980 Rockford mob boss Joe Zammuto had held a series of meetings with the Rockford LCN members at his winter home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It was at one of these meetings he informed the members that the Rockford family would start trafficking in narcotics. One Rockford member, Joe Maggio, voiced his displeasure at this decision and it was duly noted. According to FBI files, within two days of returning to Rockford, Maggio’s daughter was severely beaten by a Rockford narcotics dealer related to Zammuto. The files noted that Maggio was furious over the beating and openly exchanged threats with the dealer for almost two months. Sensing that Maggio could become a problem, Zammuto dealt with this swiftly. On April 9, 1980 Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies found Maggio’s car on the side of Safford Road near Meridian Road on the western edge of Rockford. Slumped in the backseat was the body of Maggio, who had been shot once in the side of the head with a .25 caliber pistol at close range. FBI files from February 17, 1981 showed that the bureau had a prime suspect in Maggio’s murder but the killer was never brought to justice. Later rumors swirled that perhaps Maggio’s longtime friend and Rockford LCN member Sebastian Gulotta was involved as well as Salvatore Galluzzo in order to cement his initiation in the Rockford mob.
In January 1983 Galluzzo was the owner of record for the lounge Play It Again Sam’s at 1600 S. Bell School Road in Cherry Valley, Illinois and although the name of the business would change over the years, it would be under heavy surveillance by the FBI in regards to Rockford LCN meetings and narcotics distribution.
On March 4, 1984 the Rockford Register Star newspaper landed on people’s front doorsteps with an explosive and lengthy article on the history of the Rockford mob. Murders, extortion, shady business deals and other crimes were played out in the newspaper that caused both intrigue and embarrassment for the Rockford Italian community.
The reporters for the article used FBI files, interviews and detailed Rockford Police reports on the various Rockford mob members to write the story. It was in this article that it was stated according to the police reports Galluzzo was identified as a Rockford “mob soldier.” The article also stated that that underboss Frank Buscemi was involved in the pizza business with Galluzzo and the DiGiacomos- ther family that had come to Rockford from Aragona, Sicily around 1970. Interestingly, soon after the article came out, the Rockford Police reports on the Rockford LCN were destroyed. Even later still in a 2005 interview as to why this was done, Rockford Police Chief Detective Dominic Iasparro admitted he was involved in the destruction of the files but stated it was “part of a national effort to purge documents that were not related to specific people and specific crimes.” The mob file purging, however, was done without the knowledge of then-Rockford Police Chief William Fitzpatrick, who said he would have objected to destroying the files.
As far back as 1983 Rockford underboss Frank Buscemi was being investigated by the FBI for his involvement in a narcotics ring that tied into another investigation in Boston, Massachusetts. As the bureau delved deeper into Buscemi’s involvement in this, it was discovered just how far-reaching this ring was and that it included the Rockford mob’s relatively recent Sicilian immigrants. Numerous calls from Buscemi to Buffalo, Boston, Springfield, Illinois, Sicily, Australia, Milwaukee and Chicago were all noted by the bureau. Salvatore Galluzzo was mentioned in Buscemi’s April 15, 1986 FBI file as an individual who is “involved in a large-scale heroin trafficking organization, one portion of which is based in Rockford, Illinois, United States of America.”
These Sicilians were importing and distributing heroin and cocaine through various mob-fronted businesses in and around the Rockford area. Others mentioned in this file as being involved besides Buscemi and Galluzzo were Salvatore DiGiacomo, Libertino “Bino” Seminerio and Ray Zammuto. This narcotics ring was ultimately tied into the Iron Tower II case in 1988 which saw more than 200 people arrested in Buffalo, Baltimore, Miami, Newark, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Palermo, Bologna and Florence. The lone Rockford arrest was Joe Ocello, a Sicilian who had come to Rockford in 1972 and was the owner of record for the Sicilian Restaurant in Roscoe, Illinois which was also under heavy FBI surveillance. The FBI stated that this case grew out of the previous “Pizza Connection” case.
Additionally, Galluzzo had two brothers-in-law that were living in Belgium and Germany at the time- Alfonso DiGiacomo and Pietro DiGiacomo, whom Galluzzo kept in contact with, as well as his brother Vincenzo Galluzzo who lived in Germany. With Frank Buscemi’s 1980s FBI files, the bureau noted with interest an entry made by the OCIS/Boston Division regarding Antonino DiGiacomo who was murdered in approximately 1977. It stated that prior to his murder, DiGiacomo resided in Aragona, Sicily. The bureau then noted that Frank Buscemi as well as Salvatore DiGiacomo, Salvatore Galluzzo and two other redacted individuals were born in and immigrated from Aragona. Again, it is noteworthy that at the time in Boston there was a capo named Biagio DiGiacomo who had immigrated from Aragona.
Almost two dozen businesses were under heavy FBI surveillance during this time and in addition to Rockford area vending businesses the bureau also wanted to determine ownership and corporate officers for the following Rockford restaurants; Cimino Pizza & Restaurant at 5435 N. 2nd Street, Sam’s Pizza at 2134 Charles Street, Sam’s Pizza at 1031 Harlem Road and Little Italy at 501 E. State Street. Regarding the Sam’s Pizza at 1031 Harlem Road, the Rockford mob openly bared its teeth on December 18, 1983. Just a couple days before, a Little Caesar’s Pizza store had opened up about a half mile from Sam’s Pizza. In the early morning hours of the 18th two bombs which were thrown through the front window exploded and did extensive damage. An April 23, 1991 FBI file on Rockford LCN member Sebastian Gulotta stated a “source advised it was rumored that GULOTTA and/or his associates…. used the same type of bomb that GULOTTA had used to bomb the Little Caesar’s (Pizza) Restaurant in Loves Park, Illinois in the mid-to-early 1980’s to eliminate them as competition from Sam’s Pizza.” The March 1984 Rockford Register Star article had Gulotta pegged as the Rockford LCN’s lieutenant at the time. The owners of Sam’s Pizza on Harlem Road at the time were listed as brothers Alfonso and Salvatore DiGiacomo and Michele Galluzzo, Salvatore Galluzzo’s brother.
On December 7, 1987 Rockford underboss Frank Buscemi died at the age of 75. Before Buscemi passed away, 1980s FBI files still noted that Joe Zammuto was the absolute boss of the Rockford LCN and that Buscemi held the number two spot. However when Buscemi died, Zammuto was already 91 years old. It seemed a turnover in the Rockford mob leadership was happening.
FBI files made note that “GALLUZZO is a close associate of BUSCEMI, as well as other Sicilian immigrants involved in suspected illegal activities. GALLUZZO has extensive real estate holdings, primarily pizza restaurants, throughout northern Illinois.” While earlier FBI files noted the possibility that younger mob members were “hungry” and preparing to take over, this may not have been the case as a January 14, 1994 FBI file entry on Gulotta points out. Entries in Gulotta’s files made a statement which read in part: “For the information of Legats (Legal attaches/FBI offices), Bonn, Brussels, Ottawa and Rome, captioned subject (Gulotta) is a suspected member/enforcer of the Sicilian mafia faction in Rockford. Recent investigation centers around the discovery of a newly established meeting site, a location frequented by most of the individuals suspected of being Sicilian mafia members in the Rockford area. Activities consistent with gambling/bookmaking, but additional details recently obtained point to these individuals’ involvement in narcotics activity.” Further, a March 1987 FBI file regarding Galluzzo stated, “Title III coverage to date has confirmed that Salvatore Galluzzo is a Sicilian mafia member.” The bureau never made clear if Rockford was under the umbrella of the Chicago Outfit or was part of a Sicilian mafia cell at this time.
Regarding this “Sicilian connection” that Galluzzo and others seemed to be a part of, the FBI stated in one of their February 1986 files, “For the information of Legat Canberra (Australia), this investigation was predicated on reliable informant information which indicates that numerous Sicilian immigrants residing in northern Illinois with ties to established Sicilian Mafia families in Sicily are involved in the importation and distribution of white heroin into the United States. The majority of these individuals are recent immigrants from Aragona, Agrigento Province, Sicily, and have been naturalized as United States citizens or are currently in the United States in a permanent registered alien status. During the course of this investigation, numerous toll records have been pulled for residential and business telephones subscribed to by suspected members of this Sicilian Mafia organization operating from Rockford.”
Sebastian “Knobby” Gulotta, who was identified as a lieutenant in the Rockford Register Star’s March 1984 article, also had the responsibility of collecting gambling proceeds and street tax money on behalf of the Rockford mob. He was also listed as a close associate of Salvatore Galluzzo and was the prime suspect in the bombing of David Hall’s house on April 11, 1991. Hall had been hosting high stakes cards games and Gulotta had told Hall, “the boys want a piece of the action,” to which Hall refused. The night of the bombing, Hall was hosting another card party when a bomb blew up the front porch and seriously injured gambler Stefanos “Steve” Christidis.
As agents were digging deeper into Gulotta’s activities, a November 17, 1992 entry stated, “Source advised [REDACTED] Gulotta had informed [REDACTED] that he “represented a strong organization” that he (Gulotta) was “now a partner” (in the illicit gambling business) and that he wanted “30% of the proceeds” from the gambling business. Source advised he suspected Gulotta was a member of the mafia. Gulotta is a long-established and currently active member in the Rockford LCN and has historically been socially and professionally linked to Rockford LCN figures in relation to his extensive gambling activities and as a “collector” of monies for the Rockford LCN. Since the inception of this investigation, two additional individuals and an attorney representing a third individual have identified Gulotta, and/or close associates of Gulotta, as extorting money from hosts of numerous local “high stakes” poker games. One of those individuals has characterized the bombing of [DAVID HALL’S] residence as a message to individuals who are hosting and/or participating in gambling games that were not “approved”, i.e. money having not been paid (to individuals) who were in control of the gambling in the Rockford, Illinois area. The third individual was approached by three close associates of Gulotta about receiving a “cut” from a poker game that he hosted.
Around this time it seemed that Galluzzo and others were also running organized gambling in Rockford. Many of these high stakes games took place in pizzerias, hotel rooms and businesses such as a tax service place and a soccer sports store that Galluzzo owned.
Around this time as well and coincident with a joint investigation with the Illinois State Police, Division of Criminal Investigation (ISP-DCI) of Rockford LCN figures, the following sub-files were created:
Sam’s Pizza, 2134 Charles St., Rockford, Illinois (owned by brothers Salvatore and Alfonso DiGiacomo)
Sam’s Pizza 130 N. Blackhawk Rd., Rockton, Illinois (owned by Alfonso DiGiacomo)
Sam’s Pizza 1031 Harlem Rd., Machesney Park, Illinois (owned by the DiGiacomo brothers and Mike Galluzzo.)
Sam’s Pizza 138 N. State St., Belvidere, Illinois (owned by the Alfano family)
Pino’s Pizza 2216 N. Main St., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Antonino Pipitone)
Perrecone’s Pino’s Pizza 5851 Forest Hills Rd., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Paul and Marie Perrecone)
Villa Di Roma 1620 Harrison Ave., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Antonio Buscemi)
Villa Di Roma 3457 Merchandise Dr., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Antonio Buscemi)
John’s Pizza 2914 11th St., Rockford, Illinois, (owned by Giovanni F. Frisella)
Vince’s Pizza 1112 Madison Rd., Beloit, Wisconsin (owned by the Gabriele family)
Domenico Pizza 534 E. Grand Ave., Beloit, Wisconsin (owned by the Gabriele family)
Sam’s Pizza 1313 Milton Ave., Janesville, Wisconsin (unknown owner)
De Ja Oo Club 1600 S. Bell School Rd., Cherry Valley, Illinois (owned by Salvatore “Sam” Galluzzo)
Bino’s Restaurant 6935 11th St., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Libertino “Bino” Seminerio)
Ross’ Restaurant 807-809 E. State St., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Phil DiGiovanni)
The Pizza Joint Restaurant 2815 11th St., Rockford, Illinois (owned by Bill Spears)
Another person that Galluzzo was also closely associated with at this time was Frank “Gumba” Saladino. Saladino was a Rockford native who worked on the fringes of the Rockford mob but had moonlighted for the Chicago Outfit starting in 1976 as an enforcer and hit man. Saladino was hooked up with the 26th Street/Chinatown Crew of the Outfit but still kept his ties to Rockford. Though Saladino was known as “Gumba” to his Chicago associates, in Rockford he was simply known as “Fat Frank” due to his 300-plus pound frame, though no one called him that to his face. Saladino was also involved in various land deals with Galluzzo and others and apparently was part owner in Worldwide General Contracting along with Galluzzo, Aldino DiGiuseppi, Frank P. Vella, Jr. and Jay S. Trost.
One place that was under FBI surveillance around 1992 was The Cherry Lounge; formerly Play It Again Sam’s which was owned by Galluzzo. The FBI noted that the lounge was being used as a monthly meeting site for the Rockford mob.
In April 2005 when the federal government unleashed their indictments in the Chicago Family Secrets case, one of those included was Frank Saladino. When FBI agents came calling for Saladino at the hotel he was staying at in Hampshire, Illinois they were surprised to find that he had passed away a few hours before of natural causes. Saladino had been collecting gambling debts and working as an enforcer alternately for the Rockford mob and the Outfit when he was found dead. During the Family Secrets trial Winnebago County Chief of Detectives Dominic Iasparro was called in to identify a series of photographs relating to Rockford’s involvement with the Outfit in a gambling operation. In addition to identifying photos of Rockford natives Joseph W. Saladino and Frank Geraci, Iasparro identified three surveillance photos of Frank Saladino with Salvatore Galluzzo. The photos were taken outside a restaurant on April 20, 1989 and shows Saladino walking a few steps behind Galluzzo seemingly in deference to him. Even though Salvatore Galluzzo, Joe Saladino and Frank Geraci were mentioned at the Family Secrets trial, they were not charged in the case. When the Rock River Times asked about his possible role in the Family Secrets investigation, Iasparro refused to provide any details.
Hoping that his name would stay out of the newspapers, Galluzzo was probably more than a little dismayed when Rockford police officers responded to an armed robbery in progress at a business at 3307 Kishwaukee Street on the night of October 16, 2007. When the officers arrived they witnessed two gunmen attempting to flee the scene. While one gunman got away, the other, Byron Starks, was ordered to the ground by police. As Starks was about to comply, 80 year old Vaughn “Curly” Fitzgerald appeared from a doorway and fired two shots at Starks, striking him once. Officers ordered Fitzgerald, who was hard of hearing, to drop his weapon several times before the officers shot and killed him as Fitzgerald raised his weapon on them.
As more officers and detectives arrived on the scene, it became apparent that the gunmen had robbed a “high stakes executive card game” being hosted by Fitzgerald. After a short time, Rockford regional FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent G.B. Jones was summoned to the scene but would say nothing about any possible federal involvement. When asked why the FBI had been called in, Rockford Police Chief Chet Epperson responded, “Well, the gambling did take place, and some of the names of the individuals who were there rose some attention. There has been some investigations in the past.”
Fitzgerald, who had a long history of gambling going back to the 1960s, was known to rig his properties with security cameras and have gamblers be buzzed in through a door before they could participate in the card games. The other gunman, Dustin Frint, was later captured and both he and Byron Starks were sentenced to lengthy prison terms while no gamblers were prosecuted. Although not made public, rumors on the “take” from the attempted robbery were $14,000-$20,000. Fitzgerald had been mentioned in Gulotta’s 1980s and 1990s FBI files as someone who was paying the “street tax” to Gulotta in order to host his card games.
During a 2004 gambling case against Fitzgerald, court records showed that Rockford Police Detective Jeffrey Stovall indicated the illegal card games were part of a gambling operation known as “The Soccer Club.” Stovall’s affidavit also reported a confidential source identified brothers Salvatore and Natale Galluzzo to be running the Soccer Club. The October 2007 gambling party was also said to be part of the Soccer Club as well. The Soccer Club gambling operation took its name from the Soccer Club store where gambling was said to occur as far back as 1994 according to the FBI and was also owned by the Galluzzo brothers. According to FBI files, just one of many floating card games would occur here and was described as such, “The source stated that [REDACTED] run a $40.00 limit poker game out of the SOCCER CLUB, and host games several days a week. The source believes that most of the major gamblers in Rockford attend games at the SOCCER CLUB. The source stated that the soccer club is located on East State Street, behind a 7-11 or a STOP-N-GO next to LUIGI’S RESTAURANT.” And to tie this all in even further, Luigi’s Restaurant was owned by the Angelo DiSciacca family. Angelo’s wife was a Morreale and her sister had married Michele “Mike” Galluzzo, a brother to Salvatore and Natale. Describing the “20-40” game that occurred at the Soccer Club, the source stated “that some of the players at this game dropped $5,000 to $6,000 per session.” Additionally, the source stated that bookmaking occurred at these locations and described that business as such- “The source stated that some bookies in Rockford, Illinois, handle as little as a few thousand dollars a week, while others handle as much as $70,000 to $80,000 a week.”
Natale Galluzzo had come to Rockford around 1970 and has operated Gerry’s Pizza since 1978. Natale had his own run-ins with the law as well- a July 1975 arrest for firing a .38 caliber pistol during a disturbance at the Inn Crowd Tavern he owned brought only a modest fine. An August 1982 charge on torching a house he owned was dropped the following year. Natale was also observed often during FBI surveillance being in the company of his brother Salvatore as well as Frank Saladino. In fact during one particular surveillance, the FBI referred to Salvatore in the files as “one of the two Italian brothers that look and dress alike.”
While it is unknown if Galluzzo took the reins on what remained of the Rockford LCN, what is clear is his leadership role in illegal organized gambling in the Rockford area, his involvement in heroin and cocaine distribution in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin and his extensive business and land holdings - All of which made him a very wealthy man, yet he continued to live in the same modest brick ranch house for over 40 years.
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Graduate Tuition and Fees (2016-2017)
Semester Charges (based on 9 credit hours)
New England Regional Program Candian Resident Tuition Rate
Unified Fee 381.00 381.00 381.00 381.00
Recreation Center Fee
Student Activity Fee
Communications Fee
The financial requirements of the University, changing costs, state and legislative action and other matters may require an adjustment of these charges and expenses. The University reserves the right to make such adjustments to the estimated charges and expenses as may be necessary in the opinion of the Board of Trustees up to the date of final registration for a given academic term. The applicant acknowledges this reservation and agrees to the financial terms and conditions of the University by the submission of an application or by registration.
Maine Resident: $418.00 per credit hour
Non-Resident: $1,361.00 per credit hour
New England Regional: 50% above the Maine resident rate ($648.00)
Canadian Resident Tuition Rate: 55% above the Maine resident rate. ($648.00)
All courses at the 500 level and above will be billed at graduate tuition rates. Also, all course work taken by matriculated and non-degree graduate students will be billed at the graduate rate. This includes prerequisites and electives, regardless of the level of the course.
Unified Fee:
1-5 credit hours - $125.00 per semester
6-11 credit hours - $381.00 per semester
12-15 credit hours - $934.00 per semester
16 or more credit hours - $958.00 per semester
Recreation Center Fee:
1 to 5 Credit Hours - $81.00 per semester
6+ Credit Hours - $135.00 per semester
Room and Board: Rate shown above is based on a double room plus the graduate meal plan. Information on the various Room and Board options and rates available for graduate students can be found at http://umaine.edu/housing/graduate-housing/
Health Insurance (annual): Health insurance is required for all graduate students enrolled in 6 credit hours or more. For more information on student health insurance requirements go to: https://umaine.edu/bursar/insurance/
Residency Guidelines
Residency Classification. There are many factors considered in determining residency for in-state tuition purposes. No one factor can be used to establish domicile, rather all factors and circumstances must be considered on a case-by-case basis. A domicile or residency classification assigned by a public or private authority neither qualifies nor disqualifies a student for University of Maine System (UMS) in-state status.
Eligibility for in-state tuition will be determined at the time of registration; when a student applies to a degree program at any University of Maine System campus. The decision, made by the Graduate School, shall be made based on information and documentation furnished by the student as well as other sources available to the University. No student is eligible for in-state tuition classification until he/she has become domiciled in Maine, in accordance with University guidelines, before such registration. If the student is enrolled full-time in an academic program, as defined by the University, it will be presumed that the student is in Maine for educational purposes, and that the student is not in Maine to establish a domicile. A residence established for the purpose of attending a UMS institution would not, by itself, constitute domicile. The burden will be on the student to prove that he/she has established a Maine domicile for other than educational purposes. An individual who has lived in the State of Maine, for other than educational purposes, one year prior to registration or application to a campus is considered an in-state student.
A current member of the United States Armed Forces or a Veteran of the United States Armed Forces who has been honorably discharged will be billed at the in-state tuition rate. Veterans must supply a DD214, Certificate of eligibility for the GI bill, or Military ID card. Active duty members must supply a copy of their Military ID card.
In general, dependents of members of the Armed Forces will be granted in-state tuition during such periods of time as they are on active duty in the State of Maine or if their Military State of residency is Maine as evidenced by appropriate official documentation. Individuals who have been granted in-state tuition under these conditions, but then cease active duty would continue to be granted in-state tuition. All dependents using the GI Bill are billed at the in-state tuition rate.
A student, spouse, or domestic partner of a student, who currently has continuous, permanent full-time employment in Maine before the student decides to apply for degree status at the University will be considered in-state for tuition purposes.
A student who is dependent on his/her parent(s) and/or legally appointed guardian (or to whom custody has been granted by court order) is considered to have a domicile with the parent(s) for tuition purposes.
In-state tuition is not available to anyone who holds a non-immigrant U.S. visa. If an individual is not a domiciliary of the United States, they cannot be a domiciliary of the State of Maine.
A student who attended an out-of-state educational institution at in-state tuition rates in the immediately preceding semester, shall be presumed to be in Maine for educational purposes and not to establish a
domicile. Again, the burden will be on the individual to prove that he/she has established a Maine domicile for other than educational purposes.
Change of Residency Classification
To change tuition status, the following procedures are to be followed:
1. “Request for Change in Tuition Status” cover sheet and application must be filed with the Associate Bursar at The University of Maine, Bursar’s Office, 5703 Alumni Hall, Orono, Maine 04469-5703 before the first day of classes for the summer session, fall or spring semester for which residency is requested. All applications are prospective.
2. If the Associate Bursar’s written decision, to be issued within 30 days of the first day of classes is considered incorrect by the student, the student may appeal that decision in writing within 30 days, in the following order.
a. The Bursar & Senior Finance Officer. After receiving a written decision from this level within 30 days, the student has 30 days to submit a written appeal to:
b. The Chief Business Officer. After receiving a written decision from this level within 30 days, the student has 30 days to submit a written appeal to the President (or designee).
c. The President (or designee) will issue a final decision within 30 days.
In the event that the Associate Bursar, or other designated official, possesses facts or information indicating a student’s change of status from in-state to out-of-state, the student shall be informed in writing of the change in status and will be given an opportunity to present facts in opposition to the change. The student may appeal the decision of the Associate Bursar or other designated official as set forth in the preceding paragraph.
New England Regional Student Program
Expanded graduate study opportunities are made available each year to New England residents through the New England Regional Student Program, administered by the New England Board of Higher Education. When a graduate program is not offered at a student’s home state institution, a qualified student may apply for enrollment at an out-of-state institution offering that program under the Regional Student Program. Depending on the institution in which they enroll, students qualifying for study under the Program are charged either the institution’s resident tuition or some percentage above the resident tuition. The University of Maine charges 55 percent above the resident tuition. Typically, degree programs offered under the Regional Student Program are high-cost, specialized, professional programs such as forestry, oceanography, hydrology, occupational therapy, and pharmacology, although general areas of study also are offered.
Requests for detailed information should be directed to the graduate school of participating state universities. It is essential that students read the individual catalog, since degree nomenclature differs by institution. Application for enrollment is made directly to the institution, which has sole authority over admissions. Applicants must clearly indicate, both in their initial inquiries and on their application forms, that they are seeking admission under the terms of the New England Regional Student Program. Further information is available from the New England Board of Higher Education, New England Regional Student Program, 45 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111, 617-357-9620. Information about qualifying programs can also be found online at www.nebhe.org
Canadian Resident Tuition Rate
Residents of Canada are assessed reduced tuition equivalent to 55 percent above the resident tuition rate for any course work taken as a graduate student at The University of Maine.
Invoices and Due Dates
Charges are calculated using pre-registrations, room sign-up information, and data supplied by the Admissions Office. One paper bill is mailed to the student’s home address each semester. Subsequent billing statements will be provided online only. Email notifications concerning student accounts will be sent periodically to the student’s @maine.edu email address. Students may view their accounts on Student Self-Service on MaineStreet.
The University expects the student to be financially responsible. All accounts are carried in the name of the student, regardless of the source of payment. Bills and statements are mailed to the student, not the parent. All charges are payable in full by the due date on the invoice. After that, a $100.00 late fee is assessed. The initial due dates are August 15 for the Fall semester and January 5 for the Spring semester.
Delinquent students will be subject to the following administrative sanctions:
They are prevented from receiving an official certified copy of their transcript and diploma.
They are prevented from registration or pre-registration at any university in the University of Maine System.
The University of Maine System or its universities may disclose (directly or through its collection agencies) to a credit bureau organization that the student has failed to pay an assessed charge.
The University of Maine System or its universities may use in-house collection efforts, commercial collection firms, legal services, and the State of Maine Bureau of Taxation for collection on the accounts.
Authorized User Access
Students may authorize parents or other third parties to view and pay on their accounts online. Instructions for adding an authorized user can be found at umaine.edu/bursar/user/.
3rd Party/Sponsor Billing
Once the student receives an invoice, he/she can use the Anticipated Resources area of Student Self-Service on MaineStreet to notify the Bursar’s Office of any third party sponsorship.
It is the student’s responsibility to provide authorization (purchase order/authorization form) from the third party/sponsor. The student sends the purchase order/ authorization form, which indicates how much the third party/sponsor will be paying and any payment due for charges not covered by the third party/sponsor to the Bursar’s Office by the due date.
If these items are received by the payment due date shown on the statement, no late fee will be assessed.
A $100 late payment fee will be assessed to students who fail to pay their bills or fail to notify the Bursar’s Office of any third party sponsorship or anticipated resources by the due date. To avoid being charged the late fee, students who have not received a bill should contact the Bursar’s Office.
With the first bill for the fall, spring and summer semesters, the student will use the Anticipated Resources area of Student-Self-Service on MaineStreet (Path: Student Self-Service / Self Service / Campus Finances / Anticipated Resources) to notify the University of any credits from other sources that are not shown on the billing statement (i.e. third party/sponsor payments, waivers/scholarships, payroll deduction, loans). Instructions for entering anticipated resources can be found at https://umaine.edu/bursar/resources/
Financial Aid Refunds
A credit balance created by the disbursement of financial aid is normally disbursed to the student by the start of each semester, unless the student has requested that funds be held on his/her account. Excess financial aid will be held on accounts if the financial aid award is based on full-time enrollment and current enrollment is not full-time. Full-time enrollment for graduate students is 6 or more credits or 1 thesis credit. For more information please visit http://umaine.edu/bursar/refunds/. Credit balance refunds are available by check through the mail or direct deposit to a US banks account. Instructions for enrolling in direct deposit are online at https://umaine.edu/bursar/directdeposit/
Refund for Tuition and Fees
Student charges will be adjusted for voluntary withdrawals from the university and for drops or withdrawals from individual classes in accordance with the schedule and provisions set forth below.
For refunding purposes the following definitions apply:
“Standard” full semester classes are classes which are scheduled to start during the first week of a semester and meet through the end of that semester.
“Non-standard” classes are classes whose starting and ending dates do not coincide with the starting and ending dates of the Fall or Spring semester, including all Summer University classes. These classes fall into two groups:
Classes with duration of less than 12 weeks in length.
Classes with duration of 12 weeks or longer.
The “Drop” period is the time frame a student may drop classes from their schedule without academic or financial penalties. For Standard full semester classes, the drop period ends:
September 11, 2016 for Fall 2016
January 30, 2017 for Spring 2017
Dropping classes is a reduction in a student’s class load during the Drop period while remaining enrolled in other classes at any of the University of Maine campuses.
Withdrawing from classes is a reduction in a student’s class load after the Drop period while remaining enrolled in other classes at any of the University of Maine campuses.
A “Withdrawal from the University”, either temporary or permanent, involves the student withdrawing from all classes at all University of Maine System campuses for which he/she is registered as well as notifying appropriate administrative officials of his/her decision to leave.
Students who stop attending any or all of their classes, without providing official notification are not entitled to a refund. If a student ceases attendance for emergency reasons, the University will accept a written appeal.
For Withdrawals from the University:
“Standard” Full Semester classes and “Non-standard” classes of 12 weeks or more:
Withdrawal Percent of Refund
Prior to the end of the second week 100%
Prior to the end of the fourth week 75%
Prior to the end of the sixth week 50%
Prior to the end of the eighth week 25%
After the eighth week 0%
“Non-Standard” short classes - classes of less than 12 weeks in length:
Withdrawal on or before the number of days equal to the number of weeks a class is scheduled. For example, for a six week course, a refund will be granted through the sixth day.
After the number of days equal to the number of weeks a class is scheduled
For Dropped Classes:
“Standard” Full Semester Classes:
Drop/Withdrawl Percent of Refund
Prior to the end of the Drop Period
After the Drop Period 0%
“Non-standard” classes:
Drop/Withdrawal Percent of Refund
Withdrawal on or before the number of days equal to the number of weeks a class is scheduled. For example, for a six week course, a refund will be granted through the sixth day. 100%
After the number of days equal to the number of weeks a class is scheduled. 0%
Determination of Attendance
For “standard” full semester classes, the attendance period begins on the opening day of scheduled university classes, includes weekends and holidays, and ends on the date the student notifies the Graduate School Office in writing, that he/she is withdrawing.
For “Non-standard” classes, the attendance period begins on the start date of the class as specified on the class schedule of classes, includes weekends and holidays, and ends on the date the student notifies the Graduate School Office in writing, that he/she is withdrawing.
These policies are available on-line at umaine.edu/bursar/dropwithdrawal-refund-policy
Room and Board Cancellations
For information on room and board cancellation policies, please refer to the University of Maine Housing Services website - http://umaine.edu/housing/cancellation-fee/
Involuntary Withdrawals
Consideration for retroactive refunds of tuition and fees for involuntary withdrawals, e.g., extended illness or military service, will be considered by the University on a case-by-case basis. Administrative dismissals are not covered by these procedures and thus are not entitled to refunds of institutional charges.
Appeals for the exception to the established refund practice may be made to the designated university official. Normally, appeals will be considered up to 90 days after the close of the semester/session for which the student is claiming a refund. For a typical semester/session the dates are no later than March 31 (Fall), August 31 (Spring) and November 30 (Summer). University academic appeals committees hear appeals on academic matters and have no authority to authorize refunds.
Financial Awards and Assistance
School financing is generally offered to students through their graduate programs. However, if financial support is unavailable, it is the graduate student’s responsibility to identify sources for financial assistance.
The University of Maine offers assistantships, fellowships and traineeships. A typical assistantship appointment will require students to work 20 hours a week. The benefits of these positions include a monthly stipend, a tuition waiver, and coverage of half of the cost of the group health insurance plan provided to graduate assistants, fellows and trainees by the University. All full-time graduate students must provide proof of health insurance. Graduate assistants, fellows and trainees on the equivalent of half-time appointments and who require health insurance must enroll in the GA health insurance plan.
All applicants who wish to be fully considered for nomination for assistantships, fellowships or traineeships, should have a completed application on file at the Graduate School no later than January 15th for the following summer or fall terms. Students should contact their academic unit directly to inquire about the possibility of securing an assistantship, or to be nominated for any of the authorized positions offered by the Graduate School. Most awards are highly competitive and based on academic performance rather than financial need. A student may normally hold only one assistantship or financial awardper year.
The following is a description of financial support opportunities for graduate students.
Graduate Assistantships. Awarded by individual departments or offices, graduate assistantships are generally available in most academic fields which offer a degree program, as well as in such areas as admissions, student aid, and residence life. Some assistantships and fellowships are also awarded competitively through the Graduate School each spring for the following academic year. For most assistantships, up to nine hours of tuition per semester is paid, exclusive of audited and pass/fail courses, and courses numbered below 400-level. The assistantship also pays for 50% of the premium for the group health insurance plan for graduate assistants and fellows offered by the University. In some cases, a limited amount of tuition for the summer following the academic year in which the assistantship appointment is effective may also be paid by the sponsoring unit.
Graduate assistants normally devote half-time (20 hours per week) to work-activities. International students’ visas prohibit them from working elsewhere in addition to the assistantship. Most graduate assistants are required to register for a full-time load of at least six hours of degree credit in the fall and spring semesters. Exceptions are doctoral students who have been admitted to candidacy, doctoral students in Psychology who are taking clinical internships, master’s students in dietetic internships, and graduate students in their final semester of study. In these instances, one credit may be considered full-time. If an assistantship continues through the summer, the graduate assistant must register for at least one graduate credit hour.
Admission to the Graduate School and enrollment in courses is required before an appointment to a graduate assistantship is processed. Because these assistantships are awarded by the departments, the student should correspond directly with the appropriate program coordinator regarding the availability of assistantships.
Announcements of many graduate assistantships are available on the Graduate School’s FirstClass conference and through the CareerLink site on the Career Center web page.
Selected Financial Awards and Descriptions, see The Graduate School website for full listing.
Chase Distinguished Research Assistantships (CDRA). Ten research assistantships are awarded annually by the Graduate School. The awards include a monthly stipend, a tuition waiver for up to nine hours per semester exclusive of courses taken as audit or pass/fail or below 400 level and coverage of 50% of the University’s GA health insurance plan. Some receive a tuition waiver during the summer following the academic year of the award. These awards are made on a competitive basis and involve nomination by the department of study and submission of a research proposal delineating the research to be undertaken. Nominations are sought in December-January.
Resident Life Positions. Assistant Community Coordinator positions in the University residence halls are available each year. The position involves working with students, advising complex governments, programming, interpreting and enforcing policies and procedures, advising residents and making referrals, and assisting the Community Coordinator with managing the complex. ACC’s receive a stipend, an apartment for the academic year, and a meal plan for themselves while the University is in session, plus tuition up to 18 hours per year. The selection process begins in February so applicants are encouraged to apply early. A limited number of resident assistant positions and internship positions are also available through Residence Life. For information on application procedures, contact Residence Life Room 315, 5748 Memorial Union Orono, Maine 04469-5748 telephone, 207/581-4801.
Atlantic Provinces Graduate Scholarships. Three scholarships, which pay up to 18 hours of tuition per academic year, are available on a competitive basis to graduates of higher education institutions in the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec. Applicants interested in being nominated for this award should consult their department. Nominations are sought in January-February. The award may be continued beyond the first year if the student remains in good standing and is re-nominated by his/her program coordinator.
Graduate Trustee Tuition Scholarships. Fifteen to twenty scholarships, which pay up to 18 hours of tuition per academic year, are available annually on a competitive basis to students enrolled in graduate programs. Scholarship recipients must be full-time students and may register for up to nine hours of credit each semester. The Graduate School requests nominations from the departments in January-February. Interested students should seek nomination through their departments of study.
Thurgood Marshall Scholarships. At least two scholarships which pay up to 18 hours of tuition are available to graduate students whose socioeconomic background, prior academic or work experience, and/or graduate educational interests would bring a unique perspective to the University of Maine community. Preference for these scholarships is given to individuals from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in specific programs at The University of Maine. Scholarship recipients must be full-time students and may register for up to nine hours of credit each semester. The Graduate School requests nominations from departments in January-February. Interested students should seek nomination through their departments of study.
Federally Funded Traineeships and Fellowships. Subject to the availability of federal funds, federal traineeships and fellowships are available to graduate students in some programs such as special education, social work, nursing, biological sciences, communication sciences and disorders, and clinical psychology. Students should inquire in their field of interest.
Michael J. Eckardt Dissertation Fellowships (formerly MEIF). Five research fellowships awarded annually by the Graduate School for doctoral candidates completing their dissertations in the following MEIF targeted areas: aquaculture and marine sciences technology; biotechnology; composite materials engineering; environmental sciences technology; information sciences and technology; precision manufacturing; and forestry and agriculture. The stipend is $20,000, payable over twelve months. The Graduate School will provide 1 credit of tuition during the summer term. Student is responsible for Fall & Spring tuition, as well as health insurance. Preference will be given to students in their final year of doctoral study, and the award is non-renewable. Nominations are sought in December.
Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowships (formerly UMDRF). The Janet Waldron Doctoral Research Fellowships are open to all doctoral students, regardless of discipline and designed to stimulate research and scholarship at UMaine as measured by research productivity and doctoral-degree graduation rate. Therefore, successful applicants must explicitly address how fellowship support would result in an overall increase in research productivity. The fellowship is intended to provide doctoral students with up to two years (24 months) of support with a stipend of $25,000 per year and coverage of 1 credit or more of tuition per semester and 50% of the University’s group health insurance plan to provide financial support through the completion of their degrees. Nominations are sought in December.
Susan J. Hunter Teaching Fellowships. Up to 4 Hunter teaching fellowships are awarded annually for the spring semester to doctoral students who have passed their comprehensive exams and who intend to enter the professoriate. The Hunter fellowship provides one half of the annual minimum graduate stipend, one credit of graduate tuition, and 50% of the one-semester health insurance premium for graduate assistants, if the student is not already enrolled in the insurance program. Hunter Fellows teach one undergraduate course as the sole instructor, under the mentorship of the normal course instructor, and must attend at least 3 graduate student professional development workshops. The student’s mentor or another graduate faculty member of the student’s unit must teach a 1-3 credit graduate course that otherwise would not be offered. These awards are made on a competitive basis and involve nomination by the department of study and submission of a plan delineating both the course to be taught by the student and the graduate course to be taught by a unit member. Nominations are sought in the spring semester for the following spring.
Summer Dissertation Fellowships. Dissertation writing fellowships are open to doctoral students who have passed their comps and are actively writing their dissertations. Depending on number of applicants, the Graduate School will consider master’s students who have completed four semesters of study and are actively engaged in writing a thesis, but preference will be given to doctoral students. Each fellow will receive an office in Stodder Hall and a $1,500 monthly stipend at the end of June, July, and August. Offices will be equipped with desk, chair, and a large table. Fellows are expected to spend at least 5 hours a day, five days a week using the offices to work on their dissertations; however, they may not live in these rooms.
Other Fellowships may be available through individual departments or units. For example, the Canadian-American Center offers several fellowships for graduate students pursuing study of a regional nature involving New England, the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, and Quebec. Students should inquire in their field of interest.
The Office of Student Financial Aid administers several financial aid programs to help University of Maine graduate students finance their education. Office staff award, process, and disburse financial aid for University of Maine students, and advise students and their families, the campus community, and the general public on issues related to financial aid. Our contact hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. throughout the year. Advisors are available on a walk-in basis between 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with expanded hours during peak seasons. All correspondence concerning financial aid should be addressed to the Office of Student Financial Aid, 5781 Wingate Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5781. For assistance with the application process, status updates, or answers to other questions about financial aid, contact the office at (207) 581-1324, or via e-mail umfinaid@maine.edu.
To determine the amount and types of assistance each student can receive, students are required to apply for financial aid. The University of Maine requires only one financial aid application: the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Students must apply for financial aid each year, using FAFSA on the Web (www.fafsa.gov).
FAFSA on the Web allows students to enter application information and electronically submit their application directly to the federal processing center. Some information can be “pre-filled” from the prior year’s application when the PIN (Personal Identification Number) is used. A PIN can be requested at: www.pin.ed.gov. The student’s signature must be provided before the FAFSA on the Web can be processed. There are two ways in which the application can be signed: the student can use their PIN to electronically sign the FAFSA or a paper signature page can be printed from FAFSA on the Web that then needs to be signed and mailed to the address provided. Students should note the confirmation number that is given when the application is submitted.
After applying, the student will receive an email from the federal processing center that directs them how to access their Student Aid Report (SAR) online, The student is expected to review the SAR and make any necessary corrections immediately, or contact the Office of Student Financial Aid for assistance. As long as the University of Maine is listed on the SAR in the school section, the Office of Student Financial Aid will receive the application data, generally within two to three business days. The application will be reviewed and the student will be notified on his/her MaineStreet To Do list if any additional documentation (IRS Data Retrieval, verification forms, or other information) is required. The IRS Data Retrieval tool allows applicants to request and retrieve their tax data directly from the IRS. Once this data is retrieved from the IRS, it can be transferred to the FAFSA application.
Once the student’s file is considered complete, a financial aid award will be made available to the student. The student should accept (or decline) each type of aid offered and follow all instructions to ensure continued processing and disbursement of funds to the students account at the University of Maine Bursars Office.
Eligibility for Financial Aid
To be eligible for most types of Federal, State and University financial aid, each student must:
be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen
have earned a high school diploma or G.E.D.
be offered admission to a University of Maine degree program
not be in default on a previous Federal educational loan program
continue to be in good academic standing
continue to make satisfactory progress toward a degree (see Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid Recipients).
Most types of financial aid require at least half-time enrollment in order to be eligible. Full-time registration for a graduate student is normally defined as six or more degree hours per semester; part-time status is three to five credit hours per semester. Doctoral students who have been admitted to candidacy, psychology and human nutrition students on approved internships, and students in their final semester of study may maintain full-time enrollment status by registering for a minimum of one thesis or internship credit. Students enrolled in summer session are eligible for aid. However, for students taking one credit, overall financial aid eligibility is less than the eligibility for a graduate student enrolled for 6 or more credit hours due to the reduced cost of tuition and fees.
Financial aid is initially awarded based upon the assumption of full time enrollment regardless of official University status. Each student’s enrollment level is verified at the end of the Add/Drop period each semester; financial aid eligibility is recalculated and awards are adjusted if necessary. The student is notified by email if the financial aid award changes. Students participating in cooperative employment programs, practicums, internships and field experience may not be eligible for financial aid unless they are enrolled at least half time.
Federal, State and University financial aid programs are not available for non-degree enrollment. Some lending institutions offer loan programs to students who are currently taking classes in non-degree programs. Further information is available upon request.
NOTE: early registration for classes, including enrollment for Thesis Credits, helps ensure timely processing and disbursement of financial aid funds.
Graduate students may be offered assistance from the following financial aid programs:
Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans are funded through the federal government and are awarded to students enrolled in a degree program at least half-time who have applied for federal financial aid. Graduate students are allowed to borrow up to $20,500 in unsubsidized Stafford Loan per year. As of July 1, 2012, graduate students are no longer eligible for Subsidized Stafford loans. Actual eligibility may be less than the annual maximum depending upon enrollment level and the amount of all other financial educationally-related assistance, if any. Students must accept the Federal Direct Stafford Loan via MaineStreet. More information is available on the Financial Aid website, located at www.umaine.edu/stuaid.
NOTE: Repayment of principal is deferred on unsubsidized loans while a student is enrolled at least half time. Interest rates are fixed at each academic year and are available on our website at http://umaine.edu/stuaid/loans/stafford/. Interest begins to accrue or can be paid by the student immediately after disbursement on any unsubsidized loan. Any break in continuous enrollment, such as a leave of absence, will result in the student entering into the 6-month grace period, and repayment could begin before the student re-enrolls in a degree program at least half-time.
NOTE: first-time borrowers of a Federal Direct Stafford Loan must complete an Entrance Counseling before loan proceeds will be released. To complete the requirement on the web, visit www.studentloans.gov. Students who have borrowed previously and completed an Entrance Interview/Loan Counseling session at another college or university should contact the Office of Student Financial Aid. First time Federal Direct Stafford Loan borrowers must also complete a new Master Promissory Note (MPN) at www.studentloans.gov.
Other Sources of Funding:
Scholarships may be available from the student’s academic department or from outside scholarship agencies, to which the student applies directly, and do not have to be repaid.
Graduate Assistant Tuition Scholarships are awarded by offices and departments on campus and reported to the Student Financial Aid Office. These assistance programs are usually offered to full-time graduate students in return for the students’ efforts in research and/or teaching while working on a graduate degree (contact the Graduate School, Academic Department, and the Office of Student Employment for more information).
Payment Plans give students the option of making periodic payments of part or all of the amount due to the University of Maine. For more information and/or an enrollment form, contact the University of Maine Bursar’s Office at 581-1521.
Credit-Based Loan Programs are available through the Federal Direct Plus loan program and various lending institutions throughout the United States. Please visit the Office of Student Financial Aid’s website at www.umaine.edu/stuaid for more information on Direct Plus and alternative loans.
Changes to Financial Aid Awards
Changes to awards can occur even after a financial aid award has been offered, and aid can be retracted even after it has been posted to a student’s account with the Bursar’s Office. Students are notified by email any time their financial aid award is adjusted. Changes to awards may be necessary at any time during the academic year due to any or all of the following circumstances:
changes in enrollment level each semester
auditing a course
withdrawal from all classes
discontinued attendance in classes
corrections and updates to original application data
receipt of additional information affecting continued eligibility
changes in housing plans
changes in residency status
changes in student and/or family circumstances
receipt of additional assistance and/or scholarships
changes in Satisfactory Academic Progress status
Students are encouraged to contact the office to discuss the impact on their financial aid eligibility before their status changes, if at all possible.
Financial Aid for Summer Session
Summer Session is considered to be the end of the University’s academic year. To be eligible for Summer Session financial aid, students must have applied for federal financial aid for the previous year and enroll in a minimum of one credit. Generally, financial aid is limited to any remaining Federal Direct Stafford Loan eligibility. Federal Work-Study may also be available and requires a separate application, which is available early in the Spring Semester and must be turned in prior to the deadline listed on the application. Students are encouraged to contact the Office of Student Financial Aid to request further information; the best time to discuss specific eligibility is midway through the spring semester and after the student is pre-registered.
Limits on Financial Aid Eligibility
Most University of Maine students will have enough financial aid eligibility to complete a graduate degree, but limits do exist and eligibility is impacted by academic performance. To maintain eligibility for financial aid, each student must make progress toward a degree according to the University’s Satisfactory Academic Progress for Financial Aid Recipients Policy, measured in three areas; Grade Point Average (GPA), successful completion of credit hours attempted, and length of time it takes to reach completion.
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‘The Only Good Dalek’ - Justin Richards, Mike Collins (BBC Books)
The Daleks are undergoing a little bit of a renaissance in my house these days, not only because of the latest series of ‘Doctor Who’ but also because Hope has developed a real fascination with science fiction robots. If she’s not running around with her C3P0 and R2D2 toys then she’s yelling ‘Exterminate!’ or ‘Delete!’ at people in the street. Oh well, any excuse to get another piece of Dalek/Doctor Who merchandise into the house… :o)
‘The Only Good Dalek’ is another title that I’ve had my eye on for a while but have only just got round to securing a copy. All good things come to those who wait though, or do they…?
I’ve already reviewed ‘The Dalek Project’ here, I had a few issues with it, and was hoping for better things from ‘The Only Good Dalek’. This graphic novel offered more of the same problems though and I was left wondering if this is a format that BBC Books really want to pursue as it is. This is a real shame considering that the strips from ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ have been collected rather nicely by Panini, IDW are doing some good work here as well).
Blurb copied and pasted as I’m having a bit of a lazy Saturday over here…
Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analyzed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back! With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate defense. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology - it's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek!
‘The Only Good Dalek’ has proved to be a very difficult review to write, as I really wanted to avoid repeating what I’d written for ‘The Dalek Project’. That’s more or less impossible though in terms of the artwork (Mike Collins is doing it again here) so I’m just going to jump right in and quote what I said last time,
‘I’m really half and half on Mike Collins’ artwork which can come across as rushed at times (almost scribbled) which works in terms of showing how urgent the situation is but also just ends up looking, well… rushed really.’
As with ‘The Dalek Project’ though, Collins does throw a few gems out there for us to come across as we read. He’s a dab hand at space battles for a start and he certainly doesn’t shy away from showing us the number of grisly ways that a person can die fighting the Daleks.
The plot itself is, again, very straightforward with a couple of little twists that aren’t all that surprising but do pop up at just the right time i.e. just when it looks like things might be running out of steam. For all the action and excitement though, and there is loads, I couldn’t escape from the feeling that there wasn’t actually an awful lot happening. If I had to sum the book up in one sentence it would be ‘Daleks cannot be trusted and space stations are places where it’s very easy to get lost’. An awful lot of running around happens here, something that I think comes across a lot better on the screen as oppose to a comic. The fact that I can sum the book up in one sentence would rather suggest that there isn’t an awful lot here to get your teeth into.
But it’s the Daleks though! :o) Despite my misgivings about the book, as a whole, it’s still all too easy to get into just how relentlessly evil these aliens are. I found that it was very easy, sometimes, to put my misgivings to one side and just watch the Daleks doing what they do best, Richards’ Daleks exterminate all other life with the best of them.
And before I finish here, I’ve got to say that if ‘The Only Good Dalek’ is canon (and as a BBC book I’m pretty sure that it is) then there is such a thing as a ‘good Dalek’ and the Doctor knows it as well. I don’t know what that was all about in the book… I always swore that I’d stay well clear of canon so I won’t do it again :o)
‘The Only Good Dalek’ is another fun read that doesn’t quite stand up to more determined scrutiny. It’s still worth a look (whether you’re a fan or not) but you should bear that in mind before giving it a go.
Seven and a Half out of Ten
Labels: 2012, graphic novels, sci-fi
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Merryweather clock - was it at the Royal Observatory
Neil Bennet writes:
My recent Merryweather & Sons interest is in the Electric Clock claimed to have been built by, or associated with the company, before 1901. another blog (NAWCC_Message_Board@nawcc-mb.com) suggested this could be one of a network of 'master' and 'slave' electric clocks made by Charles Shepherd of 53 Leadenhall Street for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and elsewhere, or could even be the Gate Clock fixed outside the gate of the nearby Royal Observatory in 1852, in which case it is a very important clock indeed. In today's world a company manufacturing an electric clock does not exactly raise an eyebrow, but it was changing the world then!
I have written to the Royal Observatory but I'd be grateful to anyone who can confirm a link between Merryweather and Shepherd, the Greenwich Observatory or the then Astronomer Royal, George Airy, or indeed what the Merryweather electric clock really was.
I'm making progress finding out about such obscure Merryweather products as the Dulier smoke absorption system and John Gordon's electric tram system, but 'Tanks for camel transport' still draws a blank!
Anyone interested in the firm's history can find some excellent information on a Greenwich-made steam fire engine exported to Australia, and on the company, at www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/index.php
....Industrial history is the new rock 'n' roll...(?)
Neil.
Posted by M at 06:28 1 comment:
GLIAS Newsletter for August 2008 seems very light on Greenwich issues this month. They do however carry the following review of Richard Hartree's new book on John Penn:
"This book, written by a descendant of John Penn I, tells the story of this famous marine engineering firm and of three generations of the Penn family through the 1800s. The Epilogue tells of the family’s service in The Royal Household in the 1900s. When John Penn II died in 1878 the Kentish Mercury and Greenwich Gazette wrote of him as ‘Greenwich’s greatest son’.
In 1799 his father, John Penn I, had started an agricultural engineering business on the site at the junction of Blackheath and Lewisham Roads which in twenty years grew to be one of the major engineering works in the London area. Although he lived in Lewisham he stood as a reformist candidate for Greenwich in the December 1832 parliamentary election.
John II apprenticed in the firm and became a partner in the early 1830s. His design of oscillating engine for paddle steamers and his patented trunk engine for naval screw propelled ships coupled with the quality and reliability of the firm’s products led it to become the major engine supplier to the Royal Navy in the transition from sail to steam. His patented design of a wood propeller shaft stern bearing was vital to the worldwide use of steam-powered ships. The firm was a major local employer with, at its peak, 1800 employed at its Greenwich and Deptford works. In addition to achieving success for the firm John II also became a leading figure in the engineering profession.
He was succeeded by his two elder sons. John Penn III became MP for Lewisham in 1891 and served until his death in 1903.
In Greenwich today we can see John Penn Street which ran down one side of the works site and the Penn Almshouses in South Street which were built in 1884 in memory of John Penn II. In Deptford we can see the arched riverfront of the boiler works and a cast iron bollard set into the wall at the corner of Watergate Street and Borthwick Street . In Blackheath we can see John Penn II’s grand house ‘The Cedars’, now converted into flats, and in the Lewisham the Riverdale Mill which was on John Penn I’s property.
The book is available at the Greenwich Heritage Centre, The Greenwich Tourist Information Centre, Maritime Books at 66 Royal Hill, and from the author on 01295 788215 or richard@hartree.org.uk
Jack Vaughan - first Chair of Greenwich Industrial History Society - died on Monday 14th July 2008 at the age of 91. His had three sons and two daughters by Florence his first wife; she died in 1973. He married again but was again left bereft when Jean died.
This obituary is about his life in the world of Greenwich's local history - but he had many many other interests. At this funeral we heard about his record in the army in the Second World War, how he fought at El Alamein and met Field Marshall Montgomery. We also heard about his lifetimes enthusiasm for Charlton Football Club.
At a first meeting he could seem rather gruff, but one soon found how kind a man he was – there was no one who did not like Jack, even if they did not fully share his views.
He had been an apprentice at the Arsenal (writing about his experiences in Woolwich Antiquarian Proceedings Vol XLII) then worked there until he retired - again we heard at his funeral how he was respected for his engineering ability and knowledge and how he later went on to teach his skills at Woolwich Polytechnic School.
From this arose a love of clocks and his ability to repair them. The future of the clock on Building 10 at the Arsenal particularly worried him – Berkeley Homes say they will restore it. He always championed the Arsenal, giving talks on its history. He was also well versed in the Woolwich Dockyard, and a connoisseur of local pubs…
Many societies benefitted from his energy: on Shooters Hill where he lived for 54 years, he was Chairman of the Shooters Hill Society; he wrote articles for the Shooters Hill Local History Group, published in its series of ‘Aspects’. He was the inaugural chairman of the Greenwich Industrial History Society eventually becoming Honorary President. He was also involved in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, history group. But his longest association was with the Woolwich and District Antiquarian Society; for many years on its council, latterly as a Vice President; he was chairman of the Conservation Sub-Committee.
Jack was a fierce defender of Woolwich’s heritage in his dealings with the Borough’s Planners, particularly in respect of his beloved Arsenal. He was a frequent attendee at Planning Committees and made sure they heard his views. However, they listened to him with more respect than he would ever acknowledge and changes were often made. One locally famous exploit was his saving the tomb of the world famous engineer, Henry Maudslay, when the Council cleared St Mary’s Churchyard – all but one of its cast iron plates were retrieved, and taken to the Maritime Museum store in the Brass Foundry - they are now in the care of the Greenwich Heritage Centre. Jack was well known and respected by the London-wide community of industrial archaeologists, particularly in the Greater London Industrial Archaeological Society. In 2001 a special seminar on Maudslay was held at Kew Bridge Engines Trust - special mention was made of Jack’s role in rescuing the plaque and a small ceremony was held.
Recently he became frail and although he went into a well run nursing home, he was only his old self with visitors who shared his interests. Six weeks before he died he had a fall, requiring two operations.
His funeral was at Eltham Crematorium, Falconwood at on Wednesday 23rd July at 2.45pm. This was followed by a do at the Red Lion Pub on Shooters Hill - one of his favourite locals.
Donations in his memory may be made to one of two charities: Cancer Research or The Alzheimer's Society. A cheque made out to the one of your choice should be sent to:
W Uden & Sons Ltd, Funeral Directors, 64 High Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6DS
Jack was a one off - to quote a friend - 'well Jack - Jack's Jack, isn't he!'.
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Information wanted on a Wheatstone Bridge
We received the following email from one of our followers:
" I am seeking information about a Wheatstone Bridge set that belonged to my father-in-law’s father who was an electrical engineer for the LNER in the early 1900’s and worked in Hartlepool. He used for his work and it must be around 90 years old I would have thought. I see that is made by Siemens Brothers and believe that they were based/had factories in Greenwich and Hartlepool'.
and he attached some pictures - which are shown below.
So - we got in touch with the experts - with the Siemens Brothers Engineering Society - and here is their reply:
"I have been in touch with some of my colleagues in the Siemens Brothers Engineering Society and have undertaken some research myself. There is plenty of information on internet search engines so I have given below a general summary and have tried not to get too technical.
A Wheatstone Bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component. [The bridge is formed of resistors connected in a diamond-shaped pattern] Typical applications were: measuring the resistance of a length of cable. For the LNER this could well be railway signaling cable or for Siemens Brothers, telephone cables.
Curiously the Wheatstone Bridge was not invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802 - 1875), but by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833, but was improved and popularised by Wheatstone in 1843, when he gave full credit to Christie. The Wheatstone Bridge uses the concept of a difference measurement, which can be extremely accurate. Variations of the Wheatstone Bridge can be used to measure capacitance, inductance and impedance. The significance of measuring the 'unknown' resistance can thus be related to the impact of some physical phenomenon such as force, temperature, pressure etc. In practical terms a 'break' in a cable.
The most common use of the Wheatstone Bridge in day to day telephony and telegraphy was thus the location of cable faults. By determining the resistance of a fault and comparing it with a pre-determined map, it was possible to send repairmen out to the exact location of a fault, accurate to within a few feet. Brass plugs (as seen in the picture) were used to throw resistance in and out of the circuit until a balance was achieved as indicated by zero deflection and thus zero current flow through the galvanometer mounted in the centre of the instrument, again as seen in the picture..
The Wheatstone Bridge was further developed by Kelvin to form the Kelvin Bridge , the concept being further extended to alternating current measurement by James Clerk Maxwell in 1865.
Various formats of the Wheatstone Bridge were thus developed and manufactured by specialist companies. We do not have any specifics on the particular model that belonged to Mr Kennnedy's father in law's, father. Clearly it was made by Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd., London, at the main Woolwich Works. It would have been made and in use in the late 19th century and the earlier part of the 20th century for typically resistance measuring and fault finding on cables as described above. The instrument could therefore be about 100 years old. By a strange coincidence Samuel Hunter Christie worked at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. Siemens Brothers did have several satellite factories including one in Hartlepool. It is unlikely that the instrument would have been sourced via Hartlepool as we believe this factory came on stream after the 1939/45 war.
A Wheatstone Bridge would of little 'practical' use to todays telephone collector. However in good condition it would form a most attractive part of any collection and could be of interest to a Science Museum [who may also be able to put a value on it] or a Heritage Centre. The Siemens Brothers Engineering Society has donated a great many items to the Greenwich Heritage Centre, which is actually located in Woolwich. If any further information is required please contact me.
Brian Middlemiss
On behalf of the Siemens Brothers Engineering Society.
In August this blog reproduced an article by Dr.Robert Carr originally published in Industrial Archaeology News about London Bridge Station. That article achieved the highest number of views of any article this blog has published. Here is his next article from the current issue of the same publication.
A large London railway terminus is to be completely demolished to divert two railway tracks through the site. Known to relatively few people, the Brighton part of London Bridge Station appears doomed. This raises familiar issues concerning the different treatment of architecture and engineering as well as those concerning World Heritage Sites.
(see Industrial Archaeology News 162 pp 8&9
The London and South Coast Railway’s terminus at London Bridge station has long been something of a Cinderella station. The main problem is that relatively few people are familiar with it. Most passengers who use London Bridge only remember the through platforms to the north where conditions can be really dreadful. Redevelopment here is sorely needed. The London Bridge terminus lacks glamour in that the trains only go to relatively humble destinations in the South East. There never was a Golden Arrow or Night Ferry to Paris as at Victoria, or a Cornish Riviera Express to Penzance departing from Paddington.
It is not really clear why it is necessary to demolish the whole of the 1864-7 terminus roof just to re-route two railway lines through it. An entry at the northwest corner facilitated by a beam supported on columns should be within the bounds of present day structural engineering. About a hundred or so years ago this kind of rearrangement was undertaken at railway stations such as Rugby and Crewe and a good example can still be seen at Chester General Station. There may, however, be other reasons not readily apparent but these have not been made clear. One difference is that at London Bridge the station is not at ground level. The whole edifice is supported on substantial brick arches.
However when one considers that, under Nick Derbyshire in 1985-92, Liverpool Street station was rebuilt and extended in a matching Vicwardian style, what would be needed at London Bridge seems modest. City money was involved then and Southwark is relatively impoverished. But attitudes change. About forty- four years ago it was seriously intended to demolish St Pancras station and its listing by Lord Kennet was highly controversial. Many people then considered St Pancras a hideous Victorian monstrosity. At London Bridge we are now having a re-run of the nineteen sixties. The enlightenment of recent years may be coming to an end.
Rather than just separate covers for each island platform as presently proposed, a less unfortunate solution for the station might be a great overall roof, perhaps something like that by Cesar Pelli for the Docklands Light Railway at Canary Wharf. A splendid new roof, say something like the great arch Richard Rogers proposed for the combined King's Cross and St Pancras stations, would really put the London Bridge station on the map and could commensurate in scale with the Shard tower which is intended to be the nucleus for a cluster of tower blocks, as number one Canada Square was for the redevelopment of the Isle of Dogs.
However, objections from the United Nations' cultural organization UNESCO regarding sight lines for World Heritage Sites might prevent further high rise building in the London Bridge area going ahead. Last December a monitoring mission reported that the visual integrity of the Tower of London had been compromised by the building of the Shard tower, the tallest completed building in Europe at 1,016 feet high, and advised that further towers would compound the problem. Similar considerations also apply to redevelopment near Waterloo station which is likely to involve the demolition of Elizabeth Tower, Elizabeth House and some other buildings.
Once granted, World Heritage Site status is not guaranteed in perpetuity and can be removed if unsympathetic redevelopment takes place. In 2004 UNESCO declared the Elbe Valley at Dresden a World Heritage Site. A twelve-mile stretch of landscape, this included the city centre and baroque palaces, churches, opera house, museums. However, after first being placed on list of endangered sites in 2006, the historic area of the city lost its title in June 2009 for the wilful breach of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. This was due to the construction - the WaldschliiBchenbrucke - a conspicuous composite-steel four-lane motorway bridge across the valley less than two kilometres from the historic city centre.
Dresden is only the second World Heritage Site ever to be removed from the register. UNESCO made clear in 2006 that the bridge would destroy the cultural landscape if building went ahead. Legal moves by Dresden City Council to prevent the bridge from being constructed were unsuccessful.
The WaldschliiBchenbrucke is obtrusive - a massive bowstring-like construction which externally resembles concrete. Could they not have built a low rise bridge similar to some of the nearby Elbe crossings? The river here is not navigable by seagoing ships which need substantial headroom. This really does look like a wilful violation of the UNESCO convention.
All this may mean that in London the continued redevelopment of the London Bridge area would be inhibited and the station itself left in rather a dreadful mess following implementation of the low-rise low-cost scheme presently proposed for it. Surely this was just an interim proposal to cover the period until sufficient funds become available to build an appropriate new station? The simple wavy-roof platform covers presently envisaged are hardly great architecture and certainly not imposing. London Bridge station looks like being further demeaned. It should be borne in mind that curved glass panels are extremely difficult to keep clean. This maintenance problem was soon discovered at Waterloo Eurostar station, opened in November 1994.
Considering now the South Eastern Railway offices these have recently been cleaned so perhaps they will be retained after all. The controversy over the demolition of these offices has served as a red herring, deflecting public attention away from the proposed demolition of the terminus that is relatively hidden away and less well known to the public. The suspicious might suggest a conspiracy but it is all too easy to jump to incorrect conclusions. A crude interpretation in base human terms is generally insufficient to account for the chaotic way in which the world behaves. Such matters are complex and essentially incomprehensible. If something happens there are not necessarily a reason, let alone a human being to blame.
Returning to the issue of the ironwork of the terminus roof. there is now some suggestion that it might be put in store for future re-use. This is an attractive proposition. At least it might be possible to save the longitudinal crescent roof. If this were re-erected at a greater height than at present, the effect could be magnificent. However, at Greenwich the excellent wrought iron roof of the Neptune Hall of 1873-4, a former gymnasium designed by Sir Andrew Clarke RE, was put in store with the intention that it would soon be re-erected. After fifteen years nothing has happened and such things once dismantled and stored have a tendency to get lost, piece by piece, until reuse becomes impossible.
The situation at London Bridge station is fairly typical. The unlisted architecture of the 1897-1900 South Eastern Railway offices has overridden in importance the listed 1864-7 engineering of the railway terminus roof. Once more is it being demonstrated that the architect is more important than the engineer? It should be noted, however, that the architect who worked on the station with the engineer F D Banister was C H Driver (1832-1900). Driver was responsible for many considerable works and was probably the architect for Crossness pumping station, 1859-65. The main buildings there were listed grade I in 1980.
On a sunny day a visit to the LBSCR terminus in the quiet of the afternoon can be recommended. It is easy to appreciate the merits and shortcomings of the building then. Presently, this part of the station might be a little underused but the routing of twin Thameslink tracks through the northern part would rectify this and, if the terminus could ever be redeveloped a la Liverpool Street, a wonderful station worthy of a great new business quarter to rival Broadgate might be achieved.
Dr. Robert Carr.
Industrial Archaeology News. No. 163 Winter 2012. Pp 10-11.
Published Association for Industrial Archaeology www.industrial-archaeology.org
What do we know about windmills
We have a note from Rob who is 'currently in the process of completing a fairly hefty tome on the > windmills of SE London and NW Kent, concentrating on sites from the old London border of Kent to the Darent valley.'
He is asking GIHS if we can help with the following
a windmill attached to a water-powered paper mill, described as 'near the East India Docks in Deptford', insured by a gentleman called Josiah Johannott (apparently a papermaker from Switzerland) in > 1751. Mr Johannot was declared bankrupt shortly afterwards and the > mills were advertised for sale in the London Gazette in 1754
"To be Sold to the highest bidder, pursuant to an Order of the Lord High Chancellor in a Commission of Bankrupt awarded against Josias Johannot, late of Deptford, Paper Maker, on 25 February inst. at the Guildhall, London.
A leasehold estate of which there are ninety years to come from Christmas last, consisting of a water-mill, and Windmill, used for the making of Paper; a dwelling house, garden and wharf, two small tenements and Yards adjoining to the Mill, the whole containing, in Front next the River Thames, 200 feet or thereabouts, adjoining to Wells's Dock. Also meadow land adjoining, situate at Deptford. Likewise the Utensils in and about the said Mills for making of Paper."
Rob says he cannot place this mill at all, and it appears to be unrecognised in historical research. A wind powered paper mill in the UK is very rare, and I have no records for a watermill either; in fact this could be a tide paper mill, again a first. Any thoughts? My guess is that it was somewhere in the Victualling Yard, but I am baffled.
Victualling Yard mills. I have a succession of windmills in the Victualling Yard at the end of the now gone Windmill Lane. The government appear to spend enormous amount of money on these, in order to supply ships biscuits to the fleet. They seem to be burned down or sold off at some regularity. The last one I have is mentioned in a House of Commons exchange as built in 1826 at the cost of £40,000!!, which is an astonishing amount to spend on a windmill! To compound this, none of the Victualling yard windmills are marked on maps.
I am baffled by a lovely watercolour of Deptford Theatre with pub adjoining dated 1840, showing a white smock mill apparently on the other side of the Creek in the corner. All the features of this watercolour are well drawn and apparently accurate, but I have no windmill recorded in this spot. It looks like it is attached to a factory, perhaps the soap factory(?), or the waterworks, so perhaps was used for another function.
A windmill called 'Clayton Mill', marked on Rocques map is still a mystery...
Greenwich Peninsula - what do we know??
This really smashing picture has been passed to us by someone who would like to know more about it - and can we say that we have no idea who owns it, where it is or how it got to the person who sent it to us - so, sorry, if it belongs to you - we will remove it if you want, or happy to share any information about the subject matter with you.
It apparently shows the Greenwich Peninsula's west bank by moonlight - we think soon after 1850. Any ideas about any of the features shown on it. It seems to be taken from somewhere around Delta Wharf - and to show a boat builders yard, Cowden. In the distance is Greenwich Hospital and - I am told Our Lady Star of the Sea. Other buildings appear to be the telegraph cable works of what would have been at that date probably Glass Elliott.
In August this blog reproduced an article by Dr.Ro...
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Genesis May 5, 2019 11:35:19 GMT -6
Post by Aster on May 5, 2019 11:35:19 GMT -6
She guided him in much the same manner that she did before. He was still not very good at it, but there was an air of determination to his efforts, and he improved faster than he had the last time. Rabbit had the distinct impression that he was well and truly putting his mind to it, and thinking about what did and did not work this time around. And when she suggested they stop, he only huffed and kept going without her help.
He did not last very much longer after that; he was still in recovery, even if he was doing a great deal better now. But it was an admirable effort.
It was as though a switch had been flipped. After that, the creature was no longer reluctant to go out into the water. Some days, Rabbit could see him steel himself for it, but even then, his movements were always deliberate as he made his way in.
He swam, at first in his ungainly manner, and often with her help, but then more and more often without it.
When he was more or less able to control where he wanted to go, Rabbit decided to ask something else of him. “Can you hold your breath?” she asked. To drive the point home, she reached out and motioned as though she were covering his nostrils, though she did not quite make contact, and then she crouched so her head was submerged, before rising again.
She had to repeat the motion once more for him to understand, but he didn’t seem daunted by the prospect once he figured out what she was asking. He submerged his head, and Rabbit submerged herself as he did so, to observe.
Once she did, she recognized a little his lack of unease. Some of it must have been the fact that he was accustomed to the water by now, but she noted that his eyes were open, and that there was a bit of membrane over them--- a transparent inner eyelid, the way some creatures had. He must have been able to see perfectly fine.
(End: Swim)
And of course the concept of holding one’s breath was probably not novel to him, or at least not difficult to grasp. When he saw that her attention was on him, the creature even blew a small plume of bubbles.
It was something of a revelation. After that, the creature swam most of the time with his head submerged. Rabbit did not know what exactly he was looking at, but he seemed to greet the task with something like enjoyment for the first time, rather than merely doing it to reach some sort of goal.
After that, his improvement progressed by leaps and bounds. He would never be a truly aquatic creature, but it was good exercise, and in the meantime, she did not have to worry about him drowning unless they were in particularly dire circumstances and his energy reserves failed him.
It was a good outcome, as far as she was concerned.
(Start: Accept Sudden Movements, Accept Noise)
Now that the creature was out and about, however, Aster brought up a slightly more uncomfortable topic. “You’re going to have to desensitize him,” Aster said, standing in the wide stretch of grass and wildflowers between the estate house and the old barn. Aster didn’t go near the barn itself these days, and he kept all the other creatures away, especially anything smaller and more vulnerable.
“Desensitize him,” Rabbit repeated.
“Mhm. Look, if you don’t want him tame, he doesn’t have to be tame. At this point he’s your problem. But I need to know that if one of the other things living here--- or, you know, god forbid, me--- spooks the damn thing, he won’t take their head off immediately.” Aster’s face was darkened by a scowl. He had little intent of interfering when the creature had already, as he had put it, ‘established’ a connection with Rabbit, but Aster had come in to check on him at one point and found himself very unwelcome.
“I see your point,” said Rabbit. It was difficult not to, when put into such terms.
“You can do it all at once, or settle for one thing at a time, but if I were you, I’d prioritize noise and sudden movements. I’ve been keeping the Hara inside the house, but I don’t think I’m going to be able to manage it for too much longer.” Aster shook his head. “You know how easily Juni and Claire get bored, and Dami’s a clever little bastard when he wants to be.”
With those parting words, he left, heading back towards the house. Rabbit, then, was left to contemplate her options. To desensitize the creature was all well and good in theory, but she had precious little in the way of guidance.
What was she supposed to do? Annoy him until he stopped noticing the nuisance? This… wasn’t a completely invalid approach, but she wondered if she would find success there.
Thus far, from what she had learned of the creature, he bore her efforts better when he could see some purpose to them. Only when she framed it in terms of an advantage to him did he acquiesce, or at least acquiesce with better grace, and expend some effort himself towards realizing what she wanted of him.
How was she going to frame this in a way he would accept?
Nevertheless, she approached the barn. She could begin on her work, even if she was not sure how best to begin. She would find out by doing it.
By this point the creature had grown used to her comings and goings, and often paid her no mind until she gave him a reason to do so. She found him lying idle in the barn, his head angled so he could stare out the loft window, though what entertainment he found in a lone patch of sky, she could hardly imagine.
Perhaps he was thinking of flying. He did have wings. She had never seen him use them, and he certainly couldn’t now, though they were very nearly mended from his accident. But that was a thought for another time.
She contemplated dashing to his side to see if she could startle him that way, but he had grown used enough to her that she might not be the best candidate for it. As for noise, however, that was easier. After a moment’s deliberation, she decided not to use a loud noise straight away. Whatever he may think of himself, Rabbit knew the creature to have had a difficult history. His violent reactions when they had first become acquainted also rather dissuaded the use of shock tactics. As such, she merely emitted a low but audible hum at first.
It was not the kind of noise that was low enough to go wholly unnoticed, and the creature’s senses were not so dull as to ignore it either.
He spared a glance in her direction. For now, it was no more than idle curiosity for the change, as far as she could tell, for she had never done anything quite like this before. But there was no adverse reaction yet.
Now that she had his attention, Rabbit tried increasing the volume. It did not take long for the sound to reach an uncomfortable degree. At that, the creature put back his ears, and though he did not snarl, his nose did wrinkle in distaste; and when she did not immediately cease, his lips parted over his teeth, bared to her as a warning.
She stopped. As she did, so did he.
He watched her for a moment, in which nothing happened. Then, slowly, she began emitting the hum again.
He waited just long enough for the hum to begin growing in volume, then began to approach her in earnest, likely to attempt something else to force her to stop.
Rabbit did not allow him to do so; she ceased before he quite reached her. Partly it was to set things up so he would not 'fail', but she also had little desire to find out what he might have done if she had not. But he was very clearly unhappy now, his tail lashing. His gaze, as it bore into her visual receptors, seemed to ask what she meant by all this.
She still hadn’t found a way to explain it to him, that she might make it amenable for him to learn this thing she wished him to do.
At last, she shook her head. “Perhaps this is not the way to do it. I will think on this before I return.” With that, she subsided into her regular routine of reading to him. He let her do it, though he snuck glances at her every so often, as though he suspected she might yet try something strange again.
Rabbit was as good as her promise. In fact, she thought on the matter for most of the night. One of the advantages of not needing to sleep was that it afforded her a great deal of time to think. And being a robot, she was not prone to the unpleasant thoughts that sometimes dogged the minds of organic beings. If there was no problem to be worked over, she merely existed, her cognitive processes running at their barest minimum in the background.
That night, however, she thought on the matter, and came to a conclusion that she found satisfactory. The next day saw her making the appropriate arrangements with Aster.
There were a great deal of arrangements to be made to do what she wanted to do. He had scratched his head when she presented the idea to him, and mentioned that it would take some time, but he did not refuse her.
The whole of it came to fruition some days later. Rabbit went to the barn, preparations having been made, and when she led out the creature to go for what had become his habitual swim, the two of them came out on a strange scene.
Scattered all across the grass were dummies of various sizes and shapes. It was clear that they were all intended to mimic some creature or another, humanoids included, though some of them were of better make than others. And there were a lot of them--- not so many as to make it difficult to maneuver through them, but enough that it was difficult not to pass within their vicinity as the two of them made their way to the lake.
She could see the creature’s eyes widen, the wedge shaped head rising high on the long neck. He didn’t quite startle, but the surprise was plainly evident all the same.
His reaction to the presence of the dummies upon laying eyes on them was not, however, a fear reaction in and of itself. After a moment, he recovered, and began slowly picking his way through them, following in Rabbit’s wake. He wasn’t ignoring them, however; in fact, much the opposite. As he passed close to one, he bent his head to it, intending, apparently, to investigate further.
Rabbit didn’t know if Aster was somewhere nearby, orchestrating them. But by some coincidence, that dummy chose that moment to twitch wildly and emit a shrill, screaming noise.
What followed might not necessarily have been called a fear reaction either, but it could definitely have been called a startle. The creature’s head snapped up, and his tail whipped about, as if to strike the thing. Rabbit stepped in only because she had been alert and ready for it, and blocked his tail with her arm.
His blow was not inconsequential. Even weakened, and even with his tail, she felt the damage of it. For his part, he seemed puzzled--- and perhaps a touch vexed--- that she had stepped in at all. She could read the question in his gaze.
Fortunately, this time she had a justification at the ready.
“This… is also a type of strength. Strength of mind.” She paused for a moment, finding the words again. “To be free from fear is its own form of resilience.”
She could see the creature’s ears go back, something stubborn in his expression. Perhaps he disliked her choice of words. Perhaps he thought that fear was unbecoming of something like himself. Rabbit considered her words again, then said, “It does not have to be fear. Consider it mastering yourself. If you can control your own reactions, whatever they are, then they will have no power over you.”
There was, Rabbit thought, the very real possibility that she was coming to some understanding of the creature, or at least what drove it. Having said her piece, she could see him subsiding somewhat, as though he were considering her words. He did understand, then--- some, if not all, and now, if not before. She had been reading to him, speaking to him, with great regularity for some time now. Aster had remarked upon the creature’s intelligence, so the development was not very surprising.
Of course, the dummies were not made to be idle. All of them were live. Another one went off just then, and she could see the creature twitch.
His tail thumped down into the dirt afterwards, in consternation.
“It will take time,” Rabbit cautioned. But he did not dignify those words with a response.
It did take time. Their progress the first day could be said to be negligible.
The creature did not stop startling, despite ready evidence of his efforts, through the whole trip to the pool, and then back again. Even Azalea joined in, though Rabbit wasn’t sure whether her help had been enlisted, or if she had merely noticed and joined for the sport of it herself. Regardless, at several points during the swim, she would pop up or make some great splash not very far from where they were.
The creature seemed to realize it was her, and liked this even less than he had liked the dummies. Rabbit couldn’t know what his true thoughts were, but she suspected it had something to do with the presence of intent. The dummies, however much of a nuisance they might present, were not alive in and of themselves, and were not choosing to do what they did. Azalea had made the conscious decision to startle him, or at least to make an attempt of it.
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This Friday, Commune With The Devil: ‘Satanic Panic’ Comes To MacLean Ballroom
By Mar Calvo March 22, 2017 F+
A spooky burlesque teaser from a Satanic Panic performer at a previous event. (Photograph courtesy of Split Sugar Photography)
The MacLean Ballroom on Michigan Avenue is a hot spot for many different events: weddings, freshman orientations, lectures on quantum theory, etc. The lush ballroom’s interior is reminiscent of the 1920s, when it was originally constructed. But this Friday, March 24, guests will ascend the red carpeted staircase, sign their names into The Book of Death, and walk into hell itself.
That’s right: This weekend, instead of studying in MacLean, the building School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) students know so well, you can spend time in the ballroom during the immersive demonic carnival and burlesque show known as Satanic Panic. Be led through a presentation on the “Dangers of Satanism” by the infamous talk show host Gerald Rivers (a spoof on Geraldo Rivera), watch a burlesque performance, join in on a game of Dungeons & Dragons, or contact dead loved ones via Ouija board, all while exploring the cultural satanic frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s.
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“There was a big occult revival in the ’60s where everybody was experimenting with religion and drugs and you know everybody was very free and open and experimenting; [then] the Manson murders that put a total stop to all of that and ushered us into this new era of moral panic,” said Michelle Maynard, one of the evil masterminds behind Satanic Panic and an SAIC alumnus. Maynard currently serves as administrative director of the Fashion department and is the performance artist behind Red Rum Burlesque.
“Any time there is a shift or a cultural change, there’s always going to be a moral panic that tries to pull it back,” she said. “At the center of it all, people love to blame it on the devil. They say, ‘It’s gotta be the devil doing it,’ but maybe man is just awful.”
Maynard said that making entertaining, conceptual art like Satanic Panic event is one of her favorite challenges.
“Ultimately my goal is to find a way to join these two worlds: the art side of my life and the nightlife part of my life,” she said.
Maynard’s previous venture was a company called Death by Design. Clients would choose a death off a menu that they would experience in front of the camera — then they would receive five minutes of DVD footage documenting their own death.
Eventually, Maynard became interested in sideshow and burlesque, and the narrative opportunities that they provides as performances. Eventually, she formed her burlesque identity, “Red Rum,” as the antithesis of more easily consumed burlesque aesthetics; the added gore element created a blend of attraction and repulsion. Similarly, the Satanic Panic event aims to test the same boundaries throughout the night.
“[I want to] take the things that I’m most afraid of — death, serial killers — and be them, as a way of taking ownership of fear,” said Maynard.
“Occult Objects For Sale! Popcorn! Peanuts!”
From the moment you enter the door at Satanic Panic, you’ll be completely immersed in the “The devil made me do it” frenzy of years gone by — and you can shop, too.
Toxie’s Treasures is one of the vendors that will be providing merchandise for sale — including “many instruments of divination” — to Panic guests. Ellie Cann runs the Toxie’s Treasures online shop and hopes that the event opens people’s minds, even as they see the irony in the whole thing.
“[The event] is about the frenzy that fear of satanism causes,” Cann said, “but it’s more about the new concept of a show and performance art. It would be nice to see this encourage people to explore different versions of that.”
For Cann, whose shop sells all manner of bedazzled items, this kind of event can help bring people out of their respective shells. “Things like Dungeons & Dragons and ‘Harry Potter’ encourage people who feel out of place and teach confidence and self-worth — I think that’s what [Satanic Panic] hopes to accomplish.”
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Ray Gunn, a performer in this weekend’s show, describes his performance aesthetic as, “a little avant guard, with some acrobatics — and a strong, healthy dose of sex.”
“I’m going to be tackling a little bit of voodoo and zombies in particular, so that’s kind of the direction I’m going in,” Gunn said. “My act is heavily inspired by the movie ‘The Serpent and the Rainbow.’”
Gunn says that he likes to challenge an audience’s perception of what defines a burlesque performance; he says the 2010 movie “Burlesque,” a widely panned feature film starring Cher and Christina Aguilera, didn’t help the cause.
“I think people have tons of preconceived notions about burlesque and I think that movies like ‘Burlesque’ didn’t do us any justice. [Burlesque performance] is really not like that, but the perception is that it’s what you would see in a strip club,” Gunn said. “Though they are very much related, the intentions are a lot different. Burlesque has a different feel. People tend to just assume, ‘Oh, they’re taking their clothes off so they’re just strippers,’ and that’s it.”
Gunn’s male gender (literally) plays a role in his work, too.
“Being a male burlesque performer, there are a lot of preconceived notions as to what that means. You know [people think] either, ‘Oh, does that mean you do drag?’ Well, no. There are some performers that do, but that’s not my aesthetic. That seems to be a hard thing for people to swallow. They kind of look at you like they’re meeting an alien species for the first time.”
In this weekend’s piece, Gunn said he’ll be exploring what a “tease” is by “taking on the concept of the removal.” The piece represents new ground for him as a performer, too: “With this act, I’m physically challenging myself.”
For Gunn, Maynard, and the dozens of other people involved in getting the Satanic Panic event off the ground this weekend, the goal is clear: Blow people’s minds. As Maynard put it:
“My goal is that the audience comes in, they have no idea what they’re looking at, and then they go away with their minds blown and their perceptions expanded.”
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Who is ashton kutcher with. Who is the man on trial in the slaying of Ashton Kutcher’s date? 2019-07-17
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Kutcher was part of the management team for , a tech start-up launched in September 2007. I am amazed I am not dead. They were dating when Demi was out of town. However, when they split, it was clear that money was a sticking point for the couple. The beginning of their started in 2000 when Demi Moore split up with another popular actor and her husband of 11 years, Bruce Willis. No one knows when the relationship had actually started and ended. Acting Kutcher with co-star in September 2011 Following his success in modeling, Kutcher moved to Los Angeles after his first audition.
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IZZY YOUNG: BBC's 'THE FOLKLORIST' TO BE RE-BROADCAST FEB 20
Second airing of 'The Folklorist'
BBC4 tomorrow
Izzy Young, famous for being one of the "grown ups" on MacDougal Street in the 1960s, will have an audio biography featured on BBC 4, Thursday Feb 20th.
It will air 11:30 UK time but be available to hear for a few days after at this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381fzj
It's a great half hour piece dedicated to Izzy's life and times. It includes the story of how Izzy and Mike Porco opened GERDE's, the first Folk Music cabaret in Greenwich Village.
In front of 110 MacDougal
A goose pimpled out-of-towner
got the thrill of her life
Interviewed for this BBC clip are Lenny Kaye, Terri Thal, John Sebastian and little ol' me. (I snuck in there in the 20th minute)
Izzy stayed at my place the night before the interview last June. I was happy to deliver him to Des Shaw and Seth Lakeman for the recording. We took the subway down to Washington Square and after the interview, the affectionate Izzy took my arm as we walked across the square. He didn't need me to keep his balance. That's just Izzy. Long live Izzy!
Enjoy the BBC show.
P.S.-
Israel G. Young will be featured in the documentary POSITIVELY PORCO- the unbelievable story of Gerde's Folk City. Check out the trailer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5O6T44CC0M
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Labels: BBC, Bob Porco, Des Shaw, Gerde's Folk City, Inside Llewyn Davis, Izzy Young, Mike Porco, POSITIVELY PORCO, Seth Lakeman, The Folklorist
GERDE'S FOLK CITY/ PHIL OCHS artifacts
It's gonna be tough to top my good fortune this weekend. Wise Elder and generous host, Sonny Ochs, welcomed me to a far away land over the hills and through the woods. There, a happily situated cabin was the setting for another interview to be seen in the upcoming documentary POSITIVELY PORCO. It's about Gerde's Folk City and Sonny has a long history there.
One might say her 'career' began there as an organizer of shows, volunteer extraordinaire and keeper of the flame. She began hosting tribute shows for her late, great brother Phil at Folk City in the early 80s and ever since, she's been a staple at Folk gatherings all over the Northeast and beyond.
Apart from the interview, Sonny and I shared down-home time together off camera. I was more than happy to offer some manual labor (shoveling and cooking) in return for her letting me have a gander at some of Phil Ochs' personal items. I also got to play her guitar which was the last guitar played by Phil. It was also played by a few of his friends since 1976.
Sonny wasn't the only personality I spoke with on film. Peggy Duncan worked for Mike Porco as a barista on 4th Street and then extensively at the second location on West 3rd. She also worked for Robbie Woliver who bought Folk City from Mike and for her loyal service, she was rewarded with some pretty cool artifacts. (see below)
So as I said, the vibes were in rare form these past 24 hours. I played a guitar played by Phil Ochs and held the original signage from outside of the original Gerde's. I have no doubt things only become more fun and exciting going forward because that's the way it's been. But today…priceless.
~Porco
How one stays young
Sonny showed me the path
The 'Phil drawer'
Sonny and Peggy:
a garage somewhere in upstate NY
'Says it all'
Close enough to visit
Labels: Gerde's Folk City, Inside Llewyn Davis, Inside Llewyn Davis dylan, Inside Llewyn Davis folk city, Inside Llewyn Davis gerdes, Inside Llewyn Davis Porco, Peggy Duncan, Phil Ochs, POSITIVELY PORCO, Sonny Ochs
PHIL'S GUITAR
The last guitar Phil Ochs played was his sister's
I'm grateful to Sonny Ochs for being free with her guest room and with keepsakes of Phil Ochs.
Labels: Chords of Fame, Folk City, Gerde's Folk City, Michael Ochs, Mike Porco, Phil Ochs, POSITIVELY PORCO, Sonny Ochs, There But For Fortune
LARRY ''RATSO'' SLOMAN joins me for a discussion about Gerde's Folk City and its notorious owner, Mike Porco. Footage will be added to the first documentary on GERDE'S FOLK CITY, Positively Porco.
Mr. Ratso's first novel is the stupendous and tremendous chronicle of the legendary 'ROLLING THUNDER REVUE' starring Bob Dylan and his troupe of troubadours. The book is the most intimate and complete account of how the tour developed and rolled on through the historic first leg. Near the end of the tome, Larry has included the most extensive interview with Mike Porco known to exist in print.
Ratso and Porco crossed paths backstage at Madison Square Garden during the 'Night of the Hurricane,' a concert devoted to springing Ruben Carter from jail for something he never done. It was a cause Bob Dylan was committed to which the book and song 'Hurricane' explains in full. He coulda been the champion of the world, ya know.
Nearly 5 pages of ON THE ROAD WITH BOB DYLAN was given to Mike Porco's conversation. In the background, the concert rages on. It's classic. Mike tells early stories of making sandwiches for the young Dylan and encouraging him to comb his hair once in a while. Mike tells the story of visiting Dylan in France where they shared some Father/Son moments. If you need confirmation from anyone that the two shared THAT kind of relationship, read the book.
Larry consults the Old Testament
Of course, the ROLLING THUNDER REVUE kicked off at Folk City on Mike Porco's 61st surprise birthday party on October 23rd 1975. Bob Dylan has footage and hundreds have the memory of the night. Ratso's book has it in black and white.
Our interview was conducted in the Village Underground, the space that was once Mike Porco's office at 130 W3rd Street. If walls could talk….
Incidentally, Ratso and I hung out 53 years to the date of Bob Dylan's first appearance on stage at the original W4th Street Gerde's. After proving to Mike that he was at least 18 years old, he played the HOOT. You may know the rest.
DO NOT FORGET
to check out the official trailer for
POSITIVELY PORCO
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So much more than a musical showcase, the ANHE program is a comprehensive and educational experience. audition winners Discussion in ' the July audition sounds like one to write in in pencil, although I'd love to be proven wrong. Remember the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra on Friday, November 22nd during Lancaster's Extraordinary Give Day. Canton Symphony Orchestra - Second Trombone. The Midland Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for the 2018-19 Season on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at Midland Center for the Arts. Official website of the Majestic Theatre and Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. 1156 [email protected] Atlanta's national theater, expanding hearts and minds on stage and off. For information regarding band scholarships, auditions, or opportunities to support the band program through the University Foundation, please contact the university band office: [email protected] Auditions for the TSO location change The location for this Saturday's TSO Auditions has been changed to the "Early Music Room HMU229. a)Classical concerto- 1st +2nd movement with cadenzas b)Major Viola concerto: Bartok or Walton or Hindemith (1st movement). 201 North Walker Ave. Find out how you can help. Born in Budapest, the son of renowned soprano Veronika Kincses, Gregory studied clarinet and conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. Company and BBII Auditions. Students from around the world audition to study at Lamont, where they gain the skills and experience necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic arts world. With performances that go way beyond traditional singing and dancing, our shows feature death-defying acrobatics and 3D aerial acts, ice-skating, synchronized swimming and high-diving, all accompanied by high-definition projection and audio technology, creating a unparalleled. Treat yourself to a special night out and learn more about what to expect. --Mix and Mingle in NOI+F's SPARK! Lounge after the performance! --. Your gift today is greatly appreciated and will help the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance in our mission to be our community’s indispensable source for traditional, diverse, and innovative experiences in ballet, opera, and orchestral music!. Discover the South Carolina Philharmonic. 3621 6th Ave S, Birmingham AL, 35222. 2019-2020 Season; Explore Concerts; Subscriptions; Plan Your Visit. Download the application form and return with a $20 non-refundable check to Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 3621 Sixth Ave. Auditions are not required for The School’s Children’s Program (ages 3 to 7 years). The Rep is the St. Positions in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are determined through an audition process. The TSO is the oldest continuing professional performing arts organization in the state of Arizona. AB offers ballet performances and dance classes for the Southern California community. All-State Student Average SAT Scores. Applications to be received by December 2nd, 2013. Audition music is available in the Band Office (Hulsey 208. Contains information about the current season, tickets, seating and directions, auditions, and contact details. Ever wonder how the players on the stage get there?. The Decatur Youth Symphony in Decatur, Alabama transforms lives through music by providing students the opportunity to learn and perform music, impacting the culture of our community. Alabama Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for a one-year assistant principal cello on Sep 15, 2019. Praised by international press, he won top prizes at the 2007 Aspen Music Festival and later at the 2008 Toscanini International Conducting Competition. There is a $20 registration fee. Apply + Audition. Hy remporte 24,1% des voix et termine troisième de cette saison 1. Alaska Youth Orchestras. Spots available for: Clarinet, Percussion, Viola, Cello, Bass *Percussion auditions will be scheduled on a different day and will take place at Mountain Brook Junior High School. Repertoire for Substitute & Extra Musician Auditions. UAB Middle School Honor Band 2019 December 5-7, 2019 DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS – October 4, 2019 Event Dates The 2019 UAB Middle School Honor Band will consist of four bands: Festival Honor Band, Green Band, Gold Band, and White […]. The Alabama Symphonic Band performs four concerts each year, in addition to performing at the annual Alabama Honor Band Festival each February. Auditions are by invitation only. Emailed video links and mailed DVDs will not be acknowledged or returned. The Northport Symphony Orchestra seeks new members in al sections. This advanced choir consists of music majors as well as talented choral enthusiasts from other academic disciplines across the University of Alabama. La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, now in its fourth decade, is one of the most highly lauded theatres in Southern California. Clarinet, Section Leader - Nordic Chamber Orchestra Closing date: 01 Nov 2019 Whilst musicalchairs makes every effort to ensure that the information listed IS accurate, fair AND genuine, we cannot take responsibility if it transpires that an advert has misled. Something went wrong. The mission of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in Mobile Alabama is to enhance lives by achieving the highest standards in live symphonic music and music education. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus Auditions. He has played the tuba for the Spokane Symphony since 1975, spending years juggling more than fifty hours a week at an engineering job with symphony responsibilities. Discover the South Carolina Philharmonic. The School of Carolina Ballet provides rigorous, comprehensive training from beginners to pre-professional. The Huxford Orchestra, the Alabama Jazz Ensemble, the Alabama Jazz Band, and the Alabama Jazz Combos typically hold auditions in mid-August, around the start of classes. In The Round with Barbara Cloyd, Hasting and Co, Josiah Siska and Doug Johnson. Click to see this season's Musical Arts Concert Series season brochure. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts October 19, 2018 at 6:04 pm #21233 Andrew C Joseph Aumann won the audition for a one year spot in the Alabama Symphony trombone section. USA Department of Music Concert Ensemble Auditions - Spring Semester 2018 Flute/Piccolo Flute Excerpts Tchaikovsky: March Slav, Op. During The Sing-Off 's season finale, Street Corner Symphony claimed the second place title, losing the championship to Huntsville, Alabama group. To fix this, you can: 1. According to the information provided at this time, both our administrative office and the Paramount Theater will remain open and unaffected, and Friday’s concert will happen as scheduled. Thus, in 1984, the TACO became TSO - the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts 2580 Mt Zion Pkwy,. We provide the finest possible training, practice and performance opportunities, enabling our students to learn, share and enjoy the power of music. Consideration for admission to the University of Alabama School of Music requires 1) application to the University of Alabama and 2) an audition for School of Music. If you are interested in auditioning for next season, please submit the following material via email. We offer semi-private instruction in violin in various cities throughout North Alabama. Auditions for chair placement in the Wind Symphony are held during the first week of classes in the fall and spring semesters. Viewing 1 post (of 1 total) Author Posts October 19, 2018 at 6:04 pm #21233 Andrew C Joseph Aumann won the audition for a one year spot in the Alabama Symphony trombone section. Mark F, Tripadvisor. What will the Stravinsky composition make you do? Find out with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, January 18 and 19, 7PM, at UAB's Alys Stephens Center. Blake Richardson, conductor of UA’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra. The exhibit ties into the themes of Alabama Story, with renowned artists from throughout the country presenting works based on concepts of censorship, bigotry, free speech, racism and speaking truth to power. NAfME All-Northwest Wind Symphony!! Please refer to that group’s specific audition materials for more information and consult your state’s Wind Symphony School List to see if wind and percussion students from your school are eligible. Youth Symphony Auditions. alabamasymphony. Community Music School. The mission of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in Mobile Alabama is to enhance lives by achieving the highest standards in live symphonic music and music education. Guaranteed Services for 2019-20: 24 (A Contract) Candidates must be eligible to work in US. Catalin Rotaru 91,768 views. The Alabama Symphony Orchestra Chorus formerly known as the Birmingham Concert Chorale was founded in 1966 as the Birmingham Civic Chorus under the direction of Bruce Tolbert of the University of Montevallo. Ever wonder how the players on the stage get there?. decatur youth symphony artistic staff Emily Jones Davis, Executive Director, Guitar Instructor Jessica Clark, Assistant Executive Director, Breakfast with the Classics Director, Violin/Viola Instructor. To connect with Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra, join Facebook today. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. All-State Orchestra Audition Information. Yes indeed, when I step out onto that world class stage to audition for the Houston Symphony Orchestra, you can bet I won't be thinking about comfort zones, hooks, the state my life or opportunities squandered in the past. The Mobile Symphony Orchestra, currently under the direction of Scott Speck, has been a fixture of Mobile, AL since 1997. Led by Peter Jaffe and supported by an amazing level of skilled musicians from the area, the orchestra has been inspiring the community and audiences since 1987. Constructed in January of 1927, the stately, European-style historic landmark, is treasured for its architectural beauty as well as for the extraordinary caliber of entertainment it offers our community today. Region and Area contests that lead to All-State will use this music. Alabama Orchestra Association (AOA). This year we are once again providing recordings of both the high school and middle school etudes. TSO accepts gifts of any size, and there are multiple ways to make an impact. While the seniors in the orchestra are making their final decisions on colleges to attend, Director of Education Barbara Burroughs and I are busily talking to students, parents, and teachers about upcoming spring auditions. Alabama Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for a one-year assistant principal cello on Sep 15, 2019. Welcome to the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. If interested in auditioning for the Alabama Ballet, please email your video submission to [email protected] An MSO account will allow you to purchase tickets and subscription packages online. Magnum Opus audition listing for a second trombone at Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 09/16/18. Easily share your publications and get them in front of Issuu’s. Nashville Symphony is proud to be a partner orchestra of the National Alliance for Audition Support (NAAS), an unprecedented national initiative to increase diversity in American orchestras. For more info about the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, call: 248. Royal Caribbean Productions holds auditions year round in 66 cities throughout the world. , UA Campus). Northwest Indiana Symphony Society. Positions in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are determined through an audition process. Hy remporte 24,1% des voix et termine troisième de cette saison 1. This includes the current 3 rd grade violin program, after school classes and private instruction. To close the menu, tab back to the Close button and hit the Enter key, or hit the Escape key. Click on the box below to learn more. Per the terms of the. Monday, November 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm. The School of Carolina Ballet provides rigorous, comprehensive training from beginners to pre-professional. University Orchestra-The Symphony has been entertaining and enriching audiences of all ages for over 100 years. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1993, but she has a long history in St. The 2019 ensembles will meet at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in. Sept 15, 2012 Opening Night. Instant Fun Just Add Opera Sarasota Youth Opera. Anne Donaldson biography, photo. MyAuditions. If they're not willing to accept. Employment & Auditions Ballet Arizona is the Southwest’s premiere Ballet company offering classical and contemporary ballet performances and is dedicated to preserving and celebrating classical dance while creating and commissioning new innovative works. Tickets are on sale now! To purchase tickets, please click here to visit our ticketing website or call/visit the Theatre Albany Box Office (229-439-7141): Oct 8-11, 16-18, and 23-25 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm. AYS also performs at the annual MOP Showcase Recital. Join us for an evening of music and culinary delights. Positions in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are determined through an audition process. Atlanta, GA: November 21-22, 2019; New York, NY: December 16-18, 2019; Call back auditions for the Atlanta auditions will be held on Friday, Nov 22 in the afternoon. 1156 [email protected] The MSBOA All-State program was established in the 2005 - 06 school year. Our tradition of excellence and commitment to developing outstanding musicians and educators lives on in alumni playing i. Sodam Lim won the recent violin audition at the Alabama Symphony. Find Orchestra Jobs & Performance Jobs for Cello, Violoncello at musicalchairs - for classical music professionals. The orchestra is an ensemble of 70-80 players devoted to the orchestral music of the 18th through 20th centuries. 00 USD credit card payment. Includes season calendar, volunteer, audience and educational program information, and symphony and staff biographies and notes. © 2019 Louisville Orchestra. Audition location is at Long … Continued. June 2-8, 2019 A wonderful musical opportunity awaits you…the UAB Bands Summer Music Camp at the University of Alabama at Birmingham! We are incredibly excited to offer you a comprehensive week-long musical experience right here in our own Magic City. Upon review of all material submission, candidates who are deemed acceptable will be invited to campus to do a live audition with the University Wind Ensemble or Symphony Band. Hailed as a "young titan" by the Montreal Gazette after conducting the Montreal Symphony, Gregory completed his tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2005. You have some jquery. Alabama Symphony Orchestra second violin audition, 03/18/19—Magnum Opus. LOOKING FOR TICKETS? Before a weekend concert, ticket sales end at 4 PM on Friday at our website and box office. The Music Opportunity Program's Alabama Youth Symphony performs the 1st movement of Beethoven's 8th Symphony. Led by Founder and Artistic Director/Conductor, Dr. In a 2000 study of 11 U. Brett Andrews P. For more information or to register for the audition, please send a one page resume via mail or email to: Shreveport Symphony Orchestra Attn. We are a diverse group, including both musc professionals and those for whom music is a joyful avocation. 2019 UAB MS/HS Honor Band Information High School Information is listed below the Middle School section. The Alabama Symphony Orchestra is currently accepting applications for the 'Assistant Concertmaster (4th Chair)' position. The Decatur Youth Symphony in Decatur, Alabama transforms lives through music by providing students the opportunity to learn and perform music, impacting the culture of our community. He has also played with the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Music Festival, and regularly with the Pittsburgh Symphony in concerts and on tour, with such conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, and Claudio Abbado. Simply click on the instrument that you play. "The Meridian Symphony Orchestra was founded to enhance the quality of life for the communities of East Mississippi. Her success as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO. It's almost worth moving to Sarasota just to hear it over and over. Welcome to the New Texas Symphony Orchestra, the premier community orchestra of Dallas. She recently premiered her first harp concerto at Zankel Hall with the American Composers Orchestra under the direction of George Manahan. Powered by Live Nation Entertainment. Sodam Lim won the recent violin audition at the Alabama Symphony. greensborosymphony. [email protected] All students must audition for School of Music faculty before being admitted. Applications to be received by April 2nd, 2014. Admittance is free and children are welcome! These concerts are live-streamed to allow friends and family outside West Alabama access to the performance. The Memphis Symphony Chorus is seeking vocalists to audition for our 2019-2020 season. Instrument Exchange. Steve Metcalf 59,328 views. The Alabama Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Birmingham Alabama on 3rd Avenue North. Since then, the ASO Chorus has been an integral part of the organization, providing powerful performances of the greatest symphonic works. Simply click on the instrument that you play. The Symphony’s celebration of dance brings the unmatched beauty of Tchaikovsky’s ballet music to the stage. Johanna Yarbrough joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra horn section in 2012. The School of Music is in the heart of the OU Arts District. Auditions will be held at Austin Junior High School in Decatur, AL. “Adding to the problem is our continuing production of increasing numbers of music degrees, now more than thirty thousand American collegiate degrees a year, in a field where there have never been many jobs but where there are now fewer each year. Wolf Trap Foundation, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to bringing exciting performance experiences to our stages for the enrichment, education, and enjoyment of diverse audiences. The Northwest Indiana Symphony Society, Inc. The Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra still has a limited number of openings for the 2019-2020 season which includes the June 2020 Concert Tour of the Baltics and Scandinavia. One of pop music’s most visionary artists pays tribute to his finest work with the Beach Boys, as well as sounds from his acclaimed solo catalog. Musicians had to go through a professional audition process to play in the Symphony, and were in return paid for their services. Download the application form and return with a $20 non-refundable check to Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 3621 Sixth Ave. Magnum Opus audition listing for a second violin at Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 03/18/19. Ensemble participation is open to all students through audition each semester. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. chicago symphony chorus auditions. October 2019: Hot as Hell / Cool Jazz Friday, October 11, 8 pm. Jonathan Whitaker joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in the fall of 2009. Alabama Symphony Orchestra. 2019-2020 LARGE PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE AUDITIONS. We will retain your deposit in the event that you do not attend the audition, or do not cancel your audition time slot at least 2 weeks prior to your scheduled audition. Education in Our Community Find out more about our Youth Orchestras, Young People’s Concerts, KinderConcerts and Naftzger Auditions & Awards. This website uses cookies to enhance user experience, including login status. After submitting the form below, please bring $30 cash or a check payable to PHOENIX YOUTH SYMPHONY to a Wednesday rehearsal or mail to:. com - The Destination for Performing Artists. The Midland Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for the 2018-19 Season on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at Midland Center for the Arts. Please Note: The Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre is currently closed for construction. Strauss’s Don Juan is a remarkable tour-de-force for the entire orchestra. The quality of the musicians and the versatility of their performance range is truly outstanding. Learn more. The NAfME All-National Honor Ensembles (ANHE) represent the top performing high school musicians in the United States. The Joffrey Ballet School is the only ballet school in New York City that offers a well-rounded dance curriculum that includes serious training in both classical ballet (technique, pointe, variations, adagio, men’s classes) and contemporary ballet (technique, improvisation, partnering), as well as modern, character, choreography, dance history, music, pilates and yoga. Alabama Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for a section second violin on Sep 20, 2015. 7 and the Beethoven Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. Homeschool Students. The Montgomery Youth Orchestra is sponsored by the Montgomery Symphony League. Since then, the ASO Chorus has been an integral part of the organization, providing powerful performances of the greatest symphonic works. 20 Employment start date to be mutually determined. Site also includes The Circuit Playhouse. School of Music Facility Reservation Form make a request. These auditions may be set up individually through the band office in the spring semester for the following school term. During the audition, the student will demonstrate skills that can be developed to enable them to successfully serve as a performer, music educator, music minister, or music entrepreneur. Previous Next Get Season Tickets Now BTL Makes It Easy To See All Your Broadway Favorites! Purchase Full Season Tickets, Renew Season Tickets, OR Design Your Own Pick 3+ Ticket Packages, all before individual tickets go on sale!. 中文(繁體．台灣) Español (España). To close the menu, tab back to the Close button and hit the Enter key, or hit the Escape key. P lease contact Music Admissions to request permission before submitting a distance audition video. A red tile on the calendar indicates an event; click the tile and the events will update on the right side of your screen. We've got great weather, a fine university, a vibrant community,. Under the leadership of Iain Webb, The Sarasota Ballet has achieved national and international critical acclaim. Click to see this season's Musical Arts Concert Series season brochure. Upon review of all material submission, candidates who are deemed acceptable will be invited to campus to do a live audition with the University Wind Ensemble or Symphony Band. You have some jquery. Now celebrating its 48th Season, NBT continues to bring the Las Vegas community closer to the art form of dance. Viola Tutti Auditions April 2013 Frederic Chaslin-Music Director. During his years in junior high and high school, Al won numerous competitions and was involved in many local honor bands and orchestras. While you're waiting for the #SolarEclipse2017 to happen, you should head over to our website and sign up for ASYO Auditions! New member auditions. The McCallum Theatre’s mission is to entertain and educate the public by offering a variety of performing arts experiences that reflect the diversity of people, interests, and tastes of the Palm Desert/Palm Springs communities and constituents served by the Theatre. University Singers is the premier vocal ensemble of the UA School of Music. The Joffrey Ballet School is the only ballet school in New York City that offers a well-rounded dance curriculum that includes serious training in both classical ballet (technique, pointe, variations, adagio, men’s classes) and contemporary ballet (technique, improvisation, partnering), as well as modern, character, choreography, dance history, music, pilates and yoga. All-State Recording Archives. Magnum Opus audition listing for a one-year assistant principal cello at Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 09/15/19. Remember the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra on Friday, November 22nd during Lancaster's Extraordinary Give Day. A large performing ensemble of woodwind, brass and percussion instrumentalists, the USA Symphony Band emphasizes wind band literature and live performance. Gregory Vajda, Music Director & Conductor Perhaps the most monumental, groundbreaking work of classical music at the time of its 1824 premiere, Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony No. 201 North Walker Ave. Official website of the Majestic Theatre and Charline McCombs Empire Theatre. Thank you to all of the students who auditions for this year’s December CODA Honor Orchestra. The Rep is the St. Alabama Symphony Orchestra, United States - 'Tutti. Ever wonder how the players on the stage get there?. Since its founding in 1967, the quintet has maintained an active schedule performing woodwind chamber music from the early quintets of Danzi and Reicha to twentieth-century compositions. The mission of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra in Mobile Alabama is to enhance lives by achieving the highest standards in live symphonic music and music education. This season, it will be used in the first and final Classical Series concert sets. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. If any sections of the Symphony or Philharmonic orchestras were not filled adequately and additional members are desired, any local musician may audition for these vacancies at Late Auditions if they complete an application, pay the audition fee and sign up for an audition time. During a performance of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, sure, you are treated to a world-class treat for your ears. Our mission is to perform orchestra music that will educate, entertain and inspire the people of Parker, Colorado and the surrounding communities. Второй конкурсный ролик оркестра Youtube Symphony, Диттерсдорф. May 1, 2017 #1. He serves as Music Director for the American Youth Symphony and Alabama Symphony Orchestra. com - The Destination for Performing Artists. Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. Prior to joining the Nashville Symphony, she was a violinist of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 2012 to 2015. The Alabama Symphony Orchestra is currently accepting applications for the 'Assistant Concertmaster (4th Chair) position. Get the latest onsale announcements, news and more delivered straight to your inbox. decatur youth symphony artistic staff Emily Jones Davis, Executive Director, Guitar Instructor Jessica Clark, Assistant Executive Director, Breakfast with the Classics Director, Violin/Viola Instructor. Sutton first embraced classical music during her undergraduate studies at Oakwood University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with a concentration in voice. Security will escort you to our floor. This was the 3rd audition in the past year for this spot to result in a no hire. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Ticket sales for Ticket Sales - Huxford Symphony Orchestra at School of Music Concert Hall on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. We will lead the national field by deeply engaging with our local community, modeling radical inclusion and catalytic experiences on our stages, in our classrooms, and throughout Atlanta. Praised by international press, he won top prizes at the 2007 Aspen Music Festival and later at the 2008 Toscanini International Conducting Competition. Welcome message from Professor Jenny Grégoire. mil (please include name of the ensemble and instrument in the subject line) or contact the auditions supervisor at 202-433-2840. Bands (205) 348-6068. Dear Directors, We’d like to invite you to participate in our annual UAB Concert Band Invitational on Friday February 21st, 2020. Results are posted as soon as information is received. Kevin Fitzgerald Music Director, Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra & Assistant Conductor, Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Floy Wang, Prelude & Etude Conductor By Sarah Marczynski on July 17, 2015 in CSOYO Staff Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Mrs. At Alabama, Whitaker’s students have been tremendously successful in national and international solo competitions as well as being placed in some of the nation’s top summer music festivals. com - The Destination for Performing Artists. Join us for a fabulous evening of Broadway favorites at the Blount Cultural Park, home of Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Carolyn Blount Theatre, as the MSO presents Broadway Under the Stars. The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra is one of West Alabama's premiere arts organizations, serving the Tuscaloosa area by providing high-quality musical experiences for arts lovers of all ages. Louis, a vibrant city with a thriving musical culture. She is currently a member of the New World Symphony. The Symphony’s celebration of dance brings the unmatched beauty of Tchaikovsky’s ballet music to the stage. His orchestral experience also includes engagements with the Grant Park Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, and the Orchestra of the Americas. org Website: www. South Arkansas Symphony Schedule, concert tickets, reviews, press releases, outreach, and history. Someone from ASO will call to schedule a time. All orchestras are open by audition to students in the third through the 12th grades. You may also view events as a list by clicking "View as List":. Placement into the festival is by audition only. Sharon Sparrow, a flutist in the Detroit Symphony, has taken countless auditions herself, understands the rigors of preparation and the state of mind necessary for success. Specific info on what to prepare and how to sign up is on our website. We respect your privacy and take protecting it seriously. click this card for a printable version Thank you for supporting the arts and especially the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra. So much more than a musical showcase, the ANHE program is a comprehensive and educational experience. International Horn Society. With four regular-season concerts, great music is always just around the corner. Ever wonder how the players on the stage get there?. Houston Grand Opera is one of the most innovative, highly acclaimed and premier opera companies in the United States. Mantente al día de lo que pasa en Pacific Symphony. Find Orchestra Jobs & Performance Jobs for Flute Players - Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute & Piccolo at musicalchairs. The Richmond Symphony is the largest performing arts organization in Central Virginia performing 39 weeks with an operating budget of $6. All patrons concerned about weather who are attending a performance at Symphony Hall are instructed to call the BSO Snow line at 617-638-9495 for updated concert information. The official youth orchestra of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra is an ensemble dedicated to nurturing talent, building community, and empowering young lives in the state of Alabama. Resume and deposit deadline is August 10, 2015. Simply click on the instrument that you play. Welcome to the Kokomo Symphony We are delighted you are visiting our site! Check out our latest events! Please remember to "like us" on Facebook! Please note!!! Sitcom Singalong TV Dinner Event - Cocktails at 6:30pm and Dinner is at 7:00pm for this event Join us for our Sitcom Singalong TV Dinner Night at the Hobson!. Huxford Symphony Orchestra; The University of Alabama School of Music. Alabama Symphony Orchestra will be holding auditions for a principal bass on Apr 30, 2017. 5 and Poul Ruder's Sound & Simplicity music for accordion and orchestra. Yang makes her Madison Symphony debut with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. Semifinalists will be chosen by judges from some of the world's major orchestras. Celebrating 50 years as Bloomington's community orchestra We all know that Bloomington is an amazing place to live and work. Join us for an evening of music and culinary delights. Worldwide debut audition is annual, and the deadlines are in December every year.
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“What A Relief” Podcast 30: Resettlement & The Resilience of Refugees
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B.C. Dodge & R. Mordant Mahon welcome Kristyn Peck from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in this episode of “What a Relief!” — IRUSA’s official podcast.
This week, B.C. & Mordant chat with Kristyn Peck. Kristyn is the Associate Director of Children’s Services for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services. If you think her title is difficult to say, wait until you hear about the task she confronts each day.
With her background of more than 10 years as a social worker, Kristyn has found her calling helping refugees. She provides leadership and vision in the design and implementation of protection efforts for vulnerable migrating children. In her role, she oversees two large programs which provide residential care and family reunification services to unaccompanied refugees and migrating children.
“We are in a situation where the number of people who are forcibly displaced is higher than it ever has been,” she says, shedding light on a worldwide refugee crisis.
In her visits to refugee camps, she has seen the reality of the situation and now shares her stories of the things she witnessed. “The situation of Syrian refugees in the region is quite dire,” she says. Not only do they face limited access to food and water, but most children are also working to support their families. She describes seeing single mothers afraid to leave home for fear of being targeted for sexual assault.
But amidst the horror, there is hope. For Kristyn, resettlement is the answer to the refugee problem. “People are very resilient,” she says, “and when given the opportunity… children thrive. What I’ve seen through my work is that when given a permanent setting and a safe place and when provided with culturally appropriate services, these children are thriving.”
In this episode, she shares the remarkable story of a refugee who is overcoming tremendous odds. Accepted by the United States after witnessing the murder of his entire family, he is now dreaming of working for the United Nations. Tune in to hear his full story.
Only about 1% of the world’s refugees are resettled, and the United States is one of the only countries in the world that provides resettlement for unaccompanied child refugees.
Check out this episode to learn more about refugee resettlement efforts and how you can help. Find out about ways to support resettlement and how you can help shift the narrative to change hearts and minds about refugees.
**And now you can reach out to us at our new email address: warp@irusa.org!**
“What a Relief!” is the official podcast of Islamic Relief USA. Co-hosted by social media specialist B.C. Dodge & Mordant Mahon, IRUSA’s “What a Relief!” puts a human face on what’s going on in the world and how you can enact positive change in it. New episodes every week!
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Nigeria NIMC Explains Why It’s More Focused On ID Numbers Than On ID Cards
National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that it cannot produce the national ID cards for all Nigerians who have enrolled in it. Director-General NIMC Aliyu Aziz noted this in Abuja on Monday, adding that the national identity cards that are ready are for those who registered in 2012 and 2013. According to him, “The card that we have now is the best in the whole world, but it is difficult to really produce it for everyone.
“In the NIMC, the focus is first come, first served, and this is for those who enrolled in 2012 and 2013, as they are the ones who have got their cards.
“The focus is actually on the National Identification Number. Your NIN gives you your identity and not the card.
“Historically, we focused ourselves on the card to be the output of what we do; but when the country went into recession, we stepped back and checked and found out that in the United States, it is the Social Security Number that connects all the other agencies.
“In the United Kingdom, it is the National Insurance Number; and in India where recently they enrolled about 1.4 billion people, they only gave the number. This means you can now pull your own NIN and then print it the way you want it.
“Recently in Nigeria, we did the Bank Verification Number; and again, what you get is a number and not a BVN card. However, this does not mean that we won’t give out cards, because it is there in the law that we should issue a general multipurpose card that is secure.
“We want to ask the vendors to print, for we have like five vendors in Lagos that can print these cards. So, we want to get the funding to print the cards by outsourcing it to the vendors.
“Right now, we are focused on enrolling people and harmonising their identities, which is why the number grew from five million to 30 million in our record. But on the ID cards, we have not done much,” he added.
Source: NIMC Explains Why It’s More Focused On NIN Than On National ID Cards
Tanzania: Electronic Land Title Deeds Ready By June
Paucity Of Data Compels Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Commission To Begin National Personnel Audit
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Labor Day suddenly controversial?
Despite a unanimous vote, there was a little argument over a symbolic Labor Day resolution passed by the Johnson County supervisors today.
Before the vote, Republican John Etheredge said he would vote for the resolution despite disagreeing with parts of it.
Following the vote Etheredge said the specific language that concerned him was: "unions continue to fuel the growth of our economy and a strng middle class,"
"If you go to a livable wage it doesn't facilitate a persons ability to afford items. In the end the consumer always pays," said Etheredge. "That burden is actually on the taxpayers. We should focus on quality rather than whether it's union or not. I just don't like pitting people against each other, union vs. non-union. It's the person and the people and the work ethic, not whether it's union or not."
"Living wage should not be a controversial issue," said Board chair Janelle Rettig. "You should be able to work 40 hours a week and pay your bills."
"I don't see the things that the clerks and ambulance drivers and sheriff's deputies do as a burden," said Rod Sullivan; "I see it as a benefit."
We went with the cheaper labor at HHS," said Pat Harney, discussing the county building opened in 2008 and built by a non-union firm, "and now we're paying the price for it."
City Federation of Labor President Pat Hughes, accepting the proclamation, said "Because a non-union contractor knows how much union workers earn, they can just care enough off a bid to just slip in. The savings are insignificant and the money goes to the boss."
"We think it's our mission to represent all workers, not just union members," said Jesse Case of the Teamsters, noting that union contracts set the wage and benefit standards for non-union labor as well.
Hughes also said wage theft, especially of last checks for a job, is common in Johnson County. "Workers still have to fight for their own justice and dignity."
Full audio of the discussion will be available later in the day. Full text of the proclamation:
WHEREAS, hard-working men and women across Johnson County prove that we are home to the most creative, dynamic, and talented workers in the world, on Labor Day and throughout the year, we celebrate our County's workers; and
WHEREAS, the right to organize and collectively bargain is a fundamental American value. Since its beginnings, organized labor has raised our living standards and built our middle class. It is the reason we have child labor laws, 40-hour weeks, weekends, overtime, vacations, the minimum wage, sick leave, parental leave, OSHA, employment nondiscrimination, pensions, Social Security, health insurance, and so much more. Many Americans today are given opportunities because their parents and grandparents fought for these basic rights and values. The principles upheld by the honorable laborers of generations past and their unions continue to fuel the growth of our economy and a strong middle class; and
WHEREAS, there is a vigorous fight to protect these rights and values, and on this Labor Day, we reaffirm that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of the American dream. From public employees -- including SEATS Drivers, Social Workers, Ambulance employees, Clerks, Plow Drivers, Sheriff’s Deputies, and others who perform public services -- to workers in private industries, these men and women hold the power of our Nation in their hands.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that we, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, do hereby proclaim Monday, September 2, 2013, as:
CELEBRATION OF LABOR DAY AND WORKERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS
and call upon all people of Johnson County to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that acknowledge the tremendous contributions of working Americans and their families.
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Fr. Robert H. Fitzgerald, SJ
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Bob had the soul and sensibilities of a poet. He loved to tell stories and to hear the stories of others. The complexities of the human person fascinated him.
In Memoriam: Fr. Robert H. Fitzgerald, SJ
Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of Fr. Robert (Bob) H. Fitzgerald, SJ, who died on March 17, 2016, at St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, Wis. He was 80 years old, a Jesuit for 62 years, and a priest for 49 years.
Born in Omaha on June 9, 1935, Bob attended St. Margaret Mary School and Creighton Prep. Together with his twin brother, Jim, Bob entered the Society at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Mo., on August 17, 1953. He had the usual Jesuit course of studies at St. Stanislaus and Saint Louis University and did his regency at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee from 1960 to 1963. Bob then did two years of theological studies at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland, and two years of theological studies at St. Mary's Academy & College in Kansas. He was ordained a priest on June 9, 1966, and did his tertianship in 1967 and 1968. Bob completed a Licentiate of Sacred Theology program at Saint Louis University in 1968 and pronounced final vows on August 15, 1973.
After his ordination, Bob taught high school English for nine years – at Creighton Prep in Omaha, Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Holy Angels Academy in Minneapolis. From 1980 to 1986, he ministered as an alcohol and drug counselor at St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. From 1986 to 1998, he lived and ministered in the Twin Cities as a writer, a counselor, and a chaplain. After three years as a retreat director at the Holy Spirit Center for retreats in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2002. Bob moved to Omaha to serve as a chaplain at the Creighton University Medical Center. In 2006, declining health brought him to St. Camillus Jesuit Community in Wauwatosa, Wis., where he remained until his death.
The person behind all these moves and ministries was a quiet, gentle Jesuit priest. Bob had the soul and sensibilities of a poet. He loved to tell stories and to hear the stories of others, especially stories connected to families. The complexities of the human person fascinated him. He loved to write, both for his own enjoyment and for others, and was dedicated to helping those battling addictions. For periods of his life, he struggled with serious health issues, particularly in his last years at St. Camillus. Through it all, he was a patient and priestly presence to those whose lives he shared.
San Camillo Chapel
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Jesuit Retreat Center
Nestled in the urban landscape of Parma, Ohio, the Jesuit Retreat Center is “a place of peace in the forest.”
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Numbers Plus Four by H.S. Stone
A woman roams around a city uttering seemingly random numbers on her cell phone. A vigilante is motivated by more than justice. Teenagers stumble across a deadly cabin in the woods. "Numbers Plus Four" features these and two other short stories.
Included in this collection:
- Numbers
- My Brother's Keeper
- The Cabin
- Disappearances
H.S. Stone
Even before he could read, H.S. Stone wanted to write a book. Fascinated by the stories that seemed to leap from his kindergarten teacher's books, he went home and wrote his own book, with illustrations and bound by staples. Of course, since he didn't know how to read or write yet, the book was full of gibberish.
Undaunted, H.S. eventually mastered the ABC's and continued to write throughout his grade school years, adolescence, and into adulthood. Despite earning a degree and working in a field not related to writing, he continued to pursue his writing passion.
Numbers Plus Four, a collection of five short stories, was H.S. Stone's first publication. He has since published a Middle Grade novel, George and the Galactic Games, and two Young Adult books, In the Hands of Children and Beyond New Eden.
H.S. Stone lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Other Books By H.S. Stone
Numbers Plus Four
Plays and Anthologies
In the Hands of Children
George and the Galactic Games
With Five You Get Fortune Cookie
Beyond New Eden
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The Sasanian Empire (224 CE – 651 CE), which was a contemporary of the Roman and later Byzantine Empires, was once a great power. And like other great powers it built great walls to mark and control its borders. These included the Wall of the Arabs (in the southwest), Walls of Derbent (in the northwest at the Caspian Mountains) and Great Wall of Gorgan (in the northeast). Remains of the Sasanian border walls still exist, particularly in Derbent where they are a UNESCO world heritage site.
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A Long, Long Wall Found in Iran
A poorly preserved stone wall stretching southward 71 miles from the Bamu Mountains have been identified in western Iran. Yes, you read that right: a 71-mile-long wall. Similar structures have been found in northern and northeastern Iran. Pottery found along the structure, known to locals as the “Gawri Wall,” has been dated to between the 300s BCE and the 500s CE. The archaeological examination also found that there may have been turrets or buildings placed along the wall, which was made with local materials such as cobbles and boulders fixed with gypsum mortar. Archaeologists estimate the wall may have stood about 10 feet tall and 13 feet wide. But why was it built? Based on the location and the length, Gawri Wall may have been built as a border wall by the Parthians or the Sassanians. But because it is so poorly preserved, whether it actually functioned to keep things out, or was more symbolic, is unknown.
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Lapis lazuli enjoyed great popularity in the late Roman and Early Byzantine periods; its rich purple-blue color was associated with royalty. From the 200s on, coins and medallions often showed the emperor carrying a scepter topped with an eagle, emblem of victory and authority. This particular lapis lazuli eagle was found in Italy and dates to the 300s or 400s CE, meaning it may very well have once perched on a Roman emperor’s scepter.
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The Territory Ever Controlled By Istanbul, by Length of Control
Note that in this map, the Aceh Sultanate is considered a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans did send a fleet and other military aid to help the Acehnese in wars with the Malay kingdoms and the Portuguese, and the Acehnese did acknowledge the Ottoman sultan as caliph. It's still a stretch to say that the Ottomans in Istanbul "controlled" the Aceh territory on Sumatra.
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Historical Spread of Buddhism
The Mythical Birth of The Lion People
The Sinhalese people are native to Sri Lanka, speak Sinhala, are majority Theravada Buddhists, and today make up about 75% of the island's population. They also have a pretty cool origin myth. The Mahavamsa, a Sri Lankan epic from the 400s CE, tells how the Indian prince Vijaya was the grandson of a lion. (No mention of whether Vijaya had a mane or ate really, really raw meat.) According to the Mahavamsa, Prince Vijaya traveled to the island of Sri Lanka and married Princess Kuveni, a lady of Sri Lanka's previous inhabitants the Yakkhas. Vijaya eventually overcame the Yakkhas, and with his followers took control of Sri Lanka, becoming the first of the Sinhalese people.
The Mahavamsa says the Sinhala never forgot their origins: Sinhala literally means “of lions.” In the Sinhalese tradition the lion is the mythical ancestor of kings and a symbol of royal authority. Because, you know, the first king was a quarter lion and people tend to remember that.
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Fragments of tree bark inscribed with a Buddhist manuscript written in Sanskrit were discovered in Mes Aynak, a prosperous Buddhist city occupied from the 200s to 600s CE. The manuscript fragments themselves appear to be from the 600s. Researchers think the ancient manuscripts may have been housed in an archive at the site, which has also yielded a monastery complex, murals, and more than 400 Buddha statues and stupas.
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One man, Kumarajiva, is responsible for revolutionizing Chinese Buddhism. He lived from 334 to 413 CE during China's Sixteen Kingdoms Era, and was tasked by the Later Qin emperor with translating key Buddhist texts into Chinese from Sanskrit. This is harder than mere literal translation. Sanskrit and Chinese are very different, linguistically, and Kumarajiva complained that the translation work was like having to eat rice after someone else had already chewed it!
Kumarajiva was able to translate many key Buddhist texts. In China today, millions of Chinese speak the words of Kumarajiva every day.
An Ancient Popcorn Popper!
A person of the Moche culture would likely have used this pot to hold kernels close to a fire. Circa 200 - 600 CE. During this period, ceramic pots with handles for roasting corn were used more or less throughout Peru, but especially in the north.
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Disney's Mulan May Have Been Historically Inaccurate
Historians are unsure whether the Huns, the ones who helped end the Roman Empire, ever invaded China. That's because its unclear if the Huns are the western name for the Xiongnu, a nomadic people from Mongolia who are found in Chinese records, or if the Huns were a nomadic people from central Asia or Iran.
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England - Sir Francis Bacon, Thomas Birch (editor)
1765 - A. Millar [vol.III: A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson], London - Collected Edition
A scarce complete five quarto volume set of Bacon’s works, volumes I-III in English with Mallet’s ‘Life of Francis Bacon’ and volume III containing Birch’s second enlarged edition of ‘Letters, Characters, Speeches....’, volumes III-IV in Latin.
'One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I have taken all knowledge as my province'.’
Bacon’s argument that the sciences should move away from divine philosophy and embrace empirical observation would forever change the way philosophers and natural scientists interpret their world.
In contemporary bindings, volumes I-IV with engraved frontispieces, all volumes with title pages lettered in red and black and with engraved vignettes. Two folding letterpress charts of ‘The General Distribution of Human Knowledge’ (Volume I p42, and its Latin counterpart in Volume IV, p54).
Commentaries on the Laws of England. - William Blackstone, Esq. Solicitor General to Her Majesty
1770 - The Clarendon Press, Oxford - Fourth Edition
It Is Better That Ten Persons Escape, Than That One Innocent Suffer.
‘Blackstone's great work on the laws of England is the extreme example of justification of an existing state of affairs by virtue of its history. Until the ‘Commentaries’, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine; nothing but trouble, even danger, was to be expected from contact with it. Blackstone's great achievement was to popularise the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation.’
– Printing and the Mind of Man.
An attractive four volume quarto set [28 x 23 cm] in contemporary full calf binding. With two engraved tables, being the Table of Consanguinity [Vol. II p.203] and the folding Table of Descents [Vol. II p.240].
The Chamber- SIGNED - John Grisham
1994 - Doubleday, New York - First Edition, First Printing
A fine first edition, signed by Grisham.
‘Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.
Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances — except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.’
‘Mesmerizing… with an authority and originality… and with a grasp of literary complexity that makes Scott Turow’s novel’s pale by comparison — Grisham returns.’ – San Francisco Chronicle.
Grisham’s fifth novel, and the basis for the 1996 film starring Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell and Faye Dunaway.
RESERVED - The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. - William Kitchiner
1822 - Hurst, London - Third Edition, Enlarged
A scarce and fascinating little work in contemporary binding.
Following a ‘Cure for Tooth-Ach’ is the section entitled ‘The Pleasure of Making a Will’, presumably many ‘Tooth-Achs’ were terminal in 1822.
Words of wisdom include:-
‘The Siesta is not only advisable, but indispensable.’
‘No man should habitually take Wine as Food until he is past 30 years of age’.
‘Take as much exercise as you can in the open air’.
‘Nothing is so restorative to the nerves, as sound and uninterrupted Sleep; which is the chief source of both Bodily and Mental Strength’.
‘The clearness of the Complexion is considered the best criterion of a Man’s being in good condition’.
The Cuckold's Chronicle; being Select Trials for Adultery, Incest, Imbecillity, Ravishment, &c. - H. Lemoin [Editor]
1793 - printed for H. Lemoin, London - First Edition
Extremely scarce two volumes (lacking plates and the title page to volume I). Over 800 pages representing ‘one of the finest examples of sensationalistic writing of the time period’ (Bearden-White).
The pinnacle of publications to satisfy the late 1700’s fascination with divorce cases - contemporary pornography. Containing a large number of trials, fascinating, and in many cases bizarre, some 'never before published', such as 'The celebrated Case and Trial of the Marquis de Gesvres, upon the complaint of his Lady, Mademoiselle de Mascranny, who, after three years Marriage, commenced a Suit against him, at Paris, for Imbecility and Impotency'; and 'The Case of John Bury, Esq. of the County of Devon, who was divorced for want of his Testicles’.
‘The 18th-century fashion for arranged marriages to secure finances and improve social and political influence, with little thought given to the personal feelings of those concerned, led to a great number of extra-marital affairs by both men and women. The reports of consequent divorce cases aroused great interest across all classes, with the trial reports becoming more sexually explicit towards the end of the century. The apogee of the development of [the criminal conversation] genre toward pornography was reached with the publication in 1793 of The Cuckold’s Chronicle’ (Wagner).
The Chronicles of Crime: Or, The New Newgate Calendar. Being a series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841. Including a number of Curious Cases never before published. - Camden Pelham Esq. of the Inner Temple Barrister-at-Law, Phiz (illustrator)
1891 - T. Miles & Co., London
Two thick volumes finely bound by George Bayntun of Bath, illustrated throughout with forty-eight engravings from original drawings by “Phiz” (Hablot K. Browne).
Well the title tells it all, and the illustrations by “Phiz” who illustrated many of Dickens’ books are perfectly suited.
The Crooked Samaritan - Inscribed - Paul Trent (Pseud. of Edward Platt)
1933 - Ward, London and Melbourne - First Edition
Inscribed to the half title ‘To Llew. S. Jones, from his friend The Author, December 1933’ and signed ‘Paul Trent’ to the title page.
A fine signed and inscribed first edition of this courtroom drama in a very good example of the rare dust jacket.
Featuring Roger Welby, Barrister and gentleman romantic, who comes to the aid of his persecuted father, a lawyer who had been tempted away from his profession by the riches of the city and a life of financial schemes which finally proved his undoing. The author, Edward Platt was himself a solicitor.
Paul Trent was the pseudonym of Edward Platt (1872-1946), English solicitor, goalkeeper (made his debut for Gloucester AFC as a goalkeeper in 1889), and prolific novelist who wrote over 80 books under the pseudonyms of Paul Trent and Wilmot Kaye.
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Sights and Attractions near Bocconcino
Bocconcino, 19 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8ED
Mon to Sat 12pm-11.30pm, Sun 12noon-10.30pm
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24 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 1 minute from Bocconcino
New York gallery owner David Zwirner is opening his first overseas outpost in London in October 2012. Led by director Angela Choon, the gallery will... More
Mallett Ely House
37 Dover Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 1 minute from Bocconcino
Mallett is one of the oldest established antiques dealers in the world, founded in 1865 in Bath by jeweller and silversmith John Mallett. The company... More
Royal Institution of Great Britain
London > Attractions > Historic Buildings
21 Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 2 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Best known for its annual televised Christmas lectures, the RI is one of Britain's most famous science institutions and the place where famous scientists such... More
Halcyon Gallery
29 New Bond Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 2 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Situated in the heart of Mayfair, Halcyon Gallery is one of Europe's leading art galleries, representing some of the finest contemporary painters and sculptors working... More
Colnaghi Gallery
15 Old Bond Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 3 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Among the first galleries to be established in Europe, Colnaghi specialises in Old Master paintings and drawings from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Its... More
144-146 New Bond Street, W1S | 3 minutes walk from Bocconcino
One of the largest and most spectacular gallery spaces in London, Halcyon Gallery's magnificent flagship gallery at 144-146 New Bond Street is a five-storey, 12,000... More
Pace Gallery London
6 Burlington Gardens, Mayfair, London W1S | 3 minutes walk from Bocconcino
New York art gallery Pace opens its second London space at 6 Burlington Gardens on 4th October 2012, a 9,000 square foot space in the... More
29 Sackville Street, W1S | 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Formerly located at Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia, when it was known as the Lazarides gallery, Lazinc was first established in 2006 by... More
Gagosian Gallery Grosvenor Hill
20 Grosvenor Hill, W1K | 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The third and largest of Larry Gagosian's London galleries, on Grosvenor Hill in Mayfair, is just around the corner from his 'shop window'... More
Shepherd Market
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Mayfair, W1J | 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
This 'hidden' square in Mayfair has more than its fair share of good restaurants, Victorian pubs and boutique... More
Omer Tiroche Gallery
21 Conduit Street, W1S | 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Mayfair art gallery owned by Omer Tiroche , considered one of London's most exciting young dealers. The focus is on modern, post-war and... More
Fine Art Commissions Ltd
7 Bury Street, St James's, London SW1Y6AL | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Portraits, commissioned and otherwise, are a tradition as old as art itself, with representations made of great men and women for posterity from the time... More
8-10 Ryder Street, St James's, London SW1Y | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Gallery owner Chris Beetles has been dealing for 25 years, and for 16 years from this location in the heart of St James's. Specializing in... More
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street
17-19 Davies Street, Mayfair, London W1K | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The Gagosian Gallery in Mayfair is a tiny space, what estate agents would optimistically call bijou. But size isn't everything and Larry Gagosian's influence should... More
23 Savile Row, W1B | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Hauser & Wirth , the gallery set up by art-dealer, gallery-owner and collector Iwan Wirth, opened its first London gallery in 2003 on Piccadilly.... More
Hauser & Wirth (Piccadilly)
196A Piccadilly, St James's, London W1J | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Art-dealer, gallery-owner and collector Iwan Wirth was recently voted one of the ten most powerful people in the art world. Hauser & Wirth London opened... More
Victoria Miro Mayfair
14 St George Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Three decades after opening her first gallery in Cork Street, Victoria Miro returns to Mayfair to open a third space in October 2013. The gallery,... More
Spencer House
27 St James's Place, St James's, London SW1A | 6 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Spencer family's 18th London residence. The ancestral home of Diana, Princess of Wales, the Spencer family hasn’t lived in this, their London residence, since 1926.... More
25-26 Mason's Yard, Off Duke Street, St James's, London SW1Y | 6 minutes walk from Bocconcino
In 2000, Jay Jopling's pioneering White Cube gallery - the spiritual home of the Young British Artists - upped sticks from its original home in... More
Bowman Sculpture
6 Duke Street, St James's, London SW1Y | 6 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Bowman Sculpture in St James's is a presitgious gallery where art collectors with deep pockets can get their hands on an original Rodin. Specialising in... More
Handel & Hendrix in London
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25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K | 6 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Handel & Hendrix in London, a beautifully restored Georgian house in Mayfair, is where the baroque composer George Frideric Handel lived from 1723 until his... More
5-8 Lower John Street, W1F | 6 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Described by The Guardian as the "gallerist with the golden touch" New Yorker Marian Goodman is the "most respected dealer" in... More
Christie's Mayfair
103 New Bond Street, Mayfair, London W1S | 7 minutes walk from Bocconcino
This Bond Street art gallery space for the London branch of Christie's auction house represents something of a first for an auction house. Occupying 11,500... More
43 Pall Mall, Mayfair, London SW1Y | 7 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Alan Cristea Gallery is the largest publisher and dealer of artists' prints and editions in Europe. Set up by Alan Cristea, who brings with him... More
London > Attractions > Sights
Piccadilly Circus, Soho, London W1J | 8 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Right in the middle of the West End, Piccadilly Circus isn't a circus at all, but an enormous road junction where Piccadilly itself Regent Street,... More
St James's Market
St James's, SW1Y | 8 minutes walk from Bocconcino
An impressive 450 million pound development in the heart of London, St James's Market ... More
Lights Of Soho
Brewer Street, Soho, London W1F | 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
A new gallery space dedicated to light art. ... More
16-18 Ramillies Street, Soho, London W1F | 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The Photographers' Gallery - Britain's leading centre for contemporary photography - emerged from a 3.6 million pound redesign in May 2012 revealing the work of... More
St James's Palace, St James's, London SW1 | 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The home of the Queen Mother from 1953 to 2002, a tour of Clarence House is an excellent way of experiencing the living history of... More
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Oxford Street, Marylebone, London W1C | 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
With over 200 million visitors a year, more than 300 shops and 5 million square feet of retail space, Oxford Street lays claim to being... More
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The Maths Of Life And Death
Exhibitions | On 21st January 2020
Royal Institution of Great Britain 2 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Literary & Education, Lecture....More
Alex Israel: Always On My Mind
Gagosian Gallery Grosvenor Hill 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The Los Angeles-born artist's first solo exhibition in London comprises a series of photorealistic paintings, which incorporate scenes of everyday ...More
Dan Flavin: For Prudence
Exhibitions | Until 15th February 2020
Bastian Gallery 4 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Exhibitions & Art, Design....More
Live In Your Head: Richard Artschwager's Cabinet Of Curiosities
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
An installation of works spanning the five decades of the artist's career, arranged like objects in a box which are ...More
An Evening with Peter May at Hatchards
Hatchards 5 minutes walk from Bocconcino
We are thrilled to welcome internationally best-selling crime writer Peter May here at Hatchards this evening on the publication of ...More
Theatre | Until 5th April 2020
Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Michael Jackson's untimely death may have propelled this musical into orbit; Thriller - Live became a tribute show overnight with ...More
Comedy Store 9 minutes walk from Bocconcino
A night of interactive, improvised humour with Rob Rouse, Ian Stone, Sean Meo, Luke Toulson, Tania Edwards and Rob Deering....More
Her Majesty's Theatre 10 minutes walk from Bocconcino
Andrew Lloyd Webber's most enduring hit has been running since 1984 and is still as popular with audiences and critics ...More
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Untitled 2019 (The Form Of The Flower Is Unknown To The Seed)
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Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) 11 minutes walk from Bocconcino
A sake bar with communal seating and tables containing artworks and special lighting challenges the traditional exhibition format in favour ...More
Wigmore Hall 11 minutes walk from Bocconcino
The group presents Mozart's String Quartet In D Minor, Shostakovich's String Quartet No 2 In A and Brahms's String Quartet ...More
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LITS Mix
Stream: Fall Out Boy – “Save Rock and Roll”
By Keith Yeo ⋅ April 8, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment
Fall Out Boy has leaked their extremely anticipated comeback album Save Rock and Roll in its entirety as a set on Soundcloud. The album features a range of guest vocalists, from Courtney Love to Sir Elton John. Laden with synth and upbeat catchy melodies, the album comes across as heavily pop-oriented and radio friendly, a large departure from the band’s pop-punk roots. However, it feels like a natural progression for the Chicago quartet, who have created overall, a very solid record. Check it out here or below, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Listen: Pairs – “Eltham Join”
By Harri Gibson ⋅ March 5, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment
Last week Pairs released, as the title suggests, an album of nine solely piano and vocal tracks. Far from their usual noise rock sound, and even farther from Elton John himself, this collection of songs are commendable. Despite an apology on their Bandcamp page from Australian frontman, Xiao Zhong stating that he is “fucking tone deaf” it doesn’t seem to matter. The lyrics throughout the album would appear out of place coming from the lips of an auto-tuned artist, complaining about the relatable annoyance of promotional texts in Shanghai. The sheer zest and originality of Xiao Zhong’s words on every release so far that Pairs have put out mask all the other critiqued imperfections. Stream the album below and download it from Bandcamp.
Giveaway: Sir Elton John’s New Memoir Love Is The Cure
By Frank Wu ⋅ July 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Over the past five decades, Sir Elton John has inspired and entertained millions with his songs and performances, selling over 250 million records worldwide. He’s received countless Grammy Awards, knighthood from the Queen of England, been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and to this day, still owns the record for the best-selling single in Billboard history with “Candle In The Wind 1997”. Today marks the start of a new chapter in the celebrated artist’s career with his new memoir Love Is The Cure‘s publishing through Little, Brown and Company. In it, Elton discusses very personal details about his life and his struggles with fame, drugs, and most importantly, his ongoing quest to fight AIDS.
Today, I’m also very glad to announce a special giveaway between Lost In The Sound and Little, Brown and Company. To support Elton and his organization, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, we are giving away three copies of the new book to readers from either the US or Canada (sorry, no PO boxes!).
We’ll be doing a random drawing in two weeks (July 31, 2012) to decide on three winners who will receive one copy each. How do you enter?
Like us on Facebook for one entry.
Follow us on Twitter for one entry. You can enter the contest twice by liking us on Facebook AND following us on Twitter.
THEN send an email to giveaway@lostinthesound.com with a link to your Facebook or Twitter so that we can match you. If you do not want to enter using Facebook or Twitter, you can simply email giveaway@lostinthesound.com and you will be given one entry.
On July 31, three winners will be emailed to obtain mailing information. Winners must be in the US or Canada and cannot have a PO box.
You can read more about the book below via press release.
For the first time ever Elton John tells his own intensely personal story. Filled with exclusive details about his relationships with famous friends like Elizabeth Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana, LOVE IS THE CURE (Little, Brown and Company/July 17, 2012/ISBN: ) is a truly revelatory look at one of the world’s most beloved singers and songwriters. LOVE IS THE CURE is a deeply personal account of his life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring look at what we must do to bring the epidemic to an end.
In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. In the midst of the plague he befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized by his town and his school because of the HIV infection he had contracted from a blood transfusion. Ryan’s inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to two realizations: His own life was a mess. And he had to do something to help stop the AIDS crisis.
Since then, Elton has dedicated himself to overcoming the stigma of AIDS and finding a cure. For the past 20 years he has done this through the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised and donated $275 million to-date to fighting the disease worldwide. With powerful conviction and emotional force, Elton conveys the personal toll AIDS has taken on his life, and his infinite determination to stop its spread.
Elton John says, “This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion. Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer-and help to change-by writing this book.” Sir Elton John’s first book is a deeply personal account of his life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring look at what we must do to bring the epidemic to an end.
The sale of Love Is the Cure will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), founded in 1992, has raised $275 million to fight the AIDS epidemic and help those affected by it. EJAF has supported hundreds of projects focusing on marginalized, stigmatized, and at-risk populations in 55 countries. EJAF is one of the largest AIDS grant-making organizations in the world, and the largest in the UK.
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Playing Free Show at Jersey Shore
By Kelly Shepsko ⋅ May 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment
A favorite alternative band of the ‘90s is making their way to the Seaside Music Festival in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, next week. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, best known for their fun, upbeat MTV hits, “High,” and “Do Right,” will be making their appearance at the festival on Saturday, May 21st, and all events during this 3-day music-lover’s fest are free admission.
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack hails from Annapolis, MD and has been rocking stages across the US since 1994. Originally signed to Elton John’s Rocket Records, they releasedPushing the Salmanilla Envelope, and are currently signed to their own label, Fowl Records. The band could be described as a staple for the emergence of post-grunge music in the ‘90s through their involvement with MTV. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack’s style can be compared to funky acts such as The Bloodhound Gang and Insane Clown Posse, for the band is known for putting on captivating shows.
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack will be playing on the Beach Stage, on the sands outside the Aztec Bar and boardwalk in Seaside Heights. Admission is free and all-ages at this stage, and a map of the festival, band lineup, and more information can be found here.
Stream: Ice Nine Kills – “The Predator Becomes The Prey”
Interview: Marietta
Avicii to Donate 1 Million Dollars
Clams Casino and the “Just For Now” Sample
Listen: ASAP Mob (Rocky, Nast, Ferg, Twelvy) – “Stay Schemin Freestyle”
James Baney Leaves The Devil Wears Prada
Earl Sweatshirt Performs in NY, Does First Interview
I Surrender Records Presents “Our Voices”
Premiere: Air Marshal Landing – “You Used To Be Me”
Stream: Linkin Park – “Guilty All The Same”
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VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Songwriter: WIL NANCE
Musician: BRAD PAISLEY
Music Video: “She’s Everything”
Wil Nance hit the top of Radio & Records and Billboard with his Number 1 Brad Paisley smash “She’s Everything,” a song on Time Well Wasted, the multi-platinum 2007 CMA Album of the Year. He also landed on Troubadour, George Strait’s platinum-selling, Grammy-winning 2008 CMA Album of the Year with a song called “If Heartaches Were Horses.” In 2009, George Strait cut another Nance song, “Where Have I Been All My Life,” which is on Twang.
In 1999, Nance received a BMI award for “Round About Way,” a Number 1 hit single for George Strait, a song on the multi-platinum CMA Album of the Year Carrying Your Love with Me. “Round About Way” is also on Strait’s Latest Greatest Straitest Hits and Strait’s 50 Number Ones.
Nance has received “Million Air” Awards from BMI for Strait’s “Round About Way” and Paisley’s “She’s Everything.” In 2004, Nance received another BMI Award for his Top 10 Joe Nichols single, “Cool to Be a Fool.” Other singles include: Blue County “I Get To,” John Michael Montgomery “You Are,” and Gene Watson “Next to Nothin’,” Chad Brock “You Are.”
We talked with Wil Nance about his songwriting, creative inspiration, and his upcoming performance at Greg Friia’s Songwriters Singing for Coffee—where you get a chance to see this well-respected songwriter up close and personal, along with Brian White, Pete Sallis and Carly Tefft at the Green Hills Starbucks, 3706 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN. It’s a show you won’t want to miss—this Monday, September 25, 2017, at 7:30 PM.
WIL NANCE Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
What’s most fulfilling about being a songwriter?
I feel blessed to have made a living doing something I’m passionate about. As a songwriter, we hope to affect people’s lives—make someone do something they weren’t doing—or stop doing something. Music is a powerful thing that way.
What made you want to write songs?
I started making up songs when I was 11 or 12. My dad played guitar and sang, mostly in church, and would sing great songs by Tom T. Hall, Roger Miller and Merle Haggard. When I was 17, Dad said, “Son, you want to be in the music business—you have to write your own songs.” That’s pretty much where it all started.
What is your creative process?
The hardest thing about writing songs is coming up with something to write about. Once I do that, I start thinking about everything that goes to that hook. I come up with the lyric and try to find a melody that marries that lyric—that’s where the magic happens. I don’t always know how it happens, but I know when it happens. (Laughs)
Tell us about one of your hit songs “She’s Everything”—recorded by Brad Paisley.
In 2002, I was looking for a publishing deal. A publisher challenged me to write a song by myself—and he might sign me. I went home thinking about a song to write, and started writing “She’s Everything”—which is about Holly, my wife. It took me about two weeks to write the song, and he never signed me. (Laughs) But it all worked out. That song was pretty much a list of everything my wife was about, and hopefully every other woman in the world. It’s funny. When Chris DuBois told me Brad Paisley loved the song, he said he wanted to change a few words to make it more about his wife—if he was going to sing it in front of 20,000 people every night. I told Chris to tell Brad, “I don’t want him singing about my wife in front of that many people anyway—so change a few words and sing about your own dang wife.” (Laughs)
How did the idea of the George Strait cut “Round About Way” come to you?
I used to keep a list, and still do, of possible hooks. “Round About Way” was just a cliché that I had heard, and I wrote it down—thinking that might be a song idea. I got together with my buddy Steve Dean, and started writing the song. What was interesting is I had another melody from another song I’d been working on, and we ended up marrying that melody to our lyric.
How about the Joe Nichols cut “Cool to Be a Fool.”
It was just a little ditty I started singing one morning—going over to write with Steve Dean and Joe Nichols. When I got there, Joe wasn’t there yet. He was late, as usual. (Laughs) Steve had to go to the post office, and we literally wrote the chorus on the trip to the post office and back. I remember we were trying to write a modern day “Act Naturally,” the old Johnny Russell song—about being a star, being lonesome and being a fool. Joe finally showed up and we wrote the verses, and he ended up putting it on his first record.
Tell us one experience where something unique inspired you to write a song.
I get a lot of song ideas sitting in church—listening to our pastor talk. On one particular Sunday, he said something I thought was a good song idea. He said, “I don’t have to go to church—I get to.” It’s probably one of my favorite songs I’ve written to date. I wrote it with my good friend Steve Williams and Sherrié Austin. Yes, we wrote the song “I Get To”—from an idea I got in church. (Laughs) Ironically enough, it went on to be nominated for a Dove Award. It became the theme song at our church. It was pretty cool. An amazing version was recorded by Jeff & Sheri Easter, also The Gaither Trio, Blue County and other artists.
What songwriting tip would you like to offer?
Always keep your antenna up—looking for great song ideas. Stay real to what God put in you—as a songwriter. In other words: be yourself. On good days, I’m a songwriter. On other days, I’m a song maker. What I mean by that is my best songs are songs about real life—that I see. I just write them down—that’s a whole lot easier than trying to make up something.
Who inspired you to write songs?
Just listening to great songs, written by great songwriters, inspired me. Some of the artists I mentioned previously, plus guys like Jim Croce—heard him when I was 14 or 15 years old. He was way ahead of his time—especially with his lyrics and the pictures he painted. (Sings: Oh rapid Roy that stock car boy, he too much to believe … He got a tattoo on his arm that say baby, he got another one that just say hey … He do a hundred thirty mile an hour, smilin’ at the camera). When I first heard that, I said what the heck—this was real stuff. (Laughs) I’m a big lyrics guy. I just love good lyrics. I listened to great writers. Tom T. Hall with “Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine”—that’s a great storyteller. I read an interview where he said, “Write what you see.” Back in St. Louis, Missouri, I was in a band in my early 20s called the Zane Grey Band. My brother played bass, and we had a couple a good songwriters. It was my first taste of doing original songs. Once that gets in your blood, it’s all over. (Laughs)
What instrument/equipment can you not live without—that helps you write, record or perform?
I write mainly on guitar. I also play some mandolin and fiddle. I think picking up a different instrument from time to time makes you think different, so that’s a good idea.
I have an old 1931 Martin parlor guitar that I like to play when I write songs. When I play out, I play a Takamine. It sounds good. I know a Takamine is going to sound good when I plug it in. They’re a strong work horse. I’ve used Elixir strings more than anything, but I use D’Addarios too. I’ve been using a Kyser capo for a long time, and lately I’ve been using a Shubb. I like the way they press down on the strings, and the guitar stays in tune longer.
What PRO are you with?
I am with BMI, and they do a good job of collecting my money.
Top 5 Songwriters who inspired you to become a songwriter?
Roger Miller, Tom T. Hall, Jim Croce, Billy Joel, Merle Haggard, Dean Dillon—too many to mention, but great songs inspire me.
Top 5 favorite albums?
Albums by the guys above, plus I grew up on a lot of Southern rock—Commander Cody, Pure Prairie League, Marshall Tucker Band—bands like that.
Tell us a “pinch me” moment—a time you thought, “Wow, this is really happening to me!”
It was when I finally got to write with Dean Dillon—the great songwriter who wrote all the George Strait songs. I moved to Nashville 20 years earlier—to write with Dean, and it was finally happening. Ironically enough, the first song we wrote “If Heartaches Were Horses” got cut by George Strait. (Laughs)
Do you remember the first time you heard one of your songs on the radio?
It was George Strait’s “Round About Way”—and I felt pretty dang good.
Tell us a little about your first cut by a major artist?
My first major label cut was “Where Do I Go From Her” on Mercury Records by a guy named Jeff Chance. It was produced by Harold Shedd (Alabama, Kentucky HeadHunters). It was my first taste of how things work. That song was written in half-time (sings: Where do I go from her?)—like a big old ballad. They played the verses in half time, and they go to the chorus, and the drums go straight time. Hey, they don’t always turn out like you want them to. But Harold knows what he was doing. I was so happy to get it. I was in Nashville for only five years when that happened. And my second major label cut was George Strait “Round About Way” on the 1997 Carrying Your Love with Me record. I’d been in town about 8.5 years when that happened. It was the 4th single from that record. So I was actually in town for 10 years before I got my first big single on the radio.
Was Shania Twain singing background on the Jeff Chance record?
Yes. She was at Mercury Records, and she was tied in with Harold Shedd—around 1992 when Jeff cut my song. Shania was hanging around in the same building where I was writing songs—Fireside Recording. Norro Wilson had a room in that same building and produced her first record.
Was there someone who cut your song—and did a better version than you envisioned?
Mo Pitney did an amazing version of “Clean Up on Aisle Five” at the Opry—that’s killer. He got a standing ovation. Not sure why they didn’t single that song. He just sings the heck out of the song—his whole interpretation and the tone of his voice. I had a George Strait cut, “Where Have I Been All My Life,” on the 2009 Twang record. Great song. One of my favorite songs I’ve been a part of. Great vocal. He sings the dog out of it. George did a great job on that song. But when Mo Pitney did “Aisle Five”—that blew everything else away. He made me so proud of that song.
Best advice someone has given you.
The best advice a songwriter has ever given me was by the great Harlan Howard: “I Go To Pieces” (Patsy Cline) and “Busted” (Ray Charles). He said, “You’re trying to be a songwriter, kid—get divorced a couple of times.” So I got divorced, and George Strait cut my song. Just kidding. (Laughs) That’s what happened, but I don’t suggest that. I remember he told me, “If you like writing shuffles, write shuffles. Even if they aren’t popular now, they will be again one day—and you’ll be the shuffle king.” (Laughs) In other words, like I said before—stay true to yourself.
I’m still trying to write my next best song.
Until then, any local gigs?
There’s a nice event here in Nashville on September 25 called Songwriters Singing for Coffee—at the Green Hills Starbucks. It features Brian White, Pete Sallis, Greg Friia, Carly Tefft and yours truly.
Where can your new fans get more info and stay updated?
I don’t have a website, but I think I should try to do that sometime soon. People can always contact me on Facebook, and other social media.
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David Allen Carter
David Allen Carter was born October 8, 1951in Malad, Idaho to May Wren and George Lynn Carter of Holbrook, Idaho. Allen was the fifth son and ninth child in the family. He passed away peacefully with loving family by his side on Saturday, May 27, 2017 in Brigham City, Utah.
Allen loved the outdoors. As a youth he spent many enjoyable hours riding and breaking horses, out maneuvering bucking broncs and bulls, working on a ranch or the family farm, and hunting. He worked for a telephone company for a while splicing fiber optic cables which allowed him to work outside and travel. In his later years he just liked basking in the sun and fresh air while appreciating the beautiful scenery – especially mountains.
He attended school in Holbrook for the first few years and then rode the bus to Malad to get his education. During his Junior year of high school he decided to join the Marines and served in the Vietnam War from September 20, 1970 to May 10, 1971. Allen felt honored to serve his country and to protect the rights we have as Americans. He was presented the Bronze Star Medal for heroic & meritorious achievement and service on December 30, 1971. Allen rallied his fire team to beat back an attack by a large enemy unit. His leadership was cited for saving the lives of his men. In addition he earned a National Defense Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Republic Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation First Class with a palm & frame, a Vietnam Campaign Medal, and a Vietnam Service Medal with two stars. Allen was a very humble soldier and never talked about the awards he earned – that was not his purpose for serving.
Upon his return from Vietnam, Allen competed for the Marines in rodeos against the other military branches. He competed in bare back, saddle bronc, and bulls. He won first place in the bare back event and earned a saddle at Camp Pendleton, California. When he was honorably discharged from the Marines in 1974 he held the rank of Lance Corporal. Allen continued his rodeo career on the semi-pro and professional circuits and did very well.
Allen had many challenges in life and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and other health issues brought on by his military service. He never complained, but dealt with what life brought his way the best that he could. He retired early because of his military disabilities. Allen lived in several different places over the years: Malad, Blackfoot, and Arco, Idaho and Roosevelt and Salt Lake City, Utah. At the time of his death he was living in the Pioneer Care Center in Brigham City, Utah. He loved the people there and appreciate the wonderful care he received from the staff. They were family to him and he was very happy living there – it was home.
Allen is survived by his siblings, Jim (Marie), St. George, Utah; Linnie Horsefield, Sylmar, California; Ilene Luke, Fairbanks, Alaska; Gene, Malad; Myra Dumas, West Jordan, Utah; Duane (Shelley), Lyndhurst, Virginia; Sarah (Rex) Robbins, Malad; sibling in-laws, Dell Dumas, Magna, Utah and Bev Carter, Roosevelt, Utah; aunts, Clara Wren, Heyburn, Idaho and Velma Wren, Nampa, Idaho; and many nieces and nephews. He was proceeded in death by his parents; siblings, Stan and Joyce Tarantino; brother-in-laws, Earl Luke, Louis Horsefield, and Santo Tarantino; all of his grandparents; several aunts and uncles; nieces, Jessica Carter, Sabrina Woody and Baby Tarantino; nephews, Curtis Tarantino, Bryce Robbins and Joshua Robbins.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 10, 2017 in the Holbrook LDS Ward Chapel in Holbrook, Idaho. There will be a viewing prior to the services from 10:30 to 11:45. Burial will be in the Holbrook Cemetery. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 10 at 12 noon in the Holbrook LDS Ward Chapel. Friends may visit with family on Saturday from 10:30-11:45 a.m. prior to the service. Burial will follow in the Holbrook Cemetery.
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Even if you hate Frank Capra’s post-war flop about a man who finds value in his life by seeing it undone, it can be startling how starkly it reveals why good human drama can no longer be made in America. And watching it this time, I realized what The Boy and I get out of the classics and new Asian movies we’ve seen this year.
I’ve probably seen this It’s A Wonderful Life more than any other movie, and I’ve certainly written about it more than any other. The noir photography, the depths of depression it plumbs, the libertarian Pottersville-is-better-than-Bedford-Falls nonsense, and most recently, the weird stuff on Potter’s desk. The Flower, who saw it for the first time in 2016, wanted to see it last year and again this year.
Bert would be the most bad-ass cop in a Christmas movie till Al Powell shows up.
What struck me this time was how deeply flawed all the characters were, with the possible exception of Mary (Donna Reed, From Here To Eternity), and yet how George’s little acts of grace (however begrudingly he accept his role) gave them the room to express the better angels of their nature.
George (Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story) is belligerent. He’s quick to anger. He’s self-sacrificing to a fault: A lot of his despair comes from his inability to share any part of his burden, not even with his wife. He’s clearly planning to go to jail for Uncle Billy.
Speaking of whom, Uncle Billy (Oscar, Tony, Emmy-winner Thomas Mitchell, Gone With The Wind) is incompetent to the point of genuine danger, and probably an alcoholic. And he handles all the money, apparently.
On the subject of alcoholism, Mr. Gower (H.B. Warner, The 10 Commandments) nearly kills someone and boxes young George’s ears when he tries to stop him.
Sam Wainwright (Thomas Mitchell, Psycho) may be a philanderer, though it’s hard to say how seriously he takes any potential relationship with Mary, he does call her his girlfriend while having another honey hanging on him.
Violet’s (Gloria Grahame, The Bad and the Beautiful) sins are self-evident.
Even Harry, the war hero, comes home all too conveniently with a wife and a fancy new job knowing full well that his brother isn’t going to be able to chain him to the Savings and Loan. He’ll make the sacrifice for George as George did for him, but he has to know (just as we do) that George won’t let him get “trapped”.
Mary comes closest to being perfect. But after his temper tantrum—when he’s trying to apologize—she says “why must you torture the children?” It’s that retort which sends him out to commit suicide.
The people of the town, when we see them, are quick to be manipulated by Potter. Although it is they, ultimately, who save the day, they are easily scared, gossipy, and overly-reliant on George’s good nature.
One is supposed to like these people. And, shockingly enough, one does. Mr. Gower buys George his getaway luggage (that he never gets to use) but is also seen leading the bond effort to support the war at home. Sam, once he’s contacted, is ready to float George a $25K loan. Violet sticks around to help George, and apparently to brave out rehabilitating her reputation.
Spanish flu was a bitch.
In other words, these people are good in spite of their occasional (or even frequent) sins. They’re real people. For all the broad stereotyping here, there’s more life in each character who passes through Bedford Falls than in any big-ticket modern Hollywood movies. They’ve all sinned, sometimes gravely, yet all are shown to be worthy of redemption.
But the current media ethos is that there are good guys and there are bad guys—not even in the fun Star Wars way, but in a dreary universe where right-thinkers are untouched by sin and wrong-thinkers are condemned to, well, whatever hell the right-thinkers have in their power to create.
It’s weird to think we’ve seen more mainstream Korean and Chinese movies than we have top 40 Hollywood films this year. (Usually we see about half of the top 40, this year we’ve seen, or will see, about 5 out of our over 130 theater screenings.) And surely part of the reason is sheer novelty, since Asians have different tropes and archetypes which make things seem a little fresher. But part of it is that the characters are more human, probably because they’re not worried about oversensitivity. (Korean films, in particular, tend to be exclusively Korean. Even Koreans who spent some time in America are suspect.)
Gloria Grahame was aggressively heterosexual.
But I remember the characters. For all my crustiness about superhero movies, there was a lot of impressive stuff in Avengers: Infinity War—but not, ironically enough, the characters. Whereas I remember the down-on-his-luck boxer who slugs his autistic brother once (in a moment of panic) and spends the rest of his movie trying to regain that brother’s trust. I remember the girl who rediscovers her vanishing mom through cooking. Even typing the trope makes my eyes roll, but I remember the soft, greedy businessman who finds love with the sensitive scientist at the south pole.
The thing is, to have a character arc, you have to have a character who can change. The change has to be personal and material, and it has to reflect a reinterpretation of how the world works—generally the admission that one’s previous view was wrong somehow. (You can have the character change badly, of course, but that’s more a horror trope or ultra-edgy indie drama conceit.) But if there’s only one correct way to think ever, only one correct way to be, there can be no meaningful change.
And if there can be no forgiveness, a character who was wrong once can never re-enter the ranks of good guys: Old Man Gower and Uncle Billy can’t sell war bonds, Mr. Welch should be sent to jail for punching George, Violet deserves to be slut-shamed (or shamed for thinking she should be slut-shamed?) and Clarence may as well have let George jump.
You don’t have to like this movie to see that it deals more with genuine human issues than anything turned out of Hollywood in 2018.
I was going to make an “every time a bell rings” joke but it just wouldn’t be in the spirit of the season.
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2 thoughts on “It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)”
2019-January-05 at 9:04 am
I must object to your characterization of the libertarian response to IAWL. There’s no “better” or “worse”, rather the writers were making a value judgement. In their view all that’s separating a white bread morally upstanding society from a rotten one is who lends the money. That they cast bankers (selling subprime mortgages no less!) as angels and venture capitalists as devils is adorably quaint, as Hollywood had yet to be infested by hypocrites who hate *anyone* who’s earned great wealth through voluntary transactions.
2019-January-06 at 1:18 pm
I can’t find the essay I was particularly referring to, but it’s interesting to note that the leftist Salon ALSO ran a “hooray for Pottersville” essay, from a Marxist perspective.
I don’t get the idea that Potter is a venture capitalist, though. He seems less productive than Scrooge, even.
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TUESDAY, March 12, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Leann Sorrell was driving her 17-year-old son, Jonathan, home from school when she realized the ring finger on her left hand was numb. She told him about the odd sensation and he rolled his eyes.
Then Leann needed to turn the steering wheel. Her left arm felt heavy and foreign. Fearing that she was having a heart attack, she managed to pull over the car and call her husband, Scott. He insisted on talking with Jonathan instead, telling him to call 911. An ambulance arrived within minutes.
The paramedics asked Leann a series of questions. They also wanted her to perform simple tasks like holding her arms out palms up, touching her finger to her nose, and pushing her leg against their hands.
She realized these were the same things asked of her dad when he had a stroke. And when her finger missed her nose, she knew this was no heart attack.
In the emergency room, Leann got a clot-busting drug that resolved her stroke.
A quick diagnosis and immediate care helped Leann avoid more serious consequences. However, the stroke hit in June 2017 when she was only 39. She's still working to regain life as she knew it.
Through two months of physical and occupational therapy, Leann progressed from using a walker to learning how to walk with a cane. She started regaining strength in her left hand and shoulder.
She'd been working as a summer school coordinator shortly before the stroke and managed to work half days about a month after. She arrived in the mornings and came home around 11:30 a.m. each day, collapsing into a nap that sometimes lasted until the next morning. She soon started a new job but didn't tell colleagues about the stroke, fearing it might affect their view of her.
"Looking back on that, I pushed myself too much," said Leann, a student services coordinator from Hampton, Virginia. "I didn't give my body or brain time to recoup like I should have."
When she cut back on using a cane and then eventually stopped needing it, her family took that as a sign that she was back to her pre-stroke self. She wasn't. She was tired and still having a hard time wrapping her head around the stroke experience, while trying to live up to her family's expectations.
"Not a lot of people understand the level of exhaustion you're left with after a stroke," she said. "The expectation was that I was still going to do the school drop-off and pickup, make all the conferences, make the lunches, come home from work and cook dinner."
She lost some good friends during the recovery process. Attending happy hour, shooting pool and visiting wineries -- things she'd enjoyed doing before -- were now either off limits or she simply wasn't interested in doing them anymore.
"When you realize you're not the same person and not able to do the same things, you get depressed," she said.
Leann has made some changes to improve her life, such as following a healthier diet. She now exercises more and monitors her blood pressure. She's also learned to leave work at work, making her more present during family time.
"I feel more content with where I am in my life," she said.
Leann continues to increase her strength, which has improved the use of her left side. For instance, she can now lift a pitcher of water with her left hand.
Another sign of progress: She's gone from the possibility of needing a leg brace to once again wearing high heels.
"I'm very proud to say that," she said.
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Talk to the people
Mon 29 July 2013, 14:00 CAT
It requires a lot of effort, time and sometimes money for the government to explain things, what it is doing or intends to do.
There is a very high temptation for those in government to avoid explaining things to the people and just move on to implement their policies and programmes. In doing so, one may think this saves time and all that people are interested in are the results.
This is not correct because true democracy is a growth in the confidence in the power of ordinary people to transform their country, and thus transform themselves. It is a growth in the appreciation of people organising, deciding, creating together. It is not only about what government is doing for the people; it is also about what the people are doing with government.
Good policies and programmes on their own are not enough to develop a country. Meaningful development only comes when the people themselves are involved. The government has the authority to make final decisions, but the people themselves have the right and duty to share in that authority. Government is there as an authority to guide the energies of all towards the common good. The government is the instrument by which people cooperate together in order to achieve the common good.
Therefore, at all times, the people and the government need to work together. And to work together effectively and efficiently, there has to be very good communication between the government and the people.
Look at the issue of the removal of subsidies! The government was being harassed by all sorts of political hyenas, not knowing that what it was doing had the potential support of some key leaders in the Catholic Church. Bishop George Lungu, of the Chipata Diocese, says "We know that the idea is good but the way it is explained and also the question of time and place, but the whole idea is very, very good, it is something which can benefit everyone".
If this government does not quickly change its approach and start to communicate with the people more effectively, it will soon find itself isolated and having its good policies and programmes opposed unnecessarily. People can only support things they understand and things they are part of.
There was so much unjustified propaganda against the removal of subsidies. Some elements even went as far as pushing a motion in Parliament to try and bring back the subsidies that were removed. Of course, the motion was defeated. Things went that far because some opportunistic elements were given enough space to manoeuvre as a result of government's inability to effectively and clearly explain what it was doing. And where an attempt was made to explain things, the explanations were like someone reading a catechism. A few made sense but many didn't because they were merely regurgitating arguments they had swallowed without chewing.
As a result of these inadequate explanations, today we are hearing arguments like "…what might be helpful is for the government to put a more articulate programme of what is being realised from the subsidies and where they are being applied instead of talking in general".
This is coming from Bishop Lungu. And this argument is understandable because the government's argument has been that money will be saved and that money will be taken to development projects like building schools, hospitals, roads and so on and so forth. But is this the truth? The answer is a categorical no. There will be no money saved per se and an account opened where such money can be deposited and later used.
Our public expenditure already exceeds our revenues. This means that many of the things government is doing are being financed by borrowing. And this in itself is not a wrong thing to do. There is nothing wrong with borrowing. What is wrong is to borrow beyond your capacity to pay back. There is a limit to how much we can borrow.
The roads we are building, a large part of them, are being financed with borrowed money. We have to set our own priorities as a nation and choose what we should finance and what we shouldn't finance. We can't have everything we want; there is a financing constraint. We know that President Michael Sata wants to link as many parts of our country to each other by building the necessary roads. These are good wishes and very legitimate ones for that matter. But these projects have to be financed and the money has to come from somewhere. At our current public expenditure, we don't have adequate surpluses to help us realise these wonderful dreams. Some things in our public expenditure have to give way if we are to realise these dreams, or a good part of them.
The money we are borrowing for all these development projects has to be paid back. If we continue with some of this unnecessary expenditure like the subsidies on fuel and maize, we will soon get into a position where we start failing to meet our debt obligations. And it won't be long before we are back to where we were before seeking debt write-offs.
We are of the view that the issue of subsidies is not being explained well to the people. The explanations that are being given are creating unnecessary expectations which will not be fulfilled because there will be no such money saved or set aside. This is simply an issue of setting our priorities right and paying for what is more beneficial for the development and future of our country.
If this issue is not explained properly, in a year's time, the government will be having unnecessary problems explaining where the money that has been saved from the removal of subsidies has gone. And someone will be looking for money that is not there.
There are many things government needs to finance. And these roads are expensive. But we cannot do without them as a country if we have to move forward. Part of our economic stagnation as a country has been as a result of our failure to develop or expand our road infrastructure and improve our schools and hospitals. For many years we were stuck with the same institutions that were not expanding. It is this infrastructure that will provide the impetus for development. It is a prerequisite to development. The choice is ours. If we want to continue eating subsidised mealie-meal the way we have done over the decades and finish all our money on that, we should expect very little in terms of development. If we want to continue having subsidised fuel and spend a substantial part of our budget on that, we will not have enough money to do anything else and we will stagnate in terms of development the way we have been over the last three decades or so. Even in our households when we want to acquire certain things - a new car, a tractor, some new furniture, some cattle, build a house - a certain amount of consumption is sacrificed. Certain foodstuffs are made to disappear from our menu; sometimes even the number of meals is cut. This is a reality of life. It is a reality of life for the individual and for the nation as a whole. Again, the choice is ours. If we want to be living the way we have lived over the last three decades, let's continue spending our money the way we have been doing with subsidies on maize, fuel and other avoidable things.
There is an attempt by dishonest elements to paint those who are supporting the removal of these subsidies as uncaring people, people who are not concerned about the plight of the poor. Surely, can anyone in all honesty say Bishop Lungu does not care about the poor?
At the end of the day, the problem does not lie inherently in what the government has done - the removal of subsidies. It lies in its incompetence and inability to explain clearly to the masses of our people and other civic leaders what the government is doing.
This is a popular government. But this does not mean everything it does will be received that way. The Patriotic Front became popular because of the tireless efforts Michael and some of his key colleagues exerted in explaining what was happening in our country and what needed to be done. If this stops, everything else will stop with it. The signs of this are starting to appear and the time to take corrective action is now.
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The Lyric Note
The State of Us
Anne Enright with Marian Richardson
Date: Saturday March 28th
Venue: Pavilion Theatre
Cost: €15 / €12
Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress is described as a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. Anne tells the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. This romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.
Anne Enright has written six novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about motherhood. She was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015-2018). Her short stories have appeared in several magazines including The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Essays, lectures and articles are published by The London Review of Books, The Dublin Review, The Guardian, The Irish Times, The New York Times. She was editor of The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story (2011). Key awards were The Man Booker Prize (2007) - which brought her work to global attention - The Andrew Carnegie medal for Excellence in Fiction (2012) and the Irish Novel of the year (2008 and 2016). Her work has been translated into almost 40 languages and is regularly reviewed. Current foreign publishers include DVA (Germany), Bromberg (Sweden), Bezige Bej (Netherlands) and Actes Sud (France). She was born in Dublin in 1962, and stayed.
Broadcasting legend Marian Richardson boasts a forty year career in front of and behind both camera and mic. She began her career with RTE on Bosco, she also presented on RTE 2fm, hosting Toss The Feathers.She moved on to Women Today and in the mid 1980s, to the newsroom with Morning Ireland and the News at One. She led the way on Today with Pat Kenny Show as series producer for a number of years. Marian moved on to Drivetime and later as presenter and producer of Playback, a jewel in the RTE crown, where she remained at the helm until relatively recently.
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Thankful in All Circumstances
November 28, 2013, by Todd Neva
One thousand nine hundred fifty years ago, from a dank, dim Roman prison, chained to the wall, wrongly charged, awaiting trial, but as a Roman citizen likely facing a relatively humane execution of being beheaded, the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, “Always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” And to the church in Thessalonica, Paul wrote, “[G]ive thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
One hundred fifty years ago, a nation divided, after just two years of civil war, 366,000 men already dead, and the bloody carnage of 46,000 Americans in one epic battle alone near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July of the prior summer, millions of Americans still enslaved, President Abraham Lincoln invited his fellow citizens to “set apart and observe the last Thursday of November, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
Today, three and half years since a terminal diagnosis, heading toward the point of total paralysis, continued loss of independence, I celebrate this day, set aside one hundred fifty years ago, to give thanks, mindful that the Apostle Paul and President Lincoln were each brought to his knees before the Almighty God, humbled by the pain and despair of this world, yet seeing God’s goodness and provision. God doesn’t promise a pain-free life. God doesn’t promise that we will never face circumstances more than we can bear—just that He will not let us be tempted beyond our ability. And here is a temptation: to be ungrateful.
God, give me the strength to be thankful in all circumstances in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2013 by kdneva.
I Don’t Want To
November 12, 2013 by Kristin Neva
Sara has been playing the violin for almost four years now. We started lessons just before her fourth birthday. Trying to coach a four-year-old to correctly hold the bow was painful… for both of us. But we got through those first lessons, and then on to the Twinkles and beyond. It was tough going at times, but Sara has always loved music and she enjoyed the violin, especially when putting on a concert.
Lately, we have seen a lack of enthusiasm for practicing. “I don’t want to practice. I don’t want to play violin.”
Sometimes I wonder, “Is it worth the effort?” But I think back to when I was a kid, and I wish I had made more progress on the piano and guitar. So we keep going with the violin.
The other Thursday, Sara came out of her reading orchestra class, her face lit up. “Mom,” she said, wonder in her voice, “playing first violin was extraordinary.”
We got home and she played the piece they had been working on for me. “I know that didn’t sound like much,” she said, “but when the other violins were playing, and Miss Maggie was playing, and the cellos were playing, it was amazing.” She had gotten a glimpse of the beauty.
In Hebrews 12 we are called to endure hardship as discipline. God disciplines those He loves. Sometimes we think of discipline as punishment: A time-out; A spanking. We view the difficult circumstances in our lives as consequences for the choices we have made.
Not necessarily. Discipline is training. Learning to play the violin requires discipline. Learning math facts requires discipline. Though Sara would rather be reading or drawing, as parents we require her to do things that she would not choose because we want her brain to expand and develop. The writer of Hebrews says that God’s discipline in our lives is for our good, that we may share in His holiness.
I can relate to how Sara feels because I often don’t like this journey we are on. It’s painful. I don’t want Todd to have ALS.
But there are times when I get glimpses of the beauty. On occasion, I grasp a truth that I never really knew in my heart before, though I may have read a verse dozens of times. At times, I empathize with someone’s pain in a way I never did before and I know that our suffering has expanded my heart. A few weeks ago, when Todd preached on suffering at church, I got a glimpse of the beauty of our situation, and that uplifted my spirits.
Of course, with Sara, the day after “playing the violin was extraordinary” she didn’t want to practice. I reminded her of the beauty she had experienced. “I was wrong,” she said.
I can relate to that because I, too, am up and down. It is easy to lose heart. “Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart,” the writer of Hebrews says. We can find comfort in Christ, in His suffering.
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Do we submit? Do we surrender? “We have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live.”
The training is a process. Just as Sara doesn’t learn her math or her violin overnight, we don’t mature overnight either. But we press on.
Todd’s sermon on suffering:
http://www.evangelbaptist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/13-10-20-head-and-heart-of-sufferring.mp3
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Former Wimbledon Tennis Champion hopes to return to singles this year
Andy Murray says he hopes to return to play singles tennis before the end of the year.
But the former world number one, who had hip resurfacing surgery in January, doesn't think he'll be ready in time for the US Open.
Murray is due to take part in the doubles at the Queen's Club Championships next week.
Wimbledon starts on July the 1st.
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Mike Adenuga is the second richest man in Nigeria, P-Square. The palatial home of Otunba Mike Adenuga, the billionaire Chairman of Globacom, in Banana Island Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, was last Saturday besieged by all hues in the social and political circles for Oyin Adenuga’s private engagement ceremony. Victoria Island, Lagos; More details. Mike Adenuga's Mansion is located in Banana island and its worth 8 Billion Naira. Some of the celebrities houses in Banana Island are; Mike Adenuga's Estate. Rumour Has It That Mike Adenuga’s Son Married This Weekend, but on a ‘lowkey’ level. Mike Adenuga LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Forbes list billionaire, Otunba Mike Adenuga has gone berserk and is threatening to arrest the leadership of the Banana Island Property Owners/Residents’ Association, More. The wondrous edifice is located at 31A Close, Banana Island. This is one of the estates in Lagos which is a luxury residential area with an ocean view and state of the arts facilities. Banana Island residents include billionaire Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom; and Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of a former Nigerian president. It was gatjered that the mansion was built by the German construction giant, Julius Berger. Mike Adenuga, a Nigerian oil and telecoms tycoon, might be Africa?s new richest man. The most expensive houses in Banana Island a year ago 129019 views by Diana Ibori Banana Island is a pretty well-known location in Lagos, Nigeria. Paddy Adenuga is 35. Oyinda Adenuga, the first daughter of the second-richest person in Nigeria and owner of Globacom, Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr and her man Adeolu Abayomi, had their church wedding in Banana Island, Lagos over the weekend. According to a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics ( NSE ), the real estate sector grew by 5. Adenuga One of Nigerian billionaires, Otunba Mike Adenuga is currently at logger head with owner of Banana Island in Lagos. According to eye witness report,most of the guests were from Ghana indicating that the bride is possibly from that side. Mike Adenuga currently lives in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria with his family. Born in 1953, Mike worked as a taxi driver to help fund his MBA at Pace University in New York. The exclusive playground of Nigeria’s obscenely wealthy, Banana Island is an artificial island built on reclaimed land in Ikoyi-Lagos. This luxurious mansion is worth over 8 billion. In March this year, Forbes published its annual rankings of the world’s richest people. BRAND NEW 5 BEDROOM FULLY DETACHED HOUSES WITH SWIMMING POOL FOR SALE IN BANANA ISLAND FOR N600MILLION with state of the arts finishing , all rooms ensuite fully fitted 5 bedroom detached house on 2 floors with visitors lounge & family lounge , study , 2 rooms maids apartment , central sound system , inbuilt auto system , security locks and. He is the second richest man in Nigeria and recently his net worth was valued at 9. It has one of Nigeria's highest densities of millionaires within its boundaries, VenturesAfrica reports. Popular blogger, Linda Ikeji, acquired a multi million mansion located in Banana Island. The mansion you are viewing is worth over N8billion and it is located at Nigeria most expensive place known as Banana Island, it is own by Nigeria business mogul known as Dr Mike Adenuga, he his the second richest man in Nigeria according to forbes magazine, he his worth over $2billion, his business include Nigeria indigenous telecommunication company Globa com, Conoil, Equitorial trust bank merge with Sterling Bank. Majority of the people in the rural area of the town engaged in farming. Mike Adenuga owns Globacom and Conoil. Lining up plans in Lagos? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. Son of Globacom boss, Mike Adenuga, Eniola, and his former girlfriend, Maggie Ogun, are in court over the custody of the child between them. Adenuga made his wealth from the oil and mobile telecoms business. And he does. Mike Adenuga Jr, yesterday bid goodbye to spinsterhood at a classy and exclusive ceremony held in the Adenuga’s Banana Island home. Mike Adenuga's son marries secretly in Banana Island According to Reports from Stella Dimokokorkus Blog, Niyi, the son of Globacom Boss, Mike Adenuga… Entertainment. It has one of Nigeria’s highest densities of millionaires within its boundaries, Ventures Africa reports. It is the most expensive known house in Nigeria. Banana Island is a man-made island in Lagos State, Nigeria that is slightly curved in shape – like a banana. Mike Adenuga private jet, Falcons 7X costs $51m (N8. Paddy Adenuga is beginning to become more controverisal by the day, with his random rants via his Twitter Account. Kola is also a successful millionaire himself, he lives quietly in Banana Island with his family. Mike Adenuga's net worth has risen tremendously from $4. To think he is buying property like this after first starting out as a taxi driver is quite remarkable and this home set him back around £22 Million Dollars. COM can authoritatively reveal that top actor, Nonso Diobi has moved in with his gay partner, Paddy Adenuga in his Banana Island mansion where they now cohabit as lovers. Mike Adenuga, who debuted on the list, was ranked as the second richest Nigerian, with a net worth of $2 billion, while Nigerian Aliko Dangote …. The occupiers of this exorbitant upscale choice area are the some of the richest Nigerians which includes the likes of Globacom C. It was his debut on the rich-list. Banana Island residents include billionaire Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom; and Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of a former Nigerian president. However in Ogun's counter-claim, she said at no time had she denied Eniola access to their daughter, explaining that between May to October, 2015, she took her daughter to the applicant's mother's residence in Victoria Island every weekend, and his father's house on Banana Island at least thrice a week, adding that all the applicant. Nigerian Mike Adenuga, 64, is chairman of telecommunications company Globacom, which has 36 million subscribers, as well as the majority owner of Lagos-based oil company Conoil, according to Bloomberg. His company Globacom is Nigeria’s second-largest telecom operator, and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin. Oyinda Adenuga, the first daughter of Nigerian business tycoon, the second-richest person in Nigeria and owner of Globacom, Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola. Oyinda, the first daughter of billionaire businessman Mike Adenuga, and her man Adeolu Olufeko recently got married in a Royal Ascot themed ceremony at Banana Island, Ikoyi. Billionaire Mike Adenuga's son marries secretly in Banana Island According to Reports from Stella Dimokokorkus Blog, Niyi, the son of Globacom Boss, Mike Adenuga married his heartthrob secretly, in a lowkey wedding that went down in Banana Island. Learn about us, our services and browse our properties for sale and for rent. Paul Okoye: Ice Prince Was His Junior In Secondary School. Banana Island is Nigeria's most extravagant and expensive neighborhood - on par with the Seventh Arrondissement in Paris, La Jolla in San Diego, California and Tokyo's Shibuya or Roppongi neighborhoods. Fruit stands in the streets of Victoria Island; Lagos Terminus, Iddo Island; Mike Adenuga Towers in Victoria Island; The New Afrika Shrine, Ikeja; Woodin Store at Ikeja City Mall, Ikeja; BONUS: Blowfish Hotel (aka ‘The Pink Hotel’), Victoria Island. mike adenuga's son,girlfriend in court over custody of 16 months daughter CKN NIGERIA Published: April 16, 2016 An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has granted custody rights to Eniola, son of multi-billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, over his 16-month old daughter. Eniola Adenuga Eniola Adenuga, son of multi-billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga has won the first round in his ongoing battle for custody of the daughter he fathered with ex-girlfriend Maggie Ogun. It has one of the highest density of millionaires within its boundaries, with billionaire Globacom Chairman Mike Adenuga, daughter of a former president of Nigeria, Iyabo Obasanjo are proud owners of. Popular blogger and successful businesswoman, Linda Ikeji owns one of the celebrity houses in Banana Island. was a school teacher while his mum Chief (Mrs. Mike Adenuga's son marries secretly in Banana Island According to Reports from Stella Dimokokorkus Blog, Niyi, the son of Globacom Boss, Mike Adenuga… Entertainment. List of GSM services companies and services in Nigeria. Top socialites, politicians, businessmen and what have you will storm the Banana Island home of the Globacom boss where the white wedding will hold. Niyi,the son of Globacom Boss Mike Adenuga married secretly on Friday September 15,2017 and the wedding held in Banana Island. Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian business tycoon, and the second-richest person in Nigeria. ) Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga (nee Onashile of Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo) was a businesswoman. The constant electricity in the estate is a big deal; after all, Nigeria has the second worst power supply in the world, and the rest of the country is almost always in darkness. For John Sunday Peter, one of the grand finale winners of the online talent hunt, GLOIN60ECONDS organised by the grandmasters of data, Globacom, the cash prize of N200, 000 is a welcome solution to his accommodation problems as he intends to pay for his desired apartment in Lekki area of Lagos State. Mike Adenuga is currently the second wealthiest man in Nigeria after Aliko Dangote. 2 Mike Adenuga $9. It was gatjered that the mansion was built by the German construction giant, Julius Berger. Banana Island’s name comes from the fact that it looks like a banana from an aerial view. With Globacom Holding and Globacom West Africa, two distinct companies, and equity ownership in Nigeria's Equatorial Trust Bank, Forbes reports that he also “owns extensive real estate holdings in some of Nigeria's most expensive neighborhoods, including the Mike Adenuga Towers, a landmark building in Victoria Island, Lagos. Oyin Adenuga, the first daughter of Globacom chairman, Dr. , has bagged the award of the ‘Telecom Investor of the Decade’ at the 10th edition of the annual Nigerian Telecom Awards held in Lagos recently. Demand for luxury real estate is growing in Nigeria, and so are prices. Saved searches. On 2nd Avenue (which is also known as Mike Adenuga Avenue), both sides of the dualised road were flooded. Mike Adenuga. Archive masterpiece and water front 2 units 7 bedroom detached houses with BQ, swimming pool, gym, jetty, etc on 580sqm each. News, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Education, Religion, Culture, Science, World, Motivation, Nature, Knowledge, Intelligence, Inspiration, Wisdom & Love. Worth a head-spinning $4. Award African Entrepreneur of The Year at ATA 2007. Dr Mike Adenuga’s joy on the day of the wedding, July 6, was equally shared by Adefolake Emilia Adenuga ( née Marquis), his first wife and mother of his five eldest children. Banana Island is an artificial Island located in the outskirt of Ikoyi and it is reputed to be the richest estate in Nigeria. It is located in a serene, conducive and habitable environment. com According to sources, the second richest man in Nigeria has relocated from his previous office in VI, Lagos to #31A. Mike Adenuga's mother, Madam Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga was a very successful dressmaker. Oyin Adenuga, the first daughter of Globacom chairman, Dr. Banana island was created to attract attention to the country, like famous islands in a shape of the palm tree in UAE. Eniola Adenuga. 0 00 The first daughter of billionaire businessman Mike Adenuga, Oyinda, and her man Adeolu Olufeko recently got married in a Royal Ascot themed ceremony at Banana Island, Ikoyi. Mike Adenuga owns Globaco. Mike Adenuga’s Son, Eniola & Girlfriend Maggie Ogun Fighting Over Custody Of Daughter Eniola Adenuga, the son of Glo boss Mike Adenuga is engaged in a legal battle with his baby-mama, Maggie Ogun, over the custody of their 16-month old daughter. Some say he married only, while others say three. Her makeup was done by Banke Meshida Lawal , Head Makeup Artist BMPRO Studios. He is one of the richest men in Nigeria according to legendary Forbes magazine. It is also reported that he has two private jets. Maggie Ogun, an ex-girlfriend of Eniola Adenuga, son of Otunba Mike Adenuga, has told an Igbosere Magistrate's Court in Lagos, that the billionaire's son cannot take care of the daughter they had together. Adenuga stages private wedding for daughter, Oyin 15 Jul 2017 High Society The palatial home of Otunba Mike Adenuga, the billionaire Chairman of Globacom, in Banana Island Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, was last Saturday besieged by all hues in the social and political circles for Oyin Adenuga’s private engagement ceremony. Dangote House in Banana Island is a piece of paradise. chief Mike Adenuga Gradually, Fola Ogunlesi, the prosperous proprietor of popular events centre, Fantasyland on Kingsway Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, is getting his groove back. The original Banana Island construction project entitled Lagoon City was the brainchild of the Late Chief Adebayo Adeleke, a University of London trained Civil Engineer (MICE), and CEO of City Property Development Ltd. The only verified picture of the Dangote house in the Banana Island is a photo of the house exterior, but it’s not hard to imagine what the property looks like on the inside. Banana Island was built to function in a country that does not function. It was an intimate family setting of about 90 people, including senior members of Glo and Con Oil. In March this year, Forbes published its annual rankings of the world's richest people. com According to sources, the second richest man in Nigeria has relocated from his previous office in VI, Lagos to #31A. The house has a completely white. A man-made island just east of the commercial center of Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, has emerged as a wealthy residential enclave. She also disclosed the event was celebrated in Banana Island. While his company continued to grow financially and 1999, he applied for a conditional GSM license just when it got introduced to Nigeria but it was revoked. Oyinda Adenuga, the first daughter of Nigerian business tycoon, the second-richest person in Nigeria and owner of Globacom, Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola. It is located in the Lagos Lagoon and is connected to Ikoyi Island by a dedicated road which is linked to the existing road network near Parkview Estate. Kola is also a successful millionaire himself, he lives quietly in Banana Island with his family. Olubola Olufunmilayo Samuel Olufeko. 24/07/2017. Tue Dec 19 2017 at 06:30 pm, Worship the KING!!!Join us on Tuesday, 19th December, as Pastor Wale Adenuga will be leading Worship as we glorify the King of kings. How Rats made Linda Ikeji buy Banana Island house Mike Bamiloye's second son, Joshua releases official prewedding photos See Mike Adenuga's Daughter, Bella's Multi-billion Naira High-rise Apartments. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 17 octobre 2019 à 21:15. It has been given the name Banana Island, owing largely to its banana shape. good for residential) #200m NET. Ijebu Igbo is the 2nd largest town in Ogun State in terms of LAND MASS, There are arable land for farming. Banana Island is Nigeria’s most extravagant and expensive neighborhood – on par with the Seventh Arrondissement in Paris, La Jolla in San Diego, California and Tokyo’s Shibuya or Roppongi neighborhoods. 12 things you didn’t know about nigeria’s 2nd-richest man The second-richest man in Nigeria, businessman Mike Adenuga makes most of his money in the mobile telecom and oil production industries, both on the investment and entrepreneurial side. The house is a piece of art where you can find everything you need for life without borders. Popular celebrity blogger, Stella, just disclosed that Billionaire Mike Adenuga’s Son, Niyi Married Secretly on Friday. Some days ago, Eniola was granted custody of the child, a daughter, by an Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos, but the lady has appealed the judgement. Adenuga stages private wedding for daughter, Oyin 15 Jul 2017 High Society The palatial home of Otunba Mike Adenuga, the billionaire Chairman of Globacom, in Banana Island Estate, Ikoyi, Lagos, was last Saturday besieged by all hues in the social and political circles for Oyin Adenuga’s private engagement ceremony. A fully equipped laboratory, well-stocked pharmacy and team of medical professionals,our hospital provides a standard healthcare system with full access to medical and wellness solutions that cuts across pediatrics, general surgery and obstetrics. 3 Ogun State1. Mike adenuga interview Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian business tycoon, and the second-richest person in Nigeria. N ewly wed oil and gas executive, fashion/beauty blogger, daughter to one of Nigeria’s biggest entrepreneurs Mike Adenuga, Oyin Adenuga popularly known by her moniker Emelia Jane, is a lady of original and impeccable taste. A 3 bedroom maisonette with 1 maid room in banana, opposite mike adenuga’s house ( summary ) rent - 15,000,000 service charge - 3,000,000 legal (5%). Banana Island. Titi Adenuga, the beautiful wife of Otunba Mike AdenugaTiti Adenuga, the beautiful wife of Otunba Mike Adenuga, billionaire businessman and. Posts about mike adenugsa written by lilgoldblog. How Amazing! The blogger recently bought a mansion in one of Africa’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Banana Island in Ikoyi, Lagos. He lives on Banana Island Adenuga lives in an estate worth an estimated $5 million-plus on Banana Island in Nigeria. The next registration is in May 2020. 9 Prominent Nigerians Who Live on Banana Island. His assets include Globacom and Conoil amongst other very lucrative enterprises. Billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga‘s beautiful First daughter, Oyinda, had a secret traditional wedding yesterday to her man, Adeolu Abayomi Olufeko. Posts about mike adenugsa written by lilgoldblog. Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian business tycoon, and the second-richest person in Nigeria. This celebrity house in Banana island is really cool, very light and furnished to perfect taste. Lol WTF Cute Cool Love Quiz Lists Trending. EKO TOWER (TOTAL HEAD QUARTERS) – VICTORIA ISLAND. Mike Adenuga’s Daughter Weds In Grand Style Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga’s daughter, Oyinda Adenuga, has tied the nuptial knot with her heartthrob, Ade Abayomi Olufeko on Saturday, July 8, 2017 in lush Banana Island nuptials. was a school teacher while his mum Chief (Mrs. It was an intimate family setting of about 90 people, including senior members of Glo and Con Oil. She also disclosed the event was celebrated in Banana Island. This page was last edited on 17 October 2019, at 21:15. Mike Adenuga, a Nigerian oil and telecoms tycoon, might be Africa’s new richest man. Mike Adenuga takes the second place among the wealthiest men in Nigeria. 2billion) making him one of the richest Nigerian's to own a private jet. See the bride. Luckily for him, Dr. Lining up plans in Ikorodu? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. Mike Adenuga's House, AIT, NTA Picketed Source: huhuonline. Sein Vermögen wird auf 5,4 Mrd. Possibly one of the largest homes on Banana Island, Nigerian Billionaire Mike Adenuga owns this amazing Nine Duplex Home. Top facts about Mike Adenuga's house in Banana Island It is not just a big house, but a true manor that can accommodate not only the businessman and his family but a large number of guests and visitors. Mike Adenuga, who debuted on the list, was ranked as the second richest Nigerian, with a net worth of $2 billion, while Nigerian Aliko Dangote was valued at $13. Just like her father, she has a passion for excellence. It was an intimate family setting of about 90 people, including senior members of Glo and Con Oil. Helen Ozor. Oyin Adenuga, will walk the isle with her man, Adeolu Abayomi Olufeko. Have you seen Mike Adenuga's mansion in Banana Island? Do you want to know what area the mansion occupies? Then, checkout Mike Adenuga house photo and enjoy the sight of luxury money can buy! Whatever ways of investing money humanity would invent, investments in real estate will always remain relevant. was a school teacher while his mum Chief (Mrs. Born Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga 29 April 1953 (age 65) Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria Residence Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos,Lagos State, Nigeria Nationality Nigerian Education Ibadan Grammar School Alma mater Northwestern Oklahoma State University Pace University Occupation Founder of Globacom, Chairman of Conoil Net worth $5. Guests at the event were strictly notified through special invitations not to take photos of the couple, but it appears the bride's favourite make-up artist Banke Meshida-Lawal was given the privilege to publicly. All information provided "as is" and for informational purposes only. Luckily for him, Dr. Adenuga who is making the list for the first time is worth $2 Billion (US DOLLARS). However, Dr. check out mike adenuga's niece, funmi osunsade in her 50th birthday photo shoot This week, the 50 th birthday party of Funmilola Osunsade is topmost in the social scheme of most society personalities. Banana Island, is an area of Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, 8. The occupiers of this exorbitant upscale choice area are the some of the richest Nigerians which includes the likes of Globacom C. The Mansion Her new neighbours include Forbes listed billionaire Mike Adenuga , Sayyu Dantata and many heads of major Nigerian companies. Banana Island is located in the Lagos Lagoon and is connected to Ikoyi Island by a dedicated road which is linked to the existing road network near Parkview Estate. Banana Island in Lagos is a Billionaire’s Paradise The newly built community on the water houses some of the nation’s wealthiest people, and expats, too. Top Posts & Pages. Mike Adenuga’s House. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. She asked him to visit her sometime. This island is host to people like Mike Adenuga, Iyabo Obasanjo and many other elites. Adenuga house in Banana Island suits such an important personality well. This estate has 32 units of 4 luxury bedrooms terraces houses with 2 bedroom servant quarters each. 2 Million By far one of the most expensive homes in Africa is Mike Adenuga’s house in Banana Island Nigeria. ) PROFESSORIAL CHAIR IN ENTREPRENEURIAL STUDIES The University of Lagos invites suitably qualified candidates to. This week, Paddy Adenuga, son of Nigerian telco and oil magnate, Mike Adenuga, shared a story of how he tried to buy Chevron Netherlands at the age of 29. She got married to her heartthrob, Adeolu Abayomi Olufeko, after her 39th birthday. Lagos List Free Business Directory. Linda Ikeji Banana Island Property: Wrong Investment Choice Posted on October 21, 2015 Author Vincent Ogu Comment(0) The popular blogger, Ms. POPULAR HOUSES IN BANANA: Mike Adenuga - Billionaire owner of Globacom - Nigeria’s second-largest telecom operator and oil exploration firm Conoil. 2 Million By far one of the most expensive homes in Africa is Mike Adenuga's house in Banana Island Nigeria. It is purported that Mike Adenuga’s estate is worth over 1 billion naira in Banana Island, a highly sought-after luxurious artificial island for the creme de la creme of society. A medical practitioner, Dr Zubair Abdullahi has advised Nigerians to take the issue of their…. October 29, 2018. The head office is located at Plot L2 401 CI, Banana Island, Lagos, with customer care centers spread in different areas in the country. A man-made island in the Lagos Lagoon, Banana Island is slightly curved in shape – like a banana. Once completed the mansion will transform P Square neighbours with wealthy and influential Nigerians like Dr Mike Adenuga, Femi Otedola, Ayo Fayose among other A-listers. The huge estate, which is worth up to a. Mike Adenuga and Iyabo Obasanjo are two examples of some of the most prominent members of Nigerian high society who call Banana Island home. Banana Island is Nigeria’s most extravagant and expensive neighborhood – on par with the Seventh Arrondissement in Paris, La Jolla in San Diego, California and Tokyo’s Shibuya or Roppongi neighborhoods. Remove; In this conversation. Banana Island in Lagos is a Billionaire’s Paradise Banana Island, which is Nigeria’s answer to Paris’s Seventh Arrondissement, San Diego’s La Jolla, New York City’s Tribeca and Tokyo’s Shibuya and Roppongi, is a small man-made island in the Ikoyi neighborhood of Lagos. Mike Adenuga Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos ₦ 15,000,000 per annum. Lining up plans in Ikorodu? Whether you're a local, new in town, or just passing through, you'll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. “That moment you realize that Mike Adenuga is ur neighbor,Dantata is ur neighbor,you are surrounded by billionaires you used to hear. Property Description Luxury built 8 bedroom detached mansion for sale; Off Mike Adenuga Drive, Banana Island, Ikoyi-Lagos. Cobble-stone Properties And Estate Limited Office in 1, 1, Mike Adenuga Close, Victoria Island, Eti Osa, Lagos, Nigeria. Houses in Ikoyi are rare and belong only to the ultra-rich. According to LIB, It has been confirmed by several people who attended the birthday party of billionaire businessman Mike Adenuga which took place on Friday May 30th at his home in Banana Island. Although, some would consider 8 billion too much to be spent on a house. ₦850,000,000 Mixed use value add investment opportunity •|• victoria island two fully detached buildings with appurtenances , off adeola odeku road. Find your new property from trusted estate agents & private sellers. The Managing Director of Lekki Worldwide Investment Company, Mr. A 3 bedroom maisonette with 1 maid room in banana, opposite mike adenuga’s house ( summary ) rent - 15,000,000 service charge - 3,000,000 legal (5%). This billionaire tycoon has a net worth of $4. Labels: CA, Celebrity Mansions, Celebrity mansions for sale, Julius Malema R16 Mil Mansion, Mike Adenuga Mansion, MIKE MYERS' $2. Linda Ikeji Acquires Banana Island Manson Worth N450Million. 9 posts published by jimivaey on October 16, 2015. One of those duplexes serves as his personal home office while the others are for his large extended family, guests, friends, and even workers. Adenuga's mansion occupies the three hectares. Mike Adenuga currently lives in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria with his family. With 9 duplexes inside the mansion, Mike's home is truly beyond what anyone can ever expect. Remove; In this conversation. The second leg of the wedding is slated to hold tomorrow, Saturday, 8 July, 2017, at the Adenugas' home in Banana Island. Biography of Mike Adenuga and Networth. Photos From Mike Adenuga’s First Daughter’s Wedding Oyinda Adenuga, the first daughter of Nigerian business tycoon, the second-richest person in Nigeria and owner of Globacom, Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr and her man Adeolu Abayomi, had her church wedding in Banana Island, Lagos over the weekend. My house is not N450m…where did y'all get that from? It's over N500m. In June 2016, it was revealed that Adenuga was being pursued for a combined debt of US$140. As you can see, being one of the richest men in Nigeria certainly has its benefits. Banana Island is located around Ikoyi in Lagos Nigeria. Son of Globacom boss, Mike Adenuga, Eniola, and his former girlfriend, Maggie Ogun, are in court over the custody of the child between them. Part of the Lagos Local Government Area of Eti-Osa in Central Lagos, it is known for its wealthy, multi-cultural community and has some of the most expensive real estate in Nigeria. Business magnate, Dr. 0n Saturday 8th July 2017, the magnificent mansion of Nigerian billionaire and Telecoms Guru Mike Adenuga located at the highbrow Banana Island Lagos, played host to a crop of select guests as his eldest daughter Oyin Adenuga tied the knot with her fiance Ade Olufeko who is a Digital Specialist. 2 days ago · Bella Disu, the daughter of Nigerian billionaire, Mike Adenuga, has just unveiled her new sprawling high-rise called 'Sisi Paris' (Named after her daughter, Paris). His billion Naira estate consists of 8 duplexes and an additional one for his personal residence with home office (the. the story of a hardworking father (mike adenuga) and his children. His assets include Globacom and Conoil amongst other very lucrative enterprises. ) Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga (nee Onashile of Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo) was a businesswoman. Stella is known to always. The wedding was however a secret one and held on a 'low-key'. Forbes (2019) valued his net worth at $9. Earlier today, we brought you photos of Oyinda Mike Adenuga, daughter of billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga, at her secret traditional wedding, which took place yesterday, 6th of July. Data from PrivateProperty. The man also owns extensive real estate holdings in some of Nigeria's most expensive neighborhoods, including the Mike Adenuga Towers, a landmark building in Victoria Island, Lagos. GCON, CSG & Princess Emelia Adefolake Adenuga & Late Prince Adewunmi Abayomi & Mrs. Progressively, Fola Ogunlesi, the affluent proprietor of common occasions centre, Fantasyland on Kingsway Street, Ikoyi, Lagos, is getting his groove. A man-made island in Lagos State, Nigeria that is slightly curved in shape – like a banana, Banana Island is located in the Lagos Lagoon. Some of the most expensive houses in lagos state are located here. The expensive mansion belonging to P-Square is a beauty to behold. Welcome! Log into your account. Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, and addressed to the Globacom Chairman, the president commended Adenuga’s deep sense of loyalty and patriotism by. A man-made island in the Lagos Lagoon, Banana Island is slightly curved in shape - like a banana. Like other celebrities such as Glo boss Mike Adenuga, pop music brothers P-Square and celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji who all own houses there, Sayyu's Banana Island mansion is a paradise unto itself. The suspect, Ehipboh Lucky, had reportedly opened a Facebook account, using the name and picture of the businessman.
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The Henry Ford Argument
Henry Ford's name will forever be linked with the Model T. It will also be linked with a much more controversial proposition, namely the belief that -- as Ford himself said -- "history is bunk." Ford's proclamation is particularly ironic in view of the fact that, as he aged, Ford seemed to be increasingly stuck in the past. By the time Tex Avery convinced Ford's grandson to hire a team of "whiz kids" from the Harvard Business School, Ford had driven his company into the ground. Avery brought Robert McNamara into the company; and together they turned things around. Unfortunately, McNamara would eventually become the architect of the Vietnam War -- but that's another story for another post.
Despite the obvious absurdity of Ford's proposition, his argument is alive and well. It raised its head again last week when Christopher Bond, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to The New York Times, "called for the committee to stop rehashing past controversies and to 'focus on the myriad threats we face today.'"
The immediate cause for Bond's admonition was the release of two pre-war intelligence reports on post-war Iraq. The reports predicted that after Saddam Hussein fell, "Iraq would be unlikely to split apart, but a post Saddam authority would face a deeply divided society with a significant chance that domestic groups would engage in violent conflict," characterized by "score settling" and "heightened competition for power among the different groups." The analysts also predicted that, "rogue ex-regime elements could forge an alliance with existing terrorist organizations or act independently to wage guerrilla warfare against the new government or coalition forces."
The popular argument is that because pre-war intelligence on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction was wrong, no one should have believed these predictions. However, what is conveniently swept under the rug is the information which was coming from Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors, who were on the ground in Iraq before the invasion. They kept sending back reports that there were no WMD to be found. Besides Blix, Scott Ritter, a former Marine and UN weapons inspector, kept insisting that Saddam's nuclear capacity had been destroyed by 1998 and could not have been reconstituted by 2001. He also said that 90% to 95% of Saddam's chenical and biological capacity had been destroyed and that Saddam did not constitute the threat he was declared to be. However, Blix and Ritter were dismissed as dupes. Those in power knew better and they therefore deserved the public's trust.
And what should we do with this intelligence now? Well, say Mr. Bond and the president's supporters, it is obviously irrelevant, because that was then and this is now. But it is instructive to dip a little farther back into "then."
Jules Witcover, also writing in The Times, refers to James Mann's book, The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. Witcover reminds his readers that in the waning days of the first Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz -- who was then Deputy Secretary of Defence to Dick Cheney -- directed his assistant I. Scooter Libby (do these names sound familiar for other reasons?) to prepare a draft which "set forth a new vision for a world dominated by a lone American superpower actively working to assure that no rival or group of rivals would ever emerge." Libby, for his part, passed the assignment to Zalmay Khalilzad -- another familiar name. Khalilzad produced a document which "envisioned a world in which American military power alone could rival or replace the collective security that had marked U.S. containment policy during the Cold War."
Remember, this was 1992. There is no evidence that George W. Bush had anything to do with these deliberations. At the time, he had not entered politics and he was happily attending to business as a part owner of the Texas Rangers. But the plan was not thrown together hastily after September 11, 2001. It was the kind of plan whose sweep and -- some would say -- beauty appealed to Wolfowitz, the mathematician. It inspired a kind of shock and awe.
Convinced of its brilliance, why should the plan's authors have paid any attention to the intelligence at hand? Their only problem was selling the idea to their boss. The rest, as they say, is history. And -- as Mr. Ford said -- history is bunk.
Posted by Owen Gray at 8:57 am No comments: Links to this post
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The Triumph of Convenience
In his award winning book, The Ingenuity Gap, Thomas Homer Dixon illustrates how the catastrophic failure of modern systems -- like the electricity grid which left millions of North Americans without power five years ago -- can be caused by several smaller but cascading failures. Like it our not, we live in an interconnected world; and a failure in any of the many links which tie us together can bring the house down.
What is true of technical systems is increasingly true of social systems. A striking example of this phenomenon is contained in an essay in the Armed Forces Journal of April 27th. Its author, Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, criticizes the current senior officer corps at the Pentagon, claiming they lack moral courage. The "tendency of the executive branch," he writes is "to seek out mild mannered team players to serve as senior generals." And the senior generals perpetuate that leadership template. What we are left with is a system where "senior officers select for promotion those like themselves." What this means in practice is that career advancement lies in saluting and marching uphill, rather than questioning the wisdom of one's superiors.
This is not a new phenomenon. It happened during the Vietnam War and it happened in Renaissance England. In Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, Thomas Cromwell -- the real villain of the piece -- lectures Thomas More on his failure as an administrator. More not only serves at the king's convenience, Cromwell says. He serves to expedite whatever the king deems convenient -- meaning that when he assumes public office the good administrator checks his conscience at the door.
More's reply has rung down the decades, ever since the play debuted almost fifty years ago: "I believe when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their country by a short route to chaos." Thus, the debacle in Iraq comes down to, as Yingling amply illustrates, a team of weak leaders, acquiescing in one bad decision after another. Or, as Homer Dixon would put it, each bad decision in the public sphere forms a link in a chain, which eventually contributes to catastrophic public failure.
Whether it be at the Pentagon or at Enron, or -- closer to home -- in the self-dealing of the sponsorship scandal, we have seen the triumph of convenience over conscience. The path to success is not to speak truth the power, but to enable it. Those who do so are rewarded. Someone like More, who has the courage to disagree and offer reasoned arguments to whomever is the king, will lose his or her head -- or, as was the case with General Shinseki, his career.
We live in a time of wars and proxy wars, ecological degradation and extreme economic injustice. If we are to arrive at solutions to these problems, our public servants must hold to the courage of their convictions. Perhaps that explains why I feel so uncomfortable every time I see Stephen Harper making another public policy announcement. I watch as the minister or ministers who will manage the policy stand behind him, nodding silently -- like religious fundamentalists at a camp meeting, punctuating the preacher's sermon with silent "amens." I suspect that Mr. Harper does not seek out dissenters; and, despite the first part of that old saying, it seems to me that -- more often than not -- fools never differ.
In the absence of dissent at the highest levels of government, we, mere citizens, must have the courage to disagree. The disaster in Iraq or the Holocaust in Germany could only happen because thousands of Adolph Eichmanns sought career advancement, despite the demands of justice, in service of the king.
When Edward R. Murrow took on Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954, he ended his broadcast with an allusion to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cassius was right: 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.'" McCarthy died an alcoholic mess -- a fitting end for a man who thrived on fear and character assassination. His demise was the product of a kind of courage which -- at present -- is in short supply. Without such courage we will bring the house down.
Posted by Owen Gray at 7:17 am 1 comment: Links to this post
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Paying Attention to the Facts on the Ground
Richard Gwyn begins his column in The Toronto Star this week by proclaiming that "Canada has done something remarkable -- it has figured out how to contain within it another country." Gwyn's observation has, at least in part, been triggered by the obvious disarray in the ranks of the Parti Quebecois, perhaps best illustrated by Gilles Duceppe's decision to run for the leadership of the party -- a decision which he reversed some twenty nine hours latter. Gwyn warns his readers that separatism is not dead: "The new creed in Quebec politics will be 'autonomy,' or making the province as separate as possible within Canada."
And it is that trend which worries The National Post's Andrew Coyne. Heading his latest column "scenes from a dying country," Coyne observes that Premier Danny Williams is sounding a lot like Jean Lesage these days, insisting that when it comes to the province's resources, Newfoundlanders should be "masters in their own house." Add to that the present Quebec premier's insistence that Quebec be considered a nation within Canada and be given a seat at UNESCO and the future begins to look darker. Alberta, too, "cannot decide whether it is or is not in favour of the concept of a single national securities regulator."
Could these men be talking about the same country? The answer is yes -- and it has always been thus. The fact that it has always been this way is no reason to be sanguine about the future. However, it is instructive to consider how we got from there to here.
Fundamentally, Canada is a country of ideas; but, for most of its history, it has rejected ideology. The country entered upon the world stage just as the free trade movement of the nineteenth century was at its apex. Yet John A. MacDonald immediately established the National Policy as a way to set Canadian manufacturers on their feet. By 1935, William Paley had developed a template for broadcasting in North America, which held that broadcasters were private entities who paid their bills through advertising. But the CBC was established as a public corporation. In 1956, after two world wars had confirmed the conventional wisdom that nation states projected their power by the use of military force, Lester Pearson insisted that Canadian forces would be used for peacekeeping, not self defense or military conquest.
In fact, throughout its history, Canada -- like its native son, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith -- has had a great distrust of what Galbraith called "the conventional wisdom." Instead, public policy decisions have had more to do with the facts on the ground than with any theory of the way things should be.
During all this time the country struggled with its identity, weathered the Conscription Crisis of World War I, The Great Depression, World War II, and the October Crisis of 1970. We relied on the tools at hand; and, if those tools proved inadequate, we -- after careful reflection -- changed them. Like the first Prime Minister, whose nickname was "Old Tomorrow," we tried not to make decisions impulsively.
Why this walk down memory lane? Well, it seems to me that the present government, for all its political calculation, does not think things through. When Gilles Duceppe threatened a motion to recognize Quebec's de facto sovereignty, Mr. Harper -- within a week -- came up with his "nation within a nation" resolution, something which is already coming back to haunt him. Just as rashly, he decided to extend Canada's mission to Afghanistan until 2009, not giving much thought to whether or not we possessed the resources or the expertise to meet the longer term commitment -- as the scandal over the treatment of Afghan prisoners illustrates. And then there was Harper's reversal on income trusts -- a fundamentally wise decision -- but a reversal of a promise made in an election campaign. Framing his decision in the ideology of a party which holds that taxes are a scourge, Harper committed himself to a bad idea. When a government ignores the way things are, as opposed to the way it thinks they should be, it generates alot of bad ideas.
As Gwyn points out, Canada has thus far arrived at a different place than Montenegro, Kosovo, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Perhaps Scottish voters will consider Canada before they seek a "velvet divorce." As millions of unhappy couples will testify, there is no such thing. The challenge is to remain committed to the union, by considering the partners' needs, aspirations and dreams. All of these things are manifested in what exists here and now, in what we have learned in the past -- and, most importantly, in not acting impulsively or in the heat of anger.
Gilles Duceppe concluded this week that seeking the leadership of the Parti Quebecois was a bad idea -- a decision bolstered by the fact that only two members of the party's caucus were prepared to support him. It would have been wiser to have taken note of that fact before he stepped in front of a microphone.
Labels: Gilles Duceppe
The Wolfowitz Principle
Almost forty years ago, Dr. Lawrence J. Peter enunciated the principle which bears his surname. Peter believed that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." There were, said Peter, many reasons for this. But the prime reason was that the set of skills which led to an employee's success at one level of the organization were not the skills required at a higher level. And, never having developed the required skills to succeed at a higher level, the employee -- and the organization he or she worked for -- failed at the task at hand.
Paul Wolfowitz is a stunning example of the Peter Principle. A mathematician by training, he is universally acknowledged as a very bright man. But, like another technocrat before him -- Robert McNamara -- he has been a remarkable failure at the American Department of Defence. And, also like McNamara, the man he worked for sent him off to the Presidency of the World Bank. The jury is out on Mr. McNamara's time at the bank. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Wolfowitz's tenure there, like his tenure at the Defence Department, has been a train wreck.
Both McNamara and Wolfowitz made their reputations as gurus of statistical analysis -- techniques which are widely thought to accurately predict the results of human endeavour. But, as McNamara now readily admits, those techniques are only valid if one thoroughly understands the terrain -- geographical, cultural, historical and political -- over which one travels. During McNamara's time at Defence, the numbers -- particularly the body counts -- were always on his side. But he, and the government for which he worked, did not understand Vietnam at all. By 1967 he wasn't sleeping at night, his wife had an ulcer and he knew that -- despite the numbers -- the war he had crafted was not winnable. Lyndon Johnson thought McNamara was melting down and replaced him with Clark Clifford, who understood that McNamara had stumbled upon the truth.
It would appear that Wolfowitz and his president have had no such epiphany. Even though his predictions that the war in Iraq would be easily concluded and paid for by Iraqi oil money have proved to be so much smoke, Wolfowitz went off to the bank convinced, as ever, that history would vindicate him.
And, if Wolfowitz did not understand Iraq, he understood the World Bank even less. That is not to say that, in some ways, Wolfowitz was not a good fit for the job. He, like several of his predecessors, believed that the way to improve the lot of the world's poor was to practice what John Ralston Saul has called "crucifixion economics," a set of economic principles perhaps best illustrated by the bank's requirements before it loaned money to Russia in the early nineties. Essentially, all the major assets of the state were privatized at fire sale prices and found their way into the hands of a few wealthy Russians, thereafter referred to as "the oligarchs." Then state services were drastically curtailed. The result was unemployment, loss of pensions and a crisis in Russian health care. Wealth was shifted up into the hands of a few, not down to the masses.
Naomi Klein, in a recent column in The Nation, provides a laundry list of similar demands which had to be met by other poor countries before the bank would lend them money. " . . . it forced school fees on students in Ghana in exchange for a loan; it demanded that Tanzania privatize its water system; it made telecom privatization a condition of aid for Hurricane Mitch; it demanded labor "flexibility" in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami; it pushed for eliminating food subsidies in post invasion Iraq." And if -- as in Russia -- things got worse rather than better, what was Wolfowitz's solution? Eliminate corruption and crony capitalism in the offending countries -- as if the bank's own demands had not encouraged, indeed, demanded such corruption.
And then came the case of Shaha Riza, Wolfowitz's companion. She had worked for the bank before Wolfowitz's arrival. And, sensing a potential conflict of interest, Wolfowitz took steps to -- at least temporarily -- remove her from the organization. To that end he worked out a deal whereby she would remain a bank employee, but she would be seconded to the U.S. State Department. However, the storm broke when reporters -- like David Corn, also of The Nation -- discovered that Riza's transfer included a 36% pay hike (from $132,000 a year to $180,000 and guaranteed annual raises of 8%). Nice work, if you can get it. Or, more precisely, nice work if you know someone who can get it for you. The salary increase will also effect Riza's pension. Under the new regime, she can expect an annual pension of $110,000 a year. Had she not been offered the promotion, her annual pension would be $56,000 a year.
All of this makes it hard for the bank to rail against crony capitalism. Mr. Wolfowitz does not owe his rise to competence. Instead, in the idiom of the day, he knows how to network. He has demonstrated his incompetence at not just one but two of the world's most powerful institutions. That kind of incompetence is greater than even Dr. Peter recognized. It needs a new name. Call it the Wolfowitz Principle.
Labels: Paul Wolfowitz
The Myth of Inevitability
Thirty years ago I sat in a Canadian history class at the University of Manitoba. The class was taught by Gordon Rothney, one of the finest scholars and teachers I have known. He and I shared a place in common. He was born in, and I taught high school in, the same little town in the Eastern Townships. During the course of the year we, of course, discussed Quebec's place and future in Confederation. Rothney had no sympathy for the nationalism espoused by Rene Levesque; but he understood where it came from. And, more importantly, he was of the opinion that the nationalists would eventually win the day -- not because they had justice on their side, but because of what, he felt, were the inexorable tides of history.
He believed that the history of the twentieth century was the story of how power was being consolidated into geographic blocks. That consolidation began with economic pacts, like NAFTA and the European Economic Community. Eventually it would erode international borders and national sovereignty would be a thing of the past. He was quite confident that the growing influence of the United States would eventually hold sway over North America, and that the flow of power from North to South would, in the end, dissolve the historical east-west bonds which held Canada together. I remember arguing that, despite what Tolstoy said, history was not about unstoppable movements of people and resources. It was about wisdom -- or the lack of it -- as expressed in the choices which people made throughout time.
I must admit that, over the past thirty years -- particularly during the last Quebec referendum in 1995 -- I have sometimes thought that he was right. But, as of today, Canada has not disintegrated. Some -- myself included -- would argue that the present government's take on the federation makes that dissolution easier. But, for the present, it looks like we will hold the family together.
I thought of Rothney this week as I read John Ralston Saul's excellent book, The Collapse of Globalism. Saul claims that in the thirty years since I sat in Rothney's history class, the so called best and brightest among us have been in the thrall of an ideology of economic determinism. The result, in the 1980's and 90's, was public policies which were presented to us "with the force of declared inevitability." But, says Saul, there is nothing inevitable about our situation. Instead of being trapped by the tides of history, we are in an "interregnum," an era characterized by "a vacuum of economic thought, which adds an element of even greater uncertainty, because economics is a romantic tempestuous business, rather theatrical, often dependent on the willing suspension of disbelief by the rest of us." And, ironically, in the midst of this vacuum, we have come to see all of existence through an economic prism.
Having willingly suspended our disbelief, we have forgotten that we have choices, that "we have the power to choose in the hope of altering society for the greater good. . . The conviction that citizens have such power lies at the heart of the idea of civilization as a shared project." For, Saul writes, "To believe in the reality of choice is one of the most basic characteristics of leadership. Curiously enough, many individuals who think of themselves as leaders find this reality very difficult. They believe that their job is to understand power and management and perhaps make minor corrections to what they accept to be the torque of events."
We have substituted management for leadership. It is worth remembering that the current President of the United States holds an MBA from Harvard; and the current Prime Minister of Canada holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Calgary. One should not be surprised that they espouse what is, for the moment, the conventional wisdom. Thus, this week Mr. Bush vetoed a bill which would begin the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, arguing that such a bill would inevitably lead to chaos in the entire Middle East; and the Harper government claimed this week that its Green Plan was modest because anything more demanding would inevitably do untold damage to the Canadian economy.
What is so appealing about inevitability is that it relieves us of moral responsibility. We believe in financial accounting; but we work hard to sidestep any accounting for the long term consequences of our actions. Asked this week if, knowing that the intelligence his organization had on Saddam Hussein's nuclear capability was -- at best -- unreliable, he had argued against President Bush's decision to go to war, George Tenet answered that it had become clear to him that the decision was inevitable. To this assertion, former CIA analyst Michael Scheurer, in an op-ed in The Washington Post, wrote that Tenet faced a choice -- to go along or to resign: ". . . Tenet's resignation would have destroyed the neocons' Iraq house of cards by discrediting the only glue holding it together: the intelligence that proved Saddam Hussein was guilty of pursuing nuclear weapons and working with Al Queda."
When you have a mortgage and a family, it's never easy to make that kind of decision. But as Tenet's decision illustrates, the consequences can be disastrous. The potential to avoid disaster, despite what I learned in Gordon Rothney's history class, still resides in our power to choose.
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