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For 68 years, Gary worked in the farming industry, growing up on a ranch where his family raised oats, barley, wheat, and alfalfa. At age 18, Gary drove to Canada for the first time, intent on living his dream. In Gary’s words, “In 1967, when I was 18, my dream came true when I loaded my truck and my horse and moved to British Columbia. In 1968, I got in on the last homestead act in the Caribou District with 320 acres 30 miles in the wilderness, where I began building my horse ranch and logging business.”
Following a serious logging injury in 1973, however, Gary’s path changed; and he found himself fighting through 13 years of constant debilitating pain and frustration. Once Gary began to regain the ability to walk—a miracle that defied his medical prognosis—his focus turned from logging and ranching, and he began experimenting with different modalities and many avenues of study, growing in his knowledge of herbs and natural healing. With his farming background, Gary had a particular interest in the growing, harvesting, and distillation of oils from aromatic plants.
Gary, Mr. Viaud, and Jean-Joel talk about distillation.
Gary harvesting einkorn on the Young Living farm in France, 2014.
This curiosity took him to France, where he began to learn about the country’s famous lavender-growing tradition and about the essential oil that comes from this beautiful plant.
After his first trip to Europe, he returned home with 13 different essential oils and began experimenting with them to discover and learn more about their usage and application. Gary was on the frontier of essential oil science as he began to discover what oils and oil combinations to use, what worked better, and how to apply them. With no written information in the U.S., no internet, and virtually no one with any conclusive experience, the frontier was his. So he boldly went forward to innovate and unlock the hidden mysteries of this ancient science that he instinctively understood.
In 1990, a chance meeting with Frenchman Jean-Noël Landel opened many doors for Gary in the world of the French lavender growers. Gary traveled all over France with Jean-Noël meeting growers and visiting distilleries. Jean-Noël and Gary leased their first farm in that country in 1992. They became great friends and business partners. During the next four years, Gary traveled back and forth to France spending as much time as he could, studying and working in all aspects of the production from planting to harvesting and to all factors of the distillation process.
Every aspect of the harvest and distillation was important to him because he knew that it all had to work in
Early distillers are on display at the entrance of the frankincense distillery in Spain that Gary and Mary visited in 1996.
Gary is thrilled to see the beautiful Juniper oil.
Gary is passionate about growing the ancient grain of einkorn and planted the first test crop in Mona in 2011.
The lavender is magnificent and when in bloom can be smelled miles away in the surrounding area.
The automation system is complex, but Gary loves it.
harmony to achieve the best results. Each crop was different, so he made many adjustments and modified his system according to what he saw. The early years of harvesting and distilling brought about many changes from the traditional old ways to new, innovative, and more efficient production methods. The more discoveries he made, the more his head spun with ideas, and the more Gary’s innovative “art of distillation” evolved.
During these years of studying and farming in France, Gary also established other farms in St. Maries, Idaho, and Mona, Utah. With every crop, every harvest, and every distillation, more was learned; and the new information increased Gary’s knowledge. Together, all of Gary’s knowledge and innovation ultimately became Young Living’s Seed to Seal® program. Seed to Seal was Young Living’s proprietary system that controls the sourcing, science, and standards of every product. These Seed to Seal pillars are the foundation on which Young Living global corporate offices, farms, partner farms, and certified suppliers operate. To learn more about how Seed to Seal ensures that Young Living maintains the ultimate, industry-leading standard in essential oil products, visit SeedtoSeal.com.
Today, even with the tremendous accomplishments at the farms and all that has been learned about the plants and the operation, questions continue to be asked. How can we make the planting, the harvesting, and the distillation more efficient? Is there a better way? That was the nature of Gary Young, which was why he continued to make new innovations that benefited all those in the essential oil world.
Gary operating the first Young Living harvester used on the Young Living farm in France.
Gary’s third portable, wood-fired distiller, built in St. Maries, was a good prop for the ol’ country doctor in the Steven Segal movie, The Patriot, 1998.
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IBM's World Community Grid Unveils Research Projects on Three Continents to Improve Water Quality
Will tap surplus power of volunteers' 1.5 million PCs to perform computations
Submitted by: IBM
Categories: Volunteerism, Health & Wellness
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 – 07:54 AM EST
ARMONK, N.Y., Sep. 07 /CSRwire/ - /PRNewswire/ - IBM's (NYSE: IBM) World Community Grid, a worldwide network of PC owners helping scientists solve humanitarian challenges, today announced several computing projects aimed at developing techniques to produce cleaner and safer water, an increasingly scarce commodity eluding at least 1.2 billion people worldwide.
One initiative will simulate how human behaviors and ecosystem processes relate to one another in watersheds such as the Chesapeake Bay. Other projects will explore advanced water filtering techniques and seek cures for a water-borne disease.
To accelerate the pace, lower the expense, and increase the precision of these projects, scientists will harness the IBM-supported World Community Grid to perform online simulations, crunch numbers, and pose hypothetical scenarios. The processing power is provided by a grid of 1.5 million PCs from 600,000 volunteers around the world. These PCs perform computations for scientists when the machines would otherwise be underutilized. Scientists also use World Community Grid -- equivalent to one of the world's fastest supercomputers -- to engineer cleaner energy, cure disease and produce healthier food staples.
The University of Virginia Watershed Sustainability Project will use World Community Grid to power its "UVa Bay Game/Analytics" project, which models the effects of agricultural, commercial and industrial decisions on the Chesapeake Bay. This waterway is a vital estuary on the East Coast of the United States stretching 64,000 square miles with 11,600 miles of tidal shoreline, and home to nearly 17 million people. It will simulate and analyze the results of choices made by the sometimes-competing interests of fishermen, farmers, real estate developers, power plant designers, conservationists, forestry experts and urban planners. Better understanding the potential outcomes of complex, intersecting decisions can help society manage the watershed more effectively.
"Through this collaboration, the University of Virginia and World Community Grid are bringing new resources to bear to improve the future of the Chesapeake Bay," said Philippe Cousteau, co-founder of Azure Worldwide, which helped develop the UVa Bay Game. "Responsible and effective stewardship of complex watersheds is a huge undertaking that must balance the needs of each unique environment with the needs of the communities that depend on them for survival. I'm confident that this partnership will help provide the tools we need to meet this challenge head- on."
Another new water-related project, called "Computing For Clean Water," is looking to produce more efficient and effective water filtering, and is now getting underway at Tsinghua University's newly launched Centre for Novel Multidisciplinary Mechanics in China. The idea is to develop ways to filter and scrub polluted water, as well as convert saltwater into drinkable freshwater, with less expense, complexity, and energy than current techniques.
The effort will seek to reduce the pressure and energy required to force water through microscopic, nanometer-sized pores in tubes made of carbon, whose tiny holes prevent harmful organic material from being transmitted. Scientists need to produce millions of computer simulations to model how water molecules interact with one another and against the walls of these carbon nanotubes.
Although led by China's Tsinghua University, researchers are participating from all over the world, including Australia's University of Sydney and Monash University; as well as the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The project is the result of an initiative launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to promote volunteer participation in science. It is called CAS@home, and is hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing.
A third initiative, to be run on World Community Grid out of Brazil's Inforium Bioinformatics, in collaboration with FIOCRUZ-Minas, is seeking to cure schistosomiasis, a significant, parasite-based disease prevalent in tropical regions that is incubated and transmitted via foul water. The World Health Organization lists this disease as highly necessary to control. It kills from 11,000 to 200,000 people every year and infects about 210 million individuals in 76 countries. It takes a severe toll on undeveloped countries, causing about 1.7 million disability-adjusted life-years of burden annually. While the drug Praziquantel has been largely effective in treating the disease for more than 25 years, drug-resistant strains are of concern.
Researchers will now seek to identify human protein targets for possible new drug treatments. They will use the World Community Grid to screen up to 13 million compounds found in the zinc.docking.org database against 180 protein structures involved with the parasite. While this may not lead to new drugs immediately, it will greatly augment the study of this disease by scientists around the world.
IBM donated the server hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support.
"I can think of few endeavors more important than making sure people across the globe have ready access to clean water," said Stanley S. Litow, IBM Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, and President of IBM's Foundation. "I would even suggest that it's a basic human right, and a hallmark of sophisticated and compassionate societies everywhere. That's why IBM is so incredibly proud to help scientists harness the resources of World Community Grid to make strides in this vital arena."
In the last 100 years, global water usage has increased at twice the rate of population growth. The United Nations predicts that nearly half the world's population will experience critical water shortages by the year 2025.
Individuals can donate time on their computers for these and many other humanitarian projects by registering on www.worldcommunitygrid.org, and installing a free, unobtrusive and secure software program on their personal computers running either Linux, Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. When idle or between keystrokes on a lightweight task, the PCs request data from World Community Grid's server, which runs Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software, maintained at Berkeley University and supported by the National Science Foundation.
World Community Grid is also part of People for a Smarter Planet -- a dynamic and intelligent network of activities, conversations and discussions in which anyone can participate to help build a sustainable and smarter world. At People for a Smarter Planet (http://www.facebook.com/pages/People-for-a-Smarter-Planet/150508884976204), people can share ideas, engage and discuss, or participate in one of the growing list of projects like World Community Grid.
To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibms-world-community-grid-unveils-research-projects-on-three-continents-to-improve-water-quality-102184189.html
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Journalists and bloggers can also visit www.ibm.com/press/worldcommunitygrid for additional background information and supporting multimedia related to IBM's role in World Community Grid. Or they may visit http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/.
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Dana Point is a city located in southern Orange County, California. The population was 33,351 at the 2010 census. It has one of the few harbors along the Orange County coast, and with ready access via State Route 1, it is a popular local destination for surfing.
The city was named after the headland of Dana Point, which was in turn named after Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author of Two Years Before the Mast, which included a description of the area. Dana described the locale, including neighboring San Juan Capistrano, as “the only romantic spot on the coast”. Although Dana described the anchorage as poor, it is now a developed harbor and contains a replica of his ship, the Pilgrim. The Pilgrim is used as a classroom by the Ocean Institute, which is located at the harbor. This area is designated California Historical Landmark #189.
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Spring Storms
With so many of you I watched with dismay the news from Joplin, Missouri of yet another major storm causing life-taking tragedy. I ask that you pray for the people of Joplin as they begin the hard task of recovery. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) is responding with its usual speed and aid. With the host of events however, funds for UMCOR are extremely low. I encourage our churches to take a special offering for the UMCOR “Spring Storms” appeal. Bishop Robert Schnase of the Missouri Area has sent the following report. “Among those killed were several United Methodists, and every United Methodist Church in the area has members who have lost their homes. All our pastors and church staff are safe. We lost two church buildings, including St. Paul United Methodist Church (a large, strong, vibrant congregation with an average attendance of close to 1000), and we lost the District Superintendent’s Office. Several other churches and parsonages received more limited damage. The hospital and five of the seven schools in Joplin were nearly completely destroyed. “The Missouri Conference Disaster Response team has been active and effective from the earliest hours, and many of our churches have sent trained First Responder teams. Tom Hazlewood from UMCOR was on the ground in Joplin within 24 hours. Many of you have generously offered funds directly to the Missouri Conference and others have expressed your intention of supporting the UMCOR Spring Storms appeal. All of your gifts are appreciated. In addition many have expressed their active interest in sending VIM teams to the area. Please refrain from doing so during the immediate days ahead since only highly trained and professional teams are on-site at this time. However, we shall covet your help during the weeks and months to come. “The city of Joplin was named after Rev. Harris Joplin, an early Methodist preacher who settled there in 1839. For years, he hosted people in his home and led them in worship, prayer, and singing. His ministry was one of hospitality in the truest sense, and he used his own humble dwelling as a tool for ministry. As far as I know, the building he used no longer exists, but the church community he founded provided the seeds from which dozens of area congregations have sprouted. All of us who are Missouri United Methodists are to some degree the fruit of his ministry. “Tornadoes and hurricanes and floods and fires can take away our beloved and sacred places in a moment’s time, but the love of God that binds us to another is not nearly so vulnerable. God’s persistent and persevering love causes us to reach out to help a neighbor and to embrace strangers and to assist one another in the rebuilding of lives. The church is not the pile of lumber and bricks left after the destroying winds and rains; the church is the gathering of people standing above the rubble unified by the spirit of Christ to love and serve others. The church is the people counseling one another through unfathomable grief and loss. The church is people risking lives for their neighbors and opening their homes to strangers. The church is people across the state and nation and world praying and giving and preparing to offer their best and highest in service to help rebuild lives. The church is alive and vigorous and redeeming. It is grace in every gesture and love in every action. The church is the body of Christ doing the things Jesus did in Jesus’ name today. “Thanks to you, United Methodists will rebuild in Joplin. On behalf of others of our colleagues whose areas have been affected by tornados and floods, I strongly encourage you to lift up the UMCOR Spring Storms appeal. Funds at UMCOR are extraordinarily low right now, and this severely limits our capacity to act quickly and effectively during times of tragedy. Your help is appreciated. Yours in Christ, Robert Schnase, Missouri Conference”
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What may be the first confidence vote? Answers to key questions about the start of a new Parliament
Rachel Aiello Ottawa News Bureau Online Producer
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Published Thursday, November 28, 2019 6:25PM EST Last Updated Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:54AM EST
OTTAWA -- The 43rd Parliament begins today. The first day includes a lot of pomp but also a heavy dose of procedure. It will begin with the election of a House of Commons Speaker, followed by the government’s speech from the throne. How will that all work? And what happens after those two key moments pass?
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Here's a procedurally-condensed rundown of some of the key questions that surround the opening of a new Parliament.
How is the House of Commons Speaker determined?
The first thing MPs have to do at the start of a new Parliament is elect a Speaker of the House of Commons.
Since a rule change was made in 2015, this is now done by a secret and ranked ballot vote. This means the only thing that will be made public is the name of the winner, not how many ballots it took, or by how many votes they won.
All members of Parliament except for ministers and party leaders are eligible and automatically considered candidates for the role. If an MP doesn't want to be considered, they had to inform the House of Commons to remove their name from the list no later than 6 p.m. Wednesday, though there is still the ability for candidates to withdraw their name on the House of Commons floor on Thursday.
The dean of the House, aka the MP with the longest continuous service, will oversee the election. This will once again be Bloc Quebecois MP Louis Plamondon, who was first elected in 1984, making this his fourth time as the dean.
Before the vote each candidate has five minutes to make their case, then after a 30 minute break for any final lobbying, the voting begins.
MPs receive their ballots from a House clerk and then cast their votes behind the curtains. House officials will then count the votes and if no one candidate secures more than an absolute majority on the first ballot, then the candidate with the fewest is eliminated and the votes they received are then redistributed to the second choice on those ballots. This continues until one person receives more than half the votes.
Once the winner is named they will be invited to take the chair. Traditionally they are ushered up by the prime minister and Official Opposition leader and the new Speaker is to display some degree of ceremonial resistance to walk up, given the role in the past was one MPs were actually reluctant to take. The new Speaker will accept any congratulatory messages from members before suspending the House to head over to the Senate for the throne speech.
The deputy and assistant deputy speakers are named in subsequent days and generally are decided upon by consensus amongst the party leaders.
What's with MPs travelling between the House and Senate?
It's purely ceremonial.
On the first day of a new Parliament, MPs do this twice. They are first summoned briefly to be informed they need to elect a Speaker, and then afterwards to summon them to the Senate for the throne speech. This summoning happens by the Usher of the Black Rod -- a senior protocol officer in Parliament and personal messenger of the Governor General.
Historically these two trips to the Senate meant MPs walked down the hall in Centre Block from the House to the Senate. Now that they are located in different buildings, these processions are being done by Parliament Hill shuttle busses. According to House officials a condensed number of MPs will take part this time, and who will be included is being decided by each party's leadership. For the Liberals this pool is being limited to just the House leadership team, CTVNews.ca is told.
Once in the Senate chamber, MPs have to stay behind the brass bar to view the speech, while Senators and other dignitaries will be on the Senate floor to listen.
According to House officials who briefed reporters on the flow of the opening day, Ottawa police will be helping manage traffic to allow for this caravan of busses containing the House officials and MPs to travel from West Block to the Senate of Canada building.
The opening of this Parliament is the first time that the Speaker election and throne speech are happening on the same day since 1988, according to House officials. The throne speech is usually delivered by the Governor General, as the representative of the Queen, and is meant to highlight the government's priorities for the new Parliament, including the bills or policies it intends to introduce.
What will be the first test of confidence?
It all depends on timing and the way the government wants to orchestrate its agenda.
In general there are a few bills or motions that are typically considered confidence matters—votes that test a government’s confidence in the House of Commons—the throne speech, budget bills, and any supply bills like the estimates.
While it's thought that the first confidence vote to come up will be on the reply to the speech from the throne, the way the fiscal calendar falls means that the first actual "money vote," as they're called, could be on the supplementary estimates.
Should the government determine that it needs "supply" -- money to flow to get through to the fiscal year's end in this case -- they'll have to pass that supplementary estimates bill on or before Dec. 10, according to House officials. This also means that there needs to be an opposition day in the Commons on or before then. Typically these two matters will be dealt with on the same day, and could be the first real test of the Liberals' ability to garner support from the opposition parties, given they are 13 votes short of a majority.
What will be the first bill?
There has been some talk about what the Liberals' "first bill" of the new Parliament will be. Regardless of the topic, it'll actually be the second bill of the Parliament.
That's because the first bill, aka "C-1," is a pro-forma piece of legislation that is pre-determined. This bill is essentially the House affirming its right to consider any matter that it deems important, regardless of what's in the throne speech. It's always titled "the act respecting the administration of oaths of office." It never proceeds past first reading.
This makes Bill C-2 the government's actual first promise-specific piece of legislation. The Liberals have said they would look to advance another middle-class tax cut, but now with NAFTA ratification heating up, it's a possibility that could get tabled first. Either way, the earliest a bill other than C-1 could get tabled in the new Parliament is on the Monday following the opening of the new session, so Dec. 9.
Side note: while the debate on the throne speech can take up to six days, it's up to the government to decide when they are allotted or whether all six will be used, meaning they don’t have to be consecutive. This means that other bills can be advanced even if debate on the throne speech has not concluded.
Committees on the other hand, will likely not get rolling until January because the membership needs to be decided and the House Affairs Committee that'll do that has 10 days after the start of a session to make those selections.
And what about private members' bills?
It's possible private members' bills won't begin to be debated until late March or early April.
That's because there’s a whole process that unfolds to get that cycle rolling. First, there is a random draw at the start of the session that determines the order in which all MPs who are able to sponsor a private member’s bill will be allowed to bring their initiative forward. After the list is established -- called the order of precedence -- then MPs have some time to craft their bill or motion and table it.
The list is permanent and remains unchanged over the course of the Parliament but is grouped into chunks of 30, and within that smaller pool of MPs members can swap slots.
In 2015 private members' bills didn't start being debated until April, so House officials estimate it could take until around then again to get going. Until there are these bills to debate the extra hour allotted each day goes to the government.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in the House of Commons Monday January 28, 2019 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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› Travel Guides › Poros › Mythology
History | Mythology
The myth of Sfairos
Poros is composed of two smaller islands, connected via a canal: Kalavria and Sfairia. Sfairia owes its name to the fact that Sfairos, the son of Hermes and the charioteer of Pelops, also called Killas, was buried in this little island.
Pelops was the king of Achaia and is widely considered as the founder of the Olympic Games. Sfairos helped Pelops win the chariot race against Oinomaos, the king of Pisa, and so Pelops married the king’s daughter Ippodamia and later became the king of Pisa himself. However, according to the myth, Pelops killed Sfairos either right after the race, or when he tried to kiss Ippodamia, or because Ippodamia fell in love with Sfairos and when he turned her down, she lied to Pelops and accused Sfairos of rape. Visitors of the temple of Zeus in Olympia can admire Sfairos in the east pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia.
According to the myth, the famous Athenian hero Theseus who was Poseidon’s son and killed the notorious Minotaur, was born in Poros. Poros is believed to have been the island of Poseidon, a fact also supported by the finding of a glorious ancient temple devoted to Poseidon.
The unrequited love of Skyla for Minos
Skyla was the daughter of Nisos, the king of Megara island, who owed his strength to a lock of purple hair on his head. When Minos, the king of Crete, was trying to conquer Megara, Skyla fell in love with him and cut her father’s lock of purple hair. As a result, Nisos died and Megara was occupied by the Cretans. However, Minos decided he did not love Skyla and left Megara and got on the ship in order to return to Crete. Skyla swam and followed the Cretan ships until she was exhausted and died in the sea, in the place which is today called “Cape Skyllaio” or “Cape Skyli” in Poros.
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The Conference Years: Northwich Victoria
Remembering where we once were.
Northwich Victoria are said to be one of the oldest football clubs still in existence. Their presence was felt by Doncaster Rovers on no more than ten occasions between 1998 and 2003 as the sides regularly slugged it out in the Football Conference.
Despite being founder members of the English Second Division, The Vics have predominantly featured in the reaches of non-league football.
They first crossed paths with Doncaster Rovers in March 1999 when Ian Duerden’s hat-trick at The Drill Field saw off the hosts in a 3-1 win, which was duly followed just a month later by a 2-2 draw at Belle Vue when again Duerden netted.
The two sides were consigned to mid-table mediocrity the following year; emphasised by the fact that their inconsistency inevitably led them to take points off each other. The Vics went first (2-1) in August ’99 before Dino Maamria’s brace in front of less than 1900 at Belle Vue completed the home campaign for the temporary managerial duo of Dave Penney and Mark Atkins.
The 2000/01 season brought some notable names in the Northwich ranks to Rovers’ attention, namely former forward Adie Mike and future Premier League striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher but no more joy for Rovers who only picked up a point in a 1-1 draw before succumbing to a 2-0 home defeat.
The names kept coming for Rovers and Dave Penney’s men not only faced an old friend in Mark Barnard, but a new one in Gregg Blundell, who would go on to help the South Yorkshire side to back to back promotions.
Following a gripping 3-2 win for Rovers in Cheshire, the sides came back in March ’02 to fight out a 2-2 draw. Blundell got the visitors off to a flyer within the opening 60 seconds before Paul Barnes responded. Northwich retook the lead, only for Francis Tierney to secure a point. All three players proved instrumental in Rovers’ promotion push just twelve months later.
Rovers won in their final visit to Northwich, where the ‘hosts’ groundshared with Witton Albion which was to prove to be the start of The Vics nomadic existence.
Although Rovers lost the return at Belle Vue, with Blundell on the winning side, he would go on to end the season with a promotion medal around his neck after his 19 goals persuaded Dave Penney to part with £25,000.
The cash will have come in handy to the club who have, regrettably, been on a downward spiral since. Two administrations in five years and many months spent in some doubt as to just where they would be playing and who against, eventually led the club to an all time low – playing in front of just 86 spectators in a division below their local rivals Witton.
Former Stockport and Peterborough boss Jim Gannon remains at the helm of the 9th tier club, who play in Flixton, Greater Manchester – an hour away and have even seen a protest club formed by the Supporters Club take place.
*Winger Francis Tierney looks to rush past his marker in the 2-1 win at Witton Albion against Northwich Victoria in the Football Conference on 31st August 2002. By the end of the season, he would become a Rovers legend*
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Is 'Zombie House Flipping' the Real Deal? A Lot of People Think It's Fake
By Mustafa Gatollari
It's no secret that reality TV shows aren't always real. There are some programs that pride themselves on being as authentic as possible, like my own show (look at me tooting my own horn), and while lots of reality series edit for continuity and to string together a clear narrative, there are others that straight up stage things.
But is Zombie House Flipping one of those shows that fake situations for the sake of good TV?
"Fans" have some brutal things to say about Zombie House Flipping.
There are certainly a number of fans who think so. The IMDB user reviews of the program are particularly brutal.
One user, jasinned wrote:
"Worth watching if you want to be irritated" and gave them a 1/10: "Over-acted by terrible annoying so-called personalities. Of course, it's staged, there's always a water leak, one would think before gutting the inside of a house that you'd turn the water main off, but for some reason, they always wait till they crack a pipe to do that. Duke (The Designer) and Keith (The Builder) would have to be the two most irritating people on the show, however, the other two morons aren't far off. The show just doesn't work, the cast continuously talks over one another and bickers, there's no chemistry."
There was a particular incident that a lot of viewers of the show pointed to as well, which is the gator in the pool.
User alisaecrocker writes:
"Completely staged. It's amazing how the pool had about an inch of water in the shallow end until the gator showed up and all of a sudden it has several inches of water. BTW, gators do not hiss without provocation. There had to be someone off-camera aggravating it. Also, the guy that said he grew up in Florida should know that you never feed a gator. It makes them dangerous and they come back! So stupid."
Source: fyi
Alisae went on to say that they were also upset with the way the home was remodeled, saying that the flippers themselves ended up making the place "cookie-cutter" instead of keeping some of its charm intact:
"Then they took all the character out of the house, making it "upscale." Making it cookie cutter is what really happened. They took out a really interesting backsplash (and very nice black granite) and replaced it with the same glass backsplash you see everywhere. They then removed all the authentic Florida stone and installed imported stone. Supposedly this house was unoccupied for a year before being worked on, i.e. a "zombie." The shower was full of shampoos and there were rugs on the floor. It certainly looked lived in to me."
Just because the show has some critics, however, doesn't necessarily mean that it's staged, but the general consensus of everyone who watches it says that the drama on camera is fake: "I find it moderately intriguing because it's local, but the fake drama is terrible."
Nepatriots1776 thinks that the "network gods demand" the "lame fake drama" and myshiningeyes says "It’s odd how they always seem to find an alligator on every single property."
So is Zombie House Flipping fake?
Does all of this criticism mean that Zombie House Flipping is necessarily fake? Well, the homes that they renovate aren't. I was on an episode of Renovation Realities where I helped my boy, Baha, fix up a kitchen in a home he purchased in Newton, N.J. And that was all real. We had a lovely camera crew come in, and there wasn't an ounce of fake drama that occurred.
Then again, we didn't have any "stars" on the show or anything — we just had a bunch of people come in who watched us do our work. I took a couple of days off of work, and left early on another, and got to work helping him set tile and move out a bunch of trash and debris from his place. There were no personalities that did it: only us.
It could very well be a different dynamic for this show, however.
With the name "Zombie" in the title, it seems like there is some room, or at least a push, to make whatever's captured on camera seem a bit more sensationalized than it is. Investfourmore has some qualms about the valuation numbers that they put on the homes during the episodes as well. They pointed to one example that doesn't take into consideration the other costs that are associated with home renovation.
In this particular instance, the writer of this article says that there's a solid $23,000 that wasn't factored into the cost of fixing the house up. They also pointed out a few occurrences that seemed a bit off-kilter — in other, words, the author, who knows a lot about home renovations, thinks that the show does stage quite a few things.
So what do you think? Have you seen a few episodes that made you go, "Well, that can't be real!" Or have you not seen the program and are more intrigued to check it out now?
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By Mark Segal
The Hamptons Doc Fest is celebrating spring with documentaries about farming, jazz, and journalists, each of which will be followed by a discussion. The Spring Docs series will kick off with two screenings on Sunday at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.
“The Biggest Little Farm” is the story of John and Molly Chester’s response to being evicted from their small Los Angeles apartment because of the barking of their dog. Their solution: the purchase of 200 acres of barren land located 40 miles north of Los Angeles.
The film, shot and directed by Mr. Chester, chronicles eight years of hard work and abundant idealism as the couple attempts to create a biodiverse utopia that produces nutrient-dense foods while providing a home for pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, horses, highland cattle, and one brown Swiss dairy cow.
The 1 p.m. screening will be followed by a talk with Scott Chaskey, a poet and farmer from Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, and Geoffrey Drummond, executive director of the Stony Brook Southampton Food Lab. Tickets are $15.
Stanley Nelson’s new film “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,” which will be shown Sunday at 4 p.m., uses archival photos and home movies shot by Davis and his colleagues, his manuscripts, and his original paintings to explore the man behind the music.
Studio outtakes and interviews with such notable musicians as Jimmy Cobb, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana, and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers enhance the archival materials, many of which have never before been seen. Ed German, host of “The Urban Jazz Experience” on WPPB 88.3 FM, will discuss the film after the screening. Tickets are $15.
The series will conclude on May 5 at 5 p.m. at the Southampton Arts Center with “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” Steve McCarthy’s documentary about the intersecting lives and five-decade careers of two of New York City’s most iconic journalists, Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill.
The film draws from rare archival footage, family archives, and interviews with both columnists as well as major figures on the New York and national scene. It also follows them to the South Fork, where as renters they found the peace and solitude to write their novels.
The film will be followed by a conversation among Patrick Breslin, Jimmy’s son, Brendan O’Reilly, a journalist and board member of the Press Club of Long Island, and Mr. McCarthy. Tickets are $10, $7 for SAC members..
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Sony unveils tablets to rival the iPad
Written by staff and wire services reports
Sony's S1 and S2 tablets
Sony is planning an Android-based tablet computer with a touch panel similar to Apple’s iPad, scheduled for release later this year, that the Japanese manufacturer promises will make the best of its gadgetry and entertainment strengths.
The product—code-named S1, and shown April 26 in Tokyo—will come with a 9.4-inch display for enjoying online content, such as movies, music, video games, and electronic books, and for online connections, including eMail and social networking. It will be compatible with both 3G and 4G networks.
Sony, which boasts electronics as well as entertainment divisions, also showed the S2, a smaller mobile device with two 5.5-inch displays that can be folded like a book.
The company did not divulge prices. Sony Corp. Senior Vice President Kunimasa Suzuki said the products would go on sale worldwide around September. Both run Google’s Android 3.0 operating system, nicknamed “Honeycomb.”
More news about tablets for education:
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Mobile learning: Not just laptops any more
Kineo: Like an iPad, but made for students
New devices allow for mobile wireless broadband
Electronics show to bring fiercer competition to iPad
The announcement of Sony’s key net-linking offerings comes as it tries to fix the outage of its PlayStation Network, which offers games and music online.
It is unclear when that network will start running again. Sony has blamed the problem on an “external intrusion” and has acknowledged it would have to rebuild its system to add security measures and strengthen its infrastructure.
Suzuki said both of the latest tablets feature Sony’s “saku saku,” or nifty, technology that allows for smooth and quick access to online content and for getting browsers working almost instantly after a touch.
Six steps for a successful online summer school
Written by eSchool News Contributor
The right online learning program can help students recover credits and expand learning.
Remediate or retain? Surprisingly, this is still a valid question for some principals and districts, despite the body of research against retention (1) and the fact that Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is used widely to gauge the success of any given district. Studies and opinions aside, for some students, the education process requires more than the allotted time frame of 180 days, or eight and a half months. Educators need other options.
Luckily for learners and learning leaders alike, available options are affordable and flexible enough to enable successful interventions for many kinds of learners and many different learning goals. One such option is online learning.
Online learning is uniquely poised to address a wide array of intervention strategies within the three main areas of focus for intervention programs: diagnostic practices, targeted interventions with adult advocates and academic support, and school-wide interventions that include personalizing the learning environment (2). It can be an effective, affordable means of getting lagging learners back on track with their classmates in the four- to six-week space of a summer program. There are six steps district learning leaders can follow to create a successful summer program using 21st century solutions to meet their challenges.
Before addressing the six steps to summer school program implementation, a district must secure approval and funding, as well as buy-in from key players.
Securing approval and funding occurs concurrently. Summer program planners must secure state approval, if applicable. They must determine what the process is and what the state requirements are for online programs, ensure the state is willing to use the chosen program materials, and make sure to factor in time for what could be a lengthy process. The district must secure local approval, which often is a simple process that can occur at a board meeting.
3D printers give engineering classes a boost
Written by Laura Ascione
3D printers help students turn designs such as this one into actual models.
As technology transforms learning in classrooms across the nation, 3D printing, in which three dimensional objects are created through a system that successively layers materials on top one another, is taking hold in classrooms–and is helping to attract more students to technology-rich fields such as engineering.
Modern design uses a technology called CAD, which stands for computer-aided design, to represent 3D objects in a digital file. Today’s CAD software lets users create and draw objects in 3D, and those designs are brought to life via 3D printers.
Companies that manufacture 3D printers for education include Z Corporation, Dimension Printers (a Stratasys brand), and 3D Systems Corp.
A handful of different approaches can create 3D printed objects. One method, developed by 3D printing manufacturer Stratasys, is called fused deposition modeling (FDM). FDM uses a polymer that is heated and deposited by a nozzle, in separate layers, into a pre-made model using an STL file.
Digital light processing (DLP) exposes a liquid polymer to light from a DLP projector, which causes the liquid polymer to harden as a “build plate” shapes the layers. Z Corporation’s ZBuilder Ultra uses this type of system.
Another method uses a printer to spread a thin layer of powder, which is then hardened by a laser to form the bottom layer of the 3D design. Another layer of powder is spread on top of that layer, hardened, and connected to the first layer. This process repeats until the entire model is complete.
District future-proofs for more capacity, safety
The district will no longer need to continue purchasing new servers one-by-one.
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Castro Valley Unified School District’s (CVUSD) new synchronized system allows for a centralized database that is maintained and shared across the district, representing a transition away from ISAM to a client/server model (SQL server) with a variety of front ends.
This requires a robust and high performance infrastructure along with a high speed WAN to be successful.
The district is a 12-school suburban district with two high schools and two middle schools, as well as elementary and special-education campuses. With an eye for incorporating cutting-edge technology into its IT infrastructure, CVUSD was an early adopter of wireless WAN technology, as well as distributed and synchronized student information systems (SIS). Legacy ISAM student information systems involve multiple databases distributed across their districts, with each school maintaining its own data set. Periodically, the data sets would be combined to create a snapshot of the total student population.
Already, CVUSD has centralized most of its critical servers at the district office.
Applications running on the servers include student information systems, state reporting services, library inventory and management, video recording, web servers, content management systems, network monitoring, and eMail and firewall services. Some of these services are virtualized, but the district still relies on several “one-server to one-service” installations.
The district also plans to implement several new technology initiatives, including a food services system and eMail archiving. An important goal in 2010 was to adopt a new student information system based on a SQL server.
A student information system is the life blood of any public school district because it handles all student enrollment and compliance with state regulations. It also maintains accurate average daily attendance figures which are essential for securing state funding for daily operations.
“As we move toward a more centralized system to support our technology initiatives and expand our web site, we have an ever-increasing need for additional capacity,” said Bruce Gidlund, director of technology for CVUSD. “We knew we’d need a solution that would easily facilitate restoration if something went wrong–it had to be bulletproof.”
Working with Office Information Systems, the school district chose RELDATA to support its expanding IT infrastructure, new technology initiatives, and storage environment which is expected to triple in three to five years.
Poll: Youth without degrees at end of job line
Almost half say getting real-world experience before going through more school was a key factor in their decision.
The nation’s economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less. Only about a third are working full-time, compared with two-thirds of recent college grads, according to an Associated Press-Viacom poll.
Most say money was a major reason they bypassed college, and the vast majority aspire to more education someday.
Christopher Cadaret’s been fixing TVs and stereos for fun since he was 10 years old and thinks he’d like to work in electronics or auto repair. But four months after he dropped out of high school, he hasn’t found any kind of job.
He’s tried a local electronics company, the hardware store, the dollar store, the minimart. Nothing.
“I’m seeking work, anything that is put in front of me,” said Cadaret, 18, who lives with his father in Burkesville, Ky., a small town amid the hills and farmland along the Tennessee border. Without that first toehold on work, his dream of earning enough to save up for technical training seems far away.
Four in 10 of those surveyed whose education stopped at high school are unemployed. Less than a quarter have part-time jobs, the poll of 18- to 24-year-olds found.
The Labor Department’s figures document how much harder it’s become for these young adults to find a job since the recession that began late in 2007. The unemployment rate has been over 20 percent each March for the past three years for high school graduates ages 16-24 who have no college education. That’s up from 10 percent in March 2007 and 14.5 percent a year later.
Universities told not to edit their Wikipedia entries
Written by Denny Carter
Wikipedia records 150 edits every minute.
Campus communications officials shouldn’t aggressively monitor and change their university’s Wikipedia page unless the entry has been “vandalized” by another editor, a Wikipedia spokeswoman said during a recent discussion on how educators are using the vast online encyclopedia.
During a webcast on Blog Talk Radio March 28, LiAnna Davis, a communications associate for Wikipedia – the internet’s fifth most visited website — said college representatives should only edit their school’s entry if they spot an incorrect number or date, for example, and the edit should always be cited to a “reliable source.”
No change should be made, Davis said, until the college employee creates an account that acknowledges he or she works for the campus.
Read the full story on eCampus News
Obama: STEM education a must-have
Student engagement in STEM education is necessary for the nation's success.
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is of the utmost importance to all students and is critical to U.S. competitiveness, said President Obama at an April 20 town hall event held on Facebook’s Palo Alto, Calif. campus.
“My name is Barack Obama, and I’m the guy who got Mark to wear a jacket and tie,” Obama said as he introduced himself. He referred to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, who is known for his casual workplace attire.
Obama was the first sitting head of state to visit Facebook’s brick-and-mortar home and the latest big-name visitor to the tech-savvy region in Northern California that gave rise to social media and the personal computer.
Questions came from pre-screened online submissions or hand-picked Facebook employees, and ranged in topic from the national debt and immigration to education and health care.
“It used to be that the argument around education always revolved around the left saying we just need more money, and the right saying we should just blow up the system because public schools aren’t doing a good job,” Obama said, as the conversation turned to education. “And what you’re now seeing is people recognizing we need both money and reform. It’s not an either-or proposition; it’s a both-and proposition.”
Emphasizing STEM education—especially to girls and minority students–is one of the most important efforts the U.S. can make if it hopes to produce college- and career-ready students, Obama said.
Spring Station Middle School owes its success to ‘trying different things’
Written by eSchool News Staff
Spring Station Middle School's dedication to learning with technology made it the first "eSchool of the Month."
The first institution to be highlighted in our brand-new “eSchool of the Month” series is Spring Station Middle School (SSMS) in Tennessee’s Williamson County Schools. SSMS serves about 700 students in grades 6-8 and “seeks to be a leader in student integration of ed tech,” according to Assistant Principal Timothy Drinkwine.
Here, Drinkwine shares the school’s secrets to success. (SSMS will be featured in the May print edition of eSchool News. To nominate your own school or district for this award, go to http://www.eschoolnews.com/school-of-the-month.)
How does your school use technology to advance student learning?
Each and every classroom in the school building has a Dell teacher laptop and laptop dock, a Promethean ActivBoard, an ELMO document camera, and a Dell projector. Each grade level has Flip handheld video cameras and mobile computer labs on carts.
Teachers are able to move around the classroom with their mobile laptops, solicit student participation in manipulating the Promethean ActivBoard, display student work on the ELMO document camera, as well as scan student work and save it for later presentations by displaying it via the projector. All teachers incorporate Google Apps and Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Excel, Word, Publisher, etc.) into their classes. All teachers have been exposed and trained to integrate Microsoft Photo Story, Prezi (a presentation editor), and online message boards to solicit student participation in the learning process.
Software programs such as Wilson Reading, Gaggle, and Study Island are used for various purposes to increase student learning and achievement. Math teachers use Interwrite tablets, teacher teams use clickers, and student-owned iPods are used in classrooms.
Every teacher has his or her own SharePoint site to communicate, post, and cite any information for students and parents.
Standards-based lessons help students design their own video games
Written by Jeff Festa
Building on research that suggests video-game design can be a significant learning tool, especially to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills in the classroom, the nonprofit Alliance for Young Authors & Writers, Scholastic Inc., and the AMD Foundation have launched a free online platform for educators and parents. Called Level Up!, the new website offers game-building resources and curriculum materials for middle and high school students, keeping them engaged and motivated while they learn 21st-century skills such as strategic thinking, problem solving, team building, planning, and execution. Level Up! Provides a series of standards-based lessons that give students the knowledge and tools to design their own video games, and after students have completed their games, they are encouraged to submit these to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for a chance to win scholarships and prizes. Two versions of the curriculum are available: One for beginner to intermediate-level students, and one for intermediate to advanced-level students. http://www.scholastic.com/createvideogames
Google tablets expected to challenge iPad
Android-based tablets will make up 39 percent of the market in 2015, Gartner predicts.
Apple’s iPad will maintain tablet supremacy for the next four years, but higher education soon could see an influx of tablets that operate with Google’s operating system (OS) during the same period, according to an April 11 report from IT research company Gartner.
After changing the tablet market the way the Apple iPhone “reinvented” the smart-phone market, the iPad and its iOS—Apple’s operating system—account for almost 70 percent of media tablets, while Android-based tablets account for 20 percent of the market, according to Gartner.
Google’s Android OS, however, will see steady growth over the next four years. By 2015, Google will own 39 percent of the tablet market, compared to the iPad’s 47 percent, Gartner predicts.
Growth of the Android OS will be “capped,” according to Gartner, because Google officials decided not to open its OS—known as Honeycomb—to third parties, meaning the price of Android tablets will decline more slowly than the iPad.
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Principles of Medical Biology
Biological Psychiatry, Volume 14
Editors: Edward Bittar
Imprint: Elsevier Science
Published Date: 27th December 1999
View all volumes in this series: Principles of Medical Biology
Contents. List of Contributors. Preface (E.E. Bittar and N. Bittar). Consciousness (T.W. Picton and D.T. Stuss). Emotional Circuits of the Mammalian Brain: Implications for Biological Psychiatry (J. Panksepp). The Sexual Brain (W. Byne and E. Kemmether). The Biology of Personality (R.T. Mulder). The Biology of Aggression (P.F. Brain). Psychological Aspects of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity (E. Ur). Stress and the Immune System (C.M. Pariante and A.H. Miller). Fear and Anxiety Mechanisms of the Brain: Clinical Implications (J. Panksepp). Biological Aspects of Depression (B.E. Leonard). Psychobiology of Suicidal Behavior (K.M. Malone). Bipolar Disorder (J.C.Y. Chou and R. Cancro). The Biological Basis of Schizophrenia (P. Winn). Heterogeneity of Schizophrenia: Diagnostic and Etiological Approaches (M.T. Tsuang, M.J. Lyons, and R. Toomey). Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: General Principles (C.E. Kaplan and A. Thompson). Major Disorders in Child Psychiatry (C.E. Kaplan and A. Thompson). Child Sexual Abuse (M. Wiseman and D. Glaser). Hereditary and Acquired Mental Retardation (J. Stern). Autism (C. Gillberg). Personality Disorders (P. Tyrer and K. Evans). Alcoholism, Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependence (D.H. Overstreet and A.B. Kampov-Polevoy). Homelessness and Mental Illness (J. Scott). Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa (D.S. Goldbloom). Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Drugs (S.C. Cheetham and D.J. Heal). Lithium Use in Clinical Practice (D.L. Dunner and J.J. Neumaier). Antipsychotic Drugs (B.K. Colasanti). Introduction to Electroconvulsive Therapy (A.P. Zis). Index.
It is now widely recognised that biological psychiatry is rapidly coming into its own. For over the last three decades dramatic advances in this young discipline have been made, all of which attest to the staying power of the experimental method. Those who made this revolution in knowledge happen are a breed of investigators availing themselves of the tools of molecular biology, pharmacology, genetics, and perhaps, above all, the technology of neuroimaging. The introduction of the interdisciplinary method of approach to the study of psychopathology had made it very clear that neuroimaging, as a set of techniques, is unique in that it is gradually providing us with evidence supporting Kraepelin's original view that mental illness is closely associated with abnormal changes in the brain. Broadly speaking, there are presently two structural techniques in neuroimaging - computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - and three functional techniques - single photon emission tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Through PET technology, for example, we have learned that, in early brain development, the primitive areas, mostly the brain stem and thalamus, are the first to show high activity in an infant. This is followed by the development of cortical areas by year one. Between the ages of four to 10, the cortex is almost twice as active in the child as in the adult. This information alerts us to what might happen in the way of trauma in abused children, especially those under the age of three. Child abuse increases the risk of physical changes, not only in the stress systems, but also in brain development (Glaser and Weissman). In addition to the difficult problem of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we have to take into account the possibility of other types of mental illness as the consequences of child abuse. These include depression, eating disorders, and drug and alcohol problems. The combination of PET and fMRI represents a more remarkable example of the power of neuroimaging since the two have made it feasible to map accurately in vitro identifiable cortical fields, or networks. In a landmark NIH investigation of human cortical reorganization (plasticity), persuasive evidence was brought forward showing that the process of learning as a motor task involves a specific network of neurons. These neurons occur in the cortical field that is responsible for that particular task. Such findings are important partly because they provide evidence supporting the current notion that labor in the cortex is divided among ensembles of specialized neurons that cooperate in the performance of complex tasks. Cooperation, then, in this, sense implies crosstalk among ensembles and that signals are both processed and retransmitted to neighbouring ensembles. To understand the workings of these ensembles, much better spatial and temporal resolution in functional brain mapping is required. This can be achieved with an NMR instrument whose magnet is 4.1 Tesla or more.
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Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, USA
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TANAKH > Parashah > Introduction to Parashat HaShavua > Bereishit > Noach > The Rainbow
Rav Michael Hattin
PARASHAT NOACH
By Rav Michael Hattin
The idyllic state of Eden is short-lived. Adam and Chava soon abrogate God's straightforward command and are banished from the lush and fertile garden. Kayin their firstborn, filled with jealous rage over God's rejection of his offering of the fruits of mediocrity, murders his own brother Hevel and is himself then driven into exile east of Eden. Enosh, Adam's grandson, presides over humanity's first flirtation with corrosive idolatry, and by the conclusion of last week's Parasha, the stage is set for the cleansing Flood to wash away the ubiquitous stain of man's insufferable immorality. One man and his family are preserved: righteous Noach, his wife, his sons and their wives. Bidden by compassionate God to build an ark of gigantic proportions, he dutifully completes the protracted project, as all terrestrial species under the heavens timidly begin to gather at its titanic portal. With the approach of the black storm clouds, the passengers – human and otherwise – board. As Noach slowly closes the hatch and seals it tight, he casts one final, plaintive glance at the verdant but violent landscape. For the denizens of the dank and dusky ark, there will be no turning back.
For just over a year, the floodwaters cover the earth, obliterating any and all evidence of man's wrongdoing. The ark, tossed by colossal swells, bobs up and down uncertainly, its sturdy timbers – Noach's cautious handiwork – groaning but holding firm. Finally, with an unsettling grinding noise that sends the creatures momentarily scrambling for cover, the ark touches down upon the rocky slopes of Mount Ararat. Though time now passes interminably, it will be a few more months before it is possible to disembark. At last, with bright sunlight streaming down through an opening in the dense cloud cover, Noach flings open the hatch. Creatures of every sort tentatively descend to the firm, black and rock-strewn earth, lingering only briefly under the shadow of the ark's massive eaves before bounding away to replenish the decimated planet.
LEAVING THE ARK AND RECEIVING GOD'S SIGN
Noach offers sacrifices of thanksgiving, and God accepts them, solemnly pledging never to again bring floodwaters upon the earth to obliterate all life. The covenant with humanity is not one-sided however, for man is called upon in turn to fulfill the provisions of the so-called seven Noachide principals, a brief series of basic moral and ethical laws that are sensibly predicated upon the acknowledgement of God's transcendence and authority. Finally, before Noach and his children turn to the more mundane task of rebuilding, God seals His covenant with a heavenly sign:
The Lord said to Noach and to his sons with him: As for Me, behold I will establish My covenant with you and with your descendents after you, and with all living things that are with you, bird, beast and all living creatures of the earth, all that have disembarked from the ark , all living things upon the earth. I will establish My covenant with you so that all flesh will no more perish by floodwaters, for there will no more be a flood to obliterate the world. The Lord said: this is the sign of the covenant that I establish between Me and you and all living things that are with you, for evermore. I have placed My rainbow in the cloud, and it will serve as the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. When I bring heavy clouds upon the earth, then the rainbow will be visible in the clouds. I will remember My covenant that is between Me and you and all living flesh, and the waters will no longer be a flood to destroy all life. The rainbow will appear in the cloud and I will see it and remember the eternal covenant between the Lord and between all living things, all flesh that is upon the earth. The Lord said to Noach: this is the sign of the covenant that I establish between Myself and all flesh that is upon the earth! (Bereishit 9:8-17).
AN UNUSUAL DEPARTURE
The above passage, its seeming repetitiveness intended as emphasis, sets out the covenant that God establishes between Himself and all life. In an unusual departure, God not only extends His word (could anything be more trustworthy and reliable?), but then reinforces His word with a tangible and concrete sign. The text does not indicate whether Noach and his family experienced misgivings concerning God's initial oath, doubts that had to be overcome by the sign of the rainbow. Certainly the opinion is expressed in the early Rabbinic sources that Noach's faith was somewhat tenuous. Did he not, says Rashi (11th century, France), hesitate to enter the ark until the rising floodwaters forced him to do so? (see his commentary to 7:7).
Then again, perhaps God's intent was no more than to reassure a remnant of humanity so shaken to the core by the experience of the Flood that any heavy cloud cover might unsettle them mightily, lest it be a harbinger of something much more ominous. Therefore, He set their minds at ease (and ours as well) by providing not only His word but also the substantial sign of the rainbow that frequently accompanies a storm.
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RAINBOW
For the most part, the commentaries are interested in other questions, the chief one among them whether the rainbow makes its first appearance in this post-diluvial encounter between God and Noach, or whether it had in fact been sighted earlier in human history but carried no covenantal associations until now. The straightforward reading seemingly suggests the former – "The Lord said: this is the sign of the covenant that I establish between Me and you and all living things that are with you, for evermore. I have placed My rainbow in the cloud, and it will serve as the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth." As the Ramban (13th century, Spain) explains:
The implication of the text referring to "this sign" is that there had never before been a rainbow in the clouds since the time of creation. Now God created something entirely new, to provide a rainbow in the heavens at the time of rainfall…
The Ramban, however, is quick to point out the difficulties that are raised by such an approach:
As for us, we have no choice but to accept the opinion of the Greeks who maintain that the rainbow is an entirely natural phenomenon caused by the sun's rays striking the moist air after a rainfall. Any vessel of water that is placed in the sunlight will also produce a rainbow-like effect.
In other words, says the Ramban, the rainbow effect is nothing miraculous that requires a special and new act of creation. Whenever the proper conditions exist for its formation, it will be visible. White light, any student of elementary science will explain, is actually composed of a number of colors. When such light passes through a refractive medium such as water or glass, its rays are bent to effectively separate into constituent hues as a function of their wavelength. Thus, how could the rainbow not have been visible prior to the Flood? Surely precipitation fell upon the earth from time immemorial, and a rainbow would have been visible! Unwilling to unnecessarily surrender what seems reasonable for what requires adducing miraculous intervention, the Ramban therefore concludes that the rainbow had in fact been a feature of the primordial skyscape as well, but only now does the sign take on special significance:
The text states "I have placed My rainbow in the cloud" (i.e. in the past) and not "I place My rainbow in the cloud" (i.e. in the present), as for instance it says concerning the covenant that "this is the sign of the covenant that I establish." The term "My rainbow" implies that it had existed earlier. Therefore, we explain the verses to mean that the rainbow that I placed in the clouds from the time of creation shall from this day forward constitute the sign of the covenant between Me and you, for whenI shall see it I will recall that a covenant of peace exits between Me and you…(commentary to 9:12-17).
RECONSIDERING VERSES
What is most striking about the Ramban's formulation is that he is not averse to reexamining the reading of a Biblical verse if necessity requires it, even if that necessity be introduced by the proverbial Greeks themselves! The straightforward reading may imply one thing, but where reason may conflict with such a reading, then the text must be considered more carefully. It cannot be, he seems to argue, that the Torah would demand of us to believe that which is known to conflict with empirical evidence. But rather than throwing up his hands in a fit of exasperation, as if to say "we cannot understand this verse adequately but we nonetheless accept it as is!", the Ramban goes on to REINTERPRET the text in order to reflect the findings of natural science. Unfortunately, he does not provide the principle here enunciated with any exegetical parameters. Could not the Ramban's words be easily and dangerously misconstrued as license to reinterpret other "unreasonable" verses, as demanded by any malevolent or capricious whim that can easily muster any number of convenient new findings for support?
Of course, the most significant parameter may be provided by the context itself: here we deal with a section of narrative and not with law, with the interpretation of an event and not with ritual or ethical observance, with understanding part of a story and not with anything that could be even remotely regarded as possessing legal consequence. In other words, there are no mitzvot of the Torah that hinge directly or otherwise upon the interpretation of this passage.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
It is of more than passing interest that the Ramban employs a similar interpretive freedom in this very Parasha. Concerning the thorny issue of the chronology of the Flood, he parts ways with the opinion of Rashi who backs himself into an interpretive corner with his assertion that the forty days of rainfall are not to be included in what the Torah later describes as the "one hundred and fifty days" after which the floodwaters begin to recede (see 7:24-8:14). In so doing, Rashi unleashes a chain of difficulties that ask us to understand the terms "seventh month" and "tenth month" in a most convoluted fashion. In contrast, Ramban maintains that the forty days of rainfall are to be calculated as part of the one hundred and fifty days of rising floodwaters, an approach that greatly simplifies the chronology of the entire passage. But in so doing, Ramban not only rejects Rashi's interpretation, but also the Rabbinic bedrock of the Seder 'Olam Rabbah upon which it is based!
Undaunted, Ramban sets out on his own path, but not without first introducing his interpretation with the following telling words: "In some places Rashi himself takes issue with Aggadic midrashim and exerts himself in order to explain the straightforward meaning of the text. His example thus gives us license to do likewise, for there are seventy facets of Torah interpretation, and many midrashic sources preserve differences of interpretation between our Sages" (commentary to Bereishit 8:4). This presumably, is the qualification that we earlier sought, for it is clear from this passage as well that Ramban confines the discussion to "Aggadic midrashim" that have no bearing whatsoever upon the 613 mitzvot, their interpretation or their application.
We often make the mistake of believing that the Torah is a book of science or history or whatever other discipline we are absolutely sure it contains in perfect measure. But it is not. The Torah is a book of guidance and instruction, the document by which we come to know God and respect man, serve Him while neglecting neither His own beloved creations nor the precious soul with which He endowed us. Any scientific or historical material that the Torah contains is therefore secondary to its didactic message or legal content. But by the same token, the Torah cannot negate objective truth, as if what is scientifically or historically unassailable is unreliable or else irrelevant. "God's seal is truth" say the Sages, and His Torah must reflect the very truth that characterizes Him.
The Ramban was no doubt aware of this inherent tension when he considered the phenomenon of the rainbow. Clearly, when exactly in the history of the world the rainbow came into being is not the main point of the narrative. What is truly important in this passage is that God cares and is concerned, that He extends to us the eternal sign of His covenant in order to indicate that He will not cease to believe in us even when our collective conduct leaves much to be desired. But at the same time, the verses, all of them, must be explained, and it is our holy task to ponder their meaning. We must not, however, impose an explanation that flies in the face of either what is reasonable or else what is known. Fortunately, as the Ramban so deftly demonstrates, the Divine text of the Torah is profound enough to allow us to read and to understand its narratives in more than one way. And as we do so, we would do well to remember the important lessons provided by the sign of the rainbow.
For further study: see the comments of the Ibn Ezra on 9:14 who effects an uneasy compromise by declaring that although the rainbow is a natural and predictable phenomenon, it was not visible in the storm cloud before the events of our Parasha. This is because the conditions necessary for its formation – bright sunlight – were "withheld" by God until now! Obviously, the Ramban disagrees with Ibn Ezra's rather forced formulation.
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Parashat Shemini – Echoes of Tragedy
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China closes NPC with warning to US
By Euronews with Reuters, Xinhua • last updated: 15/03/2017
China’s premier has pushed for trade talks with the US as the annual session of the National People’s Congress came to a close in Beijing.
Li Keqiang said China wanted the two countries to “continue to move forward in a positive direction,” regardless of any bumps in the road.
It's important for China, U.S. to uphold strategic interests, sit down to talk to each other https://t.co/df72enxJy1https://t.co/QvPilzd6o5pic.twitter.com/qZbqwXs77C
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) March 15, 2017
He warned foreign companies stand to lose the most from any dispute between the world’s two biggest economies.
Reports suggest China’s President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump will meet in Florida in April.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to visit China this weekend (March 18-19) to discuss bilateral ties, Chinese news agency Xinhua reports.
U.S. Secretary of State to visit China at weekend,discussing bilateral ties, regional,int'l issues of common concern https://t.co/ucatjlt19Epic.twitter.com/vvrr2g40lF
They have expressed differing views on a number of key issues including trade, such as the ongoing territorial disputes in the South China Sea and North Korea’s nuclear tests. Washington is a key ally of South Korea, while China is one of the few countries with which Pyongyang has good diplomatic relations.
“Tensions may lead to conflict which will only bring harm to all the parties involved. So what we hope is that all the parties concerned will work together to de-escalate the situation, get issues back on the track of dialogue and work together to find proper solutions. It is just common sense that no one wants to see chaos on their doorstep,” said Li.
Trump has previously labelled Beijing an “enemy” of the US and, during the presidential election campaign, threatened to label the Asian country a currency manipulator and to impose large tariffs on imports of Chinese goods.
He has not taken such steps, yet, but the US Treasury is due to release its bi-yearly currency report in April.
Airline passengers travelling from China screened for new coronavirus
Watch live: Hong Kong begins 2020 with massive pro-democracy protest
Chinese scientist sentenced to three years in jail for gene-editing human embryos
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NEHRU
KHAJURAHO GROUP OF MONUMENTS
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Dachigam National Park
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Great Himalayan National Park
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Nagarjunsagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve
Nandankanan Zoological Park
Pabha Sanctuary
Pakhui Wildlife Reserve
Panna National Park
Pin Valley National Park
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Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary
Simplipal National Park
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NATIONAL CAPITAL OF DELHI
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The Khajuraho Group of Monuments is situated in Madhya Pradesh, just over 600 kilometres outside New Delhi. This magnificent spectacle has become one of the country’s most sought-after tourist attractions, known for the erotic sculptures that characterise them. They are also the largest group of Jain and Hindu temples, which date back to medieval times. Their deep historical and cultural import resonates through every dimension, figure and shadow of these awe-inspiring structures.
These temples were constructed during the Chandela Dynasty, which was a Hindu rulership that lasted from the 10th to the 12th centuries of our Common Era (CE or AD). It took these people over 200 years to build each of the original 80+ temples, a mammoth task that was carried out between 950 and 1150 CE. Although Khajuraho was no longer the capital city as of 1150 CE, it continued to develop and grow.
Of the original estimate of over 80 temples, only 25 remain in fair condition today. These temples are beautiful in their cunning combination of sculpture and architecture in one, magnificent form (or conglomeration of forms).
The original and remaining temples are grouped into western, eastern and southern divisions. They are made of
Khajuraho Temple
sandstone, and are held together by mortise and tenon joints (where one piece of material fits into a hole cut into the other piece of material) and faithful gravity. The sculptures that adorn the faces of the temples are intricate, ornate and lifelike. The external carvings display some erotic portrayals of sex and sexual acts being conducted between human beings (and not deities, as some have understood). These have been interpreted to mean that sexual desires need to be left outside of the temple, or that seeing the deities and holy elements inside the temple is an experience not affected by normal human desires. Some believe that the sculptures display certain tantric methods. Significantly, all of the carvings focus on the pleasure derived from sexual encounters, rather than on fertility and procreation. The carvings with sexual connotations are only on the outside of the temples. Inside, the carvings depict people going about ordinary daily tasks, such as women applying cosmetics, potters creating ceramic goods or musicians playing their instruments. These unique art forms are still a subject of research and study amongst art students and enthusiasts today.
The town of Khajuraho itself is home to over 20 000 inhabitants. Its name means “date palm” in Sanskrit. It is mainly made up of semi-desert and scrub vegetation. Tourism is becoming an increasingly lucrative industry, particularly for the historical structures that can be found in this unique destination.
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Melloney Roffe
Ian Lewis began his career in film and television drama in Austria. After which he worked his way through film cutting rooms, research, and production management in the UK before becoming a director. He has directed a great many productions, filming all around the world and winning several awards. He produced and directed the ITV period drama series, the Chef’s Apprentice, wrote and directed the award-winning feature films Children of the Lake, and Enchantress and was Exec Producer on Plato’s Breaking Point. He developed, exec produced and wrote scripts for the worldwide smash success Mona the Vampire, and has directed Shakespeare for the stage (reviewed as “Much Ado about something very special”).
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; Notice of Closed Meeting
A Notice by the National Institutes of Health on 07/03/2008
July 16, 2008.
There is no table of contents available for this document.
Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice is hereby given of the following meeting.
The meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The grant applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the grant applications, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Name of Committee: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Special Emphasis Panel; Deferred AA3 Applications.
Date: July 16, 2008.
Time: 1 to 3 p.m.
Agenda: To review and evaluate grant applications.
Place: National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Room 3042, Rockville, MD 20852 (Telephone Conference Call).
Contact Person: Katrina L. Foster, PhD, Scientific Review Officer, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Room 3042, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-443-4032, katrina@mail.nih.gov.
The applications being reviewed in EEO2 were initially assigned to panel AA3. The appropriate expertise was not available in AA3; thus, these applications were removed and are being reviewed in a SEP meeting.
(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.271, Alcohol Research Career Development Awards for Scientists and Clinicians; 93.272, Alcohol National Research Service Awards for Research Training; 93.273, Alcohol Research Programs; 93.891, Alcohol Research Center Grants, National Institutes of Health, HHS)
Dated: June 25, 2008.
Jennifer Spaeth,
Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
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Franckeite as a Naturally Occurring van der Waals Heterostructure
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Article: published in Nature Communications by Gabino Rubio-Bollinger, Nicolas Agraït and J. J. Palacios, IFIMAC researchers and members of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics.
The fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures, artificial materials assembled by individual stacking of 2D layers, is among the most promising directions in 2D materials research. Until now, the most widespread approach to stack 2D layers relies on deterministic placement methods, which are cumbersome and tend to suffer from poor control over the lattice orientations and the presence of unwanted interlayer adsorbates. A collaboration between different institutions, which includes two IFIMAC groups, has recently published in Nature Comm. a different approach to fabricate ultra thin heterostructures by exfoliation of bulk franckeite, which is a naturally occurring and air stable van der Waals heterostructure (composed of alternating SnS2-like and PbS-like layers stacked on top of each other). Presenting both an attractive narrow band gap (0.7 eV) and p-type doping, the researchers have found that the material can be exfoliated both mechanically and chemically down to few-layer thicknesses. Extensive theoretical and experimental characterizations of the material’s electronic properties and crystal structure, and a preliminary exploration of applications for near-infrared photodetectors have also been reported in the same publication. [Full article]
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Home Insights Go Figure: The EEOC Clears Itself on Discrimination Charges
Go Figure: The EEOC Clears Itself on Discrimination Charges
05 August 2013 Labor & Employment Law Perspectives Blog
Yes, the title of this article is right. The EEOC recently issued a decision finding that it — the EEOC — did not discriminate on the basis of age when it chose a 35-year old applicant over a 71-year old applicant (and we will just tactfully ignore questions about the EEOC’s having the ability to decide whether it engaged in discrimination). Not only that, but the EEOC’s reasoning in its decision provides great ammunition for an employer defending against charges filed with the EEOC alleging discrimination in as to a hiring or promotion decision.
In Hardwick v. EEOC , Ms. Hardwick, who was 71 years old at the time, applied for a job as an EEOC investigator. The EEOC instead selected an applicant who was 35 years old on the basis that the younger applicant had attended law school, even though a law degree was not required for the job. Ms. Hardwick herself was no slouch applicant and met the qualifications for the job. She had an undergraduate degree with a major in labor and employment and a minor in employment law. She also had a certification in paralegal studies and had experience as a caseworker for the Missouri Division of Family Services. Interestingly, Ms. Hardwick claimed she was also qualified for the job because of “her experience as a pro se litigant.”
The EEOC concluded that the decision to hire the substantially younger employee was not age discrimination because Ms. Hardwick failed to prove that “no reasonable person” could have selected the much younger applicant over her for the job. The EEOC also held that employers’ decisions as to “the assessment of the candidates’ qualifications” should not be “second guessed.”
These are the same types of arguments employers routinely make in responding to charges filed with the EEOC that allege discrimination as to a hiring or promotion decision. So keep this decision in your back pocket (or a nearby file) for the next time you are filing a position statement with the EEOC.
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Justin A. Casey is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Transactions Practice. His experience spans a number of areas and industries including private equity, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, corporate governance, and public company reporting and compliance.
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‘The Daily Show’, Fox News, and Ferguson: The Dangers of an Alternate News Reality
Unlike the regular news shows it began skewering and ended up, for many, supplanting, The Daily Show goes on vacation. They time these breaks carefully — over holidays, or during stretches of the summer (like, say, mid-August) when news usually isn’t happening. It didn’t time out that way this year. The Daily Show aired on August 7 and then went on a two-and-a-half week hiatus; on August 9, Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri. As that shock over that shooting gave way to protests, tear gas, police militarization and threats, looting, and general horror, those of us who increasingly look to Stewart and company for a bit of levity and/or indignation had to wait. Last night, Stewart returned, with a reminder that while alums Colbert and Oliver may give TDS a run for their money in the social/political satire department, Stewart’s program remains untouchable in the area of fierce, stinging media commentary.
The target of Stewart’s ire, unsurprisingly, is Fox News. He kicks off his segment with a clip of Bill O’Reilly announcing, regarding the Brown shooting, “I am furious!” (Stewart: “Of course you are!”) But, come to find out, it’s not the broad daylight execution of an unarmed black teen by a white cop — no, O’Reilly is furious about the reporting of the shooting, and the reaction to it. “Yes, that is the outrage,” Stewart smirks. And over the course of the following segment (one of The Daily’s best in recent memory), we see that while Stewart and company may have been on vacation, his peerless crew of Fox-watchers haven’t; they provide the expected montages of Fox talking heads, complaining about the coverage of the story, railing about the “playing of the race card,” and pulling out their favorite mantra, “Why aren’t we covering black-on-black crime?” (“Yes,” Stewart agrees, “why all the interest in holding police officers to a higher standard… than gangs?”)
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The Stewart segment ultimately serves a purpose made more valuable by the two weeks we’ve been waiting for it: as a reset button, a refresher/reminder of what, exactly, we’re talking about here. Or, as Stewart (rhetorically) asked gun-toting slimeball Sean Hannity, “You really do have no fucking idea, do you?” Because what Fox has done in the case of Ferguson is what they have always done, and will continue to do: adhering to the Mad Men philosophy that if you don’t like what is being said, then change the conversation.
We’ve seen it over and over again on the network in the two weeks since unrest in Ferguson began: focusing on looters and Moltov cocktails, bypassing Brown’s death to stir up their old bogeymen of the New Black Panthers, dismissing the rightful concern over racial bias in Ferguson’s policing as the wolf-crying of “race baiters” (from the all-white panel on The Five, of course). And, of course, there was the troubling characterizations of Brown as a cigar-stealing “thug” who maybe wasn’t unarmed after all, since “we’re talking about an 18-year-old man who is 6-foot-4 and weighs almost 300 pounds.” Most alarmingly, they’ve pushed the narrative that Officer Darren Wilson was badly injured in the scuffle (a story pushed by widely mocked blogger Jim Hoft, using an altered 2008 stock image of an eye socket X-ray), to confirm the notion that Brown, the thug, got what he deserved.
And that, in a roundabout and by now fascinating (anthropologically speaking) way, is what’s truly remarkable and, ultimately, insidious about Fox News: not that they’re a news organization with a right-wing bent, but that they’ve managed to convince their viewers that they’re the only ones reporting things honestly, the only place that you can get the real story. That “fair and balanced” shit isn’t just trolling (as comforting and ultimately harmless as that would be).
They’ve built a business model around the specter of the “liberal media” so successfully that we now just have multiple versions of the news, with no single trusted source. So when a story — like this one —paints a less-than-flattering portrait of trigger-happy white people, other trigger-happy white people can just find the version of the news that doesn’t make them uncomfortable. And make no mistake, this is about coddling Fox’s white viewers; otherwise, someone, somewhere within the network might’ve pointed out the slight discrepancy between their commentators’ unquestioning trust of the Ferguson police and their coverage of the Cliven Bundy clusterfuck.
But perhaps the most damaging byproduct of Fox News’ ubiquity is that they’ve managed to shift the goal posts for even the “liberal media” that they sneer at, forcing outlets that don’t conform to their worldview to at least tip to it. (That’s about the only plausible explanation for the New York Times’ already notorious “no angel” piece.) Never mind that stealing cigars, to say nothing of living in a community with “rough patches,” dabbling in drugs and alcohol, and “tak[ing] to rapping,” are not death penalty offenses.
The more Fox talks, and the louder they talk, the more they overpower the conversation we should be having: about an unarmed young black man, shot dead by an officer who was sworn to protect him, and left to lay in the street for four-plus hours. Instead, we’ll talk about race baiters, and irresponsible reporters, and New Black Panthers, and Officer Wilson, poor Officer Wilson, how can I send some money to poor Officer Wilson? “We will not hide, we will no longer live in fear,” an unidentified white woman told The Guardian at a pro-Wilson protest over the weekend. Well, at least we’re all clear on who the true victims are here.
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Watch: Magical Creatures Are Unleashed on “No-Maj” NYC in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Trailer
The first trailer for J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has just been released, and presumably to many people’s delight (but to my personal dismay), it looks as though the beasts in question in the New York-set Harry Potter-world film are not as NY-specific as, say, roaches, bedbugs and Pizza Rat.
Rather, as revealed in the trailer, the “fantastic beasts” mentioned in the film’s title come from within a certain Newt Scamander’s magical suitcase. Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, is a famed magizoologist who’s stopping over in New York after having collected a trove of strange creatures on a global excursion — and these creatures happen to escape and begin to wreak magical havoc on “no-maj” (American for Muggle) New York, in a plot that seems to fall somewhere between 12 Monkeys and The Goosebumps Movie.
The trailer spends its first 30 seconds on an incantation lighting up the Warner Bros. logo with a wand, then shows us some very fragmentary glimpses of 1926 wizard-world NYC, all set against a somewhat brooding score (a surprise, given that the stakes here don’t sound nearly as high as, say, the rise of Voldemort).
The film will arrive November 18, 2016.
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France Telecom bids $42 billion for TeliaSonera
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The possible Verizon Communications/Alltel deal may be the buzz of the U.S. telecom industry today, but another long-rumored, mobile match is brewing overseas. France Telecom has launched a $42 billion bid to acquire TeliaSonera, a bid that reportedly already has been rejected by TeliaSonera. There has been speculation since earlier this spring that France Telecom was interested in buying the company as part of an effort to bulk up outside of its native market. Those talks were rumored to be on, then off, and now on again. Though TeliaSonera rejected the bid as undervaluing the company, other observers believe the bid overvalued TeliaSonera. Looks like this one could take a while to play out.
- check out this coverage at The New York Times
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The 10 Companies With The Happiest Young Professionals
Jacquelyn Smith Former Staff
If it has to do with leadership, jobs, or careers, I'm on it.
Gallery: The Happiest Companies for Young Professionals
Are you a young professional who dreads going to work every morning? Perhaps you loathe your job; can’t stand your colleagues; and despise your boss. You envy your friends who are eager and passionate about their jobs – the ones who go to work every day with a huge smile and a positive attitude.
As it turns out, you can be that happy, too. Just land a job at Intel, Verizon, or Fidelity.
Of course you’re not guaranteed to be satisfied at these places—but the odds are in your favor. These are three of the happiest companies for young professionals, according to career website CareerBliss.com.
CareerBliss compiled a list of the 10 companies where young employees are happiest, based on analysis from more than 48,000 employee-generated reviews between April 2012 and March 2013. A minimum of 25 reviews were required for a company to be considered.
“As college graduates make the transition from academic to work-life, the transition can be scary and intimidating,” says Heidi Golledge, chief executive of CareerBliss. “Knowing which companies have ranked well [among young professionals] can help others identify what companies might be best for their new career path.”
Young professionals, defined by CareerBliss as employees with less than 10 years’ experience in a full-time position, were asked to evaluate ten factors that affect workplace happiness. Those include one’s relationship with the boss and co-workers, work environment, job resources, compensation, growth opportunities, company culture, company reputation, daily tasks, and control over the work one does on a daily basis.
They then valued each factor on a five-point scale, and also indicated how important it was to their overall happiness at work. The numbers were combined to find an average rating of overall employee happiness for each respondent, and then sorted by employer to find which companies had the happiest young employees.
EMC Corp., a provider of information technology that enables customers to store, manage, protect, and analyze data through cloud computing products and services, leads the pack as the happiest company for young professionals. Headquartered in Hopkinton, Mass., the firm has over 60,000 employees worldwide. It earned an index score of 4.20 out of 5.
“Today's young professionals want it all,” says ML Krakauer, an executive vice president at EMC. “They seek a company that provides them with incredible work challenges, the opportunity to learn, and the chance to have some fun along the way. EMC aims to deliver on all fronts.”
Cindy Gallerani, senior director of university relations at EMC, says: "For our newest hires, our new graduate initiative is built around nine core development programs, focusing around key areas of EMC. So, whether you're a graduating student in engineering, sales, finance or HR, there is a program designed for you. Our new grads have amazing opportunities to rotate into meaningful assignments."
Why are young employees at EMC so content?
Krakauer says one reason is that the learning never ends. "It always continues, either through formalized training or with mentors who help guide young professionals in their careers." The company is also big on letting employees at all stages in their careers pursue opportunities within their communities, she adds.
Joe Howell, EMC’s director of employer brand and engagement, says: “Many of our employees are passionate about giving back to their communities. Whether it be visiting a college campus to evangelize the EMC message, sharing the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education with local elementary students, or volunteering at a community organization, EMC encourages everyone to get involved."
In addition, Krakauer says, you'll find a range of activities and services at locations around the world that “not only enhance work life balance but help make us a fun place to work, from fitness facilities, to casual bistros and cafeterias, and many other perks that allow EMCers to collaborate and get the most out of their workday.”
In Pictures: The Happiest Companies for Young Professionals
No. 2 Motorola Solutions, the Illinois-based provider of communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, earned an overall index score of 4.11.
Sara Miedema, a CPA with Motorola Solutions, says the company is a great place to work for those early in their careers “because of its culture, work-life balance and focus on career development.”
“The people at Motorola Solutions are great to work with; they always are willing to answer questions and make coming to work an enjoyable experience,” she says. “Additionally, [the company] promotes work-life balance among its employees through participation in its on-site wellness center and when working from a Motorola Solutions mobile office. Lastly, it is focused on developing its employees and encouraging them to further their careers.” The Motorola Solutions Finance program, for example, encourages rotations every couple of years in order for employees to gain new experiences.
Another employee, Katie Shaykin, a senior external communications specialist, started working at Motorola Solutions after her summer internship led to a full-time position. She has been with the company for three years, and says her favorite part is the learning experiences provided by management. “Starting as a new college graduate, I had a lot to learn about the ‘real world.’ Motorola Solutions has provided me the opportunity to learn within my field by expanding my role, enriching my education through outside, company-paid training, and introducing me to different positions by exposing me to senior management at a time in my career when I never expected such experiences. Motorola Solutions is a great place for a new graduate to step out of the university world and transition into the career world.”
Rounding out the top three is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plans, Kaiser Permanente. Founded in 1945, the Oakland, Calif.-based company now serves more than 9 million members and has some of the happiest young employees. It earned an index score of 4.09.
“At Kaiser Permanente, young professionals are fortunate to have unique insight into a one-of-a-kind organization that is at the forefront of developing cutting edge technology and innovative care delivery models,” says Jessica L. Johnson, a workforce planning consultant, and president and founder of GenKP. “Young professionals at Kaiser Permanente have a passion for the healthcare industry, and are able to experience first-hand how a diverse and integrated health care system operates.”
GenKP, a business resource group created by young professionals within Kaiser Permanente, is dedicated to supporting the company’s mission through attracting, engaging and retaining its future leaders. “GenKP provides professional development resources for young employees, emphasizing to young professionals that there is always room for growth within the organization,” Johnson says.
The group’s vice president, Katie Rovere, says Kaiser Permanente “gives young professionals the freedom to contribute to GenKP and utilize the group to suit their professional needs, while also providing them a sense of purpose by allowing them to serve as leaders among their peers.”
She says taking on a leadership role can provoke new personal findings about an employee’s strengths, and areas for further growth and development, which is crucial in the early stages of an employee’s career. “Kaiser Permanente also offers opportunities for young professionals to connect with mentors, senior Kaiser Permanente employees, who help them learn new information about the organization, and how to apply this information to achieving their professional goals moving forward.”
Elsewhere on the list: Cisco Systems, Bank of America, and Hewlett-Packard.
“It is clear that for young professionals tech and finance are the industries to be in right now,” Golledge concludes. “CareerBliss data shows that [companies in these fields] are providing work environments that foster happier employees.”
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Nielsen Plans To Track Netflix, Amazon -- And It's A Big Deal
Merrill Barr Contributor
Since both companies waded into the original content game, Netflix and Amazon have held steady to the idea their ratings don’t matter… at least from a public perspective. Because the two companies’ business models are built on the idea of users watching programs at their leisure rather than on set schedules, certain people tended to agree the ratings don't serve much purpose for the non-ad-supported services. However, according to new reports, Nielsen’s going to begin tracking Netflix and Amazon independently, and this could be the catalyst that changes the entire content licensing game.
Yesterday, Hollywood’s most trusted source for television viewership data announced plans to institute systems that track SVOD (Subscription Video-on-Demand) programming through audio. It was also revealed this tracking would exclude mobile devices (most likely due to the fact most phones wouldn’t be picked up by existing Nielsen boxes). According to statements, the ratings organization plans to compile the data for television networks and studios so they can see how their content performs on each service respectively… and this is where things get interesting.
Until now, studios that licensed their content to both services have been flying blind at the negotiation table, only able to go off what they’re told by the subscription organizations’ internal numbers. By giving studios an unbiased read on how content performs on a given service, said studio will now have more power at the table other than “our show does this much on television, thus is should do well for you.” By removing the viewership card from the hands of both Netflix and Amazon, there’s a good chance we’ll begin seeing the biggest split in content availability to date.
Both Amazon and Netflix thrive on exclusivity, and often that exclusivity comes at the price of bundling. Netflix says they want a show, and the studio responds with an offer than includes the show in question as well as three more the SVOD service won’t be allowed to refuse. However, currently, Netflix or Amazon can just hit back with “well, you know how well we do, thus you’ll do it the way we want or not at all.” But the truth is, no one knows how well Netflix and Amazon do, we just know how well they say they do, and those numbers could be wildly different. The idea of Nielsen tracking data across the two services is less about knowing if more people watch House of Cards than Game of Thrones, than it is about knowing whether more people watch 24 on Amazon or Netflix.
Of course, the lack of mobile data by Nielsen could pose a problem for the legitimacy of the reports. In the case of SVOD ratings, it’s either all in or not at all because the service in question could always claim, “we actually do much higher numbers than you realize, you’re just not seeing the mobile data,” and considering new studies indicate viewers are watching more content on mobile devices than ever before (with the numbers only growing), there'd be a case to be made. However, this being the first sign of Nielsen taking an active approach to track SVOD viewership means there’s a good chance they’re already hard at work on a solution to this problem.
Netflix and Amazon may not be happy about this announcement (there are no indications they’ve actively participated in this plan), but they will have to be accepting of it. For the television business to operate, it must be transparent, and at the negotiating table, that means hard data that can be verified by third parties. While it may not seem like a big deal now, when streaming contracts come due for the likes of The Blacklist, Arrow and Gotham, that transparency could mean the difference between a series remaining in production on other platforms or being cancelled completely.
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Kopparapu, Chandra. Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches . New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. ISBN 0-471-41550-2.
Don't even think about deploying a server farm or geographically dispersed mirror sites without reading this authoritative book. The Internet has become such a mountain of interconnected kludges that something as conceptually simple as spreading Web and other Internet traffic across a collection of independent servers or sites in the interest of increased performance and fault tolerance becomes a matter of enormous subtlety and hideous complexity. Most of the problems come from the need for “session persistence”: when a new user arrives at your site, you can direct them to any available server based on whatever load balancing algorithm you choose, but if the user's interaction with the server involves dynamically generated content produced by the server (for example, images generated by Earth and Moon Viewer , or items the user places in their shopping cart at a commerce site), subsequent requests by the user must be directed to the same server, as only it contains the state of the user's session.
(Some load balancer vendors will try to persuade you that session persistence is a design flaw in your Web applications which you should eliminate by making them stateless or by using a common storage pool shared by all the servers. Don't believe this. I defy you to figure out how an application as simple as Earth and Moon Viewer , which does nothing more complicated than returning a custom Web page which contains a dynamically generated embedded image, can be made stateless. And shared backing store [for example, Network Attached Storage servers] has its own scalability and fault tolerance challenges.)
Almost any simple scheme you can come up with to get around the session persistence problem will be torpedoed by one or more of the kludges and hacks through which a user's packet traverses between client and server: NAT, firewalls, proxy servers, content caches, etc. Consider what at first appears to be a foolproof scheme (albeit sub-optimal for load distribution): simply hash the client's IP address into a set of bins, one for each server, and direct the packets accordingly. Certainly, that would work, right? Wrong: huge ISPs such as AOL and EarthLink have farms of proxy servers between their customers and the sites they contact, and these proxy servers are themselves load balanced in a non-persistent manner. So even two TCP connections from the same browser retrieving, say, the text and an image from a single Web page, may arrive at your site apparently originating from different IP addresses!
This and dozens of other gotchas and ways to work around them are described in detail in this valuable book, which is entirely vendor-neutral, except for occasionally mentioning products to illustrate different kinds of architectures. It's a lot better to slap your forehead every few pages as you discover something else you didn't think of which will sabotage your best-laid plans than pull your hair out later after putting a clever and costly scheme into production and discovering that it doesn't work. When I started reading this book, I had no idea how I was going to solve the load balancing problem for the Fourmilab site, and now I know precisely how I'm going to proceed. This isn't a book you read for entertainment, but if you need to know this stuff, it's a great place to learn it.
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St. Paul road safety meeting takes on new urgency after bicyclist's death last month
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KMSP) - Summit Avenue in St. Paul is one of the most traveled routes through the city, but many say it's unsafe for both pedestrians and cyclists.
The death of a biker who was struck by a school bus last month on the busy roadway is just one instance advocates are pointing to as evidence, with many others sharing their stories of close calls and injuries sustained while riding in the area at a town hall on the Macalester College campus Tuesday evening.
"I’ve been doored twice," said cyclist Tom Basgen. "Nothing serious, but I have hugged a landscaper at eight miles per hour."
According to the city, out of 700 2016 bicycle and pedestrian crashes 19 took place on Summit Avenue. These growing concerns have given rise to the Safety on Summit campaign, a movement for numerous safety improvements in the area.
Representatives from Mayor Melvin Carter's office were at the meeting to gauge feedback and brainstorm next steps, leading to what officials hope is a healthy and productive dialogue on how to best protect everyone who uses the road.
"We are asking for protective bike lanes along Summit Avenue, switching the bike lane for the parking lane that currently exists and then putting a permanent protective barrier in between," SOS organizer Lauren Nielsen said at Tuesday's meeting. "We never want to see another death along Summit Avenue or anywhere else in the city. I think that’s really the goal we’re aiming for."
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Gunman Barricaded Inside Metro PCS Store In Palms
PALMS (CNS) - A gunman, who reportedly has taken hostages, has barricaded himself inside a Metro PCS store in the Palms area and a Los Angeles police SWAT team is at the scene trying to negotiate a peaceful end to the standoff.
The barricade began shortly after 7 p.m., at the Metro PCS phone service store near the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Delmas Terrace, according to desk officers at LAPD's Metropolitan and Pacific divisions and emergency radio transmissions from the scene.
Officers from LAPD's Pacific Division were the first to respond, but the lead in handling this situation has been turned over to an LAPD SWAT team which is trying to negotiate an end to the standoff, according to the LAPD desk officers.
It's not clear yet whether there is one or more than one gunman inside the store. Neither is the number and condition of the reported hostages known
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Global Graphics: Notice of Annual General Meeting
Global Graphics SE (Euronext: GLOG) announces details of its Annual General Meeting.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Global Graphics SE will be held at the offices of Andlinger & Co, Avenue Louise 326, 1050 Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday 28 April 2015 at 10:00 hrs (CET).
A copy of the complete notice and other supporting information, including explanatory notes, requirements for proof of ownership of shares and the proxy form, is available for download from the investors section of the Company’s web site at: http://www.globalgraphics.com/investors/annual-shareholders-meeting/.
Ordinary Business
To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions which will be proposed as Ordinary Resolutions:
1. To receive the Company’s annual financial statements and consolidated accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2014.
2. To reappoint KPMG LLP as auditor to hold office from the conclusion of this meeting until the conclusion of the next general meeting of the Company at which financial statements are laid.
3. To authorise the members of the Company’s administrative organ (the “Directors”) to determine the remuneration of the auditors.
4. To re-elect Guido Van der Schueren as a member of the Company’s administrative organ as Chairman of the Board.
5. To re-elect Gary Fry as a member of the Company’s administrative organ as Chief Executive Officer.
6. To re-elect Johan Volckaerts as a member of the Company’s administrative organ as a non-executive director.
7. To re-elect Alain Pronost as a member of the Company’s administrative organ as a non-executive director.
8. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors’ Remuneration Policy) set out on pages 12 to 16 of the annual report for the year ended 31 December 2014.
9. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy, the full text of which is contained in the Directors’ Remuneration Report, as set out on pages 16 to 18 of the annual report, which will take effect immediately after the end of the Annual General Meeting on 28 April 2015.
To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions which will be proposed in the case of Resolutions 10 and 12 as Special Resolutions and in the case of Resolution 11 as an Ordinary Resolution:
10. That the Company be generally and unconditionally authorised for the purposes of section 701 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “Act”) to make one or more market purchases (within the meaning of section 693(4) of the Act) of ordinary shares of €0.40 each in the capital of the Company (ordinary shares) provided that:
the maximum aggregate number of ordinary shares authorised to be purchased is 1,000,000 (representing 9.72% of the issued ordinary share capital);
the minimum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for an ordinary share is the par value of the shares;
the maximum price (excluding expenses) which may be paid for an ordinary share is an amount equal to the higher of (i) 105% of the average closing price for an ordinary share as derived from Euronext Brussels for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which that ordinary share is purchased, and (ii) the amount stipulated by article 5(1) of the Buy-back and Stabilisation Regulation 2003;
this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company, or, if earlier, at the close of business on 28 July 2016 unless renewed before that time; and
the Company may make a contract to purchase ordinary shares under this authority before the expiry of the authority which will or may be executed wholly or partly after the expiry of the authority, and may make a purchase of ordinary shares in pursuance of any such contract.
11. That, in substitution for all existing authorities conferred on the Directors, in accordance with section 551 of the Act the Directors be and they are generally and unconditionally authorised to exercise all powers of the Company to allot equity securities (within the meaning of section 560 of the Act), or grant rights to subscribe for, or convert any security into, shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of €2,000,000, provided that this authority shall expire on the conclusion of the Company’s Annual General Meeting in 2016, or, if earlier, at the close of business on 28 July 2016, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot such equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
12. Subject to the passing of Resolution 10 of the notice of meeting, that, in substitution for all existing authorities conferred on the Directors, the Directors be and they are empowered pursuant to section 570 of the Act to allot equity securities either pursuant to the authority conferred by Resolution 10 above or by way of a sale or transfer of treasury shares as if section 561 of the Act did not apply to any such allotment, sale or transfer provided that this authority shall expire on the conclusion of the Company’s Annual General Meeting in 2016, or, if earlier, at the close of business on 28 July 2016, save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted, sold or transferred after such expiry and the Directors may allot, sell or transfer equity securities in pursuance of such an offer or agreement as if the authority conferred by this resolution had not expired.
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Report: Israel Army Has a Plan to Dissect and Occupy Parts of the Gaza Strip
By Middle East Monitor
Middle East Monitor 25 June 2018
Theme: Intelligence, Law and Justice
Featured image: Israeli occupation forces [Source: Salih Zeki Fazlıoğlu/Anadolu Agency]
The Israeli military has prepared plans for a full-scale invasion of the occupied Gaza Strip, in the event of a serious escalation in the south, according to a report by Israeli news site Ynet.
Veteran correspondent Ron Ben-Yishai, citing unnamed Israeli military officials, wrote that the army “is already considering alternatives to the Hamas government”, should the latter not cooperate in efforts to establish an economic-security “arrangement” in Gaza agreeable to the Israelis.
“There is a feeling in the [Israeli army’s] Southern Command that, this time, the IDF will be able to create a considerable change in the situation if it is required to launch a major campaign in Gaza,” wrote Ben-Yishai.
“The offensive missions inside the Strip will be carried out from now on by the IDF’s tip of the spear storming divisions, which—according to the plan—will enter Gaza and dissect it in two, and even occupy significant parts of it,” Ben-Yishai continued.
“The plan is based on three things: A strong protection of the western Negev and the Israeli home front, a systemic blow of fire in full force from the very first moment, and a quick broad manoeuvre into the Strip to dissect it and conquer parts of it.”
According to the defence expert, the Israeli army’s goal “will be to prevent Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad from gaining psychological achievements and getting them to request a ceasefire as soon as possible following the beginning of the fighting.”
Israel will also reportedly seek to prevent the involvement of a third-party mediator by “reach[ing] a military victory in the next war that will be so decisive and unequivocal that it will allow Israel to dictate the terms for the end of the fighting to Hamas and to the Palestinian factions.”
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Samuel Edward Konkin III
Proponent of agorism and author of the New Libertarian Manifesto
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Samuel Edward Konkin III (8 July 1947 – 23 February 2004), also known as SEK3, was the author of the publication New Libertarian Manifesto and a proponent of a political philosophy which he named agorism. [Image © Pulpless.com and J. Neil Schulman. Used with permission]
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8 Jul 1947, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
23 Feb 2004, in West Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Black-Market Activism: Samuel Edward Konkin III and Agorism, by David S. D'Amato, 25 Apr 2015
Overview of Konkin's life and his two main contributions: agorism and the counter-economy
"Samuel Edward Konkin III, the creator of the political and economic system known as 'agorism,' was born in Saskatchewan, on July 8, 1947. ... Among important figures in the development of the modern libertarian movement, Konkin stands out in his insistence that libertarianism rightly conceived belongs on the radical left wing of the political spectrum. ... A controversial and eccentric figure in the libertarian movement, Konkin left a legacy of challenging, radical ideas that, due to the connectedness and fluidity of the Internet and virtual, peer-to-peer networks, are perhaps more relevant than ever."
Related Topics: Agorism, Politics, Murray Rothbard
Jeff Riggenbach on Samuel Edward Konkin III, by Jeff Riggenbach, Freedom Network News , 2004
Lengthy biographical and memorial essay
"Make no mistake about it: we have lost a great libertarian, and we will probably not see his like again. Make no mistake about it: we have lost a great libertarian, and we will probably not see his like again. ... By the time he reached the University of Wisconsin later that same year to begin graduate studies in chemistry, he was a confirmed science fiction fan and was particularly enamored of the works of Robert A. Heinlein."
Related Topics: Roy Childs, Williamson Evers, Robert A. Heinlein, Laissez Faire Books, Robert LeFevre, Libertarian Party, Liberty International, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
Samuel Edward Konkin III, by Jeff Riggenbach, 29 Jul 2010
Biographical essay; including examination of Konkin's ideas on the Counter-Economy; transcript of "The Libertarian Tradition" podcast of 20 July 2010
"Yet there were those who chose to try to make such careers for themselves, even if they were unable to find institutional support for their efforts. One such was a young man from ... the westernmost of what Canadians call the prairie provinces. His name was Samuel Edward Konkin III. He was born in Saskatchewan 63 years ago this month, on July 8, 1947. He grew up in Edmonton, in the neighboring prairie province of Alberta and got his undergraduate education at the University of Alberta, where he first became involved in political activism, serving as head of the Young Social Credit League on campus."
Related Topics: Agorism, Robert A. Heinlein, Libertarianism, Los Angeles, New York City
On Political Activism, Reason , May 1977
Letter to the editor, criticising John Hospers' view that running for political office as part of the Libertarian Party is "the quickest way of getting libertarian ideas known to millions"
"The paragraph is in your centerfold, and happens to be authored by Dr. John Hospers: 'One fact can hardly be controversial ... it is almost entirely because libertarians have formed a political party whose members ran for office and had their ideas publicized in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.' The 'fact' is indeed not 'controversial;' it is abject nonsense. I have yet to see any significant label retention from those exposed to Libertarian Party commercials during campaigns; most Americans automatically blank out minor parties."
Related Topics: Libertarianism, Libertarian Party
New Libertarian Manifesto [PDF], 1980
Electronic version available at Agorism.info; contents: Preface - Statism: Our Condition - Agorism: Our Goal - Counter-Economics: Our Means - Revolution: Our Strategy - Action: Our Tactics
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New Libertarian Manifesto, 29 May 2009
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Foothills School Division Announcement
Executive Team Announcement: Foothills School Division Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the following leadership appointment within the Divisional Executive Team:
Acting Superintendent
Please join us in congratulating Mrs. Pamela Rannelli on her appointment of Acting Superintendent of Schools with Foothills School Division effective immediately. Mrs. Rannelli joined Foothills School Division in 2013 as Director of Inclusive Learning. In 2015, she joined the Executive Team in the role of Assistant Superintendent, Learning Services.
Mrs. Rannelli brings extensive experience to the role from her work in the Calgary Board of Education. She also worked with the Ministry level of Alberta Education, as a consultant to many boards in Southern Alberta, and as Senior Manager of the Inclusive Learning Branch. Before relocating to Alberta, Mrs. Rannelli held the position of Director with the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She began her education career as an elementary teacher and school administrator.
Mrs. Rannelli holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from St. Francis Xavier University, Graduate Diploma from the University of Calgary, and a Master of Education in Educational Psychology from Dalhousie University. As a career-long learner, Mrs. Rannelli brings a leadership approach that focuses on collaboration and building leadership in all stakeholders to ensure each student reaches their full potential.
Mrs. Rannelli is extremely honoured to serve as the Acting Superintendent of Schools while the Board of Trustees undertakes a leadership search in the 2018/2019 school year for the Superintendency. Her experience with the existing Executive Team including Mr. Drew Chipman Assistant Superintendent, Corporate Services and Mr. Allen Davidson Assistant Superintendent, Employee Services will allow for on-going system wide success and continuity within the school Division.
Board Chair Larry Albrecht shares “We are excited to have Pamela Rannelli take on the role of Acting Superintendent of Schools for Foothills School Division. Her educational leadership will continue to support the collaborative work with administrative teams in our schools. This is a priority of the Board to build on existing success and continued school improvement in all of our communities. We are confident that all stakeholders across our system will continue to provide high quality educational opportunities to support our students’ learning.”
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Gazpromneft-Aero holds first ever international aviation refuelling contest
Gazpromneft-Aero, operator of Gazprom Neft’s aviation refuelling business, has organised the first ever international competition for aviation refuelling specialists — the Aviation Fuelling Challenge, held with the support of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Tolmachevo International Airport, the venue for the practical heats.
Eight teams took part in the competition: CNAF (China), Petrolimex Aviation (Vietnam), NIS (Serbia), Manas (Kyrgyzstan), Aerofuels (Russia), Sovex (Russia), Domodedovo Fuel Services (Russia) and Gazpromneft-Aero (Russia). Awards were made across three individual nominations to aviation fuel-tanker drivers, shift supervisors, and deputy production heads, with the main award being made to the best-performing team.
Competition tasks were designed around international quality standards in aviation refuelling, with participants having to pass theoretical tests in electronic format as well as undertaking two practical tasks, while the team competitions saw individual teams completing a single practical challenge against the clock. The competition jury comprised IATA representatives together with specialists from the Federal State Research Institute of Civil Aviation.
The team competition in the Aviation Fuelling Challenge was won by the Sovex team (Russia), with Gazpromneft-Aero (Russia) in second place and Manas (Kyrgyzstan) third.
Prizes in the individual nominations went to members of five teams, with the best tanker drivers being Azimkhan Alimzhanov (Manas), Igor Sukhodolsky (Gazpromneft-Aero), and Wenqiang Huang (CNAF). Prizes for best shift leader went to Denis Grebenyukov (Gazpomneft-Aero), Maxim Vorobyev (Sovex) and Evgeny Galushko (Manas).
All teams were captained by Deputy Heads of Production, all of whom were also competing on the basis of their professional skills, with the three prize winners being Igor Koronev (Sovex), Alexei Karpuk (Gazpromneft-Aero) and Pham Ngoc Thu (Petrolimex Aviation).
«The world of aviation has no borders — people all over the world are flying every day, and our collective responsibility is to ensure the comfort and safety of these passengers. This is possible thanks exclusively to a single and inclusive approach to managing aviation refuelling, and to the international standards and technologies that members of the industry are implementing in their respective countries» stressed Gazpromneft Aero CEO, Vladimir Egorov. «The international Aviation Fuelling Challenge competition isn’t just a contest for production specialists, but a working forum on which industry representatives from various countries can share best practices, and work on addressing the challenges and tasks arising from standardising aviation refuelling practices worldwide. We are grateful to our partners for their support, and for taking part in the first international aviation refuelling competition, and hope that it will become a permanent forum on which industry experts will be able to collaborate.»
Gazpromneft-Aero is a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft. The company has been providing aircraft refuelling services and selling aviation fuel at airports since 1 January, 2008. Since December 2008, Gazpromneft Aero has been a strategic partner of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in the field of aviation fuel supply.
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The Long Walk – Slavomir Rawicz (1957)
Title: The Long Walk
Author: Sławomir Rawicz
Publisher: The Companion Book Club, 1957
Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Fair. Some soiling to cover, binding sagging slightly. Inscription to ffep and half title page. 287pp., app 7″ by 5″.
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Sławomir Rawicz (1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot (about 6,500 km or 4,000 mi). They travelled through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas to finally reach British India in the winter of 1942. In 2006 the BBC released a report based on former Soviet records, including statements written by Rawicz himself, showing that Rawicz had been released as part of the 1942 general amnesty of Poles in the USSR and subsequently transported across the Caspian Sea to a refugee camp in Iran, and that his escape to India never occurred.
In May 2009, Witold Gliński, a Polish World War II veteran living in the UK, came forward to claim that the story of Rawicz was true, but was actually an account of what happened to him, not Rawicz. Gliński’s claims have been questioned by various sources.
Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in wartime India, claimed to his son to have interviewed three emaciated men in Calcutta in 1942, who claimed to have escaped from Siberia. According to his son, Mayne always believed their story was the same as that of The Long Walk—but telling the story decades later, his son could not remember their names or any details.
According to the account in the book, Rawicz was transported, alongside thousands of others, to Irkutsk and made to walk to the Gulag Camp 303, which was 650 km south of the Arctic Circle. His labour duties in the camp included the construction of the prisoners’ barracks, the manufacture of skis for the Russian army, and the repair and operation of the camp commandant’s radio.
In The Long Walk, Rawicz describes how he and six companions escaped from the camp in the middle of a blizzard in 1941 and headed south, avoiding towns. The fugitive party included three Polish soldiers, a Latvian landowner, a Lithuanian architect, and an enigmatic US metro engineer called “Mr. Smith”; they were later joined by a 17-year-old Polish girl, Kristina. They journeyed from Siberia to India crossing the Gobi Desert and Himalayas. Four of the group died, two in the Gobi, two in the Himalayas. The book also mentions the spotting of a pair of yeti-like creatures in the Himalayas.
According to the book, four survivors of the 11-month trek reached British India around March 1942 and stumbled upon a Gurkha patrol. They were taken to a hospital in Calcutta. Towards the end of the book, Mr. Smith asked Rawicz about his future. Rawicz told Smith he would rejoin the Polish army. Once released from the hospital, the survivors went their own ways. Some were still permanently sick from the hardships of the Long Walk.
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Mean Green Football
Players that will be missed, that will step up
By Harry, August 30, 2012 in Mean Green Football
With key players from last season graduating, the Mean Green will need certain players to step up if it wants to contend in the Sun Belt this season. It is worth noting what players will be missed and what players can be expected to step up and contribute in their place.
WHO WILL BE MISSED:
Lance Dunbar – Running Back
Dunbar set the university’s all-time rushing record with 4,224 yards, recorded 49 career touchdowns with the Mean Green and was one of six players in NCAA history to have 4,000 rushing yards and 1,000 receiving yards in a career.
The gutsiest performance of Dunbar’s career came in his final game with the team. In a rain-drenched 59-7 win against Middle Tennessee, Dunbar rushed 40 times for 313 yards, setting the UNT and Sun Belt record for most rushing yards in a single game.
After going undrafted in the 2012 NFL Draft, Dunbar signed with the Dallas Cowboys and is trying to make the team as a third or fourth string running back.
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I think Julian Herron would have been missed had we not had so many LB's stepping up this year
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#OLDDENTON Is Alive And Well!
By FirefightnRick
This is the kind of hor$hit WB and the AD Dept has to deal with in regards to the Denton Record Chronicle.
Our softball team and it’s new coach Rodney DeLong traveled last Friday to College Station and kicked ass. They went 4-1 overall in the Aggie Classic that included a run-rule curb stomping Saturday of the host and 20th ranked A&M team 10-2, our first win over a ranked team in three seasons.
We won 9-0 over UNC and won 8-7 in an extra inning marathon (12) over Cal Baptist Friday evening. We then run ruled A&M Saturday afternoon then lost by 1 in extra innings (9) Saturday evening to Cal Baptist.
Then we run ruled Northern Colorado 8-2 Sunday morning.
So what do the morons at the DRC put accross the top of the sports page this morning?
They print a headline teaser across the top of the sports page that UNT Softball “lose in tourneys”.
No DUMBASSES!!! North Texas WINS in tourneys! North Texas outscored their opponents 40-17. North Texas won Sunday’s game and went 4-1 in the tournament and kicked the crap out of the ranked team.
And yeah, I know it’s the printed version and not online. Despite what you may think or say a lot of potential donors/season ticket holders/supporters of NT Athletics still read the print paper.....but that’s completely beside the point here. It’s the mindset and the negative attitude this paper has always had and always will as long as the Patterson (Ok State Alumni) family runs it.
North Texas spends a lot of money advertising in that POS rag. North Texas is Denton’s largest employer. You’d think the days of the constant little negative jabs and back stabbing would be over? It’s not.
Effing pisses me off man!!!
DRC annual football magazine 2018 link
By Coach Bill Lewis
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Longtime publisher buying Denton Record-Chronicle from A. H. Belo
The Denton Record-Chronicle is going to be locally owned again.
Bill Patterson, the longtime publisher of the Record-Chronicle, is purchasing the paper from A. H. Belo Corp., which has owned the publication since 1999. The sale will be completed by the end of the year, he announced Tuesday afternoon.
"I think there's a great opportunity in Denton," Patterson said. "I feel strongly that Denton needs a daily newspaper and robust and trusted digital portfolio, and I believe we can be productive and grow."
The decision to buy came after Patterson and leaders at A. H. Belo realized the solutions to problems at The Dallas Morning News, the flagship publication of A.H. Belo, wouldn't necessarily work at a smaller paper like the Record-Chronicle, Patterson said.
Grant Moise, executive vice president of A. H. Belo, reiterated that the paths forward for the two papers weren't the same. So the split makes sense, he said.
The two companies will continue to work together after the split, Moise said. The newspaper will still be printed and distributed through Belo, and The News and the Record-Chronicle will continue to share content.
"The real difference will be in the ownership structure, and Bill and the DRC team will have real, true autonomy and independence over the strategic decisions they make in the future," Moise said. "We're excited we're going to remain business partners with the DRC, and I hope we'll be able to play a meaningful part of their future, just in a different way."
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Privacy Groups Decry UK Surveillance
British Government Claims Right to Spy On Social Media Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 17, 2014
Charles Blandford Farr of the U.K. Office for Security and Counter Terrorism
Privacy experts are continuing their press for an overhaul of the U.K. government's online surveillance programs, as part of a case triggered by Edward Snowden's leaks. In particular, they've criticized the government's previously secret legal justification - released this week - for spying en masse on British residents' online communications, including Google searches, Facebook posts and Webmail messages.
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Legally, the British government says it's authorized to intercept any "external" online communications - Google searches, Webmail access, YouTube viewing or Facebook posts - that involve communicating with a server that's physically located outside of the United Kingdom.
Accordingly, any use of the Internet - "such as a Google search, a search of YouTube for a video, a 'tweet' on Twitter, or the posting of a message on Facebook" - can be monitored if at any point packets related to that request are handled by a server located outside of the United Kingdom, said Charles Blandford Farr, director general of the U.K. Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, in a new 48-page witness statement.
Farr is set to represent the U.K.'s intelligence services - comprising the Security Service, or MI5; Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; and Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ - next month in a hearing before the country's Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The tribunal is an independent judicial body appointed by the Queen and empowered to investigate complaints pertaining to government surveillance, as well as the only organization in the United Kingdom legally able to investigate the conduct of the country's intelligence services.
The tribunal hearing, scheduled for July 14 to 18, was sparked when a coalition of privacy and civil rights groups - including Privacy International, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Pakistani organization Byes for All - filed a lawsuit last year challenging the legality of the U.K. government's surveillance programs. The group also called on the government to stop participating in the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism metadata collection program.
Government Claims Broad Powers
Privacy rights groups have seized on Farr's statement, which marks the first time that a U.K. government official has commented on any legal justifications pertaining to potential U.K. mass surveillance programs involving British residents.
"The distinction between 'internal' and 'external' communications is crucial," says privacy rights group Privacy International. "Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which regulates the surveillance powers of public bodies, 'internal' communications may only be intercepted under a warrant which relates to a specific individual or address. These warrants should only be granted where there is some suspicion of unlawful activity. However, an individual's 'external communications' may be intercepted indiscriminately, even where there are no grounds to suspect any wrongdoing."
The government's reading of RIPA gives it the legal authority to intercept virtually any online communication, although it's not clear how often this authority might be used. For example, Farr said that "a computer user in the British Islands searching for a video posted on YouTube will in effect send a communication to YouTube's website to ask it to give him the results of a particular search - which means that he communicates with a YouTube Web server; and the Web server, in turn, communicates back to him the results of the search that he has made. Whether or not those communications are 'external' will depend upon where the Web server used by YouTube is located."
Privacy Groups Cry Foul
Many legal and privacy experts have criticized the government's reasoning. James Welch, legal director of U.K. civil rights group Liberty, accuses the security services of operating "in a legal and ethical vacuum," and calls on Parliament to give the country's "snooping laws ... a radical overhaul."
Meanwhile, Ian Brown, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, said in a witness statement that the government's interpretation of RIPA was "an artificial construction" that "is not ... supported by the Interception of Communications Code of Practice, case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, or ministerial statements in the House of Lords during the passage of the Act."
Snowden's Leaks Triggered Case
The privacy groups launched their legal challenge following former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks, which - beginning last year - offered a never-before-seen look at the scale of automated surveillance programs being undertaken by the United States and its "Five Eyes" alliance, which also includes Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Snowden's leaks also detailed a close working relationship between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish intelligence agencies, which included British officials advising other countries about how to circumvent laws designed to restrict their domestic intelligence agencies' ability to conduct mass surveillance of cross-border communications, the Guardian reported.
The information leaked by Snowden also revealed the existence of a program, code-named Tempora, which taps into 200 transatlantic fiber-optic cables carrying data from telephone exchanges and Internet servers from North America to Britain, before the data flows to western Europe.
According to the Guardian, which first published related details, Tempora was first tested in 2008 and then rolled out in 2011, backed by warrants that compelled commercial companies - a.k.a. "intercept partners" - to participate in the British program, as well as keep their participation secret. Tempora has access to an estimated 21 petabytes of data per day.
The program, according to Snowden, was designed to collect massive quantities of private data. "Tempora is the signals intelligence community's first 'full-take' Internet buffer that doesn't care about content type and pays only marginal attention to the Human Rights Act," he told German publication der Spiegel in a July 2013 interview. "It snarfs everything, in a rolling buffer to allow retroactive investigation without missing a single bit. Right now the buffer can hold three days of traffic, but that's being improved."
Farr Defends Authority
Farr, who's in charge of the British government body that coordinates the country's counterterrorism strategy - and reportedly is on a shortlist of people being considered to helm GCHQ - in his witness statement didn't confirm or deny the existence of the "alleged Tempora interception operation." But he said any program that automatically intercepted large amounts of information would be legal - and not amount to an unlawful intrusion under EU human rights law into people's privacy - provided it was automated, and only reviewed based on suspicion of unlawful activity. "Intrusion ... into the privacy of innocent persons would require sentient examination of individuals' communications," he argued.
But privacy rights groups say Farr's statement shows that the U.K. government believes it has a legal right to spy not just on foreigners, but any U.K. resident's online communications. "Such an action by U.K. intelligence agencies is [a] sheer violation of people's privacy, security, freedom of expression, and assembly," says Shahzad Ahmad, country director for Pakistan privacy rights group Bytes for All. "Such attempts by established democracies are setting extremely worrisome precedents for repressive regimes all over the world."
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Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe
Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.
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Home PHOTOGRAPHY Invisible City
David Then, David Now
What’s There
Invisible City
by John Paskievich
This text is from Stephen Osborne’s introduction to John Paskievich’s book, The North End, published by University of Manitoba Press in 2007. It will be reprinted in The North End Revisited, an expanded version of the original 2007 book, which will be published in September, 2017.
John Paskievich has been photographing the North End of Winnipeg for more than thirty years, and the body of work that he has built up in that time is a revelation of the particularity of people and place. His genius is to have created or perhaps discovered a singular photography: as Fred Herzog can be said to have created a Vancouver photography and Michel Lambeth a Toronto photography, so has John Paskievich created a Winnipeg photography.
Cities and the people who live in them are the classic subjects of photography. One of Daguerre’s earliest photographs is a view of a busy Paris street in 1838, but the people and the vehicles streaming by are moving too quickly to leave an impression on his very slow emulsion: only the unmoving lower leg of a man having his shoe shined remains to be seen in an apparently empty street. As materials and equipment were refined in the following decades, the images of passersby began to register more and more frequently in photographs, and by the middle of the twentieth century, modern photography had become steeped in the instantaneous. City streets even at night were viable settings for encounters between passersby and the camera, and in the work of Brassai and Cartier-Bresson (who conceived of the “decisive moment”) in Paris and Lisette Model on the Riviera, an urban photography emerged that consisted largely of encounters and confrontation between photographers and an anonymous citizenry. An exception was Eugene Atget, who prowled the streets of old Paris for decades with an antique field camera, intent on his mission of recording (on slow emulsion) a city and a way of living that was disappearing rather than passing by. Atget’s enormous body of work, which includes no image of the Eiffel Tower, the most prominent landmark in Paris, was “discovered” in 1925 by Berenice Abbott (herself an inventor of an urban photography of New York City that might be compared to jazz), who wrote of the “shock of realism unadorned” that she experienced upon first seeing Atget’s work.
In North America the quintessential photography of street, road, café and jukebox emerged in the work of Robert Frank, the Swiss photographer whose compelling collection The Americans, which appeared in 1958 with an introduction by Jack Kerouac, defined the photographer as a wanderer passing through town, a traveller on the move—a motif that we see extended in the streets of New York City and Los Angeles in the sixties in the work of Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, whose work further expressed the alienation of the photographer from his subject (i.e., the women and the men in the street).
In 1972, when he was twenty-five years old, John Paskievich went home to Winnipeg, Manitoba, to visit his family in the North End, where he had grown up and gone to school. He had been away for five years, and had lived in Montreal and travelled through Europe and the Middle East, and he had gone to Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto, where he studied photography and film. When he returned to his old neighbourhood he realized that here was a city almost never seen in photographs. The North End of Winnipeg occupies about twelve square kilometres centred on Main Street north of the vast CPR railyard. It is a place of low ramshackle buildings, discount warehouses, corner stores, rows of tiny houses, uncrowded sidewalks: there was no “look” to the North End in the sense that many European and North American cities can be said to have a look, a way of presenting themselves in the syntax of urbanity. “Official” Winnipeg (the city whose slogan had once been “Bull’s eye of the Dominion”), the visible city on the other side of the vast railyards separating it from the North End, even today retains the imposing look of Empire: from the temple banks at downtown intersections to the war memorials and the legislative buildings spread out over vast lawns like something left over from the British Raj (a plaque in the legislature memorializes the United Empire Loyalists, who “adhered to the unity of Empire in the Canadian wilderness”). Signs of Empire (save for a lonely monument to the troops that defeated Riel in 1885) are unobtrusive in the North End, where prominent buildings are the Ukrainian Labour Temple, epicentre of the General Strike of 1919, and Holy Trinity Cathedral, whose domes can be seen rising up over the strip mall on Main Street. Little else save the vast yards of the CPR stands forth to the eye of the visitor or the passerby.
When John Paskievich first turned his camera toward the North End—a place that was already familiar to him, and therefore hidden to some extent by habit and familiarity—he knew the work of Cartier-Bresson and Frank, Friedlander and Winogrand, but he had also been affected by the work of Michel Lambeth, whose photographs of the east end of Toronto suggested an urban photography grounded in intimacy with childhood places. John Paskievich was a traveller (and an outsider by birth and family history) returned home, and as he set out to renew his acquaintance with places and people known to him, he had to be able to see without the hindrance of habit, without the familiarity that renders most of us unable to perceive the world, the cities in which we live and the people around us.
The North End was the working-class enclave first of immigrant and farming families moving into the city, and refugees displaced by two world wars (John Paskievich’s Ukrainian parents survived the Nazi labour camps, and he was born in a Displaced Persons Camp in Austria in 1947), and as the original populations moved into more prosperous neighbourhoods, the new poorer classes of the later twentieth century moved in, seeking homes and refuge. By the time John Paskievich began roaming the neighbourhoods that he had known as a child, moving through streets and alleyways, along the narrow lots and ramshackle wooden frontages already falling into disuse, the largest group of “new immigrants” were First Nations people moving into the city from the Canadian hinterland. Today the North End has the biggest urban population of First Nations people in Canada.
The North End sprang into life in the first decade and a half of the twentieth century, as the population of Winnipeg (until now largely Anglo-Celtic in origin) surged from 40,000 to 150,000, largely Slavic and Jewish families from eastern Europe, who took up labouring jobs on the railway, in lumber camps, on farms and in the textile factories and sweat shops. Many of the women were employed as day servants or as day workers picking vegetables for the market gardens, or as piece workers for the textile manufacturers. Property developers laid down a grid of narrow streets lined with rows of cheaply built houses on twenty-five-foot lots. By 1906 nearly half the population of Winnipeg was squeezed into the North End, which occupied less than a third of the area of the city. Inadequate water and sewage connections resulted for decades in periodic epidemics of fever and infection (at one time infant mortality was 25 percent in the North End and 11 percent in the rest of the city). By 1913, English was spoken by only a quarter of the population; the majority spoke Ukrainian, German, Polish, Yiddish, Russian or any of several other eastern and central European languages. The North End was a culture of cultures long before multiculturalism was a national catchphrase; but “official” Canada perceived the people of the North End to be a homogeneous population, an unassimilated chunk of Winnipeg cut off from the rest of the city and the rest of the country by language, religion, politics, class, ethnicity, and the racket and the physical barrier of thousands of freight cars shunting along 120 miles of track in the world’s largest urban railyard—a separation of neighbourhoods and cultures that remains today deeply etched into the psyche of the city.
For most of us, the first glimpse of a place is the only one that gives us the sense of the new, the particular: within moments, days, weeks, the world sinks away into the familiar and we see it no more. John Paskievich, on the other hand, was prepared to see and to see again, even as the North End that he had known was disappearing before his eyes and often falling into decrepitude. Only one of the movie houses along Main Street was still operating in 1975, as a second-run house obscured by a plywood hoarding: when Paskievich approached it with his camera, a man in a plaid sports jacket was hunkered down in front of the hoarding, studying the fine print on a poster advertising Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The scene is saturated in stillness, and as we look through the photographs of the North End that Paskievich made over the next three decades, we find this stillness again and again: at times languid, at times approaching the desolate; it is a stillness that implies always a certain distance that Paskievich maintains as an expression of respect and at times even reverence for his subjects. Here the camera never pries. These images carry the power of allegory, of meaning concealed but pressing forward from within us. Paskievich leads us into the North End not through a series of “decisive moments” as Cartier-Bresson would have it, but rather through a display of tableaux vivants: we are invited to linger and pay attention. Women in the North End are frequently seen in a stooping posture: leaning toward the ground, toward children, toward each other. They enact their lives. We see them in groups more often than singly, whereas men in the North End tend to appear one at a time, even when in groups.
In one of Paskievich’s most haunting images, two men walking backwards ease a toboggan laden with boxes over the curb: they lean delicately against the ropes: they are attentive, patient, watchful; they are observed closely by two passersby, and the photographer, who is careful not to get in the way. Here all is deliberate, unselfconscious: this is a tableau that can be set only in the North End. I look at this photograph and I want to be there then, on that cold day, at that moment, looking on at the enactment of the small miracle of the toboggan and its burden.
On the sidewalk a man in striped trousers carries a braided rug bundled over his head and shoulders: he resembles an exotic insect. Like so many of Paskievich’s photographs, it seems to be offered as a gift: the miracle is that the photographer was there with his camera, prepared for the man to pass by with his odd burden. City photography is conventionally confrontational: we experience encounters with strangers in the Los Angeles and the New York of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, in whose work we are made aware of the photographer as outsider. In most urban photography, the camera slips through a passing scene, the decisive moment provides the passing glimpse and the perceiving viewer moves on, to another scene and another, soon perhaps even to leave town in search of more moments.
At the edge of a narrow lot, a family of six gather in the space between yards: they spill down into the space and up to the fence in a perfect distribution of childish bodies, adult hands and shoulders, and the textures of peeling paint, bare ground, worn clothing, bicycle parts and the precise living attention of each member of the family in the narrow confine. Here again is the living tableau that leads us to attend to the people who make their lives in the invisible city of the North End.
These photographs constitute a continual return, a renewal of seeing. In that way they are more closely related to the Paris photography of Eugene Atget, which can be seen as an extended meditation on a single subject. Atget’s goal over four decades was, in his words, “to possess all of Old Paris.” He was engaged in a kind of preservation. Fifty years later, John Paskievich set out not to “possess” the “old” North End but to find it, and he found traces of it, not in vanishing architectural wonders (there are few of these in the North End) but in the spaces themselves, in the stillness in which the past still lingers, and in the dignity and the singularity of its inhabitants.
Neither do these photographs provoke a sense of nostalgia: we are not moved to romanticize what we see in these images, which more than anything seem to express the real: the real that always contains a vacancy, a certain desolation, even perhaps a resignation approaching but not achieving despair. We are brought to these scenes and feel only that we wish to see them ourselves: they are in a sense so familiar that we feel that we missed them while they were happening. This is the resurgence of “realism unadorned” that Berenice Abbott experienced in the work of Eugene Atget. Paskievich leads us precisely to the surprise of the ordinary, of that which becomes invisible to the people who live it, and which Paskievich the photographer is able to retain, or recover: the fresh view. He sees for the first time: the now remains fresh for him. The art of seeing as expressed in these photographs is a kind of touching, a tactile response to the world; these photographs emerge from a phenomenology of the local: they are an embrace, given rather than (as photographs are usually said to be) taken.
There is much apparently empty space in these photographs: much of the past of the North End is implied in them. And even the “present” North End that we see in these pages has gone into the past (most of these photographs were taken between 1975 and 1995). I look into the spaces in these images and I sense the presence of my grandfather, my father’s father, whose family moved into the North End in the early 1900s from a farm in Ontario, and whose father took a job with the CPR. My grandfather worked as a lumberjack and then went to war in France. He met my grandmother in the Eaton’s mail-order plant. She had moved into the North End from a homestead in Alberta. They too are remembered in these images of the distant spaces of the North End.
—Stephen Osborne
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Yes! This is the NORTH END of Winnipeg! True some sad but some very much happy!
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State of Illinois files suit to declare non-competes that bind low wage employees are unlawful and unenforceable
By Thadford Felton on November 6, 2017 at 11:37 AM
In a somewhat unusual move, the state of Illinois has filed a complaint against Check Into Cash of Illinois, Inc., on behalf of the citizens of the state, seeking a declaration that the non-competition covenants that the company requires its employees to sign are unenforceable and violate the Illinois Freedom to Work Act, 820 ILCS 90/1.
What Jimmy John’s legal challenges mean for franchisors
Think twice before requiring at-will, low-wage workers to sign noncompetes
On June 8, the Illinois attorney general filed a lawsuit in Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court against two Jimmy John’s entities: franchisor Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC and an LLC owning eight Jimmy John’s sandwich shops, Jimmy John’s Enterprises LLC. The lawsuit alleges the sandwich chain engaged in unfair and deceptive acts or practices unlawful under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act. The lawsuit seeks to stop the allegedly unlawful use of noncompetition agreements on at-will, low-wage employees and to ensure that current and former employees are informed that the noncompetition agreements they signed are unenforceable.
Another judge weighs in on enforceability of non-compete agreements
By Thadford Felton on June 8, 2016 at 1:49 PM
A recent decision from the Northern District of Illinois favors the “totality of circumstances” approach to evaluating the sufficiency of consideration necessary to support a restrictive covenant
Another judge from the Northern District of Illinois has thrown his hat into the ring in the debate over what is required to make a non-compete agreement enforceable in Illinois.
Whether Illinois has a ‘bright-line’ rule for adequacy of consideration in non-competes just got a bit hazier
By David Goodman on March 16, 2016 at 2:10 PM
The “bright line” rule for the adequacy of non-compete agreements in Illinois first announced in Fifield v. Premier Dealer Servs., Inc., just became a bit hazier for parties evaluating the enforceability of their restrictive covenants.
Last week, a federal district court judge applying Illinois law declined to void a non-compete agreement on the basis that the at-will employment relationship that was the consideration for the restrictive covenant lasted less than two years. Adopting the reasoning of three of the four federal court judges in the Northern District of Illinois that have addressed the issue, the court, in R.J. O’Brien & Associates v. Williamson,1 concluded that the Illinois Supreme Court would reject a two-year bright line rule for the adequacy of consideration required for a non-compete agreement to be enforceable.
Conclusory allegations, delay prove fatal to request for TRO against former employee
By Courtney Adair on March 2, 2016 at 10:57 AM
A recent decision from the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District reminds employers of the need to act quickly and thoroughly in investigating potential breaches of employee restrictive covenants and in taking actions to enforce their rights under those agreements.
In Bridgeview Bank Group v. Meyer, 2016 IL App (1st) 160042, the court affirmed the trial court’s denial of an employer’s petition for a temporary restraining order against a former employee. Bridgeview Bank had employed Thomas Meyer as a senior vice president. The bank entered into an employment agreement incorporating non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure provisions at the beginning of the employment relationship.
Amid uncertainty on restrictive covenants, employers may need different approaches
By Courtney Adair on January 19, 2016 at 11:26 AM
While viability of strict ‘two-year rule’ is in question in Illinois, employers should consider alternatives to make sure non-competes are enforced
Some Illinois appellate courts, beginning with Fifield v. Premier Dealers Services, Inc., 2013 IL App. (1st) 120327, have applied a bright line rule requiring two years of continuous at-will employment to support an employee restrictive covenant absent additional consideration. The Illinois Supreme Court has not yet addressed the issue. And a majority (but not all) of the federal courts that have considered the issue have predicted that the Illinois Supreme Court will find there is no bright line rule as to the duration of at-will employment that is sufficient to support the enforcement of a non-compete agreement.
Inadequate Consideration of the Adequacy of “Consideration” is an Avoidable Impediment to Enforceable Non-Competes
By David Goodman on February 17, 2015 at 10:46 AM
As two federal courts recognized in February 2015, Illinois law is unsettled as to the duration of continued employment that is sufficient consideration to support a non-compete agreement. In Bankers Life And Casualty v. Miller1,a February 2015 federal court decision applying Illinois law, the court held that there is no bright line test for the length of continued employment sufficient to support a post-employment restrictive covenant specifically rejecting the argument that employment less than two years is inherently insufficient consideration under Illinois law. And in Cumulus Radio Corporation v. Olson and Alpha Media, the court recognized that the Illinois Supreme Court would likely embrace the same sort of fact specific approach to assessing the adequacy of consideration that it applies to determine whether the restrictions are reasonable.
Consider The Enforceability of Restrictive Covenant Provisions By Third Party Purchasers When Drafting Agreements
By Thadford Felton on January 21, 2015 at 1:19 PM
Buyer beware as the asset protection afforded by non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements signed by prospective purchasers may not survive the sale. This issue was addressed in a recent federal decision in Illinois offering some cautionary reminders for business buyers. In this case, Keywell LLC (“Keywell”) sought to sell its assets. Croniment Holdings, Inc. (“Croniment”), a bidder for Keywell’s assets, signed a non-disclosure agreement (the “NDA”) which prohibited Croniment from disclosing Keywell confidential information and prohibited Croniment from hiring any of Keywell’s employees with whom Croniment came into contact during negotiations. Keywell and Croniment entered into an asset purchase agreement by which Croniment would serve as the stalking horse bid for Keywell’s assets in bankruptcy.
Setting Forth the Damages the Employer is Entitled to if an Employee Breaches His/Her Non-Competition Agreement Will Help Deter Breaches and Save Money in Litigation
By Thadford Felton on October 7, 2014 at 2:11 PM
Business Tip: Include a liquidated damages clause in your restrictive covenant agreements that clearly sets forth how damages will be calculated in the event your employee breaches the non-competition agreement.
As a President, CEO or General Counsel of your company, you have recognized the need to have your key executives and employees enter into non-competition or non¬-solicitation agreements. Those non-competition agreements are usually a cost effective way to stop your key executives and employees from competing against when they leave your company. However, in those instances where you have to go to court to enforce your non-competition agreement, the experience can be costly, in terms of attorneys' fees, your time and your company's resources.
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Home » How Hospitals Can Help Battle Human Trafficking
How Hospitals Can Help Battle Human Trafficking
The class aims to educate caregivers and other health care workers in dealing with the problem.
Paul Barr
Catholic Health Initiatives has made it easier for a hospital or health system to get up to speed in identifying and treating potential victims of human trafficking. The Englewood, Colo.-based system recently launched an online half-hour course to do just that.
Called “Addressing Human Trafficking in the Health Care Setting,” CHI is aiming to provide more than just an introduction to the problem with its interactive course, which offers facts, tactics and tips on dealing with possible trafficking victims.
The problem can take various forms, including that of forced labor or sex, and can involve children. CHI’s program is based on the work of Massachusetts General Hospital, a leader in the matter, and could prove useful for the growing number of hospitals and health systems working to combat the problem. Additional resources also also are available from the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association and the American Medical Women’s Association.
Colleen Scanlon, R.N., senior vice president and chief advocacy officer for CHI, says the decision to produce the course was an outgrowth of the system’s long-standing focus on preventing violence. As awareness of the problem of trafficking continued to grow, CHI in 2014 produced an introductory video to spread awareness of health care’s role in solving the problem, targeting its caregivers and staff, as well as others. After the video was completed, CHI officials decided the next phase of spreading awareness would be the course, Scanlon says.
The program may prove valuable to caregivers in the field. Some finesse is needed when dealing with patients who are potential victims, because they are likely to feel threatened from retribution if they reveal their plight. At the same time, health care workers may be their best avenue to freedom, so handling the situation properly can be critical to gaining a victim’s freedom.
In addition to the course, the information is available in a downloadable PDF that can be stored on a smartphone, Scanlon says.
CHI is not done with the issue, and will consider what its next step may be. “It will be an ongoing focus,” she says. “These issues are very important.”
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Please help us support those affected by the bushfires around the country by donating to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund in the donation tins located at reception.
In response to the devastating bushfires across Australia, VenuesWest is conducting a bushfire appeal at HBF Stadium and HBF Arena.
If you'd like to contribute, we're accepting donations in tins located at reception.
Any amount, no matter how small, will help make a difference.
All donations will go directly to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund.
The funds we raise will will support Red Cross emergency service teams who are responding to the current fires in New South Wales and Queensland, as well as across Australia and further afield. Your efforts will ensure the Red Cross have trained volunteers, aid workers and staff ready to respond as soon as a disaster strikes in Australia and overseas.
Your funds will also help Red Cross to prepare people for any emergency, by making a plan that’s right for them and their family, wherever they live and whatever risks they face.
For more information, or if you would like to donate directly to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund, please visit:
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The facts about kidney disease
1 in 10 Australian adults shows some sign of kidney disease. But what causes it and what treatments are available?
When Patricia Scheetz was just 27, she was put on dialysis after a diagnosis of end-stage kidney disease. “I was on dialysis for 4 to 5 hours a day, 4 days a week,” says Scheetz. “Even when I wasn’t dialysing, I couldn’t leave the house for long periods of time as it was too exhausting. Going downstairs to get the post was a massive achievement. I was confined to bed. It wasn’t much of a life.”
An estimated 1.7 million Australian adults have some sign of chronic kidney disease, reports Kidney Health Australia, and 1 in 3 is at risk of developing the condition. There are about 12,400 people receiving dialysis in Australia because their kidneys can no longer function without help.
If detected early enough, kidney disease can be slowed and complications prevented. But because kidney disease often has few or no symptoms, more than 90% of people are unaware they have the condition.
What is kidney disease?
Your 2 kidneys are your body’s waste filtration system. They filter your blood 12 times per hour, with excess water and waste disposed of as urine. Your digestive system disposes waste as faeces.
If your kidneys are damaged in some way, waste and fluids build up in the body. Blood and albumin (a type of protein) in the urine are common signs of kidney problems, and chronic kidney disease is diagnosed if there’s evidence of kidney damage for more than 3 months.
“Usually when we’re talking about kidney disease, we’re talking about chronic kidney disease,” says Dr Richard Phoon, a nephrologist (kidney specialist) at Westmead Hospital in Sydney.
“As the kidney function declines, patients have a worsening form of kidney disease. The disease has 5 stages, and it’s also defined by the amount of kidney damage, which is how much protein and blood there is in the urine.”
Kidney disease is often called a ‘silent killer’, because you can lose up to 90% of your kidney function before experiencing any symptoms, explains Dr Shilpa Jesudason, a clinical director at Kidney Health Australia.
“A lot of the symptoms of kidney disease are very subtle, and really only [occur] when you lose a lot of kidney function... By the time you get the symptoms, often it's too late to actually do anything about your kidney failure.”
See the symptoms and risk factors of kidney disease.
Early treatment is key
If your kidney health check shows signs of disease, the good news is that early diagnosis could reduce the deterioration of kidney function by as much as 50%.
“The earlier the diagnosis, the more we’re able to intervene and hopefully slow the progression of kidney disease and reduce the risk of complications, particularly cardiovascular disease,” says Dr Phoon.
Early-stage kidney disease is usually managed by a GP, who’ll often recommend lifestyle changes, such as losing weight, quitting smoking, drinking less alcohol, eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Controlling high blood pressure and diabetes with medication can also help to slow the progression of kidney disease.
“Kidney health is really about staying healthy in general – looking after your kidneys is looking after your whole health,” says Dr Phoon.
“It’s not all about medications, but blood pressure tablets and diabetes medications are often a very important part of looking after people with kidney disease.”
Dr Jesudason agrees. “The underlying causes of the kidney disease should be treated,” she says. “A lot of times, it’s diabetes and high blood pressure that can be treated. There may be rarer immune conditions that can often be treated as well.”
Treatment for the later stages
In severe cases, where about 90% of kidney function has been lost, the only options are dialysis or a kidney transplant. This is known as ‘end-stage kidney disease’.
Dialysis isn’t a cure for kidney disease, says Associate Professor Meg Jardine from The George Institute for Global Health. “What it does is replace some of the kidney’s functions when the kidney is too badly damaged to manage. Dialysis will ‘clean’ the blood by removing the by-products of metabolism that would otherwise build up to toxic levels.
“Dialysis also removes excess water from the blood when the kidney is so badly damaged it can’t make sufficient amounts of urine.”
Dialysis is life saving for people at this final stage, adds Assoc Prof Jardine. But “it isn’t the same as a healthy kidney – it only removes about 10% of the metabolic toxins compared with a healthy kidney”.
Eligibility for a kidney transplant depends on a rigorous set of medical tests, as well as the availability of a suitable kidney, but the procedure offers a potentially longer, more active life free from dialysis. “A transplant is another way of treating end-stage kidney disease,” says Assoc Prof Jardine. “It generally cleans the blood much more effectively than dialysis.”
Seven years ago, after 11 months of dialysis, Scheetz had a kidney-pancreas transplant. She says it halted her kidney disease and diabetes. “I had 8 hours of surgery and 5 hours later felt like I could run from Westmead Hospital back to where I was living in Sydney,” she says. “I felt amazing pretty much straight away.”
“Not everyone has the same experience, but I get to live my life now.”
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United Way of Fort Smith Area plans block party, open house
By Scott Smith Times Recordssmith@swtimes.com
A block party-style gathering with food, music and tours of a Fort Smith nonprofit's new digs is on the horizon.
The United Way of Fort Smith Area will host its 2019 Campaign Kick-Off and New Office Open House from 4-6 p.m. Thursday at 120 N. 13th St. The all-ages block party will feature entertainment by area singer/actress Gabrielle Gore, a cookout, guest speakers, games, building tours and more.
"We are excited to be able to block off the street and have a big block party," said Eddie Lee Herndon, United Way president. "We will have hot dogs and hamburgers, games like cornhole. It will be fun."
A student of Muldrow High School and an active participant in the Community School of the Arts in Fort Smith, Gore has worked with the Tulsa Opera and the Fort Smith Symphony. She also has received five National Youth Arts awards from New York, according to promotional materials from the United Way.
"Gabrielle Gore is an outstanding talent who will perform for us," Herndon said.
Tours of United Way's new building will be 4-5 p.m. and will be a big part of the day's festivities, said Carrie Terry, community initiatives coordinator for United Way.
"We're getting landscaping done and we're expecting a lot of people," she said. "Our new building is about double the size of where we were before — it's 5,400 square feet now.
"We have a volunteer center in there now, and we have an actual board room for meetings," Terry added. "It's going to be great."
Herndon agreed.
"It's a one-story building and it has more room," he said. "There's an intern center for interns and students who want to volunteer and work, and other space. We are excited to be able to give tours of the new building during the block party."
The upcoming block party also kicks off United Way's annual financial campaign. Each year, United Way supporters raise money via a "pacesetter company" campaign to help kick-off the effort to fund United Way's 32 community partner agencies.
"This year, we have a record number of Pacesetters — 37 companies are participating in the campaign," Herndon said. "Our goal was to have $950,000 raised in August, so we will announce the total we achieved with the Pacesetter campaign at our kick-off/block party.
"We've set a lofty goal this year," he added. "We have set a goal to raise $2 million. That is where we would like to be at the end of the year, when the campaign wraps up."
Herndon called United Way's 32 partner agencies "blessings" in their respective communities.
"These partner agencies that work every day in the areas ... to help others from birth to the end of life in our six-county footprint," he said. "Our agencies have wonderful, wholesome programs that are both proactive and reactive in nature. We work everyday to produce great students, we work with great nutrition programs and help people get equipped for high school and beyond.
"United Way supports and works with senior citizens, and we work to help people get back on their feet in their jobs and bring stability to their families," Herndon added.
United Way officials and volunteers are still raising money to help the victims of the recent flooding, he said.
"Over 500 families were greatly affected by the water, and we are continuing to work through the long-term recovery to help those individuals rebuild and get back into their homes," Herndon said. "We've raised about $270,000 so far, and we need to raise all the money we can get to help those people."
Those wishing to donate to the flood drive can call (479) 782-1311 or mail a check designated 'Flood 2019' to United Way of Fort Smith Area, 120 N. 13th St., Fort Smith, AR 72901. Donations also can be made by texting "flood2019" to 91999, Herndon said.
More information can be found by visiting UnitedWayFortSmith.org and the United Way of Fort Smith Facebook page.
"It's been a trying time and a rewarding time for our community," Herndon said of recent events in the area. "It's been tragic to see the flood and all the devastation, but on the other side, it's almost overwhelming to see the generosity of the community.
"Companies, churches, schools and others have raised money and donated food," he added. "We just live in a wonderful place."
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Meeting Minutes 9-19-2019
Meeting Minutes 10-17-2018
MINUTES TEST
Hartford Area Cable Television Advisory Council
Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Simsbury, West Hartford, Windsor
History of the Hartford Area CATV Franchise
The initial application for the Hartford area franchise was foiled with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) by New England Industries, Inc. (NEI) of New York City, on April 21, 1964. On March 21, 1967, New England Industries, Inc was granted a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity by the PUC to construct and operate a cable television system in the towns of Hartford, West Hartford, East Hartford, Windsor, Bloomfield and Simsbury. Shortly thereafter, NEI formed a subsidiary corporation, Hartford CATV, Inc to operate the franchise. The firm was owned 95% by NEI and 5% by Irving s. Ribicoff and David Kotkin of Hartford.
The PUC's decision to award some seventeen franchises in Connecticut, including the franchise to NEI, was appealed by disappointed applicants including TV Channel 30. The appeals were rejected and the franchises granted by the PUC sustained by the Conn. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1970 (Connecticut Television Inc., vs. Public Utilities Commission 189 Conn 317).The PUC did not press any of the CATV to franchises to proceed with construction due to notification of proposed rule-making by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) issued in December, 1968. The FCC cable regulations were finally completed in February 1972. By these regulations all franchises applied to the FCC for their required certificates of compliance. All Connecticut applications were opposed by Connecticut Television Stations. Subsequently FCC rulings validated the Connecticut franchises and the FCC proceeded to approve certificates of compliance. A final challenge to the FCC approval was brought by Channel 30 to the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, but was eventually withdrawn.
Hartford CATV, Inc. received its Certificate of Compliance form the FCC during March, 1974. The first phase of strand mapping and engineering were performed for NEI by Telesystems Corporation. Late in 1971 Telesystems Corp. merged with Communications Properties, Inc. (CPI) of Austin Texas. In March 1973, subject to approval by the PIUC, CPI agreed to acquire 47 1/2%of Hartford CATV, Inc., stock in consideration for a loan of $1,000,000. to NEI ( the note was due August 10, 1978). It is assumed that the transfer of stock to CPI would lower the cost of construction and speed the completion of the system. In April, 1974 Hartford CATV entered into a contract with GTE Sylvania to proceed with the construction of the systems under the supervision of CPI.
New England Industries, Inc. by letter and application dated April 23, 1973 and supplemental exhibits and application dated through May 1, 1974, filed the following requests with the PUC.
1.) approval to transfer its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Hartford CATV, Inc.
2.) approval of transfer of ownership of 47 ½% of the common stock of Hartford CATV, Inc. from NEI to CPI in accordance to a agreement of sale dated March 30, 1973.
3.) Approval of the constructions and financing contract between Hartford CATV, Inc. and GTE Sylvania, Inc. dated April 22,1974
During the public hearing which followed the City of Hartford appeared as an intervener. In addition to opposing the applications, the City contended that the testimony and evidence presented at the hearing demonstrated that NEI was incompetent and incapable of exercising all of the full rights and privileges under its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. The city, therefore, requested the PUC to revoke the Certificated of the company.
On October 3, 1974, based on their findings, the PUC approved all of NEI's applications. Following the PUC's decision, the city of Hartford brought suit against the PUC challenging its ruling that allowed NEI to transfer the 47 1/2 % of its stock in Hartford CATV, Inc to CPI. The City claimed that the stock transfer would diminish local control of the franchise. Pending the settlement of the litigation, Hartford CATV stopped construction of the system. Approximately 15 miles of cable had been stranded in West Hartford.
I January, 1975, NEI asked the Hartford Court of Common Pleas to dismiss the appeal by the City of Hartford. The company claimed that the City was not an "aggrieved party" with a legal interest in the franchise. NEI's request was over-ruled ain April by Judge Joseph H Goldberg of the Court of Common Pleas.
After a year's delay. On January 6, 1976, the City of Hartford's appeal was denied. Court of Common Pleas Judge Rodney S. Eielson ruled that the City of Hartford was not an "aggrieved Party" in the transfer of stock from NEI to CPI (City of Hartford vs. New England Industries. Inc. et al. No. 112057). The City of Hartford declined to appeal the ruling, thus ending the long period of litigation between the City of Hartford and NEI.
By June, 1976 the cable company had not made necessary financial arrangements to begin construction. Engineering plans and mapping of E. Hartford, Hartford and West Hartford were being updated in an effort to secure the financing as soon as possible. By late summer or early fall the company anticipated filing for approval of financing, Construction and rate schedules with Public Utilities Control Authority (PUCA)
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Clip Featured in Rabbi Michael Lerner's
Tikkun's Haggadah
Contributed by Rabbi Michael Lerner
The saltwater on our table traditionally represents the tears of the Israelite slaves. The green vegetables we dip in the water suggest the possibility of growth and renewal even in the midst of grief.
The greens on the table also remind us of our commitment to protect the planet from ecological destruction. Instead of focusing narrowly on what we may “realistically” accomplish in today’s world, we must refocus the conversation on what the planet needs in order to survive and flourish. We must get out of the narrow place in our thinking and look at the world not as a resource, but as a focus for awe, wonder, and amazement. We must reject the societal story that identifies success and progress with endless growth and accumulation of things. Instead we will focus on acknowledging that we already have enough; we need to stop exploiting our resources and instead care for the earth.
We are descended from slaves, people who staged the first successful slave rebellion in recorded history. Ever since, our people has kept alive the story of liberation, and the consciousness that cruelty and oppression are not inevitable “facts of life” but conditions that can be changed.
The task may seem more overwhelming to us today than in previous moments. Today there is no longer some easily identifiable external evil force playing the role of Pharaoh. Instead, we live in an increasingly unified global economic and political system that brings well-being to some even as it increases the misery of others.
We are in the midst of a huge spiritual and environmental crisis. Our society has lost its way. Yet most of us are even embarrassed to talk about this seriously, so certain are we that we could never do anything to transform this reality, and fearful that we will be met with cynicism and derision for even allowing ourselves to think about challenging the kind of technocratic and alienating rationality that parades itself as “progress” in the current world.
The Exodus story teaches us to see that all this could be changed.
We are the community of Tikkun, the Network of Spiritual Progressives of all faiths — the religious and spiritual community formed around the ancient Jewish idea that our task is to be partners with God in healing and transforming our world. We know that the world can be healed and transformed — that is the whole point of telling the Passover story. Our task is to find the ways to continue the struggle for liberation in our own times and in our own circumstances. Some of the steps include:
a. Recognizing each other as allies in that struggle, and supporting each other even though we see each other’s flaws and inadequacies, and see our own as well.
b. Pouring out love into the world, even when we don’t have a good excuse for giving that love to others, even when it seems corny or risky to do so — breaking down our own inner barriers to loving others and to loving ourselves.
c. Rejecting the cynical view that everyone is out for himself or herself, that there is nothing but selfishness. Instead, we will allow ourselves to see that we are surrounded by people who would love to live in a world based on love and justice and peace if they thought that others would join them in building such a world.
d. Taking the risks of being the first ones out in public to articulate an agenda of social change — even though being that person may mean risking economic security, physical security, and sometimes even risking the alienation of friends and family.
e. Allowing ourselves to envision the world the way we really want it to be — and not getting stuck in spiritually crippling talk about what is “realistic.”
The story of Passover is about our people learning to overcome the “realistic” way of looking at the world. Tonight we want to affirm our connection with a different truth: that the world is governed by a spiritual power, by God, by the Force of Transformation and Healing, and that we are created in Her image, we are embodiments of the Spirit, and we have the capacity to join with each other and transform the world we are in.
Affirming that, we dip the greens on our Seder plate in joy at the beauty and goodness of this earth and its vegetation, and recommitting ourselves to do all we can to stop those processes in our society that are contributing to the destruction of the earth.
Dip the greens in saltwater and say blessing.
( from this point on you can eat anything on the table that is a vegetable or vegetable-based)
haggadah Section: Karpas
Source: http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/passover-haggadah-supplement-2011-2
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
Now we eat and enjoy a tasty meal. After you have eaten, dance to some music — or move around the table and talk to people whom you don’t know. The Haggadah says, “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” Traditionally, this is understood to mean not only literally feeding the hungry, but also offering spiritual sustenance to those in need. Both must go hand in hand. We live in a society of unprecedented wealth, yet we turn our backs...
BARECH
If you’ve eaten and been satisfied, thank God for all that we have been given Sing together the blessing over the third cup of wine.
SHEFOCH HAMOTCHA
We pause in our celebration to remember the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Holocaust, and the ways that those in the present who choose to testify to the possibility of transformation become the focus of everyone’s anger and displaced frustrations, and eventually their murderous rage. Being a spiritual or moral vanguard is risky. No wonder it’s easier to assimilate into the celebration of money and cynicism about the contemporary world. Tonight we remember our six million sisters and brothers who perished at...
Commentary / Readings
Tikkun Haggadah Supplement: Introduction
Urchatz
We wash our hands, without saying the blessing. Each person washes the hand of the person next to her (pouring it over a bowl). Imagine that you are washing away all cynicism and despair, and allow yourself to be filled with the hope that the world could be really transformed in accord with our highest vision.
MAGGID (Tell the Story)
Break the middle matzah on the matzah plate. We break the matzah and hide one part (the Afikomen). We recognize that liberation is made by imperfect people, broken, fragmented — so don’t be waiting until you are totally pure, holy, spiritually centered, and psychologically healthy to get involved in tikkun (the healing and repair of the world). It will be imperfect people, wounded healers, who do the healing as we simultaneously work on ourselves. The Bread of Affliction Raise the middle...
Find the Afikomen, symbolizing part of you that was split off and must be reintegrated into your full being to be a whole and free person.
We are gathered here tonight to affirm our continuity with the generations of Jews who have kept alive the vision of freedom in the Passover story. For thousands of years, Jews have affirmed this vision by participating in the Passover Seder. We not only remember the Exodus but actually relive it, bringing its transformative power into our own lives. The Hebrew word for Egypt, mitzrayim, means “narrow straits.” Traditionally, mitzrayim has been understood to mean a spiritual state, the “narrow place”...
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Protecting a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan-India Trilateral Relationship February 19 Event
View a transcript of the event here.
On February 19, Hudson Institute hosted a public conference on the importance of trilateral cooperation between the U.S., India, and Japan for the future prosperity and security of the Indo-Pacific Region. Panelists included Nobukatsu Kanehara, deputy secretary general of the National Security Secretariat & assistant chief cabinet secretary for the government of Japan; Tom Rose, senior advisor & chief strategist for the Office of the Vice President of the United States; Vice Admiral (ret.) Shekhar Sinha, a former commander-in-chief of India’s Western Naval Command; and Hudson Institute’s Lewis Libby, Michael Pillsbury, Patrick Cronin, and Arthur Herman.
From naval exercises in the South China Sea to the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s increasingly aggressive military and economic strategies threaten the liberal order of the Indo-Pacific. In response, leaders of the U.S., Japan, and India are finding common ground over the need for a “free and open Indo-Pacific” to preserve regional independence, security, and prosperity. On February 19, experts will address the regional challenges andareas of possible cooperation between allies in countering China’s expansionist policies.
Nobukatsu Kanehara Speaker
Deputy Secretary General of National Security Secretariat & Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary, Government of Japan
Tom Rose Speaker
Senior Advisor & Chief Strategist, Office of the Vice President
Vice Admiral (ret.) Shekhar Sinha Speaker
Former Commander in Chief of India’s Western Naval Command
Michael Pillsbury Speaker
Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for Chinese Strategy, Hudson Institute
Patrick Cronin Speaker
Arthur Herman Speaker
Lewis Libby Speaker
Senior Vice President, Hudson Institute
19 Tuesday February 19, 2019 11:45am to 2:00pm
11:45 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. Registration & Lunch
12:00 p.m. — 12:05 p.m. Introduction
12:05 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Speakers Remarks
12:50 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Panel Comments & Discussion
1:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Audience Q & A
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Arthur Herman
Lewis Libby
Michael Pillsbury
Senior Fellow & Director for Chinese Strategy
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Texas A&M rallies to end four-game losing streak
Sports // Aggies
Brent Zwerneman , Houston Chronicle Dec. 15, 2019 Updated: Dec. 15, 2019 8:50 p.m.
Emanuel Miller totaled a team-high 20 points in Sunday’s win for Texas A&M, going 7-of-8 from the field and 6-for-6 from the free-throw line.
Photo: Sam Craft, FRE / Associated Press
COLLEGE STATION — Texas A&M won for the first time in five games and for the first time in nearly a month, finally exhaling with a 63-60 comeback victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Sunday night in Reed Arena.
“We needed it pretty bad,” guard Jay Jay Chandler said. “In the locker room, we said it had been since Nov. 20, the last time we got a win. Every game matters now.”
The Aggies snapped a four-game losing streak that included sometimes embarrassing setbacks to Harvard, Temple, Fairfield and Texas. The last time they had won was the last time they played at Reed: a 56-52 comeback victory over Troy 26 days ago.
“That’s a long time,” A&M first-year coach Buzz Williams said. “Maybe not in the world you (reporters) live in, but in this world, it’s an eternity.”
After trailing by 11 two minutes into the second half, the Aggies (4-5) snatched a 48-47 lead with an alley-oop dunk by Josh Nebo on a perfect lob from Andre Gordon with about nine minutes left in the game.
The teams then traded leads before the last minute of action put a the few thousand fans in the 13,000-seat arena on the edges of their seats. Gordon made two free throws with 35 seconds remaining to lift the Aggies to a 60-58 lead, and Savion Flagg made the first of two free throws with nine seconds left for a bit more breathing room.
The Islanders’ Jashawn Talton was whistled for traveling following his rebound of Flagg’s miss on the second free throw, and the Aggies escaped with the victory.
The Islanders (4-6) jumped to a 31-24 halftime lead thanks to 18 points from Jordan Hairston in the first 20 minutes, and he wound up with a game-high 25. The freshman guard was 6-of-7 from the field in the first half, all of which were from 3-point range.
“I’m disappointed for our guys because we played well enough to win,” said Islanders coach Willis Wilson, who previously coached at Rice. “The difference down the stretch is A&M did a good job of trusting the things they do. … I like the direction we’re going. My biggest disappointment is just the loss.”
The Aggies like the direction of freshman forward Emanuel Miller of Ontario, Canada. He led them with a season-high 20 points, going 7-of-8 from the field and making all six of his free throws. His hot hand Sunday kept the Aggies from a fifth consecutive setback early in the Williams tenure.
“We had more of an urgency to fight,” Miller said of the Aggies’ response to being down by double digits to the Islanders early in the second half.
The Aggies will try to cobble together their second winning streak of the season when they host Oregon State on Saturday night. They break a couple of days for Christmas before hosting Texas Southern on Dec. 30 in advance of Southeastern Conference play, which cranks up Jan. 4 at Arkansas.
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Brent Zwerneman is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering Texas A&M athletics. He is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and Sam Houston State University, where he played baseball.
Brent is the author of four published books about Texas A&M, three related to A&M athletics. He’s a four-time winner of APSE National Top 10 writing awards for the San Antonio Express-News, including a second-place finish for breaking the Dennis Franchione “secret newsletter” scandal in 2007.
His coverage of Texas A&M’s move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012. Brent met his wife, KBTX-TV news anchor Crystal Galny, in the Dixie Chicken before an A&M-Texas Tech football game in 2002, and the couple has three children: Will, Zoe and Brady.
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Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
The 1969 Miss Memphis Review
By Steve Masler, January 9, 2020
1. The 1969 Miss Memphis Review Marker
The 1969 Miss Memphis Review. . To protest a city ordinance that banned cross dressing, members of the gay community organized a public drag pageant on October 31, 1969. They named the event the Miss Memphis Review. With a wide array of Memphis residents appearing publicly in Halloween costumes, this was the only day of the year when the crossdressing ordinance was not enforced. The first review took place at this site, then known as the Guild Art Theatre. The Guild's format was primarily foreign and art films. Bill Kendall, its flamboyant, longtime manager, fought repeatedly with the Memphis Board of Censors as films shown at the Guild became more daring and controversial. The first pageant was held without incident. Its organizers considered it a turning point in the decrease of harassment of gay men and lesbians in Memphis. The event later became the Miss Gay Memphis Pageant. . This historical marker was erected in 2019 by Vincent Astor, Mark Jones, The Theater Board and the Shelby County Historical Commission. It is in Memphis in Shelby County Tennessee
To protest a city ordinance that banned cross dressing, members of the gay community organized a public drag pageant on October 31, 1969. They named the event the Miss Memphis Review. With a wide array of Memphis residents appearing publicly in Halloween costumes, this was the only day of the year when the crossdressing ordinance was not enforced. The first review took place at this site, then known as the Guild Art Theatre. The Guild's format was primarily foreign and art films. Bill Kendall, its flamboyant, longtime manager, fought repeatedly with the Memphis Board of Censors as films shown at the Guild became more daring and controversial. The first pageant was held without incident. Its organizers considered it a turning point in the decrease of harassment of gay men and lesbians in Memphis. The event later became the Miss Gay Memphis Pageant.
Erected 2019 by Vincent Astor, Mark Jones, The Theater Board and the Shelby County Historical Commission.
Location. 35° 8.563′ N, 90° 0.227′ W. Marker is in Memphis, Tennessee
, in Shelby County. Marker is at the intersection of Poplar Avenue (U.S. 72) and North Belvedere Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on Poplar Avenue. The marker is on the east side of the Theaterworks at The Evergreen building. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1705 Poplar Avenue, Memphis TN 38104, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Bettis Family Cemetery (approx. ¼ mile away); The Overton Park Shell/The Levitt Shell At Overton Park (approx. half a mile away); Memphis Belle (approx. 0.6 miles away); Hutchison School (approx. 0.7 miles away); Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church (approx. 0.7 miles away); Central Gardens Historic District (approx. ¾ mile away); First Congregational Church (was approx. ¾ mile away but has been reported missing. ); Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance (approx. 0.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Memphis.
1. The Vincent Astor Collection. (Submitted on January 10, 2020, by Steve Masler of Memphis, Tennessee.)
2. Historic Marker Unveiling Commemorates First Public Drag Pageant in Memphis. (Submitted on January 10, 2020, by Steve Masler of Memphis, Tennessee.)
Additional keywords. LGBT; LGBTQ; drag shows
Categories. • Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • Entertainment •
More. Search the internet for The 1969 Miss Memphis Review.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 10, 2020. This page originally submitted on January 10, 2020, by Steve Masler of Memphis, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 39 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on January 10, 2020, by Steve Masler of Memphis, Tennessee. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
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Fort Washington in Prince George's County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
“Coach” James W. Crawford
— In Memoriam —
By M. A. Pimentel, 2008
1. “Coach” James W. Crawford Marker
“Coach” James W. Crawford. Friendly’s first football coach 1971-1991. His teams won three Md. State championships and compiled a record of 166-46-1. Crawford was a “man for all seasons.” Erected in gratitude by the Class of 1993 and Redskin Robert Green ’88. . This historical marker was erected in 1992 by Friendly High School Class of 1993 and Redskin Robert Green. It is in Fort Washington in Prince George's County Maryland
Friendly’s first football coach 1971-1991. His teams won three Md. State championships and compiled a record of 166-46-1. Crawford was a “man for all seasons.” Erected in gratitude by the Class of 1993 and Redskin Robert Green ’88.
Erected 1992 by Friendly High School Class of 1993 and Redskin Robert Green.
Location. 38° 45.057′ N, 76° 58.213′ W. Marker is in Fort Washington, Maryland, in Prince George's County. Marker can be reached from Allentown Road, on the right when traveling north. The marker is on the wall of the ticket booth of the Crawford-Knode Stadium at Friendly High School. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 10000 Allentown Road, Fort Washington MD 20744, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Chapel Hill (approx. 1.6 miles away); 40 Members of the Col. John Addison Family (approx. 1.7 miles away); Prince George’s County (approx. 1.7 miles away); Broad Creek Historic District (approx. 1.7 miles away); Site of Silesia School
(approx. 2 miles away); Saint Monica (approx. 2½ miles away); Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (approx. 2½ miles away); Thrift School (approx. 3.1 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fort Washington.
Categories. • Education • Sports •
More. Search the internet for “Coach” James W. Crawford.
Credits. This page was last revised on November 22, 2019. This page originally submitted on December 28, 2008, by M. A. Pimentel of Waldorf, Maryland. This page has been viewed 1,399 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on December 28, 2008, by M. A. Pimentel of Waldorf, Maryland. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.
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Near Gettysburg in Adams County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
By Craig Swain, December 27, 2008
1. Maryland Memorial
Maryland. . (Back):A Final Tribute. More than 3,000 Marylanders served on both sides of the conflict at the Battle of Gettysburg. They could be found in all branches of the army from the rank of private to major general and on all parts of the battlefield. Brother against brother would be their legacy, particularly on the slopes of Culp's Hill. This memorial symbolizes the aftermath of that battle and the war. Brothers again, Marylanders all. The State of Maryland proudly honors its sons who fought at Gettysburg in defense of the causes they held so dear. Participating Maryland Commands . Union 1st Eastern Shore Infantry 1st Potomac Home Brigade Infantry 3rd Infantry 1st Cavalry Co. A, Purnell Legion Cavalry Battery A, 1st Artillery Confederate 2nd Infantry 1st Cavalry 1st Artillery 2nd Artillery (Baltimore Light) 4th Artillery (Chesapeake) . This historical marker was erected in 1994 by State of Maryland. It is Near Gettysburg in Adams County Pennsylvania
(Back):A Final TributeMore than 3,000 Marylanders served on both sides of the conflict at the Battle of Gettysburg. They could be found in all branches of the army from the rank of private to major general and on all parts of the battlefield. Brother against brother would be their legacy, particularly on the slopes of Culp's Hill. This memorial symbolizes the aftermath of that battle and the war. Brothers again, Marylanders all.
The State of Maryland proudly honors its sons who fought at Gettysburg in defense of the causes they held so dear.
Participating Maryland Commands Union
1st Eastern Shore Infantry
1st Potomac Home Brigade Infantry
3rd Infantry
1st Cavalry
Co. A, Purnell Legion Cavalry
Battery A, 1st Artillery
2nd Infantry
1st Artillery
2nd Artillery (Baltimore Light)
4th Artillery (Chesapeake)
Erected 1994 by State of Maryland.
Location. 39° 48.975′ N, 77° 13.946′ W. Marker is near Gettysburg
By Don Morfe, November 13, 1994
2. Maryland Marker
Rededication of Maryland Monument-November 13, 1994
, Pennsylvania, in Adams County. Marker is on Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling south. Located on the south end of the old visitor center parking lot in Gettysburg National Military Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Delaware (a few steps from this marker); 7th West Virginia Infantry (within shouting distance of this marker); 3rd New York Independent Battery (within shouting distance of this marker); Catherine Guinn Farm (within shouting distance of this marker); 6th Independent Battery, New York Artillery (within shouting distance of this marker); 12th Massachusetts (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Battery G, Second U.S. Artillery (about 500 feet away); Lincoln Speech Memorial (about 500 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gettysburg.
Also see . . . Maryland in the Civil War. A look at Maryland's role in the Confederacy. (Submitted on February 10, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.)
Categories. • War, US Civil •
Parade at dedication of the Maryland Monument
4. Back of Memorial
5. Close up of the Statue
6. Maryland Monument
By Mike Stroud, 2003
7. Maryland
More. Search the internet for Maryland.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. This page originally submitted on February 10, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia. This page has been viewed 747 times since then and 4 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on February 10, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia. 2, 3. submitted on January 2, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 4, 5, 6. submitted on February 10, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia. 7. submitted on February 11, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
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Colorado Expungements, Record Sealing and Background Checks
Background Checks and Criminal Histories I
A criminal record is a record of a person’s criminal history, generally used by potential employers, lenders etc. to assess his or her trustworthiness. The information included in a criminal record varies between countries and even between jurisdictions within a country. In most cases it lists all non-expunged criminal offenses and may also include traffic offenses such as speeding and drunk-driving. In some countries the record is limited to actual convictions (where the individual has pleaded guilty or been declared guilty by a qualified court) while in others it also includes arrests, charges dismissed, charges pending and even charges of which the individual has been acquitted. The latter policy is often argued to be a human rights violation since it works contrary to the presumption of innocence by exposing people to discrimination on the basis of unproven allegations.
The United States falls into the latter category believe it or not.
In the United States, criminal records are compiled and updated on local, state, and federal levels by various law enforcement agencies. Their primary goal is to present a comprehensive criminal history. They may be used for many purposes mostly for background checks including identification, employment, security clearance, adoption, immigration/international travel/visa, licensing, assistance in developing suspects in an ongoing criminal investigation, and for enhanced sentencing in criminal prosecutions. In the United States, these compilations are unlikely to be admissible in court as proof of arrest or conviction.
Criminal histories are maintained by law enforcement agencies in all levels of government. Local police departments, sheriffs’ offices, and specialty police agencies may maintain their own internal databases. On the state level, state police, troopers, highway patrol, correctional agencies, and other law enforcement agencies also maintain separate databases.
Law enforcement agencies often share this information with other similar enforcement agencies and this information is usually made available to the public.[1] Registered sex offenders have information about their crimes or misdemeanors readily available, and Department of Correctional Services in many states disseminate criminal records to the public, through media such as the Internet.
Usually, the only group in society that is not subject to dissemination of any criminal records is juveniles.[verification needed] Some adults can also be eligible for non-disclosure of their records through the process of Record sealing or Expungement. Some states have official “statewide repositories” that contain criminal history information contributed by the various county and municipal courts within the state. These state repositories are usually accurate so long as the state requires and supervises the uploading of data from the local courts. Some states make reporting to the repository voluntary. The information obtained from these repositories can be incomplete and the use of this information has associated risks.
The federal government maintains extensive criminal histories and acts as a central repository for all agencies to report their own data. NCIC (National Crime Information Center) is one such database. Generally, and with a very few exceptions, the records compiled by the federal government are not made available to the private sector. Some private re-sellers claim to offer an NCIC record search. In most cases these claims are fraudulent. Though NCIC records may not be available to private sector companies, they still may hold very accurate criminal records bought from other reporting agencies.
Federal Records Department of Justice- National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) manages the official national criminal history database through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). The NCIC stores information regarding open arrest warrants, arrests, stolen property, missing persons, and dispositions regarding felonies and misdemeanors. The FBI’s compilation of an individual’s criminal identification, arrest, conviction, and incarceration information is known as the Interstate Identification Index, or “Triple-I” for short. This is basically the FBI’s rap sheet (Record of Arrest and Prosecution). It contains information voluntarily reported by law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as information provided by other federal agencies. It contains information on felonies and misdemeanors, and may also contain municipal and traffic offenses if reported by the individual agencies. Each individual who has an entry in the Interstate Identification Index has a unique “FBI number” that is used to identify a specific individual.
It compensates for the fact that an individual may provide several false names, or aliases, to a law enforcement agency when he or she is booked. An individual may also lie about his or her date of birth or social security number as well, making an independent, unique identification key necessary.
It is important to note that the information provided by the Interstate Information Index may come from the agency who “booked” the individual and not necessarily the agency who arrested the individual. Therefore, there may be discrepancies between the arrest date, location, and arresting agency listed in the database and the actual date, location, and agency who made the arrest. The Interstate Information Index may also contain incarceration information as well, listing each time an inmate is transferred from one correctional institution to another as a separate “arrest.” The Interstate Information Index is only as accurate as the information reported to it by individual agencies, and frequently lacks comprehensive information on the dispositions of the various arrests it lists. It is best used as a guide on where to find more comprehensive information on the individual.
National Instant Criminal Background Check System
Mandated by the Brady Bill, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is used by the FBI to screen potential firearms buyers. Citizens who are currently ineligible to own a firearm under current laws may have the opportunity to have their firearms rights restored. Eligibility largely depends on state laws. In addition to searching the NCIC databases, NICS maintains its own index to search for additional disqualifiers from gun ownership. Private companies are not allowed access to this system for background checks.
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
The FBI maintains the largest biometric database in the world with the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). Criminal submissions from arrests and civil submissions from authorized background checks are stored in IAFIS. Currently, IAFIS has more than 47 million submissions in its repository.
Combined DNA Index System
The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) stores DNA profiles for both convicted felons in the Offender Index as well as unidentified DNA found at crime scenes in the Forensic Index. CODIS was originally piloted in 1990 as a project among 14 states. Currently, all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Government participate in CODIS.
Department of Transportation: National Driver Register
While not officially a criminal history repository, the National Driver Register (NDR), operated by the Department of Transportation, maintains information on drivers regarding suspended licenses. The NDR maintains a database of information posted by individual states as mandated by federal law. All drivers who have had their licenses suspended for any reason (including suspensions resulting from several successive minor traffic violations, i.e., Massachusetts suspends for three separate speeding tickets over a six month period) have that information posted by state Registry of
Motor Vehicles offices to the NDR .
Also, the NDR records information concerning convictions of driving under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances, failing to render aid at an accident involving death or injury, and knowingly making a false affidavit or committing perjury to officials about an activity governed by a law or regulation on the operation of a motor vehicle. Additionally, the NDR contains information on traffic violations resulting from a fatal automobile collision, reckless driving, or racing on the highways.
Under federal law, states are required to obtain information collected and stored by the NDR to review records of licensees identified as possible “matches.” If a match is obtained, often states will take action to call the match to a hearing to prove that they are not “the same person,” placing the burden of proof on the suspected “match” to prove the distinction. Increasingly, state licensees find themselves caught in a Catch-22 situation where the transmission of information causes them to fail to be alerted to the fact that their drivers record has been combined with that of another driver, often to their unique disadvantage. This has led to a growing number of false arrests, citations, and actions being taken by officers against drivers who are, in the end, victims of mistaken identity.
Secure Flight
Secure Flight, operated by the Transportation Security Administration, screens United States airline passengers to see if they are on terrorism watch lists. Unlike the predecessors Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS) & CAPPS II, Secure Flight does not scan passengers for outstanding warrants nor does Secure Flight use computer algorithms to search for links to flagged terrorists.
Obtaining copies of Federal criminal records
It is possible to obtain copies of criminal records maintained by Federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act. In general, you may only obtain records concerning yourself, deceased individuals, or living individuals who have given you their permission to obtain their records.
Interstate records
Most states have a statewide agency who acts as a clearinghouse for all statewide arrest information. These so-called “state rap sheets” are usually much more detailed than the Interstate Identification Index; usually listing not only the arrest information, but the subsequent court action following that arrest.
In the United States, criminal records may be expunged, though laws vary by state. Many types of offenses may be expunged, ranging from parking fines to felonies. In general, once sealed or expunged, all records of an arrest and/or subsequent court case are removed from the public record, and the individual may legally deny or fail to acknowledge ever having been arrested for or charged with any crime which has been expunged. However, when applying for a state professional license or job that is considered a public office or high security (e.g. security guard, law enforcement, or related to national security), you must confess that you have an expunged conviction or else be denied clearance by the DOJ. There is no post-conviction relief available in the Federal system, other than a Presidential Pardon.
In any case, having a criminal history will clearly affect a security clearance and eliminate the possibility of obtaining a large number of jobs. What follows are the types od security clearances:
Types of Security Clearances :
National Agency Check with Local Agency Checks and Credit Check (NACLC)
A NACLC is the type of investigation required for a Secret or Confidential clearance. It includes a credit bureau report and a review of records held by federal agencies and by local criminal justice agencies. It generally does not require an interview with an investigator. The investigation routinely covers no more than the past seven years of a person’s life or a shorter period if the applicant is less than 25 years old.
Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI)
An SSBI is a more detailed investigation and is required for a Top Secret clearance, for Sensitive
Compartmented Information (SCI) access, and for designated Secret Special Access Programs (SAP). It includes a NACLC, a Personal Subject Interview (PRSI), interviews of former spouses; interviews of character, employment, neighborhood, and educational references; reviews of rental, employment, and academic records. The investigation routinely covers no more than the past 10 years of a person’s life or a shorter period if the applicant is less than 28 years old.
Periodic Reinvestigation (PR)
People with security clearances must be routinely reinvestigated at set intervals based on the level of clearance they possess. A Periodic Reinvestigation is done to ensure that cleared personnel are still suitable for access to classified information. The type of reinvestigation and frequency required depend on the level of clearance:
Top Secret requires an SSBI-PR or PPR every 5 years.
Secret requires an NACLC every 10 years.
Confidential requires an NACLC every 15 years.
SSBI-PR (Single Scope Background Investigation—Periodic Reinvestigation)
An SSBI-PR includes an NACLC, Personal Subject Interview, references interviews, and record reviews covering at least the past five years.
PPR (Phased Periodic Reinvestigation)
In September 2005 OPM made the PPR available as a less comprehensive and less expensive alternative to the SSBI-PR. The investigation includes an NACLC, Personal Subject Interview, and limited reference interviews and record reviews. PPRs may not requested when certain questions on the clearance application contain responses indicating a possible security or suitability issue.
Reimbursable Suitability Investigation (RSI)
The RSI consists of a focused investigation to provide additional specific information to resolve developed issue(s) that fall outside the scope of coverage of other investigative products offered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Trustworthiness Investigation
Trustworthiness investigations are not conducted for a security clearance. It is requested when an applicant is going to have access to Sensitive but Unclassified Information or occupy a position of “Public Trust.” For example, trustworthiness investigations are sometimes conducted on those that will have access to a sensitive site (e.g., cleaning crew on a military installation).
Other Investigations
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) conducts other types of investigations. Some are for employment purposes only, and others are for a combination of employment and security clearance purposes. These investigations are generally not conducted for the Department of Defense contractor personnel.
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Kings, Trail Blazers Agree To Five-Player Trade
DeMarcus Cousins, Kings On Track For Offseason Extension
January 11th 2017 at 12:09am CST by Luke Adams
A report last week indicated that the Kings are prepared to offer DeMarcus Cousins a designated veteran extension when the new CBA goes into effect this summer, and it seems the All-Star center is receptive to that idea. Barring a late change in direction by the player and the team, Cousins and the Kings intend to work out a long-term, maximum-salary extension during the offseason, a league source tells James Han of CSN California.
Under the NBA’s old Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Kings would still have been in a position to offer Cousins in an extension this summer, but the team can put a far more tantalizing proposal on the table under the new CBA. The new agreement between the NBA and NBPA will introduce the “designated veteran extension,” which allows for players who meet certain criteria to sign extensions that start at 35% of the salary cap. If Cousins were to be traded, he wouldn’t be eligible for such an extension, which is one reason why the trade rumors surrounding him have died down in recent weeks.
The designated player extension is only available to certain players who are coming off an All-NBA season, or who have made an All-NBA team twice in the last three years. Because Cousins has earned an All-NBA nod in each of the last two seasons, he doesn’t have to earn that honor again in 2016/17 to qualify for the designated player extension, though he’s on track to do so anyway.
Heading into tonight’s game, Cousins had averaged a career-high 28.1 PPG to go along with 9.9 RPG, 3.9 APG, 1.4 BPG, and 1.4 SPG in 36 contests. The longtime King has even become a threat from beyond the arc — his .372 3PT% and 1.8 3PG are both career bests.
The NBA’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement won’t go into effect until July 1, so the Kings and Cousins won’t finalize anything before then, and it’s possible one side or the other could have a change of heart over the next several months. Still, while the relationship between the franchise and the former fifth overall pick hasn’t always been perfect, it’s hard to imagine Cousins turning down a designated player extension if the Kings put it on the table, since he could earn far more from Sacramento than from any other team.
The exact value of that extension won’t be known until the salary cap is set for the 2017/18 season, but based on the NBA’s latest projections, a five-year extension would be worth upwards of $209MM. In Cousins’ case, it would go into effect for the 2018/19 campaign, tacking five new years onto his current deal, which is set to expire in ’18.
5 thoughts on “DeMarcus Cousins, Kings On Track For Offseason Extension”
getzy32 • 3 years ago
Can’t blame the guy. Get you $$
DarkGhost • 3 years ago
This has to be one of the biggest love hate relationships in the NBA. Both sides can’t decide weather they are in it for the long hall or want out as soon as possible.
Grant W • 3 years ago
Everyone in nba circles keeps saying this new type of extension will cause more stars to stay put but I think that players will use it to maximize earnings and just demand a trade. Players who demand a trade almost always get one due to the locker room damage of keeping a unhappy player. It would be interesting to see a chart or something tracking all the players who demand a trade and got it over the last decade
smittybanton • 3 years ago
In one week the Kings basically re-signed their All-Star center, Cousins, and picked up a point guard for next year, Derrick Rose. That combination will be very interesting.
Jboogie • 3 years ago
Rose?
Atlantic Notes: DSJ, Raptors, Allen, Nets
23 Trade Exceptions To Expire Within Next Month
Los Angeles Notes: Howard, Kawhi, Trades, China
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Lighthouses of Canada: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is the province at the extreme southeastern corner of Canada. The southern and eastern parts of the province lie on a peninsula facing the Atlantic to the east and the Bay of Fundy to the west. Cape Breton Island lies to the northeast, separated from the main part of the province by the narrow Strait of Canso. The island faces Northumberland Strait on the southwest, the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the northwest, Cabot Strait to the north, the open Atlantic Ocean to the east, and Chedabucto Bay to the south.
Cape Breton Island is nearly divided north to south by the intricate waterways of the Bras d'Or Lake, which is actually a small, brackish inland sea. At the south, the St. Peters Canal joins Bras d'Or Lake to the Atlantic.
The island has a distinctive history: it was a French colony until 1763 and it was a British colony, separate from Nova Scotia, from 1784 to 1820.
Some of the more remote lighthouses of the island are poorly known and no photos are available. Additional information and photos would be welcome.
Rip Irwin's book, Lighthouses and Lights of Nova Scotia (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2011) is an essential reference for understanding these lighthouses.
Aids to navigation in Canada are maintained by the Canadian Coast Guard. In 2008, Parliament passed the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act to designate and protect historic lighthouses. In 2010, the Coast Guard declared the great majority of lighthouses to be surplus, and there is fear that this may lead to the disposal and possible destruction of many lighthouses.
CCG numbers are from the Atlantic Coast volume of the List of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from Volume H of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA numbers are from Publication 110.
General Sources
Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
This outstanding web site has a wealth of photos, information, and news.
Nova Scotia Canada Lighthouses
Excellent photos plus historical and visitor information from Kraig Anderson's LighthouseFriends.com web site.
Lighthouse photos from visits by C.W. Bash in 2008.
Lighthouses in Nova Scotia
Photos available from Wikimedia; included is a large collection of photos by Dennis Jarvis (several appear on this page).
Nova Scotia Lighthouses
Fine photos by Paul Illsley.
Leuchttürme an der kanadischen Ostküste
Photos of Nova Scotia lighthouses taken in 2004 by Bernd Claußen.
World of Lighthouses - Canada Atlantic Coast
Photos by various photographers available from Lightphotos.net.
Online List of Lights - Canada
Photos by various photographers posted by Alexander Trabas.
Lighthouses in Nova Scotia, Canada
Aerial photos posted by Marinas.com.
Leuchttürme Kanadas auf historischen Postkarten
Historic postcard views posted by Klaus Huelse.
List of Lights, Buoys, and Fog Signals
Official light lists from the Canadian Coast Guard.
GPSNauticalCharts
Navigational chart information for Cape Breton Island.
Louisbourg Light, Louisbourg, November 2005
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Roy Tanaka
Caveau Point Range Rear Light, Mabou Harbour, September 2011
Wikimedia Creative Commons photo by Dennis Jarvis
Inverness County Lighthouses
Great Bras d'Or Lake Lighthouse
Cameron Island
1903 (relocated here in 1977). Active; focal plane 9 m (30 ft); green flash every 4 s. 8.5 m (28 ft) square wood tower, painted white. Lantern removed. Google has a satellite view. Anderson's photo shows a black horizontal band on the tower, but at least since 2013 the Coast Guard light list has described it as all white. Originally the front light of the Clarke Cove Range, the lighthouse guides vessels through a narrow passage between Cameron Island and George Island to the village of Marble Mountain. Cameron is a small island in West Bay, the southwestern corner of Bras d'Or Lake. Located at the northeast end of the island. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-069; CCG 838; Admiralty H0832; NGA 9057.
West Coast Lighthouses
Henry Island
1902 (Joseph MacDonald). Active; focal plane 61 m (200 ft); white flash every 4 s. 16 m (53 ft) octagonal pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery. The eight vertical faces are painted alternately red and white; the lantern is painted red. The original 1-1/2 story wood keeper's house, recently restored, is used as a private summer residence. NSLPS has a photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. In 2015 the preservation society won $20,000 in the National Trust Lighthouse Matters competition. Located on the west side of the island facing St. George's Bay. Site and tower generally closed (the island is privately owned), but tours to the island and lighthouse are available during the summer. Accessible only by boat. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Henry Island Lighthouse Preservation Society. ARLHS CAN-227; CCG 881; Admiralty H1222; NGA 8720.
*** Mabou Harbour (2)
1908 (station established 1884). Active; focal plane 14 m (46 ft); continuous green light. 14 m (47 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Jarvis's photo is at right, Bash has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Illsley has an excellent photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view and a distant street view. Originally built as the rear light of a range; the front light was discontinued in 1987. Since 1998 the lighthouse serves as the Mabou Harbour Museum and Tourist Centre. The Coast Guard proposed to extinguish the light in 2001, but they were dissuaded. Located on the waterfront at Mabou Harbour. Site and tower open. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Mabou Harbour Authority. ARLHS CAN-291; CCG 876; Admiralty H1216.1; NGA 8748.
Margaree Island (Sea Wolf Island) (2)
1958 (station established 1854). Active; focal plane 91 m (298 ft); white flash every 4 s. 8 m (27 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern painted red. Anderson has a closeup photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a distant satellite view. The island, 4 km (2.5 mi) offshore in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is mostly ringed by sheer cliffs. Located at the highest point of the island. Accessible only by boat in rough seas. Site open, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Sea Wolf Island National Wildlife Area). ARLHS CAN-305; CCG 874; Admiralty H1208; NGA 8760.
Mabou Harbour Light, Mabou Harbour, September 2011
* Margaree Harbour Range Front
1900. Active; focal plane 15 m (49 ft); continuous yellow light. 4.5 m (15 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line. Jarvis's photo of both range lights is at right, Illsley has a closeup photo, Anderson has a photo, Bash has a 2008 photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a fuzzy satellite view. The Margaree Harbour Heritage Lighthouses Group works for the preservation of the two range lighthouses. In October 2017 DFO removed lead-contaminated soil from around the lighthouses, a necessary step before the lights can be transferred to the Lighthouses Group. In 2018 the Coast Guard worked to restore and repaint both lighthouses. The rotten shingles were removed and towers clad in plywood; the Lighthouses Group plans to install historically accurate shingles over the plywood after ownership is transferred. The two lighthouses received designation as Heritage Lighthouses in June 2019. Located off Margaree Harbour Shore Road. Site status uncertain, but the lighthouses can be seen from nearby. Tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-607; CCG 872; Admiralty H1202; NGA 8764.
* Margaree Harbour Range Rear
1900. Active; focal plane 21 m (68 ft); continuous yellow light. 6 m (20 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line. Jarvis's photo of both range lights is at right, Anderson has a photo, Bash has a 2008 photo, Trabas also has Bash's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. The Margaree Harbour Heritage Lighthouses Group works for the preservation of the two range lighthouses. Located off Margaree Harbour Shore Road. Site status uncertain, but the lighthouses can be seen from nearby. Tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-304; CCG 873; Admiralty H1202.1; NGA 8768.
Margaree Harbour Light, Margaree Harbour, September 2011
* Enragée Point (Cape Enragée, Chéticamp) (2)
1957 (station established 1937). Active; focal plane 22.5 m (74 ft); three white flashes, separated by 4 s, every 24 s. 13 m (42 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern painted red. Fog horn (3 s blast every 30 s). 1-1/2 story keeper's house and several utility buildings. Jarvis's photo is at right, Bash has a photo is at right, Illsley has a good photo, Ron Pettitt has a good photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Sam Liu has a street view, and Google has a satellite view. The original lighthouse was destroyed by fire in October 1956. The lighthouse received designation as a Heritage Lighthouse in August 2019. Note: There is also a Cape Enragé lighthouse in southern New Brunswick. Located on the northwest point of Chéticamp Island, which is connected to the mainland south of Chéticamp by a narrow bar. Accessible by a short hike across the island. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-170; CCG 867; Admiralty H1188; NGA 8800.
* Chéticamp Harbour Range Front (2)
1894 (station established 1890). Inactive since 1986. 7 m (23 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern. The lighthouse was originally painted white with red trim, and the lantern was painted red. P. Kramer has a 2003 photo showing this pattern. In 2005 the lighthouse was repainted in with red, white, and blue horizontal bands, as seen in Illsley's photo and a photo by Mark Luukkonen. Bash's 2008 photo shows another repainting, white with a blue lantern and a red lantern roof. Google's August 2012 street view shows the red, white and blue pattern again. Google also has a fuzzy satellite view. The lighthouse was relocated in 1914 and again in 1950 due to changes in the channel alignment. Located just off the waterfront in the center of Chéticamp. Site and tower open. Owner/site manager: unknown. ARLHS CAN-135.
* [Caveau Point Range Front (2?)]
1976(?) (station established 1897). Active; focal plane 17 m (56 ft); continuous red light. 6.5 m (21 ft) triangular skeletal mast carrying a long daymark painted white with a red vertical stripe. Bash has a photo, Trabas also has Bash's photo, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located on a promontory about 800 m (1/2 mi) north of Chéticamp. Site and tower closed (private property). Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: private. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1314; CCG 862; Admiralty H1182; NGA 8804.
Enragée Point Light, Chéticamp, September 2011
* Caveau Point Range Rear
1897. Reactivated (inactive 1976-1990); focal plane 31 m (103 ft); continuous red light. 8 m (27 ft) square pyramidal wood tower, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line; the lantern roof is also red. Bash has a 2008 photo, Trabas also has a different Bash photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos misidentified as "Chéticamp Harbour Light," and Google has a 2012 street view and a satellite view. Jarvis's fine 2011 photo (seen at the top of this page) shows the lighthouse freshly repainted. In 1976 both the front range light and the rear light were moved to skeletal towers, and apparently the front range lighthouse was demolished. The rear light was returned to the historic tower in 1990. Located on the north side of Chéticamp; visible from the Cabot Trail (highway 19). Site and tower closed (private property). Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-123; CCG 863; Admiralty H1182.1; NGA 8808.
[Cape St. Lawrence (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1889). Active; focal plane 27 m (89 ft); white light, 2 s on, 10 s off. 6.5 m (22 ft) square cylindrical skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a broad white horizontal band. Foundation ruins of the historic lighthouse are behind the present tower. A photo (2/3 the way down the page) is available, and Bing has a satellite view. Located at the northwestern tip of Cape Breton Island, about 20 km (13 mi) west of Cape North. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS CAN-1368; CCG 860; Admiralty H0874; NGA 8832.
Victoria County Lighthouses
St. Paul Island Lighthouses
Note: St. Paul Island is in Cabot Strait about 25 km (15 mi) northeast of Cape North and about 70 km (45 mi) southwest of Cape Race, Newfoundland. It is not inhabited, and landing requires special permission from the Coast Guard.
[St. Paul Island South Point (St. Paul Island Southwest) (3)]
1964 (station established 1831). Inactive since 2015. 6 m (20 ft) cylindrical steel tower, painted white with a single red band at the top; no lantern. The 2-story wood hip-roofed keeper's house (1912) has collapsed. Wikimedia has a page with a photo, and Bing has an indistinct satellite view of the station. The original wood lighthouse at this station burned in 1916. It was replaced by a cylindrical steel lighthouse, which was relocated first to the Coast Guard station in Dartmouth and more recently to Dingwall (see below). Lighthouse Digest has Duane Traver's excellent article on the history of the island and light station. Located at the southwestern tip of the island. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS STP-001; ex-CCG 1477; ex-Admiralty H0876; NGA 8852.
St. Paul Island North Point (2)
1962 (station established 1839). Inactive since 2015. 14 m (46 ft) octagonal concrete tower, painted white; lantern is red. A closeup photo (1/3 the way down the page) is available, Lighthouse Digest has Duane Traver's excellent article on the history of the island and light station, and Bing has a satellite view. Clearly endangered. This historic light station guards the southern entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence from the Atlantic. Located on a rocky islet just off the northeastern end of the island. Site and tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS STP-002; ex-CCG 1476; ex-Admiralty H0878; NGA 8856.
Cape North Area Lighthouses
Cape North (4)
2010 (station established 1876). Active; focal plane 34 m (112 ft); white light, 2 s on, 6 s off. 14.5 m (48 ft) square skeletal tower; the tower carries a slatted daymark colored with red and white horizontal bands. Fog horn (6 s blast every 60 s). A 2014 street view is available, and Bing has a satellite view of the station. This light replaced the third (1980) lighthouse, a square pyramidal tower attached to a 1-story service building. Marinas.com has good aerial photos of the former light, and Anderson has a photo of the former lighthouse toppled during the replacement. The second lighthouse here (1907-1980) was the 1856 cast iron tower relocated from Cape Race, Newfoundland; this lighthouse was relocated a second time in 1980 and is now on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. This light marks the northern extremity of Cape Breton Island, but it is actually located on Money Point, 1.6 km (1 mi) south southeast of the point of the cape. The light station is accessible by 4WD from the Cabot Trail spur at Bay St. Lawrence, but the last few miles require hiking down a steep and rough trail. Site and tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-103; CCG 854; Admiralty H0872; NGA 8848.
* St. Paul Island South Point (St. Paul Island Southwest) (2) (relocated to Dingwall)
1916. Inactive since 1964. 9 m (30 ft) cylindrical steel tower, painted white, with a lantern painted red. The abandoned tower was relocated in 1981 to the dockside parking lot of the Coast Guard station in Dartmouth. The original lantern had deteriorated beyond the possibility of salvage, so a replica was built to house the original 4th order Fresnel lens. The St. Paul Island Historical Society asked to move this lighthouse to a museum at Dingwall, the Cape Breton Island town closest to St. Paul Island. In October 2010 officials announced agreement on making the move. The lighthouse was disassembled and transported by flatbed truck to Dingwall, where it was reassembled in the summer of 2011. Jarvis's photo is at right, Renate Bongertman has a 2016 photo, Matthew Gardiner has a photo, and Google has a satellite view. Located adjacent to the St. Paul Island Museum, on the south side of Dingwall Harbour in Dingwall, about 20 km (13 mi) south of Cape North. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: St. Paul Island Historical Society .
St. Paul Island South Point Light, Dingwall, September 2011
*** Neil's Harbour
1899. Active; focal plane 18 m (59 ft); continuous white light. 13 m (43 ft) square pyramidal wood tower, painted white; lantern is red. A photo is at right, Illsley has a photo, Bash has a 2008 photo, Trabas also has Bash's photo, Anderson has a photo, Wikimedia has a 2010 photo, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. Located at the end of Lighthouse Road in Neil's Harbour. Since 1998 the local fire department has operated an ice cream shop in the lighthouse during the summer months. The Neil’s Harbour New Haven Development Association is working for the preservation of this lighthouse. In 2015 the association won $10,000 in the National Trust Lighthouse Matters competition. Site open, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Neil's Harbour Fire Department. ARLHS CAN-339; CCG 851; Admiralty H0866; NGA 8880.
Ingonish Island (2)
1954 (station established 1871). Inactive since 1987. Square 1-story wood building; the lantern, formerly centered on the roof, has been removed. 1-1/2 story keeper's house in very poor condition. An NSLPS newsletter has an article on the station (pages 10-12), including photos of the original and current lighthouses. A view from the sea is available, and Google has a satellite view showing the keeper's house; the lighthouse building is 20 m to the north. Gravely endangered. Located on an island 800 m (1/2 mi) off Ingonish. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Parks Canada (Cape Breton Highlands National Park). ARLHS CAN-1221.
[Ingonish Harbour (South Ingonish Harbour) (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1912). Active; focal plane 7 m (23 ft); whote light, 2 s on, 2 s off. 5 m (17 ft) square cylindrical skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a broad white horizontal band. Bash has a photo, Trabas also has Bash's photo, and Bing has a satellite view. The original Ingonish Harbour light station was on the south side of the entrance, but the modern light is on the north side. It was replaced in 1956 with a skeletal tower having an enclosed lower section; in 1983 the skeletal tower was overturned and destroyed by a storm surge. The original light on the north side of the entrance was described as a mast with a shed at the base. South Ingonish Harbour is entered through a narrow break in a barrier beach. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. CCG 847; Admiralty H0858.
Neil's Harbour Light, Neil's Harbour, August 2005
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Bobcatnorth
St. Ann's Bay Lighthouses
Munroe Point
1906. Inactive since the early 1960s. 9.5 m (32 ft) square pyramidal wood tower, painted white with red trim. The lantern has been replaced with a square wood room having ordinary windows. Anderson has a photo, and a view from the sea is available, but Google has only a very distant satellite view of the point. This lighthouse had been available for summer rental by the week but in 2008 its web page was withdrawn. Presumably it is now in use only as a private residence. Located on a promontory on the west side of St. Ann's Bay. Site and tower status unknown. Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-1307.
Ciboux Island (4)
1980 (station established 1863). Inactive since 2017. 9 m (30 ft) fiberglass tower, painted white with two horizontal red bands. Anderson has photos, NSLPS has a distant view by Kathy Brown, and Google has a satellite view. Nova Scotia Archives has a 1937 photo of the original lighthouse, an octagonal wood tower with lantern and gallery. Located at the northern end of the island, in St. Ann's Bay off the Bras d'Or entrances. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-139; ex-CCG 844; ex-Admiralty H0856; NGA 8904.
Bras d'Or Lake West Side Lighthouses
Kidston Island (Baddeck) (3)
1959 (station established 1875). Active; focal plane 13.5 m (44 ft); green light, 2 s on, 10 s off. 14.5 m (47 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern is red. Sarbjit Mander's photo is at right, Bash has a 2008 photo, Anderson has photos, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, there's another good 2008 photo, Peter Graham has a view from the lake, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Huelse has a historic postcard view, and Google has a street view and a distant satellite view. Ownership of the lighthouse was transferred to the town of Baddeck in 2005. The town carried out a restoration of the lighthouse in 2013-14. Located on the eastern end of the island at the entrance to Baddeck Harbour, St. Patrick's Channel. Accessible only by boat, but visible from the Baddeck waterfront. Boat tours are available. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Village of Baddeck. ARLHS CAN-261; CCG 815; Admiralty H0800; NGA 8996.
Kidston Island West End
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 13.5 m (44 ft); red flash every 6 s. 10.5 m (35 ft) fiberglass tower, painted white with two horizontal red bands. Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, and Google has a distant satellite view. Located at the west end of Kidston Island, marking the south entrance to Baddeck. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-862; CCG 815.1; Admiralty H0801; NGA 9000.
* Gillis Point
1895. Inactive since 2014. 11 m (37 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery. The tower is covered with white vinyl siding; the lantern is painted red. The 2-story wood keeper's house, formerly attached, was removed in 1978. The lighthouse is in poor condition in Anderson's photos, although it looks better in Ken Heaton's 2011 view from the lake. Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a cloudy satellite view. The lighthouse was granted National Heritage status in December 2017. Located at the entrance to Maskell's Harbour from Great Bras d'Or Lake. Accessible by a short walk from Washabuck Road, 8 km (5 mi) off NS 223. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-201; ex-CCG 832; ex-Admiralty H0812; ex-NGA 9044.
#Little Narrows (2)
1980 (station established 1881). Inactive since 2010 and removed in 2012. This was a 10 m (33 ft) fiberglass tower painted white with two horizontal red bands. Anderson has a view from the water, and Google has a satellite view of the location. In May 2013 Anderson found the tower lying on the ground and shortly thereafter it was removed. Little Narrows is a strait connecting the St. Patrick Channel to Whycocomagh Bay. Located on the east side of the strait about 800 m (1/2 mi) north of the Little Narrows ferry. Site status unknown. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-280; ex-Admiralty H0804; ex-NGA 9036.
Kidston Island Light, Baddeck, July 2006
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Sarbjit Mander
Grand Narrows Area Lighthouses
* [Derby Point (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1884). Active; focal plane 16 m (52 ft); red flash every 4 s. 7 m (23 ft) triangular skeletal tower with enclosed lower portion, carrying a daymark colored red with a white horizontal band. No photo available but Bing has a satellite view. The original lighthouse was a 12 m (38 ft) square wood tower. Located beside Derby Point Road on the east side of the southern entrance to the Grand Narrows (Barra Strait), the strait connecting the northern southern basins of the Great Bras d'Or Lakes. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1196; CCG 835; Admiralty H0822; NGA 9056.
Great Bras d'Or Entrance (Boularderie Island) Lighthouses
* Man of War Point (2) (relocated)
1925 (station established 1912). Inactive. Approx. 7.5 m (25 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery. Lantern removed 1971. In 2001 the lighthouse was dismantled and in two pieces; it was relocated 400 m (1/4 mi) inland and reassembled. Bash's 2008 photo showed the lighthouse to be in good condition. Anderson has photos, Trabas has Bash's photo, and Google has an indistinct satellite view of the tower. Located in a forest off Man of War Point Road 400 m (1/4 mi) south of the point; the lighthouse is on private property next to an art gallery. The 26 hectare (65 acre) property including the lighthouse and art gallery was for sale for $895,000 in 2012. Site and tower closed, but the lighthouse can be seen from the road. Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-301.
* Man of War Point (3)
Date unknown (station established 1912). Active; focal plane 28.5 m (94 ft); continuous yellow light. 20 m (66 ft) triangular cylindrical skeletal tower carrying a slatted daymark painted white with a red vertical stripe. Anderson has a photo, and Google has a fuzzy satellite view. The front light is on a similar tower about half as tall. Located on the point, about 400 m (1/4 mi) north of the historic lighthouse. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. CCG 809.8; Admiralty H0792.1; NGA 8982.
* McNeil Beach (Boularderie Island) (2)
1909 (station established 1884). Inactive 1955-1962 and since 1965. 10 m (33 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red trim; lantern roof is red. Bash has a 2008 photo (also seen at right), NSLPS has an older photo, Anderson has photos, Illsley has a distant view, Huelse has a postcard view, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a distant street view and a distant satellite view. Endangered: with rising sea levels the beach has eroded away bringing the water close to the lighthouse, and winter nor'easters force water into the bay. The light became redundant after the Seal Island Bridge (NS 105) was built across Great Bras d'Or Lake. Keilor Bentley purchased the lighthouse for $250 in 1965. In 1998 he deeded the lighthouse to Acadia University. Michel Forand visited the lighthouse in September 2005 and found it to be in very poor condition, but shortly thereafter it was restored with funds from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. Lacking any long-term use for the lighthouse, the university returned the deed to Bentley. Bentley died in 2015, leaving the lighthouse to his daughter Jean Laing. She has offered to donate the lighthouse to the Boularderie Island Historical Society, which hopes to raise funds to relocate and restore the building. Located a few hundred meters southwest of the east end of the bridge; accessible by a hiking path. Site open (but note that the trail descends through private property), tower closed. Owner: private. ARLHS CAN-295.
McNeil Beach Light, Boularderie Island, July 2008
Flickr Creative Commons photo by C.W. Bash
Great Bras d'Or (Noir Point) Range Front
1903. Active; focal plane 16 m (52 ft); continuous green light. 9.5 m (32 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line. Anderson has photos, Jarvis has a good photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view. This is an entrance range for the Bras d'Or Lakes. Located at Noire Point at the end of Browns Lane, off Old Route Five in Great Bras d'Or. Site and tower closed (private property). Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-209; CCG 803; Admiralty H0782; NGA 8932.
* Great Bras d'Or (Noir Point) Range Rear
1903. Active; focal plane 19 m (63 ft); continuous green light. 16 m (54 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line. Illsley has an excellent photo, Bash has a 2008 photo (also seen at right), Anderson has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Jarvis has a more distant photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has an indistinct satellite view. Located on Richards Lane off Great Bras d'Or Ferry Road in Great Bras d'Or. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-606; CCG 804; Admiralty H0782.1; NGA 8936.
* Black Rock Point (2) (relocated)
1937 (station established 1868). Inactive since 1978. 10.5 m (34 ft) square lantern centered on the roof of a 2-story wood keeper's house. Building painted white with red vertical stripes and red trim; lantern roof is red. Bing has a satellite view. The lighthouse was sold in 1979 and relocated as a private residence. Located on the north side of Penny Road, off Black Rock Road about 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the present lighthouse. Site and tower closed, but the lighthouse can be viewed from the road. Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-1289.
*Black Rock Point (3)
1978 (station established 1868). Active; focal plane 23.5 m (77 ft); white light, 2 s on, 4 s off. 10.5 m (35 ft) square cylindrical wood tower with lantern and gallery attached to a 1-story fog signal building. Lighthouse painted white; lantern and gallery are red. Fog horn (3 s blast every 30 s). 50 m (165 ft) west of the lighthouse, the Black Rock Point Sector Light (continuous light, white, red or green depending on direction; CCG 800; Admiralty H0779; NGA 8920) is mounted on a small skeletal tower. Illsley has a good photo, Anderson has a photo, Jarvis has a 2011 photo, Bash has a 2008 photo, Trabas has a photo by Klaus Potschien, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view. Originally this light carried a rotating aerobeacon without a lantern; the lantern was added in 1987. The lighthouse was granted National Heritage status in December 2017. The light marks the east side of the northern entrance to the Great Bras d'Or Channel from St. Ann's Bay. Located on Black Rock Light Road 800 m (1/2 mi) from Black Point Road, off NS 105 at exit 14; accessible by a dirt road. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-043; CCG 799; Admiralty H0778; NGA 8916.
Great Bras d'Or Range Rear Light, July 2008
Flickr Creative Commons photo copyright C.W. Bash
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Lighthouses
North Coast (Sydney Area) Lighthouse
#Point Aconi (2)
1989 (station established 1874). Inactive since 2012 and destroyed in 2014. This was an 11.5 m (38 ft) fiberglass tower with flared top, octagonal lantern and gallery. Tower painted white; lantern is red. 1-story wood keeper's house. Fog horn (6 s blast every 60 s). A 2007 photo is available, Anderson has photos, Jarvis has a photo, Trabas has a photo by Klaus Potschien, Bash has a distant view, aerial photos from Marinas.com show the spectacular nature of the site, and Bing has a satellite view. In September 2011 thieves broke into the station to steal copper wiring, putting the light temporarily out of service; Jarvis has a photo with an account of this incident. In 2012 the Bras d'Or and Area Historical Society was working on plans to restore the station as a tourist attraction. However, the lighthouse burned to the ground in a fire of suspicious origin in late February 2014. Before the fire the active light had been moved to a square skeletal tower (next entry). Located off NS 105, on the point, east of the Great Bras d'Or entrance. Site open. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-386.
* [Point Aconi (3)]
2012. Active; focal plane 25.5 m (84 ft); white light, 2 s on, 4 s off. 10 m (33 ft) square cylindrical skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a white horizontal band. Anderson's photos show the new tower. Located at the end of Point Aconi Road. Site open, tower closed. CCG 796. Admiralty H0770; NGA 9080.
Sydney Range Front (Dixon Point) (2)
2010 replica of 1905 tower. Active; focal plane 18 m (60 ft); yellow light, 2 s on, 2 s off, visible only on the range line. 17.5 m (58 ft) octagonal pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with a vertical red stripe on the range line; lantern is red. Bash's photo is at right, Anderson has photos, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Jordan Crowe has a photo, the tower peeks above the tree line in a Google street view, and Google has a satellite view. In 2010 the Coast Guard replaced the tower with a copy built with more durable materials; the original lantern was placed atop the new tower. Located off NS 239 on the south side of the western arm of Sydney Harbour. Site and tower closed (private property). Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-494; CCG 782; Admiralty H0761; NGA 9104.
#Sydney Range Rear (1)
1905. Demolished sometime in 2008-09. This was a 12 m (40 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with red upper portion and a vertical red stripe on the range line. Bash has a photo taken in July 2008, Trabas also has Bash's photo, and Marinas.com has aerial photos. Sometime in 2008-09 this lighthouse was replaced by a skeletal tower (next entry). ARLHS CAN-641.
Sydney Range Front Light, Sydney, July 2008
* Sydney Range Rear (2)
2009(?). Active; focal plane 37 m (121 ft); yellow light, 2 s on, 2 s off, visible only on the range line. 9.5 m (31 ft) square skeletal mast carrying a large trapezoidal slatted daymark painted white with a red vertical stripe. Anderson has a photo of the new light, and Google has a satellite view. Located off NS 239, on the south side of the western arm of Sydney Harbour, about 750 m (1/2 mi) south southwest of the front light. Site and tower closed (private property). Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. CCG 783; Admiralty H0761.1; NGA 9108.
Sydney Bar (5)
1973 (station established 1872). Active; focal plane 9 m (29 ft); continuous green light. Triangular skeleton mast on the northeast corner of a 5 m (16 ft) square concrete building, mounted on a concrete pier surrounded by sheet-steel pilings. Bash has a photo, Trabas has Bash's photo, Anderson has distant views, and Google has a satellite view. Earlier lights at this exposed location were destroyed repeatedly by storms; the Nova Scotia Archives has a historic photo of the third (1912) lighthouse. Located on the end of the southeast bar in Sydney Harbour. Accessible only by boat. Site and tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-493; CCG 778; Admiralty H0760; NGA 9112.
* Low Point (Flat Point) (2)
1938 (station established 1832). Active; focal plane 26 m (85 ft); white flash every 5 s. 22 m (72 ft) octagonal concrete tower, painted white. Rare Chance Brothers circular lantern, painted red; rotating aerobeacon. The 3rd order Fresnel lens, replaced in 1984, is reported to be in storage at the Coast Guard base in Dartmouth. 1-story wood keeper's house, painted white with a red roof. Fog horn (two 3 s blasts, separated by 3 s, every 60 s). Jarvis's photo is at right, Bash has a good photo, Dave Carter has a closeup photo, Illsley has a lovely photo, Anderson has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view. One of the earliest and most important light stations of Nova Scotia, this lighthouse is endangered by erosion of the cape it marks. Vandalized after the lighthouse was automated in 1988, the keeper's house was restored in 2002-03 by the Sydney Harbour Fortification Society. The building was scheduled to be opened in summer 2003, but vandals struck again in May of that year. In 2014 the Low Point Lighthouse Society was formed to work for heritage designation and restoration of the lighthouse. In 2015 the society won the top prize of $75,000 in the National Trust Lighthouse Matters fund drive. These funds were used to repair and repaint the cracked concrete exterior of the tower in November 2017. The Society plans to restore the lighthouse and develop it as a major tourist attraction. Major funding is needed for erosion control, however. Located off NS 28 in New Waterford, marking the eastern entrance to Sydney Harbour. Visible from the Marine Atlantic ferries to Newfoundland. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-287; CCG 775. Admiralty H0758; NGA 9100.
[Glace Bay North Breakwater (2)]
1990 (station established 1956). Active; focal plane 9 m (30 ft); red flash every 3 s. 5.5 m (18 ft) round cylindrical tower painted white with a red band at the top. Bash has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, and Google has a street view and a satellite view. The original light was a 7.5 m (25 ft) square tower mounted on a 1-story square equipment building. No photos of this light have been found. Located at the end of a breakwater protecting the entrance to Glace Cove, the inner harbor of Glace Bay. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-202; CCG 774. Admiralty H0756; NGA 9144.
#Glace Bay Range Front (relocated)
1907. Inactive since about 1980 and destroyed in 2018. This was an approx. 5 m (16 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern. Anderson has photos, and Google has an indistinct satellite view. Vegetation hides the lighthouse in Google's street view. Previously thought to have been demolished, this little lighthouse was discovered in 2003 by Dave Buckley in the back yard of a private residence in Glace Bay. It was in very poor condition and in 2018 it was destroyed by fire. Lighthouse Digest featured the range lights in December 2003. Located near the end of Bathgate Street in Glace Bay. Site and tower closed. Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-957.
Low Point Light, Cape Breton, September 2011
[Glace Bay Range Rear (2)]
Around 1980 (station established 1907). Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); continuous red light. 9.5 m (31 ft) triangular cylindrical skeletal tower carrying a trapezoidal daymark painted white with a red vertical stripe. Google has a street view, but it is not so easy to find the light in Google's satellite view. Lighthouse Digest has a good photo of the original lighthouse, a 13 m (42 ft) square pyramidal wood tower. Located on the east side of Glace Cove. Site open, tower closed. ARLHS CAN-897; CCG 773; Admiralty H0752.1; NGA 9152.
Flint Island (4)
1962 (station established 1856). Active; focal plane 21 m (70 ft); two white flashes, separated by 4 s, every 25 s. 18 m (59 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; the lantern is red. Fog horn (3 s blast every 30 s). A view from the sea is available, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. A historic photo of the station is available. The first lighthouse burned in August 1864. The second served until 1950, but the third was so poorly constructed it had to be rebuilt in 1962. The lighthouse was automated in 1985 and the keeper's house burned to the ground the following year. Located about 8 km (5 mi) off Cape Percé, the northeastern tip of Cape Breton Island. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-180; CCG 770; Admiralty H0750; NGA 9156.
East Coast (Louisbourg Area) Lighthouses
Scatarie (3)
1981 (station established 1839). Inactive since 2017. 16 m (53 ft) square pyramidal wood tower attached to a 1-story fog signal building, painted white. Fog horn (three 2 s blasts every 60 s). The two 1-1/2 story keeper's houses (1959) are collapsing. Paul van der Est has a 2015 photo, the Main-à-Dieu Fishermen's Museum has a photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view of the station. This is the easternmost lighthouse in Nova Scotia and the province's tallest "pepperpot" lighthouse. The present tower replaced an 18 m (60 ft) pyramidal skeletal tower with central cylinder built in 1953. The historic double keeper's house burned in 1957. In 2017 the Coast Guard installed a new solar powered light, as seen in the photo at right (focal plane 19.5 m (64 ft); white flash every 3 s). The historic lighthouse must now be regarded as endangered. Scatarie Island, off Cape Breton, is a narrow island about 10 km (6 mi) long. Uninhabited, it is protected as a wildlife refuge and wilderness area. Located at the northeast point of Scatarie Island. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Nova Scotia Environment (Scatarie Island Wilderness Area). ARLHS CAN-451. Active light: CCG 767; Admiralty H0742; NGA 9164.
#Main-à-Dieu (3)
1979 (station established 1871). Replaced in 2015. This was a 9 m (30 ft) fiberglass tower, painted white with two horizontal red bands. Anderson has a view from the sea and Google has a satellite view. In 2015 the tower was replaced by a 9 m (30 ft) square skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored red with a white horizontal band (focal plane 24.5 m (81 ft); white flash every 4 s). Located at the west point of Scatarie Island, off Cape Breton, guarding the Main-à-Dieu Passage. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-296. Active light: CCG 766; Admiralty H0744; NGA 9168.
Scatarie Light, Cape Breton, July 2017
Cape Breton Post photo taken from Canadian Coast Guard helicopter
[Little Lorraine (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1900). Active; focal plane 10.5 m (34 ft); continuous green light. 4.5 m (15 ft) round cylindrical tower painted white with a red band at the top. Wikimedia has a photo and Google has a distant satellite view. This beacon replaced a square wood lighthouse. Located on a promontory on the west side of the entrance to Little Lorraine Harbour. Site status unknown. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1371; CCG 761; Admiralty H3342; NGA 9196.
** Louisbourg (4)
1923 (station established 1734, although inactive 1758-1842). Active; focal plane 32 m (105 ft); white flash every 10 s. 17 m (55 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Historic lenses from the lighthouse are displayed at the Louisbourg Marine Museum in Louisbourg. Fog horn (blast every 20 s). Roy Tanaka's photo appears at the top of this page, Illsley also has a fine photo, Jarvis has a photo, Anderson has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a street view and a fuzzy satellite view. This is Canada's oldest light station, established by France during the period when Cape Breton Island (then called Île Royale) was a French colony. The original lighthouse was a round stone tower 16.5 m (54 ft) tall. Unfortunately it had a wooden lantern, which caught fire in September 1736 destroying the structure. A new stone tower, 17 m (56 ft) tall, replaced it in 1738. It was heavily damaged in 1758 during the second British siege of Louisbourg in the Seven Years ("French and Indian") War, and it was never repaired. The third lighthouse, built under British rule in 1842, burned in 1922. Foundations of both the 1738 and 1842 lighthouses have been stabilized and preserved. The Louisbourg Lighthouse Society works for preservation of the lighthouse and has applied to own it. Located at the end of Havenside Road on the north side of the entrance to Louisbourg harbor. Parking provided. Site open, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Louisbourg Lighthouse Society. ARLHS CAN-286; CCG 756; Admiralty H3344; NGA 9204.
[Louisbourg Range Front (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1897). Active; focal plane 7 m (23 ft); continuous yellow light. 5 m (17 ft) skeletal mast carrying a daymark colored white with a red vertical stripe. Google has a satellite view and a street view showing both range lights. The range guides vessels entering Louisbourg Bay. This beacon replaced a square wood tower. Located on the west side of the bay about 2 km (1.25 mi) south of the town waterfront; the Louisbourg Old Town Trail passes the two range lights. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1372; CCG 757; Admiralty H3348; NGA 9208.
[Louisbourg Range Rear (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1897). Active; focal plane 12.5 m (41 ft); continuous yellow light. 6.5 m (21 ft) skeletal mast carrying a daymark colored white with a red vertical stripe. Google has a satellite view and a street view showing both range lights. Michel Forand has a historic photo of the original lighthouse. Located 166 m (545 ft) west of the front lightt; the Louisbourg Old Town Trail passes the two range lights. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1373; CCG 758; Admiralty H3348.1; NGA 9212.
* Gabarus
1891. Active; focal plane 16.5 m (54 ft); continuous red light. 9.5 m (31 ft) hexagonal pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern and gallery are red. Jarvis's photo is at right, Bash has a great 2008 photo, Illsley has a photo, Mark Plummer has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Matt Dagley has a 2017 street view, and Google has a satellite view. The lighthouse was endangered by erosion and needed to be moved back from the cliff face. In 2014 the Gabarus Lightkeepers Society formed to apply for ownership of the lighthouse, and students from Cape Breton University helped develop the required business plan. In 2015 the society was awarded $50,000 in the National Trust Lighthouse Matters competition, plus another $6,000 throgh crowdfunding. The lighthouse was moved back from the cliff on 26-27 November 2015. Located at the end of Harbour Point Road, off NS 327, in Gabarus. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard (?). ARLHS CAN-189; CCG 753; Admiralty H3358; NGA 9224.
Gabarus Light, Gabarus, September 2011
* #Rouse Point (1)
1982. Removed in 2015. The light was mounted on a short mast above the square fog signal shed. Fog horn (two 3 s blasts every 60 s). Jarvis has a good photo, Anderson has photos, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, and Google has a satellite view. In 2015 the building was demolished and the light moved to a 4 m (14 ft) square skeletal tower carrying a red and white daymark (focal plane 9 m (30 ft); one long yellow flash every 6 s). Located on a promontory about 600 m (0.4 mi) northeast of the Gabarus waterfront. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-435. Active light: CCG 752.6; Admiralty H3359; NGA 9226.
Guyon Island (3)
1964 (station established 1877). Active; focal plane 16 m (53 ft); white flash every 20 s. 13 m (43 ft) hexagonal pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern and gallery are red. Fog horn (6 s blast every 60 s). Two small keeper's houses (1964). Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1927 by the lighthouse seen in a historic photo from the Nova Scotia Archives. Located offshore about 11 km (7 mi) south of Louisbourg. Accessible only by boat. Site status unknown. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-219; CCG 750; Admiralty H3360; NGA 9232.
Richmond County Lighthouses
Fourchu and St. Esprit Lighthouses
[Fourchu Head (3)]
Date unknown (station established 1907). Active; focal plane 19 m (62 ft); white light, 2 s on, 4 s off. 9 m (30 ft) square skeletal tower carrying red and white daymark panels. This light tower replaced a 10 m (32 ft) fiberglass tower, painted white with two narrow horizontal red bands, installed in 1979. 1-story wood fog signal building (1956). Anderson has photos of both the current and previous towers, Illsley has a closeup photo of the former tower, Jarvis has a distant view, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Google has a satellite view. The original lighthouse was a 10 m (33 ft) wood "pepperpot" tower. Located on the point about 18 km (11 mi) southwest of Louisbourg. Accessible by a fairly strenuous hike from the South Fourchu waterfront. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-182; CCG 747; Admiralty H3362; NGA 9236.
[St. Esprit Island (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1880). Active; focal plane 24 m (79 ft); white light, 2 s on, 10 s off. 10 m (33 ft) square cylindrical skeletal tower with an enclosed lower portion and a daymark colored with red and white horizontal bands. A very distant view is available and Bing has a distant satellite view. Foundation ruins of the original lighthouse survive next to the present tower. Located on a small island about 1.6 km (1 mi) off the coast near St. Esprit. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-754; CCG 743; Admiralty H3368; NGA 9252.
St. Peters Area Lighthouses
Lower l'Ardoise (L'Ardoise Harbour) Range Front (relocated)
1909. Inactive since about 1970. 7 m (23 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern, painted white with red trim; lantern roof is red. Bing has a satellite view. Lower l'Ardoise is a harbor at the eastern entrance to St. Peter's Bay. After deactivation the lighthouse was purchased by the Morrow family and relocated to Point Michaud, about 8 km (5 mi) east of the original location. Located just off Point Michaud Road (NS 247) at the junction of Point Michaud Beach Road. Site and tower closed (private property). Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-1227.
Lower l'Ardoise (L'Ardoise Harbour) Range Rear
1909. Inactive since about 1970. 7 m (23 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern. Bing has a satellite view. Critically endangered. According to Bob Crawford's 2005 report the lighthouse is "now located in a farmer's field where it is has been used as a wood shed." Lighthouse Digest has Crawford's photo but misidentifies the tower as the front range light. Located in a field at the end of Brymer Road, off NS 247 in Lower l'Ardoise. Site and tower closed. Owner/site manager: private. ARLHS CAN-1228.
* Jerome Point (St. Peter's Bay) (2)
1956 (station established 1883). Active; focal plane 15.5 m (51 ft); continuous red light. 10.5 m (35 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. The modern keeper's house (1956) was used after automation as the residence of the St. Peter's Canal lockmaster. Jarvis's photo is at right, Illsley has a closeup photo, Bash has a good 2008 photo, Anderson has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Google has a closeup street view, and Bing has a satellite view. This lighthouse is in a popular provincial park with a campground and picnic area nearby. Located at the east side of the entrance to St. Peter's Canal from St. Peter's Bay in St. Peter's. Accessible by paved road; parking provided. Site and park open mid June to mid September, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Battery Provincial Park. ARLHS CAN-255; CCG 734; Admiralty H3380; NGA 9264.
* Cape George Harbour (St. Peter's) (2)
1950 (station established 1875). Inactive since 2013 (?). 8 m (27 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Anderson has a photo, Bill Clyne has a distant view, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a distant satellite view. The active light (focal plane 12.5 m (41 ft); white flash every 4 s.) is on an 8 m (27 ft) square skeletal tower carrying red and white daymarks. This is one of two Cape George Lights in Nova Scotia, the other being on the west side of St. George's Bay (see Northwestern Nova Scotia). Located on the west side of the northern entrance to St. Peter's Inlet, the southern arm of the lake leading to St. Peter's Canal. Accessible by a short walk from the parking lot of the Bras d'Or Lake Lighthouse Campground, off NS 4 in St. Peter's. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-099. Active light: CCG 840; Admiralty H0838; NGA 9060.
[Gregory Island (3)]
2013 (?) (station established 1884). Active; focal plane 11 m (36 ft); green flash every 4 s. 10.5 m (34 ft) square skeletal tower carrying green and white square daymarks. No photo available. The historic lighthouse (a square wood tower) was replaced in 1950 by a steel tower. Anderson has photos of the 1950 lighthouse and its replacement and Bing has a satellite view. The keeper's house was sold and relocated in 1975; its present location is not known. The lighthouse was relocated a few meters southwest in 1988. Located on an island in St. Peter's Inlet. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-215; CCG 841; Admiralty H0839; NGA 9064.
Jerome Point Light, St. Peter's, September 2011
River Bourgeois (Bourgeois Inlet) (3) (replica)
2003 (station established 1903). Active (privately maintained); focal plane 7.5 m (25 ft); continuous red light. 8 m (26 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Bash has a 2008 photo (also seen at right), Illsley has a good photo, Jarvis has a view from the bay, Trabas has Bash's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. This lighthouse is a replica of the original 1903 tower, which the Coast Guard burned in 1990 after it was replaced by an aluminum skeletal tower. Residents protested this destruction. In 2003 the light station was sold to a local group, which immediately built the replica. Located at Church Point in River Bourgeois northeast of Grandique Ferry. Accessible at low tide, but access may be cut off at high tide. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: River Bourgeois Community Services Society. ARLHS CAN-056; CCG 732; Admiralty H3386; NGA 9396.
[Ouetique Island (3)]
Date unknown (station established 1874). Activ; focal plane 23 m (75 ft); red flash every 4 s. 8.5 m (28 ft) triangular skeletal tower carrying a daymark colored with red and white horizontal bands. A view from the sea (near the bottom of the page) is available, and Google has a satellite view. Anderson has a historic photo of the first lighthouse and a historic photo of the second (1949) lighthouse is also available; its foundation ruins are seen next to the modern light. Located on an island in the Lennox Passage, between the mainland and Isle Madame. Accessible only by boat. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1309; CCG 731; Admiralty H3384; NGA 9265.
River Bourgeois Light, River Bourgeois, July 2008
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Charles Bash
Isle Madame Lighthouses
Note: Isle Madame, an island about 16 km by 11 km (10 by 7 mi), is separated from the south coast of Cape Breton Island by a narrow strait, the Lennox Passage. The island has a population of about 4300 and is accessible by bridge on NS 320.
*Grandique (Grand Dique) Point (2)
1907 (station established 1884). Active; focal plane 9 m (29 ft); continuous green light. 8.5 m (28 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Anderson has a photo, Illsley has a photo, Jarvis has a photo, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. The lighthouse, which replaced a light on a pole, marks a dangerous north-pointing spit. In 1963 it had to be moved about 15 m (49 ft) southward to escape minor beach erosion. Located on the north side of Isle Madame facing the Lennox Passage, a strait connecting St. Peter's Bay to the Strait of Canso. Accessible by a gravel road within the provincial park. Site open, tower closed. Owner: Canadian Coast Guard. Site manager: Lennox Passage Provincial Park. ARLHS CAN-208; CCG 729; Admiralty H3392; NGA 9267.
[Hawk Island (Poulaman) (2?)]
Date unknown (station established 1901). Active; focal plane 13 m (43 ft); green flash every 4 s. 10 m (33 ft) triangular skeletal tower with enclosed lower section carrying a daymark colored with red and white horizontal bands. No photo available but Bing has a satellite view. Located on a tiny island on the south side of the eastern entrance to the Lennox Passage. Accessible only by boat. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-1213; CCG 730; Admiralty H3388; NGA 9266.
#Green Island (2)
1927 (station established 1865). Inactive since 1968. This was a 2-story square wood keeper's house, formerly with a lantern centered on the roof. It is not known when this building was demolished but Bing's satellite view shows only the foundation. A historic photo is available. The light was replaced by a skeletal tower in 1968 and then by the current lighthouse in 1986. In 1971, the lantern was replaced by the emitter of an electronic foghorn. Keepers continued to live in the building until 1986. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard.
Grandique Point Light, Isle Madame, September 2011
Green Island (4)
1986 (station established 1865). Active; focal plane 34 m (112 ft); two long (2 s) flashes, separated by 2 s, every 20 s. 11.5 m (38 ft) fiberglass tower with lantern, painted white; lantern is red. 1-1/2 story keepers house and fog signal building intact. Lighthouse marks the northeastern entrance to Chedabucto Bay and the Strait of Canso. Marinas.com has aerial photos and Bing has a distant satellite view. This is one of two Green Island Lights in Nova Scotia, the other one being at Yarmouth (see Southern Nova Scotia). Located at the summit of a small island to the southeast of Isle Madame. Accessible only by boat; visible from Cap Rouge on Petit-de-Grat Island, which is accessible by road from Isle Madame. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-211; CCG 722; Admiralty H3376; NGA 9312.
* Marache Point (Arichat, Cape Auguet) (3)
1949 (station established 1851). Active; focal plane 10 m (34 ft); continuous white light. 7.5 m (25 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. Jarvis's photo is at the bottom of this page, Martin Cathrae has a photo, Illsley has a good photo, Anderson has photos, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, and Bing has a satellite view. This station was known as Arichat Light until 1970, when the keepers' houses were sold and removed. (It is not known if they survive.) The original lighthouse, a short tower, was replaced by a 2-story structure in 1869. Located at the southern entrance to Arichat Harbour on the south coast of Isle Madame; accessible by a short walk on a dirt road. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-303; CCG 708; Admiralty H3404; NGA 9356.
Jerseyman Island (3)
2017 (station established 1872). Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); continuous red light. 7.5 m (25 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern is red. The keeper's house was sold and removed in 1980. Jarvis has a photo, Anderson has photos, Trabas has Klaus Potschien's photo, Marinas.com has aerial photos, Google has a very distant street view from the mainland, and Bing has a distant satellite view. The original lighthouse was replaced in 1950. The 1950 tower became seriously deteriorated and was replaced by a new tower of the same design in 2017. Located at the north end of the island, south of Isle Madame, marking the western entrance to Arichat Harbour. Accessible only by boat, although there is a view from the mainland. Site open, tower closed. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-256; CCG 707; Admiralty H3406; NGA 9364.
Canso Canal Lighthouse
* Balache Point Range Rear
1963. Active; focal plane 9 m (30 ft); continuous red light. 6 m (20 ft) square pyramidal wood tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line; lantern is red. Jarvis's photo is at right, Anderson has photos, Illsley has a photo, Bash has a photo, Trabas has Thomas Philipp's photo, Lorne Hull also has a photo, Google has a street view, and Bing has a satellite view. The front light is on a 6 m (20 ft) skeletal tower. The range guides vessels entering the Canso Canal; completed in 1955, the canal provides a tidal lock allowing safe navigation of the narrow Strait of Canso separating Cape Breton Island from the mainland. Located at the northern entrance to the canal, off the Trans-Canada Highway just west of the Canso Causeway. Site and tower closed, but the lighthouse can be viewed from outside the fence. Owner/site manager: Canadian Coast Guard. ARLHS CAN-017; CCG 702; Admiralty H3436.1; NGA 8708.
Balache Point Light, Canso Canal, September 2011
Information available on lost lighthouses:
Bear Island (1906-?), Chedabucto Bay, Richmond. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1363.
Cap Rond (1874-?), Île Madame, Richmond. The lighthouse was replaced with a light on a mast; later that light was replaced by a buoy offshore. ARLHS CAN-1367.
Chéticamp Harbour Range Rear (1890-1950), Chéticamp Harbour, Inverness. The front lighthouse survives (see above) but the range has been discontinued and the rear lighthouse was demolished. ARLHS CAN-1369.
Clarke Cove Range Rear (1903-1977), Great Bras d'Or Lake. The range was discontinued and the lighthouse removed. The front light was moved to Cameron Island, where it survives (see above). ARLHS CAN-1193.
Crichton Head (1874-?), Isle Madame, Richmond. The lighthouse was replaced by a skeletal tower; later that light was replaced by a series of buoys. ARLHS CAN-1267.
Glasgow Point (1884-?), Isle Madame, Richmond. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1215.
Grand Étang (1901-?), northwest coast, Inverness. The lighthouse has been demolished. There are small beacons on the harbor breakwaters, barely visible in Marinas.com aerial photos. ARLHS CAN-1216.
Iona (1901-?), west side of Grand Narrows, Great Bras d'Or Lake. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1222.
Lingan Head (1874-?), Sydney area. There is no longer a light at this location; a pair of small range beacons guide vessels into Lingan Harbour. ARLHS CAN-1226.
Mabou Harbour Range Front (1884-1987), west coast, Inverness. This light was removed. ARLHS CAN-1374.
McKenzie Point (1874-?), Baddeck area, Great Bras d'Or Lake. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1229
Petit-de-Grat (1877-?), Isle Madame, Richmond. The lighthouse was replaced by a skeletal tower, which was discontinued and removed in 2000. ARLHS CAN-1375.
Point Tupper (1870-?), Strait of Canso. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1376.
Port Hood (1854-1938), west coast, Inverness. The lighthouse was not replaced after being destroyed by fire in 1938. ARLHS CAN-1209.
Red Islands (1895-?), Great Bras d'Or Lake. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1235.
Rochefort Point Range Front and Rear (1924-?), Louisbourg area, Cape Breton. Huelse has a postcard view of the front lighthouse. The range has been discontinued and the lighthouses removed. ARLHS CAN-1237-38.
St. Ann Harbour (1871-?), St. Ann Harbour, Victoria. There is no longer a light at this location. ARLHS CAN-1241.
West Arichat Range Front and Rear (1904-?), Isle Madame, Richmond. The range has been discontinued and the lighthouses removed. ARLHS CAN-1245-46.
Marache Point Light, Arichat, September 2011
Flickr Creative Commons photo by Dennis Jarvis
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Posted June 2003. Checked and revised February 13, 2019. Lighthouses: 51. Site copyright 2019 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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UN Climate Conference – ICS has Vision for Zero Carbon Shipping Future
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) is representing the world’s national shipowners’ associations and over 80 percent of the world merchant fleet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23) in Bonn this week.
ICS will emphasise how the shipping industry is supporting the UN International Maritime Organization (IMO) to develop an ambitious CO2 reduction strategy.
ICS Director of Policy, Simon Bennett explained:
“ICS has a vision of zero CO2 emissions from shipping in the second half of the century. We are confident this will be achievable with alternative fuels and new propulsion technologies.”
ICS says its vision might be delivered with batteries or fuel cells using renewable energy, other new technologies such as hydrogen or even something not yet anticipated.
In the meantime, the shipping industry has proposed that IMO Member States should adopt a suitably ambitious goal for reducing total emissions from the entire international shipping sector by an agreed percentage by 2050.
ICS is pleased that a large number of IMO Member States have already come forward with detailed proposals. Several EU and Pacific island nations have jointly proposed that the sector should reduce total CO2 by as much as 70 percent by 2050.
Mr Bennett commented:
“Japan has set out in detail to IMO how a 50 percent total cut by 2060 might be achieved. In view of projections for future trade growth, an objective in this range, while still incredibly ambitious, therefore seems more realistic.”
“It will be for governments to agree the actual reduction number when they adopt an initial IMO strategy next April. And this is also going to have to address the legitimate concerns of major economies such as China and India about the implications for future trade and their sustainable development.”
Whatever is decided, ICS says that the entire world fleet is probably unlikely to enjoy global access to new alternative fuels for at least another 20 or 30 years. Moreover, population growth and further improvements to global living standards will probably determine that demand for shipping must continue to increase, as it is already by far the most carbon efficient form of commercial transport.
ICS says that, using a combination of technical and operational measures, the international shipping sector already appears to have reduced and held its total annual CO2 emissions at about 8 percent below its 2008 peak. This is despite an increase of about 30 percent in maritime trade, estimated in tonnes of cargo transported one nautical mile (tonne-miles) over the period up to the end of 2015.
ICS cautions that these latest estimates by third parties will have to be verified by the next official IMO Greenhouse Study in 2019 using the new IMO CO2 Data Collection System.
“They are nevertheless encouraging especially given the dramatic reduction in fuel prices since 2014. Moreover, a significant increase in marine fuel costs is expected in 2020 due to the mandatory global switch by the entire world fleet to low sulphur fuels. This should greatly incentivise, to the extent this is possible, the further reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by ships.” said Mr Bennett.
The annual Conference of Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (and the 2015 UNFCCC Paris Agreement) meets in Bonn from 6-17 November. On behalf of its member national shipowners’ associations, ICS will be participating in various official events inside the Conference.
The figures quoted on CO2 emissions and maritime trade are derived from a recent study by the International Council on Clean Transportation and the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2017.
Amendments to the IMO MARPOL Convention, which have already entered into force worldwide, will require from January 2020 all internationally trading ships to use fuel with a sulphur content of 0.5 percent or less (except in Emission Control Areas where they must already use fuel with a sulphur content of 0.1 percent or less).
A copy of the submission made jointly by ICS, BIMCO, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO to the most recent round of IMO discussions in October 2017 on the development of a GHG reduction strategy can be found here.
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PRAY ABOUT NORTH KOREA
March 12, 2019 | From Christianity Today and Times of Israel
Father, we pray for the denuclearization of North Korea and for religious freedom for all North Koreans.
“On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump referred to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un as “his friend.” . . .
This time, Trump made friendly overtures to Kim—even going so far as to say he believed the leader had not been directly responsible for the death of an American student. But when the summit ended on Thursday, Trump walked away after the US refused to agree to North Korea’s demand that all sanctions be lifted off the country. . . .
For years, North Korea has been one of the world’s worst countries to be a Christian; Open Doors has ranked it No. 1 for nearly the past two decades. Dozens of volunteers and employees from the many Christian nonprofits that serve North Koreans—believers and unbelievers alike—have had increasing difficulty serving the beleaguered population.
Did Trump and Kim’s summit help North Korean Christians?” (Excerpted from Christianity Today. Go to Christianity Today to see the six opinions of experts in the field.)
“North Korea may be preparing for a missile or space launch, US news outlet NPR has reported, based on satellite image analysis of a key facility near Pyongyang.
NPR said the images of Sanumdong, one of the facilities Pyongyang has used to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles and space rockets, were taken days before US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Hanoi for their high-stakes summit . . . .
The Sanumdong analysis comes days after the specialized website 38 North and the Center for Strategic and International Studies said Pyongyang may have resumed operations at its long-range rocket launch site at Sohae, based on their study of satellite imagery from March 6.” (Excerpted from The Times of Israel)
7 Replies to “PRAY ABOUT NORTH KOREA”
Betty B WI says:
Father, we continue to lift up Kim Jung Un and ask You to send Christians into his path that would share the gospel with him. I ask You to soften his heart to hear Your Word and repent for the evil that has been done in his country to the Christians as well as other people. May North Korea become a nation under God. Thank You for what You have done in Brazil. May we hear more GOOD NEWS of the gospel reaching the nations throughout the world. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
Martha Robinson says:
I pray that President Trump has the spirit of the Lord resting upon him. That the spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, and a fear of the Lord is upon him in all matters and especially in dealings with North Korea. I pray that Kim Jong’s heart is softened and conviction for how he has enslaved the North Korean people will engulf him. I’m praying for God’s will to be done.
Paul R Simpson Sr says:
I think it is good to meet and talk to people who are your enemies. It is not good to give credit to where it is not deserved. And to say he is not responcable for the death of that young man was erroneous. I a strong
Laura Nguyen says:
Lord, I ask that you give Trump the wisdom and perseverance to deal with the North Korean regime. Please replace Kim’s heart of stone with a heart of flesh so that he will feel compassion for the millions of people he has enslaved. Lift up the spirits of those people and bless the efforts of the Christians trying to communicate to them the source of true freedom. Amen.
Laura Nguyen I am praying along with you. May there be peace between North and South Korea and the United States. May the persecution of Christians stop and may North Korea become a strong Christian Nation. And may United States become a strong Christian Nation once again. In Jesus’ precious name I pray. Amen!
Yes, LORD, I come in complete agreement with Laura. We ask that You accomplish all these things in the mighty Name of Jesus, and bring much glory to Yourself as the Creator and Sovereign Ruler of all.
Doug H. says:
We must continue to pray that President Trump’s eyes be opened to the truth. And most importantly receive the TRUTH. We as a country cannot allow North Korea, Russia and China to lure us into their plots and schemes. President Trump must realize and understand that these countries want us neutralized and or destroyed. We must also pray that these countries will begin to understand that Jesus Christ IS THE WAY.
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Apple's Wearable Tech Is About to Get Much More Personal With a Pair of Augmented Reality Glasses
5G Revolution
Apple's Wearable Tech Is About to Get Much More Personal--With a Pair of Augmented Reality Glasses
In a company meeting, Apple revealed its plan to ship two different smart glasses in the next few years.
By Jason AtenTech columnist@jasonaten
Apple's next big thing is likely to be a combination of what it does best--create amazing technology that fits your life and just works. And one of its most recent acquisitions might be the key to making that happen. The company bought Intel's 5G modem business this year, and that technology is not only expected to power future iPhones but could also be a natural fit in other types of wearable tech.
Apple is already the biggest player in wearable technology, which currently includes the Apple Watch and its iconic AirPods and AirPods Pro. Wearables also represents one of the company's most important areas of future growth, especially as the growth of iPhone sales has slowed over the past few years. Sure, the iPhone isn't going anywhere, but the number of people in the market for a new one continues to shrink as the overall design remains relatively unchanged, and people are keeping their devices longer.
Now a report from The Information includes details about an Apple company meeting held in its Steve Jobs Theater, where it detailed what might be its most ambitious and futuristic product yet. Actually, two futuristic products, including a headset and glasses set to be released in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
Apple has been rumored to be working on a set of augmented reality (AR) glasses for a while now, but it's mostly been speculation. Now, however, it appears that Apple has at least semi-publicly shared its roadmap for making it a reality.
Before you balk at the idea of wearing around a high-tech pair of iGlasses, let us at least admit that if there's a company that can figure out how to do it well, it's Apple. No other company has had the same level of success dominating just about everything it touches.
Still, it'll be a few years before anyone is walking around with whatever it means to basically have an iPhone strapped to your face. One possible reason is that Apple will likely wait until it has its own 5G technology ready for prime time.
We are far past the point where the devices we carry and wear are capable of doing incredible things. My Apple Watch can tell if I fall while shoveling the four inches of snow we got here in Michigan last night. My iPhone recognizes my face and remembers where I parked my car. My iPad Pro is capable of running Photoshop.
The limiting factor isn't the technology, it's the speed at which that technology is able to access data, in most cases from the cloud. The coming 5G rollout of major carriers has the potential to change that part of the equation and unleash a ton of new and interesting possibilities.
Think about what would you could do with a pair of AR glasses with 5G wireless. Imagine the ability to look around and have information layered over the world around you, in real-time. AR involves massive amounts of data and processing, both of which would be radically affected by ultrafast wireless.
As I mentioned, all of that technology exists in some form, but the limiting factor is the ability to quickly process the data. By 2022, that won't be a problem.
On that note, Apple also hasn't ever tried to be first. Even the iPhone wasn't the first smartphone. The iMac wasn't the first desktop computer or even the first all-in-one. The iPad wasn't the first tablet, and the Apple Watch wasn't the first smartwatch.
Apple won't be the first pair of smart glasses, but so far no one has figured out a way to make a version useful enough to be something anyone actually wants to wear. Apple, by waiting, might actually ship something with the speed it needs to actually be useful.
Sometimes good things really are worth waiting for.
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Ethiopia's new party is welcome news, but faces big hurdles
Prime minister Abiy Ahmed, who has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Peace, has recently announced the establishment of a new political party in Ethiopia. The Prosperity Party brings together three of the four members of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, which used to be the ruling coalition.
The Tigray People's Liberation Front is the only member of the coalition that is opposed to the new party. It has already announced it won't be joining it.
Five regional parties from Afar, Gambella, Harari, Benishangul Gumz and Somali have also joined the party. These regions have historically been excluded from the decision-making process at the national level.
The Ethiopian state has been administered by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front since the downfall of the military regime in 1991. The ruling coalition was a hasty creation of the Tigray People's Liberation Front, which then became its dominant force.
The coalition was successful in creating a deep party structure and thus a deep state. But it has always been marred by infighting. The infighting did not stop despite Abiy's rise to power on the winds of political change.
The reforms initiated by Abiy and his deputy Demeke Mekonnen have been breathtaking. But the prime minister and his team are not assured of success, as they face big challenges.
The Prosperity Party is already facing criticism from members of the former ruling coalition even though many Ethiopians see it as an opportunity to unite and overcome ethnic polarisation and recurrent violence.
Government bureaucracy in Ethiopia was weakened under the former ruling coalition. State institutions were paralysed as Ethiopia's brightest intellectuals left the country.
The fact that regional states were administered by competing ethno-nationalist parties meant that conflicts across domestic administrative boundaries were common.
To make matters worse the four coalition parties - Tigray People's Liberation Front, Amhara Democratic Party, Oromo Democratic Party, and Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement - were fully in charge of the political centre. This left peripheral parties and their regions without a say in matters of the state.
As old habits continue to surface, even under Abiy, ethnic relations have continued to deteriorate and violence across the country has become the norm. The country is a world leader in the number of internally displaced populations.
And domestic relations have been full of political tensions. This has been particularly true between political elites from regional states such as Tigray and Amhara. The Tigray region, especially, has been cold to Abiy and Tigrayans have expressed frustration with the reforms.
Tensions and conflicts were to be expected given that the country's elites aren't happy with the significant changes being initiated by Abiy's administration. This has included the fight against corruption, patron-client relations and rent seeking activities.
The administration too has its own flaws. For example, it has been justifiably criticised for its slow responses to ethnic conflicts and the displacement crisis.
It was also slow in reacting to the deteriorating situation in Sidama which turned violent and claimed many lives. The government finally did the right thing by calling for a referendum which was held peacefully. The vote is likely to lead to the formation of a new member in Ethiopia's federation.
Long road ahead
Abiy and his allies seem committed to ending the political catastrophe that has seen huge numbers of Ethiopians being ignored. The most important beneficiaries of the newly unified party are likely to be the minorities.
But Abiy still has a lot of convincing to do. Individuals and groups opposed to the Prosperity Party are concerned that it could threaten the current federal arrangement that was designed to promote group rights over those of the individual.
But these arguments might not work. Firstly, the federal system created 28 years ago was deeply flawed because it cut so many out of any meaningful decision making. If the Prosperity Party wins the next election those on the periphery will be part of the ruling centre. In my view, this will ensure that they are represented in central decision making while keeping the current federal arrangement intact.
But substantial reforms will only occur if the Prosperity Party wins the election in 2020. The exact dates are yet to be announced.
State-federal relations
If the new party wins it will be in a better place to strengthen the weakened relations between regional states and the federal government.
The other change would be better political representation and a federal system that treats every region and group fairly.
And finally, the most welcoming aspect of a victory for the Prosperity Party would be its commitment to protecting both group and individual rights. But to assure such promising changes, the party must be willing to prioritise Ethiopian unity over ethno-nationalism.
If the new party delivers on its promises chances are high that it could be a good alternative political force to any potential political opposition.
Author: Yohannes Gedamu - Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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The Party (Compact Disc)
By Elizabeth Day
Little Brown and Company, 9781478990147
Pre-Recorded Audio Player (10/15/2017)
The Party tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come to question everything they thought they knew about each other, as the long-buried secret at the heart of their friendship comes to the surface, culminating in an explosive act of violence. Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have been inseparable since childhood. Ben's wife Serena likes to jokingly refer to Martin as Ben's dutiful Little Shadow.Lucy is a devoted wife to Martin, even as she knows she'll always be second best to his sacred friendship. When Ben throws a lavish fortieth birthday party at his new palatial country home, Martin and Lucy attend, mixing with the very upper echelons of London society.But why, the next morning, is Martin in a police station being interviewed about the events of last night? Why is Lucy being forced to answer questions about his husband and his past? What exactly happened at the party? And what has bound these two very different men together for so many years?A cleverly built tour of intrigue, The Party reads like a novelistic board game of Clue, taking us through the various half-truths and lies its characters weave, as the past and present collide in a way that its protagonists could never have anticipated.
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United Nations: Biographies >
Thant, U
Thant, U o͞o thänt [key], 1909–74, Burmese diplomat, secretary-general of the United Nations (1962–72). Educated at University College, Yangon, he later held positions in education, the press, and broadcasting. He was with the Burmese ministry of information (1949–57) and served as chairman of the Burmese delegation to the United Nations from 1947. In 1953 he was appointed Burma's permanent representative to the United Nations.
Thant succeeded Dag Hammarskjöld as acting secretary-general of the United Nations in 1961 and was elected secretary-general in 1962. In the early years of his tenure, he was deeply involved in the settlement of major international disputes, including the transfer of Netherlands New Guinea (now Papua and West Papua prov.) to Indonesia (1962); the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba (1962); the resolution of the civil war in the Congo in 1963; the establishment of a peacekeeping force on Cyprus (1964); and the achievement of a cease-fire in the 1965 India-Pakistan War.
Elected to a second term in 1966, U Thant had less success in dealing with the major crises of this later period, which included the Vietnam War, the Middle East crisis, and another India-Pakistan War (1971), among others. This declining role in international peacekeeping was offset by a greatly increased UN involvement in the economic and social development of the Third World countries, which by that time made up a large majority of the United Nations. U Thant was never able to solve the chronic problem of financing UN operations.
In 1972, after declining another term, he was succeeded as secretary-general by Kurt Waldheim . He wrote several books, including Cities and Their Stories (1930), The League of Nations School Book (1932), Towards a New Education (1946), and a History of Postwar Burma (3 vol., 1961).
See a selection of his writings and speeches in Portfolio for Peace (1968); study by J. Bingham (1966).
See more Encyclopedia articles on: United Nations: Biographies
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Thomas Claburn
EU Tells US: End Mass Spying
Responding to surveillance revelations, EU officials seek changes in commercial and law enforcement data sharing arrangements with the US.
The European Commission, the EU's executive body, is demanding that the US respect the privacy rights of EU citizens and is seeking changes in its commercial and law enforcement data sharing arrangements with the US to "restore trust."
The Commission on Wednesday issued a strategy paper, an analysis of the Safe Harbor agreement that governs international commercial data flows, and a Data Protection report, among other documents, in response to ongoing revelations about the extent of US surveillance.
The latest such disclosure, that the NSA spied on the porn habits of "radicalizers" so they can be discredited, was published late Tuesday by The Huffington Post, based on documents provided by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden
"Massive spying on our citizens, companies and leaders is unacceptable," said EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding in a statement. "Citizens on both sides of the Atlantic need to be reassured that their data is protected and companies need to know existing agreements are respected and enforced."
The Commission's concern about loss of trust translates into potential loss of revenue. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington-based policy research group, projects US IT industry losses of $22 billion to $35 billion by 2016, because foreign businesses and governments fear having their data scoured by US intelligence agencies.
Add to that the certainty that other government intelligence agencies are doing the same thing, or at least trying to, and the entire premise of cloud computing crumbles. Without a foundation of trust and a legal framework that exists in full public view and protects rather than yields, there's a strong impetus to avoid the cloud and rely only on internal corporate computing resources.
Though the EU says the Safe Harbor agreement governing commercial data sharing "cannot be maintained," it doesn't appear to be threatening to rescind the agreement. Rather, it seeks to improve it with stronger protections for EU citizens, principally a path for judicial redress. The US Privacy Act of 1974 protects US citizens and legal permanent residents, but not EU citizens.
The Commission has made 13 recommendations about how to improve Safe Harbor. The recommendations cover privacy dispute redress, privacy policy transparency, privacy enforcement mechanisms (like compliance audits), and limitations on exceptional access by US authorities (only when "strictly necessary or proportionate," as if such assurances hadn't already been offered).
Changes in the way data is handled and accessed in the EU and US will depend on the EU data protection rules revisions currently before the EU parliament and the US review of national surveillance activities, both of which are ongoing. US lawmakers continue to debate whether and how to reform NSA data collection.
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12/5/2013 | 5:16:17 AM
Re: NSA data collection should be limited to US borders
"To avoid such inefficiencies, the only thing that will work is for NSA, GCHQ (UK) and DGSE (France) etc that are all in violation of EU's 'sincere co-operation' treaty to come together and discuss ways to collaborate, and finish inefficiencies."
That sounds reasonable.
In the EU you find the most transparent, peaceful, and less corrupted countries in the world. Why do they represent a thread to the US? Why the US shoud invade their privacy? Why do you support this?
Re: How can this possibly get worse?
Lorna,
I know. Do you really, really, really believe that the EU, where you find the most transparent, peaceful, and less corrupted countries in the world (there is proof about this) Why should the EU represent a thread to the US? Do you believe that? Why should citizens from these countries should be denied their privacy? Why? Why do you agree with this?
Brian.Dean,
12/4/2013 | 4:51:31 PM
Susan, the $22 billion to $35 billion that the US IT industry is going to lose is not going to be completely lost, as some of it Canada and EU etc will gain. On a global level some of this is going to be convert into deadweight lose because of inefficiency.
To avoid such inefficiencies, the only thing that will work is for NSA, GCHQ (UK) and DGSE (France) etc that are all in violation of EU's 'sincere co-operation' treaty to come together and discuss ways to collaborate, and finish inefficiencies.
Lorna Garey,
12/2/2013 | 11:00:39 AM
Susan, The NSA's stated mission is to produce signal intelligence on foreign entities. The FBI is the agency charged with policing with the US. The EU is by definition within the NSA's purview.
I doubt those people who threaten US security are in some of the European countries that are under the NSA eye. Why do you think the EU is asking to end the spying?
RobPreston,
So we want a National Security Agency that's not allowed to venture outside the US? It's charged with ensuring national security, not policing the 50 states. Most of the people who threaten US security are outside its borders, not inside.
With the difference that Europe is not American territory.
Limiting the NSA to US borders is like limiting the NYPD to Foley Square.
Yes, but you are forgetting about my main point: the NSA should stay in its national terrorory only: the US, not the EU.
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Home » Father-Son Duo Completes Charity Ride the Length of New Zealand
Father-Son Duo Completes Charity Ride the Length of New Zealand
Eight-year old Ted McKenzie recently completed a three-week charity bike ride with his dad spanning the entire length of New Zealand in support of the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation. The duo raised more than $50,000 for the organization, yet Ted thinks of the journey as his way of saying thank-you. Ted has cerebral palsy, a condition that makes it difficult for him to walk, much less ride a bicycle. But the $4,000 grant his family received from the Halberg Foundation to buy a tandem bike made the cross-country ride possible. Taking breaks in the support van his mother drove and riding alongside his father, Ted’s muscles and spirit grew stronger throughout the trek. “It was rehabilitative because he was forced to pedal,” his father Adrian said. “It was not just good for him physically but good for his spirit as well.”
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Article 4 Ways Educational Technology Can Enhance Classroom Instruction
Since the dawn of literacy when Socrates famously warned against the memory-diminishing practice of reading and writing, technophobia has been a documented recurring historical trend — often focused around perceived negative effects on children.
By Krista Leland / 10 Jun 2019
In the 1800s, critics condemned newspapers as an obstacle to proper socialization. Parents and teachers once blamed the radio for distracting children from their studies, television for lowering student IQ and video games for stunting development.
Over time, however, these fears have been almost universally disproven. Research published in SAGE Journals re-examined some of the largest relevant studies to date, finding no substantial evidence of a negative association between screen time and well-being in adolescents.
Yet, despite this fact, and despite the growing acceptance of modern devices in our adult lives, traditional methods and attitudes toward technology still tend to dominate when it comes to early education.
A shift in thinking
Modern technology and education have long been viewed as opposing forces, pitted against one another in the battle for student engagement. But when they’re treated as complementary rather than oppositional, research has shown significant benefits to integrating technology in education.
Let’s examine four ways edtech improves instructional quality.
1. Supporting personalized instruction
Every child learns different skills at different speeds — often through different mediums. When the style and pace of instruction is aligned with these particular needs, students are able to achieve greater levels of educational success.
But delivering a truly personalized experience for every child using only traditional methods of instruction is statistically improbable. For example, a primary school teacher with a class of 25 students studying five core subjects per day would need to create more than 22,000 custom lesson plans in order to provide a truly personalized learning experience to each student in each subject.
Fortunately, modern Learning Management Systems (LMSs), such as Schoology, Google Classroom, Canvas and Blackboard, offer a more reasonable alternative. Using these edtech platforms, teachers can assign preselected readings, photos, videos, games and other activities for students to complete at their own pace or preference, empowering students to take greater ownership of their learning.
Automated assessments also provide value through instant feedback on student mistakes, capitalizing on the brain’s existing state of focus to make immediate corrections. This eliminates the tedious and time-consuming process of manual grading, freeing teachers to focus on creative lesson planning or one-on-one supplementary instruction.
2. Increasing motivation and engagement
Despite several decades of speculation about the possible negative effects of video games on developing minds, research now provides compelling evidence that the opposite may be true.
In fact, neurological studies have shown a direct correlation between gaming and improved connectivity throughout the brain. By combining the higher reasoning functions with muscle memory, video games provide a platform for enhanced learning capabilities, particularly in regions of the brain associated with spatial navigation, memory, strategic planning and multitasking.
The gamification — or game playing application — of learning can also drastically increase motivation by capitalizing on the brain’s natural reward response system. A “structured play” model contributes to the release of dopamine, which helps reinforce the act of learning, boosting student interest and increasing engagement with educational material.
The effectiveness of this model is perhaps most evident in the popularity of Microsoft’s Minecraft Education Edition, which has helped many teachers make complex concepts, such as math, chemistry, problem-solving and even coding, more accessible for their students through gamification.
Beyond basic motivation, edtech tools such as video and online educational games also offer a more flexible approach to “failure,” inspiring persistence even among students who typically rank at the lower end of academic performance.
3. Delivering improved access to resources
Just a few decades ago, the general availability of knowledge was limited to the number of books housed in a particular home, school or town library. However, with the dawn of the new millennium and the rapid expansion of the internet, a virtually infinite supply of information is now available to anyone with access to the web.
Among the many benefits of this transformation has been the emergence of digital libraries and Open Educational Resources (OERs). Universities and enterprises alike have published a wealth of free online materials, including textbooks, lesson plans, lectures, demonstrations, virtual field trips and more.
The expanded availability of high-quality, low-cost resources represents a unique opportunity to help equalize the educational landscape. Underfunded schools now have greater access to supplemental learning materials. Students in rural and inner-city schools can visit the same sites and benefit from the same information, regardless of location. Properly leveraged, OERs provide educators with new ways to enhance learning experiences — without increasing classroom expenses.
4. Building computer literacy
Digitalization and social media skills have quickly become integral aspects of modern life. But navigating the complexities of our increasingly technical world requires a significant level of digital fluency, online etiquette and security best practices.
Although many of today’s children are familiar with modern devices and social media platforms, they often lack information on the nuances and risks associated with technology. Other children may not have access to smart devices or a reliable internet connection at home and may require more explicit education on how to use these resources in their personal lives.
In either case, the integration of education technology provides a valuable opportunity for students to develop digital citizenship skills.
Similarly, as demand for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) expertise continues to grow, these skills will prove foundational to many future career paths. According to the World Economic Forum, the average U.S. citizen’s computer skills continue to rank as “poor,” with nearly a quarter of the population unable to complete even the most basic tasks.
Equipping students with the tools and experience to not only operate but also contribute to the development of future technologies is critical in preparing them for success in tomorrow’s workforce.
Simplifying educational IT
Integrating technology in education empowers teachers with powerful tools to improve the quality, accessibility and relevance of traditional instruction, laying the groundwork for greater college and career readiness. But delivering these benefits requires schools and school districts to have robust IT strategies in place.
Advancements in Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), cloud computing and edge data centers have made it easier to ensure fast, reliable access to files and applications across even the most distributed environments.
A strong network infrastructure coupled with advanced threat defense and endpoint protection allows school districts to support 1:1 technology initiatives, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs, remote libraries, educational applications and more.
Transforming education takes Insight. Discover how we can help you implement and support technology in the classroom.
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Peri-implantitis Microbiota
By Dalia Khalil and Margareta Hultin
Submitted: March 4th 2018Reviewed: June 13th 2018Published: November 5th 2018
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.79486
Home > Books > An Update of Dental Implantology and Biomaterial
Dental implant surgery has been a successful therapeutic option for the rehabilitation of partially or completely edentulous jaws for many years. However, evidence regarding the causative factors of peri-implant disease is still lacking. Peri-implantitis is an inflammatory disease affecting the soft and hard tissues surrounding osseointegrated implant associated with the formation of a bacterial biofilm on the implant surface close to the marginal tissues. The aim of this chapter is to summarize the knowledge regarding the microbiota associated with peri-implant infection and to review the different microbial diagnostic tests to understand the peri-implant microbiota, as well as summarize the present knowledge regarding management of peri-implantitis and propose further recommendations for future studies. This chapter shows that the scientific data regarding the microbiota responsible for peri-implantitis initiation and progression are still inconclusive. A microbiological test may thus be one diagnostic method to be used to understand the complexity of microbiota associated with the peri-implant sulcus. However, in order to resolve inflammation and arrest disease progression, the understanding of the biofilm development is essential.
peri-implant infection
peri-implant microbiota
peri-implant microbial test
Dalia Khalil*
Division of Periodontology, Implant Clinic, King Fahad General Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Department of Dental Medicine, Division of Periodontology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Margareta Hultin
*Address all correspondence to: dalia.khalil@ki.se
An Update of Dental Implantology and BiomaterialEdited by Mazen Ahmad Almasri
An Update of Dental Implantology and Biomaterial
Edited by Mazen Ahmad Almasri
Dental implants have become a successful therapeutic option to replace missing tooth. It has been estimated that approximately 12 million implants are placed every year, worldwide [1]. With the global increase of dental implant placement, there is a continued need for investigation regarding the etiology, risk factors and treatment for dental implant complications. Moreover, the widespread use of dental implants has led to an increase in biofilm-mediated peri-implant disease. There is an undisputed effect between the formation of an oral biofilm on the implant surface and the initiation of the inflammatory process around osseointegrated dental implants [2].
Initially, clinical measures such as probing were not recommended since it was believed that this could harm the mucosal seal. Therefore, diagnostic measures were limited to the radiographic examination. Thus, disease remained undiagnosed for many years. Therefore, failing dental implants were not diagnosed, and only failed implants were detected where the implant needed to be removed [3]. First, the term peri-implantoclasia was used to describe the disease condition, that is, catabolic condition with/without sepsis or suppuration, around the dental implant [4, 5]. However, this term was replaced shortly after with peri-implantitis, which became the accepted terminology for the infectious nature of the pathologic condition surrounding peri-implant tissue [6, 7].
Peri-implantitis has been described as a “site specific” condition or as an “inflammatory bacterial driven destruction of the implant supporting apparatus,” which means that microorganisms play an important role in peri-implantitis [8, 9]. The prevalence of peri-implantitis shows a wide range (10-25%) in different study populations primarily due to the definition of peri-implantitis, i.e. the chosen cut-off level for registering marginal bone loss and the duration of the patient’s follow-up [10, 11]. However, one of the major challenges in the treatment of peri-implantitis is the lack of effective treatments.
2. Periodontitis versus peri-implantitis
Peri-implantitis is defined as an inflammatory disease affecting the soft and hard tissues surrounding osseointegrated functioning implants, while periodontitis is defined as inflammation affecting the tissues around the teeth [12, 13]. Despite the similarities between peri-implantitis and periodontitis, they seem to differ in extent, composition and progression of lesions [14, 15]. Peri-implant disease is known to be multifactorial with risk factors identical to periodontitis, including poor oral hygiene, smoking, diabetes, and genetic factors [2, 16]. History, or current periodontitis status, increases the risk of peri-implantitis [2, 16, 17, 18, 19]. However, there is a complex interaction between the development of periodontitis and peri-implantitis and the formation of bacterial biofilm [2, 16].
One of the major anatomical differences between periodontal and peri-implant tissue is the presence of a periodontal ligament around the tooth, while the implant is in an ankylosed state. Although there is extensive information regarding the histopathological characteristics of human periodontal lesions, only a few studies have evaluated peri-implantitis lesions in humans. Berglundh et al. concluded in a systematic review that critical histopathological differences exist between the two lesions [20]. For example, the apical extension of the inflammatory cell infiltrate was more pronounced in peri-implantitis lesions compared to that in periodontal lesions. In peri-implantitis, the inflammatory cell infiltrate was, in most cases, located apical of the pocket epithelium. In both types of lesions, the infiltrate was dominated by plasma cells and lymphocytes, but in peri-implantitis, the neutrophil granulocytes and macrophages occurred in larger proportions [20]. In a recent animal study on mice, where periodontitis and peri-implantitis lesions were experimentally induced by ligatures, a striking difference was observed on comparing the spontaneous healing after ligature removal. More bone was regained after ligature removal around teeth compared with that around implants in the peri-implantitis lesions. The intrinsic ability of the periodontal ligament to repair bone around teeth may thus be one of several key factors influencing treatment outcomes of peri-implantitis [21]. Moreover, soft tissues around teeth and implants are of similar dimensions [3]. The outer surface of the gingiva and peri-implant mucosa is covered by keratinized oral epithelium, but the peri-implant mucosa continues marginally with a thin nonkeratinized barrier epithelium, which is similar to the junctional epithelium around teeth [3]. However, the reaction of the soft and hard tissue after microbial colonization is similar in many aspects [3].
It was previously believed that there are similarities between peri-implantitis and periodontitis microbiota, and that periodontal pathogens translocate into peri-implant tissue. These similarities were once considered a critical factor in disease causation [19]. Recently, it has been reported that peri-implantitis and periodontitis microbial environments are distinct, with differences in core microbiota between the two conditions [20, 22, 23, 24].
3. Peri-implant microbiology
Implant insertion appears to stimulate the mechanism of mature biofilm development. However, this initially formed biofilm is in a commensal state [25, 26]. The biofilm that surrounds healthy implants is confined supramucosally, regardless of the fact that it can be found in massive amounts [27]. Bacterial colonization starts approximately 30 min after the implant is inserted into the oral environment [28, 29]. Recently, studies identified more than 700 bacterial species and 25,000 phylotypes in the oral cavity [22, 30, 31, 32].
The bacterial composition of the peri-implant biofilm harbors a similar microbiota to that of the neighboring teeth [33], which means that teeth serve as reservoirs for bacterial colonization in the biofilm surrounding implants [6, 34, 35, 36]. Similarities between peri-implant and periodontal microflora have been shown in several studies [37, 38, 39]. The subgingival microbiota of diseased implants has generally been considered to share some common characteristics [33].
The peri-implant microbiota of healthy sites has been shown in some studies to be more diverse and complex than in peri-implantitis, which indicates that healthy sites have a more stable and healthy ecosystem [40, 41]. On the other hand, other studies have shown higher microbiota diversity in diseased subjects [42]. These observations demonstrate that the microbial communities in both healthy and diseased tissue are quite different; however, generally, most taxa are present in both conditions [42, 43].
The subgingival microbiota of healthy implants and peri-implantitis are colonized by periodontopathic microorganisms [44, 45]. For example, the peri-implantitis microbiota showed up to a 40% higher frequency of red complex and orange complex compared to healthy implants [8, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51]. The most frequent periodontal pathogens presented in a peri-implantitis lesions are from genera such as Bacteroides, Prevotella, Porphyromonas, Treponema, and Tannerella [46, 52, 53, 54]. Moreover, there is an increase in the diversity of species in the more advanced stages of disease [51]. Previous studies suggest that periodontopathic bacteria are not the only periodontal pathogens active in peri-implantitis, and that noncultivable microorganisms such as asaccharolytic anaerobic Gram-positive rods (AAGPRs) and oxidized graphene nanoribbons (OGNRs) may also play an important role in peri-implantitis lesions [41, 44, 54, 55, 56, 57]. In addition, Gram-negative microorganisms such as Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa), Parvimonas micra (Pm), and Campylobacter rectus (Cr) were identified in 52% of the studies [46, 48, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65] presented in a systematic review by Lafaurie [44]. Few studies have shown the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus Warneri in peri-implantitis lesions [46, 47, 66]. In addition, the Epstein-Barr virus has been considered an enhanced risk factor in peri-implantitis lesions [67, 68]. However, it is not yet considered a microbiologic marker for peri-implantitis [67, 68]. The role of phylum Synergistetes in peri-implantitis lesions is still debated. Some recent studies have shown a strong association between this phylum and the occurrence of peri-implantitis [69, 70], while others conclude there is no relationship [71]. Therefore, peri-implantitis lesions represent a heterogeneous infection [44].
There are many factors that determine the variation in peri-implant microbiota and also the degree of its shift from the healthy microbiota found in the peri-implant sulcus. These factors include differences in the microbiological detection methods used in various studies [45, 72]. Moreover, inter-individual variations in oral microbiota (such as the presence of pathologic conditions in the oral environment, for example, untreated periodontal disease, smokers, or the status of edentulous), study design (longitudinal or cross-sectional, number of participants), and how the samples are handled all influence variations between studies [14, 72, 73]. To date, there is still limited data on which bacteria are involved in the initiation and progression of peri-implantitis disease [15]. Therefore, we should emphasize the fact that regardless of the statistically significant changes in peri-implant microbiota, microbiome composition shows a high tendency for changes that lead to a shift from a healthy status to a diseased status [72].
4. Microbial diagnostic tests
To date, clinical and radiographic data are the main diagnostic methods for the diagnosis of peri-implant disease. However, these methods are limited because they only detect the disease after a certain level of destruction [45]. Therefore, the use of microbiological tests is important to be able to determine the microbiota associated with the peri-implant sulcus [45]. There are different ways of testing the bacterial composition at the peri-implant sites. First, the sample is collected using sterile paper points, a sterile periodontal probe or a curette. These samples are then analyzed either by culture-based methods, molecular methods, sequencing methods, or other advanced new methods (i.e., metagenomics).
Culture-based methods were the first approach in helping understanding the human microbiomes. However, 20–60% of the microbiome is known to be uncultivable [74]. The limitation of this technique is that it is both time-consuming, and the results underestimate the diversity of the human microbiota.
The molecular methods, such as PCR or DNA-DNA hybridization, help to increase the number of bacterial species known to be oral commensals, which leads to increased understanding of the disease process. These methods are faster and more sensitive than the culture-based ones, but are also limited because of the need to pre-select DNA probes for the specific bacterial taxa to be investigated [39]. Therefore, one has to be cautious when interpreting these results, as finding “unexpected” microbiota is impossible with these techniques, thus creating a risk of bias. However, these techniques have overcome the limitations of culturing techniques.
During the last few years, sequencing methods such as 16S rRNA have allowed the evaluation of an entire community’s microbiome [39, 57]. These methods use a universal primer system to detect a broad range of bacterial taxa [75, 76] and discover previously new undetected and uncultivable bacteria [41, 57, 70]. Sequencing methods are able to overcome the limitations of the above-mentioned methods. On the other hand, this technique also has limitations. For example, in determining differences at the strain level, some taxa may escape detection due to less effective primer binding or differential amplification [39, 72].
Recently, some studies have used metagenomic methods for investigating microbiomes. This method is based on extracting DNA directly from the sample without “looking for” a specific organism and can be randomly sequenced or functionally screened for activities of interest [77]. These methods have recently provided valuable insights into the pathogenesis of periodontitis and may allow a paradigm shift in the understanding of peri-implantitis disease. However, studies using this technique are still ongoing.
5. Management of peri-implantitis
To date, there is no clear evidence to indicate what the initiating factors for peri-implant disease are. However, microbial infections with bacteria and possibly yeasts and viruses play an important role in the disease process [16, 46, 78, 79]. Peri-implantitis is always considered an infectious disease with the need for antimicrobial treatment to empirically target specific putative bacteria [78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87]. The primary treatment goals of peri-implantitis are to resolve inflammation and arrest disease progression. Surface decontamination is important to consider during treatment. There is no gold standard in the treatment of peri-implantitis. However, surgical access with the adjunctive use of different chemical detergents, air powder abrasive devises or lasers have been previously presented to achieve surface decontamination [88].
Data regarding the effect of systematic antibiotics on peri-implantitis lesions are lacking long-term outcomes. Although the effect of systemic antimicrobials agents in the surgical treatment of peri-implantitis is still limited [38], time and dosage have made the risk of antibiotic resistance development a reality [78, 89]. Using antimicrobial agents may risk developing bacterial resistance and the overgrowth of superinfecting microorganisms that are difficult to eradicate [78]. The development of opportunistic pathogens, such as S. aureus or EBV, may lead to a change in the normal symbiotic ecosystem to a dysbiotic ecosystem by affecting the local innate immune response. This, in turn, leads to overgrowth of superinfecting bacteria and yeast [90, 91, 92, 93]. The development of antimicrobial resistance will escalate peri-implant disease in the coming years. Therefore, the need for microbial sampling and testing is mandatory in order to prevent the risk of superinfection. These tests will identify the presence of ongoing specific microbial challenges that are difficult to eliminate and allow disease to progress. Moreover, strict supportive maintenance therapy should be considered to prevent disease recurrence and to keep ecological balance in the oral microbiota [94]. Therefore, the presence of antimicrobial agents that do not alter colonization resistance will lead to a decrease in the risk of development, spread and dissemination of resistant strains among patients [91].
6. Conclusion and future perspectives
Peri-implantitis is heterogeneous, polymicrobial infection where certain core microbiota may pose a significant role. Scientific evidence identifying the specific microbiota responsible for the development and progression of peri-implant infection is still inconclusive. A review of the literature points to an enrichment of well-recognized pathogens in addition to newly proposed pathogenic microorganisms, several of which have not yet been cultivated. Therefore, understanding the peri-implantitis microbiota will improve strategies for prevention, supportive therapy, risk assessment, early diagnosis of peri-implantitis, and timely intervention—all key aspects of long-term survival of dental implants [95]. Based on the available knowledge presented in the literature, Figure 1 summarizes important tips to the clinician. Future studies designed to understand the peri-implantitis microbiota should include careful selection of cases and controls, and the incorporation of state-of-the-art approaches, such as metagenomics [95].
Tips for the clinician regarding peri-implantitis.
2.Periodontitis versus peri-implantitis
3.Peri-implant microbiology
4.Microbial diagnostic tests
5.Management of peri-implantitis
6.Conclusion and future perspectives
Dalia Khalil and Margareta Hultin (November 5th 2018). Peri-implantitis Microbiota, An Update of Dental Implantology and Biomaterial, Mazen Ahmad Almasri, IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.79486. Available from:
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The Growth of Dental Implant Literature from 1966 to 2016: A Bibliometric Analysis
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Dental Implantology and BiomaterialEdited by Mazen Ahmad Almasri
Dental Implantology and Biomaterial
Introductory Chapter : Dental Implantology, The Challenging Scenarios between Training, Resources, and Patients’ Demands
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Breaking News: Awlaki, Samir Khan Reportedly Dead
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https://www.investigativeproject.org/3209/breaking-news-awlaki-samir-khan-reportedly-dead
Updated: 4:50 p.m.
American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed Friday by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen, administration officials say.
Awlaki, 40, was among the terrorist group's most charismatic figures, expanding al-Qaida's violent theology to a new pool of potential recruits by speaking and writing in English. He also was tied to a series of attacks, including the Fort Hood massacre and the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. An Associated Press dispatch calls the strike "the biggest U.S. success in hitting al-Qaida's leadership since the May killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan."
To a Western audience, he was the most visible figure in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an al-Qaida affiliate considered the most dangerous and capable of carrying out terrorist attacks. This could have largely been due to Awlaki's English fluency and his deep-rooted understanding of American culture—having hailed from New Mexico and spent much of his adult life stateside. Thus, he understood the concerns of many young Muslim Americans and knew how to manipulate them.
His true operational and leadership roles are disputed, though, with many regional experts suggesting his position in the terror group has been grossly overhyped in Western media.
The Arabian al-Qaida affiliate was officially formed in January 2009 after bin-Laden confidant, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, united the peninsula's Saudi and Yemeni al-Qaida branches. Since then, Wuhayshi has remained the head of AQAP, leading internal revolts against the Yemeni state and "expanding the group's focus to conduct attacks on U.S. soil," along with military commander, Qassim al-Raymi.
Numerous reports have surfaced over the past year claiming that members of AQAPs senior leadership had been killed in one fashion or another. All those reports appear to have been disproven, and the group's central leadership appears to remain intact.
Others believe Awlaki's death will have a significanly larger impact due to his profile.
"This is an extraordinary victory, a great moment for the United States. Al-Awlaki, has become more dangerous than bin Laden," U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Politico. "Over the last year, he's become the No. 1 terrorist in the world."
Another AP report indicates the attack killed a second American; former North Carolina resident Samir Khan, dealing a crushing blow to the al-Qaida affiliate's global recruiting operation. Khan published seven issues of Inspire magazine, the latest earlier this week. A slick publication with high quality graphics, Inspire offered a mix of articles glorifying jihad, offering religious justification for attacks and providing detailed instructions for "lone wolf" terrorists to wage attacks inside the United States.
A similar report of Awlaki's death in late 2009 turned out to be false. In this case, senior government officials have confirmed the attack and briefed congressional leaders like King. Officials also are hoping to match Awlaki's DNA with relatives still living in Virginia.
Before leaving America in 2002, Awlaki was considered a moderate voice. After the 9/11 attacks, National Public Radio cast him as someone who could "build bridges between Islam and the West," and a voice for moderation. He was even invited to give a presentation at the Pentagon in February 2002. But, as the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported last year, recorded sermons from that era show he already was spreading a radical message inside the United States.
For more on Awlaki's role as an inspiration to terrorists click here.
Related Topics: Anwar al-Awlaki, Anwar al-Awlaki, Fort Hood, Inspire magazine, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Samir Khan
Reader comments on this item
Submitted by J. TERRY, Oct 1, 2011 00:12
In the war on terror, Due process is a missile on time and on target. If terrorist or American citizens dont want to be smoked then dont engage in terror. There is no question whether he was a terrorist. He confessed each time he made one of those idiotic videos.
This is a war not a criminal act. In war you kill the enemy period. Those in Gitmo should be tried by military tribunal like we did the Nazis, hanged and move on to the next one. Gitmo should stay open an a symbol of what happens if you screw with America. If we cant get you in Gitmo then fire will rain from the sky on you and yours. Terrorist only understand and respect the gun and the sword. Anything else is perceived as weakness. The Kings rules have no place in this war.
Submitted by NerdCrunch, Sep 30, 2011 11:19
Not a single shred of proof, all speculation! This is nothing but murder. But wait, it aint an American citizen so why bother, move on.
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The Political Crisis in the West
To say that the West is in the midst of a political crisis would be an understatement. In the United States, the Trump Administration has bounced from one scandal to another, while the polarization of US politics has reached its highest level in decades. To the north of the US, Canada’s once-seemingly-untouchable prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has also been hit by a series of scandals this year that have placed his chances at re-election later this month in jeopardy. Across the pond, so to speak, the political situation is just as bad. The chaos surrounding the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union has continued to worsen, weakening both the UK and the EU at a time when neither side can afford such a distraction. Within the EU itself, there are a great deal of political problems facing both that organization and its member states.
With both halves of the West facing so many serious political crises, the very future of the West is in jeopardy. At the very least, these political issues are distracting the West from the major challenges facing both the prosperity and security of many Western states, as well as threatening to tear apart the countries to comprise the collective Western world. If this continues, the West’s position in the world could be in serious jeopardy.
North American Scandals
A look at the political situation in North America today is enough to cause serious concern for the future of the West. In the United States, President Donald Trump is the most unpopular US president since Jimmy Carter, although serious divisions within the Democratic Party mean that he still has a chance to be re-elected next year. President Trump’s poor approval ratings are all the more dramatic when one considers that the US economy has performed rather well in recent years. However, while the US economy has been functioning well, the national government has not, as the past 32 months have been among the most chaotic in the political history of the United States. This has raised questions about the US’ willingness to continue to play the leading role in the West and whether or not the US can hold the West together as it has since the 1940s.
Meanwhile, Canada had been seen as the US’ more politically-stable neighbor until this year, as a series of scandals have rocked the Liberal-led government in 2019. With national elections upcoming, Canada is also facing more political uncertainty than at any time in recent years.
Europe's Fraying Unity
While North America’s geopolitical position affords it the luxury of being able to withstand more political instability, Europe can ill afford to experience such a period of prolonged instability. With many weaker economies among Europe’s larger countries, greater divisions within the region, and with a more dangerous periphery, Europe needs to maintain a higher degree of political stability to ensure its prosperity and security. However, recent years suggest that the level of political stability in Europe is falling fast and could descend even further in the coming years.
Brexit is perhaps the most notable example of Europe’s declining political stability, as the process of one of the European Union’s most powerful and prosperous members withdrawing from that organization has descended into farce. Meanwhile, the EU itself is facing increasing questions about its legitimacy as many European voters feel increasingly distant from the decision-making that takes place in Brussels. On a country level, political gridlock and fragmentation have emerged as major threats in many European countries, with the process of forming and maintaining governments becoming ever-more difficult across the region. As a result, the European unity that was forged in the decades after the devastation of the Second World War is now in serious jeopardy.
Populism and Fragmentation
The political troubles that are besetting the West today are manifesting themselves in many different ways. One way is the sharp increase in support for populist parties and leaders on the both the right and left of the political spectrum. As populism spreads, traditional centrist parties and leaders have seen their support decline, resulting in a either a fragmentation of legislatures or the weakening of the political center on both the executive and the legislative levels. Sometimes, political gridlock is the result, with governments becoming impossible to form or to maintain, or with the various branches of government no longer willing or able to work together.
This lack of direction is resulting in a weakening of the ability of governments to tackle the major challenges facing their countries today. For example, the West’s changing demographics are a major threat to its future prosperity, yet almost no Western government has been able to formulate a plan to deal with failing birth rates, aging populations and shifts in immigration. Security threats are also becoming harder to grapple as a result of these political problems, with the West’s relatively secure geopolitical position now in jeopardy on many fronts. Long-term economic threats are also being ignored or pushed down the road due to political changes in the West, a serious threat when one considers that the economy of the West is growing at just half the pace that it was just two generations ago. Environmental issues such as climate change and pollution are also not being addressed with the urgency that they require, due in large part to weak political leadership on such issues in many key Western countries. Finally, many social issues that have impacted Western countries this century are also being neglected due to the shifting political situation in the modern-day West.
The Factors Behind the Political Chaos
There are many reasons why the West is facing so many political challenges these days. One key reason is the fact that economic growth across much of the West has been significantly slower during the past two decades than it was in the second half of the previous century. Another is the fact that aging populations are shifting voting patterns, with older voters often favoring populists on the right, and younger voters doing the same on the left. External factors such as migration and terrorism have also fueled support for populist leaders and parties in the West and these two issues appear likely to continue to exert significant influence in the coming years.
Altogether, these factors have led to the fragmentation of politics in the West, something that has undoubtedly weakened the collective political strength of the Trans-Atlantic community. This rise of populism and the fragmentation of politics has proven to be a major threat to the political systems in place in Western countries, many of which are ill-suited to deal with these new realities. As a result, the West is now faced with a degree of political chaos not seen for a very long time.
Can the West Repair Itself?
The major question facing the West is whether or not this degradation of the political situation in recent years is a temporary trend or a permanent development. As it stands, it is highly unlikely that the political systems now in place in the West will undergo any significant changes and as we have seen, these systems are struggling to deal with the political changes underway across the West. Likewise, the fragmentation of political parties and movements in the West is also likely to continue as each of the key factors in this fragmentation, as well as the spread of populism, are likely to remain in place in the years ahead.
Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that these changes pose a serious threat to the democratic political systems in place across the West. Furthermore, these trends pose a major threat to the unity of the West, something that has already been fraying over the past two decades. For more vulnerable Western countries, this is indeed a serious threat to their prosperity and security. For the West as a whole, this is a threat to the leading position that it has played in the world for more than two centuries.
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The Art of Dying
Living Fully into the Life to Come
by Rob Moll
Foreword by Lauren Winner
How now shall we die?
Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death does not exist. People are living longer than ever, and medicine has made dying more complicated, more drawn out and more removed from the experience of most people. Death is partitioned off to hospital rooms, separated from our daily lives. Most of us find ourselves at a loss when death approaches. We don't know how to die well.
Rob Moll recovers the deeply Christian practice of dying well. For centuries Christians have prepared for the "good death" with particular rituals and spiritual disciplines that have directed the actions of both the living and the dying. In this well-researched and pastorally sensitive book, Moll provides insight into death and dying issues with in-person reporting and interviews with hospice workers, doctors, nurses, bioethicists, family members and spiritual caregivers. He weighs in on bioethical and medical issues and gives guidance for those who care for the dying as well as for those who grieve.
This book is a gentle companion for all who face death, whether one's own or that of a loved one. Christians can have confidence that because death is not the end, preparing to die helps us truly live.
"It has often been said that medicine is both science and art. So much of a physician's training, however, is devoted to the science part, leaving precious little time for the art. As both a bioethicist and a physician, I fall prey to the same imbalance, teaching the technical and philosophical approaches to end-of-life ethics, but never teaching my patients or my students how to die. Rob Moll's book wonderfully accomplishes this task, with clarity, compassion and hope. This volume should be on the shelf of every pastor, nursing-home volunteer, layleader, and anyone caring for a dying friend or relative. It is all about living with eternity in mind."
Dennis M. Sullivan, M.D., M.A., director, Center for Bioethics, Cedarville University
"The Art of Dying takes the fear out of dying and replaces it with rich models of dying well. Drawn from a broad spectrum of historical, theological, bioethical, social and practical resources, interlaced with captivating narrative, The Art of Dying paints a vision of what dying and grieving with the Christian community has looked like--and once again should look like. While it is particularly relevant for every Christian who will die, other mortals will benefit from reading over our shoulders."
Paige Comstock Cunningham, J.D., executive director, The Center for Bioethics Human Dignity
"We, the church, need to recover the art of dying. . . . I hope that people will read this book--and talk about it, and take inspiration from it. I hope we will let Rob Moll's insights help us become communities where people can reckon with, rather than dodge, death."
from the foreword by Lauren Winner, assistant professor of Christian spirituality, Duke Divinity School, author, Girl Meets God
"Dying has for many today, like sex in the nineteenth century, become the great unmentionable. But this brave, realistic, well-researched and well-digested book restores the 'good death,' as the climax of faithful discipleship, to the Christian radar screen. On going home to God, and helping others on the same journey, what is said here is excellent from every point of view."
J. I. Packer, professor of theology, Regent College, author, Knowing God
"This book is urgently needed by many churches and individuals who don't help their members or loved ones to die well. Rob Moll reminds Christians not to be afraid of their own deaths. His numerous ideas also teach us how to accompany other people to their deaths. I pray this book will enable many congregations to develop new practices and programs for the elderly and their caretakers."
Marva J. Dawn, author of Being Well When We're Ill, My Soul Waits and In the Beginning, GOD
"Every seminarian and parish minister should read this book. Rob Moll recovers the Christian tradition's lost teaching on preparing for death. He then offers theologically sound guidance for families and clergy as they serve the dying and then honor their legacy. Indispensable."
David Neff, editor-in-chief and vice president, Christianity Today Media Group
"A welcome call to the Church to recover a reasonable readiness for death."
D. Andrew Jones, Touchstone, November/December 2010
"This highly readable, brief and concentrated book is a treasure. . . I had to use 14 stick strips to remind me of the very best bits. . . I recommend this book for libraries, to be studied and discussed as an evaluation of congregational unity, caring, and goal setting. It has pricks that cannot be ignored, and points to bring us to purposeful lives."
Rosalee Stent, Lamplighter Reviews, September 2010
"Moll calls for us to recover the deeply Christian practice of dying through preparing for the event. The Art of Dying has much food for thought."
Baptist Bulletin, July/August 2010
"The book is thoroughly researched, wide in scope, and a real eye-opener. Readers will find much to absorb and learn. It should be of value to individuals and families confronting death. Pastors, healthcare workers, and other professionals will also find it valuable. Highly recommended."
Neil Bartlett, CBA Retailers Resources, June 2010
Foreward by Lauren Winner
1 When Death Arrives
2 Gradual Dying and End-of-Life Care
3 Losing the Christian Death
4 The Individual, The Church andArs moriendi
5 The Spirituality of Dying
6 The Hardest Conversation You'll Ever Have
7 Caring for the Dying
8 The Christian Funeral
9 Grief and Mourning
10 A Culture of Resurrection
11 Living in Light of Death
The Way of Grace
Broken Hallelujahs
Joy in the Journey
ABOUT Rob Moll
Rob Moll (1977–2019) was an award-winning journalist and the author of The Art of Dying and What Your Body Knows About God. He wrote extensively on health and health-care issues, investing and personal finance, religion, and rural America.
Beginning his career as a journalist in the suburbs of Chicago, Moll worked as a reporter and editor for the Grayslake Times and Citizen Media. He quickly added to his journalism roster by joining the staff of Christianity Today (CT), where for nearly sixteen years he served in various capacities as editor and writer. Over the course of his journalism career, he won awards from the Evangelical Press Association, and he also contributed op-eds to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, The Hill, and Huffington Post.
Moll served as communications officer to the president for World Vision for five years, and in 2016 he began work with Eventide Asset Management as their director of business operations, leading the company’s communications efforts. He had also served as a hospice volunteer. He is survived by his wife, Clarissa, and their four young children.
Read IVP’s press release about his passing here.
To further support Moll’s legacy, both for his family and his work, please visit gofundme.com and mycause.worldvision.org.
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Flash, The - Season 1
Barry Allen wakes up 9 months after he was struck by lightning and discovers that the bolt gave him the power of super speed. With his new team and powers, Barry becomes "The Flash" and fights crime in Central City.
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Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) was just 11 years old when his mother was killed in a bizarre and terrifying incident and his father was falsely convicted of the murder. With his life changed forever by the tragedy, Barry was taken in and raised by Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), the father of Barry’s best friend, Iris (Candice Patton). Now, Barry has become a brilliant, driven and endearingly geeky CSI investigator, whose determination to uncover the truth about his mother’s strange death leads him to follow up on every unexplained urban legend and scientific advancement that comes along.
Barry’s latest obsession is a cutting edge particle accelerator, created by visionary physicist Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) and his S.T.A.R. Labs team, who claim that this invention will bring about unimaginable advancements in power and medicine. However, something goes horribly wrong during the public unveiling, and when the devastating explosion causes a freak storm, many lives are lost and Barry is struck by lightning.
After nine months in a coma, Barry awakens to find his life has changed once again – the accident has given him the power of super speed, granting him the ability to move through Central City like an unseen guardian angel. Though initially excited by his newfound powers, Barry is shocked to discover he is not the only “meta-human” who was created in the wake of the accelerator explosion – and not everyone is using their new powers for good.
Barry now has a renewed purpose – using his gift of speed to protect the innocent, while never giving up on his quest to solve his mother’s murder and clear his father’s name. For now, only a few close friends and associates know that Barry is literally the fastest man alive, but it won’t be long before the world learns what Barry Allen has become…The Flash.
Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes, Tom Cavanagh, Jesse L. Martin
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Cornelia Parker, Moon Landing. Photo © Dr Jim Roseblade
Work exhibited: Moon Landing.
"On the night of the full moon, 22 June 2005, a piece of the moon fell in this garden. It wasn’t a natural phenomenon but a deliberate homeopathic act; a fragment of a lunar meteorite was allowed to fall from my hand and to disappear in the terrain. It had fallen once before, after eons circulating in space it was eventually captured by earth’s gravitational pull, landing in North Africa, part of a chain of events that have led to this garden."
Cornelia Parker’s statement represents an apparent revision in her attitude towards meteorites since the comment she made public in 1998 during her show at the Serpentine Gallery: "In the past year, I have been trying to send a meteorite back into space with great difficulty."
However, the contraction of scale from outer space to the Jesus College Fellows’ Garden does not alter the character of her attempt to add to the relay of events in which the history of an individual meteorite is involved.
Perhaps the most revealing detail in her account is its reference to homeopathy, with the implication that absorption by the soil of a tiny sliver of alien matter will in some way guard against the extinction event with which meteors, comets and asteroids are commonly associated.
It may be that the 16th century representation of Halley’s Comet on the beams of the Master’s study in Jesus College is part of the same talismanic fascination with this ultimate shock to the system. Parker’s work is remarkable for the versatility with which it has devised a range of strategies to address its viewers and readers, and it has covered a variety of thematic preoccupations. However, it seems never to have strayed very far from a profound inquisitiveness about the positive and negative effects of violent transformations of matter exemplified by combustions, percussions, and collisions.
The violent yoking together of mutually resistant materials is not only an aspect of the aesthetic spectacle her work supplies, it is also intrinsic to her techniques and, perhaps most significantly, acts as a metaphor for the intrusion of art into the sphere of everyday life. Meteors represent the most decisive use by nature of the key avantgarde technique of montage. Our awareness of them is governed by their randomness and volatility.
Parker’s conception of the artwork recognises a similar risk and value in its unpredictability, as it lands without warning in a set of assumptions about function and intelligibility that are ill equipped to deal with experiment and innovation. This perception is what gives a cool irony to her commemoration of the passing of the meteorite. The plaque we read is like a museum label informing us that the object we seek has been removed. And the irony is doubled when we appreciate the generic similarity between this plaque and others we have encountered in the landscape. Shape, design and lettering recall the inscriptions of English Heritage or the National Trust, provoking questions about the extent to which these deploy a house style of interpretation that displaces the object of scrutiny instead of retrieving it.
A third layer of irony is cemented into place by the diminutive size of the artwork, struggling to live up to the literal portentousness of its message. It brings to mind the title of another work by Parker, Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon, that confirms with a more sarcastic inflection the absurdity of our attempts to deal with nature on our own terms. Ultimately, it is the disappearance of the meteor that disturbs our equanimity in any attempt to fix the meaning and control the approaches to a work of art.
Jesus College has been a great home for me during my PhD.
I chose Jesus College for a number of reasons – first, the location. We are central enough to be within easy walking distance of most things, but far enough away to avoid the hustle and bustle (and tourists in summer!). The College also has extensive grounds, with amenities like the hockey pitch, football pitch and tennis courts all on site.
Secondly, the accommodation is some of the best I’ve seen in Cambridge. My house was newly...
Reading Chemical Engineering at Jesus, I felt welcomed into a strong community of scientists and engineers, plus with a chemical engineering Fellow at the College, I received invaluable support for academic inspiration and career planning. The College also has thriving sports and social societies that are a very encouraging and motivational way to enjoy your hobbies as well as develop new skills.
Chemical Engineering at Cambridge transforms your understanding of scientific and engineering principles, teaching you a breadth of knowledge in an environment that always challenges you to think...
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Paul Valery, Raymond Escholier, Colette, Paul Claudel, Abel Bonnard, and Jules Romains, et. all; Andre Derain, Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Jean Laboureur, and Andre Lhote (illustrators)
Paris: 1937. Paperback. Number 158 of 500 copies, the first 200 of which were reserved for the writers of the book. This remarkable deluxe collection of writings and art about Paris was commissioned by the city of Paris to celebrate their hosting the World’s Fair of 1937. The volume includes original prose, poetry, and illustrations by the leading writers and artists of France. There are thirty-one sections on various quarters, neighborhoods, gardens, avenues and boulevards, each with a short piece written by an eminent writer and engravings by two notable artists. For each section there is a full-page illustration by an artist associated with the area and a smaller one on the first page of the section by the other artist. Among the writers are Paul Valery, Raymond Escholier, Colette, Paul Claudel, Abel Bonnard, and Jules Romains. The participating artists are equally impressive, and include Matisse, Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy, Marie Laurencin, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Jean Laboureur, and Andre Lhote. Each section is a separate folder with the full-page illustration of the following section as its last page. The folders are encased in a paper wrapper with the title and a color illustration on its cover. The entire production is housed in a chemise of dark blue paper covered boards with a red leather spine label which fits into a blue paper and linen slipcase. The slipcase is in very good condition with a few chips and bumps. The contents are also in very good condition; however, pages 286-288 are missing. They included the full-page illustration by Gabriel Belot and Renefer for “Les Musees.” Page 277, the first page of “Les Eglises de Paris” has a repaired tear. Still, a splendid collection of French art and prose commemorating Paris on the eve of the Second World War. 294 pages plus table of illustrations. ART/012412. Very Good. More
Vigneault, Gilles; Nastassja Imiolek, artist; Karen Hanmer, book artist and binder
La Couleur du Vent
Montreal: Cecile Cote, 2011. Hardcover. Chicago binder, book, and installation artist Karen Hanmer’s intimate, playful works fragment and layer text and image to intertwine memory, cultural history, and the history of science. Her work weds the ancient art of book binding with the high tech use of the computer to aid her process. The intimate scale and the gestures of exploration required to travel through each piece evoke the experience of looking through an album, a diary, or the belongings of a loved one. However, her works often take the forms of games or puzzles, and many include witty text. Number 57 of 75 copies. Signed and numbered by the poet Vigneault and illustrator Imiolek. Gilles Vigneault (1928 - ) is a Quebecois poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. This finely bound book was part of 2013 exhibition organized by Les Amis de la Reliure d’Art du Canada, the Canadian chapter of ARA, an international organization devoted to promoting art bookbinding. Each of the exhibitors created a unique binding for La Couleur du Vent. The design of Karen’s binding makes reference to repeated motifs from Nastassja Imiolek’s illustrations. Bound in full yellow goatskin that is sewn onto flattened cords and laced into boards. With hand-titling and tooling in 23 kt. gold and red and black foils. Doublures and endpapers of red Cave paper. Hand-sewn headbands and three edges rough gilt. Housed in a red cloth clamshell box with leather title label to spine. A beautiful production in fine condition. Unpaginated. Size: 10.25 x 6.75 x .75 inches. PRI/061917. Fine. More
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The table, footnotes and narrative below describe the aggregate compensation earned by each of our named executive officers for our 2011, 2012 and 2013 fiscal years. For information on the role of each component of our executive compensation program, please see the description under "Compensation Discussion and Analysis" beginning on page 18.
Name and Principal Position Year Salary
($) Bonus
($) Option
Awards(2) Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation(3)
($) Change in
Value and
Earnings(4)
($) All Other
($) Total
Neal J. Keating 2013 $875,000 — — — $1,181,513 $51,474 $251,862 $2,359,849
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer 2012 $850,000 — — — $3,346,926 $356,445 $258,460 $4,811,831
2011 $800,000 — — — $2,716,160 $328,638 $49,616 $3,894,414
Robert D. Starr 2013 $291,611 — $63,994 $63,742 $226,336 $432 $42,599 $688,714
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer(6) 2012 — — — — — — — —
2011 — — — — — — — —
William C. Denninger 2013 $252,500 — — — $211,065 $32,389 $29,854 $525,808
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 2012 $505,000 — — — $1,258,540 $144,767 $117,146 $2,025,453
2011 $492,540 — $615,524 — $1,025,681 $146,895 $44,026 $2,324,666
Gregory L. Steiner 2013 $416,150 — — — $209,365 $48,932 $87,780 $762,227
Executive VP, Kaman Corporation, and President, Kaman Aerospace Group 2012 $410,000 — — — $987,246 $142,939 $94,089 $1,634,274
2011 $382,875 — $478,553 — $832,439 $89,694 $59,275 $1,842,836
Steven J. Smidler 2013 $350,175 — — — $73,292 — $89,867 $513,334
Executive VP, Kaman Corporation and President, Kaman Industrial Technologies 2012 $345,000 — — — $1,045,356 — $82,168 $1,472,524
2011 $330,000 — $190,968 $190,672 $932,910 — $69,185 $1,713,735
Ronald M. Galla 2013 $355,134 — — — $251,186 — $77,980 $684,300
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer 2012 $348,598 — — — $698,533 $641,375 $79,142 $1,767,648
2011 $338,445 — — — $619,241 $578,115 $66,330 $1,602,131
Shawn G. Lisle 2013 $300,000 — $51,449 $51,143 $212,190 — $68,728 $683,510
Senior Vice President and General Counsel(7) 2012 — — — — — — — —
Amounts shown in the Stock Awards column reflect the aggregate grant date fair value of restricted stock granted to our named executive officers with respect to the 2013, 2012 and 2011 fiscal years in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718. For a discussion of valuation assumptions, see Note 19 in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. All restricted stock awards shown in the table were granted to the named executive officers prior to their eligibility for an LTIP award opportunity.
Amounts shown in the Option Awards column reflect the aggregate grant date fair value of stock options granted to our named executive officers with respect to the 2013, 2012 and 2011 fiscal years in accordance with ASC 718. For a discussion of valuation assumptions, see Note 19 in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. All stock options shown in the table were granted to the named executive officers prior to their eligibility for an LTIP award opportunity.
Amounts for 2013 represent annual cash incentive awards earned by the named executive officers under our annual cash incentive plans, which are discussed in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section beginning on page 18 but do not not reflect amounts that cannot yet be determined but which may become due under outstanding LTIP awards for the 2011–2013 Performance Cycle for Messrs. Keating, Denninger, Steiner, Smidler and Galla and the 2013 Performance Cycle for Mr. Lisle. 2012 Amounts have been adjusted to reflect the LTIP payouts approved in June 2013 in respect of LTIP awards for the 2010–2012 Performance Cycle for Messrs. Keating, Denninger, Steiner and Galla and the 2011-2012 Performance Cycle for Mr. Smidler. Our LTIP award program is discussed in more detail on page 30 of the Compensation Discussion and Analysis.
Represents the total change in the present value of accrued benefits under our pension plan and SERP, if applicable, from year to year. Pension plan and SERP benefits are discussed in more detail starting on page 41.
The amounts included in this column consist of the following: Participation in our life insurance program for senior executives, employer matching contributions under our 401(k) Plan, supplemental employer contributions earned under our Deferred Compensation Plan, and perquisites consisting of payments for annual physical examinations, a vehicle allowance and personal use of the corporate aircraft. The 2013 figures include supplemental deferred compensation earned for Messrs. Keating, Denninger, Starr, Steiner, Smidler, Galla and Lisle of $200,040, $0, $11,289, $44,977, $48,641, 38,930 and $17,313, respectively. The 2013 figures also include a vehicle allowance of $33,420 for Mr. Keating, $13,230 for Mr. Denninger, $17,433 for Mr. Starr, $26,460 for Messrs. Steiner and Smidler, and $20,448 for Messrs. Galla and Lisle; and $12,750 to each named executive officer for the Company 401(k) match. Amounts for Mr. Lisle also include relocation expenses of $17,052. Infrequently, spouses and guests of named executive officers ride along on the Company aircraft when the aircraft is already going to a specific destination for a business purpose. This use involves minimal cost to the Company. Where required by law, income was imputed to the named executive officer for income tax purposes for the items described in this footnote and all such amounts are included in the table.
Appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective July 1, 2013. Compensation information for 2012 and 2011 has been omitted pursuant to applicable SEC rules and regulations.
Appointed Senior Vice President and General Counsel effective December 1, 2012. Compensation information for 2012 and 2011 has been omitted pursuant to applicable SEC rules and regulations.
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©2019 by Old "Kidan, Kwaidan" to be told by Women Today. Proudly created with Wix.com
Kidan, Kwaidan "Snow Woman" Scene1
<Purpose>
Japanese female performing artists, Yuko Fujiyama, Miki Orihara and Aine Nakamura, who have lived in New York City for decades present, in contemporary performance, Japanese old folk horror tales, among which were made into English literature by Lafcadio Hearn in his book “Kwaidan” in 1904.
This project will focus on three stories from the book: “Yuki-Onna - Snow Woman,” “Oshidori” and “Kurokami”.
Each story has a female character as a crucial figure. In the series of these three stories, the audience will be introduced to the patterns of female stereotypes in the old Japanese value system.
The stories will be created into cross-disciplinary artworks from the perspectives of three female artists of different generations living today. The artists, a renowned veteran piano improviser Yuko, a dancer Miki who is the recipient of Bessie Award winner, and an American born emerging voice artist Aine have similar struggles against offensive social pressure towards women in Japan. Now all have lived in the U.S. for a long time.
They made themselves free from those forces and cramped discrimination against women in Japan by keeping the physical distance. At the same time, these three women have had to face the challenge to establish their original values of identity as female and international beings. The artists in this project share this struggle coming from the search for identity as international or transnational beings and as beings not to be valued in the strict Japanese gender roles but as artists.
The author of “Kwaidan” Lafcadio Hearn was born in Europe then moved to the U.S. and became a naturalized Japanese citizen later in his life. We will use Isamu Noguchi’s work “Akari light sculpture” as an iconic symbol to recreate the ambiance which was described in the original literature, and it plays a significant role in the stage set. Noguchi is a Japanese American artist who also struggled in his two different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
By using piano, dance, words, body movement, and voice and by showing the complexity through the interdisciplinary approach, this project will not only be portraying examples of prejudice and conflict in the current and the old Japanese society but also expressing the new struggle and challenge as Asian women with multiple and sometimes contradicting cultural backgrounds.
Japan and the U.S., these countries have each own social expectation and stereotypes towards women. Yuko, Miki and Aine have been living in two different societies. And these three women will project their experiences, emotions, conflicted feelings, and values deeply through the characters to pose the issue of sexism.
This project will be realized, combining the performance of music, compositions, dance, improvisation, sound art, storytelling, two languages of Japanese and English, and media.
An abstract dance will be supported by storytelling, using the nuanced voice. The sounds of a piano will bring colors to spatial experiments of body and voice. Media will bring a drama to the stories.
<Kidan, Kwaidan and the author>
Kidan 奇談 and Kwaidan 怪談 is a collection of stories by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese horror stories originally orally told by people in Japan. The titles are written as strange-storytelling, and suspicious- storytelling in Chinese characters, respectively.
<Artists>
Ms. Yuko Fujiyama is a pianist-composer. Born in Sapporo, Japan in 1954. A summer morning in 1980, she opened a door for her to the abstract beauty of music. The piano sounds of Cecil Taylor coming from the apartment of Jerome Cooper, Taylor's drummer, in East Village transfixed Yuko. She has been looking for musical structures ever since and trying to be free from a feeling of linear time.
Ms. Miki Orihara is a Dancer. Miki is an internationally acclaimed soloist and is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, which she joined in 1987. She received a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award in 2010 for her contributions to dance.
Ms. Aine Nakamura, who was born from Japanese parents and spent her first childhood in Northwest U.S., is a singer, composer, and voice performer whose works focus on orality. Her appearances include NYCEMF, October New Music Festival in Finland, and Creative Climate Awards.
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The goal of this performance is to present and understand the struggle of women in the old society, and the conflict and difficulties of gaining true independence regardless of the social stereotyping, and to realize new values as international or translational beings through a contemporary performing art form.
A group of mature-aged Asian women is an absolute minority of the entertainment industry in the U.S. We would like to create a stir in the American performing art world.
Get in touch for additional information about our upcoming event.
kidankwaidan@gmail.com
OLD "KIDAN, KWAIDAN" TO BE TOLD BY WOMEN TODAY
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A tale of two briefs
By GUEST BLOGS
(by Stef Wertheimer)
Work. It''s one of my favorite topics, and yesterday''s news – both the local and foreign press -- had several articles on the topic that I have been mulling over with interest.
A few Israeli newspapers reported on a recent Israel Bar Association study that focuses on the country''s phenomenal rise of lawyers. It appears that Israel leads the world in the per capita rate of attorneys: 1 for every 167 Israelis. While I like to see Israel ranking high on charts that show achievements, I find this one very discouraging. One article pointed out that more Israelis have become lawyers in the past 10 years than in the first 50 years of Israel''s statehood. Today more than 46,000 individuals (the equivalent of the entire population of Eilat) are practicing law. Moreover, 45 percent of them are 40 years of age or younger. This is clearly a trend that is spreading like wildfire.
Before it lays waste to our society, I would like to call for a reversal of this trend, to inform our young people that there are other ways for them to expend their energies and talents. After centuries of ghetto life, where our livelihoods were restricted, Zionism tried to point us in a new direction, one that involved cultivating the soil, making the desert bloom, and creating things that this new country needed. It tried to teach us that there was a dignity in manual labor.
Acquiring skills that enable one to produce something of quality can provide a life of immense gratification. Coming up with an idea of how to create an item and then sell it on the world market will demand and unleash the best of one''s creativity. Entrepreneurship confers dignity and a chance for life-long challenges and growth.
Certainly Israel, like every other country of the world, needs people who are trained in jurisprudence. But to siphon off thousands upon thousands of our bright young people into a profession that produces nothing is a distressing situation.
To understand what Israel''s #1 ranking in this field means, let''s look at some comparative data. Japan provides the most extreme comparison, with a figure of about 1 lawyer to every 5,518 people, according to a 2008 article in The Japan Times. You might argue that the homogeneous nature of Japanese society is the reason for its low number of lawyers. So let''s look at a few more nations with mixed populations. The same article states that only 1 in 1,363 people in France are lawyers, while in Germany the figure is 1 in 577 and in Britain 1 in 477. And what about the United States, which some claim is the world''s most litigious society? There the figure is 1 in 285 – still a far cry from Israel''s 1 in 167.
What do these comparative figures say about our respective societies? Japan – one of the world''s strongest industrialized economies – has by far the fewest lawyers, perhaps because its brightest and most creative people are engaged in producing goods and not taking one another to court. France, Germany, and United States are also industrialized nations. While other factors are clearly at play, I would venture to speculate that a rough correlation exists between a country''s productivity and its number of lawyers, with the most robust producers requiring fewer attorneys. I wonder, in fact, whether America''s manufacturing decline over the past several decades was matched by an increase in the ranks of its legal profession?
And that brings me to another of these columns, this one by the Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman in the International Herald Tribune. Unlike the articles on lawyers, this one brought a smile to my face. Krugman wrote of America''s debacle that resulted in the loss of 3.5 million manufacturing jobs in only 7 years, from 2000 – 2007, producing a slump that then eliminated millions of more jobs. Krugman hailed the weaker dollar and its beneficial effect on exports. He also praised the Obama administration for its decision to intercede to save the American automobile industry. That effort worked, revitalizing a critical component of America''s economy. Now industries such as Caterpillar are bringing their production facilities home from abroad, and there is talk of a "manufacturing renaissance." Krugman writes that "Americans are, once again, starting to actually make things." If Israel is as smart as it likes to think it is, it will follow this same path. Let''s convince some of our youth to stop thinking about those briefs that are the stuff of lawsuits and begin manufacturing briefs that we can wear. Israel''s future depends on it.
The author is founder and Honorary Chairman of Iscar, Ltd. For the past 50 years he has been involved in establishing technical education programs and is chairman of Zur Lavon organization for technical education. Lynn Holstein contributed to this article.
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Home / Interviews / Knowledgespeak Exclusive: An interview with Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair
Knowledgespeak Exclusive: An interview with Jacks Thomas, Director, The London Book Fair - Mar 27, 2014
Knowledgespeak: Can you briefly talk about the forthcoming London Book Fair. Please share with us any interesting events / trends that you expect to see this year.
Jacks Thomas: The 43rd Fair has new dates for 2014 – taking place from Tuesday 8-Thursday 10 April 2014, This Fair will start on a Tuesday, rather than starting on a Monday, as it has done in recent years, which means our Publishing for Digital Minds Conference will now take place on the Monday before the Fair.
The academic, STM and professional sector is at the forefront of the industry’s ongoing digital revolution and new for 2014 is The Faculty @ LBF, a brand new academic theatre which will feature in LBF’s Academic & Scholarly zone. The aim is to provide a forum for the academic community to share and discuss issues relevant to the sector, through a programme of session topics covering academic, scientific and professional themes.
We are also launching Gaming @ LBF, a new pavilion, supported by UK Interactive Entertainment (Ukie), the UK’s premier trade body representing the gaming industry, which is designed to connect the creative and commercial talents of gaming developers, publishers and distributors with their publishing counterparts. The initiative is one of several new areas (TV & Film, Brand Licensing and Comics) that capitalise on the continued convergence between aligned creative industries to exploit IP across a multiplicity of platforms.
We know from talking to our education and trade publishing exhibitors, as well as many games publishers, that there is still untapped potential in greater collaboration between these two complementary, creative worlds. Through this partnership with Ukie, and through offering a matchmaking service, we hope to enable even better communication between the two industries to deliver creative achievement and business success for all.
This year there will be over 250 free-to-attend events in LBF’s "Insights" seminar programme, covering a diverse range of topics, and I would highly recommend visitors attend some of these sessions. The Future of Copyright and Licensing: A Global Conversation will see Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, Copyright Clearance Center and Richard Hooper, UK Copyright Hub Chairman, discuss the latest on copyright and licensing around the world, with Richard Mollet, CEO, The Publishers Association (09 Apr 2014, 13:00 - 14:00, Conference Centre) especially deserves a mention - it’s a perennially important topic.
Knowledgespeak: This year again, the LBF is collaborating with the International Publishers Association (IPA) for the second edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies. Could you tell our readers more about this event highlighting key issues that will be debated?
Jacks Thomas: What Works? is on Thursday 10 April in the Conference Centre, and again programmed by the IPA and, this year, in association with The Publishers Association. It will provide an open-minded look at educational outcomes with top-level policy makers from government, international agencies and major organisations. They will debate how technology, policy and content may be most effectively applied to raise educational standards, based on current global trends and practical experience from wide-scale projects. There will be expert input from countries including the United States, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Korea, The Netherlands, Turkey and the UK. The two keynote speakers are:
Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) - who will explore the interaction between copyright and education in the 21st century
Pablo Zoido, Analyst, The PISA Team, Directorate for Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - examining the implications of the latest PISA scores
Education is a hugely important sector in the book industry, and at the forefront of digital innovation – we are very pleased and proud to host this conference once again.
Knowledgespeak: The Publishing For Digital Minds Conference has become a must-attend precursor to the Fair. Can you briefly tell us about this conference? What are the key topics that this conference will focus on?
Jacks Thomas: Thank you! The conference is now in its sixth year I am really excited by this year's line-up of speakers. Anthony Horowitz, one of the most prolific and accomplished multi-disciplinary writers working today, will deliver the Author Keynote and I am equally looking forward to hearing Baroness Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion, co-founder of lastminute.com to the conference, in conversation with conference Chair Anna Rafferty.
The Publishing for Digital Minds Conference - New Paradigms, Partners and Platforms will reflect a publishing industry that is not standing still, and whose commercial and creative vigour is increasingly driven by experiments with new business models and innovation in the creation, production and distribution of IP. It will explore how the possibilities thrown up by digital technologies now permeate every aspect of the publishing process, from crowdfunding and the rise of 'hybrid' authors to content marketing for eBooks.
Among the speakers confirmed for the 2014 edition are Dominique Raccah, CEO of Sourcebooks and tireless advocate for the application of the 'agile' principle to publishing, who will appear in a new 'Question Time' session for industry thought leaders. Bill Thompson, the veteran technology journalist and head of partnership development at the BBC Archive will deliver a keynote speech and the BBC Director of Children's, Joe Godwin will participate in a discussion on the whys and wherefores of targeting child and YA audiences online. Meanwhile the growing power and influence of 'hybrid' authors will be represented by Hugh Howey, who will talk about his experience of being a simultaneously conventionally published and self-published bestseller for his Wool trilogy.
It is also a conference ideally placed to showcase publishing's successes as a global industry and this will be reflected with speakers in the programme, which includes Kim Seok-hwan, CEO of Yes24 Korea, the largest book retailing site in Market Focus country Korea, Dai Qin, Senior Director Douban Read, the Chinese-language book recommendation social network and Sergey Anurievs, CEO of LitRes, Russia's leading eBook retailer, who will comment on the Russian market.
Knowledgespeak: Any particular reason behind selecting Korea as the market focus this year?
Jacks Thomas: The Market Focus programme was first created in 2004 for LBF to draw attention to certain countries and highlight the trade links with this territory, its publishing industry and the opportunities for conducting business with the rest of the world and, as an international trade fair, it is important that we showcase new markets and provide opportunities for UK and international publishers to liaise with their foreign counterparts, and seek out and capitalise on new business partnerships.
In putting together the Market Focus programme, The London Book Fair, and our Market Focus partners, The Publishers Association and The British Council, always work with the host country/organisation and consult with many bodies including official partners, industry professionals, and experts in the field.
Korea is an endlessly fascinating country – and the most wired in the world! Its publishing industry ranks in the top 10 worldwide and it is doing more business internationally than ever before; across all publishing sectors but with a great emphasis on education. The Market Focus Professional Programme at LBF will provide a unique opportunity to hear from the people shaping Korean publishing; from the biggest publishers to Korea's leading online book retailer. The programme is a key part of the Market Focus and we encourage anyone looking to learn more about Korea and increase business with Korean publishers to come to the seminars.
As in past years, the Market Focus professional programme will be supported by an exciting series of cultural events across the UK, both within the book fair and outside, featuring visiting Korean authors, curated by the British Council, the UK's leading cultural relations organisation. This associated cultural programme, which runs in partnership between The London Book Fair and the British Council, will place a spotlight on contemporary Korean authors and literature, and give audiences a wonderful opportunity to experience just a little of Korea's thriving literary scene. I was lucky enough to visit Seoul this year and met with publishers, writers and agents and loved every minute of my trip and the books I read by Korean writers and about Korea before, during and after my visit. Checking out the Korea Pavilion at the Book Fair will be time well spent.
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Title: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Author: Matthew Quick
Pages: 273 p
There's not a lot I can say without spoiling this story. What I can say is that this is a literary, contemporary young adult novel. But don't let the young adult label fool you. Many taboo topics are tackled in this riveting book. I just couldn't put it down. I was uncomfortable, I was challenged, and I was amazed.
Title: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Pages: probably around 300 pages
Published: 1927?
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I forgot I finished this for my book group last week. Of course, I didn't read the complete works, but I did read a novel and several short stories. I have been reading Sherlock Holmes for as long as I can remember. My reading group had a lot of fun discussing the history of Holmes, and how Arthur Conan Doyle revolutionized investigations and police procedures. And, of course, we talked about all the incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and how fun he is as a character.
Title: The Signature of All Things
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Published: October, 2013
It's amazing that historical fiction about a female botanist was interesting enough to keep me turning pages for over five hundred pages. I could not put this book down. From the atmospheric settings to the secondary characters, I was hooked. Alma Whittaker is modern yet traditional, brilliant and sheltered, formidable woman of her times.
Title: The Other Typist
Author: Suzanne Rindell
This is my February book group selection and I can't wait to discuss it. When I finished this, I scratched my head with a "Whaaa?" I just am not sure what happened. Let me explain: It's the mid-1920s and Rose Baker is a typist for a New York City police precinct. Rose presents herself as a throw-back to the Victorian Era--a prudish, virtuous woman. There are a few hints at a dark side, though. But her whole world is turned upside down when "the other typist" begins working at the precinct.
I liked the writing and the atmosphere of this book. Rose's confessional narration was a good plot device. When I thought I had it figured out there would be a plot twist, keeping me on my toes.
What I didn't like--well, the ending. The last few pages. Really left me wondering why the reveal was so abrupt.
It's going to be an interesting discussion. I can't wait to hear how everyone else interprets the ending.
Title: The Last Letter From Your Lover
Author: Jojo Moyes
Published: July, 2011
Once I got going, I couldn't put it down.
It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply "B", asking her to leave her husband.
Years later, in 2003, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper's archives. She becomes obsessed by the story and hopeful that it can resurrect her faltering career. Perhaps if these lovers had a happy ending she will find one to her own complicated love life, too. Ellie's search will rewrite history and help her see the truth about her own modern romance.
I genuinely cared for these characters. Even though I did find myself weighing their options and judging them some, I found them real people.
This is a book I want to share with all my girlfriends.
Title: Boy21
Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works nights and Finley is left alone to take care of his disabled grandfather. He’s always dreamed of somehow getting out, but until he can, putting on that number 21 jersey makes everything seem okay.
Russ has just moved to the neighborhood. The life of this teen basketball phenom has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he won’t pick up a basketball, and yet answers only to the name Boy21—taken from his former jersey number.
As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, “Boy21″ may turn out to be the answer they both need.
I'm going to recommend this to all my students. I couldn't put it down.
Title: Reality Boy
Author: A.S. King
Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.
As a lover of reality TV, I found this to be an interesting premise. There is an authentic teen voice and I especially enjoyed the shifting narration from Gerald today and episode filming twelve years previously. Some of the secondary characters were a bit too pat, but I say that because I wanted more of everyone!
This is one I'll recommend to all my students.
Title: Love Like The Movies
Author: Victoria Van Tiem
Published: February, 2014
I'm a lover of romantic comedies. I admit it freely. A fun, flirty bit of entertainment is sometimes just what I need. This book is just such a rom-com. Referencing my favorite movies, it weaves the over-the-top story of Kensington Shaw and her pursuit of love. Lots of fun secondary characters, too. It was a quick read. This is one I'll recommend to my over-worked, overwhelmed friends.
Title: The Chase
Author: Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
This is the second installment in the series. And what a fun series! FBI agent Kate O'Hare and international thief Nicolas Fox have a love/hate relationship that keeps things interesting. They're pressed into service as super-secret agents who are tasked with returning stolen government artifacts to foreign governments. Some outrageous plans, lots of snark, funny secondary characters, and lots of snappy dialogue this is a caper worth reading. I can't wait for the next part of the series.
This is a delightful, quirky book, a contemporary romance that's not typical.
MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman is all these things. She also is strangely beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. And while Don quickly disqualifies her as a candidate for the Wife Project, as a DNA expert Don is particularly suited to help Rosie on her own quest: identifying her biological father. When an unlikely relationship develops as they collaborate on the Father Project, Don is forced to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that, despite your best scientific efforts, you don’t find love, it finds you.
It is amusing and kept me turning pages. It's reminiscent of The Big Bang Theory which made it familiar. So much fun!
Title: Tell The Wolves I'm Home
Author: Carol Rifka Brunt
This is the coming of age story of 14-year-old June Elbus set in 1987. I think the author was able to capture the obliviousness of a teenager beautifully.
1987. There’s only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that’s her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn’s company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June’s world is turned upside down. But Finn’s death brings a surprise acquaintance into June’s life—someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.
At Finn’s funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn’s apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she’s not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most.
It's a weirdly beautiful story. I wish one of my friends would read this so we could talk about it. There's just so much to say.
Title: The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession
Author: Charlie Lovett
Peter Byerly hasn’t been able to get over the death of Amanda, his wife, and he has secluded himself in the English countryside, unable to deal with his grief. On an impulse, he wanders into a rare bookstore, and is shocked to find a portrait of his wife in the pages of an old book. But it was written in Victorian times; it can’t be Amanda. So who is this woman, and why does she so uncannily resemble the woman Peter still loves? That simple question will take Peter across the country and put his life in danger, as a centuries-old mystery comes into play.
This is a book lover's book, with three intertwining story lines. But it wasn't hard to keep track of the narrative's switching stories. I empathized with Peter's desperation without Amanda and his obsession to find out the history of the portrait. I loved the relationship between Amanda and Peter, and how it developed. I loved Peter's love for books and how he developed his skills at refurbishing and repairing them. His quest to discover the story of the books is one I could relate to. When Peter meets Liz, the action picks up. Then the mystery unfolds and that's when I couldn't put the book down. I didn't expect it to be as exciting. And I admit, I had to suspend belief. But it was a great read about literature that I love.
I can't wait for my book group to talk about it together.
Title: It's Kind Of A Funny Story
Author: Ned Vizzini
Published: April, 2006
This is the story of Craig Gilner, a stressed-out student at a prestigious college prep high school, finds himself overwhelmed by life and lands in a psychiatric ward. This is the story of his stay. For a book about such serious issues as depression and suicide, it's a light read. Craig's thoughts are amusing as he figures out how he wants to life his life. The secondary characters are an odd-ball assortment of patients Craig encounters, his family, and his typical high school friends.
What resonated with me is the enormous pressure teens are under. They are expected to be mini-adults as they navigate childhood. I know my students are stressed out because they have jobs to pay for their cars, getting into college, and having a social life. Lots of pressures. Lots of adult situations.
Title: The Goldfinch
Author: Donna Tartt
I'm going to try to capture my thoughts about this book. It's more than 750 pages so I had a lot of thoughts about it. I will also avoid spoilers.
The book starts with Theo and his mother attending a meeting at Theo's school because of his suspension. On the way, they detour, and that detour changes every single thing about Theo's life. Theo as narrator is what I consider somewhat unreliable. I had the feeling that although he's reconstructing the tale, he's self-editing. Although... he tells some unflattering stories about himself. I'm going to stick with my original thought that he's not reliable. The book spans Theo's life from about age 13 until his late twenties, so it's sort of a coming-of-age novel. Theo has a pretty entrenched sense of right and wrong, yet that moral compass doesn't guide his decisions.
The secondary characters are meticulously drawn. I feel as though I know each one of them. Their good and bad. Each character is so different from the next. It's hard to have a favorite character. You can feel how Theo is mesmerized by them, how they compel him to live up to who he thinks they are.
I admit there were a couple of times I was bogged down. I thought I would put the book aside, take a break from it, and read something less literary, more plot driven than character driven. Yet every time I thought that, something would happen and I would get drawn back into the book. I couldn't put it down at times.
You do have to suspend belief. I can't picture it as a movie. Some of the plot devices and twists are a bit contrived but not to the point of cliche. It kept me reading. It kept me entertained.
I love how art, in various forms, is woven through the story.
I understand why this is the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner in Literature.
Title: Clammed Up
Author: Barbara Ross
Published: September, 2013
A cozy mystery set on the coast of Maine. I have to admit, I was skeptical about how the author would depict Mainers but this book rings true. Maine is as much a character as any person.
Julia leaves a glamorous New York City career and life to return to her hometown of Busman's Harbor, in an attempt to revive the family's seasonal Clam Bake business. Unfortunately, in her last-ditch effort to save the business, a murder is discovered. Julia's need to keep the business open leads her to poke around and question everyone in the community.
I really enjoyed this story--engaging characters, authentic setting, and dialogue that was snappy. I wanted to read it in one setting but life interfered.
Title: The Burgess Boys
Author: Elizabeth Strout
I am biased about this book because it's set in Maine and evokes the atmosphere--from cans of Moxie in the fridge to the swirling leaves of fall, it's full of atmosphere.** This is a layered story. It's about family, community, the lies we tell ourselves, honor, and ultimately redemption. It is my book group's May selection and there will be much to discuss.
In a town called Shirley Falls which has a growing Somali population (much like Lewiston, Maine), a pig's head is hurled through the town's mosque by Zach, a socially awkward nineteen-year-old. Of course a political debate about intolerance-both racial and religious, is sparked. Zach's uncles, both of whom work in law, return to Shirley Falls to help defend him. Jim, the more successful and high-powered attorney wants to flash and blast his charismatic way through the situation. Bob, the legal aid attorney who eschews the courtroom wants to get to the heart of the matter. Zach's mother, Susan, is the estranged twin sister to Bob and has lived her entire bitter life in Shirley Falls.
Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan—the Burgess sibling who stayed behind—urgently calls them home. Her lonely teenage son, Zach, has gotten himself into a world of trouble, and Susan desperately needs their help. And so the Burgess brothers return to the landscape of their childhood, where the long-buried tensions that have shaped and shadowed their relationship begin to surface in unexpected ways that will change them forever.
**I was adviser to the high school's Civil Rights Team and we sent a banner to the 2002 peace rally. And I remember the pig's head incident from 2006.
Title: Chestnut Street
Author: Maeve Binchy
This was bittersweet--it is more than likely the final work by one of my favorite authors, Maeve Binchy. Over the course of her career, she continually wrote character sketches, vignettes, and short stories centered around one Dublin neighborhood. Chestnut Street is the common thread through these pieces. I wish my neighborhood was like Chestnut Street. Several times I wished there would be more to the story, but, alas, there will be no more. Any fan of Ms. Binchy will gobble this up.
Title: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
This is an intriguing novel. I felt compelled to read it because it is beautifully written. However, I don't enjoy fantasy fiction so I didn't love it. I know I'm unpopular on this front. But I could appreciate the book and there are aspects I did enjoy, overall I just didn't get it.
Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Title: Fleur de Lies
Author: Maddy Hunter
The ninth installment of the zany Passport to Peril series takes us to France. I love this series--for the travel and for the characters. Maybe someday I can join a traveling senior group.
When intrepid travel agency owner Emily Andrew-Miceli takes her band of tech-savvy seniors to France, they say “Bonjour” by cruising down the Seine River. Along for the ride are a colorful cast of cruise-goers, including four sales reps who are the crème de la crème of the cosmetic industry and a group of morticians looking for a little joie de vivre as they sort out business conflicts. But once a guest is found dead along Normandy’s famed Alabaster coast, Emily bids adieu to the hopes of a fatality-free trip. Was it a mishap? Or was murder the entrée du jour? Traveling from the medieval alleyways of Rouen to Monet’s famous water lily garden, Emily must untangle a web of lies that began a half-century ago, on the very eve of the D-Day invasion.
Title: Attachments
Author: Rainbow Rowell
I could relate to so much of this novel. And I want to be friends with all the characters. I loved it.
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.
Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now- reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.
When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.
By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself.
Title: Love Life
Author: Rob Lowe
I couldn't wait to get my hands on this book, based on how much I enjoyed his first book. But this book didn't live up to my own hype. This time around, the stories are more about his family--his sons are embarking on their college adventures and how he's dealing with the emptying nest. The intimate feeling was also missing. There are lots of stories about his profession, the parts he plays, his directing and producing.
Title: This One Is Mine
Author: Maria Semple
Published: December, 2008
I wanted to love this book. But I didn't. Let me set it up: Violet is a former television writer married to a music mogul that now is a stay-at-home mom to a daughter, Dot. She lives a life of privilege and fame, mostly because of David's music career. She is unhappy. The second main character is David's sister, Sally, who at thirty is desperate for what Violet has. Both women manipulate situations to get what they want and neither is any happier for it. I have to say I didn't connect with either main character. And some of the action is over-the-top. What kept me reading is the witty writing. Maybe it's satire and I just don't get it?
Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life—except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture are David's hilariously high-strung sister, Sally, on the prowl for a successful husband, and Jeremy, the ESPN sportscaster savant who falls into her trap. For all their recklessness, Violet and Sally will discover that David and Jeremy have a few surprises of their own.
Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society.
I'm so used to reading dystopian fiction that to read a utopian fiction was a real mind blower. This book left me asking all sorts of questions--like, if I don't know a thing exists, can I miss it? And, who decides what utopia is? It's an interesting premise that Jonas, the protagonist learns the alternatives to the life he knows by receiving the memories from "back and back and back..." Written in 1994, it makes me wonder about how much of my privacy is gobbled up by my digital footprint (thinking about BookFace and its targeted advertising, for instance--or the Patriot Act laws). Do I mind giving up a piece of freedom for security? I enjoyed this book and hope that I remember it well enough to talk about it with my students.
Title: Boiled Over
This second installment of the Maine Clambake Mysteries picks up where a few months after the previous book. Our sleuth has been tapped to join the community's Founder's Weekend planning committee and that's where the action starts. I love how Maine is a character in the book, the familiar setting, the familiar people. Just some spellings of common words and Native American tribes are different than those I have seen written. There wasn't as much business aspect in this one, not so much about the Snowden Clambake. More townspeople are characters and it will be fun to see how they pop up in any future stories. A fun summer read.
Title: The Silkworm
Author: Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
This is the second installment of Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike series. Definitely a mystery for grown ups. There is atmosphere, violence, and grit. And I couldn't leave it alone until I finished it. I stayed up way past my usual bedtime!
This book is set in the publishing world, and there is much some detail about the editing and promoting novels. There are intriguing and colorful secondary characters although I was most taken with the dynamics between Cormoran and his assistant, Robin Ellacourt. Their personal issues are woven into the story, making me more invested in their success. I don't want to give any spoilers but let me say this is not a cozy mystery. It is a gritty, somewhat graphic, hard boiled detective story. And I loved it! More, more more more!!!!
Title: If I Stay
Author: Gayle Forman
In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heart wrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family.
I liked that it was a quick read. I liked Mia's voice. Not so sure I liked some of the secondary characters--like Willow and Adam. They needed to be more fleshed out. I can think of students who will really like it.
Title: The Good Thief's Guide To Amsterdam
Author: Chris Ewan
Charlie Howard travels the globe writing suspense novels for a living, about an intrepid burglar named Faulks. To supplement his income—-and to keep his hand in—-Charlie also has a small side business: stealing for a very discreet clientele on commission.
When a mysterious American offers to pay Charlie 20,000 euros if he steals two small monkey figurines to match the one he already has, Charlie is suspicious; he doesn’t know how the American found him, and the job seems too good to be true. And, of course, it is. Although the burglary goes off without a hitch, when he goes to deliver the monkeys he finds that the American has been beaten to near-death, and that the third figurine is missing.
Back in London, his long-suffering literary agent, Victoria (who is naive enough to believe he actually looks like his jacket photo), tries to talk him through the plot problems in both his latest manuscript and his real life—-but Charlie soon finds himself caught up in a caper reminiscent of a Cary Grant movie, involving safe-deposit boxes, menacing characters, and, of course, a beautiful damsel in distress.
A very clever heist story. I listened to it. The narrator is amazing! A fun new series. The Good Thief also goes to Berlin, Venice, Paris, and Las Vegas.
Title: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
This is a perfect summer read--there's a bit of romance, mystery, humor, loss, grief,pop culture references, literary references, and lots of quirky characters. I was utterly charmed. Didn't want to put it down.
Title: One Plus One
This is the book that kept me up late at night. I absolutely had to find out what was going to happen next.
Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.
And here's an author interview:
Title: The Fever
Author: Megan Abbott
I suspect that had I read it I would have enjoyed it much more: the female narrator's voice drove me crazy. Told from the points of view of Tom Nash, a high school science teacher, and his two teenage children, handsome hockey star Eli and typical sophomore Deenie. Deenie's best friend, Lise, is stricken by an unexplained, violent seizure during class. As rumors, gossip, and panic fly through the community, more girls collapse. The book captures the hysteria and paranoia that swirl around any kind of teen girl drama. It captures the nuances of teen girl friendships and family relationships. The more I think about the twisty turns and closely guarded secrets, I liked the story a lot. But the narrator really bothered me.
Title: The Shadow Of The Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Set in Barcelona in 1945, it's a Gothic mystery. Originally written in Spanish and translated to English but the translation is beautifully done, the language retains it's richness. You can even kind of consider it a coming-of-age story.
Barcelona, 1945 - Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes one day to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a book from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the book he selects, a novel called The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love, and before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
Title: Landline
I anxiously awaited the publication of this book. And it didn't disappoint. So much clever dialog, such interesting and fleshed out secondary characters.
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply—but that almost seems beside the point now.
Maybe that was always beside the point.
Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her—Neal is always a little upset with Georgie—but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
Title: The Vacationers
Author: Emma Straub
A two-week family vacation in gorgeous Mallorca, Spain, is the heart of this story. Each member of the Post family carries baggage from home with them on this idyllic trip. It's a study of relationships and love. Fran and Jim, celebrating their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary and their daughter, Sylvia's high school graduation; Bobby, the son, rounds out the Post family. Also along on this vacation are Charles and Lawrence--long time friends of Franny's and Bobby's girlfriend, Carmen.
Two weeks with family produce some cringe-worthy moments but also can strengthen bonds. In this case, it does both. Each of the Posts embodies a different phase of love and the dynamics are interesting. The writing is at times very funny. My one complaint is that Mallorca could have been more of an influence on the characters and instead it is just an exotic background. It was a fast read and it's the perfect summer book. It made me want to travel to Mallorca.
Title: Lost Lake
Author: Sarah Addison Allen
This book disappointed me. I listened to it and wasn't thrilled with the narrator. But that aside, the story didn't grab me. I thought it was predictable. Predictable with a P. Full of cliched characters. Meh. It's my book group's August selection.
Title: A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
Author: Kristin Chenowith
Listening to Kristin tell me her stories was like having fun with a girlfriend over drinks and snacks. I liked how she included snippets of songs and had a couple of guests on the narration, too. You could hear her giggling at some stories and could sense the pain at others. And she gives hearty praise to her ghost-writer, too. It was interesting to find out about some of her flops as well as her successes. I have been a fan of hers for years but didn't know her bio. And now I want to be her friend.
Title: Dear Daughter
Author: Elizabeth Little
If you can suspend belief when picking this thriller up, you're in for a fun read!
Former “It Girl” Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother’s killer. The only problem? Janie doesn’t know if she’s the killer she’s looking for.
Janie makes her way to an isolated South Dakota town whose mysteries rival her own. Enlisting the help of some new friends (and the town’s wary police chief), Janie follows a series of clues—an old photograph, an abandoned house, a forgotten diary—and begins to piece together her mother’s seemingly improbable connection to the town. When new evidence from Janie’s own past surfaces, she’s forced to consider the possibility that she and her mother were more alike than either of them would ever have imagined.
As she digs tantalizingly deeper, and as suspicious locals begin to see through her increasingly fragile facade, Janie discovers that even the sleepiest towns hide sinister secrets—and will stop at nothing to guard them. On the run from the press, the police, and maybe even a murderer, Janie must choose between the anonymity she craves and the truth she so desperately needs.
Although I didn't like Jane for most of the story, at the end I found myself squarely on her side. And there are moments that are funny and lots of pop culture references. I really couldn't put it down and I liked it a lot. Just suspend belief because there is no way this could ever happen in real life.
Title: Big Little Lies
Author: Liane Moriarity
I could not put this down!
A murder… . . . a tragic accident… . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
But who did what?
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).
Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.
I thought all three characters were well-developed. I could see myself being friends with each of them. As a teacher, I've seen the other side of this whole story--the politics of parenting at school. Oy. I like how the book was interspersed with Police interviews and how the timeline is set up; it wasn't predictable or boring.
Title: I Am Having So Much Fun Without You
Author: Courtney Maum
Despite the success of his first solo show in Paris and the support of his brilliant French wife and young daughter, thirty-four-year-old British artist Richard Haddon is too busy mourning the loss of his American mistress to a famous cutlery designer to appreciate his fortune.
But after Richard discovers that a painting he originally made for his wife, Anne—when they were first married and deeply in love—has sold, it shocks him back to reality and he resolves to reinvest wholeheartedly in his family life…just in time for his wife to learn the extent of his affair. Rudderless and remorseful, Richard embarks on a series of misguided attempts to win Anne back while focusing his creative energy on a provocative art piece to prove that he’s still the man she once loved.
I liked but didn't love this book. It was almost too clever for its own good. Plus, I wanted to knock Richard, the main character, upside the head because he was being such an ass. What saves things, though, is that he knows he's being an ass. Ultimately, it's a backward love story--falling back in love with your life.
Title: Paw and Order
Author: Spencer Quinn
This is the seventh installment of the Chet & Bernie mysteries. And really, the mystery isn't the best part of these books. Chet the narrating dog and his human partner Bernie Little are the main event. Because the book picks up where the last left off, in Louisiana, they decide to head up to Washington, DC, to surprise Susie Sanchez, Bernie's girlfriend. Chet is out of his element, which was amusing although the author could have taken more advantage of it. Overall, it was a fun, light read.
Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living - but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent - even if the dead can wait forever.
I can't decide if I want to read more of this series. It was fun. But I didn't exactly like the main characters. I don't know if I'm interested in them enough to read more.
Title: Love Letters To The Dead
Author: Ava Dellaira
It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person.
Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven't forgiven?
It's not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path.
It's a coming of age story told through the series of letters Laurel writes to celebrities whose lives ended too soon. Laurel explores her relationships with her family and her new friends, and her first love, through her examination of the lives of the people she writes to. Each letter helps her navigate the loss of and grief over her beloved sister, May.
The musical references and snippets of poetry are spot on. I think they add a timelessness to this story.
Even though it's in the Young Adult genre, it's a beautifully crafted novel full of unique characters and an interesting premise. I laughed out loud and I also cried.
I came across a Spotify playlist of songs featured in the book: as seen at My Shelf Confessions:
Title: What Alice Forgot
This would make an interesting book group selection. I'm curious to know what my reading friends would think about it. It's the kind of book I need to talk about with someone.
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.
So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over….
I couldn't put this down, although there were a couple of times I wondered where it was going to go next. I wondered what would be different in my own life and relationships if I was to have that kind of amnesia and "lose" years of my memory. It wasn't a cliche--woman gets amnesia and works to mend her horrible ways. It's more of the struggle to understand what is happening in her life and how she wound up this changed person.
The secondary characters were well crafted, too. I felt the strain of the relationships and how the reappearance of the "old Alice" melts those strains away.
I liked this book, a lot.
Title: All The Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
This is one of the best books I've read this year. It's the coming of age story of the two main characters: Marie-Laure and Werner. But it's more than that: the story of family, loyalty, bravery, and imagination.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
I absolutely love this book.
Title: Just What Kind Of Mother Are You?
Author: Paula Daly
What a thrill ride.
Lisa Kallisto is doing her best to juggle the demands of an overburdened life: she holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, cares for three demanding children, and worries that her husband isn't getting enough TLC. During an incredibly hectic week, Lisa takes her eye off the ball for just a moment, and her whole world descends into a nightmare. Her best friend's thirteen-year-old daughter goes missing, and it's all Lisa's fault. Wracked with guilt over her mistake, and having been publicly blamed, Lisa sets out to right her wrong. But as she begins digging beneath the surface, Lisa learns that everything is not quite what it first appears to be.
It's a twisty book and I don't want to give anything away. The narrative shifts focus from Lisa's perspective to Detective Constable Joanne Aspinall and finally a creepy first-person accounting from the perp.
I know my book group will have lots to talk about--from the mother's guilt, to the blame game, and to the twisty turns.
READ IT!!!
Title: The New Me
Author: Mary Marcus
I finished this book last night. It was a quick read. I didn't particularly like it. I found the main character's obliviousness to be almost cliche. Maybe because I'm not in a long term relationship/marriage, I can't relate to how people take each other for granted, which is part of this book. But not every book is going to be a home run, right? The writing was good and the characters were well-crafted. It didn't resonate with me.
Title: An Autumn Crush
Author: Milly Johnson
Chick lit done right! The book touches on some more serious issues of alcoholism and mental health issues but is balanced with some touches of humor in it's exploration of friendship, family, and love. The secondary characters are great, too.
After a bruising divorce, headstrong Juliet Miller invests in a flat and advertises for a flatmate, little believing that in her late thirties she'll find anyone suitable. But along comes self-employed copywriter Floz, raw from her own relationship split, and the two woman hit it off. When Juliet's twin brother Guy meets Hattie, he is overcome with a massive crush. But being a shy, gentle giant, he communicates so clumsily with her as to give her the opposite impression.
Guy's best friend Steve has always had a secret, unrequited crush on Juliet. After a night of too much wine, Steve and Juliet end up in bed, after moaning about the lack of sex in their lives. Convinced that Juliet doesn't feel the same way, Steve agrees to a 'just-sex' relationship, until they can both find other partners.
Just when Guy has finally plucked up the courage to tell Floz how he feels, she embarks on an internet relationship - which seems to tick all the boxes. Meanwhile she is growing closer to Guy's family. Reeling from her divorce, and a series of devastating miscarriages, Floz has never had much love in her life and is obviously thirsty for affection. She loves the whole Miller family, from Juliet and Guy's warm, loving parents, to their ancient one-eyed black cat. But can Guy turn Floz's affection for his family into something more - into love for him? And then Juliet makes a discovery, which will turn the lives of all four friends upside-down . . .
I enjoyed this book. I fell in love with the characters--I wanted both Juliet and Floz to be my friends! Floz's turbulent relationship kind of drawn out, but it was powerful.
Title: The Invention of Wings
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
This is a work of historical fiction. I was impressed with myself that I was already familiar with the Grimke sisters, who were staunch abolitionists and advocates for equal rights. The book covers a lot of ground and a lot of issues. Told in alternating perspectives from the point of view of Sarah Grimke and the slave she was given as a gift for her eleventh birthday, Hetty "Handful."
It's an exploration of loyalty, family, freedom, and ultimately the shackles we place on ourselves. Both women were inhibited by the times and both were desperate to break free of society's norms and mores.
I really liked this book although there were a couple of places that dragged.
Title: The Sea of Tranquility
Author: Katja Millay
Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.
Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.
I liked the raw honest feel to this book. I was a little frustrated that the main character's dark past took so long to reveal. I liked the secondary characters, they were well-developed and had purpose. And I liked that the parental figures in the book weren't portrayed as idiots. And the ending! A great ending!
Title: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Author: Neil Patrick Harris
I listened to NPH's recording of his book and I'm so glad I did. We are now best friends.
Title: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Author: Jonas Jonasson
It's a charming, far-fetched tale. As I read it I wondered, "What next?" several times. I don't know if that is good or bad. I think I'm the only one of my reading group to finish it.
Title: The Good Girl
Author: Mary Kubica
Born to a prominent Chicago judge and his stifled socialite wife, Mia Dennett moves against the grain as a young inner-city art teacher. One night, Mia enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. With his smooth moves and modest wit, at first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life.
Colin's job was to abduct Mia as part of a wild extortion plot and deliver her to his employers. But the plan takes an unexpected turn when Colin suddenly decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota, evading the police and his deadly superiors. Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them, but no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.
There's been some comparison to Gone Girl, but I don't see it. It's a twisty story told "Before" and "After" Mia is found. And the narration's point of view switches from Mia's mother, Eve, the police detective, Gabe Hoffman, and the abductor, Colin. So, although the story isn't told in chronological nor from one point of view, it works.
In the aftermath of Mia's return, her shock leaves her with amnesia, and it's obvious that something big happened to her but the reveal... ah, the reveal is very well done.
Title: How To Eat A Cupcake
Author: Meg Donohue
Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs' housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia's San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.
A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother's death, and a painful secret jeopardizes Julia's engagement to the man she loves. A chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, but when a mysterious saboteur opens up old wounds, they must finally face the truth about their past or risk losing everything.
I was excited to read an exploration of friendship with a background of cupcakes. And I enjoyed much of the book. My complaint is that the author packed in too many threads. In packing in so many storylines, there is a reliance on cliches and stereotypes. Which prevented me from loving the book. Because less is more and I could have loved this book.
Title: The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year
Author: Andy Cohen
I could be friends with Andy Cohen. This book is a pop-culture treasure! I loved it. Actually, Andy read it to me and it was like a year-long party.
Title: Mistletoe Murder
Author: Leslie Meier
A cozy Christmas-themed mystery set in a small town in Maine. Lots of fun!
As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband's gift, and making her daughter's angel costume for the church pageant weren't enough things for Lucy Stone's busy Christmas schedule, she's also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn't smell right.
Taking time out from her hectic holiday life to find out what really happened, her investigation leads to a backlog of secrets as long as Santa's Christmas Eve route. Lucy is convinced that someone murdered Sam Miller. But who and why? With each harrowing twist she uncovers in this bizarre case, another shocking revelation is exposed. Now, as Christmas draws near and Lucy gets dangerously closer to the truth, she's about to receive a present from Santa she didn't ask for—a killer who won't be satisfied until everyone on his shopping list is dead, including Lucy herself.
Title: The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coehlo
A thoughtful fable about the importance of following your dreams regardless of the odds. The shepherd boy, Santiago, meets interesting characters along the way, inspiring him to continue on his quest seeking treasure at the Pyramids of Egypt. I like a quest story. And it's my book group's December selection.
Title: What Happens At Christmas
Author: Victoria Alexander
I didn't know what to expect, although the premise was appealing. Historical holiday romance. It was funny and the plot twists were convoluted enough to keep me reading. There was a terribly cliched intimate moment that detracted, but overall this was a very fun holiday read.
Camille, Lady Lydingham, requests the pleasure of your company at a festive house party, as she endeavors to coax a marriage proposal from Prince Nikolai Pruzinsky of Greater Avalonia.
The hostess's relatives will be in attendance—in this case, a troupe of actors hired to impersonate a proper English family in order to fool the Prince.
Gate-crashing, distractingly handsome first loves like Grayson Elliott are most unwelcome.
Games will be played.
Motives will be revealed.
Mayhem may ensue.
And hearts will be won—and lost—in the most romantic, magical season of all.
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Choir alum recognized with TeenNick Halo Award
Read the entire interview with Virginia HERE.
Lafayette Choir Alum, Virginia Newsome is recognized by TeenNick as the September Halo Award winner for her outstanding work as founder of heARTS. Congrats, Virginia, Lafayette is proud of you!
Choir performs at LHS 75th Commencement
The Lafayette Choir and Band teamed up to perform the Lafayette Alma Mater during Lafayette's 75th commencement ceremonies. Lafayette's Alma Mater uses a melody and harmonization by the master of the Classical style, Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn made only two visits to England in his lifetime. While there, he was inspired by the pomp the nationalistic enthusiasm of the British anthem, "God Save the King." He returned to Austria after his second visit and composed this anthem in 1797 for the birthday of the Austrian Emperor Francis II of the Holy Roman Empire. The tune was later adopted by Germany in 1922 as their national anthem.
Lafayette High School opened its doors in 1939 and is the oldest Fayette County high school still on its original campus. This latest arrangement for wind band and chorus was commissioned by the Lafayette Choir in 2013. Verses two and three were newly written for this arrangement.
Full Photo Gallery from the Herald Leader
Winding pathways lead us upwards to the summit of the hill.
Where in beauty facing forward Lafayette’s walls our dreams fulfill.
Home of lofty thought and learning, beacon o’er our meadow land.
Shrine whence still the ever-burning torch is passed from hand to hand.
Through the halls and in the classrooms, bearing up the standard high,
Leading all to strive for excellence, challenge each to soar and fly.
Many through these doors have once passed, many yet are still to come.
From this place we dream and journey, as our passage has be-gun.
Winding journeys lead us onward from this summit of the hill.
Wherein knowledge marching forward, Lafayette starts the dream instilled.
Foster all our burg’ning wisdom, as a beacon we will stand;
Stand and lead with fervent passion, as we pass the torch in hand!
Seeking Alumni for performance of the Battle Hymn
This is a landmark year for the Lafayette Choir. It's not every year that we get to celebrate three-quarters of a century of great singing. If you were a part of this tradition, we want you to join us again. This is the second opportunity for alumni to join the choirs in performance. While you are always invited to any of our concerts, we would especially like to invite you to our Spring Concert for a Lafayette Choir Reunion performance of the Battle Hymn of the Republic (arr. Whilhousky).
Join us for a rehearsal prior to our Spring Concert in the main Concert Hall at Singletary Center at 6:50 on May 20, 2014. (If you cannot make the rehearsal, no problem. Simply join the group on stage at the appropriate time in the concert.) Email Mr. Marsh if you wish for a copy of the music in advance. (Email Mr. Marsh)
Choir Grad has lead role in touring show
2007 Lafayette choir grad, Antoinette Comer is staring in the touring production of Mamma Mia! that is coming to the EKU Center for the Arts. She continues her tour across the country this year. While at Lafayette she sang in Chorale and performed in The Sound of Music and Guys and Dolls.
Read more about Antoinette's story in the Herald Leader.
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/03/20/3150589/lafayette-high-grad-takes-a-step.html
Calling all Choir Alumni!!
This is a landmark year for the Lafayette Choir. It's not every year that we get to celebrate three-quarters of a century of great singing. If you were a part of this tradition, we want you to join us again. This year we are planning two opportunities to welcome our alumni back to the stage. While you are always invited to any of our concerts, we would especially like to invite you to our Winter Concert on December 9, 2013 for a Lafayette Choir Reunion performance of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah.
Join us for a rehearsal prior to our Winter Concert in the Sanctuary of Calvary Baptist at 6:45 on December 9. (If you cannot make the rehearsal, no problem. Simply join the group on stage at the appropriate time in the concert.)
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Lafayette Choir Grad chooses Naval Academy
Lewis Aldridge, a 2013 graduate of Lafayette High School, has accepted an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for the Class of 2017. He also had offers from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado.
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Comic Creator Fran Hopper
Fran Hopper
(13 July 1922 - 29 November 2017, USA)
'Mysta of the Moon' (Planet Comics #40).
Fran Hopper was one of the few female artists active during the Golden Age of American comic books in the 1940s. She mainly worked through Robert Iger's studio on Fiction House features starring heroines like 'Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron' (1944) and 'Jane Martin' (1946-1947). Hopper also continued other artists' features like 'Patsy Walker', 'Mysta of the Moon' (1945-1947) and 'Camilla' (1945-1947).
Early life and career
She was born in 1922 as Frances R. Deitrick in the state of Maryland. She spent most of her childhood in New Jersey, however. Deitrick was one of several female comic book artists entering the field during the early 1940s. By 1942, the US had joined World War II, and many male authors were drafted. Packager Bob Iger and his editor Ruth Roche thus hired Deitrick and other females such as Ruth Atkinson, Lily Renée and Marcia Snyder to fill their places. Iger's studio produced complete comic books for publishers like Fiction House. Deitrick's first known contribution appeared in Planet Comics #23 of March 1943. She started signing her work Fran Hopper after marrying Dr. John B. Hopper II in 1944.
'Yank Aces of World War II - Lt. Kenneth A. Walsh' (Wings Comics #43).
Early comics
Hopper's first contributions were two installments in the science fiction feature 'Norge Benson' in Planet Comics. She moved on to draw the humor feature 'Private Elmer Pippin and the Colonel's Daughter' (1943-1944) and the adventure series 'Glory Forbes' (1945-1946) in Ranger Comics. She also drew educational features like the biographical 'Yank Aces of World War II' (1944) in Wing Comics and 'African Wild Life' (1944-1945) and 'Jungle Facts' (1945) in Jungle Comics.
Gale Allen
Fiction House however often assigned its female artists to draw features with female heroines. Hopper stepped in with the science fiction adventure comic 'Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron' (1944) in Planet Comics.
Mysta of the Moon
She would gain more attention with another sci-fi feature for this title, 'Mysta of the Moon' (the repository of the sum of all human knowledge), which she took over from artist Joe Doolin from July 1945 to July 1947.
In Jungle Comics, she assumed the art duties of the jungle adventure feature 'Camilla' from October 1945 until August 1947. The character was graphically created by Charles A. Winter in 1940 and was since then drawn by several of Iger's crew. 'Camilla' was yet another jungle princess character inspired by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger's 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle' (1937).
Jane Martin
Hopper's final Fiction House feature was the espionage series 'Jane Martin' for Wings Comics from March 1946 until August 1947.
'Jane Martin' (Wings Comics #73).
Patsy Walker
She additionally worked for Timely's Ruth Atkinson on some of the early installments of the teen humor feature 'Patsy Walker' in the mid 1940s.
Retirement, later life and death
With the war over, Hopper left the industry in mid 1947, as did several other female artists. By the 1950s, the only females working on mainstream comic books in the following decade were Ramona Fradon and Marie Severin. In the following decades, the Hopper family lived in the New Jersey towns of Mendham and Chester, where they raised and showed Arabian horses. They moved to Thornton, New Hampshire, in 1974 and then finally to a retirement home in Whiting, New Jersey in 2006.
Comics artist and historian Trina Robbins tracked Fran Hopper down and visited her in her retirement home. Hopper was one of the Golden Age women featured in Robbins' anthology 'Babes In Arms: Women in the Comics During World War Two' (2017), along with Barbara Hall, Jill Elgin and Lily Renée. Fran Hopper passed away in New Jersey on 29 November 2017, at the age of 95.
'Camilla' (Jungle Comics #81).
Entry by Bas Schuddeboom
Artwork © 2017 Fran Hopper
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Quichotte: A Novel (CD-Audio)
By Salman Rushdie, Vikas Adam (Read by)
Autographed copies of The Booker shortlisted Quichotte available soon. Pre-order now!
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium—a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.”—Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
Praise for Quichotte
“Brilliant . . . a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.”—Financial Times
“Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. . . . The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader—somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders. . . . This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.”—The Sunday Times
“Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’s story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. . . . This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.”—The Times (UK)
Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels--Luka and the Fire of Life, Grimus, Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House--and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction--Joseph Anton, The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands, and Step Across This Line--and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
“Rushdie weaves together all of his subjects, sharply observed, with extraordinary elegance and wit. . . . Cervantes’s hero, who is eternally modern perhaps because he is essentially anti-contemporary, couldn’t be a more inspired transplant into the mad reality of the present day, which Rushdie sends up in terms both universal and highly specific, tragic and hilarious, strange but hauntingly familiar. . . . At least here’s something worth reading as civilization crumbles around us, before we succumb to our fates. Right?”—Entertainment Weekly
“Quichotte is a novel that attempts to reflect back to us the total, crumbling insanity of living in a world unmoored from reality — that shows what happens when lies become as good as facts. . . . And if Quichotte drives you nuts, that’s fine. It’s meant to. It’s layered in such a way that you will lose yourself in the shifting reality of it.”—NPR
“Quichotte, Rushdie’s Trump-era reworking of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, is a frantically inventive take on ‘the Age of Anything-Can-Happen’ we’ve endured these last few years. It’s a concoction of narratives within narratives that blends the latest news headlines with apocalyptic flights of fancy. . . . Rushdie doesn’t offer much hope for our dispiriting times. But in a frayed and feverish way, he captures their flavor exactly.”—The Boston Globe
“Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte is a behemoth of a novel, and with reason. A postmodern dystopian tale, it tackles everything from global warming to the rise of white supremacism to the opioid crisis—which is to say, most of the ills of contemporary society. . . . There’s much that feels absorbing and true in Rushdie’s latest work. . . . The way Rushdie handles racial animus, too, is as incisive and complex as in his earlier fiction.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“A fantastical dream within a dream . . . a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder . . . As [Rushdie] weaves the journeys of the two men nearer and nearer, sweeping up a full accounting of all the tragicomic horrors of modern American life in the process, these energies begin to collapse beautifully inward, like a dying star. His readers realize that they would happily follow Rushdie to the end of the world.”—Time
“[A] modern Don Quixote . . . Rushdie has created something that feels wholly original even if you’ve never heard of the hopelessly romantic Spanish knight-errant who sees danger in windmills. . . . Lucky for us, there are true storytellers and Rushdie is near the top of that list. If you haven’t read him before, this is a good book to start with—it’s fabulist and funny while revealing an awful lot about the world we live in today.”—Associated Press
“Rushdie’s Booker-longlisted fourteenth novel is certainly the work of a frisky imagination. . . . You can’t help being charmed by Rushdie’s largesse.”—The Guardian
“Hilarious by all accounts.”—Literary Hub
“[Quichotte] is Don Quixote for our time, a smart satire of every aspect of the contemporary culture. Witty, profound, tender, this love story shows a fiction master at his brilliant best.”—The Millions
“Rushdie’s novel is many things beyond just a Don Quixote retelling. It’s a satire on our contemporary fake-news, post-truth, Trumpian cultural moment, where the concept of reality itself is coming apart. It’s a sci-fi novel, a spy novel, a road trip novel, a work of magical realism. It’s a climate change parable, and an immigrant story in an era of anti-immigration feeling. It’s a love story that turns into a family drama. . . . Characters, narratives and worlds collide and come apart in spectacular fashion, while Rushdie maintains an exhilarating control over it all.”—The Independent
Publication Date: September 3rd, 2019
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Leonard Bernstein at 100
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Leonard Bernstein: A Born Teacher
by Jamie Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a man of many accomplishments, but he was proudest of his own achievements as a teacher.
There's a Hebrew phrase that makes me think of my father: "Torah Lishmah." And it means, loosely translated, a raging thirst for knowledge. I'm sure you've all had that feeling. Maybe you were researching a subject you were intensely interested in, and came across a document that went right to the heart of your thesis. Or maybe you just settled into your train seat with a big, juicy article in a magazine about your all-time favorite sports hero or movie star. Or the day after the first Presidential debates, you buy all the newspapers, nearly salivating with anticipation at reading all the spin.
That's Torah Lishmah. And Leonard Bernstein had it about almost everything! He just could not absorb enough information on the things that interested him: not just music but also Shakespeare, the Renaissance, world religions, Lewis Carroll, biology, Russian literature, the two World Wars, astrophysics, French drama — and any places where these topics overlap. His brain was on fire with curiosity. And what he loved most was to communicate his excitement to others.
Luckily for all of us, it wasn't enough for Leonard Bernstein to compose music and conduct orchestras. He felt equally compelled to talk about music — to try and explain what made it tick, what made it good, and what made it affect us in all the ways that music does. The other piece of good luck was that Leonard Bernstein and television came along at the same time. They were born for each other.
Bernstein's first TV appearances were actually for adults. In the early 1950's, he created segments about classical music for the groundbreaking "Omnibus" series, hosted by Alistair Cooke. But by 1957 Bernstein had convinced CBS to put his Young People's Concerts on the air. To think that for a while there, Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic were on CBS primetime television!! All over America, families gathered in their living rooms in front of their big, bulky black & white TV sets, and watched Leonard Bernstein tell them all about classical music. I can't tell you how many people come up to me now, everywhere I go in the States, and they say something like: "Oh, I used to watch your father's Young People's Concerts on TV, and I've been a music lover ever since!" And an equally large number of orchestra musicians come up to me and say, "I watched the Young People's Concerts when I was a kid, and that's why I'm a musician today!"
Bernstein's great gift was his ability to convey his own excitement about music. Watching him explain sonata form or the difference between a tonic and a dominant, you had the sense that he was letting you in on a wonderful secret, rather than drumming facts into you that might prove useful later. It doesn't matter what your subject is; a teacher's own passion is going to improve the student's ability to absorb and process the information. Excitement is contagious.
Of course, it helped a lot that Leonard Bernstein was really up on his subject.
People often say that Leonard Bernstein was a born teacher, but actually it's more accurate to say that he was a born student who just couldn't wait to share what he learned. In his whole life, he never stopped studying.
Leonard Bernstein had such facility as a teacher that he was sometimes not taken seriously as a scholar. But make no mistake; he really did his homework. As a young student, he applied himself at Boston Latin School, Harvard and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He made the most of his liberal arts education at Harvard, where he studied as wide a range of subjects as he could fit into his schedule. Leonard Bernstein really should be the poster boy for a liberal arts education; everything he absorbed seemed to inform his own music eventually. Later on, he absorbed mountains of knowledge from the various mentors in his life: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Serge Koussevitzky, Aaron Copland. But as well versed as he was in the field of music, he never shut down the learning factory. On the contrary; he stoked it up dramatically in the third quarter of his life.
In the 1970's, Bernstein turned himself back into a student again in order to prepare his six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. He immersed himself in Chomskyan linguistics, absorbing an entire new field of knowledge, so that he could then apply the principles of linguistics to music — thereby creating a brand new field of study, and turning himself back into a teacher again in the process. Ambitious? Oh, yes! Was he in over his head? Completely! He was never happier than he was in those 18 months on the Harvard campus, reveling in his dual roles as student and teacher.
My siblings and I have often thought that in a way, our dad was writing the Young People's Concerts to us. His last Young People's Concert was in 1972, in my sophomore year of college. And then, the following year, a funny thing happened: my father went back to college too! His residency at Harvard coincided exactly with my junior and senior years there, and my brother's freshman year. You could say that the Young People's Concerts turned into college lectures when his own kids became college age.
Interactivity is one area of teaching that has seen enormous expansion since the days of my father's Young People's Concerts. Back then, there was only so much you could do with a TV audience. Now that we're firmly in the age of interactive technology, we're in a sort of double bind. On the one hand, it's thrilling that a kid can have such an interactive relationship with his or her computer or video game or telephone. On the other hand, that kid's expectations in a classroom have been transformed. Kids have never been too good at sitting still, but now they really won't sit still for a simple, passive absorption of information. That will seem more deadly than ever before.
So we teachers have to work twice as hard to make our lessons engaging. In the process of trying too hard to seem modern and trendy, we can all wind up looking just as foolish as our own math teacher did back in the 1970's, when he grew his hair over his ears and wore bell-bottoms. Come to think of it, my own father did exactly that! But everybody loved him anyway.
But to get back to this business of interactivity. In spite of the limitations of television, Leonard Bernstein found plenty of ways to engage his audience directly. The easiest way was to engage the live audience, and he found wonderful ways to get them to participate — everything from singing "Frere Jacques" in a four-part round, to singing different intervals on the syllables "New York," to taking part in a musical quiz. You could feel the fizz of excitement when my father asked the concert audience to do something — and you can clearly see it on the DVD's of the televised Young People's Concerts, in director Roger Englander's delightful cutaway shots of the kids in Philharmonic Hall.
One thing I always loved about my father was how unafraid he was to be silly. In our family, goofiness was next to godliness. I wish you all could have seen him and his sister singing a song called "Toujours Glamour," with different gestures for each of the letters in "glamour." I wish you could have seen him playing the Pharaoh of Egypt, in a beach towel and lampshade crown, in my parents' epic home movie, "Call Me Moses." I wish you could have heard him tell the classic Jewish jokes, or describe his favorite Vaudeville routines.
But the good news is, you can see him acting pretty silly on his Young People's Concerts. The very fact that he came out in his nice suit and tie made any unusual behavior that much funnier.
Without a doubt, his best trick was singing the pop songs of the day to illustrate his points about the music of long ago. Oh, how the girls in the audience squealed with embarrassment and delight when he'd sing "And I Love Her" or "My Baby Does the Hanky Panky!" He knew he sounded ridiculous, but he truly didn't care, as long as it engaged the kids and helped them understand what he was talking about. That reflects a deep generosity of spirit — and everyone could sense it.
While talking to my brother about our dad's sense of humor, he pointed out that plenty of great teachers have been humorless. He reminded me that one of our dad's greatest conducting teachers, Fritz Reiner, was on the grim, dry side. But everyone at Curtis Institute adored Reiner and considered him a master. So maybe humor isn't a prerequisite. But with a young audience, it definitely helps — a LOT.
Are any of you familiar with the ideas in the book "Flow," by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? The subtitle is "The Psychology of Optimal Experience." His idea is that when we're completely engaged in a task that we find enjoyable, we enter a magical state where we lose all track of time, forget about our fatigue or our aches and pains, and produce our most creative and focused work. Leonard Bernstein was one of the luckiest people in the world, because so much of his work put him in that enviable state. Maybe as a result of being in flow so much of the time, he had a very heightened sense of the meaning of the word FUN. Fun was a serious thing to Leonard Bernstein — because he loved his work so much. And he was able to impart this sense of serious fun to everyone around him: his colleagues, his audiences, his students and his family.
So when my father talks in one Young People's Concert about the overture to "Marriage of Figaro" as "a roller coaster ride," he's not kidding! Conducting Mozart's music was every bit as thrilling to him as riding the Cyclone at Coney Island - and take it from me: he brought the same heightened level of engagement to both activities.
It may have been delightfully silly to hear my father squawk his way through those pop songs, but it also signaled to the audience that Leonard Bernstein listened to contemporary pop music — and liked it. That meant a lot in those days, when parents were turning up their noses at Elvis, Motown and the Beatles, and so-called experts would criticize popular music as brainless and even harmful. But hey: Leonard Bernstein thought the Beatles were great! And the Supremes too, and the Stones, and Latin American music, and African war chants and Louis Armstrong and Balinese gamelan and... well, that was exactly it: Leonard Bernstein loved music. ALL of it. And he gave a clear signal to his audiences that it was OK to love all music — and not to put a value judgment on one genre over another. He was the unsnobbiest person you could ever hope to meet. He loved people and was curious about everything. Those are good traits in a teacher.
In his own compositions, my father lived by the same creed. He wrote jazzy music for the concert hall and symphonic music for the Broadway stage. And of course, everybody thoroughly benefited from the cross-pollination — with the possible exception of Bernstein himself. In his lifetime, Bernstein's reputation as a composer suffered as a result of his refusal to be or do just one thing. In the mid- 20th Century, a composer who wished to be taken seriously by the academic musical community absolutely positively had to forfeit tonality in favor of 12-tone music. Simply put, they had to compose music with no key and no melody. Either you wrote 12-tone music or you weren't a "serious" composer.
My father set great store in the great academic institutions, and he longed to be counted in their pantheon. But he could not bring himself to give up writing a good tune. Aren't we glad now that he stuck to his guns?! You have to admire the man for trusting his instincts and writing from his heart, even if it meant losing respect. His courage and sense of self make a fine example for every student who seeks knowledge and dares to ask the hard questions.
Tanglewood Music Center From his first summer in 1938 to his last concert in 1990 Pacific Music Festival Founded in Sapporo in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein. Now a quarter century on, a cumulative total of over 3,200 excellent musicians have taken part. Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival Leonard Bernstein’s lifelong devotion to education culminated in the late 1980s during the three years he spent as a teacher and a conductor at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (SHMF) in Northern Germany. Omnibus Emmy-winning, nationwide broadcast lectures on musical topics The New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts Bernstein's famous programs from 1958 to 1972 The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard As the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University in 1971 Learn more about Artful Learning An education reform model initiated by Leonard Bernstein CuedIn | Tom Dean Celebrating the Leonard Bernstein Centennial: Contributions to Education Read Article
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The old village school dates back to 1850. The school moved to its present site in 1970.
The school is set in an attractive, rural area, and its extensive grounds include a Conservation Area and a heated Swimming Pool, built in 1994.
The current building underwent extensive building works to extend the school hall and there was an addition of a Y6 classroom completed in 2004. Our Early Years Centre achieved National Lottery Funding in November 2002 and the Elliott Building (which is the location of our extended school status Breakfast and After School Clubs) was installed on site in 2003 which the school Governors took charge of in 2009.
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Finland’s new prime minister was raised by two moms
Her LGBTQ family "was something that couldn't be discussed" when she was growing up, but they're "the foundation of everything."
By Alex Bollinger Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Soon-to-be prime minister of Finland Sanna MarinPhoto: Shutterstock
Sanna Marin was just picked by her party to be the Prime Minister of Finland, making her the youngest leader of a government in the world.
And, notably, she was raised by two mothers.
Related: Finland president signs marriage equality bill, law takes effect in 2017
Marin was named Minister of Transport and Communications earlier this year. A rising star in the Social Democratic Party, she was voted by a wide margin to the position of prime minister this month, succeeding Antti Rinne, who has faced criticism for his handling of strikes.
Marin is 34-years-old, making her the youngest currently serving leader of a government in the world when she is sworn in this week.
Born in 1985, she said that the topic of homosexuality was taboo when she was growing up and not feeling free to discuss her “rainbow family” made her feel “invisible” at school.
“That was something that couldn’t be discussed,” she told Menaiset, explaining openness about LGBTQ families in Finland is a very recent thing.
“The silence was the hardest. The invisibility made me feel inferior. We were not recognized as a true family or equal with others.”
She said that she didn’t face bullying.
“Even when I was little, I was very candid and stubborn,” she said. “I wouldn’t have taken anything easily.”
Marin’s family was also working-class – she’s the first person in her family to attend college. She joined the Social Democratic Youth in 2006 and was elected vice president of the organization in 2010.
She held several local elected positions, but rose through the ranks in the party.
Marin said that her mother always made her feel like she could do anything.
“My mother has always been very supportive and has made me believe that I can do exactly what I want,” she said.
Growing up in a working-class and LGBTQ family also made her see the importance of social justice.
“For me, people have always been equal,” she said. “It’s not a matter of opinion. That’s the foundation of everything.”
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Gay people in a homophobic country don’t always see themselves as oppressed
Gay couple savagely attacked by teens while leaving a corner store
A book details Trump telling associates about having his resort cleaned following a visit from his ex-lawyer Roy Cohn, who was dying of AIDS at the time.
Pride organizers send Google, YouTube to the curb over homophobia and bias
San Francisco’s Pride members want to ban Alphabet Inc. – including Google and YouTube – due to its complicity in platforming homophobic apps and videos. The Alameda Co. Sheriff’s Office may be barred, too.
Keep America bigoted: Trump admin. moves to give religious groups more federal bucks
If federal agencies follow Trump’s latest directive, religious based organizations that discriminate will be getting paid – right as the election comes closer.
A new religious right think tank thinks Jesus’ teachings are too liberal
The Falkirk Center at Liberty University believes that “restoring and defending American ideals” means explicitly rejecting Christ’s teaching of turning the other cheek, among others.
Appeals court rules Indiana must recognize same sex parents – 3 years later
It took an appeals court three years to rule that Indiana must follow a Supreme Court ruling, putting one of the plaintiff’s children at risk.
Chicago’s lesbian mayor Lori Lightfoot rebukes city council for anti-gay remarks
One city councilmember said people will pretend to be gay to get all the benefits. She shut him down.
A gay man got himself sent to prison twice to be with his partner. They just got a civil union.
They met at a prison bingo night and fell in love.
Gay couple attacked with tear gas in their home after being blackmailed
When they refused to give the blackmailer any more money, they were attacked with tear gas by four masked men.
Kanye West’s new religious fanatic friend joins anti-LGBTQ “freedom march”
Engle helped fan the flames of hate in Uganda at a time when this nation was debating its infamous “Kill the Gays” bill.
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Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in the UK
Doctors and politicians have warned that addiction to prescription medication is becoming just as much of a problem in the UK as illegal drug use.
Experts at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence have said they’re so concerned about the problem, they predict we could be heading for a public health disaster.
Figures from the National Treatment Agency confirm these fears as they show that opioid prescriptions rose from three to 23 million between 1991 and 2014. Defined daily doses for Tramadol increased from 5.9 million to 11.1 million between 2005 and 2012, while prescriptions for co-codamol jumped from 8.8 million in 2001 to 15 million in 2011.
Fuelling these concerns is the growing number of patients who are overdosing on prescription drugs. In 2013 there were 807 fatal overdoses which involved prescription drugs, a 16% increase compared to the previous five years. In comparison, 718 deaths were caused as a result of taking heroin and cocaine - a number which has continued to fall since 2005. In 1996 there was one fatal overdose from Tramadol. By 2014, in England and Wales this had risen to 240 cases.
Why do prescription drugs become a problem?
Doctors have reinforced that while there is plenty of focus on helping those with a substance abuse problem involving illegal drugs, people stuck on prescription medication have nowhere to turn.
Prescription drugs are often misunderstood because we’re told to take them by a trusted professional. Because of this, we assume they’re perfectly safe and in many cases, users don’t even recognise they have a problem.
Addiction to prescription painkillers, such as opioids often begins after injury or surgery when a patient has been prescribed them. While opioids are very effective at relieving pain, the problem is that we build up a tolerance to them very quickly. What’s more, these drugs increase nerve sensitivity, meaning that previous, non-painful stimuli become painful with long-term use. It then becomes a vicious circle as patients need to take more medicine to help them deal with the pain.
There are a number of other reasons a person may become addicted to the medication they have been taking. Although it can happen to anyone, some factors do increase your chances of becoming vulnerable to prescription drug abuse including:
If you currently or have previously suffered from another addiction, you’re at a higher risk of becoming addicted to prescription drugs.
If you have family members with addiction problems, your chances are also higher. This may be because you have inherited genes which make you more likely to become addicted.
Those who have experienced childhood trauma such as physical or sexual abuse, violence or losing a parent, may turn to substance abuse as a coping mechanism and start to develop prescription medication abuse symptoms.
Signs of prescription drug addiction
You’re constantly thinking about your medication - you will become preoccupied with when you can take your next dose and whether your supply is enough.
You’ve stopped following your doctor’s advice and take your medication more often than recommended.
You want to change doctor because yours if refusing to prescribe you more pills.
You get your medication from other sources, even if it’s unsafe.
While some conditions require long-term medication, others don’t. If you’re still taking pain relief for a broken bone that healed six months ago for example, this could be a sign of a problem
You’re not quite yourself. An addiction can affect us both mentally and physically. Perhaps you’re not taking care of yourself the way you used to, you’ve stopped caring about personal hygiene or you’re suffering from mood swings. You may also find yourself getting more angry than usual, neglecting responsibilities and sleeping or eating habits may also change.
If you think that you or someone you know could have a prescription drug problem, please feel free to contact Life Works in the strictest of confidence and we will be more than happy to help.
To discuss how the Life Works team can help to support individuals and families dealing with addiction and for further information on treatment and rehabilitation programmes, please call: 01483 745 066 or click here to book a FREE ADDICTION ASSESSMENT.
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2 Al-Nusra Front battle against PKK near Turkey-Syria border
As fighting continues between foreign-backed militants and Syrian troops, neighboring countries seem to be dragged into the confrontation. The Turkish government has been a key ally to al-Nusra Front fighting against the Syrian army.
In a new development the P-Y-D -- a Syrian political branch of the P-K-K-- has taken control of the town of Ras al-Ain on Syria's northeastern border , from al-Nusra Front. The two engaged in battle with each other and some bullets that reached Turkish soil killed a boy.
However, members of the main Turkish opposition Party have said it is actually just the opposite and that Turkey seeks for any reason to start a ground invasion in Syria.
C-H-P Lawmaker Faruk Logoglu said on Friday that the AK Party is after foreign intervention in Syria and is trying, by any means, to create a de facto situation to that end." He also accused the government of pursuing an unrealistic foreign policy and acting in a partisan way in the Syrian crisis. Directly referencing to al- Nusra front, Logoglu also urged "the A-K-P government to end the support for radical groups fighting the Syrian government. In a similar development, senior officials of the B-D-P, the political wing of the P-K-K, expressed similar comments and have sternly warned Ankara against its support for al-Nusra front.
In the mean time, the Turkish army has beefed up security at its borders with Syria and Turkish troops shot at P-Y-D fighters after two rocket-propelled grenades fired from Syria hit a border post on the Turkish side of the frontier.
The idea of the Syrian conflict spilling over into Turkey's soil has reached somewhat a new level. Ankara and the Kurdistan's Workers party reached a historic peace agreement in March. Now the P-K-K and the Al-Qaeda-linked Al Nusra front are at odds or even better to say AT WAR with each other.
The political wing of the P-K-K has said the fact that assailant gangs affiliated with the al-Nusra front are supported by Turkish government is quote '' increasing our concerns.'' This, as several soldiers patrolling Turkey border with Syria have been wounded by unknown gunmen.
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"Sol (currency)" redirects here. For the pre-1985 Peruvian currency, see Peruvian sol (1863–1985). For the 13th–18th century French coin, see Solidus (coin).
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The sol (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsol]; plural: soles; currency sign: S/)[2] is the currency of Peru; it is subdivided into 100 céntimos ("cents"). The ISO 4217 currency code is PEN.
The sol replaced the Peruvian inti in 1991 and the name is a return to that of Peru's historic currency, as the previous incarnation of sol was in use from 1863 to 1985. Although sol in this usage is derived from the Latin solidus, the word also means "sun" in Spanish. There is thus a continuity with the old Peruvian inti, which was named after Inti, the Sun God of the Incas.
At its introduction in 1991, the currency was officially called nuevo sol ("new sol"), but on November 13, 2015, the Peruvian Congress voted to rename the currency simply sol.[3][4]
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Due to the bad state of economy and hyperinflation in the late 1980s, the government was forced to abandon the inti and introduce the sol as the country's new currency.[5] The new currency was put into use on July 1, 1991, by Law No. 25,295, to replace the inti at a rate of 1 sol to 1,000,000 intis.[6] Coins denominated in the new unit were introduced on October 1, 1991, and the first banknotes on November 13, 1991. Since that time,[when?] the sol has retained an inflation rate of 1.5%, the lowest ever in either South America or Latin America as a whole.[7][failed verification] Since the new currency was put into effect, it has managed to maintain a stable exchange rate[8] between 2.2 and 3.66 per United States dollar.
Coins[edit]
The current coins were introduced in 1991 in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 céntimos and 1 sol.[6] The 2- and 5-sol coins were added in 1994. Although one- and five-céntimo coins are officially in circulation, they are very rarely used. For this reason the aluminium one-céntimo coin, introduced in December 2005,[9] was removed from circulation on May 1, 2011. For cash transactions, retailers must round down to the nearest ten céntimos or up to the nearest five. Electronic transactions will still be processed in the exact amount. An aluminium five-céntimo coin was introduced in 2007.[10] All coins show the coat of arms of Peru surrounded by the text Banco Central de Reserva del Perú ("Central Reserve Bank of Peru") on the obverse; the reverse of each coin shows its denomination. Included in the designs of the bimetallic two- and five-sol coins are the hummingbird and condor figures from the Nazca Lines.[11]
5 céntimos 18 1.50 1.02 Aluminium Smooth
10 céntimos 20.5 1.26 3.50 Brass Smooth
20 céntimos 23 1.26 4.40 Brass Smooth
50 céntimos 22 1.65 5.45 Cu–Zn–Ni Reeded
1 sol 25.5 1.65 7.32 Cu–Zn–Ni Reeded
2 soles 22.2 2.07 5.62 Bimetallic
Outside ring: Steel
Centre: Cu–Zn–Ni Smooth
Centre: Cu–Zn–Ni Reeded (since 2009)
Banknotes[edit]
Banknotes for 10, 20, 50, and 100 soles were introduced in 1990.[6] The banknote for 200 soles was introduced in August 1995.[12] All notes are of the same size (140 x 65 mm) and contain the portrait of a well-known historic Peruvian on the obverse.[13]
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10 soles 1991 Green José Quiñones GonzálesNorth American NA-50 “Torito” A Caproni Ca.113, flying upside-down
2011 Green José Quiñones Gonzáles Machu Picchu
2014 Dark Green José Quiñones Gonzáles Machu Picchu [1]
20 soles 1991 Orange Raúl Porras Barrenechea Interior of Torre Tagle Palace, seat of Peru's Ministry of Foreign Relations
2011 Orange Raúl Porras Barrenechea Huaca del Dragón, incorrectly named as Chan Chan [2]
50 soles 1991 Brown Abraham Valdelomar Oasis of Huacachina, Ica
2011 Brown Abraham Valdelomar New temple of Chavin de Huantar (Huaraz) [3]
100 soles 1992 Blue Jorge Basadre National Library of Peru
2011 Blue Jorge Basadre Great Pajaten [4]
200 soles 1995 Pink Rose of Lima Convent of Santo Domingo, Lima
2011 Gray Rose of Lima Sacred City of Caral-Supe [5]
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^ "6 Percent GDP Growth And The Lowest Inflation Rate In Latin America: Peru In 2014". International Business Times. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
^ "La moneda peruana tiene un nuevo símbolo: desde ayer es S/ no S/. según BCR". La Republica. January 6, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2016.
^ "Moneda peruana cambiará de nombre de "nuevo sol" a "sol"". El Comercio de Perú. November 13, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ "Desde ayer la moneda peruana se llama "Sol"". El Comercio de Perú. December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
^ San José State University Department of Economics, The economic history and the economy of Peru. Retrieved on July 11, 2007.
^ a b c (in Spanish) Law No. 25.295, Unidad Monetaria Nuevo Sol, January 3, 1991
^ (in Spanish) Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Inflation Report, May 2007, Central Reserve Bank of Peru Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on July 11, 2007
^ "Peru's nuevo sol is the most stable currency in region". Peru This Week. July 2, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2014.
^ (in Spanish) Circular letter No. 021–2005-BCRP, December 7, 2005, Central Reserve Bank of Peru
^ World coin news Wednesday, August 29, 2007 http://worldcoinnews.blogspot.com/2007/08/peru-5-centimos-2007-aluminium.html#comments
^ (in Spanish) Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Cono Monetario. Retrieved on July 14, 2007.
^ (in Spanish) Circular letter N°028-97-EF/90, August 26, 1997, Central Reserve Bank of Peru
^ (in Spanish) Banco Central de Reserva del Perú, Familia de Billetes. Retrieved on July 14, 2007.
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University of Toronto Faculty of Law
84 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S2C5, Canada
Phone: 416.978.0213 | Website: www.law.utoronto.ca
The Faculty of Law is one of the oldest professional faculties at the University of Toronto, with a long and illustrious history. The law school took on its modern form under the leadership of Cecil Wright in 1949, building on the foundations of the law school established at the University of Toronto in 1887.
Today, it is one of the world’s great law schools, a dynamic academic and social community with 57 full-time faculty members and 25 distinguished short-term visiting professors from the world’s leading law schools, as well as 500 JD and graduate students.
The Faculty’s rich academic programs are supplemented by its many legal clinics and public interest programs, and its close links to the Faculty’s more than 6,000 alumni, who enjoy rewarding careers in every sector of Canadian society and remain involved in many aspects of life at the law school.
Housed in two beautiful, historic buildings and a state-of-the-art facility, the Faculty features modern amenities, including the renowned, high-technology Bora Laskin Law Library.
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada’s largest city, the law school is near a wide variety of attractions, including the Royal Ontario Museum, which is next door.
Why U of T?
Our Faculty is internationally recognized for academic excellence.
Our students are exposed to some of the world’s finest doctrinal and theoretical scholars in public and private law.
Our students are sought after by prominent law firms, nationally and internationally, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and leading graduate law schools.
Our law school distributes over $2 million in financial aid each year.
Our graduating classes typically enjoy the highest rates of employment of all Ontario law schools.
Linkages with other U of T faculties, other universities, and leading members of the bar and bench provide a diverse interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research.
Our law school has a strong and unwavering commitment to public service and leadership through numerous programs and activities.
Our student body is comprised of extraordinary individuals representing a myriad of backgrounds, interests, and accomplishments.
We are located in downtown Toronto—the heart of one of the world’s most multicultural and interesting cities.
Approximately 600 students are enrolled at the Faculty, including
515 JD students;
50–70 LLM students;
approximately 35 SJD students (6 to 10 entering per year); and
an international student body from North and South America, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and the former Soviet Republic.
Over 50 full-time faculty, 60 adjunct faculty, and 15–25 distinguished visiting faculty.
Dean: Ed Iacobucci
Associate Dean, Research: Karen Knop
Associate Dean, JD Students: Kerry Rittich
Associate Dean, Graduate Program: Mariana Mota Prado
Housed in two historic buildings—Flavelle House and Falconer Hall—and the new Jackman Law Building, the law school is located on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto, close to the heart of the city.
Both the Flavelle House and Falconer Hall were private homes in the early 1900s, and offer students an architecturally inspiring environment for their studies. In recent years, major renovations have equipped the historic houses with leading-edge technology. Students enjoy Internet connections for laptops and Internet-based conferencing technology that allows interaction with guest lecturers, legal experts, faculty, and other students and schools around the world.
The Jackman Law Building provides a new, state-of-the-art facility to house the Faculty of Law. The new building features classrooms, offices, study spaces, and the Bora Laskin Library, which provides a comfortable, modern environment where students can access rich legal resources and related materials. The library currently offers more than 265,000 volumes and strives to support law studies with the highest quality legal resources, services, and training. Its collection includes legal materials from the major common law countries and more than 700 scholarly periodicals from around the world, as well as subscriptions to leading law CD-ROMs and online systems such as Quicklaw, Westlaw, and LexisNexis.
There is a variety of accommodations available both on and off campus for students coming to Toronto independently or with their families. Housing options include the university residences, independent residences, student-family housing, and off-campus housing.
Demand for residence is very high and law students are advised to apply for residence as soon as possible.
Graduate House
Visit the Graduate House website for all information about the residence, including its exact location, types of accommodation, amenities, fees, and the application process.
Priority for rooms in the Graduate House is given to first-year students from outside southern Ontario whose opportunities to locate suitable housing in Toronto prior to September were limited. Within this priority, preference is given to students who have shown financial need.
University of Toronto Student Housing Services
Please visit University of Toronto’s Housing Services for information such as
the undergraduate residences on campus that accept applications from law students (be advised that space in residence cannot be assured, as priority is given to undergraduate students);
the university’s family housing apartments;
independent residences located near the law school; and
other off-campus housing options, including summer and temporary housing.
The Housing Service now includes a registry of off-campus housing.
LLM Programs/Areas of Specialization
Our graduate program consistently produces superb scholars with a remarkable breadth of interests. Their graduate studies at the University of Toronto enable them to find rich and intellectually stimulating careers in teaching, research, policy, and practice around the world.
Excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary scholarship, including research centres in innovation law and health law, as well as many collaborative programs.
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law offers the following law degrees:
Combined-degree programs—JD/MA or JD/PhD
Master of Studies in Law (MSL)
Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM)
Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD)
Coursework-Intensive LLM
The coursework-intensive format is aimed at law students who wish to specialize in a specific area of law (particularly in one of the Law Faculty’s several strengths), to develop an understanding of North American legal processes and laws, or to explore the common law at an advanced level.
Graduates of the coursework-intensive LLM have pursued further graduate legal education (through a doctoral program), entered directly into a university position, or resumed practice with private firms, government agencies, and nongovernmental organizations.
The coursework-intensive LLM is usually undertaken on a full-time basis, from September to August. In exceptional cases, with the permission of the associate dean, students may apply to complete the program on a part-time basis.
Students can customize an area of focus in the coursework-intensive LLM through their course selections and thesis topic. In the past, students have studied in areas like constitutional law, international law, law and economics, and legal theory.
Students must
remain in residence in Toronto for two academic terms (September to April) and
complete 28 credit hours of coursework, including the mandatory LLM seminar.
Graduate students choose their other courses from the wide variety available in the JD program, which are posted online in the summer. Graduate students are expected to choose upper-level and seminar courses. Only in exceptional cases will students be permitted to select basic courses or courses from the first-year JD program. NCA courses are not included in the LLM curriculum, so please consider the GPLLM program if you are looking to requalify.
Thesis-Intensive LLM
The thesis-intensive LLM offers law graduates the opportunity to demonstrate advanced legal scholarship through the writing of a dissertation of significant length. Graduates of the thesis-intensive LLM program often pursue further graduate legal studies (through a doctoral program) or seek positions in the academy or in policy development.
The full-time LLM is designed as a 12-month program commencing in September, involving a course of studies and a thesis which, combined, are valued at 24 credit hours. Students in the thesis-intensive LLM program can design a program in almost any area of law and legal theory that will meet that student’s interests and needs.
All thesis-intensive LLM candidates participate in the graduate seminar, Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship, as well as the LLM seminar with other graduate students. Those seminars are designed to expose students to various approaches to legal scholarship, including law and philosophy, law and economics, feminism and the law, legal history, law and society, analytical jurisprudence, and critical legal theory.
remain in residence in Toronto for two academic terms (September to April);
complete 8–20 credit hours of coursework, including the mandatory graduate seminar, Alternative Approaches to Legal Scholarship, and the LLM seminar; and
write a 4–16-credit thesis (approximately 15,000–45,000 words) under the supervision of a graduate faculty member.
Graduate students choose their other courses from those available in the JD program, which are posted online in the summer. Graduate students are expected to choose upper-year courses and seminars. Only in exceptional cases will students be permitted to select basic courses or courses from the first-year JD program. NCA courses are not included in the LLM curriculum, so please consider the GPLLM program if you’re looking to requalify.
Global Professional Master of Laws
The Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM) is a 12-month executive-style master of laws offered during evenings and weekends and taught by a winning combination of leading legal experts and renowned full-time faculty. The GPLLM combines the best of U of T’s reputation for academic excellence with the pragmatic real-world expertise that is the gold standard in today’s competitive business environment.
What is the GPLLM?
The GPLLM provides an intensive experience like no other. Focused on Canadian business law from a global perspective, the Global Professional Master of Laws (GPLLM) challenges lawyers, business leaders, professionals of all sorts, and policymakers to think differently about the legal issues and framework with which they deal. Students examine the impact of globalization on laws, legal institutions, and markets from a broad, multidisciplinary, and comparative legal perspective. Through examples, case studies, debates, and deconstruction of actual business deals, you’ll gain hands-on practical knowledge, and a robust understanding of the constructs of Canadian business law—and emerge a valued leader for your organization.
Equipped with a GPLLM, graduates add immediate value to their clients, businesses, organizations, and agencies. The program prepares its participants to dissect and ask the right questions when dealing with complex global legal issues and transactions. In collaboration with local and foreign counsel, auditors, and other parties, they are able to effectively identify the issues and challenges arising from the globalized business environment.
Top legal minds from the U of T Faculty of Law teach alongside adjunct faculty who are leading experts from Canadian and global law firms, businesses, and institutions. Dean Edward Iacobucci and an additional 8–10 of our full-time faculty teach in the program, including Professors Michael Trebilcock, Ben Alarie, Anita Anand, Tony Duggan, Mohammed Fadel, and David Schneiderman. Adjunct and international faculty from other universities and the business world are listed on our website.
All students take Law and Business in a Global Economy, which is a mandatory foundational course.
Students must choose one course from each of the following groups (which are offered through a combination of evening classes and weekend modules):
Comparative Corporate Governance
Canadian Administrative Law
Anti-Corruption Law: International, Domestic, and Practical Perspectives
Securities Regulation and Corporate Finance
Canadian Constitutional Law
Canadian Criminal Law
Canadian and Cross-Border Issues in Corporate Tax
Commercial Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
GPLLM students must also choose three seminar courses from the following options (each of which is offered as two-day weekend intensives):
Law and Policy of Public-Private Partnerships
Economic and Social Regulation & Competition Law
Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics, and the Law
International Insolvency Law
Finally, students may choose one course from each grouping below (which are offered as three-day weekend courses):
Foundations of Canadian Law
Additional elective courses will be offered in future years.
What You’ll Take—and Take Away
A Master of Laws degree from Canada’s top law school and one of the world’s great law schools.
A unique, dynamic learning environment led by leading legal experts.
Professionals from different backgrounds, industries, experiences, and perspectives.
An extensive alumni network—for life.
An ability to distinguish yourself professionally.
A unique combination of legal and business expertise that will change the way you think and enable you to develop your leadership skills.
Analytical reasoning and insights that will boost your credibility and understanding, and put you a step ahead of your colleagues.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can fit into your life and work.
This is important.Please Note
An LLM does not qualify foreign-trained candidates to practice law in Ontario.
Students manage a remarkable range of organizations and activities at the Faculty of Law. Students also benefit from numerous services provided by the Faculty and the university. Organizations and activities include:
Aboriginal Law Students’ Association
The Advocates’ Circle
Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS)
Black Law Students’ Association
Christian Law Students’ Association
Criminal Law Students’ Association
East Asian Law Students Association
Environmental Law Club
Health Law Club
International Law Society
JD/MBA Students’ Association
Jewish Law Students’ Association
Law Ball
Law Follies
Law Games
The LIFT Project
Mandate for Public Interest Law
Muslim Law Students’ Association
Out in Law
Senators Club
South Asian Law Students’ Association
Sports and Entertainment Law Society
Technology and Intellectual Property Club
Ultra Vires
Women and the Law
Graduate Law Students Association
The Graduate Law Students Association (GLSA) represents all students enrolled in the Graduate Programme at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The object of the GLSA is to assist graduate students in their dealings with the Faculty and to obtain representation for students on various committees and organizations that pertain to the graduate law programme. The GLSA strives to encourage and facilitate cooperation and understanding among students and faculty in order to improve the research activities and educational experiences of all graduate law students at the University of Toronto.
Other Programs of Special Interest
Capital Markets Institute
Centre for Innovation Law and Policy
Distinguished Visiting Professors Program
Health Law and Policy Group
International Human Rights Program
Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS)
Pro Bono Students Canada
Workshops: Feminism and the Law; Diversity; Legal Theory; Constitutional Roundtable; Health Law and Society; Law and Economics; and Globalization, Law, and Justice
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Stormtroopers, singing 'Cats' and the March sisters : There's no place like Hollywood for the holidays
By Al Alexander/For The Patriot Ledger
Dec 1, 2019 at 5:12 AM Dec 1, 2019 at 10:29 AM
Naughty or nice, everyone gets a gift from Hollywood during the holiday movie season.
Even after all that turkey Thursday, Hollywood is counting on you leaving room for its end-of-the-year desserts, baked to a golden-Oscar hue. But should you bite? Like pumpkin pie, sometimes movies don’t prove as appetizing as they look. That’s why I’m here to help you separate the nutritious from the wasted calories.
The key is that it’s all about taste, your taste in particular. You may savor dining on a large Wookiee while others may crave a feast of diminutive ladies. Hollywood, specifically Disney, knows this and has planned accordingly by offering “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” (Dec. 20) for those who like to eat big and the Boston-shot “Little Women” (Dec. 25) for the daintier among us. Either way, you’re unlikely to lose. Those are the sure things from J.J. Abrams and Greta Gerwig. But there’s lots more out there that’s not so definitive.
Take “Cats” (Dec. 20) - PLEASE!! Ever since the trailer for Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical debuted last summer, social media has gone wild hissing at the film and how ridiculous (and creepy) its cavalcade of stars (Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Taylor Swift, James Cordon, Rebel Wilson) look in their feline garb. Me-ouch! I know what you’re thinking: “Hooper also directed the equally maligned “Les Miserables” (Russell Crowe sings?), this can’t help but be better, right?” We shall see, but be prepared to cough up some fur.
More attuned to the celebration of Christmas is “The Two Popes” (Dec. 6), Fernando (“City of God”) Meirelles’ fact-based chronicle of the time Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) summoned his harshest critic, the future Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce), to the Vatican for a chat that would lead to major changes in the traditions and perceptions of the Catholic Church. Can you expect great acting? Amen!
Recent history is also the inspiration for Clint Eastwood’s retelling of the incredibly sad tale of “Richard Jewell” (Dec. 13), the portly security guard who went from national hero to wrongly accused villain in a matter of days after a bomb exploded on a crowded plaza at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Coincidentally, that debacle was around the same time an even more portly fellow named Roger Ailes (John Lithgow) devised the idea of creating a little cable network called Fox News. He - and it - became a huge success, but as Jay Roach’s satirical “Bombshell” (Dec. 20) reveals, not all was rosy, as it was later revealed that Ailes was a rampant sexual harasser according to his chief accusers, Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman).
If you like your history a tad more ancient, check out Sam Mendes’ World War I thriller “1917,” about two peach-fuzzed soldiers sneaking behind enemy lines in an attempt to stop a potential massacre; or Tom Harper’s “The Aeronauts” (Dec. 6), the “Wild Rose” (excellent) director’s retelling of the historic flight of balloonist Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones), who in 1862 reached record-breaking altitudes with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) by her side.
Both of those flicks promise to be Oscar contenders, as do films from the old guard - Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” Dec. 20), the tense story of a Nazi resister - and the new - Josh and Bennie Safdie’s “Uncut Gems” (Dec. 25), a crime comedy not unlike their 2017 nugget “Good Time” in which a scheming Brooklyn jeweler (an Oscar-worthy Adam Sandler) who in 2012 makes a shady deal involving Boston Celtics’ star Kevin Garnett that doesn’t go exactly as planned.
And might a nomination be in the cards for Emily Beecham, the winner of the Best Actress prize at May’s Cannes Film Festival for her masterful turn as a mother whose invention of a “miracle plant” comes back to haunt her in Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe” (Dec. 6)? Movies that we know won’t be on the Red Carpet on Feb. 9 include a trio of popcorn flicks promising to appease those in search of less serious fare.
First up is Jake Kasdan’s newest “Jumanji” entry, “The Next Level” (Dec. 13), in which The Rock and company return to the realm of virtual reality to perform yet another rescue. Hoping to provide some box-office competition for that behemoth on Dec. 13 is the cheeky horror flick “Black Christmas,” about a group of sorority women turning the tables on a serial killer. Rounding out the season is the animated “Spies in Disguise” (Dec. 25), a buddy comedy in which Will Smith’s voice does his “Men in Black” thing as a superspy hooking up with his antithesis, a brilliant but nerdy, awkward wannabe inventor (“Spider-Man” Tom Holland), to save the world from an evil menace.
And the offerings don’t end there. A couple of potential Oscar contenders in France’s “Les Miserable” and Brazil’s “Invisible Life” are slated for a January release. And surely, a few more stragglers will pop up in the coming weeks, but by then, you’ll already have had plenty to digest. Just remember to consume moderately and don’t forget the antacids. Merry Christmas!
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'Deadpool' and Ryan Reynolds Have Trolled Their Way Through an Entire Marketing Campaign
There were never any doubts that Ryan Reynolds would be the titular character in Deadpool — the pairing was in the cards for over a decade. Yet the execution of the movie was painstakingly slow. After 12 years, defying the odds, it's almost here.
The ever-talkative mercenary's movie will hit screens Feb. 12. Ahead of the release, Reynolds and the Deadpool team have taken part in a highly creative, troll-filled marketing campaign. The raunchy campaign is spot-on with the comic book character's wacky persona, which guarantees the movie will be a wild ride. In that way, the marketing serves as a prologue to the film itself — and should have fans salivating for the final product.
Increasingly ridiculous posters: From the first reveal of the Merc With a Mouth, 20th Century Fox didn't hold back. The posters grew increasingly suggestive, each designed like the character was making them for his own narcissistic joy. It's tough to not make them look like studio creations, but Fox brought the right sense of mischief to each.
How Deadpool spent Halloween: To celebrate Halloween in a special featurette, Deadpool joined a group of children dressed as X-Men characters and trained them for the evening. This included giving them weapons, cursing in their face and telling them their powers suck. Oh, and he was probably drunk the whole time. It was a learning experience for everyone, really.
A trailer ... for his trailer: Sure enough, the studio released a trailer for the upcoming trailer. As the movie's Twitter account noted at the time, he's quite the "post-modern asshole."
A Christmas countdown: In honor of the holiday season, fans were treated to "12 Days of Deadpool," a social campaign that culminated with a new Deadpool trailer on Christmas Day. Posters, script notes and even a set of Deadpool-themed emojis were unveiled before the new, "even more" NSFW trailer was released.
Insulting Australia and Hugh Jackman: To honor the Aussies on their national day, Reynolds recorded a special message for the people down under. By honor, we mean he mocked the Aussie accent, their "condescension toward New Zealand" and the country's national treasure: Hugh Jackman. It's hard to argue with Deadpool, though: X-Men: Origins was a career low for everyone.
Testicular cancer PSA: It's really important for men to check their testicles regularly — or, as Deadpool puts it, our "smooth criminals." While the video is hilarious, it does touch on a very real issue. As even the most absurd character, Reynolds gives a thorough description of how to properly check for testicular problems, and when you should talk to your doctor. It's proof even men's health can be shockingly funny.
Deadpool is the perfect Valentine's Day rom-com. Wait, what? Is there any way you can convince your significant other to watch Deadpool over Valentine's Day weekend? If they've seen the trailer, probably not. However, the marketing team is hellbent on helping you trick the people closest to you. In a set of Valentine's Day-themed posters, the studio implies that Deadpool is really a light-hearted romantic comedy about true love. If the film's tone is anything close to the eccentric marketing campaign — and there's no reason to think it won't — Deadpool won't disappoint.
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70 years of Nakba: Why can’t Palestinians walk home?
Kamel Hawwash
Published date: 18 May 2018 14:01 UTC | Last update: 1 year 8 months ago
All who are interested in peace in historic Palestine must remember that we did not choose our occupiers; they chose Palestine, knowing it was not an empty land, and we paid with our lives and rights
I would not be writing these words today if Israel had not been created in my homeland, Palestine, against the will of indigenous Palestinians. I might instead be writing to celebrate the independence of a democratic Palestine in which indigenous Jews, Christians and Muslims lived as equals, building the country together after the end of the British Mandate. Palestine would be a full member of the United Nations; it might even have been allowed to enter the Eurovision song contest and won.
Had Israel been created in Wales instead, against the will of Welsh people, I might be writing in solidarity as they commemorated their trychineb (the Welsh word for "catastrophe"). Thankfully for the great Welsh people, they were spared the creation of Israel in their homeland and the expulsion of their people to neighbouring countries.
Atrocious massacres
Palestinians are again in mourning, commemorating 70 years since their catastrophe, which resulted from the creation of Israel in their homeland. They are still seeking their legitimate rights, principally their right to return home.
Many words will be written about what happened in the lead-up to, and during, the Nakba. Those seeking to justify Zionist crimes will argue that it was the victims’ fault for fleeing their homeland, rather than the reality that they were driven out, many at gunpoint, seeking refuge from Zionist Jewish terror. Yes, it was Zionist Jewish terror that deliberately drove Palestinians away from Jerusalem, Yaffa, Haifa and Akka, along with villages such as Deir Yassin and Qibya, the scenes of atrocious massacres by Zionist terrorists.
Israel continues to deny the Nakba, has legislated to punish those who commemorate it, and has denied Palestinians their rights, including the right of return
Palestinians are not the first or only people to flee for their lives. You need only look at Syrians today to see what human beings do in order to survive and to ensure the safety of their children. They take whatever possessions they can carry and run, but always with the expectation to return once the violence ends.
Nobody would deny the Syrian people their absolute right to return to the homes they left, and if they were destroyed, they would be helped to rebuild them. The outcome of what happened in 1947-48 was a catastrophe, which non-Palestinians could only truly understand if it happened to them.
Denying the Nakba
The population of my city of residence, Birmingham, is 1.1 million - almost that of the entire Palestinian population that inhabited historic Palestine in 1948. I can imagine the catastrophe that Brummies (what residents of Birmingham are lovingly called) would have felt had more than half of that population been terrorised into leaving their beloved city, with most never being allowed to return, as their homes were handed over to non-Brummies. Their lives in Birmingham would have become memories overnight, while the trauma of their dispossession would have been carried through generations.
I have no doubt that Mancunians, Geordies, Liverpudlians and Londoners would have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Brummies until they were allowed to return, welcoming them into their homes as they sought refuge from their tormenters.
Israeli security forces stand guard during a protest organised by Palestinians on 10 May 2018 (AFP)
This analogy can be applied to any group of people expelled by another group. However, what is different here is that the wrong committed by Zionism, and then by Israel, has never been righted. Israel continues to deny the Nakba, has legislated to punish those who commemorate it, and has denied Palestinians their rights, including the right of return.
Israel has neither given all who live between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea equal rights, nor accepted the creation of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders to end its occupation, considered illegal under international law. In fact, it denies there is an occupation in any part of historic Palestine.
Israel has annexed territories it occupies illegally, including East Jerusalem, and has sought recognition of the whole of the holy city as its capital, rather than accepting that it could be the capital of Israel and Palestine. It continues to build illegally in the occupied territories and is considering legalising outposts it has thus far considered illegal.
Demonising Palestinians
Israel has continued its siege on Gaza, now in its 11th year. It controls all access to historic Palestine, including access to the occupied territories, and has implemented a policy to deny entry to human rights activists and campaigners who have supported the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Having failed to silence criticism of its policies, it has cynically sought to conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Most significantly, perhaps, Israel has sought to demonise Palestinians. It portrays us as a lesser people, with violence as part of our DNA - a bunch of terrorists with limited intelligence. That, to me, is the most abhorrent of all the abhorrent actions Israel has taken against us since its creation.
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What is troubling is that supposedly civilised westerners who claim they fight for equality and human rights, including those holding the highest offices of state, have adopted this narrative, or at least continue to support Israel despite the facts that are there for all to see.
While people across the globe sympathise with Palestinians and understand Israel’s crimes, the political elite refuse to represent their citizens and continue to support Israel when, had its actions been committed against their own citizens or against Jews, they would not rest until it was punished.
How can anyone explain to Palestinians the stance of the US in recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s, but not Palestine’s, capital? How can western leaders support Israel’s claim to self-defence when it kills and maims thousands of Palestinians in major wars against Gaza, or the daily trickle of killings in the West Bank?
International silence
The world’s silence as Israeli snipers used sophisticated weapons, including some supplied by the West, to pick off Palestinian civilians one by one as they marched to return home through the Gaza border has been deafening. The silence in the face of the deaths and injuries of medics and journalists has been particularly galling.
I remind all who are interested in peace in historic Palestine that we did not choose our occupiers. They chose Palestine, knowing it was not an empty land, but one that had a people - my people, Palestinians who have paid with their land, lives and rights.
The families that hailed from Najd would walk home, given a chance to do so, as would the families hailing from dozens of other ethnically cleansed villages in the Gaza district
Seventy years after the Nakba, Palestinians decided they could not wait any longer. Enough is enough. It was time to go home, and that was the reason for the Great Return March. If the refugees did go home, Gaza would no longer be the most densely populated place on earth; its population of two million would fall to 400,000, as 80 percent of its residents are refugees from other parts of historic Palestine.
They would not need large sums of money to be repatriated. They could simply walk to the homes from which they were expelled in 1948.
The Palestinians want to return in a climate of peace. It is in their interest and would be in compliance with UN Resolution 194. The existing residents would also need help to accept justice and 194. In most cases the houses were demolished and other houses built on their site. Clearly, negotiations would need to take place to find a long term resolution that both sides agree to.
Take the example of Najd, a village just 14km north of Gaza City, whose population of 700 Palestinians was expelled in May 1948 by the Negev Brigade. Its inhabitants fled to Gaza. On its land, the Israelis built Sderot, a town that now has a population of 24,000.
Israeli officials take foreign dignitaries to show them the remains of "rockets" fired from Gaza that landed in or around the town, but they do not mention that they are actually standing on land that was once Najd, before it was ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.
The families that hailed from Najd would walk home, given a chance to do so, as would the families hailing from dozens of other ethnically cleansed villages in the Gaza district such as Arab Suqrir, Barbara, Barqa, al-Batani al-Gharbi, al-Batani al-Sharqi, Bayt Daras, Bayt 'Affa, Bayt Jirja, Bayt Tima, Bil'in, Burayr, Dayr Sunayd, Dimra and al-Faluja, to name a few.
- Kamel Hawwash is a British-Palestinian engineering professor based at the University of Birmingham and a long-standing campaigner for justice, especially for the Palestinian people. He is vice chair of the British Palestinian Policy Council (BPPC) and a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). He appears regularly in the media as a commentator on Middle East issues. He runs a blog at www.kamelhawwash.com and tweets at @kamelhawwash. He writes here in a personal capacity.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Photo: A girl raises a Palestinian flag as a boy holds a wooden key symbolising return at the Gaza border on 13 May 2018, during a demonstration commemorating the Nakba (AFP)
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Middletown arrests
Published 12:00 am EDT, Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Middletown police reported the following arrests:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT - Gregory K. McCoy, 35, 54 Forest Hills Road, West Haven, was charged with disorderly conduct on Oct. 1. He was released on a promise to appear in Middletown Superior Court Oct. 3.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT - Jonathan Peterson, 35, 65 Durant St., was charged with disorderly conduct on Oct. 2. Bond was set at $15,000 and he is scheduled to appear in Middletown Superior Court Oct. 3.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT - Douglas Holland, 37, 65 Durant St., was charged with disorderly conduct on Oct. 2. Bond was set at $15,000 and he is scheduled to appear in Middletown Superior Court Oct. 3.
INTERFERING - Jamie L. Maltese, 29, 2 Countryside Lane, was charged with interfering with an officer, disorderly conduct and failure to comply with fingerprinting on Oct. 1. Bond was set at $5,000 and she is scheduled to appear in Middletown Superior Court at a later date.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT - Christopher Loosemoore, 27, no known address, was charged with disorderly conduct on Sept. 30. He was released on $10,000 bond and scheduled to appear in Middletown Superior Court Oct. 3.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT - James Zanavich, 48, 154 Pheasant St., was charged with disorderly conduct on Oct. 1. He is scheduled to appear in Middletown Superior Court Oct. 3.
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Shirley Collins is a renowned folk singer. She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album Lodestar, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after a thirty-year absence. She is the author of All in the Downs: Reflections on Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song (Strange Attractor).
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Winner of the 2019 Penderyn Music Book Prize
America Over the Water, Revised And Expanded Edition
A Historic Journey into the Cultural Roots of Traditional American Music
Shirley Collins 2020
The chronicle of a year spent discovering the traditional musicians of the American South, including Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others.
In America Over the Water, celebrated English folksinger Shirley Collins offers an affecting account of her year-long stint as assistant to legendary musical historian and folklorist Alan Lomax. Collins describes a journey both emotional and musical, as she and Lomax work tirelessly to uncover the traditional music of the American South. Together, they traveled to Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Georgia, encountering Mississippi Fred McDowell, Muddy Waters, and many others.
Collins first met Lomax at a party hosted by English folksinger Ewan MacColl (who later married Peggy Seeger, half-sister of American folksinger and activist Pete Seeger). Collins's chronicle of her year with Lomax, with whom she became romantically involved, recounts the discovery of a world of beauty and dignity in the face of deprivation and prejudice among America's traditional folk and blues musicians.
All in the Downs
Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song
A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians.
A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, All in the Downs, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life. All in the Downs combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016. Through it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. All in the Downs pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.
Generously illustrated with rare archival material.
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‘Marvel’s Daredevil’ Showrunner and a ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Alum Offer Tips for Aspiring TV Writers
At San Diego Comic-Con, Erik Oleson and Monica Breen joined a panel discussing the dos and don’ts of TV writing.
At San Diego Comic-Con Friday, Erik Oleson, Executive Producer and Showrunner of the upcoming “Marvel’s Daredevil” Season 3, and former “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Co-Executive Producer Monica Breen took part in an in-depth Intro to TV Writing panel, alongside fellow writers Amy Berg, and Keto Shimizu, NBC executive Karen Horne, and moderator Spiro Skentzos.
The panelists offered any aspiring writers in the room – and a show of hands revealed there were many! – plenty of advice, including how to best approach writing a spec script of an existing show.
Breen noted that she and her former writing partner, “Didn’t set out to do it, but we would make people cry [with our spec scripts],” recalling the emotional scripts they wrote that she laughed got reactions like, “That story just stuck in my head and it bummed me out!”
Breen noted, “If you make me cry or bust a gut in the first 10 pages, I will keep reading.
If the story breaks my heart at the end, you will get a meeting,” stressing you want to do something different and something that will make the reader stick with the script. She added, “I can’t stress this enough, because people have these piles [of scripts] in front of them to read...
Make the first 10 pages rock your world! You don’t want to give anyone a reason to say, ‘I’m going to move onto the next one.’ You’re dealing with people who are really overwhelmed and need a reason to move forward. Even if page 50 is awesome, you’re not going to get to page 50, because you have 200 more to read!”
Oleson said a common mistake is writing without telling the story from the perspective of the characters – or neglecting “deep point of view,” as he referred to it -- remarking, “Even if you have a show like ‘Game of Thrones,’ you are going through those characters’ shoes living those scenes before you cut to another storyline where you’re in those characters shoes.” As Oleson put it, “the god-eye view is a barrier” – and can hurt the performance of the cast.
“Deep point of view leads to actors who know why their character is doing what they’re doing,” Oleson said. On the flip side, he explained that if he gets a phone call from an actor asking, “Why is my character doing this?”, it’s probably because in the script, the character are “Doing what the writer wants them to do, vs. what the character would want to do. I throw out about 90% of scripts because it’s not a deep point of view.”
Everyone on the panel agreed that another important component for a TV writer is working well with others, given the collaborative nature of a writer’s room. As Oleson put it, “You can’t be an artist who goes off on your own. It is a team approach.”
Said Breen, “We want you in a room for 12 hours a day, for weeks at a time. We actually need to know we can hang out with you!” She recalled when she was starting out, she would wear uncharacteristic business attire to meetings, but now, “I don’t have a meeting wardrobe, I just have a wardrobe. You can just be you.” That being said, she cautioned, “There are jobs you won’t get because it’s not the right fit. It’s really subjective. This is a relationship. You force a group of people to sit in a room together for a year, endlessly!”
Oleson said that it was natural to be nervous interviewing for a TV writing job, remarking, “I know that. I’m not going to hold it against you,” but that the important thing was, “Come in with ideas and with the flexibility to build on ideas.”
In a TV series writer’s room, the Staff Writer is the lowest rung for those starting out, but Oleson said that doesn’t matter to hjim because, “The ideas are king.”
Elaborating on his approach, he explained, “[For] Marvel’s Daredevil” Season 3, I wanted to make it clear that my writer’s room was non-hierarchical. On the first episode, we had the Staff Writer re-write one of my sequences - and we shot what she did. If her writing was better than mine, we’re doing that. And guess what? It was!”
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Awards season nearly always produces a fantastic war film or two. The past decade alone has seen the likes of Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge, Bridge of Spies, The Imitation Game, American Sniper, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln nominated for best picture at the Oscars. It's now 2020, and audiences have been gifted one of the best yet: 1917. The film is a technical masterpiece with a story for the ages. Directed by Sam Mendes - who's debut film American Beauty picked up the best picture Oscar back in 1999 - 1917 follows two British soldiers stationed in France in World War I who must make a perilous trek against the clock to prevent 1600 soldiers from marching into a deadly trap. The pair, Lance Corporal Blake and Lance Corporal Schofield, are played by relative up-and-comers Dean-Charles Chapman (who played Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones) and George MacKay (whose previous work includes 11.22.63 and Where Hands Touch). The film is littered with cameos from other celebrated British actors, including Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden. The strong story and brilliant performances are reason enough to see 1917, but what's got all the film nerds talking is the way the movie has been constructed. Mendes has crafted his film to look like one long, unbroken shot. That means there's no visible cuts, no jumping back and forth between characters, no leaving the action for a moment to see what's going on just over there - nothing to remove you from exactly what is going on for these soldiers. The technical mastery needed to pull off something like this is mind-boggling - there's even a moment where they must escape the path of a crashing plane. There is nothing about 1917 that's not exceptional and it's not at all surprising that it picked up the best drama picture gong at the recent Golden Globes. It'll face tough competition from critically-acclaimed films Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Marriage Story and Joker, but 1917 has a strong shot at winning the Oscar.
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FILM REVIEW | 1917
Awards season nearly always produces a fantastic war film or two.
The past decade alone has seen the likes of Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge, Bridge of Spies, The Imitation Game, American Sniper, Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
It's now 2020, and audiences have been gifted one of the best yet: 1917.
The film is a technical masterpiece with a story for the ages.
Directed by Sam Mendes - who's debut film American Beauty picked up the best picture Oscar back in 1999 - 1917 follows two British soldiers stationed in France in World War I who must make a perilous trek against the clock to prevent 1600 soldiers from marching into a deadly trap.
The pair, Lance Corporal Blake and Lance Corporal Schofield, are played by relative up-and-comers Dean-Charles Chapman (who played Tommen Baratheon in Game of Thrones) and George MacKay (whose previous work includes 11.22.63 and Where Hands Touch).
The film is littered with cameos from other celebrated British actors, including Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden.
Incredible: Young up-and-coming actor George MacKay stars as Lance Corporal Schofield in Sam Mendes' immersive war film 1917, in cinemas now, rated MA15+.
The strong story and brilliant performances are reason enough to see 1917, but what's got all the film nerds talking is the way the movie has been constructed.
Mendes has crafted his film to look like one long, unbroken shot.
That means there's no visible cuts, no jumping back and forth between characters, no leaving the action for a moment to see what's going on just over there - nothing to remove you from exactly what is going on for these soldiers.
The technical mastery needed to pull off something like this is mind-boggling - there's even a moment where they must escape the path of a crashing plane.
There is nothing about 1917 that's not exceptional and it's not at all surprising that it picked up the best drama picture gong at the recent Golden Globes.
It'll face tough competition from critically-acclaimed films Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, Marriage Story and Joker, but 1917 has a strong shot at winning the Oscar.
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Mr. David’s Flooring International Partners With Jacksonville Jaguars In High School Make-Over Surprise
Englewood High School Sports Facility Receives New High-Performance Flooring
Chicago, IL – October 15, 2019 Mr. David’s Flooring International partnered with the Jacksonville Jaguars, in celebration of their 25th season and the 100th anniversary of the National Football League, to donate new sports facility flooring to Englewood High School as part of a full locker room makeover. In collaboration with the Jaguars and other project partners, Mr. David’s expert project consultants specified high-performance replacement floor products and the Mr. David’s on-staff hourly self-performing installation team, certified by school authorities for on-campus work, assured craftsman-level placement.
“Improving and upgrading the flooring was one of the most critical components of our makeover project for Englewood High School”, said Lori Windisch, Strategic Initiatives Project Manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars. “We’ve previously worked with Mr. David’s on other team projects and are grateful they were able to recommend and install flooring that would significantly improve the functional and aesthetic performance of the Englewood sports facility. They are true community partners.”
Mr. David’s is unique among commercial floor installers because its project consultants are not restricted to specific manufacturers or product lines. Mr. David’s consultants choose from the full industry array of flooring products to specify the best flooring solutions for the project. Additionally, Mr. David’s maintains on-staff installation teams of hourly, self-performing certified professionals. Most other installation companies recruit labor on per-project basis, which can result in inconsistent project experiences.
In the initial site assessment of Englewood High School’s sport facilities, Mr. David’s consultants found bare cement floors and badly damaged floor tiles throughout the locker room, bathroom and coaching offices. The upgrade project plan considered each room’s functional and aesthetic needs and specified rubber flooring for the locker room, porcelain tile for the bathrooms, and carpet tiles for the coaching staff offices.
“With the flooring upgrades, the student athletes and coaches will enjoy pro-team level functionality and appearance,” said Laura Dellbrugge, Jacksonville Branch Manager for Mr. David’s Flooring International. “The new rubber flooring will absorb impact and provide a better surface for cleats and other equipment. The porcelain bathroom tiles improve ease of cleaning and overall durability while carpet tiles in coaching offices create long-lasting comfort and performance.”
Mr. David’s Flooring International has delivered new floor project consulting and existing floor maintenance services to the Jacksonville Jaguars since 2018 and, with innovative technology-based project planning and management, is one of the leading flooring installation companies in the greater Florida region.
About Mr. David’s Flooring International
Mr. David’s (https://mrdavids.com), is a leader in full-service commercial contract flooring installation, logistics services, and supplier of carpet resilient, wood & laminate, tile and stone, and appearance retention services. Founded in 1972, Mr. David’s Flooring International has completed over $1B in customer contracts through 16 U.S. locations and nearly 1,000 employees. Mr. David’s provides an industry-unique vertical integration that meets a customer’s full project requirement, from design specification, project management to distribution and installation.
Mr. David’s Flooring International and RD Weis Companies Enter into Strategic Partnership
Combined Resources Strengthen Established Commercial Flooring Leaders
Chicago, IL & Elmsford, NY – September 24, 2019 Mr. David’s Flooring International and RD Weis Companies today announce that, effective October 1, 2019, the companies will form an equity partnership to provide complete commercial flooring services to the greater New York region.The RD Weis management team will continue to operate under the RD Weis, CTS, and PASS brands in their current markets while transitioning to the Mr. David’s infrastructure and systems.
“Mr. David’s is excited to join with RD Weis Companies to deliver a new level of commercial flooring installation services and capabilities to the New York region,” said Leonard Zmijewski, CEO of Mr. David’s. “We have admired RD Weis for years and are very pleased to align our complementary strengths and resources.”
Evolving customer needs are creating change in how commercial flooring installation companies structure and deliver their services. Combining the complementary strengths and resources of Mr. David’s Flooring International with RD Weis Companies will create a unified team capable of leveraging advanced technology to deliver a superior commercial customer solution.
“We believe in today’s market, an organization must grow and become more competitive and more technologically-oriented to thrive in the future,” said Randy Weis, CEO of RD Weis Companies. “Mr. David’s and RD Weis are organizations committed to being industry leaders and to staying well in front of the pack for many years to come.”
This strategic partnership brings commercial project contractors, architects, and corporate developers greater access to a network of skilled installers, expertise in a broader range of commercial flooring materials and special performance conditions, and technology that deliver greater project efficiency and effectiveness.
About RD Weis Companies
Founded in 1990 by Randall D. Weis, RD Weis Companies is a full-service flooring provider specializing in environmentally safe flooring solutions for commercial interiors. As a member of StarNet®, the largest commercial carpet channel in the U.S., RD Weis Companies offers commercial clients and design professionals a broad range of floor covering products at the industry’s most competitive prices. Headquartered in Elmsford, NY, RD Weis serves the needs of the corporate, healthcare, hospitality, retail, governmental and educational markets nationally from seven locations throughout the northeastern U.S. Visit www.rdweis.com for more information on the company’s full range of products, services and activities.
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Mr. David’s Flooring International and Floors by Beckers Inc. Enter into Strategic Partnership
CHICAGO & MINNEAPOLIS — Mr. David’s and Beckers/ Floors by Beckers Inc. today announced the new equity partnership of Beckers/ Floors by Beckers and Mr. David’s, forming a strong, well-positioned enterprise serving the global commercial flooring community. The new equity partnership will continue operations under the leadership of John D. Becker (CEO) and William C. Becker (VP), and the founders of Mr. David’s Flooring International, David Zmijewski and Leonard Zmijewski (CEO).
Mr. David’s (MDFI) and Beckers are leading contract flooring providers in the commercial market specializing in serving general contractors, architects/designers, corporations and facilities managers. The companies serve key industries including healthcare, hospitality, education, government, public and private sector facilities. The partnership will enable Beckers to leverage the strengths of Mr. David’s leadership and resources and will continue to deliver on-time warrantied flooring craftsmanship, and long-term sustainability.
The award-winning companies will continue investing in digital service platforms, personnel, equipment and education. The partnership will allow the companies to realize significant regional growth by driving operational efficiencies and providing excellent service, technical and specification expertise, quality workmanship and service collaboration across the entire MDFI platform.
“We are very excited about our partnership and believe in the long-term growth potential this partnership promises,” said Mr. David’s CEO, Leonard Zmijewski. “We look forward to supporting the management team’s efforts to integrate the two businesses as we realize the full potential of the combined organization.”
“Beckers and MDFI both have a long, rich history of providing outstanding service and product to their customers,” said CEO, John Becker of Floors by Beckers. “Our future services will be further enhanced by the new partnership. Current and new customers alike, will benefit from our expanded footprint and strengthened service capabilities.”
Both companies are committed, long-standing members of the Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Co-op, the world’s largest network of Independent Commercial Floor covering service providers.
Mr. David’s Flooring International, LLC
Mr. David’s (https://mrdavids.com) was founded in 1972 by David and Leonard Zmijewski and is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois now has 12 locations across the US. Mr. David’s is a long-established Contract Flooring and Logistics Company spanning over 4 decades of full-service installation and supply of carpet resilient, wood & laminate, tile and stone, and appearance retention services. This global supplier has been dedicated to the philosophy of hands-on value creation through managing every aspect of a commercial flooring project for their customers. The unique vertical integration allows Mr. David’s to handle everything, from design specification, project management to distribution and installation.
Beckers/ Floors by Beckers Inc.
Beckers (https://beckerbrothers.com) was founded in 1959 by four brothers (Harold, Bill, Jim and Dick Becker) as a Flooring Installation workroom. Floors by Beckers was founded in 1994 as sales/ project management company. Beckers long history of service excellence, project management and value-based procurement is at the heart of their exceptional delivery system. Beckers Rugs & More department uniquely creates custom crafted walk off and specialty rugs to design specification. Beckers is headquartered in New Brighton, Minnesota. with a second office in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
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German Mobility Award for mobility app moovel
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Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas" honor moovel mobility app
moovel hailed as an archetype project for a mobile society
Awards ceremony at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
Stuttgart, October 20, 2016. The mobility app of Daimler subsidiary moovel Group GmbH won the German Mobility Award last night at an awards ceremony hosted by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. This makes moovel one of ten archetypal projects honored for its intelligent mobility solution. This was the first time the award has been presented.
"moovel is already shaping the mobility of the future today: the user-friendly app sets itself apart from similar products for its numerous features. For instance, it is even possible to use the app to make convenient payments". This was the reason why the competition jury chose moovel as the winner of the award from 350 entries. At a special awards event, Dorothee Bär, member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary for the Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, presented the award to Jörg Lamparter, moovel Group GmbH CEO. "With moovel, we offer the world's first mobility app that makes it possible to search for, book and pay for a variety of mobility services. moovel makes access to mobility much easier. We are very honored to receive the German Mobility Award for our moovel app."
The mobility app combines local public transport, car-sharing provider car2go, mytaxi, Taxi-Ruf, rental bicycles and Deutsche Bahn. With just a few clicks, users can search for and compare the transport options, and can book and pay for most services directly in the app. This makes moovel the world's first application to offer an integrated booking and payment function in the app.
About the German Mobility Award
With the German Mobility Award, the initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas" and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure make digital innovations and intelligent mobility solutions visible to the public. 350 startups, companies, associations and research institutions from across Germany applied with their projects in the field of intelligent mobility. A jury of
16 experts, led by Dorothee Bär, member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary for the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure, selected ten award-winning projects in the competition. You can find information about the award winners here.
Search for, book and pay for mobility with a single app
Multimodal mobility platforms such as moovel help make the designing of transport in cities easier and more sustainable. The moovel mobility app, which is free for iOS and Android devices, combines local public transport, the car-sharing provider car2go, rental bicycles, mytaxi, Taxi-Ruf, and Deutsche Bahn. Throughout Germany, car2go, mytaxi and Deutsche Bahn can directly and easily be booked and paid for via the moovel app. In Stuttgart and Hamburg, moovel also offers the booking and payment of local public transport tickets in the VVS and Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) directly in the app. As the first provider worldwide, moovel has created a true "one-stop-shop" for urban mobility in the two cities.
Further information ist available at: moovel.com/stuttgart.
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NBA postpones Nets-Lakers media sessions in Shanghai amid furor over GM’s tweet
By TIM REYNOLDS | October 9, 2019 at 5:24 AM EDT - Updated October 14 at 8:37 AM
(AP) - The NBA called off scheduled media sessions Wednesday for the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers in Shanghai, and it remains unclear if the teams will play in China this week as scheduled.
The teams were practicing in Shanghai, where at least two other NBA events in advance of the start of the China games were canceled as part of the ongoing rift that started after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey posted a tweet last week that showed support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.
"Given the fluidity of the situation, today's media availability has been postponed," the league said. By nightfall Wednesday in China, which is 12 hours ahead of Eastern time in the U.S., the availabilities had not been rescheduled — though having them on Thursday remains possible.
An NBA Cares event in Shanghai that was to benefit Special Olympics was called off, as was a "fan night" celebration that was to be highlighted by the league announcing plans to refurbish some outdoor courts in that city. And workers in multiple spots around Shanghai were tearing down large outdoor promotional advertisements for Thursday's Lakers-Nets game.
The teams are also supposed to play Saturday in Shenzhen. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver met with players from both the Nets and Lakers on Wednesday in Shanghai, telling them that the league's intention remains to play the games as scheduled.
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has joined the list of companies that have suspended — for now, at least — ties with the NBA, and that only adds to the uncertainty over whether the China games will be played. Vivo was a presenting sponsor of the Lakers-Nets games, and on Wednesday there was no reference to the game in Shanghai on the list of upcoming events scheduled at Mercedes-Benz Arena. Other firms such as apparel company Li-Ning announced similar moves earlier this week, as the rift was just beginning.
Silver said Tuesday in Tokyo that he supports Morey's right to free speech. Several Chinese companies have suspended their partnership with the NBA in recent days, and Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said it will not broadcast the Lakers-Nets games.
"I'm sympathetic to our interests here and to our partners who are upset," Silver said. "I don't think it's inconsistent on one hand to be sympathetic to them and at the same time stand by our principles."
All around China, stores that sell NBA merchandise were removing Rockets-related apparel from shelves and many murals featuring the Rockets — even ones with Yao Ming, the Chinese great who played for Houston during his NBA career — were being painted over.
Effects were even felt in at least one NBA arena Tuesday night.
In Philadelphia, where the 76ers were playing a Chinese team — the Guangzhou Loong Lions — two fans were removed by arena security for holding signs and chanting in support of Hong Kong. The signs read “Free Hong Kong” and “Free HK.” The sentiment was not different from Morey’s since-deleted tweet last week of an image that read, “Fight For Freedom. Stand With Hong Kong.”
The 76ers and Wells Fargo Center, the team's home arena, released statements Wednesday confirming that the fan removal took place and explaining why.
"During the second quarter of last night's 76ers game, Wells Fargo Center security responded to a situation that was disrupting the live event experience for our guests," the arena's statement said. "After three separate warnings, the two individuals were escorted out of the arena without incident. The security team employed respectful and standard operating procedures."
Meanwhile, Silver’s sentiments were also a talking point in Miami, where San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich spoke out in support of how the commissioner is handling the situation.
"And it wasn't easy for him to say," Popovich said. "He said that in an environment fraught with possible economic peril. But he sided with the principles that we all hold dearly, or most of us did until the last three years. So I'm thrilled with what he said."
Other NBA coaches have not been so willing to discuss the situation. Philadelphia's Brett Brown said he did not wish to get into specifics of the China-NBA rift, though he said he has been to that country many times and is always blown away by how popular the game is there.
"Just massive amounts of basketball courts and you're looking out and there's no available court," Brown said. "It's just people playing on a court. I took a (lower-level) Australian team to China and the story comes there was 400 million viewers watching not the true national team. You're just reminded of the popularity of the sport."
The NBA is not the first major corporation to deal with criticism from China over political differences. Mercedes-Benz, Delta Air Lines, hotel operator Marriott, fashion brand Zara and others also have found themselves in conflicts with China in recent years.
After Morey’s tweet was deleted, Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta said Morey does not speak for the organization. Joe Tsai, who recently completed his purchase of the Nets and is a co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has said the damage to the NBA’s relationship with China “will take a long time to repair.”
Reynolds reported from Miami. AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston in Philadelphia and Associated Press writer Yanan Wang in Beijing contributed to this report.
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“Die in” protest against Obamacare repeal in Vista, Calif., in March. (Reuters photo: Mike Blake)
The hyperbole relies on cherry-picked data and outright distortions.
Repealing Obamacare will kill 24,000 people a year! No, 36,000! No, 43,000! The tax cuts are blood money!
There is more than a little hyperbole about the overhaul of Obamacare proposed by the House and the Senate, and the rhetoric about tens of thousands of deaths is not a bad example. The numbers are inflated, the studies are cherry-picked, the uncertainties are ignored, the context is dismissed, the framework is laughably distorted.
No one really knows what effect health-insurance coverage has on overall health. You can’t just compare the health of insured people to that of uninsured people, since there is an enormous host of confounding variables. Some of these can be controlled for — the fact that the uninsured are poorer and younger, for instance — but many cannot be. It seems quite likely, for instance, that people who choose not to buy health insurance are in general less health-conscious than the rest of the population, that they are more willing to take risks, or that they have worse impulse control. All this seriously diminishes the utility of observational studies, which are the easiest types of studies to conduct.
Slightly better than observational studies are natural experiments, where some external factor determines, in this case, which people get health insurance and which don’t. The experiments most commonly cited in defense of the argument that repealing Obamacare will substantially increase mortality are natural experiments: One study compared mortality in states that expanded Medicaid in the early 2000s to states that didn’t; another study compared mortality in Massachusetts counties before and after Romneycare to mortality in control counties in neighboring states. The former study gives rise to the figure of 43,000 deaths; the latter study to both the 24,000 and 36,000 figures (which differ because they use different estimates of the effect of Obamacare repeal on coverage). But of these two, it is the Massachusetts study that has generated the most media coverage. When people talk about the lives saved by Obamacare or the lives threatened by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, they are usually referring to the Massachusetts study. Benjamin D. Sommers, who was involved in both studies, told Vox that the Massachusetts one was more relevant.
There is no doubt that the study is an important work. Benjamin D. Sommers, the lead author, is a professor of health policy at Harvard, and the methodology behind the study is rigorous. But the study, which found that one death was prevented each year for every 830 adults who gained health insurance under Romney’s health-care reform, is not limitlessly applicable to the case of Obamacare repeal. For starters, all of America isn’t Massachusetts, and the writers explicitly note that the result may not hold more broadly. Massachusetts has some of the highest-quality medical care in the United States, for instance, so obtaining insurance may have greater effects on health there than in, say, the rural South. Furthermore, as Megan McArdle notes, the study was conducted between 2007 and 2010 at the height of the recession, which Massachusetts weathered better than neighboring states. This may have distorted the health outcomes in the control counties in ways that the authors can’t account for.
Nor is the Massachusetts study the only word on insurance outcomes, although it is a significant and well-respected piece of the literature. The only thing better than a natural experiment is a random experiment, in which people are randomly distributed into groups that, in this case, either receive health insurance or don’t. Exactly this happened in Oregon in 2008, when the state randomly selected 30,000 from a waiting list of 90,000 low-income adults to participate in a limited expansion of Medicaid. In theory, this should have produced a perfect test of the effects of insurance on health-care outcomes — indeed, as Peter Suderman notes, a bevy of liberal writers touted an early analysis of the experiment as a conclusive vindication of the effects of health insurance. Until they saw the final data, that is. The Oregon study found that “Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first two years.”
Now, there are some reasons to prefer the results from Massachusetts over the results from Oregon: The Massachusetts study followed considerably more people and over a longer period of time (four years instead of two). And the Oregon sample had some drawbacks. The sample size was too small to confidently measure the impact of Medicaid coverage on mortality, so a decrease in mortality wouldn’t necessarily be inconsistent with the results of the study — although the study also found that outcomes from cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes remained essentially unchanged between those who did and did not have insurance. But there are also reasons for preferring the Oregon study: It was completely randomized, so it isn’t susceptible to the problems that always exist in a natural experiment — whether, for instance, there was some other unaccounted factor that improved outcomes in Massachusetts relative to those in neighboring states during the period of the study. And there is other literature supporting the contention that health care has a relatively small effect on mortality. For instance, people become eligible for Medicare at age 65, so if insurance decreases mortality, we would expect a discontinuity in health outcomes at that age across the broader population. But a 2004 study* found no such discontinuity. Finally, it is plausible that both the Massachusetts and Oregon studies are correct, and that private insurance decreases mortality, but Medicaid does not.
But set aside the Oregon study and assume that Sommers is the only word on the subject. The figures of 24,000 or 36,000 extra deaths a year are still almost certainly too high. The 36,000 figure, in fact, is transparently too high because it assumes that 30 million people will lose health insurance under a repeal of Obamacare, which is higher than even the CBO predicts. So consider the 24,000 figure, which follows from applying the Massachusetts result of one life saved per year for every 830 adults who gain health insurance to the current figure of 20 million Americans who gained health insurance under Obamacare , whether through the exchanges or the Medicaid expansion.
Many of the people who ‘lose coverage’ under Obamacare repeal will be people who only had coverage because they were forced to.
The first problem with this analysis is that it is not necessarily the case that losing health insurance has as much effect on mortality as gaining health insurance, particularly if the population that loses health insurance is non-random. After all, the people who will choose to leave the private exchanges established by Obamacare after the individual mandate is repealed are likely to be relatively healthy, possibly healthier than the uninsured population was in Massachusetts before Romneycare. Even if they are not, it is possible that there are immediate benefits from gaining health insurance that are not comparable to the costs from losing health insurance — a possibility that Sommers himself mentioned to the Washington Post.
The second problem with this analysis is that it is unlikely that 20 million Americans will lose their health insurance. As Avik Roy chronicles, the CBO estimates (which currently predict 23 million more uninsured under the House plan) are far more pessimistic than is justified, since they assume that the individual mandate is improbably powerful and that all states would eventually expand Medicaid under Obamacare. The real impact of the House bill analyzed by the CBO, Roy estimates, might be closer to 5 million than 20 million. And that is the House bill, which almost certainly will look very different from the final bill passed.
The third problem with this analysis is that the entire framework is wrong. The predictions of the CBO are so extreme because they assume, as mentioned above, that the individual mandate is the only thing keeping a large number of Americans in the exchanges. But this means that many of the people who “lose coverage” under Obamacare repeal will be people who only had coverage because they were forced to. They’re not really losing coverage; rather, they’re making a decision to save the money and go without it — a decision that wasn’t available for them under Obamacare. These people are assuming the risk of higher mortality without health care because it makes more sense to them. It makes no sense to think of Obamacare repeal as “killing” these people since they aren’t being forced out of the exchanges.
In short, the only problem with the estimate that Obamacare repeal will kill tens of thousands is that it cherry-picks one study out of several, ignores the limitations of that study, assumes that private insurance and Medicaid are equivalent, assumes that losing health insurance and gaining health insurance are precisely symmetric, uses implausible estimates of coverage loss, and relies on an idiosyncratic definition of the word “kill.” Otherwise, it’s fine.
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— Max Bloom is an editorial intern at National Review and a student of mathematics and English literature at the University of Chicago.
*Editor’s Note: This piece originally mistakenly linked to a 2008 study by David Card, Carlos Dobkin, and Nicole Maestas, when the author intended to refer to a 2004 study by the same authors. It has been corrected.
Max Bloom — Max Bloom is an editorial intern at National Review and a student of mathematics and English literature at the University of Chicago.
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Iwata Asks: Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros.
3. For Love of Hands-on Work
1. Burnt Blank
2. Pixel Artists
4. Memorable Experiences
5. An RPG Made by Craftsmen
By the way, Maekawa-san, how has what you do changed from when you were a director now that you are a step removed as the producer?
Maekawa:
For the first game and Tomato Adventure, I was a hands-on director.
That was possible given the scale of those games.
Yes. But after the first game, I remember Izuno-san told me to stay out of the actual work. (laughs) But Kubota-san, as you directed, you were also hands-on in some areas for the second and third games.
Kubota:
I wrote the script and programmed events.
Really? You were the director, but you plugged in data for events?
Yes! (laughs)
Me, too. I wrote the specs for one boss monster for this game.
That’s a shocking revelation! (laughs)
I basically had Kubota-san do the rest. (laughs) So rather than be a director who focuses on what to do with the game content, I was involved as a producer who, including who works on what, thinks about how to bring the project to fruition.
Do you like to do the actual development work?
Oh, I love it!
I know exactly what you mean! (laughs) I was like that once, too. In the latter stages of development, I would happily correct the programming.
Otani:
I’m also in a position to take a bird’s-eye view of the project, but I was originally a director, so I have a tendency to get involved with the hands-on work.
Izuno-san, what do you think as you listen to this?
Izuno:
Well, if I could, I’d get involved in the hands-on work, too! (laughs)
But as a result, the team’s overall strengths synced up and it turned out well, so I think the team had good balance.
I doubt those of you at AlphaDream always agreed with Nintendo’s opinions. What did you do in those cases?
We’d take it back and work it over. We could accept some parts, and then we’d hash out those parts we couldn’t accept face-to-face in a meeting.
Times like that were easy to address, because Kubota-san would clearly say, “This is weird.” But when we got mad at each other, we really got mad! (laughs)
Yeah. (laughs)
When people who take something seriously have differing opinions, the air can get chilly in an instant!
I think the question of “Why?” is important. Then you can thoroughly talk it over, achieve an understanding of the reasons behind something, and say, “Let’s do this.”
It’s stressful, but what results is all the more robust and strong for that.
Yes. I also have a strong impression that female staff members worked especially hard on this.
A lot of women play this series. Why don’t we ask the male developers in the room the importance of having a female perspective in making an RPG.
Female players have their own perspective and considerations, so they would point out what they had noticed but I hadn’t. I think women play this game because that shows up in the product.
What do you think, Kubota-san?
A lot of the female staff members at AlphaDream aren’t very familiar with action games and RPGs. For that reason, their input is incredibly informative when it comes to considering novice gamers.
I agree with Kubota-san. Those in charge of battles at AlphaDream would increase the difficulty at every opportunity. But the moment we had the female players test play it, they would immediately come back and say, “It’s too difficult!” Sano-san, you have particular trouble with action games, don’t you? (laughs)
Sano:
Yeah. (laughs) To convince them of how bad I am, I even played the game using a projector in meetings so they could see how often I messed up. In the giant battle with Luigi, everyone cheered for me, but I couldn’t do it.
Sano-san functioned as a kind of sensor that showed you what it’s really like for players.
But there are substantial support features for people like me who aren’t great at action games, which is a big help. If you get wiped out, you can redo that scene, and right there, for one time only, Mario and Luigi temporarily get strong.
That’s called Easy Mode, which the player can choose.
If you get wiped out again and do the same battle over again, a Hint Block appears. In the Mario & Luigi series, all the enemies attack different ways. If you look at the hint, you will learn an enemy’s weak point or a tip for dodging. But in the end, you still have to play hard for yourself.
The hints don’t take away the fun of playing, but they will tell you how to make it easier to advance.
Right. And if you fail at the Bros. Attack8 a few times, Slow Attack Mode kicks in. The moment you do a finishing move, it gets slow so you can get the timing just right.8.Bros. Attack: A powerful attack that Mario and Luigi perform in co-operation.
A reason we put in so many support features this time is we realised how until now there hasn’t been enough explanation about how to play RPGs. The regular Super Mario games are action games, so you can avoid enemies and proceed without levelling up, right? But Mario & Luigi is a series of RPGs, so if you don’t pay attention to levelling up, you run into a wall.
That had escaped notice before, because the longer you work, the more a certain sense of values solidifies and certain assumptions go unquestioned.
Yes. Mario & Luigi games are RPGs with action elements, so that kind of balance is incredibly important. When it comes to that, I think we got the balance right this time. For those who like a challenge, once you clear the game, Hard Mode is unlocked – which is quite rare for an RPG.
A hard mode in an RPG?
Yes. It’s for advanced players, but it’s so hard that even we can’t do it! (laughs)
It’s really difficult. If you blink, even the tutorial will wipe you out! (laughs)
The tutorial?! That’s merciless!
It’s very challenging, so it turned out to be something we can offer to all kinds of people.
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