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Watch: TV Spot for 'Monsters University' Wants You to Party Hard
Source: ComingSoon
Over the weekend, the younger crowd was entertained by Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards, and they even got their own glimpse at Iron Man 3. In addition, another new TV spot arrived for Monsters University, and this one just wants you to party hard. Honestly, I'm not sure what's going on with promos for movies aimed at kids lately, but the Despicable Me 2 trailer uses the Eminem song Without Me, and that's not very good for kids. And now this Monsters University spot makes use of Andrew W.K.'s Party Hard, which isn't nearly as inappropriate, but still doesn't feel right. At least there's the Monsters University school song too.
Here's the TV spot for Pixar's Monsters University from YouTube via ComingSoon:
A look at the relationship between monsters Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sulley (voiced by John Goodman) during their days at the University of Fear -- when they weren't necessarily the best of friends.
Pixar's Monsters University is being directed by Dan Scanlon, who went from animator to storyboard artist to writer to co-director on Mater and the Ghostlight, making his feature directorial debut. This is a prequel to Pixar's animated movie Monsters Inc, originally released in November of 2001. Disney has Monsters University scheduled for release in Digital 3D everywhere June 21st, 2013 this summer. Visit: MU.com.
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Shared parental leave: the ultimate balancing act?
By Gillian Daines
Business, Social justice
When I first announced I was pregnant to friends and family, one of the first questions many asked was ‘how long are you taking off work?’
Maybe this is because I’ve consistently and vocally made a virtue of enjoying my work. Maybe it’s because I’ve worked hard to achieve a relatively well-paid and responsible role, and they are wondering how I’ll feel about being away from it. Maybe, as many are parents themselves, the dilemma of balancing work and family is at the front of their minds. Or maybe I just look knackered and they’re all hoping I’ll take some time off.
My husband was asked the same question, but I’m sure those who asked were expecting an answer measured in weeks rather than months. Shared Parental Leave regulations came into force in December 2014 but take-up remains pitifully low, estimated at between 2% and 8%.
Financial pressure
In April this year, the charity Working Families published research claiming that the government’s shared parental leave policy was failing, in a large part because families could not afford for fathers to take the shared leave they are entitled to. They called on the Government to equalize pay for shared parental leave, but also acknowledged the crucial role employers play, saying “Employers going beyond the minimum pay for Shared Parental Leave would also make it a more realistic option for more families.”
The reality is that many families rely on state financial support when they become parents. But it’s also true that many mothers currently benefit from additional paid leave from their employer. For those employers who are able to offer this, what’s to stop them offering additional paid leave to fathers, or in the case of same sex couples, a non-birth mother, too?
This summer, we decided to take the step to extend paid leave to all employees at Forster who are new parents, not just mums. And frankly, it just made sense. It wasn’t fair that some of our employees were entitled to extended paid leave when they become parents but others were not. We’re now offering up to 20 weeks of paid leave to all parents, any time in the first year after their child is born. This means that not only are we supporting our employees financially, but also giving them the flexibility to take advantage of that benefit at a time that suits them. So if, for example, fathers want to take their 20 weeks 6 months in, they can.
We’re proud to be pioneering in this area, but it’s a shame we are still the exception. Most employers still only offer extended paid leave (if they offer it at all) to mothers. This means that in most families, the sensible – indeed necessary – financial decision is that there is no real choice about who takes leave and who goes to work.
Attitudes are stuck in a groove
In my own story, my answer to the leave question prompted interesting responses. When I said I planned to take 26 weeks, with my husband then taking over with a subsequent 12, there was concern all round. Concern for me sounded like this: ‘Well see how you feel, you might not want to come back then’, ‘Are you sure that’s long enough?’ etc. Concern for him was markedly different ‘Will your work be okay with that?’ ‘How do you feel about being a stay-at-home dad in a world dominated by mums?’
Fewer people than I hoped said ‘Well you enjoy work and earn more, and it’s important he gets a chance to bond and be primary carer, so that makes total sense’.
We still live in a society where child-rearing is primarily the responsibility of women. Men are expected are ‘fill in’ or ‘do their bit’ but not take the leading role. And in turn, women are expected to make sacrifices at work. The language my friends used is a big giveaway. I’m seen to be ‘giving up’ some of ‘my’ leave. Whereas, despite being excited and positive about becoming a new dad, my husband is judged as ‘risking’ his reputation at work.
So what’s the solution?
Around the world, there are now many different approaches to this problem. In many Scandinavian and East European countries, shared paid leave is generous and government sponsored. In Sweden for example, mothers and fathers are entitled to 480 days (16 months) of paid parental leave to split between themselves as they choose. Whereas in the US there remains no legal right to paid leave for either parent. There is such variance at a global level, it seems there’s little consensus about the right solution.
For me, the key is to offer parents flexibility. Every family is different: what each partner earns, how they prioritise work with other areas of their lives, individual children’s needs, support networks…All kinds of factors play into what’s best for families when deciding how to look after their children and keep family finances as healthy as possible.
This is where employers can step in and really make a difference.
The old system of mum stays at home and dad goes to work is still the only practicable answer for many families while shared parental leave remains largely unpaid for fathers and non-birth mothers. With mums being forced to make career sacrifices, regardless of their earning power or desire to work, contributing to our continuing gender pay gap, and fathers missing out on essential bonding time with their children, surely it’s time for more employers to take the lead and help to address the balance.
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Many, working together, can become one, she tells Chamber crowd of 1,300
“Dallas has many communities within it; Fort Worth has one.”
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What does One Fort Worth look like?
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price has a clear vision and presented it last week during her State of the City luncheon produced by the Fort Worth Chamber at the Fort Worth Convention Center.
One Fort Worth is “economic opportunity and prosperity for all, as part of a unified community that finds strength in its diversity….starts by focusing on the issues of poverty, childcare, transportation, education, healthcare and workforce housing.”
In addition, the Mayor managed to break some news during her interview with WFAA Senior Reporter Jason Whitely, heralding a Feb. 28 announcement to end a bottleneck along I-35 in north Fort Worth and the introduction of an online customer service portal called Citibot.
The vision of One Fort Worth includes prospects and goals in the areas of pensions and taxes, neighborhoods, economic development, diversity and prosperity, city services mobility homelessness, childcare and education and health and wellness.
Here’s a capsule look:
Pensions and taxes: Fort Worth is on track –the vote is upon us — to be the first big city in Texas to find a pension solution locally, solving a $1.6 billion unfunded liability. “I feel good about this,” Price said. She also said the 2018 bond projects, approved by 81 percent of voters, are on-schedule, within budget and that all arterial roadway projects are under contract for design. “We promised to complete these in four years; that’s a big win, folks.”
Though Fort Worth has reduced its tax rate seven cents in three years, Price said, “we have the highest tax rate in the state. Our tax base is 36 percent commercial and 64 percent residential, too much a burden on residential.” A major focus of the city’s strategic plan, released a year ago, is to increase the commercial tax base with larger businesses, whether recruited or grown internally.
Neighborhoods: “We must see that no neighborhood is ignored.”
Stop Six, the first neighborhood to receive funds as part of the city’s Neighborhood Improvement Plan, has seen a 48% increase in permitting activity, 25% decrease in crimes against property and 53% decrease in crimes against society, according to the city’s data. During 2019, the North Side will see a $3 million investment.
This spending “increases valuations, increases pride and allows children to go to quality neighborhood schools,” Price said.
Economic development:The city is working with the Chambers, Visit Fort Worth and the business community to 1) attract new companies and 2) support existing companies looking to expand. She mentioned Amazon Air and Bell/Uber Elevate as highlights of Fort Worth’s emerging technology and innovation hubs. According to Price, Amazon Air will be the company’s largest facility.
Diversity and prosperity: Price’s focus centers around initiatives to tackle socio-economic issues that are key to prosperity and opportunity for all, initiatives such as public health, criminal justice, transportation and education.
About the Race and Culture Task Force recommendations delivered to City Council in December, she said, “the city is definitely committed; we estimate a $3 million cost. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great start.”
She said an equity officer would be hired and decisions would be data driven.
City services: Fort Worth had the second largest drop in overall crime and the largest drop in violent crime, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University of Law 2018 Crime Statics for the 30 largest U.S. cities.
During March or April, Price said the city would begin Citibot, an online customer service tool that will enable citizens to text the city with an address and complaint (potholes, trash, etc.) Citizens will receive an immediate response with notification of receipt, an estimation on the repair and a notification when the request is completed.
She said the Water Department ranks No. 12 nationally for water quality, according to J.D. Power and Associates.
In January, the Planning and Development departments debuted the X Team online, an expedited team for complex projects that drastically speeds up the review process.
And the Fort Worth Library will be open an additional 2,016 hours per year without spending additional taxpayer funds.
Mobility: Price broke some news with this expected Feb. 28 announcement: “My friend Bruce Bugg, who is chairman of TxDOT, has promised that we will have plenty [of funds] in place for 3C, the last leg.” 3C is the final two-lane segment of I-35, the eight miles from US 81/287 to Eagle Parkway north of 820. It has been described as the worst bottleneck in Texas.
TEXRail was delivered on-time and under budget, she said, and potential expansion south could include the Medical District and TCU.
Homelessness: The city has allocated $5.6 million for permanent supportive housing and housed 181 veterans in 100 days working with Tarrant County Homeless Coalition.
The Mayor said collaborative partnerships make a true difference. The Morris Foundation has offered a dollar-to-dollar lead gift of public investments to provide 224 units of permanent supportive housing. And First Presbyterian Church has pledged $1 million toward the development of permanent supportive housing units.
Childcare and education: Read Fort Worth has entered its second phase and needs to average 9.3 percent growth each year to reach the goal of 100 percent of third graders reading at grade level by 2025.
Price also said the Lena Pope-UNTHSC collaboration for workplace childcare could be a model for many other businesses. It is an example for the launch of a city-wide blueprint “Creating Great Places and Spaces for Kids” in collaboration with foundations, the Early Learning Alliance, Tarrant County Workforce Solutions, parents and others. The City of Fort Worth’s first project will be an investment of $500,000 to support the renovation and expansion of the Child Care Associates’ Gragg Child Development Center in United Riverside.
Health and wellness: In November, Fort Worth became the largest Blue Zones Community in the U.S. “It makes you a more attractive city,” Price said. She said FitWorth continues to move the needle on childhood obesity with a six percent decrease.
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The Mayor in quotes:
“Fort Worth is a city of great character made up of great characters.”
“The T. Fort Worth Transportation Authority. Trinity Metro. It changes names more than P. Diddy.”
“This is my 8th State of the City. It’s a wonderful ride, a wild ride.”
(On running for re-election) “I love this City. Incredible growth and I want to see it available to everyone. Have to make this One Fort Worth for all.”
“A unified vision for One Fort Worth starts by focusing on the issues of poverty, childcare, transportation, education, healthcare and workforce housing.”
“We will continue to invest in our creative class and foster an environment that encourages entrepreneurship.”
82% of Fort Worth residents drive alone to work, 11% carpool, 1% walk or bike and 1% take transit.
In 2014, the Gallup well-being index rated Fort Worth 185th out of 190 cities. Today, it is 58th.
35% of FWISD third-graders are reading at grade level. The goal is 100 percent by 2025.
The last two years, Fort Worth has seen a 62% increase in the number of quality-rated childcare centers.
Fort Worth is ranked second among U.S. cities in the percentage of families with children – more than 38% percent.
FW infant mortality rate is 6.7 deaths per 1,000, above the national average of 5.9.
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Disney May Sell Trademarks Over 'Lion' Suit
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Disney Enterprises (search) may have to sell its trademarks in South Africa to pay for damages if a poor family wins a lawsuit claiming it lost millions in royalties from the hit song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." (search)
Solomon Linda
Lawyers for Linda's family obtained a court order in July attaching more than 240 trademarks registered here to their $1.6 million lawsuit in order to establish local jurisdiction.
The trademarks, which include well-known images such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, could be sold locally to pay Linda's heirs if they win their lawsuit, according to Tuesday's ruling.
Linda's three surviving daughters and 10 grandchildren, living in poverty in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, have received only a one-time payment of $15,000, according to their lawyers.
"It means that Mickey Mouse is still in captivity," said Adri Malan, spokesman for the family's legal team.
Joyce Lorigan, a London-based spokeswoman for Disney, said the judgment Tuesday was disappointing, but had no impact on the substance of the dispute.
"The real issue in this lawsuit is whether Linda's estate or Abilene Music Publishing — who bought the rights to the song from Linda's wife — owns the copyright to `The Lion Sleeps Tonight,'" Lorigan said in a statement.
The action is based on laws in Commonwealth nations at the time the song was first recorded. Under these provisions, the rights to a song revert to the composer's heirs 25 years after his death.
No court date has been set.
Linda died penniless in 1962, having sold the rights to his original song to the South African company Abilene Music Publishing. It went on to generate an estimated $15 million in royalties after it was adapted by other artists, including the American songwriter George Weiss, whose version is featured in "The Lion King."
The song has been covered by at least 150 artists, including The Tokens, George Michael, Miriam Makeba and The Spinners.
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Home News Baylor Waxahachie Begins Search For New President
Baylor Waxahachie Begins Search For New President
During its first full fiscal year at the new location, Baylor Scott & White at Waxahachie has established itself as one of the top acute care hospitals in the Baylor healthcare system.
WAXAHACHIE—Former Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie President Chris York has taken the lead post at healthcare system’s Grapevine branch. York was named president of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Grapevine, on August 20.
York joined Baylor Scott & White in 2007, and most recently served as president of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer for Baylor Grapevine from 2011 to 2014.
“With a long history of exemplary leadership, Chris has the commitment and background needed to continue advancing our mission,” said Pat Currie, president, hospital operations at Baylor Scott & White Health.
During York’s tenure as president of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie, his commitment to patient safety and patient experience positively impacted length of stay, readmission rates, and top scores on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), a patient satisfaction survey required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for all hospitals in the United States. Under his leadership, the hospital achieved a 5-Star CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating.
Through 48 hospitals and more than 1,000 access points including flagship academic medical centers in Dallas and Temple, the system offers the full continuum of care, from primary to award-winning specialty care, throughout Texas, and via virtual touchpoints.
Search Begins For New Baylor Waxahachie President
Over the next few months while a search is conducted to fill York’s role, he will provide interim leadership at Baylor Scott & White Waxahachie.
“While it is bittersweet to say goodbye to the Waxahachie community that welcomed me and my family over these past four years, I know that this
medical center will continue to flourish due to the strong culture focused on living out our mission as a Christian ministry of healing,” said York.
As the largest not-for-profit health system in the state of Texas, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the health and well-being of every individual, family and community it serves.
“Returning to Grapevine is a homecoming for me and my family. More importantly, it’s a great honor to help build upon the already strong legacy established by years of dedicated care teams providing safe and quality care to North Texas.”
York earned a master of business administration with a focus in healthcare administration and bachelor of business administration degree from East Tennessee State University. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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Home » Football History » Top 5 football legends with better goals per game ratio than Ronaldo and Messi
Top 5 football legends with better goals per game ratio than Ronaldo and Messi
Posted by: Wasi Manazir July 6, 2017
Fernando Peyroteo (1.77 goals per game)
Cristiano Ronaldo’s ability to find the back of the net will hold no candle in front of his compatriot Peyroteo. The Sporting Portugal striker amassed a staggering 332 goals in just 197 league games and was the Portuguese league’s top goalscorer on six separate occasions. In all official games, Peyroteo notched 544 goals.
He also turned out 20 times for the Portuguese national team, scoring 15 goals in the process. His tally for the national team may not be all that impressive but his club goals per game ratio makes him the most prolific goalscorer of all time.
Josef Bican (1.52 goals per game)
When the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) sat down to decide upon the player who mesmerised the world with his ability to score goals, they couldn’t look beyond Bican. The Czech-Austrian marksman is recorded by Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) to have scored 800 goals in official matches.
He played for a number of teams in the Austrian and Czechoslovakian leagues over the course of his long career that spanned the 1930s and 40s, and maintained his strike rate across all of them.
Imre Schlosser (1.3 goals per game)
The Hungarian made his league debut more than a hundred years ago and it is testimony to his goalscoring ability that he still remains the highest goalscorer in the Hungarian league. He played for some of the top clubs in his country at the time, including Ferencvarosi and MTK Hungaria. He won the league title seven times with the former and six times with the latter, finishing as the top league goalscorer on seven occasions and notching the European golden boot four times.
He also played 68 times for the Hungary national team and notched — none too shabby — 58 strikes.
Franz Binder (1.10 goals per game)
The Austrian striker played his club football with the giants of Austrian football, Rapid Wien. In the 242 league games for the outfit, he scored a remarkable 267 goals. It is estimated that through the course of his career, Binder amassed a staggering 1006 goals in just 756 matches to give him a 1.33 goals per game ratio.
Binder turned out for the Austrian national team on 19 occasions and scored 16 times. He later switched allegiance to Germany and scored ten times in nine appearances.
Jimmy McGrory (1.04 goals per game)
The Scottish legend spent almost all of his 15 years of top-flight football at Celtic, barring a season-long loan spell at Clydebank. For the Hoops he made 378 league appearances and fell just five goals short of 400 mark. During his solitary season on loan at Clydebank, he scored 13 times from 30 league appearances.
During the course of his career, McGrory won three league titles and five Scottish Cups. More significantly, his 485 goals in all competitions make McGrory the leading goalscorer in British football. He also earned seven caps for the Scotland national team and scored six times.
Messi and Ronaldo are undoubtedly among the best soccer players of all time and their goal scoring stats are simply extraordinary. Though there have been many players with better goals per game ratio than Ronaldo and Messi, it would be debatable if the above mentioned players could notch such high goals per game in the modern game in top European leagues .
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5 DC Superhero Movies We Want Joss Whedon to Direct
Posted by Unknown Thursday, May 14, 2015
For the forseeable future, Joss Whedon is done with making Marvel movies. He said so himself, increasingly, through the production and press tour for Avengers: Age of Ultron. He has said he wants some time away from big movies to focus on other, smaller projects for a while, more personal stuff. I don't think anyone begrudges him that, especially after some of the conflicts he came into with Marvel Studios during production on Age of Ultron. He may not be done entirely, but he's done for now.
With Marvel, at least.
A little while ago, during an interview with IGN, Whedon was asked if he would ever want to direct a movie based on a DC Comics property. He said he absolutely would, given the chance, just not immediately. (His actual answer was that while he was a Marvel boy growing up, he was always "DC-curious." I love this guy.) This got my brain a-thinkin' about what properties Whedon would be best for, so let's list-icle. This will go from five to one, in terms of this writer's gauge of feasibility and preferences for what project our Geek God could helm.
5. Wonder Woman
This is maybe a too-easy answer and a nonsensical one given that Patty Jenkins has already been tapped to direct WB/DC's Wonder Woman movie after Michelle McLaren's departure, but let me explain. And anyway, it's number five. Hush.
Years ago, back in the innocent days of the mid-2000s when no one knew exactly what kind of box-office juggernautery lay ahead in the new millennium, Joss Whedon wrote a script for a WB adaptation of Wonder Woman. This was post Spider-Man and Batman Begins, which should tell you what kind of superhero stories were in vogue at the time. Needless to say, it never happened, and Whedon went to work for the Other Guys.
I've read some of Whedon's script. Pieces of it suffer from the tropes of the time, and some of it is Whedon silliness. Some of it is Whedon brilliance. It might have worked, but it was a little ahead of its time in terms of how to treat this literally mythical character. The point is, Whedon is the go-to guy for kickass female characters, and Wonder Woman is chief among them. At this point, he has proven beyond any doubt that he can handle his big-budget epics with larger-than-life characters.
I'm glad a woman is directing Diana's film. That's just as it should be. However, if it couldn't be a woman, I'd want Joss Whedon. There will be a sequel to Wonder Woman, if it makes even the slightest profit, and Patty Jenkins may wish to return, but if she doesn't, maybe WB will eat some humble pie and make room for a Marvel defector.
The first answer Whedon gave when presented with the "would you direct a DC movie" question was that of course he'd love to get his hands on the Bat. Who wouldn't? The fear here is that Whedon would bring his particular brand of snark to the shadow-drenched world of Gotham. While DC's supposed "no jokes" mandate is absurd, it bears some weight with reference to the Dark Knight. Batman doesn't crack wise; his sidekicks or his butler or his villains do. He's the ultimate straight man, with occasional glimpses of dark or sardonic humor.
Whedon was a writer first, and one who is more than good enough to temper these tendencies. Honestly, my hope for a Whedon-directed Batman film would be what he could do with Batman's incredible supporting cast. Robin gets a lot of hate, but we haven't seen the character in live-action since Joel Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman ruined the character two decades ago—and then ruined some more, 18 years ago.
Whedon could make Robin cool. He could make Nightwing happen. He could really make Selina Kyle/Catwoman complex, more than just a romantic foil for Batman. Just imagine the insanity of the Joker under Whedon's direction. There's so much here that could work.
This one might be slightly more possible than WW, but still unlikely, for a couple of reasons. The biggest is that WB/DC is probably unwilling to let Whedon play with their biggest and best superhero property. Besides the fact that they dissed him with Wonder Woman—after which he made beaucoup bucks for the competition, proving that he was capable and his ideas feasible, and I don't think WB is big enough to admit they might have been wrong—they already have a director they like, playing Batman. I wrote about this before, but the eventual solo Batman film could very well be directed by the Caped Crusader himself, Ben Affleck. It's an idea I don't hate, but one I'll be unsure of until I see Affleck's take on the character in Batman v Superman.
3. The Legion of Super-Heroes
Huh? You've never heard of these guys? They sound stupid? So did Guardians of the Galaxy.
This one intrigues me, because it is a property that would need serious trimming to be a feasible adaptation, so there is room for a creator to really put a stamp on the property like James Gunn did with Marvel's aforementioned version of Star Wars. The Legion of Super-Heroes could be DC's Star Trek answer to that.
The short version of the Legion's storied history is that they are a future galactic Justice League. Inspired by tales of Superman's heroics, a host of young people with powers come together to help protect, well, everything (even if a lot of their action centers around future Earth). It has been a long-running and generally popular title for DC, with a massive cast of characters from which to draw, but something like 80% of them have names ending in "Boy," "Girl," "Lad," or equally innocent and defunct titles.
Apologies to comic purists, but audiences are not going to flock to the theatres to see Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl team up with Star Boy and the Invisible Kid. Just ain't gonna happen. Guardians had help mitigating this problem because some of the source names were unique and interesting (Gamorra, Drax, Groot) alongside the sillier names that they either shortened ("Rocket," instead of "Rocket Raccoon") or poked fun at in the movie. Star-Lord was just Peter Quill until the running joke became an earned moment, when during the climax Djimon Honsou's character recognizes Quill from the beginning and snarls "Star-Lord." Apply some of that logic to handling your characters in a Legion of Super-Heroes movie, and you're on the right track. Similarly, I bet they'd just trim the title to be "The Legion," or perhaps "Legionnaires." More generic, perhaps, but less Saturday-morning-cartoon than "The Legion of Super-Heroes."
Whedon would fit into this world almost perfectly. His Firefly was a mix of the best parts of Trek and Wars, and there is plenty of room for his banter in this property. Because it's less well known outside of comic circles, he has more latitude to bend and play with the story to make it more palatable. If they keep the story set in the future, there's less constraint on continuity between DC movies, so again there is more freedom. This bears mentioning too: the Legion has enjoyed a substantial gay following for much of its publication. It was a mixed and inclusive group of characters, and readers responded to that. Whedon is a big supporter of the LGBTQ community and has featured same-sex couples in several of his works. That Star Trek-ian ideal of universal inclusion, whether you're gay, straight, male, female, alien, transgender, asexual, pansexual, hermaphroditic, Klingon or Wookie, would be a new angle for superhero filmmaking, which thus far is populated more or less entirely by straight white men. Anyway, this would be a good chance for Whedon to make another ensemble movie in space, and maybe this time he won't kill Wash. (Spoilers!)
I admit, too, that any adaptation of this property is a long shot unless WB/DC shatter all expectations with their attempts at a DC Cinematic Universe, but hey, this whole thing is a what-if scenario.
2. Green Lantern
This is similar to the previous entry, but better known and with unique opportunities. I know, the first Green Lantern movie sucked. That's not the character's fault.
I don't know if Whedon even cares about GL, but that could be an asset. It barely matters which of the six or seven Earth-based GLs he uses, though it's likely WB would want either to continue with Hal Jordan or use someone like John Stewart or Kyle Rayner. In addition to being another fun space-based adventure, more action-packed than cerebral, Green Lantern should be a human story about imagination and our potential, and Joss Whedon excels at humanism.
Think about it. A Green Lantern ring allows the bearer to create whatever he or she or it can imagine. That's pure creation, kind of like a storyteller, no? Furthermore, the energy that allows for this power is derived from emotion, from basic feelings—in this case, willpower, a drive to do more, be better, to keep moving. I can't think of a more primal human trait than our will. The point is, even if Whedon doesn't currently care about the character, he can relate to him, and I would love to see what imagination Whedon could bring to the Green Lantern Corps. That's the thing: it's such a recognizable story. The Corps are just a galactic police force. They have precincts, beats they walk, partners. There is corruption. People get fired. It's a space cop story.
That very recognizable and human grounding is the perfect launchpad for Whedon's imagination. How far can you bend the clichés of police stories when they're set in deep space? What's a run-of-the-mill assignment for them? Reigniting a dying sun? Deflecting asteroids from inhabited planets? If that's the boring stuff, imagine what Whedon's imagination could unleash on these celestial guardians. Green Lantern will be in the ranks of the Justice League when they debut, and he has a solo feature slated for release on June 19, 2020. What he doesn't have is a director, and Whedon could make a very human, action-packed space adventure that might erase the stigma of the character's first live-action appearance.
1. Earth-2
This is the biggest stretch, because it relies on a number of things falling into place, but for the sake of this piece I'll assume a best-case scenario because I think this could be stellar. Bear with me.
One of DC's longest-running narrative devices is the concept of the Multiverse. First introduced in the pages of The Flash #123 in 1961, it posits that our universe is one of an infinite number of others, all occupying the same space but vibrating at a different frequency, so each occupies a separate dimensional space. Flash can slip between these worlds because of his super-speed; he made it to another Earth, by accident the first time, by moving fast enough to slip between worlds.
Now, more and more, we're hearing that our actual universe may be one of many. There is mounting evidence that the multiverse is fact, not fiction (though probably not this kind of fiction). DC has been using their multiverse to tell stories for over 50 years now, and it's still going strong. No less than two big events are currently underway in DC's comics that deal directly with the multiverse.
So what is Earth-2? Imagine again, if you will, that WB/DC creates a successful cinematic universe. It works on its own and as a counterpart to Marvel. We know Marvel is building toward Infinity War, when Thanos tries to claim all six Infinity Stones to presumably rule over everything. Maybe he'll just be content with destroying Earth, but it's not likely. Like an arms race, DC will have to provide a viable counter to the Marvel superplot. They have universal despot Darkseid (who, its worth mentioning, predates and inspired Thanos) who probably will show up at some point, but what if existence was threatened by something else?
The "main" DCU takes place on Earth-1. Earth-2 belongs to a universe of older counterparts. Earth-3 belongs to evil versions of the characters, and is protected by Earth's greatest hero, Alexander Luthor. Each one of the Earths is different, either slightly or in a big way. On Earth-X, the Nazis won World War II, and a small band of heroes fought a longstanding guerilla war against the Reich. Get it? Patterns repeat across the multiverse, like a song played in different keys or sung with different lyrics.
An Earth-2 adaptation could go one of two ways, as I see it. Originally, Earth-2 was the home of the earliest DC heroes, the first versions of the Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. They are referred to as belonging to the Golden Age. You can think of these as the pre-and-post-WWII heroes. In the collapse of the superhero comic boom after the war ended, a few major characters survived (like the Big Three), but within a few years came a resurgent interest in heroes and DC revived trademarks like Flash and GL, only as different characters with different stories and new designs. This was the start of what's termed the Silver Age. When the Silver Age Flash, Barry Allen, crossed between universes, he met his earlier counterpart, the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick. Basically, all of the older DC stories had actually taken place on Earth-2, and the modern DC stories were on Earth-1. Modern comics have played out Earth-2 as being populated with alternate versions of the characters, not older or younger—just different.
So where does Joss Whedon come into this? If you imagine the successful first run of these DC movies as Earth-1—Henry Cavill's Superman, Ben Affleck's Batman, Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, and the rest—Earth-2 could be a totally fresh look at the DCU, a way to reinvigorate the second wave of the DC films. It could perhaps introduce new characters or twist those that we've seen, free of the shackles of continuity and solo-film plot threads. Since they're not the "actual" versions, Whedon could do what he does and kill off two or three or six. This could sell just by capitalizing on new science and awareness of our universe.
This could be a substantial building block in the DC Cinematic Universe, setting up a future Justice League movie that pits the heroes against their Earth-3 doppelgangers. Once they know of the existence of the multiverse, they could explore it, or perhaps their reality gets invaded by said evil doubles. Either way, the multiverse is one of DC's stronger ideas that has been used to great effect in their stories, and while I'm aware that what works on the page does not always work onscreen, I'm also confident that a filmmaker with vision can make it work. Whedon could play in the DC sandbox he's curious about and add to it without worrying if he's muddying the waters.
One final note, because this just occurred to me and while it's the most improbable thing in this article, it's a really fun thought: What if an Earth-2 movie brought back actors like Christian Bale, Ryan Reynolds and Brandon Routh as "alternate" or "earlier" versions of Batman, Green Lantern and Superman? Maybe they could even find a way to bring the TV versions of Flash and Green Arrow into that "alternates" fold. Impossible, I know, but fun to think about.
Do you think Whedon will ever get his shot at a DC movie? What would you want to see him direct? Explore this multiverse of possibility with each other in the comments below!
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MDR Regulations - 21 CFR 803
Remember when reviewing complaints to check for MDR reportable events. The Compliance Program requires an MDR inspection every time a GMP inspection is made of a medical device manufacturer. CDRH has included in the Compliance Program guidance for evaluating a manufacturer's compliance with the requirements of the revised (July 31, 1996) MDR regulation.
The Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) must state that complaints, service records, etc. were reviewed for MDR reportability, that the firm's MDR procedures were reviewed and whether the firm was found to be in compliance with the MDR regulations. Observations related to the MDR regulations should be noted on the FDA 483 or discussed with management as appropriate.
For further guidance on MDRs, see CP7382.830 and the guidance manual dated March 1997 issued by CDRH/Division of Small Manufacturer's Assistance (DSMA), "Medical Device Reporting for Manufacturers" .
Establish and Maintain Procedures for Performing and Verifying that the Servicing Meets Specified Requirements, and for Analyzing Reports - 21 CFR 820.200(a) and (b)
Manufacturers must analyze service reports, and where necessary, with appropriate statistical methodology in accordance with 21 CFR 820.100 (e.g. frequency distribution charts, Pareto analysis or other analytical methods). Documentation for this should be established under corrective and preventive action in accordance with section 21 CFR 820.100. A determination should be made as to whether the firm has an adequate system in place for screening repair and service requests to assure whether any of these meet the definition of a complaint. Service reports initiated as a result of a complaint must be cross-referenced in the complaint handling system. NOTE, every service report is not necessarily a complaint.
Determining MDR-Reportable Service Reports - 21 CFR 820.200(c)
Remember when reviewing service records to also check for MDR reportable events. Any service report that represents an event which must be reported to FDA under part 803 or 804 of the MDR regulation must automatically be considered a complaint and receive appropriate follow-up under the requirements of section 21 CFR 820.198.
Corrective and Preventive Actions - 21 CFR 820.100
It should be remembered the complaint section of the QS/GMP regulation (21 CFR 820.198(b)) refers to all complaints, whether or not a complaint represents a possible failure of the device. 21 CFR 820.198(c) requires all possible failures of devices to be investigated to determine whether the failure can be confirmed and/or cause of the failure can be determined. Once the failure is confirmed as an actual failure of the device, the Corrective and Preventive Actions section of the QS/GMP Regulation (21 CFR 820.100) takes effect. It is important to remember that at times trending or continual monitoring of complaints for specific failures can be a corrective and preventive action. This is especially true when a firm cannot determine the cause of the failure.
A determination must be made as to whether the firm has established procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action.
Determine if the firm screens repair and service requests and conducts trend analyses to identify premature failures within the warranty period, and to detect problems with particular components, subassemblies, or design.
Any product failures within the warranty period are likely to be product design or GMP related. For example
Product design related issues may be those related to electrical safety, EMC, consistent user error or robustness of the product to packing, handling, storage and shipping.
GMP related issues are validation of assembling processes, screening and receiving, and in-process or finished device acceptance.
Review records for investigations to identify common failure trends (e.g., by component, subassembly, manufacturing error, or employee training). Compare these trends with corrective action documentation.
These common failure trends may provide clues to which areas or products to focus on during the inspection.
Your inspection should include detailed inspection of documents maintained under the requirements of 21 CFR 820.100, Corrective and Preventive Actions. In particular, you should focus on reliability issues that have not been documented for corrective and preventive actions. The continued distribution of devices with a known problem should be noted on the FDA 483 (or DCIS report for design problems.)
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http://www.gadgetspeak.com/review/Stormhill_Mystery-886337.html
Reuniting Family Members
Published Nov 16, 2019 Author mfereday
Bringing dead parents back together is the task set by this next game.
Stormhill Mystery - Family Shadow could be described as a story within a story. To achieve this state you are presented with a Hidden Object game as a son's request to fulfil the wishes of his deceased father.
Before entering this Hidden Object adventure, you can make minor adjustments to the game playing environment and create profiles for different players. Profiles can contain audio volume levels for background music and sound effects plus settings to play the game in full screen mode and use a hardware cursor. Four levels of difficulty are available with each one represented by a mini-picture rather than a title. These difficulty levels feature different rates of charging for the Hint and Skip features with zoom zones that close automatically when completed or not plus access, in some cases, to a tutorial.
The game opens with a sequence consisting mainly of a storybook told in still images with an occasional animation relating to background for the game's underlying tale. In this story a young couple get married, give birth to a son and move into an old mansion. On discovering certain magical influences in the mansion. the mother creates a potion and then commits suicide by jumping off a cliff. Following the death of the father, much later, the son, now a fully grown man, sets out to discover the reasons for his mother's suicide. Your role is this game is that of the adult son.
The game presents the player with a fairly standard type of layout made up of a full screen view of the current scene. Running across the bottom of the screen is an area used to hold tools available to the player. Taking up a central position is the inventory holding items that are collected. Any item accompanied by a plus sign means it needs to be combined with another object before it can be used.
To the left of the inventory are shortcuts to the game's menu and a map. This map, which opens to a full screen size, is gradually filled in to shows where available tasks are located, undiscovered tasks can be found, available tasks and the player's position is indicated. The right side of the inventory houses the Hint feature and the current task you need to undertake.
As it moves around the various scenes, your mouse cursor will change shape to indicate when certain actions are available. The various cursor shapes include a magnifying glass, arrow, skeleton hand and rotating gears which indicate that an item from the inventory needs to be used. You will also need to be on the look out for morphing objects to add to your collection,
In your search to help complete your father's task. interrupted by his untimely death, you are not restricted to the real world and can visit shadow worlds as you discover that your mother's plight was caused by a jealous servant, named Julianne, who cursed your character's mother and released deadly powers. You will be required to collect various objects, generally presented as a single item or collection of two or three elements to complete a set task rather than the more common approach of recognising items within a cluttered scene. In some cases you will need to move other items to one side in order to reveal the target you need. At various points during the game you will need to complete tasks that involve ,making and flying a kite, rescuing animals in distress and creating potions, As a reward for completing the main game and reuniting the spirits of your character's mother and father, you will be granted access to a bonus chapter which features more of a similar set of action.
Stormhill Mystery - Family Shadows was not a particular demanding game with generally flat graphics overlaid with ghostly animations. While you will need to move around a lot, all the various scenes are revisited several times that after a while it becomes a little boring.
I downloaded my copy of the game from Gamehoise.com where it is available for $9.99. System requirements call for a 1.5 GHz processor with 1048 MB of RAM running Windows 7 and later.
http://www.gamehouse.com/download-games/stormhill-mystery-family-shadows
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Is Australia's mateship ethic being lost in the big cities?
This question was raised by Shona in a guest post about volunteering in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I don’t feel qualified to provide an authoritative answer, but that feeling does not always prevent me from providing comments on other matters outside my area of expertise. Perhaps someone will tell me if my comments are wide of the mark.
Mateship was identified by Russel Ward as an important component of the ‘Australian identity’ – the ideas about themselves that Australians tend to identify with - in his book, ‘The Australian Legend’, first published in 1958. Ward suggested that this mateship ethic stemmed mainly from the loneliness of life in the Australian inland. In his later book, ‘Australia’, Ward explained mateship in these terms:
‘In reaction to their loneliness, to the sundering distances and to the harshness of nature, men tended to help and trust each other. This is not to claim of course that Australians are in fact notably more altruistic than other people, but merely that they tend to value collective aid and mutual aid more highly than do, for example, Americans; just as they value less highly rugged individualism’ (1967: 9).
I am not entirely comfortable with those comparisons with America. I agree that Australians probably do tend to place less value on rugged individualism than do Americans. For example, surveys show that the percentage of Australians who consider it to be important to encourage children to develop qualities of both independence and determination is lower than in the US. However, Ward himself claimed that ‘fierce independence’ was a component of Australian identity. Ward also observed in ‘Australia’ that in the third quarter of the 19th century Australian political sentiment was ‘strongly individualistic and not markedly either collectivist or nationalist’ (p 79).
Has the propensity of Australians to form voluntary associations for mutual benefit been any greater than that of Americans? I doubt it. Remember the observations of Alexis de Tocqueville in ‘Democracy in America’ (published in 1835) :
‘Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds, religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes; in this manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools’ (II, 2, V).
Ward seems to be on firmer ground in suggesting that the early dominance of large-scale grazing properties in the Australia farm sector (in contrast to the dominance of smaller-holder agriculture in the US frontier until about 1870) led to a situation where much of the work was done by people – shearers, drovers etc. – who did not perceive their interests to be closely aligned with those of property owners (p. 60). This can be linked to the subsequent development of trade unions, major strikes, the rise of the Australian Labor Party and the advance of state collectivism – which tended to displace voluntary associations for mutual benefit.
It is worth noting at this point that mateship has a downside as well as an upside. The downside of mateship is that it can mean ‘looking after your mates’ at the expense of other people. For a long time this aspect of mateship supported racial discrimination, compulsory unionism and abuse of trade union power, high trade barriers protecting some industries at the expense of others, discrimination against women and various forms of corruption. Some aspects of this negative form of mateship are still evident in the activities of some interest groups, as well as some politicians, unionists, businessmen and public servants in the big cities as well as the rest of the country.
At last I think I am now ready to focus on the positive side of the mateship ethic and the specific question of whether it has been lost in the big cities. Volunteering is more common among those living in parts of the states outside the capital cities (38% of those surveyed by the ABS in 2006 versus 32% for the capital cities). When I look more closely, however, the difference is most marked in Victoria and New South Wales and non-existent in Queensland - the state with the highest average rate of volunteering (38%). In both Sydney and Melbourne, 30%, of those surveyed were engaged in volunteering, but in the rest of the two states the proportion was 41% in Victoria and 37% in New South Wales.
There are strong reasons based on self-interest to expect rates of volunteering to be higher in small rural communities than in major capital cities. In a small rural communities people are exposed to greater risk of natural disasters such as bush fires and floods and depend to a larger extent on voluntary help from each other to avoid harm to their families when disaster threatens. In most small communities people who had a reputation for free-riding (sponging on their mates) would probably not be denied help in the event of disaster, but few people would be prepared to take that chance.
Would people in Sydney and Melbourne show a strong spirit of mateship if these cities were threatened by a major disaster? I’m not sure. When a substantial part of Queensland was flooded earlier this year, it was obvious that many people in the rural areas showed great acts of kindness to each other. As the flood waters approached Brisbane I wondered whether this community spirit would be replaced by an attitude of just helping family and close friends. Such concerns were unwarranted. After the flooding many people in Brisbane volunteered spontaneously to help strangers to clean up their properties. This suggests to me that the best aspects of the mateship ethic is still alive and well in Brisbane. I can’t be as confident that people would help each other to the same extent in the event of a disaster in Sydney or Melbourne – but I hope I am being too pessimistic.
I rarely write a postscript so soon after writing an article. However, after checking the World Values Survey data on qualities that parents consider important in children I found that the situation has turned around between 2000 and 2006/7 surveys. In the later survey 64% of Australians identified independence as a desirable child quality versus 54% in the US. The percentages identifying determination/perseverence as desirable were 50% among Australians and 40% among Americans. That suggests to me that Australians might now place a higher value on rugged individualism than US citizens.
A comparison of active membership of voluntary organizations in the US and Australia does not suggest that volunteering is more important in one than the other. Americans are about twice as likely as Australians to be active members of a church, but Australians are about twice as likely as Americans to be active members of a sporting organization. (That lines up with the view that sport is the national religion of Australia). Active membership of 'Arts, music and educational' organizations and charitable organizations is much the same in both countries.
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Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): United Arab Emirates - Global Detention Project | Mapping immigration detention around the world | Global Detention Project | Mapping immigration detention around the world
Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): United Arab Emirates
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Global Detention Project and Migrant-rights.org
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Global Detention Project – Migrant-rights.org Joint Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
93 Session (31 Jul 2017 – 25 Aug 2017)
Geneva, July 2017
The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an independent research centre based in Geneva, Switzerland, that investigates the use of detention as a response to international immigration. Its objectives are to improve transparency in the treatment of detainees, to encourage adherence to fundamental norms, to reinforce advocacy aimed at reforming detention practices, and to promote scholarship of immigration control regimes.
Migrant-Rights.org is a GCC-based advocacy platform working to advance the rights of migrant workers. It aims to change perspectives towards migrant workers by improving access to information on migration in the Gulf region and its migration corridors and promoting informed, local discussion on migration issues. Both off and online, Migrant-Rights.org engages residents, local businesses, and employers to challenge perspectives towards migrants and improve working conditions for some of the region’s most vulnerable workers.
The two organisations welcome the opportunity to provide information relevant to the consideration of the Combined eighteenth and twenty-first periodic of the United Arab Emirates to CERD with respect to the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.[1] This submission concerns issues specifically related to immigration detention, or the detention of foreigners for reasons related to their non-citizen status.
Issues concerning immigration detention[2]
The Combined eighteenth and twenty-first periodic reports of the United Arab Emirates to CERD make various references to the situation of migrant workers including domestic workers and describe some “protection” mechanisms (for wages, against withholding of passports and against exploitation). However, despite the unique demographic composition in the UAE, the reports make no reference to issues of persons placed in detention based on their immigration status and on deportation. Likewise the 2009 CERD Concluding observations of the twelfth to seventeenth periodic reports of the UAE made no reference to these issues.
Immigration detention context
The seven small semi-autonomous principalities of the United Arab Emirates have one of the highest ratios of foreigners in the world with expatriates representing roughly 90 percent of the total population and 95 percent of the workforce. This unique demographic imbalance is also starkly reflected in the country’s prison population. According to the World Prison Brief, as of 2014 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), 87.8 percent of the country’s prisoners were foreigners. However, aside from penal imprisonment there is nearly no information about where and in what conditions migrants are held for immigration related detention after they are arrested or as they await deportation. The reason for this gap is the government’s effort to limit access by rights actors to detention centres[3] and the virtual non-existence of independent civil society.[4]
Similar to other countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), foreign workers enter the UAE through the kafala sponsorship scheme which ties workers’ visas to their employers. Though both highly-skilled/high-wage workers and low-wage workers have migrated to the UAE, it is particularly the low-wage workers employed in certain industries—such as construction, services, and domestic work—who are most susceptible to exploitation under the kafala scheme. As many human rights groups have reported, foreign workers who leave their employer “can be prosecuted for ‘absconding’ and punished with fines, imprisonment, and deportation.”[5] Former detainees have argued that they were falsely charged with absconding.[6]
Laws, Policies, and Practices
According to Article 26 of the UAE Constitution, “Personal liberty is guaranteed to all citizens. No person may be arrested, searched, detained or imprisoned except in accordance with the provisions of law. No person shall be subjected to torture or to degrading treatment.”[7] Article 40 reads: “Foreigners shall enjoy, within the Union, the rights and freedom stipulated in international charters which are in force or in treaties and agreements to which the Union is party. They shall be subject to the corresponding obligations.” Article 344 of the Penal Code reads: “Whoever illegally kidnaps, arrests, detains or deprives a person of his freedom, whether by himself or through another by any means without lawful justification, shall be punished by term imprisonment.” Punishment can be up to life imprisonment.[8]
These strong safeguards notwithstanding, there appears to be a wide gap between law and policy in the country. Arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detentions, and lengthy pretrial detentions of dissenting citizens and noncitizens alike are commonplace in the UAE.[9] There are also frequent reports of prison guard brutality, discrimination against non-citizens, and mistreatment and sexual abuse of foreign domestic servants and other migrant workers.[10]
Grounds for detention and criminalisation. Federal Law No (13) of 1996 Concerning “Aliens Entry and Residence,” which amends provisions of Federal Law No (6) of 1973 relating to immigration and residence (hereafter Federal Law No. 6 on Entry and Residence of Aliens), prescribes detention in certain circumstances, including to execute a deportation or as punishment for violating immigration provisions.[11]
Aliens can be detained for up to three months for failing to maintain a valid residence permit; failing to leave the country after cancellation or expiry of an entry or residence permit; or failing to pay overstay fines (Article 21 of Federal Law No. 6 on Entry and Residence of Aliens). The Department of Nationality and Immigration is authorized to order the deportation of any alien who does not have a residence permit or who has not renewed his permit in accordance with legal requirements (Article 29).
In addition, the Minister of Interior is authorized to detain any foreigner against whom a deportation order has been issued for a period not exceeding two weeks, but only if the detention is essential for executing the deportation order (Article 25). The Minister may order the deportation of a non-national—even if holding a residence permit—if convicted and the court has issued an order for his deportation; if he has no apparent means of living; or if the security authorities see that public interest or public security or public morals require his deportation (Article 23).
Under Article 26 as amended by Federal Decree – Law no. 7 of 13 November 2007, the Ministry of Interior is to bear the costs if the foreigner cannot cover the expense of deportation. Article 28 provides that anyone ordered deported may not return to the UAE, except with special permission from the Minister of Interior.
Article 31 provides that anyone who enters the UAE illegally shall be imprisoned for a period of “not less than one month” and/or pay a fine of “not less than 1,000 Dirham” (approximately $270), followed by deportation ordered by the court. Article 35, a catch-all general provision, states that any person who violates the provisions of this law or related regulations shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not less than one month and a fine of no less than one thousand Dirham (approximately $270).
Length of detention. Migrants and refugees can remain in detention anywhere from a month to more than a year. Some of the factors that can prolong detention include: difficulties getting passport/travel documents (especially for those whose passports are held by sponsors who will not return them); procuring the funds to pay overstay fees; waiting for a clearance or “no objection letter” from local police before leaving (which can be delayed if there are claims against a worker for theft, or if the migrant has any debts from loans); and in case of refugees, waiting until a resettlement country accepts them.
According to Migrants-Rights.org there are “many devastating stories of Syrians and Palestinians. These are the ones that authorities do not know where to deport them to, so they are kept for open periods of time.”.[12]
Adherence to international norms. The UAE has only ratified half of the core international human rights treaties. It has not ratified the main instruments relevant to protection against arbitrary detention, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Migrant Workers Convention. Upon ratification of the Convention against Torture, the UAE made a reservation limiting the definition of torture provided for in Article 1. In response, over a dozen states parties to the Convention registered official objections to this reservation with the UN Secretariat for being “incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.”[13]
Trafficked persons. All forms of human trafficking are forbidden under federal law Number 51 of 2006, which provides penalties ranging from one year to life in prison as well as fines and deportation.[14] The law does not include protection from detention for victims of trafficking.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking visited the UAE in 2012 and received allegations of arbitrary arrests and deportation of women and girls who were not provided interpreters, detained in overcrowded rooms, and deported within 24 to 36 hours. The Rapporteur expressed concern that “trafficked persons may often be misidentified as irregular migrants and consequently, arrested, detained and summarily deported” and she recommended that victims should not be criminalised or penalised, or detained for status-related offences.[15]
Minors. The privately owned Gulf News produced a video report in 2013 from inside the Dubai Women’s Central Jail in Al Aweer, which showed detained women with their children. This one of a handful of prisons in the UAE that reportedly has a deportation function, thus we conclude that it is highly likely that accompanied children slated for deportation with their mothers are detained at the facility.[16]
Access to detainees. The UAE has neglected to provide international human rights organisations access to facilities that are used to detain people for immigration-related reasons. In its 2014 report on abuses suffered by female domestic labourers in the country, HRW reported: “Due to the failure of the UAE authorities to respond, Human Rights Watch was unable to visit the Ewa’a Shelters, the deportation center, and prisons. The Dubai Foundation for Women and Children said they were unable to arrange a visit to their shelter. Human Rights Watch cannot, therefore, verify the circumstances in which shelters admit foreign domestic workers or assess their conditions and treatment in shelters or when detained pending deportation or in prisons.”[17]
Consular representatives have also expressed problems attempting to visit facilities. In a report on human rights in the UAE, the U.S. State Department reported that diplomatic representatives were “refused entry to the Dubai Immigration Detention Center by the deputy director of the center to talk to with potential sex trafficking victims awaiting deportation.” In more recent reports on the UAE, the U.S. State Department reported that the government had begun permitting civil society groups to visit prisons, though it did not explicitly mention immigration detainees. The GDP has been unable to get first-hand accounts from any other sources who may have visited detention facilities or prisons in the UAE.
Detained foreigners have also accused authorities of preventing their family members from visiting them.[18]
Foreign workers. The status of foreign workers in the UAE is governed by Federal Law No. 6 on Entry and Residence of Aliens as well as the labour law, Federal Law No. 8 of 1980. A new draft law for domestic workers is pending, however it would stop short of including them under labour law.
[19]Like other countries of the GCC, many households in the UAE employ female migrant workers as domestic servants. An International Labour Organisation (ILO) study on domestic workers in the UAE estimates that each household employs an average of three domestic workers, with most coming from the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Ethiopia.[20] As domestic workers are not covered in labour laws (Article 3 of Law No. 8 of 1980 specifically exempts “domestic workers working in private residences”), and as they work in the isolation of the private household, they are particularly vulnerable to abusive work conditions and exploitation. Domestic workers interviewed for the ILO study expressed feeling that they were completely controlled, isolated, and subject to demeaning treatment. The report fails to provide any details regarding potential detention of runaway domestic workers. There are some 750,000 domestic workers in the UAE. They estimated to comprise 20% of the total expat workforce and outnumber family members in 22% of Emirati families. [21]
Conditions of detention[22]
GDP has information indicating that there are at least seven facilities in the UAE that have been used in recent years for immigration-related detention and that only one of these facilities—the Ajman Immigration Office—is immigration-only. All of the other facilities appear to combine criminal incarceration with immigration functions. And of these, only two, the Sharjah Jail for Men and the Al Sadr Prison, appear to have some system for segregating migrant detainees from the rest of the prison population. In addition at least one of these facilities, the Dubai Central Jail for Women in Al Aweer, detains accompanied children alongside their mothers.
There are few current reports detailing conditions of detention facilities. According to the U.S. State Department’s 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices prison conditions in the UAE vary widely. There were “unconfirmed reports that police and prison guards mistreated individuals” and in Dubai prisoners “reported poor sanitary conditions, inadequate lighting, and poor temperature control. Some prisons were reportedly overcrowded, especially in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.” The U.S. State Department also reports that “Ombudsmen cannot serve on behalf of prisoners and detainees. Prisoners had a right to submit complaints to judicial authorities; however, details about investigations into complaints were not publicly available.”
One former detainee told Migrant-rights.org, “In packed cells, many migrants are not informed of the charges levied against them. Iyad met prisoners who had signed papers after their arrest, entirely unaware of their content because the papers were in Arabic and they were not accorded access to translators. Many were falsely reported as “absconding” by their sponsors, a strategy sponsors frequently use to punish workers for legitimate complaints or avoid their responsibilities as kafeels.”
According to a Migrant-rights.org report in 2015, a former immigration detainee explained that there is a “racial hierarchy in deportation” and “the worst thing to be in a deportation prison is South Asian and the worst of all is to be Bangladeshi.” During this witness’ detention he observed that “prison blocks were divided according to nationality” and in his cell “there were only Arabs; many were long-term or even life-long residents of the UAE, but many were ‘visa violators’ or had pending ‘labor disputes.’” “If one cell takes 10 men, the Bangladeshi migrants would be 50 to a cell.” Indian and Filipino migrants are reportedly better treated as their embassies make regular visits to their nationals in detention. In general, convicts are treated better than immigration detainees.”
Key priorities for the United Arab Emirates with regards to immigration detention:
To ensure that people are not tortured or mistreated while in detention;
To provide public statistics on the practice, scope and conditions of immigration detention;
To ensure that trafficked persons are identified and not criminalised and placed in immigration detention;
To ensure that women and their children slated for deportation are not detained and establish non-custodial, effective and accessible alternatives to detention;
To ensure that domestic workers are not treated as “runaways” when fleeing from abusive working conditions; prosecuted for “absconding”; and punished with fines, imprisonment, and deportation;
To ensure that detention is imposed only where it is necessary and proportionate in the person’s individual circumstances;
To ensure that detention is maintained for the shortest time possible;
To ensure that detention is reviewed by a judicial organ automatically and in regular periods;
To ensure that immigration detainees are segregated from common law prisoners;
To ensure access to immigration detainees by consular authorities;
To ensure that ombudsmen can monitor the situation of immigration detainees and receive and investigate complaints;
To ensure access to immigration detainees by family members and civil society groups;
To ensure that there is no racial hierarchy of persons placed in immigration detention;
To put an end to overcrowding.
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[1] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, “Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention – Eighteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of States parties due in 2015: United Arab Emirates*,” United Nations, CERD/C/ARE/18-21, 17 May 20176.
[2] This Submission is based in part on data published on the GDP website, “United Arab Emirates Immigration Detention Profile,” (available at https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/middle-east/united-arab-emirates) as well as on reports by Migrants-Right.org, available at (https://www.migrant-rights.org/).
[3] Rothna Begum (Human Rights Watch), Email Correspondence with Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project), 5-10 February 2015.
[4] Article 16 of the UAE’s 2008 Law on Associations prohibits civil society organizations from interfering “in politics or matters that impair state security and its ruling regime,” in Human Rights Watch, “UAE: Civil Society Crackdown Widens,” 3 May 2011, http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/05/03/uae-civil-society-crackdown-widens
[5] Human Rights Watch, “UAE: Extend Labor Law to Domestic Workers,” 22 December 2016, https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/12/22/uae-extend-labor-law-domestic-workers
[6] Migrant-rights.org, “Inside Emirati Deportation Prisons,” 17 February 2017, https://www.migrant-rights.org/2015/02/inside-emirati-deportation-prisons/
[7] Constitution of the United Arab Emirates – Constitutional Amendment No. (1) of 1996, http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/48eca8132.pdf.
[8] Federal Law No (3) of 1987 on Issuance of The Penal Code, https://www.icrc.org/ihl-nat/6fa4d35e5e3025394125673e00508143/e656047207c93f99c12576b2003ab8c1/$FILE/Penal%20Code.pdf.
[9] The Guardian, “US, Canadian and Libyan businessmen charged in UAE after 500 days in jail,” 19 January 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/us-canadian-libyan-businessmen-charged-united-arab-emirates-torture-terrorism-accusations
[10] U.S. State Department, 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – United Arab Emirates, 2014.
[11] Federal Law No (13) for 1996 Concerning “Aliens Entry and Residence” amending some provisions of the Federal Law No (6) for 1973 relating to immigration and residence, http://www.sohbetna.com/business/uaelaw/federalla w6entryandresidenceaffairs/.
[12] Migrants-Rights.org, Inside Emirati Deportation Prisons, 17 February 2015, https://www.migrant-rights.org/2015/02/inside-emirati-deportation-prisons/ .
[13] United Nations Treaty Collection, Chapter IV Human Rights, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, New York, 10 December 1984, Status as at 13 October 2015, https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-9&chapter=4&lang=en#EndDec.
[14] Federal Law on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings No. 51 of 2006, https://www.unodc.org/cld/document/are/2006/the_federal_law_on_combating_trafficking_in_human_beings_no._51_of_2006.html.
[15] Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo Addendum Mission to the United Arab Emirates, United Nations, A/HRC/23/48/Add.1, 22 February 2013, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Trafficking/Pages/visits.aspx.
[16] Gulf News, “Inside the Dubai Women’s Central Jail in Al Aweer,” 8 April 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhj9TMQJ3I.
[17] Human Rights Watch, “‘I Already Bought You’: Abuse and Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates,” October 2014, https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/10/22/i-already-bought-you/abuse-and-exploitation-female-migrant-domestic-workers-united.
[18] The Guardian, “US, Canadian and Libyan businessmen charged in UAE after 500 days in jail,” 19 January 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/us-canadian-libyan-businessmen-charged-united-arab-emirates-torture-terrorism-accusations
[19]Migrant-rights. org, Dangerous stereotypes persist in UAE debate on domestic worker rightsShare, 5 June, 2017 ,https://www.migrant-rights.org/2017/06/dangerous-stereotypes-persist-in-uae-debate-on-domestic-worker-rights/ .
[20] Rime Sabban, “Women Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates,” Gender and Migration in Arab States: the Case of Domestic Workers, International Labour Organization, June 2004, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—arabstates/—ro-beirut/documents/publication/wcms_204013.pdf.
[21] Migrant-Rights.org, Statistics, Domestic Workers in the Gulf. https://www.migrant-rights.org/statistic/domesticworkers/ .
[22] Migrants-Rights.org, Inside Emirati Deportation Prisons, 17 February 2015, https://www.migrant-rights.org/2015/02/inside-emirati-deportation-prisons/.
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Ken Green's 1989 Masters Diary
Golf's angry man takes a 90 m.p.h. tour of the Masters
Guy Yocom
Stephen Szurlej
Green finished tied for 11th in '89.
This article originally appeared in the April 1990 issue of Golf Digest.
Editor's note: First you take golf's strongest bastion of conservatism, the Augusta National Golf Club. Add a liberal helping of the PGA Tour's resident iconoclast, Ken Green. Blend thoroughly, let stand for one week. Yield: A volatile concoction that makes for a lively 1989 Masters Tournament.
Last April, Ken Green agreed to convey his thoughts on the Masters following each day's play. His unexpurgated journal, which follows, tells you as much about the man as about the Masters.
The Masters starts tomorrow and I'm praying my luck will change. I've lost one tournament this week already, something my friends and I call the Nip Open. I've rented two houses north of Augusta for myself and a dozen close friends and relatives, and to kill time we set up a little golf course around the yards. Playing in two-man teams, we nipped little wedge shots to various "holes" such as the mailbox, barbecue, chicken coop, mailpost and a drain. My partner and I got into a three-hole playoff and lost. I hit a hell of a shot on one hole, though. My ball was lodged against the tire of one of our rental cars and I had to stand on the hood to play it. I hit the target -- the barbecue -- from 20 yards away. The fans went wild.
I sure hope I play better in the Masters than I did in the Nip Open, but my main goal is to relax and have fun. The houses cost $3,500 for the week, but it's well worth it. It's such a great week for my friends. Unfortunately, my wife, Ellen, and the kids aren't here because Brad, who is 5, had to take some tests at school.
My practice rounds have been good. I've played them with Mark Calcavecchia and we've had our usual bets going. We play a basic $20 nassau with automatic one-down presses. Then there're the side bets. If you hit 12 out of 14 fairways off the tee, you win $50. Same thing if you hit 15 greens or more in regulation. Finally, we go to the back of every green after we hole out and take one putt at the hole. If you drain it, you win $100. "Calc" beat me for $80 on the nassau, but I made a drain-o on him and came out $20 ahead. On the year, though, he's just drilled me. He's got about $500 of my money.
The Par-3 Tournament was held this afternoon and that was a lot of fun, too. It's the best part of the week. Calc and I had a match-of-cards bet with Paul Azinger and Ray Floyd, and we beat them.
Like I said, my main goal this week is to have fun. I haven't played very much this year and part of my problem is that I've been uptight. I know I'll play better if I relax, which is always easy when I have my Connecticut buddies with me. On Monday, we had our annual "Grand Prix" car race. The way it works is, we get our rental cars and meet at a designated "office" where we "punch in," or register. Then we drive like hell to see who can get home first. There are no rules. I took the early lead but the other guys were threatening, so I floored it. We had to be going 90 miles per hour as we got near home, and we ran a red light or two to get there. One of the entrants, my friend Eric, blew a belt off his car. Nobody was worried about the cops, because no cop could have started his engine and caught us before we got home. I won. It was nip and tuck coming down the home-stretch, but I was the victor.
After we got home we watched the NCAA Championship basketball game between Michigan and Seton Hall. It inspired us, so we went outside for a little three-on-three. I'm not much of a player. We played until about 3 a.m., when the neighbors threatened to call the police.
I've been on good behavior since Monday, though. I can't go out and have a few beers like I did when I was younger, because I end up just getting blown out of my mind. So I watch TV, play cards or play the Pac-Man machine here in the house.
I got up pretty late today, but I'm a night owl anyway, and I love to sleep in. I skipped breakfast this morning, like I always do, then went downtown and got a haircut. Augusta National has a barbershop, but I didn't want to get one there. I don't want a haircut like Hord Hardin's. They give a genuine barber's shave there, too, but after some of the things I've said about the club and the tournament, I'm not so sure I'd trust one of their guys with a straight razor.
I opened this, my third Masters, with a couple of what we pros call "double crosses," meaning you set up to hit the ball one way, then put on a swing move that makes it do just the opposite. It wasn't pretty. I shot 74, two over par, and had to scramble all day. I played with Bill Glasson, who's not ultra-talkative but is a nice guy to play with.
I wasn't nervous at all. As a kid, I always assumed that playing in the Masters would be about as close to heaven as you could get without actually dying, but all that changed when I played here for the first time in 1986.
What I found was, the ideas, attitudes and philosophies of the Augusta National people don't always coincide with mine. Take the way they set the course up. It's a great layout, no doubt about it, but you can't shoot at a lot of the pins, which I don't like. And they wait until the last minute to trick up the greens. They are very undulating, which doesn't go along well with how fast they make them. When you only have to touch the ball to get it rolling 25 feet, putting turns into potluck.
As for the Augusta members here, they are relatively friendly, but at the same time they are very standoffish. They really have to make an effort just to say hello. The atmosphere is stuffy. You sense that they think they're in a different league from everybody else. They are totally caught up in the allure of the private club, so they make up all these strict rules, such as making us pay for Cokes in the locker room. I don't mind paying, but it's inconvenient because I don't always have a pocketful of change. You learn to deal with this stuff. My feeling is, when these people go to visit God, He isn't going to have their rules. The same people the Augusta National people are stepping on are going to be right there with them.
My game is in the dead end of the world right now. I'm absolutely slashing it and I'll be lucky to make the cut. My instructor, Peter Kostis, is down here to give me some help. I know the things he's telling me are right, but it's taking a while for it to sink in.
Before the round, Calcavecchia and I were standing on the practice green when who should walk up but Byron Nelson. We'd never met and he looked me in the eye with a kind of quizzical expression on his face, then walked past me and congratulated Calc on how well he's been playing. He didn't have a clue to who I was.
Now we're getting somewhere. I shot 69, the low round of the day, and am only two shots behind the leader, Lee Trevino. The wind was howling and I only hit 10 greens, but I chipped and putted real well. I made all of my five- and six-footers. Putting means everything out here. My playing partner, lan Woosnam, hit the ball as well as I and he shot 76. Ian had a serious case of the lip-outs. He lipped out four or five putts that were just nasty. I don't know if it was the kind of day he was having or what, but he sure didn't talk much. I like being paired with guys you can talk with.
I got booed today. On the second hole, a par 5, I hit my second shot into a greenside bunker and then hit a pathetic sand shot. Pitiful. So I took my club and banged it against the bag. I tossed it, actually, giving it a reverse flip. The crowd was quiet and then went "ooh, ooh," like they really disapproved. Which was fine with me. I was just letting off a little steam, something they didn't understand and didn't want to.
The press was waiting for me when I came off 18. I don't mind the newspaper and TV people, but they sure ask a lot of dumb, obvious questions. Sometimes I wonder what they're thinking. I think, with the exception of hockey, I could step into any sport and conduct interviews better than a lot of these guys. I don't think the people doing TV now talk naturally.
I'm in good position to contend now, but it's still a wait-and-see proposition. It could go either way. Things may all come together and they may not.
Knowing I'd have a bunch of people with me this week, I asked the Masters people for some passes. They were generous enough, giving me nine. But somehow I lost four of them and replacements were impossible to get. So we snuck in. There were eight of us in two cars and I was able to get the cars through the main gate. At that point, the guys jumped out and dissolved into the crowd. It was no problem, because there are lots of people and if you see a Pinkerton guard, you just walk the other way. But two of my brothers-in-law, Rob and Chris, got caught hanging around the driving range. We swore revenge for tomorrow.
Today offered some typical examples of why the Masters isn't run right. Playing with Mike Reid, I started off well and was even par through seven holes. Then, as we stood on the eighth fairway, they suspended play due to lightning. Fine. I don't fool with lightning. But they told us to hold our positions until further notice. They didn't want us to come off the course and seek shelter; they wanted us to stand there and risk getting zapped. After waiting for half an hour, it started to sprinkle and they finally told us we could come in. I guess they figure rain is a bigger health hazard than lightning.
The fiasco didn't end there. After about an hour inside the clubhouse, they sent us back out. They knew another weather front was moving in, but they sent us out anyway. It was ridiculous, because by the time we came off No. 13 it was raining so hard and it was so dark that you couldn't see the ball after you hit it. There was standing water on the greens. I asked an official what they intended to do, and he didn't know.
The problem is, they have so many people trying to call the shots at Augusta that their minds become paralyzed. And when they finally suspended play, not everybody stopped at the same time because they don't have a siren on the course. At least they could have driven some police cars up near the course and turned on the sirens.
They ended up stopping play for the day as I was standing in the middle of the 14th fairway. I had fallen out of my groove and bogeyed nine, 10 and 11, so I was kind of hot. A van came to pick us up. Eight of us -- Lee Trevino, Nick Faldo, Mike Reid, myself and our caddies -- piled in. The van then ran out of gas. We couldn't believe it. The van was brand new, had only 18 miles on it, and it R.O.G.'d on us. We had to wait 20 minutes for them to send another van out to get us. It was a classic.
So, after a day of pure unadulterated disorganization at its best, I'm still in the hunt. But I have to finish well when the third round resumes at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Nick Faldo won the tournament today, beating Scott Hoch on the second playoff hole. Now, I am not a very religious person, but I do believe that when God has you penciled in to win, you'll win no matter what. You can choke like a dog and play like a dog, but somehow He will find a way for one guy to get good breaks and for the other guys to get bad breaks. Faldo didn't appear to have much of a chance to win after the 15th hole. He then made kind of a fluke putt on 16 and proceeded to drain a no-brainer on 17. Then Hoch missed a dinky two-foot putt that would have won the playoff. I'm telling you, when God has you zipped in, you're zipped in.
I wasn't zipped in to win today, although things started out pretty well. I saw Calc on the putting green and he was laughing because when he drove in the guard at the gate demanded to see his and his friends' badges. "I'm sorry" the guard told him, "but l have to check because of the Ken Green Rule."
Resuming the third round from the fairway on 14, I pulled my approach shot badly and thought, oh, no. Then the crowd started clapping and it turned out the ball rolled to a stop five feet from the hole. Augusta can be goofy sometimes. My ball mark was 60 feet away. I made the putt, followed with a birdie on 15, then parred in. Things were looking up. My score of 73 left me tied for fourth, three shots behind Ben Crenshaw, going into the final round.
I went back home, took a short nap, then we played another Nip Open. No, make that the Sable Open. We renamed the tournament because the Mercury Sable that blew a belt in the Grand Prix became the main hole. It was hurting anyway, so we opened the trunk and the windows and played to it from four different spots. You had to make the ball stay inside the car.
Come to think of it, the best shot I hit all week long came in the Sable Open. I hit a low screamer with my wedge from 45 yards away, and it shot right through the window and rattled around awhile before popping out the other side. It was an awesome shot.
Everyone wanted to be there for the final round, so 12 of us piled into two rental cars and headed for the course. Again, we were short of passes and I knew it would be harder to sneak in because of the Ken Green Rule. So I gave the guard, a guy about 70 years old, the old "How ya doin' " trick. Just waved and flew past him. What was he going to do, chase after us? We never got caught.
I figured I'd need about a 65 to win, and I started off lousy, three-putting the first hole for bogey. By the fifth hole, I knew I didn't have it. I never was in it and shot a 73 to finish tied for 11th, which will get me back next year. I didn't feel too bad, because I knew my game could go either way.
My playing partner today was Seve Ballesteros, and a funny thing happened between us on the 10th hole, a long, downhill par 4. Seve had shot 31 on the front nine and looked like he might run away with it, but he snapped his drive on 10 into a muddy area to the left of the fairway. I was 60 yards away and noticed he was taking a lot of time to play his shot, so I went over to see what was going on. It turned out he wanted relief due to "unusual crowd damage" and was waiting for a ruling. His ball was sitting fine, but it was in a little rut and he couldn't take a clean swipe at it.
"Watch this," I said to my caddie, Joe LaCava. "They're going to give him a free drop, but I am not going to let it happen." Sure enough, a rules official showed up and appeared to OK the drop, but he said he needed to call in another rules official for a second opinion. "I think you better," I said. "That's not right. I want another ruling here. This isn't going to fly." So as we waited for another official to arrive, Seve said something like, "You can go hit your shot if you want. I promise you I won't drop my ball."
I came this close to coming back at him. He was wrong. Earlier, on the second hole, my second shot stopped in a muddy area that was a lot worse than what Seve had. And the rules guy there refused to give me a drop. That's fine, but remember, my name is Ken Green. If the guy involved is Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman or Ben Crenshaw, he's going to be given relief. You can make book on it.
Anyway, the second official, Michael Bonallack, secretary of the Royal and Ancient, came up and didn't even hesitate. He flat refused to give him relief and told Seve to play the shot. Later, I heard the television guys, most notably Tom Weiskopf, noted that I had a responsibility to protect the field in this kind of situation.
I'm shocked at how people are absorbed by Ballesteros. People are never what they seem to be on the course. Call it a scam or good public relations or whatever, but they're cheering for someone they don't even know. He didn't say three words to me all day, and when he did, it was in reference to his own shots. I didn't enjoy it.
It's been a good week, but I'm tired. I'm going to take next week off, then play at Greensboro.
Editor's note: Green won the 1989 Kmart Greater Greenshoro Open.
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British Putting Championship
It is three years since Colin Jenkins and his team took over the golf course at Basildon. The course has been completely re-energised and overhauled, which has resulted in a healthy uplift in visitor numbers and business in general. One of the things Colin particularly wanted to do was to build a superb and very large putting green at Basildon. As the photographs show, the new putting green is indeed extensive, with its undulating slopes a real challenge for all concerned.
The exceptional putting green is already in superb condition, especially bearing in mind that it was seeded only just over 12 months ago.
The switchback layout covers three quarters of an acre and is on the site of the old clubhouse. Incorporating the existing putting green, the championship challenge has been laid out over 36 holes.
Brian Parker, who is 70 and a senior season ticket holder at Basildon, was the first player to record a hole-in-one at the event. His ace came on the seventh hole and crowned a thoroughly enjoyable day for Brian. He added: “I’m recovering from having had a stroke and find it difficult to play more than nine holes at present. This event has been so much fun and I have greatly enjoyed it. It allows me to be competitive and involved in golf, even though I’m not able to play a full round at present. I hadn’t realised how tough some of the putts would be, as the undulations make picking the right line quite tricky. It was lots of fun and I’m definitely going to enter next year.”
Despite the new sport of putting being gender neutral, there was a good number of ladies competing in the event. They had a great time and one of ladies made the following comment:
“Today was the first time that I’ve had a proper putt on the putting green, as it is only recently opened in its full glory. I greatly enjoyed it and found it very rewarding and a great way to socialise with my friends, as well as to compete in a friendly manner.”
The event was won by Josh Tobin, who triumphed after a play-off involving the leading four players.
Colin Jenkins, a director of Basildon Golf Course and co-founder of British Putting, is delighted with how the event was received:
“The battle in staging this event was twofold. First, we had to get the course into the right condition. With a cold spring we just didn’t get the sort of quality growth we needed, so our plans to open in the early summer had to be put back. “Once we had the course in a suitable condition, we let the public play on it. The reactions were overwhelmingly positive, but as with most new things, they didn’t realise exactly what we were trying to achieve initially. We would obviously rather had more people playing in the final, but with over 60 people putting in the finals and hundreds more in the weeks leading up to it, we are very pleased with the level of support we had in our first year. Our greenkeeping team have been exceptional in their devotion to duty and in ensuring that all of the putting surfaces were in tip-top order.”
All competitors were asked to make a £1 contribution to the Golf Foundation with the total raised being over £150.
The bar and food takings for Basildon were up by about a third for the day, which allows other operators the confidence to stage an event, even with prizes and giveaways, without feeling the need to heavily subsidise the new activity. Colin Jenkins comments:
"In order to get people using the putting green and enjoying the area, it is simply a matter of cutting the grass and putting out the flags. In order to get people to pay to play in an event, you have to create some other reasons to get them excited. Certainly the £200 first prize helped! But also the sense that money was being raised for the Golf Foundation and that golfers were enjoying a new type of event together.
“Several people remarked that they didn't realise that it was so much fun to just putt. Since the event the new putting green is twice as busy as before and this is despite it being heavily dressed the day after the event. The event has definitely helped get people used to just putting and visiting the club without having to play. The benefits of this additional attraction have improved our bar takings substantially and the number of people in and around the clubhouse on fine days has risen noticeably. However, it is clear that people do not like to putt in the rain!"
British Putting are delighted that the first major event has been such a success and also that the spin offs for those staging similar events are bound to be positive. There is a bit of work involved, but it has to be one of the easiest ways to increase trade and keep golfers and their wider families and social networks involved with their club for longer.
The British Open Putting Championship may not have reached the status of a huge event yet, but some interesting statistics were thrown up:
• 78% male, 22% female
• 18% under 18, 52% 19-64, 30% over 65
• Ball used: Srixon 62%, Titleist 23%, Callaway 9%, Bridgestone 6%
• Putter used: Ping 55%, Odyssey 26%, Scotty Cameron 8%, Never Compromise 6%, Yes 3%, other 2%.
• Golf top worn: 55%, other 45%
• Lower half...Trousers/skirts worn: Jeans 35%, Trousers 32%, Shorts 25%, Skirts 8%
• Golf glove worn: 10%, no glove 90%.
• Headware worn: Golf cap 30%, no hat 66%, other headware 4%
• Left hand players 14%, Right hand players 86%.
• Members of a golf club with a handicap 62%, other 38%
These statistics give us a useful snapshot of the type of players that are interested in participating in a big putting event. The ball statistics were some what swayed by Srixon's sponsorship of the event and Ping putters were available to use for all competitors, if they wanted. Even more interesting is the clothing, as an event with no dress regulations still attracts over a third of denim wearers and a quarter in shorts. Perhaps golf events in general need to allow an even more relaxed approach to dress regulations than previously (personally I never find playing golf in jeans as comfortable as shorts or trousers, but it makes no difference for putting).
With 22% of the entrants being female, this is fairly encouraging, given the number of female golfers is so much lower.
Left handed golfers tend to be more plentiful in Essex, which may also seem surprising.
The event was held on a Sunday and the weather very pleasant, but a bit chilly later on. A warmer day will be even more popular to attract the greatest number, but is less relevant for those wishing to compete.
For more details and to see the exceptional aerial footage of the course at Basildon, please visit: www.basildongolfcourse.com.
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(Thrillogy #2)
Todd Strasser (Goodreads Author)
3.78 · Rating details · 1,568 ratings · 203 reviews
A powerful and uncompromising thriller – not for the faint-hearted.
Some girls are glamorous, beautiful … and deadly. Found kneeling by a dead body, with a bloody knife in her hand can only mean Callie Carson is guilty of the brutal murder of Katherine Remington – can’t it? Joining the in-crowd is tough; leaving is a killer.
Published April 1st 2011 by Walker & Company (first published September 1st 2010)
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May 08, 2015 Veronica Morfi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This is the second standalone installment in Todd Strasser's Thrillogy and this was my favorite out of all three stories. Blood on my Hands is the story of Callie. One night she is at a party and notices that Katherine, a friendenemy of hers is nowhere to be found, so she decides to start looking. What she finds is her lifeless body with a knife sticking out of it. Without thinking she picks up the knife and that's the moment when everyone from the party finds her. Holding a bloody Rating: 5/5
This is the second standalone installment in Todd Strasser's Thrillogy and this was my favorite out of all three stories. Blood on my Hands is the story of Callie. One night she is at a party and notices that Katherine, a friendenemy of hers is nowhere to be found, so she decides to start looking. What she finds is her lifeless body with a knife sticking out of it. Without thinking she picks up the knife and that's the moment when everyone from the party finds her. Holding a bloody knife over Katherine's dead body. Everyone starts taking pictures and calling her murderer, so she decided to run and hide. But in order to clear her name she knows she has to find the real killer, while staying out of jail.
Callie's story was fast paced, without a single boring moment. We get two different storylines, first Callie while she is hiding, trying to figure out the true killer and then what happened in the past and how Callie became friends with Katherine and how the ended up as enemies.
This story was brilliant. It kept me on the edge of my seat. Collecting clues as to who was the real killer. Also Callie was a great MC. She was resourceful and even though she was terrified that she would end up in jail she still did everything she could to clear her name and find out the truth.
I am glad to say that I had figured out the killer by the middle of this book, however Strasser did a great job surprising me once more. I truly loved everything about this book. Great mystery/thriller. ...more
Dec 12, 2012 Despair Speaking rated it did not like it · review of another edition
I had decided to read this because Wish You Were Dead had some interesting twists and I had thought this book would be the same and even hoped it was actually better.
But it's worse.
Callie is an idiot. I sincerely felt no sympathy. She has no common sense. I wanted to smash her head in after reading the part where she, not only MISTOOK Katherine lying down bloody with a knife on her as a prank, she also HAD to pick it up even after finding out that Katherine was dead. Is she that retarded? Ugh.
Callie is an idiot. I sincerely felt no sympathy. She has no common sense. I wanted to smash her head in after reading the part where she, not only MISTOOK Katherine lying down bloody with a knife on her as a prank, she also HAD to pick it up even after finding out that Katherine was dead. Is she that retarded? You don't just hold the murder weapon like it's a toy, you fool. You also don't keep mum. You scream! Callie deserved to be suspected. I didn't blame her classmates for pointing fingers at her.
Are you stupid or something? <--- I was reminded of this when I read the book...
It's obvious from that stupid act alone that Callie continues to make mistakes that you even want the police to get her into prison and get it over with already.
What a waste of time. ...more
Jun 22, 2017 K. rated it it was ok
Shelves: audience-young-adult, would-not-read-again, difficult-topics, library, setting-usa, 2017, thriller, crime
Trigger warnings: murder, parental abuse, bullying.
Oh jeez. This sounded like it was going to be a pretty intriguing YA thriller, albeit slightly Christopher Pike adjacent. Buuuut it was basically a big ol' hot mess.
- Callie is frustratingly dense. Like...GIRL. If you already look guilty, you're gonna look ten thousand times more guilty if you spend multiple days hiding from the police.
- The romantic relationship. Like...a kid who's still in middle school dating a sophomore? ICK. Hard pass. Trigger warnings: murder, parental abuse, bullying.
- The romantic relationship. Like...a kid who's still in middle school dating a sophomore? ICK. Hard pass. And even by the time the events in the book take place, he's 19 and in the National Guard and she's 16. No thank you please.
- The whole subplot with her brother being in jail for attacking their father was...really poorly explained.
- There was insufficient demonstration that the narrative was switching from the present to the past. Half the time, I was like "Wait, she's meant to be on the run. Why is she suddenly talking to Mia?? Ohhh. Flashback."
- I just didn't give a shit about who killed Katherine because she was a stone cold bitch.
- (view spoiler)[The big reveal that Katherine was being a stone cold bitch because she was a lesbian who was in love with Callie and was trying to get her hetero ass to have WLW feelings was FUCKING STUPID. SO FUCKING STUPID. Not to mention rage inducing. (hide spoiler)]
- (view spoiler)[Speaking of, the whole thing with Dakota being like "I made Slade murder Katherine because I had lesbian feelings for her and I figured if she was dead, I'd stop liking girls" thing was BULLSHIT, especially because she was all "Slade was super hot and I was sexually attracted to him so I banged him a bunch of times". Girl. If you're sexually attracted to a dude and you act on that attraction multiple times? You ain't a lesbian. You bi. But of course we can't mention the word "bisexuality" no no no no no (hide spoiler)]
- Honestly, if this has ended any other way, I might have given it 3 stars. But it didn't.
- 2 stars because at least it was fast paced. ...more
Apr 21, 2013 Mateja rated it liked it · review of another edition
I really liked the story, but the characters disappointed me. I liked the Callie, the main protagonist a lot in the beginning. I feel like I understood her action and the decisions she made because it was a highly emotional and shocking time for her. But my patience and understanding quickly wore thin. I feel like she made some glaringly stupid choices, not just after she was accused of murder, but even before it. The parts of the story retelling past events made me see her as weak and 3.5 stars
I really liked the story, but the characters disappointed me. I liked the Callie, the main protagonist a lot in the beginning. I feel like I understood her action and the decisions she made because it was a highly emotional and shocking time for her. But my patience and understanding quickly wore thin. I feel like she made some glaringly stupid choices, not just after she was accused of murder, but even before it. The parts of the story retelling past events made me see her as weak and easily manipulated so after a while it became hard to sympathise with her. A lot of troubles and pain she brought onto herself and could be easily avoidable. Plus her relationship with Slade was just weird. I can't go into any details without majorly spoiling the book.
I really liked the mystery in this book. It seemed like there were a lot of suspects and to be honest even the main characters seemed like a probable murderer too. I enjoyed the whole aspect of the book being written from a point of view of an innocently accused girl, her running and hidding from the police, trying to clear her name and finding the real murderer. I especially liked the part once she got arrested, I really liked seeing the whole process of interviews and dealing with the emotional fallout and the repercussions her actions had on her family.
Oct 21, 2015 Allison Kirchoff rated it liked it · review of another edition
Blood on my Hands is a book about a girl named Callie who was accused of a crime she didn't commit. When she finds her friend Katherine dead and picks up the knife that was used to kill her, everyone thinks that she murdered her and took her picture. Callie doesn't want to be arrested for something she didn't do, so she goes on the run. With the help of her ex-boyfriend, Slade, Callie sets out to find Katherine's real murderer. Callie has to keep disguising herself and hide from the police as Blood on my Hands is a book about a girl named Callie who was accused of a crime she didn't commit. When she finds her friend Katherine dead and picks up the knife that was used to kill her, everyone thinks that she murdered her and took her picture. Callie doesn't want to be arrested for something she didn't do, so she goes on the run. With the help of her ex-boyfriend, Slade, Callie sets out to find Katherine's real murderer. Callie has to keep disguising herself and hide from the police as she collects clues to figure out who killed Katherine.
I gave this book 3 stars for many different reasons. I liked the plot of the book and thought that it was interesting and somewhat original, but the writing style bothered me the most. It was very simple and almost too easy to understand. There was no reading between the lines, or anything else that involved thinking deeply about the book. The characters weren't very interesting either. There were no round characters or anyone that I could relate to. All of the characters made very poor decisions and didn't have any wisdom or life lessons to teach. If I were to recommend this book, I would recommend it to anyone in their early teens that just want a simple and easy book to read. ...more
Oct 18, 2011 Tiffany Reads It All rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: would-not-read-again, library, 2011
This just didn't work for me. I really should have abandoned it a few chapters in, but my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to find out who the killer was. (It wasn't who I expected, but that doesn't make up for the story overall.)
The writing was so disjointed--it skipped through time every chapter (present tense vs. past tense). While this created suspense and kept me reading, it also felt very uneven because I just wanted the writing style to be consistent.
Callie's flight from the This just didn't work for me. I really should have abandoned it a few chapters in, but my curiosity got the best of me and I just had to find out who the killer was. (It wasn't who I expected, but that doesn't make up for the story overall.)
Callie's flight from the police was pretty far-fetched; I'm really supposed to believe that a 17-year-old can evade an entire police force? I know it's a small town, but I don't think so.
I had hoped that the resolution would be worth it, but it lacked credibility and the ending REALLY bothered me. I'm debating whether I want to read anything else by this author. I'll probably give him one more shot, but unfortunately I just can't recommend Blood on My Hands. ...more
Jul 23, 2014 sparklyunikorn rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: ya-fiction, author-todd-strasser
2 stars - YA Horror
This is an honest and highly subjective review, proceed with caution. You have been warned.
One thing in this book that had my interest is the plot - Who/why killed the victim, the mystery and the suspense. That was why I stuck, stayed and finished it. I could've DNF this book because the rest of the story though... was shite.
Let's rant. Woot woot!
Especially the main character. Reading those flashbacks were excruciating because there, you learnt about the heroine and she was 2 stars - YA Horror
Especially the main character. Reading those flashbacks were excruciating because there, you learnt about the heroine and she was the most stupidest person I've ever read, seriously. Why I said that? She was pathetically desperate to be accepted into a group of mean, rich, popular girls. Think Mean Girls. She willed to do almost anything when 'the leader' asked or said so. One of them is she dumped her boyfriend, whom she loved the most, so she wouldn't get kicked out from the circle. Later, she regretted her decision only after she was accused of something she didn't do.
Rolled my eyes a lot. Ugh.
To young girls out there who struggling with high school or college pressure,
For the love of all that's holy and unholy, just be yourself! There's no need for you to become the low of the lowest or somebody else etc just because you want to be accepted by people. One thing you have to remember is you can't please anyone, anybody. Your happiness is your own doing. Not someone else.
When I was in high school, I didn't give rat's arse to them popular kids. Didn't even feel intimidated by their popularity and I always gave this 'back off or sorry' vibe whenever I came to school HAHA. As they left me alone, didn't mess with me, I was content back then. Managed to be myself, got happy and only stressed out about nosey teachers, homework and exams.
If you happened stuck in Mean Girls, run my dear. Just run.
Read on your own peril. ...more
Apr 07, 2016 Jacob Crane is currently reading it · review of another edition
Blood on My Hands by Todd Strasser is a mystery novel about a teenage girl named Cal who is being framed for a murder she did not commit. Cal is the protagonist in the book and she is not in a very good emotional state before the murder. Her boyfriend Slade is leaving for the army in a couple of days and they decided to break up. Cal is devastated by this and decided to go to a party. As she is walking in she sees a girl on the ground with a knife near her side. Cal decides to pick up the knife Blood on My Hands by Todd Strasser is a mystery novel about a teenage girl named Cal who is being framed for a murder she did not commit. Cal is the protagonist in the book and she is not in a very good emotional state before the murder. Her boyfriend Slade is leaving for the army in a couple of days and they decided to break up. Cal is devastated by this and decided to go to a party. As she is walking in she sees a girl on the ground with a knife near her side. Cal decides to pick up the knife and as she does this people walk by and yell that she killed this girl. Throughout this book Cal is trying to hide because the police are after her and she needs to go unnoticed. Because she picked up that knife her life gets altered for ever. I have not been in a situation where I am being framed for a murder and running for my life, but I have avoided people to stay out of trouble similarly to Cal. For example when my mom finds out that I didn’t do my homework or did poorly on a test I try and avoid her as much as possible to stay out of her yelling at me and getting into trouble. Overall, I really liked this book. I enjoyed it because it was a thriller and kept me on the edge of my seat each and every time I read it. I also enjoyed it because it was a very interesting plot line. The one thing that I didn’t like was that it got pretty repetitive in how it was written. For example the chapters kept changing from her feelings about Slade to her running for her life. Also she would almost get caught every time and that got pretty predictable. But like I said before I really enjoyed this book. I would recommended this book to anyone who likes a good mystery and to anyone who loves cliff hangers. Blood on My Hands was a great book and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! ...more
Apr 04, 2012 Ian Goldberg rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 4th-quarter, crime
Blood on My Hands was a very good book. It had lots of suspense. I couldn't stop reading it. It had a really good plot. The ending was great because I didn't expect it.
The book was about a girl named Callie. She was friends with a bunch of popular girls at her school. She was at a party when one of her friends tells her to look for another girl who has been gone a while. She goes looking for her and she finds her dead body. Someone murdered her. It is dark and she can't see that well. She sees Blood on My Hands was a very good book. It had lots of suspense. I couldn't stop reading it. It had a really good plot. The ending was great because I didn't expect it.
The book was about a girl named Callie. She was friends with a bunch of popular girls at her school. She was at a party when one of her friends tells her to look for another girl who has been gone a while. She goes looking for her and she finds her dead body. Someone murdered her. It is dark and she can't see that well. She sees something on the ground and picks it up. It was a knife. It had blood on it and it was the murder weapon. When she picked up the knife, her friend took a picture of her and put it on the internet. From looking at the picture, everyone thought that Callie was the murderer. She was framed for her friends murder. She is hiding from the cops because she doesn't think that they will believe that she is innocent. She calls her x boyfriend who helps her hide from the cops. Later at the end of the book, you find out who the real murderer is.
I can't really connect this book to anything because I have never really be chased my the cops. I did think it was a good book. I like reading mystery murder books. I have read a lot of books like this one but this one is definitely one of my favorite ones. It had such a great plot and had a really good ending. I couldn't stop turning the pages because I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. ...more
Oct 10, 2011 Ari rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Why I decided to read this book:
I decided to read this book because I like crime/mystery books as they really interests as because they get my mind very involved with the story.
Which category on the bingo this book completes:
A book written with a female main character.
What I liked about this book:
I liked how this book hooks you into never wanting to out it down in the very first sentence, the mystery of what has happened is not revealed to the very end changing your thoughts of what's going on Why I decided to read this book:
I liked how this book hooks you into never wanting to out it down in the very first sentence, the mystery of what has happened is not revealed to the very end changing your thoughts of what's going on several times through out this story. The book is written to make you really feel for what's happening to the character and want it all to be okay for the main character.
What I didn't like about this book:
I didn't like how it changed between past and present and also had some dialogue that wasn't part of story, at times this got quite confusing as you never knew what was going on, apart from that it was a great book.
Who would I recommend this book to and why:
I would recommend this book to any who likes a good crime investigation sorry, with shocking twists throughout the whole sorry and leaving you shocked and your emotions played with once you've reached the end. ...more
May 18, 2012 Emory Holzer rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 4th-quarter, mystery
I loved this book. It was so suspenseful, and I was always on the edge of my seat. I think this book is good for anyone who likes mysteries. Throughout the book there were flashbacks that led up to the reveal of the real killer.
In the beginning Callie decides to go to a party. While she is at the party she realizes that her friend Katherine is missing. Dakota, her other friend, tells her to go look behing the dugout. When she gets there she sees Katherine on the ground dead. She tries to feel if I loved this book. It was so suspenseful, and I was always on the edge of my seat. I think this book is good for anyone who likes mysteries. Throughout the book there were flashbacks that led up to the reveal of the real killer.
In the beginning Callie decides to go to a party. While she is at the party she realizes that her friend Katherine is missing. Dakota, her other friend, tells her to go look behing the dugout. When she gets there she sees Katherine on the ground dead. She tries to feel if she has a pulse, but she doesn't have one. Then a glint catches her eye. She looks and finds a knife on the ground. As soon as she picks it up there is a flash behing her. Then another and another. She finds people taking pictures on their phones. Then someone yells' "Callie killed Katharine." Before she knows it she is running from the police.
One time, a few years ago, me and my brother were home alone. We were playing in the living room when my brother knocked over a vase. He quickly ran away so I started to pick up the pieces. Then I heard my mom yell. She thought I did it. I tried to explain, but she sent me to my room. Both me and Callie were framed for something we did not do. ...more
Mar 04, 2013 Stephanie (the nerdy princess) rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: young-adult
Katherine the high school queen bee is stabbed and killed during a party and "ex friend" Callie is at the crime seen holding the knife and hoving above katherine's dead body. Someone who showed up at the sceen takes a picture of callie holding the knife which sends callie on the run from the police to prove her innocence.
After everything that katerine has done to callie, callie isnt to upset over the death but is not going to let someone frame her for the murder. she has to figure out a plan and Katherine the high school queen bee is stabbed and killed during a party and "ex friend" Callie is at the crime seen holding the knife and hoving above katherine's dead body. Someone who showed up at the sceen takes a picture of callie holding the knife which sends callie on the run from the police to prove her innocence.
After everything that katerine has done to callie, callie isnt to upset over the death but is not going to let someone frame her for the murder. she has to figure out a plan and create a disguise so she can figure out who killed katherine. She has an idea but she needs help.
It doesnt help that her brother is in jail for attempt murder on her father that has left her father a crippled and her mother to take after him. She has to be care what friends she goes for help because everyone is practically a part of the clique that was led by katherine.
her only hope lies with her old boyfriend slade, but after what callie did to slade is he going to be willing to help her?
GREAT book! :) ...more
May 08, 2012 Michael rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: 4th-quarter
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book was really entertaining. But, I find it kind of cheesy how Callie would pick up the knife and stand up right behind Katherine. I know people get blamed for things they didn't do but this one was kind of preposterous. After she gets accused, she goes into hiding in the town. If it was me I would just go straight to the police and tell them what happened. That would make it seem less suspicious. Also, if you were going to hide, you shouldn't just stay in the town. If she wanted to hide This book was really entertaining. But, I find it kind of cheesy how Callie would pick up the knife and stand up right behind Katherine. I know people get blamed for things they didn't do but this one was kind of preposterous. After she gets accused, she goes into hiding in the town. If it was me I would just go straight to the police and tell them what happened. That would make it seem less suspicious. Also, if you were going to hide, you shouldn't just stay in the town. If she wanted to hide she should have left the town. Slade, her boyfriend, helped her out. Since he was the one who did it, his actions were a little weird. If he didn't want to get caught he should have helped her more. That way the police would be looking for her more, instead of trying to find other suspects. Also, I find it weird that Dakota would go to the extreme of wanting someone to kill Katherine. Even though she wasn't trying to kill her, in the back of her mind she knew she wanted to. Dakota must me very crazy to go to that extreme. All in all I didn't think this book was the best. ...more
Jul 20, 2012 Sophie Henderson rated it it was amazing
I decided to read this book because the cover court my eye when I was trying to find a book to read from the school library. I also enjoy reading crime books. This book fits into the category on the bingo book as a book written in 2011. My favorite quote from the book is ''in fact do me a favor, okay?'' because in the end that seems to be why there was blood on Callie's hands because of a little favor. My favorite character from this book is Callie because she not afraid to speak the truth. The I decided to read this book because the cover court my eye when I was trying to find a book to read from the school library. I also enjoy reading crime books. This book fits into the category on the bingo book as a book written in 2011. My favorite quote from the book is ''in fact do me a favor, okay?'' because in the end that seems to be why there was blood on Callie's hands because of a little favor. My favorite character from this book is Callie because she not afraid to speak the truth. The last 20 pages of this book gave you all the missing pieces to the story it was very interesting because I had guessed the right killer. I would read this book again and I am now trying to find the follow on. ...more
Mar 27, 2017 Amelia Hill rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This was definitely my favourite book in the trilogy. It kept throwing surprises at you and kept you on the edge of your seat. The book was so carefully and cleverly constructed that I was surprised when the killer was revealed. Amazing book.
Jan 08, 2016 Christine (KizzieReads) rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2016-reads, library-books, young-adult, thriller
Totally unexpected ending. Didn't see it coming. I thought it was a really good page turner. Just had a problem with one bit at the very first of the book. A little bit did not make sense but it all turned out good.
Nov 12, 2015 Averie Marin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I loved this book, it keeps your attention fully when you read it .
Oct 16, 2014 Julia Grace is currently reading it · review of another edition
I'm on page 85. This book is really good so far. It's about a girl named Callie and she found one of her friends body behind a dugout at a party in the woods. Her name was Katherine and her best friend was Dakota. Dakota told Callie that everyone was looking for Katherine and told her to look behind the dugout. Callie went and found her and was felling her pulse to see if she was still alive but Callie found the knife that was stabbed in her. Dakota and her friends show up right after she found I'm on page 85. This book is really good so far. It's about a girl named Callie and she found one of her friends body behind a dugout at a party in the woods. Her name was Katherine and her best friend was Dakota. Dakota told Callie that everyone was looking for Katherine and told her to look behind the dugout. Callie went and found her and was felling her pulse to see if she was still alive but Callie found the knife that was stabbed in her. Dakota and her friends show up right after she found Katherine and started talking pictures of her. Dakota said something like, " Why you? Why would you kill her?" But Callie was thinking how did she know that Katherine was dead. All the evidence showed to Callie but Callie was trying to prove she was innocent. After one of Dakota's friends called the police Callie ran because she thought the cops would believe them with the pictures and her finger prints on the knife.
Callie ended up in some yard in a play house. She called her ex-boyfriend, Slade, who she still loved, to come and pick her up. After he picked her up she told him what happened and he brought her to the old EMS building where their friends used to hang out. Callie slept there over night and the next morning Slade brought everything Callie wrote down to disguise herself. She did it because she thought everyone would think she was guilty. She cut and dyed her hair. She also dressed in all black and put keys rings as nose, eyebrow, and lips piercings. She looked totally different. After that she want to her friend, Tallon's dorm, to tell her whats going on. That's all I've read so far.
I'm now on page 218. I'm also on chapter 42. After she went to her dorm room she decided to go to the library on campus and logged on to her Facebook account. A few people saw she was online and started to ask her questions. She logged out and left as quickly as possible. She went back to the EMS building and hid. Police end up at the building and start to search with guns and weapons. She runs out the back and into the woods so they can't find her. Two flashlights start to search the woods. The police are searching for her. They don't see her because one cop is on the other side of the tree she is hiding behind. The cop said he heard something because Callie was breathing really hard. Callie throw a stick in a different direction and they go to it and find nothing. They leave and she is not found. She goes to a convenience store and she buys some ice cream. When she left the store a police car zooms by. They are looking for her. She goes to a soccer game to blend in with the crowd. She sees Slade little sister playing on the field. She sees Slade on the field. He starts walking towards her and then police cars start to pull in the parking lot. Slade goes back to where he was before and Callie goes into the marsh in the reeds. A German Shepard goes into the marsh and she freezes but them she thinks. Soundview doesn't have police dogs. A woman calls her dog and it leaves. Then she talks to Slade and the game is over. She goes to her brothers friend's house and talks about whats going on. He makes her phone untraceable but it doesn't work. After she leaves she sleeps in his tree house. She goes to Slade's house and showers and get the dye out of her hair because they know what she looks like now. She puts on his sisters clothes and takes her bike to make her look young. Jerry, her brothers friend, calls and sees if she needs anything. She said she needed money so he hid it in a train station warmer room under books. She got it and texted him "thanks." People on the train platform were there so a long time and when she texted him, they got a suspicious look. She realized they tracked her phone. She threw it in a garbage truck driving buy and they chased the truck. She went to a building where Slade was fixing up. She went into his truck and fell asleep. Slade woke her up and they talked and he brought her in the building. She hid in a cabinet. In the morning she got out and talked to Congresswoman Jenkins, Dakota's mom, and told her that her daughter might of killed Katherine. After Mrs. Jenkins left, Callie hid. The cops came in looking for her and it became night and no one was there. She got out of her hiding spot and Chief Jenkins, Dakota's dad, was sitting there waiting. He brought her to the station and they questioned her. Her attorney said to just take the plea deal of self defense. Her mom wanted her to take it as well.
Mar 20, 2012 Lisbeth Avery {Domus Libri} rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: three-stars, library
The first thing I have to say is about the cover. It is the only reason I picked it up, that and the title. I was roaming around my public library and the title caught my eye and then the cover made me get it.
Moving on, I read maybe 70 pages and immediately wrote in my notes:
So far, very three star-y.
It was, and it got worse.
First of all, how stupid do you have to be to look for a pulse, find none, but still take the knife to see if it is fake. Really? If I had seen a dead body, fake or not, at The first thing I have to say is about the cover. It is the only reason I picked it up, that and the title. I was roaming around my public library and the title caught my eye and then the cover made me get it.
First of all, how stupid do you have to be to look for a pulse, find none, but still take the knife to see if it is fake. Really? If I had seen a dead body, fake or not, at the edge of the forest, I would have screamed Bloody Mary.
Callie just stood there in shock. Not even a single scream. Seriously, this is what she did.
I’m kneeling next to Katherine’s body, my heart racing, my breaths shallow and fast, my emotions reeling crazily at the sight on the ground before me.
Then on top of kneeling by the body she:
Something, barely a glint in the dark, is lying on the ground beside her. I reach for it. A knife.
Then again, what can you expect from a girl who is the minion of the popular girl. Maybe Strasser was trying to show how Callie wasn’t too bright. Then again, she survived for eight days out of home and on the run. Another really stupid thing happened on page 69.
First stop is the convenience store.
So she goes to the convenience store in disguise. Can’t blame her, gal gotta eat. But read this.
She cocks her head curiously and stares as she picks up the coins she needs. “New around here?”
“Uh…” I slide the rest of the change into my shaking hand, trying to think of an answer. “No. I mean, yes!”
Really? You go in disguise to a public place with cameras and you have no plan. None whatsoever. I would at least have made up a convincing lie. :\
I hated practically every character.
I couldn’t relate with Callie, at all. I would have done a lot differently, and probably wouldn’t get into that problem.
Callie’s best friend left town and she got adopted by, guess who, the mean popular girl. At times, she seems smart enough to not get in with the mean people and do such horrible things, but at other times, I have to wonder, how smart is she?
Her boyfriend, Slade, was… ok. I guessed his secret from the beginning.
Katherine was a good bad girl, if that made any sense. I have to say, I didn’t guess her secret until the party scene.
The big question throughout the book was: who dun it?
It was too easy to figure out who did it. The annoying part is Callie guessed who it was from moment one. There was no mystery. I would have really liked it to be a little search.
The big twist wasn’t too surprising. I really didn’t find it too much of a surprise. I won’t spoil it for you though.
The flash backs were probably the best part of it, aside from Chapter 49 (which was a police interview). I would have preferred the flash backs to be in italics or perhaps a different font. It would have made the two stories better differentiated.
All the police words (you know, bravo four-eleven, ect) were fun to read. Callie seemed to know what they all meant, so it was entertaining to read the translations.
What I liked/disliked:
I enjoyed the flash backs, Chapter 49, and a bit more, but I think it doesn’t deserve a higher rating than maybe 3. The flaws can be overlooked, so this book makes a good in-between book. The flaws stood out too much to me, but I’m known to be quite picky.
In conclusion:
The book has flaws, quite a few in fact but the book can still be enjoyed by others. I wouldn’t read it again, but for those looking for a quick read that doesn’t need much/any thought, here’s your book.
Favorite Character: Katherine for being a good “bad girl”.
Favorite Quote: N/A
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Apr 10, 2015 Jenna W rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Jenna White
Mrs. Toney
Period 1 and 2
Summary: A girl named Katherine was killed at the park. Callie (her best friend) found her and saw something next to her. She picked it up and realized it was a knife. These two other girls were walking by and thought that Callie killed Katherine. The girls took at picture and reported it to the police.
The police have been searching for Callie for a couple of days. Callie wants to go and tell the truth but her brother tried to kill Jenna White
The police have been searching for Callie for a couple of days. Callie wants to go and tell the truth but her brother tried to kill someone so Callie thinks that the police will not believe her. She has been hiding in a tree house and only 1 person knows. One of her friends (the person that knows) tells Callie to tell the truth to the police and what happened. Callie isn’t going to until she finds out who killed Katherine.
She figured put that it was Katherine’s boyfriend that killed her. She tells her friend but he doesn’t believe her. They get into a huge fight. Then he says sorry and that he believes her and Callie starts to go to school again. She tells the police but they say that she doesn’t have enough evidence to tell that it is him. They say that Callie is a suspect because your fingerprints are all over the knife, but they will look into her boyfriend.
Main characters: The main characters are Callie, Katherine, the police, Jake, and Edward. Callie was Katherine’s best friend before she died. Callie was accused for killing Katherine but it was all a misunderstanding. Callie has long red hair with freckles. Another main character is Katherine. She got killed and she was a popular kid. She had long brown hairs and was nice but sassy.
The police are a big part in this because they investigate and try and see who killed Katherine and everything like that. They make everyone’s life change and get involved with a lot. Jake is a main character because that was Katherine’s boyfriend. He gets accused of killing Katherine and everything/everyone goes crazy. Last one is Edward, he is a big part because he is the only one who knows where Callie was hiding and knows that she didn’t do it and things like that. he backs up Callie and is there for her through everything.
Setting: This book takes place in a lot of places. The school, park, woods, treehouse, and even in jail. The school is where the killer goes and where everyone else goes. Everyone is trying to find out who killed who and they are scared. The park id where Katherine was killed. The woods is here the tree house is and where Callie hides. The jail is where the police officers work and where people get accused and go to jail.
Conflict: The problem in this book is Katherine getting killed, and people getting accused for killing her. Callie was her best friend and she was getting accused because she is the one who found Katherine first and picked up the knife beside her. She was also accused because she ran away from the police and was hiding for weeks. Other people got accused down the line but they finally found out who killed her.
Resolution: The resolution is that they find out who killed Katherine. They end up accusing a lot of people but they do end up finding out who the killer is. Callie is clear and no longer has to run, and neither do the other people. The killer is in jail for a long time.
Opinion of book: I thought this book was really good. I love these kind of investigation/detective books. I would read it again if I had to. I would rate it five stars. I recommend this book to many people.
Recommend: I recommend this book to any person that likes instigation/murder books. I don’t recommend this to someone that wants to know the answer right away. The middle of the book is where all the action comes. I recommend to read this.
Jan 27, 2012 Randa rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, mysterious, scary-horror
The cover:
This is the UK cover, and for some reasons, I like it better than the US cover, probably because Wish You Were Dead’s, the previous book’s, UK cover is way prettier than the US one. Although, the US one makes more sense….
The storyline:
This story has less horror in it than the previous book but way more suspense. I was holding my breath all the time because I knew something bad was going to happen.
The mystery in this story was the number one thing that kept me reading, it was a great The cover:
The mystery in this story was the number one thing that kept me reading, it was a great journey with Callie trying to figure out who killed Katherine and framed her. I’ve been thinking about the killer and the possibilities all the time while reading the book, and I’m sad to say, I totally didn’t expect the ending…!!
What I loved:
The writing style was very good, it is somehow different from the first book, but it only made the book better.
I was expecting it to be a sequel in story to Wish You Were Dead and was somehow shocked to find that it is a totally different story. I loved how the story was built from ground zero and developed its own surroundings and characters but it also happened in the same city, so this tiny detail didn’t change :).
The main protagonist, Callie, was very brave and smart too.
The story wasn’t boring despite its 51 chapters and I actually remember each one because they were short and weren’t long.
Two words: the ending!
My favorite chapter is 47!!
The twists and the ongoing cobwebs of weird events.
What I hated/didn’t like:
Hmm.. nothing really I can remember.
What I missed:
I wish there was a bit more horror in the story?! It lacked that compared to the first book and there weren’t any gore or horrifying descriptions or scenes (Call me crazy, but I love these and really liked them in the first one, it’s not like they’re too scary or disgusting, they just add this feel to the story).
The characters:
Callie is the protagonist. She’s been framed for a death she didn’t commit and she was courageous and strong while trying to prove her innocence.
Slade is Callie’s boyfriend. He really loves her and helps her thru the book, but at the end, you’ll find many unsettling truths about him.
Dakota is the one who’s been blamed by Callie in the book for killing Katherine and setting up Callie. She’s not totally innocent either.
Katherine, the dead girl, is basically the mean girl in the Soundview High school. She’s been manipulating a lot of students including Callie, Dakota and Mia.
Mia is another girl who happens to want to be in Katherine’s circle but ends up being kicked out by her. She becomes Callie’s friend.
Other characters worth mentioning are Callie’s parents and brother, Sebastian, who’s in jail for attacking their father and causing him permanent brain damage. Chief od police Jenkins who’s Dakota’s uncle and an old friend of Callie’s father.
After all, two years ago my older brother, Sebastian, made national news by bludgeoning our father nearly to death with a two-by-four, leaving him brain damaged and mute and paralyzed from the neck down. What’s so hard to believe? Like brother, like sister, right? – Chapter 2.
The other thing is you can tell yourself you’re a charity case without really believing it. And then the day comes when you forget. And you think you really do belong. Because you want to so badly. – Chapter 3.
And why had she kept Dakota?
Maybe she was thinking like the Chinese general who said, “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” --- Chapter 34.
This was a really good read. I don’t have words to describe it, but if you love thriller and mystery books with twists, this is definitely one to check :). ...more
Mar 20, 2018 Dara rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Shelves: 8th-grade-siron-la
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The novel Blood On My Hands by Todd Strasser is about a teen girl named Callie Carson who is accused of killing her friend Katherine Remington-Day. She’s wanted for murder and has to prove her innocence to the police and her family. Overall, the book just didn’t work for me.
Starting off with the characters, there wasn’t much characterization. I wasn’t able to relate to them and form a personality for them. Slade’s (Callie’s complicated boyfriend) personality switches and it’s hard to understand The novel Blood On My Hands by Todd Strasser is about a teen girl named Callie Carson who is accused of killing her friend Katherine Remington-Day. She’s wanted for murder and has to prove her innocence to the police and her family. Overall, the book just didn’t work for me.
Starting off with the characters, there wasn’t much characterization. I wasn’t able to relate to them and form a personality for them. Slade’s (Callie’s complicated boyfriend) personality switches and it’s hard to understand if he’s a good or bad guy. This was probably the author’s purpose but I didn’t like this style since he did this with the other characters. The protagonist Callie is perceived as a nice, sweet, girl but the author flashbacked a lot of her diva traits and I didn’t understand what her personality was like. Callie is part of a popular group in school including Katherine, Dakota, and Zelda. At the time, Callie was dating Slade but Katherine threatened her that if she didn’t break up with him, she’d have to leave the crew. Reading it, I thought “oh, she seems bold and non-attention-seeking, she won’t do it”, but she ended up breaking up with him just to be popular. I was annoyed of her because I thought she was better than that, but throughout the entire novel her personality also switches. This is why I couldn’t pinpoint and relate to any of the character’s personality. Instead of things being black and white, the characterization was gray.
Second, the resolution of the novel felt like it was quick and should’ve been explained better. The entire story felt like it was repetitive, Callie was either hiding from the cops or committing her love to Slade. The resolution was straightforward and it didn’t match what the author did the entire novel. To support my reasoning, Dakota attends an interview with the detectives and spills the truth of why Slade killed Katherine, Katherine being lesbian, why they framed Callie, and her secret relationship with Slade. All of the secrets came out in only around 8 pages of the book and there’s 274 pages. I get what the author’s doing, he’s making the suspense repetitive so when I’d see all of the truth in a short amount of pages, I’d be satisfied. Personally, it didn’t bring me total shock and the “omg!” I was supposed to get because the resolution was so bluntly explained. Therefore, it wasn’t satisfying.
Finally, the conflict of the story was terrible and would’ve never been created if Callie didn’t make such poor mistakes that no one would do. For example, during night time Callie finds her dead friend on the ground with a bloody knife beside her and picks it up. I understand she was confused and couldn’t see, but I would’ve never messed with a crime scene. Not only that but after her classmates started taking pictures of her holding a knife, she ran away. Then the entire novel continues with her running away from the police and I felt like the author stretched it out. The conflict wasn’t interesting enough for it to be not stretched out. Again, the conflict was repetitive and would’ve been solved ages ago if she stopped making dumb mistakes.
This book was just not for me since it had bratty and annoying characters with changed personalities, a blunt resolution with so much irrelevant suspense, and a stretched out conflict. I really would recommend this book to people who enjoy long suspense and a short ending. If you’ve read Beastly by Alex Flinn you might enjoy this book because the style of writing is almost similar.
Mar 08, 2018 Zyrelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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Blood on my Hands Personal Response Chapter 1-20 (13/03/2018)
This book is about how Callie Carson is at a keg party. She was enjoying her time there when all the sudden people started looking for this girl called Katherine, one of the most popular IT girl goes missing. Everyone spreads out look for Katherine, Callie was the first one to find her lying down on the ground and pretending that was dead and had a bloody knife beside her. As soon as Callie pick up the knife, a few drops of blood went Blood on my Hands Personal Response Chapter 1-20 (13/03/2018)
This book is about how Callie Carson is at a keg party. She was enjoying her time there when all the sudden people started looking for this girl called Katherine, one of the most popular IT girl goes missing. Everyone spreads out look for Katherine, Callie was the first one to find her lying down on the ground and pretending that was dead and had a bloody knife beside her. As soon as Callie pick up the knife, a few drops of blood went on to her hand and someone had taken a snapshot of it and posted it all over the internet. Now she is getting accused of murdering Katherine. Then the next chapters is about that Callie have finally gotten through the whole experience on murdering Katherine. Callie and her family has finally escaped from the police and now living their lives normal again with no worrying about the police chasing them, no hiding from people who knew about the murder situation. One of my favorite quotes from this book is " Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." This text really made me think what does it mean and what was it trying to say to the reader. There was a part of the story where I didn't like if I put this in real life which is basically how Callie all the sudden get accused of murder already when they didn't really check if it is really true that she murder Katherine and if Katherine was awake or just pretending to be dead, but I also think that's what story basically about, but I think the story would be more interesting if this was the type of situation that the author is giving to the reader. I did find calling the police right away was pretty surprising for me because I would normally expect that she would double check just in case if it was really true. I think what I have learnt from the first part of the story is that always be careful what your actions are whether if your doing the right thing or not. I like how the author went into the action as soon as you start reading the book unlike some other books kinda starts off kind of boring and starts getting into action as you read more and more. There are some part of the texts that used some very different writing like he spelled the words in shorter form compared how they normally spell the words such as instead of spelling the word "are" he put it like "r". I actually saw those type of texts in the book for the first time but he only used it when someone is texting a friend or another person.
Jan 06, 2010 Jennifer Wardrip rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: trt-posted-reviews
Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Having just finished reading Todd Strasser's IF I GROW UP to my 8th graders, I was excited to read another one of his books. BLOOD ON MY HANDS is the second book in what is described as a "thrill"-ogy that began with WISH YOU WERE DEAD.
Callie seems to have been caught red-handed, knife in hand, bent over the body of Katherine Remington-Day. Someone in the crowd that gathered snapped a picture of Callie holding the murder weapon, and Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Callie seems to have been caught red-handed, knife in hand, bent over the body of Katherine Remington-Day. Someone in the crowd that gathered snapped a picture of Callie holding the murder weapon, and now she finds herself on the run from the police.
After what Katherine did to her, Callie isn't particularly upset that her former friend is dead, but she certainly is not going to be framed for the murder. What she needs to do now is find somewhere safe to hide so she can figure out a plan. Before too many people are aware of her instant fame, Callie makes a quick stop at a store to buy hair dye and a few other supplies to create a disguise. Her tiny build doesn't allow her to blend into crowds of average-sized individuals, so she opts for a Goth girl style in hopes of looking totally different than people would expect.
Callie has an idea of who may have committed the crime, but she needs help. Counting on her parents for assistance is worthless. Her mother is needed at home to care for her disabled father, and her brother is in prison, found guilty of the attack that crippled their father. She must be careful which friends she goes to for help, since practically everyone she knows is part of the clique led by the late Katherine.
Her only hope lies with Slade. But how willing will he be to help, since she dumped him and broke his heart?
BLOOD ON MY HANDS chronicles the days following the murder as Callie tries to prove her innocence. She describes her struggle to search for evidence as she hides from the police. During the time she spends hiding, she recalls the events leading up to her current situation. The suspense created by the twists and turns in friendships and circumstances surrounding Katherine's death and Callie's presumed guilt make for an action-packed thriller that pushes right through to the last page. ...more
Oct 13, 2017 Aryssa Chambers rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The book Blood on my Hands, takes people through a heart pumping secret that makes good friends hate each other.Main character Callie is a high school student that goes through a rough time and gets in trouble by the police.But something tells her to go and find out what happened to a friend of hers.Also Callie stays in hiding for a good while and ask someone for help.
Characters: I really liked seeing what happens through Callie.She is smart,brave,and wants to see what things went on.Not just The book Blood on my Hands, takes people through a heart pumping secret that makes good friends hate each other.Main character Callie is a high school student that goes through a rough time and gets in trouble by the police.But something tells her to go and find out what happened to a friend of hers.Also Callie stays in hiding for a good while and ask someone for help.
Characters: I really liked seeing what happens through Callie.She is smart,brave,and wants to see what things went on.Not just Callie but even the other characters are really well thought out and have their own thing that is going on is the story.To start off with Callie never gives up one what she puts her mind to,even if to someone face to face.
Plot: Some people don’t enjoy going back in time from what happened before the thing actually happened.At a baseball game almost all the students were there to support their team.The author starts out with going back before the event happened to help people understand what they just readed and it makes a lot more sense or you would ask yourself what happened before.The event felt like it fit in and didn’t sound to bad to me.
Conflict: The major conflict that happened to Callie was so unbelievable.Even though she didn’t do what people think she did.She worries about what if people don’t believe her,will she be like her brother,is she going to stay in juvie,and did she make a good choice by running.The main conflict helps set the mood to the story.
What I Learned: When reading this book,I learned that you should always solve the problem you’re in.Also to never give up on telling people what happened before you got there or after you get to the problem.It really made me feel like I was the main character and that I had to go through what she went through and that I need to go to the police if something that bad happened.The things that Callie has been through make me feel like I can make a difference.This is why I’m rating this book a 4 out of 5.
Jan 04, 2015 Noella rated it liked it · review of another edition
Callie finds her Katherine's body and discovers that her friend has been murdered. Moments later her classmates flood around her and find her holding the weapon in her hand and snap photos of her to post and spread online. Callie decides to run because the photos all point to her being the murderer. She sets out to discover the real murderer whilst trying to avoid being recognised by the public and avoid capture by the authorities.
The book was great at being suspenseful, hopping between the Callie finds her Katherine's body and discovers that her friend has been murdered. Moments later her classmates flood around her and find her holding the weapon in her hand and snap photos of her to post and spread online. Callie decides to run because the photos all point to her being the murderer. She sets out to discover the real murderer whilst trying to avoid being recognised by the public and avoid capture by the authorities.
The book was great at being suspenseful, hopping between the time Callie is on the run and the past to develop a picture of who Katherine was and introduce the possible suspects. It did get a bit tedious hopping from one time to another as the story was quite slow to unfold. However, it was clever how the timelines converged and led to the eventual truth.
What I didn't enjoy was that Callie made stupid decisions but for some reason avoided being caught by the police for quite a while. It was particularly annoying as she built a case around who the possible murderer was without obtaining solid evidence and hoping to report her findings later to the authorities. I kept thinking that job would best be left for the experts! The longer she ran the more suspicious she became.
The twist at the end was real. It turned out (view spoiler)[all Callie's suspicions were wrong and that she got her life played big-time by her so-called friend Dakota. If she had avoided Katherine's clique (who were bullies and unstable in their behaviour) like the plague, she wouldn't be put in such a crazy situation. There were so many times she could have broke away simply because they were treating her like dirt, but she chose not to. (hide spoiler)] Blood on my Hands had a good mysterious atmosphere but parts of the story were unconvincing therefore it brought my rating down. ...more
Mar 14, 2012 Ms. Yingling rated it it was ok · review of another edition
Callie is at a kegger when she finds the dead body of her arch nemesis, Katherine. In a panic, she kneels by it and touches the knife that killed the girl. Unfortunately, Dakota is there with her cell phone and snaps a picture.
After Callie's brother beat their father almost to death, Callie's family has fallen apart. The only thing keeping her going was her boyfriend, Slade, who is in the army but not being shipped out because of a knee problem. But because of Katherine's evil machinations, the Callie is at a kegger when she finds the dead body of her arch nemesis, Katherine. In a panic, she kneels by it and touches the knife that killed the girl. Unfortunately, Dakota is there with her cell phone and snaps a picture.
After Callie's brother beat their father almost to death, Callie's family has fallen apart. The only thing keeping her going was her boyfriend, Slade, who is in the army but not being shipped out because of a knee problem. But because of Katherine's evil machinations, the two have broken up. Callie doesn't know what else to do but run, and get in contact with Slade.
Callie spends most of the book hiding from the law, trying to disguise herself but also trying to figure out who really did kill Katherine, in order to clear her own name. Her investigations unveil some surprising connections. Who really did kill Katherine? And why do they want Callie to take the blame?
Strengths: My students constantly want murder mysteries, and this one is perfect. A gruesome killing, a girl on the run, evil plots put in place by popular but disturbed children. Strasser's writing seems so effortless, as well. This is in the style of Wish You Were Dead, which the students really like.
Weaknesses: If a similar theme hadn't shown up in Wish You Were Dead, I wouldn't think much of it, but the girl who was killed was a lesbian, and one of the reasons (not to spoil things too much) that her killer killed her was that if she killed Katherine, maybe she would stop feeling attracted to girls. Or a variation on that. It's not discussed in depth, and I didn't come away thinking that lesbians were all pyscho killers, but it was a jarring moment. Still, the mention is brief, and the book is appropriate for middle school.
Feb 21, 2011 Kirsty rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: review-books
Blood on her hands is a really gripping read. I devoured it in the space of 2 or three hours in one sitting and really enjoyed it.
If I had to say what book this is most like I would say it is like a slightly younger Lois Duncan mixed with a teen horror flick. It's not too gory and has loads of suspense and mystery that keeps you both engaged and guessing throughout the entire book.
The story starts quite dramatically. Callie is found with a knife in her hand standing over a girl who has been Blood on her hands is a really gripping read. I devoured it in the space of 2 or three hours in one sitting and really enjoyed it.
The story starts quite dramatically. Callie is found with a knife in her hand standing over a girl who has been stabbed. The conclusion that is instantly jumped to is the one that Callie was the one to kill her. Callie runs despite the fact that it makes her look even more guilty claiming that it was nothing to do with her and she found the other girl that way.
This is one of my review where I'm not going to tell you anything more about the plot or what happens as I think I would spoil it if I did. What I will say is this. The story was written in such a way that I didn't see the final outcome of whodunnit coming and was surprised at the ending (certainly not a book where you can read the last few pages and not spoil the whole thing). The thing I also loved about this book is that the teenagers are really well done. The popular girls in this book, Katherine in particular, as real bitches and brilliant characters to read about. The only niggly thing I had about it which I wasn't too sure on was callie's reasoning behind running which I didn't get (you'll see what I mean when you get there)
All in all a fab (but tame from a gore point of view for you squeamish girlies) horror/thiller which kept me guessing right until the end. I am already looking forward to book two. ...more
Apr 30, 2012 Paula Phillips rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Wanting a novel that keeps you in suspense as we try and discover who the killer is and why the number #1 suspect is being framed ?
Blood on my hands , in many ways reminded me of plots that I have read a thousand times ( due to being such a huge reader) -though this is not to say I don't enjoy the plot in other novels . The rich, popular girl -the one everyone wants to be like is found murdered . The new girl in the group , the one with a dodgy past finds her and ends up being the number #1 Wanting a novel that keeps you in suspense as we try and discover who the killer is and why the number #1 suspect is being framed ?
Blood on my hands , in many ways reminded me of plots that I have read a thousand times ( due to being such a huge reader) -though this is not to say I don't enjoy the plot in other novels . The rich, popular girl -the one everyone wants to be like is found murdered . The new girl in the group , the one with a dodgy past finds her and ends up being the number #1 suspect of murder. It soon all comes out though, that the girls acted that they really liked the popular girl but in fact -none of them liked her, they actually all hated her, so soon they all become suspects in the murder. It's a race for Callie's life as she finds out who is framing her and why ? The writer puts the emphasis on Callie and her family , which I enjoyed as Callie's older brother is in prison for trying to murder their father who is now basically a vegetable with brain damage and paralysed from the waist down. Todd Strasser, to keep up with the fact that we are coming from an era which is all digital age places throughout the novel email transcripts , facebook notes , IM's and Txt's . Blood on your hands will keep you guessing till the end as we discover, that the murder of Katherine Day-Remington was a two person job and I did guess one of the two but the second person , I would never had guessed as a killer.
After reading both "Wish You Were Dead" and "Blood on Your Hands", Im looking forward to seeing what Todd Strasser will come up with next. ...more
Nov 27, 2012 Ananya rated it liked it
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Blood on My Hands is one of the first books by Todd Strasser that I have read, the book had it's good and it's bad factors as the plot went downhill and up again. The plot was all too predictable and some what far-fetched. A seventeen year old girl who can run away from an entire police force? It was also very similar to Pretty Little Liars, with the dead best friend and the constant writing from present to past tense throughout the book.
I did admire was how Strasser didn't give a slow Blood on My Hands is one of the first books by Todd Strasser that I have read, the book had it's good and it's bad factors as the plot went downhill and up again. The plot was all too predictable and some what far-fetched. A seventeen year old girl who can run away from an entire police force? It was also very similar to Pretty Little Liars, with the dead best friend and the constant writing from present to past tense throughout the book.
I did admire was how Strasser didn't give a slow beginning but went straight into the action, he also used tension within the characters to scare the readers which made the novel more interesting. Callie's state-of-mind was what kept the book more thrilling and made me want to keep reading, her character was well developed. Strasser made it seem like the reader was actually Callie and could share the stress and tension with her character.
The ending could have been better; there could have been a more interesting reason as to why the killer murdered Katherine in the first place. I like how there were two characters involved for the murder. What irked me the most was how Callie didn't react more to when she found out why and who actually murdered Katherine as she was to love-strucked to care.
The book was not a "uncompromising thriller" as promised on the blurb, however I would recommend it to those who enjoy powerful crime/mystery novels for teens. ...more
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About Todd Strasser
Todd Strasser is an American author of more than 130 novels for adults, young-adults, and middle graders.
His most recent novel is Summer of '69
Booklist review: "Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, those hallmarks of the summer of 1969, are all here, but there's so much more. In this loosely autobiographical novel, Strasser introduces 18-year-old Lucas, who is bright and sensitive but also a screw up…. Todd Strasser is an American author of more than 130 novels for adults, young-adults, and middle graders.
Booklist review: "Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, those hallmarks of the summer of 1969, are all here, but there's so much more. In this loosely autobiographical novel, Strasser introduces 18-year-old Lucas, who is bright and sensitive but also a screw up…. The picture painted of the Woodstock music festival shows the dark side of peace and love, and the prevalence of drugs is on almost every page…The best part of the book, however, is the one that transcends eras: Lucas' introspection as he contemplates his place in the world."
Kirkus review: "Strasser perfectly captures the golden haze of youth and life on the cusp of adulthood. Readers fascinated with this time period will find much to enjoy... Vietnam, Woodstock, road trips, and acid trips: a sweetly bittersweet, surprising, even melancholy bildungsroman set against a world in flux. Groovy, man."
His most recent young adult novel is Price of Duty:
2018 New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
“Compact and suspenseful, the novel raises important questions about war.” – Kirkus
“This thought-provoking book is both welcome and imperative.” – Booklist * (starred review).
"Rather than attempting to sway the reader, it offers awareness." - VOYA
“Tightly wound and compelling ... appropriate for an older middle school and high school audience. VERDICT: Highly recommended.” – School Library Journal
Bio: Todd was born in New York City. When he was young his parents moved to Roslyn Heights, New York (Long Island). Todd went to the I.U. Willets Elementary school and then attended the Wheatley School for junior high and high school. His best subjects were math and science. He also liked to read, but he had trouble with spelling and grammar, and didn't do well in English. His favorite sports were tennis, skiing and fishing. Todd went to college at New York University for a few years, and then dropped out. He lived on a commune, then lived in Europe where he was a street musician.
All the while, Todd wrote songs and poems and lots of letters to his friends back home. Finally he decided to try being a writer. He returned to the United States and went to Beloit College where he studied literature and writing.
After college, Todd worked at the Middletown Times Herald-Record newspaper in Middletown, New York, and later at Compton Advertising in New York City. In 1978, Todd sold his first novel, Angel Dust Blues. He used the money to start the Dr. Wing Tip Shoo fortune cookie company. For the next 12 years, Todd sold more fortune cookies than books.
Todd now divides his time between writing books and speaking at schools and conferences. When he's at home, he likes to spend time with his children and dog, Cooper. He still likes to play tennis and ski, but his favorite new sport is surfing. ...more
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Quotes from Blood on My Hands
“It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.” — 17 likes
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72 Percent of All Rural Hospital Closures Are in States That Rejected the Medicaid Expansion
States that refused Obamacare's Medicaid expansion are hemorrhaging hospitals in rural areas.
By Luke Darby
Spencer Weiner
Roughly 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, including more than 13 million children, according to the last U.S. census. And, according to research and reporting by the Pittsburg Morning Sun and its parent company, GateHouse Media, those people have been steadily losing access to hospitals for years.
In Oklahoma, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi, at least 52 percent of all rural hospitals spent more money than they made between 2011 to 2017. In Kansas, it's 64 percent, and five hospitals there shut down completely in that time. Since 2010, 106 rural hospitals have closed across the country. (Another 700 are "on shaky ground," and about 200 are "on the verge of collapse," according to Gatehouse.) Of those 106 that closed, 77 were in deep red states where local politicians refused the Obama administration's Medicaid expansion that came about as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
In short, the federal government provided funds to expand coverage for Medicaid, a program that helps pay for health care for low income patients. But the expansion was optional, and 14 Republican-controlled states rejected to take the money. The only state that bucked this trend was Utah, where rural hospitals were among the most profitable in the country thanks to a policy of shifting funds and resources from urban hospitals. Only 14 percent of rural hospitals operated at a loss and none shut down over the same time period.
The number of rural hospitals has been shriveling for some time now: more than 200 rural hospitals closed between 1990 and 2000, according to a report from the Office of Health and Human Services. Since rural areas have been losing hospitals for decades already, every additional closure is more devastating. And even the hospitals that remain open are struggling to stay fully staffed. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, rural parts of the U.S. need an additional 4,022 doctors to completely close their coverage gaps.
Just refusing the Medicaid expansion alone doesn't completely account for the hundreds of rural hospital closures across Republican-controlled states. For one thing, medical treatment and technology has gotten more advanced. Dr. Nancy Dickey, president of the Rural and Community Health Institute at Texas A&M, told Gatehouse, "Most of what we knew how to do in the 1970s and 1980s could be done reasonably well in small towns. But scientific developments and advances in neurosurgery, microscopic surgery and the like required a great deal more technology and a bigger population to support the array of technology specialists." As a result, the number of services that rural hospitals offered started to shrink, while at the same time rural populations dwindled as both jobs and young people moved away. What's left were older, poorer populations that needed more medical care and had less money to pay for it. In that situation, hospitals can't generate enough revenue to stay open, let alone enough to pay the salaries of even new doctors, who carry an average of $200,000 in student debt.
Still, if the state legislatures and governors had accepted the money, billions of dollars could have gone to improving insurance coverage and propping up the hospitals' bottom lines. In a health-care industry where the average CEO pay is $18 million a year, hospitals have to produce a lot of money to justify their existence to shareholders. The Medicaid expansion was one of the few lifelines available to rural Americans, and their politicians snubbed it.
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Memorial Day: Freedom Is Not Free
Posted on May 23, 2019 by Christine Crosby in Holidays
Memorial Day – Freedom is not free
BY JACK LEVINE
Monday, May 27th is Memorial Day, our nation’s commemoration of the sacrifices made by those whose lives were lost for the freedoms we hold sacred.
Whether our veterans survived their military service, or were killed on the field of battle, our country owes each of them, and their families, a debt of gratitude.
As we look back at the wars proposed by presidents, declared by Congress, and supported to varying degrees by our citizens, let’s remember that none of these conflicts were or, to this day, are immune from political and social controversy.
But we should never confuse debate over military policy with the need to be respectful of those whose lives are at risk on the battlefield, in the air, or on the seas.
Our nation has been the destination of choice for great waves of immigrants from the world’s most frightening and repressive nations. My father and maternal grandparents were three of those immigrants, and perhaps your family has its story of freedom-seeking relatives.
I am very conscious of the history of our African-American neighbors whose ancestors came shackled in the holds of slave ships, and Native-Americans whose ancestors were slaughtered or subjected to racist cruelties.
I believe with all my heart that we should know our own history and should passionately advocate so that the children of all families can enjoy the opportunity to be free from the threats of injustice, oppression and terror.
Our freedoms were earned, bled for, and in many cases, died for.
Memorial Day presents the chance to gather our thoughts and honor the military service of our parents and grandparents, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins.
These individuals either volunteered or were drafted, wore the uniform of our armed forces, and gave all or a portion of their lives in service to our nation and its allies.
In honor of those we’ve lost, let’s not be passive about the importance of their sacrifice. In their honor, let’s pledge to participate in the following advocacy activities:
Register, vote, and urge others to do the same. Democracy demands dedication and active participation!
Actively communicate with our elected officials about issues affecting families, including military families and people with special challenges. Remember, our elected officials work for us! They need to learn what families face and how to be partners in solving problems to achieve our community goals.
Share your thoughts in the media by writing letters to the editor and interviewing with reporters. Media is our most cost-effective megaphone.
Motivate youth to exercise their voice in matters which affect them. The next generation of advocates need good role modeling.
Confront those who think that complaining about problems is sufficient. Whining is not as good as winning! Silence is not golden when there are wrongs to be corrected.
Honor community leadership and promote active involvement by family members, friends, colleagues and neighbors as volunteers, who I call “time philanthropists.” Good intentions must be backed up by positive actions to make a difference.
Support causes which focus on advocating positive change, prevention policies and innovative programs. Spectatorism doesn’t produce progress…active investment is key to progress!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – Jack Levine
After a 25-year tenure as president of Voices for Florida’s Children, a statewide advocacy network, Jack founded 4Generations Institute to promote intergenerational policies and programs that benefit the young, their parents, and more experienced family members…..also known as grandparents.
Jack’s expertise is in developing and delivering messages to the media, public officials, and a diverse network of health, education, human services and social justice advocates on the value of preventive investments in children, parent leadership, grandparent activism, and dignified services for elders.
Through public speaking, seminar and workshop leadership, community conversations and opinion columns, Jack shares information, provides inspiration, and leverages advocate enthusiasm in the direction of public policy action.
Jack holds a Master’s degree in Child Development and Family Studies from Purdue University and an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Hunter College.
He serves as Partnership Director for GRAND Media, is a member of Generations United and was a founding member of the Board of Voices for America’s Children.
Jack is the GRANDpartnership director for GRAND Magazine’s GRANDpartners for GRANDparents.
Jack Levine, Founder
4Generations Institute
jack@4Gen.org
www.4Gen.org
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Walking with Women: Exploring Hidden Homelessness
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Department of Education are awarding a collaborative doctoral studentship, in partnership with Human Story Theatre. This doctoral research will make use of a range of participatory arts-based methods to study the lives of homeless women (or other highly marginalised groups at risk of becoming homeless, such as people with care experience), exploring the relationship between their experiences in education, broadly defined, and their lives today. The PhD studentship will be co-funded by the Derrill Allatt Foundation and the ESRC Grand Union DTP for three years from October 2020 and will be based in the Department of Education and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. Visit here for full details on this project and how to apply.
Working as a self-employed consultant while researching
The Social Sciences Researcher Development Team is hosting this workshop run by the Oxford University Innovation Ltd., which will explore the benefits and options of consultancy as academics in the social sciences. Visit here to learn more as well as to see additional opportunities offered by the Research Development Team
'Doctoral Davos' Collaboration Fair
All DTP students currently enrolled on the doctorate are invited to attend Doctoral Davos. This one-day conference aims to connect and match students working across the social sciences with non-academic collaborators, working in the public, private, and non-profit sectors for placements and partnerships. Through a range of panel formats, we will curate a conversation designed to enable students to connect with prospective partners, and for partners to find students whose research and skills can benefit their organisation’s work. Visit our Event page to see further details and book--spaces are limited!
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme - Call Open
The Grand Union DTP is pleased to invite applications for ESRC-funded postdoctoral Fellowships to commence 1 October 2020. The call is open to applicants who have undertaken a PhD at a research organisation that is part of an ESRC-funded DTP/CDT. Fellowships are aimed at those in the immediately postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills. Visit here for all further details.
Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellowships at the ULB
The Philippe WIENER - Maurice ANSPACH Foundation aims at strengthening the relations between the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, mainly through exchange programs involving students, researchers and professors and through the development of common projects.The Foundation awards fellowships to researchers who have obtained their doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge or Oxford and who wish to carry out research at the Université libre de Bruxelles. These fellowships are open to researchers from all fields. Visit their website to learn more about this opportunity.
ESRC New Investigator Grants - call open
The ESRC is pleased to invite proposals for the New Investigator Grants. The scheme is specifically aimed at supporting those looking to make the transition to an independent researcher through managing their first major research project. The call is open to high-quality candidates from anywhere in the world who have a maximum of four years’ postdoctoral experience and the support of an eligible UK research organisation. Grants ranging from £100,000 to £300,000 full Economic Cost (fEC) can be awarded. Visit the ESRC's website for more information.
The Turing Enrichment Scheme
The application period for the Turing Enrichment Scheme at the Alan Turing Institute is now open. The Turing Enrichment scheme offers students enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university an opportunity to boost their research project with a placement at the Turing for up to 12 months. Visit here to learn more about this opportunity. The current application deadline is 21 January 2020.
Grand Union DTP - Internal Placement Opportunities
There are a number of placement and internship opportunities currently available to DTP students. Please visit our Current Placement Opportunities page to view the various internal placement schemes, application details, and relevant deadlines.
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Professor Mark Wilson
BSc, MB BChir, FRCS (SN), FIMC, FRGS, MRCA
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Neurosurgery - Trauma, Neuro
Mark Wilson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and PreHospital Care Specialist working at both Imperial College (mainly St Mary's Major Trauma Centre) and on London's Air Ambulance. His specialist areas are acute brain injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early management. He also specialises in IT (having developed a number of web based referral systems).
Mark underwent self imposed prolonged training, as an anaesthetist and a GP, before his neurosurgical career, but even now likes to maintain a broad medical interest.
He has worked extensively overseas (India, Nepal, South Africa, as a GP in Australia, Researcher for NASA and as an expedition doctor on Arctic and Everest expeditions). He wrote The Medics Guide to Work and Electives Around the World and runs www.medicstravel.org
His research is mainly into the brain in hypoxia (using it as an injury model) in humans.
Acute brain injury, traumatic brain injury and its early management
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
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Heart Cambridge
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Cambs & Peterborough: Parent Prosecutions
Heart has discovered that there has been a rise of more than 70 percent in the number of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough parents prosecuted for failing to ensure their child attends school.
Parents have a legal obligation to ensure their children attend school up to the age of 16 years old.
If a student's attendance persistently drops below 85 percent, their parents can be prosecuted, fined up to £2,500 or even jailed.
Figures released to Heart under the Freedom of Information Act show 247 parents in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were successfully prosecuted by authorities for failing to ensure their child attends school during the 2011/12 academic year.
That compares to 144 in the 2010/11 school year; an increase of 71 percent.
An anonymous Cambridgeshire teacher told Heart: "Some parents are very supportive and they will come and talk to us about their child's attendance.
However, some can be outraged and insulted that we've even mentioned it too them.
So it's very difficult sometimes for us to get the message across about why it is important that their child is in school and learning.
Even a student dropping to a 90 percent attendance over a whole school year means half a day off school every week, or put them all together, and it means a month of school missed.
That is work that quite often students don't catch up on."
A spokesman for Peterborough City Council, said: "Parents and carers have a legal obligation to ensure that children of compulsory age, who are registered at school, attend on a regular basis.
Children who miss school will have their learning disrupted and will not be able to access the education that they are entitled to.
If attendance falls below 85 per cent, this is treated as being a persistent absentee and the council will work with families to improve attendance and avoid legal action.
However, parents that consistently fail to send a child to school without reasonable justification can be prosecuted.
This can result in fines of up to £2,500 and in extreme cases, prison."
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Krisia Ayala
Puerto Rican Women Killing It in the Independent Art Scene: Krisia Ayala
By Fernando E. E. Correa González • UPRM Contributor • How She Got There March 22, 2019 at 12:04am
With the internet being so easy to access, it has become easier for independent artists to find an audience and let their work be known. As a result, a variety of movements, collectives, and scenes have found a way to pave their path. The independent art scene in Puerto Rico is no different. Recently, many artists from a variety of disciplines have found platforms that have made it easier for them to share their work. In addition, small businesses such as Electroshock in Santurce and Rio Piedras, bars like Off The Wall in Mayaguez, book stores like La Casita Books and Gifts in Aguadilla, Libros AC in Santurce and Libros 787 online, and independent festivals like Feria de Libros Independientes y Alternativos and Tintero: Festival de Cómics y Arte Independiente de Puerto Rico have provided up-and-coming artists a space to display their talents. “Puerto Rican Women Killing It in the Independent Art Scene” is a series of interviews that provides a glimpse at some of the women who have recently gained recognition in the art scene. Though the artists are asked similar questions, some are asked queries surrounding their work, specifically.
Krisia Ayala is an illustrator and art educator.
What got you into the visual arts?
When I was around three years old, I told my mom I wanted to be an artist. Since then, my mom signed me up in a number of workshops starting at Cuartel Ballajá, Estudio Luna in Old San Juan and La Liga de Arte. Once I turned 14, I started taking classes at Escuela de Artes Plásticas and learned to do comics and illustration. I then started taking after-school classes in Old San Juan with Abdiel Segarra, Rafael Miranda, and Osvaldo Budet, which lead me to start creating a network of artists who respected the craft and had a great sense of humor. I then discovered that I wanted my art to be respected.
How did you develop your style?
I developed my style by doing a number of portraits in my high school. People would constantly ask me for a drawing of their loved one, and I would draw them. Then I started to pay attention to the trends and started to use my art to connect with others. The joy that my art was generating motivated me to ask more questions and focus on the needs of others. This helped me master multiple illustration styles and techniques.
How has it evolved through the years?
I grew up humble, in Cataño. My mom and dad would try to get me the materials I needed, but for the most part, I had to work with random things and improvise. That “testing” element definitely became part of my process. Now I see things as a “print on a surface” I want to experiment with everything.
(Pajareando por Puerto Rico - Bird watching through Puerto Rico - Artist Book - 2011)
What are some of your influences and inspirations?
It’s hard to pick someone who could be my biggest inspiration. There are multiple layers in my art practice, and a very important one is my focus in the study of avian migration.
If I had to choose my biggest influence I would say the ornithologist James Bond. He was an expert in Caribbean birds and wrote the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies (1936). He motivated me to find a connection between my interests in science and art. By exploring Puerto Rico through his eyes and findings, I discovered a source of inspiration that I have shared in multiple parts of the world.
("Your departure and rain" - Risograph on archival paper - 2018.)
Is there any other form of art you wish to pursue? If so, what field and why?
Fabrication has always been an interest of mine. I’d like to spend time learning about how to generate work with different materials on a large scale.
What do you think about the current state of the arts in Puerto Rico?
I am surprised at how much it has changed, from my perspective. I believe that now artists are more self-driven and have more access to tools than ever before. However, with the constant hits on public education, the future seems grim for the next generations to come.
What do you think about the current state of the independent scene in Puerto Rico?
The community of independent artists is growing stronger every day. We see projects like Tintero and I can’t help to be hopeful about the future. I feel that as a scene, we need to start to build up spaces where we can see each other grow. I think the scene is learning from previous mistakes and it’s moving forward!
(Chango llorón - Black ink on paper - 2018)
If a young girl came up to you and said she wanted to be an artist, what would be your advice for her?
My advice would be very simple: Trust in yourself, be confident and allow yourself to fail. Today, there is more diverse participation in tech, arts, and design, but that doesn’t come without the challenges. It is important to create long-lasting connections and use networking opportunities. Those are extremely beneficial in the long run. One must be ready to do learn from each mistake to become the best version of yourself.
(The Birds, The Humans, and the Coast. -Visual of a migratory event captured via satellite imaging a Screen Print on Plexiglass - 2018)
What is your biggest goal right now?
My biggest goal right now is to get a big space and turn it into a big studio, so I can start creating large scale pieces.
What do you seek to achieve with work?
I want to create connections. I use my theoretical research to test everyday doubts, and I use that kind of work to create models that will help me understand societal problems. On the other hand, the characters in my illustrations are angry, sad, curious and mischievous. With my illustration work, I wish to show a part of myself I keep hidden from others. Both sides are an honest attempt to stay above water.
All of the pictures in this article were provided by Krisia Ayala
Fernando E. E. Correa González
Fernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 20 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit and Tonguas. Other than writing, Correa is also a filmmaker, podcaster, photographer and master’s student. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico.
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Clinical Laboratory Technologist and Technician Salary
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Clinical lab technologists and technicians are an important part of the medical profession. They must take collected human blood, specimens and tissue to labs for analysis. Through tests and microscopic analysis, these professionals are able to identify pathogens and other harmful bacteria and parasites. These are the professionals who are also responsible for conducting analysis of drug tests. Their job requires accuracy, attention to detail and the ability to concentrate on tasks for a long period of time. Some technologists and technicians spend more time on their feet, while others spend more time sitting; these factors are dependent on the type of lab.
Salary Overview
As noted on reports from the Bureau of Labors and Statistics in 2008, the average annual salary of laboratory technologists was $53,500. The 50% median of this group earned between $44,560 and $63,420. The 10th percentile averaged salaries less than $36,180, while the 90th percentile averaged annual salaries higher than $74,680. The highest-paying jobs on average were found in federal executive branches, followed by general and surgical hospitals, medical and diagnostic labs, physician offices and colleges, universities or other schools ranking last.*
The average annual salary for clinical laboratory technicians was $35,380 in 2008. The median 50% averaged salaries between $28,420 and $44,310. Average salaries of the 10th percentile were less than $23,480; the average annual salary of the 90th percentile was higher than $53,520. General and surgical hospitals were ranked the highest-paying jobs, followed by colleges, universities and professional schools, then physician offices, medical and diagnostic labs and ambulatory health care services and facilities.*
*According to the BLS, http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Job Description and Outlook
These professionals have a wide array of tasks; which tasks are included in a job description will depend on the type of facility a clinical laboratory technologist or technician is employed in. Collection of blood, body fluids and tissue samples are part of the job. After these specimens are collected, they must be carefully marked and not mistaken with others. Once they have arrived in the laboratory, they are examined and analyzed closely. Fluids such as urine or saliva may be tested for drugs or other substances. Urine is also used to test for drugs; women who may be pregnant usually receive a urine test to determine if they are pregnant or not. Samples of urine are also analyzed for abnormal pH balances, glucose, blood cells or signs of infection. Blood is the most common type of fluid that is analyzed in these labs. Counting types of blood cells and taking note of any gross physical appearances that are abnormal in the fluid are necessary.
Once a laboratory technologist or technician has examined the specimen and retrieved the necessary data, the information must be double-checked for accuracy, then sent to the physician who ordered it. Testing equipment today is very sophisticated and complex. While many of these new machines are user-friendly, they do require proper care and knowledge before use. These professionals must maintain their equipment, keep the temperatures at appropriate levels in the lab and ensure that any specimens that require refrigeration are kept cool. Maintaining a sterile and well-lit work area is also an important requirement in this profession. Clinical laboratory technicians will be more limited in what they are allowed to do, while technologists generally have a more broad scope of practice.
Training and Education Requirements
To become a clinical laboratory technician, an Associate degree is required. Most community colleges and vocational schools offer this program. Full-time students, or those who are enrolled for 12-credit-hour semesters, should expect to spend about two years or four semesters in school. Some programs have a mixed method of delivery, combining online classes with campus-based classes. Several courses will require students to perform hands-on work and lab experiments, so students should avoid any program claiming to be 100% online.
Prospective students seeking a clinical laboratory technologist degree will need to complete a Bachelor degree with an emphasis in Medical Technology. Earning this degree takes about four years for full-time students. This program also requires a balanced mixture of classroom and laboratory learning. Students will learn about human anatomy, pathology and technological equipment used for testing. Before enrolling in any program, Associate or Bachelor, students should verify its accreditation status with The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
Certification is voluntary, but most employers will look more favorably upon a technologist or technician who is certified. Programs for certification are offered by various professional associations. Some examples are The American Medical Technologists, The American Society for Clinical Pathology and The National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel. Several others exist, but usually certification with one or two associations is sufficient. Although it is not
As mentioned, there are several different associations for these professionals, due to the fact that associations provide licensing. In addition to licensing, professional associations also provide continuing education resources, important news and information and connections to thousands of other professionals with valuable advice. Two more associations not listed previously are The Board of Registry of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, The Board of Registry of the American Association of Bioanalysts.
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Leslie Alexander selling Rockets after 24 years, 2 titles
Sports // Rockets
Owner assures it's a positive choice
Jonathan Feigen , Houston Chronicle July 17, 2017 Updated: July 17, 2017 10:28 p.m.
1of10Leslie Alexander, owner of the Houston Rockets, looks over a stat sheet during the third quarter of the team's first-round NBA basketball playoff game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Oklahoma City, Friday, April 21, 2017. Oklahoma City won 115-113. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Photo: Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press
2of10Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander poses for a photo Monday, March 27, 2017 in Houston. ( Michael Ciaglo / Houston Chronicle)Photo: Michael Ciaglo, Staff
3of10Tad Brown, CEO of the Houston Rockets, annouces that owner Les Alexander is selling the NBA team shown during media conference at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk Street, Monday, July 17, 2017, in Houston. ( Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle )Photo: Melissa Phillip, Staff
4of10Since joining owner Les Alexander, center, and the Rockets in July, Eric Gordon, left, and Ryan Anderson are enjoying their roles in the team's success this season.Photo: Karen Warren, Staff
5of10Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander, speaks to the media during a press conference announcing Mike D'Antoni as the Houston Rockets new head coach, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Houston.Photo: Karen Warren, Houston Chronicle
6of10Owner Leslie Alexander clutches the trophy after the Rockets beat the Knicks in 1994 for the title.Photo: HP staff
7of10Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander sits not he sidelines before Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference Finals against the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Arena on Thursday, May 21, 2015, in Oakland. ( James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle )Photo: James Nielsen, Staff
8of10Houston Rockets guard James Harden left, is presented the Western Conference Player of the Month for January from Houston Rockets Owner Les Alexander before the Rockets play the Los Angeles Clippers at the Toyota Center Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, in Houston. ( James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle )Photo: James Nielsen, Staff
9of10Houston Rockets owner Les Alexander walks along the sidelines during the fourth quarter of Game 7 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Toyota Center Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Houston. ( James Nielsen / Houston Chronicle )Photo: Houston Chronicle
10of10Rockets owner Les Alexander left, visits with coach Kevin McHale during Tuesday's practice.Photo: James Nielsen, Staff
Rockets owner Leslie Alexander, among the longest-tenured owners in North American professional sports, has put the franchise up for sale, team president Tad Brown announced in a stunning, hastily called news conference after Alexander reached his decision Monday morning.
Brown said Alexander, 73, has no health issues that led to the decision to sell the team nearly 24 years to the day after he purchased it for $85 million from Charlie Thomas. Brown said Alexander reached the decision that shocked the NBA, the organization and even those closest to him.
"It's something he's been thinking about a little bit," Brown said. "It can wear on you after so many decades. There are passions in his life now that are becoming more and more clear, his family and his philanthropic efforts.
"He made the decision. Once he makes up his mind, his mind is made up."
Brown said there is no timetable for the sale of the team, but the NBA does have prospective buyers who have shown interest in purchasing a team. Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta, who bid for the team in 1993, said he would be interested. The price tag could run as high as the NBA-record $2 billion for which the Los Angeles Clippers sold three years ago.
Brown will oversee the effort to sell the team in consultation with the league. He said Alexander is committed to finding a buyer that will keep the team in Houston. It would be unlikely that any ownership group would seek to move the team to a considerably smaller market. The Rockets' lease with Toyota Center runs through 2033.
Forbes' evaluation
Forbes in February placed a valuation on the franchise at $1.65 billion, though Brown said those valuations have typically been "very low" when teams have been sold. The Atlanta Hawks were sold for $850 million in 2015, the most recent sale of an NBA team.
Brown said Alexander had been approached over the years about selling the team, but never previously considered it. He has not begun negotiations with any prospective owner or group.
"Recently, he's just been tired," Brown said. "It's a grind. He had a good conversation with his family and his close, close friends and decided it was a time to change his life. It was something that came up recently. He wanted to make a quick decision and go forward."
The Rockets won consecutive NBA championships in Alexander's first seasons as owner and have had the fifth-best winning percentage and second-most winning seasons in the NBA during his tenure.
But the years since the title teams have seen mixed results. There has been enormous excitement generated by the additions of some of the league's greatest stars - Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and James Harden - but also crushing injuries and spectacular postseason defeats. The Rockets twice reached the Western Conference finals in the seasons after the championships, but have advanced past the first round in the playoffs just five times since Alexander held the championship trophy.
"It's been my great joy and honor to own the Houston Rockets for the past 24 years," Alexander said in a statement released by the team. "I've had the incredible opportunity to witness true greatness through the players and coaches who have won championships for the city, been named to All-Star and All-NBA teams, enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and done so much for our franchise and our fans. And the Houston community has been home to me; I will continue to support the charities I have made commitments to throughout the years."
The Clutch City Foundation, the team's charitable wing, has raised in excess of $35 million for local charities, including the $4 million Alexander donated in March.
"Leslie Alexander is a true competitor who always searched for the right move to make his teams better," NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "Under his ownership, he created a culture of excellence with strong management that attracted Hall of Famers, All-Stars and coaching giants and brought two NBA championships and four WNBA titles to Houston.
"Well-respected around the league, he has been an active and influential owner whose vision helped to grow the game globally, especially in China. Moreover, his philanthropy speaks just as powerfully as his ownership, with local libraries, women's centers and homeless shelters all benefitting from his generosity."
The decision comes at a time Alexander has been especially involved in the team's decision-making, including the blockbuster trade for nine-time All-Star Chris Paul and signing James Harden to a contract extension that combined with his current deal is worth an NBA-record $228 million over six years.
Brown cited those moves, along with the long-term contracts for general manager Daryl Morey, coach Mike D'Antoni and other members of the front office as moves that have strengthened the franchise and increased its value.
"He feels it's time," Brown said. "The organization is in terrific shape. A management team is in place with long-term contracts.
"The team, the players, coach D'Antoni, James, Chris, you see the core we have - it's an organization that's put together because of the culture Mr. Alexander has built.
"This is something that's been weighing on him a little bit. He came to the conclusion over the last few days."
Heavily involved
An investment banker before purchasing the Rockets, Alexander had put homes in New York and California up for sale, but has continued to split his time between Houston, Florida and New York.
He had continued to be closely involved in team decision-making and attended news conferences Friday and Saturday, even watching the Toyota Center event to welcome Chris Paul to Houston from the arena floor.
"I'll always have a special place in my heart for the fans, partners, city officials and employees who care so deeply for this team," Alexander said. "I've made this decision after much deliberation with my family and friends, and do so knowing the franchise is in great shape with the players, coaches and management team in place."
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Jonathan Feigen has been the Rockets beat writer since 1998 and a basketball nut since before Willis Reed limped out for Game 7. He became a sports writer because the reporter that was supposed to cover the University of Delaware basketball team decided to instead play one more season of college lacrosse and has never looked back.
Feigen, who has won APSE, APME and United States Basketball Writers Association awards from El Campo to Houston, came to Texas in 1981 to cover the Rice Birds, was Sports Editor in Garland before moving to Dallas to cover everything from the final hurrah of the Southwest Conference to SMU after the death penalty.
After joining the Houston Chronicle in 1990, Feigen has covered the demise of the SWC, the rise of the Big 12 and the Rockets at their championship best.
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Home > eNews - Past Issues > Hospital Closings Likely to Increase
Hospital Closings Likely to Increase
Map by University of North Carolina researchers shows states at highest risk
of rural hospital closures. The trend has been accelerating since 2010.
Hospitals located in rural areas have been closing their doors more frequently and at higher rates than urban facilities in recent years — and a pattern of increasing financial distress suggests that more are likely to falter, experts said in a recent web conference.
The small hospitals are often the only health care available in rural counties, and those most affected by hospital closings tend to be poor, minorities and elderly patients with chronic health conditions.
More than 120 rural hospitals have gone out of business since 2005, and the trend has been accelerating since 2010, said George Pink of the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"The hotspot for closures and financial distress continues to be the South – particularly Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Virginia … as well as Texas," Pink told a Sept. 21 webcast audience. "A lot of states in the Midwest have no hospitals that are rural and at high risk of financial distress."
Further, he said, many of the closures in recent years affected Critical Access Hospitals , a designation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for facilities that provide essential services in especially isolated communities. And most shut down amid financial woes tied to upkeep costs for things like leaking roofs, antiquated power supplies and aging clinical equipment.
Contributing factors included: Insufficient patient populations; high rates of uninsured patients; dwindling cash flow; and physician shortages.
The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy housed at HRSA has a number of programs designed to help these smaller hospitals improve quality and track their viability. Currently, 96 percent of the 1,340 access facilities in the U.S. are reporting rural-relevant quality measures.
UNC's Pink and other researchers reviewed the fiscal health of more than 2,300 rural hospitals and published their conclusions last October. Though closings remain a "relatively rare event, they get a lot of media attention," he said, because the consequences for local patients and local economies can be so far-reaching – with the sick and injured often having to travel 30 miles or more to find care (at right).
Hospitals at high risk for financial trouble – estimated today to be nine percent of those in rural America — often serve those who are unemployed, lack transportation or suffer from mobility limitations due to conditions like obesity, diabetes and tobacco use.
"These more vulnerable populations," Pink said, "are at increased risk of losing access to some types of health care, exacerbation of health disparities and loss of hospital and other types of local employment."
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Advertise with Hockey’s Future!
As Internet advertising becomes a necessary part of the marketing strategy for most businesses, it is sometimes difficult for a media buyer to decide where to place advertising that will reach a desired target market. At Hockey's Future.com, we try to make that decision a bit easier.
Hockey's Future.com, a site devoted to the coverage of hockey prospects worldwide, is generally considered to be the top independent site in its niche on the Internet. The site was started in 1995, with readership growing steadily over the past nearly two decades. HF features a staff of dedicated writers, several of whom have media credentials at various levels of the game. In addition, HF has a partnership with International Scouting Services, with ISS being the top independent hockey scouting service in Canada.
Along with the fine coverage we provide our readership at Hockey's Future.com, we also provide those readers with a place to passionately discuss their favorite sport, or virtually any subject under the sun. HF Boards.com is one of the top hockey communities on the Internet, drawing thousands of hockey fans per day from around the globe.
So, why should you advertise at Hockey's Future.com and HF Boards.com? Depending on the product or service you sell, you could be tapping into a growing online community that includes the following characteristics:
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50% of our readers have told more than 3 people about Hockey's Future
76% of those readers visit HF or the message boards every day, with 39%
visiting more than once per day
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Some further demographic information from NHL.com provides even more information about hockey fans in general:
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So, as indicated by the statistics above, many hockey fans, including those that visit Hockey's Future and the HF Boards, fall into the desired 18-35 demographic. Many of those fans are well educated with plenty of disposable income to spend, and they are willing to spend some of that income online.
And at Hockey's Future and the HF Boards, the type of traffic described above is growing each and every year. Currently, Hockey's Future averages 540,000-600,000 unique hits per month, which translates to nearly 7 million unique hits per year. The HF Boards average 2.1 million impressions per week, which places that site's yearly total impressions at over 100 million!
Advertising at Hockey's Future and the HF Boards, then, is an excellent way to get your product or service in front potential customers that are Internet savvy and ready to spend some money.
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Thank you for considering our site for your advertising needs- we look forward to hearing from you!
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Homer Police
A caller at 8:18 a.m. reported a man trespassing at a Main Street address. Police responded.
A caller at 3:15 p.m. reported an argument that was escalating at a Lake Street address. Police responded.
Police at 3:53 p.m. contacted a 27-year-old woman driving near Mile 171 Sterling Highway and issued her a summons for no proof of insurance.
A caller at 3:59 p.m. reported people with chainsaws at a vacant lot on Bell Avenue. Police responded but did not find any suspects.
A caller at 5:23 p.m. reported a person driving a vehicle recklessly in a restricted area of Bishop’s Beach. Police responded but could not find the suspect.
A person at 9:31 a.m. made a 911 call asking for police assistance at a White Alder Court address. Police responded.
A caller at 10:54 a.m. asked police to do a welfare check on his daughter at a Rosebud Court address. Police responded.
A caller at 2:11 p.m. asked police to do a welfare check on her husband at a Kachemak Drive address. Police responded.
A caller at 6:46 p.m. reported a person on a skateboard holding up traffic in the road at the Sterling Highway and West Hill Road.
A caller at 8:45 p.m. reported a civil issue regarding campsite reservations at Karen Hornaday Park. Police advised the campground manager.
A caller at 11:53 p.m. reported hearing gunshots in the Mattox Road area. An officer was advised and the officer said there had been fireworks going off in the area.
A caller at 1:46 a.m. reported a suspicious person walking through residential lots late in the evening in the Alder Court area. Police contacted several people and found nothing criminal.
Police at 6 a.m. assisted medics in responding at a Bunnell Street address.
A caller at 1:12 p.m. reported people on ATVs riding on the Spit, an area closed to motor vehicles.
A caller at 12:14 a.m. reported hearing possible gun shots or fireworks in the Bear Creek Drive area. Police responded but did not find anything.
Police at 2:30 a.m. found on the Sterling Highway a black Labrador retriever dog that had escaped during fireworks. The dog was returned to its owner.
Police at 2:50 p.m. arrested a 27-year-old man on a fugitive-from-justice warrant at a Mission Road address.
A person at 4:33 p.m. made a 911 call of a drunk man lying in the ditch on Grubstake Avenue. Police responded and transported the man to South Peninsula Hospital.
A caller at 7:03 p.m. reported an ATV accident with injuries at Bishop’s Beach. Police and medics responded.
At 8:26 p.m., 8:51 p.m. and 9:11 p.m., several callers reported fireworks.
A caller at 10:03 p.m. reported a drunk man passed out at Ramp 1 on the Spit. Police responded.
A caller at 1:31 a.m. reported two drunk people drove away from a Pennock Street home. Police were to be on the lookout.
A caller at 9:20 a.m. reported fraudulent calls form people seeking personal information and money.
A caller at 5:30 p.m. asked for extra patrols in the Ocean Drive area because of recent thefts.
A caller at 11:05 p.m. reported hearing gunfire in the Little Fireweed Avenue area.
A caller at 11:10 p.m. made a “report every dangerous driver immediately” complaint of a drunk person driving away from the Karen Hornaday Park Campground. Police contacted the suspect driver and arrested a 30-year-old man for driving under the influence, driving without a license and failure to provide proof of insurance.
A caller at 11:01 a.m. reported a driver in a car hit a building on the Sterling Highway.
A person at 3:37 p.m. made a 911 call reporting a woman wouldn’t leave a Klondike Avenue home. Police provided the woman transportation and issued her a trespass notice.
A caller at 4:18 p.m. reported a woman causing a disturbance at the hospital lobby. Police responded but could not find the woman.
A caller at 7:15 p.m. reported drunk man disturbing other campers on the Spit.
Police at 7:56 p.m. stood by at the hospital to deal with a possible combative patient.
A caller at 11:29 p.m. reported a woman screaming in a motorhome on the Spit. Police contacted the woman and other parties and determined it was a verbal altercation only.
A caller at 11:07 a.m. reported a possibly drunk man acting strangely on Hazel Avenue.
A caller at 11:13 a.m. reported her dog killed her neighbor’s chickens at a Grubstake Avenue address.
A caller at 5:25 p.m. reported receiving harassing communications at a Spit address.
A person at 6:16 p.m. made a 911 call of a child screaming for help in the Rangeview Avenue area. Police responded and found all was OK.
A person at 10:29 p.m. made a 911 call reporting a civil issue with a roommate. Police contacted the agency involved and advised the person of options.
A caller at 3:33 a.m. reported loud music coming from a Linda Court address. The caller tried to get the people to turn the music down with no effect. Police responded and issued a disorderly conduct warning.
A person at 4:14 a.m. made a 911 call of people yelling and fighting for the last 45 minutes at Freight Dock Road. Police responded.
A woman at 9:52 a.m. reported her kayaks were missing and she thought she saw a car drive by with kayaks similar to hers on the Spit.
Police at 1:06 p.m., 1:13 p.m. and 1:22 p.m. tried to serve an arrest warrant at several addresses before finding and arresting a 35-year-old man at a Skyline Drive address.
A caller at 3:40 p.m. asked police to do a welfare check on a child sitting for some time by the side of the road on the Sterling Highway near West Hill Road. Police responded and found the child was OK.
Police at 4:08 p.m. stopped a 31-year-old man driving on the Spit and arrested him for driving while license revoked and violating conditions of release.
A person at 4:51 p.m. made a 911 call that a person driving near Mile 171 Sterling Highway threw things out of the car.
A person at 8:52 p.m. made a 911 call over a housing dispute at a Lake Street address. Police responded.
A caller at 3:22 a.m. asked to speak to an office regarding an incident in Soldotna. Police responded and arrested a 54-year-old woman for violating conditions of release.
A caller at 1 p.m. reported a dog bite incident on the Spit.
A caller at 12:50 a.m. reported a dog running loose in traffic on East End Road. Police took the dog to the animal shelter.
A caller at 1:49 a.m. reported a man who might be drunk passed out on the Poopdeck Trail. Police responded and determined the man was OK.
A caller at 10:19 a.m. reported a life alert had been activated at a Myhill Road address. Police and medics were advised. Police didn’t find anyone at the home and notified the alarm company.
A caller at 2:20 p.m. reported a man acted suspiciously and was taking photos of people and recording them as they walked by on the Sterling Highway. Police responded but did not find anyone recording.
A caller at 3:35 p.m. reported a dog killed her chicken at a Skyline Drive address.
A person at 4:40 p.m. made a 911 call that a man collapsed on a harbor float near Ramp 1. Police responded.
A caller at 3:36 p.m. reported a person made suicidal threats and left a Pioneer Avenue address. Police contacted the person and provided transportation.
Police at 4:32 p.m. took a woman into protective custody.
A caller a 6:45 p.m. reported being verbally threatened after a traffic incident on Fairview Avenue. Police responded and separated the parties. Police arrested a 53-year-old man for harassment and violating conditions of release.
A caller at 7:36 p.m. reporting a person acting aggressively toward an animal on Lake Street. Police notified the animal control officer.
A caller at 2:19 a.m. reported neighbors at a Spit campsite were being loud and keeping others awake. Police responded.
A man at 9:36 a.m. came to the police station with a civil issue. Police advised the man of his options.
A caller at 10:47 a.m. reported a burglar alarm at a Pioneer Avenue business. Police confirmed that the alarm had been activated by an employee.
A caller at 10:35 a.m. asked police to issue a trespass notice to a man from a Frisbee Court address. Police determined it was a civil issue.
A caller at 11:10 a.m. reported a couple having a heated argument at a Pioneer Avenue address. Police responded.
A caller at 12:20 p.m. reported a dispute over a civil issue on Fish Dock Road.
A caller at 12:41 p.m. reported losing a camera lens.
A caller at 1:54 p.m. made a “report every dangerous driver immediately” complaint of a driver on Lake Street.
A caller at 2:15 p.m. asked police to do a welfare check on a man on Hazel Avenue. The man was advised to move along.
A caller at 2:37 p.m. asked police to do a welfare check on juveniles at a Carlson Place address. Police responded.
A caller at 3:57 p.m. reported people using drugs near the Poopdeck Trail. Police responded and determined no drugs were being used, but that alcohol was a factor.
Police at 4:08 p.m. provided a person transportation to South Peninsula Hospital and then to the airport.
A caller at 7:42 p.m. reported finding a bike in the grass on Fairview Avenue.
A caller at 8:09 p.m. reported a drunk person throwing beer bottles into a Sterling Highway parking lot. Police responded.
A caller at 9:07 p.m. reported people driving recklessly at Karen Hornaday Park.
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Yoshiki announces We Are X European promotion tour
Passion Pictures and X Japan have announced that the critically acclaimed film WE ARE X about Japan's most successful rock band of all time will be released theatrically across Europe this October.
The film's chart-topping soundtrack which boasts an impressive selection of X Japan's back catalog and the newly-released theme song, "La Venus", is currently available through Sony Music's Legacy Recordings (a division of Sony Music Entertainment).
Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Stephen Kijak (Stones in Exile, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man), and produced by the Oscar-winning production team behind Searching for Sugar Man, WE ARE X is an astonishingly intimate portrait of a deeply haunted, but truly unstoppable virtuoso and the music that has enthralled legions of the world's most devoted fans. It was officially selected for the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and the BFI London Film Festival, winning multiple awards and critical praise from New York Times, MTV UK, Classic Rock Magazine, and many more.
Hailed as "The most dramatic rock story you've never heard" by MTV UK, WE ARE X is a transcendent and beautifully shot rock & roll story about the most successful rock band in Japanese history, X JAPAN. They've sold over 30 million albums, singles and videos combined, sold out Japan's 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a record 18 times, and played to tens of thousands of fans outside of Japan. Under the enigmatic direction of YOSHIKI — composer, classically-trained pianist, drummer, and the creative force behind the group —- X JAPAN has captivated a wide range of admirers as Sir George Martin, KISS, Stan Lee and the Japanese Emperor, while pioneering a spectacle-driven style of visual rock called "Visual Kei", a one-of-a-kind cultural phenomenon.
Yoshiki's significance in Japan is illustrated on the October cover of Vogue Japan. He is the first Japanese male ever selected for the cover in the magazine's 18-year history.
Yoshiki will be travelling across select territories in Europe in October 2017 to promote the film. Yoshiki says, "I am very excited to come to Europe this October and bring the extraordinary story of X Japan to new and old fans alike. This was a difficult film for us to make but it's a story we believe needed to be told. I can't wait for Europe to finally see the film and to meet our European fans."
Yoshiki European Theatrical Tour 2017
October 12 – Berlin, Germany
October 14 – Florence, Italy
October 16 – Amsterdam, Holland
October 17 – Oslo, Norway
October 18 – Helsinki, Finland
October 19 – Stockholm, Sweden
October 20 – London, UK
October 21 – Reykjavik, Iceland
October 24 – Paris, France
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The Gagaku-Hōgaku Classical Japanese Music Curriculum and Performance Program was launched in September 2006 in the Music Department at Columbia University. Including both an Asian Music Humanities class on the history of gagaku music and an ensemble performance class, the 2006-2007 program established the groundwork for the first permanent gagaku training program outside of Japan. The courses and ensemble class, in which students received private lessons on at least one type of gagaku wind or string instrument, were taught by Professor Naoko Terauchi of Kobe University, envoy of Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs and Visiting Professor at Columbia University for the 2006-2007 academic year. Students also participated in Master Classes with visiting gagaku musicians from Japan, receiving critical training for the program’s aim to form New York’s first gagaku ensemble. In the summer of 2007, the Gagaku Program launched the Mentor/Protégé Gagaku Summer Initiative, in which four students from the Columbia Gagaku Program were provided grants to participate in a six-week intensive training program in Tokyo.
Through this pioneering program, it is our hope to make it possible for young musicians to experience this Japanese tradition deeply and to master one or more of its instruments. It is also our hope to inspire the commissioning of new compositions by and for these young musicians, thereby greatly influencing the future direction of world music.
It is also our aim to introduce Japan’s musical traditions to greater audiences in the Columbia University and New York communities. In collaboration with Gagaku artists from Japan, the Program sponsors concerts, individual lessons and master classes.
EMAJIN Project Gagaku-Hogaku at Columbia
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Diamond crisis worsens for global giant De Beers
by Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg, Updated: December 10, 2019
A selection of De Beers' Lightbox jewelry.
Anglo American curbed its plan to expand diamond production over the next two years after sales slumped in 2019 amid a wider industry crisis.
Anglo's De Beers unit will mine 1 million carats less than previously forecast in both 2020 and 2021, according to an investor presentation on Tuesday. That equates to less than 1% of global output but slows the pace of the company's expansion as an oversupply of rough diamonds weighs on the industry.
De Beers' buyers have grown increasingly frustrated with the cost of rough stones as the price of polished gems slump. That's led to wafer-thin margins and losses for some of the traders buying stones from De Beers and Russian rival Alrosa PJSC.
The crisis has spread to engulf the world's diamond miners as well. De Beers, which dictates prices to its select group of clients, reported sales through November were more than $1.2 billion lower than the same period in 2018.
The company, which says it mines to meet demand, has responded by offering more flexibility to its customers, allowing them to reject some purchases. Last month, De Beers cut prices across the board by about 5%.
Even so, the company’s production is still set to rise to as much as 34 million carats next year, from 31 million carats in 2019.
Posted: December 10, 2019 - 10:31 AM
Thomas Biesheuvel, Bloomberg
Delco stinks. County and state officials are trying to figure out why.
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Features | Interviews
Mindfulness: The Heart of Buddhist Meditation? A Conversation with Jan Chozen Bays, Joseph Goldstein, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Alan Wallace
By Margaret Cullen
Mindfulness has played a key role in Western Buddhism, particularly in the teaching of vipassana and more secular programs such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Having been steeped in both these traditions myself, I was surprised to learn that the Tibetan Buddhists have a different understanding and usage of the term mindfulness.
Some of these differences arise from diverging scriptural sources and interpretations dating back to the time of the Buddha. Our intention here is not to present a scholarly argument nor definitive interpretations of mindfulness. Rather, we would like to help make explicit the ways contemporary streams of Buddhism use this term, particularly since practitioners today have unique opportunities to practice with teachers from all the Buddhist traditions.
To explore mindfulness, Inquiring Mind invited Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of MBSR, who was called “Mr. Mindfulness” in a headline in the Washington Post; Alan Wallace, a Buddhist scholar and prolific writer on Buddhism with whom I am collaborating on another secular meditation program, Cultivating Emotional Balance; Joseph Goldstein, a vipassana teacher known for his bell-like clarity and for the nonsectarianism he explored in his book One Dharma; and Jan Chozen Bays, Zen priest and pediatrician to whose trenchant and witty voice I was introduced at the 2005 Mind and Life Conference in Washington, D.C. As someone who has studied and worked with these teachers, I was honored to facilitate this dialogue along with Inquiring Mind coeditors Barbara Gates and Wes Nisker.
—Margaret Cullen, M.F.T., Certified MBSR Instructor
I. What Is Mindfulness?
Inquiring Mind: As Western students of Buddhism are increasingly exploring different Buddhist traditions, many have encountered conflicting interpretations of basic terms and practices. In particular, the term mindfulness is broadly used by Western teachers and students, sometimes in opposing ways. As you learned it and teach it, what is mindfulness?
Jan Chozen Bays: What is the Zen teaching on mindfulness? I guess I would say, “When eating, just eat. When tired, just sleep.” There’s a lot in there. I often tell my students that mindfulness is a mind that is full of everything that is, not what you think about everything that is.
Jon Kabat-Zinn: In teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), my colleagues and I use the word mindfulness in a lot of different ways, some narrower and some broader. Sometimes I use mindfulness as a kind of umbrella term for the dharma. But in terms of an operational definition of mindfulness for people in a stress-reduction clinic or for a medical or scientific audience, I tend to speak of it as an awareness oriented in the present moment and cultivated by paying attention on purpose with a discerning, nonjudging, nonreacting, mirrorlike quality of mind which is underneath discursive thinking.
Alan Wallace: From all the research I’ve done on this, the primary meaning of mindfulness, or sati—in the Pali Canon, in the Sanskrit Canon, and later in the Tibetan Canon—is that of recollection, of memory. In fact, I believe sati is the only word in Pali, Sanskrit or Tibetan that means “recollection” or “memory.” As the Buddha himself says, “The noble disciple is endowed with perfect sati; he’s one who recollects what was done and said long before.”
Mindfulness can be retrospective, as in the psychological category more commonly understood as memory. It can be in the present moment, as an ongoing flow of remembering to remember to remember. And mindfulness can be prospective: remembering to pick up bread on the way home from work tonight.
In the meditative context, mindfulness enables us to retain our attention upon a familiar object without distraction. Of course, we can be mindful of many things without that recollection itself being instrumental in liberating the mind from its afflictive tendencies. The type of mindfulness that is liberating is that which is discerning, intelligent and able to distinguish one type of phenomena from another. In a recent conversation I had with Ajahn Amaro, we talked about a discerning mindfulness that recognizes: “This is conducive to my own and others’ well-being, this is unconducive. This leads to misery, this leads to liberation.”
Joseph Goldstein: One of the problems we face in trying to understand the meaning of certain terms, like mindfulness, is that the Pali or Sanskrit words often include a range of meanings, each with various nuances of interpretation and implication. As I understand it, mindfulness is remembering the present object (its function is nonforgetting) with the implication that the mind for that moment is free of attachment, aversion and delusion. So mindfulness itself includes what Alan is referring to, the aspect which liberates.
AW: None of the Buddhist Sanskrit sources, such as Vasubandhu’s Treasury of Abhidharma and Asanga’s Compendium of Abhidharma, equate sati with bare attention or suggest that bare attention is intrinsically wholesome. Neither do the Buddhist Pali sources, such as The Questions of King Milinda and Buddhaghosa’s classic text, The Path of Purification. Sanskrit Buddhist definitions of sati suggest that as one of ten mental factors that is present in every mind moment, and not invariably wholesome, mindfulness takes on qualities of the mental factors with which it’s conjoined.
In the context of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, for example, mindfulness clearly has, as religious scholars would say, a soteriological function—that is, the function of liberating. On the other hand, a rabbit can be very mindful of its surroundings because it doesn’t want to be eaten. A fox can be very mindful of its surroundings because it wants to eat the rabbit. In these contexts, mindfulness is neither wholesome nor liberating. A sniper who is trying to shoot somebody can be very, very mindful. Of course, there’s nothing liberating about that, even if he doesn’t do it with hatred or craving. The context is crucial.
JG: I believe the Theravada Abhidharma explains mindfulness a little differently from what you mentioned, Alan. In my understanding of those teachings, mindfulness is always a wholesome factor, unlike one-pointedness and attention, which are both ethically neutral. In the context of these teachings, I don’t think we would say that a cat waiting to pounce on a mouse is being mindful. Rather, we would say that it’s quite concentrated with strong attention. Attention as a mental factor directs the mind towards the object and concentration keeps it undistracted. It is the same with the sniper. He might be concentrated; the attention factor is certainly there. But in a true moment of mindfulness there is freedom from greed, hatred and delusion, unlike the mind-state of the cat or the sniper, where there is probably great identification with the motivating factors.
JKZ: Alan, what you are saying in some ways emphasizes why I use mindfulness as a kind of umbrella term: if we were to use it only in its narrowest operational definition, mindfulness would be devoid of morality. As with the sniper, there are aspects to the quality of attention that really have no, as you say, wholesome or unwholesome valence at all. So in MBSR we often speak of mindfulness not just as a bare attention but as an affectionate attention. Woven into it is an orientation towards nonharming and seeing deeply into the nature of things, which in some way implies, or at least invites, one to see the interconnectedness between the seer and the seen, the object and the subject.
We’re trying to bring mindfulness into the mainstream of society in a way that draws people into an experience of cultivation, reflection and a deep intimacy with the present moment in a way that very much does include the element of discernment. If what we taught didn’t have behind it the true transformative and liberative power of the dharma from the get-go, there wouldn’t be much point in offering it as a challenge to people who are suffering in the first place.
JCB: Jon, when you said you don’t teach just bare attention but affectionate attention, it sounded like a wonderful antidote to the tendency of the mind in the West to have undetected and subtly pervasive negative feeling tones.
As to Zen approaches to instructing students, I’d say that Zen is probably the most pitiful tradition in terms of teaching people how to meditate. My instructions were, “Sit down, face the wall, count your breath to ten, and if you lose track, start again.” That was it. Zen is called “the practice without a handrail” for a good reason. A lot of the teachings in Zen are implicit rather than explicit, and in the West I think it helps to have things much more explicit. Myself, I’ve gone back to the Pali Canon. I read it and teach it all the time. In fact, recently I taught a retreat on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
Zen tends to skip to mind-ground, to what I see as the fourth foundation of mindfulness. But I think it helps to go through the four foundations, beginning with just body as body, and moving to feelings as feelings, mental contents and then mind-ground. To me, there are three aspects to mindfulness. We’ve already touched on them some, but not explicitly as three. First is bare attention, a full awareness, ideally without attachment, aversion or self-identification. That, to me, is perfected mindfulness, samma-sati. Before that we have lifetimes of relative mindfulness. We keep on perfecting mindfulness. It might start out as barely attending—we have to be frank—and then we cultivate it. Alan mentioned the second aspect of mindfulness, the recollecting and returning that bring us back to the first aspect, the clear attention or clear awareness. The third aspect of mindfulness is seeing deeply into things, at a micro level and also at a macro level. Mindfulness is like a microscope and a telescope; it can be focused in on the space between milliseconds, and it can be pulled way out to extend our awareness into forces in the universe.
JKZ: I’d like to add that, as I understand it, mindfulness plays a special role among all the other elements of the Eightfold Path. One view of mindfulness that influenced me deeply from very early on was Nyanaponika Thera’s in The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. He writes: “Mindfulness, then, is the unfailing master key for knowing the mind, and is thus the starting point; the perfect tool for shaping the mind, and is thus the focal point; and the lofty manifestation of the achieved freedom of the mind, and is thus the culminating point.”
JG: I think it’s true in the sense that through the practice of mindfulness, all of the other factors of enlightenment (investigation, energy, rapture, calm, concentration and equanimity) are automatically cultivated. Mindfulness does have that function of drawing the other factors of enlightenment together.
II. Clarifying Related Terms
IM: Just as the term mindfulness is used in various ways depending on the tradition, the historical source or the context (such as the Eightfold Path or the Seven Factors of Enlightenment), other related practices also are often taught with conflicting meanings. Let’s try to clarify some of the differences.
JG: It can be confusing for students when teachers use the same word to mean different things, especially when we don’t first define it for use in that particular context. For example, often we use the words mind, consciousness and awareness synonymously. At other times, they might have quite distinct meanings. Mind can refer to the whole range of mental activity; it can also mean “consciousness,” the knowing faculty, as distinguished from the fifty-two mental factors. Sometimes we use awareness to mean “consciousness,” sometimes “mindfulness,” and sometimes “mindfulness plus wisdom.” The point here is that as we translate some very specific terms from the Pali or Sanskrit, often there is not an equally precise English version. Perhaps a worthy project for Western Buddhists would be to create a standard dictionary of terms.
AW: I think sometimes samadhi gets a bad rap when it’s compared to mindfulness, as if samadhi somehow has a quality of fixation or tunnel vision. When it’s placed on the Eightfold Path within the threefold framework of sila, samadhi and pañña, it’s samadhi that is central, not mindfulness. Samadhi is the collectedness and composure of the mind, a kind of heightened sanity. And it may be focused on a single point, a whole field of experience or an ongoing flow of events, like the breath or thoughts. Mindfulness, as the mental factor of not forgetting an experienced object, supports samadhi, which is the sustained, coherent focus of attention upon a chosen object. In vipassana, one discerningly applies the mindfulness (as in the Four Applications of Mindfulness) that has already been cultivated in the practice of samadhi.
Sampajañña
AW: There’s another factor—and I’m surprised how little this crops up in what I’ve read from the modern Theravada tradition—called sampajañña in Pali. It’s translated variously as “clear comprehension” and “full awareness.” It’s really more the introspective monitoring of the state of one’s body and mind, both internally and in relation to the environment. In order to achieve samadhi, in order to balance the attention, you need not only mindfulness in the service of samadhi, but you also need this monitoring, this quality control of the mindfulness, so that when the mind falls into laxity, you’re able to discern that very quickly. When it falls into excitation, rambling, distraction and so forth, you’re able to discern that as well. Sampajañña, then, has a metacognitive function. And both mindfulness and sampajañña are crucial for balancing the mind. Without such awareness of your own mental processes, you’re basically operating on autopilot out of sheer habit.
JKZ: Right. That’s precisely why I tend to include the dimension of metacognition, or meta-awareness, under the umbrella of mindfulness; we can be mindful of the quality of our awareness just as we can any other object of attention. In introducing the cultivation of mindfulness to people who have no experience with formal meditation practice, this orientation is woven into the practice in a way that becomes almost second nature to people. Anybody who is just getting started soon realizes that there’s much more going on than just the breath. We see how easily we get distracted and soon realize there’s a faculty that’s actually aware of when our mind wanders; otherwise we’d never bring it back. I’m not criticizing the various more precise scholarly views of this at all. I’m just trying to find a language, a context and a container that can make the dharmic and liberative elements of practice available to people in ways that are maximally skillful, generate minimal resistance, and that neither denature nor complicate and put out of reach the fundamental beauty and simplicity of wakefulness and wisdom.
JG: Sampajañña actually is talked about a lot in Theravada teachings. I recently sat a retreat with Sayadaw U Pandita where he spoke often about this quality of mind. One of the interesting applications of clear comprehension is that it applies to our relationship to our environment and what’s happening around us, as well as to what is happening within us. For example, one aspect of sampajañña is considering the suitability of an action. That opens up the whole aspect of motivation, of whether the action is wholesome or unwholesome, and if wholesome, whether it’s the right time to do it. I see this as an important function of sampajañña: enlarging the context of mindfulness beyond attending to only our internal process.
Shamatha, Mindfulness, Vipassana
IM: Joseph, could you differentiate between shamatha, mindfulness and vipassana practices?
JG: In some of the Theravada traditions there are some clear distinctions between shamatha and vipassana. In shamatha practice, we take a single object of concentration, like the breath, a light, an image, etc., and train the mind to stay focused on it. Here, the idea is not to see its changing nature; rather, there’s a whole sequence of practices and experiences that lead the mind into absorption in the object. In vipassana, on the other hand, the aim is to see the three characteristics: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self. So shamatha and vipassana have very different functions. The word vipassana means “seeing clearly” or “seeing precisely.” Passana means “seeing” and vi means “clearly or precisely,” which refers to the deepening penetration or opening to the three characteristics. We train in seeing the momentary arising and passing away of all phenomena and in the nonclinging wisdom that arises from that clear seeing. Of course, the deeper the concentration that comes from shamatha practice, the more powerful the vipassana practice becomes. So I see the two as very much mutually supportive. The Buddha himself said that concentration is the foundation of wisdom.
We might consider vipassana as the overarching term for meditative techniques leading to liberation. Mindfulness is a central practice of all these teachings. And as mentioned earlier, mindfulness brings together all the other factors of enlightenment.
III. Mindfulness in the Modern World
IM: How do you honor these ancient traditions while, at the same time, allowing the unfolding of Buddhadharma in the West to be a dynamic process?
AW: I see this contemporary generation of Buddhist teachers and practitioners in dialogue with the continuum of elders, going right back to the Buddha himself. Not that we’re supposed to be just obedient puppets and say whatever the last generation said. But insofar as we’re preserving the currents of Buddhist traditions, which some people care about and others don’t, then going back to the original meanings of the terms we use provides some continuity. We shouldn’t freeze the meaning of Buddhist terms and concepts, but at least we should know where they came from and how we are using them in light of their traditional usage.
I think there’s a danger nowadays of creating artificial polarities, for example by drawing a sharp distinction between scholars and practitioners. In this exaggerated dichotomy, scholars are portrayed as bookworms who have only an intellectual interest in Buddhism, while practitioners view themselves as people who are really after experience. In this scenario practitioners often look down on the scholars, scholars look down on practitioners, and higher scholars look down on lower scholars [laughter].
IM: That’s why we’re all talking together today—to facilitate communication and understanding. Mindfulness in the modern world needs language that can serve those interested in the depth and beauty of the lineage as well as those who simply seek relief from the dukkha of stress and the myriad manifestations of dis-ease resulting from our speedy consumer culture.
JKZ: These times call out for some kind of real recognition of the potential transformative power of the dharma.
JG: Maybe not any more than at any other time, but certainly now. Whether we move toward greater suffering or the alleviation of suffering depends on whether we’re mindful of our emotions or we’re not mindful of our emotions.
JCB: That’s the beauty of the studies you’ve done, Jon; they’re framed in a context that people can understand. People think, I can be healthier if I do this, and then become curious and begin investigating. It’s wonderful to see people start to do mindfulness meditation for their blood pressure and by the fourth week find themselves saying, “Who’s actually thinking? Who am I? What’s going on here?” Mindfulness is a wonderful way to lead people in.
IM: As an MBSR instructor, I have seen a tremendous hunger for the nourishment which mindfulness provides.
JCB: I imagine people in primitive times had more of that nourishment in their lives: they watched campfires, they stood by streams trying to intuit where the fish were just by watching the flow of the water, and they lay on the hillsides at night with their sheep watching the sky. And so we’re supplying something that we’ve forgotten, that we’ve left behind. When it comes back into people’s lives, even in the MBSR classroom setting, people feel nourished and healthy and free.
IM: At the 2005 Mind and Life Conference, I noticed several times when His Holiness the Dalai Lama didn’t seem to connect with the way Westerners were using the word mindfulness. It made me wonder if he fully recognizes how starving we are for this medicine and how broad an application it can have in our culture.
JCB: The idea of stress could be foreign to somebody who has spent their whole life doing what their great-great-great-grandparents did, like standing and watching the ice freeze. If your culture is not highly technologically evolved, if information doesn’t get poured into you all the time, if everybody’s not trying to get advanced degrees and stuff knowledge into their heads, maybe mindfulness is much more present.
AW: I saw a number of points at that conference where there was a disconnect. His Holiness is well versed in all schools of Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, but the way some Buddhist terms are being used in the modern vipassana tradition differs from the Buddhist traditions with which he is familiar. Also, the practice of bare attention is not prominent in the Tibetan tradition as a whole, which includes an extremely rich and diverse array of meditation practices.
There’s another factor here, too, that I think easily escapes our vision. In quite a number of traditional Buddhist countries—Tibet is a good example of this—there is incredible faith and devotion. I consider myself quite a devout Buddhist, but the level of faith and devotion of an elderly Tibetan woman living in the backwoods of Tibet is unimaginable to me. It is hard to comprehend the great trauma Tibetans experienced with the invasion of their country—the torture and the genocide. Yet they have done remarkably well, considering that many are relatively free of post-traumatic stress disorder. Their way out of that was by faith, not by bare attention; it simply is not a central feature of Tibetan Buddhist practice.
JKZ: After the Mind and Life Conference, some interesting things happened in meetings with His Holiness. As you know, in my presentations I sometimes equate stress to dukkha, as do a number of other contemporary teachers. Now there’s no real word stress in Tibetan. But later that week, when His Holiness spoke in front of 14,000 neuroscientists, at one point he said, “I think the Dalai Lama is a little bit stressed.” It was really quite something.
AW: He learned a new word.
JKZ: And used it totally appropriately and with a lot of humor.
JG: In expressing the scope and practice of mindfulness, it’s important to remember that training in it is often difficult. Munindraji, my first teacher, would often say, “Mindfulness is simple but not easy.” The Buddha spoke of the practice as being like swimming upstream, swimming against the current of our conditioning. Along the way, we face challenges and different obstacles. These are part of the path. Times of our greatest difficulties are also often times of our greatest insights.
IM: Any closing reflections?
JCB: The more I practice the more I have absolute faith that what the Buddha taught is true—that mindfulness truly works, beginning with body as body, feelings as feelings, and proceeding to mind objects and mind-ground. It has to be done in that order. Then when the mind-ground becomes very big and inevitably collapses because of impermanence, we start again with the body.
AW: As an endnote, I’d like to repeat the Buddhist adage that wisdom without compassion is bondage and compassion without wisdom is bondage. Mindfulness can be a servant to both the cultivation of wisdom and compassion. We have the four Brahma-viharas (lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity), which I think are a marvelous, elegant and majestic complement to the Four Applications of Mindfulness. Seeing the interrelationship, the synergy, between the active cultivation of the heart and the cultivation of wisdom makes the practice of Buddhadharma very rich, very balanced.
JKZ: I think it is wonderful to have a diversity of viewpoints and to reflect on the degree to which mindfulness is recollection, the degree to which it’s bare attention, the degree to which it’s openhearted presencing. All of these expressions of mindfulness, as Alan rightfully said, are not frozen. Otherwise Buddhism would be a quaint museum. Instead, these are forces that are actually transmuting our own lives and even our own bodies as we practice and as we live our lives.
JCB: So maybe our last message is to practice mindfulness and then you’ll find out what it is.
© 2006 Inquiring Mind
Sampajañña, Shamatha, MBSR, Mindfulness, Practice, Sati, Scholarship, Secular Practice, Theravada, Tibetan Buddhism, Vipassana, Zen
Margaret Cullen is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction instructor, a marriage and family therapist and a senior teacher at the Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research and Education at Stanford University. She is the coauthor of The Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance Workbook: An Eight Week Program for Improved Emotion Regulation and Resilience (New Harbinger Publications, 2015) and other publications.
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Scotland rugby union team
Former Scotland rugby captain swaps dressing room for the boardroom
Insider speaks to Al Kellock about his new career promoting Scottish Rugby
Ken Symon
Two-and-a-half years on from hanging up his jersey, Al Kellock now works on the commercial side of Scottish Rugby
Al Kellock, the former Scotland rugby captain, has swapped the dressing room for the boardroom.
Kellock played lock forward for Scotland and captained Glasgow Warriors for nine years including leading them to winning the Pro 12 Championship in the 2014-15 season, the first trophy that a Scottish side won in the professional era.
Former Scottish football star launches new business to help firms save on utility bills
Two-and-a-half years on from hanging up his jersey, he now works on the commercial side of Scottish Rugby, having been given oversight of the sales team and - along with former full-back Chris Paterson - works as an ambassador for the game in a wide variety of situations. “It all amounts to a business development role – promoting the business in all sorts of different ways,” he says.
That job of promotion has been made easier by the performance of the three teams that make up Scottish Rugby, Glasgow Warriors, Edinburgh Rugby and the national side.
“It has a huge impact. As you say we’re in a good place at the minute. Performance-wise the guys are doing a brilliant job, the three teams are doing really well and commercially that makes my life a lot easier,” he says. “It’s really difficult to quantify it, it’s all about how warm the market is I suppose and your ability to stimulate conversations and take those conversations to closing stages.
“For any partner or sponsor that’s going to get involved there has to be more than just a successful team. From a business point of view what it’s about is return on investment or CSR [corporate social responsibility] or brand exposure but a winning team will stimulate conversations.
“Not all of Scottish Rugby’s partners are massive rugby fans. Some of them are, which is great, but ultimately they’ve got to be reporting back on what Business Club membership has done at the end of a year. So we can’t, from a business point of view, rely on that.
“The other thing is that we have no control of what happens on that park. I, now, am not going to be out there, I’m not part of the coaching team so because it’s not controllable for us we need to be able to operate both sides of the fence. But don’t get me wrong, when it goes well it’s great for us.”
Glasgow Warriors has been a success story both on and off the field. Its winning ways in the Pro 12 has been accompanied with marketing success that sees its Scotstoun Stadium sold out for most home games. This all helps to boost the profile of the game.
“A successful team in Glasgow is a great example of that – compare where we were ten years ago to where we are now with a degree of success in the championships. You see that now with Edinburgh and Scotland, the profile’s has grown and grown, that is quantifiable by the social footprint we’ve got, by the database that we’ve got digitally. You can see those numbers growing. That also helps when you’re having conversations with any potential partner, Business Club member or sponsor.
“A big part that I’m seeing and that I’m passionate about is our ability to get players into these businesses. From a business’s point of view there’s a huge amount of shared learning that they can get from these players. They can look at the journey the players have to go on to get to where they are.
Al Kellock captained Glasgow Warriors for nine years
“There’s also a recruitment element to it as well. Most big businesses will tell you that recruitment is a difficult thing to do well. And I’m going to say this as a past player who’s come into the business world – we come with a different set of skills but they’re transferable, undoubtedly transferrable. We’ll try and get a player involved whether it is through work experience, an ambassadorial role or just sitting down and having coffee; it gives some of these guys the opportunity to share some of their experience and it gives them the opportunity to continue to learn.”
Kellock says he sits somewhere between Scottish Rugby’s commercial and performance teams and that part of his role it to let the performance team - players and coaches - know what is going on commercially. He also looks at where potential relations would be helped by deploying one of their ambassadors.
“It’s also about looking, without being too cynical and business-minded where can we commercialise our performance team. You’ve got to bring in new sponsorships and partnerships to be able to fund the performance team.
“Scottish Rugby employs more rugby players than any other team in the world because Scottish Rugby own Glasgow and Edinburgh. Structurally it works well and Glasgow and Edinburgh have their own autonomy to go out and have the partnerships and sponsorships they can get.”
Asked more about what is transferrable between the world of rugby and that of business, Kellock says: “Adversity is a big one. The toughest times in a rugby player’s career will be losing games, will be non-selection and will be injury. You learn lessons from each of them.”
“You’re very much part of a team when you’re playing rugby but when you get injured you feel very isolated because you’re out, you’re having to do your own rehab and having to get yourself back into playing. The best feeling for any player when they get back is actually going out and doing the warm up and being back in amongst the players.
“You see that in business when people are working in what is a team but at times you’ll have to be isolated or feel slightly separated. There are different ways of dealing with that – the ability of a leader to put an arm round somebody when they see that.
“I believe all these things can be brought into the business world and that’s what I try and do. I’ve learned a lot in the two-and-a-half years since I finished playing.”
Kellock says that players thinking of finishing their career often ask him what they would do in the business world. “I say to them ‘How often do you communicate in front of a group of 15 players?’ ‘Well regularly.’ ‘What analysis do you do on the opposition?’ ‘Well, every single week, twice a week.’ ‘How do you quantify that?’ ‘Well we make plans to push through.’ ‘How do you review that?’ ‘We review it every week.’
“There is a set of transferrable skills straight away. The core business might change but you’ve still got roles and responsibilities that you’re carrying out that you can transfer into business.”
Both Glasgow and Edinburgh have had a business club for some time but Kellock was tasked with helping develop one for the national side. The feedback on it is positive with businesses able to bring key members of staff and clients or potential clients along as guests.
The Business Club at the Scotland v France game was hosted by Kellock in which he did a Q and A session with the new national coach Gregor Townsend on how he builds his leadership team and what responsibilities he gives to that leadership team and how he gets the best out of them when there is only a short international window.
Al Kellock joins the pack backing Kiltwalk
It is an approach that is certainly working – the Business Club has reached its ceiling which is set at 20 member businesses and has a waiting list.
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All Gone Pete Tong
Following his show last October, Pete Tong returns to Egg LDN along with a line-up of fellow house and techno DJs, with each artist aiming to bring their own attributes to the fore. Considered a household name with his well-known BBC Radio 1 show exhibiting both emerging and established talent, Pete’s long-running Essential Mix series remains a pivotal point for any artist worth their salt building a career in music.
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Joined by the aforementioned guests on the night, the venue welcomes the dance music veteran back to north London on 9 December.
The event features three players in the UK underground scene with one special guest from the US landing on the UK shores for a highly anticipated surprise appearance. Picked by Tong himself, German producer Matthias Meyer brings his blend of melodic and uplifting techno to the main toom for a rare set in London, fusing the tones of Detroit and Chicago under one roof.
Egg resident Kyle E complements the sounds of the night with his selection of tracks.
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Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Bid-Rigging Conspiracy Involving Government Contracts
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Loraine Dixon, 61, of Granite Bay, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to commit bid rigging, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, Dixon conspired with John Brewer, 50, of San Francisco, and Brent Vinch, 49, of New York, to rig the state of California’s competitive bidding process. Dixon was a regional representative for a software company that produced software used by several California state agencies. Brewer and Vinch were the owners of, and senior executives for, a company called Expert Network Consultants (ENC), which submitted bids to the state for various government contracts, including contracts to supply the software produced by Dixon’s employer.
Working together, Dixon, Brewer, and Vinch thwarted the competitive bidding process in order to ensure that ENC won contracts with California agencies to supply the software in question. The process requires that any IT purchase over $4,999 and not advertised must obtain at least two bids from prospective sellers, and the contract must be awarded to the lowest bidder. Brewer solicited bids from individuals and companies that had no intention or ability to perform the work called for in the contracts, and Brewer directed Vinch to create and submit non-competitive bids. Dixon often directed Brewer and Vinch to create, collect, or submit bids to certain agencies, and on other occasions advised them on how to act in bidding. Dixon solicited cash and wine from Brewer and Vinch to continue steering contracts to them and advising them on the non-competitive bidding process, and she joined ENC as an employee in 2012.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Yelovich prosecuted the case. The California Attorney General’s Office conducted the initial investigation into this matter.
Brewer was sentenced on April 26, 2018, to 15 months in prison.
Dixon is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. on Oct. 31. Vinch is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 9, 2020. They each face a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The actual sentences, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.
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Rev. Dr. Charley Reeb Returns to Georgia
Posted on June 27, 2018 Posted By: CommunicationsCategories: Church News
The name Charley Reeb sounds familiar to many. Those who listen to Day 1 Weekly Broadcast or flip through publications like Feasting on the Word, Ministry Matters, and Circuit Rider: Preaching Magazine have likely taken in the guidance and life stories of the pastor with over 20 years of experience.
Aspiring and current pastors who have read his books probably know about his unique sermon preparation strategy that often incorporates listening to 80’s hard rock. He has authored four books, including the recently published That’ll Preach! 5 Simple Steps to Your Best Sermon Ever (Abingdon Press).
In between delivering Sunday messages to one of the largest United Methodist Churches in the Florida Conference, Pasadena Community Church, for the last 10 years, and writing for multiple Christian platforms, Reeb has traveled around the country leading preaching seminars and speaking at various conferences and events. His name has been listed with other well-known speakers such as Adam Hamilton, Candace Lewis, and others.
Why is Georgia receiving such a knowledgeable pastor? Rev. Dr. Charley Reeb has been called to come home.
“I was born in Columbia, South Carolina but was raised in Georgia, primarily in Dunwoody. Our family then moved to Tampa in the late 80’s when I was a teenager,” Reeb says.
It was in Florida, at age 16, that he first felt a call into ministry. He attended Florida Southern College before attending the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and obtaining his doctor of ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in 2010.
Reeb last served in Georgia in 1999 serving on the staff of Northside UMC in Buckhead while attending seminary. While serving Northside, he served as a chaplain and devotional speaker for the Georgia Senate. He was then appointed to the Florida Conference.
Earlier this year, Reeb was surprised and delighted to receive a call from Bishop Sue Haupert-Johnson of the North Georgia Conference (UMC) to serve Johns Creek UMC. Having accepted, He returns Georgia with wife, Brandy and one-year-old son Paul.
“It feels wonderful to be back home with family and friends and to share the joy of our son with loved ones.”
Reeb’s first Sunday is on July 1. The entire congregation at Johns Creek UMC will worship together throughout the month of July in the Sanctuary at 10:30 AM.
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Nathan Reiff
Joined the Boston Conservatory in 2017 and is an instructor of Voice
Resident conductor of the Harvard Glee Club
Previously worked for Orion Consultants and Partners in Performance and has written for Internet brands on subjects ranging from money matters to personal and home development
Active as a conductor, educator, and vocalist, Nathan Reiff holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, where he has also completed the coursework toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Reiff's work as a conductor has brought him before ensembles representing some of the broad diversity of the choral world, including the Young People's Chorus of New York City, the Yale Glee Club, the Yale Camerata, and the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers. As a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Yale, Reiff's scholarly projects focused on the intersection of polystylism and incrementalism in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir. Beginning in the fall of 2017, Reiff will serve as resident conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and instructor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he will teach a survey sequence on choral repertoire and conduct the Women's Chorus and Chorale. Reiff's primary teachers of conducting have included Jerry Blackstone, Marguerite Brooks, Jeffrey Douma, and David Hill.
Prior to his graduate studies, Nathan performed as a member and music director of the Whiffenpoofs, the nation’s oldest all-male a cappella singing group. In addition to his work as a conductor, he taught music at the International School of Trieste in Italy and assisted the violinist Midori with the administration of non-profit organizations specializing in music education and community outreach.
Nathan earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and his Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan.
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Special Delivery! The First Full Payload of Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrives at Launch Site
Aug 29, 2016 | Iridium NEXT | 4 comments
Today marks yet another Iridium NEXT program milestone as we approach the first launch, with all ten Iridium NEXT satellites required for first launch now on site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. At approximately 7:00 A.M. PDT on August 25, the final satellites required for the first payload were delivered, and immediately began pre-launch processing. These satellites represent the first set of the 70 total satellites that will be launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, marking the start of a series of seven launches scheduled over the next 18 months.
“We are very excited to have reached this stage of the program,” said Matt Desch, chief executive officer of Iridium. “After all these years of preparation, it’s wonderful to have the first batch of satellites complete, on-site and being prepped for the first launch. We want to express thanks to every person involved in the program who has helped get us to this point.”
Partnering with Iridium on this initiative as prime contractor is Thales Alenia Space, and their partner Orbital ATK, who are manufacturing, assembling, integrating and testing all Iridium NEXT satellites.
The satellites shipped two at a time from the Orbital ATK Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Arizona, in specially designed motion and temperature-controlled shipping containers, on a flatbed truck to the launch site. In a recent post, we highlighted how Iridium used our own M2M technology to track the satellites’ journey in real-time to first launch. To read more about their journey and view additional photos, check out that post which can be read here.
So what’s left to be done? Soon all ten satellites will be mated to the cylindrical dispenser, five on a lower tier, and five on an upper tier. The dispenser holds the satellites securely through the initial launch to orbit, and then distributes the satellites on command. After mating, the satellites will each be carefully fueled with hydrazine, the propellent used in space to maneuver them in orbit. The final step will be to encapsulate them all in the rocket fairing, the clamshell looking composite structure at the top of the rocket that protects the satellites on their ride to space, and separates on command to expose them for delivery. Concurrent with this activity, are preparations being made on the two stages of the Falcon 9 rocket, as SpaceX prepares it for launch.
We’re getting close to the historic first launch of Iridium NEXT — our first launch in almost 20 years! Soon the new satellites will be in position to provide exciting new services for our partners for many years to come.
Please check back for more program updates here on Iridium’s company blog, Iridium 360. For additional information about Iridium NEXT, please visit www.iridium.com.
TS Elliot on August 29, 2016 at 8:29 pm
Is there a Iridium NEXT mission patch for each flight? Are they orderable?
Iridium Communications on October 19, 2018 at 10:00 am
Yes! We have created Iridium NEXT launch patches for each mission. You can order each on from the Iridium store: http://iridium.mylogospot.com/
Denis Allard on September 1, 2016 at 4:14 am
Satellites are now mated on to the launcher dispenser.
Thanks to the whole team.
Carole Crance on January 14, 2017 at 2:51 pm
This is so exciting and such a major step into the future!
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THE family of a Kerryman who died following routine surgery on a broken wrist has welcomed an apology from the HSE for its various failings in the treatment of their 44-year-old father and husband.
Family accepts apology over death after wrist surgery
Michael Devane died in October 2007 after severe brain injuries he sustained following the surgery at Kerry General Hospital. His family, including his wife Deborah, and children Stephen, Gráinne and Pádraig, form Aghadoe, Killarney, Co Kerry, sued the HSE for medical negligence causing his death.
The HSE admitted liability and the case was settled at the High Court yesterday.
In its apology the HSE said it “wishes to apologise sincerely to Mrs Deborah Devane and the entire Devane family for the various failings in the treatment and care afforded to Michael by Kerry General Hospital in Tralee on September 27 and the days afterwards”.
In a statement, the Devane family said they were “satisfied the HSE had finally apologised for the failings of the hospital in Mike’s case... and hoped the appropriate disciplinary action has been taken against those responsible for the events that lead to Michael’s death”.
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Baylor Volleyball Yossiana Pressley Named AVCA National Player of the Week
Junior outside hitter earns national recognition for the second time in her career
Author: Nick Canizales
WACO, Texas — Baylor volleyball junior outside hitter Yossiana Pressley was named the Sports Imports/American Volleyball Coaches Association National Player of the Week.
Pressley becomes the fourth AVCA National Player of the Week selection in program history and first Bear to earn the honor twice in her career. She previously earned the honor Nov. 7, 2017, during her freshman campaign.
The Cypress, Texas native has led the Big 12 for two straight weeks in kills per set as BU has started out the season with a 5-0 record and jumped up to a program-best No. 5 national ranking.
Over the past week where the Baylor squad posted a 3-0 effort, Pressley pounded in 62 kills and 6.15 kills per set, including 31 kills at No. 4 Wisconsin and 20 kills at No. 11 Marquette last weekend. Pressley is currently second in the nation in kills per set (6.25) and fourth in points per set (6.78).
No. 5 Baylor will play at home for the first time this season as the Bears host the Hampton Inn & Suites Waco North Baylor Invitational Thursday through Saturday. BU will face Houston Thursday at 7 p.m., followed by a match up against Tennessee Saturday at 1 p.m.
Saturday's match is "Pack the House" Night where all tickets are $1.
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What makes a house feel haunted?
Written by Stephanie Case Oct. 25, 2016 Arts
Lemp Mansion / St. Louis, MO
Why does strange architecture lend itself to ghost stories, and what do these stories unveil about our own prejudices? Colin Dickey digs into this in his new book, “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places.”
Six years ago, while touring foreclosed homes in Los Angeles, Colin Dickey was overcome with an eerie feeling. The aging, Elysian Park houses – built in the ’20s and ’30s – were rife with odd and often creepy constructions: windows that looked between between family rooms and bedrooms, and doors that didn’t lead anywhere.
“We found one house with a door on the second floor that just opened out to empty air,” Dickey says. “Maybe somebody had meant to build an addition there at some point, or maybe it was going to be a balcony … It just left sort of left this open wound in the side of the house.”
None of the places were home to ghosts – that he knew of – but the experience nonetheless sparked his curiosity in haunted buildings and the stories they inspire.
Dickey criss-crossed the country, visiting ghost-ridden locations– abandoned prisons, empty asylums, decadent mansions, graveyards and parks – to try to figure out “how we use the language of haunting to understand strange and anomalous buildings.”
Eastern State Penitentiary / Philadelphia, PA
Haunted Places Across America
Photos by Colin Dickey
Dickey was particularly struck by the Winchester House in San Jose, Calif., a gargantuan, overbuilt mansion that was formerly home to the heiress of the Winchester rifle company. As legend goes, Sarah Winchester believed she was cursed by the souls of anyone who’d been killed by a Winchester gun and was told by a psychic that the only way to ward off the ghosts was to keep expanding her house, room by room.
“It’s this 160-room monstrosity [that] doesn’t appear to have any rhyme or reason,” Dickey says. “It sort of sprawls in every direction. It feels like you’re inside like a labyrinth.”
But after Dickey dug into the story, he came up with another theory – one less tied to the supernatural.
“In many ways I came to see [Winchester] as a kind of self-taught folk artist, whose medium wasn’t painting or knitting or anything like that, but was actually architecture. She had the means to experiment and play with constructing her home in a way that few of us dream of. And she could afford to approach it as almost like a hobby.”
Dickey explores the stories behind dozens more buildings – from the Victorian-style Kirkbride asylums, to murderous hotels in downtown L.A. – in “Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places.” Here’s an excerpt from the book:
1933, a summer’s day in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. There are children playing outside on East Fourth Street; it is August, and they are wild, they are shouting and running through the street, trying to gather up the last of the season before the fall sets in. There is nothing unusual about any of this. Then the door swings open at 29 East Fourth Street, and an old woman emerges on to the stoop overlooking the street, waving her arms wildly and shouting to the children to be quiet. The children, as well as the adults on the street, all recognize her: Gertrude Tredwell, who’s lived in the house for over ninety years, born there only a few years after her father purchased it in 1935. She is enraged; she tells them they are being far too noisy, they must calm down. The children quiet, turning towards the high staircase that leads to Gertrude’s front door, looking up with fear at the old woman who, satisfied, returns indoors and shuts the door.
There’s nothing unusual about any of this—except that Gertrude Tredwell has been dead now for several weeks.
It is not the last time Gertrude Tredwell will be seen at the house on East Fourth Street. In the months after her death, the house falls into the hands of a distant cousin; since by then most of the old merchant houses of lower Manhattan were gone, he decides to preserve the house as a museum, first opening it in 1936. Open to the public, over the years there are dozens of sightings of odd and inexplicable things happening in the house. In the early 1980s tourists come across the house and ring the bell. A woman in period costume tells them politely that the museum is closed for the day, and could they please come back at another time. Later, when they call the house to get the hours, they are told that the museum was in fact open when they came by, and that, furthermore, none of the staff ever dresses in period costume. Gertrude has also been seen inside the house, sometimes humming, sometimes playing the piano—always appearing as a frail, petite woman in period costume.
Nor is she alone. A visitor to the house in the summer of 1995 claimed that while upstairs she had a lengthy conversation with an older gentleman in a tattered suit and a heavy wool jacket smelling of mothballs, who talked to her of what the house was like to live in. After listening to him for a few minutes, she turned her back on him for a moment, and when she looked back, he was gone. Later she identified the man she’d seen from photographs: Samuel Lenox Tredwell, Gertrude’s brother, who’d died in 1917.
Ghost stories like these mean more than we are usually prepared to admit. If you want to understand a place, ignore the boastful monuments and landmarks, and go straight to the haunted houses. Look for the darkened graveyards, the derelict hotels, the emptied and decaying old hospitals. Wait past midnight, and see what appears. Tune out the patriotic speeches and sanctioned narratives, and listen instead for the bumps in the night. You won’t need an electronic device to capture the voices of the dead; a patient ear and an open mind will do. Once you start looking, you’ll find them everywhere.
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion once wrote, and that is just as true of ghost stories: we tell stories of the dead as a way of making sense of the living. More than just simple urban legends and campfire tales, ghost stories reveal the contours of our anxieties, the nature of our collective fears and desires, the things we can’t talk about in any other way. The past we’re most afraid to speak of aloud in the bright light of day is the same past that tends to linger in the ghost stories we whisper in the dark.
Ghost stories are as old as human civilization, appearing in the earliest written epics and throughout the ancient world. In one of his letters the Roman writer Pliny the Younger describes a house haunted by a ghost “in the form of an old man, of extremely emaciated and squalid appearance, with a long beard and disheveled hair, rattling the chains on his feet and hands.” The house remained vacant until the philosopher Athenodorus rented it; his first night he waited up for the ghost, writing in his study, until the apparition appeared.
Athenodorus, according to Pliny, was not in a hurry, and when confronted by the ghost “made a sign with his hand that he should wait a little, and threw his eyes again upon his papers.” Eventually the philosopher allowed the ghost to lead him outside of the house into the yard, where he vanished. The next morning, Athenodorus dug up the spot where the ghost had disappeared, and found the remains of a skeleton in chains that had been long neglected. He gave the corpse a proper burial, and the haunting ceased.
Ghosts bridge the past to the present; they speak across the seemingly insurmountable barriers of death and time, connecting us to what we thought was lost. They give us hope for a life beyond death, and because of this help us to cope with loss and grief. Their presence is the promise that we don’t have to say goodbye to our loved ones right away, and—is with Athendorous’s haunting—what was left undone in one’s life might yet be finished by one’s ghost.
Perhaps this is why, even without centuries-old castles or ruined abbeys, the United States is as ghost-haunted as anywhere else in the world—perhaps even more so. You’ll find ghosts in the stately plantations of the South, in the wilds of the plains states, in the ornate hotels of California, in the wooden colonials in the Northeast. They roam the streets of rustbelt cities like Detroit and Buffalo, and they haunt the gothic cities of the South. You’ll find them in abandoned mining towns, and in the bustling metropolis of New York City.
Forty-five percent of Americans say they believe in ghosts, and almost a third say they’ve witnessed them firsthand. Though this belief lies outside the ways we normally explain the world—contradicting science and complicating religion—it’s a difficult belief to shake. That we continue believing in ghosts despite our rational mind’s skepticism suggests that in these stories lies something crucial to the way we understand the world around us. We cannot look away, because we know something important is there.
The Merchant’s House Museum in lower Manhattan has stood by itself against the din and rush of the city; it has stood for one hundred and eighty years and might stand for that many more. Within, walls continue upright, bricks meet neatly, wood floors give gently under foot, and spirits gather.
The house was bought by Seabury Tredwell in 1835 when he retired. Owner of a large hardware firm, he had eight children altogether, the last of whom, Gertrude, was born there in 1840 when Tredwell was sixty. Gertrude never married; she had one suitor, but her father disapproved of his Catholicism. And so she lived out her life in the house on 4th Street, her siblings dying one by one until only she remained. Over time, she focused her energies on keeping the house exactly as Seabury intended it, maintaining its nineteenth century charm until she died, at the age of ninety-three, in 1933. A distant cousin acquired the house, and since by then most of the old merchant houses of lower Manhattan were gone, he decided to preserve Tredwell’s home, first opening it to the public as a museum in 1936. The ghosts, they say, came quickly thereafter.
The Merchant’s House is a prime example of a grand old American haunted house. Its exterior is stately, refined, with a touch of frayed elegance. Its front door welcomes, even as it seems to be hiding something. Inside, the floors creak without warning, without any sense of someone there. The old wood is thick with the humidity, as if the walls and floors still breathe. It stands as the oldest brownstone in New York with its furniture still intact. All around it are gleaming glass and steel towers of the modern age, bustling with life still living.
It is easy to feel as though you’re stepping back in time as you walk in the steps of those long gone. And it’s easy, in such a well-worn house, to feel that something is not quite right: an invisible presence, a trace of something that doesn’t belong. Through the years guests have reported feeling cold spots, or seeing strange, wispy streaks of light, some of which have been captured on film. Paranormal researchers have conducted EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) sessions in the house, turning on a tape recorder and asking questions to an empty room, playing back the tape later in hopes the ghosts will have answered back. Several EVPs from the house have recorded bits of faint, muddled noise that some claim are voices speaking from the beyond.
But these events alone are easy for a skeptic to brush aside, and discount. A paranormal event without a story is tenuous, fragile. What makes it “real,” at least in a sense, is the story, the tale that grounds the event. That sense of the uncanny, of something not-quite-right, of things ever-so-slightly off, cries out for an explanation, and often we turn to ghosts. Just as an oyster turns a speck of dirt into a pearl, the ghost story doesn’t make the feeling disappear, but can transform it into something more stable, less unsettling.
Long before the word “haunting” became associated with ghosts, it meant simply to frequent, in the way teenage kids haunt a park or drunks haunt a bar. A house like the Merchant’s House Museum is haunted, then, by use and by habitude, by grooves worn into the floors and walls—as though you could map out the daily patterns of the people who’d lived here by analyzing these signs of wear.
The ghosts at the Merchant House emerge not only out of the uncanny feeling we get from creaking wood and antiquated architecture, but also from the stories about its one-time inhabitants that are told and retold over the years and embellished where necessary to heighten the drama. Tales of Gertrude emphasize that she never married, that after her father disapproved of her only suitor, and that she promised him she’d stay single and live in his home. The spinster who honored her father’s wishes even after his death, Gertrude seems tragic, bordering on the pathological. Even before her death, she haunted this house—an emotionally stunted recluse, unable to let go of her attachment to her father.
Samuel Tredwell, by contrast, is described as a “black sheep,” someone who never amounted to much and was disinherited by the family. This is a tad unfair; Samuel followed in his father’s footsteps as a merchant, specializing in china and crockery, though he was not the success his father had been. He was indeed written out of Seabury’s final will, mainly due to debts he’d incurred in the wake of the Civil War (Seabury instead left a trust in Samuel’s daughter’s name). But the legends of the Merchant House exaggerate the tensions and family drama, relying on melodramatic caricatures. The sight of Samuel’s ghost is far more exciting and menacing, after all, if he’s come back from the grave to claim his rightful inheritance.
A spinster, and one who seemed to resist time in a place as restless as New York City, Gertrude Tredwell embodies a set of ideas—and anxieties—about women, domesticity, and modernity. Likewise, in the ghost of threadbare Samuel Tredwell we have a story of disinheritance and filial failure that reflects how we as a culture treat men who don’t live up to certain concepts of masculinity. Add to this the overbearing portrait of Seabury himself, and what the Merchant’s House offers is an uncanny portrait of the American family, one that frustrates our basic assumptions about how a father and his children should act.
Instead of, or perhaps in addition to, the supernatural, old buildings are haunted by their memories: memories of those who once inhabited them, and the memories we bring to them. We’re conditioned, after all, to conflate memory and physical space. At the same time that Pliny was writing his tale of Athenodorus’s haunted house, Cicero and Quintillian were developing a technique for remembering great quantities of information known as a “memory palace.”
Rather than direct memorization, one imagines a house and “places” different parts of a speech in different rooms—the first point in one’s speech is placed in the entryway to the home, the second point in the first room, and so on. To remember the speech, the orator simply has to “walk” through the house in her or his mind, picking up each aspect of the speech as she or he moves through the building. The technique suggests the degree to which memory is spatial, or at least primed to work spatially: our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place, and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.
Just as imaginary houses may be used to remember things, real physical houses may have their own memories—or at least memories we project on them. A haunted house is a memory palace made real: a physical space that retains memories that might otherwise be forgotten, , or which might remain only in fragments. Under the invisible weight of these memories, the habits of those who once haunted these places, we feel the shudder of the ghost.
Ghosts, Thomas W. Laqueur writes, are “a representation of the unrepresentable: the dead who were somewhere.” In a world where nearly every moment of our lives is photographed, recorded, and documented, the gaps in the past still beckon us. Searching for ghosts can be an attempt to reconstruct what is lost. By sifting through time for stories that have been misplaced or forgotten, we listen to the voices that call out to be remembered. Our ghost stories center on unfinished endings, broken relationships, things left unexplained. They offer an alternative kind of history, foregrounding those precisely what might otherwise be ignored.
Ghost stories are a way of talking about things we’re not otherwise allowed to discuss: a forbidden history we thought bricked up safely in the walls. They cover up over the gaps and in the process help us assuage our anxieties, providing a rationale after the fact. Just as Gertrude Tredwell’s life has informed the ghost stories that now circulate around her, so too does the legend of her ghost make meaning out of her life. Those aspects of a life that are discontinuous, fragmented, or unexpected, are made whole through the ghost story.
In her study of the ghost stories of the Hudson Valley in New York, Judith Richardson describes how one ghost in particular has changed shape through the decades to suit different needs of different eras. For over two centuries, residents in the village of Leeds, New York, have reported seeing a spectral apparition of a ghostly horse riding down the main road, dragging behind it a young woman. The story, in its most basic form, has to do with a cruel master who wickedly killed a young servant girl as punishment for some minor transgression. When she was invoked by writer Miriam Coles Harris in her 1862 novel The Sutherlands, the ghostly victim is a slave of African and Native American descent; Coles Harris used her as a parable in the vein of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, castigating not only the institution of slavery but Northern whites for their complicity. In 1896, the same ghost appears in Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Legends of Our Own Land, but now she is a white European immigrant, reflecting Skinner’s interest in class differences and labor warfare. Contemporary retellings of the story, though, lack these politically charged details; in a 2002 book containing the Leeds legend, her ethnic heritage is unmentioned and the class divide is downplayed. Her master is indeed cruel and callous, but he’s portrayed nowadays as a singular figure of evil rather than a representative of a corrupt ruling class.
Paying attention to the way ghost stories change through the years—and why those changes are made—can tell us a great deal about how we face our fears and our anxieties. Even when these stories have a basis in fact and history, there’s often significant embellishment and fabrication before they catch on in our imagination, and teasing out these alterations is key to understanding how these ghosts shape our relationship to the past.
We like our view this country as a unified, cohesive whole based on progress, a perpetual refinement of values, and an arc of history bending towards justice—but the prevalence of ghosts suggests otherwise. The ghosts who haunt our woods, our cemeteries, our houses and our cities appear at moments of anxiety, and point to instability in our national and local identities. A ghost story is what Freud called the “return of the repressed,” when that something we’d rather forget returns in another form—such as the now-famous “Freudian slip” (what he himself called a “parapraxis”), revealing what we’ve hidden deep in our subconscious.
Our country’s ghost stories are themselves the dreams (or nightmares) of a nation, the Freudian slips of whole communities: uncomfortable and unbidden expressions of things we’d assumed were long past and no longer important. If American history is taught to schoolchildren as a series of great, striding benchmarks, the history of America’s ghost stories is one of crimes left unsolved or transgressions we now feel guilty about. They offer explanations for the seemingly inexplicable, address injustices after the fact, and give expression to our unstated desires and fears. They can also, just as easily, mold reality to our preconceived notions, and cover over a messy reality in favor of well-worn clichés and urban legends. Ours is a forward-looking country that can have trouble sometimes reckoning with the past and the actions of our ancestors, and the spirit world has become yet another arena in which the shameful chapters in America’s history—including slavery, and the genocide of the American Indians—are addressed and re-litigated. Uncomfortable truths, buried secrets, disputed accounts: ghost stories arise out of the shadowlands, a response to the ambiguous and the poorly understood.
I spent several years traveling the country, listening for ghosts. There was no shortage of stories to choose from: there is not a city, town, or village in this country that isn’t crammed with spirits. I started with places that were renowned for their ghosts, places that had caught on in the popular imagination, whose legends seemed particularly resonant. I looked for ghosts whose stories spoke to some larger facet of American consciousness while still being rooted in a specific building.
In some cases it wasn’t always clear to me at first why I was drawn to a particular place. Sometimes simply being in a strange building—spending the night in a haunted hotel, for example—was enough to leave me with a feeling that I wanted to know more. Much of this book involves not just listening to ghost stories, but listening also to architecture—how a building can feel alive and unsettling due to its age, or a quirk in its construction. Any building whose construction is a little bit off, as often as not, has spirits swirling about it. The language of ghosts, it seems, has become an important (if abstract) way of how we talk about architecture and place.
Cities and historic sites across the United States clamor to have the most ghosts per cubic inch, the most frenetic paranormal activity, so they can earn the label “most haunted”. Any major city in this country offers some kind of ghost tour where you can hunt for cold spots or EMF vibrations, or otherwise record proof of the supernatural. The phenomenon has come to be known as “dark tourism”, a vibrant industry in its own right. Ghost tours are popular with tourists, explains geographer Glenn Gentry, because they “allow access to dissonant knowledge, dirty laundry, back stage.” They are the celebrity gossip of history, the salacious underbelly of the past, and we’re drawn to them because the standard history often obscures as much as it reveals.
In a quest to find that history of our country forgotten and ignored, I’ve interviewed ghost hunters and psychics, local historians and preservationists. I’ve read academic treatises and cheesy guidebooks, compared the legends to the historical record, trying to unearth the genealogy of these specific ghosts, and how we came to love telling these specific stories. What makes a place haunted? When is a creaking floorboard more than just a creaking floorboard? And what is behind the ghost stories that we tell? A spinster locked in a decaying mansion, a slave on a plantation whose soul won’t rest—what are they trying to say to us from beyond the grave?
The answers aren’t contained to houses but cower in hotels and prisons, bridges and graveyards. Though houses are more likely to be haunted than any other place, other kinds of buildings have their own stories to tell. This book moves from the private space of the home to progressively more public spaces—from houses to businesses to civic spaces, and finally to whole cities. What secrets do towns harbor? Why do ghosts linger when buildings empty of living people?
Examining our country’s local ghost stories—where they came from, how they’ve evolved, how they’re recounted—may tell us a great deal about things we thought were long settled and in the past.
Excerpted from Ghostland by Colin Dickey. Copyright © 2016 by Colin Dickey. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Session 1: Monday 8:45am:
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Technical Fellow and CTO Information Services, Microsoft
Title: Scale-out Beyond Map-Reduce
Abstract:The amount of data being collected is growing at a staggering pace. The default is to capture and store any and all data, in anticipation of potential future strategic value, and vast amounts of data are being generated by instrumenting key customer and systems touchpoints. Until recently, data was gathered for well-defined objectives such as auditing, forensics, reporting and line-of-business operations; now, exploratory and predictive analysis is becoming ubiquitous. These differences in data scale and usage are leading to a new generation of data management and analytic systems, where the emphasis is on supporting a wide range of data to be stored uniformly and analyzed seamlessly using whatever techniques are most appropriate, including traditional tools like SQL and BI and newer tools for graph analytics and machine learning. These new systems use scale-out architectures for both data storage and computation.
Hadoop has become a key building block in the new generation of scale-out systems. Early versions of analytic tools over Hadoop, such as Hive and Pig for SQL-like queries, were implemented by translation into Map-Reduce computations. This approach has inherent limitations, and the emergence of resource managers such as YARN and Mesos has opened the door for newer analytic tools to bypass the Map-Reduce layer. This trend is especially significant for iterative computations such as graph analytics and machine learning, for which Map-Reduce is widely recognized to be a poor fit. In this talk, I will examine this architectural trend, and argue that resource managers are a first step in re-factoring the early implementations of Map-Reduce, and that more work is needed if we wish to support a variety of analytic tools on a common scale-out computational fabric. I will then present REEF, which runs on top of resource managers like YARN and provides support for task monitoring and restart, data movement and communications, and distributed state management. Finally, I will illustrate the value of using REEF to implement iterative algorithms for graph analytics and machine learning.
This is joint work with the CISL team at Microsoft.
Bio: Raghu Ramakrishnan heads the Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) in the Data Platforms Group at Microsoft. From 1987 to 2006, he was a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he wrote the widely-used text “Database Management Systems” and led a wide range of research projects in database systems (e.g., the CORAL deductive database, the DEVise data visualization tool, SQL extensions to handle sequence data) and data mining (scalable clustering, mining over data streams). In 1999, he founded QUIQ, a company that introduced a cloud-based question-answering service. He joined Yahoo! in 2006 as a Yahoo! Fellow, and over the next six years served as Chief Scientist for the Audience (portal), Cloud and Search divisions, driving content recommendation algorithms (CORE), cloud data stores (PNUTS), and semantic search (“Web of Things”). Ramakrishnan has received several awards, including the ACM SIGKDD Innovations Award, the SIGMOD 10-year Test-of-Time Award, the IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.
Session 2: Monday 1:30pm:
Andrew Ng, Stanford University and Coursera
Title: The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone
Abstract: In 2011, Stanford University offered three online courses, which anyone in the world could enroll in and take for free. Together, these three courses had enrollments of around 350,000 students, making this one of the largest experiments in online education ever performed. Since the beginning of 2012, we have transitioned this effort into a new venture, Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company whose mission is to make high-quality education accessible to everyone by allowing the best universities to offer courses to everyone around the world, for free. Coursera classes provide a real course experience to students, including video content, interactive exercises with
meaningful feedback, using both auto-grading and peer-grading, and a rich peer-to-peer interaction around the course materials. Currently, Coursera has 62 university partners, and over 3 million students enrolled in its over 300 courses. These courses span a range of topics including computer science, business, medicine, science, humanities, social sciences, and more. In this talk, I’ll report on this far-reaching experiment in education, and why we believe this model can provide both an improved classroom experience for our on-campus students, via a flipped classroom model, as well as a meaningful learning experience for the millions of students around the world who would otherwise never have access to education of this quality.
Bio: Andrew Ng is a Co-founder of Coursera, and a Computer Science faculty member at Stanford. In 2011, he led the development of Stanford University’s main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera. Ng’s goal is to give everyone in the world access to a high quality education, for free. Today, Coursera partners with top universities to offer high quality, free online courses. With 62 university partners, over 300 courses, and more than 3 million students, Coursera is currently the largest MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses) platform in the world. Outside online education, Ng’s research work is in machine learning, with an emphasis on Deep Learning. He is also the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Session 3: Tuesday 8:45am
Stephen J. Wright, Computer Sciences Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Optimization in Learning and Data Analysis
Abstract: Optimization tools are vital to data analysis and learning. The optimization perspective has provided valuable insights, and optimization formulations have led to practical algorithms with good theoretical properties. In turn, the rich collection of problems in learning and data analysis is providing fresh perspectives on
optimization algorithms and is driving new fundamental research in the area. We discuss research on several areas in this domain, including signal reconstruction, manifold learning, and regression / classification, describing in each case recent research in which optimization algorithms have been developed and applied successfully. A particular focus is asynchronous parallel algorithms for optimization and linear algebra, and their applications in data analysis and learning.
Bio: Stephen J. Wright is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is on computational
optimization and its applications to many areas of science and
engineering. Prior to joining UW-Madison in 2001, Wright was a Senior
Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (1990-2001), and a
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
(2000-2001). During 2007-2010, he served as chair of the Mathematical
Optimization Society, and is on the Board of the Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is a Fellow of SIAM.
Wright is the author or coauthor of widely used text / reference books
in optimization including “Primal Dual Interior-Point Methods” (SIAM,
1997) and “Numerical Optimization” (2nd Edition, Springer, 2006, with
J. Nocedal). He has published widely on optimization theory,
algorithms, software, and applications. He is coauthor of widely used
software for linear and quadratic programming and for compressed
sensing.
Wright currently serves on the editorial boards of the leading
journals in optimization (SIAM Journal on Optimization and
Mathematical Programming, Series A) as well as SIAM Review. He served
a term as editor-in-chief of Mathematical Programming, Series B from
Session 4: Wednesday 8:45am
Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google
Title: Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data
Abstract: Many businesses now have almost real time data available about their operations. This data can be helpful in contemporaneous prediction (“nowcasting”) of various economic indicators. We illustrate how one can use Google search data to nowcast economic metrics of interest, and discuss some of the ramifications for research and policy. Our approach combines three Bayesian techniques: Kalman filtering, spike-and-slab regression, and model averaging. We use Kalman filtering to whiten the time series in question by removing the trend and seasonal behavior. Spike-and-slab regression is a Bayesian method for variable selection that works even in cases where the number of predictors is far larger than the number of observations. Finally, we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to sample from the posterior distribution for our model; the final forecast is an average over thousands of draws from the posterior. An advantage of the Bayesian approach is that it allows us to specify informative priors that affect the number and type of predictors in a flexible way.
Bio: Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He started in May 2002 as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy.
He is also an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.
He received his SB degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has also taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world.
Dr. Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22 languages. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and wrote a monthly column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007.
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Second Mississippi gubernatorial candidate says he won't be alone with a woman who isn't his wife
Updated: 6:16 AM CDT Jul 18, 2019
A second Republican candidate for Mississippi governor said he would not be alone with a woman who is not his wife in a professional or personal setting, after fellow candidate state Rep. Robert Foster's decision to deny a female reporter's request to accompany him on a campaign trip for the same reason.Bill Waller Jr., the former chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, told Mississippi Today that he subscribes to what is known as the "Billy Graham rule," named after the prominent evangelist, in which a man avoids being alone with women other than his wife."I just think it's common sense. I just think in this day and time that appearances are important ... transparency's important. And I think that people need to have the comfort of what's going on in government between employees and people. And there's a lot of social issues out there about that," Waller told the news outlet on Monday.He said his goal "is to not make it an issue so that everyone's comfortable with the surroundings and we can go about our business."CNN has reached out to Waller's campaign.Waller told Mississippi Today that in his 22 years serving on the state Supreme Court, he never found himself alone with a female colleague."I tried to (always have someone else present)," he told Mississippi Today, adding that he would not, however, demand that the woman provide the other male colleague.Last week, Foster declined Mississippi Today's request to send a reporter on the trail with him for the day because the reporter was female unless she brought along a male colleague, saying he did so because he "just wanted to keep things professional."Waller's campaign told Mississippi Today last week it is their practice to have a campaign staffer with Waller when he is speaking with the media so the situation was a "non-issue." Waller told the news outlet Monday, that he would not have asked a woman to provide another person to be in the room for a meeting."In my situation I always made sure that I was in control of the situation — that's the way I do business," he said.The Mississippi Today reporter, Larrison Campbell, said the news outlet had asked to shadow each of the candidates in the race "in an attempt to better inform readers."Foster said on Twitter that his Christian faith and marriage were among the reasons to deny Campbell access and told CNN that he was worried that the situation may inadvertently create a false impression."I trust myself completely, but I don't trust the perception that the world puts on people when they see things and they don't ask the questions, they don't look to find out the truth," Foster said. "Perception is reality in this world, and I don't want to give anybody the opinion that I'm doing something that I should not be doing."In the same interview on CNN, Campbell called Foster's decision sexist."Why does it appear improper for a man to be with a woman? I mean, why wouldn't a gay affair be construed if he were with a man?" Campbell said. "Unless, at the end of the day, what you're saying here is a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second."
A second Republican candidate for Mississippi governor said he would not be alone with a woman who is not his wife in a professional or personal setting, after fellow candidate state Rep. Robert Foster's decision to deny a female reporter's request to accompany him on a campaign trip for the same reason.
Bill Waller Jr., the former chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, told Mississippi Today that he subscribes to what is known as the "Billy Graham rule," named after the prominent evangelist, in which a man avoids being alone with women other than his wife.
"I just think it's common sense. I just think in this day and time that appearances are important ... transparency's important. And I think that people need to have the comfort of what's going on in government between employees and people. And there's a lot of social issues out there about that," Waller told the news outlet on Monday.
He said his goal "is to not make it an issue so that everyone's comfortable with the surroundings and we can go about our business."
CNN has reached out to Waller's campaign.
Waller told Mississippi Today that in his 22 years serving on the state Supreme Court, he never found himself alone with a female colleague.
"I tried to (always have someone else present)," he told Mississippi Today, adding that he would not, however, demand that the woman provide the other male colleague.
Last week, Foster declined Mississippi Today's request to send a reporter on the trail with him for the day because the reporter was female unless she brought along a male colleague, saying he did so because he "just wanted to keep things professional."
Waller's campaign told Mississippi Today last week it is their practice to have a campaign staffer with Waller when he is speaking with the media so the situation was a "non-issue." Waller told the news outlet Monday, that he would not have asked a woman to provide another person to be in the room for a meeting.
"In my situation I always made sure that I was in control of the situation — that's the way I do business," he said.
The Mississippi Today reporter, Larrison Campbell, said the news outlet had asked to shadow each of the candidates in the race "in an attempt to better inform readers."
Foster said on Twitter that his Christian faith and marriage were among the reasons to deny Campbell access and told CNN that he was worried that the situation may inadvertently create a false impression.
"I trust myself completely, but I don't trust the perception that the world puts on people when they see things and they don't ask the questions, they don't look to find out the truth," Foster said. "Perception is reality in this world, and I don't want to give anybody the opinion that I'm doing something that I should not be doing."
In the same interview on CNN, Campbell called Foster's decision sexist.
"Why does it appear improper for a man to be with a woman? I mean, why wouldn't a gay affair be construed if he were with a man?" Campbell said. "Unless, at the end of the day, what you're saying here is a woman is a sexual object first and a reporter second."
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How Tennessee's leaders are taking on the opioid crisis
There have been several bills filed to address the opioid epidemic here in Tennessee. Here's what they would do if passed.
How Tennessee's leaders are taking on the opioid crisis There have been several bills filed to address the opioid epidemic here in Tennessee. Here's what they would do if passed. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/02/20/tennessee-opioid-crisis-bill-haslam-laws-legislature-prescriptions/329492002/
Jordan Buie, USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee Published 6:00 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2018 | Updated 6:49 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2018
The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy recently added a rule, now in effect, prohibiting "incentivizing and/or inducing prescription transfers” with cash rewards or gift cards.(Photo: Getty Images / iStockphoto)
Gov. Bill Haslam’s plan to address the opioid epidemic focuses on addiction prevention and rehabilitation for addicts — a combo attack many hope will put a significant dent in the number of residents affected.
About $25 million of the $30 million in the governor's budget, if passed, will go toward treatment.
In addition to the governor's two signature bills, lawmakers have introduced at least 15 other pieces of legislation dealing with opioids.
These include such measures as a proposal to decrease TennCare costs for opioid alternatives and one that would require prescribers to inform women of the risks of taking opioids during a pregnancy.
Another proposal calls for an opioid abuse hotline.
► Interactive map: Opioid prescriptions are declining, but some Tennessee counties are getting worse
► More: Haslam administration begins rollout of $30 million plan to combat opioid epidemic
► More: How a Brentwood family is working to break the stigma surrounding addiction
Still, state officials and lawmakers are careful to avoid characterizing the proposals as a plan to take people's prescriptions away. The Tennessee Medical Association has expressed concern that parts of the governor's plan could interfere with a doctors' relationship with their patients.
"It’s been very difficult to get that word out because we have a lot of people under doctors' care who need that long-term treatment," said Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris. "It's not as though the patient population that is undergoing treatment is all of the sudden going to be cut off. You are going to have people who think they need to receive more in the way of prescriptions and the questions are going to become, 'What alternatives are there?'"
'Squeezing the balloon'
An addiction epidemic, from a legislative perspective, is a tough nut to crack.
Experts such as Tommy Farmer, the special agent in charge of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Dangerous Drugs Task Force, have used the term “squeezing the balloon” to refer to the challenge of trying to transition an addicted population off opioids.
“If you squeeze too hard on one end, the other end expands,” Farmer said. “If you squeeze too hard in general, the balloon pops.”
►More: Gov. Bill Haslam unveils $30 million plan to combat opioid crisis in Tennessee
Opioid Prescriptions in Tennessee Counties (Photo: Mike Reicher)
The balloon, in Tennessee’s case, is roughly 300,000 residents misusing drugs and an estimated 83,000 or so who are addicted, according state numbers attributed to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Farmer said research found that a 26 percent reduction in opioid prescriptions in Tennessee was almost mirrored by a similar increase in overdoses or near fatal drug-related incidents. That revelation, Farmer said, makes it clear addicts cut off from prescriptions will turn to more dangerous drugs on the street, such as heroin or fentanyl.
Sen. Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin, is a pharmacist by trade and one of the legislators carrying Haslam's signature legislation. Haile said the problem is multi-generational and that rather than pushing people off opioids, the first priority is capping prescriptions for first-time users, labeled "opioid naive," before they can become addicted.
A narrowed focus
Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner said past research and progress has played a role in narrowing the focus of Haslam's proposal.
Since the the state passed the Prescription Safety Act of 2012, Dreyzehner said the number of residents "doctor shopping" dropped by 76 percent, which likely saved lives.
But despite a 15 percent decrease in opioid prescriptions from 2015 to 2017, opioid-related deaths remain on the rise. According to state data, 1,186 people died of opioid overdose deaths in 2016, an average of more than three per day.
"We now know something we didn’t know a few years ago because there’s an important study that came out from the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in March 2017, and there have been other studies that supported it," Dreyzehner said. "The study found that after five days of opioids, the probability of long-term use increased (to 10 percent), a percentage of risk much higher than was was previously thought."
Norris said a lot of negotiations are underway. Doctors don't want legislators infringing upon their ability to prescribe medication and treat patients, but on the other hand, the state is dealing with a problem of over-prescription.
"There’s going to be prescribing limits. There’s parameters around how that will work," Haile said. "I encourage medical folks, prescribers and pharmacists to be on the cutting edge of this."
On Feb. 2, the Tennessee Medical Association issued a statement saying Haslam's proposal "interferes with the physician-patient relationship." The group, which represents the state's doctors, has been critical of parts of Haslam's proposal, including a plan to limit an initial opioid prescription to a five-day supply, with "appropriate exceptions."
► More: Doctors raise concerns over Gov. Bill Haslam's opioid proposal
Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Jeff Yarbro and other Democrats have also frequently criticized the governor as introducing a paltry budget to address the epidemic.
"There was some talk about initiatives that people are broadly behind, but I don’t think there was much ambition or reach in what the governor proposed tonight," Yarbro said after Haslam's State of the State address.
But Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner Marie Williams said she is hopeful of progress.
"I have never seen the three branches of government come together and uniformly say we will deal with prevention, treatment and criminal justice," she said.
Reporters Anita Wadhwani and Joel Ebert contributed to this report.
Reach reporter Jordan Buie at 615-726-5970 or on Twitter @jordanbuie.
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IDEA-FAST: Identifying digital endpoints to assess fatigue, sleep and activities of daily living in neurodegenerative disorders and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
Fatigue and sleep disturbances are two common and disabling symptoms that affect patients with neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMID). These symptoms are major predictors of poor quality of life and increased healthcare cost. Current questionnaire-based approaches to measure these symptoms have key limitations preventing them from being used as reliable endpoints in clinical trials to evaluate the effect of therapies. IDEA-FAST aims to address these issues by identifying novel digital endpoints for fatigue and sleep disturbances that will provide more objective, sensitive and reliable measures of the severity and impact of these symptoms in ecological settings. Such digital endpoints will not only help to gain insight into the underpinning mechanisms of fatigue and sleep disturbances, but will also vastly improve the efficiency of clinical trials, ultimately reducing the time and cost to bring new therapies to patients. To identify these digital endpoints, we will follow the recommendations of the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI). We will identify the characteristics that fatigue and sleep disturbances will have impact, then select the digital measures (endpoints) to quantify them, followed by choosing the appropriate digital device/technology accordingly. We will then perform a pilot study to prioritise a few of these candidate digital endpoints for validation. We will test the performance of these digital endpoints in two NDD and four IMID in a large longitudinal study during which extensive relevant clinical data will be collected. If these digital endpoints were validated, we will seek support from EMA/FDA for their qualification. Patient users’ perspective, ethical, data privacy, legal and other regulatory issues will be taken into consideration in all aspects of our proposal. The resultant digital biobank from the longitudinal study will become an invaluable resource for future exploitation.
COLOSPEED: Development of a world-leading colorectal cancer research hub in the North East of England
COLO-SPEED will harness the enthusiasm of local endoscopy teams and build a long-term sustainable research infrastructure, using the patient contact point of endoscopy to develop a population-based “experimental platform”. This will recruit patients into a wide range of colorectal cancer (CRC) research studies across the disease continuum, creating a unique, world-leading, resource for CRC screening, prevention and early diagnosis (SPED) research, delivering benefits to patients, the wider population and society of the NE. COLO-SPEED will deliver a genuine 360-degree partnership with patients and public, putting them at the centre of prioritising, advising and informing CRC research and co-producing knowledge.
Design and initial evaluation of an autism-specific health check for use with autistic adults in NHS Primary Care
Autistic people are more likely to experience poor health than people who are not autistic. Some don't seek help when they are unwell and many find going to the doctors difficult. We will work with autistic people to develop and test an autism health check for use in General Practice (by GPs). It could become something that in the future is offered to all autistic people on the NHS.
Engaging the workforce in real time: listening, understanding and responding to what matters most to our staff
Of the 1.4 million people who work in the NHS in England, more than 50% say they are unable to meet all of the conflicting demands on their time at work, and nearly 40% say that they’ve been unwell as a result of stress at work. Staff burnout in the NHS leads to low levels of staff engagement, which affects quality of patient care, patient experience, and staff and patient safety. At Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, there are currently limited way to have a meaningful, ongoing conversation with staff on what can be done to improve the workplace environment, and where improvement efforts should be focused. This project aims to address these gaps. The project aims to integrate real-time understanding of staff experience with Northumbria’s well-established real-time programme for capturing patient experience. The organisation-wide programme will capture everyday experiences of the workforce and introduce new technologies where possible to help capture these experiences in busy working environments. As many staff as possible will be encouraged to respond an annual staff experience survey and to quarterly pulse surveys. Programme infographics and a reporting framework will be deliberately appreciative, celebrating success and learning from what works, as well as where needs improvement. This evidence will inform improvement pilots led by eight teams across the trust, focused on improving staff experience and performance. Team results will be analysed and interpreted independently, and correlated with real-time patient experience measures, sickness and absence levels, team-level patient complaints, and safety data.
Distributed Ledgers and Decentralised Energy in Sub Saharan Africa
The global mobile phone industry has emerged as an important partner in achieving the UN's goals of sustainable energy access for all in Sub Saharan Africa. Support for mobile enhanced energy services in the region driven by the Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association (GSMA), which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. The GSMA has identified distributed ledger technologies as a key area of interest with the potential to transform existing business models for decentralised or off grid energy services in sub Saharan Africa and accelerate access to sustainable energy services. To this end GSMA's Mobile for Development Utilities division is currently seeking to better understand and evaluate the potential impact, applications, use cases, benefits and costs of distributed ledgers for energy service companies and customers, with the goal of leveraging its strategic partnership with the Department for International Development to resource future trials and to catalyse private sector investment. Working in partnership with the GSMA's Mobile for Development Utilities programme and ElectriCChain, developers of the SolarCoin Blockchain, this 24 month research project brings together a team of electrical and electronic engineers, human-computer interaction specialists, and social anthropologists to explore the potential for distributed ledger technologies to accelerate access to off grid solar energy in Sub-Saharan Africa by delinking current business models from existing mobile money payment infrastructures and third parties, creating new models for incentivising and rewarding the installation of off grid solar, and developing new peer-to-peer business models.
Enabling Ongoingness
The 'oldest old' are the fastest growing age group in the UK and a grand societal challenge we face is that the nature of growing older and end of life is changing. There are distinct challenges that are pushing some existing systems to breaking point (e.g. there is an increasing demand for care, but there are reductions in resources available to support the older old and worryingly a reduction in people using local authority care services which is suggestive of exclusion). We position this research within the fourth age; a period of life clinically characterised by physical and cognitive frailty and decline towards death. People in this period of life are seldom included in research, but have a unique voice around critical societal challenges and could be sensitively and meaningfully included into research in order to give them a voice in the reimagining of digital media to support sense of self for the older old. Further this research will engage with carers and those bereaved to investigate how new media could support people's relationships and sense of self not only at end of life but also in bereavement. We are living in a new digital age, each gathering a digital trail of media and personal data as we live: photographs, videos, blog posts, forum comments, Facebook conversations, tweets, music preferences etc. Whether these are created by us or by others about us there is a vast and rich wealth of digital media that could be leveraged and reappropriated to reflect positive things back to us in new ways - about ourselves and our connectedness with others. The concept of ongoingness is something we see as valuable for the development of new tools and systems for the configuration of metadata in new ways. Ongoingness suggests that all stages of our lives are connected and continuing, which gives us ways to think about what digital media creation and consumption practices could be that draw on the repository of media connected to us in challenging contexts. It also gives us the ability to consider how digital technologies could be developed in acknowledgement that people need to maintain a form of connectedness to a dead loved one in bereavement. Beyond memorialisation people benefit from practices that nurture an ongoing (albeit different) relationship with the deceased after a loved one has died. To date there is a lack of research considering technology for these contexts and what we can't do currently is curate this vast resource of media to specifically support sense of self, help people deal with their own approaching end of life, nor help others deal with bereavement of a loved one through using these digital assets in purposeful ways. Through links via our partners from Alzheimer's Society, Cruse, NCPC, HospiceUK, Dementia Positive, Marie Curie and Dementia Care we will work with older old people, carers and the bereaved using a research through design methodology to gently use acts of making and reflecting through objects to firstly develop new ways of using our metadata, secondly develop and deploy Internet of Things high fidelity prototypes that enable creation and curation of this digital media in new ways and thirdly develop new visions of consumption that foreground ongoingness. To give an example of what this could mean in the context of anticipating death - through their lives Betty and Derrick always used to jokingly argue with each other as to which song was better The Beatles 'Blackbird' or 'Dear Prudence'. Derrick curates their media so that after his death when Betty selects 'Blackbird', the song 'Dear Prudence' will always be played straight afterwards because he knows that it will make Betty smile. The couple loved gardening, now every May Betty unfolds her e-paper and a compilation of podcasts featuring specific flowers from the current year's Chelsea Flower Show are sent to Betty and a matching bouquet is delivered to her with anecdotes from Derrick's blog of how he grew some of these plants.
SILVER: Smart Interventions for Local Vulnerable Families
One of Connected Health Cities’ major areas of interest in the North East and North Cumbria is the high risk user groups and vulnerable families. For example, children subject to a Child Protection Plan, adults and young people out of work/at risk of worklessness or at risk of financial exclusion, and families affected by a range of social and health problems such as anti-social behaviour, domestic violence and substance use. The SILVER programme aims to explore how data linkages can be implemented to benefit these same populations. The SILVER project aims to link data across multiple agencies including health (physical and mental), social care, criminal justice, housing and education in order to develop a more complete Learning Health System.
DERC: Digital Economy Research Centre
The Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC) will theorise, design, develop, and evaluate new digitally mediated models of citizen participation that engage communities, the third sector, local government and (crucially) the commercial digital economy in developing the future of local service provision and local democracy. DERC will deliver a sustained program of multi- and cross- disciplinary research using research methods that are participatory, action-based, and embedded in the real world. The research approach will operate across multiple scales (e.g. individual, family, community, institution) and involve long-term embedded research activity at scale. The overarching challenges are significant: -- the development of new technologies and cloud-based platforms to provide access to open and citizen-generated data, big data analytics and software services at scale to support trusted communication, transactions, and co-production between coalitions of citizens, local government, the third and commercial sectors; -- the development of participatory methods to design digital services to support citizen prosumption at the scales of communities and beyond; -- the development of new cross-disciplinary insights into the role of digital technologies to support these service delivery contexts as well as understandings of the interdependency between contexts and their corresponding services. The backbone of this research agenda is a commitment to social inclusion and the utilisation of participatory processes for user engagement, consultation and representation in the design and adoption of new forms of digital services. The main research themes of DERC address the development of models of digitally enabled citizen participation in local democracy (planning), public health, social care and education, and the nature of new civic media to support these. The Centre's research will be conducted in the context of local government service provision in the Northeast of England, in close partnership with Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council and Northumberland, and supported by a consortium of key commercial, third sector and professional body partners. DERC's extensive program of research, knowledge exchange and public engagement activities will involve over 20 postdoctoral researchers and 25 investigators from Computer Science (HCI, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, Security), Business & Economics, Behavioural Science, Planning, Education, Statistics, Social Gerontology, Public Health and Health Services Research.
Identifying Health Promoting Elements in Care Homes
A 12 month research challenge, whereby we aim to assemble a community of stakeholders around the topic of enabling and health promoting environments including academics, social and health practitioners, built environment professionals and policy makers. Within this challenge we will carry-out user studies within care homes and organise workshops and training events to disseminate the findings.
Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges
Two month long research exchanges with University of Lisbon and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to extend ongoing research collaborations with the Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory is a research unit at the Department of Informatics (LaSIGE), Faculty of Sciences; and Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. This time was spend developing new research activities around non-visual interactions with mobile technologies. Resulting in the formation of the Braille21 initiative, to develop digital technologies to promote and leverage braille literacy. These exchanges lead to six collaborative publications on novel non-visual interaction for mobile and large touch surfaces.
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One Slight Hitch
By Lewis Black
Set in Ohio, satirical comedian Lewis Black’s production opens the door to the Coleman’s house on the day their daughter is to marry a stuffy, wealthy emblem of the Reagan era. Hilarious family drama is set in motion with the unannounced arrival of the ex-boyfriend, a beatnik poet who is unaware of her engagement and came to share the enlightenment he experienced on his recent travels. Doors slam, secrets erupt, chaos ensues.
2014 Performance Dates
November 7, 8, 14 & 15 at 8 p.m.
November 9 & 16 (ASL interpreted) at 2:30 p.m.
Adults - $10
Seniors (55 and over) - $7
Non-KSU Students (17 and under) - $7
KSU Students - Free with current ID
Tickets go on sale October 27.
Purchase tickets online, by phone or in person at the Box Office.
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Tickets purchased online or by phone will be available at Will Call.
Will Call opens one hour prior to curtain time and closes when the performance begins.
Kent State Students: Free admission with current Kent State ID. Seats must be reserved in person at the Box Office.
No refunds for purchased tickets. Exchanges for the same production can be made by contacting the Box Office prior to the reserved performance date.
Tickets held at Will Call will be forfeited if not picked up by curtain time.
Ticket sales begin October 27 at 8 a.m.
David Sponhour: Doc
David has been active in theater for over 30 years. He has performed on many local stages, and acted at Kent State Stark in Cat’s Paw and Buried Child, where he is a full time theatre student. David served as assistant director for Voices From Hurt Street, and sound design assistant for The Maiden's Prayer. He is also a founding member of “Scared Scriptless," Canton’s premiere professional Improv troupe. Some of his favorite past performances include Crumpet in Santaland Diaries, Comet in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Jerry in Zoo Story, and Hal in Proof starring All My Children’s David Canary. He spends what little free time he has with his wonderful, spectacular, and supportive wife, Christine.
Tracy Mastri: Delia
Tracy is a recent graduate of Kent State Stark, earning her BBA in Business Management in December 2013. She has been employed in the Business Office on campus for over eleven years. She is delighted to be working with this inspirational group for her debut performance.
Lauren Paulis: P.B.
Lauren was a student at Kent State University at Stark for her freshmen year. She then transferred to Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, majoring in Musical Theatre. For the year Lauren studied at Marymount Manhattan, she was given incredible opportunities to work and study with current Broadway personnel. Lauren has performed for Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn and cast in Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields. While she is still student at Marymount, she decided to take the year off to explore more at the Kent State Stark Theatre. Lauren will be seen in an up and coming Lifetime Movie entitled With This Ring featuring Jill Scott (Steel Magnolias), Eve (Single Ladies) and Regina Hall (Think Like a Man Too). Her past Kent State Stark productions include Voices From Hurt Street (ASM) and The Crucible: An Opera (Bridget Booth/ Sarah Good US). Other productions include Anything Goes (Hope), Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl), Mulan (Ancestor Zhang), and Ax of Murder (Darliene). In the near future, Lauren would love to work in entertainment at The Walt Disney World Resort and eventually relocate to L.A. to further her career with the film and television industry.
Tess Roholt: Courtney
Tess is a graduate of psychology from Eastern University, where she also participated in an Actor’s Lab, consisting of a small group of students, dedicated to the exploration of greater openness and risk taking through acting. Tess’s previous roles include Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank at the Player’s Guild in Canton, and Cynthia in The Maiden’s Prayer, performed at Kent State Stark, where she also performed in Voices From Hurt Street, and Jenny in The Shape of Things at the North Canton Playhouse. Tess is excited and honored to play Courtney in One Slight Hitch, as it will be her first time ever working on a comedy. Outside of theater, Tess also performs in an improv group, Just Go with It, based out of Akron. The performing arts have become a strong medium of play and creative expression for Tess, and she is thrilled to be working again at Kent State Stark Theatre. In the near future, she plans on traveling to Canada and the west coast, studying Drama Therapy and continuing her passionate pursuit of theater, dance, music and psychology as she advances in self-discovery.
Maya Nicholson: Melanie
Maya is majoring in Theatre, with a minor in marketing. She graduated from Copley High School in Copley, Ohio, and was the president of the Thespian Club. There she performed in Smokey Joe’s Café, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Little Shop of Horrors; and she also directed George Washington Slept Here and Copley’s Got Talent (the annual talent show). She acted in Kent State Stark's Voices From Hurt Street as various characters; one being “Winifred Oprey” doing a play-off of the Oprah Winfrey Show. She was costume design assistant here for I Love You Because, and last season was the sassy sister, Libby, in The Maiden’s Prayer. She is also currently enrolled in theatre courses, and aspires to be a director for Broadway, film and television.
John Walker: Ryan
John has appeared at Kent State Stark in Dating is Tough to Do…And Funny, Too!, Songs For a New World, Plumfield, Iraq, Evil Dead, The Musical and Voices From Hurt Street. He also was assistant stage manager for The Glass Menagerie. John has performed elsewhere in Les Miserables, Oliver Twist, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie and many more.
Zach Manthey: Harper
Zach is beyond ecstatic to be making his Kent State Stark debut in the impeccably funny One Slight Hitch. Zach, although a newbie to the Kent State Stark stage, is no stranger to the theatre community, appeared in a number of plays around Ohio, including: Twelve Angry Jurors as the cynical Third Juror, Annie as the eccentric Rooster Hannigan, and A Christmas Carol as the cheerful Bob Cratchit. Once a theatre major at Ashland University, Zach now spends his latter days as a self proclaimed creative writing and film major, working to create the next greatest film the world has ever seen since Sister Act 2, in hopes to make acting legend James Spader proud.
Brian Newberg: Director
Brian Newberg is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director at Kent State University at Stark. Brian’s directing experience (over eighty production credits) includes Broadway, Regional, Equity Waiver, industry showcases, new work development, and many college productions. He has extensive experience as an actor (over seventy production credits) in the New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oregon areas. He has also served as an Associate Artistic Director for a regional theatre company, run his own private acting studios, and taught at a number of colleges on the west coast before coming to Kent State. Brian is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and received his M.F.A. in Directing from the University of California, Irvine.
Louis Williams: Scenic & Lighting Designer
Louis Williams is the resident technical director, and scenic and lighting designer, at Kent State Stark and has designed over 200 productions in 30 years in theatre, opera, ballet and rock-n-roll. This includes work with such theatre companies as: The American Ballet Theatre II, The Joffrey Ballet II, The Arizona Theatre Company, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, The Kenley Players, The Ohio Light Opera, The Cleveland Opera, The Cinncinnati Opera, Southern Arizona Light Opera Company, Carousel Dinner Theatre, The Agora, Cleveland Ohio, The Temple Of Music And Art, Tucson, Arizona, ChildsPlay Inc, of Phoenix, Arizona, and The Scottsdale Civic Center, Scottsdale, Arizona. Read more about Louis Williams.
Susan Blurton: Costume Designer
Susan Blurton has designed costumes for various productions over the past 16 years including the Canton Palace Theater, Canton Civic Center, Players Guild, Porthouse Theatre, John F. Knight Center, Akron Civic Theater and The Christmas Spectacular, which was recorded and aired on PBS. She began her venture into theatre while living in New York and freelancing for Off-Broadway shows, mainly as a stitcher and pattern maker. She designed sportswear for the 7th Ave. design house Ellen Tracy/Liz Claiborne. Her duties included designs for sportswear and the dress division, purchases of all fabric and trims, and dressing models at runway shows and photo shoots. While living in L.A., she served as a dresser to Franki Valli, The Pointer Sisters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and she was a personal shopper for Aaron Spelling. Along with designing costumes, she is an active artist and art teacher. She received her B.S. in Fashion Design from the University of Cincinnati, Teaching Certification from Mount Union University and M.A. from Marygrove College.
Ron Jarvis: Sound Designer
You might recognize Ron Jarvis as a performer, producer, music director, and/or composer for such stalwart North East Ohio acts as The Buckeye Biscuit Band, Ital, First Light, Alex Bevan, Pat Dailey and, most recently, Macaw; the American Worldbeat Band. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Kent State where he has taught Art of the Theatre and Theatre Criticism classes as well as the three part series of Sound Design and Technology classes for the Entertainment Arts and Technologies certificates program. Ron has worked with world renowned directors Vincent Dowling (composition for The Winter’s Tale at Kent State) as well as Ping Chong (Blindness: The Irresistible Light Of Encounter at La Mama Theatre in NYC) and has served as a live mix consultant at Geauga Lake and Cedar Point Amusement Parks. Although his first sound design for Kent State Stark was for the 2002 production of Dancing at Lughnasa, since 2007 he has designed many of the Kent State Stark theatrical productions including Oklahoma!, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Into the Woods, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Mikado, Crazy for You, Dating is Tough to Do...and Funny, Too!, Songs for a New World, Plumfield, Iraq, Evil Dead: The Musical and Anton in Show Business.
Hilary Jackson: Stage Manager
Hilary is a sophomore majoring in theater production. She was a costume design assistant for Our House at Kent State Stark. Hilary grew up in Amherst, Ohio, and began her theatrical career as a member of The Cleveland Singing Angels. She was in choir and theater all through school. She spent a year in Nashville, Tennessee, studying music at Belmont University. She then relocated to Orlando, Florida to live her dream of being a part of the Entertainment Department of Walt Disney World. She plans to finish her degree at Kent State, then return to Florida to be an Entertainment Manager at Disney. She enjoys yoga, dancing, song writing, and spending time with her husband, Josh.
C.J. Pinter: Stage Manager
C.J. is a sophomore at Kent State Stark, and is majoring in marketing, as well as theatre. He played Stu in Our House, and Paul in The Maiden's Prayer at Kent State Stark. C.J. has done theatre in high school, snagging multiple leads in Rehearsal for Murder, and being plant operator for Little Shop of Horrors. He also started the One Act Festival at his high school, and was also president of the Improv club. Aside from theatre, he enjoys a nice healthy lunch from Chipotle, head banging to music, and quoting Will Ferrell as much as humanly possible. He would like to thank the director for challenging him and giving him this great opportunity.
Bryan Steffee: Scenic/Lighting Design Assistant
Bryan has been part of many productions, such as Bye, Bye Birdie, Lil’ Abner, Annie, and The Sound of Music. He was a member of the writing ensemble and cast for Voices From Hurt Street, scenic/lighting design assistant for I Love You Because, and a costume design assistant for The Crucible and Buried Child at Kent State Stark. He is majoring in theatre with a minor in English. Bryan works as a theatre technician for the Kent State Stark Theatre Department.
Belinda Gall: Costume Design Assistant
Belinda is a senior in the bachelor of arts program with a major concentration in theatre performance at Kent State University. She is a recent graduate of Stark State College, where she received an associates of arts degree. She has studied the arts and humanities at North Central State College, as well as therapeutic recreation at North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio. She has attended the Barbizon School of Modeling in Columbus, Ohio. She has competed in multiple beauty pageants including the Miss Black Mansfield Beauty Pageant, where she placed second runner-up, and she also received the Miss Congeniality Award, as well as winning the Miss Poise and Appearance award. Belinda has aspirations of being in the entertainment business, including acting, singing, and dancing. She would also like to start her own non-profit organization for inner city youths who aspire to begin their careers in the arts and humanities.
Lynda Wilkinson: Sound Design Assistant
Lynda is a sophomore at Kent State University at Stark, majoring in theatre. Lynda was in a play her senior year of high school entitled Senile Senior Bliss. She began singing as a young child with her father, who was a musician. She performed on a local television show that aired weekly, and in clubs and churches. Lynda has done some commercial acting for a local college and restaurant. She also is the voice over voice for DentalWorks auto attendant. Her first involvement in theatre at Kent State Stark was the privilege of being the sound design assistant for Cat’s-Paw and Our House. She looks forward to furthering her theatrical involvement at Kent State Stark.
Makayla Leslie: Sound Design Assistant
Jillian Dailey: Crew
Jillian began her theatrical training at Lake Center Christian High School where she was involved in all the musicals and plays during her four years there. This included leading roles in Seussical and Little Women. She is a junior at Kent State Stark, where she has performed in Anton in Show Business and Plumfield, Iraq, was the costume design assistant for I Love You Because, Evil Dead: The Musical and Voices From Hurt Street, a member of the crew for The Maiden's Prayer, Cat's-Paw, and Our House. She was a member of the writing ensemble for Voices From Hurt Street. Jillian works as a theatre technician for the Kent State Stark Theatre Department.
Caitlin Roberts: Crew
Caitlin is a junior as Kent State University at Stark. She is pursuing a major in theatre studies: design & technology, and a minor in music. Caitlin has worked on a number of shows at Kent State Stark: makeup & special effects design assistant for Evil Dead: The Musical, lighting/scenic design assistant for Buried Child, stage management for Plumfield, Iraq and Our House; and helped in the production of the student written Voices From Hurt Street (as a member of the writing ensemble and makeup designer) and assistant stage manager for Our House. Caitlin has worked as a Theatre Department technician in the scene shop at Kent State Stark for the past three years. She is a member of multiple choirs, as well as various performing ensembles here on campus.
James McKeon: Crew
James is a music technology major at Kent State Stark. He has an extensive background in music performance and writing, as well as painting. James has performed in various bands since 5th grade, and has created original artwork all his life. He learned about scenic design through his first full theatre experience at Kent State Stark with Evil Dead: The Musical. He recently was a crew member for The Maiden's Prayer, Cat's-Paw and Our House. James works as a theatre technician for the Kent State Stark Theatre Department.
Stephen Ostertag: Crew
Stephen is a theatre major, who is excited to be involved in the Kent State Stark Theatre scene, where he was a costume design assistant for The Crucible,scenic/lighting design assistant for the production of Buried Child, and was part of the writing ensemble for Voices From Hurt Street. Some of his favorite onstage credits include Lennie in Of Mice and Men, The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, and Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Stephen also enjoys directing, writing and designing. When not busy with school, or his two children, Stephen runs the Silver Star Youth Theatre Company with his wife, Tricia. Stephen works as a theatre technician for the Kent State Stark Theatre Department.
Michaela Muckelrath: Crew
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By Ann Blackford
Little did Dealla Samadi know that something as simple as reading an email about an internship opportunity would transform her life so dramatically.
Samadi had a full schedule as a biology, neuroscience, and French undergraduate student at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 2017. Still, the chance to conduct research in the humanities in UK Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center’s Learning Lab lured her to fill out an application. She never could have imagined that the internship would take her on an unexpected journey to an amazing discovery that would compel her to cross the ocean in a quest to learn more.
An internship in the Learning Lab is designed to introduce students to UK's archives, exposing them to primary sources, teaching why those sources are important to discovery, and showing them how to process the information. Samadi was tasked with researching a journal thought to be written by famous existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) that had been carefully housed in an acid-free box on a shelf in the Margaret I. King Library Special Collections Research Center for over 50 years.
Undergraduate Research Archivist Carol Street, who was also Samadi's mentor, said their records indicated that they had a Sartre manuscript that was purchased from a dealer in Paris in 1967 by an archivist for the UK Libraries, but little else was known.
"Unsigned and undated, there was no physical evidence that the journal was written by the hand of Sartre other than the item's accession record in the archives' database," Samadi said. "However, when I sat with the journal for the first time, as it lay on the desk in front of me inside of a tan manila folder labeled with my name, I was overcome with certitude. The blue cover page demanded my attention, its worn yet sturdy texture drew my hand towards it, to trace the fine words in the corner that read 'ITALIE/arrivee.' Italy/arrival."
Samadi spent her internship poring over the 15-page manuscript, painstakingly translating the French into English and looking for clues about the author and his writing. She was so drawn to the mystery of this text that she spent hours of her free time staring at the scrawling looking for patterns and repetition of shapes of lines and symbols that she could equate with words. Sartre used initials rather than full names and the letter S kept appearing throughout the text. If this was a genuine Sartre manuscript, she thought the S could very well stand for Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre's lover and fellow writer and activist.
"Some days gave rise to only one transcribed word and other days entire sequences of them would magically appear, as if Sartre himself was holding a magnifying glass above the paper, directing my attention to passages that gave me hints and clues,” she said. “As I read through Sartre's reflections, I slowly fell in love with Rome. I fell in love with the streets that he wandered through the night until dawn, and I fell in love with the banks that he and Simone de Beauvoir wanted to sit on for hours, just to watch the sky change.”
As Samadi delved further into her work, Street contacted the president of the Sartre Society at the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts in Paris for help in completing the translation of the manuscript and to determine the authenticity of the manuscript. After seeing copies of the manuscript, the Sartre experts not only confirmed that the manuscript was in Sartre's handwriting, but it was also written on the type of paper he liked to write on. The Sartre experts believe the manuscript is a chapter left out of Sartre's book La Reine Albemarle, in which he describes Italy and the cities he visited.
"The Sartre experts were very excited when they learned of the existence of this missing manuscript," Street said. "Not only is this a missing chapter, but it is the very beginning of the book and its discovery changes the way scholars perceive the book. Dealla’s dedication to her internship made this discovery possible."
And the generosity of UK’s donors made Dealla’s internship possible, said Daniel King, UK Libraries director of philanthropy. Gifts to the Special Collections Development Fund preserve and protect historic documents and digitize them so they will be accessible to students, faculty, staff and researchers for generations to come. The fund also supports the work of the Louis N. Nunn Center for Oral History and the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center.
“Opportunities like Dealla’s, to uncover the secrets of our Special Collections Research Center archives, would not be possible without support from our donors who value preserving the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” King said. “We are grateful for all of our donors who provide our students, faculty and staff the resources, technology, learning opportunities and collaborative spaces that foster learning and discovery.”
As the transcription came closer to completion, Samadi did not feel she was at a personal stopping point. She felt compelled to retrace Sartre's steps in Rome. With the help of a summer research grant from UK's Undergraduate Research Office, Samadi boarded a plane in May 2018.
"The most beautiful part is I wasn't alone," she said. "I had my transcription of his journal and a pen of my own. I became the object that bends time, connecting past, present, and future with every step and breath I took. I was a time traveler, not confined to the year 2018 and the ideas of only an undergraduate. I had all of this expansive history behind me and in every moment, I was coalescing a philosopher's words with my thoughts and my movements."
Samadi knows she didn't get this far in her research without the encouragement and support of many people and communities at UK.
"I've had so much support from the French Department, UK Libraries, the Chellgren Center, the Undergraduate Research Center, the Lewis Honors College, and the Graduate School,” Samadi said. “These people and communities at UK come together to support students, and I'm grateful for the love these communities have shown me.”
Samadi just returned from Oldenburg, Germany, where she and six other Library Learning Lab interns, escorted by Street, went to present their research at the second World Conference of Undergraduate Research.
This summer, Samadi will begin her studies at the UK College of Medicine, where she plans to become a geriatrician. She believes her experience at the Library Learning Lab relates to being a doctor, because one must have empathy to walk patients through the aging process.
"You have to step outside your own shoes and see the world from different perspectives just as I did retracing Sartre's steps and immersing myself in his world, looking at Rome through his eyes, at the time he authored the journal," she said.
Samadi's research project doesn't simply end with her presentation at the World CUR. The result of her internship will impact other scholars in future. She is creating a digital humanities project which will allow others to discover Sartre's Roman journal through the lens of her experience in Rome.
“My relationship with Sartre and Rome shook me violently, melting away the amorphous confines of thought so that I would perceive beautifully and freely the world around me,” Samadi said. “Maybe one day, my adventure serves the same role to somebody else that Sartre's did to me."
In the end, with the help of the Sartre experts Jean Bourgault and Gilles Phillippe from the ITEM, Samadi published the missing chapter, as well as a brief introduction in French. They discovered that the Sartre journal is the opening chapter of a book Sartre wrote in 1951 titled La Reine Albemarle, which was published posthumously without the UK manuscript.
"Through this experience I have become familiar with humanity's nuances, I have learned about the human capacity to transcend time, and I have engaged with my own humanity. I find this to be the most genuine and fulfilling act of living," Samadi said.
To support UK Libraries, visit uky.networkforgood.com or contact Daniel King at daniel.shane.king@uky.edu. To learn more about the Special Collections Research Center Learning Lab, visit https://libraries.uky.edu/.
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Omaha Center Gives Out Free Food, Medical Care
Sacred Heart Parish Sponsors Heart Ministry Center
A local group is opening its doors to those who are in need of free food, clothes and medical care.The Heart Ministry Center, sponsored by the Sacred Heart Parish, said volunteers are busy stocking shelves in preparation for people who are coming in to load up on food and other supplies."Once we entice you through the door with food, clothes, medical care, then we can really figure out what's going on with your life, so we can make a true meaningful impact," said HMC Executive Director John Levy.Volunteer Darryl Mole said he received help from HCM before and now, he is giving back with his time."It would be hard to live without a place like this with the economy the way it is. People need support. I've got time and give back to help out," Mole said.Levy said the Heart Ministry Center is a safe haven in the neighborhood."We want to be a place of trust where they feel comfortable. Giving people food is great, but making them feel good about themselves is whole other step," Levy said. "Our goal is not to be here in a few years because we have made a difference in someone's life, so they no longer need us."The center said it is always looking for donations and volunteers to help.
A local group is opening its doors to those who are in need of free food, clothes and medical care.
The Heart Ministry Center, sponsored by the Sacred Heart Parish, said volunteers are busy stocking shelves in preparation for people who are coming in to load up on food and other supplies.
"Once we entice you through the door with food, clothes, medical care, then we can really figure out what's going on with your life, so we can make a true meaningful impact," said HMC Executive Director John Levy.
Volunteer Darryl Mole said he received help from HCM before and now, he is giving back with his time.
"It would be hard to live without a place like this with the economy the way it is. People need support. I've got time and give back to help out," Mole said.
Levy said the Heart Ministry Center is a safe haven in the neighborhood.
"We want to be a place of trust where they feel comfortable. Giving people food is great, but making them feel good about themselves is whole other step," Levy said. "Our goal is not to be here in a few years because we have made a difference in someone's life, so they no longer need us."
The center said it is always looking for donations and volunteers to help.
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Robbers target 72nd, Maple Street Bucky's twice in three weeks
Suspects escape with unknown amount of cash
Updated: 5:02 AM CST Nov 15, 2017
72nd Maple Buckys Robbery
The Bucky's at 72nd and Maple streets was targeted by robbers Wednesday morning for the second time in three weeks.Omaha police said two men walked in around 12:45 a.m., one of them had a gun, and demanded cash from the clerk. The men left after money was handed over.One of the men was wearing a yellow shirt while the other was wearing a white one, police said. No other descriptions were immediately available.The same location was robbed on Oct. 26th. Police have not yet made any arrests in that case.Contact Omaha Crime Stoppers at 402-444-STOP (7867) with information that may help police make an arrest.
The Bucky's at 72nd and Maple streets was targeted by robbers Wednesday morning for the second time in three weeks.
Omaha police said two men walked in around 12:45 a.m., one of them had a gun, and demanded cash from the clerk. The men left after money was handed over.
One of the men was wearing a yellow shirt while the other was wearing a white one, police said. No other descriptions were immediately available.
The same location was robbed on Oct. 26th. Police have not yet made any arrests in that case.
Contact Omaha Crime Stoppers at 402-444-STOP (7867) with information that may help police make an arrest.
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Reported shooting a hoax by online gamer
Police: ‘swatting’ prank was retaliation against L.B. teen who won Call of Duty
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:00 am
A Nassau County Police Department SWAT team entered a home on Laurelton Boulevard Tuesday after a false 911 call was made to police claiming that a teenager had shot his mother and brother.
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Long Beach Police Commissioner Mike Tangney, right, spoke to reporters at the scene.
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The SWAT team entered the home to conduct a search after the family was safely removed.
SWAT entered the Laurelton home on Tuesday, in what was determined to be a hoax.
Laurelton Boulevard was teeming with news media on Tuesday, as residents and bystanders milled about near the scene.
By Anthony Rifilato
The action became very real for a 17-year-old Long Beach resident who was playing the video game Call of Duty on Tuesday, after a bitter online opponent called police and falsely claimed that the teen had fatally shot his mother and brother in his Laurelton Boulevard home.
Long Beach Police Commissioner Michael Tangney said that the teenager had just won a round of the popular multi-player online game. But when a losing rival claiming to be the teen called police to report the fictional incident, it prompted a massive response — including a fully armed Nassau County SWAT team with an armored vehicle and a helicopter unit — to what was initially believed to be a multiple shooting and hostage situation at the home, north of West Hudson Street.
Tangney said that when police arrived at the house at around 3 p.m., 17-year-old Long Beach High School student Rafael Castillo was still playing the game on Xbox while wearing a headset, and had no idea what was happening outside.
“He was quite stunned — he was very shaken up by it,” Tangney said, adding that the police response could cost roughly $100,000.
More than 50 county, Long Beach and MTA police officers and firefighters responded to the home. Nearby streets were blocked off as police vehicles rushed to scene. The standoff lasted more than an hour and attracted crowds of onlookers who said they learned about the incident on social media.
“I was in shock,” said Scott Rodriguez, who lives next door. “I was hearing all sorts of rumors about a hostage situation and shotguns. It was just insane.”
“I heard it on Twitter,” said Long Beach High student James O’Donohue, who was at the scene with friends after rumors had circulated that their schoolmate had murdered his family. “They tweeted that [police] had the house surrounded.”
Castillo’s mother, Maria, said she was making coffee in the kitchen when she saw police officers outside with their guns drawn, telling her to get out of the house.
“He told me, ‘Go out! Go out!’” she told reporters. “I [said], ‘What happened?’ They said, ‘Somebody killed somebody in your house.’ I told the police my kid’s home, my kid’s on the computer. He don’t know what happened.”
Rafael Castillo’s brother, Jose, 21, had briefly left the house to buy food, and said he returned to see police descending on his home. “I got back, everyone was here,” he said. “I was like, ‘My brother’s inside.’”
After police and Jose repeatedly called Rafael’s phone, he eventually became aware of what was going on. After he came outside, police questioned the family, Tangney said, and a SWAT team could be seen entering the home with guns drawn to conduct a search. The second floor apartment of the two-story home is vacant, Tangney said, but it was initially unclear whether anyone was living there.
“When we extracted [the Castillos] from the house,” Tangney added, “their story was very believable right from the get-go.”
He explained that investigators determined that the call reporting a shooting was a hoax — what’s known as “swatting,” when a gamer falsely reports a serious incident that prompts an emergency response.
“My little brother … has a couple of friends he plays with,” Jose Castillo said. “They won a game, and someone on the other team decided … to get his information — his IP address — and called the cops saying that he killed me and my mom. He didn’t do anything wrong. He’s not even a major gamer — he plays with friends, and someone I guess got mad at him and did this. I asked him … and he said he didn’t know anything.”
While some episodes of swatting have drawn bomb squads and SWAT teams, others may take the form of a single fabricated police report meant to discredit someone as a prank or personal vendetta. “It’s a nationwide epidemic right now, where people play video games, and if you lose the video game, you try to develop information about the person you’re playing, their address and such,” Tangney said. “And then we send this army of police personnel out. In this bizarre world of swatting, you get points for the helicopters, police cars, the SWAT team and the type of entry. It’s very sophisticated, and unfortunately it’s also very dangerous.
“We felt very early on that it was a hoax,” Tangney added. “We take it very [seriously] from the beginning — we don’t take any shortcuts, we don’t endanger the officers, we don’t endanger the public. We do everything by a strict code.”
Tangney said he believes the rival player managed to obtain Castillo’s Internet Protocol and home addresses during the game. Police do not yet know who the caller was or where the call came from, but they said that he used Skype, the Internet phone service, to make the call to the Police Department’s regular number.
“It comes from an IP — so it’s not immediately traceable,” Tangney said, adding that the gamer could be “anywhere in the world.”
“There is a venue to try to recapture the information or identify the person — we are doing that now — but I’m not going to release the details of the investigation,” he said.
No one was injured in the incident. If the caller is apprehended, however, he will likely face some serious charges, Tangney said, including reporting a false incident.
“If we determine who made this call, there will be an arrest,” he said. “He did something so, so foolish and so dangerous. I’m very angry — it’s a tremendous waste of taxpayer resources. It’s a tremendous danger to law enforcement.”
Tangney said that no charges were filed against Rafael Castillo and that he was not at fault, though his mother said she told him not to play video games as much anymore.
Alexandra Spychalsky contributed to this story.
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Death midwife can keep title, court rules
B.C.’s Health Profession Act section violates freedom of expression: judge
B.C. woman Pashta MaryMoon is a self-described death midwife, a title she can now use over the objections of the College of Midwives of British Columbia.
The college had sought a Supreme Court of B.C. injunction to have MaryMoon stop using the term “midwife.”
What happened, however, was that the judge found MaryMoon’s use of the title violates B.C.’s Health Professions Act. And that, she said, means the act violates the constitutional charter right to freedom of expression.
So, Justice Neena Sharma declared part of the legislation unconstitutional.
MaryMoon argued she is not violating the legislation governing the college because her work has nothing to do with pregnant women or delivering babies.
Also, she argued, a prohibition on her use of the term “midwife” would violate her right to freedom of expression.
The court heard she has been providing what she calls “deathcare services” for more than 40 years, that “death midwife” is “the only title” that she uses to identify her vocation as a “deathcare provider.”
The Oct. 1 ruling said she has a Carleton University degree in world religions, research focused on modern approaches to death and taboos around it.
She received formal training as a death midwife in the USA in 2013, worked as a lay minister with Ottawa’s Unity Church and, during the 1980s, helped care for people suffering from HIV/AIDS.
In 2004, she co-founded Pagan Pastoral Outreach, which included on its website death midwifery as a form of pastoral care.
She is also a founder and the executive director of the Canadian Integrative Network for Death Education and Alternatives (CINDEA), which, in 2016, received a letter from the college asking her to stop using the term it claimed is registered to it.
MaryMoon pointed to a CINDEA website disclaimer saying, “Death midwives are not conventional midwives (who deal with birthing) or health professionals, nor are they registered with any of the Colleges of Midwives in Canada.”
The college argued the term ‘midwife’ is part of a reserved title system and its use implies registration with a professional association.
The college argued in court that people might believe a ‘death midwife’ was a college member or a health professional.
Sharma disagreed, saying what MaryMoon does is understood and clear.
“Among other things, the disclaimers are frequent on the website and make that point clearly. Moreover, the website is so clearly devoted to topics related to death,” Sharma said.
Sharma also agreed on MaryMoon’s right to describe herself as she does.
“In my view, when the respondent refers to herself as a “death midwife” there can be no doubt that she is conveying meaning,” Sharma.
And, she explained, that means it is a freedom of expression issue.
B.C.’s Ministry of Attorney General intervened in the case, submitting the legislation does not infringe freedom of expression but, if it does, that infringement is reasonable according to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. .
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Pillars of Letsfair: Identity2018-05-162018-10-30/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/letsfair_logo_shape_320x132.pngLetsfairhttps://www.letsfair.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/pillars_identity.jpg200px200px
Letsfair has established six pillars that underpin the concept of a shared-economy application marketplace. The purpose of this series of articles is to deal with the Identity pillar.
For most Internet services, creating an access account using email and password is the first step in building a digital identity. Therefore, digital identities allow the identification of a user within a specific environment or context.
When user identity data is stored under corporate responsibility and ownership, there are imminent risks of fraud, ranging from theft of access credentials to the sale of sensitive data. The scandal involving the companies Facebook and Cambridge Analytica shows that the terms of use and privacy policies are not effective tools that guarantee the confidentiality of data and information.
Letsfair is committed to people’s right to privacy and has conducted studies on new forms of digital identity storage with a high level of privacy. It is planned to build a decentralized model, based on Blockchain technology, that allows users to control their own data.
Centralized model and lack of privacy
The report Digital Identity: Issue Analysis is the result of a detailed analysis of seven different models for the implementation of digital identities. The following figure shows the names of the models and their variations in the levels of privacy and centralization.
According to the report:
“The internet giants (Facebook and Google in particular) have built businesses around collecting information about consumers that can be used to profile customers for targeted advertising purposes. Initially information was collected from usage of the platforms, e.g. the posts made to the site or the information searched for, as well as self-asserted identity information. Logon services enable them to collect and share information with third parties, extending the presence of their brands as well as providing additional data for their profiling”. (62 p.)
In the centralized model, there are privacy risks associated with the leaking or sharing of personal data with third-party websites, often without authorization from their users. There may not be a commercial interest in ensuring privacy rights in their ideal form, with the use of technological tools as opposed to privacy policy and terms of use.
By combining the use of various cryptographic computational techniques such as Zero Knowledge Proof and technologies such as Blockchain, the No ID Provider model is the most appropriate model to be implemented for a service you want to respect the privacy of users because it is the model that offers the highest level of privacy and decentralization.
Therefore, individual autonomy is one of the essential principles of privacy and should be considered in the development of any identity system. It is possible to note that the very model of centralized data storage is against the concept of digital freedom. To allow individual autonomy, systems should give users exclusive control of their own data.
The following principles will guide the construction of a system of decentralized identities for Letsfair.
Decentralized digital identities stored in blockchains
The decentralized identity creation service will be offered by Letsfair to its users so that it can participate in the marketplace. In the future, it is expected that there will also be integration with other identity service providers to ensure individual autonomy and free choice.
Enrichment of Identity with Attributes
To conduct a buy / sell transaction, the seller can ask the buyer for certain information (an attribute). Perhaps, this information already exists in the user’s identity and it is enough for them to share it. With the increase in the use of the marketplace by users, of course, the identity of each user will be filled with data necessary for business to happen.
Enriched identity as the basis for a new digital reputation model
When any commercial transaction occurs, there will be the possibility of mutual evaluation of participants in that transaction. This means that, over time, users will be able to build a digital reputation based on business conducted among people who prove their integrity.
In order for an identity to become more complete, real, and associated with a person, attributes can be verified and validated by other members of the community. This practice will boost user confidence while reducing classic reputation scams. All of this is an online reputation system that avoids the entry of “access accounts” that do not reflect a real identity, with the intention of harming the business, gaining illicit advantages or impersonating another member of the community.
Therefore, this paper has presented the importance of properly addressing the issue of identity for the future of business in the shared economy and especially in projects such as Letsfair, which use Blockchain technology to promote business.
The goal of the Letsfair project is to build a shared economy network, which in practice, is a marketplace for many types of apps. Our biggest challenge is to promote a decentralized work organization.
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First-round bids due this week for Hulu
A behind-the-scenes look at filming around the world for television and movies, as seen from the streets.
(Clockwise from top left: Steve Sands / GC Images/Getty Images; Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images; GWR/Star Max / GC Images/Getty Images; Stickman / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Mariska Hargitay, who stars on “Law & Order: SVU” as Olivia Benson, directs an episode of the TV series on Dec. 15 in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Elle Fanning, left, and Naomi Watts are seen filming “Three Generations” on Nov. 19, 2014, in New York City. (Ignat/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Rami Malek on the set of “Mr. Robot” on Nov. 7, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Peter Sarsgaard, left, Uma Thurman, Brian Cox and Penn Badgley on the set of “The Slap” on Nov. 10, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Penn Badgley and Uma Thurman on the set of “The Slap” on Nov. 10, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Donnie Wahlberg and his stand-in on the set of “Blue Bloods” on Oct. 31, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Hilary Duff and Thorbjorn Harr on the set of “Younger” on Oct. 29, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Patricia Arquette on Oct. 22, 2014, in Los Angeles. (GONZALO/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Zac Barnett of American Authors is seen on set for a video shoot on Oct. 26, 2014, in Dickson, Tenn. (Rick Diamond / Getty Images)
Extras acting in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” leave the bullring on Oct. 22, 2014, as film crews began shooting part of the fifth season in the southern Spanish city of Osuna. (CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP/Getty Images)
Indira Varma is on the set of “Game of Thrones” at Real Alcazar on Oct. 19, 2014, in Seville, Spain. (Europa Press / Europa Press via Getty Images)
Actors film “Game of Thrones” at Real Alcazar on Oct. 19, 2014, in Seville, Spain. (Europa Press / Europa Press via Getty Images)
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is on the set of “Game of Thrones” at Real Alcazar on Oct. 19 in Seville, Spain. (Europa Press / Europa Press via Getty Images)
Actor Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried are seen on the set of “Ted 2" on Oct. 7, 2014, in New York City with Ted (the bear is voiced by Seth MacFarlane). (GWR/Star Max / GC Images/Getty Images)
Ted looks out the window on the set of “Ted 2" on Oct. 5, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
James Spader on the set of “The Blacklist” on Oct. 8, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Vince Vaughn is seen on the set of “Unfinished Business” on Oct. 4, 2014, in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Zac Efron is seen on the set of “We Are Your Friends” on Sept. 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Julianne Moore and Michael Shannon are seen filming “Freeheld” in the Queens borough of New York on Oct. 2, 2014. (Alessio Botticelli / GC Images/Getty Images)
Zac Efron and Max Joseph on the set of “We Are Your Friends” in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Amanda Seyfried on the set of “Ted 2" in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lizzy Caplan on the set of “Christmas Eve Project” in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor Peter Vack and actress Lola Kirke for “Mozart in the Jungle” in New York City. (Raymond Hall / GC Images/Getty Images)
Zac Efron on the L.A. set of “We Are Your Friends.” (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Rebecca Ferguson and Tom Cruise on the set of “Mission: Impossible 5" on the roof of the opera house in Vienna. (Kai Danneberg / GC Images/Getty Images)
Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway film “The Intern” on Aug. 26 in New York City. (Steve Sands / GC Images/Getty Images)
Steve Buscemi films on the last day of principal photography for “Boardwalk Empire” on Aug. 25 in the Far Rockaway section of New York City. (Steve Sands / GC Images/Getty Images)
Zac Efron is seen filming “We Are Your Friends” on Aug. 21, 2014, in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Anthony Mackie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen on the set of “Christmas Eve Project” on Aug. 18, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor James Spader on the set of “The Blacklist” on Aug. 14, 2014, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Bobby Bank / GC Images / Getty Images)
Ben Affleck walks along a Detroit sidewalk on the set of “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” on Aug. 9. (Paul Warner / GC Images/Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken and Jason Bateman are seen on the set of “The Family Fang” in Harriman Park, N.Y., on Aug. 14. (GWR/Star Max / GC Images/Getty Images)
James Franco is seen in character on set of “Michael” in Freeport, N.Y., on Aug. 14. (Alessio Botticelli / GC Images/Getty Images)
Sienna Miller on the set of “Adam Jones” in London’s Leicester Square. (Alex Huckle / GC Images / Getty Images)
Jonny Lee Miller on the set of the television series “Elementary” on Aug. 5 in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Uma Thurman on the “Adam Jones” set in London. (Neil P. Mockford /GC Images / Getty Images)
Nicole Kidman is seen at the filming of “The Family Fang” on Aug. 4 in New York City. (Ignat/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor Jason Bateman on the set of “The Family Fang” in Rye, N.Y. (GWR/Star Max / GC Images/ Getty Images)
Amanda Seyfried on the “Ted 2" set in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images / Getty Images)
Helen Mirren filming ‘The Woman in Gold’ in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Charlie Hunnam filming “Sons of Anarchy” in Los Angeles. (GONZALO/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images /Getty Images)
Actors Jason Orley, Zack Pearlman and Robert De Niro on the set of “The Intern” in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor Bobby Cannavale and director Martin Scorsese on the set of the “Untitled HBO/Rock N’ Roll Project” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images /Getty Images)
Robert De Niro’s stand-in and stunt double on the set of “The Intern” in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Katie Holmes and Ryan Reynolds filming “Woman in Gold” in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Cameron Monaghan and Emmy Rossum on the set of “Shameless” in Los Angeles. (Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis on the set of “Sleeping With Other People” in New York City. (Ignat/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Anne Hathaway on the set of “The Intern” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Matt Bomer and Laura Ramsey on the set of “White Collar” in New York City. (Raymond Hall / GC Images/Getty Images)
Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer on the set of “Trainwreck” in New York City. (Raymond Hall / GC Images/Getty Images)
Bill Hader and Amy Schumer on the set of “Trainwreck” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Robert De Niro and Linda Lavin on the set of “The Intern” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Christoph Waltz is on the set of “Tarzan” in London. (Radcliffe/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Adam Scott on the set of “Sleeping With Other People” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Patricia Clarkson, left, and Samantha Bee on the set of “Learning to Drive” in New York City. (Raymond Hall / GC Images/Getty Images)
Scott Cooper and Juno Temple on set of “Black Mass” in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Benedict Cumberbatch on the set of “Black Mass” in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Amy Schumer on the set of “Trainwreck” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Josh Helman and Damon Herriman on the set of “Flesh and Bone” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Taylor Lautner on the set of “Run the Tide” in Los Angeles. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Amanda Peet on the set of “Sleeping With Other People” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Amanda Peet and Jason Sudeikis on the set of “Sleeping With Other People” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Sophie Nelisse and Kathy Bates on the set of “The Great Gilly Hopkins” in New York City. (Alessio Botticelli / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actors Jason Sudeikis and Margarita Levieva on the set of “Sleeping With Other People” on June 9, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Johnny Depp on set of “Black Mass” on June 9, 2014, in Boston. (Stickman/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images)
Bradley Cooper, center, with cast and crew on the set of “American Sniper” in Malibu on June 4. (Gonzalo/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller film a wedding scene for “American Sniper” in Los Angeles. (Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Kevin Connolly, left, Kevin Dillon, Adrian Grenier and Jerry Ferrara film a scene for “Entourage” on June 2 in L.A. (Gonzalo/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Vin Diesel, center, on the set of “Fast & Furious 7" on June 2 in L.A. (TSM/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen on the set of “Brooklyn” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Actor Ed Harris on the set of “The Adderall Diaries” on May 24, 2014, in New York City. (Michael Stewart / GC Images / Getty Images)
Elijah Wood filming “Wilfred” on May 23, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Gonzalo / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images / Getty Images)
Clint Eastwood and Sienna Miller on the set of “American Sniper” in Los Angeles. (GONZALO/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images/Getty Images)
Sylvester Stallone poses with his puppet as he takes part in the TV show “Le Grand Journal” at the Cannes Film Festival. (LOIC VENANCE / AFP/Getty Images)
Poppy Montgomery and Boris Kodjoe on the set of “Unforgettable” in New York City. (Alo Ceballos / GC Images/Getty Images)
Jemima Kirke on locationin New York City for HBO’s “Girls.” (Steve Sands/ GC Images/Getty Images)
Allison Williams, who plays Marnie Michaels, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who is Desi, on the set of “Girls” in New York City. (Bobby Bank / GC Images/Getty Images)
Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir film a scene from the TV series “The Bridge” in Los Angeles. (Gonzalo/ Bauer-Griffin/ GC Images/Getty Images)
Lena Dunham filming “Girls” in New York City. (Steve Sands/ GC Images/Getty Images)
Kelsey Grammer filming “Breaking the Bank” in London. (Simon James/GC Images/ Getty Images)
Kiefer Sutherland on the set of “24" on March 9, 2014, in London. (Tom L. Phelan/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Mary Lynn Rajskub on the set of “24" on March 9, 2014, in London. (Tom L. Phelan/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Simon Pegg on the set of ‘Absolutely Anything’ on April 28, 2014, in London. (Neil P. Mockford /GC Images / Getty Images)
Actress Hailee Steinfeld with a fake pregnant belly and Asa Butterfield on the set of “Ten Thousand Saints” in Tompkins Square Park on May 1, 2014, in New York City. (Raymond Hall / GC Images / Getty Images)
Jamie Foxx filming “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on April 21, 2013, in New York City. (Aby Baker/Getty Images)
Actor Andrew Garfield, center left, is seen on the set of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City with his stunt double William Spencer, right, and a second stunt double. (Raymond Hall/ WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Andrew Garfield, right, rehearses a scene with his stunt double William Spencer on the “The Amazing Spiderman 2" movie set in Madison Square Park in New York.
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Actor Andrew Garfield, right, his stunt double William Spencer, center, and a second stunt double are seen on the set of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City. (Raymond Hall/ WireImage/Getty Images)
Jamie Foxx filming on location for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on April 21, 2013, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone filming “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on location in New York City. (Aby Baker/Getty Images)
Jamie Foxx as Electro/Max Dillon in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on location in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Andrew Garfield, right, his stunt double William Spencer, center, and a second stunt double are seen on the set of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City. (Raymond Hall/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Paul Giamatti films a scene at the “The Amazing Spiderman 2" movie set in Madison Square Park on June 22, 2013, in New York City. (Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
Actor Andrew Garfield is seen on the set of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City. (Raymond Hall/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Paul Giamatti is seen on the set of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City. (Raymond Hall/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Paul Giamatti on the set of “The Amazing Spiderman 2" in New York City’s Madison Square Park. (Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
Jamie Foxx on location for “The Amazing Spider-Man 2" in New York City. (Bobby Bank/ WireImage/Getty Images)
Kyra Sedgwick on the set of “Time Out of Mind” in New York City. (Bobby Bank/GC Images/Getty Images)
Kate Beckinsale on the film set of “Absolutely Anything” in London. (Neil Mockford/Alex Huckle/GC Images/Getty Images)
Lena Dunham and Adam Driver film a scene for “Girls” on April 16, 2014, in New York City. (Alessio Botticelli/GC Images/Getty Images)
Sam Worthington filming “Cake” on location in Los Angeles. (PixplusBauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Jennifer Aniston filming “Cake” on location in Los Angeles. (PixplusBauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Tina Fey and husband Jeff Richmond on the set of “Tooken” on March 27, 2014, in New York City. (Steve Sands/GC Images/Getty Images)
Actress Katie Holmes is seen on the set of “Dangerous Liaisons"on April 3, 2014, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images)
Jena Malone on the set of “Time Out of Mind” on April 1, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/GC Images/Getty Images)
Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart play mother and daughter filming on location for “Still Alice” on March 21, 2014, at Lido Beach, N.Y. (Steve Sands/Getty Images)
Richard Gere on the set of “Time Out Of Mind” on March 26, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImages/Getty Images)
Jeremy Renner films an action scene in Aoasta, Italy, for “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”. (Photopix/Getty Images)
Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson film on location in Pont-Saint-Martin in Aosta, Italy, for “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” (Photopix/Getty Images)
Actors are suited up for special effects on the set of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” in Aosta, Italy. (Photopix/Getty Images)
Richard Gere and Ben Vereen on the set of “Time Out Of Mind” on March 26, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actress Zoe Saldana on the “Rosemary’s Baby” set on the last day of shooting on March 27, 2014, in Paris. (Marc Piasecki/GC Images/Getty Images)
Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin film “Still Alice” on New York’s Long Island. (Steve Sands/GC Images/Getty Images)
Peter Capaldi is up a tree during filming for the eighth season of BBC’s “Doctor Who” in Bute Park in Cardiff, Wales. (Matthew Horwood/GC Images/Getty Images)
Katherine Heigl films the NBC pilot of “State of Affairs” in New York City. (Steve Sands/GC Images/Getty Images)
A large monster is spotted during filming of the BBC series “Doctor Who” in Cardiff, Wales. (Matthew Horwood/GC Images/Getty Images)
Kate Walsh is ready for a scene in the TV movie “Bad Judge,” filming in Los Angeles. (PixplusBauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Arnold Schwarzenegger performs on the set of “Despierta America” with Joe Manganiello at Univision Headquarters in Miami. (Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images)
Actresses Kristen Stewart and Julianne Moore on the set of “Stille Alice” on March 14, 2014, in New York City. (NCP Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)
Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin on the set of “Still Alice” on March 11, 2014, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images)
Carey Mulligan on the set of “Suffragette” on March 14, 2014, in London. (Alex Huckle/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Donal Logue, left, and Ben McKenzie on the set of “Gotham” on March 20, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Lea Michele on the set of “Glee” on March 13, 2014, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images)
Kevin McHale, left, Chord Overstreet, Chris Colfer and Darren Chris on the set of “Glee” at Washington Square Park on March 14, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Lea Michele and Michael Lerner on the set of “Glee” on March 16, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Ian Ziering is seen on the set of “Sharknado 2" in New York City. (Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)
A shark’s head prop is carried onto the set of “Sharknado 2" in New York City. The prop assistant’s arm remained intact. (Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)
Liam Neeson films a scene for the TV series “Entourage” in Los Angeles. (Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Jeremy Piven (Ari Gold), left, and Liam Neeson work together on a scene for the TV show “Entourage” in L.A. (Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Ian Ziering and Vivica Fox on the set of “Sharknado 2" on Feb. 19, 2014, in New York City. (ESBP/Star Max/GC Images/Getty Images)
Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange filming “The Gambler” on location in Los Angeles. (GONZALO/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Liev Schreiber films “Ray Donovan” on Feb. 03, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Louie CK on the set of “Louie” on Jan. 31, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Wil Estes and Vanessa Ray on the set of “Blue Bloods” on Jan. 31, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Skyler Gisondo and Ben Stiller on the set of “Night at the Museum 3" on Feb. 6, 2014, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actors Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld, left, and Asa Butterfield on the set of “Ten Thousand Saints” on Jan. 27, 2014, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Jon Hamm on the set of “Mad Men” on Jan. 14, 2014, in Los Angeles. (GONZALO/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
George Clooney, second from left, filming “Tomorrowland” at Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias on Jan. 21, 2014, in Valencia, Spain. (Europa Press/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Action from the set of TV series “24" on Jan. 22, 2014, in London. (Neil P. Mockford/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Chris Evans and Alice Eve on the set of “1:30 Train” on Dec. 18, 2013, in New York City. (Alo Ceballos/FilmMagic/Getty IMages)
Bethany Joy Lenz, left, Rumer Willis and Robert Hoffman in Washington Square Park filming “Songbyrd” on Jan. 20, 2014, in New York City. (Alessio Botticelli/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Kevin Bacon and Sprague Grayden on the set of “The Following” on Dec. 10, 2013, in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Jennifer Lopez on the set of “The Boy Next Door” in Los Angeles. (ChinchillaBauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)
Mark Wahlberg is seen on set filming the movie ‘Transfomers 4: Age of Extinction’ on Sunday October 27,2013 in Hong Kong,China. (TPG/Getty Images)
Mark Wahlberg performs on the set of “Transformers: Age of Extinction” in Hong Kong on Oct. 26, 2013. (Aaron Tam/ AFP/Getty Images)
Scarlett Johansson filming a scene for her new movie, “Lucy” on Oct. 21, 2013, in Taipei, China. (TPG/Getty Images)
Director Clint Eastwood, right, and actor John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli on the set of “Jersey Boys” in Kearny, N.J. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actress Li Bingbing and actor Stanley Tucci filming “Transfomers 4: Age of Extinction” in Hong Kong. (ChinaFotoPresss via Getty Images)
Edie Falco, left, and Julie White on the set of “Nurse Jackie” in New York City. (Bobby Bank/WireImage/Getty Images)
Actor Mark Wahlberg on the set of “Transfomers 4: Age of Extinction” in Hong Kong. ( ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
Quvenzhane Wallis, right, is shown with her stand-in on the set of “Annie” in September in New York City. (Raymond Hall / FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie Foxx are seen on the set of “Annie” in September in New York City. (Raymond Hall / FilmMagic/Getty Images)
By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Meg James
The first round of bids were due this week for Hulu, the popular online TV service whose prospective sale has attracted interest from digital media players as well as cable operators.
An initial bid has been submitted by the Chernin Group, a next-generation media company founded by longtime News Corp. executive Peter Chernin, which is partnering with Providence Equity, according to several people familiar with the matter.
Guggenheim Digital Media, a group headed by former Yahoo Inc. interim Chief Executive Ross Levinsohn, also submitted a bid, say the people with knowledge of the situation who declined to be identified because of the confidential nature of the bidding process. Guggenheim is interested in expanding its media holdings, which include Prometheus Global Media, which owns a number of trade publications, including Adweek, Billboard and the Hollywood Reporter.
ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll
Meanwhile, Guggenheim Securities, which is a separate legal entity with different ownership group, is an advisor on the sale.
Time Warner Cable has discussed making a play for the streaming video service, one person in the industry confirmed. The cable company is interested because it sees Hulu as a potential vehicle to make it easier for subscribers to watch TV through high-speed Internet connections, which is becoming an increasingly important source of revenue for the company.
Chief Executive Glenn Britt has approached other pay-TV operators about the possibility of forming an industry joint venture to operate Hulu, according to the New York Post.
Under one scenario, Hulu would become the primary platform for the industry’s TV Everywhere initiative. That would enable cable customers to watch video on their computers and tablets, inside and outside the home. However, TV Everywhere has been slow to catch on with consumers, who have claimed that the interface is confusing.
Another player in the pay-TV space, satellite provider DirecTV, is interested in Hulu as well, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Yahoo was among the digital players initially exploring a bid, although it is unclear whether such a deal remains a priority in the wake of the company’s $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a social blogging service popular with teens and young adults.
Hulu, launched five years ago, has attracted 22 million monthly viewers -- and 4 million who pay $8 a month to watch even more shows on their portable devices or through their game consoles.
Hulu has been a complicated proposition for its three owners, News Corp., Walt Disney Co. and Comcast’s NBCUniversal. To win federal approval for its takeover of NBCUniversal, Comcast agreed to give up its voice in the management of the online video distributor. Meanwhile, the other two owners are often at odds about Hulu’s strategy, including whether it should restrict the amount of free programming to encourage people to subscribe to Hulu Plus.
Disney has been frustrated by Hulu, whose programming and marketing costs have been a drag on ABC’s operating income. According to one person, ABC has contemplated pulling back on the programming it offers free online through Hulu. Just last week, the network introduced an application to live-stream ABC shows on iPhones and iPads, while withholding recent episodes from the free version of Hulu.
For bidders, Hulu presents an opportunity to acquire a powerful brand in the fast-growing arena of online video, which has seen the number of subscribers to the Hulu Plus service double in a year and reported revenue of $695 million in 2012.
However, some interested parties have balked at the terms of the content licensing agreement, which extends programming rights for Hulu Plus only for two years, according to the people familiar with the matter. Parties have been pushing for a minimum three-year guarantee.
Times staff writer Joe Flint contributed to this report.
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Meg James
Meg James is a corporate media reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the business of television and digital disruption in the entertainment industry. She has been a member of the Company Town team for more than a decade. She previously wrote for the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. A native of Wyoming, she is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Columbia University.
Backstage with the ‘Parasite’ cast celebrating a historic SAG Awards win: ‘Where’s Bong?!’
The cast of South Korea’s “Parasite” celebrate a history-making win backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
‘Parasite’ becomes the first foreign-language film to win SAG Awards’ top prize
With just three weeks to go until the Oscars, “Parasite” was the big winner at the 2020 SAG Awards
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You can take Joaquin Phoenix, Renée Zellweger, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern to the bank for Oscars. But “Parasite” has renewed momentum with two standing ovations at the SAG Awards.
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Brad Pitt, a winner for “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood,” went out of his way to thank his female costars’... feet.
The ensemble casts for “Parasite,” “The Crown” and “The Marvelous Mrs.
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‘1917' wins the PGA; is the Oscar next?
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Antonio Banderas has won many awards for ‘Pain and Glory.’ It’s time for the Oscar
Antonio Banderas gave the best performance with ‘Pain and Glory.’ Historically, the lead actor Oscar has gone to the actor who does the “most.”
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Blind Date man becomes the first contestant to be stood up in 20 years
Conor Ellison, from Preston, was delighted to be the chosen by Rosie Allen on the Channel 5 show - but then it all went wrong
Simon Binns
A Blind Date contestant from Preston said being stood up on the show says there's 'no hard feelings' - despite having to go on a date with himself.
Conor Ellison, 25, was chosen by Rosie Allen, 27 - and both seemed happy with their lot.
Conor said Rosie was “absolutely beautiful” and she described him as “very cute” on first sight.
But it all went wrong when it came to choosing the location of their first date.
Rosie looked horrified as host Paul O'Grady revealed their date was a mountain-biking trip to Wales.
She put her head in her hands and said: “Are you serious? Can we get another envelope, please?”
And Conor added: “I’ve been stitched up here.”
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Rosie, of Beckenham, Kent, later pulled out of the date for "personal reasons", leaving host Paul to step in “to lend a helping hand”.
It's the first time that has happened on the show in 20 years.
The last time a Blind Date contestant was jilted was in 1997, when David Smith went on a trip to Nepal with the film crew after Charlotte Harrison failed to show. He said Cilla Black was “lovely” to him.
Conor later admits to being disappointed on the show - but not because of Rosie's no-show.
Coronation Street fans stunned as Eva "fast tracks" baby scan - and reveals who's the daddy
“Truthfully, Wales was s***," he says. "The weather was horrendous.”
“There’s no hard feelings. If she couldn’t make it, she couldn’t make it.” He hinted he had got meet another girl and has now got a girlfriend.
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Lost in Translation – Missing the Target
We have all seen how translation blunders can be humorous at times. While some may be entertaining, others cause quite a stir. There are entire websites dedicated to pointing out these translation errors on objects such as clothing or signs. Equally, you can discover a plethora of information about significant and occasionally history-changing translation errors. In the life science industry, however, mistranslations can have catastrophic consequences.
History-Changing (Mis)translation
There have been numerous events in history when the simple mistranslation of a single word led to political unease. For instance, in 1830 a mistranslation of the French word ‘demander‘ in a communication sent to the White House generated confusion during negotiations. Instead of accurately translating the verb ‘to ask’ it was interpreted as “the French Government demands”. Luckily once the error was realized, talks continued.
Similarly, during a visit to Poland in 1977, Jimmy Carter made a big faux pas when addressing the public in a speech. His interpreter caused quite the scandal when he was wanting to know people’s “desires” for the future which came across sexual in nature. To make matters worse, it was also stated that he had “…left the United States, never to return”. In fact, it was intended to mean he had departed that morning. The errors continued on his trip making for quite the embarrassment. Another mistranslation which remained controversial for years was the supposed canals on Mars. These were identified as the Martian Canals from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An unassuming translation error of the word canali led to decades of speculation.
In the life science industry, translation errors can be costly. Not only can errors impede the time to market of various products, but also cause expensive recalls. We likewise see language barriers in health care during hospital visits, or in health-related conversations with clinicians. These language barriers can mean the difference between adequate and inadequate attention to health matters that could put a patient’s well-being in jeopardy. In 1980, a high school student became the unfortunate victim of a medical accident from an avoidable error. With the misinterpretation of one single word, intoxicado, a young man was left untreated with an intracerebellar hemorrhage. As a result of the late discovery far too much brain damage was done, leaving him a quadriplegic. In courts the case was settled at $71 million dollars, a far stretch from the cost of an interpreter. You can read further about this tragic story at HealthAffairs.
There have also been unfortunate and expensive mistakes triggered by product labeling errors that were also discovered too late. One such example occurred in Germany, when a translation error resulted in 47 botched knee replacements. All of this was due to a mistranslation on a label.
Accurate and culturally appropriate translations are a necessity. Investing in quality translations can mean the difference between life and death in the life science industry. Luckily, the need for interpreters in health settings is increasingly being realized. The bridging of communication gaps between patients and their providers is leading to improved healthcare. Whether to make sure your branding message is received as intended or that your words are not misinterpreted, translation matters.
With CSOFT, you can be confident that your brand, message, and content will be received by your target audience the way you had intended. No misinterpretation, no confusion – just clarity. Visit our site today to learn more.
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Washington-Watch > Washington Watch
Physician Groups to Push D.C. Agendas in 2016
Presidential election may shrink window for action
by Joyce Frieden Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today January 06, 2016
WASHINGTON -- With the presidential election season upon us, one might think that medical organizations would lay low on the advocacy in 2016, figuring that Congress isn't going to get much done.
But those groups who spoke with MedPage Today all see some room to maneuver. "There's really not much time where we are going to be able to get things done," Robert Tennant, senior policy adviser with the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) here, said in a phone interview. "We have probably until Memorial Day; it's a really a very protracted congressional session in 2016, and then the election is also a huge wild card."
Despite these obstacles, Tennant's group does have some goals for the year, mainly in the regulatory area. One practical issue MGMA would like to see addressed is an electronic claim attachment standard, said Tennant.
"We've been waiting for that since 1996," he explained. The issue is that "The insurer says, 'We need more information' [to process the claim] and even if the doctor submitted the claim electronically, the law won't allow you to send the attachment electronically. We've missed a huge opportunity to simplify a major hassle factor for practices."
There's also the other perennial favorite: the national provider identifier, Tennant continued. "How can you achieve true interoperability when you don't have an identifier?" He noted a "little glimmer" of hope in that area when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) slightly tweaked a rule prohibiting an identifier and opened the door for the Obama administration to consider the issue.
Investing in Chronic Care Management
Chronic care management is another area of interest for physician groups, particularly in primary care. "We hope to see bipartisan legislation introduced and acted upon in both the Senate and House of Representatives to reduce barriers to chronic care management," Bob Doherty, senior vice president for governmental affairs and public policy at the American College of Physicians (ACP) here, wrote in an email to MedPage Today.
That includes "waiving cost-sharing requirements for Medicare's chronic care management codes, providing additional and dedicated payments to support the ability of physicians to manage patients with multiple chronic diseases and, reducing regulatory and administrative barriers to provision of chronic care management services."
The American Academy of Family Physicians also plans to focus on the issue, according to AAFP president John Meigs Jr., MD, of Centreville, Ala. "We certainly feel family medicine is at the center of chronic care and is a hallmark of what we do," he said in a phone interview. Policymakers "[seem to have] recognized that in Medicare's payment system, the current fee-for-service model is a problem for the labor-intensive activities of chronic care management and ... coordinating [patient] care."
Some groups, such as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons here, are wading into bigger issues. "We are eager to contribute to ongoing discussions regarding a replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act and the establishment of a framework for Medicare reform," Shelly Timmons, MD, PhD, a member of the association's board of directors and a neurosurgeon in Danville, Pa., wrote in an email.
The AANS is also supporting the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act, which would provide Medicare funding for an additional 15,000 residency training slots over 5 years, as well as the Concussion Awareness and Education Act, which calls for surveillance of sports-related concussions and increased research into concussion management guidelines.
Improving Meaningful Use
"Meaningful Use" regulations for electronic health records are on the minds of several groups this year. "Later this year, we expect to see proposed regulations for MIPS [Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System]; we are expecting that regulation will redesign the Meaningful Use program and certainly redesign the intersection between Meaningful Use and [the Physician Quality Reporting System] and the [Value-Based Modifier]," the MGMA's Tennant explained.
"So we need to have a bridge between what's coming and what's here. MGMA and many other provider organizations have been actively pushing the administration, for example, to go to 90-day reporting in 2015; we need to have that in 2016 as well."
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently laid out its priorities for the coming year; they include strategies for the "reset" of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use regulations. "Recommendations for the reset seek to alleviate meaningful use burdens and revise the program to improve flexibility, expand patient engagement and clear the way for increased health IT [information technology] interoperability and innovation," the AMA said on its website.
The MGMA is urging doing away with the "all-or-nothing" provision in Meaningful Use, Tennant said. "If you are 99% successful [in meeting the rule's requirements], you are 100% unsuccessful. That's ridiculous; it's a punitive program rather than encouraging physicians to accept the technology and to invest."
Specialty-Specific Priorities
Over at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the group is supporting legislation on postpartum depression screening, according to Hal Lawrence, MD, ACOG's executive vice president and CEO. "We know that screening for depression during and after pregnancy is essential, as depression is one of the most common -- and debilitating -- complications associated with pregnancy and the postpartum period," he wrote in an email to MedPage Today. "H.R. 3235, the Bringing Postpartum Depression Out of the Shadows Act, would provide funding for grants to states to create or improve programs focused on routine postpartum screening."
ACOG also advocating for inclusion of pregnant women in medical research, Lawrence said. "Historically, pregnant and lactating women have been left out of medical research ... Including pregnant women in research will leave physicians better able to make treatment options with their patients, and will help protect women's peace of mind." The group is hoping the Innovations for Healthier Americans package, now being drafted by a Senate committee, will address this issue.
On the academic front, the Association of American Medical Colleges here is "very pleased with a number of the things that Congress was able to achieve in 2015, from bolstering the nation's investments in medical research to supporting health workforce developments in targeted areas ... to finally replacing the SGR [sustainable growth rate formula]," said Tannaz Rasouli, MPH, the association's senior director of public policy and strategic outreach, in a phone interview."We were very pleased with the number of those achievements and I think we would expect to see some of those themes carry into 2016."
"We would like to see Congress support additional funding or additional support through Medicare graduate medical education to increase support for physician training at teaching hospitals as part of a multi-faceted strategy to reduce physician shortages in rural and urban underserved communities alike," she added.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) here is looking forward to working on a number of initiatives this year, according to spokesman Mark Del Monte, JD. "We're now looking to make progress on child health issues that don't implicate macro election-year issues but smaller, more child health-focused pieces of legislation," he said in a phone interview. "Each individual bill is an important one for kids, popular on both sides of the aisle."
One bill at the top of AAP's list is the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act, which would require child-safe packaging for nicotine that goes in electronic cigarettes. "We have had one child die [from ingesting] liquid nicotine, and a 200% increase in phone calls to poison control centers ... It's incredibly toxic, and there is no requirement for child-proof packaging. I think there's a lot of support for that one."
Another bill on AAP's agenda is the Ensuring Children's Access to Specialty Care Act, which would allow pediatric subspecialists to be part of the National Health Service Corps. "No child should have to get on an airplane to see their doctor," Del Monte said. "Access to subspecialist pediatricians in some places is very, very limited, so we have been working for a long time to increase access."
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MATTHEW MARTIN
MATTHEW MARTIN COMMISSIONED FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY 750TH ANNIVERSARY
ROSE MAGNIFICAT WINS BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARD
Matthew Martin studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music, and was an organ student of Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. He is currently Director of Music at Keble College, Oxford and Artistic Director of the Keble Early Music Festival. In April 2020, he will take up the position of Precentor and Director of College Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
His ‘spikily dynamic style of composition’ (BBC Music Magazine) has led him to be commissioned to write for many prominent ensembles, including The Tallis Scholars, the choirs of Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and The Sixteen. Matthew won the Liturgical category in the 2013 British Composer Awards and, in 2014, a disc of his choral music, Jubilate Deo, was recorded by Daniel Hyde and The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, and released on the Opus Arte label.
In 2015, he was commissioned by the Cheltenham Music Festival Martin to write a Trumpet Sonata and in 2016 Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars performed a new set of Lamentations written for them at Cadogan Hall, London. His Rose Magnificat, written for The Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh was first performed in 2017 at St John’s Smith Square, London. The subsequent Gabrieli Consort CD, bearing the same title as his piece, won the Choral category in the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards.
Other recent projects have included a re-imagining of Guerrero's Ave Virgo sanctissima - Sanctissima - for ORA Choir; Psalm 150, a Festival Anthem written to mark the opening of the new organ in Manchester Cathedral; and a test piece - Tryptich - for competitors taking part in the 2019 St Albans International Organ Competition. He was also commissioned to write a new anthem for a special service marking the 750th anniversary of the refounding of Westminster Abbey in October 2019.
Matthew’s music is published by Novello and Faber Music.
The latest pieces by Matthew Martin are available from Novello & Company Limited.
Earlier works are published by Faber Music.
St Albans International Organ Festival
10' (2019)
SANCTISSIMA
4' (2017)
A ROSE MAGNIFICAT
SATB/SATB with divisi
SATB and organ
AN ENGLISH CORONATION 1902-1953
Winged Lion
A spectacular recreation of the lavish English Coronation rite, performed by Gabrieli Consort and Players, directed by Paul McCreesh. Matthew Martin plays organ.
SCHÜTZ: CANTIONES SACRAE
Philip Cave directs Magnificat in Schütz's collection of forty Latin motets. Matthew Martin plays continuo.
Paul McCreesh leads the Gabrieli Consort in a collection of English works composed either before 1558 or after 1915, responses all to medieval texts associated with the Virgin Mary, including A Rose Magnificat by Matthew.
CEREMONIAL OXFORD
CRD Records
A disc of rediscovered music by the Oxford-based eighteenth century composer William Hayes (1708-1777), conducted by Matthew Martin.
Sacred choral works by Matthew Martin, recorded by the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford and Daniel Hyde.
A disc of Christmas music sung by the Gabrieli Consort, including Adam lay ybounden and Veni, Veni Emanuel by Martin.
HAEC DIES
Music for Easter recorded by Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, including Matthew Martin's setting of Haec Dies.
GREAT EUROPEAN ORGANS
Priory Records
Matthew Martin plays the 1954 Walker/Downes organ of the London Oratory.
SPIRIT, STRENGTH & SORROW
A recording of the Stabat Mater by Matthew Martin, performed here by The Sixteen and Harry Christophers.
MISSA GAUDEAMUS
Matthew Martin conducts the Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks in a disc of repertoire by Tomás Luis de Victoria.
CHRISTMAS VESPERS
This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, directed by Martin Baker with Matthew Martin as the organist.
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Matthew Pearce Public School is sitting upon a very important piece of history. Matthew Pearce was one of the first settlers in the area and our school is built on part of his property. The School has four sporting houses that have been named after Pearce Family properties, Amisfield, Stanhope, Wooragee and Eastbourne.
Matthew Pearce Public School was opened in 1982, with most students who joined our school coming in from local area schools. One of those schools, Jasper Road PS provided support through fundraising and administration, allowing our school to make an important start in public education.
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Home » Skyworks names Liam K. Griffin as CEO; David J. Aldrich to become executive chairman
Skyworks names Liam K. Griffin as CEO; David J. Aldrich to become executive chairman
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Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, announced that its board of directors has appointed Liam K. Griffin as chief executive officer. Mr. Griffin was also elected to the board of directors of Skyworks effective May 11, 2016. David J. Aldrich, Skyworks' chief executive officer since 2000, will assume the newly established role of executive chairman and, in that position, will continue to serve as the chairman of Skyworks' board of directors.
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Skyworks has substantially outpaced the broader semiconductor market: growing the top line at a 25 percent annual rate from $1.1 billion in fiscal 2010 to over $3.2 billion in fiscal 2015. In parallel, the company has maintained a rigorous leadership succession planning process to ensure the organization continues to follow this path of success going forward.
"I am delighted to announce that Liam Griffin has become Skyworks' chief executive officer as we capitalize on the enormous global mobility and Internet of Things opportunities ahead of us," said Aldrich. "Liam has a demonstrated track record of success and our proven partnership over 15 years makes him my logical successor. He is a highly energetic and motivating leader who is widely respected amongst our customers, partners, suppliers and investors as well as the entire Skyworks employee base. Liam has the unique ability to translate challenging operational plans into market outperformance through his intense focus and unyielding tenacity. I am confident Liam is the right person at the right time to lead Skyworks into the next frontier and I look forward to supporting him in my new capacity as executive chairman."
As executive chairman, Mr. Aldrich, 59, will devote his time to supporting the management transition and working with the leadership team to develop Skyworks' long term strategy. Mr. Aldrich has served as CEO of Skyworks and its predecessor Alpha Industries, since 2000. During that time, annual company revenue grew from $126 million in 1999, when he became president and chief operating officer, to over $3.2 billion as of fiscal 2015, while operating income increased 7,477 percent.
Mr. Griffin, 49, joined Skyworks in August 2001 as head of sales and marketing. Since that time his responsibilities have continuously expanded with his leadership of Skyworks' business units, R&D efforts and operations. In 2011, he was promoted to executive vice president and in May 2014 was named company president. Mr. Griffin has been a key architect of the company's strategy to cement its leadership position in mobile communications while diversifying across the Internet of Things.
Before joining Skyworks, Mr. Griffin was the vice president of worldwide sales at Dover Corporation and held product management and process engineering positions at AT&T's Microelectronics and Network Systems' businesses. Mr. Griffin received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a Master of Business Administration degree from Boston University.
"I am honored to have been chosen by Dave and the Skyworks board to lead our great company," said Griffin. "Over the past 17 years, Dave Aldrich's vision and leadership have built Skyworks into one of the largest and fastest growing semiconductor companies in the world. We have created an awesome platform for analog, mixed signal and RF product integration leveraging our OEM relationships and operational scale. I assume this new leadership role deeply humbled yet highly confident in Skyworks' future. I look forward to continuing to work closely with Dave and building upon all of his achievements while ultimately realizing our vision of connecting everyone and everything, all the time."
For more information, please visit Skyworks' website at: www.skyworksinc.com.
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LETTER: How will George Osborne balance his new role?
020616 George Osborne from the Vote Remain campaign looking through yestereday's Yorkshire Post at the Yorkshire Post Offices in Leeds yesterday(thurs) (GL1010/29o)
Published: 16:20 Tuesday 21 March 2017
When Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party, he frequently accused George Osborne of being a part-time Chancellor of the Exchequer.
News that Osborne is to become the editor of the London Evening Standard makes you wonder how he can find the time to serve his constituents as an MP.
A former editor of the paper claimed he worked between 80 to 100 hours a week.
This moonlighting of jobs in Parliament is nothing new.
Boris Johnson was serving as Mayor of London when he became an MP in 2015, not to mention his £250,000-a-year pay for writing a column for the Daily Telegraph, which he called “chicken feed”.
Sir Nicholas Soames, Tory grandee and grandson of Winston Churchill, tried to block the introduction of a £3.60 minimum wage in 1998, whilst holding senior positions at four businesses.
It was said at the time he was earning up to £11 per minute of work.
This is the tip of the iceberg as 303 MPs and 493 peers have outside earnings.
They may not have broken any laws, but it can’t be right that these elected representatives are not giving 100 per cent effort to those they deem to represent.
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The Latest in Enabling, Volunteering & Charity
HomeNews & EventsNewsDilmah’s Swedish Partner continues to support local communities in Sri Lanka
Dilmah’s Swedish Partner continues to support local communities in Sri Lanka
The Tekompaniet - Dilmah’s partner in Sweden, donated equipment worth LKR 430,000 for the WDP kitchen. Unlike other donations, two representatives Hakan Kjellstrom and Ola Andersson joined MJF Centre staff and the ladies of the WDP to purchase professional level equipment from the shops in Pettah and around Colombo. It was quite an experience, as they received a first-hand view of the intricacies of bargaining for the best equipment at the most reasonable price. The donation consisted of monies given by staff from their salaries which was then matched by the company.
The equipment will be used by the members of Swashakthi Women’s Cooperative and participants of WDP in their daily bakery production and catering orders. Some of the members of the Cooperative are amongst the first participants of the WDP programme. Over the years, they have gradually developed confidence, self-esteem and culinary skills as part of their journey with the programme.
“I can’t express how happy I am and I can’t find words in this happy moment said Hakan Kjellstrom, Managing Director Of Tekompaniet Swedetraders. These women have come together rising above their individual circumstances and challenges and yet still come to the MJF Centre with a smile on their face. You can see that they truly enjoy their work and all that goes behind planning for an order” he concluded.
“We are thrilled to receive so many new items - they are larger and easier to work with when catering for larger numbers. It will most certainly increase our capacity to do more and is a definite encouragement to us all. Thank you Tekompaniet for having faith in us, listening to our needs and then supporting us in this manner” said Anoja, a member of Swashakthi Women’s Cooperative.
Created in 2012, the Women’s Development Programme and the Swashakthi Cooperative was seen as a peer counselling and psychosocial mechanism with an aim of teaching women from less privileged areas of Moratuwa about women’s issues and the importance of nutrition for their families. More recently the women established the cooperative and work together to prepare, healthy, fresh and traditional meals of sweetmeats as an additional means of income generation for themselves.
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Flying high!
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NCCCPDD comes to Kandy
The National Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy and Other Developmental Disorders (NCCCPDD) opened its first extension in the hill capital on 23 May as part of Dilmah’s MJF Charitable Foundation’s efforts to strengthen the response to the needs of people with disabilities in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
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A Visit To National Centre For Children With Cerebral Palsy And Other Developmental Disorders
MAITS’ CEO went to visit one of our long-term partners, the National Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy and other Developmental Disorders (NCCCPDD), who we have been working with for a number of years,
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EARLY DISMISSAL OF STUDENTS
It is the policy of the Mountain Brook Board of Education that students may be dismissed from school prior to the end of the school day provided that the following conditions are met:
1. The reason for leaving school is appropriate, such determination to be made by the school principal or his or her designee.
2. The parent or legal guardian provides written notice to the school principal or his or her designee. Such notice should be given at or near the beginning of the school day during which the absence will occur.
3. A student who attends elementary school is picked up by his or her parent or guardian at the office of the principal. A student who attends junior high school or senior high school may be permitted to leave school alone if permission to do so has been granted by his or her parent or guardian and by the school principal or his or her designee.
If a student becomes ill prior to the end of the school day, he or she may be dismissed early in accordance with the following procedures:
1. The school principal or his or her designee shall verify by telephone that the student’s parent or guardian is aware of the dismissal of the student and is able to take responsibility for his or her supervision.
2. If said student attends elementary school, his or her parent or guardian must personally pick up the student at the office of the principal.
3. A high school student or a junior high school student may be permitted to leave school alone provided that permission to do so has been granted by his or her parent or guardian and by the school principal or his or her designee.
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Image: Detail from William Charles Ross, 'Prince Albert', 1840
'Victoria & Albert: Art & Love: Symposium' published online
To mark the 151st anniversary of the death of Prince Albert today, and to provide a fitting tribute to this most remarkable man, the Royal Collection and the National Gallery have published an e-publication.
The ‘Symposium’, a collection of online, fully-referenced essays now available to the public in the form of a convenient and permanent e-publication, explores different aspects of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria’s shared and sustained interest in the arts.
The essays originated as papers presented at two study days held at the National Gallery in June 2010, which were organised by the National Gallery and the Royal Collection to celebrate the royal couple’s enthusiastic patronage of the arts and the 2010 Queen’s Gallery exhibition, ‘Victoria and Albert: Art and Love’. Seventeen speakers came together for the study day from leading arts organisations and academic institutions in England, Scotland, Germany and France, including representatives from the National Gallery and Royal Collection.
Prince Albert and the arts
Prince Albert shared a genuine love for, knowledge of and commitment to the arts with his wife Queen Victoria. After his death the Queen offered part of his collection of paintings to the nation, 25 of which were selected by the National Gallery and form part of its collection today.
The essays highlight the extent of the royal couple’s patronage of the arts, a shared passion that lasted throughout their marriage. Strikingly, the extent of their collecting covered nearly every form of fine and decorative art, encompassing all periods and extending to an international reach.
The royal couple also diligently set about cataloguing, cleaning and displaying their art collections – certainly unusual occupations for any monarch and their consort. Although keen to acquire unique works of art, Victoria and Albert were perfectly happy to allow copies and reproductions into their collection, an indication of their interest in the possibilities for mass reproduction afforded by new mechanical techniques.
The essays also reveal how their tastes were quite different: while Queen Victoria particularly enjoyed sentimental images to commemorate members of her family and family occasions, Prince Albert had idiosyncratic tastes, such as a pioneering interest in collecting early Italian and German art.
Read essays from the ‘Symposium’ [external link]
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Don’t let Koch Brothers destroy the American dream
Charles and David Koch are using their money and influence to affect the outcome of the 2014 mid-term elections as we...
Don’t let Koch Brothers destroy the American dream Charles and David Koch are using their money and influence to affect the outcome of the 2014 mid-term elections as we... Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1kNVP4W
AsburyPark Published 12:00 a.m. ET April 20, 2014 | Updated 12:18 a.m. ET April 20, 2014
Charles and David Koch are using their money and influence to affect the outcome of the 2014 mid-term elections as well as the 2016 presidential race. They have poured their fortune into a network of organizations that are dedicated to supporting Republican causes and Republican candidates. In the 2012 election cycle the Koch brothers spent $400 million trying to win the presidential election for Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
Both billionaire brothers were deeply involved in financing and distributing more than $200 million last year to kill the Affordable Care Act. They funded television ads showing a menacing Uncle Sam figure popping up between a woman’s legs during a gynecological exam. Those ads were disgusting and degrading to women with a sole purpose of instilling fear in young women who might sign up for the ACA.
In 2013, Forbes called Koch Industries the second largest privately held company in the United States with an annual revenue of $115 billion. Koch industries are involved in manufacturing petroleum, chemicals, fertilizers, energy, finance, commodities trading as well as other ventures and investments.
Their environmental and safety record speaks for itself. From 1999 to 2003, Koch Industries was assessed more than $400 million in fines, penalties and judgments.
Between 2006 and 2011, the Koch brothers have spent more than $50 million to lobby in Washington. Their industries have opposed the regulations of financial derivatives and they lobbied to set limits on greenhouse gases.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United has opened the floodgates on campaign financing. Now, with the high court’s blessing, the super-rich and corporations can legally hand out unlimited funds to groups that campaign for a candidate. This allows their donations to buy a piece of our democracy. Because of their money, the Koch brothers can get legislators to write business friendly legislation in their statehouses with no regard for public welfare or public interest. They have managed to enslave the radical Republican Party and the Tea Party and make them puppets on a string under their control.
Their ultimate goals are to down-size government, destroy public education by privatizing, break unions, privatize Social Security, pass voter ID laws, do away with environmental regulations, privatize the U.S. Postal Service, cut taxes for the rich and big corporations, continue tax subsides for those big corporations, do away with the ACA, continue military spending, cut Medicaid by one-third, cut $11 million from VA services, do away with Medicare as we know it and cut programs like food stamps, Pell Grants and job-training initiatives. This is a huge undertaking, but the Koch brothers have a huge amount of money to back it up.
The Koch brothers want to buy the next Congress, Senate and Presidency. But, there is someone standing in their way: You and me. The term “The American Dream” was inspired by the returning veterans of World War II. It was promised that a good life would come with hard work and that everyone would have an opportunity for a decent paying job with security, a house of their own, affordable health care, an excellent education for their children and a secure retirement.
The Koch brothers along with the Republican Party seem to have forgotten those principals, but we can keep that dream alive with the power of our vote. A couple of billionaire brothers should never have that much power in our free democracy. Let’s use our vote to have our voices heard.
Joseph Tenore
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Which picture of Somerset do you believe in?
New Jersey having problems? Not on this night. | Brescia
Opinion: Center of Excellence critical in Somerset County business future
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Judge denies nuclear protestors' religious freedom defense
by Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service
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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
A federal judge has denied a request by a group of Catholic peace activists to dismiss charges against them for breaking into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year to protest nuclear weapons.
The seven activists, individually and through their lawyers, used a novel defense, citing the Religion Freedom Restoration Act, a 1993 federal law that says the government may not burden the faith practices of a person with sincerely held religious beliefs.
But Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, denied that defense and scheduled a jury trial for Oct. 21.
The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on the U.S. Navy base, which houses six Trident submarines designed to carry nearly 200 nuclear warheads apiece.
The seven, mostly middle-aged or elderly, will each stand trial on three felonies and one misdemeanor: destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property, trespass and conspiracy.
In her denial, Wood concluded that the activists were sincere in their religious faith and that the government had burdened that religious faith by prosecuting them.
But the judge found that the government has a compelling interest in the safety of the people working at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and in the security of the nuclear weapons housed there. Therefore, she found that the legal charges leveled against the activists were "the least restrictive means of furthering its compelling interests in these circumstances." Her 19-page opinion denies all the defendants' motions.
On the night of April 4, 2018, the group stole onto the Kings Bay base in St. Marys, Georgia, cut a padlock and later a security fence, spilled blood on Navy wall insignia, spray-painted anti-war slogans on a walkway and banged on a monument to nuclear warfare using hammers made of melted-down guns. Their goal, they said, was to symbolically disarm the weapons.
The group is part of a 39-year-old anti-nuclear movement called Plowshares, inspired by the prediction of the biblical prophet Isaiah that the nations of the world shall "beat their swords into plowshares." Its activists have made a signature of breaking into nuclear weapons bases to hammer on buildings and military hardware and pour human blood on them.
The defendants are all residents of Catholic Worker houses, a collection of 200 independent houses across the country that feed and house the poor. They include a Jesuit priest, a former nun and a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, a co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement who is under consideration by the Catholic Church for canonization as a saint.
Now it will be up to the group to convince the court that the Plowshares group ought to be able to present experts who can testify about Catholic social teachings on nuclear weapons and why non-violent actions protesting nuclear weapons care consistent with their faith.
"The fight is going to be over how much of their faith can they testify to and what other kinds of evidence will the court allow the jury to hear," said William P. Quigley, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, who is helping the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 argue their case pro bono.
Quigley said he expected a flurry of pretrial motions on admissible testimony before the Oct. 21 trial in a federal courtroom in Brunswick, Georgia, about 70 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida.
"Traditionally, governments want to restrict the amount of evidence put on. They want to focus on the lock, the fence, the paint," he said. "The defendants want to put their actions into the context of their faith and in the context of what it says about nuclear weapons."
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'Sanctuary churches' vow to shield immigrants from Trump crackdown
by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service
Supporters surround Javier Flores and his family during a press conference in the basement of Arch Street United Methodist Church in Philadelphia on Nov. 15, 2016. The group gathered to announce that Flores has taken asylum in the church. Senior pastor Robin Hynicka stands immediately behind him. (RNS photo by Elizabeth Evans)
This article appears in the Transition to Trump feature series. View the full series.
Philadelphia — First came the mayors of New York, Chicago and Seattle declaring their cities “sanctuaries” and saying they will protect undocumented immigrants from President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport them.
Then thousands of students, professors, alumni and others at elite universities including Harvard, Yale and Brown signed petitions asking their schools to protect undocumented students from any executive order.
Now, religious congregations, including churches and synagogues, are declaring themselves “sanctuaries” for immigrants fleeing deportation.
On Nov. 15, an undocumented Mexican and father of three, who says he is determined to stay in the United States for the sake of his children, appeared at a news conference at Arch Street United Methodist Church, where he is seeking sanctuary from deportation by federal authorities.
Javier Flores fled to the church ahead of an order to surrender to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The 40-year-old north Philadelphia resident had entered the United States without papers in 1997. Since then, he was deported and re-entered several times.
“Today and every day, if Javier and his family choose to stay with us, they will have a home with us,” said the Rev. Robin Hynicka, senior pastor, at the news conference at his Center City church.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to deport an estimated 11 million foreigners. Since his election victory, he said he would immediately deport 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes.
“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump told "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl.
Alongside enforcement of immigration laws, Trump vowed to build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out immigrants.
In the wake of the elections, there’s been an “outpouring of inquiries and support” from congregations across the country that want to sign on as sanctuary sites, said Peter Pedemonti, executive director of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia.
“Churches are saying, ‘We want to do this. How do we get started?’” said Pedemonti, whose coalition includes 17 churches and two synagogues that have banded together to oppose deportations and offer their sanctuaries as safe havens.
But just how many faith communities are willing to harbor undocumented immigrants is hard to gauge.
Since 2014, 13 churches in nine cities have provided sanctuary to 15 people at risk of imminent deportation, said Noel Andersen, national grass-roots coordinator for Church World Service, which provides legal services for immigrants.
Andersen estimated there are 400 congregations nationwide that support the efforts or are willing to open their doors to people fearing repatriation.
Churches, along with schools and hospitals, are considered “sensitive locations” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That means federal agents will avoid arresting, searching or interviewing people there under most circumstances.
The sanctuary tradition can be traced back to the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Numbers cites six sanctuary cities throughout biblical Israel where a person who accidentally killed another could take refuge from anyone avenging the killing.
A more contemporary version is the American “sanctuary church” movement of the 1980s, in which hundreds of Central American refugees trying to avoid deportation sought shelter in churches.
But it's far from clear how big a role houses of worship will play in harboring undocumented immigrants in today's political climate.
President-elect Trump won 81 percent of white evangelical voters. While some evangelical groups such as the Evangelical Immigration Table have championed immigration reform, their efforts have not led to movement on the national level.
The major Hispanic evangelical organizations are socially conservative, opposing abortion and favoring broader religious freedom laws. They have advocated for comprehensive immigration reform but have not joined the sanctuary movement.
“Churches need to follow their conscience,” said the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.
“If they feel they need to protect undocumented immigrants, they’re within their biblical and theological right to do so. But the real preference is immigration reform. Sanctuary churches is a response. It’s not the answer.”
About 65 percent of Hispanic voters voted for Hillary Clinton, according to exit poll data; Trump won 29 percent of their vote.
“What we have been seeking is a true change in the system,” said Tony Suarez, who serves on Trump's Evangelical Executive Advisory Board. “All this is a result of a broken system.”
Suarez is executive vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, which counts 40,118 participating churches, the largest Hispanic evangelical association in the country.
He said the advisory board has been meeting with the president-elect or his advisers on a weekly basis and that their immigration policy is “still evolving.” But he added the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference will advocate for “justice and mercy” for all undocumented people.
The case of Flores, who has no criminal convictions, shows how difficult it may be for undocumented immigrants to flee to churches.
He is a Catholic, but he sought refuge in a United Methodist Church. Although U.S. Catholic bishops urged Trump to adopt humane policies toward immigrants and refugees earlier this week, not every bishop is likely to advocate for sanctuary churches.
Trump won the overall Catholic vote by 7 percentage points over Hillary Clinton, 52-45.
Protestant mainline churches, more liberal Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues however, are expected to join the movement and open their doors to people seeking refuge.
“It’s really key that people of faith be active, especially white America,” said Hynicka, of Arch Street United Methodist. “It’s time to put your bodies, buildings and assets on the line.”
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Two cakes, two courts, two countries: Same result
by Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service
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Ashers Bakery owners Amy and Daniel McArthur outside the Supreme Court in London, on Oct. 10, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
London — On both sides of the Atlantic, a drama set in a bakery has pitted freedom of religion against LGBT civil rights and Exhibit A has been a wedding cake — or as it's been colloquially dubbed here, a gay cake.
Last week it was the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's turn to decide a case, in which a Northern Ireland bakery refused to bake a cake and decorate it with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage. The result was the same as in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, decided in June, in which the U.S. Supreme Court found for the baker.
The U.K. case began in 2014, when Ashers bakery, run by Daniel and Amy McArthur in Belfast, canceled an order to make a cake bearing the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" frosted on its top. The customer, a gay rights activist named Gareth Lee, had also asked for characters from "Sesame Street" and the logo of the activist group Queerspace. The McArthurs said that they could not provide the cake Lee wanted, citing their Christian beliefs barring gay marriage.
The taxpayer-funded Equality Commission took up the case and wrote to the McArthurs seeking compensation, later taking them to court. Despite Northern Ireland's reputation for religious conservatism — it is the only part of the United Kingdom where same-sex marriage is still not permitted — the county court and the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal ruled that there had been unlawful discrimination against Lee.
The bakers then took the case to the U.K.'s highest court, which heard the case in Northern Ireland. It was the first time Britain's Supreme Court had sat for a case in Northern Ireland.
Last week the court ruled in a unanimous decision that the McArthurs' refusal to bake the cake was not discriminatory. "Their objection was to the message on the cake not to the personal characteristics of Mr. Lee," said Lady Brenda Hale, president of the Supreme Court. "They would have refused to make such a cake for any customer, irrespective of their sexual orientation."
The U.K. case mirrors the U.S. gay cake incident, in which a baker's refusal to decorate a cake with a gay wedding message also went all the way to the Supreme Court. In June, it ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had trampled the rights of Lakewood, Colo., baker Jack Phillips when it said his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple violated state accommodation laws.
In his opinion for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the Colorado commission's decision "was inconsistent with the First Amendment's guarantee that our laws be applied in a manner that is neutral toward religion."
The Trump administration argued that the case was a matter of artistic expression. Solicitor General Noel Francisco said that "an artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write."
In the U.K. case, the judges saw the question as neither about government neutrality nor about art. Instead the court based its opinion on Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which includes the right "not to express an opinion which one does not hold."
Hale said, "The bakers could not refuse to supply their goods to Mr. Lee because he was a gay man or supported gay marriage, but that is quite different from obliging them to supply a cake iced with a message with which they profoundly disagreed."
The court's distinction appeared to be aimed at treading a delicate path between upholding the right to freedom of religion and the individual right to dignity.
The "gay cake" case has divided Britons, and not just Christians and pro-LGBT campaigners. Michael Wardlow, the head of Northern Ireland's Equality Commission, which spent 250,000 pounds, or about $330,000, on the case and now has to pay legal costs, said the decision has introduced uncertainty about the legal basis for equality in the U.K. The Rainbow Project, Northern Ireland's main gay rights organization, issued a statement calling the decision "direct discrimination" and said it had implications for services and facilities for LGBT people.
But in an article for The Times, one of Britain's best-known gay activists, Peter Tatchell, welcomed the ruling and supported the Supreme Court's interpretation of the law.
"If the Supreme Court had ruled against Ashers it would have established a dangerous principle that businesses cannot refuse a customer's request to propagate a message even if it is sexist, anti-gay or xenophobic, and even if they have a conscientious objection to it," he wrote. "In a democracy people should be able to discriminate against ideas with which they disagree."
The McArthurs, who were backed by the Christian Institute, a charity set up to counter secularism, saw the making of a cake as fundamental to their faith.
Outside the Supreme Court, Daniel McArthur said: "I want to start by thanking God. He has been with us for the last four years."
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Hebrew Voices #33 – The Lost Book of Jasher
Posted on August 21, 2019 by Nehemia Gordon
In this episode of Hebrew Voices, The Lost Book of Jasher, Nehemia Gordon speaks with Israel Prize winner and the world’s foremost expert on the Book of Jasher, Prof. Emeritus Joseph Dan. The Tanakh mentions a book called Sepher Ha-Yashar, which seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth thousands of years ago. An English translation of Jasher then showed up in 1840 claiming to be this lost Biblical book. If this is the original Jasher mentioned in Joshua and 2 Samuel, it would be more important than the Dead Sea Scrolls! If you ever wondered about the Book of Jasher mentioned in the Bible, you will want to listen to this interview.
I look forward to reading your comments!
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The original cover page of Sepher HaYashar, published by Samuel the Little of Fez in Venice 1625 reads: "The Book of Yashar, an ancient book written in ancient times… [which includes] many stories not mentioned in the legends of our Sages. And perhaps this is the Book of Yashar mentioned in Scripture."
Original (uncensored) title page of Sepher HaYashar, Venice 1625
Yehudah Arye of Modena censored Sepher HaYashar, forcing Samuel the Little of Fez to change the cover title of the 1625 edition to read: "The Book of Yashar, which includes some stories and legends of our Sages…"
Censored title page of Sepher HaYashar, Venice 1625.
The Book of Jasher, translated by M.M. Noah, 1840
The Book of Jasher by Joseph Dan (Hebrew)
Ancient Book Of Jasher by Ken Johnson
את Cepher (including Jasher)
"Some events do take place but are not true; other are--although they never occurred." Elie Wiesel
"In literature... certain things are true though they didn't happen, while others are not, even if they did." Elie Wiesel
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40 thoughts on “Hebrew Voices #33 – The Lost Book of Jasher”
Matt on September 7, 2019 at 9:50 am said:
Who is the artist and what is the name of the song used in your opening? I really like it. great episode by the way, what a blessing.
Yvonne on September 3, 2019 at 11:09 am said:
Neihemia and Professor Dan. This was such a blessing.
Elliot Hass on August 27, 2019 at 6:28 pm said:
Enjoyed this. Very informative. We need truth.
Fran Brashear on August 23, 2019 at 11:22 pm said:
Thank you, thank you, thank you Nehemia and Prof. Joseph Dan. Truly looking forward to your future interview. You both are a blessing…beacons of truth!
freerangewriterdee on August 22, 2019 at 2:48 pm said:
What was the name of the book that the Professor Dan wrote that he wanted you to read before the interview. Is there 1 in English?
Wysdym on August 23, 2019 at 8:56 am said:
“ Defer HaYashar by Joseph Dan. 1986”
Ronald Peloquin on June 3, 2019 at 12:17 pm said:
Thank you Nehemiah i was about to completely swallow down whole as truth, the book of jasher, that i downloaded from u tube. I will read it but now i know that professor Dan and you show me that it was made in the medieval period. It is not the one in the book of joshua and 2nd samuel ib.c. watch your wall often. Does your friend keith johnston believe it is the ancient book of jasher? Thanks again from Ron Peloquin.
SisterCarrie on September 28, 2017 at 12:50 pm said:
In ancient Egypt there was fiction but it usually contained an historical element. Midrashim are legends, but how is one to be sure where they do not contain the truth? For instance, the Book of Jasher claims that Moses was a king in the land of Kush in the 55th year of the king of Egypt. Few pharaohs reigned that long but one, Thutmose III, did reign almost exactly that long. As I point out in my book, “Manetho Demystified”, Pseudo-Dionysius wrote: “In the Year 490, the king of Egypt died and Cencheres reigned for sixteen years. This was he who waged a contest with Moses with the help of Jannes and Jambres the magicians. It was about him that Moses said: He drowned Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea.”
One can see by the year given by Pseudo-Dionysius that he is following the number stated in the Book of Exodus for the sojourn of the Hebrews―430 years from the promise to Abraham―which is actually supposed to be the time when Moses fled from Egypt. So Pseudo-Dionysius is observing the same reckoning as Eusebius but supplies the year of the return of the lawgiver in order to confront a new pharaoh. According to the math of Eusebius, reckoning backwards from the reign of a Roman emperor, Moses left Egypt in 1510 BCE–in the Year 430. The Year 490, then, is 1450 BCE, the precise year that Thutmose III died after 54 years on the throne and Amenhotep II succeeded. The latter’s throne name was “Aakheperure” and he is the “Cencheres” of Pseudo-Dionysius for linguistic reasons I explain in my book. Marianne Luban
Leaves Heal on March 30, 2017 at 12:10 pm said:
Thank you for this perspective / analysis!
Roxanne Arkie on March 2, 2017 at 4:34 pm said:
Yes, this was a great episode! I am going back to listen for the third time. I am trying to relay these truths to my fellow brethren!
Joseph F Dumond on January 26, 2017 at 7:01 pm said:
This teaching interview was simply awesome. Just awesome. So many need to hear this and listen to it. I will be sharing this. I have told my readers to tune in. I will make that point again with this teaching.
Great job, great interview and perfect timing. Thank you Nehemiah.
Lindsey on January 3, 2017 at 12:47 pm said:
Nice posts Nehemia. Got a question. The book Letters Beyond The Sambatyon is subtitled The Myth of the 10 Lost Tribes. It was edited by Simcha Shtull-Trauring. Its subtitle refers to myths. Prof Dan suggests that there were no “myths” but actually myths abounded. Is it they just didn’t have a word for “myth”? Was this because the were so convinced that the Hebrew tongue was so scared?
Nehemia Gordon on January 3, 2017 at 12:52 pm said:
I think what he meant is that people believed what was written, that they didn’t consider it a myth.
Joseph Oleskewicz on December 29, 2016 at 12:58 am said:
GREAT job guy’s the fairytales are myths and are busted my confirmation .
Michel Fleury on December 28, 2016 at 11:20 am said:
I do have a question referring to the book of Jasher and the commentaries of Rashi.
Shlomo Yitzchaki (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי; 22 February 1040 – 13 July 1105), in Latin: Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (Hebrew: רש”י, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki), was a medieval French rabbi and author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmudand commentary on the Tanakh.
A modern translation of Rashi’s commentary on the Chumash, published by Artscroll
My question is why are the commentaries of Rashi in the published Artscroll Tanakh, word for word exactly like the stories found in the Book of Jasher?
I could take pictures and do a side by side comparison. And it’s the same!
Nehemia Gordon on December 28, 2016 at 11:28 am said:
The 16th century author of Jasher used Rashi and various Midrashim as his sources.
Michel Fleury on December 28, 2016 at 2:01 pm said:
This is easy to say on both sides, so how do you know this that the author of Jasher used Rashi and not the other way around ? And where can we find any evidence of your statement?
Nehemia Gordon on December 28, 2016 at 2:58 pm said:
I’m glad you acknowledge that the parallels between Jasher and Rashi (as well as the Midrash) prove nothing about the age of Jasher! The original, now lost, Sepher HaYashar is mentioned in Joshua so it must be from his period or earlier, i.e. around 1400 BCE. It’s quite clear that the Book of Jasher known from the Middle Ages is not from the time of Joshua or earlier. I go into great detail with proofs in part 2 entitled “The Book of Jasher Exposed“. The evidence includes:
1) Tribes and their associated geographical locations that post-date Joshua by over 1,500 years, such as the Hungarians on the Danube and the Franks in Paris.
2) Historical figures and places that post-date Joshua by centuries, such as Hannibal Barca, Rome, Carthage, etc.
3) Legends that post-date Joshua such as Aeneas and the Rape of the Sabine Women.
4) Greek and Latin words, such as “Africa” and “Aver” (air).
5) Anachronistic impossible things such as an aquaduct that crosses the Mediterranean Sea.
I am looking forward to reviewing your part 2… Ok then this brings me to my second question based on your first statement that the 16 century Author of Jasher took from Rashi and other sources. So just how much sources from Rashi / others did he take? Are these sources of Rashi valid and what sources were invented in the book of Jasher that are not valid?
Anything in Rashi, Midrash, or Talmud not from the Tanakh is legend and/ or interpretation. Is that valid? Decide for yourself!
Nehemia Gordon How did Saul (Paul) in 2 Timothy 3:8-9 know the names of the two magicians who withstood Moses? Exodus 7:8-13 The Tanakh never mentioned the names! But one of the names are given in the Book of Jasher.
These magicians are mentioned in many sources such as the the Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Apuleius. There is also a separate Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres and their names appear three times in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan:
Ex. 1:15 And Pharaoh said that while sleeping he saw in his dream,”And behold all the land of Egypt was on one scale of a balance, and a young lamb was on the other scale of the balance, and the scale of the balance of the lamb was tipping down.” Immediately he sent and called all the magicians of Egypt and told them his dream. Immediately Jannes and Jambres, the heads of the magicians, opened their mouth and said to Pharaoh, “A son is about to be born among the congregation of Israel by whose hands all the land of Egypt is about to be destroyed.” Therefore, Pharaoh king of Egypt took counsel and ordered the Jewish midwifes, the name of the one was Shifra and the name of the second was Puah (she is Miriam her daughter),
Ex. 7:11 But Pharaoh also summoned the wise men and the magicians, and they did so also, Jannes and Jambres, the magicians of Egypt, with their magic spells.
Num. 22:22 Then the anger of the Lord grew strong because he was going to curse them, so the angel of the Lord stationed himself on the path to be hostile to him while he was riding on his she-donkey with his two servants, Jannes and Jambres.
SisterCarrie on October 19, 2017 at 12:08 pm said:
Another theory is that the Book of Jasher was not written in the 16th Century in Italy but in Spain in the Middle Ages.
Sharon Fahey on September 3, 2016 at 1:41 am said:
What about the Book of Enoch?
Nehemia Gordon on September 3, 2016 at 4:09 am said:
We have three episodes on Enoch!
Heiki Henrichsen on August 27, 2016 at 1:13 pm said:
This was super! Really appreciated this.
Joann Drucker on August 25, 2016 at 4:53 pm said:
I really enjoyed listening to this :–) thank you for doing this interview.
Wanda Ratcliffe-Smith on August 22, 2016 at 10:13 pm said:
I always enjoy listening to you and your guests Nehemia, but I must say this is one is one of my favourites:). Thank you both for taking the time to share and teach such wonderful information; I do look forward to hearing you and Prof Dan speak more after you’v read his book(s):)
YIshis Lassie on August 22, 2016 at 6:22 am said:
Speaking of authorial styles, I remember the time reading the book of Jonah in seminary from a Critical perspective, and having a sudden strong sense that it seemed to be purposely written as a theatrical farce – in no way detracting from its truth. How often I also realize that it seems that all biblical truth seems to be paradoxical – I call this principle “Holy Paradox”.
Mary Wittman on August 20, 2016 at 5:16 pm said:
so insightful! Loved this episode, Thank you professor Dan. I appreciate your honesty and your research. Great job, once again, Nehemia! Blessed memory of Elie Wesel.
Christopher Gordon on August 20, 2016 at 4:32 pm said:
Something I’ve been wondering about for some time, thank you for addressing it! Look forward to the follow-ups.
Dawn on August 20, 2016 at 4:00 pm said:
What a treat. Thank you Professor Dan Thank you Nehemia.
Michael Ciavirella on August 18, 2016 at 9:33 pm said:
That interview was so amazing on many levels. One of your best. Can’t wait for the next interview with him. Would love to have the messiah book translated into English……
Walter Schwenk on August 18, 2016 at 11:43 am said:
Feel up to dealing with the book of Enoch and its 364 day calendar?
Nehemia Gordon on August 18, 2016 at 12:27 pm said:
I have three episodes on Enoch!
Marty Shrabel on August 18, 2016 at 11:31 am said:
Great interview! Thank you Nehemia for not only being the watchman on the wall, but also being a “Faith Detective”, investigating and uncovering the truth about the pertinent issues regarding our faith; as in Dragnet’s Detective Friday’s famous words, “Just the facts ma’am.” I look forward to the rest of your study on this subject. Please do the study on the “vav.”
Luci Landauer on August 18, 2016 at 11:19 am said:
I felt so privileged to hear this! Wow! Real sources! Thank you for doing this one, I know it helps keep “sources” in perspective when speaking with other believers. It’s funny that even way back when it was published the author didn’t expect anyone to take it seriously as Scripture. We all have SO much to learn. The longer I go in this walk of faith with Yehovah the less I have to say out of my own mouth. I think there is a proverb about wisdom and keeping silent. ? I’m looking forward to your conversation with him about the messiah in the “modern” age. Can’t wait!
Wow – what a delightful interview. I just have to pinch myself sometimes, that I have these amazing opportunities to learn from elite and more every-day sources within the Jewish community through your faithful heart, Nehemia. It would be fascinating to hear what Kabala is from him, and then your own thoughts later, too. Raw stream of Torah-consciosness. Hope it arrives early!
Sarah on August 17, 2016 at 9:48 pm said:
Interesting. I look forward to your follow-up on the Book of Jasher.
Jacqueline K Moll on August 17, 2016 at 2:00 pm said:
…what a personable man! (you too Nehemiah) I think the best line in this interview is when Prof. Dan said, “You’ll always have people who like to tell stories”! I laughed so hard that I had to go back and listen again to the parts I missed… Great interview!!!
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Britney Spears says her infamous snake stunt at the 2001 MTV Awards was ‘dumb’
BRITNEY Spears is not a fan of her “dumb” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards back in 2001, when she famously performed with a python.
AAPJune 6, 20162:44pm
Doesn’t this take you back?Source:AP
BRITNEY Spears is not a fan of her “dumb” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards back in 2001, when she famously performed with a live python.
The 34-year-old singer insists she would never repeat the risque stunt again, which saw her belt out her hit I’m A Slave 4 U dressed in nothing but a green bikini top, bejewelled shorts and the albino snake draped around her neck.
“It’s insane! Why did I do that?” the mother-of-two told E! News while promoting her upcoming new single, Make Me.
Britney handled the reptile like a pro.Source:AP
And when asked if she would ever dance with a snake again, her reply was straight to the point. “Hell, no!” Britney laughed.
“It’s so dumb. No! Never!”
Next year will mark the singer’s 20th anniversary of her signing with Jive Records, which led to the release of her debut single, ...Baby One More Time, the following year, and the pop superstar jokes the milestone makes her feel “so old”.
She is set to release her new single Make Me in July, ahead of a new album later this year.
Spears teamed up with rapper G-Eazy for the track and David LaChapelle directed the video.
Despite not releasing an album since Femme Fatale in 2011, Spears revealed she’s excited to be working on new music again.
You can expect plenty of skin in Britney’s new music video.Source:Instagram
“I’ve been working on this project for a year and a half now, almost two years so it really means a lot to me. It’s my baby,” she explained of her ninth studio album.
“(It’s) a little melodic, a little more not so poppy. It’s kind of chill. Very chill.”
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Strange alien world made of 'hot ice'
Space 16 May 2007
By David Shiga
Transits occur when a planet appears to pass in front of its star as seen from Earth. New observations reveal that the planet around the star GJ 436 is just four times as wide as Earth – the smallest transiting planet yet known (Illustration: NASA/ESA/G Bacon)
The planet orbiting GJ 436 is thought to be made mostly of water in an exotic ‘hot ice’ form. The composition of its atmosphere is uncertain but may contain hydrogen, helium and water vapour (Illustration: F Pont/Geneva University)
A bizarre world of scorching hot ice shrouded in a steamy atmosphere may have been found, according to new observations. Characterising the Neptune-size planet is an important milestone on the way to detecting and characterising Earth-like planets that could harbour life.
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 planets orbiting other stars, called extrasolar planets or exoplanets. Almost all of these were detected by the way their gravity makes their parent stars wobble. But this technique, called the radial velocity method, reveals very little about the planet except for the size of its orbit and an estimate of its mass.
Astronomers can learn a lot more by watching “transits” of planets that pass in front of their parent stars as seen from Earth. Careful analysis of the dimming this causes can provide clues to the planet’s composition and structure. But the brightness dips are small and difficult to detect for all but the largest planets.
Now, astronomers have observed the smallest ever transiting planet. It has turned out to be a strange world, unlike anything seen before.
The planet, which orbits a small star located 30 light years from Earth called GJ 436, was actually discovered in 2004 using the radial velocity method (see Two new rocky super Earths found). At that point, astronomers deduced that it was about as massive as Neptune.
Exotic ice
But now, a team led by Michael Gillon of Geneva University in Switzerland have observed the planet transiting its host star using a telescope at the Observatoire Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (OFXB) in Saint-Luc, Switzerland.
They have been able to measure the planet’s width, which provides clues to its composition and structure. It turns out to be about 50,000 kilometres wide, roughly four times the width of Earth and about the size of Neptune.
The planet is therefore too compact to be made mostly of hydrogen gas, like Jupiter, the researchers say, but not compact enough to be a rocky ‘super Earth’, as some had speculated. Instead, they believe it must be made mostly of an exotic form of water.
Although the parent star is much cooler than the Sun, the planet orbits 13 times closer to the star than Mercury’s orbit around the Sun. That means the surface must be a blazing hot 300° C or more, keeping water in its atmosphere in vapour form.
But the high pressures in the planet’s interior would compress the water so much that it would stay solid even at hundreds of degrees Celsius – the expected temperatures inside the planet. There are a variety of exotic ‘hot ice’ states possible in such conditions, with names like ‘Ice VII’ and ‘Ice X’.
Ocean worlds
“Water has more than a dozen solid states, only one of which is our familiar ice,” says team member Frederic Pont of Geneva University. “Under very high pressure, water turns into other solid states denser than both ice and liquid water, just as carbon transforms into diamond under extreme pressures.”
The inferred composition of the planet is very much like that of Neptune, which is also made mostly of ice, Pont says. “If you bring Neptune nearer to the Sun and it’s heated outside to 300° C, that’s exactly what you get,” he told New Scientist.
Water would not have condensed to form the GJ 436 planet so close to its star, so it must have formed farther out and migrated inwards, he says. Other similar planets out there could have stabilised at the right distance from the star to become “ocean planets”, he says.
Since astronomers have only searched a tiny fraction of stars in our galaxy, finding one planet like this suggests there are many more out there, including some ocean worlds, he says. “To me, it proves that there are many planets with liquid water, because if there’s one like this, it could have been a bit further from the star and then the temperature would have been right,” he says.
‘New era’
Sara Seager, an exoplanet expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, says the finding is “tremendously exciting” because it is the first time anyone has been able to detect a transit of a planet smaller than a gas giant.
“It’s heralding a new era in exoplanets,” she told New Scientist. “It’s opening a door to identifying habitable planets in the near future.”
But she says the composition and structure of the planet are still uncertain. Although it could be mostly ice, as Gillon’s team suggests, it is possible to imagine other compositions that would fit the data, she says, such as a rocky world with a massive atmosphere.
Even if water is abundant in this planet, the conditions would not be right for life to exist there, she says. It would be too hot, and it is not even clear if any of the water could be in liquid form, although deep inside where the pressure goes up, there could be a region where the water is in a quasi-liquid state. “It could pass through a strange region where it’s not quite solid and not quite liquid,” she says.
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Posted by Mark NC on March 8, 2015 at 2:51 pm. 4 Comments :
This morning on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter interviewed the former host of the Fox News program “News Watch.” That program was canceled in 2008 and its host, Eric Burns, was fired. It’s replacement, “MediaBuzz,” is now led by a more reliable hack, Howard Kurtz, who isn’t troubled by having to peddle the partisan garbage that Fox spews.
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On Reliable Sources, Stelter raised the ever-expanding controversy over Bill O’Reilly’s diuretic flow of lies about his past adventures as a news superhero. Stelter opened with with statements from the order of nuns who lost four of their members to death squads in El Salvador. They were disturbed by O’Reilly’s false assertion that he had personally witnessed the executions. O’Reilly later admitted that he had only seen photographs, but failed to apologize or even acknowledge that his prior claims were false.
At the top of the interview segment, Burns told Stelter that he had experienced the extraordinary effect of the audience loyalty at Fox News, saying that “The people who watch Fox News are cultish.” [a condition that News Corpse documented a few months ago] and that “O’Reilly, as the head of the cult, is not held to the same standards as Brian Williams. Burns went on to give credit to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann who had frequently pointed out O’Reilly’s predilection for lying, with evidence proving it. Then Stelter asked Burns to comment on the shift by Fox News to ever more right-wing slanted programming. Burns said that…
“I thought that as Fox got more and more popular that Roger Ailes, who runs the network, would say ‘Well, the right has nowhere else to go, so if I move a little more to the center I can get a bigger audience and not lose my core audience.’ He did just the opposite. He went more to the right.”
It’s important to note that Burns hosted a program that was already severely slanted to the right. He had four panelists that included a single “liberal,” pretty much setting the model for every other panel on Fox (i.e. MediaBuzz, The Five, Special Report, Cashin In, Fox News Sunday, etc.). So Burns is no progressive mole. However, he was astute enough to recognize the downside of being associated with Fox News and replied to inquiries after his departure by expressing relief that…
“I do not have to face the ethical problem of sharing an employer with Glenn Beck.”
On Fox’s MediaBuzz this morning, host Kurtz completely ignored the O’Reilly affair, choosing instead to focus on negative stories about Hillary Clinton’s email, Obama’s speech in Selma, AL, and Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. Throw in a suck-up profile of Rand Paul and all of the criticisms expressed by Burns begin to be obvious. But don’t tell that to the cult members who watch Fox. They threaten to throw another Tea Party.
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4 thoughts on “Former Fox News Watch Host: The People Who Watch Fox News Are Cultish”
satin8876 on 3/8/2015
I just realized: O’Reilly thinks he’s Forrest Gump!
Scott on 3/8/2015
“Burns went on to give credit to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann…”
Well, this hack just disqualified himself from serious consideration. Giving credit to Keith “Go f### your mother” Olbermann means that your credibility doesn’t exist.
englishsunset on 3/9/2015
Sounds a lot like O’reilly/FOX News had hurt someone’s feelings or had to let someone go and this is how they hope to get them back! Sorry, it ain’t gonna happen!
Green Devil on 3/9/2015
It’s easy to forget that the conservatism of the pre-Reagan era was much less radical and cultish than it is today. Guys like Goldwater and Buckley are probably spinning in their graves now, but as the foundational principles of conservatism crumble, we see the sociopaths and snake-oil salesmen take over their movement.
History shows that right-wingers tend to go to extremes when they get a taste of success. When the Nazis were at the peak of their powers they could’ve settled into a more “moderate” fascism and possibly avoided the coming catastrophes, but a psychopath never knows how far is “too far” and his cult followers will follow him over the cliff almost every time.
Eric Burns’ comment sums up the confusion of “old school” conservatives; “…that Roger Ailes… would say ‘Well, the right has nowhere else to go, so if I move a little more to the center I can get a bigger audience and not lose my core audience.’ He did just the opposite. He went more to the right.” Exactly. Because Ailes knows that the Radical Right has nothing that appeals to younger people, so he has to drive his aging followers to the furthest extremes he can before they all die off or become nursing home vegetables.
The Radical Right have been building political strength while losing potential voters for a few decades now. They have immense power & wealth, but they know that in a functioning democracy, they’d be burnt toast by now. So they double-down on the crazy and push toward their Final Solution while they still can.
If they can keep their cult followers in line (angry/fearful/paranoid) for another decade (give or take) they could end up running the whole Uh’merican Reich. And who’s gonna stop them? The Democrats? Ha. Ha. Ha… 🙁
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Mike Pence Agrees With Joe Biden That 2020 is 'Battle for the Soul' of America but Claims It's Between 'Freedom and Socialism'
By Daniel Moritz-Rabson On 4/26/19 at 3:44 PM EDT
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Vice President Mike Pence said he agrees with Joe Biden that the country is in a "battle for the soul," but they thought the country was facing vastly different threats, the vice president said on Friday. He was among the featured speakers at the annual Leadership Forum for the National Rifle Association's lobbying arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), in Indianapolis.
"I heard the other day that another vice president actually said that we're in a battle for the soul of our nation. And for once I agree with him. But not for the reason he thinks," Pence said, referring to Biden's remarks that "we are in a battle for the soul of this nation," which were made in a video released as Biden announced his campaign for president.
"We are in a battle," Pence continued. "We are in a battle for the soul of America, but it's a battle between liberty and tyranny. As the president has said before, it's a battle between independence and government control. And ultimately, it's a battle between freedom and socialism."
Vice President Mike Pence speaks to guests at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum at the 148th NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits, in Indianapolis, on April 26. The vice president said, “Under this president and this vice president, no one is taking your guns.” Scott Olson/Getty Images
The vice president said, "Under this president and this vice president, no one is taking your guns."
During Obama's presidency, gun rights activists regularly stoked fears that Democrats wanted to take away Americans' firearms. The rhetoric led to increased gun sales. With Trump in office, and gun owners less worried, firearm sales have dropped considerably.
Pence claimed that "we live in a time when freedom is under assault" and that "the freedom to live, to work, and to worship God are all being threatened by the radical left every day."
He said that the left advocates for infanticide, a claim that has previously been disproved.
Addressing the crowd before keynote speaker President Donald Trump at the NRA convention, Pence focused on socialism, an attack that Republicans have been heavily invoking in recent months.
He said that "the moment America becomes a socialist country is the moment America ceases to be America," and reiterated remarks that previously drew scrutiny, saying that freedom, not socialism, had ended slavery and won two world wars.
The speeches by Trump and Pence seemed to carry the atmosphere of a campaign rally, with both touting the accomplishments of the administration and attacking Democrats and their policies.
Pence criticized Senator Bernie Sanders, who has advocated for felons to be able to vote. Sanders' remarks, which were made during a Monday night town hall, have spurred debate around his statement that convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be permitted to vote.
The Sentencing Project estimates that, as of 2016, six million voters were impacted by felony disenfranchisement laws.
"I got news for you Bernie. Not on our watch," Pence said, receiving cheers from the crowd.
The vice president took aim at the Green New Deal and Medicare for All and said that Trump has faced "unprecedented opposition, obstruction, and resistance."
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Iron Maiden and Metallica to headline Sonisphere 2014
The Knebworth bash returns after a two-year hiatus
Iron Maiden and Metallica will headline next year’s Sonisphere Festival.
The Knebworth bash was cancelled in 2013 and 2012 but returns this year with the two metal titans making their only UK festival appearances at the event.
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson said in a statement: “We all grew up in England well aware of the importance of the legendary concerts at Knebworth, and scarily it all seems quite recent! Without being clichéd, it really is an honor and privilege to return to play there with the purpose of celebrating some of the finest moments in British rock history from inspirational bands like Pink Floyd, The Who, Zeppelin, The Stones and Genesis.”
Speaking about the band’s current Maiden England tour, he added: “This will be the last concert of our Maiden England Tour…We have tweaked the ‘Maiden England’ set list a bit to make it more representative of our whole ’80s era and to give the fans something a bit different, especially as this will be the last of our three tours with an historical perspective. If you are there on the day it is highly likely that you will hear some of these songs played live for the very last time ever. So on an occasion like this, a celebration and the end of a chapter, you can be sure we will do our utmost to give our fans one hell of a show and go out with all guns blazing.”
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich meanwhile commented: “This just works on all fronts: Metallica and Knebworth, Metallica by Request, Metallica and Iron Maiden.”
He continued: “To be invited to co-headline the 40th anniversary celebration at the legendary Knebworth House is truly a mindfuck. Considering the iconic bands whose performances at Knebworth are part of rock and roll history, it’s not only a next level honour, but a somewhat humbling undertaking.
“And what could be more fitting on our third Knebworth go-around than to play an all-request set, chosen entirely by the fans? We are soooo excited about the limitless possibilities of our friends picking what songs Metallica get to perform on this forthcoming evening from the nearly 140 songs we’ve recorded throughout our ride. Who knows what crazy challenges will be thrown our way? Maybe a song that has never been performed live before? Maybe a few deep cuts that haven’t been aired in ages? Maybe a couple of your toe-tapping favorites? An obscure cover? Whatever happens, it will be unique, it will be special, and it’s all up to you.”
Sonisphere 2014 will take place in Knebworth Park between July 4 and 6. A spokesperson for the festival says: “During our two-year absence we’ve continued to believe in and work hard on Sonisphere. We said in 2013 that if we had the right line-up then we would be back, and that’s exactly what we’ve got in 2014. The omens were obviously on our side when we secured the two biggest and best metal acts of all time in the year that also brings the 40th anniversary of the first concert at Knebworth.”
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Ting Tings to collaborate with Estelle for BRIT Awards
Two artists to get together at the awards
Estelle and The Ting Tings are set to perform onstage together at this year’s BRIT Awards – although they are yet to reveal what they will perform.
The awards are set to take place on February 18 at the London Earls Court venue, with Kings Of Leon, Coldplay, Duffy, Girls Aloud, Take That and U2 all set to play on the night.
Pet Shop Boys, who are set to receive the Outstanding Contribution To Music, award are also set to play.
Coldplay, Duffy, Elbow, Radiohead and Dizzee Rascal are among the acts nominated for BRIT Awards this year.
The Ting Tings[/]a are nominated in the Best Breakthrough Act and MasterCard British Album (for ‘We Started Nothing’) categories. [a]Estelle is nominated in the British Single (for ‘American Boy’) and British Female Solo Artist categories.
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Does ‘green energy’ have hidden health and environmental costs?
by Anders Arvesen 11 May, 2017
There are a number of available low-carbon technologies to generate electricity. But are they really better than fossil fuels and nuclear power?
To answer that question, one needs to compare not just the emissions of different power sources but also the health benefits and the threats to ecosystems of green energy.
Production of electricity is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and demand is poised to rise as underserved populations connect to the grid, and electronics and electric vehicles proliferate. So stopping global warming will require a transformation of electricity production.
But it is important to avoid various environmental pitfalls in this transition, such as disrupting ecosystems and wildlife or causing air pollution.
In a research paper, we analyzed the impact of electricity generation from renewable sources, nuclear fission power plants and fossil fuels, with and without CO₂ capture and storage (CCS) technology for separating CO₂ and storing it underground. We accounted for the environmental effects associated with the production, operation and dismantling of facilities, as well as the production, transport and combustion of fuels. We then compared a baseline scenario to a low-carbon electricity scenario that would prevent global average temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2050 – the point climate scientists say will avoid dangerous climate change.
Our study emphatically confirms that fossil fuels – mainly coal – place a heavy burden on the environment and that most renewable power projects have lower pollution-related impacts on ecosystems and human health. Nonetheless, no energy source is without adverse environmental side effects. Power plant siting, project design and technology choice are critical issues that investors and governments should consider very carefully.
Solar shines
Replacing fossil fuel power plants with renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, hydropower and geothermal power, would reduce diverse types of pollution. The magnitude of difference in pollution between fossil and some renewable energy options is stunning. For example, we found that the entire process of manufacturing, setting up and operating photovoltaic panels causes less pollution than only delivering fuel to a coal-fired power plant when mining is included.
What about the environmental footprint of actually making renewable energy systems?
Photovoltaics (PV) comes out very well in our analysis. Today, the production of PV cells uses much less energy than previously. The carbon emissions per unit of PV electricity is one-tenth or less of even the most efficient natural gas power plants. Human health problems, such as respiratory disease from particulate matter exposure, are around one-tenth of those of modern coal-fired power plants with advanced pollution control equipment. Similar conclusions hold for water and soil pollution on ecosystems, we found.
But solar panels require much more space to generate the same amount of power as fossil fuel or nuclear power generators. Shouldn’t covering huge areas with solar panels be a problem? Not necessarily. The amount of land needed to generate a kilowatt-hour from PV is comparable to that of coal power, when the land associated with mining coal is accounted for. And about half of the PV installations in our future scenario in 2050 could be placed on rooftops.
Producing PV panels does require various metals, many of which are produced only in limited locations. Some of those metals are highly toxic. Waste treatment and recycling, which we did not include in our assessment, are therefore important.
PV, of course, delivers electricity only when the sun shines. However, a different solar technology – concentrating solar-thermal power, which concentrates light to make heat – may be a viable way forward as it delivers a similar performance in terms of pollution reduction yet offers the option to store heat and thus generate electricity in the evening. We assumed CSP technology, which currently has very low adoption compared to PV, would provide one quarter of solar electricity in our low-emissions scenario.
From the perspective of carbon emissions and health, solar power is far better than fossil fuel power generation. But large-scale solar plants require large tracts of land and can have a negative impact on local species. 11_jamey_stillings_20121027_bse/flickr, CC BY
Environmental effects from hydropower vary widely, we found. Some dams cause significant climate impacts through the emissions of methane from the decomposition of biomass in reservoirs. Other dams cause equally serious ecological problems through habitat destruction. They can also block the migration of aquatic species and reduce sediment flow and nutrient transport, which affects floodplains and deltas. On the other hand, reservoirs form new habitats for birds and other species.
Hydropower offers a good illustration of the importance of site selection and project design. Some projects may be economically viable but ultimately should not be realized if society considers the environmental degradation they can cause. For other projects, the impacts can be limited by mitigation strategies such as environmental stream flow and fish ladders, which provide a detour for migrating fish around a dam.
Similar lessons hold for wind power, where habitat destruction during construction should be minimized and operations adjusted in order to reduce collisions with raptors and bats. Also, wind power resources vary widely across locations, which argues for choosing locations where wind resources are more abundant.
Bioenergy threatens biodiversity
Biomass energy, or burning plant material for power generation, plays a central role in most plans to limit global warming to 2°C above preindustrial levels. Contrary to PV and wind, it provides on-demand renewable power.
When combined with CO₂ capture and storage, it can scrub carbon from the atmosphere and place it underground. Burning short-rotation coppice, such as willow and miscanthus, to produce power can also lower the net greenhouse gas emissions of biopower. In these ways, the health effects of burning biomass can be reduced.
Making power from bioenergy, such as wood chips, has carbon emissions and other air pollutants. Capturing carbon and pumping it underground improves its environmental footprint. Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY
Yet, the land use required to grow even these fast-growing plants dwarfs the land use of other power sources. This has significant ecological implications. As measured by species lost per kilowatt-hour generated, we found that the ecological damages of biomass are comparable to that of coal and gas.
So while it does deliver benefits from reduced greenhouse gas emissions, biomass power becomes more favorable to ecosystems only when used with carbon capture and storage, we concluded.
Climate mitigation strategies can provide a rare opportunity to reduce not only carbon emissions but also a wide range of environmental problems. However, deployment of low-carbon technologies should avoid sensitive habitats in order to fully realize their environmental benefits without triggering unintended consequences.
While most people recognize that solar and wind are low-carbon energy sources, bioenergy and carbon capture and storage also have an indispensable role in basically all scenarios where countries rapidly reduce carbon emissions. Our results indicate that we need to search for ways to use these technologies while minimizing the harm to ecosystems. It is not just about whether we employ clean energy, but what technologies, where and how.
This blog entry was first published at The Conversation.com
Edgar Hertwich, Professor of Industrial Ecology at Yale University
Anders Arvesen, Researcher in Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Sangwon Suh, Professor in Industrial Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas Gibon, PhD Candidate, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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On July 2, 2019 at approximately 10:09 p.m., New York State Police at Ithaca arrested Melissa M. Allen, age 34 of Newfield, NY for the misdemeanor of Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated with a reportable B.A.C. of .20%. Trooper received a complaint of an intoxicated driver that appeared to be lost. Troopers located Allen on Seabring Road. After an investigation, she was arrested for DWI. She was later released on appearance tickets to the town of Newfield court on July 18, 2019 and picked up by a sober third party.
On July 6, 2019 at approximately 6:56 p.m., New York State Police at Homer arrested Kimberly A. White, age 50 of Homer, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs and issued tickets for Speeding and Moved From Lane Unsafely. Troopers were dispatched by Cortland County 911 to an erratic driver on State Route 41 in the town of Scott. A trooper located White’s vehicle on State Route 41, speeding and make an unsafe lane change. After an investigation, she was arrested. She was processed and later released to a sober third party. White will appear in the town of Scott court on August 5, 2019.
On July 6, 2019 at approximately 7:56 a.m., New York State Police at Richfield Springs arrested Dakota L. Mander, age 24 of Utica, NY for the misdemeanors of Driving While Intoxicated and Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in the third degree. He was also issued tickets for Unlicensed Operator, Operating Out of Class, Speed Not Reasonable and Prudent, Failure to Keep Right and Possession of an Open Container. Troopers were dispatched by Otsego County 911 for a report of a car fire on County Route 18 in the town of Edmeston. Troopers located the car Mander was operating and observed that it had collided into a tree stump and caught on fire. Mander was located in a ditch near the area and subsequently transported by Edmeston EMS to Cooperstown Bassett Hospital for lower body injuries. Troopers later issued tickets to Mander and he will appear in the town of Edmeston court on July 29, 2019.
On July 7, 2019 at approximately 6:57 p.m., New York State Police at Margaretville arrested Steven Hughes, age 68 of Glen Oaks, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated with a reportable B.A.C. of .14%. A trooper responded to a complaint of a hit and run on State Highway 28 in the town of Middletown. The person whose vehicle was struck, told troopers she was sideswiped after a vehicle passed and attempted to merge back into the lane. The person was able to obtain a license plate and vehicle description. Troopers located the vehicle and Hughes further down on State Highway 28 and initiated a traffic stop. After an investigation, he was arrested. He will appear in Middletown court on July 16, 2019.
On July 8, 2019 at approximately 1:27 a.m., New York State Police at Owego arrested Dai A. Korba, age 43 of Johnson City, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. A trooper observed Korba’s vehicle with an equipment violation while on State Route 434 in Apalachin. A traffic stop was initiated and the trooper determined Korba was intoxicated. Her reportable B.A.C. was .08%. She was arrested, processed and released on appearance tickets returnable to the town of Owego court on July 23, 2019 then turned over to a sober third party.
On July 8, 2019 at approximately 6:10 p.m., New York State Police at Owego arrested Robert B. Trautman, age 28 of Owego, NY for the misdemeanors of Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs and Resisting Arrest; the violation of Appearance in Public Under the Influence of Narcotics or Drug Other Than Alcohol. He was also issued tickets for Refusal to Submit to a Breath Test, Holding Out of State License and New York License at the Same Time Without Permission of the Commissioner. Troopers were dispatched by Tioga County 911 to Mr. Tire in the town of Owego for a disorderly subject. According to the 911 caller, the subject was highly intoxicated. Troopers patrolled to the area and located Trautman inside a restaurant. As troopers interviewed Trautman, they observed that he appeared to be impaired. A further investigation revealed that he had driven to the area impaired. When troopers attempted to arrest him, he began to resist but then became nonverbal. Campville and Owego EMS responded to the scene and was administered Narcan then transported to Wilson Hospital but refused further care once at the hospital. Trautman was processed and arraigned in the town of Owego court where he was remanded to the Tioga County Jail on $2,000 cash bail or $4,000 bond.
On July 10, 2019 at approximately 11:17 p.m., New York State Police at Homer arrested Leigh Ulrich, age 60 of Ithaca, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. She was also issued tickets for Possession of Open Container and Inadequate Headlight. A trooper initiated a traffic stop on State Route 13 in the town of Cortlandville when he observed Ulrich with only one operating headlight. The trooper subsequently observed several common characteristics associated with alcohol impairment. After an investigation, Ulrich was arrested. Her reportable B.A.C was .16%. Ulrich was processed and released to a sober third party. She will appear to the town of Cortlandville court on July 29, 2019.
On July 11, 2019 at approximately 1:43 a.m., New York State Police at Endwell arrested Justin C. Pike, age 26 of Endicott, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated with a reportable B.A.C of .13%. He was also issued tickets for Moved From Lane Unsafely, Improper Passing and Failure to Use/Improper Use of Four-Way Flashers. Troopers observed Pike traveling on State Highway 17 in the town of Dickinson with its hazard flashers activated. They also observed him pass another vehicle on the right shoulder. A traffic stop was conducted and troopers observed that Pike appeared to be intoxicated. After an investigation, he was arrested. He was released on appearance tickets to the town of Dickinson court on August 1, 2019 then turned over to a sober third party.
On July 11, 2019 at approximately 8:06 p.m., New York State Police at Endwell arrested Debra L. Sturdevant, age 61 of Merritt Island, FL for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. Sturdevant was stopped for speeding while on State Highway 26 in the town of Union. The trooper initiated a traffic stop and observed that Sturdevant showed signs of impairment. Her reportable B.A.C. of .12% and she was subsequently arrested. Sturdevant was released on appearance tickets to the town Union court on August 6, 2019 then turned over to a sober third party.
On July 12, 2019 at approximately 11:14 p.m., New York State Police at Whitney Point arrested Cheri L. Carpenter, age 51 of Chenango Forks, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. She was also issued a ticket for Failure to Dim Headlights. A trooper at a DWI checkpoint on Kattelville Road in the town of Chenango observed Carpenter with her high beams on and did not stop when passing through the checkpoint. A trooper yelled to stop and she subsequently stopped her vehicle. After an investigation, she was arrested for DWI. Her reportable B.A.C was .12%. Carpenter was processed and released on appearance tickets to the town of Chenango court on July 24, 2019 then turned over to a sober third party.
On July 12, 2019 at approximately 11:02 p.m. New York State Police at Owego arrested Jeffrey A. Patak, age 29 of Vestal, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. He was also issued tickets for Refusal to Submit to a Breath Test, Possession of Open Container, Moved From Lane Unsafely and Failure to Signal. A trooper observed Patak fail to use his turn signal when turning onto State Route 434 from Lolita Drive then cross over the fog line. A traffic stop was initiated and the trooper observed several characteristics associated with alcohol impairment. Patak refused to submit to a breath test but after an investigation, was arrested. He was issued appearance tickets to the town of Owego court on July 16, 2019.
On July 13, 2019 at approximately 1:39 a.m., New York State Police at Oneonta arrested Matthew J. Boyles, age 38 of Cooperstown, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. He was also issued tickets for Drove Across Hazard Markings, Failure to Keep Right and No Plate Lamp. Troopers observed Boyles with an equipment violation and unable to maintain his lane while on State Highway 205 in the town of Oneonta. A traffic stop was initiated and he displayed several common characteristics indicative of alcohol impairment. His reportable B.A.C. was .12%. He was issued appearance tickets to the town of Oneonta court on July 16, 2019 and released to sober third party.
On July 13, 2019 at approximately 12:57 a.m., New York State Police at Endwell arrested Mark Emmi, age 58 of Binghamton, NY for the felony of Driving While Intoxicated (with a prior conviction within 10 years). Troopers stationed at a DWI checkpoint on Kattelville Road in the town of Chenango observed Emmi with several common characteristics displayed with alcohol impairment. After an investigation, he was arrested with a reportable B.A.C. of .15%. Emmi was processed and then transported to Broome County Central Arraignment and Processing.
On July 13, 2019 at approximately 10:32 a.m. New York State Police at Ithaca arrested Cody B. Carroll, age 25 of Cortland, NY for the felony of Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in the first degree, the misdemeanor of Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs and the violation of Unlawful Possession of Marihuana. Carroll was also issued tickets for Speed Not Reasonable and Prudent, Following Too Close, Threw/Deposited Refuse and Passed Vehicle on Right. A New York State Police Investigator was traveling on State Route 13 in the town of Dryden when he observed Carroll approach the rear of his vehicle at a high rate of speed, he then proceeded to follow too close, then pass the Investigator’s vehicle on the right shoulder. While at the stop light at State Route 13 and Freeville Road, the Investigator observed Carroll throw a marijuana cigarette out the window. A traffic stop was initiated in the parking lot of Shurfine. A trooper responded to the scene and after an investigation, Carroll was arrested. Carroll appeared in the town of Dryden court on July 13, 2019.
On July 15, 2019 at approximately 6:09 a.m., New York State Police at Oneonta arrested Michael S. Collins, age 38 of Oneonta, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. He was also issued tickets for Imprudent Speed, Moved From Lane Unsafely and Drove Across Hazard Markings. Troopers were dispatched by Delaware County 911 for an accident on County Highway 11 in the town of Davenport. Troopers located Collins’ vehicle off the embankment and observed that there was damage to a sign, stone wall and guide rail. Collins was not injured and observed that he had several common factors associated with alcohol impairment. After an investigation, he was arrested. His reportable B.A.C. was .12%. Collins was later released to a sober third party and is to appear in the town of Davenport court on July 23, 2019.
On July 15, 2019 at approximately 11:02 p.m., New York State Police at Owego arrested Laura A. Ellis, age 57 of Whitney Point, NY for the misdemeanor of Driving While Intoxicated. She was also issued tickets for Speeding in a Posted Work Zone, Insufficient Tail Lamps and Possession of an Open Container. A trooper on State Route 17 in the town of Nichols observed Ellis operating a vehicle with an equipment violation and speeding in a construction zone. A traffic stop was initiated and the trooper observed several common characteristics associated with alcohol impairment. Her reportable B.A.C was .11% and was arrested. Ellis was subsequently released on appearance tickets and turned over to a sober third party. Ellis will appear in the town of Nichols on July 25, 2019.
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Anna Schori and Mark Ephraim,
Turning Tables, Sweden
This is Anna Schori and Mark Ephraim, of Turning Tables Sweden, a non-profit organization that builds creative spaces to encourage marginalized young people by offering a platform to express themselves through film and music. Yes, it is as amazing as it sounds. So we recently spent time with Anna and Mark in their Turning Tables caravan studio which is designed with one goal in mind — to build a community, neighborhood by neighborhood, all across Sweden. Here is some of that conversation.
Anna: We met when I’d been living in London for almost 10 years and was hired to shoot an album cover for this New York band that was in town. Yes, Mark’s band. We started an email correspondence, then eventually moved in together in Brooklyn and laughed a lot about the madness of taking very big steps, very fast. We had kids together, little Brooklyn kids, and when our oldest child was six, we decided to move to Sweden to start something new together. Mark had already been working with Turning Tables in New York so it came up quite naturally.
Mark: Turning Tables was originally started by Martin Jakobsen, a friend of mine. He’s a Danish DJ who had lived in Beirut prior to moving to New York, and while in Beirut he started teaching kids in the refugee camps how to DJ. He wanted to keep doing that in more and more places, but he couldn’t do it by himself so he recruited some of his creative friends to help out, including me.
We basically set up music studios in places like Tunisia, Myanmar and Kenya. In Kenya, we put up a shipping container with a studio inside to create a physical platform where we could work with kids on music and film projects. After that, I went to Myanmar to do the same thing. It’s now been five years since we set up in Myanmar, and they’ve become a massive and hugely successful organization over there. Turning Tables now has labs in 10 different countries and they each operate independently, but we collaborate as much as we can between labs to encourage the kids to connect.
Mark: When Anna and I moved to Sweden, we saw that there’s a great need in Scandinavia to engage with youth through music and film, so we wanted to see if we could figure out how to bring Turning Tables here. Now Sweden and Denmark are the first Turning Tables satellite labs to operate in Europe.
Anna: When we first got started here, we were complete beginners. We knew nothing about running a non-profit organization. We’re all freelancers, photographers and music producers, not teachers or social workers, but we saw a need for it so we thought we’d give it a try.
Mark: It’s been a learning experience because things operate differently here in Sweden. There are already tons of organizations doing great things, but I think the strength of doing what we do is that we're a great component or counterpart to some of those organizations—like Fritidsgårds, for example, which are school-sponsored places where kids can hang out after school. Kids don’t always go there, or aren’t always allowed to go there because they’ve done something that’s not acceptable by the Fritidsgård’s standards. So as an alternative, we try to put up our container in the proximity of where these kids usually hang out, and sort of intrude on their space so that they’ll wonder “What are you doing here?” and we’ll say, “We’re making music.” We’re not their teachers or the police. We’re not anyone other than someone inviting them to experience something we love.
Anna: We’re trying to build a bridge and be about fun, without censoring too much. Being more accepting and forgiving than many other institutions gives us access to kids who don’t usually get to participate in these kinds of spaces, either because they’re not invited or because they get kicked out. It’s usually a challenging group to work with, but it’s extremely rewarding for everyone involved when you give the kids the time and tools they need.
“The best thing Turning Tables can do is exactly what we do now: bring music and film to the kids and let them say something.”
Anna: I think most teenagers crave a space where they can feel like they’re heard and are able to express themselves without too many restrictions. A kind of generous space. So we just try to offer that, and we try to pass our professional knowledge about music or film or photography on to the kids and give them the tools and the inspiration they need to just tell their story. We want to let kids take it a step further to a professional level if they want to, and give them an experience that feels real and important. I think that’s an empowering thing for kids to have.
Mark: Kids can come up to us and brag about all the bad stuff they do. It doesn’t mean we approve of it, but we don’t want to be the person who is judging them. We also have great instructors who are really connecting in a good way with the kids. For example, we have a lot of girls in the studio who really like it because a lot of these types of places are dominated by boys taking up the space. But we have an equal number of female and male music producers, and a young girl can walk in and feel that there’s someone here that she could maybe be like someday.
We’re learning a lot all the time, and every neighborhood we go to is different. There are times when I want to go to the local police and ask them, “Where are you guys having the most problems?” Because we actually make the police’s job easier when we’re there doing our thing. There’s this one neighborhood where we had the container for five weeks, and the police came up to us afterwards and asked if we were leaving already. They told us that they usually get daily calls regarding that particular area, but they hadn’t had a single call about the neighborhood in the previous five weeks. I think it’s because once our container studio is there, kids aren’t so bored that they want to cause public disturbances just to have something to do. The people in the neighborhood will hear kick-drums from inside the studio, but it’s not the same kind of noise that’s usually going on. It’s more of a happy noise.
Anna: Next week, we go on tour with our new pink caravan. It’s a part of our goal to build a community all over Sweden.
Mark: We haven’t done this sort of thing yet, so it’s going to be really interesting to see how kids respond to it. The caravan is going to change a lot compared to how we operate with the containers. It will let us change location according the response and get closer to where kids naturally hang out. Sometimes they hang out in super lame locations where boredom is bred and there’s not much positivity going on. If we’re driving this thing around and parking it in various places, we have a good chance of disrupting that boredom in a very positive way.
Anna: Our ultimate goal is to change the dynamics in neighborhoods we visit. We want to have a long-term presence to be able to build something with staying power, and to get the kids involved in building it, too. Our studios kick-start stuff to break patterns and bring groups of kids who’ve never talked to each other into the studio to collaborate on creative pursuits. Everyone gets curious about this thing suddenly popping up in their neighborhood and comes together to explore it.
Mark: I personally don’t like to talk numbers and say things like “Oh, we’re going to change the lives of 400 kids.” You know, if we change the lives of just a few, it’s worth it. The best thing Turning Tables can do is exactly what we do now: bring music and film to the kids and let them say something. We encourage them to say something by giving them a camera or microphone and telling them,”Express yourself! Create something you want to say!”
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Bob Greenwood is a Partner and Head of the Oil & Gas Practice. He leads the Global Oil & Gas team. Bob's focus is search-led board level, senior management, technical and professional appointments in Oil & Gas. Bob's first career was in Human Resources Management in Oil & Gas, where he held a variety of roles with US oil major Chevron in London and Aberdeen. He subsequently worked with Italian oil company Agip/ENI. Bob moved into Executive Search in 1997. Previous positions include Head of Oil & Gas Practice for a major international executive search firm, Operations Director for a specialist Oil & Gas recruitment company and Regional Managing Director for a search and selection plc. Bob has a BSc (Hons) in Earth Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), a Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB), the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the Energy Institute (EI). He has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management.
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Chickpea is a legume which belongs to Fabaceae family. It has been recorded as a crop which was cultivated since more than 7000 years. It is one of the most primitive crops whose traces have been found in the remains of various cultures in Middle East. This is a highly popular bean. They were even considered to be of medicinal value in primitive times.
Desi or local variety
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Appearance of the seeds varies largely in terms of size and color. Here is a brief overview of the seeds of chickpea in 2 varieties, namely Desi (local) and Kabuli.
It is also called Bengal gram and has a black rough exterior.
This variety of legumes is prevalent in the Mediterranean region, having a creamy exterior. They are big in size with a smooth texture from the outer side.
Garbanzo beans taste somewhat like peas when young but on maturity they attain a nutty taste.
Uncooked chickpeas do not have a pleasing aroma.
The local chickpea is cultivated largely throughout Ethiopia, Indian subcontinent, Iran and Mexico. The other variety or the bigger chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are cultivated in Afghanistan, Southern Europe, Chile, Pakistan along with some parts of Indian subcontinent. They are also grown in Australia.
Kabuli is suited to be grown in the temperate regions while the other, desi or local, variety grows in semi-arid climates.
It is believed that the legume has originated around the north of Persia and south of Caucasus. The Mediterranean region produced a lot of these peas which later spread throughout the Middle East and other regions. It was much valued amongst the Romans as evident from history.
Etymology of chickpea can be linked with ‘cicer’, which is a latin word. It again evolved to ‘chiche’ and from that to “chich” in English. Finally, the word chich pea evolved, which we call chickpea in modern times. The name garbanzo might have been derived from Spanish.
For growing chickpea, provide fertile and well drained soil. It takes around 14 days to germinate and maximum 100 days to harvest. It grows best in full sun and requires water at regular intervals. On attaining maturity they become brownish and for acquiring dry seeds, you will have to wait till it matures.
It has immense viability in the food market. Check out some of its primary usages in various fields.
It is an active ingredient in Indian cuisine, which is made into curries and snacks.
A popular sweet dish made with garbanzo beans in Philippines is called halo-halo.
Chickpea flour is used in the making of Burmese tofu and also as a batter for making snacks that is fried in oil.
Chickpea flour is an ingredient in the Mediterranean for making socca and a French patty called panisse.
Baby food can also be prepared from these. Traditionally it would be made into milk and fed to the children for relieving them of diarrhea.
Hummus, which is a specialized food dip popular in the Middle East, is prepared from chickpeas.
Sprouted seeds can be combined into salads or consumed as vegetables.
A canned version of chickpeas is used for making fermented food in Latin America and Turkey.
Traditional medicine resorted to chickpeas for finding cures for insufficient milk or sperm.
They even believed that for treating kidney stones, urine problems and inducing menstruation, chickpeas could be used.
In Indian traditional medicine, acids derived from the pods and leaves of this plant are used for making medicines which treats bronchitis, cholera, flatulence, sunstroke, snake bites etc
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Ashkenazi Jews have the tradition of serving these beans during a celebration called Shalom Zachar.
It is a nutritious bodybuilding food which endows the body with muscles.
Leaves of the plant can be made into a dye, similar to indigo.
A kind of starch can be produced from these seeds which is used as finishing on cotton, woolen and silk clothes
It can also be used as fodder for livestock.
An adhesive suitable for plywood can be prepared by using these.
For the substitute of chickpea flour, you can make use of the flour made by grinding dry yellow split peas.
Nutrition derived from a cup of chickpeas – 164 gm is represented here.
Nutrients % Daily value
Manganese 84.5%
phosphorus 27.5%
Molybdenum 164%
folate 70.5%
protein 29%
tryptophan 43.7%
copper 28.9%
Calories (268) 14%
Dark chickpeas are a storehouse of fiber, which provides several benefits to the body when compared to the ‘Kabuli’ legumes.
Local variety or Desi chickpeas are good for patients suffering from diabetes as it is rich in protein and fibers, which helps in the regulation of sugars in the body by stabilizing the breakdown of food.
These beans are also helpful for weight management as it provides moderate calories to the body apart from giving a feeling of satiety.
A measured quantity of ¾ cup of chickpeas or garbanzo beans has the potential to reduce triglycerides, LDL and any other harmful constituents in just a month.
By lowering the factors affecting heart, it keeps heart ailments at bay.
It provides the body with sufficient antioxidants in the form of Vitamin C & E along with beta carotene, which supports the entire body system including lungs, cardiovascular and nervous systems.
It benefits the digestive tract because it has plenty of fibers, a portion of which is insoluble which keeps the colon cells in good state.
These beans have phytoestrogens which have the ability to control hormone production which aids in reducing chances of osteoporosis, breast cancer and hot flushes in women.
It contains major essential amino acids which is essential for human body.
It is assumed that it contains such high proportions of dietary phosphorous which is almost similar to that of milk and yogurt.
It can cause allergies in people who are sensitive to certain constituents of this legume.
Those having a history of kidney stones should refrain from over-consumption as high amount of oxalate is contained in them.
Purine content in the beans might cause deposition of uric acid in excess which can be a cause of kidney stones and gout.
These beans can cause acidity but soaking them overnight can release the acid factor from it.
During loose motions, high-fiber food like chickpeas should be avoided.
These are absolutely nutritious legumes that can be eaten during pregnancy to ensure the enrichment of the foetus and the mother. But over consumption should be avoided to curtail any discomfort in such conditions.
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Delicious and healthy recipes can be made with chickpeas.
A snack with dried chick peas can be made with some other spices.
It can be teamed with potato, spinach, tomato, cauliflower and a number of other vegetables in curries.
It can be integrated in salads.
Burgers, brownies, cutlets, dumplings, egg salads, eggplant stew, pancakes, flat-breads, ice creams, nuggets, pasta, tacos and stews are some of the food items which can be prepared using these legumes.
After harvest, they are coated with vegetable oil to avert damages made by insects when kept in containers. You can store dried beans in airtight containers and keep them away in cool places for a year.
First cultivation of garbanzo beans is traced to 3000 BC, which were introduced to various other subtropical regions via Portuguese and Spanish travelers.
Roasted chickpeas were ground and made into a substitute of coffee in 18th century Europe and now on rare occasions it is still brewed.
There is no difference between Garbanzo beans and chickpeas, as they are legumes from the same plant known by different names.
It was popularized in Greece and Italy with the commencement of Bronze Age.
Some images of the chickpea have been provided here.
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An Engineering Culture
Engineers build things that solve problems. You don't have to be a computer scientist or have any particular degree to be an engineer. You just have to speak up when things aren't right, evaluate ideas on their merits, and build things that fix what's broken. At Palantir we're all engineers, and we're focused on solving the hardest problems we can find.
A Different Kind of Product Company
We seek out hard problems at places that matter. We solve them by shipping products that work, today. They have to, because the stakes are real. People rely on our products to do their most important work, which means they rely on us to build things the right way.
We ship products that help people change the world for the better
We make products for human-driven analysis of real-world data. We don’t mine data. We don’t collect data. We don’t build one-off solutions.
We’ve only built a fraction of what we’ve imagined
As our company evolves, so will our products and the ways in which they transform how people and organizations interact with data. There's so much left to build.
Small Teams, Unlimited Imagination
There are no leashes at Palantir. We work on flat, decentralized teams, each with decision-making authority, and our people have the freedom to approach, own, and solve problems creatively. We've intentionally chosen this path over a traditional hierarchy, and it works much more often than not.
“It's easy to think that it's the perks that make Palantir a great place to work, but that's not it at all (although I'll never turn down free bagels). It's about sharing a common desire to solve difficult problems that really matter.”
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If you have a great idea and the will to see it through, you can effect great change. Nothing is off limits—we’re constantly looking for improvements in our products, our processes, and our people. All voices are equal here—we hire people to have an opinion and be creative. We’re intolerant of politicking, ego, and power brokers. If your idea makes the most sense, that’s what we’re doing, regardless of your role or seniority.
“Successful software always gets changed.”
Sometimes opportunities are here today and gone tomorrow. Sometimes a breakthrough on an intractable problem invalidates our previous efforts. And yes, sometimes we make mistakes.
Inventing the future requires detaching yourself from the past. While we ship a couple of polished product families, we’re just getting started when it comes to building the full ecosystem of technology we’ve imagined.
We iterate obsessively on everything we do, always collecting new information about the right way to solve a problem. Existing components and processes are supplanted by new, better solutions as they become apparent. For those who built the thing being discarded, this is a cause for celebration not sadness. Replacement is viewed as success: we have now reached the next plateau of functionality and design and iteration begins anew.
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“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.”
We view software as a means of effecting change in the world, not as an end unto itself. Our mission is to help our users, the people doing the hard work on complex, real-world problems. We do this by writing software that enables effective analysis against complicated, data-driven problems.
Our work is incredibly complex, touching on computer science, data science, software engineering, public policy, good governance, large-scale distributed systems, user behavior, efficient use of resources... to name a few. It would be easy to get hyper-focused on some small aspect of this large universe and spend way too much time and resources on perfecting something that’s good enough already.
By always staying focused on the problems our users are trying to solve, we clarify our own thinking about the right way forward.
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Apple iPhone 3G S Friday Launch Already Attracting Long Lines
By Ginny Mies
Apple Stores around the world will open their doors at 7 a.m. local time to accommodate eager shoppers who want to be the first to get their hands on the new iPhone 3G S. The stores will open 1 hour earlier than the company had previously announced at last week's Apple WWDC keynote. AT&T stores will open at 7 a.m. as well, but only for existing customers who preordered the phone; everyone else will have to wait for AT&T's regular opening time of 10 a.m.
Dedicated iPhone fans began lining up as early as Thursday afternoon at Apple's flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York. Meanwhile, Japanese Web site +D Mobile posted pictures of approximately 200 customers lined up Thursday morning near the Softbank flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando shopping district. The store opened up reservations for the iPhone 3G S as neither Apple nor Softbank has allowed online preorders within the country.
At last week's World Wide Developer Conference, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G S, its third-generation iPhone. Yesterday, current iPhone owners were able to download the 3.0 update to the iPhone OS software, which added a number of new and useful features. While the exterior of the new handset looks identical to that of the iPhone 3G, the real changes are inside. Apple says the "S" stands for speed: The company's benchmarks show that the iPhone 3G S launches messages twice as fast, loads games 2.4 times faster, and opens attachments 3.6 times faster. Other new features include a built-in digital compass application and voice control. The camera gets a boost too, jumping from 2 to 3 megapixels.
Several publications have already posted reviews of the iPhone 3G S, and all have come to the same general conclusion: The new hardware is indeed faster, and the improved camera and battery life are two welcome additions.
The iPhone 3G S is available in a 16GB model ($199 with a two-year contract from AT&T) and a 32GB model ($299 with a two-year contract from AT&T). The second-generation iPhone 3G will still be available, for $99 with a two-year contract.
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Practical IT insight from Tony Bradley
Office 365 Virtually Pays for Itself
Microsoft has launched the public beta of the highly-anticipated Office 365. There is a lot to like about the cloud-based suite, but one of the most compelling features of the service might just be the price.
Starting at $6 per seat per month, Office 365 is almost a no-brainer for small and medium companies. Organizations with fewer than 50 users typically don't have a dedicated IT administrator, and lack both the skills and the budget to implement and maintain the infrastructure necessary to deliver what Office 365 does. For a paltry $72 per user per year, these companies get the benefit of Exchange e-mail, Lync instant messaging, SharePoint collaboration, and the Office Web Apps productivity suite.
The return on investment for Office 365 paints a compelling case for switching to the cloud-based service.
At first glance, it may seem that a service like Office 365 is actually targeted at, or uniquely suited for smaller businesses like these. However, when you start to dig into the math a little more, it quickly becomes evident that even the largest organizations could operate more efficiently, and cut costs at the same time by adopting Office 365.
A large company may have thousands or tens of thousands of employees, and generally has at least one data center--possibly more depending on how big the company is and how dispersed it is geographically. The servers have to be maintained, powered, and cooled. The applications have to be monitored, and the data has to be backed up. In order to provide some resiliency and ensure availability, that effort may be duplicated at multiple data centers that all require trained, expert personnel to execute it all.
Start adding all of that up. You have the cost of the server hardware, the OS licenses, the server application licenses, and the client access licenses. You have the cost of electricity to power the server infrastructure, and the cost of the electricity it takes to run the air conditioning to keep the data center cool. You have the investment in hardware and software necessary to perform data backups. And, you have the annual compensation and benefits for the IT staff it takes to manage it all.
Office 365 Enterprise offers a range of service plans from $4 per user per month, up to $27 per user per month. Assuming a company of 1000 users, you are talking about an investment of $27,000 per month for the top-of-the-line Office 365 Enterprise service--or nearly $325,000 a year. It looks like a big number by itself, but if you stack it against the math from the last paragraph, suddenly it seems like Microsoft is giving Office 365 away, or even paying you to use it.
You get all of the productivity benefits of the Microsoft productivity and communications tools, while leaving the backend headaches and tedium to Microsoft. Microsoft will deliver Office 365 from geographically disperse, fully redundant sites providing reliable availability and resiliency that Microsoft guarantees with a financially-backed 99.9 uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA).
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The break-even will vary from one company to the next. It all depends on how many users you have, which Office 365 plan you choose, and what costs and expenses the move to Office 365 will eliminate for your organization. But, it is an exercise well worth the effort because odds are fair that Office 365 will essentially pay for itself.
Combine Office 365 with Windows InTune PC management, and you have a cost-effective, cloud-based IT infrastructure that frees you and your users up to focus on your core business and do what you do best.
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Fundamentally, copyright is a law that gives you ownership over the things you create. Be it a painting, a photograph, a poem or a novel, if you created it, you own it and it’s the copyright law itself that assures that ownership. The ownership that copyright law grants comes with several rights that you, as the owner, have exclusively. Those rights include:
The right to reproduce the work
to prepare derivative works
to distribute copies
to perform the work
and to display the work publicly
These are your rights and your rights alone. Unless you willingly give them up (EX: A Creative Commons License), no one can violate them legally. This means that, unless you say otherwise, no one can perform a piece written by you or make copies of it, even with attribution, unless you give the OK.
Inversely, if you’re looking for material to use or reuse, you should not do any of these things without either asking permission or confirming that the work is in the public domain, which means that the copyright has expired and all of the above rights have been forfeited. Simply put, if the work isn’t in the public domain and you don’t have permission to use a piece, you put yourself in risk of legal action, regardless of your intentions.
Because, beyond fair use and parody (issues for later essays), the holder of a copyrighted piece has near carte blanche to do what they want with their work. It’s no different than owning a car, a house or a pen. One can lend it out to a friend, sell it, modify it or even destroy it. In short, if you own the copyright to something, you have the same rights that you do with anything else and, in some instances, even more. After all, you did create it. It only makes sense that you would own the fruits of your labor. That’s what copyright law is all about.
Moral Rights
Though moral rights are not currently recognized in the United States, they’re a major element of European copyright law and are becoming increasingly important as the Web becomes more globalized.
Moral rights are a set of rights that are separate from the author’s copyright on a piece. These rights are generally considered inalienable, which means that they can not be given away or sold, and thus persist even if the copyright to a work is completely sold.
As defined by the Berne Convention, the moral rights of an author are as follows:
The right to claim authorship of the work
The right to object to any distortion, mutilation or modification of the work
The right to object to any derogatory action that may damage the authors honor or reputation
It is easy to see how moral rights can be useful in fighting plagiarism since such an act is not only a violation of the author’s copyright, if he or she holds it, but also the moral rights. It may also be useful in cases where the copyright of a work has been lost, either sold or given away, but plagiarism continues.
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Where Shropshire’s £9m roads budget goes
Shropshire Council spends around £9 million each year on resurfacing and surface dressing the county’s roads to make them a lot safer for car drivers and all other users. The work covers anything from unclassified rural roads to town centre streets to main ‘A’ roads.
During the past two years, the council says it has:
Resurfaced more than 120km (74.4 miles) of road, and
Surface dressed 1.7million square metres of road (don’t get too excited - that’s just under two-thirds of a square mile).
Here’s a video which the council has produced to explain a bit about what it spends that £9 million on, and further on in this article, we’ll cover more about the subject. But first, we present some background about roads, and why they need regular repair and maintenance.
What Is A Road Made Of?
The brief answer is: A lot of different ingredients from what first went into them when the Romans built the first ones 4,000 years ago!
Then, the main materials used were timber and stone, with a timber underframe on top of which individual stones were laid. This began with a layer of large stones, onto which was added another covering of smaller stones. In time, the pressure exerted by the carts, animals and humans which used these roads meant that the timber and larger stones became very tightly packed and locked together, while the smaller stones on and closer to the surface could absorb the main impact placed on them, and spread it over a wider area, so evening out the wear on both the surface and the layers underneath.
Modern roads are built mainly of asphalt or concrete. Asphalt typically consists of a small proportion (about five per cent) of cement, made with a mix of asphalt and bitumen cement, with the rest being various aggregates (stone, sand, and gravel).
Who’s Responsible For Looking After Our Roads?
This is generally pretty straightforward. A national body, Highways England, has the job of maintaining and co-ordinating repairs on what’s known as the Strategic Road Network.
As well as all motorways except a handful, such as the M6 Toll which are maintained under contracts with private firms, this includes a number of other trunk roads, which mainly connect major towns and cities, or are considered important for strategic reasons.
Here in Shropshire, the most important roads come under the management of Highways England’s Midlands region. The A5 and the A483 are both on the list of roads which come under its responsibility, but where these roads cross over the Welsh border, they are taken over by the North and Mid-Wales Trunk Road Agency.
Highways England is a government-owned body, and gets its funding in the form of grants from central government.
The second tier of responsibility falls upon county and unitary councils across England and Wales.
These are responsible for all other main and minor roads, as well as all adopted roads, in other words, those which a council has agreed that it will maintain and repair.
This generally covers all roads which aren’t the responsibility of one of the above bodies, and lots of local agreements are in place which govern who is responsible for which roads. In many cases, local councils and unitary authorities have set up their own organisations to co-ordinate and carry out road repair and maintenance work.
Often, while a local council may be responsible for planning road maintenance, it outsources the work itself to other private companies, and puts the work out to tender to try to achieve the best value for local council tax payers.
Why Do Roads Need Resurfacing?
It’s pretty obvious really - the main reason is simply that the top surface which comes into contact with all those vehicles’ tyres eventually wears out. Every type of road surface is also porous, meaning that it absorbs rainwater. But in time, this water will work its way down through the layers of whichever material the road is made from, and this will cause cracks in the road surface and layers underneath.
Ice is an even worse enemy of road surfaces. As water freezes, it expands, so if it has worked its way into the under-layers of a road, usually through an existing crack, however small, it will cause large numbers of other, tiny cracks to develop. When these are subjected to pressure from the repeated actions of vehicles passing over the top of them, they have a nasty habit of joining together, and forming even bigger cracks or, in some cases when the pressure is in a concentrated area, potholes.
While the suspension systems of our new or used cars, vans, trucks and buses have become increasingly sophisticated and able to absorb some pretty big knocks and bumps, there is a similar ‘drip’ effect on the condition of these, and other, components. So repeated driving over potholes may damage parts of a vehicle, and bring about the need for premature replacement of components such as tyres and shock absorbers.
No council or body responsible for road maintenance wants this to happen, as it could leave them open to claims to meet the cost of putting such damage right.
But local councils spend a fortune every year on processing and meeting the cost of claims for compensation caused by pothole damage, with the RAC estimating that - not including the actual money paid out - each claim costs a council £147 to process, with a new claim being received every 11 minutes.
In order to ensure that the under-pressure budgets for road maintenance and repairs are spent where the money will do the most good, most county councils and unitary authorities have set up local area committees, which are each allocated a share of the budget, and can spend it where they feel the need is most urgent.
As this article notes, overall spending on road maintenance and repairs is put into one of four categories:
Cyclic maintenance, including pothole repairs, surface patching, road markings, traffic signs and verge cutting
Capital expenditure for early intervention to extend the life of the road surface, and
Capital expenditure for larger resurfacing and major bridge refurbishment works
Shropshire is covered by five of these local area committees, while a central team is responsible for co-ordinating larger projects.
It also points out that safety checks are regularly carried out on all roads for which it’s responsible, their frequency depending on the road’s category and amount of traffic.
It’s A (Mainly) Thankless Job
We think you’ll agree that Shropshire County Council is pretty proactive when it comes to telling us what it’s doing to keep our roads in good nick.
It even operates an online reporting system for residents to notify it of potholes and damage to bridges or road signs, which you’ll find here.
Like painting the Forth Road Bridge, and any other huge maintenance task, though, it’s a never-ending treadmill of work, which is constantly being looked at, to see where improvements can be made.
But we wanted to put this article together to show that the hard-working teams who put in loads of effort to maintain Shropshire’s roads really do have their hands full - but despite this, try hard to keep as many of us who use them as happy as possible.
Do you have any first-hand experience of the quality of road repairs and maintenance around Shropshire? Maybe you’ve seen both the good and bad of their work. We’d love to hear your stories, good or bad, so get in touch through our Facebook page. And don’t forget, we’ve always got a great selection of quality used cars to really improve your travel experiences around the county.
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14 Nights Greenland & Wild Labrador
Follow the route of Leif Erikson from Greenland to Newfoundland, via coastal Labrador.
Sailing south over the Arctic Circle, surrounded by mountains and glaciers. Greenland’s coast is sublime!
Crossing the Davis Strait, we visit Torngat Mountains National Park, staffed completely by Inuit. Our southerly journey will follow the rugged Labrador coast. Across the Strait of Belle Isle in Newfoundland, we’ll roam North America’s only authenticated Norse site before sailing the picturesque coast of northeast Newfoundland.
DAY 1 Kangerlussuaq
Kangerlussuaq is a former US Air Force base and Greenland’s primary flight hub. Here we will be bused along Greenland’s longest road—less than twenty kilometres—to the port. Zodiacs will be waiting to transfer us to the Ocean Endeavour.
Sondre Stromfjord is one of the longest fjords in the world and boasts 168 kilometres of superb scenery. We begin our adventure by sailing down this dramatic fjord, crossing the Arctic Circle as we go.
DAY 2 Qeqqata Kommunia
The west Greenland coastline is a rich mixture of fishing communities, many islands and complex coastal waterways. The waters are relatively warm here, due to the West Greenland Current and the sub-Arctic location. This makes for lusher vegetation.
As we enter the Arctic autumn, the tundra foliage will be turning colours beautifully. We will be making an expedition stop here to explore the wild landscape of Greenland.
DAY 3 Nuuk
Welcome to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland and one of the world’s northernmost capitals. The old harbour region of town includes many buildings dating from the Danish colonial days. The modern downtown core includes shopping, cafes, and restaurants—as well as public institutions with a European flair.
The Greenland National Museum is one of Nuuk’s many outstanding features; the world-famous Qilakitsoq mummies are housed here. The museum’s exhibits also offer in-depth information about colonial, Norse, and Inuit presence in Greenland—a must-see.
DAY 4 At Sea – Davis Strait
Sailing ever-westward, like the Vikings, we cross the Davis Strait—the mouth of the Northwest Passage. Narrower and shallower than Baffin Bay to the north, Davis Strait is a haven for marine mammals and seabirds. We’ll be on the watch!
Our presentation schedule will be a flurry of learning opportunities. We’ll immerse ourselves in the archaeology, history, and culture of Greenland, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Labrador, and Newfoundland.
DAY 5 Kangiqsualujjuaq (George River)
We make landfall on the Arctic coast of Québec’s Inuit region, Nunavik. Twenty-five kilometres upstream from Ungava Bay lies the Inuit community of Kangiqsualujjuaq. The tides here are nearly a match for those of the Bay of Fundy.
Arctic flora thrives in the protected valley. The George River caribou herd, which is in critical decline, has its calving grounds nearby. A community welcome here gives us a chance to mingle with local folks and explore the hamlet.
DAY 6–8 Torngat Mountains National Park
Canada’s highest peaks east of the Rockies are found in Torngat Mountains National Park. Here, the Inuit of Nunatsiavut will be our guides in their spiritual homeland.
Polar bears, caribou, falcons, and eagles are among the species we hope to spot on land. We’ll also be on the lookout for marine mammals! We’ll spend our time on guided hikes, searching for wildlife, visiting archaeological sites, and Zodiac cruising.
DAY 9 Hebron
This haunting site preserves a Moravian Mission station dating from the 1830s. The mission was abandoned in 1959, forcing the relocation of the Inuit who resided there. In 2005, Newfoundland & Labrador issued an apology to people affected by the relocations.
Former Hebron residents and their kin continue to visit the site, and to hunt and fish nearby. With their help, some of Hebron’s buildings are now being repurposed as a cultural interpretation centre.
DAY 10 Nain
The administrative capital of Nunatsiavut, Nain is the most northerly community in Labrador. A busy harbour in a gorgeous location is the centre of this bustling village. We'll visit the beautiful Moravian Church and the Nunatsiavut Building.
We have many close ties here. Working with local experts, we pioneered expedition cruising in Nunatsiavut. We always enjoy a warm cultural welcome. Expect music, food, and handicrafts at this dynamic visit.
DAY 11–12 The Labrador Coast
Labrador’s coast in this region is much more varied than you might expect. Here we find coastal barrens, high subarctic tundra, high boreal forest, mid-boreal forest, and string bog—as well as the Akami-Uapishkᵁ-KakKasuak-Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve.
DAY 13 L’Anse aux Meadows
L’Anse aux Meadows is the only authenticated Norse settlement in North America—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic site. The archaeological remains found here in 1960 date to approximately 1000 AD.
Amazingly, the location of the ruins was first established by a close reading of the Viking sagas. Today, a superb interpretive centre and reconstructions of the several Norse-style sod buildings make L’Anse aux Meadows a must-see for any visitor to Newfoundland.
DAY 14 Terra Nova National Park
Terra Nova National Park's amazing natural resources and location have attracted people for at least five thousand years prior to its establishment as a park in 1957. Newman Sound's unique interaction between the Atlantic Ocean and the boreal forest have made it a hotbed of activity; in the twentieth century, the land that is now encompassed by the park contained several communities with bustling sawmills.
DAY 15 St. John’s, NL
Sailing into the port of St. John’s has to be experienced to be believed. Signal Hill keeps watch as we take on our pilot and enter the world-famous Narrows. The charming houses of The Battery are always a hit with shutterbugs.
The bustling capital city of Newfoundland & Labrador makes a spectacular backdrop. High on the hill sits The Rooms, a cultural museum dedicated to more than five hundred years of history surrounding St. John’s harbour.
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New lawsuit tests Hillary Clinton's claim private email system was legal
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Just a day after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that she violated no law in storing tens of thousands of work-related emails on a private server, a watchdog organization is putting that claim to the legal test in court.
D.C.-based Cause of Action filed a lawsuit Wednesday against current Secretary of State John Kerry and National Archives chief David Ferriero, seeking to force them to recover Clinton's emails and ensure they are placed in government hands. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, also asks a judge to issue a legal finding that Clinton illegally removed federal records from government control when she stored them on a private server.
"Fundamentally, when you're head of a Cabinet agency, the Federal Records Act requires you to have an enormous amount of duties in terms of preserving records. Clearly, former Secretary of State Clinton did not exercise those duties diligently," Cause of Action executive director Dan Epstein said in an interview. "What concerns us is the signal is sent when somebody with that much power blatantly ignores the law."
In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Clinton repeatedly insisted that her decision to use a personal email account and private server as her sole email account as secretary of state did not break any law or government rules.
"Everything I did was permitted. There was no law. There was no regulation. There was nothing that did not give me the full authority to decide how I was going to communicate," Clinton told CNN's Brianna Keilar. "Previous secretaries of state have said they did the same thing."
Legal experts have different views on Clinton's claims. Some contend that the Federal Records Act, National Archives regulations and State Department rules did not permit government officials to routinely keep work-related correspondence outside an official records system. Other lawyers say the law and the rules don't clearly prohibit what Clinton did.
The new Cause of Action lawsuit (posted here) faces some significant hurdles that could preclude a definitive ruling on that question. A judge could consider the issue moot since Clinton turned over 55,000 pages of emails to the State Department in December at its request and later announced that she had the rest of the account erased after her lawyers determined those messages were not work-related.
However, the lawsuit notes that questions have arisen in recent weeks about whether Clinton submitted all of her work-related messages to the department. Records a congressional committee obtained from longtime Clinton confidant and adviser Sidney Blumenthal suggest that some of his email exchanges with her were missing from the 55,000 pages she turned over last year or had been changed in her version. Clinton aides have suggested those emails might never have been sent or received by the former secretary, who is now running for president.
The suit appears aimed at getting a ruling on the question of Clinton's legal duties before the judge delves into the factual question of whether Clinton did or didn't return all her work-related emails to the State Department. However, a judge could conclude that the suit is moot if there is no obvious remedy for any legal violation that may have taken place.
The new case has some parallels to a fight that began more than three decades ago over records of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's phone calls. He donated the so-called "telcons" to the Library of Congress when he left office, in an apparent effort to put them beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act. After the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and others sued, the Supreme Court ruled that FOIA could not be used to obtain records no longer in an agency's possession.
However, transparency advocates say the justices left the door open to lawsuits seeking to force current officials to recover official records. The new Cause of Action suit appears to be modeled on a similar suit the National Security Archive threatened in 2001 in an effort to force the State Department to demand return of the Kissinger files. Before the suit was filed, State wound up demanding return of the records and Kissinger agreed to return the telcons to the agency's custody.
"We sent a draft complaint and then we met with, I think, both DOJ and the State Department legal adviser's office and persuaded them the complaint had merit and there was no defense to this, and they went and persuaded Kissinger," said Kate Martin, who served as counsel to the National Security Archive at the time.
Of course, unlike Kissinger's stance then, Clinton maintains she's now turned over copies of all the records she has from that time period. The Cause of Action lawsuit seeks to force Kerry and Ferriero to take control of Clinton's server in an effort to recover more emails and to have government officials — not Clinton's private lawyers — decide which are official records.
Cause of Action and other open-government groups wrote to Kerry and Ferriero in March, asking them to insist that government officials seek access to Clinton's server and try to obtain the records in digital form as opposed to the reams of paper Clinton turned over in December. Epstein said he was disappointed that the National Archives has not insisted on such access.
"What you haven't seen is the National Archives demanding the documents. We view that as inconsistent with the Federal Records Act," Epstein said.
While a total of 12 organizations joined the March letter, Cause of Action — viewed as conservative by many in the often-liberal access community — is pursuing the new lawsuit on its own. Asked if others were asked to join the case, Epstein indicated his group decided to move by itself.
"There's questions with standing. Probably the more parties filing petitions, the more easy it is for the defendants to say none of these parties have standing," he said. "Part of the calculus there is strategic."
Clinton's emails are already the subject of more than a dozen newly filed and reopened FOIA lawsuits in federal court in Washington, as well as a case in Florida asserting that the private server was at the core of a racketeering enterprise. The latter case asks a judge to seize the server. He has yet to rule on the request.
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Difference between revisions of "Old Waiting Room"
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==Latest January-June 2016==
The original staircase is now being restored and extended so that it can reach the Old Waiting Room. This work has had strong and welcome support from the '''[http://railwayheritagetrust.co.uk/ Railway Heritage Trust,]''', in addition to some Network Rail funding and some small neighbourhood grants from Southwark Council. It is expected to be completed by autumn 2016. It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the opening of Peckham Rye station and the railways coming to Peckham. That heralded a dramatic change in the built environment and demographics of Peckham. The areas needed before for food growing to feed central London were given up for housing, much of which remains today. Peckham Vision is asking Network Rail for permission to use the Old Waiting Room to hold a series of informative exhibitions and events to celebrate the railways during this 150th anniversary when the stairs are completed. The events would cover railway history and operations, and events which link to that history in some way. Anyone with ideas or suggestions about such events, or who wishes to join our group to enable this programme to happen please email info@peckhamvision.org. '''[https://www.facebook.com/PeckhamVision/posts/1079908278698701 Click here for more information]'''
The original staircase is now being restored and extended so that it can reach the Old Waiting Room. This work has had strong and welcome support from the '''[http://railwayheritagetrust.co.uk/ Railway Heritage Trust,]''', in addition to some Network Rail funding and some small neighbourhood grants from Southwark Council. It is expected to be completed by autumn 2016. It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the opening of Peckham Rye station and the railways coming to Peckham. That heralded a dramatic change in the built environment and demographics of Peckham. The areas needed before for food growing to feed central London were given up for housing, much of which remains today. Peckham Vision is asking Network Rail for permission to use the Old Waiting Room to hold a series of informative exhibitions and events to celebrate the railways during this 150th anniversary when the stairs are completed. The events would cover railway history and operations, and events which link to that history in some way. Anyone who would like to contribute to this, or who wishes to join our group to enable this programme to happen, please email info@peckhamvision.org. '''[https://www.facebook.com/PeckhamVision/posts/1079908278698701 Click here for more information]'''
==Latest April 2014==
Peckham Rye Station
OWR exhibition
OWR exhibition displays
OWR exhibition photos
OWR exhibition feedback
1 4 March 2016 ITV News
2 3 March 2016 Southwark News
3 Latest January-June 2016
4 Latest April 2014
5 Background to 2014
6 Stages in Old Waiting Room restoration
6.1 Community Business proposal to Network Rail June 2014
6.2 Developing plans for interim use August 2013
6.3 The Old Waiting Room in use again 2nd to 4th August 2012
6.4 Exhibition 2-4 August in Old Waiting Room June 2012
6.5 Cultural Olympiad Exhibition in the Old Waiting Room: latest news May 2012
6.6 the Old Waiting Room project October 2011
6.7 Celebrating the Old Waiting Room and Peckham's historic buildings 31 March 2011
6.8 Local residents campaign for social enterprise multi purpose venue Dec 2010
6.9 Two restoration projects completed at the Old Waiting Room July 2010
6.10 Student workshop in the Old Waiting Room May 2010
6.11 External access to the Old Waiting Room March 2010
6.12 Using the Old Waiting Room as a cafe October 2009
6.13 Old Billiard Hall comes back to life! April 2009
Old Waiting Room
original Victorian staircase
4 March 2016 ITV News
ITV News: Peckham Rye station waiting room to be given new lease of life after 50 years
3 March 2016 Southwark News
"Up the stairs and through time to the Peckham Rye waiting room we all forgot about" News report on the restoration work to the staircase, which will lead to public accessibility to the Old Waiting Room in the summer 2016.
Latest January-June 2016
The original staircase is now being restored and extended so that it can reach the Old Waiting Room. This work has had strong and welcome support from the Railway Heritage Trust,, in addition to some Network Rail funding and some small neighbourhood grants from Southwark Council. It is expected to be completed by autumn 2016. It coincides with the 150th anniversary of the opening of Peckham Rye station and the railways coming to Peckham. That heralded a dramatic change in the built environment and demographics of Peckham. The areas needed before for food growing to feed central London were given up for housing, much of which remains today. Peckham Vision is asking Network Rail for permission to use the Old Waiting Room to hold a series of informative exhibitions and events to celebrate the railways during this 150th anniversary when the stairs are completed. The events would cover railway history and operations, and events which link to that history in some way. Anyone who would like to contribute to this, or who wishes to join our group to enable this programme to happen, please email info@peckhamvision.org. Click here for more information
Latest April 2014
The Old Waiting Room cannot be hired out yet as there are some queries about the floor condition, and there is access only through the station. Network Rail is thinking about the work needed for the floor, and Peckham Vision is seeking an interim lease for when the staircase is completed. This is the original Victorian grand staircase which is to be restored and extended to reach into the Old Waiting Room itself. The first step towards this is completed - the windows and door at ground level are restored and the staircase once again is visible from the forecourt. The aim is to raise a further £60k to complete the stair restoration and extension by early 2015. Peckham Vision is developing plans to bring the Room into interim use and to hire it out when the staircase can give access to the Room from outside the station, and is seeking discussions with Network Rail for this. Meanwhile, an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has been partially prepared in case that becomes the route forward for the substantial funds needed, beyond the stair restoration, for the remainder of the Old Waiting Room restoration and to equip it with insulation, heating, lighting and water. There would also need to be a lift installed for disabled access and goods delivery. Peckham Vision made some proposals for the way this could be part of the Network Rail development work to seek funds from the Department for Transport (DfT) for the installation of lifts to all the platforms.
Background to 2014
The huge magnificent empty space above the ticket hall began to come to light again during the recent years through campaigns by Peckham Vision with Rye Lane & Station Action Group and the Peckham Society. It was referred to as the Old Billiard Hall as it had been used for many decades by the railway staff as a recreation room. In those years access was by a staircase added on the front of the building entering the room through a door in what was and is now again a window space. This can be seen in this 1979 episode(2.20 minutes into this short clip) of the Sweeney TV programme chase at Peckham Rye station. That additional staircase was reached from the forecourt by the original staircase in the SE tower.
But the Billiard Hall was closed and the windows bricked up over 40 years ago and it remained a secret silent place inhabited mainly by pigeons. It was originally the Waiting Room for platforms 2 and 3, so it is also referred to as the Old Waiting Room. Over the last few years, it has been revived and opened to view again. This work has been inspired and led by Benedict O’Looney, local architect and historian, from Benedict O'Looney Architects, with small grant funding from the Nunhead & Peckham Rye Community Council Cleaner, Greener Safer Scheme (CGS).
First the windows at the platform level were unbricked and revealed original Victorian paint. Then the original wooden floor and the electrics were repaired. This was celebrated in the Old Waiting Room with many of those, who had helped and supported in some way, present on 16th July 2010 - see picture.
original floor restored
Benedict O'Looney explains the restoration
we all celebrate 16th July 2010
entrance to Old Waiting Room from Platform 3
The room has in this minimally restored state been used temporarily:
In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Benedict O'Looney arranged the annual design workshop for students from the Canterbury University Architecture School using Peckham town centre as the case study.
Peckham Vision arranged some celebratory and informative public events - July 2010 marking the first restoration work; March 2011 celebrating the town centre historic architecture with the Peckham Society; and 2nd-4th August 2012 Peckham Vision's exhibition about the town centre past, present and future.
in 2011 & 2012, Southwark Council arranged two breakfast meetings about development potential in Peckham town Centre.
The Old Waiting Room cannot be used in more than these ad hoc ways, negotiated each time with the two rail companies, until the original staircase is restored and extended to reach into the Old Waiting Room itself. The first step towards this is completed - the windows and door at ground level are restored and the staircase once again is visible from the forecourt. See the latest news above.
The stages of restoration for the Old Waiting Room up to 2014 are described below. For the staircase stages see here.
Stages in Old Waiting Room restoration
Community Business proposal to Network Rail June 2014
Peckham Vision has developed a viable business case for an interim lease to use the Old Waiting Room as a multi purpose venue for hire once the staircase is restored and extended and before the plans for the final restoration of the Room are developed. We have asked Network Rail for discussions about our proposal and request for an interim lease.
Developing plans for interim use August 2013
Old Waiting Room: plans are being developed for raising the funds (approx £750,000) for final restoration and also for interim uses for the room as it is, once the staircase is extended to give access from the forecourt. The room cannot be hired until then.
The Old Waiting Room in use again 2nd to 4th August 2012
entering the Old Waiting Room at last from platform 3
We had a non-stop stream of visitors to the 3 day exhibition, about Peckham town centre in the Old Waiting Room, as part of the Peckham Cultural Olympiad. Over 600 visitors all keen to know more about the Old Waiting Room, the station restoration, the new public square and the town centre generally. It is clear that there is great local enthusiasm for the planned changes. Here below are a few photos to give an insight into the magical experience for three days. For more photos: OWR exhibition photos. For all the display panels and a full report on the exhibition see OWR exhibition.
NOTE: This use of the Room was with a special temporary license from Network Rail, and with the agreement of Southern Rail and the station manager, because of the team of volunteers escorting visitors from the ticket barriers. The Room is not available for hiring out, and can not be until there is access to the Room without coming through the station. Peckham Vision is working on making the original staircase useable, and seeking the lease from Network Rail to run the Room as a social enterprise and as a multi purpose venue but this is some way off in the future.
Exhibition 2-4 August in Old Waiting Room June 2012
Peckham Vision is arranging an exhibition about the town centre in the Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye station on 2nd – 4th August as a Peckham Rye Lane contribution to the Cultural Olympiad. There will be talks and more each day.
Exhibition times: Thurs 2nd Aug 5pm – 9pm. Fri 3rd Aug 1pm – 9pm. Sat 4th Aug 11am – 3pm.
Volunteers are needed for a few hours during the afternoon or evening on Thurs 2nd Aug or Fri 3rd Aug, or morning or afternoon on Sat 4th Aug? To find out more, email: owrexhibition@gmail.com. Read more…
Cultural Olympiad Exhibition in the Old Waiting Room: latest news May 2012
Plans to hold the exhibition about Peckham town centre's history, current issues and future developments are well advanced. It is planned as part of the central Rye Lane Cultural Olmpiad contribution to take place during the Olympics. Details soon available.
the Old Waiting Room project October 2011
A small core team of local residents, from Peckham Vision and the Peckham Society, are working on ideas about future uses and the work to get the external staircase restored and extended into the Old Waiting Room so making it accessible to the public without going through the station. Some substantial further repair and restoration work has to be done inside the room before it can be useable permanently by the public,including the installation of lifts. We hope that enough can be completed to enable the Room to be publically accessible for a short exhibition by the summer of 2012. [NOTE: we did not get the staircase renovated in time for this. But we reached agreement with Southern Rail and Network Rail to have a team of volunteers as escorts from the ticket barriers to the OWR on Platform 3 and the exhibition was able to go ahead.]
The exhibition would become a striking and attractive venue in the planned Peckham Cultural Olympiad Festival, along with the many artistic and cultural enterprises operating within walking distance of the station. Peckham Rye station is just 10 to 15 minutes from parts of central London, and just about 25 minutes by rail from the Olympic Stadium.
Celebrating the Old Waiting Room and Peckham's historic buildings 31 March 2011
Old Waiting Room: 31 March 2011
short video clip of event
On 31st March 2011, the Peckham Society with Peckham Vision held a meeting in the Old Waiting Room to celebrate Peckham’s historic architecture. It was standing room only as over 120 people crowded into the historic room. New research was reported by the Peckham Society and English Heritage about the local landmarks, there was a report on progress with the proposed Conservation Area to help restore and preserve the best local buildings for the future. Exciting ideas on improving the forecourt as it is now, including new lighting, were described. An enthusiastic welcome was given to a major fund raising campaign launched at the meeting, and new volunteers recruited to the growing team. see many more pictures
Local residents campaign for social enterprise multi purpose venue Dec 2010
Old Waiting Room: multi purpose venue?
The Community Council applauded at their 8th December 2010 meeting the latest reports and pictures about the Old Waiting Room, and discussed suitable commercial uses to make the best of the wonderful space. Further funds are being sought to continue the restoration to the external staircase, & to improve the station walkways. This would be the public entrance to the space and make it useable for public activities. Local residents are developing a social enterprise project to bid for the lease for the Old Waiting Room from Network Rail as a multi purpose flexible venue. For more information, see brief here, and and blog here. If you want to get involved in this exciting project email oldwaitingroom@gmail.com
Two restoration projects completed at the Old Waiting Room July 2010
On Friday the 16th of July the latest stage of the restoration was celebrated to mark the completion of two restoration projects which have helped open up and reveal to the Peckham community the grand Victorian waiting room that had become a bricked up and forgotten space. This huge, vaulted, hall was ‘lost’ in the early 1960s when the station’s southern platforms were demolished and re-built further west. At this point British Rail closed the billiard hall that had been using the hall since about 1900, bricked up the windows and essentially forgot about this fantastic room. It became a time capsule with all its original Victorian paintwork and most of its joinery intact. The Peckham Society and the Rye Lane and Station Action Group have campaigned to restore and open up these lost parts of the Peckham Rye Station.
The station was designed by the talented Victorian architect Charles Henry Driver, who specialised in railway stations and civil engineering structures. He designed London’s great pumping stations at Abbey Mills and Crossness and detailed Bazalgette’s Thames Embankment. He also designed the London and Brighton and South Coast Railway stations at London Bridge, Denmark Hill and Battersea Park amongst many others across the south. He was passionate about the decorative possibilities of cast iron. The Peckham Society first persuaded English Heritage to list the station in 2008, then, with the help of Southwark Council, the Peckham Society architect and conservationist Benedict O’Looney began a programme of restoration.
With two ‘Cleaner Greener Safer’ grants first the windows were un-bricked and new doors and sash windows were fitted matching the original Victorian designs. The second project was to repair the large timber floor replacing the rotten areas with reclaimed 19th century wood, cleaning, sanding and sealing it. With another Southwark grant in hand, and a pledge of support from the Railway Heritage Trust, the next phase is to un-brick the sealed up windows at the station forecourt to reveal a spectacular stone and cast iron stair that has also laid unused, collecting dust for 50 years.
To celebrate the completion of this first phase of the work we decided to have a gathering in the old waiting room on the evening of Friday the 16th of July. Friends in the Peckham Community, Southwark politicians and council officers, and a strong contingent of enthusiasts for Victorian architecture all gathered to examine this ‘lost’ historic room. Hannah Parham from English Heritage spoke about why they listed the station, Paul Dobrasczcyk, the expert on the architect Charles Driver, set the Peckham Rye Station in the context of Driver’s career, Benedict talked about discoveries during the restoration project, and local activist Eileen Conn celebrated the joy of community led regeneration.
Student workshop in the Old Waiting Room May 2010
Student workshop in the Old Waiting Room 28 May 2010
Over 40 students from the 2nd year Canterbury School of Architecture came to Peckham on 28th May 2010 to show their designs for the area around the Peckham Rye Station. They met in the Old Waiting Room at the station.
For the last two years the school’s spring term design studio has focussed on Peckham’s town centre, in particular the open spaces in front of and behind the station. Many of the students come from south London.
The event was held at the enormous former waiting room at the Peckham Rye Station, which has been unused for more than forty years. This remarkable, grand, space is one of the highlights of Peckham’s architecture and is being restored by the local architect Benedict O’Looney, with the help of Southwark Council. Benedict is a conservationist active with the Peckham Society and a design and history teacher at the Canterbury School of Architecture.
Southwark Council’s community-oriented ‘Cleaner Greener and Safer’ fund has put forward several grants to unblock the windows and restore the floor to the former waiting room, which was used as a billiard hall from the 1890s to 1960. This room was bricked up and closed off to public use when the station’s southern platforms were rearranged in 1962. The Peckham Rye Station was designed by the eminent Victorian architect Charles Henry Driver in 1865, and this large and lofty waiting room was the building’s principal interior space. The Peckham Society has been campaigning for the restoration of this prominent local landmark and was successful in getting the station listed grade ll in 2008. It is hoped that the former waiting room will one soon find a new life as a community meeting space, gallery or cafe. The large student gathering on Friday made clear the space’s excellent community potential.
Contact: Benedict O’Looney, architect, teacher, Committee, the Peckham Society 07981 - 785 950 Kristina Kolotov, Second Year Coordinator, Canterbury School of Architecture 07977 - 038 105
External access to the Old Waiting Room March 2010
Two more CGS proposals have been accepted by the Community Council to take forward improvements at the station. The Peckham Society's bid for about £6k was successful to restore the 3 lower windows and 2 doors in the tower to the left of the forecourt. This will reveal the beautiful metal staircase leading from the station forecourt almost up to the Old Waiting Room. This adds to the work now completed on restoring the wooden floor, and the opening up of the windows and flooding the huge room with light.
Southwark Rail Users' Group's proposal for clearing up some of the clutter in the front (repositioning the notice board), improving the lighting and the role of the tub plants, was also accepted. This will enable SRUG to add to the money pot being provided by Southern Rail through our energetic Station Manager Barry Jones, and take part in working out the details of the improvements. We are moving slowly but steadily to being able to open up the magnificent old room for public use. This vindicates the plan from the community groups involved of taking it one small step at a time to get there.
Using the Old Waiting Room as a cafe October 2009
Peckham Rye station old waiting room Illustration © by Lettice Drake & Paloma Gormley Oct 2009
extract from Rye Lane & Station Action Group October 2009 minutes:
item 2.2 Use of the Old Billiard Hall/former Waiting Room
Lettice Drake and Paloma Gormley presented some ideas for using this historic space. They were responsible for the initiation, design and building of Frank’s Café, the temporary café on the roof Rye Lane’s multi story car park from July to September 2009. They worked with Southwark Council and Hannah Barry with a budget of only £4,500. Its success was overwhelming - attracting people from across London to visit it. The success of Frank’s Café highlights the role creative thinking can play in Peckham’s future. Their proposals included the following:
Significance of the space: The old waiting room has exciting potential. The space, as with Frank’s Cafe, is unusual and offers a unique opportunity to do something spectacular. Right in the heart of Peckham, between two platforms linking it to the rest of London. Peckham Vision’s aims for the room to go back into public use as either a restaurant or community facility are encouraging. The proposal is an attempt to marry sustainable regeneration, conservation and a viable business proposal. The significance of the space, as a gateway to Peckham suggests a use that has its roots in, and represents the existing community, serving a simple menu of high quality and affordable food offering a sustainable approach
Collaboration: The proposal would be to collaborate with a local chef or business. Running as a restaurant in the evenings and a café during the day, serving coffee and snacks to commuters through a hatch to platform 3, the space offers a viable business opportunity. There would also be the potential for the space to function as a venue, for community meetings, live music and events.
Access: They would propose to work alongside the Peckham Society and Peckham Vision to raise funds to continue the conservation work in order to make the room and external stairway fit for public use, creating street level access to the Waiting room independent from the station.
Design: The café and kitchen would be designed to be sensitive to the historic importance of the building and celebrate its heritage. The installation of the café and its kitchen would be reversible and non-invasive. Like Franks the design of the cafe would be informal, warm and welcoming. The space is so beautiful and full of character it would require minimal intervention to make it inhabitable. An open kitchen would retain the integrity of the single large space and add theatricality to the preparation and cooking of food. As with Frank’s, good design does not require large investment.
Summary: This proposal would mean this magnificent and forgotten space would open its doors again in a manner that is truly public. It would change people’s perception of Peckham. The involvement of local people provides an opportunity for Network Rail and Southern Rail to continue their work with Community Rail Schemes, and to lead the way in supporting innovative, locally rooted development. This space deserves to be used and should play a key and active part in Peckham’s future.
Old Billiard Hall comes back to life! April 2009
Daylight now floods, just as it used to, through large Victorian windows into the magnificent huge Old Billiard Hall above the ticket hall at Peckham Rye station. This huge room above the ticket office was originally the old waiting room and then for many decades a billiard room, but has been derelict for many years. The recent restoration is the successful result of collaboration since 2006 between The Peckham Society, Peckham Vision/Rye Lane & Station Action Group, Southwark Council, Southern Rail and Network Rail. The Peckham Society have now secured some funds from the Community Council for the next stage see proposals – to restore the wooden floor and make the room fit for community and public use again. This is a significant contribution to the transformation of central Rye Lane (see here). Read more here and here.
The former Billiard Hall, Peckham Rye Station, showing renewed south elevation, March 2009.
New doors and windows carefully matching the Victorian originals.
The South elevation restored.
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Duxford and the Big Wings 1940-45 (Kindle)
RAF and USAAF Fighter Pilots at War
Aviation Battle of Britain Aviation in WWII Royal Air Force
By Martin Bowman
Imprint: Pen & Sword Aviation
eBook Released: 5th August 2009
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A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF, German and American 'Eagles' who fought in the skies over England in the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 and the great air offensives over occupied-Europe from 1942 onwards. The first five and a half chapters cover the Battle of Britain period when the RAF squadrons fought dog fights with the Luftwaffe and then fought them in gathering strength using the 'Big Wings to meet the bomber fleets attacking London. The second part of the book covers the Eagle squadron period, which was expanded with America's entry into the war. The action moves to the USAAF 'Big Wings' of Thunderbolts and Mustang fighters that flew escort missions and duelled with the Luftwaffe over the continent during the massive bomber raids on German targets in France, the Low Countries and the Reich itself. A whole host of incredible first hand accounts by British, Polish, Czech, German and American fighter pilots permeate the action and describe the aerial battles as only they can. This unique book also includes many accounts and photos that have not previously been seen before while the rich mix of combat accounts from all sides are brought together for the first time in one volume.
This is a history of air offensives conducted by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force during World War II. The work chronicles events between 1940 and 1945, the first half of the text focusing on the Battle of Britain, and the second detailing the Eagle Squadron period. Bowman, a British aviation author, uses first person accounts from British, German and American fighter pilots to explore this dramatic period of military aviation history. The volume contains two sections of high quality black and white photographs and extensive chapter notes. Readers interested in World War II aviation history will appreciate the thoroughness of this account.
About Martin Bowman
Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s foremost aviation historians and has written many books and articles.
He lives in Norwich .
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Presidential Crisis Theory
Some years back I befriended a man who seemed to be obsessed with patterns in historical events. As we munched an occasional lunch together he would expound on various conspiracy theories and suppositions about possible alternate realities than the world as we thought we knew it.
I liked his mind, and enjoyed his ideas. He did his research and could present mathematical data to virtually prove the patterns and make me believe that they were somewhat plausible. I think he was among a number of special people "sent" to reprogram my brain in those early years of awakening. He helped make me aware of the plastic, artificial world that we think is real.
One of his theories still haunts me as I watch the political games going on in our national capital. He said that to be elected to a second term, a president must establish a national crisis about mid-way through his first four years in office, and have it resolved before the next election. We can easily see this pattern during the last half century, but with some odd variations.
The Great Depression began in 1928, only months after Herbert Hoover took office. It was not resolved by the end of his first term and he became a political scapegoat and a one-term president.
Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Hoover in 1932. He introduced the New Deal that put a lot of people to work on government projects, and won a second term in 1936. His policies were so popular, Roosevelt was re-elected to a third term in 1940 just as America was about to enter World War II and a third term in 1944 in the midst of that great war. He died in office. Harry S. Truman was his vice-president that year. After Roosevelt, Congress passed a law limiting presidential terms to two.
Roosevelt died in 1945 and Truman completed the term that concluded in 1948. Truman was in office when Germany surrendered and he made the decision to order the atomic attack that quickly ended the war against Japan. He was involved in the formation of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe, and established the Fair Deal, offering an expansion of Social Security, the Fair Employment Practices Act, a public housing program and slum clearance. He won his first elected full term in 1948.
The Korean conflict broke out in 1950 and was unresolved in 1952. Even though he was eligible to seek a second full elected term, Truman chose to step down that year.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was Truman's successor. He brought a truce between North and South Korea in 1953 and stopped the fighting. He was a two-term president, serving until 1961.
John F. Kennedy was assassinated in office before completing his first term. Vice President Lyndon Johnson completed the last year of Kennedy's term and easily won an elected four-year term in 1964. But racial tensions at home and the Vietnam War escalated, Johnson could not resolve these issues and he chose not to seek a second term.
Richard M. Nixon was the next president. He brought an end to the Vietnam conflict, made moves toward world peace including an unprecedented trip to China during his first term and was handily re-elected. But the Watergate scandal broke out in the midst of the election campaign. It forced Nixon's resignation in the middle of his second term.
Gerald Ford took office to complete Nixon's term. His error was that he pardoned Nixon, making it impossible for Nixon to be criminally prosecuted for any wrongdoing. Ford never was elected to a full term.
Jimmy Carter took office in 1977. The Iranian seizure of U. S. embassy hostages near the end of his first term was a crisis that could not be resolved and Carter lost his bid for re-election to Ronald Reagan.
Reagan served during prosperous times and had no trouble winning a second term. His military adventure in Granada in October, 1983, when 6000 troops were sent to the island to stop what was thought to have been a Cuban invasion was carefully orchestrated by the media. It became Reagan's carefully orchestrated pre-election crisis. The truth, not revealed until later, was that the Cubans were there to help build an airstrip to promote tourism. The whole event was staged.
George Bush the senior launched his "crisis" war against Iraq too early. He gained a high state of national popularity at the conclusion of this event, but his term was only about half expired. By the time his first term ended, Bush was faced with a financial crisis that was not of his making and he could not resolve it. He was a one-term president.
We all remember Bill Clinton and his sex scandal with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He was a one-term president.
George W. Bush, a Republican, followed Clinton into office. He presided over the 9-11 attacks, launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and was completing his second term when the financial market crashed. Democrat Barack Obama handily won the presidency which he maintained for two terms. During his years in office Obama issued an executive order to limit carbon emissions, presided over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, brought soldiers home from both wars but opened undeclared military conflicts in other parts of the world.
His successor was Donald Trump, a Republican, who proceeded to use executive orders to cancel out much of the work accomplished by Mr. Obama. Mr. Trump’s presidency has been severely marked by an extreme division of political sentiment throughout the nation. As the time nears for the election to a potential second term, the Mueller Report and other issues of possible corruption that led to a vote of impeachment by the House are hampering his ability to lead at home and abroad. Some political strategists are saying that it may take another disastrous event comparable to 9-11 to save his presidency.
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St. Margaret’s topples La Mirada with a…
St. Margaret’s topples La Mirada with a strong finish
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PUBLISHED: September 7, 2019 at 12:30 am | UPDATED: September 7, 2019 at 12:31 am
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – St. Margaret’s earned its first football win over a CIF-SS Division 4 opponent on Friday by beating La Mirada 30-22 at St. Margaret’s School.
The Tartans, who are in Division 6, have a student body of 470 and still compete against much larger schools with great success. St. Margaret’s (2-1) had nine players who played two ways Friday, and only played 20 in the game.
“That was a great football team with great talent and great coaching,” St. Margaret’s coach Kory Minor said of La Mirada. “That’s why we condition and work so hard. We know it’s going to come to the fourth quarter and we gotta go both ways. That’s St. Margaret’s makeup and that will never change.”
Will Kenner had 178 yards on 10 catches, including a 64-yd touchdown in St. Margaret's 30-22 win over La Mirada. @ocvarsity @SMESAthletics @SouthOCsports pic.twitter.com/Fzwmt4UgIz
— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 7, 2019
The game started in one of the worst ways imaginable for the Tartans. On the second play from scrimmage, the Tartans fumbled a hand-off and the ball was recovered by La Mirada deep in St. Margaret’s territory. Shortly after, Thaddeus Dixon ran for a 24-yard touchdown to give La Mirada a 7-0 lead.
Late in the first quarter, Tartans quarterback Jake Carreon had to exit the game after his helmet came off during a sack. On the ensuing play, Cooper Barkate was the wildcat quarterback and ran for a 28-yard touchdown to tie the game at seven.
Barkate scored his second touchdown of the game six seconds before halftime on a 1-yard pass from Carreon to put the Tartans ahead 14-7.
After a defensive stalemate for much of the third quarter, Cameron Shirangi made a 44-yard field goal to extend the Tartans’ lead to 10.
La Mirada (2-1), ranked No. 10 this week in Division 4, only had 4 yards passing in the first half. Late in the third quarter, Alex Flores threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Makai Lemon to cut the St. Margaret’s lead to three.
Two potential game-changing plays occurred with nine minutes remaining in the game. Lemon blocked a St. Margaret’s punt and the Matadores recovered the ball at the Tartans’ 14.
After the St. Margaret’s defense forced a game-tying field goal attempt, Nick Ostlund went through the middle of the La Mirada line and blocked the field goal to protect their three-point lead.
WIth just under six minutes remaining in the game, Carreon threw a short pass to Will Kenner who evaded a tackle and ran 64 yards for a touchdown to extend the St. Margaret’s lead to 10.
Kenner had 178 yards on 10 catches. Carreon had a heavy workload for the Tartans, completing 18 of 41 passes for 224 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
The Tartans secured the victory when Sean Sullivan intercepted a La Mirada pass and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown that put St. Margaret’s ahead 30-14.
La Mirada made the game interesting late in the fourth quarter. Dixon scored on a 2-yard run and converted a two-point attempt to cut the lead to eight. The Matadores recovered an onside kick, but the St. Margaret’s defense forced a turnover on downs to end the game.
“We got 45 guys out here at a small school, that is what it is,” Minor said. “Don’t count us out. We are sleeping giants.”
St. Margaret’s has a bye week and then plays at El Toro on Sept. 20.
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Florida steps up election security in preparation for 2020
July 23, 2019 · 4:15 PM EDT
Voters head to the polls during the US presidential election in St. Petersburg, Florida, Nov. 8, 2016.
Scott Audette/Reuters
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday under a subpoena to testify before two House committees.
Much of Wednesday's hearings are expected to focus on United States President Donald Trump's links to Russia and whether he obstructed justice during Mueller's investigation.
But a key issue Mueller detailed in his report is Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
"There were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. And that allegation deserves the attention of every American,” said Mueller, when he spoke publicly about his investigation in late May.
Jessica Brandt is with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, an organization that tries to prevent foreign meddling in elections in the US and Europe.
She says Russia's efforts in the 2016 election were on two fronts.
Related: How Britain tried to influence the US election in 1940
“We know that Russia's interference primarily operated through two parts,” Brandt told The World. “The first was a social media campaign that pushed content that was designed to polarize and mislead. The second was a set of hacking operations that included, the now very well-known hack and leak campaign on the DNC [Democratic National Convention]. But we also know that Russians targeted election infrastructure, including State Board of Elections' county governments and that they succeeded at intruding in two Florida county election systems.”
Federal and state officials are making efforts to hack-proof the upcoming 2020 elections, Brandt says.
“I'm particularly encouraged that last week ODNI — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — they basically set up a new role for an executive in charge of election threats and asked all the relevant intel agencies to identify a senior lead,” Brandt said. “I just see that as a really important move that will help with prioritizing this threat and improving coordination across the government.”
Related: A brief history of the times the US meddled in others' elections
Brandt says while a number of small positive steps have been taken, here are still significant problems with the US approach.
"...We still need to make sure that there are more resources — not just money but expertise — that gets to the states because states actually run our elections. We should remember that this is not just about 2020, but 2022, 2024 — that the threat is evolving and we need to build long term resilience.”
Jessica Brandt, Alliance for Securing Democracy
“There've been a number of measures introduced in Congress, including on a bipartisan basis, that would give more money to the states — the Secure Elections Act is one of them — but none of those things have become law,” Brandt said. “I think the problem is that this doesn't totally add up to a coordinated strategy. We still need to make sure that there are more resources — not just money but expertise — that gets to the states because states actually run our elections. We should remember that this is not just about 2020, but 2022, 2024 — that the threat is evolving and we need to build long term resilience.”
Brandt added that the risk of foreign interference is not limited to the Kremlin.
“We absolutely need to be thinking about who else is getting in the game and what they're learning,” she said. “You know we know that Facebook and Twitter just took down a network of Iran-based accounts not for the first time and that that network included accounts that impersonated US congressional candidates again in the midterms, that impersonated legitimate news outlets and tried to co-opt journalists. And I think the important thing to remember is that this shows that foreign interference operations are not always tied to elections and that the problem extends beyond Russia.”
State of elections in Florida
Florida is a swing state with significant Electoral College power. This makes it a big target for parties seeking to disrupt US elections.
During the 2016 elections, Russian government hackers accessed voter registration databases in two Florida counties, but, as far as officials can tell, hackers did not tamper with vote tallies or voter information that year.
As the 2020 election approaches, the problem of keeping hackers out of election systems is all-consuming for Paul Lux, who oversees elections in Florida's Okaloosa County.
“If I tell you what we're doing precisely to secure our elections, I'm therefore making elections less secure by putting that information out."
Paul Lux, elections overseer, Okaloosa County, Florida
“You know, we have a lot of different things that are going on — much of which we cannot talk about for quite obvious reasons,” Lux said. “If I tell you what we're doing precisely to secure our elections, I'm therefore making elections less secure by putting that information out."
One step in safeguarding Florida's election networks and systems for 2020, Lux said, is unifying all of the state's counties on the same intrusion detection system.
Related: Timeline: Big moments in Mueller investigation of Russian meddling in 2016 US election
“When all of the data from all 67 counties are being reported to the same source and that source says, 'Woah, hold on one minute, IP address 1234 tried to hit 12 counties in the Florida Panhandle, all within five minutes of each other' — now we have an event people need to be paying attention to,” Lux said. “And we can send out alerts, we can make phone calls and we can say 'everybody, be on the alert, block these IP addresses, do this, do that, to make sure your systems aren't being compromised.'"
All of Florida's counties are now equipped with an intrusion detection system. Florida is also one of the first states to have all of their counties signed up with one or more alert and information sharing systems through the nonprofit Center for Internet Security.
"We receive anonymized information that tells us things like, 'this happened in a county we're not gonna name, at the county government level, this is how the attackers got in, and this is what the attackers did, and this is how you stop it happening to you,'" Lux said.
Lux says all of these efforts are keeping cybersecurity at the forefront for local election officials.
“We actually had classes [where] we sat down with people from the Department of Homeland Security,” he explained. “And they basically gave us what I could call cybersecurity 101. The good news for me is that I was actually in the intelligence and security command when I was in the military. So my learning curve has been a little less steep.”
Lux says that intelligence-sharing among federal agencies should also be improved and that a mechanism to share classified information with election officials should be instituted.
“I'm not saying I need to be on the president's security briefing every morning,” he said. “But when something is happening to the election world, when counties are being compromised in Florida, it would be nice for us to be on the receiving end of those notifications specifically so that we would know if we needed to take action what our best steps were, beyond the anonymous notifications that we're getting.”
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ITC Global, Inc. Agrees to Acquire Spidersat, Deepens Its Local Presence in Africa
ITC Global, Inc.
29 Aug, 2012, 17:00 BST
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Global, Inc. ("ITC Global" or the "Company"), a leading global provider of enterprise grade satellite communication services to mining, energy and maritime businesses, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Spidersat Communications Limited ("Spidersat"), a leading integrator of global communications solutions focused on providing mission critical satellite-based communication services for mining, exploration, and mining services companies operating in Africa. The combined companies will provide the most seamless coverage, service, and local support available in Africa for mining and mining-related customers. The transaction is expected to close in the next 30 days.
"Spidersat is an outstanding addition to our business," said Joseph Spytek, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ITC Global. "Spidersat will advance ITC Global's position in Africa, and offers us a highly complementary suite of services and resources for enterprise clients throughout Africa. We are happy to have the Spidersat team join the ITC Global family, and together we will continue to provide premier, custom communications solutions to the mining and oil and gas industries across Africa. The acquisition of Spidersat comes just months after a significant investment in the Company by Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, and is part of our global growth strategy. Since the investment by Riverside Partners in January 2012, we have expanded our mining and energy businesses into Canada and the UK as well as entered into a long-term strategic partnership in the maritime business with Imtech Marine."
"We are proud to be aligned with ITC Global," said Mike Hennessey, Managing Director of Spidersat. "Our key markets such as Burkina Faso, Liberia and the DRC will be highly additive to ITC Global's already strong Africa footprint, and our local approach to satellite communications will be strengthened under the ITC Global umbrella. I have great respect for Joe and his worldwide team, and we are excited to be part of the next stage of growth."
Spidersat is a leading corporate communications provider in Africa, and provides custom networks and bandwidth access to enterprise customers throughout Africa. Spidersat is headquartered in Tanzania and has additional offices, accredited engineering, and support personnel in Ghana and Western Australia. Spidersat offers a broad range of services on the African continent, including fixed VSAT solutions and mobile satellite solutions, and has many years of experience of deploying reliable communication solutions within some of the most remote areas of Africa.
ITC Global's announcement of its intent to acquire Spidersat follows the recent completion of its acquisition of the remaining interest in ITC Guinee SARL, bringing ITC Global's ownership to 100% of ITC Guinee SARL. ITC Global is highly committed to Africa, and continues to strengthen its position as the leading satellite communications provider with unparalleled local presence to serve the mining and broader resources industries throughout Africa.
About ITC Global
ITC Global is a leading global satellite telecommunications service provider, operating an enterprise grade satellite network with complete global coverage. The Company operates through a seamless network of more than 25 advanced communications satellites. Delivering a complete set of satellite communications solutions on a global basis, ITC Global's services include custom network design, site engineering, hardware, communications support and high speed reliable bandwidth. With facilities and engineering and technical support staff across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, ITC Global provides satellite communications systems to some of the world's largest and most successful mining, oil and gas, and maritime companies in some of the most difficult and remote locations. For more information, please visit www.itcglobal.com
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An argument that Harvard made the right decision by firing faculty dean representing Harvey Weinstein
From the Harvard Crimson:
Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana announced that he will not renew Winthrop Faculty Deans Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. and Stephanie R. Robinson after their term ends on June 30 in an email to House affiliates Saturday morning.
The decision comes after more than three months of activism and outcry surrounding Sullivan’s decision to represent Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein — who stands accused of rape — and a day after The Crimson reported allegations brought by Winthrop students, tutors, and staff of a toxic environment under Sullivan and Robinson stretching back years.
Though their decade-long term at Winthrop will end this summer, Sullivan and Robinson will keep their appointments at Harvard Law School, where they both teach. They are the first African Americans to serve as faculty deans of an undergraduate house. ...
Students have criticized Sullivan’s representation of Weinstein since he first announced his decision in January.
Following that announcement, Sullivan wrote an email to Winthrop residents defending his decision and stressed the importance of representing the “unpopular defendant.”
My initial reaction was very much anti-Harvard and pro-Sullivan. It was being framed by many folks with whom I usually agree as a typical case of spineless higher education administrators caving to snowflake students.
Did Harvard just surrender the the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution itself to the gods of wokeness? Or did they just use the protest as an occasion not to renew a faculty dean they already wanted to replace? https://t.co/RwRAstHD0i
— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) May 13, 2019
"We should not want a society in which lawyers are punished by loss of position for defending unpopular clients. It is a fundamental principle of liberal democracy that legal defendants have a right to counsel." https://t.co/2g9NIwag3V
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) May 13, 2019
I remember when John Adams representing the solidiers from the Boston massacre was a normative example.
I also remember when Harvard students knew what any of that meant. https://t.co/s4N61IkmUb
— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) May 12, 2019
But then I read Joe Patrice's Above the Law blog post. Ordinarily, I am not a fan of ATL, especially since David Lat stepped back from running it. It's a toxic mess of gossip, identity politics, progressive pontification, and snark.
Patrice's post is in substantial part the sort of sloppy thinking and guilt by association that typifies so much of ATL's "reporting." He drags in Jeffrey Epstein for no good reason, to cite but a single example.
But Patrice's post nevertheless proved to be provocative in the best sense of the word, by provoking me to think a bit more deeply about the issue.
Harvey Weinstein absolutely has a right to hire a lawyer and there’s no reason to fault an attorney for taking on that representation per se. ...
But there’s more to a decision to represent someone than holding a law license and a willingness to work. For Sullivan — and by extension Harvard — this case more closely resembled the brief, ill-fated Lisa Bloom engagement. Bloom, the noted feminist attorney, took on Weinstein as a client in the early days of the scandal that now has him facing serious jail time. When she pulled out after being scolded by her mom, I wrote:
But while that moral high horse is saddled perfectly for the attorney as lawyer, it doesn’t always suit the attorney as businessperson. Building a practice is all about finding that niche, and Lisa Bloom’s success is built on her reputation as an advocate for victims of sexual misconduct. Her clients seek her out, not just for her experience in this field, but because victims who already face an uphill battle with trust can feel confident that they have someone firmly in their corner. In fact, that’s why a mother with a practice focused on showing that consistency releases a statement like this about their daughter.
There are potential impacts to an attorney’s long-term business in every engagement. For a lawyer positioning themselves as a committed, dispassionate criminal defense attorney, unsavory clients don’t matter. For a feminist attorney, representing accused rapists undermines the core credibility of her mission.
Sullivan had “Harvard dean” attached to his name and bringing Harvard into this case put Harvard’s professional reputation on the line.
Patrice's post called to mind a couple of partnership law cases I teach in Business Associations and that I discuss on my treatise Agency, Partnerships & LLCs .
In Bohatch v. Butler & Binion, 977 S.W.2d 543 (Tex. 1998), Colette Bohatch was one of three partners in Butler & Binion’s Washington office. She suspected that John McDonald, one of the other partners in that office, was padding his time sheets and over-billing their client Pennzoil. Bohatch reported her concerns to the firm’s managing partner. McDonald was cleared after an investigation. Meanwhile, McDonald told Bohatch that Pennzoil was dissatisfied with her work. The firm subsequently expelled Bohatch. She sued for, inter alia,breach of fiduciary duty.
The majority declined to create a “whistleblower” exception to the general rule that a partnership may expel a partner for business reasons, including the preservation of good working relationships between the partners and with clients.
A concurring judge similarly stated that "I think a law firm can always expel a partner for bad judgment, whether it relates to the representation of clients or the relationships with other partners, and whether it is in good faith."
The majority relied in part on the earlier decision in Holman v. Coie, 522 P.2d 515 (Wash. 1974). In that case, plaintiff Francis Holman was expelled from the law firm of which he was a partner. In addition to being a law firm partner, Holman served as a member of the Washington State House of Representatives. In the latter capacity he had offended Boeing, which was one of the law firm's major clients:
There is testimony that in March, 1969, several of the officers of Boeing discussed, with several members of the executive committee, a newspaper article written by a political columnist, which characterized Senator Holman as a ‘tax reform maverick,’ and praised him for his independence from his client, principally Boeing. There is also testimony that in April, 1969, the president of Boeing took issue with legal fees charged by Francis Holman for legal work which he had done for the company. Francis Holman had not been in charge of the billing for the particular work done, nor had he ever been notified of the complaint until after the lawsuit was commenced.
In mid-April, 1969, Francis Holman made a speech before the State Senate regarding personal property tax legislation which was then before the Senate. There may have been some misstatement in the speech or in the reporting of it; in any event, the speech apparently served to aggravate several of the top officials of Boeing. The speech was not recorded; it was extemporaneous; consequently, there are several versions of exactly what was said. In any event, the following day, upon the request of another senator, one area of comment made during the prior day's speech was clarified by Senator Holman.
There was also an allegation by one Boeing executive that Francis Holman had exploited his attorney-client relationship with Boeing by using some of the information obtained as its attorney in commenting upon this legislation.
In April, preceding the speech, the president of Boeing advised the managing partner of the law firm that they desired Francis Holman to do no further legal work on their behalf. This had not been conveyed to Francis Holman, who was performing his legislative duties in Olympia.
Holman was thereafter expelled. He sued, claiming that his partners had breached their fiduciary duties towards him, but the court tossed the complaint.
The case has been widely understood as standing for the proposition that a partner may be expelled without liability where necessary to protect the law firm's reputation. In Lawlis v. Kightlinger & Gray, 562 N.E.2d 435 (Ind. App. 1990), for example, in which the firm had expelled a partner who was an alcoholic, the court held that:
An ... important business adjunct of a partnership engaged in the practice of law is a favorable reputation for ability and competence in the practice of that profession. A favorable reputation not only is involved in the retention of old clients, it is an essential ingredient in the acquisition of new ones. Any condition which has the potential to adversely affect the good will or favorable reputation of a law partnership is one which potentially involves the partnership's economic survival. Thus, if a partner's propensity toward alcohol has the potential to damage his firm's good will or reputation for astuteness in the practice of law, simple prudence dictates the exercise of corrective action, as in Holman, since the survival of the partnership itself potentially is at stake.
That has to be the right rule. "Reputation is an important reason for the existence of law firms. Practicing in a firm gives lawyers an opportunity to post a 'reputational bond' that provides a quality assurance to potential clients beyond what lawyers could offer if they practiced alone." Larry Ribstein, Law Partner Expulsion, 55 Bus. Law. 845, 847 (2000). If a law firm can't fire a partner who is harming its reputation, it's economic survival may be threatened.
The same would seem to be true of any service firm, including Harvard, which in economic terms is a firm selling educational services.
As to tenured faculty positions, there may be countervailing considerations that justify protecting people from being fired just because they've done something controversial or otherwise harmed the school's reputation. But, as I understand it, the positions in question did not carry tenure. In addition, the positions apparently entail front-line interactions with students.
So, if Harvard believed retaining Sullivan and Robinson would impede the school's ability to market itself to snowflakes, and thereby protect its business, they made the right call.
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Category Archives: Hospitals & Asylums
Urbex: Whittingham Lunatic Asylum – Near Preston – March 2010
Whittingham Hospital, whose grounds adjoin the village of Goosnargh, grew to be the largest mental hospital in the country, and pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs). During its time it had its own church, farms, railway, telephone exchange, post office, reservoirs, gas works, brewery, orchestra, brass band, ballroom and butchers…
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Urbex: Aston Hall Mental Hospital, Ashton-on-Trent, Derby – October 2008
The hospital was opened in the 1930s. Each of the villas housed up to 50 patients but as the years passed the number gradually declined, especially with the advent of “Care In The Community”. As far as I can tell the site closed sometime in 2006 and has since become target somewhat by local youths and people stealing scrap metals…
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Urbex: Gledhow Grove Mansion, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom – September 2008
The Gledhow Grove Mansion became part of Chapel Allerton Hospital which was opened in May 1927 by HRH Princess Mary. It was run by the Ministry of Pensions and cost £130,000. It had two hundred beds and catered for former military personnel who had been injured in the Great War…
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Urbex: The Grange Nursing Home, Stamford Bridge, North Yorkshire – September 2008
The Grange Nursing Home in Stamford Bridge near York. Now this place was built in 1880 by a chap named Frederick Wright in a red brick Gothic design. The Mansion was originally named Derwent Hill but was renamed and restored after a fire 1898…
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GT Solar raises 2012 fiscal guidance after successful year
GT Solar has notably increased its fiscal year 2011 revenues over the last 12 months, leading the company to raise its 2012 fiscal guidance. As with the majority of industry players, however, it did suffer sequential declines.
May 24, 2011 Becky Beetz
Having completed a successful 2011 fiscal year, GT Solar, which provides polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems, says it has raised its fiscal 2012 revenue guidance from between USD$850 million to $1 billion, to a range of $1 billion to $1.1 billion.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, the company achieved revenues of $271.6 million. This is in comparison to the previous quarters $262.9 million, and $194.7 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. For the full year, it reaped revenues of $899 million. This represents a growth of 65 percent over fiscal year 2010, which saw revenues of $544.2 million.
Broken down into business segments, photovoltaics reaped the lions share of revenues at $186 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, while polysilicon represented $79.2 million. Meanwhile, $6.4 million was achieved in the sapphire segment. (Note: All revenues relate to sapphire materials.)
In terms of the full year, the photovoltaics arm of the companys operations earned $740.1 million, polysilicon netted $143.6 million and $15.3 million was achieved in the sapphire segment. Again, all of these figures were sapphire materials revenue.
While revenues increased, GT Solars gross profits took a small sequential tumble. Having reaped $122.1 million, or 46.4 percent of revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, the companys gross profit fell to $116.9 million, or 43 percent of revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011.
However, its gross profit did see a year-on-year increase, from $73.1 million, or 37.5 percent of revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. In terms of gross margins, the company expects to be in the range of 42 to 44 percent for the full fiscal year 2012.
Operating margin also experienced a quarter-on-quarter decrease. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, the company achieved an operating margin of 30.5 percent of revenue, in comparison to 36.1 percent of revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Again, however, year-on-year margins increased from 28.4 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010.
And, in terms of the full fiscal year 2011, it increased 30.4 percent, compared with 26.5 percent in fiscal 2010.
While GT Solars net income grew significantly from $33.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 to hit 51.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, it did experience a sequential decline from the third quarter of fiscal 2011 of $11.7 million.
Order backlog, as of April 2, 2011, was $1.19 billion. Of this, the photovoltaics segment represents $468.1 million, polysilicon $468.1 million and $184.2 million in the sapphire segment.
Net new orders for the quarter, meanwhile, were $234.2 million, which included $14.7 million in polysilicon, $125.1 million in photovoltaics and $94.4 million in sapphire.
"Our strong fourth quarter performance caps an outstanding year for GT and its shareholders," commented Tom Gutierrez, president and chief executive officer. "We achieved record revenues in fiscal year 2011 on 65 percent year-over-year growth and we more than doubled our earnings per share.
"This fiscal year, we shipped a record number of DSS furnaces to maintain our strong market position in the PV sector of our business. In our polysilicon business we saw increased activity that we believe provides the basis for continued growth in fiscal year 2012 and beyond."
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