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Previewing the best of Spring TV
Everything you should watch this season that isn’t Game of Thrones
Tegwyn Hughes
Stars of this spring TV season include Natalie Morales and Bill Hader.
Ally Mastantuono
Spring has sprung, and with it comes a host of new and old shows to grace our screens. As exams approach, we can all take comfort in knowing there’ll be new stories to binge while pretending to study in Stauffer.
From Veep to The Twilight Zone, here are the shows you should have on your radar in the upcoming spring season.
Veep, Mar. 31
The final season of everyone’s favourite HBO comedy about disgraced American ex-President Selina Meyer will premiere with the pomp and circumstance Julia Louis-Dreyfus always deserves.
The show’s seventh season was delayed due to Louis-Dreyfus’ cancer diagnosis, but now in remission, the actor will return to our screens this coming Sunday with another gut-busting foray into satirical politics.
No topics are off-limits, in true Veep form—anti-vaxxers, post-partum depression, and the glass ceiling are on the docket, and that’s only what I can glean from the trailer. These are accompanied, as usual, by the beloved profanity and insult-slinging that makes Veep one of the funniest shows on TV.
Barry, Mar. 31
Right before Veep hits our screens, Barry will make its second-season debut on HBO. The show’s first season was an equal mix of quirky and creepy, which made for a deeply enthralling viewer experience.
Titular character Barry, played by Bill Hader, is tempted away from his life as a hitman after he takes an introductory improv class in L.A. Scenes of gruesome murder are interspersed with awkward romance and bad acting as socially-awkward Barry grapples with the double-life he’s created.
The first season ends on a cliffhanger, which I won’t spoil for any new viewers, but its resolution in the upcoming season will certainly have fans on the edge of their seats.
Abby’s, Mar. 28
Lovers of NBC sitcoms like The Office, Parks and Recreation, or The Good Place are in for a treat, because another Mike Schur-produced show is here.
Abby’s, created by Superstore writer Josh Malmuth and starring Parks and Rec alum Natalie Morales, follows a woman who owns an illegal bar in her backyard. A cast of regular patrons filter in and out of her unlicensed establishment, where cell phones are banned and customers have to earn their place at the bar.
While the show is filmed on an open, outdoor set in front of a live audience—which I personally find annoying since I don’t like when shows tell me what I should find funny—Abby’s star cast and crew makes it promising.
What We Do in the Shadows, Mar. 27
This cult-favourite film of the same name by Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi and Flight of the Conchords co-creator Jemaine Clement has been adapted for the smaller screen, and promises a whole new host of creepy comedy.
The show follows a group of vampire housemates who encounter both supernatural and everyday problems while living in modern-day Staten Island. Whether you’re a fan of the 2014 mockumentary film or a new viewer excited for the hype, tune in for wacky hijinks and cringe-worthy dialogue courtesy of Waititi and Clement, who are New Zealand’s national treasures.
The Twilight Zone, Apr. 1
Another adapted supernatural show, this time hosted and produced by Get Out creator Jordan Peele, will premiere online on CBS All Access this Monday.
This isn’t an April Fool’s prank—the infamously spooky adaptation of 1959’s The Twilight Zone will have a new slate of disturbing stories acted out by an equally impressive celebrity cast. Stars like Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, and Taissa Farmiga will feature in standalone episodes, and fans can expect to see them plagued by all manner of paranormal events.
You’s second season is somehow scarier than the first
Four TV shows to hunker down with this winter
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Effects of Neonicotinoid Pesticides on Promoter-Specific Aromatase (CYP19) Expression in Hs578t Breast Cancer Cells and the Role of the VEGF Pathway
By Caron-Beaudoin, Elyse; Viau, Rachel; Sanderson, J. Thomas
In 2017, 26,300 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in Canada (Canadian Cancer Society's Advisory Committee on Cancer Statistics 2017). In the United States, it was expected that 252,710 new cases of breast cancer would be diagnosed in 2017 (American Cancer Society 2017). Of these cases, 83% were estrogen-receptor and/or progesterone-receptor positive (American Cancer Society 2017). In this type of cancer, increased local estrogen is produced, resulting in greater concentrations in the tumor microenvironment, which stimulates the proliferation of breast cancer epithelial cells (Ghosh et al. 2009; Yamaguchi and Hayashi 2009). Aromatase (CYP19) is a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of estrogens, as it is responsible of the final conversion of androstenedione to estrone, and testosterone to estradiol (Bulun et al. 2003). The CYP19 gene is expressed in a tissue-specific manner by the activation of various promoters located in the noncoding region of the gene. In the normal breast, CYP19 is expressed at low levels in fibroblast cells (stromal preadipocytes) and driven by the I.4 promoter (Simpson and Davis 2001).
In breast cancer, a series of events leads to the inhibition of I.4 promoter activity (Agarwal et al. 1996; Harada et al. 1993) and the activation of several promoters that are normally inactive in the stromal cells of the mammary gland, namely PII, I.3, and I.7 (Irahara et al. 2006; Subbaramaiah et al. 2012; Zhou et al. 1997). This unique switch in promoter usage results in an increase of overall CYP19 gene expression, aromatase catalytic activity, and subsequent estrogen biosynthesis. Moreover, malignant epithelial cells synthesize prostaglandin E2 (PG[E.sub.2]), which binds to its G-protein-coupled PG[E.sub.2] receptor to stimulate the production of cyclic AMP (cAMP), which results in increased CYP19 expression through activation of promoters PII and I.3 (Chen et al. 2007; Subbaramaiah et al. 2012). PG[E.sub.2] can also activate the orphan nuclear receptor homologue-1 (LRH-1), known to induce CYP19 expression in breast tissue (Zhou et al. 2005).
Increased levels of PG[E.sub.2], and other inflammatory factors such as TNF[alpha] and IL-11 in the tumor microenvironment only partially explain the promoter-switch in regulation of CYP19 expression that occurs in hormone-dependent breast cancer patients. Another potential contributor to the promoter-switch in CYP19 expression is the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor signaling pathway. The VEGF receptor (VEGFR) signaling pathway plays a central role in angiogenesis. More precisely, secretion of VEGF is associated with proliferation of vascular endothelial cells (Schneider and Sledge 2007). It has been demonstrated that VEGF and its receptors are overexpressed in breast cancer (Adams et al. 2000; Konecny et al. 2004). Furthermore, we know that VEGF-promotes angiogenesis and endothelial cell permeability by activating ERK 1/2 (MEK/MAPK1/3) (Breslin et al. 2003; Pai et al. 2001; Xu et al. 2008) and PLC/PKC (Cross and Claesson-Welsh 2001; Jiang et al. 2016).
Given the importance of aromatase in hormone-dependent breast cancer, understanding the regulation of the promoter-specific expression of CYP19 is paramount to assessing potential impacts of environmental contaminants on the development of this disease. Indeed, there is growing evidence that exposure to contaminants, such as pesticides, is a risk factor for hormone-dependent breast cancer (Cohn et al. 2007; Ibarluzea et al. 2004; Mathur et al. 2002; Xu et al. 2010). A lot of research has focused on effects of endocrine disruptors on the estrogen receptor (Bouskine et al. 2009; Roy et al. 2009; Rubin et al. 2001). The enzyme aromatase has been identified as a target for endocrine disrupting chemicals, including environmental pesticides (Sanderson 2006). However, we have little information on the roles that environmentally relevant levels of chemicals may play in the disruption of aromatase expression or activity. …
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives
Caron-Beaudoin, Elyse
Viau, Rachel
Sanderson, J. Thomas
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Effects of Atrazine on Estrogen Receptor [Alpha]- and G Protein-Coupled Receptor 30-Mediated Signaling and Proliferation in Cancer Cells and Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts By Albanito, Lidia Lappano, Rosamaria Madeo, Antonio Chimento, Adele Prossnitz, Eric R. Cappello, Anna Rita Dolce, Vincenza Abonante, Sergio Pezzi, Vincenzo Maggiolini, Marcello Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 123, No. 5, May 2015
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Results for Development supports local change agents as they identify and scale up new and effective responses to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)-related challenges.
Ensuring quality access to water, sanitation and hygiene for all remains a global challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where most of the 633 million people who lack access to improved drinking water and the 2.4 billion that lack access to basic sanitation services live.
Existing water and sanitation systems and the regulatory frameworks that apply to them aren’t making progress fast enough to address the WASH needs of a rapidly growing global population. Without breakthroughs that will allow us to make progress more rapidly, the WASH-related challenges faced by people in low- and middle-income countries — including malnutrition, missed school days, psycho-social stressors and preventable deaths — will be exacerbated.
R4D’s innovation-centric focus in WASH stems from the reality that the WASH sector has historically seen lower investments in paradigm-shifting experimental innovations — technological, policy and regulatory, or behavioral and social breakthroughs — than other sectors in development.
We recognize that local change agents are best suited to address the WASH-related challenges in the places they work, but also know that they often lack the connections to the right kinds of support to boost and scale their homegrown solutions. We focus on mobilizing opportunities for funding, learning and visibility to help bring innovative WASH programs to scale.
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The Outdoor Zone
Outdoor Adventures With Native Peoples Of Canada
by William Votaw
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The natural areas of Canada house the legacy of the native peoples of this country and are full of history that accounts for the current Canadian culture. Discover this incredible culture by entering the wild landscapes of this great country. These are some of the outdoor activities organized by indigenous tourism companies throughout Canada, from horseback riding and hiking to snowshoeing and mountain biking.
Ride a horse and go around with the family business Horseback Adventures, which awaits you at its ranch in Brule (Alberta), north of Jasper, on Highway 16. Here they offer horse riding activities for all tastes: from one-way rides hour for rookie trails to excursions for experienced riders who move away from the most frequented roads to get to know the rural area. Multi-day activities include homemade meals prepared by a chef traveling with the group.
Undertake an adventure to learn about the stunning beauty of the Arctic tundra and see the reindeer up close with one of the tours organized by Tundra North Tours, an Inuvialuit company based in Inuvik, in the Northwest Territories. Travel in a snowmobile with the local shepherds who have been crossing these lands for generations, and slide in the direction of the blue horizon line surrounded by thousands of reindeer.
Takaya Tours, a company in the north of Vancouver (British Columbia), organizes interpretive excursions in canoes similar to the historic vessels of the tsleil-waututh, one of the First Nations. During the navigation, a guide will transmit the ancient knowledge and wisdom of traditional methods to identify and collect native flora and fauna, in addition to sharing the songs and legends of the Salish culture and indicating the location of the oldest villages.
In Churchill, Manitoba, get on a dog sled with Wapusk Adventures. This small hatchery is owned by Dave Daley, a local also in charge of entrepreneurship, whose heirloom is reflected in the stories you will hear while you meet the dogs, learn about the use of sleds and take a full speed ride. Dave is the ideal person to answer all your questions on the road as he is the founder of Hudson Bay Quest, an annual sled race that attracts participants from around the world every winter.
Join an excursion in an inflatable boat 9 meters long to tour the islands and visit ancient villages of Haida culture, totems worn by time, and colonies of sea lions. Pay attention! You may also see whales and black bears along the way. All walks are accompanied by native songs and stories.
With Narwal Northern Adventures you have several options to visit the Northwest Territories: guided walks along the lake to know the ice caves, get on a canoe or a kayak to paddle through one of the beautiful sectors of Yellowknife (from day trips to six-day excursions) or admire the northern lights from a traditional 9-meter long canoe, which includes soup and typical slices of bread.
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Winter adventure in the city on the Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver
Immerse yourself in the magic of the season at Vancouver’s Capillano Suspension Bridge Park! Take a whimsical journey through the forest adorned in color and light, and admire the beautiful decorations while crossing the suspension bridge. Stroll among the tallest trees, including the tallest Christmas tree in the world! – and on the cliff. Stop for activities that are enjoyable for children, such as making cards and decorating cookies, and avoid cold with a hot drink in one of the rustic cafes (on your own). With mobile tickets, simply scan your phone to enter the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park directly.
Sledding adventure in Mont-Tremblant
Experience the excitement of a dog sled ride through the snow on a 1-hour adventure from Mont-Tremblant. Halfway there, enjoy the stunning winter landscapes and enjoy a hot chocolate with your guides. Learn to drive the sled or enjoy the excitement as a passenger before returning to the kennel to visit the dogs and maybe even meet their puppies.
Whistler sightseeing tour from Vancouver with Horseshoe Bay and Shannon Falls
Travelers who want to explore Whistler on a day trip from Vancouver generally need to rent a car and drive, which means focusing on the road instead of the landscape.
Dog sledding, snowboarding and snowshoeing tour from Toronto
Perfect for all ages, the full-day excursion provides a great escape from city life. Convenient transportation takes you from the busy streets of Toronto to a quiet farm in northern Ontario. Enjoy the thrill of dog sledding, snowshoes, and snow tubing along private trails. In the middle, heat with a chili lunch by the fireplace.
Seaplane flight to Victoria and whale watching cruise
Indulge yourself with beautiful aerial views at the 35-minute crossing of the Georgia Strait by seaplane, the greenest transportation to Victoria. From the capital of the island, start an exciting cruise through the Haro Strait, home of killer whales (killer whales), sea lions, and seals, followed by a flight back to the mainland.
Helicopter tour of Niagara Falls
Live the experience of Niagara Falls like never before, from a totally new perspective on this panoramic 10-minute helicopter tour. Each passenger receives individual headphones that offer interesting and educational information about the falls during the flight. The view is unforgettable, but you can take a camera to capture the moment.
Day in the Arctic circle: observation tour of the northern lights
Enter Canadian nature to admire one of the most spectacular light effects of nature on this evening watching the Northern Lights in Whitehorse. Leave the city in the company of your guide to enter the wild territory of the Yukon of Canada, where the clear skies offer excellent opportunities to contemplate the northern lights, also known as “northern lights.” Scroll to a specially adapted enclave away from the bright lights of the city and enjoy the majesty of the northern lights in the foreground. Look up and marvel at the vibrant green, violet, yellow, and red colors of the sky lighting up.…
Canada is one of the countries underlined in red by the most knowledgeable and enthusiastic travelers who see in its amazing national parks, its manicured and almost virgin nature, and its eastern metropolis reasons of tremendous weight to planning a trip to Canada.
Reasons To Travel To Canada
The snowy mountain range that stands in Alberta and British Columbia exhales an aroma of adventure and beauty that spreads through the four national parks that comprise it.
And if we talk about giving ourselves an optical joy, you have to ride the Rocky Mountaineer train and contemplate the most breathtaking and sublime panoramic views of a path between lakes, wild flora, and glaciers.
Nearly fifteen million tourists, which is said soon, choose to visit Niagara Falls.
It does not matter the time of day or the year. It doesn’t matter if the ice hides almost everything, as happens in winter. No matter their size, they are far from being the largest in the world.
Niagara Falls is one of the most demanded nature phenomena.
There are so many things to see in Canada that one of the great reasons for the most staunch fans of Viking history and culture could not be missing.
On the island of Newfoundland, you will find L’Anse-aux-Méduses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978, when the remains of a Viking village are found there.
When the coldest arrives, polar bears go hunting on the ice, although the most fearsome predators in the area are Arctic wolves. With almost two meters in length and color between leaden and canoe, they make oxen and reindeer their favorite victims and have become the biggest nightmare of the seals.
Cities For All Tastes
Vancouver combines the beach, mountains, and skyscrapers with ease. The cinematographic culture (it is one of the favorite filming locations of the North American film industry, that is, Hollywood) and gastronomic (much fusion and Asian cuisine) are its other strengths.
Quebec has more than four centuries of life, a stone wall, cathedrals that cut your breath, and coffee shops that bet on live music (especially jazz).
Montreal has a cosmopolitan atmosphere similar to that of Paris. From its pure and hard bilingualism sprouts the most European city in the New World (the narrow and cobbled streets of its old town reflect this neatly) and the cultural capital of Canada.
For its part, Toronto is the most populated, and its museums are highly valued. Elegant neighborhoods and an unparalleled leisure offer give this metropolis luster.
One of the most curious things about this Canadian city is its network of underground galleries (28 kilometers of travel) that connects the center and where you will find a lot of shops, restaurants, and access to buildings and transport.
How To Go From Toronto To Niagara Falls
You have at your disposal a wide range of possibilities: organized excursions that depart from the city center, Greyhound, and Megabus buses that take you to the town of Niagara Falls. Then you can walk the remaining 3 or 4 kilometers or take a bus in the town.
Between New York and Ontario, there are 1,700 islands, small but perfect if you like to enjoy an outdoor vacation. Of an unparalleled natural beauty, this area offers castles, lighthouses and maritime museums, on the one hand, and unique cities in which to practice fishing or diving, on the other.
Many are private, but in which they are public, there are parks, campsites, and cabins where you can stay. Some private ones are also open to the public, such as Isla del Corazón, which has Boldt Castle. You will arrive by boat to a superb construction of 120 rooms, and you can visit the castle and all its curious recesses. Other points of great tourist interest are Singer Castle or Wolfe Island.
Do not miss the first pilgrimage sanctuary in North America, that of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, a place of worship dedicated to Santa Ana that, for more than three centuries, has been visited and allows you to see beautiful stained glass, paintings, and sculptures.
A quarter of an hour from the center of Quebec, you have the powerful Montmorency waterfall (30 meters higher than the Niagara waterfall) that you can admire by cable car, panoramic staircase or from the suspension bridge. If you dare, try the zip line to fly over the waterfall.
The Jacques-Cartier National Park is a mountainous plateau of great breadth, with deep valleys and deep rivers in which a canoe ride is a delight, and you can also go fishing, hiking.
And if you are passionate about Native American history, the Huron-Wendat Museum will transport you to the 17th century to get to know this nation through various dance shows and their tales and legends.
Just an hour and a half from Quebec is the Charlevoix region. Its nature is fascinating, bathed by the San Lorenzo River, Charlevoix is a biosphere reserve inhabited by the fauna of the most diverse and with a flora that goes from the taiga and the boreal forests to the tundra of the rocky walls.…
Canada became the fourth country in the world throughout its territory to legalize same-sex marriages. This happened in 2005, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some of the biggest and most celebrated LGBT events take place annually in the country. More than 650,000 people attend the annual Pride Parade (Pride Parade) in Vancouver, including the mayor of the city and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who in 2016 attended three Pride parades (the other two, in Toronto and Montreal). Only a few hours away, Whistler hosts the Whistler Pride and Ski Festival (Whistler Ski and Pride Festival), a week of lesbian-gay skiing that turned 25 this 2017. Winnipeg exemplifies the country’s commitment to diversity and equality at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and will also host the Outgames 2020. Toronto is home to the country’s largest LGBT community and home to one of the largest Pride festivals in the world, which attracts more than one million attendees. And Le Village de Montreal is one of the oldest gay neighborhoods, not to mention the largest in the world. In addition, in 2017, Montreal will host the first Canada Pride, a national celebration of the LGBT movement in Canada, while celebrating the 375th birthday of the city.
From the endless opportunities for surfing on the beaches of Tofino, to the exclusive restaurants and the flourishing craft beer scene in the capital Victoria, every inch of British Columbia offers something different.
You cannot visit British Columbia without making a stop in Vancouver, which is consistently ranked as one of the best cities to live in the world. An incredible gastronomic culture, a fantastic nightlife, and a rich Aboriginal culture coexist with beaches, forests, and mountains that you can reach in a matter of minutes.
Then, there is Whistler, a tourist city in the mountains that attracts adventure seekers throughout the year. From some of the best places in North America to ski and snowboard all winter, to the best walks, zip lines, and even bungee jumping during the summer.
Now it is Alberta’s turn, were taking a walk in the Rockies after lunch and still having time to explore the streets of a big city before dinner, is possible.
The capital of Alberta, Edmonton is a great destination for festival lovers, as it hosts more than 60 festivals throughout the year, where everything from art, to dragon boats, passing through wine. There is also the huge West Edmonton Mall, the largest commercial and entertainment complex in North America, as well as countless galleries, shops, a famous farmer’s market, and a thriving LGBT neighborhood, Jasper Avenue.
A few hours south, you will find Calgary, a metropolis dramatically located between peaks and grasslands. Visitors and locals recreate the western heritage of the city every year, at the world-renowned Calgary Stampede, an event that lasts ten days in which rodeos abound, cowboy-inspired parties, and plenty to eat and drink. However, Calgary is a place where you can find entertainment all year round, thanks to a crackling cultural scene and incredible cuisine.
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Founded in 2009, Alberta Rural Development Network came into practice to establish a sustainable network that empowers Canadian rural communities. About nine Albertan colleges and universities are working together with this Non-Profit Organization with the sole purpose of supporting and improve rural development.
The Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN) gets funded by many organizations, including the Rural Alberta Development Fund (RADF), which assists this network in conducting researches on the information with the help of deep connections that it has from across all regions of this province.
So far, the journey of ARDN has been highly successful. In fact, ARDN has played a key and decisive role in helping various communities across the community of rural Alberta. ARDN helped these communities by allowing them to gain access to proper education, jobs, and other things via Campus Alberta Institutions, industry, and different other organizations too.
Homelessness, Affordable Housing, Substance Use Awareness, and Creating Rural Connections are the four key areas that ARDN focuses on. Narrowing these objectives has catered ARDN to create tools, resources, and new methods that have helped the rural communities to overcome many hardships and realities, which sometimes get unseen by many government campaigns in many remote rural areas.
Affordable housing and homelessness were the biggest challenges facing the rural community of Alberta. The sole purpose of making this network was to prevent these two challenges to stop as sustainable development and improper housing are the critical backbone of any society.
To overcome such challenges, the Homelessness Partnering Strategy’s Rural and Remote Homelessness funding stream was started, which was administrated by ARDN. So far, Drayton Valley, Fort Macleod, Cochrane, and Chestermere were among the many projects that ARDN took under its wings and have successfully made the lives of people living in these projects better.
The Principles
ARDN focuses on four core principles that assisted this network in creating rural connections. These are:
These core principles allowed ARDN to achieve and follow its mission, which is to create a model of rural community development via the collaborations through many institutions in research and learning.
ARDN will continue working to improve and dignify the living conditions of the families that live there and with actions such as the adaptation of roads, the rehabilitation of the electricity grid, the establishment of the service of Post office and continue and maintain the cleaning of plots and debris, as well as the study and implementation of viable options to facilitate public transport within Alberta.
Facilitate access to housing, boost the sector, promote affordable rent, promote rehabilitation, expand access to public housing or relocation of the most disadvantaged as well as their social integration and fight against the occupation of both public and private house, are some of the primary lines of action which will be implemented throughout 2020.…
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Rasmussen College Expands Accelerated Entrance Options for Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree to Kansas
Accelerated BSN entrance options now available in Kansas City region and Topeka
Molly Andersen
Senior Public Relations Manager
Kansas City, Kan. (January 26, 2017)—Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited private college, today announced the expansion of its accelerated entrance options for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree (http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/bachelor-science-nursing-bsn/) to Kansas. The Rasmussen College BSN degree program, which is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), is now available with two accelerated pre-licensure entrance options at the College’s Kansas City/Overland Park and Topeka, Kansas campuses. The entrance options are designed for students who are committed to the nursing profession and eager to launch their careers as quickly as possible, as well as help fill a significant need for registered nurses (RNs) with bachelor’s degrees in Kansas. Enrollment is immediately available with classes expected to begin in April.
“We are excited to expand our two accelerated BSN entrance options to our campuses in Kansas City/Overland Park and Topeka. These options will provide students in Kansas who are driven to achieve their BSN degree an opportunity to do so at an accelerated pace,” said Dr. Joan Rich, vice president of the School of Nursing at Rasmussen College. “Since we first launched our accelerated BSN entrance options in Florida and Wisconsin in fall 2015, we have seen significant interest from prospective students across the United States which is reflective of the need and demand for accelerated nursing programs. At Rasmussen College, we work closely with our healthcare partners within each campus community to understand their current employment needs. We know the accelerated entrance option for our BSN degree will allow dedicated, driven students the opportunity to get into the nursing profession quickly while also positively impacting the healthcare needs in the Kansas City region and Topeka communities.”
High Demand for RNs with a Bachelor’s Degree in Kansas
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends the proportion of working RNs with bachelor’s degrees increase to 80 percent by 2020 in order to meet the needs of an aging population and the evolving healthcare system across the U.S. According to labor analytics firm Burning Glass, there were more than 4,800 job postings over the past year for RNs with a bachelor’s degree in Kansas. The majority of those postings were in the Kansas City metropolitan area with around 4,700 postings. Another 300 job postings were in Topeka alone. When compared to the number of job postings just five years ago—around 1,200—there has been a 280 percent growth in demand for registered nurses with bachelor’s degrees in Kansas.
“In addition to the growing demand for RNs with bachelor’s degrees in Kansas, a number of hospitals and medical clinics are currently under construction in the Kansas City region, and those facilities will require more nurses and other healthcare workers,” said Tanner Funk, associate dean of the School of Nursing at Rasmussen College in Kansas City/Overland Park. “The Rasmussen College BSN degree program will prepare students for a leadership role in the nursing field by providing real-world curriculum taught by experienced nursing faculty as well as hands-on training and practicum experiences. Upon graduation, students will also be fully prepared for the RN licensure exam.”
Two Accelerated Pre-Licensure BSN Entrance Options
Second Degree Entrance Option
The Second Degree Entrance Option is a pre-licensure track that may be completed in as few as 18 months.* Candidates for this option currently hold a non-nursing bachelor’s degree and are now looking to complete their BSN.
Standard Entrance Option
The Standard Entrance Option is a pre-licensure track that may be completed in as few as 33 months.* Candidates for this option do not currently hold a bachelor’s degree. Students who enroll in the BSN program through the Standard Entrance Option are also eligible for the Rasmussen College Flex Choice® Credit by Assessment learning option, which allows them to complete some of their general education courses through online, self-directed assessments at a more affordable cost.
Post-Licensure BSN Entrance Option
RN to BSN Entrance Option
Rasmussen College also offers a fully online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN) Entrance Option. This post-licensure option is designed for registered nurses who have obtained their RN degree through an associate’s degree program (or diploma and/or certificate) and are looking to advance their nursing careers by obtaining a degree from a CCNE-accredited program. The RN to BSN entrance option may be completed in as few as 12 months.*
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Tishman Speyer, Ingels bringing leaning tower, spiral to evolving NYC skyline
New York City’s High Line, which recently completed its third and final phase in 2014, is on track for a dramatic vertical extension, courtesy of Tishman Speyer.
The project in question is a breathtaking 65-story, $3 billion tower located at 66 Hudson Boulevard, making it the “dot at the end of the question mark,” according to designer Bjarke Ingels.
However, this will be no ordinary skyscraper – Tishman Speyer’s “Spiral” will function as a thematic extension of the park, featuring transparent glass walls and cascading outdoor terraces with foliage on every tenant floor. These terraces, if laid end-to-end, would stretch for half a mile, and will be complemented by additional greenery in the interior of the building, creating a truly unique experience for the Spiral’s tenants.
Notably, one of Ingels’ other recent projects is Two World Trade Center, which will also sport a unique architectural design. 2 WTC will be almost as tall as One World Trade at 1,340 feet, and will create the illusion of “leaning” towards it through a design that suggests that the tower is comprised of seven blocks stacked on top of one another.
The imaginative and progressive design of the Spiral is not just for show – it also reflects trends which Ingels and Tishman Speyer’s President Rob Speyer have identified in today’s marketplace.
The open and transparent structure promotes the ideas of creativity, collaboration, and teamwork, which are traits that are not only desired in the modern workplace, but also directions that it is leaning more towards as technology continues to bring companies even closer to their clients and to each other. The desire for outdoor amenities, such as roof decks and terraces, also played a large role in the decision, as these types of amenities can greatly increase the value of a space.
The 2.85-million square foot Spiral will also provide exciting opportunities for retailers. Its base will house 27,000 s/f of retail space, and due to its prime location adjacent to Hudson Park and the subway’s newest 7 train station at 34th Street and 10th Avenue, Tishman Speyer’s new tower will certainly become an instant hot spot among visitors to the High Line, future residents of Hudson Yards, and the City’s millions of tourists from around the world.
The Spiral will be the next step in New York City’s evolving landscape. With Hudson Yards still under construction, the 7 train now extended to 10th Avenue, the High Line completed, and many other projects in the works all over the city, the next few years look very exciting.
Part of what allows New York to maintain its position as the greatest city in the world is its constant improvements upon itself, and projects like the Spiral show that New York is hitting the ground running in 2016 and shows no signs of slowing down.
James Whelan,
REBNY President
Mr. Whelan authors REBNY Watch, this weekly column highlighting timely topics in real estate. It is published in the print version of Real Estate Weekly.
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Work on Orange County park-and-ride lots irks commuters
Judy RifeTimes Herald-Record
NEWBURGH – Rehabilitation of the state Department of Transportation’s park-and-ride on Route 17K is going full-tilt, but the contractor’s ability to complete it before winter is now weather-dependent.
Eastern Excavation of Elmsford, the DOT’s contractor for the $6.4 million overhaul of the Newburgh and Monroe park-and-rides, faces a finish date of Nov. 30, and only this week moved to the second of three phases in Newburgh.
Work in Monroe, which started in May, is also incomplete, and commuters at both lots are anxious about the absence of permanent lighting and shelters now that Daylight Saving Time is ending (Sunday) and colder weather is beginning.
“The two lots in Monroe will be done by Nov. 30 and the lot in Newburgh will be as well, weather permitting,’’ said Gina DiSarro, a DOT spokeswoman.
She added there was a possibility that the permanent LED lights and shelters could be in place sooner in Monroe. One 21-foot-long shelter will be installed in Lot B and three 14-foot-long ones in Lot A. Two 21-foot-long shelters will eventually be erected in Newburgh.
In the interim, some commuters, still adjusting to the changes at Short Line’s gates at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, are skeptical about whether this upheaval at the park-and-rides will ultimately leave them better off.
“We all shake our heads,’’ said Steve Vreeland, who uses the Monroe lot. “There’s no place for people to stand because of these enormous flower pots. You should see it between 4:30 and 5:30 when maybe 300 people are trying to board six different buses. We don’t need flower pots. It’s not like it’s a public building; it’s a park-and-ride.”
Laurie Derderian, another Monroe commuter, said of the temporary spotlights that barely illuminate the lot: “They are so busy building planters and planting trees that they seem to have relegated installing lighting to the bottom of the list.”
The project was designed to boost capacity in the DOT’s chronically overcrowded park-and-ride network in Orange County and improve the operation and appearance of the lots. Monroe is gaining 62 new spaces, for a total of 707, and Newburgh, 60 new ones, for a total of 310.
The lots are primarily hubs for carpoolers and Short Line customers, but Newburgh also serves Adirondack Trailways, Ulster County Area Transit, shuttle buses to the Metro-North station in Beacon and local buses.
DiSarro declined to comment on whether the DOT has any quarrel with how Eastern has tackled a contract that requires the company to maintain parking even as it tore these two lots apart.
“I don’t think it’s taking longer than expected,’’ said DiSarro. “I think it’s taking longer than people would like it to.”
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Local children's book author S.T. Davis to appear at museum
The Fishkill Historical Society will host a book signing by Hudson Valley children’s author S.T. Davis on Aug. 13.
The free event takes place from 1:00-3:45 p.m., at the Van Wyck Homestead Museum, with a talk by Davis at 2 p.m. Books can be purchased at the signing.
Among her books is "Musket and Mobcap," offering a look into the daily life of Sybil Ludington during the time of the American Revolution.
Ludington, born in 1761, grew up in Dutchess County and became known in history as a female counterpart to the famous Paul Revere.
The book reveals the true story of how, when she was barely 16 years old, she made a 40-mile, all-night ride to muster her father’s militia troops and protect the Hudson Highlands while British soldiers burned nearby Danbury, Connecticut.
After the battle at Danbury, George Washington visited the Ludington home to personally thank Cybil.
The Van Wyck Homestead was the headquarters for George Washington’s Northern Military Supply Depot during the Revolutionary War.
Many notables visited the site, including Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Israel Putnam and the Marquis de Lafayette.
The Van Wyck Homestead Museum is located at 504 Route 9 at the intersection of I-84; take Exit 13 or 13S.
Museum hours are weekends from 1-4 p.m. through October; tours are available, and the gift shop is open.
Call the Fishkill Historical Society at 845-896-9560 for information, or visit fishkillhistoricalsociety.org.
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Home>News>The Future is Bright
This is the first of a three part series from New York Red Bulls team writer, Frank Giase showcasing the youth and development programs that RBNY has to offer.
On an early August morning at the Peddie School in Hightstown, N.J., 180 kids are pushing themselves in soccer drills and scrimmages in an effort to impress the coaches. They are fully aware that one beautiful goal, one perfect pass, one great defensive play or one acrobatic save can earn them a place in the Red Bulls Academy program.
That’s right all you moms and dads out there, soccer has joined baseball, football, basketball and hockey as an avenue for your child to become a professional athlete. And if not, there’s no downside. The skills they will have learned will make them not only better high school players, but put them in a greater position to receive a college soccer scholarship.
“The essence of the camp is to eat, breathe and sleep soccer,” said Simon Barrow, manager of the Red Bulls’ Regional Development Schools (RDS). “When the day ends they go back to the dorms to play Xbox. At night we view games or have viewing parties. It’s all really about getting them to associate themselves with the club. The reality is, if you go with the hard math, a fraction of one percent of these kids is going to make it to the first team. The likelihood is slim, but what we can do is foster a love for the team.”
But the percentage of players moving through the academy and signing with the first team has grown in recent years. Just recently, the Red Bulls finished a game with three homegrown players – Matt Miazga, Connor Lade and Sean Davis – on the field.
“This program serves as the stepping stone to the academy,” Barrow said. “Our academy teams, which start at U-12 and go through U-23, are fed by this system, so the kids that are in this camp are assessed for the academy and go on to that stage. Tyler Adams was in this program three years ago. It’s crazy to think we had kids at a young age that went on to score against Chelsea.”
In the 4-2 victory over the English Premier League champions July 22 at Red Bull Arena, Davis scored two goals and the 16-year-old Adams netted another. Franklin Castellanos, a former member of the Red Bulls U-23 team who plays for Red Bulls II, also scored in the game.
“I’ve been managing the program for 10 years but it’s just recently become a reality,” Barrow said. “I always told the kids if they work hard and the cards fall into place, they could possibly have the same opportunity. Maybe it’s a lot of hypotheticals, but now it’s happened. Now you can say to the kids there’s a concrete role model for a player who was in your shoes just a few years ago, and now that pathway exists.”
And don’t think the kids aren’t noticing.
“I want to be a professional soccer player,” said 12-year-old Anthony Cinquina of Jersey City. “Five years ago I was playing for a team in Newark and I wanted more practice and training, so I found the RDS and I stuck with them. It was really fun. This camp is nice. I like the dorms and the fields, and the coaches are awesome.”
Twelve-year-old Zach Wheeler of Metuchen feels the same way.
“The camp has been amazing,” he said. “Metuchen has a pretty good rec program, but this is pretty cool here.”
The Red Bulls maintain one of the premier youth soccer development programs in the United States, and that reputation has filtered outside New Jersey as parents look for the best opportunity for their child.
“I didn’t play for D.C. United. I didn’t really like their academy,” said Nicholas Shirley, a 12-year-old from Maryland. “My dad took us down here, looked at it, he thought it was really cool. And then we checked out the RDS, which we did in the winter. That was my first time playing with Red Bulls. I like the camp. It’s really good. We train a whole lot, which is really fun. The instructors are really good and we do a lot of good drills with the ball.
“My dream is to play professionally, but I want to make a start somewhere and this place, if I work hard enough, will give me an opportunity to do that.”
The players go through three sessions a day – morning, afternoon, evening – and everything finishes with a game so the coaches have an opportunity to see if the kids are able to demonstrate everything they were taught. Sessions normally last two hours.
“We’ve got a generation of young superstars that will reinvigorate the young athlete,” Barrow said. “What we’re finding is the best athletes don’t have to depart soccer to pursue a career as a professional. It’s already more rewarding the way the pay structure is changing. It’s much more lucrative than it used to be. Four or five years ago the very best athletes would be pulled away, and now they’re not. These kids see that. At 11, 12 years old, you ask a kid what they want to be and they say I want to be a pro soccer player. That didn’t exist a few years ago.
“Odell Beckham Jr. was a top, top soccer player and has now become probably one of the NFL’s best receivers. The point is we’ve lost a lot of the best athletes to other sports, but now it is turning around. The visibility of our sport, not just MLS, but the national team, is now the top athletes have more incentive to stay with soccer. Now you’ll find these kids at 11 and 12 years old are playing soccer exclusively. Maybe it’s less healthy for an all-around development perspective not to become multi-sport athletes, but our job is to create the next world-class soccer player.”
So you not only see players like Miazga, Davis and Lade, but Juan Agudelo, Matt Kassel and Santiago Castano reach MLS and beyond. And that makes kids believe they could be there one day, and it starts with the basics.
“Our younger kids here are working on the developmental part of the program, which is individual moves, ball mastery, one-on-one skills,” Barrow said. “Then, as we get to the older kids, they’re working on small-group tactics: possession, 2v1’s, 3v2’s, that sort of thing. Our philosophy is we don’t teach that to the 7-year-olds because they need to become more comfortably possessing the ball on their own before they can be comfortable in possession as a group.
“We’ve got such a huge player pool. We’ve got 4,000 kids a year so it’s impossible for all the academy coaches to go out and assess 4,000 kids and see who they’re looking to recruit, but by casting the net a little bit wider at the younger ages we’re able to assess and develop that volume of kids.”
It’s a huge challenge, but one Barrow and the other coaches welcome.
It’s an exciting time for the sport. I’ve seen the market become so much more educated over the years, and it’s only good for the game,” Barrow said. “The engagement and the desire and hunger of these kids demonstrate the growth of the sport. We’re on the dawn of something pretty special.”
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Power for the People
In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Bernie Grant's election to parliament, Ayo Wallace explores the life and legacy of his radical representation of Tottenham's black communities.
June 10, 2017 · 17 min read
This year marks thirty years since Bernie Grant’s memorable 1987 Tottenham seat win when he, along with Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Keith Vaz, wrote themselves into the history books as the only black MPs since the war. Wearing a hand woven, light blue 3-piece African dashiki to the State Opening of parliament, Bernie Grant was a man of style and dignity, whose love of culture and community left a lasting impression.
He was passionate about the preservation of history and after his untimely death in 2000, the Bernie Grant Trust in partnership with Heritage Lottery and Middlesex University appointed a professional archivist to catalogue the Bernie Grant Archive Collection, now held at Bishopsgate Institute in London Liverpool Street.
In 2015, I was privileged to participate in a Heritage Lottery funded project encouraging young adults into the heritage sector. We developed skills with which to creatively respond to historic and contemporary ideals surrounding democracy, politics and citizenship. As event producers, we explored how a collaboration between arts and heritage could inspire new audiences to engage with often hidden resources and how we could make them more accessible. One such resource was the Bernie Grant Archive and we were given a small budget to produce an event called ‘Facing Black’.
The intention of ‘Facing Black’ was to get young people engaging with the archive, to find out how many people knew Bernie Grant, and discuss the importance of his role in British politics as well as what might be missing from the current representation of BAME communities.
We set up an interactive news headline workshop that looked at images like Mark Duggan’s photograph, used by tabloids in a way that suggests he was a thug.
Seeing the photograph in full, we can tell he was actually by the graveside of his daughter, exposing how the media can manipulate images to project certain stereotypes and justify the discriminatory lens through which they often view communities of colour.
Along with photocopied and lamented pieces from the archive, we encouraged participants to create new headlines and paint a different picture. We also took placards and banners onto Kilburn High road, and heard live poetry about identity, racial inequality and aspirations for the future.
Attracted by the creativity, many stopped to ask what was going on and if there was a protest they should know about. We explained why we had placards with Bernie Grant’s image on one side and the question, ‘Who is this man?’, on the other. Some recognised him immediately and recounted their memories of him speaking up for regular hardworking people in Britain whilst others, mostly of the younger generation, didn’t know who he was at all.
We shared some highlights of Bernie Grant’s career and many expressed the desire to, once again, see a public figure that was representative, unafraid to ask the hard questions in parliament and meaningfully engage with the community.
Bernie Grant had a reputation for being outspoken, especially at the time of the Broadwater Farm Uprising and his infamous statement, taken out of context, about the police getting “a bloody good hiding”. He defended the youth who were seen as the sole cause of unrest and was dubbed by then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd as “The high priest of conflict”.
Though to many parliamentarians Mr Grant was seen as a rebel rouser, to the people in his constituency and beyond, he will be remembered as a man who defended the voiceless and spoke unapologetically, in the face of prejudice.
So what were his achievements at the grassroots level and what legacy did he leave behind?
Bernie Grant was born in Guyana in 1944. His parents and many other family members were schoolteachers, respected members of the community, they were expected to be actively involved in supporting development and providing leadership. His father was a Headteacher and his uncle, Basil Blair was president of the Guyana TUC and also president of the Caribbean Teachers Union.
His mother Lily and uncle Basil were also political activists during Guyana’s fight for independence from Britain. His uncle even stood for national election at one stage, but decided to concentrate on trade union activities.
In 1963, by his early twenties, Mr Grant had made the journey of a generation, joining his family to seek the promise of opportunity, employment and education that was given to the former colonies by the British government.
He attended Tottenham Technical College where he was active in his student union, organising foreign students, before attending Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to study mining engineering. Mr Grant left the University in 1969 in protest against the discrimination against black students that prevented them from participating in work experience in apartheid South Africa.
His brother, Leyland Grant explains, “Bernie was always interested in defending the weak against the strong. In primary school he defended a schoolmate, who was a native South American [who] faced prejudice and discrimination in his school life. When he was working in the labs for the Demerara Bauxite Company, he also took up many cases involving co-workers although he was not an official union rep.”
It was through Bernie Grant’s engagement with the then Socialist Labour League and then becoming a trade union official, that he found value in turning his skills to politics and by 1978 he was a Labour councillor for the borough of Haringey.
He eventually became the first Labour council leader of African descent, active at the grassroots level along with other Black Section members such as Sharon Atkin. The Black Section’s role was to agitate in the political arena and bring the rights of the black community to the forefront of Labour Party discussion.
They were met by opposition and, according to media at the time, seen as “a thorn in the side of Neil Kinnock’s attempt to promote a rosy image of party unity”. These section members really shook up the establishment with accomplishments like the introduction of Black History Month in the UK by Addai Sebo, former policy chair for the London Strategic Policy Unit as well as the publication of the Black Agenda, which documented the needs and concerns of a community that had a long and loyal history of supporting the Labour Party.
These activists were visible at a grassroots level, supporting the celebration of African Liberation day as well as other community initiatives and were instrumental in the collective action that brought about the unprecedented 1987 victory.
On speaking to my mother, Nefertiti Gayle, who was a youth worker, poet, activist and is a friend of the Grant family, she recalls, ‘He supported reparations and did a lot of work with community organisations’.
She reflects on how Grant ‘had direct contact with not only African but Turkish, Greek/Cypriot and Irish communities’. He represented a wider feeling of wanting change in an archaic and prejudiced establishment. Bernie was known for asking tough questions and demanding justice, not only in the UK but internationally too. He was seen as an important figure in building bridges between Britain and the international community.
In the 1980s, Broadwater farm was in desperate need of renovation. The estate, initially built for the white middle classes, had been neglected by the local authority and quite simply, the black community was suffering. Young black men in particular, were often discriminated against, in an era when there was less information about stop and search rights and very little regulation of the metropolitan police. One such incident saw officers searching the house of Floyd Jarrett over an alleged tax disc issue, for which he was later acquitted. There has been an ongoing debate about what took place at that time but the black community strongly feel that Floyd’s mother, Cynthia Jarrett, who suffered cardiac arrest during the raid on her home, was murdered. This has since been viewed as a major factor in what led to the uprising. It saw people stand up to ongoing police brutality and the dehumanisation of their community, when, after decades of building the British empire through professions like nursing and construction, they found themselves suffering poor living conditions, unemployed and at the mercy of a racist establishment.
In the aftermath of the Broadwater farm uprising, there was a need to properly assess the state of the community. At the time there was a 90% unemployment rate among the black men living on the estate. The Lord Gifford enquiry brought more tensions between the state and the black community and the estate became over-policed and under-supported.
Bernie Grant, being interested in the ideas and experiences of his constituents, spoke with many residents on the estate. They demanded that people from the estate be employed to rebuild and clean it up. 383 people did just that and in the wider community, leases were given for community spaces. Many young people on Broadwater farm had also taken over disused buildings and turned them into vital services for the community such as youth centres and supplementary schools as well as creating initiatives to feed the growing elderly population.
This action inspired Bernie to imagine more spaces that the community could occupy sustainably. In 1992 he supported local activists in attempts to bring a dilapidated school building into use. The Selby Trust was founded and the premises successfully turned into a multi purpose facility known as the Selby Centre. Given a 25-year lease by Haringey council, the centre has enabled third sector organisations and community workers to build partnerships and deliver programs that tackle poverty, injustice and inequality. Now the lease is up, there are major concerns about the council’s plans to sell the centre to private developers. And Selby isn’t the only building at risk.
I have been a social change strategist for three and a half years for Tottenham based not for profit community enterprise The Ubele Initiative. TUI seeks to implement innovative action-learning interventions based on leadership development and social change for African Caribbean communities within the UK.
In 2015 we released a 78 page report called ‘A Place To Call Home’, supported by Locality. It captured the impact and legacy of the ‘Windrush Generation’ in acquiring community assets for cultural, social and political empowerment. Data was gathered from 150 organisations, resulting in recommendations for central government, local authority, Locality and African Diaspora community organisations.
We found that 54% of respondents had stated the future of their buildings were insecure. Evidence shows the impact of up-scaling contracts and how under funding is leading to difficulty in community workers being able to meet the needs of the people they support and the demanding local authority.
Over the past 20 years, a number of organisations still remain with short leaseholds and in spite of proven track records providing services to the community, there is a reluctance for landlords, often in the form of a local authority, to renew or extend leases. We are losing the vital gains made by the previous generations and the services that provide much needed support within our communities. If the lack of funding, engagement and support continues and the private developers choose to prioritise trendy bars and unaffordable housing over the needs of local people, then this legacy is in danger of being erased all together.
Despite the battle with gentrification and the uncertain future of black community spaces across the UK, there has actually been success in terms of representation in parliament. There are currently 42 Black and Minority Ethnic MPs, putting diversity in the House of Commons at a record high. But what are these politicians doing today to carve out space for us, on the ground and in the bull-ring that is parliament? Who is really ‘facing the black’?
David Lammy has served as Tottenham MP for 17 years. Inheriting a traditional Labour seat, it’s no surprise to me that he remains but overall, his contributions don’t exactly leave me excited or optimistic about the socio-economic advancement of the black community.
In 2007 Lammy was appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and was was responsible for setting up the National Apprenticeship Service and National Apprenticeship Week, committing the Government to creating half a million new apprenticeships. In spite of these accomplishments, his ability to connect with constituents has been brought into question.
During the 2011 riots that sprung up across the country, Lammy said the events were due to “A Grand Theft Auto culture that glamorises violence. A consumer culture fixated on the brands we wear, not who we are and what we achieve. A gang culture with warped notions of loyalty, respect and honour.”
These comments were alienating and a sign of the gap between generations. As a young person struggling to find employment in spite of my qualifications and an extensive amount of work and voluntary experience, I felt his words seriously missed the mark and didn’t address the wider issue of a failing, racist establishment that had generated such a degree of apathy and distraction. There seems to be a disconnect where there used to be dialogue, and along with the rest of the nation, the youth are seen as an annoyance; disruptive, disrespectful and without reproach by the very people who should be fighting their corner.
His comments were far from that of late Bernie Grant during the Broadwater Farm Uprising. But is this a generational issue or just that he is simply out of touch?
In 2009, I was coerced into campaigning for my then local MP, Sarah Teather. I say ‘coerced’, because I had no intention of canvassing but Brent Floating Support staff encouraged me to partake in something outside of my housing and employment woes and, in some ways, it actually did the trick. I spent a few months with the campaign team, writing letters and leafleting, receiving councillors more interested in their image than engaging with the community. It helped to keep me active, reinstalling my passion for community work and helping me observe the many barriers in terms of participation. I had secretly wished for the success of Dawn Butler since after the Brent South and East boundary change, both her and Teather were contesting for the newly formed Brent Central seat.
For me, politics was about supporting those most likely to represent your aspirations and concerns and at the time I was not convinced the Lib Dems could do that. Unfortunately, this coincided with the expenses scandal and Butler’s claim of full expenses on a second home without making her voice heard on key issues for over a year in parliament.
In 2015, Butler did manage a comeback, winning the Brent Central seat for Labour. In spite of this landslide victory, one must question whether voters were enamoured by Butler’s capabilities or simply fearful of the growing support for right-wing parties like UKIP.
Like Lammy, in her early days, there was an air of hope around Butler, that her presence would help address the concerns of the black community and bring about real change. She had been appointed Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs in 2006, and Honorary Vice President of the British Youth Council. She wanted to be “a voice for the youth” but in all the political manoeuvring over the years, I’m not sure I ever saw her as a voice for my generation. And I’m pushing 30, I’d be surprised to know how many 18- 25 year olds know who she is or what she does in the grassroots.
Grant’s sister Paula Nortey says “The problem with Bernie’s successors, in my [..]opinion, is that the Labour party selection process is not as it was before. The calibre of MPs is different. Radical ones may not be selected. The Labour party is therefore not attractive to large sections of young people. Most [young people] see very little difference between the parties.There is little/no sense of community these days and because the trade union movement is also weak, there is little unity over specific causes like in Bernie’s day. The current Labour MPs seem to reflect this political lethargy.”
Someone who has more popularity is the Blue Labour enthusiast, Chuka Umunna, who stood for the Labour leadership elections in 2015 then withdrew 3 days later. Committed to appealing to Conservative voters as well as the left, Umunna’s may put the middle in middle ground, that kind of contradictory politics that doesn’t ruffle too many feathers. But for all the radical posture of fighting big pharmaceutical companies and defending the shortchanged taxpayer from big bad bankers, this is also the man who happily accepts a £20,000 gift from a gambling executive despite campaigning against the spread of betting shops in his constituency and promising new powers to limit them. Is this really the man to put the preservation of community space at the forefront of his agenda?
Im not sure we will find these guys at the annual march on parliament, held 1st August, for reparations or an African Liberation day celebration any time soon.
Still, there may be some light at the end of a very long tunnel. Kate Osamor who won a seat for the Borough of Edmonton, is the daughter of community activist Martha Osamor, a former Haringey Labour councillor who was selected to stand as an MP in 1989 before being unceremoniously removed by then party leader Neil Kinnock. Last June, Osamor was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and has been vocal about discrimination against women, refugees and campaigns for greater inclusion and diversity in parliament.
In a time when gentrification is hurting black communities and a widening generation gap is pushing young people further and further from the political mainstream, it’s more important than ever that politicians connect with the people they represent and be clear on what they stand for.
We are losing space but also, by not passing on the baton and empowering the youth in our own communities, we are losing prospective leaders that could make a real difference. I’m not sure how young people can be expected to engage in politics if those that represent us are not only visible, but active at the grassroots where all the hard work gets done.
With youth workers being made redundant, overwhelming cuts to the arts and education, It’s not actually enough just to rock up for the photo opportunities or to say the right things when the camera is rolling. Now more than ever, this generation needs a Bernie Grant, a politician who, though he may not always please his critics, we can surely count on. A leader that actually unites different factions of the diaspora in the UK as well as building the bridges of blackness the world over. It’s no small task but for our sake, by any means, it’s a necessary one.
Ayo Wallace is a singer/song-writer, spoken word artist, and community activist. She tweets @GoldenCoat.
This article was commissioned by the Black Journalism Fund.
Election 2019: Reflections from Penistone and Stocksbridge
From dirty tricks campaigns to the private interests of career politicians, Sam Gregory explores why Labour lost a long-standing Sheffield seat
Letter: We stand with Jeremy Corbyn – just as he always stood with us
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Why I gatecrashed the British Museum’s Day of the Dead party
BP is using its sponsorship of the British Museum to cosy up to the Mexican government, writes Jess Worth – so we went there to expose the abuses of both
October 31, 2015 · 8 min read
‘BP, BP, BP must go! Justicia para México!’
Last night this bilingual song echoed through the British Museum’s mighty Great Court, bouncing off the gleaming marble and reaching hundreds of ears. It was the museum’s Day of the Dead festival and revellers had crowded in on a Friday evening to have their faces painted, marvel at the gigantic art installations, watch a programme of performances and knock back tequila cocktails.
Photo: Diana More
The problem was, the event was sponsored by BP and the Mexican government. So a large posse of protesters had crashed the party, in quite some style.
Theatrical protest group BP or not BP?, of which I’m a member, was approached a few weeks ago by the London-Mexico Solidarity group, to see if we would like to join forces. They were concerned that the Mexican government is on an international charm offensive, touting its economy to foreign investors and multinationals, while state repression and human rights abuses remain rampant. Tens of thousands of people have been killed or “disappeared” for standing up to government corruption and corporate greed.
One of the Mexican government’s most controversial recent acts is the privatisation of its oil and gas sector. Controlled by state-owned oil company Pemex until very recently, Mexico’s untapped fossil fuel reserves are thought to include 107.5 billion barrels of oil — as much as the proven reserves of Kuwait – and the world’s 6th largest reserves of shale gas.
BP wants access, particularly to new deepwater leases in the Gulf of Mexico which will be up for grabs in spring next year. Clearly undeterred by its record fines following the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon spill, BP is using its sponsorship of the British Museum to cosy up to the Mexican government, and prepare the ground for its drilling bids to be accepted. After all, while the US imposed the biggest punitive fines in corporate history, the communities and ecosystems along Mexico’s Gulf Coast that were also poisoned by BP’s record-breaking spill have gone uncompensated and ignored.
Our group have been performing ‘guerrilla theatre’ interventions in the British Museum since 2012, in protest at their oily sponsor. So we met with London-Mexico Solidarity, and together decided to gatecrash the museum’s party, with the aim of exposing the true faces of BP and the Mexican government.
Last night’s performance began in front of the museum’s Sainsbury wing, as around 50 Latin American and UK activists created a ‘living shrine’. Holding up photos of murdered environmentalists, missing students, grieving parents, oil-choked wildlife and areas in Mexico threatened by fossil fuel extraction, we immediately gathered a crowd.
Then five zombie-esque ‘BP executives’ stalked in to push the living shrine into the shadows, all sinister face-paint and sharpened fangs. Their boisterous new best friend, the Mexican president, soon entered the scene, to slap BP’s backs while they stuffed his pockets with their oily money. His increasingly aggressive attempts to silence the protesters may have just been theatre, but the reality of the violence in Mexico that he was mirroring was clear for everyone to see.
Ultimately, the living won out over the deadly in our agit-prop tableau. Now we decided it was time to take the stage – a large cordoned-off area in front of the museum’s circular Reading Room.
Security were determined that we weren’t going to invade their performance space, but a group of us made it through. As the audience saw the banners saying ‘BP: world’s biggest corporate criminal’ and ‘Ayotzinapa’ (a reference to the 43 Mexican students who were kidnapped last year and are still missing) they broke into spontaneous applause and cheering.
It was an electric moment, very emotional for many of our Mexican comrades. Someone shouted ‘BP go home!’ and the crowd took up the chant. For a while that was all that could be heard.
The communities and ecosystems along Mexico’s Gulf Coast that were poisoned by BP’s record-breaking oil spill have gone uncompensated and ignored
In the end, in the face of such support from the audience, the British Museum security team decided to give us an official slot in the schedule when they would turn off all amplified sound and let us perform next to the stage. We made the most of the opportunity.
Over the evening we gave out a thousand flyers and spoke to hundreds of people. The response was overwhelming. While one or two had a grumble about us spoiling their Day of the Dead party by reminding them of the dead, the vast majority were on-board. Even the official dancers who followed our stage invasion tried to display our banner during their performance (but were sadly prevented by museum security).
I hope the British Museum was taking note. Museum-goers do not like to see unethical sponsors’ logos all over their beloved culture. The global movement to divest from fossil fuel companies is gathering pace, and the campaign for ‘cultural divestment’ – dropping oily arts sponsors – is one of its fastest-growing wings, with campaigns in the UK, Norway, Australia and the US.
In the next few months, the British Museum will decide whether to renew its five-year sponsorship deal with BP. Although looming cuts to arts funding are deeply worrying, they make it more important than ever that funding decisions are guided by an ethical policy.
In return for only 0.8% of its annual income, the British Museum is giving BP a priceless platform from which to project itself as caring, responsible and cultured. In reality it is greedy, destructive and ruthless. It has lobbied against climate action more energetically than any other company in Europe. It has colluded with oppressive regimes from Mexico to Azerbaijan to Colombia. It plans to frack and drill the climate beyond the point of no return. Does the British Museum really think this is an appropriate partner to still be branding its exhibitions in 2020?
Our group will continue invading oil-sponsored spaces and using creativity and performance to undermine these cosy elite relationships. Meanwhile the oil industry is under attack from multiple other angles – from the blockadia movement against new pipelines, to the global campaign to kick Shell out of the Arctic, to the low oil prices that are making fracking and tar sands uneconomical.
As renewables surge and more and more struggles against fossil fuel extraction, human rights abuses and environmental racism find common ground in the run-up to the Paris climate talks, we could be on the cusp of a dramatic shift away from the age of oil. The British Museum needs to decide which side of history it wants to be on.
Jess Worth is a member of BP or not BP? To get involved in future performances, email info[at]bp-or-not-bp[dot]org
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Stroll director resigns after three months on job
Posted Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:21 pm
By Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer
BRATTLEBORO — Erin O'Connor has resigned as executive director of the Strolling of the Heifers.
"We're very happy for her," said Orly Munzing, Stroll founder and now executive director again. "It's all good."
Her group organizes the annual Strolling of the Heifers Parade in Brattleboro. It also runs a business accelerator called Windham Grows and culinary apprenticeship program among other things.
Munzing said the resignation "doesn't affect us at all because I'm still here and everybody is still here, and we're very happy."
Stroll board member Greg Worden said O'Connor submitted a letter resignation after about three months in the position.
"She had a better job offer I guess," he said. "We wish her the best. We'll be looking for a new director, still."
Attempts to reach O'Connor were unsuccessful Monday and Tuesday.
"I understand she's very happy," Munzing said when asked about O'Connor's new job. "It's something she's passionate about."
Worden said the board held a meeting last week and will be putting together a hiring committee to find a successor. He said he was not aware of any clashes within
the organization.
"It's just one of those things where there's a three month or so break-in period and people can walk away if they want to or go forward," he said. "I'm not sure exactly what the deal was on this other than there was a letter of resignation and we accepted it."
Worden said the board said, "Thank you for being here for a while and best wishes, and we'll start the process again."
Munzing had planned to work more behind the scenes after hiring O'Connor. The search process for a new executive director began in September. The contract was finalized in January and O'Connor started in April. She moved from Marlborough, Mass., to Newfane for the job.
Reach staff writer Chris Mays
at cmays@reformer.com, @CMaysBR on Twitter and 802-254-2311, ext. 273.
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You are here: Home | Abu hamza | WikiLeaks: Guantánamo Bay terrorists radicalised in London to attack Western targets
WikiLeaks: Guantánamo Bay terrorists radicalised in London to attack Western targets
Hate Groups, Islam, RNB's Religion News Blog Tuesday April 26, 2011 Religion News Blog
A mosque in north London served as a “haven” for Islamic extremists as the capital became a central hub in the worldwide movement of militants, US documents seen by WikiLeaks showed Monday.
AFP reports:
The files, written by senior US military commanders at Guantanamo Bay, called the Finsbury Park mosque “an attack planning and propaganda production base” and named preachers Abu Qatada and Abu Hamza as key recruiters.
According to the leaked document — details of which were published on the website of the Telegraph newspaper — the two men sent dozens of extremists from throughout the world to train and fight in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
At least 35 detainees at the prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were captured while fighting against allied forces in Afghanistan having arrived there via British mosques.
Of these, 17 were British nationals or citizens who had been given residence after claiming asylum with the rest coming from abroad.
US officials described Qatada, whom the British government once paid compensation after he was “unfairly detained”, as “the most successful recruiter in Europe” and a “focal point for extremist fundraising”.
Hamza, who is famous for his prosthetic hook hand, was accused of urging “his followers to murder non-Muslims”. Both preachers were granted asylum in Britain.
Actually, Hamza is not so much ‘famous’ for his hook as he is notorious for being an intolerant bigot whose hatred lead him to preach “murder and hatred” to his followers, telling them it was their “religious duty to kill” non-Muslims.
London’s Daily Telegraph says:
Four mosques in London and an Islamic centre are highlighted as places where young Muslim men were radicalised and turned into potential terrorists. Finsbury Park mosque “served to facilitate and training of recruits,” note the files, adding that it was “a haven for Islamic extremists from Morocco and Algeria.”
The Daily Telegraph, along with other international newspapers, is publishing details of more than 700 files on the Guantánamo Bay detainees obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
Earlier, this newspaper disclosed that dozens of terrorists held at the prison had admitted plotting a wide array of attacks against targets in Britain and America. However, it also emerged that more than 150 innocent people had been sent to Guantánamo.
Now, the key role that Britain and British-based preachers played in the lives of many of the Guantánamo detainees can be disclosed.
British intelligence services also provided information, including lists of suspected extremists seized from raids on Islamic centres, to the US military as it interrogated detainees. The information was passed on despite the Government publicly condemning the use of torture at Guantánamo.
Citing Wikileaks the Telegraph also described how Britain ‘became a haven for migrant extremists’:
When Finsbury Park mosque opened nearly 20 years ago it was intended to be a centre for peaceful worship, feted by the Prince of Wales and seen as an emblem of multi-cultural Britain.
But the Guantánamo files disclose that by the late 1990s the mosque in north London had become a “haven” for extremism where disaffected young men from around the world were radicalised before being sent to al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. […]
The mosques became recruitment centres for an al-Qaeda cell led by Abu Hamza, the radical imam formerly based in Finsbury Park, who is serving a seven-year sentence at Belmarsh high security prison, and Abu Qatada, a fanatical Muslim cleric described by British intelligence as “Osama bin Laden’s ambassador to Europe”.
Together, they turned London into a hub of global terrorism, taking in impressionable immigrants by the dozen and churning them out as killers-in-waiting.
As well as the men who passed through mosques in London, another 10 were radicalised outside the capital, mainly in Birmingham. For many of the Guantánamo detainees who passed through London, their journey to extremism began with hopes of a better life. […]
For the young men, the mosques became their home, providing accommodation, food and a sense of community. For the extremist clerics who ran the mosques, however, the stream of young men coming through their doors were ripe for recruitment. The Guantánamo files disclose how they were allegedly brainwashed with videos of atrocities committed against Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya, and subjected to lectures by Hamza and Qatada which highlighted the virtues of the “pure Islamic state” to be found in Afghanistan.
As their indoctrination progressed, many of them became increasingly disenchanted with life in Britain.
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New route to health!
Patients, visitors and staff can now look forward to a bus service which delivers and collects them from Chase Farm Hospital’s front door.
From Saturday 18 January the W8 and W9 bus routes will start and end at the hospital. The introduction of the extended route will improve access to the hospital for patients, visitors and staff.
As a result of the extension to the bus services the patient shuttle service, which was run by the trust, will cease at 5pm on Friday 17 January.
The W8 stops include Gordon Hill rail station and Edmonton Green tube and rail station with the route starting and ending at Pickett’s Lane.
The W9 stops include Grange Park rail station and the route starts and ends at Southgate tube station.
Natalie Forrest, chief executive of Chase Farm Hospital, said: “We’ve been working hard to improve access to Chase Farm Hospital and make sure that everyone who needs to can easily reach us and take advantage of one of the most modern and digitally advanced hospitals in the UK. This improved transport link makes an important contribution to the population we serve.”
(Pic: L-R Adelina Milkurti, nursing assistant and Rosina Bey, staff nurse at the new bus stop)
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Gerald D. Reid
Director, RGGI, Inc. Board of Directors
Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Governor Janet T. Mills appointed Jerry Reid to be Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection following her inauguration in January, 2019. Mr. Reid had served in the Maine Attorney General's Office for 24 years, including as Chief of the Office's Natural Resources Division for the preceding 12 years.
The focus of his practice in the Attorney General's Office was enforcement and appellate work under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Maine's hazardous waste and land use statutes. He also worked extensively on issues arising under the Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act. Mr. Reid's reported cases include Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007) (establishing EPA's obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act); S.D. Warren v. Maine Bd. of Envtl. Prot., 547 U.S. 370 (2006) (upholding fish passage conditions on hydroelectric relicensing); Forest Ecology Network v. Land Use Regulation Commission, 2012 ME 36 (upholding rezoning decision requiring conservation easement of more than 400,000 acres); FPL Maine Hydro LLC v. Maine Bd. of Envtl. Prot., 2007 ME 97 (upholding state authority to ensure compliance with water quality standards during federal dam relicensing); and Save our Sebasticook v. Dep't of Envtl. Prot., 2007 ME 102 (upholding regulatory decisions associated with removal of Fort Halifax Dam).
In his free time Mr. Reid enjoys fishing, camping and exploring in Maine's North Woods. He is a lifetime member of the Maine Archaeology Society. Mr. Reid holds a BA in Classics from Wesleyan University, and is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law.
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You are here: Home / Press Releases / Singapore a Prime Location for a Holding Company: Incorporation Specialists
Singapore a Prime Location for a Holding Company: Incorporation Specialists
In light of the uncertain economic outlook this year, more multinational companies will continue to look for ways to minimize cash outflows by keeping operations lean and reducing tax payments where possible. Choosing a business- and tax-friendly jurisdiction can prove to be rewarding for firms with an international presence or global aspirations in the long run. Hence, Singapore company registration specialists, Rikvin, is optimistic that Singapore will continue to be a prime location for setting up a holding company.
A holding company is a firm that is set up specifically to 1) centrally manage the finances of a group’s subsidiaries, 2) hold or pool shares of a group’s subsidiaries and 3) receive dividends of the subsidiary companies and declare them to the group.
Singapore has long been seen as a highly-competitive and stable economy. Its business-friendly processes and advantageous tax policies have also contributed to its consistent top ranking as the easiest place to do business worldwide. Therefore, and in the face of the intensified fiscal crisis riddling the Eurozone this year, setting up a Singapore holding company would be a prudent investment for any discerning entrepreneur or key decision maker for years to come.
Commenting on the observation, Satish Bakhda, head of Rikvin’s operations said, “The global nature of business operations today presents a compelling case for setting up a holding company. A holding company gives a business leader clarity and peace of mind as it allows him to have a bird’s eye view of and track his group’s assets and shares. This macroscopic view in turn allows him to better grasp where the avoidance of double tax payments are possible. In the long run, a group could potentially save significantly in tax payments.”
A Singapore holding company, like all Singapore-registered companies, enjoys extensive tax benefits borne out of Singapore’s healthy bilateral relations with various economies as well as its simple domestic tax structure.
For one, Singapore has established a wide network of 69 comprehensive and seven limited Avoidance of Double Tax Agreements (DTAs). It has also inked 20 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with 26 trading partners and is in the process of negotiating eight more with economies like Canada and Mexico. These agreements not only pave the way for uninterrupted movement of business personnel and goods; they also extend tax privileges such as doing away with erroneous double taxation across borders.
Secondly, a Singapore holding company stands to benefit from the absence of capital gains tax in Singapore. This means that capital gains achieved from the sale of its investments in or outside of Singapore are tax exempt. Furthermore, many DTAs identify the taxing right on such capital gains to the holding company jurisdiction; if Singapore exempts capital gains from taxation, then the Singapore holding company need not pay taxes on the capital gains gotten from the sale of shares or investments.
Additionally, outbound dividends declared to foreign shareholders are not subject to the Singapore withholding tax. Singapore holding companies may also repatriate capital gains from overseas divestitures to their parent companies or group without being subject to taxation in Singapore.
Last but not least, having a Singapore holding company means having the ability to tap low corporate tax. At 17%, the Singapore corporate tax rate is one of the lowest in the world. It also comes with various tax incentives such as the partial exemption scheme on the first S$300,000 of normal chargeable income and concessionary tax rates under the regional headquarters scheme.
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Message from Maestro Smolij
About the Symphonia
Caprio Competition
Concertmaster and violinist Ruotao Mao, a native of Beijing, China, graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music with a "distinction in performance" award. He earned his Master’s Degree in Music from the Mason Gross School of the Arts where he studied under violinist Arnold Sternhardt of the Guarneri String Quartet. He also studied with Dorothy Delay, Paul Kantor, and Masuko Ushioda. As a chamber musician, he is one of the founding members of the former Beijing Piano Quartet, winner of "Artists International Chamber Music Series" with appearances in Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center, and he has performed with the highly acclaimed Amabile String Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at Rutgers University (2000 and 2001). As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras such as the Jupiter Symphony, NEC Symphony, Corelliard Chamber Orchestra, the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, Edison Symphony, the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Rutgers University Orchestra among many others. Mr. Mao has had performance tours in Korea and Colombia, South America. He performed on WNYC broadcasts and is a recording artist for the CRI and Beijing Broadcast Labels. Mr. Mao also serves as concertmaster of the Riverside Symphonia and as the concertmaster of the Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and Edison Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Mao also serves on the faculty at The College of New Jersey.
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Stevensons at Manase home for Kiwi couple
(Photo: Elizabeth Ah-Hi )
By Elizabeth Ah-Hi, 23/09/2017
Carolyn and Kevin look very much at home lounging around the pool at Stevenson’s at Manase.
The Dear Tourist finds out very quickly that the couple have a rental suite there and that this is their seventh time to Samoa.
It explains their familiarity with just about everyone there.
“We love coming over here to Savai’i because we feel its unspoilt paradise. Life stands still,” says Carolyn.
“We discovered Stevensons on our first trip here to Savai’i nine years ago which at the time was just in the process of building the suites. Then the following year came up the possibility to get it as a rental which made it an affordable holiday for us through an exchange company which on-sold to barter card so we discovered it then.”
Fast forward to now, the couple just can’t get enough of Samoa, especially their paradise in Savai’i.
“We just love it here,” said Kevin who has some Samoan ancestry.
“The beauty of the place just keeps bringing us back. You forget about the hiccups and even though there’s been lots of different managers, each manager has left their mark making the place better and more beautiful.
“The other thing about this place is that the beach is long and even though there’s quite a few people here, you don’t feel like you’re on top of everyone. We know that we can guarantee the weather here everything is just an asset like the staff. They are incredible.”
Keeping a rental makes it affordable for the couple and their family to return to Samoa every year. They love the consistency in their experience and at their age says Carolyn, they really don’t have time or desire to experiment.
“It’s affordable for us and probably we wouldn’t be able to come over every year if we couldn’t get that special deal but I think I would still choose here as a holiday destination.
“The staff are incredible, they just can’t do enough for you. It’s casual over here, it’s not a market where you feel you have to dress up. You just have so much space here and there are beautiful gardens over the other side of the road here at Stevensons. We call it the garden of Eden.
“There’s something about this place and its character.”
Its pretty obvious to see that kiwi couple have a love affair with the place but while Carolyn and Kevin only have eyes for Savai’i’s Stevensons in Manase, they have discovered another place in Upolu that they’ve decided to stay at in case they have a lay over in Upolu.
“There’s a certain something about Savai’i and the main part of our holiday is always over here when we come to Samoa,” said Carolyn said.
“Because of flights coming in and having a separate flight to Auckland we sometimes have to stay in Apia for a few nights but we just recently discovered another beautiful place near the airport which is almost like a retreat, it’s called “Ifiele’ele Plantation.” That’s where we will stay from now on if we have to do a few days in Upolu.”
Olo, P.M. clash over measles' cause
Olo accused the Government of being negligent, claiming they ignored the alarm bells about the measles epidemic, which had been ringing for at least seven months before the epidemic was declared. He also revealed that the Ministry of Health did not have a “Pandemic Emergency Response Plan” and that they only managed to scrape one together in November last year, well after the measles crisis had claimed innocent lives.
By Mata'afa Keni Lesa 21/01/2020
Hundreds stranded by Tino flight cancellations
The Samoa Observer reported on Saturday that the Air NZ flight that was bound for Samoa at 2.40 in the afternoon did not arrive, although that was just the beginning of the cancelled flights to Samoa.
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Ma’arat al-Nu’man Central Hospital Targeted by Four Airstrikes. SAMS Alarmed by Heightened Attacks on Healthcare.
Washington, D.C.- At 6.30 pm local time, four aerial missiles were fired in the vicinity of SAMS-supported Ma’arat al-Nu’man Central Hospital, causing considerable material damage to the facility. One missile struck the hospital directly, while the other three hit the park outside the entrance. At the time of the attack, there were approximately 250 people, including 70 in the patient rooms and 48 children and infants in the pediatric and neonatal department, in addition to their family members and staff. Within two hours, the medical personnel started to evacuate patients to other nearby hospitals, and further reduced functionality. Fortunately, no staff or patients were injured in the attack.
Today, the hospital had already received 34 injured patients from Kafroumah. The staff bravely continued to receive and treat these emergency cases, even though warplanes were flying overhead. They refused to leave their patients behind.
Saraqib Primary Health Center, which is supported by SAMS, and Jisr al-Shughour Hospital were also targeted today. Saraqib Primary Health Center was hit 100 meters away from the entrance. Both Ma’arat al-Nu’man Central Hospital and Saraqib Primary Health Center participated in the UNOCHA-led deconflcition mechanism. Since April 26, there have been 34 attacks reported on health facilities, 12 of which participated in the deconfliction mechanism. Despite all of that, these indiscriminate and systematic attacks on healthcare continue with impunity.
SAMS strongly condemns these attacks on healthcare, and calls on the UN and broader international community to intervene immediately to investigate these attacks against humanity and provide the necessary protections.
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SAMS Alarmed by Heightened Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure in Northwest Syria
Washington, D.C.- The targeting of civilian infrastructure in northwest Syria continues with impunity, killing at least 380 civilians, including 91 children, and injuring many more since the beginning of the escalation on April 26, 2019. Yesterday, SAMS medical workers on the ground reported receiving 27 casualties, including 11 children. Another 70 were injured. A mother and her two children were reported among the deaths in Al Zerbeh in the southern Aleppo countryside. Since the beginning of the offensive on April 26, SAMS has received 1,649 injured patients.
Organizations responding to the health needs in the area have reported 25 attacks on health facilities, each of which represents an egregious violation of international humanitarian law. These attacks make it more difficult for civilians to access medical care at a time when they desperately need it, as hospitals are forced to close, turn away non-emergency cases, or redirect cases to hospitals in safer areas. The majority of SAMS facilities in northwestern Syria have been working under a state of emergency, responding to critical, urgent cases.
“If I could describe what we have been experiencing over the last few weeks, I’d say it’s been nothing short of hell on earth. The situation on the ground continues to deteriorate. The ongoing targeting of civilians has caused waves of displaced people who have resorted to living under olive trees. Our hospitals have been overflowing with the sick and injured, but we are trying our best to respond given the challenges and aerial threats we’re facing,” said Dr. Walid Tamer, one of SAMS surgeons at the Atareb Hospital.
In addition to inflicting damage on the healthcare system, this recent escalation has also resulted in an unprecedented wave of displacement from areas in northern Hama and southern Idlib to areas further north, especially along the Turkish border. At least 326,000 people have been forced into displacement since April 26th. Many of them have been displaced more than once, including from Dara’a and East Ghouta. Of those displaced, only 103,000 have been able to find refuge in hosting sites for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The rest have been forced to seek shelter in informal sites with limited access to services or remain out in the open. Sanitation infrastructure is critically lacking in these areas; there are often no safe or private toilet facilities, and clean water supplies are limited. As the violence continues in northwestern Syria, it is unlikely that IDPs will return home in the foreseeable future, and they need access to basic shelter and sanitation services in the meantime.
Violence remains the root cause of suffering and displacement in northwestern Syria. Concerned states should undertake intensive diplomatic efforts to prevent further aggression and put an end to the indiscriminate and systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure. International humanitarian law must be adhered to, and parties to the conflict must refrain from targeting civilians and humanitarian infrastructure, especially medical facilities. In order to protect healthcare facilities, the UNOCHA-led deconfliction mechanism should be fully implemented and respected, including taking steps to investigate violations of the mechanism and publicly acknowledging allegations of attacks on health and humanitarian facilities. Finally, donors should mobilize emergency funding to support those newly displaced from the violence. The needs go further than simply providing tents and hygiene kits; a comprehensive response is needed to ensure that IDPs have adequate shelter, sanitation infrastructure and facilities, water, and food, as well as emergency medical care.
“The situation in Idlib continues to worsen by the day, yet the international community remains silent, or unwilling, to act to protect these vulnerable civilians. Attacks on hospitals and medical facilities are inexplicable and perpetrators need to be held accountable,” said Dr. Ahmad Tarakji, SAMS President. “For how long will we continue to see blatant violations of international humanitarian law go unanswered and ignored? The international community continues to fail the people of Syria.”
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Renegotiating Japan's Unequal Treaties
- A Window on Late Nineteenth-Century Diplomacy
Fred Uleman
Japan was compelled to open its doors to Western commerce in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet because the treaties signed at that time reflected the Western powers' dominant position, Japanese foreign policy's prime imperative in the initial decades afterward was to rectify these unequal treaties. This book, appearing in English for the first time, explains the political process of the negotiations attempting revision of the treaties in the context of events both inside and outside Japan.
University of Tokyo Press
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S.3197 Sponsored — A bill to reestablish the Office of Noise Abatement and Control in the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 07/13/16
S.3198 Cosponsored — State Veterans Home Adult Day Health Care Improvement Act of 2016 07/13/16
S.2650 Cosponsored — United States Appreciation for Olympians and Paralympians Act 07/12/16
S.3142 Cosponsored — Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act of 2016 07/07/16
S.3146 Cosponsored — Preventing Abandoned Foreclosures and Preserving Communities Act of 2016 07/07/16
S.921 Cosponsored — Delaware River Basin Conservation Act of 2015 07/07/16
S.3134 Cosponsored — LGBT Data Inclusion Act 07/06/16
S.2487 Cosponsored — Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act 06/30/16
S.3106 Cosponsored — Secure the Northern Triangle Act 06/28/16
S.3089 Cosponsored — Fair Employment Protection Act of 2016 06/23/16
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N 40°49', W 073°58' tide 130th Street, Hudson River, New York
N 40°46', W 073°57' tide 37th Avenue, Long Island City, East River, New York, New York
N 40°57', W 073°55' tide Alpine, Hudson River, New Jersey
N 40°54', W 073°33' tide Bayville Bridge, Oyster Bay, New York
N 40°54', W 073°33' tide Bayville Bridge, Oyster Bay, New York (sub)
N 41°09', W 073°13' tide Black Rock Harbor, Cedar Creek, Connecticut
N 41°11', W 073°11' tide Bridgeport Harbor, Bridgeport, Connecticut
N 41°09', W 073°11' current Bridgeport Hbr. ent., btn. jetties, Connecticut Current (4d)
N 40°52', W 073°55' current Broadway Bridge, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°48', W 073°50' current Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, East of (Depth 14ft), East River, New York Current
N 40°60', W 073°36' current Captain Hbr. Ent., 0.6 mile southwest of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 40°48', W 074°04' tide Carlstadt, Garretts Reach, Hackensack River, New Jersey
N 40°58', W 073°03' tide Cedar Beach, Long Island, New York
N 40°58', W 073°03' tide Cedar Beach, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°50', W 073°56' tide Central Bridge, Harlem River, New York, New York
N 41°11', W 073°03' current Charles Island, 0.8 mile SSE of, Connecticut Current
N 40°51', W 073°48' current City Island Bridge, New York Current (10d)
N 40°50', W 073°46' current City Island, 0.6 mile southeast of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°52', W 073°28' tide Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster Bay, New York
N 40°52', W 073°28' tide Cold Spring Harbor, Oyster Bay, New York (sub)
N 40°48', W 073°51' current College Point Reef, 0.25 n.mi. NW of (Depth 15ft), East River, New York Current
N 40°47', W 073°51' tide College Pt, Ft. of 110th Street, Long Island, New York
N 40°47', W 073°51' tide College Pt, Ft. of 110th Street, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°58', W 073°07' tide Conscience Bay entrance (Narrows), Long Island Sound, New York
N 41°01', W 073°36' tide Cos Cob Harbor, Connecticut
N 41°01', W 073°36' current Cos Cob Harbor, off Goose Island, Connecticut Current
N 40°58', W 073°10' current Crane Neck Point, 0.5 mile northwest of, New York Current
N 40°59', W 073°14' current Crane Neck Point, 3.4 miles WNW of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°56', W 073°14' current Crane Neck Point, 3.7 miles WSW of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°48', W 073°48' current Cryders Point, 0.4 mile NNW of, East River, New York Current
N 40°53', W 073°46' tide Davids Island, New York
N 40°55', W 073°43' current Delancey Point, 1 mile southeast of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°01', W 073°53' tide Dobbs Ferry, Hudson River, New York
N 40°47', W 073°56' current East 107th Street (Depth 15ft), Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°51', W 074°07' tide East Rutherford, Passaic River, New Jersey
N 40°50', W 073°48' current Eastchester Bay, near Big Tom, New York Current (5d)
N 40°60', W 073°25' current Eatons Neck Point, 2.5 n.mi. NNW of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°57', W 073°24' tide Eatons Neck Point, Long Island, New York
N 40°57', W 073°24' tide Eatons Neck Point, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°59', W 073°24' current Eatons Neck Pt., 1.3 miles north of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°57', W 073°26' current Eatons Neck Pt., 1.8 miles west of, New York Current
N 41°00', W 073°24' current Eatons Neck Pt., 3 miles north of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°00', W 073°24' current Eatons Neck Pt., 3 miles north of, New York Current (170d)
N 40°49', W 073°59' tide Edgewater, Hudson River, New Jersey
N 40°49', W 073°46' current Elm Point, 0.2 mile west of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°52', W 073°44' current Execution Rocks, 0.4 mile southwest of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°52', W 073°56' tide Ferry Slip, Dyckman Street, Hudson River, New York
N 40°48', W 074°06' tide Fish Creek, Berrys Creek, Hackensack River, New Jersey
N 41°14', W 073°06' current Fowler Island, 0.1 mile NNW of, Housatonic River, Connecticut Current (5d)
N 40°51', W 073°57' tide George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York
N 40°52', W 073°39' tide Glen Cove Yacht Club, Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, New York
N 40°52', W 073°39' tide Glen Cove Yacht Club, Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°59', W 073°37' tide Great Captain Island, Connecticut
N 41°03', W 073°27' tide Greens Ledge, Connecticut
N 40°59', W 073°34' current Greenwich Point, 1.1 miles south of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 40°58', W 073°34' current Greenwich Point, 2.5 miles south of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°01', W 073°37' tide Greenwich, Connecticut
N 41°12', W 073°03' tide Gulf Beach, Connecticut
N 40°53', W 074°02' tide Hackensack, Hackensack River, New Jersey
N 40°54', W 073°31' current Harbor ent., south of Plum Point, Oyster Bay, New York Current
N 40°53', W 073°32' current Harbor, west of Soper Point, Oyster Bay, New York Current
N 40°48', W 073°56' tide Harlem River, Randalls Island, East River, New York
N 40°50', W 073°39' tide Harry Tappen Marina, Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, New York
N 40°51', W 073°47' current Hart Island and City Island, between, New York Current (15d)
N 40°52', W 073°46' current Hart Island, 0.2 mile north of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°50', W 073°46' current Hart Island, 0.3 n.mi. SSE of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°51', W 073°46' current Hart Island, southeast of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°13', W 073°58' tide Haverstraw Bay, Hudson River, New York
N 41°13', W 073°58' tide Haverstraw Bay, Hudson River, New York (sub)
N 40°47', W 073°56' current Hell Gate (off Mill Rock), New York Current
N 40°47', W 073°56' tide Hell Gate, Hallets Point, East River, New York, New York
N 40°47', W 073°55' tide Hell Gate, Wards Island, East River, New York
N 40°50', W 073°39' current Hempstead Harbor, off Glenwood Landing, New York Current (10d)
N 40°53', W 073°55' current Henry Hudson Bridge, 0.7 nmi. SE of (Depth 16ft), Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°50', W 073°45' tide Hewlett Point, Long Island Sound, New York
N 40°51', W 073°56' current High Bridge, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°47', W 073°57' tide Horns Hook, East 90th Street, East River, New York, New York
N 40°47', W 073°57' tide Horns Hook, East 90th Street, East River, New York, New York (sub)
N 40°53', W 073°45' current Huckleberry Island, 0.2 mile NW of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°53', W 073°45' current Huckleberry Island, 0.6 mile SE of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°56', W 073°25' current Huntington Bay, off East Fort Point, New York Current (15d)
N 40°55', W 073°26' tide Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, Huntington Bay, Long Island, New York
N 40°55', W 073°26' tide Huntington Harbor Lighthouse, Huntington Bay, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°48', W 073°52' tide Hunts Point, East River, New York
N 40°48', W 073°53' current Hunts Point, southwest of, East River, New York Current
N 40°52', W 073°49' current Hutchinson R., Pelham Highway Bridge, New York Current (5d)
N 40°49', W 073°46' tide Kings Point, Long Island Sound, New York
N 40°47', W 073°55' tide Lawrence Point, East River, New York, New York
N 40°58', W 073°30' current Lloyd Point, 1.3 miles NNW of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°02', W 073°29' current Long Neck Point, 0.6 mile south of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°02', W 073°29' tide Long Neck Point, Long Island Sound, Connecticut
N 41°02', W 073°29' tide Long Neck Point, Long Island Sound, Connecticut (sub)
N 40°50', W 073°56' current Macombs Dam Bridge, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°49', W 073°56' current Madison Ave. Bridge, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°56', W 073°44' tide Mamaroneck, New York
N 40°50', W 073°44' current Manhasset Bay entrance, New York Current (15d)
N 40°55', W 073°38' current Matinecock Point, 0.7 mile NNW of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°55', W 073°39' current Matinecock Point, 1.7 miles northwest of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°02', W 073°36' tide Mianus, Connecticut
N 41°13', W 073°03' tide Milford Harbor, Connecticut
N 41°10', W 073°07' current Milford Point, 0.2 mile west of, Housatonic River, Connecticut Current (10d)
N 40°47', W 073°56' current Mill Rock, northeast of, East River, New York Current
N 40°47', W 073°57' current Mill Rock, west of, East River, New York Current
N 40°58', W 073°02' tide Mount Sinai Harbor, Long Island, New York
N 40°56', W 074°02' tide New Millford, Hackensack River, New Jersey
N 40°54', W 073°47' tide New Rochelle, New York
N 40°54', W 073°14' tide Nissequogue River entrance, Long Island Sound, New York
N 40°48', W 073°54' tide North Brother Island, East River, New York
N 40°48', W 074°03' tide North Secaucus, Garretts Reach, Hackensack River, New York
N 40°55', W 073°24' current Northport Bay entrance (in channel), New York Current (15d)
N 40°55', W 073°23' current Northport Bay, south of Duck I. Bluff, New York Current
N 40°54', W 073°21' tide Northport, Northport Bay, Long Island, New York
N 40°54', W 073°21' tide Northport, Northport Bay, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 41°05', W 073°24' current Norwalk River, off Gregory Point, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 40°55', W 073°34' current Oak Neck Point, 0.6 mile north of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°47', W 073°55' current Off Winthrop Ave., Astoria, East River, New York Current
N 40°48', W 073°50' tide Old Ferry Point, East River, New York, New York
N 40°58', W 073°06' current Old Field Point, 1 mile east of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°00', W 073°06' current Old Field Point, 2 miles northeast of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°01', W 073°08' current Old Field Point, 2.9 n.mi. NNW of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°10', W 073°52' tide Ossining, Hudson River, New York
N 40°52', W 073°31' tide Oyster Bay Harbor, Oyster Bay, New York
N 40°56', W 073°39' current Parsonage Point, 1.3 n.mi. ESE of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°51', W 074°07' tide Passaic, Passaic River, New Jersey
N 40°56', W 073°40' current Peningo Neck, 0.6 mi. off Parsonage Pt, New York Current (15d)
N 41°05', W 073°14' current Pine Creek Point, 2.3 miles SSE of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°07', W 073°07' current Point No Point, 2.1 miles south of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°00', W 073°40' tide Port Chester, New York
N 40°58', W 073°06' tide Port Jefferson Harbor entrance, Long Island, New York
N 40°58', W 073°06' current Port Jefferson Harbor entrance, New York Current
N 40°57', W 073°05' tide Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York
N 40°48', W 073°54' tide Port Morris (Stony Point), East River, New York
N 40°48', W 073°54' tide Port Morris (Stony Point), East River, New York (sub)
N 40°50', W 073°42' tide Port Washington, Manhasset Bay, Long Island, New York
N 40°50', W 073°42' tide Port Washington, Manhasset Bay, Long Island, New York (sub)
N 40°45', W 073°57' tide Queensboro Bridge, East River, New York
N 40°45', W 073°57' tide Queensboro Bridge, East River, New York (sub)
N 41°13', W 073°07' current Railroad drawbridge, above, Housatonic River, Connecticut Current (5d)
N 40°48', W 073°56' tide Randalls Island, Harlem River, New York, New York
N 40°51', W 074°02' tide Ridgefield Park, Hackensack River, New Jersey
N 40°47', W 073°53' current Rikers I. chan., off La Guardia Field, East River, New York Current
N 40°54', W 073°55' tide Riverdale, Hudson River, New York
N 40°54', W 073°55' tide Riverdale, Hudson River, New York (sub)
N 40°55', W 073°30' current Rocky Point, 1 mile east of, Oyster Bay, New York Current (15d)
N 40°45', W 073°57' current Roosevelt Island, east of, East River, New York Current
N 40°46', W 073°57' current Roosevelt Island, east of, off 36th Avenue, East River, New York Current
N 40°46', W 073°56' tide Roosevelt Island, north end, East River, New York, New York
N 40°46', W 073°57' current Roosevelt Island, west of, off 63rd Street, East River, New York Current
N 40°46', W 073°57' current Roosevelt Island, west of, off 67th Street, East River, New York Current
N 41°04', W 073°27' tide Rowayton, Fivemile River, Connecticut
N 40°58', W 073°40' tide Rye Beach (Amusement Park), New York
N 40°58', W 073°40' tide Rye Beach (Amusement Park), New York (sub)
N 41°06', W 073°22' tide Saugatuck River entrance, Connecticut
N 41°06', W 073°22' current Saugatuck River, 0.3 mi. NW of Bluff Pt, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°07', W 073°22' tide Saugatuck, Saugatuck River, Long Island Sound, Connecticut
N 40°57', W 073°06' tide Setauket Harbor, Long Island Sound, New York
N 41°03', W 073°25' current Sheffield I. Hbr., 0.5 mile southeast of, Connecticut Current (12d)
N 41°02', W 073°24' current Sheffield I. Tower, 1.1 miles SE of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 40°60', W 073°31' current Shippan Point, 1.3 miles SSE of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°02', W 073°14' current Shoal Point, 6 miles south of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°11', W 073°07' tide Sniffens Point, Housatonic River, Connecticut
N 40°48', W 073°54' current South Brother Island, NW of (Depth 15ft), East River, New York Current
N 41°06', W 073°25' tide South Norwalk, Norwalk River, Connecticut
N 41°06', W 073°25' tide South Norwalk, Norwalk River, Connecticut (sub)
N 41°08', W 073°17' tide Southport, Southport Harbor, Connecticut
N 40°53', W 073°55' tide Spuyten Duyvil Creek Entrance, Hudson River, New York
N 40°53', W 073°55' tide Spuyten Duyvil Creek Entrance, Hudson River, New York (sub)
N 41°01', W 073°32' current Stamford Harbor entrance, Connecticut Current (12d)
N 41°02', W 073°33' tide Stamford Harbor, Stamford, Connecticut
N 40°55', W 073°09' tide Stony Brook, Smithtown Bay, Long Island Sound, New York
N 41°05', W 073°07' current Stratford Point, 4.3 miles south of, Connecticut Current (15d)
N 41°03', W 073°06' current Stratford Point, 6.1 miles south of, New York Current (15d)
N 41°04', W 073°06' tide Stratford Shoal, Long Island Sound, New York
N 41°11', W 073°07' tide Stratford, Housatonic River, Connecticut
N 41°12', W 073°07' tide Stratford, I-95 bridge, Housatonic River, Connecticut
N 41°05', W 073°52' tide Tarrytown, Hudson River, New York
N 40°48', W 073°48' current Throgs Neck Bridge, New York Current (15d)
N 40°48', W 073°47' current Throgs Neck, 0.2 mile S of (Willets Point), New York Current (15d)
N 40°49', W 073°47' current Throgs Neck, 0.3 n.mi. NE of, Long Island Sound, New York Current (15d)
N 40°48', W 073°47' current Throgs Neck, 0.4 mile south of, New York Current (15d)
N 40°48', W 073°48' tide Throgs Neck, New York
N 40°47', W 074°00' tide Union Stock Yards, Hudson River, New York
N 40°52', W 073°55' tide University Heights Bridge, Harlem River, New York, New York
N 40°51', W 073°56' tide Washington Bridge, Harlem River, New York, New York
N 40°46', W 074°01' tide Weehawken, Union City, Hudson River, New Jersey
N 40°52', W 073°55' current West 207th Street Bridge, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°48', W 073°49' tide Whitestone, East River, New York
N 40°48', W 073°47' tide Willets Point, Little Bay, East River, New York
N 40°48', W 073°47' tide Willets Point, Little Bay, East River, New York (sub)
N 40°48', W 073°56' current Willis Ave. Bridge, 0.1 mile NW of, Harlem River, New York Current
N 40°47', W 073°55' tide Wolcott Avenue, East River, New York, New York
N 40°46', W 073°51' tide Worlds Fair Marina, Flushing Bay, New York
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Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement
Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain
By Dana G. Smith on November 9, 2018
Credit: Francesco Carta Getty Images
SAN DIEGO—Robert King spent 29 years living alone in a six by nine-foot prison cell.
He was part of the “Angola Three”—a trio of men kept in solitary confinement for decades and named for the Louisiana state penitentiary where they were held. King was released in 2001 after a judge overturned his 1973 conviction for killing a fellow inmate. Since his exoneration he has dedicated his life to raising awareness about the psychological harms of solitary confinement.
“People want to know whether or not I have psychological problems, whether or not I’m crazy—‘How did you not go insane?’” King told a packed session at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting here this week. “I look at them and I tell them, ‘I did not tell you I was not insane.’ I don’t mean I was psychotic or anything like that, but being placed in a six by nine by 12–foot cell for 23 hours a day, no matter how you appear on the outside, you are not sane.”
There are an estimated 80,000 people, mostly men, in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons. They are confined to windowless cells roughly the size of a king bed for 23 hours a day, with virtually no human contact except for brief interactions with prison guards. According to scientists speaking at the conference session, this type of social isolation and sensory deprivation can have traumatic effects on the brain, many of which may be irreversible. Neuroscientists, lawyers and activists such as King have teamed up with the goal of abolishing solitary confinement as cruel and unusual punishment.
Most prisoners sentenced to solitary confinement remain there for one to three months (pdf), although nearly a quarter spend over a year there; the minimum amount of time is usually 15 days. The most common reasons for being sent to solitary are for preventive measures, which can be indefinite, or for punishment, which is more likely to have a set end point. Several states have passed legislation limiting who can be in solitary confinement, including mentally ill and juvenile offenders, and for how long. The United Nations recommends banning solitary confinement for more than 15 days, saying any longer constitutes torture.
Even in less extreme cases than that of the Angola Three, prolonged social isolation—feeling lonely, not just being alone—can exact severe physical, emotional and cognitive consequences. It is associated with a 26 percent increased risk of premature death, largely stemming from an out of control stress response that results in higher cortisol levels, increased blood pressure and inflammation. Feeling socially isolated also increases the risk of suicide. “We see solitary confinement as nothing less than a death penalty by social deprivation,” said Stephanie Cacioppo, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, who was on the panel with King.
For good or bad, the brain is shaped by its environment—and the social isolation and sensory deprivation King experienced likely changed his. Chronic stress damages the hippocampus, a brain area important for memory, spatial orientation and emotion regulation. As a result, socially isolated people experience memory loss, cognitive decline and depression. Studies show depression results in additional cell death in the hippocampus as well as the loss of a growth factor that has antidepressant-like properties, creating a vicious cycle. When sensory deprivation and an absence of natural light are thrown into the mix, people can experience psychosis and disruptions in the genes that control the body’s natural circadian rhythms. “Social deprivation is bad for brain structure and function. Sensory deprivation is bad for brain structure and function. Circadian dysregulation is bad,” said Huda Akil, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Michigan who was also on the panel. “Loneliness in itself is extremely damaging.”
King has experienced lasting cognitive changes from his time in solitary confinement. His memory is impaired and he has lost his ability to navigate, both of which are signs of damage to the hippocampus. At one point he was unable to recognize faces, but that problem has passed. Cacioppo speculated that social areas of his brain that were not being used, like those involved in facial recognition, might have atrophied during his time in solitary. Supporting this idea, recent research conducted in mice by neuroscientist Richard Smeyne at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and presented at the conference revealed that after one month of social isolation, neurons in sensory and motor regions of the brain had shrunk by 20 percent.
The question remains as to whether these neuronal changes are permanent or can be reversed. Akil said, however, she doubts “you can live through that experience and come out with the same brain you went in with, and not in a good way.”
King said he survived the ordeal because he recognized that his case was “politicized,” and bigger than himself. He and many supporters believe the Angola Three were targeted and falsely convicted because they were members of the Black Panther party. Their cases were later taken up by the United Nations as an example of the inhumanity of solitary confinement. According to Cacioppo, King’s connection to a larger group and larger purpose likely gave him the resilience to survive the ordeal. “Collective identity is protective against individual loneliness,” she noted.
By pairing their research with King’s experience, the neuroscientists on the panel hope to move the needle on people’s perspectives and policy around the issue. Jules Lobel, a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh and the sole lawyer on the panel, thinks they can: Neuroscience research played a role in a class action lawsuit he won against solitary confinement in California. “Neuroscience can not only be a powerful tool for understanding the human condition,” he said, “but can also play an important role in changing the conditions that humans live under.”
Dana G. Smith
Dana Smith is a freelance science writer specializing in brains and bodies. She has written for Scientific American, the Atlantic, the Guardian, NPR, Discover, and Fast Company, among other outlets. In a previous life, she earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Cambridge.
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Glenlivet 15 Year Old French Oak Reserve
Winning bid: £30.00
The first distillery to take out a licence after the Excise Act of 1823, the distillery was a favourite of King George the IV who demanded nothing but during a visit to Edinburgh in 1821 - three years before it was legal!
Glenlivet has given its name to the 'longest valley in Scotland', so called after several distilleries laid claim to the Glenlivet suffix to cash in on the distillery's sterling reputation - but only one can call itself The Glenlivet.
The Glenlivet 15 year old French Oak Reserve, selectively matured in new Limousin oak casks.
Please note minor creasing to box.
Please examine the images of the bottle, any packaging and labels carefully and satisfy yourself as to their condition before making a bid.
Featured in: The 83rd Auction (February 23 – March 4, 2018)
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Brian Tan
The Ascott Limited
Country General Manager
Brian is the Country General Manager for Thailand & Laos at The Ascott Limited, currently the largest international serviced residence owner-operator in Thailand & Laos with 11 properties in operation, 10 under development and a total of more than 4,500 units across Bangkok, Pattaya, Sri Racha and Vientiane.
He was previously General Manager, Regional Operations at Frasers Hospitality as global head of security & crisis management, oversaw a cluster of properties in southern China and completed General Manager assignments in Wuhan, Suzhou and Shanghai.
Earlier in his hospitality career, Brian held progressive positions with Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, including Director of Quality in Singapore and Director of Operations in China.
In 2014, Mr. Tan was named Hotel Manager of the Year in the inaugural edition of The China Hotelier Awards, which featured senior nominations from some of the most renowned brands in the global hotel industry.
Mr Tan was a Singapore Tourism Board postgraduate scholarship recipient and holds a Master of Management in Hospitality from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration and a Bachelor of Arts from the National University of Singapore.
““There’s a good mix of people, from operators, owners and service providers. We’re learning a lot. We’re very new to this space and it’s a great platform for people like us who want to come in to the industry and build up a strong pipeline of contacts. It’s been very valuable for us.”
Jittida (Best) Haputpong, VP business development, Igloohome
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Anais Azul: Dreams of a Sound Ecologist
By Mark MacNamara
Last week Anais Azul went to look at the music program at Boston University, where she’s been accepted for college. She’s a 17-year-old senior at Berkeley High and while BU was not her first choice she came away from the visit in a swoon. In a swoon from seeing both the university and Boston, itself: those glorious magnolia trees, the city’s architecture and history; the sheer wealth of resources, and for her, especially, the feeling of a cozy bohemian city. Not overwhelming the way frenetic Manhattan can be, or by the same token as rustic as the hinterlands of New York, at the University of Rochester, another school she looked at, or for that matter, as impersonal and Shanghai-like as she’s come to find downtown San Francisco.
“Definitely the right place for me,” she felt as she took a tour of the campus and the city around it last Saturday morning — not to mention new grand pianos in all the instrument practice rooms, the dazzling technology at your beck, the way you need to swipe a card just to get into the practice rooms, the way you can change the sound settings in a room to give the effect of a cathedral or a night club. You name it. In other schools, you go into the practice rooms and you can always hear others playing, no matter how faintly. But not here. The silence itself said all there was to say.
Privilege was the word that came to mind to describe it all.
(In)Tensions by Anais Azul - "New works for string quartet" on YouTube.
And on that morning, last Saturday, before returning to the Bay Area, the end point on her tour was the plaza downtown where she was able to see the activity involved in readying the finish line for the 117th running of the Boston Marathon.
“It was very scary to hear news of the bombings,” Azul told us earlier this week. “But it hasn’t deterred me. I’m still going to move. After all, that could happen anywhere. It’s hard to prevent those kinds of attacks; now there will probably be even more security.”
Azul, who is set upon a music career, has an interesting biography, and one that may serve as preparation to live in post ‘415’ Boston.
She was born in Lima, Peru in 1995, to parents who are both relatively well known local visual artists and poets: Susana Aragon and Adrian Arias. Arias is a multimedia coordinator at the Mission Culture Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco.
Azul was four when the family moved to Berkeley, and so began her journey to the arts. “Some of my best memories growing up were going around with my parents as they went to poetry readings or recitals in North Beach or in the Mission. I remember falling asleep in art galleries and listening to people with crazy new ideas. Someone once said to me, ‘once you meet normal people, you’ll change.’ But for me ‘strangeness’ is normal. It’s among ‘strange’ people that I feel most comfortable. That’s where I find newness. I think if you want to be an artist, and if you want to be a visionary, which I would like to be one day, then you’re always looking for experiences that are new and original.”
Azul attended the Longfellow Middle School before going to Berkeley High. She took up piano in 2009, and then a year and a half later began writing music, deeply inspired by Karen Wells, the orchestra director at Berkeley High. Last summer Azul took a workshop at the John Adams Young Composers Program at the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley and has learned the geography of cellos and clarinets and how to use various software programs.
“That got me listening to sounds in a different way,” she says. “I’m always listening to the world around me: a car zooming down the street, finger nails tapping on a table, the sound of skateboard wheels. Or dry leaves. I love to hear that sound of leaves crackling. I’m always collecting sounds and that’s how I think of musicians — as ‘ecologists of sound’ — always sampling and organizing the chaos of sound. Cleaning things up. And so everything has the potential of being music …”
“Right now I’m writing a piece for a flute, piano, cello, and bass quartet. It’s a very challenging ensemble to write for. When I start something I always start very intuitively and by improvising. In this piece I stumbled into a water theme, and so I went with that, and wrote something based on all kinds of water sounds: a water fall, rain drops, driving rain, water in all its forms …”
“The way I make my music I’m not always thinking of the goal or the overall ‘meaning’. But in this case I will dedicate the piece to the victims and families in the (Newtown) Connecticut shootings. And now after these bombings, which were also dedicated to the victims of Newtown, that’s also affected me. The way I think of it is that water connects us all to each other. It's a basic unit of life, and if this piece has a meaning, it’s not what we hold in common in death but about what we share in life and how to appreciate life.”
On Saturday May 18, the Crowden Music Center will present 10 new works by several members of the John Adams Young Composers Program, including a piece by Anais Azul. The performance, which features members of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, will begin at 7 p.m. and is free. Composers are aged 10 to 18.
Mark MacNamara, a writer and journalist based in Asheville, North Carolina, has written for such publications as Nautilus, Salon, The Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Vanity Fair. From time to time, his pieces in San Francisco Classical Voice also appear in ArtsJournal.com. Noteworthy examples include a piece about Philip Glass’s dream to build a cultural center on the Pacific Coast; a profile of sound composer Pamela Z and an essay on the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. MacNamara recently won several awards in the 2018 Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards presented by the San Francisco Press Club. His website is macnamband.com.
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Tag Archive: Maplewood
Landscapers fail to blow away leaf blower bans
Photo credit: Dean Hochman licensed under CC BY 2.0
Recently, the city of Newton, Massachusetts, and town of Maplewood, New Jersey, passed restrictions on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers because of public health, safety and environmental concerns. Gas-powered leaf blowers are a source of substantial pollution as well as deafening noise levels. In both cases, the courts refused to grant emergency relief to the landscapers thereby allowing the ordinances to take effect. Here are the stories of what happened and what they mean. Jamie L. Banks, PhD, MSc, Executive Director, Quiet Communities
By Jeanne Kempthorne, J.D., Co-Chair, Quiet Communities Legal Advisory Council
Landscapers came out swinging to prevent municipalities in New Jersey and Massachusetts from enforcing gas-powered leaf blower ordinances limiting their use. So far, they’ve struck out.
Quiet Communities’ legal advisors have been following the litigation with interest, and have provided legal and technical assistance to municipalities forced to respond to last-minute efforts to stymie enforcement of local ordinances.
In January 2017, the City of Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston, amended its noise ordinance to, among other things, limit the use of leaf blowers between Memorial and Labor Days to the use of a single electric- or battery-powered machine emitting no more than 65 decibels per property. (The previous ordinance had already limited the permissible decibel level to 65, but was rarely enforced). The amendment followed two years of study and hearings by the City Council.
Shortly before Memorial Day when the summer limitations would take effect, a group of landscapers filed a lawsuit seeking to enjoin the enforcement of the amended ordinance. They argued that the ordinance was preempted by state environmental laws concerning air quality and claimed they would suffer irreparable economic injury if the ordinance were enforced. The plaintiffs also raised constitutional due process and equal protection claims, the latter on the basis of the ordinance’s distinction between gas- and non-gas-powered equipment operated at the same decibel level .
The Middlesex Superior Court denied the landscapers’ motion for a preliminary injunction, emphasizing, first, that the landscapers had not proved that they would suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction. The plaintiffs had sworn in affidavits that they would suffer the loss of some business as a result of raising prices in order to comply with the ordinance, which, even if true, falls far short of the necessary proof of irreparable injury.
Turning to the merits, the court concluded that the plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail on their legal claims at trial. Addressing preemption, which the court characterized as the “principal challenge to the Ordinance,” the court stated that the landscapers’ argument lacks merit because “[t]he [state] Air Act . . . nowhere mentions noise pollution let alone suggests field preemption with respect to noise control.” The court emphasized that state law expressly authorizes municipal noise ordinances–-a fact the landscapers had ignored. Finally, the court summarily rejected the due process and equal protection challenges as unlikely to succeed. The City need merely show that the ordinance is a rational exercise of its police power, and that the distinction drawn between types of equipment is rationally related to a legitimate purpose.
In early April, the town of Maplewood, New Jersey, adopted an ordinance that prohibits the commercial use of gas-powered leaf blowers from May 15 through September 30. This replaced a previous ordinance that banned the use of equipment louder than 65 dB, an ordinance the Town found nearly impossible to enforce. On May 10, five days before the ordinance was scheduled to take effect, the New Jersey Landscape Contractors Association, “a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the integrity, proficiency, profitability and personal growth of the landscape professional,” sued the town, its mayor, and the township committee in federal district court in New Jersey seeking to invalidate the ordinance and to enjoin its enforcement.
The NJLCA complained that the ordinance was arbitrary and irrational in distinguishing between commercial and non-commercial users, and therefore ran afoul of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the state constitution. It also argued that the ordinance was preempted by the federal Clean Air and Occupational Safety and Health Acts. According to the complaint, the Clean Air Act empowered the State of California, and only the State of California, to regulate emissions from two-stroke, “in-use, non-road” engines. California having not done so, no other state or political subdivision of a state may do so. Nor may the town impose other or different requirements to protect workers, NJLCA complains, because OSHA already regulates worker safety.
In opposing the landscaper association’s motion for an injunction, the Town argued that it rationally distinguished between commercial and non-commercial users in terms of intensity and frequency of use. Moreover, the Town rationally concluded that commercial users were unlikely to engage in problem-solving discussions with the neighbors concerning noise and pollution. The Town disputed the premise of the Clean Air Act preemption argument, noting that the ordinance does not purport to regulate emissions. Finally, the Town noted that the landscapers did not merit equitable relief since it was apparent that they had ignored the previous ordinance which banned equipment operating at more than 65 decibels, which most commercial gas-powered leaf blowers do.
After a hearing on the association’s motion for a preliminary injunction, the district court dismissed the landscape association’s complaint without deciding whether the constitutional and preemption arguments had merit. Instead, it ruled that the association lacked legal “standing” to bring the complaint. If an individual landscaper is willing to be named as plaintiff, the complaint may be refiled. So far, that has not happened. Stay tuned . . .
What these cases illustrate is a burgeoning threat to local initiatives to protect the health and safety of community residents: the misuse of the little-understood preemption doctrine, which is being deployed more and more by business interests to quash democratic action at the municipal level. Instead of acknowledging and addressing the legitimate concerns of the public and industry workers, some in the landscaping industry have chosen to fight local efforts to protect public health and safety in court, forcing municipalities to spend scarce resources defending their right to enact and enforce local ordinances. Happily, the courts are calling them out.
We do not mean to sweep in a pile all players in the landscaping industry. Many responsible landscapers are conscious of the social, health, and environmental impacts of their work and are more than willing to pick up a rake or to use quieter, cleaner, and safer equipment. Ask them! Let’s reward those who are willing to work towards a more healthy, clean, and serene environment with our business.
Originally posted at Quiet Communities.
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Mobile industry to tackle child porn concerns
19 Jan 200465 Views
Irish mobile network operators are to respond to the growing public concern over child pornography and paedophilia by drawing up a code of practice to prevent underage users from accessing pornographic images on their mobile phones. The move is to be followed by the introduction of technology that will allow networks to block unsuitable content.
The item will be high on the agenda when the Irish Cellular Industry Association (ICIA) – the trade body for the mobile industry – holds its first meeting of 2004 at the end of the month. Joan Keating, head of corporate communications with Vodafone Ireland and incoming chairperson of the ICIA, told siliconrepublic.com that the issue would dominate the work of the association this year much in the way that the issue of mobile phone theft – which led to the creation of a Central Equipment Identity Register – was a priority last year. “One of our priorities will be a Code of Practice consisting of checks and balances to protect minors from inappropriate content,” she said.
Keating said that as she had not yet consulted with industry colleagues, no firm timelines had been agreed but she hoped that the code would be finalised by the summer. However, the introduction of content filtering technology was likely to take considerably longer – possibly 12 months or more.
“We already have a good content filtering service in place for our mobile ‘Chat’ service which works by blocking certain words or terms. However, the filtering of visual content on camera or MMS phones is much more difficult. Our colleagues in Vodafone UK have been looking at ways to block flesh tones but it is an extremely complex problem. We don’t want to end up blocking images of new-born babies for example.”
With 80pc of post-paid mobile phones sold in the UK now incorporating cameras and screens, the mobile communications industry there has been under mounting pressure to find a way to minimise the risk of unsuitable content reaching children and the risk to children of being targeted by paedophiles via their mobiles.
Last week the UK mobile operators announced that by the end of the year they would introduce technology across all networks that would allow them to block the delivery of services or content with an over-18 certificate to underage users.
Keating reiterated that no date had been set for the Irish introduction of such technology – it could be by the end of the year or by early 2005, depending on how quickly the technical issues were resolved. “I’d like to think that if the technology works in the UK we should be able to implement it here shortly afterwards,” she said. “We don’t want to reinvent the wheel.”
Keating added that in drawing up the Code of Practice, the ICIA would involve or liaise with all relevant stakeholders including the Communications Regulator, the Department of Communications, child protection groups and the GSM Association, the organisation representing the global mobile industry, which is based in Dublin.
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Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days
Laural Merlington
Comedy, Marriage & Family
Judith Viorst's most adored book is undoubtedly the children's classic Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In this new book, fans will recognize and be drawn to the Alexander they know and love-only now he's all grown up, with three kids of his own.
When Judith's son Alexander announces that he, his wife, Marla, their daughter, Olivia (age five), and their two sons, Isaac (age two) and Toby (four months), would be staying with her and her husband for ninety days while their house was being renovated, Judy doesn't know quite how to repond. 'I tried to think of it as a magnificent, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not only to strengthen family ties and not only to really get to know the grandchildren, but also to further my personal growth while also achieving marital enrichment.' She decides that she'll have to learn to let go of her excessive devotion to domestic neatness and adherence to carefully planned schedules.
As Judith's tightly run home turns into a high-octane madhouse of screaming grandkids, splattered floors, spilled milk, and tripped-over toys, she begins to understand that, despite the chaos, what she's been given truly is an amazing thing, an opportunity to know her children and grandchildren a little better than before, but also to reconnect with her husband as they hold hands, close their eyes, and wait patiently for move-out day.
When the 'Alexander Five' make a final departure to their newly refurbished home, Judith realizes that Alexander's wonderful, marvelous, excellent, terrific ninety days might have been the greatest gift her son could have given her-the gift of discovering forgotten memories, making loving families, and a chance to live life a little more deeply.
Viorst, Judith
Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University, moved to Greenwich Village, and has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. They have three sons--Anthony and Nick (who are lawyers) and Alexander (who does community-development lending for a bank) and seven grandchildren--Miranda, Brandeis, Olivia, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Isaac, and Toby. Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children's picture books, adult fiction and non-fiction, poetry for children and adults, and three musicals, which are
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Davina Porter
Recorded Books
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
by Daniel Mark Epstein
by David Baldacci
Diana Gabaldon's magnificent historical saga, begun with Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, continues with this New York Times bestseller. Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first. Now that Claire knows Jamie survived the slaughter at Culloden, she is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. She aches to travel back through time again to find the love of her life, but, in order to do that, she must leave their daughter behind. It has been 20 years since she and Jamie were forced to separate. Can she risk everything, maybe even her life, on a gamble that their love has withstood the long, rigorous test of time? Diana Gabaldon's powerful, witty, and heroic characters lend themselves well to the rich, melodic narration accorded them by Davina Porter. Under her spell, listeners find themselves transported back through time to exciting faraway places alive with people they would enjoy knowing.
by dani
Written by dani on February 19th, 2014
The best series EVER! If you haven't read it, start with Outlander and read them in order. Everyone I know who has read them has become addicted!
To millions of fans, Diana Gabaldon is the creator of a complex, original, and utterly compelling amalgam of 18th-century romantic adventure and 20th-century science fiction. To the publishing industry, she's a grassroots-marketing phenomenon. And to would-be writers everywhere who worry that they don't have the time or expertise to do what they love, Gabaldon is nothing short of an inspiration.
Gabaldon wrote her first novel while juggling the demands of motherhood and career: in between her job as an ecology professor, she also had a part-time gig writing freelance software reviews. Gabaldon had never written fiction before, and didn't intend to publish this first novel, which she decided to call Outlander. This, she decided, would be her "practice novel". Worried that she might not be able to pull a plot and characters out of thin air, she settled on a historical novel because "it's easier to look things up than to make them up entirely."
The impulse to set her novel in 18th-century Scotland didn't stem -- as some fans have assumed—from a desire to explore her own familial roots (in fact, Gabaldon isn't even Scottish). Rather, it came from watching an episode of the British sci-fi series Dr. Who and becoming smitten with a handsome time traveler in a kilt. A time-travel element crept into Gabaldon's own book only after she realized her wisecracking female lead couldn't have come from anywhere but the 20th century. The resulting love affair between an intelligent, mature, sexually experienced woman and a charismatic, brave, virginal young man turned the conventions of historical romance upside-down.
Gabaldon has said her books were hard to market at first because they were impossible to categorize neatly. Were they historical romances? Sci-fi adventure stories? Literary fiction? Whatever their genre (Gabaldon eventually proffered the term "historical fantasias"), they eventually found their audience, and it turned out to be a staggeringly huge one.
Even before the publication of Outlander, Gabaldon had an online community of friends who'd read excerpts and were waiting eagerly for more. (In fact, her cohorts at the CompuServe Literary Forum helped hook her up with an agent.) Once the book was released, word kept spreading, both on the Internet and off, and Gabaldon kept writing sequels. (When her fourth book, "Drums of Autumn," was released, it debuted at No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, and her publisher, Delacorte, raced to add more copies to their initial print run of 155,000.)
With her books consistently topping the bestseller lists, it's apparent that Gabaldon's appeal lies partly in her ability to bulldoze the formulaic conventions of popular fiction. Salon writer Gavin McNett noted approvingly, "She simply doesn't pay attention to genre or precedent, and doesn't seem to care that identifying with Claire puts women in the role of the mysterious stranger, with Jamie -- no wimp in any regard -- as the romantic 'heroine."'
In between Outlander novels, Gabaldon also writes historical mysteries featuring Lord John Grey, a popular, if minor, character from the series, and is working on a contemporary mystery series. Meanwhile, the author's formidable fan base keeps growing, as evidenced by the expanding list of Gabaldon chat rooms, mailing lists, fan clubs and web sites -- some of them complete with fetching photos of red-haired lads in kilts.
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EU commissioner warns full trade deal by end-of-year ‘just not possible’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly insisted the UK will not ask for an extension.
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan
Boris Johnson’s ambition to get a full trade deal negotiated with Brussels by the end-of-year deadline is “just not possible”, the EU’s trade commissioner has said.
Phil Hogan said on Thursday that negotiators were “certainly” not going to be able to tie up everything on the future relationship between the bloc and the UK in the time frame.
The comments of the EU’s top trade negotiator came after European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen met with the Prime Minister in Downing Street last week.
Mr Hogan said Ms von der Leyen came out of that meeting thinking “we have to prioritise” on aspects of the agreement if the UK is to exit the transition period at the end of 2020.
Boris Johnson on the steps of Downing Street with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (Stefan Rousseau/PA)
“Certainly by the end of the year we are not going to get everything that’s in the 36-page document on the future relationship agreed because Prime Minister Johnson decided we are going to have everything concluded by the end of the year,” he told the Global Counsel conference.
“It’s just not possible. Especially if we have to make a decision about the transition by July 1.”
Mr Johnson has repeatedly insisted the UK will not ask for an extension by the summer deadline to make that request.
Mr Hogan, a former Irish minister and an ally of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, said the EU was “certainly open to suggestions” on how to manage the situation politically but added that the “wisest thing” would be to not set deadlines.
“I think we’ve seen that putting ourselves into timelines in the last few years have not been that helpful, especially in the way it played out in the House of Commons,” he said.
A Downing Street spokesman pointed out that the Political Declaration committed both sides to the timetable.
“The Prime Minister has been clear on this throughout there will be no extension to that,” the spokesman said.
Mr Hogan made the comments to former EU trade commissioner Lord Mandelson at an event at the RSA in central London, where he was appearing on a video-link from Washington DC.
EU commissioner Phil Hogan is a former Irish minister and an ally of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (Niall Carson/PA)
In the US, Mr Hogan has been discussing transatlantic trade with president Donald Trump’s representatives.
He advised that the UK can ignore American threats that it will not share intelligence if Britain accepts technology from Chinese firm Huawei in its 5G networks.
“I think that’s a bit of sabre-rattling. I don’t think that will actually happen at the end of the day,” Mr Hogan told the Labour peer.
“I think everybody has an interest in making sure that we are safe and I think the United States … at the end of the day, you can call their bluff on that one.”
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The SMSF death benefit nomination minefield
Ian Glenister
03 December 2013 — 3 minute read
A recent decision handed down by the courts highlights the inordinate amount of problems with blended families and the payment of superannuation death benefits.
A decision handed down by Judge McMillan on November 1 last in the matter of Wooster v Morris [2013] VSC 594 can be viewed as a watershed in the courts' approach when dealing with superannuation death benefits.
The first named defendant, a Mrs Morris, was the second wife of Mr Maxwell Morris (the deceased). They had been married for approximately 20 years. Mrs Morris and the deceased were members of the Morris SMSF established in August 2005. They were individual trustees.
The deceased died in February 2010. He executed a Binding Death benefit Nomination (BDN) in March 2008 in respect of his two daughters from his first marriage. The daughters were the plaintiffs in this action.
The second named plaintiff was Mr Nathan Peter Ashman the son of Mrs Morris from her first marriage.
The third named plaintiff was Upper Swan Nominees P/L a company-appointed Trustee of the SMSF subsequent to the retirement of Mrs Morris and her son as individual trustees of the SMSF. Mrs Morris was the sole director and shareholder of the new corporate trustee.
At the time of the deceased's death, there was approximately $1.4 million held in the SMSF – the deceased's account of approximately $925,000 with Mrs Morris's account balance of approximately $450,000.
Mrs Morris claimed she did not know of the existence of the BDN until just prior to her husband's death. Although she was not happy at all with the provisions of the BDN she did not want to challenge him about the proposed payment to his daughters. Mrs Morris was concerned as to the health and welfare of her husband at that time and did not want to upset him or cause him any angst.
Mrs Morris sought advice from the accountant of the SMSF as to her position. The accountant referred Mrs Morris to solicitors to obtain independent legal advice as to the validity of the BDN of the deceased. The advice was that this was not a valid BDN and accordingly the deceased died without a valid BDN in place.
The provisions of the operative trust deed of the SMSF qualified that the trustee, now the third named defendant, could pay the death benefit in accordance with its discretion. Mrs Morris decided that the death benefit should be paid to her.
The deceased's daughters instigated proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria to enforce the validity of the deceased's BDN. The court referred the matter to a special referee, a senior barrister, for him to investigate the matter thoroughly and report back to the court with his findings.
The special referee, on all points argued by the plaintiff, found in their favour. He ruled that the BDN was in fact valid. Justice McMillan upheld these findings and made scathing comments as to the conduct of Mrs Morris and her role as the director of the corporate trustee of the SMSF. Costs for the entire matter were awarded against Mrs Morris inclusive of her SMSF account balance.
A thorough examination of the case highlights the following issues in respect of the SMSF jurisdiction:
• If there is any possibility of a dispute between members of an SMSF or it is trustee(s) concerning, but not limited to, the payment of superannuation death benefits, the validity of a BDN, account balances then the fund trustee(s) should apply to the court of applicable jurisdiction for a declaration as to the matter(s) in dispute.
• Confirmation that an SMSF is a trust and the precedents of trust law apply when reviewing the conduct of a trustee(s) and it is crucial that all beneficiaries (members) of an SMSF are accorded the same consideration.
• The court took the view that the entire account balance of the SMSF was available to the court to costs purposes.
• The significance of the role of Binding Death benefit Nominations in respect of the payment of superannuation death benefits and the necessity that they are prepared and executed not only in accordance with the operative trust deed of the fund but also executed and witnessed in accordance with the superannuation laws.
A close examination of this ruling is recommended to all advisers. Remember, superannuation is often a significant asset of individuals and should be treated accordingly.
Note: Mrs Morris died in September 2013 prior to the final judgement being handed down by Justice McMillan.
Ian Glenister is principal of Glenister & Co, Superannuation & Estate Planning Lawyers and a director and co-founder of The SMSF Academy.
Last Updated: 17 June 2016 Published: 03 December 2013
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Bomb disposal squad called to Somerset house after body found
CORDON: People were told to leave their homes while the investigation took place
BOMB disposal experts have been called to a house following the discovery of a man's body and a haul of Second World War weapons and ammunition.
Avon and Somerset Police alerted the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal team after being called to the property in Wellsway, Keynsham, on Friday.
As a precaution, a small cordon was put in place and some homes were evacuated but it has since been lifted and neighbours have returned to their properties.
A police spokesman said: "We were called to a property in Wellsway in Keynsham to reports that a body of a man has been found.
"It is being treated as a sudden death and will be referred to the coroner.
"It appears ornamental weapons and ammunition have been found. As a precaution we put a small cordon in place.
"The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team said the cordon was not necessary and people have returned to their homes."
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New Study Finds Big Racial Gap in Suspensions of Middle School Students
Middle schools across the country are suspending children with alarming frequency, particularly in some large urban school districts, where numerous schools suspend a third or more of their black male students in a given year, according to a new study by education researchers Daniel J. Losen and Russell Skiba, and published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The study found that African-American children are suspended far more frequently than white children, in general, with especially high racial differences in middle school, causing them to miss valuable class time during a crucial period in their academic and social development.
In a national sample of more than 9,000 middle schools, 28.3 percent of black males, on average, were suspended at least once during a school year, nearly three times the 10 percent rate for white males. Black females were suspended more than four times as often as white females (18 percent vs. 4 percent).
For all students in the schools examined, the suspension rate was 11.2 percent. Hispanic males faced a 16.3 percent risk of suspension.
In 18 urban districts examined more closely, the average suspension rate for all students was 22.2 percent, double the average for all districts. The study found that 175 middle schools in these districts suspended more than one third of their black male students. Of those, 84 suspended more than half the black males enrolled. Schools with high rates of suspension were also found for other racial groups.
The report – Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in Crisis – can be read here.
Losen is a senior education law and policy associate at the Civil Rights Project at the University of California Los Angeles. Skiba is director of the Equity Project at Indiana University’s Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.
"It’s clear from these findings that zero-tolerance policies are pushing too many children out of school at a critical point in their education and are having a disproportionate impact on students of color," said Marion Chartoff, a senior SPLC staff attorney specializing in education issues.
The study adds to a growing body of research questioning the fairness and effectiveness of zero-tolerance polices, which often mandate suspensions for specified offenses.
"As the number of suspensions for kids of all races and all grades has risen dramatically, the gap between suspension rates for blacks and whites has more than tripled – from about 3 percentage points in the 1970s to over 10 percentage points today,” Losen said. “The incredibly high frequency of suspension use in urban middle schools, and the large numbers of youth of color who miss school as a result, is rarely discussed in debates about what we must do to improve our schools."
The researchers focused on middle schools because studies suggest that suspensions in those grades may have significant, long-term repercussions for students and because few previous studies have separated middle school data from that for all grades, masking the extraordinarily high frequency of suspension in middle schools.
Using 2006 data from the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights – the most recent data available – the study examined suspensions in approximately 9,220 middle schools in every state in the country. This data was used to calculate the percentage of a given racial or ethnic group suspended at least once during a school year.
Most of the 18 urban districts studied had several schools that suspended more than 50 percent of a given racial/gender group. In the Palm Beach County, Fla., school district, for example, the suspension rate for black males was 53 percent. The Milwaukee, Wis., school district had a suspension rate of 52 percent for black females.
"The study shows very high rates of discipline for black students in some of our large urban districts," Skiba said. "The important policy question this raises is whether we as a society are comfortable with putting this many students out of school, especially since we know about the negative effects of being out of school."
An earlier study of all out-of-school suspensions in one state found only 5 percent were issued for disciplinary incidents typically considered serious or dangerous, such as possession of weapons or drugs. The remaining 95 percent were either categorized as “disruptive behavior" or "other."
The study released today also notes there is, in general, no evidence that racial disparities in school discipline are the result of higher rates of disruption among black students.
The study recommends that policymakers pay much closer attention to school suspensions at the school and district level and use this information as part of school and district evaluations. Further, the U.S. Department of Education should identify and address unlawful discrimination, and federal law should require an increase in the collection and reporting of school suspension and related discipline data, especially data that looks at both race and gender. This data could help identify schools with high suspension rates for review, as well as determine the need to provide technical assistance on effective alternatives to suspension for schools in crisis.
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Ohio Bill Would Make Assaulting Umpires, Referees a Felony
By: Michael Popke
Ohio lawmakers want to put an end to the assault of sports officials at all levels. New bi-partisan legislation in the Ohio General Assembly — House Bill 208 and Senate Bill 118— would raise the penalty for assaulting an on-the-job umpire or referee from a misdemeanor to a fifth-degree felony, punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
According to Cleveland.com, it’s already a felony in Ohio to assault teachers, coaches, school administrators and bus drivers.
“We want to make sure that the people who officiate — really, in many cases, it’s almost a volunteer activity — that they are well-protected,” Republican State Rep. Bill Roemer, a co-sponsor of the House bill, told Cleveland.com, adding that the bill is supported by the Ohio High School Athletic Association, as well as referee and umpire associations.
In January, Jerry Snodgrass, executive director of the OHSAA, and Karissa Niehoff, executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, jointly wrote a letter to Ohio parents arguing that the berating of officials by adults is a primary cause of “an alarming shortage” of high school referees and umpires.
The shortage is a national problem, and the letter cited a National Association of Sports Officials survey indicating that more than 75 percent of all high school officials say “adult behavior” is the primary reason they quit. What’s more, 80 percent of all new officials put away their whistle after just two years.
Ohio is seeking to take legislative action as a GoFundMe page inches closer to its goal of $10,000 to help cover medical expenses for a 60-year-old basketball referee. The officials was knocked unconscious by the coach of a Michigan youth team at a Southern Illinois Select basketball tournament at the Paducah Regional Sports Plex in Kentucky.
Following a 14-and-under game between Fresh Skills Elite of Flint, Mich., and Ball Hogg Academy of Edwardsville, Ill., Kenny Culp was reportedly attacked by Fresh Skills Elite coach Keyon Menifield for failing to call what the coach deemed to be a foul late in the game. Culp suffered numerous injuries, including a broken collarbone, a crack in his sinus cavity, a concussion and bruises on his face.
According to USA Today, Culp was released after nine days at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. Menifield, meanwhile, faced a misdemeanor charge of second-degree assault of a sports official, which later was upgraded to a felony.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Dwaine Crick, assigning secretary for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and the creator of the GoFundMe page for Culp, told USA Today. “I’ve been around this game 40-plus years. I’ve seen some irate coaches, but when it comes to blows, I’ve never seen that.”
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Buzzards Bay Musicfest gets esteemed guest conductor Andres Cardenes
By Keith PowersContributing writer
They have the closest seat in the orchestra to the conductor’s platform, and so it’s no surprise that many concertmasters have made the switch, giving up their violins for a maestro’s baton.
In the case of Andrés Cárdenes, who comes to the Buzzards Bay Musicfest at Tabor Academy in Marion as guest conductor next week, it was a bit more complicated than that.
Cárdenes, who spent many years as concertmaster in the Pittsburgh Symphony, has actually kept both types of musical expertise active throughout his career. He was already studying violin when he began conducting at age 12.
“I was in my youth orchestra,” he says, “and I learned a lot of tips right then. But as I studied the violin, it kind of took over my life. I needed to concentrate for a while on one thing.”
Concentrate he did. Cárdenes went on to study at Indiana, with the great Josef Gingold. He took second prize in the 1982 Tchaikovsky competition, and has since soloed with more than 100 orchestras, including ensembles in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Moscow, Dallas, Caracas, Barcelona and Shanghai. He has premiered more than 70 new works, and has more than 100 concertos in his repertory. His violin career has seen him garner multiple awards, including a Grammy nomination and numerous prestigious jury selections.
Conducting, however, was always part of the equation. Now it’s getting to be a larger and larger part.
“As I started to get into it, it seemed like a natural transition. My conducting career has grown and grown. They created the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra for me in 1999, and then I started conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony on subscription concerts while I was still concertmaster.
“Now that I’ve retired as concertmaster (in 2010), I’ll still play, but I don’t know how long I’m going to play 70 to 75 concerts a year. Conducting will carry me over. Whatever I’m doing in music, it’s all about the music, and I love every aspect of it.”
We’re glossing over the fact that Cárdenes is also a world-class violist, and still performs on that instrument as well. But now, unburdened by his Pittsburgh concertmaster responsibilities, he can perform chamber music, concertos, and conduct — sometimes conducting and performing at the same time.
Musicfest audiences will see each aspect of Cárdenes's musicianship this week. On Wednesday and Friday evenings he will lead the orchestra in Mozart’s piano concerto no. 9 (Cynthia Raim, soloist), the first Brahms Serenade, and Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals.” On Thursday he sits in as violinist for Sarasate’s “Navarra,” a work for two violins (Monique Mead joins him) and piano (David Allen Wehr).
And on Sunday afternoon, he does double duty, conducting Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, and conducting and soloing in the Bruch violin concerto. While conducting and performing simultaneously was once the norm — mostly up to the time of Mozart — around the period of late Beethoven, and certainly with the Romantic era, concertos became much too complicated to pull double duty.
The Bruch concerto, written in 1866, certainly stands as a challenge in that regard. “Charles (festival artistic director Charles Stegeman) asked me to do it. It’s very difficult — one of the most difficult. We just performed it at the Sunflower Festival, and it went pretty well.
“So we’ve had a chance to work on it,” he says. “It’s a romantic concerto, with an ebb and flow between soloist and orchestra that makes the conducting part tough. There does come a point where you worry about the integrity of the music, but I really think this works.
“There was one time, when I was supposed to play the Sibelius concerto in San Antonio, that the conductor got lost driving to the concert. They asked me to perform and conduct that piece, but I had to say no. I think I played some Bach instead.”
Cárdenes and Stegeman will be joined by many familiar faces during the festival, mainly drawn from musicians at the Kansas City Symphony and Stegeman’s Pittsburgh-area colleagues (he teaches at Carnegie-Mellon). Many of the same musicians perform at the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, which took place in June, including jazz trumpeter Sean Jones, who returns to Buzzards Bay on Saturday evening with his popular quartet.
The programs are all free, as they have been for each of the 18 years of the festival. Other musical highlights include Mozart’s wind quintet (K. 452) and Rachmaninov’s Suite No. 2 for two pianos (Wehr and Raim) on Thursday evening; and César Franck’s piano quintet on Friday, to go along with “Carnival of the Animals.”
The Buzzards Bay Musicfest runs from July 8 (Wednesday) through July 12 at the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Tabor Academy in Marion. Admission is free. Performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. There is a children’s open rehearsal on at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
For complete list of programs visit www.buzzardsbaymusicfest.com.
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Best moment of Youth Team career says Rush
Goalscorer of equaliser on 4-3 win over Leyton Orient
Rob Craven
@SUFCYouth
U18s forward Matt Rush described scoring the equalising goal in Southend United’s 4-3 victory over Leyton Orient as “the best moment of my youth team career” as Blues fought back from a two-goal deficit to win in extra time.
Rush netted his 14th competitive goal of the season in the FA Youth Cup First Round tie in the third minute of stoppage time to haul his side level after they had trailed by two goals with just five minutes of the regulation ninety remaining.
Charlie Kelman then found a winning goal in the final minute of extra time to book a Second Round appointment with Charlton Athletic or Whitehawk, and an exhausted Rush was delighted with the result after the final whistle.
“I’m so tired, but I’m so proud of everyone,” he beamed. “At 3-1, to be honest, we looked down and out. We weren’t creating a lot, but I think this team is special and this game showed that because we came from nowhere and scored two goals, one in the 93rd minute and then in extra time in the last minute. It shows we’ve got players who can play under pressure. As a team we are progressing a lot and it was very special.”
Rush has made plenty of headlines this season after taking his youth team tally to 17 goals in 49 matches, helping the team to record six straight wins and eight victories from their last nine games. However, he was keen to pay tribute to O’Shane Stewart, who contributed a crucial goal just before half-time, and the defence for keeping the team in the game.
“It was very important for O’Shane to score because if it had stayed 2-0 I don’t know if we’d’ve managed to get back, and if it’d been 3-0 it would’ve been game over,” Rush claimed. “Osh got an important goal and, even though they started better than us, we know that we’re better than any team if we play how we can play. That didn’t really happen today, but we got the win and that’s all we care about really.”
“I think we’ve got special players and, as a team, everyone is good friends off the pitch. There a no differences, so for us to come back, you can see in the celebrations how much everyone cares about it and cares about each other. Last year I don’t think we’d’ve come back, but this year we’ve got such a special bond between everyone that we were able to do that.”
“We’re very confident defensively as well because we’ve got a lot better at that. The defence kept us in it at times because we didn’t have the greatest start. We got our goals, which we knew we would because we can score goals against anyone,” he added.
Rush showed excellent composure and a clinical eye for goal to make it 3-3, and he ran through his thought process as he sent the tie into an additional thirty minutes: “I was thinking, ‘Have a good touch and test the ‘keeper because it could go in.’ It was the last minute and it was the best moment of my youth team career. To keep us in The FA Youth Cup was brilliant and the celebrations were unbelievable.”
“It’s good to see people in the crowd wanting to watch us play. Hopefully we’ll get a few more now, but it’s different when you score because you can hear everyone and that’s completely different to Boots & Laces when you’re just with your team-mates celebrating. Hearing the fans was really good and that’s what everyone wants to hear in the future when you hopefully play in the first team,” he said.
Blues roused themselves for one last effort, and Rush was one of a number of players who could have settled the tie in Southend’s favour during extra time. The honour eventually fell to Rush’s former Bromfords School colleague Kelman, and the second-year striker described his emotions at that moment.
“We do a lot of fitness work and we are a fit team. Dave and Sim at the start of the season said that we wanted to be the fittest team in the league, and it think that was proved. There were a lot of players going down with cramp but we were able to stay in the game mentally and that’s what got us the win.”
“We’re a rollercoaster of a team, but that’s what makes us so special. They could easily have scored but we got a bit of luck, which you need to win, and we got some more with our goal, so that was good. I’m not complaining.”
“I just thought when he scored that I wanted to celebrate and lay down! That’s what we are about. We did think it was going to go to penalties, but we thought we were going to be out at 3-1 so it just shows that we have got it in us and it was a great finish. We’re really happy.”
Now Rush is hoping that Charlton Athletic progress in their First Round tie against Whitehawk to set up a clash between the club that he represents and the club that he, and his father, support. “It would mean a lot to me,” he declared.
“It’s the perfect draw and it’s what I wanted. Charlton are my club and I go there as much as I can, but when I step on the pitch I want Southend to win. My dad was raised there. I’ve had a season ticket for five years, but now we play on Saturdays I just go to whatever games I can.”
“It would be very, very special for me, and special to get a goal if I could, but we think we can beat them and we think we can beat any team that we come up against. There was no celebration when I scored against them last time but there would have to be a celebration this time."
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Failed Mars Probe Crashed Near South America Coast, Space Junk Experts Say
By Leonard David 2012-01-25T17:50:20Z
This artist's concept shows fuel from Russia's failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt burning from a ruptured fuel tank as the spacecraft re-enters the atmosphere.
(Image: © Michael Carroll)
Space junk experts have confirmed when and where the wayward Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt re-entered the atmosphere and crashed back to Earth.
The doomed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft fell from space on Jan. 15, and crashed near the South American coastline – with any debris probably falling into ocean waters, according to a European Space Agency (ESA) update released today (Jan. 25).
But "probably" can also mean that some free-falling fragments might have reached land. However, there have been no confirmed reports of debris reaching land.
"While this was an uncontrolled re-entry, the location of the potential impact area was largely over ocean, with a correspondingly low probability of any detrimental effects," said Heiner Klinkrad, head of ESA’s Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, in a statement.
Klinkrad told SPACE.com that the associated re-entry location of Phobos-Grunt "is in the vicinity of the South American coastline."
When asked about the delayed publishing of the Phobos-Grunt re-entry data, which came more than week after the spacecraft actually fell, Klinkrad said, "I cannot comment."
An ocean grave for Phobos-Grunt
Scientists make spacecraft re-entry predictions based on the assumption that a spacecraft remains intact and reaches an altitude of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) above the Earth's surface. Most of the spacecraft debris would typically impact the Earth prior to that location since most debris is "lighter" — that is, they have a greater area-to-mass ratio than the spacecraft as a whole. [6 Biggest Uncontrolled Spacecraft Crashes]
Following Phobos-Grunt's fall from space, the U.S. Strategic Command confirmed a re-entry time of 12:46 p.m. EST (17:46 GMT) as the spacecraft was flying about nearly 50 miles (80 km) above the South American coast at a location of 46 degrees south and 87 degrees west.
"This corresponds to a pass at 10 km altitude about seven minutes later – very close to ESA's prediction," according to the ESA update.
That seven-minute time delay is roughly how long it took for Phobos-Grunt to fall from a 50-mile altitude to altitude height of about 6.2 miles.
This Russian-language map depicts the latest re-entry prediction for Russia's failed Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe for Jan. 14, 2012. The map indicates that the 14-ton spacecraft could crash somewhere off the southwestern coast of South America on Jan. 15. (Image credit: Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos))
Marooned Mars probe
Phobos-Grunt tipped the scales at nearly 14 tons, with the bulk of that weight consisting of toxic unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and nitrogen tetroxide fuel.
This unused rocket propellant remained onboard the spacecraft due to a malfunction that prevented Phobos-Grunt from firing its engine and beginning the journey to Mars. The failure left the probe marooned in Earth orbit instead. [Photos: Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars Moon]
Russian experts that assessed the re-entry survivability of Phobos-Grunt stated prior to the craft’s destructive fall that about 20 to 30 fragments would reach Earth’s surface. It was estimated that less than 200 kilograms — some 400 pounds of hardware — would survive the plunge.
Phobos-Grunt launched into space on Nov. 8 (Nov. 9 in Moscow) on a mission aimed at landing on Phobos, one of two moons circling the Red Planet. Grunt means "soil" in Russian, and the probe was built to collect samples from Phobos and return them to Earth by 2014.
Mars probe's likely crash zone
In addition to the Phobos-Grunt re-entry data provided by the U.S. Strategic Command, other information on the spacecraft's fall to Earth has been gleaned from European sources, including France and Germany. All of this data was used to refine the re-entry estimates, ESA officials said.
"Within the expected uncertainties, the prediction has been largely confirmed by observations," they added.
As the errant Phobos-Grunt circled Earth prior to its demise, ESA officials sent regular updates to European civil protection authorities prior to the probe’s fiery re-entry, the space agency said.
The U.S. Strategic Command operates a network of radar and other sensors — including space-based assets — that collectively track objects in orbit as well as scan for objects that plunge into Earth's atmosphere.
The final report regarding the Phobos-Grunt re-entry was posted yesterday (Jan. 24) on the U.S. government's Space-track.org website that provides access to U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance data.
That website shows that the failed Russian probe (classified as Object 37872) made 1,097 orbits of Earth prior to its re-entry at 17:46:00 GMT, plus or minus one minute. The posting shows a predicted decay location of 46 degrees south, 273 degrees east.
A global campaign
Another group that took an active role in predicting the fall of Phobos-Grunt was the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, IADC for short. This is a technical forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to human-made and natural debris in space.
IADC is an interagency group with member agencies that include ESA, NASA, European national agencies and the Russian, Chinese, Canadian, Japanese, Ukrainian and Indian space agencies.
Since 1998, a number of targets have been used for IADC re-entry campaigns. The Phobos-Grunt re-entry was the third major spacecraft to fall from space in recent months. It followed the crash of a dead German X-ray space observatory in October and the re-entry of NASA's defunct Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite in September.
Data-sharing between countries has helped to sharpen skills to more accurately calculate the re-entries of spacecraft, rocket stages and even discarded hardware from the International Space Station.
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is a winner of last year's National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society's Ad Astra and Space World magazines. He has written for SPACE.com since 1999.
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Space.com Presents: The Art of Ed Belbruno (Event)
By Josh Chamot 2015-09-29T20:13:01Z
The life of artist and scientist Edward Belbruno is profiled in the new documentary film, "Painting the Way to the Moon." One of Belbruno's paintings, "Diophantine Flow" (2010), pays homage to his scientific work on spacecraft orbits.
(Image: © Edward Belbruno)
This event is being produced by Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
On Oct. 22, meet Princeton University artist and mathematician — and Space.com columnist — Ed Belbruno in a public showing of his art at Café Minerva in Manhattan. Join Space.com to celebrate how Belbruno's art unlocks discoveries in space exploration, and experience the beauty of the universe in a whole new way.
Find Ed Belbruno’s original art work and limited edition prints at the Space.com store. (Image credit: Space.com Store)
Inspired by his art, Belbruno charts new paths to travel the solar system and explores the cyclical nature of an expanding, and possibly contracting, universe. Belbruno gained fame at NASA when he successfully plotted a revolutionary route to the moon. Recently, he charted a new course to Mars, modeled how life may spread through the cosmos, and calculated evidence for an ever-expanding and contracting universe — all discoveries unlocked by the swirls, symbols and patterns of his art.
Now the subject of the award-winning film "Painting the Way to the Moon," Belbruno has become an advocate for transcending the barriers between the arts and sciences.
When: Oct. 22, 2015, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET
Where: Café Minerva, 302 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10014
Who: Ed Belbruno of Princeton University
Belbruno will be on site from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., and again from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. when he will be joined by special guests:
Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University
New York-based artist Rob Mars
Belbruno's art is available exclusively in the Space.com store.
Space.com Essays by Ed Belbruno
Painting Our Way to the Moon (Op-Ed)
By Edward Belbruno, Princeton University
Aided by Art, Theory of Life's Extra-Solar Origin Gets Boost
Is the Big Bang Cycling Through Hidden Time?
About Ed Belbruno
Scientist-Artist Ed Belbruno Stars in Award-Winning Film
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Cosmic Art of Edward Belbruno Inspires Science and Spaceflight
The Cosmic Art of Edward Belbruno
Hidden Time in the Art of Ed Belbruno
Note: Meet Belbruno on Oct. 22 in New York at a Space.com gallery showing highlighting his work. Belbruno's art is available exclusively in the Space.com store.
Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates — and become part of the discussion — on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Jobs in Alternative Performance Settings
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Meet the 2017 Recipients of the Del Hughes Award
Posted on May 13, 2017 May 13, 2017 by Janet Friedman
B uzz Cohen grew up in Broomall, Pennsylvania in a close-knit and endlessly supportive family – the daughter of Lester and Selma Cohen, and sister of Celia Cohen. Although she expected to make her career in languages, her interest in writing led her to script development with her high school’s experimental performance group, where she fell in love with theater. She stage managed her first show during the first semester of her freshman year at Wesleyan University, where she discovered that her true love was, in fact, stage management.
Upon graduation from Wesleyan in 1977, Buzz got her start as the assistant production manager for Missouri Rep in Kansas City, MO. Returning east, she established herself in New York through the usual round of showcases and production assistant’s positions. Two seasons with the Hudson Guild Theater led to her joining Actors’ Equity Association, and eventually to her first Broadway show–the short-lived (but happy) Ned and Jack, directed by Colleen Dewhurst.
Her ability to work in Spanish allowed Buzz to connect with the Public Theater in 1986 for their Festival Latino – and she has remained there ever since, working for artistic directors Joseph Papp, Joanne Akalaitis, George C. Wolfe, and Oskar Eustis. At the time of this award, she is stage-managing her 70th production for the organization, where her work has ranged from 20 Shakespeare in the Park shows at the Delacorte to a wide variety of straight plays and musicals in the downtown space.
Although there have been forays into commercial theater (The Queen and the Rebels and the transferred-from-the-Public The Secret Rapture and The Tempest on Broadway), an ongoing association with Providence, RI’s Trinity Repertory Company (15 shows), and the privilege of stage managing all five incarnations of the International Festival of Puppet Theater for the Henson Foundation, the Public continues to remain her artistic home.
Buzz is the recipient of a unique Obie Award for Distinguished Stage Management.
Malcolm Ewen, who was born and raised in the Chicago area, has been one of the resident stage managers at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1987. Over the years he has stage managed well over thirty productions for the company as well traveling with Steppenwolf projects to Broadway, Great Britain, South Africa and Australia.
Malcolm Ewen
On Broadway he was the Production Stage Manager of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play), The Grapes of Wrath (Tony Award for Best Play), The Song of Jacob Zulu, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Capeman. Regionally he has worked at the Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Remains Theatre and the Northlight Theatre.
Since 2001 he has served on the Council of Actors’ Equity Association representing Stage Managers in the Central region and chaired the Central Region Stage Managers’ Committee since the early 1990s. Now that the Stage Managers’ Committee is a national committee, he serves as a vice chair.
A former Trustee of the Actors Fund of America, he now serves on the Fund’s National Board of Advisors. Since 1991 he has been a board member of Season of Concern, the Chicago theatre community’s fund raising organization that supports direct care services for those living with AIDS. He was an adjunct faculty member in stage management in the Theatre School at DePaul University for five years. A graduate of Amherst College, he returns every summer to the Green Mountains of Vermont to direct at the Weston Playhouse.
Arturo E. Porazzi
Arturo E. Porazzi was raised on Staten Island, New York, the youngest of four boys and the only one to make a career in theatre. In high school, he discovered his love for theatre as an actor and went to Hofstra University to pursue performance. After a series of acting classes which turned out not to be as rewarding as working backstage, he shifted his focus to being a part of every crew of the theatre department’s productions. Lighting was his first love though it was frustrating at the same time – it took too many instruments to do what he wanted to do. (If only one could refocus and re-color instruments during a performance so you can do more with less – frustrating and how would that ever happen?) Enjoying being at the center of all things and watching the collaboration of many for one goal, stage management was appealing. Back then, we had no classes for stage management. You just did what you were asked to do by the director – script prompting, making lists, posting rehearsals, calling cues. So the foundation was meager.
A brief stint over a summer as the House Technician at Westbury Music Fair taught him how to work with union crews and professional actors and celebrities. Post-graduation led Arturo to summer stock and a regional theater called Playhouse on the Mall – yes, it was in the Paramus Mall in, yes, Paramus, NJ. Here he honed his carpentry and lighting skills. It was there, too, that he met his mentor, Steven Zweigbaum, a professional AEA stage manager and a Del Hughes recipient of 2011.
After that one season, Arturo went out on his first AEA gig as the PSM of a summer tour production of Hair – and it was just that – hairy. He discovered his ability to improvise with the capricious cast members and at the numerous venues along the way.
Having had this baptism of fire, Steve Z put him on as his first ASM for the Broadway production of Shenandoah. It ran for 1050 performances – “automation” was manually set and operated and all the flying scenery was manual as well. We even used typewriters and yellow pads. This was my graduate school in stage management and under Steve Z there was much to learn and much revealed about the business. We went on as a team to do seven Broadway shows – most notably, 42nd Street, Singin’ in the Rain and Me & My Girl. After that Arturo was on his own. His first PSM job from start to finish was George Wolfe’s Jelly’s Last Jam. That’s where he met the one and only Jules Fisher and eventually, the very singular Graciela Daniela.
His subsequent shows were Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Victor/Victoria, Triumph of Love, Marie Christine, 42nd Street (the 2001 revival) and Chita Rivera, The Dancer’s Life.
Having done 15 Broadway shows – musicals, he was fortunate not to get hired by Kevin Spacey for Moon For the Misbegotten – not enough straight play credits. As that door closed, another opened up to director Christopher Ashley, currently the Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse. Arturo took to Mr. Ashley’s special talent and they have worked together over the years on five productions – most notably, Xanadu, Memphis and currently, Come From Away.
Arturo also does corporate work – aka Business Theater and again, as expected, there are special creative people in this field as well. The work is fast, intense, get it in, get it up, get it on and get out. Thanks to John Bettini and John Fennessy for having me on a couple of my first industrials.
These past 10+ years (he has lost count), Arturo has served as an adjunct professor or guest lecturer, working with many students at Wagner College on Staten Island, Fordham, Columbia, Pace in NYC and UCSD La Jolla, CA. It’s awesome to stand in front of students and try to convey one’s “how” to a successful career in stage management never knowing if it will inspire them or make them run screaming from the classroom. If the latter, then it’s a good thing. Then again, he is very proud of those who have gone successfully forth and have sent him notes of gratitude.
Arturo has sent many thanks to many friends and colleagues with regard to the Del Hughes Award and must state here, that no career happens without the love and support of family. When arts education was high in the spectrum of subjects to take in elementary and high schools, his mother, an English and Speech teacher in high school, instilled in him the thrill of live theatrical performances. Watching The Ed Sullivan Show with his father introduced him to many forms of entertainment.
He has always had the support of his three brothers and their respective families and lastly, his wife, Debora and daughter, Gabriella. Theatre is a mistress all her own and robs one of a plethora of personal time with one’s family. He thanks his wife and daughter for their love and support as they are the reason to strive for success and garner such an award as the Del Hughes Lifetime Achievement.
May we all continue in good health and success and prosperity and HAGS (Have a good show.)
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'Take Me To Your Feature' – 10 Collabs We Want From ¡MAYDAY!
With the release of the forthcoming Take Me To Your Leader, ¡MAYDAY! has shown an unbelievable ability to build up a buzz through the use of remixes and collaborations. From announcing two different remixes for “Death March” to revealing features from Dead Prez, Del The Funky Homosapien, and Murs, the Miami collective is bringing a completely different approach to collaborations – something that is catching Strange Music fans by surprise.
Snatching up nearly every hip hop head’s dream feature – seriously, have you heard Pharoahe Monch on “Death March”? – ¡MAYDAY! has already built a long resume of impressive collaborations. Pumped from hearing their latest “Death March” Remix – go listen right now – we decided to compile a list of our 10 most wanted collaborations from ¡MAYDAY! From the underground to the mainstream, the emcees are just waiting to rip something alongside Wrek and Bernz with Plex and Cash at the boards. Should we say please?
10) R.A. The Rugged Man
The veteran East Coast emcee is renowned for his incredibly intricate rhymes, but even more so for his ability to completely steal the show when tapped for a guest spot. Having worked with the likes of Notorious B.I.G. and Kool G Rap, R.A. has spent an entire career building his own massive list of collaborations. Throw R.A. over some boom bap with Wrek and Bernz, and call it a wrap.
9) Action Bronson
Another product of New York’s hip hop scene, Action Bronson knows how to cook up a good metaphor (too much?). The chef turned rapper has been carving out a nice spot on the indie scene and with the release of Dr. Lecter, he proved he was much more than just another blog flavor of the week. Let Gianni Cash and Plex Luthor lace up something soulful for this one.
8 ) MF Doom
Weird, eclectic, or downright out of his mind, MF Doom has left a strong impression on listeners since his debut as the metal-faced persona. Between outlandish metaphors and an unorthodox delivery, MF Doom continues to give fans the most unique take on lyrical focus. Perhaps a concept track is best suited for this collaboration. Just make sure the real MF Doom shows up.
7) Immortal Technique
A revolution is what you want, huh? Fueled by political lyrics and a refusal to conform, Immortal Technique remains a favorite of fans who yearn for the days of meaningful hip hop. Can you imagine what Immortal Technique would have done over “Death March”? Bring the riot gear because this one would be an all out assault.
6) Brother Ali
A staple in the Midwest hip hop scene, Brother Ali has more to offer than just socially conscious music. The Rhymesayers emcee’s ability to cover a wide range of material has made him popular with fans of all genres. Influenced by hip hop’s early icons, Brother Ali’s approach makes him ideal for a collaboration with ¡MAYDAY! lead emcees.
5) Lupe Fiasco
Pop, socially conscious, and witty? Lupe Fiasco does it all. The Chicago native first earned his stripes on Food & Liquor, a concept album taking on the good and bad in the world. With LASERS, he proved he could also be a commercial success, earning his first #1 album. We can already hear Wrek and Lupe laying down some vicious bars thick with pop culture references – George Lucas may want royalties.
4) Royce Da 5’9″
Never mind the fact that Royce is one of few rappers out there that can hang with Em’s flow, the Slaughterhouse emcee is also one of the most clever writers in recent memory. Whether it’s inside the Shady 2.0 cypher or on his solo releases, Royce displays a phenomenal talent that makes him one of the top emcees representing Detroit. Definitely something to save for a remix.
3) Raekwon
One of the innovators of “Mafia Rap”, Wu-Tang’s Raekwon has flexed his sharp lyricism in recent years by appearing on collaborations with everyone from Yelawolf to Kanye West. More street than your local dopeman, The Chef gives vivid depictions of real situations and wraps them up nicely with a rugged flow. This is another remix gem that we hope to see.
2) RZA
It’s no coincidence that Wu-Tang makes two appearances at the top. ¡MAYDAY!’s exceptional production and heavy 90s influence make for a great combo, something that just begs for a collision with one of the most influential producers in hip hop. Whether it’s a feature or a production credit, RZA vs. ¡MAYDAY! is something we could see for an entire project.
1) Nas
What can you say about Nas that hasn’t already be said? From going toe to toe with Jay-Z to the classic Illmatic, the New York legend has done it all. Even in the face of mainstream success, Nas has never shied away from being controversial and his incredible storytelling is something we could see playing off ¡MAYDAY!’s knack for conceptual tales. Let Queensbridge meet Miami on this one and watch the magic happen.
– Victor Sandoval, Assistant Editor Strange Music
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Prepare to meet the gods
Wuffings
Eastern Angles will be taking us back to our Saxon past this month when they stage the Norse epic Ragnarok at RAF Bentwaters. Andrew Clarke spoke to writer Charles Way
Bentwater Roads' Caitlin Thorburn
Eastern Angles, the Suffolk-based touring theatre company, knows that the history and the heritage of East Anglia makes for first-class drama.
Over the years they have pursued Margaret Catchpole from Shingle Street to Australia, been chased by Black Shuck, recreated the changing people of Rendlesham Forest who lived at the junction of Bentwater Roads, have gone into battle with Boudicca, they have welcomed home the herring fleets of Lowestoft and charted the changes in the countryside in a series of plays based around The Reapers Year.
In 1997, they embraced Suffolk’s biggest historical legacy in The Wuffings, a massive site-specific production which looked at the life and death of the great Saxon King Raedwald, who is said to be interred in the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
This huge production, staged at Nottcutts warehouse in Parham, near Wickham Market, proved to be a huge success and now Eastern Angles are looking to return to the county’s Anglo-Saxon heritage with another epic, Ragnarok.
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Whereas The Wuffings was all about Suffolk’s early residents living alongside the River Deben, Ragnarok is all about their gods – the Norse deities of Thor, Odin and the duplicitous Loki.
Written by Eastern Angles regular Charles Way, who penned The Long Way Home, the play looks at the intrigues and double-dealing that shaped the turbulent lives of the Norse gods.
Speaking as rehearsals were about to get under way Charles said it would be a spectacular looking production that would blend great puppets with live action, with everything set against a vast backdrop provided by The Hush House on the former RAF Bentwaters airbase.
He said: “It’s a large scale piece of epic theatre. Ragnarok, means the Twilight of the Gods, and the story details the end of their kingdom – in the end it destroys itself.
“We don’t deal with any human beings. In Wagner’s take on these stories it’s very much about the gods and their relationship with men. Our story is about the gods’ internal workings. It’s their story and how they relate to one another. It’s all set on Asgard, which is the Citadel of the Gods. This is where Odin lives. It is his kingdom. This is where the hall of Valhalla is situated – and it’s about the power struggle within their family dynasty. It’s a big Game of Thrones type battle except the gods have superpowers. They are larger-than-life figures who are constantly fighting another race of giants. They are constantly at war and their universe is in constant turmoil.”
One of the fascinating elements of the play is that the seeds of Valhalla’s destruction are sown very early on with the death of Alder, this perfect god and son of Odin.
“Odin doesn’t want his kingdom to fall, he is aware that the end is coming and yet he is utterly incapable of preventing the inevitable.
“It’s rather like the lead up to the First World War. It has a lot of analogies with that. How do we get ourselves ready for worldwide Armageddon? We don’t want it to happen but how to we prepare for the inevitable? This is the question the play is posing.”
He added that, as with many historic stories, they contained warnings to the listener about humanity’s character flaws.
“Odin is capricious, Loki is devious and there is betrayal and the stories are full of the type of things you would pick up in any court – greed, ambition, lust – it’s all there. There is murder and treachery at every turn.
“Every human weakness is there but what I have tried to do – the irony of the play is that Odin knows that his world is going to come to an end, but every time he tries to delay, by some mishap, he manages to bring the end closer.”
Eastern Angles founder Ivan Cutting is handing over the direction for this play over to Hal Chambers, a director who has done large-scale pieces of work with puppets before.
“The giants, who are the mortal enemies of the gods, will be portrayed by puppets. We don’t have a cast of thousands, so we have to find other colourful and inventive ways of creating these strange creatures.
“We thought that puppets would be a good way of realising these people, so we went to the Hal with this kind of possibility in mind and he jumped at the idea.”
He said that having created a Saxon epic, it seems odd not to have a ship burial for the big funeral scene.
“In the play, our ship isn’t buried in the earth, in classic fashion it is launched out on to the water and fire arrows are aimed at it and the whole craft is set ablaze. It’s rather like the death of Arthur. The whole play has that mythical feel to it. It’s a genuine family drama which reconnects us all with our roots.”
Ragnarok, by Charles Way, will be staged by Eastern Angles at The Hush House, RAF Bentwaters, from September 11-28.
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Scheduled to arrive in stores: June 14, 2017
Cover date: August 2017
"The Rediscovery" - Part Two
Penciller: Jose Luis
Superwoman (Lana Lang) learns the whereabouts of Skyhook, and seeks to capture him without telling John or Natasha Irons, as she wants to protect them from doing something foolish. Instead, she bungles the situation and is left with the questions of failure.
Story - 3: What is the point of this series? It's a question that has to be asked repeatedly, not only because of the loss of its initial raison d'etre, but also due to the fact that it doesn't seek to establish any core whatsoever. Lana Lang has powers. Now what? She hasn't grown in character or become a better hero over the course of the adventures she's having. Truthfully, she has made a situation that could have been properly resolved, worse, due to her confounding decision to go it alone. It is almost as if her new abilities have removed her common sense. John Henry Irons has years of experience on his side. Even Natasha Irons has more experience. The idea that sharing the information she gained would be detrimental, has no basis in any reasonable understanding. So, we are still left with the incomplete Lana Lang, who is neither heroine, not helper, just a lurching, sprawling ball of senseless actions. Worst of all, a child was at stake. Like Maggie Sawyer cautions her, Lana is nearly an Irons, now, and that attachment to the Irons' family should have grounded her decision making, not rendered her a staccato mess.
Art - 4: Very nice line work from start to finish. The first page splash has all the detail of a child bar none. Really good work.
Cover Art - 4: A misleading cover, but so is the book itself.
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Campus Policy, Security and Safety
Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is the landmark federal law, originally known as the Campus Security Act that requires colleges and universities across the United States to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. Because the law is tied to participation in federal student financial aid programs it applies to most institutions of higher education both public and private. It is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education.
The “Clery Act” is named in memory of 19-year-old Lehigh University freshman Jeanne Ann Clery who was raped and murdered while asleep in her residence hall room on April 5, 1986. Jeanne's parents, Connie and Howard, discovered that students hadn't been told about 38 violent crimes on the Lehigh campus in the three years before her murder. They joined with other campus crime victims and persuaded Congress to enact this law, which was originally known as the "Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990."
The law was amended in 1992 to add a requirement that schools afford the victims of campus sexual assault certain basic rights, and was amended again in 1998 to expand the reporting requirements. The 1998 amendments also formally named the law in memory of Jeanne Clery. The law was most recently amended in 2000 to require schools beginning in 2003 to notify the campus community about where public "Megan's Law" information about registered sex offenders on campus could be obtained.
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The Sisseton Wahpeton College has a strong commitment to the community, students and employees to provide a safe, learning and working environment. While it is not the intention of the college to intrude into the private lives of its employees, the college does expect its employees to conduct their work free from the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The use or possession of alcohol and controlled substances is prohibited on college premises. Alcohol or other drug intoxication while on college premises is grounds for dismissal. In all instances, the Tribal Police will be notified.
Use of smoking or smokeless tobacco is not permitted within any SWC facility as prohibited by federal smoke-free, drug-free regulations. Because of the dangers associated with both primary and secondary smoke, all faculty and staff are required to report violations of the smoke-free and drug-free policy to their supervisor.
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The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.
Generally, schools must have written permission from the parent or eligible student in order to release any information from a student's education record. However, FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):
Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance. However, schools must tell parents and eligible students about directory information and allow parents and eligible students a reasonable amount of time to request that the school not disclose directory information about them. Schools must notify parents and eligible students annually of their rights under FERPA. The actual means of notification (special letter, inclusion in a PTA bulletin, student handbook, or newspaper article) is left to the discretion of each school.
The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA is:
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Young Ornithologist Of The Year
We’re already six months into 2016, and jazz is maintaining the momentum it enjoyed in the wake of the breakthrough year that was 2015. well in the hands of one of its most talented young lions.
For the first time in roughly 100 years, the District has a pair of ravens that have. according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They also have a distinct diamond-shaped tail, vs. the rounded.
Winkler, a professor of ornithology at Cornell University in Ithaca. The likely reason the swallows roost together in enormous numbers, once they have raised their young for the year, is safety.
John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the. (2011, April 19). One year later, oil spill’s impact on Gulf not fully understood. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
I had such a wonderful time at the workshop (and follow-up Young Ornithologists’ Internship the year after) at Long Point, so I think another program, especially one in western Canada, is an opportunity not to be missed. These programs give young birders important new skills as well as the chance to meet other young naturalists who share similar passions.
Bird collecting (ornithology) was popular with young men, and was encouraged, as it got them outdoors into the fresh air. Pied Kingfisher from A History of the Birds of Europe. Used with permission.
Though it’s too early to talk of the true test of time, a look back at Locarno’s lineups over the last few years reveals a collection of. returning to the competition with The Ornithologist.
They’re both fond of antagonising the Catholic church, which is not as uncommon now as it was 60 years. The Ornithologist is beautifully directed in one sense: it makes great use of location. The.
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Ten years ago, he was a high-school student attending our very first Young Birders Event. Now he’s a filmmaker in our Conservation Media program. For 10 years, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has hosted the Young Birders Event—a four-day immersive learning experience for high school students with a passion for birds and an interest in bird-related careers.
Nov 30, 2016 · An important element of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition ethos is the encouragement and recognition of the younger generation of birders and photographers. The Cameron Bespolka Young Bird Photographer of the Year Award is designed to meet this aim, an award specifically for those under 18.
This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. contribute each year to research projects run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. No.
“Every young male ornithologist has spent their holidays going out looking for the bird for the last hundred years,” says Penny Olsen, an ecologist whose book Night Parrot: Australia’s Most Elusive Bird was published in September.
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Nov 15, 2015 · If so, you qualify for the Young Bird Photographer of the Year Award, sponsored by the Cameron Bespolka Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology. This award is a part of the Bird Photographer of the Year contest, an international competition to encourage awareness of bird conservation and encourage bird photography as an art form.
Young Birders Program. To be selected for a Young Birder Award, recipients must meet all of the following criteria: • Be at least 11 years of age, and no more than 18 years of age as of January 1st of the year of the Award. • Have demonstrated exceptional observational and.
Bird Photographer of the Year is a competition that celebrates the artistry of bird photography, promotes photographers, and supports conservation. Over £17,000 in Awards & Prizes In addition to the main prize of £5,000, our Best Portfolio prize this year is a camera and lens.
Plate 1 of Alexander Wilson’s American Ornithology. were invited to join the 10-year-old King of Scotland, James II, for dinner at Edinburgh Castle. But it wasn’t the young King who had invited the.
a majority of consulted experts (eleven individuals including nine ornithologists) concluded that the eggs in one nest could not have been natural. In February, the Year in Review summary of 2018 was.
Dec 06, 2018 · Changes were afoot, and 19th-century ornithologists were busily continuing the work of Thomas Pennant and his predecessors in standardizing the names given to birds. In the longer term the messy assemblage of folk names so beloved of Clare, with several taming nature alternative names for each species, was simply not sustainable.
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according to the British Ornithology Trust. Defra minister Therese Coffey recently said that it is estimated woodpigeons can.
Dec 28, 2012 · My 13 year old Son, Alex – catching a look at a female northern cardinal in Central Park – New York City during a birding trip this winter. Yes, New York City! It may come as a surprise to you (as it did me) that NYC has some of the best birding opportunities around! View On Black Facebook Page
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Ornithologist creates history with Big Year. A big year is an informal competition among birders to see who can identify by sight or sound the largest number of species of birds within a.
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Apr 24, 2018 · About two weeks ago, with Mrs. Putman’s help, we put up five new bluebird boxes that were made by the Young Ornithologists last year. Next week we’ll show you a picture of the old boxes vs. the new boxes.
This is the first time in over 100 years that the night parrot has been confirmed to. That was until 2013, when to the astonishment of ornithologists and conservationists alike, researchers.
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Ulrika & Maurice -
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Her Family and Friends Didn’t Want Her to Go
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“In Cameroon, we went to meet his family,” relates Ulrika. “My family and friends did not want me to go.” Fortunately, she followed her heart. Maurice says he was happily surprised that she would come to see him in his country. “I met her at the airport in Douala, and we went to my mom’s.”
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Sports > National sports
WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart tears Achilles’ tendon in right leg
UPDATED: Wed., April 17, 2019
Seattle Storm standout Breanna Stewart (30), pictured in last season’s WNBA finals against Washington on Sept. 7, 2018 in Seattle, is expected to miss the upcoming season after rupturing the Achilles’ tendon in her right leg. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
By Doug Feinberg Associated Press
NEW YORK – Reigning WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart is expected to miss the upcoming season after she ruptured the Achilles tendon in her right ankle.
Stewart injured the leg on Sunday in the EuroLeague Women championship game in Hungary. She flew to Los Angeles where test results confirmed the injury.
The Seattle Storm announced the diagnosis on Wednesday.
“As we all know there are highs and lows throughout a career,” Stewart posted on her Twitter account. “This is just another obstacle that I will overcome. I’m thankful that I have so many people in my corner to help me every step of the way. I’m feeling every emotion possible at this point but just know that the bounce back will be real and I’ll be back better than ever.”
She will undergo surgery performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache at a date to be determined. She is expected to make a full recovery for the start of the 2020 season.
Stewart was playing for Dynamo Kursk, a Russian club, when she appeared to land awkwardly on the foot of fellow WNBA star Brittney Griner after attempting a jumper late in the first half against UMMC Ekaterinburg. She immediately grabbed at her lower right leg while grimacing in obvious pain.
Stewart was attended to by trainers on the court before being helped to the locker room while not putting any weight on her right leg.
“This is a tough time for Stewie and our hearts go out to her,” Storm CEO and General Manager Alisha Valavanis said. “The Storm family is behind her and we will support Stewie in every way we can as she begins her journey back to the court.”
The 24-year-old Stewart won four national titles at UConn, and was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 WNBA draft. She won both the league and finals MVP awards while leading the Storm to the franchise’s third WNBA title this past season.
Stewart has played overseas in the offseason since she joined the WNBA. Her Dynamo Kursk squad fell 91-67 after she left the game.
The WNBA season begins May 24.
Published: April 17, 2019, 9:32 a.m. Updated: April 17, 2019, 11:48 a.m.
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Sygnature Discovery > News and Events > News > Sygnature Discovery receives a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Sygnature Discovery receives a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Sygnature Discovery has today been recognised with one of the UK’s most prestigious business awards – the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade.
Today the company employs over 150 dedicated scientists who research potential new medicines to treat a host of debilitating and often fatal diseases. This expertise is exported to clients around the world with Sygnature experiencing tremendous year on year growth.
The Founder and CEO of Sygnature Discovery Dr Simon Hirst, a Medicinal Chemist with almost 30 years of industry experience commented, “To receive this recognition is very gratifying and timely for all the team here at Sygnature Discovery. As a company we have been fortunate to receive many awards for innovation and entrepreneurship however, the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade is a tremendous honour and recognises our success overseas. As a company, we have always viewed Drug Discovery as a globally important sector to work in and as such, international trade has always been a key part of our strategy. This Award is a fantastic boost to our company and our ambitions for the future growth of Sygnature.”
He continued, “The Award is timely because it comes just as Sygnature moves into its new £30m Discovery building in the growing life sciences hub in Nottingham. It seems no time at all since I set up the company in one small laboratory with only 4 medicinal chemists and now we are approaching 180 staff in total. We are confident that our new facility will enhance our continued growth and this Award for Enterprise will help to support that trajectory.”
Dr Hirst concluded, “Fundamentally, I believe that Drug Discovery research really matters. It matters because there are so many untreatable or poorly treated diseases around. It matters because the chances are, one day, we will all be patients needing care and treatment. Pharmaceutical research can deliver life changing medicines but it is a long-term goal and successes are rare and hard won. It’s fantastic to receive recognition through a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and to mark the exciting journey that we are all on”
Nottingham, where Sygnature Discovery is headquartered, has a well renowned heritage for drug discovery. The company is based on the former Boots site (now known as BioCity) where Ibuprofen was invented. An Awards reception will take place at Buckingham Palace later in the year and the Award for Enterprise will be formally conferred by a Grant of Appointment, by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county at a ceremony to be held at Sygnature’s brand new laboratory facility.
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FAMU men, women split doubleheader with Morgan State
It definitely wasn’t the prettiest win, but Saturday night’s 72-65 victory over the Morgan State Bears was one Florida A&M head coach Byron Samuels was happy to get.
FAMU men, women split doubleheader with Morgan State It definitely wasn’t the prettiest win, but Saturday night’s 72-65 victory over the Morgan State Bears was one Florida A&M head coach Byron Samuels was happy to get. Check out this story on tallahassee.com: http://on.tdo.com/1RtcbSF
Jordan Culver, Democrat staff writer Published 10:53 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2016
Forward Malcolm Bernard throws down a dunk during FAMU’s 72-65 win over Morgan State on Saturday in the Al Lawson Center.(Photo: AnnMarie Harris/Rattler Productions)
The Rattlers didn’t take control of the game until the final minute, burying the Bears after first grabbing a 62-59 lead, then sinking 10 free throws in a row.
It was a gritty win for Samuels’ young group – one that gave the season-high home crowd of 2,670 something to cheer for after Florida A&M’s women’s team dropped the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader against Morgan State.
“It’s great to get this victory,” Samuels said.
“Our guys fought really, really hard. That was the last key of the game – fight for as long as it takes. Even though we had some pockets in there where we weren’t playing our best, our guys continued to stay in there. They were engaged and we were finally able to get over the top.”
Forward Malcolm Bernard finished the game with 12 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and 5 steals. He sparked Rattlers early with back-to-back breakaway dunks in the first half and kept the attention of the Bears’ defense in the second half.
FAMU (6-12, 2-3 MEAC) was led by 15-point performances from junior forward Treavann Warren and freshman forward Isaiah Omoregie. The latter hit back to back layups in final 1:32 to give FAMU a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.
The Bears (3-14, 1-3 MEAC) were led by senior forward Cedric Blossom, who scored 18 points on 9-of-10 shooting from the field.
Bernard, who had to sit out last season after transferring from Charleston Southern, said he’s seeing the growth of FAMU’s basketball team. The Rattlers return to action Monday against Coppin State.
The growth is there – last season the Bears had no trouble dealing FAMU a 75-65 loss in Baltimore.
“I thought we had pretty good pieces last year.” Bernard said. “We just needed that extra experience, that will to win, to get us over the hump. I think that with this group, we definitely have it. It’s coming out. You guys are going to see it really soon on a consistent basis.”
Samuels said the team is moving in the right direction. Last year, the Rattlers lost 23 straight games en route to a 2-27 season. The Rattlers aren’t necessarily the class of the MEAC at 6-12, but Samuels said he’s encouraged by the upward trend of the team.
“I think our recruiting has been good and I think our players have continued to listen and understand and pay attention to what we’re trying to teach them,” he said.
“I think we’re close. But it takes time. Just like it takes time to deliver a baby, it takes time to get there in terms of building a basketball program. I think we’re awful close, but we want to do it the right way. Step by step, little by little, each and every day and not cut any corners in the process.”
Coach ‘disappointed’ in women’s performance against Bears
The MEAC’s No. 1 offense came out uncharacteristically flat and Florida A&M’s women’s basketball team dropped a home test against the Morgan State Bears 67-62.
FAMU (9-9, 3-2 MEAC) shot 37 percent from the field for the game and missed eight free throws in the second half – including five in a row in the final five minutes.
Gibson didn’t hold back when describing what she thought about her team’s performance.
“I’m very disappointed in my team’s performance tonight,” Gibson said.
“I don’t think we played Rattler basketball. We just went out there and just showed up. There was no sense of urgency. We played better on the road, I think. We were just more focused on the road.”
Gibson added, “We missed free throws, we had uncharacteristic turnovers, we had missed put-backs. Just the small things, I think, would have made a different outcome in the game.”
Gibson said Saturday’s game was strange compared to FAMU’s recent success on the road. The Rattlers handled back-to-back conference road tests against Norfolk State and Hampton.
Olivia Antilla, the conference’s No. 4 scorer, said the team needs to come to practice ready to work on Sunday. Antilla, FAMU’s leading scorer this season, had 13 points on 5-of-16 shooting against the Bears.
“We did come out flat, which is not how we’ve been playing the last few games,” Antilla said.
“It showed in warmups who was coming prepared and who wasn’t. Who was fooling around in the warmups and who was taking it seriously? The warmup is when you prepare for the game and I thought as a whole unit we weren’t on top of how we usually warm up.”
Next, the Rattlers face Coppin State (5-10, 2-1 MEAC) Monday at home. The Eagles lost 69-56 to Bethune-Cookman on Saturday.
Doubleheader notes: New Deputy Athletic Director Elliot Charles with in attendance for the men’s game. … Former FAMU president Walter Smith met with FAMU coach Samuels after the game. …Former TCC Benedicta Makakala was on the floor for 13 minutes against the women’s team. She finished the game with no points, two rebounds and two turnovers. … Final attendance for the women’s game was 1,077, according to FAMU sports information.
FAMU vs. Coppin State (doubleheader)
When: Monday – 5 p.m. (women), 8 p.m. (men)
Where: Al Lawson Center
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A key to become successful team leader is to become a servant leader. Learn how you can’t send a Duck to Eagle school in Marc Anderson’s book.
As an entrepreneur for the past 30 years, Marc Anderson, Simple Truths founder, has been very fortunate to meet a lot of people who are a successful and servant leaders. . Ken Blanchard is one of those people. His books have sold over 20 million copies. Ken is also a terrific speaker, and he has built a large training company with the focus on servant leadership and customer service. But it is Ken Blanchard, the person that Marc admires most.
In Marc Anderson’s book, You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School, he shares some of the many "lessons learned" as an entrepreneur. Here's a chapter about Ken that he hopes you enjoy.
Walk Your Talk An excerpt from: You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School A few years ago I was invited to spend some time with Ken Blanchard at his lake home in upstate New York. Over the last 20 years Ken has probably sold more books than any other business author. His classic, The One Minute Manager, has sold over 10 million copies. He has also built a large training company with the focus on servant leadership and customer service. I've had the good fortune to meet many successful businessmen, authors, and speakers during my career, but I've never met anyone that "walked the talk" more than Ken. He gets it. The first night of my visit to Ken's lake home, we were sitting on the deck with Humberto, his son-in-law, talking about some ways we could work together. It was about 10 p.m., when all of a sudden Ken jumped up and asked to be excused. He returned about 10:20 and Humberto asked "What happened?" Ken said, "I can't believe it; I forgot to call Dorothy on her birthday." Later that night, after Ken had gone to bed, Humberto told me that Dorothy is an 85 year old part time employee for the company. It then dawned on me that at 10 p.m. Ken left to spend almost 20 minutes talking to Dorothy and inquiring about how she had spent her special day. However, after spending more time with Ken over the next year, I came to realize that this was no fluke. This is who he is. The last time while visiting him at his San Diego office, I learned that one of his employees who worked in the warehouse had recently passed away. On that day, Ken had invited the employee's wife to come to his office. When she arrived, he spent an hour walking around with her carrying a tape recorder to record all of the wonderful memories that other employees had of her husband. When the wife left she said it was a day she'd never forget. You see, what many leaders would have considered a waste of time, Ken saw it as an opportunity to serve and to thank his people. He doesn't do it because it's expected of him, he does it because he truly cares. It comes from his heart, and his people love him for being the servant leader that he is. .
This is an old Chinese poem that offers wonderful advice for any leader:
GO to the people
LIVE among the people
LEARN from them
START with what they know,
BUILD on what they have.
But of the BEST leaders,
When their TASK is accomplished,
Their WORK is done,
The PEOPLE will remark,
"WE HAVE DONE IT OURSELVES."
"Walking our talk" is always one of our greatest challenges in life especially as a leader and role model for our families and co-workers. Here's a beautiful 3 minute movie, Walk The Talk, that reminds us that having values is important, but it's much more important to live them!
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Removing Barriers to Your Potential Roger R. Pearman, R. Daniel Parks, Barry Phillips, and Marcus C. King
The business pages of the world’s newspapers are filled with stories about managers and executives who suddenly self destruct. Individuals who were once considered to be successful ultimately fail, either ending up in a dead-end career or let go by their once seemingly loyal organization. This phenomenon is called Derailment. Just as a train falls off of its tracks, this breakdown is never intentional, and it almost always causes considerable damage. The good news is that derailment can be predicted – and even prevented – when managers are given the right resources.
The Leadership Unlimited Profile is a new assessment that helps managers to develop the behaviors that will help to ensure their success. Based on more than 20 years of research, it provides specific, targeted feedback on those behaviors that severely limit effectiveness, including: Organizing Behavior, Relationship Behavior, Learning Initiatives Behavior, Emotional Behavior, Career Management Behavior. The assessment serves as an “early warning” tool by providing quick insights into the critical areas of performance, identifies the skills sets needed to reach the next level, and establishes benchmarks to help people take charge of their development.
Learning Outcomes: Measure five key career behaviors and 12 scales of behaviors. Understand the management skills needed to maintain and ensure success. Learn how to predict problems that can cause career derailment. Pinpoint development needs to avoid derailment. How to develop and align critical competencies. Identify Career Accelerators, Neutralizers, and Blockers. Create an individual personal development plan. How It Works:
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Home » News » RUMOUR: ‘Duracell Car Pack’ coming to Forza Horizon 2
News RUMOUR: ‘Duracell Car Pack’ coming to Forza Horizon 2
Game: Forza Horizon 2
Platform: XB360, XBox One
An upcoming car pack for Forza Horizon 2 has allegedly been revealed before its expected release date in June.
Said to have been mentioned in a recent livestream on Twitch, the car pack in question is claimed to be called the 'Duracell Car Pack', making it the first Forza car pack to be associated with the battery-making company.
The cover art (pictured) also suggests the latest Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 will be one of the star features of this car pack, along with what appears to be a BMW M5 E34.
Going on the line-ups of previous Forza Horizon 2 car packs, it's also likely that other cars featured in this DLC will – like the aforementioned Camaro Z/28 – be making their racing game debuts in the open-world title.
More information on Forza Horizon 2's Duracell Car Pack (should it be in the pipelines) is expected to be released next week.
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Astronomers find solar storms behave like supernovae
Researchers at UCL have studied the behaviour of the Sun’s coronal mass ejections, explaining for the first time the details of how these huge eruptions behave as they fall back onto the Sun’s surface. In the process, they have discovered that coronal mass ejections have a surprising twin in the depths of space: the tendrils of gas in the Crab Nebula, which lie 6500 light-years away and are millions of times larger.
The 7 June 2011 solar storm, seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/SDO, Acknowledgement: Helioviewer
On 7 June 2011, the biggest ejection of material ever observed erupted from the surface of the Sun. Over the days that followed, the plasma belched out by the Sun made its way out into space. But most of the material propelled up from the Sun’s surface quickly fell back towards our star’s surface.
For the solar physicists at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, watching these solar fireworks was a unique opportunity to study how solar plasma behaves.
“We’ve known for a long time that the Sun has a magnetic field, like the Earth does. But in places it’s far too weak for us to measure, unless we have something falling through it. The blobs of plasma that rained down from this beautiful explosion were the gift we’d been waiting for”, says David Williams, one of the study’s authors.
The plasma falling into the Sun split apart into ‘fingers’, like ink dops falling through water. Photo credit: NASA/SDO
Since 2010, the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been constantly photographing the surface of the Sun. To our eyes, our star seems almost unchanging, with occasional fleeting sunspots the only changes that can be seen without special apparatus. But the SDO’s instruments can cut through the dazzling brightness, magnify the detail and see wavelengths of light which are blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere. This combination of high-quality imaging and constant monitoring means that scientists can now see the detail of how the Sun’s dynamic surface changes over time.
The Rayleigh-Taylor effect in a non-magnetic (top) and magnetic (bottom) environment: the proportions of the fingers are visibly different. Credit: Carlyle/Williams/Astrophysical Journal
The 7 June 2011 eruption was by some margin the biggest recorded since this constant monitoring began, meaning the huge cascade of matter that fell back into the Sun following the eruption was a unique opportunity to study, on an unusually large scale, the fluid dynamics of these phenomena.
“We noticed that the shape of the plume of plasma was quite particular,” says Jack Carlyle, lead author of the study. “As it fell into the Sun, it repeatedly split apart like drops of ink falling through water, with fingers of material branching out. It didn’t stick together. It’s a great example of an effect where light and heavy fluids mix.”
Less dense materials typically float on top of denser ones without mixing together, for example oil sitting on water, or layers of different liqueurs in a cocktail. Change the order by putting the denser fluid on top, however, and the denser one will quickly fall through the less-dense one until their positions are reversed. The complex pattern formed by the denser fluid as it repeatedly splits and branches into ever-finer ‘fingers’ of matter, is caused by a phenomenon known as the Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
Hubble Space Telescope images of the Crab Nebula show similar branching finger-like structures. Credit: NASA, ESA, Alison Loll & Jeff Hester
The team noticed in SDO’s high-resolution images that the falling plasma clearly underwent the Rayleigh-Taylor instability as it returned to the Sun’s surface. This is as would be expected – the solar plasma is denser than the solar atmosphere it is falling through. In space, a similar effect has been observed before, albeit on a much larger scale, in the Crab Nebula.
The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova which exploded in the 10th century. In the millennium that has followed the explosion, denser matter has started to fall back into the centre of the nebula, exhibiting the same finger-like structures as the team observed in the Sun.
A major study of the Crab Nebula in 1996 found that the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the Crab Nebula was actually slightly modified. The highly magnetised environment in the nebula changes the proportions of the fingers, making them fatter than they would be otherwise.
The UCL team found that the same effect was going on in the 7 June 2011 coronal mass ejection: even in an area where the Sun’s magnetic field was weak, it was modifying the Rayleigh-Taylor effect, changing the shape of the plume of plasma as it fell back into the Sun.
This is the most spectacular example of the effect ever observed on the Sun.
The study is published in the 20 February issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
Source: University College London
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Debt Rattle September 29 2015
September 29, 2015 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:46 am Finance Tagged with: commodities, crisis, Glencore, Jamaica, Obama, oil, Putin, refugees, sanctuary, Saudi, stocks, UN, VW 1 Response »
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• Commodity Rout Beginning to Look Like a Full-Blown Crisis (Bloomberg)
• Glencore Shares Obliterated After Analysts Warn They Could Be Worthless (Tel.)
• Is Glencore Worth $26 Billion Or $98 Billion? Analysts Can’t Decide (Bloomberg)
• Global Stocks Set to Fall As $800 Billion Wipeout Boosts Yen, Bonds (Bloomberg)
• Three Major Trends that Shaped Global Economy for Decades Set to Change (BBG)
• Big Oil Faces Shrinking Prospects (FT)
• Why Shell Quit Drilling In Arctic After Spending $7 Billion On Single Well (BBG)
• Saudi Arabia Withdraws Billions From Markets to Plug Budget Deficit (BBG)
• The Collapse Of Saudi Arabia Is Inevitable (Nafeez Ahmed)
• Deutsche Bank Predicted To Cut 10,000 Jobs (Telegraph)
• UK Steel Industry Buckles Under The Weight Of Cheap Chinese Product (Guardian)
• VW Stock to Be Removed From Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (Bloomberg)
• Tick Tick Tick (Jim Kunstler)
• Putin: West’s Rampant ‘Egotism’ To Blame For Syria, Ukraine, Isis (Guardian)
• Obama Deifies American Hegemony (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Barclays, HSBC Named In Swiss Precious Metals Price Fixing Investigation (TiM)
• It’s Time To Unpick Corporate Welfare (Kevin Farnsworth)
• Jamaica Seeks Billions Of Pounds In British Reparations For Slavery (Guardian)
• New Zealand’s New Ocean Sanctuary One Of World’s Largest Protected Areas (Gua.)
• More Than 1,100 Migrants Rescued Off Libyan Coast On Monday (DW)
Not beginning, continuing.
The 15-month commodities free-fall is starting to resemble a full-blown crisis. Investors are reacting to diminished demand from China and an end to the cheap-money era provided by the Federal Reserve. A Bloomberg index of commodity futures has fallen 50% since a 2011 high, and eight of the 10 worst performers in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index this year are commodities-related businesses. Now it all seems to be coming apart at once. Alcoa, the biggest U.S. aluminum producer, said it would break itself into two companies amid a glut stemming from booming production. Shell announced it would abandon its drilling campaign in U.S. Arctic waters after spending $7 billion.
And the carnage culminated Monday with Glencore, the commodities powerhouse that came to symbolize the era with its initial public offering in 2011 and bold acquisition of a rival in 2013, falling by as much as 31% in London trading. “With China slowing down and a lot of uncertainty, fears in the market have intensified, and the reduction in the pace of demand growth for all commodities has seemed to send everybody off the cliff,” said Ed Hirs, managing director of a small oil producer who teaches energy economics at the University of Houston. Peak prices in gold and silver are four years old, oil’s plummet since June 2014 has been pushed along by OPEC’s November decision to keep pumping despite excess supply and U.S. natural gas prices have fallen to less than a fourth of their 2008 value.
It’s about to get worse, according to analysts John LaForge and Warren Pies of Venice, Florida-based Ned Davis Research Group. Commodities may be in the fourth year of a 20-year “bear super-cycle,” according to an Aug. 14 research note. The analysts looked at commodity busts dating to the 18th century and found them driven by factors such as market momentum rather than fundamentals, LaForge said Monday in an interview.
“More than 85% has been wiped off the stock so far this year..”
Glencore shares plunged 30pc in afternoon trading to a new record low after analysts warned the stock could be worthless if commodity prices remain at current levels. The shares went into freefall after analysts at Investec issued a note warning that heavily indebted companies such as the Swiss-based mining and trading giant could see almost all their equity value eliminated under current commodity prices, leaving nothing for shareholders. Almost £2bn was wiped off the value of Glencore as investors panicked and dumped the stock. It puts further pressure on Glencore, which has already been hit hard by the slump in commodity prices. Earlier this month the miner was forced to raise $2.5bn through a share placement, selling 1.3 billion new shares at 125p apiece.
It has also has announced plans in recent weeks to suspend its dividend and sell off assets as part of debt reduction measures to bolster its balance sheet. Hunter Hillcoat, an analyst at Investec, said: “Mining companies gorged themselves on cheap debt in a race to grow production following the Chinese stimulus that occurred in the wake of the great financial crisis. “The consequences are only now coming home to roost, as mines take a long time to build. We expect commodity markets to remain subdued for several years to come given that excess supply has coincided with a slowdown in demand.”
Even a move by chief executive Ivan Glasenberg to instil confidence in investors by buying 110 million shares has had little effect on sentiment. More than 85pc has been wiped off the stock so far this year and it is trading far below its listing price in May 2011 of 530p. The analysis from Investec looked at the entire debt pile of Glencore, while the company itself has always argued its stockpiles of metals can quickly be sold to rapidly reduce the debt levels. However, the broker warned that: “If major commodity prices remain at current levels, our analysis implies that, in the absence of substantial restructuring, nearly all the equity value of both Glencore and Anglo American could evaporate.”
How about nothing?
Glencore, the commodity trader that lost about a third of its value Monday, is worth either $98 billion or $26 billion, depending on which analyst you ask. At Sanford C. Bernstein, price targets published by Paul Gait suggest the Baar, Switzerland-based resource company can rally sevenfold to 450 pence, the top end of predictions tracked by Bloomberg. At the bottom, Nomura Holdings’s 120-pence forecast implies a market value that is $72 billion lower. The dispersion shows the difficulty in valuing a company caught between China’s slowing economy and mounting concerns about its debt load.
In addition to diverging views on copper prices, questions about how to evaluate Glencore’s trading business, unique among big mining companies, are muddling the equation, according to Clarksons Platou Securities’ Jeremy Sussman. “Glencore does have a unique trading business that is different from their competitors, and it’s a much more difficult business to model than a straight ‘you mine it, you sell it, and take whatever margin’ one,” said Sussman, an analyst for Clarksons Platou in New York. He recommends holding the stock, which he estimates will rise to 190 pence. Analysts “with targets in the higher end are probably in the camp that think trading will return to levels where it had been in the past couple of years.”
There goes your recovery. Not going to happen.
Global equities looked set to extend Monday’s $800 billion rout as U.S. and European index futures followed Asian stocks south amid a selloff in commodity-trading firms that’s sent investors toward the safety of the yen and sovereign bonds, while sending the cost of insuring debt skyward. Glencore dropped by a record in Hong Kong, tracking losses in London and dragging shares of Noble Group, Mitsui and BHP Billiton lower. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index is heading for its biggest quarterly loss since the global financial crisis, with every major benchmark in the region retreating on Tuesday. The yen was stronger against all 16 major peers, while the cost of insuring Asian debt jumped to the highest since October 2013. Australian and German bonds tracked Treasury gains.
A 15-month rout in raw materials and energy prices is colliding with surging corporate borrowing costs to challenge the business models of previously high-flying commodity firms such as Glencore, whose London shares have dropped 73% since June. The yield on U.S. non-investment grade corporate notes has risen for 11 straight days amid slowing Chinese growth and doubts about whether the U.S. economy is strong enough to handle higher Federal Reserve interest rates. “Glencore’s problems have heightened already deep concerns about the financial health of commodity companies,” said Win Udomrachtavanich at One Asset Management. “The outlook of commodity prices will continue to be very weak because of the prolonged global economic slowdown. Investors just face an even tougher environment with this as sentiment was already weakened by the U.S. interest-rate outlook.”
Demographics. Cute, but very one-sided.
Demographics can explain two-thirds of everything, University of Toronto professor David K. Foot famously quipped. And according to Charles Goodhart, professor at the London School of Economics and senior economic consultant to Morgan Stanley, demographics explain the vast majority of three major trends that have shaped the socioeconomic and political environments across advanced economies over the past few decades. Those three would be declining real interest rates, shrinking real wages, and increasing inequality. Goodhart & Co.’s contentions aren’t necessarily novel, with versions of these conclusions having been articulated by Toby Nangle, head of multi-asset management at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and given a U.S. focus by Matt Busigin and Guillermo Roditi Dominguez, portfolio managers at New River Investments.
But Goodhart’s work is a particularly thorough and forceful manifesto. The conditions that fostered these three intertwined major developments are nearly obsolete, writes the former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and other analysts from Morgan Stanley, and this has profound implications for the framework of the global economy in the decades to come. Goodhart argues that since roughly 1970, the world has been in a demographic sweet spot characterized by a falling dependency ratio, or in plainer terms, a high share of working age people relative to the total population. At the same time, globalization provided multinational companies the ability to tap into this new pool of labor. This positive supply shock was a negative for established workers, forcing down the price of labor as capital flowed to these areas.
“More worrying, from Shell’s point of view, is the prospect of a declining reserves base. In common with several of the other oil majors, it is pumping oil faster than it can book new reserves of bankable assets.”
One hundred and fifty miles from the Alaskan coast lies what must be the most expensive oil well ever drilled. Shell’s decision to abandon the Burger J prospect, along with its entire Arctic exploration campaign, marks an outcome that many at the oil major must have dreaded since it bought the leases in 2008. That is not because of the cost — enormous though it is — of setting up remote platforms and drilling into rock that lies beneath 140ft of water. Shell is reckoned to have spent about $7bn on the exploration effort; some estimates put the figure even higher. But its balance sheet is strong enough to absorb the loss. Nor will the public ill-will generated by years of exploration in pristine Arctic waters last for ever.
Indeed, for some senior executives at Shell, the prospect of success in the Arctic was more worrying than the possibility of failure. Building the permanent facilities needed for actual production would have been far more contentious than the limited (if sometimes hapless) exploration work. Among the people on record as opposing Arctic drilling is Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president. That is a battle that Shell will no longer have to fight. More worrying, from Shell’s point of view, is the prospect of a declining reserves base. In common with several of the other oil majors, it is pumping oil faster than it can book new reserves of bankable assets. This was the reason for pushing on in the Arctic against public criticism and deteriorating economic prospects for so long.
If, as some of the company’s executives believed, the Chukchi Sea blocks held about 35bn barrels of oil, Shell’s reserve base would have been secured and much effort would have been devoted to winning hearts and minds and pushing down costs. As it stands, the reserve base will continue to decline. Shell’s $70bn purchase of BG Group, if completed, will bring access to some identified resources — for instance off the coast of Brazil — but the cost of development is high and success is very uncertain. In the long run, this is little short of an existential challenge. Can the existing reserves base be replaced with resources that can be developed commercially? Or is a period of corporate decline inevitable? For the past three years Shell has failed to find sufficient resources to replace production despite heavy exploration expenditure. In 2014 it replaced only 26% of its oil and gas production. Over the past three years the figure is just 67%.
How to spell desperation.
Royal Dutch Shell’s abrupt announcement today that it would cease all offshore drilling in the Arctic is surprising for several reasons. One is the unusual degree of confidence the company expressed as recently as mid-August that it had identified 15 billion barrels of oil beneath the well known as Burger J it’s now abandoning. What on earth happened? After spending $7 billion over several years to explore a single well this summer, Shell said in a statement that it “found indications of oil and gas … but these are not sufficient to warrant further exploration.” This contrasts sharply with Shell officials’ statements as recently as July and August that based on 3D and 4D seismic analysis of core samples, its petroleum geologists were “very confident” drillers would find plentiful oil.
The geologists’ expectations were the main reason Shell spent all that money on a project that entailed much-higher-than-average operational risks and international environmental condemnation. Giving up has got to hurt at a company that prides itself on scientific and technical prowess. Shell said it would take an unspecified financial charge related to the folding of its Arctic operation, which carries a value of $3 billion on the company’s balance sheet. In late July, when Ann Pickard, Shell’s top executive for the Arctic, explained the economics of drilling in the Chukchi Sea, she readily acknowledged that if oil prices remained below $50 a barrel, the off-shore adventure would be for naught. At $70, Chukchi oil would be “competitive,” she told Bloomberg Businessweek, and at $110—a reasonable projection, according to the company’s economists—it would be a huge winner.
She was talking about prospective prices 15 years from now. Well, in recent weeks, Shell appears to have lost some of its bravado about where prices will be in 2030—according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have given up altogether on the Chukchi, where it continues to hold 275 Outer Continental lease blocks. Indeed, Marvin Odum, director of Shell Upstream Americas, said in the written statement that the company “continues to see important exploration potential in the basin, and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the U.S.”
Indeed: “None of this should come as much surprise..”
Saudi Arabia has withdrawn as much as $70 billion from global asset managers as OPEC’s largest oil producer seeks to plug its budget deficit, according to financial services market intelligence company Insight Discovery. “Fund managers we’ve spoken to estimate SAMA has pulled out between $50 billion to $70 billion from global asset managers over the past six months,” Nigel Sillitoe, chief executive officer of the Dubai-based firm, said by telephone Monday. “Saudi Arabia is withdrawing funds because it’s trying to cut its widening deficit and it’s financing the war in Yemen,” he said, declining to name the fund managers. Saudi Arabia is seeking to halt the erosion of its finances after oil prices halved in the past year.
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority’s reserves held in foreign securities have fallen about 10% from a peak of $737 billion in August 2014, to $661 billion in July, according to central bank data. The government is accelerating bond sales to help sustain spending.
“Foreign-exchange reserve depletion, rather than accumulation, is the new reality for Saudi Arabia,” Jason Tuvey, Middle East economist at Capital Economics, said in an e-mailed note Monday. “None of this should come as much surprise,” given the current-account deficit and risk of capital flight, he said. Saudi Arabia’s attempts to bolster its fiscal position contrast with smaller and less-populated nations in the Arabian peninsular such as Qatar.
The world’s richest nation on a per capita basis plans to channel about $35 billion of investment into the U.S. over the next five years as it seeks to move away from European deals. That’s on top of plans to set up a $10 billion investment venture with China’s Citic Group. With income from oil accounting for about 80% of revenue, Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit may widen to 20% of gross domestic product this year, according to the IMF. SAMA plans to raise between 90 billion riyals ($24 billion) and 100 billion riyals in bonds before the end of the year as it seeks to diversify its $752 billion economy, people familiar with the matter said in August.
Theer are rumblings inside the House of Saud as we speak.
On Tuesday 22 September, Middle East Eye broke the story of a senior member of the Saudi royal family calling for a “change” in leadership to fend off the kingdom’s collapse. In a letter circulated among Saudi princes, its author, a grandson of the late King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, blamed incumbent King Salman for creating unprecedented problems that endangered the monarchy’s continued survival. “We will not be able to stop the draining of money, the political adolescence, and the military risks unless we change the methods of decision making, even if that implied changing the king himself,” warned the letter. Whether or not an internal royal coup is round the corner – and informed observers think such a prospect “fanciful” – the letter’s analysis of Saudi Arabia’s dire predicament is startlingly accurate.
Like many countries in the region before it, Saudi Arabia is on the brink of a perfect storm of interconnected challenges that, if history is anything to judge by, will be the monarchy’s undoing well within the next decade. The biggest elephant in the room is oil. Saudi Arabia’s primary source of revenues, of course, is oil exports. For the last few years, the kingdom has pumped at record levels to sustain production, keeping oil prices low, undermining competing oil producers around the world who cannot afford to stay in business at such tiny profit margins, and paving the way for Saudi petro-dominance. But Saudi Arabia’s spare capacity to pump like crazy can only last so long. A new peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering anticipates that Saudi Arabia will experience a peak in its oil production, followed by inexorable decline, in 2028 – that’s just 13 years away.
This could well underestimate the extent of the problem. According to the Export Land Model (ELM) created by Texas petroleum geologist Jeffrey J Brown and Dr Sam Foucher, the key issue is not oil production alone, but the capacity to translate production into exports against rising rates of domestic consumption. Brown and Foucher showed that the inflection point to watch out for is when an oil producer can no longer increase the quantity of oil sales abroad because of the need to meet rising domestic energy demand. In 2008, they found that Saudi net oil exports had already begun declining as of 2006. They forecast that this trend would continue. They were right. From 2005 to 2015, Saudi net exports have experienced an annual decline rate of 1.4%, within the range predicted by Brown and Foucher.
A report by Citigroup recently predicted that net exports would plummet to zero in the next 15 years. This means that Saudi state revenues, 80% of which come from oil sales, are heading downwards, terminally. Saudi Arabia is the region’s biggest energy consumer, domestic demand having increased by 7.5% over the last five years – driven largely by population growth. The total Saudi population is estimated to grow from 29 million people today to 37 million by 2030. As demographic expansion absorbs Saudi Arabia’s energy production, the next decade is therefore likely to see the country’s oil exporting capacity ever more constrained.
Add Deutsche to Merkel’s bailout list. VW, refugees etc etc
Deutsche Bank’s new chief executive has to focus on rapid cost cuts if he wants to turn the struggling German giant around and win over investors, according to a top banking analyst’s assessment of the lender. JP Morgan’s Kian Abouhossein expects Deutsche’s John Cryan to announce plans to cut expenses at the bank by at least €2.5bn (£1.8bn) by 2018, chop 10,000 staff and cut back on 10,000 of the external consultants paid for by the group. Mr Cryan was given the top job in June following the departure of former co-chief executives Anshu Jain and Jurgen Fitschen, who quit after a three-year reign at the bank that was marred by the biggest ever Libor fine and a failure to impress shareholders. The bank’s stock shot up 8pc on the day it was announced that the co-chiefs were leaving, although the shares have since slide to 23.7 cents, which is 14pc below the price when Mr Cryan took over.
Mr Abouhossein believes the new boss has a difficult task ahead to prove his worth to shareholders, as the investor base has been let down repeatedly in the past by executives who have failed to turn the bank around. “In our view, DB [Deutsche Bank] management should focus on creating shareholder value by growing retained earnings and the key is to cut costs – a task which DB has failed to achieve in the past, and hence, on which we believe has little ‘goodwill’ with investors,” said the analyst in a research note to investors. He argued that “Deutsche Bank’s cost management has been poor historically”, resulting in a workforce of 84,000 full time staff plus an army of 30,000 external consultants, after excluding the group’s retail arm, Postbank.
Globalization frees up everyone!
Britain’s steel industry has been in meltdown for years: slowing demand and a flood of cheap Chinese steel into the market has hammered high-cost western producers. About half of the 1.6bn tonnes of steel made globally each year now comes from China. But an already perilous situation for British steelmakers has exacerbated in the past year as the Chinese economy slowed sharply, forcing Beijing to aggressively chase foreign cash for its wares. Tom Blenkinsop, chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on steel and MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, summed up the dilemma: “China is pouring steel into the European and world market for any currency it can get.” Flooding the market with cheap Chinese product has forced the price of slab steel down by 45% in just 12 months, from $500 (£330) a tonne to about $280.
As a result, China’s steel exports have grown 53% in the last year. In Britain, imports of Chinese steel have ballooned from 2% of UK demand in 2011 to 8% this year. This influx of cheap steel is a threat to all but the fittest western players – bad news for SSI UK, which is one of the weakest. Britain’s second biggest steelmaker has confirmed plans to axe 1,700 jobs and mothball its Redcar plant. It threatens to bring the curtain down on 160 years of steelmaking in the Teesside region of north-east England. It is the latest grisly chapter for Britain’s once mighty steel industry. Steel produced on Teesside was used to build well-known UK structures including Birmingham’s Bullring and Canary Wharf in east London. However, the industry now employs about 20,000 workers, a 10th of the number employed in the sector during the 1970s.
As if anyone cares apart from those who seek to turn green into green.
Volkswagen AG’s stock will be removed from the Dow Jones Sustainability indexes after the automaker cheated on emissions tests. The Sept. 18 admission by VW that it systematically manipulated U.S. emissions tests prompted a review of its status, S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and RobecoSAM said in a statement Tuesday. The stock will be pulled after the close of trading Oct. 5 from the DJSI World, DJSI Europe and all other related indexes, according to the statement. S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM manage the Dow Jones sustainability indexes, which track the performance of companies that rank the best in their industries in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria.
The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, introduced in 1999, was the first global such benchmark, according to the companies. Volkswagen’s stock has plunged 39% since Sept. 18, cutting the company’s market value by €27 billion, and prosecutors in Germany said Monday that they’ve started a criminal probe of the company that includes an investigation of former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn.
Jim’s dead on on Putin.
Did Charlie Rose look like a fucking idiot last night on 60-Minutes, or what, asking Vladimir Putin how he could know for sure that the US was behind the 2014 Ukraine coup against President Viktor Yanukovych? Maybe the idiots are the 60-Minutes producers and fluffers who are supposed to prep Charlie’s questions. Putin seemed startled and amused by this one on Ukraine: how could he know for sure? Well, gosh, because Ukraine was virtually a province of Russia in one form or another for hundreds of years, and Russia has a potent intelligence service (formerly called the KGB) that had assets and connections threaded through Ukrainian society like the rhizomorphs of the fungus Armillaria solidipes through a conifer forest. Gosh, Charlie, it’s like asking Obama whether the NSA might know what’s going on in Texas.
And so there is Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, having to spell it out for the American clodhopper super-journalist. “We have thousands of contacts with them. We know who and where, and when they met with someone, and who worked with those who ousted Yanukovych, how they were supported, how much they were paid, how they were trained, where, in which country, and who those instructors were. We know everything.” The only thing Vlad left out of course was the now-world-famous panicked yelp by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland crying, “Fuck the EU,” when events in Kiev started getting out of hand for US stage-managers. But he probably heard about that, too. Charlie then voice-overed the following statement: “For the record, the US has denied any involvement in the removal of the Ukrainian leader.”
Right. And your call is important to us. And your check is in the mail. And they hate us for our freedom. This bit on Ukraine was only a little more appalling than Charlie’s earlier segment on Syria. Was Putin trying to rescue the Assad government? Charlie asked, in the context of President Obama’s statement years ago that “Assad has to go.” Putin answered as if he were explaining something that should have been self-evident to a not-very-bright high school freshman: “To remove the legitimate government would create a situation which you can witness in other countries of the region, for instance Libya, where all the state institutions have disintegrated. We see a similar situation in Iraq. There’s no other solution to the Syrian crisis than strengthening the government structure.”
And Putin’s dead on when it comes to distorted western power games.
“Egotism” was a word Vladimir Putin used more than once as he gave a thinly veiled dressing down to the United States on Monday. His speech covered little new ground but sharpened his critique of the current world order and called on the world to come together to fight terrorism in the Middle East. Putin bemoaned “a world in which egotism reigns supreme” and railed against the arrogant hubris of the west. Putin has been giving much the same speech since he first laid out his grievances in February 2007: the “unipolar” world in which Washington dominates, he says, has led to a more dangerous world than that of the cold war, when an imperfect but useful balance stopped any one country from dominating.
This speech, his first to the United Nations general assembly since 2005, comes as Putin visits the US for the first time since the Ukraine crisis prompted acrimony, mistrust and sanctions. It was notable for its intonation. Putin adopted the tone of a wise elder, alternately angered by the bellicosity and saddened by the naivety of the west. “You want to ask the people who created this situation: ‘Do you at least understand what you’ve done?’ But I fear that the question would just hang in the air, because after all, they have not turned their back on policies based on self-certainty, a sense of superiority and impunity.” The chaos in the Middle East and the rise of the Islamic State? That was the fault of the west, who armed those it naively thought to be secular freedom fighters.
The military conflict in Ukraine (or, as Putin put it, the “armed coup organised from abroad followed by civil war”)? Also down to the meddling of the west. Washington, said Putin, was repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Union by trying to export its own model of development to other countries. It has forced post-Soviet countries to make a “false choice between east and west”, sowing chaos and prompting unrest, he said. It was a description of events that would not have gone down well with the Ukrainian delegation – though they were not there to hear it, having walked out before Putin took to the podium.
Obama’s speech at the UN yesterday was an exercise in severe embarrassment to himself and the US.
On this 70th anniversary of the UN, I have spent much of the day listening to the various speeches. The most truthful ones were delivered by the presidents of Russia and Iran. The presidents of Russia and Iran refused to accept the Washington-serving reality or Matrix that Obama sought to impose on the world with his speech. Both presidents forcefully challenged the false reality that the propagandistic Western media and its government masters seek to create in order to continue to exercise their hegemony over everyone else. What about China? China’s president left the fireworks to Putin, but set the stage for Putin by rejecting US claims of hegemony: “The future of the world must be shaped by all countries.” China’s president spoke in veiled terms against Western neoliberal economics and declared that “China’s vote in the UN will always belong to the developing countries.”
In the masterly way of Chinese diplomacy, the President of China spoke in a non-threatening, non-provocative way. His criticisms of the West were indirect. He gave a short speech and was much applauded. Obama followed second to the President of Brazil, who used her opportunity for PR for Brazil, at least for the most part. Obama gave us the traditional Washington spiel: “The US has worked to prevent a third world war, to promote democracy by overthrowing governments with violence, to respect the dignity and equal worth of all peoples except for the Russians in Ukraine and Muslims in Somalia, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.” Obama declared Washington’s purpose to “prevent bigger countries from imposing their will on smaller ones.”
Imposing its will is what Washington has been doing throughout its history and especially under Obama’s regime. All those refugees overrunning Europe? Washington has nothing to do with it. The refugees are the fault of Assad who drops bombs on people. When Assad drops bombs it oppresses people, but when Washington drops bombs it liberates them. Obama justified Washington’s violence as liberation from “dictators,” such as Assad in Syria, who garnered 80% of the vote in the last election, a vote of confidence that Obama never received and never will. Obama said that it wasn’t Washington that violated Ukraine’s sovereignty with a coup that overthrew a democratically elected government. It was Russia, whose president invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimera and is trying to annex the other breakaway republics, Russian populations who object to the Russophobia of Washington’s puppet government in Ukraine.
[..] Did the UN General Assembly buy it? Probably the only one present sufficiently stupid to buy it was the UK’s Cameron. The rest of Washington’s vassals went through the motion of supporting Obama’s propaganda, but there was no conviction in their voices. Vladimir Putin would have none of it. He said that the UN works, if it works, by compromise and not by the imposition of one country’s will, but after the end of the Cold War “a single center of domination arose in the world”—the “exceptional” country. This country, Putin said, seeks its own course which is not one of compromise or attention to the interests of others. In response to Obama’s speech that Russia and its ally Syria wear the black hats, Putin said in reference to Obama’s speech that “one should not manipulate words.” Putin said that Washington repeats its mistakes by relying on violence which results in poverty and social destruction. He asked Obama: “Do you realize what you have done?”
UBS to get lenient treatment, squeal on all others in a LIBOR repeat.
UK banks Barclays and HSBC are among seven financial institutions being investigated by Swiss officials amid allegations of price fixing in the precious metals market. According to the Bern-based Weko commission, the probe will look at possible collusion of bid/ask spreads in the metals market for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. Also under investigation are two Swiss banks, UBS and Julius Baer, as well as three foreign banks – Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui. Weko said in a statement: ‘We have indications that possible prohibited competitive agreements in the trading of precious metals were agreed among the banks mentioned.’ Weko said it was looking at what effects any possible collusion would have had on the Swiss market.
Findings are expected to be published by 2017 and banks found to have flouted Switzerland’s competition laws could be fined as much as 10% of revenue. Weko’s inquiry follows similar investigations by the European Commission and the US Department of Justice and is the latest in a long line of probes into manipulation of the precious metals and foreign exchange markets. Last year, Switzerland’s financial regulator FINMA said it had found a ‘clear attempt’ to manipulate precious metals price benchmarks during a cross-market investigation into trading at UBS. HSBC said this year that the US Department of Justice requested documents from the bank in November in relation to a criminal antitrust investigation in to precious metals.
In January, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission also issued a subpoena to the bank, seeking documents relating to its precious metals trading operations. And in April, the European Commission issued a request for information related to HSBC’s precious metals operations and the bank is currently co-operating with authorities. The UK’s FCA has already taken action and last year fined Barclays £26million after an options trader was found to have manipulated the London gold fix.
“I write “debated”, but this is too generous to some of those who have passed judgment on the work.”
I am the person behind the second most-debated figure of the Labour leadership race – the £93bn corporate welfare bill. I write “debated”, but this is too generous to some of those who have passed judgment on the work. Once Jeremy Corbyn had begun campaigning on the basis that some of the £93bn could be saved, proper analysis and discussion gave way to myth making and conjecture, and I didn’t recognise many of the arguments that were attributed to me. Despite being mentioned at some point by just about all of the media outlets, the only journalist who contacted me before writing about my research was Aditya Chakrabortty, who wrote the original front-page splash for the Guardian based on my report.
I’m hardly surprised then, if disappointed, that publications as venerable as the Economist have got basic things confused in their rush to write off Corbyn and my research. The report was published in July by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute and builds on years of researching and writing about public and social policies. Each category of corporate welfare I identify – made up of the various forms of state provision that service the needs of businesses – builds on the work of British and international academics, journalists, governmental organisations, politicians, policymakers and think tanks. Businesses could not do business without huge amounts of government support.
They require legal protections, a state-backed currency, the right frameworks to hire and fire and essential infrastructure. They depend on financial backing to exploit innovations and invest. And public policies operate to socialise various corporate risks. Employers need educated and healthy workers. Unemployment benefits and pensions increase labour market flexibility, making it easier to hire, fire and retire employees. The annual Global Competitiveness Report clearly illustrates the importance of comprehensive state provision to economic growth, productivity, profitability and national competitiveness. And it is published by the World Economic Forum – the organisation that runs the Davos gathering, so hardly a mouthpiece of the left.
The £93bn estimate, in fact, excludes most of the above. It is made up only of more direct benefits and services. It doesn’t include the indirect benefits that accrue to businesses from the social welfare system and the legacy costs linked to the bank bailouts. It doesn’t even include the cost of in-work tax credits, which have been labelled corporate welfare by others, including Conservative MPs. The more direct categories of corporate welfare identified in my report include official estimates of the cost of subsidies and grants to companies, worth about £15bn a year. Beyond this, the report identifies tax benefits as a major component of corporate welfare, at £44bn. Not surprisingly, this has proved to be the most controversial category of all.
“You are a grandson of the Jamaican soil who has been privileged and enriched by your forebears’ sins of the enslavement of our ancestors … You are, Sir, a prized product of this land and the bonanza benefits reaped by your family and inherited by you continue to bind us together like birds of a feather..”
David Cameron is facing calls for Britain to pay billions of pounds in reparations for slavery ahead of his first official visit to Jamaica on Tuesday. Downing Street said the prime minister does not believe reparations or apologies for slavery are the right approach, but the issue is set to overshadow his trade trip to the island, where he will address the Jamaican parliament. Ahead of his trip, Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, has led calls for Cameron to start talks on making amends for slavery and referenced the prime minister’s ancestral links to the trade in the 1700s through his cousin six times removed, General Sir James Duff.
In an open letter in the Jamaica Observer, the academic wrote: “You are a grandson of the Jamaican soil who has been privileged and enriched by your forebears’ sins of the enslavement of our ancestors … You are, Sir, a prized product of this land and the bonanza benefits reaped by your family and inherited by you continue to bind us together like birds of a feather. “We ask not for handouts or any such acts of indecent submission. We merely ask that you acknowledge responsibility for your share of this situation and move to contribute in a joint programme of rehabilitation and renewal. The continuing suffering of our people, Sir, is as much your nation’s duty to alleviate as it is ours to resolve in steadfast acts of self-responsibility.”
Professor Verene Shepherd, chair of the National Commission on Reparation, told the Jamaica Gleaner that nothing short of an unambiguous apology from Cameron would do, while a Jamaican MP, Mike Henry, called on fellow parliamentarians to turn their back on Cameron if reparations are not on the agenda, noting that the Jamaican parliament has approved a motion for the country to seek reparation from Britain. “If it is not on the agenda, I will not attend any functions involving the visiting prime minister, and I will cry shame on those who do, considering that there was not a dissenting voice in the debate in parliament,” he told the newspaper.
New Zealand will create one of the largest marine protected areas in the world, spanning an area of 620,000 sq km. The Kermadec ocean sanctuary will be one of the world’s most significant fully protected ecosystems, the prime minister of New Zealand, John Key, told the UN general assembly in New York. The sanctuary is in the South Pacific Ocean, about 1000km north-east of New Zealand, and expands a marine reserve that surrounds a clutch of small islands. The area is considered crucial in terms of biodiversity, featuring nearly 35 species of whales and dolphins, 150 types of fish and three of the world’s seven sea turtle species. It is also geologically significant, encompassing the world’s longest chain of submerged volcanoes and the second deepest ocean trench, plunging to 10km underwater – deeper than Mount Everest is tall.
The scale of the sanctuary will dwarf any previous New Zealand protected area, spanning twice the size of the country’s landmass. It will cover 15% of New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone. Commercial and recreational fishing will be completely banned, as will oil, gas and mineral prospecting, exploration and mining. Key’s government aims to pass legislation establishing the sanctuary next year. “The Kermadecs is a world-class, unspoiled marine environment and New Zealand is proud to protect it for future generations,” Key said.
Every single day our shame grows bigger.
The Italian coast guard coordinated the rescue of 1,151 migrants in nearly a dozen separate operations on Monday off the coast of Libya, it said. In one instance, a coast guard ship picked up more than 440 people from four inflatable boats. Separately, the charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of its boats had rescued 373 people, tweeting a picture of a distressed 6-year-old child. Libya is one of the major crossing points for African migrants trying to get to Europe. The European Union is trying to combat people smuggling and will go after suspected traffickers in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea as of next week. Beginning October 7, the next phase of what’s known as Operation Sophia will allow naval forces belonging to EU member states to board, search and seize suspicious vessels. The operation has so far centered on saving those drifting on the high seas, but will now include directly targeting trafficking operations.
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A&B Heating celebrates 65 years of ‘non-stop service’
Lorri Drumm
ldrumm@timesobserver.com
Photo submitted to the Times Observer Pictured from left to right are A&B Heating & Sheet Metal Company staff: Tim, Gregg, Dale, Ben, Sam, Dustin, Tyler, Dave, Jack, Steph, Stacy, and Jon.
In 1953, the average house cost a little less than $10,000 and the average wages earned to buy that house were about $4,000 per year.
The country was moving past the Great Depression and World War II. An armistice was signed in 1953 that brought an end to the Korean War.
It was in 1953 that Carl Papalia set up shop as the owner of A&B Heating & Sheet Metal Company. He had returned home just a few years earlier after serving his country in the skies above the South Pacific. Two of his brothers came on board a short time later – Ralph, as part-owner and Joe as a head serviceman.
This year marks 66 years of non-stop service to the Warren County area. “Over 575,000 hours of being on-call” according to owner Dave Papalia. The half-hour for lunch didn’t last very long.
Papalia learned at an early age that the heating and plumbing industry does not have a calendar or a watch. “Trouble comes around anytime so we want to be available,” he said.
As a child in the Papalia household, he recalls his parents taking in customers when they had no heat for the night. There were also occasions when his father came home after a late-night service call with homemade bread or a bushel of apples as payment.
A house that’s too cold or too warm affects different people in different ways, according to Papalia. “During extremes of the year it also brings a little fear,” he said. “Raising the floor or waiting until Monday is not an option when a basement drain is backed up or the furnace is out.”
While you may not be able to predict when an emergency will happen, Papalia has learned that preventive maintenance is the best way to avert an unexpected service call.
Between 90 to 95 percent of problems can be prevented with regular maintenance, according to Papalia.
“We can’t forget that a heating system is basically a fire that’s burning in your basement,” he said. “Our job is to keep it from getting out of control.”
“Fire is a survivalist,” he said. “It wants to live, so if a furnace is dirty or plugged, the fire will go looking for oxygen wherever it can find it and that leads to flame in all the wrong places.”
Many years of service have led to stories of wrong and unusual places.
The business built and sealed the time capsule that’s buried in the courthouse foundation, which is scheduled to be opened in 2076.
There was an occasion where a woman came into the business and placed a container on Papalia’s desk. He asked what it contained. Her reply, “My husband.” Sealing urns has become a not-uncommon request.
There was also an instance where the company’s work may not be considered heavenly but was certainly far-reaching. The sheet metal shop built the scales once held by Lady Justice atop the courthouse. A helicopter was needed to place them there.
One last bit of advice from Papalia: make sure your ductwork is both animal and child-proof. Yes, both have been retrieved.
As year 66 continues, so does the story of a local business connected to the community. A&B covers approximately a 50-mile radius of Warren with 12 employees.
Papalia continued, “we are well aware of the path the past has paved for us but it does not define us in 2019 and beyond. We can’t use it as a rudder because of the famous ‘Pot Roast’ story. Ask your Mom or Grandmother what that is. If you can’t find it give us a call or check out our Facebook page.”
The story isn’t as much about the company as it is about the customers, Papalia said. “It’s our customers who keep the phone ringing and we are thankful for that every day.”
Bent Run hops to the head of the pack two years in a row
California man charged with defrauding area business
A California man has been charged with hacking a Warren County company’s email and receiving tens of thousands of ...
Bush Industries acquired by Canadian furniture manufacturing company
Ellwood to get DEP approval for boiler install
The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced its intention to approve a plan for the ...
Valu Home Centers to close its Warren location
Valu Home Centers is closing its Warren location among three "underperforming locations," the chain said on ...
PennDOt to honor employees who died in the line of duty
A never-ending circle
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Statement released by the Le Roy Central School District
posted by Howard B. Owens in Le Roy.
Kim Cox, the superintendent of the Le Roy Central School District, is referring media inquiries on medical and environmental questions to the experts from the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Environmental Protection Agency. They are best equipped to answer your technical questions, as they have ours.
As has been communicated, the District has been working closely for months with numerous medical professionals, the State Department of Health, the State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Environmental Protection Agency. All of these agencies and dozens of professionals from these agencies have assured the District that the school is safe.
There is no evidence of an environmental situation or infectious cause. In addition, to help assist the District with assessing all aspects of this situation, it hired its own independent environmental expert to conduct a review of the findings and offer alternative approaches, if needed. This was done not because the District questioned the state medical professionals or federal agencies, but to help reassure the community.
There are also some who are attempting to marry the 1970 derailment to the school when in fact the plume has been shown as moving in the opposite direction some three miles away.
The Le Roy community should take assurance that the Department of Health concluded extensive reviews of both the epidemiology and the clinical evaluations and found no evidence of environmental or infection as the cause of the students’ illness. An environmental exposure would affect many people.
The treating physicians ruled out PANDAS. The school was tested for Volatile Organic Compounds (including TCE) by an independent firm. The school is served by a public water system. The Gardasil vaccine was ruled out because many of the girls did not receive the vaccine. The Department of Environmental Conservation reaffirmed the evaluation that there is no evidence of environmental factors.
The District will certainly welcome input from outside experts if they choose to offer it in a professional and constructive manner. It will rely on its own expert as well as counsel from the Department of Health, DEC and EPA as to whether any further testing is deemed appropriate. However, in the event that it is recommended, it will be done with a specific plan based upon all available information and accepted scientific protocols.
The District wants to be clear that it has confidence with respect to the conclusions of the Department of Health based upon its comprehensive review of this situation as well as the assessment of the physicians at the DENT Neurologic Institute.
The Le Roy Central School District and the Le Roy community want what is best for the children in the schools. Unfortunately, the endless speculation without factual basis is creating an extreme level of anxiety and concern. Students are unable to focus on learning. The constant attention has had a negative impact on the recovery of some of the students who are directly affected, many who were improving and whose symptoms have now become exacerbated.
The District knows this has been an emotionally hard situation on the community and everyone hopes for the speedy recovery of its students.
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CYA, anyone? That last sentence was also very patronizing. No explanation, not even an excuse, just a shrill retort of 'why are you questioning us'?
Unfortunately, the endless speculation without factual basis is creating an extreme level of anxiety and concern. Students are unable to focus on learning. The constant attention has had a negative impact on the recovery of some of the students who are directly affected, many who were improving and whose symptoms have now become exacerbated...............So it now the public's fault..and the parents who took this to a national level...Wow.......
On what do you base your claim of CYA?
How does Dan think that nobody else in LeRoy, not going to that school, has not been affected? Why almost all girls? No teachers or other staff? Has anyone else who lives close to the site been reported come down with this? Have you noticed the abuse of legal substances was not mentioned, and that is something the school can not check? And why did it show this year and not last year?
Dan, can you tells why they would cover it up? What motivation would the School Board have? They have kids going to that school. Or are you saying the Superintendent is lying or withholding information from the Board? And why would he do it?
Or, are you saying the DEC is covering this up?
John... you can also ask yourself why was the community ignored for weeks while the tics were being reported. Why did the the District the call the community together and give a bunch of dubious facts that were argued by the very victims then tell us they knew what happened but couldn't tell us. Why after some students went on morning TV shows does a doctor then throw HIPPA out the window and tell us the supposed diagnosis. Whch from what I understand is how most of the victims found a definite answer on what they were going through. Why does the school district hire extra police and a pr lawyer to release statements to the press instead of talking directly to the community that pays it bills and supplies it with the very reason for it's jobs.
Its a very basic premise..... The school district was not willing to communicate anything with the public, and has only done so when forced to. When you do this you make the public guess and suppose. No one knows what the district has to hide but if they dont show us reports or tell us whats going on then they deserve all the bad press and hardship they have right now as they have created it with their own actions.
Own your mistakes and make it right with the community Leroy School District.
Ted Wenzka
John Roach - I agree with you completely.
Kyle Couchman, Mark Potwora, and Daniel Jones -
People like you are the whole problem. You see the bad guys behind every tree. Instead of helping you do nothing but bring misinformation to the process. The next thing you will tell us is the Elvis is still alive and kicking.
Judith Kinsley ...
Substance abuse was ruled out a very long time ago as stated in more than one past post. Which was why no one answered the last 2 times you asked. I don't believe the school is trying to hide anything. My problem with the administration is that they have given us no useful information from day one. It appears to be a total disinterest in taking any responsibility at all for finding out the answers. Mr. Young from the NYS Dept. of Health who spoke at the "informational meeting" flat out lied to us all, not a good way to start. He said they knew the cause but they wouldn't release it due to HIPPA. My daughter was sitting next to Thera (one of the victims) and her mother and neither one of them had a clue what the man was talking about. And to have 4 other parents raise their hands in that room to state their daughters also had no diagnosis was insulting. My daughter questioned that man in tears because she thought he and the school administration were there to give her and these girls answers, she trusted them to do so and it became obvious to her that was not their intention. Next came Dr. Laszlo, who is making hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug companies a year. A total conflict of interest if indeed the cause was the drugs he is spokesperson for, which it could have been but has since been ruled out. He diagnosed a psychological illness (from afar for some) rather than investigating other more concrete causes. To jump to that conclusion without having examined all the girls (he lied when he said he had) was crazy. To label these girls with psychological issues before investigating other possible causes bordered on malpractice. The doctors who examined 9 of them on Sunday said it is absolutely not "conversion disorder."
I believe the school does owe the kids, their parents and everyone who works there a full scale environmental investigation to rule out environmental causes, if nothing else, considering the fact that the one thing all these kids have in common is that they attend that school. It very well may not be that, let's rule it out then. What we've received so far are two sad little tests. I'm being told now that the reason they have not released more information is that they do not want us to "panic." My daughter and I are not scared, we're frustrated. The lack of answers to alleviate the suffering of these young people and to assure no one else has to suffer the same is the real issue to me.
Bowcock's team has said that the dump site on Gulf Road is more than likely not the cause of this. I believe it is a residual finding that we as residents needed to know, regardless of its relation to the original situation. Which is how it should be. Rule out what it probably is not and find out what it is.
And, the superintendent is a she, Mrs. Cox.
Judith,
Thank you. I knew illegal drug use had been ruled out, but did not know legal substances like 'Spice', had been checked. Maybe the District can get the parents to give a HIPPA release?
I don't doubt the Board has handled this poorly and look inept. But to say they are deliberately covering something up, in my opinion only, is baseless.
This has never been about HIPPA. Thera and the others had no issue at all sharing what they knew. Problem was, they didn't know! Instead they were backed into a corner where their only solution was to go on national television to ask for help. How sad for them that it came to that. Had it not been for their courage and the resulting assistance received from the media and others that saw the show, there would have been no progress at all and no one at all looking for answers. So many thanks to the girls are in order.
Listening to the Buzz this morning I had the misfortune of hearing someone named Paula with a daughter named Mary who graduated from LeRoy. Poor little Mary was embarrassed by her association to LeRoy. Paula would like to "bitch slap" these young woman. I'm embarrassed to admit I live in the same town as Paula who very clearly demonstrates the level of ignorance these girls have been subjected to. It also clearly shows what strong women they are to have made themselves vulnerable to this sort of cruelty so they can get the answers they need. I know that there are a lot more good people in that town who feel nothing but compassion for these kids than there are Paulas. Its just that the Paulas are so loud.
Beth Kinsley
Amen to that. I didn't hear Paula call in but did hear them playing the sound clip over and over again and laughing about it. Nothing funny at all about this situation.
Among the benefits of working B Shift, my drive time precludes morning talk radio. Trivializing the human condition for the sake of cheap laughs is one of several slopes one should avoid slipping down. Sadly, morning radio hosts glory in it.
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Home music musician Pennsylvania Philadelphia rap rapper Vibes From 5 - Interview with rapper iamfiveee
Vibes From 5 - Interview with rapper iamfiveee
music, musician, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, rap, rapper
Melvin Joyner Jr. ( born March 31, 1998), better known by his stage name iamfiveee, is an American rapper and entrepreneur from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is currently unsigned but is working on starting his own record label "Five Winters Entertainment". Iamfiveee released his debut album "Vibes From 5" on December 25, 2016 including his single "FWU". The album details a past relationship and his feelings during the relationship and also after the relationship. We have conducted an interview with him.
Where did you draw inspirations to create your new album titled "Vibes From 5"? Why '5' for the title is included?
My latest release “Vibes From 5” is a 14 track album that I began creating a year ago. It includes my single “FWU” which is gaining a lot of attention and should take off soon. The story behind this album is that I was in a relationship with a girl and she eventually left me for someone else that she thought was better. I used that as motivation to create some of the best music that I have ever made. The album tells a story of the good and bad times during our relationship. The process of creating this album was very therapeutic for me and it helped me express my feelings in an artistic form. My stage name is iamfiveee but everyone calls me "5". It is included in the title because throughout the album you are getting different feelings and vibes from myself, hence the title Vibes From 5(me).
How did you get started with music? What is your story?
I started making music at the age of 12. I started after a friend of mine started an entertainment group and asked me to join. I never made music before but I told him that I would join anyway just to support and try out something new. I had a little experience with music because I use to play the drums and sing in the children's choir at church which made me develop an ear for music and helped me later on in my career. The first song I put out got a lot of attention and I've been making music ever since.
Who are influencers of your music?
Two of my biggest influences in music are Kevin Gates and Michael Jackson. Both are two great artists that I want to be like as I grow as an artist.
What kind of 'Musical Inspirations' did you get from them?
I watched how serious Michael took his craft and that inspired me to be as great as I can possibly be. He made sure that everything was perfected, from his dance steps to his vocal performance. These things are what made him the legend that he is today and I want to leave the same mark on the music industry that he did. I also feel the same way about Kevin Gates. To see someone come from an area of extreme poverty and become one of the biggest rap artists of our time is very inspirational. That lets me know that no matter what your circumstances are you can still become something great.
What do you consider are the most challenging aspects of being an independent artist?
As an independent artist, you face a lot of different challenges. One of the biggest challenges is growing your audience. If you're an artist like myself that has no connections in the music industry you find that it is hard to get your music heard. You spend most of the time spreading your music by yourself which can become very overwhelming at times. This can also be a positive thing as well because no one can promote your project harder than you can. Another challenge is finding a balance between your personal life, work life, and your music career. I began struggling to make time for music, work and family because they seem to get in the way of each other but it's all about finding your balance between everything and making sure that you get everything on your schedule accomplished.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamfiveee/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamfiveee_
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Vibes From 5 - Interview with rapper iamfiveee Reviewed by JaamZIN on 8:48:00 AM Rating: 5
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Pair of '02s complete notable College careers
Editor's Note: This is the first of two articles examining the lives of four recent Dartmouth graduates.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/pair-of-02s-complete-notable-college-careers
Sentencing of Tulloch highlights spring news
The unexpected guilty plea of Robert Tulloch dominated the news in an otherwise tranquil Spring term and brought an end to the murder case that began nearly a year and a half ago with the brutal slayings of Half and Susanne Zantop.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/sentencing-of-tulloch-highlights-spring-news
Song, silence mark Rogers' speech
Children's television show host Fred McFeely Rogers spoke to graduating seniors about the beauty of unconditional love, the inherent uniqueness of each person and the importance of interpersonal connections during his commencement speech on June 9.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/song-silence-mark-rogers-speech
Harris resigns from athletic director post
After being hired two weeks ago, Charles Harris has withdrawn his acceptance of the Director of Athletics and Recreation post amid concerns that he misrepresented his academic record to an earlier employer.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/harris-resigns-from-athletic-director-post
Harris withdraws acceptance of athletic director post
After being hired last Thursday, Charles Harris has withdrawn his acceptance of the Director of Athletics and Recreation post amid concerns that he misrepresented his academic record to an earlier employer.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/harris-withdraws-acceptance-of-athletic-director-post
What's Our Future?
Ah, the solemnity of an Ivy League graduation. All the young Brahmins in their gown-hidden letter sweaters and navy suits and pleated skirts, nodding pleasantly at Mummy and Dad before they step onto the platform in orderly and dignified fashion to receive their diplomas and bid quietly regretful farewells to Jimmy Wright in person. Dignity, respect, tradition.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/whats-our-future
Late So Soon
How did it get so late so soon?
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/late-so-soon
A Fork in the Eye
Look around. There are forks and eyeballs rolling through the aisles, across the back of the Green, seeping onto the graduation stage. All around us, people are jabbing forks in eyes and forcing each other to deal with the consequences.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/a-fork-in-the-eye
Leaving Dartmouth
Growing up in Pakistan, I dreamt of attending Harvard. It was the only American university I had ever heard of. Over the next few years, my dream became an obsession. I saw Crimson everywhere. It wasn't meant to be, however, and senior year of high school Harvard sent me the all-too-familiar thin letter. I was good but not good enough, the letter said. Shattered at first, I began to swallow my disappointment and settle for my second choice. And on September 9, 1998, I found myself standing outside the Hanover Inn, staring at some crazy kids dancing in front of Robinson Hall as my bus pulled away. I was destined to spend four years at a college about which I knew little except that it was a member of the Ivy League, it was located in New Hampshire, and the winters were 100 degrees colder than in Karachi.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/leaving-dartmouth
Upon graduating last year, I had everything all figured out. I planned to spend the summer working at a film studio in Santa Monica, then take a quick vacation traveling Europe, and finally start working for Microsoft in Seattle in the fall.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/one-year-later
Graduation List 2002
The following is the graduation list for 2002, accurate as of Wednesday, June 6. All students listed are members of the Class of 2002 unless otherwise noted.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/graduation-list-2002
They will survive: four years of pop culture classics
Since the Class of 2002 came to Dartmouth four years ago, the rise of MP3s and DVDs has changed the way college students appreciate music and film. New technology has increased our access to a variety of artists, but this doesn't change the reality that only a few works each year show a glimmer of timelessness.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/they-will-survive-four-years-of-pop-culture-classics
History of C&R is full of quirks and strange twists
Imagine being told that as part of your graduation requirements you will be required to present a ten-minute speech to the entire Commencement audience. Now imagine that your speech is just one of four dozen that will be given in the hot July sun before the diplomas can be granted.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/history-of-cr-is-full-of-quirks-and-strange-twists
Sept. 11 affects students' lives in more ways than one
After four years in the relative utopia that is Dartmouth, Commencement marks a time when students must become full citizens of a wider world than Hanover. After a year that saw planes crash into the World Trade Center, American forces on the ground in Afghanistan and the escalation of violence in the Middle East, that wider world seems a vastly different place for graduating seniors.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/sept-11-affects-students-lives-in-more-ways-than-one
World and nation transform during '02s' four years
While the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks defined the news cycle during the Class of 2002's final year at Dartmouth, tumult has characterized the graduates' world since their arrival -- a presidential impeachment, conflict in the Balkans, a bizarre presidential election and the start of a new "war on terrorism" have all come to pass in the '02s college careers. Here is a look back at those and other happenings in the news from the last four years.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/world-and-nation-transform-during-02s-four-years
A new College president, a controversial Initiative and tragic loss mark Class of 2002's Dartmouth careers
Freshman year, 1998-9
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/a-new-college-president-a-controversial-initiative-and-tragic-loss-mark-class-of-2002s-dartmouth-car
Senior Week gives '02s a chance to kick back
The product of more than a term's worth of efforts by the 2002 Class Council, Senior Week's many recreational activities gave graduates a chance to relax and enjoy their last days as Dartmouth students.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/senior-week-gives-02s-a-chance-to-kick-back
Seniors discuss summer plans
Although by next fall the graduating seniors will be strewn across the world, many of them will spend the summer right here in the Upper Valley.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/seniors-discuss-summer-plans
Miller '02 hasn't been afraid to shake things up
After a run-in with the copy machine in the theater department, Miller, smiling and outgoing, came rushing into Collis, glancing at my ID card to identify me as her interviewer. After exchanging introductions, we sat down to a conversation that left me amazed at the amount one person can be involved during her Dartmouth career.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/miller-02-hasnt-been-afraid-to-shake-things-up
For student athletes, there is life after Dartmouth
Some of them played in front of thousands of fans, while others toiled in relative obscurity. Some won league and conference championships and represented Dartmouth on the national stage, while others played on teams that struggled to succeed. But competition has shaped the college career of every Dartmouth athlete.
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2002/06/for-student-athletes-there-is-life-after-dartmouth
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'Bin Laden tape' urges uprising against US troops
David Teather in New York
Mon 5 Jan 2004 02.53 EST
A voice on an audiotape purporting to be that of Osama bin Laden yesterday urged Muslims to rise up against American forces in Iraq and disparaged the US-backed "road map" for peace in the Middle East.
The tape, aired on the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera, made direct reference to the capture of the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, suggesting the tape was recorded recently. If authenticated, it could offer further compelling evidence that the al-Qaida leader is still alive despite a two-year manhunt.
Unlike previous recordings, the voice introduces itself as Osama bin Laden at the beginning of the tape. It was particularly critical of the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden's birthplace, but also attacked other Arab governments for supporting the US invasion of Iraq.
It called on Muslims to "continue the jihad to check the conspiracies hatched against the Islamic nation". .
The voice warned that the Americans would not stop with the fall of Baghdad. "The occupation of Iraq is the beginning of the full occupation of the other Gulf states," he said. "The Gulf is the key for control of the world in the point of view of the big powers, because of the presence of the biggest deposits of oil."
The tape was the first message supposedly from Bin Laden since an audiotape broadcast in October. CIA analysts who examined that tape concluded it was probably authentic.
"The CIA and appropriate intelligence authorities are reviewing the tape to check for its authenticity," said Allen Abney, a White House spokesman.
Ibrahim Hilal, al-Jazeera's editor-in-chief, told the Associated Press that the network had received the latest message on Sunday. He declined to say how it had been delivered. About 14 minutes of a meandering 47-minute tape were aired.
In the past, this kind of broadcast has preceded al-Qaida attacks, and US intelligence officials believe they could be used as a signal to cells around the world, or as an attempt to gain credit for attacks by showing prior knowledge.
Two weeks ago another audio tape was broadcast, fea turing remarks attributed to Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. He warned that al-Qaida operatives were "chasing" Americans and their allies "even in their homeland". Three days later, the US raised its state of alert to orange - the second highest status after red - and spoke of intelligence pointing to a new terrorist spectacular, possibly involving aircraft again.
The new alert has brought with it a spate of cancelled transatlantic flights for security reasons.
Al-Jazeera has run eight al-Qaida tapes since September 2001. The channel has been criticised as a propaganda tool for terrorists, but it recently said it did not rush to go on air with Bin Laden's recordings. The Arabic news channel claimed it has at least half a dozen more video tapes from Bin Laden's al-Qaida network that it has never broadcast because it deemed them too fanatical or not sufficiently newsworthy.
From footage of Bin Laden produced in the past two years, intelligence officials have concluded he is holed up somewhere in the remote region straddling the Afghan-Pakistan border. Al-Qaida and Taliban elements are believed to be behind regular clashes there with the US occupying force and its Afghan allies.
Afghan ethnic rivals agreed yesterday on a new constitution that will create a strong presidency, in the hope of uniting the country.
Afghan deal reached, page 13
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Rodrigo Duterte – the Philippines’s Human Rights Wild Card
On 9th of May, Rodrigo Duterte, a long-time mayor of Davao City in the Southern island of Mindanao, was elected the new president of the Philippines, winning nearly 40 percent of the vote. Duterte’s success is unprecedented. He will be the first president from Mindanao, the country’s second biggest island, plagued by extreme poverty and a long-running Islamist insurgency involved the killing of tens of thousands of people and facilitated the spread of Islamic extremism in the region. During his candidacy, the president-elect seemed to be an ultimate wild card by displaying a callous attitude towards human rights.
While supporting LGBT equality, admittedly a bold move in a predominant Catholic nation, he has also made headlines saying that he wished he had “been first” to rape an Australian woman killed in a 1989 prison riot. Even more troubling, he has been linked to a vigilante death squads group active in Davao City. Since being elected president, he has condoned the execution of journalists.
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Women, Peace and Security in Dutch Foreign Policy
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
A Recommendation for the New National Action Plan
The Netherlands has long been at the forefront of women, peace and security issues. A Security Council member when Resolution 1325 was adopted in 2000, it will launch its third National Action Plan (NAP) for 1325 by the end of 2015. However, strong support for the principles and objectives of 1325 has not always translated effectively into Dutch foreign policy, with programming concentrating on one or two key issue areas.
This has resulted in projects (both government and civil society initiated) that by themselves are relatively successful but lack reference to other issues, such as the societal gender inequalities that prevent the full participation of women in peacebuilding activities. Instead, what is needed is a more coherent, coordinated approach to tackling the full spectrum of discrimination faced by women in post-conflict societies. Incorporating such an approach into the new NAP and focusing on the underlying causes of gender inequality will help ensure that Dutch policy succeeds in enabling women to play a full and equal role in creating safer and more peaceful societies worldwide.
The current NAP commits its signatories (including over 30 civil society organizations and three government ministries) to “facilitate the creation of an enabling environment for women’s leadership and political participation in fragile states and transition countries.” (page 21) Women’s leadership and political participation has long been a central part of Dutch foreign policy efforts, as evidenced by a 2010 report that detailed efforts to mobilize and include women in political processes in Afghanistan and Sudan. It is likely therefore that the new NAP will continue this focus on political participation and leadership.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just announced the second round of the ‘Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women’ (FLOW) program, which provides grants for NGO programs aimed at combatting violence against women; supporting the participation of women in politics; and facilitating women’s economic participation and self-reliance. The focal point for FLOW is Millennium Development Goal 3, equal rights and opportunities for women, and the new Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality. There are little more than passing references to the NAP as complementary programming. This is unfortunate because not only is the scope for coordination obvious – combining efforts to combat violence against women, improve their economic standing and promote gender equality led by women at the grassroots – but doing so under the new NAP would make Dutch peacebuilding efforts significantly more effective.
To understand how this is the case one only needs to look at post-conflict societies, where it is all too common “for women to lose their jobs in the formal sector and return to the household or the informal sector.” (Greenberg & Zuckerman, 2004, p.77) In these situations it is not just the women who suffer, but also the society in question, for “missing the opportunity to engage women in formal economic activities is a long-term strategic oversight,’ that weakens the prospects of post-conflict recovery” (Ibid.) increases the likelihood that conflict will return. Countering this dynamic requires a multifaceted approach, tackling both the legal barriers and “unequal gender relations and power dynamics” (Ibid.) that prevent women from accessing their rights, economic or otherwise. The problem is that current Dutch policies target either the cause or effect of women’s disempowerment but not both simultaneously, thereby missing out on harnessing the transformative potential of tackling both at the same time.
An example of the failure to consider both the causes and effects of women’s disempowerment is the current NAP, which focuses heavily on political participation and leadership, but makes little reference to the underlying economic factors – such as low wages or uncertain employment – that can prevent women from being political actors and leaders in their communities. Connecting the two, and encouraging programming that targets the economic factors that underlie women’s disempowerment as well as encourages women’s political participation and leadership would increase the likelihood that the important political and social reforms needed to embed more equal gender relations will happen across society.
The importance of having a critical mass of women leaders for delivering important socio-political reforms is evidenced by Rwanda where, since 2003, over 50 per cent of parliamentarians have been women. The prominence of women in the legislature has resulted in the passage of a range of progressive laws that benefit women on issues like gender-based violence and property rights. However, “these advances in legislation have not immediately translated into gains for average Rwandans,” according to 2006 UNICEF report, which cites societal problems such as poverty and traditional cultural attitudes about the position of women as reasons for the gap between legislation and implementation.
The experience of Rwanda demonstrates two important lessons: having prominent female leaders results in legislative gains for women, but realizing these gains at the grassroots level cannot be taken for granted. Indeed, it appears from the example of Rwanda that, without an accompanying bottom-up movement to inform and equip women to access their legal rights, the momentum generated by legal reforms can fail to bring about the social change required to improve the position of women across society. Clearly for legislative gains to be entrenched in society, prominent women leaders at the top need to be accompanied by women’s advocacy at the bottom.
However, in its proposed project guidance, the FLOW program makes little mention of empowering women in post-conflict societies to be leaders to drive forward greater economic opportunity themselves. This is a missed opportunity, especially for thematic priority three which focuses on improving labor participation. Here, encouraging strong and dynamic female leadership at the grassroots level could help ensure continuing attention to the specific problems facing women’s labor participation, such as gender pay gaps, helping to counter the dynamic of women being ‘left behind’ in post-conflict environments.
To rectify the missing link between women’s leadership and economic empowerment in the FLOW program it is vital that the new NAP makes explicit reference to the importance of programming from all signatories that tackle these two goals in a complementary manner. This could include projects that assist women leaders in tackling economic disadvantages faced by other women, or encouraging projects focusing on economic empowerment to also identify potential new women advocates and assist them in developing their leadership skills.
Regardless, referencing the two goals and identifying their areas of overlap would recognize the need to support women in all aspects of their lives, whether politically, socially or economically, so that they can play a vital role in the creation of safe and just societies – the bedrock of stability and security worldwide.
The author would like to thank Sash Jayawardane for her constructive feedback.
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Different feathers but a political flocking together
Abhay Datar
An anti-BJP stance may explain Maharashtra’s coalition experiment — of the Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP
In Maharashtra, the three-party coalition government, of the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), under the leadership of Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray, seems to have stabilised after a bumpy start. Though negotiations over Ministry composition and portfolio allocations were long-drawn, the issue has settled. All this has led to talk of an ideological realignment in Maharashtra politics. More significantly, commentators have spoken of a tempering of the Sena’s long-standing Hindutva positions. So has the tiger really changed its stripes?
To answer this, one needs answers to one other question. Why did the Sena on one hand and the Congress-NCP on the other come together in the first place? The answer lies in how the BJP treated its allies and political opponents, at the Central level and in the State. The opponents were treated harshly; inquiries were ordered with investigations by central agencies. A number of heavyweights from the Congress and the NCP joined the BJP. It would be foolish to say that this exodus was sparked by ideological considerations. If some realised that they had no future in their local political sphere because of the Congress-NCP alliance, many were more concerned about the maintenance of support networks that they had carefully nurtured over decades. The BJP too wooed those it thought would strengthen the party in areas where it was weak.
The binding factor
The case with the Sena is similar yet distinct. The BJP appears tired of its allies and, ideally, would like a state of affairs where it could win elections without them. It tried doing so in the 2017 municipal elections in Mumbai. The stresses and strains in the BJP-Sena alliance during the tenure of the last government emerged primarily because of these efforts of the BJP. The Sena started to believe that the BJP was out to render it politically nugatory, prompting it to adopt a tough negotiating stance during seat-sharing talks and then later when efforts were being made to form a government. Thus, the three-party coalition has come about because all concerned were worried about their sheer political existence. An anti-BJP stance is the only common factor here.
The Congress’s central leadership had misgivings about an alliance with the Sena given its stand on Hindutva. But the Sena played down these very positions. The party’s opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019-National Register of Citizens (NRC), alongwith with the statement of the Chief Minister and Sena head, Uddhav Thackeray, that he would not allow students to be assaulted in the State and the relatively mild handling of the anti-CAA-NRC protests is cited as evidence of this de-emphasising. Moreover, such positions are being taken to mean that the ideological transformation of the Shiv Sena is on the anvil, or indeed has taken place. This naturally leads to the proposition that the coalition would last long since there are no ideological contradictions among them. This is indeed wishful thinking.
On ideology
The hollowness of such analyses necessitates a look at the Sena’s ideological positions which till date would demonstrate what it stands for. Though it began its journey as a party primarily asserting a regional identity, and that too in the Mumbai-Thane belt, its positions always had strong elements of Hindutva in them. The party’s spread in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra in the late 1980s occurred primarily because of this positioning. Content analysis of the speeches of the Sena founder, Bal Thackeray from that period and even later would make this clear. It was this ideological complementarity that led the BJP to strike an alliance with it in the late 1980s and early 1990s which benefited both the parties. Thus the Sena till recently was not only the BJP’s oldest ally but also its closest one ideologically. The party’s stand during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitations and the subsequent communal riots is well-known — and which it has not retracted. Thus, one can reasonably conclude the sum and substance of its positions.
One could argue that all this was in the past and much has changed. But there are many who would remember that the previous Congress-NCP government had provided for reservations for Muslims — and stridently opposed by the BJP and the Sena. The demand to rename the city of Aurangabad to ‘Sambhajinagar’ has been a long-standing Sena demand. These two issues may now have been forgotten for the time being.
Civic poll test
But what if there is communal conflict somewhere in Maharashtra? Or what if the Congress and the NCP raise a demand for minority reservations? Or what if the BJP launches a campaign on an issue where the Sena would find itself at odds with its coalition partners? The seeming stability of the coalition is not a consequence of the Sena’s ideological transformation; rather it is more about the partners having chosen to ignore contradictions by pretending they did not exist in the first place. But events could simply blow the coalition off course. The first such event where stability would be tested would be the next major round of civic body elections, in 2022. Elections to urban bodies (Mumbai and Pune) would certainly strain the coalition, whether or not the three arrive at a seat-sharing formula. This would more be so because in many places the partners would be fighting each other and not the BJP.
Besides, the BJP, now in search of an ally, has been making overtures to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), headed by Raj Thackeray, the Chief Minister’s cousin. There are enough indications that the alliance might be based on a common ideological positioning, namely Hindutva, with the MNS combining it with its regionalist politics. So the Sena would find itself competing for the same ideological constituency. It might then realise that the BJP, similar to what Sir Robert Peel did more than a century ago to the Whigs, has stolen its ideological clothes.
Dr. Abhay Datar teaches Political Science at People’s College, Nanded, Maharashtra
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton
Cyrus Eaton, born on December 27, 1883, not far from Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash River, Nova Scotia, became a wealthy industrialist, a generous philanthropist, and a passionate advocate for peace between communist and capitalist countries. In the 1950s and 1960s, he hosted and funded some of the early Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in his hometown of Pugwash and in other locations. In 1995, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Pugwash Conferences and physicist Joseph Rotblat.
Cyrus Eaton’s father was Joseph Howe Eaton, descended from New England Planters.[i] In their early years, the family owned one farm and barely could afford to pay a ‘hired’ man. Joseph acquired three farms, managed a general store, and ran the post office.
Cyrus’ mother, Mary Adelia MacPherson, descended from Scottish born Empire Loyalists,[ii] was a devout Baptist who encouraged her son to study for the ministry and to read extensively in literature, history, religion and philosophy. Before Cyrus was born, the couple lost their first three children, Parker, Gertrude, and Frank, to diphtheria. Heart-sick, four-year-old Cyrus watched his older brother, John, succumb to the same disease.[iii] Eva, Florence, Alice, and Joseph joined the family, and Cyrus, always generous, was supportive of them and his parents in his adult life.
When Cyrus was four, his father trusted him to drive a horse and wagon to Conns Mills in order to have the flour ground for his mother to bake bread. By five, he was tending his own cow which he spent hours rescuing when it didn’t come home one time. Cyrus, who waited upon customers at his father’s general store, weighed flour, sugar and raisins, and carefully counted change. His father used to boast, “When Cyrus was six, I could leave him in the store for hours alone and he never failed my confidence. His qualifications for big business are brains and absolute trustworthiness.”[iv] At twelve, his father sent him out to measure the logs his lumbermen were felling, and he earned fifty cents for a ten-hour day.
After the family moved to Pugwash Junction, his father inadvertently broadened his son’s understanding of the international community because one of his jobs at the post office was to sort newspapers from Boston, Providence, Halifax and London. Cyrus recalled, “By the time I was ten, I was pretty well experienced in business and world affairs – my father was postmaster and I used to read all the newspapers that came in to subscribers.”[v]
Cyrus attended a one-room schoolhouse for eight years under the instruction of Margaret King in Pugwash Junction, before studying at Amherst Academy in Amherst. For being top of his class in science, Cyrus was presented at graduation with the complete works of Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley.[vi] Framed photographs of the authors now hang in the Cyrus Eaton room at Thinkers Lodge. The evolutionist and the biologist undoubtedly sparked his interest in science and his desire to nurture the environment and prevent it from being irrevocably destroyed by atomic weapons.
[i] The Eaton Family of Nova Scotia by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, 1929, Privately Printed
[ii] “Cyrus Eaton as a Lad” by Margaret Eaton – unpublished manuscript
[iv] “The Boy Who Listened to Rockefeller” by McKenzie Porter, Maclean’s National Magazine, May 1, 1953[v] ibid.
[vi] “Communists’ Capitalist” by E. J. Kahn, Jr, the New Yorker Magazine, October 10 and October 17, 1977
He attended Woodstock College, a Baptist institution, in Toronto to complete high school and then majored in philosophy at McMaster University, then in Toronto, now in Hamilton. It was his intention to become a Baptist minister, following the path of his Uncle Charles. Cyrus paid for his education by clerking at a local department store. Enamored of debating, he frequently sat in on provincial legislature sessions.
During a summer vacation, he visited his Uncle Charles, a Baptist minister, in Cleveland, Ohio. One day, he accompanied his uncle to the home of one of his parishioners, John D. Rockefeller, whose wife asked Cyrus what his summer job was. He proudly replied that he worked as a night clerk at a hotel pressing suits, washing clothes, and polishing shoes. She was horrified and asked her husband if he could employ Cyrus. From then on, he worked during his summer holidays for Rockefeller. His responsibilities varied. He was a messenger, junior aide, and clerk; he drove the buggy, caddied while Rockefeller played golf, acted as bodyguard, and even climbed a tree when no one else could rescue a cat.[i] He also went door-to-door persuading customers that natural gas was cheaper than artificial gas and that having pipes installed to their homes would benefit them.
When Cyrus was choosing a career path, Rockefeller asked him how he could influence and assist more people – as a minister or as an industrialist. Rockefeller advised Cyrus, “There is a tremendous opportunity to do good for mankind through business, possibly more than you could accomplish in any other field.”[ii] Upon graduating, he spent a few months as a horse wrangler and cowpuncher on a farm in northern Saskatchewan and then chose to work for Rockefeller. At the same time, he briefly served as lay pastor at the Lakewood Baptist Church in Cleveland.
In his mid-twenties, he began acquiring utility franchises in the prairies of Canada including the Brandon, Manitoba electric power plant.[iii] The plant flourished, and he sold it at a profit, the first step on his way to becoming a multi-millionaire. He acquired and consolidated utility holdings under United Light & Power. “His first fortune cracked and disintegrated during the depression.”[iv]
He married Margaret Pearl House, daughter of a prominent physician, in 1907 in Cleveland, and became a naturalized citizen in 1913. The couple raised seven children who grew up on Acadia Farms in Northfield Ohio, where he bred prizewinning shorthorn cattle while pursuing a career as an industrialist. The farm was his sanctuary. By 1928, the couple had separated,[v] but their divorce wasn’t finalized until 1934. Margaret became a painter and even learned to pilot an airplane. Cyrus, a strict father,[vi] encouraged his children to get a strong education, work hard, spend time outdoors and participate in sports. Books surrounded the family. Always, he was an avid reader of poetry, Shakespeare, history, religion, science, and philosophy.[vii] He never watched television or drove a car. He loved nature and physical exercise. He was an ardent conservationist who donated land for parks. Daily, he walked miles around his farm, familiar with every new-born calf and newly planted tree. He played tennis, cross-country skied, and rode horses until his late 80s.
Cyrus was a complex man, not easily defined. During the Great Depression, he took a “terrific financial beating.” Like a phoenix, he rose from the ashes. He masterfully merged companies and shepherded them to success. A staunch capitalist, he built utility empires in gas, electricity and steel as well as having significant investment holdings in rubber, coal, railways, and iron ore.[viii] Otis and Co, an investment banking company, Chesapeake & Ohio Rail, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co, Steep Rock Iron Mines, and West Company Coal Co were examples of investments he made and mergers he built.[ix]
He fiercely campaigned against Wall Street[x] and could be vindictive to his enemies. On the other hand, he helped save the jeopardized jobs of workers at Trumbull Steel in Ohio, in the town of Follansbee in West Virginia, at Fisher Body in Detroit, and at the Cincinnati Enquirer. [xi] Always controversial but never intimidated, he spoke his mind in speeches, editorials, and magazine articles. He was an advisor to President Roosevelt and assisted the war effort by securing steel and iron ore for the navy. Twenty years later, he criticized Nixon and urged withdrawal from Vietnam. A firm believer in democracy, he advocated for doing business with communist Russia, China, and Eastern European.
After the devastating fires in Pugwash in 1928 and 1929, Cyrus returned to his birthplace and assisted in the rebuilding of the village. He hired local residents to cart away the debris of the burnt Empress Hotel and the adjoining warehouses and shops. He purchased the land and posthumously donated it as a park where local citizens could enjoy the festivities for the Gathering of the Clans on Canada Day and for Harbourfest.[xii] In this serene setting, families picnic, villagers enjoy ice cream, and children play on the playground. Adjacent to the park, he purchased Pineo Lodge and the Frank Allan Lobster Canning Factory.[xiii] In 1929, Cyrus hired Andrew Cobb, a renowned Halifax architect, to design the renovations for the Lodge. He hoped to revitalize the economy in his hometown with a bed and breakfast and dining hall. Additional details can be found under “Thinkers Lodge – History of Additions and Renovations” in this book. His plans for a hotel and golf course never materialized.
To honor his beloved teacher, he built the Margaret King School. The school had a science room, an industrial art classroom, classrooms for the primary grades and upper grades, a library, an art room, a gymnasium, and even indoor plumbing and electricity. This was eight years before the community got electric power. Pat Williams Briggins, who attended Margaret King School, said, “Science was instrumental in introducing to me course work that helped me in my nursing studies.” She added, “My impression was that the school got dropped down from heaven. It made me appreciative of Cyrus Eaton who spared nothing in dollars and care so that we could have this beautiful, complete school.”[xiv] Many of the graduates became teachers, engineers, nurses, and scientists. He provided scholarship aid. He financed, renovated, and built a number of other schools.
Around 1928, he built a summer home in Deep Cove, on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, where he, his children, and later his grandchildren spent many summers. In 1949, he hosted an educational conference in Deep Cove with participants from London, Oxford, Dacca, Calcutta, Melbourne, Montreal, and Belfast. In 1955, he began hosting conferences in Pugwash for university presidents and deans. This lovely lodge that became known as Thinkers Lodge on the Northumberland Strait was the perfect setting to inspire educators and later scientists to trust each other, to listen attentively, and to respect divergent views.In 1955, after Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein with nine other scientists wrote the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, charging nuclear scientists to take responsibility for building a path toward nuclear non-proliferation, Cyrus invited the scientists to hold their conference in Pugwash, a place where they would be free to share ideas without governmental interference. He funded their travel, lodging, and meal expenses. Cyrus continued to fund the early International Pugwash Conferences until they severed ties with him due to his being a magnet for controversy.
Cyrus married Anne (Kinder Jones) Eaton in 1957, and together, they advocated for peace between capitalist and communist countries. Anne worked for equal rights of women and for equal rights of African Americans. Together, they funded Pugwash Conferences on education, Islamic Culture, China, India, and the Middle East, and they hosted educators, international leaders, and scientists at Thinkers Lodge.
They traveled to the Soviet Union, where he befriended Nikita Khrushchev, to Eastern Europe, Chile, Vietnam, and Cuba, where he met with leaders in government, business, and agriculture to encourage cooperative engagement between the countries. He believed that sharing ideas about farming, education, business, and the arts would lead to understanding between the peoples and governments of countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Throughout his life, he corresponded with educators, scientists, philosophers, farmers, and world leaders – sharing ideas, asking questions, and promoting commitment to nuclear disarmament and world peace.
Cyrus Eaton was a multifaceted man with vision, wealth, and determination that allowed him to build financial empires and that inspired him to seek peaceful means of co-existing. He believed one man could make a difference. He would want visitors to Thinkers Lodge in the twenty-first century to enjoy this tranquil spot on the Northumberland Strait and to take with them when they leave the determination to positively impact the people they encounter and to strive to make the world a safer, healthier place.
[i] “Rockefeller and Harper: Recollections and Reflections,” January 11, 1973, Speech to University of Chicago Board of Trustees, [Container 130, Folder 2929] MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio
[ii] “The Lofty World of Cyrus Eaton” by Tony McVeigh in Executive for the Men of Decision, A Hugh C. Maclean Publication, October 1960, [Container 141, folder 3181] MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleve, OH
[iii] “Back to Pugwash” by Patrick Boyer, July 20, 2003
[iv] Building his Second Empire,” Business Week, March 12, 1955, [Container 31, Folder 726] MS 3913, Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio
[v] “Communists' Capitalist” by E. J. Kahn, Dec 10, 1997 -- New Yorker Magazine, [Container 237, Folder 5282] MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio
[vi] Letter from Betty Eaton Butterfield to her brother Cyrus S. Eaton, Jr., 1996
[vii] “Introduction to Biography of Cyrus Eaton” by Anne Eaton - unpublished
[viii] “Building his Second Empire,” Business Week, March 12, 1955, [Container 31, Folder 726] MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio
[ix] ibid.
[x] The Case of the People Vs. Wall Street” by Cyrus Eaton, [Container, Folder 2852] MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Ohio
[xi] “Men of Action: Cyrus Eaton, the Man from Pugwash” by James Minifie, The Montrealer, November 1956, [Container 229, Folder 5072], MS 3913 Cyrus S Eaton Papers, WRHS, Cleveland, Oho
[xii] Thelma Colbourne, Interview by Cathy Eaton, summer 2010
[xiii] Hester Allan and Beryl Arab, interview by Cathy Eaton, summer 2015
[xiv] Pat Briggins Williams, interview by Cathy Eaton, summer 2014
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South Hams Declares Climate Change and Biodiversity Emergency
South Hams District Council held a Council meeting on Thursday 25 July, with councillors unanimously supporting a motion to declare both a Climate Change and a Biodiversity Emergency.
Following recommendations from the Executive committee in June, the Council agreed a Climate Change Emergency and went further, with the additional inclusion of a Biodiversity Emergency. The Council will now collaborate with Climate Change agencies along with Devon Councils, including Devon County and Plymouth City, to address the emergencies. Agreement was reached to develop an action plan which will outline how the Council will meet, or exceed, the UN’s intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) carbon reduction recommendations.
This will include an assessment on whether the 2030 target date will be practical. The assessment, to be presented to Council within six months, will also look at concerns about global species and habitat loss raised by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A politically balanced Working Group will be established by the end of August led by the Leader, Cllr Judy Pearce, Lead Executive Member for Climate Change. At their first meeting, the Working Group will consider setting up a Citizens’ Assembly and to bring a recommendation to the next Council meeting on 26 September. The Council will also take steps to ensure developers improve biodiversity within their development plans and to avoid, where possible, any impact to wildlife. Or, as a last resort, to carefully mitigate against any impact, in agreement with the Joint Local Plan Policy.
Cllr Hilary Bastone, Deputy Leader of South Hams District Council, said: “It’s important to have a clear plan of action about how to deal with the Climate Change and Biodiversity Emergency in an achievable timescale. We’ve put in place sensible steps to help us find out more and we’re looking forward to working with other organisations and councils, through our Working Group, to develop a plan which will help us to reduce our carbon footprint.”
Cllr John Birch, SHDC Ward Member for Totnes, added: “I’m pleased that we have also taken biodiversity into consideration when talking about Climate Change. Biodiversity is directly affected by a changing climate, and this has negative consequences for the populations’ wellbeing. With this in mind, I’d very much like to see a Citizens’ Assembly set up to gain the views of those living in the South Hams.”
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Cllr Jacqi Hodgson, SHDC Leader of the Green Party, who tabled the original motion last December, was delighted that Biodiversity was now part of the formal Declaration, saying that ecological collapse was essential to urgently address, said: “It’s really important that going forward we take steps to make sure that when developers apply for planning permission, they have made provision to conserve and manage biodiversity to avoid any impact to wildlife habitats, wherever possible. If this can’t be avoided, then any harm should be minimised.”
Climate Change impacts all of the Council’s six Corporate Strategy themes. To read more about these themes, go to: https://www.southhams.gov.uk/article/5347/Council-Performance-and-Strategy
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Photo credit: The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Alyssa Schwartz - Jul 31
10 things about Ottawa that make other capital cities jealous
Ottawa: 10, world: 0. See for yourself:
You don’t need your passport to take a vacation packed with world-class attractions and eats; just head to our nation’s capital. Ottawa’s got a lot going for it—a lot more than some other capital cities, in fact. (Take that, London.) Want proof? We’ve rounded up 10 ways Ottawa handily beats the global competition.
1. It towers over London
Soaring 98 metres above Parliament Hill, the Peace Tower is one of our country’s most iconic images, just as Big Ben is to England. But with 53 bells that weigh a total of 54 tonnes, our carillons make the big guy’s 13 tonnes seem positively puny. They’re a lot more fun, too: from the Star Wars theme on May the 4th to a 4-20 playlist, which included tunes like “Puff the Magic Dragon,” the bells at the Peace Tower do more than simply chime.
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2. Amsterdam’s got nothin’ on its blooms
Amsterdam’s tulips may be world famous, but Ottawa outblooms even the Netherlands. Held in Ottawa every spring, the Canadian Tulip Festival is the world’s largest celebration of tulips, with more than three-million flowering throughout the capital region. (It would, however, be distinctly un-Canadian not to thank the Dutch for their role in this pretty festival: Ottawa’s tulips were a gift from the Netherlands as thanks for harbouring the nation’s royal family during the Second World War.)
3. It brews more beer than Brussels
Belgium is known worldwide for its beer, but the capital itself doesn’t actually house that many breweries. Though there are some epic shops and bars that stock hundreds of beers, you’ll have to travel to the monasteries and abbeys of the Belgian countryside to see where many popular suds are brewed. Ottawa’s craft beer scene, on the other hand, is exploding, with lots of new microbreweries springing up right in town. Beer fans won’t want to miss the city’s annual Craft Beer Festival, where you can sample more than 150 beers brewed in the region (along with local ciders, wines and international beers, which undoubtedly include some from Belgium).
Benjamin Bercier/Cassel Brewery via Facebook
4. Ottawa connaît son vin
While we’re at it, let’s talk wine: Gatineau, Quebec-based sommelier Veronique Rivest was named second-best sommelier in the world at the Sommelier du Monde Competition in 2013 (she was bested by a Swiss sommelier). You can enjoy Rivest’s expertise firsthand at her wine bar, Soif, whether for a relaxed wine flight or a more informative workshop.
5. Best. Cheese. In. The. World.
You can’t talk about wine without talking about cheese, and there are few countries better known for cheese than Switzerland. But Glengarry Fine Cheese, a family-run dairy outside of Ottawa, beat all the cheese in Bern (and all of Switzerland) with its aged Lankaaster, named Best Cheese in the World at the prestigious Global Cheese Awards in the U.K.
6. It’s got more ice than Frozen
Disney’s frosty flick may have moved fans to travel to Norway in search of the real-life sites that inspired the movie (Oslo’s Akershus Fortress was the model for princesses Anna and Elsa’s grand palace). But to get some icy fun, you can’t beat skating on the Rideau Canal, which, at nearly eight kilometres, is one of the world’s longest natural outdoor rinks.
7. Trudeau lives here
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Washington recently, it sparked a new round of Trudeau-mania, and an all-eyes-on-them bromance between Trudeau and President Obama was born. But Washington (and all of the U.S.) is likely looking at Ottawa through green eyes these days, given that we have at least four more years with Trudeau, while the U.S., well…
8. It’s green to the core…literally
With its pedestrian and cycling networks and revitalized brownfields, Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, is officially the E.U.’s greenest city. But Ottawa’s core shines green too thanks to the Ottawa Centre Ecodistrict—the first of its kind in Canada. The area, which includes Parliament, the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal as well as Sparks Street, holds more than 30 green-certified buildings, outdoor recreational spaces and local, sustainable food options. With over 600 kilometres of cycling trails, Ottawa was also the first city in Ontario to win the gold-level Bicycle Friendly Community award presented by Share the Road Cycling Coalition.
Ottawa Tourism/Tourisme Ottawa
9. Historically speaking, it’s got it all
Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities may boast more than three-dozen museums, but you’ll have to travel across the entire country to visit them all. Nearly all of Canada’s national museums, however, are concentrated in Ottawa (only the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and Pier 21 are located elsewhere); to hit them all in a single trip, all you’ll need is time.
10. There’s always something going on
Edinburgh is so known for its festivals that it’s sometimes called Festival City. But with more than 100 every year—from the aforementioned beer and tulip fests to jazz, blues and dragon-boating festivals—Ottawa crushes the Scottish capital with its sheer variety.
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5 Ludicrously Ambitious Theme Parks That Closed Before They Even Opened
When Walt Disney announced plans to build Disneyland, many commentators speculated that his theme park would prove to be an embarrassing, and expensive, failure. Their view was that Disney should stick to making movies, and that traditional midway operators knew the amusement business better than him.
Those commentators were, of course, completely wrong. Disneyland proved to be an overnight success after opening in 1955, and spawned an empire that now includes theme parks all over the globe. Other firms, such as Universal, have been able to partially emulate Disney's success.
Sometimes, though, the cynics questioning the wisdom of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a new theme park are proven right. In fact, there are numerous cases of theme parks that collapsed before they even welcomed a single guest. Here are five notorious examples...
5. F1-X Dubai
In the years before the economic crisis of 2008, developers in Dubai dreamed up all manner of construction projects. None, though, were more ambitious than Dubailand - a sprawling theme park complex designed to dwarf even the massive Walt Disney World in scope and scale (in fact, it would be double the size of the Florida resort).
Some 45 "mega projects" were planned for Dubailand, including theme parks from Universal, Dreamworks, Warner Bros., Six Flags, Marvel and Merlin-owned LEGOLAND. In total, it was expected that more than $60 billion would be spent bringing this theme park lover's dream to life.
The project was announced in 2003, and construction work did indeed begin a few years later. One of the first theme parks to begin construction was the wildly ambitious F1-X, which was to form part of the MotorCity section of Dubailand, which would also include the Dubai Autodrome Formula One race circuit (which opened in 2004). Naturally, it would be themed around motor racing.
The park was the result of a deal between Union Properties and Formula One, which granted the company exclusive rights to build theme parks based on the sport. Some $360 million was budgeted for the park in Dubai, and there were plans to open further Formula One theme parks in Europe and the Far East. In a sign of the times, Union Properties was able to borrow an eye-watering $1.6 billion for the overall project.
F1-X was to boast a Formula One Museum, various grand prix-themed rides and simulators, along with a hotel. The entire park would be themed around a Formula One paddock, with several F1 teams involved in its design. Three bespoke roller coasters would recreate the experience of driving an F1 car.
The park's downfall came in the face of the global debt crisis in 2008, which brought the insane pace of development in Dubai to a grinding halt. In March 2009, the banks that were funding F1-X suddenly pulled their support, and construction work came to a halt. In July 2010, Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone conceded that the park was "not happening".
The F1-X park is not to be confused with the similarly-themed Ferrari World, which successfully opened in Dubai's neighboring emirate Abu Dhabi in October 2010. The Ferrari-themed park is the world's largest indoor theme park, and hosts the world's fastest rollercoaster, Formula Rossa.
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Siler: From ‘country judge’ to U.S. Court of Appeals
By : Trent Knuckles
U.S. Appeals Court Judge Eugene Siler was the featured speaker during the Leader of the Year banquet for 2016.
Business and community leaders from across Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties came together Tuesday night in London to recognize Senior U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Eugene Siler, Jr. as Leadership Tri County’s 2016 “Leader of the Year.”
Dr. Michael Colegrove, the 2015 recipient of the award, explained that Siler was a worthy recipient because he is the embodiment of the servant leader.
Colegrove explained that while a leader strives to accumulate and exert power; the servant leader strives to enrich the lives of the individual and works to create a more just and caring world.
“Gene Siler lives a life of service to his family, church, community and country,” Colegrove said.
Colegrove noted Siler shows the trait of a servant leader everywhere, including when helping at First Baptist Church’s monthly food pantry where he greets everyone with a smile and a handshake.
“He has a way of making everyone feel very important,” Colegrove explained.
Siler began practicing law in Williamsburg in 1964.
“My goal was always to live and practice law in Williamsburg,” Siler said.
Siler practiced law with his father for a year before he was elected Whitley County Attorney in 1965.
In 1970, Siler moved to federal court, being appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Siler was appointed to the federal bench in 1975 and the court of appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1991.
The eastern district was based in Lexington, forcing Siler to relocate. However, during his tenure on the federal bench, the federal court in London opened. Siler used the opportunity to return to Williamsburg while remaining on the bench.
Siler’s impact on the future of federal and state court is in evidence today. Among the individuals who clerked for him are current U.S District Court Judges Danny C. Reeves and Gregory VanTatenhove, U.S. Magistrate Judge Hanly A. Ingram and Whitley Circuit Court Judge Dan Ballou. In addition, a number of local attorneys including Todd Childers, Jim Wren and Steve Smith served as clerks.
“I want to thank all of them and all of you for supporting an old country judge,” Siler said.
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In ‘stunning’ reversal, Pickering is asking for airport to be expedited
By Noor JavedNews reporter
Mon., Nov. 14, 2016timer3 min. read
The city of Pickering plans to ask the federal government on Monday to “expedite planning and development” of the controversial Pickering airport, in what residents say is a “stunning” reversal of the city’s long-standing opposition to the decades old project.
Officials says the move is part of a review of the city’s official plan. That hasn’t been updated since a portion of the federally owned lands, intended for an airport in the east end of the GTA since the 1970s, were added into the Rouge National Urban Park last year.
Residents say the language in the motion not only asks for clarity, but shows that the city of Pickering, which has historically opposed the airport, is now asking for the project to move forward.
“Our concern is that if the motion gets through and gives the impression that Pickering is a willing host,” said Mary Delaney, the chair of Land over Landings, a citizens group opposed to the airport. “Not only would that not look good, but it’s patently untrue.”
While the city has never endorsed plans for an airport, the region of Durham has, Delaney said.
The staff report, to be discussed at the Planning and Development Committee meeting Monday evening, states “to ensure greater certainty and to remove speculation about the site’s future, staff recommends that council request the Federal Government to move forward with the planning and implementation of the airport.”
It goes on to say: “The location of an airport in the City of Pickering is a strategic element necessary to establish a more predictable long-term land use vision for the City. The proposed airport site, although smaller in size, will act as a catalyst for economic growth and job creation in the City.”
In the early 1970s, the government of Canada acquired 7,530 hectares of land in Markham, Pickering and Uxbridge to build a new airport through a controversial expropriation process that involved booting out thousands of residents. Since then, government officials at all levels have flip-flopped over the years regarding the airport.
In the past few years, the recent Conservative government transferred a large part of the lands to Parks Canada to be added to the Rouge Park. Around the same time, the government published notices in the Canada Gazette that it intended to “declare a smaller portion of the Pickering lands an airport site.”
That’s why the city is putting the motion forward said, Regional Councillor David Pickles, who represents ward 3, where the lands sit.
“I don’t think it’s fair for council or residents to say ‘are you for or against the airport,’ unless we have more information,” he said. “The planning department is simply saying, let’s get underway with these planning studies, so that the federal government can make a decision on the airport.”
The motion does not declare support for the project, but for the planning needed to even get to the decision-making stage, he said.
Liberal MP for Pickering-Uxbridge Jennifer O’Connell said there has been no pressure from Ottawa on the issue.
She said the federal government is only halfway through an aviation-sector study that may shed light on the demand and need for the airport in an around Southern Ontario. Another study, commissioned by the previous government, asked UOIT founder Gary Polonsky to look at possible options for the land including an airport; that study has yet to be made public.
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No one has done a real business case on the need and viability of an airport, O’Connell said.
“The government has made no decisions yet,” she said. “Any decision that will be made would have to consider a business case and the capacity and demand issue,” said O’Connell, who was previously on city council.
Delaney says residents are also surprised that the issue has come up so soon after the death of Pickering ward 3 councillor Rick Johnson, an airport opponent who passed away in October. She thinks his position should be filled before any decisions are made.
But Pickles says there’s nothing suspicious about the timing, and appointing a person into the new role won’t make much difference.
“This was an item that was regularly scheduled to come to the planning committee,” he said. “Nobody swooped in and said this councillor passed away, and let’s get it on the agenda.”
“It’s been over 40 years . . . and our planning staff is saying, get on with the studies so that we can get on with planning Pickering for many years to come. Right now, the airport is a big question mark.”
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The 3 Big U.S. Airlines Avoid Trade War Shrapnel, for Now
Other industries will deal with tariffs, but airlines will see less of an impact.
Oscar Gonzalez
Jul 10, 2018 6:33 PM EDT
Even with the trade war on, experts say it's too early to take a dive on the big three of U.S. airline stocks.
Wall Street may get an inkling of where those stocks are headed on Thursday, July 12, when Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL) - Get Report , releases second-quarter 2018 earnings. The other two airlines are United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL) - Get Report and American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) - Get Report , whose quarterly earnings come out on July 17 and July 27, respectively.
"We expect, at least for this summer, strong international traffic," Helane Becker, managing director and senior airlines analyst with Cowen Inc., told TheStreet. It can only help the U.S. airlines that travel between the U.S. and China is brisk, although it represents a relatively small part of each of the three major U.S. airlines' business.
Brisk international travel is coming in spite of the tariffs imposed by the U.S. and China on the importation of its goods to the other's country, which began on July 6, when the U.S. imposed tariffs of 25% on some $34 billion of Chinese goods brought into the U.S. China followed suit immediately with tariffs affecting the same dollar amount of imports to China from the U.S.
Reportedly, the Trump administration is planning to impose more tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods on Tuesday, July 10.
While the tariff fires burn, Becker thinks leisure travel between the U.S. and China will increase over the next decade, partially due to a relatively new visa program that allows multiple entries over a 10-year period, making visits between the two countries easier. Prior to that, visas were good for a year or two.
Before July 6, airline investors began selling off shares. In recent days, however, the stocks have recovered. About the same time, Deutsche Bank downgraded the big three airlines from buy to hold, in anticipation of trade wars between the U.S. and global partners. The analyst's note contended that stocks such as airlines typically underperform in a "world of heightened macroeconomic and geopolitical risks."
Yet, Becker isn't the only one disagreeing with the Deutsche's assessment.
"It's a little premature to be drawing this doom and gloom until we see how these things work out," Kent Gourdin, professor of global logistics and transportation at College of Charleston School of Business in Charleston, S.C. He says premium seating is the main profit source for passenger airlines, and it will be some time before prices for those tickets go up due to tariffs.
What does affect ticket prices is the cost of oil, which has climbed for most of 2018 by about 20%. West Texas Intermediate crude was up slighty Tuesday to $74.11 a barrel.
Another wrinkle could be that airlines lease some of their planes from Ireland-based companies, such as AerCap Holdings NV (AER) - Get Report and Fly Leasing Limited Sponsored ADR (FLY) - Get Report . While tariffs are applied to aircraft parts, whether those could raise the cost of manufacturing or leasing airplanes remains unclear.
The big three airlines closed the trading day Tuesday relatively unchanged with Delta at $50.60, United, $71.30, and American, $39.12.
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Arul Kanda wanted certain parts of 1MDB audit report to be dropped
KUALA LUMPUR: Former director of audit in the National Audit Department, Saadatul Nafisah Bashir Ahmad, told the High Court today that she was surprised that former CEO of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Arul Kanda Kandasamy (pix) asked for parts of the 1MDB final audit report to be dropped.
The seventh prosecution witness said Arul Kanda did that at a meeting held in the office of former chief secretary to the government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa on March 1, 2016 to discuss the 1MDB final audit report, which was being updated.
Saadatul Nafisah said among others, Arul Kanda wanted the opinion of the audit team to be dropped as he felt it was subjective and not supported by strong evidence.
“Mostly, it involved changing the words. At that time, the audit team was surprised with Arul Kanda as he had read and looked at every part of the report.
“Whereas the department had given the audit team a chance to voice their opinion or raise any issues at the exit conference on Dec 16, 2015,” she said when reading out the witness statement during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Rozaliana Zakaria.
Saadatul Nafisah, who retired on May 16, 2016, was testifying on the seventh day of the trial of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and Arul Kanda on a charge of tampering with the 1MDB final audit report.
The witness said the exit conference was a dialogue session with the auditors after the auditing was done, where the auditors will question certain issues and ask the auditee to present supporting documents to explain the matter within a stipulated time.
Saadatul Nafisah said on the day of the exit conference, Arul Kanda brought up certain issues, including the solar project, the take-over of independent power producer companies, property, and the Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC).
“He had already given a statement and supporting documents then. But in the meeting on March 1, 2016, Encik Arul Kanda was still instructing the auditors to take out and amend words in the 1MDB final audit report.
“However, the department did not agree with the request by Encik Arul Kanda as after the exit conference, 1MDB had been given until the end of January 2016 for it to study and give its feedback as well as provide relevant documents, but Encik Arul Kanda did not give any feedback until Jan 30, 2016,” she said.
The witness said during the time given by the department, one month after the exit conference (until Jan 30, 2016), 1MDB did not provide any document or information, and to the department, this meant that 1MDB agreed with the final audit report and the report which had been finalised.
Saadatul Nafisah said on Feb 26 and 27, 2016, Arul Kanda sent her an e-mail with several new suggestions to be included in the 1MDB final audit report, but the department ignored those suggestions.
She said among the suggestions was the 1MDB rationalisation plan which he (Arul Kanda) had announced to the media in November 2015 which involved a joint venture between the Malaysian government and the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), but he did not include any supporting documents.
“There was the issue of the top-up payment from 1MDB to IPIC but 1MDB could not confirm the actual amount that was paid and no documents were submitted to the department to support this,” she said.
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From the Sunday Express Magazine for 15 November 1981.
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson, who won the franchise for Television South West, looks as blind as a buttercup. He has the vulnerable appearance of a comic, with a slight body, wide eyes behind thick glasses, a broad upturned mouth.
His Malaysian wife, Jenny, calls him “the Joker”. They met six years ago and their first child, a girl, Samantha Jenkev, was born on November 2, his 35th birthday. He looks even younger, and a woman doing a survey on the train Plymouth mistook him for a student and he still uses an old student card when he goes to the theatre: “After all,” he explains disarmingly, “I am studying for a Ph.D. in Arts Administration at the City University in my spare time.” Spare time! Already he has had ten books published, including the Mike Yarwood Joke Book and Magic With Everyday Objects, apart from launching a new television company.
Jenny regards her meteoric husband with dazed admiration: “I’m surprised really, he looked so studious when I first met him. I found him ambitious but soft- spoken; although he could be very short-tempered before we married.”
“She thought I was mad to want a TV licence.”
“Yes,” she agrees, “it was such a big thing.” I asked her when she was convinced he would win. “The day after we won!” he interrupts, adding, “Without her, TSW would not have been possible.” With obvious pleasure and pride, he describes how the Board presented her with a Dartington glass bowl after their victory.
In his case, appearances are literally deceptive, as he reveals when he produces an old Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank card. The swarthy, moustached face that stares out aggressively is so unrecognisable it is unlikely they would let him in to claim the £5 still left in his account. The nose in particular is… well, different, and he explains that when he needed an operation for medical reasons he decided “to have the whole job done at the same time”.
“No one would give a 30-year-old a television station!” Goldstein-Jackson protested with reason. “They might give you Westward,” said Harvey.
“Was it really that big?” I asked his wife. “Enormous!” she confirmed, with a cascade of laughter. “People could see it coming through the door,” he agreed modestly, “and I sort of followed on.”
Behind this beguiling facade and the open-necked lilac shirt is a man of extraordinary determination and dedication. The proof can be seen in his skilful playing of the franchise game. Anyone can play the game, but few have the nerve.
Already, Goldstein-Jackson has won the licence for Thames Valley Radio in 1975, against such powerful opposition as a wealthy consortium which included Michael Parkinson and the Duke of Wellington. Afterwards, a friend from Reading University, the artist Jonathan Harvey, encouraged him to make a similar bid for television.
Tantalised by the idea, Goldstein-Jackson went to Westward Ho! in North Devon for his holidays to study the local TV programmes, and decided he had a chance. Game had commenced: “Jonathan and I put the whole thing together. I read Who’s Who from cover to cover searching for names connected with the West Country, then I looked up every commercial company of any size. One contact led to another. No money was involved at this stage so I had to pay my own expenses. The radio licence was won for less than £l,000, while the rival spent £20,000 and now I spent much the same launching TSW while I was working for Anglia on programmes like Tales of the Unexpected.
Taking a house in Poole, the nearest he could get to the Westward transmission, he travelled there with his wife every weekend, watching the programmes, buying West Country papers, steadily gaining knowledge of the region. It was this astuteness, plus a relish for risk, that had prompted him to send 400 letters to television stations all over the world a few years earlier, asking if they wanted him as a producer. Hong Kong telexed back, so off he went. But why the massive 400, instead of 40 or even four?
“For two reasons,” he explains without hesitation. “Out of 400 you’re more likely to get somewhere. Also, it’s more of a gamble, like throwing dice, you don’t know what’s coming up.”
In the Oman, where he was Head of Film for the Dhofar Region, he produced programmes in English and Arabic where at first a female newsreader wanted to read the news while wearing her veil.
Though they made a formidable team, everyone told them it was impossible to replace Westward because it was so entrenched.
All this rarefied experience was paying dividends now, but one of his shrewdest moves was to surround himself with a team whose talents were entirely different to his own. Brian Bailey, Secretary of the TUC in the South West, became his Chairman; Peter Battle, then the Sales Manager for Southern TV, became his joint Managing Director and invaluable complement. “Peter Battle is all the things I am not,” says Goldstein-Jackson. “He is at home on the golf course, where I’d be ridiculous. I look utterly stupid in a dinner-jacket, but he can address political supper clubs. I can’t address anything like that, for I end by sending it up.” Goldstein-Jackson is a teetotaller: “Not for moral reasons, I just don’t like the taste.”
Peter Battle, smart, suited and socially at ease in the boardroom, 48 and married with three children, was put in charge of sales, finance and administration, while Goldstein-Jackson concentrated more on the programmes and staff relations. Though they made a formidable team, everyone told them it was impossible to replace Westward because it was so entrenched. But the franchise game has a strong element of chance and luck played straight into their hands with the boardroom feud between Peter Cadbury and Lord Harris which finally became too public and too petty to ignore.
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson was sufficiently confident to regret Westward’s suicidal antics. “Personally I don’t think it made any difference at all. The IBA could have asked for Board changes at Westward and re-awarded the franchise as they did with Yorkshire and ATV. I wish it hadn’t happened, for we’ll always be regarded as having won due to Harris v. Cadbury.” This is being calm after the crisis, and he would have been less than human not to feel gleeful at the time.
Forging ahead, he admits he felt like the Ayatollah when he addressed his advisory board at the start of last year. “It was almost like a religious campaign, people really cared about what TSW produced in the way of programmes.” The first television name declared himself, when Robert Robinson spoke at an IBA meeting in Plymouth. “He risked his reputation and it had quite an impact, for he wouldn’t have associated himself with people who weren’t serious.”
Reading numerous questionnaires, Goldstein-Jackson became aware of viewers tastes and was pleased by one conclusion which he had always suspected, that local viewers were tired of amateurism and wanted more sophistication. “People inside television frequently don’t watch what they’re responsible for putting out. I’m probably one of the few TV people who actually watches Charlie’s Angels.” As for his favourites, he’ll dash home to see Not the 9 o’clock News but not Panorama which is “boring” though he might hurry back for World in Action depending on the subject. Another survey showed the same six programmes in the top ten favourites as well as the hates, with Crossroads heading each list, only proving that the most prominent programmes receive the greatest attention, and confirming his contempt for the Top Twenty ratings system.
At this stage, finance was still on paper although backers had to pay £3.68 for every £211 guaranteed, in non-resumable expenses. It cost £35,000 to win the licence and his own expenses have since been repaid. Money was never the greatest problem, in spite of the high stakes involved. At last he assembled a formidable but lucid application for the lBA of 180 pages, excluding a further 75 pages which were strictly confidential relating to people already employed by other TV companies. When this arrived from the printers half the pages were upside down, so with 24 hours to go, the Goldstein-Jacksons had to take them all apart to make up the requisite 55 copies, succeeding with only minutes to spare – the “scariest moment of all”.
“I expect the worst,” he admits, “because then I’m never disappointed. On the day the Franchise is awarded the applicants go to the IBA to fetch an envelope, but I couldn’t go because I was still officially working for Anglia. The waiting was so terrible I went into the garden to sweep leaves, convincing myself ‘I don’t want to do it’, so my pained reaction when they phoned was not what they expected: ‘Oh no. We haven’t won?’”
Was he surprised? “Not really. You never go into a battle believing you’re going to lose. We played the whole thing like a game, a serious game but still a game. I wonder if we’ll have as much fun now that we’ve won.”
Characteristically, Peter Cadbury was flying in his private plane over Exeter when he heard the news five hours before it was made public, and expressed delight though he announced that the IBA was discredited; “It imposed Lord Harris as chairman against the wishes of shareholders and staff and, having imposed a board of directors, it took away the company’s licence. Just what is it doing? It is Alice in Wonderland.” Though he expressed a hope that the Westward Board would now join the unemployed, he declared himself pleased for the staff who were currently having nightmares about their future.
Even now the internal squabbling continued. As one of Westward’s technical staff told me angrily, “It was time for a change. We had too many clowns with too much money and no idea what to do with it.”
The transition seems, on the surface, miraculously smooth. In June the shareholders accepted a bid of £2.3 million by TSW for the Westward studios and though this is a low figure a television studio is little use to anyone else except as a TV studio unless pulled down for something else altogether. Inevitably TSW have been reminded of the promise in their application to build new studios of their own which would be superior, and I asked Goldstein-Jackson if that was naivety or deliberate deception. “Neither,” he replied, refusing to be ruffled. “The four walls are irrelevant, it’s the three to four million pounds of new equipment inside that matters.” This will be the cost of improving technical facilities and replacing much of Westward’s equipment which was out of date.
It makes perfect sense. Staff pensions are secured and everyone below Board level has had an informal chat with Goldstein-Jackson and Peter Battle who assured them that their jobs are safe. “If we hadn’t done this, all the good people would have gone, and what would have happened in the transition period? It’s impossible to hire a technician on December 31 and expect him to start work on January 1. But we have been able to stockpile since August.” He vows it will not be the Westward mixture as before and, although franchise applications are built on promises seldom fulfilled, his entire approach is encouraging, apart from the regional programmes he envisages with new mobile units established in Devon and Cornwall. “I want to bring the fun back to television!” says the winner, and promises an opening night on January 1, “with real surprises. Then people will know that TSW is different.”
In Westward, as the dust settles, there is an atmosphere both of defeat and anticipation. Peter Cadbury departed last year with a golden handshake of £75,000 (plus £65,000 legal costs) which he dismissed scornfully as more of a “bronze” handshake or even a “tin” one; “If anyone thinks £75,000 is a lot of money, then we are living in different worlds.”
“We didn’t really agree with the programmes, we were only acting under orders.”
The remaining directors may feel he received a fortune when the day is finally reckoned, for the company actually showed a loss of £7,000 for the six months which ended in January. With a bleaker outlook for themselves, they seem slightly stunned: “I personally feel the deciding factor was the Cadbury/Harris row,” Terry Fleet, the Programme Controller told me. “We had a strong record of excellent service to the region and our plans for the future were ambitious and exciting. Now TSW have the opportunity to prove themselves.”
Others whispered to me “off the record”, anxious not to be seen by their colleagues, and Goldstein-Jackson compared some of the comments during his talks with staff to those at the Nuremberg Trials, with people assuring him (unasked): “We didn’t really agree with the programmes, we were only acting under orders.”
Local concern centres on the future of such favourites as jovial Kenneth Macleod, who introduces Westward Diary and Gus Honeybun who gives appropriate bunnyhops for children’s birthdays.
“How would I describe Honeybun,” I asked Macleod, “as a glovepuppet?” “Certainly not,” glowered, “as a very real person.”
“Probably,” said the elegant receptionist overhearing us, “they’ll give him a mate who will gradually take over.” As Macleod is continuing, though teamed with a young lady to attract a new audience, I could feel him wince, but he has been in the business long enough to accept change.
“They’re pros aren’t they,” he told me philosophically, “and we ply for hire, after all, and it’s good to get the bloody thing settled.”
Asking him what he thought of the winner of the franchise game, the young Mr Goldstein-Jackson, Macleod replied with a smile of relief: “Its so nice these days to meet someone who’s unusual!”
“No longer a licence to print money?” I suggested. “A licence for grey hair!” he exclaimed.
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson has won the game, but with the general cut-back by television companies and the forthcoming competition from the Fourth Channel and Breakfast TV, another struggle lies ahead. “No longer a licence to print money?” I suggested. “A licence for grey hair!” he exclaimed.
“Is this a hazardous moment to launch a new television station?” “Not if one approaches it with confidence. One of our major interests is partly owned by the Bank of England and they don’t like something that’s going to go bust.”
“And what will your epitaph be if you lose your licence after eight years, when the franchise game begins all over again?”
“TSW – tried sincerely well.”
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2 responses to this article
David Miller wrote 3 March 2016 at 10:48 pm
I remember reading this article back in ’81. It got me interested in the whole franchise game and the business of TV generally.
10 years later the Express (Daily I think) profiled Citytv in Toronto – the model for the ultimately unsuccessful bid by Thames for the Channel 5 franchise.
Goldstein-Jackson I seem to remember didn’t stay long at TSW. He’s now an author I believe.
Chad O'Dell wrote 30 December 2018 at 8:18 am
Most people on here know this, but just in case. TSW actually ended up taking over Westward’s operations on 12 August 1981, having bought the company for £2.38 million in mid-1981. They did however broadcast under the Westward name until the end of the year.
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CRUISE GROWTH IN THE BALTIC REGION has outpaced the overall industry growth over the past six years, according to a market review by the Cruise Baltic organization. The number of passengers visiting Baltic ports has increased by an average of 12% per year since 2000, despite a slight decline in calls and turnarounds in 2007, Cruise Baltic said; the numbers are expected to climb this year, the study found. Copenhagen was the biggest cruise ship destination in 2007, with around 420,000 passengers, the study said, followed by St. Petersburg, Tallinn, Stockholm and Helsinki.
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The Permanent Memorial was unveiled on 25 March 2015, which marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The memorial, located on the United Nations Visitors Plaza in New York, will invite people everywhere to contemplate the legacy of the slave trade and to fight against racism and prejudice today.
Visitors can pass through the Ark of Return to intimately experience three primary elements. The first element, Acknowledge the Tragedy, is a three-dimensional map that depicts the global scale of the triangular slave trade.
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In 2007, the United Nations General Assembly agreed to establish a Permanent Memorial in the grounds of the United Nations in New York City to honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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Over four centuries, more than 18 million people were forcefully removed from Africa to the Americas (including the Caribbean) and Europe.
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The predominantly Muslim population of the Darfur region of Sudan consists of numerous tribal and ethnic groups who speak many languages and identify as either Arab or non-Arab Sudanese. Competition for natural resources, land disputes, and grazing rights have historically led to tensions between nomadic Arab herders and non-Arab farmers. In the past, traditional means of conflict resolution were successful in restoring peace among Darfur's various groups. Since the 1980s, however, government policies marginalizing non-Arab Darfurians and enhancing polarization among ethnic groups has led to unresolved hostilities and violence.
In February 2003, the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) attacked Sudanese military installations in protest of the government's unequal treatment of and violence toward the region's non-Arab peoples. This sparked a brutal response in which Sudanese government troops and armed Arab militias launched a systematic campaign of destruction against villages of the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit peoples, who are considered non-Arab and who made up the majority of the rebel units. The height of these systematic attacks was between 2003 and 2005, during which time 2.5 million were driven from their homes; at least 200,000 were killed or died as a result of exposure, malnutrition and disease; and countless numbers were victims of physical and sexual violence. Individuals remain under constant threat of attack, starvation, dehydration, and disease, as the livelihoods, peace, and security of Darfur have been destroyed.
In July 2004 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a Genocide Emergency for the Darfur region of Sudan.
The following bibliography was compiled to guide readers to materials on the Darfur genocide that are in the Library’s collection or are freely available on the World Wide Web. It is not meant to be exhaustive. Annotations are provided to help the user determine the item’s focus, and call numbers for the Museum’s Library are given in parentheses following each citation. Those unable to visit might be able to find these works in a nearby public library or acquire them through interlibrary loan. Follow the “Find in a library near you” link in each citation and enter your zip code at the Open WorldCat search screen. The results of that search indicate all libraries in your area that own that particular title. Talk to your local librarian for assistance.
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Alvarez, Alex, Herb Hirsch, Eric Markusen, and Samuel Totten, editors. “Special Issue on Darfur.” Special issue, Genocide Studies and Prevention 1, no. 1 (2006). (HV 6322.7 .G465 v.1) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Contains articles covering rape and other crimes committed against girls and women, the case for genocide under international law, a critique of the U.S. State Department’s Atrocities Documentation Project, a comparative study of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the genocide in Darfur, and implications for Darfur based on the international community’s failure to stop the Rwandan genocide.
Apsel, Joyce, editor. Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes. New York: Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005. (DT 159.6 .D27 D37 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Compilation of essays providing background and analysis of the crisis in Darfur. Provides suggestions for teaching about the topic, comparative genocide, and human rights. Contains references, maps, a glossary, list of Web resources, and the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Burr, J. Millard, and Robert O. Collins. Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster. Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener, 2006. (DT 546.48 .B87 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Traces the political turmoil in Darfur back to 1963 and the beginning of a thirty-year struggle for control of Chad. Provides in-depth analysis of Chad, Sudan, and Libya, the three principal states involved, in a history of armed conflict in the region. Several chapters originally appeared in the authors’ Africa’s Thirty Years War (1999). The last two chapters discuss the genocide in Darfur itself. Includes a bibliography and an index.
Cheadle, Don, and John Prendergast. Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. New York: Hyperion, 2007. (DT 159.6 .D27 C54 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Provides an overview of the crisis in Darfur based on the authors’ 2005 visit to the region. Includes maps, photographs, and an appendix detailing actions one can take to help end the genocide.
Daly, M. W. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. (DT 159.6 .D27 D35 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Discusses the history of Darfur as a neglected and underdeveloped region of various empires as documents the precursors to the conditions for genocide in the region. Contains a chronology, glossary, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
De Waal, Alex. Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. (HC 835 .Z9 F335 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Examines the effects of disease, starvation, survival strategies, and international humanitarian efforts in Darfur. Presents a case-study of the Mawashei camp and considers famine, land disputes, poverty, and social history as roots of the genocide. Contains statistics, abbreviations, a bibliography, and an index.
De Waal, Alex, editor. War in Darfur and the Search for Peace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2007. (DT 159.6 .D27 W37 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Combines fifteen essays on various topics related to the situation in Darfur, including peace negotiations and the emergence of American movements to stop the violence. Includes endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.
Feinstein, Lee. “Darfur and Beyond: What Is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities.” (external link) Council Special Reports (CSR), no. 22. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2007. (Subject Files) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Provides an overview on the crisis in Darfur. Discusses state sovereignty, atrocities, and the responsibility to protect individuals and human rights. Discusses the roles of the United Nations, United States, and regional organizations and their response to the crisis, and presents conclusions.
Flint, Julie, and Alex de Waal. Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. London: Zed Books, 2005. (DT 157.673 .F58 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Relates the history and ethnic identity of Darfur and the rise of the Sudanese government and its relations with the Janjaweed militia and other rebel groups. Highlights responses of the international community and roles of the United Nations and African Union. Includes photographs, maps, endnotes, a chronology, glossary, bibliography, and an index.
Holt, P. M., and M. W. Daly. A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day. New York: Longman, 2000. (DT 156.4 .H64 2000) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Provides a general history of Sudan from the Middles Ages to the present. Includes footnotes, maps, a bibliography and an index.
Iyob, Ruth, and Gilbert M. Khadiagala. Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2006. (DT 157.672 .I94 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Considers Sudan’s complex geo-politics and other roadblocks to peace in the region. Discusses the history of the Afro-Arab Islamic Sultanate, tribal and ethnic identities, exclusionary politics, relations with the central government, key parties in the conflict, conflict resolution and the Abuja peace agreement.
Kahn, Leora, editor. Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan. Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2007. (DT 159.6 .D27 D38 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Thematically arranged collection of photographs taken before and after the genocide began. Includes several short essays by prominent figures and journalists.
Lefkow, Leslie. Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan. (external link) New York: Human Rights Watch, 2004. (JC 599 .S73 L44 2004) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Provides a historical background to the situation in Darfur. Discusses the Sudanese government’s policy of forced displacement, abuses by government-allied militias and rebels, the cross-border conflict in Chad, and humanitarian implications. Provides recommendations to Sudan, Chad, rebel groups, the United Nations, the World Food Programme, and others.
Mahmoud, Mahgoub El-Tigani. “Inside Darfur: Ethnic Genocide by a Governance Crisis.” (external link) Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24, no. 2 (2004): 3-17. (Subject File) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Argues that ethnic identity, biased policies, and government abuses towards non-Arab Darfurians are causes of the genocide in Darfur. Draws on the work of Sudanese writers and scholars in order to better understand the situation and to offer solutions to the crisis. Contains endnotes.
Physicians for Human Rights. Darfur. Cambridge, MA: Physicians for Human Rights, 2005. (DT 157.673 .D37 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Presents photographs of Darfuri refugees living in Chad with brief accounts from survivors of the Furawiya, Terbeba, and Bendisi villages.
Prunier, Gérard. Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. (DT 159.6 .D27 P78 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
A comprehensive analysis of the conflict in Darfur. Discusses the origins of the crisis, tribes and ethnic identity, religion, local and regional politics, and relations between Darfur and the Khartoum government.
Reeves, Eric. A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide. Toronto: The Key Publishing House, Inc., 2007 (DT 159.6 .D27 R448 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Compendium of more than one hundred written analyses documenting the Darfur crisis since 2003. Includes maps, photographs, appendices, a bibliography, and an index.
Rodman, Kenneth Aaron. "Darfur and the Limits of Legal Deterrence." (external link) Human Rights Quarterly 30, no. 3 (2008): 529-560. (JC 571 .U64 v. 30) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Argues that the legal deterrence will not achieve peace in Darfur and post-atrocity justice will depend largely on methods used to end the mass atrocities. Includes footnotes.
Udombana, Nsongurua J. “When Neutrality is a Sin: The Darfur Crisis and the Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention in Sudan.” (external link) Human Rights Quarterly 27, no. 4 (2005): 1149-1199. (JC 571 .U64 v.27) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Argues that failed diplomatic efforts to end Sudanese government human rights violations justifies international military intervention. Denounces the international community’s neutral response toward atrocities in the area. Discusses security challenges facing Africa and offers suggestions. Contains footnotes.
Van Ardenne-van der Hoeven, Agnes, Mohamed Salih, Nick Grono, and Juan Méndez. Explaining Darfur: Four Lectures on the Ongoing Genocide. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA, 2006. (DT 159.6 .D27 E97 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Introduces the conflict in Darfur and discusses aspects of governance, policy, conflict resolution, genocide prevention, and provides a critique of the international community’s response. Contains photographs.
West, Deborah L. The Sudan: Saving Lives, Sustaining Peace. (external link) Cambridge, MA: Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2006. (DT 159.6 .D27 W47 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Summary of the discussions that took place at a conference held in March 2006. Contains a map, list of conference participants, and list of publications by the Program on Intrastate Conflict.
Xavier, John. Darfur: African Genocide. New York: Rosen, 2008. (DT 159.6 .D27 X38 2008) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
General history of the region that focuses on geographical and historical factors in the genocide. Includes suggestions for further reading, a glossary, and an index. Written for young adults.
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Herlinger, Chris, and Paul Jeffrey. Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive. New York: Seabury Books, 2009. (HC 835.Z9 F342 2009) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Documentation from a United Methodist missionary photojournalist and a Church World Service writer highlighting the Darfur crisis through photographic documentation, personal narratives, and a bibliography. Includes a forward by Desmond Tutu.
Jok, Jok Madut. Sudan: Race, Religion, and Violence. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007. (DT 157.673 .J65 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Examines the roles and relationship between race and religion in Sudan, especially as they create divisions within the country. Also examines trends of militancy in Sudan. Includes a bibliography, maps, and an index.
Flint, Julie. Sudan, Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan. (external link) New York: Human Rights Watch, 2004. (KTQ 2107 .M56 S75 2004) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Considers Sudanese government and Janjaweed militia collaboration in the ethnic cleansing of Darfur. Chronicles atrocities and critiques international response. Includes maps, photographs of atrocities, statistics, and lists victims by village.
Gingerich, Tara, and Jennifer Leaning. The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan. Boston: Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, 2004. (DT 157.673 .G56 2004) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Utilizes the results of interviews and a literature review to assess the use of rape as a weapon in Darfur with particular consideration of the nature of the rapes, the circumstances in which they took place, their relationship to the larger issue of ethnic cleansing, the impact on the non-Arab community of Darfur, and possibilities for mitigation and support by the international community.
Human Rights Watch. Entrenching Impunity: Government Responsibility for International Crimes in Darfur. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2005. (KTQ 2107 .M56 .H954 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Examines the responsibilities of the Sudanese government and military officials for implementing policies of ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Provides policy recommendations and calls for an end to impunity so those responsible can be prosecuted. Contains photographs, footnotes, a list of war criminals, and an index.
Marlowe, Jen, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. New York: Nation Books, 2006. (DT 159.6 .D27 M37 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Three human rights activists visited Darfur in 2004 to document and film the ongoing genocide. Expanding on their film, the authors present stories of survivors, including internally displaced persons and refugees living in Chad.
Physicians for Human Rights. Darfur, Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution. Cambridge, MA: Physicians for Human Rights, 2006. (DT 157.673 .D372 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Investigative findings of atrocities in Darfur including eyewitness accounts from the villages of Furawiya, Terbeba, and Bendisi. Discusses international law, reparations, and provides recommendations for resolving the crisis. Includes maps, glossary, acronym list, statistics, and appendices.
Steidle, Brian, and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. (DT 159.6 .D27 S74 2007) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Memoir of a military observer and humanitarian documenting atrocities witnessed first-hand in Darfur along with survivors’ accounts. Contains photographs and a map.
Totten, Samuel, and Eric Markusen, editors. Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan. New York: Routledge, 2006. (DT 159.6 .D27 G464 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Presents evidence and refugee interviews collected by the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Team. The U.S. State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development, and others helped the U.S. government to determine, in 2004, the severity of the genocide in Darfur. Includes chronology, a map, statistical tables, a bibliography, and an index.
United Kingdom, House of Commons. International Development Committee. Darfur, Sudan: The Responsibility to Protect: Fifth Report of Session 2004-05. (external link) London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2005. (Oversize DT 159.6 .D27 G73 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Assesses the international community’s response to the crisis in Darfur and makes recommendations as to how the response needs to be improved. Includes oral and written evidence from twenty organizations. Contains maps, timeline, and footnotes.
United Kingdom. House of Commons. International Development Committee. Darfur: The Killing Continues. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2006. (Oversize DT 159.6 .D27 G74 2006) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Assesses the crisis in Darfur and the corresponding humanitarian response. Discusses the responsibility to protect civilians, the effectiveness of peacekeepers, and the Abuja peace negotiations. Contains witness testimony and written evidence.
United Kingdom. Parliament. DFID Response to the Report of the International Development Committee of 30 March 2005: Darfur, Sudan: The Responsibility to Protect. Cm. 6576. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 2005. (Oversize HN 787 .Z9 S624 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Draws conclusions from the British House of Commons report on the responsibility to protect individuals in Darfur and provides recommendations for peace and meeting humanitarian needs.
Young, Helen, Abdul Monim Osman, Yacob Aklilu, Rebecca Dale, Babiker Badri, and Abdul Jabbar Abdullah Fuddle. Darfur: Livelihoods Under Siege. Medford, MA: Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University, 2005. (HC 835 .Z7 D375 2005) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Studies the effects of the crisis in Darfur and effects on the livelihoods of communities in the region in order to refine the nature of humanitarian efforts. Contains statistics, more than forty tables and figures, annexes, maps, a glossary, acronym list, and footnotes.
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Fowler, Jerry. Staring Genocide in the Face [videorecording]. Washington: Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2004. (DVD collection) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Jerry Fowler, Director of the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, visited with refugees from Darfur now living in Chad in May 2004, and relates their stories to raise awareness worldwide.
Marlowe, Jen, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro. Darfur Diaries Message from Home [videorecording]. Los Angeles: Cinema Libre Studio, 2006. (DVD Collection) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
In 2004, three human rights activists visited refugee camps in Chad and villages in Darfur to document the genocide in the region. Includes interviews with students, teachers, displaced survivors, resistance fighters, and child soldiers.
Sawyer, John. Our Choice Too, On the Edge in Darfur (external link) [online video]. Washington: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Azimuth Media, and World Security Institute, 2006.
Describes Sawyer’s January 2006 trip with African Union peacekeeping troops in Darfur. Shows troops on patrol to protect citizens and the dangers both peacekeepers and ordinary citizens face when under attack by the Janjaweed. Interviews with troop leaders and internally displaced camp workers describe the situation on the ground.
Steidle, Brian. Darfur Eyewitness [videorecording]. Washington: Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005. (DVD collection) [Find in a library near you (external link)]
Former United States Marine Brian Steidle describes what he saw while in Darfur with the African Union Monitoring Force. Includes photographs documenting atrocities committed by the Janjaweed and Sudanese government.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Our Walls Bear Witness: Sudan at the Crossroads [online video]. Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010.
Recorded at the November 2010 opening of a special United States Holocaust Memorial Museum project entitled “Our Walls Bear Witness: Sudan at the Crossroads.” For three days, the large-scale images of the genocide in Darfur were projected on the exterior walls of the Museum for the public to see.
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Crisis in Darfur: Satellite Mapping Initiative
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum partnered with Google to develop a unique online satellite mapping initiative, Crisis in Darfur that allows users to zoom-in and monitor potential and emerging genocides. Features links to statistical data, photographs, videos, and eyewitness accounts, compiled by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Users can view the status of destroyed and damaged villages, clusters of internally displaced persons, and locations of refugee camps in Chad.
Genocide in Darfur: Darfur Eyewitness Teacher Guide
Lesson plan designed to teach students about the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the International Criminal Court definition of crimes against humanity. Helps students understand the situation in Darfur and describes what can be done to stop the genocide.
The Sudan Open Archive (external link)
Searchable database offerings free digital access to knowledge about Sudan. The Archive is an expanding, full-text database of historical and contemporary documents, with a linked analytical guide to internet resources.
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Ask at the reference desk to see the subject file labeled “Darfur” to find newspaper and periodical articles.
To search library catalogs or other electronic search tools for materials on Darfur, use the following Library of Congress subject headings to retrieve the most relevant citations:
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Linda Ronstadt: I Know When Parkinson’s Hit from Listening to My Own Singing
By Mary Lyn Maiscott
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In the late 60s, the petite, young Linda Ronstadt, newly arrived on the L.A. music scene, unleashed a voice that would permeate the radio for years to come and leave music writers grasping for ways to describe it—“strong and solid as God’s garage floor,” intoned a 1977 Time cover story. That rich tone and galvanizing power turned songs like “You’re No Good,” “When Will I Be Loved,” and “It’s So Easy” into Top 10 hits. In August, however, Ronstadt, now 67, revealed to A.A.R.P. writer Alanna Nash that she has Parkinson’s disease and can no longer sing. The announcement preceded the publication of her book, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir. By phone from her home in San Francisco, Ronstadt spoke with Vanity Fairabout her career and her struggle with the disease.
Mary Lyn Maiscott:__ You describe music very well in your memoir. I was thinking if you want to be a music blogger, that would be a way to go, too.__
Linda Ronstadt: I’m so not current it’s embarrassing. I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people. That’s what musicians do about 99 percent of their time. Whoever is near and compatible and socially interested enough to do that, that’s who you hang out with. In the Troubadour days it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other’s word around.
Did you feel like you were part of music history at that time?
No—everybody was just working on stuff all the time. It was just work, what we did. J. D. Souther, I lived with him and he was writing songs all the time. I’d hear him in the other room, plinking away on the piano or guitar. And he’d show me his stuff when it was just begun and I’d listen to it and think, that one’s going to be finished pretty soon, I want to record that. I kind of had dibs on it.
He’s on Nashville now, isn’t he?
Yes, he is. I saw him the other night. He flew up to Washington, D.C., to have dinner with me, which was so sweet. We had a great time. We just went to a little neighborhood restaurant. He was friends with Christopher Hitchens, and I think it was Hitchens’s favorite restaurant. We went in his honor, I think. Very nice little Italian restaurant with tasty food that you don’t have to have a reservation 50 years in advance to get into.
People might be surprised that you are rather critical of your singing in the book. I hope that you occasionally get a thrill when you hear your incredible sound.
I had plenty of voice, but how you use that voice is informed by other factors. There are plenty of people with better musicianship. Of my own peers, Bonnie Raitt has way more musicianship than I do. Jennifer Warnes is a way better singer than I am. And they were around. I was hearing them [laughs], could hear them on a daily basis, so . . .
When you were singing a song like “Love Has No Pride” or “You’re No Good”—these were not songs you had written—did you tend to think of someone in particular?
It wasn’t always the same person. There would be something that would match something that was going on in my life—maybe not the whole song, maybe just a line, [where] I’d go, “That says how I feel about this better than anything else I’ve found lately. That really expresses what I need to say right now.” And then you figure out a way to make the rest of the song fit. And sometimes the song works all the way through. A song like “Heart Like a Wheel” doesn’t falter in one note or one word, not one syllable, not one consonant. It was so completely what I felt I needed to say, and it was shared by lots of people. But [with] a song like “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” there are a lot of—it was very much a guy’s song about gnarly encounters in hotel rooms. [Laughs.] I had to leave some of the verses out.
Jackson Browne taught me that song. He came out to [my house on Malibu] beach one night with J. D. Souther, and we were sitting up playing music one night—I’ve got a tape of the whole thing. Jackson taught me “Poor Pitiful Me” and J.D. taught me “Blue Bayou.” The verse in “Poor Pitiful Me” was “I met a girl on the Sunset Strip,” I think, “She asked me if I’d beat her / She took me up to her hotel room / And wrecked my mojo heater.” It was really funny, and I’m saying to Jackson, “I can’t sing those words, man! That’s not who I am. . . . I have to leave that part out.” [Laughs.]
You say that it took you 10 years to learn how to sing, but you also mention that you didn’t have any formal training until you did The Pirates of Penzance [in 1980]. So what were you referring to?
I had to get out of my own way. Hildegard von Bingen said that singing is like being a feather on the breath of God. Which resonates to my atheist soul . . . You have to keep that little column of air under there, and I had gotten so panicked, my singing style had a lot of fear in it, and my throat was too tight and I wasn’t letting that air out properly. So I was a feather that had fallen to the ground—it’s just lying on the concrete floor.
By the time I got finished with Pirates, I had way more facility with my instrument.
Did that change at all as you got older?
Well, as I got older I got Parkinson’s disease, so I couldn’t sing at all. That’s what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson’s. I think I’ve had it for quite a while.
You think you’ve had it longer than when you received the diagnosis?
I’m 67 now, so it may have started as early as 51.
Are you going by your singing or other—
By my singing. They have a new way of diagnosing Parkinson’s; it’s with an algorithm and they record your voice and compare it to an algorithm. That’s a way they can get an early diagnosis, but it’s not in general use yet. I know somebody that has access to the research, so since my voice has been recorded over the years I might be able to pinpoint when it actually developed, and I think it’s been going on for a long time. I was sick for a long time, but as you get older you do develop aches and pains, and it’s harder to walk and stand up and you get stiff. You know, my hands were shaking and I thought, Oh, I’m old.
So you didn’t get that checked immediately.
It didn’t occur to me to go to a neurologist. I just went to my regular doctor, my chiropractor and said, just, my back hurts. [Laughs.]
Can you literally not sing, or you’re not supposed to?
No, I can’t sing. I wish I could. Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing—it was in the shower, at the dishwater, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can’t do any of that now. I wish I could. I don’t miss performing particularly, but I miss singing.
Did you read the A.A.R.P. piece on their Web site, referring to the piece they did on you, saying that there’s some kind of voice therapy?
There’s all kinds of stuff out there . . . but it’s nothing that can give you singing back. Singing is such a complex mechanism. You have to be able to do a whole lot of things at once that require repetitive movements of your vocal cords . . . I couldn’t do any of it [anymore]. I was onstage just yelling really, just shouting. And I can’t even do that now. If I try to put any pressure—I can’t project my voice very far. And my speaking voice is affected. I tried to do the audio version of my book, but I couldn’t do it. My voice didn’t have the strength, and I didn’t have enough range of expression.
Stuff that was easy—like, it used to be easy to brush my teeth, and it isn’t anymore. You wouldn’t think it would be something you would have to concentrate on, like a really difficult movement that you have to coordinate, like threading a needle. You’d think that brushing your teeth wouldn’t be like that. When it started to be hard to do things like that, that’s when I went to the neurologist.
Your last solo album was Hummin’ to Myself?
Yeah, and the last album I did was with Ann Savoy. It was called Adieu False Heart. I’m very proud of that record. Those two records I made with almost no vocal ability at all. But I just acted like I was working with a limited palette, like a painter would do—you know, it’s only browns and ivory and black.
You mentioned to someone that you felt you recrafted your voice to do Hummin’ to Myself.
Yeah, I did. I put a different voice together, and there’s a lot of stuff on there that I’m very happy with. If you compare it to What’s New, I had [on that record] way more color, more breath, more airiness, more access to the upper process of my voice. So I had to use what I had, and pitch was harder. With that stuff pitch is incredibly critical. I’ve usually had a pretty easy time with pitch; I tend to sharp a little bit, but—it was tough, I was really sweating the pitch on that record. But then I got there.
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McConnell might be worse than Trump
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky, but he epitomizes what is wrong with the nation’s capital.
McConnell might be worse than Trump Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky, but he epitomizes what is wrong with the nation’s capital. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/08/09/mcconnell-might-worse-than-trump/1956276001/
Ann McFeatters, Tribune News Service Published 9:19 a.m. PT Aug. 9, 2019
McConnell is a 77-year-old white man who has been running the Senate — deciding its agenda and what will or will not be voted on by all 100 senators — longer than any previous Republican in history. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was last re-elected with just over 56% of the vote.
McConnell’s second wife is Elaine Chao, another Washington fixture who has served in a number of Cabinet posts and is currently heading the Department of Transportation. McConnell is worth an estimated $22.5 million, most of it inherited from Chao’s mother. Chao’s Chinese family runs a prosperous shipping company; she now oversees America’s shipping industry.
We bring up McConnell, the Senate majority leader, because unequivocally he will never be awarded any sort of profile in courage award.
McConnell is steadfastly refusing to bring up two House-passed bills that would mandate stiffer background checks on sales of guns. After a week of devastating shooting massacres in California, Texas and Ohio, McConnell would not bring the Senate back from its August recess to vote on any form of common-sense gun control. That includes taking away guns from dangerously mentally ill people (red-flag laws), reducing the size of high-capacity magazines, making military-style assault weapons illegal, buying back unwanted guns or requiring tougher background checks.
This is despite the shooting deaths of so many Americans in schools, movie theaters, churches, mosques, temples, festivals, offices — no place is safe. Two hundred fifty-five Americans have died in mass shootings in seven months this year.
Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown said in disgust that McConnell “has an addiction to gun company money.”
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said, “Come on, Mitch McConnell, where are your guts? Get off your … and get something done…. You could walk out of the Senate with your head held high that you actually did something other than pad your pension.”
Just days ago McConnell was dubbed “Moscow Mitch” for refusing to bring up bipartisan legislation that had passed the House to strengthen America’s elections from manipulation from foreign governments such as Russia. Russia is now proven to have intervened in the 2016 elections in favor of Donald Trump. Intelligence agencies say there is no doubt that Russia will try to interfere in the 2020 elections and is already preparing. Nothing is being done to forestall that.
McConnell first came to the attention of many Americans when he refused to permit confirmation hearings on former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, widely respected by both Republicans and Democrats, to be a Supreme Court justice even though Obama had another year in office.
Trump has now put two justices on the court, turning it solidly to the right, and hopes to win a second term and name one or two more. For that alone, McConnell will support Trump, right or wrong, through racism and white supremacist rants, through trade wars, through alienation of allies, through disregard for the environment, through praising evil dictators, through one moral outrage after another.
Time after time after time, McConnell has defended Trump’s indefensible behavior and policy positions that at one time were anathema to the Republican Party.
It’s about clinging to power at any cost. It’s about getting right-wing judges appointed to lifetime judicial posts who will be counted on for decades to keep the anti-abortion, pro-gun, tax-cuts-for-the-rich, social-safety-net-slashing, unlimited-campaign-donations-for-special-interests and anti-business-regulation agenda in full throttle.
McConnell listens and smiles enigmatically as Trump defends white supremacists, talks about “invasions” of immigrants, separates children from parents and imprisons them, taunts minority members of Congress and abuses his power while being compared more to George Wallace than George Washington, in the words of former Vice President Joe Biden.
McConnell smiles and does nothing but wait to hear from Trump, applaud and implement Trump’s agenda.
McConnell is what is wrong with the Republican Party. He is what is wrong with Washington and politicians who put themselves above the people.
Perhaps even more than the morally bankrupt Trump, McConnell is the worst among us. He sees evil and does nothing but permit it to flourish. He and his profit at the expense of others. He closes his heart to what is right and good about America. He is one of the most powerful people in the world but doesn’t understand that power has responsibilities as well as privileges. And he is very likely to hold on to that perch of power for the foreseeable future.
Ann McFeatters is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may send her email at amcfeatters@nationalpress.com.
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Phoenix Mercury Schedule
Below is the 2019 home schedule for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury.
Games are played at Talking Stick Resort Arena at 201 E. Jefferson St. in downtown Phoenix.
All times are local and subject to change.
Please check the Mercury website for team and ticket information.
5/31 vs. Las Vegas Aces, 7 p.m.
6/14 vs. Los Angeles Sparks, 7 p.m.
6/28 vs. Indiana Fever, 7 p.m.
7/5 vs. New York Liberty, 7 p.m.
7/7 vs. Atlanta Dream, 3 p.m.
7/17 vs. Dallas Wings, 12:30 p.m.
8/4 vs. Washington Mystics, 3 p.m.
8/10 vs. Dallas Wings, 7 p.m.
8/14 vs. Connecticut Sun, 7 p.m.
8/16 vs. Atlanta Dream, 7 p.m.
8/18 vs. New York Liberty, 3 p.m.
8/25 vs. Chicago Sky, 3 p.m.
9/3 vs. Seattle Storm, 7 p.m.
9/6 vs. Minnesota Lynx, 7 p.m.
9/8 vs. Las Vegas Aces, 1 p.m.
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People > Pioneers > Conrad and Elisabeth Yost
Conrad and Elisabeth Yost
Conrad Yost was born in Norka, Russia on October 9, 1847, the son of Heinrich Yost (born 1808) and Christina Sauer (born 1809).
On February 4, 1871, Conrad married Elisabeth Spady. Elisabeth was born November 3, 1850 in Norka. Her parents were Heinrich Spady (born 1829) and Elisabeth Ross. The marriage ceremony was performed by Pastor Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch in Norka.
Conrad and Elisabeth had seven children while living in Norka, including: Sophia (1871), Heinrich Peter (July 21, 1873), Johannes (September 6, 1875), Elisabeth (November 26, 1877), Catharina (July 6, 1882), Conrad (October 6, 1885) and Magdalena (September 16, 1888).
Conrad, Elisabeth and their children arrived in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 5, 1890. Shortly thereafter, they traveled to Portland (at that time Albina) where they arrived on October 12, 1890.
In 1891, the family was living on the north side of Tusculum Street. two blocks east of Margaretta Avenue (in 1891 this street became Union Avenue and is now MLK Blvd.).
Conrad and Elisabeth were among the founding members of the Ebenezer German Congregational Church in 1892.
Conrad's brother, Peter Yost, was also a founding member of the Ebenezer Church, but later left and founded the Free Evangelical Brethren Church.
On September 2, 1894, Heinrich Peter married Elisabeth Repp in Portland. The wedding ceremony was performed by Pastor Edmund Grieb. Elisabeth was the daughter of Heinrich Repp and Margaretha Fink from Norka.
By 1900, the Yost family was living at 398 Constance Street and Conrad was working as a teamster (a driver of a horse drawn wagon used for hauling).
Magdalena was confirmed at the Ebenezer German Congregational Church in 1903.
In 1910, Conrad and Elisabeth were living at 767 Grand Avenue N. with John, Conrad Jr. and Magdalena. Magdalena married Alexander Miller on on June 1, 1910 at the Ebenezer church.
Wedding photograph of Alexander Miller and Magdalena Yost on June 1, 1910. Courtesy of Arleen Miller Wittkins.
Heinrich Peter, John and Conrad Jr. opened the Yost Brothers Feed and Fuel Store by 1911. The store was located at 411 Union Avenue North.
By 1920, Conrad and Elisabeth were living on Woods Creek Road in West Philomath, Oregon with their sons John and Conrad Jr. who were partners in a farming operation.
At the time of the 1930 census, Conrad and Elisabeth had moved back to Portland with John and Conrad Jr. They lived at 327 Fremont Street. John was working as a longshoreman and Conrad Jr. was a truck driver.
Elisabeth died on January 30, 1931 and is buried at the Rose City Cemetery in Portland.
Conrad Sr. died on January 29, 1934 in Portland and was buried at the Rose City Cemetery.
Passenger lists, 1891 Albina City Directory, Portland City Directories, 1900 1910, 1920 U.S. Censuses - Ancestry.com
Krieger, Joanne, trans. Ebenezer Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon 1892-1908. Portland, OR: n.p., 1999. 40-41. Print.
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HomeResourcesThe Gender Pay Gap - It's Worse Than You Thought
The Gender Pay Gap - It's Worse Than You Thought
Debra Wheatman, CPRW, CPCC
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Worldwide, women are paid 23% less than men who do the same jobs. This gender pay gap may be ardently disputed, but its existence is well documented and indisputable. The inherent problem with the pay gap is not only the disparity in earnings between the genders, but also the fact that a lifetime of economic inequality pushes women into poverty. Globally, unmarried women live in poverty at a disproportionately higher rate than do unmarried men. UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says, “The gender pay gap reflects the unjustifiably diminished position of many women in society and helps to keep them there.”
Higher education, often touted as the cure-all for what ails a society, does help lift women out of poverty. However, it does little to close the gender pay gap. A recent study found that, somewhat astoundingly, the average mid-forties college educated male earns 55% more than his female counterparts. Fifty-five percent. The researchers also observed the following:
The pay gap between the genders starts of small in the beginning of their careers, but that by mid-career, it is abysmal.
Most of the earnings divergence happens within companies. When men and women both stay with the same organization, men enjoy much faster earnings growth.
Although married women change jobs with almost the same frequency as men do, they do not benefit from these moves in terms of earnings increases. Men’s career moves tend to be to better paying roles.
Sector and industry jointly explain only about a third of the widening of the gender earnings gap that occurs over time.
By the apex of a person’s career, the largest gender gaps for the college educated can be found in the health, legal, and financial sectors.
Women are now, on average, more highly educated than men. As they have entered white collar fields previously dominated by men, a strange phenomenon has occurred. The wages for those jobs have dropped. This anecdotal evidence lends credence to the belief that employers tend to value work performed by women as having lower worth. It is not that these women decided to settle for lower pay; their employers just decided that they would pay less. This trend is documented—for example, when biology became a field dominated by women, the earnings dropped by 18%. In contrast, jobs that were once the exclusive purviews of women experience an earnings increase when the demographics shift towards men. Computer programming was previously a low-level job that was done by women. However, when male programmers began to outnumber the female ones, the compensation increased, as well as the prestige of the field.
Perhaps the explanation for this extreme pay gap for white collar women has to do with the fact that white collar roles do not tend to respond to legislative remedies the way that blue collar roles do. Or, it might be cultural, in that work performed by women has traditionally been undervalued and unappreciated. (On a daily basis, the average married woman who works full time still performs three hours more unpaid domestic work than her husband.) Maybe it’s because women negotiate less forcefully than men. Or maybe it’s because women are still not seen as equal to men in the workplace. Whatever the reasons, we have a long way to go.
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Centre Vale Park
Centre Vale Park has been awarded the coveted Green Flag status and the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fields status. and is located a short walk (...
Centre Vale Park has been awarded the coveted Green Flag status and the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Fields status. and is located a short walk (approx 600 metres) from Todmorden town centre along the A646 Burnley Road. The route of The Calderdale Way, a 50 mile walking route which circles the borough, passes by less than a hundred metres from the park. The park and is home to 'The Lucky Dog' of Todmorden, as made famous in Derren Brown's TV show 'The Experiments' and offers visitors the chance to relax in a green, open space and to enjoy the all weather 5 -a-side football pitches, bowling greens, play area, skate park, cycle way, football pitches and The Conservatory and Animal House; which is open seven days a week between 10am - 4pm (closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day). Centre Vale Park consists of 33 hectares of mature oak and beech woodland intersected by woodland walks and open parkland. The main body of the park landscape also includes formal memorial gardens. It is ideal for walking, sports and formal recreation, picnics and family outings. The public toilets are to the East of the park. The channelled River Calder runs along the North-eastern boundary of the park, adjacent to Burnley Road. For more information about the schedule of events in the park, please ring Todmorden Tourist Information Centre on 01706 818181
Belle Vue Barn
Belle Vue (Beautiful View) Barn is a barn conversion, dating back to the 1800s which has been restored into a cosy holiday home, with lots of chara...
Belle Vue (Beautiful View) Barn is a barn conversion, dating back to the 1800s which has been restored into a cosy holiday home, with lots of character retaining the original dry stone walls and beams. Want to go walking, cycling, mountain biking or horse riding in the area? You've come to the right place! We have lots of routes for all ages and abilities, from a quiet stroll along the canal towpath, to a bike ride that will test your endurance and provide a few white knuckle moments. The Pennines are wild and wonderful, a land of steep-sided valleys, heather-covered moorland, canals, reservoirs and packhorse trails. The people who live here describe it as 'spectacular', 'inspiring', 'breathtaking' and 'dramatic.' It's a place where you'll find intense local pride - people who are passionate about the area and want to share what they know. Cyclists and mountain bikers are spoiled for choice too: two national cycle routes come our way, whilst there's ample opportunity for off-road adventure on the Pennine moorland bridleways. Belle Vue Barn offers a fantastic opportunity to bring your own horse and enjoy some of the routes once trodden by packhorse trains, carrying cloth across the Pennine moors. The first long-distance trail designed for riders, the Pennine Bridleway National Trail is becoming one of the most well-known horse riding trails in the UK. Threading through the Pennine hills, it combines historic packhorse routes with specially created paths. The Pennine Bridleway and the Mary Townley Loop give the opportunity for long distance rides for the fitter horse and rider. We have three E.V. (Electric Vehicle) charge points installed at Belle Vue Barn; two Tesla vehicle charge points and one Universal. They are all 7KW points and classed as 'fast' charge points by Tesla. The chargers will charge all EVs, type 1 and type 2 and useage is free to customers renting Belle Vue Barn.
The Millers Bar
Great people make great places and great times. The Millers Bar in Brighouse had been voted into the top 30 of the county’s pubs by the general ...
Great people make great places and great times. The Millers Bar in Brighouse had been voted into the top 30 of the county’s pubs by the general public in the Welcome to Yorkshire competition for the last two years and made it a hat-trick in 2017, being voted as one of the Yorkshire public’s favourite pubs for the third year running. The Millers Bar is a family friendly community Pub where you can enjoy relaxation, celebration, social and networking events and general revelry. The pub is designed to feel like home, cosy, informal and dog friendly with eclectic shabby chic furniture and real fires to get comfy around. Our helpful and polite bar staff are trained to serve and advise you. Food is served daily in the bar and restaurant from 12 Noon to 8.30pm. Our food comes from local suppliers and represent the best of Yorkshire ingredients topped off with the flair of our experienced chef.
Twenty Seven Steps
Twenty Seven Steps is a delightful two bedroomed, south-facing house, situated in the very heart of Hebden Bridge. We are in the middle of a cha...
Twenty Seven Steps is a delightful two bedroomed, south-facing house, situated in the very heart of Hebden Bridge. We are in the middle of a charming cul-de-sac which is literally twenty seven steps away from the hubbub of Hebden’s lively cosmopolitan atmosphere. Enjoying a slightly elevated and secluded position so it’s very peaceful too, it’s the best of both worlds. Our recently fully refurbished underdwelling (or upstairs/downstairs house) has a small patio to the front, enabling you to enjoy the stunning panoramic views of both the town and The Calder Valley. Perfect for a glass of wine at the end of an eventful day. We can offer you private on-street parking.
The Loft Apartment
The Loft Apartment is located on Water Street in centre of the market town of Todmorden, with views over the River Calder. The apartment has t...
The Loft Apartment is located on Water Street in centre of the market town of Todmorden, with views over the River Calder. The apartment has two bedrooms and one bathroom with a shower. Pets are allowed (charges may be applicable). Please note that the upper floors of the apartment are only accessible by a stairway.
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre
Our 120 seat auditorium gives the theatre a wonderfully intimate atmosphere and the Waterside Bar and patio area help to make a visit to The Little...
Our 120 seat auditorium gives the theatre a wonderfully intimate atmosphere and the Waterside Bar and patio area help to make a visit to The Little Theatre a thoroughly enjoyable experience. The Art Deco styled bar is open before, during and after the performance for the benefit of theatre patrons. Tea, coffee and drinks are available and bar drinks can be preordered. In good weather, drinks can be enjoyed on the canal-side patio. We can accommodate wheelchair users. Please let us know your requirements when you book so that we can ensure you have an enjoyable visit to our theatre.
The Cragg Vale Coiners
The apparent tranquillity of Mytholmroyd belies a murky past involving an 18th century counterfeiting gang, the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’. This gang's a...
The apparent tranquillity of Mytholmroyd belies a murky past involving an 18th century counterfeiting gang, the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’. This gang's activities were said to be so damaging that they threatened to wreck Britain's currency. David Hartley learnt his trade as an ironworker in Birmingham, before getting into trouble and moving back to Mytholmroyd to escape the authorities. Once returned to his home at Bell House farmhouse (which is now a bed & breakfast accommodation with educational facilities) David used ironworking as a cover to clip or file the edges from gold coins, milling the edges back so the change was all but unnoticeable, and making counterfeit coins from the shavings whilst returning the clipped coins into circulation. David’s activities soon spread to other farms, with families at nearby Hill Top Farm and Keelham Farm soon becoming involved; forming the beginnings of the gang of Cragg Vale Coiners. Local publicans also helped by placing the counterfeit coins into circulation. David Hartley seems to have been an enigmatic leader, becoming known as 'King David' Hartley and the gang’s numbers grew considerably until well over 30 individuals were involved. Rumours of the gang's activities reached the authorities, who sent an excise man named William Deighton to investigate. One of the coiners turned King’s Evidence and betrayed the gang, leading to Hartley's arrest at an Inn in Halifax on 14th October 1769. Hartley's brother Isaac offered £100 to anybody who would kill Deighton. It is alleged that the plotters planned Deighton's murder at an Inn in Mytholmroyd called Barbary's, which is now gone, but was located on the opposite side of the road to the present day Dusty Miller. On November 10th 1769 at Bull Close Lane near Halifax, Deighton was approached by two men, Matthew Normanton and Robert Thomas. Deighton was shot dead, his body also showing signs of having been stamped on. Just days later, the Government offered a reward of £100 for information leading to the arrest of the murderers and a pardon for anybody, bar the killers, who would turn King's Evidence. Over 30 people were subsequently arrested, including 'King David' Hartley, who was sentenced to death on April 6th 1770 and hanged at Tynburn, near York, on April 28th. His body is buried in the graveyard of the village of Heptonstall, above Hebden Bridge. Robert Thomas was acquitted of Deighton's murder, but was later hanged in 1774 for being a highwayman. Matthew Normanton initially fled the authorities, but was later caught and hanged in 1775. Isaac Hartley was never brought to trial due to a lack of evidence and died in 1815, aged 78. Heptonstall Museum has on display some of the original dies used by the Coiners to stamp their gold discs into coins, as well as panels telling more of their story.
IOU Theatre
IOU is a producing organisation with nearly 40 years’ experience making live shows and contemporary art installations that combine many art forms t...
IOU is a producing organisation with nearly 40 years’ experience making live shows and contemporary art installations that combine many art forms together with new and innovative technology. All aspects of the work are originated by the company and devised for unusual indoor and outdoor locations as well as established touring venues and galleries. IOU’s work is created by teams drawn from an international pool of professional artists, makers, performers, poets, musicians and technicians who have a range of experience working with the company - from founder members, new collaborators to recent graduates. We support the development of independent artists’ creative practice and offer opportunities to emerging artists (regionally and nationally) across a range of disciplines to develop their ideas, creative and professional skills. We also deliver a learning and participation programme to the local community, schools and families.
Halifax Railway Station
The Caldervale line runs through the area with stations at Halifax, Brighouse, Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Walsden and Todmorden. ...
The Caldervale line runs through the area with stations at Halifax, Brighouse, Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Hebden Bridge, Walsden and Todmorden. Trains run from Blackpool North to York via Hebden Bridge and Halifax and from Leeds via Bradford to Manchester Victoria via all stations. It is also possible to travel to Leeds via Dewsbury from Mytholmroyd and Sowerby Bridge. A direct train service operated by Grand Central runs from London to Halifax and Brighouse three times a day.
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The Etruscans: A Very Short Introduction
This book explores Etruscan history, culture, language, and customs and examines the controversial debates about their origins, placing them within the geographical, economic, and political context of the time. From around 900 to 400 bc, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their settlements were powerful, and their influence extended into northern and southern Italy, including Rome. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb paintings, sculpture, jewellery, and art. However no literature of their own has survived, so we have to understand them entirely through the eyes of contemporary and later ancient writers. This account seeks to understand the way the Etruscans were perceived and described, and also to insist on the possibility of a diachronic historical understanding of their civilization. The volume ends with an account of the influence of the Etruscans from the middle ages on, showing how the distinct discipline of Etruscology has grown up, and what may be its future.
Keywords: Julius Caesar, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Emperor, Etruscans, Greek, Herodotus, Phoenicians, sarcophagus, Trojan War, villa, Villanovan Culture
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New Flu Virus Strains
Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO on January 03, 2020
Flu Strains. Tim Hawley / Getty Images
Flu viruses change all of the time. That's why we need to get a flu shot every year.
Some of these changes are minor, but there are sometimes big changes that create completely new flu virus strains. It is these new flu virus strains that experts worry about because they are the ones that can trigger a flu pandemic.
Other things to know about new flu virus strains include that:
people, especially younger children, often don't have any immunity to "novel" or new animal flu virus strains
swine flu virus strains that can get people sick are called variant flu viruses
some new flu virus strains have genetic changes that can make it easier for them to spread from animals to people or to cause more serious disease
Minor changes in flu virus strains are caused by the process of antigenic drift. Mutations might cause small changes in the flu virus so that our antibodies don't recognize it and we aren't fully protected against infection.
More major changes are caused by antigenic shift. This is what triggered the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Instead of a simple mutation or change in a single flu strain, antigenic shift results from a larger reassortment of genetic material from different flu strains, usually between animal and human strains. So through an antigenic shift, a flu virus strain that might have only been able to infect birds or pigs, might then gain the ability to spread in humans.
The flu virus strains that experts predicted would be the most common during the 2015-1016 flu season and which were included in last season's flu vaccine included:
an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
an A/Switzerland/9715293/2013 (H3N2)-like virus
a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus
a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus (quadrivalent flu vaccines only)
The H1N1 flu virus that caused a pandemic has now become just another seasonal flu virus.
Next year's 2016-17 flu vaccine strains will include:
an A/Hong Kong/4801/2014 (H3N2)-like virus
and a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus (B/Victoria lineage)
quadrivalent vaccines will also include a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata lineage)
So up to two components of next year's flu vaccine will change.
Dog Flu
Although many of us have gotten used to hearing about bird flu and swine flu, dog flu is a new thing.
Hearing about the 2015 dog flu (canine influenza) outbreak in Chicago probably both surprised and worried many people. Fortunately, dog flu isn't contagious to people. This H3N2 virus that originated in horses can easily spread between dogs though, which makes it important to try to control and prevent new cases.
HPAI H5
Since December 2014, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5 virus strains have been discovered in the United States in wild, migratory birds (Canada Goose, Mallards, Snowy Owl, etc.) and domestic poultry, including chickens, turkeys, and ducks.
Millions of sick birds in at least 21 states have led to recommendations from the CDC that people:
avoid wild birds and observe them only from a distance
avoid contact with domestic birds (poultry) that appear ill or have died
avoid contact with surfaces that appear to be contaminated with feces from wild or domestic birds.
The health risk to people from this bird flu is thought to be low at this time though.
There is a concern that the bird flu outbreak could lead to egg shortages, higher prices for eggs, and higher prices for turkey.
H3N2 Variant Infections
A variant H3N2 (H3N2v) virus got 12 people sick in 2011. This is a flu virus strain that typically infects pigs, but was able to get people sick - mostly people who had prolonged contact to infected pigs.
This is an ongoing outbreak. In 2012, the case count for H3N2v infections increased to 309 in 12 states.
Although we also saw some cases since then, as in previous years, there is limited spread from one person to another. That's good news for all of us, but certain people still need to be careful, especially those at high risk for flu complications. The CDC recommends that they avoid swine barns and pigs at agricultural fairs.
To avoid getting H3N2v from a pig, it is also important that everyone:
wash their hands properly after any exposure to pigs
avoid taking food and drinks around pigs
avoid taking your child's stroller, toys, baby bottle, or pacifier, etc., around pigs
stay away from any pig that is sick
Keep in mind that you can't always tell if a pig has H3N2v. As with human infections, some pigs can be infected with the virus and have only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all and can still be contagious to others.
And because flu virus strains can mix together and shift to new strains, you should avoid pigs if you are sick with the flu.
There were only 19 cases of H3N2v in the US in 2013, but only three cases a year in 2014 and 2015.
So far, in 2016, there have been at least four cases of H3N2v, all in Ohio and Michigan.
H7N9 Bird Flu Outbreak
The 2013 H7N9 outbreak in China had a lot of people concerned, as there were 44 deaths among just 132 cases in 2013. There have also been a few cases in travelers returning from China, including people who got sick in Canada and Malaysia.
Fortunately, this type of bird flu was never actually able to spread from one person to another. Instead, it is thought that people got sick from exposure to infected poultry, especially at live bird markets.
The early 2013 outbreak seemed to be over, but new cases seem to surge each year. There have now been at least 798 cases of H7N9 infections, mostly in China, and at least 212 deaths.
In addition to H7N9, there is another strain of bird flu that has been around much longer - highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1.
First discovered in 2003, there have been at least 664 cases of HPAI H5N1 in 15 countries and at least 391 deaths.
Most of the cases are in Asia and northeast Africa, especially Egypt and Indonesia. If you will be visiting one of these areas, the CDC does recommend that you "avoid visiting poultry farms, bird markets and other places where live poultry are raised, kept, or sold."
Like H7N9, this type of bird flu does not seem to spread between people.
Two new cases of avian influenza A (H9N2) were also confirmed in 2013, both in China.
This type of bird flu tends to cause mild symptoms, so is not thought to be a big threat right now.
H10N8
A new strain of new cases of avian influenza to infected humans, A (H10N8), has now been confirmed to have infected at least two people in China since January 2014.
In one of the cases, a 55-year-old woman who had been to an agricultural market developed severe pneumonia and was in critical condition. Another person with an H10N8 infection died in late 2013.
What You Need To Know About New Flu Strains
It can be a bit scary thinking that every new flu strain could trigger a new flu pandemic and a large number of deaths from flu. Fortunately, these types of pandemics are rare.
Antiviral flu drugs, including Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir), can usually be used to treat new flu strains, even when a vaccine isn't yet available.
New flu virus strains continue to change, which can mean that the HPAI H5N1 virus could one day develop the ability to spread more easily from one person to another.
Both the H and N components of H7N9 are new strains that had not previously gotten people sick. In contrast, only the H component of H5N1 is new among people.
There have been limited cases of H7 flu in North America in the past, including H7N3 in Canada in 2004 (2 human cases), H7N2 in New York in 2003 (one human case), and H7N2 in Virginia in 2002 (one case). Unlike H5N1, these were all low pathogenic avian influenza virus strains.
The World Health Organization has a global influenza surveillance and monitoring program to help find and identify new strains of flu.
Most importantly, a universal flu vaccine that could protect against all strains of the flu will hopefully one day protect us all from any new flu virus strains.
Until then, it is important that we continue to watch for and monitor these new flu virus strains, work on the production of new antiviral medications, new vaccines, and methods to decrease the spread of these flu viruses from animals to people. And be sure to tell your doctor if you develop flu symptoms and have recently visited an area where these new flu virus strains are known to be getting people sick.
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March of Dimes to support Black Maternal Health Week
Apr 8, 2019 at 5:58 PM Apr 8, 2019 at 5:58 PM
VICTORVILLE — As the local March for Babies High Desert event nears, the March of Dimes has announced its support of the second annual Black Maternal Health Week, with local events planned to “celebrate black mamas.”
Created by the Black Mamas Alliance, the week-long campaign that begins Thursday is designed to bring awareness to the plight of black maternal health and mortality.
In California, as in many states, maternal and infant health disparities between the African American community and other communities are significant, the March of Dimes said.
The preterm birth rate for black women in California is 44 percent higher than the rate among all other women and 55 percent higher than white women. Women of color are most at risk of facing pregnancy complications, and black women are more than three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.
The March of Dimes is leading the fight for the health of all moms and babies. Through advocacy, education, research and collaborative initiatives locally and nationally, the organization is working to address the health equity gap for moms and babies of color.
During Black Maternal Health Week, the March of Dimes will host and co-sponsor events in Fresno, Victorville and Los Angeles to celebrate, empower and uplift black mothers.
A “Black Mommies Matter Baby Shower” is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 16 at Burning Bush Church in Victorville. The baby shower is designed for pregnant black women and mommies who have a baby under six months old. Mothers are welcome to bring one adult guest and their children under 5 years old.
A partnership of March of Dimes and the Comprehensive Tobacco Treatment Program of Loma Linda University, the baby shower will include an info fair, free luncheon, traditional shower games and prizes, as well as the opportunity to get questions answered by a nurse practitioner and counselor.
To register, call or text 909-747-7649 with a full name, phone number and information on the adult guest and number of children that will attend. Burning Bush Church is at 14849 Seventh St. in Victorville.
New programs have been launched in California by the March of Dimes and its partners to address inequities. The nonprofit is partnering with Los Angeles County and the California Department of Public Health in a pilot program to reduce black preterm births.
In 2019, local programs to improve mom and baby health among communities of color are also underway in Fresno, Oakland, and San Bernardino, funded by grants through a partnership with Anthem Blue Cross Foundation.
For a list of more events during Black Maternal Health Week or for general information, visit www.marchofdimes.org or nacersano.org.
The annual March for Babies walk begins with registration at 8 a.m. on Saturday at Victor Valley College, 18422 Bear Valley Road in Victorville. For more information, visit www.marchforbabies.org/event/highdesert
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Putting the Culture Back in Agriculture: Reviving Native Food and Farming Traditions
Beverly Bell, Nation of Change
Today, Native communities throughout the US are reclaiming and reviving land, water, seeds and traditional food and farming practices, thereby putting the culture back in agriculture and agriculture back in local hands.
“At one point ‘agriculture’ was about the culture of food. Losing that culture, in favor of an American cultural monocrop, joined with an agricultural monocrop, puts us in a perilous state…” says food and Native activist Winona LaDuke.[i]
Her lament is an agribusiness executive’s dream. The CEO of the H.J. Heinz Company said, “Once television is there, people, whatever shade, culture, or origin, want roughly the same things.”[ii] The same things are based on the same technology, same media sources, same global economy, and same food.
Together with the loss of cultural diversity, the growth of industrial agriculture has led to an enormous depletion in biodiversity. Throughout history, humans have cultivated about 7,000 species of plants. In the last century, three-quarters of the genetic diversity of agricultural crops have been lost. Thirty crops now provide 95% of our food needs, with rice, wheat, maize, and potato alone providing 60%. Eighty-five percent of the apple varieties that once existed in the US have been lost. Vast fields of genetically identical crops are much more susceptible to pests, necessitating increased pesticide use. The lack of diversity also endangers the food supply, as an influx of pests or disease can wipe out enormous quantities of crops in one fell swoop.
Native peoples’ efforts to protect their crop varieties and agricultural heritage in the US go back 500 years to when the Spanish conquistadors arrived. Today, Native communities throughout the US are reclaiming and reviving land, water, seeds, and traditional food and farming practices, thereby putting the culture back in agriculture and agriculture back in local hands.
One such initiative is the White Earth Land Recovery Project in Minnesota, which is recovering healthy stewardship of local tribes’ original land base. They are harvesting and selling traditional foods such as wild rice, planting gardens and raising greenhouses, and growing food for farm-to-school and feeding-our-elders programs. They are reintroducing native sturgeon to local waters as well as working to stop pesticide spraying at nearby industrial farms. They are also strengthening relationships with food sovereignty projects around the country. Winona LaDuke, the founding director of the project, told us, “My father used to say, ‘I don’t want to hear your philosophy if you can’t grow corn’… I now grow corn.”
Another revival effort involves buffalo herds. In the 1800s, European-American settlers drove wild buffalo close to extinction, decimating a source of survival for many Native communities. Just one example of the resurgence is the Lakota Buffalo Caretakers Cooperative, a cooperative of small-family buffalo caretakers, on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The cooperative sees its work as threefold, to “restore the buffalo, restore the native ecology on Pine Ridge, and help renew the sacred connection between the Lakota people and the buffalo nation.” At the national level, the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative is a network of 56 tribal bison programs from around the country with a collective herd of over 15,000.
In New Mexico, Native communities are organizing a wealth of initiatives. Around the state, they have started educational and production farms, youth-elder farming exchanges, buffalo revitalization programs, seed-saving initiatives, herb-based diabetes treatment programs, a credit union that invests in green and sustainable projects, and more. Schools like the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the Santa Fe Indian School – along with grammar schools, high schools, and non-profit programs – have developed agricultural education programs. The Traditional Native American Farmers’ Association helps farmers get back onto the land, hosts workshops on seed saving and agricultural techniques, and has a youth program.
The annual Sustainable Food and Seed Sovereignty Symposium at the Tesuque [Indian] Pueblo in northern New Mexico brings together farmers, herbalists, natural dyers, healers, cooks, seed savers, educators, water protectors, and community organizers. From the 2006 symposium came the Declaration of Seed Sovereignty, which denounced genetically engineered seeds and corporate ownership of Native seeds and crops as “a continuation of genocide upon indigenous people and as malicious and sacrilegious acts toward our ancestry, culture, and future generations.”
In addition to the symposium, the Tesuque Pueblo also hosts Tesuque Natural Farms, which grows vegetables, herbs, grains, fruit trees, and cover crops, including varieties long lost to the region. The project is building a Native seed library. The overarching goal is to make the Pueblo autonomous in both food and seeds. Emigdio Ballon, Quechua farmer and geneticist at Tesuque Natural Farm, said, “The only way we can get our autonomy is when we have the resources in our own hands, when we don’t have to buy from seed companies.”
The farm provides fresh foods to the senior center, sells at the farmers’ markets, and trains residents to begin farming themselves. The farm also grows medicinal herbs to treat HIV, diabetes, and cancer, and makes biofertilizer from plants. The preschoolers at the Head Start program garden; grammar school students are beginning to, as well.
People from across the nation come to Tesuque Natural Farms to study agricultural production and to take workshops on pruning, beekeeping, poultry, soil fertility, composting, and other topics. Soon the farm hopes to create a research and education center, where people can come for three to six months.
Nayeli Guzman, a Mexica woman who worked at the farm, said, “What we’re doing is very simple. These ideas are not an alternative for us, they’re just a way of life… We need to all work together as land-based people.
“Creator is not exclusive, so there’s no reason we should be,” she said. “They tell us, ‘The more biodiversity you have, the richer your soil is going to be.’ It’s like that with people. The more different kinds of people you have, the more able we’re going to be to survive. We can’t compartmentalize ourselves. That’s what industrial agriculture does.”
[i] Winona LaDuke in “One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum,” Alice Waters, ed., The Nation, September 11, 2006, 18.
[ii] Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism (Devon: Green Books, 2002), 184.
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Halloween music: 10 spine-tingling, scary good, horror-filled rock and metal songs
Check out our list of the 10 scariest rock and metal songs for your listening pleasure (or horror!) this Halloween.
Halloween music: 10 spine-tingling, scary good, horror-filled rock and metal songs Check out our list of the 10 scariest rock and metal songs for your listening pleasure (or horror!) this Halloween. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://www.htrnews.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/30/halloween-music-spine-tingling-scary-good-rock-metal-songs/2458203001/
Kelley Simms, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 7:43 a.m. CT Oct. 30, 2019 | Updated 8:50 a.m. CT Oct. 30, 2019
There are many gore-filled, underground death metal songs that USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin could have picked for this list, but that would have been a cop-out and too blatantly easy.
Instead, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin steered down the more slightly commercial route in compiling our list. However, you’ll find no “Monster Mash” or any song from the campy “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” on this list. In addition, no songs from movie soundtracks such as “Halloween” or “Trick or Treat” are present, either.
From classic rock to thrash metal to power metal to death metal to traditional metal, our list covers the musical gamut, which will allow our readers to experience a more nuanced variety of heavy metal subgenres. Let the countdown begin.
Cover of Black Sabbath's 1970 debut album, 'Black Sabbath.' (Photo: Provided)
10. “Halloween” — Helloween
Many readers may be unfamiliar with the German pioneering power metalers Helloween. This is an obvious choice perhaps, but this 1987 track from the band’s “Keeper of The Seven Keys Part 1” stirs up the fantastical element of this holiday.
9. “Halloween” — King Diamond
This may also be an obvious choice as well, but it’s equally perfect. If you’re a fan of heavy metal, then you’ll be familiar with this dark tribute to Halloween. Danish face-painted, falsetto vocalist King Diamond is a master at creating Stephen King-esque horror stories set to shredding heavy metal music.
8. “Helter Skelter” — The Beatles
You might not imagine the British Fab Four being known for being spine-tingling, but this track being associated with the Manson murders makes it gruesome enough.
7. “House of 1000 Corpses” — Rob Zombie
Appearing on his 2001 studio album “The Sinister Urge,” as well as the soundtrack to his 2003 directorial horror film debut of the same name, this campy, yet eerie, track conjures up horrific images.
6. “Dig Up Her Bones” — Misfits
Although the band’s most popular lineup included vocalist Glenn Danzig, Michale Graves’ tenure in the band produced this 1997 creepy little graveyard ditty, complete with accompanying horror film-like video.
5. “Welcome to My Nightmare” — Alice Cooper
No one does it better than the shock-rock master himself. From the 1976 music concert film and album of the same name, Cooper scared the bejesus out of everybody with this masterful vaudevillian-esque beauty.
4. “One of These Days” — Pink Floyd
On this eerie instrumental track from the iconic British band’s 1971 “Meddle” album, the only lyrics spoken (“One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces”) are a rare contribution by drummer Nick Mason. With his words slowed down through a ring modulator, the accompanying swirling assault of the double-tracked bass guitars makes this track a scary good time.
3. “Dead Skin Mask” — Slayer
California thrash veterans Slayer have proved in the past that they know how to write a factual and horrific tune (see “Angel of Death”), and what’s scarier than a track about Midwest serial killer Ed Gein?
2. “The Number of the Beast” — Iron Maiden
The repeated refrain of "666" in the chorus of this track from Iron Maiden’s 1982 titular album convinced many people that the band were Satanists. But for pure entertainment value, the song’s Biblical reference — accompanied by the Vincent Price-esque spoken-word intro — only strengthens its classically-eerie element.
1. “Black Sabbath” — Black Sabbath
No song immediately sends chills up your spine as much as the opening rain, thunder and bell toll of this classic track off the band’s 1970 debut album. Not to mention vocalist Ozzy Osbourne’s terrifying howl of “Oh no, no, please god help me!” Pure horror!
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Ratbatspider, a horror punk band, performs at Windigo Fest on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Ratbatspider performs at Windigo Fest on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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Jars of creepy items displayed at Windigo Fest on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A Ghostbuster Ecto-1 replica car is driven in Windigo Fest's nighttime parade on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Halloween enthusiasts attend Windigo Fest on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
The Windigo in a cage during Windigo Fest's nighttime parade on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A hearse is driven in Windigo Fest's nighttime parade on Oct. 5, 2019, in Manitowoc, Wis. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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The Horrors – At Sea (2010)
“The Horrors… The Horrors” was the usual exclamation made around these parts three years ago when Southend-on-Sea’s The Horror’s first burst onto glossy magazines and venues across the globe with their garage-pyschobilly rock and matching cartoon goth image and names. But in a remarkable turnaround their second album released last year, Primary Colours, confounded critics with its musical depth and listenability, referencing genres such as post-punk, shoegaze and krautrock. Webcuts couldn’t help but admire the growth evident on the new album and justly awarded the disc 9.5 out of 10 contending “Primary Colours is an astonishing record” (full review). In Australia for the Big Day Out festival, Chris Berkley coaxed the pale ones, vocalist Faris Badwan and keyboardist Rhys Webb, into the Static cave for a chat.
It is a great pleasure to welcome back to Sydney Rhys and Faris from The Horrors. You’re probably seeing a few more daylight hours this tour?
Rhys: We have been actually; it’s been quite a treat.
Because last time The Horrors were here it was all winter and night times. What kind of state were you guys in after you finished touring the first record, Strange House? I guess you were here towards the end of that tour cycle.
Rhys: We were fine, I think we were just really looking forward to getting back into the studio because we’d really been playing for pretty much over a year; as long as the band had been together we’d been playing and playing those songs and playing that record so I think we were just looking forward to getting back into the studio at that point.
It didn’t take too much out of you guys?
Faris: No, because I mean from the very first gig we’ve played constantly, so it’s the only thing we’ve really known.
Rhys: I think playing shows doesn’t really exhaust you, I mean that’s the one thing that keeps you alive really. I think touring itself and the traveling is the bit that takes it out of you, but as soon as you’re playing a show it’s almost like it completely wakes you up.
That’s the problem: it’s that one-hour of the day and the other 23 hours of waiting.
Rhys: Well then it’s kind of like it almost feels like the day starts after that gig which is the reason you end up staying up all night.
Did you guys sort of take time to take stock after the first album then or was it straight into it?
Rhys: No we literally went straight back into a small kind of rehearsal space a couple of weeks after our last gig. I think the last thing we did was play a strange festival with The Stooges as headline — that was quite cool — and then we went back and got on with working really. We just were writing from then onwards.
Did you also take some time — I mean before the band was even around you were doing things like DJing out at club nights and stuff like that — did you guys re-immerse yourselves in other peoples’ records?
Faris: We didn’t really do anything differently — we met because of a shared love of discovering new music and it’s not really something that we ever stop doing. The first port of call whenever we hit a new town is to find a record shop that we haven’t been to and that’s just the way we live our lives really, rather than something we begin or stop doing.
Do you listen to more records on tour or at home then, Faris?
Faris: Well I mean it’s exactly the same, always after every tour we come back with twice the amount of luggage as we set out with, and that’s entirely down to the amount of records we’ve collected.
So do you have to take more crew on the road to carry your extra bags then?
Faris: No we’re capable of carrying our own bags thankfully.
You guys in The Horrors have never been shy of cover versions and even name-checking a lot of your influences. A prescient cover that might have sort of pointed to where the second Horrors record was going in between the first and the second one was that Suicide track that you did, “Shadazz”.
Faris: It was pointing towards it in a sense that it was between the first record and the second but I mean yeah, there’s a strong tradition of covers in the bands that we like and it’s just another way of interpreting music isn’t it, which is a personal experience. I’ve always been into bands doing covers and taking someone else’s songs somewhere else.
You don’t get intimidated by doing the classics, like Suicide?
Rhys: I think it’s a funny idea that this is a conversation you’re more likely to have now than at any other time in the history of rock ’n’ roll, considering most bands really started playing cover versions, being The Beatles or The Stones or even the Sex Pistols. It was something that was just kind of part and parcel of being in a group and part of a live repertoire. And I think it’s strange now actually that bands are even questioned as to why they might want to play other peoples’ music. So for us it’s just something that’s good fun and something to do and something we’re interested in doing now.
When you were looking to do the second record, was someone like Geoff Barrow a good help? Did that help to steer you in a direction Rhys, or did you already have ideas for the second Horrors album?
Rhys: We met after being asked by Geoff to play All Tomorrow’s Parties, but at that point, we were already writing and recording. But we were really up for it because we really love Portishead. It was their first show in ten years as well. So on that first meeting we spent a lot of the time talking about new instruments we were playing — especially with the electronics — and new directions in sound.
Nerding out, I believe it’s called…
Rhys: A little bit, yeah: just talking about things that you enjoy and you love or whatever and shared passions. Then the next time they played in London, which was about a week or two later — they played Brixton Academy — we just gave them a cassette with all of our songs that we’d been working on. Actually, I say it was a cassette; it wasn’t a cassette it was a CD, but in my head it feels like it was a cassette moment, but it wasn’t, it was actually just a CD.
Well when they make The Horrors film you can make it a cassette.
Rhys: Yeah yeah, it was a four-track cassette. It was essentially the same idea that we’d just been recording all these songs — the same idea as just getting it down on a four-track or whatever — in our rehearsal room, and that was that. Then the following week again we met up with him and said ‘Yeah, let’s go and record the record.’ I think at that point we were really expecting that one of our songs might turn into something like “Cowboys” from one of the early Portishead records or something as bass-heavy or in that direction. We genuinely thought that these songs would be taken somewhere else completely but what we soon found after a couple of days in the studio was that he really wanted to preserve exactly what we’d given him on those initial recordings, which for us was great because it was our first time really getting down and involved in that world of exploring new sounds and new territory, so he really gave us confidence to do our own thing. That’s how it went on from there.
Is that because at the time you guys hadn’t heard the third Portishead record as well and you might have had preconceptions about what the Portishead of old sounded like?
Rhys: We had no idea of what [the new album] was going to sound like because it was kept under wraps and this whole festival was them playing for the first time in a decade. They weren’t afraid to name check people like Silver Apples, Ennio Morricone, and in fact following that conversation there was so much of that in their music that we loved and that reached us directly that we thought ‘Wow, you know we’re actually on the same page.’ People would say ‘Oh yeah, Portishead and The Horrors seems like a strange combination’, but for us and for Geoff it seemed like a very natural one.
Did a lot of people have ideas of what The Horrors were or should have been? I mean it seems that between the first and second albums you seem to have been able to allay a lot of those.
Rhys: Yeah I think so, I think a lot of people who met us or came to our shows listened to the music and were exposed to our thoughts and what we are about as a band. We’ve never questioned for a second what we’re doing but the other side of the coin was that there were people who didn’t necessarily want to listen to loud, fuzzy music that got on their nerves, and we weren’t making it for them anyway so they didn’t really like it, and they’re happier to flip to a different page of the NME and go for one of the less offensive groups.
At the end of the day as well we were a very new young band who were writing for the first time and I think what comes out of that raw power of working and doing what you can with your — perhaps even limitations — can be just as exciting, and have been proved to be just as exciting by many other groups; but if the band’s actually a great band, it’s what they do with those ideas and how they progress and what happens next that’s important, and I think that’s certainly what happened with us. I think Strange House will always stand up as being a very exciting record, especially considering the climate that it was made in. [But] for us it’s always about what happens next.
It seems also that you guys have been good at showing [that] The Horrors have a sense of humour – I mean doing The Mighty Boosh was a great revelation.
Rhys: It’s funny again, it’s almost out of your hands. As soon as there’s a picture of you on the internet or whatever, people make up their own minds. But yeah, you know we’re very amusing chaps, as you can tell.
Faris: No, but I think it’s important. I mean you have to take your music seriously because it’s something you’re really passionate about, and to show any sort of novelty is not something we’d ever be interested in, but you don’t necessarily have to take yourself as seriously as you take your music.
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Western Cape Education Department Explores E-Learning Options
In reply to questions in the Provincial Legislature on Tuesday, MEC for Education Donald Grant said that the Department was currently testing a range of technology options with the view to improving the quality of teaching in the classroom.
"With assistance from the Department of Education, the WCED have entered into a partnership with Mindset Network, which develops and distributes educational content via satellite TV," said Grant.
"Mindset has made material available to Grades 10 to 12 learners at 360 schools in the Province, using network servers, satellite dishes and display devices, such as television, data projectors and computers. This enables schools to use lessons for group teaching by receiving digital content from Mindset via satellite. The material is also available for individual student use in the computer laboratories."
Grant said that the WCED has trained teachers in how to use this technology and that district curriculum officials are monitoring the use of the system.
"The Khanya project is also continuing to grow. To date 1 079 schools have been provided with computer facilities (42 195 PCs) and a further 103 schools are in the process of receiving similar facilities. In addition 969 interactive whiteboards have been installed, with a further 525 in the process of being installed in 150 schools across the province," he said.
Grant said that with the collaboration of Stellenbosch University, interactive telematic teaching was being piloted in 10 of the province's schools.
"Lessons from the telematic programme are being beamed live to 10 schools in selected subjects. The lessons used in this pilot will also be distributed through CD to all schools in Western Cape."
"Another pilot study is underway to test distance teaching, where teachers use an interactive whiteboard to teach a lesson in one classroom, which can then be transmitted to another classroom (either in the same school, or another school), allowing learners in the secondary venues to comment or ask questions. In this way good teachers will be able to teach more than one class."
Grant said that should the findings of the pilot projects align with the aims and expectations of the WCED, a wider roll-out of these programmes would be considered.
"We are, of course, looking at further e-technology interventions. Only last week I was at the e-learning education week in Midrand, where I met a number of potential technology partners. Similar meetings will take place over the next month with a view to ensuring quality teaching through the use of, wherever possible, cutting edge technology."
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Georgia State rallies in 4th quarter to stun Tennessee 38-30
Posted: Sep 2, 2019 / 11:04 AM EDT / Updated: Sep 2, 2019 / 11:10 AM EDT
KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 31: Cornelius McCoy #83 of the Georgia State Panthers runs into the end-zone to tie the game while defended by Shawn Shamburger #12 and Warren Burrell #4 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the second quarter of the season opener at Neyland Stadium on August 31, 2019 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Silas Walker/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Dan Ellington threw two touchdown passes and ran for a third score as 26-point underdog Georgia State upset Tennessee 38-30 on Saturday in one of the first stunners of the college football season.
Georgia State (1-0) beat a Power Five opponent for the first time since this Sun Belt Conference school launched its program in 2010. The Panthers’ closest call before this had come in 2016, when they lost 23-17 to Wisconsin after leading in the fourth quarter.
Tennessee (0-1) suffered one of the more embarrassing setbacks in its history, the latest blow for a storied program attempting to bounce back from two straight losing seasons.
Georgia State was coming off a 2-10 season in which it had lost its last seven games. Only one of those seven losses was decided by less than two touchdowns.
But the Panthers outplayed and outworked Tennessee on Saturday.
The hard times for Tennessee were evident from a look at the Neyland Stadium stands. Although the announced attendance was 85,503, thousands of fans apparently left at halftime and many others headed for shaded areas, leaving plenty of sections of the 102,455-seat facility virtually empty as Tennessee attempted its comeback.
Tra Barnett put Georgia State ahead for good 28-23 when he raced untouched around the right side with 8:56 remaining. Barnett ended up rushing for 95 yards on 21 carries.
Tennessee crossed midfield on its next possession before Jaylon Jones came in from Guarantano’s blind side and sacked him, forcing a fumble that Georgia State’s Jhi’Shawn Taylor recovered at the Vols’ 39 with 7:10 left.
That led to the game-clinching touchdown by Ellington with 4:45 left.
Ellington faked a handoff and then made multiple moves to elude defenders before running into the left corner of the end zone for a 22-yard score that left Tennessee defensive backs Alontae Taylor and Shawn Shamburger lying on the field hurt as the Panthers celebrated in the end zone.
Brandon Wright made it 38-23 by kicking a 48-yard field goal with 2:37 left after a Guarantano interception. Guarantano ended up 26 of 40 for 311 yards with two touchdowns, including an 18-yarder to Jauan Jennings that capped the scoring with two seconds remaining.
A huge momentum swing early in the fourth quarter made it seem as though Tennessee would avoid the upset.
Georgia State led 21-20 and had the ball at Tennessee’s 19-yard line when DeAndre Johnson sacked Ellington, forcing a fumble that LaTrell Bumphus recovered for the Vols.
On the next play, Guarantano found tight end Dominick Wood-Anderson wide open down the left sideline for a 54-yard gain. That completion set up a Brent Cimaglia 31-yard field goal that put Tennessee ahead 23-21 with 12:05 left.
That’s the moment when the Panthers could have let the game get away from them. They instead regrouped and delivered the most memorable moment this program has ever produced.
Georgia State: Ellington’s a senior quarterback who showed the kind of veteran moxie that’s needed to produce this kind of upset. After completing just one of his first nine passes, Ellington ended up going 11 of 24 for 139 yards and two touchdowns. He also ran for 61 yards on 14 carries. Most importantly, he found a way to bounce back after committing the turnover early in the fourth quarter that helped Tennessee take the lead.
Tennessee: Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt had overhauled his coaching staff after going 5-7 in his debut season last year. Tennessee’s paying $1.5 million this season to new offensive coordinator Jim Chaney and $1 million to new defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley. That new-look staff opened the season with an utterly unimaginable loss
Georgia State hosts Football Championship Subdivision program Furman on Saturday.
Tennessee hosts Brigham Young on Saturday.
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Definition of Boarding. Meaning of Boarding. Synonyms of Boarding
Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Boarding. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Boarding and, of course, Boarding synonyms and on the right images related to the word Boarding.
Definition of Boarding
Boarding Board"ing, n. 1. (Naut.) The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose. Both slain at one time, as they attempted the boarding of a frigate. --Sir F. Drake. 2. The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards. 3. The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay. Boarding house, a house in which boarders are kept. Boarding nettings (Naut.), a strong network of cords or ropes erected at the side of a ship to prevent an enemy from boarding it. Boarding pike (Naut.), a pike used by sailors in boarding a vessel, or in repelling an attempt to board it. --Totten. Boarding school, a school in which pupils receive board and lodging as well as instruction.
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- Boarding may refer to: Boarding, used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals as in a: Boarding house Boarding school Boarding (horses)...
- A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room...
- A boarding p**** or boarding card is a do****ent provided by an airline during check-in, giving a p****enger permission to enter the restricted area of an...
- Native American boarding schools, also known as Indian Residential Schools were established in the United States during the late 19th and mid 20th centuries...
- A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods...
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MMFA director to retire after 23 years
(Source: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Facebook)
MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - After 23 years of service, the director of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is retiring. Mark Johnson is the longest-serving director in the museum's history. His last day will be August 15th. The museum's board of trustees made the announcement Wednesday in a press release.
Since Johnson's appointment in 1994, the museum has welcomed 3 million visitors, collected 1700 pieces of art and undergone three major renovation or expansion projects. A fourth project to add a new sculpture garden is currently underway. Because of his accomplishments, Johnson will be awarded the honorary title of Director Emeritus by the museum's board.
While Johnson was commended for his handling of art works from across the South, his temporary replacement also has extensive experience in managing pieces of history. Dr. Ed Bridges - former director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History - has been named the museum's interim director.
Bridges retired from the state archives in 2012 after 30 years of service. He agreed to come out of retirement and accept the museum appointment until the search for a new permanent director is completed.
The MMFA announced another staff change earlier this month. Emily Flowers will join the museum as Director of Development. She previously served as administrative director of the Cloverdale Playhouse.
Johnson's retirement comes at approximately the same time as another leader of the arts community. Geoffrey Sherman recently retired from the position of artistic director at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The museum and the Shakespeare festival are both located within Montgomery's Blount Cultural Park. Rick Dildine already has been announced as Sherman's replacement.
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Anti-Semitism and the Russian Revolution: Part two
By Clara Weiss
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We are publishing here the second part of a three-part review of a historical study by Ulrich Herbeck on the history of anti-Semitism in Russia from the Tsarist empire until the end of the Civil War in 1922. The first part was posted April 29.
The struggle against “Jewish Bolsheviks” and the pogroms of the Whites
The revolution of February 1917 was for the Jews of Eastern Europe what the French revolution of 1789 had been for the Jews of Western Europe. Through the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, they achieved full democratic rights for the first time.
However, the provisional government under the leadership of Alexander Kerensky, which came to power in February, refused to undertake any fundamental changes in the interests of workers and farmers. It continued the war and defended the foundations of capitalism in Russia. This was also reflected in its policy toward the anti-Semitic far right.
A government commission that was to have taken action against anti-Semitism committed itself to doing so only within the framework of the Tsarist laws—precisely those laws which had given the pogroms of the past a pseudo-legal cover. The judiciary continued to be staffed by politicians close to the right-wing Union of Russian People (SRN). As a result, the prosecution of former SRN leader Alexander Dubrovin (1855-1921) failed.
As with the expansion of democratic rights to the Jews after the French Revolution, the political emancipation of the Jews in Russia in 1917 became a target of counterrevolutionary circles. In the ensuing Civil War, anti-Semitic agitation played a key role in the struggle of the Whites against the Bolsheviks.
Even prior to this, after the failed July uprising of 1917, the rumours spread by anti-revolutionary groups of “German money for the Bolsheviks” often had an anti-Semitic undertone, alluding to an international Jewish conspiracy against Russia. The “revelation” of alleged secret financing was often connected with an “exposure” of the pseudonyms of Jewish revolutionaries.
An anti-Semitic caricature of Trotsky which portrays the revolutionary as the Devil. This poster was published by the White Army in 1919.
The hostile image of the “Jewish Bolsheviks” emerged as central to counterrevolutionary agitation after 1917. Herbeck explains that the counterrevolutionaries were “fascinated by the pseudonyms of the revolutionaries,” since now one could speculate about a Jewish revolutionary behind every Russian name. “All of the anti-Semitic prejudices about Jewish cunning, deviousness or the instrumental relation to truth, etc., could be confirmed by the Russian pseudonyms,” he notes [1]. The revolution could thus be portrayed as the work of “foreign” forces, making Chinese, Latvians and Armenians responsible, along with the Jews.
For example, a leaflet distributed in the army of the Tsarist General Yudenich stated: “Who leads and guides Russia’s affairs? It is embarrassing and shameful to state it: Mr. Trotsky (in reality, Leib Movsevich Bronstein), Mr. Zinov’ev (in reality, Srul’ Morduchaevich Apfel’baum), Mr. Steklov (in reality, Moska Merkovich Nakhamkis) and all of the same kind […] The bloodthirsty Jewish rulers, the Bronsteins and Apfel’baums, give you, the long-suffering Russian people, no peace, no quiet life, and no cheap goods […]” [2].
From the outset, the anti-Semitism focused on Leon Trotsky, who, along with Lenin, was the most important leader of the revolution and was identified more than any other with the programme of international socialist revolution. “The aggressors in almost every pogrom repeated ‘you’re getting this for Trotsky’. There was almost no anti-Semitic declaration without reference to Trotsky” [3].
This anti-communist anti-Semitism also played a key role in the counterrevolutionary propaganda of the extreme right in Western Europe and the United States. In addition, throughout the civil war, the imperialist powers armed the white armies in their struggle against the Bolsheviks, even as the Whites carried out mass killings of Jews.
The most important site of anti-Jewish massacres between 1918 and 1920 was Ukraine, where “the greatest modern mass murder of Jews” prior to the Holocaust took place [4]. A large proportion of Russia’s Jewish population, 1.5 million out of a total 2.5 million, lived in Ukraine after the First World War (Belarus, Poland and Galicia, with their large Jewish populations, were not part of Russia at that time).
Anti-Semitic prejudices had been widespread among the rural Ukrainian population for centuries. Due to their social position, the Jews were often seen by farmers as usurers who exploited them. Additionally, the city population was composed overwhelmingly of Russians, Germans and Jews, in contrast to the rural population, which was made up of Ukrainians. Thus, rural anti-Semitism also reflected the contradictions between town and country.
Ukrainian nationalists, as well as the Whites, based themselves on this hostility towards Jews in rural areas to mobilise peasants against the “Jewish” Bolsheviks.
Pavlo Skoropadsky
In the wake of the Brest-Litovsk Peace in March 1918, under which the young Soviet government had to give up Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states to the imperialist powers, the Germans brought the former Tsarist general Pavlo Skoropadsky to power in a military coup in April. He brutally pursued supporters of the Bolsheviks.
“Under his government, Kiev was a meeting point for right-wing radicals and anti-Semitic politicians and military forces from throughout Russia,” notes Herbeck [5]. Right-wing extremist monarchists could count on financial and political support from the German military and government.
After the overthrow of the German-installed government, many of its members went into exile in Germany. Several of them, including Skoropadsky himself, took part two decades later in the Nazi war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the Jews of Eastern Europe.
Herbeck writes that the pogroms declined slightly for a time under Skoropadsky. The main reason for this was the fear of the German occupying troops that an outbreak of violent conflict within the population could quickly turn against them. At the same time, the occupation forces and their puppet government actively encouraged anti-Semitism in the occupied areas [6].
A map of the Ukraine during the Civil War in 1919
After the overthrow of Skoropadsky by Ukrainian nationalists and the withdrawal of German troops following the outbreak of the November Revolution in Germany in 1918, a so-called Directorate of the Ukrainian People’s Republic took power. In 1919, the Ukrainian nationalists of the directorate, General Denikin’s Volunteer Army [7], and the Red Army fought for control over Ukraine.
In the Directorate’s sphere of influence, Ukrainian nationalists carried out a number of pogroms. For instance, on 15 February 1919, at least 1,200 Jews were killed at Proskurov. A further 560 were murdered in the surrounding towns. The pretext for the massacres was pro-Soviet uprisings that were blamed on the Jews by the Ukrainian nationalists.
The pogroms also continued after Symon Petliura [8], the head of Ukraine’s national army and a member of the Directorate, aligned with Poland in April 1920.
But by far the most horrific anti-Jewish pogroms, on a “genocidal scale,” were carried out by the Volunteer Army under General Denikin between the summer of 1919 and the beginning of 1920. After their advance on Moscow was blocked by the Red Army in 1918, Denikin’s army was compelled to withdraw to the south, where they controlled the important Ukrainian cities of Kiev and Kharkov for a time.
During their march through Ukraine, the army carried out organised looting, rape and massacres of civilians. However, it was the Jewish population that was by far the worst affected. In the anti-Semitic pogroms, which were planned and implemented like military operations, there were “mass rapes, sadistic torture and seemingly pointless killings” [9]. The Whites hanged, shot or stabbed their victims. Many were buried alive, others tortured to death. Thousands more died of hunger, illness or the cold. In the six months from the summer of 1919 to the beginning of 1920 alone, an estimated 50,000 Jews were murdered by the Whites.
Victims of a pogrom in Odessa
There were bloody pogroms in other parts of Russia as well. The army under the control of Baron Roman von Ungern Sternberg, also known as the “bloody Baron,” murdered the entire Jewish population of Ulan Batur (today part of Mongolia) during its retreat in 1921.
From 1920 there were several pogroms in Belarus, involving many peasants. Thousands of Jews fled the pogroms from the country to the cities. However, the supply situation there was so bad that they either starved or had to return to the country. According to estimates from 1988, some 30,000 Jews were killed in the pogroms in Belarus.
This bloodbath was supported with virtual silence from the imperialist powers as well as the Russian liberals, right-Social Revolutionaries and sections of the Mensheviks. As during tsarist rule, the church played an important role in the spreading of vicious anti-Semitic propaganda.
Orphan children who lost their parents to pogroms. An orphanage in Kovchitsky in Belarus.
Exact figures for the number of victims in the pogroms are virtually impossible to obtain. The massacres were so comprehensive that whole families were murdered and Jewish communities practically erased from the map. In general, estimates suggest around 200,000 victims. According to the Russian historian Budnitskii, a further 200,000 Jews were seriously wounded in pogroms. Thousands of women were raped [10]. When one counts the dead, the wounded, women who were raped and orphaned children, the figure of the pogrom victims comes to around 1 million [11].
Only the victory of the Bolsheviks in the civil war in 1922 brought this massacre of the Jewish population to an end.
1. Ulrich Herbeck: Das Feindbild vom „jüdischen Bolschewiken “: Zur Geschichte des russischen Antisemitismus vor und während der Russischen Revolution, Berlin, 2009, p. 196
2. Ibid, p. 309
4. Peter Kenez: Civil War in South Russia 1919-1920, Berkeley, 1977, p. 166
5. Herbeck, 2009, p. 234
7. Anton Ivanovich Denikin (1872-1947) was a tsarist general who co-plotted the attempted coup by Kornilov against Kerensky’s Provisional Government in August 1917. Together with Kornilov, who died soon thereafter, and other tsarist generals, he founded the counterrevolutionary Volunteer Army right after the October Revolution. Denikin was commander of the Volunteer Army from April 1918 to 1920, when he was replaced by Wrangel. In the summer of 1919 he led the unsuccessful assault by the Whites on Moscow, after which the Volunteer Army was forced to retreat further to the south and into Ukraine. The territories occupied by the Volunteer Army witnessed the horrendous terror of the Whites against the civilian population. The Volunteer Army was eventually defeated by the Red Army in early 1920.
8. Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (1879-1926) was a Ukrainian nationalist who led the struggle for Ukrainian national independence from the Soviet government in Petrograd in 1918-1920 and against the White Army. In 1920, he concluded a treaty with Pilsudski’s Poland to forge a military alliance against Soviet Russia. However, in October 1920, Poland was forced to sign an armistice with the Soviet government. In late November, the Red Army defeated the Ukrainian military of Petliura.
10. Oleg Budnitskii: Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920, Princeton, New Jersey, 2012, pp. 216-217
11. Peter Kenez: Civil War in South Russia 1919-1920, Berkeley, 1977, p. 170
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Sri Lankan SEP/IYSSE calls public meetings to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution
The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka are holding a series of public meetings to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The first event will be on Sunday, November 12 at Colombo’s New Town Hall. It will feature a screening of Tsar to Lenin, the authoritative documentary of the 1917 October Revolution.
The conditions which propelled the Russian working class to overthrow capitalism, take political power and begin the reorganisation of society along socialist lines have re-emerged. Imperialist war and the threat of a global conflict, poverty, staggering social inequality, and a turn to authoritarian forms of rule by governments in every country, dominate the world situation today. Mass social struggles are on the agenda everywhere, as opposition grows among workers to capitalism, a social order that offers a future only of misery and barbarism.
The deepening crisis has spurred a growing interest in socialism, and the Russian Revolution, as workers and young people look for a solution to the many problems they confront. Under these conditions, the historical lessons of the October Revolution acquire burning contemporary relevance. It is necessary for the working class to learn about the objective conditions out of which the revolution emerged, and above all, how it was politically and theoretically prepared. Only in this way can the working class be politically armed for the approaching revolution struggles.
Like their counterparts internationally, the pseudo-left organisations in Sri Lanka are denigrating these great historical experiences, and seeking to prevent any examination of their political lessons.
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), for instance, has presented the October Revolution as a “failed experiment,” echoing the widely discredited triumphalism that prevailed in bourgeois circles after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the pseudo-left are seeking to exploit interest in the upheavals of 1917 to advance the need for a “broad front,” tying workers to the capitalist parties prosecuting war and austerity. In this, they are promoting the very conceptions against which Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and the Bolshevik Party fought in 1917.
The SEP/IYSSE meetings alone will review and defend the political perspectives upon which the October Revolution was carried out. These include an unrelenting fight for the political independence of the working class from all sections of the bourgeoisie, through a continuous struggle against every form of national-opportunism, the elaboration of an international socialist program, and the theory of permanent revolution, advanced by Leon Trotsky.
We urge workers, students, young people, intellectuals and readers of the World Socialist Web Site to attend our public meeting in Colombo and take part in this important discussion on the greatest event of the 20th century, in order to prepare for the struggles of the 21st century.
Sunday, November 12, 3.00 p.m.
New Town Hall, Green Path, Colombo
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Multinomial goodness of fit test
Multinomial goodness of fit tests compare frequencies of the levels of a qualitative variable to theoretical frequencies. In Excel using the XLSTAT software.
What is the multinomial goodness of fit test
The multinomial goodness of fit test allows verifying whether the distribution of a sample corresponding to a qualitative variable (or discretized quantitative variable) is consistent with what is expected. The test is based on the multinomial distribution which is the extension of the binomial distribution when there are more than two possible outcomes.
Multinomial goodness of fit test definition
Let k be the number of possible values (categories) for variable X. We write p1, p2, …, pk the probabilities (or densities) corresponding to each value.
Let n1, n2, n3, …, nk be the frequencies of each value for a sample.
The null hypothesis of the test writes: H0: The distribution of the values in the sample is consistent with what is expected, meaning that the distribution of the sample is not different from the distribution of X.
The alternative hypothesis of the test writes: Ha: The distribution of the values in the sample is not consistent with what is expected, meaning that the distribution of the sample is different from the distribution of X.
Multinomial goodness of fit test methods and statistics
Several methods and statistics have been proposed for this test. XLSTAT offers the following two possibilities:
We compute the following statistic:
χ² = ∑(i=1…k) [(ni - Npi)2 / Npi]
This statistic is asymptotically distributed as Chi-square with k-1 degrees of freedom.
Monte Carlo test
This version of the test overcomes some heavy calculations of the exact method based on the multinomial distribution, and avoids the approximation by the Chi-square distribution that may be of poor quality with small samples. This test consists of a random resampling of N observations in a distribution having the expected properties. For each resampling, we compute the c² statistic, then once the resampling process is finished, we evaluate how many times the value observed on the sample is exceeded, from what we deduce the p-value.
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Why Northallerton is always worth a return visit
PUBLISHED: 00:00 07 February 2018 | UPDATED: 09:41 07 February 2018
Northallerton high street
Joan Russell Photography
A fine market town, rich in history, has much to offer today, as Richard Darn discovers
Northallerton is never less than bustling
In my five score years living in Yorkshire I’ve somehow managed to skirt around Northallerton and rarely called in. That’s despite the fact that Mount Grace Priory, just a few miles to the east, is one of my favourite places in the whole county and one I’ve visited countless times.
Quite why I’ve never spent more time in this handsome little market town is a mystery to me, because it’s a thriving place with independent shops, plenty of history and a knack of being at the centre of things. Let’s start with a quirky tale of one man who hated the place.
Mount Grace was founded in 1398 by a particularly strict order of monks, the Carthusians, an extreme religious response to the Black Death. Brothers spent most of their time alone in individual cells, an example of which has been restored for visitors, and only came together to pray in the church. Because of their privations they were considered to have a hotline to heaven and attracted donations from wealthy benefactors keen to ensure their own salvation in those plague-ravaged days.
One monk, however, was intent on more earthly rewards. He stole the monastery’s official seal (essentially a medieval credit card) and took off on a spending spree north of the border. These days one suspects he’d get away with it, but not back then. He was tracked down by some real-life version of Cadfael, returned under guard and incarcerated at Mount Grace, where presumably the news didn’t spread quickly as residents rarely spoke to each other. The Carthusian order still exists, but these days potential monks are screened for their suitability for the lifestyle. How wise.
Northallerton Parish Church
Larceny on a grander scale took place a few centuries earlier when the Battle of the Standard was fought at Cowton Moor (1138) north west of Northallerton – the location is now marked by a monument. The clash of over 20,000 men took its name from the banners York, Beverley and Ripon minsters which were flown over the English position. Facing them were a larger force of Scots led by King David, intent on expanding his territory and taking advantage of what amounted to civil war in England. Apparently some of the invaders had shaven heads, adding to their wild demeanour and proving skinheads are nothing new. The result was an unlikely home win and David went back to lick his wounds in Carlisle.
Northallerton has always been a relatively prosperous place. In medieval times it was a summer seat of the Prince Bishops of Durham and from here they administered their Yorkshire estates. In a sense that continues as the town is the home of North Yorkshire County Council and the county police force. And in 1887 John Bartholomew’s Gazetteer of the British Isles noted that it had a large trade in agricultural produce, a cheese fair and markets for horses, cattle and sheep (which were still sold in the High Street into the early 20th century).The town was also a stop over point on long distance stage-coach runs - the impressive Golden Lion Hotel, a listed former coaching inn, still provides hospitality to locals and travellers – and the arrival of the railway in 1841 ensured it stayed at the heart of things.
Even today this is a town that punches above its weight for what in fact is quite a small place. Betty’s are in the High Street and over 100 years ago Messrs Lewis and Cooper started a food shop that has since grown into a world renowned emporium shipping luxury hampers packed with gastronomic delights across the globe. The original shop still exists, with the addition of a lovely cafe, and it remains independently owned. Northallerton also has another retail institution – Barkers. Today the company employs 270 people and operates from three sites locally. It takes its name from farmer’s son, William Baker, who was an apprentice at a small draper’s shop, before taking over and expanding the business. There’s a modern Home Centre on the edge of the town, whilst the original department store is on High Street with its historic frontage and charming arcade of 12 speciality shops running the length of the establishment.
But don’t run away with the idea that Northallerton is all business and no play. The town is home to the Joe Cornish gallery jointly owned by the famous landscape photographer. Despite the fact that he has produced some of the most iconic images of Yorkshire over recent decades, Joe is in fact a Devonian by birth, perhaps that helps bring freshness to his work. The gallery opened in 2004 in a beautiful 18th century Georgian building and features photographs taken locally and on assignment across the UK and abroad, plus the work of other leading photographers. I love landscape photography and admire the time, effort and adventures that have to be undertaken to capture the perfect marriage of land, sky and weather. But for me it will always be his take on the White Rose county that defines his work, whether slanting sunlight across Roseberry Topping or deep mellow autumn sunlight filling a Dales valley. Check out the gallery website for exhibition and photography workshops and talks and make a date to pay a visit to Northallerton – a town that packs a pint into a quart pot.
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Me: plays Minecraft* The Media: Now that’s an Avengers level threat
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Just about everyone loves videogames. They’re enjoyable, good time killers, and a way to make great memories with one’s friends. Video games are fun, especially violent ones, but do kids that grow up playing these games have violent lives when they are younger? This argument has been discussed for years, especially now that mass shootings have been more prevalent in our lives than ever. Many people think mass shootings are directly related to violence in video games but this is not true.
In 2015, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published a study about violent video games’ relationship with violence. Psychology Today wrote an in-depth article analyzing the research conducted by the APA. “Playing violent video games leads to more aggressive moods and behaviors and detracts from the feelings of empathy and sensitivity to aggression,” wrote the APA. The APA is saying that videogames lead to dullness of feelings, making us less sensitive and more aggressive but that would lead to more violent crimes related to these games but there has been no evidence of this fact. Because of this, there is no connection between gaming and poor behavior.
After the mass shooting in El Paso, Donald Trump called for, “the end of the “glorification” of violence in “gruesome and grisly” video game culture.” He is blaming video games for the shooting. CBS News interviews James Ivory, the research director at Virginia Tech. In the article, Ivory states, “The public doesn’t always blame crime on video games — but they are eight times more likely to do so when the perpetrator of a crime is white […]white people don’t play video games more than people of color […] therefore, pulling video games into conversations about white criminals may be using the games as a baseless excuse.” Looking at the data, there is no true correlation between violent videogames and violent crimes.
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This is a pretty solid argument, especially the part where you said “…therefore, pulling video games into conversations about white criminals may be using the games as a baseless excuse”. It reminds me of when people blamed the Columbine Shooting on Eminem.
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Artist's rendition of Galileo orbiter (right) and descent probe (left).
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The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 19, 1989. Galileo had two parts: an orbiter and a descent probe that parachuted into Jupiter's atmosphere. Galileo's main mission was to explore Jupiter and its moons and rings . The Galileo mission ended on September 21, 2003, when mission controllers crashed Galileo into Jupiter's atmosphere.
The Galileo mission was a huge success! Originally, the Galileo orbiter was expected to last about two years in orbit around Jupiter. Even though Galileo was damaged by radiation in the magnetosphere of Jupiter, it kept working for eight years. It sent back hundreds of pictures of the four large Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto).
Galileo arrived at Jupiter in December 1995. On December 7, 1995, Galileo's probe made a dangerous dive into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it was hit by 400 mph winds. The probe was heated to temperatures twice as high as those at our Sun's surface as it screamed into Jupiter's atmosphere. Although it did not carry a camera, the probe's instruments measured atmospheric pressure, density, and composition, and explored the planet's radiation belts. It found very little water in the atmosphere, which has caused scientists to change their ideas about how Jupiter formed.
The orbiter made many discoveries during its eight years looping around Jupiter. It found evidence for layers of salt water below the surface on Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. It measured high levels of volcanic activity on Io. When Shoemaker-Levy slammed into Jupiter in 1994, Galileo had the only direct view of the comet striking Jupiter's atmosphere. Galileo determined that Jupiter's rings are formed from dust hurled up by meteor impacts on planet's the inner moons. Measurements by the orbiter's magnetometer revealed that Io, Europa, and Ganymede have metallic cores, while Callisto does not. Also, Galileo discovered that Ganymede makes its own magnetic field; it is the first moon know to do so. The orbiter also found that Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto all have thin atmospheres.
During it's trip from Earth to Jupiter, Galileo passed by and studied two asteroids. Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid when it passed Gaspra in 1991. In 1993, Galileo flew past the asteroid Ida and made the first discovery of a moon orbiting an asteroid - the tiny rock Dactyl.
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Galilean Satellites
The Galilean satellites are the 4 major moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. In this picture, Io, and Io’s surface, are shown on the left-most end, then Europa, and its surface, then Ganymede,...more
Europa was first discovered by Galileo in 1610, making it one of the Galilean Satellites. It is Jupiter's 4th largest moon, 670,900 km from Jupiter. With a diameter that is about half the distance across...more
Callisto was first discovered by Galileo in 1610, making it one of the Galilean Satellites. Of the 60 moons it is the 8th closest to Jupiter, with a standoff distance of 1,070,000 km. It is the 2nd largest...more
Does Europa Have an Ocean?
The surface of Europa shows many signs of that there may be an ocean under the surface: * flooded terrain * 'freckles' * rafting * 'mushy' craters, and * spreading centers. Taken together, these pieces...more
The Rings of Jupiter
Jupiter has a series of rings circling it! Unlike Saturn's rings, which are clearly visible from Earth even through small telescopes, Jupiter's rings are very difficult to see. So difficult, in fact, that...more
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The Tea Party is a Canadian musical group formed in Windsor, Ontario. The band consists of Jeff Martin (born October 2, 1969 in Windsor, Ontario), Stuart Chatwood (born October 22, 1969 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England), and Jeff Burrows (born August 19, 1968 in Windsor, Ontario). The band is known for its unique sound, which blends classic rock with influences from many countries around the world.
Martin, Chatwood, and Burrows, who were high school classmates and grew up in Windsor, formed the band in 1990. The band’s debut album, Tea Party, was released independently in 1991. The band’s subsequent records, including Splendor Solis (1993), The Edges of Twilight (1995), Triptych (1999), and Seven Circles (2004), were all released by EMI Music. The band’s 1997 album entitled Transmission was produced by the label Atlantic. Splendor Solis sold upwards of one million copies in Canada. Many of their albums have been nominated for Juno Awards, including Splendor Solis, The Edges of Twilight, and Interzone Mantras (2001). Though they disbanded in 2005 as Martin prepared to pursue a solo career, the band released several live records between 2006 and 2008. The band also released The Ocean at the End in 2014.
The Tea Party’s sound is often likened to artists such as Led Zeppelin and The Doors, and Martin’s vocals have been compared to those of The Doors’ lead singer Jim Morrison. The band is also well known for its blend of hard rock and Middle Eastern, Celtic, and Mediterranean sounds. Having grown up in Windsor and, therefore, near Detroit, Martin has also cited Motown and Blues as musical influences.
Lamb, K. (2001). The tea party. Canadian Musician, 23(5), 34.
Mclean, S. R. (2012). The tea party. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from the canadianencyclopedia.ca
Monk, K. (1996). Tea party steeped in chaos theory: Singer Jeff Martin says the tea party now has a sound to call its own after suffering comparisons to yesterday’s bands. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved from the Vancouver Sun.
Muretich, J. (1993). The tea party influenced by led zeppelin and the doors. Calgary Herald. Retriever from the Calgary Herald
Muretich, J. (1999, May 27). The tea party gets personal with latest CD. Calgary Herald. Retrieved from the Calgary Herald.
Zivitz, J. (2001, Oct 16). Tea party heavy again on interzone mantras; Windsor band releases fifth full-length studio album. The Windsor Star. Retrieved from the Windsor Star.
Zivitz, J. (2001, Oct 11). Tea party comes out swinging: Canadian crew out to prove it’s “one of the heaviest rock bands going” with interzone mantras. The Gazette. Retrieved from The Gazette.
Tea Party. (1991). The Tea Party. Canada: Eternal Discs.
Tea Party. (1993). Splendor Solis. Canada: Eternal Discs.
Tea Party. (1995). The Edges of Twilight. Canada: EMI Music Canada.
Tea Party. (1999). Triptych. Mississauga, Ontario: EMI Music Canada.
Tea Party. (2004). Seven Circles. Canada: EMI Music Canada.
Tea Party. (n.d.) The Tea Party: 20 Years of Transmission. Retrieved from teaparty.com
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