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Sorin Ducaru
Former Senior Fellow
Ambassador Sorin Ducaru is a former senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He was previously NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, responsible for providing support to the North-Atlantic Council and for advising the Secretary General on the evolution of emerging security challenges and their potential impact on NATO’s security, the development of relevant policies and action plans, directing the Emerging Security Challenges Division of the NATO International Staff, and coordinating NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme.
Prior to his appointment as ASG, Ambassador Ducaru served as Romania’s Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council, from September 2006 to September 2013. From November 2011, Ambassador Ducaru was the Dean of the North Atlantic Council.
Ambassador Ducaru was born in Baia-Mare, Romania. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1988 and the Romanian National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in 1992. He holds a MPhil Degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam (1993) and a PhD degree in International Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest (2005).
He joined the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993, assuming various posts such as member of the Policy Planning team, counselor to the Minister, spokesman of the MFA and Director for NATO and Strategic Issues. From 2001 to 2006, he served as Romania’s Ambassador to the United States of America. From 2000 to 2001, Ambassador Ducaru served as Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York.
In 2000 Ambassador Ducaru was awarded by the President of Romania the National Order of “Faithful Service” in rank of Commander, followed by in 2006 the Order for “Diplomatic Merit,” and in 2008 the rank of Knight of the National Order “The Star of Romania”. He received the title of “Ambassador of the Year” in 2003 and 2012, from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania.
He is married to Carmen Ducaru (a graduate of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and of the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration) and has two children: Maria-Teodora and Matei-Nicolae. Ambassador Ducaru speaks German, English and French, and enjoys playing the guitar, skiing, tennis, photography and cinema.
NATO’s Most Urgent Pledge Isn’t 2%-of-GDP—It’s Better Cyber Defense
The alliance has made strides toward its 2016 Cyber Defense Pledge. But more must be done, and urgently...
Driving NATO’s Military Transformation Agenda Forward June 20 Event
20 June 20, 2018 Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Listen Read Watch
NATO’s Cyber Defense Strategy Ahead of the 2018 Brussels Summit April 24 Event
24 April 24, 2018 Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Emerging Challenges in Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Former NATO Assistant Secretary General Sorin Ducaru December 8th Event
08 December 8, 2017 Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
Why We Must Fight for the Future of Digital Peace Microsoft EU Policy Blog
NATO’s Most Urgent Pledge Isn’t 2%-of-GDP—It’s Better Cyber Defense Defense One
Absent at Munich: Placing Cybersecurity on the Main Stage of Geopolitics Defense News
All Scholarship
Strengthening NATO Cyber Defense Under U.S. Leadership Hudson Institute
Ambassador Sorin Ducaru quoted by The Cyber Security Source on cyberspace as an arena of war
Sorin Ducaru interviewed on the Real Clear Podcast on the challenges of the cybersecurity battle
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Great shows in Vancouver
Image: Pixabay
WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL
When Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress was released as a film in 2007 starring Keri Russel, it became an instant indie classic, winning awards at festivals like Sundance and earning plenty of praise for its affectionate but unflinching look at life as a woman in the American South. That makes for an unlikely hit Broadway musical, but this story has found a new legion of fans on the stage!
The story of Jenna, a small-town waitress living in the American South who is pregnant and trapped in an abusive relationship, dreams of making it big by winning a pie-baking contest and making a fresh start. Her life changes forever when she falls in love with her also married obstetrician and they have an affair. Waitress features an infectious soundtrack and heartwarming story and is playing at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on November 16.
The Black Keys rock. That’s just a basic fact. This guitar and drums duo from Akron, Ohio boil down blues-rock to its bare essentials and build it back from the ground up to make searingly cool music. Hear hits like “Next Girl,” “Gold on The Ceiling” and “Tell Me Lies” at Rogers Arena on November 24 with special guests Modest Mouse and Shannon & The Clams.
SASHA VELOUR
If you follow RuPaul’s Drag Race, then there’s no need to introduce Sasha Velour. If you don’t, here’s what you need to know: drag is art, and there is no greater artist than Sasha Velour. The winner of season 9, Velour redefined drag in that season; nobody who witnessed the “rose petal” reveal will ever forget it. She’s fierce, smart, and mind-expanding. Catch her performance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on November 26.
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Blacheborne History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The origins of the Blacheborne name come from when the Anglo-Saxon tribes ruled over Britain. The name Blacheborne was originally derived from a family having lived in the town of Blackburn in the county of Lancashire. This place-name is derived from the Old English word burn, meaning stream, and referred to a stream in a dark area, or where the water was muddy. [1]
Early Origins of the Blacheborne family
The surname Blacheborne was first found in Lancashire at Blackburn, a parish, and the head of a union, in the Lower division of the hundred of Blackburn. "This place takes its name from a small rivulet near the town, which, from the turbid state of the water, was anciently called Blakeburn, or "the yellow bourne." A castle is said to have been built here, probably by the Romans, which, after their departure from the island, was occupied successively by the Britons and the Saxons; but there are no vestiges of it, nor can even its site be distinctly ascertained. Blackburn was formerly the capital of a district called Blackburnshire." [2]
The earliest record of the family was Henry de Blackeburn who was listed in the Curia Regis Rolls of 1206. [3]
Early records of one branch of the family were found in Garston, Lancashire. "Robert de Blackburn held Garston for nearly forty years, dying about the year 1354; his wife Ellen is mentioned in 1332. He acquired various portions of land from the minor owners. Robert de Blackburn was succeeded by his eldest son John, who even before his father's death seems to have taken an active part in managing the estate. (fn. 35) He was lord of the manor for about fifty years, dying on 8 January, 1404-5, and during this long period seems to have been constantly acquiring fresh portions of land." [4]
The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed: Willelmus de Blakburn; Cristoforus de Blakeburn; and Johannes de Blakburn. A few years later, John de Blakeburne was listed in the Preston Guild Rolls of 1397. [5]
Further to the north in Scotland, the name was derived from "one or other of several small places so named. Willelmus de Blakeburne was witness in 1243 to the ratification of the gift of the church of Lescelyn to Lundors. Robert de Blakeburne of Berwickshire rendered homage in 1296 [to King Edward I of England]. William de Blakburne appears as Abbot of Cambuskenneth, 1394. [6]
Important Dates for the Blacheborne family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Blacheborne research. Another 152 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1202, 1243, 1296, 1501, 1658, 1743, 1652, 1652, 1669, 1683, 1741, 1700, 1705, 1690 and 1786 are included under the topic Early Blacheborne History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Blacheborne Spelling Variations
Before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago, spelling variations of names were a common occurrence. Elements of Latin, French and other languages became incorporated into English through the Middle Ages, and name spellings changed even among the literate. The variations of the surname Blacheborne include Blackburn, Blackbyrn, Blackbirn, Blackburne, Blackborn, Blagburn, Blackbyrne and many more.
Early Notables of the Blacheborne family (pre 1700)
Distinguished members of the family include Lancelot Blackburne (sometimes Blackburn or Blackbourne), (1658-1743), an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and some believe to have been a pirate. He was the son of Richard Blackburne of London, whom the archbishop claimed to have been connected with the Blackburnes of Marricke Abbey. "Archbishop Blackburne was gay and witty. His enemies repeated the story that he acted as chaplain on board one of the ships engaged in buccaneering, and that he shared the booty, the joke running that one of the buccaneers on his arrival in England asked what had become of...
Another 100 words (7 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Blacheborne Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Blacheborne family
A great wave of immigration to the New World was the result of the enormous political and religious disarray that struck England at that time. Families left for the New World in extremely large numbers. The long journey was the end of many immigrants and many more arrived sick and starving. Still, those who made it were rewarded with an opportunity far greater than they had known at home in England. These emigrant families went on to make significant contributions to these emerging colonies in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants: Daniel Blackburn who settled in Virginia in the year 1640; James Blackburn settled in Virginia in 1624; Stewart Blackborn arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1857.
^ Hanks, Patricia and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Print. (ISBN 0-19-211592-8)
^ 'Townships: Scarisbrick', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 265-276. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp265-276 [accessed 21 January 2017].
^ Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
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Morisett History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The majestic country of France is the ancestral homeland of the distinguished surname Morisett.The earliest forms of hereditary surnames in France were the patronymic surnames, which are derived from the father's given name, and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the mother's given name. The patronyms were derived from a variety of given names that were of many different origins. The name Morisett was originally derived from the early Christian given name Mauritius, which itself comes from the Phoenician word mauharim, meaning eastern.
Early Origins of the Morisett family
The surname Morisett was first found in Guyenne, where the family was anciently seated.
Several members of this distinguished family became renowned. Jean Morisot, born in Dôle around 1510, was a scholar that studied medicine. Claude-Barthélemy Morisot was born in Dijon in 1592 and was the son of a consultant for the treasury of Dôle. He was also a scholar and died in Dijon in 1661. Antoine Maurice, born in Eyguières, a small village of Provence, was also a scholar. He died in Geneva in 1756.
Important Dates for the Morisett family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Morisett research. Another 36 words (3 lines of text) covering the years 1510, 1592, 1661, 1756, 1767, 1821, 1841, and 1895 are included under the topic Early Morisett History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Morisett Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Morise, Morisse, Morice, Maurice, Maurisse, Moriset, Morriset, Morisette, Morrisette, Morisset, Morrisset, Morissette, Morrissette, Mauricet, Morisot, Morissot, Maurissot, Morison, Morisson and many more.
Early Notables of the Morisett family (pre 1700)
Another 41 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Morisett Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Morisett family
Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Charles Antoine Morisset, who settled in Louisiana in 1719; Antoine Morisseau, who settled in Louisiana in 1756; and Ambrose Morison, who settled in Georgia in 1773..
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Red Faction: Guerrilla PS4, Xbox One Port Possibly Outed
Port, remake or rumour?
By Matt Davidson
Updated: 24 Apr 2019 6:59 pm
If a series of European store listings are to be believed, it would seem another last-gen game is heading for an updated version, with THQ Nordic's 2009 third-person shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla
Red Faction Guerrilla - Xbox 360
reportedly gearing up for a re-release on PS4 and Xbox One.
As reported on Gematsu, various GameStop stores in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark are listing the game as an upcoming release, although no specific date is listed. The news wouldn't come as too much of a stretch; both the original Red Faction and its sequel have both been ported to PS4 previously. It remains to be seen whether this rumoured release is a port or a remake.
The description on the GameStop sites is lifted directly from the original game, so doesn't offer many clues as to what can be expected. At the time of writing, there has been no official comment from THQ Nordic.
If you're feeling nostalgic, take a look at our review of the original game, and we'll keep you updated as any fresh news emerges.
Matt Davidson is a freelance writer for IGN - he's also available over on Twitter.
PublisherTHQ
Release DateJune 2, 2009
PlatformsPlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC
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Preview: 47th Chicago International Film Festival, Part One
Submitted by BrianTT on October 5, 2011 - 7:55pm
On the Bridge
The Kid With a Bike
The King of Devil's Island
CHICAGO – This year’s line-up for the 47th Annual Chicago International Film Festival is an eclectic mix of major Oscar contenders (“My Week With Marilyn,” “The Artist,” “The Descendants”) along with a number of interesting smaller films.
It is a nice blend of films that have made waves at other fests like Venice or Toronto along with a healthy number of debuts. It’s one of the fest’s strongest slates in years. And so, after weeks of screeners and advance screenings, we’ve broken down the highlights into three chunks, starting with an incredible amount of quality unspooling just this weekend (come back on Monday for next week and then next Friday for the final installment).
After a red-carpet opening for the Chicago production “The Last Rites of Joe May” with star Dennis Farina in attendance, the best films of the opening act of the 2011 fest include a major work by a controversial filmmaker, two stellar breakthrough female performances of the year, a frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, a documentary about a true shame for this country, and a trio of foreign films that couldn’t be more dissimilar other than that they deserve your attention. From the end of the world to young love to the magnetic power of a cult to what is billed as Israel’s first horror film, this is an incredibly strong opening weekend and it doesn’t even include several films that might be worth your interest but we didn’t have time to get to them (we’ll include un-screened, potential highlights on the final page, below our recommendations). It may not have a lot of the instant recognition factor of later-fest film stars like Michelle Williams, Ed Helms, or George Clooney, but you could have an amazing movie experience this weekend.
The top tier of film’s in the first four days of the 47th Chicago International Film Festival includes “Melancholia,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “The Kid with a Bike,” “Rabies,” “Like Crazy,” “Miss Bala,” “On the Bridge,” and “The King of Devil’s Island.” In order of quality, although all eight of these films are worth a look. Go buy tickets at the official site.
Photo credit: The Chicago International Film Festival
October 7th, 8:30pm
Lars Von Trier made waves at the Chicago International Film Festival before with his “Antichrist” and he returns this year with another daring work that also can clearly be seen as a product of the controversial filmmaker cinematically dealing with his own crippling depression. While “Antichrist” was a loud, violent, apocalyptic mess (that never came together for this critic despite Charlotte Gainsbourg’s best efforts), “Melancholia” is a brilliant and riveting meditation on the world-shattering impact of the mental illness known as depression, something that derailed Von Trier in his own life. It may be a rather underlined metaphor to name a planet Melancholia and have it set on a collision course with Earth, but it completely, 100% works in this mesmerizing film, easily one of the filmmaker’s best. Kirsten Dunst gives her career-best performance as a young lady who thinks she’s put depression past her enough to enjoy her wedding day but discovers in the first half of this evenly-split-into-two-chapters film that she absolutely has not. The second half consists of the rest of her family fearing that the planet Melancholia will crash into their lives as well. We will write a lot more about this film for its theatrical release and, in all likelihood, in year-end features here on the site. It’s that good.
October 8th, 5pm
It would be too easy to describe Sean Durkin’s highly-acclaimed debut as the “Winter’s Bone of 2011.” Like that Oscar nominee, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” started its buzz at Sundance, features a striking debut female lead, and both even have the great John Hawkes delivering stellar supporting performances. But “MMMM” stands completely on its own as one of the most memorable dramas of the year. I’ll admit to a bit of trepidation after first seeing it, thinking perhaps it was a bit too purposefully vague in its storytelling, but I think it’s the question marks left by the film that really allow it to linger in the memory. Well, that and what is easily one of the best performances of the year in any category from the great Elizabeth Olsen (who we were lucky enough to interview…watch for it in a few weeks). This talented young lady perfectly embodies a woman who runs away from one fractured family in the form of a deadly-dangerous cult to return to another fractured family with her sister and brother-in-law. As she tries to remember what happened to her at the cult, the narrative twists and turns like a Moebius strip blending mysterious flashbacks with her confusing present until the tension reaches a peak in the final act.
The Dardenne brothers have returned with another cautionary tale about the impact of letting a child fall through the cracks and the result may be a relatively-standard drama for fans of the filmmakers but that doesn’t mean it’s not one of the more emotionally powerful tales that will be projected this opening weekend of CIFF. In a remarkably-genuine performance, Thomas Doret plays Cyril Catoul, a young man who learns in the very first scene of the film that his father is not only not coming to pick him up from boarding school but he’s moved away. And he’s sold his bike. The headstrong Cyril runs away and takes a bus home where he meets a sweet salon owner (Cecile de France) who agrees to foster the wayward child on the weekends. After a heartbreaking encounter with his father, “Kid with a Bike” becomes a fascinating tale about how a young man can be set adrift without the right role models to keep him from drowning. Will he grab the right life vest or the wrong one? Once again, the Dardennes create tension out of human drama and draw believable, excellent performances from their entire cast. For the right audience (especially Francophiles), this could be your favorite film of the entire fest.
October 7th, 11:15pm
October 15th, 10:15pm
Billing a film as Israel’s first horror movie could easily be a turn off for as many viewers as it grabs. The first one is never that great, right? Well, much to my surprise, “Rabies” is actually pretty interesting stuff, certainly more so than some of the late-night horror fare at this year’s event. It’s hard to even describe “Rabies” without spoiling some of its enjoyment for this is one of those unusual horror entries that is so unique in the way that it unfolds that it’s one of its greatest achievements. It’s a film that opens with a young lady trapped in a box in the ground, clearly having just fallen in there, much to the dismay of her brother/boyfriend (yes, you read that right). When he screams off-camera, one might assume that what will follow is a pretty standard “slasher in the woods” piece and that’s certainly one element of the film but the poor souls who follow the incestuous pair into the trees don’t get dispatched in ways you will EVER see coming. “Rabies” is one of those fascinating horror movies that never gets too weird to lose its footing but also stays completely unpredictable. An unpredictable horror movie in 2011? I don’t care what country it comes from — that’s sort of a miracle.
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Environmental Centre opens at Immanuel
In a first for a Sunshine Coast school, an innovative Environmental Centre has been constructed at Immanuel Lutheran College. Using the latest in sustainable materials and technology, the Centre will partner with organisations like USC Sunshine Coast and Queensland Parks and Wildlife, which will work with Immanuel students as well as those from other schools across the region.
The Centre’s main goal will be to promote student learning experiences. It will showcase the College’s rainforest environment through the new wet lab and 'living' classroom - which opens directly into the rainforest - where students from Immanuel, USC and other Sunshine Coast schools will conduct field studies to learn about the region’s flora and fauna.
“With an increasing emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Science) in the Australian curriculum, coupled with the growing global awareness around environmental sustainability, the Centre will deepen student learning and emphasise the importance of stewardship over our environment,” said Principal Colin Minke.
“Over 550 square metres in size, the Centre also offers a venue for professional learning in which external agencies such as Independent Schools Queensland, the QCAA, USC and Queensland Parks and Wildlife can work with students and staff from both primary and secondary schools.
“Located adjacent to the rainforest, the Centre has created an indoor/outdoor learning experience where the traditional classroom context will mix with real world experiences. There will also be opportunities to engage with local Indigenous people to map the history of the area,” said Mr Minke.
The design and construction of the building are critical to its success and use the latest in sustainable materials and technology. Features include energy efficient lighting with smart controls; photovoltaic panels feed from elsewhere onsite to power lighting and ceiling fans; louvres provide natural cross ventilation; larger eaves improve daylight throughout the year without excess, unwanted heat; rainwater catchment tanks have been incorporated as well as recyclable, waterproof materials for doors and joinery.
The Centre opened at the beginning of 2019.
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Home latest news Cuban team satisfied with President Granger’s response to medial treatment- MOTP
Cuban team satisfied with President Granger’s response to medial treatment- MOTP
President David Granger
President David Granger is expected to return to Guyana today (Tuesday) after having completed his second round of chemotherapy at the Centro de Investigaciones Médicas Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) in Havana.
This was according to a statement sent out by the Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP).
According to the statement, the Cuban team of specialists are satisfied with the progress and the President’s response to the medical treatment he has since received.
Further, Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bruno Parrilla paid a courtesy call to Granger who stated that he was satisfied with the “high” level of care that he has been receiving.
He further expressed thanks with the attention that he is receiving at CIMEQ and praised the professionalism and expertise of his medical specialists.
Granger was last month diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a type of cancer that originates in the white blood cells which forms part of the body’s immune system, and is currently receiving treatment in Cuba.
According to an official statement from the Embassy of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in the Republic of Cuba, by Ambassador Halim Majeed, Granger initially underwent a surgical procedure and began a second phase of treatment in October last when he and First Lady Sandra Granger first travelled to Cuba.
Before he left for his second round of chemotherapy President Granger had said, “In my first visit, I had not only the biopsy but a series of tests and examinations and I also had my first cycle of chemotherapy. I now have to return for succeeding five cycles, so this is the second cycle and I hope to return much more quickly than I did the first visit because this is simply the administration of chemotherapy so presumably after the tests which will be done today, Tuesday, I will have the chemotherapy and return by weekend.”
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CoB student named Forbes Under 30 Scholar
by Stephen Briggs
“I feel like JMU CoB has definitely prepared me for future opportunities,” says Worathon “John” Zeng. “I just started the COB 300 program, and I’m seeing lots of useful skills and concepts that will translate really well to a professional workplace.” But Zeng seems equally capable of producing his own opportunities, like say…being recruited from Thailand to join the JMU golf team.
In high school he was Southeast Asia Student Activities Conference (SEASAC) Champion and SEASAC Player of the Year for 2016, served as captain of the golf team at Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok, and was ranked No. 3 in his home country of Thailand in the 15-18 age division. After playing in a couple of tournaments in the U.S., he received an offer to come to JMU and play for the golf team as a freshman.
A junior now, Zeng decided this year to leave golf behind and put all of his energy into his studies as a double major in CIS and management. Not long afterward, he received an email asking him to apply to be a Forbes Under 30 Scholar.
While the process is somewhat mysterious to him, Zeng believes the email invitations to apply are sent out to students who are recommended by a mentor, with a focus on underrepresented groups. But after internships at Willow Tree and Luma Health and an externship at Goldman Sachs, he has had a few opportunities to impress a mentor.
The Under 30 Scholar group is given exclusive access to events at the Forbes Under 30 Summit, an annual gathering of some 10,000 young people interested in business, which was held in Detroit in late October. The many networking opportunities and chances to talk with young entrepreneurs can prove life-changing.
For Zeng, that change came when he attended a presentation by Serena Williams, the tennis star and entrepreneur who has her own venture capital firm, Serena Ventures which funds underrepresented businesses. “Serena started as an elite athlete. Her giving mentorship to minorities in both tech and also business was really inspiring,” he says. “It opened my eyes with regard to the importance of representing people who are usually underrepresented.”`
Zeng’s takeaway is to be more selfless in the future. “I'll be looking more at the nonprofit side,” he says, “how to give back and provide opportunities for other people, and how to make the world in general a better place.” Zeng hopes to begin this with a Q&A with Alpha Kappa Phi, a business fraternity.
Published: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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All-terrain CPD covers city, woods and soil
What is the latest thinking on valuing urban trees? What about the critical state of our soil, and what is the role of a Design Review Panel? We catch up with Jeremy Peirce on his latest professional development.
'No choice but to value trees at nothing...'
There are many schools of thought on how and why we value the benefits of trees and other green infrastructure (GI) in our towns and cities. A one-day workshop organised by the Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG), Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), brought key players together to discuss valuation methods and how best to use natural capital data to influence policy.
JPA's Jeremy has been involved with TDAG South West for several years and has worked with town planners on assessing how trees are considered in the planning process so this was a fantastic opportunity to hear the latest thinking. Speakers included Alister Scott, Professor of Environmental Geography at Northumbria University and a chartered town planner, who talked about green infrastructure and the National Planning Policy Framework.
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Delegates also heard from pioneers of valuation systems, including Capital Asset Valuation Tool for Amenity Trees (CAVAT) co-developer Chris Neilan, as well as academics, economists and arb professionals. Social enterprise Treeconomics founder, Kenton Rogers, talked about the importance of placing a value on urban trees: 'If we do not value our trees, then developers and asset managers have no choice but to value them at nothing.'
A key message throughout was the disconnect between strategic thinking and the development of government policy, and what is happening on the ground as we develop our towns and cities. Fellow arb professional and speaker, Jeremy Barrell, called for all LPAs 'to have a tree strategy because half of them don't at the moment'.
The state of Devon’s woodlands
Natural Devon and Woodland Trust invited Jeremy to join other tree professionals in Fingle Woods, Dartmoor, to discuss the state of Devon’s woodlands, with the objective of feeding expert views back to the Devon Local Nature Partnership (DLNP). Jeremy has been closely associated with Natural Devon and co-chairs its Devon Invasive Species Initiative (DISI).
Attendees included some of the county’s leading woodland and forestry managers and arboriculturists, local authority and Natural England officers and forest/timber industry representatives.
Following a workshop, attendees were given a tour of a section of the ancient woods. This 825-acre woodland once comprised native broadleaf trees, but was widely replanted with conifers in the 1930s and subsequently used as an unmanaged wooded setting for sporting shoots – with far-reaching implications for the local ecosystem.
The woods are home to an Iron Age Fort classified as a Scheduled Ancient Monument which requires sensitive management and the use of horses, rather than heavy machinery, to move timber.
Five years ago Fingle Woods gained new joint owners, the Woodland Trust and National Trust, who embarked on an ambitious restoration. It will take some years before it is returned to its former glory but it was heartening to see how well, and how quickly, the woodland - along with the flora and fauna it supports - are responding to a comprehensive and sensitive new management plan. They provide hope and inspiration for the rest of the county’s woodlands.
Toil for our soil
The Arboricultural Association returned to the University of Exeter for its 52nd National Amenity Conference. This year, the focus was on soil.
Recent breakthroughs in science have amplified the significance of soils for the welfare of woodlands, and the issue is finally gaining mainstream recognition. So it was timely that the Association collaborated with the Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA) on this year’s event. In all, some 34 renowned speakers gave thought-provoking presentations that in some way touched on the topic. As an early proponent of the need for the sector to take soil more seriously, JPA's Jeremy has been invited by the Association to review the 2018 conference in his own, inimitable way. Look out for it in the next issue of the Association’s magazine.
Taunton prepares to develop garden town
Taunton (Somerset) has become the first town in the South West to be awarded garden town status, as part of the government’s new drive to expedite the provision of housing while encouraging sustainable, quality development that protects the UK’s vital green corridors and links to the wider countryside.
As the district and county councils prepare the Garden Town Plan for Taunton they will seek feedback from a Design Review Panel. Use of independent and specialist design review bodies to comment on development proposals (or LPA policies) is growing and is often seen as an essential part of any large project. In light of this, Jeremy attended a Design Review Panel CPD day, comprising a series of informative seminars including one from Tim Burton, Taunton Deane Borough Council’s assistant director of planning and environment.
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Emma Taylor Selected to Attend Speech by US President 25th April 2016 Jubilee Centre Impact
On 23rd April 2016, Jubilee Centre Research Associate Emma Taylor was chosen by the US Embassy to attend a London Town Hall event with US President Barack Obama, during his visit to the UK. President Obama gave a short speech before taking questions from the audience of young people on topics ranging from activism to global conflict. He spoke about the importance of having a “moral compass” and retaining integrity and being true to your values. He spoke to the audience about the importance of holding a set of personal values, and that his own values included believing in the dignity and worth of all human beings, and how compromise is not about surrendering what you believe in, but recognising that those with whom you disagree may have valuable ideas too. President Obama also spoke about the importance of resilience, and that progress in areas that one cares deeply about can often be long term projects, not something to give up with. Emma was selected as part of the US Embassy’s Young Leaders UK programme, which aims to connect Britain’s rising leaders with Americans, with the United States as a whole, and with one another.
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Ex-bishop of Cloyne may have to testify in court
ANTOINETTE KELLY
Former bishop of Cloyne, Dr John Magee
Dr. John Magee, the former Bishop of Cloyne, may be called upon to provide evidence against a priest charged with sexual abuse.
Magee, who stepped-down as bishop of Cloyne in March, may have to provide the State with evidence against a priest in the diocese of Cloyne, Fr. Brendan Wrixon who is being charged on a number of sexual offenses against a minor in the area.
Magee, 74, was the papal secretary to Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and John Paul II
Wrixon is being charged with committing an "act of gross indecency with a teenager" when the boy was 16 or 17.
The incidents apparently took place at the Convent of Mercy in Mallow between October 1982 and February 1983.
Wrixon is also being charged with indecency in Doneraile between June 1983 and October 1983 and again in Shanballymore between February 1983 and June 1983.
Wrixon said he was shocked at the charges presented to him by Irish police last week.
“I am shocked by it,” Wrixon replied to the first charge.
“Again, I am stunned, shocked by it,” he replied to the second charge and “I am just shocked by it,” he replied to the third charge, Mallow District Court was told.
Magee has previously made two statements to the police about the complaints.
Wrixon will return for trial on three the charges on November 8.
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Mansutti Foundation for the insurance history
© 2014 by Fondazione Mansutti created with Wix.com
Chronologically the Tractatus de assecurationibus & sponsionibus mercatorum represents the first systematic treaty on insurance which, among other things, clearly sets out the fundamental principle on which this type of contract is based, i.e. good faith. This editio princeps (1552) was printed over 60 years after its actual compilation, which according to a manuscript kept at the Biblioteca Angelica Vaticana dates back to 1488.
Pedro Santerna
I'Sm a tinnnntle
The De contractibus et usuris is one of the first treaties on contracts, if not the first one, which developed a study on economic thought. This valuable handwritten code, which can be dated back to the second half of the fifteenth century, tackles the need for commerce and the ethical rules according to which it must be exercised and also discusses the fair value of things and the relative fair price.
For its Digital Library project Mansutti Foundation, with the contribution of Lombardy Region, has compiled a collection in electronic format of its most valuable texts, which allows them to be consulted from the furthest places of study and makes them available to scholars in their original format and colour. This project started in 2009 with a first selection of some of the most representative and important texts on the history of insurance in Europe.
An integral reproduction on CD-Rom of each of the works shown here is available at the Foundation (€ 75.00 + postage).
Nicolas Magens was a German merchant who lived for a long time in England. This treaty, which is an extended and corrected translation of the work published in Hamburg in 1753, explains the different types of insurance which were used in various European trading places and discloses the relationship existing between insurance, equity and public good. In this manual, which is divided into two books, the Author tries to solve various doubts which may arise on the interpretation of the innumerable laws on the subject.
I'm another title
Balthazard M. Emerigon
Benvenuto Stracca
Ascanio Baldasseroni
Born in Leghorn, in 1786 Ascanio Baldasseroni published a Trattato delle assicurazioni marittime in 3 volumes and subsequently printed this more exhaustive edition in 5 volumes between 1801 and 1804. In this seminal work insurance contracts are examined for the first time with reference to laws, customs, case-law and the doctrine of the main European trading places. In the addendum the Author gathered law and custom texts concerning maritime insurance contracts.
Emerigon’s excellent reputation as jurist is mostly linked to this treaty, which covers all maritime law with extensive references to previous laws and doctrine. Complete with numerous court rulings, this work has long been considered a benchmark on insurance issues and was translated into Spanish, Italian and English. The English translation contributed to the huge diffusion of this work and was re-printed both in London and Boston (1850).
San Bernardino of Siena
The Tractatus de assecurationibus was completed after eleven years’ work and this first edition was published in Venice in 1569 and, together with other works, re-published always in Venice in 1583, in Geneva in 1651 and in Amsterdam in 1658 and 1668. This treaty focuses on a commentary (divided into forty glosses in Latin) of the conventional formula (in Italian) which is still used in Ancona for insurance contracts.
Nicolas Magens
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Photos Life at ITER
On Friday 6 December, the ITER community is treated to an artisan fair, to a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony with local mayor Roger Pizot (Saint Paul-lez-Durance), and to an afternoon of music in the lobby by the ITER band.
Staff photo, November 2019
When the 2017 staff photo was taken (in this very spot), the circular bioshield was still visible above the walls of the Tokamak Complex. Two years later, the bioshield is hidden in its concrete vault and the last elements of the roof structure are set to be posed. Against this spectacular backdrop, a portion of the 925 people currently employed as staff of the ITER Organization came out on 29 November 2019 for the traditional group photo. Photo: ITER Organization/Gérard Lesenechal
Engineered with pride
For each ITER system, engineering work packages must be developed to synthesize all necessary system and geographical information critical to the assembly process. At a recent workshop at Headquarters, involved staff took part in a "tool kit" workshop that focused on standardizing the process and the quality of the output.
A high-resolution flyover of the ITER worksite
ITER's new virtual reality goggles were a hit at the latest ITER Council meeting, as delegates were able follow the site drones over, in between, and through the ITER buildings under construction.
ITER @ Extraordinary Factories Marseille
In November, ITER is present with a large stand at the three-day Extraordinary Factories (L'Usine Extraordinaire) event in Marseille, which aimed to make industry attractive to the youngest members of society by highlighting technology, innovation, excellence, discovery, and ... exciting careers.
Science on the weekend
Every year in France, science is "à la fête" for two consecutive weekends in October. Free events and demonstrations—tailored particularly to school-age children—offer a fun and friendly way to discover projects like ITER. During the 2019 edition, ITER volunteers met the public in four localities: Manosque, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Villeneuve-Loubet (near Nice).
Chinese staff celebrates Republic's anniversary
On Monday 30 September, as the People's Republic of China was celebrating it 70th anniversary, Chinese ITER staff members, now totalling more than one hundred people, gathered in front of the worksite for a commemorative photo.
ITER manga, now in Provençal
Two young students, Taiyô and Soléane, are the heros of a manga published by ITER Japan and translated into English, French and now the language of Middle Age troubadours ... Provençal. Download all the versions from https://www.iter.org/news/publicationcentre (Comics).
On 21 September, ITER welcomed the public
Rain notwithstanding, the 15th edition of the ITER Open Doors Day is a success, with close to one thousand people attending. Fifty volunteer guides from the ITER Organization, the European Domestic Agency, and all of the major worksite contractors were present, each one ready to share ITER from his or her unique perspective.
ITER Games: 9th edition
More than 650 people take part in the 9th edition of the ITER Games on Saturday 14 September. Highlights of the day include sport competitions organized by the associations of Vinon-sur-Verdon, stands, a children's village, a treasure hunt, and lunch under the trees in the city centre.
On 23 July 2019, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot, India's Ambassador to France Vinay Mohan Kwatra, and the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, Anil Kakodkar, symbolically smash a bottle of French champagne on a large chunk of steel representing the ITER cryostat. Two sections (60% of cryostat work scope) have been finalized.
Following the fusion timeline
A new decor in the lobby of the ITER Headquarters building retraces ITER and fusion history. On 19 June, ITER Council members are given a guided tour.
Attention all fusion scientists and engineers
Ten editions of the ITER physics school—the ITER International School—have been held since 2007 on different theoretical and experimental aspects of tokamak physics. The near-complete collection of presentations (more than 180 in all) can now be downloaded from the ITER website at: https://www.iter.org/education/iis.
ITER Robots, more popular than ever
The ITER Robots competition—a technological challenge that is now accredited by the French Ministry of Education—was back in town on 21 May. Seven hundred students, organized into 49 teams from 29 schools, tried their hand at building a small robot to simulate a maintenance situation inside the ITER Tokamak. In the process, they learn about engineering, programming, and ... ITER.
ITER, for any age
During ITER's 14th Open Doors Day on 18 May, visitors are given the opportunity to navigate in real time inside a 3D model of the ITER Tokamak, thanks to staff member Benoit Manfreo and his specially adapted virtual reality tool.
Learning can be fun!
Physicist Gregory de Temmerman (pictured) and the ITER Fab Lab have developed a number of tabletop displays that can be used to explain ITER and fusion to the lay person. They are now a regular part of outreach efforts locally.
ITER at Vigyan Samagam in India
ITER Head of Communication Laban Coblentz speaks with Indian author and journalist Pallava Bagla during the Vigyan Samagam (https://vigyansamagam.in/) science exhibition that kicked off in Mumbai on 8 May. The travelling exhibition features seven international science projects, including ITER.
Art in the Tokamak Pit
Italian artist Michela Meneguzzi was at ITER in April for the celebration of "500 Years of Innovation: From Da Vinci to ITER." In a few hours, she was able to capture and render the colosseum-like ambiance of the Tokamak Pit in the style of Leonardo da Vinci.
500 Years of Innovation: from Leonardo da Vinci to ITER
From Leonardo da Vinci—who dared to undertake what many considered impossible, too risky or too large—to ITER: the stage was set for a day-long celebration on 15 April of "500 years of innovation," co-hosted by the Italian government. (Pictured: a sound and light show by the Milanese firm Cross Media.)
Hello to ITER families
Wednesday 3 April was Family Day at ITER, which means that the sound of small voices rang out (briefly) in the corridors. Several times per year small groups of staff members (30 at a time) are invited to bring their families for lunch in the cafeteria and a tour of the site.
A new way to contribute to ITER
The ITER Project Associate program allows institutes from the ITER Members to assign employees to technical or support activities at the ITER Organization for a maximum of four years. Seventy people are currently working in this capacity at ITER and 50 more are expected this year. See all openings on the ITER jobs page (https://www.iter.org/jobs/IPA). (Pictured is Hu Xiaoyue from the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ASIPP.)
ITER Business Forum opens in Antibes
The 2019 ITER Business Forum (IBF/19) kicks off on 27 March with 1,165 registered participants from 449 companies (and 25 countries). Through two days of thematic workshops, technical tours and 1-to-1 meetings, participants will have access to the latest information about ITER business opportunities.
Women on stage
What better way to join in on the fun on 8 March—International Women's Day—than with an exhibition celebrating the contributions of women in the ITER Members to different fields of science and technology? Also on offer that day at ITER Headquarters was a lecture on the theme of climate and energy by Kirsty Gogan (Co-Founder and Executive Director of Energy for Humanity) and a roundtable discussion on networking and careers facilitated by the ITER Women's Network (some members pictured in "ITER yellow").
NGO Energy for Humanity at ITER
On International Women's Day, Kirsty Gogan of the NGO Energy for Humanity spoke at ITER about the need to promote all low-carbon energy technologies including nuclear to combat climate change. She said that "the contribution you will make with the fusion technology that you are developing here at ITER is almost unimaginably large." Gogan sees ITER's unique model of international cooperation as a way to address global challenges such as climate change.
Best way to follow construction? The webcam!
Thousands of people from all over the world are monitoring the progress of ITER construction via live stream camera. You can too by clicking on the red logo at the top of the ITER home page (www.iter.org).
ITER manga, chapter 2
The Japanese Domestic Agency QST has produced a second manga on the ITER Project, this time featuring a Japanese intern in the Communications Office who has some ideas about how to increase public awareness about fusion and ITER. You can download it in Japanese or English from this website—http://www.fusion.qst.go.jp/ITER/comic/page1_1.html—or directly from the ITER Publications page.
ITER's sixth group of Monaco Fellows
ITER's latest group of Monaco Fellows—Jae-Sun Park, Javier Artola, Joyeeta Sinha, Jonathan Coburn and Satoshi Togo (left to right)—have started two-year postdoctoral fellowships in science or engineering under the Monaco-ITER Partnership Arrangement.
A stand at AAAS
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington D.C. in February was the occasion to install ITER's walk-in cinema, premiering the latest footage from the construction site.
Filming on site
Dozens of international media teams film on site at ITER every year. This group has a slightly different project—preparing a human resources video in Russian to attract the best candidates to ITER positions.
The ITER band is back
Seen twice this month at Headquarters—the 11-piece ITER band, playing holiday favourites for the enjoyment of staff and visitors alike. Rumour has it that they will be making more regular appearances in the New Year. We hope so!
ITER @ COP24
The ITER Project has its hour at the 24th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, as Gregory de Temmerman presents "ITER - The way to Clean and Safe Energy." You can watch the presentation, which took place in the participatory Action Hub space for climate change initiatives, on the UNFCCC website. (Click on Climate Action/Events/Action Hub/On-demand/Morning Session 6 December)
Celebrating a successful year
On 3 December, at the invitation of the ITER Director-General, over 1,100 ITER staff, contractors, partners, families and friends take time to reflect on all that was accomplished in 2018 and enjoy a short and pleasant hiatus. On stage at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, which had been privatized for the event, was the German shadow dance group Die Mobilés.
A Princess Royal with a passion for science
Accompanied by a large party of scientists, diplomats and high-level officials, Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visits the ITER site in November. The same day, a Cooperation Agreement is signed between the ITER Organization and the Thailand Institute of Nuclear Technology.
Twenty-third ITER Council
The ITER Director-General leads a site tour for delegates to the 23rd ITER Council in November. At least twice a year, ITER Council meetings reunite senior representatives from each ITER Member to review the overall direction of the project.
Ode to fusion
"Fusion powers stars in heaven—and we do it here on Earth," sang the Fusion Choir to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." It was one of the last highlights of the FuseNet PhD event, which took place at ITER Headquarters from 7 to 9 November.
Site opens for 700 visitors
Seven hundred members of the public, students, staff and families attend the ITER Open Doors Day on 20 October. The highlight—as always—is gaining exceptional access to areas of the worksite that are usually cordoned off due to the pace of work on site and the density of contractors and equipment.
WiNning in the nuclear field
Members of the non-profit professional organization Women in Nuclear Global visit in October for a tour and the opportunity to meet with ITER scientists and engineers. The growing network boasts some 35,000 members in 109 countries.
Taking science local
At a local science fair in October, the younger crowd (all equipped with their ITER backpacks) is especially appreciative of ITER's virtual reality experience.
The world wants to know
A two-day media event held at Headquarters in early October results in reports on major outlets such as Sky News, Al Jazeera, AFP, the Indo Asian News Service, Chosun Biz, RAI News 24, and the Xinhua News Agency.
Talking about ITER communication
Articles, conferences, videos, visits? At ITER Headquarters once a year, communicators from all Domestic Agencies plus the ITER Organization meet to discuss how best to keep stakeholders and members of the public informed about ITER.
A new team of problem solvers on site
Since March, the HIT team (for Holistic Integration Team) has been working to prepare for assembly and installation activities in the Tokamak Complex by reviewing—by building and level—each area and checking for clashes between systems or other constructability issues. Participants have been chosen from the engineering and construction departments at ITER, the European Domestic Agency buildings team, contractors, suppliers, and the Domestic Agencies.
Shapers of European science
The autumn assembly of the EIROforum takes place at ITER early October. The forum reunites eight European intergovernmental research organizations (CERN and ESA among them) in support of European science and the fostering of innovation and technology transfer.
200 million years ago at ITER
Foreman Christopher Lebreton spotted one rock with a difference among the many excavated recently in underground gallery works—the circular imprint of a prehistoric ammonite. The limestone strata where the fossil was found can be dated back 120-200 million years.
ITER's portable cinema
The ITER Organization's new cinematic booth—featuring curved screens with ITER construction and manufacturing videos playing in repeat mode—is a hit in September at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference.
Large turnout for 8th ITER Games
Six hundred participants take part in the eighth edition of ITER Games on 8 September. Sporting events, prizes, lunch under the plane trees, and activities for children were the highlights of this all-day event for members of the ITER community and nearby residents.
US Secretary of Energy meets American staff
US staff members meet in July with Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and US Ambassador to France and Monaco Jamie McCourt. In addition to this brief exchange, the delegation sat down with management and took part in an extensive walking tour of the worksite.
Learning French while in France
As part of the Intercultural Program run by Agence Iter France, ITER staff members and their spouses have the opportunity to study the language of project host, France. Now ten years old, the program has been awarded the European Language Label for quality and innovation in teaching. In July, a ceremony is held at ITER Headquarters to recognize all certificate earners.
The precious liquid of life
One can see the village of St. Julien le Montagnier from ITER; it is only a few kilometres away. But, little was known at ITER about the villagers' ingenuity and creativity in dealing with the local water scarcity. Mayor Emmanuel Hugou (left) and ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot opened an exhibition detailing the history of the village's water management challenges and solutions. The exhibit was developed under the lead of Alain Amedeo (right), president of the Association of the Old Village of St. Julien le Montagnier.
Tackling the highest road in Europe
This June, ITER's cycling enthusiasts took on the highest paved road in France, the Cîme de la Bonette, which runs at 2,800 metres above sea level near Barcelonette in the Alpes-des-Haute-Provence department. The 33 riders managed an elevation difference of 1,700 metres on a distance of 33 kilometres. The return must have been fun ...
A new Council Chair
Arun Srivastava, from India (second from right), presides over his first Council as Chair on 20-21 June 2018 (IC-22). The Chairmanship of the Council rotates between the ITER Members. Looking back, it has been presided by: Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, Europe (IC-1 to IC-5); Evgeny Velikhov, Russia (IC-6 to IC-9); Hideyuki Takatsu, Japan (IC-10 to IC-13); Robert Iotti, United States (IC-14 to IC-17); Won Namkung, Korea (IC-18 to IC-21).
Prehistoric animals come to life at ITER
In June, science journalist Pedro Lima introduces ITER staff to the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet Cave in southern France as mammoths, wolly rhinoceroses, bears and horses drawn in astounding artistic perfection come to life on the screen. He draws parallels between the cave art and ITER—for him both represent the apex of human imagination, ingenuity and technology advancement at a given point in civilization.
ITER-related construction jobs advertised locally
More than 500 jobs were on offer on 14 June, as companies involved with ITER construction and assembly advertised for foremen, engineers, security specialists, welders, boilermakers, pipe-fitters, mechanics, shift supervisors, draftsmen and women, maintenance technicians and more.
Young engineers at work
They may seem like toys. But the robots created by the 600 middle and high school students competing in 64 teams were created to solve real problems: overcoming remote handling challenges resembling those at ITER. Already in its 7th year, the ITER Robots competition, organized by Agence Iter France and the ITER Organization, allows for a playful approach to teaching about the future of energy, creative engineering and teamwork. For the first time this year, the successful concept was introduced to primary schools in the region as ITER Robots Junior (photo).
A good day for photos
For the 700 visitors on ITER's 12th Open Doors Day in May 2018 the trip down into the Tokamak Pit was the absolute highlight. They also saw the new Visitors Centre and the first giant assembly tool in the Assembly Hall.
It took Gieljan de Vries just a regular microwave oven to create a plasma. De Vries, from the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), brought the Fusion Road Show to ITER's Open Doors Day to explain plasmas, magnetic confinement and fusion—a perfect crash course for visitors ahead of the ITER site tour.
Fusion pursuit (not so trivial)
A group of young fusion enthusiasts has managed to put the Sun in a box ... a game box that is. Their board game, modelled after Trivial Pursuit, asks questions on the ITER machine, plasma physics and more as a way to make learning about the project easy and entertaining. Calling themselves Young Generation Fusion, they use their game at trade fairs and conferences. Unfortunately, there are no copies for sale ...
ITER goes manga
In the first manga about the world's largest fusion project, art lover Taiyô Tenno meets scientist Soléane in the south of France and learns about fusion and ITER. The manga, titled "A small sun on Earth" and produced by the Japanese Domestic Agency, can be downloaded at this address in Japanese, French and English: http://www.fusion.qst.go.jp/ITER/comic/page1_1.html.
Concrete insights
After an in-house lecture on nuclear buildings, ITER staff enjoyed some hands-on experience. Seismic pads, embedded plates, rebar segments and different kinds of concrete aggregates were available for close inspection.
Engineers of the future
Fifty students from the Politecnico di Milano University spend a day at ITER in March. All are studying for their Master's in nuclear engineering.
ITER airborne
On an 11-hour transatlantic flight between Frankfurt and Houston passengers were introduced to the ITER Project by Communications representative Sabina Griffith. ITER was one of several projects presented as part of a Lufthansa FlyingLab on digitalization and high technology.
All in a week's work, for an intern
Camylle Jordan only spent a week at ITER, but in that time she was able to test the proposed curriculum for the "junior" segment of the next ITER Robots competition and learn the basics of SolidWorks ®, a Computer Assisted Design tool. ITER Robots is an annual school contest in which students imagine, design and program small robots to perform ITER-like maintenance activities.
ITER in Texas
The 184th conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) took place in Austin, Texas, in mid-February and ITER was there. The virtual reality tour of project construction proved especially popular ...
Getting to a meeting by Twizy ...
A new way to get around ITER: by Twizy! Four of these small electric cars produced by Renault have been made available to employees for travel between office buildings.
New technology series
A new weekly lecture series is underway at ITER Headquarters, in which the ITER systems are presented in turn to an in-house audience of non-specialists. During a presentation on ITER vacuum and pumping systems a number of demonstrations were put on to show that technology can be both understandable and fun.
"Voice of America" and 10 other interviews
The very week the ITER Organization announces that it has completed 50 percent of the total work scope to First Plasma, Director-General Bernard Bigot was in Washington D.C. for a series of high-level meetings. He takes time out to answer media requests; here he is seen in the studios of "Voice of America."
European Domestic Agency celebrates 10 years
On 30 November, a celebration is held at the European Domestic Agency in Barcelona, Spain, to pay tribute to the work of staff, the collaboration of European companies and laboratories, and European stakeholders over the past 10 years in support of the ITER Project. The European Union (through Euratom) is responsible for 45.6 percent of the costs of ITER construction.
Our fifth group of Monaco Fellows
Through a partnership signed with the ITER Organization, the Principality of Monaco provides the funding for five Postdoctoral Fellowships every two years. A new campaign will be launched late 2017 for two-year positions starting in 2018 (applicants from the ITER Members or the Principality of Monaco only).
A cherry tree for the neutral beam test facility
To celebrate the completion of component deliveries from Japan to the ITER neutral beam test facility in Padua, Italy, a Japanese cherry is planted on the site of Consorzio RFX (host to the facility) in November.
End-of-term for Council Chair
In the margins of the November ITER Council meeting, Won Namkung is thanked for the leadership and dedication shown during his two-year term as Council Chair (term ending 31 December 2017).
A stand at the COP23
The ITER Organization is present at the 23rd United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP23, from 6 to 17 November 2017. The stand is situated in the Bonn Zone, where scientists, industry, and organizations present their initiatives for a cleaner, greener world.
Front-row experience
For the 11th edition of the ITER Open Doors Day, on 21 October, the ITER Organization and the European Domestic Agency teamed up to allow 750 members of the public experience ITER first hand. The highlight of the visit? Standing where the ITER machine will turn on in 2025 (picture).
Architect/Engineer ENGAGE wins prize
The ENGAGE consortium—selected in 2010 by the European Domestic Agency as Architect/Engineer for the elaboration and design of the ITER buildings—wins a prestigious French award for engineering. The "Grand Prix de l'Ingénierie/Prix Industrie & Conseil en Technologies" recognizes engineering projects that are remarkable in terms of scope, innovation and complexity.
ITER at 10
The ITER Organization was established ten years ago, on 24 October 2007. A week ahead of the official anniversary, part of the ITER staff, now numbering 800, gathered for a "family photo" on the edge of the construction site. Photo: ITER Organization/Gérard Lesenechal
A great way to start the day
Early October, Japanese staff and contractors treated their colleagues to a typical Japanese breakfast on the fifth floor of ITER Headquarters. Cultural breakfasts like this one are organized regularly through the intercultural program run for ITER by Agence Iter France.
Discovery days at ITER
During ITER's 2017 Media Days, journalists from China, Europe, Korea, North America and Russia had the opportunity to climb into—and photograph—the "pit" where the assembly of the ITER machine will kick off next year. After two days of site visits, interviews and lectures, the journalists had everything they needed to return home and tell the ITER story.
At the first edition of the "me Convention" in Frankfurt, Germany, sponsors Mercedes-Benz and SXSW (South by Southwest) invite "pioneers, thought leaders, adventurers, artists and game changers" for a critical dialogue about the future. ITER's Gregory De Temmerman, physicist in the Divertor & Plasma-Wall Interaction Section, was there to present fusion and the ITER Project.
A day of friendly competition: ITER Games
Some 350 people take part in the seventh ITER Games on 9 September—a mix of "ITER people" and residents from local communities, teamed up with colleagues or with friends to compete in a number of friendly sporting events. Photo: Agence Iter France
Completing the circle: fusion and Sakhalin Island
In late August, Canadian film director and producer Mila Aung-Thwin (EyeSteelFilm) brings his documentary on fusion and ITER to Sakhalin Island, Russia—the very place where the idea of a device to produce energy through magnetic confinement fusion was invented in 1950 by soldier Oleg Aleksandrovitch Lavrentiev. "Let There Be Light, The Hundred Year Journey to Fusion Energy" has been touring film festivals since March.
An unexpected visitor
Early in August, the well-known actor, director and producer John Malkovich makes a stop at the ITER exhibition at the Kazakhstan World's Fair. The 110-square-metre exhibition has been a popular attraction within the French Pavilion since it opened on 10 June.
Schumann meets science
In the framework of a partnership this year between the ITER Organization and the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the ITER community was treated on 17 July to a concert in the amphitheatre. On the program: short pieces by Schumann, Sibelius, and Purcell, sung by a bass-baritone (Evan Hugues) accompanied on the piano by Helio Vida. The Festival d'Aix is a world-renowned summer music festival devoted to lyric opera.
3-million-hour lunch
The VFR consortium (Vinci, Ferrovial, Razel Bec) held a barbeque for all employees on 29 June to celebrate three million hours worked in the framework of the TB03 contract. TB03, which includes the construction of the Tokamak Complex and eight other buildings, is about half way to completion.
EXPO 2017 opens in Astana
The 2017 World's Fair opens in Astana, Kazakhstan on 10 June. One of the highlights of the French Pavilion, the ITER stand receives its first ... amazed ... visitors.
On 23 May, the Canadian documentary "Let there be light" is presented to ITER staff in the presence of film director and producer Mila Aung-Thwin (EyeSteelFilm). This 90-minute documentary about the quest for fusion energy has been competing at international film festivals since February.
Strong participation in the ITER Robots contest
Six hundred students from 27 schools participated in the sixth edition of ITER Robots in May. This contest, organized annually by Agence Iter France and the ITER Organization, tests students in engineering and robotics, but also in their knowledge of the ITER Project.
Open Doors Day, May 2017
Eight hundred visitors signed up for the latest ITER Open Doors Day, held on 20 May. Highlights this year included a visit to the European winding facility for poloidal field coils and another to the Tokamak Building worksite (pictured).
Astana here we come
On Saturday 10 June, the World's Fair will open for the first time in the central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan ... and ITER will be there. Work is underway now to build the 100-square-metre exhibit. (See this link for more information: http://www.iter.org/newsline/-/2713)
Ideas worth sharing
The day before the TEDxAix Conference, held on 28 April near ITER in Aix-en-Provence, France, a large group of participants and sponsors were received for a visit on site. Bringing people together people from multiple cultures and sectors to "rethink tomorrow," TEDxAix was broadcast live in the ITER amphitheatre.
Dream turning into reality
Former Council Chair Chris Llewellyn Smith stopped by ITER in early April and took a tour of the construction site. "I can say that today I saw the dream turning into reality!"
Visiting the worksite, before discussing business
Three busloads of participants visit the worksite before the start of the ITER Business Forum 2017, held off site in Avignon, France. For many, their companies or institutes are already contributing to the realization of ITER; others are interested in finding out more about opportunities.
Taking stock of progress on an Indian contribution
During a half-day visit to ITER, India's Ambassador to France and the Principality of Monaco, His Excellency Mohan Kumar (second from right), made sure to meet with the team in the Cryostat Workshop and take stock of assembly progress on the ITER cryostat, a major Indian contribution to the project.
Mission accomplished: 4 days, 40,000 Lego bricks, 1 Tokamak
Two students from Kyoto University (Konishi Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Energy) are successful in building a Lego model of the ITER Tokamak in the lobby of ITER Headquarters in March. Taishi Sugiyama and Kaishi Sakane did it with four days and 40,000 Lego bricks at their disposal, plus the encouragement of a steady stream of observers!
Kazakhstan expresses interest in collaboration
Representatives of Kazakhstan's nuclear institutions visit ITER in February 2017 and evoke the possibility of a legal cooperation framework that would enable the ITER Organization to access the KTM (Kazakhstan Material Testing) tokamak for the testing of plasma-facing materials.
Passionate about physics ... and ITER!
Finalists to France's annual Physics Olympics have the opportunity to visit ITER on 26 January. These high school students, representing some of the 25 teams selected at the level of regional competitions, will be presenting self-designed physics projects to a jury of scientists in Marseille.
Progress at the PRIMA neutral beam test facility
ITER's powerful neutral beam injection system will be tested in advance of operation at the PRIMA neutral beam test facility, in Padua, Italy. The buildings have been completed by host lab Consorzio RFX and component installation is progressing well. ITER's Gyung-Su Lee (far right), Deputy Director-General and Chief Operating Officer, visited in January.
Fun at Council
There is now a new way to follow ITER construction progress: an aerial tour that allows the viewer to fly over the site as well as enter specific buildings and zones under construction. The tool is accessible through the home page of the ITER website as well as through the view box pictured here (fitted with a smartphone) that was previewed at Council.
Members of Parliament (EU) visit
On 24 October, six Members of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee of the European Parliament spent the day at ITER, meeting the ITER Director-General, visiting the design offices and the construction site, and exchanging with staff and contractors from the European Domestic agency.
2016 Fusion Energy Conference
In October, ITER staff members attend the Fusion Energy Conference in Kyoto, Japan. This rendezvous for fusion researchers is organized every two years by the International Atomic Energy Agency to highlight worldwide advances in fusion theory, experimental results, technology, engineering, safety and socio-economics.
Women in Nuclear at ITER
Mid-October, ITER receives a delegation from the non-profit association Women in Nuclear (WIN) France, part of a vast global network that aims to promote nuclear science and engineering to women and young people. The group was hosted on a blustery day by Deputy Director-General Eisuke Tada (centre) and Françoise Flament, head of ITER's Procurement & Contracts Division and winner of the WIN France 2016 award (in green).
Autumn open doors
600 people visit ITER on 8 October 2016 as part of Open Doors Day. Highlights this year include a stop inside the 60-metre-tall Assembly Hall where the first specialized tools will be installed next year.
Media Days at ITER
Annually, the ITER Organization invites journalists from the Members for a two-day media event. This year (6-7 October), one of the programmed activities is a visit to the CNIM manufacturing facility in Toulon, France (pictured), where 35 radial plates are being fabricated for Europe's toroidal field coils. Cameras are welcome.
School books from Japan
In September 2016, the Japanese Domestic Agency delivers a large number of books and teaching materials to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur International School (the "ITER school"). This is the third book donation made by ITER Japan to the Japanese language section and its pupils since the school opened in 2007.
Fusion research activities have a new home in Japan
On 23 September, Johannes Schwemmer (left), head of the European Domestic Agency, and Yoshinori Kusama (centre), head of the Japanese Domestic Agency, sign amendments for four Procurement Arrangements. The signings are the first for the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) in Japan which, in April 2016, took over the fusion research and development activities of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.
The Prince's Fellowship
Four generations of Monaco Fellows gather for a group photo during the visit of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco on 21 September 2016. All started at ITER under a two-year fellowship financed by the Principality under the terms of a 2008 Partnership Arrangement. Four are current Monaco Fellows; the others were hired by the ITER Organization at the term of their fellowships.
A day of games
On Saturday 10 September, 450 people participate in the sixth edition of ITER Games, choosing between football, running, mountain biking, kayaking, tennis and an activity that is characteristic of the region--pétanque (a form of lawn bowling).
Computer donation from ITER
On Monday 4 July, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot visited the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur International School to hand over 12 computers that were no longer needed, in hope that they would go to good use. It was a notable moment for the school, and Director Bernard Fronsacq thanked the ITER Organization for its generosity, saying that the computers would be used for exams, tests and other purposes. (Text provided by Elyse Onstott, ITER intern)
With an interest in nuclear energy and the project
25 students and young professionals from the field of nuclear energy visit ITER on 29 June 2016. The visit, and meeting with the ITER Director-General, took place in the context of the Atoms for the Future event, organized annually in Paris by the French Nuclear Society Young Generation Network.
Making it to the top, for ITER
In June 2016 riders from the ITER cycling group, and friends, took to the French Alps. In their 57 km loop they made it to the top of the Alpe d'Huez, one of the most mythical climbs of the Tour de France with an average slope of 8.6%.
Former Director visits site
Director-General Emeritus Osama Motojima paid a visit to the ITER Organization in June 2016 and toured the worksite to see the status of construction. Mr Motojima was ITER Organization Director-General from July 2010 to February 2015.
Shipped from across the sea
In the margins of the Eighteenth ITER Council, a ceremony is held on site to mark the arrival of the first major in-kind component from China—a 300-tonne electrical transformer for the pulsed power electrical network. Two more are expected before the end of the year.
A special visit for 24 special students
Two weeks after their victory 2016 ITER Robots remote handling trials, 24 junior high students from a school in Salon de Provence (Collège Jean Bernard) were invited by the ITER Organization and Agence Iter France for a tailor-made visit to ITER, including a visit to the worksite and encounters with scientists, engineers and the ITER Director-General.
Fifth ITER Robots contest draws a crowd
On 25 May, the ITER Robots contest organized by Agence ITER France, in close collaboration with the ITER Organization, the French Aix-Marseille Academy, and the Magnetic Fusion Institute IRFM, attracts over 500 high school students (30 teams). As part of a for-credit school project, the teams design and program Lego robots to accomplish a number of ITER-like remote handling tasks.
Bikes at ITER
Just in time for spring, ITER has inaugurated a new bike path—the fastest, and healthiest, way to travel between office buildings. Leading the first group of bikers is Director-General Bernard Bigot.
Fusion Masters
Two graduate programs in fusion science were at ITER on 15 February. Seventy Masters students, their professors, and institute heads from the French Education for Plasma and Fusion Sciences federation and the European Erasmus Mundus Fusion-EP program gathered for the signing of a Partnership for education in plasma and fusion sciences—13 French universities and grandes écoles are now signatories. (Learn more about the program on the Education section of the ITER web: https://www.iter.org/education).
Marseille Winter School stops by
Over 100 graduate students and postdocs studying porous materials in nuclear engineering applications visit ITER on 28 January 2016 as part of a week-long Winter School organized by the Aix-Marseille University and the joint CNRS-MIT laboratory <MSE²>, with the support of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI).
School receives gifts from China
In January, a delegation from China visits the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur International School, where ITER children are taught in French and in a second language (Chinese, English, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish). The delegation visited classrooms and delivered a donation of books for the Chinese Section.
All-staff photo—first in four years
642 staff are currently directly employed by the ITER Organization. On 21 January 2016 at least 500 of them turn out for a historic all-staff photo in the Cryostat Workshop on the occasion of the Director-General's New Year wishes. In the background, the first ITER machine components are stored.
Provencal tradition, with a twist
Santons (from the Provençal "santoun," or "little saint") are hand-painted figurines that represent the Christmas nativity scene and various characters from Provençal village life such as the lavender seller, the mayor and the scissors grinder. ITER added a new figurine this year: the plasma physicist, complete with an ITER badge.
First plasma at Wendelstein 7-X
ITER staff assembled in the amphitheatre on Thursday 10 December to watch a live stream of the successful first plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany. Wendelstein will be starting its experimental campaign in 2016 after nine years of construction and one year of integrated testing.
Climate conference in Paris: ITER was there!
The ITER Project was present at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the COP21, held in Paris in early December. In a pavilion dedicated to low-carbon solutions (The Galerie), ITER staff interacted with representatives of the energy sector, country delegations, journalists and bloggers.
ITER's #1 guide
ITER welcomes 800 people on Saturday 21 October for its seventh Open Doors Day event. Some of the guests are given a tour of the construction site by ITER's #1 guide: ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot.
Catch them young, as the saying goes. This little boy is clearly ready to walk in his Dad's footsteps... On Wednesday 23 September, ITER staff members had the opportunity to invite their families to the workplace for lunch and a tour of the offices. The sound of little feet in the corridors and high-pitched voices calling out their food orders in the canteen certainly altered the usual ambiance at ITER Headquarters for a few hours.
Success at the ITER Games, 2015 edition
Four hundred people take part in the 5th ITER Games, held in Vinon-sur-Verdon on 12 September 2015. By joining the running, kayaking, tennis, bubble foot or pétanque events—or just supporting the athletes—participants have the opportunity to interact with others working for the ITER project or living locally. Photo: AIF-AP
80 superconductivity specialists on site
Eighty participants to the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS (Lyon, France) make the three-hour trip to the ITER site in September, visiting on the very day the Assembly Building roof is lifted into place. ITER's giant superconducting magnet systems (10,000 metric tons) make up fully one-third of the machine's weight.
Where there is a will, there is a way (up)!
The Tour de France will skip the Mont Ventoux in 2015, but the ITER cycling team took up the challenge at the end of June — for the third time. In the early morning hours they left Bédoin (275 m) at the base of the famous barren mountain. Upon their arrival at the top (1912 m), they proudly unrolled their banner: Angie Hunt, Frederic Escourbiac, Rene Raffray, Ingo Kuehn, Colin Smith, Louis Sexton, Sabina Griffith (support), Joo-Shik Bak, Hyun-Sik Chang and Ryan Hunt. Bravo!
From Switzerland, Italy and Spain
From as far away as Switzerland, Italy and Spain (and as near as the neighbouring villages), 800 visitors flocked to the ITER Open Doors Day on Saturday 30 May. Held twice a year, the public event is the occasion to visit the construction site, meet ITER specialists, and find answers to questions about one of the world's largest collaborative efforts in science.
Industrial rendez-vous
Representatives of 137 international companies attend the ITER Assembly and Installation Information Day on 21 May 2015. During the day-long program, the ITER Organization presents the planned work scope of the assembly and installation phase of ITER construction, as well as tender rules and regulations and specific work packages. ITER assembly kicks off in 2017.
Winning isn't everything
For the fourth consecutive year, Agence Iter France and ITER Organization hold the day-long ITER Robots competition, during which five junior high teams and five high school teams compete with their Lego robots in an ITER-like remote maintenance task. Only one team in each category can win, but all participants gain valuable experience in engineering concepts, robotics and team work.
60 journalists spend two days at ITER
Sixty members of the international press visit ITER in May 2015 for a two-day program of presentations, interviews and visits. One of the highlights is the worksite tour, with stops at the Tokamak Pit and the manufacturing facility for ITER's largest magnet coils.
On 4 March 2015, Osamu Motojima, ITER Director-General from 2010 to 2015, bids goodbye to staff and colleagues in the ITER amphitheatre. "I thank you for your huge contribution to the ITER Project, I celebrate the new Director-General Bernard Bigot, and I sincerely wish for the success of the ITER Project."
Vacuum lab opens at ITER
In January, a fully functional vacuum laboratory is inaugurated in the basement of ITER Headquarters. The room is equipped with component and material qualification equipment and can also be used to train employees in vacuum testing (specifically leak testing).
Give blood ... give life
The first ITER blood donation campaign takes place on 11 December 2014 at Headquarters. The successful initiative will be renewed approximately every six months.
The mayor of Saint Paul-lez-Durance—the southern French town (pop. 800) that hosts the ITER Project—delivers his annual holiday gift to the ITER Organization on 3 December 2014. Roger Pizot, pictured here with ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima (left), is a frequent visitor to the ITER site.
Second major public event of 2014
Curiosity about ITER is growing. To satisfy the public's increasing demand for information about the project the ITER Organization now organizes two Open Doors Day events during the year, hosted by ITER staff members volunteering as guides. On Saturday 4 October, rotating buses brought some 1,300 people to the platform for a glimpse of Tokamak foundations.
Edition #4 - ITER Games
The ITER Games return for edition #4 on Saturday 13 September. Employees and contractors from the ITER Organization, Agency ITER France and the European Domestic Agency (F4E) join residents from the nearby villages for a day of friendly competition in football, tennis, pétanque, cross-country and kayak (pictured: some of the runners). Photo: AIF - AP
A large delegation of engineers visits ITER
Sixty-five members of the Ingenieurs and Scientifiques de France (IESF)/British Section visit ITER on 5 September 2014. A day-long program of presentations on the nuclear safety aspects of the project, fusion technology, the engineering challenges of building ITER and the deuterium-tritium fuel cycle concluded with a tour of the construction site. ¶IESF is an association dating back to 1848; the British Section was founded in 1919 by members of the British Army returning from the war. The IESF embraces a broad spectrum of engineering and scientific organizations throughout France and elsewhere in Europe.
ITER opens its doors to the public in May
For the fourth annual ITER Open Doors Day, a total of 1,200 local visitors are bussed onto the ITER construction site for a close-up view of work in progress. Close to the Tokamak Complex Seismic Pit, building specialists are on hand to explain the technique behind supporting nearly 400,000 tonnes of building, equipment and machinery on 493 seismic pads made of elastomer and stainless steel.
Learning about ITER
During a two-day press trip organized at ITER Headquarters in early May 2014, a group of 40 international journalists gets an in-depth introduction to ITER. As part of the program, the journalists visit the construction site, the Tore Supra tokamak (pictured) at the neighbouring CEA research centre, and a European manufacturing facility located near Toulon France (CNIM) where series fabrication has started for the toroidal field radial plates.
And the strongest robot is ...
The third edition of the ITER Robot contest is held on 6 May 2014 at the Lycée des Iscles in Manosque. After nine months spent imagining, designing and programming their Lego robots to complete a series of ITER-like robotics tasks, ten teams—five from junior high school and five from high school—had the opportunity to put them to the test in front of a jury made up of professionals. The initiative is organized annually by Agence Iter France and the Remote Handling Section of the ITER Organization.
Song and games at Korea Day
Friday 21 March was Korea Day. The ITER community was treated to Korean culinary specialities, traditional song, and the opportunity to try out the games tuho, yutnori or jegichagi. Regular Member day events are the opportunity to celebrate the diversity of ITER cultures.
Fire Drill!
ITER staff and contractors return to their offices after an early morning fire drill on 11 March. For this regular safety exercise, only a few minutes are necessary to empty the building.
Lunch with Mom or Dad
"It's good!" "It's like the Club Med!" Wednesday 26 February was Family Lunch Day at the ITER cafeteria and by all accounts the selection and quality of the food at the ITER Organization was a step above that which can be found at school cafeterias ... As part of a new initiative, ITER staff can now register (by small groups) to invite their spouses and children to Headquarters for a tour around and lunch. The next Family Lunch Day will take place in approximately four weeks.
Questions and answers at the all-staff meeting
In the days following every high-level governance meeting, ITER management convenes staff to the auditorium to present the outcome. On Tuesday 18 February 2014, an all-staff meeting takes place to discuss the result of the extraordinary session of the ITER Council held on 13 February.
Heralding the approach of winter holidays
For Christmas Lunch, on Friday 13 December, the ITER band takes to the cafeteria to share holiday favourites and communicative good cheer. See you again in the New Year!
Thanksgiving at ITER
Friday 22 November 2013 was US Member Day. As part of the celebration the ITER canteen served a traditional Thanksgiving meal—complete with turkey and gravy, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.
Staff recognized for improvement contributions
A program launched at the ITER Organization in 2012 encourages staff members to seek efficiencies by simplifying procedures and practices in their everyday work. On 7 October 2013, the Improve (IT)² program celebrated a first round of good tips and advice, recognizing nine staff members who had made important improvement contributions.
Third ITER Games
The third edition of the ITER Games takes place on Saturday 7 September 2013 in Vinon-sur-Verdon. Participants from local sporting clubs, the ITER Organization and contractors competed in football, tennis, table tennis, pétanque, running, and white-water rafting.
Cafeteria is occupied, lunch outside!
On 6 September 2013, the ministerial-level Council meeting fully occupies all of the available space in the new Headquarters building—Council Room, lobby and cafeteria. ITER staff and contractors are invited to a buffet lunch outdoors.
ITER Member Day: Russian dancing and celebration
On 19 July 2013, ITER celebrates Russia, with live entertainment, a special canteen menu, and general good cheer.
ITER band plays for the summer solstice
Ten members of the ITER band liven things up at lunch on the longest day of the year—also celebrated across France and Europe as the Fête de la Musique.
A traditional Indian blessing for the Cryostat Workshop
During a groundbreaking ceremony held on 6 June for the Cryostat Workshop, coconuts were symbolically broken—and their meat shared among the guests—before a large excavator symbolically scratched the earth.
Open Doors 2013
For two hours at the beginning of ITER's Open Doors Day on 1 June 2013 the tours were reserved for staff and families. Guests were invited this year to stop at the Visitors' Centre overlooking the platform and to visit the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility.
ITER Robots, second year
Twelve schools participate in the second edition of the ITER Robot contest held on 16 May at the Lycée des Iscles in Manosque. Five junior high and seven high school teams passed an initial selection process to enter their Lego robots, programmed to complete a series of ITER-like robotics tasks, in the contest. The initiative is organized annually by Agence Iter France and the Remote Handling Section of the ITER Organization.
International school celebrates Europe
The colours of Europe are raised on Monday, 13 May at the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Manosque to celebrate the political construction of the European Union. The international school (50% ITER children, instruction in 10 languages) welcomes a pan-European and international student body—27 nationalities are represented.
Music and song for Japan Day
For Japan Day, held on 4 March 2013, the ITER band learns a new repertoire. Nearly 900 people turn out for this celebration of Japanese culture and cuisine.
Second Unique ITER Team week concludes successfully
Seventy-five meetings and countless open and candid discussions and exchanges ... the second Unique ITER Team week brought the heads of the seven ITER Domestic Agencies on site for five days, creating the conditions for effective decision-making with ITER Organization management.
All-staff meeting
An all-staff meeting was convened by the ITER Director-General on 20 February to inform staff about the creation of a new organizational unit to focus on the construction schedule. The Directorate for Project Control & Assembly will be formed from two Divisions that were formerly part of Central Integration & Engineering.
New in-house conference series
On 29 January 2013, the ITER Organization launches a new, bi-monthly conference series targeted to technical and scientific staff. The series aims to offer high-quality, highly technical lectures related to ITER science and engineering and to "intensify the Organization's academic atmosphere."
Attending the inauguration
On Inauguration Day (17 January 2013), ITER staff watch a live transmission of the unveiling ceremonies from the amphitheatre, before 200 invited guests and 50 journalists join them to listen to the speeches of Commissioner Oettinger (English) and French Minister Fioraso (English and French). A sandwich lunch for 600 was served to staff in the lobby following the event.
New ITER model
A 1:50-scale model of the ITER Tokamak, complete with lights indicating the major sub-systems, takes its place outside of the Council Chamber in January 2013, instantly becoming a point of interest for all visitors to ITER Headquarters.
ITER library opens
The 200-square-metre ITER library opens in January 2013. Scaled to meet the project's needs over the 20-year exploitation of the ITER device, the ITER library has space for 10,000 volumes and vast archival storage facilities.
Tree lighting 2012
The ITER Organization receives a Christmas tree from the municipality of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, which hosts the ITER installation. Roger Pizot, the mayor of Saint-Paul, joins the ITER Director-General for a tree lighting ceremony on 7 December 2012.
Travelling Fusion Expo comes to Aix-en-Provence
During the three-week stay of the Fusion Expo in Aix-en-Provence, France, hundreds of visitors are given the opportunity to discover fusion and ITER, and ask their questions about the international scientific experiment that is under construction just 40 kilometres away ...
The importance of the decree
During the buffet lunch served for ITER Member Day festivities on 23 November 2012, Deputy Director-General for Safety, Quality & Security Carlos Alejaldre spoke to staff about the significance of the official decree signed on 10 November authorizing the ITER Organization to create the Installation nucléaire de base (INB) ITER. "This decree is a binding contract between the French state and the ITER Organization as nuclear operator. It is a contract that we cannot break."
ITER celebrates Europe
On 23 November 2012 the ITER community gathers for the third Member Day of the year, celebrating the culture and traditions of Europe, in the airy setting of ITER's brand-new cafeteria with a capacity for 1,000.
Last passage through CEA-ITER rotogate
The rotogate between the ITER and CEA sites rotated for the last time on Friday 16 November 2012. For nearly four years, this passageway allowed ITER staff to circulate between offices on both sides of the fence. But with the completion of the permanent ITER Headquarters all ITER staff and contractors have offices on the ITER site, and the rotogate is closed.
ITER cafeteria opens
One of the perks of the new Headquarters building is the cafeteria, where Asian, vegetarian, Western, pizza, salad and grill counters please the taste buds of staff from each ITER Member state.
The beginning of a new era
ITER staff take possession of their new Headquarters building in October 2012. In a small ceremony, Director-General Osamu Motojima and his wife are greeted at the building's entrance on 11 October.
1,300 flock to ITER on Open Doors Day
For its second annual Open Doors Day on 6 October 2012, the ITER Organization invited 1,300 people into the Tokamak Pit—a unique occasion before the next-level basemat hides the seismic bearings from view.
ITER Games—reloaded
The second edition of the ITER Games takes place on Saturday 15 September in Vinon-sur-Verdon. Participants from local sporting clubs, the ITER Organization and contractors competed in football, tennis, pétanque, running, and white-water rafting before enjoying a buffet lunch.
Namaste India Day
On 25 July the entire ITER Organization celebrates "Namaste India Day!" the second ITER Member Day featuring Indian culture, music and traditional food.
First ITER Robot contest!
Agence Iter France and the ITER Organization jointly organize the First Student Robot Contest on 19 June 2012. Two local junior high schools participated: the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur International School in Manosque and the Collège Pierre-Gardot in Sainte-Tulle. The 13-14 year olds were given a difficult task: assemble and program their Lego robots to perform an ITER-like remote handling mission. The little machines needed to remove selected blanket modules from the inner wall of the mockup vacuum vessel, and transport them to the nearby Hot Cell Facility.
ITER celebrates China
On 25 May 2012, close to 500 ITER employees gather for China Day—the first of a series of ITER Member Days that celebrate the unique, multicultural work environment of ITER and offer ITER employees the occasion to discover each other's cultures and traditional foods.¶
ITER management assembles over 400 employees and contractors in January 2012 for an all-staff meeting to begin the year. "In 2012 our overarching aim will be to improve the project's performance and efficiency," says Deputy Director-General Rich Hawryluk. "ITER has grown up from the ground and now the organization and infrastructure to deliver the construction project is established. The organizational future lies in completing the construction of ITER in a manner that is safe, and which offers best value for money by incorporating measures and processes for operational excellence."
First Open Doors Day at ITER
On Saturday 15 October 2011, ITER holds its first Open Doors event for the local public. During the course of the day, close to 800 people are given a free one-hour, guided tour the ITER site. This event will be renewed for the local community in 2012. In all, nearly 13,000 people visited the ITER site in 2011.
First ITER Games held in neighbouring St-Paul-lez-Durance
Close to 250 persons, a mix of people working on the ITER project and residents of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance or Vinon-sur-Verdon, participate in the first edition of the ITER Games, organized by the ITER Organization, the Vinon Durance Sports Club, and Agence Iter France.
ITER community celebrates ITER Day
A commemoration of the decision that brought the ITER project to Cadarache, ITER Day is celebrated on 2 September 2011 by staff and contractors alike on the site of the first platform building: the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility.
Solidarity for Japan
At 14:46 p.m. on 14 March 2011, three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake, ITER employees observe a minute of silence in honour of the victims of the tragedy and as a sign of solidarity for Japanese colleagues.
International school inauguration
The International School of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA), attended by "ITER children" and also local children attracted by the international curriculum, is inaugurated on 24 January 2011 in the presence of Michel Vauzelle, president of the PACA Region.
The ITER flags are raised
On 1 October 2010, the youngest employees from each of the seven ITER Members hoist their respective flags in front of the temporary ITER Headquarters building. ITER Director-General Osamu Motojima raises the ITER flag: symbol of a group of nations working together today to make fusion an option for tomorrow's energy needs.
New Director-General addresses staff
One day after his nomination the second Director-General of the ITER Organization, Prof. Osamu Motojima from Japan, addresses ITER staff and contractors.
The ITER band is on hand to provide the ambiance for the first Happy Friday celebration of the year, where light lunch fare is offered to everyone working for the Project.
Prince Albert II of Monaco visits ITER
On 12 January 2010—two years after the ITER Organization and the Principality of Monaco sign a Partnership Arrangement establishing five Postdoctoral Fellowships and a biennial international conference on ITER-related research—His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco visits ITER.
Site preperatory works completed
The ITER flag is raised on 26 June 2009 to celebrate the end of two years of site preparatory works. The 42-hectare ITER platform is now ready to receive the project infrastructure and facilities.
Staff numbers rise in 2009
ITER staff and contractors gather on the completed ITER platform in 26 June 2009. Close to 400 people work as staff for the ITER Organization.
Staff Committee formed
Sign of a maturing organization,the first ITER Staff Committee is elected in January 2009 .
Heaviest snow in 20 years
Works stops and the offices empty out in January 2009 during an exceptionally heavy snowstorm in Provence.
ITER staff photo November 2008
ITER staff gathers in front of temporary accomodations on the CEA site for a group photo in 2008.
Temporary Headquarters inaugurated
The ITER Organization celebrates the inauguration of its new Headquarters: a temporary structure on the ITER site that will be "home" to 300 ITER employees.
Staff visits worksite
Working at ITER doesn't necessarily mean having a front-row seat for construction. In September 2008, buses are organized to shuttle staff from the ITER Organization and the neighbouring Tore Supra Tokamak facility onto the worksite. For many, it was a first close-up view.
Black Wednesday
No email. No internet. No website. No access to documents stored on the server. On 3 September 2008 the ITER server crashes leaving the Organization homebase in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance disconnected from the outside world—for 24 long hours. A power cut on the CEA Cadarache site due to lightening was the cause of the blackout.
Premiere of the ITER band
The 2008 ITER summer party is held in the woods of CEA Cadarache, complete with the ITER band, performing for the first time.
Solidarity after Chinese earthquake
The earthquake that occurs in China's Sichuan Province at 0628 GMT on Monday 12 May 2008 measures 7.8 on the Richter scale. Chinese staff from ITER together with colleagues from Japan and Korea collect money for the earthquake victimes, which they hand over to the Chinese Consulate-General in Marseille.
ITER staff photo February 2008
In February 2008, the ITER team is 219 people strong, representing 22 nations (up from seven people in February 2006).
Getting to know one another
The ITER summer party takes place on 15 September 2007. During an on-site tour, ITER staff and their families have a chance to see the extent of clearing works, underway since January 2007.
The Tour de France!
In July 2007, staff get to an opportunity to see the famed Tour de France up close, as the lead bikers pass along the departmental road that runs adjacent to the ITER site.
Celebrating the "Galette des Rois"
In January 2007, ITER Director-General Nominee Kaname Ikeda and Director of Agence Iter France François Gauché invite staff and families for the traditional New Year's wishes and King's cake.
The ITER team in December 2006
Not too many chairs are needed yet ... the ITER team at the end of 2006 numbers approximately 100 people.
First visitors to the ITER site
At the ITER stand, placed on the exact spot of the future Tokamak, 350 guests from CEA Cadarache learn more about the ITER Project. The visit was planned in the scope of CEA Cadarache's Open Doors Day.
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Honoring Jan Spiller on the 20th Anniversary of Astrology for the Soul
By Stephanie Shea
A bright light dimmed in the astrological realm with the loss of Jan Spiller, who passed on to her next soul assignment in July 2016. The world has lost a compassionate generous being who made helping people a top priority in her work and life. Luckily her spirit and ability to offer practical astrological guidance is still available to us in her many books and through her website. November 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of Jan’s best-seller, Astrology for the Soul, one of the most accessible astrology books ever written. For millions of readers, this life-changing book has been a powerful tool for self-awareness that has helped them to find their unique path to success. Jan felt Astrology for the Soul was her defining work, once saying that she believed she’d incarnated to write it.
While that may be true, Jan dedicated herself to serving others with her spiritual and intuitive gifts in many ways. Though she has a Leo Sun, Jan’s chart contains a powerful Virgo stellium in her 12th house (Mars, Chiron, Mercury, and Jupiter.) It’s clear to see how she was expressing this area of her birth chart throughout her career. As a Virgo rising, Jan’s work ethic made a lasting impression on her colleagues and friends.
“To say she was hard-working is putting it mildly,” said Judith Horton, who edited all of Jan’s books and was a friend for over 40 years. During the last four decades, you’d be hard pressed to find a communication avenue that Jan didn’t pursue to get her teachings out to the public. Jan shared her wisdom through radio shows, TV appearances, books that have been translated into multiple languages, and public speaking engagements (see the sidebar for a complete listing of Jan’s published books and career highlights). Jan’s column, “The Astrological Edge” first ran in Dell Horoscope Magazine in the autumn of 1993, and she wrote if for over two decades before her passing.
Judith Horton remembers the early roots of the “Astrological Edge.” Before it was a regular Dell Horoscope column, Jan wrote a column by the same name in the mid-1980s when Judith was the publisher of Holistic Living News, the first new age newspaper in San Diego. “One day a very striking looking and very confident woman walked into my office and said, ‘I’m Jan Spiller and you need to have my astrology column in your newspaper.’” When Judith read some of Jan’s sample columns she could immediately tell that Jan wasn’t a run-of-the-mill astrologer. Judith decided to run the column, and it became a popular feature. Holistic Living News quickly grew from a circulation of 10,000 to over 85,000 copies distributed all over San Diego county, and with that Jan’s readership and popularity increased.
Whether in writing or in person, Jan had a unique way of helping people gain a greater understanding of themselves and others through astrology. “There was no imitating Jan’s understanding of people and astrology and how that all comes together,” said friend and colleague Henry Seltzer “She was such a bright light.”
“There was a compassion in her view of people. She aimed to see the total picture,” long-time friend Helen Thomas said of the way Jan interacted in her personal and professional life.
“She was so right on. It was mind boggling,” said Jan’s friend and bookkeeper, Nancy Korchick who Jan helped with everything from finding an ideal surgeon to the best date to sell her home. “She was extremely psychic. She just had that gift of knowing.”
A Natural Spirituality
Jan’s younger brother, Teako, remembers Jan as a naturally spiritual child growing up. “I don’t remember her really watching television,” he said. “She would just spend her life in her bedroom sitting cross-legged on the bed, reading or writing.” Teako remembers her as an avid reader and said “the roots of her seeking go way back.” He especially recalls a conversation with Jan where she tried to explain the meaning of infinity to him. “That was the kind of conversation that went on with her,” he said. “She wasn’t talking about Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe.”
By her early 20s, Teako said Jan was defining a lifestyle and attitude for herself what would later be associated with the generational nickname, “Flower Children.” Teako saw Jan as a trendsetter who was ahead of her time. “She was in the Haight-Ashbury before people even knew what the Haight-Ashbury was,” he noted. The exact age that Jan began studying astrology is unknown, but many of her family and close friends think it was one of her interests that began in her youth, along with other modalities of divination including I Ching, Tarot, Palmistry, and Numerology. Teako remembers her as a talented reader who threw the I Ching and read palms at a young age. Her spiritual gifts were remarkable to anyone who was fortunate enough to receive a reading.
Songwriting and Music
While Jan is best known for her groundbreaking work in astrology as a world-renowned author, her life as a musician and songwriter is less widely recognized. Jan learned piano and guitar as a child growing up in San Diego, California. During her early 20s, Jan spent time in both San Francisco and L.A. playing and performing her original songs in coffeehouses. Although she was a lifelong musician, she began to shift her focus to astrology when her readings became in high demand. It became apparent to Jan that astrology was the work that would allow her to help the most people, and she put her energy towards her astrological career. However, she never stopped writing songs, and eventually had a CD of her music recorded by singer Sheri Zucker, titled Unfolding as it Should, which accompanied her book, Astrology for the Soul.
Bob Madeo met Jan in San Diego when they were both playing in a band together in their early 20s. He played guitar and Jan was singing. They quickly began a friendship that would last throughout their lifetime. He remembers Jan as both a songwriter and an astrologer. They lost touch for a few years, but reconnected in the early 1980s when Jan was the manager of KLRO, a radio station in San Diego. It seemed their friendship was meant to be. Just as Jan would continue her lifelong pursuit of music, she kept a close relationship with her former bandmate.
An Inspired and Innovative Author
Bob remembers Jan working on her first book. After hearing a description of the content, Bob suggested that Jan call the book Spiritual Astrology. “I felt that it was really important to keep the energy away from predictions and more towards the soul and the spirit,” Bob said.
In 1985, Jan self-published the first edition of Spiritual Astrology and completely financed the project on her own, something that was a rarity during that time period. In the next few years, Jan teamed up with co-author Karen McCoy to add two more sections to the book, and revised editions were published by Simon and Schuster in 1988 and 2010, thanks to Jan’s promotional skills.
“She pretty much did it herself,” Helen said, describing how Jan represented herself and did all her own negotiations with publishers. Family, friends, and colleagues all noted that Jan was both an excellent astrologer and businesswoman. “There are very few astrologers that make a living at it and make a living at it as she was able to do,” Helen said.
Jan Falls in Love with New York
Shortly after Spiritual Astrology came out, Debra Burrell was working at the New York Astrology Center bookstore when she answered the phone to hear Jan’s “bright and cheery” voice on the other end of the line. Debra spontaneously invited Jan to come to New York since Spiritual Astrology was a top seller. Little did Debra know that encounter would initiate a long-term friendship. Jan later told Debra that there was something about her voice that “made her sit up and pay attention,” and she took that as a sign to visit New York. When Jan got to New York, Debra says she fell in love with the nightlife and took to the city right away.
“This is a hard-working, hard playing city, and that was right up Jan’s alley,” Debra said. After several visits, Jan eventually moved to New York. “She would work during the day writing books and doing astrological consults. But at night she’d get all dressed up and go out.” Jan loved to dance and Regine’s, a high-end nightclub frequented by Andy Warhol and other celebrities, was one of her favorite spots. By this point, Jan was a celebrity in her own right who was known for her best-selling books, television appearances, and articles published in national magazines.
“She’s the most successful astrologer since Linda Goodman,” astrologer Emily Trinkaus remembers her co-worker Rick Levine stating about Jan. “Who else has reached so many people?” Emily remarked.
Astrology for the Soul
Throughout their friendship, Bob often talked astrology with Jan and he remembers conversations with her about the power of the Nodes before Astrology for the Soul was written. “It was such a good idea for her to do a book about working with the Nodes,” he recalled. He and Jan had read Karmic Astrology by Martin Schulman and Bob believes that Schulman’s work was the main inspiration for Astrology for the Soul. “She liked the concepts in Schulman’s book and she expanded on them considerably,” Bob said.
“Working on Astrology for the Soul was one of the most intense experiences of my life,” editor Judith Horton recalled. As she was editing the chapter on her own North Node in Cancer, Judith recognized how powerful this information was for herself. Judith spent the first month on the book coming up with an organizational scheme to best represent what Jan wanted to do. “I had a good understanding of the passion Jan had for helping people,” Judith says of her ability to work with Jan. Because Judith had no understanding of astrology, she helped Jan to make the book accessible to the general public. “She was brilliant,” Judith says of Jan. “You read her astrology books and you read other people’s astrology books and it’s night and day.”
“When I opened the chapter about my node I was totally blown away,” astrologer and former co-worker Emily Trinkaus said. “I’d heard about the Nodes but I’d never read about it in a way that really spoke to me.” Emily, as many astrologers who have embraced Astrology for the Soul, has made Jan’s information on the Nodes a big part of their private practice. “It gave me a huge advantage when I started giving personal readings,” Emily noted.
The Legacy of an Astrologer and Innovator – Memories from the janspiller.com Team
“My introduction to Jan was Astrology for the Soul,” said Jan’s long-time friend and co-collaborator Henry Seltzer. In 1998, Henry was selling Time Passages software at the UAC conference in Atlanta. He went to Jan’s talk about Nodal connections in synastry, and at the end of the talk Jan mentioned that she was looking for a programmer to help get the Nodal synastry information on her website.
Jan agreed to hire Henry to program her Nodal reports and do other programming for the website. That was their first connection, but they became fast friends not too long after that. Jan also published Henry’s astrology reports on her site, and he noted that she offered him a more generous fee than most other astrology sites offered at the time. Henry’s reports, as well as most of the reports Henry programmed for Jan are still available at janspiller.com, leaving a legacy of wisdom for years to come.
Jan’s niece, Lori Nunn, has handled content uploading and customer service for janspiller.com since 2005, but her first memories of Jan are from childhood. “You knew you were loved when she looked at you,” Lori remembers. Even as a teenager, Lori remembers feeling a special spiritual connection with Jan. When they saw each other, they would nearly come to tears. “It wasn’t something you could explain,” Lori said, “and it didn’t happen with anyone else in the family.”
Website bookkeeper Nancy Korchick met Jan in the 1990s as a client. In one of her readings nearly 10 years ago, Nancy mentioned starting a bookkeeping business from home, and Jan hired her shortly thereafter. Jan made the people working with her part of her family. “Most people that work with her, have worked with her for a very long time and they were very special to her,” Nancy noted.
Emily Trinkaus started working for Jan in 2008 as an editor and writer. “The thing I appreciated most about her astrology is that it’s so practical and down-to-earth,” Emily said. “She had such a strong commitment to being of service and empowering people.” It was clear that Jan wanted everyone on her team to be successful. “I feel like I learned so much from her about what it takes to be a good boss and a good leader. She was always coming from love,” Emily added.
I’m the newest member of the janspiller.com team. When I began writing horoscopes for the site towards the end of 2012, I knew I’d landed my dream job. One of the first things that struck me about Jan was the way she signed her emails—“with love.” Maybe it’s my Capricorn Moon, but I found it startling to see the word love in a business correspondence. I noticed right away that the rest of the team followed suit so I adopted the signature as well. At first it felt unnatural, but soon it became obvious that this sentiment couldn’t be more genuine or appropriate for the janspiller.com team. In Jan’s honor, I frequently continue this tradition with the team, my astrology reading clients, and in my personal life. This is one subtle way that Jan changed my life by showing me the human gift of expressing love freely.
To say that Jan Spiller changed my life seems insufficient. But it’s the closest I can come to summing up our relationship. She was much more than an employer. Jan was a mentor, a friend, and a complete inspiration to me. We’d generally be laughing together within a minute of any conversation, even during our last phone call towards the end of her life. I consider this article my “cosmic assignment” from Jan. When turning in my column to Dell Horoscope in May, I suddenly found myself telling editor Ed Kajkowski that I would like to write a tribute article about Jan. For no reason I can think of, I then opened the book cover to Astrology for the Soul and discovered the 20th anniversary of its publishing would be November 2017.
I’m so grateful that I was able to experience such a strong connection to Jan, even without her physical presence, through the conversations I had with her loved ones while researching this article. It’s clear that Jan’s love is present with us now through these precious memories and the living legacy of her work.
Jan’s Career Achievements
THE ASTROLOGY OF SUCCESS: A guide to illuminate your inborn gifts for achieving career success and life fulfillment, 2013.
SPIRITUAL ASTROLOGY: A Path to Divine Awakening / Simon & Schuster, July 1, 2010.
COSMIC LOVE: Secrets of the Astrology of Intimacy / Random House/, January 2008 (now in 3 languages).
NEW MOON ASTROLOGY: The Secret of Astrological Timing to Make All Your Dreams Come True / Random House, October 2001 (now in 9 languages)
ASTROLOGY FOR THE SOUL, Bantam Books, November 1, 1997 (now in 17 languages)
ASTROLOGY FOR WOMEN, Llewellyn Publications, July 1997, a contributing author to the anthology.
SPIRITUAL ASTROLOGY: Your Personal Path To Self-Fulfillment, Simon & Schuster, 1988 (now in its 14th. printing, also published in Spanish, German, Japanese and is currently being translated into French).
ASTROLOGY RADIO & TELEVISION EXPERIENCE
Hostess of The Jan Spiller Show (radio show)
Guest appearance on The Roseanne Show, Women To Women CBS, The Daily Show on FOX television
Hostess of Astrology Education Now (radio show)
Hostess of Ecliptic (television show)
The Good Life (radio show – rotating hostess and daily Singer of original New Age Songs)
ASTROLOGY MAGAZINES
Dell Horoscope, Dell Magazines, largest astrology magazine in the world, regular monthly columnist from 1993 to July 2016.
Cosmopolitan, The Bedside Astrologer (yearly insert in Cosmopolitan), 1999.
Dell Purse Books: Your 1995 Horoscope, Dell Magazines, Featured Article for the entire series, 1995.
New Age Retailer Magazine, trade publication for all the new age bookstores, regular monthly columnist from July 1990 to present.
Globe Midnight Horoscope, Globe Communications, regular columnist (magazine is quarterly) from December 1989 to present.
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Campaign Trail: 10 key races, nearly $1B in ad spending
by Simon Dumenco, AdAge
Throughout the midterm-election season, Ad Age has been issuing regular reports on TV and radio ad spending for key political races across the country. As the tallies grew, we scrambled to find the right words—e.g., "astonishing" and "unprecedented"—to describe what we were seeing. Now that we're at the end of the road, perhaps "obscene" is most apt.
According to the latest Ad Age Datacenter analysis of data from Kantar Media/CMAG, TV and radio campaign spending for just 10 of the most highly contested gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races totaled $967.5 million and counting (from January of last year through Nov. 6, 2018, including advance bookings). If you're reading this after Election Day, it's highly likely that number may have edged past the billion-dollar mark.
Who's to blame for the onslaught? That depends. In Missouri, TV/radio spending for the U.S. Senate seat up for grabs is pretty evenly split between Democrats ($50.5 million) and Republicans ($49.5 million). But in Florida, Republican TV/radio spending ($83.2 million) for the Senate seat in play far exceeds the Democratic outlay ($59.4 million).
Then again, when it comes to Florida's gubernatorial race, Democrats ($93.8 million) have handily outpaced Republicans ($77.2 million). Note: Our tallies include spending by the candidates and their parties, as well as groups, such as PACs, backing the candidates.
There are certain peculiarities to the 2018 midterms that have exacerbated the advertising arms race. For example, Florida's governor, Rick Scott, is term-limited and couldn't run again, so he mounted a wildly expensive race for a U.S. Senate seat instead.
The lack of an incumbent candidate always creates a vacuum that's handy for sucking up campaign-ad dollars, but things got extra nutty when Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum defied all the odds (and polls) to win the Democratic primary. That means millions were wasted by assorted Democratic gubernatorial wannabes who crashed back to Earth when voters chose Gillum to take on Republican nominee Ron DeSantis. The Democratic machine then had to scramble to give the mayor of Florida's seventh-largest city wide exposure. (Tallahassee's population is just 189,907 in a state with 21 million people.)
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CMAG 2018 Midterm Report Card
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KCAP wins 3rd prize in Bao'an G107 Shenzhen
KCAP has won the 3rd prize in the Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition. KCAP, in cooperation with Lay-Out from Shenzhen, developed a strategic framework for the self-evolving incremental regeneration of new urban commons in Shenzhen's economic corridor.
G 107 is a national Chinese highway which will be transformed into UBG 107 - Urban Breeding Ground 107 - a varied and urban concourse, a comprehensive assemblage of tunnels, boulevards and various green and water spaces with dedicated diversity in its transport organization, appearance and urban integration. Combined with a new public transport network it provokes the development of rich and complex urban networks of the entire zone. Where the existing highway is a ‘vector line’, UBG 107 becomes a ‘pixel’, a smart and intelligent breeding ground for urbanity. Where the existing highway is a ‘lifeless line’, UBG 107 is a lively line staging a rich variety of places, centres, connections and networks. It allows the city, communities and landscape to coexist and overlap, to breath and be present in the future.
The present distinctive strengths will be the starting points for its future. Building on its special assets, attributes and advantages the concept combines those with a strategy of ‘platforms’ and ‘ecosystems’. Platforms are public urban environments which offer new possibilities for collaboration and exchange, creating new starting points for a future economy, e.g. in information technology, biotech, digital media or robotic production. Transforming the existing industrial pieces on the site into larger industrial ecosystems of linked (innovative) activities will make the integration of new starting points more effective and also result in more economic resilience in the various clusters.
Rethinking G 107 implied progressing the function, the shape and structure of its ‘economy’, to unveil its distinctive strength and to find new starting points for its future economy and existing industries and communities. This transformation will bring new dynamics to make the linear condition of G107 alive.
KCAP + Felixx win competition to ‘Typhoon-proof’ Shenzhen's East Coast
KCAP + FELIXX have won the international competition for the redevelopment of the 130-kilometer coastline of Dapeng, a green peninsula in the bay between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. In September 2018, the typhoon Mangkhut damaged the infrastructure of the peninsula to various degrees. An international competition was launched to develop a plan to restore the coastline and raise protection standards against the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events. KCAP+FELIXX developed the ‘Triple dike strategy’, a multifaceted dike system that allows for an integrated approach towards the climate adaptive reorganization of the shore. Water safety strategies are connected to eco-development and nature restoration. This creates a resilient framework for social and economic growth. For 32 kilometers of coastline, KCAP + FELIXX is developing this concept into six strategic implementation projects. Realization starts this year, and is expected to be completed in 2021. TRIPLE DIKE The triple dike moves away from a generic protection wall along the coast, towards the creation of three development zones, carefully embedded in current conditions and responding to the specific future needs of every single area. The 1st ‘outer’ dike zone increases the resiliency through wave attenuation, erosion reduction and the enhancement of sedimentation. The 2nd ‘middle’ dike is an elevated embankment, to stop the storm surge and the water pushed up by the waves. It’s not a big wall but a multifunctional zone: an exciting hilly park, an elevated waterfront with urban promenades, a tidal park or even a public building. The 3rd ‘inner’ dike is a hybrid structure which manages the rainwater following the principle of a sponge city. All runoff from adjacent villages and mountains is buffered, delayed and temporarily stored in rain-parks, raingardens, wet forests, wetlands and green streets. A PRODUCTIVE RESILIENCE STRATEGY Dapeng is a mountainous peninsula with lush forests, intersected by riverbeds and creeks, ...
Competing Masterplan Visions for MK:U Revealed
The team HawkinsBrown with KCAP, Grant Associates, BuroHappold Engineering and Sam Jacob Studio is one of the five finalist teams in the MK:U International Design Competition. Today, Milton Keynes Council (MKC), Cranfield University and MK:U International Design Competition organisers, Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC), posted online the five alternative masterplan visions for MK:U, a proposed new model university in the Oxford to Cambridge innovation arc. The proposed new university, which is due to open to its first undergraduates in 2023, will focus on digital economy skills and practical, business-oriented courses; it also plans to offer fast-track two-year degrees. MK:U, a partnership between MKC and Cranfield University, will use the new University Quarter and the wider city as a ‘living lab’ to test out new concepts and ideas, and inspire Milton Keynes’ students and citizens. Benefitting from the last major undeveloped site in the city centre, and mixing university facilities with public spaces, MK:U will also be a destination open 24/7, welcoming the wider community. Five finalist teams are vying to win the competition and their masterplans are now available to view on the competition website. HawkinsBrown with KCAP, Grant Associates, BuroHappold Engineering and Sam Jacob Studio: Milton Keynes originated as a place where knowledge, leisure, culture, technology and nature all come together, and this ambition continues to the present day. Milton Keynes University (MK:U) is a natural next step for the city as it becomes a place of national importance within the Oxford-MK-Cambridge corridor. The original Milton Keynes Masterplan was likened to a net thrown across the English countryside, a layer of woven connections that mediates with the landscape. We have taken this metaphor, the campus as a network of connections embedded within a landscape, to inform a masterplan designed around a series of gardens, courts and vistas. Our design brings people together in a series of flexible ...
KCAP + CAUPD win Longgang Riverfront Competition Shenzhen, China
KCAP and local partner CAUPD have won the Longgang Riverfront Competition in Shenzhen, China. The joint proposal for the 80 ha riverfront area was awarded first prize unanimously by the judges. The award concluded a three stage international competition that started with four international teams. The competition called for a comprehensive transformation strategy and framework design for the entire 46 km2 Longgang waterfront area. This former industrial area is undergoing a fast transformation towards an attractive and innovative area for working and living. The transformation strategy focusses on a strong green-blue network with the so-called river-anchors as new thematic centers on hub locations. In the last stage of the competition process the team zoomed in on one of those areas. The focus area is located on the confluence of two rivers and contains traces of the city’s historical settlements and an existing park. Characteristic for the area are the historic structures of the Hakka, a particular cultural community. This unique position confronted the design team with the challenge of dealing with the past in a meaningful and sensible way. Inspired by Bruce Katz’s principles of ‘new localism’, the concept provides for appealing urban place making. It is rooted in the confined culture and history of the Hakka heritage and at the same time, it defines a respectful transformation of urban villages and industrial areas while integrating the local communities. The design concept provides an innovative and adaptive approach towards the creation of futureproof cities. With the metaphor of the local Banyan tree, the urban concept positions a new central park with culture facilities and a design academy as a centrality at the riverfront. It fully integrates the landscape and the river, while extending its ‘roots’ from the park towards the surrounding Hakka heritage hotspots and the historic city center. The plan introduces a range of ...
KCAP in consortium for winning design iconic residential tower of 140 meters in Utrecht
KCAP is part of the consortium with real estate developer Stadswaarde, Koopmans Bouwgroep (TBI) and J.P. van Eesteren (TBI) and architects Architekten Cie. (Branimir Medic, lead architect), Geurst & Schulze and Karres & Brands that has won the selection for the high-rise development next to the Leidsche Rijn station. The consortium will develop three towers of 80, 100 and 140 metres high. Syntrus Achmea Real Estate & Finance is the anticipated investor for 886 homes. The project will include 1,128 residences in different sectors, approximately 60% social rent (279), medium-priced rent (278) and homes with care facilties (125). In addition, 204 private sector rent and approximately 242 owner-occupied homes will be built. High-rise is not a goal in itself, but it has to deliver a contribution to the dynamics of the city, the quality of life at ground level and contribute to an affordable, social, inclusive society, where people live close to their work with good transport within easy reach. Together with Karres & Brands, the landscape is in fact 'brought to the surface' in the form of a vertical village with a 'tiny forest' at ground level and urban agriculture on the upper floors. The history and specific living quality of the Leidsche Rijn district were the starting points in all aspects of the design. The project will include 3,500 bike parking spaces, a rooftop restaurant, a pool, a sports café, shared laundry facilities, shared guest rooms, flexible workplaces, a kitchen facility for groups, workshops for artists and various other meeting places. An ambitious mobility concept including 100 electric shared cars contributes to the transition of mobility in the future. MARK is social MARK offers the municipality of Utrecht a fantastic place where healthy urban living is stimulated in all its facets. Space has been reserved for common use and facilitating ...
KCAP wins 1st prize 'Planning dialogue Hafner' in Konstanz, Germany
KCAP, in cooperation with the landscape architects Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, traffic planners ARGUS Stadt und Verkehr, and energy and sustainability consultant ENERGY-GROUP.CH, was announced as the winner of the urban design competition for the new development at Hafner in Konstanz, located in the South of Germany at the Swiss border. The plan envisages a mix of 45 ha of residential and 15 ha of commercial areas, including 2.600 apartments for 8.000 inhabitants. They will be set as several quarters into the soft hills of north-western Konstanz, creating a truly green neighbourhood. Within a clear structure, naturally embedded into the landscape, a blend of uses and building typologies offers different residential qualities. After a process of two rounds, in which five competitors out of 20 were shortlisted, a large jury including a wide range of experts unanimously chose the masterplan of the team around KCAP. The mayor of Konstanz, Karl Langensteiner-Schönborn, lauds the proposal: ‘We chose the design with the greatest potential for innovation. The city district will have to be future-proof and adaptable to changes over the next years.’ Also the local inhabitants reacted very positively, not least because of their participation in the process. The development extends the city of Konstanz towards the north-west, setting different typologies in several urban quarters within the landscape. Most of these typologies are flexible enough to allow adaption to different uses in the future. The backbone of the neighbourhood is a connecting ‘green ring’, a wide public space containing protected natural areas, activities, communal gardens, sports facilities and outdoor areas of the public functioning as schools and kindergartens. The ring will work as meeting place, connecting the different parts of the neighbourhood to the existing neighbourhood of Wollmatingen. It is therefore a new type of public space that borrows both from the village and the ...
KCAP + CAUPD selected for final stage in Longgang Riverfront competition Shenzhen, China
KCAP together with local partner China Urban Planning and Design Institute (CAUPD) is selected to proceed to the final stage of the competition for the design of the 46 km2 riverfront area in Shenzhen Longgang. The team’s joint proposal is shortlisted next to team Shenzhen University Planning & Research Institute + CRTKL out of four international competitors. With the key question how to transform the invisible and long forgotten Longgang River into a showcase for innovation, culture, ecology and quality urban life in Shenzhen, our plan focused on creating a flexible transformation framework to deal with the complexity of the riverfront area. Based on this urban concept from the first stage, the final phase asks for a detailed urban design scheme for a site of 50 ha within the larger area.
KCAP in team commissioned for Incheon Inner Harbor redevelopment, South Korea
KCAP, as part of the INHA University Industry-Academy Collaboration Team, is selected for the 464 ha Incheon Inner Harbor redevelopment in South Korea. The team is completed by NOW architects. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries tendered the commission through a competition. The team was selected among 4 national and international competitors. Incheon Inner Harbor calls for redevelopmentThe Incheon Inner Harbor has a long history as an important seaport, but has reduced its activities drastically due to recent changes in domestic and foreign shipping logistics and the establishment of the New Incheon Harbor. By launching the commission, the Ministry aims to initiate the redevelopment of the area. The assignment includes a masterplan for inner harbors 1 and 8 as well as the Urban Renewal New Deal project which prescribes the functional restructuring of the entire inner harbor area to secure public access and anticipate on the urban regeneration of the surrounding old downtown. Re:Open the HarborWith ‘Re:Open the Harbor’, the selected team envisions to re-open the abandoned Incheon Inner Harbor area and transform it into a ‘SMART Harbor City’. It is a place-based urban renewal strategy which will strengthen the identity of the area and aims to give direction to the sustainable development of Incheon Inner Harbor towards the future.
KCAP wins International Cruise Port City competition in Qingdao, China
KCAP has won the competition for the International Cruise Port City masterplan in Qingdao, China. The masterplan provides Qingdao with a high-density mixed-use environment for living, working and cruise tourism and creates a new gateway for the whole region: Qingdao Green Bay. The plan respects, transforms and integrates the heritage of the former port and opens the area towards the historic city. A strong public space framework is the driving force for the overall plan of the future Qingdao Cruise City. Green Bay The Green Bay concept is based on the realisation of the 5 km Green Bay Boulevard. This powerful spatial identity is the backbone of all developments and links the existing city in the south-east to the big bay in the north. It is generously planned with green and urban spaces, water and trees, parks and squares. Along the Boulevard, five central nodes around a park accommodate transport hubs with dense and high-rise developments. From here, a framework for a liveable city unfolds combining walkability and charm with density, efficiency and sustainability. Repair by developmentThe existing harsh infrastructure and lost ecosystems will be transformed into a complex of repaired ecosystems and people friendly resilient urban structures. The design is based on an integrated, layered strategy that maximizes connectivity and ensures a strong and productive relationship with the existing city. ProcessKCAP will further elaborate the winning urban competition scheme and continue to work on the first phase urban and architectural design.
BPD and Van Wijnen select KCAP for the design of a multifunctional building in Rotterdam Katendrecht
BPD and Van Wijnen develop a complex with around 300 apartments, commercial spaces and an underground car park at the Brede Hilledijk in Rotterdam’s district Katendrecht. The developers recently selected KCAP Architects&Planners for the design of this multifunctional building. ‘After careful consideration and in consultation with the municipality, we opted for KCAP. KCAP's vision at this location translates into a 'light' building with special attention for living, encounter, integration with green spaces and connecting with the public space. Especially in these kind of urban areas, attention for the people living in the building is essential. For example, we invest in pleasant living environments which offer possibilities for social interaction,’ says Martijn Bus, developer at Van Wijnen. Positive impulseOver the past eighteen years, Katendrecht has changed from a ‘harbour area' into an attractive area for living and working and is still in transition. In the coming years, the neighborhood Katendrecht Pols will develop into an attractive urban area with more than thousand residences and a new shopping area. With the current success of 'De Kaap' and the striving approach of ‘De Pols’, Katendrecht district will reach a higher level. Paul Becht, Development Manager at BPD: ‘The ambitions here are high. You can only achieve success through good cooperation with the municipality, partners and stakeholders in the area.’ High-quality living and working environment The project is located at the Brede Hilledijk in De Pols of Katendrecht, at the entrance to the district. The building makes a substantial contribution to the ambition to transform this location into a high quality living environment. Renske van der Stoep, Architect at KCAP: ‘We are very happy and proud that we have been selected for this great assignment in our city. We look forward to working with all parties involved in the development. Together we will add something beautiful ...
Selected for second round competition Oberbillwerder Hamburg
Team ‘Vision Oberbillwerder 2030’ has been chosen as one of four participants out of 12 in round 1 to proceed to the second phase of the dialogue based competition process to design a new city quarter for Hamburg. On a site of 120 ha, the teams are asked to develop a mixed-use urban vision with focus on integration of landscape. The process is being accompanied by various participation activities that involve the public. The competition is commissioned by IBA Hamburg and will run until the end of May 2018. Team ‘Vision Oberbillwerder 2030’ consists KCAP, Kunst+Herbert, gmp International GmbH, WES LandschaftsArchitektur and Arup Deutschland. More information can be found on the website of IBA Hamburg.
KCAP and OSLO win competition for residential tower in Strasbourg, France
KCAP, in collaboration with OSLO Architectes, has won the first prize in the architectural design competition for a residential tower in Strasbourg, France. This was announced by the mayor of Strasbourg, Mr. Roland Ries. The tower will be the first and most symbolic building of the new neighborhood ‘Strasbourg, Presqu’ile–citadelle’. With its 57 meters of height, the tower will become a landmark for the area located between the city center of Strasbourg and the river Rhine. It will be developed by SAS-3B. Symbolic landmarkWithin the new dense but low-rise neighborhood with building heights ranging from three to five levels, the tower will be the only high-rise building. Not only will it be overlooking the area and offer stunning views from the apartments. It will also become a new landmark for the city, manifesting a symbolic value for this location where Strasbourg and France are opening up towards Germany. Identity In its architectural expression and with its playful brick facade, the design relates to the local context of the new neighborhood, which is defined by the proximity to the water and the predominance of brick. To emphasise the verticality of the tower, the proportion of the openings is increasing in height and the facades present a colour gradient towards the top. With this façade design and the volume’s composition, the tower marks this prominent spot with its strong and slender appearance. Richness of typologiesStarting from the triangular shape of the plot, the concept is based on a geometrical and functional approach. It offers 73 apartments with a diverse mix of typologies accommodating for various styles of living and users’ needs. The overall height is divided in four parts, each offering a different typology: townhouses on the lower levels, apartments with terraces and panoramic apartments in the middle and duplexes on the top. Each typology ...
Masterplan for Jurong Lake District Singapore unveiled
Rotterdam, 28 August 2017 - The Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has unveiled the masterplan for Jurong Lake District in Singapore, the city’s future second Central Business District. The masterplan is exhibited till mid-September and invites the public to share their views. KCAP Architects&Planners, leading a multi-disciplinary team consisting of SAA Architects, Arup, S333 and Lekker is responsible for many of the key ideas developed in the plan. After the appointment as consultant in early 2017, the team has elaborated the winning design true to concept. The competition design defined key qualities as such that they could be strengthened throughout the integrated design process and now find their full strength. A distinctive identity The ambition is to develop the area into a new mixed-use business area built around the future Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail terminus, which will further anchor Jurong Lake District as Singapore’s second Central Business District. Qualities of the plan are its high-density mixed-use programme which incorporates new waterways and a series of stacked horizontal landscape datum and connections that weave through the entire district to create a distinctive identity for Singapore and its vision as a ‘City in the Garden’. A powerful dialogue between high-density, urban sustainability and heritage The high-density urban typology maximizes vertical urban greenery within a vertical city next to the beautiful Jurong Lake Gardens and creates a streetscape network for active mobility, walkability and interactive public spaces. The integrated, sustainable urban systems maximize the streetscape by proposing to place all major transport and engineering below the city, creating layers of optimized infrastructure and a car-lite district. Existing heritage buildings, landscapes and ecosystems are respected and repurposed in a powerful dialogue with the new development. With its strategic location, open environment and live-work-play programming, the area will become a new gateway to Singapore and can also be the ...
KCAP wins international design competition ‘Sewoon District #4’ in Seoul, Korea
KCAP Architects&Planners has won the international design competition to redevelop ‘Sewoon District #4’ area in Seoul, Korea into a sustainable mixed-use area combining urban manufacturing and respecting its cultural heritage. That was announced by the Seoul Metropolitan Government today. Flexible, people-oriented design that starts from historic and cultural values KCAP‘s plan proposes an integrated approach for the 280.000 m2 of mixed uses including offices, retail, hotel, entertainment, education and medical facilities, preserving the historical structures and at the same time developing a people-oriented urban design to function as a driving force for stimulating craftsmanship in Seoul. The strength of the proposal is the subtle integration of the building mass in the surrounding context, the adequate modulation and connection that creates flexible unit combinations to respond to future demands and lasting place making generated through the preservation of historic traces and buildings. Especially, the proposal of the public anchor program in ground and underground floors to enhance and adapt urban industry is highly appreciated. Process A jury comprising six experts in the field of urban design and architecture from academia and industry selected KCAP out of eight national and foreign offices as the winning team. The president of the jury, Prof. On Young Tae mentioned that KCAP’s proposal “presented the most suitable strategy for Sewoon District #4 based on excellent understanding of historic and urban conditions of the site.” KCAP will process the schematic design until December 2017. Construction is planned to start in 2021 and is expected to be completed in 2023. From 6th till 17th of March, the design entries will be exhibited in the lobby of Seoul’s City hall.
KCAP with Hines and MRP Development selected for “Healthy Urban Quarter” Utrecht
KCAP in team with Hines and MRP Development is among four selected parties to elaborate their plans for the ‘Healthy Urban Quarter’ in Utrecht’s station area: a new building based on green, sustainable, innovative and healthy as cornerstones. The municipality of Utrecht grants space at Jaarbeursboulevard for an attractive building for living, working, cultural and / or leisure. All parties strive for innovative, sustainable and healthy buildings, mostly with a BREEAM and / or a WELL certificate. The available location in Utrecht’s station area offers a construction volume of 50.000 to 70.000 m2. In the coming months, the four parties will transform their vision into a design and a plan, based on so-called dialogue meetings with the municipality. They will also include residents and stakeholders in the area. Around the summer, the municipality will select the winning party to realize its plan and design. Start construction is expected in 2019. The Healthy Urban Quarter will be completed two years later. Click here for the complete press release of the municipality of Utrecht on the project website of HUQ.
KCAP and multi-disciplinary team selected to develop masterplan Jurong Lake District Singapore
Today, the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has appointed KCAP Architects&Planners, leading a multi-disciplinary team consisting of SAA Architects, Arup, S333 and Lekker, as winning consultant for the development of a masterplan for Singapore’s Jurong Lake District. The team submitted the best conceptual masterplan for the site. Integration of heritage and nature The team developed a high-density mixed-use concept masterplan for the area around the future high-speed rail terminus in Singapore. The ambition is to develop the area into a new mixed-use business precinct and home to the future HSR terminus, which will further anchor Jurong Lake District as ‘a district of the future’ and as Singapore’s second Central Business District. A key focus of the winning conceptual plan submitted by KCAP and team involved the integration of new waterways and a series of green spaces within Jurong Lake District whilst manifesting a strong, distinctive identity. Process An evaluation panel comprising senior representatives and practitioners from government agencies, academia and industry selected KCAP and team out of five international shortlisted teams as the winning consultant. Following this, the team will work with URA and relevant agencies to draw up a detailed masterplan proposal for the district. There will be an exhibition of the proposal in mid-2017 to gather public feedback where after the team will work with URA to refine the plans. Jurong Lake District Jurong Lake District is a regional centre in west Singapore, planned as part of URA’s decentralisation efforts to create new commercial activities, amenities and recreational facilities outside the Central Area of Singapore. The new mixed-use precinct, Lakeside Gateway, is set within the Jurong Lake District and will function as a new international gateway into Singapore with the future High Speed Rail to Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.
KCAP designs The Student Hotel Delft
The Student Hotel group will open its first hotel in the university town Delft. The Student Hotel Delft will be realised on a central spot at Delft Central Station and the future Van Leeuwenhoekkwartier. On this location, The Student Hotel offers a vivid meeting place for tourists, business travelers, students, young professionals and foodies. Meeting each other is the central theme regardless whether you visit the hotel to work, study, stay, sport or eat. The hotel, known for its distinct design, will accommodate approximately 342 rooms and combines high-level hotel facilities with qualitative short- and long-stay facilities like a gym, bar-restaurant, library, gaming and lounge spaces, classrooms, meeting rooms and spaces for co-working. The most striking element of the hotel is the transparent façade facing the station and the future park. Part of the hotel is an underground parking garage and a bike storage. Start construction is planned for 2018. The complex comprises of approximately 14.000 m2 and will be realized in the summer of 2019. The Student Hotel is part of the development Nieuw Delft: the new district being developed centrally in the city. Click here for the complete press release by The Student Hotel (in Dutch).
KCAP wins competition for transformation shipyard area in Korneuburg, Austria
KCAP Architects&Planners, in collaboration with Vienna offices Baumschlager Hutter Partners and YEWO LANDSCAPES, has won the international urban design competition for the future development of the former shipyard area ‘Werftareal Korneuburg’, north-west of Vienna. The winning team was awarded with the first prize above three other interdisciplinary competitors. Various public information events have accompanied the competition phase. The next step will be the elaboration of the winning scheme to form the basis for the zoning plan. The 18 ha former shipyard area will be transformed into a vivid quarter for living, working, culture and leisure. The leading theme of the urban concept of team KCAP is the sensible transformation of the area as well as the integration of the existing structures and atmospheres into the new quarter. Its location along the Danube river, the large harbour basin and the surrounding meadow landscape are the urban backbone of the area’s quality and identity. Similarly, the existing recreational, leisure and cultural facilities and the industrial buildings and structures which have witnessed the history of the site are an integral part of the proposal. The urban concept for the new quarter provides for a mix of urban living and working areas which are clustered in densified islands and surrounded by nature and water. The harbour basin in its center forms the new generous urban heart of the ‘Neue Werftquartier’. The islands offer a rich mix of typologies and programs, embedded in the green surroundings. They form different character zones of built and natural open spaces and allow clusters of housing, education, innovation, creative and cultural facilities to co-exist. In this way, they guarantee the evolving of a colourful, urban, mixed-use city quarter with a diverse range of housing and working environments for people of different ages and lifestyles. By reinforcing the existing infrastructures and creating new ...
KCAP selected to transform industrial zone in Shenzhen Bagualing
KCAP, in cooperation with Zhubo Design Group, has designed the selected urban scheme for the transformation of a former industrial zone in Shenzhen's Bagualing area. KCAP’s concept accommodates the ambition to establish a new sustainable urban regeneration epicenter and to reach a new level of economy in Shenzhen. The innovative city translated as ICITI (Intelligence-Cloud-Innovation-Technology-Internet Finance), is the programmatic and spatial framework for the regeneration. It gains shape in the various urban clusters and is visible in its skyline. On a city scale, the spatial structure connects the area with the existing urban fabric, its public spaces and the green surrounding. An Y-shape park as defining feature of the urban concept crosses the area to connect and create synergy for the new businesses as well as to stimulate the creation of new social communities in Bagualing. Bagualing area has enjoyed a period of prosperity during 1980's being born as large-scale industrial park for electronics factories. However, since the mid 1990's, it has been degenerated and reformed by a fragmented variety of programs such as car repair shops, printing/publication companies, building material shops and a food street.
KCAP selected for urban redevelopment competition Seun District #4 in Seoul, South-Korea
KCAP is one of 8 selected international teams to compete in the urban redevelopment competition for Seun District #4 in Seoul. The objective of the competition is to seek for urban, architectural, technical and operational solutions for new buildings in the Seun District #4 in the city of Seoul. The 32.000 m2 site is located in the heart of the historical area of Seoul, facing one of the most important Korean traditional buildings, Jongmyo. The brief asks to revitalize the deteriorated block with respect to the historical and cultural position of the district within the city. The program covers around 275.000 m2 for a mixed functions including offices, retail, housing, entertainment, education and medical facilities.
Design by KCAP + evr-Architecten for competition Havenlaan 12-14 Brussels
Havenlaan is part of the canal zone development (Kanaalzone) of Brussels and located close to the historic city centre. In the coming years, the area will be developed with a number of innovative projects and installed as an inner-city green zone by among others the realisation of recreational Becopark. The goal of the development is to create a new linear centrality in Brussels. Havelaan 12-14 occupies a prominent location in the area and will offer space for a new urban ensemble with a mixed program of housing, offices, hotel and commercial functions. The design concept of KCAP in cooperation with evr-Architekten refers to the existing urban qualities of the site and reinforces them for as many user groups as possible: residents, neighbors, passers-by and the city. With special focus on human scale, community and the identity of the location an inspiring environment with high quality for living, working and stay evolves. The special location of the site being situated between the Maritime Quarter and canal requires a diversified building volume and appearance, providing answers to the different contextual conditions. The concept reacts with creating one building block which consists of a composition of various elements: tower, beam, angle and row. In this way, the composition can include the different levels of scale and provide for different neighborhoods that the residents can identify with. In the center of the ensemble, the green "heart" connects the various buildings with each other. It is a coherent green, sunny, collective inner area, ensuring high quality of life for all residents and supporting the central idea of place making and social cohesion. The permeability of the urban block allows to open the Maritime Quarter up to the canal. Carefully carved openings at connection points with the surrounding both along the waterfront and at Bouvier Street, create special urban ...
KCAP in team shortlisted for competition Santander waterfront
KCAP, together with McValnera Santander and a multidisciplinary team of experts, has been selected as one of the five participants in the competition for the transformation of the waterfront area of Santander, Spain. The project is part of a larger ambition of Santander to upgrade the city and to integrate the old harbor and the city center.
KCAP with Kunst + Herbert win competition Fischbeker Reethen Hamburg
KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with Kunst + Herbert win the competition Fischbeker Reethen in Hamburg's district Harburg. The team was awarded first place in a two stage competition process with six international participants. The site is being developed by the IBA Hamburg (International Building Exhibition) into a residential and business location with the aim of transforming it into a ‘Garden City of the 21st Century’. Within this reinterpretation of the Garden City, the 70 hectare area at the edge of the metropolitan city of Hamburg will accommodate a total of 2.200 apartments, 100.000 m2 for small production industries and almost 200.000 m2 highly diverse landscape spaces. The concept of the team KCAP / Kunst + Herbert reveals a new way of mixing functions for living and working in the Garden City 2.0. It is based on a robust spatial structure that responds to the existing landscape qualities and guarantees spatial quality in unforeseen circumstance. Programmatically, the combination of small production industry with housing is conceived as an opportunity to realise this city extension in a new and sustainable way. The choice for compact building structures with innovative typologies for open spaces and community building enables the creation of high quality architecture and landscape spaces. Housing is located in the centre of the area. The existing landscape structure will be drawn towards the middle of the site in the form of fingers. In this way, the connection with the landscape is also present in the heart of the Fischbeker Reethen. The landscaped lines create different types of green spaces and allow for a variety of housing typologies. A small centre with a school and a new artificial lake are linked with the surroundings through a boulevard, which acts as the main access route. The lake is part of the ‘green-blue’ connection, a network ...
KCAP shortlisted to develop Jurong Lake District masterplan, Singapore
KCAP is one of five shortlisted teams to develop the Jurong Lake District masterplan in Singapore. Jurong Lake District is Singapore's second Central Business District. The area is set to become a "district of the future" with a new business precinct, Lakeside Gateway, home to the future Singapore-Kuala Lumpur High Speed Rail (HSR) terminus. KCAP teams up with SAA Architects from Singapore, Arup and S333 from the UK and Lekker, Singapore.
Team KCAP, Arcadis and OKRA selected for designing masterplan Ragheno Mechelen
Design agencies KCAP Architects&Planners, Arcadis and OKRA are selected by the city of Mechelen [BE] to draw up the masterplan of the Ragheno site. This centrally located business park will be transformed into a new, sustainable city district for living, working and recreation. The 78 hectare area is designated as a strategic project within the Spatial Structure Plan Flanders. Located near the railway station and city centre Ragheno is an important link between several urban renewal projects in Mechelen and existing neighbourhoods. The team, led by KCAP, was selected from seven other parties. In recent years, Mechelen has become a popular environment to live, work and relax. To support this growth, the city is developing a new neighbourhood on the Ragheno site. The area is located east of the city centre, a fifteen minute bike ride from the St. Rumbold’s cathedral and in immediate vicinity of the railway station. On the property, the central workplaces of the Belgian railway company will be retained, as well as a mix of business, sports and living. The KCAP, Arcadis and OKRA team will be working on a masterplan for the further development of the area. The plan aims to achieve higher residential densities, a concentration of offices at public transport hubs, a design of collective public spaces including a park and aims to strengthen social and programmatic mixing. In addition, the city of Mechelen aspires to be a climate-neutral, sustainable neighbourhood and will use the ‘BREEAM Area Development’ certification process. The project includes urban research, several studies in the field of mobility, structure and design of the public space, the integration of Smart City measures and soil, water and energy studies. Furthermore, the masterplan seeks to create a balance between the needs of the city, as well as those of the land owners and current users and ...
KCAP has won the 3rd prize in the Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition. KCAP, in cooperation with Lay-Out from Shenzhen, developed a strategic framework for the self-evolving incremental regeneration of new urban commons in Shenzhen's economic corridor. G 107 is a national Chinese highway which will be transformed into UBG 107 - Urban Breeding Ground 107 - a varied and urban concourse, a comprehensive assemblage of tunnels, boulevards and various green and water spaces with dedicated diversity in its transport organization, appearance and urban integration. Combined with a new public transport network it provokes the development of rich and complex urban networks of the entire zone. Where the existing highway is a ‘vector line’, UBG 107 becomes a ‘pixel’, a smart and intelligent breeding ground for urbanity. Where the existing highway is a ‘lifeless line’, UBG 107 is a lively line staging a rich variety of places, centres, connections and networks. It allows the city, communities and landscape to coexist and overlap, to breath and be present in the future. The present distinctive strengths will be the starting points for its future. Building on its special assets, attributes and advantages the concept combines those with a strategy of ‘platforms’ and ‘ecosystems’. Platforms are public urban environments which offer new possibilities for collaboration and exchange, creating new starting points for a future economy, e.g. in information technology, biotech, digital media or robotic production. Transforming the existing industrial pieces on the site into larger industrial ecosystems of linked (innovative) activities will make the integration of new starting points more effective and also result in more economic resilience in the various clusters. Rethinking G 107 implied progressing the function, the shape and structure of its ‘economy’, to unveil its distinctive strength and to find new starting points for its future economy and existing industries ...
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KCAP wins with ABC Planontwikkeling and Westplan Investors Punt de Sniep competition Diemen
The team of developer ABC Planontwikkeling, Westplan Investors and KCAP Architect&Planners wins the competition ‘Punt de Sniep’ area in Diemen, a city in the agglomeration of Amsterdam. The concept has been awarded first prize out of five entries total in the last round. The project will comprise of 165 apartments, a marina and commercial and gastronomy functions in three building ensembles with a total of 16.000 m2. The team is being advised for project management, sustainability, installations and constructions by ABC Nova, MoBius Consult, J. van Toorenburg BV and van Rossum. The area Punt de Sniep has a prominent location in the center of Diemen: along the connecting road to Amsterdam and surrounded by two canals to which all buildings have a direct connection. Between the buildings, three different public spaces are created. All of them are programmatically and visually connected to the apartments to support the sense of community building, one of the key ambitions in the development of this new neighborhood. The first of the three outdoor spaces is the courtyard SNIEPHOF. It is a semi-public court with excellent quality of stay, enough privacy and at the same time space for shared activities. The marina SNIEPHAVEN is the place for maritime recreation and a harbor for small and private boats. It has a direct connection via the canal to the center of Amsterdam in the West and a nature area in the East. The tip of the peninsula, PUNTSNIEP, is located close to the historic center of Diemen and is connected with it via a new pedestrian bridge. It will become the new landmark of the development. With a prominent square oriented towards the South and West and a 24/7 programming with gastronomy functions, it will be the catalyst for social cohesion in the neighbourhood. The housing concept offers flexibly designed ...
KCAP and gmp with Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl win competition in Shanghai Pudong
The design of KCAP and the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), in cooperation with landscape architects Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, was awarded first prize in the competition for Zhangjiang Science and Technology City in Shanghai. The international team was able to prevail against two other competitors. For gmp and KCAP, this is the second successful cooperative effort, having already jointly developed the urban masterplan for Hamburg’s OlympiaCity. Zhangjiang Science and Technology City is located in Pudong, Shanghai’s prosperous district to the east of the city, strategically placed between the city center and Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The extension and urban development of this area forms part of the overarching national strategy aimed at sustainably strengthening research and development, rather than purely industrial production. In this context it is intended to create China’s largest and most important science city on a site of about 84 square kilometers – a pilot project serving as a national example. The size of the project area exceeds that of Manhattan or of Lingang New City to the south-east, which is currently under construction. The significant location factor of prosperous high-tech developments – such as at Silicon Valley, New York or elsewhere – is the formation of clusters, where interdisciplinary exchange and local networking can take place. The importance of physical proximity in explicitly urban environments that fosters direct encounters remains significant, even in times of a globally networked economy – ideas sometimes cross corridors and roads more easily than continents and oceans. For this reason, the designers adopted the strategy of creating a “living university” – a constellation of clusters around the existing and future high-tech institutions (industries, universities and technology clusters) in combination with attractive housing and cultural, sports, and educational facilities. At a physical level, this is continued with the definition of clearly contoured roads ...
KCAP selected for Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition
KCAP has been selected as 1 of 6 international teams for the Shenzhen Bao'an G107 competition. The designated area strechtes 30 km along national highway G107 and is one of the most important axes in Shenzhen city. As the golden corridor it connects Guqngdong and Hong Kong and the heartland for development of Great Pearl River Delta. The task is to take G107 and Bao'an Avenue and Metroline 1 as the skeleton. The Golden Development Belt will be constructed into a highland to lead regional industrial transformation and upgrading, a scientific and technological innovation service zone on Pearl River Delta, as well as an important economic growth engine for Bao'an District. KCAP teams up with Lay-Out from Shenzhen with whom we successfully cooperated on the Shenzhen Bao'an Coastal City Masterplan in 2014. The 6 participants are: KCAP + Lay-Out Planning Institute Shenzhen Planning Institute + OMA + Shenzhen Transportation Institute Zhubo + ISA Germany + HongDa Transportation Institute Shenzhen Planning and Development Research Center+ NIKKEN SEKKEI China Planning Institute + MLA+ +Shenzhen Infrastructure Planning Institute Guangzhou Planning Institute + AP Germany + Shanghai QianTian Industry Research Center
KCAP with About Blank selected for competition in Istanbul
KCAP in cooperation with About Blank is selected for the 'Valley of Life International Competition' in Beylikdüzü district in Istanbul. In this second round of the tender proceedure 5 international teams out of 46 were chosen to find innovative and sustainable ideas for the development of the valley in Beylikdüzü. The teams are asked to develop visionary concepts that focus on the whole valley and on the focal points determined. These concept descriptions should include an operational idea for the area and a description of the ecological corridor with transportation connections, bicycle routes, services, functionalities etc.
Exhibiton VRT competition entries
Tomorrow opens the exhibition with all 5 competition entries for the VRT broadcast centre in Brussels, including the design of team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP. The exhibition will run through February 29th. Location: Atelier Bouwmeester Brussel.
Design of team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP for VRT broadcast centre on Canvas TV
View via the link below the documentary about our team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP and our design for the VRT broadcast centre in Brussels. Our team was one of the finalists in the internationals design competition. Click here to view the documentary on Canvas.
Design for VRT broadcast centre by team OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen - KCAP
The Flemish Radio and Television (VRT) has announced the winner of the design competition for the new broadcast centre in Brussels. KCAP in collaboration with OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen was one of five finalists in this international competition. OFFICE and KCAP jointly elaborated a proposal which focusses on proximity and visibility: Atelier VRT. The design for a new media building for the Flemish public broadcaster VRT is a cultural assignment. It is meant to be a public institute with an inviting architecture and a place for the public to interact with media production. The design concept provides simultaneously for an open and specific building able to accommodate the rapidly evolving media industry. Atelier VRT represents the urban ambition of the Brussels Media Park. It is composed of four elementary volumes that are stacked on top of each other. Each volume represents a particular type of building, designed in response to a specific part of the program. The different building types are securely stacked on each other to achieve maximum synergy and to create a highly performant ‘super-studio’. The tower acts as the landmark of Atelier VRT. It provides overview and establishes a reference point in the urban context. It houses the more quiet workplaces away from the bustling atelier, which is a large workspace that in its spaciousness creates a maximum of shortcuts and proximity for the workplaces. The compact volume of Atelier VRT reveals high efficiency. The facade matches passive house standard, the energy demand is minimal and is covered by renewable energy sources. "The concept targets at a distinct, clear presence and simultaneously at interaction and creativity typical for what is called 'Atelier VRT’. The building is impressive and semi-monumental, the design language focuses on the city and the public. The design translates the program without hesitations or complications, direct ...
KCAP+ORANGE win first prize Vasilievsky Island competition
KCAP+ORANGE win the first prize in the urban and architectural competition for the most western tip of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. With its important role in the historical outreach of St. Petersburg towards the West, Vasiliesvky Island will become the most prominent manifestation of the city of St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland. With the urban plan, the 15 ha site will become a new part of the city with a diverse mix of urban functions facilitating and interconnecting the surrounding areas. It will become a new face of St. Petersburg as entrance of the city from the water. The design concept of KCAP+ORANGE focuses on enhancing the iconic value of the city of St. Petersburg and on creating an attractive and high-quality environment for living, working and recreation. The peninsula will be enlarged with a park to enjoy the waterfront at the Finnish Bay. Solid blocks and a diversity of enclosed urban courtyards define the urban layout and refer to the historical structure of St. Petersburg. Towers form the layer above the urban blocks. They allow for spectacular panorama views to the sea and the city center. Topped with gold-coloured spires, in the tradition of St. Petersburg’s architecture, a unique landmark silhouette of Vasilievsky Island evolves and creates an expressive, recognizable and iconic image. The international design competition was organized by Glorax Development and the municipality of St. Petersburg. It started with 12 competitors in the first phase and continued with six in the second round, of which three national and three international teams. Next to KCAP in cooperation with ORANGE also A-Len from St. Petersburg was awarded with the first prize. Both teams will be involved in the further elaboration of the project.
Transformation Cruquiuseiland Amsterdam
Dutch area and real estate developer AM has acquired the property of United Technologies Corporation (UTC) at Cruquiusweg in Amsterdam and will transform the current location of Chubb Fire & Security (part of UTC) in the eastern port into a lively residential and commercial area.Cruquiusweg is a strategic location that will undergo a complete metamorphosis. As the most southern peninsula of the eastern harbour area it has the potential to transform the outdated industrial location into an attractive area to live and work. For the acquired location of 1.3 hectares a plan vision has been developed by AM in collaboration with KCAP Architects&Planners and a.s.r. vastgoed vermogensbeheer. Based on the business model ‘I AM YOU', which is based on key values like conceptual strength, innovation and co-creation, the plans for the coming period will be evaluated further in cooperation with the local residents, the municipality of Amsterdam and other stakeholders. The proposed program consists of owner-occupied and rental housing combined with spaces for working and commercial functions. Click here to read the entire press release by AM (in Dutch).
Parkstadt Köln Süd presented
KCAP in team with Atelier Dreiseitl and office03 presented its final design for the Parkstadt Süd development in Cologne. The area comprises of a 115 ha site in the South of Cologne that will be transformed into a new, contemporary city quarter with a mixed urban program in a period of 25 years. Five international teams were invited for a dialogue-based process with various presentations and events open for public participation. The five design proposals, now finished, will be used by the municipality of Cologne as a base to define the legal documents for the development of the site.
KCAP awarded third prize in urban competition Elbbrücken Hamburg
The Elbbrücken quarter is located on eastern end of HafenCity, the tip of Baakenhafen where next to the Elbe bridges the S-and U-Bahn station is located. This situation implies that Elbbrücken quarter is to become another urban center within the HafenCity that, besides being a gateway into Hamburg’s inner city, will be characterized by high density and mixed-use program. Seven internationally renown offices competed in the competition. The first prize was won by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zürich (Switzerland), the second by pfp architekten bda from Hamburg and the third by KCAP. The teams DARK Arkitekter from Oslo and Delugan Meissl Associated Architects from Vienna received a honourable mention.
Project RINKKAAI wins competition in Ghent, Belgium
A new city quarter with more than 300 apartments, public and local commercial functions, public spaces and a new neighborhood park will develop along Fabiolalaan in Ghent, located close to the station Ghent-Sint-Pieter. For the realisation of this development, Ghent’s municipal city development company ‘sogent’ assigned three candidate teams, all consisting of developers with their design teams and consultants, to create project proposals. The project RINKKAAI by developers’ group Alides / Nacarat / Cores Development has been chosen as winning scheme. This was announced on September 25th by sogent. The design team for architecture and public space of RINKKAAI is led by KCAP Architects&Planners (Rotterdam, NL), evr-Architecten (Ghent, BE) and Omgeving (Antwerp, BE). They are assisted by a group of partners and advisors with among others Establis, VK engineering, Saison Menu, Fris in het Landschap and Common Ground. RINKKAAI will become a new city district for a variety of users, an intergenerational neighborhood with a mix of housing typologies and facilities for young families with children, couples, co-housers and seniors with or without need for care. The design aims to create a new community that is connected with each other and to its surroundings. The site’s location along Fabiolalaan and in the east of the park Blaarmeersen offers a quiet green surrounding and establishes connections between the city and the park, between living and leisure and between the existing and the new neighborhood. The architectural concept provides a compact ensemble of six pavilions, each with their own identity but with a clear common DNA. Shape, position, height and material of the buildings correspond directly with the surroundings. The position and the staggering of the buildings create attractive green intermediate zones and allow for varied views from each apartment. The project will meet the ‘passive building’ and BEN (Bijna Energie Neutraal/almost energy neutral) standards through an innovative ...
KCAP selected for masterplan Riverside area in Zuchwil
KCAP’s urban design for the transformation of the former industrial site Sulzerareal has been chosen as favourite design from 4 competing design teams. The 17 ha site with its direct access to the river Aare offers an attractive location for investor Swiss Prime Site and great development potential with ‘trans-regional radiance’. The Riverside neighbourhood will contain a generous public river park, about 650 apartments, some commercial functions and innovative mixed-use areas with new types of combinations of industrial and residential functions. As an innovative feature, BIM is being used to accompany the process from the large scale to the later realization phases. Click here for the project website.
KCAP selected finalist in competition JinShan Waterfront in Shanghai
KCAP has been selected as finalist in the second stage of the competition JinShan Waterfront in Shanghai. The competition is for a 580ha new town development along the 23 km2 sea coast in the south of Shanghai facing Hangzhou Bay. The first stage was an open competition, in which from 120 entries 5 teams have been selected: GALA GROUP ARTE CHARPENTIER AMA & RICHEZ ASSOCIATES RMJM ARCHITECTS&PLANNERS KCAP ARCHITECTS&PLANNERS The kick-off meeting and contract signing ceremony was held on May 28th in Jinshan District Government.
KCAP selected for Progetto Flaminio competition in Rome
KCAP is selected as one of 6 finalists out of 246 entries from 20 countries for the 'Progetto Flaminio' competition in Rome. The Competition aims at the regeneration and development of a significant part of the city, the neighbourhood surrounding the City of Science, already characterized by an intense process of transformation. The program accommodates a residential district of 35.000 m2, 10.000 m2 retail and leisure facilities and 14.000 m2public spaces together with City of Science. KCAP teamed up with SPSK+ (local architect), Latz+Partner (landscape), Keoto (sustainability), Fakton (Cost) and Mlab (mobility). The design phase for the finalists will run from April until June 2015. Click here for the project website.
KCAP with international investor and planning team wins competition in Frankfurt Riedberg
German investor Deutsche Wohnwerte, in cooperation with the planning team consisting of KCAP Architects&Planners, B&V Braun Canton Volleth Architekten and TOPOTEK 1 Landscape Architects has won the investors’ competition for a new residential area in Frankfurt Riedberg. The team was chosen out of 19 teams in the competition, as was announced by the city of Frankfurt am Main and conducted by the HA Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft. The 4.3 hectare site is located between the University of Frankfurt and two parks. The car-free planned neighborhood with 322 apartments benefits from magnificent views and generous space. Within the development strategy for the city district of Riedberg, it is the last major development to complete the "University" quarter. The winning urban concept creates both compactness and diversity, while responding to the topography of the site and highlighting the relation to green space as a central concept. Eight differently sized blocks are positioned in a village-like setting around squares, playgrounds, meadows or meeting places. The inner courtyards and the outdoor spaces around the buildings vary in both size and level of privacy. On three locations public open spaces offer meeting areas in the neighbourhood. The central square is strategically positioned to offer views looking over the skyline of Frankfurt. A fine network of paths following the principle of the "open city" connects the quarter to its surroundings. Structured silhouettes and large roof incisions provide for a variety of apartments benefits from the excellent location and views. Coherence is created by the overarching special function of the ground floor area within the concept. Different floor plan typologies strengthen the identity of the adjoining public space and also stimulate interactions between the ground floor and its surroundings. All ground floor apartments are accessed directly from the public space. Equipped with front yards, verandas, direct exposure to the park, or to the ...
Bao’an Coastal city
KCAP awarded in Bao’an Coastal city masterplan competition Shenzhen China
KCAP Architects & Planners in cooperation with LAY-OUT Shenzhen and Atelier Dreiseitl Beijing has been awarded in the international conceptual design competition Bao’an Coastal city Masterplan in Shenzhen, China. The design is the result of the second round of the competition in which Team KCAP participated as one of 8 shortlisted participants out of more than 90 international submissions. The award included 1Million RMB price money and a position in the further development of the project. Bao’an Coastal zone is located along the Pearl River delta. The area already contains many new developments including Shenzhen Bao’an Airport, major ports, terminals, new railways and roads and QianHai, a new city district around a new bay. ‘Due to the ‘hard and fast’ developments much of this landscape has vanished, the original coastline has already moved up by sometimes 5 kilometers and the development up until now has led to a harsh urban landscape dominated by large scale infrastructure and poor urban and landscape qualities,’ says Ruurd Gietema, urban planner and partner of KCAP. Baoan sits along the large Pearl River Delta but used to be a delta in itself with 45 different creeks and rivers streaming through the area. ‘Our project embraces this ‘forgotten’ supply of fresh water’ continues Ruurd Gietema. ‘Via ‘REPAIR BY DEVELOPMENT’ we transform it into an fresh water network which complements the salt water coastline with an extensive network of fresh and brackish water and green spaces’. The water network consists of different character and water features: the salty sea water, various biotope zones for river purification, lakes as water reservoir, fresh water bays, mangrove banding zone as brackish water mixed with sea and fresh water, various canals and streams, water detention parks and so on. The fresh water network also position an agenda for regeneration of the wider territory together ...
KCAP EVR win selection Tower Striga 1 in Antwerp, Belgium
KCAP Architects&Planners in cooperation with evr-Architecten win the architects’ selection ‘Tower Striga 1’ in Antwerp, Belgium. The selection commission including the client Triple Living and representatives of the municipal urban planning departments chose the team for the design of one of three residential towers for the project Antwerp Nieuw Zuid. This new residential area will develop along the Schelde in the south of Antwerp, based on a masterplan by Studio Associates Secchi-Viganò. The winning scheme is a diverse residential tower with integrated offices and commercial functions. With its exceptional location at the park, it rises with its 80 meters of height as a new icon of Antwerp Nieuw Zuid. The 15.000 m2 building consists of a four-storey base and a 26-level tower, both forming one ensemble. The concept is characterized by a wide variety of housing typologies for different target groups: young families, seniors, co-housers, singles and working couples. Given the particular location of the tower facing the park a large number of residential units are located at ground level. The facade provides space for individual use and setbacks in the grid are used as collective green gardens for the residents. The plinth houses a double height passage, lobbies for the offices and residences and a ground-based active residential program. ‘The concept interprets the qualities of the typical Belgian house. The apartments are compact, efficiently organized and surrounded by a flexible structure, which is designed as a double height grid. The buyer has the opportunity to choose from a range of individualised features such as balconies, conservatories, small storages or green elements,’ says Han van den Born, partner of KCAP. ‘The constructive structure of the tower with a central core offers maximum flexibility for the distribution of the various typologies, the number of units per floor and allows for future adjustments. With the wide ...
KCAP wins first prize RER E station Nanterre, France
KCAP Architects&Planners, in a team of international experts, was chosen from 4 international entries as the winning proposal in the architectural competition for a new RER E – Eole - station in Nanterre, France. The Réseau Express Régional is a fast regional train network of the Paris Agglomeration. The new station will be part of the Line E connecting Paris with the West of the region. The program includes the design of a train station, a 14.000 m² office building and four bridges, one of which a pedestrian bridge. The completion of the station is estimated in 2020. The new station is planned on a rail area adjacent to the former industrial site ‘Les Groues’ which will be transformed into a lively urban district with space for living and working until approximately 2025. ‘The new station is the first step in the development of Les Groues. The bridges connect the area with the city and the station allows to significantly improve public transport to Paris and the West,’ says Xavier Blaringhem, responsible for French projects at KCAP Zurich. Station RER E Nanterre is one of three newly planned stations of the 47 km extension in Western direction between Paris and Mantes, expected to be used by 600.000 to 700.000 people per day. The proposal named ‘Twist’ is composed of a station and an office building which reacts to its urban context in various ways: with a slight bend it follows the Boulevard de La Défense and the Terrasses de Nanterre. With this twist the volume opens up the street space to create a square. The station hall is a cut-out of the office building and acts like a big window with a framed view of the city. The aluminum facade of the building reveals a maximum transparency and the bridges are designed ...
KCAP wins second prize in competition Morges Gare Sud
KCAP was awarded with the second prize in the competition Morges Gare Sud, an architectural competition for 48.000 m² of housing, offices, hotel, retail, school and the train station. The project is located in the city of Morges' station area, where KCAP has been previously involved in an urban study. Due to growth of population and city in this main connection between Geneva and Lausanne, the municipality aims to combine densification with good accessibility and high living quality. KCAP's proposal consists of a 'family of architecture', searching a good balance between the ensemble’s coherence and diversity. KCAP teamed up with Morger Dettli Architekten Basel, Schweingruber Zulauf (landscape) and EBP (engineering). In total, 12 participants took part in the competition. The first prize was won by Aeby Perneger Associés from Switzerland.
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No deaths reported after ‘miracle’ plane with over 140 aboard crashes into Florida river
Updated: 12:14 PM PDT May 4, 2019
By DAVID FISCHER
A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said.A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 136 passengers and seven aircrew slid off the runway into the St. Johns River, a NAS Jacksonville news release said.The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter that a marine unit responded to assist. The plane was in shallow water and not submerged. Everyone on the plane was alive and accounted for, the agency posted, with 21 adults transported to local hospitals in good condition.A photo posted by deputies shows a Miami Air International logo on the plane. The company didn’t immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.Capt. Michael Connor, the commanding officer of NAS Jacksonville, said during a news conference that passengers were a mix of civilian and military personnel. Some were staying in the area, while others were set to fly on to other parts of the country.While the crash certainly wasn’t ideal, Connor acknowledged that it could have been much worse.“I think it is a miracle,” Connor said. “We could be talking about a different story this evening.”It wasn’t known how long it would take to remove the plane from the river, but Connor said the landing gear appeared to be resting on the river bed, making it unlikely for the aircraft to float away. He said crews began working to contain any jet fuel leaks almost immediately after securing the passengers’ safety.Liz Torres told the Florida Times-Union that she heard what sounded like a gunshot Friday night from her home in Orange Park, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of NAS Jacksonville. She then drove down to a Target parking lot where police and firefighters were staging to find out more.“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department posted on Twitter that approximately 90 personnel responded to the scene, adding that the department’s special operations team had trained with marine units for a similar incident earlier Friday.Navy security and emergency response personnel were on the scene and monitoring the situation, the Navy release said. Family members who were expecting the arrival of passengers were instructed to stand by.Officials did not immediately say what caused the plane to leave the runway. Boeing said in a tweet Friday night that it was investigating: “We are aware of an incident in Jacksonville, Fla., and are gathering information.”The Federal Aviation Administration was referring media inquiries to NAS Jacksonville.Connor said National Transportation Safety Board investigators were already on their way.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —
A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said.
A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 136 passengers and seven aircrew slid off the runway into the St. Johns River, a NAS Jacksonville news release said.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office posted on Twitter that a marine unit responded to assist. The plane was in shallow water and not submerged. Everyone on the plane was alive and accounted for, the agency posted, with 21 adults transported to local hospitals in good condition.
A photo posted by deputies shows a Miami Air International logo on the plane. The company didn’t immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press.
Capt. Michael Connor, the commanding officer of NAS Jacksonville, said during a news conference that passengers were a mix of civilian and military personnel. Some were staying in the area, while others were set to fly on to other parts of the country.
While the crash certainly wasn’t ideal, Connor acknowledged that it could have been much worse.
“I think it is a miracle,” Connor said. “We could be talking about a different story this evening.”
It wasn’t known how long it would take to remove the plane from the river, but Connor said the landing gear appeared to be resting on the river bed, making it unlikely for the aircraft to float away. He said crews began working to contain any jet fuel leaks almost immediately after securing the passengers’ safety.
Liz Torres told the Florida Times-Union that she heard what sounded like a gunshot Friday night from her home in Orange Park, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of NAS Jacksonville. She then drove down to a Target parking lot where police and firefighters were staging to find out more.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.
The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department posted on Twitter that approximately 90 personnel responded to the scene, adding that the department’s special operations team had trained with marine units for a similar incident earlier Friday.
Navy security and emergency response personnel were on the scene and monitoring the situation, the Navy release said. Family members who were expecting the arrival of passengers were instructed to stand by.
Officials did not immediately say what caused the plane to leave the runway. Boeing said in a tweet Friday night that it was investigating: “We are aware of an incident in Jacksonville, Fla., and are gathering information.”
The Federal Aviation Administration was referring media inquiries to NAS Jacksonville.
Connor said National Transportation Safety Board investigators were already on their way.
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Trump official: Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans
Posted: Tue 9:34 PM, Aug 13, 2019 |
Updated: Wed 11:22 AM, Aug 14, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming “huddled masses” of immigrants to American shores, was referring to “people coming from Europe” and that the nation is looking to receive migrants “who can stand on their own two feet.”
Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday the inscription on the Statue of Liberty was meant to refer to Europeans. (Source: CNN)
The comments on Tuesday from Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, came a day after the Trump administration announced it would seek to deny green cards to migrants who seek Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. The move, and Cuccinelli's defense, prompted an outcry from Democrats and immigration advocates who said the policy would favor wealthier immigrants and disadvantage those from poorer countries in Latin America and Africa.
"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people," tweeted former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate.
The administration’s proposed policy shift comes as President Donald Trump is leaning more heavily into the restrictive immigration policies that have energized his core supporters and were central to his 2016 victory. He has also spoken disparagingly about immigration from majority black and Hispanic countries, including calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals when he launched his 2016 campaign. Last year, he privately branded Central American and African nations as “s------” countries and he suggested the U.S. take in more immigrants from European countries like predominantly white Norway.
Cuccinelli said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday night that the Emma Lazarus poem emblazoned on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty referred to "people coming from Europe where they had class based societies where people were considered wretched if they weren't in the right class."
Lazarus' poem, written in 1883 to raise money to construct the Statue of Liberty's pedestal and cast in bronze beneath the monument in 1903, served as a beacon to millions of immigrants who crossed past as they first entered the U.S. in New York Harbor. It reads, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
Cuccinelli was asked earlier Tuesday on NPR whether the words "give me your tired, your poor" were part of the American ethos. Cuccinelli responded: "They certainly are. Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge."
Cuccinelli was a failed Republican candidate for governor in 2013 after serving as the state's attorney general. He backed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for president in 2016 and for a time was a harsh critic of Trump.
He is one of a slew of immigration hardliners brought in by Trump to implement the president's policies. He was appointed to the post in June in a temporary capacity, which doesn't require Senate confirmation.
Trump, asked Tuesday about Cuccinelli's comments on NPR, appeared to back him up.
"I don't think it's fair to have the American taxpayer paying for people to come into the United States," Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One for Pennsylvania. "I think we're doing it right."
Immigrant rights groups strongly criticized the Trump administration's new rules for immigrants receiving public assistance, warning that the changes would scare immigrants away from asking for needed help. And they voiced concern that officials were being given too much authority to decide whether someone is likely to need public assistance in the future.
Another Democratic presidential candidate, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, also condemned Cuccinelli's comments.
“Our values are etched in stone on the Statue of Liberty. They will not be replaced,” she tweeted. “And I will fight for those values and for our immigrant communities.”
Man suspected of killing girlfriend's mother in Fort Dodge
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The Arab Israeli War:
Jerusalem Divided
The Arab Israeli war defines the Middle East conflict and much of world politics – and Jerusalem lies at the heart of it.
It is in fact a fairly recent conflict.
Jews have lived in Jerusalem continuously ever since King David made it his capital city. Except for a few brief periods when they were forbidden to live there, Jews have been in Jerusalem for over 3000 years.
Jerusalem has been the capital of not one, but several Jewish states, including the State of Israel.
With the Muslim invasions throughout the centuries, an Arab population settled alongside the Jewish one, but Jerusalem was never more than a backwater town under Muslim rule – it was never the capital of an Arab state.
In the 15th century, with the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the Jewish population of Jerusalem began increasing steadily. By 1840, the Jews formed the largest single community in diverse mix of Jerusalem inhabitants, and since 1870, they have formed the majority of Jerusalem’s population.
Throughout this period, Jews and Arabs lived together fairly harmoniously.
The Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, in which it declared that “it views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Following World War I, the League of Nations awarded Britain Palestine with the mandate of fostering the formation of a Jewish national home.
However, Britain instead did its best to subvert this mandate. It instituted policies designed to cause friction between the Arab and Jewish populations, and foment discord. Moreover, Winston Churchill gave the majority of the territory of Palestine, which was to have been the Jewish national home, as a gift to the Hashemite family. The Hashemite family installed itself as Kings of Jordan.
Taking a cue from British attitudes, Arab violence against Jews surged, with frequent pogroms in the streets of Jerusalem. The British appointed Haj Amin al Husseini Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Husseini orchestrated more violent attacks and worked to suppress Jewish religious and political rights. He was a vocal supporter of Hitler and the Nazis.
The Partition of Palestine
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted on the partition of Palestine into two separate states, one Jewish, one Arab. Under the plan, Jerusalem was to belong to neither. It was to be a separate, international city, with “guarantees for the protection of Holy places.”
Map of the proposed UN partition of Palestine
The Jews accepted the UN vote, but the Arab world did not. From the day of the vote until April 1948, Arabs attacked Jews all over the country, killing almost 300 people in the Jerusalem area, and imposed a siege on Jerusalem, cutting off the delivery of all food, water and medical supplies.
The Arab Israeli War
Britain forfeited its mandate and left on May 15, 1948 and the first Arab Israeli war began. Three Arab countries simultaneously invaded the fledgling State of Israel.
In a heroic bid to save Jerusalem, Israeli forces worked at night to break the Arab stranglehold on Jerusalem. Armed convoys were ambushed and destroyed. Unwilling to surrender Jerusalem, they build an alternate path, code named "the Burma road", through the mountains surrounding Jerusalem.
In this way, they were able to bring food, water and medical supplies to the starving population of Jerusalem. (The fascinating story of the Burma Road can be found in the definitive history of the Battle for Jerusalem - O Jerusalem!
- by Collins and Lapierre.)
During the war, Jordanian forces overtook the Old City and expelled all the Jews from the area.
In April 1949, Jordan and Israel signed an armistice agreement, and Jerusalem was divided for the first time in its history.
Planting the Israeli flag after the battle that ended the Arab Israeli war of 1948
For the next 19 years, the cease-fire line between Jordan and Israel became a minefield of barbed wire running jagged like a scar through the heart of Jerusalem.
Israeli and Jordanian soldiers meeting over the barbed wire seam
The Jordanians systematically disregarded their obligations under the Armistice agreement: they refused to allow Jews or Christians access to Holy places, denied Jewish access to Mt. Scopus or Hadassah hospital, destroyed the synagogues and homes in the Old City and desecrated the cemetery on the Mt. of Olives. They neglected eastern Jerusalem and let public services to the Arab population decay.
They frequently used the ramparts of the Old City to shoot at the Jewish population below.
In June 1967, Israel begged Jordan to maintain the cease-fire. Jordan refused and attacked Israel, launching the second Arab Israeli war. At the conclusion of the Six Day war, Jerusalem was once more united.
Recommended Readings on the Arab Israeli War
For a thoughtful and well-researched history of the Middle East conflict, few books rise to the occasion as does the classic From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine
, by Joan Peters. A former adviser to the Carter administration and a trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Peters' research into the cause of the Arab Israeli war led to a conclusion far different from what she had anticipated.
I've mentioned it above already, but one of the most readable histories of the establishment of the State of Israel and the Battle for Jerusalem, O Jerusalem!
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, reads like a thriller. It's a hard to put down, page-turning tale, and it's all true. One of my favorites to read over and over.
The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict
, edited by Walter Laqueur, is an invaluable resource. It compiles almost every document important to the creation of Israel and the Palestinian conflict you could imagine, on both sides of the issue. No where else could most of us get close to the original sources.
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Overplaying Your Strengths
The hidden weakness that derails leaders
In a recent interview with The New York Times, James P. Hackett, the president and CEO of Steelcase, recalled a meeting in 1994 with J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr., Marriott Corp.’s chairman of the board. Hackett was a young chief executive, 39 years old, seeking wisdom and guidance from the seasoned Marriott.
“I had been struggling with this notion of identity,” said Hackett. “What does a CEO look like and feel like? As we were talking, I remember being struck by the look in [Marriott’s] eyes. I understood in that moment that he knew who he was. I remember this like it was yesterday. Since then, the [CEOs] I’m most impressed with have [that same] sense of peace and self-awareness.”
Hackett’s intuitive observation is borne out by research. A multitude of studies have pointed to executive self-awareness as the bedrock of personal and corporate performance. The work of influential psychologist Albert Bandura links self-awareness to self-efficacy, which he defines as a person’s perception of his or her own ability to succeed in specific situations. In general, Bandura contended, the more you know about yourself, the more likely you are to feel confident in taking things on and seeing them through.
According to Anthony K. Tjan, coauthor of “Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck”: “In my experience and in the research my coauthors and I did for our book, there is one quality that trumps all, evident in virtually every great entrepreneur, manager and leader. That is self-awareness. The conviction — and yes, often the ego — that founders and CEOs need for their vision makes them less than optimally wired for embracing vulnerabilities or leading with humility. This makes self-awareness that much more essential.”
In a recent Korn/Ferry International report, “Survival of the Most Self-aware,” author J. Evelyn Orr, director of intellectual property research and development, concluded that “when all things are equal, self-awareness is a key trait that explains why some business leaders succeed when others derail. Self-awareness is knowing your strengths and limitations, the willingness to seek and act on feedback, the ability to admit mistakes, and the tendency to reflect and apply personal insights.”
Unfortunately, most leaders fall short of that ideal. They have a distorted perception of themselves that can manifest itself in a number of ways: a tendency to overestimate skills or underestimate shortcomings (known as “blind spots”), or an inability to recognize an untapped capacity (known as a “hidden strength”). Based on feedback from more than 2,700 professionals, Orr’s report indicated that 79 percent had at least one blind spot and 40 percent had at least one hidden strength.
Lack of self-awareness takes its most insidious form, however, when leaders have an accurate sense of their talents, but routinely overuse or misapply them, turning them into weaknesses. Research shows that high performers in all fields, especially when under stress, instinctively double down on the core attributes that made them high performers in the first place. Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger, cofounders of the talent management consultancy Lominger, were among the first to link this phenomenon to executive dysfunction in their book “Preventing Derailment: What to Do Before It’s Too Late.” They pointed out that poor executive performance is often not due to a weakness, but rather to a strength in overdrive: extreme confidence careening toward arrogance, detail orientation deteri-orating into micro-management, forcefulness sliding into abusiveness, consensus-building degenerating into indecision.
This leader’s compulsion to over-rely on strengths is more than just an occasional phenomenon. For many, it becomes habitual and ingrained — a default position. In fact, according to Drs. Robert and Joyce Hogan, leading thinkers in the area of personality assessment and organizational leadership, overused strengths constitute leaders’ most common flaw, and the most dangerous. The research, they say, draws a consistent conclusion: When leaders collapse, it is almost invariably the result of overplaying the characteristics that initially contributed to their success.
“Not only does overusing one’s strength corrupt and degrade its value,” said Robert E. Kaplan, coauthor of the new book, “Fear Your Strengths,” “but it begets weakness in yet another way. By embracing their strength as the only truth, these executives consequently ignore an equal and opposing strength. For instance, a leader who adopts an automatic and uncompromisingly forceful stance in all circumstances will be unlikely to be tuned in to enabling the efforts of others. The result is lopsided leadership: too much of one thing, made worse by too little of its complement. Versatile leadership arises only from acknowledging that each approach is a half-truth and from embracing both.”
Many leaders know this on an intuitive level, but they tend not to accept it in practice. In their careers, they have seen the efficacy of their strengths and have come to rely upon them heavily as a source of security. When faced with the prospect that the very intensity that fueled their rise to the top can be sabotaging their effectiveness, they are often panic-stricken at the thought of needing to ease up. Not surprisingly, then, development efforts that focus solely on prescribing behavioral changes or counterbalances to overuse have limited success because they do not address the leader’s underlying mindset — the cognitive, emotional and motivational roots of the imbalance.
“A leader’s mindset will throw off his form just as an athlete’s does,” said Robert B. Kaiser, who coauthored “Fear Your Strengths” with Kaplan. “Correcting it is far more challenging than simply shoring up a deficiency. It requires intellectual honesty and the courage to rummage in the attic of your mind.” Unless the leader’s mindset and behavior are explored in concert, he will not become aware of the self-defeating assumptions, impulses and emotional reactions that drive his excesses and will therefore not have the tools to modulate his behavior.
“Modulate” is the operative word. Indeed, some in the field of leadership development are gravitating away from thinking in terms of absolute strengths and weaknesses. “There is no such thing as an unqual-ified strength,” wrote Morgan W. McCall Jr., a professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and an expert on the topics of executive development and derailment. “Any effective development strategy will have to acknowledge that what matters are combinations of strengths and weaknesses as they manifest themselves in specific situations.”
All behaviors, then, are seen objectively as competencies that have a wide spectrum of application — they are only potential strengths or potential weaknesses, depending upon the degree to which and the circumstances in which they are brought to bear. In other words, said author Kaplan, “There is no fixed setting on the dial for the proper use of a virtue.”
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Father pickets school after daughter's bullying caught on camera
By: Chris Gros
A Phoenix father is making sure everyone knows about his daughter’s case of bullying.
Markus Hines says his daughter, a freshman at Phoenix-based Betty Fairfax High School, was cyber-bullied with memes all through the beginning of the school year. She attempted to confront the bullies at school Tuesday, which led to a fight and ended with Hines’ daughter gasping for air on the ground. You can see it in a short cell phone video shot by classmates.
“I don't know I wouldn't want I just wouldn't want another parent to go through this,” said Hines.
Since then, Hines has been walking on a road next to the school with a sign no one can miss. It reads “My daughter was bullied at Fairfax.” It’s been on display the entire week. Hines says he won’t stop until more is done about the problem.
“I felt like this was the best thing that I could do to do to spark some conversation. I wanted parents with the kids driving up to see me and maybe there's another kid that's getting a ride with their parents that's getting bullied,” said Hines.
Hines says the other students and his daughter were suspended. We tried to ask the staff at Fairfax about the allegations but we were referred to the district. A spokesperson released a statement that reads:
“While we are not allowed to comment on specific student behavior or discipline cases, Phoenix Union and all Arizona schools take allegations of bullying very seriously. According to state statute and policy, students, parents and staff at the start of each school year are instructed to report any bullying to school officials. Any staff member who becomes aware of or suspects that a student is experiencing bullying must immediately notify administration. Each allegation is investigated, and discipline and/or interventions and counseling are administered. A school can only act upon bullying when it becomes aware, or is notified of such activity. “
Hines’ daughter was back in school Friday but he says she had to leave early after some students gave her a hard time about the incident.
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Deaf grocery store worker punched by woman she didn't hear asking for help
Updated: 7:41 AM CDT Apr 25, 2018
A grocery store worker said she was punched by a woman she did not hear asking where to find an item.Liberty Gratz told WRIC it happened at the Publix in Midlothian. She said she is deaf and therefore could not hear a customer asking where to find an item. "All of a sudden, I felt some woman hit me in my back," she recounted through her mom Jeanette Gratz's interpreting.Liberty was kneeling down to adjust a bottom shelf when she felt the strike. Liberty uses American Sign Language (ASL) with family and friends, but communicates with shoppers by writing on a pad of paper. After being struck, Liberty showed the customer where she could find her item. But she was still hurting several hours later. "She could still feel it when I picked her up from work," Jeanette says. "How would you feel if you were working and someone just came up behind you and decided to punch you?"Publix employees scoured surveillance footage, but couldn't make out who the woman who hit Liberty was. "They kept looking again and again and again, but you couldn't see because there were so many people blocking the camera," Liberty signs while her mom interprets. "It was hard for me to really see her face to make sure it was the right person."Liberty would like to have a conversation with the person who struck her."I know hurt people usually are the ones that hurt people," Jeanette observes. "And so whoever it is, they've been prayed for. I will continue to pray for them, and I hope that things get better in their life so they can be better to other people."
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. —
A grocery store worker said she was punched by a woman she did not hear asking where to find an item.
Liberty Gratz told WRIC it happened at the Publix in Midlothian.
She said she is deaf and therefore could not hear a customer asking where to find an item.
"All of a sudden, I felt some woman hit me in my back," she recounted through her mom Jeanette Gratz's interpreting.
Liberty was kneeling down to adjust a bottom shelf when she felt the strike.
Liberty uses American Sign Language (ASL) with family and friends, but communicates with shoppers by writing on a pad of paper.
After being struck, Liberty showed the customer where she could find her item. But she was still hurting several hours later.
"She could still feel it when I picked her up from work," Jeanette says. "How would you feel if you were working and someone just came up behind you and decided to punch you?"
Publix employees scoured surveillance footage, but couldn't make out who the woman who hit Liberty was.
"They kept looking again and again and again, but you couldn't see because there were so many people blocking the camera," Liberty signs while her mom interprets. "It was hard for me to really see her face to make sure it was the right person."
Liberty would like to have a conversation with the person who struck her.
"I know hurt people usually are the ones that hurt people," Jeanette observes. "And so whoever it is, they've been prayed for. I will continue to pray for them, and I hope that things get better in their life so they can be better to other people."
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Jeff Stelling: ‘Every club in danger’ of being bought by rogue owners
Bury FC Plight
Hartlepool president and TV presenter Jeff Stelling has warned football clubs of the danger of “being bought by people who do not have the club at heart”.
League One side Bury recently lost their EFL status after last-minute rescue talks collapsed, while Bolton narrowly avoided a similar fate after administrators announced the club’s sale.
And after being part of a takeover which saved Hartlepool in 2018, the Sky Sports’ Soccer Saturday host said clubs must be aware of the potential pitfalls of apparently attractive ownership bids.
“We were approached by a consortium this summer who wanted to buy us out, and came offering a fortune,” Stelling told the PA news agency. “It transpired that one of them had just spent a few years in prison for fraud… so we said ‘thank you very much, no thanks, on your bike’.
Bolton narrowly avoided a similar fate to Bury (Peter Byrne/PA)
“Those people will go to other clubs and try it on in exactly the same way. I’ve got a friend in the game who has a pretty good idea of who’s kosher and who’s not.
“I know he’s been on the phone to a couple of clubs in the past warning them about the people that they were negotiating with.
“All you can do is offer advice, you can’t stop them because sometimes the situation is so extreme that you’re going under unless you take the offer.”
Stelling was part of Teesside businessman Raj Singh’s takeover of Hartlepool in 2018 after the north-east club were relegated from the Football League and suffered financial difficulties.
Bury’s EFL membership was withdrawn in late August (Dave Howarth/PA)
Detailing the problems his club experienced, Stelling said: “We were in a financial mess, our books were chaotic,” adding that some players were being paid £75,000 a year and needed to be paid off, the club opting to take “immediate pain for long-term gain”.
However, while clubs need to be vigilant when it comes to new owners, Stelling believes the EFL is in a bind when it comes to ‘fit and proper’ tests.
“It’s easy for people to say that the EFL should have more stringent checks on ownership, but if they’d said no to Steve Dale at Bury the club would have gone under then (when Dale took over, in December 2018),” Stelling said.
Stelling on the march for Prostate Cancer UK (Prostate Cancer UK/PA)
“I’m of the view that if you’re a drowning man and someone throws you a rope, you don’t examine his credentials too much before you grab it, and I think the EFL is in a really difficult situation in terms of fair and proper tests.
“Every club is in danger of being bought by people who do not have the club at heart.”
Stelling on Sunday completed the last of his four marathons in four days for Prostate Cancer UK, raising more than £200,000 for the charity in walking the 26-mile distance in Glasgow, Belfast, Cardiff and London.
He was joined by hundreds of others, including those affected by the disease and former footballers, taking in 16 football clubs along the way.
Stelling celebrates a fundraising goal for Prostate Cancer UK (Jeremy Banks/Prostate Cancer UK)
“What better vehicle to use to get your message out than football clubs?” Stelling said of the charity effort. “They (the clubs) have all been fantastically helpful, and it’s great that high-profile managers wear the Prostate Cancer badge on the lapel when they’re being interviewed and the like.
“People used to say, ‘It’s not the sort of thing you’re going to talk about in the bar’. Well, if you’ve got a concern, maybe you should. Maybe your mate might be able to point you in the direction of Prostate Cancer UK or your GP.”
To donate, visit www.justgiving.com/campaign/jeffsmarchformen2019 or search Jeff Stelling’s March for Men 2019 on Just Giving. For more information, go to prostatecanceruk.org/jeffsmarch.
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Trump, Dems in Tentative Deal on North American Trade Pact
WASHINGTON - House Democrats have reached a tentative agreement with labor leaders and the White House over a rewrite of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal that has been a top priority for President Donald Trump. That's according to a Democratic aide not authorized to discuss the talks and granted anonymity.
Details still need to be finalized and the U.S. Trade Representative will need to submit the implementing legislation to Congress. No vote has been scheduled.
The new, long-sought trade agreement with Mexico and Canada would give both Trump and his top adversary, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a major accomplishment despite the turmoil of his likely impeachment.
An announcement could come as early as Monday. Pelosi, D-Calif., still has to officially sign off on the accord, aides said. The aides requested anonymity because the agreement is not official.
The new trade pact would replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers involving the United States, Mexico and Canada. Critics, including Trump, labor unions and many Democratic lawmakers, branded NAFTA a job killer for America because it encouraged factories to move south of the border, capitalize on low-wage Mexican workers and ship products back to the U.S. duty free.
Weeks of back-and-forth, closely monitored by Democratic labor allies such as the AFL-CIO, have brought the two sides together. Pelosi is a longtime free trade advocate and supported the original NAFTA in 1994. Trump has accused Pelosi of being incapable of passing the agreement because she is too wrapped up in impeachment.
Democrats from swing districts have agitated for finishing the accord, in part to demonstrate some accomplishments for their majority.
By ratifying the agreement, Congress could lift uncertainty over the future of U.S. commerce with its No. 2 (Canada) and No. 3 (Mexico) trading partners last year and perhaps give the U.S. economy a modest boost. U.S. farmers are especially eager to make sure their exports to Canada and Mexico continue uninterrupted.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last year negotiated the replacement agreement with Canada and Mexico. But the new USMCA accord required congressional approval and input from top Democrats like Pelosi and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts, who have been engaged in lengthy, detailed negotiations over enforcement provisions and other technical details.
The pact contains provisions designed to nudge manufacturing back to the United States. For example, it requires that 40% to 45% of cars eventually be made in countries that pay autoworkers at least $16 an hour - that is, in the United States and Canada and not in Mexico.
The trade pact picked up some momentum after Mexico in April passed a labor-law overhaul required by USMCA. The reforms are meant to make it easier for Mexican workers to form independent unions and bargain for better pay and working conditions, narrowing the gap with the United States.
Mexico ratified USMCA in June and has budgeted more money later this year to provide the resources needed for enforcing the agreement.
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Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral Program Notes
Blue…like the sky. Where all possibilities soar. Cathedrals…a place of thought, growth, spiritual expression…serving as a symbolic doorway in to and out of this world. Blue represents all potential and the progression of journeys. Cathedrals represent a place of beginnings, endings, solitude, fellowship, contemplation, knowledge and growth. As I was writing this piece, I found myself imagining a journey through a glass cathedral in the sky. Because the walls would be transparent, I saw the image of clouds and blueness permeating from the outside of this church. In my mind's eye the listener would enter from the back of the sanctuary, floating along the corridor amongst giant crystal pillars, moving in a contemplative stance. The stained-glass windows’ figures would start moving with song, singing a heavenly music. The listener would float down the aisle, slowly moving upward at first and then progressing at a quicker pace, rising towards an immense ceiling which would open to the sky…as this journey progressed, the speed of the traveler would increase, rushing forward and upward. I wanted to create the sensation of contemplation and quiet peace at the beginning, moving towards the feeling of celebration and ecstatic expansion of the soul, all the while singing along with that heavenly music.
These were my thoughts when The Curtis Institute of Music commissioned me to write a work to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Curtis is a house of knowledge - a place to reach towards that beautiful expression of the soul which comes through music. I began writing this piece at a unique juncture in my life and found myself pondering the question of what makes a life. The recent loss of my younger brother, Andrew Blue, made me reflect on the amazing journeys that we all make in our lives, crossing paths with so many individuals singularly and collectively, learning and growing each step of the way.
This piece represents the expression of the individual and the group…our inner travels and the places our souls carry us, the lessons we learn, and the growth we experience. In tribute to my brother, I feature solos for the clarinet (the instrument he played) and the flute (the instrument I play). Because I am the older sibling, it is the flute that appears first in this dialog. At the end of the work, the two instruments continue their dialogue, but it is the flute that drops out and the clarinet that continues on in the upward progressing journey.
This is a story that commemorates living and passing through places of knowledge and of sharing and of that song called life.
This work was commissioned and premiered in 2000 by the Curtis Institute of Music.
- Jennifer Higdon
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Two in China receive kidney transplants, contract rabies and die
Surgical instruments are used during a kidney transplant surgery.
By Jonathan Kaiman
Two men in China died of rabies after receiving kidney transplants from an infected donor, according to Chinese medical researchers.
Last summer, a 55-year-old man from Hebei province near Beijing and a 43-year-old man from Liaoning province in the country’s far northeast died after receiving organs from the cadaver of a 6-year-old boy who had suffered from undiagnosed encephalitis, the researchers reported in the most recent issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Rabies transmission through organ transplantation has also occurred in the United States, but it is extremely rare.
“I think, personally, this case just highlighted some of the fractures in the system,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine.
“When I looked at the report, my first reaction was, ‘This is really rare, and also kind of unfortunate,’” he said. “My second was, ‘Well, would we actually be comfortable with transplanting, in this particular case, if it happened here in the U.S.?’ And I’d probably be nervous about that particular donor.
I think, personally, this case just highlighted some of the fractures in the system.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco School of Medicine
“My third was, ‘Wow, if I was gonna take organs from this donor, and I was worried about it, I’d probably give them to somebody who would immediately die without these organs,’” he said, adding that with kidneys, “there’s rarely a need for immediate transplantation.”
The boy, who lived in the impoverished, mostly rural southwestern Guangxi province, contracted a fever on May 13, 2015, according to the article. Two days later, with the fever still raging, he “showed additional symptoms of extreme irritability, screaming, and slurred speech.” By Day 3, he was foaming at the mouth.
The boy was moved to another hospital, where he entered a coma. He died 10 days later.
The body tested negative for HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis, so doctors determined that his organs were adequately safe for transplantation, and collected his kidneys and corneas. No autopsy was performed.
The man from Hebei received a kidney on May 27, 2015, in Beijing. That July, a fever and “mild abdominal distention” quickly developed into something worse — he began to lose his hearing, and speak incoherently. He had difficulty swallowing. Doctors suspected rabies, and later, confirmed the diagnosis. He died Aug. 23.
The second recipient, from Liaoning, showed many of the same symptoms. He died on Aug. 17. Realizing that the boy may have had rabies, medical authorities alerted two people in southern China who had received the boy’s corneas. Neither had developed symptoms of rabies, but both were treated for the virus as a precaution.
“Rabies in the two kidney transplant recipients probably resulted from rabies virus transmitted from the common organ donor,” concluded the researchers, who are affiliated with the Fudan University School of Public Health, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and other prominent Chinese institutions.
They could not definitively confirm the disease’s source, as the donor was cremated after his organs were collected.
China’s organ transplantation system is highly controversial. Human rights groups and activists from the banned spiritual group Falun Gong have accused authorities of killing political prisoners to sell their organs. A documentary released in April — “Human Harvest: China’s Organ Trafficking” — claims that the country’s illegal organ trade is worth $1 billion a year.
Authorities pledged to stop harvesting executed prisoners’ organs in December 2014, after admitting to the practice a few years earlier.
The country has one of the world’s lowest organ donation rates — the U.S. rate is more than 40 times higher.
“I think it’s hard to know what’s going on in China, with medicine and health,” Chin-Hong said. “The country is so big, and there are so many layers, you can never penetrate those deeper areas. People are motivated by unknown causes. What’s the narrative of the families in this organ transplantation case? This kid, in this rural area? You can only wonder.”
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The Zofran lawsuits claim the manufacturer of Zofran knew of the potential for serious birth defects linked to its drug, but failed to properly inform the United States government and healthcare providers that Zofran could cause significant potential issues.
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Zofran is the brand name for a prescription medication known as ondansetron hydrochloride. It is classified as a serotonin 5-HT3 receptor antagonist.
Serotonin is a type of neurotransmitter, a chemical produced in the brain that relays information between nerve cells. Serotonin is found primarily in the lower gastrointestinal tract, where it plays a role in the movements of the intestines.
The 5-HT3 receptor is the specific protein molecule that receives serotonin signals. When this particular receptor is activated by a substance (such as alcohol), it can cause nausea and vomiting as well as anxiety, and in some cases, increase the likelihood of seizures.
Zofran, which has been available in generic form since 2006, may be taken orally or by injection.
There is little consensus in the medical community about whether or not Zofran causes birth defects at present. However, a January 2012 study from the Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention indicates that women taking Zofran for nausea and vomiting during the first trimester of pregnancy were twice as likely to give birth to a child with a cleft palate. A more recent study published in Reproductive Toxicology presents possible links between the use of Zofran and specific birth defects that affect the heart as well.
Why Do Physicians Prescribe Zofran
Zofran is normally given to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments in order to prevent nausea and vomiting. It has been aggressively promoted for the ‘off-label’ purpose of treating symptoms of morning sickness in pregnant women. Studies since the drug has been available in generic form indicate that ondansetron may be useful in treating psychiatric and psychological disorders.
What are the Side Effects of Zofran
Commonly reported side effects of Zofran include headaches and dizziness as well as constipation. A few patients have reported damage to the inner ear as well, though these have not been confirmed. The medication has also been associated with a potentially fatal form of arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), known as torsades de pointes. Patients should avoid operating machinery while taking Zofran, as it may impair cognitive function and reaction time.
A number of articles have been published in medical journals, presenting evidence that suggests a link between the use of Zofran by pregnant women and birth defects. Although the issue is still being debated and studied, the general consensus among medical professionals is that Zofran should not be considered as a treatment for morning sickness unless all other treatments have failed. It has been established that Zofran can be transferred to the fetus through the placenta up to twelve weeks after conception.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings of the increased risk of heart problems and recommended ECG monitoring for patients suffering from an imbalance of electrolytes (electrically-charged minerals in the bloodstream).
Has There Been a Recall of Zofran Resulting From Birth Defects
As of January 2019, there has not been a recall of Zofran related to birth defects.
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Zofran is a product of Glaxo-Smith-Kline (GSK), a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation based in Brentford, England. The sixth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, GSK is the result of a series of mergers and acquisitions going back 125 years. In addition to Zofran, GSK produces a range of drugs for the treatment of cancer, diabetes and asthma, as well as psychopharmaceuticals for mental conditions. GSK also manufactures and markets a number of popular over-the-counter medications, dental and oral care products and nutritional supplements.
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The original company was founded in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand, in 1904 as a manufacturer of infant formula. The company opened operations in London, England as Glaxo Laboratories in 1935. Over the latter part of the 20th Century, the company acquired and merged with a number of others. By 1999, Glaxo-Wellcome commanded the third-largest revenue stream in the industry. The present corporation was formed the following year when Glaxo-Wellcome merged with SmithKline-Beecham.
Over the past decade, GSK has faced a number of criminal charges as well as civil lawsuits over various products and business practices. In 2007, there were serious concerns about the company's popular diabetic drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), which was implicated in an increased the risk of congestive heart failure, liver toxicity, stroke and dangerous hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure). A few years earlier, GSK paid $2.5 million in order to settle charges of fraud for off-label marketing of the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) to pediatric patients and suppressing negative research information on the drug. In 2010, GSK was fined $750 million over the manufacture of defective and adulterated products at a Puerto Rico subsidiary.
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October 27, 2017 |Nobel Prize, Richard Thaler, value of human life
Valuing Life
by James R. Rogers|9 Comments
New reports on Richard Thaler, who received the “Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences” this year usually mentioned, albeit in passing, Thaler’s doctoral dissertation on the topic of estimating the value of a human life. This topic is often taken to represent economics at its worst: economists trying to place a monetary value on something that is of infinite value.
Yet the centerpiece of the estimation approach is not about what value other people might impose on another person’s life, but on backing out what value people place on their own lives. Indeed, our own actions reflect that we do not place an infinite value on our own lives. We make tradeoffs between risk to our own lives and reward numerous times every day.
The nub of the estimation approach is easy to understand. (Actual estimations are more difficult.) It goes something like this: Say there’s a sale on an item you want to purchase, but the store with the sale is 20 miles further away than the store closest to you with the same item, but not on sale. If you purchase the item on sale you’d save $30 net of the added cost of getting to the more-distant store. (The gas, marginal wear on your car, your time, etc.). Driving the extra 20 miles, however, also entails additional risk: Traveling the additional 20 miles creates an additional one chance in 100,000 that you will be involved in a fatal auto accident. From your decision whether to make the trip for the sale, and the tradeoff you make between the risk and the reward, we can start to determine the value you place on your own life. If you make the trip, the implicit monetary value that you place on your life must be less than $3,000,000 (the marginal economic gain to you of $30 divided by the marginal increase in risk to your life of one over 100,000).
There are a host of complicating factors when attempting to calculate the implicit values we place on our own lives. But whatever those complicating factors, the underlying fact is that we all make those sorts of implicit tradeoffs all the time. The upshot is this: whatever the value we in fact place on our own lives, that value is not infinitely great. We don’t treat our own lives as though they are of infinite value.
This recognition is not a cold-hearted recognition of the tradeoff. Its recognition can sometimes help us to cut through nonsense to get to a real consideration of the risk to which others subject us.
One of my pet peeves is the common institutional platitude, “Safety First.” Well, in fact, if safety were truly an institution’s first concern, then the institution (the firm, the lab, the event) almost certainly wouldn’t exist in the first place. If we first make sure everything is safe as possible, then we would not engage in many of the most important things we do every day.
Companies are no different. What the “Safety First!” platitude sidesteps is recognition that firms are engaged, necessarily so, in tradeoffs between safety and other goals, including production and profit.
The fact of a tradeoff is not cold or calculating, or problematic. We all necessarily engage in tradeoffs in our private laws all the time in matters economic and non-economic. The question, though, is the actual terms of the tradeoff a particular firm or institution is making.
The problem with the “Safety First” platitude is the pretense that the firm in fact is not trading off risk and reward. It avoids raising the issue of the actual terms of that tradeoff between risk and reward to which a firm subjects its employees.
After all, it is possible that we value our lives more dearly than is implicit in the company’s tradeoff between safety and profit. Frank recognition of the tradeoff better opens the door, as Thaler and his co-author mentioned in a 1976 NBER paper, to “Adam Smith’s ancient suggestion that individuals must be induced to take risky jobs through a set of compensating differences in wage rates.” Recognizing the fact that tradeoffs are made of necessity is not cold or calculating. It is a first step to facing whether we consider those tradeoffs to be reasonable or unreasonable for ourselves, and insisting that our reward be commensurate to the risks that we face.
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A fine point on the merits of acknowledging trade-offs to avoid simplistic sentimentality.
Of course, “Safety First” doesn’t really mean safety first; it just means that a firm places a priority on safety, right? Yet the very concept of “priority” reflects an intellectual model suggesting that people have but one objective at a time and, when they achieve that objective, are then freed to pursue the next objective. (See, for example, Maslow’s hierarchy of need.) In contrast, utility models suggest that people have multiple objectives and pursue them all simultaneously, making moment-to-moment trade-offs as the relative prices of the objectives, and as the individual’s resources, change. In short, I’m skeptical that people really have “priorities.”
That said, a computational quibble:
Say there’s a sale on an item you want to purchase, but the store with the sale is 20 miles further away than the store closest to you with the same item, but not on sale. If you purchase the item on sale you’d save $30 net of the added cost of getting to the more-distant store. (The gas, marginal wear on your car, your time, etc.). Driving the extra 20 miles, however, also entails additional risk: Traveling the additional 20 miles creates an additional one chance in 100,000 that you will be involved in a fatal auto accident. From your decision whether to make the trip for the sale, and the tradeoff you make between the risk and the reward, we can start to determine the value you place on your own life. If you make the trip, the implicit monetary value that you place on your life must be less than $3,000,000 (the marginal economic gain to you of $30 divided by the marginal increase in risk to your life of one over 100,000).
I think that’s less than $1,500,000. If the sale is an additional 20 miles away, and if I’m going to drive to the sale and back, then I’d be traveling an additional 40 miles—thus incurring a risk of two chances in 100,000—to save $30. So $30/(2/100,000) = $1.5 million.
Then again, the drive could be mesmerizing and induce a “Maslow-ian” *Peak Experience* – now what is THAT worth. (I assume you are familiar with this aspect of Maslow’s thought.) Ha!
As to the whole calculation of “self-worth” (dollar-wise) it seems both beside the point and completely useless. Unlike you, I do believe that people have priorities, many different and differing ones, but it is doubtful that during the course of a typical day, that the individual is at all cognizant of those priorities (unless of course you are a warfighter).
Phil Beaver says
As a Co-operative Engineering Scholarship student, I had the privilege of working for DuPont Nylon Research in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Employees carried USPUSC cards and were reminded to not unsafe practices and unsafe conditions. The policy instilled a culture of safety.
When I applied for permanent employment, my job-placement expedience yield job offers. I chose Ethyl Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA, because the management was spawned from DuPont and Standard Oil and had the safety and other employee attitudes, and I would be among 600 engineers instead of tens of thousands.
In my 35 year career there, safety first was a guiding principle that determined not whether or not a task would be done or a product would be made, but how events would unfold.
As an example, we discovered that a 3 decades-old operation acquired through acquisition could literally blow up. We did the research to prove the potential for disaster, designed a new reactor system that could not blow up, and installed it. Supply of an important product continued without safety threat.
In another case, an entire production line was shut down by an event. Production was curtailed for the months required to change the chemical route to the product. The market—humankind—needs that product for practical reasons.
In another case, our company declined to research a precursor to a binary war compound. Perhaps that case illustrates morality first derived from safety first.
This is just one of many stories that led to an essay, “Integrity, Not Just Honesty, Is What Teams Need,” The Albemarle Globe, June 1998, published by the Albemarle Corporation.
Safety First represents a guiding principle for process more than product. Safety First may keep economic expediency from inviting woe. The principle seem applicable to human life as well as to corporations: Maintain life using a safe process.
Sorry. it should be “not tolearate unsafe . . .”
Infinitudes says
“We don’t treat our own lives as though they are of infinite value.”
Just because we put ourselves at risk doesn’t mean we don’t value our lives. I value my child’s life so much that I would die to protect her life, but that doesn’t mean I refuse to drive her to her little league game because we might get in a car accident.
On the contrary, it’s because I value her life so much that i want her life to be full of pleasurable and rewarding experiences that I put the tiny possibility of a car crash out of my mind and drive her to her game anyway.
It is precisely because we believe life can be valuable (rewarding) that we risk pain to experience rewarding experiences.
It’s not “safety above all else”, it’s “pursue pleasure in the safest way possible without forfeiting the pursuit of the pleasure”. If it were “safety first” we would be virgins to avoid STDs and we’d die out after one generation. No, it’s “pursue pleasure safely”, for instance, wear a condom.
A lifetime of our lives says
To say that Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t place an infinite value on life because he went outside and risked getting shot, rather than stay at his safe home, is to completely misunderstand MLK’s message.
It was precisely because he thought life had infinite value (infinite possibility?) that he strove above all else–even his own safety–to preach the message of a just and fair society for all, so as many people as possible could experience the infinite value that life can have.
It is precisely because we believe life has value (rewarding pleasures) and not just duration, that we are willing to pursue that value (those pleasures) at the cost of possibly shortening the duration of that life. An infinitely long life completely devoid of all pleasures and happiness (rewards) has no value of any kind. Life is valuable only insofar that it is capable of experiencing pleasure and happiness now or in the foreseeable future. (And we should try to take care of people in persistent vegetative states.)
Pleasure and happiness is what gives life its value, just as the bill of rights is what gives law its value. The law must deal out justice–just as life will occasionally be miserable, like when someone dies–but we value the law insofar as it allows us to pursue the rewards of existence that give life its value. We may need the punishment part of the law, just as we need to be able to feel pain to avoid it, but it is not what gives it its value. We need to exist to experience the pleasures of life, but merely existing without being able to pursue happiness is not a pleasure in itself–if it were we would not need pleasures on top of the pleasure of merely existing (for its own sake).
Double-Dee Day says
Economists seem to think that if we are willing to take risks that we place a finite value on life. For instance, sex could lead to AIDS, so anyone who has sex places only a finite value on life, whereas virgins place an infinite value on life. Or, because 1 in 100,000 refugees will be terrorists, only people who don’t want to take in refugees place an infinite value on life, even though one of the refugees you let in may end up being the doctor who performs life-saving surgery on you decades from now.
Choosing to take risks does not mean that we don’t place an infinite value on life; those who gave their lives on the shores of Normandy did not place a finite value on life whereas the Germans who huddled in their homes and didn’t resist the Nazis somehow placed an infinite value on their lives.
Screwing for peace says
Economists think that when we get in the car we ask ourselves, is what i’m doing worth risking my life over?
But just as a psychologist and they will tell you that we don’t think of driving a car as a life-threatening experience or we wouldn’t do it. Sure, we know there’s a remote possibility we’ll be in a car crash, so we wear a safety belt, but we don’t think that where we’re driving to is more important than our life.
Like with sex. When we decide to have sex for the first time we don’t ask ourselves–is it better to stay a virgin our whole lives rather than risk getting AIDS? We simply put on a condom and have sex. And we know this because 99% of people have sexual lives rather than remain virgins–to avoid dying prematurely of AIDS. If people really thought that having sex and risking contracting AIDS meant that we didn’t value our lives, many fewer people would have sex.
Dhali Lambda says
Ask your 15-year-old son before he drives over to his girlfriend’s house to have sex if it’s worth it when there’s a chance he could die in a car crash on the way there, and there’s a chance he could contract AIDS from his girlfriend and die? Then tell him that if he’s willing to take a chance on his life just to have sex, that means he doesn’t place an infinite value on his life.
He will tell you that it’s quite the opposite, it’s because he values living above merely existing that he’s willing to risk his life in a car crash to have sex with his girlfriend who might be hiding her AIDS diagnosis from him. He’ll also call you a hypocrite because you obviously had sex to create him, and yet you think you place an infinite value on life.
Taking risks very small risks is not proof that was does not value life infinitely. Most people don’t even think about the possibility of dying in a car crash every time they get in the car. If they did they’d probably suffer from an anxiety disorder in no time. The reason we can remain calm is because we don’t think about death every time we get in the car or have sex, even though there’s that 1 in 100,000 chance of utter destruction from crashes or AIDS.
Next time your wife talks about going to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower, tell her that if she really valued life she wouldn’t get on a plane because sometimes they crash. You’ll be sleeping on the sofa in no time.
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Mission
The Likoni Community Football League provides a competition base that exposes young people to the sport of soccer and provides opportunities to create leaders within the community. The LCFL is a gateway for other organizations to educate and enrich the lives of thousands of Likoni’s children.
Vision
Mobilize, inspire, create, and thus build and strengthen individuals and the community through soccer.
LCFL currently operates on a round-the-year calendar. League play overlaps and co-exists with the school year nine months out of the year running from January to March and May to September with games being played every Sunday (with due time-out for Ramadan.)
LCFL has held coaching and referee clinics for any league member wishing to attend and plans to offer these clinics annually.
LCFL holds Peace & Security, Anti-drugs, HIV/AIDS, and female empowerment programs that will be scheduled during season play.
Likoni, Mombasa, Kenya
Likoni has a population of 176,440 people. About 2/3 of the population are under 24 years old. Likoni is part of Mombasa, the 2nd largest city in Kenya located on the Indian Ocean and home to East Africa's largest port. The port, however, cuts Likoni off from the rest of the city causing Likoni to have the highest rate of poverty in Mombasa. Forty-five percent of Likoni's residents live on less than $1 US per day.
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We need to be more ambitious about spaceport
Elon lives in a different world than most. He does not follow, nor does he work like most.
We need to be more ambitious about spaceport Elon lives in a different world than most. He does not follow, nor does he work like most. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2dCn7vS
For the Sun-News Published 10:05 a.m. MT Oct. 3, 2016 | Updated 5:33 p.m. MT Oct. 3, 2016
Pat Hynes directs the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium for NASA at New Mexico State University.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
My career or any career needs to be nurtured. Careers were on the agenda at New Mexico State University last week because of homecoming. Successful alumni who serve on various advisory boards were on campus, including my former boss who now works at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He still works in the area of technology development. He was the one who started our Student Launch program in 1994 by designing the original student payload. He worked on the TDRSS satellite system at White Sands Test Facility before he came to NMSU.
Last week I presented a research paper at the International Astronomical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico where I witnessed Elon Musk’s presentation on his ambitious vision to make humans a multi-planetary species. The presentation is on the SpaceX website. Elon Musk created a rock star event at an otherwise typical space conference. And, last week, the title sponsor of ISPCS changed jobs. Clayton Mowry, now former president of Europe’s launch company, Arianespace, jumped ship to do business development with Jeff Bezos’ launch company Blue Origin. Bezos is the founder of Amazon.
When I met with Clay in Guadalajara he was hosting a commercial space symposium. He brought the presidents of Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and two other companies to speak about the status of their technologies designed to provide lower cost and faster access to space. As I stood next to him during his new boss’ talk, I asked, "did you ever think you’d be doing this?" From the inside of his eyes out to his wrinkled brow, no, he said, never. Did I ever think the title sponsor of ISPCS would become a competitor? Yes, of course. Success breeds followers. I have commercial space conference competitors. One is called SpaceCom, it is in it’s second year, in Houston. AIAA just hosted a commercial space summit at their Space Forum in Long Beach. These competitors will be at ISPCS, because they are also partners with ISPCS.
Business is personal. Companies have stories, and really good leaders become part of the story with the company. Leaders create, they influence and for sure, the good ones are ambitious and foster ambitions in their staff. Ambition is rampant in the commercial space community. Acceptance of ambitious women is still shaky ground for some. Bill McDermott, the CEO of SAP, wrote about his own ambition in his book "Winner’s Dream." When he was hired at Xerox, he told his boss his ambition was to become the CEO. It was perfectly fine for him to say that out loud. The company nurtured his ambition, honed his sales skills and eventually groomed him for greater leadership opportunities. He took the tough assignments including becoming district manager in Xerox’s last place district, Puerto Rico. Within two years, Puerto Rico became number one is sales in the US. That’s how ambition turns into opportunity. Results, driven by performance and discipline. Opportunity for some, not all. Not yet.
Performance is tougher to measure in an industry like commercial space. There were no UPCs or universal product codes to describe the movement of goods in the industry when I started ISPCS. Wall Street was uninterested when I visited the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal in 2007. I interviewed with their science and technology writers, and all they knew about was Richard Branson and the XPrize. There was no commercial space industry. That was the same year Elon Musk spoke at ISPCS. He is the founder of SpaceX, and Tesla, and partner in Solar City. Elon has an ambition that is beyond what Bill McDermott describes as necessary to move forward within a corporate culture. Elon lives in a different world than most. He does not follow, nor does he work like most. His company, SpaceX, was the first commercial company to resupply in the International Space Station. He was writing the commercial resupply proposal to NASA when he stopped in Las Cruces to speak at ISPCS.
The day before Elon was to speak he called to cancel. What! You have to, I said. Pat, I am just too busy. Elon, you promised, and we have a press conference scheduled with other speakers including Peter Diamandis the founder of the XPrize and the Google Lunar Lander Challenge. What do you want me to talk about, he asked? I want to you speak on how you will impact humanity on the geologic scale. He agreed. If I faltered, hesitated or did not have that answer, we would have lost him. Ambition requires readiness and constant vigilance. That is ambition but not on the scale that Elon rolls on. He plans to send humans to Mars. His team is working on a new rocket called the Raptor which will carry up to 200 people for $200,000 to Mars. The trip he estimates will take 60 days one way. The vehicle will be refueled in flight. He will reuse the first stage booster which will fly back to earth, be refilled with fuel, and then rendezvous with the Raptor to enable it to reach Mars. That’s ambition. That’s impacting the species on a geologic scale. Two hours before his talk, people started lining up. Thousands. I witnessed what will come to the space industry, it will come here. We want to be ready. Competitors have ambitions. Virgin Galactic is getting closer every day. In the meantime, we need to get ambitious. Dan Hicks is a great choice for our community at the new executive director of the spaceport.
Pat Hynes works at New Mexico State University for NASA directing the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium. She can be reached at 575-646-6414 or at pahynes@nmsu.edu.
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The Graff Pink Orchid
The marquise-cut, 22.84 carat, purplish-pink, Internally Flawless (IF) clarity Pink Orchid diamond is owned by Graff Diamonds of London. It is believed the diamond was cut at the Graff workshop and set in a platinum ring to make a complete pink diamond engagement ring. The diamond is a relatively new discovery and few details are known regarding its origin, date of discovery, and original owners. The diamond seems to have been cut in one of the two workshops of Graff, either in New York or Antwerp. The diamond had been subsequently set in a platinum ring, probably by the expert craftsmen of the Graff London jewelry workshop. From this we could probably deduce that he bought the diamond in the rough and did the rest himself, although it is not known from whom it was bought or when. Based on Graff's timeline, it seems that the ring was finished in 1987. It is quite large for a pink diamond, seeing as how most of the pink diamonds that are discovered are of much smaller carat weight.
The rarity of the purplish-pink color, combined with the relatively large size of the stone ensure that the Pink Orchid will make its own history. The Marquise cut is an elongated Round Brilliant shape with pointed ends. This cut is also called navette or boat shaped and has 56 facets. It is said that the name of the cut originated with Louis XV of France's mistress, Marquise de Pompadour, whose smile carried a similar shape. The marquise-cut of the stone in a ring setting are said to have the effect of making the wearer’s fingers long and slender.
Throughout history, the source of pink diamonds in the world has changed many times. The earliest known source of pink diamonds was the Golconda mine in Southern India. The famous and historic pink diamonds, the Darya-i-Nur and the Nur-ul-Ain may quite possibly have originated in these mines. In the late 19th century, the diamond mines of South Africa became the main source of pink diamonds in the world. The Mouawad Lilac, the Mouawad Pink, the Steinmetz Pink, and other relatively recently discovered pink diamonds all originated in the diamond mines of Southern Africa. In the present day, the main source of pink diamonds in the world is the Argyle Diamond Mines in Australia, which was founded in 1983. The Argyle Mine, located in Kimberley, Western Australia, largely produces brown diamonds but also is the largest producer of pink diamonds. They claim to produce 90% of the world's pink diamonds.
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- The coolest Bible I've ever seen, created by a Swedish Atheist, via Huffington Post's 12 Must-Have Books for Your Bookshelves
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New Book: Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
I just started reading the eBook version of Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox and wanted to put it on your radar.
I've always been fascinated by both Queen's tragic lives and I'm glad someone finally wrote about Juana La Loca.
Via Goodreads:
The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine’s sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, is portrayed as “Juana the Mad,” whose erratic behavior included keeping her beloved late husband’s coffin beside her for years. But historian Julia Fox, whose previous work painted an unprecedented portrait of Jane Boleyn, Anne’s sister, offers deeper insight in this first dual biography of Katherine and Juana, the daughters of Spain’s Ferdinand and Isabella, whose family ties remained strong despite their separation. Looking through the lens of their Spanish origins, Fox reveals these queens as flesh-and-blood women—equipped with character, intelligence, and conviction—who are worthy historical figures in their own right.
When they were young, Juana’s and Katherine’s futures appeared promising. They had secured politically advantageous marriages, but their dreams of love and power quickly dissolved, and the unions for which they’d spent their whole lives preparing were fraught with duplicity and betrayal. Juana, the elder sister, unexpectedly became Spain’s sovereign, but her authority was continually usurped, first by her husband and later by her son. Katherine, a young widow after the death of Prince Arthur of Wales, soon remarried his doting brother Henry and later became a key figure in a drama that altered England’s religious landscape.
Ousted from the positions of power and influence they had been groomed for and separated from their children, Katherine and Juana each turned to their rich and abiding faith and deep personal belief in their family’s dynastic legacy to cope with their enduring hardships. Sister Queens is a gripping tale of love, duty, and sacrifice—a remarkable reflection on the conflict between ambition and loyalty during an age when the greatest sin, it seems, was to have been born a woman.
Julia Fox was interviewed by NPR, the audio is available on their website.
Labels: feminism, History, Mental Illness, Non Fiction, Royalty, Spain
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Are the days of the Arkin cap numbered?
Innes: Judicial opinion moving away from sympathy with funders
Guest post by Stephen Innes, a barrister at 4 New Square in London
The Arkin cap has come to be seen as increasingly unfashionable, and a forthcoming hearing may provide some indication of the prospects of it being consigned to the back of the wardrobe of history.
As a reminder, where a claim backed by litigation funding fails, the funder may be susceptible to a non-party costs order in favour of the successful party. In Arkin v Borchard Lines Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 655, the Court of Appeal limited the extent of the funder’s liability to the extent of the funding provided.
The court was concerned to strike a balance between not depriving a successful party of all of his costs and not deterring commercial funders by the fear of disproportionate costs consequences:
The then Master of the Rolls, Lord Phillips, said: “If a professional funder, who is contemplating funding a discrete part of an impecunious claimant’s expenses, such as the cost of expert evidence, is to be potentially liable for the entirety of the defendant’s costs should the claim fail, no professional funder will be likely to be prepared to provide the necessary funding… Access to justice will be denied.”
In Excalibur Ventures LLC v Texas Keystone Inc [2016] EWCA Civ 1144, the Court of Appeal upheld an order for indemnity costs against commercial funders.
Lord Justice Tomlinson noted that the court on that appeal was not being asked to revisit the Arkin decision: “I understand that some consider the solution thus adopted to be over-generous to commercial funders, but that is a debate for another day upon which I express no view.”
It was, however, notable that he was “sceptical” about the funders’ argument that, if they were required to pay indemnity costs, it would have an adverse effect on access to justice, as he did not think that commercial funders would, or indeed should, be greatly motivated by the need to promote access to justice.
In Bailey v GlaxoSmithKline UK Ltd [2017] EWHC 3195 (QB), Mr Justice Foskett heard an application for security for costs against the claimants’ funder. The funder relied on an after-the-event insurance policy obtained by the claimants and on the fact that its own liability as a funder would be subject to the Arkin cap and therefore limited to the amount of the funding it had provided.
In that case, the judge held that the funder could not rely on the Arkin cap at the security for costs stage: the judge noted that there had been criticism of the decision in Arkin and postulated that a successful challenge might be made in the Court of Appeal, such that it could not therefore be said with certainty that if an order for costs was made under section 51 at the conclusion of the case, the funder would be able to rely on the cap.
The criticism to which he referred included that by Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Funding: Final Report (December 2009). Sir Rupert recommended that, either by rule change or by legislation, third-party funders should be exposed to liability for adverse costs in respect of litigation which they fund.
He also doubted that lenders would be deterred by the risks of adverse costs order and considered that it was “wrong in principle that a litigation funder, which stands to recover a share of damages in the event of success, should be able to escape part of the liability for costs in the event of defeat.
“This is unjust not only to the opposing party (who may be left with unrecovered costs) but also to the client (who may be exposed to costs liabilities which it cannot meet).”
In the combined case of Davey v Money and Dunbar Assets Plc v Davey [2018] EWHC 766, the claimant’s claims were dismissed by Mr Justice Snowden.
Ms Davey was the director and shareholder of a company which owned a property in the Isle of Dogs. Dunbar was the company’s secured creditor. After defaults on the debts, Dunbar appointed administrators, who marketed and sold the property. Ms Davey brought a claim against the administrators, and counterclaimed against Dunbar, alleging that the property was sold at an undervalue.
Following the judgment, notice was given of the intention to seek a costs order against Ms Davey’s funder and this is due to be heard at the end of October. The case is something of a showcase for 4 New Square, with Justin Fenwick QC and Ben Smiley for the adminstrators, Nick Bacon QC for Dunbar and Robert Marven QC for the funder.
The Arkin cap will be central to the application. Snowden J is well versed in the issues, having given rulings in cases concerned with funders, security for costs, and non-party costs orders in Premier Motorauctions v Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP [2016] EWHC 2610 (Ch) and In the matter of Hellas Telecommunications (Luxembourg) II SCA (unreported, 2017).
In view of the trend of judicial opinion moving away from sympathy and encouragement for commercial funders, this decision will be one to watch for any further pointers.
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Wetherspoons’ trouser ban strikes again
AN OLD war veteran has been banned for life from a Macclesfield bar - the second eviction of a pensioner over wearing tracksuit trousers at Wetherspoons within five weeks.
Granddad-of-five, former RAF engineer Eddie St Leger, 67, who served in the Far East in the late Fifties fighting the Chinese communists, contacted the Macclesfield Express after reading a similar story in last week's paper.
Glenys Steele, 60, was halfway through a meal at the Society Rooms on Park Green with two elderly ladies with learning difficulties when she was banned from ordering a pudding because she was wearing tracksuit pants. She had been working out at the gym.
Eddie, who lives on Warwick Walk, Weston Estate, with his wife, Joan, 61, was a regular at the bar until he was asked to leave because he was wearing similar sportswear.
He said he was unaware of the rule, and thought the pants looked fairly smart, but was on his own so he agreed to go anyway.
But then astonishingly after complaining to the company HQ and receiving an apology plus an invite to return, he went back to Wetherspoons in his Sunday best with his wife and friends only to be barred AGAIN - only this time for life!
And that, according to Eddie, was unacceptable and embarrassing.
He wrote back to head office and said: "I hope you can imagine my humiliation at being ordered out of a place where one has almost to commit murder to be ejected from.
"It is a stigma in the town of Macclesfield to be barred from Wetherspoons."
And he said later: "I think it's because I had the temerity to complain about the manager. I have always had a good rapport with the staff. It's just a joke.
"I have seen him back down to a bunch of yobs using bad language. I think it is maybe because I am a pensioner."
Eddie, who was in the RAF for 12 years and was a former aircraft engineer, wrote to the company head office after the first eviction.
Customer services co-ordinator Claire Campbell apologised in writing and encouraged him to return.
So Eddie headed back to the pub for his pint wearing a shirt, tie, smart shoes and smart trousers, along with his wife and friends and was told again bluntly by the manager: "You are barred."
He said: "As far as I'm concerned I've been barred for life.
"We always used to go for lunch to Wetherspoons after shopping and I used to wander in for a quick pint after my morning walk.
"I didn't argue about it the first time and left. I would like the first letter I received to stand, which says I can go back anytime and I would like an apology."
However, a spokesman for Wetherspoons said each manager has the right to ban who they like, without explanation.
And Miss Campbell, who had originally apologised, back-pedalled after claiming she had discussed the matter with the manager who had adamantly refused to have Eddie back and didn't need to give a reason.
Eddie Gershon, company spokesman, said: "Any manager of any pub has the right to ban any member of the public they do not want in their pub."
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Jason Kenney's 'triggered' culture reaches Alberta students - Macleans.ca
Jason Kenney’s ‘triggered’ culture reaches Alberta students
Max Fawcett: Does the Alberta government believe the education system’s role is to produce critical thinkers or compliant ones?
by Max Fawcett
Alberta premier Jason Kenney shakes hands with Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Education after being is sworn into office, in Edmonton on Apr. 30, 2019. (CP/Jason Franson)
Max Fawcett is a freelance writer and the former editor of Alberta Oil magazine
Jason Kenney’s government has made no secret of its affinity for combat, and it’s already launched offensives against a wide range of targets that includes everything from the Prime Minister of Canada to a ratings agency in New York. These skirmishes are all in the service of a broader campaign to defend the province’s oil and gas industry, and restore the jobs that have been lost in it over the last few years.
But as parents at a Red Deer area middle school are discovering, this hyper-aggressive strategy can come with some collateral damage. In their case, it’s the Christmas school dance that had to be cancelled after a parent threatened to confront a teacher who had made the grievous error of presenting his grade-four students with uncomplimentary information about the oil sands. So much for the holiday spirit.
The purpose of the exercise that triggered the parent—one that’s part of a social studies curriculum developed by Ralph Klein’s government back in 2005—is to help students develop a better understanding of subjects like conservation, solar and wind power, and oil exploration and forestry. The teacher showed them two videos about the oil sands, one from Greenpeace and one from the Alberta government, and asked them to identify and understand the differences.
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“The focus of using those two videos and engaging students was really to focus on building critical thinking, and that concept of critical thinking,” Wolf Creek School Division Superintendent Jayson Lovell told CBC, “which is really woven throughout the social studies curriculum from kindergarten right through to grade 12.”
One would assume that the Government of Alberta would wholeheartedly support such efforts, given how important critical thinking skills are in our fast-moving, information-saturated times. But that assumption has already been tested by the government’s own behaviour.
In November, education minister Adriana LaGrange tweeted a screenshot of a question about the oil sands from a grade-10 social studies test and suggested it betrayed a nefarious political agenda. “Alberta has a great story to tell about our responsible energy sector,” she wrote, “and educators should not be attacking it. We’ll get politics out of the classroom.” One wonders if the War Room—sorry, the “Canadian Energy Centre”—will be deployed to deliver some remedial lessons to uncooperative teachers and superintendents.
It is concerning that anybody would think that these were appropriate questions for a Gr. 10 Social Studies test. Alberta has a great story to tell about our responsible energy sector, and educators should not be attacking it. We'll get politics out of the classroom. #abed #ableg pic.twitter.com/GXFMNBxnXO
— Adriana LaGrange (@AdrianaLaGrange) November 28, 2019
LaGrange’s broadside against one of the schools in her department was not an isolated incident, either. In August, Premier Kenney announced a panel that would review the province’s curriculum (one that had already been reviewed by the previous government), and he made it clear that it would be tasked with rooting out any “political agendas” that he believes “were being smuggled into the curriculum by the NDP in a highly politicized way.” Instead, he said, the focus would be placed on “a curriculum that ensures that basic knowledge skills and key competencies are taught to students that are well prepared for the future.”
But critical thinking skills are an essential “competency” in the 21st century, and they include being able to distill and understand arguments from a variety of sources—including those Kenney may not agree with. That’s precisely what the high school test question that triggered Minister LaGrange was designed to cultivate. It asked students to understand different perspectives, not agree with them—a fundamental skill for anyone who wants to work in a knowledge economy. Her reaction to it raises a fundamental question: does her government believe the education system’s role is to produce critical thinkers, or produce compliant ones?
This is a live question, and it’s not hard to imagine that as part of their curriculum review the government will be looking to remove any exercises or lessons that present negative information about the energy sector from Alberta’s classrooms, even if that comes at the cost of fully educating the kids in them.
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But as any parent who has tried to shield their kid from information—about, say, sex education—knows, this strategy can backfire. It’s not as though the government can protect Alberta’s students from information that’s critical of the energy sector. Shouldn’t they be exposed to it in school, so they can learn to separate fact from fiction and understand how to engage productively in a conversation that may play an important role in their adult lives?
Parents, of course, should deliver their own lessons about the energy sector at home, just as they would with sex education. If they want to festoon their living rooms with Canada Proud merchandise and teach their sons and daughters about the miracle of hydrocarbons, they can do that. But schools are about preparing children for the road ahead, not protecting them from its complexity—however uncomfortable that might be for some people.
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Construction Company Kaleidoscope With A Brief For Coastal Building
August 27, 2016 January 12, 2017 Site Admin
The brief for our Sydney Construction Company
Demolitions & Rebuild – knock downs are back in fashion
The diversity of landscapes and climatic conditions across Australia and New Zealand not only has a huge impact on our lifestyles, but also acts upon our psyches in subtle ways. It helps to define our sense of ‘home’ – whether that be the tropical beaches of Northern Queensland, the bustling metropolitan centres such as Sydney and Melbourne, or the remote alpine regions of New Zealand’s South Island. But it’s not just the natural landscape that enters our psyches and says ‘you belong here’.
Consider the impact that our architectural landscape plays in creating our sense of place. What could be more fundamental to our sense of who we are and where we come from than the homes we choose to build and live in? In Australia, brick homes have been the norm in most parts of the country, while in New Zealand, weatherboard homes have historically been the quintessential residential style.
Of course, a wide variety of other ‘imported’ architectural styles have had their periods of popularity – most notably in recent years it’s been the ‘Mediterranean look’. Originally intended to make a statement of difference, in some areas that look has now become almost ‘standard’ and, while the style may suit regions with a ‘Med-like’ climate, in less gentle climes it’s now increasingly seen as misplaced. Today, there is a growing recognition among architects, builders and enlightened homeowners, that good design is not something that can be appropriated, but rather, is something that should evolve in response to our own landscapes, climates and lifestyles.
The existing three-bedroom house is semi-detached and has an old style rear -with the service rooms currently positioned between the living areas and the back courtyard. Archicentre, the home advisory service of the Australian Institute of Architects, asked Roger Barrett of Barrett Pinet Architecture to open up the home to the rear and maximise the relationship between indoors and out.
The home has no off-street parking, so there is an upper limit in sale price after renovation. That said, architect Roger Barrett maintains that the house can still comfortably take a “careful investment” in new works without over-capitalising the property. The renovations will substantially improve the home for its new occupants.
The proposed design rearranges the rooms at the rear of the house to give better access between the living area and courtyard by demolishing the existing kitchen, laundry, WC and bathroom and re-aligning the rear wall.
New folding doors to the rear would allow the living space to be completely opened to the courtyard for a more contemporary indoor/outdoor lifestyle. The bathroom, WC and laundry meanwhile would be more conveniently located near the bedrooms. The courtyard would be tiled. Skylights would be placed over the new living area, as well as over the attic.
Secura™ wet area flooring for the new bathrooms (and even under tiles in the kitchen). Read more about it here.
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Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman has been sentenced to jail.
Actress Felicity Huffman, the first parent sentenced in a wide-ranging US college admissions cheating scandal, has apologised for her actions before being given a 14-day prison term.
She had previously pleaded guilty to paying to rig her daughter’s college entrance exam.
US District Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Huffman, the 56-year-old former star of the popular television series Desperate Housewives and one-time Academy Award nominee, in federal court in Boston.
Felicity Huffman is the first parent to be sentenced in the college admissions cheating scandal. Image via Getty.
The judge also ordered Huffman to pay a $US30,000 ($A44,000) fine and complete 250 hours of community service.
"My first apology is to you," Huffman told the judge immediately before the sentence was issued on Friday.
"I realise now as a mother that love and truth must go hand in hand, and love at the expense of truth is not real love," the actress said. "I will deserve whatever punishment you give me," she added.
Huffman was released from court after the judge ordered her to report to prison on October 25.
The actress and her husband, actor William H. Macy, looked sombre when they arrived at the federal courthouse, holding hands, ahead of the sentencing.
Huffman is among 51 people charged in a vast scheme in which wealthy parents were accused of conspiring to use bribery and other forms of fraud to secure for their children admission to prominent US universities. These schools included Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas and Wake Forest.
More than 30 parents were charged in the investigation dubbed Operation Varsity Blues, including actress Lori Loughlin who starred in the TV series Full House and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli, as well as a host of corporate executives, financiers and lawyers. Unlike Huffman, Loughlin and Giannulli pleaded not guilty.
Lori Loughlin and her daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli. Image: Getty
The scandal cast a spotlight on the advantages of wealth in college admissions and the lengths to which some rich Americans have gone to get their children into top universities at the expense of other applicants.
Prosecutors said the accused parents acted with the help of William "Rick" Singer, a California college admissions consultant who pleaded guilty in March to helping bribe university sports coaches to present clients' children as fake athletic recruits. Singer's sentencing is set for later this month.
Huffman, who won an Emmy award for Desperate Housewives and was nominated for an Oscar as best actress for her role in the 2005 film Transamerica, said the cheating scheme was proposed by Singer.
Huffman said her daughter Sophia was unaware of the scheme until the actress was arrested on March 12. The actress said her daughter was four years old when Huffman first started trying to help her deal with learning disabilities.
"My daughter looked at me and asked with tears streaming down her face, 'Why didn't you believe in me? Why didn't you think I could do it on my own?' ... I have compromised my daughter's future, the wholeness of my family and my own integrity," Huffman said in a letter to the judge before sentencing.
Macy, 69, said their daughter "certainly paid the dearest price" when her desired school, which remained unnamed in court documents, rescinded its acceptance of her after Huffman's arrest. Macy was not charged.
"She had been accepted into a few schools but her heart was set on one in particular which, ironically, doesn't require SAT scores," Macy said in a letter to the judge.
"She started as one of several thousand applicants and after making it through many auditions, she flew to the school two days after her mom's arrest for the final selections. When she landed, the school emailed her withdrawing their invitation to audition," Macy said.
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Montana Child Custody Guide :: Table of Contents
Montana Child Visitation Law Summary
Child Visitation For Grandparents, Relatives, and Third PartiesMontana
Montana Child Visitation Law Text
In general, courts in Montana assume that it is beneficial for both biological parents of a child to have shared custody or visitation, unless it is shown to be against the child's best interests. A biological parent who is denied custody may be awarded visitation rights to provide for a relationship between the parent and child.
Visitation by grandparents, family members, or other third-parties is less clear cut in Montana, and nationwide. While there are state guidelines regarding third-party visitation in certain situations, these laws are frequently challenged.
Above all else, courts in Montana strive to make custody and visitation decisions that are "in the best interests of the child". The court handling each individual visitation case has significant flexibility in determining what arrangement is in the child's best interests. You can read about Montana's visitation guildelines on this page.
Montana Visitation Court Considerations Table
Montana Child Visitation Summary
Montana law states that a biological parent of a minor child may request visitation rights as part of an open divorce, parentage or custody case. A person may also file a petition for visitation on its own.
What is considered in a child's "best interests" are outlined under the custody and visitation statute which indicate the following factors are relevant to this type of decision which state:
the wishes of the child's parent or parents
the wishes of the child
the interaction and interrelationship of the child with the child's parent or parents and siblings and with any other person who significantly affects the child's best interest
the child's adjustment to home, school, and community
the mental and physical health of all individuals involved
physical abuse or threat of physical abuse by one parent against the other parent or the child
chemical dependency, or chemical abuse on the part of either parent
continuity and stability of care
whether a parent has knowingly failed to financially support a child that the parent is able to support, which is considered to be not in the child's best interests
whether the child has frequent and continuing contact with both parents
A court may award visitation rights to a grandparent if it is in the child's best interest.
A court may award visitation rights if the court finds that visitation is in the child's best interest. Adoption cuts off the visitation rights of grandparents unless adoption is granted to a step-parent or another grandparent.
Montana Child Visitation For Grandparents, Relatives, and Third Parties
In the state of Montana, there are a number of laws regarding child visitation regarding visitation for third-parties other than the biological parents of the child. While state laws regarding third-party visitation have been frequently been challenged in courts, they are a good indication of Montana's positions regarding non-parental visitation rights.
Visitation Rights Of Grandparents In Montana:
Montana has special statutes regarding the child visitiation rights of grandparents under different circumstances. Under state law, the grandparents of children may obtain visitation while the parents are alive, regardless of the parent's marital status.
Regardless of state presumptions regarding grandparent's visitation rights under specific circumstances, a Montana court may allow or prevent visitation rights in any situation based on the best interests of the child.
Visitation Rights Of Other Parties In Montana:
Are step-parents granted visitation rights in the state of Montana?
Under Montana law, legal provisions do exist to grant child visitation rights to step-parents under certain circumstances, so visitation can be readily applied for. In all cases, third-party visitation rights are more likely to be granted by the court if they are deemed to be in the best interests of the child.
Can other interested parties or relatives be granted visitation rights to a child in Montana?
Under state of Montana law, it may be possible for other individuals to be granted visitation rights by the court. This might include relatives other than the child'a parents, previous caregivers, etc.
Can parents be granted visitation rights after termination of parental rights or adoption in Montana?
In the state of Montana it may not be possible to be granted visitation rights after losing parental rights or giving up a child for adoption. This is the case with both biological parents and previous guardians.
MONT. CODE ANN. § 40-9-102 MONT. CODE ANN. § 40-4-228
40-9-102. Grandparent-grandchild contact. (1) Except as provided in subsection (8), the district court may grant to a grandparent of a child reasonable rights to contact with the child, including but not limited to rights regarding a child who is the subject of, or as to whom a disposition has been made during, an administrative or court proceeding under Title 41 or this title. The department of public health and human services must be given notice of a petition for grandparent-grandchild contact regarding a child who is the subject of, or as to whom a disposition has been made during, an administrative or court proceeding under Title 41 or this title.
(2) Before a court may grant a petition brought pursuant to this section for grandparent-grandchild contact over the objection of a parent whose parental rights have not been terminated, the court shall make a determination as to whether the objecting parent is a fit parent. A determination of fitness and granting of the petition may be made only after a hearing, upon notice as determined by the court. Fitness must be determined on the basis of whether the parent adequately cares for the parent's child.
(3) Grandparent-grandchild contact may be granted over the objection of a parent determined by the court pursuant to subsection (2) to be unfit only if the court also determines by clear and convincing evidence that the contact is in the best interest of the child.
(4) Grandparent-grandchild contact granted under this section over the objections of a fit parent may be granted only upon a finding by the court, based upon clear and convincing evidence, that the contact with the grandparent would be in the best interest of the child and that the presumption in favor of the parent's wishes has been rebutted.
(5) A person may not petition the court under this section more often than once every 2 years unless there has been a significant change in the circumstances of:
(a) the child;
(b) the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; or
(c) the child's grandparent.
(6) The court may appoint an attorney to represent the interests of a child with respect to grandparent-grandchild contact when the interests are not adequately represented by the parties to the proceeding.
(7) The court may appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the best interests of a child with respect to grandparent-grandchild contact.
(8) This section does not apply if the child has been adopted by a person other than a stepparent or a grandparent. Grandparent-grandchild contact granted under this section terminates upon the adoption of the child by a person other than a stepparent or a grandparent.
(9) A determination pursuant to subsection (2) that a parent is unfit has no effect upon the rights of a parent, other than with regard to grandparent-grandchild contact if a petition pursuant to this section is granted, unless otherwise ordered by the court.
40-4-228. Parenting and visitation matters between natural parent and third party. (1) In cases when a nonparent seeks a parental interest in a child under 40-4-211 or visitation with a child, the provisions of this chapter apply unless a separate action is pending under Title 41, chapter 3.
(2) A court may award a parental interest to a person other than a natural parent when it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that:
(a) the natural parent has engaged in conduct that is contrary to the child-parent relationship; and
(b) the nonparent has established with the child a child-parent relationship, as defined in 40-4-211, and it is in the best interests of the child to continue that relationship.
(3) For purposes of an award of visitation rights under this section, a court may order visitation based on the best interests of the child.
(4) For purposes of this section, voluntarily permitting a child to remain continuously in the care of others for a significant period of time so that the others stand in loco parentis to the child is conduct that is contrary to the parent-child relationship.
(5) It is not necessary for the court to find a natural parent unfit before awarding a parental interest to a third party under this section.
(6) If the parent receives military service orders that involve moving a substantial distance from the parent's residence or otherwise have a material effect on the parent's ability to parent the child for the period the parent is called to military service, as defined in 10-1-1003, the court may grant visitation rights to a family member of the parent with a close and substantial relationship to the minor child during the parent's absence if granting visitation rights is in the best interests of the child as determined by 40-4-212.
Source: http://www.maritallaws.com/states/montana/visitation
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Hon John Castrilli MLA
Former Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
Balcatta SHS is heritage listed
Balcatta Senior High School enters the State Register of Heritage Places
School proudly promotes multiculturalism
Western Australia’s multiculturalism has been celebrated through the State heritage listing of Balcatta Senior High School.
Heritage and Citizenship and Multicultural Interests Minister John Castrilli said the school was built in 1966 to cater for the wave of children born after World War II, many to parents who migrated to WA in the post-war period.
“The 1950s and 60s population boom drove the rapid expansion of Perth’s northern suburbs, with new subdivisions proving very popular with European migrants pursuing the dream of building their own homes,” Mr Castrilli said.
“As the northern-most school in the Perth metropolitan area at that time, many of the children of new migrants attended Balcatta Senior High School, resulting in a multicultural school population.”
The tradition continues today and the school proudly promotes itself as a multicultural school with more than 40 nationalities represented amongst its students.
Balcatta was built at a time of great change in the education system, and this is reflected in the school’s buildings.
“Secondary education became co-educational and free; the school leaving age was raised to 15; and there was a focus on specialised academic and pre-vocational training courses, resulting in purpose-built science blocks.” the Minister said.
Balcatta was also among the first government schools to be designed by private architects. Prominent architect Marshall Clifton designed Balcatta along Mediterranean lines, making it one of the few post-war Mediterranean-style public buildings in WA.
In 1973, Balcatta was chosen as the second State school to specialise in art, which resulted in photography and graphics rooms, and a ceramics centre being built. The 1990 Specialist Art Centre is believed to be the only dedicated art gallery in the State to be located within a school.
The State Register of Heritage Places is managed by the Heritage Council of WA. For more information about the history of the school go to http://www.heritage.wa.gov.au
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HomeExploreMuseumsSmithsonian Museums
Smithsonian Institution Museums
The Smithsonian Institution was officially founded in 1846 for the promotion of knowledge with an endowment bequeathed by its founder, James Smithson. Today, the museums of the Smithsonian comprise the largest museum and research complex in the world with 19 museums and 9 research facilities. The Smithsonian museums include the National Museum of Natural History, National Zoo, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Air and Space Museum.
600 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC, 20002View Smithsonian Museums on google map
Distance from hotel: 2.84 miles
202-633-1000Smithsonian Museums Phone Number
Visit WebsiteVisit Smithsonian Museums Website
Varies by museum
Smithsonian Museums In DC
African American History and Culture Museum
(Open 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
(Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
(Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m; may have extended Hours)
America Art Museum
(Open 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m.)
(Currently closed for Renovation)
(April-October: Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; November-March: Open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.)
National History Museum
(Open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
Sackler Gallery
(Open 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.)
Parking, directions, public transportation
There are several garages near the National Mall. You might find street parking if you get to the area well before the museums open at 10:00 a.m.
Must see permanent exhibits
Don't miss the live the Spirit of St. Louis at the Air and Space Museum, and the gem exhibits and the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum.
What are the best exhibits to see with kids?
Popular exhibits for kids include: Butterflies +Plants: Partners in Evolution (Natural History Museum), Butterfly Habitat Garden (Smithsonian Gardens spring-fall), Dinosaurs: Reptiles - Masters of Land (Natural History Museum), and the O. Orkin Insect Zoo (Natural History Museum).
What are the top places to eat?
Many of the museums have cafes and places for refreshment on site.
https://www.si.edu/
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Chelsea Manning called to testify in Assange probe
Manning’s attorneys have filed a motion to quash the subpoena
Lars Hagberg/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
File photo: Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of Julian Assange, officials said.
By The Washington Post |
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2019 at 3:35 pm | UPDATED: March 2, 2019 at 6:09 am
By Rachel Weiner and Ellen Nakashima | Washington Post
Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of Julian Assange, officials said, one of several indicators that prosecutors remain interested in WikiLeaks’ publication of diplomatic cables and military war logs in 2010.
Prosecutors in Virginia have been pursuing a case based on conduct that predates WikiLeaks’ publication of hacked emails during the 2016 presidential campaign, and it’s not clear investigators are interested in that activity. Officials discussed the investigation of Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury process.
Manning, whose subpoena was first reported by the New York Times, is a former Army private who served seven years in a military prison for passing secret State Department cables and military documents to WikiLeaks before receiving a commutation from President Barack Obama.
Manning’s attorneys have filed a motion to quash the subpoena.
“I object strenuously to this subpoena, and to the grand jury process in general,” Manning said in a statement. “We’ve seen this power abused countless times to target political speech. I have nothing to contribute to this case and I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this predatory practice.”
The subpoena was signed last month by Gordon Kromberg, a national security prosecutor on the Assange case. Kromberg last month persuaded a judge to leave sealed an indictment against Assange despite its inadvertent exposure in an unrelated court filing last year.
Under Obama, Justice Department officials had decided not to pursue charges against Assange and WikiLeaks after concluding that to do so could set a precedent that paved the way for prosecuting news organizations for publishing classified information. But the case got a fresh look under President Donald Trump.
Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, said the Justice Department likely indicted Assange last year to stay within the 10-year statute of limitations on unlawful possession or publication of national defense information, and is now working to add charges. “There’s nothing else that would make sense,” he said.
“The heart of the controversy is, there’s never been a successful prosecution” for publishing classified information, Vladeck said. “There has always been the specter of a First Amendment defense.”
Peter Zeidenberg, a national security defense attorney, said he cannot see grounds for Manning to refuse the subpoena. “She’s already been prosecuted, she’s been convicted, she served a sentence,” he said. “She has no Fifth Amendment privilege over self-incrimination. If she doesn’t testify than she’ll be held in contempt.”
Manning appears to be the latest individual subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury investigating Assange in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Last July, computer expert David House, who befriended Manning in 2010 at a hacker space in Boston he founded, testified for 90 minutes before the grand jury. In an interview, House said he met the WikiLeaks founder in January 2011 while Assange was under house arrest at Ellingham Hall, a manor house 120 miles northeast of London. Assange was fighting an extradition request by Sweden, where he faced an inquiry into allegations of sexual assault.
Assange asked House to help run political operations for WikiLeaks in the United States. “Specifically, he wanted me to help achieve favorable press for Chelsea Manning,” he said.
House, who testified in exchange for immunity, said the grand jury was interested in his relationship with Assange. “They wanted full insight into WikiLeaks, what its goals were and why I was associated with it,” he said. “They wanted explanations of why certain things occurred and how they occurred. . . . It was all related to disclosures around the war logs.”
The grand jury seemed interested in whether Assange had solicited Manning to hack on WikiLeaks’ behalf, but did not press “very hard” on that, he said. He was not asked about WikiLeaks’ 2016 release of Democratic emails, which U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed were hacked by Russians. Nor did he have personal knowledge of that, he said.
He was never told what charges prosecutors were contemplating.
House said his last contact with Assange was in 2013 and his last contact with WikiLeaks was in 2015.
House said he fears retribution for being associated with WikiLeaks and Manning in 2010 and does not believe the U.S. prosecution is warranted.
“This is not an investigation borne out of a concern for national security,” he said. “It is an investigation borne out of retribution and revenge against Mr. Assange over the [2010] leak that he precipitated, and how this leak impacted the careers of politicians in Washington, D.C.”
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a onetime WikiLeaks spokesman who has grown estranged from Assange, said in an interview he was contacted by the German federal police in October 2017 and told that U.S. authorities wished to talk to him “about the Manning-Julian connection.” He also received a March 2018 letter repeating the request from then-U. S. Attorney in the Eastern District, Dana Boente.
He said the German police told him the FBI was interested in “what possible contact – possible coordination” occurred between Assange and Manning, he said. The Americans appeared to be interested in “possible solicitation” by Assange of Manning, he said.
Domscheit-Berg told the German police he was not interested in speaking to the FBI.
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Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
Learn about Wildlife
Learn about fishers
Fishers are members of the weasel family. They are shy and elusive, but can be found throughout Massachusetts. Learn about these fascinating predators and what to do if they are causing problems in your yard.
Fishers in Massachusetts
Due to its alert, secretive nature and solitary habits, most people have never seen this interesting predator. It disappeared from the state by the 19th Century due to agricultural land clearing. Fishers have since made an amazing comeback, and now live in populated areas that offer mature forest habitat and the squirrels it preys on.
The fisher is one of the largest members of the Mustelid or weasel family. Fishers exhibit sexual dimorphism, which is physical differences in body size between females and males. Adult males weigh 8 to 16 pounds and measure approximately 3 feet in length. Adult females weigh 4 to 6 pounds and measure approximately 2 feet in length. In both sexes, the tail accounts for approximately one-third of the total body length. The fisher exhibits the typical “weasel” shape with a long, slender body, short legs, and furred tail. It has a pointed face with large, rounded ears set close to the head. It is well adapted for climbing and has sharp, retractable claws similar to those of a domestic cat. Its coloration is generally a rich brown to black with grizzled grayish coloring on the head and shoulders. Females typically have the darkest fur. Individuals may have white patches of fur on their chest and lower abdomen.
Fishers breed from February to March and exhibit a reproductive strategy called “delayed implantation.” The adult female breeds within days after giving birth, but the fertilized eggs remain dormant in her uterus for the next 10 –11 months. The fertilized eggs then implant in the uterine wall and begin normal development. The young are born 1–2 months after implantation. Females produce 1 litter each year consisting of 1–4 kits, with an average litter size of 3. The young are born helpless, blind, and sparsely furred. Maternal dens, typically located in a cavity high in a large tree, are used for the first 8–10 weeks. Once the kits become mobile, they are moved from the maternal den to one on or below the ground. It is believed that the maternal den protects the helpless young from aggressive male fishers and ground predators. The female nurses the kits until they reach four months of age. By five months of age, the kits are approximately the same size as the adult female and have begun to learn how to kill their own prey. The young remain with the female until late summer or early fall, at which time they disperse to begin their solitary lives as adults. They reach sexual maturity at one year of age, and females produce their first litter at the age of two.
Food, habits, and habitat
Fishers are shy and elusive animals that are rarely seen even in areas where they are abundant. They can be active day or night. They tend to exhibit nocturnal and crepuscular (dawn and dusk) activity in the summer and diurnal (daytime) activity in the winter. They remain active year round and do not hibernate. Their preferred habitat is mixed forest with heavy canopy cover, as they tend to avoid traveling in large open areas. They commonly use hollow logs, stonewalls, tree cavities, and brush piles to rest. Fishers are omnivorous. Their primary foods include small rodents, squirrels, rabbits, birds, eggs, fruit, porcupines, and carrion. They will also opportunistically prey on poultry and domestic cats. Although they are proficient climbers, most of their hunting takes place on the ground.
Tips for residents
Problems with fishers may sometimes arise, but are usually restricted to predatory attacks on domestic birds, rabbits, and free ranging house cats. If you want to make your property less attractive to fishers and avoid having any problems with these predators, follow these basic practices. Remember, share these tips with your neighbors; your efforts will be futile if neighbors provide food or shelter for fishers. Fishers are an important and valuable natural resource in Massachusetts. They are classified as a furbearer species, for which a regulated trapping season and management program have been established.
If you are experiencing problems with fishers or have questions, contact your nearest MassWildlife office.
Keep bird feeder areas clean
Use feeders designed to keep seed off the ground, as the seed attracts many small mammals, like squirrels, that fishers prey upon. Remove feeders if fishers are regularly seen around your yard.
Secure your garbage
Exposed garbage, compost, and pet food can attract small mammals, which in turn attract fishers
Don’t let fishers intimidate you
Don’t hesitate to scare or threaten fishers with loud noises, bright lights, or water sprayed from a hose.
Protect pets and poultry
Fishers are predators that prey on medium-sized mammals and poultry. Fishers view domestic cats and rabbits as food, and will prey on them when hunting. They will also raid chicken coops and can kill numerous chickens at a time. For their safety, cats should be kept indoors at all times. Pet rabbits and poultry should be kept in tightly secured buildings or hutches that prevent access by fishers.
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By Sarah Lazare
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015. Israel’s premier says he will go “anywhere” he is invited to speak about the country’s stance regarding Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Tuesday that the purpose of his upcoming visit to Washington, D.C. is to do “everything I can” to prevent a nuclear deal between global powers and Iran—an admission that critics say reveals he is pushing for military escalation and potentially war.
“This agreement, if indeed it is signed, will allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state,” Netanyahu declared in a statement released Tuesday, according to media reports. “It is my obligation as prime minister to do everything that I can to prevent this agreement.”
“Therefore,” he continued, “I will go to Washington… because the American Congress is likely to be the final brake before the agreement.”
Analysts say that the prime minister’s push to undermine the diplomatic process is ultimately a call for dangerous military escalation.
According to Jamal Abdi of the National Iranian American Council, who spoke with Common Dreams, “A shorter version of what Netanyahu is saying is he is coming to Washington to ensure we can’t get a diplomatic solution and are on the path to war.”
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams that amid the controversy over his visit, the prime minister is facing a growing crisis of international legitimacy.
“Luckily Netanyahu has so thoroughly discredited himself that ‘everything I can do’ is likely to be limited to speaking to adoring crowds at AIPAC, receiving concocted standing ovations in Congress, and watching pretty much everyone else in Washington run away from him so no embarrassing picture might emerge,” said Bennis.
Numerous doubts have been cast on Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’s nuclear program, including by Israel’s own spy agency Mossad, as leaked documents revealed earlier this week.
While there is no proof that Iran has a program to develop an atom bomb, Israel is the only Middle East nation that is known to possess nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the international non-proliferation treaty.
Nonetheless, Netanyahu has aggressively opposed any deal—or even talks—between Iran and the five members of the United Nations Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, United Kingdom, and France) plus Germany. His address to Washington is slated to take place shortly before Israeli elections. Over the course of the campaign, Netanyahu has repeatedly emphasized unverified claims over threats posed by Iran to bolster his own candidacy.
Meanwhile, a political divide in Washington over the visit—which was arranged by GOP House Speaker John Boehner and the Israeli ambassador without the blessing of the White House—continues to deepen.
Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice slammed Netanyahu in an interview with the PBS show Charlie Rose on Tuesday, charging that his slated visit has “injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it’s destructive of the fabric of the relationship.”
According to the New York Times, Rice’s statement is “the frankest acknowledgment yet by a top American official of the degree to which the controversy has damaged United States-Israeli relations.”
Also on Tuesday, Netanyahu turned down an invitation from Senate Democrats Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) for a closed-door meeting during his visit. “I regret that the invitation to address the special joint session of Congress has been perceived by some to be political or partisan,” Netanyahu told them. “I can assure you that my sole intention in accepting it was to voice Israel’s grave concerns about a potential nuclear agreement with Iran that could threaten the survival of my country.”
Notably, top Obama administration officials will not be attending the talk, and a congressional boycott, which has been backed by human rights and Palestine solidarity groups, has been steadily gaining support.
“The willingness by leading political figures—including the president, vice president, and secretary of state—to simply refuse to meet with the Israeli leader is a huge breakthrough that was made possible by the years of organizing by human rights activists working to expose and end U.S. complicity with Israeli war crimes and violations of human rights,” said Bennis.
Bennis added that Netanyahu’s actions may, in fact, prove to bolster these grassroots efforts. Even for Netanyahu, said Bennis, it appears that the prime minister’s “chutzpah may have gotten out in front of him this time.”
This work was published by Common Dreams under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
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New Partner Joins White Collar Crime and Investigations Team
Mishcon de Reya has announced that Ben Brandon will join as a partner in the White Collar Crime and Investigations team in September. Ben specialises in extradition and fraud and will add depth to the firm's extradition offering.
As a senior practitioner in the field and a dual qualified barrister and solicitor, Ben has been consistently ranked by professional directories as a leading lawyer in extradition and fraud and has been a member of 3 Raymond Buildings, a leading barrister’s chambers in London for the past 15 years. In that time he has appeared in all courts in some of the UK's leading extradition cases and has acted for Governments and individuals from Abu Hamza to Julian Assange.
Ben has also represented individual and corporate clients for over 20 years in complex commercial fraud and regulatory proceedings. He has a particular expertise in multi-jurisdictional investigations and proceedings in parallel civil and criminal cases, and regularly advises individuals and corporations on judicial cooperation and mutual assistance, INTERPOL Red Notices, EUROJUST and United States Department of Justice investigations.
The White Collar Crime & Investigations Team is in its 5th year and since its inception has been nominated for a number of accolades, including White Collar Crime Team of the Year at the 2019 Legal 500 UK Awards.
Jo Rickards, Head of the White Collar & Investigations Team said: "Having worked with Ben for a number of years at 3 Raymond Buildings I'm delighted he's joining us with the blessing of chambers. He brings with him a depth of experience in this practice area and will be a great addition to the team as our WCC&I offering goes from strength to strength."
Ben Brandon added: "I have relished working with investigators, police, lawyers and judges from around the world in complex, multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations and extradition proceedings during my time at 3 Raymond Buildings and look forward to working with them in the future. I am very pleased to be joining a great team and I am excited to enhance and expand Mishcon de Reya's market-leading practice."
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https://www.michigansthumb.com/prepzone/usa/article/USA-cross-country-team-shines-at-Corunna-14399742.php
USA cross country team shines at Corunna Invitational
Byr Eric Rutter, Tribune Sports Writer
Published 2:47 pm EDT, Thursday, August 29, 2019
The USA cross country team had five runners finish in the top 30 at the Corunna Earlybird Invitational earlier this week.
Photo: Courtesy Photo
SEBEWAING — Earlier this week, the USA cross country team competed in the Corunna Earlybird Invitational, a meet that yielded favorable results for the Patriots.
Leading the way for USA was Bentley Alderson, who finished third overall with a 17:29.52 time for the 5k discipline. Alderson was joined in the top 10 by Ty Pavlichek, a Patriot runner who posted a 17:52.89 time.
These standout performances on Tuesday highlighted what was a strong meet for USA as a whole, with five runners finishing in the top 30. In retrospect, head coach Mike Peter reflected on the Corunna meet, saying the team performed "better than anticipated."
"Last year, we were third there and that was just kind of a surprise," Peter said. "We weren't sure how we'd do. This year, we wanted to come in and try to win, but we knew there would be a few Division III schools that would be a little more difficult. We knew we could be top two, and thankfully it ended that way."
Montrose was the Division III team in question, but Peter's squad, one which is more experience-laden than the 2018 version, turned in a strong performance against some stout competition.
"We are still a pretty young team," Peter said. "Last year, we had four freshmen and four sophomores, and so we've moved forward a little. We only lost one from last year to this year, so we knew we could move up the ranks a little. We were hoping for the first spot, but this early to have that many in the top 30 was pretty major, especially with some of them being a division above us."
Much like last season, Peter says his team shows leadership tendencies that are typically reserved for upperclassmen. Many runners on the team are self-motivated, and they share leadership responsibilities from practices to meets.
"It's really nice that I don't have one leader," Peter said. "I have four or five that can interchangeably work, and they work well together."
On that note, Peter declines to name captains to his team for the second year in a row. However, this speaks to the balanced leadership dynamic on the team that the coach is aiming to cultivate.
"I considered having captains this year, but I see no need," Peter said. "I don't need to give anyone a specific title because at any given time, one of them steps up, and it's interesting because some of them are more likely to step up at practice and take charge and a different one of those leaders steps up at a meet and takes charge, and it never seems to clash."
Instead of clashing egos, the USA runners opt to motivate their teammates, and this approach is paying dividends in the results category. In fact, Peter speculates that the Patriots program could be on the verge of a historic season.
"It's been a long time since USA has had a string of success," Peter said. "Last year was USA's best season it's ever had in its history, and I think we can top it this year. Hopefully, we are kind of on that course."
With a look toward the future, the Patriots have meets at Bad Axe and Chesaning coming up. Peter is hoping his team continues on its track of improvement at these two competitions.
"I think there's a very good chance we could win the Bad Axe meet," Peter said. "Then we go to Chesaning, and last year we were second there to some rather large schools, and I think we can win that one. The goal would be to take first in the next two meets."
The Patriots will next compete in the Hatchet Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 7.
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Nathan East: “You become the foundation for the ‘house’, the complete opposite of being flash”
By Mike Brooks (Bass Guitar) 2018-02-05T13:13:38.35Z
The bass maestro on playing with Clapton and passing on his knowledge
(Image credit: Tina K)
Mike Brooks catches up with the debonair bass giant Nathan East during his recent stint in London with Eric Clapton.
When your debut solo album hits the ground running, and continues that run for well over a year, racking up four weeks at the top of the US jazz charts and continually accumulating accolades, it’s fair to say you should feel overjoyed at a job well done. But how do you repeat that success? The man charged with such a task is Nathan East, Mr Cool himself.
“After all these years, I’ve learned not to expect anything - so you become pleasantly surprised if there’s any degree of success,” he says of his self-titled first album’s runaway performance on its release in 2014.
I’d need a chiropractor if I had to turn around every time Steve [Gadd, drums] tries to catch me out on a fill
“It’s been amazing: I have to credit Yamaha Entertainment Group for really getting behind it and trying to shoot it out of a cannon. And they have a very nice-sized cannon, I must say! I’m really grateful that I’m with their label, and it makes total sense having been with the company for almost 40 years as an endorsee. There was pressure to come up with the second album, Reverence, but I could feel that we were in good territory again.”
East’s relaxed nature is obvious: as he explains, even when he’s playing with Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall, it feels as if he’s playing with friends.
“We rehearsed at Cranleigh Arts Centre and it felt like they were the most enjoyable rehearsals I’ve ever experienced. When we moved to the RAH, it felt like the same thing, but with an audience watching us. Our relationship with Eric’s audience is a relationship that has grown: there’s no expectation for the crowd to get up and scream any more. They know they’re going to get classics like Wonderful Tonight and Layla, and they know they’re in the presence of rock ’n’ roll royalty. I know that too!”
Watching the show on the opening night, the camaraderie within the band is obvious - and the rhythm section enjoy moments where they resemble a pair of naughty schoolboys.
“I’d need a chiropractor if I had to turn around every time Steve [Gadd, drums] does a brilliant move, or tries to catch me out on a fill,” he chuckles. “He’s the finest, most mature musician, and his instincts are the best of just about anyone you could ever play with. He’s like a tennis or squash player: it’s about the economics of movement, economy of energy, that’s the wisdom of a guy like Steve Gadd.”
Not that East takes the job of holding down the bottom end in Clapton’s band lightly, as he explains. “It’s one of the highest honours that you can imagine in terms of the quality of the music, the importance of the music and the feeling of family. It’s a very cool place to be, and at every stage, it’s been a thrill.”
The house that East built
As a bassist with an extensive collection of musical hats, so to speak, East is well versed in what is required from the bass chair for Clapton’s show, a relationship that goes back to 1983.
“You become the foundation and the support for the ‘house’, the complete opposite of being flash,” he says. “Sometimes I try to be invisible, just because it’s a whole other level of penetration to the hearts that are listening to it. I provide the room for Eric to do his thing, so he doesn’t have to worry about the rhythm section impeding his voice.”
It turns out that Clapton is always listening to his bassman. “After the show the other night, he asked me to turn up and be louder than him! He wants to hear it and feel it. I’m only using one cabinet on stage, a 4x10, and on shows like this, you’re totally in the hands of the sound engineer. In theory, I could lose the amp completely, because what you don’t want in the Royal Albert Hall is massive amounts of volume coming off the stage. However, Eric said ‘Crank it!’, so...”
You may know that East is part of an online teaching faculty that includes some of the biggest names in music, ArtistWorks.
I really try to articulate the importance of everything about a note - where you strike it, how you strike it, pickup placement
“I’m one of 40 faculty members and instructors, using a patented technology where students send in videos and you send responses back and forth. People had always asked me if I taught, and I felt bad not being able to accommodate them, but this felt like a way to get the ball rolling. I’ve been in the faculty for six years, and it’s grown so much.
“For bass, I think it’s important to share all the wisdom, and I really try to articulate the importance of everything about a note - where you strike it, how you strike it, pickup placement, constantly upgrading how you play for the room and the gig. Those are things you don’t really learn at Berklee and in the academic side of things. I have regular ongoing input, and the progression is constant.”
Reverence entered the charts at number one in the US and, among other esteemed guests, features the great Earth Wind & Fire bassist Verdine White, as well as EWF singer Philip Bailey.
“We’ve been friends for years,” he says. “They’re icons and superstars, so it’s humbling to be able to pick up the phone and say ‘Hey, what are you doing on Tuesday? Would you like to come down to the studio?’ Verdine had a white bass, and that’s why I got a white bass too: I wanted to be him when I was starting out. I saw EWF in 1971 in San Diego, and my jaw dropped.”
You may have seen Nathan’s son Noah working with his father on several shows - an enlightening experience for East Senior, by all accounts.
“Oh my goodness, it’s everything,” says our man. “In life, you have highlights - and then there’s playing music with your son. I remember when he was five, I realised he had perfect pitch: he has incredible ears where he can literally hear something and play it immediately. We jam together before we go to bed at night, I’m on the upright bass. It’s like jamming with an old man. There really is nothing better: I don’t take it for granted and it fills my heart with joy.”
Reverence is out now on Yamaha Entertainment Group.
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Maico Mobil
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Single cylinder, two stroke
149 cc / 9.1 cub in.
174 cc / 10.6 cub in.
197 cc / 12.0cub in.
Oil/Fuel Mixture
Bing carburetor
200 cc: 8.1 kW / 11 hp @ 5000 rpm
Wet, cable operated
Tubular space frame with bolted steel and aluminium body panels
Telescopic fork, steering damper
Swingarm with coil springs and dampers
Drum, 6.5 in
Drum, 5 or 6 in.
3.00 x 14 in.
9.5 L / 2.5 US gal
'With its latest product, the Maico-Mobil, Maico have introduced a completely novel type of machine which lies mid-way between the conventional motorcycle and scooter; it may be that this will prove to be the true touring machine of the future.' – Maico.
One has only to look at the admirable capabilities of today's increasingly popular 'super scooters' to realise that Maico were right, if more than just a little ahead of their time. Maico's 'car on two wheels' was premiered in June 1950, its all-enveloping steel bodywork disguising the fact the beneath it lay a conventional motorcycle-style duplex loop frame complete with top tube and 14" diameter wheels. Power, what little of it there was, came from a 150cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine that struggled to endow the 250lbs-plus machine with any kind of performance, a shortcoming not addressed until 1954 when 175 and 200cc versions were introduced. Nicknamed the 'Dustbin', the Maico Mobil succeeded in providing motorcycle handling combined with scooter convenience and weather protection for discerning enthusiasts up to 1958 when it was withdrawn, although the more conventional Maicoletta continued in production until 1966. Today there are few scooters more eagerly sought after by collectors than the outrageous Maico Mobil. As Peter McManus observes: 'This would draw a crowd anywhere!'
The Maico Mobil is an early touring motorcycle made by Maico between 1950 and 1958. Conceived and marketed as a “car on two wheels”, the Mobil had body panels that enclosed the drivetrain, protected its riders from the elements and included an integral pair of panniers and a mount for a spare tyre.
The Mobil had a tubular steel space frame on to which steel and aluminum body panels were bolted. A large front fairing enclosed the front wheel. Mounted on the fairing were a transparent plastic windscreen that wrapped around the handlebars, a dashboard through which the steering column protruded, and lower panels containing a glovebox and provision for a car radio to be installed. Mounted on the dashboard were the ignition switch, the speedometer, and the fuel filler cap; the fuel tank was mounted to the frame under the dashboard.
The rear bodywork included a pair of integral panniers and a rear mount for a spare wheel. The panniers were accessed by unlatching a panel under the pillion.
The Mobil used telescopic front forks and a rear swingarm.
The Mobil originally had a 150 cc single-cylinder two-stroke engine mounted between the dashboard and the rider's seat. Access panels on both sides of the Mobil could be removed to work on the engine. Power was transmitted through a three-speed transmission operated by a twist grip.
The capacity of the Mobil's engine was increased to 175 cc in 1953. An optional 200 cc became available in 1955, the same year that the three-speed twist-grip controlled transmission was replaced by a four-speed transmission controlled by a heel-and-toe pedal shifter.
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MPC Capital: STAYTOO opens first apartment house for students in Berlin
Investment of circa EUR 50 million in two new assets in Mainz and Hamburg
Complementing the existing strategy with student hotels and short-term accommodation
Hamburg, 2 October 2018 - MPC Capital AG (Deutsche Börse Scale, ISIN DE000A1TNWJ4) is expanding its micro-living strategy with the development of two new schemes in Mainz and Hamburg. The Hamburg-based asset and investment manager plans to invest close to EUR 50 million in the two locations on behalf of its institutional investors.
Both projects stand out from the apartment buildings in Bonn, Nuremberg, Kaiserslautern as well as the ones in Leipzig and Berlin that have so far been completed under the "STAYTOO" brand, given they break MPC Capital's trend of investing only in student housing.
Upon completion, the scheme in Mainz will comprise of a student hotel with around 370 rooms. The site is located in Issac-Fulda-Allee, immediately next to the universities and the Opel Arena. The completed asset will also enable shorter stays and offer space to tourists and young professionals as well as students. The young, lively design and living concept will be complemented by sharing offers, fitness and lounge areas as well as a restaurant and bar. Construction is due to start at the beginning of 2019 and completion is scheduled for 2020.
In Hamburg, MPC Capital will be developing a full-service apartment building for young professionals. The scheme will be located in the Winterhude district. Centrally located between Hamburg's scenic Stadtpark and the lively centre of Winterhude, the project will offer accommodation for young people who want to live and work in a lively urban environment. Construction of the scheme is scheduled for mid-2019 and practical completion is planned for 2020.
Rainer Nonnengässer, Managing Director of MPC Micro Living Development GmbH: "With the completion of the two new projects in Mainz and Hamburg, we are taking the concept of living in a small space a step further. Our properties reflect the contemporary wishes and requirements of young people who are studying or have just entered the professional world. We strive to find balance between flexibility and individuality as well as between the increasing sharing trend and the desire for privacy".
To date, MPC Capital has deployed around EUR 150 million in micro-living projects. At the end of 2017, an existing portfolio of about 1,000 beds was sold to the US investor Harrison Street. MPC Capital continues to be responsible for the management of the properties. Together with international institutional investors, MPC Capital plans to purchase additional development and portfolio projects in Germany and selected European countries.
Hamburg/Berlin, 14 May 2018 - STAYTOO has opened its first apartment building in Berlin. STAYTOO Berlin is located in Dudenstraße and offers 154 apartments with living spaces between 17 and 24 sqm. Rental prices for the furnished units start at EUR 599 per month, vary depending on the size and location within the building and already include all ancillary costs such as heating, water, electricity and high-speed Internet access. The use of the fitness and common rooms is also included in the price.
The first students have already moved into their apartments. In addition to further STAYTOO locations in Bonn, Nuremberg, Kaiserslautern and Leipzig, the fifth STAYTOO property has now opened in Germany.
The apartment house was realized in cooperation with HD Projektentwicklungs GmbH as part of the development "Am Lokdepot". A walk through the neighbourhood shows the diverse attractions that Schöneberg, Kreuzberg and Potsdamer Platz have to offer. During the day, the areas of Winterfeld, Crelle, Bergmann and Yorck invite you to their sometimes classy, sometimes cool cafés and shops, while people enjoy the evening in the legendary bars and clubs.
New in STAYTOO Berlin is the "WeWash" concept for the Washing Lounge, which is contributed by BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, a member of the Bosch Group. An app shows whether machines are currently available and sends notifications as soon as the laundry is ready. The comfortable ambience of the Washing Lounge and a selection of various coffee specialties invite you to linger. "We are proud to have found in Bosch a partner that meets the needs of our student tenants with innovative concepts. Now we are striving for further partnerships with student-relevant services and manufacturers," comments Christian Scheuerl, Managing Director of MPC Micro Living Development GmbH.
The Hamburg-based asset and investment manager MPC Capital is responsible for the development and marketing of the STAYTOO apartments. Together with institutional investors, MPC Capital has built a platform for micro-apartments to create high-quality and affordable housing for students. The guiding principle is to optimally combine the areas of studying, working and living. All STAYTOO properties are characterised by modern apartments that offer space for individuality. At the same time, common areas for learning, having fun and chilling allow social contact among students at all times.
www.staytoo.de
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Jason Dufner finishes opening round of Masters with 76
Former Auburn All-American Jason Dufner finishes opening round of Masters at 4-over 76.
Jason Dufner finishes opening round of Masters with 76 Former Auburn All-American Jason Dufner finishes opening round of Masters at 4-over 76. Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: https://on.mgmadv.com/1S0iHOA
Matthew Stevens, Montgomery Advertiser Published 3:38 p.m. CT April 7, 2016 | Updated 7:51 p.m. CT April 7, 2016
Jason Dufner finished the final two holes of his opening round at the Masters tournament with a bogey-double bogey to post a 4-over 76.
The former Auburn All-American and current Auburn men’s golf volunteer coach is playing in his fifth consecutive Masters after having still an exempt qualifying status following his 2013 PGA Championship victory at Oak Hill Country Club in New York. Dufner would’ve also qualified for the major this year after his victory in the 2016 CareerBuilder Challenge on Jan. 24 at the PGA West TPC Stadium Course in La Quinta, California.
Dufner, who is currently ranked No. 61 in the current world rankings, opened with three bogeys in his first five holes but had it back to 1 over par through 16. The former Auburn walk-on’s 3 over on the final two holes negated birdies at No. 8, 10 and 16.
Even with conditions beginning to get harder with winds consistently blowing at 15-20 mph at Augusta National Golf Club, Dufner will still likely need a second-round under par Friday to make the cut for the fourth time in his last five attempts. Dufner will tee off at 11:44 a.m. Friday with Louis Oosthuizen (even) and Patrick Reed (4 over).
Dufner’s best career finish at the Masters was a tie for 20th in 2013. He is trying to make the 36-hole cut in a fifth straight major championship. At 3:30 p.m. Central time, only 18 players were under par in their opening round and the projected cut line appears to be around 2 over par.
Defending champion Jordan Spieth is currently leading the tournament after recording a bogey-free, 6-under-par 66 this morning. Spieth, who set the tournament record low score last year, is trying to become the fourth player to win back-to-back Masters and first since Tiger Woods in 2002.
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Who can Auburn basketball turn to for offense?
3 takeaways: Auburn suffers second straight loss at Florida
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Home > Membership > Membership Categories and Fees
Types of Memberships and Fees
Membership Categories and Fees 2019-20
Membership at The First Narayever Congregation is open to anybody in the Jewish community. Membership is for a one-year period beginning Rosh Hashana. Each membership is for one individual and minor children. Payment can be made by cheque, Visa or Mastercard. High Holiday Tickets are issued on receipt of payment.
Annual dues for one adult and their children 19 years of age or under. Includes cemetery privileges** and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur tickets for one adult. Each new member is assessed a one-time fee of $1,000 for the building fund, which may be spread over five years.
Young Adult Membership
Annual dues for Young Adults who are 20 to 29 years of age (who are not full time post-secondary students) and their children 19 years of age or under. Includes cemetery privileges** and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur tickets for one adult. Each new member is assessed a one-time fee of $1,000 for the building fund, which may be spread over five years.
Student Membership:
Annual dues for full time post-secondary students who are 20 to 29 years of age, and their children 19 years of age or under. Includes cemetery privileges** and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur tickets for one adult. Proof of your current student status required. Members in this category are not assessed for building fund until they are no longer full-time students.
Associate:
Open to individuals living more than 100 kms. from Toronto or individuals living within 100 kms from Toronto who are members in good standing of a recognized synagogue. No voting or Rabbi privileges. No building fund requirement. No burial plot. Includes Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur tickets for one adult.
Friends of Narayever:
Non-Member category, receive bulletin and other shul materials
Post Bar/Bat Youth and Teens ticket for High Holidays:
Although children (19 and under) of members are considered members, each child must have his or her own ticket for the High Holiday services.
Pre Bar/Bat Mitzvah Children’s ticket for High Holidays:
** The Narayever provides burial plots at Bathurst Lawn Cemetery for members who have been in good standing for at least five years. The Board will sell a plot to new members at a cost that decreases over their first five years of membership. Members who resign and then rejoin can pay the full amount of membership dues since they resigned, and there will be no charge for a burial plot, or they can choose to be treated as a new member, subject to the burial plot fee schedule. If they rejoin more than five years after ceasing to be a member, they will be treated as a new member for purposes of burial. Please contact the shul office for the specific associated costs for new and returning members.
No one will be turned away based on financial considerations. When financial hardships do not allow payment of the full fee, dues adjustments can be made in confidence by contacting the Membership Chair.
Rabbi Ed Elkin (416.487.4200 or rabbi@narayever.ca) or the Membership Chair can answer any further questions regarding membership. To join, please print the membership form (fillable form), fill it in and mail it to the office; or email it to us at info@narayever.ca; or call the office a 416.927.0546.
We look forward to welcoming you as a member of the First Narayever Congregation.
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Members of Congress react to impeachment inquiry vote
by: Trevor Shirley
WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — The impeachment inquiry into President Trump is now official.
Thursday, House Democrats voted to officially open the inquiry, which until now hadn’t been voted on. This brings the President one step closer to being impeached as congressional Republicans rush to his defense.
In a near party-line vote, the House formalized its impeachment inquiry.
“We have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out of control executive branch,” said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
“I support this resolution because no person, Republican or Democrat should be permitted to jeopardize Americas security and reputation for self-serving political purposes,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler, (D-NY).
The vote marks the first official step for the House to impeach the President.
“Democrats are continuing their permanent campaign to undermine his legitimacy,” said Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“We can do a lot better than this. We can do a lot better than this and the American people see through it,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
It’s now expected much of the impeachment investigation will center on public hearings, as opposed to the closed-door sessions happening up until now.
“The House Intelligence Committee has led the investigation, now this goes to Judiciary, Foreign Affairs and other committees of jurisdiction, but the American people now have a greater chance to participate in this process,” said Rep. Andre Carson, (D-IN).
House Republicans say the process hasn’t been fair.
“It still yet doesn’t afford the president due process, it still yet doesn’t allow Republican involvement,” said Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, (R-IN).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, the Senate leader proposed a compressed calendar for opening statements, White House lawyers argued for swift rejection of the “flimsy” charges and the Capitol braced for the contentious proceedings unfolding in an election year.
Final trial preparations were underway Monday on a tense day of plodding developments with Trump's legacy — and the judgment of both parties in Congress — at stake.
by Joe Khalil / Jan 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEXSTAR) - As the 2020 election approaches, social media will once again be a major avenue for political candidates to run ads.
Lawmakers are pushing social media companies to get tougher on candidates whose ads are misleading.
by Russell Falcon, Nexstar, and Anna Wiernicki / Jan 20, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nexstar) — Texas Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar says the U.S. immigration courts are overwhelmed by migrants waiting for a hearing.
“There are times where they have to wait two, three, four years before they go in front of a judge,” says Cuellar.
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Ohio judge who defended Al Franken with crass Facebook post apologizes
Ohio Supreme Court Justice William M. O'Neill.Ohio Supreme Court via NBC 4
Nov. 19, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 19, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC
By Tim Stelloh
The Ohio Supreme Court Justice and Democratic gubernatorial candidate whose attempted defense of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., drew swift criticism apologized for his comments on Sunday.
"There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to admit you were wrong," William O’Neill wrote in a Facebook post. "It is Sunday morning and [I] am preparing to go to church and get right with God."
Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, left, talks with Bill O'Neill during a visit with supporters at the Democratic party headquarters in Mentor, Ohio on Oct. 29, 2010.Amy Sancetta / AP file
O’Neill said in a now-deleted Friday post that as “as the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males.”
"In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females," O'Neill wrote. "It ranged from a gorgeous blonde who was my first true love and we made passionate love in the hayloft of her parents barn and ended with a drop dead gorgeous red head from Cleveland."
In another now-deleted post, O'Neill apologized for offending anyone, but added that if he helped elevate the discussion around sexual assault — "as opposed to personal indiscretions" — he made "no apologies."
On Sunday, O’Neill asked for forgiveness from his daughters and sisters and said he had “damaged” the debate on sexual harassment and rape.
"It is not a laughing matter," he said. "It wasn't when I prosecuted sexual misconduct for the State of Ohio, and it is not now."
Tim Stelloh
Tim Stelloh is a reporter for NBC News, based in California.
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“Spiderman” Movie Franchise Loses Tobey Maguire
By Caitlin Millat • Published at 6:51 pm on January 11, 2010
Alex Matthews
"Spiderman" is getting a new superhero star.
The movie franchise's fourth installment has unraveled, and later installments won't feature long-time Spidey portrayer Tobey Maguire at all, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced Monday.
"Spiderman 4" was moved from a May 2011 release earlier this week but was cut from Columbia's production calendar altogether Monday, E! Online reported.
Franchise producers will re-make the series once the concept is re-worked, moving the "Spiderman" movie saga to Peter Parker's high-school days -- meaning star Tobey Maguire won't be playing Spidey.
"Spiderman" 1-3 director Sam Raimi is also off the Spidey movie team, execs announced. Raimi said working on the movies was the "experience of a lifetime" and that he thinks studios will do a "terrific job" on the new films.
"Spiderman" is set to re-launch in summer 2012.
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11 People Killed in Reported Gun Attack at Bar in Brazil
In late March, the federal government sent National Guard troops to Belém to reinforce security in the city for 90 days
Published at 6:47 pm on May 19, 2019
Mario Tama/Getty Images
A gang of gunmen reportedly attacked a bar in the capital of Brazil's northern Pará state Sunday afternoon, and authorities said 11 people were killed.
The state security agency confirmed late Sunday only that five women and six men died in the incident in the Guamá neighborhood of the Pará state capital, Belem.
The G1 news website said police reported that seven gunmen were involved in the attack, which also wounded one person. The news outlet said the attackers arrived at the bar on one motorcycle and in three cars.
The day's top national and international news.
In late March, the federal government sent National Guard troops to Belém to reinforce security in the city for 90 days.
Brazil hit a record high of 64,000 homicides in 2017, 70% of which were due to firearms, according to official statistics.
Much of Brazil's violence is gang related. In January, gangs attacked across Fortaleza, bringing that city to a standstill with as commerce, buses and taxis shut down.
Rio de Janeiro, the country's second biggest city, experiences daily shootouts between rival gangs and also between police and criminals, battles that often result in the deaths of innocent bystanders. Fogo Cruzado, a group that monitors shootings in the Rio metropolitan area, says there were 2,300 shootings in Rio and its suburbs during the first 100 days of this year.
Killings attributed to police gunfire in Rio de Janeiro state have reached a record high, rising 18% in the first three months, in a spike partly attributed to a campaign of a zero tolerance for criminals being pushed by state leaders.
One of new President Jair Bolsonaro's main campaign promises was that he would loosen Brazil's strict gun laws, arguing that because criminals are well-armed with illegally obtained guns, "upstanding citizens" should have the right to defend themselves with legally bought guns. Bolsonaro has made good on that campaign promise with two presidential decrees that make buying guns easier, though federal prosecutors are seeking to get the courts to block that move.
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OPINION: The unanswered questions of the Mokihinui
Many questions are left hanging after Meridian recently pulled out of plans to dam the Mokihinui River on the West Coast.
By Hans van der Wal
Sat, 23 Jun 2012
Irrespective of the reasons for Meridian’s withdrawal of the Mokihinui hydro-electric power scheme and the issues it raises around access to conservation land, it leaves a number of other fascinating and critical questions unanswered.
Depending on who you speak to, it is either deliverance from environmental catastrophe or yet another blow to West Coasters’ economic growth aspirations.
But is it genuinely a case of having to choose between a good environmental outcome and a good economic outcome, or is it possible to have the two work together?
This was the question the Environment Court was poised to tackle. The Resource Management Act provided it with both the legislation and the process specifically designed to tease this out.
Particularly interesting was the fact that the proposal before the court was not all environmental doom and gloom or pushing economic gains at all costs.
Without a doubt, there were some difficult environmental issues in the form of the loss of 14km of wild and special river gorge, including some high ecological, landscape and recreational values.
Other issues like the visual effect of the 80m high dam, the power lines needed to connect to the grid and the construction effects like traffic, noise and bush removal cannot be brushed aside either.
But this project was not without its environmental benefits.
There was the critical issue of being able to provide renewable energy to the West Coast at affordable prices and to supplement the national grid.
Meridian had also gone to great lengths to provide additional environmental benefits.
It committed to indefinite pest control, removing from the 35,000ha upstream of the dam the goats, deer, possums and other pests that pose such a major threat to the special and rare animals and plants of the area.
It had pledged to protect a large area of valuable lowland forest as well.
The ecologically enhanced upper catchment would have been opened up beyond only those who could afford helicopter access by providing boat access to the newly created lake, as well as foot and mountain bike access via an upgrade to the now largely inaccessible historical pack track.
What cannot be ignored, either, are the substantial economic opportunities provided in terms of jobs during the construction phase and the flow-on benefits of cheaper electricity available on the West Coast.
The intriguing question was if the court would accept whether this would have been enough to make up for some significant environmental loss.
Would it have found that this met the twin aims of the Resource Management Act, of enabling people to provide for their wellbeing through development, and still making sure that key environmental values are maintained?
How would it have weighed the various benefits against the undeniable drawbacks?
How important is providing for locally generated renewable energy to environmental outcomes?
Is it important enough to require some sacrifices to be made to achieve it?
How much can you compensate for the loss of one set of special values by improving others?
Must conservation always trump economic development, or can the two assist each other?
Sadly, we have lost an opportunity to have these questions looked at by some of the most qualified and skilled people in the environmental field.
For now we are left wondering whether the RMA and its processes could have delivered that for which it was designed.
Hans van der Wal, an environmental law specialist with Duncan Cotterill, has acted for West Coast councils in relation to a number of power projects involving the damming or diversion of significant rivers. He also acts for two of the parties who were involved in the proceedings.
CORRECTION: In the original article supplied by Mr van der Wal the pest control area was given as 35ha, when it should have been 35,000ha. This is now corrected in the article. Ed.
Mokihinui
Hans van der Wal
Many questions are left hanging after Meridian recently pulled out of plans to dam the Mokihinui River on the West Coast.
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Dan Ludford-Thomas
Dan enjoys a busy schedule as a conductor, chorus master and singing teacher in London. He directs a wide variety of choirs from professional ensembles, church choirs, chamber choirs and large symphonic choruses. He performs regularly in major concert venues across the country including Birmingham Symphony Hall and The Royal Albert Hall. In 2012 he conducted over 300 singers and the Forest Philharmonic in a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the Royal Festival Hall. In 2014 he conducted over 200 singers in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem in the Fairfield Halls, returning with the same forces to put on Mendelssohn’s Elijah in 2016. In 2017 he conducted over 300 Singers and the London Mozart Players in a performance of Bach’s B minor Mass at the Royal Festival Hall.
Dan was the Chorus Master for the Choir of the Enlightenment, preparing them to sing Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Marin Alsop at the 2013 BBC Proms. He returned as Chorus Master for Marin, preparing the Choir of the Enlightenment to perform Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody and Triumphlied at the 2015 BBC Proms. In 2018, Dan returned to assist Marin, preparing the Choir of the Enlightenment for 2 performances of Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with the OAE, the second of which took place at the Royal Festival Hall and was subsequently broadcast on Radio 3.
In 2012 Dan worked as a choirmaster on BBC2’s The Choir: Sing While You Work and then became the Artistic Director of the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir enjoying success as the co-producer and musical director for the Choir’s 2015 Christmas Number One Bridge Over You. He returned in 2013 to work on BBC2’s The Choir: Sing While You Work series 2 as choirmaster to Citibank Choir, with whom he has continued as the Musical Director; highlights include performing at the Hammersmith Apollo and a series of concerts in New York. In 2015 Dan worked behind the scenes as choirmaster for The Choir: Gareth Malone’s Great Choir Reunion.
Dan is currently Head of Vocal Studies at Dulwich College, Musical Director of Concordia Chamber Choir, Musical Director of The Hackney Singers, and Director of Music of Lewisham Choral Society.
Dan joined the NCCGB staff in 2012, since when he has conducted both the Senior Choir and the Tour Choirs. In September 2018, Dan was delighted to take up the post of Musical Director of the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain.
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Denise Ascenzo, Niagara's History Unveiled, Series Special to Niagara Now
Feb 7, 2019 | Thursday
In 2012, Niagara-on-the-Lake was busy commemorating the War of 1812 and how it shaped the future of Upper Canada. Projects were abounding with special walking tours provided by the Niagara Historical Society and Museum, re-enactments at Fort George were staged for all to enjoy and a huge mural was installed in the Community Centre depicting 200 years of history in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The development of this mural had many historians of the town digging through hundreds of photos in the museum archives, making decisions of what was interesting and important. As well many images were provided by private citizens and other sources which also had to be considered.
Once the selection of images was made, a brief explanation of each had to be written. Some well known historians/writers in NOTL were asked to provide a small description. A daunting task when one considers that each author was requested to keep the story under 250 words.
With approximately 100 pictures and descriptions ready, the mural was completed. It now hangs in the Community Centre in NOTL, where one can enjoy the interesting pictures while sipping a coffee.
The mural itself is 32’ long and 6’ high. At one end is a touch screen monitor where people can access a picture and read its story.
In 2015 the Niagara Historical Society printed a book version of the mural, “Niagara-on-the-Lake A History in Images”. This book is available at the museum.
Along with the pictures and stories also included in this book is a short list of firsts for NOTL. According to the book, here are a few; first Provincial Parliament – 1792; first Agricultural Society – 1792; the first newspaper – Upper Canada Gazette – 1793; Law Society of Upper Canada founded – 1797; first circulating library – 1800;
Another first not listed, but equally important, is the first purpose-built museum in Ontario. The Memorial Hall on Castlereagh was built in 1906, ten years ahead of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
The Niagara Historical Society was founded in 1895 (not the first in Ontario) with Janet Carnochan being declared its first president in 1896. The Society recognized the need to preserve the history of the town and worked to support the museum.
Note: The Niagara Historical Society is a separate organization from the museum. Its prime purpose is to advance appreciation of the history of the NOTL area through publications, research, collections, to provide programs for the public and to assist in supporting the museum.
The Museum’s prime purpose is to maintain one of Ontario’s most important historical collections. “It houses artifacts from native settlements to the present day. The museum is home to over 8,000 artifacts, 40,000 documents, 2,500 photographs and 600 books.” (Direct quote from the museum’s website)
The mural in the Community Centre is just a small snippet of this community’s history. Here are some images from the mural that are also “firsts” for Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Point Lighthouse
The lighthouse is the first one to have been built on the Great Lakes. Retired Sergeant Dominic Henry was the first lighthouse keeper. He and his wife, Mary Madden Henry, with their children, lived in a home built beside the lighthouse. When the American forces invaded, from Lake Ontario, in the spring of 1813, it was reported that Mary Madden Henry, ran out onto the battle field around the lighthouse, tending to the wounded and comforting the dying.
In 1814, when the War of 1812 had moved away from NOTL, the British forces decided that a fort should be built at Mississauga Point where the Niagara River flows into Lake Ontario. The lighthouse was torn down. Using stone and brick from the lighthouse and homes that had been destroyed by American forces on their retreat from NOTL, Fort Mississauga was built.
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The first Boy Scout Jamboree held in North America and the first held outside of Europe was in August of 1955.
Over 11,000 scouts from 71 countries converged on Niagara-on-the-Lake, camping on the commons that town volunteers had spent weeks preparing. Three scouts traveled from Brazil by jeep, while one scout rode his bike from Columbia, South America to NOTL. That bike is on display in the museum.
During the jamboree a bus trip was organized to take all the scouts to Toronto so that they could participate in the opening day parade into the Canadian National Exhibition.
During the time that the Boy Scout Jamboree was in NOTL, more than 130,000 visitors came to visit.
In 1816, the volunteer firefighters built the first firehouse, located in the market square, which is now the parking lot behind the Court House.
Through an Act of Parliament in 1826, the Fire Department became incorporated, a first for Upper Canada. This ensured that all buildings would be protected by the Fire Department.
A second firehouse was located in the Court House and a hose drying tower was built onto the courthouse. A small piece of irony, this tower was destroyed by a fire in 1953.
The fire department moved three more times, until in 2000 it was located in a very modern firehouse beside the Community Centre.
There are many more wonderful stories behind the pictures in the mural. So break up a gloomy winter day and go view the sites and history of Niagara-on-the-Lake at the Community Centre.
Information provided by: “Niagara-on-the-Lake A History in Images” Niagara Historical Society.
Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.
To learn more about the topic of this story you can visit the Niagara Historical Society & Museum website at, www.niagarahistorical.museum, or visit the museum for yourself.
The Niagara Historical Museum is located at 43 Castlereagh St. in Old Town, in Memorial Hall. Visit, or give them a call at 905-468-3912.
Ascenzo is a regular Niagara Now contributor. Her full profile can be found here.
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As Big Tobacco Defends Itself In Court, It Gets Help From Academics : Shots - Health News Faced with lawsuits from sick smokers, tobacco firms argue the health risks were "common knowledge" for decades, and they often pay professors to help make that point as expert witnesses.
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Vanderbilt University professor John Geer sits for a video-taped deposition in 2014, defending his expert witness report which backed up the tobacco industry position that smokers knew of the health risks of smoking as early as the mid-1950s. Academics often provide testimony for the industry. Kenneth Byrd hide caption
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Vanderbilt University professor John Geer sits for a video-taped deposition in 2014, defending his expert witness report which backed up the tobacco industry position that smokers knew of the health risks of smoking as early as the mid-1950s. Academics often provide testimony for the industry.
In 1998, major tobacco companies reached a historic legal settlement with states that had sued them over the health care costs of smoking-related illnesses. But individual smokers have continued to sue, and to this day the tobacco industry remains tied up in hundreds of court fights with sickened smokers, or with family members who lost a loved one to cancer, heart disease, or other smoking-related illness.
These days, tobacco companies no longer try to claim that cigarettes aren't harmful — in fact, in an ironic reversal, a favorite legal defense in current cases is the argument that nearly everyone was aware of the dangers, even back in the 1950s. To shore up this controversial claim, known as the "common knowledge" defense, tobacco companies often enlist academics as expert witnesses. These professors are frequently historians or political scientists who tend to keep these lucrative side gigs walled off from the rest of their academic work. And their testimony can help tobacco companies limit damages.
Professor John Geer, a political scientist and dean of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, has been consulting on behalf of tobacco companies from 2004 to at least mid-2018, according to court documents. The fees from legal firms represent as much as a quarter of his annual income.
In a 2014 deposition videotaped just off Vanderbilt University's campus, Geer r was then vice provost. He stares straight ahead with an iced coffee at his side, reading glasses perched on his nose. A court reporter swears him in, and he begins to make his case:
"I have studied a lot of polls, and I'm confident of my opinion of the public being broadly aware of the dangers of smoking by the mid-1950s. The data are rock-solid clear," Geer says in the video.
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This argument is part of the "common knowledge" defense, but most of the witnesses who make it are not experts in the history of public health. Geer, for instance, specializes in political science and directs the Vanderbilt Poll. Others who have testified on behalf of tobacco companies are presidential historians or Civil War experts; they include prominent historian and author Stephen Ambrose, who died in 2002 of smoking-related lung cancer.
They erase history by acting as if the things we know today have always been known.
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Stanford University history professor Robert Proctor, who wrote a book about the tobacco industry called Golden Holocaust, says most of these academics have never published any research about cigarettes because their opinions can't stand up to peer review.
"They erase history by acting as if the things we know today have always been known," he says.
Proctor is among a smaller group of academics who testify in opposition to tobacco companies, on behalf of smokers dealing with cancer, chronic lung disease and heart problems.
'Under the radar'
In his book, Proctor lists the professors known to have worked on behalf of tobacco companies. He says most expert witnesses avoid drawing attention to themselves.
"Experts often don't even put it down on their CVs, their resumes — it's absent," Proctor says. "That's one of the problems. It's flying under the radar."
Geer makes no mention of his consulting work — which pays more than $300 an hour — in his 17-page curriculum vitae. That document does include a detailed account of his pursuits on- and off-campus, down to individual guest lectures and media appearances.
"It's not relevant," Geer told Nashville attorney Kenneth Byrd during one deposition. "If I published something from this, I'd list it."
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Even,the most active expert witnesses for the tobacco industry have not published research on the topic of tobacco. They include the University of Tennessee's Robert Norrell who studies race and the American South; and Elizabeth Cobbs, a historian at Texas A&M and Michael Schaller, a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, who both focus on foreign relations. Their names are among 50 that appear in a database kept by Ramses Delafontaine, a historian who wrote a book about his peers working for the tobacco industry.
In depositions, some claim to make more than $100,000 a year for their work on tobacco litigation. None accepted requests for interviews.
Geer did issue a statement to Vanderbilt's student newspaper, Hustler, saying he's not a supporter of "Big Tobacco."
"I truly understand and deeply respect those students who disagree with me having taken on this kind of work," Geer told Hustler. "I do see their perspective and value it. Perhaps my fondest hope is that we all appreciate that disagreement itself is often an engine for change."
Interpreting the polls
The tobacco industry's professors are primarily historians. Their expert reports pull newspaper clippings and excerpts from school textbooks to show judges that the smoker in question probably ran across warnings about cigarettes. And many of the industry's witnesses lean heavily on the same Gallup poll from 1954 that indicates 90% of Americans had heard smoking could cause lung cancer.
But in 1998, Gallup told the tobacco industry to stop using this polling out of context. First, the company sent a letter to historian Lacy Ford at the University of South Carolina. (Ford had testified on behalf of R.J. Reynolds, citing the poll.) Then Gallup officials presented a paper at a conference calling Ford's interpretation an "egregious error" that overlooked the difference between being aware of danger, and actually believing smoking can cause a deadly illness.
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"A review of historical Gallup surveys suggests that there was, in fact, a high degree of public doubt and confusion about the dangers of smoking in the 1950s and 60s. There may have been widespread awareness of the controversy over smoking, but public belief that smoking was linked to lung cancer trailed far behind this general awareness of the controversy," the Gallup officials wrote in their conference paper.
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Gallup points to its other surveys during the same period that found when people said smoking was "harmful," they were thinking of less serious risks, like coughing, not cancer.
Reached for comment about the continued reliance on the 1954 poll, Gallup general counsel Steve O'Brien — who wrote the paper from 1998 — declined to wade back into the controversy.
"The fraternity that litigates these smoking cases are all aware of the history — or if they were doing their job right, they are," O'Brien wrote in an email.
For his part, Vanderbilt's Geer said in a 2014 deposition that he had never seen the letter to Ford or the Gallup warning, though both are publicly available as part of the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. That's an archival database, well known to public health researchers, of internal tobacco company documents maintained by the University of California, San Francisco.
Geer had never used it.
"I know of it broadly, but I've never spent any time on [the database]," Geer said.
Occasionally, the professors who work with the tobacco industry's lawyers will be rejected as experts. In one case from late 2011, Geer was barred from testifying over questions about his methodology.
'A denial of history'
Geer's videotaped deposition in 2014 was part of Woodruff v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al., and he also submitted a report summarizing his research and findings. The plaintiff in that suit, a Florida widow, argued that her husband's bladder cancer was caused by his smoking since he was a kid — as much as three packs a day. The case was ultimately settled for an undisclosed amount as part of a larger settlement.
The suit was one of thousands in Florida stemming from a former class-action verdict that was overturned but allowed many smokers to make individual claims using the same jury findings.
Tobacco companies win some and lose some. But the "common knowledge" defense has proven effective at limiting their liabilities, says Stanford's Proctor. It's difficult for a judge or jurors to cast their minds back to the 1950s, suspending all they know now about the dangers of smoking, thanks to 65 years of accumulated science.
But Proctor maintains that the 1950s were "another world."
Proctor points out that most doctors used to be smokers. Some cigarettes were even branded as "doctor recommended." Proctor calls it "a denial of history" to gloss over how broadly smoking was accepted, and how actively tobacco companies contributed to the confusion.
Proctor, along with Middle Tennessee State University historian Louis Kyriakoudes, are among a small number of professors who work on behalf of dying smokers or their surviving spouses.
Both have published extensively on smoking and list on their CVs work as an expert witness against tobacco companies.
"I'm proud of what I do," Kyriakoudes says.
Tobacco companies deserve the chance to defend themselves, he says. But he accuses the professors they hire of donning "intellectual blinders" in order to claim everyone knew that one day smoking would kill them.
"People tell themselves that it's the smoker's fault for smoking, and why should somebody be suing a tobacco company anyway?" he says. "That plays into a very strong bias that blames the victim of addiction."
Reputational harm
Plaintiff attorneys will often question the industry's defense experts about what they've disclosed to their academic employer about the outside work. And it's clear from their answers that the academics do not widely advertise their work, even if they disclose to their employer that they consult with law firms, which write the actual checks.
But Allan Brandt, a medical historian and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, says institutions of higher education should be concerned about this vague disclosure — since the professor's faculty appointment is often the credential used to qualify them as an expert in a lawsuit.
"I think it can harm the reputation of our own scholarship and our universities when this isn't really put out in the open," he says.
Many professors are called to be expert witnesses, in multiple types of cases. But Brandt says he hasn't found any defense experts in these tobacco cases who would also be willing to defend their claims (about the awareness of smoking's dangers) in an academic setting.
He says scholars can't have it one way on campus and another in court.
"This is the ultimate public forum," Brandt says. "The ideas that are presented there really ought to be subject to the kind of scrutiny and peer scrutiny that is so characteristic and a desirable value of universities."
This story comes from NPR's health reporting partnership with Nashville Public Radio and Kaiser Health News.
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As you enter Northeastern State University’s Tahlequah campus, the paved walkway leading from Muskogee Avenue will take you on a path that embodies the history and heritage of NSU. From the bronze sculpture of Sequoyah, noted 19th century Cherokee diplomat and creator of the Cherokee syllabary, to the clock tower on Seminary Hall that is a symbol of this institution, you will participate in a very unique experience.
Back in 1846, Northeastern State University was founded as the Cherokee National Female Seminary. This historic link to the Cherokee Nation and Indian Territory make Northeastern the oldest institution of higher learning in Oklahoma. The original Seminary was built in Park Hill south of Tahlequah and destroyed by fire on Easter Sunday 1887. On May 7, 1889, the Cherokee National Female Seminary was dedicated north of Tahlequah, where it would continue to provide learning opportunities for young women for 20 years. Seminary Hall is now the historic centerpiece of Northeastern State, and each year on May 7, Descendants of Seminarians gather to observe Seminaries Homecoming in honor of our first students.
Our history as a state institution began on March 6, 1909, when the Oklahoma legislature purchased the Female Seminary and created Northeastern State Normal School, where the first classes were held on September 14, 1909. A decade later, NSNS transformed into Northeastern State Teacher’s College, offering a four-year curriculum leading to a bachelor’s degree. The Oklahoma legislature authorized changing the name of NSTC to Northeastern State College in 1939. We became officially known as Northeastern State University in 1978.
In celebration of 100 years as a state institution, and in tribute to Northeastern’s shared heritage with the Cherokee Nation, Founders Day activities were held on March 6, 2009. The historic occasion was marked by the unveiling of the Sequoyah statue and dedication of Centennial Plaza.
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Anti-gerrymandering activists in costume as Maryland district 5 (left) and district 1 (right) in front of the Supreme Court, March 2018
A decade ago, when the Republican Party was paying the price for the various cataclysms brought on by the George W. Bush presidency—the shockingly inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina, the ill effects of the Iraq War, the great economic meltdown—the Democratic Party reached its post–Great Society zenith. It nominated and elected the country’s first African-American president—and he won decisively, against an admired war hero. It sent sixty senators to Washington, which it hadn’t done in forty years (and back then, around a dozen of those were southern conservatives).1 It also sent 257 representatives to the House, its highest number since before the Gingrich Revolution of 1994. Its governors sat in twenty-eight executive mansions, including in such improbable states as Tennessee, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.
Then came the rise of the Tea Party and the calamitous 2010 elections. The Republicans’ net gain of sixty-three seats in the House of Representatives, giving them control over that chamber after a four-year hiatus, swallowed most of the headlines (the party also had a net gain of six Senate seats). The Democrats, as President Obama put it, took a “shellacking.”
But perhaps the more consequential results happened in the states. Democrats lost a net total of four gubernatorial races, taking them down to a minority of twenty-two governorships. They lost gubernatorial contests in some important large states: Pennsylvania and Ohio; Michigan, where Governor Rick Snyder would make his fateful decision about the source of water for the city of Flint; and Wisconsin, where Scott Walker would pass anti-union legislation and steer state government hard to starboard. Florida, governed before that election by Charlie Crist, an independent who had left the GOP and criticized it as extremist, turned to the very conservative Republican Rick Scott. And all of those improbable states listed above eventually reverted to GOP control.
Democrats likewise took a pounding in state legislative races in 2010. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio had had divided legislatures before that election, and Wisconsin a Democratic one. All four went Republican. So did Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Alabama, and Minnesota. Iowa, Louisiana, Colorado, and Oregon moved from Democratic control to having divided legislatures. In many of these states, the pendulum has never swung back, or it has swung more aggressively in the Republican direction, so that we now have, for example, thirty-three Republican governors and just sixteen Democratic ones, while Republicans maintain complete control of thirty-two state legislatures to the Democrats’ mere thirteen.
It was just one year, 2010, and one election. But it was a pivotal one, because it coincided with the decennial census and the drawing, in time for the 2012 elections, of new legislative districts at the federal and state levels. These newly…
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February 27, 2019, 5 pm—7 pm
The Tony Judt Memorial Lecture with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta Nehisi Coates will deliver the 2019 Tony Judt Memorial Lecture, titled “I Tried To Make The Letter ‘M’: On Identity Politics and Invisible Wars.”
Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. He wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. Coates is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America.
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‘Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler’
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Global warming, climate change and hot air
January 17, 2019 Country Life, Slider 1 Comment
By Don “Doc” Sanders
You likely are aware of former Vice President Al Gore’s book An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, published in 2006. Whatever you want to call it — global warming, climate change, changing weather — there is no denying that the seasons are changing from what all of us oldsters, including Al Gore, knew growing up.
The term “global warming” morphed into “climate change” in the mid-2000s after the alleged warming seemed to stop and weather patterns became more extreme. And now climate change is the scapegoat for every unusual weather event. Gore’s “inconvenient” truths are not sound science-based conclusions. They come from a group of scientists who are imposing their opinions, which they base on severely flawed science.
Their foundational flaw comes from using California tree ring data to predict carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Their hypothesis that wider tree rings means higher CO2 levels has ultimately been proven false. That’s because tree rings are strongly influenced by rainfall — or lack of it.
Ohio State University scientists, right here in our backyard, have collected ice core samples from glaciers in Tibet and Antarctica. They analyzed these samples to determine CO2 levels of air that was trapped in the glaciers 800,000 years ago. Through these samples the scientists have determined that the earth’s atmosphere warms and cools in an approximate 11,000-year cycle — plus or minus a couple of hiccups in the cycle’s predictions. Mother Earth is now in the warming side of the cycle.
Both sides of the climate change debate agree that water vapor is responsible for the lion’s share of the greenhouse effect, though the percentage is in dispute. Warming allows the atmosphere to carry more water vapor, which leads to more intense rain and storms. And this initially increases global temperatures, which gradually fade as CO2 levels rise, because of natural climate drivers.
Some activists rail against methane as being the primary culprit. But methane is in far lower concentrations than CO2 in the atmosphere, though it packs 25 times the warming activity of CO2 per unit.
Since ruminant animals, such as cows, sheep, goats and deer, burp methane during rumination, activists point their piney little fingers at large cattle operations as the villains. However, lifecycle assessment models at UC-Davis have shown that ruminants’ methane emissions contribute only 3.5% of ambient methane in the atmosphere. Pollution from vehicles, on the other hand, accounts for as much as 40% of greenhouse gases.
Once you cull the environmental activists’ diatribes, you’re left with true science that shows that the slight warming caused by CO2 is overwhelmed by natural climate cycles that have been active for hundreds of millions of years.
And let me give CO2 its due: Carbon dioxide is plant food. Plants depend on it like you and I depend on oxygen. Currently, CO2 accounts for about 400 parts per million (ppm) of the atmosphere. Plants require at least 150 ppm to survive. In 1750, CO2 was at 250 ppm, and in 2017, 406 ppm. This increase may be one of the reasons that today’s farmers have increased yields.
However, in the long view of history, carbon dioxide isn’t as plentiful as you might think:
In the last four ice ages, CO2 levels were dangerously low — at 182 ppm. Below 150 ppm, plants can’t exist.
There’s been a 140-million-year trend of dangerously decreasing CO2
Our current geologic period has the lowest average CO2 level in the history of the Earth. In the previous 600 million years, CO2 reached more than 2,600 ppm.
So, rather than seeing historic highs we are in a period of near CO2 starvation. Increased photosynthesis, in response to increasing CO2, is like adding more fertilizer. Benefits of increasing CO2 include:
More plant growth
More food for the world’s growing population
Faster growing plants and forests with less stress and less water
Stimulated growth of beneficial bacteria in soil and water
Less erosion because of increased plant growth
Higher crop yields and more and larger flowers
More glomalin, a protein created by root fungi that improves soil quality
Reduced water loss and irrigation — and increased soil moisture
Promotion of plants’ natural defenses against insects.
More than 250 studies of 83 food crops have demonstrated that increasing CO2 by 300 ppm will increase plant growth by more than 40%. In contrast, crop production is reduced by about 8% when CO2 is at 280 ppm.
Americans may debate climate change. But Americans are the only ones really doing something about it. The G-20 summit in Argentina was just the latest example. Every country — except the U.S. – signed the nonbinding Paris Agreement, a promise to “continue to tackle climate change, while promoting sustainable development and economic growth.”
Nineteen nations “believe” in climate change and controlling greenhouse gas emissions. And here’s how they are backing up their statement of faith:
China increased emissions by 1.7%.
India, the fourth largest source of CO2,saw their emissions grow by 4.6% in 2017.
The European Union raised their CO2 output by 1.5%.
France, home of the Paris Agreement, is leading the diplomatic effort to “save” the planet — and increased their greenhouse gas emissions by 3.6%.
Pollution in France will likely rise further this year, from the cars that protestors are burning, if nothing else. French President Emmanuel Macron announced a sharp increase in gas and diesel taxes last month. This sparked the largest riots seen in Paris in nearly 50 years. Yellow-vested citizens blockaded roadways, burned vehicles and damaged artwork and infrastructure.
If the nations paying lip service to climate change aren’t meeting their goals, imagine how poorly oil drilling, fracking, coal mining, cattle raising Americans must be doing. From 2016 to 2017, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 2.7%. Emissions from large power plants declined 4.5% since 2016, and nearly 20% since 2011 — all without signing a piece of paper in Paris or Buenos Aires.
President Donald Trump was pilloried for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and for being the only G-20 leader who refused to sign the climate change statement in Argentina.
Estimates suggest that the Paris Agreement will cost the people of the world $100 trillion in lost wealth. And for this investment, we’ll see a reduction in global temperatures — by all of 0.31 degrees Fahrenheit.
Little wonder that Al Gore earned a D in the one natural science class he took in college. And no wonder that he excelled in politics.
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York today …
Doc, you are bringing much common sense to this discussion!
The only thing that global warming advocates talk about is pending disaster, but in fact, increasing CO2 has tremendous benefits.
Consider this: Global warming activists claim that CO2 in the atmosphere is too high. That implies there is a standard. So what is the “correct” amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? How do you know this is the correct amount? What is the allowable variation from this standard? How do you know that is correct? Until or unless global warming activists can answer these simple questions, I don’t feel any compulsion to listen to them or agree to pay more taxes or purchase carbon offset indulgences or give up my freedom to keep living and farming and caring for the land.
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Tour of Turkey, cradle of civilization
Escorted small group tour exploring Turkey
May 08 2020 to May 29 2020
Level 2 - Moderate
Istanbul – Ankara
Ankara - Cappadocia
Cappadocia - Konya
Konya – Antalya
Antalya – Pamukkale
Pamukkale – Kusadasi
Kusadasi - Izmir
Izmir - Çanakkale
Canakkale – Istanbul
Small group tours Turkey | Ancient Turkey
Odyssey Traveller's Ancient Turkey escorted small group history tour visits some of the most spectacular, varied, and historically important sites in the ancient world. This Turkey tour begins and ends in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city and seaport, and the place where east meets the west on the Bosporus. Visit Turkey with Odyssey on this amazing history tour. Our tour packages are especially designed to be suitable for mature-aged and senior travellers, whether joining as a couple or as a solo traveller.
Over 21 days we will travel from Istanbul to Cappadocia. On our Cappadocia tour we visit its ‘fairy chimneys’, large rock spires that rise from the earth like mushrooms, formed over millions of years by the erosion of volcanic rock. We go on a Pamukkale tour, see the ancient ruins of Ephesus and the mosques in Turkey, and view the Aegean Sea, with our terrific local guides sharing with you both the ancient and contemporary history and scenery of this incredibly diverse nation. The tour stops in nine key places that have played pivotal roles in the development of Turkey. Typically our Turkey travel group stop for more than one night in our destinations--1 to 4 nights of hotel stay or other type of accommodation before travelling to our next point of interest. A combination of day trip, city tour, shore excursions, and overnight trips, this Turkey tour promises to be a memorable trip and an amazing travel experience.
Small group tours Turkey Itinerary
The program takes in many of the most famous sites and sights of the ancient world. Istanbul is one of the world's oldest cities and has been at the centre of civilisation for centuries. We visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Blue Mosque, a beautiful structure built between 1609 and 1616 by Sultan Ahmed during the age of the Ottoman Empire to house his tomb. The Mosque features six spectacular minarets, the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. You will see the Greek theatres in Pergamon, the legendary Greco-Roman cities of Troy and Ephesus, and discover the cultural centres of Ankara and Izmir.
We enjoy a Bosphorus cruise, viewing both the European and Asian shores of Istanbul. The Bosphorus is a beautiful and important waterway that has a long history, beginning at least as early as the 5th century BC, when the city-state of Athens depended on it for grain imports from Scythia.
In Antalya we take time to relax and visit its ruins and archaeological museum, which is bound to be filled with treasures from ancient times as Antalya is the major city of the Anatolian Mediterranean. In Saralti, we visit its underground city. In Konya, we learn about the mystic Whirling Dervishes. Our Turkey small group tour also includes a visit to the extraordinary limestone formations of Pamukkale, as well as the underground cities and cave churches in Cappadocia. We also have the opportunity to interact with the locals, and experience first-hand their culture, cuisine, and traditions.
A large part of our Turkey small group tour program is spent in Anatolia, in eastern Turkey. This tour also spends time on the Gallipoli Peninsula and in Istanbul, the European part of the country known as Thrace. During the entire program, a local English speaking guide will accompany the group alongside your Odyssey Traveller Program Leader. Accommodation during the program is be in quality 4 star hotels with private facilities.
For more details of our small group tours, click the ‘Top 5’ or ‘Itinerary’ buttons above! You may also want to read our article on Istanbul and the places to visit in Turkey.
If you’re keen to experience this tour, please call or send an email. Or, to book, simply fill in the form on the right hand side of this page.
Frequently Asked Questions About Turkey
Is Turkey safe to visit?
Whenever you’re travelling it’s always worth checking Australia’s smarttraveller.gov.au website for any relevant travel advice. Current travel advice for Turkey (as of September 2019) is to “exercise a high degree of caution“. Our links to local guides and suppliers give us regular updates on what’s happening on the ground. Rest assured that the safety of our travellers, local guides, and Odyssey Program Leader is our paramount concern. We receive advice from our local supplier, and prudent conservative action is taken at all times to ensure the safety of any of our groups.
When should I visit Turkey?
Odyssey’s Turkey tours depart in spring (May) and autumn (September), ensuring we have pleasant weather but encounter relatively fewer crowds. The peak season for travel in Turkey is summer, June to August, which is also when the temperature is at its hottest.
What should I wear in Turkey?
As our departures are in spring and autumn, it can still get chilly at times, so remember to pack outerwear to keep you warm. Turkey is a Muslim country, but there is no dress code as such. You can wear whatever feels comfortable, but remember to dress modestly when visiting mosques or more conservative rural areas in order to show respect and not draw too much attention.
Itineraries may change if flight schedules, site availability, and other inclusions have to be amended prior to departure.
Group size limited to 16.
Day 1: Istanbul
Overview: We will come to the hotel individually and have a welcome briefing and dinner.
Accommodation: 4 nights at Dosso Dossi Hotel or similar.
Overview: Today we will take a field trip to discover the ancient treasures of Istanbul, the sprawling metropolis where Europe and Asia collide. The city has a rich and textured history that dates back over 3000 years. Originally named Lygos, it was colonised by the Greeks in the 7th century BC, and was known as Byzantium until AD 330, when it was made the new capital of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople. The city grew to be the largest in the western world during late antiquity. After the Muslim conquest in 1453, Constantinople became the capital of the Ottoman Empire. It was finally renamed Istanbul when the Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923.
Today we visit the Hippodrome Square, built by the Romans in the 2nd century AD as the site of horse racing and chariot racing. It was the centre of the city’s social life during the Byzantine period. We then visit the Hagia St Sophia Church, constructed by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 1532 and considered the pinnacle of Byzantine architecture. It was the world’s largest cathedral for over a thousand years. Over the centuries it has served as a Greek Orthodox Church, a Roman Catholic cathedral and an imperial mosque. Finally we visit the Blue Mosque, a beautiful structure built between 1609 and 1616 by Sultan Ahmed during the Ottoman reign to house his tomb. The Mosque features six spectacular minarets, the culmination of two centuries of Ottoman mosque development. We return to our hotel in time for dinner.
Accommodation: Dosso Dossi hotel or similar.
Overview: After breakfast, we will visit Topkapi Palace, a 15th century structure built not long after the Muslim conquest to house the Ottoman sultans. Next we head to the Grand Bazaar, one of the largest and oldest markets in the world. Another relic of the Ottoman conquest, the Bazaar was originally constructed as part of an initiative to stimulate economic activity in Constantinople. Its earliest trade was in textiles and jewels. Finally, before returning to our hotel, we visit the Underground Cistern Basilica, the largest of the several hundred cisterns that lie beneath the city. Originally built in the 6th century AD, the cistern was repeatedly renovated and eventually provided water to many of the city’s grand buildings, including the Great Palace of Constantinople and the Topkapi Palace.
Overview: This morning we will take a cruise along the Bosporus, the narrow stretch of water that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Along the coast there are many beautiful waterfront houses, most of which were built during the Ottoman period. The Bosporus and the Dardanelles form the Turkish Straits, separating Asian Turkey from European Turkey. As part of the only sea route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the Straits have been commercially and militarily important for millennia. Their significance was one of the main reasons the Romans chose to build their new capital there in 330 AD. On this cruise we will view both the European and Asian shores of modern day Istanbul.
Accommodation: Dosso Dossi hotel or similar
Day 5: Istanbul – Ankara
Overview: This morning we leave Istanbul and we head to the capital of Turkey and visit the Anatolian Civilization Museum. On arrival in Ankara you will have some free time to explore the city on our own or join the local guide for a short walk. Our local guide will give you information regarding restaurant options in the area for dinner tonight.
Ankara was the headquarters of Kemal Ataturk’s Turkish nationalist movement, who sought to wrest control of Anatolia from the victorious Allies after the First World War. After the Turkish War of Independence, Ankara replaced Constantinople as the capital of the new Republic of Turkey. The city is divided between old and new sections. The old section features many Byzantine, Roman and Ottoman buildings.
Accommodation: 2 nights at Holiday Inn Ankara or similar.
Day 6: Ankara
Overview: Today we have a full day excursion to Boğazkale, ancient civilization capital of Hittite Empire and named Hattusas. The settlement dates back over 6000 years. The Hittites established their empire in Anatolia around 1600 BC. They constructed huge fortifications around Hattusa, and our first stop is at the Lion’s Gate, one of only six passages into the ancient city. The gate gets its name from the two lions on either side of it, carved out of huge blocks of stone, and intended to scare away evil spirits from the city. Our next stop is at the Tunnel King’s Gate, or ‘gate in the ground’, a 70 metre long passageway underneath the city walls. We then visit the Citadel, which served as the seat of the Hittite kings. Situated at the highest point of the ancient city, it offers stunning views of the surrounding landscape. Finally, we visit the Grand Temple. Built in the 14th century BC, the temple stood as a dedication to the Hittite gods, and only rulers and priests were granted entry. We drive back late afternoon, arriving back at the hotel in time for dinner.
Accommodation: Holiday Inn Ankara or similar
Day 7: Ankara - Cappadocia
Overview: This morning we depart for Cappadocia, a beautiful, otherworldly region of central Turkey. Before leaving Ankara we visit the Mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk.
Cappadocia was once the homeland of the Bronze Age Hittites, who knew it as Hatti. Later it was ruled by Persian kings, Romans and Ottomans. The area contains several underground cities, once used as refuges by persecuted Christians and ancient cave dwellers. However, Cappadocia’s most arresting attractions are its ‘fairy chimneys’, large rock spires that rise from the earth like mushrooms, formed over millions of years by the erosion of volcanic rock. We arrive at our hotel in time for dinner.
Accommodation: 3 nights at Alfina Cave Hotel or similar
Overview: For those who wish, there is an optional hot air balloon excursion early this morning (Additional cost. This activity is weather dependant and may not be possible at the time). Today we visit Goreme Open Air Museum, a vast complex of ancient monasteries carved into the rocky landscape. Once a Byzantine monastic settlement, by the 17th century it had become an important pilgrimage site. We then head to Love Valley, euphemistically named for its distinctive rock structures. Finally we visit Uchisar, a natural citadel full of stairs, tunnels and passages, located at the highest point in Cappadocia. The top of Uchisar Castle provides a fantastic view of the surrounding region.
Accommodation: Alfina Cave Hotel or similar.
Overview: Today we visit more breathtaking Cappadocian landscapes. After breakfast we head to the Kiliclar Valley, which features some of the most beautiful rock structures in all of Cappadocia. We then move on the Pasabag, where giant pillar-like fairy chimneys rise from the earth. Sometimes known as Monks Valley, its chimneys once housed hermits who sought to distance themselves from the world. On our way back to the hotel we visit Pigeon Valley, named for the many pigeon houses carved into the rocks. Pigeons were once used in the region as message carriers, though few remain today.
Day 10: Cappadocia - Konya
Overview: This morning we depart for the Ilara Gorge, a 100m deep canyon formed over thousands of years by the Melendiz River. It is estimated that around 80 000 people once lived in the Ilhara Valley. These days it is one of the best hiking spots in Turkey. We enjoy a pleasant morning walk along the valley floor next to a fast-flowing stream. We’ll have a mid-morning stop for morning tea of gozleme and fresh orange juice. We get back on bus and make way to Saralti to visit the underground city, with 3 levels that can be visited (there are 7 in total). We continue on to Konya where we visit the Sultanhani Carevanserai. We also visit Mevlana Museum which is better visited in the late afternoon as there are fewer people and less hostility from the locals who view it as a shrine, not a museum. The museum is the mausoleum of Rumi, a 13th century Persian Sufi mystic, poet and Islamic scholar. His ‘Masnavi’, written in the city of Konya, is thought to be one the greatest poems in the Persian language.
Accommodation: 1 night at Hilton Garden Inn Hotel or similar.
Day 11: Konya – Antalya
Overview: Today we have an early morning departure to Çatalhöyük, was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 B.C. to 5700 B.C. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. If time permits, we’ll also stop to visit Eflatun Pinar (Plato’s Spring), an idylkic stone pool monument build by the Bronze Age Hittites.
Accommodation: 3 nights at Dogan Hotel or similar.
Day 12: Antalya
Overview: Today we have a full-day field trip to two ancient Anatolian cities. The first, Perge, was one of the most important cities in the premodern civilisation of Pamphylia. The earliest traces of continuous settlement in the city date back three millennia. After initially coming under Persian influence, the city fell to the armies of Alexander the Great in 334 BC. Its most famous resident was the Greek mathematician and astronomer Apollonius. In 188 BC Perge came under Roman rule, and rose to become one of the greatest cities in Asia Minor. The city’s ruins include a theatre, a temple and a palaestra. Perge’s acropolis dates back to the Bronze Age.
The second city we visit is Aspendos, another Greco-Roman stronghold in ancient Pamphylia. Aspendos is famous for having one of the best preserved theatres of antiquity. Built in 155 AD by the Greek architect Zenon, it provided seating for up to 12,000 spectators. The city boasts a basilica, and 15km of a Roman aqueduct. It was one also one of the first cities to issue coins, a practice that began around 500 BC. After Aspendos we return to our hotel for dinner.
Accommodation: Dogan Hotel or similar.
Overview: Today we take a morning visit to the award-winning open air Antalya Archaeological Museum. The museum is one of the largest in Turkey, displaying over 5000 pieces of art and archaeological objects. Antalya is one of the most fertile archaeological regions in the world, will many sites boasting evidence of uninterrupted occupation from earliest man to modern times. After we finish at the museum we will take a leisurely half-day cruise around the local bays. There will be an opportunity to go for a swim in the beautiful blue waters of the Mediterranean. We then return to our hotel for dinner.
Day 14: Antalya – Pamukkale
Overview: This morning we depart Antalya for the world heritage site of Hierapolis-Pamukkale. Pamukkale, meaning ‘cotton castle’ in English, is a remarkable natural site famous for its dazzling thermal pools. Thick white layers of travertine and limestone cascade down the hillside, the result of the mineral-laden underground hot water springs in the area. Calcium deposits from the springs’ water created these white waterfalls over thousands of years. We visit the thermal spa of Hierapolis, established by the kings of Pergamon in the 2nd century BC.
Accommodation: 1 night at Colossae Thermal Hotel or similar.
Day 15: Pamukkale – Kusadasi
Overview: This morning we drive to Aphrodisias, named after Aphrodite (or Venus), the Greek goddess of love. In Roman times, Aphrodisias was famous for its sculptures and the sculptors who made them. White and blue grey marble was quarried in large quantities from the slopes around the city. The city was destroyed by a large earthquake in the 7th century.
A highlight of the visit is the stadium, which once seated over 35,000 people and is the best-preserved of its period in the world. We will also see the Hadrian Baths, erected in honour of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who visited the city while travelling through Anatolia. Other attractions include the theatre, the Agora (Greek for ‘gathering place’ or ‘assembly’) and the Archaeological Museum – where many Aphrodite statues are on display. We arrive back at our hotel with plenty of time for dinner.
Accommodation: 3 nights at Carina Hotel or similar.
Day 16: Kusadasi
Overview: We head this morning to visit the ruins of ancient Ephesus, the cradle of early Christianity. There we visit ancient Ephesus with its terrace houses, the Archaeological Museum and the Temple of Diana/Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. We also visit the Virgin Mary’s house.
Accommodation: Carina Hotel or similar.
Overview: Today we visit the picturesque rural Turkish village of Sirince, nested at the top of a mountain and surrounded by peach trees and vineyards. We will visit some local houses to gain an understanding of life in a typical Turkish village. We will watch the local women cooking their traditional cheese pastry and stroll through the small open-air bazaar. We then return to to our hotel in Kusadasi, a beach town on Turkey’s Aegean coast. The remainder of the afternoon is at leisure.
Accommodation: Carina Hotel or similar
Day 18: Kusadasi - Izmir
Overview: After breakfast we will depart to visit St John’s Basilica. Next we will proceed to Izmir (Smyrna) city; here we will visit the ruins of ancient Agora. Next we will head to our hotel which is located in the heart of Izmir, a lovely seaside area with many attractions along the coast all within walking distance. Izmir also known as Smyrna in ancient times, it boasts 4000 years of recorded human history, and has since been occupied by the Greeks, the Romans and the Ottomans. Today it is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara.
Accommodation: 2 nights at Double Tree Hotel or similar.
Day 19: Izmir
Overview: Today we will drive to Sardis, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia and one of the most important cities of the Persian and Roman empires. We start the day with a visit to the Artemis Temple and the oldest synagogue of the ancient world, which became a gymnasium during the Roman era. In the afternoon we visit the local museum and the Agora. Dinner tonight is at individual arrangements, with many delightful restaurants within easy walking distance of our hotel.
Accommodation: Double Tree Hotel or similar.
Day 20: Izmir - Çanakkale
Overview: This morning we drive to Pergamon, a city built by one of the generals of Alexander the Great. We will view the Acropolis, the steepest theatre of the ancient world. We carry on to visit Asclepion, the ancient healing centre. Today, it is possible to see the ruins of the ancient healing centre and view the sites used for techniques such as Sacred Water, Herbs and Ointments, the Sun Bath, the Theatre for Music, and those used for social events. We carry on to ancient Troy where we will take in its legendary sights and view the replica of the wooden horse. Troy was the setting for the Trojan War, described in Homer’s Iliad. We arrive at our Çanakkale hotel in time for dinner.
Accommodation: 1 night at Assos Dove Hotel or similar.
Day 21: Canakkale – Istanbul
Overview: From our hotel in Canakkale we board a ferryboat to cross the Dardanelles Straits. From here we head to the Gallipoli (Gelibolu) Peninsula and ANZAC Cove, the site of the epic eight-month military confrontation during the First World War. Following the shoreline of the Sea of Marmara, we arrive back in cosmopolitan Istanbul. Tonight we come together for our farewell dinner.
Accommodation: 1 night at Dosso Dossi Hotel or similar
Day 22: Istanbul
Overview: The tour ends after breakfast.
Experience the revered Gallipoli Peninsula.
Visit the legendary city of Troy, famous from the Trojan War to the Illiad.
Explore Istanbul, one of the world’s oldest and most intriguing cities.
See the cascading, calcium-coated mineral baths of Pamukkale.
Take a trip to the seat of Turkish culture in Ankara, which is renowned for Angora wool.
21 of nights hotel accommodation.
21 breakfasts, 8 lunches, and 16 dinners.
All sightseeing and field trips as indicated.
Services of a Tour Leader for the duration of the tour.
International airfares and departure taxes.
Optional excursions such (i.e. Hot air balloon ride)
Visa fees and visa assistance service.
Suggested Reading List VIEW 10 BOOKSCLOSE
Rebel Land
by Christopher de Bellaigue
In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue wrote a story for The New York Review of Books, in which he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians from Turkey in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman Empire. Upon publication, the Review was besieged with letters asserting that this was not war but genocide. How had he gotten it so wrong? De Bellaigue set out for Turkey's troubled southeast to discover what really happened. What emerged is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity. Rebel Land unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century―a time that contains the death of an empire, the founding of a nation, and the near extinction of a people.Turkish author and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk calls it "A finely written, brave, and very personal book"
My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk (trans. Erdag M. Goknar)
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. (Pamuk was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature in 2006).The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.
A New York Times review notes how the book "brush[es] up against our own tradition's questioning of the place of art". Read Richard Eder's review here.
Istanbul: A Poetry of Place
by Ates Orga (ed.)
This is a pocket-sized collection of poetry of Istanbul, one of the world's most remarkable cities. Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike. When Mehmed the Conqueror first wandered through the ruins of the Byzantine palace, it was with the words of the Persian poet Ferdowsi on his lips: "The spider spins his web in the Palace of the Caesars/An owl hoots in the towers of Afrasiyab". Since then the silhouette of thousand-year-old domes and tapering minarets, the sunsets reflected nightly in a thousand palace windows and the bustle of her markets have inspired Sultan Suleyman, W B Yeats and Nazim Hikmet, amongst others, to salute one of the world's most remarkable cities.
From Jason and the Argonauts to the fans of Galatasaray in their stadium, both visitors to and residents of Istanbul are immortalised in this collection. The exquisite love poetry of the Ottomans, the epic sagas of the Turkish nationalists, the epigrams of sultans, and the romantic couplets of visiting diplomats are contrasted in thematic chapters. A cosmopolitan city from its earliest history, this collection includes poetry by and about Turks, Jews, Kurds, gypsies, Armenians, Greeks, and Russians. Featuring: W B Yeats, Sergei Esenin, Nazim Hikmet, Charles Kingsley, Lord Byron, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, Orhan Veli, Vita Sackville-West and Suleyman the Magnificent.
The Silk Road in World History
by Xinru Liu
The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), in consequence of the inter-dependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. In their quest for horses, fragrances, spices, gems, glassware, and other exotics from the lands to their west, the Han Empire extended its dominion over the oases around the Takla Makan Desert and sent silk all the way to the Mediterranean, either through the land routes leading to the caravan city of Palmyra in Syria desert, or by way of northwest India, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea, landing at Alexandria. The Silk Road survived the turmoil of the demise of the Han and Roman Empires, reached its golden age during the early middle age, when the Byzantine Empire and the Tang Empire became centres of silk culture and established the models for high culture of the Eurasian world. The coming of Islam extended silk culture to an even larger area and paved the way for an expanded market for textiles and other commodities. By the 11th century, however, the Silk Road was in decline because of intense competition from the sea routes of the Indian Ocean. Using supply and demand as the framework for analysing the formation and development of the Silk Road, the book examines the dynamics of the interactions of the nomadic pastoralists with sedentary agriculturalists, and the spread of new ideas, religions, and values into the world of commerce, thus illustrating the cultural forces underlying material transactions. This effort at tracing the interconnections of the diverse participants in the transcontinental Silk Road exchange will demonstrate that the world had been linked through economic and ideological forces long before the modern era.
Birds Without Wings
by Louis de Bernieres
In his first novel since Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres recreates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It is a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn't Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment. de Bernieres insists it exceeds its better-known predecessor. Discover for yourself.The Guardian called it "a Turkish take on War and Peace". Read their interview with Bernieres here.
A Traveller's History of Turkey
by Richard Stoneman
Throughout the millennia Turkey formed the core of several Empires--Persia, Rome, Byzantium--before becoming the center of the Ottoman Empire. All these civilizations have left their marks on the landscape, architecture and art of Turkey--a place of fascinating overlapping cultures. A Traveller's History of Turkey offers a concise and readable account of the region from prehistory right up to the present day. It covers everything from the legendary Flood of Noah, the early civilization of Catal Huyuk seven thousand years before Christ, through the treasures of Troy, Alexander the Great, the Romans, Seljuks, Byzantines and the Golden Age of the Sultans, to the twentieth century's great changes wrought by Kemal Ataturk and the strong position Turkey now holds in the world community.
Turkey: A Short History
by Norman Stone
In Turkey: A Short History the celebrated historian Norman Stone deftly conducts the reader through the fascinating and complex story of Turkey’s past, from the arrival of the Seljuks in Anatolia in the eleventh century to the modern republic applying for EU membership in the twenty-first. It is an account of epic proportions, featuring rapacious leaders such as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, the glories of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, and Kemal Atatürk, the reforming genius and founder of modern Turkey.For six hundred years Turkey was at the heart of the Ottoman Empire, a superpower that brought Islam to the gates of Vienna and stretched to North Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the river Volga. Stone examines the reasons for the astonishing rise and the long decline of this world empire and how for its last hundred years it became the center of the Eastern Question, as the Great Powers argued over a regime in its death throes. Then, as now, the position of Turkey—a country balanced between two continents—provoked passionate debate. Stone concludes the book with a trenchant examination of the Turkish republic created in the aftermath of the First World War, where East and West, religion and secularism, and tradition and modernization are vibrant and sometimes conflicting elements of national identity. 11 illustrations
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
by Eugene Rogan
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region’s crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies’ favor. The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands, laying the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.
Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey
by Nicole and Hugh Pope
In this "deeply revealing guide to modern Turkish culture and politics"(The New York Times Book Review), Hugh and Nicole Pope provide a glimpse into a culture that has long been misunderstood. Turkey Unveiled is the only book in many years to attempt to fill a gap in perception with regard to this extremely complex country, and this paperback edition includes an epilogue that brings the book totally up to date, with coverage of the most recent developments in Turkey. Throughout the last generation Turkey has opened up to the outside world, increasingly revealing a pluralistic and dynamic society. The authors, who speak fluent Turkish and have reported from Turkey for over a decade, provide a rich mosaic of contemporary Turkey and its formative past. The strengths and weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenian tragedy, the ongoing Kurdish struggle, and the controversial legacy of the brilliant but autocratic founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, are all here. They also provide portraits of new leaders who have broken taboos and ushered in new freedoms at a time when other forces attempt to pull Turkey back into the Middle Eastern vortex. Hugh and Nicole Pope, combining analysis with understanding, make recent developments in Turkey intelligible for both the general reader and the millions of visitors welcomed by a burgeoning tourist industry.
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts―including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects―are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War.In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time, showing how the choices narrowed and the Middle East began along a road that led to the conflicts and confusion that continue to this day.A new afterword from Fromkin, written for this edition of the book, includes his invaluable, updated assessment of this region of the world today, and on what this history has to teach us.
Participant 2017
Our guide Filiz was wonderful, very well informed, historical insights very helpful, her care for our well being exceptional. Could not have wished for a better tour leader.
The country was apparently calm and safe. People were friendly and helpful. Such a pity there has been such a down turn in tourism.
Ros & Tony S. Sep ’17
We felt safe in Turkey and found the people friendly and helpful. Prices were excellent and the food almost universally magnificent. There is so much to see in the natural and built environment and the wonderful archaeological sites. It is sad to see the ordinary people and businesses suffering from the lack of tourists.
Mary B. Sep ’17
Odyssey Info
Cradle of Civilisations was a fairly fast-paced tour which covered many of the must-see places in north western part of the country. I felt awed by the places themselves, the depth of history on view at some of the places we visited. This was complimented hugely by the knowledge of our Local Guide, Filiz, and the Program Leader, Michael Bendon. To stand in places where thousands of years of human habitation had taken place was phenomenal. As well, the evidence of Turkey as a crucial part of the growth of western civilisation as seen in the Hittite, Roman and Christian sites and the evidence of a vast, centuries old, trading network was just awe inspiring.
Agnes H. Sep ’18
My previous knowledge of Turkey was minimal and influenced by Western media and attitudes. My eyes have been opened to see a country of rich culture and warm and generous people.
Christie B. Sep ’18
Travelling in Turkey with Odyssey was such a good experience although I had never joined a group before. This was very small – only 6 – so I felt very fortunate that Odyssey guaranteed our departure and arranged for an archaeologist from Australia and a wonderful Turkish guide. i could happily do it all again!
Ruth B. Sep ’18
Excellent & varied itinerary – a great introduction to a wonderfully interesting country.
Heather M. May ’19
Very comprehensive tour of the historical sites of Turkey with a great guide and tour leader, the minibus made it easy to get to quite remote sights and we were well-fed, hotels comfortable and ultimately it was a lot of fun.
Sally C. Sep ’19
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Meet The Program Leader
Dr Michael Bendon
Dr Michael James Bendon holds post-graduate qualifications in Archaeology, History, Education, Linguistics, Maritime Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management. He has worked for a great number of years as an archaeologist on numerous sites around the Mediterranean and Europe including Israel, Portugal, Germany and Greece, with extended survey in Turkey, Syria and Jordan.
Dr Bendon first started as a field archaeologist in Israel before moving briefly onto Portugal and then on to directing a Medieaval church and cemetery excavation in Northern Germany for four years. More recently, he has been assisting a colleague in investigations on Phalasarna, a large Classical/Hellenistic maritime city in Western Crete, while also working on the excavation of the first Minoan shipwreck to be discovered. His most recent research has revolved around two British WWII wrecks he located off shore from the ancient Phalasarna site. This particular avenue of investigation resulted in the publication of a book entitled, The Forgotten Flotilla: Craft of Heroes. Greece, Crete & North Africa.
Michael’s research interests are varied but, at present, as well as continuing to work at Phalasarna, he is looking into the Mediterranean campaigns of WWII, the connections between the islands of Imbros, Limnos & Tenedos with the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and, for something a little different, Chinese-Australian heritage and history.
Michael has travelled extensively having visited over 60 countries. As well as having lived in Japan for many years, he has also had extended stays in Israel, Turkey, the UK, Germany, the USA, Greece and France.
Bach Classical European Music Festival small group tours
Enjoy the best of Bach, not just the music but to explore his and his immediate families influences as a composer on his life. The program spends 16 days visiting the locations that where influences on his life as well as attending the Bach Music festival in Leipzig.
Departing Jun
From $10,829 USD
Mediterranean Islands Small Group Tour | Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica
For centuries Malta, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica held the key to the Mediterranean. Malta secured the Mediterranean for Britain and made it the world’s major maritime power. Possession of Sicily brought similar benefits to Rome, as did Corsica for France. However today the inhabitants retain their way of life for us to explore. Our program compares and contrasts the geography, history, culture and peoples of these 4 islands.
Departing Sep, Mar, Apr
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Lou Barletta on Education
Empower parents to choose kids' education environment
Q: Provide vouchers to parents to send their children to private schools with public money?
Lou Barletta (R): Yes. Wants to "empower parents to choose the education environment for their children."
Bob Casey (D): No (stand from 2004). Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Pennsylvania Senate race , Oct 9, 2018
Voted YES on reauthorizing the DC opportunity scholarship program.
Congressional Summary:The SOAR Act award five-year grants on a competitive basis to nonprofit organizations to carry out an expanded school choice opportunities to students who are District of Columbia residents and who come from households:
receiving assistance under the supplemental nutrition assistance program; or
with incomes not exceeding 185% of the poverty line.
Provides funds to the Mayor of DC, if the Mayor agrees to specified requirements, for:
the DC public schools to improve public education, and
the DC public charter schools to improve and expand quality public charter schools.
[Rep. Bishop, R-UT]: In 1996, Congress insisted upon a charter school program in DC. You will hear from both sides of the aisle recognition of the great value that that program has, and justifiably so. There is a waiting list in DC for those charter schools. This bill increases the percentage of funding going to charter schools in the District. In 2003, an Opportunity Scholarship was instituted, at the insistence of Congress. Again, there was a waiting list of people wanting the opportunity; disadvantaged kids who wanted the opportunity that this scholarship afforded them. There were 216 kids at the time scheduled to enter the program who were not allowed; the bill remedies that.
[Rep. Hastings, D-FL]: In the last 41 years voters have rejected private school vouchers every time they have been proposed. In 1981, 89% of the people in a referendum in DC voted against vouchers. So how dare we come here to tell these people that we are going to thrust upon them something they don't want without a single public official in this community being consulted. Congress' oversight of the District is not an excuse for political pandering to the Republicans' special interest of the day du jour. Reference: Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (SOAR); Bill HRes186 ; vote number 11-HV200 on Mar 30, 2011
Sponsored supporting the contributions of Catholic schools.
Barletta co-sponsored House Resolution on parochial schools
WHEREAS Catholic schools in the US are internationally acclaimed for their academic excellence, and provide students with more than an exceptional scholastic education;
WHEREAS Catholic schools instill a broad, values-added education emphasizing the lifelong development of moral, intellectual, physical, and social values in young people in the United States;
WHEREAS Catholic schools provide a high level of service to the Nation by providing a diverse student population from all regions of the country and all socio-economic backgrounds, with more than 30% of students from minority backgrounds and nearly 15.4% non-Catholic, a strong academic and moral foundation;
WHEREAS Catholic schools are an affordable option for parents, particularly in underserved urban areas;
WHEREAS Catholic schools are committed to community service, producing graduates who hold 'helping others' as one of their core values;
WHEREAS the total Catholic school student enrollment for the 2011-2012 academic year was over 2,000,000 and the student-teacher ratio was 13 to 1;
WHEREAS the week of January 27, 2013, to February 2, 2013, has been designated as National Catholic Schools Week;
Now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Ho Source: H.RES.46 13-HRes46 on Jan 23, 2013
A-PLUS lets states escape No Child Left Behind.
Barletta voted YEA A-PLUS Amendment To Student Success Act
Heritage Action Summary: An amendment offered by Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to the Student Success Act (H.R. 5). The amendment, known as A-PLUS (Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success), would give the states the ability to consolidate their federal education funds and use them for any lawful education purpose they deem beneficial.
Heritage Foundation recommendation to vote YES: (7/8/2015): A-PLUS lets states escape No Child Left Behind's prescriptive programmatic requirements. At its core, A-PLUS delivers on the promise of "restoring state and local control over the 10% of education funding financed by the federal government," moving dollars out of the hands of federal bureaucrats and political appointees and into the hands of those closer to the students. Now is the time for Congress to restore federalism in education, empower parents and students instead of bureaucrats and unions, and remove archaic obstacles that have prevented true opportunity for all.
US News and World Report recommendation to vote NO: (4/7/2015): A-PLUS [is intended as] a no-strings-attached block grant. There isn't all that much the federal government can do well in education, but it's because of federally-required transparency that charter schools and voucher schools can demonstrate that they work. For example, New York City's Success Academy scores in the top 1% of all the state's public schools in math and in the top 3% in English. When Success Academy came under fire from teachers' union-backed Mayor Bill de Blasio, it was able to fight back with numbers to prove it. If a strong-union state were to receive a no-strings-attached block grant, transparency would be the first thing to go. A no-strings-attached block grant is an overreaction to federal overreach.
Legislative outcome: Failed House 195 to 235 (no Senate vote) Source: Supreme Court case 15-H0005 argued on Jul 8, 2015
Vouchers break link of low-income and low-quality schools.
Barletta voted YEA SOAR Act
Heritage Action Summary: The House will vote to reauthorize the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act (H.R. 10). The bill would continue funding through Fiscal Year 2021 and allow eligible students in Washington, D.C. to enroll in a participating private school.Analysis by Heritage Action:
ACLU recommendation to vote NO: (Letter to U.S.House, 3/29/2011): The ACLU urges Congress to oppose the SOAR Act, legislation to restart and expand Washington DC's failed private and religious school voucher pilot program. Originally started as a five-year pilot program in 2004, the DC voucher program is the nation's first and only federally-funded private and religious school voucher program. Under the federal voucher pilot program, funds were provided to schools even though they infuse their curricular materials with specific religious content and even though they are not covered by many of the nation's civil rights statutes that would otherwise protect students against discrimination. Additionally, each of the congressionally-mandated studies to explore the pilot program concluded that the voucher program had no significant effect on the academic achievement.
Cato Institute recommendation to vote YES: (4/28/2016): The Obama administration has repeatedly worked to undermine or eliminate the DC school choice program, even though it has the support of local Democratic politicians such as the DC Mayor and a majority of the DC City Council. Low-income students shouldn't be condemned to low-quality schools just because their parents cannot afford a home in a wealthy neighborhood. The DC program was an important step toward breaking the link between home prices and school quality.
Legislative outcome: Passed by the House 240-191-3; never came to a vote in the Senate. Source: Supreme Court case 15-H0010 argued on Oct 21, 2015
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Dame Libby Komaiko, founder of Ensemble Español, dies at age 69
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater and Chicago’s dance community family is mourning the passing of Founder Dame Libby Komaiko. Komaiko died Saturday, Feb. 2, at Chicago’s Illinois Masonic Hospital from pneumonia, complicated by Lupus and Raynaud’s Syndrome. She was 69 years old.
For more than 50 years, Dame Libby Komaiko’s extraordinary career embodied art, education and cultural integrity. Her passionate advocacy of culturally specific art was well known, and her devotion to higher education recognized by artists and educators throughout Chicago.
Born in Chicago June 30, 1949, and raised in Evanston, Ill., Komaiko started her dance training as a young girl, studying with Elisa Stigler at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. As a teen, she studied and performed jazz, modern and musical theater with the famed Gus Giordano. By age 18, she auditioned for the legendary Jose Greco, and was given the opportunity to train and perform with his world-famous Spanish Dance Company. Her journey into Spanish dance led her to the company of Lola Montes, and she studied with Maria Alba, Nana Lorca, Edo, Manolo Vargas and many others. She partnered with the late Roberto Lorca for many years.
In 1975, she founded the Ensemble Español—and what began as a company of seven student dancers is now a full company of 40 dancers, musicians and singers. She choreographed and produced the majority of the company’s choreographies, which now number near 135 original works.
In 1983, she was awarded the “Lazo de Dama de Isabel la Católica” by the Spanish Royal Court and government. This honor was bestowed for her superlative work in spreading the cultural and artistic values of Spain throughout the United States. She was the first American choreographer to receive this honor.
Komaiko was the recipient of many awards and civic honors, including the coveted Ruth Page Award (2003), the International Latino Cultural Center Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), and most recently, she received the first Legacy Award from Audience Architects for her commitment to the arts community. She was a professor emerita at Northeastern Illinois University, and was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the school in 2015.
“We were saddened to learn of the passing of Dame Libby Komaiko, founder of the internationally acclaimed Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, located here at Northeastern, and we extend our heartfelt condolences to Ensemble Español and the family, friends and loved ones of Dame Libby. As we mourn her loss, we are also grateful for her dedication and commitment to the University and the arts. She will be dearly missed,” said Gloria J. Gibson, President, Northeastern Illinois University.
“In 1978, I went to see this performance at NEIU I knew nothing about. It provided me my first glimpse of Dame Libby and Ensemble Español and it was then I knew what I wanted to do. Dame Libby believed in me from the very start and I now serve as Artistic Director all because of her. Her passion for Spanish dance was only exceeded by her passion for excellence, education and community. We dedicate ourselves to those same passions as we carry on her legacy,” said Irma Suarez Ruiz, Artistic Director, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater.
“Dame Libby’s passion for Spanish dance was inspirational to all who met her. It was she who introduced me to Spanish dance more than three decades ago. While her physical presence is gone, her spirit will continue to resonate in the company and everyone… dancers, musicians, choreographers, students, youth and audience members …whose lives she touched. Gracias mi Libby de todo corazón,” said Jorge Perez, Executive/Associate Artistic Director, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater.
“They say that every dancer dies twice: once when they stop dancing and once when they leave this world. While Dame Libby has left this world her passion and spirit will remain with us with every strike of a flamenco heel and every time the Ensemble takes the stage. I encourage everyone to consider a gift in her memory to keep the important work of the company and her legacy going strong,” said Richard J. Helldobler, former Provost and former Interim NEIU President.
Komaiko is survived by her sister Leah Komaiko, brothers Bill Komaiko and Dan Komaiko, birth daughter Jen Miller and birth granddaughter Amanda Miller. Community memorial services at Northeastern Illinois University will be announced at a later date.
In lieu of flowers Dame Libby and the family‘s wishes are for donations to be made to the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater.
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Almost every week in Canada someone with dementia goes missing. (Black Press file)
B.C. VIEWS: Is your community ready for the dementia wave?
Experts warn that the number of people living with dementia could nearly double in the next decade
Greg Knill
Nov. 3, 2019 8:00 a.m.
When Ethel Baranyk walked away from her Chilliwack home last July, the 89-year-old woman wasn’t the first person with dementia to go missing.
Nor would she be the last.
Three months later, the community again was mobilizing to find Ioan (John) Pop – a 79-year-old whose Alzheimer’s had robbed him of the ability to find his way home.
The incidences are not unique. Almost every week in Canada someone with dementia goes missing. Most are found quickly, providing a terrifying few moments for family and caregivers, and a valuable lesson for the future.
But not all cases end so well.
Baranyk’s body was found five weeks after she disappeared; Pop’s body was found four days later in a wooded area near where he was last seen.
These are private tragedies.
READ MORE: ‘There is a life to live after a diagnosis’: UBC study probes stigma of dementia
But they are also public calls for action.
Those familiar with Alzheimer’s (the leading cause of dementia), understand that wandering is one characteristic of the disease. It’s estimated that 60 per cent of people with Alzheimer’s will wander.
Dealing with this behaviour in a humane and respectful way is one of the challenges in dementia care – a challenge that will only become greater in the coming years.
It is estimated that the incidents of dementia will increase as we live longer and the number of seniors grows. Although dementia is not assured with age, it does become more likely.
Already there are more than 419,000 people over the age of 65 living with dementia in Canada. Their cost to our health care system and individual caregivers is estimated at $8.3 billion annually.
That amount will double to $16.6 billion in 11 years.
It’s a stark reality that prompted the federal government to launch the country’s first national strategy on dementia earlier this year. The initiative allocates $70 million over the next five years, aimed at prevention, research, and improvement of patient care and support for caregivers.
It’s a lot of money. But the Alzheimer Society of Canada says more than twice that amount is needed to deal with what they call a looming healthcare crisis.
For those caring for people with dementia, the crisis is already here. The fear that a loved one may go missing weighs heavily with every family.
The most recent disappearances renewed calls for an alert system in B.C., similar to the Amber Alert used when a child is abducted. The so-called Silver Alert would hasten response time in the critical few hours after a person with dementia (or some other cognitive disability) goes missing, proponents say.
Other initiatives include one currently championed by the Alzheimer Society of BC that calls for “Dementia Friendly Communities.” The society is providing tools and expertise to help municipalities be more responsive to the needs of persons with dementia.
These are conversations we must have.
While individual families struggle to find ways to best treat, care for and support their loved ones, we as a community must do better.
We need to ensure that the work already done in the creation of the national strategy on dementia continues, and that the money and political will is sufficient to see it through.
Failure to do that abandons our most vulnerable, and ignores the dementia crisis that science tells us is coming.
Greg Knill is a columnist and former editor with Black Press Media. Email him at greg.knill@blackpress.ca
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LETTER: Hopes for a better society
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More flooding in Houston as Brazos River swells
Posted: 9:00 PM, May 31, 2016
RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Residents of some rural southeastern Texas counties were bracing for more flooding along a river that reached a record-high on Tuesday but could swell further with more rain expected in the coming days.
Large swaths of suburban communities southwest of Houston were underwater and hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes before the Brazos River reached 54 feet in Fort Bend County, just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought.
National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Roeseler said the river was expected to crest Tuesday night at Richmond.
The skies were clear in the affected areas on Tuesday, but an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain expected later this week could keep the Brazos in major flood stage into the weekend.
"I'm scared," said Abigail Salazar, standing in knee-deep water outside her home in Richmond, where she was retrieving personal belongings after the city issued a voluntary evacuation advisory. "My kids ask me in the morning, 'Ma, what happened? The water is here.'"
During four days of torrential rain last week, at least six people died in floods along the Brazos, which runs from New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. A Brazos River Authority map showed that all 11 of the reservoirs fed by the Brazos were at 95 to 100 percent capacity
Scott Overpeck, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said that the Brazos will recede in the coming days but that its levels will remain high for up to three weeks, in part because water will need to be released from the swollen reservoirs upriver.
"There's so much water on the Brazos that it's going to take a long time to drain through the whole river and drain out into the Gulf of Mexico," Overpeck said.
Four of the six people killed in flooding were recovered in Washington County, which is between Austin and Houston, County Judge John Brieden said Monday. Lake Somerville, one of the Brazos reservoirs, was "gushing uncontrollably" over the spillway and threatening people downriver, he said.
About 40 people were rescued Sunday and Monday from low-lying homes in a flooded neighborhood of Simonton, a Fort Bend County community of about 800 residents. The county had set up a pumping system to divert the water from the neighborhood, but it was overpowered by the flooding, county spokeswoman Beth Wolf said.
Wolf said any additional rain in the region would be a problem.
"The ditches are full, the river's high, there's nowhere else for that water to go," she said.
In the Fort Bend County city of Rosenberg, which is next to Richmond, about 150 households were evacuated and city officials were coordinating with the county's office of emergency management to have rescue boats in place, city spokeswoman Jenny Pavlovich said.
Elsewhere, authorities were searching for the body of an 11-year-old boy who fell into a creek in Wichita, Kansas, and is presumed dead. Relatives have identified the boy as Devon Dean Cooley, who disappeared Friday night.
Devon's family, in a statement Monday, thanked firefighters for their tireless efforts to find the boy. The family held a cookout Monday evening to feed the rescue crews, followed by a candlelight vigil.
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Quaterra Closes Sale of Certain Yerington, Nevada, Water Rights for $6.02 Million
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 3, 2019) - Quaterra Resources Inc. (TSXV: QTA) (OTCQB: QTRRF) today announced its wholly-owned subsidiary Singatse Peak Services LLC ("SPS") has closed the previously announced sale of certain primary ground water rights associated with its copper property in Yerington, Nevada, for $6.02 million.
SPS entered into a purchase and sale agreement on September 13 last year with a Yerington-based company involved in agriculture in the district, to sell water rights for $6.26 million (see press release dated September 17, 2018). The final value of the sale was $6.02 million after adjusting for a small correction to one of the original permits. (All amounts are in U.S. dollars.)
SPS retains about 6,700 acre-feet per year of primary ground water permitted for mining and milling on its 51-square-mile Yerington property. The 2012 Preliminary Economic Assessment at MacArthur estimated water consumption of about 2,590 acre-feet per year for a 41,000 ton a day oxide project at the property's MacArthur deposit. Also, Quaterra estimates that 3,100 acre-feet of water is required to mine and operate a 50,000 ton a day sulfide mill on the property.
Based on the price set in today's sale, the Company's remaining primary ground water rights may be valued at about $20 million. In addition, SPS also has substantial decree, supplemental and storage water rights associated with private land that it has under option.
Funds from the sale will be used to advance the MacArthur copper project on the Yerington property including work on metallurgical recoveries, resource development and mine plan optimization as part of an ongoing prefeasibility study; de-risk the over-all Yerington property; assess other exploration opportunties; and for general and administrative purposes.
The sale of water rights is non-dilutive to shareholders.
About Quaterra Resources Inc.
Quaterra Resources Inc. (TSXV: QTA) (OTCQB: QTRRF) is a copper exploration company with the objective of advancing its U.S. subsidiary's copper projects in the Yerington District, Nevada. The Company also looks for opportunities to acquire copper projects on reasonable terms that have the potential to host large mineral deposits attractive to major mining companies.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Thomas Patton, Chairman & CEO
Quaterra Resources Inc.
Karen Robertson, Corporate Communications, 778-898-0057
Gerald Prosalendis, President and COO, Quaterra Resources Inc., 250-940-3581
Thomas Patton, Chairman & CEO, Quaterra Resources Inc., 604-641-2758
email: info@quaterra.com
website: www.quaterra.com
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Recap: Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh Testifies Against Sexual Assault Allegations
September 28, 2018 City News
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appeared at Capitol Hill on Thursday for a hearing to testify against sexual assault allegations made against him by Dr. Christine Ford. Dr. Ford accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in the summer of 1982 when the two attended a high school party.
The hearing today began with Dr. Ford’s emotional opening statement recounting her alleged assault. In her opening statement, Dr. Ford addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee that “I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school.”
In her opening statement, Ford described the events as unforgettable and “seared into my memories,” adding that they, “have haunted me episodically as an adult.”
Sparing the details of the assault that Dr. Ford addressed in front of the committee, she also addressed the aftermath of coming forward with her accusations. She said in her statement that both she and her family were faced with harassment and death threats. “My greatest fears have been realized– and the reality has been far worse than what I expected,” she said in her statement.
When the story first surfaced two weeks ago, Kavanaugh denied all of Dr. Ford’s allegations of sexual assault. He defended himself in front of the Senate committee during the Thursday hearing.
“My name and my family have been permanently destroyed by vicious and false additional accusations,” he said, calling Ford’s accusations “a calculated and orchestrated political hit.”
In response to Ford’s allegations, Kavanaugh submitted his calendar from the summer of 1982 to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of his defense. During Kavanaugh’s testimony, he repeatedly referred back to the calendar to disprove Dr. Ford’s accusations.
In addition to Ford’s deposition, at least two other women have publicly come forward with similar accounts as well as other anonymous accusations, all of which supports Dr. Ford’s story. In response, Kavanaugh has denied them all.
Due to Senator Jeff Flake’s crucial swinging vote, the Republican Senate has decided to delay the confirmation of Kavanaugh’s nomination by allowing an FBI Investigation looking into these accusations. According to the New York Times, Senator Flake called for the investigation and said that he would not support final decision until then.
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Pat Summitt led women's sports revolution
By David Whitley
Jun 28, 2016 | 10:54 AM
The end came early Tuesday morning for Pat Summitt. The thoughts and prayers were flooding in before the inevitable announcement.
Even Steve Spurrier, who made a career out of gigging Tennessee coaches, knew this particular coach was something different.
"One of the best coaches of all time — a great friend! Our prayers go out to coach and her family," he tweeted.
On the off chance you didn't know, Pat really was a "her."
Most Americans from President Obama on down are aware that. They learned Sunday that Summitt's early-onset Alzheimer's had progressed to a critical stage. The fact they are now mourning a women's basketball coach shows how much society has changed.
Summitt wasn't personally responsible for the rise of women's sports, but she was one of the pioneers who took a sledgehammer to the stereotypes.
She showed up at Tennessee in 1974 as a grad assistant. Two weeks later, the head coach unexpectedly took a sabbatical and they handed the job and an $8,900 salary to Summitt.
She was 22 and had never run a practice, but who really cared? Back then women didn't get scholarships and many weren't even allowed to run all 94 feet of the court.
A lot of high schools were still playing six-on-six. Three players were designated for defense and three on offense. They weren't allowed to cross midcourt.
Girls were too delicate to handle too much activity, you know.
That never set well with the girl raised on a farm outside of Henrietta, Tenn. Summitt milked cows, bailed hay, cut tobacco and never lost her farm values.
Her father told her, "Cows don't take a day off." She inherited her dad's work ethic and passed it along to those she coached.
Summitt's players were expected to sit in the front row of every class. That helps explain why every player Summitt coached who completed her eligibility graduated — all 161 of them.
On the court, Summitt backed down from nobody. When her team went into overtime at LSU one year, men's coach Dale Brown wanted the ladies to play the extra period in an auxiliary gym so the men could start on time.
Summitt gave Brown her famous spine-melting glare. Her ladies weren't going anywhere.
Her basketball crusade slowly paid off. The Lady Vols won eight NCAA titles as well as 1,098 games and watching women's hoops became the cool social activity in Knoxville.
Summitt would still be coaching, but six years ago she slowly started forgetting things. She went to the Mayo Clinic and refused to believe the diagnosis.
Alzheimer's? She was only 59.
The doctors laid out her inevitable decline.
"You don't know me," Summitt told them. "You don't know what I'm capable of."
Even Summitt, whom John Wooden called the best coach in the sport, couldn't beat Alzheimer's. But going quietly into the sunset like most victims would have meant Alzheimer's beat her.
Summitt would not have that. After resigning in 2012, she started a foundation to raise money and awareness of the disease.
She wrote a memoir, "Sum It Up," in which she described life with Alzheimer's as having footprints on a beach "washed away by the surf."
"The great stigma of it was in thinking it robbed us of all dignity and value," she wrote. "Sometimes, I thought we strip people of their capacities faster than the disease itself does."
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President Obama praised Summitt's candor when he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. Among the other recipients were Bob Dylan, John Glenn and William Foege, the doctor who led the campaign to eradicate smallpox.
She'd come a long way from driving the Lady Vols' team van and sleeping in the opponent's gym the night before a game. In a real sense, Summitt took women's sports along for the ride.
That's an achievement no surf will ever be able to wash away.
dwhitley@orlandosentinel.com
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Home Newsroom News and press releases France: Violent expulsion of journalist from public event is unacceptable, says OSCE Representative
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France: Violent expulsion of journalist from public event is unacceptable, says OSCE Representative
Vienna 3 February 2017
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, delivering her regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, Vienna, 28 November 2013. (OSCE/Micky Kroell) Photo details
VIENNA, 3 February 2017 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed her concern at the case of TMC journalist Paul Larrouturou who was violently thrown out of a public event on 1 February when he tried to pose a question to Front National presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen.
“Any violence, harassment or intimidation of journalists is unacceptable in a democratic society,” said the Representative. “I call on the French authorities to conduct an effective investigation of the incident as soon as possible and to hold accountable those responsible”, continued Mijatovic. “I also call on political leaders to clearly condemn such violations of press freedom”, she added.
The Representative called on all political parties in France to ensure that media freedom is fully respected in the run-up to the presidential elections, including ensuring journalists’ access to press conferences of political figures.
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Pakenham & WWI
Those who also served
A Century After the Guns Fell Silent
Remembering the Pakenham District's WWI Diggers 1914-1918
Our Diggers
Courtesy of AWM (DA10971)
Private Vincent Edward Morton +
Pakenham & District War Memorial
Born: 14 November 1894 - Boat Harbour, Tasmania
Enlisted: 5 July 1915 aged 21
Unit: 7th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement (SERN: 3059)
Served: Egypt & Western Front
Killed in action: 19 July 1916 - Fromelles, France
Vincent was one of twelve children born to Caroline and Joseph Morton (1). He was born and raised near Burnie in north-west Tasmania. His father died when he was not yet 4 years old. Two of Vincent’s siblings subsequently moved to Victoria (2), as Vincent himself did at some stage. By July 1915, Vincent was living at Pakenham where he was “endeavouring to join the permanent military forces” along with a number of other young Pakenham men, including Artie Paternoster and Len Cook (3). At the time of enlistment, Vincent was nearly 21 years old (although he stated he was over that age, presumably so as not to need his mother’‘s consent) and working as a farmer (4). Vincent was originally assigned to the 7th Battalion 10th Reinforcement. After initially joining the 7th Battalion in Egypt, Vincent was transferred to the 59th Battalion in February 1916, then to the 60th Battalion in March. In June 1916, he embarked from Alexandria for France, arriving in Marseilles on 29 June 1916. Less than a month later, on 19 July 1916, Vincent was reported missing during the Battle of Fromelles. A year later it was determined that he had been killed in action at Fleurbaix (5).
On 28 November 1918, the Pakenham community honoured Vincent’s service and sacrifice at a welcome home for those soldiers who had already returned from the Front. Other fallen heroes similarly honoured with him were the late Arthur Carter Williams, John Hehir and Albert Kempster (6). In 1921, the military wrote to Vincent’s mother, saying they had not been able to find any trace of his final resting place (7). For this reason, Vincent’s name was inscribed on the “V.C. Corner” memorial at Fromelles (8). His name was also inscribed on the Pakenham & District Soldiers’ Memorial in 1921, at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and on memorials at Table Cape and Sisters Creek in Tasmania (9).
(1) Burnie Advocate 1/12/1933 p.2
(2) Burnie Advocate 5/12/1933 p. 2.
(3) Dandenong Advertiser 17/6/1915, p. 2 & Bunyip Free Press 1/7/1915, p. 3
(4) (5) & (7) NAA B2455 MORTON VINCENT EDWARD
(6) Pakenham Gazette 6/12/1918, p. 3.
(8) Commonwealth War Graves Commission website - www.cwgc.org
(9) North West Advocate & Emu Bay Times 9/10/1917 p.1 & Burnie Advocate 27/8/1921 p. 7
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3.5 stars - Drama - Hallow Reads - reviews October 14, 2018
A searing, post apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
"People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there."
Beautifully written and grim, 'The Road' focuses on two characters traveling through a dying world in a dead civilization. Ash covers everything, even tainting the sea itself, and nothing pretty remains. It soon becomes clear that the point of the novel isn't to show why the world was destroyed or a reason behind the madness, but the purpose is just existing and why a father holds on to such a limited life. Love may not conquer all in a reality that's destroyed, but it's still a light that radiates a bit of calm and peace.
The man doesn't even get a name, but the bond he feels for his son is tangible, as are his memories of a wife who still haunts. Contrast between someone who bailed and someone who stayed due to their child is interesting. The bond was what drove the story forward, not a hidden message or one particular scene. World-building was brutal but it wasn't complex with explanation. I still don't know what happened to their world, a Nuclear Winter matches with the ashes, but the author makes a point that it doesn't matter anyway.
It's definitely not an action-intense story. There are a few harrowing scenes that up the tension stakes and I just knew it would end brutally but was secretly hoping for a semblance of a happy ending because really - this needed a little light shed through the dark world covered with soot and inhabited by deranged survivors who look for people to victimize, steal from, rape and actually eat. Cannibalizing is mentioned quite a bit. I won't delude myself into assuming this wouldn't be our reality either - but still, give me a little hope, especially when a small child I bonded with is involved. I'm happy with what realism the author injected into a grim circumstance, but I'm also happy he threw me a small bone of peace at the same time. Yeah, I'm a softie.
It's bleak, it's brutal, it's memorable - but my enjoyment of it did not reach the five star label. The pacing is fine and it's mainly the writing and emotions that keep it riveting, but it's not a heavily paced story. Don't mistake this to mean it's ever boring, because it never is. The Road is an apt title because the point of the book seems to be the experiences on the journey but not the journey itself.
McCarthy writes beautifully. Poetic prose with few commas and unconventional dialogue format. Run-on exists but you just don't care with his bleak style. I'd read Harold Bloom remark that he is one of the four great novelists writing today while he heavily promoted his 'Blood Meridian'.
I look forward to reading more of his books, to walking with him on more of his desolate roads.
And no, I haven't seen the movie yet.
Book Quotes:
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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Part of October 2018's Hallow Reads
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Moreno Valley school trustee ‘pushed past’…
Moreno Valley school trustee ‘pushed past’ a senior citizen woman and damaged a car, police say
Corona police have released more details about the arrest of Moreno Valley school board member Evan Morgan. (File photo)
By David Downey | ddowney@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2018 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: July 23, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Police say a Moreno Valley school board member was arrested last month because he “pushed past” a senior citizen woman, entered her home without permission and caused $1,500 damage to a car parked out front.
Those were some of the circumstances surrounding Evan Daniel Morgan’s arrest one month ago on suspicion of burglary and vandalism, Corona police Sgt. Chad Fountain said Friday, July 20. Morgan, 35, denies the allegations and says he didn’t touch the woman or damage a car.
No charges have been filed and prosecutors are still reviewing the case, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
Morgan has been on leave from the board since June 25 and has skipped the past two school board meetings. He is one of five elected trustees overseeing a district that serves 33,000 children in K-12 schools. His term runs through 2020.
Morgan said he plans to return to the board after prosecutors complete their review. His attorney, Danuta Tuszynska of Riverside, has said she “would be astounded if charges were actually filed.”
Morgan said by phone Friday that he did not place hands on the woman and was invited into the Corona home. He denied damaging a car. Morgan said he went to the house to retrieve money he says was stolen by the woman’s grandson, who Morgan said lived there.
Corona police released additional details this week about Moreno Valley school board member Evan Morgan’s arrest in Corona on June 20. The case is being reviewed by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. (File photo)
Tuszynska wrote in an earlier email that the man “stole money from my client’s wife.”
On Tuesday, July 17, Corona police released a two-page summary of Morgan’s arrest in response to a public records request from The Press-Enterprise and Southern California News Group.
That report states that Morgan was arrested at 6 a.m. June 20 after knocking on the front door of a residence in the 700 block of W. Ninth Street in Corona. He was released a short time later on $35,000 bail.
According to that report, a senior woman answered the door as Morgan asked to talk to a man named Ruben, and she told Morgan no such person was there.
The “suspect pushes the elderly woman to the side and (enters) the home searching for Ruben,” the report stated.
Tuszynska, the attorney, identified the man who allegedly stole money from Morgan’s wife as Fernando Ruben Quiroz. Attempts to reach Quiroz for comment on Friday were unsuccessful.
After searching the home, the report said, Morgan left the residence and damaged a car he believed belonged to the man for whom he was looking. Actually, the report stated, it was owned by a neighbor. Fountain said a separate department report indicated Morgan was accused of causing $1,500 damage to the fender and hood of the 2006 sedan.
Fountain said Morgan “pushed past” the woman but didn’t harm her. He said nothing was reported taken from the home.
Morgan disputed the agency’s characterization of the incident.
“I never pushed past her and I never broke into the house,” Morgan said. “She let me in. When the police got there, their story changed.”
Morgan also addressed comments circulating on social media.
“The one thing that really bothers me is what people are putting online, that, ‘Oh my God, he pushed an old lady,’” he said. “I never even touched her.”
As for the car, Morgan said he pulled the handle of the passenger-side door to see if the car was unlocked, intending to look inside “to see if he stashed the cash somewhere.” The door did not open, Morgan said.
Morgan seemed to have second thoughts about how he went about trying to retrieve what he says is stolen money.
“It’s a story of me being in the wrong place at the wrong time and doing the wrong thing. I should have just let the $500 go and not try to pursue it. Now it’s cost me a lot more,” he said, in terms of bail, lawyer fees and public embarrassment.
Earlier this month, news of Morgan’s arrest prompted activists to call for his resignation.
At a school board meeting earlier this week, one person mentioned Morgan during a public comment period.
“I’m going to address the elephant in the room that nobody has,” Moreno Valley resident Roy Bleckert said. “Mr. Morgan’s not here.”
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Moreno Valley Superintendent Martinrex Kedziora closed the meeting with a brief statement, saying the district was monitoring Morgan’s situation.
“The board has no authority to remove Mr. Morgan from office or to require him to take a leave of absence based on his arrest,” Kedziora said. “Those were decisions that he made.”
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Dave is a general assignment reporter based in Riverside, writing about a wide variety of topics ranging from drones and El Nino to trains and wildfires. He has worked for five newspapers in four states: Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and California. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Colorado State University in 1981. Loves hiking, tennis, baseball, the beach, the Lakers and golden retrievers. He is from the Denver area.
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UC Riverside gets $16 million to help reduce…
UC Riverside gets $16 million to help reduce health disparities in Inland Empire
The School of Medicine Research Building on the UC Riverside campus on Thursday, May 31, 2012.
By Deepa Bharath | dbharath@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: August 23, 2019 at 4:03 pm | UPDATED: August 26, 2019 at 11:58 am
UC Riverside has received a $16-million grand from the National Institutes of Health to help reduce health disparities, particularly among Latinos who make up about half the region’s population, according to a statement issued Friday, Aug. 23, by the university.
The five-year grant will allow the university’s School of Medicine to launch the Center for Health Disparities Research — an effort that will bring together researchers in the environmental, biomedical and social sciences fields.
The Inland Empire is notorious for an acute shortage of physicians. There are only 35 physicians for every 100,000 people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, home to about 4.3 million. The UCR statement says the region performs poorly compared to other regions in California, particularly when it comes to diabetes and coronary heart disease.
San Bernardino County ranks the second worst in diabetes-related deaths among the state’s 58 counties and Riverside County is the 10th worst in the state for heart disease-related deaths. Also, in San Bernardino County, Latinos have a diabetes-related death rate that is 50% higher than white people. In Riverside County, Latinas have the highest incidences of cervical cancer.
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The new center will use a “community-based approach” to evaluate and improve the health of underserved communities in the Inland Empire, according to director David Lo.
“The knowledge the center produces will inform approaches to address health disparities that Latino communities and marginalized populations experience elsewhere in the country,” he said.
The center will support two projects based in the underserved Coachella Valley — one will focus on the impact of aerosolized particulates on health and the other will explore the relationship between infant feedings practices in low-income Latino families and child growth and obesity.
Deepa Bharath
Deepa Bharath covers religion for The Orange County Register and the Southern California Newspaper Group. Her work is focused on how religion, race and ethnicity shape our understanding of what it is to be American and how religion in particular helps influence public policies, laws and a region's culture. Deepa also writes about race, cultures and social justice issues. She has covered a number of other beats ranging from city government to breaking news for the Register since May 2006. She has received fellowships from the International Women's Media Foundation and the International Center for Journalists to report stories about reconciliation, counter-extremism and peace-building efforts around the world. When she is not working, she loves listening to Indian classical music and traveling with her husband and son.
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Sara Taylor on five books that changed her writing style
Sara Taylor, author of The Shore, on five books that changed her writing style.
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
I’ve always felt that realism isn’t capable of capturing reality because it had no room for reality’s uncanny aspects. Midnight’s Children showed me that telling realism to get bent was a perfectly valid approach.
Sue Elliott
Love Child by Maureen Duffy
This book is full of gender games and layers upon layers of allusion; every time I read it I find something new. Love Child made me realize that it isn’t just form and language that are open for experimentation.
A Prayer For Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
I remember borrowing this off my father’s nightstand to read covertly when I was about ten – it was the first adult novel I got my hands on and I couldn’t figure out whether it was fact or fiction, but I got so caught up in the play of the language that I didn’t care.
The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
Joan Aiken
When I first read Wolves I was too young to tell if Aiken’s version of history was accurate or not; when I got older I realized that accuracy matters less than good storytelling.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Winterson gave voice to things that I could not express – and showed me that the traditional, linear narrative wasn’t the only way to do things.
Sara Taylor
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PETERS FRASER & DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015
The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to generations of fierce and resilient women. Sanctuary to some but nightmare to others, it’s a place they’ve inhabited, fled, and returned to for hundreds of years.
The women are united by both small miracles and miseries: from a brave girl’s determination to protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages their family, to a lesson in summoning storm clouds to help end a drought. Their interconnected stories form a deeply affecting legacy of two island families bound not just by blood, but by fate.
Sara Taylor was born and raised in rural Virginia. She has a BFA from Randolph College and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. She is currently chipping away at a double-focus PhD in censorship and fiction at UEA. She spends her time between Norwich and Reading. The Shore, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015, Sara was shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
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All My Dangerous Friends
Sonya Hartnett
Award winning children's author, Sonya Hartnett, weaves a compelling drama of friendship and choice that is perfect reading for the 15+ market.
Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the prices paid are high.
Pub date: 1 September 1998
Sonya Hartnett's work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children. Her accolades include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Of A Boy), The Age Book of the Year (Of A Boy), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Thursday's Child), the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost's Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King), the Victorian Premier's Literary Award (Surrender), shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for both Of a Boy and Butterfly) and the CILP Carnegie Medal (The Midnight Zoo). Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
Golden Boys, Sonya’s third novel for adults, was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award and she also published her third picture book, The Wild One in 2014.
Also by Sonya Hartnett
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK12)
Undercover Princess
Alice-Miranda At School
The Kissing Booth
Beth Reekles
Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Ranger's Apprentice 4: Oakleaf Bearers
Library Of Souls
Berenstain Bears Go To School
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
The Secret Garden: V&A Collector's Edition
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Piranha To Scurfy And Other Stories
Nine stories and two novellas make up Ruth Rendell's latest collection.
Ruth Rendell's seventh collection of short stories also includes two unpublished novellas.
The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact.
Life for Ribbon without his mother, is lonely and obsessive. He still keeps her dressing table exactly as she had left it, the wardrobe door always open so that her clothes can be seen inside, and her pink silk nightdress folded on the bed...
There is one book too that he associates particularly with her - volume VIII of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Piranha to Scurfy. It marked a very significant moment in their relationship.
The second novella, High Mysterious Union, explores a strange, erotic universe in a dream-like corner of rural England, and illustrates very atmospherically what range Ruth Rendell has as a writer.
Pub date: 1 July 2010
Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.
With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, was published in October 2015.
Also by Ruth Rendell
Praise for Piranha To Scurfy And Other Stories
“Rendell is a great storyteller who knows how to make sure that the reader has to turn the pages out of a desperate need to find out what is going to happen next”
John Mortimer, Sunday Times
“Plenty of style and many a wry reflection on the human condition ... Rendell's mission in these well-crafted short stories is ... to exhibit a cool skill in the telling of moral fables. This is serious entertainment”
Frances Fyfield, Express
“In her writing, horror does not shake its gory locks directly at us, but hovers on the periphery of our inner vision, hidden among the ordinary, the everyday”
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
“Rendell's mastery of the difficult short story genre is unsurpassed ... Her mesmerising capacity to shock, chill and disturb is unmatched”
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Benjamin Franklin: Ben Builds a Better World by David Wolfe II
Benjamin Franklin was a writer, an inventor, a scientist and most of all, he was an American patriot. He is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger Franklin. Franklin was predominantly self-taught, although he did receive some formal education.
Franklin passed away in 1790 at the age of 84. He lived a colorful life and left a legacy filled with many political and scientific achievements. He is said to be one of the most influential Americans to live and is still acclaimed for his accomplishments.
Benjamin Franklin: Ben Builds a Better World by David Wolfe II
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Schneider, J. (1995). “The Boy Will Come To Nothing!” By Leonard Shengold. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1993, 184 pp., $30.00.. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 43:895-898.
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(1995). Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 43:895-898
“The Boy Will Come To Nothing!” By Leonard Shengold. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1993, 184 pp., $30.00.
Review by:
Jorge Schneider
Dr. Shengold's book reads like a series of historical essays; though they have a certain continuity, each chapter can be read independently from the others. This approach has some drawbacks, since it affects the book's overall cohesion.
Another problem in reading this otherwise well-written, scholarly work, is the lack of clarity as to what audience is being addressed. As a psychoanalyst I found myself being instructed on basic developmental psychoanalytic theory. I experienced this aspect of the book as rather repetitious and not directed at my level of knowledge.
When not distracted by these minor factors, the reader will enjoy a well thought out and historically fascinating story.
The central theme of the book is the relationship between the son and the father, in this case exemplified by Freud, both as son and father. Shengold's thesis is that the derivatives of this relationship not only affected Freud but influenced our culture and, more specifically, our analytic ego ideal. Although this is a worthwhile attempt, one wonders whether it is possible to isolate this aspect of Freud's life without considering his relationships to women. Dr. Shengold is quite aware of the artificiality of this approach, but he nevertheless sees enough merit in it to restrict it in this way. Although I respect his decision, the reader should keep this focus in mind when evaluating Dr. Shengold's formulations.
The title of the book derives from Freud's early memory, as he describes it in The Interpretation of Dreams:
One evening before going to sleep I disregarded the rules which modesty lays down and obeyed the call of nature in my parents' bedroom while they were present. In the course of his reprimand my father let fall the words: “The boy will come to nothing!” This must have been a frightful blow to my ambition, for references to this scene are still constantly recurring in my dreams and are always linked with an enumeration of my achievements and successes, as though I wanted to say: “You see, I have come to something” [Freud, 1900, p. 216].
Shengold uses this event in Freud's life to develop his thoughts on the possible effect on Freud's ambition but, more importantly, on the relationship of the son to the father in three areas: idealization, murderous wishes, and the affectionate-homosexual component.
[This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.]
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Busan to Kobe: Japan Expedition Cruise
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Starting in Busan, South Korea, Silver Explorer will sail along the western coast of Japan to round the southern tip of Japan’s main island. Experience the ways that the modern society of Japan is influenced by the past and learn how tradition still plays an important part in daily life. On the semi-circumnavigation of Japan we will visit some of the most outstanding natural and man-made sites Japan has to offer -including National Parks and three of Japan’s highest-ranked gardens. Along the way you will see traditional buildings such as castles, homes and warehouses and feel serenity in outstanding shrines, temples and memorials. Throughout the voyage, learn about the geology, wildlife, history and botany of these locations from lecture presentations offered by your knowledgeable onboard Expedition Team.
Vessel Type: Luxury Expedition Length: 108 metres Passenger Capacity: 132 Built / refurbished: 1989 / 2008 / 2017 Silversea’s purpose-built luxury Silver Explorer expedition cruise ship has been designed specifically for navigating waters in some of the world’s most remote destinations, including both of earth’s polar regions. A strengthened hull with a Lloyd’s Register ice-class notation (1A) for passenger vessels enables the Silver Explorer Expedition Cruise Ship to safely push through ice floes with ease. A fleet of Zodiac boats (11) allows Silversea Expedition guests to visit even the most off-the-beaten path locations and an expert Expedition Team provides insight and understanding to each unforgettable Silver Explorer luxury cruise adventure.
Day 1 - Day 1 BUSAN
White-sand city beaches and hot-spring resorts may not be everyone's first image of Korea, but these are what Koreans flock to Busan for all year. And there are plenty of opportunities for rest, relaxation, retail therapy, and even a touch of glamour every October with the Busan International Film Festival. Busan's beaches are the big summertime draw but there is plenty to be seen year round. Quintessential experiences include taking some rest and relaxation at a local spa and exploring the Beomeosa temple complex.
Day 2 - Day 2 DAY AT SEA
Days at sea are the perfect opportunity to relax, unwind and catch up with what you’ve been meaning to do. So whether that is whale watching from the Observatory Lounge, writing home to your loved ones or simply topping up your tan by the pool, these blue sea days are the perfect balance to busy days spent exploring shore side.
Day 3 - Day 3 NIIGATA
Niigata city is the capital of Niigata prefecture and faces the Japan Sea on the island of Honshu, the largest of the four islands that comprise Japan. With a population of 810,000, Niigata is the largest Honshu city along the Japan Sea coast. The city is located at 300 km northwest of Tokyo and the bullet train would take you there in only two hours. Niigata offers four distinct seasons throughout the year, and people may find the winter season to be the best time to visit as many people would come for winter sports such as skiing or snowboarding.
Day 4 - Day 4 SADO ISLAND
Sado is Japan’s sixth-largest island and depends mainly on fishing and agriculture. The island’s Tori Forest Park had been selected for the successful reintroduction of Crested Ibises into Japan –a bird that was down to what was believed to be a total world population of 12 birds in 1981. At that time the last five wild ibises found in Japan were taken into captivity on Sado and both Japan and China cooperated in a breeding programme for these birds. Fortunately the work has paid off and released Crested Ibises successfully nested in the wild again in 2012.
Day 5 - Day 5 KANAZAWA
The capital of the Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa once rivalled Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) as a town rich in cultural achievements. Kanazawa escaped destruction during World War II and accordingly has been able to preserve many of the old districts in good shape. The city is famous because of Kenrokuen. Located next to Kanazawa Castle, Kenrokuen is classified as “One of the Three Gardens of Japan”. The garden has an artificial pond, and hills and houses are dotted within the 11.4 hectares. It has Japan’s oldest fountain using natural water pressure and a tea-house dating back to 1774.
Day 6 - Day 6 SAKAIMINATO
Sakaiminato is a small city almost totally surrounded by water: the Sea of Japan to the east, the Sakai Channel to the north and Lake Nakaumi to the west. Across the lake the towns of Matsue and Yasugi offer interesting experiences. Matsue is known as the “Town of Water” next to scenic Lake Shinji and Lake Nakaumi. It has one of the very few wooden castles that still remain in Japan. Touring the castle and boat rides on the Horikawa River and the castle’s moat are popular.
Day 7 - Day 7 HAGI
Hagi is a former castle town located in the middle of Yamaguchi prefecture along the coast of the Sea of Japan. It is surrounded by the ocean, mountain and Abugawa River. Early in the 17th century, Terumoto Mori built Hagi Castle at the foot of Mt. Shizuki-yama, and the area served as the seat of the Yamaguchi prefecture government until the middle of 19th century. Around then, Hagi produced many capable men who played a leading role in the construction of modern day Japan, including Hirobumi Ito who became the first prime minister in Japan.
Day 8 - Day 8 KARATSU (KYUSHU ISLAND)
Day 9 - Day 9 MOJI
Moji used to be an important international trading port with a number of well-preserved Western buildings. Several of these historic buildings can be seen along the attractive waterfront. Southwest of Moji , and part of the same city, is Kokura, the financial and business capital of the area. Kokura’s landmark is its castle, which has been beautifully restored. The remarkable garden located next to the main castle is not too far from the Manga Museum. South of Moji is the Hiraodai Limestone Plateau, Japan’s most representative karst plateau.
Day 10 - Day 10 MIYAJIMA ISLAND & HIROSHIMA
The small island of Miyajima (“The Shrine Island”) is known for the Floating Torii Gate, which is one of “The Three Most Beautiful Views” of Japan. Built in the water, the Torii Gate leads to the Itsukushima Shrine and at high tide it seems to float. The Torii Gate is one of the most photographed sites in all of Japan. There are many more shrines and paths on Miyajima that are inviting to walk. Mount Misen has a cable car leading partly up to the top with nice views and wild monkeys and deer roaming the trails. History buffs will want to write home Hiroshima. Despite being devastated in 1945, this Japanese city is known to all for its commitment peace – its ruin on the 6th August 1945 led to the end of the war and today, the Peace Memorial (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) , is a constant reminder of the destruction that war brings. A walk in the leafy boulevards of Peace Memorial Park brings quiet contemplation. The Flames of Peace – set in the park’s central feature pond – burn brightly and will continue to do so until all the nuclear bombs I the world have been destroyed.
Day 11 - Day 11 OKAYAMA
Okayama is an important transportation hub and one of the largest cities of the Chugoku Region. It is famous because it has one of Japan’s most significant gardens. Although the “Korakuen” Garden was severely damaged by bombs in WWII, the descriptions and paintings from the Edo period permitted an exact reconstruction. It is one of the “Three Gardens of Japan” and has been designated a “Special Scenic Location”. Known formerly as the centre of rice-distribution in the Okayama area, many old warehouses next to the preserved canal have been converted into museums, boutiques and cafes.
Day 12 - Day 12 KOBE
Located on the calm waters of the Inland Sea, Kobe has served as an important port town for hundreds of years. It was one of the first harbours to accept foreign traders in 1868 when Japan was just emerging from its centuries of isolation. What followed was a surge of Western trade and exports. Today, Kobe is quite multicultural, with expatriates from 98 different nations in residence, providing a cultural diversity most easily visible in restaurants serving every kind of cuisine, including the now world famous Kobe beef.
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The Los Angeles Piano Quartet made its debut at The Music Center in Los Angeles in 1977, and soon earned recognition as America’s premier piano quartet. The vibrant ensemble has been repeatedly re-engaged by major chamber music presenters, and hailed by the public and press in New York, Washington, Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, Dallas, St. Paul, Phoenix, Houston, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The Quartet has been a popular guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s “St. Paul Sunday” and New York’s “Live from WNCN,” and has been featured at the Bermuda and Tucson Festivals and the Eugene and Carmel Bach Festivals.
Following an impressive international debut at the Cheltenham Festival in England, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet was engaged for an appearance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and an extensive tour of Europe. Highlights of subsequent European tours have included two additional appearances at the Concertgebouw, and concerts at the Hamburg Musikhalle and Santa Cecilia in Rome.
The Los Angeles Piano Quartet has been an active force in the creation of new works for piano quartet, commissioning works from such prominent contemporary composers as Stephen Hartke, Gerard Schurmann, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky, whose piano quartet had its premiere performance by the LAPQ at the 2005 Tucson Festival. The ensemble has been supported in this activity by the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America.
Their recordings include the 2009 Chandos release of works by composer Stephen Hartke, Dvorak and Schumann on the MusicMasters label, and the two Fauré piano quartets on Pickwick.
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Guest Post: At Plagiarism Today, Jonathan Bailey Empowers Those Who Feel Powerless
Today, well technically yesterday, is the 10-year anniversary of Plagiarism Today. I’m working on a full anniversary post now (weekend plans got in the way) but, in the meantime, I wanted to share a post from my long-time friend and former Copyright 2.0 Show co-host Patrick O’Keefe.
He submitted this to me back in April and, though I had help from others here to get it ready to post, I am reading it in full for the first time today.
So thank you very much Patrick for all of the kind words below. It means so much to me, especially on this special day!
I first spoke with Jonathan on January 4, 2007. I had been a reader of Plagiarism Today for a while. At that time, I was hosting The Community Admin Show, a podcast for those who manage online communities. I emailed him with an invitation to be a guest on the show; to discuss copyright and how it impacts online communities. He responded the next day and appeared on my podcast shortly thereafter.
On January 9, just 5 days after I had first contacted him, I emailed him with something else. I discovered that a search engine named Omgili was scraping content from my forums and placing ads around it. I told Jonathan about it, but didn’t expect him to necessarily do anything with it.
When he responded, the next day, he had already contacted the owner of Omgili, who wanted to talk with me. He’d also hit the owner with some hard questions and, a day later, he wrote a great article about it on Plagiarism Today. This has happened so many times over the years. I’ll point something out to him and then he’ll write this great analysis of it, that helps people and, when necessary, takes someone to task.
Jonathan’s Approach
What has always impressed me about Jonathan’s writing is his professional approach to it. He has a clear position on copyright, but his journalism background comes through in his coverage of all issues. He’s not afraid to be critical of someone, but he also gives all sides the opportunity to be heard. He doesn’t use personal attacks; he uses facts and research.
He hasn’t fallen into the trap of being snarky or piling on for the sake of pageviews. He’s consistent, day in and day out.
When I sent that email, I didn’t know that a wonderful friendship would follow. We’ve spent so much time talking over video chat, instant messaging and email. We’ve hung out in person a few times. When my first book was in development, I asked for his input on the areas related to copyright. I’ve quoted him in articles; he’s quoted me. I’ve become professional that is well versed in copyright, and he’s had a big hand in that. I’m sure I’ve benefited him in some way. Heh.
We first met in person at ConvergeSouth in Greensboro, North Carolina, in October 2008. I went to a dinner (at Table 16) that he hosted for the conference and attended a talk he gave. We spent time together at South by Southwest twice (where I met Jonathan’s significant other, Crystal), and appeared on the same panel in 2012. There has been a lot of collaboration, and I’m sure there is more to come.
Copyright 2.0 Show
Shortly after that conference, I sent him a story idea. In response, he asked me if I was interested in co-hosting the Copyright 2.0 Show, as Chris Matthieu was on the way out. I agreed. And then we did 259 episodes over 5 years, 10 months and 2 days.
It’s tough to pick out highlights from those 259 shows. Episode 149 stands out to me the most. It was about Global Grind, another story I put in front of Jonathan, that he covered. I think Jonathan would agree that we had the most packed, engaged and interesting chat room in the history of the program. Episode 200 was fun because we had a series of great guests – the biggest for me was Dave Tognotti, general counsel for Monster Inc., who has since been promoted to COO.
The greatest thing that the podcast gave me was my friendship with Jonathan. When you talk to someone for that many hours, you get to know them pretty well. Before we started the podcast, we were friends in a loose, general sense. By the end, we were close friends.
What I miss about hosting the podcast isn’t the copyright stories (Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tennebaum and Shepard Fairey eventually all begin to look alike), but sitting down every week with my friend and having a laugh about them.
This Milestone
When I look at this milestone – 10 years online – what I think is most important is the number of people Jonathan has helped. It’s a ridiculous number of people. And it’s not just the people that read Jonathan’s articles. It’s the people you’ll never know about. The people that contact him privately and ask for his help. I know, from personal experience, that Jonathan is tremendously generous with his time and expertise. This is his work, this is how he survives. But I’ve never known him to turn a single person away.
To steal a line from Dumbledore, help is always given to those who ask for it.
Poets who are upset because their work was taken and attributed to someone else. Writers who spend weeks on a piece only to see it re-posted online, with no idea what to do about it. Revenge porn victims who feel powerless. He helps all of these people, without asking for a dime. He lends his power to perfect strangers who feel they have none. He performs selfless acts on a daily basis, and you’ll never know about them.
As I look back on that first email, the first time I ever spoke to Jonathan, there is something special, and it is true of Jonathan to this day: you never feel like he’s blowing you off, like he doesn’t care.
I’m proud to be your friend, Jonathan. Thank you for everything that you do to help others, and congratulations on 10 years of Plagiarism Today.
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Bourn Looking to Cash in on Success
By Pat Gallen
Could we see this again next season?
What is Michael Bourn worth? What is a steady defensive centerfielder with great speed worth on the free agent market? We’re about to find out, and it could be a lot.
The talk is that he’ll command a $100 million deal in the off-season, with Scott Boras, his agent, doing the dirty work. After seeing Boras suck $142 million out of the Red Sox for free agent outfielder Carl Crawford, perhaps nine-figures is a possibility. I have a hard time seeing that large a number come to fruition, but anything is possible, and it only takes one team to do it.
But what exactly is his value in dollars? Does he deserve to be paid like one of the top outfielders in all of baseball?
According to Fangraphs, Bourn’s WAR since 2008 – the year he became a full-time player – is 18.5. That places him 12th among all outfielders, ahead of guys like Hunter Pence, Carlos Gonzalez, Justin Upton, and the aforementioned Crawford. Since 1.0 WAR is equal to roughly $4.5 million, Bourn would be worth about $20 million-per-season using that metric. Since we all know that’s not true and teams don’t operate that way (although maybe Boras can use this as leverage) let’s compare him to some guys with similar numbers.
As Corey Seidman so eloquently put it over at CSNPhilly.com, Bourn falls in between Jose Reyes and Chone Figgins. I like that comparison. From Corey:
In the four seasons leading up to Reyes’ free agency, he hit .302/.354/.460 with an average of 26 doubles, 12 triples, nine homers and 34 steals per season. He also missed a total of 194 games with various injuries.
A more apt comparison is Chone Figgins, who signed a four-year, $36 million deal to play third base with the Seattle Mariners in the winter of 2009, the same off-season the Phillies signed Placido Polanco. Take a look at how similar the production between Bourn and Figgins was in their four seasons leading into free agency:
BA OBP SLG XBH SB
Chone Figgins
.291 .372
Unless he breaks both legs or doesn’t get a hit the rest of the season, it’s safe to assume Bourn will get plenty more than $36 million. Reaching Reyes’ territory also seems like a long shot in my estimation, but I guess we all thought it would be impossible for Jayson Werth to get $126 million. But it happened.
It’s entirely possible Bourn gets himself a five-year deal, but what about the money? If you split the difference between Reyes and Figgins, you get $71 million over five seasons, which actually seems like a pretty fair assessment of what Bourn is worth.
Is that a number the Phillies should go to? In my opinion, I stay away. It’s not that I’m not a Bourn fan – I am – but he’ll soon be 30 and is it smart to give a guy on the other side of 30 a long-term deal? Especially with the rapidly aging roster?
There will be other outfielders on the market once the winter hits. How about B.J. Upton? Maybe he takes a lesser deal, as he’s been unable to put up steady numbers throughout his career. The talent is there, but the production has never quite matched it, at least at the plate.
Would it be crazy to think Shane Victorino returns? He never really wanted to leave and loves Philadelphia. I find it hard to believe he’ll get a five-year contract, or even a four-year deal, which is what he so desires. But Victorino at three years for a reasonable dollar figure? Might entice both sides.
Whatever the case may be, Bourn will likely get a very large offer from someone. I don’t think he’ll get $100 million, but $85 million-plus is possible. At that price, it’s best to steer clear.
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Michael Vick's former dogfighting compound converted into rehab center
Michael Vick's former Virginia dogfighting compound transformed into a haven for recovery
By Michael Tanenbaum
Animal Welfare Dogs
Steve Helber/AP
In this June 15, 2015, photo, caretaker Chrissy Appel, works with a dog in front of the Good News Rehab Center, the former home of NFL football quarterback Michael Vick's Bad Newz Kennel, in Smithfield, Va.
The infamous Bad Newz Kennel where former Eagles quarterback Michael Vick ran a criminal dogfighting ring has been reinvented as a haven for the recovery of abused dogs.
The 15-acre property in Smithfield, Virginia, became the subject of a gruesome 2007 investigation that turned up an interstate gambling ring, evidence of brutal executions and more than 50 dogs bearing scars from dogfights and otherwise abusive conditions.
Vick ultimately pled guilty and served 18 months in federal prison before being reinstated to the NFL and signing with the Eagles in 2009. Many of the dogs who were found at the site went on to be rescued or placed in an animal sanctuary. As Vick resurrected his career, he pledged to play an active role in youth engagement and advocacy for animal welfare through his work with the Humane Society.
The property, purchased in 2011 by non-profit Dogs Deserve Better, has since been transformed into a refuge known as Good Newz Rehab Center, the Daily Mail reports. Run by Founder Tamara Thayne, the estate includes a 7-acre yard and amenities for all of its dogs, who are accepted regardless of breed, size, age or history. The non-profit describes its mission on its website as a place to help abused dogs regain trust in human beings.
From our Rehab Center for Chained Dogs, we change the lives of dogs who come from nothing—pitiful creatures chained by the neck or ostracized to a small pen—who exist outside and alone; in mud, dirt, snow, rain, heat, cold, and often without food, water, or shelter.
According to the Associated Press, however, the rehab center has not been without its own share of controversy. In 2012, a pit bull terrier was seized by Surry County authorities and Thayne was charged with animal cruelty and failure to provide adequate care to a companion animal. After no evidence of cruelty was found, a judge ordered that the dog be returned, prompting Thayne to file a federal lawsuit as contributions to the rehab center fell from $1.1 million in 2012 to $317,138 in 2013.
To date, the organization estimates that it has rescued, rehabilitated and adopted out more than 400 chained or penned dogs. In the future, Dogs Deserve Better hopes to expand the house into a super center with a veterinary clinic and room to house more than 50 dogs.
Michael Tanenbaum
tanenbaum@phillyvoice.com
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9 Nights Iceland Circumnavigation
Viking stronghold. Land of fire and ice. Culture, wildlife, and wonders. A modern nation on an ancient island. Iceland by ocean awaits.
Circling the island on the Ocean Endeavour, witness Earth in action: active volcanoes, emerging islands, lava fields, geysers, and glaciers.
The landscape is otherworldly. Superb photography, birding, and hiking are a quick Zodiac ride away. Whales ply the North Atlantic waters. Join us as we sail those same waters—around Iceland, by ship!
DAY 1 Reykjavík
Iceland’s cosmopolitan capital, Reykjavík was established in 874 AD. Powered by geothermal energy, Reykjavík is widely considered one of the cleanest, greenest cities on Earth.
Despite centuries of relative isolation, today Reykjavík is a contemporary city with plenty to see and do. The National Culture House preserves treasures like the Poetic Edda, and the Norse Sagas in their original manuscripts. We depart Reykjavík in the evening aboard the Ocean Endeavour.
DAY 2 Rif, Snæfellsnes Peninsula
We begin our day at anchor at the former trading port of Rif, on the doorstep of Snæfellsjökull National Park. We’ll have an introduction to Icelandic culture with our local guides. For the more adventurous, the region offers outstanding hiking, including opportunities to visit spectacular waterfalls.
DAY 3 The Westfjords
Only about ten percent of Iceland’s visitors ever see this region, known for its jagged bird cliffs and multihued beaches. Coastal fjords, immense mountains, and tiny villages can be found here, and a traditional lifestyle is embraced by the region’s inhabitants.
DAY 4 Northern Iceland and Grímsey
Iceland’s north is a geologist’s dream. Lava fields—almost lunar in their composition—epic waterfalls, snowcapped peaks, and bays teeming with marine wildlife are characteristic of the region.
Grímsey Island lies on the Arctic Circle. Its human population of about a hundred shares the island with nearly a million seabirds! These include puffins, guillemots, and gulls.
DAY 5 Akureyri
Iceland’s second-largest urban area, Akureyri enjoys a relatively mild climate and ice-free harbour. In addition, Akureyri is surrounded by mountains, which shield it from strong winds.
First settled in the ninth century, Akureyri provided a base for Allied units during the Second World War.
Nearby Lake Myvatn offers stunning contrasts: one side of the lake features rugged volcanic remnants, while the other side is blessed with lush vegetation and varied bird life.
DAY 6 Húsavík
Húsavík, on Skjalfandi Bay, is known as the "Whale Capital" of Iceland. Fifteen different whale species frequent the area; we also hope to see dolphins, and thirty varieties of birds.
The Húsavík Museum is located by the harbour. There are also numerous other museums including the Exploration Museum, which houses artifacts from Apollo astronaut training in the area; a whale museum, and a turf house museum.
DAY 7 Seyðisfjörður
Seyðisfjörður is nestled at the tip of its namesake fjord. The town of seven hundred is known for its flourishing art scene, colourful roads, and shopping.
We will also have the opportunity to visit the Skálanes Nature Reserve. Family-owned and -operated, this is a centre for research and interpretation of Iceland’s environment and cultural history, and a model for sustainable tourism. The 3,000-acre area is a habitat for approximately fifty different bird species during the summer time, and, in particular, the eider duck.
DAY 8 Southeast Iceland
The south of Iceland is home to some of the country’s most beautiful natural attractions. It boasts a unique mix of volcanoes, lagoons, glaciers—as well as hot springs, geysers, and spectacular waterfalls.
DAY 9 Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands)
Vestmannaeyjar lies off the south coast of Iceland and comprises fourteen islands, numerous rocks and skerries. Only the largest island, Heimaey, is inhabited.
Numerous species of seabirds nest in the steep rock faces along the ocean cliffs. The volcanically active area has seen two major eruptions in recent times: the formation of the island of Surtsey in 1963, and the Eldfell eruption ten years later that destroyed much of Heimaey and nearly blocked its harbour.
DAY 10 Reykjavík
Reykjavík, or “steamy bay”, is a cosmopolitan capital city and as much a part of the Icelandic experience as the midnight sun or the fire and ice that creates the island’s landscape.
Today we disembark the Ocean Endeavour and transfer to the airport.
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Google's multi-million dollar payment comes after an investigation into alleged violations of a children's privacy law. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC YouTube investigation
By MARGARET HARDING MCGILL
Google has agreed to pay between $150 and $200 million to resolve an FTC investigation into YouTube over alleged violations of a children’s privacy law, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The FTC voted 3-2 along party lines to approve the settlement, sending it over to the Justice Department as part of the review process, the person confirmed. Details about other terms of the settlement were not immediately available.
The settlement is the latest move from the FTC meant to crack down on Silicon Valley privacy violations. Facebook last month paid $5 billion to resolve an expansive agency probe into its data practices.
The industry has more broadly seen its fortunes sour in Washington, as President Donald Trump and associates, Democratic presidential candidates and lawmakers of both parties have all pilloried tech for its perceived failures to stem hate speech, extremism, privacy flaps, alleged bias and a wealth of other ills. Many of those same critics dinged the FTC over the Facebook penalties, calling into question both the impact of the $5 billion sum on the moneyed social media giant and the efficacy of the settlement terms.
A coalition of privacy groups had complained to the FTC that YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting personal information about minors and using it to target advertisements without getting consent from parents.
The settlement dwarfs the FTC's largest fine to date for COPPA violations: $5.7 million levied in February against the operators of Musical.ly, the China-based social video app that's become a juggernaut since rebranding as TikTok.
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Nevertheless, several of the groups behind the original COPPA complaint against YouTube viewed the settlement skeptically.
"They should levy a fine which both levels the playing field, and serves as a deterrent to future COPPA violations. This fine would do neither," Josh Golin, executive director of coalition leader the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said in a statement, noting that a fine in the $150 million to $200 million range is "the equivalent of two to three months of YouTube ad revenue."
"The punishment should’ve been at least half a billion dollars," Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, told POLITICO. "It's scandalous. It sends the signal that you in fact can break a privacy law and get away largely scot-free."
Meanwhile, Marc Rotenberg, president of fellow complainant the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the key will be the terms the FTC imposes on YouTube under the settlement. "The critical challenge for the FTC is whether it has the ability to restrain business practices that violate privacy," he said. "Imposing large fines does not address that problem."
Spokespeople for Google and the FTC declined comment.
Bloomberg recently reported that YouTube is finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos aimed at minors. The Washington Post was first to report the party-line vote approving a "multimillion-dollar" settlement last month.
Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) recently urged the FTC to require that videos directed at children be moved off YouTube’s main platform and onto YouTube Kids. That's the company's dedicated service for kid-friendly videos, which YouTube just made available on the internet after offering it through a mobile app and smart TVs for the last several years.
The lawmakers also want the FTC to mandate annual independent audits for YouTube to monitor compliance with the terms of the settlement and to block it from launching new children's services without outside review.
COPPA author Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who's made similar recommendations as to what the FTC should require of YouTube as part of the settlement, said in a statement that he's dubious the agency was tough on the company given the party-line split.
"I look forward to reviewing the requirements placed upon Google in this settlement, but I am disappointed that the Commission appears poised to once again come out with a partisan settlement that that falls short of the Commission’s responsibility to consumers and risks normalizing corporate bad behavior," the lawmaker said.
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It may be getting harder for Puerto Rico’s national forest to recover from storms
November 09, 2018 · 3:15 PM EST
By Carolyn Beeler
Listen to the story.
Grizelle González is a US Forest Service ecologist who oversees the long-term research project at El Yunque National forest in Puerto Rico.
Carolyn Beeler/The World
Grizelle González has worked in El Yunque National Forest in eastern Puerto Rico for 26 years. The US Forest Service ecologist did research there as an undergraduate, then as a graduate student, and now heads the long-term research project in the 30,000-acre tropical forest.
So, when González visited El Yunque just a few days after Hurricane Maria hit in September of 2017, she was shocked.
“It’s like a bomb hit,” González said. “All you could see were like toothpicks, standing or on the ground. ... It was all brown, there were no leaves.”
Winds blowing 130 miles an hour blasted the steep mountain slopes of El Yunque, stripping the palm trees and giant ferns of their leaves. The lush green landscape turned brown and silent, with no birds chirping or leaves to rustle in the wind.
“It was scary,” González said. “You get very depressed. It’s like, oh, there’s so much death.”
Many roads in El Yunque National Forest remain closed a year after Hurricane Maria.
Just a few days after the storm, the power and water at González’s home were still out and it was what she calls a dark period for many Puerto Ricans. But tiny buds and fragile green shoots were already starting to sprout in El Yunque.
“It’s almost like nature shows you the way of recovery,” González said. “If nature is recovering, you can recover, too.”
Hurricanes can be good for forests in some ways
Research that González’s team has done at El Yunque shows hurricanes can be good for a tropical forest in some ways. Leaves and branches that get knocked to the ground fertilize the soil and supercharge new plant growth.
Almost a year after Hurricane Maria, the green had returned to El Yunque and birds chirped over González’s head as she expertly navigated the rough terrain of the forest’s paths. But to her trained eye, the landscape looked totally different than it did before Hurricane Maria.
The canopy at El Yunque National forest is sparser than it used to be, but branches are slowly growing back.
She stops in a place where the overhead canopy is largely gone, and the tropical sun beats down on her and the surrounding plants.
“Before, if you can picture it, there was complete canopy cover here; it would be completely lush and feel very dark,” González said. “You could not see the sky at all.”
More than 1 in 10 trees in the forest died after Hurricane Maria. Many lost most of their branches. A few palms in the patch of forest where González stopped had just a few fronds right at the top, like a tree from a Dr. Suess book.
Today, ferns and grasses that are no longer overshadowed by taller trees crowd the understory in areas where the forest floor used to be clear.
“That’s how we see that some species, called the pioneer species, start growing,” González said. “What we see here is a natural process of regeneration.”
Climate change may interrupt the natural process of regeneration
But humans may be interrupting this natural process of regeneration. Climate change is expected to make big storms more intense, and it’s unclear how forests like El Yunque will react.
An earth-mover rebuilds a hillside in El Yunque National Forest that was washed out during Hurricane Maria. Roads that had been cut into the forest contributed to landslides during and after Hurricane Maria.
“If the forests get these hurricanes at a pace that is [every] 50 or 60 years, it’ll probably be enough time for them to recover,” González said, adding “but if the hurricanes keep coming at a shorter interval, like 10 years, then the forest might not have the time to recover.”
González said eventually, if climate change causes decreased rainfall and increased temperatures as projected in Puerto Rico, El Yunque could transform from a rainforest into a dry forest.
El Yunque's importance to the island’s water supplies
That’s a problem not just for the forest itself, but for the people who rely on the water that runs through El Yunque.
“It’s a huge source of water for much of the island,” said Jessica Chappell, a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia who’s studying the hydrology of El Yunque.
“Twenty percent of the population relies on water that comes from El Yunque,” she said. “What that actually means is that 20 percent of the water that’s used falls within the forest and then it goes into streams and it’s treated and taken to the people.”
Barcelona is a small community near the entrance of El Yunque National Forest.
In the coming decades, if the water stops flowing through El Yunque altogether, surrounding communities will be in trouble.
But even today, deluges like those unleashed by Hurricane Maria are causing short-term problems. Heavy rains overwhelm the forest’s ability to naturally filter water through leaves, moss and soil.
Downhill from El Yunque, Maria is spurring changes to water management practices
There’s an example of how heavy rains are impacting water access in a small community just outside the main entrance of El Yunque.
The faucets in the village of Barcelona run with water piped directly from a small pool in the forest, and after Maria, broken pipes and a clogged reservoir completely blocked the flow of water for six days.
“We were all stuck,” said Liza Pérez Sanjarjo, head of Barcelona’s community board. “If the community didn't act together quickly, we weren't going to have water ... so the entire community got together.”
Liza Pérez Sanjarjo is shown on her porch in Barcelona, Puerto Rico, just outside the entrance of El Yunque National Forest.
They cleared the reservoir and repaired pipes, but even when the water started flowing again, it ran brown for a few days. It looked like chocolate, Pérez Sanjarjo said.
So after immediate repairs were completed following Hurricane Maria, Pérez Sanjarjo organized a water committee that has distributed water filters and has begun to think about ways to keep the community’s water supply clean after big downpours.
“I recognize that these issues aren’t going to get better because of climate change," Pérez Sanjarjo said. "I'm worried about the quality of life in my community. And I understand that if we ... don't take charge of our resources, nobody's going to come from outside to help us.”
Changes to Barcelona’s water system will help that community in the short term.
But how the forest might react to climate change in the long term is an open question, one that Grizelle González continues to study with her research team at El Yunque National Forest.
“As these events become stronger or more frequent, I think it’s important that we are in the forest describing the condition and how it’s recovering,” González said, “because we don’t know if another system is to hit before this forest has a chance to recover, what’s going to happen in the long term.”
El Yunque is one of the most studied tropical forests in the world. So what Gonzalez and her colleagues can gather from decades of records will provide a window into how tropical forests around the world will fare in the future.
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BEFORE BECAME AFTER
Proto-Kaw
Epignosis
Eclectic Prog Team
Before there was Kansas, there was.Kansas? Proto-Kaw happens to be an earlier incarnation of Kansas, but despite Kerry Livgren at the helm of the band, the music is quite unlike anything Kansas proper has given us. For one thing, the supplemental instrument is not a violin, but a saxophone and a flute. Lynn Meredith has a distinctive voice, one that has clearly matured and mellowed over time. With few exceptions, he refrains from hitting soaring notes like those Steve Walsh is (was) known for, but that doesn't mean Meredith is not a highly capable and expressive vocalist. Kerry Livgren provides us with some of his best guitar playing in recent years, using a pleasant bluesy tone and some tasteful dual leads. The rest of the band is very tight musically, and they create a sound that is distinctively theirs. Luckily for us listeners, these men have rekindled friendships and are realizing their musical dream, the one that consistently eluded them years before.
"Alt. More Worlds Than Known" A perfect way to open this album, this song represents (almost) everything that is right with Proto-Kaw. There are crunchy guitars, flickers or organ, growling bass, and vocal work right up front that let's us know we're in for something good. A majestic interlude separates one part from the next. The instrumental section is full of flute and dual lead guitar work, with some synthesizer lead for good measure. Craig Kew gets to show off his noteworthy bass groove to set us up for the inspiring end of the song. In the end, Lynn Meredith is pleading, singing from the heart, demonstrating that, while he may not be a master tenor, he is full of soul, able to raise most anyone's flesh in a fit of chill bumps. Fortunately, this is merely the first of several exceptional songs.
"Words of Honor" The second song is a comforting one, full of hope. It's easy to listen to, and the lyrics convey an encouraging and warm feeling. I almost feel that the beautiful simplicity of the song is ruined by the more complex and heavier business going on in the middle; perhaps those segments could have been a part of a different, longer piece of music so that "Words of Honor" could stand alone. As it is, it's a charming song, and a worthy addition to the album; the final stanzas are heartfelt and relevant.
"Leaven" "Leaven" features some spoken word before launching into what could be part of a soundtrack to an epic war movie set in the Ancient Near East. The stringed instruments are full of character, really adding to the ambience of the song. The song uses varied time signatures (the main riff is in 11/8). It goes from heavy rock to soft flute and piano passages to bring in the vocals, which are moving on many levels. Seven minutes in, there is a frantic, almost tribal-sounding passage that ends the song well. It is refreshingly complex, and quite simply one of Livgren's best.
"Axolotl" The flute-driven introduction is calm and pleasant, but the vocal melody in the verse is a little whiny and tacky. The chorus makes up for this with determined lyrics and a great tune. The instrumental section is nothing less than brilliant, and it's a real shame the verses are as weak as they are. Otherwise, this one's a great effort.
"Quantum Leapfrog" There's a lot of funky of bass and saxophone going on here, as well as some slightly campy harmonizing. That alone probably makes it something of a "hit or miss" track for most people, but I suspect it will appeal to Gentle Giant fans. There is some spectacular guitar and organ soloing there and here also. This is the track when John Bolton gets an ample opportunity to exhibit his talent as a saxophonist. Despite the lyrics, "Quantum Leapfrog" is clearly a track for the musicians to "show what they know" and be a tad quirky at the same time.
"Greenberg, Glickstein, Charles, David, Smith and Jones" A cover of a song by The Cryan Shames, this track is more of a mainstream "bonus" song, which was not included in the original release. It's sort of fun, but nothing much more than that. The arrangements in the middle are not bad, though. If you like it, enjoy; I skip it.
"Gloriana" Overall, this song is fantastic, but there are parts of it that make me cringe, namely the verses. "Well it just isn't right to give into the night" ranks down there with some of The Flower Kings lyrical stinkers- worse really, because it's lazy, cheesy, and the melody does nothing to help it. Moreover, the transition almost five minutes in. well, doesn't exist. Yet again we have another victim of progressive rock musicians' tendencies to jump right into a new segment without any form of evolution happening. These "quantum leaps" are rarely effective, and seem slothful on the part of the composer. Still, there's plenty of praiseworthy aspects of this song. The chorus is brilliant and majestic. It moves my heart in a way that few lyrics do. Then there's the middle instrumental section- talk about paying homage to "Journey from Mariabronn!" The riff is similar in flavor, only rather than a 6/8 time signature, we get an 18/4 time signature (7+7+4), and instead of violin and synthesizer, there is a crazy saxophone solo followed by a more reserved synth pad bit. The music that bookends the whole piece is excellent guitar-led work from the pen of Mr. Livgren, and the song ends in a stirring way.
"Occasion of Your Honest Dreaming" With the possible exception of the cover above, this is decidedly the worst track on the album. It seriously sounds like a bad jingle for breath mints or some such thing. The only thing that could salvage this one is the lead guitar playing, and perhaps the brief middle section (which is rather good), but other than that, this one makes me want to hide my face in shame. Fortunately, it's the second shortest.
"Heavenly Man" Here we have a fair song. On the one hand, the music is well-written, and the way the vocal melody follows the music in certain parts is certainly interesting, but this time it's the instrumental section in the middle that suffers. There's good soloing going on both from Livgren and organist Dan Wright (largely from the former), but that's part of what makes the song somewhat bland. There are more pleading lyrics in the end (although not as moving as those in the first song). Regardless, this is a decent effort.
"Theophany" This is a shelved gem from Kansas's early years; an earlier version of the lyrics is printed in Kerry Livgren's (semi-auto) biography Seeds of Change: The Spiritual Quest of Kerry Livgren. The three minute instrumental introduction is a stately and regal one, as though greeting the procession of a mighty king (and considering the songwriter, perhaps it is). The verses are decent, but not as phenomenal as the music that preceded it. The musical interlude approximately five minutes in is embarrassing, though- not awful, just embarrassing. It sounds like the theme song for a cheesy game show in the 1970s. The transition after the last verse is a little sloppy. Other than that, this is an excellent song from Before Became After.
"Belexis" "Belexis" predated Kansas's first album by some time, and Proto-Kaw's live version here just goes to show how even a fairly straightforward progressive rock song can be very different when other musicians (and especially a vocalist with a different range) are playing it. There is a long piano introduction and some jamming before the song proper. People accustomed to the original may be put-off with Meredith dropping the octave in certain parts, but after a few listens, his singing here has it's own gritty charm. The saxophone gives this song a funkier flavor than the original. Dan Wright's solo should have been mixed louder, and the drum solo is marginal, but other than that, this is a great live version of fantastic song.
"It Moves You" This is a sad attempt at smooth jazz, really, sort of like what Toto was doing some of the time ("Gerogy Porgy" anyone?). It's all the better that this track was removed from the main album in the special edition and relegated to the bonus disc. All they needed was to get Diana Ross and Kenny G in on this one- they would have fit right in.
Epignosis | 4/5 | 2008-11-10
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Flag and tackle football registration now open
Registration is now open for the fall 2012 flag and tackle football season! Boys and girls between the ages of 5-14 are invited to sign up for the only Division 1 youth football program in Carmel Valley, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe and Solana Beach. Divisions are based on grade and age thereby allowing kids to play and develop their skill set against their peer group. The Carmel Valley Dons organization prides itself on its commitment to prepare its youth football players for high school football at Torrey Pines or Cathedral. By eliminating weight classes, it offers the opportunity for all kids to play tackle football before entering high school regardless of their weight and size.
The Carmel Valley Dons youth football program was formed in 2010 to create a competitive Division 1 Football program serving the Carmel Valley, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, and Solana Beach communities. The leagues home stadium is Cathedral High School and the CV Dons proudly wear their colors, and they are greatly supported by Varsity Head Coach Sean Doyle. For more information or to register for the 2012 season, visit
www.CVDons.com
or find us on Twitter and Facebook.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [October 15, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Trade Commissioner Service of Global Affairs Canada to receive international funding through the CanExport program. The CanExport program delivered by the Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) of Global Affairs Canada, in partnership with the National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). CanExport is a competitive
By jodithepug|2019-10-30T16:32:33-08:00October 15th, 2019|Uncategorized|
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [August 12, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Western Economic Diversification Canada to receive $550k in funding through the Business Scale-up and Productivity (BSP) program. Federal minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains made the announcement along with Terry Beech, MP for Burnaby North-Seymour. The objectives of the BSP program are
By jodithepug|2019-10-04T08:54:10-08:00August 10th, 2019|Uncategorized|
PUG Interactive Selected by Government of Canada For Technology Acceleratation
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, [August 7, 2019] -- PUG Interactive Inc. is excited to announce that the Government of Canada has selected it as one of the high-potential technologies companies chosen to participate in the 2019 Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Silicon Valley. Participating CTA companies are given focused assistance to take advantage of what the local market has to offer, including mentorship and advice from industry
By jodithepug|2019-10-04T08:54:10-08:00August 7th, 2019|Uncategorized|
PUG Interactive Wins Global Excellence Award
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 29, 2019 -- PUG Interactive Inc. is excited to announce it has been given the 2019 Global Excellence Award for Best in Gameplay-Based Online Engagement & Loyalty Solutions. Global Excellence Awards are an annual program to recognise and reward the firms and individuals whose sustained outstanding performance has seen them leading the way in their industry. Global Excellence Awards is a flagship program
By jodithepug|2019-10-04T08:54:11-08:00March 29th, 2019|Uncategorized|
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