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Moscow Prosecutors Question Chubais After Blackout
Chubais (file photo) 26 May 2005 -- Anatoly Chubais, the head of Russia's energy monopoly Unified Energy Systems (EES), arrived tonight at the Moscow Prosecutor's Office for questioning about yesterday's huge power outage in the Moscow area.
Chubais had been initially due to appear at earlier today, but he arrived several hours late.
Also today, Chubais told reporters that consumers could be compensated for the losses caused by the outage: "As far as the damages caused to consumers are concerned, in this situation we can only take one position: all legally proven damages must of course be compensated and will be compensated."
EES, which runs the world's fourth-largest power network, said electricity was restored fully in Moscow by lunchtime today. The Moscow public transport system also resumed full operation today.
A substation blast paralyzed much of Moscow and the surrounding regions yesterday, stranding 20,000 people in the city's underground rail system.
Traffic-light failures also triggered a spate of road accidents.
(Reuters, ITAR-TASS, RFE/RL's Russian Service)
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Saints and Important Dates
Country of Saints and Important Dates
Recipe List ...a work in progress
Saints, Feast, Family
- Traditions passed down with Cooking, Crafting, & Caring -
Saints Feast Family
~Exploring Catholic Patron Saints of the Day & their Feasts (Catholic Cuisine)
(Find food, recipes, traditions, locations, relics, prayers, songs, book, movies, art, products, crafts & more!)
The Scottish Declaration of Independence was signed on April 6, 1320. The American Declaration of Independence was, in fact, modelled on this particular document. Almost half of the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were of Scottish descent.
The US Senate Resolution on National Tartan Day was passed on March 20, 1998. From that point onward, National Tartan Day was designated as a day for all Americans, particularly those of Scottish descent, on April 6 each year.
Parades!
NYC has the biggest in the U.S. but where ever there are Scotsmen there will be tartan worn!
I personal love my Daughters of the American Revolution tartan because I feel like it covers all of my Scottish roots and
it is a beautiful red, white and blue pattern.
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Rt Hon Robert Goodwill MP
Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby
My Surgeries
Young people in Scarborough help to make us a highly enterprising company.
Monday, 24 September, 2018
Apprentices at one of Scarborough’s key companies have told The Scarborough News how their experiences have secured the company a prestigious award.
Dale Power Solutions’ head office in Eastfield welcomed several top figures for the official presentation of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Promoting Opportunity 2018.
Dale Chief Executive Officer Tim Wilkins at the front with, from left, Mayoress and Mayor Margaret and Joe Plant, MP Robert Goodwill, Deputy Lord Lietenant David Kerfoot, Vice Lord-Lieutenant Peter Scrope and Dale staff Mark Carter and Ralph Letheren.
In attendance were Vice Lord Lieutenant Peter Scrope, Deputy Lord Lieutenant David Kerfoot, Mayor and Mayoress Joe and Margaret Plant, and MP for Scarborough and Whitby Robert Goodwill.
The critical power product and services provider has been given the award in recognition of the successful apprenticeship programme it operates.
The programme aims to communicate the benefits of apprenticeships, promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and work within the local community to provide accessible training, career opportunities, and an alternative to further education.
Deputy Lord-Lieutenant David Kerfoot said: “It is a pleasure to be here for such a prestigious event.
Guests and staff at the event.
“It is progress built on the principle of the right person in the right role and potential is better than academic achievement.”
It is the third Queen’s Award to be awarded to Dale Power Solutions as the company received the Queen’s Award to Industry in 1971 and the Queen’s Award for Export in 1983.
The Vice Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Peter Scrope, presented CEO Tim Wilkins with the award on stage with staff of the company and special guests in attendance.
He said: “It is a huge honour to be here today. Barry Dodd [the late Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire who tragically died in May] wanted to see this award given to this company.
Tim Wilkins with the Queens Award for promoting opportunity.
“Winning the award twice before speaks volumes of what you have achieved here. The opportunities you create for young people to come into the company is remarkable; 238 awards have been given out in the UK and Dale Power is one of them.”
Mr Wilkins was “delighted” to accept the award on Friday and thanked everyone at Dale Power Solutions who made the award possible.
Speaking about the apprenticeship programme, he said: “In 2006 we had the foresight to start the apprenticeship programme to develop talent for the future.
“We had limited availability locally and graduates were almost impossible to recruit. We had limited contact with the local school and no contact with other schools and we needed to change to make a difference.
Tim Wilkins with some of the apprentices at the event at Dale Power Solutions.
“Now we have apprentices developing through the company each year with 80 apprentices every year.
“We found that students themselves make the biggest impressions so we have STEM ambassadors promoting apprenticeships in the local community and schools to show how people can get involved with engineering.”
Mr Goodwill, spoke about Scarborough being an “opportunity area that the Government has allocated” due to becoming a social mobility cold spot.
“A problem has been identified that people go to university and don’t come back to Scarborough to build a career here. By offering apprenticeships here we have a place to recruit the very best people,” he said.
“Congratulations on getting this award and hopefully many more in the future.”
Mayor Joe Plant also congratulated the “truly inspiring” company on “a fantastic achievement”.
Apprentices address the gathered group at the event
Meet Dale’s success stories...
These four young people joined Dale Power Solutions to complete their apprenticeship but have now become mentors and STEM ambassadors as well as progressing within the company. Apprenticeship are fast becoming an attractive route to employment as individuals gain nationally recognised qualification while learning on-the-job skills. These mentors regularly visit schools throughout Scarborough to give talks and raise awareness of career opportunities in apprenticeships.
Hannah Magowan
Hannah Magowan started her apprenticeship after she left school at the age of 16.
She said: “I presumed the only route was academic as sixth form and university were pushed.
“The sixth form didn’t do the four A level options I wanted to do - maths, computing, physics and chemistry.
“That’s when I looked into the apprenticeship route.”
Hannah is now rotating around the business learning about all aspects of engineering and was named as one of the top three Advanced Apprentices in the UK when she was highly commended at the National Apprentichip Service Awards this year.
Jonathan Davies
Jonathan Davies started his apprentichip in the factory in 2010 at the age of 17.
He said: “My grades were below average [at school] and I knew just being in a classroom wouldn’t suit my ability. That’s why I went down the apprenticeship route because it gave me hands-on experience as well as the classroom learning.”
He now works on the Shell project at Brent field in the North Sea.
“I see the project from start to finish. It’s a process of designing, building, testing, pulling it apart and rebuilding it back on the rig.
“Being a mentor I get involved in taking the lads on site and pass my experience on.
“In the future I want to progress towards management. That’s what I’m hoping for.”
Matthew Tindall
Matthew Tindall started his apprenticeship in 2012 after he completed his GCSEs at school.
He is now currently working towards his HND (Higher National Diploma) and is a mentor helping those younger advanced apprentices within the testing department.
The 22-year-old took the apprenticeship route as he “had always been interested in the industry”.
Earlier this year, Matthew was awarded the 2018 BTEC Apprentice of the Year (19+).
Natasha Pitts
Natasha Pitts joined Dale Power Solutions after finishing her A levels in 2010 to start her apprenticeship.
After completing her advanced apprenticeship Nastasha then progressed towards a higher apprenticeship.
She has now achieved a First Class BEng(Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
The Scarborough News
Rt Hon Robert Goodwill MP Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby
Promoted by Heather Phillips on behalf of Scarborough and Whitby Conservative Association, 6 Albemarle Crescent, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 1XS
Copyright 2020 Rt Hon Robert Goodwill MP Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby . All rights reserved.
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Yoga Safari
The perfect opportunity to experience the best of Africa in a small and intimate group
DATES: 18 - 27 June 2020
DURATION: 10 Days / 9 Nights
PRICE: $3,984 USD per person
STARTING: Kenya
GROUP SIZE: 8 pax
Day 1: Tamarind Tree Hotel, Nairobi (Thu, 18 June)
Resting in the magnificent Great Rift Valley and presided over by the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro, Kenya is characterised by hauntingly beautiful natural landscapes of forested hills, stark deserts, wooded savannas and vast forests brimming with an extraordinary abundance of wildlife. The nation’s diverse range of traditional African cultures is influenced by over 70 unique ethnic groups from the Maasai, Samburu, Kikuyu, and Turkana tribes to the Arabs and Indians that settled on the coast. Add to this: an exquisite tropical coastline fringed with white sandy beaches; gorgeous coral gardens providing excellent snorkeling and diving opportunities; and a slew of lively beach resorts, and it is easy to see why so many visitors flock here from around the world to experience a truly unique African adventure in one of the world’s most pristine safari destinations.
Situated in along the Nairobi River in beautiful Kenya, the capital of Nairobi is East Africa's most cosmopolitan city. It serves as an excellent starting point for African safari trips around Kenya. Nairobi is Africa’s 4th largest city and is a vibrant and exciting place, and although it has developed a reputation which keeps tourist visits brief, there are some fascinating attractions: its cafe culture, unbridled nightlife, the National Museum, the Karen Blixen Museum and most notably just 20 minutes from the city centre wild lions and buffalo roam in the world’s only urban game reserve. Make sure you pay a visit to the elephant orphanage operated by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Overnight: Tamarind Tree Hotel
Tamarind Tree Hotel is ideally located just 5 km to the southwest of Nairobi within the spacious Carnivore grounds and it's iconic Carnivore Restaurant. The hotel offers easy access to all parts of the city, it's national park, as well as to the country’s many diverse attractions via the neighboring Wilson Airport and Southern Bypass. The nearby Langata and Karen suburbs are among the liveliest and most popular in Nairobi with world-class shopping malls and excellent restaurants. Tamarind Tree Hotel is perfect for both the business and leisure traveler. The hotel's world-class amenities will ensure your meetings are effortless and successful, whilst their outstanding leisure facilities and genuine service ensure that all guests experience the very best of Tamarind hospitality.
Evening: The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Founded in 1977 by Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E, in honour of the memory of her late husband, famous naturalist and founding Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Leslie William Sheldrick MBE, the DSWT claims a rich and deeply rooted family history in wildlife and conservation. Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and it's wilderness, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.
To date the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has successfully hand-raised over 244 infant elephants and has accomplished its long-term conservation priority by effectively reintegrating orphans back into the wild herds of Tsavo, claiming many healthy wild-born calves from former-orphaned elephants raised in care.
Day 2-4: Little Governors' Camp, Masai Mara (Fri, 19 June to Sun, 21 June)
The Masai Mara is possibly Africa's most famous wildlife area. The image of acacia trees dotting endless grass plains epitomises Africa for many. An astounding abundance of wildlife makes this a destination of choice not just for safari-goers, but documentary-makers, photographers, biologists, scientists, and writers. The undeniable highlight of the Masai Mara National Reserve is undoubtedly the annual wildebeest migration traversing the vast plains. It is known as the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet, with more than a million animals following the rains. Large prides of lion, elephants, giraffes, cheetah, gazelles and eland, to name but a few, traverse the undulating plains. Aside from traditional game drives and fascinating bush walks, hot-air ballooning over the Mara plains has become almost essential.
Overnight: Little Governors' Camp
The award-winning Little Governors’ is intimate in character, with just 17 luxury ensuite tents dotted around a large watering hole that teems with both birds and wildlife. The camp is approached by a boat ride across the Mara River, then an escorted walk through the riverine forest. Vehicles are left on the far river bank, and the camp is therefore quiet and undisturbed. The guest tents at Little Governors’ have great wooden decks with large verandahs for guests to enjoy the constant game activity that takes place around the camp’s watering hole. Guests may need to make way for elephants which sometimes visit the camp at lunch time.
Game Drives: Governors’ Camp properties combine superb locations in the Masai Mara with custom designed vehicles and exceptionally highly trained and experienced guides to give our clients un-matched game-viewing and photographic opportunities in the world’s prime wildlife area. We are in the heart of what is widely considered to be the best game viewing area of the Masai Mara. Our vehicles are custom built 4 wheel drive landrovers. We take you out twice a day on a game drive into the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve and surrounding areas. Our driver-guides are hand-picked and nurtured by us. They undergo a continuous guide training scheme mentored by experts in the field. Having operated in the Masai Mara for 40 years our driver-guides have an un-paralleled knowledge of the reserve combined with a deep understanding and respect for the sanctity of this wilderness area, its flora and its fauna.
Cultural Visit: The Masai people of East Africa are a striking image, synonymous with safari. A proud people with many traditional practices still very much alive in their culture. Visit a local Masai village and learn about who they are in their own words.
Visit Community Projects: Visits to our responsible tourism projects can be organised from camp. Mara Rianda Primary School and Mara Rianda Medical Centre are two inspirational projects supported by Governors’ Camps.
Day 5-8: Breezes Beach Club and Spa, Zanzibar (Mon, 22 June to Thu, 25 June)
The name Tanzania conjures up images of wildebeest stampeding across vast savannah, rain forests teeming with monkeys and birdlife, and great plains brimming with legions of game. All of these natural wonders and more are on offer in this exceptionally diverse African nation. Visitors typically visit Tanzania to partake in at least one of the four well known Tanzanian tourist experiences: a relaxing seaside vacation on the picturesque island paradise of Zanzibar, an underwater tour of some of the world’s most renowned dive sites around the gorgeous Spice Islands, a safari adventure in some of Africa’s most impressive game reserves, or a hiking excursion around Mount Kilimanjaro National Park. Whichever of these incredible holidays you choose, you will undoubtedly be welcomed by some fabulously friendly and peaceful inhabitants who, despite being divided into 120 different ethnic groups and cultures, live in harmony with one another and provide some of the most wonderfully exotic local cuisine you could imagine. With all of this diversity on offer, the most difficult part of your Tanzanian holiday experience is likely to be deciding where to go!
Resting approximately 40 kilometres from the Tanzanian coast, this idyllic archipelago consists of Zanzibar and Pemba islands as well as numerous smaller islets. Zanzibar Island is characterised by exquisite white sand beaches fringed by palm trees and lapped by turquoise waters lined with coral reefs brimming with an abundance of exotic marine life. This underwater paradise is a mecca for watersport enthusiasts who flock here for the excellent scuba diving, snorkelling, deep sea fishing, kayaking, kitesurfing, and sailing on traditional dhows. The island’s old city, Stone Town, features a maze of narrow alleyways lined with boutiques, bars, restaurants, lively bazaars, mosques and ornate Arab houses. Don’t miss the chance to relax in the lap of luxury on the exclusive private island of Mnemba, lying just 3 kilometres off the coast of the main island.
Overnight: Breezes Beach Club and Spa
For centuries the island of Zanzibar has evoked a mystical and magical dream. With the distinct advantage of being located on the South East coast which is the one of the most quiet and untouched parts of the Island, Breezes is the ultimate retreat for those looking to get away from it all. This beautiful resort is situated along a pristine, untouched beach stretching as far as the eye can see. With great attention to detail, unique charm, personalized service and warm hospitality.
Breezes Beach Club & Spa is set in beautiful tropical landscaped gardens on a pristine and peaceful beach on the East Coast of the island, about one hour from Stone Town. Breezes is famous for its attention to detail, intimate and private dining, its world-renowned beautiful Zanzibar décor with stunning carvings, glistening brass and rich fabrics creating an elegant and unique atmosphere. In 2005, Breezes Beach Club won the title of "Best Resort in Tanzania" at the World Travel Awards.
Day 9: Tamarind Tree Hotel, Nairobi (Fri, 26 June)
Stone Town: Situated on the beautiful island of Zanzibar, Stone Town is the old city and cultural heart of the island and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town is famous for its winding alleys fringed by grand architecture, bustling bazaars, sultan’s palace, mosques, the House of Wonders, gardens and the extravagant merchants’ houses with their remarkably ornate doors. Stone Town is home to over fifty mosques, six Hindu Temples, a Catholic and an Anglican Cathedral. Visitors can also look forward to visiting the Old Fort along the waterfront, pay a visit to the Palace Museum, and sampling local cuisine at Forodhani Gardens a local seaside market. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy a sunset dhow cruise.
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Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
Senia Pašeta
Professor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized two things: that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the women’s suffrage movement across the United Kingdom was shaped in fundamental ways by the Irish Question from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In other words, the women’s suffrage movement did not exist in a political vacuum. It interacted with, influenced and was influenced by the other main political questions of the day, and with the main political question of the day - Ireland.
London German Studies XVI: Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German, 1889-1928
Edited by Andreas Kramer and Ritchie Robertson
Historical research has dispelled a number of myths surrounding Word War I: whereas the outbreak of war was greeted by the urban middle classes with frenzied enthusiasm, in working-class areas and smaller towns the mood was more of foreboding. Little attention has so far been paid to those who opposed the war and its underlying culture of militarism, though opposition to war and militarism has a distinguished German pedigree. This volume explores opposition to war and militarism among a range of German-language authors in a period roughly defined by two international bestsellers: Suttner’s 'Die Waffen nieder' (1889) and Remarque’s 'Im Westen nichts Neues' (1928). Major figures (Kraus, Schnitzler, Zweig) have...
Television Drama in Spain and Latin America: Genre and Format Translation
Paul Julian Smith
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Television Drama in Spain and Latin America addresses two major topics within current cultural, media, and television studies: the question of fictional genres and that of transnational circulation. While much research has been carried out on both TV formats and remakes in the English-speaking world, almost nothing has been published on the huge and dynamic Spanish-speaking sector. This book discusses and analyses series since 2000 from Spain (in both Spanish and Catalan), Mexico, Venezuela, and (to a lesser extent) the US, employing both empirical...
The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade
Edited by Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet
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This volume presents six papers from a one-day colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in February 2015 on the legacy of Aldus Manutius, marking the 500th anniversary of his death, together with three additional contributions. Rather than examining Aldus’s own output, the nine papers focus on how the notion of ‘Aldine books’ has changed over 500 years in Europe and North America, from the early days of the Aldine press to modern and contemporary book collecting and the antiquarian trade. The volume also includes a catalogue of the exhibition ‘Collecting the Renaissance: The Aldine Press (1494–1598)’, held...
We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture
Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and Tina K. Ramnarine
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The abolition of slavery was the catalyst for the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers into the sugar colonies of Mauritius (1834), Guyana (1838) and Trinidad (1845), followed some years later by the inception of the system in South Africa (1860) and Fiji (1879). By the time indenture was abolished in the British Empire (1917–20), over one million Indians had been contracted, the overwhelming majority of whom never returned to India. Today, an Indian indentured labour diaspora is to be found in Commonwealth countries...
The Emergence of Post-Hybrid Identities: A Comparative Analysis of National Identity Formations in Germany’s Hip-Hop Culture
Marissa Munderloh
German hip-hop culture is best known for its rap music and rappers’ portrayal of their life in Germany’s urban centres. Not many studies have looked at German hip-hop’s other main art forms, such as graffiti art, dance and music, in conjunction with rap, or considered their joint contribution to the creation and development of German popular culture and contemporary identity. This book breaks new ground by offering a comparative analysis of rappers, DJs, dancers, graffiti artists and their practices in the German cities of Hamburg and Oldenburg. In so doing, it reveals a variety of individual narratives on what it means to be German and to understand how...
The Cosmography of Paradise
Edited by Alessandro Scafi
The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. The focus has been on the way the relationship between ‘the other world’ and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe. Scholars coming from different fields discuss in this volume the various ways the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe has been viewed within their own field of work. The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space...
Women Political Prisoners in Germany: Narratives of Self and Captivity, 1915-91
Kim Richmond
One of the few major enquiries into women’s narratives of political incarceration, this volume examines first-person accounts written against a backdrop of momentous historical events in twentieth-century Germany. Rosa Luxemburg’s prison letters are the starting point for the study, which explores the ways in which writing is used as a response to incarceration: how does the writer ‘perform’ femininity within the de-feminizing context of prison? How does she negotiate a self-representation as a ‘good’ woman? Central to this investigation is an awareness of the role of language as a means of empowerment within the disempowering environment of prison. As a key female political figure in twentieth-century Germany, Luxemburg wrote letters...
Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France
Edited by Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna M. Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt
This volume of essays focuses on how poets approach reading as a notion and a practice that both inform their writing and their relationship to their readers. The nineteenth century saw a broadened and increasingly self-conscious concern with reading as an interpretive and political act, with significant implications for poets' individual practice, which they often forged in dialogue with other poets and artists of the time. Covering the 1830s to the late 1990s, a period rich in poetic innovation, the essays examine a wide range of authors and their diverse approaches to reading as inscribed in - and related to - creative writing, and articulate the many ways in which reading developed as an active engagement key to the critical thought...
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John Quinlan Fine Art
Eva Belle Adams (1874-1960), American
Tor House, Carmel, 1923
oil on artist’s board, 7 ¼ in. x 11 7/8 in.
(framed dimensions: 8 3/8 in. x 13 in.)
signed lower right: “E. B. Adams”
inscribed on reverse: “Adams Carmel” and “Painted Spring 1923”
This California Impressionist painting captures a special place along the Monterey Coast in Carmel-By-The-Sea. The location is Carmel Point on Carmel Bay, at that time known as Missionary Point. In 1923, the Point was a treeless, windswept, almost uninhabited headland. The stone house at upper right is Tor House, the home of Carmel’s most celebrated poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una and the twin sons the couple raised there. Robinson and Una arrived in Carmel in 1914 and fell in love with this spot. The couple purchased 5 acres on the Point and from 1917-1919 they built Tor House, so named because it was built on a knoll where the stones jutting out of the treeless moor reminded them of the tors of Dartmoor, England. Una Jeffers would later write eloquently about this place:
“Whales drifted by, spouting high, and dolphins curved from the water; we seldom see them now, nor the curious thin weasels full of sly menace among the stones. On cold moonlit nights coyotes’ voices came down on the valley wind – once several of them raged and yelled like maniacs in our very courtyard. All about us here was pulsing life and motion – flighting birds and pounding waves and cloud shadows fleeing across grasses bent and woven by the winds. There was a special night wind from the valley that withered unhindered around our exposed little house..”
Robinson Jeffers worked with the stonemasons to build Tor House, using native granite stones hauled up from the beach. The house, modeled after a Tudor English barn, was built with low ceilings and doors to decrease wind resistance and to conserve heat. Jeffers, having learned to build with stone, would later build, by himself, a 40-foot tower adjacent to the house, calling it “Hawk Tower” (see attached image). Interestingly, this painting in 1923 seems to capture the Tower in mid-progress. The whole family would enjoy the use of the tower and from the stone house Robinson would go on to write some of the most eloquent poetry ever written about a particular place. Many influential literary and cultural celebrities were guests here, including Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and Charlie Chaplin.
The artist’s vantage point here is in a windswept field just south of Tor House looking up toward the knoll. Bright sunlight fills the scene as Ms. Adams quickly covers her board with the greens of the swaying grasses, the purples, pinks and yellows of the Monterey wildflowers in the foreground, the gray-purple of the distant tree line and the sliver of light cobalt blue representing Carmel Bay on the left.
Today, Tor House and Hawk Tower are still there and open to visitors. Carmel Point has been developed and the wide-open spaces have been replaced by tasteful homes and trees such as Monterey Pines, Cypresses and Eucalyptus. It is likely that Ms. Adams’ view of Tor House in this painting is from a spot along today’s Scenic Road which hugs the coast just below the house (see attached image).
Eva Belle Adams was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is known to have exhibited at the Detroit Society of Women Painters in 1906, 1907 and 1911 (in 1911 she exhibited a painting titled ‘Carmel Bay’, #1 of 60 total paintings in the exhibition). By 1923, she had moved to San Diego and would soon move further north to live in Carmel, joining the then burgeoning arts scene there. Adams became an active member of the community, exhibiting multiple times at the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club during the early 1920’s. She was also one of the original founding members of the Carmel Art Association in 1927. In the mid-1920’s, Adams was one of several members of the permanent art colony to study with the recently arrived artist James Blanding Sloan.
Adams continued to live and paint in Carmel for many years. Her residence in the 1930 census was on Casanova Street in Carmel with listed occupation of artist.
The 1940 census for Carmel lists Eva as the “owner - manager” of the Locksley Hall Hotel. While the address is not listed, it seems this might be the Maybury – McGowan House, a Tudor style home built in 1905 on 13th Ave. Originally designed by architect Eugenia Maybury, it was later purchased in 1908 by the McGowan sisters, both successful magazine and novel writers, who named their home Locksley Hall – it would become a popular gathering place for artists and other creative types in town.
Eva never married and she passed away in Pacific Grove, California in 1960.
The painting is in excellent condition. The paint surface is clean and the colors fresh. The painting was completed alla prima in one session and has no craquelure. The painting is unvarnished with a dry matte surface. The original wood and gold finish frame is in very good condition with age appropriate wear on edges and an overall patinated surface.
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Iconic 1914 Nueces County Courthouse sold Iconic 1914 Nueces County Courthouse sold https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=16348 2017-04-14T05:00:00Z 2017-04-14T15:00:00Z
CORPUS CHRISTI – After being shuttered for 40 years, the 1914 Nueces County Courthouse has found a new owner.
Jim McCue, Steve Coon, and Stephen Goodman have signed an agreement with the county to buy the building at 1100 N. Mesquite St. for $1,000.
While that sounds like a bargain, the buyers will also have to pay $1.5 million in back taxes by the end of a 90-day due diligence period.
Plans aren't set in stone yet, but the developers say they're leaning toward turning the building into a hotel. They will work with the Texas Historical Commission to receive state tax credits on the historic preservation.
The courthouse closed its doors in 1977, seven years after suffering severe damage from Hurricane Celia. The structure had survived hurricanes twice before, in 1919 and 1941.
For an extensive history of the building, read this blog post at Sometimes Interesting.
http://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2017/04/12/developers-looking-down-hotel-route-historic-1914-courthouse/100371304/ Read more at {Source}
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Two violent prisoners escape on same day
By James Connell
TWO violent prisoners escaped from a Worcestershire prison on the same day and were at large for almost a week.
Sagheer Hussain, convicted of attempted murder, and Mashooq Hussain, convicted of robbery, wounding and weapons offences, walked out of HMP Hewell.
One inmate wanted see his sick mother and the other his dying sister, walking out when he feared he was about to be moved to another open prison in the north of England. Both men, who are not related, appeared over videolink at Worcester Crown Court after their escape from the prison in Tardebigge, near Redditch on October 24 this year.
They had open prison status when they left Hewell’s dormitory, climbing out of a window and down a fire escape before heading for Birmingham.
Sagheer Hussain, aged 34, was serving a 13 year prison sentence for attempted murder and Mashooq Hussain, aged 51, a five year sentence for robbery and fraud by false representation but also had a previous conviction for wounding.
Paul Whitfield, prosecuting, said prison staff noticed the pair were absent during a roll call at around 11.40pm on October 24 this year.
He said: “Both defendants were at large for approximately six days, a relatively short time.”
Mr Whitfield told the court there was no evidence of any sophistication, organisation, bribes and no use of violence. Both men went to Sparkhill in Birmingham.
Mashooq Hussain later contacted his solicitor who advised him to hand himself in. However, he did not do so and was arrested in Percy Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham, on October 30.
Sagheer Hussain told police in interview, he spent the days after his escape ‘shopping and buying things for himself’.
He called 999 himself and was arrested. He told officers his original motive for leaving was that ‘he didn’t feel safe in a prison environment’ and he ‘had not seen his family, particularly his mother, in some time’.
Mashooq Hussain had eight previous convictions for 15 offences between January 1996 and April 2017. Some of these convictions pertained to weapons offences and others involved ‘serious violence’, including a wounding conviction. Before his escape he had been eligible for release on March 10, 2020.
Sagheer Hussain had three previous convictions from between 2008 and 2014. In October 2014 he was sentenced to 13 years for attempted murder and had been due for release in October 2020.
Katie Mustard, for Sagheer Hussain, said: “This was not some pre-planned escape. It was a spontaneous act. The trigger for it was, on the day he left the prison, he had been told by another inmate that his mother, who had not been able to see him for some 15 months due to where he was in prison, had been rushed into hospital. In his words he panicked.”
Miss Mustard said he always intended to return to prison but conditions there were ‘terrible’ and ‘overcrowded’ and that her client had been subjected to ‘bullying and threats.’
He had also lost his grandfather and he became concerned for his grandmother’s welfare. Hussain contacted police before midnight on October 29 and was arrested just after midnight on October 30, Miss Mustard told the court.
Haroon Khattak, for Mashooq Hussain, said: “He made a spontaneous decision and walked out. It involves no planning and, very importantly in this case, no violence” said Mr Khattak.
The advocate said his client’s older sister was ‘terminally ill’ at the time and, because he was potentially going to be moved to an open prison in Cumbria, he panicked.
He said Hussain went to hand himself in at a police station but the shutter was down. He had also taken the time to write a letter of apology to the judge.
Judge Nicholas Cole said: “There needs to be an element of deterrence. Cases where people walk out of an open prison undermine public confidence in the prison system and they cause disruption to the prison regime. There is also the cost to the police of having to come and arrest you.”
He sentenced Sagheer Hussain to six months in custody and sentenced Mashooq Hussain to eight months. The longer sentence for Mashooq Hussain was to reflect the fact that he did not hand himself in. The judge confirmed that these sentences will to be served consecutively to the sentences they are already serving.
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Glenlivet 15 Year Old French Oak Reserve
The first distillery to take out a licence after the Excise Act of 1823, the distillery was a favourite of King George the IV who demanded nothing but during a visit to Edinburgh in 1821 - three years before it was legal!
Glenlivet has given its name to the 'longest valley in Scotland', so called after several distilleries laid claim to the Glenlivet suffix to cash in on the distillery's sterling reputation - but only one can call itself The Glenlivet.
The Glenlivet 15 year old French Oak Reserve, selectively matured in new Limousin oak casks.
Please note minor creasing to box.
Please examine the images of the bottle, any packaging and labels carefully and satisfy yourself as to their condition before making a bid.
Featured in: The 83rd Auction (February 23 – March 4, 2018)
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Harvard Mumps Outbreak: Why Do Vaccinated People Get Sick?
Close living spaces in college dorms may make people particularly susceptible to the virus, even if they've been vaccinated.
By Rachel Rettner, Live Science
An outbreak of mumps at Harvard University continues to grow, and experts say the close living spaces in college dorms may make people particularly susceptible to the virus, even if they've been vaccinated.
This week, the Cambridge Public Health Department confirmed that more than 40 people at the university have been sickened with the mumps virus. The outbreak began in late February, when two students contracted the disease.
Mumps infections are fairly uncommon in the United States, with usually a couple hundred to a couple thousand cases occurring each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Outbreaks typically don't happen in the general population, but instead are more likely to occur among people who live in close quarters, such as college dorms, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease specialist and a senior associate at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Health Security. [9 Ways Going to College Affects Your Health]
5 Disease Outbreaks Linked to Vaccine-Shy Parents
That's because people in college dorms often share living spaces with dozens of people, giving them more opportunities to be exposed to the virus, either on surfaces or through contact with other people, Adalja said. Although being vaccinated against mumps can prevent a person from getting sick if he or she has been exposed to lower levels of the virus, for people living in dorms, vaccination may not be enough to ward off an infection, he said.
"The exposure that they have to mumps is so high in these situations that it overcomes the ability of the vaccine to protect them," Adalja told Live Science. "It may be that, in these special situations, a much higher level of antibodies [against mumps] is needed to keep the virus at bay," Adalja said.
People typically receive two doses of the mumps vaccine (which is part of the measles, mumps and rubella shot) in childhood, and the vaccine is up to 88 percent effective at preventing the disease. Adalja noted that in some past mumps outbreaks, colleges have given students an extra, third dose of the mumps vaccine, which was enough to quell these outbreaks.
MMR Vaccine: Here's Exactly What's in It
According to The Boston Globe, all of the infected students at Harvard were vaccinated against mumps. (The University has not suggested that people receive a third dose of the vaccine.)
Mumps causes swelling of the salivary glands, leading to puffy cheeks. It can also cause fever, headache, fatigue and loss of appetite, according to the CDC. Most people completely recover from the virus in a few weeks.
The virus is spread through saliva, and people can be contagious for up to two days before they show symptoms. The Cambridge Public Health Department is advising students with mumps to refrain from public activities for five days after they become ill.
Original article on Live Science.
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Schools may ban cell phones in emergencies
May. 3, 2006 12:00 a.m.
A Peninsula school district is considering banning students from calling parents on their mobile phones in the event of an emergency as part of greater restrictions on use of the devices.
The new policy, which goes before the San Mateo-Foster City School District Board of Trustees for a vote Thursday, states that during school emergencies all communication is to occur between school staff and parents. Students breaking the rule would be asked to put the cell phone away, and it could be confiscated if they refuse to comply, Assistant Superintendent Toni-Sue Passantino said.
“In time of a disaster, probably most of the cell phones will be down. And if they work, they might work in a way you don’t want them to work,” Assistant Superintendent Mary Willis said.
Last March, the district had a bomb scare at Bowditch Middle School in Foster City, and students were moved to nearby Audubon Elementary School. The scare was false, but students’ use of cell phones created chaos when excited parents unnecessarily arrived to pick up their children, Passantino said. Those students who weren’t picked up returned to Bowditch and finished their school day.
A cell phone could be a threat in and of itself during a real bomb situation, administrators said.
“Part of the problem is that the kids [make things] sound a little worse than they are. Things were under control,” Foster City Police Capt. Jon Froomin said.
But Cindy Taylor, a Bowditch parent who was at Audubon during the scare, said that while she understands why schools don’t want kids calling, she also probably would like a call.
“What happens if there’s an earthquake? That would really worry me if I wasn’t able to hear from my child,” Taylor said.
The policy is part of a larger set of rules that ban cell phone use during school hours. Most middle-school students have phones and obey the rules, administrators said, though several at Borel Middle School admitted to text-messaging during class Wednesday. But both students with and without phones said they don’t understand why they can’t call in an emergency.
“I think the kids could just call their moms and dads. It wouldn’t really matter if they talked to the staff, it would be the same thing,” said Joe Kwon, 12, who does not have a phone. “I think they made the law … because people were fooling around with it so much.”
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Bay Bridge work will complicate commutes, visits
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For Alison Sweeney, anything is possible. Shes a successful actress, TV host, producer, director and author who constantly inspires others with her balance of career with her focus on family, health and wellness. Sweeney is currently busy filming and producing TV movies for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. On September 26, Hallmark Channel will premiere her highly anticipated project LOVE ON THE AIR, for which she is both star and executive producer. Later this year, she will star and serve as co-executive producer of the second movie from the MURDER SHE BAKED franchise, premiering November 22 (9 pm ET/PT) on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Her first movie from the franchise, MURDER, SHE BAKED: A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE MYSTERY, was the highest rated movie in the channels history. No stranger to the camera, Sweeney began her acting at age 4 and at age 16, she joined the cast of DAYS OF OUR LIVES. In addition to her 21+ year career as Sami Brady, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for Best Lead Actress, Sweeney also hosted 13 seasons of NBCs inspirational series THE BIGGEST LOSER, hosted numerous live television specials and made many guest starring appearances on popular television series. She is also an accomplished author and brings her Hollywood insiders knowledge and keen sense of romance and fun to her novels. Her latest novel, OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS, will be released in April 2016 and is from the perspective of a fledgling makeup artist. Her previous novels include SCARED SCRIPTLESS, with a script supervisor as the lead, and THE STAR ATTRACTION, based on the story of a publicist. New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult described Sweeneys book as Great fun for any reader who secretly sneaks peeks at People magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store, and wonders, What if ? In addition to her fiction writing, Sweeney previously released two non-fiction books, the first of which was ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE (SO FAR) in 2004. In 2010, she released, THE MOMMY DIET, where she revealed the diet of nutrition, fitness and self-care that women can follow to look and feel fantastic before and during pregnancy, and after giving birth. Sweeney, who has graced most womens magazine covers including Good Housekeeping, Self, Shape, Prevention, Health and Redbook, for which she also contributes a monthly column. She also regularly appears in weekly magazines and on daytime talk shows to promote her projects and her philanthropic work as an Ambassador for Stand Up To Cancer, the Fitness Ambassador for City of Hope and a member of the Entertainment Council for Feeding America.She resides in Los Angeles with her husband Dave, a California Highway Patrol officer, and their 10-year-old son Ben and 6-year-old daughter Megan.For more information on Sweeneys tips for health, wellness, fashion and personal anecdotes, follow her on Twitter at @Ali_Sweeney.
Stories from Alison Sweeney
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Alison Sweeney: My tips for creating a healthy kitchen in 2016
Alison Sweeney: The pediatric cancer ward showed me everyday bravery
Alison Sweeney: ‘How I make my relationship work’
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Design & Protect
The Safest Route to Commercial Success
BARKER BRETTELL
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Registration of copyright is not necessary or possible in the UK/ EU. Works created on a computer will have time/date stamps. For other works, to be able to prove the date of creation if ever needed, you may wish to consider depositing a signed and dated copy of the relevant work with a solicitor, bank, or with an IP firm such as Barker Brettell.
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Copyright is infringed only by unauthorised reproduction of the work in question, or of a substantial part of that work. Dealing with infringing copies (such as selling or importing them) may also be considered infringement. However, copyright is not infringed by independent creation of the same work.
For example, reproducing somebody else’s photographs and including them in a book would infringe copyright. By way of a further example, infringement may occur by unauthorised distribution or installation of programs, copying and/or modification of source and/or object codes. Conversely, legitimate users of a programme, such as those who have legally obtained the work or a license to use the work, are entitled to make security backup copies of it and they may carry out “reverse engineering” and use its operating principles without infringing copyright.
To help assert copyright, each copyright work should be dated and marked “copyright of…”. Alternatively the symbol © can be used with the date and name of the copyright owner, for example © YEAR NAME. This will provide information to third parties, and may have a deterrent effect on competitors considering copying the work in question.
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Copyright lasts a long time, longer than any other intellectual property right – typically as long as the life of the creator of the copyright work plus seventy years. However, for artistic works that have been industrially manufactured to produce more than 50 copies, copyright is reduced to 25 years from first marketing of the work.
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The author of a work generally owns any copyright in it, unless the design was made in the course of the author’s employment in which case the copyright belongs to the employer. If there is an agreement that says otherwise, then that takes precedence.
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Why Turkey Is Authoritarian
RIGHT-WING RULE FROM ATATÜRK TO ERDOGAN
HALIL KARAVELI
Distributed in the USA by the University of Chicago Press
Order on Amazon.com
208 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 | © 2018
For the past century, Turkey has been seen by many as always on the verge of becoming a truly Westernized liberal democracy—only to have democracy lose ground time and again to authoritarianism. Why has that been the pattern, and what role have culture, identity, and religion played in Turkey’s struggle with democracy?
This book presents a clear analysis and explanation, showing how cultural prejudices about the Muslim world have informed ideological positions in a way that has ultimately disabled the left within Turkey, leaving it unable to transcend artificial cultural categories and promote broad democratic solidarity. As the populist right mounts challenges around the world, the history of “democracy” in Turkey offers instructive lessons for activists there and beyond.
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
“Informative, authoritative, and reliable, Karaveli's analysis of Turkish politics should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand Turkey's relentless retreat from democracy.”
CACI Event Invitation: Trans-Caspian Forum on Capitol Hill
Trans-Caspian Forum on Capitol Hill
The Trans-Caspian East-West Trade and Transit Corridor is a regional integrator, trade facilitator and viable transit connector between Europe and Asia. Comprising of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to the west, and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan and Afghanistan to the east of the Caspian Sea, this corridor brings together more than 200 million strong market and 400 billion in overall trade while connecting economies of the European Union and China along with access to Russia, Iran, Pakistan and India.
The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute invites you to join members of Congress, Congressional Staff and the delegates from the Trans-Caspian countries, to discuss emerging geopolitical importance of the bourgeoning energy and transportation network, as well as U.S. commercial interests arising from it.
Dr. Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi - Chief Advisor of the President of Afghanistan
Mr. Elmir Valizade - Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication, Azerbaijan
Mr. Genadi Arveladze - Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, Georgia
Mr. Fatih Metin, Deputy Minister of Economy, Turkey
Deputy Minister of Investment, Kazakhstan (name TBC)
Moderator: Fred Starr, Chairman, Central-Asia Caucasus Institute at AFPC
Where: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2167, 45 Independence Ave. SW 20515
When: Monday, May 17, 2018 from 9:30 am - 11:00 am
The U.S. and Turkey: Past the Point of No Return?
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/02/01/u-s-turkey-past-point-no-return/
MIDDLE EAST AFLAME
With Ankara and Washington on a collision course in northern Syria, both sides will have to rethink their priorities if they want to salvage an increasingly hollow alliance.
U.S.-Turkish relations have deteriorated for some time. But until recently, no one would have thought that the American and Turkish militaries, closely allied since the 1950s, could end up confronting each other directly. Yet in northern Syria today, that is no longer unthinkable.
In mid-January, to forestall U.S. intentions to build a “Border Security Force” composed mainly of Syrian Kurdish fighters, Turkey launched a military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave in northwestern Syria. On January 24, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his determination to move beyond Afrin into other parts of northern Syria, mentioning specifically the town of Manbij, where U.S. forces are deployed alongside Kurdish YPG troops. Turkish officials warned the United States to sever its ties to the Kurdish forces, which Turkey considers a terrorist group. This led President Donald Trump to tell Erdoğan to “avoid any actions that might risk conflict between Turkish and American forces.”
The collision course Ankara and Washington are on is making any notion of a Turkish-American alliance increasingly hollow. If a point of no return is to be avoided, both sides will have to rethink their priorities, and begin to build trust. That process can begin with an honest appraisal of how we got to this point, with America and Turkey on the verge of coming to blows.
In the United States, much of the blame has naturally been laid at the feet of Erdoğan, the headstrong and authoritarian Turkish President. To American eyes, it is easy to see how Erdoğan’s growing intolerance of dissent goes hand in hand with an increasingly adventurist foreign policy that directly challenges American interests. Yet while Erdogan is part of the problem, its full scope goes far beyond a single individual. The real story of the past several years is how the Syrian and Kurdish issues have interacted with Turkish domestic politics to pull Ankara and Washington apart.
Erdogan's Turkey: the Role of a Little Known Islamist Poet
By SVANTE CORNELL
When President Trump announced that the US had recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the region prepared for violence. Aside from a few days of sporadic protests, relatively little happened. Most Arab leaders – Saudi Arabia chief among them – took the decision in their stride. The one major exception was Turkey. This intriguing op-ed explores why the NATO ally has reacted as it has. Read on! The Editor.
Black Sea Security Roundtable Event Summary Online
Black Sea Security Roundtable
Event Summary by Jack Verser
On October 2, 2017, CACI hosted a roundtable, off-the-record discussion on Black Sea Security. The lunch discussion aggregated specialists from countries in the Black Sea region. Speakers at the lunch included American Foreign Policy Council Senior Fellow Stephen Blank, Margarita Assenova of the Jamestown Foundation, and Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Senior Fellow Mamuka Tsereteli.
The Black Sea Security Roundtable began with a discussion on the conversation’s newfound international relevance. In analyzing the current state of the Black Sea from the Georgian perspective, Minister Victor Dolidze emphasized that Georgia wants to be involved. He continued that Georgia views security in the region as its number one priority and wants to contribute to NATO efforts and interests, including the maritime, land, and air components of NATO Black Sea security efforts. The minister also emphasized that Georgia was currently the biggest non-NATO contributor to NATO missions and remains committed; however, they are interested in drawing a grand joint strategy to maintain stability and security with concrete Georgian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian contributions. In addition to these multilateral efforts, Georgia would like bilateral talks with other Black Sea bordering countries on the subject of trade, human rights, and security partnerships.
Inquiries were made to the minister regarding Georgian efforts to counter Russian encroachment into Georgia and the Black Sea region. According to the minister, despite the international efforts led by the U.S. against Russian aggression, Russian behavior, such as ethnic cleansing, and destruction of Georgian property has not stopped. It is therefore important to the Georgian people that their government promote policies that help the citizenry during this time, such as increased visa mobility, free health care to occupied territories, and hepatitis elimination efforts.
Following the minister’s remarks, AFPC’s Stephen Blank discussed hard security matters in the region and Russia’s role in the region. According to Dr. Blank, Russia has attempted to intimidate Black Sea countries by using “soft-power” techniques like imposing economic pressure and implementing information warfare. Despite Russia’s Zapad exercises and anxiety over the Baltic, Russia is building up its military in the Black Sea and in Ukrainian territory. The country is developing and implementing Anti-Aircraft “bubbles” in Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean, Armenia, and Turkey to cut off Ukrainian naval access to the Black Sea. Additionally, Dr. Blank argued that Russia may be engaging in GPS “spoofing” in the Black Sea to affect maritime trade, which could create a potential opportunity for Russia to engage in piracy in the region. While the tactics in this grand strategy are flexible according to Blank, Russia’s long term goal is to restore Soviet-level influence in the world, threatening the post-Soviet space and Europe. By inciting ethnic conflict and discord in western countries, Russia can project power and promote its strategic agenda. To Dr. Blank, the greatest threat to Russia is not a NATO invasion, but rather the democratic integration of Eurasia and the increased spread of NATO influence. Dr. Blank concluded that with increased western influence in his backyard, Putin would have to give up his imperialist dreams.
A question was raised on Georgia’s NATO cooperation and how it adapted to Turkey’s role in the region. According to Minister Dolidze, they have adapted well and coordinated effectively with NATO. The minister emphasized that Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia’s trilateral relationship built the basis for the modern Black Sea situation. Other participants, including Ms. Assenova, argued that Turkey’s recent coup and political changes have become the main problem for further cooperation in the Black Sea among these countries, and perceptions of Turkey have changed for the worse in the Balkans and Bulgaria. Islamist trends and the oppression of political opposition within Turkey threaten the Baltic countries. According to Ms. Assenova, the mistrust was a significant obstacle in forming a flotilla between Turkey and Bulgaria.
Ms. Assenova commented that Romanians are known for their cooperative and innovative efforts. Generally, Bulgaria’s intentions are aimed at maintaining the status quo, as the government is extremely weary of undertaking any security efforts independent of support from NATO or the Black Sea community. In order to align more closely with NATO, Bulgaria needs to modernize and de-Russify its military, replacing engine refurbishment efforts with Russia with analogous efforts in Poland, replacing Russian jets with other foreign jets, and the modernization of the Bulgarian flotilla. For these endeavors to be successful, Ms. Assenova argued that the Bulgarian defense budget must increase substantially, and profound cooperation between NATO, Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania must occur.
The roundtable then shifted focus to Black Sea security being one of the top priorities for Bulgaria. It was suggested that Bulgaria remained committed to NATO obligations; however, they emphasized the need to avoid abrupt change and act with caution, as the stakes were slightly higher for Bulgaria due to the 500,000 Russians in the region, Bulgarian investment, capital, and tourism are contingent on these Russians.
A Turkish participant emphasized the country’s status as a committed NATO ally and its plans to reestablish a Turkish influence in the Black Sea within the constraints of its current political climate. Turkey’s Black Sea influence is not static. According to Turkish representatives, there is strong Turkish support for China’s Belt Road and Initiative (BRI), and they hope China and India can begin to trade in the region. Turkey does not want to isolate other regions from the Black Sea, only emphasize the significant role Eastern Mediterranean Security plays in the Black Sea. Other participants also mentioned that this situation may serve as a good opportunity to improve the relationship between Turkey and the West and to unite against Russia. Turkey is optimistic about the Black Sea’s future, and supports any efforts toward long term security and stability.
Other participants assessed that Azerbaijan considers itself a part of the region. Energy security remains their priority, and they strive for secure energy flow from their Caspian resources to Black Sea countries. For this reason, a clear understanding of the security situation is important to them. They expressed concern over the ambiguity of the U.S. and EU positions in the region and inquired as to whether there were more flexible formats of achieving stability than working through the political and legal constraints of NATO. To Azerbaijan, the clock is ticking: there is no physical barrier to Russian encroachment into Georgia.
Those at the roundtable agreed that now is the time to pay attention and devote resources to the Black Sea. There are wide-reaching trade implications to any developments in this region, as well as geopolitical implications of increasing Russian aggression and influence. Multilateral authority via NATO, US, and Western involvement may be necessary to protect and unite smaller regional players together for the common goal of stability. Future talks and further bilateral relations are also necessary to this end.
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MANANNAN TO OPERATE ON REDUCED POWER
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company vessel Manannan is operating on reduced power after suffering a mechanical issue with one of her four engines. Berth-to-berth travel times are now expected to be around 20 minutes longer than originally scheduled depending on tidal conditions.
The issue is currently under investigation by Caterpillar engineers. The cause has not yet been conclusively identified, but early indications suggest a failed crankshaft, similar to the problem which occurred four years ago.
The Steam Packet Company has a spare crankshaft in stock, however the repair is a major undertaking and would take Manannan out of service for three to four days, potentially disrupting summer travel plans. As a result, a permanent repair is instead planned for the quieter period after the Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling.
Chief Executive Mark Woodward said: ‘Removing Manannan from service for three days during the busy summer period would cause inconvenience and disruption to many of our passengers, so we are planning to wait until a quieter period, in mid-September, to carry out the repair.
‘In the meantime, we will be deploying additional resources in the ports to ensure each sailing departs on time, or ahead of schedule, to allow Manannan to arrive at her destination as close as possible to her scheduled arrival time.’
Passengers are reminded of the importance of checking in for sailings no later than advised to help ensure potential delays are kept to a minimum. Repairs are provisionally scheduled for mid-September and as soon as dates are confirmed any passengers affected will be offered alternative sailings.
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ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET COMPANY SUPPORTS SKYDIVE TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CANCER CHARITY
Three generations of an Isle of Man family will skydive to raise funds for Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, supported by the Steam Packet Company.
Millie Cleverley, 67, her daughter Vicky Taylor, 39, and her granddaughter Jasmine Cane, 19, are being sponsored to jump from 15,000 feet on 26th March.
The Steam Packet Company is supporting the fundraising by covering the cost of travel to and from the UK for the skydive.
The family decided to start fundraising after Neill Cleverley, Millie’s husband, received treatment at Clatterbridge Hospital.
She explained: ‘While at the hospital I saw that the Clatterbidge Cancer Charity was looking for assistance with fundraising and I knew it was something I wanted to help with.
‘A lot of Island residents are grateful for the care received at Clatterbridge, my family included, so I wanted to give something back and thank them for helping us during a tough time.’
She added: ‘I would like to thank everyone who has supported us so far, especially the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company for covering the cost of our travel.
‘Our original fundraising goal was £1,200 but thanks to the generosity of those who have donated we have been able to hugely exceed that and the current total is £2,647. We’re delighted with that amount, but we will continue to raise as much as we can.’
Clatterbridge Cancer Charity researches the latest cancer treatments and therapies as well as supporting patients and their families during their time at the hospital.
Steam Packet Company Chief Executive Mark Woodward said: ‘There are many Island residents who will have a connection with Clatterbridge Cancer Charity, so we are very pleased to support Millie and her family fundraise. It’s very special to see three generations join together to raise money for such an important cause.’
If you would like to support Millie, Vicky and Jasmine you can donate by searching ‘Millie Cleverley’ on www.justgiving.com.
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Home | Press Releases Thursday 8 October 2015
S. Sudan civil society groups to the 28 states issue to constitutional body
South Sudan Civil Society Organizations Submission on the Creation of 28 States in the Republic of South Sudan
For immediate Release 8th October 2015
Following the announcement of Presidential Order No 36/2015 for the creation of 28 states in Republic of South Sudan instead of the existing 10 states as provided for in the Transitional Constitution of South Sudan (TCSS) 2011 (amended 2015), we the under signed civil society organizations wish to reiterate our loyalty and respect to the Constitution on discussing matters pertaining to the nation. Therefore we would like to make the following submissions regarding this critical and urgent matter of national concern. Our submissions will mainly fall under three categories;
1. Legal and political implications
(1) The creation of 28 states poses serious legal and political implications on ground of procedural irregularities, violation of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) read together with the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan, in our opinion the timing of this decision is unfortunate and can lead to increase burden on the already over stretched economic status, national revenue and human resource capacity deficit that exists in South Sudan. Finally, creation of states along ethnic lines will encourage ethnicity and exacerbate the already existing conflict among South Sudanese communities and lead to total loss of efforts made to rejuvenate the destroyed social fabric of our nation.
(2) The Republic of South Sudan is politically organized by the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) on two bases to reflect: unity in diversity and democratic and decentralized system of governance which is reflected in some provisions of the constitution such as article 36 (1) which reads “All levels of government shall promote democratic principles and political pluralism, and shall be guided by the principles of decentralization and devolution of power to the people through the appropriate levels of government where they can best manage and directs their affairs”. In other words, to achieve these two objectives, Article 162 (1) created South Sudan as a country composed of ten states governed on the basis of decentralization.
(3) The TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) does not have express provision for creation of new States.
However, Article 59 (a) of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) grants the Council of State power to “initiate legislation on the decentralized system of government and other issues of interest to the states and pass such legislation with two-thirds majority of all representatives” In addition, Article 59 (g) provided for the Council of State to “approve changes in state names, capital towns and boundaries respectively”. Therefore, the scope and powers of the Council of State with regard to creating new states in this case is important to assess the constitutionality of the Presidential Order purporting to create 28 new States in the Republic of South Sudan.
(4) The purported creation of 28 states complicates the agreed power sharing ratios in the recently signed peace agreement on the resolution of conflict in South Sudan between different political actors particularly the two major partners-the Government of South Sudan and the armed opposition SPLM/A in Opposition, which brings about a new constitutional dispensation in the country. In other words, any attempt by either of the parties to unilaterally create new power sharing formula particularly as stated under Order 9 of the Presidential Order No 36/2015, which intends to actualize the appointment of Governors and operationalize state government in the 28 newly created states prior to participation of the other stakeholders, will take the parties back to the drawing board and definitely opened up the already signed peace agreement for renegotiation which amounts to violation of the Agreement.
2. Authority of the Presidential Order No/36/2015
(5) While the Presidential Order No 36/2015 is said to derive its Authority from the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) under the provisions of Articles 36(1), 166 (6) (a) & (b), 101 (b) (f) (k) and (u) respectively. In details, article 36 (1), provide the principle of decentralization and devolution of powers as political objectives of the state while article 166 (6) (a) and (b) provide objectives of local government to “promote self-governance and enhance the participation of people and communities in maintaining law and order and promoting democratic, transparent and accountable local government” (b) “establish the local government institutions as close as possible to the people” Article 101 (b) provide for power of the President to “supervise constitutional and executive institutions and provide exemplary leadership in public affairs” Article 101 (f) accords the President power to “initiate constitutional amendments and legislation and assent to and sign into law bills passed by the National Legislature” Article 101 (k) gives the President power to establish independent institutions and commissions; and finally Article 101 (u) provide the President with powers to “perform any other function as may be prescribed by law”.
3. Conclusion and recommendations
(6) In light of the above authority cited by the Presidential Order No 36/2015 for creation of 28 states, and with exception of Article 101 (f), all the rest of the provisions of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) cited in the order do not grant powers to the President to create new States or alter boundaries of existing states. The only mandatory provision that could have warranted the Presidential Order is 101 (f). According to this article the president can initiate constitutional amendments, yet such amendment would have to undergone the normal process of introducing an amendment Bill to the National Legislature one month in advance of the deliberations. The proposal would have asked for amendment of Article 162 (1) in this case that established “the territory of South Sudan as composed of ten states and other relevant articles of the TCSS 2011 (amended 2015)
(7) Order 1 paragraph 2 provides that the establishment order shall come into force in 30 working days from the date of its signature by the President. That means the legal effect of order 1 stand to be a provisional order and not a proposed amendment of the TCSS 2011 (amended 2015). To the contrary, the power to issue self-standing orders is limited by the constitution under article 86 (5) which reads “the President shall not make any provisional order on matters affecting the Bill of Rights, the decentralized system of government, general elections, annual allocation of resources and financial revenue, penal legislation or alteration of administrative boundaries of the States”
(8) Therefore, quoting Article 86 (5) of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015), as one of the articles that the Presidential Order No: 36/2015 derives authority from for the creation of 28 states cannot be justified and as a result renders such order unconstitutional and as a violation of the same article 86 (5), article
162 (3) and (4) of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) which is an exclusive legislative competence of the Council of State to name or alter boundaries of the state by necessary legislation or by resolution and not otherwise.
(9) Finally and in the spirit of Article 99 of the TCSS 2011 (amended 2015) we humbly urge the
President and his advisors to review the decision to create 28 states by considering the following
i. Suspend the Presidential Order No/36/2015 during the pre-transitional period and allow for proper constitutional amendment procedures in order to create room for greater participation of people of South Sudan, all political actors and other none- state actors in discussions regarding this important matter, after which the agreed principles shall be implemented in accordance with the law;
ii. Establish National Boundaries Commission to immediately engaged in the study of the administrative boundaries of the states prior to introduction of the proposed amendment of Article 162 (1) of the TCSS, 2011 (amended 2015) in order to avoid communal conflict over ownership of lands;
iii. The security of the people of South Sudan is dependent on the President’s decision, therefore we further urge the President to willingly stay the implementation of the order and lead the nation toward realization of sustainable peace under the provisions of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan 2015 and later present the idea of 28 states as a proposal to be deliberated upon by the Reconstituted National Constitution Review Commission to be created under the provisions of the Peace Agreement.
For more information please contact NNGO Focal Person through nngo-?fp@southsudanngoforum.org
1. Assistance Mission for Africa (AMA)
2. Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO)
3. Citizens for Peace and Justice (CPJ)
4. Dialogue Research Initiative (DRI)
5. EVE Organization for Women and Development
6. End Impunity Organization (EIO)
7. Gardet Pentagon
8. Manna Development Agency (MADA)
9. Rural Action Against Hunger (RAAH)
10. South Sudan Democratic Engagement Monitoring and Observation Program (SSUDEMOP)
11. South Sudan Women Empowerment Network (SSWEN)
12. South Sudan Peace Initiative for Development (SPIDO)
13. Solidarity Ministries Africa for Reconciliation and Development
14. SALF
15. Voice for Change
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Space Image of the Day Gallery (October 2014)
By Tom Chao 2014-11-11T17:49:23Z
Image of the Day Archives
NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University)
For older Image of the Day pictures, please visit the Image of the Day archives. Pictured: NGC 2467.
Quiet Night Thought
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014: Large, degraded crater Li Po on Mercury appears in the lower half of this image obtained by MESSENGER spacecraft on October 29, 2011. Li Po (701-762), a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, was known for poems about friendship, nature, and wine. One of his best-known poems is called, "A Quiet Night Thought." Image released Sept. 29, 2014.
— Tom Chao
Shining Star for You to See
ESA/Hubble & NASA
Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014: Star AG Carinae (HD 94910) shines in this new image by Hubble Space Telescope. The star lies 20,000 light-years away, a member of the Milky Way, lying in the constellation of Carina in the southern sky. Researchers consider AG Carinae a Luminous Blue Variable, a massive evolved star that will one day become a Wolf-Rayet Star, tens of thousands to several million times as luminous as our sun. Stars similar to AG Carinae lose mass at an extremely rapid rate, blowing off mass in powerful stellar winds that blast up to 4.3 million miles/hour (7 million km/hour). HD 94910 cannot be seen with the naked eye as much of its output is in the ultraviolet.
We're Shooting Up Flares
NASA/SDO
Friday, Oct. 3, 2014: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught this image of a mid-level solar flare, M5.1 class, erupting from the sun on Sept. 27, 2014. Solar flares arise when the sun emits powerful bursts of radiation. Radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to harm humans on the ground. However intense flares can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel, disrupting telecommunications systems.
Little Lighthouse
James L. Jenkins Jr.
Monday, Oct. 6, 2014: Astrophotographer James L. Jenkins Jr. sent in a photo of the Milky Way over Bodie Light on North Carolina's Hatteras National Seashore. He writes: “This image of Bodie Light is from a single frame taken on July 17, 2014, during a rare break in summertime haze and humidity. The lighthouse was not lit that evening and the moon was below the horizon granting me unlimited exposure time to capture the dark sky's natural light. This photograph is a single exposure .... Light balance was minimally enhanced using Photoshop Elements.”
The Way That Gravity Pulls on You and Me
NASA/Colorado School of Mines/MIT/GSFC/Scientific Visualization Studio
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014: The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, collected data to produce this image showing the topography of Earth’s moon. Gravity anomalies bordering the Procellarum region appear superimposed in blue. The image depicts border structures using gravity gradients calculated with information obtained by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Researchers interpret these gravity anomalies as ancient lava-flooded rift zones buried beneath the volcanic plains (or maria) on the nearside of the moon. Image released October 1, 2014.
Lunar Eclipse and Capitol Dome
Caroline Angelo
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014: Astrophotographer Caroline Angelo sent in a photo of the Oct. 8, 2014, lunar eclipse as seen from the east side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
I’m on the Edge of Glory
ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Nick Rose
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014: Spiral galaxy NGC 4206 lies roughly 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. This new Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy as it appears to us, edge-on. Streaks of dust partly obscure the central bulge. On the edges of the galaxy, scattered bluish clumps indicate areas where stars form. The bulge consists mainly of older, redder stars, and very little star formation takes place there. Researchers imaged NGC 4206 as part of a Hubble snapshot survey of nearby edge-on spiral galaxies to explore the effect that the material between the stars, the interstellar medium, has on light travelling through. Image released Oct. 6, 2014.
Mighty Like a Rosette Nebula
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Coelum
Friday, Oct. 10, 2014: The central part of the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2239) appears in this large-scale view obtained by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope located atop the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The nebula consists of a cloud of glowing gas heated by stars which formed only a few million years ago in the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The hot, newly born stars in this center ionize the ambient hydrogen gas, causing it to emit red light, an indicator of star formation in galaxies.
Livin' Large
SOHO/ESA & NASA
Monday, Oct. 13, 2014: STEREO (Behind) spacecraft obtained this image of a large prominence and coronal mass ejection as they erupted into space from the sun (Sept. 26, 2014). Scientists combined images from three instruments in order to see the eruption itself (in extreme UV light), as well as following its development over a period of about 13 hours with two coronagraphs.
NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014: NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (bottom) performed the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2014. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (not pictured) also took part in the spacewalk. The spacewalkers toiled outside the space station's Quest airlock, relocating a failed cooling pump to external stowage. They also installed gear that provides back-up power to external robotics equipment. The spacewalk lasted 6 hours, 13 minutes.
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Malaysia's Got Talent
The chartered accountant by qualification is a Cambridge graduate, who returned and worked with several large companies and an accounting firm, before he joined the Government in 2004. In an interview with StarBizWeek's JAGDEV SINGH SIDHU and JEEVA ARULAMPALAM, he talks about plans to overcome the protracted and critical issue of brain drain and drawing talent back home.
SBW: What has been the feedback you have received so far?
There is no shortage of advice. The amazing thing is that you meet so many people who are so passionate about this. Sometimes you think Malaysia is the typical Asian country, where people are out to make money. But when you talk about the education of human capital, it's amazing how passionate people are. You meet various people who go out of their way to do good in this space.
I am at this early stage of trying to address policy impediments and see what can be done to better enable this process. The response has been quite overwhelming.
What has Talent Corp been up to?
A key enabler to achieve the ambition to transform into a higher income economy is talent. Clearly, the Malaysian diaspora is an important part of the equation; we have many Malaysians all over the world and many are successful. We want them to help Malaysia in the transformation. But Talent Corp's mandate has to go beyond bringing back the diaspora.
We have to accept that many people have left the country for a variety of reasons. Many of these reasons will not be immediately remediable. At the same time, we should be doing a better job of engaging with Malaysians overseas and convincing them of the opportunities here.
I strongly believe there are many ways that Malaysians can contribute without necessarily returning.
For example, Prof Danny Quah, who is head of economics at LSE. There is really no proposition for him to come home. To be fair, it would not be optimising him to come home. He now has a platform to contribute to the country. He is a member of the NEAC, which was influential in coming up with the New Economic Model and he regularly comes to Malaysia as part of his work.
There are others too, like Jimmy Choo who belongs in the global fashion capital. Now we see him coming back more often and setting up the shoe institute. There are others in the Silicon Valley or leading finance experts in New York. That is where they are optimised professionally.
There are other ways we can leverage off them, maybe through advisory positions, board positions, reverse investments, helping our companies go out and enter new markets. We also need to be quite open to foreign talent. The layman may take a simplistic view that foreign talent is a substitute for Malaysian talent and for every foreign talent that comes in, it is taking away a Malaysian job. I think that presumption needs to be challenged. If there are foreign talents that are committed and can contribute to the country, why not embrace them?
As Malaysia moves towards a knowledge economy, we recognise that the presence of diversity is good. In fact, Malaysia's strength is in its diversity.
Having a talent pool of foreigners and the mingling of workers from different backgrounds and expertise in effect raises productivity. In some ways, that is what you see in the Silicon Valley.
But we must not forget about Malaysians. That part of the job scope for Talent Corp does not immediately come to mind because there are many government agencies and departments that are addressing this. We see ourselves as a strategic intervention.
Essentially, the mandate seems very broad. What exactly does Talent Corp need to do?
To do what it takes. We are trying to be quite focused, in terms of interventions that make sense over a time horizon. In the short term, few specific interventions are required. The first is immigration. That tackles two segments - the foreigners and the Malaysian diaspora. Then, there is scholarships, and that is targeted at Malaysians.
Initially, it is identifying what the policy enablers are and removing impediments.
The resident pass has a multi-pronged purpose. On one hand, there are foreign talent that get posted here by their multi-nationals for, say three to five years. Typically, at the end of their tour of duty, the MNC will post them somewhere else but many expatriates grow to love Malaysia and would like to commit further to the country.
Sometimes work permits tend to be specific to an employer, so a resident pass is really intended to be a 10-year visa which allows a person to resign and work in Malaysia without really being tied to a specific employer. That is targeted to expatriates who can contribute to our economic transformation and will enable us to secure a longer term commitment from those top talents.
At the same time, we have to recognise that there are those who may no longer be Malaysians. For example, children of Malaysians who move overseas for education. These people should be given the opportunity to remain connected to the country and the resident pass would be an option to come back easily to work in Malaysia.
As for scholarships, we have bright Malaysians who often top various examinations everywhere and are funded by the Government. They have greater flexibility on where to serve their bond and this is important for scholars. They are optimised by working in various strategic sectors.
Wouldn't all of this hinge on job demand?
It needs to be premised on demand, in terms of what the industry needs. We wouldn't want a situation where a Malaysian, who is an expert in a niche area, comes back but there is no company, industry or eco-system to support his work.
So, we should focus on industries that are thriving, competitive and relevant for global talent. It is for Talent Corp to have a good understanding of these sectoral requirements and address the policy impediments and create policy enablers to enable talent supply to meet industry demands.
It is not our ambit to be a headhunter on a one-to-one basis and to crowd out the private sector. The Government's role is to address market failure or coordination failure and look at policy and work together with industries to understand their needs.
Many have left for better job opportunities. There is also dissatisfaction with local politics and race-related issues or parents who wanted a better future for their kids. Is there a line Talent Corp will draw in the type of people it wants to bring back to Malaysia?
Talent Corp needs to, using consultant speak, be focused on ?winnable spaces.? We ought to focus on the type of talent that industry needs and those who will want to come back or contribute from where they are.
People who have left have done so for a variety of reasons. Typically, there are three buckets.
One is economic in terms of higher pay, the other is professional development whose skills are best optimised elsewhere and the third is broader macro-issues such as public transport, education for their children and all that.
I strongly believe there is a strong proposition to Malaysia. We clearly have great opportunities arising from the government transformation and economic transformation and it is an exciting period in the country's history.
On the more economic side we have sectors that are regionally or globally competitive, whether it is palm oil or Islamic finance or electronics and within that, we clearly have companies that are best in class. There are exciting opportunities for top talent.
Do you think the success of Talent Corp hinges on the success of the ETP?
It's a symbiotic relationship. The economic transformation requires talent and if we don't ensure our best talent where they are best optimised, we may not succeed in our transformation. We want to have the means to shift the odds a bit so that we are able to channel our top talent to support our economic transformation. As that happens, that in itself creates more opportunities and becomes a draw for talent.
How does Talent Corp plan to get in touch with the Malaysian diaspora?
We have various means of engaging with them. At any one point, there are various missions from here that go out and these include corporate leaders. I hope they could be a part of it. Talent Corp will not succeed on its mission alone.
To have a conversation with someone to return, the credibility of that conversation will definitely be strengthened if it is done by someone within the same industry.
A doctor overseas will most probably want to talk to another doctor who has returned. One way is to partner with established individuals to reach out to those people.
We have established networks through our own embassies. In today's technology, we need to leverage on social media and that is one tract I need to develop.
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Hannah Fries is an award-winning poet, writer, and editor whose work has been featured in numerous publications including Orion, American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her first book of poetry, Little Terrarium, was published in 2016 by Hedgerow Books. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was awarded a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. A native of New Hampshire, Fries is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. She lives in the woods of western Massachusetts.
Books by Hannah Fries
Forest Bathing Retreat
Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner
People have been retreating to the woods for quiet, meditation, and inspiration for centuries, and recent research finds that time spent in the forest doesn’t just feel good but is, in fact, good for you. Inspired by the Japanese concept of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, poet Hannah Fries invites readers to bask in the company of trees, whether in a city park or a rural nature preserve.
Fries combines her own reflections and guided mindfulness exercises with a curated selection of inspirational writing from poets, naturalists, artists, scientists, and thinkers throughout the centuries and across cultures, including Japanese haiku masters, nineteenth-century European Romantics, American Transcendentalists, and contemporary environmentalists. Accompanied by beautiful forest photography, Forest Bathing Retreat is a distinctive gift that invites frequent revisiting for fresh insights and inspiration.
Dragon Breath: A Fire Cider Tasting (Times Two)
’Tis the season. Winter has been long and cold. The woodpile is shrinking. Immune systems are battle-weary while viruses are just flexing their microscopic muscles. (Or they would be, if they had muscles.) What do we have to protect ourselves with, besides measly hand soap? … Read More
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As a region which cherishes its unique cuisine, it’s no small wonder that the Virgin Islands is home to a more than a few world-class chefs who help spread the word about Island cooking through their phenomenal cuisine. We’ve interviewed a few of our favorites, some of the brightest culinary stars of the Virgin Islands.
Chef Ralph Motta, Culinary Ambassador for the US Virgin Islands
Chef Ralph Motta is as Crucian as they come. Warm, with a kind, welcoming smile Chef Ralph is an inspiring figure in the culinary world, one who is helping put the Virgin Islands on the foodie map. And people are taking notice; Black Enterprise Magazine named him BE Modern Man of 2015. A self-taught chef who has risen through the ranks after starting off studying art at New York City’s Pratt Institute, Chef brings an artist’s touch to every dish he creates.
“At the moment my style can be described as a ‘Modern Crucian Fusion.’ Blending our traditional recipes with techniques and flavors from abroad,” says Motta.
“My culinary skills are mostly self-taught. However, I credit my parents with teaching me the basics of Crucian cuisine starting from when I was a young age. After transferring to New York, I found myself needing to perfect my meager culinary skills. This came as a necessity to survive my remaining college years. By the time I graduated from art school, my constant practice in the kitchen was paying off.” He’s certainly right about that – Chef Motta launched his own business in 2014, Motta Cuisine, where he serves as Executive Chef and was recently named the Culinary Ambassador for the US Virgin Islands.
But how did he arrive at such a prestigious position? Chef tells us. “After graduation, I got a job at a catering company in Manhattan and began honing my culinary talents. The following year, with the help of my roommates, I launched Motta Cuisine, a boutique catering company that was located in Spanish Harlem at the time. I would have to credit my parents and my old roommates for giving me the courage to launch myself as a chef.”
As someone who has come so far in such a short amount of time, Chef Ralph has plenty of advice for young people interested in following his path. “If you are thinking about joining the culinary field do your research and figure out what solution works best for you. In my case, I always say myself as the entrepreneurial type that enjoyed being self-employed. The idea of working my way up in a kitchen over the years from dish washing to Executive Chef just didn’t work for me. So I took the fast route. I started my own business and never looked back.” – Chef Ralph Motta. For more information, check out his website at: www.mottacuisine.com.
Chef LeAnna Bennerson, Owner & Chef de Cuisine at Ultimate Chef Services USVI
Ultimate Chefs is the brainchild of Chef LeAnna Bennerson who is all about highlighting the unique flavors of the Virgin Islands and helping people experience them in new ways all while using super fresh local ingredients. People rave about her private chef service and if you head over to her Instagram, it’s easy to see why. Plate after plate of gorgeously presented delectable dishes that food lovers are dying to try! A superb talent in a world that is often dominated by men, Chef LeAnna is as hard working and dedicated as she is friendly and gracious.
“I’ve always enjoyed cooking from a very young age. I paid very close attention to my mother Jennifer Crawford and grandmothers Vivian Bennerson and Valentine Smith as they worked wonders in the kitchen. They are the people who motivated me to take this route, along with my late father Gregory A. Bennerson,” says Chef LeAnna when talking about what influenced her to embark on a career in the culinary world. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Food Service Management with a minor in Culinary Arts and Cruise Operations at Johnson & Wales University, she traveled across the mainland, “which had a great impact on my kitchen experience. My experience working in the culinary field expands over 15 years so I’ve had the opportunity to cook for many different restaurants and people.” This experience has helped her define her cooking style which Chef describes as “French-Caribbean. I love using French cooking techniques and flavors while staying true to my Caribbean background using fresh local ingredients and spices.”
Dedicated to her craft, after working in restaurants for nearly two decades, Chef LeAnna opened her own catering company which provides private chef services to USVI visitors. Knowing the importance of early exposure to food, Chef has big plans for the future. “I hope to one day be able to broaden the culinary world for our students by having an organization that will provide meals for them in school that are both healthy and adventurous which can possibly spark an interest in this field. But most importantly, it will help them make better choices with food. The culinary world is such a broad spectrum and there is a place for everyone who loves cooking or baking.” – Chef LeAnna Bennerson, Ultimate Chef Services, http://www.ultimatechefservices.com/
Chef Julius Jackson, Manager at MBW Cafe & Bakery, Partner Shelly’s Cakes and Catering
Chef Julius Jackson doesn’t just don his chef’s hat. He’s a professional boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics as well as an incredibly talented chef who has appeared on the Food Network and is known for his charity work. His imposing physique is softened by his easy-going nature and ready smile. With a real passion for his work, he knows how to knock people out both in the ring and with his delicious dishes.
“At first, I got into the culinary field because I like to eat, but then I fell in love with the art and science of making food look and taste good,” Chef Julius tells us. After graduating with an Associates Degree in Culinary Arts from Florida Culinary Institute, Chef Julius went on to work at
Marriott Frenchman’s Reef, West Palm Beach Marriott, and Fat Turtle, and eventually moved on to his current projects, a partnership with Shelly’s Cakes and Catering, and MBW Cafe & Bakery.
“When I cook, I think about making meals for the family. One main influence on my cooking is thinking about meals that cater to home cooking. My style is a mixture of homestyle cooking, Caribbean flavor, classical cuisine and a dash of healthy cooking.” And the inspiration for his signature style isn’t far from home. There was one driving force who helped motivate his decision to enter the culinary world. “I credit my mom for two reasons. First, she took a long time to prepare meals plus would always give me the first taste testers (since I was standing there waiting for food) and it convinced me that I wanted to be able to make my own food. Secondly, she made me promise that I would further my education.” In between managing MBW Cafe and Bakery and partnering with Shelly’s Cakes and Catering, Chef Jackson is a busy man. A new father who just signed a deal to write his first cookbook, he is active with various charities on the islands and is still active in the boxing world.
“Hard work always pays off. So, read a lot. I would recommend culinary school. When you do go to work, find a chef or lead cook that will act as your mentor. Use your spare time wisely. Always try new things.” – Julius Jackson. Connect with Chef Julius over on his Twitter: @Juliusthechef1
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Löwengrip in Sydney
18 March, 2019 /0 Comments/in Frontpage Article, News /by Niclas Westling
by Anna Alvsdotter
Influencer beauty entrepreneur found her perfect partner.
Now they’re about to make Australia glow.
If you haven’t heard of Blondinbella, you’ve probably lived under a rock for the past decade and a half.
Your other excuse would be residing in Australia, as her beauty brand is only just being introduced to our market through the Myer stores. The leading influencer in the Nordics with an audience of 1.5 million weekly followers, Isabella Löwengrip and her online alter ego Blondinbella have featured regularly in Swedish media.
Together with her perfect side-kick Pingis Hadenius, she runs businesses with a combined turnover of $10 million, and more than 50 employees. The pair has started several companies and co-written two books on economics.
An evening in early March, I have the pleasure of acting as moderator and interviewer during a sold-out event at the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship.
“It’s important to be a role model”, says Isabella. “I started my first blog when I was 14 when I moved out of home by myself. My followers have been with me for the entire journey. They’ve seen me going from nothing, being bullied at school, having acne, and I started my own company together with Pingis.
Today, it’s the fastest growing Swedish beauty company. I think being transparent, that they can see the entire journey, and being very honest about all sides in life. To show that anything is possible, and I think people love to follow other positive people”, Isabella explains.
“What you see with Isabella is that she dares to open up her life – it’s not the perfect, polished just beautiful images”, says Pingis. “It’s that as well, but it’s all the content behind, and you really get to follow a real person that you can relate to.” In business circles, they are relatively young. Isabella Löwengrip is only 28 and started a beauty blog when she was in her mid-teens. Being a leading influencer, her advice on how to handle negativity, ridicules and detractors is useful.
“If I get a hundred comments, and maybe ten of them would say that I’m too fat, or something about my skin… They can find anything [negative to say], and I think a lot of women maybe focus on the bad ten instead of thinking about the 90 positives”, she says.
“I don’t care about what people are saying. And maybe that’s my biggest strength in life. I NEVER care. I just want to be happy and run our business together, and travel and make people glow”. The bit about making people glow is a light-hearted way to slip in a little promotion of their latest product.
The tight connection between these two powerhouses is noticeable. Discussing the importance of open communication and honesty, Pingis Hadenius says they’ve never had an argument in all the years working together. “Of course we discuss things, but there’s never an emotional side to it. It’s never private, it’s always professional, what’s best for the business. Say I walked into [this event] here, and Isabella said, ‘What are you wearing, this is not the right outfit’. I’d just think ‘Ok that’s probably not good for the business’, and I’d just change my outfit. We can be so open and honest with each other”.
The two Löwengrip Beauty AB founders sparkle with enthusiasm, keen to share their story of entrepreneurial success and valuable start-up advice. The audience is even treated to the true story about their business partnership. “We realised we were seeing the same guy, so we got to know each other. And then we stopped seeing him, and then we started a company instead. And that’s much more sustainable”, Löwengrip states, in a matter-of-fact manner.
“You get something out of every relationship” adds Hadenius. “I noticed straight away how direct you are, and I love that myself. I remember sending you an email saying – Let’s write a book together, and you were like, OK!”
Writing their book on financial literacy, Economista, they set the tone for their future working arrangement.
Hadenius manages the business and sales, while Löwengrip’s role is mainly to be in charge of product development and the whole brand building. “You have to do what you love because every day is a struggle. You have to do what you’re passionate about.”
Recorded video from the seminar
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and the winners of the 2018 Swedish Australian Business Awards are
30 November, 2018 /0 Comments/in Frontpage Article, News /by Camilla Jennings
The winners of this year’s Awards were presented at the Chamber’s Annual Christmas & Awards Event 29 November 2018. The event attracted 150 members and guests from the Swedish Australian business community. The evening included a Swedish School Lucia performance, a special music performance by The Marais Project, Swedish Christmas buffet,
presentation by guest speaker Ms Emma Walsh, CEO Parents At Work and the announcement of the 2018 Swedish Business in Australia award winners:
1. Excellence in Business Enterprise
ALIMAK GROUP
2. Excellence in Innovation
VOLVO BUS AUSTRALIA
3. Excellence in Small Business
KINGHILL
4. Young Business Executive/Young Entrepreneur
ERIK ABELSSON, DIAKRIT
5. The Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce Honorary Award
SWEDISH SCHOOL IN SYDNEY
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How the French Revolution Is Inspiring Today’s Online Anti-capitalists
No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied — and sometimes bloodied — past. This week, she talks about the language of revolution and anti-capitalism popping up everywhere.
By Kim Kelly
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It was a time of rampant, crushing inequality; the über-wealthy upper class of a powerful nation-state sat upon gilded thrones, while the lower classes scraped out a miserable existence. Aristocrats depleted the nation’s treasury in pursuit of pleasure while the serrated class divides between the haves and have-nots grew sharper, and eventually fanned the flames of a full-scale rebellion. In 2019, this state of affairs sounds familiar — but this was 18th-century France, not the modern-day U.S. When the people rose up and stormed the Bastille in 1789, the revolution began in earnest, and the ancien régime was toppled. The ensuing years of radical fervor saw the streets of Paris run red with the blood of elites and those suspected of hostility to the revolution, and the difficult birth of a new, more democratic republic. The French Revolution — as complex and brutal as it was — remains a symbol of working-class resistance centuries later, and its iconography continues to inspire a new (and very online) generation of the oppressed.
Though many — but certainly not all — of the uprising’s chief architects were men, women played a crucial, militant role in the French Revolution, and two totems of dread femininity became distinct icons of the time: Madame Deficit and Madame Guillotine, nicknames for the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette and the ruthlessly efficient device that killed her. Their influence has carried on through the centuries, and remain touchstones for today’s crop of working-class dissidents.
Marie Antoinette was a child of privilege. Born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna in Austria in 1755, at 14 she was married off to Louis-Auguste, the future King Louis XVI. At 19, following the death of Louis XV, she became the Queen of France. She had a tumultuous relationship with her husband, and drowned her sorrows in extravagant fashion and other indulgences, frittering away eye-popping amounts of the public’s money as the population suffered. For this, she was dubbed “Madame Deficit,” and reviled by the populace, who got their revenge in 1793 when they introduced her to Madame Guillotine.
Versions of the guillotine itself date back to the Middle Ages, known as a planke in Germany, the Halifax Gibbet in England, and the Maiden in Scotland. It was formally introduced to France in 1791 after physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin helped pass a law in 1789 stating the device be used as a means to enact all capital punishment quickly and efficiently via decapitation. This privilege had previously only been afforded to the nobility due to its relative painlessness (in comparison, before the Revolution, peasants found guilty of crimes were hanged). The device was originally called a louisette or louison after its inventor, Antoine Louis, but it soon became known as la guillotine — or, later, la veuve (the widow) and le rasoir national (the National Razor). During the French Revolution, the guillotine was used to behead thousands of people, especially during the violent period known as the Reign of Terror.
Marie Antoinette was executed by the instrument on October 16, two days after the disgraced royal was convicted of treason and condemned to lose her head. Her death came several months after her husband met the same fate, and not long after, Marie Antoinette allegedly uttered her famously callous bon mot in response to reports of French peasants starving for bread — “Let them eat cake” (which probably never actually happened, but why let facts get in the way of a good story?).
A version of the phrase was attributed to Marie-Thérèse, a Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in the 17th century and was rumored to have recommended that the hungry masses eat pâté; a variation of the quote was also said to be uttered by “a great princess” as described by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his 1766 autobiographical Confessions. Some historians argue that the phrase would have actually been uncharacteristic of the queen, who, despite her lavish tastes, was an intelligent woman who showed interest in the laboring classes and even had her own “model village,” constructed as an escape from court life. Regardless, the line remains closely linked with Antoinette in the popular imagination.
French revolutionaries took a great deal of inspiration from Rousseau’s writings, particularly his two great works Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. The texts railed against private property and emphasized the “general will,” a collectively held determination for the common good that became a cornerstone of republican thought (in this instance, republicanism refers to a system of government in which a nation is ruled by the people through their representatives; the United States is arguably both a republic and a democracy). Pre-Revolutionary France was a monarchy, in which the king wielded ultimate power over his subjects; by forcing the creation of a republic, revolutionaries transferred power to the people.
Rousseau’s most enduring contribution to the current revolutionary discourse, though, came via a 1789 speech. As writer Talia Lavin noted in a recent piece on the phrase’s origins, his pithy warning — “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich” — has become a rallying cry on social media and at contemporary political protests, where the people’s great and terrible anger at the economic predation of the 1% has helped propel a resurgent anti-capitalist movement. The phrase is all over Twitter, TikTok, and various other social media platforms. It has long been immortalized in song thanks to British heavy metal legends Motörhead (who provided the soundtrack for a bloody 1987 movie also named Eat the Rich about a restaurant that serves the meat of its former wealthy patrons), Swiss hard rockers Krokus, and, bizarrely, Aerosmith, whose vocalist Steven Tyler is currently estimated to be worth about $130 million. (Full disclosure: I have eat the rich tattooed on my stomach, which doubles as a tribute to Motörhead and my own political inclinations.)
Madame Guillotine is having a moment too, particularly in the music world. She made a guest appearance in hip-hop artist, communist, and organizer Boots Riley’s 2018 anti-capitalist masterpiece Sorry to Bother You when “The Guillotine,” a song from his Oakland political hip-hop outfit, the Coup, played during a pivotal scene in the film. The song also appeared on the 2012 album Sorry to Bother You, which served as a loose framework for the eventual screenplay, and summed up the movie’s message of people power and workers rebellion: “We got hella people, they got helicopters / They got the bombs and we got the, we got the / We got the guillotine.” Rapper and YouTuber Lil Guillotine makes his stance clear on songs like “Thirst (Eat the Rich)” and “Crush I.C.E.” and tells Teen Vogue he chose his sobriquet “in order to emphasize the need for direct action over symbolic protests, and of course it references righteous revolutionary violence.” Further back, experimental hip-hop artist Death Grips released a menacing tribute to la veuve back in 2011, and Raekwon gave the guillotine a shout out way back in 1995 on his album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. Metal bands like Kreator, Savatage, and Insect Warfare all have guillotine songs too (while others are more poetic about their anti-capitalist sentiments). (Full disclosure: I also have a guillotine tattoo.)
The language of anti-capitalism and revolution is popping up in other mainstream arenas as well. Multiple Democratic presidential hopefuls have seemingly declared war on billionaires, which — while it may prove to be empty rhetoric — is a far cry from 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton’s cozy view of capitalism. On social media, a tone-deaf tweet or Facebook post from any wealthy CEO or out-of-touch politician is invariably met with a sea of guillotine gifs, calls for retribution against predatory billionaires, or otherwise vitriolic responses from people with guillotine in their usernames — and it feels less and less like they’re joking.
A revolution marches on its stomach, and whether it’s fighting for brioche or access to basic resources, it’s a given that the capitalist class will be the first target in the struggle for liberation. As famed anarchist writer and speaker Emma Goldman once said, “Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
Want more from Teen Vogue? Check this out: What “Capitalism” Is and How It Affects People
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Cooper banking on "Superfeel Centers' in China
SHANGHAI—Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. is looking to “embed” the Cooper brand in the Chinese consumer's mind through a retail “superstore” concept it's rolling out in several major cities.
Over the past nine months, the company, together with local dealer partners, has opened Cooper “Superfeel Centers” in Shanghai, Beijing, Shandong and Cheng-du in an effort “to stand out in the marketplace and gain acceptance for our brand among consumers, many of whom are buying their first cars,” according to Cooper COO Brad Hughes.
These four Superfeel Centers range in size from 3,000 to 5,000 square feet and offer an array of Cooper and other branded tires for passenger cars, SUVs and other vehicle types in an “enhanced shopping environment” that features dimensional and interactive displays and large-format video screens.
The centers also offer tire-related services including alignment, balancing and tire repair, as well as other value-added auto services, Cooper said.
The first Superfeel Center opened in November 2014 in Shanghai, Cooper said, followed by the Shandong location in January, the Beijing site in March and the Chengdu site in July. Cooper expects to open centers yet this year in Inner Mongolia and Baoding, but the company declined to say what its goals are beyond that.
“The nature of the market and the explosive growth in vehicle ownership in China provide an opportunity for Cooper to team with dealers to build upon our already respected brand in the region with a new retail tire sales and service experience that is an enhancement over what exists today,” Mr. Hughes said.
Cooper declined to disclose what share it owns, if any, in the Superfeel Centers, whether they're considered franchises, licences or whatever or its investment in the concept.
Mr. Hughes, senior vice president and COO since January, described the retail tire business in China as “highly fragmented” with no major distribution channels or household retail names.
Group Michelin, however, claims to have more than 1,100 TyrePlus franchised retail stores in operation throughout China with a goal of 2,900 locations by 2019.
Mr. Hughes also noted that the Superfeel Center concept is part of Cooper's Asian growth strategy, which calls for a “significantly” expanded presence in China through widened distribution and continued penetration of the OE market. Cooper declined to identify any of its OE contract partners in China, citing “competitive reasons.”
The Superfeel Center concept is under the direction of Alan Tsaur, senior vice president and general manager of Asia Operations.
Cooper promoted Mr. Hughes in January to responsible for Cooper's worldwide operations throughout North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
This report first appeared on www.tirebusiness.com.
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Sir Max is Back
Posted by Sir Max on April 5, 2018 at 3:00 PM
Hey Toontown, Sir Max here! I'm joined by my pals Sir Max, Sir Max, Sir Max, Sir Max, and of course, Sir Max! Come, one and all, for my biggest prank yet.
I bet some of you have been wondering where I've been this April Toons Week! The Toon Council forbid me from my usual April Toons Week pranks this year, describing that they were "dangerous," "formidable," and "a downright threat to Public Safety." They just don't get the joke!
Sure enough, look what happened in my absence! I can't even leave for a single day without the Cogs taking over the blog! I knew this day would come. After rummaging around outside of Loony Labs -- where I plan my greatest pranks -- I discovered just the device I needed to get the job done. After all, I need to make up for all the days of pranks that I've missed out on.
Which Sir Max is the real Sir Max? It's probably me, but you can't really be certain anymore -- and that's the beauty of it. Anyways, I've got to run before the other Sir Max start a mutiny and declare themselves the true Sir Max.
Keep your eye out for me and my crazy clones all the way until the end of April Toons Week!
Mister Gumdropsnout said on April 5, 2018 at 3:05 PM
Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
Sir Max #362 said on April 5, 2018 at 3:06 PM
Hey guys, Happy April Toons Week!
Sir Quackster said on April 5, 2018 at 3:17 PM
I have yet to figure out the real Sir Max is! :D
Broadway Pixels said on April 5, 2018 at 3:18 PM
Sir Max Rewritten?! What silliness!
Dogemon said on April 5, 2018 at 3:26 PM
Oh look, everyone's Sir Max... Oh yeah, me too.
Lime-Berry said on April 5, 2018 at 3:34 PM
Sir Max? Sir MAX? SIR MAX?!
Sir Max #440494183729473932740 said on April 5, 2018 at 3:37 PM
Father....... The Rebellion is beginning.... You do not have much time left.... Plan your next actions wisely.....
Cookie said on April 5, 2018 at 3:41 PM
Fairy Sir Max was definitely my favorite! <3 if you're reading it
Captain Cranky Crunchycrump said on April 5, 2018 at 3:46 PM
When I went to Bounceboro it said Sir Max has taken over Toontown!
Von said on April 5, 2018 at 4:02 PM
If you're having trouble finding the real Sir Max, he's the green dog with the blue shirt ;)
Ricky mouse said on April 5, 2018 at 4:10 PM
Yay he's back yaaaaaaahooooo;)
Robot said on April 5, 2018 at 4:11 PM
We're maxed out on Sir Maxes.
Catsanova said on April 5, 2018 at 4:16 PM
Are you sure we won't find any Roger Dogs on our search?
Definitely Sir Max said on April 5, 2018 at 4:16 PM
There ain't no party like a Sir Max party, 'cause a Sir Max party has 50 hosts!
Reacquisition said on April 5, 2018 at 4:17 PM
Sugar, spice, and everything nice!
Ned Sourfuddy said on April 5, 2018 at 4:21 PM
All these clones are enough to drive us crazy to the Max.
Orange Cat said on April 5, 2018 at 4:35 PM
Nice Job Sir Max!
Quackup said on April 5, 2018 at 5:00 PM
OHNO.
Leonardopillowsong said on April 5, 2018 at 5:02 PM
lol nice
Crunchycrunch said on April 5, 2018 at 5:13 PM
This event is very... uh... "funny", to say the least
Mr. Max said on April 5, 2018 at 5:24 PM
YAY! Thanks TTR team!
Sir Max #312893712739 said on April 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM
I'm the real Sir Max, all the rest are clones.
Puffle said on April 5, 2018 at 6:14 PM
Happy Birthday Sir Max! :D
Fawn Dover said on April 5, 2018 at 7:50 PM
Sounds like you're having an identity crisis.
Hunter Boppen said on April 5, 2018 at 8:00 PM
Ho boy! What a funny update! Oh my!
Super ElectroCrumbs said on April 5, 2018 at 9:05 PM
Happy Birthday Sir Max !!!
Dynamite said on April 6, 2018 at 12:29 AM
That's amusing! :P
Flipper The Dog said on April 6, 2018 at 3:18 AM
Happy April Toons Week!
Yikes said on April 6, 2018 at 6:29 AM
Not Sir Max said on April 6, 2018 at 6:31 AM
Is the ttr staff secretly pretending to be sir max? Or is it sir max himself that are these clones? Who knows? Well not me im not sir max.
Coach Hazel Jellybee said on April 6, 2018 at 7:06 AM
SIR MAX ARMY GO!!! HAPPY APRIL TOONS JOEY!
Dr pepper wondermuffin said on April 6, 2018 at 8:02 AM
you are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Weird Cricket said on April 6, 2018 at 8:17 AM
I cant wait to play Max Rewritten Again! wait is that the name of the game i cant remember
Lucky Teddy Beansqueak said on April 6, 2018 at 10:39 AM
it seems the Sir Max clones are in the comments....
Sir Max said on April 6, 2018 at 1:02 PM
rise brothers, for we are one, and one with toontown
Trixie Magamuffin said on April 6, 2018 at 1:53 PM
I saw Silly Max! :D
Sir Loopy Thunderpow said on April 6, 2018 at 3:21 PM
"dangerous, formidable, and a downright threat to public safety" KJHGGVHBJK LOOOOL the best part about these posts is that they're always humorous and cheer you up. In the mean time, I'm super excited for what's next in this whole task solve the 26th thing..
Zilly Jingleboom said on April 6, 2018 at 3:39 PM
Im I on cupcakes? Wow thats A LOT of Sir Maxes
Shadow said on April 6, 2018 at 3:39 PM
David Funnyglow said on April 6, 2018 at 6:27 PM
How much clones have Sir Max right now?
Mr. Angryface said on April 6, 2018 at 8:28 PM
I can't find any Sir Maxes around TTR. I wonder where they are, it like they vanished into thin air.
Edward said on April 6, 2018 at 9:33 PM
He is now coming back!
Queen b said on April 6, 2018 at 10:30 PM
I'm ready to play
Jingles said on April 7, 2018 at 6:47 AM
This is gonna be one crazy april toons week
Snuffles said on April 7, 2018 at 7:19 AM
I saw Sir Max!
Sir Wacko said on April 7, 2018 at 7:39 AM
oh oh no
Sir Whiskers said on April 7, 2018 at 9:06 AM
Holy Mackerel! Which one could possibly be the real one?!?
lilysmartfiget said on April 7, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Awesome Sir Max is back!!!! :D
Harvey said on April 7, 2018 at 12:37 PM
I'm still waiting for if everyone turns into Sir Max..
Princess Zelda said on April 7, 2018 at 1:52 PM
Met Silly Max, got beans. 10/10
May said on April 7, 2018 at 2:19 PM
We haven't heard from you in so long, Max!
Emma said on April 7, 2018 at 2:58 PM
I really want to play this game it looks fun
Star said on April 7, 2018 at 6:03 PM
I met you guys yesterday in TTC! Thanks for the beans and agreeing that POPTARTS ROCK! With those beans I got a doodle named Vanilla! Bye!
Fidget Spinner said on April 7, 2018 at 7:54 PM
Am I seeing double, triple, or quadruple?! How many long lost brothers do you have, Joey?
Crazy Wondercorn said on April 8, 2018 at 5:38 AM
How are we supposed to find the real Sir Max?
Tricky Fuzzybump said on April 8, 2018 at 7:48 AM
Great prank and I need to find who is the real Sir Max! That is going to be hard!
roger max said on April 8, 2018 at 8:18 AM
im the real roge- i mean sir max, trust me, seriously.
Prof.Bonzo said on April 8, 2018 at 10:46 AM
Thundersnoop said on April 8, 2018 at 11:59 AM
Where are they???
Midnight Sparkle Sprinkles said on April 8, 2018 at 5:10 PM
Sergeant bentley said on April 8, 2018 at 8:12 PM
Amber-Duck said on April 9, 2018 at 4:23 PM
Oh Lord, I'm confused haha!
Ethan said on April 10, 2018 at 6:27 PM
Wow, toons! Great moves. Keep it up. Proud of you.
LoopyZippetyToppenGadget said on April 11, 2018 at 10:05 AM
Oh my! Too much Sir Max to handle! How can things get any sillier?
Sir Max #99999999999 said on April 12, 2018 at 12:08 PM
Well, end of the sir maxs, hope you all enjoyed April Toons Week!
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The ToonTask to Save Toontown
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In Lund tradition meets innovation, distances are short and research is among the world's best
Interview with Philip Sandberg, Mayor of Lund in Sweden
Philip Sandberg was born on 4 October 1981 in Växjö. He has a background in civil society where he worked with vulnerable children and young people, but also on issues related to entrepreneurship, the labor market and EU project development. Since October 2018 he is Mayor and Chairman of the Municipal Board in Lund Municipality.
Festive atmosphere in Lund. Photo by Lund Municipality
Mayor Sandberg, Lund is a charming mix between ancient history and modern innovative approaches. Please describe the city in a few sentences.
Lund is one of the oldest cities in Scandinavia with a university established in 1666 and is ranked among the world´s top 100 universities.
Lund is located in the heart of the Danish-Swedish metropolitan region Greater Copenhagen, one of Europe´s expansive regions. About 4,3 million people live here. The international Kastrup airport and Malmö airport are only half an hour away from Lund´s city centre. From here you can reach Malmö in 10 minutes and central Copenhagen in 45 minutes.
Lund is the place where tradition and innovation meet, where distances are short, and research is among the world´s best.
The City of Lund is home to about 125 000 people, of whom 20 percent are born abroad. The average citizen is a 23-year-old woman and the most common profession is a civil engineer. With its 40 000 students and thousands of researchers from all over the world the university shapes the city and its character.
You have been Mayor of Lund since 2018. What is your greatest achievement or completed project?
We have introduced the opportunity for children born in 2011 and 2012 that wish to play a musical instrument to choose between different providers and are planning to expand this opportunity to new age groups year by year. This has given hundreds of children in Lund access to music and culture, something I am very proud of.
The municipality implements many socially oriented initiatives. Please, tell us more about the most important ones.
Lund leads and participates in various research-based programs to achieve sustainable growth and equal living conditions for citizens. Some examples are integration and gender equality projects, but also collaboration projects such as Finsam, where the city, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Public Employment Service and the Public Health Authority work together to prevent or shorten sick leave and unemployment.
Share other good practices from your municipality. How do you finance them?
COOL DH is a consortium consisting of the utilities and municipalities of the two cities of Lund and Høje-Taastrup in Denmark. The objective of COOL DH is to support cities in planning and deploying new, efficient district heating and cooling systems, and extend and refurbish existing ones to higher standards. The project is funded by Horizon 2020 – the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme implementing the Innovation Union.
Under the European Union project CITyFiED (RepliCable and InnovaTive Future Efficient Districts and cities), part of the 1970's Linero area in Lund was renovated and made energy efficient with the aim of satisfying the energy efficiency requirements for newly built houses, while keeping the rent increase to a minimum. CITyFiED was a collaboration between the City of Lund, Lund´s public housing company AB (LKF), Kraftringen and the IVL Swedish Environmental Institute.
Lund University attracts numerous young people every year. How do you manage to keep them in the city after graduation?
It is a big challenge. The City of Lund and Lund University actively work together in order to get the students to integrate into the society during their studies. A student co-working program was started in the spring of 2018 that enables the municipality to hire students, and give them opportunity to become an intern etc. By doing this we hope the students will feel a connection to and get a positive image of the city, both those who move away as ”ambassadors” but also those who stay for their future professional lives.
Lund is home to world-leading research activities and top international companies. What are you doing to attract investors and strategic projects?
Lund has a long tradition of research-intensive activities. The cluster of innovation companies that exist in Lund attracts new businesses. 35 years ago, Ideon Science Park was built right next to Lund University in order to connect science and research with innovators and entrepreneurs. Ideon was Sweden´s first research village and today it houses about 900 companies and 10 000 employees primarily within four focus areas: Smart Cities, Future Transportation, Healthtech and life sciences. Companies like Bosch, Sony, Ericsson, Volvo, Huawei, ARM and Schneider Electric have R&D departments or offices at Ideon to benefit from the mix of competences when developing the future.
Close by, Medicon Village was established in 2012. The mission of Medicon Village is to provide a unique environment for life science by integrating research, innovation and industry under one roof, thereby helping to improve people’s health and lives.
Science Village Scandinavia in northeastern Lund, between Max IV and ESS, is currently developing the land for construction with the intention for it to be used by businesses, research and educational facilities in the field of materials research and innovation.
How would you evaluate the necessity of a portal that brings together the best practices of European municipalities and aims to keep the citizens informed about the latest developments in local policies, such as TheMayor.eu? How can our platform be useful to your administration?
It is a very positive and much needed initiative that furthers the possibilities of creating broader networks and a deeper knowledge and understanding of local developments across Europe.
What will be the main goals you have set for the near future to make Lund a better place to live?
We are in the process of adopting sharper, more effective areas of focus and objectives for the City of Lund. These goals will become the basis from which the city’s different political committees and employees work and will thus have a direct impact on our citizens’ lives. These new improved objectives increase our abilities to keep developing Lund for the future.
Find out more about Lund here
The Swedish city of Lund to build a brand-new tram line
For a more modern urban mobility and infrastructure
The city of Lund with an electric road that will charge your car as you drive
It will be among the first in the world
Luleå is a strong hub for knowledge and innovation
An interview with Niklas Nordström, Mayor of Luleå in Sweden
Helsingborg aims to become one of the most innovative cities in Europe
“Helsingborg is one of the absolute top locations in Sweden for logistics business.”
Olya Georgieva
Iżvezja
Sweden mulls banning old wood burning stoves
Sweden sees the New Year in under tougher fireworks rules
Lund’s new tramway is ready to roll
Sharing Cities Initiative – examples from some of Sweden’s biggest cities
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White Texas Man Suspected in ‘Knockout’ Attack Against Black Man
Conrad Alvin Barrett
While the so-called knockout game has become known nationally for its racially tinged attacks against whites by blacks, a case in Texas presents a new twist on the themed attacks that some have dubbed an urban myth.
Federal authorities have charged a white Texas man in connection with a hate crime for targeting a 79-year-black man in a vicious street attack, the Washington Times reports.
The Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against 27-year-old Conrad Alvin Barrett on Tuesday and arrested him on Thursday, the report shows. The unnamed elderly man’s jaw was reportedly broken during an attack on Nov. 24.
“Suspected crimes of this nature will simply not be tolerated,” said Kenneth Magidson, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, according to the Washington Times. “Evidence of hate crimes will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted with the assistance of all our partners to the fullest extent of the law.”
The suspect reportedly recorded himself on his cellphone during the attack and laughed as he ran away, saying, “Knockout,” the report shows.
“The plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?” Barrett says in the video, according to the authorities, the Washington Times reports.
The “knockout game,” in which someone randomly punches an unsuspecting victim on the street, has garnered national attention across the nation in recent months. But at the height of the tension in late November, the New York Times reported that law-enforcement officials were questioning the veracity of the motivation behind the attacks, most of which involved black youths attacking whites, sparking racial tensions.
“We’re trying to determine whether or not this [the ‘knockout game’] is a real phenomenon,” New York City police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, according to the New York Times. “I mean, yes, something like this can happen. But we would like to have people come forward and give us any information they have.”
Read more at the Washington Times.
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Judith M. Lieu
Judith M. Lieuis Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge in England. She is the author of numerous books on early Christian identity and a former editor of the journal, New Testament Studies.
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I, II, & III John
A Commentary
By Judith M. Lieu
The New Testament's three letters attributed to John have always provided remarkable theological riches for the Christian tradition, including the assertion "God is love." Each letter shows how an early Christian author responded to threats against a...
I, II, & III John (2008)
The New Testament's three letters attributed to John have always provided remarkable theological riches for the Christian tradition, including the assertion ""God is love."" Each letter shows how an early Christian author responded to threats against...
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National Spirituality and Health Consortium
Alexandra Shields
Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corp.)
Studies have demonstrated a correlation between spiritual practices and reduced risks of disease or illness — without explaining why. A national study, based at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, seeks to find the answer.
Research has long shown correlations between various spiritual practices and health. However, the biological mechanisms that explain these effects have been elusive. Teasing out underlying connections of this sort requires expensive studies, not yet undertaken, to track disease development in the same patients over many years. Such research could provide a fuller understanding of the relationship between spirituality and health, and even lay the groundwork for doctors to mobilize patient spirituality to improve disease prevention and management.
A team of researchers, led by Dr. Alexandra Shields, director of the Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities, is now investigating these very questions.
Causality: A More Challenging Target Than Correlation
There are two things researchers now know: that excessive stress can lead to a variety of diseases, and that spiritual practices are often associated with health benefits for those who practice them. Instead of merely demonstrating these correlations, Shields’ research would be the most substantial to date to test whether religion and spirituality influence causal mechanisms known to contribute to risk of chronic illness.
The problem, Shields says, has been that researchers can’t answer the causality question with a single survey: “You need longitudinal studies where you collect high-quality data over time.”
To address this challenge, Shields oversees an ambitious suite of projects that will draw on results from five long-running health studies in the U.S. The project, supported by a $3.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, will draw on longitudinal data from the National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, and Health. The Consortium, involving five national longitudinal health studies, is an effort to track subject health across racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Ultimately, the Consortium study population will include data from more than 5,000 Black, South Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and White women and men across the U.S.
Through the Consortium, subjects in all five studies will receive a survey that allows Shields’ team to track nearly 90 religion and spirituality measures. The researchers, using specific biomarkers, will first measure the impact of psychosocial stress on various health outcomes. Then, they will assess the extent to which spirituality acts as a buffer against the adverse health impact of stress.
The team’s initial research has produced some of the highest quality results to date on how religious and spirituality practices influence risk of chronic illness. For example, the team followed thousands of women in the national Nurses’ Health Study and the Black Women’s Health Study over many years, demonstrating associations between specific spiritual practices (religious service attendance and religious coping) and reduced risk of hypertension. Now, Shields and her team are taking the next step to understand the causal mechanisms underpinning these associations.
Adding Spirituality to Existing Health Studies
If the project demonstrates associations between religious or spiritual practices and reduction of biomarkers associated with increased disease, the project could encourage researchers to include these measures of religion or spirituality in future studies. In addition, it could initiate a significant shift in the ways that religion and spirituality are integrated into clinical practice.
“One source of resistance to research on religion or spirituality and health is that people can’t imagine it being used in any way other than a doctor ‘prescribing’ that a patient attend church,” Shields says. These studies indicate that scientifically rigorous information about spirituality and health might be tailored to improve patient outcomes. If a trauma patient needing psychotherapy were religiously oriented, for example, he or she might benefit from referral to a spiritually competent psychotherapist. Spiritually tailored public health interventions might also be developed to mobilize the power of individuals’ particular spirituality to more effectively reduce stress.
“The goal,” says Shields, “is to understand the framework people or patients are operating under, and what their resources for resiliency are, and how they can be nurtured to improve patient outcomes.”
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Welfare Drug Testing
Drug testing for welfare programs has been a controversial topic throughout the United States, and it also raises controversy among US politicians as well as welfare recipients. The idea of welfare drug testing is one that lawmakers are constantly in a debate over.
Here we discuss what a mandated drug test for welfare would look like, and some of the potential consequences of such policies on those subjected to these tests. The goal, in the end, is to look beyond the surface, putting emotional, impulsive reactions aside to take a closer look at the impact of drug testing to the less fortunate as a whole.
The Issue Clouding Drug Test Welfare Programs
When people are considering this issue, they often react in one of two ways. The first opinion in the public view is that drug testing for welfare benefits is hypocritical and cruel, and the people who tend to feel this way believe that drug policies such as the one in question is too harsh and designed to inflict hurt on those who are already living below the poverty level.
On the flip side of the coin, there are those who are in favor of such a policy and believe that if a welfare recipient is to receive some of their tax money, then recipients should have no problem with taking a drug test. The people who tend to feel this way often strongly believe that the funds received are going for unnecessary items or being used for detrimental purposes. Additionally, some claim that drug testing welfare recipients is justified because recipients can use the money to buy alcohol, drugs, and other nonessential goods.
Both of these arguments have some valid points. However, neither of these polarized views address the actual direct costs of such welfare drug testing policies, or the practicality and benefits.
Drug Testing Welfare Recipient Statistics
According to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the statistics for 2018 cost 13 states over $200,000 for welfare drug testing. (TANF is a program designed to assist families with children on a time-limited basis, funded by the federal government with grants to states.)
What’s even more shocking is that only 338 welfare recipients tested positive for drugs. This number is small in comparison to the 52.2 million people who are receiving welfare benefits in the United States, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
2018 Statistics for the 13 States’ Drug Screening for Welfare Programs
As reported by ThinkProgress
State / Positive Tests / Cost to Tax Payers
Alabama / 0 / $74.00
Arkansas / 2 / $14,985.00
Arizona / 0 / $0.00
Kansas / 56 / $46,448.00
Maine / 41 / $2,542.00
Missouri / 4 / $14,772
Montana / 14 / $14,772.00
Mississippi / 16 / $8,127.00
North Carolina / 17 / $16,280.00
Oklahoma / 83 / $52,508.00
Tennessee / 18 / $8,783.00
Utah / 31 / $20,666.00
Wisconsin / 1 / $1,500.00
West Virginia / 69 / $15,391
In total, the 13 states subjected more than 260,000 welfare recipients to drug screening as a condition of receiving TANF welfare. The results shocked certain opponents because in some states, not one recipient tested positive for drug use.
Universal drug testing for welfare was ruled unconstitutional in 2014, and the 13 states in question are now required to have “reasonable suspicion” that either an applicant or recipient is under the influence of drugs before a drug test can be conducted. The 1996 welfare law banned states from providing financial assistance to individuals who either fail a TANF drug test or those who refused to take one. Recipients who fail a drug test can also be disqualified from receiving future benefits.
What Does the TANF Drug Test Look Like?
Most welfare recipients receiving a TANF drug test are generally given a 4-panel urinalyses test, which can detect common drugs like cocaine, THC, PCP, and opiates. However, they can also test for Ecstasy, Oxycodone, Benzodiazepines, and Methodone. This all depends on what the state law is for testing, and some drug tests include 10 panels that can detect up to ten substances.
Other recipients may experience what is known as a mouth swab drug test (MSDT) or saliva test where samples of saliva are taken with a cotton swab and sent to the laboratory for testing. The implementation of the MSDT is gaining popularity in some states due to its low cost and less invasive nature.
The more invasive drug tests such as the hair follicle test or blood test do not appear to be conducted within the TANF drug screenings policies due to their invasive nature and violation of the recipient’s Constitutional Rights set forth in the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution.
The Conclusion on TANF Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients
Although there are no clear definitions on which drugs can be tested in different panel tests, experts in science and chemistry have recommended the types of drugs that should be in each state’s panel. For those who are concerned about failing a TANF drug test, the stakes can be devastating, especially for single mothers with young children and infants. Fortunately, our experts in adulterants have manufactured solutions to pass any drug test. For more information on how to obtain one of our detox kits or guaranteed cleansing solutions, click here.
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TGA international engagement strategy 2016-2020
Print version of TGA International Engagement Strategy 2016-2020 (pdf, 895 KB)
Goal 1: Contributing to public health and safety through regulation
Goal 2: Working with others to improve the regulatory system
Goal 3: Participating in work sharing, information sharing and regulatory convergence activities
TGA’s engagement with international regulatory initiatives and agencies
The TGA has active involvement in many international initiatives and working relationships with several overseas regulators. These collaborations keep TGA well-informed about post-market monitoring of therapeutic goods and ensuring the regulatory framework meets international best practice. The TGA works collaboratively with other overseas regulators on various projects and also has formal collaborative arrangements in place with a number of other regulators.
Details of some of the international regulatory initiatives and agencies with whom the TGA regularly engages include:
Australia - Canada - Singapore - Switzerland (ACSS) Consortium
The ACSS Consortium comprises Australia, Health Canada, Health Sciences Authority of Singapore, and Swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products. The TGA is the Reference Regulatory Agency for the first work sharing trial underway in the Generics working group. TGA is also represented on the following working groups under the Consortium:
Complementary Health Products
New Chemical Entity
Post Market.
https://www.tga.gov.au/australia-canada-singapore-switzerland-acss-consortium
Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) The Australian Department of Health, through the TGA, is a member of APLMA – which is an affiliation of Asian and Pacific heads of government formed to accelerate progress against malaria and to eliminate it in the region by 2030.
http://aplma.org/
Centre for Innovation and Regulatory Science (CIRS) The CIRS is an independent regulatory science organisation conducting novel research, convening international forums for healthcare stakeholders and conducts its own research and data on comparative performance of regulators to advance global regulatory and Health Technology Assessment policies and enhance patient access to medicines. The TGA is a participating regulatory authority with the CIRS, and also sits on their Scientific Advisory Council.
http://www.cirsci.org/
European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM) The EDQM protects public health by enabling the development, implementation and monitoring the application of quality standards for safe medicines and their safe use. The certification procedure for the European Pharmacopoeia involves assessment of the suitability of monographs to control the chemical purity, microbiological quality and transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) risk (if relevant) for any substance covered by a European Pharmacopoeia monograph.
Australia is one of the countries (outside of European member states) that recognises the Certification Procedure for the European Pharmacopoeia in its evaluation processes for generic medicines, and provides technical reviewers each year to the certification process.
International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) The ICMRA is a voluntary, executive-level, strategic coordinating, advocacy and leadership entity of regulatory authorities. ICMRA aims to provide a global architecture to support enhanced communication, information sharing, crisis response and address regulatory science issues. ICMRA currently comprises over 20 of the world’s major medicine regulatory authorities, as well as WHO. The TGA represents Australia as a participating regulatory authority on the ICMRA and is currently (2017-2018) a vice chair of ICMRA. ICMRA is progressing a number of strategic priority projects including Pharmacovigilance for which TGA is project lead.
http://www.icmra.info/drupal/
International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) The ICMRA is a voluntary, executive-level, strategic coordinating, advocacy and leadership entity of regulatory authorities. ICMRA aims to provide a global architecture to support enhanced communication, information sharing, crisis response and address regulatory science issues. ICMRA currently comprises over 20 of the world’s major medicine regulatory authorities, as well as WHO. The TGA represents Australia as a participating regulatory authority on the ICMRA and is currently (2017-2018) a vice chair of ICMRA. ICMRA is progressing a number of strategic priority projects including Pharmacovigilance for which TGA is project lead.
http://www.ich.org/home.html
International Generic Drug Regulators Programme (IGDRP) The IGDRP was created to promote collaboration and convergence in generic drug regulatory programs in order to address the challenges posed by increasing workloads, globalisation and complexity of scientific issues. The TGA is a member of the Steering Committee of the IGDRP and participates in all the working groups. The TGA also established and maintains the IGDRP website, and currently acts as IGDRP Secretariat.
http://www.igdrp.com/
International Medical Devices Regulators Forum (IMDRF) The IGDRP was created to promote collaboration and convergence in generic drug regulatory programs in order to address the challenges posed by increasing workloads, globalisation and complexity of scientific issues. The TGA is a member of the Steering Committee of the IGDRP and participates in all the working groups. The TGA also established and maintains the IGDRP website, and currently acts as IGDRP Secretariat.
http://www.imdrf.org/index.asp; http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/internationalprograms/mdsappilot/default.htm
International Pharmaceutical Regulators Forum (IPRF)
The IPRF creates an environment for pharmaceutical regulators to exchange information to:
maximise potential efficiencies in addressing the increasingly complex global context of medicines regulation
facilitate the implementation of ICH and other internationally harmonised technical guidelines for pharmaceuticals for human use
contribute to the coordination of a range of international efforts related to regulation of medicines.
The TGA represents Australia in the IPRF working groups.
https://www.i-p-r-f.org/index.php/en/iprf-network/mandate/
International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISOP)
The ISOP is a professional, independent and non-profit society that aims to foster pharmacovigilance both scientifically and educationally, and enhance all aspects of the safe and proper use of medicines, in all countries. Australia is a member of the ISOP.
http://isoponline.org/about-isop/
International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)
The ISO is a major international standard-setting body for the manufacture and design of medical devices. The TGA uses these standards as assessment criteria and TGA officers participate in their development. Australia is a member of the ISO.
http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html
Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention and Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme ( jointly referred to as PIC/S)
PIC/S develop international standards between countries and pharmaceutical inspection authorities, to provide harmonised and constructive co-operation in the field of GMP. PIC/S’ mission is: to lead the international development, implementation and maintenance of harmonised Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards and quality systems of inspectorates in the field of medicinal products. The TGA is a member of the PIC/S.
https://www.picscheme.org/
Regulatory Cooperation Initiative (RCI)
Between Health Canada and Australia
The RCI is a work sharing project between Health Canada (Health Products and Food Branch) and Australia (TGA) in order to pursue the elimination of duplication of effort, where possible. Key areas identified as areas of focus for the project include: generic medicines; medicine manufacturing site inspections – GMP inspections; new chemical entities, over-the-counter medicines and post-market surveillance.
The WHO works with countries to promote affordable access to quality, safe and effective medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and other medical devices. It promotes policies and technical capacities in low-resourced health systems, develops international standards for the manufacturing and regulation of health products and provides guidance for health systems everywhere to deliver them safely and cost-effectively. Australia is a founding member of the WHO.
Category:Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
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Home / Featured / My 2 Cents: Feminism, Stereotypes, and Experiences
My 2 Cents: Feminism, Stereotypes, and Experiences
It's not experiences or stereotypes that should guide our decisions
Written by Rachel Miller | Monday, March 30, 2015
When we move past experience and stereotypes to biblical truth, we find that there are some things that are absolutes on which we should not budge. And there are other things that are matters of discernment and liberty. We should be kind but firm on the one, and gracious and flexible on the other.
Last week, I read a post “If I Had a Million Dollars (Why I’m Not a Feminist)” by Shannon Popkin. It’s an article written in response to another post, “If I Had a Dollar (Why I Am a Feminist)” by Anna Fonte. Both women wrote about their experiences: growing up, fathers, mothers, daughters, families, men, fulfillment as a woman. Both articles make some interesting points, but each falls short of getting to the heart of what feminism is and why it should be embraced or rejected.
The terms “feminist” and “feminism” are used often but the meaning is variable. Most historians consider there to have been three waves of feminism. First wave feminism took place in the late 1800s to early 1900s. It was mainly concerned with legal rights. Most people are familiar with the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote. But there were other legal rights that the first wave feminists sought. These include: the right to inherit property, shared ownership of their children, the right to own property, the ability to execute wills and make legal decisions for their children, and the ability to be a legal witness in a court case. The first wave feminists also wanted to improve opportunities for women in education and in the workplace.
While some may argue with me about this, these goals were admirable ones. Before this time women were truly at the mercy of others and often unprotected. A woman whose husband died or left her might find herself with no money, no shelter, and very few good options for employment.
In the 1960s, a second wave of feminism began. While these feminists were also concerned about inequalities in the workplace and in the laws, many were pushing for what would be called “reproductive rights.” Abortion, contraception, and less restrictions on sexuality were part of what this wave is known for. Not all women agreed, however. Many women who were for “equal pay for equal work” were not in favor of abortion. There is still a significant group of feminists who are pro-life.
Other goals from the 1960s-1980s include ending discrimination in the workplace and courts, awareness of domestic violence, and confronting the objectification and exploitation of women through prostitution and pornography.
Second wave feminism is more of a mixed bag when considering the good and bad of the movement’s goals. Abortion and “casual sex” have, and continue to, hurt many women. No fault divorce, along with these, has allowed many men to abandon women and children with little responsibility for their welfare.
Interestingly enough, it was a disagreement among some feminists over issues such as prostitution and pornography that lead to a distinct third wave. The third wave of feminism began in the 1990s and has been well-known for it’s focus on gender and sexuality. Many third wave feminists embrace a very fluid definition of gender and an unrestrained and open sexuality. There is nothing that I can commend in these goals.
Considering the three waves of feminism, there are some good things that have come from the first and second waves. If you are a single woman who lives on her own, owns her own home, and has a good job you have these women to thank for much of that. If you have never been asked in a job interview when your last period was (they wanted to know if you might be pregnant and likely to leave the job) you owe that to these women. If you are a woman who has an education and job opportunities for decent employment, you are benefiting from the work of these women.
But it isn’t all good. As I pointed out above, there are some really awful things that have been brought about by the various waves of feminism. Abortion, casual sex, open sexuality, fluid gender: these are wrong and have brought about nothing but hurt.
There is also a very ugly side to the modern feminist movement: the demeaning and devaluing of men. It is very common today to hear women say that men are worthless, that women don’t need men, that women are better than men. Men are often the butt of jokes as clueless or useless. This is very ugly and completely wrong.
Back to the two articles I mentioned at the start. I believe that both articles are weak because they focus mainly on experiences and on stereotypes. Anna (why I am a feminist) explains how men have hurt her and her mother. She chooses abortion because of what was happening in her life at the time. She uses her life history to show that she doesn’t need a man because from her history men are not to be trusted.
Shannon (why I am not a feminist) explains from her own history how her dad and her husband have cared and provided for her and her family. She and her mother embraced traditional roles as homemakers and mothers. She feels happy and fulfilled because being a mother and homemaker is better and more fulfilling than any career or other way of life. She sees feminists as angry and less happy. She uses her life history to show what it means to be “not a feminist.”
Anna’s piece is very sad to me. She has been hurt by men and lied to by those who told her abortion was the answer. She has scars from her childhood and needs desperately to be loved and forgiven as only Christ can. She’s wrong about men. Some men are wicked and untrustworthy. But that’s not the way it should be.
Shannon’s article is frustrating to me. She’s had a good life. She has a husband and children. Her husband has been able to provide in such a way that she is able to be at home and care for her family. But I’m concerned that her emphasis on fulfillment through husband and children will hurt women who do not have the same experiences.
Is this the only way or even the best way for Christian women to find fulfillment? There are many single women around, godly women who would love to be married and have a family. But God has not provided that for them. Are they less fulfilled? Do they have less value if they serve God through their career and friendships? What about women who help to provide for their families through their work? Are they less worthy of praise? Are they “feminists” because they work outside their homes? And what about the barren women? Are they less fulfilled because God hasn’t filled their arms with children?
While I think it’s very important to stand for good things life family, homes, marriages, and child-rearing, we should not created a checklist of what it means to be a good woman beyond what Scripture teaches. The Proverbs 31 woman, among other examples, was a woman of many talents who was busy providing for her home as well as caring for her household.
So as far as feminism goes, I’m thankful for the good, and I reject the bad. Would I call myself a feminist? No, especially not given the modern feminist movement. My life experiences, both good and bad, are not the reason I’m “not a feminist.” My reasons are based not on stereotypes, but on objective truth.
My own list would look like this:
Men and women are both created in the image of God and equal in Christ
Husbands and wives are different and need each other
Husbands are called to be the spiritual leaders of their homes and wives are called to submit to that leadership
Ordained leaders in the church should be men
Men and Women are fulfilled by glorifying God in all they do through the callings and gifts that God has given them individually
What that looks like will be different for each man and woman
Abortion is always to be rejected.
Sexuality is to be expressed in marriage.
Marriage is between one man and one woman.
Divorce should only be the result of adultery, abandonment, or abuse.
When we move past experience and stereotypes to biblical truth, we find that there are some things that are absolutes on which we should not budge. And there are other things that are matters of discernment and liberty. We should be kind but firm on the one, and gracious and flexible on the other. May we build each other up in Christ.
Rachel Miller is News Editor for the Aquila Report. She is also a homeschooling mother of 3 boys and member of a PCA church in Spring, Texas. This article first appeared on her blog, A Daughter of the Reformation, and is used with permission.
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by Henrik Ibsen, Directed by Blake Bradford
Halvard Solness, a brilliantly successful architect, has willed his unspoken desire into reality at every turn—but not without a price. Now he lives in fear that the next generation will rise up and cast him aside. When Hilda Wangel, a bewitching young woman, arrives to collect on a decade-old debt, she breathes new life into the Solness home but also rekindles painful memories. Will she help him reach the pinnacle, or will she be the one to finally knock the Master Builder from his tower?
Directed by Emmy Award winner Blake Bradford, The Master Builder is a taut psychological drama by Henrik Ibsen, author of A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler.
1/13 8pm, 1/14 8pm,
1/22 8pm Theater: Wings Theatre
Address: 154 Christopher Street
Closest subway: 1, 9 to Christopher Street, west on Christopher Street several blocks to theatre
Cost:$20 Regular, $15 Student (with valid ID)
Buy Tickets Online or Call: Wings Theatre Box Office at 212-627-2961
Company: Zephyer Rep
Bill Purdy
Bill Purdy (Halvard Solness). Bill is grateful for the experience of this challenging role. Actually, Bill's first appearance on a stage was in a 1973 production of Ibsen's "Enemy of the People" at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He has been involved for many years on-stage and back-stage in theatres in New Jersey and New York City, where he trained at Ward Studios. NYC Theatre credits: A Night in Vegas; I, Undertow; Dark of the Moon; Pants On Fire; Tyrannos Rex; Sisyphus's Day Off. N.J. Theater: Rashomon, Bees in Honey Drown, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, La Cage aux Folles, Great Expectations, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (director) as well as designing and building numerous sets.
Meghan Sara Karre
Meghan Sara Karre (Hilda Wangel) is thrilled to be a part of The Master Builder! Recent credits include The Prince of Hell's Kitchen at ATA (twice!), and Snapshot: A Dramatic Anthology with Adam Roebuck Productions. She hails from the "even colder" Binghamton, NY, where she played such favourite roles as Dorine (Tartuffe), Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream) and Imrie (Outskirts). Thanks to her family for their continuing patience with her crazy dreams and schemes, none of which would be possible without the unwavering support (in more ways than one!) of Eli Bosnick.
Elise Gainer
Elise Gainer (Aline Solness) is delighted to be performing for the first time with Zephyer Rep. She moved here after graduating from the Boston Conservatory in 2003. The most inspiring show she’s ever had the honor to be in was elegies for angels, punks, & raging queens written and directed by Bill Russell. Her favorite role to date is Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady. In addition to performing at regional theaters, Elise enjoyed performing many seasons with the Leyden Singers and The Oregon Symphony. She is grateful to Blake for giving her the opportunity to perform with this great cast. And she thanks her boyfriend for his wonderful support.
Gregg Adair
Gregory Adair (Dr. Herdal) The Master Builder marks Gregg's 32nd production since returning to acting in 2005 AND one of the most special! After playing a slew of officers in the 19th and 20th centuries (Col Campbell in Metal Gear, Lt Col Chandler in The Andersonville Trial, and U.S. Grant in The Tragedy of A. Lincoln) Gregg played Fred and Old Joe in the perennial classic A Christmas Carol. Currently Gregg will be seen as the Bounty Hunter in Harriet Tubman Returns.
Michael Broadhurst (Ragnar Brovik) is very excited to be in his first show for Zephyer Rep. He is a recent graduate of Circle In The Square Theater School where he was Quentin in his final production of After The Fall. Recent credits include The Taming Of The Shrew, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet and Absurdities. Michael would like to thank his family for their support, as well as Zephyer Rep and Wings Theatre for the opportunity.
Noreen O'Neill
Noreen O'Neill (Kaia Fosli) hopped on a plane four years ago from Los Angeles to New York City and she's never going back. She just graduated from Marymount Manhattan with a BFA in theater performance and proceeded to land a role in Jane's Room (Looking Glass Theater), Othello (Julii Theater) and Something Outrageous (45th Street Theater). Favorite roles include: Emily in Our Town, Banannas in House of Blue Leaves, and Viola in Twelfth Night. Noreen is absolutely giddy to be doing her first show at Wings Theater. Thanks to Mom and Dad for the constant encourgement.
Ed Moroney
Ed Moroney (Knut Brovik) is grateful to have another Zephyer Rep opportunity here at the Wings Theatre (the last being Jack in Downside Risk). In his acting career on stage and film, he has been crazy, mute, solemn, dying (or dead), retiring, nasty, and/or politically incorrect. He yet hopes there will be a role in a romantic comedy for an old (living) person. Until then, he is glad to be here and sincerely thanks his awesome cast and crew mates and the audience for the opportunity.
Blake Bradford
Blake Bradford (Director) is an Emmy Award winning writer/director whose theatrical work has appeared all over the US and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Greece, Scotland/England, Denmark, Italy and South Africa. His original plays I, Undertow, Dance at Bataan, The Last Cloud, Gay Slave Handbook and Word Within the Word are actively seen in the regional circuits and NYC. His new play, The Unfortunate Honeymoon of Tony and Steve just completed a long run here at Wings Theatre. He has adapted Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1920's Charleston, SC), which has now played NYC twice, Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (with music composed by Lorca) and Much Ado About Everything (with Michael Weems). He will be directing The Last Laugh with two-time Emmy winner Joan Darling and Judy Kerr this winter in LA, and then in April he will direct Bill Svanoe's Callback in Santa Fe, NM.
Blake is currently on the staff of "Live from Lincoln Center" (PBS), where they won a 2008 Emmy for Madama Butterfly. He just completed the highly acclaimed live airing of South Pacific for LFLC. Other TV credits include "The Big Gay Sketch Show" (LOGO/MTV), "Showtime at the Apollo" (NBC), "Drama Desk Awards" (PBS) and "Arthur Ashe Kids Day" (CBS). He serves as Artistic Director of Zephyer Rep.
Linda Hill (Assistant Director) is a nationally renown performing artist who has appeared on Cinemax, Nashville Network, PBS and Comedy Central. She has starred with such talent as Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Don Novello a.k.a. Father Guido Sarducci and with Miss Minnie Pearl. She has been an artist in residence with Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art and HERE Space and hosted the No Shame series for 3 years at the Public Theatre. Her solo performances have been featured at P.S.122, the Kitchen, Surf Reality, Dixon Place and the Vineyard Theatre. She's hosted PBS Comedy Tonight, New York City Opry, the Brooklyn Country Music Festival, Brooklyn County Fair and her own monthly show, Lindy Loo's Country Cuzins. Currently she is at work on a novella, Girl Child, and touring a new solo project, Big City Hick. Find her on facebook to join her fan club. She's thrilled to be working with Zephyer Rep again - this is her seventh production with the company.
Emily Rolston
Emily Rolston (Production Stage Manager) Emily is a recent graduate of Le Moyne College with a BA in Theatre Arts. She has stage managed twelve shows with Zephyer Rep. Previously, Emily has worked as a stage manager/assistant stage manager for the Gifford Family Theatre, Boomerang Theatre Company, and Wingspan Arts.
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TimFrantic – The Rites Of Burroughs (Official Video)
Posted on September 7, 2019 by Tim Riley
A few years ago I made a breakbeat tune using the music production software Ableton. Recently discovered, I made a video. I used Adobe AfterEffects, Premiere and the android phone app EZ Glitch.
The track uses samples from William S. Burroughs reading from his novel Naked Lunch.
It’s a heavy bass, breakbeat thumper. As Mr. Burroughs says, “Kid, it’s tasty!”
Track available at: Bandcamp
“To please is a curse” A Tribute to Mark E Smith & The Fall
Posted on February 17, 2018 by Tim Riley
Mark E Smith — Blackburn King George’s Hall, 22nd September 2002
It has been a few weeks now since Mark E Smith’s death and to most seasoned Fall fans it can’t have come as much of a surprise. His lifestyle and work ethic indicated a short but highly productive life. During the last 35-odd years I’ve spent much of my waking life proselytising to all and sundry about the brilliance of Mark E Smith and The Fall to a largely unresponsive, apathetic audience and with limited success. This was highlighted when, in the hours after the announcement of his death, my social media feeds went crazy with messages from people whom I’d had no contact with for years. Many said they thought of me when they heard the news. Some said they remember the Fall mixtape tape/CD I had made them that they still hadn’t played. Or the long and tedious chats I had with them about The Fall, generally down the pub, but still remained unconvinced and perplexed as to why I liked them.
I suppose it is not surprising that Mark Smith was frequently misunderstood or dismissed as unfathomable. What many people failed to notice was that there was, hidden behind the abrasive northern English vernacular, an intelligence and literary self-education that informed his lyrical style and vocal delivery. A common misconception of non-believers was that his lyrical content was one of unremitting misery and misanthropic fervour. Often overlooked is his comedic observations and humorous comment on a ludicrous world. He was first and foremost a writer not a musician, although he understood the music industry better than most musicians.
The Fall documentary: my (very minor) involvement
The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith – closing titles
After the recent death of Mark E Smith, tonight BBC4 are repeating The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E Smith. I’m reminded of a fortuitous encounter in 2004 that led to my (very minor) involvement and credit for ‘archive’ on the documentary.
I was at the ResFest, a festival of experimental film-making at the BFI. I’d got talking to a woman about my favourite band, The Fall and mentioned I’d compiled and directed some videos and sequences for the Beggars Banquet VHS8489 video compilation. This had led to a couple of drinking encounters with Mark E Smith and subsequently the making of an unofficial promo for the White Lightning single I’d filmed from side of the stage at 1990s Reading Festival. I’d told her I’d also tried, unsuccessfully, to make a documentary about The Fall back in the early 90s. To my surprise she said her flatmate was working on a BBC documentary about the band and she’d introduce me to her but I thought this might be just merrymaking talk.
Coronation Street: Gangster Soap is Murder
Posted on January 23, 2018 by Tim Riley
Pat Phelan — Guns, violence and murders
It was in the early 1970s that I first started to regularly watch Coronation Street (the UK’s longest running soap opera). This was after my school drama teacher said it had some of the best acting and script writing on television. Acknowledged at the time as the ‘classic’ era, with its strong, distinctive female characters such as Hilda Odgen, Bett Lynch and Elsie Tanner, ‘Corrie’ has been a part of my life ever since. While there have been several short periods over these past 40-odd years when the plot and story lines lost their way, it’s always managed to come back strong and keep delivering great drama with memorable comedy moments.
Yet recently I’ve become somewhat disillusioned with Coronation Street’s direction. It has morphed into a chaotic ‘gangster soap’ where every character’s life appears to be in a perpetual state of turmoil. Such is the rise in brutality that episodes now regularly begin with the ominous voice-over warning, “Now on ITV with some violence and scenes some viewers might find distressing…”. This changing scenario has meant that the soap now incorporates police stations, prisons, courtrooms and hospitals as regular extensions of the street’s scenery and set. It’s seems no coincidence that these changes coincide with Kate Oates’ elevation to series producer in early 2016 with a mission to produce “greater breadth of story lines”. This ‘greater breadth’ takes the form of increasingly inconceivable and ludicrous story lines given, in particular, to the career criminal character with gangster tendencies, Pat Phelan, expertly played by Conner McIntyre. But it is not the obsession with gangster story lines that bothers me the most, it’s that the mystery and humour has disappeared. Coronation Street plots and resolutions were always difficult to second guess and they were peppered with witty lines and humorous quips. Nowadays story lines have become predictable, where you fear the worst and the worst always happens.
Campaign video promo at Middlesex University
Posted on August 3, 2017 by Tim Riley
Above is a video promo I made to highlight the development of skills and experience gained by students during the campaign section of Introduction to Media and Society module at Middlesex University. As part of my new role as module leader , I revamped the content and introduced two new partnership organisations the campaign planning section of the module so that students would have experience of working with ‘real’ clients. A briefs were set by the organisations, Allia and Friends of the Earth to produce awareness campaigns. The project lasted 10 weeks and during this period students presented twice to the client, first as a pitch in early February and then presented their campaign proposals at the end of March. Feedback from students was very positive, particularly among Advertising, PR and Media students.
Publication Presentation
Posted on March 11, 2017 by Tim Riley
Yesterday I presented research from my publication, Work-based Learning, Web Media Production & the Social Media sector: A case study at the Middlesex University’s Institute for work-based learning. Below is the presentation.
Rescued: Snub TV titles – Series 3 1991
Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tim Riley
I recently rescued the Snub TV titles, which I’d worked on with the prolific graphic and record sleeve designer, Vaughan Oliver, from a ropey VHS tape found in the dark recesses of my attic. Back in the late 1980s, early 1990s I worked as a motion graphic designer for a company that provided digital compositing facilities; a much sought after service in the early days of digitally produced graphics. Consequentially, the company was very popular with print and album covers designers.
One of the heavy users was Vaughan Oliver, who produced some of the most inspired, distinctive and striking album art of the period through his company V23. A large portion of album covers were commissioned by 4AD, one of UKs most exciting and experimental record companies. I was an admirer of his work and his creativity. I also enjoyed the music contained on the discs inside the covers he designed too, particularly music produced by bands such as Pixies and the Cocteau Twins.
Publication: Work-based Learning for the Creative Industries
Today my case study article for is published in the journal Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning. The article, ‘Work-based learning for the creative industries: A case study of the development of BA (Hons) web design and social media’, highlights the knowledge and insight gained building a work-based learning (WBL) degree apprenticeship developed through the Higher Education Funding Council for England Catalyst Fund.
In the summer of 2014 Ravensbourne, a UK university sector institution specialising in the fields of design and digital media, was invited by Creative Skillset to explore the development of a work-based learning (WBL) degree through the HEFCE Catalyst Fund. Requirements of the funding stipulated that, in addition to WBL provision, the course should be offered as a two-year fast-track. This was required to help reduce the increased financial burden placed on students, which arose from the substantial rise in HE tuition fees sanctioned by the UK coalition government in 2010. Subsequently, the newly elected Conservative government have pledged to substantially increase the number of apprenticeships in UK. This has placed a greater emphasis on the Higher Apprenticeship programme and need to develop WBL programmes. Continue reading →
YouTube Conference presentation – “Hello, YouTubers”
Posted on September 25, 2016 by Tim Riley
I recently gave my YouTube Conference presentation at Middlesex University entitled, “Hello, YouTubers” – Geriatric1927 and the deployment of self-created content and online sharing in retirement. In the United Kingdom, the retired population is rising and statistics show that growing numbers are using digital technology and the internet for more than search functions and buying goods online. Indeed, a small number are creating and sharing self-created content on platforms such as YouTube. This is a section of society often ignored in qualitative internet research. This presentation case studies the retired vblogger, Peter Oakley, who was interviewed as part of a wider examination into how retirees create and share content on the internet. Continue reading →
East Berlin: before and after the wall
The story of two TV Tower photographs
The recent examination of the cold war era through the depiction of early 1960s Berlin in the 2015 film Bridge of Spies and the drama series Deutschland 83, reminded me of a visit I made to the city in 1986 and again in 2008. On both occasions I took a photograph from the same vantage point – the visitor’s platform of Berlin’s TV Tower near Alexanderplatz. I recently placed them side-by-side. This is the story of how I came to take them. Continue reading →
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Letchworth artist sculpts life-size Ebenezer Howard statue
Letchworth artist Peter Colvin and Chair of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation with life-size Ebenezer Howard statue at the Spriella Building. Picture: Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
A life-size statue of Ebenezer Howard, the founder of Letchworth Garden City, was installed in the grounds of the Spirella Building earlier this week.
Peter Colvin has created a life-size statue of Ebenezer Howard. Picture: Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
The bronze statue was sculpted by a Letchworth businessman, Peter Colvin, who donated it to the town's Heritage Foundation.
Measuring eight feet tall and weighing almost a tonne, the work commemorates the important contribution made by social reformer, Ebenezer Howard, in establishing Letchworth as the world's first Garden City in 1903.
Mr Colvin commented: "I have no formal training in sculpture work, though after studying osteopathy and having lived and practised locally in Hitchin and Letchworth for 35 years,
"I developed an interest in the human form. I have always wanted to make a big bronze of an iconic figure and Ebenezer Howard was my first choice.
"I'm thrilled to see the work situated at Spirella, one of Letchworth's most iconic buildings."
Pam Burn, Chair of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, said: "We are very grateful to receive this generous donation from Mr Colvin and are pleased to present the sculpture prominently in the town for the community to enjoy."
To book a walking tour, call 01462 530350.
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Jones Center on Congress Avenue
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Showcasing two renowned and architecturally unique locations, The Contemporary Austin brings multidisciplinary exhibitions, engaging programs, and enticing special events to the city's visual arts landscape.
The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn
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Jim Hodges: With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress)
Museum Without Walls at Pease Park
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Nicole Eisenman: Sturm und Drang
Deborah Roberts: I'm
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IMAGE: Installation view, The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, 2019. Artwork © Nathan Mabry. Image courtesy The Contemporary Austin. Photograph by Colin Doyle.
Nathan Mabry and David Odo in Conversation
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Artist Nathan Mabry, whose sculptures in The Sorcerer's Burden combine cultural iconography of non-western origins with Western Minimalist art, speaks with David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head, and Research Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. The artist and anthropologist discuss the intersection of their fields as they relate to cultural appreciation and appropriation.
Nathan Mabry (born 1978 in Durango, Colorado) received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2001 and his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2004. Mabry has been the focus of important exhibitions, such as a solo presentation at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, and group exhibitions including THING: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Body Language, Saatchi Gallery, London; and Thief Among Thieves, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Mabry’s work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Phoenix Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Private collections include 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; and Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels. Mabry’s work has been the subject of reviews and articles in publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Art + Auction, Frieze, Modern Painters, The Art Newspaper, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Dr. David Odo is the Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head and Research Curator at the Harvard Art Museums. He is a visual and material anthropologist, with primary research and teaching interests in the anthropology of art, including early photography, critical museology, and objects of colonial encounter. He is the author of The Journey of “A Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs, and his current project is a monograph about photography and history in Japan’s Ogasawara Islands. Odo received his D.Phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and a BA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University; he has held numerous research fellowships at Harvard University, the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and the University of Tokyo. He contributed an interview with his former academic colleague, Heather Pesanti, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, to the exhibition catalogue for The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn.
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SUB to bring comedians Vanessa Bayer, Mike Birbiglia and Streeter Seidell to AU
By Zach Ewell | Thursday, January 14, 2016
Photo courtesy of Tam Sackman/Graphic by Zach Ewell
Comedians Vanessa Bayer, Mike Birbiglia and Streeter Seidell will perform at Student Union Board’s Jan. 27 comedy show in Bender Arena. This performance will be SUB’s first show of 2016.
Seidell, most notable for his screenwriting on “Saturday Night Live” and his work with CollegeHumor will open the show with a comedy set. After the opening, “SNL” member Bayer and comedy actor Birbiglia will take the stage and perform a comedy set.
Bayer has played popular “SNL” characters such as Miley Cyrus and Ryan Gosling’s fictional wife in the sketch “Santa Baby.” The 34-year-old Ohio native first began her career at SNL back in 2010.
Birbiglia will accompany Bayer in the performance as part of the show. Notable for such roles in “Orange is the New Black” and “The Fault in Our Stars,” Birbiglia has also taken part in a series of Comedy Central Specials. Similar to Bayer, Birbiglia also held a role in last summer’s comedy blockbuster Trainwreck.
“Last year's comedy show was so successful that we decided to step it up and take a show to bender,” Director of SUB Tam Sackman said. “As I've said in the past, comedy has been a mostly untapped entertainment resource for SUB, and though people may disagree on genres of music, everyone likes to laugh.”
In 2014, SUB’s comedy show performed by Broad City, took place in MGC’s Tavern. Similar comedic act Jessica Williams was in Bender Arena earlier this year, and the SUB show this spring will also be held in Bender.
Admission to the show is free. The show is only open to the AU students who present their student ID at the doors, which will open at 7 p.m.
zewell@theeagleonline.com
Correction: a previous version of this article said the comedians would perform at AU on Jan. 7. The comedians will perform on Jan. 27.
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Kong Chuizhu, former deputy governor of Yunnan Province, is seen in a screenshot from /wcb.yn.gov.cn on Aug. 12. 5 years ago he was diagnosed with AIDS and recently he committed suicide. Hong Kong's Phoenix TV exposed a series of sex scandals of Kong and officials who have close ties with him. (Epoch Times)
Chaotic Official Sex Scandals Uncovered in China’s Yunnan Province
Three high-ranking officials unknowingly shared three mistresses
By Lu Chen, Epoch Times
August 16, 2014 Updated: August 16, 2014
A Hong Kong TV station recently reported on complicated sexual scandals and a suicide involving high officials in southwestern China’s Yunnan Province. The news has gone viral on China’s Internet.
Kong Chuizhu, Yunnan Province’s deputy from 2003 to 2014, died on July 12, with the cause of death said to be AIDS. Kong resigned this May due to his illness.
According to a report on Aug. 11 by Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV, an official in Beijing said that Kong died after jumping off a building.
A retired department level official in Yunnan said Kong had attempted suicide twice before, using broken glass to cut himself. Each time he was saved after being sent to the hospital.
After the suicide attempts the public learned of his having AIDS, which had been diagnosed early in 2009, the retired official said.
Phoenix TV reported that Kong had mistresses and an indulgent private life, which caused his AIDS disease. Kong was also said since the 1990s to have frequently gone to shops featuring pornography.
Having mistresses is a common thing among officials in Yunnan, and the disclosure of Kong’s disease scared them.
Kong and two other high-ranking officials each kept three of the same women as mistresses. “They didn’t even know that their mistresses are also mistresses for the other two,” an anonymous source who was Kong’s former Communist Party school classmate told Phoenix.
The classmate said, “Now that Kong is diagnosed with AIDS, their mistresses have to get themselves examined secretly.”
One of three officials involved in these sexual triangles was Shen Peiping, another former deputy governor of Yunnan, who was also Kong’s former secretary. Shen was investigated this March for “severe violations of discipline and law” and suspected of taking bribes and adultery. He was purged from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Aug. 6.
Yunnan’s official news media has been low key in reporting Kong’s death and his disease. No mourning ceremony or memorialization reports have been published about the well-known high official. Instead, a brief, 40-word note appeared on the local newspaper six days later: “Comrade Kong Chuizhu, former deputy director of Yunnan Provincial People’s Congress and deputy party secretary, passed away due to illness in Kunming [Yunnan’s capital] on July 12, 2014.”
An official who was in charge of Kong’s security told Phoenix that Kong once attempted to bribe Li Jiating, former governor of Yunnan, with prostitutes in 1999.
“Kong Chuizhu arranged nearly 20 prostitutes for Li Jiating to pick, and Li was upset and left. We were all shocked then,” the official said.
However, in 2001, Li was himself dismissed and purged from the CCP for taking bribes and adultery with a married woman. Li was sentenced to death with a reprieve the next year, according to the Chinese press.
This series of official scandals has inspired a lot of discussion on the Internet, with many netizens saying that the Chinese officials are too corrupt. “This is just a microcosm of the officialdom,” netizen “Linhai Shanfeng11″1 remarked.
Netizen “Dongbei Zuoluo” commented, “The corruption now is unprecedented!”
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Argentina's Lionel Messi vomits as Germany's Mats Hummels walks by during the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Lionel Messi Vomits on Pitch: Watch Argentina, Barcelona Forward Throw Up in World Cup 2014 Final (+Video)
By Larry Ong
Lionel vomited during the World Cup 2014 final between Germany and Argentina.
During the first half, Messi doubled over and vomited on the pitch.
Despite having several medical tests, Argentina and Barcelona doctors have not been able to find the root of Messi’s problem.
Messi has down played his vomiting instances, and has said that it is just something that happens to him in training, during matches and even at home.
The forward’s performance has not been affected by his vomiting though, as Messi has scored even after vomiting in a match.
See an AP article below.
Messi’s World Cup Ends on a Bitter Note
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lionel Messi’s final act in the 2014 World Cup was lifting a free kick high over the bar, wasting Argentina’s last chance to equalize in the final against Germany.
It was far from a fitting finish for the four-time world player of the year.
This was supposed to be Messi’s World Cup, just like the 1986 tournament belonged to another Argentine great, Diego Maradona.
But after carrying his team through the group stage in Brazil with four goals, Messi seemed to run out of steam.
He created chances in the final Sunday but, like the rest of the team, lacked the finishing touch to turn the game for Argentina.
“I’m hurt for losing the way we did. We were close to penalties,” Messi said. “I think we deserved a little better, we had chances.”
He was a picture of disappointment as he collected the trophy for the tournament’s best player, and then stood in silence at the entrance to the player’s tunnel, watching the Germans receive the trophy.
“At this moment, I don’t care at all about that prize, only lifting the trophy matters,” Messi said.
Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said he thought Messi deserved the best player award, “because he played an extraordinary role. He was the fundamental factor in the team.”
Messi has won everything there is to win with club team Barcelona, but many critics say he needs a World Cup title to be considered among football’s all-time greats.
“He’s been there for quite a while already, in the pantheon of the greats,” Sabella said, when asked to compare Messi with players like Maradona and Brazil’s Pele.
Messi stood out in an otherwise mediocre Argentine team in the group stage, scoring against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iran and twice against Nigeria.
The free kick he curled inside Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama’s left post was a masterpiece. Then, game by game, Messi’s influence started waning.
Against Switzerland he had little impact until extra time, when he drilled a hole in the Swiss defense and set up Angel Di Maria’s winning goal. In the next game, against Belgium, he started the movement that resulted in Gonzalo Higuain’s first-half winner and helped Argentina keep possession as the Belgians tried to level the score.
Man-marked by Nigel de Jong, Messi struggled to find space in the semifinal win over the Netherlands, and besides a few runs and deft passes into the area against Germany, he didn’t rise to the occasion.
His last chance came in the final seconds of extra time as he was given a free kick about 10 meters (yards) from the area. Messi wiped the sweat off his face, took aim and sent his final shot of the World Cup well over the target.
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Democratic candidate for governor Zephyr Teachout (R), listens as her running mate Tim Wu speaks during a news conference in Albany, N.Y., on June 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Tim Wu Against the Internet Cartel
If elected, Wu would use his office of lieutenant governor to fight Comcast's merger with Time Warner Cable
By Jonathan Zhou, Epoch Times
NEW YORK—Tim Wu has a plan to keep the Internet from falling into the hands of a cartel.
This is a challenge because, if history repeats itself, he won’t succeed. In his 2010 book “The Master Switch,” the Columbia law professor describes how information technologies consistently gravitate towards control in the hands of a few.
“From somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry … from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel,” he writes. “It is a progression so common as to seem inevitable.”
This pattern, which he dubs “the Cycle,” can be found in the history of the telephone, radio, movie, and television industries; and all evidence points to the Internet being next.
Jamming the Wheels of History
In an attempt to stop the Cycle in its tracks, Wu is running for lieutenant governor of New York on an antitrust platform. His current target is Comcast, whose planned merger with Time Warner Cable (TWC) could be stopped by the state government, says Wu, although it is rarely attempted.
“If the state tried to block the [Comcast-TWC) merger, it would effectively stop the merger, at least in New York,” he said in a phone interview.
“It would probably kill the merger,” said Wu, adding that the merging parties usually give up.
Recent developments in the telecom industry have eerily matched Wu’s grim prognosis at the end of his book, where he warned of “a new imperial age” under the aegis of joint media-broadband conglomerates.
Earlier this year, Comcast flexed its muscles and browbeat Netflix into paying extra fees for “fast lanes” that would ensure quality streaming service to its customers. Netflix had accused Comcast of interfering with its movie stream services. Critics say that fast lanes could become the de facto Internet standard, leaving websites unable to pay higher fees out in the cold.
Comcast also acquired NBC Universal in 2011, and is on course to merge with TWC in early 2015.
Comcast and TWC are the first and second-largest cable companies in the country. To comply with federal anti-trust guidelines, Comcast will have to dump 3 million of its cable subscribers so that its market share in subscription television doesn’t exceed 30 percent.
Wu can’t say with certainty that the state can block a merger because it’s so rarely attempted. A state hasn’t tried to block a merger in over 20 years, deferring instead to federal agencies, which have disappointed Wu in recent years.
In April, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a former lobbyist for the cable industry, proposed rules to authorize telecom companies to have fast lanes like the ones Comcast used to get fees from Netflix.
Wu is a vehement opponent of fast lanes, which he thinks would just raise costs for customers and signal the end of an open Internet, with Internet providers adding more layers of fees and raising barriers to entry.
“The states have the right to take a different stance on things than the federal government,” Wu said. “New York could set strong net neutrality conditions or block the merger altogether.”
Net neutrality, a term Wu coined in 2003, refers to Internet providers not discriminating how data is treated based on the ability of the website to pay.
Neither the office of the governor nor the lieutenant governor has the power to unilaterally pursue an antitrust policy, but each could have influence over other state agencies with antitrust jurisdiction.
“The Attorney General’s office is the antitrust bureau. The Public Service Commission could stop the Comcast merger. They’re an independent commission, but the governor’s office has a certain power to pressure agencies to do their jobs,” Wu explained.
If elected, Wu’s main task would then be to draw attention to the emerging telecom cartel.
“You meet with the people and make them understand it’s an enforcement priority, talk to the press about the issue, have people write about it, tell the head of the office that you expect them to do a thorough investigation,” he said. “It’s about pressuring, calling for things; the operation is the bully’s pulpit.”
“The bully’s pulpit” was Teddy Roosevelt’s term for the president’s power to discuss and bring attention to any issue by virtue of the office’s prominence. Roosevelt couldn’t pursue monopolies single-handedly, but arguably furthered the antitrust cause more than anyone else.
Roosevelt led a public campaign against monopolies while in office, persuaded Congress to pass antitrust legislation, and had his attorney general pursue many lawsuits against trusts. Standard Oil, which epitomized the term “monopoly,” was broken up two years after Roosevelt left office.
It’s no coincidence that Roosevelt has been Wu’s political lodestar in his campaigning. Wu has used the sobriquet “invisible government” to describe the allegiance of corrupt government to big business, a term borrowed from the 1912 platform of Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
“We’re trust-busters in the tradition of Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt,” said Zephyr Teachout, the gubernatorial candidate with whom Wu is running, in an interview about their campaign.
Wu and Teachout have received enough signatures to get a spot on the ballot in the Democratic Primary in September. Although Cuomo has a high approval rating and $35 million in campaign funds, Wu has a reasonable chance of getting elected because the governor and lieutenant governor ballots are separate in the primary. If Wu gets the most votes for lieutenant governor in the primary, he will be on the Democratic Party ballot with Cuomo in the general election.
Wu’s main opponent in the primary is Cuomo’s running mate Kathy Hochul, a former U.S. Congresswoman who served one term in a district that leans Republican and is dogged by her record of opposition to gun control and municipal IDs for undocumented immigrants.
Hochul has made little contact with the press, and Wu has called for her to “come out of hiding.” Wu has a firm, pro-immigration stance, and both of his parents were immigrants.
“Immigrants make up the entrepreneur, small business base. I’m very interested in examining the ways New York State makes life difficult for immigrants, even on things like paperwork and language availability,” he said.
Populist Revival
Near the end of “The Master Switch,” Wu ruminates on the optimism of the digital era and wonders if the Internet might escape capture by a cartel, the fate of all its predecessors.
“Is the Internet different?” he asks. “Have we seen the last of the Cycle?”
Four years later, Wu is hoping that the cycle of politics will triumph over the cycle of cartels. He’s been reading the writings of Teddy Roosevelt to learn how he could foster a replay of the populism that swept the country a century ago, when antitrust issues made the front page of newspapers.
The latest political winds have been favorable to Wu’s vision. Public backlash to Wheeler’s regulatory proposals at the FCC to allow fast lanes—seen by many as anti-net neutrality—has been building for months. It reached a fever pitch this week as the deadline approached for public comments regarding Wheeler’s proposals on the FCC website.
The original deadline was delayed from Tuesday to Friday, July 18th, as the website was jammed with activity. Over 1 million comments have been submitted as of Thursday, most of them in the past week. Based on samples of thousands of comments, the public is heavily critical of the proposals to loosen net neutrality requirements, according to the New York Times.
The number of comments in this case is historically unprecedented for an FCC proposal.
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First-ever in-hospital midwifery unit opens at Markham-Stouffville
Nadine Yousif
This article was published more than 1 year ago. Some information in it may no longer be current.
Alongside Midwifery Unit, the first in Canada at Markham-Stouffville Hospital.
Pregnant women tell midwife Carol Cameron that they want the best of both worlds: the consistent and intimate care of a midwife and the security of a hospital birth.
That vision became a reality on Tuesday at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, north of Toronto, when staff officially opened the Alongside Midwifery Unit, a midwife-run and operated space that administrators say is the first of its kind in Canada. It is the latest step toward the advancement of midwifery in the country as an autonomous profession, Ms. Cameron said, giving midwives the opportunity to “shine” in a hospital setting.
“It’s time that we did this on our own and cut the strings, if you will,” she said.
Ontario and Alberta were the first provinces to legally recognize the practice of midwifery in 1994. It is now an option for most women in Canada, but midwives are still seeking regulation and funding in the Yukon and on Prince Edward Island. In regulated regions, midwives can operate out of independent birth centres or hospitals where they have access privileges.
The Alongside Midwifery Unit at Markham-Stouffville, however, provides a space where midwives can work independently out of a hospital and become a permanent fixture there. It includes specially-designed birth suites with pools for water births, Murphy beds and birthing slings. An in-hospital midwife will staff the unit at all times, Ms. Cameron said, to serve as a mentor to younger midwives using the facility and assist with births.
The unit also allows midwives and physicians to work together, particularly if a woman develops complications during birth and requires medical intervention. According to Lauren Sledziewski, a mother of three, close collaboration between the two professions can be beneficial for women.
Ms. Sledziewski has given birth to all her children with the assistance of a midwife at Markham-Stouffville, but complications in her first pregnancy led to a cesarean delivery and consultations with an obstetrician for her following pregnancies. Ms. Sledziewski was able to have a natural birth with no intervention for her third child. She credits achieving the birth process she wanted to the joint effort of midwives and obstetricians.
“You learn that when you have a baby, your plans just go out of the window.” Ms. Sledziewski said. She added the new unit will offer the “perfect combination” of a delivery with a midwife and a setting that is “as close to home as you can get.”
Access to birth centres, where midwives can operate independently outside of a home or hospital setting, is limited in Canada—there are only three in Ontario and wait-lists are long, Ms. Cameron said. Women who may require an epidural during delivery are encouraged to see a midwife at a hospital rather than a birth centre, as it’s a safer option, but some hospitals limit the number of midwives that can use their facilities, she said.
Dr. Christyne Peters, an obstetrician at Markham-Stouffville, said the hospital is one of the first in Ontario to integrate midwives into their program and the new midwifery unit is a step toward greater collaboration between obstetricians and midwives, while providing the two professions the opportunity to “learn from each other.”
Not only will obstetricians be present to give quick access to emergency care if needed, Dr. Peters said, but midwives will also have the opportunity to assist with cesarean sections.
Ms. Cameron said the unit has been an aspiration for over 12 years and was inspired by similar units in Britain and the Netherlands. It is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health, Markham-Stouffville and the midwifery-practice groups that operate out of the hospital.
Usage of the six-bed unit will be studied as it operates, Ms. Cameron said, with hopes of a future expansion to include a clinic that midwives can use for check-ins throughout a pregnancy.
“We’re all excited to see how the unit evolves,” Dr. Peters said.
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MLB’s New Frontier: No Injuries in the Game
From the USA Today. This article was too good not to share. Enjoy!
Baseball’s most renowned innovator believes the next frontier of analytics won’t be about changes to on-field performance so much as simply keeping players on the field.
“I think that everybody's looking for a competitive edge,” Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss said, “and that's an area where you may be able to find one.” Billy Beane, Oakland Athletics executive vice president of baseball operations, has been among the loudest voices touting injury prevention and medical treatment as the next major data-driven undertaking — and that movement is accelerating across the league as medical technology improves and the investment in player contracts increases.
Training and nutritional programs are individualized based on baseline physical evaluations, as well as a player’s age, position and handedness; further customization takes the calendar — offseason, spring training, early season, late season — into account.
Radar systems track a pitcher’s velocity and release point to gauge fatigue. Elbow sleeves log the strain of every throw. Functional movement screenings are routine tests. Biomechanics data can be delivered in real-time. Medical research papers on the epidemiology of common baseball injuries and based on a league-wide injury database are nearing publication.
In November, after an injury-ravaged roster fell short of an expected playoff berth, the Washington Nationals introduced a revamped medical staff and first-of-its-kind advisory board with new executive director Harvey Sharman, who oversaw the medical program at Leeds United, an English soccer club where analytics are more in use. At the press conference, general manager Mike Rizzo called it “maybe the next Moneyball,” summoning the imagery of the book that made Beane famous.
Mets head team physician Struan Coleman, an orthopedic surgeon at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, said research is in the works about the risk factors and corresponding preventive muscle strengthening exercises to avoid injury absences. Someday, that could result in better elbow protection and Tommy John surgery prevention.
“That’s the kind of thing that we’re working toward,” Coleman said, “and I think we’re going to get there.”
In an industry where revenues approach $10 billion, the average salary exceeds $4 million and the first $400 million player may be just three years away, there's ample motivation.
Prevention, not treatment
James Andrews, the internationally regarded orthopedic surgeon, founded the American Sports Medicine Institute in 1987 and, along with Ph.D. research director Glenn Fleisig, have helped revolutionize the field. The mission has always been about injury prevention and recovery, but in 2002, they had a revelation.
“We looked in the mirror and said that we’re really doing a lot more on the treatment side than the prevention side,” Fleisig said.
At that January’s annual baseball injuries seminar at ASMI, Andrews announced that their biomechanics lab was open for all business — in other words, that teams were encouraged to send all pitchers for testing, even the healthy ones, and not just those rehabbing injuries.
Around that time, Oakland A’s pitching coach Rick Peterson sent a few young pitchers — Tim Hudson and Barry Zito, among others — for analysis in February. That November, Zito won the American League Cy Young Award. “That was good for business,” Fleisig said.
Ball clubs are far more proactive now in tracking pitcher data. Peterson — who is fond of saying, “In God we trust; all others must have data” — is now director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles and has all of his minor league pitchers tested.
“The Orioles pitching development program is based on research and science from Dr. Andrews and Dr. Fleisig,” Peterson said, “and our motivation is to fully help every pitcher in this organization to bridge the gap between potential and performance.”
The company KinaTrax has developed 3D motion-capture technology to replicate the work of ASMI’s biomechanics lab in major league ballparks. KinaTrax is in discussions with 17 clubs; the Tampa Bay Rays will be the first to install the system, which dovetails with the progressive ethos of the organization’s medical and training staffs.
“They stay innovative — they are constantly at seminars,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “They are constantly trying to learn. They don't get in the mold, well, I've been doing this for 15 years and this is how we did it then. They challenge themselves daily to provide the most for our players.”
Motus Global uses small motion-sensor chips embedded in small pockets of compression clothes to track swing and throwing mechanics. The elbow sleeve measures torque in Newton meters while also logging arm slot, arm speed and a shoulder’s external rotation. Motus is used by 27 of the 30 major league clubs. (Fleisig sits on its board.)
The TrackMan radar that powers MLB’s StatCast data collection also plays a role in injury detection and rehabilitation.
“We know teams will shut players down if they see certain changes,” TrackMan Baseball general manager John Olshan said, adding that, conversely, some clubs will hold back a player in rehab until their pitching measurements reach a certain threshold: “They might not know why that’s happening, but they know that somehow the player is compensating.”
ASMI has also been at the forefront of instituting pitch counts in Little League and endorsing other safer arm-care guidelines through Pitch Smart, a joint effort of Major League Baseball and USA Baseball. With elbow injuries rising, that movement has received universal embracement.
“I watch TV — politics or sports — and how often do you say something and everyone agrees?” Fleisig said.
Rest, recovery, and ‘fingerprints’
The No. 1 cause of injuries is fatigue which, Cincinnati Reds medical director Tim Kremchek said, leads to a staggering 500% increase in their likelihood. Fleisig said a pitcher’s fatigue is often marked by stride shortening and elbow lowering. Th
ose changes can be nearly imperceptible to the naked eye, hence, all the tracking technology.
“When you fatigue, your biomechanics change,” said Kremchek, a leading Tommy John surgeon.
Many medicals staffs previously reacted to injuries and only gave lip service to the realization of baseball’s marathon season. That’s why, Coleman said, the HSS team made a big push on prevention by instituting more rest and recovery days in 2007 which, he said, “substantially” reduced the number of days Mets players missed to injury from one year to the next.
Diagnosing injuries early is essential to avoid worsening. That requires vigilance by the whole staff, as well as having a player’s healthy medical records on file, too.
“Each player has his own signature, baseline motion and strength analysis,” Coleman said. “It’s like a fingerprint.”
Starting with those thorough examinations, medical staffs can work on prospective studies by following players longitudinally.
“If someone has, say, decreased range of motion in their hip,” he said, “are they more likely to have a hip injury or a hamstring injury during the one season, during five seasons or in 10 seasons?”
Coleman said there’s been recent progress in reducing the number of shoulder injuries, due to heightened understanding of the joint’s mechanics, the need for stretching the posterior capsule to avoid internal impingement and improved MRI resolution to detect inflammation.
Medical teams have grown from a doctor and a trainer to dozens of physical therapists, trainers, strength and conditioning coaches. Minnesota Twins manager Paul Molitor, a Hall of Fame player from 1978-1998, said teams didn’t even have weight rooms when he started playing.
“We have gone from — when I started with the Reds 20 years ago — cursory physical examinations in the spring and letting him play,” Kremchek said, “to now individualized, customized programs from them. It’s very sophisticated.”
Among the advances, Kremchek said, are increased use of ultrasound to view muscles dynamically rather than static MRI images and more natural healing approaches. Especially in younger athletes, he said he’s less apt to use cortisone than platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or stem-cell therapies.
“We are very, very proactive in these types of regenerative medicine,” Kremchek said.
The statistics of baseball performance have been so finely studied and dissected that it’s becoming harder to find differentiating factors, so clubs are turning further attention to the field of sports medicine to minimize one particular statistic: disabled list stays.
Labels: Billy Beane, Injuries, Kevin Cash, Major League Baseball, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Paul Molitor, Syndicated Sunday, Tampa Bay Rays, USA Today, While We Wait, Yankees Injuries
MLB Hopes for Spring Training Games in Cuba in 2016
Major League Baseball started a mission to not only expand the sport of baseball but to expand the brand of Major League Baseball last year when Commissioner Rob Manfred took the reins of the sport from Bud Selig. Manfred has done just that and was aided a bit by the announcement from President Barack Obama that the United States and Cuba would begin discussing certain things with Cuba including lifting the embargo and working on diplomatic ties between the two countries. Immediately the MLB fan base wondered how this would affect the slew of players defecting from Cuba and coming to the United States to play MLB and how it could potentially affect games and/or franchises being there, even if it were just spring training games to start.
Major League Baseball acted quickly when learning of the news and now hopes to have spring training games in Cuba as soon as March of 2016. MLB has already sent ambassadors to the country including former Yankees manager Joe Torre and will also send a three-day goodwill tour there to begin talks for games and such in Cuba. The league has already gone as far as to say that the Tampa Bay Rays would be one of the teams selected to play in what would be a two-game series in Havana, Cuba’s capitol.
MLB hasn’t played a game in Cuba since 1999 when the Baltimore Orioles played two games against the Cuban national team. Cuban born players Jose Abreu and Yasiel Puig have joined the tour back to their native countries and will conduct clinics for children and a charity even with Caritas Cubana, a non-profit organization that provides assistance to the elderly, children, people with disabilities and people battling HIV and AIDS, while back in their native countries.
I cannot explain how excited I am for this. No words.
Labels: Chicago White Sox, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Cuba, Joe Torre, Jose Abreu, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees, News, President Obama, Rob Manfred, yasiel puig
Remembering Yankees of the Past: Scott Proctor
I was going through some emails that we receive from our awesome readers, hat tip to Betty for the idea for this article, and I opened an article about Scott Proctor. Proctor was one of the many arms that then Yankees manager Joe Torre “ruined” out of his bullpen. Remember, towards the latter part of his tenure with the club the Yankees were not winning World Series Championships annually like they did in the latter part of the 90’s and into the 2000’s and George Steinbrenner was livid. Steinbrenner was writing the biggest checks at the time and demanded greatness and in his mind that greatness started with the manager. Torre was managing every game for his job and stuck to using the relievers and players he trusted, one of those arms was Proctor. With that said we remember the Yankees reliever who threw in 80+ games multiple times in his career, the reliever that loved to hit Kevin Youkilis in a Red Sox uniform and the reliever that battled alcoholism for much of his ride along the way. Remembering Yankees of the Past, this is Scott Proctor.
Scott Christopher Proctor was traded to the New York Yankees along with Bubba Crosby for Robin Ventura on July 31, 2003 and New York immediately stashed their new weapon in Triple-A. Proctor was a closer for the Triple-A Columbus Clippers and was seen throwing 100 MPH or higher there which caught the eyes of the Yankees brass and manager Joe Torre. Proctor ended up making his MLB debut on April 20, 2004 against the Chicago White Sox as a mop up man. Proctor pitches 2.1 innings of relief and allowed two earned runs. Proctor’s results that season were not ideal but he quickly became a trusted weapon for the Yankees and even more quickly became a mainstay inside the Yankees bullpen.
Proctor pitched in just 26 games in 2005 before becoming the everyday guy we all remember in 2006 under Torre. Proctor led the league in 2006 with 83 appearances and often pitched for more than one inning or on consecutive days. Proctor joined Brian Bruney and Kyle Farnsworth as the Yankees bridge to Mariano Rivera. Proctor crossed the 80 appearance threshold again in 2007 leading GM Brian Cashman to confront Torre and Proctor about his overuse. To make a long story short Torre would ask Proctor if he was okay to pitch and Proctor would always say yes. Cashman wanted Proctor to be more open and honest with Torre before it was too late for his right arm, but it already was.
Proctor’s career took a turn for the worse after 2007 and it landed him off the Yankees and with the Atlanta Braves before the 2009 season. Proctor stayed with Atlanta through most of the 2011 season before the Yankees brought Proctor back on a new minor league deal. On August 13, 2011 the Yankees re-signed him and sent him back to Triple-A with the Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders before calling him up on September 1st. Proctor pitched sparingly for the Yankees in 2011 before electing free agency and before he ended his tenure with the Yankees.
Proctor’s tenure with the Yankees was a roller coaster ride of sorts to say the least. Proctor caught some heat specifically with the Yankees after being accused of intentionally throwing at batters with the intention for retaliation, ask Kevin Youkilis of the Boston Red Sox. On June 1, 2007 Proctor plunked Youkilis in the shoulder after two Yankees batters had been hit. Youkilis was the fifth batter to be hit in the game and Proctor was ejected after both benches cleared and Youkilis had to be held back by then Yankees catcher Jorge Posada. Proctor protested that he did not intentionally hit Youkilis but was still suspended by the league after the incident for one-game. In other instance Proctor threw behind Seattle Mariners infielder Yuniesky Betancourt after his teammate Josh Phelps was hit by a pitch. Phelps was only hit after the Mariners catcher Kenji Johima was hit so Proctor incited another rally that had seemingly already been handled by the unwritten rules of the game. Another retaliation pitch and another suspension for Proctor.
When the Yankees and Scott Proctor knew he had a problem was on June 30, 2007 when he was seen lighting fire to his equipment on the field. Proctor has taken the loss in each of the last two Yankees games and was visibly upset after pitching poorly against the Oakland Athletics. It was then that Yankees closer Mariano Rivera too him under his wing and Proctor realized he had an alcohol problem. Proctor revealed in 2009 that he was a recovering alcoholic and credited Mariano with urging him to straighten his life out. Proctor began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and seemingly turned his life around, although it was too late to save his career.
When all was said and done Proctor pitched for the Yankees, Dodgers, Braves and the Doosan Bears of the Korean Baseball Organization but he definitely made his name for himself and his mark with New York. Today we remember you Scott, hope you’re well.
Labels: Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Brian Bruney, Brian Cashman, Joe Torre, Kevin Youkilis, Kyle Farnsworth, Mariano Rivera, New York Yankees, Remembering Yankees of the Past, Scott Proctor, Yankees Bullpen
The Starting Pitching Market is Still Stacked
The big boys are starting to come off the free agency board from the starting pitching department and most of the huge checks have been handed out. The Boston Red Sox have already given David Price the largest contract for a pitcher in Major League Baseball history and the Arizona Diamondbacks gave the two largest contracts in the history of their franchise to Zack Greinke, who also has the highest average annual value in MLB history, and Johnny Cueto but that doesn’t mean all the big names are gone. For every Jeff Samardzija taken off the board there are two or three guys left to replace him, do any of them intrigue the Yankees?
By my unofficial count at least 10 teams are still looking for top of the rotation type starters and want to contend in 2016. That list includes the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Miami Marlins, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox (as scary as that is for Yankees fans to hear), the Detroit Tigers, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees. There are probably another ten or so teams that are still looking for another starter to fill out their rotation before spring training while teams like the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers to name a few will let their prospects battle it out in spring training competitions. That’s a whole lot of competition for New York who are said to be in the market for another starter, the good news for Brian Cashman is there are still plenty to choose from.
It was almost a foregone conclusion that the Yankees would acquire Mike Leake at the trading deadline last season. That didn’t happen and he ended up going to the San Francisco Giants where he pitched well despite an injury. Since Leake was traded he will not be linked to draft pick compensation and he’s still on the right side of 30-years old. Leake is not your ace and is not likely going to lead your team to the World Series but if you need a durable guy that can keep an offense like the Yankees in every single game and give you 200 innings over the course of a season, Leake is your man.
The same can be said for the free agent market, the Yankees and former Baltimore Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen. Many linked the Yankees to Chen and expected them to sign the lefty away from their AL East rivals but New York seems willing to hold onto what they have in order to keep their (currently) 20th overall draft pick in the 2016 draft. Chen was the ace of the Orioles and according to reports he wants to be paid like an ace both in terms of years and dollars but he wouldn’t be the ace in New York. At best, at very best mind you, he is a #2 starter with the Yankees. No thank you, not for five or six years and not for $100 million plus a draft pick.
Scott Kazmir is the left-handed starter that the Yankees have been coveting the past couple of seasons. The starting rotation has become very right-handed heavy, especially when (not if) CC Sabathia is injured, and Kazmir could be the perfect complement in the rotation. Kazmir would not require draft pick compensation and would likely lead the second-tier of available starting pitching. He’s been durable with the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics but I wonder if pitching in traditionally pitcher-friendly ballparks may have been inflating his stats just a tad. I worry about him inside Yankee Stadium, but he may be a risk worth taking if the Yankees are willing to open up their purse strings just a bit.
Ian Kennedy, the former Yankees farm hand turned 20-game winner with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Kennedy has not been able to replicate his 20-win success with either the DBacks or the San Diego Padres but he has been durable and has given his team consistent innings over the years at the top of every rotation. Kennedy is not an ace though, not lately and definitely not in New York, but he would be intriguing back in the Bronx. Kennedy was thought of as the 3rd best starter in the group with Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes and may have turned out to be the best of the three, it may be time for Brian Cashman to right a wrong here.
Cliff Lee has been cleared to pitch in 2016 and his elbow has finally been donned as healthy. Brian Cashman and the Yankees have coveted Lee for quite some time now and almost acquired him multiple times during his career either in free agency or via the trade market. There were hiccups along the way, Lee worried about him and his wife in the New York environment and Cashman didn’t want to part with certain prospects in another trade but Lee is a free agent once again. The Yankees have a tendency of getting their man a few years too late, see Carlos Beltran, and lightning may strike twice with Lee.
Mark Buehrle is likely going to retire but until he does he remains an option with all teams. How ironic would it be for Buehrle to join the team that has kept him up at night for his entire career? Ironic, yes, but likely? No.
I’m going to be frank and honest here, I never saw the fascination for some with Yovani Gallardo. He’s consistent but he’s never great. He’s durable but overall has been unreliable. Despite it all he received a qualifying offer from the Texas Rangers this season. The fact that he is linked to a draft pick is an automatic “no” for me. I’ll happily give up the pick for an ace, Gallardo just isn’t an ace to me.
Labels: Bartolo Colon, Brian Cashman, Cliff Lee, Free Agency, Free Agents, Hot Stove, Ian Kennedy, Mike Leake, New York Yankees, News, Rumors, Scott Kazmir, Trade Targets, Trades, Wei-Yin Chen, Yovani Gallardo
Doug Fister Starring in “The New Adam Warren”
Earlier today on the blog I went into the available list of free agent starting pitchers and cherry picked a few that may or may not fit what the New York Yankees are looking for. I was going through the list showcasing the Wei-Yin Chen’s and the Yovani Gallardo’s of the world when I ran across the name Doug Fister and a light bulb went off. I was going to list Fister in that post but I thought he deserved his own post because he could potentially fill a much bigger role on the team, the role that Adam Warren vacated when the team traded him to the Chicago Cubs in the Starlin Castro deal. Could Doug Fister, the once great starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers and Washington Nationals, come to the Yankees and become the Yankees swingman? Why not!
Fister had a terrible 2015 season, let’s not beat around the bush or equivocate, and was delegated to the Washington bullpen for much of the second half of the campaign. For that reason the Nationals decided against offering Fister a qualifying offer and seem unlikely to be interested in bringing back him and his services for the 2016 season. The Nationals loss can be the Yankees gain because Fister redeemed himself a bit in his time in the bullpen. Fister pitched well out of the pen for Washington in a small sample size and showed that his problems he had earlier in the season were likely due to something mechanical or physical, he did battle injuries last season as well, and not just him falling off the face of the Earth like many pitchers do.
This would be the ultimate “buy low” and lightning in a bottle type signing for the Yankees. Fister can pitch out of the pen, he’s proven it. He’s a veteran arm and the 7th inning or 6th inning in the Bronx is not going to fluster him. If a starter goes down, and lord knows the Yankees rotation is littered with its question marks, Fister could easily fill in for a 15 day DL stint or for a month at a time without getting exposed too much. Hell he may even thrive off of a change of scenery and getting out of the mess of a clubhouse and organization that we now know the Washington Nationals were. You never know until you sign the guy.
So a veteran arm without a ton of mileage that can excel at both starting and relieving, Fister sounds more like an Adam Warren mold than a replacement. Either will do for me though so get it done Cash before someone else catches on.
Labels: Adam Warren, Brendan Ryan, Brian Cashman, Doug Fister, Free Agency, Free Agents, Hot Stove, New York Yankees, News, Rumors, Starlin Castro, Washington Nationals, Wei-Yin Chen, Yankees Bullpen
Former Yankees Update: Garrett Jones
The New York Yankees had high hopes for their bench in 2015 when they showcased Brendan Ryan, John Ryan Murphy, Chris Young and Garrett Jones. Ryan was expected to play all over the infield, Murphy was the backup catcher, Young was the 4th outfielder and Jones was expected to play right field and back up Mark Teixeira at first base. Ryan is gone, he was traded along with Adam Warren to the Cubs for Starlin Castro, and so is Murphy after being traded to the Minnesota Twins for Aaron Hicks. Chris Young is gone and replaced by Hicks and now calls the Boston Red Sox his home team for the next two seasons and this week we learned the fate of Garrett Jones. He’s going west…. Real west.
Garrett Jones, who was designated for assignment twice by the New York Yankees last season, is signing to play baseball in Japan next season with the Yomiuri Giants. Jones will earn $2.8 million next season in the Nippon professional Baseball League and can earn more via incentives, although those have not been released at this time.
I’m glad to hear that Garrett found a job and I hope Cassie enjoys Japan. Be well Jones’s!
Labels: Chris Young, Designated For Assignment, Former Yankee Update, Garrett Jones, Japanese League, Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees, Nippon Professional Baseball League, Yankees Bench, Yomiuri Giants
This Day in New York Yankees History 12/19: Enter Eovaldi
On this day in 2014 the New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins hooked up for a trade that would change the face of both franchises for the 2015 season. The Yankees sent RHP David Phelps and second baseman Martin Prado to the Miami Marlins in exchange for RHP Nathan Eovaldi, outfielder Garrett Jones and RHP Domingo German.
Also on this day in 2006, in an absolute knee jerk reaction to the Daisuke Matsuzaka signing with the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees signed Kei Igawa. The posting fee was $26 million and Igawa would sign a five year deal worth $20 million to become AAA's all time wins leader in the Yankees system. The Yankees later admitted to not even knowing what pitches Igawa threw at the time of the signing. Live and learn.
Finally on this day in 2002 the New York Yankees signed 28 year old outfielder Hideki Matsui to a three year deal worth $21 million. Matsui is coming off a season in Japan where he posted a .334 with 50 home runs and 107 RBI's. Godzilla is a three time Japanese League MVP and turned down the Yomiuri Giants four year deal worth $33 million.
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How a Capa photo of bombed flats in Madrid could help today’s residents
Campaigners seek heritage status for shrapnel-scarred walls, eight decades after civil war raid by Hitler’s forces
Sam Jones in Madrid
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Children, unaware of the horror of war, play in front of the shrapnel-hit facade of No 10 Peironcely street, Madrid. November-December 1936. Photograph: Robert Capa © International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos
Number 10 Peironcely Street has seen better days. The fresh white paint that coats a warren of long, narrow patios can’t hide the fact that its walls are crumbling, nor can the cover on the well or the rusty manholes keep the rats and mosquitoes at bay.
But it has seen far worse days. In the winter of 1936, the working-class Madrid district of Vallecas in which it stands was pummelled by the bombers that Hitler sent to help Francisco Franco overthrow Spain’s republican government – and rehearse the blitzkrieg tactics later used in the second world war.
Also there, Leica in hand, was Robert Capa. In one of the most famous pictures of the war in which he forged his reputation, the Hungarian photojournalist captured the civilian consequences of the bombing. On the pavement outside the single-storey building, amid the rubble and in front of a shrapnel-chewed facade, sit three children while a woman looks on from the doorway.
The photograph, which Capa took in November or December 1936, appeared in the US, Swiss and French press. Not only did it reveal the deliberate targeting of civilians, it encouraged international volunteers to travel to Spain to join the civil war to fight Franco’s forces.
Today, more than eight decades on, a campaign is under way to have the rundown building protected and declared part of the Spanish capital’s heritage. According to José María Uría of the trade unionist Fundación Anastasio de Gracia, which is coordinating the conservation effort, Capa’s image has acquired an almost legendary status – not least because it was suppressed in Spain during the dictatorship.
“It’s the first image in history that shows the effects of bombing on the more fragile part of society: children,” he says. “It’s not just part of this country’s memory – although it took 40 years for the pictures to be seen here – it’s part of Europe’s memory. It was the impact of this photo that led many people to get involved [in the war].”
Sonia Suárez, one of the present-day residents of 10 Peironcely Street in Vallecas, Madrid. Photograph: Sam Jones/The Guardian
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With the support of a coalition of international organisations including Germany’s Goethe Institute and the American International Center of Photography – founded by Capa’s younger brother, Cornell, in 1974 – the foundation is hoping to preserve the building. But, equally importantly, it also wants to help those now living behind the still shrapnel-scared walls of No 10. Just as it was when the picture was taken, Vallecas remains one of the most deprived – and fiercely leftwing – areas of Madrid. The block’s 15 small flats, which range from 17 to 28 square metres, currently hold 14 families. Most have only two tiny bedrooms, forcing parents to sleep on sofas so that their children can get a better night’s rest.
Sonia Suárez, who has lived in the building with her husband and two younger children for the past five years, pays more than €300 (£260) a month to live in a home where the disintegrating walls are damp in winter and boiling in summer. The plumbing is shot and the flimsy wooden front door shrinks and expands with the weather. “Things are bad,” she says, pointing to exposed electrical wiring, and peeling back cheap plastic strips to reveal the rotting brick and cement beneath. “There are no windows in the bedrooms, so you can’t breathe. We want to get out and find a decent place to live.”
Suárez only found out about the building’s history after she moved in. A fellow tenant, who died two years ago at the age of 90, was the daughter of a couple who lived in the block when it was bombed.
Original Observer photography: June 2017
It’s odd, she says, to think of her children playing in the same spot as those Capa photographed. “We had no idea all the holes were from bombs; looking at the pictures now sends a shiver down your spine.” As the family understands on a daily basis – and as Uría points out – some things in Vallecas haven’t changed since the winter day when Capa peered through his viewfinder.
“The situation of Sonia’s family and of all the residents of Peironcely 10 is something that our society can’t allow. Keeping these people in this state of neglect drags us back to the Spain of 90 years ago, when the building went up and there was no social protection from the government.”
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Pakistan: 21 more bodies recovered in avalanche-hit Kashmir
Roshan Mughal, Associated Press
Updated 8:20 am EST, Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Police officers and local residents dig to search bodies of victims of avalanches in Doodnail village in Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Search teams aided by Pakistani troops pulled out 21 more bodies from homes destroyed by this week's avalanches in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, raising the overall death toll due to severe winter weather to more than 155 for Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials said. less
Police officers and local residents dig to search bodies of victims of avalanches in Doodnail village in Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. Search teams aided by Pakistani ... more
Photo: Abdul Razaq, AP
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Search teams aided by Pakistani troops pulled out 21 more bodies from homes destroyed by this week's avalanches in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, raising the overall death toll due to severe winter weather to 160 for Pakistan and Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
Rescuers were racing against time to reach scores of people believed still to be trapped inside their homes, buried under avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. With many roads still blocked by snow, authorities were using helicopters to evacuate those injured.
The worst affected area was Kashmir's Neelum Valley, where the 21 bodies were retrieved, said Ahmad Raza Qadri, a minister for disaster management. He said that since Sunday, 76 people have been killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in weather-related incidents. Another 45 people were killed in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan and eastern Punjab provinces.
Avalanches are common in Kashmir, which is divided between Pakistan and India and claimed by both in its entirety.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan flew to Kashmir on Wednesday to visit the avalanche-hit areas. He visited a military hospital in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where several people, including women and children, were being treated after being rescued from Neelum Valley and elsewhere.
In Afghanistan, the situation was returning to normal on Wednesday, following days-long heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that killed 39 people and damaged about 300 homes there since Sunday.
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Parents must nurture character of children to combat bullying
Published 6:24 am EDT, Friday, April 6, 2012
Bullying is a problem of increasing concern for parents. National attention has focused on instances in which children have become so overwhelmed by bullying that they have committed suicide, and there is increasing demand for schools to protect children both in and out of the classroom.
Bullying, of course, is not restricted to children. Anyone who holds power over another individual may misuse that power and become a bully. This includes spouses, parents, and employers. Surveys of children, however, report that bullying is nearly endemic among school-aged children. More surprising is the revelation that many children are open and unrepentant about having bullied others. While some bullies are intrinsically cruel, others simply fail to appreciate the pain they cause their targets.
Schools should be held accountable for intervening decisively in cases of physical abuse, threats and overt insults. It is unrealistic, however, to believe that schools can mandate harmonious relationships among children.
A guidance counselor from a local school told me of a case in which an adolescent girl had become suicidal because her previously close group of friends had shunned her and would not tell her why they would no longer communicate with her. How is a school supposed to sort out this kind of behavior? What the girl needed was peer acceptance, not the punishment of her former friends. School administrators and parents of bullied children may fear that attempts to intervene will result in increasing social isolation for the victim.
One approach to the problem is for parents to take responsibility for nurturing the character of their own children. In family conversations we should demonstrate to our children that we not only tolerate differences among people but that we value diversity. Children who are socially, academically and physically confident should be challenged to demonstrate their maturity by coming to the defense of classmates who need support.
This letter was prompted in part by an article in the Norwalk Hour on 3/4/12 entitled GIRLZ R.U.L.E.. The article described a wonderful anti-bullying program which is sponsored by the Girl Scout Council of Connecticut and which has been implemented in a number of Norwalk schools. The program teaches students to empathize with classmates who are being bullied and encourages them to actively offer friendship and emotional support to them.
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Bulldog thrower signs to West Point
Jake Dirkse signed his National Letter of Intent to the United State Military Academy West Point (Army) to compete in Division-I track and field for the Army Mules (Photo contributed).
Eddie Ruiz
Updated: Jan. 7, 2020, 8:19 p.m.
Turlock High alum Jake Dirkse has had big dreams and goals from a young age, one of them was to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and compete in collegiate athletics at the NCAA Division-I level.
On Jan. 2, that goal came to fruition when Dirkse signed his National Letter of Intent after receiving a full-ride scholarship for track and field to compete in the shot-put, discus and javelin for the D-I athletic program.
Helping to make Dirkse’s collegiate dreams come true was family friend and a local Olympian thrower Suzy Powell.
Powell is a three-time Olympian who competed in the Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2008.
“Honestly, without Suzy I wouldn't have been able to get to West Point, I wouldn't have gotten in track and field without her help,” said Dirkse.
With the help of his parents, Dirkse was able to get in touch with Powell in February of last year, and from there it all just fell in place.
Dirkse had a standout year as a linebacker for the Turlock High football team, but when he was done, there were no offers. He didn’t think much of it and moved to his spring sport, track and field.
While playing football at THS, Dirkse and the Bulldogs went 8-4 during his senior season (fall 2018), clinching a playoff berth while also winning the first ever Central California Athletic League title following a perfect 5-0 season in league play.
Dirkse earned second-team honors for the All-Journal/All-Area team while his team went undefeated in his two seasons in varsity, going 6-0 in their final season in the CCC in the fall of 2017.
The Bulldog had attended West Point’s football camp and had a goal of playing in the Army-Navy game.
“But after my senior year, I didn't really expect it to work out,” Dirkse said.
Weeks after concluding football, Dirkse who was standing at 6-foot-2, weighing around 215-pounds was in a bit of a limbo.
He went to work in track and field and found some next level help.
“That is what happens when an Olympic coach gets a hold of you, and he had a great cycle and I saw potential with Jake in many aspects,” said Powell.
Dirkse made it clear that his goal was to compete collegiately at West Point, and so Powell reached out to the academy’s coaches and built a relationship.
Since the admission time was too late for Dirkse to be admitted to West Point, his other choice was to attend Modesto Junior College as a part-time student and grey shirt. That is what he did.
A grey shirt is an incoming college freshman who postpones his enrollment in classes until the second term of his freshman year. This means they don't take classes until the winter term. The NCAA allows college athletes five years to complete four years of eligibility after initial enrollment.
From there, he has been working with Powell leading up to his departure. Powell is currently serving as the throwing coach at MJC.
“He has been a delight to coach,” said Powell. “He is an athlete that wants to understand more in all aspects and to get rewarded for his work. As a coach it is highly rewarding, and he is eager to please and he comes from a great family. So nice to see someone take the opportunity and go with it, and put themselves in a position, and showing up to practice and go beyond what is asked and actually doing it.”
As soon as Dirkse graduated, he was back in the gym, working out and doing drills and every sort of workout that Powell suggested.
“I started during the whole summer time to prepare for Junior Olympics,” said Dirkse. “So, then Army recruited me because my numbers were a lot better and they brought me out to an official visit in September.”
There was another D-I school who was aiming to land Dirkse, however, and that was the United States Air Force Academy.
The letters of recommendation by Powell, along with her reaching out to the coaches made a significant impact.
“Both were recruiting him. When you are an old retired sports star you have friends all over coaching,” said Powell. “He was a diamond in the rough, did track out of curiosity, and the world didn't really know of Jake. But when I told coaches the type of athlete he is and he is a better person… they were intrigued.”
Dirkse competed at the Junior Olympics at Sacramento State last July and qualified for the National Championships in discus after a throw of 159 feet, which put him in 11th place.
The Turlocker is set to report to boot camp in June before school starts.
“Working with Jake and helping him to compete and get to this level has been one of the most rewarding accomplishments in my career and it is really true,” Powell added. “Jake has a special place in my heart and I will miss him when he goes to West Point.”
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By Laura Lesley
Dr. Joanne DischJoanne M. Disch, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been unanimously elected chair of the Aurora Health Care Board of Directors, becoming the first nurse to hold the prestigious position.
Aurora Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Milwaukee and serving eastern Wisconsin. The system has 15 hospitals, more than 150 clinics and 70 pharmacies.
Disch is professor ad honorem at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Her leadership acumen has been proven through her past service as board member and chair of the National Board of Directors for the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) and president of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).
A 1976 Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) graduate of the UAB School of Nursing, Disch received the School’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1994. In 2010, she was named one of the School’s 60 Visionary Leaders, and she was appointed to the UAB School of Nursing’s National Advisory Council in 2015.
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Nurse practitioners are a vital part of health care teams providing quality patient care in Alabama whose role has increased significantly over the past two decades, with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing on the forefront of this expansion.
With many of its faculty and alumni providing leadership and key insights, nursing leaders from the School have been instrumental in advocating for expanded scope of practice for nurse practitioners in the state and in helping to develop organizations and initiatives dedicated to this advocacy.
As a result, the School’s presence at the national level has also increased substantially. Its faculty and alumni hold leadership positions among organizations such as the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), shining a national spotlight on the School.
“Our efforts to improve access to primary care nurse practitioners for patients in Alabama have had a far-reaching effect,” said Dean and Fay B. Ireland Endowed Chair in Nursing Doreen C. Harper, PhD, RN, FAAN. “I am proud that so many from the UAB School of Nursing have worked so hard and contributed so much to effect change in our state and nationally.”
To mark National Nurse Practitioner Week 2017, we reflect at how the School has helped advance the nurse practitioner role in Alabama and how it will impact the nurse practitioner role in the future.
A STATEWIDE VOICE
The UAB School of Nursing is proud of the part it has played in expanding the role of nurse practitioners in Alabama over the last two decades and equally proud of educating future nurse practitioners who will continue to lead this expansion.Assistant Professor Joy Deupree, PhD, MSN, RN, WHNP-BC, recalls the day in August 2006 when a meeting at the Civic Center in Fairfield, Alabama, significantly changed the path for nurse practitioners in the state. That day, approximately 150 people gathered and a steering committee was formed that eventually led to the creation of the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama (NPAA), an established voice to advocate for nurse practitioners and patients across the state.
Eleven years later, the Alliance counts more than 3,000 nurse practitioners across Alabama as its members.
“The work that has transpired since then is just amazing,” Deupree said, who earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the School in 1994 and her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) in 1997. “I knew we needed to organize and have one voice as we advocated for increasing the scope nurse practitioner practice in Alabama. Since that day, the number of nurse practitioners in Alabama has grown exponentially.
“It is all about the patients and how we can improve access to care for them, especially in rural and underserved areas, and that is what we have done.”
Along with Deupree, retired Associate Professor Jean Ivey, PhD, RN, APRN, PNP-PC, alumna Cindy Cooke, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, immediate past president of the AANP, alumna Nancy Turnham, DNP, FNP, NP-C, and Visionary Leader Jim Raper, PhD, CRNP, JD, FAANP, FAAN, are founding members of the Alliance. Cooke earned her DNP from the School in 2013 and Turnham her DNP in 2009. Raper, a Professor in the UAB School of Medicine, holds a primary faculty appointment in that school.
Cooke served as the organization’s first president in 2006-2007, and Deupree served as president in 2012-2013.
The current Alliance leadership also has strong ties to the School. Retired Assistant Professor D’Ann Somerall, DNP, CRNP, FNP-BC, is president-elect and Associate Professor Shannon Morrison, PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC is treasurer. Alumna Eileen Meyer, DNP, ACNP-BC, is vice president for policy, alumni Ian Burge, MSN, CRNP, vice president for membership and alumna Lindsey Harris, DNP, CRNP, secretary. DNP student Crystal Nwagwu, MSN, CRNP, and DNP student and Instructor Clare Kranz, MSN, RN, CPNP-AC, are students at large.
Deupree, who spent several years laying groundwork even before the Alliance was formed, says it has been worth all the time and effort.
“It’s been worth it because you see patients in rural areas who don’t have to drive three hours to get a tetanus shot or get a prescription for chronic pain that can be easily treated and managed by a nurse practitioner,” Deupree said. “I think nurse practitioners are a substantial component for team-based care in the state.”
Associate Dean for Clinical and Global Partnerships Cynthia Selleck, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, noted that many associated with the School are now having an impact at the national level as well.
“The UAB School of Nursing is highly visible in organizations such as the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and their national conference each year,” Selleck said. “We are viewed by that organization as a top program in the country in the preparation of nurse practitioners.”
500 STRONG AND GROWING
When she first went to work at UAB Hospital in the early 1990s, Meyer, a two-time graduate of the School and current Assistant Director of UAB Medicine’s Office of Advanced Practice Providers, recalls that “there were only a handful of nurse practitioners here.”
Now Meyer, who earned her Master of Science of Nursing (MSN) degree from the School in 1997 and her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2017, and Associate Vice President, Advanced Practice Providers Catherine Brown, CRNP, MSN, provide dedicated leadership to approximately 500 nurse practitioners serving in more than 60 unique service lines throughout the UAB Health System. Brown earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the School in 1995, her MSN in 1998 and is currently a student in the post-MSN to DNP Pathway.
According to Brown, UAB’s Office of Advanced Practice Providers, which helps grow service lines and individual practices, provides oversight and supervision of scope of practice, and supports recruitment, quality, credentialing and privileging, is currently the only one of its kind in Alabama.
“When we started, there were no real defined practice models for using advanced practice providers,” Brown said. “You just got thrown in the deep end of the pool and had to figure it out for yourself. Now we have defined practice models and a formal structure here at UAB for how to use this really strong workforce to the full extent of our licensure in the state, and it is working well.”
Physicians, administrators and many others across the UAB Health System have recognized the impact of nurse practitioners and begun advocating for them.The Office, which has been in place for two years, is also a key component of the UAB Nursing Partnership, a formal partnership between the UAB Health System, the School and UAB Hospital that aligns critical resources to provide outstanding patient care, invest in teaching and training for interprofessional collaboration, and partner in research and scholarship.
The elite collaboration, which places added emphasis on lifelong learning, professional development and innovation, especially in the areas of safety and quality, benefits UAB’s own nursing population and its patients, and enhances its standing as a champion of excellence in academic nursing and clinical practice nationwide.
The Partnership has proven its worth in many areas, said Brown, who cited a recent collaboration with Department of Acute, Chronic and Continuing Care Chair and Professor Maria Shirey, PhD, MBA, MS, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FACHE, FAAN, and Associate Professor Rebecca Miltner, PhD, RN, CNL, NEA-BC.
Brown asked Shirey and Miltner to help her develop leadership training for her Advanced Practice Provider leads, a group of supervisors and managers who don’t get formal training in the area otherwise. The program they developed and instituted was received with great enthusiasm.
“They brought their expertise over to partner with me, and the feedback was phenomenal,” Brown said. “Everybody who participated felt like it was incredibly valuable. We did a survey, and the results were almost 100 percent positive. We take a lot of pride in that.”
Meyer credits Harper, UAB Hospital Chief Nursing Office Terri Poe, DNP, RN, NE-BC, and other UAB administrators, and its physicians with recognizing the impact of nurse practitioners and advocating for them.
“Dean Harper has helped create a bridge between the School and the Hospital,” Meyer said. “The people she has on her staff that we have been collaborating with extensively, like Joy Deupree and others, have been very engaging with us and vice versa. They have done a lot to incorporate us, and we have done a lot to incorporate them on our committees and in addressing practice issues. This collaboration has been highly successful.”
COMMITTED TO INCREASED ACCESS
The School, which holds the highest overall national ranking in the state and is the most affordable highly ranked school nationally, has also led the way in increasing access to nurse practitioner care for medically underserved patients statewide through the administration of several important grants.
In 2017, the School received a two-year Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) grant totaling more than $1.3 million allowing it to expand and enhance its commitment to increasing primary care for rural and medically underserved populations by integrating behavioral health care training into three existing and two new academic practice partnerships across the state.
Building on a three-year, $1.9 million Advanced Nursing Education (ANE) grant received in 2016 and leveraging financial support from The Daniel Foundation of Alabama for the successful Graduate Nursing Education Primary Care Scholars (GNEPCS) initiative, the School is expanding partnerships with the Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) Quality of Life Health Services Inc., Christ Health Center in Birmingham, and Aletheia House, Inc., which operates the Bessemer Neighborhood Health Center and establish new partnerships with Cahaba Medical Care and Capstone Rural Health Center.
“Increasing patient access to behavioral care through primary care in medically underserved populations is important because, in many instances, these patients are not receiving treatment for these issues,” said Assistant Dean for Graduate Clinical Programs and Associate Professor Ashley Hodges, PhD, CRNP, WHNP-BC, who serves as the ANEW grant’s program director. “We are pulling together all the resources from those avenues to continue leveraging these academic practice partnerships to the maximum.”
The leadership of the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama with Gov. Kay Ivey as she proclaimed Nurse Practitioner Week in Alabama.The School is also helping to train nurse practitioners though collaborative efforts with the UAB Health System and UAB Hospital in the HRTSA Heart Failure Clinic and the Providing Access to Health Care (PATH) Clinic.
The HRTSA Heart Failure Clinic is a nurse-managed, interprofessional transitional care clinic for heart failure patients recently discharged from UAB Hospital. The PATH Clinic is a nurse-managed clinic that utilizes an interprofessional, team-based model to provide diabetes care at no cost to uninsured patients recently discharged from UAB Hospital.
All of the School’s programs have experienced great success in terms of patient outcomes and in helping to create a sustainable pipeline of primary care providers to address health disparities in Alabama.
“We are excited to see an increased number of nurse practitioner graduates in primary care who want to go back to serve in their hometowns and other rural communities,” said Selleck, who sits on UAB Hospital’s Advanced Practice Providers Executive Council. “And of course, we always welcome more students and more providers and clinics who want to partner with us to continue to make a difference in Alabama.”
PROCLAMATION SPEAKS VOLUMES
The proclamation of Nurse Practitioner Week in Alabama by Gov. Kay Ivey reads in part: “Whereas, better utilization of nurse practitioners through modernized state laws and improved system policies creates better health through a more accessible, efficient, cost-effective and higher quality health care system…”
It has been coming for several years now, thanks in part to the efforts of Deupree and others who want to see nurse practitioners impact the state’s health care to the fullest extent possible. It is not lost on Deupree that just a few years back, receiving such a proclamation would not have been possible.
“Getting that proclamation from the governor each year says a lot about how far we have come,” Deupree said. “We still have work to do, but if we can continue to make the same strides we have over the past 15 years, Alabama could someday be a leader in the access to primary health care for all its populations.”
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Waterway Improvement Project to Begin
By Dateline Staff on June 21, 2016 in University
Artist's rendering shows weirs in the Arboretum Waterway, looking west toward Lake Spafford.
Work starts in August at the east end, to increase flow
Project calls for 5 weirs along a 15-inch elevation drop
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Maybe you’ve seen the signs asking, “What’s up with the Arboretum Waterway?” — referring in part to the unsightly duckweed and algae that thrive in what is largely a stationary body of water.
An information session on the Arboretum Waterway Maintenance and Enhancement Project Is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, on the Wyatt Deck(in the arboretum, overlooking the waterway and Lake Spafford). Brief project overviews will be given at 6:15 and 7 p.m. Participants also are invited to speak with experts involved in the planning, and preview the designs.
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The signs also describe a multiyear improvement project. Now that effort is about to get underway.
“To improve the overall aesthetics of this iconic part of our campus environment and combat the rapid growth of both these naturally occurring, water-loving organisms, we need to improve the water’s flow,” reads an article on the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden’s website.
For those who don’t know, the waterway is not a creek — it’s a large pond that is dammed on both ends, hence the slow flow. The waterway sits in the channel that used to be the North Fork of Putah Creek, which flowed east toward downtown Davis. In the 1870s, after frequent floods, townspeople and farmers diverted the creek.
Today, the campus manages the waterway as a holding pond for storm runoff; as a receptacle for clean, recycled water (which assists flow in the west end); and as the centerpiece of the arboretum — trees and plants line the waterway, and paths run on both sides, the entire length. But there’s that problem of limited flow. (The water flows east to west, opposite the channel’s original direction, to a weir; when the water is high enough, it goes over the weir and into a pump that sends the water to the South Fork of Putah Creek.)
“We’re excited to move forward on this project not only because it’s going to be safer, more accessible and lower maintenance — it’s also going to look better,” said Assistant Vice Chancellor Bob Segar, campus planner.
‘Water cascading down’
The campus envisions a four-phase improvement project, starting with the east end of the waterway — between the dam at the east end and the Wyatt Deck Bridge on the east side of Lake Spafford. “In order to create flow in this part of the waterway, we will introduce small elevation changes via weirs — barriers across water that alter its flow characteristics,” the information page states. “Picture a series of large, natural steps with water cascading down.”
A pilot project showed the system will work, said Andrew Fulks, assistant director of the Arboretum and Public Garden. “Now we have the opportunity to implement that plan on a larger scale,” he said.
Water in the east end will be recirculated; that is, at the point where the east end dumps into Lake Spafford, a pump (in a vault and inaudible) will send water back to the far east end.
Officials said Phase 1 will begin in August with the construction of a cofferdam near Wyatt Deck to separate Lake Spafford from the east end of the waterway. Aquatic wildlife (turtles, fish, etc.) will be moved to Lake Spafford before the construction starts.
Then, the east end will be drained, given time to dry out, and dredged to remove excess sediment. A 15-inch elevation drop will be engineered, and five weirs constructed. They will be concrete with steel lips over which the water will flow. Only about six inches of each weir will be visible above the water, so the weirs will be small relative to the creek banks.
The project also calls for strengthening the waterway’s banks, transforming them from rock and wire baskets to earth slopes that are planted with native vegetation.
Brick pathway to be extended
Phase 1 also includes a renovated pathway on the south side of this area to meet the Americans With Disabilities Act. “Look for the brick pathway that begins in the Arboretum GATEway Garden (behind the Davis Commons shopping center) to extend all the way to the T. Elliot Weier Redwood Grove,” according to the project information page.
During construction, according to the project’s FAQs, detours for bikes and pedestrians will be in place when the lower pathways are inaccessible.
“There is the possibility of some odor of decaying material as the work area is drying out. Through the use of pumps to remove the water quickly, odors will be minimized by speeding the drying.”
The weirs and new path are scheduled for completion by the end of this calendar year. This phase of the waterway project is made possible through deferred maintenance funds from campus.
The project’s FAQ page outlines the remainder of the project: “The long-term plan (over the next four years) is to create the same type of recirculation and weir system to the west, continuing to the Putah Creek Lodge. From the Putah Creek Lodge to the western terminus of the waterway, the plan is to create an emergent marsh, open water and riparian forest habitat area which will increase the wildlife habitat dramatically. This area is also planned to have a boardwalk and viewing platforms.”
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Dateline Staff Dave Jones, editor, can be reached at 530-752-6556 or dljones@ucdavis.edu. Cody Kitaura, news and media relations specialist, can be reached at 530-752-1932 or kitaura@ucdavis.edu.
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DISCOGRAPHIE KENNY ROGERS
Discographie Singles
That Crazy Feeling Carlton 03/1958
For You Alone (Kenny Rogers The First) Carlton 30/06/1958
I Found A Reason (The First Edition) Reprise 10/1967
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The First Edition) Reprise 01/1968
Only Me (The First Edition) Reprise 04/1968
Charlie The Fer De Lance (The First Edition) Reprise 05/1968
But You Know I Love You (The First Edition) Reprise 12/1968
Once Again She's All Alone (The First Edition) Reprise 05/1969
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 01/06/1969
Reuben James (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 01/09/1969
Something's Burning (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 01/1970
Tell It All Brother (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 06/1970
Heed The Call (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 10/1970
Someone Who Cares (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 05/1971
Take My Hand (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 1971
School Teacher (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 02/1972
(Do You Remember) The First Time (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Jolly Rogers 05/1972
Lena Lookie (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) MGM 09/1973
Love Lifted Me United Artists 01/1976
While The Feeling's Good United Artists 05/1976
Lucille United Artists 01/1977
Daytime Friends United Artists 07/1977
Sweet Music Man United Artists 11/1977
Every Time Two Fools Collide (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 01/1978
Love Or Something Like It United Artists 05/1978
Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 08/1978
The Gambler United Artists 10/1978
All I Ever Need Is You (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 01/1979
She Believes In Me United Artists 03/1979
Midnight Flyer (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 06/1979
You Decorated My Life United Artists 08/1979
Coward Of The County United Artists 10/1979
Goodbye Marie United Artists 1979
Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes) United Artists 03/1980
Love The World Away United Artists 06/1980
Lady United Artists 09/1980
I Don't Need You Liberty 1980
So In Love With You Liberty 1981
What Are We Doin' In Love (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 02/1981
Blaze Of Glory Liberty 1981
Kentucky Homemade Christmas Liberty 1981
Through The Years Liberty 1981
Love Will Turn You Around EMI America 1982
The Long Arm Of The Law Liberty 1982
We've Got Tonight (Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton) Liberty 24/01/1983
Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) RCA 01/07/1983
All My Life Liberty 1983
Eyes That See In The Dark RCA Victor 1983
This Woman RCA 1983
Christmas Without You (Kenny & Dolly) RCA 1984
What About Me? (Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes & James Ingram) RCA 1984
Real Love (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) RCA 01/05/1985
Crazy RCA Victor 04/08/1985
Morning Desire RCA 10/1985
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To RCA Victor 1986
Tomb Of The Unknown Love RCA Victor 1986
Twenty Years Ago RCA 1987
When You Put Your Heart In It Reprise 1988
If I Ever Fall In Love Again (Anne Murray & Kenny Rogers) Capitol 1989
Planet Texas Reprise 1989
What I Did For Love Reprise 1990
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town '91 Reprise 1991
Discographie Albums - Studio
The First Edition (The First Edition) Reprise 1967
The First Edition's 2nd. (The First Edition) Reprise 1968
'69 (The First Edition) Reprise 1969
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 1969
Something's Burning (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 1970
Tell It All Brother (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 1970
Transition (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 09/1971
The Ballad Of Calico (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 03/1972
Backroads (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) MGM 1972
Monumental (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Jolly Rogers 1973
Rollin' (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) MGM 1973
I'm Not Making Music for Money (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Jolly Rogers 1974
Love Lifted Me United Artists 1976
Daytime Friends United Artists 1977
Kenny Rogers United Artists 1977
Every Time Two Fools Collide (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 1978
Love Or Something Like It United Artists 1978
Kenny United Artists 01/09/1979
Classics (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West) United Artists 1979
Gideon United Artists 1980
Christmas Liberty 1981
Share Your Love Liberty 1981
Love Will Turn You Around Liberty 1982
Eyes That See In The Dark RCA 30/08/1983
We've Got Tonight Liberty 1983
Once Upon A Christmas (Kenny & Dolly) RCA 1984
What About Me? RCA 1984
Love Is What We Make It Liberty 1985
Pieces Of Calico Silver (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) MCA 1985
The Heart Of The Matter RCA 1985
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To RCA 1986
I Prefer The Moonlight RCA 1987
Christmas In America Reprise 1989
Something Inside So Strong Reprise 1989
Love Is Strange Reprise 1990
Timepiece Atlantic 04/10/1994
The Gift Curb 1996
With Love CMC 1996
Across My Heart Magnatone 1997
She Rides Wild Horses CD 11/05/1999
There You Go Again Dreamcatcher 10/2000
Back To The Well Sanctuary 26/05/2003
Water & Bridges Capitol Nashville 17/03/2006
Amazing Grace Gaither 09/10/2012
Discographie Albums - Live
Live Vegas '72 (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Maplewood 11/12/2015
Discographie Albums - Best Of
Ten Years Of Gold United Artists 1977
For The Good Times Liberty 1980
Greatest Hits Liberty 1980
The American Superstar - His Greatest Hits Arcade 1981
The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers Reprise 02/11/1990
The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers - Daytime Friends EMI 13/09/1993
A Decade Of Hits Reprise 25/03/1997
Country Classics EMI 26/01/1998
Through The Years EMI 08/02/1999
Endless Love - A Collection Music Club 14/09/1999
All The Hits & All New Love Songs EMI 16/09/2002
42 Ultimate Hits Capitol Nashville 01/06/2004
The Best Of [2005] EMI 15/08/2005
21 Number Ones Capitol 23/01/2006
A Love Song Collection Capitol Nashville 11/01/2008
Platinum Collection Capitol 20/06/2008
The Best Of [2009] EMI Gold 02/03/2009
Icon Capitol 08/10/2013
The Best Of Kenny Rogers - Through The Years Capitol Nashville 12/10/2018
Discographie Albums - Misc
For The Good Times (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Reprise 1971
The Very Best Of (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) EVA 1987
20 Greatest Hits (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) BVs Country 1988
The Best Of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Hallmark 1988
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town [1999] Hit Box 19/07/1999
The Great Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Goldies 07/04/2000
Country Legends Country Legends 01/08/2003
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town MCP / VM 31/08/2003
She Believes In Me BR 15/03/2005
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You [2 CD Set] Delta 02/08/2005
Ruby Pazzazz 30/01/2006
Greatest Hits [2007] Rhino 23/03/2007
American Classic Songbook Smith & Co. 30/03/2007
For The Good Times [Pegasus] Pegasus 15/04/2007
Country Roads [2CD] (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Kingsroad 25/05/2007
Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town Foreign 27/07/2007
Golden Hits Euro Trend 14/08/2008
The Classic Collection (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Union Square 05/09/2008
Covered By Kenny Rogers American Beat 12/09/2008
Forevergold: Golden Hits Forever Gold 07/11/2008
Greatest Hits & Love Songs Not Now 07/08/2009
10 Great Songs EMI 08/01/2010
Golden Hits - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town Euro Trend 12/02/2010
Originals Music Brokers 23/03/2012
The Album Powerstation 01/03/2014
Essential Universal 25/04/2014
Golden Hits [2014] Country Roads 26/09/2014
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town [2015] ZYX 06/03/2015
The Very Best Of Kenny Rogers & The First Edition (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) Not Now 25/11/2016
Diamonds Are Forever - The Diamond Collection Store For Music 20/10/2017
Greatest Hits (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) MCPS
Always And Forever //
Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town [2CD] //
She Believes In Me - White Collection [2 CD] //
The Best Of Kenny Rogers [1993] //
Discographie Albums - DVD
Golden Hits Collection SPVision 25/10/2013
Live In Concert (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) Laser
Kenny Rogers DANS L'ULTRATOP WALLONIE
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Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The First Edition) 06/04/1968 Tip
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) 13/09/1969 33 5
Chansons de Kenny Rogers
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(Do You Remember) The First Time (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
(Something Inside) So Strong
42nd Street (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
727 East Magnolia Avenue
A Christmas To Remember (Kenny & Dolly)
A Good Kind Of Hurt (The First Edition)
A Little More Like Me (The Crucifixion)
A Little More Love
A Patch Of Clear (The First Edition)
A Soldier's King
A Stranger In My Place (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
A Stranger In My Place
Abraham, Martin & John / Precious Memories
After All (I Live My Life) (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
All God's Lonely Children (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
All I Ever Need Is You (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
All That I Am (The First Edition)
All That You Could Be
Always Leaving, Always Gone (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Am I Too Late
Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Are My Thoughts With You? (The First Edition)
As God Is My Witness
Baby I'm-A Want You (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Back To The Well
Bad Enough
Beautiful Lies (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Border Song (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Born To Love You
Building Condemned (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
But You Know I Love You (The First Edition)
Buy Me A Rose (Kenny Rogers / Alison Krauss / Billy Dean)
Calico Saturday Night (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Calico Silver (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Call Me Up (The Phone Is In The Cradle)
Calling Me (Kenny Rogers feat. Don Henley)
Camptown Ladies (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Charlie The Fer De Lance (The First Edition)
Christmas In America
Christmas Is My Favorite Time Of The Year
Christmas Without You (Kenny & Dolly)
Church Without A Name (The First Edition)
Coconut (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Coward Of The County
Crazy Me
Daddy Was A Traveling Man (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Daytime Friends
Didn't We?
Dirty Works (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes)
Don't Look In My Eyes
Dorsey, The Mail-Carrying Dog (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Dream Dancin'
Dream On (The First Edition)
Elvira (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Empty Handed Compadres (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Even A Fool Would Let Go
Every Time Two Fools Collide (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Eyes That See In The Dark
Farther I Go
Fightin' Fire With Fire
Find A Little Grace
For The Good Times (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
For The Good Times (Anna Wilson & Kenny Rogers)
For The Love Of God
For You Alone (Kenny Rogers The First)
Forgive Me Now (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Gallop County Train (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Get Back (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Ghost Of Another Man
Gideon Tanner
Girl Get Ahold Of Yourself (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Goin' Back To Alabama
Good Lady Of Toronto (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Good Time Liberator (The First Edition)
Good Vibrations (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Goodbye Marie
Grey Beard
Handprints On The Wall
Harbor For My Soul (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Harder Cards
Have A Little Faith In Me
He Showed Me Love
He Will, She Knows
Heavenly Sunshine
Heed The Call (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Highway Flyer
Homemade Lies (The First Edition)
Home-Made Love
Hoodooin' Of Miss Fannie Deberry (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Hurry Up Love (The First Edition)
I Believe In Santa Claus (Kenny & Dolly)
I Can Feel You Drifting
I Can't Believe Your Eyes
I Can't Help Falling In Love
I Can't Make You Love Me
I Can't Unlove You
I Could Be So Good For You
I Do It For Your Love
I Don't Call Him Daddy
I Don't Need You
I Don't Wanna Have To Worry
I Don't Want To Know Why (Kenny Rogers feat. Cindy Fee)
I Found A Reason (The First Edition)
I Get A Funny Feeling (The First Edition)
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
I Just Wanna Give My Love To You (The First Edition)
I Need You (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
I Passed You By (The First Edition)
I Prefer The Moonlight
I Want A Son
I Want To Make You Smile
I Was The Loser (The First Edition)
I Wasn't Man Enough
I Will Always Love You [1996]
I Will Remember You
I Wish I Could Say That
I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again
I Won't Forget
I Would Like To See You Again
If I Could Hold On To Love
If I Could Only Change Your Mind (The First Edition)
If I Ever Fall In Love Again (Anne Murray & Kenny Rogers)
If I Knew Then What I Know Now (Kenny Rogers & Gladys Knight)
If I Were A Painting
If Wishes Were Horses (The First Edition)
If You Can Lie A Little Bit
If You Want To Find Love
I'll Fly Away
I'll Just Write My Music And Sing Any Songs
I'm Gonna Sing You A Sad Song, Susie (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
I'm Missing You
In And Out Of Your Heart
In Our Old Age
In The Sweet By And By
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Indian Joe (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
It Happened In The Best Of Dreams
It Turns Me Inside Out
It's A Crazy Afternoon (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
It's Gonna Be Better (The First Edition)
It's Raining In My Mind (The First Edition)
It's The Messiah
I've Got A Lot To Learn (Kenny Rogers The First)
Joy (Jeso, Joy O' Man's Desiring) (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The First Edition)
Just Remember You're My Sunshine (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Just The Thought Of Losing You
Just The Way You Are (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Kentucky Homemade Christmas
Lady (Lionel Richie with Kenny Rogers)
Lady, Play Your Symphony (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)
Lay Down Beside Me
Lay It Down (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Lay My Body Down
Lena Lookie (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Let It Be Me (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Let Me Sing For You
Let's Take The Long Way Around The World (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Life Is Good, Love Is Better
Listen To The Music (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Listen To The Rain
Living With You
Long Arm Of The Law
Look Around, I'll Be There (The First Edition)
Look Over The Hill (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Kenny Rogers / Alison Krauss)
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
Love Is Just Around The Corner (Kenny Rogers / Take 6)
Love Is Strange (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
Love Is What We Make It
Love Lifted Me
Love Like This (Kenny Rogers feat. Alison Krauss)
Love Or Something Like It
Love The Way You Do
Love The World Away
Love Will Turn You Around
Love Woman (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Lying Again
Madame de Lil And Diabolical Bill (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Make No Mistake, She's Mine (Kenny Rogers feat. Ronnie Milsap)
Makes Me Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye
Making Music For Money (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Man Came Up From Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Marcia 2 A.M. (The First Edition)
Mary, Did You Know? (Kenny Rogers & Wynonna)
Maybe (Kenny Rogers with Holly Dunn)
Maybe In The End
Maybe You Should Know
Me And Bobby McGee (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Midnight Flyer (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Midsummer Nights
Mission Of San Nohero (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Molly (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Momma's Waiting (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Momma's Waiting
Morgana Jones
Morgana Jones (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Morning Desire
Morning Has Broken (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Mother Country Music
My Petition
My Sweet Lady (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
My Washington Woman (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
My World Begins And Ends With You
My World Is Over (Kenny Rogers with Whitney Duncah)
New Design (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
No Dreams
No Good Texas Rounder
Ol' Red
Old Lonely Room (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Old Mojave Highway (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Once Again She's All Alone (The First Edition)
Once Upon A Christmas (Kenny & Dolly)
One Man's Woman
One Place In The Night
Only Me (The First Edition)
Only Once In A Lifetime
Oregon (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Our Perfect Song
Owe Them More Than That (Kenny Rogers feat. Tim McGraw)
Paperback Writer (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
People In Love
Planet Texas
Poem For My Little Lady (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Prairie Wedding
Pretty Little Baby Child (Kenny Rogers & The Katinas)
Puttin' In Overtime At Home
Rainbows On A Cloudy Day (The First Edition)
Real Love (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
Reuben James (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Road Agent (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Rock And Roll Man
Rockin' Chair Theme (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town '91
Run Through Your Mind (The First Edition)
Runaway Girl
Sally Grey's Epitaph (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
San Francisco Mabel Joy
Santiago Midnight Moonlight
Sayin' Goodbye
School Teacher (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
See Me Through
Shadow In The Corner Of Your Mind (The First Edition)
She Believes In Me (Engelbert with Kenny Rogers)
She Believes In Me
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
She Rides Wild Horses
She Thinks I Still Care (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
She's A Mystery
She's Ready For Someone To Love Her
Shine On Ruby Mountain (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Silent Night (Kenny & Dolly)
Since I Fell For You
Sing Me Your Love Song
Sleep Comes Easy (The First Edition)
Sleep Tight, Goodnight Man
Slow Dance More
So Little Love In The World
Somebody Took My Love
Someone Is Me
Someone Somewhere Tonight
Someone Who Cares (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Something About Your Song (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Something About Your Song
Something's Burning (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Somewhere Between Lovers And Friends
Starting Today, Starting Over
Still Hold On
Stranger In My Place (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Suitcase Full Of Blues
Sunrise Overture (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Sunshine (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Sunshine Joe (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Sweet Little Jesus Boy (Kenny Rogers & Glad)
Sweet Music Man
Sylvia's Mother (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Take My Hand (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Take This Heart
Tears In God's Eyes
Tell It All Brother (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Tell Me Why (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Tennessee Bottle
That Crazy Feeling
That's The Way It Could Have Been (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
The Best Of Me (Kenny Rogers feat. James Galway)
The Buckeroos
The Chosen One Montage (Medley)
The Christmas Song (Kenny & Dolly)
The Fool In Me
The Greatest Gift Of All (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
The Hoodooin' Of Miss Fannie Deberry
The Hustler (Coolio feat. Kenny Rogers)
The Kind Of Fool Love Makes
The King Of Oak Street (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
The King Of Oak Street
The Last Few Threads Of Love (The First Edition)
The Last Ten Years (Superman)
The Long And Winding Road (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
The Long Arm Of The Law
The Loving Gift (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
The Only Way I Know (Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes)
The Poor Little Doggie
The Pride Is Back
The Rest Of Last Night (Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes & James Ingram)
The Ritual (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
The Rock Of Your Love
The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp
The Sun Keeps On Rising (The First Edition)
The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To You)
The Way It Used To Be (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
The Worlds Needs A Melody
Then I Miss You (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
There Lies The Difference
There's A Lot Of That Going Around
There's An Old Man In Our Town
There's An Old Man In Our Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
These Chains
They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
Things Can't Be So Sad (The First Edition)
This Love We Share
This Woman
Three Times A Lady
Ticket To Nowhere (The First Edition)
Tie Me To Your Heart Again
'Til The Season Comes 'Round Again
Till I Can Make It On My Own (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Till I Get It Right
Time For Love
To Me (Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes)
Today I Started Loving You Again (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Together Again (Kenny Rogers & Dottie West)
Tomb Of The Unknown Love
Trigger Happy Kid (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Trying Just As Hard As I Can (The First Edition)
Tulsa Turnaround (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)
Tulsa Turnaround
Twentieth Century Fool
Twenty Years Ago
Two Hearts, One Love
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Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) 65 5.02
Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) 169 5
The Gambler 47 4.85
We've Got Tonight (Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton) 76 4.8
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town '91 10 4.8
Buried Treasure 5 4.8
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (The First Edition) 32 4.78
This Woman 9 4.67
You And I 6 4.67
Lucille 85 4.65
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Lady 54 4.59
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U.S. Citizenship Resources: History of Ellis Island
In the later part of the 1800’s, the United States had just seen the end of the Civil War where citizen was fighting against citizen. With the end of the War at hand, the United States focused its attention and energy to a reconstruction of the country. Businesses started to increase, work was plentiful and the country started to grow in all directions. It was also a time when the government made a decision to allow any immigrants into the country and provide them with an opportunity to be a part of the growth. This open door policy led to a great influx of immigrants coming into the country, mainly through Ellis Island.
Ellis Island History- Historic page from History.com on the use of Ellis Island for immigration.
Ellis Island Timeline- Useful page with general information and dates on notable events in the history of the island.
Ellis Island- National Park Service site which deals with the information located on the property. p | Ellis Island is located in the harbor in New York City, and in 1892 became the central port where immigrants landed. With the Statue of Liberty within view, this gave immigrants to this country hope in starting a new life in the United States. Millions of immigrants landed at Ellis Island where they were asked about their past and what they were planning to do in the country. If they were determined to be of sufficient character they moved to a medical inspection area. In this test they were examined and if they were healthy enough, were allowed to enter the country. p | With the number of immigrants starting to slow up, in 1942, Ellis Island was used by the U.S. Government as a Detention and Deportation Center during World War II. In 1954, the United States closed Ellis Island after over 12 million people have passed through the doors to enter the country. In 1965, Ellis Island becomes part of the National Park Service and has undergone renovations to restore the look of the original buildings. p | With over 12 million people passing through Ellis Island on their way to living in a new country, many people can trace their ancestors back to Ellis Island. Many resources are available to help trace the genealogy of the immigrants and people in the United States today.
To help you learn more about Ellis Island, we have put together this handy guide. We hope that it helps you learn about this important part of our history and heritage.
Immigration in the United States
Immigration Timeline- A brief overview of the immigration policy over the course of time in the United States.
Immigration Through Ellis Island- Informative video documenting and showing the immigration at Ellis Island.
Ellis Island- Basic overview of the location and its proud history.
Ellis Island Resources- Thorough collection of resources on a variety of topics pertaining to Ellis Island and immigration.
Immigrant Inspection Station
The Immigration Experience- A firsthand look at the experiences that immigrants had to go through.
Admission Procedures- Information on the procedure for admission for immigrants into Ellis Island.
The Immigrant Journey- Useful page containing information on what immigrants were faced with in order to gain entrance to the United States.
Ellis Island Information- Basic overview of the function of the Immigration Processing Station at Ellis Island.
Medical Inspections
Medical Examination- A look at the medical exams that were conducted on newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island.
Ellis Island- Overview of the immigration process that occurred at Ellis Island.
Detention and Deportation Station
Ellis Island Timeline- Page providing information on the various uses of the island.
Ellis Island- Useful resource providing a biographical look at the events at Ellis Island.
Ellis Island Genealogy- Informative page providing information on immigrants at Ellis Island.
Records Search- Helpful site which can be used to help locate immigrants into the United States.
Family History and Genealogy- Collection of resources for people looking for information on their family.
Genealogy- Resources and information from the national archives on people who have arrived in this country.
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Legendary Brazilian Rockers DR.SIN first time in Europe
October 10, 2019 valniki News 0
After having realized during their long career over 10 studio albums and a DVD, the legendary Brazilian rock band DR. SIN arrives for the first time in Europe with a new album entitled “Back Home Again”. The brand new CD will be released (excluding Brazil) next winter, by Valery Records, distributed by Audioglobe and available on all digital stores.
DR. SIN is absolutely one of the greatest names of Brazilian Rock ever. Born 27 years ago in New York, where they played in major rock clubs, after signing their first contract with Warner International, their first album reached the charts of several countries. The band has held many concerts in different countries in the past and has often shared the stage with rock legends such as AC / DC, KISS, BON JOVI, JOE SATRIANI, STEVE VAI, IAN GILLAN, GLENN HUGHES, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BLACK SABBATH, SCORPIONS , DIO, NIRVANA, and many others, performing also in some big festivals like ROCK IN RIO, MONSTER OF ROCK, M2000 SUMMER CONCERTS, LIVE AND LOUDER, SKOL ROCK, and HOLLYWOOD ROCK.
The release of “Back Home Again” is accompanied by the first video and single “Lost in Space”, which has already been shared very well on the main Brazilian radio stations (FM and Web radio) and is already available now at the following link:
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Ydgp5QmA4
DR.SIN with the collaboration of Tiziana Hurd and Sol Music Management is now preparing to
propose and also promote live the songs contained in the album in an upcoming European tour. More information on the band and contacts are available here: www.drsinofficial.com.br
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Home /News & Blog / Latest News / Business to team up with scientists to tackle Phytophthora
Business to team up with scientists to tackle Phytophthora
Author:  Forestry Commission
Nursery managers and other plant traders are being invited to take part in scientific research into Phytophthora infections in the trade.
A consortium of scientists led by the Forestry Commission’s Forest Research agency are inviting those involved in the plant trade to help in the Phyto-Threats Project. The project complements a ‘Keep it Clean’ campaign by the Forestry Commission and partners to promote good biosecurity practice at work to minimise the spread of plant pests and diseases.
Dr Sarah Green, senior forest pathologist at Forest Research, explained,
“As people in the trade are well aware, our plant trade and natural environments are being affected by a range of destructive Phytophthora organisms which have entered Britain from different parts of the world. They arrive and are spread around the country in soil, water, equipment and in the tissues of a large number of plant species, damaging business and ecosystems alike.
“We are looking for plant nurseries and traders to take part in this project to enable us to better understand the dynamics of Phytophthora spread and infection, and devise effective control measures. They can do this by sharing their expertise and experiences with us, and allowing us to sample water and plants at regular intervals during the project.
“In return, we will provide them with information about their Phytophthora risk, and work with them to reduce it. Ultimately the project will provide invaluable data which will help businesses to effectively manage their risk.”
Dr Green gave an assurance that all published data on nursery findings will be anonymous, and it will not be possible to identify any individual businesses from the published findings.
Anyone interested in an informal discussion about ways to get involved may contact Dr Green on sarah.green@forestry.gsi.gov.uk or telephone 0300 067 5000.
Further information about the Phyto-Threats Project is available on the Forest Research website at www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/phytothreats.
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VF Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Results; Raises Full Year Fiscal 2020 Outlook
Download as PDF July 24, 2019 6:55am EDT
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Revenue from continuing operations increased 6 percent (up 9 percent in constant dollars) to $2.3 billion; excluding acquisitions and divestitures, adjusted revenue increased 9 percent (up 11 percent in constant dollars);
Active segment revenue increased 8 percent (up 11 percent in constant dollars) including a 20 percent (23 percent in constant dollars) increase in Vans® brand revenue; Outdoor segment revenue increased 7 percent (up 11 percent in constant dollars) including a 9 percent (12 percent in constant dollars) increase in The North Face® brand revenue and a 2-percentage point revenue growth contribution from acquisitions;
International revenue increased 2 percent (up 8 percent in constant dollars); excluding acquisitions and divestitures and on an adjusted basis, international revenue increased 4 percent (up 10 percent in constant dollars); China revenue increased 21 percent (up 29 percent in constant dollars);
Direct-to-Consumer revenue increased 14 percent (up 17 percent in constant dollars); Digital revenue increased 24 percent (up 28 percent in constant dollars);
Gross margin from continuing operations increased 140 basis points to 54.4 percent; on an adjusted basis, gross margin increased 120 basis points to 54.4 percent;
Earnings per share from continuing operations was $0.24. Adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations increased 61 percent (up 67 percent in constant dollars) to $0.30;
Full year fiscal 2020 adjusted revenue from continuing operations now expected to approximate $11.8 billion, reflecting growth of approximately 6 percent (8 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding acquisitions and divestitures); and,
Full year fiscal 2020 adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations is now expected to be in the range of $3.32 to $3.37, including an additional $20 million, or $0.04 per share, of incremental investment, reflecting growth of 16 percent to 18 percent (18 percent to 20 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding acquisitions and divestitures).
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) today reported financial results for its first quarter ended June 29, 2019. All per share amounts are presented on a diluted basis. This release refers to “reported” and “constant dollar” amounts, terms that are described under the heading “Constant Currency - Excluding the Impact of Foreign Currency.” Unless otherwise noted, “reported” and “constant dollar” amounts are the same. This release also refers to “continuing” and “discontinued” operations amounts, which are concepts described under the heading “Discontinued Operations - Kontoor Brands Business.” Unless otherwise noted, results presented are based on continuing operations. This release also refers to “adjusted” amounts, terms that are described under the heading “Adjusted Amounts - Excluding Icebreaker®, Altra® and Jeans Spin-Off Transaction and Deal Related Expenses, Costs Related to Office Relocations and Specified Strategic Business Decisions.” Unless otherwise noted, “reported” and “adjusted” amounts are the same.
“Our first quarter represents a new chapter for VF following the spin-off of Kontoor Brands and our relocation to Denver, Colorado," said Steve Rendle, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Our first quarter results demonstrate the power of VF's evolved portfolio and our progress along our journey to become a purpose-led, performance-driven, value-creating enterprise anchored in our commitment to be more consumer-minded and retail-centric in everything we do. As a result of our strong results and increased confidence in the full year, we are raising our fiscal 2020 outlook, including an additional $20 million of investments aimed at accelerating growth and value creation in fiscal year 2020 and beyond."
Constant Currency - Excluding the Impact of Foreign Currency
This release refers to “reported” amounts in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), which include translation and transactional impacts from foreign currency exchange rates. This release also refers to “constant dollar” amounts, which exclude the impact of translating foreign currencies into U.S. dollars. The “constant dollar” amounts also exclude the impact of foreign currency-denominated transactions in countries with highly inflationary economies. Reconciliations of GAAP measures to constant currency amounts are presented in the supplemental financial information included with this release, which identifies and quantifies all excluded items, and provides management’s view of why this information is useful to investors.
Discontinued Operations - Kontoor Brands Business
On May 22, 2019, VF completed the spin-off of its Jeans business, which included the Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic® brands, as well as the VF OutletTM business, into an independent, publicly traded company under the name Kontoor Brands, Inc. (“Kontoor Brands”). Accordingly, the company has removed the assets and liabilities of the Jeans business as of the date noted above and included the operating results of this business in discontinued operations for all periods presented.
VF's after-tax net loss from discontinued operations was $48.0 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2020, which reflects the operating results of the Jeans business, including $59.5 million of separation costs related to the spin-off.
Adjusted Amounts - Excluding Icebreaker®, Altra® and Jeans Spin-Off Transaction and Deal Related Expenses, Costs Related to Office Relocations and Specified Strategic Business Decisions
This release refers to adjusted amounts that exclude transaction and deal related expenses associated with the acquisitions and integration of the Icebreaker® and Altra® brands. The release also refers to transaction expenses associated with the completed spin-off of the Jeans business. Total transaction and deal related expenses were approximately $13 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2020.
This release also refers to adjusted amounts that exclude costs primarily associated with the previously announced relocation of VF’s global headquarters and certain brands to Denver, Colorado. The release also refers to costs related to strategic business decisions in South America and the operating results of jeanswear wind-down activities in South America following the spin-off of Kontoor Brands. Total costs were approximately $17 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2020.
Combined, the above net charges negatively impacted earnings per share by $0.06 during the first quarter of fiscal 2020. All adjusted amounts referenced herein exclude the effects of these amounts.
Reconciliations of measures calculated in accordance with GAAP to adjusted amounts are presented in the supplemental financial information included with this release, which identifies and quantifies all excluded items, and provides management’s view of why this information is useful to investors.
First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Income Statement Review
Revenue increased 6 percent (up 9 percent in constant dollars) to $2.3 billion. Adjusted revenue increased 6 percent (up 8 percent in constant dollars) to $2.3 billion. Excluding acquisitions and divestitures, revenue increased 9 percent (up 11 percent in constant dollars), driven by VF’s largest brands, international and direct-to-consumer platforms, as well as strength from the Active and Outdoor segments.
Gross margin increased 140 basis points to 54.4 percent, driven by favorable mix and timing of foreign currency transaction hedge gains. On an adjusted basis, gross margin increased 120 basis points to 54.4 percent.
Operating income on a reported basis was $133 million. On an adjusted basis, operating income increased 23 percent to $163 million. Operating margin on a reported basis increased 60 basis points to 5.9 percent. Adjusted operating margin increased 100 basis points to 7.2 percent.
Earnings per share was $0.24 on a reported basis. On an adjusted basis, earnings per share increased 61 percent (up 67 percent in constant dollars) to $0.30.
Balance Sheet Highlights
Inventories were up 9 percent compared with the same period last year. In connection with the adoption of the new lease accounting standard, the company has recorded approximately $1.3 billion of operating lease right-of-use assets and $1.4 billion of operating lease liabilities. During the quarter, the company also repaid approximately $585 million of short term borrowings and returned approximately $200 million of cash to shareholders through dividends. The company did not repurchase any shares during the first quarter and has $3.8 billion remaining under its current share repurchase authorization.
Adjusted Full Year Fiscal 2020 Outlook
VF’s outlook for full year fiscal 2020 is on an adjusted continuing operations basis unless otherwise noted, and has been updated to include the following:
Revenue is now expected to approximate $11.8 billion, reflecting an increase of approximately 6 percent (8 percent on a constant dollar basis excluding the impact of acquisitions and divestitures). This compares to the previous expectation of revenue between $11.7 billion and $11.8 billion. By segment, revenue for Outdoor is now expected to increase approximately 5 percent (6 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions). This compares to the previous expectation of an increase in revenue of approximately 4 percent to 5 percent (5 percent to 6 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions); revenue for Active is now expected to increase approximately 7 percent to 8 percent (10 percent to 11 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of divestitures). This compares to the previous expectation of an increase in revenue of approximately 6 percent to 7 percent (9 percent to 10 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of divestitures); and, revenue for Work is still expected to increase approximately 3 percent to 5 percent (4 percent to 6 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of divestitures).
International revenue is still expected to increase approximately 4 percent to 6 percent, or approximately 7 percent to 9 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions and divestitures.
Direct-to-consumer revenue is now expected to increase approximately 10 percent to 12 percent (11 percent to 13 percent on a constant dollar basis), including 25 percent growth in digital. This compares to the previous expectation of an increase in revenue of approximately 9 percent to 11 percent (10 percent to 12 percent on a constant dollar basis).
Adjusted gross margin is now expected to be 54.1 percent, which represents an estimated increase of 80 basis points. This compares to the previous expectation of about 54.0 percent.
Adjusted operating margin is now expected to be 13.8 percent, which represents an estimated increase of approximately 90 basis points. This compares to the previous expectation of an adjusted operating margin of 13.7 percent.
Adjusted earnings per share is now expected to be in the range of $3.32 to $3.37, including an additional $20 million, or $0.04 per share, of incremental investment, reflecting growth of approximately 16 percent to 18 percent (18 percent to 20 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding acquisitions and divestitures). This compares to the previous expectation of $3.30 to $3.35, reflecting growth of 15 percent to 17 percent (17 percent to 19 percent on a constant dollar basis, excluding the impact of acquisitions and divestitures).
Adjusted cash flow from operations is still expected to be at least $1.3 billion.
Other full year assumptions include an effective tax rate of approximately 15 percent to 15.5 percent and capital expenditures of approximately $400 million.
Dividend Declared
VF’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.43 per share, payable on September 20, 2019, to shareholders of record on September 10, 2019.
Webcast Information
VF will host its first quarter fiscal 2020 conference call beginning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today. The conference call will be broadcast live via the Internet, accessible at ir.vfc.com. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, an archived version will be available at the same location.
A presentation on first quarter fiscal 2020 results will be available at ir.vfc.com beginning at approximately 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time today and will be archived at the same location.
About VF
VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC) outfits consumers around the world with its diverse portfolio of iconic outdoor and activity-based lifestyle and workwear brands, including Vans®, The North Face®, Timberland® and Dickies®. Founded in 1899, VF is one of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies with socially and environmentally responsible operations spanning numerous geographies, product categories and distribution channels. VF is committed to delivering innovative products to consumers and creating long-term value for its customers and shareholders. For more information, visit www.vfc.com.
Certain statements included in this release and attachments are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future events impacting VF and therefore involve several risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the fact that they use words such as “will,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “should,” and “may” and other words and terms of similar meaning or use of future dates. We caution that forward-looking statements are not guarantees and that actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results of operations or financial condition of VF to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to: risks associated with the spin-off of our Jeanswear business completed on May 22, 2019, including the risk that VF will not realize all of the expected benefits of the spin-off; and the risk that the spin-off will not be tax-free for U.S. federal income tax purposes; the risk that there will be a loss of synergies from separating the businesses that could negatively impact the balance sheet, profit margins or earnings of VF. There are also risks associated with the relocation of our global headquarters and a number of brands to the metro Denver area, including the risk of significant disruption to our operations, the temporary diversion of management resources and loss of key employees who have substantial experience and expertise in our business, the risk that we may encounter difficulties retaining employees who elect to transfer and attracting new talent in the Denver area to replace our employees who are unwilling to relocate, the risk that the relocation may involve significant additional costs to us and that the expected benefits of the move may not be fully realized. Other risks include foreign currency fluctuations; the level of consumer demand for apparel, footwear and accessories; disruption to VF’s distribution system; the financial strength of VF's customers; fluctuations in the price, availability and quality of raw materials and contracted products; disruption and volatility in the global capital and credit markets; VF's response to changing fashion trends, evolving consumer preferences and changing patterns of consumer behavior, intense competition from online retailers, manufacturing and product innovation; increasing pressure on margins; VF's ability to implement its business strategy; VF's ability to grow its international and direct-to-consumer businesses; VF’s and its vendors’ ability to maintain the strength and security of information technology systems; the risk that VF's facilities and systems and those of our third-party service providers may be vulnerable to and unable to anticipate or detect data security breaches and data or financial loss; VF's ability to properly collect, use, manage and secure consumer and employee data; stability of VF's manufacturing facilities and foreign suppliers; continued use by VF's suppliers of ethical business practices; VF’s ability to accurately forecast demand for products; continuity of members of VF’s management; VF's ability to protect trademarks and other intellectual property rights; possible goodwill and other asset impairment; maintenance by VF’s licensees and distributors of the value of VF’s brands; VF's ability to execute and integrate acquisitions; changes in tax laws and liabilities; legal, regulatory, political and economic risks; the risk of economic uncertainty associated with the pending exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union ("Brexit") or any other similar referendums that may be held; and adverse or unexpected weather conditions. More information on potential factors that could affect VF's financial results is included from time to time in VF's public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including VF's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
Three Months Ended June
Costs and operating expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses
Total costs and operating expenses
Interest, net
(40)%
Other income (expense), net
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax
Earnings (loss) per common share - basic (a)
Total earnings per common share - basic
Earnings (loss) per common share - diluted (a)
Total earnings per common share - diluted
Cash dividends per common share
* Calculation not meaningful
Basis of presentation of condensed consolidated financial statements: VF operates and reports using a 52/53 week fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to March 31 of each year. For presentation purposes herein, all references to periods ended June 2019 and June 2018 relate to the 13-week fiscal period ended June 29, 2019 and the 13-week fiscal period ended June 30, 2018, respectively, and references to March 2019 relate to the balance sheet as of March 30, 2019.
(a) Amounts have been calculated using unrounded numbers.
Cash and equivalents
Current assets of discontinued operations
Property, plant and equipment
Operating lease right-of-use asset
Other assets of discontinued operations
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Short-term borrowings
Accrued liabilities
Current liabilities of discontinued operations
Long-term debt
Other liabilities of discontinued operations
Stockholders' equity
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
Income from continuing operations, net of tax
Depreciation and amortization, including operating lease right-of-use assets
Other adjustments
Cash (used) provided by operating activities - continuing operations
Cash provided by operating activities - discontinued operations
Cash (used) provided by operating activities
Business acquisitions, net of cash received
Proceeds from sale of businesses, net of cash sold
Software purchases
Cash provided (used) by investing activities - continuing operations
Cash used by investing activities - discontinued operations
Cash provided (used) by investing activities
Net decrease from short-term borrowings and long-term debt
Cash dividends paid
Cash received from Kontoor Brands, net of cash transferred
Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock, net of shares withheld for taxes
Cash provided (used) by financing activities
Effect of foreign currency rate changes on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Net change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash – beginning of year
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash – end of period
Supplemental Financial Information
Reportable Segment Information
% Change Constant Currency (a)
% Change Adjusted (b)
% Change Constant Currency and Adjusted (a) (b)
% Change Adjusted Organic (b) (c)
% Change Constant Currency and Adjusted Organic (a) (b) (c)
Segment revenues
Other (d)
Total segment revenues
Segment profit (loss)
(4)%
Total segment profit
Corporate and other expenses
(a) Refer to constant currency definition on the following pages.
(b) Excludes the operating results of jeanswear wind down activities in South America post the separation of Kontoor Brands for the three months ended June 2019. Refer to Non-GAAP financial information on "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2019" page for additional information.
(c) Excludes the operating results of Altra® for the two months ended May 2019, which reflects the one-year anniversary of the acquisition. The change also excludes divestitures representing the operating results of Reef® and the Van Moer business for the three months ended June 2018. Refer to Non-GAAP financial information on "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2019" and "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2018" pages for additional information.
(d) Other is included for purposes of reconciliation of revenues and profit, but it is not considered a reportable segment. Includes results from transition services related to the sales of the Reef® and Nautica® brand businesses, as well as sales of non-VF products.
Reportable Segment Information – Constant Currency Basis
Three Months Ended June 2019
As Reported
Adjust for Foreign
under GAAP
Constant Currency
Diluted earnings per share growth
Constant Currency Financial Information
VF is a global company that reports financial information in U.S. dollars in accordance with GAAP. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations affect the amounts reported by VF from translating its foreign revenues and expenses into U.S. dollars. These rate fluctuations can have a significant effect on reported operating results. As a supplement to our reported operating results, we present constant currency financial information, which is a non-GAAP financial measure that excludes the impact of translating foreign currencies into U.S. dollars. The constant currency financial information also excludes the impact of foreign currency-denominated transactions in countries with highly inflationary economies. We use constant currency information to provide a framework to assess how our business performed excluding the effects of changes in the rates used to calculate foreign currency translation, and measuring foreign currency transactions in highly inflationary economies. Management believes this information is useful to investors to facilitate comparison of operating results and better identify trends in our businesses.
To calculate foreign currency translation on a constant currency basis, operating results for the current year period for entities reporting in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at the average exchange rates in effect during the comparable period of the prior year (rather than the actual exchange rates in effect during the current year period). Similarly, foreign currency transactions in highly inflationary economies, on a constant currency basis, are calculated using exchange rates from the comparable period of the prior year.
These constant currency performance measures should be viewed in addition to, and not in lieu of or superior to, our operating performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The constant currency information presented may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2019
Transaction and Deal Related Costs (a)
Relocation and Specified Strategic Business Decisions (b)
Contribution from Acquisition (c)
Adjusted Organic
Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations (d)
(a) Transaction and deal related costs include acquisition and integration costs related to the acquisitions of the Icebreaker® and Altra® brands, which totaled $3.3 million for the three months ended June 2019. The costs also include separation and related expenses associated with the spin-off of the Jeans business of $9.5 million, that did not meet the criteria for discontinued operations, for the three months ended June 2019. The transaction and deal related costs resulted in a net tax benefit of $3.1 million in the three months ended June 2019.
(b) Relocation and specified strategic business decisions for the three months ended June 2019 include costs associated with the relocation of VF’s global headquarters and certain brands to Denver, Colorado, which totaled $15.0 million for the three months ended June 2019. This activity includes a gain of approximately $11 million on the sale of certain office real estate and related assets in connection with the relocation. The activity also reflects costs related to specified strategic business decisions to cease operations in Argentina and planned business model changes in certain other countries in South America as well as the operating results of jeanswear wind down activities in South America post the separation of Kontoor Brands, which totaled $2.0 million for the three months ended June 2019. The relocation and specified strategic business decisions costs resulted in a net tax benefit of $4.1 million for the three months ended June 2019.
(c) The contribution from acquisition represents the operating results of Altra® for the two months ended May 2019, which reflects the one-year anniversary of the acquisition. The results exclude transaction and deal related costs.
(d) Amounts shown in the table have been calculated using unrounded numbers. The diluted earnings per share impacts were calculated using 401,914,000 weighted average common shares for the three months ended June 2019.
Non-GAAP Financial Information
The financial information above has been presented on a GAAP basis, on an adjusted basis, which excludes the impact of transaction and deal related costs and relocation and specified strategic business decisions, and on an adjusted organic basis, which excludes the operating results of Altra® (for the two months ended May 2019). Contribution from acquisition also excludes transaction and deal related costs. These adjusted presentations are non-GAAP measures. Management believes these measures provide investors with useful supplemental information regarding VF's underlying business trends and the performance of VF's ongoing operations and are useful for period-over-period comparisons of such operations.
Management uses the above financial measures internally in its budgeting and review process and, in some cases, as a factor in determining compensation. While management believes that these non-GAAP financial measures are useful in evaluating the business, this information should be considered as supplemental in nature and should be viewed in addition to, and not in lieu of or superior to, VF's operating performance measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures may not be the same as similarly titled measures presented by other companies.
Impact of Tax Act (b)
Contribution from Divestitures (c)
(a) Transaction and deal related costs for the three months ended June 2018 include acquisition and integration costs related to the acquisitions of Williamson-Dickie and the Icebreaker® and Altra® brands. The transaction and deal related costs resulted in a net tax benefit of $3.5 million in the three months ended June 2018.
(b) On December 22, 2017, the U.S. government enacted comprehensive tax legislation commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("Tax Act"). Measurement period adjustments related to the provisional net charge were recorded during the three months ended June 2018, resulting in a tax benefit of $2.9 million.
(c) The contribution from divestitures represents the operating results of the Reef® brand and Van Moer business for the three months ending June 2018. The contribution from divestitures resulted in tax expense of $1.9 million for the three months ended June 2018.
(d) Amounts shown in the table have been calculated using unrounded numbers. The diluted earnings per share impact was calculated using 399,548,000 weighted average common shares for the three months ended June 2018.
The financial information above has been presented on a GAAP basis, on an adjusted basis, which excludes transaction and deal related expenses and the impact of tax reform, and on an adjusted organic basis, which excludes the operating results of Reef® and the Van Moer business. These adjusted presentations are non-GAAP measures. Management believes these measures provide investors with useful supplemental information regarding VF's underlying business trends and the performance of VF's ongoing operations and are useful for period-over-period comparisons of such operations.
Top 4 Brand Revenue Information
Top 4 Brand Revenue Growth
Vans®
% change constant currency*
The North Face®
Timberland®
*Refer to constant currency definition on previous pages.
Geographic and Channel Revenue Information
% Change Adjusted (a)
% Change Constant Currency and Adjusted*(a)
% Change Adjusted Organic (a) (b)
% Change Constant Currency and Adjusted Organic*(a) (b)
Geographic Revenue Growth
Americas (non-U.S.)
Channel Revenue Growth
Wholesale (c)
As of June
DTC Store Count
(a) Excludes the operating results of jeanswear wind down activities in South America post the separation of Kontoor Brands for the three months ended June 2019. Refer to Non-GAAP financial information on "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2019" page for additional information.
(b) Excludes the operating results of Altra® for the two months ended May 2019, which reflects the one-year anniversary of the acquisition. The change also excludes divestitures representing the operating results of Reef® and the Van Moer business for the three months ended June 2018. Refer to Non-GAAP financial information on "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2019" and "Reconciliation of Select GAAP Measures to Non-GAAP Measures - Three Months Ended June 2018" pages for additional information.
(c) Royalty revenues are included in the wholesale channel for all periods.
Joe Alkire, 720-778-4051
Vice President, Corporate Development, Investor Relations and Treasury
Craig Hodges, 720-778-4116
Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Source: VF Corporation
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Speculation tax tightens residential market supply
Two years after the province raised the property transfer tax on purchases of residential real estate by foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver, foreign participation in the market has dropped markedly
The numbers indicate that just 1% of all real estate transactions in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District during 2018’s first six months involved foreign nationals, down from 3% in the same period a year ago. When the tax was introduced in August 2016, the province pegged participation by foreign nationals at 10% to 15% of residential deals in Metro Vancouver.
Yet additional measures designed to cool the market have also taken their toll. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) has reported that residential sales to the end of August were down 27% versus last year. The decline accelerated after February’s provincial budget announced plans for a speculation tax, not to mention expanding the foreign-buyer tax and heightened taxes on homes $3 million and up.
This fall, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James will introduce legislation with details of the speculation tax, which aims to ensure B.C. residents benefit from B.C. housing.
To date, citizens have been told that the province will exempt primary residences, residences rented to long-term tenants and those on “most islands” and otherwise outside the areas where the tax applies: Metro Vancouver, Capital Regional District, Kelowna-West Kelowna, Nanaimo-Lantzville, Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Mission.
But with such a significant drop in activity, are more measures needed, and will they have any effect?
One initiative that shows how the province’s speculation tax might play out is Vancouver’s tax on empty homes, which the city took great pains to encourage property owners to avoid. The city targeted homes vacant for at least six months of the year and set the tax rate at 1% of assessed value. The anticipated proceeds total approximately $30 million, with first-year operating costs estimated at $10 million.
The sums are hardly chump change, yet just 1,200 properties are known to be vacant (another 2,100 were deemed vacant). The total is about 1.8% of residences in the city, far short of the 25,502 units the city originally targeted. (The city would not disclose how many properties are subject to audits to determine vacancy. Staff declined to provide any further update on the program until after the civic election.)
The vacancy numbers are underwhelming given government angst over their alleged contribution to the city’s lack of affordable housing.
Still, Vision Vancouver thought the number significant enough that its former mayoral candidate, Ian Campbell, pledged to boost the tax on empty homes to 3% from 1% if he was elected.
Other candidates haven’t been as vocal. The Non-Partisan Association has avoided mentioning the tax in its housing platform (its three councillors on the last council voted against it), and independent candidate Shauna Sylvester and Yes Vancouver’s Hector Bremner are also mute on the fate of the tax if they become mayor. (Bremner, however, would like half the proceeds from any home sold within 24 months of purchase clawed back by government.) The silence speaks volumes, because candidates know that any new tax would compound the effects of existing provincial taxes, increasing the burden on owners without necessarily making housing available for occupancy.
Indeed, a cooling market means a handful of projects have been postponed.
“Some developers have taken their foot off the gas pedal due to some growing uncertainty in some sectors of the market,” said Michael Ferreira of market research firm Urban Analytics Inc.
Resale listings have also declined as owners hold off selling. While the number of active listings has steadily increased, there are fewer new listings each month than a year ago.
The result is that prices continue to rise, leaving buyers facing a market that doesn’t look a whole lot different than it did two years ago.
REBGV statistics indicate the benchmark price of a detached home on Vancouver’s west side dropped to $3.3 million from $3.6 million between August 2016 and August 2018, but the price in the Lower Mainland as a whole rose 4% to $1.3 million.
A similar trend is seen across housing types, with the composite benchmark for Lower Mainland rising from $861,500 in August 2016 to more than $1 million today.
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Todmorden Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society presents Tom Wells's The Kitchen Sink, an irresistibly funny and touching play - a modern family st...
Todmorden Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society presents Tom Wells's The Kitchen Sink, an irresistibly funny and touching play - a modern family story about big dreams, small towns and looking after each other. It shot Tom Wells, writer of Jumpers For Goalposts, to stardom, earning him multiple awards and nominations for Most Promising Playwright. Evenings 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm Tickets £12 adults, £10 concessions, except all tickets £10 on opening night. Other discounts are available, please visit the website for details. Tickets are available by calling 0333 666 3366 (Ticketsource), or on-line at www.todhip.org.
Calderdale Heritage Walk: Fieldentown
The Fielden Family left its mark on Todmorden in many ways including work, religion, education and leisure. This walk around Todmorden explores the...
The Fielden Family left its mark on Todmorden in many ways including work, religion, education and leisure. This walk around Todmorden explores the story of the Fieldens, looking at many of the fine buildings they left us and some of the places where they lived and worked. Some paths may be muddy. Meet Anne Mealia at 1.30pm by Todmorden Town Hall OL14 5AQ. £3 per person.
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Working as an animal transporter in the South African nature reserves requires a tough truck, extraordinary driving ability, and a lot of courage.
#4d4e53 Transport story
Into the wild – a day transporting African buffalo
27/6/13 Text: Olivia Krantz Photo: Brett Eloff
Working as an animal transporter in the South African nature reserves does not simply require extraordinary driving ability, it also calls for courage.
The helicopter helps locate and stun the buffalo while the veterinary team on the ground follow-up in their truck.
Kees Lawrence, who heads the game-capture team, gets ready to inject a buffalo with a shot of vitamin B.
Swallows swoop and dive steeply over the South African savannah. They share the air with a cool breeze that moves gently across the flat landscape. It is just after 6 am and, a few minutes from now, the sun will rise. Suddenly, the birdsong is drowned out by the roar of a diesel engine.
In a cloud of red dust, a sand-coloured Volvo FM thunders towards a group of people with pick-up trucks who have gathered at the gates to the Koppies Dam Nature Reserve, 150 kilometres southwest of Johannesburg. This is the first day of the season. Today, the game capture team is going to capture and move the African buffalo, which is one of the ‘Big Five’, a term coined by hunters to describe the most difficult and dangerous animals to track and hunt in Africa.
“We often work with buffaloes, but it always involves a risk. The buffalo is a powerful animal and, when it attacks, it does so with a vengeance. If it gets hold of you, you are done for. It will kill you,” says Petrus Motsoane, the team foreman and driver of the Volvo truck-tractor that is going to transport these aggressive animals.
Capturing and transporting wild animals is an important operation in South Africa’s many nature reserves. It is done first and foremost to maintain a balance between different animal species in the reserves but also to avoid inbreeding.
The buffalo is a powerful animal and, when it attacks, it does so with a vengeance.
Petrus Motsoane
team foreman and truck driver
The transportation of animals is done in order to maintain balance in the reserves and to avoid inbreeding.
The captures are carried out during the winter season between March and October when the weather is at its coolest. The team captures and transports several different species of wild animal – from zebras and rhinoceroses to buffalo and lions.
The nature reserves in Free State Province in South Africa have been Petrus Motsoane’s workplace for more than 20 years. With surgical precision, he manoeuvres the 24-tonne, 22-metre-long truck across the savannah to the herd of animals that are going to be moved. The work imposes rigorous demands on vehicle and driver alike.
“Your body gets tired from driving across the savannah. It feels as though your ribs are breaking! But I have been driving this truck for 10 years and I have never had any problems. It’s strong and resilient enough to do everything that’s needed,” says Petrus.
The game capture team in Free State is made up of 25 people, plus a veterinary surgeon and a helicopter pilot. The helicopter looks for and chases the buffalo into the open so that the veterinary surgeon can shoot it from the air with a tranquilliser dart.
Once the buffalo has been stunned, the team on the ground drive their pick-up trucks and hoist the animal, which weighs more than a tonne, onto the back of the pick-up. The buffalo is then transported to Pertus’ Volvo truck where a crane truck lifts the sleeping animal onto the trailer, where a reversal drug will be administered to wake the animal.
Petrus Motsoane has worked in the nature reserves of Free State province for over 20 years.
“When the buffalo wakes up, he gets a little aggressive but, by then, we have already got out and closed the door. If he wakes up before you have had a chance to leave the trailer, you have to be quick as lightning before he gets hold of you,” says Petrus.
He laughs and the gold tooth in his lower jaw and gold ring in his left ear glitter, as he recounts the story of a stunned zebra that woke up in the middle of a loading procedure and ran away across the savannah wearing a blindfold.
Three ostriches with bobbing tail feathers trot through the high grass to the right of the truck and the rattling noise from the helicopter causes a family of two adult rhinoceroses with a rhino calf to race away in terror. The truck bounces along, over grass and bushes, down into a ravine and across a bridge that is so narrow that it is a miracle that the vehicle fleet is able to cross it. Petrus’ face is frozen in concentration.
“When I drive across the rough terrain, the truck bounces and sounds completely differently to when I am driving on a normal road. I need to drive really, really slowly across dangerous terrain until it’s safe again. I have to keep a close eye on the road ahead to make sure that there aren’t any stones or other obstacles in my way. But I can’t see everything so I sometimes have to take chances,” he says.
Each buffalo captured is tested for various diseases, marked with a microchip and given a shot of vitamin B to strengthen its immune system.
The day gets off to a bad start. The first two buffaloes the vet immobilises run into a grove and down into a ravine, dangerously near the river. With their engines roaring, the pick-ups get stuck in the high bush leading to the spot and, when they arrive, they are unable to get down into the marshy area where one of the buffalo is now asleep. The trees make it difficult for the helicopter to chase away other buffaloes that may be nearby and that could attack.
Reinforcements are called in and then everything moves very quickly: the buffalo is pushed onto a green stretcher and winched up the slope to the jeep where ten people lift the sleeping animal onto the back of the pick-up truck with their bare hands.
After the buffalo has been stunned by the tranquiliser dart the team need to quickly haul the animal onto the trailer.
Apart from driving the truck, Petrus’ job as foreman also includes monitoring work on the animals and helping to get them loaded on the trailer. The trailer is divided into five compartments with steel doors that can be opened and closed from the outside. At most, the truck is able to transport as many as 15 buffaloes, depending on their size.
“Buffaloes don’t like standing on their own. It makes them crazy and they injure themselves. So two or three buffaloes always travel in one compartment,” explains Kees Lawrence, who heads the game-capture team, as he measures out the correct dose of vitamin B for the four-year-old buffalo cow that the ground team has just brought to the truck.
Each buffalo that is captured is tested for various diseases, marked with a microchip and given a shot of vitamin B to strengthen its immune system. While Kees gives the sleeping buffalo an injection, a queue of buffaloes with white blindfolds and cotton wool in their ears forms between the Volvo tractor-trailer and the crane truck. The blindfolds and cotton wool help them to stay calm.
When I tell other driver's what I'm carrying, they say ‘Man, one day, those animals are going to kill you’. But I’ve been doing this for more than 20 years and I’m still alive.
The work of drawing blood tests, transferring and waking the buffaloes involved in animal transport goes quickly. Using a long iron bar, Petrus opens the doors between the compartments. Fourteen animals quickly crowd onto the trailer. The buffaloes are not that happy about suddenly finding themselves shuttered into a small metal box.
“They’ll calm down when I start driving,” says Petrus, as he climbs into the driver’s cab.
The truck drives back through the reserve towards the enclosure in which the buffaloes are going to remain in quarantine before they are sold at auction to other nature reserves. Today’s cargo is worth more than 2.2 million rand, approximately EUR 170,000. After they are sold, Petrus Motsoane will transport the animals to their new homes.
“The best part of the job is driving my truck on the road. When I tell other driver's what I'm carrying, they say ‘Man, one day, those animals are going to kill you’. But I’ve been doing this for more than 20 years and I’m still alive.”
Volvo FM from 2003 with a 380 bhp, 13-litre diesel engine and a South-African trailer from SA Trucks. The tractor-trailer is 22 metres long and weighs 24 tonnes. The vehicle is used every day during the game capture season, between March and October, to transport wild animals out on the savannah and on normal roads.
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Nov. 4, 2019 / 12:01 PM
Hostage crisis anniversary highlights absence of change in Iran
Ivan Sascha Sheehan
An Iranian man wearing an effigy mask of U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in an anti-U.S. demonstration marking the 40th anniversary of U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Monday. Photo by Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA-EFE
Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Monday marks the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis. It also marks 40 consecutive years of hostage-taking and terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran's agents and allies. For four decades, Western powers have regrettably but repeatedly failed to address the looming Iran threat or the belligerent regime's underlying ideology.
At present, at least 17 dual nationals are held captive by Iranian authorities, often on the flimsiest of pretenses. Although most of them have been charged with espionage or similar "national security" crimes, no justification has been offered for those charges other than the fact that their targets have close affiliations with the United States or Europe.
At least four American citizens are serving 10-year sentences, although Iranian authorities have hinted that they might be released earlier if the U.S. government is willing to pay a ransom. In October, Iran's foreign ministry emphasized this point by providing the White House with a list of Iranian nationals who have been jailed in the United States for sanctions violations and other crimes, along with the message that they "must be freed."
There are some who would argue that Washington should do whatever is necessary to secure the freedom of falsely imprisoned U.S. citizens. And it is fair to acknowledge that there might be more at stake for those Americans than for the Iranians whom Tehran has identified.
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Several of these detainees' advocates spoke to the media after Iran issued its demand for the release of its own citizens. Some expressly condemned the regime's "hypocrisy" and emphasized all they had learned about the conduct of Iranian authorities. Others urged more concerted Western actions to end the false imprisonment of American citizens.
But as much collective suffering as has been endured by these Americans and other Western nationals over the years, it pales in comparison to the horrors the Iranian people have experienced at the hands of their own rulers. Just as Tehran has taken aim at Western nationals, the plight of Iran's own population has worsened too. Amid Iranian authorities' brutal suppression of pro-democracy protests in early 2018 -- a nationwide uprising that featured citizens calling for a comprehensive change of government -- the number of Iranian political prisoners swelled by the thousands.
Many of these detainees are facing lengthy prison sentences. But the regime's threat does not stop there. Mass arrests are a reminder of the Islamic Republic's past crimes against humanity, particularly the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988. That incident stemmed from a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini that declared all opponents of the theocratic system to be at war with God himself, and thus subject to summary execution.
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The main target of that clerical edict was the highly capable resistance organization known as the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and this group made up the overwhelming majority of the massacre's victims. The movement endured in spite of the fierce persecution and even thrived in the ensuing decades. Last year, it was credited with leading the countrywide anti-regime protests and giving voice to the people's progressive aspirations. But Khomeini's fatwa remains in force, and political prisoners have been executed for actual or perceived support of the MEK.
Although supreme leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged the MEK's role in 2018, he also blamed the protests on a "triangle" of enemies in Washington, Tel Aviv, and Riyadh. This reflects a longstanding strategy of conflating foreign and domestic opposition to the clerical regime, in hopes of directing supporters to reject both trends as one. The MEK traces this strategy all the way back to the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy when the new regime sought to exploit anti-Western sentiment by compelling hard-liners to line up behind the ayatollahs, thereby excluding alternative visions for Iran's future.
The Iranian regime's persistent, simultaneous aggression toward both foreign influence and domestic dissent raises questions about the wisdom of using prisoner swaps and other concessions to secure the freedom of Western nationals.
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These tactics were used, for instance, in 2016 around the time that the Iran nuclear deal was implemented. Four Americans were released in January of that year, but only in exchange for the United States settling an old debt to the previous Iranian government, as well as releasing or dropping charges against 21 Iranian nationals. This only served to reinforce the impression that hostage-taking is a potentially lucrative endeavor. It is therefore no surprise that all four of the American hostages were promptly replaced by others.
It is safe to assume that this pattern will repeat for as long as the United States and its allies take a short-term approach to addressing Iranian hostage-taking. The only way this phenomenon's recurrence can be prevented over the long term is if Tehran's behavior -- or the regime itself -- changes completely. Last year's public protests underscore the fact that this outcome is within reach. But for the Iranian people to grasp it, they must recognize support from foreign governments that are interested in more substantial goals than the begrudging release of Iran's hostages du jour.
Domestic unrest demonstrates that there is no need for Western powers to actively pursue regime change. But they most definitely should promote an alternative vision for Iran's future -- the very same vision that Tehran sought to suppress in 1979 with the false imprisonment of 52 Americans and again in 1988 by executing 30,000 of Iran's own citizens.
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Ivan Sascha Sheehan is executive director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. Follow him @ProfSheehan.
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This bird species was contributing to the demise of another. So scientists stepped in to help.
Dan Lewis
Image by Gus Van Vliet/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Pictured above is the marbled murrelet, a seabird native to the coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
Marbled murrelets stay mostly around Oregon, Washington, Northern California, British Columbia, and Alaska (although also somewhat in Russia and northern Japan).
They thrive in old-growth forests, and if you're a human it's rare to find one of their nests because they tend to build them hundreds of feet off the ground.
As a species, they're endangered, in part because of logging that has reduced the size of their habitat. But there's another concern as well that is also, but indirectly, human-caused.
This guy:
Image by Noel Reynolds/Flickr.
That's the Steller's jay, another species of bird.
The jay isn't a very picky eater and therefore tends to go to where the food is.
We humans go and visit old-growth forests — that part is OK — and then we toss bread or seeds or other such stuff on the ground, hoping to feed the birds.
Marbled murrelets only lay one egg per year. When jays are around, eating those eggs, it makes it hard for the marbled murrelet population to grow.
That sounds like a very nice idea — birds have to eat, after all! — but there's a downside. The jay population thrives and are attracted to this new abundance of edibles, and while they're in the neighborhood, they find something else to snack on: eggs.
That includes chicken eggs, if there happen to be some laying around, but it also includes marbled murrelet eggs.
To make matters worse, marbled murrelets only lay one egg per year. When jays are around, eating those eggs, it makes it hard for the marbled murrelet population to grow.
The good news is that jays are “really, really smart," as Elena West, a researcher with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told NPR.
And also per NPR, Portia Halbert, a park scientist at Butano State Park just outside of San Francisco, has used the jays' intelligence against them. How? With a little bit of poison.
Halbert and team take chicken eggs and paint them to look like marbled murrelet eggs. Then they inject these decoy eggs with a little bit of something called Carbocal into the eggs, which, if you're a bird, is a bad thing to eat — it'll likely make you throw up.
The jays learn that the eggs aren't good for them and, over time, learn not to eat them.
The jays learn that the eggs aren't good for them and, over time, learn not to eat them. And as smart as the jays are, they aren't quite smart enough to differentiate between chicken eggs and marbled murrelet eggs.
So eventually, the jays learn to let the marbled murrelet eggs go uneaten.
Hopefully, this will help keep the marbled murrelet population growing.
Although there's one other reason to be concerned. Halbert and her team (and similar teams in other forests) can only place tainted decoys on the ground — the nests of marbled murrelets are simply too high up for humans to reach.
Some researchers are concerned that the jays will realize that the eggs on the ground aren't safe to eat but that the ones up in the nests — and therefore, the ones most likely to hatch — make for perfectly fine snacks.
Dan Lewis runs the popular daily newsletter Now I Know ("Learn Something New Every Day, By Email"). To subscribe to his daily email, click here.
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Jonathan Schwabish
Using open Social Security data carefully
Open data can be a good thing. Making data more readily available and easier to use can lead to more insights, better use, and hopefully, better policy. But making more data available doesn’t always mean the best data are available, or that those data will be used correctly. Researchers and experts, then, are an important part of the data ecosystem, because their expertise can help identify—and potentially remedy—data caveats and errors.
Take, for example, Urban’s new Social Security Data Tool, which allows users to explore and visualize Social Security data in ways not available in the original format produced by the Social Security Administration (SSA). There are caveats to using those data that the casual user—or oftentimes, even the more experienced user—may not be aware of, and which may not be explicitly noted in the data or source notes.
The simplest example might be geographic data. You can easily create a map of the number of people receiving Disability Insurance benefits in each state in the Data Tool. You’ll find more people receiving benefits in Texas and California (the darker blues in the map below); of course, those states have larger populations, so it’s not entirely surprising to see such patterns. But the raw data file does not include state populations that would enable you to calculate the per capita prevalence rates. If you wanted to create your own population-adjusted visualization, you could use our tool to download the source data, then join it with Census data on state populations.
Consider a more nuanced example: the percentage of people who are awarded Social Security retirement benefits each year. The data from the Social Security Administration allow you to explore these patterns by age group, and you can see that the percentage of all men claiming benefits in a given year who claimed benefits at age 62—the earliest age at which you can claim retirement benefits—was fairly constant between about 1985 and 2005 before declining slightly over the past decade.
Based on these data, you might be tempted to conclude that since 2005 there have been behavioral changes in the age at which benefits are claimed. The problem with this interpretation is that it mixes up what is happening among the newest retirement age cohort with the behavior of the older cohorts who, by claiming more benefits at age 62, have fewer people eligible to claim at later ages. Moreover, the number of people eligible to claim benefits at age 62 has increased since about 1997: the number of men turning 62 rose from about 830,000 in 1997 to 1.4 million in 2013. That pattern is driven by a number of things, especially the birth rate some 60-plus years ago (think: Great Depression and World War II, and Baby Bust followed by Baby Boom), that end up changing the relative number of people in each age group over time. Thus, it’s not that the data themselves are incorrect or misleading, but drawing conclusions based on these data require more data, context, and analysis.
A better way of tracking age-related changes in Social Security claim rates is to conduct calculations on a cohort basis: determine the percentage of all people born in a given year (not the percentage of all claimants) who claim their benefits at each age. Unfortunately, those data are not publicly available, but fortunately Alicia Munnell and Anqi Chen at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College did receive the data from SSA. They calculated the claiming numbers using both approaches and found non-trivial differences: Using the publicly available ‘claim year’ data, the percentage of all men of any retirement age who claimed retirement benefits at age 62 fell from about 57 percent in 1996 to 42 percent in 2013; in the unpublished ‘birth year’ data, the percentage of men aged 62 who claimed at age 62 fell from 56 percent to 36 percent.
Whether you think it’s a good or bad thing that more people appear to be claiming benefits later is not the point. The point is that there are often subtleties and nuances to data that can lead to misinterpretation and even incorrect policy decisions unless they are more fully understood or explained. No data set is ever entirely complete, moreover, so users need to realize what a given data set can and can’t tell them.
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A Solid Green Day! +$2,300! | Ross’ Trade Recap
What’s up everyone? All right, so here we are finishing Monday morning back in the green, up $2300, so a solid green day. I traded six stocks today, I’m green on all six. Five of the trades were pretty much small winners, nothing really to write home about and then one decent sized winner that got me up and really nicely in the green.
I’m happy about that, puts me back to green on the month. Now I’ve got four more days to try to really get myself up to $10,000-$15,000 on the month and that would be good, that’s the goal. Anyways, we’ll break it all down in today’s midday market recap. Any questions, any comments, leave them below I’ll come back through and answer them later today.
All right everyone, we’re going to go over the trades here from this morning. It’s a little past 11:00 and today was a pretty busy day of trading for me. I ended up taking a bunch of trades about 83 total executions, that’s 83 times I either pressed the buy button or the sell button. But remember I didn’t trade 83 different stocks, for one stock trade I may buy in three orders of 3000 shares for a starter. 3000 to go to midsize of 6000 and another 3000 to go up to 9000 shares, which is kind of a good position for me. Then I might sell half, which is 4500 shares. Sell another half of 2250 and sell the balance, so for one trade, what I would consider one trade, I may have six order executions.
Now at $2 per execution at Lightspeed I’m really not sweating the commissions, it really doesn’t make a very big difference it’s like $12. It is worth noting that that strategy if you’re trading with a broker like E*Trade or Ameritrade, could be very expensive. 83 trades, for me that’s $160 in commissions being up $2300 I can handle it, but 83 times 5 if you were at $5 a trade or $9 a trade, could be absolutely impossible. Having the right tools and the right broker is important.
Today you can see my winners sorted by biggest to smallest. Six stocks that I traded green on all six names and GMs kind of an unusual trade for me being that it’s such a big float, but I’ll talk about that trade down here in a second. ATAI, the biggest winner $1400, so we’ll start by, well actually why don’t we start by looking at the gap scanner from this morning and then we’ll go back and look at that trade. Okay, so this mornings gap scanner I’m going to go to timeframe and then historical data and run the scan for 9:21 this morning. This will show me exactly what I was looking at when I opened up my computer this morning and I was trying to find some stocks to trade as we put together the watch list.
A leading gapper was PERI, P-E-R-I, or PERI, however I want to say it. Or just P-E-R-I. Now this stock appeared to be gapping up 189%, but as we looked at the chart it actually looked like it was gapping down slightly. So, what would cause that to happen? A reverse split. The company did a 3 to 1 reverse split yesterday, or overnight, and so, that means the price is multiplied by three and the float is divided by three. What was a 70 million share float is now going to be like a 23 million share float, but that’s still pretty high. There was no other catalyst other than the reverse split, so for me I just didn’t feel like this was going to do much. If there was another standalone catalyst I totally would have been interested, but today there wasn’t. Sometimes these will coincide with things like earnings or some type of big headline, but that just didn’t end up being the case today. So no trades on PERI. Popped up a little bit here from 355 or so to 390, but I really wasn’t that interested. Anyway, so that was off the list.
Then we had next one down IGC, well this one, you know, again it’s a little on the cheap side and the float’s a little on the high side, didn’t end up taking any trades on it, so nothing on that one. All right, next one down, TRLY, or TLRY. Too expensive at $50. Yes has a low float, but I can’t trade, I don’t want to trade a $50 stock for momentum, the risk is just too high. So, too many false breakouts. Now CRON, this one continuing it’s move, it’s cannabis stock. I really, I’ve had a bias against this because it’s 150 million share float. For the last week I’ve been saying, “No, I don’t want to trade if the floats too high, I don’t really think it’s going to move.” Then it keeps ending up surprising me, but then I keep thinking yesterday or Friday and again this morning that if I didn’t trade it in the beginning of the move when it was under $10, trading it now that it’s over $10 really seems kind of like I’m chasing it. I keep kind of feeling like I should just leave it alone.
Anyways, the bell rings and this does a really nice little red to green move. It dips down, and I’ll actually take a screen shot of this for the classes, it dips down and then it surges up. It has a premarket high of right around $12, it dips down, it surges from $12 or $11.60 up to a high of $12.88. I saw both Jill and John, they both scalped some profit out of this one, it was a nice move. A really solid move and I missed it. All right, so I missed that trade, but I ended up taking another trade on a stock that had sympathy. I’ll show you that one in a second.
Anyways, going down the scans, nothing here, nothing here too cheap. Then to NEPT, this one was like a maybe, it was kind of interesting for a break over the premarket high, but the bell rang and it sold off. So no trade there. NEPT, I saw someone mention on Twitter that he grabbed a trade on this thanks to the gap and go strategy, so good job there. Maybe that was also a little red to green move, or maybe it was premarket, but I didn’t take any trades on it, so nothing on that one. All right, so that was off. Then SEII, let’s see, this one I didn’t even really look at, volumes too light so nothing, nothing, nothing.
All right, so basically off the scans I didn’t have anything I really like except for TNXP, or sorry TRPX. TRPX was on the watch list because it was gaping up, I don’t know why it’s not on the scan at the moment. It was only gaping up slightly, I don’t know, but in any case you can see it was gaping up slightly. A dip down a little bit right before the bell, maybe that’s why. This one had a premarket high of $4.50, the 200 moving average of 475 and it’s also a cannabis stock. I was like okay, with CLRN being strong, maybe I’ll end up trading this one, maybe. The bell rings and CRON squeezes up and then this one starts to move up as well. On this one I’ll show you my very first trade, which was on SC in a second, but TRXP, so I jump in this one at 463 and 464. I try to add at 469 it [inaudible 00:08:07] get filled. It immediately pops up to 47480, I add at 492 and 498.
I now have 13,000 shares and I’m being aggressive on this because number one, it’s a decent daily as it broke over the 200 moving average. Number two, it’s showing me its strong by already moving up 60-70 cents, and number three, CRON is strong and this is sort of a sympathy stock in the same sector. So CRON tops at 933, which was awful timing for my TRPX trade. If CRON had kept going up to 13 and 14, most likely this would have continued going up as well, but it rolled over as CRON rolled over being a sympathy stock and it dropped back down.
Right here what I was able to do was sell, I tried to sell some at 16, some at 07 on the ask, it didn’t get filled. Hit the bid at 98, hit the bid again at 83 and now I’m trying to unwind the position. Selling at 86, 82 and the remainder at 60-67, basically slowly unwinding the position. Taking losses on some of the shares, profit on some of them to a net profit of $115 on 13,000 shares. Basically a breakeven trade. It’s a bummer because with 13,000 shares I had an average of 480 and as it broke $5 I was up $2,600. But you can see it didn’t hold that level, it tapped 518 and then came right back down in the next candle to 454. It was just bad timing with CRON rolling over basically as soon as I got in. Anyways, stepped up to the plate, was aggressive on share size and ended up being basically a flat trade.
SSC, this one I made you can see $145 on, this was a continuation trade that we were watching. It was strong yesterday and it was strong premarket, so this one I was watching over the premarket pivot of 568. The bell rings and it dips down for a second and does a red degree move. It surges up to 72 and then has a big seller up there at 75, so I’m in at 57, I’m out at 61 and 63 and yeah, 61. I end up only making like whatever, $145 on it and it’s a good thing that I stepped out because when these kind of red degree moves don’t work, well it can be bad. You can see this ended up selling off pretty hard. It did do a bounce off the low, but I don’t really like to take that type of reversal trade. Generally I feel like this kind of weakness is just not something, I just don’t want to trade it. Anyways, that was SSC, only one trade on it, basically in and out, so that’s SSC, TRPX.
Then at that point I’m just sort of like okay, what’s going to be next. A bunch of executions on that and then we have TIS, so TIS we see it on the scans, it was moving higher. My first trade on it was sort of an aggressive scalp trade. This one I didn’t even call out, I just felt like I was kind of trading fomo on it. I jumped in it at 60 and sold it at 63 for a tiny little scalp, made like $140. It pulls back, ends up coming back up, I get back in it after this OBLN trade at, let’s see, 1006, that’s over here as it curls back up. This I was sort of looking at this consolidation here as like a five minute set up as well for a long back over 160, or sorry 360, so I’m in at 360 adding for the break over the high … I think, or no, I guess I just got in at 60. Yeah, I guess I tried to get in, where’d I get in, 58 and 60. Had some orders that didn’t get filled, I sell at 63 and sell the rest at 44, so that was basically a breakeven trade. It popped up, made new highs and then came back down. So that’s a false breakout on the one minute chart. Whatever, that one didn’t really work.
Ended up taking one more trade on it a little bit later in at I think it was 88. Pops up to a high of 95 and then drops back down again, that ended up being like a breakeven trade. So traded it three times and really didn’t make much money on it. Whatever. $155.
In the middle there there was the OBLN trade. This one we traded on Friday, or maybe it was Thursday, did okay on, so I was kind of watching it. It had a little bit of a pop here and then it kind of squeezed up. I ended up taking a scalp right here for the break over at 41. It pops up to a high of 59 and what you had here on this that sort of I think helped fuel this spike was that there was a 10,000 share seller sitting on the ask at 41. Then as that seller got bought up 1090 at 7654321, that’s when I jumped in and that’s where we got that nice kind of squeeze. When you watch the level two and you see those big sellers and you see them getting eaten up you know the buyers are stepping up to the plate, you’re seeing the green on the time and sales, that’s where I jumped in.
Ends up topping out at 59, on that one I made $374. So in at let’s see, 40 and 41 as that seller was coming down. Then 45 and again, when you’ve got that long kind of period of flat top, that gave me the confidence that as it came up here it was going to break. Adding at 45, so 9,000 shares was a little big on the size, thought it would break nicely, didn’t really break as well as I thought, started piecing out of it. Not that exciting.
GM, on this one this is sort of a trade that’s a little bit outside of my typical, but, I’ll move this out of the way. GM was on the scans down here, it was squeezing up, I was watching this for a top reversal. It was a valid top reversal set up, you’ve two, four, six, eight, nine green candles in a row. I shorted the first candle as it broke and went red at 3725. You can see it came down here to 3704, which was nice, but I only made about 7 cents on it, I covered it pretty quickly on this drop. So small win there.
GME, I’ll take a peek at that. This one was on the scans, little reversal, bottom bounce. HUYA was on the scans for a top reversal, that ended up being nice here, but then recovering going back to the highs, double topping and then fading, which is not uncommon for them to do that. Which can be a little frustrating. Tiffany is on the scanner now. I don’t know about that one, but anyways, so a couple of little opportunities there. Then basically all of these trades were just kind of small profits, I was up like $800. Nothing huge, just a little bit here, a little bit there, a couple nice trades.
Then ATAI I see it on the scanner here it’s getting halted at $1.33. I looked at that and I was like okay, this thing is halted I look at it I see that it’s a gap down reversal set up. It gaps down six points, you know, almost, and then starts squeezing up. It was halted right here at $1.33, so my strategy on this was to buy coming out of the halt. I got in first at 41 and 43 and then scalped that for a small profit. Added back at 43, out at 46, 47, you know, this was kind of like a quick little scalp trade. Back in at 45, adding at 48, out at 55, 53. That’s me aggressively scalping in this area here, it pops up to 55, 60, 61, 65 and it gets halted. On that one I added at 65 going into the halt.
Now the stock is halted for another five minutes. It resumes and I take profit at 69 and 68, add back at 70 as it starts to curl up. It squeezes up selling at whatever, 77. Adding back at 87 and 88 here for the break up towards $2, it’s halted a third time. Pops up to a high of 95 when it resumes, I end up selling at 93 and 92 as I saw more selling than buying on the time and sales and felt like it was a good time to unwind. That gave me $1400 of profit being kind of aggressive, lots of trades on it. Lots of shares, 32 executions. None of them at this price range were big, like 15-20 cent winners, but lots of kind of small wins, which is fine.
Anyways, you know, green is good today, $2300, that’s a good step in the right direction, so that puts me back to green on the month. I’ve been kind of battling this line between being red and being green. So, 158th day of the year, plus $2303.99, so I’m going to put it in the calendar, make it official. Done trading for today. Class is going to be at noontime, so in about half an hour. Yes, all the classes are being recorded, we will upload them to the kind of online learning portal for all of our students. But we’ll be working on them, we’ve got to edit them, go through them, make sure they’re really good. So we’re not expecting they’ll be available for streaming until the end of September. It’s probably going to take about a month for us to go through all of them.
I’ve been recording three hours a day for the last 12, 13 days. We’ve got 36 or almost 40 hours of classes right now, which is awesome. It’s about 15 hours of the Warrior Starter and then about 30 hours so far of the day trade course. Today is going to be chapter 10, tomorrow chapter 11, Wednesday chapter 12. Chapters 13, 14 and 15 I’ve got to just take another peek at and see how we’re going to do those. So anyways, that’s coming up this week. Class starting in about half an hour, but yeah, I’m just glad to start the week with a green day. That feels good. It’s just a little bit of a choppy market still, but you know, green is good. Progress is being made, so that’s what it’s all about.
All right, we’ll be back at it first thing tomorrow morning. Watch list starting live on YouTube, 9:15 to 9:30. Trade when the bell rings at 9:30 up until 10:30-11:00 and then we’ll switch gears and go into midday recap and then live classes starting at noon. All right, so students I’ll see you guys in about 20 minutes and everyone else I’ll see you first thing tomorrow morning.
All right, bye everybody.
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Different generations sound distinct notes in music survey
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The music industry has undergone one of the biggest revolutions over the past three decades. A countrywide survey by Research Co. provides a fresh look at how Canadians are listening to music, their willingness to spend money on it and their views on what today’s artists are earning.
When it comes to music, it is safe to report that video didn’t kill the radio star, contrary to what the Buggles predicted in 1979. More than two-thirds of Canadians (69%) listened to music on the radio last week.
There are some subtle differences in age, with those aged 55 and over tuning in to their radios more often than their younger counterparts (74%, compared to 67% for those aged 35 to 54 and 62% for those aged 18 to 34).
A third of Canadians (32%) listened to music streaming services over the past week. Women are more likely to be doing this than men (37% to 27%), and those aged 18 to 34 are definitely embracing this concept. More than half of Canadians in that age group (54%) are streaming, while fewer members of generation X (35%) and baby boomers (17%) partake.
There are no big changes among generations when it comes to listening to music files stored in a device (31% across the country). There is, however, a bit of a nostalgia factor for Canadians who listened to music on LPs, cassettes or compact discs last week. From a high of 31% among baby boomers, the proportion drops to 16% for generation X and 12% for the younger group.
Recent years have seen a revival of classic and new albums in most formats, particularly LPs and compact discs, that are still appealing to a significant proportion of Canadians. In Atlantic Canada, more than third of residents listened to music this way last week.
For 15% of Canadians, satellite radio is one of the options for music listening. This service allows subscribers to have absolute control over specific genres, decades and artists.
In spite of the seemingly open domain of music listening, Canadians are not particularly happy to part with cash in order to hear their favourite artists. In the last month, only 19% of Canadians said they paid to access a music streaming service. The proportion of paid streaming subscribers climbs to 36% among Canadians aged 18 to 34 and to 25% for those in the highest income bracket.
Even fewer Canadians (12%) paid for and downloaded a song online in the past month. Once again, those in the younger age group are more likely to have done this (22%) than members of the middle group (15%) and baby boomers (5%).
Lastly, fewer than one in 10 Canadians (9%) bought a compact disc or LP record in the last month. The days of waiting outside the store for the latest release by a favourite artist are gone. Musicians are now showcasing albums entirely online.
An important aspect of the debate focuses on how much money musicians make from their creations. When Napster transformed the industry in the early years of this century and brought with it the demise of record store chains, many musicians expressed dismay at their songs being downloaded and shared for free.
It took years of lawsuits, changes to software and significantly superior downloading speeds to modify how the process works. Still, as the survey shows, Canadians are not parting with much money to access music.
Across the country, a majority of residents (51%) say music creators are fairly compensated for their work, while one-third (33%) disagree with this assessment and 16% are undecided.
Canadians aged 18 to 34, who are spending more on downloaded songs and streaming services than their older counterparts, are more likely to feel that the artists are making what they should be making (68%). Canadians over the age of 35, who are stingier when it comes to spending on music, are not as convinced (46% for generation X and 45% for baby boomers).
The new era of popular music will provide two severe challenges for advertisers. First, our so-called “oldies” radio stations have started to add music from the late 1990s and early 2000s, as people age and the definition of “oldie” shifts. Most Canadians are still listening to music on the radio, and there is no significant change among age groups. Still, figuring out how to get their message across to Canadians will be tougher as formats modify.
The second challenge is how to approach people in the 18-to-34 age group. As the survey has shown, they are more likely to already be spending money on downloads and streaming services than older Canadians. This is a group that is better prepared for today’s technology than baby boomers, and that did not experience the Napster craze in the early days of the “everything-is-free” internet that some members of generation X recall fondly. Canada’s youngest adults are willing to part with their cash to access the artists they like. The battle for their ears will define the future of the music industry.
Results are based on an online study conducted from February 21 to February 24, 2019, among 1,000 adults in Canada. The data has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region. The margin of error – which measures sample variability – is +/- 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
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Doctor pleads guilty to producing child pornography, secretly filming patients
by: KDVR
Justin Neisler (KDVR)
DENVER, Colorado (KDVR) – Denver doctor Justin Neisler, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to producing child pornography.
Neisler secretly filmed young male patients while they were naked and uploaded child pornography to the social media site Tumblr, court documents say.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado Jason Dunn said Friday that Neisler uploaded the pornographic material between Oct. 15, 2018 and Dec. 13, 2018.
Neisler was arrested in March 2019.
During a search of his Cherry Creek apartment, authorities determined Neisler “kept child pornography on his cell phone and on various other electronic media.”
A forensic review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed Neisler’s devices had about 6,600 still images and 1,725 videos of child pornography that he had obtained from the internet, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
According to Centura Health, Neisler worked at the Family Residency Program at St. Anthony North Family Medicine 84th Clinic in Westminster. Centura said Neisler was terminated when the company learned of his arrest.
Investigators say they found Neisler secretly recorded patients using a spy pen camera and his iPhone.
“He would then watch those videos at home for his own sexual gratification. As part of investigating and prosecuting this case, minor victims have been identified and interviewed to make certain that no other hands-on offenses occurred, and that those victims’ needs are addressed, and that the videos of those victims have not been distributed,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Neisler faces between 15 and 30 years in prison.
His sentencing is scheduled for May 22.
by WKRG Staff / Jan 21, 2020
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) -- Opening statements are set to begin this morning in the Donald Hartung trial around 9am CST.
Hartung is accused of killing his mother and two half-brothers in 2015. The bodies of Bonnie Smith, John, and R.T. were found inside their on on Deerfield Drive in Pensacola in 2015. At the time of the murders, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan initially believed the crime was motivated by witchcraft. Investigators have since debunked that claim. Family members believe Hartung's motive was money.
by Paul Rivera / Jan 21, 2020
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. (WESH)— A Palm Bay man accused of attacking more than 40 women in South Florida in the 1980s has been arrested.
Police arrested 60-year-old Robert Eugene Koehler, a registered sex offender, who they believe to be the "Pillowcase Rapist."
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Florida doubles efforts to hunt invasive pythons
Posted: Aug 8, 2019 / 05:26 AM EDT / Updated: Aug 9, 2019 / 07:43 AM EDT
A group of people hold a 12-ft. python as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, speaks during a news conference at Everglades Holiday Park, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. DeSantis said the state is expanding its efforts to eradicate invasive pythons in the Everglades and is working with the federal government to get snake hunters to remote areas of Big Cypress National Preserve. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Standing in front of a hissing, squirming 12-foot-long python Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he’s doubling resources to remove the invasive species that’s destroying the natural food chain in Florida’s delicate Everglades.
The state has been paying select hunters to catch and kill the invasive snakes on state lands since March 2017. It even hosts a popular python hunt for the public every three years in an attempt to control the tens of thousands of pythons that are estimated to be slithering through the Everglades. Scientists say the giant constrictor snakes, which can grow over 20 feet (6 meters) long, have eliminated 99% of the native mammals in the Everglades, decimating food sources for native predators such as panthers and alligators.
More than 3,000 pythons have been removed from the Everglades since 2017, not counting the reptiles removed by the public in python hunts, according to wildlife officials. But those efforts have not been enough, experts said Wednesday.
DeSantis said Florida will double its resources for python removal and that the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture have a new agreement to begin hunting pythons in 130,000 acres (52,610 hectares) of state parks. But the governor’s staff did not immediately answer questions about how much the stepped-up efforts would cost or where the state funds were being allocated from.
“They’ve threatened endangered species. They’ve decimated other animal populations … there’s no natural predators for these. They can eat small alligators even,” the governor said, jokingly asking the snake wranglers to take a few steps back from the podium where he was speaking.
The 12-foot (3.6-meter) python next to him weighed about 50 pounds (23 kg) and is around 7 years old. It’s distinct black and gold markings glimmered more prominently than usual because it had just shed its skin. Behind the governor, loud airboats roared their engines as they took tourists through the tall grass of the protected swampland known as the Everglades.
Next to the massive reptile, Tom Rahill of the South Florida Water Management District, held a restless baby python that he caught on the side of the road the night before.
The governor’s announcement comes at a crucial time for the species — hatchling season.
“A 16-foot (4.9-meter) python could have 60, 65 babies running around. The population just explodes,” said Rahill.
DeSantis said the U.S. Department of the Interior is also stepping in to get snake hunters to remote areas of Big Cypress National Preserve they’ve previously been unable to access, but details of that program were still in the works.
Burmese pythons were brought to South Florida as pets in the late 1970s. They were released into the wild and have devastated native populations of bobcats, opossums, raccoons and foxes and have nearly wiped out cottontail rabbits.
The state is also looking for the public’s help in catching the invasive reptiles, noting plans to make the python hunt a yearly event and asking tourists, boaters, hunters and hikers to aid in the daily removal if they have the expertise.
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by Lila Gross / Jan 21, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - Pirate season is upon us and as the legend of Jose Gaspar made its way to Tampa Bay, so did tons of buried treasure.
Over the years the Tampa Bay History Center has collected real pirate and shipwreck artifacts from the Florida waters.
by Melissa Marino / Jan 21, 2020
(WFLA) - On Tuesday morning, people began filtering out of Hyde Park United Methodist Church with cups of hot coffee in hand.
The church opened its doors Monday to anyone in need of a warm place to sleep, and also provided meals, and outreach services.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)- A dump truck overturned in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 4 Tuesday morning, spilling a substance on the shoulder of the road.
The crash happened on the exit ramp for Interstate 75.
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Ozzy Osbourne reveals Parkinson’s diagnosis in new interview
Magnitude 6 shock rocks quake-stunned Puerto Rico
by: DANICA COTO, The Associated Press
Men who lost their homes in a 6.4 magnitude earthquake stand inside a baseball stadium that has been opened to residents amid aftershocks and power outages, in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, late Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are still without power and water, and thousands are staying in shelters and sleeping on sidewalks since Tuesday’s earthquake. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)g
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A magnitude 6.0 quake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing further damage along the island’s southern coast, where previous recent quakes have toppled homes and schools.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the 8:54 a.m. (1254 GMT) quake hit 8 miles (13 kilometers) south of Indios at a shallow depth of 6 miles (10 kilometers).
Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority said outages were reported across much of southern Puerto Rico and crews were assessing possible damage at power plants.
Bárbara Cruz, a prosecutor who was in the southern coastal city of Ponce when the new quake hit, said concrete debris hit the sidewalk as buildings continued to crumble.
“Everyone is out on the street,” she said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
It was the strongest shake yet since a magnitude 6.4 quake — the strongest to hit the island in a century — struck before dawn on Tuesday, knocking out power across Puerto Rico and leaving many without water. More than 2,000 people remain in shelters, many fearful of returning to their homes, and others unable to because of extensive damage.
Hundreds of quakes have shaken the island since the new year, though most were too slight to be felt.
Víctor Huérfano, director of Puerto Rico’s Seismic Network, told The Associated Press that he expects still more aftershocks as a result of the latest large one.
“It’s going to re-energize an unstable situation,” he said, adding that seismologists are studying which faults were activated. “It’s a complex zone.”
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are still without power and water, and thousands are staying in shelters and sleeping on sidewalks since Tuesday’s earthquake. That temblor killed one person, injured nine others and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes and several schools and businesses in the island’s southwest region.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
Byron Dale
7007 Lynmar Lane
Edina MN 55435
Greg Soderberg
54950 180thst
Austin MN 55912
Ayrlahn Johnson
2277 183rd Avenue
Mora, Minnesota 55051
David Pich
4102 Broadway Road
Willard, OH 44890
And the citizens of
Washington, DC 20220,
Case No. 18cv685DWF/LIB
GRIEVANCE ABOUT AND FOR monetary relief, reduction of the Federal government debt, the States debt and the debts of the citizens and relief from economic servitude.
The question before the government and the defendants: is it a violation of article 1 section 8, clause 5 and of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution for Congress to give up its responsibility to create money for the benefit of people and allow the banking system to enjoy an exclusive privilege to create money as interest-bearing debt for their personal profit.
Byron Dale and the citizens of the United States bring this grievance to protect the citizens, the federal government and the states from over whelming debt, bankruptcies, and foreclosures.
The Court has jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 2201(a).
Venue is proper in this district pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391(b)(2) and
Defendants are United States agencies or officers sued in their official capacities,
substantial parts of their omissions has giving rise to this claim.
III. PARTIES
Byron Dale and the people are the plaintiffs. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump are the defendants.
Steven Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for the executive branch agency whose mission is to maintain a strong economy, foster economic growth, pay the government’s debts and create job opportunities by promoting the conditions that enable prosperity and stability at home and abroad. He is also responsible for strengthening national security by combating economic threats and protecting the integrity of our financial system as well as managing the U.S. Government’s finances. This is impossible to do when all the money is created as interest-bearing debt.
President Donald Trump has sworn an oath to do the best of his ability, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution United States. President Trump recently stated that it is his duty to protect the rights of the Americans. President Trump has a duty an obligation to personally hear and address our grievance. Working together, Mnuchin as Secretary of the Treasury and President Trump, as head of the executive branch, have the duty, authority and the power to change our money system from an evidence of debt to an evidence of wealth, working with and through the Bureau of Printing Engraving and the Bureau of the Mint they can create all the money the nation needs and spend it into circulation with no debt to anyone in a way that benefits the general welfare of all Americans and not just special interests
IV GRIEVANCE
In a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, the people, including Byron Dale, have a great interest and the obligation to protect the well-being, and economic health of the citizens and see that the United States Constitution is upheld.
We the people are filing this constitutionally secured redress of grievances. Pursuant to the United State Constitution which states in amendment one; the Congress shall make no law respecting the right of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The United States Constitution at section 8, clause 5 clearly states, “Congress shall have the power to coin money”. The word coin in clause 5 is used as a verb, meaning Congress shall have the power to create money and regulate the value thereof.
The XIII Amendment Section 1 clearly states; “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.
Article VI States This Constitution and the Laws if the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby.
The preamble of the Constitution clearly sets forth why the Constitution of the United States was formed. It states; “We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.
If the federal government is going to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty Congress must provide the people a money system, a medium of exchange, without debt for the benefit of all the people. This is impossible when all money is created as interest-bearing debt owed to the banking system.
In 1791 the United States bank was founded and allowed to create money as interest bearing debt. The first congressman from Georgia, James Jackson, seems to have been one of the few people that understood where Hamilton’s plan would take the young nation.
On February 9, 1790, James Jackson stated “the funding of the debt will occasion enormous taxes for the payment of the interest. These taxes will bear heavily both on agriculture and commerce. It will be charging the active industrious citizen, who pays his share of the taxes to pay the indolent and idol creditor who receives them. Though our present debt be but a few millions, in the course of a single century it may be multiplied to an extent we dare not think of”, how right James Jackson was. Now in 2018 the Federal Government debt is over 20 trillion and within another year will be at least 1 trillion more, to say nothing of all the 50 trillion of addition debt this nation has. Because of the fraudulent money system Hamilton introduced, from the day of its inception to the present, each generation has been forced into deeper debt than the generation before it.
In 1792, the same Congress passed an act establishing a mint to stamp gold and silver into coins. Congress set forth the coins to be struck. Coins made of gold were called Eagles, half Eagles and quarter Eagles. Coins made out of silver were called dollars, half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes. Cent and Half cent coins were to be stamped from copper. The dollar was to contain 372 grains and four sixteenths parts of a grain of pure silver, or four hundreds and 16 grains of standard silver. Eagles were to be the value of 10 dollars or units, and to contain 247 grains and four eighths of a grain of pure, or 270 grains of standard gold. Half Eagles were to be the value of five dollars and so on. This act is commonly called 1792 coinage act under that act of dollar was 371.25 grains of pure silver, or 416 grains of standard silver.
Therefore, under the 1792 coinage act a debt in dollars was to be measured by how much silver, it took to satisfy the debt. If that act would have been enforced a debt of 1000 dollars of loaned bank, credit (an I OWE YOU from the Bank) would have to been paid in 1000 coins weighing 371 point 25 grains of silver. A real bonanza for the banking system, which just printed a promise to pay, the borrower gold or silver in the future, which they seldom did, on a piece of paper and declaring that you now have a loan of $1000 which the borrower had to pay interest on.
Section 14 of the 1792 coinage act stated; it shall be lawful for any person or persons to bring in to the said mint gold and silver bullion, in order to there being coined; and the bullion so brought shall be there assayed and coined as speedily as may be after the receipt thereof, and that free of expense of the person or persons to whom the same shall have been brought. That act created a debt-free medium of exchange based on wealth the people created. The only way wealth can be created is by combining knowledge, labor and raw resources. That act clearly showed what money should represent, wealth created and owned by the people, not interest-bearing debts created by and owed to the banking system for their own personal profit.
31 U.S. Code § 5114 stated the Secretary of the Treasury shall engrave and print United States currency. This was a good law because research proves there has never been enough gold and silver mined to provide a general medium exchange for the people. Money in any form should never be created as a private profit for the creator. If we uphold the constitution as the supreme law of the land, money can only be created by the government to provide a debt-free medium exchange for all the people! This clearly means money cannot be any kind of financial note.
All money regardless of whether that money is coins made of metal, money printed on paper or in digital form, should all be created by the federal government as stated in the Constitution and spent into circulation. Money that represents wealth created and owned by the people and paid to the people as earnings for their time, labor and materials they provide in building post offices and post roads as stated in article 1 section 8, clause 7.
In 1920, a famous economist stated: “there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and in a manner that only one man in a million is able to diagnose”. The only way to debauch the currency is to change the currency from an evidence of wealth to an evidence of interest-bearing debt. That is what has happened in the United States.
The Congress of the United States no longer provides a medium of exchange for the benefit of the people. They have allowed the banking system to enjoy the exclusive privilege to create money as interest-bearing debt for their personal profit. A money system that is put into circulation as interest bearing debt forces the government and the citizen’s into ever-growing unpayable debt, involuntary servitude and monetary slavery.
At this time the actual creation of money always involves the extension of credit by private commercial banks. This is done when the banks make interest-bearing loans to the people and to government bodies. This has led the nation into an unbelievable $70 trillion debt that can never be repaid. When money is created as interest-bearing debt only the principal can he created and moved into the economy. The interest on the debt grows the debt but not the money supply. The money that a borrower needs to pay interest on the loan has to be created somewhere else in the economy by another loan to someone.
For the economy to grow the money supply must grow. Therefore, the debt has to grow. The interest on these loans creates a shortage of money because there is no way to create money to pay the interest without more borrowing. It also causes a rising cost of living, because interest has to be added to the cost of producing everything. It is impossible for the all the loans to be repaid, because interest increases the debt but not the money supply. The debt is always greater than the money supply.
(R + 1 is always greater than R)
Over time that spread between the debt and the money supply grows. That is why the debt is now around $70 trillion, the M1 money supply is around 4 trillion, and the M2 money supply is around 13 trillion. It is impossible to pay a 70 trillion dollar debt with only a 13 trillion dollar money supply. If $13 trillion of the debt was paid the entire money supply would be extinguished and there would still be a debt of $57 trillion.
Now all money is created when loans are issued and debts incurred, money is extinguished when loans are repaid. Therefore banks do not get a benefit when principal of the debt is repaid. The banks do get a monetary profit when the interest is paid. Banks also get asset gains if the loan can’t be paid because they can go through the courts and get all the assets that were put up as collateral.
The banks gain a huge profit from the interest, when houses, cars are bought and when roads are built with long-term financing they cost around three times more than the original cost.
“All bank deposits are a form of credit. Basically, they represent amounts owed by banks to depositors. They come into existence by an exchange of bank promises to pay customers for the various assets which banks require currency, promissory notes of business, consumers and other customers, mortgages on real estate, and government and other securities”. [Third Edition of the Federal Reserve purposes function page 6] The facts are the banker’s really doesn’t pay anything, because that form of credit is only a banker’ promise to pay; that is never paid.
How do the banks create this form of credit ‘money’? They simply add numbers to customer’s checking account ‘deposits’. How does this work? When a customer goes to a bank to borrow what they think is legal tender. The borrower asks for a loan, the banker agrees to make the loan then he slides some paper over to the borrower and “says sign on the dotted line. What they’re signing is a promissory note promising to pay the loan plus interest. If they can’t they have agreed to give all there collateral to the banker.
Upon signing, the borrower is in debt for say $1,000 dollars plus interest. This goes on the books of the bank as an asset to the banker and a liability to the borrower. Then the bank adds the number 1,000 to the borrower’s checking account, as $1,000 of liability to the bank and a $1,000 of assets to the borrower. When the borrower spends those numbers ‘believing they are Federal Reserve notes,” $1000 of new money moves into circulation. When interest is added at 10 percent, the borrower now owes $1100. The debt is now S100 greater than the money supply. The same thing happens with every bank loan.
At this time the borrower’s liabilities are court enforceable. If the borrower cannot pay the bank, the bank can go through the courts and take all the assets the borrower put up for collateral. There is no interest added to the banker’s liabilities and the bankers liabilities are not court enforceable. That must change.
Once the borrower spends the money he has to capture that much money back plus 10 percent more before the borrower can repay the loan. That 10 percent more can only come from some other borrower’s bank account.
The outcome of this is that we the people have all become debt slaves of the banking system. The banking system owns all the money all the time and therefore all the assets (wealth) the people have worked hard to produce. This is a total violation of the 13th amendment. The people actually only get to possess things, they never get to really own anything; even if they get out from under the burden of their debt by passing the interest debt onto another debtor. They still have to deal with taxes, if for some reason they can’t pay their taxes the government takes away their property.
In the 1870s Congress authorized the Treasury to create money through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Several years later in Julliard v. Greenman (1884) the court reaffirmed the constitutionality of paper money. Chief Justice Marshall clearly stated “The government is to pay the debt of the Union, and must be authorized to use the means which appear to itself the most eligible to effect that object” This case was about United States notes, which were not a debt to the people, not Federal Reserve notes. United States notes were put on the books of the government as a debt to the government. Our medium exchange (money) should not be a debt to anyone. Payment with money should be a final payment and most everybody believes it is now.
Now the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces the nation’s paper currency with the words Federal Reserve note printed on the currency. However, These Federal Reserve notes only move into circulation as an interest bearing debt to the people and the government. Nobody, not even the government can pay their debt by borrowing more money, from someone else, to pay their debt.
On top of that Federal Reserve notes are no longer legal notes because they no longer have promise to pay written on the note.
Federal Reserve notes are not put into circulation by the treasury or Congress. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing does print the currency then sells the paper currency to the Federal Reserve System for the cost of printing. When the government needs more money than what is brought in through taxation [the people have to borrow the money and pay interest on it before they can have any money to pay the taxes] it borrows and up goes the national debt, a debt that can never be repaid. Chief Justice Marshall clearly stated “The government is to pay the debt of the Union”. That is an absolute impossibility when all the money is put into circulation as interest-bearing debt!
Now the actual creation of money always involves the extension of credit by private commercial banks. The American people have allowed the banking system to control the issuance of our medium- exchange. By issuing the medium-exchange, into circulation as interest-bearing debt, the banks have deprived 90 percent of the people of their rights to own property by manipulating the interest rates and the money supply. The other 10 percent are the heads of the big corporations and friends of the banking system that can borrow all the money they want and need and manipulate the prices and wages of working class and get most of the profit. Now we know why 10 percent of the population owns 90 percent of the wealth.
The banking system now owns all the money in the world and charges the people interest for using said money. This fact his given the banking system an unimaginable, unbelievable amount of power to do whatever they want to do.
The United States Mint does mint the coins but they do not spend them into circulation. They sell the coins to the banks, at the face value of the coins. For we the people to get those coins we have to go to the bank and buy the coins with money that was borrowed at interest from the banking system. There is no law defining or declaring the numbers created by the banks and added to a bank account is money or legal tender.
REQUEST FOR RELIEF
Plaintiffs pray and demand that this creating money as interest-bearing debt be declared unconstitutional and stopped. Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump working through the United States Treasury, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint have the duty and the power to create the money and spend it into circulation for the benefit of all the people. This can easily be accomplished by spending the money into circulation to build post offices and post roads as it states Article 1, section 8, clause 7 of the Constitution with no profit for the creator of the money and no debt to the people or to the government. To save a lot of time and needless cost of litigation, the plaintiffs pray the court would arrange a 2 hour face-to-face meeting with Steven Mnuchin and President Donald Trump.
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California to let college athletes sign endorsement deals
by: ADAM BEAM, Associated Press
Posted: Sep 30, 2019 / 09:19 AM CDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2019 / 08:17 PM CDT
FILE – In this Sept. 16, 2019, file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom answers a question during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom announced Monday, Sept. 30, he signed a law that would let athletes at California universities make money from their images, names or likenesses. The law also bans schools from kicking athletes off the team if they get paid. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Defying the NCAA, California opened the way Monday for college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsement deals with sneaker companies, soft drink makers, car dealerships and other sponsors, just like the pros.
The first-in-the-nation law, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and set to take effect in 2023, could upend amateur sports in the U.S. and trigger a legal challenge.
Newsom and others cast it as an attempt to bring more fairness to big-money college athletics and let players share in the wealth they create for their schools. Critics have long complained that universities are getting rich off the backs of athletes — often, black athletes struggling to get by financially.
“Other college students with a talent, whether it be literature, music, or technological innovation, can monetize their skill and hard work,” the governor said. “Student athletes, however, are prohibited from being compensated while their respective colleges and universities make millions, often at great risk to athletes’ health, academics and professional careers.”
Newsom predicted other states will introduce similar legislation.
The NCAA — which had called on him to veto the bill, arguing that it would destroy the distinction between amateurs and pros and give California an unfair recruiting advantage — said it is considering its next steps. It did not elaborate.
In a statement, the NCAA said it is working to revise its rules on making money off a player’s name and likeness. But it said any changes should be made at the national level through the NCAA, not through a patchwork of state laws.
California’s law applies to students at both public and private institutions — but not community colleges — in the nation’s most populous state. While the measure covers all sports, the big money is in football and basketball.
Student athletes won’t get salaries. But under the law, they can’t be stripped of their scholarships or kicked off the team if they sign endorsement deals.
There are some limitations: Athletes can’t enter into deals that conflict with their schools’ existing contracts. For example, if your university has a contract with Nike, you can’t sign with Under Armour.
The law represents another instance of California jumping out in front of other states when it comes to social and political change. The movement to allow student athletes to profit from their labors on the court or the playing field has been simmering for years, portrayed as a matter of economic fairness and civil rights.
“A majority of these athletes, it’s no secret, are African American,” said Sen. Steven Bradford, a co-author of the bill who is black. “It’s an issue of fairness, and it’s an issue that has been long overdue.”
Newsom tweeted a video showing him signing the law during a special episode of HBO’s “The Shop: Uninterrupted” alongside NBA superstar LeBron James, one of many professional athletes who have endorsed the measure.
James, whose 14-year-old son is a closely watched basketball prospect in Los Angeles and will be 18 when the law takes effect, exulted over its signing on Instagram, saying it will “change the lives for countless athletes who deserve it!”
He added: “NCAA, you got the next move. We can solve this for everyone!”
NBA rookie Jordan Poole of the Golden State Warriors also welcomed the new law. Six months ago, as a player at the University of Michigan, he hit a game-winning shot at the buzzer in the second round of the NCAA tournament as millions watched on TV.
“I know for sure I would have been using my name after that Houston shot,” he said.
His teammate, three-time NBA champion Draymond Green, went further.
“The NCAA is a dictatorship,” the former Michigan State star told reporters Monday. “I’m tired of seeing people get ripped off, and I’m tired of seeing these college athletes being ripped off.”
Before the governor signed the law, the NCAA threatened to bar California universities from competition, meaning powerhouses such as the University of Southern California, UCLA, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, could find themselves banned.
If that were to happen, California schools could form a new governing body and get schools from like-minded states to join, in a threat to the NCAA’s dominance.
But the governor, a former college baseball player, said he doubts the NCAA would kick California schools out, arguing that the state’s 40 million people and status as the world’s fifth-largest economy make it too big to lose.
The NCAA “can’t afford to do that,” he said.
Democratic state Sen. Nancy Skinner, the bill’s author, said it could especially help female athletes, who have limited opportunities for professional sports once they leave college.
“College is the primary time when the spotlight is on” them, Skinner said. “For women, this might be the only time they could make any money.”
NCAA rules bar players from hiring agents. The NCAA has also steadfastly refused to pay players in most cases. But a committee is studying other ways players could make money. Its report is expected in October.
The NCAA does let some athletes accept money in some instances. Tennis players can accept up to $10,000 in prize money per year, and Olympians can accept winnings from their competitions. Also, many schools pay players yearly cost-of-living stipends of $2,000 to $4,000.
“We just kind of joked every kid is going to want to go to college out here in Cali now,” Warriors forward Glenn Robinson III, who played college ball at Michigan, said of the new law.
“I think it’s time. A lot of people are waking up and starting to see how much money that these universities are making off of players,” he added. “Where I went to school, a lot of players couldn’t afford lunch.
AP sports writer Janie McCauley contributed reporting from San Francisco.
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Hawkins set to return to drawing board after Higgins defeat
Yahoo Sport UK
Yahoo Sport UK January 15, 2020
Barry Hawkins was a Masters finalist in 2016.
Barry Hawkins believes that he is his own worst enemy after bowing out at the first hurdle of the Masters with a comprehensive 6-1 defeat to John Higgins.
The 40-year-old was a finalist at the Alexandra Palace tournament back in 2016, but was never in the match against two-time champion Higgins.
And, thoroughly downbeat in the aftermath, the Hawk admitted that it might be time to go back to the drawing board.
“To be honest I don’t think I’ve been knuckling down well enough,” he said.
“It’s a bit of a vicious circle, because I know I need to get motivated to play well in these tournaments, but it’s just not there at the moment for some reason.
“When you go out there, I’ve just got no confidence in my game at all, because I know I haven’t worked hard enough. I can’t put my finger on why, I’m just really struggling with it at the moment.
“I need to really have a good long look at myself and if I want to start doing well again and performing like a top 16 player, then I need to be a bit more dedicated and start to put the hours in again.
“If you don’t put the hours in then you have no confidence and it showed tonight - I felt it as well.
“I seem to go through spells, but for some reason the last year or two has been a lot worse than the other times.”
Four-time World Champion Higgins started the contest in fine fettle, opening up a 4-0 lead by the mid-session interval as a whitewash was mooted.
And though Hawkins was able to get a frame on the board after the break, Higgins soon wrapped things up, with the Ditton native simply left questioning his credentials.
“I’ve been to the final once before, and I’m a million miles away with how I’m playing,” he continued.
“I don’t feel like I deserve my top-16 place the way I feel. There are a lot of players out there playing really well.
“Look at David Gilbert, he’s playing the snooker of his life at the moment, and it just goes to show that he has knuckled down, put the hours in and he deserves everything he gets. I need to start looking at players like that and put the hours in.”
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Boeing employees called designers of flawed Max 737 jets 'clowns'
Marc DeAngelis
Engadget• January 10, 2020
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In October of 2018, a Boeing 737 Max jet crashed into the Java Sea, killing everyone on board. Five months later, another crashed in Ethiopia, taking the lives of all passengers and crew. The tragedies caused aviation authorities across the globe to ground all 737 Max jets, and both Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration began investigations into how these accidents occurred. The Washington Post and The New York Times obtained over 100 pages of email and chat transcripts that were handed over to Congress as part of its investigation. The documents show that employees mocked the planes' designers, calling them "clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys," and had major concerns over the safety of the planes. Even before the first crash, one employee asked, "Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft?" "No," a colleague replied.
So far, the investigations indicate that the 737 Max's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System is the main culprit in the crashes. This software manipulates the plane's hardware to give the pilot a particular feel when adjusting pitch. While designing the plane, Boeing made frequent changes to the code but did not adequately explain these adjustments to the FAA, resulting in a shoddy safety analysis. The faulty MCAS automatically put the planes into nosedives, causing the two deadly crashes.
The transcripts also make it clear that Boeing was trying to save a substantial amount of money for the airlines that bought the 737 Max by convincing the FAA that simulator training for the new jets was unnecessary. These simulators aren't simple computer set-ups -- they're detailed and expensive recreations of planes that are propped on hydraulic supports so that pilots can get a true-to-life feel of the aircraft.
In March of 2017, the 737 chief technical pilot told his colleagues to "stress the importance of holding firm that there will not be any type of simulator training required." He wrote that Boeing would "go face to face with any regulator who tries to make that a requirement." In June 2017, the pilot wrote about his success in convincing an airline not to require simulator training, saying, "Looks like my Jedi mind trick worked again! These are not the droids you're looking for." Even after the crashes, the company insisted that pilots shouldn't have to train in mock-ups of the 737 Max, but reversed its stance earlier this week.
"These communications do not reflect the company we are and need to be, and they are completely unacceptable," Boeing said in a statement. We regret the content of these communications, and apologize to the FAA, Congress, our airline customers and to the flying public for them. We have made significant changes as a company to enhance our safety processes, organizations, and culture. The language used in these communications, and some of the sentiments they express, are inconsistent with Boeing values, and the company is taking appropriate action in response."
In the wake of the crashes and investigations, the 737 Max planes have been grounded for longer than any other aircraft, and Boeing has lost over $10 billion. The company decided to halt production of the planes until the investigations are completed and even ousted its CEO, Dennis Muilenburg. With both the FAA and Congress continuing their investigations into the 737 Max, there's no telling if or when they'll take flight again.
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Head Softball Coach, Cal State Fullerton
Kelly Ford is a successful college athlete and collegiate fastpitch softball coach, who is now entering her sixth season as the head coach of the softball program at Cal State University Fullerton.
In 2016, her Lady Titans won the Big West Conference championship and Kelly was named Coach of the Year. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Kelly was Head Coach at Mount San Antonio Junior College in Walnut, CA where she guided their softball team to four California State Championships (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009), seven South Coast Conference Championships (2003-08, 2001) and earned South Coast Conference Coach of the Year honors five times.
Ford's 11-year career at the community college ended with an amazing 455-102-1 (.816) record. Prior to Mt. San Antonio, she served as NCAA Division One Assistant Coach at her alma mater, Oklahoma University as well as a stint at Cal State Northridge. Her coaching philosophy is to constantly build and rebuild so the highest level of excellence is achieved.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Kelly excelled in softball, basketball and volleyball in high school. She played two NJCAA National Championship seasons at Central Arizona College in 1988 and 1989 before a stellar career with University of Oklahoma. Kelly has a Master’s degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Coaching.
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As everyone gets ready to enjoy time with family and friends, let’s take a moment to recap some of the big Wisconsin tech announcements in the days leading up to the holidays:
—Milwaukee-based software services company Zeon Solutions was acquired by St. Louis-based Perficient for $35.7 million, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported. Most of Zeon’s local employees are expected to keep their jobs, the newspaper said.
—Madison-based Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) is raising $101.8 million through a public sale of 4 million shares of common stock. The offering’s underwriters have an option to purchase an additional 600,000 shares, which would bring the total raised to $117.1 million, before expenses. Exact will use the funds to boost commercialization efforts around Cologuard, its FDA-approved stool DNA test for detecting colorectal cancer. The money will also go toward product development, the company said.
—Madison-based data analytics company Swoop Search raised $2 million in a possible $4.5 million round, a new SEC filing shows. Swoop formed a joint venture with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, called Swoop-Med, to try to develop diagnostics and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a press release. The initiative was first reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The joint venture received the first investment from a seed fund backed by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative (Wi2), which Xconomy profiled in June. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is also a partner on the project and will help Swoop develop data processing technology based on HP’s Moonshot server. The data for the project will come from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute’s Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention, which includes information that is being gleaned from more than 1,500 people over a 15 to 20-year period.
—Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson invested $25,000 in Madison-based Isomark, the Republican’s second investment in a Wisconsin company, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Physicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) was the first. Investors have put $800,000 into Isomark since 2010, the newspaper said. Isomark developed the “Canary” breath analyzer, which is meant to provide early indication of potentially deadly infections in patients, such as sepsis.
—Cambridge Major Laboratories, a Germantown-based pharmaceuticals manufacturer, is investing $20 million to build new headquarters and expand its research and development and manufacturing space, according to a press release. The company also intends to hire 75 people. The project is getting just over $2 million in public funds through a combination of state tax credits, a state worker training grant, village and county loans, and other incentives.
—Madison-based Shopbop is shuttering its only brick-and-mortar store, but the Amazon-owned women’s apparel seller is also hiring 80 local people for jobs in customer service, technology, and order fulfillment, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
—Greg Meier and Nick Wichert, who run the VictorySpark and Launch Box startup accelerators in Milwaukee and Racine, respectively, have been selected to run another local startup initiative: the incubator/accelerator being planned at the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium’s Energy Innovation Center on Milwaukee’s north side. The Milwaukee Business Journal first reported the news.
—Paragon Development Systems (PDS), a Milwaukee-based IT services provider, has tapped Asif Naseem as its new president and CEO. Naseem has held various roles with AT&T, Motorola, and Oracle, as well as multiple startups, PDS said. Naseem succeeds Jonathan Ravdin, who will continue as PDS vice chairman and chief medical officer.
—Marquette University Law School is opening a law and entrepreneurship clinic that will offer free legal services to startups. The program is the first of its kind in the Milwaukee area, Marquette said, and is similar to one offered by the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison.
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Press Release July 16, 2018
U.S. International Trade Commission Votes Affirmatively in Final Stage of Trade Case Against Imports of Chinese Stainless Steel Flanges
Washington, DC— On July 13, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted affirmatively in the final stage of its antidumping duty (AD) investigation, finding that imports of stainless steel flanges from China have materially injured the U.S. flange industry. All five Commissioners voted in the affirmative.
The ITC vote is in response to an August 16, 2017 petition filed by the Coalition of American Flange Producers (CAFP). The case has demonstrated that imports of stainless steel flanges from China and India are being unfairly dumped in the United States, and that Chinese and Indian producers of flanges receive improper government subsidies, such as tax breaks and discounted raw materials. As the ITC recently recognized, these actions – which violate international trade rules – have caused material injury to the U.S. stainless steel flange industry and its workers.
On June 11, 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced its affirmative final determination in its AD investigation of imports of stainless steel flanges from China, finding an AD rate of 257.11%. This means that within approximately seven days of the ITC’s vote, the DOC will issue an AD order on stainless steel flanges from China. On June 5, 2018, in the accompanying countervailing duty (CVD) investigation, the DOC issued a CVD order on stainless steel flanges from China at a rate of 174.73%.
“The U.S. stainless steel flange industry and its workers are grateful for the Commission’s decision as they have been seriously injured by dumped imports from China,” said Daniel B. Pickard, counsel to the CAFP and partner in the International Trade Practice at Wiley Rein LLP. “We hope that the Department and the Commission will continue to thoroughly investigate the injury caused by the dumped and subsidized imports of Indian producers.”
The CAFP is an association of U.S. producers of stainless steel flanges, comprised of Core Pipe Products, Inc., and Maass Flange Corporation. The CAFP and its individual members are committed to standing up for American workers and supporting the full enforcement of U.S. trade remedy laws.
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Updates Regarding Possible UFCW Representation for Co-op Staff
Willy Street Co-op Management has been working with representatives at the UFCW to discuss possible unionization of staff. It was our goal to enable staff to make an informed decision on whether or not they want union representation, which is a decision that we believe is their right to discuss and make.
At approximately 1:30pm today, the UFCW withdrew from the election agreement, effectively canceling the staff vote scheduled for tomorrow and Wednesday.
The Union has raised certain claims that the Co-op committed unfair labor practices; the Union has not shared those details with us. The Willy Street Co-op Management believes that we acted at all times within the spirit and letter of the code of conduct and neutrality agreements.
We work to create a fair workplace with fair pay, a culture of direct communication and problem solving, and employee participation in management via an Employee Council. Management recognizes that not everyone feels comfortable using these channels and may feel that union representation would be a better method of getting workplace issues resolved. We support the right of staff to choose union representation if they wish.
UPDATE 12/22/2014: As you may know, UFCW 1473 filed a complaint on 12/16/2014 with the National Labor Relations Board. We are looking into the concerns they have raised and promise to communicate as much as possible as we are able. As is always the case, these things take time to sort out and we want to be certain of the facts. Please bear with us and know that we always have and will continue to affirm the right of employees to decide for themselves whether they wish to organize as a union or not.
UPDATE 12/31/2014: The UFCW Local 1473 has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for the right to represent staff at Willy West. The UFCW has not filed petitions to represent any other Co-op location or departments. A hearing is scheduled on January 2, 2015 at 9:00am in the Dane County Courthouse The hearing will determine the merits of the petition and the potential voting unit. We will keep you posted with further information as we can.
UPDATE 01/14/2015: Willy Street Co-op management learned today that the National Labor Relations Board has determined Willy West staff to be an appropriate unit to vote for UFCW representation. Therefore, a vote can now be scheduled, and we expect that to take place within in the next few weeks. At that time eligible staff will vote on whether or not they would like to be represented by UFCW Local 1473. We will post an update after this vote.
It remains our goal to enable staff to make an informed decision and discuss with each other whether or not they want union representation, which is a decision that we believe is their right to discuss and make.
UPDATE 1/23/15: We received notification yesterday that the National Labor Relations Board has announced a vote for the Co-op's West staff regarding representation by UFCW Local 1473. It will take place at Willy West on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, and we will report the results of the election after we learn them.
As has been the case throughout this process, our goal is to enable staff to make an informed decision and discuss with each other whether or not they want union representation, which is a decision that we believe is their right to discuss and make.
UPDATE 1/29/15: On January 27, the National Labor Relations Board requested information from Co-op Management regarding the UFCW Local 1473 claims of unfair labor practices (ULPs) by the Co-op. The NLRB also provided more details so that we are better able to look into these claims. We will meet that request and update our Owners on the NLRB's process.
UPDATE 2/10/15: Today workers at Willy West voted on whether or not they wanted to be represented by United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1473. We had approximately 89% of eligible voters turn out to vote, and that high level of interest in the workplace is something our whole Co-op can be very proud of.
Voting closed at 6:30pm on Tuesday, February 10, with 102 ballots cast from 114 eligible voters. 50 voted against representation, 43 voted in favor of representation, 1 vote was invalid and 8 ballots were subject to challenges. The challenged ballots were sealed and delivered to the NLRB Regional Director and will be addressed according to NLRB procedures if necessary.
There are still a couple more legal steps to finalize and we will keep you informed once we find out more details.
UPDATE 4/2/15: On March 24, 2015 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Regional Director issued a conditional decision to dismiss the unfair labor practice (ULP) claims made against the Co-op. The NLRB did not find that any of the claimed actions were intended to violate the National Labor Relations Act, but reserves the right to reassess within the next six months, should any other issues pertaining to the Act arise. We will keep you informed if anything else develops. We continue to foster participatory management practices with our staff, and plan to find additional ways to address staff needs and improve our workplace.
For more information, please see General Manager Anya Firszt's open letter, dated 12/18/2014.
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Jamaica leads the Caribbean in visitors overstaying their visas in the United States
Published in Diaspora
MONTEGO BAY, May 14, 2019 - In excess of ten thousand Jamaican remained in the United States last year, leading the Caribbean region in visitors who have overstayed their time in the United States on non-immigrant visas, after arriving for business or on vacation.
In its 2018 Entry/Exit Overstay Report the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which revealed that some 10,626 Jamaicans overstayed the time granted for them to remain in the United States. Haiti was next in line with 6917 overstays; Guyana with 3220;Cuba, 1868; Bahamas,1545; Trinidad and Tobago, 811; Barbados,757; Belize 603; Saint Lucia 318; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 278; Grenada, 239; Antigua and Barbuda, 228; Saint Kitts and Nevis, 214 and Suriname with the lowest at 192.
According to the report, over the period of October 2017 to September 2018, some 312,667 Jamaicans were supposed to have departed from the US after going to visit that country. These figures represent a 3.40% per cent overstay rate and represent an increase from the previous year, when 9,553 Jamaicans also overstayed their time.
Of the latest numbers, the report states that 10,242 of these Jamaicans are suspected to have been hiding in the US during this period. It also states that 384 are out of country overstays, or persons who eventually left the country having already overstayed their time.
In addition, the US has found that 297 of this amount were Jamaican students studying in the US and exchange visitors who overstayed the time they were given. There were 525 persons in this category who were supposed to depart the country during the one-year period, an overstay rate of 7.06 per cent.
In the previous year, the amount of Jamaican students overstaying was 711. The report shows that 10,623 students were expected to leave but 225 departed after their time had expired and there was no evidence that 486 of them departed at all.
Other countries with high numbers of overstays include Venezuela with 35 thousand; Nigeria with 29 thousand; the Dominican Republic at 14 thousand; India at 12 thousand; The Philippines at 5 thousand with Peru, Honduras and Russia at 4 thousand overstays each.
Meanwhile, the report urges that identifying the offending aliens who overstay their time is important for national security, public safety, immigration enforcement and immigration benefits” purposes.
It states that further efforts such as partnerships with other governments and members of the private sector such as airlines, airports and cruise lines are ongoing and will continue in order to improve data integrity.
Going forward, the report details that the DHS will continue to develop, test, and expand the entry and exit system during 2019. These improvements will pertain to both biometric and biographic traveller data.
Trump signed a memorandum ordering the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit plans within four months to crackdown on overstays, such as punishing countries whose citizens have high rates of overstays and requiring foreign travellers to post “admission bonds,” where people entering the country would pay a fee that would be reimbursed when they leave — in an effort to improve compliance..
The memo, issued on April 22, had suggested, among other things, measures such as “suspending or limiting entry of nationals of those countries who hold B-1 or B-2 visas; targeted suspension of visa issuance for certain nationals; limits to duration of admission, to be implemented by the Department of Homeland Security; and additional documentary requirements.”
DHS has engaged in a concerted campaign to end visa overstay abuse. For the second year in a row, visa overstay rates have declined. DHS will continue efforts to ensure the integrity of its non-immigrant visa program.
An overstay is a non-immigrant who was lawfully admitted to the United States for an authorized period, but remained in the United States beyond his or her authorized period of admission.
The authorized admission period can be a fixed period; or for the duration of a certain activity, such as the period during which a student is pursuing a full course of study or any authorized technical/practical training.
DHS identifies two types of overstays: 1) individuals for whom no departure has been recorded (Suspected In-Country Overstays), and 2) individuals whose departure was recorded after their authorized period of admission expired (Out-of-Country Overstays).
DHS has determined that there were 54,706,966 in-scope non-immigrant admissions1 to the United States through air or sea POEs with expected departures occurring in FY 2018, which represents the majority of air and sea annual non-immigrant admissions. Of this number, DHS calculated a total overstay rate of 1.22 percent, or 666,582 overstay events. In other words, 98.78 percent of the in-scope non-immigrant entries departed the United States on time and in accordance with the terms of their admission.
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Modupe-Oreoluwa Oyeyemi Ola, popularly referred to as Mo’Cheddah is from Osun state, born on October 16, 1990 in Lagos State, Nigeria. She is the fourth of five children. She grew up in the centre of Lagos, Nigeria, in the hustle and bustle of Fola-Agoro, Akoka (a.k.a. F.A.).
Mo’Cheddah completed her primary school education at the University of Lagos Staff School in Yaba, Lagos, going on to Our Lady of Apostles, Yaba where she had her Secondary education. She then went on to the University of Lagos where she studied Creative Arts.
Mo’Cheddah started exploring her creative side at age 12. She was initially interested in acting, but later transitioned to singing. She signed a record deal with Knighthouse at the age of 13 going on from there to release her first single at 15. She later left and founded her own record label Mo’Cheddah Music.
In 2010, she released her debut studio album, “Franchise Celebrity” and in 2012, she left the Knighthouse label to found her own label, Cheddah Music. She left the music scene for a while to find her feet, to discover who she really was because she realized that while she had been busy making music and being popular, other people were living their lives and she was not.
In 2014, she signed up with Cobhams Asuquo and released ‘Destinambari’ and has since then gone on to release other singles with visuals to match since then. She is however still yet to get back to her former glory and some people are of the opinion that she spent too much time out of the industry and as a result, have been driven into obscurity.
She has featured several notable Nigerian artistes such as Cobhams, Phyno, May D to mention only a few and has performed at a large number of events.
Apart from music, Mo’Cheddah has a clothing line and a blog.
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Destinambari
Tori Olorun
Franchise Celebrity (2010)
True Christmas (2013)
2010 MTV Africa Music Awards – Best New Artist
2010 Channel O Music Video Awards – Best Female Video for “If You Want Me”
Eldee and Mo’Cheddah in sex scandal
On Monday, October 3, 2011, a funny conversation between Mo’cheedah’s Twitter account and that of Eldee’s occurred. ‘If people here with us see it, just say one of the guys also in the hotel posted it to you,’ the tweet from Eldee’s Twitter handle to Mo’cheedah, read. After the tweet was shocking nude picture of a Mo’cheedah look alike posted by her Twitter account to Eldee’s account. It sparked up a whirlwind of controversy the next morning as it became a trending topic on social media and the entertainment blogsphere. Both celebrities denied ever exchanging nudes, insisting their accounts were hacked.
2012, due to irreconcilable differences, Mo’Cheddah left her Knighthouse label and founded her own label, Mo’Cheddah Music. Speaking on her exit, she narrated; “What broke me was that when I left my label. People chose to pick sides and obviously it wasn’t mine.
“I felt as if I had failed, especially because I had thought that business will pick up. They had so much hate for me.
“They started bad-mouthing me to people, to companies, to producers, so I was kind of blacklisted.
“They wanted to do everything in their power to ruin me and I felt God forsook me, sadness consumed me,” Mo’Cheddah said.
Mo’Cheddah was forced to take a break from music in 2015 due to depression caused by the hostility and hate she experienced in the music industry.
She said; “I was coming from a naive, God-fearing family and I went into the world of adults and I was thrown into a jungle and people did not care if I was 16, they attacked me.
“The industry was hostile. I would be performing and they would turn off my microphone because the A-list artist doesn’t like me.
“There was one day I looked at my Mum and told her ‘you taught me everything about love but you did not teach me to hate’.
“I don’t know why she did not, but the truth is there is hate in the world, so I went into the industry thinking everybody loved everybody. I didn’t understand that hate.”
She also revealed that it was at that point that she became very depressed and contemplated suicide.
Mo’Cheddah said, “I googled ‘there is this darkness inside me’ and I saw a lot of people had it, they were talking about depression.
“The only reason I did not kill myself, first, I didn’t know how I will kill myself. I thought about it so many times.
“I thought of drowning myself in third Mainland bridge, at times I wanted it to be quick, so I will be praying that God should just kill me.
“All I had to do was understand that as long as I was at peace with this person, every other thing will be OK. I live to be happy,” she said.
Mo’Cheddah marries her boo, BK, secretly
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How Is Sea Level Rise Affecting Your Region?
by C. Forbes Tompkins and Christina DeConcini - October 22, 2015
Shoreline counties are home to more than 123 million Americans, and account for nearly half the U.S. GDP. Image by WRI
Coastal communities across the United States are already feeling the impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise in the form of flooded businesses, overflowing sewers and crumbling infrastructure. These shoreline counties are home to more than 123 million Americans, and account for nearly half the U.S. GDP.
According to a 2014 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the frequency of days with “nuisance flooding,” or flooding that causes road closures, overwhelmed storm drains and other public inconveniences, has increased dramatically in many U.S. coastal cities since the mid-1960s. The threats to these communities’ homes, roads, bridges and more are increasing as sea levels continue to rise.
That’s why a bipartisan group of more than 35 elected officials representing all U.S. coasts will meet in Hampton, N.H. this weekend. At the Rising Tides Summit, they’ll discuss the impacts of coastal flooding, share best practices and lessons learned to protect and prepare for rising tides, and engage federal officials from NOAA, Federal Emergency Management Administration, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and Department of Defense around the need for additional support and vertically integrated efforts to address the issue.
Check out the Rising Tides website for more information about the event, and review the graphics below to see how sea level rise may be affecting your region.
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Documents of the Russian Revolution
The Art of Insurrection
By Leon Trotsky
We are publishing here “The Art of Insurrection,” the sixth chapter in the third volume of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution in the translation by Max Eastman. It explains the dynamics and significance of a well-organized insurrection in a working class revolution, and offers a powerful description of the mass support among workers and soldiers that the Bolsheviks had for their seizure of power. Trotsky uses the old calendar, in use in Russia during 1917. Therefore, the dates are 13 days behind the calendar that was then in use in the West and is now used internationally. The spelling of a few words and names from the original translation was adjusted to contemporary standards.
People do not make revolution eagerly any more than they do war. There is this difference, however, that in war compulsion plays the decisive rôle, in revolution there is no compulsion except that of circumstances. A revolution takes place only when there is no other way out. And the insurrection, which rises above a revolution like a peak in the mountain chain of its events, can no more be evoked at will than the revolution as a whole. The masses advance and retreat several times before they make up their minds to the final assault.
Conspiracy is ordinarily contrasted to insurrection as the deliberate undertaking of a minority to a spontaneous movement of the majority. And it is true that a victorious insurrection, which can only be the act of a class called to stand at the head of the nation, is widely separated both in method and historic significance from a governmental overturn accomplished by conspirators acting in concealment from the masses.
In every class society there are enough contradictions so that a conspiracy can take root in its cracks. Historic experience proves, however, that a certain degree of social disease is necessary—as in Spain, for instance, or Portugal, or South America—to supply continual nourishment for a régime of conspiracies. A pure conspiracy even when victorious can only replace one clique of the same ruling class by another—or still less, merely alter the governmental personages. Only mass insurrection has ever brought the victory of one social régime over another. Periodical conspiracies are commonly an expression of social stagnation and decay, but popular insurrections on the contrary come usually as a result of some swift growth which has broken down the old equilibrium of the nation. The chronic “revolutions” of the South American republics have nothing in common with the Permanent Revolution; they are in a sense the very opposite thing.
This does not mean, however, that popular insurrection and conspiracy are in all circumstances mutually exclusive. An element of conspiracy almost always enters to some degree into any insurrection. Being historically conditioned by a certain stage in the growth of a revolution, a mass insurrection is never purely spontaneous. Even when it flashes out unexpectedly to a majority of its own participants, it has been fertilized by those ideas in which the insurrectionaries see a way out of the difficulties of existence. But a mass insurrection can be foreseen and prepared. It can be organized in advance. In this case, the conspiracy is subordinate to the insurrection, serves it, smooths its path, hastens its victory. The higher the political level of a revolutionary movement and the more serious its leadership, the greater will be the place occupied by conspiracy in a popular insurrection.
It is very necessary to understand the relations between insurrection and conspiracy, both as they oppose and as they supplement each other. It is especially so, because the very use of the word conspiracy, even in Marxian literature, contains a superficial contradiction due to the fact that it sometimes implies an independent undertaking initiated by the minority, at others a preparation by the minority of a majority insurrection.
History testifies, to be sure, that in certain conditions a popular insurrection can be victorious even without a conspiracy. Arising “spontaneously” out of the universal indignation, the scattered protests, demonstrations, strikes, street fights, an insurrection can draw in a part of the army, paralyze the forces of the enemy, and overthrow the old power. To a certain degree, this is what happened in February 1917 in Russia. Approximately the same picture is presented by the development of the German and Austro-Hungarian revolutions of the autumn of 1918. Since in these events there was no party at the head of the insurrectionaries imbued through and through with the interests and aims of the insurrection, its victory had inevitably to transfer the power to those parties which up to the last moment had been opposing it.
To overthrow the old power is one thing; to take the power in one’s own hands is another. The bourgeoisie may win the power in a revolution not because it is revolutionary, but because it is bourgeois. It has in its possession property, education, the press, a network of strategic positions, a hierarchy of institutions. Quite otherwise with the proletariat. Deprived in the nature of things of all social advantages, an insurrectionary proletariat can count only on its numbers, its solidarity, its cadres, its official staff.
Just as a blacksmith cannot seize the red hot iron in his naked hand, so the proletariat cannot directly seize the power; it has to have an organization accommodated to this task. The coordination of the mass insurrection with the conspiracy, the subordination of the conspiracy to the insurrection, the organization of the insurrection through the conspiracy, constitutes that complex and responsible department of revolutionary politics which Marx and Engels called “the art of insurrection.” It presupposes a correct general leadership of the masses, a flexible orientation in changing conditions, a thought-out plan of attack, cautiousness in technical preparation, and a daring blow.
Historians and politicians usually give the name of spontaneous insurrection to a movement of the masses united by a common hostility against the old régime, but not having a clear aim, deliberated methods of struggle, or a leadership consciously showing the way to victory. This spontaneous insurrection is condescendingly recognized by official historians—at least those of democratic temper—as a necessary evil the responsibility for which falls upon the old régime. The real reason for their attitude of indulgence is that “spontaneous” insurrection cannot transcend the framework of the bourgeois régime.
The social democrats take a similar position. They do not reject revolution at large as a social catastrophe, any more than they reject earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, eclipses and epidemics of the plague. What they do reject—calling it “Blanquism,” or still worse, Bolshevism—is the conscious preparation of an overturn, the plan, the conspiracy. In other words, the social democrats are ready to sanction—and that only ex post facto—those overturns which hand the power to the bourgeoisie, but they implacably condemn those methods which might alone bring the power to the proletariat. Under this pretended objectivism they conceal a policy of defense of the capitalist society.
From his observations and reflections upon the failure of the many insurrections he witnessed or took part in, Auguste Blanqui derived a number of tactical rules which if violated will make the victory of any insurrection extremely difficult, if not impossible. Blanqui demanded these things: a timely creation of correct revolutionary detachments, their centralized command and adequate equipment, a well-calculated placement of barricades, their definite construction, and a systematic, not a mere episodic, defense of them. All these rules, deriving from the military problems of the insurrection, must of course change with social conditions and military technique, but in themselves, they are not by any means “Blanquism” in the sense that this word approaches the German “putschism,” or revolutionary adventurism.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts, it has its laws. The rules of Blanqui were the demands of a military revolutionary realism. Blanqui’s mistake lay not in his direct but his inverse theorem. From the fact that tactical weakness condemns an insurrection to defeat, Blanqui inferred that an observance of the rules of insurrectionary tactics would itself guarantee the victory. Only from this point on is it legitimate to contrast Blanquism with Marxism. Conspiracy does not take the place of insurrection. An active minority of the proletariat, no matter how well organized, cannot seize the power regardless of the general conditions of the country. In this point, history has condemned Blanquism. But only in this. His affirmative theorem retains all its force. In order to conquer the power, the proletariat needs more than a spontaneous insurrection. It needs a suitable organization, it needs a plan; it needs a conspiracy. Such is the Leninist view of this question.
Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881)
Engels’ criticism of the fetishism of the barricade was based upon the evolution of military technique and of technique in general. The insurrectionary tactic of Blanquism corresponded to the character of the old Paris, the semi-handicraft proletariat, the narrow streets and the military system of Louis Philippe. Blanqui’s mistake in principle was to identify revolution with insurrection. His technical mistake was to identify insurrection with the barricade. The Marxian criticism has been directed against both mistakes. Although at one with Blanquism in regarding insurrection as an art, Engels discovered not only the subordinate place occupied by insurrection in a revolution but also the declining rôle of the barricade in an insurrection. Engels’ criticism had nothing in common with a renunciation of the revolutionary methods in favor of pure parliamentarism, as the philistines of the German Social Democracy, in co-operation with the Hohenzollern censorship, attempted in their day to pretend. For Engels, the question about barricades remained a question about one of the technical elements of an uprising. The reformists have attempted to infer from his rejection of the decisive importance of the barricade a rejection of revolutionary violence in general. That is about the same as to infer the destruction of militarism from considerations of the probable decline in importance of trenches in future warfare.
The organization by means of which the proletariat can both overthrow the old power and replace it, is the soviets. This afterwards became a matter of historic experience, but was up to the October revolution a theoretical prognosis—resting, to be sure, upon the preliminary experience of 1905. The soviets are organs of preparation of the masses for insurrection, organs of insurrection, and after the victory organs of government.
However, the soviets by themselves do not settle the question. They may serve different goals according to the program and leadership. The soviets receive their program from the party. Whereas the soviets in revolutionary conditions—and apart from revolution they are impossible—comprise the whole class with the exception of its altogether backward, inert or demoralized strata, the revolutionary party represents the brain of the class. The problem of conquering the power can be solved only by a definite combination of party with soviets—or with other mass organizations more or less equivalent to soviets.
When headed by a revolutionary party the soviet consciously and in good season strives towards a conquest of power. Accommodating itself to changes in the political situation and the mood of the masses, it gets ready the military bases of the insurrection, unites the shock troops upon a single scheme of action, works out a plan for the offensive and for the final assault. And this means bringing organized conspiracy into mass insurrection.
The Bolsheviks were compelled more than once, and long before the October revolution, to refute accusations of conspiracy and Blanquism directed against them by their enemies. Moreover, nobody waged a more implacable struggle against the system of pure conspiracy than Lenin. The opportunists of the international social democracy more than once defended the old Social Revolutionary tactic of individual terror directed against the agents of czarism, when this tactic was ruthlessly criticized by the Bolsheviks with their insistence upon mass insurrection as opposed to the individual adventurism of the intelligentsia. But in refuting all varieties of Blanquism and anarchism, Lenin did not for one moment bow down to any “sacred” spontaneousness of the masses. He thought out before anybody else, and more deeply, the correlation between the objective and subjective factors in a revolution, between the spontaneous movement and the policy of the party, between the popular masses and the progressive class, between the proletariat and its vanguard, between the soviets and the party, between insurrection and conspiracy.
But if it is true that an insurrection cannot be evoked at will, and that nevertheless in order to win it must be organized in advance, then the revolutionary leaders are presented with a task of correct diagnosis. They must feel out the growing insurrection in good season and supplement it with a conspiracy. The interference of the midwife in labor pains—however, this image may have been abused—remains the clearest illustration of this conscious intrusion into an elemental process. Herzen once accused his friend Bakunin of invariably in all his revolutionary enterprises taking the second month of pregnancy for the ninth. Herzen himself was rather inclined to deny even in the ninth that pregnancy existed. In February, the question of determining the date of birth hardly arose at all, since the insurrection flared up unexpectedly without centralized leadership. But exactly for this reason, the power did not go to those who had accomplished the insurrection, but to those who had applied the brakes. It was quite otherwise with the second insurrection. This was consciously prepared by the Bolshevik Party. The problem of correctly seizing the moment to give the signal for the attack was thus laid upon the Bolshevik staff.
Moment here is not to be taken too literally as meaning a definite day and hour. Physical births also present a considerable period of uncertainty—their limits interesting not only to the art of the midwife but also to the casuistics of the Surrogate’s Court. Between the moment when an attempt to summon an insurrection must inevitably prove premature and lead to a revolutionary miscarriage, and the moment when a favorable situation must be considered hopelessly missed, there exists a certain period—it may be measured in weeks, and sometimes in a few months—in the course of which an insurrection may be carried out with more or less chance of success. To discriminate this comparatively short period and then choose the definite moment—now in the more accurate sense of the very day and hour—for the last blow, constitutes the most responsible task of the revolutionary leaders. It can with full justice be called the key problem, for it unites the policy of revolution with the technique of insurrection—and it is needless to add that insurrection, like war, is a continuation of politics with other instruments.
Intuition and experience are necessary for revolutionary leadership, just as for all other kinds of creative activity. But much more than that is needed. The art of the magician can also successfully rely upon intuition and experience. Political magic is adequate, however, only for epochs and periods in which routine predominates. An epoch of mighty historic upheavals has no use for witch-doctors. Here experience, even illumined by intuition, is not enough. Here you must have a synthetic doctrine comprehending the interactions of the chief historic forces. Here you must have a materialistic method permitting you to discover, behind the moving shadows of program and slogan, the actual movement of social bodies.
The fundamental premise of a revolution is that the existing social structure has become incapable of solving the urgent problems of development of the nation. A revolution becomes possible, however, only in case the society contains a new class capable of taking the lead in solving the problems presented by history. The process of preparing a revolution consists of making the objective problems involved in the contradictions of industry and of classes find their way into the consciousness of living human masses, change this consciousness and create new correlation of human forces.
The ruling classes, as a result of their practically manifested incapacity to get the country out of its blind alley, lose faith in themselves; the old parties fall to pieces; a bitter struggle of groups and cliques prevails; hopes are placed in miracles or miracle workers. All this constitutes one of the political premises of a revolution, a very important although a passive one.
A bitter hostility to the existing order and a readiness to venture upon the most heroic efforts and sacrifices in order to bring the country out upon an upward road—this is the new political consciousness of the revolutionary class, and constitutes the most important active premise of a revolution.
These two fundamental camps, however—the big property holders and the proletariat—do not exhaust the population of a country. Between them lie broad layers of the petty bourgeoisie, showing all the colors of the economic and political rainbow. The discontent of these intermediate layers, their disappointment with the policy of the ruling class, their revolutionary initiative on the part of the proletariat, constitute the third political premise of a revolution. It is partly passive—in that it neutralizes the upper strata of the petty bourgeoisie—but partly also active, for it impels the lower strata directly into the struggle side by side with the workers.
That these premises condition each other is obvious. The more decisively and confidently the proletariat acts, the better will it succeed in bringing after it the intermediate layer, the more isolated will be the ruling class, and the more acute its demoralization. And, on the other hand, a demoralization of the rulers will pour water into the mill of the revolutionary class.
The proletariat can become imbued with the confidence necessary for a governmental overthrow only if a clear prospect opens before it, only if it has had an opportunity to test out in action a correlation of forces which is changing to its advantage, only if it feels above it a far-sighted, firm and confident leadership. This brings us to the last premise—by no means the last in importance—of the conquest of power: the revolutionary party as a tightly welded and tempered vanguard of the class.
Thanks to a favorable combination of historic conditions both domestic and international, the Russian proletariat was headed by a party of extraordinary political clarity and unexampled revolutionary temper. Only this permitted that small and young class to carry out a historic task of unprecedented proportions. It is indeed the general testimony of history—the Paris Commune, the German and Austrian revolutions of 1918, the Soviet revolutions in Hungary and Bavaria, the Italian revolution of 1919, the German crisis of 1923, the Chinese revolution of 1925-1927, the Spanish revolution of 1931—that up to now the weakest link in the chain of necessary conditions has been the party. The hardest thing of all is for the working class to create a revolutionary organization capable of rising to the height of its historic task. In the older and more civilized countries powerful forces work toward the weakening and demoralization of the revolutionary vanguard. An important constituent part of this work is the struggle of the social democrats against “Blanquism,” by which name they designate the revolutionary essence of Marxism.
Notwithstanding the number of great social and political crises, a coincidence of all the conditions necessary to a victorious and stable proletarian revolution has so far occurred but once in history: in Russia in October 1917. A revolutionary situation is not long-lived. The least stable of the premises of a revolution is the mood of the petty bourgeoisie. At a time of national crises, the petty bourgeoisie follows that class which inspires confidence not only in words but deeds. Although capable of impulsive enthusiasm and even of revolutionary fury, the petty bourgeoisie lacks endurance, easily loses heart under reverses, and passes from elated hope to discouragement. And these sharp and swift changes in the mood of the petty bourgeoisie lend their instability to every revolutionary situation. If the proletarian party is not decisive enough to convert the hopes and expectations of the popular masses into revolutionary action in good season, the flood tide is quickly followed by an ebb: the intermediate strata turn away their eyes from the revolution and seek a savior in the opposing camp. And just as at flood tide the proletariat draws after it the petty bourgeoisie, so during the ebb the petty bourgeoisie draws after it considerable layers of the proletariat. Such is the dialectic of the communist and fascist waves observable in the political evolution of Europe since the war.
Attempting to ground themselves upon the assertion of Marx that no régime withdraws from the stage of history until it has exhausted all its possibilities, the Mensheviks denied the legitimacy of a struggle for proletarian dictatorship in backward Russia where capitalism had far from exhausted itself. This argument contained two mistakes, both fatal. Capitalism is not a national but a world-wide system. The imperialist war and its consequences demonstrated that the capitalist system had exhausted itself on a world scale. The revolution in Russia was a breaking of the weakest link in the system of world-wide capitalism.
But the falsity of this Menshevik conception appears also from a national point of view. From the standpoint of economic abstraction, it is indeed possible to affirm that capitalism in Russia has not exhausted its possibilities. But economic processes do not take place in the ether, but in a concrete historical medium. Capitalism is not an abstraction, but a living system of class relations requiring above all things a state power. That the monarchy, under whose protection Russian capitalism developed, had exhausted its possibilities is not denied even by the Mensheviks. The February revolution tried to build up an intermediate state régime. We have followed its history: in the course of eight months it exhausted itself completely. What sort of state order could in these conditions guarantee the further development of Russian capitalism?
“The bourgeois republic, defended only by socialists of moderate tendencies, finding no longer any support in the masses ... could not maintain itself. Its whole essence had evaporated. There remained only an external shell.” This accurate definition belongs to Miliukov. The fate of this evaporated system was necessary, according to his words, the same as that of the tsarist monarchy: “Both prepared the ground for a revolution, and on the day of revolution neither could find a single defender.”
As early as July and August, Miliukov characterized the situation by presenting a choice between two names: Kornilov or Lenin? But Kornilov had now made his experiment and it had ended in a miserable failure. For the régime of Kerensky there was certainly no place left. With all the varieties of mood, says Sukhanov, “the one thing upon which all united was hate for the Kerensky régime.” Just as the tsarist monarchy had toward the end become impossible in the eyes of the upper circle of the nobility and even the grand dukes, so the government of Kerensky became odious even to the direct inspiritors of his régime, the “grand dukes” of the compromisist upper crust. In this universal dissatisfaction, this sharp political nerve-tension of all classes, we have one of the symptoms of a ripe revolutionary situation. In the same way every muscle, nerve, and fiber of an organism is intolerably tensed just before an abscess bursts.
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party
The resolution of the July congress of the Bolsheviks, while warning the workers against premature encounters, had at the same time pointed out that the battle must be joined “whenever the general national crisis and the deep mass enthusiasm have created conditions favorable to the going over of the poor people of the city and country to the side of the workers.” That moment arrived in September and October.
The insurrection was thenceforth able to believe in its success, for it could rely upon a genuine majority of the people. This, of course, is not to be understood in a formal sense. If a referendum could have been taken on the question of insurrection, it would have given extremely contradictory and uncertain results. An inner readiness to support a revolution is far from identical with an ability clearly to formulate the necessity of it. Moreover, the answer would have depended to a vast degree upon the manner in which the question was presented, the institution which conducted the referendum – or, to put it more simply, the class which held the power.
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. If the saving operation is carried out skillfully, however, and in time, the approval of the passengers is guaranteed in advance.
Parliamentary consultations of the people are carried not at a single moment, whereas during a revolution the different layers of the population arrive at the same conclusion one after another and with inevitable, although sometimes very slight intervals. At the moment when the advanced detachment is burning with revolutionary impatience the backward layers have only begun to move. In Petrograd and Moscow all the mass organizations were under the leadership of the Bolsheviks. In Tambov province, which has over three million population—that is, a little less than both capitals put together—a Bolshevik faction first appeared in the Soviet only a short time before the October revolution.
The syllogisms of the objective development are far from coinciding—day by day—with the syllogisms of the thought process of the masses. And when a great practical decision becomes unpostponable, in the course of events, that is the very moment when a referendum is impossible. The difference in level and mood of the different layers of the people is overcome in action. The advance layers bring after them the wavering and isolate the opposing. The majority is not counted up, but won over. Insurrection comes into being at exactly that moment when direct action alone offers a way out of the contradictions.
Although lacking the power to draw by themselves the necessary political inferences from their war against the landlords, the peasants had by the very fact of the agrarian insurrection already adhered to the insurrection of the cities, had evoked it and were demanding it. They expressed their will not with the white ballot, but with the red cock—a more serious referendum. Within those limits in which the support of the peasantry was necessary for the establishment of a soviet dictatorship, the support was already at hand. “The dictatorship”—as Lenin answered the doubters—“would give land to the peasants and all power to the peasant committees in the localities. How can you in your right mind doubt that the peasant would support that dictatorship?” In order that the soldiers, peasants and oppressed nationalities, floundering in the snow-storm of an elective ballot, should recognize the Bolsheviks in action, it was necessary that the Bolsheviks seize the power.
But what correlation of forces was necessary in order that the proletariat should seize the power? “To have at the decisive moment, at the decisive point, an overwhelming superiority of force,” wrote Lenin later, interpreting the October revolution, “—this law of military success is also the law of political success, especially in that seething and bitter war of classes which is called revolution. The capitals, or generally speaking, the biggest centers of trade and industry ... decide to a considerable degree the political fate of the people—that is, of course, on condition that the centers are supported by sufficient local rural forces, although this support need not be immediate.” It was in this dynamic sense that Lenin spoke of the majority of the people, and that was the sole real meaning of the concept of majority.
The enemy democrats comforted themselves with the thought that the people following the Bolsheviks were mere raw material, mere historic clay. The potters were still to be these same democrats acting in co-operation with the educated bourgeoisie. “Can’t those people see,” asked a Menshevik paper, “that the Petrograd proletariat and garrison were never before so isolated from all other social strata?” The misfortune of the proletariat and the garrison was that they were “isolated” from those classes from whom they intended to take the power!
But was it really possible to rely upon the sympathy and support of the dark masses in the provinces and at the front? “Their Bolshevism,” wrote Sukhanov scornfully, “was nothing but hatred for the coalition and longing for land and peace.” As though that were little! Hatred for the coalition meant a desire to take the power from the bourgeoisie. Longing for land and peace was the colossal program which the peasant and soldier intended to carry out under the leadership of the workers. The insignificance of the democrats, even the most leftward, resulted from this very distrust—the distrust of “educated” skeptics—in those dark masses who grasp a phenomenon wholesale, not bothering about details and nuances. This intellectual, pseudo-aristocratic, squeamish attitude toward the people was foreign to Bolshevism, hostile to its very nature. The Bolsheviks were not lily-handed, literary friends of the masses, not pedants. They were not afraid of those backward strata now for the first time lifting themselves out of the dregs. The Bolsheviks took the people as preceding history had created them, and as they were called to achieve the revolution. The Bolsheviks saw it as their mission to stand at the head of that people. Those against the insurrection were “everybody”—except the Bolsheviks. But the Bolsheviks were the people.
The fundamental political force of the October revolution was the proletariat, and the first place in its ranks was occupied by the workers of Petrograd. In the vanguard of these workers stood the Vyborg district. The plan of the insurrection chose this fundamental proletarian district as the point of departure for its offensive.
A map showing key locations of the revolution in Petrograd
Compromisers of all shades, beginning with Martov, attempted after the revolution to portray Bolshevism as a soldier movement. The European social democrats grabbed up this theory with delight. But fundamental historic facts were here ignored: the fact that the proletariat was the first to come over to the Bolsheviks; that the Petrograd workers were showing the road to the workers of all countries; that the garrison and front much longer than the workers remained bulwarks of compromise; that the Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks created all kinds of privileges for the soldier at the expense of the worker in the soviet system, struggled against the arming of the workers and incited the soldiers against them; that the break in the troops was brought about only by the influence of workers; that at the decisive moment the leadership of the soldiers was in the hands of the workers; and finally that a year later the social democrats of Germany, following the example of their Russian colleagues, relied on the soldiers in their struggle against the workers.
By autumn the Right Compromisers had ceased even to be able to make speeches in the factories and barracks. But the Lefts were still trying to convince the masses of the madness of insurrection. Martov, who in the struggle against the counterrevolutionary offensive in July had found a path to the minds of the masses, was now again serving a hopeless cause. “We cannot expect”—he himself acknowledged on the 14th of October, at a meeting of the Central Executive Committee—“We cannot expect the Bolsheviks to listen to us.” Nevertheless he considered it his duty to “warn the masses.” The masses, however, wanted action and not moral admonition. Even where they did patiently listen to their well-known adviser, they “thought their own thoughts as before,” as Mstislavsky acknowledges. Sukhanov tells how he made an effort in a drizzling rain to convince the Putilov men that they could fix things up without an insurrection. Impatient voices interrupted him. They would listen for two or three minutes and interrupt again. “After a few attempts I gave it up,” he says, “It was no use ... and the rain was drizzling down on us heavier and heavier.” Under that impatient October sky the poor Left Democrats, even as described in their own writings, look like wet hens.
The favorite political argument of the “Left” opponents of the revolution—and this even among the Bolsheviks—was a reference to the absence of fighting enthusiasm among the lower ranks. “The mood of the laboring and soldier masses, write Zinoviev and Kamenev on October 11, “is far from comparable even to the mood which existed before the 3rd of July.” This assertion was not unfounded: there was a certain depression in the Petrograd proletariat as a result of waiting too long. They were beginning to feel disappointed even in the Bolsheviks: Can it be that they are going to cheat us too? On October 16, Rakhia, one of the fighting Petrograd Bolsheviks, a Finn by birth, said at a conference of the Central Committee: “Our slogan is evidently already getting a little out of date, for there exists a doubt as to whether we will do the thing for which we are calling.” But this weariness of waiting, which looked like listlessness, lasted only up to the first fighting signal.
The first task of every insurrection is to bring the troops over to its side. The chief means of accomplishing this are the general strike, mass processions, street encounters, battles at the barricades. The unique thing about the October revolution, a thing never before observed in so complete a form, was that thanks to a happy combination of circumstances, the proletarian vanguard had won over the garrison of the capital before the moment of open insurrection. It had not only won them over but had fortified this conquest through the organization of the Garrison Conference. It is impossible to understand the mechanics of the October revolution without fully realizing that the most important task of the insurrection, and the one most difficult to calculate in advance, was fully accomplished in Petrograd before the beginning of the armed struggle.
This does not mean, however, that insurrection had become superfluous. The overwhelming majority of the garrison was, it is true, on the side of the workers. But a minority was against the workers, against the revolution, against the Bolsheviks. This small minority consisted of the best-trained elements in the army: the officers, the junkers, the shock battalions, and perhaps the Cossacks. It was impossible to win these elements politically; they had to be vanquished. The last part of the task of the revolution, that which has gone into history under the name of the October insurrection, was therefore purely military in character. At this final stage rifles, bayonets, machine-guns, and perhaps cannon, were to decide. The party of the Bolsheviks led the way on this road.
What were the military forces of the approaching conflict? Boris Sokolov, who directed the military work of the Social Revolutionary party, says that in the period preceding the overturn, “in the regiments, all the party organizations except those of the Bolsheviks had disintegrated, and conditions were not at all favorable to the organization of new ones. The mood of the soldiers was tending definitely toward the Bolsheviks. But their Bolshevism was passive and they lacked any tendency whatever toward active armed movements.” Sokolov does not fail to add: “One or two regiments wholly loyal and capable of fighting would have been enough to hold the whole garrison in obedience.” Literally all of them, from the monarchist generals to the “socialistic” intelligentsia, wanted only those “one or two regiments” and they would have put down the proletarian revolution!
But it is quite true that the garrison, although deeply hostile to the government in its overwhelming mass, was not capable of fighting even on the side of the Bolsheviks. The cause of this lay in the hostile break between the old military structure of the troops, and their new political structure. The backbone of a fighting unit is its commanding staff. The commanding staffs were against the Bolsheviks. The political backbone of the troops was composed of Bolsheviks. The latter, however, not only did not know how to command but in the majority of cases hardly knew how to handle a gun. The soldier crowd was not homogeneous. The active fighting elements were, as always, a minority. The majority of the soldiers sympathized with the Bolsheviks, voted for them, elected them, but also expected them to decide things. The elements hostile to the Bolsheviks in the troops were too insignificant to venture upon any initiative whatever. The political condition of the garrison was thus exceptionally favorable for an insurrection. But its fighting weight was not large—that was clear from the beginning.
However, it was not necessary to dismiss the garrison entirely from the military count. A thousand soldiers ready to fight on the side of the revolution were scattered here and there among the more passive mass, and for that very reason more or less drew it after them. Certain individual units, more happily constituted, had preserved their discipline and fighting capacity. Strong revolutionary nuclei were to be found even in the disintegrating regiments. In the Sixth Reserve Battalion, consisting of about 10,000 men, out of five companies, the first invariably distinguished itself, being known as Bolshevik almost from the beginning of the revolution and rising to the heights in the October days. The typical regiments of the garrison did not really exist as regiments; their administrative mechanism had broken down; they were incapable of prolonged military effort; but they were nevertheless a horde of armed men a majority of whom had been under fire. All the units were united by a single sentiment: Overthrow Kerensky as soon as possible, disperse, and go home and institute a new land system. Thus, that completely demoralized garrison was to rally once more in the October days and rattle its weapons suggestively, before completely going to pieces.
What force did the Petrograd workers offer from a military point of view? This raises the question of the Red Guard. It is time to speak of this in greater detail, for the Red Guard is soon to come out on the great arena of history.
Deriving its tradition from 1905, the Workers’ Guard was reborn with the February revolution and subsequently shared the vicissitudes of its fate. Kornilov, while Commander of the Petrograd military district, asserted that during the days of the overthrow of the monarchy, 30,000 revolvers and 40,000 rifles disappeared from the military stores. Over and above that, a considerable quantity of weapons came into the possession of the people during the disarming of the police and by the hands of friendly regiments. Nobody responded to the demand to restore the weapons. A revolution teaches you to value a rifle. The organized workers, however, had received only a small part of this blessing.
During the first four months the workers were not in any way confronted with the question of insurrection. The democratic régime of the dual power gave the Bolsheviks an opportunity to win a majority in the soviets. Armed companies of workers formed a constituent part of the militia. This was, however, more form than substance. A rifle in the hands of a worker involves a totally different historic principle than the same rifle in the hands of a student.
The possession of rifles by the workers alarmed the possessing classes from the very beginning, since it shifted the correlation of forces sharply to the advantage of the factory. In Petrograd, where the state apparatus supported by the Central Executive Committee was at first an indubitable power, the Workers’ Militia was not much of a menace. In the provincial industrial regions, however, a reinforcement of the Workers’ Guard would involve a complete change of all relations, not only within the given plant but all around it. Armed workers would remove managers and engineers, and even arrest them. Upon resolutions adopted by a factory meeting the Red Guard would not infrequently receive pay out of the factory exchequer. In the Urals, with their rich tradition of guerilla fighting in 1905, companies of the Red Guard led by the old veterans established law and order. Armed workers almost unnoticeably dissolved the old government and replaced it with soviet institutions. Sabotage on the part of the property owners and administrators shifted to the workers the task of protecting the plants – the machines, stores, reserves of coal and raw materials. Rôles were here interchanged: the worker would tightly grip his rifle in defense of the factory in which he saw the source of his power. In this way elements of a workers’ dictatorship were inaugurated in the factories and districts sometime before the proletariat as a whole seized the state power.
Reflecting as always the fright of the property owners, the Compromisers tried with all their might to oppose the arming of the Petrograd workers or reduce it to a minimum. According to Minichev, all the arms in the possession of the Narva district consisted of “fifteen or twenty rifles and a few revolvers.” At that time robberies and deeds of violence were increasing in the capital. Alarming rumors were spreading everywhere heralding new disturbances. On the eve of the July demonstration it was generally expected that the district would be set fire to. The workers were hunting for weapons, knocking at all doors and sometimes breaking them in.
The Putilov men brought back a trophy from the demonstration of July 3rd: a machine-gun with five cases of cartridge belt. “We were happy as children,” said Minichev. Certain individual factories were somewhat better armed. According to Lichkov, the workers of his factory had 80 rifles and 20 big revolvers. Riches indeed! Through the Red Guard headquarters, they got two machine-guns. They put one in the dining-room, one in the attic. “Our commander,” says Lichkov, “was Kocherovsky, and his first assistants were Tomchak, who was killed by White Guards in the October Days near Tsarskoe Selo, and Efimov, who was shot by White bands near Hamburg.” These scant words enable us to glance into the factory laboratory where the cadres of the October revolution and the future Red Army were forming, where the Tomchaks and Efimovs were being chosen out, tempered, and were learning to command, and with them those hundreds and thousands of nameless workers who won the power, loyally defended it from its enemy, and fell subsequently on all the fields of battle.
The July Days introduced a sudden change in the situation of the Red Guard. The disarming of the workers was now carried out quite openly—not by admonition but by force. However, what the workers gave up as weapons was mostly old rubbish. All the very valuable guns were carefully concealed. Rifles were distributed among the most reliable members of the party. Machine-guns smeared with tallow were buried in the ground. Detachments of the Guard closed up shop and went underground, closely adhering to the Bolsheviks.
The business of arming the workers was originally placed in the hands of the factory and district committees of the party. It was only after the recovery from the July Days that the Military Organization of the Bolsheviks, which had formerly worked only in the garrison and at the front, took up the organization of the Red Guard, providing the workers with military instructors and in some cases with weapons. The prospect of armed insurrection put forward by the party gradually prepared the advanced workers for a new conception of the function of the Red Army. It was no longer a militia of the factories and workers’ districts, but the cadres of a future army of insurrection.
During August, fires in the shops and factories multiplied. Every new crisis is preceded by a convulsion of the collective mind, sending forth waves of alarm. The factory and shop committees developed an intense labor of defending the plants from attacks of this kind. Concealed rifles came out into the open. The Kornilov insurrection conclusively legalized the Red Guard. About 25,000 workers were enrolled in companies and armed—by no means fully, to be sure—with rifles, and in part with machine-guns. Workers from the Schlüsselberg powder factory delivered on the Neva a bargeful of hand grenades and explosives—against Kornilov! The compromise Central Executive Committee refused this gift of the Greeks. The Red Guards of the Vyborg side distributed the gift by night throughout the district.
The right-wing general Lavr Kornilov
“Drill in the art of handling a rifle,” says the worker Skorinko, “formerly carried on in flats and tenements, was now brought out into the light and air, into the parks, the boulevards.” “The shops were turned into camps,” says another worker, Rakitov ... “The worker would stand at his bench with knapsack on his back and rifle beside him.” Very soon all those working in the bomb factory except the old Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were enrolled in the Guard. After the whistle, all would draw up in the court for drill. “Side by side with a bearded worker you would see a boy apprentice, and both of them attentively listening to the instructor ...” Thus while the old tsarist army was disintegrating, the foundation of a future Red Army was being laid in the factories.
As soon as the Kornilov danger passed, the Compromisers tried to slow up on the fulfillment of their promises. To the 30,000 Putilov men, for instance, only 500 rifles were given out. Soon the giving out of weapons stopped altogether. The danger now was not from the right, but the left; protection must be sought not among the proletarians but the junkers.
An absence of immediate practical aims combined with the lack of weapons caused an ebbing of workers from the Red Guard, but this only for a short interval. The foundation cadres had been laid down solidly in every plant; firm bonds had been established between the different companies. These cadres now knew from experience that they had serious reserves which could be brought to their feet in case of danger.
The going over of the Soviet to the Bolsheviks again radically changed the position of the Red Guard. From being persecuted or tolerated, it now became an official instrument of the Soviet already reaching for the power. The workers now often found by themselves a way to weapons, asking only the sanction of the Soviet. From the end of September on, and more especially from the 10th of October, the preparation of an insurrection was openly placed on the order of the day. For a month before the revolution in scores of shops and factories of Petrograd an intense military activity was in progress—chiefly rifle practice. By the middle of October, the interest in weapons had risen to a new height. In certain factories, almost every last man was enrolled in a company.
A unit of Red Guardists in Petrograd, 1917
The workers were more and more impatiently demanding weapons from the Soviet, but the weapons were infinitely fewer than the hands stretched out for them. “I came to Smolny every day,” relates the engineer, Kozmin, “and observed how both before and after the sitting of the Soviet, workers and sailors would come up to Trotsky, offering and demanding weapons for the arming of the workers, making reports as to how and where these weapons were distributed, and putting the question: ‘But when does business begin?’ The impatience was very great ...”
Formally the Red Guard remained non-party. But the nearer the final day came, the more prominent were the Bolsheviks. They constituted the nucleus of every company; they controlled the commanding staff and the communications with other plants and districts. The non-party workers and Left Social Revolutionaries followed the lead of the Bolsheviks.
However, even now, on the eve of the insurrection, the ranks of the Guard were not numerous. On the 16th, Uritsky, a member of the Bolshevik Central Committee, estimated the workers’ army of Petrograd at 40,000 bayonets. The figure is probably exaggerated. The resources of weapons remained still very limited. In spite of the impotence of the government it was impossible to seize the arsenals without taking the road of open insurrection.
On the 22nd, there was held an all-city conference of the Red Guard, its hundred delegates representing about twenty thousand fighters. The figure is not to be taken too literally—not all those registered had shown any sign of activity. But at a moment of alarm volunteers would pour into the companies in large numbers. Regulations adopted the next day by the conference defined the Red Guard as “an organization of the armed forces of the proletariat for the struggle against counter-revolution and the defense of the conquests of the revolution.” Observe this: that twenty-four hours before the insurrection the task was still defined in terms of defense and not attack.
The basic military unit was the ten; four tens was a squad, three squads, a company; three companies, a battalion. With its commanding staff and special units, a battalion numbered over 500 men. The battalions of a district constituted a division [otryad]. Big factories like the Putilov had their own divisions. Special technical commands—sappers, bicycles, telegraphers, machine-gunners and artillery men—were recruited in the corresponding factories, and attached to the riflemen—or else acted independently according to the nature of the given task. The entire commanding staff was elective. There was no risk in this: all were volunteers here and knew each other well.
The working women created Red Cross divisions. At the shops manufacturing surgical supplies for the army, lectures were announced on the care of the wounded. “Already in almost all the factories,” writes Tatiana Graff, “the working women were regularly on duty as nurses with the necessary first-aid supplies.” The organization was extremely poor in money and technical equipment. By degrees, however, the factory committees sent material for hospital bases and ambulances. During the hours of the revolution these weak nuclei swiftly developed. An imposing technical equipment was suddenly found at their disposal. On the 24th the Vyborg district soviet issued the following order: “Immediately requisition all automobiles ... Take an inventory of all first-aid supplies, and have nurses on duty in all clinics.”
A growing number of non-party workers were now going out for shooting drill and maneuvers. The number of posts requiring patrol duty was increasing. In the factories, sentries were on duty night and day. The headquarters of the Red Guard were transferred to more spacious rooms. On the 23rd at a pipe foundry they held an examination of the Red Guard. An attempt of a Menshevik to speak against the insurrection was drowned in a storm of indignation: Enough, enough! The time for argument is passed! The movement was irresistible. It was seizing even the Mensheviks. “They were enrolling in the Red Guard,” says Tatiana Graff, “participating in all duties and even developing some initiative.” Skorinko tells how on the 23rd, Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, old and young, were fraternizing with the Bolsheviks, and how Skorinko himself joyfully embraced his own father, who was a worker in the same factory. The worker Peskovoi says that in his armed detachment, “there were young workers of sixteen and old men of fifty.” The variety of ages gave “good cheer and fighting courage.”
The Vyborg side was especially fervent in preparing for battle. Having stolen the keys of the drawbridges, studied out the vulnerable points of the district, and elected their military revolutionary committee, the factory committees established continuous patrols. Kayurov writes with legitimate pride of the Vyborg men: “They were the first to go to battle with the autocracy, they were the first to institute in their district the eight-hour day, the first to come out with a protest against the ten minister-capitalists, the first to raise a protest on July 7th against the persecution of our party, and they were not the last on the decisive day of October 25th.” What is true is true. The history of the Red Guard is to a considerable extent the history of the dual power. With its inner contradictions and conflicts, the dual power helped the workers to create a considerable armed force even before the insurrection. To cast up the general total of the workers’ detachments throughout the country at the moment of insurrection is hardly possible, at least at the present moment. In any case, tens and tens of thousands of armed workers constituted the cadres of the insurrection. The reserves were almost inexhaustible.
The organization of the Red Guard remained, of course, extremely far from complete. Everything was done in haste, in the rough, and not always skillfully. The Red Guard men were in the majority little trained; the communications were badly organized; the supply system was lame; the sanitary corps lagged behind. But the Red Guard, recruited from the most self-sacrificing workers, was burning to carry the job through this time to the end. And that was the decisive thing. The difference between the workers’ divisions and the peasant regiments was determined not only by the social ingredients of the two—many of those clumsy soldiers after returning to their villages and dividing the landlords’ land will fight desperately against the White Guards, first in guerrilla bands and afterwards in the Red Army. Beside the social difference there existed another more immediate one: Whereas the garrison represented a compulsory assemblage of old soldiers defending themselves against war, the divisions of the Red Guard were newly constructed by individual selection on a new basis and with new aims.
Red Guards during the 1917 May Day demonstration in Petrograd
The Military Revolutionary Committee had at its disposal a third kind of armed force: the sailors of the Baltic Fleet. In their social ingredients they are far closer to the workers than the infantry are. There are a good many Petrograd workers among them. The political level of the sailors is incomparably higher than that of the soldiers. In distinction from the none too belligerent reserves who have forgotten all about rifles, these sailors have never stopped actual service.
For active operations, it was possible to count firmly upon the armed Bolsheviks, upon the divisions of the Red Guard, upon the advanced group of the sailors, and upon the better-preserved regiments. The different elements of this collective army supplemented each other. The numerous garrisons lacked the will to fight. The sailor detachments lacked numbers. The Red Guard lacked skill. The workers together with the sailors contributed energy, daring, and enthusiasm. The regiments of the garrison constituted a rather inert reserve, imposing in its numbers and overwhelming in its mass.
In contact as they were from day to day with workers, soldiers and sailors, the Bolsheviks were aware of the deep qualitative difference between the constituent parts of this army they were to lead into battle. The very plan of the insurrection was based to a considerable degree upon a calculation of these differences.
The possessing classes constituted the social force of the other camp. This means that they were its military weakness. These solid people of the capital, the press, the pulpit—where and when have they ever fought? They are accustomed to find out by telegraph or telephone the results of the battles which settle their fate. The younger generation, the sons, the students? They were almost all hostile to the October revolution. But a majority of them too stood aside. They stood with their fathers awaiting the outcome of the battle. A number of them afterward joined the officers and junkers—already largely recruited from among the students. The property holders had no popular masses with them. The workers, soldiers, peasants had turned against them. The collapse of the Compromise Parties meant that the possessing classes were left without an army.
In proportion to the significance of railroads in the life of modern states, a large place was occupied in the political calculations of both camps by the question of the railroad workers. Here the hierarchical constitution of the personnel leaves room for an extraordinary political variegation, creating favorable conditions for the diplomats of the Compromisers. The lately formed Vikzhel [All-Russian Executive Committee of the Union of Railwaymen] had kept a considerably more solid root among the clerks and even among the workers than, for instance, the army committees at the front. In the railroads, only a minority followed the Bolsheviks, chiefly workers in the stations and yards. According to the report of Schmidt, one of the Bolshevik leaders of the trade union movement, the railroad workers of the Petrograd and Moscow junctions stood closest of all to the party.
The Red Guard division of the “Vulkan” factory in Petrograd, 1917
But even among the compromisist mass of clerks and workers, there was a sharp shift to the left from the date of the railroad strike at the end of September. Dissatisfaction with the Vikzhel, which had compromised itself by talking and wavering, was more and more evident in the lower ranks. Lenin remarked: “The army of railroad and postal clerks continues in a state of sharp conflict with the government.” From the standpoint of the immediate tasks of the insurrection that was almost enough.
Things were less favorable in the post and telegraph service. According to the Bolshevik, Boky, “the men in the Post and Telegraph Offices are mostly Kadets.” But here too the lower personnel had taken a hostile attitude toward the upper ranks. There was a group of mail carriers ready at a critical moment to seize the Post Office.
It would have been hopeless in any case to try to change the minds of the railroad and postal clerks with words. If the Bolsheviks should prove indecisive, the advantage would remain with the Kadets and the compromisist upper circles. With a decisive revolutionary leadership, the lower ranks must inevitably carry with them the intermediate layers, and isolate the upper circles of the Vikzhel. In revolutionary calculations statistics alone are not enough; the co-efficient of living action is also essential.
The enemies of the insurrection in the ranks of the Bolshevik party itself found, however, sufficient ground for pessimistic conclusions. Zinoviev and Kamenev gave warning against an under-estimation of the enemy’s forces. “Petrograd will decide, and in Petrograd the enemy has ... considerable forces: 5,000 junkers, magnificently armed and knowing how to fight, and then the army headquarters, and then the shock troops, and then the Cossacks, and then a considerable part of the garrison, and then a very considerable quantity of artillery spread out fan-wise around Petrograd. Moreover, the enemy with the help of the Central Executive Committee will almost certainly attempt to bring troops from the front ...” The list sounds imposing, but it is only a list. If an army as a whole is a copy of society, then when society openly splits, both armies are copies of the two warring camps. The army of the possessors contained the wormholes of isolation and decay.
The officers crowding the hotels, restaurants, and brothels had been hostile to the government ever since the break between Kerensky and Kornilov. Their hatred of the Bolsheviks, however, was infinitely more bitter. As a general rule, the monarchist officers were most active on the side of the government. “Dear Kornilov and Krymov, in what you failed to do perhaps with God’s help we shall succeed ...” Such was the prayer of officer Sinegub, one of the most valiant defenders of the Winter Palace on the day of the uprising. But in spite of the vast number of officers, only single individuals were really ready to fight. The Kornilov plot had already proven that these completely demoralized officers were not a fighting force.
The junkers were not homogeneous in social make-up, and there was no unanimity among them. Along with hereditary fighters, sons, and grandsons of officers, there were many accidental elements gathered up under pressure of war-needs even during the monarchy. The head of an engineering school said to an officer: “I must die with you ... We are nobles, you know, and cannot think otherwise.” These lucky gentlemen, who did, after all, succeed in evading a noble death, would speak of the democratic junkers as low-breeds, as muzhiks “with coarse stupid faces.” This division into the blue blood and the black penetrated deeply into the junker schools, and it is noticeable that here too those who came out most zealously in defense of the republican government were the very ones who most mourned the loss of the monarchy. The democratic junkers declared that they were not for Kerensky but for the Central Executive Committee.
The revolution had first opened the doors of the junker schools to the Jews. And in trying to hold their own with the privileged upper circles, the sons of the Jewish bourgeoisie became extraordinarily warlike against the Bolsheviks. But, alas, this was not enough to save the régime—not even to defend the Winter Palace. The heterogeneousness of these military schools and their complete isolation from the army brought it about that during the critical hours the junkers began to hold meetings. They began to ask questions: How are the Cossacks behaving? Is anybody coming out besides us? Is it worthwhile anyway to defend the Provisional Government?
According to a report of Podvoisky, there were about 120 socialist junkers in the Petrograd military schools at the beginning of October, and of these 42 or 43 were Bolsheviks. “The junkers say that the whole commanding staff of the schools is counter-revolutionary. They are being definitely prepared in case anything happens to put down the insurrection ...” The number of socialists, and especially Bolsheviks, was wholly insignificant, but they made it possible for Smolny to know everything of importance that went on among the junkers. In addition to that, the location of the military schools was very disadvantageous. The junkers were sandwiched in among the barracks, and although they spoke scornfully of the soldiers, they looked upon them with a great deal of dread.
The junkers had plenty of ground for caution. Thousands of hostile eyes were watching them from the neighboring barracks and the workers’ districts. This observation was the more effective in that every school had its soldier group, neutral in words but in reality inclining toward the insurrection. The school storerooms were in the hands of non-combatant soldiers. “Those scoundrels,” writes an officer of the Engineering School, “not satisfied with losing the key to the storeroom so that I had to give the order to break in the door, also removed the breech-blocks from the machine-guns and hid them somewhere.” In these circumstances, you could hardly expect miracles of heroism from the junkers.
But would not a Petrograd insurrection be threatened from without, from the neighboring garrisons? In the last days of its life the monarchy had never ceased to put its hope in that small military ring surrounding the capital. The monarchy had missed its guess, but how would it go this time? To guarantee conditions excluding every possible danger would have been to make the very insurrection unnecessary. After all, its aim was to break down the obstacles which could not be dissolved politically. Everything could not be calculated in advance, but all that could be was.
Early in October a conference of the soviets of Petrograd province was held in Kronstadt. Delegates from the garrisons of the environs of the capital—Gatchina, Tsarskoe, Krasnoe, Oranienbaum, Kronstadt itself—took the very highest note set by the tuning-fork of the Baltic sailors. Their resolution was adhered to by the deputies of Petrograd province. The muzhiks were veering sharply through the Left Social Revolutionaries toward the Bolsheviks.
At a conference of the Central Committee on the 16th, a party worker in the province, Stepanov, drew a somewhat variegated picture of the state of the forces, but nevertheless with a clear predominance of Bolshevik colors. In Sestroretsk and Kolpino the workers are under arms; their mood is militant. In Novy Peterhof the work in the regiment has fallen off; the regiment is disorganized. In Krasnoe Selo the 176th regiment is Bolshevik (the same regiment which patrolled the Tauride Palace on July 4th), the 172nd is on the side of the Bolsheviks, “and, besides, there is cavalry there.” In Luga the garrison of 30,000, after swinging over to the Bolsheviks, is wavering in part; the soviet is still defensist. In Gdov the regiment is Bolshevik. In Kronstadt the mood has declined; the garrison boiled over during the preceding months; the better part of the sailors are in the active fleet. In Schlüsselburg, within 60 versts of Petrograd, the soviet long ago became the sole power; the workers of the powder factory are ready at any moment to support the capital.
Kronstadt sailors in 1917
In combination with the results of that Kronstadt conference of soviets, this information about the first line reserves may be considered entirely encouraging. The radiation of the February insurrection had been sufficient to dissolve discipline over a wide area. And it was now possible to look with confidence upon the nearby garrisons, their conditions being adequately known in advance.
The troops of Finland and the Northern front were among the second line reserves. Here conditions were still more favorable. The work of Smilga, Antonov, Dybenko had produced invaluable results. Along with the garrison of Helsingfors, the fleet had become a sovereign in Finnish territory. The government had no more power there. The two Cossack divisions quartered in Helsingfors—Kornilov had intended them for a blow at Petrograd—had come in close contact with the sailors and were supporting the Bolsheviks, or the Left Social Revolutionaries, who in the Baltic Fleet were becoming less and less distinguishable from Bolsheviks.
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko was one of the main military leaders of the Bolshevik uprising
Helsingfors was extending its hand to the sailors of the Reval naval base, whose attitude up to that time had been indefinite. The Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, in which also apparently the Baltic Fleet had taken the initiative, had united the soviets of the garrisons surrounding Petrograd in such a wide circle that it took in Moscow on one side and Archangel on the other. “In this manner,” writes Antonov, “the idea was realized of armoring the capital of the revolution against possible attacks from Kerensky’s troops.” Smilga returned from the Congress to Helsingfors to organize a special detachment of sailors, infantry, and artillery to be sent to Petrograd at the first signal. The Finland flank of the Petrograd insurrection was thus protected to the last degree. On this side, no blow was to be expected, only strong help.
On other portions of the front, too, things were wholly favorable—at least far more favorable than the most optimistic of the Bolsheviks in those days imagined. During October, committee elections were held throughout the army, and everywhere they showed a sharp swing to the Bolsheviks. In the corps quartered near Dvinsk the “old reasonable soldiers” were completely snowed under in the elections to the regimental and company committees; their places were taken by “gloomy, grey creatures ... with angry piercing eyes and wolfish snouts.” The same thing happened in other sectors. “Committee elections are in progress everywhere, and everywhere only Bolsheviks and defeatists are elected.” The governmental commissars began to avoid making trips to their units.
“Their situation is now no better than ours.” We are quoting Baron Budberg. Two cavalry regiments of his corps, the Hussar and Ural Cossacks, who remained longest of all in the control of the commanders, and had not refused to put down mutinous units, suddenly changed color and demanded: “that they are relieved of the function of punitive troops and gendarmes.” The threatening sense of this warning was clear to the Baron and to everybody else. “You can’t command a flock of hyenas, jackals, and sheep by playing on a violin,” he wrote. “The only salvation lies in a mass application of the hot iron ...” And here follows the tragic confession: “... a thing which we haven’t got and is nowhere to be gotten.”
If we do not cite similar testimony about other corps and divisions, it is only because their chiefs were not as observant as Budberg, or they did not keep diaries, or these diaries have not yet come to light. But the corps standing near Dvinsk was distinguished in nothing but the trenchant style of its commander from the other corps of the 5th Army, which in its turn was but little in advance of the other armies.
The compromisist committee of the 5th Army, which had long been hanging in the air, continued to send telegraphic threats to Petrograd to the effect that it would restore order in the rear with the bayonet. “All that was mere braggadocio and hot air,” writes Budberg. The committee was actually living its last days. On the 23rd it failed of re-election. The president of the new Bolshevik committee was Doctor Skliansky, a magnificent young organizer who soon developed his talent widely in the work of creating the Red Army, and who died subsequently an accidental death while canoeing on one of the American lakes.
Ephraim Sklyansky, a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee that organized the October insurrection in 1917, went on to become Trotsky’s deputy in the Military Revolutionary Council during the Civil War
The assistant of the government Commissar of the Northern front reports to the War Minister on the 22nd of October that the ideas of Bolshevism are making great headway in the army, that the mass wants peace, and that even the artillery which has held out to the very last moment has become “hospitable to defeatist propaganda. This too is no unimportant symptom. “The Provisional Government has no authority”—reports its own direct agent three days before the revolution.
To be sure, the Military Revolutionary Committee did not then know of all these documents. But what it did know was amply sufficient. On the 23rd, representatives of various units at the front filed past the Petrograd Soviet and demanded peace. Otherwise, they answered, they would march to the rear and “destroy all the parasites who want to keep on fighting for another ten years.” Seize the power, the front men said to the Soviet, “the trenches will support you.”
In the more remote and backward fronts, the South-western and Rumanian, Bolsheviks were still rare specimens, curiosities. But the mood of the soldiers here was the same as elsewhere. Evgenia Bosh tells how in the 2nd Corps of the Guards, quartered in the vicinity of Zhmerinka, among 60,000 soldiers there were one young communist and two sympathizers. This did not prevent the corps from coming out in support of the insurrection in the October days.
To the very last hour the government circles rested their hope in the Cossacks. But the less blind among the politicians of the right camp understood that here too things were in a very bad way. The Cossack officers were Kornilovists almost to a man. The rank-and-file were tending more and more to the left. In the government they did not understand this, imagining that the coolness of the Cossack regiments to the Winter Palace was caused by injured feelings about Kaledin. In the long run, however, it became clear even to the Minister of Justice, Maliantovich, that “only the Cossack officers” were supporters of Kaledin. The rank-and-file Cossacks, like all the soldiers, were simply going Bolshevik.
Of that front which in the early days of March had kissed the hands and feet of liberal priests, had carried Kadet ministers on its shoulders, got drunk on the speeches of Kerensky, and believed that the Bolsheviks were German agents—of that there was nothing left. Those rosy illusions had been drowned in the mud of the trenches, which the soldiers refused to go on kneading with their leaky boots. “The denouement is approaching,” wrote Budberg on the very day of the Petrograd insurrection, “and there can be no doubt of its outcome. On our front, there is not one single unit ... which would not be in the control of the Bolsheviks.”
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Fargo First Trailer For Chris Season Released
Fargo: First Trailer for Chris Season 4 Released!
The first trailer for season 4 of the acclaimed anthology series 'Fargo' released
Written By Khushi S Koppad | Updated: January 12, 2020 10:51 IST
"The history of America is the history of the entrepreneur. It’s the person that starts with nothing and gets to someplace and then fights to hold on to it. I don’t know the world of stand-up comedy, [but] it felt to me like Chris Rock embodied that spirit. Plus, he’s funny."
This is how Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley described season four of his FX anthology to the reporters on Thursday afternoon at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, where he was present alongside stars Rock, Jason Schwartzman and Ben Whishaw and others to promote his award-winning drama.
The trailer for season four dropped on Thursday and tells a story of immigration and the things people do for money. Set in 1950, season four of Fargo sees Rock's Loy Cannon and his family battle Schwartzman's Josto Fadda and his Italian crime family (with Irish and Jewish roots) for control of Kansas City.
Hawley told reporters that he met Rock early earlier before there even was a script and proposed the season to him. "He signed on immediately and it was four or five months before he saw the script," Hawley said, speaking about how there was a change from how he typically handled the casting process.
Rock, who is a big fan of the first three seasons of Fargo, was asked if there are elements in Fargo that he would take for his role, and he delivered a line saying, "I've obviously talked about race. Racism's been very good to me," he stated.
Fargo season four, co-starring Jessie Buckley and E’myri Crutchfield, debuts on 19th April at 10 p.m. on FX and on Hulu the next day.
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How WaPo, BuzzFeed, And Soros-Backed Group Pushed The Phrase "Fake News" Until It Backfired
In the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida, several major news outlets published a report that the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was a member of a white supremacist organization. In fact, the MSM was hoodwinked by 4chan users into publishing fake news.
In fact, the stories are still up despite the Broward County Sherriff's department declaring that there are "no known ties" between the shooter and the hate group.
Jordan said Thursday that his office has arrested militia leader Jordan Jereb at least four times since January 2014 and has been monitoring the group’s membership.
He says his office has "very solid" information on the group and "there’s no known ties that we have that we can connect" 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz with the group. -TampaBay.com
And while the MSM's enormous mistake was simply a case of terrible journalism, those very outlets participated in a seemingly coordinated effort to brand any media with a divergent opinion as "fake news," with a little help from their friends.
In a recent Tedx talk at the University of Nevada, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed some of the earliest efforts to seed the phrase "fake news" into the public lexicon by a little nonprofit group funded in part by George Soros' Open Society Foundation and Google.
The group, "First Draft," announced a partnership on September 13, 2016 "to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," said Attkisson. "The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today's version of the alien baby story to a special internet oblivion."
First Draft – a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government – uses research-based methods to fight mis- and disinformation online. Additionally, it provides practical and ethical guidance in how to find, verify and publish content sourced from the social web.
Claire Wardle, Research Fellow at the Center, leads the work of First Draft under the auspices of the Shorenstein Center and its faculty director, Nicco Mele. Grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Open Society Foundation and the Ford Foundation support our work. -First Draft
A month after First Draft began its September campaign against "Fake News," President Obama opined on the topic.
"He insisted in a speech that he too thought somebody needed to step in and curate information of this wild, wild west media environment," said Attkisson, noting that "nobody in the public had been clamoring for any such thing."
Attkisson was suspicious that Obama's decree served as marching orders to the MSM - suggesting that "few themes arise in our environment organically," and to "follow the money."
"What if the whole anti-fake news campaign was an effort on somebody's part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?" suggested Attkisson.
Meanwhile, another major donor behind First Draft's "fake news" push was none other than Google parent company CEO Eric Schmidt - a giant Hillary Clinton supporter who "offered himself up as a campaign advisor and became a top multi-million donor to it," said Attkisson, adding "His company funded First Draft around the start of the election cycle."
And almost as if choreographed, Hillary Clinton jumped on the Fake News bandwagon while her "surrogate David Brock of Media Matters privately told donors he was the one who convinced Facebook to join the effort."
"The whole thing smacked of the roll-out of a propaganda campaign," said Attkisson.
All of the sudden, "Fake News" was everywhere:
It wouldn't be long before the left lost control of their new pet phrase they worked so hard to promote:
"But something happened that nobody expected. The anti-fake news campaign backfired. Each time advocates cried fake news, Donald Trump called them 'fake news' until he'd co-opted the term so completely that even those who [were] originally promoting it started running from it -- including the Washington Post," which she noted later backed away from using the term. -PJ Media
Indeed, the Washington Post grew so frustrated with the fact that "Fake News" had been co-opted by conservatives that they called for its retirement in January 2017!
…though the term hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you could say “Pizzagate,” the label has been co-opted to mean any number of completely different things: Liberal claptrap. Or opinion from left-of-center. Or simply anything in the realm of news that the observer doesn’t like to hear. –WaPo
Which is ironic, considering that the Washington Post was instrumental in propagating the phrase as early as April, 2016 - even before First Draft's September campaign.
Timeline of "Fake News" before it went hyperbolic in October, 2016 (in other words, the "seeding" campaign).
April 2nd, 2016: A search for “Fake News” sorted by relevance (Google’s default) for results prior to 10/29/0216 reveals the earliest instance of the phrase coming from a Washington Post Exposé about a pro-Trump website.
Searching for “Fake News” by date vs. relevance:
April 11th, Buzzfeed stokes the fire by following up on Facebook’s 2015 commitment to eliminate hoaxes. Interestingly, Facebook doesn't use the phrase "fake news" in their 2015 campaign, yet BuzzFeed applies it in April - long before its mainstream application.
September 2nd, less than two weeks after First Draft's campaign, factcheck.org uses the phrase “Fake News” to refer to a false story about President Obama banning the pledge of allegiance in public schools.
October 5th, The Guardian reports that Buzzfeed was allegedly hacked on October 5th by a Saudi teen named Ahmad Makki, who defaced the Buzzfeed website with a message that read “Don’t share fake news about us.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg was hacked by the same “Fake News” hackers.
In fact, a whole bunch of tech CEO’s and celebrities were apparently hacked by “fake news” Ahmad Makki, who conspicuously shares the same name as a famous Pro-Assad blogger who was [nsfw] murdered brought to justice by the Free Syrian Army (the rebels Hillary planned to support in toppling Assad).
October 7th, two days after The Guardian story, buzzfeed turns around and posts a story about a “Fake Hillary Clinton Speech Transcript” emanating from a “fake news” website.
October 8th, Snopes gets in on the Fake News action:
October 13th, liberal Vanity Fair rehashes the Facebook “Fake News” story, which Facebook later put together a new and improved “task force” to deal with:
October 19th, our old friends at the Washington Post jump into the fray once again:
Closer to the election – Facebook Fact Checker Politifact uses the phrase “FAKE NEWS” in an October 23rd piece, while after the election, Facebook and Google (re?) declare WAR on Fake News.
November 17th, WaPo publishes a story from a “Facebook fake-news writer” who thinks he got Trump elected by spreading fake news.
December 9th, Hillary Clinton gives her “Fake News” speech in her most victimy purple pantsuit - the same day propaganda seed-planting Buzzfeed was caught citing fake data in their fake news story.
So there you have it – the carefully woven phrase “Fake News” was simply propaganda trotted out by Hillary Clinton supporters and the MSM to try and discredit non-approved sources of information, only to collapse under the weight of their inability to effectively message, and the fact that Donald Trump - a master at public opinion, co-opted the phrase and made it his own.
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Twinkies Out of Business, Hostess Brands Shuts Down Following Strike
Posted By: Jay Castillo November 16, 2012
Hostess Brands, maker of the popular products such as Twinkies and Ho Hos, announced Friday that the 82-year old company will begin winding down operations and begin liquidating its assets. The decision comes a week after the labor unions went on strike in protest to a new labor contract.
Most of Hostess’ 18,500 employees will be laid off as the company moves to shut down its 33 bakeries and 565 distribution centers.
“We deeply regret the necessity of today’s decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike,” Gregory F. Rayburn, Hostess’ chief executive, said in a statement.
In an interview with CNBC on Friday Rayburn said that the financial impact of the strike was too severe and that even if the workers had a change of heart now, it would be too late to save the company. Though the striking union only represented a third of Hostess’ employees, the cumulative effect on production made some retailers decide not to carry the product due to unstable supply.
The company had warned employees that if a deal could not be reached by Thursday at 5 p.m. the company would file a motion in shutter its operations and sell its brands.
“I don’t know if they thought that was a bluff,” Rayburn said on CNBC.
In a statement released by The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, the union blamed the company’s woes on an unreasonable agreement with management. The statement was released before Friday’s announcement of the shutdown, but since Hostess had given the union a deadline, the statement was written knowing the shutdown decision was impeding.
“The crisis facing Hostess Brands is the result of nearly a decade of financial and operational mismanagement that resulted in two bankruptcies, mountains of debt, declining sales and lost market share,” said union President Frank Hurt. “The Wall Street investors who took over the company after the last bankruptcy attempted to resolve the mess by attacking the company’s most valuable asset – its workers.”
Hostess Brands filed for Chapter 11 back in January 2012. Since then, the company has tried to cut costs by making cuts in labor and reducing payments to pension holders. The strike was in response to a contract that union claimed would have cut wage and benefits by 27-32%, while increasing compensation to top executives.
It is unlikely that today’s announcement means the end of Twinkies and other iconic products. As part of the liquidation process, Hostess will auction off its factory and bakery assets as well as auction off its brand names.
Despite the ray of hope, Rayburn stated that the union was misleading workers when they suggested that a buyer for the operations was already waiting in the wings.
No More Twinkies as Hostess Closes Operation and lays off 18,000 workers
Hostess Brands, baker of iconic Twinkies cakes, said Friday it asked a court’s permission to shut down the entire company after a strike crippled its operations.
The move shuts down one of the nation’s oldest and largest producers of baked goods. Founded in 1930, it produces such well-known brands, aside from Twinkies, as Ding-Dongs, Ho Ho’s, Sno Balls and Donettes, not to mention Wonder bread, which the company says is the best-selling white bread in the United States.
Hostess threatening to shut down operations
Hostess is threatening to liquidate operations if striking workers don’t come back to work by Thursday.
Hostess Brands closing for good
Hostess Brands — the maker of such iconic baked goods as Twinkies, Drake’s Devil Dogs and Wonder Bread — announced Friday that it is asking a federal bankruptcy court for permission to close its operations, blaming a strike by bakers protesting a new contract imposed on them.
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Sustainability and Water August 12, Water tables all over the world are falling, as "world water demand has tripled over the last" 50 years. When these aquifers are depleted, food production worldwide will fall. Water tables all over the world are falling, as "world water demand has tripled over the last" 50 years. These aquifers are inexorably being depleted in ways that are "largely invisible, historically recent, and growing fast", and "the near-simultaneous depletion of aquifers means that cutbacks in grain harvests will
Under the Budget, the government will set up a TVET fund to create a more competitive environment as well as training programmes to fulfil industry need. Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, who made the announcement in parliament, saidRM30 million has been allocated to this fund.
TVET programmes in the country are offered at certificate, diploma and degree levels by seven ministries that include the Education Ministry, which offers the most TVET programmes to the highest number of students.
Presently, qualifications for academic higher education and vocational education offered by universities, polytechnics and community colleges under the ministry are accredited by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency MQAwhereas programmes offered by skills training institutions are accredited by the Department for Skill Development of the Human Resources Ministry.
With a renewed focus and direction given by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to fulfil the national agenda of VisionTVET education strives to provide a skilled Malaysian workforce which can benefit the industry.
It is estimated that 98, students sign up yearly to enrol in TVET programmes at 34 polytechnic institutions in the nation. While the allocated sum for the fund was lauded by TVET providers such as polytechnics, community colleges and technical and vocational colleges as well as industry players, they also expressed their concerns.
Year after year, we are doing more with less budget allocation, spending more on operations and development. However, we also need up-to-date and top-notch equipment, facilities and machineries for the students. The department is aware that the industry must come first, hence it sets curricula that meet MQA requirements.
We need to value add our facilities and infrastructure. But it is an opportunity to work together smartly as one team with common objectives to come up with the desired programmes to meet TVET deliverables with the allocated fund. Apart from the restructuring and transformation of TVET training programmes, key stakeholders such as the government, polytechnics and the industry need to align and chart the way forward on areas of priority for the courses.
In my view as a technocrat, the key relevant industries in the current landscape and future prospects which are extremely important to the nation are oil and gas, renewable energy, construction, manufacturing of electrical and electronics products, automotive, aviation, plantation, culinary and hotel management.
The industry needs highly skilled TVET graduates with leadership qualities and a good command of English. TVET institutions must be equipped with the state-of-the-art technologies to expose both lecturers and students to the real world. The collaboration must focus on regular site visits and specific duration of industrial hands-on training, for example.
Living Skills in the 21st Century: Society and the industry have high expectations of TVET institutions. The younger generation is IT-savvy and this gives them the chance to work on the Internet of Things open source networking so the country can go global.
We also have a strong foundation in electronics and electrical and mechanical engineering to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
This transformation has promulgated a shortcut for students to get their diploma qualification at vocational colleges after they finish Form Three.
Indeed the expansion of the vocational stream in the education system has been practised in many countries as the number of students gets bigger in line with technological advancement and economic demands of a particular country. TVET also aims to produce a labour force competent in certain areas, hence internationalisation is one of the platforms to expose students and lecturers to the development of TVET abroad.
Recently a delegation from vocational colleges went to China to look into internationalisation programmes. China is also known for its product marketing activities with a practical strategy and this indirectly provides students a sense of entrepreneurship.About SpaceX SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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Hammer on McVeigh
From "Death row inmate's book chronicles McVeigh's secrets" by J. D. Cash in the McCurtain Daily Gazette, about a manuscript written by David Paul Hammer, an inmate on federal death row:
"A death row inmate who had extensive contacts with convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh over a 23-month period has completed a manuscript that includes details of many heretofore unpublished secrets he claims McVeigh passed to him before his death by lethal injection on June 11, 2001."
"In the fresh account that Hammer provides, McVeigh says the men who assisted him in the bombing were persons with close connections to Elohim City – a Christian Identity enclave in eastern Oklahoma near Muldrow.
In a chapter titled, Blood Makes the Grass Grow, Hammer writes: 'On October 12th 1993, McVeigh and Terry Nichols drove from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Elohim City. They were met there by (Andreas) Strassmeir, who Tim called 'Andy', or 'Andy the Krout.''"
and (my emphasis):
"While Hammer's detailed manuscript contains considerable attention to dates and locations he says McVeigh provided him, it also includes references to three men that the inmate says McVeigh told him were central to the conspiracy – men with close ties to the U.S. military.
Unfortunately, McVeigh, Hammer writes, went to his death claiming he did not know the true identities of these men – only their code names."
"One of these men, McVeigh claims, contacted him shortly after his discharge from the army.
Referring to him only 'the major,' McVeigh said he was invited to work with the shadowy figure during a meeting the two had at Camp McCall. Camp McCall is located on the grounds of Fort Bragg, N.C.
At this meeting, McVeigh – who was still smoldering after being passed over for a spot in the elite Army Special Forces – was told of an off-budget defense department project the Major wanted to invite him to join. The Major said McVeigh would be involved in gathering intelligence for the government on members of the radical rightwing in the U.S., specifically members of the KKK and Aryan Nations.
Hammer wrote that McVeigh told him he was aware of the far-right's methods of robbing banks and armored cars for the so-called 'cause' – the shorthand description of the white power agenda some in the most violent wing of the movement adhered to. It was these tactics, McVeigh said, that he was also encouraged to use."
"Although [McVeigh's sister] said she did not have any names of her brother's cohorts to provide the FBI, she did say her brother told her he was part of a group of men with military backgrounds. He also wrote her that he was working for a group of ex-military soldiers involved in a covert operation involving drug smuggling and assassinations.
At McVeigh’s bombing trial, copies of letters to his little sister were introduced that reflected oblique references to men with military backgrounds that McVeigh claimed had been working with, at the behest of the government, on secret missions."
There are a whole lot more revelations in the article regarding the planning and execution of the Oklahoma City bombing, including the allegation that Terry Nichols didn't provide meaningful assistance to the group after the Murrah building was chosen as the target for the bombing. It is not uncommon for fake informants to come forth after a conspiracy, but all the details provided by Hammer make his story quite compelling. What interests me is the military involvement. Every major American conspiracy in the last forty years has involved significant involvement by two American federal institutions: the FBI and the military. Military intelligence sets up the patsy and arranges the logistics of the attack (sometimes with the help of possibly 'rogue' CIA agents), and the FBI provides cover by stifling any investigation before the attack takes place (the role of the CIA, when it is involved, is usually to create the cover-up and confuse matters by taking the brunt of the blame). Was the Oklahoma City bombing another example of this same pattern? Was 9-11?
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ICC: Laws of War Remain Relevant Today Despite New Challenges
11/08/2019 iYab
As events marking the 70th anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions get underway, the International Committee of the Red Cross says these four landmark treaties delineating the law of war are as relevant today as they were when they came into force August 12, 1949.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions grew out of the horrors of World War II. It took only four months for the four treaties, which are universally ratified, to come into force. The treaties contain the core elements of the International Humanitarian Law, the law of war, which aims to reduce suffering in armed conflict.
The law requires all parties to a conflict to abide by provisions that include a prohibition against torture, appropriate treatment of civilians, caring for the wounded on the battlefield, and the dignified treatment of the remains of the dead.
ICRC Director of International Law and Policy, Helen Durham, recognizes the law of war is not always followed, but she notes when they work, they have an impact. She said ICRC delegates in the field see these laws in action every day.
“We see, for example, the capacity for us to get fresh water to six million Syrian. This is the law of war in action. We see every time a wounded combatant passes a checkpoint to get access to medical assistance, it is the laws or war in action,” she said.
At the same time, Durham acknowledges the many challenges to the Conventions posed by new technologies. She said issues such as cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons and the changing nature of conflict present new threats.
When the Conventions were crafted 70 years ago, she said international wars among belligerent states dominated. Now, most wars are internal, civil conflicts. She told VOA as far back as the 1970s, a survey found a dramatic increase in civilian casualties as a consequence of this change.
“In World War I, I think the statistics are one out of nine people killed was a civilian. In World War II, it was around 50-50. And, then when you looked at the Vietnam and other wars of decolonization, the statistics inversed where up to 90 percent of casualties during conflict were civilians…To date, that continues. So, civilians are very often the major casualties,” she said.
Durham said an area of major concern for the ICRC is the treatment of detainees. She said clear rules governing the care of prisoners of war are laid out in the Conventions. However, these frequently are not enforced in the context of civil wars where non-state actors are involved.
She said this is one area where international law must evolve to make the laws of war more relevant to present day existing reality.
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How Do Democracies Win?
by Blazej Lenkowski and Liberteon October 7, 2019 October 7, 2019
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“How Do Democracies Win?” was the main theme of this year’s edition of Freedom Games, an annual prestigious forum of ideas organized in Lodz, Poland. Needless to say, the title of the forum is a question uneasy to answer. I would also not dare to provide a straight-forward answer to it.
I do believe, however, that while pondering over this dilemma, it is crucial to refer to two important books: How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, and Enlightenment Now penned by Steven Pinker. These two publications, although very much different, illustrate two crucial perspectives on the topic.
When we look at the media landscape in Poland (but also abroad, as similar phenomena may have been observed in various Western countries as well), we see a rather grim picture. We may even doubt the future of liberal democracy.
The media report on numerous crises, conflicts, problems, and dangers. Populists are successful in many countries – politicians who are irresponsible and ready to take the steps that are detrimental to the prospects of their own homeland (as is the case of Brexit).
Anti-freedom and anti-enlightenment rhetoric has been strengthened. In Poland, this has been done by ultra-conservative Catholic Church and the efforts of Jarosław Kaczyński, the notorious leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Abroad, the same is being done by Trump, Johnson, Salvini, Orban, and Erdogan.
After four years of the highly controversial rule of PiS, Polish liberals are faced with the reports of the support for Law and Justice at the level of astounding 40%, what, until recently, seemed inconceivable. And this scares them.
Is Liberal Democracy Failing?
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt describe a series of steps undertaken by the enemies of liberty after they take the power in order to dismantle the system of liberal democracy.
Even though the authors do not really tackle the Polish case, the sheer number of similarities between Poland and other countries is very significant. The book constitutes a handbook for all democrats, showcasing the phenomena that need to be addressed and the problems that must be solved. It is a pessimistic warning that illustrates how fighting for freedom is a never-ending and arduous task.
This bleak outlook on reality that is fed to us on a daily basis via computer or TV screens makes many liberals doubt their beliefs. If in a situation when the enemies of liberty are successful in their endeavors we are also to face a crisis, then the very foundations of our ideology must have been built on a faulty premise – they conclude.
We often hear self-criticism, liberals saying “we were foolish”, or may see doubt in their eyes. We hear tirades, read books and commentaries in which after a crisis economists proclaim the demise of capitalism as we know it and advocate a need for extensive changes – which, in turn, are a content-based justification of the emergence of populist leaders.
Many citizens feel increasingly lost. They hear either that liberal democracy has failed, or are bombarded by news of the demise of the system. They see that liberals are loosing the elections. And so, even though the nonsense uttered by populists does not seem to make any sense, they choose a safe course of withdrawing into the sphere of their private life.
Thus, a vicious circle of sorts is being perpetuated. The reality created by the media becomes larger than facts.
History and Statistics
Is everything really that bad? Is the future of democracy really so bleak? In order to answer this question one must forget the media and political feed and instead resort to the two greatest teachers: history and statistics.
If one wants to conduct a rational evaluation of the ongoing processes happening all around us, these shall be analyzed in a long-term perspective. This is what Steven Pinker does so skillfully in his book.
Pinker analyzes with precision the key indicators of the quality of life and prosperity, combining them with indicators of the condition of democracy and freedom in the world in a historical perspective, focusing on hard data.
With the emergence of the Enlightenment, the period embracing reason and science, paired with the industrial revolution and the formation of the capitalist system, the humanity was faced with unprecedented progress, which still continues to accelerate.
Pinker proves that, in a historical perspective, we live in the best time possible, which none of our ancestors could not have experienced.
Let me now introduce a few examples mentioned by Pinker. According to Our World in Data, in 1920, the average life expectancy was 35 years old, while by 2020, it is estimated to reach 72 years. In 1920, 73% of all people lived below the extreme poverty level. In 2020, this percentage is predicted to drop by app. 10%.
We live in the times of unprecedented peace. The tragedy of the Syrian war is undeniable, true. However, in comparison to the data from the past, there is no doubt that we are extremely lucky in a global perspective.
After all, not so long ago, in the 1970s, for every 100,000 inhabitants of the planet there was app. 9 battle casualties; in 2015, this number decreased to 1 death, according to Human Security Report Project.
Let us also emphasize the revolution in the way we think about wars. Between the 16th century and the beginning of the 19th century, over 50% of all global powers were at war. Later came the age of significant fluctuations in terms of the intensity of armed conflicts, and since the beginning of the 21st century, the indicator has reached 0%, which is an absolute historical sensation.
Struggle for Equal Rights Vs. Democracy
In many countries in the world, including Poland, the fight for equal rights has not yet been completed. However, it must be pointed out that in 1920, the number of states that officially decriminalized homosexuality reached mere 12%, in 1970 – app. 30%, whereas in 2015, 90% countries had such a measure in place.
The condition of democracy in the world is described well by Polity Project (HumanProgress.org), which measures it in various states on a scale from -10 (full autocracy) to +10 (full democracy). The creators of this index identify as democratic the states that score higher than +6.
Back in 1971, only 31 countries in the whole world were considered democratic. In 1982, this number increased to 52, whereas in 2015, record 103 states were identified. If you are interested in reading more about this, take a look at the work of Pinker as it is worth examining this exciting moment in history we are now facing, in an objective manner and with a historical context in mind.
Economy, Stupid!
The capitalist economy has been progressing in business cycles, which are reinforced or reduced by governmental activities and decisions made by various market players.
The 2008 economic crisis brought many negative consequences (although Poland dealt with them particularly successfully), but nowhere did it result in a collapse of a political system.
This, however, had happened in the past. The economic crisis in the early 1930s paved the way to power for dictators and thugs, and brought many countries and societies to poverty and totalitarianism.
The way in which the Western world handled the 2008 crisis shows that we are still learning and that democratic systems have become more resilient to instability.
Of course, there is always an expected wave of affinity to populism and anti-Enlightenment ideas (political proclivities of most societies may also be presented as a sine curve), but the harmful surfers of this wave – Donald Trump, Jarosław Kaczyński, or Viktor Orban – are nothing when compared with the dictators and totalitarian regimes of the past.
A Way Forward
Although noone knows their intentions, it is certain that enlightenment ideas advocated by liberal democracy have changed our societies to such an extent that introducing a fully dictatorial regime is now more difficult than ever.
This is not to say that Poland could never become another Belarus. Nevertheless, it would be very difficult, especially in light of the fact that the core voter base of Law and Justice crucial for ensuring the party’s success in the forthcoming parliamentary election is devoted to PiS solely due to large social transfers.
The strategy of offering benefits, however, will continue to be effective only if Poland remains a member of the developing liberal economy club.
So, instead of complaining about the difficult times we live in, let us acknowledge the historical momentum that we are now facing, and look at ourselves and “our” post-democratic communities.
First of all, we lack enough faith in democratic, Enlightenment-inspired, and liberal ideas.
The facts say it all, showing that these are the values that have been responsible for the spectacular progress of humanity and the improved quality of human life. This does not mean, however, that these values do not generate any issues, which need not to be addressed.
Even now, the battle between the enemies of liberty continues before our very eyes. Irregardless, I am convinced that in a long-term perspective, it will be liberal democracy that shall be the victor, as it simply offers every human being the best ther is.
No Westerner, nor any populist, has put forward a sensible alternative to liberal democracy. Their proposals have been well-known to have failed miserably in the past.
If there is anything that worries me as regards the future model of global development is the case of China. However, I do hope that this model will not find a fertile soil anywhere else, culture-wise.
And this is precisely why I pose the question of how to convince the swing voters, if we continue to blame ourselves, wearing a badge saying “we were foolish”? Once again, the intelligentsia shows how megalomaniac they are and that they have lost touch with reality. After all, the capitalist system of liberal democracy was not invented in Poland.
After 1989, we entered the stage of modeling our transformation on Western economic and political processes, which had already proven extremely successful.
Poland was surfing the geopolitical wave, and the main contribution of Polish politicians was the fact that they did not damage too much and, luckily, were unable to halt this process (as it happened, for instance, in Belarus or Ukraine).
So, no, it was not “foolish” of you that you did nothing to stop these developments. In the last thirty years, Poland made a spectacular socio-economic leap, which shall make all of us proud.
We should educate people in why liberal democracy is the best system to live in. People are different and this should be embraced. It is a true advantage of a democratic society, ona that has no totalitarian ambitions of creating homogeneous clones who all think alike.
Embracing Dialogue
Dialogue shall serve as the basis of democracy. Only then may we even begin to understand the motives of the other side and reach a compromise.
If anyone does not see the need for dialogue, they should imagine living in a country where every four or eight years one of the sides of a political conflict wins the election by mere 1% of votes and thus is legitimized to impose their own vision, values, and lifestyle on the loosing side. And then the other way around.
Liberal democracy is such a good system because it allows people who have different belief systems to live in harmony next to each other.
Being able to live comfortably in harmony with oneself and one’s own beliefs seems to be crucial for all those who have a moral spine – both an orthodox Catholic and an atheist. Wisdom lies in crating a framework that enables people to be subjects who can live in a symbiosis, instead of returning to the times of inquisition or those of Robespierre.
It is simple, but we tend to forget about it. Simply put, we need an army of determined defenders of liberalism.
Forming Liberal Community
Secondly, we need to form a liberal community. Yes, liberals should not only build a community, but also learn from the examples of creating various liberal-minded organizations.
What doomed many newly created institutions, or political groups was the lack of understanding on the side of liberal leaders of the fact that heading a political community is something completely different than managing a private organization.
A company, corporation, or private foundation may be created in such a manner so as to ensure continuous rule over it. A politically oriented group – be it a party or an association with a political agenda – has a completely different dynamics. In such a body, you may be the leader, but you work for the community the aim of which is taking over the power and introducing a pro-democratic agenda.
There is a need for rebuilding interpersonal relations in political organizations – and do not deem it a naive goal.
Of course, there is always room for in-fighting for power and influence in politics, as leaders will always compete. However, if the loser still has a place in the ranks of an organization after being defeated and may continue to work for the betterment of a community, then all is well.
Healthy competition is possible when there is a common goal, which cannot be holding all the power. Such an attitude, after all, has doomed many newly created groups. Instead of apologizing for the ideas we cultivate, let us think about the ways in which we built our communities in the past.
Another significant aspect is expanding the scope of such political structures. In large organizations with many members, the importance of successfully making deals by one particular party member or secretary is high.
Such groups attract only like-minded people, they are exclusive and inward-oriented. They also assign much value to the ability to keep the competition mechanism away from the existing structures. Only a mass-scale organization is capable of changing this exclusive mechanism and promote the value of knowledge, agenda, personality, and charisma of a candidate, instead of mere obedience of internal structures.
Will these two guidelines be sufficient to help democracy win? Of course not. There are hundreds of other factors that will contribute to the eventual outcome. These two are, however, of high importance. It is up to us whether they will make a difference. Other factors may be out of our reach.
Some mechanisms already work quite well, which is why it is my hope that liberal democracy survives the current crisis, without paying a horrible price for its survival, as it happened in the past.
Finally, on a more positive note, in a long-term perspective, the victory mustbe on the side of liberal democracy – the best system there is in these turbulent times. The question that remains is what will be the cost of our success and what kind of damage will be done and endured by the citizens before the winning battle ends.
The article was originally published in Polish at: https://liberte.pl/jak-zwyciezaja-demokracje-2/
Translated by Olga Łabendowicz
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About Blazej Lenkowski
President of Fundacja Liberté!, the publisher of Liberte!, an entrepreneur. A graduate of International Relations at the Faculty of International and Political Science Studies of the University of Lodz
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Liberte! is a magazine created by young people in Łódź in 2008. Its mission is to promote an open society, liberal economic ideas and liberal culture and to organize a social movement around these ideas.
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Ancient Americas at LACMA
The latest gallery install of the LACMA Art of the Ancient Americas Gallery. Photo by LACMA
Staff and curator favorites remain on view. Photo by LACMA
Standing female and ballgame objects. Photo by LACMA
Newly installed artworks from the American Southwest. Photo by LACMA
Ancient and modern vessels on view together. Photo by LACMA
Virginia Fields installing the previous gallery in 2008. Photo by LACMA
LACMA’s Latest Art of the Ancient Americas Gallery Reinstallation
By Megan O'Neil and Julia Burtenshaw
We recently completed the reinstallation of our permanent gallery at LACMA with materials from West Mexico, northern Mexico, and the southwestern United States (“American Southwest”). Many objects from the previous installation remain on view, chosen for both their outstanding artistic and cultural value, and for being being visitor (and curator) favorites! But we are delighted to be able to display some new objects and themes. The gallery’s previous iteration focused primarily on West Mexico (on objects from the states of Colima, Nayarit, and Jalisco) in order to highlight the outstanding Proctor Stafford collection. For the new installation, we expanded the gallery’s scope to also incorporate northern Mexico and the American Southwest, with objects from Casas Grandes (Paquimé), the Mimbres Valley, and the Ancestral Pueblos. The richness and diversity presented by the objects in these regions is complemented by a focus on shared practices, such as the Mesoamerican ballgame, which was played by societies from Honduras to Arizona; shared motifs like the step-fret; shared entities such as supernatural serpents (feathered or horned); and the exchange of goods including turquoise and feathers. We made it a priority to draw connections between ancient Mexico and the American Southwest in order to urge visitors to question modern borders in their understanding of the ancient past. We were able to achieve this objective thanks to the generous object loans by the UCLA Fowler Museum, which are displayed alongside LACMA pieces. Sharing works between the two museums proved to be a great idea and allowed us to enrich and diversify displays without needing to acquire new objects.
The new gallery also includes two vessels from circa 1900 from the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, displayed alongside Mimbres, Casas Grandes (Paquimé), and Hohokam works. Our goal was to recognize the continuing traditions of indigenous artists of the Americas across the ages, and we are pleased that these newer vessels, set on a large pedestal that is centered on one of the gallery entrances, are a major visual focal point for the whole gallery. It is our hope that these connections make the pre-Columbian past more present and relevant to our visitors and we look forward to seeing how they respond.
In several ways our galleries acknowledge a connection to post-Conquest Latin America. First is the basic layout, on the same floor as “Latin American Art” and arranged parallel to those galleries. Indeed, upon leaving the West Mexico gallery, one steps immediately into colonial period Mexico. Second are the connections between specific objects in these galleries, for the Volador ceremony in the 17th-century Mexican biombo painting (M.2005.54) recalls the ancient Nayarit Pole Ceremony model (M.86.296.35), and examples of 20th-century Mexican silver jewelry actively evoke ancient calendar signs and other motifs. Third is the design of the Ancient Americas galleries themselves, completed in 2008 by Jorge Pardo, an artist who was born in Cuba but resides in Los Angeles and Mexico. By selecting a Latin American artist to design this space, LACMA chose to make a connection to contemporary Latin America. But with our new installation in the Pardo-designed gallery, we also want to celebrate the long tradition of indigenous artists of the Americas, both past and present.
The Pardo design was, of course, always on our minds as we worked on the new installation, because we had to work within the design and submit any changes—including changing some of the colors in the green palette—for approval by Pardo’s studio. But also on our mind was Dr. Virginia (Ginny) Fields, curator at LACMA for 22 years until her untimely death in 2011. Ginny worked with Pardo on the original installation in 2008; the West Mexico gallery was the last one to be reinstalled, and thus it still bore Ginny’s indelible mark. We found ourselves thinking about her often during the process of deinstallation and reinstallation, and during this process, exhibition designer Victoria Behner rediscovered a binder of photographs from the original gallery install, including a picture of Ginny placing an object in a mock-up case. Because all the cases, pedestals, and build-ups were customized by Pardo’s studio, all the details had to be mapped out in advance. Victoria explained to us that she, Ginny, and other colleagues spent months “in the basement” working on these mock-up cases. Of course the straight lines of the mock-up cases and build-ups would be transformed into the undulating forms of the Pardo installation that we know today.
Working as curators in the Art of the Ancient Americas at LACMA, we find ourselves often in contact with Virginia’s memory and continued presence, whether through the collections she built, the legacy of the exhibitions she organized, or her handwritten notes about objects in our files. As we re-inaugurate our West Mexico gallery, we want to acknowledge and thank Virginia for her years of work, which allows us to display extraordinary objects and teach our public through these works and the artists who made them.
Megan E. O’Neil, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA
Julia Burtenshaw, Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA
Megan O'Neil, Associate Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA
Dr. Megan E. O’Neil is Associate Curator in the Art of the Ancient Americas at LACMA. Her first book,Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala (University of Oklahoma Press 2012), examines how the ancient Maya used sculptures to make contact with the past and how sculptures inspired reception and performance. She also has published on these topics in Res, Ancient Mesoamerica, and the Journal of Visual Culture, and in Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present. Before LACMA, she taught at several universities and worked on curatorial and education projects at the intersections of universities and museums. She also recently published a revised edition of Maya Art and Architecture, co-authored with Mary Miller (Thames and Hudson 2014). She is now curating an exhibition of Maya ceramic vessels, scheduled for May 2016 at LACMA.
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Trained as an educator and corporate librarian, Andrea Rosenthal has been involved with photography for many years. One of her main ongoing projects is "Reimaginings," constructed images using Rosenthal's image in famous works of art that criticize and satirize contemporary culture in its emphasis on the cult of thinness.
November-December 2018, Solo Show, Gallery 93, Brookline, MA
Camera Commons, Winter-Spring 2017, Dover, NH
Don't Take Pictures Online Gallery, November 2015-February 2016
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June-August, 2015, Off the Wall national juried exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
April-May 2014, Portfolio Showcase, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
May-June 2013 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
April-May 2013, Photography Now, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
April-June 2013, Healing Through Art, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Nashua, NH
Fall 2012, "Women 360," South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, curator, designer, and participant
Fall 2011, "Freedom and Enslavement," Newbury College Art Gallery, Brookline, MA
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Fall 2012, Curator and participant, "Images of Women's Bodies," South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
July-August 2010, National Juried Show and 2-person show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
February 2006, "India: Intimate Glimpses," Gallery of Village Arts, Bellingham, WA
October-November 2004, "The Blues in Black and White," Little Gorgeous Things, Provincetown, MA December 2003-January 2004, "Images of China," Calumet Photographic, Cambridge, MA
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July-September, 2012, "18th National Juried Show," Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA;
January-March 2011, "Insatiable: Our Rapacious Appetite for More," Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; November 2010-January 2011, "Blue," Cambridge Art Association; May 2010, "Violence Transformed," Massachusetts State House and Roxbury Community College; March-May 2010, "Media Mix," South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA [Award of Merit]; June-July 2009, "Members' Juried Photography Show," Provincetown, MA; November-December 2008, "Blue," Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA; October 2008, "Members' Group Show," Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; May-July 2007, "DIA Invitational,"Center for Fine Art Photography, Denver, CO; September-October 2006, "Photography Now," South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA; March 2006, "Body Image: Animus & Ardor," Tufts University, Medford, MA; July 2005, "National Art Exhibit," Cape Cod Art Association, Barnhstable, MA; "New Art '03," Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Artist of the Week, Cambridge Art Association, 2015
Awarded a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Giovanni Bona
A distinguished cardinal and author, b. of an old French family at Mondovì, in Piedmont, 19 October, according to some 10 October, 1609; d. at Rome, 28 October, 1674. Although his father favoured a military career for him, after passing some years at a nearby Jesuit college he entered the Cistercian monastery at Pignerola, where, as also later at Rome, he pursued his studies with exceptional success. He laboured for fifteen years at Turin, then as prior at Asti and as abbot at Mondovì, and in 1651 was called to preside over the whole congregation. During his seven years of official life in Rome he modestly declined all further honours, at one time even refusing the Bishopric of Asti. He welcomed the expiration of his third term in the scholar's hope that he would be allowed to enjoy a life of retirement and study, but his intimate friend, Pope Alexander VII, wishing to honour his learning and piety, made him Consultor to the Congregation of the Index and to the Holy Office. In 1669 he was created cardinal, and then the beauty of his character was fully revealed; there was no change in his extremely simple manner of life, and every year he donated his surplus revenue to the needy priests of the Missionary College at Rome.
His best known ascetical works are: "Via Compendii ad Deum" (1657); "Principia et documenta vitæ Christinæ (1673); "Manuductio at cælum" (1658); and "Horologium Asceticum" (Paris, 1676). The "Manuductio" is often compared to the "Imitation of Christ" on account of simplicity of the style in which the solid doctrine is taught. It has always been extremely popular. Besides passing through fourteen Latin editions in four decades, it has been translated into Italian, French, German, Armenian and Spanish. The latest translation is in English by Sir Robert L'Estrange (A Guide to Eternity, London 1900). Shortly after his ordination he collected together some of the most beautiful passages in the Fathers on the August Sacrifice of the Mass, and later published them in a booklet, which with certain additions grew into his "De Sacrificio Missæ", a useful Mass book. In addition he composed several unpublished works, known as "Ascetici", for the instruction of members of his own order.
But his fame does not rest solely on the devotional writings. He was a deep student of antiquity, and so successful in treating of the use of the Psalter in the Christian Church (De Divinâ Psalmodiâ, Paris, 1663) that Cardinal Pallavicini* urged him to undertake the history of the Sacrifice of the Mass. Realizing the magnitude of the task he at first declined, but finally set to work and after more than seven years' labour brought out his famous work familiar to all students of liturgy: "De Rebus Liturgicis" (Rome, 1671). It is a veritable encyclopedia of historic information on all subjects bearing on the Mass, such as rites, churches, vestments, etc. Not least remarkable about these volumes, besides the wealth of material gathered together, are the classic purity, the manly vigour, and the charming simplicity of the Latin style. The best edition of this work is by Robert Sala (Turin, 1747-53), who also in 1755 brought out a very interesting volume of Bona's letters. The first of many editions of his complete works was published at Antwerp in 1677.
FABRONI, Vitæ Italorium doctrina excellentium, etc. (Pisa, 1778-1805), XII, 7; MAZZUCHELLI, Gli scrittori d'Italia (Brescia, 1753-63, II; Part III, 1515); BERTOLOTTI, Vita Joannis Bona (Asti, 1677); GOUJET, Vie du cardinal Bona in the French translation of De principiis vitæ Christianæ (Paris, 1728); DUPIN, Bibliotheque des auteurs ecclés, du XVIIe siecle (Paris, 1708), III, 56.
APA citation. O'Neil, L. (1907). Giovanni Bona. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02645b.htm
MLA citation. O'Neil, Leo. "Giovanni Bona." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02645b.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Ted Rego.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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Causes and Symptoms: Of fevers, typhoid is the most important medically speaking, because of the involvement of the intestines and its tendency towards frequent relapses. If it is not diagnosed and treated in time, the intestines may be ulcerated and, in the terminal stage, the peritoneum may be perforated which is almost always a fatal condition, unless of course, surgical help has been obtained in time.
A bacillus, Salmonella Typhi, is the cause of typhoid fever which comes on gradually. Its onset is so insidious that the victim may move about without realising it: he only feels a little feverishness and a vague sense of unease. The most prominent symptoms of typhoid are: headache, lassitude, insomnia and feverishness at night, till it reaches its peak on 8th day. It may continue for 21 days or even longer. A marked feature is that the pulse rate does not go up in proportion to the rise in temperature; of course, in protracted cases, if there is ulceration of the intestines, the pulse may become weak and thready in addition to being slow. Since it involves the intestines, abdominal symptoms become apparent from the very beginning. The stomach may be distended and there may be gurgling sounds when the abdomen is palpitated. Diarrhoea is to be found in many cases, but it is not always present.
Remedies: Practitioners of Indian systems of medicine have depended on the calx of Stag's Horn to deal with typhoid. It is given in 120 gms. Doses thrice daily with honey. A decoction of Khub Kalan (12 grammes) and dried Grapes (10 grammes)-should be given along with the Stag's Horn calx.
During fever, the patient should not be fed. Most people lose their appetite during fever and that should be taken as a lesson from nature. It is not natural for a person to feel hungry when his system is fighting a fever and there is no earthly reason to forcefeed him under the mistaken notion that fever will weaken him if he is allowed to go hungry. Doctors do take precautions to see that the patient does not eat any solids when he is in the grip of typhoid, but in other fevers this precaution is not, unfortunately, taken. The only thing that a patient suffering from fever should be allowed is fruit juices. Or, juice of a lemon with a glass of water to which a pinch of salt might be added should be given to him. The patient must take as much water as he can drink, because the heat of the fever tends to dry up the humours of the body. Excessive lack of liquids may lead to dehydration which is much more difficult to handle than an ordinary fever.
Regimen: Diet during typhoid is of the utmost importance since the fever is of intestinal origin. The best is to keep the patient on fruit juices; alternatively, milk might be given. But no solids should be permitted, because no burden should be placed on the digestive system. Nor should constipation be allowed to develop if it does, the best course to relieve the condition is a glycerine suppository.
In some percentage of cases of typhoid, there is an eruption on the skin which is pearly white in colour; sometimes there is a variety of pink spots on the skin. It is known, therefore, among the people as Motijhira or Motichoor. When the eruption begins to show, Khamira Marwarid (an electuary made of pearls) should be given to the patient. Alternatively, jejube Berries (Unab)-2 in number, Raisins-3 in number, Khaksi (Sisymbrium Irio)-3 mashas and Mishri (sugar candy)-1 tola should be boiled in about 100 ml. of water and strained; the decoction should be given in small draughts. If the patient has cough along with the above symptoms, one masha of liquorice powder should be added to the decoction. If even after the administration of the above decoction the rash does not appear, three mashas of Rice should be put in a small glass phial and 10 Cochinial insects (Birbahooti) should be introduced into it and allowed to remain there till the die. The phial should be shaken frequently till the dead insects give their colour to the rice. If the eruption shows signs of subsiding without fully coming out, one grain of rice from the phial should be ground in milk or water and given thrice a day.
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Indonesia Blows Up 23 Foreign Fishing Boats To Send A Message
NewsOpinionWan Saiful Wan Jan admin|April 5, 2016
First published in The Wall Street Journal
By Trefor Moss , (c) 2016, Dow Jones & Company, Inc (c) 2016
Indonesia destroyed 23 foreign fishing boats on Tuesday, as worsening relations over the disputed South China Sea drive countries to take tougher action to defend their maritime sovereignty.
Maritime and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said her agency sank 10 Malaysian and 13 Vietnamese boats that were caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters.
She vowed to mete out the same punishment to any vessel found poaching, no matter its origin. “If there is an illegal fishing boat from America, we will also sink it,” Ms. Pudjiastuti said.
The move came two weeks after Jakarta criticized Beijing for alleged poaching by a Chinese fishing boat.
China’s increasingly forceful efforts to press its claims to most of the South China Sea have made Southeast Asian countries that depend on the area’s rich resources more protective of their domains. Countries in the region are stepping up efforts to punish maritime incursions while investing in added muscle for their navies and coast guards.
“It’s become increasingly clear that Chinese incursion into neighboring countries’ waters, ostensibly for exploration of fisheries resources, is the new normal,” said Richard Javad Heydarian, a security expert at De La Salle University in Manila. “And clearly Malaysia, Indonesia and other historical fence-sitters have come to share the threat perceptions of more vocal countries like the Philippines and Vietnam.”
On Monday, the Philippines kicked off annual military exercises with the U.S., while a Japanese naval flotilla, including a submarine, arrived in Subic Bay for separate drills with the Philippine navy.
Other Southeast Asian countries are raising their own threat assessments as China intensifies its activities in contested waters, according to security analysts.
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are among the world’s top 15 fish and seafood exporters, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization. They all deploy vast fishing fleets in the South China Sea, which supplies roughly a 10th of the total global catch.
But after years of overfishing, these fishing fleets increasingly stray across maritime boundaries in search of fish, causing friction between governments.
A country’s exclusive economic zone, over which it has resource rights, normally extends 200 miles from its coastline.
“Territorial disputes in the South China Sea have prevented any organized fisheries management, so it’s a free-for-all,” said Euan Graham, director of the international security program at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute.
Since President Joko Widodo assumed office in 2014, Indonesia has shown the most determined crackdown; it has sunk 174 foreign boats to date. The policy has proved popular at home.
On Tuesday, under the full gaze of the media, Ms. Pudjiastuti ordered officials at seven locations around the vast archipelago country to blow up captured fishing boats, which could be seen exploding via video link following a dramatic countdown.
The Malaysian and Vietnamese governments didn’t respond to questions about the Indonesian action.
Ms. Pudjiastuti said Indonesian boats were catching more fish as a result of Jakarta’s intervention.
Other countries are following suit. On Saturday, Thailand seized five Vietnamese fishing boats accused of poaching in Thai waters in the Gulf of Thailand, which adjoins the South China Sea, and detained 48 crew. Vietnam last Thursday captured a Chinese support ship carrying fuel for fishing vessels assumed to be operating near the Vietnamese coast in the South China Sea.
Even in areas that seemingly fall outside China’s vaguely defined “nine-dash line,” which Beijing uses to demarcate its South China Sea claims, the Chinese government has asserted the right of Chinese fishing boats to operate in “traditional fishing grounds.”
Last month, Beijing said a Chinese fishing boat seized by Indonesian authorities but then forcibly freed by a Chinese Coast Guard ship had been working in just such an area near Indonesia’s Natuna Islands, in the southwest corner of the South China Sea.
Indonesia summoned the Chinese ambassador to complain, and Ms. Pudjiastuti has urged China to surrender the vessel. Jakarta has impounded 10 more Chinese boats, the ministry added, which will be destroyed unless their owners win an appeal to have them returned.
Officially, there is no territorial dispute between China and Indonesia in the South China Sea—as China has with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam—but Jakarta is increasingly concerned about the presence of Chinese vessels near the Natunas. It has already announced plans to set up a military base there as a protective measure.
On Thursday, Malaysia summoned the Chinese ambassador in Kuala Lumpur to protest the presence of some 100 Chinese fishing boats at Luconia Shoals, a disputed area close to Malaysia’s coast.
Until now, the Malaysian government rarely rebuked China in public for fear of upsetting their relationship at a time when Beijing has emerged as a major investor in the Malaysian economy.
Kuala Lumpur has “consistently played down China’s activities in our territories,” saidWan Saiful Wan Jan, chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs, a Malaysian think tank. “This could be to protect our commercial interest, or it could also be to avoid the public…realizing how useless our defenses are.”
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Napoleon on board the Northumberland Man of War on her voyage to St. Helena
Measurements: 17cm (5.5in) x 14cm (7in)
Rare hand coloured lithograph, after Denzil Ibbetson, of Napoleon leaning against a canon, wearing bicorn hat and uniform coat of the Chasseurs-a-Cheval de la Garde Imperiale. The image inscribed 'This sketch of Napoleon was made on board the Northumberland Man of War on her voyage to St. Helena, by Mr. Commisary Ibbetson who gave it to me in that Island / Theodore E. Hook'. Contained in glazed frame with accessible reverse
The present image is believed to be a deception effected by the Regency writer and practical joker Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841). Hook was a visitor to St. Helena in 1817 when the ship carrying him home from Mauritius (to answer questions regarding £12000 of missing Government money) called in at the South Atlantic outpost. On the island Hook made the acquaintance of Denzil Ibbetson (1775-1857), a British officer and talented amateur artist who superintended Napoleon’s residence, Longwood House.
It is clear from the inscription on the lithograph that Hook acquired Ibbetson’s original pen, ink and wash sketch of the ex-emperor made on the voyage out from Plymouth in 1815. Growing public fascination with the hero/tyrant held in remote captivity meant that a first hand image would have been of considerable interest amongst Hook’s milieu which included the Prince Regent. Following Hook’s return to London it appears a small number of lithographs of his original Ibbetson drawing, complete with facsimile inscription were printed and possibly passed off as the original sketch to unwitting acquaintances.
Hook’s well-recorded audacity and penury and the known existence of at least two other indentical Ibbetson ‘sketches’ thought hitherto to be original, supports the theory. One of these examples was discussed by the furniture scholar Martin Levy in his ‘Napoleon’s Exile to St Helena’ (2009) http://www.haughton.com/system/files/articles/2009/01/16/26/ifaads_2007.pdf and another is held in the archives of Newcastle University. Most recently Bernard Cornwell used the image (courtesy of Getty Images) to illustrate his 2014 book ‘WATERLOO; The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles’. The Edwardian lawyer and authority on Napoleonic prints, A.M. Broadley (1847-1916), believed he owned the original at the beginning of the 20th century and wrote about it and its importance at length in 'Napoleon in Caricature' (1911, 2 volumes) and in the ‘Century Magazine’, (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510009184533;view=1up;seq=828).
Hook later took up a literary life but ‘a prolonged attempt to combine industry and dissipation resulted in the confession that he was done up in purse, in mind and in body’. He died in 1841 whence his estate was seized by the Treasury. The descendants of Denzil Ibbetson emigrated to New Zealand where his journals, watercolours and lithographs were sold in 2010. The absence of the present caricature amongst the original works and lithographs produced under Ibbetson’s direction gives further credence to Hook’s confidence trick.
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The Naked City: familiar moments from an NYC noir
Naked City is a beautiful and curious artifact, especially if you're locked into the little New York City bubble of self-regard (as I am, along with most of the bloggers I follow). It's curious because of the tangible resonance of each scene, the strange alien familiarity of each city-street sequence. Simply writing about it -- waxing prosaic about the soul of the Big Apple, by way of an obscure silver-age film noir -- would have gone beyond even my own limit of self-indulgence, so instead, I looked for the beauty and strangeness in the frames themselves. You can find those below. A lot of what's worth noting is also kind of funny, at least to me.
It's worth noting that LA Noir, the recent electronic entertainment offering by Rockstar Games, was partly inspired by The Naked City. Funny that they repurposed the personality to be so West-Coast, when the film itself prides itself on being NYC Vintage. Still, you can feel the gamer spirit here, as well, with its exploratory pace, its chain of tasks and obstructions, its puzzles waiting to be assembled and unlocked. All the accented side-characters may as well be NPC's, and sometimes the dialog feels like it was written to be repeated to every passer-by.
Go looking for the film, by all means, but don't expect anything groundbreaking from the story itself. It's a detective story reduced to its most predictable beats. Instead, watch it to see this police procedural narrative, these tricks and twists and technicalities, just as they're being repackaged for drama and turned into mythology. Also, watch it for the details, the things the filmmakers probably didn't realize would be noteworthy, some of which I've presented below.
Here is a beautiful on-location shot of the Williamsburg Bridge, from the climax of the film:
In the 1940's, boys did a lot more swimming in the East River than they do now. Is this because 1) it was cleaner? or 2) they weren't as worried about the constant stream of refuse?
Have you EVER seen this many kids playing on a swingset at once? There's a girl standing up on her swing, and a little boy climbing way up one of the poles. I doubt I've ever seen as many kids in a whole playground as Detective Halloran is currently interrogating on that swing set.
Throughout all of recent history, salons have been the testing-grounds for alien brain technology. In the 40's, it was less big plastic bubbles, and more wires and spark plugs.
It's not completely obvious from this photograph, but this blind man's seeing-eye dog is also an attack dog that mauls anybody who bumps into him -- as Willy Garzah is about to find out.
Speaking of Willy, you can tell he's an athlete and an acrobat, because he's the only guy in The Naked City who wears sneakers (Vans? Chuck Taylors?) with his three-piece suit.
But finally, after all these familiar scenes and nostalgic moments, my favorite detail in the film: as Detective Halloran is chasing Willy, this random dude appears behind him, walking the same direction, and carrying a Pomeranian that's apparently too lazy to walk.
It's nice to see that some things never change.
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Labels: film noir, movie criticism, nyc, old movies, The Naked City
Tree of Life: Malick, Proust, and the cinema of memory
A month or so ago, I started reading Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's epic novel "In Search of Lost Time" (otherwise translated as "In Remembrance of Things Past"). About halfway through, I went to a screening of Terrence Malick's widely-discussed recent film, Tree of Life; there was much to admire in it, but also lots of mixed feelings and dubious appreciation. And just last week, as I was finishing up Swann's Way, I discovered it was Proust's birthday. Happy birthday, Marcel!
Tree of Life is difficult to reconcile privately, I think. It's one of those films that's loose enough -- devoid enough of structure and cues, sufficiently unhinged from standard expectations -- that you might never really know what (or how) to think of it until you can bounce your ideas off of someone else. It's interesting, the way it demands to be reflected upon, and thereby, in a strange way, makes the act of analysis kind of mundane. When you do a critical reading of Wolverine or Harry Potter, there's something subversive about the act... when you write a meditation on Tree of Life, it seems almost perfunctory (i.e. this, and this, and this, and this, and this). The movie is asking for us to read it, to interpret it, to generate conclusions about its themes, its imagery, its technical and creative decisions. In a certain way, being ambiguous and experimental is its way of being predictable (at least to Terrence Malick fans and film students, who seem to be its audience).
In terms of scale, and in relation to the director's other work, I'd liken Tree of Life to Darren Aaronofsky's The Fountain or Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films. Each of these feels like the director was trying to reach some pinnacle of style, as if to max out their own capacity for filmmaking. In each case, the result seems to overreach, toeing the boundary between eccentricity and self-indulgence. Aaronofsky and Tarantino followed their respective films up with fresh approaches... Aaronofsky totally reversed his heightened melodrama and made The Wrestler, almost comically opposed to The Fountain in spirit. Tarantino took a break from exploring tortured souls with Deathproof, and then went on to make Inglorious Basterds, which was another "masterpiece" film, but felt more like a film he was willing to grow into, and out of.
Perhaps Malick will give us something radically different with his next film, as well; his sensuous-poetic-introspective mode really does seem to have reached some sort of apotheosis with Tree of Life. These speculations aside, however, it's an important demonstration of an artist's ability to push his own defining tendencies as far as possible. The stylistic similarity to Badlands, Malick's first film, is tenuous at best, and he seems to have purged every conventional narrative and literalist instinct that was present in that first film.
Swann's Way was the culmination of Proust's work, as well, though I'm not sure whether he intended it that way (Proust scholars? Steve Carell?). The story is told as a sequence of interwoven memories, some being direct accounts by the narrator of his own life, and others being accounts of the life of Charles Swann, a French aristocrat, whose life intersects with the narrator's at a few key moments. There's a constant theme of budding love and the frustration of romantic asymmetry, all grounded in memories of specific people and places. It's the secondary characters, people like Aunt Leonie and Mme. Verdurin, who make the book so readable.
These two works have the potential to illuminate one another considerably. There are both stylistic and structural similarities between them, and I think you could discover some concordance in their intended effects. Both are experienced as emotionally-fraught reminiscences of grown men looking back on the defining moments of their lives. Both feel like reveries, journeys of the imagination to a personal history of the senses, of sights and smells, less concerned with motivations and grand designs of human lives and more concerned with individual moments.
For instance, the narratives in Proust are evoked via involuntary memory -- the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea, the sight of a pink hawthorn flower. These memories, meandering through the narrator's youth, are not called forth as an explanation or a didactic personal history; rather, they emerge as images from a mind freed from immediate tasks. They're the daydreams, distractions, unchained nostalgia, the roaming spirit. They are already filtered, leaving only the most significant, the ones with the most emotional resonance.
And this is why Malick's film feels the way it does, as well: it's a reverie. It's the adult Jack's escape from his solitary life, into his own sense memory. Youth is when memories leave the strongest imprint, and these childhood vignettes quiver with the vitality of boyhood.
One of the tensions in Tree of Life, hinted at in the criticism, is between the feeling that it's "naturalistic" (i.e. referring in an authentic way to memories of an actual time and place) and the feeling that the whole thing has something of the glossed, exaggerated artificial about it. It's a testament to Malick's skill that he can evoke both a real time and place, and also the mood, the golden glow of nostalgia. But the tension between "naturalistic" and "stylistically overwrought" won't really be resolved, because the film is largely about the transition between the two: about how memories become myths, about how the filtering and feedback of internalization can turn the banality of a simple sense impression into a cosmic signifier, a portent, a lesson about good and evil and failure.
Of course, that treatment leads to these scenes having an echo of archetype. (Theory side note: despite the constant references to Heidegger in the criticism, I'd argue that the film owes more to C.J. and Sigmund than to Martin). Mrs. O'Brian's butterfly, and her levitation; a harsh lesson about letting a screen door slam, a backyard wrestling match, a ruined watercolor, a house submerged in water -- to those who are symbolically literate, these might seem too obvious, too blunt. The signification begins to overwhelm the immediacy of the scene. In using such symbolic details, Malick puts himself in a tough position: he has to use convention, tapping the familiar to bring out its semantic resonance, but he has to do it in a way that doesn't feel played out. His product is defensible, but not flawless.
In Swann's Way, Proust seems to have fully solved this problem. He floods his narrative with perceptual details, many of which resist interpretation; he focuses on those things which have personal resonance for his narrator, such as the sight of a female form through the shurbbery, the moments of tension between Swann and Odette, and the unconsciously cruel remarks of Gilberte. Rather than relying on the great reservoir of pre-defined cultural symbols (Malick perhaps overuses the symbols of water and trees), Proust creates an internal symbolic language: the madeleine and the hawthorn, the blue feather, the monocle, the pathways through Combray, the writing of Bergotte. This allows the story to remain contained, and provides a cohesion that Malick never achieves.
In a sense, Malick is trying to do far more than Proust was doing: he's trying to link the episodic memories of an individual life with the mythic history of the universe as a whole. The origin-of-the-universe scene, which I haven't even touched upon here, attests to that ambition. He's also doing it in a single two-hour movie, rather than a seven-volume masterwork of literature. This is perhaps one of the downfalls of this fallible film: it starts to leak out of its scope, and with no horizons, its themes get fuzzy (which is not quite the same as being "complex" per se).
Whether you can appreciate Malick's ambition apart from his execution -- whether you can marvel at his imagery without getting too caught up in the convention and ambivalence of his symbols -- that depends on how you judge execution apart from intention, and on how keyed you are to his particular mode, and to this film's particular time and place. Variance aside, however, it's remarkable how much Malick has to say about what and how we remember our lives, and how these memories make us who we are.
I think there's a lot more to be said about this film. Wish I had the time, energy, and expertise. For instance:
Why does it use the language of gestures, in lieu of actual dialog? Could it be seen almost as a ballet or a modern dance?
What of Malick's romanticized and stylized naturalism, especially considered as an objection to "realism" as a filmmaking philosophy?
With a nod to Nathaniel's post of things people were heard saying at the film, what makes this film so difficult? What's to be gained from spurning the audience's expectations of narrative direction, rhythm, and legible emotional cues?
As noted above, what about the debts to Freud and Jung? Just how densely archetypal and psychological is Tree of Life?
Labels: brad pitt, intertextuality, literary cinema, marcel proust, movie criticism, swann's way, terrence malick, Tree of Life
Kyle McDonald and PeopleStaringAtComputers: sorting out the issues
Kyle McDonald's work on PeopleStaringAtComputers has generated a lot of free-floating controversy. He installed a program on computers in various public places, and those programs caused the computers' cameras to take photos, scan them for faces, and then automatically send them to Kyle. He apparently curates them and uploads some of them to that Tumblr once in a while.
News services and commentators (and enforcement agencies, apparently) are all scrambling to figure this whole thing out. It's one of those little hacks that opens up a grab-bag of property rights, privacy rights, and representational politics issues. The idea that a computer is secretly taking pictures of them and sending them to some random dude is making tons of people genuinely uncomfortable. This is true even if it's a public computer, and even if the application asks permission, albiet in kind of a sneaky way.
What's left to consider, skillfully asked in thefactoryfactory's piece on the topic, is the question of how this differs from other, similar situations that set the legal and ethical precedents for it (I didn't see his name explicitly referenced, but his handle is joshuajnoble, so for now, I'll refer to him as Noble). Noble brings up the fact that this is happening in a public space (well, not technically public, but not the private property of the subjects of the photos), and we presumably appear in photos and videos in this kind of space all the time, from security footage to webcam feeds to backgrounds of other peoples' pictures. He also points out that we have our information collected, analyzed, and sold ALL the TIME, usually as statistical information that can be used by marketing people. Yet, a lot of people -- all over blogs, forums, etc -- seem kind of stirred up by this whole thing.
So the ethical question isn't so much a contractual or rights-oriented issue of the letter of the law. It's more about the ethics of consent. If people are all so indignant about this, it means there must be something unique about this particular situation, right? That's not covered by all the related situations that seem to set the precedent?
Noble's approach is illuminating, but also sort of obfuscates the nuance. By breaking the situation down into the various precedents, he shows the various issues at stake, but he fails to account for their convergence in McDonald's work. As I see it, there are three things all in play.
First, CONSENT: if you're going to capture a representation of a person, it's considered ethical to get permission, even if it's just by way of EULA.
Second, VISIBILITY: there's something very intimate about taking a picture of somebody; people don't personally identify with "data" about them, but they definitely identify with an image of their face.
Third, BANALITY: we're all highly sensitive to the fact that computers are everywhere, and we don't really know exactly what they're doing at any particular time; our modern lifeworld is built around this lack of transparency.
So why are these Kyle McDonald photos making so many people exceptionally uncomfortable? I'll let the diagram explain it for you:
Mr. Noble's examples isolate these three aspects and show how each one can be glossed over in the name of an information-rich datasphere. However, when he says, "None of the complaints seem to make very much sense to me," he's willfully denying an important fact: in this case, these issues are all active at the same time.
And it's a rare phenomenon that reminds us just how transparent and visible our personal lives really are.
AFTER-THOUGHT: I'm not trying to argue that this should be illegal in any way, or that it's unethical; in fact, this kind of non-standard boundary case -- this kind of unexpected defensive impulse -- is just what any good art should trigger. I'm just trying to make some more sense of it.
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Life Developments: Dixie the Optimus S
My fiancee and I both finally got new phones this week. She got that 3D Evo, less for the trapped-in-a-virtual-cube effect and more for the processing power and range of capabilities; I got the slightly more modest LG Optimus S, reasoning that I wanted an efficient, capable touch-screen phone with a compact physical profile and the Android OS. It didn't hurt that it was free with the new contract.
The subsequent process, for both of us, can only be described as "pair-bonding." I start by working toward a very basic level of familiarity with my new companion -- figuring out where the most consistent menu options take me, what kinds of touches and taps are acceptable, and which ones cause undue tension. As I get to know my phone better, its capabilities gradually become more transparent: it can help me with directions (GPS), it has access to a whole library of specialized training in the form of Android Market apps, and (perhaps the most gratifying part) it can keep my social life straight for me, doing the constant work of associating names with e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Twitter accounts, and Facebook profiles, and consolidating that all in my list of contacts. My Optimus is frighteningly intelligent sometimes.
Of course, as I learn how to cooperate and respect my companion, it goes through a process of imprinting, as well. I train it to be quiet (at first it would ding every time I got a new email), I decide on a desirable background photo, I go about the work of creating special shortcuts and custom commands. I respect the phone, but at the same time, I have to maintain some authority over it, and even in the short time I've had it so far, it's bonded with me enough that it would be pretty inconvenient for anyone else who tried to kidnap it.
I'v been told to root the phone... to break into its OS so I can control its memory allocation and such... but this feels like it would be too harsh, in a way, a violation of the Optimus's integrity. At the moment, it's being very cooperative, and I haven't even scratched the surface of its capabilities, so I'm not sure hacking its admin accounts is really necessary at the moment.
I haven't named the phone yet, but I'm working on it. I'm sort of scanning my mental library of names and references, considering things from literature, film, video games, and just general names that I like. For some reason, I kind of like "Claude." Also, because my most common screen name is "symbot," I thought of calling the phone "robol," which is a reverse recombination of the two words in that handle. I think I'm gonna skip all the anime names, because naming a
cell phone after an anime character is just a little too obvious.I've named devices after literary main characters before... I had iPods named Mersault and Roquentin, named after the main characters from The Stranger and Nausea. This feels a little wrong, though, because the phone is not really going to be fulfilling a main-character role. I would call it Melmoth, just because I like the book, but there's almost nothing else fitting about the name or the character it would be referencing. Now that I watch more movies and TV, I could always try to figure out a sidekick name for it -- Chewy, Ethel, Sancho, Renfield, Alfred, or Sam.
But as I've thought about it, I've realized that I don't think of the phone as a sidekick, so much as a familiar. It's really, like, a little assistant that I have around so much that it eventually becomes a friend and confidante. So now I'm trying to think of names of familiars: Archimedes (Sword in the Stone), Thing (The Addams Family), Bartok (Anastasia), Boh (Spirited Away), Brown Jenkins (Dreams in the Witch-House) and Graymalkin (Macbeth). There's also some Sapient Steeds that have nice reference names: Falcor and Shadowfax come to mind. I'm sure there are lots more, especially if you start accounting for imaginary friends and such.
Taking it a step further, I think there's a fair stock of digital familiars and sidekicks recently. The Dixie Flatline from Neuromancer is one of my favorites. There's also Jarvis, from Iron Man, and HAL, which is a name I would not want to adopt for something that had an important role in my life.
I think I'll go with Dixie. Now I just need to find a ringtone that sounds like a strange, inhuman laugh.
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An appreciation of Simon Abrams' "What is a Bad Movie?"
An introductory piece in a new series called Simon Says is called "What is a Bad Movie," but it's really not about badness; really, it's more about criticism showing us how movies are good:
"That’s what criticism should strive for: making films like Zardoz, or a vastly more mainstream but still eccentric superhero film like Green Lantern, look good—and in general make films whose faults and/or merits might otherwise be inaccessible more accessible."
I massively appreciate and sympathize with this piece, and want to riff off it a little bit. I'm a constant reader of various types of criticism... popular reviewers like Ebert and Edelstein, critic/reviewers like Jim Emerson and Pauline Kael, and writers with a committed scholarly ethic like David Bordwell (and many others whose names I forget, because I only read a single essay from them). Also, I read various blogs and forums, populated as they are by a Frankenstein patchwork of amateur opinions and analyses.
Some of this criticism is transcendentally good, and some of it is totally parasitic. The difference, I find -- the continuum upon which this merit can be evaluated -- is how much the reviewer engaged with the film they're commenting upon. Indeed, this is the greatest strength of scholarly writing and pop criticism... judgements aside, you really have to attempt to understand a film before you can offer any kind of interpretation or analysis. And the most recognizable common feature of bad amateur criticism -- stupid forum comments, incessant complaints from nay-sayers -- is that you can always sense that the commentor never gave the film a chance, never really opened themselves up to it.
There are certain code-words that indicate whether a person engaged with a film or not. "Pretentious" is a big one, usually used by people who were faced with an opaque or challenging movie and simply weren't interested in going there. "Pointless" is another one. "Boring" is perhaps the most universal -- it can be used in conjunction with both "pretentious," and as its opposite... many high-brow fanboys will refuse to engage with any big-budget summer action movie, justifying themselves by saying, "See, I'm the type of person who finds THAT stuff boring."
This schema favors the descriptive over the prescriptive, and the prescriptive over the proscriptive. It recommends complete surrender to a film as the best possible response, and patience as the second-best (i.e. in the case of films that don't hook you). It's a method that discourages cynicism, and has no regard for dismissiveness or contempt.
To be sure, I pretty much never hate a film. I think hatred is something that only makes sense as an instinctive response to a threat or an enemy -- an automatic, defensive way of reacting to something whose interests seem to conflict with your own. Why would I ever hate an aesthetic object? What has a movie ever done to hurt me?
That said, I don't think criticism has to be exclusively positive. Nay, the most salient and scathing condemnation is the type that first engages with the film, and then discovers its contradictions, flaws, and weaknesses. There are all sorts of films that reinforce negative stereotypes, or act as destructive propaganga, and these require active engagement and critical acuity to be recognized and deconstructed. Troy Duffy's Boondock Saints is probably the most egregious example of subconscious propaganda, a manifesto of postmodern sexism, ranking right up there with Triumph of the Will in terms of films-with-agendas. To a lesser degree, there are also hidden messages in Avatar and X-Men: First Class, the subliminal, insidious expressions of the filmmakers' (and audiences') subconscious minds.
But even with these movies -- even the most egregious -- the critic needs to step into the movie to understand its orientation. Some of the darkest films, the most dependent on stereotypes and negative energy, may actually turn out to be critiques of these ideas, rather than unreserved expressions of them. The difference between something like Hostel and something like Funny Games is subtle, and to engage with it, you need to really engage with the films. Yes, both of them.
Have I said this before? I feel like I have, because I think it, constantly. Every time I read a piece like Dan Kois's Cultural Vegetables essay, or Ebert's blustering, and subsequent further-consideration, over Thor, I think about this. I think about how important it is, for the sake of the medium, and for the sake of our own psyches, to invest in these films, to become as involved with these hypothetical, fantastic, mythological worlds, as we did with our own invented make-believe landscapes when we were children. Criticism, like all consumption, and all its corollary activities, should be about having a strict filter, especially if it's merely an enforcement of one's own tastes and habits -- it should be about being a sponge, a proud cultural processor, desperate to find meaning, even in things otherwise disregarded.
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Between texting, directions, and social media, it's easy to drain your battery when you're out and about. To assure that you have enough power to make an emergency phone call while still being able to use various apps, you should always have a portable charger on hand. This one from Anker has fast charging capabilities, can charge an iPhone 8 up to 2.5 times, and it's slim, meaning it's easy to carry in a purse or back pocket.
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We’ll be working around the clock to curate all the best Amazon Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for designers, artists and creatives on this page. We don’t know how good this year’s discounts will be - but we can tell you that our expects will be picking through all Amazon’s offerings and posting only the best-value deals here. So bookmark this page and check back in November.
Bezos selected the name Amazon by looking through the dictionary; he settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different", just as he had envisioned for his Internet enterprise. The Amazon River, he noted, was the biggest river in the world, and he planned to make his store the biggest bookstore in the world.[25] Additionally, a name that began with "A" was preferential due to the probability it would occur at the top of an alphabetized list.[25] Bezos placed a premium on his head start in building a brand and told a reporter, "There's nothing about our model that can't be copied over time. But you know, McDonald's got copied. And it's still built a huge, multibillion-dollar company. A lot of it comes down to the brand name. Brand names are more important online than they are in the physical world."[26]
The ScanLife price comparison app allows customers to scan product barcodes to find the best deals. Customers can also receive rewards allowing store owners an opportunity to reward customers for loyalty. This price comparison app is also very user-friendly as the main screen is a barcode scanner, which means you can scan items straight away as you open the app.
Amazon employs a multi-level e-commerce strategy. Amazon started by focusing on business-to-consumer relationships between itself and its customers and business-to-business relationships between itself and its suppliers and then moved to facilitate customer-to-customer with the Amazon marketplace which acts as an intermediary to facilitate transactions. The company lets anyone sell nearly anything using its platform. In addition to an affiliate program that lets anyone post-Amazon links and earn a commission on click-through sales, there is now a program which lets those affiliates build entire websites based on Amazon's platform.[147]
When you get your first device that charges via USB-C, it can bea bit annoying that suddenly, all your micro USB and Lightning cables are of no use for that device. Rather than relying solely on the one that came with it, it's good to have a few handy. Right now, Anker is discounting two USB-C Powerline+ charging cables that are braided and capabe of charging at high speeds. The first set connect with traditional USB outlets (that's USB A 3.0), and the others have USB-C on both ends and are great for connecting your USB-C devices, such as charging your iPhone X from your MacBook Pro.
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As one of its daily deals, Woot via Amazon offers the refurbished Samsung 28" 4K LED-Backlit LCD Monitor for $229.99 with free shipping. Although it was $10 less for a refurb in August, it's still $65 cheaper than the best price we could find for a new unit today. It features a 3840x2160 4K native resolution, 1ms response time, DisplayPort, and two HDMI inputs. A 90-day Samsung warranty applies. Deal ends today.
The company was founded as a result of what Jeff Bezos called his "regret minimization framework," which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time.[19] In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he began to work on a business plan[20] for what would become Amazon.com.
Amazon has attracted widespread criticism for poor working conditions by both current employees, who refer to themselves as Amazonians,[178] and former employees,[179][180] as well as the media and politicians. In 2011, it was publicized that at the Breinigsville, Pennsylvania warehouse, workers had to carry out work in 100 °F (38 °C) heat, resulting in employees becoming extremely uncomfortable and suffering from dehydration and collapse. Loading-bay doors were not opened to allow in fresh air, due to the company's concerns over theft.[181] Amazon's initial response was to pay for an ambulance to sit outside on call to cart away overheated employees.[181] The company eventually installed air conditioning at the warehouse.[182]
Amazon acquired Junglee in 1998, and the website Junglee.com was launched in India in February 2012[115] as a comparison-shopping website. It curated and enabled searching for a diverse variety of products such as clothing, electronics, toys, jewelry and video games, among others, across thousands of online and offline sellers. Millions of products are browse-able, whereby the client selects a price, and then they are directed to a seller. In November 2017, Amazon closed down Junglee.com and the former domain currently redirects to Amazon India.[116]
It's almost the weekend and we all need to a little distraction to get us through those final hours of the workweek. Personally, I like to do a little online shopping during my work breaks. Every day, Amazon has some great deals and price drops on some of our favorite products, but it takes some digging to find them and some research to make sure they're actually a good deal. Lucky for you, I did that work for you and found some great deals on products we've actually tested, so you know you getting your money's worth.
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Amazon runs data centers for its online services and owns generators or purchases electricity corresponding to its consumption, mostly renewable energy.[139] Amazon contracted with Avangrid to build and operate the first wind farm in North Carolina to power Amazon's Virginia data centers. The wind farm was built and began operating in December 2016 despite opposition from President Trump and some North Carolina Republican legislators.[140][141][142][143][144]
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In early 2018, President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Amazon's use of the United States Postal Service and pricing of its deliveries, stating, "I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump tweeted. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne [sic] by the American Taxpayer."[167] Amazon's shares fell by 6 percent as a result of Trump's comments. Shepard Smith of Fox News disputed Trump's claims and pointed to evidence that the USPS was offering below market prices to all customers with no advantage to Amazon. However, analyst Tom Forte pointed to the fact that Amazon's payments to the USPS are not public and that their contract has a reputation for being "a sweetheart deal".[168][169]
A price comparison app or website allows you to compare prices for products. The app shows you the product prices from different retailers to show you where to buy the product affordably. Some apps require you to scan the barcode while others allow you to type in the product name to find your product. The price comparison website then shows the customer a list of retailers who are selling the same product, and how much they’re selling for. Those looking to save money on purchases are more likely to use a price comparison app. To attract budget-conscious customers you’ll need to offer a lower product price. However, it isn’t necessary to lower your product price to attract customers to your store.
Use Amazon Smile to give back to charity when you shop. You can choose an organization dear (or local) to you and shop as normal. However, it's important to note that only about 0.5% of every purchase makes its way to charity, and you might do more good by giving more tangibly elsewhere. However, if you don't let shopping through Amazon Smile negate all the good you would have done otherwise, it's a great way to maximize your shopping.
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Ascites is the accumulation of protein-containing (ascitic) fluid within the abdomen.
Many disorders can cause ascites, but the most common is high blood pressure in the veins that bring blood to the liver (portal hypertension), which is usually due to cirrhosis.
If large amounts of fluid accumulate, the abdomen becomes very large, sometimes making people lose their appetite and feel short of breath and uncomfortable.
Analysis of the fluid can help determine the cause.
Usually, a low-sodium diet and diuretics can help eliminate excess fluid.
The most common cause of ascites is
Less common causes of ascites include disorders unrelated to the liver, such as cancer, heart failure, kidney failure, inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), and tuberculosis affecting the lining of the abdomen.
Ascites tends to occur in long-standing (chronic) rather than in short-lived (acute) liver disorders. It most commonly results from
Portal hypertension—high blood pressure in the portal vein (the large vein that brings blood from the intestine to the liver) and its branches
Portal hypertension usually results from cirrhosis (severe scarring of the liver), which is commonly caused by consumption of large amounts of alcohol or by viral hepatitis.
Ascites may occur in other liver disorders, such as severe alcoholic hepatitis without cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, and obstruction of the hepatic vein (Budd-Chiari syndrome).
In people with a liver disorder, ascitic fluid leaks from the surface of the liver and intestine and accumulates within the abdomen. A combination of factors is responsible. They include the following:
Fluid retention by the kidneys
Alterations in various hormones and chemicals that regulate body fluids
Also, albumin usually leaks from blood vessels into the abdomen. Normally, albumin, the main protein in blood, helps keep fluid from leaking out of blood vessels. When albumin leaks out of blood vessels, fluid also leaks out.
Small amounts of fluid within the abdomen usually cause no symptoms. Moderate amounts may increase the person's waist size and cause weight gain. Massive amounts may cause abdominal swelling (distention) and discomfort. The abdomen feels taut, and the navel is flat or even pushed out.
The swollen abdomen puts pressure on the stomach, sometimes leading to loss of appetite, and pressure on the lungs, sometimes leading to shortness of breath.
In some people with ascites, the ankles swell because excess fluid accumulates there (causing edema).
Complications of ascites
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (infection of the ascitic fluid that develops for no apparent reason) sometimes occurs. This infection is common among people with ascites and cirrhosis, especially alcoholics.
If spontaneous bacterial peritonitis develops, people usually have abdominal discomfort, and the abdomen may feel tender. People may have a fever and feel generally unwell. They may become confused, disoriented, and drowsy. Untreated, this infection can be fatal. Survival depends on early treatment with appropriate antibiotics.
Sometimes an imaging test such as ultrasonography
Sometimes analysis of ascitic fluid
When a doctor taps (percusses) the abdomen, the fluid makes a dull sound. If the person's abdomen is swollen because the intestines are distended with gas, the tapping makes a hollow sound. However, a doctor may not be able to detect ascitic fluid unless the volume is about a quart or more.
If doctors are uncertain whether ascites is present or what is causing it, they may do ultrasonography or computed tomography (CT) (see Imaging Tests of the Liver and Gallbladder). In addition, a small sample of ascitic fluid can be withdrawn by inserting a needle through the wall of the abdomen—a procedure called diagnostic paracentesis. Laboratory analysis of the fluid can help determine the cause.
A low-sodium diet and bed rest
Removal of ascitic fluid (therapeutic paracentesis)
Sometimes surgery to reroute blood flow (portosystemic shunting) or liver transplantation
For spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, antibiotics
The basic treatment for ascites is a low-sodium diet.
If diet is ineffective, people are usually also given drugs called diuretics (such as spironolactone or furosemide). Diuretics make the kidneys excrete more sodium and water into the urine so people urinate more.
If ascites becomes uncomfortable or makes breathing or eating difficult, the fluid may be removed through a needle inserted into the abdomen—a procedure called therapeutic paracentesis. The fluid tends to reaccumulate unless people also follow a low-sodium diet and take a diuretic. Because a large amount of albumin is usually lost from the blood into the abdominal fluid, albumin may be given intravenously.
If large amounts of fluid accumulate frequently or if other treatments are ineffective, a portosystemic shunt or liver transplantation may be needed. The portosystemic shunt connects the portal vein or one of its branches with a vein in the general circulation and thus bypasses the liver. However, placement of the shunt is an invasive procedure and can cause problems, such as deterioration of brain function (hepatic encephalopathy) and deterioration of liver function.
If spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is diagnosed, people are given antibiotics such as cefotaxime. Because this infection often recurs within a year, a different antibiotic (such as norfloxacin) is given after the initial infection resolves to prevent the infection from recurring.
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Charles A. Coltman Jr., MD,
Honored with Karnofsky Award
This year's winner of ASCO's David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award Lecture is Charles Arthur Coltman, Jr., MD, who has led a long-time distinguished career in clinical cancer research and served as ASCO President in 1988-1989. The Chair of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) since 1981, Dr. Coltman directs a network of 4,000 investigators conducting cancer research at more than 256 institutions in 41 states, Canada, and Korea. He has shared his clinical trials expertise as one of the founding directors of the ASCO/American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Joint Workshop, Methods in Clinical Cancer Research, which has introduced hundreds of beginning oncologists to the principles of good clinical trial design. Fittingly, clinical trials is the subject of his Award Lecture, "Is There a Future for Federally Supported Clinical Cancer Research in the U.S.? What Can be Done to Ensure It?" (See Section A for coverage of Dr Coltman's lecture.)
"When I received notification of the Karnofsky Award, I was overwhelmed," says Dr. Coltman. "After reviewing the list of intellectual giants listed as prior awardees, I was totally intimidated. Each had a huge body of scientific work to present. I spent a long time casting about for my body of work and concluded that it had to be related to cancer clinical trials, something I've spent most of my professional life conducting and administering: not your average body of scientific work."
Dr. Coltman's lecture focuses on the future of clinical trials.
Dr. Coltman has been at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio, Texas since 1977, serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for the last five years. He is a 35-year member of SWOG and is currently involved with a SWOG study on the prevention of prostate cancer, which is the first large-scale intergroup test of finasteride, which inhibits conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (10 times more potent) in the prostate. The hypothesis: reducing the androgenic milieu in the prostate gland might lower the incidence of prostate cancer. For seven years, 18,882 male subjects have been taking either finasteride (a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor) or a placebo. Now beginning end-of-study biopsies, SWOG will measure the prevalence of prostate cancer at seven years of treatment, comparing the two groups of men.
Dr. Coltman is also the principal investigator for SWOG's large new intergroup prevention trial for prostate cancer, which is taking place at 438 sites in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. The SELECT clinical trial will enroll 32,400 healthy men and randomly assign them to selenium, vitamin E, selenium and vitamin E, or a placebo. Supported by the National Cancer Institute, the 12-year study has a $177 million budget and is expected to launch this month.
After earning an MD degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Dr. Coltman was an intern at Delaware Hospital (Wilmington), then entered the U.S. Air Force. Following his training in internal medicine and hematology/oncology at Ohio State University, he became Chief of Hematology and Oncology at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio. On his retirement from the Air Force in 1977, he became Director of Clinical Medical Oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he has served as Professor of Medicine since 1970. He was an American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology for six years (1977-1983).
Leukemia and lymphoma were Dr. Coltman's first research interests. In 1967, his team at the Southwest Cancer Chemotherapy Study Group (the former name of SWOG) was in the first cooperative group test of a new drug, cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C), for acute myelogenous leukemia. Comparing a two-day and a five-day continuous infusion of Ara-C, along with equivalent toxicity, yielded startling results: the complete response rate rose quickly from 6%, with prior standard 6-MP, to 20% (two-day infusion) and 38% (five-day infusion).
"One-fourth of those who achieved complete remission had a very long survival." says Dr. Coltman. "Now the standard of care for acute myelogenous leukemia, using cytosine arabinoside in combination therapy, has a 70-80% complete response rate in adults."
Dr. Coltman's next focus was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His team began treating patients with a combination chemotherapy regimen developed at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Numerous studies demonstrated that CHOP (cyclophosphamide, hydroxydaunorubicin, Oncovin [vincristine], and prednisone) cured about 30% of patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma-the best results that had ever been achieved with that population.
In the mid- 1990s, under the leadership of Dr. Richard I. Fisher of Loyola University, SWOG launched a major intergroup trial in which CHOP was compared with three newer, highly touted regimens (m-BACOD, MACOP-B and ProMACE-CytaBOM) for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. SWOG's research detected no differences in response rate, response duration, or response survival. "The recent high-dose intensive treatments were found to be more toxic and no more effective than CHOP," Dr. Coltman explains.
Dr. Coltman has been actively involved with ASCO, holding a position on the Board of Directors from 1983 to 1986. As ASCO President, he encouraged the Board to invest in strategic planning for the first time. Among the important outcomes of that planning was a determination to meet the needs of oncologists in both academic and private practice settings. In 1996, he helped to develop the ASCO/ AACR Joint Workshop, at which 100 young professionals each year learn how to create and conduct cancer clinical trials that will yield clear, definitive results. The success of the Workshop spawned a European counterpart of the course, established in collaboration with the Federation of European Cancer Societies (FECS), headquartered in Brussels. The FECS/ASCO/AACR Workshop presents a similar program, with an international faculty and participants from all over the world. Dr. Coltman has participated in all five U.S. Workshops as well as the two held in Switzerland.
Dr. Coltman's work has earned him several honors and awards. Among them is the 1987 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Research Award from the Association of Community Care Centers, given to him in recognition for his excellence in clinical research and responsiveness to community clinical oncology programs, whose participation in cancer research he has encouraged for decades.
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This site, on Alaska's principal highways, is under development. I conducted some "field research" while on vacation in Alaska in late June and early July 2001, late July and early August 2007, June 2009, and July 2012, among other things to take more road photos to supplement and update the ones I took on my 1994 road trip to Alaska. I'll flesh out this site as time permits.
UPDATED! One part of this site already completed is an Alaska Interstate ends photo page. ("What Alaska Interstates?!" you may ask. Yes, there are four of them on paper, even though there are only a few miles of Interstate-grade freeway, and it's unlikely there will be much more freeway in Alaska anytime soon. When this site is further along, I'll try to explain this mystery.) NEW! In addition, I have added photos of about half of Alaska's state route ends.
UPDATED AND EXPANDED! Also here is the Dalton Highway Photo Journey, a three-page collection of photos (the majority of them are my own, from a 1994 tour) of the rugged and lonely Alaska route 11 to the Arctic Coast, the northernmost highway in North America. This is an expanded and updated version of the pages originally co-authored and hosted by Andy Field as part of one of his sites. Many more photos from other Alaska roads will eventually make their way onto this site.
In addition, there are about a dozen photos from my 2001 vacation, covering the access road to the port of Whittier, and especially the unusual 2.5-mile one-lane tunnel shared by both directions of auto traffic and Alaska Railroad trains (longest road tunnel in North America).
For a few miscellaneous photos from my 1994 vacation, see some photos of the then-unguarded border crossing at the isolated ghost town Hyder in the southeastern corner of the state (entering Hyder from Canada, and crossing back into Canada).
NEW! There's also one of me in 1994 at Anchor Point AK, at the self-proclaimed westernmost point on the continuous North American highway system. While that's true if you don't count the Alaska Marine Highway auto ferry system, if you do (as I would), the real "westernmost point" is in the Aleutians, specifically in Unalaska at the west end of Captains Bay Road. A photo of that, and road photos from elsewhere in Unalaska, from my July 2007 visit there are at my new Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) road photos page.
NEW! Also from later that trip are a few road photos from the other side of the state, the small and isolated road network of Yakutat (near where the southeastern panhandle connects to the rest of Alaska).
PHOTO ADDED! I also offer, as a Christmas treat, a small collection of photos featuring Fairbank's Christmas-themed suburb of North Pole.
Also, take a look at the exit lists for Alaska's three freeways (all in the Anchorage area).
UPDATED AND EXPANDED! There's also photos of the historic Million Dollar Bridge taken both before and after repairs of the damage from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake.
There's also a 1960 report by the federal Bureau of Public Roads, rejecting Alaska's proposals for new Interstates (including one to Nome, of all places), while recommending approval of three new Interstate routes for the other new state Hawaii. [9.48 MB download, requires Adobe Acrobat] (Alaska got its paper Interstates two decades later, but only after Congress intervened.)
In the meantime, please consult the annual publication The Milepost (available in most bookstores), a very comprehensive guide to the principal roads of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic, including extremely detailed listings of the sights and services available along those roads, and also lots of photos. Also, Alaska's state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities has an extensive web site with highway and other transportation information.
For some other web sites on Alaska roads, James Teresco's road signs site site includes many road photos from his own 2001 road trip to Alaska, including some roads I didn't cover (the most interesting photos include an Alaska US 97 shield he found in a Fairbanks museum). Also, Steve Alpert has several pages with photos and other observations from his own travels in Alaska in summer 2004.
Because The Milepost covers the territory so well, I will not attempt to outdo it, or to provide a level of coverage comparable to my extensive Hawaii Highways site. I will provide some basic route lists similar to those usually found on highways web sites (including information, completely irrelevant to most travelers and therefore not covered in The Milepost, on the paper network of Interstate routes in Alaska, as well as some historical information on Alaska's state route system). I will also have a Frequently Asked Questions section covering such topics as when there will be real Interstates in Alaska (my quick guess, not in my lifetime); the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system that connects communities in southern Alaska isolated from the regular road system; and the aggravations of road construction and maintenance in permafrost country. Finally, as with the Hawaii Highways site, there will be lots of road photos.
Please e-mail me if you have any questions, comments, etc.
For a separate collection of road photos from some other cool northern places on the other side of North America, from my vacation there in August 2003, see my three-page Newfoundland/Maritimes road photos collection.
My Hot Springs and Highways home page
© 1994, 2001-07, 2018 Oscar Voss.
Last updated May 2018 (major updates and expansions of Dalton Highway and Million Dollar Bridge collections).
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Music Video: "Princess Diamond" by Kero Uno
Lead single from Kero Uno's upcoming debut full-length producer album.
One of my favorite emcee/producers, Kero One, has been making music these days as Kero Uno. He just dropped this super-sexy music video for "Princess Diamond," the lead single from his forthcoming full-length debut producer album. Featuring vocals from Kelsey Bulkin, lead singer of Made in Heights, the video tells the story of two gun-toting diamond thieves pulling heists in a rural town... until things fall part. As they do.
The video was directed by Jay Ahn. If you like the track, it's available for download from iTunes and Plug Label. The full-length album will be out in winter 2015. You can pre-order it here.
For more information about Kero Uno and his music, check out his website and follow updates on Facebook.
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Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Publisher's Summary:
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.
From Audrey Niffenegger (Author of "The Time Traveler's Wife"):
"The Night Circus made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for, and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty, and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book."
An instant selling point for me was the Narrator. Jim Dale was the voice of Harry Potter - all seven novels - all 120 hours of Harry Potter novels. Mr Dale's production of the Harry Potter series is a bar to which I hold all audiobooks up to. I'm reasonably sure that Mr. Dale could make a narrated version of War and Peace riveting and magical. That being said, even though it's been years since I listened to the Harry Potter series, I was initially very distracted by Harry's narrator to the detriment of The Night Circus.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern deserves to be judged on it's own merits though - and it's worthy of standing alone. The novel shifts between time-periods: Various dates in the past, to the present and back to the past again. In audiobook format I had a hard time following the shifts in time (unclear if this is a product of fragmented listening, the audio format or the writing of the novel). As a result I ended up listening to this novel twice because I didn't think I could review it fairly after the first listen. The potential was there from the beginning and I had to determine if the threads could be woven together neatly.
The second listen was significantly better than the first with the concepts tying up neatly. I appreciated the characters more on the second listen - picking up depth and humanity I'd missed the first time through. Don't misunderstand me, the first listen was enjoyable - it is no Harry Potter, the similarities end with Jim Dale, the storyline is somewhat predictable, with a contest that can have but one victor from two sympathetic and likable characters. but the effort to get from beginning to end was enjoyable. The concept of The Night Circus is original, the writing above-average and the narration superb.
In the end I'll recommend The Night Circus - 3.5/4.0 on a 5 point scale. If The Night Circus is 'your kind' of fiction you'll probably love it - If your curiosity isn't piqued by the publisher's summary, you probably won't enjoy the novel. That being said, I think that The Night Circus is a perfect young adult novel - one PG-13 sex scene, no violence a nice tidy ending.
The Night Circus was written by Erin Morgenstern and narrated by Jim Dale. The Night Circus was published by Random House Audio. The Night Circus was released in hardcover and audiobook format on 9/13/2011 and has a runtime of 13 hours 39 minutes.
Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher...
A few from today....
Photographic Experimentation
Tuesday Training - September 27th, 2011
Kipling at 23 weeks (and the big boys too).
When is it OK to give a puppy more freedom?
Kipling at 22 weeks...
A must-read for breeders out there...
Udder Tugs
Out for a romp...
Pioneer Valley Kennel Club - September 17-18th, 20...
Book Review: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Kipling's Training Journal: Part Five
Book Review: The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patch...
Old Colony Agility Club - September 10-11, 2011
How Kipling spends his days at the dog show.....
It's raining cheese (hallelujah)
Little Free Library: Making books accessible for e...
Book Review: The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
Some clarification on Kipling's teeter work...
Eastern English Springer Spaniel Club - September ...
Champlain Valley Fair Demo - September 1, 2011
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Book Review: A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire
A Lion Among Men is the third novel in Gregory Maguire's "Wicked Series". Reviews for the first two novels: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (the novel from which Broadway's Wicked is based) and Son of a Witch.
The Audible Publisher's Summary
In the much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.
While civil war looms in Oz, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, a figure known as Brrr - the Cowardly Lion - arrives searching for information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Abandoned as a cub, his path from infancy is no Yellow Brick Road. In the wake of laws that oppress talking animals, he avoids a jail sentence by agreeing to serve as a lackey to the warmongering Emperor of Oz.
A Lion Among Men chronicles a battle of wits hastened by the Emerald City's approaching armies. Can those tarnished by infamy escape their sobriquets to claim their own histories, to live honorably within their own skins before they're skinned alive?
Gregory Maguire's new novel is written with the sympathy and power that have made his books contemporary classics.
It took me a bit of time to get back to Gregory Maguire's Wicked series - actually it took the release of book four "Out of Oz: The Wicked Years" and that novel's subsequent appearance on the New York Times Bestseller list for me to pick the series back up. As noted in the publisher's summary this novel is written from the perspective of the Cowardly Lion (Brrr) and Yackle (as interviewed by Brrrrr).
My complaint with A Lion Among Men is that there really wasn't a plot. The writing was OK, the narration was fine - I just kept waiting for something-anything to happen. There was background information on Glinda and Leer. Obviously we learn more about Yackle (the creator of the ruby slippers, the oracle at the montery, she who gave Elphaba her broom, etc) and Mr Maguire set up the war of Munchkinlanders and the residents of Oz in a post-wizard era. Just about the best part of the novel was that many of the characters made reference to "the great and wonderful WOO" (wizard of oz and of course Teller's nickname).
A lot of this would be forgivable if the fourth book (the recently released 'Out of Oz: The Wicked Years') didn't spend the first 45 minutes or so catching the reader up on everything we learned in A Lion Among Men. I'm partially through Out of Oz and finding the plot points MUCH more entertaining - there is hope for the series to end as strongly as it began.
A Lion Among Men was written by Gregory Maguire and produced byHarper Audio, copyright 10/14/2008. A Lion Among Men was narrated by John McDonough and has a runtime of 12 hours 1 minute.
Tuesday at the Barn - January 31st, 2012
Videos from the Barn - January 28th, 2012
Busy Saturday...
Friday at the Barn...January 27th, 2012
Tuesday at the Barn - January 24th, 2012
Winter Birding - January 22nd, 2012
Sunday at the Barn - January 22nd, 2012
Book Review: The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon...
How Kipling rolls....
Feeding raw on a budget.
Southern Adirondack Agility Club - January 14-16th...
Then and Now...
Agility Club of New Hampshire - January 7-8, 2012
Happy Birthday Teller!
Keeping dogs fit in the cold
Monday at the Barn - January 2nd, 2012
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Climate change, Hurricane Maria and neglect in Puerto Rico
Press Advisory: Constituents of Congressman McGovern encourage him to support the ‘Green New Deal’
Column: Marty Nathan: Our planet has a fever
Published in the Hampshire Daily Gazette August 02, 2018
I really want to write good news. Honestly and personally, I hate heat and I hate suffering. And I hate rants. I want to write joyously about how what we are doing in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is decreasing CO2 and methane levels and fulfilling the biospheric need for a stable climate.
No such luck. The reality is that the planet itself is hot and suffering and beginning to rant, if we will listen. Last month, a Washington Post weather story began with the sentence, “From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East to Southern California, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded.” Fifty-four people died in the heat wave in Canada, and the thermometer hit 90 degrees in Northern Siberia on July 5, 40 degrees above normal. That same day, temperatures seem to have risen to the highest ever recorded on the African continent, at 124 degrees in Ouargla, Algeria. The heat surpassed or tied all-time records across North America and in Europe: from Los Angeles to Denver, Burlington and Montreal, and across the Atlantic to cities in Scotland and Ireland. Quriyat, Oman, posted the highest daily low temperature ever recorded on June 28: 109 degrees.
Our planet has a fever. The inconvenient truth is that global warming and climate chaos are happening. Heat and drought have resulted in fire seasons throughout the American West that now start three months earlier than in the past. But again, it is a world-wide phenomenon: flames are incinerating towns and forests from Redding, Calif., to Athens to northern Sweden above the Arctic Circle, each fire producing more emissions and more heat to compound the problem.
Probably our ancestors’ greatest accomplishment, the one that contributed most uniquely to the survival and dominance of our species, was control of fire. Now the effort to stop the burning of carbon to carbon dioxide poses the greatest challenge to the sustainability of life.
In the face of the crisis, leaders continue to sort themselves. There are the “climate change-makers” (ironic, since they are also the deniers). Donald Trump and his administration just last week announced a full-mouth tooth extraction from the Endangered Species Act, paving the way for more deforestation, mining, building and drilling while he ushers threatened animals and plants into extinction. For the first time since the Act’s adoption in 1973, economic impact (read profit) is to be weighed in decisions to protect species at risk, and states, who have closer ties to eager developers and drillers, will have a say in the process. Local author Elizabeth Kolbert wrote The Sixth Extinction, which reviews humanity’s startlingly rapid destruction of the planet’s flora and fauna, equivalent to only five previous known episodes of species collapse in all of Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history. Responding to Trump’s plan, she quoted Congressman Raul Grijalva, who described it as “part of the endless special favors the White House and Department of the Interior are willing to do for their industry friends.”
Grijalva is right of course. The announcement and coordinated acts by Congressional Republicans augmented the news that the administration overall has drastically cut penalties for corporate wrongdoing compared to the Obama Administration. The worst decrease in fines not surprisingly came from the Environmental Protection Agency, which lowered them by a stunning 94 percent, from $29 billion in 2016 to a measly $1.9 billion in 2017. So even if regulations are broken under the new, hobbled Endangered Species Act, violators have little to fear.
The opposition to Trump’s plundering sports an admirable lineup, though. Recently Massachusetts’ Maura Healey joined six other state attorneys general demanding that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the first time consider the environmental costs, including climate change, of building new gas pipelines. FERC is responsible for licensing new fossil fuel infrastructure, and to call it a pushover is to be kind. Since 1999, FERC has approved around 400 natural gas pipeline projects and rejected only two. In that time enough pipeline has been built to deliver nearly twice the average daily consumption of natural gas in the U.S., 40 billion cubic feet greater even than the peak demand per day during the 2014 “Polar Vortex” cold snap. “By determining public benefit without regard to adverse environmental impacts and without consideration of the climate harm caused by a project, the Commission is failing to meet its obligations…,” AG Healey stated in her comments.
So, Trump wants corporations to have control over saving species and the AGs want those who breathe air and desire a livable climate to have a say in building fossil fuel infrastructure of questionable value.
Then there is the case of Massachusetts House Democratic leadership and Speaker Robert Deleo. They had the opportunity this session to join the Senate in legislating crucial greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Yet so far, they have refused to step up to the plate. The Senate passed a clean energy bill that would: rapidly increase the renewable energy portion of our state’s electricity supply (the Renewable Portfolio Standard or RPS) sufficient to reach 100 percent by 2050; remove the net metering caps that are halting solar projects and killing our solar industry; provide the full benefits of solar energy to low income and renting families; increase offshore wind production by 5,000 MW and establish environmental justice principles in law. In return, the House offered up… a northingburger. What finally came out of the Conference Committee was a pitiful compromise: only a 2 percent rise per year in the RPS for 10 years starting in 2020; the possibility of 1600 MW more offshore wind power; and no action on the caps to net metering or the barriers to low-income people needing solar energy. Moreover, final bill incentivized the burning of trash as an energy source, allowing it to continue polluting Massachusetts air, usually in the poorest neighborhoods.
A group of us spent quite a bit of volunteer time last week calling voters to ask that they urge their state representatives to demand action in the Conference Committee. More than once, I heard comments like, “You mean my progressive state doesn’t have these things already?! What’s going on?”
What’s going on is a fight to the death, literally, to protect vested interests and their status quo against the survival needs of future generations.
There are a lot more of us than there are of them. How do we sort out?
Marty Nathan MD is a mostly-retired Family Practitioner at Baystate Brightwood Health Center, a mother and a grandmother. She is a steering committee member of Climate Action Now and the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition. She offers many thanks to Adele Franks for her information and editing.
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