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CJTF-HOA preps cargo for transport to Mozambique
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April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), load U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies onto a cargo pallet at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
relief efforts Mozambique CJTF-HOA AFRICOM Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa US Africa Command
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), unload a cargo pallet used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), prepare a cargo pallet used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), inspect cargo nets used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Wells, mobile aerial port supervisor for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), loads food supplies from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) onto a cargo pallet at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), inspect cargo nets used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD humanitarian relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) food pallets sit inside a hangar at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Members from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, which is leading the DoD humanitarian relief effort, prepared the cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Wells, mobile aerial port supervisor for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), ties U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) food supplies onto a cargo pallet at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cody Forth, mobile aerial porter from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), connects a cargo net to a pallet used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Tomas A. Geerts, team chief from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), provides instructions for inspecting cargo nets used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cody Forth, mobile aerial porter for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), provides instructions for inspecting cargo nets used to transport U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supplies at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, April 1, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Cody Forth, mobile aerial porter for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), guides a forklift operator transporting food pallets from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at Camp Lemonnier, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD humanitarian relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Lucy DeJesus, mobile aerial porter for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), guides a forklift operator unloading supplies from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at Camp Lemonnier, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), unload food pallets from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from a truck at Camp Lemonnier, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 Food pallets from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sit on a truck bed at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Members from the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, which is leading the DoD humanitarian relief effort, prepared the cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Juan Ortega, mobile aerial porter for the 435th Contingency Response Group, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), lifts a food pallet from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) at Camp Lemonnier, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
April 4, 2019 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alan Wells, mobile aerial port supervisor from the 435th Contingency Response Group (CRG), Ramstein Air Base, Germany, currently at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, supporting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA), loads food pallets from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) into a hangar at Camp Lemonnier, March 31, 2019, for the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) humanitarian relief effort in the Republic of Mozambique and surrounding areas following Cyclone Idai. Teams supporting CJTF-HOA, which is leading the DoD relief effort, prepared cargo for transport following a call for assistance from the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos)
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5:00 AM PDT 4/28/2008 by Empty , AP
TOONED IN
More than 125 hand-drawn artwork pieces from such animated films as "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "Alice in Wonderland," "101 Dalmatians" and "The Lion King" will go on display in the lobby of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goldwyn Theatre on May 16 as part of an exhibition titled "Ink & Paint: The Art of Hand-Drawn Animation." The work ranges from storyboards and color keys to layouts and cels.
Scud LAUNCH
The Canadian reporter known as the "Scud Stud" during the 1991 Gulf War has sued the makers of "Charlie Wilson's War" over footage used in the movie. Arthur Kent, whose live NBC reports on Iraq's Scud missile attacks on Saudi Arabia made him a celebrity, claims in a federal lawsuit filed last week that filmmakers violated his intellectual property rights, saying that Universal and other companies used parts of a 1986 news program he made about the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan without his consent.
WHAT'S UP, DOCS?
As part of the Academy's Contemporary Documentaries series, "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" and "Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man" will screen Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
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Fahey's requests rule on Web-based comedy show
5:00 AM PDT 4/23/2008 by Alex Woodson , AP
These days, any kid with a YouTube account and a digital camera can fashion himself a media star.
In the prebroadband era, though, it took a little more determination and technical know-how. Just ask Damien Fahey, host of MTV's "TRL," who didn't let the fact that he grew up before the Internet's ascendance deter his childhood multimedia dreams.
"I built a radio station on the third floor in my room and locked myself in there for months and never left," Fahey, 27, said over coffee at a Midtown cafe. "But it was like a real-deal radio station with microphones, reel-to-reel machine, CD player, tape decks, mixing board, the whole thing."
From his parents' house to radio stations in Springfield and Boston, to MTV to stints on network TV trying out for CBS' "The Late Late Show" and filling in for Regis Philbin on "Live With Regis and Kelly," it makes sense that Fahey is now looking to the Web as his latest creative outlet.
Launched last month on the MTV Shorts Web site Andrew Wallenstein 4/22/08 link: http://www.mtv.com/ontv/shorts/ and mobile platforms, "Damien's Other Show" presents a different side of the affable VJ. Combining humorous and random man-on-the-street interviews with the "desk chat" feel of late night shows, the biweekly shortform series finds Fahey straying from his daytime gig. While it might be a stretch to call the comedy too dark or challenging for the "TRL" demographic, Fahey probably couldn't get away with asking a 16-year-old Hannah Montana fan if she had more recently ate a donut or "done it."
" 'TRL' is like the tip of the iceberg," Fahey says. "That's part of my personality, but it's not 100% who I am. I don't go home and listen to Mylie Cyrus records, and I am not sleeping overnight for Jonas Brothers tickets."
Some of the shortform bits were born from Fahey's weeklong stint auditioning for "Late Late Show" after Craig Kilborn left in 2004, a time Fahey calls "the greatest week of my life." Fahey works with production group Phear Creative to film and edit the shorts, with MTV only giving final approval of the segments.
Because he spends a good portion of the day online himself, Fahey has no trouble keeping the Web audience in mind.
"You definitely have to think differently," Fahey says of creating online content. "You can't go for complicated."
Fahey points out that, with the quick-edit format MTV took to in the '90s, the Viacom-owned network was an early adopter of this style of content. YouTube has further reduced the average young viewer's attention span to the point where anything online that is more than three or four minutes will have a tough time finding an audience.
Fahey combines these dynamics with his show. A recent episode centered on him showing iPhone photos of ambiguous hipsters in skinny jeans to people on the street and asking if they thought it was a man or a woman. This bit was intercut with shots of Fahey -- in a "moment for the ladies" -- lying in a bed with a book open saying, "In bed, I'm an open book," and then running back into his apartment to turn a light on in a scene titled "Al Gore hates this."
"Everything has to be very simple and easy to digest and easy to get," Fahey says. "Otherwise you'll leave the viewer. It's like making mini-commercials, almost."
With radio, TV and now online video on his resume, Fahey has set his sights on learning HTML and Final Cut Pro and maybe, ultimately, understanding the underlying magic of transmitted media. Although the stage is bigger, not much has changed from the days when Fahey studied schematic manuals to figure out how to wire his at-home radio station.
"I've always been fascinated by how things work," Fahey says. "The fact that you can look into a camera and broadcast all over is, to me, puzzling."
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Fox's 'Hell's Kitchen' sizzles
12:42 PM PDT 4/30/2008 by James Hibberd , AP
Paula Abdul antics eclipse 'Idol' ratings
Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" continues to heat up Tuesday nights, climbing to match its premiere rating.
"Kitchen" (12.3 million viewers, 5.5 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and a 14 share) generated a 12% week-to-week boost even as its "Idol" lead-in fell to another five-year low (24.4 million, 8.7/24).
Although "Kitchen's" ratings tend to settle a bit for the nationals since the preliminaries contain a couple of minutes of "Idol" overrun, the week-to-week increase is beyond the influence of its usual "Idol" boost. The "Kitchen" track record this season is impressive considering the show is traditionally a summer series and in its fourth season.
The "Idol" ratings drops have been momentarily overshadowed, however, by news of judge Paula Abdul's latest on-air gaffe. Abdul critiqued a contestant's two performances after he sang only one song -- suggesting to viewers that she either wasn't paying attention or was going off a script. Fox has no comment on the error.
Fox won the night overall, with ABC and CBS tied for second in the demo and both networks trying out returning shows in new time periods.
ABC had back-to-back "According to Jim" episodes (4.1 million, 1.3/3) followed by an on par "Dancing With the Stars" results show (16.7 million, 4.0/10). At 10 p.m., ABC tried out "Women's Murder Club" (8.1 million, 1.9/5), but the show registered about the same as in its Friday night run.
CBS aired "NCIS" (14.6 million, 3.0/8) followed by the return of bubble show "Shark" (10.3 million, 2.2/5) in its new time period. "Shark" was down slightly from its Sunday night average and came in third place for the hour, reducing its chances for a last-minute fall renewal. At 10 p.m., CBS had a repeat.
In third place, NBC aired specials and repeats, with an encore of "Law & Order: SVU" (12.1 million, 4.1/11) winning the 10 p.m. hour.
The CW's "Beauty and the Geek" (1.6 million, 0.8/2) was followed by "Reaper" (2.4 million, 1.1/3) both of which were up a tick from last week.
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Tessera to Acquire Audio Technology Firm DTS for $850M
4:53 AM PDT 9/20/2016 by Georg Szalai
Courtesy of DTS
DTS Cinema Now screen
"Our complementary technology portfolios are ideally suited to deliver the next generation of audio and imaging solutions to mobile, consumer electronics and automotive markets," says Tessera's CEO.
Audio solutions provider DTS Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Tessera Technologies in a cash deal valued at approximately $850 million.
Tessera, which develops imaging and semiconductor packaging and bonding technologies, is paying $42.50 per share for DTS, whose technology is integrated in more than 2 billion devices globally, used in immersive sound systems in cinemas and put to use by video and music streaming services. The price tag represents a 28 percent premium to DTS’ 30-day volume weighted average price.
The combined company is projected to reach 2016 revenue of approximately $450 million, nearly half of which will come from product licensing. Tessera said the deal will immediately add to its earnings per share. It predicted $15 million in annualized cost synergies within the first 12 to 18 months following the closing of the transaction and revenue synergies "from the expansion of addressable markets and leveraging of complementary customer channels" and technologies.
"The transaction will combine market leading audio and imaging innovators with complementary products, technologies, customer channels and intellectual property assets to enable the creation of an expanded, integrated platform to invent the future of smart sight and sound," the companies said. "Upon completion of the acquisition, the combined company will be one of the world’s leading product and technology licensing companies, with over 450 engineers focused on developing next-generation imaging, audio and semiconductor packaging technologies."
“Our acquisition of DTS’ talented team and industry-leading products will represent a transformational step in the execution of Tessera’s strategic vision, with exciting new product development and marketing opportunities," said Tom Lacey, Tessera CEO. "Our complementary technology portfolios are ideally suited to deliver the next generation of audio and imaging solutions to mobile, consumer electronics and automotive markets while expanding our ability to address incredible new opportunities in Internet of Things and augmented reality/virtual reality."
Closing of the transaction is expected by late in the fourth quarter of 2016 or early in the first quarter of 2017, subject to regulatory approval as well as the approval of DTS’ stockholders and other customary closing conditions.
Georg Szalai
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The letters section of the Archive will be its first section. The letters will be mounted chronologically in chapters containing brief biographical introductions intended to set them in context and make them more understandable.
The letters have been given a uniform format:
Line one contains the name of the recipient and date of composition. In many cases a letter contains no date or only a partial date (e.g., Wednesday). In that case a probable date derived from a postmark or from internal evidence or from the context provided by other letters is placed in brackets. Questionable aspects of assigned dates are preceded by a question mark as [January ?12, 1892].
Line two contains the place where the letter was written and/or from which it was mailed in a single line with vertical rules denoting line divisions in the original.
Line three contains the salutation where one exists.
Lines four and following contain the body of the letter with Sharp's paragraphing preserved, where it can be determined, followed by a separate line (when separate in the original) containing the complimentary close and signature separated by a vertical rule (if the close and signature were separate lines in the original).
The body and signature are followed by one or more postscripts when they occur in the original.
Finally, the form of the original and its provenance are given in a separate line at lower left.
Obvious errors of spelling have been silently corrected. Errors of punctuation and grammar have been corrected only when necessary to attain clarity of the author's intention. Writing on margins that is marked as an insert has been placed within the body of the text at the point of intended insertion. Postscripts on margins have been placed at the close of the main body of the letters. Every effort has been made to attain a balance between authenticity and readability. In rare cases, the particular handling of a text has been described in a note.
The footnotes are and will remain a work in progress. Their intention is to provide information that will be useful to readers in understanding references in the letters and to provide information that will clarify points in the letters that would otherwise be unclear to the general reader. Given the multitude of people, places, literary and artistic works, and events mentioned in the letters, the process of annotation is an onerous one. It requires judgments about what is too much and what is not enough. Some notes have been left blank because efforts to track down the information have so far been unsuccessful. All notes are subject to expansion and revision as new information becomes available. This form of publication is particularly useful for the annotations because they can be viewed as works in progress. The editor will be grateful to readers for any information that improves their accuracy and completeness.
WS = William Sharp
FM = Fiona Macleod
EAS = Elizabeth A. Sharp
EWR = Edith Wingate Rinder
Mem = William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir, Compiled by his wife, Elizabeth A. Sharp (New York: Duffield & Company, 1910)
The following abbreviations are used to describe the form of the original letter at the foot of each letter:
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(http://ies.sas.ac.uk/research/william-sharp-fiona-macleod-archive); and the date you accessed it, along with any other relevant documentation.
Sharp, William, Letter to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 28 July 1881 (ALS, University of British Columbia), The William Sharp Archive . Ed. William F. Halloran. 21 June 2005 (http://ies.sas.ac.uk/research/william-sharp-fiona-macleod-archive).
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Caesars hit by losses despite revenue growth in first half
iGBNA Staff
6 August, 2019 2 min read robfletcher
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Caesars Entertainment has reported a net loss of $532m for the first half of 2019, despite also experiencing a year-on-year increase in net revenue.
The US casino giant generated revenue of $4.34bn during the six months to June 30, up from $4.09bn in the corresponding period last year.
Caesars’ casino operations remained by far the biggest source of income during the first half, with revenue rising from $2.04bn last year to $2.21bn – driven by its operations in the Las Vegas market
There was also revenue growth across all areas of Caesars’ business, with food and beverage revenue climbing from $774m to $805m and rooms revenue from $755m to $793m.
However, Caesars reported an increase in operating expenses in the first half, as it spent a total of $3.83bn during the period. Direct casino costs were up from $1.13bn to $1.25bn, while property, general, administrative and other expenses jumped from $883m to $927m.
Caesars also noted an additional charge of $50m in relation to the impairment of intangible assets, although it did see depreciation and amortisation costs drop from $548m to $488m.
Income from operations increased from $407m to $509m, but higher losses in certain areas of the business meant net loss jumped from just $5m in the first half of last year to $532m. Loss before tax also rocketed from $28m to $622m.
The results have been revealed after Caesars’ new chief executive, Tony Rodio, hailed a solid performance by the business during the second quarter of the year.
During the three months to June 30, revenue was up 4.9% to $2.22bn – ahead of the first quarter – with Las Vegas revenue up 1.0% to $1.00bn and other US revenue climbing 8.4% to $1.06bn.
Las Vegas net income climbed 12.2% to $184m while Caesars’ other operations in the US improved from a loss of $9m to an income of $16m. However, with its other operations seeing net loss widen from $126m to $515m, total net loss for the quarter stood at $315m for the quarter, compared to net income of $29m last year.
“Caesars delivered solid financial results in the second quarter driven by the contribution from Centaur and strength from our Las Vegas hotel and food and beverage businesses,” Rodio said.
“Our Las Vegas performance was the result of strong group and leisure demand, which produced an all-time quarterly record for hotel cash revenue and occupancy for the second consecutive quarter. These results were partially offset by competitive pressures in Atlantic City and other parts of our regional portfolio, as well as unfavourable hold predominately at Caesars Palace.”
At the end of the first half, Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced that it had agreed to merge with Eldorado Resorts, in a move that will create a new market leader in the US gambling sector.
The deal is valued at approximately $17.3bn, with Eldorado to acquire all of the outstanding shares in Caesars for a value of $12.75 per share, consisting of $8.40 per share in cash, and 0.0899 shares of Eldorado common stock.
“As we work toward successful completion of the proposed merger with Eldorado Resorts, the management team and I remain focused on improving the company’s operations and financial profile through incremental revenue opportunities and operating efficiencies,” Rodio said.
“I’m confident that the proposed transaction will create an industry leading platform poised to succeed in our dynamic industry.”
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The Story Behind the Hotel Wellington’s Prestige
In 1952, the year in which Spain joined UNESCO and Isabel II became queen after the death of her father, George VI, a transportation businessman and bullfighting breed founder named Baltasar Ibán Valdés realised his dream of opening a five star luxury hotel.
He built it in the neighborhood of Salamanca, which had taken its name from the man who championed its development, José de Salamanca. Today, Salamanca is one of Madrid’s best and most stately districts.
Baltasar Ibán wished to establish a hotel whose prestige matched that of its surroundings – a place where guests could walk to nearby Retiro Park by means of a majestic main thoroughfare. Starting in 1944, he collaborated with architect Luis Blanco Soler to turn his dream of a luxury hotel into a reality – at a time when the tourism industry, as well as the economy in general, was uncertain.
Baltasar Ibán acquired a corner plot at 8 Velazquez Street, on the corner of Velazquez and Villanueva Streets; the plot contained a building with two elegant facades. This building was to become the Wellington Hotel; it is a building that is catalogued and protected in the architectural heritage of Madrid.
After its first few years in the business, the hotel became so popular that an expansion became necessary.
This was done, in 1976 at the adjacent 6 Velazquez Street, where, until 1936, Ramón Gomez de la Serna had had his famous Torreón.
Nowadays, Wellington Hotel Madrid is part of Preferred Hotel Group and Prestige Hotels of the World.
Our rooms have hosted celebrities of great prestige, including Gene Kelly, Xavier Cugat, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Severo Ochoa, the Dukes of Wellington, and the comedian Gila. Their Majesties the Kings of Spain, their Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias and their Highnesses Princess Elena and Princess Cristina have preferred to call us home while in Madrid, as have innumerable groups of people representing all aspects of society, both from Spain and all over the world.
Additional visitors to the Wellington Hotel include international actors such as Adrien Brody and Matt Damon, the ex-president of France Nicholas Sarkozy, the Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the Petits Chanteurs de Saint Marc Choir (the choir that appeared in the film Les Choristes) and the actress Paz Vega.
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Home>New Videos>Snoh Aalegra Videos> Snoh Aalegra & Michael B. Jordan Are A Couple In Love In Visual For Her Single "Whoa"
Snoh Aalegra & Michael B. Jordan Are A Couple In Love In Visual For Her Single "Whoa"
By Erika Marie
The singer's Spring tour is almost sold out.
Iranian-Swedish singer Snoh Aalegra continues to fuel rumors that she and Michael B. Jordan are an item with the release of her latest video for her single, "Whoa." The track is featured on her August release - Ugh, those feels again, an album that chronicles the peaks and valleys of being in love. The R&b singer turns up the romance—and the heat—in the visual for "Whoa" as she and Jordan are featured in various scenes that depict a couple who can't get enough of one another.
The singer's Spring tour that kicks off in March in Vancouver, Canada and ends in April in Atlanta is reportedly "99%" sold out, according to a press release. Snoh's 6LACK-assisted single "I Want You Around" is currently the No. 6 song on national radio, so it looks like the R&B singer's star continues to rise. Watch Snoh and Michael B. Jordan get lovey-dovey in the visual for "Whoa" and let us know what you think.
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Home » News » Chamber News » Chamber Honored for Supporting National Guard and Navy Reserve
Chamber Honored for Supporting National Guard and Navy Reserve
On Friday, November 18, in a joint ceremony at Navy Reserve Forces Command Headquarters, Vice Admiral Dirk J. Debbink, Chief of Navy Reserve and Commander, Navy Reserve Force, along with Steve Villalpando, Chairman of the Virginia Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Committee, presented the Chamber with a certificate of appreciation for its support of the Navy Reserve. Candace Reid, Director of Municipal & Governmental Affairs, accepted the award on the Chamber’s behalf. Eight other employers from the Hampton Roads area were also honored.
Jack Hornbeck, Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce President & CEO, previously signed an ESGR Statement of Support publicly announcing the Chamber's endorsement of members of the National Guard and Reserve. National Guard and Reserve members comprise about one-half of our military forces. The Chamber encourages employers to publicly show their approval of the National Guard and Reserve by obtaining, signing and displaying a Statement of Support, counter signed by the Secretary of Defense, from National ESGR at www.esgr.com.
Mr. Hornbeck was also appointed as a local Board Member of the Selective Service System in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Selective Service Local Board is a group of five citizen volunteers whose mission, upon a draft, will be to decide who among the registrants in their community will receive deferments, postponements, or exemption from military service based on the individual registrant's circumstances and beliefs. The appointment was made by the Director of Selective Service in the name of the President, upon the recommendation of the Governor of Virginia.
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Prostitution case: judge rejects man's claim he was the victim of public shaming
Michael MacDonald CP
HALIFAX — A 73-year-old man who says police in Cape Breton subjected him to "public shaming" has lost his initial bid to challenge a charge that he sought sexual services from an undercover cop.
John Russell Mercer was one of 27 men charged Sept. 8, 2015 after Cape Breton Regional Police concluded "Operation John Be Gone," a sting operation that targeted the clients of prostitutes in downtown Sydney.
The accused ranged in age from 26 to 81, though Mercer's lawyer said the average was in the upper 50s.
Provincial court Judge Brian Williston, in a decision released earlier this week, said Mercer argued the decision by police to stage a news conference to release the names, ages and addresses of accused was equivalent to "locking someone in the stocks."
Mercer argued that the release of his personal information in such a public way amounted to an abuse of the criminal justice process, violating his rights under Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
"He told the court that his wife and friends found out by 'word of mouth' of his being charged by police when it appeared in the local newspaper," Williston's decision says.
The judge rejected Mercer's argument, saying police have the discretion to release information to the media, so long as it does not jeopardize a fair trial.
"The personal information that was released at the press conference was limited to what was already accessible to the media and the public," the decision says.
Mercer, who told the court he had never before sought the services of a prostitute, also argued that the use of undercover officers was a misuse of the justice system to rectify a small social problem, the judge said.
However, Williston said the use of undercover officers was justified. He said police could not conduct conventional surveillance because local sex trade workers were unwilling to testify for fear of reprisals.
"The police actions were a legitimate response to a need to protect society's most marginalized and vulnerable members in focusing their attention on the men driving demand," the judge wrote.
A large portion of Williston's 21-page decision highlights changes to the Criminal Code in 2014 that shifted the focus of the law away from criminalizing sex trade workers.
Instead, the law now recognizes that prostitution is inherently exploitative "with great potential for violence from johns and pimps," the decision says.
Prior to the sting operation, police went to great lengths to help 37 sex trade workers by offering them counselling, drug treatment and various exit strategies. And at one point, police enlisted the help of aboriginal elders.
Police Sgt. Jodie Wilson testified that police earned the trust of sex trade workers and encouraged them to identify violent johns. As well, in the 18 months before Operation John Be Gone was launched, johns who frequented the downtown were issued warnings and given second chances.
T.J. McKeough, Mercer's lawyer, said despite the police effort, problems with prostitution persisted.
"So they came up with this hair-brained scheme to just round up as many guys as they could in a few days, have a big press conference and release everyone's names," he said in an interview.
"That why we call it public shaming."
Earlier this week, Mercer pleaded guilty to communicating for the purpose of obtaining sexual services, but his lawyer said a conviction was not entered into the record.
McKeough said he plans to file another challenge, this time arguing that his client was the victim of entrapment.
"It's a much stronger argument," McKeough said in an interview. "The argument is that the police induced these men into the commission of the offence."
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2016 INS ISA WORLD SURFING GAMES OFFICIALLY DECLARED OPEN IN PLAYA JACÓ, COSTA RICA
Posted August 6th, 2016 - News Posted for ISA News, World Surfing News.
142 international athletes gather to celebrate the inauguration of the competition
ATTENTION MEDIA: For daily photos, video highlights and video news releases, visit http://isaworlds.com/wsg/2016/en/media/
The 2016 INS ISA World Surfing Games was officially declared open by ISA Vice President, Casper Steinfath, marking the start of a week of intense competition to come in Playa Jacó, Costa Rica. Steinfath represented ISA President Fernando Aguerre, who is currently in Rio attending the 2016 Olympic Games following the International Olympic Committee’s decision earlier in the week to include Surfing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
A representative from each of the 26 National Surfing Teams takes to the stage as ISA Vice President Casper Steinfath declares open the 2016 INS ISA World Surfing Games. Photo: ISA / Pablo Jimenez
In attendance were 142 athletes from 26 National Teams that travelled from around the world to compete for Gold Medals in the name of their nations. Dignitaries present at the ceremony included the Minister of Sport of Costa Rica, Carolina Mauri, the Mayor of Garabito, Tobías Murillo and President of the Costa Rican Surfing Federation, Randall Chaves.
ISA Vice President, Casper Steinfath, addressed the crowd of thousands on the beach in Playa Jacó.
“A special thank you to the beautiful country of Costa Rica and all its welcoming people for giving us all such a warm welcome. Costa Rica truly is a surfing nation of the World and we are grateful that they will be sharing their amazing waves with us all this week.
“Earlier this week, Surfing was voted by the Olympic Committee as 1 of 5 sports that will be included in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020! Thanks to the tireless work of Fernando and the whole ISA team, Surfing is now both a part of the Pan American Games in 2019 and Olympic Games in 2020. In other words, this means that in this crowd here today, future Olympic surfers are present.”
The ceremony began with the Parade of Nations, as each National Team marched down the vibrant, energized streets of Playa Jacó waving their national flags and performing national chants in unison. The parade continued to the Opening Ceremony stage located at the contest venue where the Costa Rican National Anthem opened the festivities.
The procession proceeded with the Sands of the World Ceremony. Two members from each team took to the main stage pouring sand from their local beach into a glass container while waving their national flag, symbolizing the peaceful gathering nations of the world through Surfing. After the Sands of the World Ceremony, a traditional Costa Rican dance group showed the visiting nations a cultural dance.
The 2015 ISA World Surfing Games Women’s Gold Medalist, Tia Blanco, proudly participates in the Sands of the World Ceremony. Photo: ISA / Sean Evans
ISA President, Fernando Aguerre, addressed the Nations in attendance via voice recording.
“It would have been an honor to welcome you in Jacó, but I am currently in Rio de Janeiro attending the Olympic Games. 100 years ago, the founder of modern Surfing, Duke Kahanamoku, asked for Surfing to be included in the Olympic Games. The last 22 years the ISA has been paddling into the Olympic wave, and now finally, three days ago, we are riding the Olympic wave.
“Remember that this is a historic event. The first ever ISA World Championship in the era of Olympic Surfing.”
Carolina Mauri, the Minister of Sport of Costa Rica, said:
“Welcome to Costa Rica. This year it’s an honor and a privilege for our country to receive you all here in this edition of the ISA World Surfing Games. We wish you the best, and especially that you compete following the rules of fair play and good sportsmanship.”
Carolina Mauri, the Minister of Sport of Costa Rica, addresses the crowd at Playa Jacó. Photo: ISA / Pablo Jimenez
Fun-sized, contestable waves are expected for the competition, as Surfline, the official forecaster of the 2016 INS ISA World Surfing Games, has predicted a run of fading Southwest swell for the beginning of the contest period, to be followed by a reinforcing swell for the second half of the holding period.
The full Surfline Forecast can be found on http://isaworlds.com/wsg/2016/en/forecast/
Competition will get underway Sunday, August 7 at 8am*. The schedule is as follows:
Sunday, August 7 – Sunday, August 14: Competition 8am – 5pm*
Sunday, August 14: Closing Ceremony
*Local time in Costa Rica
For heat sheets for the first day of competition, click here: http://isaworlds.com/wsg/2016/pdf/INS_ISA_WSG_2016_DAY_1.pdf
Tune into the live webcast here: http://isaworlds.com/wsg/2016/en/live/
About the International Surfing Association:
The International Surfing Association (ISA), founded in 1964, is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. The ISA governs and defines Surfing as Shortboard, Longboard & Bodyboarding, StandUp Paddle (SUP) Racing and Surfing, Bodysurfing, Wakesurfing, and all other wave riding activities on any type of waves, and on flat water using wave riding equipment. The ISA crowned its first Men's and Women's World Champions in 1964. It crowned the first Big Wave World Champion in 1965; World Junior Champion in 1980; World Kneeboard Champions in 1982; World Longboard Surfing and World Bodyboard Champions in 1988; World Tandem Surfing Champions in 2006; World Masters Champions in 2007; and World StandUp Paddle (SUP, both surfing and racing) and Paddleboard Champions in 2012.
ISA membership includes the surfing National Federations of 108 countries on five continents. The ISA is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (ARG). The Executive Committee includes four Vice-Presidents Karín Sierralta (PER), Kirsty Coventry (ZIM), Casper Steinfath (DEN) and Barbara Kendall (NZL), Athletes' Commission Chair Justine Dupont (FRA), Regular Members Atsushi Sakai (JPN) and Jean Luc Arassus (FRA) and ISA Executive Director Robert Fasulo as Ex-officio Member.
Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California (USA).
For more information, please visit www.isasurf.org
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Everything Jeff Bezos Could Want for Amazon Can Be Found in This Often-Overlooked City
Charm City offers just about everything Amazon wants -- and more.
By Tom PopomaronisSerial entrepreneur@tpopomaronis
Courtesy Plank Industries
Ah, the quest for HQ2. Cities have admittedly been doing some crazy things to get Amazon's attention, but outside all of that flair, a city needs to be judged based on its merits. And as the trend toward ecommerce grows, Amazon--the world's largest online retailer--soon will decide which city to call home for HQ2 (some time in 2018).
The competition to woo the company is fierce, given the absolutely massive scope of the business, but there are compelling reasons why Jeff Bezos and his team should cast a serious eye of consideration on Charm City, otherwise known as Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore is a hub of the East Coast, planted right between other major centers such as Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York City. BWI international airport (the busiest in the region), direct access to I-95, positioned on the water, freight rail, one of the largest mass transit systems in the country and 100 million U.S. residents within trucking range all make Baltimore a prime path for transit and distribution -- something that is complementary to their growing, local distribution presence.
Workforce talent availability
Amazon is striving to innovate in dozens of ways, offering not just products, but also improving cutting-edge services like cloud storage, analytics tools, and fulfillment. They're also investing in AI-based resources such as drones and dynamic pricing algorithms. It's little wonder, then, that the company's RFP specifically stressed the need for a highly educated labor pool and the ability to retain technical talent.
With a labor force of more than 3 million, Maryland ranks #1 in the entire country for concentration of workers within STEM occupations and has the nation's highest concentration of professional and technical workers. It's also home to skilled manufacturing laborers in nearly every type of industrial job, and Baltimore has been identified as a new tech hot spot. Baltimore was also recently ranked #1 on the 'Top 10 Best US Cities for Women to Start a Business' by Citrix.
In addition to numerous public and private primary and secondary schools, the city has not one, not two, but twelve accredited two and four-year colleges and universities. The Baltimore Sun reported that the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents has voted to waive a 12-month residency requirement to qualify for in-state tuition for any Amazon workers--including spouses and children--who move to Maryland, should Amazon say 'yes' to positioning H2Q within the state. Lastly, many areas of the city are undergoing gentrification, drawing huge numbers of talented immigrants.
A job at Amazon alone won't keep workers happy--the new HQ2 headquarters also has to let employees and their families feel balanced and connected. The education system, rich historical heritage, and longstanding tradition of baseball, football, and other recreational events go a long way toward this purpose. Museums, markets, parks, and three separate arts and entertainment districts and a nationally-recognized culinary scene further ensure there's plenty to do. Through this culture, residents enjoy a top median household and per capita income, as well as living costs that are significantly less than what they'd experience in other northeast or west coast urban areas.
Port Covington
While all of Baltimore offers Amazon incentives, the $5.5 billion Port Covington project with a $660 million TIF already awarded last September, is undoubtedly most attractive because of its building flexibility. The massive initiative is being steered by Plank Industries, the private investment arm of Under Armour CEO, Kevin Plank. The region, which already has a flexible, environmentally friendly, tech-oriented, mixed-use 235-acre redevelopment project underway, has attracted significant attention and a robust plan for commercial expansion. From this prime location, Amazon could essentially design and build a space from the ground up that meets worker needs while representing its core vision and values -- a location that Goldman Sachs recently invested $233 million into.
The peninsula itself is surrounded by 3 sides of water -- allowing Amazon to have a self contained urban campus on the water. You're not going to find a better campus anywhere else in the country. You're not going to get inherent attributes that will be offered -- something that certainly sets Baltimore apart and is already supported by an aggressive development plan.
Marcus Stephens, Executive Creative Director of Plank Industries shared,
"The view of infrastructure and future technology in Port Covington sets us apart from other RFP respondents. In other proposals, you can expect to see a lot of 'if / then' -- that if you come to a particular city, then we will do X, Y, and Z. One of the integral differences in Port Covington is that we've already made years of progress on the future view of what a smart city should look like. This isn't something we have to start from zero; and we would love to have a great corporate partner like Amazon to get this to the finish line."
The sentiments were shared by CEO of Plank Industries, Tom Geddes, who added,
"Amazon might take a project in another city from 0-60, but with Baltimore, we expect them to take us from 50-90. We have significant momentum already and know the impact it will have on the city & region--Amazon would obviously be not only a huge accelerant to this, but also a beneficiary of it. You can feel the energy that already exists today which Amazon will inevitably fuel as they look to build their corporate culture on the East Coast."
William Cole, President & CEO of Baltimore Development Corporation, shared his perspective,
"Port Covington is not only the best site in Maryland, it's the best site on the East Coast. I don't think people realize how much Baltimore has grown and we're one of the fastest growing cities for millennials in the US -- with top talent continuing to be secured by the likes of Fort Meade and the NSA, many of which are unsurprisingly chasing to reside in Baltimore. All factors make Baltimore incredibly attractive when coupled with our low cost of living and second-to-none accessibility."
Cole added,
"With the raw land, an amazing location that is just screaming to be developed, and the entitlements already in place, the heavy lifting is already done with Port Covington -- it would save Amazon a minimum of 18 months of development and allow them to get started right away. I don't think there's a better site out there that's ready to go."
Port Covington is bolted onto an existing city with an incredible, authentic history, deeply rooted in innovation that played a very strong part in American history, located on I-95 -- to say that it's compelling is an understatement.
Your move, Amazon. Talk to you in 2018.
Published on: Oct 18, 2017
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Musician, minister John Kilzer remembered in Jackson: 'He’s an example for us all'
Kilzer was a good person who felt called to help others, friends say.
Musician, minister John Kilzer remembered in Jackson: 'He’s an example for us all' Kilzer was a good person who felt called to help others, friends say. Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2019/03/15/john-kilzer-death-jackson-tennessee/3172767002/
Brandon Shields, Jackson Sun Published 11:34 a.m. CT March 15, 2019 | Updated 9:41 a.m. CT March 16, 2019
John Kilzer through the years
November 2, 2011 - Rev. John Kilzer plays the Marguerite Francis Music at Noon concert series held every Wednesday at Bartlett United Methodist Church through December 14th. (Alan Spearman/The Commercial Appeal) Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal
Veteran Memphis songwriter John Kilzer draws on local music past and present for the return-to-form album Hide Away. Photos by Jamie Harmon. Courtesy of Signal Flow PR.
Hide Away – John Kilzer File
John Kilzer performs in front of Jackson City Hall on Sunday, May 31, 2009 to kick off the 18th Annual Shannon Street Blues and Heritage Festival in downtown Jackson. KATIE MORGAN/The Jackson Sun
John Kilzer, left, performed at the CD release party for Larry Finch. With him is Judy Peiser. MIchael Donahue
John Kilzer, whose regular venue is in Memphis, led opening night with live entertainment for new the new nightspot, Bourbon Street Grill, in Jackson. Janelle Sou
October 22, 2010 - Rev. John Kilzer, minister at St. John's United Methodist Church, former rocker and addict, started a new weekly worship service for those in recovery. Kyle Kurlick/Special to The Commercial Appeal
John Kilzer and Kirk Whalum
Whatever John Kilzer did, he was good at it.
He first made a name for himself as a basketball player at Jackson Central-Merry in the 1970s, being named a high school All-American before going on to play college ball at Memphis State.
“Basketball is where I first came to know about him,” said Sky McCracken, senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Jackson. McCracken is a few years younger than Kilzer and grew up in Martin, but knew about Kilzer’s feats on the basketball court.
John Kilzer (left) and Sky McCracken pictured together after a church event in 2016. (Photo: Submitted)
Kilzer, who was found dead this week, later got into music and became a national name for his writing and performing. After battling addiction and alcoholism, he’d been sober since 2000 and had joined the United Methodist Church’s ministry.
“I got to know him through ministry work because we had mutual friends, and he was just a down-to- earth good man who wanted to help others,” said McCracken. “That’s why he got into the ministry. Because he said God helped him out of his addictions, and he said he was called to do the same for others.”
On Monday, a memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Memphis. There will be another service for him on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the sanctuary of Jackson First United Methodist Church (200 S. Church St. in Downtown Jackson).
'He was called to' recovery ministry
McCracken was in Memphis on Wednesday, the day after Kilzer’s death, making himself available to help out with anything anyone needed at St. John’s Church, where Kilzer served as a minister.
According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, several of Kilzer’s friends and associates confirmed that the musician had been struggling with his addiction again. In recent days, Kilzer had checked into an out-of-state rehab facility, where his body was found on Tuesday.
The Rev. John Kilzer plays the Marguerite Francis Music at Noon concert series at Bartlett United Methodist Church on Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo: Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal)
“This is going to be a big loss for St. John’s and Memphis and the recovery community here,” McCracken said. “He coordinated a recovery service on Friday nights where he’d use his contacts to bring different musicians in for a time of worship, and then there’d be a time where he helped walk others out of the addictions they were dealing with through worship and prayer and holy communion.
“It’s a tough ministry, but John felt he was called to it.”
'An example for us all'
Madison County Commissioner Scott Brown was a fan of Kilzer’s music for decades.
“I didn’t know Mr. Kilzer that well myself other than meeting him a few times, but he was a musical genius that I love listening to,” Brown said. “Through connections I had at work, I knew some of his best friends, and they’d hook me up with tapes or CDs of music he recorded but had never released.
“I remember one time he was playing at The Doubletree, and I requested a song from one of those tapes, and he looked at me and said, ‘How’d you know about that song?’ And that started up a nice conversation after his set.”
The Rev. John Kilzer, minister at St. John's United Methodist Church, on Oct. 22, 2010. (Photo: Kyle Kurlick/Special to The Commercial Appeal)
Brown said he got to see an example of Kilzer’s thoughtfulness.
“One day out of nowhere I got a postcard from Kilzer,” Brown said. “I called my buddy who knew him well and asked if he was playing a prank, and he said no.
“So that told me he’s good enough to reach out and say hi. He even had to get my home address, and I appreciated that.”
McCracken said that’s the type of person Kilzer was.
“He was just a good man who tried to do the best he could at helping other people and making them smile and doing for others what God had done for him,” McCracken said. “He’s an example for us all.”
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Women in Law Mentors 2019
The Women in Law Group is specifically for professionally-active women lawyers, and its purpose is to provide a network where active women lawyers can be Mentors or Mentees to other women lawyers, and also share relevant information on the subjects of law and the business of law and thus aid their legal careers. It is part of the In-House Community Jade Membership programme.
Click on individuals Linkedin profiles below to find out more about our mentors
Note, some of our mentors are also mentees
Mentors listed by city:
Abu Dhabi Irina Kovelchuk https://www.linkedin.com/in/irina-kovalchuk-92956b16b/
Abu Dhabi Dawn Sanderson https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-sanderson-16932215/
Bangkok June Chitanong Poomipark https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitanong-poomipark-aa234111b/
Beijing Carla Wang https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-wang-9a718829/
Dubai Hina Webb https://www.linkedin.com/in/hina-webb-969a8943/
Dubai Bethan Onions https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethanonions/
Dubai Yasmine Afifi https://www.linkedin.com/in/yafifi/
Dubai Karina Griese-Brake https://www.linkedin.com/in/karina-griese-brake-a82b2b42/
Dubai Divya Bhatia https://www.linkedin.com/in/divya-bhatia-1697212b/
Dubai Victoria Woods https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriawoods1/
Dubai Dina Mahdi https://www.linkedin.com/in/dina-mahdi-81457026/
Dubai Ghada Qaisi Audi https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghada-qaisi-8006372b/
Dubai Rindala Beydoun https://www.linkedin.com/in/rindala-beydoun-90754451/
Hanoi Daphne (Dung Hue) Dang https://www.linkedin.com/in/dung-dang-hue-daphne-dang-b0448644/
HCMC Lam Ly Thi Phuong https://www.linkedin.com/in/ly-thi-phuong-lam-b1834815/
HCMC Dung Thi Ngoc Nguyen https://www.linkedin.com/in/dung-nguyen-b1556619/
HCMC Ly Dinh Thi Hien https://www.linkedin.com/in/ly-dinh-thi-hien-6a898039/
HCMC Sa Huynh Thi Thu https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa-huynh-thi-thu-10a58ba2/
HCMC Lan Thi Tuyet Lê https://www.linkedin.com/in/lan-lê-57259817/
Hong Kong Hanifa Ramjahn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanifa-ramjahn-03976596/
Hong Kong Noble Mak https://www.linkedin.com/in/noblemak/
Hong Kong Jennifer Lim https://www.linkedin.com/in/zj-jennifer-lim/
Hong Kong Jennifer Van Dale https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvandale/
Hong Kong Anaick Summers https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaicksummers/
Hong Kong Stephanie Cheung https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-cheung-9862185/
Hong Kong Vivienne Wu https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivienne-wu-06a4b356/
Hong Kong Hong Mei https://www.linkedin.com/in/hong-mei-b426906b/
Hong Kong Ainsley Alexander https://www.linkedin.com/in/ainsley-alexander-b197a48/
Jakarta Mita (Heryatmita Sisdjiatmo) Thalib https://www.linkedin.com/in/mita-thalib-32354228/
Jakarta Reski Damayanti https://www.linkedin.com/in/reski-damayanti-a1115b6/
J’burg Carina Wessels https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-wessels-98631652/
KL Roslina Ismail https://www.linkedin.com/in/roslina-ismail-112471a8/
KL Navrita Kaur https://www.linkedin.com/in/navrita-kaur-92b9ab73/
KL Hanim Hamzah https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanim-hamzah-44344924/
London Shareena Edmonds https://www.linkedin.com/in/shareena-edmonds-61a81536/?originalSubdomain=uk
Manila Karen Jill Espineli https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-jill-espineli-65700a2b/
Manila Christina Macasaet-Acaban https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-macasaet-acaban/
Manila Reena Mitra-Ventanilla https://www.linkedin.com/in/reena-mitra-ventanilla-46ab6611/
Shanghai Lei Li https://www.linkedin.com/in/lei-li-24b9a315/
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Claudia Jordan Too Real For ‘RHOA’: NeNe Leakes Is A Little Odd
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Claudia Jordan has only been on the show for a single season, but she is learning that The Real Housewives isn’t necessarily about being real. In fact, when a problem arises, it seems to be more popular to just ignore it and spread gossip about it. But this isn’t how Jordan lives her life.
Of course, Claudia Jordan had no problems with any of the housewives when she joined the show, but her strong personality quickly gave her an enemy: NeNe Leakes. NeNe is used to the other ladies being submissive with her, but Claudia stood up for herself, which was something Leakes was not happy with.
According to a new Wetpaint Entertainment report, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Claudia Jordan is now revealing that she may not fit into the whole concept of the show because she likes to talk about the problems when they pop up.
“Maybe I’m a little too real for some of these chicks, but I think that’s how you fix problems,” Claudia Jordan revealed about the therapy session, adding, “Why do we have to sweep things under the rug and pretend there’s no elephant in the room when there is?”
Of course, Claudia’s personal drama has been with NeNe Leakes. During the trip to Puerto Rico, Jordan confronted NeNe Leakes about the drama, and she was quick to set NeNe in her place. Many of the housewives adored her because she stood up for herself. But Leakes made a comment that has dominated the season about Claudia’s sex organs.
“I think my clit, if it left my body, would be on NeNe’s nightstand, because she seems to be obsessed with it,” Claudia Jordan joked about Leakes’ comments, adding, “I’ve never had a woman I wasn’t paying to be my gynecologist care so much about my ladyparts. It’s really odd.”
While Leakes had no desire to stay in the therapy session with Dr. Jeff and the other ladies, Claudia Jordan was all for working things out. Because of NeNe’s bad behavior, Claudia wants to give Dr. Jeff an apology because he was just another victim of NeNe’s bad decision-making. According to the Inquisitr, Claudia believes that her co-star rushed out of the therapy session because Leakes has a self-esteem issue.
What do you think about Claudia Jordan’s comments about being too real for The Real Housewives of Atlanta? Do you think she should come back to the show?
[Image via Bravo]
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Senate Democrats Double Down on “Buy American”
By Jeff Bozman and Sandy Hoe on October 31, 2017 Posted in Country of Origin, Procurement Policy
As we reported last month, four Senate Democrats published an article about “strengthen[ing]” the U.S. Government’s “Buy American policies” through certain proposed amendments to the FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”). Although most of the proposed “Buy American” amendments were left out of the version of the bill that was sent to conference, 16 Senate Democrats – including Senators Tammy Baldwin (WI), Debbie Stabenow (MI), Al Franken (MN), Chris Murphy (CT) and Elizabeth Warren (MA) – are now doubling down on their efforts to remove a section in the Senate-passed FY 2018 NDAA that would eliminate “Buy American” protections for certain defense items.
Senators Issue Letter To Maintain “Buy American” Status Quo For Certain Items
On October 20th, one-third of the Senate Democratic caucus wrote the Chairman and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Committees on Armed Services to “request that section 863 of the Senate-passed bill, which eliminates a number of critical Buy American requirements in defense procurement laws, be excluded from the final NDAA conference bill.” The senators explained that “[d]oing so is a commonsense . . . policy” because it “supports our domestic industrial base and our national and economic security.” Further, in a recent press release, Sen. Franken noted specifically that section 863 would “open[] taxpayer-funded defense contracts to unfairly-subsidized foreign competition” and “risk[] American jobs.”
Section 863 would terminate a requirement to procure certain defense items (i.e., passenger buses, certain chemical weapons antidotes, certain components for naval vessels, certain valves and machine tools, and photovoltaic devices) from within the National Technology and Industrial Base (“NTIB”) – meaning the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Senator Baldwin (along with 15 Democratic colleagues) previously sponsored SA 329, which would have struck section 863 and thereby continued the current NTIB sourcing requirement.
Notably, this effort represents an alignment by Democrats with certain high-profile Trump priorities. For example, in their October 20th letter, the senators pointed out that the “Trump Administration opposes section 863 of the Senate-passed bill,” in part, because “[t]he existing procurement requirements act as a key guarantor of strategic supply chain security.” They also explained that “[e]roding Buy American requirements also runs counter” to President Trump’s “Buy American” Executive Order and Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base Executive Order.
Senator Murphy Separately Introduced an Amendment to Increase Buy American Transparency
Senator Murphy also continued to press forward with his efforts to strengthen Buy American protections. On October 19, Sen. Murphy proposed S.A.1232 to H.Con.Res.71 (the FY 2018 budget resolution) to provide a “deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to increasing transparency with regard to waivers to the Buy American Act, the Berry Amendment, the Buy America Act, and Section 2533b of Title 10, United States Code.” In a statement about this amendment, the senator explained that “[s]hining a light on the widespread misuse of taxpayer money and the millions of dollars going to foreign companies should give Congress the kick in the butt they need to start fixing our broken Buy American laws. Both Republicans and Democrats should support this commonsense amendment.”
Like the Trump Administration, Senate Democrats continue to focus their efforts on strengthening certain “Buy American” requirements. Given this shared interest, we would not be surprised if both sides reached across the aisle on more comprehensive efforts at some point in the future. An opportunity to work together could come as early as next month when Commerce Secretary Ross (in consultation with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer) must submit a report to President Trump that provides “specific recommendations to strengthen implementation of Buy American Laws, including domestic procurement preference policies and programs.” This report could very well provide a spark that ignites legislative or regulatory “Buy American” action.
Tags: Baldwin, Buy America Act, Buy American, Buy American and Hire American, Franken, Murphy, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Section 863, Stabenow, Warren
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Children in Tokyo on July 25 enjoy a large-scale misting tower dispensing ultra-fine mist during a proving test of heat countermeasures for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. | REUTERS
Commentary / Japan
Beating the heat at the Tokyo Olympics
by Takeo Hirata
We all recall the joy and excitement when the decision was announced in Buenos Aires by the International Olympic Committee that Japan would host the 2020 Olympics (July 24 to Aug. 9) and Paralympics (Aug. 25 to Sept. 6). I also remember acknowledging that much planning and preparation would be required to meet the challenges that staging the games in the heat of summer would present.
Upon my return from Argentina, I was asked by the Prime Minister’s Office to lead the national government’s preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Games. Initially, my primary concern was Tokyo’s summer heat and humidity that would impact all participants — athletes, staff and spectators. This challenge would call on the best of Japanese expertise, innovation and imagination to bring out the best in the athletes competing in very challenging conditions. It would also showcase the determination and methods of the world-famous Japanese management and production styles.
Implementation and the fine-tuning of existing plans and the development of additional plans for the Tokyo 2020 Games began in September 2013, shortly after the IOC announced the selection of Tokyo as host.
Three overlapping questions came to mind. First, how can technology help mitigate the heat and humidity? Second, what information needs to be prepared and made available to visitors from abroad regarding the summer weather? Third, what is required to meet the particular needs of people with disabilities?
Regarding the role of technology, allow me to share an example. I vividly recall meeting the director general of the Road Division at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry in 2013 to share my concerns about the intense summer heat and to seek new ideas to make conditions better for athletes. We concurred that something had to be done; our agreement led to the development of heat-shielding material on the roads for the marathon events.
Two years later in 2015, a portion of Aoyama-dori was paved with a special coating that reflects infrared rays. Toshihiko Seko, a 1984 Los Angeles Olympic marathon runner, and wheelchair marathoner Nobukazu Hanaoka participated in the test on an intensely hot and humid day. The results showed that the temperature of the specially coated road surface was 10 percent lower than that of the uncoated surfaces and thus lightened the burden on athletes. All marathon road surfaces will be coated before the games begin.
Related efforts include assuring that trees along the marathon route are not trimmed back as is usual in Tokyo. Instead the branches will be kept as long as possible to provide shade for spectators. In addition, selected buildings along the marathon routes are being asked to open their air conditioned ground floors to spectators on event days. Furthermore, the starting time of the marathons has been moved to 6 a.m.
Turning to my second question, the number of inbound tourists has risen sharply and is forecast to reach 40 million in 2020, including a large number of games spectators from around the world. There is concern that many travelers from abroad may not be aware that summer in Japan is marked not just by high temperatures but also by high humidity that makes the outdoors uncomfortable. It became imperative to prepare information for dissemination to as many visitors from abroad as possible.
Easy-to-carry leaflets written in English were prepared in 2016 to provide information regarding the features of summer in Japan, how to prevent heat-induced illnesses, symptoms of “heat illness,” and what to do when these symptoms occur. These leaflets are already widely available at public transportation terminals and lodging facilities. Note that the term “heat illness” is being used to refer to the range of symptoms rather than “heatstroke” which was originally used to denote life-threatening conditions.
In addition, guidebooks in seven languages on the use of ambulances have been published. As of last March, a list of approximately 1,600 hospitals and clinics where visitors from abroad can receive treatment in their native language has been released; this list will be expanded further. The websites of organizations involved in organizing the Tokyo 2020 Games provide the same information. www.jnto.go.jp/emergency/jpn/mi_guide.html
The use of digital phones for distributing heat alerts and emergency situations will be key to keeping the 2020 audiences safe and informed. Like the leaflets, the information will be in English and other languages. We will create these materials in ways that comport with the style of each culture. We should be prepared for new technologies to provide ongoing and perpetually updated information to visitors, to participants and to the thousands of leaders, staff and volunteers. Imagine real-time monitoring of street surface temperatures via embedded sensors providing the athletic teams and the medical teams with early-warning information. Japanese technology will again take the world stage in creating tools for communications via phones and computers.
In line with our overall goal to promote and foster an inclusive, barrier-free society, the special needs of persons with disabilities vis-a-vis the summer weather continue to be addressed. For example, all wheelchair users are closer to the ground and therefore more susceptible to heat radiation when outdoors. In fact, the body temperatures of wheelchair users are 2 to 3 degrees higher compared with persons who are standing. Moreover, wheelchair athletes who compete outdoors are even closer to the ground due to the design of their wheelchairs. Therefore, the special road coating used on marathon routes is also being applied on roadways and approaches to the various venues.
In addition, the NET119 emergency call system has been introduced to enable persons with hearing and speaking disabilities to call an ambulance via touch-screen operations on smartphones and other devices.
We will continue to promote and enhance measures to inform and remind disabled people and organizers of events about heat illness prevention and care through the distribution of printed materials.
The Tokyo 2020 Games are now less than a year away. Our hope is that everyone will share the excitement and enjoy the games. The New National Stadium, the symbol of the Tokyo 2020 Games, will be completed in November. The stadium is equipped with features such as mist-spraying devices to cool the venue and ensure that spectators can enjoy the games free from concern over the summer heat.
Taking simple precautions — wearing light summer clothing, drinking ample fluids and avoiding long exposure to direct sunlight — will help ensure that athletes and spectators will safely enjoy the games. Our hope is that not only the organizers but citizens and residents as well will lend a hand to anyone who needs assistance. It is our earnest hope that our efforts will demonstrate that everyone can enjoy sports even in midsummer and thus set a precedent for the sites of future Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Takeo Hirata, a professor at the Waseda University Graduate School of Sports Sciences, is concurrently serving as secretary-general of the headquarters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and special adviser to the Cabinet. He is responsible for coordinating the government’s overall efforts regarding the Tokyo 2020 Games.
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 647467). Over the coming five years, the research project will be funded with approx. two million Euros.
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"Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" - a European Research Council project at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
The encounters and interactions between Jews and Christians in the Middle East, Ethiopia, India and the Caucasus, which have hitherto been only insufficiently researched, is the subject matter of the project “Jews and Christians in the East: Strategies of Interaction between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean” (JewsEast). One of the main premises of JewsEast is that in order to obtain a truly accurate understanding of the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations in the non-Latin world during the Middle Ages and early modern period, these various regions and traditions must be studied together because they were all profoundly interconnected through the exchange and translation of texts, artistic motifs and techniques, and other goods, via long-distance trade along the “silk road”, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean, which, of course, also entailed the movement and encounter of peoples, Jews and Christians among them. More about the project
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New $32M Ralston Arena preps for first major event
Updated: 8:21 AM CDT Oct 17, 2012
The $32 million Ralston Arena is set to host its first major event Friday as the city celebrates its 100th birthday.The arena will be home to Lancers hockey, UNO men's basketball, Omaha Beef football and the Omaha Roller Girls.The arena contains 3,800 seats, 12 luxury suites and two floor-level club rooms.Ralston Mayor Don Groesser said the construction of the new building has gone very quickly."In a 15-month period, from a hole in the ground until now, it's gone really fast, so we are very excited," he said.Officials plan to have as many as 180 events a year in the arena. The first is a concert headlined by Rodney Atkins on Friday.The general public is invited to an open house at the arena from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
RALSTON, Neb. —
The $32 million Ralston Arena is set to host its first major event Friday as the city celebrates its 100th birthday.
The arena will be home to Lancers hockey, UNO men's basketball, Omaha Beef football and the Omaha Roller Girls.
Photos: Tour Ralston's new arena
The arena contains 3,800 seats, 12 luxury suites and two floor-level club rooms.
Ralston Mayor Don Groesser said the construction of the new building has gone very quickly.
"In a 15-month period, from a hole in the ground until now, it's gone really fast, so we are very excited," he said.
Officials plan to have as many as 180 events a year in the arena. The first is a concert headlined by Rodney Atkins on Friday.
The general public is invited to an open house at the arena from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
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Upcoming commemorations of events
::: Click image for Decade of Centenaries site
Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the commemorative activities and projects the Government has planned to mark the centenary of each of the following events: the passage into law of the Home Rule Act on 18 September 1914; the outbreak of the First World War on 4 August 1914; the Easter Rising in April 1916; the first sitting of Dáil Éireann and the Declaration of Independence on 21 January 1919; the end of the Irish War of Independence and creation of the Irish Free State in December 1921; and the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923.
Reply from Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan: The final phase of the Home Rule legislation will be commemorated this year in Ireland and, in association with the parliament at Westminster, in London. Arrangements relating to the centenary of the legislation in September are in preparation. The centenary of the World War has been acknowledged already this year by several local authorities and academic centres. Regimental associations and ex-service organisations are arranging visits to battlefield sites. National cultural institutions are organising special events and presentations. Special arrangements relating to the entry into the war are being made in Ireland, Britain and abroad in late July and early August. In this regard, I would specifically mention the dedication of a large monumental cross at Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin on 31 July.
The centenary of the Easter Rising will be the culmination of the first phase of the Decade of Centenaries programme that commenced in 2012. A number of capital projects have been commissioned for completion to feature in the commemorative programme. Consideration is underway of the events and activities that will complete the programme.
The 1918 election and the 1st Dail will be addressed in due course as they arise on the centenary timeline. The commemorative programme to date has been strengthened and enhanced by the initiatives of partners in relation to their heritage. The consideration of the Oireachtas in relation to the Centenary of the 1st Dail would be very welcome.
Similarly, the conclusion of the War of Independence, the Anglo-Irish treaty and the Civil War will be addressed on the Centenary timeline. At this remove, I can only advise that the commemorative programme will seek to ensure that the arrangements are comprehensive, authentic and inclusive.
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We consider the options available and their implications for both personal and corporate insolvency.
Facing corporate or personal insolvency is stressful. At J R Watson & Co Accountants, we can provide guidance on the options and their implications in the Northampton and Rugby area.
Personal Insolvency - Bankruptcy
This is a formal legal process by which individuals deal with debts they are unable to pay. The bankruptcy process ensures that the assets of the individual are divided amongst those to whom money is owed (creditors). It is a way to make a fresh start free from the onerous debts, but the process does have an effect on your credit rating for six years after the order is made.
It is possible to declare yourself bankrupt, but creditors can also apply to make an individual who owes them money bankrupt too.
Once declared bankrupt the Official Receiver (or an insolvency practitioner) is appointed to take control of the individual’s assets and they are referred to as the ‘trustee in bankruptcy’. It is a legal requirement to co-operate with them in the orderly disposal of your assets. All assets are essentially transferred to the trustee, but you will be allowed to keep items which are necessary for work along with everyday household items such as furniture and clothing. The effect of bankruptcy is to freeze your bank accounts. It is possible to open a new account after the date of the bankruptcy, but you must tell the bank or building society that you are bankrupt.
If you own your home this can be sold to pay your creditors although there are protections if you have a partner or children living with you. A trustee can also sell your motor vehicle but can ‘exempt’ this if deemed necessary for work or family circumstances.
What if I’m self-employed?
If you are self-employed your business will be closed with any business assets being claimed by the trustee. You can commence trading again but there are a number of strict requirements which you will need to follow.
What will I have to pay?
The trustee will realise your assets for the benefit of your creditors but, if you can afford it, the trustee may require you to make payments towards your debts from your income for up to three years. There is a process for establishing an appropriate level of contribution based on your income and expenditure.
When does bankruptcy end?
Discharge from bankruptcy usually occurs after 12 months but can be extended if you don’t co-operate with your trustee.
Are there other options?
Yes, there are which is why it is important to seek professional advice on the most appropriate course of action as early as possible. There are alternatives to bankruptcy which may be preferable:
An Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)
An agreement to settle all or part of your debts which can include regular payments or lump sum contributions. This is a formal agreement administered by an insolvency practitioner which can be quite onerous but essentially prevents creditors from taking action against you and avoids bankruptcy. However, failure to comply with the terms of the arrangement can ultimately still result in bankruptcy.
Debt management plan
An arrangement via a debt management company which will collect contributions from you and distribute them between your creditors. This type of arrangement is only available for unsecured borrowings.
Debt relief order
Available where debts are less than £20,000, where you have negligible spare income or assets which can be realised. This route has similar restrictions to bankruptcy.
A company is deemed to be insolvent when it is unable to pay its debts as they fall due or has liabilities which exceed its assets. There are a number of legal procedures for dealing with a company’s insolvency but the main avenue for this is to liquidate the company. Creditors can take action to recover the amounts owed to them through the courts which can result in an application to wind up the company if those debts remain unpaid. The directors of the company can also apply to wind up the company themselves.
If a company is to be wound up, or liquidated, it will cease trading and ultimately be struck off from the Companies House register and will cease to exist. An insolvency practitioner is appointed to act as the liquidator which involves realising the company’s assets, settling any outstanding legal matters, before distributing any available funds to the creditors.
What are my responsibilities as a director?
The liquidator is appointed by a court to wind up the company. The liquidator has the responsibility of investigating why the company became insolvent and will ask you to provide the company’s records and other information about the circumstances which led to the company being liquidated. You will be released from your obligations as a director on the appointment of the liquidator but have an ongoing legal obligation to co-operate with the liquidator.
What happens to me after an insolvent liquidation?
You will be able to act as a director of another company unless specifically prohibited from doing so. The liquidator will consider whether the insolvency resulted from conduct by the directors which is deemed to be unfit and contributed to the failure of the business. If that is the case a disqualification order can be sought which prevents you from acting as a director of a company for up to 15 years in the most serious cases.
Can I be liable personally for the company’s debts?
There are provisions in UK insolvency legislation for ‘wrongful trading’ which means that you could potentially be personally liable for some of the company’s debts. This occurs if you allowed the company to continue trading past the point at which it was apparent that an insolvent liquidation could not be avoided and took no action to minimise the losses faced by creditors.
Yes, there are which is why it is important to seek professional advice on the most appropriate course of action as early as possible. The following options are available:
Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)
A binding agreement supervised by an insolvency practitioner which provides for the payment of all, or part of the company’s debts over a period of time. This requires the agreement of at least 75% of the creditors. It does, however, mean that the company is able to continue trading during the CVA and afterwards but a failure to comply with the terms of the arrangement can ultimately result in the company being liquidated.
This process essentially passes control of the company to an insolvency practitioner, the Administrator, which has the effect of preventing the creditors from taking legal action to recover their debts. The Administrator’s role is to identify potential courses of action to make the company profitable again or to realise more funds than simply liquidating the company. It may be possible to sell the business as a going concern for example.
If you are in the Northampton and Rugby area please do contact us at J R Watson & Co Accountants for guidance on the reporting requirements for Scottish Charities.
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SEAL WARRIOR
Death in the Dark: Vietnam 1968-1972
by Thomas H. Keith
An unsentimental personal account of the Vietnam War.
With the assistance of magazine writer Riebling, retired SEAL master chief Keith chronicles a tale that’s oddly refreshing in its clear-eyed bluntness. The author and his tough-as-nails team had jobs to do, he writes, carrying out missions protecting friendly villages from Viet Cong attacks; they simply did not have time to let the brutal surroundings affect them. The narrative opens with the SEALs surrounded by explosions and tracer fire as they wait to be extracted by helicopter. Keith was not consumed by fear, as most people would be. Instead, he reflected on how the red tracer fire was “as beautiful as any Fourth of July fireworks display” and how lucky he felt to be doing a job he loved. The son of a Navy chief and the grandson of two Army veterans, from an early age Keith dreamed of entering the military, and his determination and skill led him to the elite Navy SEALs. There’s little doubt that he was born to be a soldier, as his hard-nosed, complete-the-mission training comes through on every page of this memoir. When one of his soldiers died, he took lessons from the circumstances of the death rather than spend precious time mourning or dwelling on the life-or-death scenarios he faced on a daily basis. Keith’s prose leans toward Mickey Spillane–like hypermasculinity—he describes a beautiful woman as having “hit the jackpot” on the “genetic wheel of fortune”—and the author dwells on technical aspects of weaponry to the point of distraction. Nonetheless, he provides a tough, unphilosophical account of the job of war.
A direct, dispassionate memoir by one of the Navy’s most highly decorated soldiers.
Pub Date: July 7th, 2009
Publisher: Dunne/St. Martin's
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Pivotal Acquisition Corp Announces Acquisitions by KLDiscovery
KLDiscovery Completes Acquisitions of Two Firms-- Strategic Legal Solutions and Compiled
Accretive Acquisitions Add $12 million of Revenue in 2020
Expands KLD’s Global Customer Base and Information Governance and eDiscovery Software Offerings
New York, NY and McLean, VA, July 29, 2019 – Pivotal Acquisition Corp (NYSE: PVT) ("Pivotal"), a public investment vehicle, and KLDiscovery ("KLD"), a leading global provider of electronic discovery, information governance and data recovery services, today announced that KLD has acquired New York-based Strategic Legal Solutions (SLS) and Richmond, Virginia-based Compiled. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed.
The acquisitions reflect KLD's capital allocation framework and demonstrate its commitment to driving long-term revenue growth by identifying entrepreneur-led acquisition targets that enhance its global footprint, technology capabilities and client base. SLS and Compiled are expected to be fully integrated by the fourth quarter of 2019, enabling substantial cost savings once fully on-boarded. The acquisitions will be accretive to 2019 earnings and are projected to add $12 million of revenue in 2020.
"These transactions represent significant milestones for our company as we grow our business and expand our Information Governance and eDiscovery software offerings," said Chris Weiler, CEO of KLD. "Strategic Legal Solutions' robust client base will now have access to KLD's extensive platform and Compiled's ReadySuite offering will provide additional flexibility in how we address the industry's unique data management needs. Together, these acquisitions broaden our customer base with the addition of key client relationships, strengthen our end-to-end technology platform and provide significant revenue opportunities for the future."
"As we move towards the closing of the merger between KLD and Pivotal, we are excited to see Chris and his team identify and execute accretive tuck-in acquisitions that will drive long term value creation for all shareholders," said Jonathan Ledecky, Chairman and CEO of Pivotal. "A disciplined M&A strategy is a core tenet to our investment thesis and an important driver of growth for KLD. We look forward to building on this momentum and continuing to execute on KLD's M&A strategy."
Strategic Legal Solutions offers eDiscovery and managed document review services primarily in New York and Michigan. The addition of a managed document review facility in Detroit, Michigan will bring KLD's managed document review capabilities to 13 locations across six countries. Jay Horowitz, the CEO and founder of SLS and a 23-year industry veteran, will join KLD as Senior Vice President, Global Solutions Strategy and will continue to manage SLS' key relationships with AmLaw 100 law firms and Fortune 100/500 corporations. "This is an exciting chapter for us as we join the KLD family," said Mr. Horowitz. "Our clients, which include some of the largest corporations in the world, will soon benefit from KLDiscovery's advanced technology, global footprint and 'white glove' customer service."
Compiled provides its self-service and subscription-based flagship offering, ReadySuite, which assists law firms, service providers, consultants and corporations handle discovery documents in their eDiscovery workflow. ReadySuite will continue to be sold as a stand-alone service offering and will be integrated into Nebula, KLD's proprietary e-discovery platform. Compiled CEO Justin Blessing will join KLD as Director of Engineering. "Integrating ReadySuite's unique tool set will further expand the capabilities of KLD's best-in-class Nebula platform – a win for our global customer base,” said Mr. Blessing.
Pivotal has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4, including a proxy statement/prospectus, with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to be used in connection with its meeting of stockholders to approve the proposed transaction with KLD. The proxy statement/prospectus will be mailed to stockholders as of a record date to be established for voting on the proposed business combination. INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS OF PIVOTAL ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT, PROSPECTUS AND OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS THAT WILL BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents containing important information about Pivotal and KLD once such documents are filed with the SEC, through the website maintained by the SEC at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed with the SEC by Pivotal when and if available, can be obtained free of charge on Pivotal's website at www.pivotalac.com or by directing a written request to Pivotal Acquisition Corp., c/o Graubard Miller, The Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10174.
Pivotal and KLD and their respective directors and executive officers, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies of Pivotal's stockholders in connection with the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders may obtain more detailed information regarding the names and interests in the proposed transaction of Pivotal's directors and officers in Pivotal's filings with the SEC, including Pivotal's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018, which was filed with the SEC on April 1, 2019. Information regarding the persons who may, under SEC rules, be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies to Pivotal's stockholders in connection with the proposed business combination will be set forth in the proxy statement/prospectus.
This communication shall neither constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About Compiled
Since 2008, Compiled has created specialised software tools to aid in meeting tight litigation deadlines while adhering to strict quality standards. ReadySuite, the bundled suite of these tools, gives nontechnical and technical eDiscovery professionals the ability to perform a number of quality control, load file manipulation and image processing steps to data involved in litigation or regulatory matters. Clients include law firms, eDiscovery service providers and in-house legal teams. More information can be found at www.compiled.com.
About Strategic Legal Solutions
Strategic Legal Solutions is a global provider of end-to-end eDiscovery, corporate and staffing support to AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 corporations across industry sectors. With 20 years of experience, Strategic Legal Solutions offers its clients state-of-the-art legal support services including forensic collection, data processing and hosting, early case assessment, analytics (e.g., threading and predictive coding), managed document review, production and provides consultation for information governance and cybersecurity. For more information, please visit www.strategiclegal.com.
About KLDiscovery
KLDiscovery provides technology-enabled services and software to help law firms, corporations, government agencies and consumers solve complex data challenges. The company, with offices in 40+ locations across 20 countries, is a global leader in delivering best-in-class eDiscovery, information governance and data recovery solutions to support the litigation, regulatory compliance, internal investigation and data recovery and management needs of our clients. Serving clients for over 30 years, KLDiscovery offers data collection and forensic investigation, early case assessment, electronic discovery and data processing, application software and data hosting for web-based document reviews, and managed document review services. In addition, through its global Ontrack Data Recovery business, KLDiscovery delivers world-class data recovery, email extraction and restoration, data destruction and tape management. KLDiscovery has been recognised as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by both Inc. Magazine (Inc. 5000) and Deloitte (Deloitte's Technology Fast 500) and CEO Chris Weiler was recognised as a 2014 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year™. Additionally, KLDiscovery is a Relativity Certified Partner and maintains ISO/IEC 27001 Certified data centres around the world. For more information, please email info@kldiscovery.com or visit www.kldiscovery.com.
About Pivotal Acquisition Corp.
Pivotal Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: PVT), a public investment vehicle, is a blank check company organised for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalisation, reorganisation, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. Pivotal's securities are quoted on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols PVT, PVT WS and PVT.U. For more information, visit www.pivotalac.com.
This press release includes "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbour" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release other than statements of historical facts, including, without limitation, statements regarding KLD's future financial and business performance for the full-year 2019, attractiveness of KLD's product offerings and platform and the value proposition of KLD's products, are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, the words "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside Pivotal's or KLD's management's control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: the inability to complete the transactions contemplated by the proposed business combination; the inability to recognise the anticipated benefits of the proposed business combination, which may be affected by, among other things, the amount of cash available following any redemptions by Pivotal stockholders; the ability to meet the NYSE's listing standards following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the proposed business combination; costs related to the proposed business combination; KLD's ability to execute on its plans to develop and market new products and the timing of these development programs; KLD's estimates of the size of the markets for its solutions; the rate and degree of market acceptance of KLD's solutions; the success of other competing technologies that may become available; KLD's ability to identify and integrate acquisitions; the performance and security of KLD's services; potential litigation involving Pivotal or KLD; and general economic and market conditions impacting demand for KLD's services. Other factors include the possibility that the proposed transaction does not close, including due to the failure to receive required security holder approvals, the failure of other closing conditions, as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth in the "Risk Factors" section of Pivotal's Registration Statement on Form S-4 and any subsequent reports that Pivotal files with the SEC. Neither Pivotal nor KLD undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Life at Camp
Sue Davies, Art
Approaching every day with an open mind and an open heart, Susan gains inspiration from her sleeping and waking dreams and embraces their capacity to connect the physical and metaphysical realms. She believes that the process of creating art connects her with a larger energy and it is through her participation as a conduit for that energy that her art achieves authenticity. During the creative process, Susan is focused on cultivating a sense of play; playing with materials, throwing around new ideas, and engaging in lighthearted conversations with other creative thinkers. Susan received formal training in painting and drawing at Gustavus Adolphus College and Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Rome, Italy. She presently lives in Buffalo, MN where she enjoys being an active flautist with a special interest in ancient Celtic melodies as well as being an artist and educator.
Meret Bitticks, Flute
Altus Artist Meret Bitticks maintains an active schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician in the U.S. and abroad while on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and DePaul University. Ms. Bitticks has joined Trio Chicago and Friends for international concert tours, including the United Arab Emirates and Australia. Ms. Bitticks is a registered Suzuki Flute Teacher Trainer and in 2013 became the first flutist to receive a Certificate of Achievement for excellence in Suzuki instruction from the Suzuki Association of the Americas. A frequent volunteer at music camps in Haiti, Ms. Bitticks serves on the board of BLUME Haiti, an organization that promotes leadership through music education.
Laura Larson, Flute
Ms. Larson received her BM degree from the University of Miami and began her professional flute career at age 20 playing piccolo in the Miami Philharmonic. She won prizes in the NFA Young Artist Competition and Financial Federal Musical Showcase Competition. Recently retired as principal flutist with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, she also plays flute and piccolo with the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra. Ms. Larson is on the adjunct applied faculty at Wayne State University and is a Suzuki Flute teacher trainer. Her CD, Jinju, is available for purchase on CD Baby, Amazon and her website, www.larsonflute.com.
Wendy Stern, Flute
Flutist Wendy Stern is a member of the dynamic and innovative group, Flute Force, winner of the Artists International Competition and recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and the New York Council of the Arts. With Flute Force, Wendy has performed and coached chamber music in Australia, Canada and throughout the United States. As a freelance flutist in New York, Wendy has played in the flute sections of many prestigious organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Wendy received her Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School, where she was a scholarship student of Julius Baker. She continued her studies with Keith Underwood in New York and began her Suzuki Teacher Training in 1994. In September 2006, Wendy studied with Toshio Takahashi at the Talent Education Research Institute in Matsumoto, Japan as a scholarship recipient of the Suzuki Association of the Americas.
Vanamali Medina, Co-Director
Vanamali Medina is an active Suzuki flute teacher in the Twin Cities area. She maintains studios at the MacPhail Center for Music and her home and teaches at Maple Grove High School, as well as giving regular workshops and clinics in other area elementary, middle, and high schools. She earned her B.M. in Performance with Distinction from St. Olaf College, studying with Kay Sahlin, and her Masters in Performance at the University of British Columbia, studying with Lorna McGhee and Brenda Fedoruk. She is a Committee Chair for the Upper Midwest Flute Association and the Membership Director for the Suzuki Association of Minnesota. Her Suzuki teacher training began at Lake Sylvia with David Gerry and she also takes daily "parent training" as the Suzuki practice partner for her two young daughters.
Andrea Myers, Co-Director
Andrea Myers is a Suzuki Flute teacher and performer based in Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN. She has completed training in Suzuki Flute Book 1-6 and Book 9 under the tutelage of Meret Bitticks, David Gerry, and Kelly Williamson. She received her Bachelor’s of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities studying under Immanuel Davis and has participated in masterclasses held by Keith Underwood, Ali Ryerson, Conor Nelson, Pedro de Alcantara, and Wilbert Hazlezet, After an injury in 2009, she began to study Alexander Technique with Tully Hall and it has proven to be an invaluable source of information and inspiration.
Andrea is a founding teacher of Hopewell Music Cooperative North, a nonprofit music school based in north Minneapolis which provides accessible and affordable high quality music education for the community. She also teaches within the Mahtomedi (MN) school district and at The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music.
Zara Lawler, Flute
A recognized leader in the emerging field of interdisciplinary performance, flutist Zara Lawler has collaborated with choreographers, composers and stage directors to create new and adventurous concert experiences. Lawler’s interdisciplinary performances, in which she plays, dances, and acts, have been created in collaboration with choreographer C. Neil Parsons, stage director Gary Race, and composers Randall Woolf, Jerome Kitzke, and Alla Borzova. Her piece E Pluribus Flutum, for up to 60 dancing flutists, was premiered at the National Flute Association’s Annual Convention in 2011. For many years, Lawler was the flutist and co-artistic director of Tales & Scales, an innovative ensemble for children and family audiences that integrated contemporary classical music with dance and theater. She earned her master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Carol Wincenc and Sam Baron. Among competitions she has won are the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition, Artists’ International, and the New York Flute Club. She has performed at Tanglewood, Banff Festival of the Arts, Bach Aria Festival and Institute, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.
Tully Hall, Alexander Technique
Tully Hall started playing piano by ear as a little girl and went on to study French horn performance at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She played in an opera orchestra in Germany before returning to the States and freelancing with the Albany, Vermont, Berkshire, Berkshire Opera and St Cecilia Chamber Orchestras. Having joyfully discovered the Technique, boon to all musicians, Tully trained with Missy Vineyard Ehrgood in New England for three years and has been teaching now for over 27 years. In addition to her current private practice in Woodbury and South Minneapolis, she travels to teach frequently in Virginia and Florida and is guest faculty at the Stetson University School of Music. She has taught classes and workshops at Shenandoah University, George Mason University, Catholic University, the University of Minnesota, UMD-Duluth, State University of Minnesota-Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus College, and at 3M Corporate Headquarters. She is a member of AmSAT and served as Chair of their Professional Conduct Committee for three years. Tully loves to help performers of all levels find ease, freedom and joy in their art!
Linda Pacel, Art
Linda believes that everyone is creative and just needs direction to find which creative outlet best suits them. She has worked with every level and age group and always leaves feeling inspired. Personally, throughout her life she has continued to build on her art and business background by challenging herself to experiment. She has worked in a wide range of mediums including: Photography, Gauche-Watercolors, Acrylic Painting and Block Printing. Her most passionate aspect is manipulating color; to work both for and against one another, blending texture at times. She is also known for her abstract landscape work. Linda is an Alumni of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, since graduation she has been an active artist. Linda’s professional background includes; Shoe Designer, Furniture Designer and Buyer for a National Furniture company.
Vanamali Medina is an active Suzuki flute teacher in the Twin Cities area. She maintains studios at the MacPhail Center for Music and her home and teaches at Maple Grove High School, as well as giving regular workshops and clinics in other area schools. She earned her B.M. in Performance with Distinction from St. Olaf College, studying with Kay Sahlin, and her Masters in Performance at the University of British Columbia, studying with Lorna McGhee and Brenda Fedoruk. She is a Committee Chair for the Upper Midwest Flute Association and the Membership Director for the Suzuki Association of Minnesota. Her Suzuki teacher training began at Lake Sylvia with David Gerry and she also takes daily "parent training" as the Suzuki practice partner for her two young daughters.
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Educators, mentors and advocates celebrate their diversity
By Christina Elston
Teacher and advocate Amy Faigin speaks at the Night of Dreams gala for The Ed Asner Family Center. PHOTO COURTESY ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER
Amy Faigin fell into advocacy at a young age, and into teaching by accident. “When I realized at a pretty early age that ableism existed, I was immediately angry about it,” says Faigin, who is autistic and highly gifted. “And I just have never been a person who could keep my mouth shut, so I just constantly yelled from the rooftops about it.”
About two years ago, Faigin, who’d never considered teaching, was invited to lead a 10-day mini-course at her high school alma mater, Bridges Academy in Studio City, a school dedicated to serving twice-exceptional students like Faigin. “It turns out, I really like working with kids,” she says. “They’re really fun and interesting and they really keep you on your toes.” She is one of many educators, role models, advocates and activists in the neurodiversity and disability communities helping pave the way for new generations.
Faigin now teaches a comics class and an ethics in the history of technology class at Bridges, and also works at the Ed Asner Family Center in Reseda, where she is developing a comic book course and an LGBT group.
In the classroom and beyond, Faigin shares her approach to being autistic, which is what she says she and many others on the autism spectrum prefer to be called. “We do not like to be called a person with autism, and the reason for that is that we typically say, ‘a person with something’ when that thing is bad or harmful or going to end their life,” she says. “We say, ‘a person with cancer’ or ‘a person with hemophilia.’ I actually rather enjoy being an autistic person. My life’s pretty cool. I like my brain.”
Faigin is working toward a master’s degree in cognitive diversity education through The Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education. Her goal is to continue developing safe spaces for students and change school policies to create more of those spaces. “I want to teach for the rest of my life,” she says. “I love my students. I love the work I do.”
Her advice to aspiring self-advocates is to lead with love and compassion. “That should be your guiding force when you’re advocating, because it’s rough. You’re going to get told you don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re going to get told you’re hysterical, you’re going to get told that you’re fighting on the wrong side of causes. It’s a Sisyphean effort, but if we all push together, we can make progress.”
Faigin sees a movement growing that recognizes the cognitive and physical differences among people and the value of those differences. “We are not disabled, we are not flawed, we are not broken,” she says. “There are many different types of ways to be a person. You can prefer beef or chicken. You can be autistic or you can be dyslexic. There are 7.5 billion kinds of people because there are 7.5 billion people, and if we can just accept and tolerate and accommodate for those variances in the rainbow that is humanity, we can all get along a lot better and be a lot happier.”
Storyteller advocate
Author Micaela Ellis signs copies of her memoir, “Autism Over the Years,” at the Ojai Farmers Market. PHOTO COURTESY MICAELA ELLIS
Micaela Ellis, who’s 13 and also autistic, advocates by sharing her story. The eighth grader, who attends The Lighthouse School of Ojai, has written a memoir, published in October 2018, called “Autism Over the Years,” which she is using to correct misinformation about autism.
Micaela was inspired by “Ugly,” a middle-grade memoir by Robert Hoge, an Australian man born with a tennis ball-sized tumor on his face and limb deformities that required his legs to be amputated. Micaela, who was in sixth grade when she read it, decided to write a memoir of her own.
“I just got a laptop and started writing and writing,” she says. When she had completed several chapters, her parents suggested that she turn her personal project into a school project (made easier because her mom, Gloria Jones Ellis, is founding director of The Lighthouse School). A year later, the book was finished.
Since then, Micaela has been promoting her memoir, visiting SoCal libraries, events and universities, and even doing an interview with Lance Orozco from public radio station KCLU in Thousand Oaks. This has given her a chance to practice public speaking and to share some perspective with graduate students in the education departments at UC Santa Barbara and Antioch University. “What I liked about talking to educators was that I could give them a perspective of what it’s like to be autistic and give them advice for what they should do,” Micaela says.
What are some messages she would like to get out?
That maybe autism doesn’t need a cure. “A lot of people in the autistic community don’t want a cure for autism,” Micaela says. “They just want to be accepted as they are. I don’t think autism needs a cure, I think only society’s thinking needs a cure.” That people with autism do want to be social. “Maybe there are some autistic people who prefer to be in solitude, but I think a lot of autistic people want friends and are just unsure of how to make friends,” she says. “Because making friends can be difficult, it is sometimes easier to be alone.”
That people with autism have feelings, too. “A stereo-type about autism that bothers me is the idea that autistic people don’t feel emotions,” says Micaela. “We feel emotions, but sometimes we don’t know how to express them.” That some people with autism prefer to be called “autistic.” Like Faigin, Micaela says that autism is a part of who she is. She compares it to the fact that she is also biracial. “I’m a biracial person, not a person with biracial-ness,” she says with a laugh. “It’s not something that can be separated from me.”
“Autism Through the Years” is available on Amazon and at www.micaelaellis.com. Micaela next plans to travel around the world with her family, learning about autism in different countries and cultures and sharing her memoir and her experiences. “I hope to increase understanding and acceptance of autism,” she says. “I also hope to show that autistic people have a lot of potential.”
Sasha Bogosian founded The Sasha Project LA and sells her unique painted-denim creations to raise funds for arts programs at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. PHOTO COURTESY THE SASHA PROJECT LA
While Micaela is a writer, Sasha Bogosian’s advocacy takes a more visual form. Sasha has also turned a challenge most 11-year-olds don’t face – motor difficulties caused by her cerebral palsy – into something that makes her truly stand out: The Sasha Project LA (www.thesashaprojectla.org).
Cerebral palsy, or CP, is the most common motor dis-ability of childhood, causing difficulty with movement and balance. In Sasha’s case, it affects her right hand and foot, and she has undergone treatment since birth at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, including major leg surgery at age 9 to correct her body’s alignment. With Sasha in an ankle-to-hip cast for 60 days, her mom, Isabell, encouraged her to paint on Levi’s. “This was our way of finding activities that were bimanual, to get her to use her challenged side,” Isabell says. “Painting things, she forgets that her challenged side isn’t working as well.”
This began Sasha’s passion project. With help from her mom, Sasha began to sell the customized jeans and jackets she painted, and in 2016 founded the nonprofit The Sasha Project LA. Proceeds benefit the Mark Taper-Johnny Mercer Artists Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, helping patients and their families express themselves through drama, dance, visual art and music.
“That program needs money to help the patients feel better,” Sasha says, with her mom adding that the Mercer program is solely funded by philanthropic efforts. “Without these donations, programs like this can’t survive,” Isabell says.
Sasha’s celebrity supporters include Kristen Bell, Jessica Biel, Rachel Zoe, Chris Pine, Luke Bryan and Lily Aldridge, and she and Isabell star together in the Children’s Miracle Network series “Real Moms,” a web series that features 10 moms across the country who bond through raising children with life-altering medical conditions. Last year, Sasha and her fashions were featured in Rock the Runway, a celebrity fashion show hosted by Paris Hilton to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.
Through her Splatter Squad, Sasha is also giving other kids the chance to join in her efforts. “I am looking for kids to help me raise money for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,” she says, adding that squad members can run lemonade stands, make art, host bake sales or find other creative ways to pitch in. “They can do whatever they want to raise money.”
Meanwhile, Sasha will keep creating. “It’s hard some-times, but CP kids are strong and love to work hard,” she says. She also has a message for kids out there facing challenges of their own: “Don’t give up. You’ve got this!”
A mentor on the court
Anthony Lara, a wheelchair tennis player for more than 25 years, has founded his own nonprofit and partners with various organizations to bring his sport to a new generation. PHOTO COURTESY ANGEL CITY SPORTS
Anthony Lara also followed his passion to advocacy – and he started at age 9. Lara was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair to get around, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to do the things he saw other kids doing. “In grade school, we all wanted to be part of something – Little League, football, all those things,” he says. “I just wanted to feel like one of my peers.”
His childhood took place in Chino in the 1980s, and there weren’t many adaptive sports options around, but Lara lucked out. The rehabilitation program at Casa Colina Hospital in Pomona was starting its first junior sports program.
“That was just a godsend,” he says. “I was on the court playing wheelchair basketball with other kids with disabilities just like myself.” This opened the door to a variety of sports, including wheelchair tennis. It was the beginning of a career that would last more than 25 years and continues to this day.
Lara recalls that tennis at first was daunting. “To a 10-year-old, that net seemed like it was 20 feet high,” he says. “And my biggest thing was that I wanted to get that ball over that net.” It took him a year. Lara went on to compete on the U.S. Paralympic Team in the Sydney Paralympic games in 2000 and the Beijing Paralympic games in 2008. He’s won a host of competitions and awards.
His second act came calling in 2011 when a friend asked him to be a counselor at a local junior camp, coaching wheelchair tennis. He began his new mission to introduce future generations to the sport he grew up with. “Tennis was a savior for me, something that not only kept me in line with my grades and my school, but it gave me a sense of purpose,” says Lara. “It’s just something that I want to share.”
Through his nonprofit, #1MorePush: Is It In You?, Lara partners with organizations throughout the state to share the sport of wheelchair tennis. He coaches locally with Angel City Sports, and coaches each year at Ability First wheelchair sports camp in Northern California, where campers spend a week and lessons go far beyond sports. “Forget about trying sports or hitting a tennis ball,” Lara says. “Some of these kids have never, ever been away from home. A lot of them don’t even see another disabled person other than once a year at camp.”
Wherever he’s coaching, Lara spends lots of time listening to and talking to his players and leading by example. “I’m no motivator, but I’m an initiator,” he says. “Seeing me and seeing the things that I’ve done; they see that there are opportunities. It’s up to that individual to go after them.”
He urges parents of kids with disabilities to give their children the chance to try, to learn that life won’t always be perfect, but that they can cope with their challenges. He sees tennis as a metaphor for life. “The world, like a tennis ball, comes at us at so many different angles – up high, low. You’re trying to figure out what to do,” he says. “Do you give it top spin? Do you give it slice? There is no exact answer, but we have a way to go through it and to figure it out as we progress. And that’s basically like a tennis match.”
She’s in the club
Paige Binsley, front row center, office manager at the Center4SpecialNeeds in Thousand Oaks, founded the center’s Young Adult Social Club where neurodiverse folks gather to make friends. PHOTO COURTESY PAIGE BINSLEY
Paige Binsley was, in terms of being diagnosed with autism, a bit of a late bloomer. She went through elementary and high school with almost straight As, went to USC and was in marching band, and had no trouble making a few friends in school. But outside of school, with its structure of classes and clubs, she struggled. “I didn’t know how to make friends as an adult,” Binsley says.
After finishing college, struggling with depression and anxiety, Binsley was diagnosed with autism and began to find her way. In 2017, she learned through a therapist about the Work It Out! job skills program at the Center4Special-Needs (www.C4SN.org), where she found a compassionate learning environment and learned a lot about herself.
She worked her way from volunteer to office manager at the center and co-founded its Young Adult Social Club. “I wanted to start it for myself, because I didn’t have any friends and there wasn’t an existing group,” Binsley says. “It has been a great place for me to make friends and for other people like me who maybe aren’t comfortable or don’t know how to make friends easily out in the community.”
The club is for young adults 18 and older with develop-mental disabilities and is all peer-facilitated. Events include video game and movie nights, plus a monthly Creative Ex-pressions program in partnership with Art Trek in Newbury Park that includes painting, food art and improv games. Get-togethers tend to draw 10-15 people.
Young Adult Social Club orientation includes a Power Point that covers club information plus a primer on social skills and making friends. Afterward, a Kahoot game project-ed on the screen lets participants answer questions via their cell phones to reinforce what they’ve learned. The orientation and attending club events have paid off. “I’ve definitely seen growth in a number of individuals, where they’re more communicative and more confident,” Binsley says, adding that she has gained as well. “It feels really good that I’m able to help people. When I’m helping people through something I’ve been through, anxieties that I’ve had, it’s really good for me.”
Christina Elston is Editor of L.A. Parent.
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Interview: Divya Kumar, working for perinatal emotional wellness
My dear friend and colleague, Divya Kumar, does amazing work. She's certified as a postpartum doula and lactation counselor, runs groups for new moms, and uses her public health background to develop and advocate for effective programs that actually improve access to comprehensive support for pregnant and postpartum women. All in the name of not just treating postpartum depression, but fostering emotional wellness. Here's my interview with her about the pilot program that was funded* by the state of Massachusetts to integrate postpartum support into existing medical systems.
Tell me how the pilot program came about.
DK: I was transitioning back to working outside the home after my second child was born and I started working as a postpartum doula. I have a public health background, and I tend to think in terms of systems and programs. I think about who has access to what services--and how and why. Every new mom can benefit from a postpartum doula, but not every mom knows what one is or can afford one, so I started thinking about how to increase access to postpartum doula services for all moms, and I thought it would be fantastic to have a postpartum doula in every pediatrician's office so that new moms could get emotional support, ask questions about things like sleep and soothing, and get help with breastfeeding.
When my first child was a newborn, I had met Jessie Colbert at a local new moms' group. She is the administrative aide for Rep. Ellen Story, who chairs the Postpartum Depression Commission. So later, when I came up with the idea of integrating postpartum support into pediatric health settings, Jessie suggested that we develop this program as a postpartum depression prevention initiative. Rep. Story pushed for funding and the pilot program received $200,000 in 2013 to be split across four community health centers that serve a diverse patient population, including folks who are disenfranchised and under-served.
What exactly does the pilot program look like?
DK: The pilot looks a little different at the different community health centers, meaning that the centers have incorporated and built upon different aspects of perinatal care based on the capabilities of their own sites and the needs of their patients. In Lynn, mental health providers do home visits for new moms experiencing perinatal emotional complications. In Worcester, a team of OB advocates work with moms from pregnancy through the first two years of their child's life. In Jamaica Plain, we provide lactation support in our pediatric service, regardless of whether a baby's mom is a patient at the health center.
What makes this different than other efforts to address postpartum depression?
DK: One of the big differences is that the pilot program integrates perinatal support into existing medical systems, and this integration reduces barriers and increases timely access to care for folks who need it. Being a new parent can be exhausting and overwhelming, and for folks who are disenfranchised by poverty or other extenuating circumstances, timely access to comprehensive services is key. At Southern JP Health Center (where I work), we see all new babies at their first pediatric visit--as early as 3 days postpartum! I come into the exam room after a physician sees a baby and screen the new mom for postpartum depression with the EPDS [Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale]. Also, providing comprehensive services means that we approach the mom and baby as a dyad. So, if a mom is struggling with perinatal emotional complications, I can connect her with a mental health provider in-house or in the community, and I can also help with issues within the dyad (breastfeeding and lack of sleep are the usual culprits here!) that can be exacerbating these complications.
What difference do you see yourself and the program having in people’s lives?
DK: I have had many moms tell me that they would have given up on breastfeeding if I hadn't walked into that exam room! It is such an honor to be in a position to help someone in that moment of distress. I have also walked patients who were having a mental or emotional health crisis up to our mental health department, where they were seen within the hour. Without screening them at their child's appointment, there's no way to know whether that crisis would have been identified and if they would have received mental health support. Also, I have had numerous moms contact me months after their babies were born to ask questions, get referrals, or just additional support, and many of these moms say to me, "It's so helpful to know that you're here to help me figure all of this out!" Having someone that they know they can contact with questions or concerns (especially those that are not directly related to their baby's health) is very reassuring for moms.
What do you see happening next for the pilot program?
DK: In an ideal world, I would love to work with an evaluation team to measure the impact of this program over the next year. I believe that this could be a replicable model of perinatal support, and I would love to be able to quantify and demonstrate the impact that I know this program is having. Before we can do that, though, we need continued funding! But this pilot has shown that integrating comprehensive services--lactation, screening for depression and anxiety, timely connections to resources, and emotional support--does positively impact the lives of many women and families, and I would love to see this program grow and expand.
What’s one thing you would tell all mothers of newborns?
DK: You're not supposed to do this by yourself! New moms are really isolated these days--many of us don't live with our parents or siblings, or in a home where friends and relative are constantly coming and going. I have heard many moms say, "I feel like I'm supposed to be able to do this by myself, but it's really hard!" Taking care of a newborn, figuring out breastfeeding, and adjusting to life as a parent involves a HUGE learning curve...while being utterly exhausted and recovering from the actual birth. Doing it yourself is often a very, very difficult task, and not one that new moms should have to take on. Ask for help. Accept help. Call a lactation professional. Call a friend. Go to a moms' group. Parenthood is better when we do it together! And, if I could tell expectant parents one thing, it would be to make a postpartum plan and get to know their local resources *before* their baby arrives. Make a list of lactation professionals, postpartum doulas, new parents' groups, meal delivery options, etc.
I want to thank Divya Kumar for answering these questions and most importantly for all her work supporting new moms and advocating for better systems to care for new families. Have any questions for Divya? Continue the conversation in the comments!
*In 2014, the funding for this pilot program was cut out of the budget. Rep. Story has again introduced a line item to fund the 4 locations of the pilot program in the new budget. Please consider calling your legislator to ask them to support budget line item 4510-0112.
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World Series Qualifier: Lionesses to know their opponents tomorrow
The draw for the HSBC Women Sevens World Series qualifiers will be conducted at 2.00pm EAT on Monday 12 March 2018.The qualifiers will be held on 5-6 April in Hong Kong.
Kenya, who reached the quarterfinal at last season’s qualifier, is among the twelve teams that will take part in the with the winner earning a full spot on the World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series in 2018, replacing the bottom-ranked side after the completion of the five-event Series in June.
It’s Kenya against England in the Canada Sevens quarters
Shujaa reach the cup semis in Vancouver
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Project Neon: Overnight closures announced for May 10
Posted: 6:08 PM, May 10, 2018
By: Bryce Riley
The Nevada Department of Transportation announced a series of closures on May 10 as part of Project Neon.
The closures include the following:
U.S. Highway 95 Northbound to Interstate 15 Southbound Ramp (10 p.m. to 5 a.m.)
U.S. Highway 95 Northbound off-ramp to Martin Luther King Boulevard (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.)
Interstate 15 Northbound off-ramp to Martin Luther King Boulevard (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.)
Interstate 15 Southbound lane reduction at U.S. Highway 95 (midnight to 5 a.m.)
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Justia Lawyer Directory Family Law Utah Corinne Attorneys
Corinne, Utah Family Lawyers
Brian Craig
Logan, UT Family Law Attorney with 17 years experience
(435) 760-3101 95 W 100 S, Suite 106
University of Idaho College of Law
Brian Craig has 17 years of experience as a lawyer. Before starting his own law firm, Brian worked for several years in the legal publishing and legal information services industry as an attorney for Thomson-Reuters and as a legal writer/analyst for Wolters Kluwer gaining experience with contracts, employment law, real estate law, tax law, privacy law, and other practice areas.
Besides helping clients, Brian teaches online legal courses at Purdue University Global and Brigham Young University-Idaho, including courses in civil litigation, business law, family law, criminal law, and media law. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Brian...
Brian Arnold
ogden, UT Family Law Lawyer with 11 years experience
(801) 475-0123 298 24th Street Ste. 230
Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
I enjoy being aggressive and helping my clients reach their goals in their cases. I am creative in using the law to my client's advantage. I offer a free consultation in the areas of divorce and criminal defense.
Jason Yancey
Layton, UT Family Law Attorney with 12 years experience
(801) 544-5306 1513 N. Hill Field Road
Free ConsultationFamily, Appeals, Business and Collections
Jason quickly developed an excellent reputation among attorneys across the state of Utah. His practice is focused in commercial disputes, contract disputes, business issues, domestic law and family law. Jason has been recognized for his outstanding efforts many times throughout his career. After graduating cum laude from the Reuben J. Clark Law School at BYU, the American Bankruptcy Institute presented him with a Medal of Excellence recognizing him as one of the top law students in the country. Mountain States Super Lawyers recognized Jason for his success in two different years by presenting him with the Rising Star Award, which is...
Matt Wadsworth
Ogden, UT Family Law Attorney with 11 years experience
(801) 475-0123 298 24th St.
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Real Estate
Matt Wadsworth earned his Bachelor’s from the University of Utah in Economics where he graduated in the top ten percent of his class. Matt earned his Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law, where he graduated in the top third of his class and earned the Cali Award in Real Estate Finance and Development and the top grade in Land Use and Development. Primary Practice Although, Matt has an extensive history in civil litigation and real estate transaction areas, his current primary focuses are in the areas of Family Law, Divorce, Child Support and Alimony. ...
Jeff Butler
Bountiful, UT Family Law Lawyer with 13 years experience
(801) 509-5573 563 W 500 South
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Estate Planning
Prior to partnering with Carson Pearson, Jeff Butler worked as corporate in-house counsel for companies in Utah and California. He has experience with real estate law, mortgage law, business law, and healthcare law. Mr. Butler grew up in Utah and California. He graduated from Brigham Young University where he graduated with University Honor Program. He attended the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University while also pursuing a master degree from the Romney Institute of Public Management. During law school, he externed for two federal judges, the Honorable Judge Benson and the Honorable Judge...
Jason F. Barnes
Kaysville, UT Family Law Lawyer with 17 years experience
(801) 546-3874 47 North Main Street, Ste. 2
University of Wyoming College of Law
The Law Offices of Jason F. Barnes, P.C. (also d.b.a. The Adoption Law Firm) is located in Utah, and provide a wide range of legal services. When you start the process, you will have many questions, some of which should only be answered by an attorney. The Law Offices of Jason F. Barnes, P.C. provides a comfortable yet professional atmosphere, meeting personally with each client, promptly addressing questions and concerns, and striving to make the process as smooth and as stress-free as possible. ============================================================ Get help quickly and get the job done right the first time!...
Craig Helgesen
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Craig received his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan, the largest law school in the country. He graduated near the top of his class. After graduating law school, he returned back to Utah. He started his career by doing mostly bankruptcies and divorces. He has since added criminal defense and custody matters to his areas of specialization. Craig is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. As a member of the NACBA, he helps to influence bankruptcy laws on behalf of the consumers. Craig's dedication has given him a broad understand of all...
Kristopher Greenwood
(801) 475-8800 195 Historic 25th Street, Suite 304
Kristopher K. Greenwood & Associates serves clients throughout Utah with offices conveniently located in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Park City, and Lehi. Our growing firm is backed by an experienced team that has represented clients for over 20 years.
We Focus on Divorce & Family Law. Because Utah law is complex and constantly evolving, it demands time and attention to remain at the forefront and provide our clients with exceptional representation. Changes to the interpretation and implementation of law happen every day. By focusing on this area of practice, we are able to stay up to date and ahead of the...
Kurt Helgesen
Layton, UT Family Law Lawyer with 9 years experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal, Divorce and Juvenile
Kurt has lived most of his life in Davis County. He received his law degree from Washburn University in Kansas. Soon after graduating, he returned to Utah to start his career as an attorney. He specializes in the areas of Divorce, Child Custody, Family Law, Juvenile Law, Criminal Defense, DUI's, contracts and agreements. Because his father is also an attorney, Kurt has been studying the legal process his entire life. He has a broad understanding of legal issues and has become an excellent attorney at an early point in his career. Kurt is a proud father of...
Carol Mortensen
Family, Criminal, DUI and Divorce
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and London Law Consortium, London, England
Carol Mortensen brings over 10 years of counseling and advocacy experience into her legal practice. She has worked as a Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor and Social Service Worker for many years prior to joining the legal profession. As a result, Carol has a unique and comprehensive insight into the dynamics of individuals and families dealing with the judicial system. Family & Juvenile Law Expertise: Carol is a long time and committed advocate for individuals and families dealing with issues such as: divorce, custody and domestic violence. She has worked extensively with DCFS, Dependency Drug Court, Juvenile...
Victoria Cramer
Bountiful, UT Family Law Attorney with 21 years experience
(801) 299-9999 845 S Main St C8
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
I focus on a variety of family law issues: divorces, custody disputes, visitation, alimony. Also, I handle grandparent visitation and adoption cases. I have been maintaining an office in Bountiful, Utah since 2000. I am a member of the Utah State Bar Family Law Section. I provide individualized solution to clients' unique problems.
Scott Nickle
(801) 544-5306 5732 S. 1475 E. #200
Scott Nickle taught English at Weber State University for four years before deciding to attend law school. He graduated from the Gonzaga University School of Law in 2006. He returned to Utah to work as an attorney for Helgesen, Houtz & Jones, the law firm he had interned for after his second year of law school. Scott Nickle specializes as a Family Law Attorney and Estate Planning Attorney. He deals will all types of family law such as Divorce, Child Custody, Surrogacy, etc. He has represented many clients with many different situations giving him the experience he needs to provide his...
Keith Backman
(801) 479-4777 5732 South 1475 East
Keith Backman received a B.A. Degree in English in 1990 then decided to continue his education and received a J.D. Law Degree in 1993 from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU. After graduating law school, Keith started his career as an attorney with Helgesen, Houtz & Jones. He is now a partner in the law firm. His practice is focused on Business Law, Contracts, Family Law, Real Estate Law, Estate Planning and General Counsel Services. He has represented clients in almost every court along the Wasatch Front and has appeared in the Utah Court of Appeals and the Utah...
Travis Marker
(801) 529-6816 333 2nd Street
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Juvenile
Bond University School of Law - Queensland, Australia and Willamette University College of Law
Mr. Marker graduated from Weber State University with a Bachelors and double major in History and English. At Willamette University College of Law he received his law degree and a certificate in dispute resolution. At Bond University School of Law in Gold Coast, Australia, he concluded his studies by receiving a Master of Laws in dispute resolution. He organized the first “Literature and the Law” conference as a member of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s chapter in St. George, Utah, in October 2011. Since that time he has worked with law societies and bar associations...
Darrin K. Johns
North Ogden, UT Family Law Attorney with 16 years experience
(801) 228-7521 3597 North 500 East
North Ogden, UT 84414
Family, Criminal, Divorce and Estate Planning
A 20 year Air Force veteran, Darrin served his last 11 years as a Judge Advocate and has acquired a vast breath of legal skills and expertise. He has worked as a both as a criminal prosecutor and a criminal appellate defense attorney. He has drafted hundreds of wills and assisted numerous clients with divorce, child support, and child custody matters.
Benjamin L. Lawrence
Bountiful, UT Family Law Attorney with 7 years experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation and Estate Planning
The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Ben’s focus is on developing quality relationships with clients and providing them with dedicated and personalized service. Ben graduated cum laude from the S. J. Quinney College of Law, where he was a Leary Scholar. He received the top grade in his Lawyering Skills and Law & Literature courses and placed second in a regional ABA Negotiation Competition. He completed an internship with the Third District Office of the Guardian ad Litem, where he worked to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children in juvenile court. Prior to law school, Ben earned a dual Bachelor’s in...
Raymond Rounds
(801) 621-4015 2650 Washington Blvd
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Military
University of San Diego School of Law and University of Idaho College of Law
Raymond Rounds is a former member of the active U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps, and a retired Judge Advocate from the Air Force Reserves. In addition to his law degree, he holds a JD Degree and has a Masters Degree in Tax Law.
Family strife can be emotionally wrenching. You don't need legal entanglements to make it worse. Let us help make things go more smoothly. Raymond has 30+ years experience in all facets of divorce and family law matters such as:
Order/Decree Modifications
Custody/Support/Visitation
Military Retirement Division/QDRO's
Multi-State Situations
Determining child custody and support in a divorce are some of...
Christopher M. Guymon
Logan, UT Family Law Attorney with 4 years experience
(435) 248-2230 399 N Main St, #220
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Estate Planning and Real Estate
“In the world nothing [is] certain except death and taxes,” —Ben Franklin. I started my law practice because I wanted to help protect families from the two things we can’t avoid: death and taxes. If only we knew when these things would occur. Because we don’t, I want to help you and your family now, before problems arise, so that when they do, your relationships are preserved. My entire world revolves around my family, and I would do everything in my power to protect them if something were to happen to me. I have a feeling you would too. ...
(801) 475-4506 5093 S 1500 W
Senior & Founding Partner at Bartlett & Webster. I practice in the following areas: Appeals (having successfully presented appeals before the Utah and Wyoming Supreme Courts); contract, real estate, and business litigation; family law; criminal defense; personal injury; medical malpractice; and business and estate planning. Bartlett & Webster is a small firm specializing in developing relationships and in providing expert, customized legal representation.
Zachary C. Holbrook
Ogden, UT Family Law Lawyer with 7 years experience
(801) 317-4764 4590 Harrison Blvd.
Suite 200 C
Family, Criminal, DUI and Estate Planning
Ogden, UT Family Law Lawyer
(801) 394-2336 290 25th St. Suite 208
Free ConsultationFamily, Bankruptcy and Divorce
At the law office of Brian D. Johnson located in Ogden, Utah, we help people take advantage of their rights under bankruptcy protection to restart, rebuild, and recover their lives. We help people find solutions to escape overwhelming debt and get back on track. When you work with our firm, you work directly with an experienced bankruptcy attorney who will be there to answer all of your questions and guide you through all phases of your case. You have options. You have rights. You have the choice to take back control of your financial future. Contact us today for a free...
Jacob Evern Smith
Ogden, UT Family Law Attorney with 7 years experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Criminal, Divorce and Estate Planning
Capital University Law School
Wayne Caldwell
Logan, UT Family Law Lawyer with 17 years experience
Family, Criminal, Insurance Claims and Nursing Home
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Wayne is a partner at Bearnson & Caldwell.
(801) 621-3646 2485 Grant Ave
Family, Estate Planning, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Melanie Adams Cook
Bountiful, UT Family Law Lawyer
(801) 800-0170 415 S. Medical Dr., C-102
Melanie Cook is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and Utah. She volunteers as an advocate for the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Initiative (Davis County) each Wednesday morning. Melanie is an adjunct professor at Broadview University and teaches law to paralegals. Also, Melanie mentors paralegal students with career goals and academic advice, providing volunteer opportunities at law firms and pro bono clinics throughout Salt Lake, Davis and Weber County. In 2012, Melanie received her Certificate in Advocacy and Problem Solving from Hamline University School of Law. In 2011, Melanie published an article entitled “Third Party Rights and Child Custody” in...
Alvin Lundgren
Morgan, UT Family Law Attorney with 29 years experience
5015 W Old Highway Rd
Morgan, UT 84050
Free ConsultationFamily, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Business
Bryan R Baron
Ogden, UT Family Law Attorney
(801) 627-3303 2568 Washington Blvd., Suite 205
Family, Bankruptcy, Criminal and Personal Injury
Bryan is currently an associate attorney at Retallick and Associates, PC. Bryan practices in the areas of family and bankruptcy law. Prior to joining Retallick & Associates, Bryan worked as an associate attorney for Hoskins Legal Solutions, as a law clerk for the Attorney General's Office in the Criminal Appeal's Division, and as a law clerk for the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy.
Lauren Forsyth
(801) 317-8968 195 25th Street, Suite 304
Family, Criminal, Divorce and Domestic Violence
Tess A Davis
(435) 294-2424 265 N 100 W
John W. Murray
(801) 872-2222 140 South Main
Kathleen McConkie
Free ConsultationFamily, Divorce, Employment and Personal Injury
Stephen Hadfield
Brigham City, UT Family Law Attorney
(435) 734-3329 9 W Forest St
Kim Walpole
Guy P. Kroesche
Salt Lake City, UT Family Law Attorney with 38 years experience
(801) 328-3131 201 S Main St #1100
Family, Antitrust, Business and Real Estate
Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
Andy Leger
Family, Divorce, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
Philip Patterson
(801) 394-7704 419 27th St
Brian Florence
(801) 476-3200 1943 E 6200 S
Layton, UT Family Law Attorney
Steven Kaufman
Family Lawyers in Nearby Cities
Family Lawyers in Nearby Counties
Dealing with family law issues?
Family law generally concerns domestic relations and family-related matters such as marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships, adoptions, paternity, guardianships, domestic abuse, surrogacy, child custody, child abduction, the dissolution of marriage and associated issues. Each state has its own set of family laws, and traveling across state borders can sometimes affect your rights and those of your family.
Contrary to popular belief, seeking the advice of a family law attorney does not necessarily mean that something is amiss in your family. A family law attorney can help negotiate prenuptial/premarital agreements for clients in anticipation of marriage or advise same-sex couples on relevant legal issues affecting their relationship. They also can help with adoption proceedings and other procedures involving children.
Family law attorneys often do represent clients seeking a divorce, annulment or legal separation, and the complicated issues that can arise as a result. Although domestic abuse is a criminal offense, some family law attorneys are skilled at handling these situations, as they are often entangled with other family law issues.
Some jurisdictions certify lawyers as family law specialists, which means these attorneys have met the certifying body's minimum requirements for education, experience, and examination.
No-Fault Proceeding: A civil case in which parties may resolve their dispute without a formal finding of error or fault.
Paternity Suit: A lawsuit to determine the father of a child whose parents were not married when the child was born.
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Election Policies
Lower Taxes
Union Accountability
Regional Australia
Liberal Women
Young Liberals
Liberals Abroad
State Divisions
For the first time in 12 years, our nation is again paying its own way.
We have made real progress, but we know the job is not done.
Australia is stronger than it was when we came to government six years ago.
The Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP, Treasurer
Read or watch the Treasurer’s speech
This year, for the first time in over a decade, the Government will deliver a Budget surplus.
This means we can start repaying Labor’s debt and remove this burden within a decade.
Australia’s Budget is Back in Black
With a stronger economy we can deliver on our plan, to:
Create 1.25 million more jobs over the next five years.
Keep Australia safe and our borders secure.
Maintain budget surpluses and pay down debt.
Deliver tax relief for families and small businesses.
Guarantee increased investments for schools, hospitals and roads.
The following is a summary of key Budget measures. (Source: Budget Overview, 2019-20)
Fixing the budget
Tax relief for workers
Tax relief for small business
Congestion busting infrastructure
Guaranteed investment in health
Record funding for education
Caring for older Australians
Better Cities And Regions
Keeping Australians Safe And Our Borders Secure
Affordable, Sustainable Power
Supporting Our Farmers
After more than a decade of deficits, the budget returns to surplus in 2019-20.
It has been a long road from where this process started when the Government was first elected.
In 2013-14, some five years after the Global Financial Crisis, the deficit was still the second highest in Australia’s history. Since then, the Government has made steady progress to repair the budget and chart a responsible path back to surplus.
The total turnaround in the budget balance between 2013-14 and 2019-20 is projected to be $55.5 billion, or 3.4 per cent of GDP.
The Government’s plan for a stronger economy ensures it can guarantee essential services while returning the budget to surplus.
This budget year will see a surplus of $7.1 billion, equal to 0.4 per cent of GDP.
Budget surpluses will build in size in the medium term and are expected to exceed 1 per cent of GDP from 2026-27.
The Government is reducing debt, not through higher taxes, but by good budget management and growing the economy.
By paying down debt, the Government will put the nation’s finances on a more sustainable footing and reduce the burden on future generations. Net debt is projected to be eliminated by 2029-30.
The Government has the record and the plan to grow the economy, to guarantee essential services and to keep Australians safe and secure.
Our tax system provides reward for effort.
The Government is delivering a better tax system through its Personal Income Tax Plan introduced in last year’s Budget.
Disciplined fiscal management has allowed the Government to enhance its plan in this year’s Budget, ensuring that working Australians share in the benefits of economic growth.
Immediate tax relief will flow to low- and middle-income earners of up to $1,080 for single earners or up to $2,160 for dual income families.
Around 4.5 million individuals will receive the full benefit for the 2018-19 income year.
Tax relief for low- and middle-income earners will support consumption growth and ease cost of living pressures. This additional relief is more than double what was provided in last year’s Budget.
In 2024-25, the Government will make a further structural change to the tax system by reducing the rate of the middle tax bracket from 32.5 per cent to 30 per cent.
Together with the legislated abolition of the 37 per cent tax bracket, this change will mean that 94 per cent of taxpayers are projected to face a marginal tax rate of 30 per cent or less in 2024-25.
The Government’s enhanced plan maintains a progressive income tax system that also rewards effort and contributes to a strong economy.
The Government is building a better tax system for Australian businesses.
Small and medium-sized businesses are benefitting from lower taxes and better incentives.
The company tax rate for small and medium-sized companies with an annual turnover of less than $50 million has been lowered to 27.5 per cent. This rate will be lowered further to 25 per cent by 2021-22 as the Government accelerates its plan to deliver lower tax rates. Similar timing applies to the increases in the unincorporated small business tax discount rate, which will increase to 16 per cent by 2021-22 (up to the cap of $1,000).
The Government is increasing the instant asset write-off threshold to $30,000 and expanding access to medium-sized businesses with an annual turnover of less than $50 million. These changes will apply from 7:30pm (AEDT) on 2 April 2019 to 30 June 2020 and will benefit around 3.4 million businesses employing around 7.7 million workers.
The threshold applies on a per asset basis so eligible businesses can instantly write off multiple assets.
More than 350,000 businesses have already taken advantage of the instant asset write-off.
Businesses will be able to benefit from the instant asset write-off as they grow, providing a direct incentive to reinvest in their business.
The Government is increasing its infrastructure investment to $100 billion, busting congestion and ensuring our towns and regions are better connected
A new Road Safety Package $2.2 billion
Urban Congestion Fund increased from $1 billion to $4 billion including a new Commuter Car Park Fund $500 million
Roads of Strategic Importance funding increased from $3.5 billion to $4.5 billion
Major Project Business Case Fund $250 million.
Fast rail plan
$2 billion to help deliver fast rail from Geelong to Melbourne
Establishing the National Faster Rail Agency
Fast rail business cases for Sydney to Newcastle, Sydney to Wollongong, Sydney to Parkes (via Bathurst and Orange), Melbourne to Greater Shepparton, Melbourne to Albury Wodonga, Melbourne to Traralgon, Brisbane to the regions of Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast, and Brisbane to the Gold Coast
Major Projects Underway
Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail
$9.3 billion Western Sydney (Nancy-Bird Walton) International Airport $5.3 billion
Melbourne Airport Rail Link $5 billion
New projects of $7.3 billion, including:
M1 Pacific Motorway Extension to Raymond Terrace
Western Sydney Rail
Princes Highway
Urban Congestion Fund
Roads of Strategic Importance
Suburban Roads Upgrades (South Eastern and Northern Roads)
South Geelong to Waurn Ponds Rail
Western Highway (Final Stage of Duplication from Ararat to Stawell)
New projects of $4 billion, including:
Bruce Highway
Gateway Motorway (Bracken Ridge to Pine River)
Warrego Highway
Roads of Strategic Importance (North)
Roads of Strategic Importance (South)
North-South Corridor
SA Regional Roads Package
Tonkin Highway
Fremantle Traffic Bridge
Albany Ring Road
New projects of $313 million, including:
Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Program
New projects of $622 million., including:
New projects of $50 million.
The Government is committing record funding to health, with total investment expected to increase from $81.8 billion in 2019-20 to $89.5 billion in 2022-23.
Guaranteeing Medicare
The Government is continuing to guarantee and strengthen Medicare to ensure that Australians can access affordable and quality healthcare.
To help patients with out-of-pocket costs, the Government is providing $309 million to improve access to diagnostic imaging. This includes access to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans for patients with breast cancer and increasing patient rebates for ultrasound and x-ray diagnostic imaging items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) from 1 July 2020.
The Government is also providing $187 million to increase patient rebates for 119 GP service items on the MBS from 1 July 2019.
In addition, the Government is fighting the prevalence of heart disease by introducing a new item on the MBS for heart health checks and providing funding to HeartKids Australia for the Childhood Heart Disease National Action Plan.
A new $448 million primary care funding model will offer improved care for Australians with complex and chronic conditions.
Patients across Australia will have better access to lifesaving MRI scans, with the Government investing a total of $379 million since 2018 for 53 new MRI licences.
Delivering more hospital services
Commonwealth funding for public hospitals is increasing in every year.
The $1.3 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program is boosting health services across Australia in four priority areas: hospital infrastructure; drug and alcohol treatments; preventative health, primary care and chronic disease management; and mental health.
More affordable medicines
This Budget is providing $331 million for new and amended listings on the Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme (PBS), including life-changing medicines to treat lung, bladder, kidney and skin cancers, and leukaemia.
The Government is delivering record funding for schools to improve student outcomes and drive excellence in our classrooms.
Recurrent funding for schools will reach $19.9 billion in 2019, with average Commonwealth funding per student having increased from $3,755 in 2014 to $5,097 in 2019.
By 2029, this funding will grow to $32.4 billion, an increase of 63 per cent.
All school sectors will benefit with increased funding for public, Independent and Catholic schools in every year.
Under our guaranteed commitments, all schools — public, Independent and Catholic — will be funded on a consistent basis of student need.
Local School Community Fund
Because no one knows the needs of a local school better than the school community itself, the Government is providing $30.2 million in 2019-20 under the Local School Community Fund. This initiative will allow school communities to identify their own priorities, such as upgrades to classrooms, play equipment and other school amenities.
The Government is continuing to support access to preschool education and will invest $453 million to extend support for the 2020 school year. This will ensure universal access to a quality preschool education in the year before school, helping to prepare children for their future school education.
Investing in our universities
The Government is committed to a world-class higher education system and is investing $17.7 billion in the university sector in 2019.
This is projected to grow to more than $20 billion by 2024.
In this Budget, the Government is providing $93.7 million over four years from 2019-20 for scholarships for students to study at a regional campus of a university or vocational education training provider.
The Government has a plan to build on the more than 1.2 million jobs created since September 2013.
This plan will ensure all Australians have the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
The Government is investing over $525 million to upgrade the vocational education and training (VET) sector.
Technological change is transforming the nature of work for millions of Australians. New industries are emerging and existing industries are evolving, increasing demand for new skills.
As the nature of work changes, Australians are expected to work in more jobs over their career.
A responsive and flexible VET system will equip Australians with the skills they need today and in the future. It will deliver the skilled workers needed by Australian businesses.
The Government’s Delivering Skills for Today and Tomorrow package of reforms will:
deliver up to 80,000 new apprentices in occupations experiencing skill shortages through an Additional Identified Skills Shortage Payment
partner with industry in developing new qualifications to meet the demand for skills in the future through national Skills Organisations
deliver foundational literacy, numeracy and digital skills across Australia
connect schools, local industries and young people in areas of high youth unemployment to prepare them for working life, through ten new Training Hubs
provide vital career and training information
drive long-term reform of VET by providing consistent national leadership through a National Skills Commission.
Supporting older Australians in their own homes
The Government is investing $282 million to support Australians who wish to stay at home for longer by providing an additional 10,000 home care packages across all levels.
This brings to 40,000 the number of additional home care packages the Government has delivered since the 2017-18 MYEFO.
The number of people with a high level home care package has increased by 74 per cent between June 2017 and September 2018.
In addition, the Government is investing $7.7 million to develop an end-to-end compliance framework for home care, and Australians with dementia or requiring cognitive support will benefit from additional funding for home care supplements.
Supporting safe and quality residential care
The Government is making an additional 13,500 residential care places available from 2018-19 — the largest number ever in a single funding round. In addition, the Government is providing $60 million for residential care infrastructure.
The Government is providing a $320 million general subsidy boost in 2018-19 for residential aged care.
As the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety goes about its critical work, the Government is taking immediate action to raise safety and quality standards.
The Government is providing $1.5 million to develop a Serious Incident Response Scheme and $8.4 million to introduce mandatory reporting against national residential care quality indicators.
Acting on abuse of older Australians
The Government has launched the National Plan to Respond to the Abuse of Older Australians, including $18 million to support frontline services, and a new National Hotline (1800 ELDERHelp or 1800 353 374).
The Government is delivering City Deals with a total Commonwealth commitment of $5.7 billion to assist urban and regional communities to reach their full potential.
Building on the success of the City Deals model, the Government is also rolling out Regional Deals. These will build on more than $3 billion of Government investment in regional communities since 2013.
The Government is providing a further $200 million for a fourth round of the Building Better Regions Fund, bringing combined total funding including the National Stronger Regions Fund to $1.5 billion. This will create jobs, drive economic growth and build stronger regional communities.
Regional Australia will also benefit from a new $220 million investment in improved internet and mobile services through the Stronger Regional Connectivity Package.
The Government’s $100 million investment in regional airport infrastructure upgrades will improve airport safety and access across regional Australia.
Secure borders
The Government is committed to protecting Australia’s borders, combating people smuggling in our region and deterring people from risking their lives at sea. In this Budget, the Government is continuing to invest in Operation Sovereign Borders to reinforce the security of Australia’s borders.
Defending Australia
The Government is investing to keep Australia safe and secure.
Defence spending will reach 2 per cent of GDP in 2020-21.
A record $200 billion investment in Australia’s defence capability over the next decade will strengthen the capacity of the Australian Defence Force, create jobs and open up new opportunities for Australia’s defence industry.
Putting Veterans and their Families First
The Government is improving the wellbeing of veterans and their families by providing early access to services, simplified access to treatment and improved care for veterans with complex circumstances. This continues the Putting Veterans and their Families First program and the Government’s $278 million investment in this program in the last two budgets.
Enhancing cyber security
The Government is bolstering investment in our cyber security strategy to strengthen the defences of government IT systems to address key security vulnerabilities and improve our ability to quickly respond to cyber attacks.
The Government is taking action to support affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
Snowy Hydro 2.0
The Government has given the green light to the Snowy 2.0 project by committing to a $1.4 billion equity injection. The project will firm up intermittent renewable energy by bringing 2000 MW of new renewable pumped hydro capacity into the system that will provide up to 175 hours of storage which can meet the peak demand of up to 500,000 homes.
Battery of the Nation and Marinus Link
Partnering with the Tasmanian Government, the Federal Government is accelerating the Battery of the Nation and Marinus Link projects by providing $56 million for the Marinus Link interconnector – a second electricity transmission connection between Tasmania and Victoria.This will unlock Tasmania’s hydro capacity and support more sustainable and reliable electricity for homes and businesses.
The hydro projects of Snowy 2.0 and the Battery of the Nation will support more affordable, reliable and sustainable power to the National Electricity Market.
Underwriting new generation investments
The Government is delivering a program to underwrite new generation investment. This will support increased competition in the National Electricity Market and help reduce wholesale electricity prices.
The Government has agreed to a shortlist of 12 projects which represents a combined capacity of 3,818 MW. This is equivalent to around seven per cent of the National Electricity Market.
Climate Solutions Fund
Our Climate Solutions Package will help ensure Australia meets its emissions target under the Paris Agreement.
Building on the success of the Emissions Reduction Fund, the Government’s $2 billion Climate Solutions Fund will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will also support jobs for Indigenous communities and diversify regional economies.
Priority Transmission Taskforce
The Government is establishing a Priority Transmission Taskforce to support timely delivery of transmission projects from the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System Plan. The plan forecasts transmission requirements for the National Electricity Marketover the next 20 years.
Micro-grids
The Government is supporting feasibility studies for micro-grids which would harness distributed generation to provide secure, reliable and affordable power to regional and remote communities.
Helping with power bills
The Government will provide $284 million for a one-off, income tax exempt payment to over 3.9 million Australians to assist with their next power bills and cost of living expenses. The payment of $75 for singles and $125 for couples will be made to those eligible for certain social security payments.
Opening up gas from the Beetaloo Basin
The Government will provide $8.4 million to help speed up gas supplies from the Northern Territory to the east coast market by opening up the Beetaloo sub-basin for exploration and development.
The Government is providing immediate and targeted relief to Australian farmers dealing with the impacts of natural disasters
Helping flood-affected farmers
The Government has responded quickly to support farmers and communities devastated by the North Queensland floods and weather events. $232 million has been made available to help North Queenslanders affected by these disasters.
The Government is also creating a new $3.9 billion Emergency Response Fund to provide an additional sustainable source of funding for recovery from natural disasters.
The recent floods particularly impacted the cattle industry. The Government will provide up to $300 million in grants to help flood-affected farmers rebuild damaged farm infrastructure, replace livestock and replant crops.
The Government recognises that many will find it hard to meet their loan commitments until they get back on their feet. The Regional Investment Corporation will help flood affected farmers to refinance their existing debts.
The Government is also working with banks to provide up to $1.8 billion of low-cost loans to support banks offering lower interest rates to eligible flood-affected primary producers. The Government is helping flood‑affected schools and students, providing $4 million in financial assistance in 2018-19.
Easing the burden of drought
Drought still affects many farmers throughout the country. The Government is providing $6.3 billion in assistance and concessional loans to support those affected by drought.
The Government is helping struggling families pay their bills by increasing their access to income support and by providing $35 million to charities in drought‑affected communities.
The Government is providing $29 million of funding for increased mental health and wellbeing support for farmers in hardship in drought‑affected communities.
The Government is investing $3.9 billion in the Future Drought Fund to prepare for future droughts. The Fund will grow to $5 billion over the next decade and enable the Government to invest $100 million each year in water infrastructure and drought resilience.
The Australian people can trust that:
Under the Coalition, the economy will always be stronger, allowing you and your family to get ahead.
Under the Coalition, our borders will always be more secure.
Under the Coalition, there will always be more jobs and lower taxes.
And under the Coalition, essential services will always be guaranteed.
Authorised by A. Hirst, Liberal Party of Australia, Canberra
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Pediatric Neurosurgery Team
Keeping Lucky on the Move
Pediatric Neurosurgery at Hasbro Children's Hospital
Hasbro Children's Hospital's specialists in pediatric neurosurgery evaluate and treat children with a range of neurosurgical conditions caused by injury, disease or congenital malformation.
Our neurosurgeons work as part of a multidisciplinary team of pediatric practitioners. The team provides our patients the most advanced surgical and medical care with a family-centered approach.
The neurosurgery staff at Hasbro Children's Hospital has special expertise in pediatric neurosurgery and treatment for central nervous system disorders, including comprehensive care of brain tumors.
In addition to first-rate clinical services and state-of-the-art facilities, Hasbro Children's Hospital offers ancillary services, such as school tutoring, child life activities, and family support groups.
We also offer care by social workers, child life professionals and pediatric psychologists.
Hasbro Children's Hospital is the pediatric division of Rhode Island Hospital, which is the principal teaching hospital of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Our physicians are faculty members of the school, where they train the next generation of physicians and engage in ongoing collaborative and multidisciplinary clinical research in pediatric diseases.
With our ongoing involvement in education and research, we offer our patients the opportunity to participate in clinical research trials that offer the most advanced treatments available.
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Ambulatory Patient Center (APC Building)
593 Eddy Street
London was diagnosed with spina bifida during an ultrasound, which her mom had to learn the baby’s gender. Once London was born, her family didn’t expect her to walk, but after fetal surgery and continued physical therapy at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, London did just that – and more.
Thirteen-year-old Lucky Eschauzier struggled with progressively debilitating pain and weakness. A diagnosis was elusive until she turned to Hasbro Children’s neurosurgeon Petra Klinge, MD. Learn Lucky's story.
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Hasbro Children’s Hospital Names ‘Brite Lites’
Five employees recognized for exemplary care on hospital’s 25th anniversary PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Today, 25 years after opening its doors, Hasbro Children’s Hospital named its 2018 Brite Lites award winners. Honorees, ranging from physicians, nurses and therapists to whole units, were among more than...
New England’s First In-Utero Spina Bifida Surgery Performed at Hasbro Children’s Hospital
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32.0°, A Few Clouds
A close call
MTA worker from Valley Stream rescues woman on subway tracks
Posted Friday, August 16, 2019 5:51 pm
Anthony Mannino
Anthony Mannino, left, with his wife, Debbie, and children Matthew and Samantha on a recent family trip.
Courtesy Debbie Mannino
By Peter Belfiore
Fifteen-year Valley Streamer Anthony Mannino said he heard the screams first.
As a signal maintainer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, he was at the Newkirk Plaza Q stop in Brooklyn on the morning of Aug. 8, and looked to see what the commotion was about.
He saw a woman standing, motionless, on the track bed of the northbound side of the station, and as a 22-year MTA employee familiar with the layout, he knew she was in a dangerous spot. Mannino acted immediately. “The only thing that came to my mind,” he said, “was that I had to help this lady.”
He bounded over the express tracks and onto the southbound ones. Familiar with the signal system, Mannino, 54, said he knew there was an incoming northbound train, and there were seconds to spare. He never checked to see whether a southbound train was approaching.
“I just reacted,” he recalled. “You have blinders on. You’re not focused on whether you get hit by a train. You just know you need to help this person.”
The woman was standing at the end of a curve in the tracks, at the base of a downhill grade, and Mannino knew the train operator wouldn’t see her until it was too late. He made horizontal pulling motions with his arms: A signal meant to indicate distress and to notify the operator, also called the motorman, to engage the train’s emergency brakes.
More than 682,000 pounds of stainless steel barreled toward the woman at roughly 35 miles per hour, according to the MTA. At that speed, Mannino said, the train could have easily killed or maimed her.
Larry Moreno was the train’s motorman. He told other news outlets he had seen Mannino’s fluorescent vest and signal, and activated the emergency brakes.
“Once I apply the emergency brake, that’s the maximum brakes that I could apply,” Moreno told reporters at a news conference on Aug. 9. “And I’m thinking, ‘Oh God, please, stop the train, stop, stop, stop.’”
The train came to a halt with no more than two feet to spare.
When Mannino walked up to the woman, he recalled her seeming unfazed, albeit a bit confused. “I didn’t know what was going on through her mind right then and there,” he said. “I just knew I had to try and get her off the tracks.”
While the immediate danger was over, there was still the risk that the woman might trip or touch the third rail and be electrocuted. With Mannino’s gentle prodding, she agreed to walk back up onto the platform.
Once there, however, Mannino said, she kept walking. “I was pleading with her to get help, but she kept walking like she had a purpose,” he said. “She just didn’t want to stop.”
She continued up to the sidewalk, like nothing unusual had happened, Mannino recounted. He followed her for roughly a block and a half while imploring her to seek help, but she refused, he said, and eventually she walked off and disappeared into the crowded Brooklyn streets.
The MTA said it was looking to find the woman using surveillance footage, working with the New York City Police Department.
So far, she has not been found.
“When I talked to Tony’s wife, Debbie, about what had happened, I said he was probably upset he couldn’t help her,” said Susan Aller, a Valley Stream resident and a longtime friend of the Manninos. “She said, ‘Yeah, he was broken up he couldn’t do more.’”
Aller, a traffic reporter on WCBS-FM’s “Scott Shannon in the Morning,” said she had known Mannino since their sons were 4 years old. They’re now 19. “I’m not surprised he put his own life in jeopardy, because he would do that to help anybody,” Aller said. “He’s just a standup guy. He would give the shirt off his back to help you if he could.”
Mannino and his wife grew up in Astoria together and moved to Valley Stream when their two children were young, he said. Close to the train and his work, the area seemed like a nice fit for them, and their children attended Hewlett High School.
Although Mannino remained upset that he couldn’t do more to help the still unidentified woman, he said he was happy that he prevented her from getting killed. After all, he said, “Nothing good ever comes out of getting hit by a train.”
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Dodge SRT VIPER _Designed by Intentional3D ( http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:409819 ) _The Dodge Viper (formerly the SRT Viper between 2012 and 2014) is a sports car, manufactured by the Dodge (SRT for 2013 and 2014) division of Chrysler. Production of the two-seat sports car began at New Mack Assembly in 1991 and moved to its current home at Conner Avenue Assembly in October 1995. _Although Chrysler considered ending production because of financial problems, chief executive Sergio Marchionne announced and showed on September 14, 2010 a new model of the Viper for 2012 In 2014 the Viper was named the number 10 on the Most American Cars list, meaning 75% or more of its parts are manufactured in the U.S. _The Viper was initially conceived in late 1988 at Chrysler's Advanced Design Studios. The following February, Chrysler president Bob Lutz suggested to Tom Gale at Chrysler Design that the company should consider producing a modern Cobra, and a clay model was presented to Lutz a few months later. Produced in sheet metal by Metalcrafters,the car appeared as a concept at the North American International Auto Show in 1989. Public reaction was so enthusiastic that chief engineer Roy Sjoberg was directed to develop it as a standard production vehicle.
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Section 1181. Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons
10 U.S. Code § 1181. Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons
Subject to such limitations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall prescribe, by regulation, procedures for the review at any time of the record of any commissioned officer (other than a commissioned warrant officer or a retired officer) of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps to determine whether such officer shall be required, because his performance of duty has fallen below standards prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, to show cause for his retention on active duty.
Subject to such limitations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall prescribe, by regulation, procedures for the review at any time of the record of any commissioned officer (other than a commissioned warrant officer or a retired officer) of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps to determine whether such officer should be required, because of misconduct, because of moral or professional dereliction, or because his retention is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security, to show cause for his retention on active duty.
(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 110, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2872; amended Pub. L. 98–525, title V, § 524(b)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2524.)
1984—Pub. L. 98–525 substituted “Authority to establish procedures to consider the separation of officers for substandard performance of duty and for certain other reasons” for “Authority to convene boards of officers to consider separation of officers for substandard performance of duty or for certain other reasons” in section catchline.
Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 98–525 amended subsecs. (a) and (b) generally, substituting “Subject to such limitations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall prescribe, by regulation, procedures for the review at any time of the record” for “Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the military department concerned may at any time convene a board of officers to review the record”.
Pub. L. 98–525, title V, § 524(b)(3), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2524, provided that:
“The amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2) [amending this section and the analysis to this chapter] shall take effect on the first day of the first month that begins more than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 19, 1984], but shall not apply to any case in which, before that date, a board of officers has been ordered to convene under the provisions of section 1181 of title 10, United States Code, as in effect before that date.”
Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this chapter effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.
Transition Provisions Under Defense Officer Personnel Management Act
For provisions to prevent extinction or premature termination of rights, duties, penalties, or proceedings that existed or were begun prior to the effective date of Pub. L. 96–513 and otherwise to allow for an orderly transition to the system of officer personnel management put in place under Pub. L. 96–513, see section 601 et seq. of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 611 of this title.
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Pyridoxine deficiency can be seen in all ages but is a syndrome in infants who lack vitamin B6, an important coenzyme in many essential metabolic pathways in humans. It is an unusual diagnosis in infants, even in developing countries. Even so, doctors should be aware of the signs and symptoms in children and adults and be prepared to replace the missing vitamin.
Symptoms in infancy generally present with irritability, cheilitis (inflammation of the lips), seizures, conjunctivitis, and neurological symptoms. It is more common in patients receiving isoniazid and it can lead to sideroblastic anemia because it turns out that pyridoxine is a required cofactor in the production of hemoglobin.
There is a condition called pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy that causes seizures shortly after birth. The seizures are speculated to be due to pyridoxine deficiency because of abnormalities in the ratio of glutamic acid to GABA. It is believed to be associated with the ALDH71 GENE. Irritability is seen along with other neurologic symptoms such as confusion. Anemia is a documented symptom.
The main cause of this type of deficiency is a lack of pyridoxine in the diet. Another cause of vitamin B6 deficiency is the use of the tuberculosis drug called isoniazid. For this reason, vitamin B6 is given while the drug is being used.
When people or animals are suffering from pyridoxine deficiency, it impairs the decarboxylation of glutamic acid in making GABA (a neurotransmitter) and the transamination of glutamic acid in the making of alpha-ketoglutaric acid. The neurological symptoms are felt to be due to a lessened affinity of pyridoxine for the apoenzyme, which can only be made up for by increasing the levels of the enzyme.
Pyridoxine deficiency is uncommon in children and usually happens when a batch of infant formula is passed on to the public that lacks in pyridoxine. There is a positive diagnostic test for pyridoxine deficient that measures erythrocyte levels of aspartate aminotransferase and transketolase in the serum.
The treatment of B6 deficiency involves replacing the missing vitamin. Stay clear of penicillamine or hydrazides like isoniazid because they tend to cause pyridoxine deficiency.
In adults with pyridoxine deficiency, risk factors include advanced age, severe malnutrition, sickle cell disease, inflammatory conditions, rheumatoid arthritis or prolonged hospitalization. People with celiac disease, hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma, chronic renal failure, kidney transplant or a catabolic state have a high incidence of pyridoxine deficiencies. People who have had metabolic procedures like hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis or phototherapy for high bilirubin are at a greater incidence of B6 deficiency.
Medications like cycloserine, hydralazine, isoniazid, penillamine and pyrazinamide can cause secondary vitamin B6 disease. Alcoholics who smoke excessively and are severely malnourished put themselves at risk for pyridoxine deficiency.
There are several symptoms and syndromes that are related to pyridoxine deficiency. These include weakness, dizziness, inflammation, atherosclerosis, early MI, early stroke, recurrent venous embolism, fatigue from anemia, bilateral extremity numbness, bilateral distal paresthesias, bilateral limb weakness, CNS depression, irritability, confusion, seizures, white matter lesions, anorexia and vomiting.
In adulthood, pyridoxine deficiency is not as rare as it is in infants. It is usually caused by having little in the way of oral intake and being severely malnourished. Alcohol use and a great deal of tobacco abuse also play a role in who gets pyridoxine deficiency and who doesn’t.
The only feasible treatment of pyridoxine deficiency is to replace the body with pyridoxine. It can be given as a single vitamin or as part of a vitamin B complex vitamin given once per day.
Even though it is an uncommon disease, doctors should be aware of the symptoms in adults and infants so as to be able to provide prompt treatment.
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WSMR Library's new Tween center for older kids
Since the tween center opened in January 2017, O’Hanlon said they’ve seen an 80 percent increase in library usage
WSMR Library's new Tween center for older kids Since the tween center opened in January 2017, O’Hanlon said they’ve seen an 80 percent increase in library usage Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2kCBMhM
Missile Ranger Staff Writer Published 11:19 a.m. MT Feb. 5, 2017
The White Sands Missile Range Library now has a Tween center where children between middle and high-school age can gather to do homework, work on projects or just hang out. The room was made possible through the efforts of WSMR Librarian Colin O’Hanlon, Library Technician Karen Meyers and several volunteers.(Photo: U.S. Army photo by Adriana Salas de Santiago)
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - The White Sands Missile Range Library now has a Tween center where children between middle and high-school age can gather to do homework, work on projects or just hang out. The room was made possible through the efforts of WSMR Librarian Colin O’Hanlon, Library Technician Karen Meyers and several volunteers.
The library already had a children’s library section where they host a bi-weekly Sensory Story and Playgroup event. O’Hanlon said he had been hoping to get a room for the older children since August 2015. He said he knew the older children needed a place for their own, so he entered an Installation Management Command Army Library competition for a million-dollar makeover prize. He lost to Fort Bliss, Texas, but later that day he received an e-mail saying a West Point Library branch was closing and they were looking for military libraries interested in book donations.
“I immediately raised my hand and thought, we could still pull this off,” he said. “I still wanted to continue with the project because I recognized the potential.”
The WSMR library received over 5,300 books from West Point, 89 percent of those books were junior-fiction books. He said he wasn’t able to move forward with the project for a while, since he was the only employee for the entire library. In September 2016, O’Hanlon was able to hire Meyers and could move forward to complete the project. Since October 2016, the two library employees began to process the new books for integration. The library had to close down for a week in December 2016 to organize all the books in the new space.
O’Hanlon, Meyers and volunteers Christina Brown, Teresa Sanchez, Katy Lynn Rannow, Rose Anderson and Katie Lemaire, worked tirelessly to get the space ready. The team created a space for tweens in an area that was once used for storage and encyclopedias.
“We at least doubled the amount of books in about a month,” Meyers said. “We did a lot.”
Aside from volunteering her time, Brown also donated some of her furniture to help give color to the tween room. The room is equipped with a chaise lounge and two colorful bean bag chairs for those looking to spend some time researching or reading at the library. Brown also donated additional furniture to create a reading corner within the main library.
Since the tween center opened in January 2017, O’Hanlon said they’ve seen an 80 percent increase in library usage. The new center is the site for a bi-monthly Story Time event. Along with the chaise and bean bag chairs, the center’s walls are adorned with tween art, done by the children and several tables and chairs. For those who don’t have time to search for a book at the library or would prefer to do their reading at home, they can now search for the book online and find the location of the book in order to save time during your next trip to the library.
“We’re excited to get people in here. We’ve got one of the best collections for this size libraries,” O’Hanlon said.
To search for a book online, visit the WSMR Post Library’s online card catalog, at http://mwrlibrary.armybiznet.com/search~S63/
To search for events at the library, visit FMWR WSMR Post Library, Enterprise Webpage, at https://whitesands.armymwr.com/us/whitesands/programs/post-library.
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U.S. Army photo by Adriana Salas de Santiago
The White Sands Missile Range Library now has a Tween center where children between middle and high-school age can gather to do homework, work on projects or just hang out. The room was made possible through the efforts of WSMR Librarian Colin O’Hanlon, Library Technician Karen Meyers and several volunteers.
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Obama Supporters vs. Cheerleaders
Posted by Eric L. Wattree on January 31, 2011 at 6:30am
BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
There are two types of people who support president Obama. There are his supporters who want to see him be a success, and then there are the cheerleaders who simply go along with everything that he does and deeply resent his supporters who don't.
The president's supporters understand the importance of remembering that in a representative democracy the president, and all politicians, are elected to serve the people, and not vice versa. They understand that all politicians are employees, and their primary job is to represent and protect the interest and principles of those who hired them. Thus, when we place the importance of any one man above our own principles, we create a dangerous situation by corrupting the intent of our founding fathers, and turning the democratic process on its head.
Cheerleaders on the other hand, tend to be followers - or loyal subjects, as it were. Instead of thinking for themselves, they tend to fall so deeply in love with individual politicians that they depend on those politicians to think for them. That's exactly what the founding fathers sought to avoid, because it creates a political class free to wheel-and-deal without any oversight. It also sets the people up to be demagogued, where politicians cease acting in the people's best interest, and begin to place their own interests before that of the people who elected them.
That's exactly why this country is dysfunctional today. We've embraced a cheerleader mentality that's made it much easier for the people to be exploited by special interests. Under the current paradigm instead of special interests having to con an entire population, they simply have to corrupt a small handful of men. That explains why money is the life's blood of our political system.
Independent thinking Obama supporters play an important role in Obama's presidency. Much like the checks and balances of our three branches of government, actively vigilant Obama supporters prevent him from straying too far off track. Cheerleaders, or the other hand, tend to forget that no matter how well-meaning, Obama is isolated in Washington. He can't simply go out on the street and get a feel for what the people are thinking like we can. He has to rely on the advice of the political establishment, and much of that advice is tainted to meet the establishment's agenda.
As important and as brilliant as President Obama is, in Washington, D.C. he's in the position of a billionaire confined to a harlot's den. He's getting a lot of advice from a lot of seductive people, but much of that advice is designed to politically enrich those who are giving it to him. It is up to those who truly support him, therefore, to keep him focused, and help him to navigate a totally corrupt environment.
George W. Bush's more sensible supporters found that out the hard way. Had they not allowed themselves to become cheerleaders and completely drowned out by Washington's special interest groups, vice-president and military/industrial lobbyist, Dick Cheney, wouldn't have been able to destroy Bush's presidency. Bush himself seemed to recognize that in the end. That's why he refused to pardon Cheney chief of staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, and became estranged from Cheney toward the end of his presidency.
So it's very important that Obama supporters speak out loud and clearly so we won't be drowned out by the Washington's special interests. In the final analysis, we're the only one's he can depend on to tell him what he needs to hear as oppose to what's convenient for him to hear.
As Edward R. Murrow pointed out during the McCarthy era, "A citizenry of sheep begets a government of wolves." That's as true for presidents as it is the public at large. It is incumbent upon all Obama supporters, therefore, to speak out when they see him veering off course. By doing so, we protect our president from Washington's wolves, and prevent him from becoming a part of the flock.
As we've mentioned before, sometimes with even the greatest of men, we must drag them up Mt. Rushmore kicking and screaming.
Eric L. Wattree
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Comment by Eric L. Wattree on January 31, 2011 at 11:25pm
Thank you, Enhager.
I understand exactly what you're saying. But cheerleading is a form of close-mindedness as well, because it is the antithesis of independent thought. And we must always meet ignorance with efficient thought, regardless to how tempted we are to circle our wagons.
And there's another thing. We're kneed-deep in a class war, and due to our 40 years of apathy we've allowed our representatives to become a class within themselves - the political class, which is a subset of the corporate class that we're fighting. So eventually they're going to groom a ringer that's just as intelligent, affable, and charismatic as Barack Obama. Then if he reaches the presidency and we love him so much that we refuse to accept the facts before our lying eyes, we'll be doomed.
That's why I never allow myself to become too enamored with ANY politician. I support them on a day-to-day basis, based on what they DO, not what they say.
Comment by enhager on January 31, 2011 at 8:57pm
Very nuanced take. And I wholeheartedly agree - we should scrutinize our leaders, even as we support them.
The Bush-Cheney example is a good one as Bush almost became a sympathetic figure.
Yet even though many conservatives ended up breaking off their love-is-blind following of both of those leaders, they are so close minded as America tries to move forward. That makes it hard not to be a cheerleader in reaction to the opposition Obama engenders whether his position is liberal, centrist, business friendly or a compromise.
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Herbert was born on March 14th 1853 as the oldest son of Sir Thomas Storey and his first wife, Eliza Anne Sherren, who passed away when Herbert was eight years old. His father was also a prominent philanthropist in Lancaster, as well as an important local political figure, as Herbert grew up to be. His father was on Lancaster's Town Council between 1862 and 1890, while also being elected mayor in 1867, 1873, 1874, and again in 1887. Thomas also founded Storey Bros and Co. with his brothers, Edward and William, and also Edmund Sharpe. The company, like Williamson's, produced oilcloth and table blaize In 1887, the last year that Thomas was Mayor, and also the year of the Queen's Jubilee, he opened the Storey Institute in Lancaster, a place for technical and art education.
In the 1860s, Herbert attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School before later attending the Grammar School at Derby. Afterwards, he went to London to train with W. and R. Morley, before returning to Lancaster to train at a mechanics' shop at Moor Lane mill. Herbert then went to engineering works in Salford for a year, before studying Chemistry at the University of Manchester for two years, and later spent half a year at Leipzig to study.
Herbert then began a successful career in business, and like his father, became a prominent local political figure, and a renowned philanthropist in Lancaster. When he passed away in 1933, the Lancaster Guardian wrote that his death had "cast a gloom over the Lancaster district".
Business in Lancaster
Before Herbert was born, his father and two brothers founded Storey Bros and Co. in 1849. The company manufactured table blaize, and later linseed oil leather cloths. The Storeys owned four mills throughout their time in Lancaster. Firstly, they bought the White Cross Mills, which were the oldest in Lancaster, in 1856. Five years later, they purchased both the North and South Moor Lane Mills. In 1886, they purchased the Queen's Mill. In 1895, the Storey Brothers joined forces with Karl Klic, and artist, and a former Storey Bros employee, Samuel Fawcett, to establish the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company. They produced gravure prints comercially and held a de facto monopoly over rotogravure printing. That is, until the First World War, and new competitors emerged. In 1926, Rembrandt Intaglio moved to London, and was later renamed Rembrandt Photogravure Ltd.
Herbert later became the chairman of the Storey Company in 1913, and remained in his position for six years, and gradually assumed more responsibilities with age. Outside of Lancaster, Herbert had held a seat on the board of The Gramophone Company, known for making HIs Master's Voice gramophones, from 1909 until his death. His brother, Edgar, had owned a share of the company, and had been an active director on the company's board.
Contributions to Lancaster
Herbert followed in his father's footsteps as a philanthropist as well as a local political figure. He was, as a Liberal Unionist, Lancaster's town councillor for eight years between 1892 and 1900 and was made a county magistrate in 1898. Moreover, when his father passed away, Herbert continued his tradition of hosting 1,000 elderly locals each New Year's Day for food and entertainment. In 1902 he gave £10,000 (£1,000,000 in the modern day equivalent) to extend the Storey Institute, which was founded by his father at a cost of £12,000. It was created to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and to offer to teach people in literature, science, technology, and art. In the same year, Herbert gave £6,000 to the Royal Albert Asylum for the founding of the Herbert Storey Industrial Schools and Workshops. The asylum, which later became known as the Royal Albert Institute, also received funds from James Williamson, another notable LRGS Old Boy and philanthropist.
In 1904, Herbert became the High Sheriff (a representative for the monarch) of Lancashire, eleven years after his father had held the position. In the same year, he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant. In 1924, after the First World War, Herbert, along with Thomas Mawson, opened the Westfield War Memorial Village. It was Mawson who thought up the notion of the village, but it would depend entirely on public donations. Hence, Herbert contributed money for the construction of the first four houses built, as well as for basic infrastructure. The village was a place for disabled war veterans to live as they would be unable to return to their previous trades from before the war. The memorial still exists today and continues to house ex-service men and women and their families.
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Herbert was not only a former student of LRGS, but became one of its most prominent philanthropic figures. His father had also made contributions to the school. In 1875, Thomas and William Storey made a monetary gift to the school in order to found the Storey Scholarship.
Herbert founded his own prize, noted in the archives as 'H. Storey Prefects Prize'. Additionally, he was chairman of the governors. and was the first president of the re-establish Old Lancastrian Club in 1913-1914. As chairman on behalf of the governors, he is written to have bought more teaching accommodation in Lee House from Christ Church trustees.
Following the First World War, Storey donated and presented two army huts to the school, which are still used. Later, in 1929, he was chosen to open the New Building for the school in recognition of his generosity to the school.
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Earnhardt lands pole for what could be Cup finale at Daytona
MARK LONG
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The chances are dwindling for Dale Earnhardt Jr. this season, the final shot for NASCAR’s most popular driver to win a coveted Cup title.
First he has to make the playoffs, and his best opportunity at one of those 16 slots is a win Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.
Earnhardt will start from the pole, the first time in nearly four years that his No. 88 Chevrolet will lead the field to the green flag. Next to him will be Chase Elliott, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate who has made clear that he’ll pass Earnhardt to win at Daytona even though Earnhardt is scheduled to retire at the end of the year.
"We are running out of time, and I am aware of that," said Earnhardt, who is winless this season and ranks 22nd in points, well out of the playoff picture. "Yeah, this is probably our best shot to win, but we can win at other race tracks. We’ve got that ability to do that. It’s been a very frustrating, tough year statistically."
In winning his first pole since September 2013, Earnhardt is now eligible to run a preseason race next February at Daytona.
"I’ll talk to my boss and see what he has in the shed," Earnhardt quipped.
Earnhardt is on a farewell tour and admittedly afraid to miss a moment in his final, full-time season. He’s feeling nostalgic — even though he’s made clear he’ll race a handful of Xfinity Series events in 2018 — and in two insightful visits to the media center Friday, he touched on his favorite Daytona memories. He recalled eating fried chicken at a post-race picnic to celebrate Richard Petty’s 200th victory, which came with President Ronald Reagan on hand. There was the 1999 IROC race at Michigan in which Rusty Wallace inexplicably helped rival Dale Earnhardt Sr. instead of pushing Junior to the win.
He recalled spending Speedweeks as a kid in beachside hotels. "You’d have drivers in the pool after practice," he said. "That was cool for those guys to be able to do that."
He also weighed in on "Days of Thunder," the NASCAR-centered movie released in 1990 that surely helped popularize the racing circuit, and stoked a decades-old rumor that his famous father was offered the role of Rowdy Burns.
"This is all hearsay because nobody was in the room but dad, the producer and director and (Tom) Cruise," Junior said, recalling Cruise having pimples and being a foot shorter than he expected. "They go into dad’s office and they come out 30 minutes later, and I guess they were picking dad’s brain. But the rumor was they offered dad the role of Rowdy Burns. I don’t know if that is really true or not, but that was the rumor. But dad turned it down because he didn’t want to play the bad guy."
Elliott welcomed being the bad guy Saturday night, if he can. But he also said Earnhardt has a different edge this week.
"I won’t say he has a chip on his shoulder, but I do think he has been very, very determined this weekend on making sure his car is driving exactly like he wants it," Elliott said. "He doesn’t want it good. He doesn’t want it great. He wants it perfect, and I think he has made that very apparent in our post-practice meetings.
"Yes, I think he is very determined to run well here."
Earnhardt was the final driver to qualify and bumped Elliott to second. It was a strong day overall for Hendrick, with Kasey Kahne qualifying fourth. Wedged between the top Hendrick cars was Brad Keselowski, who qualified his Ford third for Team Penske.
All the attention, though, was on Earnhardt. No surprise for NASCAR’s favorite son, especially this weekend.
Although Earnhardt expects to race at Daytona in the future, his trip to NASCAR’s birthplace is being treated like a career finale.
The track developed a "Daletona" mosaic in the stadium’s Axalta Injector that allows fans to create a piece of artwork to commemorate what could be Earnhardt’s final start at Daytona. Officials also presented Junior with a painting featuring three of his most memorable wins at the superspeedway: His July 2001 victory that came 4 1/2 months after his father’s fatal crash in the Daytona 500; his July 2010 win in the second-tier series in which he drove a No. 3 Chevrolet with a throwback paint scheme; and his February 2014 win in "The Great American Race."
"A lot of great things have happened here," he said. "A lot of drivers have made their careers here. It is something to be proud of if you are in the industry. It is a pretty fun race track."
He hasn’t gotten too emotional yet. But he expects the weight of walking away to hit him during the finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November.
"I’m not having any anxiety about the end coming," he said. "I feel pretty good about that. I feel pretty good about my decision. I haven’t had any second guesses or regrets about that. So, I don’t believe I will have any anxiety as it starts to get closer to Homestead. I just don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to miss a moment that I should take in. I don’t want to miss opportunity to let people know how much they mean to me, everybody in the industry means to me."
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MAQS embraces Luminance’s artificial intelligence technology
8 December 2017 | Press Release
Swedish law firm MAQS Advokatbyrå has deployed Luminance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology, transforming its M&A department by streamlining the due diligence process. The firm’s decision confirms its reputation as the one of the most modern law firms in Sweden and its commitment to working proactively with new technology.
MAQS began a pilot period with Luminance in early September, during which it trialled the AI platform on one of its past transactions. Once MAQS had uploaded an extensive set of Swedish documents, Luminance immediately began to organise the data set. Using Luminance, MAQS was able to complete what was originally a week-long manual organisation process in two hours. As a result, MAQS chose to permanently adopt Luminance’s platform.
“MAQS has been interested in AI for quite some time and we have been looking to implement a solution to transform our M&A due diligence process and enhance our work in general,” said Johan Engström, Partner at MAQS. “We are dedicated to providing our clients with the most efficient and high-quality service we can and our partnership with Luminance will enable us to continue doing that.
“We love the collaborative aspect of the technology. It is very easy to use and allows us to designate work flow to specific lawyers or teams and create a tight feedback loop between all sides of a transaction. Moreover, its ability to carry out data reviews at such high speed is invaluable to us.”
“We are delighted to be working with innovative, forward-thinking firms such as MAQS. The firm’s partners recognize that we have embarked on a new era and that the cognitive revolution has well and truly entered the legal market,” said Emily Foges, CEO of Luminance. “Artificial intelligence will be crucial to maintaining competitive advantage and MAQS’s adoption of Luminance will allow the firm to continue delivering the highest-quality legal services to its client base.”
About MAQS
MAQS Advokatbyrå is one of Sweden’s leading commercial law firms, with offices in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg. The firm’s practice is based on always delivering high-quality legal advice in a modern work environment. MAQs is a full-service firm with clients ranging from international companies, countries, and Swedish municipalities, to private equity firms, medium-size owner-operated companies, and listed companies.
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Zoe Boyle's 'terrifying' telling off from Maggie Smith
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Zoe Boyle has revealed she was told off by Dame Maggie Smith on 'Downton Abbey' after using her phone during "boring" scenes on the ITV show
Zoe Boyle got a "terrifying" telling off from Dame Maggie Smith on the set of 'Downton Abbey'.
The 28-year-old actress has revealed her 82-year-old former co-star gave her "daggers" when she was using her phone during filming on set of the popular ITV period drama, which came to an end in 2015 following five years on screen, but they soon made up despite the "awkward" incident.
Speaking to BUILD, Zoe said: "I got told off by Maggie Smith. Which was bad. On 'Downton'.
"On 'Downton Abbey' you do these big dinner party scenes and they take forever. And they really, really, I mean it's a great show, love it and everything, but those scenes are boring. Those scenes are really boring to film. And uh, I was sat opposite Maggie and um, I was on my phone. And it was her coverage. And I, it was a long day. And I didn't hear that we were ready to go and I just heard this, 'Hello' and I looked up and she was, it was the only time she ever addressed me and she was just staring daggers at me and I was like, "Oh no. Oh no, I'm in trouble with Maggie.
"It was fine we made friends and it was all good, but that was an awkward one. Terrifying."
Zoe's character Lavinia Swire was introduced to the show in series two as Matthew Crawley's (Dan Stevens) fiancée, but was killed off after catching Spanish flu, although the flame-haired beauty is thankful she was a part of the show as it changed her life.
She previously said: "'Downton' changed everything for me massively. I loved the show so much and couldn't even believe I had been asked to audition for it.
"It's surreal being in something like that when you know all the people and their work.
"It was an amazing job to shoot but the aftermath was so weird because people loved it so much."
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Lightning Nearly 3 Times as Deadly as Tornadoes This Year
(Image: © Vasin Lee | Shutterstock.com )
Death by lightning strike may seem rare, but lightning has killed nearly three times as many people this year as tornadoes have, the National Weather Service (NWS) reports.
As of today (Sept. 12), 35 people have died from lightning strikes in the United States this year, the NWS said. In contrast, 12 people have died from tornadoes in 2016, the NWS reported.
"This year does seem to be unusually high," said John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine. "That's because the totals for the years have been in the 20s for quite a number of years now, since 2009." [Images of Lightning Unfolding, Frame by Frame]
Partly to blame may be lack of awareness about lightning's dangers and, as such, people's riskier behaviors during such storms, Jensenius said.
From 2010 to 2015, there were between 23 and 29 lightning-related deaths per year in the country. In 2009, that number reached 34, Jensenius said.
Coincidentally, 2009 is also the last year that lightning deaths surpassed annual deaths from tornadoes, which led to 21 fatalities that year.
Tornado-related casualties vary widely depending on whether tornadoes hit populated areas. For instance, there were between 36 and 70 tornado deaths between 2012 and 2015, but 553 deaths in 2011, when a tornado struck populated Joplin, Missouri, and a so-called "super-outbreak" of tornados hit the South, Midwest and Northeast, Live Science reported. In fact, 2011 was the deadliest year for tornado deaths in the country, according to NWS records dating back to 1940.
To stay safe during lightning storms, head indoors or to a hard-topped vehicle, Jensenius said. That's because lightning can leave victims dead or with lifelong disabilities, he said.
"When you're struck, you have electricity moving either over or through your body," Jensenius told Live Science. "The electricity typically goes through either the cardiovascular and/or the nervous system."
Lightning can stop a person's heart, sending the victim into cardiac arrest, something that could lead to death if CPR or another treatment isnꞌt administered, Jensenius said.
A lightning strike can also fry the nervous system, which usually sends small electrical impulses throughout the body to control the muscles.
"For people who survive, one of the problems they have is with memory," Jensenius said. "Oftentimes, they have trouble remembering old things, or storing new information and then recalling that information."
Lightning strikes can also cause burns all over the body, Jensenius said.
In addition, a person doesn't have to be directly struck by lightning to feel its stunning impact. It can strike an object near them, the ground they're standing on, or even travel through an electrical wire, including corded phones, the NWS said.
Original article on Live Science.
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UPDATED: Why Montefiore Health System leaving Aetna affects Rockland, Westchester patients
The change takes effect Sept. 8. Health plan and hospital network contract disputes have mounted as the future of medicine is shrouded in uncertainty.
UPDATED: Why Montefiore Health System leaving Aetna affects Rockland, Westchester patients The change takes effect Sept. 8. Health plan and hospital network contract disputes have mounted as the future of medicine is shrouded in uncertainty. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/health/2018/08/07/montefiore-aetna-westchester-rockland-white-plains-hospital/922451002/
David Robinson, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 11:58 a.m. ET Aug. 7, 2018 | Updated 1:42 p.m. ET Aug. 7, 2018
Aetna letter about Montefiore Health System leaving network(Photo: Submitted)
Aetna, Montefiore ending contract effective Sept. 8
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Montefiore is one of the largest hospital networks in the country
Montefiore network includes 11 hospitals and dozens of other sites.
Montefiore Health System sites across the Lower Hudson Valley may soon be considered out-of-network for patients with the Aetna health plan.
The planned change would take effect Sept. 8. The Montefiore sites include White Plains Hospital, its hospitals in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon, as well as Nyack Hospital.
The Journal News/lohud obtained a letter sent to Aetna clients about Montefiore becoming out-of-network, which would increase what they pay for health care at the Montefiore sites.
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The one-page letter explained Aetna's coverage deal with Montefiore is ending next month and clarified a key question related to health care emergencies.
"In case of an emergency, you can still use the Montefiore Health System, or any hospital, anytime for emergencies," the Aetna letter said, "We'll cover the visit, even if the hospital isn't in our network."
New signage at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in Nyack on Thursday, June 14, 2018. (Photo: John Meore/The Journal News)
Without providing many details, Aetna officials described the letter as part of active negotiations with Montefiore to avoid terminating the contract in September.
"Both parties are working in good faith and with a concerted effort to reach a fair and reasonable agreement," said Shelly Bendit, an Aetna spokeswoman.
"Aetna is committed to working with providers to offer affordable and accessible health care to our members," she said. "We seek agreements that take into account the financial impact on employers and employees in our network.”
Montefiore officials didn't immediately have answers to questions about the letter.
Health plan and hospital network contract disputes have mounted recently as the future of American medicine is shrouded in uncertainty, primarily due to failed Republican-led efforts in Congress to reform the Affordable Care Act.
As one of the largest hospital networks in the country, Montefiore has seen several changes in health plan coverage prior to the Aetna breakup.
Earlier this year, Montefiore sites became out-of-network for thousands of patients with the UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage health plan.
The multibillion-dollar Montefiore network includes 11 hospitals and dozens of other sites, stretching from New York City northward to hospitals in Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains. It also has hospitals in Nyack and Newburgh.
Aetna's contract termination with Montefiore comes amid high-stakes deals involving its operations in New York and across the country.
Health insurance giant Aetna initially announced last year that it would move its headquarters from Hartford, Conn., to New York City's Chelsea neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, according to USA TODAY.
However, the announcement last year that healthcare giant CVS Health would buy Aetna in a deal valued at $69 billion sparked uncertainty about the headquarters shift. In January, New York City tabled the $9.6 billion incentive package it had offered Aetna as the insurance company and CVS reassessed the move.
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Psoriatic Arthritis: A Dermatologist’s Perspective
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Decisions: David Reiss of Reiss retail
The fashion company CEO on his best and worst decisions.
MY BEST... was leaving college early and letting my entrepreneurial spirit run free. I left after the first year of a four-year course in estate management. I just wanted to get on with my life and be a success. So I became an agent for a couple of fashion companies and I was quickly earning a very good living. After three years, I got together with a colleague to set up our own business - a shirt factory in Yorkshire. He ran the factory and I ran the business side of it - the fabrics, the selling, the numbers, and putting the line together. We had 100 people working for us, though it wasn't making any money. But it did give me a valuable insight into the real business world. It quickly made me very decisive and I learnt the importance of having a vision and sticking to my beliefs.
Launching womenswear in 1999 when everybody told me not to because the market was so competitive was another good decision. My belief was reinforced when we won a major retailing award in 2003. We had been a menswear retailer for 25 years, but I saw a gap in the market.
MY WORST... Whenever I interview somebody I always tell them that, working closely with me, you get found out very quickly - you either stay here for 20 minutes or 20 years. We have such a passion that if you're not part of that culture and you're not an asset, then you'll get found out. As soon as a 20-minuter walks through the door, I think of what Terry Venables said: 'They weren't like the brochure.' I get very frustrated with myself because I pride myself on being a good judge of people but it has happened three or four times.
One was an FD who had a CV like a superstar - and he looked like a superstar - but he had a social problem. He just wouldn't talk or relate to people. He lasted two days because I realised he wasn't right for the business. I judge people on common sense. And if somebody lacks it, I can't relate to them. Unfortunately, people with impressive job titles from large companies can find it difficult to make decisions in an entrepreneurial business. They have become used to bureaucracies where most of the big decisions have been taken out of their hands.
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St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton
Find out how St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton rates compared to other primary schools in Bolton with our school ratings
Rank 13,061/14,749
Here St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton, Presto Street, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 8AJ, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Presto Street, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 8AJ
The open date and status above indicate when St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton?
Voluntary aided school
Overall Stars
England Rank
13,061 (out of 14,749) 13,705 (out of 14,624) 11,606 (out of 14,459)
Local Rank
Missing Data?
Data missing (out of 41)
How St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton scores on each indicator.
St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton has been rated as Inadequate at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
If table is blank, it means there are no recent inspections for this school. Prior to September 2012, where a school received a rating of 3 this indicated a Satisfactory grade. From after that date, it now indicates Requires Improvement.
Inadequate
How does St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2018, 48% of pupils at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
How have pupils at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages?
While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?
How do children at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths?
How does the % of boys and girls at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton and how does it compare to the national average?
At St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2018 that was -3.2 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2018 that was -2.4 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2018 that was -1 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2016/17, the most recent full school year, 4.8% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
What is the total school spend per pupil at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton compared to the local average? (school is in blue)
How much does St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across Bolton?
What percentage of the budget at St Gregory's RC Primary School, Farnworth, Bolton is spent on supply staff?
Primary School Ratings Jan 2014
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REELZ to Premiere Documentary CHARLES MANSON: THE FUNERAL
by TV News Desk Mar. 27, 2019
REELZ today announced the new original two-hour documentary "Charles Manson: The Funeral" premieres on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT. "Charles Manson: The Funeral"* goes inside THE JOURNEY of Charles Manson's grandson Jason Freeman who fought to control the notorious cult leader's body and funeral. What unfolds confounds Freeman as he wrestles with the duty of caring for a deceased relative who also happens to be one of the world's most vile criminals.
"This documentary shows the unusual real story confronting Jason Freeman who struggles to comprehend his role in a situation that involves family, infamy and the inevitable event of death," said Rob Swartz, SVP of REELZ Development and Production. "Freeman's story will no DOUBT leave viewers asking themselves what they would do if faced with similar circumstances."
Years before Charles Manson became the cult leader in California he was married to a woman in Ohio and had a son named Charles Manson Jr. who would later father Freeman. Since Freeman's mother and father were never married Freeman kept his mother's maiden name though the specter of the Manson name still loomed large throughout his life. When Freeman was only 16 years old his father committed suicide leaving him with complex emotions about his lineage and eventually increasing his CURIOSITY about his infamous grandfather and what it all means for his own young family.
"We wanted to explore the incredibly complicated choices in Jason Freeman's story," said Buddy Day, director of 'Charles Manson: The Funeral'. "What goes through your mind when this evil person who hardly anyone wants to be associated with is your grandpa and now you have his body? Do you ignore it? Embrace it? At the end of the day Manson was still a family member and despite the menacing Manson cloud Freeman grew up with he still feels his grandpa deserved a proper burial."
"Charles Manson: The Funeral" follows Freeman as he comes to terms with a legacy haunted by his grandfather's heinous deeds and the weight of the Manson name. The documentary goes inside the funeral with the first-ever footage of the service and cremation and shows viewers what happens when Freeman crosses paths with Manson supporters who want to say goodbye and add their own disturbing touch to his memory. In an effort to try and comprehend who his grandfather was Freeman meets with Dianne Lake, former member of the Manson Family, who gives him insight into what life was really like at Manson's Spahn Ranch. Throughout it all is Freeman's wife who finds herself thrust into the spotlight once her husband attracts media attention in his bid to claim Manson's body.
Sharing her first hand story is Freeman's mother Shawn Moreland who discusses her efforts to shield a young Freeman from Manson's evil only to see him come face to face with the grim obligation of burying the cult leader. Additional interviews include attorney Dale Kiken who helped Freeman secure Manson's body, pastor Mark Pitcher at Porterville's Church of Nazarene who performed Manson's funeral service and Manson supporters who attend the funeral John Michael "J.J." Jones, Craig "Gray Wolf" Hammond and Billy Gram.
Viewers will also hear from Stephen Kay, former prosecutor of Manson Family members, Caitlin Rother, co-author of "Hunting Charles Manson" and reporters who have covered Manson throughout the years including Emmy Award(R) winning investigative reporter Mike Deeson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter Chris Anderson and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony Norman. "Charles Manson: The Funeral" is produced by MY Entertainment with executive producers Michael Yudin and Joe Townley.
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Labels: Caitlin Rother, Dale Kiken, Gray Wolf, Jason Freeman, John Michael "J.J." Jones, REELZ, Shawn Moreland
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A Prison Psychologist on Charlie Manson
By James Dowding
It began like this: a correction officer brought him into my 4x6 office on the cell block. His feet were in shackles, but his hands were free. The officer asked me if I wanted his hands shackled, and I said no, knowing that he had no history of violence while in the institution. The correctional officer left, closing the door behind him. I sat at my desk. I made a simple greeting, suggesting he sit, but he didn't comply or say anything.
Charlie shuffled over to a small bookcase. He ran his finger along the books, touched knick-knacks on the shelf, and looked at paintings on the wall. Slowly turning towards me (he offered no initial eye contact), he placed his hands squarely on my desk, leaning forward, his face in close proximity to my face. Then with direct eye contact, he said slowly with emphasis, "I don't see any pictures of your children here."
Looking him squarely in the eye, I said, "Shut the **** up and sit down." Smiling slightly, his demeanor abruptly lightened, he sat. Unfortunately, I do not recall what he said during the remainder of our encounter; however, there was some degree of engagement that had none of the threat suggested in his initial presentation. His ploy had failed, and he knew it.
I met Charles Manson in 1982, while working in my first post-doctoral experience as a forensic psychologist at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. This is the place where the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sends felons who are mentally ill and need a high level of care. Charlie was deemed one of those felons, spending his first ten years of his incarceration in solitary confinement at San Quentin. He had recently been relocated to Vacaville, which was something of an experiment to get him out of solitary confinement. The goal was to get him on the "mainline," where he could mingle with the general population, those who were not so severely disturbed that they needed 24-7 lockdown and close surveillance. As a postscript, the experiment never worked very well because there was always someone in the prison looking to make a name for himself by "lighting him up" - a reference to a hobby shop incident where someone threw lighter fluid on Charlie!
Every year, according to the law, Charlie would go before the parole board. Before each meeting with the board, his psychiatric file had to be updated. That year, the psychiatrist who had previously handled Charlie's update asked me to do the interview and write-up. She admitted she had been "undone" by some of her previous encounters with him and did not wish to see him again. As a new postgrad and newest member of the team, I took it as a compliment and said, "absolutely," curiosity driving my eagerness. I getting into a bit of trouble and into an argument with a haughty consulting psychiatrist from San Francisco who insisted Charlie was schizophrenic, which, and history bears me out here, he was not. Not to say he wasn't severely disturbed, but more from a sociopathic and narcissistic angle than a truly thought-disordered human being in the schizophrenic spectrum.
During my interview with Charlie, I tried to take a social and developmental history. For example, I inquired, "Tell me what you recall from some of the foster homes you were in as a child." In response to my questions, Charlie used poetic language filled with metaphors and similes. I remember him saying, "I am what you made me" - a line he had used on other occasions with other interviewers. In fact, much of what he had to say had a certain dramatic tone and intent. At times, his lines seemed a bit rehearsed and prepared, a soliloquy of sorts that was running commentary on how the world had abused and mistreated him. Some might call it paranoia, if not for the realness of the abuse that actually did occur in his young childhood and adolescence (this has been documented).
I ended up seeing him maybe a half-dozen times, not getting very far with any specific facts associated with his history, motivation, or crimes. He guarded and protected himself well through his theatric meanderings. I could always tell if he didn't like the way the inquiry was going, because he would make some veiled or more pronnounced threat that essentially ended the discussion. For example, at one point he said, "You know, I still have friends on the outside." I think on this occasion, I simply glared back at him without a response and moved the topic to another area.
Because I had a lot of time as a professional in this type of environment, I too to reading the voluminous records on Charlie. As I recall, the pile of papers was at least six-feet tall, including everything from court transcripts to social histories taken years in the past. For what it's worth, in my professional opinion, he never did "wield the knife," but, essentially, derived satisfaction from guiding and coercing others to fulfill his murderous impulses.
Prior to working for the California Department of Corrections, I had worked for the State of Illinois at a hospital for women, many of whom had killed one or more of their children. For a period of four years, I had dwelled on what I call the "dark side," working with individuals who had committed heinous crimes. Meeting Charlie was the culminating event that told me I couldn't do this any more. I needed to find a job working with a healthier population. With tongue-in-cheek, I'm fond of telling people that Charlie gave me career counseling, and I acted upon it.
There is one sentence in Dowding's article that I believe is the closest we will ever come to knowing the motive for the murders that took place in the summer of 1969.
For what it's worth, in my professional opinion, he never did "wield the knife," but, essentially, derived satisfaction from guiding and coercing others to fulfill his murderous impulses.
As the Col would say, "Discuss."
Here is a copy of a typical yearly review done by the prison for each prisoner, though it was written up at a later date than when this psychologist did his yearly reviews. The information on the report is the same information notated each year.
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DId PJ Tate suspect Blowback?
"Blowback is a term originating from within the American Intelligence community, denoting the unintended consequences, unwanted side-effects, or suffered repercussions of a covert operation that fall back on those responsible for the aforementioned operations. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause... "
LtCol Paul James Tate, Sharon's father, was stationed at Ft. Baker, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco at the time of the murders. His military specialty was counter-intelligence So was he working on behalf of the US effort in Vietnam? But if so, shouldn't he have been stationed a little bit closer to the scene of the action? Or if he was working on behalf of US Operations for NATO, shouldn't he have been stationed in Europe? What was going on in San Francisco that was of such importance to the US Army?
Well of course the Bay Area was still the capital of the Counterculture at that time, two years after the Summer of Love kicked it into high gear amongst the youth all across the country. And it is known that the US Army was lending it's intel officers to an all-out effort to fight that social movement.
Watergate by Fred Emery c.1994
"...the Johnson Administration.... had initiated a program of infiltrating protest groups with U.S. Army intelligence agents."
Jane Fonda, Heroine For Our Time by Thomas Kiernan, c.1982 pg197
The FBI*, the CIA*, the Army Counterintelligence Corps and other agencies had been turned into a massive combined political police force that infiltrated, spied on and sometimes actually engineered the activities of the "subversives who sought to undermine the American way."
*[Referring to the FBI's "Cointelpro" operations and the CIA's "Operation Chaos."]
Their primary tactic was to place informants and 'agents provacateurs' within the anti-war movement and other radical groups of the time. The undercovers would try to get people involved in these groups to commit crimes, which would then cause them to lose public support. It also enabled the police to go in and crack heads, putting the radicals out of action. Or they would try to raise tensions between different groups or within one group, to get the activists to expend their energy by fighting each other, instead of fighting The Man. They even went so far as to target Rock 'n Rollers, merely for being symbols of the movement.
Was PJ Tate involved in this effort? You have to consider the possibility. Patti Tate has stated that the family would move around every three years as they followed PJ from duty station to duty station. If so, PJ would have been in San Francisco during the Summer of Love, at the beginning. Of course the Bay Area from '67 onwards was a 'target-rich' environment, in terms of counter-cultural elements. These included the Black Panther Party, the United Prisoner's Union, the Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Diggers, the Merry Pranksters, the Black Muslims, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Church of Satan, and the Process Church of the Final Judgement, among others.
In previous threads I have explored the idea that covert forces--in local, state, and federal law enforcement--were working to manipulate and maneuver the Family into committing the murders, resulting in the demonization of hippies and the counterculture generally.
The Hippies -- Menace to society!
After Charlie was named as a suspect, did Col. Tate remember the Manson name from the files in his office? Did he hear rumors from his colleagues that Manson was a product of this hidden war against the hippies? Certainly PJ had a lot of connections and friends from other Federal agencies:
Restless Souls by Alisa Statman and Brie Tate c.2012
Patti: "Earlier that morning he'd (PJ) gone to Holy Cross with five of his friends from the FBI to set up a protection perimeter for our arrival. Along with providing protection, their other purpose was to look for suspects."
PJ to Helder: "...I'm confident that my network of connections can accomplish in one day what will take your men a week."
PJ: " I turned off the television. There were three other men in the family room, all friends from the US Department of Defense, all skilled investigators. After the murders, Guy was the first to offer his assistance. As an FBI agent, he'd spent twenty of his forty-nine years traveling the globe... "
Why did PJ have all these friends from the FBI? Because he was working with them. And that work had little to do with Vietnam.
Some people even give PJ credit for breaking the case:
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones by Quincy Jones, c.2001
"....No one knew who did it until Sharon Tate's father, who was in military intelligence, led investigators to a guy named Charles Manson who had dispatched his followers to the Cielo Drive house with orders to "kill the pigs on the hill." "
But if PJ had some bigger role in solving the murders than has been acknowledged, could this be because PJ was just more diligent in his own investigation, or was it that he had inside information on the Mansonoids?
According to PJ, he may have discovered the Manson/Spahn Ranch link on his own, even before the detectives:
Restless Souls by Alisa Statman and Brie Tate c.2012 pg94
PJ surveils Cielo Dr. late at night (Sept./Oct?). Notices two choppers drive up to Cielo and the bikers try to jump the gate before guard dogs chase them off. PJ follows them in his car--they end up at... Spahn Ranch!
I think it's interesting that PJ allegedly went undercover as a hippie in the weeks and months after the crime as part of his own effort to find the killers of his daughter. But few at the time suspected hippies. They suspected black militants, dopers, doper dealers, the Hollywood crowd, S & M freaks, even Satanists. Did PJ know something others didn't?
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders, by Greg King, c. 2000
"...Paul Tate had left his career in military intelligence and devoted himself to a personal search for her killers. He let his army crew cut grow long, grew a beard and submerged himself in the anti-establishment world from which he thought his daughter's killers had come. He had regularly spent long nights wandering through the Haight-Ashbury District and along the Sunset Strip* in Los Angeles in search of clues."
*Two places where Charlie and crew used to hang out at.
http://www.mansonblog.com/2016/02/charles-manson.html
Robert Hendrickson:
"I would like to add: It is entirely possible that the Manson Family was infiltrated by the F.B.I.
AND that Helter Skelter was influenced by same. .. It might also explain WHY Col Tate's hands were TIED."
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Treasury exempts forex swaps from costly rules
By Ronald D. Orol
Published: Apr 29, 2011 4:53 p.m. ET
Market would still be subject to new reporting rules: Treasury’s Miller
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Treasury Department on Friday proposed an exemption for the multi-trillion-dollar foreign exchange swap market from new post-financial-crisis rules, insisting that imposing new regulations on the market would have “serious negative economic consequences.”
Corporations use foreign exchange swaps, or forex swaps, to hedge their bets in response to currency volatility.
Without an exemption, foreign exchange swap transactions would need to take place on trading platforms, where the terms of the deals would be made public. The deals would have also have to take place through clearinghouses, which are capitalized intermediaries between buyers and sellers.
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“Central clearing requirements will strengthen the rest of the derivatives market, but could actually jeopardize practices in the foreign exchange swaps and forwards market that help limit risk and ensure that it functions effectively,” the Treasury said in a statement.
However, some consumer groups and lawmakers argue that the swaps should be covered by the new regulations to limit future financial crises. They contend that putting the swaps through new clearinghouses and onto trading platforms would help limit the risk of default.
The proposal is subject to a 30-day comment period and the Treasury Department is seeking to have the exemption approved by July.
Treasury estimates that the world-wide foreign exchange swap market represents 5%, or $30 trillion, of a $600 trillion global over-the-counter derivatives market. The sweeping post-crisis Dodd-Frank act imposed new regulations on the derivatives market but left it to the Treasury to determine whether the forex swaps market would also be subject to the regulations.
Mary Miller, Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets at the Treasury, justified the agency’s decision by telling reporters that the foreign exchange swaps market represents less counterparty risk than the rest of the derivatives market, in part, because participants make a fixed payment obligation at the outset of the contract.
“Market participants know the full extent of their own payment obligations and their exposure to the other party to a trade throughout the life of the contract,” she said. “This is not the case with other derivatives which have payment obligations that fluctuate with changing market conditions.”
She noted that even with the exemption, the market would be subject to new reporting requirements and business conduct standards. Forex swaps could be required to report trades to a global trade repository, Miller said.
Critics of new regulations for these types of swaps insist that they didn’t contribute to the financial crisis and generally aren’t risky. They contend that the new costs of regulation would result in fewer forex swaps and higher exchange-rate volatility.
Backers of heightened regulation insist that the market should be subject to the new regulations. They contend that such an exemption would make it possible for other types of financially engineered forex swaps that could be employed to hide problematic swap deals.
“The one thing we know for sure is that anytime there is an exemption from a regulatory rule, the financial engineers on Wall Street figure out how to cram as many new financial instruments through the loophole as possible,” said Dennis Kelleher, president of progressive watchdog group Better Markets Inc. “The area where the profits are the greatest is where there is the least transparency.”
He added, “for those people who think Wall Street is not going to come up with a whole sweep of products to fit into this exemption have missed what was going on for the past 30 years.”
However, Miller pointed out that it is illegal to use these instruments to evade other derivatives reforms. She added that Commodity Futures Trading Commission has anti-evasion authority to make sure investors don’t use the instruments to evade derivatives regulations.
She pointed out that the proposal doesn’t extend to other forex derivatives, including forex options and currency swaps, which must abide by the new regulations.
A Feb. 25 letter from Better Markets to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, argues that based on recently released data by the Federal Reserve, the foreign exchange market in the fall of 2008 “froze” and was “likely to collapse” without a bailout from the central bank.
“Only after this wholesale Fed backstop for the entire foreign exchange market did the crisis begin to ebb and did the market begin to stabilize,” it wrote.
“Without those [Fed] actions, the market would have collapsed, and that is why no exemption shoudl be granted,” Better Markets wrote.
However, Treasury’s Miller said that the Fed did not intervene directly in the forex swaps market. She added that market participants who also engaged in foreign exchange swaps were helped, but that there was no explicit support for the forex swaps market.
“During the height of the financial crisis, guarantees were given to market participants for other reasons,” she said.
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The Real-Life Walk of Shame That Inspired Cersei's Game of Thrones Atonement
BY Stacy Conradt
William Blake's The Penance of Jane Shore in St Paul’s Church
William Blake, The Tate, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
A lot of shocking things have happened on Game of Thrones over the past eight seasons, but one jaw-dropping season 5 event did stay completely true to the novels—and history: Cersei Lannister’s nude “Walk of Atonement.” Not only was it a faithful representation of what happened in A Dance with Dragons, it was also a pretty accurate depiction of a real-life event that happened during the late 1400s.
Jane Shore was one of King Edward IV’s many mistresses. After his death in 1483 (and the suspicious death of his son, Edward V), Edward’s brother ascended to the throne as King Richard III. Richard wasn’t as charmed by Shore as his brother had been, and charged her and two others with conspiring against him. He accused her of sorcery and witchcraft—the scoliosis-afflicted King believed she used spells to “waste and wither” his body—but couldn’t come up with enough evidence. Had he been able to, her sentence would likely have ended with her head in a basket at the Tower of London. Instead, she was punished for immorality.
To atone for her “sins,” Shore was condemned to public penance in the form of walking through town while crowds of people watched, yelling and shaming her. She wasn’t totally naked, as Cersei was, but by the standards of the day, she might as well have been: She wore nothing but a kirtle, a thin shift of linen meant to be worn only as an undergarment. Other sources say she wore a plain white sheet. Like the fallen Lannister, Shore’s trek included enduring sharp flint stones in the street that tore at her bare feet.
Unlike the Game of Thrones plot, Shore’s ordeal didn’t end with protectors sweeping her up and whisking her away to safety. Instead, she remained in Ludgate Prison until the King’s Solicitor General, Thomas Lynom, fell in love with her and asked her to marry him. Through Lynom, she received a pardon and was able to live the rest of her life in relative quiet (unfortunately, the same can't be said for Cersei).
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When Theodore Roosevelt Refused Geronimo's Plea
BY Bess Lovejoy
Portrait of Geronimo (Guiyatle), Apache
Frank A. Rinehart, Wikimedia // Public Domain
On March 4, 1905, Theodore Roosevelt settled in to watch his first inaugural parade. Though he'd been president since the 1901 assassination of William McKinley, this was the first time Roosevelt would get to enjoy the full pomp and ceremony, as Army regiments, West Point cadets, and military bands streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue in the warm March air. Standing in the president's box with his guests, Roosevelt at times clapped and swung his hat in the air to show his appreciation.
Suddenly, six men on horseback appeared in the procession. They were Native American leaders and warriors, "arrayed in all the glory of feathers and war paint," according to The New York Times report the next day. According to Herman J. Viola, they were “Little Plume, Piegan Blackfoot; Buckskin Charley, Ute; ... Quanah Parker, Comanche; Hollow Horn Bear, Brulé Sioux; and American Horse, Oglala Sioux.” The eldest man, leading the group, was "the once-feared Geronimo," as the Times put it.
The inclusion of the Apache elder was not without controversy. For a quarter-century, Geronimo had attacked Mexican and American troops and civilians, putting up a fierce resistance to settler encroachment. That bloody history—though often sensationalized by press reports—still loomed large during the parade: According to Smithsonian, a member of the 1905 inaugural committee asked Roosevelt, “Why did you select Geronimo to march in your parade, Mr. President? He is the greatest single-handed murderer in American history.”
Roosevelt replied, “I wanted to give the people a good show.”
But unlike the other parade participants, Geronimo wasn't there entirely willingly. He was a prisoner of war. And a few days later, he'd beg Roosevelt for his release.
A Bitter Legacy
Theodore Roosevelt was no friend of America's First Nations. During his childhood, he read books that contained stereotypes of Native Americas, and he and his siblings would, as he wrote in his autobiography, "[play] Indians in too realistic manner by staining ourselves (and incidentally our clothes) in a liberal fashion with poke-cherry juice.” He carried what he had read into adulthood, saying at a lecture in New York while away from his ranch in the Dakotas in the late 19th century that, "I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”
As president, he supported the allotment system, which broke up reservations and forced Native peoples onto smaller, individually-owned lots—essentially remaking traditional land practices in the dominant white image. In his first message to Congress, Roosevelt called the General Allotment Act “a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.” Roosevelt also favored programs like Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to forcibly assimilate Native American children. Students were given new names and clothes, baptized, and forbidden to speak their languages. "In dealing with the Indians our aim should be their ultimate absorption into the body of our people,” Roosevelt said in his second message to Congress.
For most of his life, Geronimo aggressively resisted such attempts at assimilation. Born in the 1820s and named Goyahkla—"One Who Yawns"—near what is now the Arizona-New Mexico border, his life changed forever after his wife, mother, and small children were murdered by Mexican soldiers in the 1850s. Afterwards, Geronimo began attacking any Mexicans he could find; conflict with American settlers soon followed. It is said that his nickname, Geronimo, may have come about after one of his victims screamed for help from Saint Jerome, or Jeronimo/Geronimo in Spanish.
In the 1870s, the Chiricahua Apache were forced onto a reservation in Arizona, but Geronimo and his men repeatedly escaped. Eventually, as Gilbert King writes for Smithsonian, "Badly outnumbered and exhausted by a pursuit that had gone on for 3000 miles ... [Geronimo] finally surrendered to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, in 1886 and turned over his Winchester rifle and Sheffield Bowie knife."
The next chapter of Geronimo's life included being shuffled from Florida to Alabama to Fort Sill in the Oklahoma Territory while watching his fellow Apaches die of one disease after another. He was also repeatedly turned into a tourist attraction, appearing at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and even joining Pawnee Bill’s Wild West show (according to King, under Army guard), where he was billed as "The Worst Indian That Ever Lived."
Geronimo's Tearful Request
The 1905 meeting between Roosevelt, Geronimo, and some of the other Native American men took place a few days after the inauguration, once the crowds had thinned out and things had calmed down a little. Geronimo addressed Roosevelt through an interpreter, calling him "Great Father." According to one contemporary account, Norman Wood’s Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs, he began, "Great Father, I look to you as I look to God. When I see your face I think I see the face of the Great Spirit. I come here to pray to you to be good to me and to my people."
After describing his youthful days on the warpath, which the septuagenarian Geronimo now called foolish, he said, "My heart was bad then, but I did not know it." Now, however, he said, "My heart is good and my talk is straight."
With a tear running down his cheek, he got to the heart of the matter: "Great Father, other Indians have homes where they can live and be happy. I and my people have no homes. The place where we are kept is bad for us. Our cattle can not live in that place. We are sick there and we die. White men are in the country that was my home. ... I pray you to cut the ropes and make me free. Let me die in my own country, an old man who has been punished enough and is free."
According to a March 1905 New York Tribune article, Roosevelt said, “I cannot do so now ... We must wait a while and see how you and your people act. You must not forget that when you were in Arizona you had a bad heart; you killed many of my people; you burned villages; you stole horses and cattle, and were not good Indians.” But it seems at some point, Roosevelt softened—according to Wood, Roosevelt said, “Geronimo, I do not see how I can grant your prayer. You speak truly when you say that you have been foolish. I am glad that you have ceased to commit follies. I am glad that you are trying to live at peace and in friendship with the white people.
"I have no anger in my heart against you," Roosevelt went on. But, he said, "You must remember that there are white people in your old home. It is probable that some of these have bad hearts toward you. If you went back there some of these men might kill you, or make trouble for your people. It is hard for them to forget that you made trouble for them. I should have to interfere between you. There would be more war and more bloodshed. My country has had enough of these troubles."
The president reminded Geronimo that he was not confined indoors in Fort Sill, and allowed to farm, cut timber, and earn money. He promised, "I will confer with the Commissioner and with the Secretary of War about your case, but I do not think I can hold out any hope for you. That is all that I can say, Geronimo, except that I am sorry, and have no feeling against you."
Geronimo's request was never granted. Four years later, in 1909, he died after falling from a horse and developing pneumonia. The Chicago Daily Tribune printed the headline: “Geronimo Now [a] Good Indian."
At least, he was finally free.
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5 Facts About Charles Ponzi and the Original Ponzi Scheme
BY Michele Debczak
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Some of the most infamous scams in history have been Ponzi schemes, but before Bernie Madoff (or Bitcoin), there was Charles Ponzi himself. The con he built was so successful that his last name became synonymous with fraud. In January 2020, a century after he set up his fraudulent Securities Exchange Company, the phrase Ponzi scheme is still used to describe any scheme in which funds from new investors are used to pay back old investors. Here are some facts about Ponzi and his scheme that you should know.
1. Charles Ponzi arrived in the U.S. with $2.50 in his pocket.
Charles Ponzi was born in Lugo, Italy, in 1882. As a young adult, he worked as a postal worker and studied at the University of Roma La Sapienza. Neither path panned out for him, however. In 1903, when faced with dwindling funds, Ponzi boarded a ship for America in search of a better life. But Ponzi wasn't a master hustler at this point in his life; he arrived in Boston with $2.50 after gambling away the rest of his life savings on the ship.
2. Charles Ponzi spent time in prison before his famous scheme.
Ponzi was no stranger to crime before concocting the scheme that made his surname infamous. Not long after arriving in Boston, he moved to Canada and got in trouble for forging checks. He spent two years in a Canadian prison for his offenses. Back in the U.S., he served a term in federal prison for illegally transporting five Italians immigrants across the Canadian border. It was only after his so-called Ponzi scheme began to crumble that his criminal history was made public by journalists, thus speeding up his downfall.
3. Charles Ponzi got rich off the postal system.
In 1920, Ponzi discovered the key to the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme: an international postal reply coupon worth $.05. It had been included in a parcel he received from Spain as prepayment for his reply postage. Thanks to an international treaty, the voucher could be exchanged for one U.S. postage stamp worth a nickel, which Ponzi could then sell. Ponzi knew that the value of the Spanish peseta had recently fallen in relation to the dollar, which meant that the coupon was actually worth more than the 30 centavos used to purchase it in Spain. He took this concept to the extreme by recruiting people back home in Italy to buy postal reply coupons in bulk from countries with weak economies, so that he could redeem them in the U.S. for a profit.
4. Charles Ponzi swindled $20 million from investors.
Ponzi technically wasn’t breaking any laws with his postal service transactions, and if he had kept his idea to himself he would have gotten away with it. Instead, he turned his small money-making operation into a wide-reaching scam. If people invested money into his “business” of cashing in foreign postal vouchers, which he dubbed the Securities Exchange Company, they would get their money back plus 50 percent interest in 90 days. The deal was too good for many investors to pass up.
It was also too good to be true: The money wasn’t being used to buy coupons overseas. Ponzi kept most of the investments for himself and used the flood of money coming in from new investors to pay off the old ones. Many investors were so thrilled with their returns that they invested whatever money they had made back into the business, which helped Ponzi keep the sham afloat.
Ponzi was finally rich and famous, but soon enough, cracks in the scheme started to form. The Boston Post launched an investigation into Ponzi and revealed that in order for his business to be functional, he would need to be moving 160 million vouchers across world borders. There were only 27,000 postal reply coupons in circulation at the time. The final blow came when the publicist he had hired to represent him came out against him to the public. His system fell apart and it was revealed that he had stolen $20 million from investors.
Because he had lied to his clients about their investments through the mail, Ponzi was ultimately charged by the federal government for mail fraud. He served three-and-a-half years in prison and then served an additional nine years for state charges.
5. Charles Ponzi didn’t invent the Ponzi scheme.
Though Ponzi schemes were eventually named for him, Charles Ponzi didn’t invent this type of scam. There were many crooks before him who used the same method to exploit investors. Charles Dickens even wrote pre-Ponzi Ponzi schemes into his 1857 novel Little Doritt.
It’s possible that Ponzi got the idea for his own fraud from William F. Miller, who pulled a similar stunt working as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn in 1899. But it was the highs of Ponzi’s success—and the lows of his demise—that made his story so memorable.
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Hala China celebrate Chinese New Year with range of authentic experiences across Dubai’s leading destinations
The Consulate General of The People’s Republic of China in Dubai and Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China in collaboration with Hala China to host ‘Happy Chinese New Year’, the biggest celebration of Chinese New Year outside China
Packed schedule of traditional Chinese performances, festivals, parades, dances and competitions to reflect burgeoning Chinese culture in Dubai
Key Meraas & Dubai Holding destinations to don the colours of the red dragon nation for the month-long festivities
Hala China, a joint initiative by Meraas and Dubai Holding, will bring a variety of Chinese experiences to Dubai for a month of celebrations to usher in the new Chinese year that begins on 5 February this year.
Some of Dubai’s most vibrant destinations, including Al Seef, Bluewaters, Boxpark, City Walk, Dubai Parks and Resorts, Jumeirah Beach Residents , La Mer, Madinat Jumeirah, The Beach, Global Village and The Outlet Village will be decorated for the occasion from 28 January to 23 February to host a packed schedule of activities as the city continues to embrace Chinese culture.
Sheikh Majid Al Mualla, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hala China, said: “Hosting the biggest Chinese New Year celebrations outside China in Dubai this year allows us to further contribute to realising the pioneering tourism vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and to diversifying the emirate’s economic landscape.
“Given the range of Chinese-inspired events and activities we are set to witness across some of Dubai’s most innovative destinations, we are confident that the Chinese diaspora and tourists will enjoy the month-long festivities. The celebrations will demonstrate why the city’s state-of-the-art infrastructure and inclusive culture make it an ideal home for Chinese expatriates.”
He added: “Hala China’s Chinese New Year celebrations extend beyond just two nations and will appeal to anyone interested in learning about new cultures.”
It is estimated that more than 270,000 Chinese expats live in the UAE. From January to November 2018, the number of transit tourists visiting Dubai from China reached nearly 800,000, representing a year-on-year increase of 12 per cent. The inaugural Chinese New Year celebrations at City Walk in February 2018 attracted more than 22,000 Chinese and other visitors. This year, that number is expected to rise even further, with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China confirming its active participation in the initiative.
For the fourth year in a row, China has been Dubai’s largest trading partner. 2019 sees the UAE and China enter their 35th year of diplomatic relations. The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vice President Wang Qishan to the UAE in 2018 further reinforced the bilateral ties.
Her Excellency Tan Li, Acting Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Dubai, said: “The extensive list of Chinese cultural activities that Hala China will host in Dubai over the next month is a shining example of the mutual respect and progressive vision China and the UAE share, and their proactive contribution to each other’s cultural awareness and social integration.
“For the people of China, Chinese New Year is a time of great hope for the future and reflection on the past. The fact that Dubai is embracing our cultural heritage in such a generous, open and welcoming way speaks of the strengthening social ties between China and the UAE.”
Her Excellency added: “Dubai is a regional hub for economy, trade, finance, tourism and logistics, and is an important partner of the Belt and Road initiative. The efforts of Hala China in bringing the people of our two countries together through initiatives such as the Chinese New Year festivities highlight the positive role our two cultures play in the world today.”
The Eastern powerhouse of more than 1.4 billion people historically observes Chinese New Year in accordance with the 12 signs of the zodiac, which assigns an animal and its most well-defined attributes to each year. The zodiac system has existed in the Chinese culture for more than 4,000 years, since the Qin dynasty. And this year, Hala China is bringing the storied festivities to Dubai in a way that has never been seen before.
A Royal Opening
Distinguished members of the UAE royal family, UAE government ministers and leading diplomats from the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China in Dubai will attend a glamorous Gala Event at the Bvlgari Resort Dubai to launch the Chinese New Year festivities. The dignitaries in attendance will break bread over a lavish Chinese menu, complete with a tea ceremony and exquisite food carvings, created by a leading Chinese food culture exhibition group. The expected presence of a roster of VIP celebrities from the UAE and China at the official opening of the Dubai-hosted Chinese New Year celebrations testifies to the importance of the Hala China initiative in advancing bilateral synergies.
Chinese Buffet Bonanza
One of the highlights of the festivities will be the multi-faceted Food Festival. To start with, the Exchange Programme – taking place on 27 January at The Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management between 8am and 11am – will have the students of the academy learn how to cook authentic Chinese and Arabic food from a well-known Dubai-based chef. The exchange will bring the best of both cuisines to life on the plate.
On 29 January, Hala China is set to run an exciting TV cooking competition that will see 10 Top master Chefs from China and 10 revered UAE-based chefs go head-to-head at Nikki Beach in front of a live audience, with Dubai’s restaurateurs and foodie influencers judging the outcome of the cook-off. The chefs, split into five teams of two, will have just 20 minutes to whip up an appetizer, a soup, a main course with meat, a vegetarian main course and a dessert.
Dragons on the Prowl
From 28 January to 1 February, surprise performances inspired by Chinese traditions will unfold in the lively public spaces of Al Seef, Bluewaters, Boxpark, City Walk, Dubai Parks and Resorts, JBR, La Mer, Madinat Jumeirah, The Beach, Global Village and The Outlet Village. Among the performances will be demonstrations of the Chinese martial art Kung Fu, fashion shows presenting traditional Chinese garments Qipao and Hanfu, classic Chinese dances such as the Snow Lion, and children’s street dance.
On 1 February, Dubai’s vibrant streets will set the stage for the spectacular Grand Parade, starring enormous dragons, acrobatic performers and much more. Al Mustaqbal Street at City Walk has been designated to host the parade of over 40,000 participants that is certain to generate a roar of approval from the audience.
From 1 to 9 February, Dubai Parks and Resorts, strategically located halfway between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, will host a sprawling Chinese Market featuring merchant exhibitions, Chinese craftsmanship displays, opera performances and Chinese art stalls.
From 7 February through to the end of the festival on 23 February, up to 30 stands will assemble along the streets of Al Seef for the Food Market that is set to offer visitors the chance to sample all things deliciously Chinese, from spring rolls to dumplings and wontons, as well as favourites from the region.
Hala China, an initiative by Meraas and Dubai Holding, focuses on exploring opportunities that facilitate economic development through tourism, trade and investment. The initiative features a year-long calendar of events, including food festivals, fashion shows, sporting competitions, as well as music and cultural festivals.
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H-1B: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses…
H-1B visa: Government says work ban for H-4 spouses coming this month
Analyst says the prohibition likely won’t come till summer
By Ethan Baron | ebaron@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2019 at 11:54 am | UPDATED: July 20, 2019 at 2:53 pm
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After a series of delays, the federal government is now saying it will this month publish a long-promised rule to strip spouses of H-1B visa holders of their right to work.
The news came via an update to the federal government’s “unified agenda.” The page dedicated to the planned work-ban has been changed to provide a new time-frame for the draft rule to be published, saying it will happen this month.
The prohibition would affect wives and husbands of H-1B visa holders on track for a green card. University of Tennessee researchers have estimated that 93 percent of the approximately 100,000 spouses, who are on the H-4 visa, are women from India.
In February, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pushed the rule into its final stages, sending it to the Office of Management and Budget for review. Under the rule-making process, the budget office can recommend changes, before kicking the proposed rule back to Homeland Security.
However, reports suggest the rule is still awaiting approval from the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is part of the budget office, said Migration Policy Institute analyst Sarah Pierce.
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According to the law, the information and regulatory affairs office has until June 20 to review the rule, Pierce said.
“Should it approve it, the rule could be published shortly thereafter,” Pierce said. “Assuming it gets approved, I do think we will see the published proposed rule this summer, but it does seem unlikely that we’ll see it in May, as the unified agenda seems to imply.”
Publication of the draft rule in the federal register is expected to trigger a public-comment period. Public comment periods for new federal rules typically last 30 to 60 days, but can extend to 180 days or more.
Under certain circumstances, rules can be finalized without a comment period, but Citizenship and Immigration director L. Francis Cissna said in a Sept. 6 letter to the Internet Association — which represents major tech firms such as Facebook and Google — that “the public will be given an opportunity to provide feedback during a notice and comment period on any revisions to regulations that DHS determines are appropriate, including revisions relating to the H-4 Rule.”
Here’s what you need to know now about the coming H-4 spousal visa changes
Homeland Security, on the unified agenda page dedicated to the work-ban plan, has said that some U.S. workers would benefit from the prohibition “by having a better chance at obtaining jobs that some of the population of the H-4 workers currently hold.”
A number of Bay Area residents on the H-4 have told this news organization that if they can’t work, they will likely leave the U.S. with their families.
Lawsuits seeking to block implementation of the rule are expected, according to Doug Rand, co-founder of Boundless Immigration — a technology company helping families with immigration — and a former White House official under Obama who helped implement the H-4 work authorization.
The administration of President Donald Trump, under his “Buy American and Hire American” executive order, has taken aim at the controversial H-1B visa, increasing the rate of visa denials and demands for more evidence that workers and jobs qualify for the visa. Silicon Valley tech firms rely heavily on the H-1B, and push for an increase to the annual 85,000 cap on new visas, arguing that they use the visa program to secure the world’s top talent. Critics point to reported abuses by outsourcing companies, and contend that the H-1B is used to supplant American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
Spouses of H-1B visa holders on track for green cards have been allowed to work since 2015.
The plan to ban H-4 spouses from work has been delayed several times since Homeland Security first proposed it in late 2017.
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Out of Luck: NFL Champs are Leaving the Game in Droves
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On a Saturday evening, about two weeks before the beginning of the 2019 NFL season, 29-year-old Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck stood in front of the press as he often did. This would be no ordinary briefing. Instead, Luck stunned the league, shocked his fans, and torpedoed fantasy football rosters across the country by announcing his early retirement from football.
After seven short seasons in the League, Luck boldly broke the cardinal rule of professional football – playing through the pain. He cited multiple injuries and the grueling recovery and rehabilitation process that accompanies them. “For the last four years or so, I’ve been in this cycle of injury, pain, rehab, injury, pain, rehab, and it’s been unceasing, unrelenting, both in-season and offseason, and I felt stuck in it.” Luck continued, “The only way I see out is to no longer play football. It’s taken my joy of this game away.”
Days later, another famous football player splashed across television, emotionally reflecting on his decision to leave the NFL in March. Rob Gronkowski fought back tears as he stated, “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. I was not in a good place. Football was bringing me down, and I didn’t like it. I was losing that joy in life.”
Unlike Luck, Gronkowski gave his fans something to smile about. He shared that life is looking up and that he is, “very satisfied with where I am in life now…I truly believe that going through those tough times, nine years — off the field, on the field — has brought me to this point and I believe I’m on the right path in my life.”
From TD to CBD
Gronkowski wasn’t stealing Luck’s limelight. While emotional, he stood with purpose and pleaded with professional sports owners and commissioners around the globe. “For the first time in more than a decade, I am pain-free, and that’s a big deal,” he said. “I’m here today to appeal to the sports governing bodies of the world to update their position on CBD, whether that’s the NBA, MLB or NFL. It’s just time.”
As he announced that he was partnering with Abacus Health Products, Gronkowski was quick to add that CBD “would have made a huge difference for me, I believe, during my playing career.”
According to the press release issued by Abacus, the Rhode Island-based hemp CBD products company, Gronkowski will be supporting their existing product line as well as assisting in the collaboration of new and innovative products in the future.
Will chronic pain kill the NFL – and its former players?
While the unexpected departure of two of its star players may have stunned the League, the reasoning behind it should terrify it. Two players, both under thirty, walking away from the game and the obscenely lucrative opportunities that come with it. Both for the same reason — pain.
Luck and Gronkowski aren’t the only ones. Players are witnessing what their older retired NFL brothers are going through – the severe disability and dementia – and they are making their health a priority before it’s too late.
Former QB Jim McMahon could be a poster child for post-NFL downfalls. In 2009, he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and struggles with depression, memory loss, and unrelenting headaches. McMahon suffered countless concussions and an undiagnosed broken neck as an NFL player. Through his career he became addicted to prescription narcotic painkillers to help manage his chronic pain. He said he would take 100 Percocet pills a month to try and numb the pain before turning to medical marijuana.
Eddie “Boo” Williams suffered a gruesome preseason injury in 2005, which ultimately ended his career. Following, he struggled with depression, anxiety and rage. He described to Vice the moment in 2011 when he decided to end his life. “I was in a dark place,” he said. “I thought I was a small person in a big person’s body. I felt like I had no purpose.” Williams was not far from the Saints’ training facility when he walked towards the railroad tracks and lay across them. He was saved by a homeless couple and ultimately sought treatment for depression and chronic pain.
Today, Williams says, “I stay medicated. When I got into cannabis, that’s when I started sleeping. The racing thoughts stopped. I started processing stuff right.”
Sadly, Junior Seau, former NFL linebacker who spent most of his career with the San Diego Chargers, didn’t get that second chance. Seau announced his retirement in January 2010, and just two years later, died by suicide at the age of 43. The National Institutes of Health studied Seau’s brain and did reveal that he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Davd Duerson played for 10 years in the NFL before he retired in 1993. Just one year before Seau took his own life, Duerson put a gun to his chest and killed himself. Duerson battled for years with memory loss and abusive behavior. It was confirmed post-mortem that Duerson had CTE, caused by concussions throughout his playing career.
Cannabis can save the League – will the NFL adapt or die?
It is no secret that the NFL holds a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to player’s and their use of cannabis. A policy that stands in contrast with the prevalent prescription and use of opiates in football. According to a survey of former players, 52% reported using opioids while playing in the League. These drugs were procured through team medical staff, the same team responsible for testing players for illegal drugs – cannabis being one of those.
Testing positive for cannabis can cost a player his career, or at minimum get him tossed into the NFL drug program.
Boo Williams knows that program all too well. According to Vice Magazine, “Boo was told that there would be no drug testing during minicamp, but was misinformed on that front. He tested positive for marijuana, and so was admitted into the NFL’s drug program for the next two years.” Williams recalls, “That program was a bunch of bullshit. They have doctors and therapists come talk to you about your use of cannabis. They really think something is wrong with you, that you’re crazy. They treat you worse than someone who is an alcoholic because of the stigmatization that’s been put on this plant.”
With more and more players coming out in support of cannabis use as a treatment for chronic pain, anxiety and sleep disorders, the NFL has no choice but to open their eyes to the possibility.
Former Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Eugene Monroe has been a very vocal advocate for bringing cannabis to the League. “This pain is never going away,” Monroe said. “My body is damaged. I have to manage it somehow. Managing it with pills was slowly killing me. Now I’m able to function and be extremely efficient by figuring out how to use different formulations of cannabis.”
The NFL is not expected to rush into a decision on cannabis policy
The NFL and the NFLPA (Players Association) have agreed, for the first time, to work together in studying the potential use of cannabis as a pain management tool for players. This at least indicates a small shift in consideration when it comes to the plant and what it may do for players.
“I think it’s a proud day for the NFL and the NFLPA to come together on these issues in a very public way,” said Allen Sills, the league’s Chief Medical Officer. “I think it demonstrates the spirit of cooperation we have around our health and safety issues.”
The committees are expected to break into two groups – one focusing on pain management, and the other on mental health and wellness. While the pain management group is not solely focused on cannabis, it will be a big part of the discussion.
“We’re asking our pain management committee to bring us any and all suggestions,” Sills said. “We’ll look at marijuana.”
The NFL is notoriously slow to change, but this progressive move to explore cannabis use is somewhat encouraging.
The May 2019 USA Today Opinion Piece by Jarett Bell summed up the move to build committees quite succinctly. “How weird. There are 33 states and the District of Columbia that legally allow the use of marjunana in some form for medical (and, in many cases, recreational) purposes, but a pro football player with a broken-up body has to work around the NFL’s policy if desiring such a pain-management measure. It’s striking that despite the increasing acceptance of marijuana as a healing aid, Commissioner Roger Goodell maintained, “It’s much broader than that.”
Former players touchdown in the cannabis industry
Earlier this year, legendary Super Bowl winning quarterback Joe Montana made headlines when his venture capital firm, Liquid 2 Ventures, became a major investor in Caliva, leading the San Jose based cannabis company’s $75 million first round. This comes on the heels of another cannabis investment Montana made in 2017, when he threw $4.1 million at the cannabis news and media company, Herb.
Ruben Lindo, left, and Marvin Washington, during their appearances on MediaJel’s Liquid Lounge.
While Montana’s recent investment is one of the largest athlete partnerships in the cannabis industry to date, it’s hardly the only one. Football has seen former pros both publicly and professionally embrace the plant. Retired players like Tiki Barber, Ruben Lindo and Marvin Washington have all founded or joined cannabis ventures.
“We love this industry because it’s always changing, day to day, week to week,” Washington told MediaJel about working with Isodiol in cannabis, “But it’s fun. We’re educating people and telling them about the medicinal benefits of this wonderful plant.”
Washington took it a step further. With fellow football pros Nate Jackson and Eben Britton, along with professional athletes from other sports, Washington co-founded the non-profit Athletes for CARE. The advocacy group calls itself, “a community of athletes finding support, opportunity and purpose in life after a career in sports by using their influence for social change.” With a mission of, “uniting athletes as one voice to advocate for research, education, and compassion when addressing important health issues.”
From Career-Ender to Career Launchpad
Despite the success former-athletes are finding in cannabis, for most current pro-athletes, use of the plant is strictly prohibited and can lead to a player’s termination, like the 2016 firing of Eugene Monroe by the Baltimore Ravens, following his public admission that he uses cannabis. In the time since, Monroe has made it his mission to, “get the NFL to accept cannabinoids as a viable option for pain management.” He currently serves as a Diversity Consultant for Green Thumb Industries.
Among the starkest examples of professional sports’ treatment of its athletes and cannabis comes from the story of former NFL running back, Ricky Williams. Williams gained notoriety in the 2000’s for being forced to temporarily retire from the league not once, but twice — in 2004 and again in 2005 — for failing cannabis drug tests. Despite these events, the Heisman Trophy winner played professionally for 10 years, finally retiring for good in 2011. After football, Williams took the interest in cannabis and alternative medicines that threatened his first career, and created his second. Williams became a trained herbalist and healer, and In 2018, founded Real Wellness, a cannabis wellness brand.
“Cannabis has played an important part in my healing journey, and I feel a responsibility to share what I have learned in the process,” Ricky Williams says of his career and the plant, “It doesn’t cut your awareness off from your body, the way most pain medications do. It actually increases awareness of your body.”
Cannabis will change the game – it will save lives – if the league allows it
While the mass migration of professional athletes from sports to cannabis may be remarkable, it’s not surprising. Cannabis offers former pros two very important things: relief and reinvention.
On a basic level. The plant is appealing to athletes for its purported pain relieving abilities. Though clinical cannabis research is still rare, it’s been shown to help manage, at least anecdotally, many of the most common ailments current and former football pros experience, like chronic pain, inflammation and even traumatic brain injuries. For many players, cannabis represents the relief they seek. For Kyle Turley, a former offensive linemen for the Saints, Rams and Chiefs, it represents much more.
“During my NFL career, I became reliant on pain killers and endured a 20-year struggle with depression, anxiety and rage.” Turley said, “I was diagnosed with [Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy] (CTE) due to the 100-plus concussions I endured during my time in the NFL. I began a downward spiral of pharmaceutical addiction, violent thoughts and suicidal tendencies. Medical Marijuana literally saved my life. Without it I would not be here today. I would not have my family, my kids, my house, everything I have right now, if not for cannabis. Period.”
Since using cannabis to reclaim his life, Turley launched his brand, Neuro XPF, a hemp CBD company geared towards athletes and active adults. In his role, Turley serves as a brand ambassador and a cannabis advocate. He’s found purpose in the plant that saved his life.
There is no dispute here. The athletes messages are crystal clear. Current and former athletes want treatment options. They want to be able to manage what goes into their bodies and to choose their own pain management path. Gone are the days of popping pills on planes after a long Sunday bloodbath.
Tiki Barber was matter-of-fact in saying, “The more quickly we can get cannabis legalized federally, the better off athletes will be.” He continued, “It is a matter of inevitability.”
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Childhood stress reduced by natural-terrain schoolyards
Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children's stress and inattention, according to a University of Colorado Boulder study.
Working on class assignments or gardening in such settings also provide stress-reducing benefits for youth, according to a paper published in the journal Health & Place. The study is one of the first of its kind to focus on the relationship between student access to green settings and stress.
"Many schools already offer stress management programs, but they're about teaching individuals how to deal with stress instead of creating stress-reducing environments," said Louise Chawla, CU-Boulder professor of environmental design and lead author of the study. "Schools are where children spend a major part of their life hours, so it's an important place to look at for integrating daily contact with the natural world because of the many benefits it brings."
Natural-terrain schoolyards - with dirt, scrub oak and water features, for example - foster supportive relationships and feelings of competence, the researchers found.
Combination schoolyards that have at least some natural-habitat landscaping, even if they include built structures as well, can have positive impacts on children, said Chawla, who also is the director of CU-Boulder's Children, Youth and Environments Center.
Co-authors of the paper included three former doctoral students: Kelly Keena and Illène Pevec, both who were at the University of Colorado Denver; and Emily Stanley, who was at Antioch University New England in Keene, N.H.
For the study, a variety of settings were observed including elementary-school students' recess in wooded and built areas; fourth- through sixth-grade students' use of a natural habitat for science and writing lessons; and high school students' gardening for volunteerism, required school service or coursework.
The sites were located at a private elementary school in Baltimore that serves children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities; a public elementary school in suburban Denver with students from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds; and four public and private entities for teenagers - a college preparatory school, a public high school, an alternative school and an afterschool program - throughout Colorado.
Together the researchers logged more than 1,200 hours of observation. They interviewed students, teachers, parents and alumni and coded keywords from the interviews for their findings, among other methods.
Over three school years at the Baltimore elementary school recess site, 96 percent of students in the first through fourth grades chose to play in the woods when they had the option of heading either there, to a playground or to an athletic field. In the woods, the younger children freely engaged in exploratory and sensory-based activities. The older children cooperatively organized activities like building forts and trading found objects.
Teachers at the Baltimore elementary school reported that the students returned from recess with longer attention spans. Some parents said the experience was empowering and critical to their child's well-being and social and emotional balance.
Students at the Denver elementary school, who completed assignments in a natural habitat, found the process to be an escape from stress in the classroom and at home, according to the study. Twenty-five percent of the students spontaneously described the green area as "peaceful" or "calm."
There also were anecdotal observations at the Denver school. In one case for example, a group of menacing schoolmates were unable to provoke a student in the green space whose temper normally was quick to escalate, according to the author.
"In more than 700 hours of observations at the Denver school's green outdoor space, zero uncivil behaviors were observed," said Chawla. "But there were many incidences of arguments and rudeness indoors, as there are at many schools."
Among the teenage participants throughout Colorado who gardened, 46 percent referred to calm, peace and relaxation in addition to other positive descriptors when reflecting on their experiences. They also gave four main reasons for their favorable reactions: being outdoors in fresh air; feeling connected to a natural living system; successfully caring for living things; and having time for quiet self-reflection.
For schools that are interested in providing natural habitats for students but only have built outdoor spaces, Chawla suggests tearing out some areas of asphalt or creating joint-use agreements with city parks and open space.
"Schools are really prime sites for an ecological model of health and for building access to nature into part of the school routine as a health measure," said Chawla.
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Opinion > Kevin, M.D.
Want Us to Be Doctors? Get Out of the Way
— Jordan Grumet, MD, has a cure for physician burnout
by Jordan Grumet MD May 30, 2017
I have a confession to make. I don't understand the concept of burnout. I mean, I get the idea. Medicine is, at least when you are the kind of doctor who deals with life and death, inherently stressful. And I feel the stress. It's as if someone applied a vice grip to my insides in the middle of medical school, and it has never let up since. The pressure is unrelenting, progressive, and downright painful. It has gotten worse with every successive career milestone.
Brutal. It's brutal. I knew it would be after a few weeks of rotations on the medical wards. The more responsibility I gained, the worse it got. And I guess I entered the profession knowing this. There was no expectation of reprieve. No belief that I would be let off the hook. I assumed that it was my cross to bear, my burden to shoulder. As the burden became heavier, I learned how to amble through hospital halls with a stooped posture.
I just don't know if it could be any other way. I can think of no relief from the burden of making life-and-death decisions. What we do matters. A wrong turn, a flip on the ideological scale, can have devastating consequences for those we care for. There is no escaping this responsibility. No blunting the effect. You can't go half way. You can't stand in the middle of the road. You either make definitive decisions with definitive consequences, or you get out of the business. There is no such thing as sleeping peacefully for a physician.
So why are doctors committing suicide? Why are doctors leaving medicine in droves? It's not burnout. A small part of the reason is wrong career choice. A young doctor realizes quickly that they didn't know what they were signing up for.
For the rest, it's external. It's not the stress of caring for people or even making life-and-death decisions. This is part of our genetic makeup. Part of our training.
It's everything else. It's the meaningless paperwork. It's the droves of administrators and clerical staff thwarting us at every turn. It's the government and endless regulations, and rules, and threats. It's the loss of respect, loss of standing, and loss of confidence that we feel every day from our community. It's economic distress.
We won't fix this by training our young people about burnout or haranguing them with some odd belief in resilience. They made it through medical school; they already are resilient.
You want doctors to be doctors again? You want us to love our jobs again?
Simple. Get out of the way.
And let us do what we were trained to do.
Jordan Grumet is an internal medicine physician who blogs at In My Humble Opinion. Watch his talk at dotMED 2013, Caring 2.0: Social Media and the Rise Of The Empathic Physician. He is the author of I Am Your Doctor: and This Is My Humble Opinion. This post appeared on KevinMD.com.
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Definition, Function, Structure, Vs Cell Wall
Definition: What is the Plasma Membrane?
Essentially, the plasma membrane refers to the cell membrane that defines the boundaries of a cell (and cell organelles). As such, it forms a barrier (with controlled interaction) between two aqueous compartments; between the intracellular and intracellular environments.
Although this membrane serves to protect the cell and its components, it is also surface through which substances are exchanged and information shared with other cells.
Like the other cellular membranes, the plasma membrane is made up of lipids and proteins that contribute to the functions and characteristics of the membrane. While the plasma membrane is the only barrier between the internal environment of a cell and the extracellular environment in some organisms, some organisms have an additional barrier known as a cell wall.
Several differences exist between a plasma membrane and a cell wall (as well as a cell membrane) as will be discussed in detail in this article.
Main components of a plasma membrane includes:
A phospholipid bilayer
Proteins - E.g. glycoproteins and peripheral membrane proteins
Carbohydrates - E.g. carbohydrates that form glycoproteins and glycolipids
Structure of a Plasma Membrane
Although this model has undergone several changes over time (since it was proposed in 1972), the fluid mosaic model is the model often used to describe the structure of plasma membrane.
According to this model, the plasma membrane is composed of freely moving (in a fluid-like manner) components (phospholipids, proteins, and cholesterol). Its consistency has been likened to that of salad oil at body temperature. Here, then, the plasma membrane depicted in books may be thought of as a snapshot of a structure that is always in motion.
* Due to the fluid nature of the plasma membrane, it would continue to flow around an object (e.g. very fine needle) if the object was inserted into a cell.
Phospholipid bilayer of plasma membrane
The phospholipid bilayer is one of the main components of the plasma membrane. It's composed of fatty acids (two), glycerol and a phosphate group and takes the following chemical structure:
Basic model of a phospholipid and the one to the right shows the chemical composition of a phospholipid by Veggiesaur [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
As the basic fabric of the plasma membrane, the phospholipid (a bilayer lipid) has a number of characteristics/features that contribute to its functions.
Some of these characteristics include:
Amphipathic
As an amphipathic structure, the phospholipid bilayer has regions that are hydrophilic and hydrophobic in nature. Whereas the hydrophilic region of phospholipid is essentially "water-loving", the hydrophobic region is "water hating" and thus insoluble in water.
Hydrophilic region of phospholipids
The hydrophilic region of phospholipids consists of a phosphate group that is negatively charged as well as a small group that varies from one organism to another (may be polar or charged) attached to glycerol.
As the hydrophilic region of phospholipid, the head remains in contact with the aqueous environment both inside and outside the cell. This contact is enhanced by hydrogen bonds.
* As a polar molecule, water forms electrostatic interactions with the hydrophilic region of phospholipid (phospholipid heads).
As the part that forms the surface of the bilayer, the hydrophilic region of phospholipid helps attract water inside and outside the cell. This is an important feature of the phospholipid bilayer that contributes to the exchange of substances between a cell and its immediate environment.
While the plasma membrane acts as a barrier that separates the internal environment of the cell from the external environment, intake, and excretion of substances is essential for growth, communication as well as the proper functioning of cell and organelles. Here, then, the hydrophilic region of phospholipids play an important role in that it attracts water (the aqueous fluid) in which these substances are suspended.
Hydrophobic region of phospholipids
The hydrophobic region of phospholipids is composed of unsaturated (as well as some saturated) fatty acids that form long hydrocarbon chains. This region makes up the tail part of phospholipids while the hydrophilic region makes up the head.
While this part is "water-hating", which means that it poorly interacts with water, it interacts well with other nonpolar molecules. For this reason, unlike the "water-loving" region, the tail part of a phospholipid is sandwiched between the two hydrophilic heads (where they interact with each other) away from water/aqueous fluid inside and outside the cell.
With the hydrophobic region occupying the interior region of the phospholipid bilayer, this area is impermeable to various biological molecules and ions that are soluble in water. While this region of the phospholipid bilayer poorly interacts with water (as well as various water-soluble molecules and ions), it makes the plasma membrane a good barrier by regulating substances that cross the membrane.
Being a hydrophobic region of the phospholipid bilayer, water, and other water-soluble substances cannot easily move in and out of the cell. As such, it can be said to help maintain cell homeostasis.
The phospholipid layer is a viscous fluid.
As already mentioned, the plasma membrane is a dynamic structure that is in constant motion. This is made possible by one or to double bonds present on the fatty acids that not only make it difficult for the hydrocarbon chains to pack together, but also move freely.
This makes the membrane soft and flexible which has the following benefits:
· It contributes to the selective movement of substances across the membrane.
· In such organisms as the amoeba, this characteristic of plasma membrane makes it easier for them to engulf food material.
· It makes it possible for some cells to squeeze through other cells to reach given destinations.
· In this structure, proteins and the phospholipid layer itself are capable of lateral diffusion within the membrane which is important for all its functions.
* The length and bulk of phospholipid tails determine the type of end product. Whereas a small tail of phospholipids results in the formation of micelles while tails that are bulkier in nature produce liposome.
Some of the other important components of a plasma membrane include:
Proteins are also major components of the plasma membrane and make up about 50 percent of the plasma membrane by weight.
They are divided into two main categories that include:
Integral proteins
Peripheral proteins
Integral proteins of the plasma membrane
Also known as intrinsic proteins, integral proteins are inserted/embedded in the phospholipid bilayer. These proteins vary in length with some stretching from one end of the membrane to the other (transmembrane proteins) while the shorter ones are not as extended (thus not fully integrated into the phospholipid bilayer).
Given that the central region of the plasma membrane is hydrophobic in nature, integral proteins possess a hydrophobic region (residues with hydrophobic side chains) that allows them to remain anchored in the membrane. However, parts of these proteins that are exposed to the inner environment of the cell (cytoplasm) and the outer surface of the membrane are hydrophilic (water-loving).
According to studies, transmembrane proteins (ones that stretch from one side of the phospholipid bilayer to the other) consists of between 20 and 25 amino acids arranged as membrane-spanning domains (α helices or multiple β strands) that range in length from 4 to a few hundred residues long.
Proteins remain anchored to the membrane. Therefore, this is different in comparison to integral proteins that are anchored to a single leaflet/layer of the membrane (they do not extend deep into the bilayer of the membrane) through covalently bound fatty acids.
* Non-polar interactions, as well as the external and internal force, ensure that integral proteins remain in place.
Depending on the cell, integral proteins have a number of functions. In some cells, integral proteins are largely involved in communication and thus serve to transfer signals between the internal of the cell and the extracellular space. As such, the proteins often act as hormone receptors that receive information allowing for the cell to respond appropriately.
Apart from their role in cell communication, some integral proteins also act as transporters and channels (e.g. the potassium channels) through which various substances are transported in and out of the cell.
Some of the other functions of integral proteins include:
Energy accumulation
As compared to integral proteins, peripheral proteins are located on the surfaces (outer or inside the cell) and thus do not extend from one side of the membrane to the other.
Here, peripheral proteins may be attached to the surface of phospholipids or integral proteins. They are loosely attached (and can therefore easily detach) given that they do not form stronger bonds as those formed between integral proteins and the membrane.
* Peripheral membrane proteins attach to the phosphate heads of phospholipids through a unique sequence of amino acids in their structure.
The loose attachment of peripheral proteins is crucial to their functions on the cell surface. For instance, for peripheral proteins involved in biochemical pathways, being loosely attached allows them to detach and attach to the membrane as they move substances in or out of the cell.
As they move from one location of the cell surface to another, peripheral proteins are also involved in:
· Support - They provide a point of attachment for cytoskeleton and various components of the extracellular matrix. In turn, this also provides support for the cell as a whole.
· Communication - Enzyme and protein activation - Message from the extracellular matrix is passed to integral proteins and ultimately to the peripheral proteins. Once this information reaches peripheral proteins, the appropriate cell response is initiated. This is enhanced by the fact that peripheral proteins can attach and detach from the membrane.
* Some peripheral membranes proteins act like enzymes: Phospholipases located on the surface of the plasma membrane are involved in the hydrolysis of bonds located on the head group of phospholipids where they are involved in cell degradation.
· Molecule transfer/ transportation - By attaching to various molecules and electrons, peripheral proteins can also help in their transfer thus contributing to the electron transport chain process.
· Cell interaction - Attachment and detachment of peripheral proteins contributes to cell interaction.
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Carbohydrates, which are also components of the plasma membrane are normally found on the exterior surface of the plasma membrane. Here, they are bound to proteins to form glycoproteins or lipids forming glycolipids (glycosphingolipids, glycoglycerolipids, and glycophosphatidylinositol).
While carbohydrates are not inserted in the phospholipid bilayer, some are inserted in the membrane as proteoglycans.
Carbohydrates attached to the plasma membrane are made up of 2 or more monosaccharides (as many as 60) and may appear straight or branched in shape.
* Plasma membrane carbohydrates are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum and modified in the Golgi complex.
* By weight, membrane carbohydrates make up between 2 and 10 percent of the plasma membrane depending on the type of organism and cell. 90 percent of these carbohydrates are covalently bound to proteins (to form glycoproteins) while the rest are bound to lipids.
On the plasma membrane, carbohydrates have two main functions.
Mediating interactions and sorting proteins - On the plasma membrane surface, carbohydrate protections play an important role in mediating the interaction of cells with their environment. In the process, they also serve to sort proteins into the appropriate compartments of the cell.
Cell recognition - On the plasma membrane, the structure and type of carbohydrates have made it possible to identify specific cells. Here, in addition to the proteins, carbohydrates act as markers that not only make it possible to identify the cells, but also making it possible for cells to recognize each other.
In the immune system, these markers make it possible for immune cells to recognize each other and thus differentiate between cells that belong to the body and foreign substances. For this reason, immune cells do not attack body cells.
With regards to cell identifications, carbohydrates (e.g. in glycolipids) play an important role in cell classification. Using glycolipids located on red cells, it became possible to group red cells into several types (A, B, AB, and O). For instance, if a blood type is classified as being type A, this means that it contains an enzyme which adds an N-acetylgalactosamine to the end of the chain.
Cholesterol is present in the plasma membranes of some cells and may make up to 50 percent of the total lipid. On the plasma membrane, they have been shown to disrupt the arrangement (packing) of fatty acyl chains which in turn disrupt their general mobility.
Functions of the Plasma Membrane
As the barrier between the internal environment of a cell and the external medium, the plasma membrane plays a number of important roles that allow a cell to function properly.
By acting as the boundary that separates the cytoplasm (as well as the nucleus) from the extracellular environment, the plasma membrane helps regulate substances that enter or leave the cell (through characteristics of the phospholipid bilayer) which in turn provides ideal cellular conditions for the cell to function normally.
Some of the other functions of the plasma membrane may be classified as follows:
Transport - Transport is one of the main functions of the plasma membrane. While some substances are allowed into the cell, some are prevented from gaining entrance. Therefore, the plasma membrane is selectively permeable and thus does not allow all substances in and out of the cell.
While it protects the cell from some harmful substances that are denied entry, this action also helps maintain a balance between various material for cell functions.
There are two types main types of transport that occur through the plasma membrane including:
· Passive transport - this is the type of transportation that does not require the use of energy
· Active transport - through the use of energy given that substances have to be transported against a concentration gradient
Ingestion - Because of the nature of the plasma membrane, different types of cells are able to ingest a variety of substances into the cell. This is achieved through such processes as endocytosis, phagocytosis, and pinocytosis. Here, such cells as amoeba surround the substance or food particle (as well as other microorganisms) and engulf them as they are into the cell. These processes allow cells to feed or destroy other microorganisms/substances.
Cell division - As mentioned, the plasma membrane is a dynamic structure that is always in motion. This characteristic makes it easy for a cell to divide when need be to form two daughter cells from the original cell. Here, the plasma membrane pinches at the central part and separates to form two new cells.
Communication - Through structures on their surface (proteins and carbohydrates) cells are able to communicate with each other and interact through signaling.
Plasma Membrane Vs Cell Wall
Like the plasma membrane, the cell wall also serves to protect the cell from various external forces that may otherwise affect the internal environment of the cell.
However, unlike the plasma membrane (which is present in all cells), a cell wall is only found in some organisms (e.g. plants, some bacteria, and fungi among a few others). In these organisms, the cell wall, which is thicker in diameter, is more rigid as compared to the plasma membrane which not only allows it to protect the cell, but also influences the overall shape of the cell.
The other difference between the cell wall and plasma membrane is with regards to their respective components. Whereas a cell wall consists of chitin, lignin, sugar, cellulose , and pectin among other molecules, the plasma membrane is mostly made up of the phospholipid bilayer. This difference makes a cell wall more elastic than the plasma membrane.
Differences between the two can also be identified in their functions. Whereas the cell wall simply serves to protect the cell (as well as the cell membrane which is located beneath it) the plasma membrane has a number of functions that include cell division, motility, signaling and reception, transportation as well as maintaining cell homeostasis. The plasma membrane, then, has many important functions that contribute to the proper functioning of a cell.
* Whereas a cell wall ranges between 20 to 80 nm in thickness, the plasma membrane may range between 7.5 and 10 nm.
Some of the other differences between the two include:
· Cell wall requires deposition while plasma membrane needs proper nutrition
· The thickness of cell wall changes over time
· The cell wall is inactive as compared to the plasma membrane which is metabolically active
· Cell wall does not have receptors on its surface while plasma membrane does
· Whereas plasma membrane is semi-permeable, the cell wall is completely permeable and only prevents very large molecules from entering the cell.
Plasma Membrane Vs. Cell Membrane
While the terms cell membrane and plasma membrane are used interchangeably in some books, there is a slight difference between the two.
The term cell membrane refers to the boundary of the cell as a whole, the term plasma membrane refers to the boundary of the cell or that of an organelle within the cell. Here, then, it would be right to say that membrane-bound organelles are surrounded by a plasma membrane.
The two are made up of similar components, but for the most part, the cell membrane, which is the plasma membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm, may contain a number of additional attachments such as cilia that allow for the locomotion of the cell.
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'Donald Trump betrayed us': US cracks down on Iraqi Christian immigrants
US immigration authorities recently detained more than 100 Iraqi Christians who face deportations that could mean death sentences
Haydar Butris, an Iraqi immigrant facing deportation, with his children (Courtesy of Martin Mansor)
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Published date: 20 June 2017 22:02 UTC | Last update: 2 years 7 months ago
Haydar Butris' three-year-old son keeps crying and asking when his dad will return home. The father of three was detained by US immigration authorities on 11 June as a part of a sweeping crackdown on Iraqis in Michigan and across the nation.
As a result of the deal that saw Iraq removed from President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban," Baghdad has agreed to accept deportees from the United States. Before the agreement, Iraqi immigrants with removal orders had enjoyed a normal life in the US for decades.
More than 100 Iraqis, mostly Christians, have been arrested over the past week in Michigan, and they face being sent back to their home country.
Community activists say deportations may amount to death sentences for those immigrants, many of whom have lost all ties to Iraq, where Christians and other religious minorities have suffered attacks by militants labeled as "genocide" by the US government.
"They are devastated," Martin Mansor, Butris's brother said of his sibling's children.
This is pretext to round up more brown people and kick them out
-Wisam Naoum, lawyer
Butris, 39, like most Iraqis arrested this week, is facing removal from America because of a crime he committed years ago. He was convicted in 1998 on a drug-related charge. He had come to the US legally at age 16 in 1993, but the offence violated the terms of his immigration visa.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knocked on the door and said they were there for Butris without showing an arrest warrant, Mansor told Middle East Eye.
"His oldest daughter came downstairs, and she saw her dad being handcuffed and taken away," Mansor, who also witnessed the raid, said describing his 12-year-old niece. "Everybody broke down. They were ... in tears."
'Dismay and betrayal'
Chaldeans, an ethnoreligious Catholic group native to northern Iraq, have been the main victims of this week's immigration arrests.
Wisam Naoum, an attorney advocating for the detainees, called the raids a "coordinated attack against this community in particular and people of colour generally by this administration".
He said Iraqi immigrants were nabbed from outside churches, restaurants, coffee shops and their own homes on Sunday.
Asked about the general atmosphere in the Chaldean community, Naoum said: "Fear, anger, dismay and betrayal."
He explained that Iraqi Christians in Michigan overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the election - support that he said was vital to the Republican candidate's slim victory in the state.
A Church in Qaraqosh, a town retaken by Iraqi forces in October 2016, after it had been ravaged by Islamic State (IS) group militants (AFP)
Trump won Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes, while Chaldeans in the state are estimated to number more than 100,000 people.
Naoum said Chaldeans thought Democrats' policies in the Middle East were "ineffectual," so they listened to Trump, who portrayed himself as a strongman and promised to protect their communities in the homeland and the US.
"They bought it, and they voted wholesale for Donald Trump," Naoum told MEE.
He added that it is ironic that one of the Iraqi restaurants in Sterling Heights that was raided for immigrants had hosted a Trump victory party after the election. The northern Detroit suburb is home to a large Chaldean community.
"Donald Trump betrayed us," Naoum said. "These people are just dismayed. They didn't think that people were going to be raided and deported en masse this way."
US defends raids
ICE, the agency tasked with detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants, has defended the rounding up of Iraqi nationals, framing it as a public safety issue.
"The operation in this region was specifically conducted to address the very real public safety threat represented by the criminal aliens arrested," Rebecca Adducci, field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Detroit, said in a statement.
"The vast majority of those arrested in the Detroit metropolitan area have very serious felony convictions, multiple felony convictions in many cases."
ICE said detainees have committed "crimes including homicide, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking, robbery, sex assault, weapons violations and other offenses".
But community activists and lawyers told a different story. They said almost all of those detained do not pose threats to society.
Attorney Clarence Dass said the dozens immigrants he is representing committed non-violent crimes.
Dass is filing emergency immigration motions to suspend the deportations of his clients, based on circumstances in Iraq. He is also reopening the old criminal cases of the detainees to dismiss or change the convictions.
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"Often times in these people's cases, they didn't understand what they're pleading guilty to, they didn't know the process ... they had bad lawyers," Dass told MEE.
Naoum also rejected ICE's claim that the detainees are "hardened criminals," saying that some of them do not even have criminal records.
"This is pretext to round up more brown people and kick them out," he said.
"In every case where there was a conviction, people served their time and repaid their debt to society," he said. "They've become rehabilitated. They've got families. They've got careers. They've got businesses."
Naoum said deporting people to a country they have not been to in decades is absurd, adding that many Christians would be walking around with a target on their back in Iraq because of their names, appearance and religion.
The Iraqi community has been rallying support, organising protests and waging legal battles to prevent the deportations of these detainees.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday to stop the government from sending the immigrants back to Iraq.
Kary Moss, executive director for the ACLU of Michigan, said in a statement that the deportations would not only be immoral, but also illegal as they violate US and international law and treaties.
So where would I go? He's my mother. He's my father. He's everything that we have
- Brianna Al-Dilami, wife of Iraqi immigrant facing deportation
"Petitioners are Iraqi nationals who have resided in the United States, in many cases for decades. They now face imminent removal to Iraq, and the very real probability of persecution, torture or death," the ACLU's legal complaint reads.
It is not only Chaldeans who are suffering from the crackdown. Iraqi Shia, Kurds and refugees also face being sent back to the war-torn country.
Brianna al-Dilami, wife of 38-year-old Ali al-Dilami who was arrested in Ohio on Sunday, told MEE that she and her children would have to move to Iraq if her husband is deported because he is the sole provider for the family.
The couple have two children aged 18 and three.
"They just said, 'You're Ali al-Dilami; you're under arrest,'" his wife said, describing the raid.
Al-Dilami, who is a named plaintiff on the ACLU lawsuit, spent five months in jail 17 years ago for an assault conviction that his wife said stemmed from a fight where he was attacked first. He had come to the US as a refugee in 1998.
"We have been married 19 years, it will be 20 in October. So where would I go? He's my mother. He's my father. He's everything that we have," an emotional Brianna said.
Shahd Atiya, an Iraqi American lawyer, said it is hard to make sense of the sudden targeting of Iraqi immigrants.
"Politically speaking, I can't give people an explanation, and that's really hard for people to deal with - to think, 'I know you're a human being, but you're just part of some political machine that's beyond me and you'," Atiya told MEE.
A letter by six members of Congress from Michigan, including Sander Levin, a Democrat whose district includes Sterling Heights, urged Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to halt the deportations.
"On behalf of our constituents, we are writing most urgently and with grave concern about a large number of Iraqi-American immigrants who are being placed in detention and are awaiting removal," reads the letter, sent by five Democrats and one Republican. It added that the detainees would be put in "great danger if deported to Iraq".
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When it Comes to Guantanamo, Trump is Truly the Builder in Chief
In this March 30, 2010, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper stands in the turret of a vehicle with a machine gun, left, as a guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility of Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Miami Herald | By Carol Rosenberg
MIAMI -- The Trump administration has more than $200 million in new construction teed up for Guantanamo this year and next, combining new funding in the $1.3 trillion spending bill and existing projects.
The biggest ticket item for the U.S. Navy base in Cuba in the so-called Omnibus Spending law is $115 million for a new 848-troop barracks across the street from the McDonald's and commissary to consolidate enlisted prison staff under one roof.
A dive into the documents that underpin the spending bill that President Donald Trump signed Friday -- declaring "Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what's in it" -- indicates Congress did not fund a new $69 million prison for the 15 high-value detainees at Guantanamo, called Camp 7. It does however devote $66 million to a 150-prisoner jail, with campus, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state for troops and airmen accused of crimes.
It also serves as a study in contrasts of the costs of doing business at the remote base behind a minefield in southeast Cuba, where both labor and supplies must arrive by barge and airlift to undertake new construction.
To put the cost of the new barracks in perspective, the Omnibus Spending Law this year is also funding dormitory-style housing for 216 sailors at a Navy training site in Pensacola for $18 million, or $83,000 per bed, compared to Guantanamo's cost of $135,613 for comparable housing.
The new barracks had been championed by Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, during his years as a Marine general at U.S. Southern Command and rejected by President Barack Obama, who wanted the prison complex closed.
The U.S. military has already spent $9 million on design and other preparation on the barracks for enlisted soldiers on the staff of the 41-captive prison -- about half of the current strength of 1,700 troops and civilians -- so the sum included in the measure is for construction of the dormitory-style building itself. A contractor has yet to be signed.
With all labor and materials flown in, the project is an expensive one and, by latest estimates, would start with a contract awarded in April 2019 with an anticipated 900-day construction period meaning the soonest it would be done is in September 2021.
Separately, the Pentagon has three other major building projects approved or underway in 2018:
-- It has notified Congress that it found $14 million to expand the Top Secret trailer park portion of the war court complex at Camp Justice -- called the Expeditionary Legal Complex -- and accommodate more prefabricated office space and secure work stations.
-- A Carlsbad, Calif., construction firm has been awarded a $23 million to $27 million contract to do work on the infrastructure of a pop-up tent city site that could, in the event of a migrant crisis, hold up to 30,000 people intercepted at sea not far from Guantanamo's lone functioning airfield. The U.S. military has spent millions of dollars since 2007 building the site on the leeward side of the base for the Department of Homeland Security because the original infrastructure was taken over by the Detention Center Zone for war-on-terror prisoners.
-- Construction will continue throughout the year on the base's new $66 million K-12 school -- being built by the same Miami firm whose pedestrian bridge collapsed March 15 at Florida International University -- past a November completion date. At the time of the collapse that killed six people, the school for up to 275 students was 35 percent finished and scheduled for completion in March 2019, said spokeswoman Sue Brink of the Navy Facilities Southeast headquarters in Jacksonville.
Money for the $14 million war court expansion was drawn from earlier U.S. military construction projects that came in under budget.
For example, in 2015 Congress budgeted $11.8 million to build a new health clinic for some two dozen Guantanamo prisoners in a former cellblock at the Camp 5 prison, which came in at $9.6 million. So $2.2 million from those funds are being used on the war court site expansion, even though the clinic shown to visiting reporters in February is not yet complete.
The military this month put out a solicitation for contractors to compete to provide a nonchewable padded cell for its new two-cell psych ward there.
Other funds for the court expansion include $2.1 million from $60.8 million allocated for a pier in the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands that came in under budget.
The original Expeditionary Legal Complex was built in 2007 and cost $12 million, using mobilized engineers to construct it.
It has the Pentagon's Top Secret eavesdrop-proof war court chamber for former CIA captives, where the public hears proceedings on a 40-second delay. The expansion phase does not provide for a second courtroom sought by the chief judge, just secure office spaces. It is more expensive because this time the Pentagon is hiring outside contractors to pave, put in utilities hookups, build more security fences and add perimeter lights.
Separately, the Pentagon is spending $235,156 on six prefab legal meeting rooms inside the Detention Center Zone for lawyers to meet with captives, ostensibly with confidentiality, after a microphone was found in a meeting room especially set up for the alleged USS Cole bomber, a former CIA captive, to meet with his lawyers in 2014.
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Harnessing the sun
Last month, the hopeful people of the Canadian solar industry were gathered in Toronto for the Canadian Solar Industry Association’s conference. There, the audience was treated to a presentation of the German solar industry, delivered by Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, the Managing Director of the German Solar Industry Association and a 15-year veteran of the solar industry.
Some facts about the industry:
The worldwide volume of photovoltaic installations (PV) in 2007 was 2.6GW. Of this, the German market made up 1,100 MW (41%) – by far the biggest market in the world. Spain was the second largest market with 19% of the volume. The US had about 10% and the rest was spread around on a number of countries with about one or two per cent of the market. Canada was listed with one per cent. In Ontario, the installed capacity is 70MW, so to even talk about a solar industry in Ontario feels like an exaggeration at this point.
The 1,100 MW capacity that came online in Germany in 2007 was distributed across 130,000 new PV systems – most of which were installed on residential rooftops. In total, Germany had 430,000 PV systems producing 3.8 GW in 2007 – almost all of which has been built after 2003. For 2008, the German Solar Industry Association expected another 1,500 MW to come online. The well-known reason for this phenomenal growth is the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) which was introduced in 2004 and is the envy of renewable energy proponents in most other countries. As the name suggests, the EEG includes all forms of renewable energy including hydro, wind, solar and biomass.
At the time of its implementation, the main objective of the EEG was to help create jobs in Germany. So far, the industry has created 40,000 jobs in the solar industry and an additional 190,000 jobs in other renewable energy industries (Wind is the largest by far).
The total revenue for the German solar industry in 2007 was $8B – not bad in four years for a country that isn’t exactly bathing in sunshine!
So why is the EEG so successful? The simple answer is that it has made it profitable for homeowners, farmers and commercial building owners to own and operate PV systems. Here is a summary of how the EEG works:
A 1.2% premium is added to all bills for electricity distributed by the utility companies. This premium is collected and managed by the roughly 900 utility companies in Germany in a joint system.
The premium collected by the utilities funds the feed-in tariffs for the various renewable energies. For a residential PV system, the current rate is EUR 0.43 (C$ 0.70) per kwh delivered to the grid. No government funding goes into the feed-in tariff. This rate is reviewed every four years, as the cost level in the industry is expected to fall with increasing economies of scale. As a result of last year’s review, the feed-in tariff for 2009 was reduced by 9.5% from EUR 0.48.
Once a new PV system is connected to the grid, the current rate is guaranteed for 20 years in a contract between the producer and the utility company. This guarantee reduces the risk of investing in a PV system and makes it possible to obtain long-term financing for the investment.
The EEG gives the producer an explicit right to connect his system to the grid (as long as the system is eligible within the defined technical standards). Likewise, the EEG stipulates an obligation for the utility company to connect the system.
The producer sells all solar energy produced directly to the utility company (no net metering).
The utility company must sell all the renewable energy produced before offering any conventional energy to the marketplace. This point guarantees that all the renewable energy produced will have a buyer. It also means that any new renewable energy delivered to the grid will displace conventional energy in the grid.
Back home, on November 22, 2006, Ontario became the first North American jurisdiction to implement a feed-in tariff for PV systems (the Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program – RESOP). The RESOP offers producers $ 0.42 per kwh delivered to the grid, which equals about 60% of the current German feed-in tariff, depending on the exchange rate. With the cost for a PV installation being roughly the same in Ontario as in Germany, the Ontario incentive scheme is not as attractive as the German feed-in tariff. Nevertheless, the Ontario scheme did attract substantial interest from the industry with applications in fact overwhelming the provincial regulatory bodies to such an extent that the RESOP was suspended for review by the Ontario Power Authority in May last year.
At the CanSIA conference last month, the Honourable George Smitherman, Ontario’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, told the hopeful audience that the RESOP review process is close to the end. While short on specifics. Smitherman stated clearly that the Government of Ontario is committed to developing the renewable energy industry and that the necessary legislative changes to allow for a more streamlined relationship between the industry and the Government would be forthcoming – but without suggesting a deadline. However, the Minister’s speech was very well received by the industry and the rumours on the floor said that we could expect to see Queen’s Park pass some legislation before the end of this parliamentary session. If so, that would be great news for the solar industry, for those looking to invest in PV systems as well as for those looking to create new jobs, which is what the end game is really about.
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Situated on 150 acres on the west side of San Francisco, Parkmerced is the largest urban multifamily development in North America. Over the next 20 years, Parkmerced is transforming into a vibrant neighborhood with eco-friendly, low- and mid-rise buildings designed by leading architects. Our vision for Parkmerced received the prestigious American Institute of Architecture (AIA) Urban Design award in 2013 for its innovative, long-term development design to create the largest carbon net-neutral neighborhood. Learn more about the Parkmerced Vision and how we’re reimagining and regenerating one of San Francisco’s most unique neighborhoods.
With the 1979 Mission project, we are building quality housing for all income levels in San Francisco’s diverse and culturally rich Mission District. 1979 Mission will feature rental homes and for-sale homes at affordable prices, which do not exist at 16th and Mission today. We are also building retail spaces for local business and investing in the 16th Street Mission BART Plaza, which will create an engaging and interactive space for pedestrians.
Regarded as the pinnacle in design, service and sophistication, The Harrison is San Francisco’s notable residential offering. The 49-story, 298-unit luxury tower rises from desirable Rincon Hill, offers panoramic, beautiful vistas from every floor, and is infused with the soulful design of the city’s celebrated interior designer, Ken Fulk.
Set dramatically on the Tiburon shoreline with views of the bay and San Francisco skyline, The Cove at Tiburon is waterfront living. Attention to detail, service standards and a focus on community are evident at every touch point. The 284-unit community features exclusive amenities such as a new clubhouse, exquisite events, and a private marina with chartered sailboat.
Serenity at Larkspur is a peaceful community of 342 beautifully renovated apartments in Marin County, just steps from the ferry and worlds away from the city. Featuring expansive, natural surroundings and gorgeous views of the bay, Marin Hills and Mount Tamalpais, Serenity at Larkspur is ideal for those desiring the perks of suburban living with the convenient access to the city and cultural activities.
Sharon Green is a unique, low-density property in the heart of Menlo Park, a desirable Bay Area neighborhood. Featuring 296 pet-friendly, residential units on 17 lush acres, Sharon Green is within minutes of Stanford University, popular shops and admired Silicon Valley employers. In December 2015 Maximus acquired the property, which had been under single ownership since its completion in 1970. A thoughtful renovation program is transforming Sharon Green into a modern, 21st-century garden community.
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Woodchase Apartment Homes is a tranquil apartment community located in the heart of San Leandro, a vibrant town in the East Bay just south of Oakland. Situated less than a mile from BART, Woodchase residents enjoy multiple commuting opportunities, amenity spaces including an outdoor pool, spa and fitness center, and industry-leading service. The collection of one and two bedroom units include loft options, private balconies or patios, fully equipped kitchens, and ample closet space. Maximus purchased Woodchase Apartments in June 2017, and will be implementing capital improvements to further enhance the resident experience.
The three building Montego Ridge office park is situated on over 5.5 acres in the affluent San Francisco submarket of Walnut Creek. The property is prominently located along Ygnacio Valley Rd., only a few blocks from the acclaimed John Muir Hospital, and affords convenient access to all of the amenities of downtown Walnut Creek. Maximus acquired the property in early 2018 and is currently completing a comprehensive renovation program. Montego Ridge is among the premier office assets in the area, and will represent one of the only campus style offerings in the Walnut Creek market. For more information, including leasing materials, please see the link below.
South Shore is a beachfront apartment community located on the beautiful Alameda Island. Set amid 15 acres of lushly landscaped grounds, our community features four pools, multi-level fitness center, a spacious clubhouse, and covered parking. The popular Crown Memorial State beach is right in our front yard.
Walking distance from San Leandro BART and Downtown San Leandro, 899 Alvarado will provide much-needed housing for a variety of different families and lifestyles. 899 Alvarado will include two residential buildings, a children’s play area, dog park, an onsite neighborhood café, as well as number of additional residential and publicly-accessible community amenities.
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Home | Be Ready | Disasters | Hurricanes
Hurricanes are giant, spiraling tropical storms that can pack wind speeds of over 160 miles (257 kilometers) an hour and unleash more than 2.4 trillion gallons (9 trillion liters) of rain a day. These same tropical storms are known as cyclones in the northern Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, and as typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean.
All Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal areas are subject to hurricanes. Parts of the Southwest United States and the Pacific Coast also experience heavy rains and floods each year from hurricanes spawned off Mexico. The Atlantic hurricane season lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season begins May 15 and ends November 30.
Hurricanes begin as tropical disturbances in warm ocean waters with surface temperatures of at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.5 degrees Celsius). These low pressure systems are fed by energy from the warm seas. If a storm achieves wind speeds of 38 miles (61 kilometers) an hour, it becomes known as a tropical depression. A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm, and is given a name, when its sustained wind speeds top 39 miles (63 kilometers) an hour. When a storm’s sustained wind speeds reach 74 miles (119 kilometers) an hour it becomes a hurricane and earns a category rating of 1 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Hurricanes are enormous heat engines that generate energy on a staggering scale. They draw heat from warm, moist ocean air and release it through condensation of water vapor in thunderstorms.
Hurricanes spin around a low-pressure center known as the “eye.” Sinking air makes this 20- to 30-mile-wide (32- to 48-kilometer-wide) area notoriously calm. But the eye is surrounded by a circular “eye wall” that hosts the storm’s strongest winds and rain.
These storms bring destruction ashore in many different ways. When a hurricane makes landfall it often produces a devastating storm surge that can reach 20 feet (6 meters) high and extend nearly 100 miles (161 kilometers). Ninety percent of all hurricane deaths result from storm surges.
A hurricane’s high winds are also destructive and may spawn tornadoes. Torrential rains cause further damage by spawning floods and landslides, which may occur many miles inland.
The best defense against a hurricane is an accurate forecast that gives people time to get out of its way. The National Hurricane Center issues hurricane watches for storms that may endanger communities, and hurricane warnings for storms that will make landfall within 24 hours.
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Are you prepared for the next hurricane? Follow these five easy tips to help you plan and stay informed.
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Convicted sex offender charged after allegedly kicking at elementary school door
David Cain was convicted in August 2010 of sexual abuse after he assaulted a 14-year-old girl
Convicted sex offender charged after allegedly kicking at elementary school door David Cain was convicted in August 2010 of sexual abuse after he assaulted a 14-year-old girl Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/09/convicted-sex-offender-charged-violating-community-notification-act-after-kicking-davis-elementary-s/2524782002/
Kirsten Fiscus, Montgomery Advertiser Published 1:57 p.m. CT Jan. 9, 2019 | Updated 3:33 p.m. CT Jan. 14, 2019
David Cain was charged with violating the community notification act as a convicted sex offender when he kicked at a door and entered Davis Elementary School.(Photo: MCSO)
A convicted sex offender is behind bars again, following two previous violations, after he allegedly trespassed at Davis Elementary School and tried to kick a door open.
David Lee Cain, 53, was convicted of second-degree sexual abuse after he assaulted a 14 year-old girl in August 2010, according to court records.
Last month, Cain allegedly approached the secretary at Davis Elementary and asked "to see the school," according to a statement written by the principal, Janet Harvey.
"When asked if he had any relatives (children, grandchildren, etc.) there, he replied 'no,' " Harvey wrote.
Cain left the school, but returned on Dec. 20 and was turned away by the secretary, according to Havey's statement filed in court records.
"The secretary refused to let him in this time and told him not to come back since he had no cause to be there," Harvey wrote. "We called MPS security and was advised to call 911 because he wouldn't leave, but when they arrived he was gone."
On Tuesday, Cain again returned to the school about 8:15 a.m., according to records.
"Today, January 8, he came back, banging on the door and kicking the door trying to get in," the principal wrote. "MPS security was called and we were instructed to call 911. He was warned that 911 would be called, he stated he didn't care about 911...911 was called, but when the officer got there he had left."
While police were reviewing video footage of the interaction, Cain allegedly returned again.
"While MPD officer Marshall was in my office reviewing the camera, the man somehow was in the front lobby," Harvey wrote. "Officer Marshall handcuffed the man and put him in the car. When the officer recovered his ID, this is how we were able to know who he was."
Cain was charged with violation of the community notification act, a Class C felony, and third-degree criminal trespassing. He remained in the Montgomery County Jail on Wednesday with a combined $15,300 bond.
But this isn't the first time Cain has violated the notification act.
Following his release from jail on the initial sexual abuse charge in May 2013, Cain failed to register as a convicted sex offender, according to court records. He was arrested on a charge of violating the act in August 2013 and convicted of the crime in May 2014.
Cain was sentenced to serve two years in prison and three years on supervised probation. A little over a year later, in July 2015, Cain was released from the Alabama Department of Corrections, but he yet again failed to report to a probation officer and was arrested in Tennessee, violating the terms of his probation, according to court records.
Cain was ultimately charged again with violating the community notification act and was arrested in January 2016.
It was while he was in jail the third time that it became apparent to law enforcement and the courts that Cain suffers from a mental illness. According to court records, a judge ordered an examination of Cain. Further, in February 2017, a Montgomery County correctional officer documented an incident involving Cain.
"On February 10, 2017, at approximately 7:40 p.m., Inmate Cain began kicking on his cell door," according to the incident report. "Officer Waldo (Infirmary Officer) ordered Inmate Cain to cease his behavior, but to no avail. Inmate Cain continued to state 'I want my benadryl shot,' as he continued to kick his cell door."
Cain's behavior continued for many hours, according to the incident report, even after he was placed in plastic restraints.
According to court records, a judge ordered jail staff to use restraints to administer Cain's medication for his mental illness because he'd begun to refuse the prescriptions.
Cain remained in jail until he pleaded guilty to the crime again in February 2018.
Circuit Judge J.R. Gaines sentenced Cain to serve another two years in prison and three more on supervised probation in May, though, he was granted jail credit for time served while awaiting trial. Cain was released in October.
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Mercedes Recalling Over 3 Million Diesel Engines In Europe product 2017-07-19 09:31:09 https://www.motor1.com/news/174072/mercedes-benz-diesel-recall-europe/ Mercedes-Benz Recalls, luxury
By: Anthony Karr
The company isn’t admitting to any wrongdoing.
Mercedes-Benz is issuing a voluntary recall for more than three million diesel vehicles in Europe. The campaign could be best described as a preventive measure against potential emissions scandal, similar to Volkswagen’s Dieselgate.
Basically, the German manufacturer will inspect nearly every modern diesel model it has on the road. According to an official statement by Mercedes, the recall will cost the automaker about €220 million (roughly $255 million) and will involve, naturally, no costs for the customers.
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Since March this year, Mercedes has been notifying owners of compact-class cars and the V-Class people carrier, equipped with a diesel engine. A total of about 250,000 vehicles were affected by the previous campaign and the new is described as an expansion to the existing one.
“The public debate about diesel engines is creating uncertainty – especially for our customers,” said Mercedes-Benz chief, Dieter Zetsche. “We have therefore decided on additional measures to reassure drivers of diesel cars and to strengthen confidence in diesel technology.”
The Stuttgart-based marque explains it will optimize the work of most of its Euro 5 and Euro 6 diesels through software patch. No complex component fix is planned so far, as the engineers of the company are simply “making use of latest knowledge gained during the development of the new family of diesel engines.” Mercedes isn’t admitting to any wrongdoing to justify the recall.
“This is finally a proactive move to put something on the table and a solid attempt at getting out in front of the debate,” Juergen Pieper, a Frankfurt-based analyst with Bankhaus Metzler, told Bloomberg. Daimler says it is “making a significant contribution to the reduction of nitrogen-oxide emissions from diesel vehicles in European inner cities."
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Since March, Mercedes-Benz has offered its customers of compact-class cars an improvement in NOx emissions for one engine version. Approximately 45 percent of those cars have meanwhile been updated. A voluntary service action is also being carried out for V-Class customers – so far with approximately 75 percent of the vehicles in Germany.
In order to effectively improve the emissions of additional model series, Daimler has now decided to extend the service action to include over three million Mercedes-Benz vehicles. For this purpose, the company’s engineers are making use of latest knowledge gained during the development of the new family of diesel engines.
The measures to be taken for nearly all EU5 and EU6 vehicles in Europe will be carried out in close cooperation with the German regulatory authorities. The company is investing about 220 million euros. The service actions involve no costs for the customers. The implementation of the measures will be starting in the next weeks. Due to the large number of vehicles this will continue over a longer period of time.
In this way, Daimler is making a significant contribution to the reduction of nitrogen-oxide emissions from diesel vehicles in European inner cities.
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Today, Honda Motors officially launched the 5th generation Honda City in Thailand. The new-generation sedan now gets a sporty exterior design and an extra luxurious interior. Apart from that, the car now comes fitted with a new 1.0-litre V-TEC TURBO engine that delivers 122 PS of maximum power and superior fuel efficiency. Also, the new Honda City will now be available with an RS variant. This new sportier variant will get the complete RS package, the latest generation of Honda Connect technology and a new exterior colour – Ignite Red.
In terms of design, the new Honda City gets many exterior highlights like a set of projector headlights with LED DRLs (Daytime Running Lights), LED taillights, a chrome front grille, shark fin antenna and newly-designed 15-inch alloy wheels. On the inside, the car gets a bigger and much more spacious cabin when compared to the previous-generation model. The car gets a black interior with leather seats, a dual-tone ivory/black interior (SV variant only), a piano black console, and a set of chrome inside door handles. In terms of technology, the new Honda City gets various premium functions such as a Multi-information Display (MID) with illumination, an 8-inch advanced touch display with Apple CarPlay and Siri voice control, a multi-function steering wheel with HFT, Bluetooth connectivity and an automatic air-conditioning system.
On the other hand, the RS variant comes with a complete set of sporty aero parts including a gloss black front grille with the RS emblem, a sporty front bumper, a set of LED headlights with LED DRLs (Daytime Running Lights), LED fog lights, a sporty black power-retractable side door mirror, a gloss black trunk spoiler with the RS logo and a set of new sporty 16-inch alloy wheels. The new Honda City will come in 6 colours: Ignite Red Metallic (exclusively for the RS variant), Platinum White Pearl (exclusively for the RS and SV variants), Crystal Black Pearl, Lunar Silver Metallic, Modern Steel Metallic, and Taffeta White for the V and S variants.
Talking about power and performance, the all-new Honda City comes fitted with a new turbocharged 1.0-litre, DOHC, 3-cylinder, VTEC petrol engine. The turbocharger on this engine enhances combustion efficiency and provides a maximum power output of 122 PS at 5,500 rpm and 173 Nm of peak torque between 2,000 to 4,500 rpm. The engine is then mated to a CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) gearbox to provide a fuel efficiency figure of 23.8 km/l. The 7-speed paddle-shift system also offers exciting yet comfortable driving experience, thanks to the cruise control system. Also, the new City is now EURO 5 compliant, which means it is now BS-VI compliant too. The all-new Honda City will now be available in 4 variants: RS, SV, V and S. The car is expected to launch in the Indian market by mid-2020. So, stay tuned for more updates about the latest-generation Honda City.
Also Read: Honda Civic Retains Top Spot In The Executive Sedan Segment
Mr Masayuki Igarashi, Chief Officer for Regional Operations (Asia & Oceania), Honda Motor Co., Ltd., and President and CEO, Asian Honda Motor Co., Ltd., said, “Honda City, one of our most important models, was developed and launched as a regional model back in 1996. It has consistently received overwhelming feedback from the 1st through the 4th generation, with accumulated sales of four million units in 60 countries worldwide. The Asia & Oceania region is an important market for Honda City, with more than 100,000 units sold in the region in 2019 (January to September 2019), which accounts for almost 70% of Honda City sales worldwide. We also consider Thailand as a key market for Honda City due to the country’s strong market potential and because it is Honda’s largest production base in the region. As Thailand is the leading market for City, today Thai people will be the first to witness the world premiere of the 5th generation all-new Honda City, which we expect to create an unprecedented phenomenon as it exceeds the expectations of customers and sets a new standard for Thailand’s automotive market once again.”
Mr. Pitak Pruittisarikorn, Chief Operating Officer, Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., Ltd., said, “Honda City has been the main contributor to driving Thailand’s automotive industry in the city car segment as it continuously set new benchmarks, becoming like an icon for this class of automobile. The model usually wins customers’ hearts and holds the top position in the subcompact market. As a result of Honda City’s achievements and its significance over the past two decades, developing the next-generation Honda City was very challenging, as we aimed to come up with a better-developed model than the previous ones and every other model in this class, along with new value-added by advanced technology features and a lower price for every variant. The all-new Honda City will eventually set a new benchmark and create a new phenomenon in Thailand’s city car segment once again.”
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Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books: M. A. Griffin - Lifers - Book Review
Fear haunts the streets of Manchester: a schoolgirl has disappeared. Preston is drawn to investigate, exploring the city in the hunt for his missing friend. Deep in the bowels of a secret scientific institute, he discovers a sinister machine. Captured and condemned to a cavernous space filled with problematic teens, Preston is determined to escape - but this is no ordinary jail. Friendships are forged and lives lost in a reckless battle for freedom, revenge - and revolution.
This is the second book written by Martin Griffin, a former Times/Chicken House children's fiction competition winner in 2012 with Sleepwell and Fly. His first book "The Poison Boy" was written under a pseudonym of Fletcher Moss, named after Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden, but this is known locally as Fletcher Moss. I think that this is a really cool thing to do.
Lifers will be his first book written for a teenage audience. It takes you down the familiar streets of Manchester. As you wander along the famous city centre landmarks, you will be easily led to believe that things are going on as normal. However you'll be sadly mistaken, as behind the back streets there is definitely a different story being written portraying the darker and sinister side of Manchester. You will be gripped and engrossed the more that you read and explore it.
The city skyline is dominated by creaking steel rigging. Something strange is brewing in the city at night. A different world of secrets and a mysterious building turns the lives of the main characters upside down, literally. A group of kids fight back against a twisted government plot, which involves the plan to contain problematic teens within an undercover and underground secret prison. The plot really makes the story very unpredictable; teenagers will really love and relate to the characters and the ongoing actions that unfurl along this epic read.
It's a seriously well plotted thriller. It contains just the right amount of dialogue and detail to keep the reader on their toes. It gives a great insight into a fantastically atmospheric world which is both surreal and deeply absorbing. With a fantastic blend of technology and Sci-fi elements, it is well balanced against a believable reality and backdrop. A world full of adult corruption, a fight for justice (instilling a massive dollop of tension) which is all fuelled by non-stop action. This is a high octane, adrenalin- fuelled ride that you will not be able to put down.
My favourite part of the story was inside the sinister machine. This produced a captivating and contemporary vision with children all battling for survival and desperately seeking to find a way out. It's a very gritty, super dark and easy to follow prison break out, which reads really well on paper. This is another cracking read from Chicken House which is due to be published early April 2016.
By Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books on April 10, 2016
Labels: Action, Adventure, Alternate World, April 2016, Chicken House, Dark, Manchester, Science - Fiction, Young Adult
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Coldplay to play their first-ever show in India at Global Citizen Festival
Coldplay, Jay Z, Aamir Khan
WHAT? Global Citizen Festival
WHEN? 19th November, 2016
WHERE? MMRDA Grounds, Mumbai
Coldplay, Jay Z, and Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India in November as the Global Citizen Festival expands globally. Rockers Coldplay will play their first-ever show in India in a free performance at the anti-poverty Global Citizen Festival.
The festival will be distributing tickets in return for individual actions to fight extreme poverty. The concert would take place on World Toilet Day, which draws attention to sanitation problems, clean water, education and gender equality. Most tickets will be given away free to those who complete the organization’s individual activism goals, such as contacting their local chief ministers. A limited number of V.I.P. tickets will also be available for purchase.`
The Global Citizen Festival was established in 2012 and takes place every year in New York's Central Park on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to push world leaders to put anti-poverty efforts high on the agenda.
Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin serves as the creative director of the Global Citizen Festival. Chris Martin signed on last year as the curator of Global Citizen’s music festivals for 15 years.
Jay Z said in a statement, “This is the perfect example of the meaning of what a Global Citizen is: individuals from all parts of the world joining as one voice to call for change.”
Hugh Evans, the chief executive of Global Citizen, said in a statement, “The years I spent living and working in India as a teenager were a key catalyst of my passion for challenging the status quo of poverty alleviation. So bringing the Global Citizen movement to India is a moment many years in the making.”
Tickets to the Global Citizen Festival in India is available by signing up to become a Global Citizen and completing the festival's action campaigns at GlobalCitizen.in.
The event will also have a line-up of other international and Indian headliners like A R Rahman, Farhan Akhtar, Arijit Singh, Monali Thakur, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Katrina Kaif etc.
Edited by- Debjani Hazarika
Coldplay to play their first-ever show in India at Global Citizen Festival Music Malt 9/18/2016
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Paper and plastic add another 27 percent, 17 and 10 respectively. Glass and metal another 10 percent and about 17 percent of other waste type. While ten percent of plastic waste, does not sound like a big number. It is the most dangerous ten percent because most of it is petroleum-based plastics made of oil, that means they contain toxic components. These plastics, do not wear down; they simply break into tinier and tinier pieces. It takes years in a best case and millennia in worst for petroleum-base plastic to decompose.
A big problem rising now is clogging of the Great Oceans. More and more plastic waste is ending up in our oceans and seas creating islands of trash, an example is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While many different types of trash enter the ocean, based on National Geographic research, plastics make up the majority of marine debris for two reasons. First, plastic’s durability, low cost, and malleability mean that it’s being used in more and more consumer and industrial products. Second, plastic goods do not biodegrade but instead break down into smaller pieces, a process known as photodegradation. It is creating a plastic soup or poisonous soup in the ocean.
Most of the marine debris comes from plastic bags, bottle caps, plastic water bottles, and Styrofoam cups. This leads to serious pollution. The oceans occupy 72 percent of the earth’s surface and they are our principal source of oxygen. These dangers are compounded by the fact that plastics through photodegradation leach out colorants and chemicals, such as bisphenol A (BPA), that have been linked to environmental and health problems. Conversely, plastics can also absorb pollutants, such as PCBs, from the seawater. These chemicals can then enter the food chain when consumed by marine life.
Paper waste would not be too bad (not considering forest degradation), if many manufacturers would not use chlorine or chlorine compounds to whiten paper, which is a toxic process that produces many harmful by-products. A lot of paper products are non-recyclable and most are not biodegradable either, due to petroleum-based plastic lining inside, to prevent cups from leaking.
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Eastcote football hooligan is jailed over brawl
A TEENAGE football hooligan from Eastcote with ties to a far-right group has been jailed for his part in an organised brawl between rival fans.
Nineteen year-old Joel Titus, of North View, was at the front of the 'battle' between fans of Leyton Orient and Brentford at Liverpool Street station in central London.
Punches, kicks and bottles were thrown during the fight on the final day of the season on May 8 last year. The violence was caught on CCTV and witnessed by large numbers of members of the public passing through the station.
Six men admitted to affray at an earlier hearing and Titus, leader of the youth wing of the English Defence League (EDL), was one of four men jailed for the fracas. He must serve nine months in a Young Offenders Institution, and was banned from attending football matches for seven years.
Steven Donovan, 20, of Bedford Avenue, Hayes, walked free from court after being sentenced to six months in jail suspended for two years. He must pay £500 costs, and cannot visit football grounds for three years.
Another man, Thomas Armstrong, 24, of Woodford Green, was jailed for six months suspended for two years with 100 hours unpaid work.
The Old Bailey heard Orient had been playing away at Colchester on the day of the violence and Brentford had hosted Hartlepool, in what were the final fixtures of the 2009/10 League One season.
Each set of fans had been drinking in the area before the brawl shortly after 8pm, and Titus – who was convicted for threatening behaviour whilst on bail for this offence - was at the head of the Brentford group.
Upon sentencing, Judge Timothy Pontius criticised the decision to charge the men with affray rather than violent disorder, and said: 'The evidence in this case demonstrates a serious display of violence on a large scale in a busy part of London on a Saturday evening.
'It is clear that amongst the supporters of at least two opposing teams phone contact led to an arrangement being made to meet for the purposes of violent confrontation.
"What then followed cannot be regarded as anything other than a disgraceful display of violent conduct to the concern and considerable fear of people going about their lives. It is only by good fortune that no-one was badly hurt although the very real risk, particularly to members of the public who might easily have been hit by flying bottles, is easy to see."
Two other men - Aaron Smith, 25, of Cobden Close, Uxbridge, and 21 year-old Finnegan Dawson, of Percy Gardens, Hayes, have also admitted affray and will be sentenced on May 13.
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St John's Primary School
Find out how St John's Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Ealing with our school ratings
Rank 2,496/14,879
Here St John's Primary School, Green Man Gardens, West Ealing, London, W13 0SE, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Green Man Gardens, West Ealing, London, W13 0SE
The open date and status above indicate when St John's Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is St John's Primary School?
England Rank 2,496 1,863 1,801 6,183
Local Rank 31 17 19 33
Missing Data? Yes
How St John's Primary School scores on each indicator.
St John's Primary School has been rated as Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
How does St John's Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2019, 66% of pupils at St John's Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
How have pupils at St John's Primary School done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages?
While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at St John's Primary School had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?
How do children at St John's Primary School with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths?
How does the % of boys and girls at St John's Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at St John's Primary School and how does it compare to the national average?
At St John's Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2019 that was 2.2 compared to the national average of 0.
At St John's Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2019 that was 0.8 compared to the national average of 0.
At St John's Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2019 that was 1.6 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2017/18, the most recent full school year, 3.2% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at St John's Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
What is the total school spend per pupil at St John's Primary School compared to the local average? (school is in blue)
How much does St John's Primary School spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across Ealing?
What percentage of the budget at St John's Primary School is spent on supply staff?
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Law - Administration - 13.01.2020
The value of occupational licensing dims in the online world
SIEPR Faculty Fellow Brad Larsen brings a twist to ongoing debates over licensing laws as his latest research shows how consumers don't care about occupational licenses amid online reviews and star ratings. Consider the last time you hired an electrician, plumber or painter. Did you care to check if they were licensed or not? If licensing status was not your priority, you are not alone, according to new research by Stanford economist Brad Larsen.
Business / Economics - Law - 18.12.2019
Experts: 2020 to bring new data privacy, content protections
Two Carnegie Mellon University professors expect 2020 could bring new regulations and laws to protect consumers from data privacy risks and block pirate sites. In the coming year, Ari Lightman , professor of digital media and marketing at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy , predicts that lawmakers will tighten regulations on social media networks as part of a push for more transparency from digital giants.
Law - Philosophy - 05.11.2019
Lawyers asked to advise on unethical issues
Nearly half (45%) of in-house lawyers have been asked to advise on an action with debatable ethics, according to research by UCL. The research, published in a new report ' Which way is the wind blowing? Understanding the moral compass of in-house legal counsel' also found that 39% of in-house lawyers had been asked to advise on something which was potentially illegal.
Social Sciences - Law - 10.10.2019
Update ‘nearest relative’ criteria under Mental Health Act to increase patient choice
The system in place under the Mental Health Act that places decision-making powers in the hands of the nearest relatives for people who are sectioned needs to be extended to others to improve patient choice, according to new research. The study, from academics at the universities of Bath, Bristol and the University of the West of England published in the journal Health & Social Care in the Community , identifies challenges to the existing system and makes recommendations for policy-makers and practitioners.
Law - 10.10.2019
Scottish Jury Research report published
Findings from the UK's largest mock jury research project to-date have been released. Commissioned by the Scottish Government, the research was led by Ipsos MORI Scotland, with the collaboration of School of Law academics Professor Fiona Leverick and Professor James Chalmers and the University of Warwick's Professor Vanessa Munro.
Why our extreme porn laws need to change
A law against possession of rape pornography, introduced in 2015, is very rarely used with few charges and prosecutions. This is what our researchers have found after analysing data obtained through a Freedom of Information request. Police focus The research shows that during 2015-2017 the vast majority (85 per cent) of extreme pornography charges were for possessing bestiality porn with only one per cent of charges for rape pornography.
Stanford releases 2019 Safety, Security & Fire Report
The 116-page report, which promotes personal safety and crime prevention on campus, also provides crime statistics required under federal law. It is available online and in print. Stanford has released its 2019 Safety, Security & Fire Report , an annual publication that promotes personal safety and crime prevention on campus, and provides statistics about specified crimes that were reported during the 2018 calendar year.
Law - Innovation - 19.09.2019
Opinion: Why forensic science is in crisis and how we can fix it
Professor Ruth Morgan (UCL Security and Crime Science) writes about the misinterpretation of forensic evidence and the issues that this causes for the criminal justice system. Imagine you're in court, accused of a crime that you know you didn't commit. Now imagine a scientist takes the stand and starts explaining to the court how your DNA is on the murder weapon.
Muslim LGBTQI+ refugees more likely to gain asylum in Germany if they conform to stereotypes
LGBTQI+ Muslims seeking asylum are more successful if they speak, dress and act in accordance with Western notions of homosexuality, according to a new study from the University of Bristol.
Banning tobacco sales to people under age 21 reduces smoking
Countyand municipality-level bans on tobacco sales to individuals under age 21 yield substantive reductions in smoking among 18- to 20-year-olds, according to a new study from the Yale School of Public Health. Published online in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, the study examines how "tobacco-21 laws" affect smoking among 18- to 20-year-olds residing in metropolitan/micropolitan statistical areas (MMSAs), which are clusters of adjacent counties that include an urban center with at least 10,000 residents.
Consorting with criminals: a legitimate offence?
A University of Sydney Law School researcher has argued that consorting laws reveal a new character of criminal responsibility in a research paper. In Australia, the crime of consorting differs slightly from state to state but the key element is the same. Knowingly associating with criminals (or being 'recklessly unaware of their identities') is still considered an offence.
Could a lack of confidence in design law reduce innovation in the UK?
UK designers are less likely to seek legal action if someone copies their work compared with the rest of Europe, according to new research. Experts at the University of Nottingham tested the effectiveness of design case law in the 28 member states of the EU. Among the big countries in the EU, the UK had some of the lowest numbers of cases brought to court per population, often with less favourable outcomes for designers.
Knife crime: assault data can help forecast fatal stabbings
Police at a crime scene in Leyton, east London after a man in his twenties was stabbed to death in March of this year. Credit: PA. Police at a crime scene in Leyton, east London after a man in his twenties was stabbed to death in March of this year. Credit: PA. Knife crime data from a 12-month period could be used to help forecast the London neighbourhoods most likely to suffer a fatal stabbing the following year, according to latest research.
Religions - Law - 01.04.2019
Vast majority of NSW hate crimes race and religion related: study
A new University of Sydney study provides the most comprehensive picture of the patterns of hate crime in Australia to date. It has revealed the prevalence of race and religion-based hate crimes, and that people of Asian, Indian/Pakistani and Muslim backgrounds are the most frequent victims. Hate crime - also referred to as 'bias crime' - is crime that is motivated by prejudice, bias or hatred towards a presumed characteristic of the victim, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, disability status or gender identity.
Environment - Law - 20.03.2019
New tool merges climate science, law and policy to protect California coastline
A Stanford study released on March 13 in Marine Policy provides a new framework for coastal climate adaptation planning, with the potential to save local California governments money and protect the homes and livelihoods of coastal residents. The research incorporates a statewide assessment of the California coast's zoning, habitat, land use, and legal requirements into an interactive tool managers can use to identify which strategies best address threats along the coastline.
Reduction in the legal blood alcohol limit has had no impact on number of road traffic accidents
The lowering of the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers in Scotland has had no impact on the number of road traffic accidents, a new study has found. The research, led by the University of Glasgow and published in The Lancet, evaluated the impact of the change in legislation which occurred in Scotland in December 2014, when the blood alcohol concentration limit for drivers was reduced from 80 mg/dL to 50 mg/dL.
NOAA listening session to focus on weather research, forecasting improvements
Neil Jacobs, assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will be in Madison on Monday, Nov. 26, to gather public input on the Department of Commerce's 2018-2022 strategic plan and the Weather Research and Forecasting and Innovation Act of 2017.
New researchers Law and Development
Inleiding: Leonardo Villafuerte and Alberto Pecoraro both started their PhD at the Law and Development Research Group. The Law and Development Research Group welcomes two new researchers starting up their PhD. Leonardo D. Villafuerte Philippsborn is a full-time lecturer at the Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo" (UCB), and he is editor of its peer-reviewed law journal (UCB Law Review).
Couples in South Asia struggle to gain economic independence from in-laws
Intergenerational power relations may be just as important as male-female power relations for women's economic empowerment, according to new UCL research. The study, published in World Development , was conducted in rural Nepal where mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law often have fraught relationships, as their survival and well-being depend on gaining favour with male family members.
University of Birmingham signs joint initiative to develop HydroFlex - the UK’s first hydrogen train
A change in culture within the NHS is needed to ensure that managers are less resistant to hearing, and acting upon, bad news, research led by the University of Birmingham has found. Research led by the University's Health Services Management Centre found that any future whistleblowing policies must deal with the ‘deaf effect' amongst NHS managers, where entrenched status and power differences between different professional and occupational groups can limit open reporting cultures.
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High performance, lightweight supercapacitor electrodes of the future
(Nanowerk News) As a novel energy storage device, supercapacitors have attracted substantial attention in recent years due to their ultra-high charge and discharge rate, excellent stability, long cycle life and very high power density. Imagine charging your cell phone in just a few seconds or fueling up an electric car in but a few minutes, which are both part of the promising future that supercapacitors could offer.
Offsetting this promise is the fact that, while supercapacitors have the potential to charge faster and last longer than conventional batteries, they also need to be much larger in size and mass in order to hold the same electric energy as batteries. Thus, many scientists are working to develop green, lightweight, low-cost supercapacitors with high performance.
Now two researchers from the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India, have developed a novel supercapacitor electrode based on a hybrid nanostructure made from a hybrid nickel oxide-iron oxide exterior shell and a conductive iron-nickel core.
In a paper published this week in the Journal of Applied Physics ("Engineering of High performance Supercapacitor Electrode based on Fe-Ni/Fe2O3-NiO Core/Shell Hybrid Nanostructures"), the researchers report the fabrication technique of the hybrid nanostructure electrode. They also demonstrate its superior performance compared to existing, non-hybrid supercapacitor electrodes. Since nickel oxide and iron oxide are environmental friendly and cheap materials that are widely available in nature, the novel electrode promises green and low-cost supercapacitors in future.
These are high performance supercapacitor electrodes. Left: field emission scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope micrographs; Right: sectional view of single hybrid nanostructure. (Image: Ashutosh K. Singh and Kalyan Mandal/S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India)
"This hybrid electrode shows the superior electrochemical performance in terms of high capacitance [the ability to store electrical charge] of nearly 1415 farad per gram, high current density of 2.5 ampere per gram, low resistance and high power density," said Ashutosh K. Singh, the primary researcher at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. "It also has a long-term cycling stability, in other words, the electrode could retain nearly 95 percent of initial capacitance after cycling or charging and discharging 3,000 times."
The Promise of Supercapacitors
Supercapacitors are electronic devices used to store an extremely large amount of electrical charges. They are also known as electrochemical capacitors, and they promise high power density, high rate capability, superb cycle stability and high energy density.
In energy storage devices, storing an electrical charge is called "energy density," a distinction from "power density," which refers to how quickly energy is delivered. Conventional capacitors have high power density but low energy density, which means they can quickly charge and discharge and release a burst of electric power in a short time, but they can't hold a large amount of electric charges.
Conventional batteries, on the other hand, are the opposite. They have high energy density or can store a lot of electric energy, but can take hours to charge and discharge. Supercapacitors are a bridge between conventional capacitors and batteries, combining the advantageous properties of high power, high energy density and low internal resistance, which may replace batteries as a fast, reliable and potentially safer power source for electric and portable electronic devices in future, said Singh.
In supercapacitors, high capacitance, or the ability to store an electrical charge, is critical to achieve higher energy density. Meanwhile, to achieve a higher power density, it is critical to have a large electrochemically accessible surface area, high electrical conductivity and short ion diffusion pathways. Nanostructured active materials provide a means to these ends.
How Scientists Built the New Electrode
Inspired by previous research on improving conductivity via doping different metal oxide materials, Singh and Kalyan Mandal, another researcher and a professor at the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, mixed nickel oxide and iron oxide as a hybrid material and fabricated the novel core/shell nanostructure electrode.
"By changing the materials and morphologies of the electrode, one can manipulate the performance and quality of the supercapacitors," Singh said.
In Singh's experiment, the core/shell hybrid nanostructure was fabricated through a two-step method. Using a standard electro-deposition technique, the researchers grew arrays of iron-nickel nanowires inside the pores of anodized alumina oxide templates, then dissolved the templates to obtain the bare hybrid nanowires. After that, the researchers exposed the nanowires in an oxygen environment at high temperature (450 degrees Celsius) for a short time, eventually developing a highly porous iron oxide-nickel oxide hybrid shell around the iron-nickel core.
"The advantage of this core/shell hybrid nanostructure is that the highly porous shell nanolayer provides a very large surface area for redox reactions and reduces the distance for ion diffusion process," said Singh. He explained that supercapacitors store charges through a chemical process known as a redox reaction, which involves a material giving up electrons and transporting ions through another material at the interface between electrode and electrolyte. Larger redox reaction surfaces are essential for achieving a higher power density for supercapacitors.
"Moreover, the conductive Fe-Ni core provides a highway to accelerate the transport of electrons to the current collector, which would improve the conductivity and electrochemical properties of the electrode, realizing high-performance supercapacitors," Singh noted.
How the New Electrode Performed
Using techniques called cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge methods, Singh and Mandal studied the electrochemical properties of the hybrid material electrode. Comparing with the counterpart, non-hybrid electrodes like nickel/nickel oxide and iron/iron oxide core/shell nanostructure electrodes, the hybrid material electrode demonstrated higher capacitance, higher energy density and higher charging/discharging time.
"For example, the current density of the hybrid electrode is three and 24 times higher than that of nickel/nickel oxide and iron/iron oxide electrodes, respectively," Singh said. "The comparative results show remarkable enrichment in the electrochemical activities of nickel/nickel oxide and iron/iron oxide electrodes after combining them together, which suggests the hybrid electrode's better supercapacitive properties."
One feature of Singh's fabrication technique is that it doesn't require extra binder materials. According to Singh, binding materials are commonly used in the fabrication of carbon or graphene based supercapacitors for attaching redox active material on the current collector. Without the mass of binding materials, the hybrid electrode is a good candidate to make lightweight supercapacitors.
"The remarkable electrochemical performances and material properties suggest that the iron oxide-nickel oxide hybrid core/shell nanostructure could be a reliable and promising candidate for fabricating the next generation lightweight, low-cost and green supercapacitor electrodes for real life application," Singh said.
The researchers' next plan is to develop a whole supercapacitor device based on the hybrid electrode and test its functional performance, a step closer to manufacturing production.
Source: American Institute of Physics
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Beatrix Potter’s early life and books
Beatrix Potter wrote 23 tales in all National Trust Images / Arnhel de Serra
Beatrix Potter was a woman ahead of her time. Not only was she an accomplished children's author and illustrator, she was a passionate and knowledgable farmer and conservationist - long before conservation became popular and fashionable.
Beatrix Potter left 4,000 acres of land and 14 farms to the National Trust when she died in 1943. Here we take a look at this talented and accomplished woman’s early life and books.
A Londoner at birth
Beatrix Potter was born in London on 28 July 1866 - as Helen Beatrix Potter. She lived with her mother Helen, her father Rupert, and her younger brother Bertram.
The families of both her parents had their origins in the industrialised north of England. The money inherited from the Lancashire cotton industry enabled the Potters to live comfortably in Bolton Gardens, an elegant square in Kensington, London.
A creative flair
Rupert Potter was a qualified barrister who chose not to practise his profession but to pursue his passion for art and photography.
As a young child, Beatrix showed signs of having inherited the artistic talent of her parents and was frequently treated to gallery trips or visits to her father’s notable friends: William Gaskell, husband of Elizabeth Gaskell the novelist, and John Everett Millais, the painter.
A life apart
Typical of many middle-class young girls in the Victorian period, Beatrix had little real contact with her parents.
Her childhood was rather lonely, with few friends and only a governess for company. Her fascination for painting and drawing occupied most of her spare time outside lessons and she loved to sketch plants and animals. This interest would later become the inspiration for her stories.
A love affair begins
The Potters took long holidays each year to the countryside in Scotland and the Lake District, where Beatrix indulged in her interest in nature, spending hours exploring and sketching the wildlife.
Her first visit to the Lake District was in 1882 when she visited Wray Castle, a Victorian gothic mansion. They also stayed in Lingholm, Fawe Park, Holehird, and Lakefield (now Ees Wyke).
Beatrix frequently returned from holiday with animals such as mice, rabbits, newts, caterpillars and birds which formed an entire menagerie that lived in the schoolroom.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and the first children’s books
Beatrix had been painting for her own amusement for many years but in 1890 she had her first commercial success with rabbit pictures she sold as Christmas card designs to Hildesheimer & Faulkener.
Beatrix had become close friends with her former governess, Annie Moore. She was particularly fond of Annie’s young children, regularly writing amusing picture letters for them about the many pets she kept.
The birth of Peter Rabbit
Several years later Beatrix turned one of the tales into a picture book. It was rejected by several publishers, so she privately printed 250 copies of it herself. The Tale of Peter Rabbit was a great success with family and friends.
In 1902, Frederick Warne & Co agreed to publish an initial quantity of 8,000. They sold out instantly and Beatrix’s career as a storyteller was launched.
A sad passing
By 1905, Warne had published six of Beatrix Potter’s books, including The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle. She used the profits to buy her first farm, Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey village in the Lake District.
In the summer of that year, Norman Warne proposed marriage and she accepted. But tragically, Norman fell ill and died four weeks later. Beatrix threw herself into the running of her farm whilst working on more ‘little books’. The Tale of Tom Kitten and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck were both set in and around Hill Top.
A link with pottery
In 1903 Beatrix Potter designed and patented a Peter Rabbit doll – making Peter Rabbit the world’s oldest licensed character.
With her approval a range of slippers, handkerchiefs and china tea sets was designed and by the 1940s Wedgwood and Royal Doulton had begun to create pottery with scenes from the tales.
Discover more at Beatrix Potter Gallery and Hawkshead
Beatrix Potter, the Lake District and the National Trust
Beatrix relished life in the Lake District, becoming involved in farming, breeding sheep and conservation.
Visit Beatrix Potter's house
Go on a family day out to Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's house in Cumbria, and discover the treasures on display. Don't miss the items used in the illustrations from The Tale of Two Bad Mice.
Walk in Beatrix Potter's footsteps
Walk in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter. Visit some of her most loved, life-changing and inspirational places around Cumbria.
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Discovery Nears Reality TV Deal With Sarah Palin
Published at 10:28 am on March 23, 2010
Sarah Palin is close to striking a deal with Discovery Communications for her Alaska travel reality show -- even with her asking price reportedly close to $1.2 million per episode.
The Hollywood Reporter claims Discovery has edged out rival A&E Network's in the bidding for "Sarah Palin's Alaska." No figure was listed for what the actual payout would be.
The agreement is expected to have an official announcement in the next few days.
The report states the obvious -- "a network paying anywhere close to that (asking) figure would make 'Alaska" one of the most expensive nature series ever produced." It will also make the cast of "Friends" and "Seinfeld" green with envy over their comparatively paltry per episode payouts.
It is still undecided which Discovery Communications channel the show would go on. It could fit with mom-friendly TLC (the "L" is meant to stand for learning) or on the Discovery Channel.
The hi-def program will be shot in a style similar to Discovery's recent hit "Life" with Palin acting as a guide to the Alaskan outdoors.
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In Migrant Caravan, Kids and Parents Struggle With Long Trek
For families the long trek has imposed a particularly grueling routine that has taken a toll after more than two weeks
Published at 11:19 am on November 2, 2018
Toddlers slump in strollers bouncing across the rough asphalt, and infants only a few weeks old jiggle in their fathers' arms. Others, limp from exhaustion and nearly too big to be carried, are slung across their mothers' chests like sacks of grain, sweaty hair plastered to their heads.
There are hundreds of children traveling in the caravan of Central American migrants. That number has fluctuated somewhat as the group's size has grown and diminished, but kids of all ages are still everywhere and at risk of illness, dehydration and other dangers.
And if it's exhausting for children, it's perhaps even more so for their parents trying to care for them as they walk long hours in the sun, sleep on the ground outdoors and rely on donations of food and clothing to get by.
Pamela Valle, a 28-year-old from El Progreso, Honduras, said no child should have to undertake a migration like this. But unable to find work back home, she said she had no choice but to leave and take 5-year-old Eleonor with her.
Each day when they arrive in a new town on the long trek across the steamy southern Mexico countryside, she looks first for a sheltered place to sleep. On this day that was a red tarp that a group of migrants stretched across a playground in the main square of the southern town of Tapanatepec. Then she and Eleonor went in search of food and bathrooms.
"I don't think you can prepare children psychologically, but we have to in some way make it like a game, like telling them it's a vacation," Valle said, adding that it has been hard on Eleonor. "It's not right, but sometimes the situation obliges you."
With Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections just days away, President Donald Trump has continued to ramp up his rhetoric against the caravan of some 4,000 migrants, repeatedly hammering Democrats and talking of sending as many as 15,000 U.S. troops to the southern border — more than double the number of migrants in this group and three other much smaller ones following in its footsteps hundreds of miles behind.
In a lengthy speech on Thursday, Trump promised an executive order next week that would automatically deny asylum to migrants who try to enter the United States illegally between ports of entry. U.S. immigration laws currently allow migrants to seek asylum no matter how they arrive in the U.S.
Unless they unexpectedly find some way of traveling faster — and Mexican officials have shown no inclination to facilitate that — they are still weeks away from reaching the U.S. border. Thousands have already dropped out, applying for asylum in Mexico or accepting free bus rides home, and many more are expected to do the same. A caravan earlier this year fizzled to just about 200 who actually made it to the Tijuana-San Diego border.
While resting Tuesday in the southern city of Juchitan, in the state of Oaxaca, as members of the group attempted to organize mass transport northward, a Guatemalan woman gave birth to the first known caravan baby at a local hospital. Mexico’s governmental National Human Rights Commission said it had arranged for medical attention for the woman, who was 38 weeks pregnant, and the girl was healthy.
The newborn's parents told Telemundo she named the baby Guadalupe Vasquez Perez, in honor of Our Lady of Guadelupe, the patron saint of Mexico, because they consider her a miracle. According to local reports, the couple decided not to continue forward with the caravan and will stay in Mexico where they will join family members in the city of Coahuila.
After failing to persuade Mexican authorities to provide buses that would have whisked them hundreds of miles ahead to Mexico City, the migrants were on the move again on foot Thursday, hitchhiking and scrounging rides when they could find them.
Their goal for the day was to trek 40 miles (65 kilometers) to reach the town of Matias Romero in Oaxaca state, still more than 840 miles (1,350 kilometers) to the nearest U.S. border crossing at McAllen, Texas.
For families the long trek has imposed a particularly grueling routine that has taken a toll after more than two weeks.
The migrants rise by 3 a.m. each day to take advantage of cooler temperatures. Parents try to feed kids who are awake while letting those small enough to carry or put in a stroller sleep. Since the group usually camps in town squares and most include some sort of playground, children run around the monkey bars in the dark while their parents pack.
On a recent day, one woman walked with a length of black cord tied to the wrists of her daughter and another girl so she wouldn't lose them. A toddler leaned against his older sister, playing with a tiny plastic truck on the edge of the highway, while their mother tried to flag down a passing truck.
Still, as young children do, many found ways to lighten the difficult journey with imaginary play.
After arriving in Tapanatepec's main plaza, Evelin Flores, a spunky 7-year-old from Tela, Honduras, set to playing her favorite game of "stylist," combing everyone's hair as she loves to do back home. Flores said she sings the traditional Spanish folk song "La Cucaracha," to while away the hours on the road.
"It's only that it's really tiresome to walk," she said.
Standing on the steps of the town's church, 4-year-old Madelin held a small bible and pretended to preach with Pentecostal fervor, waving her arms and stomping back and forth. Suddenly she grabbed a medicine bottle and, holding it like a microphone, let out a scream.
"She's very dramatic," her mother Mileybi Ramos said, laughing at her daughter's antics.
Under a sheet of black plastic stretched taut with rocks to weigh it down, 4-year-old Eipril Arguijo Gonzalez flopped onto her 17-year-old brother's bare chest, giggled uncontrollably when he grabbed her and then popped back up to resume pacing around her small space on a church patio where her family was spending the night in the town of Niltepec.
"She acts like we're on vacation," said her brother, Jonny. His twin, Jordy, chimed in that in each town where they've stopped, Eipril calls the river the beach.
For the Arguijo family, the trip has been hardest on 10-year-old Keneth, who is too old to be carried or pushed in a stroller and knows too much to think this is any kind of vacation. After covering dozens of miles on foot, both of Keneth's feet were shredded with cuts and blisters and he went to a medical tent to have them bandaged.
Despite his tender age, he was part of the family meeting in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, when the family decided to flee.
Jonny and Jordy had left with their father in August because the gang controlling their neighborhood was trying to force them to sell drugs. They made it as far as the town of Tenosique in Mexico's Tabasco state, not far from the Guatemalan border. But the gang was threatening their other siblings and mother back home, so they returned for them.
"Since they were looking for us to sell drugs, they went looking to beat Keneth up," Jordy said.
If they make it to the United States, the twins hope to return to school. The brothers were a year away from finishing high school when their parents pulled them out for safety reasons.
"First we're going to have to find a place to stay," Jordy said. "Afterward we'll make a little money to buy a house and live normally with our family."
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Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)?
Michael D. Bordo, Angela Redish, Hugh Rockoff
Issued in August 2011, Revised in December 2011
NBER Program(s):Program on the Development of the American Economy
The financial crisis of 2008 engulfed the banking system of the United States and many large European countries. Canada was a notable exception. In this paper we argue that the structure of financial systems is path dependent. The relative stability of the Canadian banks in the recent crisis compared to the United States in our view reflected the original institutional foundations laid in place in the early 19th century in the two countries. The Canadian concentrated banking system that had evolved by the end of the twentieth century had absorbed the key sources of systemic risk -- the mortgage market and investment banking -- and was tightly regulated by one overarching regulator. In contrast the relatively weak, fragmented, and crisis prone U.S. banking system that had evolved since the early nineteenth century, led to the rise of securities markets, investment banks and money market mutual funds (the shadow banking system) combined with multiple competing regulatory authorities. The consequence was that the systemic risk that led to the crisis of 2007-2008 was not contained.
A non-technical summary of this paper is available in the December 2011 NBER Digest. You can sign up to receive the NBER Digest by email.
Published: Michael D. Bordo & Angela Redish & Hugh Rockoff, 2015. "Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or …)?," The Economic History Review, vol 68(1), pages 218-243.
Bordo w14569 An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008
Bordo, Markiewicz, and Jonung w17380 A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History
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Taylor w14631 The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong
Bordo and Landon-Lane w16365 The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
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Quonset Point, R. I. – February 7, 1946
Quonset Point, Rhode Island – February 7, 1946
F8F Bearcat
U. S. Navy Photo
On February 7, 1946, a navy F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 94861), was landing at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station when the landing gear collapsed just after touchdown. The aircraft skidded to a stop and there was no fire. Although the plane suffered extensive damage, the pilot received only minor injuries.
The aircraft was assigned to Fighter Squadron 18, (VF-18).
Source: U. S. Navy accident report dated February 7, 1946.
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 94861, Quonset Point History, Quonset Point NAS Crash, Quonset Point NAS History, Rhode Island Navy History, VF-18 History
Atlantic Ocean – November 2, 1948
On November 2, 1948, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Leyte was operating in waters off the coast of New England. On that day, an F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 121542), took off from the Quonset Point Naval; Air Station and landed aboard the Leyte.
Later, when the pilot took off from the ship, he did so by going off the bow. Immediately after take off the Bearcat began running roughly and emitting black smoke. The aircraft lost altitude and dropped nearly to the water, but the pilot was able to recover and bring his plane up to about 1,000 feet of altitude, at which time he began to circle back toward and around the ship. (The pilot later reported that the cockpit gauges indicated that fuel and oil pressure were normal, but the cylinder head temperature was 300 degrees.) As the Bearcat was approaching the aircraft carrier from the rear, the engine lost all power and the pilot was forced to make a water landing. The Bearcat sank within 90 seconds, but the pilot was able to escape unharmed, and was rescued within minutes.
The coordinates of the accident were 37 degrees, 19 north, 70 degrees, 14.5 west.
The pilot was assigned to VF-71.
U. S. Navy accident report dated November 2, 1948
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 121542, New England Navy History, Quonset Point NAS History, Quonset Point R.I. History, Rhode Island Navy History, USS Leyte Accident, USS Leyte Crash, VF-71 History
Quonset Point, R. I. – July 30, 1948
On July 30, 1948, a pilot was returning to the Quonset Point Naval Air Station after a two hour training flight in an F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 121566). Upon touch down the pilot applied the brakes, but the left brake overheated and locked, causing the plane to ground loop and nose over. The aircraft was damaged, but the pilot was not hurt.
U. S. Navy accident report dated July 30, 1948
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 121566, New England Navy History, Quonset NAS History, Quonset Point Accident, Quonset Point Crash, Quonset Point History, Quonset Point R. I. Crash, Quonset Point R.I. History, Rhode Island Navy History, VF-72 History
Quonset Point, R. I. – November 22,1949
Quonset Point, R. I. – November 22, 1949
On November 22, 1949, a pilot was awaiting clearance for take off from the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. As he sat waiting in his F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 95355), the aircraft suddenly caught fire. The pilot turned off the engine and exited the airplane unharmed, but the aircraft was damaged beyond all repair.
U. S. Navy accident report date November 22, 1949.
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 95355, New England Navy History, Quonset Point NAS History, Rhode Island Navy History
Quonset Point, R. I. – April 11, 1950
At about 11:40 a.m. on the morning of April 11, 1950, two aircraft were making landing approaches to Runway 16 at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station, and due to their approach angles, neither pilot saw the other. The first aircraft to land was a Beechcraft SNB-3, (Bu. No. 67100). The landing was normal, and after touchdown the pilot applied the brakes. Immediately afterward, an F8F-2 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 122639), landed directly behind the Beechcraft and overtook it, plowing into the rear of the aircraft. The Beechcraft was damaged beyond all repair, but its three-man crew was not injured. The Bearcat suffered front end damage, but the pilot was not injured.
The Bearcat was assigned to Fighting Squadron 74, (VF-74).
U. S. Navy accident report dated April 11, 1950
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: Beechcraft SNB-3 Bu. No. 67100, F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 122639, New England Navy History, Quonset Point Crash, Quonset Point History, Quonset Point NAS Crash, Rhode Island Navy History, VF-74 History
Quonset Point, R. I. – August 10, 1948
Quonset Point, Rhode Island – August 10, 1948
On August 10, 1948, a pilot took off from the Quonset Point Naval Air Station in an F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 121657), to test the performance of the aircraft after a new carburetor had been installed. Shortly after takeoff the engine stopped and the pilot was unable to restart it. He brought the plane in for an emergency landing, but upon touchdown a tire blew out, causing the aircraft to careen into another Bearcat,( Bu. No. 121667) that was parked along the side of the runway. After the collision, the landing Bearcat rolled over and came to rest in an inverted position. The pilot wasn’t injured, but the aircraft was damaged beyond all repair.
U. S. Navy accident report dated August 10, 1948
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 121657, New England Navy History, Quonset Point Aircraft Accident, Quonset Point Crash, Quonset Point Naval Air Station Crash, Quonset Point Plane Crash, Quonset Point R.I. History, Rhode Island Navy History
Charlestown, R. I. – November 30, 1948
Charlestown, Rhode Island – November 30, 1948
On November 30, 1948, an F8F-1B Bearcat, (Bu. No. 121470), left Quonset Point Naval Air Station bound for the Charlestown Naval Auxiliary Air Station to conduct simulated aircraft carrier practice landings. While the pilot was making his first landing attempt, the aircraft crashed and skidded 231 feet, causing the belly tank to rupture and set the plane ablaze. The pilot was able to extricate himself and suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The aircraft was consumed by fire.
The aircraft was assigned to VF-173.
U. S. Navy accident report dated November 30, 1948.
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: Charlestown Navy Auxiliar Air Field Crash, Charlestown Navy Auxiliary Air Field History, Charlestown R.I. Plane Crash, F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 121470, New England Navy History, Rhode Island Navy History, VF-173 History
U.S.S. Lyete – February 13, 1948
On February 13, 1948, The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lyete, (CV-32), was operating in the waters off Block Island conducting training exercises. On that day, aircraft from the Quonset Point Naval Air Station were sent to land on the carrier. The seas were rough, and the deck was rising and falling.
One aircraft, an F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 95112), made a “hard landing” as the deck rose as the plane descended. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair but the pilot was not injured.
On the same day, a second F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 95334) was also damaged upon landing, but the pilot was not hurt.
Other aircraft landed safely.
Both of the damage aircraft were assigned to VF-7A at Quonset Point.
Two U.S. Navy accident reports date February 13, 1948
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 95112, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 95334, Quonset Point Crash, Quonset Point R.I. History, Rhode Island Navy History, USS Lyete CV-32, VF-7A History
Block Island Sound- November 18, 1947
Block Island Sound – November 18, 1947
On November 18, 1947, a group of seven F8F Bearcat fighter aircraft from the Charlestown Auxiliary Naval Air Field were involved in a flight-tactics training exercise over Block Island Sound when two of the aircraft were involved in a mid-air collision.
One of the aircraft was Bu. No. 95087, piloted by Lieutenant Commander Minuard F. Jennings, 32, and the other, Bu. No. 95193, was piloted by Lieutenant Commander Marshal J. Lyttle, 26. Both aircraft went down in the sea and neither pilot survived.
Both men were assigned to VF-10A at Charlestown NAAF.
To see a photo of Lt. Cmdr. Lyttle, go to the U. S. Naval Academy Virtual Memorial Wall at USMemorialHall.org
U. S. Navy accident report dated November 18, 1947
www.findagrave.com, memorial # 185144296 & 13842978
Filed Under: Rhode Island - Military Tagged With: Charlestown NAAF Accident, Charlestown NAAF Memorial, F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 95087, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 95193, Lt. Cmdr. Marshal J. Lyttle, Lt. Cmdr. Minuard F. Jennings, New England Navy History, Rhode Island Navy History, VF-10A History
Martha’s Vineyard – March 5, 1946
On March 5, 1946, a flight of F8F-1 Bearcats left Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island bound for Martha’s Vineyard Naval Air Station in Massachusetts. The purpose of the flight was to practice mock carrier take-offs and landings. As one of the aircraft, (Bu. No. 94827), was making a landing, it went off the runway and into soft dirt where it flipped on its back trapping the pilot. The pilot was extricated with non-life-threatening injuries, and the aircraft suffered substantial damage.
The aircraft was assigned to VF-18 at Quonset Point.
U. S. Navy accident report dated March 5, 1946.
Filed Under: Massachusetts - Military Tagged With: F8F Bearcat Accident, F8F Bearcat Bu. No. 94827, Martha's Vineyard Naval Air Station History, Martha's Vineyard Navy History, Martha's Vineyard Navy Plane Crash, Martha's Vinyard Plane Crash, Massachusetts Navy Plane Crash, VF-18 History
Otis Air Force Base – June 27, 1947
On June 27, 1947, a flight of F8F Bearcats left the Quonset Naval Air Station bound for Otis Air Force base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, to conduct practice carrier landings and takeoffs The aircraft were assigned to VF-8A at Quonset.
Once at Otis the aircraft commenced the takeoff and landing exercise. As one aircraft, (Bu. No. 95227), was making its approach for its sixth landing, in came in too close behind the aircraft ahead of it. After landing, the pilot applied the brakes to avoid a rear-end collision with the plane ahead, but at that moment the left brake failed which caused the aircraft to swerve off the runway and onto a grassy area. On the grassy area was a parked truck, which the pilot would have struck had he not intentionally ground-looped the aircraft. After missing the truck, the aircraft went into a small ravine and nosed over onto its back. The aircraft was substantially damaged, but the pilot was not seriously hurt.
U. S. Navy accident report dated June 27, 1947
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Otis Air Force Base – October 17, 1947
On October 17, 1947, an F8F-1 Bearcat, (Bu. No. 95331), left the Quonset Naval Air Station in Rhode Island bound for Otis AFB in Falmouth, Massachusetts. As the pilot was coming into to land at Otis, the engine suddenly lost all power. Realizing he couldn’t make it to the service runway, the pilot decided to make an emergency wheels-up landing in the grass nearby. The aircraft received considerable damage as it skidded for about 600 feet before coming to rest. The pilot was not injured.
U. S. Navy accident report dated October 17, 1947
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High Treason Case: Pervez Musharraf Moves Pak SC Against Special Court's Verdict
File image of Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
The special court in Islamabad on December 17 last handed down the death penalty to the 74-year-old retired general, now based in Dubai, after six years of hearing the high-profile treason case against him.
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Islamabad: Pakistan's self-exiled former dictator Pervez Musharraf on Thursday challenged in the Supreme Court a special tribunal's verdict that found him guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence, according to a media report.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had filed the treason case against the former army chief in 2013 over the imposition of an extra-constitutional emergency in November 2007, which led to the confinement of a number of superior court judges in their houses and sacking of over 100 judges.
However, on Monday, Musharraf's trial in the high treason case was declared as "unconstitutional", leading to the annulment of the death sentence against the ex-Army chief.
In a 90-page appeal, the former military called for the order of the special court to be set aside, the Dawn newspaper reported.
"Any other remedy that the honourable court deems fit and proper may also be granted," the appeal said.
The petition stated that the former president's absence from the special court was not intentional and he was unable to appear before the court as he was suffering ill health, the Express Tribune reported.
It further stated that the special court had accepted Musharraf's ailment but convicted the former president in absentia.
Musharraf, who has been living in Dubai since March 2016, left Pakistan for medical treatment and has not returned since, citing security and health reasons.
Dr Muhammad Amjad, Musharraf's close aide and the ex-chairperson of the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) party, had said that the former president was rapidly becoming weaker due to an unknown disease, which is why he was unable to return to Pakistan to face the treason case.
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Review: The People’s Flag and the Union Jack
A new book explores the complex marriage of Labour and Britishness.
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Only under Attlee did Labour come close to crafting a national story capable of transcending that of the Tories
In 1987, the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne observed: “Much of the stability of this country depended on the Labour Party, which, in some ways, was just as powerful a force for continuity and tradition as the Conservative Party.”
Throughout prolonged periods of Labour government, the UK’s historic institutions have endured: the monarchy, the House of Lords, the private schools and the Union. The Scottish political theorist Tom Nairn called this anachronistic, confused state “Ukania” (after “Kakania”, the name novelist Robert Musil gave the Austro-Hungarian empire). Rather than transforming this centralised kingdom, Labour governments have preserved it.
In The People’s Flag and the Union Jack, Gerry Hassan and Eric Shaw explore the neglected terrain of Labour and Britishness. Their lucid account is well timed: Labour is facing not merely a political but an existential crisis. In its traditional redoubts of Scotland and Wales, the party was pushed into fifth and third place in the recent European elections. Across the UK Labour was supplanted by the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats (winning its lowest share of the vote in any nationwide election since 1910).
Hassan and Shaw’s previous book The Strange Death of Labour Scotland (2012) anticipated the party’s 2015 Götterdämmerung, when it lost 40 of its 41 Scottish Westminster seats to the SNP. Ever since, Labour has feared a comparable realignment across the UK. As Britain polarises along Remain/Leave lines, is the party capable of contesting the politics of nationhood?
Hassan and Shaw ably trace the influence of competing doctrines on Labour’s thought: traditional patriotism, radical patriotism, liberal internationalism and socialist internationalism. Of these, it was the first that most shaped the party’s outlook.
In its early years, Labour upheld the radical patriotic tradition embodied by Wat Tyler, the Diggers, the Levellers, Thomas Paine and the Chartists. But once in office, the party largely accepted the norms of British foreign policy and “the conservative nation”. As Labour’s first colonial secretary, Jimmy Thomas, told his officials: “I’ve been sent here to see that there is no mucking about with the British empire.” The party viewed the top-down British state – and its imperial trappings – as the means through which to advance social reforms.
Only during the Clement Attlee administration of 1945-1951 did Labour come close to crafting a national story capable of transcending that of the Conservatives. The NHS endures as a patriotic, social democratic monument to that period of transformation. But Labour ultimately failed to construct a state capable of creating the national loyalty commanded by the Nordic welfarist and French dirigiste models.
This was partly because of the economic constraints imposed by Attlee’s alternative pursuits: the maintenance of an empire “east of Suez”, the formation of a “special relationship” with the United States and the creation of a British nuclear deterrent (“We’ve got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it,” declared foreign secretary Ernest Bevin in 1946). As Hassan and Shaw surmise: “The experience and legacy of the Empire State shaped the Labour Party as much as Labour shaped it.”
Harold Wilson’s later vision of a “new Britain” forged in the “white heat” of technology did not outlast the collapse of the postwar Keynesian consensus.
Tony Blair’s bid to cast Labour as “the political arm of the British people” enabled electoral success but accommodated, rather than challenged, the core tenets of Thatcherism. The notion of the UK as a “transatlantic bridge” between Europe and the US was ruptured by the Iraq War. As prime minister Gordon Brown grappled with “genuine existential problems”, write Hassan and Shaw, in his effort to redefine “Britishness”, but he encountered forces – in the form of the rise of Scottish and English nationalism – he could not contain.
No Labour leader has ever been more hostile to the traditional British state than Jeremy Corbyn: a republican, an opponent of almost every UK military intervention, and a lifelong supporter of unilateral nuclear disarmament and a united Ireland. But in office he has largely cleaved to Labour’s traditional bargain: radicalism in the economic sphere, conservatism in the foreign sphere (the party’s 2017 manifesto backed Nato membership and Trident renewal).
Though Labour speaks admirably of “rebuilding Britain” after a decade of austerity, it lacks a national story capable of rivalling that of nostalgic Brexiteers (“make Britain great again”) and cosmopolitan Remainers (“keep Britain European”). Far from resolving the contradictions that have suffused its history, Labour at present embodies them.
The People’s Flag and the Union Jack: An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party
Gerry Hassan and Eric Shaw
Biteback, 356pp, £25
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How to Succeed in Silicon Valley: Have a Really Great Bad Idea
By Kevin Maney On 10/18/15 at 11:36 AM EDT
A cable car that contains a rentable hotel room offered by Airbnb is pictured in Courchevel, France on January 29. Airbnb, once a solution to three jobless roommates' rent troubles involving three air mattresses and a website to rent them out, is now a major worldwide company valued at $16 billion. Whitehotpix/Zuma
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Sitting across from me for our interview, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky demonstrated why artificial intelligence robots won't take over the job of entrepreneur anytime soon.
No robot would ever be as crack-brained and heedless as Chesky was at his company's beginning—actually, as any entrepreneur must be today. In this warped era of company creation, the only good business ideas are really bad ideas. Code that into an IBM Watson and watch its circuits melt.
The interview with Chesky took place at New York University, in front of an audience of mostly students who someday want to start companies. Chesky retold Airbnb's creation story. He and Joe Gebbia, recent graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design turned jobless roommates in San Francisco, couldn't afford their rent. A major design conference was coming to town, and hotels were sold out. The roommates blew up three airbeds and put up a website offering to rent them out and serve cereal in the morning. Hence AirbedAndBreakfast.com. They got three paying customers.
"Does that sound like a big idea?" Chesky quipped. "I remember someone saying to me, 'Don't worry about your idea. If it's any good, everyone will dismiss it.'"
I've been hearing a lot of that lately. Bryan Roberts, a venture capitalist at Venrock, told me he has to look for what he calls non-consensus ideas. These companies have to have "something most people think you can't surmount, or that if you do surmount, no one will care." Snapchat, for instance, falls into that latter category. Early on, a lot of people wondered why anyone except sexting teenagers would care about a service that disappears their naked selfies. Today, the company is valued at $16 billion. Go figure.
Why search for non-consensus? In this era of constant connectivity and social media, everyone knows what everyone else is doing instantly. Cloud services and open-source software allow anybody with an idea to get it up and running quickly for very little money. Add all that together and the second an idea seems sane, 30 companies are already doing it and fighting for attention, investment and customers. That's not the kind of business that's going to blow up into a multibillion-dollar, world-changing enterprise.
A non-consensus company like Airbnb or Snapchat buys time in the shadows to build a business that hardly anyone thinks is worth building. Then another phenomenon of our ultra-connected age kicks in. As Roberts says, "Things go from non-consensus to consensus very quickly, but by then you [the company] have some competitive advantage that's hard to surmount." Nobody sees it, and then—boom!—it's everywhere, constantly tweeted, liked, pinned and shared. Slack, Dropbox, YouTube—you've watched it happen a hundred times. For Airbnb, that takeoff moment came in 2011. Today, Airbnb offers more rooms than Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt combined. It's been valued at $25.5 billion.
The speed is what's new. Non-consensus ideas have always driven the greatest innovations. (When King Gillette started selling disposable safety razors in 1904, most men wondered why they'd give up their straight razors.) But in the past, starting a business often involved manufacturing, and word spread by advertising. The conversion to consensus was more like a journey than a light switch. New gadgets could be protected by patents for decades. Today, a fraction of startups even file for a patent. There's no time. The better protection is having potential competitors think you're nuts for just long enough that they can't catch up once you prove you're not.
The challenge of searching for non-consensus ideas, then, is separating good non-consensus ideas from ideas that just plain suck. In the earliest stages, as when Chesky was renting blow-up beds, the two look the same. In honest moments, every investor or entrepreneur will tell you they can't tell the difference. Chesky's advice: "You just have to build a solution for a problem in your own life." Solve your own small problem, and it might later scale to solve a lot of people's bigger problems.
Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, on His Disruptive Idea That Started Small
In fact, when you think about it, the legendary entrepreneurs have understood that their jobs weren't just to invent something. That may be the easy part, the part someone like Chesky can stumble into. The real job is changing people's minds. A non-consensus idea by definition has no demand. No one thinks he wants or needs it. Inventing Airbnb was one thing. Convincing a mass market that it's wonderful to stay in other people's homes while traveling has been the company's real victory.
This circles back to worries that AI will get so smart it will take over all our jobs. Days before talking with Chesky, I met with Joseph Sirosh, who's developing machine learning at Microsoft. He discussed how machines are getting amazingly good at predicting what to do next based on past data. They can suck up all the medical research and patient data ever created and diagnose a rare disease most doctors wouldn't even know about.
But great non-consensus ideas come from the opposite direction. As Sirosh said, past data will always show that a non-consensus idea will fail. Use AI to analyze Airbnb in 2008 and it would've suggested Chesky stick to his other idea, making politically themed breakfast cereal. Chesky and Gebbia actually funded Airbnb by selling boxes of Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's.
In this modern age, the great value of humans—our ultimate triumph—seems to be our willingness to do things that make absolutely no sense.
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Aeromexico Opens Direct Flight From Mexico City To Cozumel
- Beginning October 1, the airline will offer new daily service between these two cities
- With this, Aeromexico expands its presence in the Caribbean, making it the airline's 46th available in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, July 15, 2015 /CNW/ -- Aeromexico, Mexico's global airline, announced the beginning of its new daily service between Mexico City to Cozumel on October 1st, with Embraer 145 jets, with 50 passenger seats and the following schedule:
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Mexico City - Cozumel*
Cozumel – Mexico City*
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*The schedules shown are local and subject to change without notice.
"The 700 weekly seats available on this route, will have a positive impact on arrivals because travelers will now have direct access to this popular tourist spot in Cozumel, thanks to Aeromexico's extensive connectivity to and from 80 national and international destinations," said Anko van der Werff, Chief Revenue Officer at Aeromexico.
"Through Aeromexico's direct route from Mexico City to the Island of Cozumel, we will broaden our tourist destinations, inviting more visitors to enjoy this island's beautiful beaches, turquoise waters, breathtaking sunsets, along with the warmth of its people; not to mention countless activities and experiences like scuba diving, snorkeling, archeologic excursions or visiting downtown and the iconic waterfront, El Malecon" said Carlos Manuel Joaquin Gonzalez, Deputy Secretary of Tourism Development and Innovation of the Department of Tourism.
"We will strengthen our domestic flight connectivity, particularly in the Mexican Caribbean, with this route and more. SECTUR welcomes this flight which helps to position Mexico in the national and international tourism landscape," added the Deputy.
The addition of Cozumel to Aeromexico's network, reinforces the presence of the airline in both the Caribbean as well as on a national scale, it also marks this as the 46th destination it serves in Mexico, which will connect with the 16 cities in the United States from where the carrier operates.
About Grupo Aeromexico
Grupo Aeromexico, S.A.B. de C.V. is a holding company whose subsidiaries provide commercial aviation services in Mexico and the promotion of passenger loyalty programs. Aeromexico, Mexico's global airline, operates more than 600 daily flights from its main hub in Terminal 2 at the Mexico City International Airport. Its route network reaches over 80 cities on three continents: including 46 destinations in Mexico, 16 in the United States, 15 in Latin America, three in Canada, three in Europe and two in Asia.
The Group's fleet of more than 120 aircraft is comprised of Boeing 787, 777, 767 and 737 jet airliners and next generation Embraer 145, 170, 175 and 190 models. In 2012, the airline announced the most significant investment strategy in aviation history in Mexico, to purchase 100 Boeing aircraft including 90 MAX 737 jet airliners and ten 787-9 Dreamliners.
As a founding member of the SkyTeam airline alliance, Aeromexico offers customers more than 1,000 destinations in 177 countries served by the 20 SkyTeam airline partners rewarding passengers with benefits including access to 636 premium airport lounges around the world. Aeromexico also offers travel options through its code share partners Delta Air Lines, Alaska Airlines, Avianca, LAN, TACA and TAM with extensive connectivity in countries like the United States, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia and Peru. www.aeromexico.com www.skyteam.com http://disfrutaam.tumblr.com/
SOURCE Aeromexico
For further information: Andres Pereda Medrano, External Communications & P.R. Manager, +52-55-9132-4964, [email protected], http://www.aeromexico.com
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April 13, 2009 Issue
A Strange Eventful History
by Michael Holroyd (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $40)
Holroyd’s sweeping group biography traces the lives of Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, two stars of the Victorian theatre, and their descendants. Terry was “embodied sunshine,” beloved for her naturalness and grace onstage. In 1878, when she was thirty-one, she began a professional (and perhaps amorous) partnership with Irving, the despotic actor-manager of the Lyceum Theatre, in London, a stutterer “of strange countenance and with crablike gait,” whose power lay in creating an “awful sense of apprehension” in the audience. The pair rose to international fame performing melodramas and Shakespeare abridgments. Both had children who attempted careers in the theatre, and the second half of the book dwells on their struggles amid their parents’ decline. Holroyd proceeds at a furious pace, and, in less expert hands, the detail packed onto the page might bewilder; instead, the effect is of an epic, perfectly balanced by intimacies of setting and character. ♦
Published in the print edition of the April 13, 2009, issue.
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40-Second Play Clock, Postseason Instant Replay Among Football Changes
By NFHS on February 11, 2019 nfhs news
In an effort to establish a more consistent time period between downs in high school football, the play clock will start at 40 seconds instead of 25 seconds in many cases beginning with the 2019 season.
This change was one of seven rules revisions recommended by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Football Rules Committee at its January 13-15 meeting in Indianapolis, which were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
The play clock will continue to start at 25 seconds (a) prior to a try following a score, (b) to start a period or overtime series, (c) following administration of an inadvertent whistle, (d) following a charged time-out, (e) following an official’s time-out, with a few exceptions, and (f) following the stoppage of the play clock by the referee for any other reason. In all other cases, 40 seconds will be placed on the play clock and start when the ball is declared dead by a game official.
Previously, the ball was marked ready-for-play when, after it had been placed for a down, the referee gave the ready-for-play signal and the 25-second count began. Beginning next season, in addition to the above situations when the 25-second count is used, the ball will also be ready for play when, starting immediately after the ball has been ruled dead by a game official after a down, the ball has been placed on the ground by the game official and the game official has stepped away to position.
“The entire committee needs to be commended for its thorough discussion regarding the move to a 40-second play clock, except in specific situations that will still have a 25-second play clock to show play is ready to begin,” said Todd Tharp, assistant director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association and chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee. “This is one of the most substantial game administration rules changes to be approved in the past 10 years, and without detailed experimentation from several state associations over the past three years, along with cooperation of the NFHS Football Game Officials Manual Committee, all the elements needed to approve this proposal would not have been in place.
Another significant change approved by the committee was the addition of a note to Rule 1-3-7 to permit state associations to create instant-replay procedures for state postseason contests only. This revision would allow game or replay officials to use a replay monitor during state postseason contests to review decisions by the on-field game officials. Use of a replay monitor would be on a state-by-state adoption basis, and the methodology for reviewing calls would be determined by the applicable state association.
“The ultimate goal of each game official and each officiating crew is to get the call correct,” Tharp said. “Each state association, by individual adoption, can now use replay or video monitoring during its respective postseason contests to review decisions by the on-field game officials. Each state association, if it adopts this rules revision, will also create the parameters and scope of the replay.”
With regard to uniforms, the NFHS Football Rules Committee clarified the size requirements for numbers on jerseys through the 2023 season and added a new requirement effective with the 2024 season. Clarifications to Rule 1-5-1c (in bold) that are in effect through the 2023 state that the numbers, inclusive of any border, shall be centered horizontally at least 8 inches and 10 inches high on front and back, respectively. In addition, the entire body of the number (the continuous horizontal bars and vertical strokes) exclusive of any border(s) shall be approximately 1½-inches wide. Finally, through the 2023 season, the body of the number (the continuous horizontal bars and vertical strokes) shall be either: (a) a continuous color(s) contrasting with the jersey color; or (b) the same color(s) as the jersey with a minimum of one border that is at least ¼-inch in width of a single solid contrasting color.
Effective with the 2024 season, the entire body of the number (the continuous horizontal bars and vertical strokes) of the number shall be a single solid color that clearly contrasts with the body color of the jersey.
“The purpose of numbers on jerseys is to provide clear identification of players,” said Bob Colgate, NFHS director of sports and sports medicine and staff liaison to the NFHS Football Rules Committee. “In order to enhance the ability to easily identify players, the committee has clarified the size requirements for jersey numbers through the 2023 season and added a new requirement for the 2024 season.”
Two changes were approved by the committee in an effort to reduce the risk of injury in high school football. First, tripping the runner is now prohibited. Beginning next season, it will be a foul to intentionally use the lower leg or foot to obstruct a runner below the knees. Previously, a runner was not included in the definition of tripping. Second, in Rule 9-4-3k, the “horse-collar” foul was expanded to include the name-plate area, which is directly below the back collar. Colgate said grabbing the name-plate area of the runner’s jersey, directly below the back collar, and pulling the runner to the ground is now an illegal personal contact foul.
A change in the definition of a legal scrimmage formation was approved. A legal scrimmage formation now requires at least five offensive players on their line of scrimmage (instead of seven) with no more than four backs. The committee noted that this change will make it easier to identify legal and illegal offensive formations.
The final change approved by the NFHS Football Rules Committee for the 2019 season was a reduction in the penalty for illegally kicking or batting the ball from 15 yards to 10 yards.
A complete listing of the football rules changes will be available on the NFHS website at www.nfhs.org. Click on “Activities & Sports” at the top of the home page and select “Football.”
According to the 2017-18 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, 11-player football is the most popular high school sport for boys with 1,036,842 participants in 14,079 schools nationwide. In addition, there were almost 30,000 boys who participated in 6-, 8- and 9-player football, along with approximately 2,500 girls who played the sport for a grand total of 1,068,870.
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EDITORIAL: President correctly defines court's role
What, pray tell, is wrong with President Obama commenting on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Any chief executive -- whether of a business, state or nation -- must function as an educator.
And given the quality of the public discourse on this subject in recent days, there are segments of the populace -- including many who are otherwise intelligent -- who apparently do not understand the purpose of the court.
As the president explained, it is not the role of the court to make law. That is the function of the legislative branch. The executive branch enforces the law. The judicial branch, headed by the Supreme Court, reviews laws to ensure that they are constitutional.
Unfortunately, the court has a history of exceeding its authority. Often in its rulings it has appeared to substitute political philosophy for what should strictly be legal considerations.
Rightly or wrongly, the court has been accused of politically based decisions in two high-profile cases in this young century. The first was in the Bush-Gore case in 2000 in which a Republican-dominated court ruled in favor of George W. Bush, thereby giving him the presidency; the other was the Citizens United ruling of 2010 granting corporations the right to make unlimited political contributions, which is playing itself out now in an unusually acrimonious presidential contest.
The president was merely warning the nine justices that the people, through their duly elected representatives in Congress, decided to reform the U.S. health system, and that lawmakers, as well as justices, are sworn to uphold the constitution. Obama pointed out the obvious: the Republican-dominated high court is apt to lose credibility if it overturns the law in response to a challenge led by Republican state attorneys general who clearly seem as motivated by policy considerations as constitutional issues.
Policy issues should be settled by the legislative branch of government when at all possible. People interested in overturning laws should resort to the repeal process, instead of expecting what should be an independent court to do the job for them.
Asking nine justices to overturn something many have sought for nearly a century -- universal health coverage -- is a potentially destabilizing request. There is nothing wrong with the president saying that.
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NOTL senior, 74, charged with manslaughter in death of 94-year-old nursing home resident
File photo.
Niagara Now, Staff
Nov 4, 2019 | Monday
A 74-year-old man from Niagara-on-the-Lake is facing a charge of manslaughter after the death of a 94-year-old woman at Chartwell Niagara Long Term Care Residence on Wellington Street in NOTL.
Niagara Regional Police said in a statement Monday that the victim, Verna Traina, was assaulted by a man on Aug. 9 at a long-term care facility in NOTL, where the two both lived.
Traina was taken to Greater Niagara Hospital in Niagara Falls where she died of her injuries on Aug. 20.
Robert Stroeh was charged Monday and taken to the Robert S.K. Welch Courthouse in St. Catharines.
He was released on bail and ordered to return to court on Nov. 26.
Janine Reed, senior director of communications and public relations for Chartwell, said in an email response that it would be "inappropriate to discuss a matter that is before the courts."
However, she did say the residence is "fully co-operating with the police."
"We will continue to take steps to ensure the safety and security of all of our residents and employees, who are our primary concern," she said.
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What became of us
By André Herzberg
Translation Johanna McCalmont
What became of us traces the lives of six narrators – Richard, Eike, Anton, Michaela, Peter and Jakob – all children of Jewish parents who grew up in the former East Germany. When the Berlin Wall falls and their plans crumble, each of the characters must find their own answers to the questions history has forced them to face. This translated excerpt opens with the author’s own reflections, followed by those of Eike as he attends an event at which the GDR Dictator meets a rich American guest.
DO NOT SAY THAT WORD. Above all, never say you are one of them. There are films about them, radio programmes, there are experts, politicians who talk about them, there is the nation, there are countless jokes, there are theories. There are theologians, philosophers, and yes, there is their country now, but never, ever, say you are one of them.
And that’s not who you are anyway, you never go where they go. You never do what they do. It’s better you know nothing about them at all. Who dripped their poison into your ear, who made you doubt? Don’t dig any deeper, doubt, that’s what they work on. If you get involved, even once, your life will take a different course, and you can’t take that risk, you don’t want to, do you? You heard about them from your parents when you were a child. That must have been what happened, but you can’t remember when it was exactly. Yet it has pursued you ever since. Once you are certain, you will be excluded from society.
When they all get together for carefree merriment, for football, on a Saturday evening, after work, to relax, you are shut out of the crowd, you are no longer allowed to laugh when they laugh, rejoice when they rejoice, nor are you allowed to weep when they weep, you are no longer one of them. Everything that once was light is now infinitely heavy. But what is it that’s so dreadful?
No one likes them, no one loves them, they may be pitied occasionally, some people are careful, you aren’t allowed to say a bad word about them now, so they just raise an eyebrow in a way that says it all, you can sense the contempt, the scorn, yes, the disgust even, this disgust is genuine, and genuine feelings are what you want, just not that kind. No one wants that, no one can bear that.
So it’s best you deny it, but it’s not that easy, you become a liar, if only because you have to assume someone will still suspect you’re one of them. It drives you mad because when you admit it not only to yourself, but also to others – yes, I am one of them – then you cross the line for good, you wind up alone, and now there’s no point thinking, or hoping you’ll receive support, love or warmth, they despise you even more now because you’ve exposed what they don’t want to talk about. If you had been murdered, then you might have had their sympathy, but since you’re alive, they know you know what they’re thinking but no longer say to your face.
When they talk about it, about dirty politics, about the special role, the chosenness, they mean you, even though they no longer kill, cull, eradicate, exterminate, gas you by law, they hate you until you are out of sight, they still hate you when you are no more than a shadow, a ghost, they blame you for all their misfortunes. Or else they admire you, but this admiration is so unattainable you can never live up to it because you too are only human. You remain the other.
This sense of otherness has been with me for as long as I can remember. I feel like a cat in dog territory. A cat, but one that pretends it’s a dog like all the rest, precisely because it doesn’t say or show it’s a cat. I’m now at the point where I no longer conform to such images. I say the word cat just like I say the word human.
I say: I am not a cat, I am a person. But then my uncertainty consumes me once more. How well do I even know myself? I know about my fear, I’m afraid of God too, of his wrath because I’ve never done all my homework, haven’t obeyed his Commandments, or, above all, haven’t respected his prohibitions, I don’t even know them all. They say he punishes sins, and I am a sinner. I am afraid of myself, my weaknesses, my gluttony, my wayward sexuality, my lack of love for others. I am afraid I cannot give any more than I’m giving, that I don’t want to give any more.
In the lyrics I wrote, I prayed to God. Help me, I sang.
The poison of doubt is what torments me, I’m gone forever as far as everyone else is concerned, I can never laugh again, never freely love anyone again. The older I get, the clearer it becomes that my parents, and their forefathers, determined this for me, handed it down. Being an aware person – at least on occasion – I’m becoming ever more conscious of my absurdity, because in refusing to reveal my identity I’m behaving like a child, covering my ears, eyes and mouth, singing lalala, simply to avoid thinking about it. I fill the void in my head with life’s endless, wonderful vanities, or I focus on the world, I must save the world, not just my little life, I have a higher purpose. Yet even in founding a new family, producing offspring, I burden them with this cursed doubt of mine. They carry it forward.
There is only one option, but it is the most dangerous one: I must change, I must face it head-on, accept who I am, learn how to separate what my parents told me, what teachers told me, all the ignorance, all those half-truths, from my own opinions. It’s as though I’m constantly treading new, unknown terrain where I do not know what dangers await me or when I may have to face them. Reconciling myself with God, persisting, sensing his love, constantly discovering new commandments I still don’t keep, forever relying on his goodness anew.
I keep hoping I’ll encounter kindred spirits, similar fates, but that’s just beyond reach, no two experiences are alike. The older I get, the easier the loneliness is to bear. Only once I have the strength to embrace my fate shall I find happiness again, like the happiness I know only from my long-gone childhood, my earliest memories.
WE WOULD LIKE you and your son to attend. So, put on your suit, Harry tells Eike. Harry stands in front of the mirror, tries on the shiny new medal he received only yesterday, but then hesitates, and takes it off again. He decides they should both be smartly yet modestly turned out, so no medal. It was a real blitz, an outpouring of medals for Jews. Harry was proud, he’d been Chairman of the community for many years, always got on well with the authorities, never a word of thanks from his people. Presumably the dictator had ordered a change of course: well, Harry too had had one of his scraps of tin pinned on his chest at any rate.
I need to tell you something, Eike. Harry’s voice trembled, he had never started off that way before, how Father was groping for words, it wasn’t like him. Eike expected a lecture on Jewish history, the kind he’d patiently let wash over him his entire life, but what followed was nothing of the kind. Eike also stands in front of the mirror, watching his father fuss around him, straightening his suit, lengthening his tie because he thinks it’s too short, even checking his flies, Eike is no longer a baby, he holds his breath, he can’t stand it any longer.
Harry beats about the bush, you and your mother, along with the community, have always been the most important part of my life, it’s for you two I’ve made such an effort, then there’s a tremor in his voice, the word successor comes out, could Eike become Harry’s successor one day. Why was the old man talking like this, why was Father so agitated, Eike wondered. Mother is already by the door, signalling to Eike with her eyes. Harry stands up close to Eike again and something strange happens. Eike can still hear Father’s words, but they are slower and deeper, he can no longer understand what Father is saying. When he looks at Father’s mouth in the mirror, it has disappeared, he scans the space between Father’s chin and nose, sees nothing, the gap is perfectly smooth apart from a hint of stubble already reappearing despite a recent shave. Just a deep, muffled mumbling sound – where is his mouth, where are his lips, where are the words coming from wonders Eike desperately, searching for them.
Harry is pleased, he has finally been open with his son, said everything, he wanted to do it today before they both met The Almighty, the Dictator, in person. It is the first time Eike will him accompany his father into the presence of The Almighty. It seems as if his distant dream, his life’s work, will be fulfilled. His son has become a doctor too, just like him – but the community, no, more than that, the entire Jewish Question, survival – the boy knows too little about all that. It has not always been this easy. Getting a hearing for our cause, being awarded a medal, a Jew receiving a medal. Who could know better than I? Who had done his duty? Who had saved the community from all manner of attacks? Who had held firm in stormy seas?
They hadn’t built the road through the cemetery, the great synagogue is being rebuilt, golden dome included, as our place, as they promised him, and if Eike accompanies him today, this dream too will become reality. Eike shall be my successor, thinks Harry.
Harry and Eike’s destination is a large hotel. The city centre streets seem desolate on a Sunday morning, deserted. Men in black suits check them at the entrance. They don’t want to let them enter, he spells out his name, they finally nod in agreement. Inside, the silence is eerie too. No guests here either. Endless corridors, empty. They’re to go to the first floor, to the Room of Dreams, those are the directions they were given in the entrance hall. A spread has been prepared, Meissen porcelain, cups and saucers.
But Harry is unsure about the cake. I don’t know if the gentleman from the World Jewish Congress keeps kosher, he says to another man in black. But we brought a van over from West Berlin especially, everything is kosher, says the man, smiling. Only the coffee is from the East, he smirks. There are place cards of course. They walk around the table reading the names. Two other gentlemen from the community have also been invited, they nod at each other discreetly. The visiting guests, the rich American and his secretary for whom the event had been arranged, were already seated, should we say Guten Morgen, Shalom or Boker Tov, wonders Harry. They simply nod. May I introduce my son, Eike.
They had met for the first time the previous day at the Party’s headquarters – the Big House – he and the rich American: a medal for each of them, a strange atmosphere, everyone there was a Jew, right in the lion’s den so to speak, like a dream. And the dream continues. They all rise.
The dictator enters, accompanied by his entourage. He smiles, walks round the table, no need to stand, have you tried the cake yet? How do you like our weather today? Did you try the cake already, how do you like the weather a voice interprets from behind him, until the American interrupts, But Mr Chairman, I do speak German, my parents came from Germany. Really, all the better, Mr … all the better. It is so wonderful to speak to a representative of the World … er … Jewry in person, he said, as though Harry were not there. Then he sat down in the centre.
I am sure you would like to know why I invited you to be a guest of the government of our Republic. We are in the same boat, as it were, when it comes to fighting fascism and war, fighting racism, I am certain of it. I therefore wanted to ask you if we could reach an agreement on a loan. The American crooks his head, I’m not sure I understand. That is the sign for the interpreter, who hasn’t said anything for a while. He springs into action, translates the dictator’s proposal whilst the dictator is left smiling at his interlocutor.
The American crooks his head even further and says: I had actually hoped we were meeting to reach an agreement on reparations, Mr Chairman. The guest hesitates at this point because the dictator’s face has reddened, he interrupts the American. Our Republic is not, and never has been, the successor to the fascist regime: the torrent of words surges out over everyone now, waiting, heads bowed, as the coffee cools and the cake dries out.
The interpreter initially attempts to convey the flow of words in English, but the way in which the American shakes his head indicates he understands enough of what the dictator means. Harry gazes out the window uncomfortably, it is all so embarrassing. He had hoped for good relations for so long, there had been positive developments after so many years, and now? We’ll get the fallout, it’ll hit us hard. The rich American will go home, but we’ll be left in a right mess here, he thinks. It’ll all take a turn for the worse for us again.
A normal Jewish family is what they want, that’s what the director says on the phone, the way he says it, with a long ‘iii’. A Yiiiiiiiddish family, completely normal, do you understand, normal, a family visiting a relative’s grave, a rustling sound down the line, are you still there? They agreed to meet at the entrance.
Such a horde of men with all their equipment. The director talks at Harry relentlessly. Harry interrupts, could the men cover their heads please. But it’s summer and no one has brought a cap. Harry shrugs his shoulders in disgust, and now they’re all stumbling over the graves. Please walk this way, no, not that way, says the director from beside the camera. They all hold hands, the three of them, Mother, Father and Eike, as if they were fleeing, then they finally stand at the grave as requested, they glance furtively at the director’s gestures.
Action! Harry’s expression is frosty, Mother smiles, Eike breathes and smiles too. You need to look sadder, don’t pay any attention to us says the man, one more time. So they go back, Father, Mother and Eike, arm in arm, until they reach the grave again, followed by the camera at all times, surrounded by the hurried footsteps again, a swarm of busy technicians, such as the woman patting a brown paste onto their faces with a damp sponge.
It is fear that Harry feels, nothing has happened in their area yet, but the closer they get to the city, the nearer they get to the centre, the louder it becomes. They turn back, they can’t get any further than Schönhauser Allee, those large vehicles with screens over the driver’s window are everywhere, lined up, no one can get through, and then there are the police officers and people running in all directions. Where are they all going, Harry asks in the car, but neither his wife nor his son reply, nothing but a heavy silence, they try another street and it’s the same thing, no way through to the synagogue. They will have to make an exception this time, they turn around and drive home, they won’t make it to the service.
They see the images on television that evening, there must have been an uprising one channel reports. Harry’s mood dims, what will this mean for us, we’re always the first ones they want to see hanged, we’ll have to stay at home for the next few days, he orders, until things have calmed down. But things don’t calm down. Harry’s mood becomes even gloomier.
Excerpted from André Herzberg, Was aus uns geworden ist. Ullstein Buchverlag, 2018.
This entry was posted on 26 November 2019 by Susan Thorne.
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The Flying Nun Collection
Curated by Roger Shepherd
Record label Flying Nun is synonymous with Kiwi indie music, and with autonomous DIY, bottom-of-the-world creativity. This collection celebrates the label's ethos as manifested in the music videos. Selected by label founder Roger Shepherd: "A general style may have loosely evolved ... but it was simply due to limited budgets and correspondingly unlimited imaginations."
Five Decades of NZ Number One Hits
Curated by NZ On Screen team
This collection rounds up almost every music video for a number one hit by a Kiwi artist; everything from ballads to hip hop to glam rock. Press on the images below to find the hits for each decade — plus try this backgrounder by Michael Higgins, whose high speed history of local hits touches on the sometimes questionable ways past charts were created.
Aotearoa Hip Hop
Curated by DJ Sir-Vere
Rip it Up editor and hip hop supremo, Philip Bell (DJ Sir-Vere) drops his Top 10 selection of Aotearoa hip hop music videos. The clips mark the evolution of an indigenous style, from the politically conscious (Dam Native, King Kapisi) to the internationalists (Scribe, Savage). It includes iconic, award-winning efforts from directors Chris Graham, Jonathan King, and more.
Heavenly Pop Hits - The Flying Nun Story
This documentary tells the story of the legendary Flying Nun music label up to its 21st birthday. The label became associated with the 'Dunedin Sound': a catch-all term for a sprawl of DIY, post-punk, warped, jangly guitar-pop. The Guardian: "[it's] as if being on the other side of the world meant the music was played upside down". Features interviews with founder Roger Shepherd and many key players, the spats and the glory. The label's influence on the US indie scene is noted, and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus covers The Verlaines' 'Death and the Maiden'.
Flipside - Parachute Music Festival
Television, 2004 (Excerpts)
Parachute had become New Zealand’s longest-running music festival when it shut up shop in 2014, after an impressive 24 years. This clip from youth news show Flipside looks at the 2004 edition. Flipside presenter Mike Puru interviews Parachute Music Festival founder Mark de Jong. Focussing on Christian music, Parachute brought Christian musicians to a large young audience. De Jong mentions that Parachute is more than just a festival — the organisation helps train and record young musicians, and includes a label and a publishing company. Band Detour 180 are also interviewed.
The Dragon Story
Dragon have produced some of Australasian pop music's classic anthems ('April Sun in Cuba', 'Are You Old Enough'). This 2015 documentary charts 40 rock'n'roll years: chart success, drugs, fame, failure, family, survival. The first excerpt looks at the band facing early success and tragedy; the second covers the impact of the 1998 death of singer Marc Hunter, especially on his brother Todd. The doco screened in the Prime Rocks slot. "Made with care and quite a lot of love", praised NZ Herald’s Greg Dixon, "by turns, sad and uplifting, which is no mean feat."
Turning Up the Volume
Auckland Museum's Volume exhibition told the story of Kiwi pop music. It's time to turn the speakers up to 11, for NZ On Screen's biggest collection yet. Turning Up the Volume showcases NZ music and musicians. Drill down into playlists of favourite artists and topics (look for the orange labels). Plus NZOS Content Director Kathryn Quirk on NZ music on screen.
Outrageous Wellington rockers Head Like a Hole (aka HLAH) formed in 1990, taking their name from a Nine Inch Nails song. Masters of excess, they quickly made a name for themselves via unhinged live performances (not to mention a casual attitude to clothes on stage). Sharing management, a record label and one obscure recording with Shihad, HLAH split in 1998 after four albums, in a state of disarray. After reforming for the 2009 Homegrown festival, further releases followed. Swagger of Thieves, a documentary on the band, that was a decade in the making, premiered in July 2017.
Singer-songwriter Anika Moa admits she wanted to be a rugby player. "I played for Canterbury for years. But I chose music". The decision paid off: in 2000 she became the first New Zealander to sign to an international record label without a home release. Although her debut album Thinking Room produced hit singles (‘Youthful', 'Falling in Love Again'), Moa wanted to "stay true to herself and her musical path", and returned to her Kiwi roots in 2002. Since then she has recorded a series of popular albums, and also composed music for a run of documentaries.
The Inkling
The Inkling was described by Wellington student publication Salient as a "post rock/jazz/instrumental/whatever" group and by their record label as "ploughing a similar furrow to the likes of HDU & Jakob". Members of this largely instrumental act were Osaka Silenzio (guitar and occasional vocals), Phil Smiley (drums), Stefan Garstang (bass) and Luke Bang (brother of Fur Patrol manager David Benge) (keyboards). They released one album called 'Deluge' which was recorded with Wellington super-producer Lee Prebble and released by Capital Recordings in 2005.
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US stocks tumble again as China retaliates on tariffs. With plenty of US economic data, a very volatile session lies ahead
By Nick Parsons
The extreme volatility in equity markets continues. After a 600 point drop for the DJIA on Monday, Tuesday brought a 400 point rally and this morning in Europe all of yesterday’s gains have been wiped out with a 550 point fall for the DJIA and almost 50 points off the S&P 500 index. The US Dollar had a fairly good day on Tuesday despite the rally in equity markets, though this was more a reflection of a sharp fall in the EUR/USD exchange rate than a more broadly-based USD rally. Its index against a basket of major currencies rose to a best level of 89.85 before slipping back a little into the New York close. In Europe this morning, the US index has traded between 89.55 and 89.80 and opens in North America around 89.70.
The Trump administration yesterday imposed 25% tariffs on some 1,300 industrial technology, transport and medical products to try to force changes in Beijing’s intellectual property practices. “This level is appropriate both in light of the estimated harm to the U.S. economy, and to obtain elimination of China’s harmful acts, policies, and practices,” the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said in a report. In addition to advanced technologies such as communication satellites, the list includes products ranging from various types of steel to television components, medical devices, dishwashers, snow blowers and flamethrowers. China’s Ministry of Commerce condemned the US decision. “Disregarding strong representations by China, the United States announced the tariff proposals that are completely unfounded, a typical unilateralist and protectionist practice that China strongly condemns and firmly opposes,” the Ministry said in a statement overnight. “We have the confidence and ability to respond to any US trade protectionist measures… As the Chinese saying goes, it is only polite to reciprocate.” Within hours, China announced 25% tariffs on 106 US products. The list includes soybeans, chemicals, whisky, cigars, some types of beef, corn and wheat. Some types of aircraft, lubricants, tobacco and orange juice are also targeted, along with some trucks and SUVs.
After a lull in the US economic data calendar yesterday, it’s a pretty packed programme today. First up is the ADP employment survey for which consensus looks for a 200k monthly gain after a 235k increase in February which will surely be revised higher to bring it more into line with the actual outturn last month of 313k. Later in the afternoon, we have both versions of the non-manufacturing activity survey (PMI and ISM) and the February durable goods report. As we digest all that lot, the St. Louis Fed’s President James Bullard – one of the main doves on the FOMC - is scheduled to give a speech on the US economy and monetary policy whilst Cleveland Fed’s Loretta Mester will also be on the newswires. The Atlanta Fed yesterday upgraded its forecast for Q1 GDP from 2.4% to 2.8% after the ISM manufacturing and constructions spending numbers were released. The non-manufacturing ISM report isn’t an input to its GDP calculation and the next update will come on Thursday after the international trade data is published. The USD index opens this morning in North America around 89.70.
The Canadian Dollar had a very good day on Tuesday. It was steady against the well-bid Antipodean currencies and up against both the EUR and GBP even before the story broke about a possible NAFTA deal. By the North American afternoon, USD/CAD was on a 1.27 handle for the first time in almost a week and the CAD had gained 0.8% against the GBP and 1.2% against a very soft EUR to be at the top of our one-day performance table. Overnight in Asia, USD/CAD moved down to 1.2775; its lowest level since February 28th, before the China news on tariffs and a renewed plunge in equity index futures took the pair back up to 1.2825.
We noted here yesterday the Bloomberg story which claimed, “The Trump administration is pushing for a preliminary NAFTA deal to announce at a summit in Peru next week, and will host cabinet ministers in Washington to try to achieve a breakthrough, according to three people familiar with the talks.” According to Global News this morning, “a spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, would not comment on reports from Washington about a potential deal-in-principle other than to say, “Canada is committed to concluding a modern, mutually beneficial NAFTA as soon as possible.” Freeland is expected to travel to Washington at the end of this week for one-on-one meetings with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. CBC News, meantime, quotes a senior anonymous source suggesting an agreement-in-principle could be reached in the coming weeks. "Americans are being more positive, more constructive than they have been in the last eight months," the source said. "Canada is quite prepared to roll up its sleeves to get something done, but Canada won't roll over."
Away from NAFTA and back on the economy, we should note the Canadian manufacturing PMI index earlier this week rose slightly to 55.7; its 25th consecutive month above 50. Markit said, “The headline PMI reading in March was supported by a robust and accelerated rise in production volumes across the manufacturing sector… with sustained pressure on operating capacity as highlighted by another solid rise in backlogs of work. A number of survey respondents noted that sales growth had outstripped production capacity at their plants in recent months.” The next focus on data will be the Canadian employment report on Friday, published at the same time as the US jobs report. The Canadian Dollar opens in North America at USD/CAD1.2825, AUD/CAD0.9845 and GBP/CAD1.8000.
The Single European Currency had a bad day on Tuesday, falling against every one of the major currencies we follow closely here and in bottom spot by quite a clear margin. Early in the European morning, EUR/USD had reached a high just above 1.2330 but it was then hit by softer than expected economic data and fell almost three-quarters of a cent to a low just below 1.2260; its lowest level in almost a week. Overall, its losses ranged from 0.3% against the USD to 0.6% against the AUD and 1.2% versus the Canadian Dollar. After a quiet session in Asia, news of China’s retaliation of tariffs pushed the EUR up to a high of USD1.2305 this morning but it has subsequently slipped back in to the high 1.22’s.
In economic news, headline annual inflation in the Eurozone rose to 1.4% in March from a downwardly-revised 1.1% in February, in line with the consensus. The core rate was unchanged at 1.0%, below the consensus, 1.1%. Looking at the main components of euro area inflation in this ‘flash estimate’, food, alcohol & tobacco is expected to have the highest annual rate in March (2.2%, compared with 1.0% in February), followed by energy (2.0%, compared with 2.1% in February), services (1.5%, compared with 1.3% in February) and non-energy industrial goods (0.2%, compared with 0.6% in February).
Separate figures from Eurostat showed the Eurozone unemployment rate was 8.5% in February 2018, down from 8.6% in January 2018 and from 9.5% in February 2017. This is the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since December 2008. The broader EU28 unemployment rate was 7.1% in February 2018, down from 7.2% in January 2018 and from 8.0% in February 2017. This is the lowest rate recorded in the EU28 since September 2008. Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates in February 2018 were recorded in the Czech Republic (2.4%), Germany and Malta (both 3.5%) as well as Hungary (3.7% in January 2018). The highest unemployment rates were observed in Greece (20.8% in December 2017) and Spain (16.1%). The EUR opens in North America today at USD1.2280 and EUR/CAD1.5750.
The British Pound had a pretty mixed performance on Tuesday, down against all three of the major ‘Commonwealth currencies’ but up against both the euro and US Dollar. The GBP/USD pair struggled to get traction in either direction. Having been up to a high around 1.4085 early in the European morning, it then quickly lost half a cent and had three further reversals of at least a quarter of a cent all within a range from 1.4025 to 1.4085 before ending almost exactly at the mid-point. Overnight in Asia, the pound broke above the top of its range against the USD but then slipped back on another set of softer than expected economic data.
In economic news, the UK manufacturing sector maintained a steady pace of expansion during March. The IHS Markit/CIPS PMI (to give the index its’ full name) posted 55.1 in March, little-changed from 55.0 in February. The average reading over the opening quarter as a whole (55.1) was the weakest in a year, suggesting that the underlying pace of expansion has been generally slower since the start 2018. IHS Markit, which compiles the report said, “The latest PMI survey provided further evidence that UK manufacturing has entered a softer growth phase so far this year. Although the pace of output expansion ticked higher in March, which is especially encouraging given the heavy snowfall during the month, this was offset by slower increases in new orders and employment. Average rates of increase over the opening quarter as a whole are also down noticeably from the growth spurt seen at the end of 2017. Compared to official data, the performance through quarter one is consistent with only a 0.4-0.5% gain in production volumes, a considerable slide from the fourth quarter’s 1.3% increase.”
We’ve been warning here about weather disruptions and the knock-on effect on retail sales and GDP. Commenting on today's survey, CIPS said, “It’s a few years since the UK experienced such bad weather in March and it’s obvious that supply chains were woefully unprepared to deal with the disruption. So though March’s figures could be viewed as a temporary blip, without a strong pipeline of work, and strong risk strategies in place, the sector’s health remains in question as we’re still a long way off seeing it operate the way it has over the last year.” The British Pound opens in North America this morning at USD1.4035, GBP/EUR1.1430 and GBP/CAD1.8000.
The Australian Dollar had a fairly good day on Tuesday, not all of which was solely down to a recovery in US equity markets. A glimmer of hope for the rate bulls in the RBA Statement helped begin a short squeeze which took the pair all the way up to a high of 0.7705 but it couldn’t sustain this level and slipped back to the 0.7685 area. This morning in Asia and early in London, some better than expected retail sales data helped lift AUD/USD to 0.7715 but it has subsequently fallen almost half a cent on fears (whether justified or not) that a tariff war between the US and China might adversely affect Australia’s growth prospects.
Incoming economic data this morning were a touch stronger than had been expected. Retail sales rose 0.6% during the month of February after an upwardly-revised +0.2% gain in January. Household Goods and Clothing & Footwear both rose 1.1% in the month, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food rose 0.7%, while Food Retailing and the catch-all Other Retailing rose 0.3% and 0.2% in the month. A strong increase in the number of people in employment over the last year will have helped boost spending levels though what matters more for the RBA is growth in wages and prices rather than employment and output.
In separate data, building permits fell by 6.2% to 18,700 in February though much of the decline came in the highly volatile apartment sector where permits were down more than 16% over the month following a more than 40% surge in January. In more stable trend terms that smooth out the monthly volatility, apartment approvals have been heading lower for the past five months. The value of all building approved in February rose 4.3%, with a surge in non-residential building (+22.6%) more than outweighing the decline in value of residential construction (-4.3%). The Australian Dollar opens in North America this morning at USD0.7675, with AUD/NZD at 1.0540 and AUD/CAD0.9845.
Early on Tuesday morning, NZD/USD briefly dipped below 72 cents before snapping back sharply to a best level of 0.7270 and as North American traders arrived at work, it was up against all the major currencies we follow closely here. By the end of the day, the Kiwi had been pushed into second place by a buoyant Canadian Dollar. Overnight in Asia and this morning in Europe, the NZD has had another push higher with NZD/USD reaching a best level of 0.7295 and NZD/CAD gaining around half a cent to 0.9340.
Figures out this morning showed New Zealand consumer confidence lifted slightly in March, continuing to recover from last year's weakness as house price growth expectations rose. The ANZ Roy Morgan consumer confidence index rose to 128 in March from 127.7 in February. The current conditions index rose 0.4 points to 127.7 while the future conditions index gained 0.2 points to 128.2. The analysts at ANZ noted, "Consumer confidence remains high. And why not? Jobs are plentiful, there’s talk of higher wages, and the Auckland housing market has found a floor… The strong labour market is supporting household incomes and various government policies are intended to provide a further boost, while at the same time strong commodity prices are boosting exporter incomes. With household debt already at a record high as a proportion of incomes, a steady-as-she-goes housing market is just the ticket.”
There are no official economic numbers scheduled for release in New Zealand this week, though tomorrow we get to see the QV house price data and ANZ job advertisements. The New Zealand Dollar opens in North America today at USD0.7280 and NZD/CAD0.9340.
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Associate Provost
Defense Analysis
Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences
Email: mefreema@nps.edu
2004 Visiting Lecturer, Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago
2016 - 2016 Visiting Professor, Middlebury Institute for International Studies
2003 - 2004 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Security Technology Studies Dartmouth College
1997 - 2000 Analyst (with top-secret security clearances), Directorate of Intelligence and National Imagery and Mapping Agency Central Intelligence Agency
Terrorism and Democracy
Causes of Terrorism
Counter-terrorism Policy
Pedagogical Innovations
Online "Serious" Games
2014 - Richard W. Hamming Teaching Award, Naval Postgraduate School
1999 - Dissertation Fellowship, Program on International Security Policy
1998 - Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
1997 - Graduate Fellowship, Central Intelligence Agency
(2012). Terror Financing: Case Studies Ashgate.
Freeman, M. (2003). Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror Greenwood Publishing Group.
Freeman, M. (2012). Iraq. Financing Terrorism (pp. 39--58). Routledge.
Freeman, M. (2012). Thinking Critically about Terrorist Financing. Terror Financing: Case Studies Ashgate.
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NUJ module 1 submission
NUJ submission to Leveson inquiry module 1
Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told the inquiry on Wednesday 16 November, 2011:
Yours is an unprecedented inquiry into the press that could have far reaching implications for our industry, so we at the National Union of Journalists felt it was essential for the union that is the voice for journalists and journalism throughout the UK and Ireland to play a central role. We were therefore very grateful to you for recently granting to us Core Participant Status.
The NUJ is an independent trade union and has been representing journalists throughout the media industry for over 104 years. We are a democratic, lay-member led grass roots organisation – it is members in our workplace chapels and our branches who shape union policy and direct priorities.
We speak on behalf of our 38,000 members who work throughout the industry, as freelances and in staff roles in newspapers, news agencies, magazines, online, book publishing, in public relations and as photographers. The NUJ's headquarters are in London and we also have offices in Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin.
We represent members collectively where we have collective bargaining rights and recognition, and individual representation also forms a large part of our work. As well as our bread and butter industrial work we campaign on issues ranging from quality journalism and defending public service broadcasting to fighting for protection of sources and press freedom.
I was elected General Secretary of the NUJ in April and took over the role in July. For the three previous years I was the elected Deputy General Secretary and had previously been the union's lay vice president and president, after having served on the ruling National Executive Council for 8 years representing all members of the union working in Newspapers and Agencies.
During this time, I was working fulltime as a journalist – I joined Express Newspapers in 1999, working on the Sunday Express. During my time I worked in the City Department as an interviewer and feature writer, then to the newsdesk where I worked as a feature writer and then Books editor until I was elected to the full-time role of Deputy General Secretary in the NUJ.
It was my experience as an NUJ chapel rep at the Express – where we operated a joint chapel between the Daily Express, Sunday Express and Daily Star titles – representing members individually and collectively in a range of issues, that galvanised my activism within the NUJ and gave me a deep insight into the issues facing journalists working in the press today. My team of officials represent and engage with journalists working in national and regional newspapers – tabloid and broadsheets alike – on a daily basis.
It is vital that, in an Inquiry reflecting on the problems and issues within our industry, that the concerns, experiences and insights of ordinary working journalists are heard. I know you are very much alive to this. They are the workers at the sharp end, who deal with the reality of life in a pressured, busy newsroom every single day.
Our members strive on a daily basis to serve the public – balancing the need to inform, educate and entertain with the need to serve the competing and sometimes conflicting demands of publishers and commercial interests. It is a daily challenge – it is frequently a battle.
The NUJ is making a good deal of effort to identify journalists to give evidence and to share their experiences with the Inquiry. However, the stark reality is that in many workplaces there is a genuine climate of fear about speaking out.
In order that it is not simply those who have retired, or who have been made redundant and left the industry, who feel able to make a contribution we are working with the Inquiry team to ensure that journalists who wish to contribute to the Inquiry can give their testimony in confidence, to afford them protection from retribution.
The fear is not of immediate punishment but of finding that a few months after your Inquiry ends a journalist who has spoken out may find herself on a list of redundancies. We support your draft protocol on anonymity and will discuss specific measures in relation to particular witnesses with the Inquiry team.
Of course, predictably, the newspaper owners are unhappy about this. The reality is that putting your head above the parapet and speaking out publicly is simply not an option for many journalists, who would fear losing their job or making themselves unemployable in the future.
In our experience, that fear has been a significant factor in inhibiting journalists from defending the principles of ethical journalism in the workplace – and in media organisations hostile to the concept of trade unions there is a particular problem.
There has already been discussion of the important role journalism plays. Journalism is a force for good, a vital part of any democratic society. People choosing to enter the industry don't – believe me – do it for the money or the career prospects. They become journalists because they want to make a difference; they want to play their part in holding power to account, to shining a light in those dark recesses of society. They want to do their job well, professionally, and they want to keep their communities informed and expose wrongdoing.
And the reason why we're all here today is because of excellent, dogged investigative journalism which brought this scandal to light.
Journalists do not, however, operate in a vacuum. It is important to place the examination of the industry's culture and practices in the broader context of the current state of the industry. The newspaper industry, particularly in the local and regional press, has been in crisis over recent years. The scale of cutbacks, redundancies, casualisation and entire closure of titles has made it a very challenging and insecure time for journalists.
This has been the inevitable result of the entire economic model within the newspaper industry. Greedy employers have stripped profitable and once-proud newspaper titles of their assets. When the days of 25, 30 per cent profits ended, rather than settle for more modest profits that would do nicely most of our major blue-chips, the response of the major newspaper groups was to slash costs and cut the bottom line, sacrificing quality and content in the process.
This is not a sustainable business model and we're seeing the results of this bad management on a daily basis with ever more cutbacks and redundancies. These owners are playing fast and loose with our industry. You can't do that without sacrificing quality journalism; you can't do it without cheating readers of the newspapers they deserve; and you can't do it without sounding the death knell of an industry that plays such a critical role in our society.
In this context, the more resource-intensive areas of journalism, such as specialist correspondents and investigative journalism have become something of an endangered species and a journalists' ability to get out there and research and deliver work thoroughly has been diminished. Agency copy is topped and tailed, press releases are churned out as news.
The pressure on journalists to deliver is relentless, often to unpredictable and unreasonable timescales, and without the resources to do the job well. Such pressures lead to short cuts and can result in the abandoning of fundamental principles.
That's why it is important for your Inquiry to understand the reality of newsroom culture and the pressures that journalists in some workplaces have come under to deliver the goods, to write stories that are inaccurate or misleading. These practices are the product of the culture. You cannot separate the practice of journalism and the culture which underpins the industry. To paraphrase the Irish poet W B Yeats, you cannot separate the dancer from the dance.
It's not journalists who develop and foster the culture in any one newspaper group. In any workplace, where does the power reside? Not at the bottom, where the majority work to get the job done. It's at the top. In journalism, the reality is that there's often a stark expectation from on high – Deliver the goods, get the job done, bring in the story, whatever the means. If you don't, well the consequences are often simple and clinically brutal.
At the heart of any newspaper culture is the editor – what he or she says goes. For anyone who's worked in a newsroom, the concept of an editor who didn't know just what their troops were getting up to is laughable. Editors rule the roost. They set the tone – not just in the editorial line of their newspapers but in the way that the newsroom operates. What's accepted, what's not; the tone of an editorial conference; whether bullying – sadly commonplace – goes unchecked; the dispensing of praise or the nature of the inevitable roasting when the goods aren't delivered.
To imagine editors as mere bystanders whose underling reporters run rings round them would be fanciful in the extreme. That's why, to anyone with any journalistic nous, the peddling of the line that hacking was the action of a "single rogue reporter" operating in splendid isolation was as daft as it was unbelievable.
And that's why it is vital, when considering the culture and the practices of the press, to examine the broader context of how that culture is forged and cultivated.
For NUJ members, a significant way in which they input collectively into that workplace culture is through their workplace NUJ group, the chapel as we call them. But that can only happen in places where there is a functioning organised chapel – this mainly happens in places where there is a legal recognition agreement in place and a collective bargaining agreement.
Mere membership is not enough – there are many newspapers where journalists feel very anxious about their employer knowing that they are members of the NUJ or that they are active in the union outside of work.
Nor is the limited right to representation in disciplinary or grievance proceedings enough. The only way a union is able to sufficiently and actively protect the interests of its members is by the establishment of genuine collective bargaining.
That process involves putting other issues central to a journalists' work – whether that's staffing resources, commercial pressures, bullying behaviour in the workplace, or ethics – squarely at the negotiating table. Believe me – senior executives in this industry only sit down with our workplace reps and with NUJ officials because they are obliged to, because we have recognition and an agreement on collective bargaining.
Whilst I'm sure there are many employers who would much rather not to have to bargain collectively with their workforce, there are many media employers who have a particularly intransigent view in this regard and indeed will go to great lengths to block the NUJ from its titles.
Take Rupert Murdoch – he created and funded his own proxy union, the News International Staff Association, which was later refused a Certificate of Independence by the Certification Officer because of its lack of Independence from the employer. This was cynically established on the eve of the legislative changes being introduced that saw the restoration of trade union recognition rights. All to keep the NUJ and our sister unions out of Wapping.
Staff at News International, mostly on the News of the World, who have been dismissed or made redundant in the wake of the hacking scandal have learned in recent months to their cost the impact of not having strong and independent workplace representation. There cannot be a genuinely robust and confident representation from any organisation that is not independent – where by means of its funding and actual existence is effectively in the pocket of the company's owner and senior executives.
A well-organised union provides a counterbalance to the power of the editors and proprietors, it can limit their excesses and gives journalists the confidence to raise their concerns. The collective can tackle stress and bullying and defend principles of journalistic ethics as well as dealing with the bread and butter industrial issues of pay and terms and conditions.
One of the many members to come to the NUJ in the wake of the closure of the News of the World was Derek Webb. He, as you may have seen, told his story to BBC's Newsnight in some depth last week. Mr Webb was hired as a private detective by the News of the World and carried out surveillance for the company for many years. However, he alleges that in the wake of the arrest of the paper's Royal Editor Clive Goodman, he was taken aside by a senior executive on the News of the World and told he had to "stop being a private detective and become a journalist."
The same senior executive also apparently told him that he must join the NUJ and acquire an NUJ press card. This he duly did. This is a breathtakingly cynical move on behalf of the News of the World but also an interesting perspective on an organisation that is so hostile to the NUJ. Clearly, in the minds of senior executives at News International, presumably a proper journalist is one who is a fully fledged NUJ member with a union press card rather than the ones News International dispenses to its staff.
You suggested earlier this week that the essential question in this Inquiry might well be "who guards the guardians". The NUJ can help here. For one of the key ways of ensuring "systems within an organisation which promote or induce good behaviours and tend to expose bad behaviours", to quote Mr Jay, is for journalists to have the protection of a trade union.
The establishment of collective bargaining as one vital means of preventing the unacceptable "culture, practices and ethics" under investigation in this Inquiry should not be seen as some form of special pleading on behalf of a vested interest group. For the right to collective bargaining is as fundamental as the right to privacy under Article 8 of the Convention and the right to freedom of expression under Article 10.
Article 11 protects everyone's freedom of association and "the right to be a member of a trade union for the protection of his interests".
In a unanimous Grand Chamber decision of Demir and Baykara v Turkey the European Court of Human Rights concluded:"the right to bargain collectively with the employer has, in principle, become one of the essential elements of the "right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of [one's] interests" set forth in Article 11 of the Convention… "
The interrelation between Article 11 and the right to collective bargaining had been earlier described in Wilson and others v UK, a case which arose out of the considerable steps Associated Newspapers took to de-recognise and disempower the NUJ in the 1980s.
In that case the Court (which included Lord Phillips, as he now is) held:"the essence of a voluntary system of collective bargaining is that it must be possible for a trade union which is not recognised by an employer to take steps including, if necessary, organising industrial action, with a view to persuading the employer to enter into collective bargaining with it on those issues which the union believes are important for its members' interests.
Furthermore, it is of the essence of the right to join a trade union for the protection of their interests that employees should be free to instruct or permit the union to make representations to their employer or to take action in support of their interests on their behalf. If workers are prevented from so doing, their freedom to belong to a trade union, for the protection of their interests, becomes illusory. "
The Court held that the UK had a duty to protect that right. We don't expect to persuade you to recommend legislation to protect collective bargaining for journalists. We will seek to persuade you to make recommendations which recognise the vital role the NUJ has in protecting journalists from (amongst other things) pressure to engage in unethical practices. We will produce a note on the legal matters referred to above which we hope you will find of value.
In case it might be thought that the empowerment of trade unions to protect the interests of their members at work is not the stuff of public Inquiries such as this, the NUJ would draw attention to the recognition given to the role of trade union representatives in the protection of the safety of employees by Lord Cullen in the Piper Alpha Inquiry Report, a role which finds statutory form in the Offshore Installations (Safety Representatives and Safety Committee) Regulations 1989.
We believe there is a clear link between a strong trade union presence in a workplace and a strong ethical awareness. Collective trade union representation is a moral, human right and journalists should not be denied this right in our newspapers.
I can speak from personal experience when I say that having the collective confidence of a robust union presence can make an enormous difference when individual journalists want to speak out on matters of journalistic ethics.
In September 2001, when I was one of three NUJ chapel reps at Express Newspapers, we took the unprecedented step of making a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about the reporting of the Daily Express' coverage of asylum seekers.
Some journalists at the title, particularly those directly involved in the coverage, felt so upset and angry about the racist tone of the Express' coverage, and so powerless to individually do anything about it, that they were considering leaving their jobs. The NUJ chapel met and issued a public statement about the "hate stirring" front page headlines – one of which was ASYLUM SEEKERS RUN FOR YOUR LIVES – and what we felt to be editorial interference from the proprietor.
It wasn't the only public stance NUJ members felt impelled to take. In 2004 the chapel once again complained to the PCC over the inflammatory and blatantly inaccurate coverage of so-called Gypsies coming to the UK during the enlargement of the EU. In both cases, we believed the paper was guilty of breaking the PCC's code of conduct on discrimination – which states: "The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to a person's race, colour, religion, sex or sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability."
And in 2006 journalists on the Daily Star walked off the editorial floor to hold an urgent chapel meeting and demand that a "spoof" page, called the Daily Fatwah, whose only purpose was to mock Islam, was pulled. The management backed down and the page was indeed pulled that night – their collective intervention, on a matter of their journalistic ethics, made a difference.
In each of these cases, a common factor in the offending coverage was that editorial decisions on the content were being cynically made on the basis of the resulting spike in sales. It would be impossible for a single journalist to tackle this. Another common factor is that the PCC did absolutely nothing at all to help.
In fact, our complaints merely warranted a short written reply from the then chair, Sir Christopher Meyer, saying he was satisfied that no journalists were being put under any pressure to write inaccurate or unethical material. Perhaps he got that impression from the paper's then editor who sat with him on the PCC, but he certainly didn't get it from any journalists at the Daily Express as no one from the PCC even contacted us to investigate.
The NUJ is a trade union which has its Code of Conduct at its heart. Established in 1936 it is embedded in our rule book and by signing our membership form, it is made clear to journalists that they are signing up to abide by the Code. The NUJ has an Ethics Council which is a key part of our union structures – we run an Ethics telephone Hotline, which journalists regularly access to gain advice and support.
And of course as part of that Code, we commit to robustly defending the public interest test and the ability of journalists to do their jobs freely and professionally. The NUJ would vigorously defend members using "other means", sometimes of course unpalatable and unpopular, if it is in the pursuit of a story that is clearly in the overriding public interest. That is the duty of a journalist engaged in informing the public.
But our Code is also about public accountability. It commits journalists to do nothing that would intrude into anybody's private life, grief or distress unless justified by overriding consideration of the public interest. It commits journalists to do their utmost to correct harmful inaccuracies. It commits them to obtaining material by honest, straightforward and open means, with the exception of investigations that are overwhelmingly in the public interest and where that evidence can't be obtained by straightforward means.
Clearly the industrial scale of the use of hacking at News International and the breadth of the scope of the stories generated as a result, do not comply with the principles of the NUJ's Code of Conduct.
It is in this context – of the cut and thrust business of journalistic ethics and the commercial and editorial pressures that our members can face – that we have been campaigning for some years now for a Conscience Clause in contracts of employment. So that when journalists stand up for a principle of journalistic ethics they have a contractual protection against being dismissed. And – crucially – so they have the confidence and the security to put their head above the parapet in the first place.
The idea of a Conscience Clause was raised by the NUJ when giving evidence to the commons select committee into privacy and media intrusion in 2003. The committee recommended such a clause but it was rejected by both the PCC – which has no say in industrial matters – and the Society of Editors, which does.
The text of our clause is: "A journalist has the right to refuse assignments or be identified as the creator of editorial which would break the letter of the spirit of the Code. No journalist should be disciplined or suffer detriment to their career for asserting his/her rights to act according to the Code."
That is why the NUJ does put forward special pleading on the issue of a Conscience Clause. The introduction of such a contractually binding protection would be a great advance for journalists and for journalism in the UK.
We will come on to the detail of press regulation and any future model in the later part of this Inquiry. It is the view of the NUJ and its members that the PCC has failed, abysmally so. We would absolutely resist any changes that would lead to anything akin to the licensing of journalists or anything that would in the slightest dilute press freedom – that would not be a solution to the problems the industry finds itself in.
For years we have had the media bosses' model of self- regulation. It is one that excludes both the producers and the consumers of the media output and represents only the owners. The general public and journalists themselves have had to contend with what has been little more than a self-serving gentleman's club.
And not even a club that all newspapers are obliged to join, as illustrated so finely when Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell walked out of the PCC. It's a model that has failed – but there are plenty of other models of regulation out there – models that have teeth and provide more than a thin veneer of accountability on the owners' part, models that actually hold newspapers to account and genuinely deliver when it comes to protecting the interests of the public and of journalism.
An interesting and relevant example is the establishment of the Press Council of Ireland in 2007.The NUJ played a key role in the establishment of the Press Council of Ireland.
We are represented alongside editors and civic society nominees on the basis of full equality on the Press Council. The NUJ's Irish Secretary Séamus Dooley sits on the Council's Code Committee.
It is interesting to note that the very same newspaper groups, whose executives won't sit down in the same room as the NUJ in the UK, manage to work quite happily and collaboratively across the water in Ireland as part of the Press Council of Ireland. Indeed, just yesterday the Irish Secretary attended a meeting of the Finance and Administrative Committee of the PCI alongside a senior representative of News International.
Irish journalism – and Irish society, has benefitted from such enlightened co-operation in the public interest.
The increasing consolidation of media ownership and the disproportionate power and influence this brings with it also needs to be considered by this Inquiry. When newspaper titles are bought and sold, there should be a rigorous public interest test. The highest bidder shouldn't be allowed to simply walk away with our national titles in their pocket and the accompanying power and influence that brings. Currently there's a dearth of genuine scrutiny and most sales are usually completed on the basis of a secretive sealed bid where it's only the money that talks.
It should not be possible for our titles – whether a national title or a local newspaper – to be bought and sold on the whim of one man, or corporation, or used as pawns to further an individual's commercial or ideological interests. A media owner shouldn't have our police and our politicians in a stranglehold for fear of their personal peccadillos being splashed over the front pages of a newspaper. No media group should be allowed to achieve such dominance.
I have given some examples today of how a robust, well organised NUJ presence can make a real difference and a positive contribution to the culture within a newspaper and to the broader industry. We are currently engaged in efforts to encourage our members to come forward and play their part and enable you and the Inquiry team to have as good an insight as possible into the reality of working life and newsroom culture for journalists working across the newspaper industry.
This will provide examples from across the industry, including testimony from journalists who can shed real light on the culture within the News of the World, on cases of bullying at a senior level, all key factors we believe led to the scale of hacking within the newspaper. I hope to be able to submit more detailed written testimony arising from this work in the coming weeks.
This is an Inquiry that could shape the future of our industry and it is vital that the views of working journalists – and journalism – are heard and seriously considered. The NUJ will do all it can to assist and to ensure our members can concentrate on what they do best and what gets the vast majority of journalists out of bed each day – serving up quality journalism that informs and entertains.
Taking on the Media Barons: the fight starts now
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Is 10859 a prime number? What are the divisors of 10859?
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Is 10859 a prime number?
It is possible to find out using mathematical methods whether a given integer is a prime number or not.
Yes, 10 859 is a prime number.
Indeed, the definition of a prime numbers is to have only two distinct positive divisors, 1 and itself. A number is a divisor of another number when the remainder of Euclid’s division of the second one by the first one is zero. Concerning the number 10 859, the only two divisors are 1 and 10 859. Therefore 10 859 is a prime number.
As a consequence, 10 859 is only a multiple of 1 and 10 859.
What is a prime number?
Since 10859 is a prime number, 10859 is also a deficient number, that is to say 10859 is a natural integer that is strictly larger than the sum of its proper divisors, i.e., the divisors of 10859 without 10859 itself (that is 1, by definition!).
Parity of 10 859
10 859 is an odd number, because it is not evenly divisible by 2.
What is an even number?
Is 10 859 a perfect square number?
A number is a perfect square (or a square number) if its square root is an integer; that is to say, it is the product of an integer with itself. Here, the square root of 10 859 is about 104.207.
Thus, the square root of 10 859 is not an integer, and therefore 10 859 is not a square number.
Anyway, 10 859 is a prime number, and a prime number cannot be a perfect square.
What is the square number of 10 859?
The square of a number (here 10 859) is the result of the product of this number (10 859) by itself (i.e., 10 859 × 10 859); the square of 10 859 is sometimes called "raising 10 859 to the power 2", or "10 859 squared".
The square of 10 859 is 117 917 881 because 10 859 × 10 859 = 10 8592 = 117 917 881.
As a consequence, 10 859 is the square root of 117 917 881.
Number of digits of 10 859
10 859 is a number with 5 digits.
What are the multiples of 10 859?
The multiples of 10 859 are all integers evenly divisible by 10 859, that is all numbers such that the remainder of the division by 10 859 is zero. There are infinitely many multiples of 10 859. The smallest multiples of 10 859 are:
0: indeed, 0 is divisible by any natural number, and it is thus a multiple of 10 859 too, since 0 × 10 859 = 0
10 859: indeed, 10 859 is a multiple of itself, since 10 859 is evenly divisible by 10 859 (we have 10 859 / 10 859 = 1, so the remainder of this division is indeed zero)
21 718: indeed, 21 718 = 10 859 × 2
Numbers near 10 859
Preceding numbers: …10 857, 10 858
Following numbers: 10 860, 10 861…
Nearest numbers from 10 859
Preceding prime number: 10 853
Following prime number: 10 861
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As Part of the Public Hospital System's Transformation Strategy to Improve and Expand Primary Care, NYC Health + Hospitals Announces Outcomes of a Primary Care Pilot at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
Wait times for appointments in Adult Primary Care Clinic reduced from 52 to 14 days; patients were able to see the same primary care physician 87.1 percent of the time, up from 69.9 percent
Other ambulatory care facilities in the public health system will adopt these new practices as a part of NYC Health + Hospitals transformation strategy to improve patient experience
As part of the public hospital system’s transformation strategy to improve and expand primary care, NYC Health + Hospitals announced today outcomes of a primary care pilot at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. The hospital has significantly reduced patient wait times for appointments in its Adult Primary Care Clinic and improved continuity of care, ensuring that a patient is likely to see the same primary care physician (PCP) at each visit. The average time a new patient has to wait for an appointment is now 14 days, down from 52 days, and the wait time for a revisit is now less than week. At the same time, the continuity rate between patients and their PCPs improved from 69.9 percent to 87.1 percent. Bellevue was able to accomplish such improvements by working directly with NYC Health + Hospitals’ Manhattan Call Center, developing scripts that emphasized continuity between patients and PCPs, and transitioning to EPIC, an electronic medical record system, which allows patients to request appointments through its MyChart patient portal. NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue’s Adult Primary Care Clinic provides care to approximately 30,000 patients.
“These improvements reflect our health system’s focus on increasing timely access to primary care services and our responsiveness to the community we serve,” said William Hicks, CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. “By streamlining processes and strengthening relationships, we’re enabling New Yorkers to access the care they need to live healthier lives.”
Beginning this month, other NYC Health + Hospital ambulatory care practices have begun to adopt this new system. These efforts build on NYC Health + Hospitals’ transformation strategy to improve patient experience and expand access to primary care services. Further, these changes create the infrastructure needed to support the additional patients who will seek care through the public health system as NYC Care launches. NYC Care is a new health care option for New Yorkers who are unable to afford or are ineligible for health insurance. The program will guarantee access to a primary care doctor, specialty care, coordinated services, and other services that people with health insurance are accustomed to. NYC Care launches on August 1 in the Bronx.
“We are proud to offer our patients greatly improved access with wait times that have been cut by more than half in one of the busiest primary care practices in the City. Now our patients can be seen when they want to be seen, ensuring they have the best possible experience receiving care from us,” said Ted Long, MD, MHS, Vice President for Ambulatory Care at NYC Health + Hospitals. “And equally important, our patients now can trust that they will see their own provider at nearly every visit, which is how we build out long-term therapeutic relationships with our patients.”
“The continuity of the relationship between patient and provider and access to care are the backbone of high-quality primary care,” said Andrew B. Wallach, MD, FACP, Clinical Chief for Ambulatory Care at NYC Health + Hospitals and the Clinical Director of Ambulatory Care at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. “As we improve access and become more efficient as a system, we will make more visits available for patients who really do need to see a provider.”
“Prompt access to primary care is critical to avoiding more dangerous and expensive complications down the line,” said Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried, Chair of the Assembly Health Committee. “And patients benefit from building trust by consistently seeing the same primary care practitioners. This pilot program shows that it can be done, and I look forward to NYC Health + Hospitals continuing to improve access to primary care.”
“It is encouraging to see the outcome of the NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue primary care pilot,” said Council Member Keith Powers. “I applaud their success in significantly reducing wait times and increasing continuity rates among nearly 30,000 patients and their doctors. This is a step in the right direction towards ensuring all New Yorkers have access to basic health care.”
“In the past, when my doctor said I would like to see you in three months, I didn’t see him before six months because I could not get an appointment. So this is a big improvement for me and I’m really happy about it,” said Hyacinth Peart, a NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue patient since 1999.
The Adult Primary Care Clinic at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue implemented patient-centered scheduling in August 2018. The clinic worked closely with NYC Health + Hospitals’ Manhattan Contact Center, where patients call to get an appointment, to develop call scripts that emphasized continuity between patients and their Primary Care Providers. The clinic re-designed its appointment templates to match the new scripts. If a patient needs to see their provider urgently and he or she is not available, they are offered an appointment with a nurse practitioner or physician’s assistant on their regular provider’s team. Previously, the call center agents used a script that focused on scheduling the patient in the next available slot, even if it wasn’t with the patient’s PCP. Thus, the patient was booked with another PCP rather than their regular doctor.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue’s recent transition to the EPIC electronic medical record system has further enhanced the improvements by providing the ability for patients to request appointments through its MyChart patient portal. Preliminary data show that the improvements will have other positive impacts on the hospital’s operations, such as a decrease in less-acute patients presenting to the ED, and patients will be less likely to have unnecessary tests ordered. Clinical outcomes will also be positively impacted, such as patients experiencing better glucose and blood pressure control.
Under the leadership of Dr. Long, the public health care system has undertaken a five-prong transformation strategy to improve the patient experience in ambulatory care. Launched in early summer 2018, the plan focuses on five pillars of work: improved continuity between patients and their PCPs, patient-centered scheduling, improved clinic efficiencies, enhanced revenue collection, and the spread of electronic consults (eConsults).
Contact: Evelyn Hernández, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, 212-562-4516
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September 18th, 2011 by Staff Writers
School makes an interesting setting for many shows, especially teen dramas. But somehow, TV writers and producers have clued in on the fact that studying is just not that exciting and end up featuring most of the drama in these shows outside of the classroom walls. Most shows take on social issues, personal drama, and even supernatural villains instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Of course, we haven’t heard any complaints from the fans of these shows, but we do have to wonder, just how do these students manage to juggle their exciting lives with mountains of homework?
In a world where high school kids lead very adult lives, it’s not surprising there’s little focus on studying. After all, they have backstabbing and revenge to resolve, mysteries to uncover, and budding socialite statuses to develop. Even when the group moves on to NYU, sex, relationships, and estranged parents take precedence over school. In the latest seasons, school seems to have been completely abandoned as main characters go on to become industry titans and even begin planning royal weddings.
The Facts of Life takes viewers inside the dormitory of a private all girls school, with housemother Edna Garret caring for rich girl Blair, gossipy Tootie, and the naive Natalie. The show occasionally featured the girls taking classes together, but the central themes of episodes focused on issues of morality and lessons on eating disorders, sex, peer pressure, and more instead of classroom learning.
At Greendale Community College, viewers follow a study group originally formed out of a Spanish class on campus. But the group actually does very little studying together, as they quickly become friends and interact in each others’ lives. Paintballing, documentary filmmaking, and even going into labor during anthropology exams take precedence over actual studying, but it all works at Greendale as the group moves on to a new semester.
21 Jump Street almost gets a pass for not actually studying, as the most important characters in the schools were not real students. Rather, they were youthful undercover police officers investigating crimes within the schools. Instead of hitting the books, these "students" were taking down drug traffickers along with alcoholism, child abuse, and even promiscuity. But despite the lack of studying, 21 Jump Street had lessons to be learned, sharing morals about the activity being investigated that week, and often airing public service announcements after episodes.
Saved by the Bell was beloved by kids in the early 90s and even beyond into syndication, but certainly not for its class time. Although the show featured scenes in classrooms, social issues were tackled more often than learning. The students at Bayside typically dealt with important teen issues, including drug use, divorce, bullying, and even death, sharing important moral matters with students. And of course, the impish attractiveness of student Zach Morris.
Beverly Hills, 90210 was an incredible teen drama with a fervent following of not just high school kids, but adults as well. The show followed a group of friends at West Beverly High School, and the exploits of their lives in the upscale community in and out of the classroom, but conveniently ignoring actual studying. Although like so many other school shows, 90210 featured social issues including date rape, suicide, teenage pregnancy, and eating disorders, the show also had plenty of drama. Towards the end of the series, teen issues and studying were pushed aside in favor of love triangles, dramatic lives, and adult issues.
Like 21 Jump Street, the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer seem to get a pass for not spending a lot of time studying. How could they when they were constantly fighting vampires? In a typical episode, there was at least one villain or supernatural phenomena to be defeated, tearing the characters away from normal high school lives with plenty of studying and leisure time. Of course, that is not to say that learning didn’t go on, as Buffy and her friends spent plenty of time poring over ancient books to uncover the mysteries of vampires and other villains in myths and lore.
In its time, A Different World offered a visionary premise: a look into the lives of students at a historically black college. Despite being set on a college campus, we don’t actually see the students attending class, with many of the scenes taking place at the campus hangout, The Pit. Nonetheless, A Different World offered an accurate depiction of life in college (outside of class, anyway), especially a Black college. The show shared important issues facing students on historically black college campuses and beyond, including sexism, rape, and drug abuse.
Just like Buffy and her friends, Veronica Mars seems to be constantly plagued by a villain or mystery to resolve, sometimes becoming the target of evil herself. Although Veronica is presented as a star student, her study sessions are often interrupted by her duties moonlighting as a private investigator and professional meddler. Of course, when your best friend’s murder leads to the downfall of everything important in your life, solving mysteries tends to take precedence over Algebra equations.
This show follows Cory Matthews and his friends through their lives as pre-teens and into adulthood. Although the show is primarily set at school, the group tends to deal with serious issues more often than studying. Young love, family reunions, and learning to cope with the roller coaster of life steal the focus on Boy Meets World as the young Cory Matthews grows into an adult.
Friday Night Lights is often set at school, but its main focus is on football and small town life, following the personal dramas, injuries, and triumphs of high school football players in fictional Dillon, Texas. This show shares little in the way of academics, but serves up plenty of the drama of football in small Texas towns. Watch as the show examines how football impacts so much more than just the players, including their coaches, families, and the entire town as they wait to see if the team will win it all.
The wildly popular show Glee features very little studying, and we’re pretty sure the show’s viewers are just fine with that. Instead of studying, Glee‘s characters spend their time carrying out diabolical plots, examining teenage pregnancy, high school romance, discrimination, the reality of being different on campus, and obviously, singing. Of course, the show does share an education in music, especially hits from the rock group Journey.
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Michael Menser, Chair
Silaka Cox, Treasurer
Joan Bakiriddin
Evan Graner
Robert Sherman
Chelsea Tu
Cyndi Tercero-Sandoval
City University of New York | New York City
Menser is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and Earth and Environmental Science and Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, and he is the Chair of the Board of The Participatory Budgeting Project. His current research focuses on participatory democracy, urban environmentalism, food sovereignty, and the “solidarity economy.” Menser is an active member of the PSC-CUNY faculty union and has worked with a range of labor, neighborhood and direct action groups including the NYC and World Social Forum, US Solidarity Economy Network, Brooklyn Food Coalition and the Participatory Budgeting 45th District Committee in NYC.
Fund for the City of New York | New York City
Silaka is a currently a Program Associate at the Fund for the City of New York, working under the portfolio of the Center for Court Innovation. She previously served as the Chief Operations Officer at the Rockaway Youth Task Force (RYTF), where she was instrumental during it’s founding years, helping grow the organization to a half a million dollar yearly budget by 2016. Silaka has served as a member of the Board of the Participatory Budgeting Project since 2016, and has spoken about Participatory Budgeting in Vallejo, CA, New York City, NY, Boston, MA and Baltimore, MD. Silaka first become involved with PB during the inaugural year of PBNYC in Council District 32 in 2014. In addition to her participation in PBNYC, she has served as a member of Community Board 14 in Queens, as well as the Rockaway East NYRCR Planning Committee to help create a reconstruction plan for $15.1 million in CDBG-DR implementation funds. In 2014, she was awarded a City Council Proclamation by Councilman Donovan Richards, for her commitment and community advocacy in the Rockaways. In 2015, she was a #PBParty Honoree at PBP for her leadership of youth voice in Participatory Budgeting.
Elsevier Inc. | New York City
Joan’s been a leader in PBNYC since its first cycle in 2011, serving as a facilitator, budget delegate, District Committee leader, and Citywide Steering Committee member. Her passion for PB stems from seeing how the process mobilizes and empowers disenfranchised folks who feel like they don’t have a voice. She’s a Business Systems Training Manager at Elsevier Inc. and a community advocate who believes in peaceful troublemaking. Joan is eager to grow and sustain PB at powerful scales, and she brings a tremendous amount of experience from leading the largest PB process in the U.S. since its inception.
Landor | San Francisco
A proud native of North Dakota, Evan Graner is a Director in the Brand Engagement practice at Landor, the world’s leading brand and design consultancy. At Landor, he helps the leaders of major companies devise strategic plans for applying their brand in leading their business strategy and then activating that strategy with employees; participatory budgeting is quite similar, simply replace business leaders with city leaders and employees with residents. Additionally, Evan’s has had the joy of seeing the country’s mayors in action via past work in Global Public Affairs at Citi, including work with their sponsorship of the US Conference of Mayors. He also votes in his participatory budgeting process as a resident of New York City’s third district (the west side of Manhattan from TriBeCa to Hell’s Kitchen). Evan joined the Board because he believes that now – more than ever – it is paramount for residents to make their voices heard so that there can be transparency and accountability in the distribution and use of public money.
Robert Sherman, PhD
Robert F Sherman Ph.D. has been focused on youth civic activism and social justice teaching/learning for most of his career. He works as a consultant to foundations and nonprofits in areas of education reform, youth development and leadership, civic engagement and arts education. Until March 2013 he served as Director, Initiative for Social and Emotional Learning at the NoVo Foundation where he was a major architect of a robust, 8 large district learning/teaching initiative., advancing educational experiences and practices. Prior to NoVo, Sherman served as Executive Director of the Action Center to End World Hunger, a division of Mercy Corps where he supervised the agency’s Global Citizen Corps, a youth activist and service program involving thousands of young people from 11 countries who convened in person and online in a yearlong peer-to-peer leadership, learning and service effort focused on local action-taking on global challenges around hunger, poverty, conflict, and human rights. Sherman, founded and directed the national Effective Citizenry program at the Surdna Foundation in New York City, where he served for 15 years. Sherman served in the NYC government for 8 years, founding and directing a grassroots focused division of the Mayor’s office. He graduated from Haverford College, and holds a clinicial psychology Ph.D. from the Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University.
Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment | Oakland
Chelsea joined the board of the Participatory Budgeting Project in July, 2018. She is currently also a Senior Attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment. In her previous role as a Staff Attorney at Public Advocates in 2017, Chelsea collaborated with PBP staff to successfully convince the Bay Area’s transportation planning agency to spend $1 million in transportation money through Participatory Budgeting.
Phoenix Union High School District | Phoenix
Cyndi Tercero-Sandoval is the Student Support Services Manager for the Phoenix Union High School District. Cyndi has been with the district for over 24 years working in student services and dropout prevention. She actively seeks partnerships that promote student achievement by eliminating barriers to learning and creating social emotional learning opportunities for students to be empowered. Cyndi is considered a resident expert in dropout prevention initiatives and student support services. She has received several awards for her work with youth and was recently recognized as a White House Champion of Change in 2016. She is very active in the community and serves on several other boards and coalitions that focus on improving youth outcomes.
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#RamadanToo – Dealing with Sexual Trauma in the Month of Mercy (TRIGGER WARNING)
June 10, 2018 by Guest Contributor
#RamadanToo – Dealing with Sexual Trauma in the Month of Mercy (TRIGGER WARNING) June 10, 2018 Guest Contributor
This is Day 26 of the 2018 #30Days30Writers #Ramadan series.
(TRIGGER WARNING – sexual abuse, child abuse)
I sat on my bed, my hand cupped over my mouth trying to stifle my sobbing; hush it up just a bit so that my kids across the hall wouldn’t hear me crying. I stopped scrolling through my Facebook feed and sat there as my nerves increasingly frayed. The comments defending alleged sexual abusers — the name calling and victim blaming — tore at my heart.
When I was 17, I was sexually assaulted. I didn’t go to the police, I went to school the next day. I found myself in the bathroom stall crying, confused and in disbelief. Why did this happen? This didn’t just happen! I said repeatedly to myself, trying to convince myself as I sat alone in that stall. Another student walked in and heard me crying.
“Are you ok?” she asked through the door. I didn’t say anything. “Sakeena?” Oh no! She recognized my shoes underneath the stall. It was a friend, and she knew it was me! Still, I didn’t answer hoping she would just go away.
She did. I washed my face and walked down the hall after the bell only to be stopped by my sister, who was a year younger than me. “Someone told me you were in the bathroom crying. What’s going on?” she asked me.
I sighed and said, “Let’s go.” We went to our lockers, got our things and walked home. I told her everything. She cried and promised that she wouldn’t say anything. And for a time, it was our secret.
Eventually everything unfolded — as secrets tend to do — and things took a turn that I never imagined. A beloved adult relative doubted me when we talked about my sexual assault. “Maybe you wanted something to happen, and then when things started happening to you, you didn’t want it anymore? Does that sound like how it went?” said I was numb. People were angry with me for saying something they knew didn’t happen. For every action that I took or didn’t take, for not being able to prevent it — everything was my fault.
The blame and the pain felt crippling. I wanted to rip the stars out of the sky and turn the world as bleak and gloomy as I felt. I wanted to die. I wanted my life back before that awful moment. And, I wanted to return to my normal, but I couldn’t. That was 20 years ago. My life progressed — I got married, had three children and most of the time, I’m ok.
But as celebrities and high-profile figures continue to be accused of sexual assault, it’s become difficult to deal with the painful feelings that keep coming up. Some of the exact same “one-liners” that people use to defend celebrities were said to me in the aftermath of my assault.
“He didn’t need to assault anybody, he is/has _____.”
I read those vile words and I’m 17 again, alone in that bathroom stall crying. I’m disappointed in the heartless comments publicly blaming sexual assault victims from my friends and family. It’s troubling that we still have not prioritized sexual abuse prevention and survivor support in our country and that resources, funding and “town halls” have not been made available to address a problem affecting millions of Americans.
It’s now Ramadan 2018, the year of #MeToo, #TimesUp and #MosqueToo. Will it be #RamadanToo? Will I be able to escape the headlines, the social media comment threads where people tore each other apart and victim-blamed ad nauseum? Will I be able to escape my own jarring memories of sexual assault?
During Ramadan, yet another high-profile figure in the U.S. has been accused of sexual misconduct. Social media is thrown into a frenzy and people quickly and carelessly post their thoughts for the world to see:
“Why didn’t she come forward when it first happened?”
“Yeah right, she probably assaulted him.”
“He doesn’t have to assault anybody!”
The same lines are recycled for each new name added to the list of accused. Fans, supporters, and complete strangers step forward to defend men who they don’t know and have never met. Maybe he was the lead character on their favorite show, or he was the hero in that one movie — you know the name.
These men have led careers and lives that against the strongest accusations, still protect them.
“The tide is turning!”
“Times up!”
You heard these chants on red carpets and at the biggest awards shows this year. We saw these slogans adorning buttons and bumper stickers of sexual assault allies.
I’d like to believe the tide is turning. I want to smile and say, “times up,” and feel comforted. But I don’t. Sexual assault is not a new problem or epidemic. Yet in 2018, the tide is somehow now turning. Women are now finally being believed. Perpetrators are facing real consequences and charges that has lead to a national conversation we should have had long ago.
This is not some feminist attack against innocent men or the powers that be trying to keep minority leaders from being successful. The person that assaulted me wasn’t famous, and he wasn’t a leader that was trying to uplift a minority community. But, people flocked to his defense anyway. Rape culture is real and sexual violence (especially against women) has been normalized and excused by popular culture.
And, this is not an issue that affects just women, though they are the primary victims. I have friends and loved ones (male and female) both Muslim and non-Muslim, who were sexually assaulted as children. Raped by babysitters, neighbors and relatives. Why didn’t they tell right away you ask? They were six-years-old. They went to school the next day — first grade. Or, they were 12 and grabbed alcohol from their parent’s liquor cabinet to dull the pain.
These childhood sexual assault victims grew up and during that time put needles into their arms, contemplated suicide and broke covenants with God to treat their bodies as temples. Instead, they smoked, snorted and swallowed all forms of poisons and drugs to escape a pain too big for little bodies. These children are my friends. My family members. And, they have lived through literal nightmares that will make you question humanity.
Ramadan is the month of mercy. Abu Musa Al-Ash`ari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) said:
“You can never be (true) believers until you show mercy to one another.“
Be merciful. Speak with kindness and be aware that your words can hurt. Sexual assault victims deal with their trauma year-round, including in Ramadan. Nadiah Mohajir is the co-founder and director of HEART Women and Girls, a nonprofit that promotes the awareness of sexual health and sexual violence in Muslim communities. Mohajir had this to say about Muslims dealing with sexual trauma in Ramadan:
“The way trauma manifests in people differs. So many things can impact one’s ability to deal with trauma: whether or not they have family and community support, whether or not they are believed, whether or not they are seeking professional help. Each survivor’s journey is unique and different. Some may find comfort in the added blessings of this month, while others might find the month to be triggering or suffocating, especially if they have to more frequently interact with those that tried to silence them and their experience.”
I understand that this is a difficult conversation for many of us to have. But, it’s essential that we do. The most vulnerable in our communities deserve to be protected and as Muslims it is our duty to speak out against injustice and take action to stop it.
Support organizations who are doing the hard work every day to make our community safer for all — groups like HEART Women and Girls and F.A.C.E. Facing Abuse in Community Environments. FACE was formed in Ramadan 2017 by concerned Muslims who wanted to address the leadership accountability gap within communities. They assist victims in reporting abuse and work with leaders to help them better manage their roles.
Some have suggested that we are in the midst of a “sexual assault reckoning” while others feel this is some feminist witch hunt and ask, “Are any men safe (from accusations)?” But consider this: 99 percent of perpetrators of sexual violence will walk free. Out of every 1,000 rapes, only six rapists will be incarcerated. Six.
So, if your concern is that men are being unfairly charged and hauled off to jail, maybe these statistics will give you comfort — even if they comfort no one else.
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Afognak Island State Park (2004)
The National Park Trust (NPT) provided funds to the Brown Bear Trust to help with the preservation of Kodiak Island. With NPT's assistance, they have established a volunteer coordinator who pays particular attention to bear habitat issues.
Ouachita National Forest (2004)
NPT played a critical role in obtaining the conservation easement of the 2,300 acre Johnnycake Ranch, and we continue to hold and monitor it. Johnnycake Ranch provides habitat protection for the American Bald Eagle while benefiting the Wilderness Area and National Forest on its borders. It provides a buffer zone to ensure the continued ecological viability of these federal assets.
Redwood National Park (1997)
NPT gave the NPS funding to support the administrative process of accepting the donation of the Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery from the State of California. Acquisition of the hatchery, in the park’s scenic corridor and one of only three in the state built before 1946, ensured protection of streamside vegetation and maintenance of the park cultural landscape.
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (1998)
NPT loaned the National Maritime Museum Association funds necessary to complete a major restoration of the Balclutha, a historic three-mast square-rigger with a steel hull, built in 1886 as a cargo ship. The full-rigged vessel is an important part of the collection at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, and the loan from National Park Trust ensured the ship would survive intact for many years.
Sequoia National Park (1998)
NPT provided funds to complete the purchase of the last remaining private land in the Mineral King/Sequoia National Park area of the Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, California. A local rancher who was prospecting struck silver at what became the White Chief Mine, and spawned the silver rush of 1873 to 1881. Today the area is popular with hikers, who can travel the 2.9-mile trail into a scenic and undeveloped area of the park. Before the purchase, the private inholding was being marketed for possible use as a private residence or ski area, with helicopter access.
Joshua Tree National Park (2001)
In 2001 NPT purchased an 80-acre in-holding in Joshua Tree National Park which contained a critical segment of the Rockhouse and Thermal Canyon Trail network. The property was also an excellent habitat for the chuckwalla, a large, shy lizard. The property is located in a wild, rugged, and remote corner of the park affording visitors wonderful opportunities for solitude and a sense of discovery. NPT donated the parcel to the National Park Service (NPS) which will ensure it's protection it in perpetuity.
Point Reyes National Seashore (2001)
NPT staff provided technical assistance on how to proceed with the transfer of major telecommunication in-holding to NPS.
Mojave National Preserve, Ivanpah Desert Tortoise Research Facility (2014)
The Ivanpah Desert Tortoise Research Facility was acquired and built by Chevron in 2011 as a creative partnership between the company, the National Park Service and National Park Trust. It was part of a settlement to satisfy park land mitigation obligations for impacts by the Mountain Pass rare earth mine on the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. National Park Trust took over custody and management of the facility under a lease from Chevron while the National Park Service completed due diligence for transfer of the property from the corporation to NPS ownership. Under this arrangement, NPS was able to begin research there immediately, over two years ahead of the time when they took ownership of the facility in late 2014. Chevron also donated an additional $491,000 to NPT which is it distributing to NPS over 6-years (2011-2017) for research projects. Check out our other land mitigation projects.
Mojave National Preserve (2002 & 1998)
NPT purchased a 1.5-acre parcel containing a historic school house for the National Park Service. NPT then distributed almost $34,000 to local conservation groups from the Hesperia Flood Settlement.
California State Parks (2004)
NPT has been a resource to the State in the protection of a biologically significant hill region.
Yosemite National Park (2010)
NPT partnered with the Pacific Forest Trust to help the National Park Service expand Yosemite National Park’s western boundary to include approximately 1,000 acres which were part of naturalist John Muir’s original vision for the park. NPT has also helped complete the steps needed for the additional acquisition of ‘trophy’ properties under threat of development. Acquisition of these vital lands represented an important milestone in celebration of the park’s centennial celebration in 2016.
Pinnacles National Park (2011)
NPT accepted the donation of a property, the Bear Valley School, which was adjacent to Pinnacles National Park (formerly Pinnacles National Monument). The one-room school house was significant to the history of the community. It was funded by local donations and constructed in 1903, serving as a school until 1950. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, and remains as a well-preserved example of the common school movement in the United States. The 1.5-acre property maintained the only public school in the community for half a century and most of the people who homesteaded the community sent their children there. Though it closed as a school in 1950, it took on a new role as a community hall, managed by the Farm Bureau. It hosted Farm Bureau meetings, church functions, organizations such as 4H, and was a venue for community events such as holiday celebrations and card parties. NPT donated the property to the National Park Service to be protected in perpetuity as part of Pinnacles National Park.
Yosemite National Park – Ackerson Meadow (2016)
NPT partnered with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to acquire and donate an environmentally important adjacent property of 400 acres for inclusion in Yosemite National Park. NPT has provided the due diligence and transaction costs. The NPS has modified the boundary to include the property in the Park. TPL closed on the acquisition in February 2016.
Rocky Mountain National Park (2016)
In 2016, National Park Trust partnered with Rocky Mountain Conservancy, The Wilderness Land Trust, and local funders to purchase a 12.5-acre property that was going to be listed for sale for only the second time in the last seventy years. With a 2,000 square foot house perched on a rocky overlook and easy motorized access, the demand for this private property within Wild Basin would have been great. It was the largest privately-held, developed parcel located in that area of the Park. The removal of the house and access drive followed by addition of the parcel to the Park will enable the Park to formally add 33 acres to the federally designated Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness Area.
Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area (2010)
The National Park Trust and the Wilderness Land Trust formed a partnership and acquired a 10-acre inholding perched on a high ridge within the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area in the White River National Forest. This pristine property is located in the majestic mountain ranges between Aspen and Crested Butte, Colorado. The parcel has been transferred to the US Forest Service for inclusion in the wilderness area.
Rock Creek Park (2004)
NPT purchased a parcel of land in the historic Brightwood neighborhood of Washington, DC, adjacent to the Fort Stevens section of Rock Creek Park. The lot had been approved for a 13-townhouse development, which would have changed the character of the community, as well as taking more land away from what had been Civil War era Fort Stevens. The Civil War battle at the fort was notable for several reasons. Seasoned soldiers at the fort turned away an attack on and threat to the Nation’s capital by Confederate General Jubal Early. And President Abraham Lincoln, who went to see the battle, became the only president in history to come under fire, when Confederate sharpshooters shot at him as he watched the fighting. Acquisition of the property, and transfer to the National Park Service helped preserve an important historical landmark, as well as fulfilling the local community’s desire to maintain their neighborhood as a cultural and historical heritage area.
Big Cypress National Preserve (1985 & 1990)
NPT purchased 100 acres of privately-held land from 18 separate owners, for incorporation into the Preserve. The agreement with the National Park Service was that the Trust would hold title for the land until federal funds were available to purchase it from them. The NPS was able to buy the property, and thus protect forever an area of ideal habitat for the endangered Florida panther.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park (2013)
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, NPT supported the Trust for Public Land in the acquisition of a 42-acre privately-owned property at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield in Georgia. The hallowed ground, known as Nodine’s Hill, was part of the active battle field. The transfer to the National Park Service preserves remnant Union entrenchments, rifle pits and cannon emplacements. NPT also developed an educational module to connect kids to this park; it is in use by local elementary schools in Georgia. The course has science, historical and cultural components that help students discover the value in protecting and preserving the park for future generations through lessons, discussions and field exercises.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site (1996)
NPT worked with the National Park Service to purchase privately held land next to the park. By removing dilapidated buildings that were drawing drug users to the properties, the National Park Service made the park a safe space for families. The additional land made it possible for them to create a “welcoming gateway” for visitors to the park. The additional land also made it possible to build badly needed parking facilities for cars and tour buses. New parking in the park allowed easier access to the park as well as diverting traffic, particularly tour buses, away from residential neighborhoods, where they had been parking in front of homes.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1985)
NPT provided technical assistance in a 5,650-acre federal/state land exchange.
Craters of the Moon National Monument (1997)
NPT purchased a 37-acre parcel of land and transferred it to the National Park Service to become part of the monument, and completed the acquisition of lands within the boundaries of the park. The land acquired was the source of year-around water flow, the park’s main water supply and the only source of potable water in the park. The acreage added to the diversity of wildlife habitat as well as giving the park greater ability to manage and protect natural resources at the park.
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (2016)
In August 2013, the superintendent of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore asked if NPT would acquire, hold title, and donate two parcels totaling 32.5 acres to the park. The acreage expands the park boundary to connect the visitor center, which was surrounded by private land, with the rest of the park. The project was funded by Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NISOURCE Energy as part of a $1.5 million EPA consent decree, with National Park Trust acting as its land mitigation partner. The protection of this parcel prevents the land from being developed, and it will now be used for exhibits on restoration methods used throughout the lakeshore. NPT held title to the properties until the land was transferred to NPS for permanent ownership in 2016. Check out our other land mitigation projects.
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (2005 & 1994)
National Park Trust played a singular role in the establishment of the first national park unit devoted to the natural and cultural history of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem –Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills of Kansas. In 1994, NPT acquired the 10,894-acre Spring Hills/Z-Bar ranch, and began a unique public/private partnership with the National Park Service for development and management of the new park. NPT donated 32 acres of land to the NPS, and retained ownership of the remaining land. In 2005, the Nature Conservancy purchased the remaining acreage and today manages the Preserve in partnership with the National Park Service. Check out or other land mitigation projects.
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park (1999)
From 1811 to 1816, Abraham Lincoln and his family lived on the Knob Creek Farm; he was quoted as saying that his time there was the “earliest remembrance” of his life. NPT awarded a grant of $10,000 to Preservation of Lincoln's Kentucky Heritage, Inc. for an option to buy the 228-acre property. Exercising the option kept the land from being sold to someone else while the group raised almost $1,000,000 to buy it, with another $10,000 from NPT for administrative costs, to complete the deal in 2001. The farm was transferred to the National Park Service in 2002.
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (2019)
If you've seen the pristine waters and lush terrain at Maine’s Bald Mountain Pond, you’d understand why National Park Trust and our partners chose to acquire an adjacent 1,500-acre parcel of old-growth woodland to benefit the National Park Service’s Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Read more about the protection of this land.
Acadia National Park (1985)
NPT received a 4.76-acre parcel of land on Mount Desert Island as a bequest in April 1985, and remained in possession until November 1990, when the National Park Service purchased it for inclusion into Acadia National Park.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Oxley Island (1993)
In 1991 NPT purchased the 30-acre island in order to protect the view shed of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. The state of Maryland purchased the island in 1993 from NPT, and it is incorporated into the Maryland “Islands of the Potomac” Wildlife Management Area.
National Park Trust purchased property atop South Mountain, and transferred it to the National Park Service. The site was part of a Confederate artillery position during the September 14, 1862 Battle of South Mountain, in which there were over 5,000 total casualties. Troops involved there went on to the Battle of Antietam on September 17. The land purchased also contains a short section of the Appalachian Trail, where it crosses the highway, on the north side of the road.
Piscataway Park (2001)
NPT awarded a grant to the Trust for Public Land to make possible the purchase of 56 acres on Piscataway Creek, to be transferred to the National Park Service. The owner of the parcel intended to subdivide and build on the property had NPT, TPL and the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association not partnered to make the acquisition. The location of the acreage, and it’s incorporation into Piscataway Park were critical to the permanent preservation, as Congress directed, of “…lands which provide the principal overview from the Mount Vernon Estate and Fort Washington, in a manner that will insure, insofar as practical, the natural beauty of such lands as it existed at the time of...active use of Mount Vernon and Fort Washington…”
Minute Man National Historical Park (1991)
National Park Trust partnered with the Trust for Public Land in the purchase of the 22.8-acre Perry Farm, which was incorporated into the park in 1992. The land was significant in that, during the April 19, 1775 battle, colonial militiamen gathered there in preparation for the coming fight.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI (2018)
Thanks to generous support from The Carls Foundation, National Park Trust purchased and donated property to benefit Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (MI). The property is located behind the historic Munising Range Lights and contains a non-historic house. The purchase and removal of the house improves the historic site. The historic Munising Range Lights and Keeper’s House complex, in service since 1908, is owned by the National Park Service (NPS) and still operated by the U.S. Coast Guard as an aid to navigation. The lights are arranged so that when a ship captain lines up one above the other, they will navigate safe passage along a channel into or out of the Munising Harbor. Read more about the protection of this land.
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area (1998)
NPT assisted the City of Dayton, MN with financial support to bridge a “funding gap,” which made it possible to acquire and preserve 20 acres of natural bluffs overlooking the national river.
Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary (2009 & 2013)
In 2009 National Park Trust partnered with the Apache Software Foundation to incorporate their gracious gift of 300 native trees into the restoration of this unique 27-acre urban park. In a “hands-on” exercise, local school children planted the trees. They became part of the sanctuary’s landscape, which includes spring-fed wetland, a floodplain forest, prairie, and oak woodland habitats. The site also contains an unusual concentration of cultural resources. In 2013, NPT was able to work with the 3M Foundation who provided the lead gift to create an outdoor classroom for the sanctuary.
Missouri State Parks Foundation (2003)
The Missouri State Parks Foundation is a non-profit corporation formed in 2002 by of a group of citizens committed to enhancing the state park system across Missouri. Though established in that year, they did not have the funds to begin operation. In 2003, NPT provided the financial assistance needed for the Foundation start-up. The work of the Foundation includes a partnership with Missouri State Parks to sponsor the annual Katy Trail Ride, a bicycle tour on the longest rail trail (241 miles) in the U.S. The Foundation is funded by donation and run by volunteers.
Glacier National Park (2012)
In 2012, NPT worked with the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to protect the Doody homestead, a 120-acre tract of land owned by one of the park’s first rangers, from development. It is east of the West Glacier entrance, along the banks of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, and is the second largest in-holding bought in the park. It is a popular stop among the thousands of rafters and anglers who pass by there each year. TPL purchased the property from the owner using resources from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). NPT provided due diligence costs not covered by LWCF.
Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (2001)
National Park Trust matched funds with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to buy a 40-acre in-holding to incorporate into the refuge. The purchase protected the habitat on a piece of property that was prone to development. The refuge was authorized in 1935 to protect and allow the species recovery of the trumpeter swan. Acquisition of the parcel better protects their habitat along with that of birds such as the white pelican, white-faced ibis and sandhill crane.
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge (2000)
NPT awarded grants which supplied “gap” funding for the timely purchase by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of two parcels that totaled 280 acres. Acquiring the land furthered the purpose of the refuge; to restore essential wildlife habitat that became scarce after the river was "improved" for navigation in the 1960s. The refuge is on a major migratory waterfowl flyway, and shelters endangered species such as the peregrine falcon, interior least tern, and piping plover.
Valles Caldera National Preserve(2019)
Since 2008, our friends at the National Park Service have had their eye on the 40-acre parcel hoping it would be put up for sale. Their chance finally came this year, and Park Trust's community of supporters were there to quickly provide funding for its purchase. Read more about the protection of this park.
Pecos National Historical Park (1992 & 1997)
In 1992 NPT assisted in the purchase of the 40-acre Rivera Tract within the Glorieta Pass region of Pecos National Monument. Then in 1997, assisted with the acquisition of land within Pigeon's Ranch, a battlefield in Glorieta Pass. The Battle of Glorieta Pass was one of the most important Civil War battles to take place in the Far West.
El Malpais National Monument (1994)
NPT helped to purchase 5 acres in a subdivision inside the boundaries of the park. It was part of a larger project by NPS to acquire remaining in-holdings in the park.
Bandelier National Monument (1998)
NPT provided funds to complete the purchase of 90 acres at Elk Meadows on the northwest side of the park. Acquisition and incorporation of the parcel into Bandelier National Monument protected the park watershed and several archaeological sites from the onset of housing development in the area. The owner of the land had subdivided it and intended to develop it if NPT had not contributed to the purchase.
Women’s Rights National Historical Park (1993 & 1996)
National Park Trust partnered with the Trust for Public Land and National Park Foundation in 1993 to help purchase the historic home of Jacob Chamberlain, a participant in the 1848 First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, and a signer of the Declaration of Sentiments at that convention. In a separate transaction in 1996, NPT helped the National Park Service acquire the final parcel of land of the historic Elizabeth Cady Stanton home. Stanton was an organizer of the 1848 convention, and a women’s rights activist, suffragist and abolitionist who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Appalachian National Scenic Trail, NY (2018)
NPT partnered with The Trust for Public Land, Appalachian Trail Conservancy and Oblong Land Conservancy in the $2.38 million purchase of 219 acres of wooded land which will become National Park Service property on the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The project was the number one priority for NPS nationwide for 2018. Visitors can reach the property by a 2-hour train trip from Grand Central Station in New York City, disembarking at the Appalachian Trail Train Stop. The addition of the property to the AT allows a re-route of the trail, moving it away from the habitat of two endangered species: the bog turtle and New England cottontail rabbit. It also preserves several scenic viewpoints; the land would have been sold for a residential subdivision had it not been acquired for the AT.
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (2001)
NPT worked with the park superintendent, supplying funding for the acquisition of two parcels of land on the banks of the Missouri River, across from the park. The two tracts, totaling about 21 acres, allowed NPS to maintain the cultural landscape; visitors standing at the fort would be able to look across the river and see a scene that appeared much as it was when the fort and trading post was in operation during the mid-1800s. The purchased land also preserved shoreline wetlands.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site (2018)
National Park Trust worked with the National Park Service and the Oklahoma Historical Society on the acquisition of an important 3-acre property inside Washita Battlefield National Historic Site (OK). NPT staff did research on and proposed a strategy and funds for purchase and transfer of the land to the National Park Service, solving a problem that had stalled the project for 21 years. The parcel, located along the south edge of the park, provides the best vantage point to view the battlefield landscape. On this acreage, the National Park Service developed an overlook facility and trail improvements that enhance the visitor experience and access at the park. NPT’s assistance is timely; 2018 marked 150 years since the early morning surprise attack by the U.S. 7th Cavalry forces, led by George Armstrong Custer, on the village of Southern Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle, November 27, 1868. Black Kettle and his wife lost their lives in the attack, and Custer retreated when he saw a superior force assembling on the hills near the village. The project would not have been possible without the partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society, and their great interest in preserving this important site and its story. Read more about the protection of this land.
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (1998)
NPT purchased 40 acres from the state of Oregon in the Painted Hills unit of the park, and transferred it to NPS by donation. The acreage protected and preserved has significant paleontological resources, as well as a unique and colorful geology. It also transferred a portion of park access road from private ownership. Fossils on the parcel date back about 30-million years and provide great examples of prehistoric plants and seeds.
Gettysburg National Military Park (1998)
NPT, Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg, and the Civil War Trust cooperated to fund purchase of a 135-acre scenic and preservation easement of the historic John Rummel Farm. The land was the site of a cavalry engagement on the last day of the battle in which Confederate forces under the command of General JEB Stuart attempted an attack on the rear of the Union forces. They were stopped by cavalry units led by Union General David M. Gregg; one his more aggressive officers in repelling the attack was General George Armstrong Custer.
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (2018)
National Park Trust completed a project to preserve an archaeological area containing evidence of the Antelope Creek people, a Native American tribe. The acquisition and donation of this 3-acre property will enhance the open space and views of a nearby trail, and the enjoyment of individuals who hike to the mesa in which the parcel is located. With this land acquisition, there are no further inholdings or private landowners within the recreation area.
Zion National Park, UT (2018)
National Park Trust worked with The Trust for Public Land and the National Park Foundation to purchase the 35 acre in-holding—a privately owned piece of land inside the park—and donate the land to the National Park Service. The land is near Firepit Knoll, on the Kolob Terrace in the north west area of the park and is an important section of the park for hikers traveling the popular Hop Valley Trail. In protecting this area from development, visitors can continue to enjoy the natural landscape and scenic views unique to Zion. This is the second project for NPT at Zion National Park; in 2012, we assisted TPL with the acquisition of 30 acres on Kolob Terrace at the foot of Tabernacle Dome.
Zion National Park (2012)
At Zion National Park in southwestern Utah, The National Park Trust (NPT) partnered with the Trust for Public Lands (TPL), to protect a 30 acre property on the Kolob Terrace at the foot of Tabernacle Dome, a steeply rounded peak rising to 6430 ft. from Cave Valley. An anonymous donor, working with the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) and The Trust for Public Land, donated $825,000 so the land could be purchased and given to the park. NPT provided funds to accomplish the important due diligence steps to complete the acquisition of the land from a private owner. The land can be viewed along the Kolob Terrace road, a popular scenic route and the Tabernacle Dome area is popular for its hiking trails, camping, and spectacular vistas. Protection of this 30 acre property expands public access and ensures that views cherished by visitors will not be diminished by development. At least one property in the area that wasn’t part of the 30 acres has been built upon.
Hovenweep National Monument and Bureau of Land Management (1998)
National Park Trust assisted the Bureau of Land Management with funds to acquire 640 acres of private land south of Hovenweep National Monument. Purchase of the property protected the viewshed and natural quiet of the park. The property was outside the park’s legislated boundary, so it was necessary for the BLM to purchase it for the protection of park resources.
Colonial National Historical Park (1994)
NPT loaned funds for the purchase of 20 undeveloped lots in a subdivision along the Colonial Parkway, in Colonial National Historical Park. The subdivision was under active development, so acquisition of the parcels protected the viewshed along the parkway, as well as adding a buffer between the residences and the park.
Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, WA (2018)
National Park Trust filled a funding gap required to purchase a property at Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve. NPT, Historic Whidbey, National Park Foundation, National Park Service, and numerous local partners worked together to make the acquisition. The property which includes a length of shoreline on Penn Cove, an offshoot of Skagit Bay was also the site of the 150-year old historic Haller House, one of Washington state’s oldest homes. The house was initially built in 1859 before Colonel Granville Haller, a Civil War veteran, arrived on Whidbey Island in 1866 and purchased the property. The house has remained largely untouched from its original construction, and its historic appearance will be protected by a permanent easement.
Olympic National Park (2017)
In December 2017, the first year in the second century of the National Park Service, NPT completed the acquisition of a property at Olympic National Park (WA) – just under 0.5 acres. Although small in size, it is big in ecological significance. The parcel was surrounded on three sides by Olympic National Park; it was the only parcel in that block that did not belong to the National Park Service. Its acquisition will keep it in its natural state by preventing further development. It helps protect Grandey Creek, which runs along the property edge, as well as water quality for the Quinault River and Lake, adjacent to the park. The lake and river system support populations of sockeye, chum and Chinook salmon as well as steelhead, bull and Dolly Varden trout. The Quinault National Fish Hatchery, downstream from the lake, raises salmon and steelhead which populate the river. All deserve protection.
National Park Trust purchased subdivided lots totaling 6 acres on the shore of Lake Quinault. The parcels were part of an area being developed but were permanently preserved in their natural state as mature forest by NPT’s acquisition and donation to the National Park Service. Several of the trees on the property, mature Sitka spruce and western red cedar, were estimated to be over 600 years old.
Harpers Ferry Town Park (2007)
NPT partnered with the Harpers Ferry Conservancy to purchase land for a town park. The purchase was to add on to the town park and maintain the area in a natural state. By removing the steeply sloped area from private ownership and possible development, the town hoped to create a natural buffer for storm water as it ran down through Harpers Ferry National Historical Park to the Potomac River.
Harpers Ferry Conservancy (1998)
NPT provided a grant to assist in the development of a strategy to conserve lands within a 25 mile radius of Harper's Ferry National Historical Park.
Blackwater Canyon State Park (2000)
NPT provided the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy a one-time grant to educate people on the need to protect the park.
George Washington National Forest (2003)
NPT acquired the oil and mineral rights to 5,676 acres of land in West Virginia within the George Washington National Forest and continues to own and monitor these rights.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (1993)
NPT provided initial funding to the Civil War Trust to ensure the purchase of 56 acres of historically significant land between School House Ridge and Bolivar Heights, after which it was permanently protected by transfer to the National Park Service. The parcel acquired had been platted and a 118-townhouse development planned for the site. The land was important in the Battle of Harpers Ferry, September 13-15, 1862. It was the area between the Confederate and Union lines over which they exchanged fire. It was in the area where 12,000 Union troops surrendered to Confederate forces commanded by Major General Stonewall Jackson after the battle.
Washington Family Legacy (2010)
NPT applied for and received a $150,000 Save America’s Treasures grant to restore one of the eight remaining Washington Family homes in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. NPT also worked to raise the required matching funds needed to receive the grant. Bushrod Corbin Washington, George Washington's grandnephew, built Claymont Court around 1820, near Charles Town, WV. The 265 acres of land around the mansion was placed under a conservation easement through the American Battlefield Protection Program, protecting it from development in perpetuity.
Fort Laramie National Historic Site (1986)
NPT secured funds to purchase the final in-holding, completing the park.
Virgin Islands National Park (1997)
In 1997, NPT provided a grant to Friends of Virgin Islands National Park for program support in their efforts to acquire Gilbey Beach, a 2 ½ acre section of shoreline in Hawksnest Bay and transfer it to the National Park Service. It allowed them to partner with the Trust for Public Land, secure federal funding of $2 million for, and negotiate the purchase of the waterfront property. They completed the conveyance to the National Park Service in 2000, permanently protecting the area from further development.
In 2002, NPT partnered with a non-profit foundation to buy approximately 6.7 acres of land, with shoreline, for more than 1.1 million dollars. The land was adjacent to the southeastern national park boundary along Drunk Bay. Though undeveloped, the area had been subdivided, including added road access. The purchase of the land by NPT, and transfer by donation to the National Park Service in 2005 brought most of the coastline of Drunk Bay and Nanny Point under permanent protection from what could have been beachfront development.
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Our Saviour's is dedicated to serving the community through the love of Christ.
Sunday school is available for all ages starting at 10am. Children up to 6 years old can attend the church nursery. Children ages 7 and up can attend Sunday School. Children return to service during peace and join the congregation for Communion.
Faith in Community
As a founding congregation of Faith in Community, FIC, which is part of the PICO network, we organize around issues of injustice and violence in Fresno. For more information about FIC, click on the Faith in Community Link.
Friday Night Kid's Club
With 100% of our community below the poverty line, Friday Night Kid's Club provides a nutritional meal for children and their families, help with homework, games, crafts, and field trips.
Our Saviour's has a praise ensemble and choir. We also host a concert series featuring local musicians from October through May. We are currently working on a summer series and will post as soon as we have it in place. Part of the proceeds from these concerts go to providing gifted children with private music lessons which their families cannot afford.
Food and Clothing Pantry
Our Saviour's runs a Food and Clothing Pantry which is open to the community on the first Monday of each month. Our Pantry is an agency of the Fresno County Food Bank. Clothing, primarily for children, is available for families in need. We also have provided eye exams, eye glasses, and shoes for children in need. We are part of the Lutheran Hunger Network and host a Farmer's Market at least twice a year. During the summer, we host the EOC Federal Lunch Program, ensuring that children up to and including 18 year olds have at least one good meal for the day. We take this program over from the schools when school is out.
Elders / Seniors
We have an active "Shut-In" ministry and hold Bible Study at Fair Winds which is a retirement home. Timely forums concerning issues effecting Seniors are usually held after church with lunch provided.
USDA Summer Lunch Program
The Fresno County EOC administers the USDA Lunch Program for children living in poverty in the Fresno Unified School District. When school is out for the summer, Our Saviour's takes the program over so that children, up to and including youth who are 18 years of age, will be guaranteed at least one healthy meal a day.
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Dennis Radford
(b Dresden, Oct 16, 1813; d Stellenbosch, Oct 8, 1898).
German architect, builder, painter and photographer, active in South Africa. He showed a talent for drawing at an early age. In 1825 he entered the Akademie der Künste, Dresden, to study architecture, qualifying in 1829. He emigrated to Cape Town in 1838. His first commission in 1840 was the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Mary, Cape Town, undertaken with his partner Carel Sparmann, which was an unsuccessful venture. Hager then moved to Stellenbosch living principally by portrait painting (examples in Stellenbosch Mus.). It was not until 1854 that his next building, the Lutheran Church, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, was built. Only in 1863, however, did he receive his first major commission, the remodelling of the Dutch Reformed Church, Stellenbosch. This involved the addition of a large nave, aisles and tower to the existing cruciform church. All the additions were strongly Gothic Revival in character, and the rest of the church was given a Gothic appearance. It would be an exaggeration to claim that it was Hager who introduced the Gothic style into Dutch Reformed churches, but it can be said that he introduced a purer strain of the Revival, although this was still far from ‘correct’. The church at Stellenbosch differs most from previous attempts to Gothicize Dutch Reformed churches in the tower, which has triple-stage base tracery windows surmounted by a broach spire. The open Gothic trussed roof marks its first appearance in Dutch Reformed churches. In ...
Teynard, Félix
Hélène Bocard
(b Saint-Flour, Cantal, Jan 14, 1817; d Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, nr Grenoble, Aug 28, 1892).
French photographer and civil engineer. He was fascinated by Egyptology from an early age and visited Egypt from 1851 to 1852. He returned there in 1869 with an official invitation to the opening of the Suez Canal. He brought a number of calotypes back to France after his first trip, and these made up his album Egypte et Nubie. Sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l’étude de l’art et de l’histoire. Atlas photographique accompagné de plans et d’une table explicative servant de complément à la grande ‘description de l’Egypte’. This sumptuous work, illustrated by 160 large-format plates printed by H. de Fonteny, was published from 1853 to 1858 by Goupil. The views shown were varied and included ancient monuments such as the Temple of Abu Simbel, the Pyramid of Chephren and the Ruins of Aswan as well as modern ones such as the Town of Asyut, the banks of the Nile and local people going about their daily business, as in ...
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Linda Panetta is a photojournalist whose documentary work focuses on cultural, environmental and human rights. Linda began her college education with only the vaguest of ideas of what she wanted to do with her life. Four years later she graduated with a goal of uncovering the truth about victims of war, poverty, and injustice throughout the world. Shortly after college she landed in the war zones of Guatemala and Nicaragua; for nearly 30 years she has worked in some of the world’s most volatile regions, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia. Today, as a photojournalist and human rights activist, she continues to pursue those same goals with a US-based focus on youth and adult homeless advocacy and awareness. Read more
Linda is the producer and director of the award-winning documentary "An Insider Speaks Out!" which highlights human rights abuses in Latin America. Linda has collaborated with and photographed several of the music industry’s top performers; her photos have been widely published in books, newspapers and magazines and featured in numerous documentaries. Her photos have been exhibited throughout the US, Canada and in Europe. Exhibits and lectures by Panetta focus on the environmental and human cost of war.
Linda is the founder/director of Optical Realities Photography and “OR Indie Arts Initiative”, a multimedia healing arts program for homeless youth and adults, with a focus on homeless single mothers.
Linda is an instructor at Cabrini College (2010 – Present). She teaches photojournalism as well as courses that allow the homeless to become active participants in discussing and addressing socio-economic issues. Classes explore the complex issues relating to global and domestic poverty, immigration, war, environmental degradation, and the efforts of regional organizations to address such issues.
Forums Linda has presented at (partial list):
Yale University, NYU, Fordham University, University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Loyola University (New Orleans), Smith College, Bowling Green State University, George School, Villanova University, Swarthmore College, Cabrini College, Byrn Mawr College, St. John's University, La Salle University, University of New Mexico, Springfield University, Smith College, Eastern University, Chestnut Hill College, St. Peters College, Furman University, University of St. Thomas, College of Saint Benedict, Rosemont College, Kutz Elementary School, Lenape Middle School, St. Bonaventure University, St. Louis University HS, Akiba Hebrew Academy, University of Scranton, University of Waterloo (Ontario), University of Toronto, Associazione Centro Di Accoglienza E Promozione Culturale (Italy). Conferences: Sabeel, Call to Action, Veterans for Peace…
Partial list of Publications:
Adbusters, America Magazine, Amnesty International Publications, Catholic New Times, Inc., Chicago Sun, Company Magazine, Conscious Choice, Friends Journal, Maryknoll Magazine, Revista Magazine, North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), National Catholic Reporter (regular contributor), Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sing Out!, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sojourners Magazine, St. Anthony Messenger, The Catholic Standard & Times, The Nation, The Progressive, The Riverdale Press, Turning Wheel: The Journal of Socially Engaged Buddhism, Friends of the Earth International (Netherlands), Rolling Stone Magazine.
Book Contributions (partial list):
"Mothers in Arms." Salvadoran women share their stories as former combatants and talk about their lives today as a politician, human rights advocate, hammock maker, healthcare worker, leader of a women’s cattle cooperative, ex-comandante and entrepreneur, and mother... > A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World. Loyola Press. > … Clashing Views on Latin American Issues: Plan Colombia… Plan of Death. McGraw-Hill > Political Geography. World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality. Prentice Hall. > Living Justice & Peace. St. Mary’s Press. > Love in Action… R.K. Taylor Publishing. > Cultural Anthropology, 1/ce (College Textbook). Thomson Nelson Learning > War in Colombia, Made in the U.S.A. IAC, NY > Jesus for President. Zondervan Press. > The Global & the Intimate: Women’s Studies Quarterly. > Santa Claus in Baghdad: Stories About Teens in the Arab World. Indiana Univ. Press. > Rumours of Glory (Harper Collins)
Other: CBS 3, Philadelphia (Mar 14, 2009) Featured story about Fr. McNamee. CBS & NBC Nightly News, Philadelphia. Slide show of photos from Iraq Voyageurs TV - Uruguay Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE) - Website Publication: “Women & War in Colombia: None of the Women Make the War, but they All Live it.” Amnesty International Conference, Czech Republic Countless websites around the world.
Additional Projects (partial list): Against the Odds. Making a Difference in Global Health. National Library of Medicine. Educational Photo Exhibit “A revolution in global health is taking place in villages and towns around the world. Communities, in collaboration with scientists, advocates, governments, and international organizations are taking up the challenge to prevent disease and improve quality of life…” www.getinvolved.against-the-odds.org/
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - “Dreams & Nightmares: Life and Death in Iraq.” Nine foot banners using photos taken in Iraq (2003) is part of a traveling outdoor exhibit/ memorial to highlight the affects of war and occupation. These images accompany AFSC's widely acclaimed Eyes Wide Open exhibit of combat boots and civilian shoes, commemorating all U.S. and Iraqi deaths in the war.
United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, CA: 16 photos of women and children from throughout Haiti, Latin America and the Middle East were used to create larger than life-sized banners (dimensions: 8 x 4 feet) that were hung as a permanent exhibit in their community center.
For more information please email: Linda@OpticalRealities.org
Linda Panetta
Embera community, Panama
Argentina - Linda and Hebe de Bonafini, one of the founding members of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and President of the Mothers Association since 1979.
Chile. Documenting a protest by students at the University of Chile who staged a direct action to draw attention to the killings of a Mapuche farmer and his son by Chilean government forces. The gas mask was great, but shin guards would have helped!
Linda and Bishop Gumbleton meet with Congressman McGovern to talk about issues relating to El Salvador.
Magdalena Medio, Colombia
Barrancabermeja, Colombia
>Linda Panetta and Bishop Gumbleton join children from Suchitoto, El Salvador.
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