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Can You Buy Stephanie's "You Bring Me Luck" Song From 'Fuller House'? It'll Give You All The Feels
The second half of Fuller House Season 3 has arrived on Netflix, and with it comes answers to all those cliffhangers in the first half as well as some new music. In Episode 18, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) performs a song for Danny, Joey, and Jesse, as well as the other important people in her life, called "You Bring Me Luck." After hearing the perfect tune you may be wondering if you can buy Stephanie's "You Bring Me Luck" song from Fuller House.
Unfortunately, the song isn't on iTunes just yet, but the season was only just released. It wouldn't be surprising if the song became available for purchase very soon. "The Boy Next Door," another original song Stephanie performed on Fuller House, is currently available on iTunes, so the show clearly doesn't object to making the show's music available for fans. So just keep an eye out for it. Until then, you can just keep rewatching the episode to enjoy the love-filled song. Warning: Season 3B spoilers ahead!
In the episode, everyone is celebrating the anniversary of when Joey and Jesse moved in to help raise D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle, who probably couldn't make it to the party because she's a busy fashion designer in New York. Regardless, the party is filled with a lot of reminiscing and a few surprises, but what really topped off the episode was Stephanie's heartfelt song.
"You bring me luck / Oh my life has changed so much / Just when I've nearly given up / You brought me luck," Stephanie croons, as she walks around singing/hugging to her family and friends. "You make your luck / Some say you just get struck / But holding your hand makes me understand."
Sweetin's voice continues to wow fans as she made the song her own, and it's definitely a single you'll want to play on repeat. Here's hoping she'll one day release an album; her vocals should totally be heard more than just on the show. For now though, it's awesome to see Sweetin's other talents being put to use and it was not only the perfect song for her, but the perfect song for Stephanie.
Since the start of Fuller House, Stephanie's has faced a number of battles, mainly centered around her desire to have kids. Early on, she revealed to D.J. that she was unable to have any, but thanks to a little nudging from Aunt Becky, Stephanie visited a fertility doctor and learned that she still has some viable eggs. Thankfully, her family stepped up in a big way. Everyone offered to pitch in to help pay for the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process.
To top it all off, Kimmy volunteered to be the surrogate. And thus a plan was formed and Stephanie is well on her way to having all of her dreams regarding motherhood come true. By the end of Season 3, it is revealed that Kimmy is pregnant. I have no idea how far along she is or whether it's a boy or a girl, but regardless, Steph is going to be a mom and I'm so happy for her!
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Suffice to say, there's a lot that happens in these new nine episodes. You definitely want to see them sooner rather than later, because it's sure to be all anyone will be able to talk about, myself included. Not to mention, you'll want to listen to Steph's awesome new song on repeat throughout the holiday season.
Fuller House Season 3B is now streaming on Netflix.
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How To Hide From People On The Snapchat Snap Map So You Can Protect Your Privacy
Snapchat can be so much fun. And who doesn't love their adorable mini-me Bitmoji? If you're a fan of the app, things just got a whole lot more exciting for you this past week: Snapchat released a "Snap Map" feature that puts your little Bitmoji on a map, sort of like a Google Map pin and all of your friends and followers can see it. It's supposed to be a fun way to connect with your friends and see what's going on in your digital network. Of course, used incorrectly, it's also sort of creepy. But if you're worried about your privacy, please don't worry. You can totally hide from people on the Snapchat Snap Map and still be cool.
Luckily, the whole Snap Map thing is opt-in, which is at least a considerate move on the social network's part. The company, like very other social media app, uses your location to help people sell you things, or see stories that were in your vicinity. It's cute that they want to leverage this data into a new feature (they have to compete with Instagram Stories somehow, right?), but the fact that you can zoom in to someone's location down to the street address is worrisome to some.
Some argue that, even though it's meant for fun, the Snap Map could be used for bullying or stalking people. Or just get you in trouble with that playdate you canceled because you were "sick" but really just wanted to go to the beach with as few tiny humans as possible.
Whatever the case, don't fret just yet if you're wary about the latest update: You've got some options.
Here's How To Opt-Out
So, Snap Map won't work unless you update your app. Once you do, a tutorial will pop up and walk you through the new feature. At that point, it will ask you to choose who you want to see your location — if you choose "only me" you go into Ghost Mode. That means that you can lurk on other people's locations, but they can't see yours.
If you've already gone through the tutorial and just decided that you'd rather not have people see you Snapchatting all day from your couch, you can go to the setting menu (right hand corner) and change it from there. If you don't want Snapchat to ever, ever, ever know where you are? You have to go to your phone's settings, find the Snapchat app and turn off location settings from there. Poof! You're totally invisible.
But you're not totally creep-proof yet. Just so you know, when you tap on a person's avatar — even if you just want to know who's who, since it's hard to tell — they'll get a notification. (Yikes....)
So stay safe when it comes to your privacy settings. And try to resist the urge to find out where your friends are if you won't let them know what you're up to. It's only fair, right?
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The Commons, Plant Breeding And Agricultural Research: Challenges For Food Security And Agrobiodiversity
Fabien Girard and Christine Frison (Eds)
Routledge, £115.00
Times are indeed uncertain, but always interesting. Food security is a key challenge, given the context of global climate change, rapidly increasing population and political uncertainty. A related issue is the conservation of agrobiodiversity as a means of increasing food production and control in a dynamic world. This always involves the issue of balance, which requires preservation of the commons through legal and social protection.
Following an introduction, the first of five parts examines access, benefit sharing and licensing, and includes a discussion of patents and open-source licences. Part II presents the summary of the evolution of modern agriculture, with reference to crop breeding and the relative monopoly of the global seed corporations, and considers theoretical frameworks in which ‘the commons’ can be used for the common good.
Part III highlights the issues relating to the diminishing bio-commons, including the protection of traditional seeds – examples include sorghum production in Africa and guarana in Brazil. Part IV covers recent efforts to safeguard agrobiodiversity, especially at local level, and includes the activities of farmers’ movements to re-appropriate seeds from agroindustry.
Legal structures, international treaties and equitable arrangements are examined in the final part.
This is an intense but expensive text, which considers fundamental issues. It examines aspects of food production and security that are rarely brought to public attention, but that are essential for a peaceful and well-nourished global population in the 21st century.
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Biology Week 2018: Bioscientists discuss inclusion and diversity at Policy Lates
The RSB’s Policy Lates series returned for this year’s Biology Week, with an event entitled #BiosciencesforAll – Paving Pathways for Diversity.
A panel of bioscientists and sector leaders came together to discuss the ways they are improving accessibility and the opportunities they have created for people from a range of communities and experiences.
The event, held as part of Biology Week 2018, and ran with the support of the Biochemical Society, saw panelists discuss how they and their institutions are seeking to provide opportunities to create an inclusive and accessible environment within the biosciences.
FLTR: Dr Carole Thomas, Professor Sarah Rankin FRSB, Anthony Wynne, Dr Anne-Marie Coriat, Dr Saher Ahmed, Racheal Adelodun, and Dr David McAllister CBiol FRSB
The event was opened by Dr Laura Marshall MRCVS, policy manager at the RSB: “Part of our mission at the RSB is to be the unifying voice for biology.
“This event formed part of our #Biosciencesforall initiative which, as part of our mission, brings together our activities to support voices from diverse backgrounds to be heard and represented.”
The event was chaired by Dr David McAllister CBiol FRSB, associate director of research and innovation talent (UKRI) at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). McAllister also leads the BBSRC’s equality, diversity and inclusion policy development within UKRI.
Racheal Adelodun, clinical trial coordinator at the Sarah Cannon Institute, began the discussion by describing her experience of being the first in her immediate family to attend university.
Adelodun recounted the benefits of attending University College London’s in2science placements and thanked the scheme for providing her with information and skills which she would have struggled to access otherwise.
Speakers were split between two panels, both chaired by Dr McAllister
The second speaker on panel one was Professor Sara Rankin FRSB, professor of leukocyte and stem cell biology and the lead for outreach and public engagement at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.
Professor Rankin described her experience of being an undiagnosed dyslexic at school as one of “humiliation and frustration”. She discussed how traits such as creativity and collaboration enable people with learning difficulties like dyslexia to be successful scientists.
Professor Rankin then outlined the stark attainment gap for pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in STEM, and described how her most recent project, 2eMPower, can provide support for these students.
Anthony Wynne, research fellow in the mitochondrial biology lab at the University of Plymouth discussed his experiences as a Daphne Jackson Trust Fellow, and their support in helping him return to work after an 11 year career break.
Wynne explained how employers can often see STEM professionals that have had a career break as “out of touch”, but how the Daphne Jackson Trust offers a personally tailored approach to overcome this, and enable Fellows for a successful return to work.
Panel two takes questions from the audience
The floor was then opened to the audience to question the first panel of speakers, which led to discussions on what universities can do to encourage a diverse student population, and the potential limitations of traditional examinations in schools in fostering success in pupils of certain backgrounds.
The second half of the evening began with Dr Saher Ahmed, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Ahmed explained the practical initiatives that the Wellcome Sanger Institute have put in place to support an inclusive workforce, with a focus on the importance of policies aimed at supporting parents and carers.
Dr Anne-Marie Coriat, head of UK and Europe research landscape at the Wellcome Trust, discussed how the Trust has made it a priority to speed up progress in our understanding of the types of initiatives that work best to enable an accessible and inclusive research culture, and to drive evidence-based change.
Dr Carole Thomas, Senior Equality and Diversity Champion and Chair of the John Innes Centre inclusivity and diversity committee, shared the diversity and inclusion policies and initiatives that earned the JIC a Gold Athena SWAN award. Thomas then gave an overview of the Centre’s work as a recent signatory to the Technician Commitment.
The audience was again given the opportunity to question the panel, which led to a conversation about demographics that require more representation in bioscience organisations, such as those that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and how this can be encouraged. The panel also discussed how the culture of an organisation can impact the decisions of those looking to study or work there.
The speaker’s talks were recorded by the Biochemical Society, and is available to watch on their YouTube channel.
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Chris comes to Rudman Winchell, from Tate Bywater in Vienna, Virginia, where his practice was a mix of transactional and litigation work representing businesses, non-profits, and individuals. He has counseled clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and has represented clients in real estate-related litigation including partition, constructive trust, and breach of contract claims.
Chris graduated from Brigham Young University in 2006 with a degree in business administration and received a law degree from the University of Connecticut in 2009 where he was articles editor of the Connecticut Law Review. His student note was published in Volume 41 of the journal.
While in law school, Chris was a judicial intern for United States Magistrate Judge Kenneth S. McHargh in the Northern District of Ohio.
Chris is originally from Farmington, Maine and now resides in Bangor with his wife and two children.
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Uzbekistan's Parliamentary Elections: Business As Usual (Except For One Thing)
December 19, 2019 12:11 GMT Updated December 19, 2019 13:25 GMT
A shopper in Tashkent walks past a campaign poster for Uzbekistan's upcoming parliamentary elections on December 22.
Anyone expecting Uzbekistan's upcoming parliamentary elections to establish President Shavkat Mirziyoev's credentials as a reformer will probably be disappointed.
Uzbekistan's previous parliamentary elections were heavily staged events with predictable outcomes. The only competition between the parties registered for the vote was the battle to see which pro-government party could heap the most praise on the president and his policies during the campaign.
Though effusive praise for Mirziyoev has not been as obvious in public as it was for his predecessor -- the authoritarian Islam Karimov -- in previous parliamentary election campaigns when Mirziyoev served as Karimov's prime minister, the main fundamental flaw remains: all parties are pro-president and their candidates are running for seats in a parliament that is a rubber-stamping body.
But that doesn't mean there is no significance to these elections.
If some people yawned at the August 26 announcement from Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission that set December 22 as the date for parliamentary elections, it would be difficult to blame them.
Arguably, the most memorable moment from Uzbekistan's elections was also illustrative of any election the country has held since it gained independence in 1991.
Uzbekistan's Upcoming Vote A 'Missed Opportunity' For Further Reforms, HRW Says
In the January 2000 presidential election, Karimov, the country's first president, was running for a second term in office. He had won the December 1991 presidential election, then pushed through a national referendum in March 1995 that extended his term and kept him in power until 2000.
His opponent in 2000 was Abdul Hafiz Jalolov, chairman of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), formerly the Communist Party during the Soviet era and, until mere months before the election, Karimov's party as well.
All five of the political parties registered at that time voiced public support for Karimov, but he accepted a nomination to be the candidate of the Fidokorlar (Self-Sacrificers) Party, which was founded in 1998.
On election day, Jalolov emerged from the polling station and announced: "I make no secret of the fact that I voted for Karimov."
Wielding The Rubber Stamp
The country's previous parliamentary elections have all been practically nonevents.
In the December 1994 parliamentary elections, when a 250-seat unicameral parliament replaced the communist-era Supreme Soviet, the HDP took 69 seats, the new Adolat (Justice) Social Democratic party garnered 47 seats, Watan Taraqqiyoti (Progress of the Homeland) received 14 seats, and the Milli Tiklanish (National Revival) party, formed earlier in 1994, won seven seats.
The remainder of the mandates went to "local council nominees."
Uzbek deputies tend to just always agree with the president. (file photo)
The HDP fell to just 49 seats in the 1999 elections and Karimov's new favorite, Fidokorlar, followed with 34 seats. Watan Taraqqiyoti, Adolat, and Milli Tiklanish split the remaining 41 seats.
Local council nominees took the most seats, 110, and independent candidates won 16 seats.
Watan Taraqqiyoti merged with Fidokorlar in April 2000, but this meant nothing as far as the work of parliament was concerned.
It was President Karimov who pointed out the obvious in a speech to parliament in April 2004. "[The political parties] do not have a solid, independent platform to the point where they differ little from one another."
Karimov took that opportunity to single out the Liberal Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (LDPU) -- created in November 2003 -- and told them "not to compliment" other political parties, but rather criticize them.
The LDPU won the most seats in the parliamentary elections at the end of 2004: 41 of the seats available in a parliament that had been trimmed down to 120 members. Although local council candidates no longer appeared on the list of new deputies, independent candidates won 12 seats.
Late Uzbek President Islam Karimov (1938-2016)
But there was no "criticism" of government policies from the LDPU or any of the other parties. Karimov had again extended his term in office in a January 2002 national referendum, and when his term limit came and passed in January 2007, no one in parliament or any of the registered political parties said anything. When Karimov finally announced he would run for a third term, no one in parliament or within the political parties pointed out that the constitution limits a president to two terms in office.
After a genuine opposition candidate for president emerged in 2007 (Sanjar Umarov of the Sunshine Coalition) and was subsequently hit with criminal charges that eventually forced him to flee the country, parliament adopted an amendment in 2008 that stated only candidates from registered parties could participate in the elections.
Senate member Mavjuda Rajabova appeared on state television in October 2009, saying there was no longer any need for independent candidates since "the majority of the population has been involved in the parties' activities."
There was not much initiative from the representatives of the four parties who sat in parliament (Fidokorlar merged with Milli Tiklanish in June 2008), something Karimov drew attention to in December 2008 when he spoke before parliament.
"After the merger of two political parties, Uzbekistan has four parties now," Karimov said. "I have a question for those who are sitting in this hall: Are you members of the political parties just for the sake of membership or for the sake of being their leaders? Why don't you demand on behalf of the parties to dismiss a governor? Don't you know that last year we passed a bill to give more power and rights to political parties?!"
That rebuke did nothing to convince parliament to become more active. The executive branch of government continued to propose all significant legislation and parliament simply served to adopt it.
But the parties did seem to finally heed Karimov's criticism about their similarity to one another and made some half-hearted attempts to try to show there were differences.
One example was a January 2011 article in the newspaper Golos Naroda (Voice of the People), which is run by the HDP. The article criticized the LDPU as "intensively using...methods of black PR rather than getting engaged in impartial and practical discussions" and "making statements based on assumptions, spreading groundless information, and trying to slander one's opponents." The article gave no specific examples of these things.
Change For The Sake Of Change
After the 2004 parliamentary elections, changes were passed that would change the unicameral parliament into a bicameral parliament starting with the 2009 vote. A popular vote would be conducted for 150 seats to the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of parliament.
Uzbekistan's Oliy Majlis building (file photo)
Meanwhile, an electoral college made up of representatives from local councils in provinces across the country, the Karakalpak Autonomous Region, and the city of Tashkent, would select 84 members of the Senate with the president naming the final 16 seats.
Fifteen seats in the Oliy Majlis were reserved for members of the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan that was created in August 2008 with the purpose of publicly opposing plans by neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to build massive hydropower plants on rivers that flowed into Uzbekistan.
Despite these changes and Karimov's criticism, there is little evidence the parties have convinced voters to switch to another party. The results of the 2009 and 2014 parliamentary elections are almost identical. The LDPU topped both elections, winning 53 seats in the 2009 poll and 52 seats in 2014. Milli Tiklanish took 31 seats in 2009 and improved to 36 seats in 2014, Adolat got 19 seats in 2009 and received 20 seats in the 2014 elections, whereas the fortunes of the HDP continued to dwindle as it won 32 seats in 2009 but dropped to 27 seats in 2014.
In March 2015, the LDPU and Milli Tiklanish formed a Bloc of Democratic Forces in parliament and the Adolat and HDP parties declared they were part of the parliamentary opposition. More than four years later, as this parliament's term comes to a close, it is still unclear what difference, if any, this made.
Looking ahead to the December 22 elections, one would suspect the LDPU will maintain its majority in parliament since Mirziyoev ran as a candidate from the LDPU in the December 2016 presidential election. In case anyone missed it, the LDPU is under new leadership as Bakhtiyor Yakubov, who had been deputy chairman of the LDPU's executive committee since 2005, took over the reins when Solijon Turliev stepped down in August 2017.
An Old New World
In many ways, Uzbekistan's upcoming parliamentary elections look like they will be very similar to the previous elections.
It remains quite difficult to distinguish one party from another. And, once again, no genuine opposition parties are registered to compete.
There are again five parties running after the Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan (OEH) attained party status in January 2019.
The new environmental party has already caused some controversy.
In May, several "members" in Ferghana Province claimed they were forced to join the OEH.
And on November 23, during a "debate" of the five political parties that looked more like a lovefest, a member of the OEH came out in favor of plans to build a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan. (President Mirziyoev has been actively promoting construction of the plant.) According to some, that made Uzbekistan's Ecological Movement of Uzbekistan the only "green" party in the world to support nuclear power.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev (file photo)
So it looks to be business as usual on December 22 -- except for one thing.
These are the first parliamentary elections since Mirziyoev came to power nearly three years ago.
Mirziyoev has already removed several key figures in the government who had long been important in Karimov's administration.
Now he has an opportunity to turn the Karimov-era parliament into a Mirziyoev-parliament.
That likely means there will be some new and younger faces in parliament, though they will probably continue to function much as their predecessors have for the past 28 years.
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Samuel Williams
Sam Williams is a saxophonist currently residing in Boulder, CO. Experienced in a variety of music styles, Sam performs regularly in jazz venues and concert halls throughout northern Colorado and beyond.
In addition to freelancing as a bandleader and sideman, Sam is a member of the H2 Big Band, the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra, and Adam Bartczak's Democracy Quintet. Sam has recently recorded with The Ben Markley Big Band (featuring Terell Stafford), Tom Gershwin Quintet, Emily Takahashi Quintet, The Democracy, Art Lande's Funko Moderno, and anticipates the release of his debut jazz album as a composer/band leader in the winter of 2016.
In 2013 and 2014, Sam was awarded the Saxophone Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, where he appeared with various orchestras and chamber ensembles, presented a solo recital, and performed several U.S. and world premieres.
Sam is the baritone saxophonist in the Hemispheres Saxophone Quartet, a chamber ensemble well-versed in both jazz and classical repertoire. In 2015, Hemispheres traveled throughout China as cultural ambassadors of the U.S. State Department, with performances and masterclasses in Beijing, Tianjin, and Wuhan.
In addition to his work with the Hemispheres Quartet, recent classical performances include engagements with Philadelphia Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and Aspen Opera Center.
Sam earned Master of Music degrees in saxophone performance and jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011, where he studied with Dr. Andrew Dahlke. During his studies, Sam was the recipient of numerous awards and honors; in addition to winning the Angie Southard Competition twice, Sam was a member of multiple Downbeat Award-winning jazz ensembles. Sam was also the Teaching Assistant for the saxophone studio, and served as Dr. Dahlke's sabbatical replacement in 2011.
Upon graduation from the University of Northern Colorado, Sam worked briefly as a performer and music director on several cruise ships. Sam relocated to Boulder in 2013 and now happily considers it home. In addition to teaching private saxophone lessons, Sam also serves as an affiliate faculty member at Metropolitan State University in Denver.
Sam roasts his own coffee and enjoys the Colorado outdoors.
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Dan Fisher is a Skagit County native who began working in the construction industry for his father Chad at age 16. He went on to study Business and Construction Management at Washington State University, and joined his dad at Chad Fisher Construction in 2010.
Dan currently lives in Bow, WA, with his wife Laura and two young sons.
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Somerset author writes book for Disney
SOMERSET — Given all of the work that she has done with illustrating and writing children's books over the years, it would seem that Somerset's Nancy Cote would be a good fit to work with Disney. And in fact, an editor from Disney saw Cote's work online not that long ago and contacted her in 2017 about possibly doing some work for the company. Nothing came of that original project, but the editor, Heather Knowles, hung on to Cote's work and introduced her to another editor who was working on a project that Knowles thought Cote would be perfect for. That project did move forward and the result is that Cote wrote a book with a story that is an adaptation of one of Disney's most well known movies in recent years.
The Little Golden Book is called Frozen II, which is an adaptation of the most current movie coming out later this month.
"This just happened out of the blue," Cote said. "I didn't apply for this. I didn't submit any samples. I never considered working for Disney."
Despite all of her experience in children's publishing, Cote said she felt a little intimidated by the Frozen II project. She said Disney only gave her 18 lines describing what happens in the film to go by in writing her adaptation for the children's book which is for those between two and five years old. She had never seen the film that is coming out or the original movie. She said she called her editor at Disney a few times and they were able to talk more about the film, but she had to sign an agreement not to divulge any information about it. Cote said she was given the premise of the movie and an outline of it to use in writing a general story that would match it.
Cote received the assignment to write the book about a year ago and she was only given a month to write it. She said the story is about one of the sisters in Frozen and her discovering a certain power within herself and how strong that power is.
"It's a lovely message about what drives you in life, and I can understand how that concept has worked for me in my life and in my career," Cote said.
Cote said people may think the age group the book is written for is too young for such messages, but she said parents can pick up the strengths and directions of their children early on in life.
Cote said it had been a long time since she had seen Disney movies or books because her children at adults.
"So I had to do some research," she said.
Cote went to the Somerset Public Library to look at some Disney books and then watched the first Frozen movie to get a sense of the characters and the way the director presented them. When she was walking out of the library, one of the used books that was for sale was from the original Frozen movie.
"It kind of made me feel like it was meant to be without a doubt," Cote said of writing the book.
When she was considering the project, Cote said that her husband, who can tell when she is stressed, told her that she didn't have to do it if she didn't feel comfortable with it. She said he always reminds her that she has a lot going on, but that just makes her want to dig her feet in and do the project. She said her daughter also told her she should write the book for Disney. Cote accepted the project and signed a contract with Disney in a week or two. She did not regret it.
"I loved every minute of it," Cote said. "I really did and the editor I was working with was really encouraging all along. He said my writing was strong and solid."
Cote said the editor asked her to write the art notes for the book, which is the author giving the illustrator what she thinks would work for pictures on the pages with the story. As an illustrator of children's books, Cote said she has never been given art notes, but she said Disney is different.
"Maybe they thought because I was an illustrator, I could give the art notes," she said.
Cote said she had good vision for what the art on the pages should look like because she writes visually. She said her favorite line of all of her correspondence with Disney Publishing editor Eric Geron was that the "film makers weighed in on the Little Golden Book manuscript and loved it! Nicely done!"
Cote said she wrote the first draft of the adapted story for the book at her kitchen table and did so in one sitting, only getting up to make a peanut butter sandwich.
Another challenge in the project was that this was the first time that Cote was only writing the story for a children's book. There have been books she has created just the illustrations for or books where she has written the story and done the illustrations, but she had never just done the story for a book. She has written eight books where she was the author and illustrator. She had thought of herself as just an illustrator for many years and forgot she had a desire to write stories.
"I love writing and illustrating," Cote said. "I don't want to just illustrate books anymore. I need to be the writer."
Cote said writing and illustrating gives her a chance to balance her visions for books. She said she has written to Knowles about wanting to know what it takes to be a Disney illustrator. She said she would like to get the additional training needed to be a Disney illustrator. Cote said she would like to do both writing and illustrating for Disney in the future.
Cote bought a couple copies of Frozen II at a book store recently because she was interested to see how her words worked with another illustrator. She said the illustrations are very close to her vision.
Cote will be signing copies of Frozen II at the Somerset Public Library on Nov. 20 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Cote said she was honored to be a part of the Frozen II Little Golden Book project. She said she liked being connected to it.
"I really enjoyed it," Cote said of working on the Frozen II book. "I had forgotten about the powerful messages Disney has promoted. There's a lot of beauty and they just have such a great big impact on children, and not just children, but people of all ages. That's always been what I've wanted to do with my work- connect with people of all ages. I think we were a good fit, actually."
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California Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 2-100
Rule 2-100 Communication With a Represented Party
(A) While representing a client, a member shall not communicate directly or indirectly about the subject of the representation with a party the member knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the member has the consent of the other lawyer.
(B) For purposes of this rule, a "party" includes:
(1) An officer, director, or managing agent of a corporation or association, and a partner or managing agent of a partnership; or
(2) An association member or an employee of an association, corporation, or partnership, if the subject of the communication is any act or omission of such person in connection with the matter which may be binding upon or imputed to the organization for purposes of civil or criminal liability or whose statement may constitute an admission on the part of the organization.
(C) This rule shall not prohibit:
(1) Communications with a public officer, board, committee, or body; or
(2) Communications initiated by a party seeking advice or representation from an independent lawyer of the party's choice; or
(3) Communications otherwise authorized by law.
Rule 2-100 is intended to control communications between a member and persons the member knows to be represented by counsel unless a statutory scheme or case law will override the rule. There are a number of express statutory schemes which authorize communications between a member and person who would otherwise be subject to this rule. These statutes protect a variety of other rights such as the right of employees to organize and to engage in collective bargaining, employee health and safety, or equal employment opportunity. Other applicable law also includes the authority of government prosecutors and investigators to conduct criminal investigations, as limited by the relevant decisional law.
Rule 2-100 is not intended to prevent the parties themselves from communicating with respect to the subject matter of the representation, and nothing in the rule prevents a member from advising the client that such communication can be made. Moreover, the rule does not prohibit a member who is also a party to a legal matter from directly or indirectly communicating on his or her own behalf with a represented party. Such a member has independent rights as a party which should not be abrogated because of his or her professional status. To prevent any possible abuse in such situations, the counsel for the opposing party may advise that party (1) about the risks and benefits of communications with a lawyer-party, and (2) not to accept or engage in communications with the lawyer-party.
Rule 2-100 also addresses the situation in which member A is contacted by an opposing party who is represented and, because of dissatisfaction with that party's counsel, seeks A's independent advice. Since A is employed by the opposition, the member cannot give independent advice.
As used in paragraph (A), "the subject of the representation," "matter," and "party" are not limited to a litigation context.
Paragraph (B) is intended to apply only to persons employed at the time of the communication. (See Triple A Machine Shop, Inc. v. State of California (1989) 213 Cal.App.3d 131 [261 Cal.Rptr. 493].)
Subparagraph (C)(2) is intended to permit a member to communicate with a party seeking to hire new counsel or to obtain a second opinion. A member contacted by such a party continues to be bound by other Rules of Professional Conduct. (See, e.g., rules 1-400 and 3-310.) (Amended by order of Supreme Court, operative September 14, 1992.)
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Despite losses, GMO label backers aren't quitting
Labeling movement will continue to grow, advocates contend
Despite losses, GMO label backers aren't quitting Labeling movement will continue to grow, advocates contend Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: http://stjr.nl/1u4QWd5
Associated Press Published 5:51 p.m. PT Nov. 6, 2014 | Updated 6:46 a.m. PT Nov. 7, 2014
Buttons. Supporters of Measure 92, which would require genetically modified food to be labeled, gather at the Left Bank Annex in Portland.(Photo: Thomas Patterson / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo
PORTLAND — In the end, not even Oregon's backyard chicken owners and vegan foodies had enough money and clout to persuade voters to pass a ballot measure that would have required labeling of genetically modified foods.
Oregon is the fourth state in the West that has failed to pass a GMO labeling measure. A similar proposal also flopped Tuesday in Colorado, which joined Washington state and California as other states that have said no.
It would seem that if a label mandate could pass anywhere, it would have passed in a left-leaning state like Oregon, whose biggest city is a hub for hipsters, funky boutiques and farm-to-table dining.
But are opponents of GMOs ready to give up? Nope. They say they're making headway against biotechnology companies like Monsanto Co. and are ready to continue the fight in legislatures, on ballots, and at the federal level.
"This is a social movement that's gaining power, as people become more aware of how their food is produced," said George Kimbrell, a senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety. "So there's great success there regardless of the outcome of the measure."
There's little science that says genetically engineered foods are unsafe, and agribusinesses fear mandatory labels would spook consumers. Most of the nation's corn and soybeans are genetically engineered to resist pests and herbicides, but labeling proponents say there's too much that's unknown about GMOs.
The Oregon initiative would have required manufacturers, retailers and suppliers to label raw or packaged foods produced entirely or partially by genetic engineering, but voters narrowly rejected it by about 1 percentage point.
In the past two years, voters in California and Washington rejected labeling requirements by about a 2-point margin.
"The reason we lost narrowly is because chemical companies and their allies smashed spending records in these states," Kimbrell said. "People were being inundated with their commercials on televisions."
Opponents raised about $20 million to defeat the Oregon initiative, while the campaign to pass Measure 92 had about $7.5 million in donations.
Labeling proponents were even more dramatically outspent in Colorado, where they raised $896,000 — compared with about $16.7 million by the opposing food and biotech companies. Coloradans saw no television advertising from proponents, but there were frequent TV spots featuring farmers who called the measure misleading.
There were similar disparities in California and Washington, where the 2013 ballot measure contest was the costliest in state history.
Oregon's results underscored an urban-rural divide. Voters supported labeling in liberal cities like Portland, where at least one grocer will deliver organic produce to your door in a biodiesel-powered truck. Much of rural Oregon overwhelmingly opposed it.
"Measure 92 would have burdened our state's family farmers and food producers with costly new compliance regulations and red tape," said Pat McCormick, spokesman for the No on 92 Coalition.
Oregon voters also defeated a GMO labeling measure in 2002, when it wasn't such a prevalent issue. That measure lost by a landslide, 70 percent to 30 percent.
Since then, the political fight has escalated. The Vermont Legislature approved a labeling bill that's set to take effect in 2016. Maine and Connecticut also passed labeling laws, although they don't take effect unless other states follow suit.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, some 30 other states have also considered GMO labeling legislation this year, though none of the bills has passed.
Earlier this year, voters in two rural Oregon counties approved bans on genetically engineered crops, and voters in Hawaii's Maui County opted this week to temporarily ban the cultivation of GMOs, but those measures are a far cry from putting labels on products that families see at the supermarket.
Still, the West's four GMO labeling measures have made people aware of their choices when it comes to their food, Kimbrell said.
Labeling proponents say they're already gearing up to get legislation passed in more states and put initiatives on more ballots — though they declined to say where. Ultimately, they're pushing for federal labeling rules, though there's no indication of any impending nationwide solution.
Even those who didn't support the measures say the anti-GMO momentum deserves Big Food's attention.
"Independent of the results, there's clearly some part of the population that … wants to know what's in the food they eat, how it's made, and where it comes from," said Gregory Jaffe, biotechnology project director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "I think the industry needs to figure out ways to be more transparent."
While labeling advocates say they're just getting started, opponents aren't about to step aside.
"The patchwork of state labeling standards would require separate supply chains to be developed for each state," said Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the food industry's main trade group.
"This maze of varied regulations based on inaccurate information would cripple interstate commerce … and ultimately increase grocery prices for consumers by hundreds of dollars each year."
Bailey and Monsanto, among others, say they are seeking a federal law that would take precedence over any state laws and let companies voluntarily label their engineered foods.
That's unacceptable to food activists.
"The bottom line," Kimbrell said, "is that this movement is going to continue to grow, move forward and gain in prominence."
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Rosy Yang graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She was among the top Princeton students elected to Phi Beta Kappa, won the Woodrow Wilson School’s R. W. van de Velde Award, attained a perfect score in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination, and was named one of Hong Kong’s Ten Outstanding Teens. She currently conducts policy research in the Chief Executive’s Office of the Hong Kong Government. A long-time public affairs enthusiast, Rosy was a member of the Hong Kong International Debate Team and the Princeton Debate Panel. She served as Director of News and Culture at Princeton’s radio station WPRB, interned in government offices and NGOs, and volunteered with the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. Rosy is 24 years old and from Hong Kong.
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Glasgow’s Krysty Wilson-Cairns on co-writing Golden Globe winner 1917: “I’ve been writing for five years and this is my first movie that has been made”
Krysty Wilson-Cairns PIC: Tolga Akmen/AFP
Alistair Harkness
Published: 14:29 Monday 06 January 2020
Glasgow-born Krysty Wilson-Cairns got her big break when she was hired by Sam Mendes to work on his £90 million war film 1917. Hers is a fairytale story based on talent, hard graft and bloody-minded determination, writes Alistair Harkness
Krysty Wilson-Cairns is sitting in the old reading room at the top of London’s Imperial War Museum.
“It’s not very subtle is it?” she laughs, surveying the domed, two-tier structure and the massive curved tables that follow the contours of the room.
Indeed it’s not, but the elaborate, Dr Strangelove-esque setting is oddly appropriate. And not just because the 31-year-old Glaswegian screenwriter spent months ensconced in the reading rooms below poring over history books and front line diaries while researching the script for new war movie 1917. It’s appropriate too, because her career has blown up in a crazy way.
The aforementioned 1917, for instance, is a pretty auspicious debut. Directed and co-written by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes and budgeted at a whopping $90m, it’s a cutting-edge war epic that looks set to be a front-runner come awards season and features supporting turns from the cream of Britain’s acting crop, among them Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Madden.
It also had a wee royal premiere the previous evening, which Wilson-Cairns attended with her mum.
“That was so surreal,” she says. “I’ve been writing for five years and this is my first movie that has been made. You sort of dream about what it’ll be like, but the reality was better.”
How so? “First of all, people are liking the film, which is really rewarding. I also spent the last year and a half with Sam Mendes and the boys so it was like a little reunion.
“And then you get to meet Prince Charles. That doesn’t happen every day. And then,” she continues, “you get all dressed up. As a writer I spend most of my life in my pyjamas, so throwing a dress on every once in a while is, you know, fancy!”
So not a bad start to her career then?
“Ha! Yeah, it’s probably all downhill from here.”
That seems unlikely. Wilson-Cairns can count Edgar Wright and Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo among her next collaborators and she’s quick to credit Mendes and his Skyfall writer John Logan with pulling her out of the movie biz trenches where so many aspiring screenwriters’ careers languish or end.
Her ascent has certainly been swift. Having studied at what is now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she spent the year after graduation working in the BBC Comedy Unit as a “general dogsbody” before moving to London to attend the National Film and Television School. Making a living bar-tending in Soho, she wrote in her spare time and on breaks on her shifts, eventually penning a spec script called Aether, a sci-fi-themed serial killer thriller she affectionately describes as “schlocky,” but which was good enough to both land her on the 2014 Blacklist (the industry sourced survey of the year’s best un-produced screenplays) and sell to US production company FilmNation.
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That in turn put her on Hollywood’s radar, with Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky hiring her to adapt true crime novel The Good Nurse, a film that may yet happen, with Tobias Lindholm directing and Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne in the leads. And then Logan, who at the time was the show-runner of Sky Atlantic’s Penny Dreadful, read Aether and hired her to write on the show’s third and final season.
That’s also how she met Mendes. His company produced Penny Dreadful and invited her in for a general meeting. She ended up pitching him several ideas. “I don’t think he expected me to be that gallus, but I absolutely went for it. And we just hit it off.”
Though the first two films he hired her to write fell apart, when he called her with the idea for 1917– which was inspired by a story Mendes’ soldier grandfather, Alfred Mendes, had told him as a boy – he said “third time’s a charm” and they were off.
There was, however, one more surprise. He casually mentioned that the film – about a soldier (George Mackay) making his way across No Man’s Land to deliver an urgent message – would be shot in a simulated single take. “Then he hung up on me,” grins Wilson-Cairns. “I was like, ‘What?’ I had to text him to see if I’d heard him properly.”
She subsequently sat at Mendes’ kitchen table hammering out ideas and figuring out the structure, then rewatched every film with notable long takes – Rope, Birdman, Victoria, Touch of Evil, Children of Men, the opening scene of Mendes’ last Bond film Spectre – before driving round Northern France to get a feel for the landscape the characters in this real-time story would be moving through. “That massively informed the writing,” she confirms. “I finished the script at the end of that trip.”
She was also on set every day, which had the added bonus of letting her return to Glasgow when the production decamped to the dry docks at Govan early last year to shoot a crucial scene. “Believe it or not, my grandfather used to run haulage out of there,” she says. “It was so weird because I’d spent a year writing this and the production looked all over the UK for a place that would look industrial enough and French enough and they found it in my back garden. It was nuts.”
Her Glasgow friends kept asking if they could visit the set, but she had to confess she didn’t have that kind of power. She did love the fact that local kids kept trying to break in – and especially loved the two who outfoxed security by stealing a boat and sailing across the Clyde onto the set. “It’s peak Glasgow,” she beams. “It’s like, ‘Naw, we’re getting in there.’ It was amazing.”
Turns out she also had some of that brazenness as a teenager. Growing up in Shawlands on the Southside of the city, she talked her way onto the set of Taggart when she was 14 after spotting the Scottish TV institution shooting near her house. She went back everyday until they gave her a job, which makes her sound like the Scottish Spielberg. She laughs away the comparison, but does find stories like this fascinating. “If you don’t have any kind of personal family connection to the industry, it just seems so impenetrable, right? I just wanted to know more about it all and, luckily, people at Taggart and, later, Rebus, were very open to that.”
It was properly life changing too: the night before she was due to go down south to study engineering at university she told her mum she wanted to do film instead. Hence why she ended up at the Conservatoire.
And now 1917 is about to open in cinemas, followed in the autumn by Last Night in Soho, her aforementioned collaboration with Edgar Wright, whom she also met through Mendes. And after that, she’s got another three films in the pipeline that she describes as “dream projects” but can’t talk about, as well a non-superhero script for the Russo brothers, which she can’t talk about either, but does let slip is called La Hacienda. “It’s pretty weird, isn’t it?” she surmises of her career thus far. “I think maybe one of my agents does voodoo or sold their soul. Either way they’re getting presents!”
1917 is in cinemas from 10 January
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Friday, Aug 09, 2019 12:22 AM
Quarterback Paxton Lynch Impresses In Seahawks Debut
John Boyle
Seahawks.com Reporter
The first time Paxton Lynch dropped back to pass, he bounced a pass at the feet of rookie receiver Gary Jennings.
For the rest of his night, however, Lynch was excellent in his first preseason game with the Seahawks, helping lead a second-half comeback as the Seahawks knocked off Denver 22-14 Thursday night at CenturyLink Field.
Lynch, who is competing with Geno Smith for the backup job behind Russell Wilson, played the entire second half after Smith played the first half, and led a pair of touchdown drives while completing 11 of 15 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown, giving him a 115.7 passer rating. Lynch also rushed for 38 yards on four carries, including a 9-yard touchdown run he capped by spinning off one would-be tackler before powering through another at the goal line.
"I thought Paxton Lynch did a really good job," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "Paxton handled himself well, good tempo with the game. And he ran the ball really well; he's a big unit running now. You saw him down by the goal line, that's a fantastic run for a quarterback to score down there. But just in general he got out and made some yardage with his legs."
And yes, Lynch's big performance did happen to come against the team that selected him in the first round of the 2016 draft, only to cut him two years later prior to the start of last season. But while folks on Twitter might have jokingly dubbed this the "Paxton Lynch Revenge Game," he was quick to dismiss that he was motivated by facing his former team.
"I know that there was some talk that it was about that, but I love those guys," Lynch said. "I have a lot of love for a lot of guys on that team, they mean a lot to me. I respect them and love them, they're close friends to me, so it had nothing to do with that. It was more to me, I had a lot to prove to myself tonight, and I feel like I went out there and did that."
If Lynch did seem particularly animated for a preseason game, it wasn't about the opponent, but rather the fact that he was back on the field after sitting out the entire 2018 season. After Denver released him prior to the start of the regular season, Lynch got a few workouts with different teams through the season, including Seattle, but didn't end up signing with anyone until the Seahawks signed him to a future contract at the end of the season.
"I just wanted to show myself that all the hard work I'd put in had paid off," Lynch said. "I had a long offseason, basically. While everyone else was playing, I was at home, I wasn't playing, I was watching on TV. I know I was working hard, I was building myself up, believing in myself and trying get back to where I was and trying to figure out how I could do that. I was excited when Seattle gave me the opportunity to come here, and I'm glad they gave me the opportunity to go out there and do what I did tonight."
So yes, this preseason game might have felt a little different than the ones he played with Denver.
"There was a lot that went into this, and definitely having that year off played a big part of that," he said. "But I just wanted to go out there with my guys and win a football game and show those coaches that they can trust me if my number is ever called upon. I feel like I did a good job in that, but it's only the first preseason game and we've still got three more."
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Platform-based business models – face-to-face with disruption?
Julie Woods-Moss Subscribe
It’s time for CIOs to think differently
In recent years, the wind of change has switched direction. Instead of increased globalisation, digital disruption is the major talking point. According to IDC, we’ll see break-in competitors causing disruption in 50% of all industries by 2018.
However, disruption isn’t something we should talk about, then park and worry about at some point in the future. If you’re the CIO of one of the incumbents, it’s a clear and present danger. Right now, for instance, Accenture considers that 32% of bank revenues are at risk from disruption. The Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) has levelled the playing field; now the sector is rife with disruption as threats come from fintechs, tech companies and challenger banks.
What constitutes disruption?
A recent report by Harvard Business Review suggests that there are three distinct types of disruption: High-end disruption, low-end disruption and new-market disruption.
High-end disruption means that, like Stories from Instagram (and its eponymous rival from Snapchat), you’ve entered the market with a proposition superior to what incumbents offer.
Low-end disruption is typical of cheaper and simpler service businesses (think Jive and its social networking, for example) but can also include offerings such as those from mattress manufacturer and vendor Purple, who disrupted the market by selling online. This model makes the offering more affordable and simpler to use.
Finally, there are new-market disruptions, such as Netflix. These both create new categories and give a whole new range of companies the chance to profit.
However, in practice, these divisions are somewhat artificial. Just as one man’s meat is another man’s poison, one person’s high-end disruption is a new-market disruption. Spotify, for instance is a service (low-end) – but is it also a better version of radio (high-end) and/or a whole new category (new-market)?
Hunt around (or indeed open the pages of any paper, any day) and you’ll find countless examples of companies that fall into one or more of these categories: YouTube, Amazon, Next Label, the Apple Store and Philips HealthSuite, for example. Some, such as Amazon with its reported $107bn turnover, have become digital gorillas in their sectors. Others carve out a highly profitable niche. But what do these disruptors have in common? Two things. They’re all successful businesses. And, what’s more, they’ve all got where they are through business models based on the clever use of platforms.
Platform business models – the way ahead?
According to Jo Caudron and Dado Van Peteghem’s book Digital Transformation, there are at least ten discrete platform-based business models at the heart of digital disruption and seven strategies that help address its challenges. But what is the essence of a platform business model – and what makes it tick?
A platform business model isn’t about technology. It’s a way of bringing consumers and producers together – and it’s not a new idea. Platform business models have been around for years, using bricks and mortar as the place where business exchanges happen. July 2016’s MIT Platform Summit defined the model as “an infrastructure on top of which external producers can come and create value, and on top of which consumers can come in and consume the value”.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.” Henry Ford’s comment has a point. If you’re going to be different, it’s time to start thinking platform, not product. And that means it’s time to come to terms with the way in which the internet has changed the rules of business.
The dominant business model used to be “create, push, sell” – in other words, produce the products, push them out and sell them to customers. But now the internet has allowed us to switch from “pipe” to “platform”, where users add value and then consume it themselves. TV is a pipe, that simply issues content. YouTube, on the other hand, is a platform model. And make no mistake, business platform models are the business of the future: as Marshall Alstyne of MIT said in Platform Strategy & Open Business Models, “Platforms beat products every time.”
Start your planning now
Over the next few weeks, this series of blogs will look in more detail at platform business models. We’ll assess the key ingredients that combine to create one, why it’s particularly relevant to CIOs, how to start, and the nine key areas that you need to consider. By 2018, according to IDC, >50% of large enterprises – and more than 80% of enterprises with advanced digital transformation strategies – that will have a platform business model in place. With our help, you could be ready to join them.
Watch out for the next in this series, where we’ll cast an eye over the elements that you’ll need to put in place.
How can businesses stay ahead of the curve on platformisation? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Should Marriage Equality Be Taught as Controversial Post-Obergefell v. Hodges?
by Wayne Journell - 2018
Background: Having students engage with controversial issues is considered a hallmark of a quality civic education, in part because it requires students to interact with perspectives that contradict their existing worldviews, evaluate the legitimacy of positions based on evidence, and develop the skills and dispositions necessary for participation in an increasingly pluralistic democratic society. Most of the research on the teaching of controversial issues, however, has focused on how teachers and students respond to controversy as opposed to how controversy is framed. Teachers must determine whether an issue should be considered �open,� or controversial, or �settled,� or noncontroversial, in their classrooms, a decision that is both pedagogically important and often controversial. For issues that have been settled for some time, such as slavery or woman suffrage, the decision whether to frame them as open or settled is typically easy for teachers; however, issues that are in the process of tipping from open to settled, or vice versa, are more challenging and require that teachers make instructional decisions based on evidence and logical reasoning.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to critically analyze whether the issue of marriage equality should be framed as controversial in the aftermath of the 2015 landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. In doing so, this article also offers several implications for the teaching of controversial issues broadly, particularly those that intersect with the identities of students and teachers.
Research Design: This article makes an analytical/theoretical argument using three commonly cited criteria for determining the openness of controversial issues: the epistemic criterion, the political criterion, and the politically authentic criterion.
Conclusions/Recommendations: After evaluating marriage equality using each criterion, I conclude that no rational reason exists for treating marriage quality as an open issue post-Obergefell. I also argue that the issue of marriage equality illustrates the need for teachers to be cognizant of how discussions of controversial issues that implicate students� identities may impact students who may be marginalized by those issues. I recommend that when such issues have reached the point where subjective decisions must be made in determining whether they are framed as open or settled, deference should be made to framing those issues in a way that promotes public values as opposed to legitimizing private views.
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Wayne Journell
WAYNE JOURNELL is Associate Professor and coordinator of the Secondary Teacher Education Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on the teaching of politics and political processes in secondary education. He is a recent winner of the Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award from the National Council for the Social Studies and the Early Career Award from the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies. He is the editor of two recently published books, Reassessing the Social Studies Curriculum: Promoting Critical Civic Engagement in a Politically Polarized, Post-9/11 World and Teaching Social Studies in an Era of Divisiveness: The Challenges of Discussing Social Issues in a Non-Partisan Way, both published in 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield. He is also the author of Teaching Politics in Secondary Education, which is set to be published in 2017 by SUNY Press. He is also the editor of Theory & Research in Social Education, which is the premier research journal in the field of social studies education.
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Founding Document
A new book argues for the enduring significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration
By Adam Kirsch
Lord Balfour in Rishon Lezion in 1925.(Library of Congress)
On October 31, 1917, the British Cabinet approved a one-sentence statement of policy regarding its plans for Palestine, which the British Army was just then in the process of conquering away from the Ottoman Empire: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” Two days later, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, sent this message in a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, the head of Britain’s most prominent Jewish family, and a week later the so-called Balfour Declaration was made public. The reaction of Zionists, in England and around the world, was euphoric. For the first time, a great power had committed itself to Theodor Herzl’s dream of establishing a Jewish homeland.
The first person to learn about the Balfour Declaration—even before Rothschild—was Chaim Weizmann, who more than any other individual was responsible for winning the British government over to the Zionist cause. In The Balfour Declaration, his dynamic new telling of this famous history, Jonathan Schneer describes Weizmann’s reaction to the news, as recalled by a fellow Zionist leader, Shmuel Tolkowsky. “Weizmann was so filled with pleasure, Tolkowsky recorded, that he ‘behaved like a child: He embraced me for a long time, placed his head on my shoulder and pressed my hand, repeating over and over mazel tov.’ That night, at his home, at an impromptu celebration, Weizmann and his wife and friends literally danced for joy.” A month later, at a mass meeting in London, thousands of people heard Rothschild declare, “We are met on the most momentous occasion in the history of Judaism for the last eighteen hundred years.”
But was it? The Balfour Declaration is still regarded, almost a century later, as one of the great milestones in Jewish history and as the unofficial beginning of the State of Israel—if not its birthday, then its date of conception. Certainly, as Schneer shows, Weizmann and his colleagues—including Nahum Sokolow, the Zionist movement’s chief diplomat, and less famous figures like the Manchester-based Zionists Harry Sacher, Israel Sieff, and Simon Marks—had ample reason to celebrate. They had been working for years to convince the British government that Jewish settlement in Palestine would advance British interests in the Middle East, as well as being an act of historical justice for the Jews. They lobbied politicians all the way up to the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. They enlisted journalists like C.P. Scott, liberal editor of the Manchester Guardian, and society figures like Dorothy Rothschild, the 18-year-old daughter-in-law of the family’s French scion. And they met with a surprising degree of enthusiasm from the British Foreign Office, especially from Sir Mark Sykes, the roving diplomat who was Britain’s chief Middle East expert. (It was Sykes who told Weizmann about the Declaration, greeting him with the words, “It’s a boy.”)
One of the many ironies in this story is that Weizmann, a Russian-born Jew who more or less appointed himself the leader of British Zionism, came to be seen by the government as a more legitimate representative of Jewish interests than Britain’s own established Jewish organizations, which were mostly anti-Zionist. Schneer focuses on the figure of Lucien Wolf, a former journalist who was the head of the Conjoint Committee, a group devoted to lobbying against the Zionist program. To Wolf, just as to some Jewish anti-Zionists today, Zionism was a betrayal of the Jews’ “invincible attachment to things of the spirit and … their strongly marked individualism.” The future, he and his supporters believed, would be post-national, with no place for ethnically based states. Worse, creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine would endanger the claims of Jews everywhere else to equal citizenship.
It was to assuage this fear that the Declaration included the phrase about not prejudicing the rights of Jews in any other country. But this provision was not enough to satisfy Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, who was the only Jew in the Cabinet that approved the Balfour Declaration—and its most vocal opponent. When the Declaration was approved, Montagu wrote in his diary: “The Government has dealt an irreparable blow to Jewish Britons, and they have endeavoured to set up a people which does not exist.” There was a certain idealism in the assimilationist view, Schneer shows, as well as an obvious dread of Jewish conspicuousness. What it lacked, as Schneer points out, was any realism about the Jewish predicament. “Anti-Semitism has scaled heights beyond Montagu’s imagining in 1917,” he writes, “but without regard to Britain’s recognition of Palestine as ‘a national home for the Jewish people.’ ”
In other ways, however, it is surprising how much the Balfour Declaration still seems to matter. Readers of Tablet will remember, for instance, that this summer, Israel’s President Shimon Peres caused a sensation when he undiplomatically told Benny Morris that the British establishment had always been pro-Arab and anti-Jewish. In the ensuing debate, exhibit number one was the Balfour Declaration. To Zionists, it is a standing rebuke to British hypocrisy, since—according to historian Efraim Karsh, writing about Peres’ comment in the Jerusalem Post—“no sooner had Britain been appointed as the mandatory power in Palestine, with the explicit task of facilitating the establishment of a Jewish national home in the country in accordance with the Balfour Declaration, than it reneged on this obligation.” To foes of Israel, on the other hand, the Declaration looks like proof that the country is a creature of imperialism. Thus a writer at the anti-Israel website middleeastmonitor.org speaks of “the persistent question marks over [Israel’s] legitimacy, going back to 1917 and colonial Britain’s endorsement of the Zionist project through the Balfour Declaration.”
It seems bizarrely easy to lose sight of the fact that, in the 93 years since the Declaration was issued, the Jewish population of what began as Palestine and is now Israel has grown from less than a hundred thousand to nearly 6 million. A network of agricultural settlements has become an advanced urban society and a powerful state. In short, it should no longer matter, practically or morally or legally, whether the Balfour Declaration made Israel possible, since it certainly did not make modern Israel actual. As Karsh notes, in fact, the Declaration was the high point of British enthusiasm for the Zionist project. Within five years of the Declaration, the British were restricting land purchases by Jews in Palestine; in the 1930s, they closed the region to Jewish immigration, just as Nazism made it more necessary than ever; and in the 1940s, they resisted Jewish claims to statehood as long as possible, including with violence.
Even the subtitle of Schneer’s book—“The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict”—seems to overstate the Declaration’s real significance. It is certainly true that Britain’s Middle East policy during World War I—and nothing less than that is Schneer’s real subject—laid up plenty of trouble for the future. Parallel to the story of the Declaration, Schneer tells the even better-known story of the Arab Revolt: the attempt, assisted by British officials including Lawrence of Arabia, to overthrow the Ottomans and establish an Arab state in the Middle East. Even before the war was over, it became clear that Britain’s promise to Sharif Hussein of Mecca—to install him as king of an Arab empire stretching from Damascus to Baghdad—was not made in good faith.
For one thing, of course, it contradicted the pledge of Palestine to the Jews. Still more duplicitous was the Sykes-Picot agreement, in which Britain and France secretly carved up the map of the Middle East between them. Britain even considered making a deal with the Ottoman Turks—a part of the story that Schneer tells in great detail, even though the unofficial negotiations never amounted to much. Even the willingness to consider a separate peace with the Turks, however, showed how ready the British were to throw over their Arab and Jewish clients in the interest of winning the war.
But even if the British had not been so feckless, there is no reason to think that more careful diplomacy could have headed off “the Arab-Israeli conflict.” The root of that conflict was not that Britain promised the same land to two different peoples, but that two different peoples wanted the same land. The Balfour Declaration, which inspired such jubilation among Zionists in 1917, did not give that land to the Jews. It only gave the Jews the opportunity to struggle for it.
Adam Kirsch is a poet and literary critic, whose books include The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature.
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Jonathan Silverman says:
The best book on this, is The Legal by Howard Grief. His surname is ironic, since the issue gives us all so much grief. It was probably this man’s purpose in life to write this book, it’s a masterpiece. It deserves to win the Israel Prize. It is available in Kindle for just ten bucks.
http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Foundation-Borders-Israel-International/dp/9657344522/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283269657&sr=8-2-spell
Jan Lisa Huttner says:
August 31, 2010 - 12:21 pm
I discussed this exact question with Michael Oren way back in ’07 when we chatted about LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (my own all-time favorite film & I think his too). Here’s what he had to say on this subject…
ME: “In Rashid Khalidi’s new book THE IRON CAGE, he goes on & on about the Balfour Declaration, & it makes me laugh. I want to ask him: ‘Don’t you know about the Sykes-Picot Treaty? The British were promising everything to everybody during WWI!’ That’s my perception from having seen LAWRENCE. The Balfour Declaration is just one paragraph!”
MICHAEL: “And it’s a very ambiguous paragraph. Keep in mind that the promises made to the Arabs under the Hussein/McMahon correspondence were very specific about borders: there’s going to be an independent Arab state here, here, & here. They were designating borders.
The Balfour Declaration, by contrast, promises to support the creation of ‘a Jewish national home,’ not ‘a state,’ not Palestine as ‘the Jewish National Home,’ & certainly not Palestine as ‘the Jewish state.’ There’s a double ambiguity built into the Balfour Declaration that’s not built into the Hussein/McMahon correspondence. So in terms of promises, it’s probably the flimsiest one the British gave to anybody during World War I. The fact is the Jews were able to turn around & make that promise something else…”
Here’s link to our full chat: http://www.films42.com/chats/michael-oren.asp
Mark S. Devenow says:
If it is true, as it might be, that the Balfour Declaration “did not give that land to the Jews … It only gave the Jews the opportunity to struggle for it” it is also undeniable that the emergence of modern Israel would be all but impossible to imagine without such a document. No doubt, Great Britain, from virtually the day after it revealed its commitment to a Jewish sovereignty over (parts of) Palestine, consistently worked to undermine the prospect set forth. No doubt, Britain armed Arab armies before, at and around the time Israel’s Independence was declared “with a view to” seeing the promise extinguished. No doubt, England staked its diplomatic bets (nakedly at that) in accordance with the desire to see pre-entellichal modern Israel removed from the equation by which it sought to have curried favor with the Arabs. Still and withal, it is exceedingly precious to think that the Balfour Declaration bore no, or negligible consequence. That Jews would be (prove) “able to turn around and make (something of) that promise” may have come as a surprise to some (including maybe most Jews then alive) but the truth is dual: 1) that we did make something of this; and 2) absent a foundational document to this effect it would have been much more difficult – maybe impossible – for the Jews to have become sovereign again in (parts of) the ancient homeland.
Steve Rosenberg says:
It’s August 31, 2010. “Lawrence” aired on TV in Metro-Philly two nights ago. Tomorrow night I will see a restored/improved 35mm print of “Lawrence” at the Bryn Mawr, PA Film Institute. The historical lessons of that stirring story of the Arab Revolt were lost before they were learned. Responsibility for the Sykes-Picot doublecross has never been fully assessed. Tonight President Obama will go on national TV to speak about the “end of war in Iraq,” blah, blah, blah. The Obama Administration, indeed the Bush administration, would have served us all far better had they closely viewed “Lawrence” BEFORE their misadventures in a part of the world they did not, and still do not, understand.
john thames says:
The Balfour Declaration did nothing more than give the Zionist Jews a pseudo-legal excuse for stealing someone else’s land. As for the rights and wrongs of the declaration no longer being relevant was it not Adolf Hitler who stated “History judges by success alone”?
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Left hand, right brain.
Post Series: Musician
1.Left hand, right brain.
2.Born To Be Wild
3.Bagpipes on parade
4.Tuba la belle
So what’s a young boy to do?
Eight years old and a well meaning relative hands you a beaten up second hand guitar. Little did they know what effect this simple act would have on the young and impressionable Kevin – but not in the way you might think. Armed with said guitar and a copy of Bert Weedon’s ‘Play In A Day’ best seller, Kevin set forth to the Bobby Shaftoe page and attempted the tabs and chords shown …
After 20 minutes of this he gave up. Strange… it just didn’t sound like Bobby Shaftoe. What WAS the problem? Did he lack any natural ear for a tune? (maybe) Were his hands too big for the chords? …too small maybe?No. Coming from a non-instrument playing family, he’d just naturally picked up his guitar in the ‘Lefty’ or ‘Southpaw’ style. He was (and still is) in fact what is known as an ‘awkward’ guitar player and didn’t realise the strings and the chords needed to be reversed right-to-left.The guitar went back in it’s box under the bed.One year later, and with an upside-down, re-strung guitar and new resolve, he set upon Bobby Shaftoe and all was well with the world of Small Folk.
At school his drama teacher owned a large open tape reel to reel recorder, on which he would record sound effects for the school plays. So along with his love of music, synths and guitars, the recording process became of much more interest, and at 14 years old he employed two mono cassette tape recorders as his ‘sound on sound’ multi-recording setup until he could afford something better years later.
Forty two years on and the flame still burns brightly, if occasionally turned down to slightly less than eleven. From the humble beginnings of playing along to Pink Floyd and Mike Oldfield to performing live at the Albert Hall with his band ‘An American in Paris’ in the 1980’s, Kevin still can’t put that guitar down (although not the same one he started with).
Along the way he’s done the odd bit of session work, been played on the radio and appeared on MTV Italy’s San Remo Rock Festival. He’s recorded at Jimmy Page’s Studios and played the original Marquee Club in London. And… wait for it…been awarded his Blue Peter Badge for the band’s contribution to raising money for the ‘Appeal for Kampuchea [Cambodia] in 1988.
The band broke up in typical Spinal Tap style in 1990 while still signed to Bill Wyman’s (Rolling Stones) record label – but this didn’t stop the creative process. After a brief hiatus, Kevin continued writing and recording and produced two solo albums under the name of ‘Big Blue Car’ (bigbluecar.co.uk) of which samples can be found at his myspace internet site (www.myspace.com/bigbluecarmusic).
All this sounds like a full time career, but surprisingly it’s not what pays the bills. As part of the creative mix, Kevin is a successful Graphic Designer with his own company Arc-Digital (arc-digital.co.uk). He continues to write and play when the moment allows. He has recently helped form LUXX (luxxband.com) to let him do one of the things he loves best, perform great music in front of an appreciative audience.
So what’s been the highlight so far? Well there had been so many – especially meeting well known people you admire, who turn out to be ‘decent and down-to-earth’. But according to Kevin one of the highlights was “sitting down of an evening and watching ‘Spinal Tap’ for the first time with Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones at one of his houses (Gedding Hall, in Suffolk – formerly owned by the Kray twins), around the time that we were first signed to his record label”.
Phewwwww, I’m worn out just from writing it down!
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St. Stephen Lutheran Church has new pastor
Jennifer Dahle was installed as the new pastor at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Wausau.
St. Stephen Lutheran Church has new pastor Jennifer Dahle was installed as the new pastor at St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Wausau. Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: https://spjour.nl/1Qs0Jo2
St. Stephen Lutheran Church, For Daily Herald Media Published 5:03 p.m. CT Dec. 7, 2015
Dahle(Photo: Nancy Henke)
WAUSAU - St. Stephen Lutheran Church in downtown Wausau has a new pastor.
The Rev. Jennifer Dahle became pastor in September.
Prior to becoming a pastor, Dahle was a teacher. Her ability to speak, teach, listen, and lead are done with warmth and understanding, reminding us how Christ wants us to live our lives.
Besides sharing the word and sacrament, there are many opportunities for church members to get involved. Activities include education and Bible study, quilting for Lutheran World Relief, choir (voice and bell), fellowship for all ages, and social service programs that support a wide range of organizations locally, nationally, and across the globe.
The church was founded in 1881 and has a long history of serving our community and missionaries abroad. The building located at 512 McClellan Street was constructed over 100 years ago in 1910, and was deemed a historic landmark in 2002. With a red brick foundation, tall spires, a bell tower, old stained glass windows, and a majestic Sanctuary filled with ornate woodwork and organ music that fills the rafter. The building is beautiful and inviting both inside and out.
A traditional worship service is held on Sundays at 9 a.m., followed by coffee hour. A shorter, less formal service is held on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. Worships services are telecast on Channel 980 on Mondays at 3:00 p.m., and Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. More information can be found at www.sslcwausau.com, or you can call the church office at (715) 845-7858.
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NBC Weapons: February 24, 2002
Data captured in al Qaeda safe houses and offices in Afghanistan has shown that Bin Laden's organization was frantically trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction, and had zeroed in on Ex-Soviet Central Asia as the place to get them. The labs and bases in the formerly Soviet republics have numerous nuclear warheads, biological weapons stocks, and chemical munitions. Of these, the biological weapons are the least protected. Vials of anthrax stored in the Anti-Plague Institute in Alma Atta are kept not in deep vaults but in an ordinary refrigerator with a padlock on the door. Until recently, that lab didn't even have a fence around it; the omnipresent power of the Soviet State had protected it for decades. The US has since paid for a fence. Criminals in the mid-90s broke into the lab to steal equipment they could melt down and sell as scrap, ignoring bioweapon samples stored in (then-unlocked) refrigerators. The Soviet Union had a staggering ability to produce bioweapons. One facility was built to produce 1.5 tons of antibiotic-resistant anthrax every 24 hours. Now, at least 7,000 scientists and technicians employed in the Soviet bioweapons program are unemployed. The US is paying $30 million to dismantle the largest bioweapons plant (Stepnogorsk) and put its scientists to work producing vaccines.--Stephen V Cole
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Warren C. Fuller
Warren C. Fuller, 85, left Thursday, Jan. 22, to be reunited with his wife of 60 years, Barbara, who passed away on July 15.
He leaves two sons and a daughter, Paul W. Fuller and his wife, Maureen, of Palmer, Steven W. Fuller and his wife, Barbara, of Lancaster, and Barbara Jane Hanc and her husband, Francis, of Dudley. He also leaves a brother, John Fuller of Amesbury, five grandchildren, Sarah, Nicole, Nathan, Stephanie and Lindsey. He was predeceased by two sisters and a brother, Priscilla Wood, Edith Fuller and Milbury Biron Fuller. He also leaves behind many cherished friends in the Chatham Village Circle as well as his feline companion, Ghazi.
He was born in Newburyport, son of Adona (Conklin) and Walter T. Fuller. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. He was a registered pharmacist for Hastings Drug where he worked for 40 years until his retirement in 1987. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and member of Morning Star Lodge AF&AM Scottish Rite, York Rite, and Aleppo Shriners. He was also a member of St. Michael�s on the Heights Episcopal Church, Retired Men�s Club of Greendale, and the Finnish Heritage Society of Rutland. He enjoyed all types of fishing and was an avid fan of the Red Sox and Patriots.
Funeral services will be held at St. Michael�s on the Heights on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in All Faiths Cemetery. Nordgren Memorial Chapel, 300 Lincoln St., is directing arrangements. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Michael�s on the Heights �Organ Fund� 340 Burncoat St., Worcester, MA 01606, or Shriners Hospital for Children, 516 Carew St., Springfield, MA 01104-2396. For directions and online condolences, visit NordgrenMemorialChapel.com.
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East London Mosque
Our report “Extremist leader jailed for child abuse” (Jan 20) wrongly said that some of the victims of Ashraf Miah, described in a court report as a former teacher at the East London Mosque, were introduced via the Mosque. We are happy to confirm that the Mosque has no record of him ever having taught there and that there was no suggestion at trial of his victims having been introduced to him there.
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Capital Region Gives: Nonprofit harnesses healing power of art
Beyond My Battle seeks artists living with medical conditions
Jennifer Patterson
March 15, 2019 Updated: March 15, 2019 9:31 p.m.
For Nell Pritchard, the silver lining of living with a chronic illness boils down to one word — perspective.
Pritchard, who has cystic fibrosis, recently underwent a kidney transplant after receiving a lung transplant in 2011.
"I feel grateful to have this unique perspective," said Pritchard, co-founder of the nonprofit Beyond My Battle. "The lows make the highs that much better, I really believe that, which is the message we're trying to send with Beyond My Battle."
In 2016, Pritchard met "kindred spirt" Martel Catalano, who is living with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disease that is essentially killing the rods — the photoreceptor cells responsible for low-light vision — in her eyes.
Martel Catalano and Nell Pritchard (right) founded the nonprofit Beyond My Battle, an online community that extends positive, supportive fellowship to people living with chronic illness. (Alexandria Eigo Photography)
Both had explored online support groups for their respective conditions, eager to find people who could relate to what they were going through. What they experienced was negative thinking and worst-case scenarios.
While the fast friends couldn't understand each other's struggles on a physical level, they related on an emotional one.
For information about how to submit artwork to "Beyond My Battle: Art with Heart & Hope," which opens May 9, go to beyondmybattle.org.
Pritchard and Catalano decided to start their own online community, a resource that extends the positive, supportive fellowship they found in one another.
"This community allows you to be more comfortable and honest with yourself, because most of us are feeling or have felt the same way," Pritchard said. "There's so much you can't change, but how you go about it makes all the difference."
Beyond My Battle develops and distributes educational resources and provides emotional support for people dealing with chronic illnesses, rare diseases and disabilities, along with their families.
Rather than offering support and education around a specific condition, the organization concentrates on the interconnectedness of body and mind, no matter the diagnosis.
Helping people get to the root of their stress so they can better detect, manage and reduce it is a big part of the nonprofit's work, as is teaching how to communicate with empathy and embracing positivity.
In that same vein, Pritchard and Catalano are planning a "Beyond My Battle: Art with Heart & Hope" show in May, which will exhibit artwork by people living with a chronic illness, rare disease or disability and their caretakers.
The exhibition will highlight the ways in which art can help manage the stress of living with or caring for someone with a medical condition.
To submit artwork for consideration, send a photo of the piece, its dimensions and medium along with your name and a description (about 100 words) of how you use art to "move beyond your battle" to info@beyondmybattle.org.
Artists must be 14 or older. The deadline to submit is March 30.
The show will be on display May 9-12 at Spring Street Gallery, at 110 Spring St. in Saratoga Springs.
An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. May 9, with catered food and drink and live music. Tickets are available at beyondmybattle.org.
"We're going on year two as a nonprofit, which is a critical point for us as we continue to offer services," Pritchard said. "I'm really looking forward to talking more with people face to face, because isolation can be such a big issue in the chronic illness community, and this is a great way to branch out."
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She writes the Capital Region Gives column and blog, the Getting There column and blog and the On the Move business feature and blog, among other items.
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"Shoot for the Moment"
Missouri Valley Conference Tournament 2018
COLLEGE BASKETBALL: MAR 01 MVC Championship - Evansville v UNI
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25), left, drives with the ball against Northern Iowa Panthers guard Hunter Rhodes (21) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25), right, goes up for a shot over the top of Northern Iowa Panthers guard Hunter Rhodes (21) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Blake Simmons (50), right, drives the baseline against Northern Iowa Panthers forward Klint Carlson (2) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0), right, goes up for the rebound over Northern Iowa Panthers guard Tywhon Pickford (4) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25) follows through on a free throw during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Spencer Haldeman (30) reacts to a call while on the ground during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25), right, drives for the basket against Northern Iowa Panthers center Ted Friedman (3) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0), center, splits the defense of Northern Iowa Panthers guard Isaiah Brown (24), left, and Northern Iowa Panthers guard Hunter Rhodes (21), right, enroute to the basket during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0), right, goes up for a shot over the top of Northern Iowa Panthers forward Klint Carlson (2) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Dru Smith (12) looks to make a play during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Dru Smith (12) drives for the basket during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0), right, goes up for a shot over the top of Northern Iowa Panthers guard Isaiah Brown (24) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard K.J. Riley (33) looks to make a play during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25) goes in for the shot undefended during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0) goes up for a shot during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Evansville Aces and the Northern Iowa Panthers on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Isaiah Brown (24), right, goes up for a shot over Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0) during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers forward Bennett Koch (25) goes up for a shot during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers forward Austin Phyfe (50) drives in for a layup during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Wyatt Lohaus (33), center, takes a shot between Evansville Aces guard Noah Frederking (30), left, and Evansville Aces guard Duane Gibson (25), right, during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers forward Bennett Koch (25) works the baseline for a shot attempt during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Spencer Haldeman (30) goes in for a shot as the shot clock expires during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Spencer Haldeman (30) looks to make a play during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Hunter Rhodes (21) goes up for a shot during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Hunter Rhodes (21), right, drives for the basket around Evansville Aces guard Ryan Taylor (0) during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers forward Klint Carlson (2), right, reacts at a break in the action during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Isaiah Brown (24) looks to make a play during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Northern Iowa Panthers guard Isaiah Brown (24) follows through on a shot attempt during the second half of an MVC Tournament basketball game. The Northern Iowa Panthers defeated the Evansville Aces 60-50 on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
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ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders forward Mileek McMillan (23), right, drives for the basket past Missouri State Bears forward Obediah Church (5) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders center Derrik Smits (21), left, drives for the basket in front of Missouri State Bears forward Obediah Church (5) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders center Derrik Smits (21), left, takes a shot over Missouri State Bears forward Obediah Church (5) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Bakari Evelyn (4) motions to his team during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Tevonn Walker (2) moves with the ball during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders center Jaume Sorolla (14), left, goes up for a shot over Missouri State Bears center Tanveer Bhullar (34) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Markus Golder (5), left, goes up for a shot in front of Missouri State Bears guard Ryan Kreklow (20) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Max Joseph (3) looks to make a play during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Max Joseph (3) goes up for a shot during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Markus Golder (5), left, goes up for a shot during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Max Joseph (3), left, drives the baseline in front of Missouri State Bears guard Mustafa Lawrence (1) during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
ST. LOUIS, MO - MARCH 01: Valparaiso Crusaders guard Max Joseph (3), left, goes up for a shot during the first half of an MVC Tournament basketball game between the Missouri State Bears and the Valparaiso Crusaders on March 1, 2018, at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO. (Photo by Tim Spyers/Icon Sportswire)
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Mega Millions jackpot climbs to $548 million ahead of drawing
Posted: 5:48 AM, Oct 12, 2018
The Mega Millions jackpot continues to climb and is now at $548 million ahead of Friday night's drawing.
No one hit the five numbers and Mega Ball on Tuesday night, which means the jackpot still continues to climb.
The last Mega Millions jackpot that was won was $543 million on July 24 and was the third-largest in the game's history. A pool of 11 coworkers in California won that jackpot.
Mega Millions winning numbers: 04-24-46-61-70 with Mega Ball 07 for $548 million jackpot.
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What is the Normal Anatomy of the Foot and Ankle?
The foot and ankle is a complex joint involved in movement and providing stability and balance to the body. The foot and ankle consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, and many muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Bones of the Ankle
The ankle joint connects the leg with the foot, and is composed of three bones: tibia, fibula and talus. The tibia or shin bone and fibula or calf bone are bones of the lower leg which articulate with the talus or ankle bone, enabling up and down movement of the foot.
Three bony bumps present on the ends of the tibia and fibula form parts of the ankle joint:
The Medial malleolus, formed by the tibia, is found on the inside of the ankle;
Posterior malleolus, also formed by the tibia, is found at the back of the ankle and the
Lateral malleolus, formed by the fibula, is found on the outer aspect of the ankle
Bones of the Feet
The foot acts as a single functional unit, but can be divided into three parts: the hindfoot, midfoot and forefoot.
The hindfoot forms the ankle and heel and is made up of the talus bone and calcaneous or heel bone. The heel bone is the largest bone in the foot.
The midfoot connects the hindfoot to the forefoot, and consists of one navicular bone, one cuboid bone, and three cuneiform bones. The navicular bone is found in front of the heel bone, and the cuneiform and cuboid bones are arranged in front of the navicular bone.
These bones are connected to five metatarsal bones of the forefoot, which form the arch of the foot for shock absorption while walking or running. The forefoot is also made up of the toes or digits, formed by phalanges, three in each toe, except the big toe, which has only two phalanges. The big two has two additional tiny round sesamoid bones in the ball of the foot, which help in upward and downward movement of the toe.
Ankle and Foot Joints
There are 33 joints in the ankle and foot. They include the
Hinge joints in the ankle, which allow flexion (bending) and extension
Gliding joints found in the hindfoot, which allow gliding movements
Condyloid joints found in the forefoot and toes, which allow the flexion (bending) and extension, adduction and abduction (sideward movement).
The joints of the foot and ankle provide stability and support the weight of the body, helping you to walk or run, and to adapt to uneven ground.
The joint surface of all bones of the ankle and foot are lined by a thin, tough, flexible, and slippery surface called articular cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber and cushion to reduce friction between the bones. The cartilage is lubricated by synovial fluid, which further enables smooth movement of the bones.
Soft Tissues of the Ankle and Foot
Our feet and ankle bones are held in place and supported by various soft tissues such as cartilage, ligaments, muscles, tendons and bursae.
Cartilage is the flexible, shiny, smooth tissue on the ends of bones that meet to form a joint. Cartilage provides cushioning between the bones allowing smooth movement.
Ligaments are tough rope-like tissue that connect bones to other bones, and holds them in place providing stability to the joints. The Plantar fascia is the largest ligament in the foot, originating from the heel bone to the forefoot, it extends along the bottom surface of the foot and is involved in maintaining the arch of the foot. The plantar fascia ligament stretches and contracts to provide balance and strength to the foot. Lateral ligaments on the outside of the foot and medial ligaments on the inside of the foot provide stability and allow up and down movement of the foot.
The foot is made up of 20 muscles, which help in movement. The main muscles include:
Anterior tibial muscle: allows up and down movement of the foot
Posterior tibial muscle: supports the arch
Peroneal tibial muscle: controls movement on the outside of the ankle
Extensors: enable the ankle to raise the toes just before stepping forward
Flexors: stabilize the toes against the floor
Smaller muscles are also present to help the toes lift and curl.
Tendons are soft tissues that connect muscles to bones. The largest and strongest tendon in the foot is the Achilles tendon, present at the back of the lower leg around the heel bone. Other tendons include peroneals and anterior and posterior tibialis.
Bursae are small fluid filled sacs that decrease friction between tendons and bone or skin. Bursae contain special cells called synovial cells that secrete a lubricating fluid.
The ankle joint is composed of three bones: the tibia, fibula and talus, which are articulated together. The ends of the fibula and tibia (lower leg bones) form the inner and outer malleolus, which are the bony protrusions of the ankle joint that you can feel and see on either side of the ankle. The joint is protected by a fibrous membrane called a joint capsule, and filled with synovial fluid to enable smooth movement.
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Tendons are the soft tissues connecting muscle to bone. The Achilles tendon is the longest tendon in the body and is present behind the ankle, joining the calf muscles with the heel bone. Contraction of the calf muscles tightens the Achilles tendon and pulls the heel, enabling the foot and toe movements necessary for walking, running and jumping.
A sprain is the stretching or tearing of a ligament. Ligaments connect adjacent bones in a joint and provide stability to the joint.
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Apple Watch In-Store Reservations Go Live: It's Complicated
By Valentina Palladino 2015-06-17T14:28:03Z
Now you can go online to choose the Apple Watch you want and reserve it for in-store purchase and pick-up.
The wait is over: you can now go into an Apple store and purchase an Apple Watch. However, you'll have to make an appointment first, assuming you don't mind jumping through a few hoops. The company opened up online reservations for Watch customers, which lets you pick a store near for pickup.
The four-step process starts with you signing in to the dedicated page on Apple's site with your Apple ID. Then you'll be asked to text a code to a number. You'll receive a text back with a registration code, which you then can input into the website, along with your phone number, to complete your reservation. You'll be given a choice of the next available times.
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Currently the watch is available in 23 states. The $599 Sport edition appears to be the most popular. It comes with a stainless steel body and a white band. When I selected my location and my preferred store on the Upper East Side of New York City, the next available time was 9:30 a.m. ET of the same day.
Reservation times begin at 8 a.m. each day, and Apple says that some inventory could become unavailable during the reservation process due to high demand. In other words, reserve your time ASAP if you hope to get the Apple Watch you want.
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Sarah Palin circus is a cunning Republican distraction
Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she really sell Alaska's plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard?
The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares? Which isn't to say these aren't valid questions, or that Palin and the McCain camp aren't playing it fast, loose, and coy with each of them. The point is that Palin, and the circus she's brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.
Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.
Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record - and McCain's complicity in it. My friends, that's accomplishment we can believe in.
Just look at the problem John McCain faced. George Bush has a disastrous record, and the country knows it. John McCain - the current one, not the one who vanished eight years ago - has no major disagreements with George Bush (and I'm sorry, wanting to fire Donald Rumsfeld a bit sooner doesn't qualify) and wants to continue his incredibly unpopular policies for another four years. The solution? Enter Sarah Palin, a Trojan Moose carrying four more years of disaster.
And the plan has worked beautifully. Just look at what's being discussed just 57 days before the election. Is it the highest unemployment rate in five years? The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (US mortgage giants)? The suicide bombing yesterday in Iraq that killed six people and wounded 54 - in the same market where last month a bomb killed 28 people and wounded 72?
That the political reconciliation that was supposedly the point of "the surge" is nowhere near happening? That Iraq's Shiite government is now rounding up the American-backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening? That the reason 8,000 soldiers may be leaving Iraq soon is so more can be deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban is steadily retaking the country?
No. We're talking about whether Sarah Palin was or was not a good mayor, whether she was or was not a good mother, whether her skirts are too short and her zingers too sarcastic.
Contrary to what we're hearing 24/7 in the media, the next few weeks are not a test of Sarah Palin. The next few weeks are a test of Barack Obama.
He needs to dramatically redirect this election back to a discussion over the issues that really matter - the issues that will impact the future of this country. A presidential campaign is a battle and this is the time for Obama to show some commander-in-chief skills. I'm not talking about calling Palin out for lying about his record and demeaning community organising. I'm talking about grabbing the political debate by the throat.
The country is already angry about what's happened over the last seven-plus years - he shouldn't be afraid to give voice to that anger. Obama has spent years adopting a non-threatening persona; but he can't let his fear that appearing like an "angry Black man" (a stereotype not-too-subtly fuelled by Fox News) will turn off swing voters keep him from channelling the disgust and outrage felt by so many voters - swing and otherwise.
McCain's team, in an effort to distract, is going to keep doing what they're doing - diverting voters and the media with a tantalising combination of personal trivia and small lies. It doesn't matter if they're caught in them - in fact, all the better. Because they know there is no way in hell they can win if this election is about the big truth of the Bush years.
McCain's real running mate is George Bush and the failed policies of the Republican Party. Even if they are dressed up in a skirt, lipstick, and Tina Fey glasses.
* Arianna Huffington is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post.
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A grown D´Artagnan played by Justin Chambers.
The movie starts with a young boy named D´Artagnan witnessing an evil man in black named Febre murdering his parents in cold blood. The murderer is the main henchman of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. Once the little boy´s father is killed, he defends himself with his dad´s sword, injuring Febre’s face and blinding him in one eye. Long-time family friend Planchet takes D´Artagnan with him, saving his life. Planchet himself had once been a musketeer, a member of the devoted squad protecting King Louis XIII.
The movie jumps in time and finds a grown D´Artagnan who reaches Paris to find out that the Musketeers he wishes to join have been disbanded by the express command of the Cardinal Richelieu. The cardinal and Febre plan to take authority from the king´s hands and provoke hostilities among England, Spain, and France, so they can grow politically.
The musketeer group in a meeting.
Young D´Artagnan joins forces with Athos and Porthos, two former Musketeers who have remained loyal to the king. He talks them into setting the head of all Musketeers, Treville, free from his imprisonment. During his stay in Paris, D´Artagnan has a crush on Francesca, the palace´s chambermaid. She is the daughter of the queen´s seamstress.
A mob, reunited by Febre under strict orders from Cardinal Richelieu, attacks the Royal Palace at the same time that an English dignitary, Lord Buckingham, is visiting. D´Artagnan and fellow Musketeers Athos and Porthos manage to rescue King Louis, his wife, the queen and Lord Buckingham. The only way to preserve peace between the nations is to celebrate a clandestine meeting between the queen and Lord Buckingham at the north coast. There are plans for the queen to be guarded by D´Artagnan, but the landlord of the place the young man is staying at overhears this information and goes to Febre with it.
The trip turns into one giant ambush; D´Artagnan has to prove his skills and bravery along the journey in a variety of places against all of Febre´s men. The only moment he lowers his guard is to become intimate with Francesca. Seizing the opportunity, Febre discovers both and kidnaps not only Francesca but also the queen. A fake letter that the queen is forced to write and send with her own ring convinces Lord Buckingham to meet her at a castle, a set-up orchestrated by Febre.
Cardinal Richelieu played by Stephen Rhea
The one-time mastermind behind the plan, Richelieu, realizes that Febre´s ambitions are going way further than what he intended to cause and that if the war actually starts between France, England and Spain, the results would be catastrophic for his country. He visits D´Artagnan secretly to warn him about what could happen and to help him stop Febre before it´s too late. The young hero agrees to join forces with the evil cardinal, if only because his beloved Francesca is being held captive too.
After returning to Paris, D´Artagnan talks his fellow Musketeers into following him to protect the crown from the evil Febre. An army is put together to rescue the captives and they charge the castle on horseback. They lose a small number of men but the distraction they create allows good old Planchet to place his vehicle beyond the fire of the castle´s cannons and blow the gates.
D´Artagnan engages Febre in an epic sword fight, with great skill demonstrated on both sides, while the rest of the Musketeers take on the cardinal’s guards. The swordfight ends with the young hero as the winner, killing Febre and avenging his parents´ death. The movie ends with medals for the Musketeers and the marriage of D´Artagnan and his beloved Francesca.
It´s safe to say they lived happily ever after.
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Price named LSU AgCenter field crops plant pathologist
WINNSBORO – When Paul “Trey” Price began his career with the LSU AgCenter, he didn’t expect to be in the position he...
Price named LSU AgCenter field crops plant pathologist WINNSBORO – When Paul “Trey” Price began his career with the LSU AgCenter, he didn’t expect to be in the position he... Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: http://usat.ly/1c2uSnB
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Paul Price has been named LSU AgCenter field crops pathologist. (Photo: Courtesy Photo/Myra Purvis )
WINNSBORO – When Paul “Trey” Price began his career with the LSU AgCenter, he didn’t expect to be in the position he holds now.
But after more than 10 years with the organization, he’s found himself as a field crops plant pathologist with the title of assistant professor working out of the Macon Ridge Research Station.
A graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a bachelor’s degree in agronomy and a master’s degree in biology, Price went to work for the AgCenter in 2003 as an extension associate and then as a research associate, working in entomology, weed science, agronomy and soil science.
In 2008 he returned to his studies and worked as a graduate assistant and research associate while studying for his doctorate in plant pathology with Boyd Padgett. When he graduated this year, he was appointed to his present position.
“I took the road less traveled, but I’ve learned a lot over the years as an associate,” Price said. “The experience with the AgCenter has been invaluable.”
“Trey is excited about the opportunity to work directly with our producers and industry groups to address the various disease issues affecting crop production in the region and throughout Louisiana,” said Rogers Leonard, AgCenter associate vice chancellor for plant and soil programs.
“He will also be the statewide contact to provide information concerning all aspects of disease management in cotton,” Leonard said. Additional responsibilities will include providing resource materials through publications and web-based channels to AgCenter extension agents and others.
“I hope I can use my experience to help producers in the northeast region and throughout Louisiana,” Price said.
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The Height of the Storm, With Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce, Sets Full Cast
Florian Zeller's new play will be directed by Jonathan Kent at Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce in The Height of the Storm.
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Full casting has been announced for the Broadway premiere of Florian Zeller's The Height of the Storm, starring theater legends Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins.
Manhattan Theatre Club will present the play, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Jonathan Kent. The production will begin previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, September 10, with opening night set for Tuesday, September 24.
The play is described as follows: "For 50 years the lives of André and Madeleine have been filled with the everyday pleasures and unfathomable mysteries of an enduring marriage, until suddenly their life together begins to unravel, and this loving relationship is faced with the inevitability of change." Additional casting will be announced later.
Joining Pryce and Atkins are Lucy Cohu, Amanda Drew, James Hillier, and Lisa O'Hare. Pryce, Atkins, Cohu, Drew, and Hillier originated their roles at Wyndham's Theatre in London during the fall of 2018. The creative team for The Height of the Storm will include Anthony Ward (scenic and costume design), Hugh Vanstone (lighting design), Paul Groothuis (sound design), and Gary Yershon (composer).
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I've got a word or two
To say about the things that you do,
You're telling all those lies,
About the good things we can have
If we close our eyes.
Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to,
Think for yourself,
Cause I won't be there with you,
I left you far behind
The ruins of the life that you had in mind.
And though you still can't see,
I know your mind's made up,
You're gonna cause more misery.
Cause I won't be there with you.
Although your mind's opaque,
Try thinking more,
If just for your own sake.
The future still looks good,
And you've got time to rectify
All the things that you should.
"Think for Yourself"
Song by the Beatles from the album Rubber Soul
3 December 1965 (mono and stereo)
8 November 1965,
EMI Studios, London
Rubber Soul track listing
"Drive My Car"
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
"You Won't See Me"
"Nowhere Man"
"The Word"
"Michelle"
"What Goes On"
"Girl"
"I'm Looking Through You"
"In My Life"
"Wait"
"If I Needed Someone"
"Run for Your Life"
"Think for Yourself" is a song by English rock band the Beatles which first appeared on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. Written and sung by George Harrison, it is a warning against listening to lies, and the first of Harrison's songs not to be a love song. In his book I, Me, Mine he writes, "But all this time later, I don't quite recall who inspired that tune. Probably the government." In a departure from all precedent at the time, the song has two bass lines, a normal one and one created by Paul McCartney's then-unique application of a fuzzbox to his bass.
Think For Yourself (Rubber Soul)
Think For Yourself (YSS)
Fisheyedflower 21 Mar 2016
This is my favorite track from "Rubber Soul". The guitar sounds amazing and George's voice! I can't listen to this song and not get turned on by him...
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Contrast in Management Styles: Management by consensus V/S Laissez Faire
SAS International emerged because of the thought out growth strategy for expanding operations of SAS which had been the brainchild of Jim Goodnight who had managed to create a culture and management style in SAS which had not only lowered employee turnover to just 5%, which was 15% less than that of the industry, but had also worked towards creating a work environment where the organization was taking its employees as vital resources which he believed contributed to 95% of the organization’s success.
SAS International was a totally different concept all together. Where SAS originally had worked with a flat organizational structure with only four levels in the chain of command, SAS International had expanded into several countries and was not following a centralized management style. SAS had been a smaller organization and so the management style of the leader was more personalized and a laissez faire approach to leadership worked well in the US market at that time. SAS international focused on a ‘Management by consensus’ approach. The best ideas were selected and no standardization was seen in either management styles or organizational structures.
Criticism of the Management style
Although in this case study it seems like an idea which is even more flexible that the original style of leadership of Jim Goodnight who had brought in the best form of laissez faire approach to the organization, with an organization which had expanded across the globe, this led to chaos and organizational cultural differences across the globe.
SAS international lacks the concept of a global leader whereas entrepreneurial leadership was needed to drive the business across the globe especially in the age of intense competition where brands were not only known by their solutions but ‘branding’ itself played a great role in marketing.
There is no doubt that SAS has encouraged creativity through flexibility but this approach needs to be more structured with the help of entrepreneurial leadership so that all ideas can be spread across the organization through one centralized management head. Of course people should be given the liberty to give their ideas as originally SAS had allowed its customers to give suggestions for improvement. Quality circles and teambuilding should be practiced but the management should focus more on creating a standardized culture across the globe.
In this case study, SAS International currently has the approach which suggests that leadership doesn’t have to be restricted to a single person, country or organization. This is probably because the organization has expanded globally and the idea of a ‘Hybrid Franchise’ has allowed each region to have its own style of management. However, for a firm to create an impact globally, especially at a time when leadership styles and brand names are creating brand loyalty worldwide, an unstructured organizational structure with hazy leadership can create doubts in the minds of customers. Situational leadership may have some benefits too but for an organization like SAS which has expanded globally multiple hierarchical structures would be beneficial.
Currently SAS international has two key clusters, a functional cluster which manages strategy and a professional cluster which handles legal services which is also the key operation of the organization. The functional cluster is in Heidelberg while the key clusters are in the countries of operations. The first level of management in each country has been strengthened by a local head for managing the country’s operations. This has its advantages too since SAS initially had problems in expanding its operations globally because of lack of multi-country knowledge. However, this has led to issues of extreme decentralization such as vast differences in management styles and business context in all regions. Plus in this way the organizational culture can never be standardized to be labeled as a ‘strength’ for SAS International as originally SAS had been known by its leader’s management style.
Looking at Global examples in the software industry, companies like Microsoft and Apple have been known throughout for their distinct cultures and strong leaderships. So SAS international would do well if the culture of SAS is brought into the subsidiaries to some extent. This can be done by bringing in senior management in the global offices so that the culture can at least be standardized to some extent before the local management can make their mark.
SAS international has adopted the policy of information sharing and in believes that countries should specialize in what they are best at and then share that information with the rest of the teams in other countries. However, if the management is not strong enough and is not focused on a specific vision or ideology, this can create problems for the organization as it would fail to get the best out of the resources.
Such an approach may also fail in the sense that it believes what works in one country can be copied and brought to another country. However, if there are cultural and management differences in the offices worldwide, implementing a standardized practice or solution would get difficult in any case.
6. What is the outlook for SAS? Can it maintain its entrepreneurial model and culture in face of the evolution of the industry? Should it once again reconsider going public? If so, what would be the benefits and drawbacks? What would an IPO entail? What is the outlook for SAS when Goodnight no longer manages the firm?
Outlook for SAS in this case:
SAS is part of a fast paced market where technological changes are taking place rapidly and any company which fails to do so would lose out. It’s not a matter of making software products for customers anymore but a matter of providing complete industry solutions and so smaller companies would eventually need to expand and grow with the help of acquisitions, mergers and partner alliances.
SAS would eventually need to change its entrepreneurial model of being handled by Goodnight’s laissez faire approach with immense flexibility and exceptional employee loyalty.
With the fast paced technological changes in the industry, employees may need to move from organization to organization as technical mobility and the ease of geographical mobility would make it easier to get go for better opportunities globally.
The Decision to Go Public
Back in the late 1990s when the company had decided to go public, there were several apprehensions which Jim Goodnight had and eventually the decision to go ahead with the decision to go public was postponed. Even during those days there were several reasons for going public as discussed below.
Jim Goodnight had a very progressive and positive approach to handling business decision making. Although he was not in favor of going public personally, he was willing to go ahead with it because of the advantages it seemed to offer to the business as a whole and the wellbeing of the employees at that time.
The competition had started growing and there was a need to grow as a company and going public was the approach which was being followed by other big companies in the industry.
Goodnight changed his approach of being an introvert and started accepting public interviews and increased public exposure for the sake of taking the company public. He felt there was a need to do so for reasons such as:
Tech Stock had increased tremendously because of the increasing internet craze.
Startup companies were trying to attract the technical staff of SAS because of the earnings that public limited companies were offering to their employees.
Microsoft, one of the main competitors of SAS had managed to make individuals earn in millions because of the rising stock prices
SAS was not offering any stock program to its employees back then and even if it had done so as a private limited company, it would not have had as much of an impact as a public limited company would have had.
Going public seemed like a good idea for employee retention.
SAS could have used the finance generated through going public for any further acquisitions.
Similarly, there were reasons why Jim didn’t want the company to go public in 2000.
The hype that had earlier been created because of the tech stocks was no longer there and stock prices were going down.
87% of the employees of SAS were against the idea of going public
If we look at the current scenario, going public is a good option for SAS in several ways. The company has expanded globally and is offering hybrid franchises to different countries. At this point, going public would create brand recognition and would help in solving the issues that SAS is currently facing such as its International subsidiaries not having a universal brand recognition. Going public would have several advantages as discussed below:
It would give SAS access to capital which can be used for further acquisitions as that seems like a good strategy for growth in the current scenario. Jim Goodnight had looked upon acquisition as a strategy for acquiring ‘skills’ and not for growth purposes but in the current scenario when software companies are offering complete solutions and are becoming customer-needs focused, focusing on ‘skill acquisitions’ is not enough and growth is needed for expanding market share.
Going public would make it easier to sell shares as IPOs would attract potential customers because of the speculation of rising stock prices in the future.
SAS’s public profile would be enhanced through this decision as currently it is being seen as a company which has very little multi-country knowledge and is relying on the management of host countries to expand its operations.
SAS has already become a multinational with the emergence of SAS international and so going public should be the next milestone that it should be looking at.
As the company is currently not offering stock options to employees, going public would be an even better approach to creating employee retention and for repaying employees for their loyalty with the company in the past.
The decision can however have several implications too and those should be looked upon before the decision can be taken. For instance
Jim Goodnight currently held 2/3rd of the shares of the company and going public would mean that he would lose control of the company. This would also mean that the culture that he had created in the organization would no longer prevail.
The employees of SAS would get the options of owning stocks in the company but may have to lose out on the perks that the private company was offering to its employees. These perks had worked well to create employee retention and decrease employee turnover in the past.
SAS had been investing in R&D which may not be possible if it went public for shareholders would be more interested in personal gains rather than in the growth of the company and innovation of new products. This may even mean that the way the company had been hiring in the past may not be possible any more as the board of directors may decide against the polices that Jim Goodnight had been following in the past.
On the whole though it is a good strategy for further expansion and Jim Goodnight should go for it if he plans to expand his business further.
For turning the private limited company into a public limited company, SAS would have to hire the services of an investing bank which would start the process of an initial public offering, the IPO. The investment bank would then work on what the public would be offering for shares in the company. A predetermined price would be set for the SAS’s shares and the company’s shares would be offered in the stock exchange at that price.
Outlook for SAS after Going Public
Going public would certainly change the way the company works. Currently the main focus of the company is its employees and customer. Because of Goodnight’s management style, employees had enjoyed privileges such as recreation, fitness, day care, individual offices, flexible working hours etc. However, going public would bring about a new board of directors who would be responsible for the decision making of the company. The privileges that the employees had availed may not be possible when Goodnight is no longer responsible for the company’s decision making. The shareholder’s would look at the impact of the decisions on the company and all of its stake holders and they may not see the employees as the main priority of the company whereas Goodnight had considered the employees as 95% of the reason for the company’s success.
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Our Top 10 Best World of Dance Acts
October 9, 2019 by Tim Grable
It’s no secret NBC’s hit reality show, World of Dance, is loved by many, and we have to admit we are big fans ourselves.
After all, the show has done quite a lot in bringing artistic dancing back into mainstream attention.
Spanning for 3 seasons, the show has had many incredible dance crews throughout its runtime. And in the following article, we have made a classification of the 10 Best World of Dance Acts.
10. Elektro Botz
As their name suggests, the Elektro Botz is a group that swings along the grooves and glitches of electronic music.
Their dance routines can be stunning, giving off the impression there’s actual clockwork involved in their movement.
Elektro Botz - World of Dance 2018 S2E03 [QUALIFIERS]
9. Embodiment
Strength comes in numbers, and Embodiment is living proof this old saying still stands. They are a large dance group composed of 13 male performers who manage to perform breathtaking dance routines.
Their sheer numbers alone allow them to pull off a set of moves which border on the fantastic.
EMBODIMENT [THE CUT] WORLD OF DANCE 2018
8. Brotherhood
As their name suggests, Brotherhood are more like a family; each dancer is looking out for one another. Their dance routines flow seamlessly as if they’re on a large body carefully coordinated with each move.
What’s especially interesting about them is that they bring subtle elements of sports into their dance routines. For example, they are a group of 11 male dancers, the same number as you would find in a soccer team.
Brotherhood - World Of Dance 2018 Qualifiers
7. Karen y Ricardo
Karen Forcano is an Argentinian dancer who, together with Ricardo Vega, a Chilean dancer, form a passionate salsa dancing duo.
They graced us with their contagious rhythm and fiery dance moves in the second season of the show.
Karen y Ricardo WOD 2018 All Performances - Incredible Salsa Cabaret Couple - World Champion Dancers
6. Super Cr3w
They are a dance group from Las Vegas, Nevada, and their routines are a very energetic display of hip hop culture, and all it encompasses -- breakdance, street, and the iconic robot.
They’re incredible on all fronts, being very well synchronized and with the ability to put on a stellar performance.
World of Dance 2017 Super Cr3w: The Cut (The Full Performance)
5. Jabbawockeez
With a career that is close to almost two decades, the Jabbawockeez don’t need any introduction. They are the group with the moves, the costumes, and ethos to surpass all others.
JABBAWOCKEEZ - World of Dance | FULL PERFORMANCE - QUALIFIERS
4. The Lab
During World of Dance, they were one of the very few groups to earn a score of 100 points from the judges, which makes them one of the very Best World of Dance Acts.
Besides that, they had a flawless win streak throughout the entire show, and they have managed to win the hearts of the public, which is perhaps one of the most significant achievements a dance group can hope to attain.
The Lab - World of Dance 2018 S2E02 [QUALIFIERS]
3. Poreotics
The top 3 is reserved for some of the greatest acts from World of Dance. And Poreotics do not fall short of the title. They are a crew with much history behind them, and their outstanding routines cemented them as one of the Best World of Dance Acts.
Their moves are straightforward and do not require any elaborate stage antics to pull off. Yet they always manage to impress, and that’s what makes them simply amazing!
POREOTICS - THE DUELS (Need You x Drink Like a Monsta)
2. Les Twins
Twin brothers Laurent and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois form Les Twins, a dance duo that took the entertainment world by storm.
At first, they made waves in their France, by reaching the finals on a popular reality television show known as Incroyable Talent. They may not have won that competition, but they quickly became the audience’s darlings.
A few years down the line, their well-deserved moment of glory would come, as they were the champions of the first season of World of Dance.
Les Twins, Part 2 - The Finals @ World of Dance 2017
1. Kings United
Hailing from India, Kings United, or, known, The Kings are the undisputed champions. When they burst into dance, they go all-in, bringing forth a barrage of funk-fueled dance moves.
They are the winners of the 3rd season of the show and are the first Indian group to gain international recognition in the West. Rightfully deserved, as The Kings are simply a force to be reckoned with!
The Kings' Final Routine is an Action Movie Live on Stage - World of Dance World Finals 2019
Are These the Best World of Dance Acts?
Do you agree with our list, or do you think it could have been done differently? One thing’s for sure, however, and that is that all these crews are phenomenal on stage.
If you’d like to hire top-quality entertainment for your next event, then you’ve come to the right place. Call us at (615) 283-0039, and we will gladly assist you!
Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: Dance, entertainment, music, Quality Entertainment, talent
4 Acts from World of Dance that Will Blow You Away
September 10, 2019 by Tim Grable
NBC’s “World of Dance” is one of the biggest dance competitions in the world. Only the best of the best make it on the show, and the bar is set even higher with every mind-boggling performance seen on stage.
The show doesn’t lack awe-inspiring moments, and for this article, we’ve brought together four such remarkable dance acts which will make you go wow.
We are starting with one of the audience’s favorite.
1. The Kings
The Indian hip hop/stunt/theatrics dance group from Vasai (a suburban town in Mumbai) were the big winners of World of Dance Season 3, getting a perfect score of 100 from the judges.
During the competition, the group has made history with their perfectly-choreographed, beautifully-executed routines which seemed to push the limits of what’s possible in dance continually.
Since their big win, the group has been conducting international dance shows. Plus, they have announced they are planning for a world tour.
In the video below, you can see a quick round-up of all their memorable acts from the NBC’s show WOD.
The Kings: All Performances - World of Dance 2019 (Compilation)
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2. The Heima
This amazing crew has taken the dance world by storm with their one of a kind mix of break-dancing and contemporary style.
On World of Dance, the group stood out with their theatrical routines which often included masks meant to bring forward their Korean heritage.
The judges praised them for their courage to be spontaneous and surprising, and for being fearlessly-elegant and different with their dancing.
Check out the video below to see one of their widely appreciated performances from the show:
The Heima's "La La La" Routine Is Absolutely Incredible - World of Dance 2019 (Full Performance)
3. Siudy Flamenco
With a history of more than 20 years, this Venezuelan dance group has grown to become one of the best-known international touring companies in the world.
As a group, the fabulous dancers that make-up Siudy Flamenco has performed on some of the world’s biggest and most prestigious stages, including:
the Latin Grammy Awards
NYC’s New World Stages
and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
By competing on NBC’s World of Dance, the crew showed flamenco is an art form with a universal appeal, and it’s just as interesting and as exciting as today’s most popular, modern dance styles.
Check out the video below to see Siudy Flamenco do what they do best: put on a show full of passion and mystery.
Siudy Flamenco World of Dance Qualifiers Season3 - My Inmortal
4. Charity and Andres
Charity and Andres are a fiercely talented contemporary duo. The two have been dancing together since they were only eight years old.
That special connection between them translates into powerful chemistry on stage, which makes viewers don’t want to take their eyes off of them.
On WOD season 2, the duo received a standing ovation from the judges for their deeply-emotional, well-crafted, stunning performance to James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go.”
Check it out in the video below.
Beautiful Dance by Charity & Andres - World of Dance 2018 S2E02 [QUALIFIERS]
Enjoyed These Acts from World of Dance?
If you enjoyed watching or perhaps re-watching these incredible dance performances, then you’ll be happy to know there are many spectacular dance groups and world-class performers featured in our portfolio.
Start browsing now to discover them and if you have any questions, be sure to reach out to us at (615) 283-0039.
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Filed Under: Artists Tagged With: Dance, entertainment, talent
4 Outstanding Dance Crews like You’ve Never Seen Before
April 27, 2019 by Tim Grable
Last updated on November 1st, 2019 at 06:07 am
Dancing has been quite a hot topic in recent years. So if you would like to add a special moment to your event, then you should consider featuring a dance group.
If you’re interested to know more about this new entertainment craze and the groups which have been making waves, then you have come to the right place.
In the following article, we highlight 4 outstanding dance crews which can put on a show that will exceed everyone’s expectations. So there’s a high chance you have never seen anything like it before.
Kings United
Kings United, or simply known as The Kings, are a dance group hailing from India. They have been turning heads in recent years with their larger than life performances.
They started way back in 2011, but their big debut was in 2015, when they won the bronze medal at the World HIP-HOP Dance Championship, in California. While they didn’t manage to win the competition, they won the audience over.
And since then, they have amassed a cult following that has only been growing throughout the years.
They have been featured heavily on television, stealing shows such as World of Dance and India’s Got Talent -- where everyone in the audience, including the judges, couldn’t believe their eyes.
If you are interested to see them in action, then you can do so by clicking the following video:
https://streamer.espeakers.com/assets/6/34886/172603.mp4
There’s no stage The Kings cannot conquer, and without a doubt, they’re one of the most outstanding dance crews out there.
Diavolo is a group which fuses dance and athleticism, creating a combination that pushes the human body one step further.
Their performance distances itself from the hip-hop roots dance crews are known for. Instead, their entire act borders on the artistic and surreal.
Have a look for yourself by clicking the following video:
Diavolo: Danger & Acrobatic Group DEFY Human Nature | Auditions 2 | America’s Got Talent 2017
The entire brilliance of Diavolo comes from the cohesion between its members. They have a whole team of designers and engineers who carefully create their sets and plan their moves.
Of course, the stars of the show are the dancers themselves. They take it to the next level by performing jaw-dropping acrobatics which can sometimes get very dangerous.
Freelusion
Freelusion is without a doubt one of the most outstanding dance crews in the world.
They have the distinction of being the world’s first 3D dance group, combining dancing and technology to create never before seen choreographies.
Their entire act focuses on taking the audience on a trip through the virtual world by making use of projection and mapping technology.
Their show is an epic display of dancing which is accompanied by a spectacle of lights.
Coming from Ukraine, Light Balance is a dance group with moves which light up the whole stage, quite literally.
They are dressed in hi-tech LED suits which highlight their movements. If you pair this with the fact they dance in almost complete darkness, you can begin to imagine what a visually stunning performance they create.
Not only that, but their moves are very catchy, making it very hard to resist the urge to dance along with them.
Get to See These Outstanding Dance Crews
A well-performed choreography will steal the show, and you wouldn’t want to miss the chance to leave a lasting impression on your guests.
If you’d like to find out more about dance crews, then be sure to give us a call at (615) 283-0039, and we will gladly help you!
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2 Amazing Female Vocalists You Should Know About
April 6, 2019 by Tim Grable
Last updated on June 9th, 2019 at 02:45 pm
Music has a universal appeal and is an appropriate entertainment choice for a wide array of events, which is why we wanted to recommend two amazing female vocalists you can book for your event.
Felicia Temple and Rachael Leahcar not only have powerful, charming voices but also excel as performers and have a stage charisma which is sure to delight your guests.
Get to know them better by reading the following lines.
1. Felicia Temple
Originally from New Jersey, Felicia Temple is an American singer born on January 28, 1988. You may remember her as a contestant on The Voice Season 12.
Besides being a talented singer, Felicia is also a registered nurse. Before getting her big break as a musician on The Voice, she worked as a nurse, learning medicine and caring for other people.
However, she always had an immense passion for music, and when she was young, she loved playing the piano, so much that her nickname was “Felicia Keys” (after Alicia Keys).
As she advanced in life, Felicia honed her musical chops at the famed Village Underground in New York City and went on to win audiences over at NYC’s famed SOB’s, DROM and Milk River.
Felicia had to slow down a bit in 2015 when she was diagnosed with Carcinoid cancer. However, after six rounds of chemotherapy and extensive abdominal surgery, Felicia was back at it, writing and recording yet another amazing song.
Just two years later, Felicia Temple joined the cast of NBC’s “The Voice” competing on Blake Shelton’s team. On the show, she dazzled the audience singing show-stopping ballads like “My Heart Will Go on,” “All I Could Do Was Cry” and others.
Plus, her life story inspired millions of cancer survivors and musicians.
Watch Felicia showcase her powerful vocals singing “My Heart Will Go On” on The Voice by clicking on the video below:
The Voice 2017 Knockout - Felicia Temple: "My Heart Will Go On"
2. Rachael Leahcar
There are many amazing female vocalists in the world, and Rachael Leahcar is undoubtedly one of them. Her real name is Rachael Wendy Bartholomew, and she was born on February 22, 1994.
She is an Australian singer and songwriter, and you may know her from the first season of The Voice Australia where she won third place.
Soon after the show aired, Rachael signed a record deal with Universal Music Australia. Her first album was released on July 13, 2012, and contained songs she performed on The Voice, as well as some newly-recorded covers.
Everyone who watched the show remembers her gentle voice and that Leahcar was born with retinitis pigmentosa. In fact, in 2012, she was declared legally blind with only 10% visual function.
However, that never slowed Rachael down from pursuing her biggest passion: music.
At age 15, in March 2009, Rachael entered and won Dino Prizzi’s International Festival of Song competition and won a trip to Rome to sing on an RAI Uno television program.
Also, she was invited to sing in Benevento on a television program while touring Italy. On April 16, 2012, she auditioned for The Voice, Australia where she sang a rendition of Edith Piaf’s “La vie en rose.”
Watch her spine-tingling performance which made all the judges turn their chairs in the video below.
The Voice Australia: Rachael Leahcar (@rachaeleahcar) sings La Vie En Rose
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Eric Jones and Steven Brundage the Best Dueling Magicians
January 27, 2019 by Courtney Grable
Last updated on January 21st, 2020 at 03:58 pm
Dueling Magicians: Jones vs. Brundage
This is it. The greatest show. The night of all nights. The showdown of showdowns, dueling magicians Eric Jones and Steven Brundage. This is the Clash of the Conjurors. That’s right, you have seen them on America’s Got Talent, Masters of Illusion and Penn and Teller. What’s about to happen next is the most thrilling, most exciting, most epic showdown of all time. It’s Eric Jones vs. Steven Brundage, who will win? Well, we have our ideas, but you have to be the one to decide that on your own. How will you perform this daring feat? Simple, we’re going to put our two competitors through three rounds of performances that will put their skills to the ultimate test of talent. After all of the rounds are over, we’ll ask you, the audience, to tell us which of the conjurors won each round. Is it the sleight-of-hand master Eric Jones or is it Rubix Cube maven Steven Brundage? You’ll vote by filling out a quick poll, and we’ll finally see who is the true master of the conjurors. Sound intriguing? Well, let’s see what the first round holds. Buckle up and prepare for an out of this world ride!
Challenge One- Uniqueness
Challenge one is pretty simple…which act creates a fresh, new twist on the classic entertainment world of magic? The audience waits in anticipation for the first competitor to take the stage. A hush falls over the crowd of thousands and not even a pin drops without someone noticing. This is it; the games are about to begin. The announcer steps onto the stage, microphone clutched in his hand, reaffirming the intensity of this moment. This is it…let the Clash of the Conjurors the dueling magicians begin!
Eric Jones: The Master of Illusions
He steps on stage and even the sound of his shoe is hitting the floor can be heard. A pin drops. The crowd breathes. So now, he is ready to begin. Taking out his deck of cards, every audience member is wowed at the skilled competitor Eric Jones shows. The selected card is changed from blue to red, and the crowd goes wild. However, this is just a simple warm-up for the Master of Illusions, Eric Jones. The show intensifies as he prepares for his next trick. A glass wall is brought onto the stage and he…steps right through it? Applause and cheering erupt through the crowd. When was the last time you saw this happen? As Eric Jones steps off-stage, his competitor, Steven Brundage, takes his place. What will ensue in this next performance of the dueling magicians?
Steven Brundage: The Rubix Cube Whisperer
Stepping on-stage is never an easy task, but Steven Brundage completes it with ease. As he steps forward towards the audience, a camera focuses in on his hands, which are holding a Rubix cube. The colorful toy is then put into a paper bag and…it vanishes? But wait, now it’s back again? What’s he doing now? How-how did a piece of paper end up inside of the cube? Fascinating! Brundage can take an ordinary child’s toy and turn it into a spectacular show with just a little bit of creativity and uniqueness. What else can he do?
Challenge Two- Prop Usage
So, who won that round? You’ll be able to vote in the poll when you finish experiencing the thrill of each round of Clash of the Conjurors. However, for right now, you want to tune in to challenge two of the competition…the prop usage round. We’ll be able to see how competitors Eric Jones and Steven Brundage use their resources to their advantage and discover who is the best at it. Are you ready? Good, because the next installation is about to begin.
Eric Jones: Cards, Coins, and 21st Century Technology
Eric Jones: 60 Second Promo
As soon as he steps onstage, it’s lights, camera, action! Eric Jones blends the classic card and coin tricks of magic with modern day music and technology to create a thrilling and memorable performance for every audience member. See how the energy of the audience rises with the upbeat music he performs to? It’s something that many magicians attempt to use, but don’t succeed at blending them as seamlessly as Jones. His performance may be over as he steps off-stage, but it’s far from over for the captivated audience he leaves behind, as the music he performs his tricks to reverberates through their minds the rest of the night. And now, it’s time for his competitor to take the stage. Can he beat Eric Jones? Let’s take a look.
Steven Brundage: Sticking to What’s Simple
Rubik’s Cube Magician Steven Brundage
Steven Brundage takes the stage, and with him, there are no flashy lights or modern music, only his tricks, and an attentive audience. They say sometimes sticking to simple is best, but it only works if you can pull it off, and pull if off Brundage can! As he seamlessly transitions between his tricks, from making a Rubix cube disappear in a paper bag, to finding a piece of paper in one of the corners when it comes back, simple may be the setup, but extravagant is the act. What do you think? How’s he doing up there? As he walks off the stage, there’s only one question left…who won this round of Clash of the Conjurors?
Challenge Three- The Best Overall
This is it. This is the final round of the Clash of the Conjurors, and it’s the most anticipated round yet. That’s right, it’s the Best Overall round, and at the end, you’re the judge. Are you ready, because the tension is rising, the excitement is extreme, and the competitors are ready to perform. So, here it goes…last round!
Eric Jones: Magician and Illusionist
As Eric Jones takes the stage, the crowd is hushed and ready for his performance. And so, he begins. As the music plays, the energy of the audience rises, and his magic tricks become even more exciting than before. Eric Jones fascinates the crowd with his unique, yet classic magic tricks. He takes the stage with his fresh, new twist on magic and captivates the audience with his blend of sound and lights. He steps off the stage, leaving everyone in awe. What is next on this Clash of Conjurors?
Steven Brundage: Rubix Cube Extraordinaire
As Eric Jones exits the stage, Steven Brundage enters it, and the crowd is ready to be blown away once again. With his simple, yet unique take on the classic Rubix cube toy, Brundage astonishes the crowd as it disappears and reappears and spins and twists and somehow manages to solve itself. How could this be happening? Is it too good to be true, or could it be? This is the apocalypse of the conjurors, and we have no clue who could be winning because both competitors are wonderfully talented and creative in their presentation. As Steven Brundage wows the crowd, the act is over too soon, and he steps off-stage to join his competitor. Now, it’s time to decide.
Now You’re the Judge
So, who do you think should win? Is it the Master of Illusions, Eric Jones or is it the Rubix Cube Extraordinaire, Steven Brundage? There’s only one way to tell, vote! Even better, why not create your Clash of Conjurors at your next event?
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Home / Health News / Children in India feel empowered and believe their voices are heard- UNICEF
Children in India feel empowered and believe their voices are heard- UNICEF
Primary school enrollment has declined in 21 countries.
By: Editorial Team | | Published: November 21, 2017 6:20 pm
Tags: Children's Day Sachin Tendulkar UNICEF
Despite global progress, 1 in 12 children worldwide live in countries where their prospects today are worse than those of their parents, according to a UNICEF analysis conducted for World Children’s Day. According to the analysis, 180 million children live in 37 countries where they are more likely to live in extreme poverty, be out of school, or be killed by violent death than children living in those countries were 20 years ago. “While the last generation has seen vast, unprecedented gains in living standards for most of the world’s children, the fact that a forgotten minority of children have been excluded from this – through no fault of their own or those of their families – is a travesty” said Laurence Chandy, UNICEF Director of Data, Research and Policy.
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UNICEF is commemorating World Children’s Day, which marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with global children’s ‘take-overs’, high-profile events and other activations of children in over 130 countries to give children their own platform to help save children’s lives, fight for their rights and fulfil their potential. “It is the hope of every parent, everywhere, to provide greater opportunities for their children than they themselves enjoyed when they were young. This World Children’s Day, we have to take stock of how many children are instead seeing opportunities narrow and their prospects diminish,” added Chandy. Read here Marginalised Indian children at the bottom of the priority list–UNICEF
Assessing children’s prospects in escaping extreme poverty, getting a basic education and avoiding violent deaths, the UNICEF analysis reveals that:
The share of people living on less than $1.90 a day has increased in 14 countries, including Benin, Cameroon, Madagascar, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This increase is mostly due to unrest, conflicts or poor governance.
Primary school enrolment has declined in 21 countries, including Syria and Tanzania, due to such factors as financial crises, rapid population growth and the impact of conflicts.
Violent deaths among children below the age of 19 have increased in seven countries: Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen – all countries experiencing major conflicts.
Four countries – Central African Republic, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen – witnessed a decline across more than one of the three areas measured,while South Sudan hasexperienced declines across all three.
“In a time of rapid technological change leading to huge gains in living standards, it is perverse that hundreds of millions are seeing living standards actually decline, creating a sense of injustice among them and failure among those entrusted with their care,” said Chandy. “No wonder they feel their voices are unheard and their futures uncertain.” Read here Unicef says India is yet to bridge gaps in education
Aseparate UNICEF survey of children aged 9-18 in 14 countries also released today shows that children are deeply concerned about global issues affecting their peers and them personally, including violence, terrorism, conflict, climate change, unfair treatment of refugees and migrants, and poverty.
Key findings from the survey include:
Half of children across all 14 countries report feeling disenfranchised when asked how they felt when decisions are made that affect children around the world.
Children in South Africa and the United Kingdom feel the most disenfranchised with 73 per cent and 71 per cent respectively reporting feeling that their voices are not heard at all or their opinions do not make a change anyway.
Children in India report feeling the most empowered with 52 per cent of children believing their voices are heard and can help their country and that their opinions can affect the future of their country.
Children across all 14 countries identified terrorism, poor education and poverty as the biggest issues they wanted world leaders to take action on.
Across all 14 countries, violence against children was the biggest concern with 67 per cent reporting worrying a lot. Children in Brazil, Nigeria, and Mexico are the most worried about violence affecting children, with 82 per cent, 77 per cent and 74 per cent respectively worrying a lot about this issue. Children in Japan are the least likely to worry, with less than a quarter of children surveyed (23 per cent) worrying a lot.
Children across all 14 countries are equally concerned about terrorism and poor education with 65 per cent of all children surveyed worrying a lot about these issues. Children in Turkey and Egypt are the most likely to worry about terrorism affecting them personally, at 81 per cent and 75 per cent respectively. By contrast, children in the Netherlands are the least likely to be concerned that terrorism would affect them directly, at just 30 per cent. Children in Brazil and Nigeria are the most concerned about poor quality education or lack of access, with more than 8 in 10 children worrying about this affecting children across the world.
Around 4 in 10 children across all 14 countries worry a lot about the unfair treatment of refugee and migrant children across the world. Children in Mexico, Brazil and Turkey are the most likely to worry about unfair treatment of refugee and migrant children across the world, with nearly 3 in 5 Mexican children expressing fear, followed by more than half of children in Brazil and Turkey. Around 55 per cent of children in Mexico are worried this will personally affect them.
Nearly half of children (45 per cent) across 14 countries do not trust their adults and world leaders to make good decisions for children. Brazil has the highest proportion of children (81 per cent) who do not trust leaders, followed by South Africa at 69 per cent. Children in India have the most confidence in their leaders, with only 30 per cent not trusting.
Barack Obama, Cristiano Ronaldo, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift are the most popular names for children to invite to their birthday party, with the former President of the United States featuring in the top five in 9 of the 14 countries. Watching TV featured as the number one hobby of choice in 7 out of 14 of the countries.
World Children’s Day is a day ‘for children, by children’, whenchildren from around the world will be taking over key roles in media, politics, business, sport and entertainment to express their concerns about what global leaders should be focusing on, and to voice support for the millions of their peers who are facing a less hopeful future.
“World Children’s Day is about listening to us and giving us a say in our future. And our message is clear: We need to speak up for ourselves, and when we do, the world needs to listen,” said Jaden Michael, 14-year-old activist and UNICEF child advocate.
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IBB at 78: How He Killed Mamman Vatsa
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 8:21 am
General Vatsa
On Saturday, 17 August, friends and well wishers will be sending goodwill messages to greet former Nigerian military president (from 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993), Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on his 78th birthday. In other words, he will be two years shy of 80! He was born on 17 August 1941.
There is no way his history will be written without the coup he carried out, the ones he survived, those he concocted and others. Below is a story of how he killed his best friend, General Maman Vatsa for alleged coup. It was earlier published on this platform and in the hard copy of TheNEWS, entitled:
How Babangida Murdered Mamman Vatsa
By Ademola Adegbamigbe
Sava Farm, a nondescript piece of property situated at Malali area of Kaduna city, does not reveal the importance of its occupant. It is owned by Hajia Sufiya, widow of General Mamman Vatsa, executed over a controversial coup by the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1986. With its brown gate, half brick, half metal perimeter fence that looks as if it would collapse any time with the heavy rains, and the rusty signboard defaced by four posters of Isiah Balat who is campaigning to be governor of Kaduna State, the farm stands as a relic, in sharp contrast to the more prosperous-looking Federal Government College and the Kaduna State Water Board nearby.
The bushy farm looks like an abandoned American ranch after a typical Red Indian invasion. An aide who doubles as the gate keeper opened the gate. As the reporters’ feet shuffled on the cobblestones that had seen better days, a quick survey of the premises showed a once-buoyant animal husbandry business. Another gate, on the left, leads to where Sufiya lives. With a quick detour, the visitors were ushered into the front of the main bungalow. The circular forecourt is habitat to flowers crying for pruning. Peeping out of the circle was a white Mercedez Benz 190 that stood as if, driven by some invisible hands from outer space, it was ready to engage the reverse gear, receding further into the dense flowers, away from the intruders…A ricketty peugeot pick -up van and an abandoned white farm truck complete the picture of neglect. Sufiya’s balcony is a testament to a woman who, when she was happy, was in love with nature. Her suspended empty bird cages, creeping flowers, pots of cacti and aloe vera stand as proof. A long white hose meandered on the floor, a mark of half-hearted gardening.
Sufiya Vatsa
Like her property, Hajia Sufiya Vatsa is a lone historical figure, abandoned in her woes and penury by successive governments after IBB executed her husband over a questionable coup. During a visit to her Sava Farm by three journalists from TheNEWS, the woman cut the picture of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, who, after being disappointed by her suitor, refuses to see the sun, fails to change her wedding gown and leaves her watch and wall clock permanently “at twenty minutes to nine.” Unlike Miss Havisham, however, Sufiya’s separation from her husband came from the machination of a third party – IBB. Since then, life has been horrible for her family.
Daily, Sufiya sits by two high-definition photographs of her husband: one in mufti and the other in military gear. When this magazine visited her, she wore a brown wrapper, deep brown headgear with an ankara top embossed with brown irregular designs. She sat behind a small centre table set with assorted drinks, beverages and local herbal solutions. In front of her was a shelf with a rectangular mirror, on which an old television set was placed.
Another symbol of her state of mind and the neglect she suffers was an abandoned grey aquarium, tilting against the wall under the portrait of a medieval soldier riding a chariot, shooting an arrow. Under another congested table in front of her was a green book, Makers of Modern Africa. A reading lamp, about four chandeliers and a dining table required dusting just as her life requires rehabilitation. An extension of her melancholy was that, contrary to expectation, she declined an interview since it would bring back a deluge of old, painful memories.
Sufiya’s journey into the abyss of poverty began on 23 December 1985. The family had just concluded plans to travel to Calabar because, usually, they spent the yuletide in the Cross River State capital (Sufiya is Efik), the Id-el-Fitri in Minna, Niger State and the Id-el Kabir in Kaduna. After the necessary packing for the trip, the family waited for the return of General Vatsa from the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) meeting he had attended. He returned home late, so the trip was postponed till the following day. At about 12 midnight, while Sufiya was watching a movie in her bedroom, her husband, who was working in his study, rushed in to tell her that IBB had sent for him. The wife protested that it was too late in the night and that Vatsa should phone his boss to shift the meeting to the following morning.
As this debate was going on, Lt. Col. U.K. Bello led a team of soldiers to Vatsa’s home at Rumens Street, Ikoyi, Lagos. The soldiers, who came with armored vehicles and military vans, surrounded the house. Vatsa told his wife who was upstairs to peep through the window. Unable to contain her fear, she rushed downstairs and insisted that if the soldiers would take away her husband, then she had to follow them. Sufiya insisted on driving Vatsa in her own Pengeot 404. At this point, Vatsa directed that the children be woken up, and he kissed them one after the other. Haruna, the first son, who was in Military Training School, Zaria, followed them downstairs, weeping. While UK Bello drove in the fore of the convoy, Sufiya and Vatsa were chauffeur-driven in their own car in what later turned out to be a merry-go-round about Lagos till about 2 a.m when they stopped at 7 Cameron Road, Ikoyi. Vatsa was ordered out of the car. As he made to enter the building, Sufiya ran after him but she was rudely pulled back by the soldiers. The General turned and gave his wife a bear hug, an embrace that was their last. He urged his wife to take care of their children. Sufiya returned home dejected. To her shock, the military authorities had withdrawn the official domestic staff. At 5a.m, she prepared breakfast of fried yam and pawpaw, drove to her husband’s detention centre but was told she could not bring in any food.
Another surprise awaited Vatsa’s wife. A soldier came in and said: “Madam, Oga’s wife, Mrs Mariam Babangida, said I should bring General Vatsa’s telephone handset to her.” Fatima, Vatsa’s daughter, clung to the gadget. A struggle ensued between the 15-year-old girl and the soldier, whose muscles bulged like the biceps of a Michaelangelo’s statue. Sufia asked her daughter to let go of the probably bugged set.
Worse still, some gruff, fierce-looking soldiers, led by Vatsa’s former Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Captain Maku, an intelligence officer of Idoma extraction, had led other soldiers in laying siege to the family’s house. “Madam, no visitors, no phone calls, no going out,” Maku snapped as he reclined on a settee in the living room, an improvised toothpick, peeping out of a corner of his mouth. When Sufiya protested that the family needed to buy foodstuff, Maku, whose friendly disposition when he was Vatsa’s batman had changed, commanded that the woman and her children “must manage.”
After three days of captivity, Sufiya could not endure it any longer. She told Maku: “Look, I am going to the market. If you refuse me, it means between you and I, somebody will die. I will show you I am a soldier’s wife.” She took her car, and without bothering about the soldiers, who cocked their guns menacingly at her, rammed it into the gate, which gave way as the soldiers scattered capriciously in different directions. She got to Falomo, bought bread and eggs, and decided to see one of her husband’s friends, General Gado Nasko. Before the visit to Nasko, however, Sufiya had driven home and, since her daughter was, coincidentally, at the gate, had dropped the food and driven to the Naskos.
Sufiya’s mission was to ask Nasko to fix a meeting between her and IBB to find a way to settle the matter. Although soldiers at Nasko’s house gave her the cold shoulder, her persistence worked.
Nasko, who said he was aware of the problem and would try to arrange the meeting, asked Sufiya to see him in the evening. Her hope soared. The reason was the special relationship between her family and IBB’s. “When we got married,” Sufiya was reported as saying, “I thought IBB and my husband were of the same family. The two wore the same size of dress and pair of shoes. IBB would drop his dirty wears in our house and put on my husband’s. When IBB traveled out, for a further military training my husband took care of Mariam and her children. General Vatsa, apart from mounting the horse when IBB married Mariam, bought their first set of furniture from Leventis on hire purchase.
IBB was also my husband’s best man during our wedding. Whenever Maryam’s Mercedez car broke down, she used to drive my Peugeot 404. We were close.” These , to Babangida, did not count in the field of realpolitik. Nasko told Sufiya later in the day that the military President was not ready to see her.
Another disappointment awaited Sufiya when she returned to her Rumen’s Street residence, Ikoyi. A soldier from Bonny Camp was waiting for her with an order that the family should vacate the house. Another military officer said the car should be taken to Army Headquarters for security check after which they broke into the car’s glove compartment and confiscated Vatsa’s (literary) manuscripts. In frustration, Sufiya hired a trailer and moved the family’s belongings to Kaduna. She and Fatima, however, returned and stayed in Nwakana Okoro, her brother-in-law’s house at Queen’s Drive, Ikoyi. When the military authorities bugged Okoro’s telephone, the lawyer, a Senior Advocate, of Nigeria, became jittery.
All attempts by Sufiya to see her husband were frustrated by the military authorities. It was only Fatima’s trick that worked a bit. Posing as a lawyer, she would follow other counsels into Vatsa’s detention centre and trial venue. Vatsa, however, sent Sufiya a note from Kirikiri, saying: “Do not beg Babangida. He is after my life. Take care of the children. I know it is not easy but God will help you.” When he was to be executed, Vatsa requested that his wrist watch and wedding ring be given to Sufiya. “But by the time they brought the watch and the wedding ring, the ring wasn’t my wedding ring, so I rejected it. “Till today, they have not returned the ring to me,” Sufiya was quoted by a family source.
Vatsa, second right was IBB’s bestman during his wedding
Sufiya was, therefore, left in the cold, without any wealth to fall back on. Vatsa had only one plot of land in Abuja, but it was taken over by the late despot, General Sani Abacha. At a point, Sufiya approached General Jeremiah Timbut Useni, one-time Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, in a bid to reclaim the land. Useni called for the file and told Vatsa’s wife to pay for the land rent. She, however, complained to Useni: “When my husband was a minister in FCT, he refused to allocate land to me, his wife. He said it would be immoral for him to give me land. He said his successor would give me.” Useni looked the other way while Sufiya and her family were deprived of the land.
Not all of Vatsa’s friends abandoned the family, however. “One of his friends came to our aid.” Sufiya once said. “Every other person that was dining and wining with my husband immediately switched over to IBB. Even my children today are not identified with.”
To keep body, soul and the family together, Sufiya, of Efik descent, would travel to Calabar, in Cross River State, and bring food from her people to take care of her children in Kaduna where she has vowed to remain. Apart from buying and selling, Sufiya used to engage in poultry and cattle rearing. In fact, she injected life into her Sava Farm, which she set up in 1971 after the civil war. But robbers ruined the business, a situation that led to the lack of care for the premises, part of which, by the time TheNEWS visited, was overgrown with weeds.
Sufiya, therefore, has brought up her children on a shoe-string budget. Haruna, whom Vatsa asked to be withdrawn from the Nigerian Military Training School, Zaria, because of the way the Army treated him, is now married with two children. Fatima, who is studying medicine, is in London with her husband, while Jubril, who studied law, is in Minna, Niger State. Aisha is a US-based pilot.
Sufiya believes that IBB himself planned the coup. “He wrote the script, got an officer to execute.” The officer in question was close to Mamma Madaki, a former military administrator of Plateau State. Apart from Major General Charles Ndiomu who once made a statement that he regretted killing Vatsa, this magazine gathered that the interview which General Domkat Bali granted TheNEWS (22 May 2006 edition) raised Sufiya’s hope that justice would finally be done.
She once lamented to her husband’s family:” It is painful that my husband was executed as a coup plotter even when he was not. And till this moment, we don’t know where he was buried. That Gen. Domkat Bali interview published in TheNews magazine is one of the good things God has done to us in the Vatsa family. Before, some people did not believe that Vatsa was not a coup plotter; but Bali’s confession explained it all. They should release the corpse of my husband to me so that he can be given a befitting burial. That is my prayer.”
It was for this reason that Sufiya wrote a letter, dated 15 June 2006, to President Olusegun Obasanjo, where she stated: “Although there was no iota of evidence linking my husband with the phantom coup, he was convicted and sentenced to death by the Special Military Tribunal which purportedly tried him and other coup suspects. My husband’s appeal to the Armed Forces Ruling Council against his illegal conviction was yet to be considered when the Head of State, General Babangida had him secretly executed along with the other coup convicts.”
She claimed in the letter that Bali confirmed her husband’s innocence in TheNEWS’ interview when he said: ‘“My regret is that up till now, I am not sure whether Vatsa ought to have been killed because whatever evidence they amassed against him was weak. My only regret is that I could not say, don’t do it. I am not so sure whether we were right to have killed Vatsa.” Sufiya, therefore, requested the Obasanjo administration to prosecute General Babangida for “the murder of my husband, General Vatsa.”
Born on 3 December 1940, Major General Mamman Vatsa attended the Government Secondary School, Bida, Niger State. He enlisted in the Nigerian Army on 10 December 1962 and was trained at the Nigerian Military Training College, Kaduna and the India Military Academy. Vatsa was in charge of the 21 Battalion during the Nigerian Civil War, after which he became an instructor at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna. Apart from his position as Principal Staff Officer at Army Headquarters, he commanded the 30 infantry Brigade (Ogoja) until July 1975. As the Commander of the Brigade of Guards, a post he held until 1979, Vatsa oversaw the movement of its headquarters from Dodan Barracks to Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
One proof of his loyalty to his Commander-in-Chief was when, as Commander, Brigade of Guards, Calabar, he was the first to go on air to kick against the 13 February 1976 coup, led by Lt. Col Buka Dimka. During the trial of suspects involved in that coup, he was the Tribunal Secretary. Thereafter, he was appointed the Commander, Brigade of Guards under General Olusegun Obasanjo. Mrs. Vatsa once revealed: “My husband drove General Obasanjo to his Ota farm after he handed over power to the civilians in 1979.”
Babangida and Vatsa were close
As Nowa Omoigui wrote, Vatsa was Commandant of the Nigerian Army School of Infantry (NASI) from 1979. “He, along with Lt. Col Bitiyong, developed the Special Warfare Wing and established the doctrinal basis for the establishment of the 82nd Composite Division of the Nigerian Army in Enugu. In fact, it was Vatsa who suggested that the Division be called the “82nd Division” – after the 82nd West African Division, Burma.”
As an accomplished poet and writer, Vatsa was able to publish eight poetry collections for adults and 11 for younger ones. Some of his book titles are Back Again At Watergate (1982), Reach For The Skies (1984), and Verses for Nigerian State Capitals (1973). His pidgin poetry collection is Tori for Geti Bow Leg (1981). His pictorial books are Bikin Suna and Stinger the Scorpion.
His literary interests transcended merely reeling out volumes of verse. He organized writing workshops for soldiers and their families, assisted the Children’s Literature Association with funds, as well as allocating a piece of land in Abuja for a writers village for the Association of Nigerian Authors. Vatsa was so pre-occupied with creativity that he always carried jotters to the toilet, dining table and the bedroom. There were books strewn around in the family’s apartment so much that, as TheNEWS gathered, Sufiya once threatened to “throw these books out.”
Vatsa’s journey to the great beyond started on 17 December 1985 when the military authorities arrested over 100 officers from the Army, Navy and the Air Force. Vatsa was picked up seven days later. They were, for two weeks, investigated by the Brigadier-General Sani Sami-led Preliminary Special Investigation Panel. After this, 17 of them were dragged before a Special Military Tribunal, set up by Bali, at the Defence Minister, at the Brigade of Guards Headquarters, Lagos. The accused officers were Lt.-Cols. Musa Bitiyong, Christian A. Oche, Micheal A Iyorshe, M. Effiong; Majors D.I Bamidele, D.E. West, J.O Onyeke and Tobias G Akwashiki. Others were Captain G.I L Sese, Lt. K.G. Dakpa, Commodore A.A. Ogwiji, Wing Commanders B.E. Ekele, Adamu Sakaba; Squadron Leaders Martin Luther, C. Ode and A Ahura.
The tribunal, chaired by Major General Ndiomu, tried the officers under the Treason and Other Offences (Special Military Tribunal) Decree 1 of 1986. Other members of the tribunal were Brigadier Yerima Yohanna Kure, Commodore Murtala Nyako, Col. Rufus Kupolati, Col E. Opaleye, and Lt. Col. D. Muhammed. Alhaji Mamman Nassarawa, a commissioner of police and Major A Kejawa, the Judge Advocate, were also members. The IBB regime accused Vatsa of trying to overthrow it by hiding behind a farming loan to Lt-Col Bitiyong, a charge which the general denied. As Nowa Omogui, a military analyst explains in his essay, The Vatsa Conspiracy, Bitiyong was allegedly tortured to implicate Vatsa “by making reference to certain private political conversations they had, which Vatsa denied.”
There were further allegations that Luther, Oche, Ogwiji and Bitiyong held a meeting at the Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November 1985. Iyorchie, Bitiyong, Oche, Ekele, Sakaba and Bamidele also allegedly met in Makurdi. Allegations such as the diversion of the presidential jet to a pre-arranged location by pilots in the executive fleet (Luther and Ahura), as Omogui put it, were floated. Oche allegedly held a meeting with Major Akwashiki, Commander of the 6th Battalion, Bonny Camp, and Onyeke, after a game of squash in Lagos and spoke about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. Akwashiki was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment. He was however released 10 years later by the Abacha regime.
Oche, it was also alleged, mentioned the plot to his nephew, Peter Odoba, a young lieutenant of the Brigade of Guards who, as Omogui wrote, informed then Lt. Hamza al-Mustapha, an intelligence officer to the Chief of Army Staff. Obada was charged with “concealment, recommended for dismissal and a long jail term.” On 6 March 1986, however, Vatsa, Iyorshe, Bamidele, Ogwiji, Ekele, Sakaba, Luther, Akura were executed.Vatsa had taken his trial and sentence with cheerful equanimity like the writer that he was. His vintage smiles revealed more than his words. “I leave you with smiles as smiles surprise people. But I will tell members of the Nigerian Army that the day you start insulting yourselves, others begin to join you,” he said.
To buttress his position that there was rivalry between IBB and Vatsa, Omogui referred to an interview that Eniola Bello of THISDAY had with IBB in 2001 when he turned 60. ‘“Babangida said it was after Vatsa’s coup was foiled that he realized his childhood friend and classmate planned the coup in line with a deep-seated personal rivalry, going back to their days as young officers. He said that unconsciously, he and Vatsa had been great competitors; that as a young officer, whatever he did Vatsa equally did and whatever Vatsa achieved, he also went after. He said it was Lt. Gen. T.Y. Danjuma who pointed this out to him from their military records.” Babangida gave this rationalization to justify his refusal to pardon Vatsa. He said when he first heard his childhood friend was planning a coup, he decided to do nothing but monitor him. He added, however, that Vatsa came to him to complain thus: You heard I was planning a coup and couldn’t even ask me. What kind of friend are you? To this, Babangida said he replied: I didn’t believe it, or are you planning a coup? He said Vatsa replied in the negative and the matter was forgotten until there was evidence of the plot. Babangida said he instructed that Vatsa be arrested and detained to prevent him from impeding investigation into the matter.
Babangida argued: “However, Vatsa tried to escape through the air conditioner hole. I couldn’t understand why he was trying to escape if he was not involved in a coup plot. But while watching the video of his execution, I turned my eyes away when I saw him remove his watch and ask a soldier to give his wife. I couldn’t continue watching.” Babangida added that he couldn’t retire or imprison Vatsa because he believed the guy could still have planned a coup either in retirement or in prison. “Rawlings did it in Ghana and you know Vatsa was very stubborn,” IBB said.
Omogui, however, lamented the tragedy that befell Vatsa: “Vatsa maintained to the very end that the money was for farming. Others alleged, however, that after being tortured for two days, Bitiyong implicated Vatsa by making reference to certain private political conversations they had, which Vatsa denied. But Vatsa was accused of harbouring “bad blood” against his friend and classmate Babangida, dating back to the Buhari regime and possibly earlier. He was also obliquely accused of reporting Babangida’s coup plot to Buhari before he left the country for pilgrimage along with Major General Tunde Idiagbon in August, 1985. Actions he later took as a Minister to accelerate many military applications for certificates of occupancy for land in Abuja, came to be viewed as efforts to buy the support of one or two of the plotters. Rumors that a civilian had introduced him at a party as Nigeria’s next President were even aired. All of this was, of course, circumstantial. But they took him to the stake, which was quite an anti-climax to the career of a brilliant man who never took part in any coup in Nigeria. Indeed, Mamman Vatsa was the first to go on air in Calabar to denounce the Dimka coup, and was later the Secretary of the Obada panel that tried Dimka and others in 1976. This little detail may have earned him some latent enmity in certain circles of the Army which later contributed to his death.”
There is also a very strong belief that Vatsa may have been a victim of political intrigues because of his intellectual sagacity, being a writer and soldier-poet, and his significant indifference to the military politics at that time. In fact, his ordeal had attracted three leading Nigerian literary icons, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and John Pepper Clark Bekederemo, who had gone to plead with Babangida for clemency, only to be shocked by news of his execution few minutes after departing Dodan Barracks, venue of the meeting.
Clark, Achebe and Soyinka visited IBB to plead for Vatsa
But in a swift reaction tainted with arrogance and insensitivity, Alhaji Shuibu Badeggi, Special Assistant on Public Communication to Governor Abdulkhadir Kure of Niger State and an aide of Babangida, stoutly defended the execution, claiming that a process found Vatsa and nine others culpable in the coup saga. According to him, Mrs. Vatsa’s petition is baseless. “She should shut up. Shut up! If you commit a coup and you know the punishment is death, then you should face it. That’s all. Those who plot a coup, when the coup fails, they die. Simple. Talking about those saying all sorts of negative things about IBB, they are only out to score cheap political goals. Envy, grudge, that’s all. It is envy and madness. Otherwise, if you thought 20 years ago that your husband had been wrongly accused of a coup plot and executed, why wait till now to demand that Babangida be punished? If anybody or group is using her to smear Babangida’s image, then they have a problem because it is not Babangida who desperately wants to be president of Nigeria. It’s we his supporters. There is nothing anyone of them can do in this and any other case.”
This may be Badeggi’s simple response to a complex issue which is already generating interest across the country. The day Badeggi’s outburst came out, TheNEWS gathered, Mrs. Vatsa did not hold back her own ballistic missile. She reportedly said: “Anybody who says I am being used is a big fool. In the first place, my husband made Kure. As a Minister, my husband brought Nupe people to government. That was when Kure came to Abuja to work with my husband. If Kure was not made by my husband, would he be in a position to have an aide like the one talking rubbish? That aide should shut up 100 times. Nobody is sponsoring me. All I want is the matter to be opened up so that the whole world will witness the case. There are many other thousands of innocent people in the grave whom IBB murdered. Their souls are crying for justice. All those he made widows and orphans are seeking justice. He has no hiding place. Should anybody or group of persons make any mago mago to force IBB on Nigerians, the Aba women riot of 1929 will be a child’s play to the women riot that will be witnessed in 2007.” Will justice be done in the Vatsa case?
• This article by Ademola Adegbamigbe, Editor, was originally published in TheNEWS hard copy in July 2006.
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Iowa Hawkeyes DE Adrian Clayborn Named All-American
November 29, 2010 By paulmbanks Leave a Comment
Iowa Hawkeyes senior defensive end Adrian Clayborn has been named a first-team all-American by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). It is the only college football All-America team that is voted on entirely by coaches.
Clayborn, a 6-4, 285-pounder from St. Louis, is the eighth Hawkeye player to ever make the elite AFCA all-America team. He is the fifth Kirk Ferentz coached Hawkeye to make the AFCA team. The others were PK Nate Kadeing and OL Robert Gallery (2003) and OL Eric Steinbach and TE Dallas Clark (2002).
Clayborn was on numerous watch lists this season and is a finalist for the prestigious Lombardi Award, which will be given out next week.
Clayborn totaled 51 tackles his senior campaign, including seven for a loss of 42 yards. He had 3.5 sacks and forced a fumble. He started 29 consecutive games and 36 during his Hawkeye career. He has been considered one of the most dominant defensive players in collegiate football over the past two years.
As a reminder, the Big Ten Network will present the live, exclusive announcement of the 2010 All-Big Ten football teams and individual honors during the Big Ten Football: All-Conference Selection Show at 6 p.m. CT/7p.m. ET tonight.
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By NATALIE HENG
Rhythm veteran Chazz Young delights Malaysia’s small but close-knit tap community.
IT’S A small space, and the frenetic sound of tappers delivering a staggered torrent of syncopated beats, travels out into the humid evening air. If only people at the mamak joint downstairs knew who was leading the class.
Chazz Young is in Malaysia. He’s got a cold, but you wouldn’t know it.
The 80-year-old spent the weekend whizzing around, teaching Lindy Hop to Malaysia’s fresh and eager community of swing enthusiasts at South East Asia (SEA) Jam – the region’s biggest swing-event, hosted for the first time, in Kuala Lumpur.
Now, he’s gracing the city’s small but tight-knit community of rhythm tappers at a workshop in Havana Estudio in leafy Taman Tun Dr Ismail.
Young is a dying breed. Raised on the streets of Harlem in New York, his generation was among the last to have experienced the heyday of Lindy Hop – before its decline in the 1940s, and subsequent revival, over 40 years later.
His father was none other than Frankie Manning, a mover and shaker at the Savoy Ballroom – New York City’s hottest dance club back in the mid-1930s.
Young was about 10 when he saw his first-ever live performance – Manning, a core member of the Harlem Congaroos, was in town to perform at The Roxy.
Manning’s troupe was in high demand, so Young rarely saw his father, but watching him on stage that night left a huge impact – he’d never seen anything like it.
“It was lively music, colourful lights, and girls flying all over the place,” he recalled.
All Young knew was Harlem, and dance looked like a ticket out – getting to travel all over, going to exotic places. “That alone inspired me,” he said.
So when his mother asked if he’d like to dance on stage one day, he said “yes,” and she enrolled him in the famous Harlem Dance School. The rest, he said, just fell into place.
After years of training, Norma Miller, another Lindy Hop legend, showed up to see him.
“I have somebody I’d like you to meet,” Manning had said to his friend. “This is my son.”
Miller was at the time looking for dancers to join a new ensemble of hers, and noted that Young “danced just like his father.”
Trained in everything from tap, acrobatics, modern dance and ballet, the 17-year-old was ready for anything. A year later, on his 18th birthday, he found himself performing in Miller’s new troupe in Caracas, Venezuela.
Having grown up at the tail end of the Lindy Hop era, Young tended more towards tap dancing than the latter.
“Tap was big at the time,” explained Young.
Young travelled all over Australia with Miller’s troupe. However, his nomadic lifestyle was short-lived as the post-war years saw Bebop emerge as the new dance craze. Miller’s troupe eventually parted, and everyone went their separate ways.
Young joined the postal service, where he stayed for 26 years.
When he heard they were looking for tap teachers at the West Side YMCA, he started teaching classes after work. Eventually, he went all in.
Young has been an artistic director, tap instructor and performer with the Austin Dancers Academy for over 40 years.
Dance is the best thing that ever happened to him, he said.
“Dancing is healthy. If you have problems, you put on some music, and you dance,” he chuckled.
It has certainly kept him as fit as a fiddle: “I think dancing keeps the blood flowing; all that moving can do wonders for the body,” he said.
Young is thrilled to note the resurgence of Lindy Hop around the world, especially in South-East Asia.
“It (SEA Jam) started in Singapore, now it’s in Kuala Lumpur, and next year, it’s going to Bangkok.
“It’s so wonderful for the dancers, the musicians who love playing swing music. The bands get to play those old charts by Bennie Goodman, Glen Miller, Duke Ellington ... you look at the dance floor, and everyone is having fun. It’s just fabulous!” he smiled.
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The Tangled Threads are The Jarquin and Jen Forti, a multi-talented duo from Portland, Oregon. They combine their visions to create new acts to delight and amaze audiences everywhere through an ever-evolving repertoire that includes music, dance, stiltwalking, juggling, clowning, Heely skating, and much more! They have years of experience entertaining nationally and internationally and gladly cross continents to bring their energy and enthusiasm to audiences everywhere.
Creativity has threaded it's way through Jen's life beginning with dance in the 4th grade and later as a drummer in the school band. She continued her dance education at Alfred University in upstate NY where she received her BFA with a focus on ceramic art.
In 2005 Jen became a dancer with March Fourth Marching Band (M4), a 25+ piece mobile groove band that has toured the US and Europe. Soon after she co-founded The People's Republics, a brand and apparel line uniting progressive communities together through the common threads of social awareness and local pride, beginning with Portland, OR. Both experiences reflect her two great
passions: spreading joy through music and dance and supporting both local communities and the world community. She combined these two passions in 2011 when she organized flashmobs for 350.org's Moving Planet Day.
Originally from Rome, Italy, Jen has been heavily influenced by Italian tradition and theater and loves the concept of the traveling circus/vaudeville act. She's now woven all of her passions and experiences into a common thread known as, “The Tangled Threads.”
A professional performer for two decades, The Jarquin has trained with such fine institutions as Rowan University, The American Conservatory Theater, Shakespeare and Co.,San Francisco State University, and the always popular School of Life. He has performed indoors and outdoors, nationally and internationally, in English and in Greek, before packed houses and audiences one could hold in the palm of their hand, for children, adults, pets, distant acquaintances, and Heads of State (although they'd probably never admit it). His roles have spanned the distance from Peter Rabbit to Romeo, and he has embodied literary characters, catholic priests, refugees, drunken clowns, and psychopaths with equal pizzazz.
He loves performing and The Tangled Threads is the most recent loom helping to shape his ever-unraveling journey as he continues to share his energy and joy with this tangled skein we call humanity.
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New York/Stuttgart–What is a fair price for an author to publish their article in a journal? With the launch of their new journal, The Surgery Journal, Thieme is hoping to try and answer this question.
Thieme is proud to announce their collaboration with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich’s School of Management and Department of Economics in a groundbreaking research project. The project involves examining authors’ perceptions of Article Processing Fees (APC) and Pay What You Want (PWYW) as a business model for academic journals.
The LMU research department will be setting up the trial parameters so that the results can be analyzed and ultimately published for academics, publishers and anyone else interested in Open Access publishing and PWYW as a business model.
Co-Project leader Professor Martin Spann, co-author of several highly cited papers investigating PWYW as a marketing strategy, commented: “We are excited to investigate how Pay What You Want is going to perform in the context of Open Access Publishing. My colleague and co-project leader Professor Klaus Schmidt and I are very much looking forward to the collaboration with Thieme Publishers.”
This collaboration coincides with the launch of The Surgery Journal, a new Open Access, multi-disciplinary journal publishing original research and reviews on all surgical specialties. Following acceptance of a paper after peer review, authors will be given the opportunity to pay an APC fee that they feel is most suitable (Pay What You Want - PWYW).
The Surgery Journal (TSJ) is a unique, all-encompassing, open access journal for surgeons and trainee surgeons of all disciplines, as well as other medical professionals engaged in the support and surgical treatment of patients. Available online only, it will publish original articles, reviews, and case reports.
Graham Brumfield, Associate Publisher at Thieme, said: “This new journal is important to Thieme as it bridges all surgical specialties, bringing together the expertise we have established across many journals in the field. In addition, by working with Professors Schmidt and Spann, it allows us to contribute to the Open Access discussion in a meaningful way, reaffirming Thieme’s growing reputation as an Open Access publisher.”
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Elena Kagan is one of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, and only the fourth woman to hold a position on the nation's highest court since its first session in 1790. She was nominated to the court in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama, who described her as “one of the nation’s foremost legal minds.” The U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination later that year, making her the 112th justice to serve on the Supreme Court. Kagan replaced Justice John Paul Stevens, who had retired after 35 years on the court.
Hunter College High School in Manhattan, New York, class of 1977.
Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey; she earned a bachelor's degree in history in 1981.
Worcester College in Oxford, England; she earned a master’s degree in philosophy in 1983.
Harvard University Law School; she earned a law degree in 1986.
Career in Academia, Politics, and Law
Before she took a seat on the Supreme Court, Kagan worked as a professor, an attorney in private practice and as solicitor general of the United States. She was the first woman to supervise the office that handles litigation for the federal government before the Supreme Court.
Here are Kagan's career highlights:
1986 to 1987: Law clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., Circuit.
1988: Law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the court.
1989 to 1991: Associate attorney in the powerful Washington, D.C., law firm of Williams & Connolly, which was co-founded by Edward Bennett Williams, the legendary trial lawyer who represented the likes of John Hinckley Jr., Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Jimmy Hoffa, and Joseph McCarthy.
1991 to 1995: Assistant professor of law, then tenured professor of law, at the University of Chicago Law School.
1995 to 1996: Associate counsel to President Bill Clinton.
1997 to 1999: Deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council under Clinton.
1999 to 2001: Visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School.
2001: Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, teaching administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and separation of powers theory.
2003 to 2009: Dean of the Harvard Law School.
2009 to 2010: Solicitor general under President Barack Obama.
2010 to current: Associated justice of the Supreme Court.
Kagan's tenure on the Supreme Court has been relatively free of controversy. Yes, even Supreme Court justice invites scrutiny; ask Justice Clarence Thomas, whose absolute silence during almost seven years of oral arguments baffled court observers, legal scholars, and journalists. Justice Samuel Alito, one of the most conservative voices on the court, has openly criticized his fellow members, particularly following the court's landmark decision on same-sex marriage. And the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who was famous for his unrestrained opinions, once said homosexuality should be a crime.
The biggest dustup surrounding Kagan was a request for her to recuse herself from consideration of a challenge to Obama's health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare for short. Kagan's office of solicitor general under Obama had been on record as supporting the act in a legal proceeding. A group called Freedom Watch challenged Kagan's judicial independence. The court declined to entertain the allegation.
Kagan's liberal personal beliefs and style of writing also came back to haunt her during her confirmation hearings. Conservative Republicans accused her of being unable to set aside her biases. "In her memos to Justice Marshall as well as her work for Clinton, Kagan consistently wrote from her own perspective, prefacing her advice with 'I think' and 'I believe' and distinguishing her opinions from other members of Clinton's White House team or from the president's own opinions," said Carrie Severino of the Conservative Judicial Crisis Network.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a conservative Republican who would later serve in Donald Trump's administration, said:
"A troubling pattern has already emerged in Ms. Kagan's record. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated a willingness to make legal decisions based not on the law but instead of her very liberal politics."
As dean of the Harvard Law School, Kagan drew fire for her objection to having military recruiters on campus because she believed the federal government policy that banned openly gay individuals from serving in the military violated the university's anti-discrimination policy.
Kagan was born and raised in New York City; her mother was a school teacher and her father was an attorney. She is unmarried and has no children.
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Manhattan (/mænˈhætən,_mən-/), often referred to locally as the City, is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City and its economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough is coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with the borough's long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world,Barry, Dan. "A Nation challenged: in New York; New York Carries On, but Test of Its Grit Has Just Begun", The New York Times, October 11, 2001. Accessed November 20, 2016. "A roaring void has been created in the financial center of the world." and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, Accessed October 7, 2018. and Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization: the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, and the borough has been the setting for numerous books, films, and television shows. Manhattan is historically documented to have been purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for 60 guilders, which equals roughly US$ in current terms. Manhattan real estate has since become among the most expensive in the world, with the value of Manhattan Island, including real estate, estimated to exceed US$3 trillion in 2013; median residential property sale prices in Manhattan approximated US1,600$/ft2 as of 2018, Accessed January 31, 2018. with Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commanding the highest retail rents in the world, at US3,000$/ft2 in 2017.
Manhattan traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals of liberty and peace. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898.
New York County is the United States' second-smallest county by land area (larger only than Kalawao County, Hawaii), and is also the most densely populated U.S. county. It is also one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 1,664,727 living in a land area of 22.83sqmi, or 72,918 residents per square mile (28,154/km2), higher than the density of any individual U.S. city. On business days, the influx of commuters increases this number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile (65,600/km2). Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area. Manhattan Island is often informally divided into three areas, each aligned with its long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.
Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan are well known, as New York City received a record 62.8 million tourists in 2017, and Manhattan hosts three of the world's 10 most-visited tourist attractions in 2013: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The borough hosts many prominent bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge; skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building; and parks, such as Central Park. Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, and the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, part of the Stonewall National Monument, is considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement. The City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan, and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the city's government. Numerous colleges and universities are located in Manhattan, including Columbia University, New York University, Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medical College, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 40 in the world.
The name Manhattan derives from the Munsee dialect of the Lenape language 'manaháhtaan' (where 'manah-' means "gather", '-aht-' means "bow" and '-aan' is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows". According to a Munsee tradition recorded in the 19th century, the island was named so for a grove of hickory trees at the lower end that was considered ideal for the making of bows.
It was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata, in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). Alternative folk etymologies include "island of many hills", "the island where we all became intoxicated" and simply "island", as well as a phrase descriptive of the whirlpool at Hell Gate.
The Castello Plan showing the Dutch colonial city of New Amsterdam in 1660 – then confined to the southern tip of Manhattan Island
from Wikipedia by Jacques Cortelyou, General Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam at that time. Public domain
The area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano – sailing in service of King Francis I of France – became the first documented European to visit the area that would become New York City. He entered the tidal strait now known as The Narrows and named the land around Upper New York Harbor "New Angoulême", in reference to the family name of King Francis I that was derived from Angoulême in France; he sailed far enough into the harbor to sight the Hudson River, which he referred to in his report to the French king as a "very big river"; and he named the Bay of Santa Margarita – what is now Upper New York Bay – after Marguerite de Navarre, the elder sister of the king.R. J. Knecht: Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I; p. 372. Cambridge University Press (1996) Seymour I. Schwartz: The Mismapping of America. p.42; The University of Rochester Press (2008)
It was not until the voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, that the area was mapped. Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there in 1609, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany."Henry Hudson and His Exploration" Scientific American, September 25, 1909. Accessed May 1, 2007. "This was a vain hope however, and the conviction must finally have come to the heart of the intrepid adventurer that once again he was foiled in his repeated quest for the northwest passage ... On the following day the "Half Moon" let go her anchor inside of Sandy Hook. The week was spent in exploring the bay with a shallop, or small boat, and "they found a good entrance between two headlands" (the Narrows) "and thus entered on the September 11 into as fine a river as can be found.""
A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624, with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island. In 1625, construction was started on the citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam), in what is now Lower Manhattan.Dutch Colonies, National Park Service. Accessed May 19, 2007. "Sponsored by the West India Company, 30 families arrived in North America in 1624, establishing a settlement on present-day Manhattan."GovIsland Park-to-Tolerance: through Broad Awareness and Conscious Vigilance, Tolerance Park. Accessed November 20, 2016. See Legislative Resolutions Senate No. 5476 and Assembly No. 2708. The 1625 establishment of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan Island is recognized as the birth of New York City.City Seal and Flag, New York City. Accessed November 20, 2016. "Date: Beneath the horizontal laurel branch the date 1625, being the year of the establishment of New Amsterdam."
According to a letter by Pieter Janszoon Schagen, Peter Minuit and Dutch colonists acquired Manhattan on May 24, 1626, from unnamed Native American people, who are believed to have been Canarsee Indians of the Lenape,New York: History – Islands Draw Native American, Dutch, and English Settlement, City-data. Accessed November 20, 2016. in exchange for traded goods worth 60 guilders, often said to be worth US$24. The figure of 60 guilders comes from a letter by a representative of the Dutch Estates General and member of the board of the Dutch West India Company, Pieter Janszoon Schagen, to the Estates General in November 1626.Peter Schaghen Letter with transcription. New Netherland Institute (1626-11-07). Retrieved on 2015-02-16. In 1846, New York historian John Romeyn Brodhead converted the figure of Fl 60 (or 60 guilders) to US$23. "[A] variable-rate myth being a contradiction in terms, the purchase price remains forever frozen at twenty-four dollars," as Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace remarked in their history of New York.Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, (1999: xivff) Sixty guilders in 1626 was valued at approximately $1,000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam.The International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam calculates its value as 60 guilders (1626) = €678.91 (2006), equal to about $1,000 in 2006. Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $72 in 1992.How much would the $24 paid for Manhattan be worth in today's money?. The Straight Dope (July 31, 1992). Retrieved on July 23, 2013. Historians James and Michelle Nevius revisited the issue in 2014, suggesting that using the prices of beer and brandy as monetary equivalencies, the price Minuit paid would have the purchasing power of somewhere between $2,600 and $15,600 in current dollars. According to the writer Nathaniel Benchley, Minuit conducted the transaction with Seyseys, chief of the Canarsee Native Americans, who were willing to accept valuable merchandise in exchange for the island that was mostly controlled by the Weckquaesgeeks, a band of the Wappinger.Benchley, Nathaniel. "The $24 Swindle: The Indians who sold Manhattan were bilked, all right, but they didn’t mind — the land wasn't theirs anyway." American Heritage, Vol. 11, no. 1 (December 1959).
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director General of the colony.Williams, Jasmin K. "Classroom Extra: New York – The Empire State", The New York Post, November 22, 2006. Accessed November 20, 2016. "In 1647, Dutch leader Peter Stuyvesant arrived with an iron fist to put an end to the colony's rampant crime and restore order." New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653.About the Council, New York City Council. Accessed May 18, 2007. In 1664, the English conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English Duke of York and Albany, the future King James II.New York State History, New York Department of State. Accessed June 29, 2009. "...named New York in honor of the Duke of York." The Dutch, under Director General Stuyvesant, successfully negotiated with the English to produce 24 articles of provisional transfer, which sought to retain for the extant citizens of New Netherland their previously attained liberties (including freedom of religion) under new colonial English rulers.Griffis, William Elliot. "The Story of New Netherland" Chapter XV: The Fall of New Netherland, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. "In religious matters, Article VIII of the capitulation read, "The Dutch shall enjoy the liberty of their consciences in Divine worship and in Church government.""
The Dutch Republic regained the city in August 1673, renaming it "New Orange". New Netherland was ultimately ceded to the English in November 1674 through the Treaty of Westminster.Scheltema, Gajus and Westerhuijs, Heleen (eds.),Exploring Historic Dutch New York. Museum of the City of New York/Dover Publications, New York (2011).
American Revolution and the early United States
Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British military and political center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war.Fort Washington Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed May 18, 2007. The military center for the colonists was established in New Jersey.About Morristown, Town of Morristown. Accessed April 3, 2013. "Morristown became characterized as 'the military capital of the American Revolution' because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain."Weig, Melvin J.; and Craig, Vera B. Morristown: A Military Capital of the American Revolution, National Park Service, 1950, reprinted 1961. Accessed July 19, 2011. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan, as the last British forces left the city."Happy Evacuation Day", New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, November 23, 2005. Accessed May 18, 2007.
From January 11, 1785, to the fall of 1788, New York City was the fifth of five capitals of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, with the Continental Congress meeting at New York City Hall (then at Fraunces Tavern). New York was the first capital under the newly enacted Constitution of the United States, from March 4, 1789, to August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall.The Nice Capitals of the United States. United States Senate Historical Office. Accessed June 9, 2005. Based on Fortenbaugh, Robert, The Nine Capitals of the United States, York, Pennsylvania: Maple Press, 1948... Federal Hall was also the site where the United States Supreme Court met for the first time, the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified, and where the Northwest Ordinance was adopted, establishing measures for adding new states to the Union.
Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883
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New York grew as an economic center, first as a result of Alexander Hamilton's policies and practices as the first Secretary of the Treasury and, later, with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which connected the Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the Midwestern United States and Canada. By 1810, New York City, then confined to Manhattan, had surpassed Philadelphia as the largest city in the United States.
Tammany Hall, a Democratic Party political machine, began to grow in influence with the support of many of the immigrant Irish, culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, Fernando Wood, in 1854. Tammany Hall dominated local politics for decades. Central Park, which opened to the public in 1858, became the first landscaped public park in an American city.
New York City played a complex role in the American Civil War. The city's strong commercial ties to the southern United States existed for many reasons, including the industrial power of the Hudson River, which allowed trade with stops such as the West Point Foundry, one of the great manufacturing operations in the early United States; and the city's Atlantic Ocean ports, rendering New York City the American powerhouse in terms of industrial trade between the northern and southern United States. New York's growing immigrant population, which had originated largely from Germany and Ireland, began in the late 1850s to include waves of Italians and Central and Eastern European Jews flowing in en masse. Anger arose about conscription, with resentment at those who could afford to pay $300 to avoid service leading to resentment against Lincoln's war policies and fomenting paranoia about free Blacks taking the poor immigrants' jobs, culminating in the three-day-long New York Draft Riots of July 1863. These intense war-time riots are counted among the worst incidents of civil disorder in American history, with an estimated 119 participants and passersby massacred.
The rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply after the Civil War, and Manhattan became the first stop for millions seeking a new life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886, a gift from the people of France. The new European immigration brought further social upheaval. In a city of tenements packed with poorly paid laborers from dozens of nations, the city became a hotbed of revolution (including anarchists and communists among others), syndicalism, racketeering, and unionization.
In 1883, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge established a road connection to Brooklyn, across the East River. In 1874 the western portion of the present Bronx County was transferred to New York County from Westchester County, and in 1895 the remainder of the present Bronx County was annexed. In 1898, when New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York", Manhattan and the Bronx, though still one county, were established as two separate boroughs. On January 1, 1914, the New York State Legislature created Bronx County, and New York County was reduced to its present boundaries.
Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900
from Wikipedia by Ignacio Icke Public domain
The construction of the New York City Subway, which opened in 1904, helped bind the new city together, as did additional bridges to Brooklyn. In the 1920s Manhattan experienced large arrivals of African-Americans as part of the Great Migration from the southern United States, and the Harlem Renaissance, part of a larger boom time in the Prohibition era that included new skyscrapers competing for the skyline. New York City became the most populous city in the world in 1925, overtaking London, which had reigned for a century.Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Manning, Susan. "City systems and world-systems: Four millennia of city growth and decline", University of California, Riverside Institute for Research on World-Systems. Accessed May 17, 2007. "New York, which became the largest city in the world by 1925, beating out London..." Manhattan's majority white ethnic group declined from 98.7% in 1900 to 58.3% by 1990.
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers. The disaster eventually led to overhauls of the city's fire department, building codes, and workplace regulations.Rosenberg, Jennifer. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, About.com. Accessed May 17, 2007.
The period between the World Wars saw the election of reformist mayor Fiorello La Guardia and the fall of Tammany Hall after 80 years of political dominance. As the city's demographics stabilized, labor unionization brought new protections and affluence to the working class, the city's government and infrastructure underwent a dramatic overhaul under La Guardia. Despite the Great Depression, some of the world's tallest skyscrapers were completed in Manhattan during the 1930s, including numerous Art Deco masterpieces that are still part of the city's skyline, most notably the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Returning World War II veterans created a postwar economic boom, which led to the development of huge housing developments targeted at returning veterans, the largest being Peter Cooper Village-Stuyvesant Town, which opened in 1947."Stuyvesant Town to Get Its First Tenants Today", The New York Times, August 1, 1947. p. 19 In 1951–1952, the United Nations relocated to a new headquarters the East Side of Manhattan.
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights.
In the 1970s job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City, including Manhattan, to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through the decade and into the beginning of the 1990s.
The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street, and Manhattan reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry. The 1980s also saw Manhattan at the heart of the AIDS crisis, with Greenwich Village at its epicenter. The organizations Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) were founded to advocate on behalf of those stricken with the disease.
By the 1990s crime rates started to drop dramatically due to revised police strategies, improving economic opportunities, gentrification, and new residents, both American transplants and new immigrants from Asia and Latin America. Murder rates that had reached 2,245 in 1990 plummeted to 537 by 2008, and the crack epidemic and its associated drug-related violence came under greater control.Harris, Paul. "How the mean streets of New York were tamed", The Guardian, January 15, 2006. Accessed June 29, 2009. "Alongside the changed tactics came a fall in the crack epidemic that had swept the city in the Eighties. By the Nineties police had driven dealers off the streets, thus reducing drug-related violence.... The figures speak for themselves. In 1990, 2,245 New Yorkers were murdered. Last year the number was 537, the lowest for 40 years." The outflow of population turned around, as the city once again became the destination of immigrants from around the world, joining with low interest rates and Wall Street bonuses to fuel the growth of the real estate market.Hevesi, Dennis. "In Much of the City, A Robust Market", The New York Times, March 16, 1997. Accessed June 29, 2009. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley, emerged in Manhattan's economy.
Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012
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On September 11, 2001, two of four hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center, and the towers subsequently collapsed. 7 World Trade Center collapsed due to fires and structural damage caused by heavy debris falling from the collapse of the Twin Towers. The other buildings within the World Trade Center complex were damaged beyond repair and soon after demolished. The collapse of the Twin Towers caused extensive damage to other surrounding buildings and skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan, and resulted in the deaths of 2,606 people, in addition to those on the planes. Since 2001, most of Lower Manhattan has been restored, although there has been controversy surrounding the rebuilding. Many rescue workers and residents of the area developed several life-threatening illnesses that have led to some of their subsequent deaths. A memorial at the site was opened to the public on September 11, 2011, and the museum opened in 2014. In 2014, the new One World Trade Center, at 1776ft and formerly known as the Freedom Tower, became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, while other skyscrapers were under construction at the site.
The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide.
On October 29 and 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive destruction in the borough, ravaging portions of Lower Manhattan with record-high storm surge from New York Harbor, severe flooding, and high winds, causing power outages for hundreds of thousands of city residents and leading to gasoline shortages and disruption of mass transit systems. The storm and its profound impacts have prompted the discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around the shorelines of the borough and the metropolitan area to minimize the risk of destructive consequences from another such event in the future. Around 15 percent of the borough is considered to be in flood-risk zones.
On October 31, 2017, a terrorist took a rental pickup truck and deliberately drove down a bike path alongside the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring a dozen others before crashing into a school bus."New York Terrorist Attack: Truck Driver Kills Eight in Lower Manhattan", NBC News, November 1, 2017. Accessed November 1, 2017.
The borough consists of Manhattan Island, Marble Hill, and several small islands, including Randalls Island and Wards Island, and Roosevelt Island in the East River, and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor.New York City Administrative Code Section 2-202 Division into boroughs and boundaries thereof – Division Into Boroughs And Boundaries Thereof., Justia. Accessed November 20, 2016. "The borough of Manhattan shall consist of the territory known as New York county, which shall contain all that part of the city and state, including that portion of land commonly known as Marble Hill and included within the county of New York and borough of Manhattan for all purposes pursuant to chapter nine hundred thirty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred eighty-four and further including the islands called Manhattan Island, Governor's Island, Bedloe's Island, Ellis Island, Franklin D. Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island and Oyster Island..."
According to the United States Census Bureau, New York County has a total area of 33.6sqmi, of which 22.8sqmi is land and 10.8sqmi (32%) is water. The northern segment of Upper Manhattan represents a geographic panhandle. Manhattan Island is 22.7sqmi in area, 13.4mi long and 2.3mi wide, at its widest (near 14th Street).How New York Works, How Stuff Works. Accessed June 30, 2009. "The island is 22.7sqmi, 13.4mi long and 2.3mi wide (at its widest point)."
Manhattan Island
Manhattan Island is loosely divided into Downtown (Lower Manhattan), Midtown (Midtown Manhattan), and Uptown (Upper Manhattan), with Fifth Avenue dividing Manhattan's east and west sides. Manhattan Island is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east. To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan Island from the Bronx and the mainland United States.
Early in the 19th century, landfill was used to expand Lower Manhattan from the natural Hudson shoreline at Greenwich Street to West Street. When building the World Trade Center in 1968, 1.2 million cubic yards (917,000 m³) of material was excavated from the site. Rather than dumping the spoil at sea or in landfills, the fill material was used to expand the Manhattan shoreline across West Street, creating Battery Park City, The result was a 700-foot (210-m) extension into the river, running six blocks or 1484ft, covering 92acre, providing a 1.2mi riverfront esplanade and over 30acre of parks;ASLA 2003 The Landmark Award, American Society of Landscape Architects. Accessed May 17, 2007. Hudson River Park was subsequently opened in stages beginning in 1998.
One neighborhood of New York County, Marble Hill, is contiguous with the U.S. mainland. Marble Hill at one time was part of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in 1895 to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan as an island between the Bronx and the remainder of Manhattan. Before World War I, the section of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from The Bronx was filled in, and Marble Hill became part of the mainland.
Marble Hill is one example of how Manhattan's land has been considerably altered by human intervention. The borough has seen substantial land reclamation along its waterfronts since Dutch colonial times, and much of the natural variation in its topography has been evened out.
Smaller islands
In New York Harbor, there are three smaller islands:
Ellis Island, shared with New Jersey
Other smaller islands, in the East River, include (from north to south):
Randalls and Wards Islands, joined by landfill
Mill Rock
Roosevelt Island
U Thant Island (legally Belmont Island)
Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park
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The bedrock underlying much of Manhattan is a mica schist known as Manhattan schistThe fact that the immediate layer of bedrock in the Bronx is Fordham gneiss, while that of Manhattan is schist has led to the expression: "The Bronx is gneiss (nice) but Manhattan is schist." of the Manhattan Prong physiographic region. It is a strong, competent metamorphic rock that was created when Pangaea formed. It is well suited for the foundations of tall buildings. In Central Park, outcrops of Manhattan Schist occur and Rat Rock is one rather large example.Manhattan Schist in Bennett Park John H. Betts The Minerals of New York City originally published in Rocks & Minerals magazine, Volume 84, No. 3 pages 204–252 (2009).
Geologically, a predominant feature of the substrata of Manhattan is that the underlying bedrock base of the island rises considerably closer to the surface near Midtown Manhattan, dips down lower between 29th Street and Canal Street, then rises toward the surface again in Lower Manhattan. It has been widely believed that the depth to bedrock was the primary underlying reason for the clustering of skyscrapers in the Midtown and Financial District areas, and their absence over the intervening territory between these two areas. However, research has shown that economic factors played a bigger part in the locations of these skyscrapers.Barr, Jason; Tassier, Troy; and Trendafilov, Rossen. "Depth to Bedrock and the Formation of the Manhattan Skyline, 1890–1915", The Journal of Economic History, December 2011 – Volume 71, Issue 04. Accessed August 3, 2016.
Updated seismic analysis
According to the United States Geological Survey, an updated analysis of seismic hazard in July 2014 revealed a "slightly lower hazard for tall buildings" in Manhattan than previously assessed. Scientists estimated this lessened risk based upon a lower likelihood than previously thought of slow shaking near New York City, which would be more likely to cause damage to taller structures from an earthquake in the vicinity of the city.
Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters
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Bergen County, New Jersey—west and northwest
Hudson County, New Jersey—west and southwest
Bronx County (The Bronx)—north and northeast
Queens County (Queens)—east
Kings County (Brooklyn)—south and southeast
Richmond County (Staten Island)—southwest
National protected areas
Governors Island National Monument
Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site
Statue of Liberty National Monument (part)
The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
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Manhattan's many neighborhoods are not named according to any particular convention. Some are geographical (the Upper East Side), or ethnically descriptive (Little Italy). Others are acronyms, such as TriBeCa (for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street") or SoHo ("SOuth of HOuston"), or the far more recent vintages NoLIta ("NOrth of Little ITAly"). and NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park"). Harlem is a name from the Dutch colonial era after Haarlem, a city in the Netherlands. Alphabet City comprises Avenues A, B, C, and D, to which its name refers. Some have simple folkloric names, such as Hell's Kitchen, alongside their more official but lesser used title (in this case, Clinton).
Some neighborhoods, such as SoHo, which is mixed use, are known for upscale shopping as well as residential use. Others, such as Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Alphabet City and the East Village, have long been associated with the Bohemian subculture. Chelsea is one of several Manhattan neighborhoods with large gay populations and has become a center of both the international art industry and New York's nightlife. Washington Heights is a primary destination for immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Chinatown has the highest concentration of people of Chinese descent outside of Asia. Koreatown is roughly bounded by 6th and Madison Avenues, between 31st and 33rd Streets, where Hangul (한글) signage is ubiquitous. Rose Hill features a growing number of Indian restaurants and spice shops along a stretch of Lexington Avenue between 25th and 30th Streets which has become known as Curry Hill.
In Manhattan, uptown means north (more precisely north-northeast, which is the direction the island and its street grid system are oriented) and downtown means south (south-southwest). This usage differs from that of most American cities, where downtown refers to the central business district. Manhattan has two central business districts, the Financial District at the southern tip of the island, and Midtown Manhattan. The term uptown also refers to the northern part of Manhattan above 72nd Street and downtown to the southern portion below 14th Street, with Midtown covering the area in between, though definitions can be rather fluid depending on the situation.
Fifth Avenue roughly bisects Manhattan Island and acts as the demarcation line for east/west designations (e.g., East 27th Street, West 42nd Street); street addresses start at Fifth Avenue and increase heading away from Fifth Avenue, at a rate of 100 per block on most streets. South of Waverly Place, Fifth Avenue terminates and Broadway becomes the east/west demarcation line. Although the grid does start with 1st Street, just north of Houston Street (the southernmost street divided in west and east portions; pronounced HOW-stin), the grid does not fully take hold until north of 14th Street, where nearly all east-west streets are numerically identified, which increase from south to north to 220th Street, the highest numbered street on the island. Streets in Midtown are usually one-way, with the few exceptions generally being the busiest cross-town thoroughfares (14th, 23rd, 34th, and 42nd Streets, for example), which are bidirectional across the width of Manhattan Island. The rule of thumb is that odd-numbered streets run west, while even-numbered streets run east.
Under the Köppen climate classification, using the 0°C isotherm, New York City features a humid subtropical climate (Cfa), and is thus the northernmost major city on the North American continent with this categorization. The suburbs to the immediate north and west lie in the transitional zone between humid subtropical and humid continental climates (Dfa). The city averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually. The city lies in the USDA 7b plant hardiness zone.
Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore temper the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean; yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachians keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. The daily mean temperature in January, the area's coldest month, is 32.6°F; temperatures usually drop to 10°F several times per winter, and reach 60°F several days in the coldest winter month. Spring and autumn are unpredictable and can range from chilly to warm, although they are usually mild with low humidity. Summers are typically warm to hot and humid, with a daily mean temperature of 76.5°F in July. Nighttime conditions are often exacerbated by the urban heat island phenomenon, while daytime temperatures exceed 90°F on average of 17 days each summer and in some years exceed 100°F. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −15°F, recorded on February 9, 1934, up to 106°F on July 9, 1936.
Summer evening temperatures are elevated by the urban heat island effect, which causes heat absorbed during the day to be radiated back at night, raising temperatures by as much as 7F-change when winds are slow. Manhattan receives 49.9in of precipitation annually, which is relatively evenly spread throughout the year. Average winter snowfall between 1981 and 2010 has been 25.8in; this varies considerably from year to year.
Landmarks and architecture
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Broadway and the Theater District surrounding Times Square, Central Park, Chinatown, the Chrysler Building, Columbia University, the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, Fulton Center, Grand Central Terminal, Harlem, the High Line, Koreatown, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Little Italy, Madison Square Garden, Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue, the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, New York University and the Washington Square Arch in Greenwich Village, One World Trade Center, Penn Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, Stonewall Inn, Trump Tower, gateways to numerous iconic river-crossing bridges, and an emerging number of supertall skyscrapers, are all located on densely populated Manhattan Island; the Statue of Liberty rests on a pedestal on Liberty Island, an exclave of Manhattan. The borough has many energy-efficient green office buildings, such as the Hearst Tower, the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center, and the Bank of America Tower—the first skyscraper designed to attain a Platinum LEED Certification.
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century. From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1901 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with nine different buildings holding the title.McKinley, Jesse. "F.Y.I.: Tall, Taller. Tallest", The New York Times, November 5, 1995. p. CY2. Accessed June 30, 2009. The New York World Building on Park Row, was the first to take the title in 1890, standing 309ft until 1955, when it was demolished to construct a new ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge."Big Span Project Initiated by City; Manhattan Plaza of Brooklyn Bridge Would Be Rebuilt to Cope With Traffic Increase COST IS PUT AT $6,910,000 Demolition Program is Set – Street System in the Area Also Faces Rearranging", The New York Times, July 24, 1954. p. 15. The nearby Park Row Building, with its 29 stories standing 391ft high took the title in 1899.Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/The Park Row Building, 15 Park Row; An 1899 'Monster' That Reigned High Over the City", The New York Times, March 12, 2000. Accessed June 30, 2009. The 41-story Singer Building, constructed in 1908 as the headquarters of the eponymous sewing machine manufacturer, stood 612ft high until 1967, when it became the tallest building ever demolished.Gray, Christopher. " Streetscapes/Singer Building; Once the Tallest Building, But Since 1967 a Ghost", The New York Times, January 2, 2005. Accessed May 15, 2007. "The 41-story Singer Building, the tallest in the world in 1908 when it was completed at Broadway and Liberty Street, was, until September 11, 2001, the tallest structure ever to be demolished. The building, an elegant Beaux-Arts tower, was one of the most painful losses of the early preservation movement when it was razed in 1967.... Begun in 1906, the Singer Building incorporated Flagg's model for a city of towers, with the 1896 structure reconstructed as the base, and a 65-foot-square shaft rising 612ft high, culminating in a bulbous mansard and giant lantern at the peak." The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, standing 700ft at the foot of Madison Avenue, wrested the title in 1909, with a tower reminiscent of St Mark's Campanile in Venice.Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/Metropolitan Life at 1 Madison Avenue; For a Brief Moment, the Tallest Building in the World", The New York Times, May 26, 1996. Accessed June 30, 2009. The Woolworth Building, and its distinctive Gothic architecture, took the title in 1913, topping off at 792ft.Dunlap, David W. "Condos to Top Vaunted Tower Of Woolworth", The New York Times, November 2, 2000. Accessed June 30, 2009. Structures such as the Equitable Building of 1915, which rises vertically forty stories from the sidewalk, prompted the passage of the 1916 Zoning Resolution, requiring new buildings to withdraw progressively at a defined angle from the street as they rose, in order to preserve a view of the sky at street level.
The Roaring Twenties saw a race to the sky, with three separate buildings pursuing the world's tallest title in the span of a year. As the stock market soared in the days before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, two developers publicly competed for the crown."Denies Altering Plans for Tallest Building; Starrett Says Height of Bank of Manhattan Structure Was Not Increased to Beat Chrysler.", The New York Times, October 20, 1929. p. 14. At 927ft, 40 Wall Street, completed in May 1930 in only eleven months as the headquarters of the Bank of Manhattan, seemed to have secured the title."Bank of Manhattan Built in Record Time; Structure 927ft High, Second Tallest in World, Is Erected in Year of Work.", The New York Times, May 6, 1930. p. 53. At Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street, auto executive Walter Chrysler and his architect William Van Alen developed plans to build the structure's trademark 185ft spire in secret, pushing the Chrysler Building to 1046ft and making it the tallest in the world when it was completed in 1929.Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: The Chrysler Building; Skyscraper's Place in the Sun", The New York Times, December 17, 1995. Accessed June 30, 2009. "Then Chrysler and Van Alen again revised the design, this time in order to win a height competition with the 921ft tower then rising at 40 Wall Street. This was done in secret, using as a staging area the huge square fire-tower shaft, intended to vent smoke from the stairways. Inside the shaft, Van Alen had teams of workers assemble the framework for a 185-foot spire that, when lifted into place in the fall of 1929, made the Chrysler building, at 1046 feet, 4.75 inches high, the tallest in the world." Both buildings were soon surpassed with the May 1931 completion of the 102-story Empire State Building with its Art Deco tower reaching 1250ft at the top of the building. The 203ft high pinnacle was later added bringing the total height of the building to 1453ft."Rivalry for Height is Seen as Ended; Empire State's Record to Stand for Many Years, Builders and Realty Men Say. Practical Limit Reached; Its Top Rises 1250ft, but Staff Carrying Instruments Extends Pinnacle to 1265.5 Feet.", The New York Times, May 2, 1931. p. 7.Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: The Empire State Building; A Red Reprise for a '31 Wonder", The New York Times, June 14, 1992. Accessed June 30, 2009.
The former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were located in Lower Manhattan. At 1368 and 1362ft, the 110-story buildings were the world's tallest from 1972 until they were surpassed by the construction of the Willis Tower in 1974 (formerly known as the Sears Tower, located in Chicago).Barss, Karen. "The History of Skyscrapers: A race to the top", Information Please. Accessed May 17, 2007. "The Empire State Building would reign supreme among skyscrapers for 41 years until 1972, when it was surpassed by the World Trade Center (1,368 feet, 110 stories). Two years later, New York City lost the distinction of housing the tallest building when the Willis Tower was constructed in Chicago (1450 feet, 110 stories)." One World Trade Center, a replacement for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, is currently the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1961, the Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled plans to tear down the old Penn Station and replace it with a new Madison Square Garden and office building complex. Organized protests were aimed at preserving the McKim, Mead & White-designed structure completed in 1910, widely considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the architectural jewels of New York City.Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/'The Destruction of Penn Station'; A 1960s Protest That Tried to Save a Piece of the Past", The New York Times, May 20, 2001. Accessed June 30, 2009. Despite these efforts, demolition of the structure began in October 1963. The loss of Penn Station—called "an act of irresponsible public vandalism" by historian Lewis Mumford—led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, which is responsible for preserving the "city's historic, aesthetic, and cultural heritage".About the Landmarks Preservation Commission, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Accessed November 20, 2016. The historic preservation movement triggered by Penn Station's demise has been credited with the retention of some one million structures nationwide, including nearly 1,000 in New York City."Requiem For Penn Station", CBS News, October 13, 2002. Accessed May 17, 2007. In 2017, a multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan was unveiled to restore the historic grandeur of Penn Station, in the process of upgrading the landmark's status as a critical transportation hub.
Parkland composes 17.8% of the borough, covering a total of 2686acre. Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the west by Eighth Avenue, on the south by West 59th Street, and on the east by Fifth Avenue. Along the park's borders, these streets are usually referred to as Central Park North, Central Park West, and Central Park South, respectively (Fifth Avenue retains its name along the eastern border). The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The 843acre park offers extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas used for various sporting pursuits, as well as playgrounds for children. The park is a popular oasis for migrating birds, and thus is popular with bird watchers. The 6mi road circling the park is popular with joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters, especially on weekends and in the evenings after 7:00 pm, when automobile traffic is banned.Central Park General Information, Central Park Conservancy. Accessed September 21, 2006. While much of the park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes. The construction of Central Park in the 1850s was one of the era's most massive public works projects. Some 20,000 workers crafted the topography to create the English-style pastoral landscape Olmsted and Vaux sought to create. Workers moved nearly 3000000cuyd of soil and planted more than 270,000 trees and shrubs.Central Park History, Central Park Conservancy. Accessed September 21, 2006.
Almost 70% of Manhattan's space devoted to parks is located outside of Central Park, including 204 playgrounds, 251 Greenstreets, 371 basketball courts, and many other amenities. The African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane Street preserves a site containing the remains of over 400 Africans buried during the 17th and 18th centuries. The remains were found in 1991 during the construction of the Foley Square Federal Office Building.
Culture and contemporary life
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Manhattan is the borough most closely associated with New York City by non-residents; regionally, residents within the New York City metropolitan area, including natives of New York City's boroughs outside Manhattan, will often describe a trip to Manhattan as "going to the City".Purdum, Todd S. "Political memo; An Embattled City Hall Moves to Brooklyn", The New York Times, February 22, 1992. Accessed June 30, 2009. ""Leaders in all of them fear that recent changes in the City Charter that shifted power from the borough presidents to the City Council have diminished government's recognition of the sense of identity that leads people to say they live in the Bronx, and to describe visiting Manhattan as 'going to the city.'" Journalist Walt Whitman characterized the streets of Manhattan as being traversed by "hurrying, feverish, electric crowds".
Manhattan has been the scene of many important American cultural movements. In 1912, about 20,000 workers, a quarter of them women, marched upon Washington Square Park to commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 workers on March 25, 1911. Many of the women wore fitted tucked-front blouses like those manufactured by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a clothing style that became the working woman's uniform and a symbol of women's liberation, reflecting the alliance of labor and suffrage movements.The Triangle Factory Fire, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Accessed April 25, 2007.
The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s established the African-American literary canon in the United States and introduced writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Manhattan's vibrant visual art scene in the 1950s and 1960s was a center of the American pop art movement, which gave birth to such giants as Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein. The downtown pop art movement of the late 1970s included artist Andy Warhol and clubs like Serendipity 3 and Studio 54, where he socialized.
Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. Plays and musicals are staged in one of the 39 larger professional theatres with at least 500 seats, almost all in and around Times Square.Weber, Bruce. "Critic's Notebook: Theater's Promise? Look Off Broadway", The New York Times, July 2, 2003. Accessed May 29, 2007. "It's also true that what constitutes Broadway is easy to delineate; it's a universe of 39 specified theaters, which all have at least 500 seats. Off Broadway is generally considered to comprise theaters from 99 to 499 seats (anything less is thought of as Off Off), which ostensibly determines the union contracts for actors, directors and press agents." Off-Broadway theatres feature productions in venues with 100–500 seats.Theatre 101, Theatre Development Fund. Accessed May 29, 2007. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, anchoring Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to 12 influential arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, as well as the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Alice Tully Hall. Performance artists displaying diverse skills are ubiquitous on the streets of Manhattan.
Manhattan is also home to some of the most extensive art collections in the world, both contemporary and classical art, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The Upper East Side has many art galleries, and the downtown neighborhood of Chelsea is known for its more than 200 art galleries that are home to modern art from both upcoming and established artists."Stylish Traveler: Chelsea Girls", Travel + Leisure, September 2005. Accessed May 14, 2007. "With more than 200 galleries, Chelsea has plenty of variety.""City Planning Begins Public Review for West Chelsea Rezoning to Permit Housing Development and Create Mechanism for Preserving and Creating Access to the High Line", New York City Department of City Planning press release dated December 20, 2004. Accessed May 29, 2007. "Some 200 galleries have opened their doors in recent years, making West Chelsea a destination for art lovers from around the City and the world." Many of the world's most lucrative art auctions are held in Manhattan.
Manhattan is the center of LGBT culture in New York City. The borough is widely acclaimed as the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, with its inception at the June 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan – widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. Multiple gay villages have developed, spanning the length of the borough from the Lower East Side, East Village, and Greenwich Village, through Chelsea and Hell's Kitchen, uptown to Morningside Heights. The annual New York City Pride March (or gay pride parade) traverses southward down Fifth Avenue and ends at Greenwich Village; the Manhattan parade rivals the Sao Paulo Gay Pride Parade as the largest pride parade in the world, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.
The borough has a place in several American idioms. The phrase New York minute is meant to convey an extremely short time such as an instant, sometimes in hyperbolic form, as in "perhaps faster than you would believe is possible," referring to the rapid pace of life in Manhattan. The expression "melting pot" was first popularly coined to describe the densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side in Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot, which was an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set by Zangwill in New York City in 1908."The Melting Pot", The First Measured Century, Public Broadcasting Service. Accessed April 25, 2007. The iconic Flatiron Building is said to have been the source of the phrase "23 skidoo" or scram, from what cops would shout at men who tried to get glimpses of women's dresses being blown up by the winds created by the triangular building.Dolkart, Andrew S. "The Architecture and Development of New York City: The Birth of the Skyscraper – Romantic Symbols", Columbia University. Accessed May 15, 2007. "It is at a triangular site where Broadway and Fifth Avenue—the two most important streets of New York—meet at Madison Square, and because of the juxtaposition of the streets and the park across the street, there was a wind-tunnel effect here. In the early twentieth century, men would hang out on the corner here on Twenty-third Street and watch the wind blowing women's dresses up so that they could catch a little bit of ankle. This entered into popular culture and there are hundreds of postcards and illustrations of women with their dresses blowing up in front of the Flatiron Building. And it supposedly is where the slang expression "23 skidoo" comes from because the police would come and give the voyeurs the 23 skidoo to tell them to get out of the area." The "Big Apple" dates back to the 1920s, when a reporter heard the term used by New Orleans stablehands to refer to New York City's horse racetracks and named his racing column "Around The Big Apple." Jazz musicians adopted the term to refer to the city as the world's jazz capital, and a 1970s ad campaign by the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau helped popularize the term."Mayor Giuliani signs legislation creating "Big Apple Corner" in Manhattan", New York City press release dated February 12, 1997. Manhattan, Kansas, a city of 53,000 people, was named by New York investors after the borough and is nicknamed the "little apple".
Manhattan is well known for its street parades, which celebrate a broad array of themes, including holidays, nationalities, human rights, and major league sports team championship victories. The majority of higher profile parades in New York City are held in Manhattan. The primary orientation of the annual street parades is typically from north to south, marching along major avenues. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is the world's largest parade, beginning alongside Central Park and processing southward to the flagship Macy's Herald Square store; the parade is viewed on telecasts worldwide and draws millions of spectators in person. Other notable parades including the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in March, the New York City Pride Parade in June, the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in October, and numerous parades commemorating the independence days of many nations. Ticker-tape parades celebrating championships won by sports teams as well as other heroic accomplishments march northward along the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway from Bowling Green to City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. New York Fashion Week, held at various locations in Manhattan, is a high-profile semiannual event featuring models displaying the latest wardrobes created by prominent fashion designers worldwide in advance of these fashions proceeding to the retail marketplace.
Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games
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Manhattan is home to the NBA's New York Knicks and the NHL's New York Rangers, both of which play their home games at Madison Square Garden, the only major professional sports arena in the borough. The Garden was also home to the WNBA's New York Liberty through the 2017 season, but that team's primary home is now the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York. The New York Jets proposed a West Side Stadium for their home field, but the proposal was eventually defeated in June 2005, and they now play at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that does not have a professional baseball franchise. The Bronx has the Yankees (American League) and Queens has the Mets (National League) of Major League Baseball. The Minor League Baseball Brooklyn Cyclones, affiliated with the Mets, play in Brooklyn, while the Staten Island Yankees, affiliated with the Yankees, play in Staten Island. However, three of the four major league baseball teams to play in New York City played in Manhattan. The original New York Giants baseball team played in the various incarnations of the Polo Grounds at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue from their inception in 1883—except for 1889, when they split their time between Jersey City and Staten Island, and when they played in Hilltop Park in 1911—until they headed to California with the Brooklyn Dodgers after the 1957 season.Giants Ballparks: 1883 – present, MLB.com. Accessed May 8, 2007. The New York Yankees began their franchise as the Highlanders, named for Hilltop Park, where they played from their creation in 1903 until 1912. The team moved to the Polo Grounds with the 1913 season, where they were officially christened the New York Yankees, remaining there until they moved across the Harlem River in 1923 to Yankee Stadium.Yankee Ballparks: 1903 – present, MLB.com. Accessed May 8, 2007. The New York Mets played in the Polo Grounds in 1962 and 1963, their first two seasons, before Shea Stadium was completed in 1964.Mets Ballparks: 1962 – present, MLB.com. Accessed May 8, 2007. After the Mets departed, the Polo Grounds was demolished in April 1964, replaced by public housing.Drebinger, John. "The Polo Grounds, 1889–1964: A Lifetime of Memories; Ball Park in Harlem Was Scene of Many Sports Thrills", The New York Times, January 5, 1964. p. S3.Arnold, Martin. "Ah, Polo Grounds, The Game is Over; Wreckers Begin Demolition for Housing Project", The New York Times, April 11, 1964. p. 27.
The first national college-level basketball championship, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938 and remains in the city.History of the National Invitation Tournament, National Invitation Tournament. Accessed May 8, 2007. "Tradition. The NIT is steeped in it. The nation's oldest postseason collegiate basketball tournament was founded in 1938." The New York Knicks started play in 1946 as one of the National Basketball Association's original teams, playing their first home games at the 69th Regiment Armory, before making Madison Square Garden their permanent home.The Knickerbocker Story, NBA.com. Accessed November 20, 2016. The New York Liberty of the WNBA shared the Garden with the Knicks from their creation in 1997 as one of the league's original eight teams through the 2017 season,The New York Liberty Story, Women's National Basketball Association. Accessed May 8, 2007. after which the team moved nearly all of its home schedule to White Plains. Rucker Park in Harlem is a playground court, famed for its streetball style of play, where many NBA athletes have played in the summer league.Rucker Park, ThinkQuest New York City. Accessed June 30, 2009.
Although both of New York City's football teams play today across the Hudson River in MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, both teams started out playing in the Polo Grounds. The New York Giants played side-by-side with their baseball namesakes from the time they entered the National Football League in 1925, until crossing over to Yankee Stadium in 1956."Home Sweet Home", Pro Football Hall of Fame, September 10, 2010. Accessed November 20, 2016. "The Giants shared the Polo Grounds with the New York Baseball Giants from the time they entered the league in 1925 until 1955." The New York Jets, originally known as the Titans of New York, started out in 1960 at the Polo Grounds, staying there for four seasons before joining the Mets in Queens at Shea Stadium in 1964.Stadiums of The NFL: Shea Stadium, Stadiums of the NFL. Accessed May 8, 2007.
The New York Rangers of the National Hockey League have played in the various locations of Madison Square Garden since the team's founding in the 1926–1927 season. The Rangers were predated by the New York Americans, who started play in the Garden the previous season, lasting until the team folded after the 1941–1942 NHL season, a season it played in the Garden as the Brooklyn Americans.New York Americans, Sports Encyclopedia. Accessed May 8, 2007.
The New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League played their home games at Downing Stadium for two seasons, starting in 1974. The playing pitch and facilities at Downing Stadium were in unsatisfactory condition, however, and as the team's popularity grew they too left for Yankee Stadium, and then Giants Stadium. The stadium was demolished in 2002 to make way for the $45 million, 4,754-seat Icahn Stadium, which includes an Olympic-standard 400-meter running track and, as part of Pelé's and the Cosmos' legacy, includes a FIFA-approved floodlit soccer stadium that hosts matches between the 48 youth teams of a Manhattan soccer club.Collins, Glenn. "Built for Speed, And Local Pride; Track Stadium Emerges On Randalls Island", The New York Times, August 20, 2004. Accessed June 30, 2009."Mayor Michael Bloomberk, Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe and the Randall's Island Sports Foundation Name New York City's Newest Athletic Facility Icahn Stadium", Mayor of New York City press release, dated January 28, 2004. Accessed September 24, 2007.
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During Manhattan's early history, wood construction and poor access to water supplies left the city vulnerable to fires. In 1776, shortly after the Continental Army evacuated Manhattan and left it to the British, a massive fire broke out destroying one-third of the city and some 500 houses.
The rise of immigration near the turn of the 20th century left major portions of Manhattan, especially the Lower East Side, densely packed with recent arrivals, crammed into unhealthy and unsanitary housing. Tenements were usually five stories high, constructed on the then-typical 25by lots, with "cockroach landlords" exploiting the new immigrants. By 1929, stricter fire codes and the increased use of elevators in residential buildings, were the impetus behind a new housing code that effectively ended the tenement as a form of new construction, though many tenement buildings survive today on the East Side of the borough.
Manhattan offers a wide array of public and private housing options. There were 852,575 housing units in 2013 at an average density of 37,345 per square mile (14,419/km²)., only 20.3% of Manhattan residents lived in owner-occupied housing, the second-lowest rate of all counties in the nation, behind the Bronx. Although the city of New York has the highest average cost for rent in the United States, it simultaneously hosts a higher average of income per capita. Because of this, rent is a lower percentage of annual income than in several other American cities.
Manhattan's real estate market for luxury housing continues to be among the most expensive in the world, and Manhattan residential property continues to have the highest sale price per square foot in the United States.
Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.
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Manhattan is unique in the U.S. for intense use of public transportation and lack of private car ownership. While 88% of Americans nationwide drive to their jobs, with only 5% using public transport, mass transit is the dominant form of travel for residents of Manhattan, with 72% of borough residents using public transport to get to work, while only 18% drove.Highlights of the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, United States Department of Transportation. Accessed May 21, 2006."New York City Pedestrian Level of Service Study – Phase I, 2006", New York City Department of City Planning, April 2006, p. 4. Accessed May 17, 2007. "In the year 2000, 88% of workers over 16 years old in the U.S. used a car, truck or van to commute to work, while approximately 5% used public transportation and 3% walked to work.... In Manhattan, the borough with the highest population density (66,940 people/sq mi. in year 2000; 1,564,798 inhabitants) and concentration of business and tourist destinations, only 18% of the working population drove to work in 2000, while 72% used public transportation and 8% walked." According to the 2000 United States Census, 77.5% of Manhattan households do not own a car.
In 2008, Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a congestion pricing system to regulate entering Manhattan south of 60th Street. The state legislature rejected the proposal in June 2008.
The New York City Subway, the largest subway system in the world by number of stations, is the primary means of travel within the city, linking every borough except Staten Island. There are 151 subway stations in Manhattan, out of the stations. A second subway, the PATH system, connects six stations in Manhattan to northern New Jersey. Passengers pay fares with pay-per-ride MetroCards, which are valid on all city buses and subways, as well as on PATH trains. There are 7-day and 30-day MetroCards that allow unlimited trips on all subways (except PATH) and MTA bus routes (except for express buses).Metrocard, Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Accessed May 11, 2007. The PATH QuickCard is being phased out, having been replaced by the SmartLink. The MTA is testing "smart card" payment systems to replace the MetroCard.PATH Frequently Asked Questions, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Accessed April 28, 2007. "PATH will phase out QuickCard once the SmartLink Fare Card is introduced." Commuter rail services operating to and from Manhattan are the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which connects Manhattan and other New York City boroughs to Long Island; the Metro-North Railroad, which connects Manhattan to Upstate New York and Southwestern Connecticut; and NJ Transit trains, which run to various points in New Jersey.
The US$11.1 billion East Side Access project, which will bring LIRR trains to Grand Central Terminal, is under construction and is scheduled to open in 2022; this project will create a new train tunnel beneath the East River, connecting the East Side of Manhattan with Long Island City, Queens. Four multi-billion-dollar projects were completed in the mid-2010s: the $1.4 billion Fulton Center in November 2014, the $2.4 billion 7 Subway Extension in September 2015, the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub in March 2016, and Phase 1 of the $4.5 billion Second Avenue Subway in January 2017.
MTA New York City Transit offers a wide variety of local buses within Manhattan under the brand New York City Bus. An extensive network of express bus routes serves commuters and other travelers heading into Manhattan. The bus system served 784 million passengers citywide in 2011, placing the bus system's ridership as the highest in the nation, and more than double the ridership of the second-place Los Angeles system.Bus Facts, Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Accessed July 15, 2016.
The Roosevelt Island Tramway, one of two commuter cable car systems in North America, whisks commuters between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan in less than five minutes, and has been serving the island since 1978. (The other system in North America is the Portland Aerial Tram.)Lee, Jennifer 8. "Midair Rescue Lifts Passengers From Stranded East River Tram", The New York Times, April 19, 2006. Accessed February 28, 2008. "The system, which calls itself the only aerial commuter tram in the country, has been featured in movies including City Slickers, starring Billy Crystal; Nighthawks, with Sylvester Stallone; and Spider-Man in 2002."The Roosevelt Island Tram, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. Accessed April 30, 2007.
The Staten Island Ferry, which runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, annually carries over 21 million passengers on the 5.2mi run between Manhattan and Staten Island. Each weekday, five vessels transport about 65,000 passengers on 109 boat trips.Facts About the Ferry, New York City Department of Transportation. Accessed August 28, 2012. "On a typical weekday, five boats make 109 trips, carrying approximately 65,000 passengers. During rush hours, the ferry runs on a four-boat schedule, with 15 minutes between departures."An Assessment of Staten Island Ferry Service and Recommendations for Improvement (PDF), New York City Council, November 2004. Accessed April 28, 2007. "Of the current fleet of seven vessels, five boats make 104 trips on a typical weekday schedule". The ferry has been fare-free since 1997, when the then-50-cent fare was eliminated.Holloway, Lynette. "Mayor to End 50-Cent Fare On S.I. Ferry", The New York Times, April 29, 1997. Accessed June 30, 2009. "Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that he would eliminate the 50-cent fare on the Staten Island Ferry starting July 4, saying people who live outside Manhattan should not have to pay extra to travel." In February 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city government would begin NYC Ferry to extend ferry transportation to traditionally underserved communities in the city. The first routes of NYC Ferry opened in 2017. All of the system's routes have termini in Manhattan, and the Lower East Side and Soundview routes also have intermediate stops on the East River.
The metro region's commuter rail lines converge at Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal, on the west and east sides of Midtown Manhattan, respectively. They are the two busiest rail stations in the United States. About one-third of users of mass transit and two-thirds of railway passengers in the country live in New York and its suburbs.The MTA Network, Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Accessed November 20, 2016. Amtrak provides inter-city passenger rail service from Penn Station to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.; Upstate New York and New England; cross-Canadian border service to Toronto and Montreal; and destinations in the Southern and Midwestern United States.
New York's iconic yellow taxicabs, which number 13,087 city-wide and must have the requisite medallion authorizing the pick up of street hails, are ubiquitous in the borough. Various private transportation network companies provide significant competition for cab drivers in Manhattan.
Manhattan also has tens of thousands of bicycle commuters.
The Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground and the Manhattan Bridge beyond it, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.
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The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 called for twelve numbered avenues running north and south roughly parallel to the shore of the Hudson River, each 100ft wide, with First Avenue on the east side and Twelfth Avenue on the west side. There are several intermittent avenues east of First Avenue, including four additional lettered avenues running from Avenue A eastward to Avenue D in an area now known as Alphabet City in Manhattan's East Village. The numbered streets in Manhattan run east-west, and are generally 60ft wide, with about 200ft between each pair of streets. With each combined street and block adding up to about 260ft, there are almost exactly 20 blocks per mile. The typical block in Manhattan is 250 by 600ft.
According to the original Commissioner's Plan, there were 155 numbered crosstown streets,Are Manhattan's Right Angles Wrong, by Christopher Gray but later the grid was extended up to the northernmost corner of Manhattan, where the last numbered street is 220th Street. Moreover, the numbering system continues even in The Bronx, north of Manhattan, despite the fact that the grid plan is not as regular in that borough, whose last numbered street is 263rd Street. Fifteen crosstown streets were designated as 100ft wide, including 34th, 42nd, 57th and 125th Streets,Remarks of the Commissioners for laying out streets and roads in the City of New York, under the Act of April 3, 1807, Cornell University. Accessed May 2, 2007. "These streets are all sixty feet wide except fifteen, which are one hundred feet wide, viz.: Numbers fourteen, twenty-three, thirty-four, forty-two, fifty-seven, seventy-two, seventy-nine, eighty-six, ninety-six, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixteen, one hundred and twenty-five, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and fifty-five—the block or space between them being in general about two hundred feet." which became some of the borough's most significant transportation and shopping venues. Broadway is the most notable of many exceptions to the grid, starting at Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan and continuing north into the Bronx at Manhattan's northern tip. In much of Midtown Manhattan, Broadway runs at a diagonal to the grid, creating major named intersections at Union Square (Park Avenue South/Fourth Avenue and 14th Street), Madison Square (Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street), Herald Square (Sixth Avenue and 34th Street), Times Square (Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street), and Columbus Circle (Eighth Avenue/Central Park West and 59th Street).
"Crosstown traffic" refers primarily to vehicular traffic between Manhattan's East Side and West Side. The trip is notoriously frustrating for drivers because of heavy congestion on narrow local streets laid out by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, absence of express roads other than the Trans-Manhattan Expressway at the far north end of Manhattan Island; and restricted to very limited crosstown automobile travel within Central Park, further prohibited beginning in 2018 south of 72nd Street within the park, to augment pedestrian safety. Proposals in the mid-1900s to build express roads through the city's densest neighborhoods, namely the Mid-Manhattan Expressway and Lower Manhattan Expressway, did not go forward. Unlike the rest of the United States, New York State prohibits right or left turns on red in cities with a population greater than one million, to reduce traffic collisions and increase pedestrian safety. In New York City, therefore, all turns at red lights are illegal unless a sign permitting such maneuvers is present, significantly shaping traffic patterns in Manhattan.
Another consequence of the strict grid plan of most of Manhattan, and the grid's skew of approximately 28.9 degrees, is a phenomenon sometimes referred to as Manhattanhenge (by analogy with Stonehenge). On separate occasions in late May and early July, the sunset is aligned with the street grid lines, with the result that the sun is visible at or near the western horizon from street level. A similar phenomenon occurs with the sunrise in January and December.
The FDR Drive and Harlem River Drive, both designed by controversial New York master planner Robert Moses,Kennicott, Philip. "A Builder Who Went to Town: Robert Moses Shaped Modern New York, for Better and for Worse", The Washington Post, March 11, 2007. Accessed April 30, 2007. "The list of his accomplishments is astonishing: seven bridges, 15 expressways, 16 parkways, the West Side Highway and the Harlem River Drive..." comprise a single, long limited-access parkway skirting the east side of Manhattan along the East River and Harlem River south of Dyckman Street. The Henry Hudson Parkway is the corresponding parkway on the West Side north of 57th Street.
River crossings
Being primarily an island, Manhattan is linked to New York City's outer boroughs by numerous bridges, of various sizes. Manhattan has fixed highway connections with New Jersey to its west by way of the George Washington Bridge, the Holland Tunnel, and the Lincoln Tunnel, and to three of the four other New York City boroughs—the Bronx to the northeast, and Brooklyn and Queens (both on Long Island) to the east and south. Its only direct connection with the fifth New York City borough, Staten Island, is the Staten Island Ferry across New York Harbor, which is free of charge. The ferry terminal is located near Battery Park at Manhattan's southern tip. It is also possible to travel on land to Staten Island by way of Brooklyn, via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
The George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connects Washington Heights, in Upper Manhattan, to Bergen County, in New Jersey. There are numerous bridges to the Bronx across the Harlem River, and five (listed north to south)—the Triborough (known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), Ed Koch Queensboro (also known as the 59th Street Bridge), Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges—that cross the East River to connect Manhattan to Long Island.
Several tunnels also link Manhattan Island to New York City's outer boroughs and New Jersey. The Lincoln Tunnel, which carries 120,000 vehicles a day under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world. The tunnel was built instead of a bridge to allow unfettered passage of large passenger and cargo ships that sail through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to Manhattan's piers. The Holland Tunnel, connecting Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey, was the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel. The Queens–Midtown Tunnel, built to relieve congestion on the bridges connecting Manhattan with Queens and Brooklyn, was the largest non-federal project in its time when it was completed in 1940; President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first person to drive through it. The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel runs underneath Battery Park and connects the Financial District at the southern tip of Manhattan to Red Hook in Brooklyn.
Heliports
Manhattan has three public heliports: the East 34th Street Heliport (also known as the Atlantic Metroport) at East 34th Street, owned by New York City and run by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC); the Port Authority Downtown Manhattan/Wall Street Heliport, owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and run by the NYCEDC; and the West 30th Street Heliport, a privately owned heliport that is owned by the Hudson River Park Trust. US Helicopter offered regularly scheduled helicopter service connecting the Downtown Manhattan Heliport with John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, before going out of business in 2009.
Gas and electric service is provided by Consolidated Edison to all of Manhattan. Con Edison's electric business traces its roots back to Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Illuminating Company, the first investor-owned electric utility. The company started service on September 4, 1882, using one generator to provide 110 volts direct current (DC) to 59 customers with 800 light bulbs, in a one-square-mile area of Lower Manhattan from his Pearl Street Station."Bulk Electricity Grid Beginnings", New York Independent System Operator. Accessed November 20, 2016. Con Edison operates the world's largest district steam system, which consists of 105mi of steam pipes, providing steam for heating, hot water, and air conditioningRay, C. Claiborne. "Q&A", The New York Times, May 12, 1992. Accessed June 30, 2009. "In a steam-powered system, the whole cycle of compression, cooling, expansion and evaporation takes place in a closed system, like that in a refrigerator or electrical air-conditioner. The difference, Mr. Sarno said, is that the mechanical power to run the compressor comes from steam-powered turbines, not electrical motors." by some 1,800 Manhattan customers.A brief history of con edison: steam, Consolidated Edison. Accessed May 16, 2007. Cable service is provided by Time Warner Cable and telephone service is provided by Verizon Communications, although AT&T is available as well.
Manhattan witnessed the doubling of the natural gas supply delivered to the borough when a new gas pipeline opened on November 1, 2013.
The New York City Department of Sanitation is responsible for garbage removal.About DSNY, New York City Department of Sanitation. Accessed May 16, 2007. The bulk of the city's trash ultimately is disposed at mega-dumps in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio (via transfer stations in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens) since the 2001 closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island.Burger, Michael and Stewart, Christopher. "Garbage After Fresh Kills", Gotham Gazette, January 28, 2001. Accessed May 16, 2007. A small amount of trash processed at transfer sites in New Jersey is sometimes incinerated at waste-to-energy facilities. Like New York City, New Jersey and much of Greater New York relies on exporting its trash to far-flung areas.
New York City has the largest clean-air diesel-hybrid and compressed natural gas bus fleet, which also operates in Manhattan, in the country. It also has some of the first hybrid taxis, most of which operate in Manhattan.
There are many hospitals in Manhattan, including two of the 25 largest in the United States (as of 2017):
Bellevue Hospital
Lower Manhattan Hospital
Metropolitan Hospital Center
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem
Water purity and availability
New York City is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed. As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purification by water treatment plants. The Croton Watershed north of the city is undergoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant to augment New York City's water supply by an estimated 290 million gallons daily, representing a greater than 20% addition to the city's current availability of water. Manhattan, surrounded by two brackish rivers, had a limited supply of fresh water. To satisfy its growing population, the City of New York acquired land in adjacent Westchester County and constructed the old Croton Aqueduct system there, which went into service in 1842 and was superseded by the new Croton Aqueduct, which opened in 1890. This, however, was interrupted in 2008 for the ongoing construction of a US$3.2 billion water purification plant that can supply an estimated 290 million gallons daily when completed, representing an almost 20% addition to the city's availability of water, with this addition going to Manhattan and the Bronx. Water comes to Manhattan through New York City Water Tunnel No. 1, Tunnel No. 2, and Tunnel No. 3, completed in 1917, 1936, and (Manhattan's supply) 2013, respectively.
Address algorithm
The address algorithm of Manhattan refers to the formulas used to estimate the closest east–west cross street for building numbers on north–south avenues. It is commonly noted in telephone directories, New York City travel guides, and MTA Manhattan bus maps.
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Silk Road Adventure
15 days along China’s ancient trade routes
The Silk Road Adventure
Not Child Friendly
Recommended dates for the trip: June to September, though July and August might be a bit more crowded (please refer to trip rates during Chinese national holidays below)
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For centuries Westerners have been intrigued by the Silk Road, which was the first connection between the East and the West, conveying goods, knowledge, and messages of peace and war across Eurasia. Traders’ camel caravans – laden with silk, tea, porcelain, and other goods from China and other parts of Asia – made their way westwards to the Middle East. From there, goods were taken on by sea and other forms of transportation to Europe and beyond. Crossing vast open plains, mysterious deserts, high mountain passes, and foreign – sometimes hostile – territories, these traders put their lives in the hands of the gods, hoping to bring prosperity to their families. We shall explore these ancient trade routes the old way – overland. Starting from Xi’an, the then Chinese capital, we travel all the way to Kashgar in the far west near the borders with central Asian republics, meeting different cultures and religions, and exploring the diversified landscapes of this remote region.
Day 1. ARRIVAL IN BEIJING
We arrive in Beijing, the fascinating capital of the world’s most populous country. This city mirrors the whole of China’s fast-growing economy, some of its inhabitants are benefiting, and yet there are still people in the cities and rural areas who have to struggle to make it through another day. Skyscrapers rise up only a few steps away from the ancient hutongs; the latest cars glide past rickshaws; and thousands of years old traditions continue to be observed alongside new market rules and a new way of life. All these, and much more, make Beijing one of the world’s most impressive cities to visit. From the airport, we drive to the Summer Palace. Built during the Qing Dynasty as an exclusive resort for the Imperial Family, this enormous site comprises various temples and has the world’s longest decorated corridor. Today the palace offers Beijingers a place where they can escape the hustle and bustle of the city. We tour the site on foot and enjoy a boat ride on the man-made Kunming Lake. We then drive to the heart of the city and take a stroll through Wangfujing Pedestrian Street, where, behind some of the world’s largest shopping malls, we visit the night food market. For the brave at heart, a delicious meal of various insects cooked in several ways awaits. After checking in at our hotel, we enjoy a traditional Beijing roast duck dinner. Overnight in Beijing.We arrive in Beijing, the fascinating capital of the world’s most populous country. This city mirrors the whole of China’s fast-growing economy, some of its inhabitants are benefiting, and yet there are still people in the cities and rural areas who have to struggle to make it through another day. Skyscrapers rise up only a few steps away from the ancient hutongs; the latest cars glide past rickshaws; and thousands of years old traditions continue to be observed alongside new market rules and a new way of life. All these, and much more, make Beijing one of the world’s most impressive cities to visit. From the airport, we drive to the Summer Palace. Built during the Qing Dynasty as an exclusive resort for the Imperial Family, this enormous site comprises various temples and has the world’s longest decorated corridor. Today the palace offers Beijingers a place where they can escape the hustle and bustle of the city. We tour the site on foot and enjoy a boat ride on the man-made Kunming Lake. We then drive to the heart of the city and take a stroll through Wangfujing Pedestrian Street, where, behind some of the world’s largest shopping malls, we visit the night food market. For the brave at heart, a delicious meal of various insects cooked in several ways awaits. After checking in at our hotel, we enjoy a traditional Beijing roast duck dinner. Overnight in Beijing.
DAY 2. BEIJING
After breakfast at the hotel, we drive out of the city to the famous Great Wall, probably China’s most prominent landmark. What we in the West know as the Wall is actually a system of walls that was built over centuries by different emperors. The Wall is considered to be some 2700 kilometers in length, but if we include all the sections that were built throughout its history, there are some 10,000 kilometers of this enormous man-made structure. We walk on part of the Wall, and hear about its history and how it failed to fulfill its main goal of stopping the Mongols from invading the country. We then continue to the Sacred Road where the Imperial Families were given their last resting place. The name derives from the fact that the Chinese believed that a road with several gates, leads the souls of the ‘heavenly families’ back to the sky. On our way back to the city we pause for a view over the famous Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube, the two main venues of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008. In the evening we attend the Golden Mask Show, which like anything Chinese is greater than life. This ancient love story of the queen and king who fell in love, and the queen that sacrifice herself and her love to the king for the sake of her people is being performed by a troop of more than 200 dancers and actors in the magnificent OCT theater which was built specifically for this show prior to the 2008 Olympic Games. Overnight in Beijing.
DAY 3. BEIJING - XI’AN
We check-out of our hotel, and drive to the train station, from there we take a fantastic bullet-train ride at 300 km/h (186 mph) to Xian. Known as ‘The Eternal Peace’ during the Tang Dynasty, Xi’an was the center of the ‘old world’ and also the center of the first Chinese Empire, after the first Qin emperor conquered the nearby feudal kingdoms and laid the foundations of the great united Chinese empire. Here in historic Chang-An, which was later renamed Xi’an, convoys of traders formed to embark on the first leg of the long trek along the Silk Road. Merchandise from all parts of the ‘Middle Kingdom’ was brought here, packed on camels, and sent overland for thousands of miles, taking silk, tea, porcelain, and other Chinese commodities to the West. On arriving in the city, we drive directly to the City Wall, which dates from the Ming Dynasty. We walk on the wall and stop at the City Wall Museum, with its permanent display of the wall’s rich history. Leaving the wall, we proceed into the bustling Muslim Quarter. The Muslims settled in Xi’an during the glory days of the Silk Road. Originating in central Asia, the Muslims arrived to trade in the exotic goods they brought to the city when it was the capital of the Chinese Empire. Over time, a huge community of Muslims became assimilated into the population and they recreated their traditional way of life. They brought with them their delicious food, their clothes and customs, and built a beautiful Mosque in the heart of the once cosmopolitan capital. We roam the colorful market and visit the Great Mosque, which is a blend of Chinese style and Muslim architecture. In the evening we enjoy a traditional Tang Dynasty concert of dancing and singing, followed by a traditional dumpling dinner. Overnight in Xi’an.
DAY 4. XI’AN ✈ ZHANGYE
Driving out of the city center, we head towards the Terracotta Army site. Discovered accidentally in 1974 by two farmers plowing their plot, this site is one of the most amazing historical finds of our time. An entire army made of terracotta, each of the soldiers with different characteristics and fully armored, was created to protect the tomb of the first Qin emperor. We explore this breathtaking site and then visit the nearby museum to see the permanent exhibition displaying the rare artifacts found in the site, and also describing its discovery, excavation, and the restoration works. Leaving the Terracotta Army site, we drive to the heart of Xi’an to visit the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Built in AD 647, it was originally constructed to house holy scripts brought from India, which contributed to the adoption of Buddhism as the main religion in China many years later. We then drive to Xian airport, for our evening flight to Zhangye. Upon arrival, we met our guide, drive to our hotel, and then continue on for dinner in a local restaurant.
DAY 5. ZHANGYE – BADAIN JARAN DESERT
This morning we depart Zhangye as we drive north. Badain Jaran Desert is home to the world’s highest sand dune, rising to some 500 meters, and offers challenging drives as well as marvelous landscapes of sand seas extending to the horizon. Surprisingly, this seemingly endless sea of sands is dotted with nothing but beautiful blue lakes. No one knows for certain what the source of these lakes is, but it is assumed the water comes all the way from the Qilian Mountains through underground rivers. The drive through the dunes and among the lakes would bring us to Soumin Jaran, a beautiful lake with a beautiful Mongolian temple beside it. We visit the temple, now inhabited by only one monk, and stroll along the lake shore. Overnight in a simple guesthouse at Soumin Jaran.
DAY 6. BADAIN JARAN - ZHANGYE
We leave SouminJaran and drive almost to the top of one of the highest dunes in the area for a spectacular view of the lakes and the sand dunes. From here we take a 2½-hour hike to Nuritu Lake. After a quick lunch there, we take to the vehicles to drive out of the desert. En route we visit the wall of singing sand and the brave can have a quick bathe in BorTulguu Lake. We leave the dunes and stop at the small local museum to learn more about the desert and its surroundings. Back on a solid asphalt road after two days of driving through the dunes, we reach the small settlement of Alxa Youqi. Here we leave our jeeps and return back to Zhangye, arriving there in the evening. Overnight in Zhangye.
DAY 7. ZHANGYE- BINGGOU - DAN XIA – JIAYUGUAN
We leave Zhangye and drive to Bing Guo. Located at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, this lovely park consists of marvelous sandstone formations. We take a short hike down a valley and climb up to an observation point for a breathtaking view over this unique landscape. We then continue to Dan Xia, a spectacular mountain with somewhat psychedelic patterns of colors in the rock. In the afternoon we ebark on the approximately 5-6 hours’ drive to Jiayuguan, to which we arrive rather late in the evening, and where we spend the night.
DAY 8. JIAYUGUAN – DUNHUANG
Jiayuguan is known as the ‘last station of the great wall’. Before the Qing Dynasty took over what is now Xinjiang Province, Gansu Province was China’s westernmost frontier. Here in Jiayuguan, in western Gansu, the traders used to gather into large convoys before leaving the protection of Chinese sovereignty, entering the Taklamakan Desert, and continuing to an alien land. We begin the day with a visit to the ‘Overhanging Wall’, a fortification of part of Jiayuguan, and a part of the historic Great Wall. We then drive to the Jiayuguan Pass, an ancient yet well preserved fortress, and the headquarters of the battalion that was stationed in this region. After lunch we embark on a long drive to reach Dunhuang. In the evening we visit Dunhuang’s busy Night Market before attending a cultural show of traditional dancing and singing. Overnight in Dunhuang.
DAY 9. DUNHUANG - BULLET TRAIN TO TURPAN
In the morning we drive to the ‘Sea of Sand’, a huge sand dune just outside Dunhuang. Here we take a walk through the sand to the Crescent Lake, where we visit the old monastery that has been converted into a leisure center in recent years. We then return to our vehicle as we take to the Mogao Caves. These magnificent caves are considered to be a most important site in Chinese Buddhism. The construction of these grottoes was sponsored by rich traders, as an offering to the gods before embarking on the dangerous journey to the unknown. The grottoes then turned into a place of worship for traders and the rich families who ruled this area for hundreds of years. Some of the most ancient artwork, dated to the 4th century AD, has an unmistakable Indian influence, a clear indication of the caves being one of the first sites of Buddhist worship in China, when Buddhism extended from India into China’s heartland. The site comprises some 2000 statues carved into the rock, 490+ man-made caves and niches, and more than 45,000 square meters of murals. In the afternoon we drive to the town of Liu Yuan where we embark on yet another bullet-train ride, this time to Turpan. We arrive in Turpan late in the evening, and drive to our hotel in the city center, where we spend the night.
DAY 10. TURPAN
Today we explore Turpan, which unlike most cities in the region, and especially, most trading centers along the ancient Silk Road, is not an oasis, but receives its water supply through underground channels stretching from the Tian Shan mountain range. We first visit Imam Minaret, the largest and most important mosque in Turpan. We then drive out of Turpan to a traditional ancient Uyghur village perched on a mountain side, offering marvelous views over the Turpan Basin. Here not only can we appreciate the traditional architecture but also visit a local family and join them for a traditional lunch. Our next visit is to a small local museum dedicated to the Karez, the famous irrigation system that has maintained Turpan as an agriculture center in the heart of the desert. We then return to our hotel for a second night in Turpan.
DAY 11. TURPAN – KORLA – NIGHT TRAIN TO KASHGAR
We begin our day at Turpan new museum. This recently opened museum showcases the region’s rich history, with archaeological findings that were dug around Turpan Basin. Some of the artifacts go back to the Tang Dynasty, the first dynasty to develop the trade routes commonly known today as the Silk Road. As well as these, the museum also features dinosaurs’ relics, and even few of the famous ‘Taklamakan Mummies’, which have effectively been baked in the hot, dry climate of the Taklamakan Desert. We then leave Tupran, and drive toJiahoe ancient city, remarkably well preserved by the extremely dry climate of the Turpan Depression, the third lowest area on the surface of the earth, and the hottest and driest place in China. Late in the afternoon we board the train where we spend the night in a 4-berth Soft Sleeper compartment.
Note: Meals aboard trains are not provided. You are welcome to enjoy the restaurant car, or alternatively, ask your guide to take you to a local shop to get some provisions for the train ride.
DAY 12. KASHGAR
We arrive in Kashgar, near China’s westernmost border, at the late morning hours. After checking in at our hotel (early check-in is subject to room availability) and having a refreshing lunch, we set off to explore this colorful and diverse town. On our way towards Id Kah Mosque we walk through a narrow ancient street, where local craftsmen display their handmade wares. The Id Kah Mosque is the largest and most important mosque of Kashgar, and is right in the vibrant center of town. The construction of the mosque was started in the mid-15th century but it has been expanded several times to its current size, and it now covers well over 16.5 square kilometers, to accommodate the increase in the city’s Muslim population. We visit the main prayer hall and the surrounding grounds, which are all crowded during major Muslim holidays. We then drive to the town’s outskirts to visit the Abakh Khoja Tomb. This private burial site belongs to the Muslim family who once ruled over this part of China. The best known descendant of this family is Xiang Fei, the only Muslim concubine of a Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The complex consists of various prayer halls, vast gardens, and, of course, the tomb, the last resting place of all the members of Abakh Khoja’s family. We go on a walking tour of Kashgar’s old town. The narrow streets between mud and brick buildings, together with the continual sounds of children playing, take us back through time to a simpler way of life. We visit some of the courtyards and see for ourselves the unique and well-preserved architecture. In the afternoon we visit Kashgar’s main bazaar, where traditional local goods, as well as goods imported from neighboring countries such as Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, can be bought. In the evening we head back to town for a traditional Muslim dinner. Overnight in Kashgar.
DAY 13. KASHGAR ✈ BEIJING
Today we leave the center again to visit Sunday’s cattle market. Farmers from small villages surrounding Kashgar meet here every weekend to sell, buy and swap horses, donkeys, cows, sheep, goats, and practically every other kind of animal that can thrive in this rugged land. Amidst constant dust clouds, people of different ethnic groups arrive on camels and in donkey carts from all over the region, not only to trade but also to meet old friends, hear the latest gossip, and sit down to share a meal with complete strangers. We have reached the end of our journey out west and start our long flight back to Beijing. Our flight may or may not stop in Urumqi, but late in the evening we reach Beijing, where we enjoy a dinner in one of the city’s finest restaurants, if time permits of course. Overnight in Beijing.
DAY 14. BEIJING
We have an early start and leave for the Temple of Heaven. This used to be where the Emperor, considered to be directly descended from heaven and representing the heavenly spirit on earth, asked for blessings for the Imperial Family and for the entire nation. He asked for good crops, good weather, and prosperity for all. The ceremony lasted three days, during which he did not leave the compound. Nowadays the grounds surrounding the temple are filled with Beijingers of all ages, who come to practice t’ai chi and dancing, and take part in all kinds of recreational activities. We join them for morning exercise before proceeding on a tour of the temple itself. From there we drive to Tiananmen Square. This is the world’s largest central city square and it is said that no one could rule China without first gaining control of the square. It is surrounded by important buildings, among them the National Museum and the Great Hall of the People (the Chinese parliament). In the center of the square there is the mausoleum of Chairman Mao, who reshaped the country, leading the People’s Republic of China from its foundation in 1949 until his death in 1976. We then proceed on foot to the Forbidden City. A common belief in China is that the ancestral spirits in heaven use 10,000 halls on different occasions, so to show his recognition of the superiority of heaven over earth, the emperor had only 9999 halls built in the Forbidden City for his own use. The compound was forbidden to all but the Imperial Family and their servants, and has been the place from which the emperors of China ruled the country for hundreds of years. We stroll between the halls and in the gardens surrounding them, and stop at some of the more significant halls. Leaving the Forbidden City, we continue to Coal Hill. Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, this used to be the highest observation point in the centre of the restless city, offering the emperor a great view over the Forbidden City and the whole of Beijing. From there we visit the hutongs, which are living evidence of how Beijing looked during imperial times. With families living around central courtyards, sharing their toilets, water, and other facilities, a way of life dating back hundreds of years. We take a rickshaw ride through the calm streets of the hutongs and get a glimpse of the life of ordinary Beijingers. In the late afternoon we enjoy strolling through one of the city’s busy markets, where traditional Chinese artifacts are sold next to knockoffs of the world’s most well-known brands. Overnight in Beijing.
DAY 15. DEPARTURE FROM BEIJING
After breakfast at the hotel, we drive to Beijing airport for our international departure flight.
30th May, 2020–13th June, 2020
2 domestic flights- Xian/Zhangye and Kashgar/Beijing by economy class
Bullet trains Beijing-Xian and Liuyuan (Dunhuang)-Turpan by 2nd class seats
Overnight train Turpan-Kashgar in shared 4 berth soft-sleeper
Bottled drinking water
International travel to and from China
Beijing- Jianguo Garden Hotel 5-star
Xian – Titan Times Hotel 4-star
Zhangye – Dinghe International Hotel 4-star
Badain Jaran – Simple Local Guesthouse
Jiayuguan – Holiday Plaza Hotel 4-star
Dunhuang – The Silk Road Dunhuang Hotel 4-star
Turpan – Huozhou Hotel 4-star
Kashgar – Tianyuan Hotel 4-star
This trip's accommodation will be at hotels of minimum 4-star, apart from the 1 night in Badain Jaran in a very simple guesthouse, with no en-suite toilet and shower.
17 Days In China, Vietnam, Laos
When Chinese Leaves Fall
15 Days In China
China Delights
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British Gas Business fined £5.6m for preventing businesses switching supplier
British Gas' business supply arm has been fined £5.6 million after a series of investigations found that the big six energy supplier had incorrectly blocked businesses from changing to another supplier.
Two separate investigations into British Gas Business were carried out by industry regulator Ofgem.
The first, conducted in 2012, found that faults in the British Gas computer systems had stopped its business energy customers from switching over a period spanning five years - between 2007 and 2012. The glitch meant that 5.6 per cent of the company's objections to customers switching during that period weren't valid.
With the second investigation, Ofgem found that around 1,200 small business customers were not told their tariff was coming to end, and this meant they weren't prompted to look around for a better energy deal, before being rolled over on their existing tariff or onto a standard tariff rate.
British Gas Business, has already paid almost £1.3 million compensation to affected customers. It will also pay around £150,000 to customers who were affected by the issue, but have since switched to another energy supplier, an £800,000 penalty, and a further £3.45 million into an energy efficiency fund.
British Gas Business' managing director, Stephen Beynon, apologised in a statement.
He said: "We're sorry these errors occurred and have worked swiftly to change our computer systems and processes, putting controls in place to stop this happening again.
"We take any failure to meet our obligations very seriously and will ensure that the new energy efficiency fund we have set up will be a real help to hundreds of small businesses," Mr Beynon added.
Ofgem's senior partner in charge of enforcement, Sarah Harrison, stated that British Gas had co-operated fully throughout the investigations, a factor that had been reflected in the size of the settlement package.
She stated: "The ability for consumers to switch easily and fairly is key to a well-functioning energy market.
"In these cases British Gas Business failed these consumers who were wrongly blocked from switching, many of them small businesses, and denied others the chance to switch to a better deal at the end of their contract."
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Australia Today
The VICE Guide To Right Now
Women Tell Us Why They Got Back Together With Their Ex
Sometimes the dumb thing you never should have done actually works out.
by Mica Lemiski
22 September 2017, 3:52am
Image via 'Before Sunset'
It's Friday, post-bar, and you're scrolling through your ex's photos on Facebook—but only because you exhausted their Instagram feed already. By this time your buzz has morphed into utter misery and you're positive you will die alone surrounded by pizza boxes and a dozen domesticated ferrets. Who will probably eat you.
All because you broke up with that person. Could they have been your person? Could they still be? Maybe you're like Allie and Noah from The Notebook, temporarily estranged but destined to die in peaceful simultaneity while holding hands. You know the movies are excellent and reliable models for structuring love lives, and so why not give round two a go? Getting back together with an ex is not unheard of. Maybe you're that couple.
Below are stories of those couples, as told by women. If we can glean any wisdom from their experiences, it's that reconnecting with an ex can either turn out very very well (marriage! babies!) or very very poorly (police involvement! animal cruelty!). In other words: results may vary.
Lisa, 34
I met Davis when I was about 15 or 16, at a coffee shop in Cranbrook. He was 20 and from Vancouver, but he was going to the college in my town. We started dating and then as soon as I graduated high school we picked up two suitcases, hopped on a Greyhound bus and moved to Vancouver, where we lived in a tiny attic suite. Then Davis' friend moved to Williams Lake to be a chef, and he asked if Davis wanted to come up and cook with him. I was about 20 and the move to William's Lake was awful. It was super isolated, we didn't have a lot of friends, and I was working in housekeeping at this awful hotel. We had no car and we were on the outskirts of town and so we couldn't really do anything. When we broke up we just said to ourselves, "this isn't fun anymore" and we went our separate ways.
About 10 years later, he tracked me down again. He was living in Kelowna but all of a sudden there were all these little excuses for him to come visit. He'd have a concert or something in Vancouver, and so we'd meet up, have a beer, and hang out. The visits to Vancouver became more and more frequent and one night I'd had a few drinks and said "you should probably come sleep in my bed." I guess it freaked him out because he didn't accept the invitation. And then the next day he just left! I was like, "oh no, I totally just got shot down."
And then on a whim we went to Mexico. Turns out we wanted to spend more than just a Saturday night together. We went to this shitty little dive resort in Puerto Vallarta. We talked a lot about what had gone on in our lives and why neither neither of us was married yet. Then we got super trashed on Mexican champagne, just blotto drunk, and suddenly I was like "well you would marry me, wouldn't you?" The words just came out of my mouth, I don't even know where from, and he was like "well yeah, I would." And so we went to a vendor on the beach and bought two five-dollar Mexican silver rings and decided that we were going to be together.
Naomi*, 27
When I was 15 my family used to frequent this fancy Italian restaurant. There was a water boy that worked there and I had a huge crush on him. He had this really enigmatic, mysterious quality, and so whenever I went there I used to give him the eyes, you know? But we never spoke. Then maybe four years later I started working at another restaurant where he was my supervisor.
After that first shift, he asked me to stay and help him clean up, but I was on high alert because I'd been told by friends that he was a huge womaniser. I told myself I wasn't going to fall for it. But I stayed, and when he asked me to tell him about myself I said I was an opera singer. He said he loved opera—though if I had a nickel for every time a guy has said that to me, I'd be able to pay my rent this month. But he backed up that claim with a few examples on the spot and I was like, "well this is heaven."
We entered this kind of tumultuous quasi-relationship. Really intense, romantic, sexual. But he was also the kind of guy whose brain I always wanted to pick. I was completely infatuated—intellectually, emotionally, everything. That went on all summer, and when I went back to university he told me he'd come visit but he never did. And so I decided to block his number, cut him off completely. But after three or four months I was like, "blocking someone's number is immature, I'm over it," and so I let him contact me again, which of course led to us getting back together—at least in some form. This pattern continued for several years. We'd reconcile at Christmas or in the summer, he'd promise to visit but wouldn't, I'd block him, unblock him, we'd make up, over and over.
And then bad things started happening. Once, we were pulled over by the police and happened to have marijuana in the vehicle. He swallowed the weed on the spot and it was the scariest thing I'd ever seen. Then we hit a dog. We were driving on this narrow road and suddenly this Golden Retriever came running out and struck the front of the car. I saw it fly through the air, literally, but he just kept driving. I was like, "aren't we going to stop?" and he said, "do you want to stop and look at a dead dog?" and I said, "no, not really, I guess." So we drove until we got to the beach. He parked, and when I was like, "oh my god we hit a dog!" he said, "poor dog, but what about my car?" He was worried he'd dented his car. In that moment I was like, "ohhh Naomi. You have made a mistake. You have grossly overestimated this person." I saw the past three years flash before my eyes. I thought, that's it. It's done.
But of course it wasn't. Last summer I was away in Europe and he messaged saying that he loved me and wanted to finally work on getting serious. I said I loved him too, thinking that in telling him how I felt—even though I wasn't really sure how I felt—we could finally be a success. But once I came home it was the same old thing. A friend once told me something really insightful about him. She said, "I think he likes the thought of you and the excitement of the relationship, but I don't think he's going to want to get groceries with you on a Tuesday." But I can't lie to myself and say it's completely over. It never is.
Bianca*, 27
My first boyfriend and I dated during my last couple years of high school. He was in university and a few years older than me, and I lost my virginity to him. But little did I know he had another girlfriend pretty much the whole time he was dating me. And so when I was 19 and found out about all of this, I broke up with him and we didn't talk at all for like four years. I never wanted to see him again.
Then last year, when I was 25, we reconnected at a party. It was very strange because I thought I completely hated him, but when we re-met there was a level of indifference on my behalf, I think because I'd seen and met so many other people during the time we'd been apart. After that night, we ended up hanging out a couple times and he told me he was interested in being in a relationship with me again. I told him I didn't want that, but that I was OK with hanging out and having casual sex if he wanted. We did that for awhile and it was actually super reclamatory for me, and maybe that's a selfish thing to say but it felt really good to do things on my terms this time—especially since he'd cheated on me before. I realized I didn't actually care for him in the strong way I thought I had.
But, unlike me, he'd really caught the feels this time around. It was a complete 180 in terms of power balance in the relationship. He was 29, all his friends were getting married, and so it seemed like he wanted the seriousness and commitment that he'd promised me initially, back when we first dated.
Then he basically proposed. I was away in Europe, and he wrote to me over messenger: "so I was thinking—you're 26, I'm 29, and every time I think of my future life and having kids, I see you there. Would you want to take this to the next level?" I told him that I wasn't done being single, and that I was not ready to tie myself to anyone at this time. I was trying not to be too brash, but maybe this wasn't the best approach because his response was something like, "take your time, keep me posted."
But having a second go with him was so healing because it allowed me to have complete closure. I understood that he wasn't really worth all I'd built him up to be when I was 19 and completely devastated by the infidelity and the lies. It felt really good to be the one calling the shots and putting the boundaries in place.
Michelle, 55
I met Rick in school, in a small mining town called Sparwood, when he threw a textbook across the table and it hit me in the chest. I yelled at him, and he walked over to my then-boyfriend and said "what a cow." But we ended up being quite good friends after that. He was the guy that took me places when my boyfriend was busy, and when my boyfriend went away to school, Rick and I had a friendship that was just on fire. Within that friendship we had a summer romance, and I ended up getting pregnant. I was 18 and hadn't cut ties with my other boyfriend, and so I never said anything to my parents about the pregnancy. I just stayed home and worked on a surveying crew for eight months until they eventually found out—five days before I gave birth. Everyone was all up in arms—small town, you know—and my dad kicked me out of the house. I went into labor and Rick said, "I don't care who's baby it is, I'm here for you"—even though the baby was clearly his. He bought us a little trailer, we moved in together and started a life.
So we had a beautiful little boy that was just everything to us. Then we had a little girl, too, and everything was great. He worked at the mine, and since my family were outfitters—fisherman, hunters, miners—Rick fell in love with the wilderness side of my family. But I wanted to be an artist, which was impossible there. I started working at an arts council and did everything I could to build the art community there. But everything I did, he went the other direction. So we went our separate ways.
Enter the first boyfriend. We reconnected and I ended up moving to the Okanagan with him. I brought my daughter with me, and Rick kept our son. Then one day I was painting and got a phone call. My cousin Bob had been killed by a Cape Buffalo in Africa. At the funeral, Rick walked over to me and took my hand, and—well I can't even talk about it, it was like he was my soul. But I went back home thinking, "well, this can't happen. It's been 10 years, this is stupid, we can't do this."
So then I went to Paris. I was dating a guy from California, and he sent me some tickets, and I didn't really want to go but I went anyways—you know, it's Paris, come on. But then I got to Paris and just hated it. The guy I'd come with proposed to me on top of the Eiffel tower and all I wanted to do was jump off!
And so when I left Paris, I asked Rick to meet me at the airport. But he said no. He said, "you went with the other guy, you made your decision, I'm not coming." And I thought I'd blown it. I was like, "oh no, I can't come back from this." But the day after I got back, he showed up at my house. He said "OK, let's do this." And so we bought a farm together, got re-married on a ranch, and we've been together ever since.
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Hear the Hip Hop
Experience the USA
Booming out of New York City in the 1970’s, hip hop changed the way the world sounds and it’s still breaking rules and pushing boundaries today. Across the USA, you’ll discover vibrant local cultures where both new and established artists keep reinventing the game. Come hear the freshest sounds on the planet.
Explore Hip Hop
Broccoli City Festival
This music and food festival with a social conscience aims to make the world a healthier place, but the spotlight shines on concerts featuring today’s progressive and popular artists. People like Cardi B., Migos, Miguel, H.E.R. and Daniel Caesar bring their beats to the April event at RFK Stadium Festival Grounds in Washington, D.C. In the days leading up to the show, run a 5K, see artwork, listen to lectures and visit an incubator marketplace. The 30,000 tickets usually sell out, so buy early. Begin or end your trip by exploring monuments, museums and parks in the USA’s capital.
Apache Café
Creative people are drawn to the Apache Café in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a place where you can eat flavorful soul food and hear amazing music during jam sessions or at open mic night showcases of local talent waiting to be discovered. Listen to the rhythms at the spoken word poetry party, and meet new people at weekly Art Mondays – Pangea’s Afrosocial event. Further explore this bustling southern city by touring major downtown attractions, learning about its place in Civil Rights history, visiting trendy neighborhoods and indulging in southern food served with a smile.
bOb Bar
On the Lower East Side of New York City, enjoy a signature cocktail at the bOb Bar, where you’ll watch DJs spin old-school hip hop, R&B, reggae and dance hall tunes. Admire a rotating collection of impressive artwork by local and world artists on its signature brick walls. This is a cozy venue where dancing is encouraged and fun should be expected. Get there early to stake out a spot. It’s just one fun way to spend a night in New York City, home to five bustling boroughs, world-class restaurants, entertainment and around-the-clock excitement.
Each May, hip hop fans gather over three days in the sun to watch more than 120 music acts at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. Rolling Loud Festival has become the largest hip hop festival in the world. Imagine seeing artists like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott, Future and Wiz Khalifa performing on three outdoor stages in beautiful Miami, Florida. Consider splurging for a VIP Experience pass for access to exclusive viewing areas and other perks. Before or after the festival, head to South Beach for some Vitamin D or great people watching. Also, don't forget to sample some authentic Cuban food on Calle Ocho.
Baltimore Boom Bap Society
Discover collaboration at its finest with the Baltimore Boom Bap Society in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland. The hosts, Wendel Patrick and DJ Dubble 8, bring in guests to join them in performing improvised hip hop shows once a month at The Windup Space. It’s an experimental show filled with classic and contemporary tunes, inventive lyrics and beatboxing, too. The performances feature an eclectic mix of musicians from throughout the city. Will you see a harpist or chamber orchestra? Of course. It’s a fitting mix for this progressive destination dotted with 18th century landmarks.
L.A. Hood Life Tours
An appropriate soundtrack plays as tour guides drive fans to infamous sites around Los Angeles, California, on the three-hour “Hood Life Hip Hop” tour. See neighborhoods where gangsta rap legends of the 1990s like Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Suge Knight and Snoop Dogg lived and places where movies like “Straight Outta Compton” were filmed. Pose in front of the “Welcome to Compton” sign, see the Watts Towers sculptures and stop by Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles. Buy a tour t-shirt as a souvenir to wear at home.
Reverse time to about 20 years ago, and hear the innovative sound pioneered by Robert Earl Davis Jr., better known as DJ Screw. Visit Screwed Up Records & Tapes in Houston, Texas, where you can buy mixtapes featuring the signature sound made by combining rap songs and slowing, or “screwing down,” the tempo so the rhymes are better understood. Davis died at age 29 in 2000, but his influence remains in Houston’s hip hop scene with a legion of followers known as “Screwheads.” The USA’s fourth-largest city thrives with arts, professional sports, museums and Space Center Houston.
Cervantes’ Masterpiece
A former casino that accommodates a crowd of 1,000 is a music hot spot every night of the week. The historic venue in Denver, Colorado, is actually two in one – patrons can move between shows in both the Ballroom and The Other Side patio. From balcony seating, view already famous performers, and those you’ll want to follow in the future. This is where legends like James Brown, Count Basie, Muddy Waters and Millie Jackson once performed, and the tradition continues with the beats of a new generation. By day, enjoy public art, craft beer and mountain views in the mile-high city.
Hip Hop Stories
The Worldly Sounds of Miami, Florida
Let’s start with the basics: Miami, Florida has beaches. Beaches are beautiful. Florida is vibrant.
Exploring Miami, Florida with Xperimento
The multicultural, cross-genre band gives you their recommendations for what’s not to be missed in Miami.
Hip Hop in the USA: Exploring the Cities Behind the Music
After leaping from the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, it didn’t take long for hip hop to become a cultural touchstone worldwide.
Why Atlanta is the Hip Hop Capital of the USA
Los Angeles and New York City are getting a run for their money when it comes to hip hop talent that comes out of Atlanta and the clubs that showcase it.
Venue Guide: Lesser-Known Hip Hop Spots
Overflowing with historic sites, museums and world-class restaurants, the following cities are places that might already be on your vacation bucket list.
In the early days of hip hop, graffiti was a fixture on par with boom boxes and b-boys.
Hip Hop in Pop Culture: How the Music Changed the World
A genre created on New York City’s streets, hip hop continues to transcend its musical impact and influences many aspects of U.S. culture.
Day to Night: Exciting Ways to Explore Atlanta, Georgia
Soak up the sound and culture of Atlanta with these five must-do activities.
Finding Your Voice: Cam James on Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia
Meet the Atlanta rapper who uses his lyrics to connect with others.
Denver, Colorado: Feel-good Music and Outdoorsy Vibes
Chicago, Illinois: Inside the City’s Diverse Music Culture
Louisiana’s Music Scene: Feel the Rhythms of 3 Colorful Cities
Bethel Woods, New York: Where the Spirit of Woodstock Lives On
Journey Along Alabama’s Musical Trail
Touring the Tunes in Missouri’s Music Hubs
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America's Musical Journey
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Museum of Quackery and Medical Frauds
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Savannah, Georgia: Shopping, Flavors and Fun
Art, Food & Offbeat Fun in Champaign County
Chicago's Famous Magnificent Mile
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Parke County, Indiana: Discover the USA's Rural Heartland
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Dallas, Texas: Culture, Museums and Shopping
San Marcos, Texas: Outdoor Attractions and Excellent Shopping
Seattle: Your Guide to Waterfront Shopping & Culture
48 Hours in Wisconsin Dells: From Water Parks to Spa Time
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Center for International Programs
VSU students abroad
Program - ISEP, Location - Bulgaria
Program - ISEP, Location - Morocco
Program - Exchange at Roehampton University, Location - London
Welcome to Center for International Programs
VSU Global
Global Assessment Certificate Program
The Center for International Programs provides central coordination for the University’s comprehensive range of services and activities in the area of international education. Campus-wide committees, open to all faculty and staff members, work with the Center for International Programs to achieve the following objectives:
Strengthen the international dimension of the curriculum by assuring that international/global issues, problems, perspectives and skills are appropriately represented in courses, major degree programs, and minor studies;
Enrich the international dimension of the co-curricular climate by sponsoring internationally oriented activities such as lectures, artistic activities, seminars, on-line conferences and thematic events with an international focus;
Provide international study and research experiences for students and faculty by initiating and sponsoring study abroad programs, exchange agreements and collaborative partnerships with colleges and universities around the world and by cooperating with external organizations, communities and agencies that support teaching, research, study, and service activities abroad for faculty and students;
Encourage the involvement of international students and scholars in the life of the University through the provision of comprehensive support services, campus and community activities and the promotion of Valdosta State as a welcoming environment for international academic exchanges of scholars and students; and
Heighten global awareness, knowledge and understanding in the region of South Georgia by active support for the University’s community engagement efforts, sharing of cultures, and maintaining strong collaborative linkages with other institutions in the region.
Among its many activities, the Center for International Programs administers an International Studies Minor program, coordinates study abroad and exchange opportunities for faculty and students, oversees support services for international students, maintains an user-friendly home page, and organizes cultural and community events and lecture series on international themes. More information on international activities of the university is available at the Center for International Programs, located at 204 Georgia Avenue.
Find us on the Campus Map
204 Georgia Avenue
Valdosta, Georgia 31698-0037
Monday- Thursday 8:00 am- 5:30 pm
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Vedanta Biosciences Receives Award from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation to Advance a Microbiome-Derived Therapeutic Program for Interception and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Company also announces research collaboration with Keio University School of Medicine for this new IBD program
Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 10, 2018-Vedanta Biosciences, an affiliate of PureTech Health (LSE: PRTC) developing a new category of therapies for immune-mediated and infectious diseases based on rationally defined consortia of human microbiome-derived bacteria, today announced that it has received funding from the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding the cures for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. The funds will be used to advance Vedanta Biosciences' new microbiome-derived therapeutic program for the treatment and potential interception of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This program is being advanced in collaboration with Dr. Kenya Honda, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Keio University School of Medicine and a scientific co-founder of Vedanta Biosciences.
"As the first commercial organization to be awarded funding under the auspices of the Foundation's newly-launched Entrepreneurial Investing Initiative, we are excited about the potential of Vedanta's research to bring microbiome-derived therapies to our patients," said Michael Osso, President & CEO of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation. "Foundation-led research has helped to determine that the gut microbiome is a key link between genetic susceptibility and the onset and progression of IBD. Vedanta's pioneering work has promise to advance discoveries in this area toward new therapeutic options for patients with IBD."
This new IBD program, wholly owned by Vedanta Biosciences, aims to target pathogenic bacterial strains, particularly abundant in Crohn's disease, that may lead to the onset of IBD. IBD is believed to result from interactions between genetic factors and environmental triggers, such as commensal bacteria with pathogenic potential (pathobionts). In foundational work recently published in Science, Dr. Honda's group showed in preclinical studies that colonization with the pathobiont Klebsiella pneumoniae activates pro-inflammatory T helper 1 cells in the gut, resulting in intestinal inflammation and leading to onset of IBD. In ongoing preclinical work, Vedanta Biosciences has identified consortia of beneficial gut bacteria that can potentially target and decolonize Klebsiella.
"Dr. Honda's research suggests an entirely new approach to help IBD patients by specific elimination of pro-inflammatory bacteria. We believe this approach could potentially be harnessed to both treat IBD as well as intercept the progression of the disease in its early stages or before diagnosis," said Bernat Olle, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vedanta Biosciences. "We are grateful to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation for their support and for the opportunity to work closely with patient groups to find a cure for IBD."
In addition to this program, Vedanta Biosciences previously announced a partnership with Janssen Biotech, Inc. for the development of drug candidate VE202 in IBD. VE202 is based on a rationally defined consortium of bacteria with immunoregulatory properties. VE202 is expected to enter the clinic in the second half of 2018.
About Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is estimated to affect 1.6 million people in the United States, with as many as 70,000 new cases of the disease diagnosed each year. The exact cause of IBD is not entirely understood, but it is associated with chronic inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, impairing the ability of affected GI organs to function properly. Symptoms can vary but include diarrhea, abdominal pain, cramping, rectal bleeding, and fatigue. Currently available medications alleviate inflammation and reduce symptoms, but do not provide a cure or prevent long-term complications.
About the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation is the largest non-profit, voluntary, health organization dedicated to finding cures for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The Foundation's mission is to cure Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improve the quality of life of children and adults who are affected by these diseases. The Foundation works to fulfill its mission by funding research; providing educational resources for patients and their families, medical professionals, and the public; and furnishing supportive services for those afflicted with IBD. For more information visit http://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/ call 888-694-8872, or email info@crohnscolitisfoundation.org.
About Vedanta Biosciences
Vedanta Biosciences is a clinical-stage company developing a new category of therapies for immune-mediated and infectious diseases based on rationally defined consortia of human microbiome-derived bacteria. An affiliate of PureTech Health (PureTech Health plc, PRTC.L), Vedanta Biosciences is a leader in the microbiome field with capabilities and deep expertise to discover, develop, and manufacture live bacteria drugs. These include what is believed to be the largest collection of human microbiome-associated bacterial strains, a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing of rationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form. Vedanta Biosciences' pioneering work, in collaboration with its scientific co-founders, has led to the identification of human commensal bacteria that induce a range of immune responses - including induction of regulatory T cells, CD8+ T cells, and Th17 cells, among others. These advances have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Science (multiple), Nature (multiple), Cell and Nature Immunology. Vedanta Biosciences has harnessed these biological insights and its capabilities to generate a pipeline of programs in infectious disease, autoimmune disease, allergy, and immune-oncology.
Vedanta Biosciences' scientific co-founders are world-renowned experts in immunology and microbiology who have pioneered the fields of innate immunity, Th17 and regulatory T cell biology, and include Dr. Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)), Dr. Brett Finlay (University of British Columbia and HHMI), Dr. Kenya Honda (inventor of Vedanta Biosciences' lead product candidate; Keio University and RIKEN), Dr. Dan Littman (New York University and HHMI), Dr. Alexander Rudensky (Sloan Kettering and HHMI), and Dr. Jeremiah Faith (Mount Sinai School of Medicine).
This press release contains statements that are or may be forward-looking statements, including statements that relate to PureTech's future prospects, developments and strategies. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance and achievements to differ materially from current expectations, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties described in the risk factors included in the regulatory filings for PureTech Health. These forward-looking statements are based on assumptions regarding the present and future business strategies of the company and the environment in which it will operate in the future. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as at the date of this press release. Except as required by law and regulatory requirements, neither PureTech Health nor any other party intends to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Allison Mead
amead@puretechhealth.com
U.S. media
tom@tenbridgecommunications.com
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Memorial Day welcomes Aussie basketball team to Savannah
Scotch College on USA Tour
Frank Sulkowski
Anchor/Reporter
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) They do indeed come from the land down under.A group of teens taking the term "visiting team" to the extreme this December. The group of basketball dribbling teens are 10,000 miles away from home to hit the hardwood and take in the sights here in the states.The Scotch College basketball squad is on it's 2015-2016 tour of the United States. One of the first stops for the squad, Memorial Day School in Savannah.The Aussie team squaring off against the Matador in a friendly game on the hardwood Tuesday afternoon."It's really exciting," says 15-year old Nick Marks. "In Australia, we really don't get exposed to the intensity of high school basketball like here in the states."Memorial Day rolling out the red carpet for these young ballers from down under. The school even played the Australian National Anthem prior to tip-off."In addition to the basketball, it's a great opportunity to experience a new culture," says 17-year old Alistair Scott.Basketball the common thread connecting not only the young Australian players, but many of the Americans they'll be sharing the court with over the next three weeks."We've been doing this since 1995 and basketball becomes the excuse to do it," says Memorial Day athletic director Mark Sussman. "It's really about the cultural exchange for us. Our kids learn so much more about the world is like outside of Savannah."
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) They do indeed come from the land down under.
A group of teens taking the term "visiting team" to the extreme this December. The group of basketball dribbling teens are 10,000 miles away from home to hit the hardwood and take in the sights here in the states.
The Scotch College basketball squad is on it's 2015-2016 tour of the United States. One of the first stops for the squad, Memorial Day School in Savannah.
The Aussie team squaring off against the Matador in a friendly game on the hardwood Tuesday afternoon.
"It's really exciting," says 15-year old Nick Marks. "In Australia, we really don't get exposed to the intensity of high school basketball like here in the states."
Memorial Day rolling out the red carpet for these young ballers from down under. The school even played the Australian National Anthem prior to tip-off.
"In addition to the basketball, it's a great opportunity to experience a new culture," says 17-year old Alistair Scott.
Basketball the common thread connecting not only the young Australian players, but many of the Americans they'll be sharing the court with over the next three weeks.
"We've been doing this since 1995 and basketball becomes the excuse to do it," says Memorial Day athletic director Mark Sussman. "It's really about the cultural exchange for us. Our kids learn so much more about the world is like outside of Savannah."
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On the Verge
Kacy Hill, a New Yeezus-Approved Musician
Hill wears Giorgio Armani jacket; Alexander Wang shorts and belt; Calzedonia socks; Manolo Blahnik sandals.
Photographer: Matthias Vriens-McGrath
Stylist: Elizabeth Stewart
Just before she hit the road with Kanye West in 2013, as a backup dancer on his Yeezus tour, Kacy Hill recorded a song almost on a whim. “Experience” is an austere synth-pop ballad, in the vein of James Blake or FKA Twigs, that throbs with feeling. It was one of the first tracks she ever wrote. “I didn’t even know songwriting structure,” Hill, 21, admits. She played it for a makeup artist on the tour, who passed it along to a stylist, and so on, until the track finally found its way to West, who asked Hill to meet him after a show. “I was sweating the whole time,” she recalls. “And I had on this really ugly jacket.” It didn’t seem to matter, because West signed her to his label G.O.O.D. Music, which will put out the Los Angeles singer’s debut album in early 2016 (she released an EP, Bloo, in October). It’s a startling trajectory, especially for someone who never really harbored chart-topping aspirations. She says she needed a year just to figure out what her music should not sound like (namely, “computer music”). What it does sound like is the propulsive work of a pop star—even if she doesn’t feel like one yet. “It’s still surreal to me.”
Hair by Chris McMillan for Living Proof at soloartists.com (HILL) and Peter Savic at Opus Beauty (HASSON and Halsey); Makeup by Nathan Hejl for Tom Ford; Digital Technician: Casey Cunneen; photography assistant: Jay Mims; fashion assistant: Katie Bofshever.
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Katie Hill Blames Trump, Kavanaugh, Business Executives and 'Right-Wing Media' in Her Final House Speech
Win McNamee / Getty ImagesRep. Katie Hill answers questions from reporters at the U.S. Capitol following her final speech on the floor of the House of Representatives Oct. 31, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
By Erin Coates
Published October 31, 2019 at 3:45pm
Rep. Katie Hill gave her final speech in the House of Representatives before her resignation, appearing to blame President Donald Trump, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the right-wing media for putting her, and other women like her, in an inferior position and pushing her out of office.
“I am leaving because of a misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality, and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse,” the California Democrat said.
“I’m leaving but we have men who have been credibly accused of intentional acts of sexual violence and remain in board rooms, on the Supreme Court, in this very body and worst of all, in the Oval Office,” she said, making apparent jabs at Trump and Kavanaugh, among others.
Hill’s last day in office will be Friday and in her Thursday speech, she said that her final act was voting in favor of the formal rules in Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
“I’m leaving because there is only one investigation that deserves the attention of this country and that’s the one we voted on today,” she said.
“Today, as my final act, I voted to move forward with the impeachment of Donald Trump on behalf of the women of the United States of America.”
Hill said that her colleagues would have to continue the fight for change without her.
“We have an entire culture that has to change and we see it in stark clarity today,” she said. “The forces of revenge by a bitter, jealous man, cyber exploitation and sexual shaming that target our gender and a large segment of society that fears and hates powerful women have combined to push a young woman out of power and say that she doesn’t belong here.
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“Yet a man who brags about his sexual predation, who’s had dozens of women come forward to accuse him of sexual assault, who pushes policies that are uniquely harmful to women and who has filled the courts with judges who proudly rule to deprive women of the most fundamental right to control their own bodies sits in the highest office of the land.”
This message of fighting for women was echoed in a video Hill posted on Monday.
“Some people call this electronic assault, digital exploitation; others call it revenge porn. As the victim of it, I call it one of the worst things we can do to our sisters and our daughters,” she said in the video.
“I will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. For the sake of all of us, we cannot let that happen,” she said.
Hill also pointed a finger at conservative media in her Thursday speech and Monday video. A conservative website, RedState, was the first to publish allegations about Hill’s private life.
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On Thursday, Hill said that she “didn’t want to be peddled by papers and blogs and websites, used by shameless operatives for the dirtiest gutter politics that I’ve ever seen, and the right-wing media to drive clicks and expand their audience by distributing intimate photos of me taken without my knowledge, let alone my consent, for the sexual entertainment of millions.”
In her video, she added, “This coordinated campaign carried out by the right-wing media and Republican opponents, enabling and perpetuating my husband’s abuse by providing him a platform, is disgusting and unforgivable, and they will be held accountable.”
Hill announced on Sunday that she was resigning amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into an alleged improper relationship with Graham Kelly, her legislative director.
Such relationships are banned under ethics rules. Hill, who is openly bisexual, has also admitted to an affair with a former campaign aide who has been identified as 24-year-old Morgan Desjardins, according to the Washington Examiner.
Provocative images of Hill were also published online, including some in the Daily Mail, which defied a cease-and-desist order from Hill’s attorneys to take down the images. The images included one in which Hill was combing the hair of Desjardins while nude. Other images purported to show Hill with a bong.
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Erin Coates started as an editor for The Western Journal for over two years before becoming a news writer. A University of Oregon graduate, Erin has conducted research in data journalism and contributed to various publications as a writer and editor.
Erin Coates started as an editor for The Western Journal for over two years before becoming a news writer. She grew up in San Diego, California, proceeding to attend the University of Oregon and graduate with honors holding a degree in journalism. During her time in Oregon, Erin was an associate editor for Ethos Magazine and a freelance writer for Eugene Magazine. She has conducted research in data journalism, which has been published in the book “Data Journalism: Past, Present and Future.” Erin is an avid runner with a heart for encouraging young girls and has served as a coach for the organization Girls on the Run. As a writer and editor, Erin strives to promote social dialogue and tell the story of those around her.
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Authors: Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina
Editor: Mark Sinclair
Design: Spin
Written by the Moscow Design Museum’s Alexandra Sankova and Olga Druzhinina, this book tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE – the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics.
Formed in Soviet Russia in 1962, by the design visionary Yuri Soloviev, this vast network contained Moscow’s most progressive designers. The ‘Vniitians’, as they were called, designed for the future and developed new theories and approaches to design in the USSR.
But more than fifty years later, the organisation is all but forgotten. It’s hard to fathom how such an institution, dedicated to the promotion of utopian design, in theory and in practice, and the improvement of design standards within the Soviet Union, could have faded so far from view. After the disintegration of the USSR, the VNIITE and its library of images and prototypes were presumed lost.
Until now, that is. Thanks to the efforts of the Moscow Design Museum – and the discovery of the personal archives of some of the VNIITE designers – the story of this remarkable organisation is being pieced back together.
Alongside images of sketches, models and prototypes, the book also includes a selection of covers of one of the USSR’s hidden gems of graphic design – the VNIITE’s monthly journal, Technical Aesthetics. Showcased together for the first time, these covers chart Soviet graphic trends from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
In the pages of this book you can see some of the more compelling examples of utopian Soviet design. As the designer Paula Scher notes, the work offers a balance between ‘the communist desire for a perfectly-designed world against the real world of human competitiveness and inequality’.
Size: 240mm×170mm
Print: Four colour litho
Cover: Foiled
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“The Buddha is a Raft” On Metaphors and Identity Negotiation in Early Buddhism
Dr. Claire Maes
IIAS
The early Indian Buddhist community evolved in intense dialogue with its wider ascetic landscape. It is in constant negotiation with its various ascetic others, whether real or imagined, that the early Indian Buddhist community organized itself and developed an on-going identity rhetoric. In this lecture, Dr Maes aims to show this dialogic role of ascetic others on the early Buddhist community’s identity negotiation by means of a philological examination of the Pāli term titthiya (Sanskrit tīrthika).
Meaning ‘one belonging to an ascetic community’, ‘titthiya’ is the term most frequently used in Buddhist texts to refer to the Buddhist’s ascetic other. Through a philological excursion, Maes will identify a semantic shift in the term’s application. Whereas early Buddhist monks could initially positively associate themselves with the term titthiya, they (gradually) lost their self-identification with the term. Instead ‘titthiya’ became exclusively used to generically refer to their real or imagined ascetic others, and this usually in contexts betraying a negative perception of these others. Maes will (1) argue that this semantic shift went hand in hand with a shift in the manner how the early Buddhist community perceived and related to its ascetic other and (2) demonstrate how the early Buddhist monks’ initial positive understanding of the term titthiya was in accordance with the wider Indian metaphorical language of liberation.
Dr Claire Maes is a lecturer at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in Belgium. She teaches Hindi, Sanskrit and Prākrit on both undergraduate and graduate levels. She obtained an MA from Ghent University in Indology in 2005. For her master thesis she conducted a comparative study of the position of nuns in the early Jain and Buddhist communities. After her studies in Ghent she went to India with a scholarship of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to study a two-year master of Philosophy at the University of Mysore. She re-joined the department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in 2008 as a research fellow and in 2015 she received her doctorate degree with her dissertation on the early Jain and Buddhist ascetic communities. She has published on the importance of the concept of ahimsa and one-sensed bodies in the development of the early Jain ascetic path and its influence on early Buddhism, and has participated at various workshops and conferences in India, Europe and the United States.
Registration (required)
Please send an email to h.m.van.der.minne@iias.nl if you would like to attend this lecture (and drinks).
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France reaches World Cup semifinals, beats Uruguay 2-0
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (AP) — A shot that flew directly at the hands of the opposing goalkeeper turned into a World Cup goal for Antoine Griezmann.
The France striker scored the second goal in his team's 2-0 quarterfinal victory over Uruguay on Friday, sending a seemingly easy-to-save shot at a waiting Fernando Muslera. But the ball hit the keeper on the palms, bounced off and looped over his head and into the net.
The victory gave France a spot in the World Cup semifinals. The 1998 champions will next face Belgium on Tuesday in St. Petersburg.
Griezmann didn't celebrate what was his third goal of the tournament.
"I was playing against a lot of friends," said Griezmann, who is teammates with Uruguay defenders Diego Godin and Jose Gimenez at Atletico Madrid, "so I think it was normal not to celebrate."
Raphael Varane gave France the lead with a header in the 40th minute. Griezmann sent in a free kick from the right side and Varane raced across the area. He got his head to the ball and sent it into the far corner behind Muslera.
Griezmann scored his goal, which was similar to the one scored by Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale against Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius in the Champions League final, in the 61st minute.
"We all saw that it was not a very common goal, but Muslera has been a very important pillar for all this process and through all our work on our way up to here, so I'm not going to wash my hands putting any responsibility on my players," Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez said. "This is the kind of thing that I will discuss with the players in the locker room."
Griezmann is a Frenchman who plays professionally in Spain, but he has a special fondness for Uruguay. He likes the traditional South American drink mate, he speaks Spanish like someone from the South American country and he's been pictured wearing the team's jersey.
Godin, who was playing for Uruguay on Friday, is also the godfather of Griezmann's daughter.
"I love Uruguayan culture and I love Uruguayans, so I have a lot of respect for them," Griezmann said.
France went on to reach the World Cup final the last two times it advanced to the semifinals. They won their only World Cup in 1998 on home soil, and in 2006 lost to Italy on penalties.
The match at Nizhny Novgorod Stadium pitted France's speed against Uruguay's stubborn defense and its occasional attacking threats. But with Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani injured and on the bench and Luis Suarez neutralized, it was France that scored the goals.
Suarez, who scored two goals in the group stage, didn't get a single touch on the ball in France's penalty area for the entire match. Cavani scored both goals in the 2-0 win over Portugal in the round of 16, but he sat on the bench with an injured left calf he picked up in that match.
Four minutes after Varane gave France the lead, Uruguay nearly equalized. France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris dived to his right and got a hand on a header from Martin Caceres, pushing it just wide of the goal.
"Lloris had a great save," France coach Didier Deschamps said. "Apart from that, they didn't have many great opportunities."
MBAPPE'S CHANCES
Although he didn't score, 19-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe again looked dangerous on the attack, trying to slice in from the right wing or directing quick passes into Uruguay's defense.
Mbappe, who has modeled his game after Cristiano Ronaldo and is being compared to Zinedine Zidane, also picked up a second-half yellow card for falling to the ground as if in agony after a touch from an opponent.
Mbappe scored twice against Argentina to become the first teenager with multiple goals in a World Cup knockout game since a 17-year-old Pele in 1958.
NO LONGER UNBEATEN
Heading into the match, Uruguay had been unbeaten in 2018 and Muslera had the best save percentage of any goalkeeper at the tournament who had played more than one match. He had 11 saves and had allowed only one goal in four World Cup matches in Russia.
A country of only 3.5 million, Uruguay won World Cup titles in 1930 and 1950 and then waned. But it has undergone a revival in the last 12 years under the 71-year-old Tabarez, a former elementary school teacher.
The country was trying to reach the semifinals for the second time in the last three World Cups.
"It seems that the four games we won before this one are worth nothing, but that's not true," Tabarez said. "Today we played against opponents that were stronger than we were."
More AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/WorldCup
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PA Senate considers upping pay limits for local elected officials
A two-bill package being considered in the state Senate would increase the maximum allowable stipend for borough council members and township supervisors.
PA Senate considers upping pay limits for local elected officials A two-bill package being considered in the state Senate would increase the maximum allowable stipend for borough council members and township supervisors. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2019/10/15/pa-senate-considers-upping-pay-limits-for-local-elected-officials/3984043002/
Lindsey O'Laughlin, York Dispatch Published 1:20 p.m. ET Oct. 15, 2019 | Updated 4:59 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2019
Rhonda Phillips, left, of West York Borough, speaks about being one of the first bi-racial families in the borough as she speaks during the Council meeting in protest of Mayor Charles Wasko's facebook posts as the community urges Wasko's ousting at the West York Borough Hall in West York Borough, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Dawn J. Sagert photo (Photo: The York Dispatch)
A two-bill package under consideration in the state Senate would increase the maximum allowable stipend for borough council members and township supervisors in Pennsylvania.
The last time the General Assembly changed the maximum stipend was in 1995, said David Greene, executive director of the Local Government Commission of the General Assembly.
"The central purpose was to make sure that it reflected inflationary changes, so essentially, the legislative intent in setting the limit back then is the same as it is now," Greene said.
Sen. Scott Martin, R-Lancaster, is the primary sponsor of both bills, SB 688 and SB 689.
The legislation would not change actual compensation for any elected officials, and there's no requirement for local officials to be paid any stipend for their service.
What it would do is give borough council members and second-class township supervisors the authority to increase compensation in their own municipalities, if they so choose, beyond the current maximum allowed.
The bills would also allow governing bodies to provide compensation on a per-meeting basis.
If an elected official were to fail to attend a properly scheduled meeting without a legitimate excuse, the official could forfeit up to one-twelfth of the annual stipend amount.
"Both the upper limit and the decision to go to a per-meeting compensation schedule is within the discretion of the governing body itself," Greene said.
Some local officials said increasing compensation is not the best way to encourage residents to run for local office.
"From my perspective, if someone is running to make money off of this, you know, it’s really not the intent," said John Whitehouse, a supervisor in Monaghan Township, which had a population of 2,630 people as of the 2010 census.
The current maximum compensation allowed for supervisors in townships with fewer than 5,000 people is $1,875 per year. The inflation adjustment would increase the limit to $3,145 per year.
Supervisors in Lower Windsor Township are paid about $2,500 per year to attend about 15 meetings that last no more than two hours each, which is "very fair compensation," said Chairman Barry Miller.
Miller said he'd be concerned if the compensation increased too much because some people might decide to run for office with the thought that it would be an easy part-time job.
"I think the people doing it now are doing it because they’re actually interested in their municipality," Miller said.
As of the 2010 census, Lower Windsor Township had a population of 7,382 people. The current maximum compensation allowed for a second-class township of that size is $2,500 per year. The inflation adjustment would increase the limit to $4,190 per year.
Mark Swomley, chairman of the board of supervisors in Springettsbury Township, said he didn't even know supervisors were paid until after he was elected.
"I don't think most people here are driven by a small stipend," he said. "That's definitely not why I ran for office."
Springettsbury Township is one of the larger municipalities in York County, with 26,668 residents as of the 2010 census.
A second-class township of that size has a maximum compensation limit of $4,375 per year, which would increase to $7,335 per year under the proposed legislation.
Both bills will be considered when the state Senate is back in session starting Monday, Oct. 21.
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Presidents Of Liberia Through History
The first several Liberian Presidents were African Americans who left the U.S.A. for the promise of a better life in Africa.
George Weah, left, and EU Council President Donald Tusk sign footballs. Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com.
Liberia is the oldest Republic in Africa and stretches along the West African Coast. Liberia was established in 1822 as a destination for freed American slaves. The Republic of Liberia was officially founded, in 1847 with a constitution that mirrored that of the US. From then began the voluntary migration of African slaves to the West African country. The first several Liberian Presidents were African Americans who left the US for the promise of a better life in Africa.
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
The first president of Liberia was Joseph Jenkins Roberts. He served different terms, between 1848 and 1856 and from 1872 to 1876. He was born in Virginia on March 15, 1809. In 1829, at the age of twenty, he accompanied his mother and younger brothers to Liberia. He soon after engaged in trade and became a prosperous merchant. He succeeded the then governor of Liberia, Thomas Buchanan, after his death to become the colony’s first non-white governor. His major accomplishment in power was lobbying for recognition of Liberia as a sovereign nation by global powers such as the UK and other countries in Europe. He was renowned for his diplomatic skills, which assisted him to develop healthy relationships with foreign powers and native communities in Liberia. Under his rule, economy, education, agriculture, and trade in Liberia flourished. His legacy is evident in the airport, town and street named after him. His face is portrayed on the Liberian ten dollar bill.
Stephen Allen Benson
Stephen Allen Benson was born in Maryland, US on May 21, 1816. He moved to Liberia in 1822 with his family. His family’s settlement was attacked by native tribesmen, and he and his relatives were held captive. He began his studies after his release and joined the military later and was stationed in Grand Bassa County. He engaged in agriculture and trade after his service and made a debut into politics in 1842, on an elective seat in the Colonial Council. He had served as a judge and Vice President before he was elected President in 1856 serving until 1864.
Local and international trade flourished under his rule, and the US finally recognized Liberia as a sovereign nation. Other countries such as Sweden, Norway, Italy and Denmark also recognized the Republic of Liberia. His most notable accomplishment was the annexation of the colony of Maryland which is today’s Maryland County in Liberia. After his time in office, he retired to his coffee farm in Grand Bassa County where he died in 1865.
Daniel Bashiel Warner
Daniel Bashiel Warner was born on April 19, 1815, in Maryland, US. He accompanied his relatives on a move to Liberia in 1823. His political career before the presidency was that of the Secretary of State and Vice President under Stephen Allen Benson. He was elected president in 1864 and served until 1868. Daniel was concerned with the assimilation of the indigenous communities and organized the first expedition into the dense forest, which was led by Benjamin J.K. Anderson. He wrote about the native people when he traveled to see the King of Musardo and his descriptions were used to structure strategies to assimilate the native population. Daniel wrote the lyrics to Liberia’s national anthem which was sung in 1847 when Liberia acquired independence.
James Spriggs Payne
James Spriggs Payne was born on December 19, 1819, in the state of Virginia in the US to a family of ex-slaves. His family was highly religious, and his father was a minister in the Methodist Church. He moved to Liberia with his family when he was ten years old. He resumed his education and traveled back to America where he was ordained as a Methodist minister. He engaged in missionary activities and was also interested in politics and economics disciplines. He was appointed to the committee that finalized the separation of Liberia from the American Colonization Society.
He was elected president in 1867 and set about to curb slave trading activities on the Liberian Coast. Payne also expanded international trade such that Liberian products were exported directly to global markets instead of through merchants. Payne’s efforts to integrate indigenous communities and stop illegal trading on Liberian coast were curtailed by a shortage of manpower and finance. His policies mostly remained unimplemented. He was elected to Presidency again in 1876 for one year. An airport in Monrovia is named after him.
Other Presidents Of Liberia
Other Liberian Presidents through history are Edward James Roye, James Skivring Smith, Antony W. Gardiner, Alfred Francis Russell, Hilary R.W. Johnson, Joseph James Cheeseman, William D. Coleman, Garrettson, Arthur Barclay, Daniel Edward Howard, Charles D. B. King, Edwin Barclay, William Tubman, William R. Tolbert, Jr, Samuel Doe, Amos Sawyer, David D. Kpormakpor, Wilton G.S. Sankawulo, Ruth Perry, Charles Taylor, Moses Blah, Gyude Bryant and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Ellen Johnson was elected president of Liberia in 2006 as the first woman president in Liberia and the whole of Africa, she is still in office.
Who Was the First President of Liberia?
The first president of Liberia was Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who served between 1848-1856, and then from 1872-1876.
Presidents of Liberia
Time in Office
1 Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1848-1856; 1872-1876
2 Stephen Allen Benson 1856-1864
3 Daniel Bashiel Warner 1864-1868
4 James Spriggs Payne 1868-1870; 1876-1878
5 Edward James Roye 1870-1871
6 James Skivring Smith 1871-1872
7 Anthony W. Gardiner 1878-1883
8 Alfred Francis Russell 1883-1884
9 Hilary R. W. Johnson 1884-1892
10 Joseph James Cheeseman 1892-1896
11 William D. Coleman 1896-1900
12 Garrettson W. Gibson 1900-1904
13 Arthur Barclay 1904-1912
14 Daniel Edward Howard 1912-1920
15 Charles D. B. King 1920-1930
16 Edwin Barclay 1930-1944
17 William Tubman 1944-1971
18 William R. Tolbert, Jr. 1971-1980
19 Samuel Doe 1980-1990
20 Amos Sawyer 1990-1994
21 David D. Kpormakpor 1994-1995
22 Wilton G. S. Sankawulo 1995-1996
23 Ruth Perry 1996-1997
24 Charles Taylor 1997-2003
25 Moses Blah 2,003
26 Gyude Bryant 2003-2006
27 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2006-2018
28 George Weah Incumbent
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Top Source Countries For Tourists To Scotland
In 2014, United States, Germany, and France were the three top source countries for tourists to Scotland.
Tourists explore the Scottish highlands.
Scotland is a top destination for travelers, making tourism a critical sector in the Scottish economy. The tourism industry employs about 200,000 people or about 7.7% of the workforce and contributes to about 5% to the GDP. In 2014, Scotland received a total of 2,700,000 foreign tourists with the majority coming from the US. The importance of Scotland as a tourist destination continues to rise with vigorous campaigns by VisitScotland- the national tourist agency. The agency has increased awareness concerning tourist activities that can be carried out in Scotland including golfing, fishing, and tracing of family genealogies.
Statistics For Overseas Tourists To Scotland
2014 was an important year for tourism in Scotland. With events such as the Homecoming, the MTV Europe Music Awards, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Ryder Cup, tourist visits to the country rose by 15%, the highest increase in a decade. According to VisitScotland, international tourists account for 17% of the total trips taken and contribute 38% of the total earnings from tourism. For this reason, international tourism contributes significantly to the Scottish economy. About 52% of the international tourists visit Scotland for holidays, 26% visit their friends and families in Scotland, 17% were on business trips, 2% were on study, and 3% visit for other reasons. Those on holidays had the largest spending at 1,007 million pounds while those on study spent the least (60 million pounds). The July - September period has the highest number of tourists visiting (40%) followed by April – June (29%) with January - March having the smallest number of tourist trips (12%).
Top Overseas Tourist Sources To Scotland
Scotland receives most of its international tourists from Europe. However, the US tops the list with about 418,000 tourists annually which represent 15% of the total tourist trips. The number was a 28% increase in tourists from the United States. Most of the tourists from the US visit to trace their ancestral roots with Scotland, for business and to enjoy the Scottish landscape. Germany follows closely as the second leading tourist source for Scotland. About 343,000 German tourists visited Scotland mainly for holidays, sightseeing and to enjoy the natural scenic landscape. France is the third tourist source for international tourists to Scotland. 190,000 French tourists visited Scotland in 2014. The French are renowned for their love for holidays and visit Scotland to experience the beautiful landscape and to learn the Scottish culture. Most of the French visit for extended holidays during summer months. Other important international sources for tourists to Scotland include Australia (158,000), Netherlands (149,000), Poland (138,000), Norway (125,000), Canada (122,000), Ireland (113,000) and Spain (101,000).
Top Destinations For International Tourists In Scotland
Scotland has evolved into one of the most developed tourist destinations in the world with a variety of attractions for tourists across all age groups and culture. The friendliness of the Scottish people contributes to a large number of international tourists. Scotland has an unspoiled environment with a temperate and oceanic climate that gives tourists a splendid environment for business and leisure. With a deep and outstanding history, Scotland is the ultimate destination for tourists interested in understanding the country and its cultures. The most visited areas in Scotland include the Edinburgh Castle, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Holyrood Palace, Loch Lomond and the Stirling Castle. The growing nightlife within Scotland’s cities is a major attraction for younger international tourists.
Where Do Tourists to Scotland Come From?
Number Of Visitors To Scotland, 2014
1 United States 418,000
2 Germany 343,000
3 France 190,000
4 Australia 158,000
5 Netherlands 149,000
6 Poland 138,000
7 Norway 125,000
8 Canada 122,000
9 Ireland 113,000
10 Spain 101,000
11 Total foreign 2,700,000
This page was last updated on August 1, 2017.
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Updated: 2:28 PM CST Feb 22, 2017
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(CNN) -- US troops operating around Mosul have come under fire from ISIS and some have been wounded in the last six to eight weeks as they have moved closer to the front lines in Iraq, military officials acknowledged Tuesday. "Yes, they have been under fire at different times," Col. John Dorrian, a coalition spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve said at a Pentagon news conference. A US defense official later told CNN that some number of troops had been wounded and medevaced off the battlefield but declined to say how many have been wounded. The US forces in the area are providing advice and assistance to Iraqi units battling to retake Mosul. One of their key tasks is to help Iraqi units targeting ISIS strongholds. Dorrian declined to offer specifics on the firefights that have taken place, but said: "They have come under fire at different times. They have returned fire at different times in and around Mosul. That has happened at different times." The coalition posted several photos on its Twitter and Facebook accounts showing US troops in and around Mosul helping with calling in airstrikes and artillery. The captions in those official photos specifically mention assisting the Iraqis trying to liberate western Mosul, which is seen as a very tough fight because ISIS is well dug in. Dorrian also reiterated a long-held view inside the uniformed services that although US troops try to avoid being involved in firefights, when they are confronted they defend themselves in a full combat mode. "When someone is shooting at you, that is combat," Dorrian said. "Yes, that has happened."
(CNN) -- US troops operating around Mosul have come under fire from ISIS and some have been wounded in the last six to eight weeks as they have moved closer to the front lines in Iraq, military officials acknowledged Tuesday.
"Yes, they have been under fire at different times," Col. John Dorrian, a coalition spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve said at a Pentagon news conference.
A US defense official later told CNN that some number of troops had been wounded and medevaced off the battlefield but declined to say how many have been wounded.
The US forces in the area are providing advice and assistance to Iraqi units battling to retake Mosul. One of their key tasks is to help Iraqi units targeting ISIS strongholds.
Dorrian declined to offer specifics on the firefights that have taken place, but said: "They have come under fire at different times. They have returned fire at different times in and around Mosul. That has happened at different times."
The coalition posted several photos on its Twitter and Facebook accounts showing US troops in and around Mosul helping with calling in airstrikes and artillery. The captions in those official photos specifically mention assisting the Iraqis trying to liberate western Mosul, which is seen as a very tough fight because ISIS is well dug in.
Dorrian also reiterated a long-held view inside the uniformed services that although US troops try to avoid being involved in firefights, when they are confronted they defend themselves in a full combat mode.
"When someone is shooting at you, that is combat," Dorrian said. "Yes, that has happened."
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