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IDS 1999/002: Evaluating the Impact of the Indonesian Complementary Food Initiative (CFI) on Reducing Early Childhood Malnutrition
In Indonesia, many infants and young children were consuming an inadequate diet even before the economic crisis started in mid-1997. In order to limit the impact of the crisis and protect children from malnutrition and its far-reaching consequences, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) supported the Government of Indonesia (GOI) in launching the Rapid Response Complementary Food Initiative (CFI) in 1997. This initiative aims to provide a low-priced, micronutrient-fortified, energy-dense complementary food to infants and young children aged 6-23 months, with priority being given to infants 6-11 months old. The complementary food, called Vitadele, is produced by the Indonesian company Indofood, and is distributed to poor villages in hardest-hit districts. Mothers can obtain Vitadele from the Posyandu (integrated health posts) at a very low cost.
This report describes the results of the Helen Keller International (HKI) CFI-Growth Study designed to assess the impact of Vitadele consumption on linear growth and hemoglobin concentration among young children.
For this study, data was collected from three different groups of children -- a Vitadele intervention group, a Vitadele control group and a province-wide comparison group. At the start, the intervention group consisted of 1,771 children aged 6-11 months living in two districts of West Java province. Each child in this group received one bag of Vitadele per week for 28 weeks. Vitadele consumption was recorded each week by HKI fieldworkers. Data on 1,606 children who stayed in the intervention for the entire 28-week period were available for analysis.
The control group consisted, at the start, of 1,784 children of the same age range living in two other districts of West Java. Data on 1,613 children were available for analysis at the end of the time period.
The province-wide comparison group was taken from the HKI/GOI Nutrition Surveillance System (NSS) on 1,044 children aged 6-11 months and, for follow-up, data on 862 children aged 12-17 months.
Considerable effort was needed to persuade mothers to continue feeding their children with Vitadele and to keep children from getting bored with the product. Average consumption was half a pack, or 250g, per week, which provided approximately 8mg iron/day (approximately 100% and 160% of the RDA for children aged 6-11 and 12-36 months respectively).
Nutritional status of children in the Vitadele and province-wide NSS groups was similar, both at baseline and at end line. The control group was worse off at baseline, but improved more than the other two groups during the intervention period. Additional analysis revealed that in the areas of the control group, more relief activities had been conducted, which most likely had a positive impact on the nutritional status of the control children. Therefore, another strategy was chosen for the evaluation of the impact of Vitadele consumption in the Vitadele group.
The Vitadele group was split into four quartiles, based on average consumption of Vitadele during the 28-week intervention period. A dose-responsive relationship was found between the impact on hemoglobin concentration and length gain in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quartiles of Vitadele consumption. This means that the greater the consumption, the larger the impact. However, the differences in impact were relatively small.
Produce Vitadele with different flavors and/or recommend some ways for changing its taste, for example by adding fruit, in order to prevent children from getting bored with the product and thus decrease consumption.
Assess the bioavailability of the micronutrients in Vitadele, in particular iron, because the amount of iron consumed (8mg/d) should have a larger impact on hemoglobin concentration than what was actually observed. Improving iron bioavailability, in order to increase iron uptake by the body, would be preferred over further increasing the iron content of Vitadele, because the latter could negatively affect the taste of the product.
Increase the micronutrient content of Vitadele in order to meet the needs of the target group, because the average consumption of Vitadele was half a pack per week (250g), rather than one pack. Iron is an exception to this recommendation, because its content was already doubled for this study and a further increase would have a negative impact on the taste of the product. For iron, bioavailability should be increased (see above).
Multi-micronutrient supplements should be given to infants aged 6-11 months (or 6-24 months) because the prevalence of anemia in this age group was very high (65-80%) and the prevalence of other micronutrient deficiencies, such as deficiencies of vitamin A and zinc, is also likely to be high. Supplements can provide a much higher dose of micronutrients, which is necessary for correcting these deficiencies, than fortified foods. Fortified complementary foods, however, are a good means of ensuring a balanced and adequate intake of both macro- and micronutrients, and should thus be continued, even when multi-micronutrient supplements are provided.
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Mineralogy rejects false report on indigenous fund
Mineralogy Group founder and owner Clive Palmer has rejected a report inThe Australian newspaper that he had failed to deliver on a pledge to donate funds to support indigenous communities in Western Australia.
Mr Palmer said: “On November 5, 2008, Mineralogy Pty Ltd signed the Iron Ore Processing (Mineralogy Pty Ltd) Agreement Amendment Bill 2008, which subsequently passed as an act of parliament in the state of Western Australia.
“Under the agreement, the state of Western Australia acknowledged Mineralogy’s intention to establish as soon as practicable a medical research fund for indigenous communities in the Pilbara after the commencement of shipping operations as part of the Sino Iron Project.
“The fund was established on September 26, 2012, in anticipation of the commencement of iron ore export shipping operations by Sino Iron Pty Ltd.
“To date shipping operations have not commenced, which is outside the control of Mineralogy.”
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Selected Poetry and Prose
The Ballad of Hadji (1887)
Ian Hamilton
Biography: The First Life of Salman Rushdie
The New Yorker, December 25, 1995, pp. 90-96
Books: Tennyson, Anyone? (2 Reviews)
Tennyson, by Michael Thorn
Tennyson by Michael Thorn
Tennyson by Peter Levi
The New Yorker, August 22, 1994, pp. 116-121
The Buried Life (Review)
One Art: Letters, by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Giroux
One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Giroux
The New Statesman, December 24, 1976, p. 929
A Confusion of Realms (Review)
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue, by Philip Roth
Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue by Philip Roth
The Nation, June 1, 1985, pp. 679-680
The Creeping Vicar (1967)
F.R. Leavis
The New Statesman, April 21, 1978, p. 537
Films: Dank You, Man (3 Reviews)
Just a Gigolo (1979 Film), by David Hemmings
Just a Gigolo (1979 Film) by David Hemmings
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978 Film) by Michael Schultz
Skip Tracer (1977 Film) by Zale Dalen
The New Statesman, February 16, 1979, p. 228
Films: Delta Plus (3 Reviews)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978 Film), by John Landis
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978 Film) by John Landis
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978 Film) by Ted Kotcheff
In Praise of Older Women (1978 Film) by George Kaczender
Films: Gooks Tour (3 Reviews)
The Deer Hunter (1978 Film), by Michael Cimino
The Deer Hunter (1978 Film) by Michael Cimino
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978 Film) by Fred Schepisi
The Passage (1979 Film) by Octavian O.
The New Statesman, March 2, 1979, p. 298
Films: Truly True (2 Reviews)
Same Time, Next Year (1978 Film), by Robert Mulligan
Same Time, Next Year (1978 Film) by Robert Mulligan
The Last Supper (1976 Film) by Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Gallipoli Diary (1920)
General Sir Ian Hamilton
A Gift Imprisoned (1999)
The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold
Graves and Goddesses (2 Reviews)
Robert Graves: His Life and Work, by Martin Seymour-Smith
Robert Graves: His Life and Work by Martin Seymour-Smith
In Broken Images by Robert Graves and Paul O'Prey
The New York Review of Books, August 18, 1983, pp. 38-41
In Search of J. D. Salinger (1988)
Keepers of the Flame (1994)
Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath
Letter from England
The Hudson Review, Autumn 1964, pp. 447-450
Adam B. Ulam, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Burton Raffel, ...
The New York Review of Books, December 6, 1979, p. 52
Life and Letters: An Oxford Union
If you know Iris Murdoch's wild and dark novels, you won't believe her life with John B...
The New Yorker, February 19, 1996, pp. 70-75
The Little Magazines (1976)
A Study of Six Editors
Making Up His Mind (Review)
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The New Statesman, September 24, 1976, p. 414
National Life and National Training (1913)
Never Die in Honolulu (1969)
The New Review Anthology (1985)
The Old Pro (Review)
J.B. Priestley, by John Braine
J.B. Priestley by John Braine
The Persecutor (1965)
Poems Since 1900 (1975)
Colin Falck and Ian Hamilton
An Anthology of British and American Verse in the Twentieth Century
A Poetry Chronicle (1973)
Pretending Not to Sleep (1964)
Profile: Spender's Lives
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A Biographer's Second Thoughts
The Harpers Monthly, August 1994, pp. 25-26
The Review, Numbers 27-28 (1972)
Robert Lowell: A Biography (1982)
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Robert Lowell: Life Studies
The New York Review of Books, November 4, 1982, pp. 45-52
Sin City (Review)
The Confessions of Josef Baisz, by Dan Jacobson
The Confessions of Josef Baisz by Dan Jacobson
The New Statesman, October 28, 1977, p. 588
The Soul and Body of an Army (1921)
A Staff Officer's Scrap Book During the Russo-Japanese War (1905)
Telesivion
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The New Statesman, August 13, 1976, p. 217
The New Statesman, December 3, 1976, p. 817
The New Statesman, December 17, 1976, pp. 880-881
The New Statesman, July 9, 1976, p. 58
The New Statesman, July 16, 1976, p. 88
The New Statesman, July 23, 1976, p. 124
The New Statesman, June 18, 1976, p. 823
The New Statesman, November 5, 1976, p. 648
The New Statesman, November 12, 1976, p. 690
The New Statesman, September 3, 1976, p. 320
The New Statesman, April 1, 1977, p. 440
The New Statesman, January 7, 1977, p. 26
The New Statesman, January 14, 1977, pp. 62-63
The New Statesman, January 21, 1977, p. 97
The New Statesman, January 28, 1977, p. 134
The New Statesman, March 11, 1977, p. 330
The New Statesman, May 6, 1977, pp. 615-616
The New Statesman, May 13, 1977, pp. 652-653
The New Statesman, May 20, 1977, p. 690
The New Statesman, October 7, 1977, p. 484
Television---1
The New Statesman, June 3, 1977, p. 758
Tripping Up (Review)
The Best of Betjeman, by John Betjeman and John Guest
The Best of Betjeman by John Betjeman and John Guest
The New Statesman, February 4, 1977, p. 166
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Writers in Hollywood, 1915-1951 (1990)
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The Title IX team, led by the Title IX coordinators, coordinates the review, investigation and resolution of all Title IX reports submitted to the University.
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You may make a report to the Title IX Team online, by email, by phone or in person.
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Meg Farra
Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Students
Meg joins the University of Portland Title IX team as the deputy Title IX coordinator for students, after working at the University in two other capacities since late 2013. Meg’s background includes a master of social work degree from Portland State University. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Meg’s undergraduate concentration in social justice guided Meg to Portland as a volunteer with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Throughout her professional career, Meg’s work included working with marginalizes and vulnerable populations, including individuals impacted by domestic and relationship violence. Meg’s role with the Title IX team is to provide information about Title IX policies and processes and on-campus and off-campus resources. Meg also will help facilitate informal resolution processes and coordinate accommodations related to Title IX matters.
Sandy Chung
Title IX Coordinator for Compliance
Vice President for Human Resources
Sandy joined the University of Portland community in 2015. Before UP, she was the director of human resources and Title IX coordinator at Santa Monica College and the director of employee relations at Stanford University. A native of Portland and a graduate of Sunset High School, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School, Sandy practiced law (intellectual property, employment litigation, and pro bono litigation) before joining higher education. Sandy’s pro bono cases involved a wide range of important social issues, including human trafficking, unrepresented minors in immigration proceedings, domestic violence, and elder abuse. Sandy’s role with the Title IX team is to provide leadership to ensure that Title IX policies and processes are effective, compliant with the law, and consistent with the University’s values. Sandy also will oversee Title IX investigations and will at times conduct investigations.
Matthew Rygg
Title IX Coordinator for Education
Associate Vice President for Student Development
Matt’s role on the Title IX team is to coordinate the education and outreach efforts for students, staff, faculty, and administration on campus. As the associate vice president for student development, Matt supervises the Office of Residence Life and the Health and Counseling Center which are two key areas in educating and supporting students about interpersonal violence. As a leader working with the departments in student affairs, Matt will encourage collaboration and innovation with other departments and student organizations as it relates to gender-based harassment, misconduct, and violence.
Matt has served in various capacities in Title IX at two institutions. He served as deputy Title IX coordinator for students and interim Title IX coordinator at Clark College, and he served as deputy Title IX coordinator for students at the University of Portland.
He said, “we spend a lot of time talking about what gender-based violence is and what to do if you or someone you know is impacted. That is vitally important and we need to continue raising awareness about these important issues. In order to change the narrative and address the causes we must dig deeper and examine why these issues exist in the first place. I’m interested in looking at issues of power, privilege, and oppression as it relates to gender equity and issues of sexual and gender-based harassment, misconduct, and violence. These conversations are not easy, but we must go there together.”
Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Staff
Director of Employee Relations and Staff Diversity
Bill has been with the University since 2015 and is the director of employee relations and staff diversity. Bill also is the chairperson for the President’s Advisory Committee on Inclusion. Bill is an experienced trainer and is certified to teach Crucial Conversations. He is a native San Franciscan, grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula, and graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in journalism and public relations. Bill has over 30 years of human resources management experience, including time as human resources director for nationally-recognized consulting companies and as the director of human resources for Self Enhancement, Inc., a well-respected and recognized non-profit organization in Portland that supports culturally specific, underserved youth. As a member of the Title IX team, Bill will generally take the lead with matters involving employees. He also may participate as a note taker during meetings and investigations and may conduct investigations.
Sarah Meiser
Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Compliance
Sarah Meiser serves as the Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Compliance in the University of Portland's Human Resources Department. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring that the University’s Title IX policies and processes are effective, compliant with the law, and consistent with University values. She is excited to transition her experience working with college students into helping the Title IX team and others maintain a safe and positive environment for all. Having been with the University of Portland since 2015, Sarah previously held the positions of Associate Director for Housing and Associate Director for Community Standards. Prior to her time at the University of Portland, she taught high school science and was live-in residence life staff on college campuses in Minnesota, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Sarah is originally from the Denver area. She, her husband, and two young children love exploring the Portland area with their dog Ed.
Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Faculty
Shannon joined the University of Portland as an associate professor of physics in 2002. Before UP, she served on the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University and as an adjunct faculty member at Bucknell University. Shannon is a native of Seattle and a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (BS) and Oregon State University (PhD). She currently serves as professor and chair of the Department of Physics and is one of the deputy Title IX coordinators for faculty. In this role she will support Title IX as related to faculty.
Megan Cohara (Confidential Resource)
Wellness Educator & Prevention Program Coordinator
Megan works in collaboration with the Title IX team and the Health and Counseling Center to provide wellness programs and prevention education initiatives related to interpersonal violence, bystander intervention, mental health, and alcohol and substances. Megan’s goal to help promote overall well-being and success in our community by working to create a healthy and safe environment for our students and staff here on The Bluff.
To get involved or request more information, please contact Megan Cohara at 503.943.7134 or coharam@up.edu.
Emma Ahern
Title IX and Human Resources Generalist
Emma joins the University of Portland Title IX team as a Human Resources and Title IX Generalist. In this role, Emma is responsible for the facilitation and creation of effective Title IX programming and education. Originally from the Monterey Bay Area, Emma is a recent graduate of Willamette University, where she majored in Politics and Art History. While at Willamette, Emma served as an advocate and Vice-President in SARA (The Sexual Assault Response Allies), a peer-run advocacy and support program for victims of sexual violence. Emma is focused on empathetically supporting folks affected by sexual violence and on addressing the societal causes of sexual violence through education and communication.
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Biarritz, a charming beach resort in the south west of France
Biarritz, a town with ocean and sea air, used to be a very popular holiday destination with nobility. Today this lively beach resort between the sea and the mountains is the European capital of surfing. It is a paradise for surfers and gourmets, and the jet set is attracted by the vast beaches, the thalasso therapy centres, the trendy bars, the golf courses, but also the art galleries and the boutiques.
Biarritz, situated in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, is set by the Atlantic Ocean. The town is built on a range of hills along the coast, in the south west of France and at only 25 km from the Spanish border. Biarritz, between the sea and the mountains, stands for prestige, elegance and the good life. It is crossed by the canal Atxinetxe and is shaped like an amphitheater, making the beach resort so attractive.
Biarritz is one of the best known and most prestigious beach resorts of the French Atlantic Coast. It is also an ideal starting point to visit the Basque Country. For a relaxing weekend, you can visit the various cultural sites of the town.
To discover in Biarritz
Biarritz offers a wide range of various landscapes. From the Pointe Saint-Martin to the Grande-Plage, the coast offers a countless number of spots to discover. The town of Biarritz also offers various historical heritage worth a visit, and not to forget the four museums and the religious buildings. A few sites that are definitely worth a visit: the Pointe de Biarritz and the lighthouse Phare de Biarritz, dominating the Pointe de Saint Martin. This lighthouse, built in 1834, offers an exceptional view from its 248 stairs, on the Basque coast, the ocean and the mountains. The 44 metres high lighthouse of Biarritz was built on the former Cap Hainsart.
All year round, culture has a special place in the life of Biarritz. During your stay, you can discover various events and festivals.
Also discover the natural heritage of Biarritz, offering six beaches, 120 ha of woods and two lakes that are protected by the Conservatoire du littoral. The lake of Mouriscot, one of the two lakes of Biarritz , is listed as a Natura 2000 site. You’ll find various bird and fish species here, but also a flora of high organic interest, thanks to the various natural environments. Go for a stroll in the public garden, facing the gare du Midi, that is now a cultural centre, or in the parc Mazon and the jardin Lahouze. In 2012, Biarritz obtained three flowers during a competition for flowery towns and villages.
Around the town, you can discover various hills and traditional villages, but most of all the local gastronomy. For shopping, you can discover the boutiques of the centre. You can also visit the fisherman’s harbour and the rocher de la Vierge, one of the symbols of Biarritz. With clear weather, this is a lovely viewpoint. This site is also fascinating during night time and storms. The hollowedded out passage in the rock is the work of Napoleon III and the Virgin on the top is a tribute to the wale sailors that came back safe and sound after a storm.
To visit in Biarritz
Biarritz offers many places to visit, starting with the het hôtel du palais, rebuilt on the place of the villa owned by Empress Eugénie. The local Casino, set by the beach, is also worth a visit. This art-deco style building is an excellent example of the architectural heritage of the town. Over the years, the casino, built in 1929 and renovated in 1994, has even become the symbol of the town’s architecture. Since 1992, it has been listed as a historical monument. The imperial chapel is also part of the religious monuments of Biarritz. This chapel was built in 1864 on request of Empress Eugénie de Montijo. The imperial chapel, dedicated to the black Mexican Virgin Notre Dame de Guadalupe has been on the list of historical monuments since 1981.
You can also visit the musée de la mer. This splendid art-deco monument was opened in 1935and counts more than 150 fish species and cetaceans from the Bay of Gascogne, various collections of birds and wales, a cave with sharks and a seal basin.
The Cité de l’océan et du surf was designed by the New York architect Steven Holl. The building slides like a wave towards the Atlantic Ocean. In a beautiful setting near the bay and by the beach of Ilbarritz, this centre has the mission to offer more information about the ocean and to protect it.
After a visit to the Cité de l’océan you can go to the musée historique de Biarritz. Along the various collections and paintings of this museum, housed in a formed Anglican church, you can relive the history of Biarritz. The museum tells the town’s history that used to be a fisherman’s harbour from the 11th to the 13th century.
The museum Planète musée du chocolat will learn you all about chocolate! From the Mayas to our days, but also the history of the Basque country. Here you’ll find an exceptional collection and an exhibition of chocolate sculptures. Culture and gastronomy are brought together during a tasting.
Do not forget to visit the musée Asiatica that is part of the five most important European museums of Eastern art. Make use of this visit to discover unique artworks from India, China or Tibet and extend your knowledge by reading the information signs.
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Dr. Karl Hausker
Senior Fellow, Climate Program
Dr. Karl Hausker is a Senior Fellow in WRI’s Climate Program. He leads analysis and modeling of climate mitigation, electricity market design, and the social cost of carbon. He led the Risky Business study of clean energy scenarios for the U.S., and lectures widely on deep decarbonization. He has worked for three decades in the fields of climate change, energy, and environment in a career that has spanned legislative and executive branches, research institutions, NGOs, and consulting. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID, USEPA, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Western Climate Initiative, and the California Air Resources Board. Much of his work has focused on the electricity and transportation sectors, and on low carbon, climate resilient development strategies.
From 2007-2013, Karl was a Vice President at ICF International. He previously served as Deputy Director at the Center for Climate Strategies and as a Principal with Hagler Bailly. Karl lived in India all of 1999 as a Visiting Fellow at TERI. His experience also includes: serving President Clinton as Deputy Assistant Administrator in EPA’s Policy Office where he represented EPA in interagency climate policy development and at COP-1; and serving as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he worked on a diverse set of issues including electricity restructuring, CAFE standards, alternative fuels, western water policy, nuclear power, and energy security.
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5 charts that explain U.S. electricity prices
What customers pay really depends on where they are
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Gavin Bade @GavinBade
Last month, the Energy Information Agency (EIA) released its data on residential electricity prices in the United States for 2013, and the numbers speak volumes about the state of the American electricity system.
In general, what customers pay for power depends on where they are.
Once again, Hawaii took home the unwanted honor of having the most expensive electricity of any state in the U.S. with an average rate of nearly 37 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Hawaii’s prices are primarily due to its unique situation as an island energy ecosystem. Because it is separated from the mainland, Hawaii has traditionally relied much more on fuel oil to generate electricity than its peers on the continent. Burning oil is dirty and inefficient, but is easier and cheaper than shipping in coal. Hawaiian Electric, the state’s dominant utility, is currently working to reduce its reliance on imported oil. The state has ambitious plans to reach 67% renewable energy by 2030 while policymakers are investigating how best to import liquefied natural gas to the islands.
Similar issues with geographic isolation also affect Alaska, as does its low population density, but the same can’t be said for New England states, which round out the top ten. In some states, like those in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), strict emissions regulations can put upward pressure on electricity rates.
But emissions trading doesn’t tell the whole story. From 2009-2011, RGGI emissions trading only increased consumer bills in participating states by 0.7%, according to a report from the Analysis Group, and that number is expected to fall in the long run.
To get a more comprehensive picture of what impacts electricity prices, we need to look at the states with the cheapest prices as well.
All of the ten states with the lowest prices are either in the South or Pacific Northwest, and the reasons for their low rates has to do a lot with their power supplies. While the New England states rely more on natural gas to generate electricity, most of the power in the South comes from coal and nuclear plants, which are still cheaper than most other supplies. Both the South and the Northwest also benefit from more hydroelectric power than other parts of the country, which is cheaper than other sources of electricity.
Generation by fuel type, December 2014
Source: EIA
Electricity prices tend to follow the logic of the region's fuel mix — places with cheaper generation sources tend to have lower prices, EIA data shows.
But fuel mix doesn't tell the whole story of price differentiation, especially in New England. There, natural gas pipeline constraints mean that prices shoot through the roof during periods of high demand, significantly raising costs to customers in the Northeast’s wholesale markets. Take a look at fossil fuel spot prices last year from the EIA:
Natural gas prices for the Northeast spiked during the coldest weather of the year, which in turn raised electricity rates. Utilities in the region are currently working to expand gas pipelines to relieve the bottleneck and build more transmission to deliver energy from wind farms and hydroelectric dams in New England and Canada, but constraints continue to impact customers.
To be sure, there’s more to electricity prices than just fuel mix. Deregulation is another factor, although its impacts are more difficult to plot. In general, the states with the lowest electric prices in the deep South are still operating fully-regulated, vertically-integrated electrical systems, and have not opened up to competition the way that Texas and states in the Northeast have.
But change may be coming quickly to states reliant on coal and nuclear for cheap power. New EPA regulations on ozone, mercury, carbon dioxide and other pollutants will push thousands of coal plants across the nation to retire in the next decade, along with price pressure from cheap natural gas.
At the same time, the nation’s nuclear reactors are aging and under pressure from cheaper generation sources like gas and wind power. Without support, Exelon, the operator of the largest nuclear fleet in the U.S., will need to close its reactors in Illinois and New York because they are unprofitable to run. In Illinois, the utility has proposed an ambitious subsidy package that would keep the plants online. The subsidies are worth it, the company says, because the plants are necessary for regional reliability.
But there may be more to the cost of electricity than meets the eye. Some environmentalists and economists have long argued that electricity rates — especially in the cheapest states — are artificially low because they do not factor in the costs of any of the negative externalities of generating power. Climate change, mercury and dioxin pollution, groundwater contamination from coal ash — none of these factors determine what customers pay each month. While that sort of rate protection is beneficial for consumers’ pocketbooks, it also means society has less incentive to conserve electricity and move toward cleaner sources of power.
The biggest changes in how we value our electricity are likely to come from the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which sets a carbon emissions reduction target of 30% by 2030 nationwide. As Utility Dive has reported, many policymakers are seeking to implement the plan by putting a price adder on carbon in regional electricity markets. Whatever compliance plan states settle on — whether it be a carbon price or plant-by-plant emissions cuts — the EPA's carbon regulations will likely write the story of American electricity rates for decades to come.
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In His New Novel, Robert Lopez Finds the Weird in the Everyday
by Alana Mohamed
Josh Gosfield
A man and a woman are having breakfast and discussing the paper. “I read yesterday that a man was caught having sex with his car,” the woman says, “Not in his car, but with his car. Do you understand what I’m telling you? He was having relations with an automobile. Apparently it had been going on for years, this affair with a car. Of course, they didn’t disclose the gentleman’s name. Or the car’s, for that matter. I can’t remember what kind…it’s all the same. This is the world we live in now. Men fuck cars and they report this in the newspaper. We deem it newsworthy.”
Robert Lopez’s characters don’t speak like actual humans, and his new novel might not even technically be a novel. Originally written as a three-act play, All Back Full never made it to the stage, so Lopez adapted the material into book form. Whatever you want to call it, the result is a languid, complex, and stylish primer for our post-truth world. “I didn’t want to reimagine it as a domestic fiction,” he explains to the Voice. “It wasn’t going to be some John Updike novel. It had to be different than that. It had to be a little weird.”
Weird is an apt way to describe Lopez’s work, which includes two short-story collections and two novels. A professor at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, and the New School’s writing programs, the 45-year-old aims to “cultivate uniqueness” among his students. The same holds true for his own work, which frequently wrests uncomfortable laughs from repressed characters trapped in isolation and obfuscation. Set entirely at a kitchen table in a Cape Cod–style cottage one lazy Sunday, All Back Full maintains the three-act structure of a play. In the first act, a man and a woman eat breakfast and read the morning paper; in the second, the man and a friend drink whiskey, contemplating life; in the third, a dinnertime incident between the man, woman, and friend signals a rift in each relationship. The compact stage Lopez builds around his characters makes room for their musings on the quotidian, related by a hapless narrator who knows either too much or too little.
Our principals go unnamed, even as the narrator bombards us with facts about nudism, dolphin sexuality, the invention of the submarine, distemper, and Joyce Kilmer. A conversation between the man and woman about saving seagulls quickly devolves into a brief history of Stanislavski’s production of The Seagull. A reflection on an abandoned car parked on the street becomes a detailed account of the first car accidents in America and overseas. A particularly long pause in conversation allows us to peek into the neighbors’ houses and provides a timeline on the history of their pets.
The breathless narration and factual digressions stand at odds with the characters’ conversations, curt back-and-forths about mundane lives peripheral to our own. The man, the woman, and the friend are middle-aged and vague about what they do. Their exchanges can be easy to gloss over. Don’t. Lopez and his characters enjoy massaging language, and are quick to exploit its failings. When the man relates a near-death experience to his friend, the grim exchange turns playful:
“The friend says, How did you almost drown, again?
“The man says, It was in the river. The current.
“The friend says, That’s right. What were you doing in the river?
“The man says, Drowning.”
This sort of playfully obtuse exchange is a hallmark of the way Lopez’s characters attempt to communicate. You can’t trust what anyone says, even if you thoroughly enjoy how they’re saying it. Lopez says he works primarily on the sentence level, and it shows. With one sleight against convention, he manages to transform pleasant chitchat into electric prose.
The mental exercises and menial small talk Lopez’s characters engage in can be taxing, better suited for the stage than the page. Dense, staccato sentences read like geometry theorems or a cerebral game intellectuals played in eighteenth-century France. The man, the woman, and the friend drill into their subjects with such veracity that often nothing is left to make sense of. It is a trick of the pen. This same precision talks around the book’s most stunning revelations, all the while teasing the reader with what’s to come.
“This is our problem right here. We seek understanding. We crave it. We want to touch it, hold it. But understanding doesn’t want this. Understanding wants nothing to do with us,” the friend tells the man in Act 3. It’s as close to a self-aware moment as one of Lopez’s compulsive truth-benders can have.
The honest moments the narrator and principals close in on can be swept away in an overabundance of trivia and reinterpretations of history, only to gain buoyancy at the novel’s emotional climax. When ugly truths wash ashore, characters are left stranded and the narrator blindsided. Despite the narrator’s penchant for relaying academic-sounding essays, Lopez methodically undermines the idea of the omniscient storyteller, revealing how easy it is to forge fact out of fiction. In the age of alternative facts, Lopez is the unlikely source of a timely lesson.
All Back Full
By Robert Lopez
Out February 14
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Home Bareacts AirportsAuthIndia1994 The Airports Authority Of India Act, 1994
AirportsAuthIndia1994
The Airports Authority Of India Act, 1994
NO. 55 OF 1994
[12th September, 1994]
An Act to provide for the Constitution of the Airports Authority of India and for the transfer and vesting of the undertakings of the International Airports Authority of India and the National Airports Authority to and in the Airports Authority of India so constituted for the better administration and cohesive management of Airports and Civil enclaves whereat air transport services are operated or are intended to be operated and of all aeronautical communication stations 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the forty-fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Inserted by act Airports Authority of India (Amendment) Act, 2003. (Act No. 43 of 2003) w.e.f. 1-9-2003.
1. Short title commencement and application.
(1) This Act may be called the Airports Authority of India Act 1994.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may be notification in the official Gazette appoint.
(3) It applies to-
(a) All airports whereat air transport services are operated or are intended to be operated other than airports and airfields belonging to or subject to the control of any red force of the Union:
(b) All civil enlaces;
(c) All aeronautical communication stations and
(d) All training stations establishments and worships reliant to air transport services.
1. 11-4-1994: vide Notification No. S. O. 285(E), dt.30-3-1995.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Aeronautical communication station”2[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] means station n in the aeronautical communication service which includes aeronautical practising service aeronautical fixed service aeronautical mobile service and aeronautical; radio communication service:
(b) “Airport means a landing and taking off area for aircraft’s usually with runways and aircraft maintenance and passenger facilities and includes accordance as defined in clause 920 of section 2 of the aircraft Act 1934 (22 of 1934).
(c) “Airstrip” means used or intended to be used for the landing and take-off of aircraft’s with short take-off and laming character and includes all buildings and structures thereon or appertaining thereto;
(d) “Air traffic service” includes flight information service. Alerting service air traffic advisory service air traffic control serve areas control service approach control service and airport control service;
(e) “Air transport service” means any service for any kind of remuneration whatsoever for the transport by air of person mail or any other thing animate or inanimate whether such service relates to an single flight or series of flights;
(f) “Appointed day” means such date as the Central Government may be notification in he official gazette appoint for the purpose of section 3.
(g) “Authority” means the Airports Authority of India constituted under section 3;
(h) “Chairperson: means the Chairperson of the Authority appointed under clause (a) of sub-section (3)of section 3;
(i) “Civil enclave” means the area if any allotted at an airport belonging to any armed force of the Union, for use by persons availing of any air transport services from such airport or for the handling of baggage or cargo by such service and includes and comprising of any building and structure on such area;
(j) “Heliport” means an area either at ground level on elevated on a structure used or intended to be for the landing and take off of helicopter and includes any are of parking heliports and all bulldog and structure thereon or appertaining thereto;
(k) “International Airports Authority” means the International Airports Authority of India constituted under section 3 of the International Airports Authority Act 1971 (43 of 1971).
(l) “Member” means a member of the Authority and includes the Chairperson but does not include for the purpose of sections 4,5,6 and 7 an ex officio member referred to in clause 9b) of sub-section (3) of section 3;
(m) “National Airports Authority” means the national Airports Authority constituted under section 3 of the national Airports Authority Act 1985 (64 of 1985);
(n) “Prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
1[(nn) “private airport” means an airport owned, developed or managed by-
(i) any person or agency other than the Authority or any State Government, or
(ii) any person or agency jointly with the Authority or any State Government or both where the share of such person or agency, as the case may be, in the assets of the private airport is more than fifty per cent.]
(o) “Regulations” means regulations made under this Act.
3. Constitution and incorporation of the authority.
(1) With effect from the appointed day the Central Government shall by notification in the official gazette constitute Authority to be called the Airports Authority of India.
(2) The authority shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal with power subject to the provision of this Act, to acquire hold and dispose of property both movable and immovable and to contract and shall by the said bane sue and be sued.
(3) The authority shall consist of-
(a) A Chairperson to be appointed by the Central Government;
(b) The Director General OF Civil Aviation or an officer not below the rank of the Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation to be appointed by the Central Government ex officio;
(c) Not less than eight and not more than fourteen members to be appointed by the Central Government.
(4) The Chairperson shall be a whole-time member and other members referred to in clause 9c) of sub-section 93) may be appointed as whole-time of part-time members as the Central Government may think fit.
(5) The Chairperson and the members referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (3) shall be chosen from among persons who have special knowledge and experience in an transport services industry commercial or financial matters or administration and from among persons who are capable of representing organisation of workers and consumers.
4. Disqualification for office of member.
a person shall be disqualified for being appointed as a member it he-
(a) Has been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which in the opinion of the Central Government involves moral turpitude; or
(b) Is an undischarged insolvent; or
(c) Is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court or
(d) Has been removed or dismissed from the service of the Government or a body corporate owned or controlled by the government or
(e) Has in the opinion of the Central Government such financial or other interest in the Authority as is likely to affect prejudicially the discharge by him of his functions as a member.
5. Term of office and conditions of service of members.
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 6,-
(i) Every whole-time member (other than the ex officio member shall hold office for a period of five years from the date on which he assumes office or till he attains he age of sixty years whichever is earlier and
(ii) Every part-time member (other than the ex officio member) shall hold office for a period of three years from the date on which he assumes office:
Provided that the Central Government –
(a) Terminate the appointment of any whole-time member, who is not a servant of the Government after giving him notice for a period of not less than three months or in lieu thereof, on payment of an amount equal to his salary and allowances, if any for a period of three months:
(b) Terminate the appointment of any part-time member who is not a servant of the Government after giving him notice for such period as may be prescribed; and
(c) Terminate at any time he appointment of any member who is a servant of the Government.
(2) The other conditions of service of he members shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) Any member may resign his office giving notice in writing for such period as may be prescribed to the Central Government and on such resignation being notified in the Official Gazette by that Government, such member shall be deemed to have vacated his office.
6. Vacation of office member.
The Central Government shall remove a member if he-
(a) Becomes subject to any of the disqualification mentioned in section 4:
Provided that no member shall be removed on the ground that he has become subject to the disqualification mentioned in clause (e) of that section, unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in he matter; or
(b) Refuses to Act or becomes incapable of acting; or
(c) Is, without obtaining leave of absence from the Authority absent from three consecutive meetings of the Authority; or
(d) In the opinion of the Central Government has so abused his position as to render his continuance in office detrimental to the public interest:
Provided that no member shall be removed under this clause unless he has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter.
7. Eligibility of member for re-appointment.
Any person ceasing to be a member shall, unless disqualified under section 4, be eligible for re-appointment.
8. Meetings.
(1) The Authority shall meet at such times and places and shall observe such rules of procedure in regard to the transaction of he business at its meetings (including the quorum at such meetings) as may be provided by regulations.
(2) The Chairperson, or if for any reason he is unable to attend any meetings of the Authority any other member chosen by the members present at the meeting shall preside at the meeting.
(3) All questions which come up before any meeting of the Authority shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting and in the servant of an equality of votes the Chairperson, or in his absence the person presiding, shall have and exercise a second or casting vote.
9. Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceeding of the Authority.
No Act or proceeding of the Authority shall be invalid merely be reason of-
(a) Any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of the Authority; or
(b) Any defect in the appointment of a person acting as a member of the Authority; or
(c) Any irregularity in the procedure of the Authority not affecting the merits of the case.
10. Appointment of officers and other employees of the Authority.
(1) For the purpose of enabling of efficiently to discharge its function under this Act, the Authority shall subject to the provisions of section 18 and to such rules as may be made in this behalf appoint (whether on deputation or otherwise) such number of officers and together employees as it may consider necessary;
Provided that the appointment of such category of officers as may be specified after consultation with the Chairperson in such rules, shall be subject to the approval of the Central Government.
(2) Subject to the provisions of section 18 every officer or other employee appointed by the Authority shall be subject to such conditions of service and shall be entitled to such remuneration as may be determined by regulations.
11. Authority to act on business principles.
In the discharge of its functions under this Act, the Authority shall Act, so far as may be, on business principles.
12. Functions of the Authority.
(1) Subject to the rules, if any made by the Central Government in this behalf it shall be the function of the Authority to manage the airports, the civil enlaces and the aeronautical communication stations 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] efficiently.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Authority to provide it traffic service and air transport service at any airport and civil enclaves.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in sub-section (1) and (2) the Authority may-
(a) Plan develop construct and maintain runways, taxiways, aprons and terminals and ancillary buildings at the airports and civil enclaves.
1[“(aa) establish airports, or assist in the establishment of private airports, by rendering such technical, financial or other assistance which the Central Government may consider necessary for such purpose;]
(b) Plan, procure install and maintain navigational aids, communication equipment beacons and ground aids at the airports and at such locations as may be considered necessary for safe navigation and operation of aircraft.
(c) Provide air safety services and search and rescue facilities in co-ordination with other agencies;
(d) Establish schools or institutions or centres for the training of its officers and employees in regard to any matter connected with the purpose of this Act;
(e) Construct residential buildings for its employees;
(f) Establish and maintain hotels, restaurants and restrooms at or near the airport;
(g) Establish warehouses and cargo complexes at the airports for the storage or processing of goods.
(h) Arrange for postal, money exchange, insurance and telephone facilities for the is of passengers and other persons at the airports and civil enclaves;
(i) Make appropriates arrangements for watch and ward at he airports and civil enclaves;
(j) Regulate and control the playing of vehicles and the entry and exit of passengers and visitors in the airports and civil enclaves with due regard to the security and protocol functions of the Government of India;
(k) Develop and Provide consultancy construction or management services and undertake operations in India and abroad in relation to airports air-navigation services ground aids and safety services or any facilitates thereat;
(l) Establish and Manage heliports and airports;
(m) Provide such transport facility as are in the opinion of the Authority necessary to the passengers travelling by air;
(n) Form one or more companies under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or under any other law relating to companies to further the efficient discharge of the functions imposed on it by this Act;
(o) Take all such steps as may be necessary or convenient for, or may be incidental to, the exercise of any power or the discharge of any function conferred or imposed on it by this Act.
(p) Perform any other function considered necessary or desirable by the Central Government for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of aircraft to from and across the air space of India;
(q) Establish training institutes and worships;
(r) Any other activity a the airports and the civil enclaves in the best commercial interest of he Authority including cargo handling setting up of joint ventures for the discharge of any function assigned to the authority.
(4) In the discharge of its functions under section the Authority shall have due regard to the development of air transport service and to the efficiency economy and safety of such service.
(5) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as-
(a) Authorising the discharged by the Authority of any law for the time being in force or
(b) Authorising any person to Institute any proceeding in respect of duty or liability to which the Authority or its officers or other employees would not otherwise be subject.
12A. Lease by the Authority.
1[12A. Lease by the Authority.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Authority may, in the public interest or in the interest of better management of airports, make a lease of the premises of an airport (including buildings and structures thereon and appertaining thereto) to carry out some of its functions under section 12 as the Authority may deem fit:
Provided that such lease shall not affect the functions of the Authority under section 12 which relates to air traffic service or watch and ward at airports and civil enclaves.
(2) No lease under sub-section (1) shall be made without the previous approval of the Central Government.
(3) Any money, payable by the lessee in terms of the lease made under subsection (1), shall, form part of the fund of the Authority and shall be credited thereto as if such money is the receipt of the Authority for all purposes of section 24 (4) The lessee, who has been assigned any function of the Authority under sub-section (1), shall have all the powers of the Authority necessary for the performance of such function in terms of the lease.]
13. Undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority to vest in the Authority.
(1) On and from the appointed day, there shall be transferred to and vest in the authority constituted under section 3 of the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority.
(2) The undertakings of the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority which is transferred to and which vests in the Authority under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to include all assets, rights powers authorities and privileges and all property movable and immovable real or personal corporate or incorporeal, present or contingent, of whatever nature and where so ever situate including lands, building machinery equipment works workshops cash balances capital reserves reserve funds investments tenancies leases and book debts and all other rights and interests arising out of such properly as were immediately before the appointed day in the ownership possession or pour of the International Airports Authority or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority in relation to its undertaking whether within or outside India all books of account and documents relating thereto and shall also be deemed to include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind then subsisting of the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority in relation to its undertaking.
14. General effect of vesting of undertaking in the Authority.
(1) All contracts agreements and working arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day and affecting the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority shall in so far as they relate to the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority cease to have effect or be enforceable against the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority and shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Authority in which the undertakings have vested by virtue of this Act and enforceable as fully and effectual as if instead of the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority or as the case may be the National airports the Authority had been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(2) Any proceeding suit or cause of action pending or exiling immediately before the appointed day by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority in relation to its undertakings may, as from that day be continued and enforced to its undertakings may, as from that day be continued and enforced by or against the authority in which it has vested by virtue of this Act, as it might have been enforced by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority if this Act had not been passed, and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority.
15. Licences etc., to be deemed to have been granted to the Authority.
With effect from the appointed day, shall all licences permits quotas and exemptions granted to the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority in connection with the affairs and business of the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National airports under any law for the time being in force, shall be deemed to have been granted to the authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority have vested of this Act.
16. Tax exemption or benefit to continue to have effect.
(1) Where any exemption from or any assessment with respect to any tax has been granted or made or any benefit y way of set off or carry forward as the case may be or any unabsorbed description or investment allowance or other allowance or loss has been extended or is available Authority, under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) such exemption assessment or benefit shall continue to have effect in relation to the Authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority have vested by virtue of this Act.
(2) Where any payment made by the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority is exempt from deduction of the tax at source under any provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) the exemption from tax will continue to be available as if the provisions of the said Act made applicable to the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority were operative relation to the authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the national Airports Authority have been vested by virtue of this Act.
(3) The transfer and vesting of the undertakings or any part thereof in terms of section 13 shall not be construed as a transfer within the meaning of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) for the purposes of capital gains.
17. Guarantee to be operative.
Any guarantee given for is favour on the International Airports Authority or the National Authority with respect to any loan or lease finance shall continue to be operative in relation to the authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports have vested by virtue of this Act.
18. Provisions in respect of officers and other employees of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority.
(1) (a) Every officer or other employee of the International Airports Authority serving in its employment immediately before the appointed day shall in so far as such officer or other employee is employed in connection with the undertaking which has vested in the Authority by virtue of this Act, becomes as from the appointed day an officer or as the case may be other employee of the International Airports division of the Authority.
(b) Every officer or other employee of the National Airports Authority serving in its employment immediately before the appointed day shall, in so far as such officer of other employee is employee in connection with the undertaking which has vested in the Authority by virtue of this Act, becomes as from the appointed day an officer or, as the case may be other employee of the National Airports Division of the authority.
(2) Every officer or other employee of the International Airports Authority or the National Airports who becomes an officer or as the case may be other employee of the Authority as referred to in sub-section (1) shall hold his office or service therein by the same tenure, at the same remuneration upon the same terms and conditions with the same obligations and with the same rights and privileges as it leave passage insurance superannuating scheme provident fund other funds retirement pension gratuity and other benefits as he would have held under the International Airports Authority or as the case may be the National Airports Authority if its undertaking had nit vested in the Authority and shall continue to do so as an officer or other employee one year from the appointed day if such officer or other employee opt not to be the officer or other employee of the authority within such period:
Provided that if the authority thinks it expedient to extend the period so fixed it may the same up to a maximum period of one year.
(3) Where an officer or other employee if the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority opts under sub-section (2) not to be in the employment or service of the Authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority have vested, such officer or other employee shall be deemed to have resigned from the respective cadre.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial disputes Act, 1947 or in any other law for the time being in force the transfer of the services of any officer or other employee of the International Airports Authority or the National airports to the Authority shall not Act or under any other law for the time benign in force and no such claim shall be entertained by any court tribunal or other authority.
(5) The officers and other employees who have retired before the appointed day from the services of the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority and are entitled to any benefits, rights or privileges shall be entitled to receive the same benefits, rights or privileges from the authority in which the undertakings of the International Airports Authority and the National Airports Authority have vested.
(6) The trusts of the Provident Fund and Group Insurance and Superannuating Scheme of the International airports or the National Airports Authority and any other bodies created for the welfare of officers or employees would continue to discharge their functions in the authority as was being done hitherto in he International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority and tax exemption granted to Provident fund or Group Insurance and superannuating Scheme would continue to be applied to the Authority.
(7) After the expiry of the period of one year to the extended period as referred to in sub-section (2) all the officers and other employees transferred and appointed to the Authority other than those opting not to be the officers or employees of the Authority within such period, shall be governed by the rules and regulations made by the Authority in respect of the service conditions of the officers and other employees of the said Authority.
19. Compulsory acquisition of land for the Authority.
Any land required by the authority for the discharge of its functions under this Act shall be deemed to be needed for a public purpose and such land may be acquired for he Authority under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894) or any other corresponding law for the time being in force.
20. Contracts by the Authority.
Subject to the provisions of section 21, the Authority shall be competent to enter into and perform any contract necessary for the discharge of its functions under this Act.
21. Mode of executing contracts on behalf of the authority.
(1) Every contract shall, on behalf of the Authority, be made by the Chairperson or such member or such officer of the Authority as may be generally or specially empowered in this behalf by the Authority and such contracts or class of contracts as may be specified in the regulations shall be sealed with the common seal of the Authority:
Provided that no contract exceeding such value of amount as the Central Government may, from time to time by order fix in this behalf shall be made unless it has been previously approved by the Authority.
Provided further that no contract for the acquisition or sale of immovable property or for the ;ease of any such property for a term exceeding thirty years and no other contract exceeding such value or amounts as the Central Government may, from time to time by order fix in this behalf shall be made unless it has been previously approved by the Central Government.
(2) subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) the form and manner in which any contract shall be under this Act shall be such as may be specified by regulations.
(3) No contract which is not in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations shall be binding on the Authority.
22. Power the Authority to charge fees, rent, and etc.
The Authority may-
(i) With the previous approval of the Central Government charge fees or rent-
(a) For the landing housing or parking of aircraft or for any other service or facility offered in connection with aircraft operation at any airport heliport or airstrip.
Explanation-In this sub-clause “aircraft” does not include an aircraft belonging to any armed force of the Union and “aircraft operation” does not include operations of any aircraft belonging to the said force:
(b) For providing air traffic services, ground safety services, aeronautical communications and navigational aids and meteorological services at any airport an at any aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”];
(c) For the amenities given to the passengers and visitors at any airport civil enclave heliport or airstrip;
(d) For the use and employment by persons of facilities and other services provided by the Authority at any airport civil enclave heliport or airstrip;
(ii) With due regard to the instructions that the Central Government may give to the Authority from time to time charge fees of rent from persons who are given by the Authority any facility for carrying on any trade or businesses t any airport heliport or airstrip.
1. Inserted by act Airports Authority of India (Amendment) Act, 2003. (Act No. 43 of 2003) w.e.f. 7-9-2003
22A. Power of Authority
1[22A. Power of Authority
The Authority may, after the previous approval of the Central Government in this behalf, levy on, and collect from, the embarking passengers at an airport, the development fees at the rate as may be prescribed and such fees shall be credited to the Authority and shall be regulated and utilised in the prescribed manner, for the purposes of-
(a) funding or financing the costs of upgradation, expansion or development of the airport at which the fee is collected; or (b) establishment or development of a new airport in lieu of the airport referred to in clause (a); or
(c) investment in the equity in respect of shares to be subscribed by the Authority in companies engaged in establishing, owning, developing, operating or maintaining a private airport in lieu of the airport referred to in clause (a) or advancement of loans to such companies or other persons engaged in such activities.”]
23. Additional Capital and Grant to the Authority by the Central Government.
The Central Government may after due appropriation made by Parliament any law in this behalf-
(a) Provide any capital that may be required by the authority for the discharge of its functions under this Act or any purpose connected therewith on such terms and conditions as that Government may determine;
(b) Pay to the Authority on such terms and conditions as the Central Government may determine by way of loans or grants such sums of money as that Government may consisted necessary for the efficient discharge by the authority of its functions under this Act.
24. Fund of the Authority and its investment.
1) The Authority shall have its own fund and all receipts of the Authority shall be credited thereto and all payments of the authority shall be made therefrom.
(2) The authority shall have power subject to the provisions of this Act, to spend such sums as it thinks fit to cover all administrative expenses of the authority and on objects or for purposes authorised by this Act and such sums shall be treated as expenditure out of the fund of the Authority.
(3) All moneys standing at the credit of the authority which cannot immediately be applied as provided in sub-section 92 , shall be-
(a) Deposited in the State Bank of India or any such scheduled bank or banks other public financial institutions subject to such conditions as may from time to time be specified by the Central Government and
(b) Invested in the securities of the Central Government or is such manner as may be prescribed.
Explanation -In this sub-section “Scheduled bank” has the same meaning as in clause (e) of section 2 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934).
25. Allocation of surplus funds.
(1) The Authority may from time to time set apart such amounts as it thinks fit as a reserve or funds for the purpose of expanding existing facilities or services or creating new facilities or services at any airport, civil enclave heliport or airstrip of for the purpose of providing against any temporary decrease of revenue or increase of expenditure from transient causes or for purpose of replacement or for meeting expenditure arising from loss or damage from fire, cyclone, air-crash or other accident or for meeting any liability arising out of any act or commission in the discharge of its functions under this Act:
Provided that without prejudice to the right of the Authority to establish specific for one or more specific purpose, the Authority shall also have the power establish a general reserve:
Provided further that the sums set apart annually in respect of each or any of the specific and general reserves and the aggregate at any time of such sums shall not exceed such limits as may from time to time, be fixed in that behalf by the Central Government.
(2) After making provision for such reserve fund or funds and for bad and doubtful depreciation in assets and all other matters which are usually provided for by companies registered and incorporated under the companies Act, 1956, the Authority shall pay the balance of its annual net profits to the Central Government.
26. Submission of programme of activities and financial estimates.
(1) The Authority shall before the commencement of each financial year prepare a statement to the programme of its activities during the forty coming financial years as well as financial estimate in respect thereof.
(2) The statement prepared under sub-section (1) shall not less than unary months before the commencement of each financial year, be submitted for approval to the Central Government.
(3) The statement and the financial estimates of he authority may with the approval of the Central Government be revised by the Authority.
27. Borrowing powers of the Authority.
(1) The Authority may with the consent of the Central Government or in accordance with the terms of any general or special authority given to it by the Central Government borrow money from any source by the issue of bonds debentures or such other instruments as it may deem fit for discharging all or any of its functions under this Act.
(2) The Central government may guarantee in such manner as it thinks the repayment of the principal and the payment of interest thereon with respect to the loans borrowed by the Authority under sub-section (1).
(3) Subject to such limits as the Central Government may from time to lay down, the Authority may borrow temporarily by way of overdraft or otherwise such amounts as it may required for discharging its functions under this Act.
28. Accounts and audit.
(1) The Authority shall maintain proper accounts and other relevant records and prepare and annual statement of accounts including the profit and loss account and the balance-sheet in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
(2) The accounts of the authority shall be audited annually by the comptroller and Auditor-General of India and any expenditure incurred by him in connection with such audit shall be payable by the authority to the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India.
(3) The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India and any person appointed by him in connection with the audit of the accounts of the authority shall have the same rights and privileges and authority in connection with such audit as the Comptroller and Auditor-General has in connection with the audit of government account and in particular shall have the right to demand the production of books accounts connection vouchers, documents and papers and inspect any of the officers of the Authority.
(4) The accounts of the Authority as certified by the comptroller and auditor-General of India or any other person appointed by him in this behalf together with the audit report thereon shall be forwarded same to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.
28A. Definitions
1[CHAPTER VA EVICTION OF UNAUTHORISED OCCUPANTS, ETC., OF AIRPORT PREMISES
1[28A. Definitions
In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “airport premises” means any premises-
(i) belonging to airport;
(ii) taken on lease for the purposes of airport;
(iii) acquired for the Authority under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 or any other corresponding law for the time being in force.
Explanation.-For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that for the purposes of this clause, “airport” includes private airport;
(b) “eviction officer” means an officer of the Authority appointed as such by it under section 28B;
(c) “premises” means any land or building or part of a building, and includes-
(i) the garden, grounds and outhouses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and
(ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for more beneficial enjoyment thereof;
(d) “rent”, in relation to any airport premises, means the consideration payable periodically for the authorised occupation of the premises, and includes-
(i) any charge for electricity, water or any other service in connection with the occupation of the premises; and
(ii) any tax, by whatever name called, payable in respect of the premises;
(e) “Tribunal” means the Airport Appellate Tribunal established under sub-section (7) of section 28-1;
(f) “unauthorised occupation”, in relation to any airport premises, means the occupation by any person of the airport premises without authority for such occupation and includes the continuance in occupation by any person of the airport premises after the authority (whether by way of grant or any other mode of transfer) under which he was allowed to occupy the premises has expired or has been determined for any reason whatsoever.]
28B. Appointment of eviction officers
1[28B. Appointment of eviction officers
The Authority may, by general or special order in writing, appoint such number of its officers, as it thinks fit, to be eviction officers for the purposes of this Chapter, and define the local limits within which, or the categories of airport premises in respect of which, the eviction officers shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed, on eviction officers by or under this Chapter.]
28C. Issue of notice to show cause against order of eviction.
1[28C. Issue of notice to show cause against order of eviction.
(1) If the eviction officer is of the opinion that any persons are in unauthorised occupation of any airport premises and that they should be evicted, the eviction officer shall, in the manner hereinafter provided, issue a notice in writing calling upon all persons concerned to show cause why an order of eviction should not be made.
(2) The notice shall-
(a) specify the grounds on which the order of eviction is proposed to be made; and
(b) require all persons concerned, that is to say, all persons who are or may be, in occupation of, or claim interest in, the airport premises-
(i) to show cause, if any, against the proposed order on or before such date as is specified in the notice, being a date not earlier than seven days from the date of issue thereof, and
(ii) to appear before the eviction officer on the date specified in the notice along with the evidence which they intend to produce in support of the cause shown and also for personal hearing, if such hearing is desired.
(3) The eviction officer shall cause the notice to be served by having it affixed on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of the airport premises and in such other manner as may be prescribed, whereupon the notice shall be deemed to have been duly given to the persons concerned.
(4) Where the eviction officer knows or has reasons to believe that any person is in occupation, of the airport premises, then, without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (3), he shall cause a copy of the notice to be served on every such person by post or by delivering or tendering it to that person or in such other manner as may be prescribed.]
28D. Eviction of unauthorised occupants.
1[28D. Eviction of unauthorised occupants.
(1) If after considering the cause, if any, shown by any person in pursuance of a notice under section 28C and any evidence produced by him in support of the same and after personal hearing, if any, given under sub-clause (a) of clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 28C, the eviction officer is satisfied that the airport premises are in unauthorised occupation, the eviction officer may make an order of eviction, for reasons to be recorded therein, directing that the airport premises shall be vacated, on such date as may be specified in the order, by the persons who may be in occupation thereof, and cause a copy of the order to be affixed on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of the airport premises.
(2) If any person refuses or fails to comply with the order of eviction on or before the date specified in the order or within fifteen days of the date of publication under sub-section , whichever is earlier, the eviction officer or any other officer duly authorised by the eviction officer in this behalf may, after the date so specified or after the expiry of the period aforesaid, whichever is earlier, evict that person from, and take possession of, the airport premises and may, for that purpose, use such force as may be necessary.]
28E. Disposal of property left on airport premises by unauthorized occupants.
1[28E. Disposal of property left on airport premises by unauthorized occupants.
(1) Where any persons have been evicted from any airport premises under section 28D, the eviction officer may, after giving ten days’ notice to the persons from whom possession of the airport premises has been taken and after publishing the notice in at least one newspaper having circulation in the locality, remove or cause to be removed or dispose of by public auction any property remaining on such premises.
(2) Where any property is sold under sub-section (1), the sale proceeds thereof shall, after deducting the expenses of the sale and the amount, if any, due to the Central Government or the corporate authority on account of arrears of rent or damages or costs, be paid to such person or persons as may appear to the eviction officer to be entitled to the same:
Provided that where the eviction officer is unable to decide as to the person or persons to whom the balance of the amount is payable or as to the apportionment of the same, he may refer such dispute to the Tribunal and the decision of the Tribunal thereon shall be final.]
28F. Power to remove unauthorized constructions, etc..
1[28F. Power to remove unauthorized constructions, etc.
(1) No person shall-
(a) erect or place or raise any building or any movable or immovable structure or fixture;
(b) display or spread any goods;
(c) bring or keep any cattle or other animal,
on or against or in front of any airport premises except in accordance with the authority (whether by way of grant or any other mode of transfer) under which he was allowed to occupy such airport premises.
(2) Where any building or other immovable structure or fixture has been erected, placed or raised in any airport premises in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1), the eviction officer may serve on the person erecting such building or other structure or fixture, a notice requiring him either to remove or show cause why he shall not remove such building or other structure or fixture to or from the airport premises within such period, not being less than seven days but not exceeding thirty days as may be specified in the notice, and on the omission or refusal of such person to show cause, or to remove such building or other structure or fixture from the airport premises, or where the cause shown is not, in the opinion of the eviction officer, sufficient, the eviction officer may, by order, remove or cause to be removed the building or other structure or fixture from the airport premises and the cost of such removal shall be recoverable from such person as an arrear of land revenue.
(3) Where any movable structure or fixture has been erected, placed or raised, or any goods have been displayed or spread or any cattle or other animal has been brought or kept on any airport premises in contravention of the provisions of subsection (/) by any person, the eviction officer may, by order, remove or cause to be removed without notice, such structure, fixture, goods, cattle or other animal, as the case may be, from the airport premises and the cost of such removal shall be recoverable from such person as an arrear of land revenue.]
28G. Power to require payment of rent of damages in respect of airport premises.
1[28G. Power to require payment of rent of damages in respect of airport premises.
(1) Where any person is in arrears of rent payable in respect of airport premises, the eviction officer may, by order, require that person to pay the same . within such time and in such instalments as may be specified in the order.
(2) Where any person is, or has at any time been, in unauthorised occupation of any airport premises, the eviction officer may, having regard to such principles of assessment of damages as may be prescribed, assess the damages on account of the use and occupation of such premises and may, by order, require that person to pay the damages within such time and in such instalments as may be specified in the order.
(3) While making an order under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), the eviction officer may direct that the arrears of rent or, as the case may be, damages shall be payable together with simple interest at such rate as may be prescribed.
(4) No order under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be made against any person until after the issue of a notice in writing to the person calling upon him to show cause within such period not being less than seven days but not exceeding thirty days as may be specified in the notice as to why such order should not be made, and until his objections, if any, and any evidence he may produce in support of the same have been considered by the eviction officer.]
28H. Powers of eviction officers.
1[28H. Powers of eviction officers.
An eviction officer shall, for the purpose of holding any inquiry into this Chapter, have the same powers, as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, while trying a suit in respect of the following matters, namely:-
(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;
(b) requiring the discovery and production of documents;
(c) any other matter which may be prescribed.]
28-I. Establishment of Tribunal.
1[28-I. Establishment of Tribunal.
(1) The Central Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, establish a Tribunal, to be known as the Airport Appellate Tribunal, to exercise the jurisdiction, powers and authority conferred on it by or under this Act.
(2) The Tribunal shall consist of a Chairperson (hereinafter referred to in this Act, as the Chairperson of the Tribunal).
(3) The head office of the Tribunal shall be at New Delhi:
Provided that the Tribunal may hold its sittings at other places as the Chairperson of the Tribunal may decide, from time to time, having taken into consideration the convenience to decide the appeals before the Tribunal.
(4) The Chairperson of the Tribunal shall be appointed by the Central Government after consultation with the Chief Justice of India.
(5) A person shall not be qualified for appointment as Chairperson of the Tribunal unless he is, or has been, or is qualified to be, a Judge of a High Court.
(6) The Chairperson of the Tribunal shall hold office as such for a term of three years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains the age of sixty-two years, whichever is earlier.
(7) The salaries and allowances payable to, and other terms and conditions of service of, the Chairperson of the Tribunal shall be such as may be prescribed:
Provided that neither the salary and allowances nor other terms and conditions of service of the Chairperson of the Tribunal shall be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment.]
28J. Registration and removal.
1[28J. Registration and removal.
(1) The Chairperson of the Tribunal may, by notice in writing under his hand addressed to the Central Government, resign his office:
Provided that the Chairperson of the Tribunal shall, unless he is permitted by the Central Government to relinquish his office sooner, continue to hold office until the expiry of three months from the date of receipt of such notice or until a person duly appointed as his successor enters upon his office or until the expiry of his term of office, whichever is the earliest.
(2) The Chairperson of the Tribunal shall not be removed from his office except by an order made by the Central Government on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity after an inquiry made by a Judge of the Supreme Court in which such Chairperson had been informed of the charges against him and given reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges.
(3) The Central Government may, by rules, regulate the procedure for the investigation of misbehaviour or incapacity of the Chairperson of the Tribunal.]
28K. Appeals to Tribunal.
1[28K. Appeals to Tribunal
(1) Any person aggrieved by an order of the eviction officer under this Chapter may, within fifteen days from the date of such order, prefer an appeal to the Tribunal in such form as may be prescribed:
Provided that the Tribunal may entertain any appeal after the expiry of the said period of fifteen days, but not after the period of thirty days from the date aforesaid, if it is satisfied that the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.
(2) On receipt of an appeal under sub-section (1), the Tribunal shall, after giving the appellant and the eviction officer an opportunity of being heard, pass such order as it thinks fit.
(3) The Tribunal shall dispose of the appeal within thirty days from the date of filing the appeal:
Provided that the Tribunal may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, dispose of the appeal within a further period of fifteen days.
(4) An order of the Tribunal passed under sub-section (2) shall be executable as a decree of a civil court and for executing the same the Tribunal shall send a copy thereof to the civil court having jurisdiction which shall execute the same, as expeditiously as may be possible, as if such order is a decree passed by that court.
(5) On and from the date from which any jurisdiction, powers and authority becomes exercisable under this Chapter by the Tribunal in relation to any matter, no court (except the Supreme Court under article 136 and the High Court under articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution) shall have, or be entitled to exercise any jurisdiction, powers or authority in relation to such matter.]
28L. Procedure and powers of Tribunal.
1[28L. Procedure and powers of Tribunal.
(1) The Tribunal shall not be bound by the procedure laid down in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 but shall be guided by the principles of natural justice, and, subject to the other provisions of this Act and of any rules made by the Central Government, the Tribunal shall have power to lay down and regulate its own procedure including the fixing of places and times of its inquiry and deciding whether to sit in public or in private.
(2) The Tribunal shall have, for the purpose of discharging its functions under this Chapter, the same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, while trying a suit in respect of the following matters, namely:-
(c) any other matter which may be prescribed.
(3) Any proceeding before the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a judicial proceeding within the meaning of sections 193 and 228, and for the purposes of section 196, of the Indian Penal Code and the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a civil court for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXVI of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.]
28M. Finality of orders.
1[28M. Finality of orders.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, every order made by an eviction officer or the Tribunal under this Chapter shall be final and shall not be called in question in any suit, application, execution or other proceeding and no injunction shall be granted by any court or other authority in respect of any action taken or intended to be taken in pursuance of any power conferred by or under this Chapter.]
28N. Offences under this Chapter
1[28N. Offences under this Chapter
(1) Whoever, unlawfully occupies any airport premises, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six years and with fine.
(2) Whoever fails to comply with any order of the eviction officer or the Tribunal under this Chapter shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and with fine.
(3) If any person who has been evicted from any airport premises under this Chapter again occupies the premises without authority for such occupation, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years and with fine.
(4) The court may, while convicting a person under sub-section (3), make an order for evicting that person summarily and he shall be liable to such eviction without prejudice to any other action that may be taken under this Chapter.]
28-O. Offences by companies.
1[28-O. Offences by companies
(1) Where any offence under this Chapter has been committed by a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was directly in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person liable to any punishment provided in this Chapter, if he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or he has exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), where an offence under this Chapter has been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to, any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section,-
(a) “company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and
(b) “director”, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.]
28P. Cognizance of offences,
1[28P. Cognizance of offences,
No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Chapter except on a complaint made by the Authority, eviction officer or any other officer authorised by it and no court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Chapter.]
28Q. Power to obtain information.
1[28Q. Power to obtain information.
If the eviction officer has reason to believe that any persons are in an unauthorised occupation of any airport premises, he or any other officer authorised by him in this behalf may require those persons or any other person to furnish information in relation to the names and other particulars of the persons in occupation of the airport premises and every person so required shall be bound to furnish the information in his possession.]
28R. Officers, etc., to aid and assist.
1[28R. Officers, etc., to aid and assist.
It shall be the duty of all the officers of the Government including police officers and any local authority to aid and assist the eviction officer or other officers of the Authority in the discharge of their functions under this Chapter.]
29. Submission of annual report.
(1) The authority shall as soon as may be after the end of each financial year prepare and submit to the Central Government in such form as may be prescribed a report giving an account of its activities during that financial year and the report shall also give an account of the activities which are likely to be undertaken by the authority during the next financial year.
(2) The Central government shall cause such report to be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is submitted.
30. Delegation.
The Authority may, by general or special order in writing delegate to the Chairperson or any other member or to any officer of the Authority, subject to such conditions and limitations if any as may be specified in the order such of its powers and functions under this Act (expect the powers under section 42) as it may deem necessary.
31. Authentication of orders and other instruments of the authority.
All orders and decisions of the authority shall be authenticated by the signature of the Chairperson or any other member authorised by the authority in this behalf and all other instruments exceeded by the authority shall be authenticated by the signature of an officer of the authority authorised by it in this behalf.
32. Officers and employees of the authority to be public servant.
All officers and employees of the Authority shall, while acting or purporting to act in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or of any rule or regulation made thereunder be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code.
33. Protection of action take of good faith.
No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the authority or any member or any officer or other employee of the authority for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or of any rule or regulation made thereunder of for any damage sustained by any aircraft of vehicle on consequent of any defect in any of the airports civil enlaces heliports airstrips aeronautical communication stations [1for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] of other things belonging to or under the control of the authority.
34. Custody and disposed of lost property.
subject to such regulations as the authority may make in this behalf the authority shall provide securing the safe custody and restoration of any property which while not in proper custody is found on any premises such premises.
35. Provisions relating to income tax.
for the purposes of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) or any other enactment for the time being in force relating to income-tax or any other tax in income profits of gains the authority shall be deemed to be a company within the meaning of the Income-tax Act, 1961 and shall be liable to tax accordingly on its income profits and gains.
36. Power of the authority to undertake certain works.
The authority may undertake to carry out on behalf of any person any works or services or any class of works or services on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the authority and the person concerned.
37. Power to issue directions.
(1) The Authority or any officer specially authorised by it in this behalf may form time to time, by order issue directions consistent with the provisions of the aircraft Act.1934 (22 of 1934)and the rules made thereunder, with respect to any of the matters specified in clauses (f) (h) (I) (j) (k) (m) (p) (qq) and (r) of sub-section 92) of section 5 of that Act, to any person or persons engaged in aircraft operations or using any airports Heliport, or civil enclave in any case where the authority or the officer is satisfied that in the interest of the security of India of for securing the security of the air-craft it is necessary to do so.
(2) Every direction issued under sub-section 910 shall be complied with by the person or persons to whom such directions is issued.
(3) If any person wilfully fails to comply with any direction issued under this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine may extend to five thousand rupees or worth both.
38. Power of the Central Government to temporarily divest the Authority of the management of any airport.
(1) If, at any time, he Central Government is of opinion that in the public interest it is necessary or expedient so to do , it may by order direct the authority to entrust the administration management or similar other functions or any airport heliport airstrip civil enclave aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department of any airport heliport airstrip or any other agency or department of any airport heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] with effect from such date and to such person as may be specified in the order and the authority shall be bound to comply with such direction:
Provided that before an order is made under this sub-section the authority shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter.
(2) Where the management of any airport heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof is entrusted to any person specified under sub-section 91) (hereafter referred to in this section as the authorised person) the authority shall cease to exercise and discharge all its powers and functions under this Act in relation n to exercise and discharge all its powers and function under this Act in relation to such airport heliport airstrip or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] of any other agency or department thereof and such powers and function shall be exercised and discharged by the authorised person in accordance with the instructions of any which the Central government my give to the authorised person from time to time:
Provided that no such power or function as may be specified by the Central Government by a general or special order shall be exercised or discharged by the authorise person except with the previous sanction of the Central Government.
(3) An order made under sub-section 91) shall unless resigned be in operation for a period of six months from the date on which the management of the airport heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof is entrusted to the authorities person.
Provided that the Central government extend such period for a further period or periods not exceeding eighteen months.
(4) During the operation of an order made under sub-section (1), it shall be competent for he Central Government to issue from to time to time, such directions to the Authority as are necessary to enable the authorised person to exercise the powers and discharge the function of the Authority under thrice Act in relation to the airport, heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof the management of which has been entrusted to him and in particular to transfer any sum of money from the fund of the Authority to the authorised person for the management of the airport heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof and every such direction shall be complied with by the Authority.
(5) On the Caesar of operation of any made under sub-section 91) in relation to any airport, heliport airstrip, civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof the authorised person shall cease to exercise and perform the powers and functions of the Authority under this Act in relation to such airport, heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof and the Authority shall continue to exercise and perform such powers and function in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(6) On the cesser of operation of any order made under sub-section (1) in relation to any airport, heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof the authorised person shall hand over to the Authority any property (including any sum of money or other asset) remaining with him in connection with the management of such airport, heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”].
(7) Anything done or any action taken lawfully by the authorised person in relation to any airport, heliport airstrip, civil enclave or aeronautical communication stthe purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] or any other agency or department thereof during he period operation of an order made under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been done or taken by the Authority and shall be binding on the Authority.
39. Power of the Central Government to supersede the Authority.
(1) If, at any time, the Central Government is of opinion-
(a) That on account of a gave emergency, the Authority is unable to discharge the function and duties imposed on it by or under the provisions of this Act, or
(b) That the Authority has persistently made default in complying with any direction issued by the Central Government under this Act or in the discharge of the functions and duties imposed on it by or under the provisions of this Act and as a result of which default the financial position of the Authority or the administration of any airport, heliport airstrip civil enclave or aeronautical communication station 1for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] has deteriorated or (2) That circumstances exist which render it necessary in the public interest so to do ,
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, supersede the Authority for such period not exceeding six months as may be specified in the notification:
Provided that before issuing a notification under those sub-section for the reasons mentioned in clause (b) the Central Government shall give a reasonable opportunity to the Authority to show cause why it should not be superseded and shall consider the explanations and objections if any of the Authority.
(2) Upon the publication of a notification under sub-section (1) superseding the Authority,-
(a) All the members shall, as from the date of suppression vacate their offices as such;
(b) All the powers functions and duties which may, by or under the provisions of this Act, be exercised by or on behalf of the Authority shall until the Authority is re-constituted under sub-section (30 be exercised and discharged by such person or persons as the Central Government may direct;
(c) All property owned or controlled by the Authority shall, until he Authority is re-constituted under sub-section 93) vest in the Central Government.
(3) On the expiration of the period of supersession specified in the notification issued under sub-section 91) the Central Government may-
(a) Extend the period of suppression for such further term not exceeding six months, as it may consider necessary; or
(b) Re-constitute the Authority by fresh appointment and in such case the members who vacated their offices under clause 9a) of sub-section (2) shall not be deemed disqualified for appointment:
Provided that the Central Government any at any time before the expiration of the period of supersession, whether as originally specified under sub-section 91) or as extended under this sub-section take action under clause 9b) of this sub-section.
(4) The Central Government shall cause a notification issued under sub-section (1) and a full report of any action taken under the section and the circumstances leading to such action to be laid before both Houses of Parliament at the earliest opportunity.
40. Power of the Central Government to issue directions.
(1) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Act, the Authority shall in the discharge or its functions and duties under this Act, be bound by such directions on questions of policy as the Central Government may give in writing to it from time to time.
Provided that the authority shall as far as practicable be given opportunity to express its views before any direction is given under this sub-section.
(2) The decision of the Central Government whether a question is one of policy or not shall be final.
(3) The Central Government may, from time to time issue directions to the Authority regarding the discharge of any functions to it under clause (e) of sub-section 93) of section 12 and the authority shall be bound o comply with such directions.
41. Power to make rules.
(1) The Central Government may by notification in the Official Gazette make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generally of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for
(a) The period of notice as may be given by the Central Government to terminate the appointments of any part-time member of the Authority under clause (b) of proviso to subsection (a) of section 5
(b) The conditions of service of the members of the Authority under sub-section (2) of section 5
(c) The period of notice as may be given by any member to resign his office under sub-section (3) of section 5
(d) The provisions subject to which officers and other employees may be appointed by the authority and the category of officers to be appointed after approval of the Central Government under the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 12;
(e) The provision subject to which the Authority may manage the airports civil enclaves and aeronautical communication stations 1[“for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports”] under sub-section 91) of section 12
1[“(ee) the rate of development fees and the manner of regulating and utilising the fees under section 22A;]
(f) The manner in which the Authority may invest its funds under clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 24.
(g) The form in which the annual statement of accounts shall be prepared by the Authority under sub-section 91) of section 28..
1[“(gi) the other manner of serving notice under sub-section (4) of section 28C.;
(gii) the other manner of serving notice under sub-section (3) of section 28C;
(giii) the principles of assessment of damages under sub-section (2) of section 28G;
(giv) the rate of simple interest under sub-section (3) of section 28G;
(gv) any other matter under clause (c) of section 28H;
(gvi) the salaries and allowances payable to, and other terms and conditions of service of, the Chairperson of the Tribunal under sub-section (7) of section 28-I;
(gvii) the procedure for the investigation of misbehaviour or incapacity of the Chairperson of the Tribunal under sub-section (3) of section 28J;
(gviii) the form of appeal under sub-section (1) of section 28K;
(gix) any other matter under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 28L”].
(h) The form in which a report giving an account of its activities shall be prepared and submitted by the Authority to the Central Government under sub-section 91) of section 29 and
(i) Any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed
42. Power to make regulations.
(1) The Authority may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder to provide for all mutters for which provisions is necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving of effect to the provisions of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the forgoing power such regulations may provide for
(a) The time and placed of the meeting of the Authority and the procedure to the followed for the transaction of business including the quorum at such meetings under sub-section 91) of section 8
(b) The conditions of service and the remuneration of officers and after employees to be appointed by the authority under clause (e) of sub-section (3) of section 12
(c) The construction of residential accommodation for the officers and other employees appointed by the Authority under clause (e) of sub-section (3) of section 12;
(d) The storage or processing go goods in any warehouse established by he authority under clause (g) of sub-section (3) of section 12 and the charging of fees for such storage or processing;
(e) The contracts or class of contracts which are to be sealed with the common seal of the Authority and the form and manner in which a contract may be made by the authority under sub-section (1) of section 21;
(f) The custody and retroaction of lost property and the terms and conditions under which lost property may be restored to the persons entitled thereto under section 345;
(g) The disposal of any lost property in cases where such property is not restored.
(h) Securing the safety of aircraft vehicles and persons using the airport or civil enclave and preventing danger to the public arising from the use and operation of aircraft in the airport or civil enclave;
(i) Preventing obstruction within the airport or civil enclave for its normal functioning;
(j) Prohibiting the parking or waiting of any vehicle of carriage within the airport of civil enclave except at places specified by the Authority;
(k) Prohibiting or restricting access to any part of the airport or civil enclave;
(l) Preserving order within the airport or civil enclave and preventing damage to property therein;
(m) Regulating or restricting advertising within the airport or civil enclave;
(n) Requiring any person if so directed by an officer appointed by the Authority in this behalf to leave the airport or civil enclave or any particular part of the airport or civil enclave and
(o) Generally for the efficient and property management of the airport or civil enclave.
(3) Any regulation made under any of the clause (h) to (o) (both inclusive) of sub-section 92) may provide that a contravention thereof shall be punishable within which may extend to five hundred rupees and in the case of a continuing contravention with an additional fine which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention.
(4) No regulation made by the authority under this section shall have effect until it has been approved by the Ventral government and published in the Official Gazette.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section the first regulations under this Act shall be made by the Central Government and shall have effect on being published in the Official Gazette.
(6) The first regulations framed under sub-section (5) shall remain in force until such time the Authority has made regulations and they are published in the Official Gazette.
43. Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament.
Every rule and every regulation made under this Act shall be lid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session or in two or more successive sessions and it before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid both Houses agree in mailing any modification in the rule or regulation as the case may be or both Houses agree that the rule or regulation as the case may be should not be made the rule or regulation shall thereafter have effect only ion such modified form or be of no effect as the case may be so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or regulation
44. Power to remove difficulties.
(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government may by general or special order published in the Official Gazette male such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it to be necessary expedient for the removal of the difficulty.
Provided that no such order shall be made after the expiration of one year from the commencement of this Act.
(2) Every order made under sub-section 91) shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid both Houses agree in making nay modification in the order or both Houses agree that the order should not be made the order shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of nom effect as the case may be so however that a by such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that order.
45. Amendment of Act 22 of 1934.
In section 5 of the Aircraft Act, 1934 in sub-section 92
(a) In clause (b) for the words and figures “the International Airports Authority Act, 1971 (43 of 1971) of the National Airports Act, 1985 (64 of 1985) “, the words and figures “the Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 ” shall be substituted;
(b) Proviso to clause (b) shall be omitted.
46. Repeal and saving.
(1) On and from the appointed date.
(i) The International Airports Authority Act, 1971 (43 of 1971) and the national Airports Authority Act.1985 (64 of 1985) shall stand repealed;
(ii) The International airports and the National Airports Authority constituted under the aforesaid Acts shall cease to exist.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal anything done or any action taken or purported to have been done or taken under the aforesaid Acts so repealed shall in so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, the deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of this Act.
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Peter and Will Anderson Trio at Phantom Theater
Hailed as virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone by the New York Times, identical twins Peter and Will Anderson have performed nearly everywhere – in 40 U.S. states and throughout Brazil, Japan and the United Kingdom – and with nearly everyone in the jazz world – including Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D’Rivera, Lou Donaldson and Jimmy Heath. On Friday, August 16, they will bring their assorted woodwinds, along with guitarist Felix Lemerle, to the stage at Phantom Theater for a performance of American Songbook gems, New Orleans hits and Brazilian bossa novas.
The Andersons attended the Juilliard School. They’ve headlined the Blue Note in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the New Orleans Jazz Festival and countless others. They were also featured on Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” radio program.
The brothers understand the natural degree of intrigue that audience members bring to a performance by identical twins. But in the context of jazz, their close bond plays a critical role by adding to the dynamic musical interplay.
“We’ve been playing side by side for over 20 years,” says Will Anderson. “Playing jazz involves improvising and reading musical and nonverbal cues. My brother and I have gotten very good at anticipating what the other one will do next and it makes it fun to play together.”
The program they’ve chosen for the Phantom Theater performance will focus on popular and approachable compositions and standards. “The main goal as performers is to entertain the audience and have them feel good,” says Will. “We want the audience to have a renewed interest and appreciation for jazz music. We want them leaving happy, feeling more inspired about the beauty of the world, forgetting about their frustrations and problems. It sounds cliche, but this is why we do what we do.”
The Peter and Will Anderson Trio performance at Phantom Theater will begin 8 p.m. Admission is by donation.
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Community and University Pride!
Apr 6th, 2009 @ 2:17 pm | Author: Dr. Steve Shirley, VCSU President
As a community, we can all be extremely proud of our collective citizenry and the flood-related preparations during the past several weeks.
As president of Valley City State, I am especially proud of the students, faculty, and staff at VCSU and the efforts put forth assisting prepare our city for the flood conditions. Thousands of hours have been contributed by members of our university community in volunteering with the sandbagging efforts. VCSU has been in close contact with city officials throughout this flood fight, and we have been (and will continue to be) responsive to their requests for assistance and cooperation.
Beyond the thousands of sandbagging and levee-building hours that our university members have provided in Valley City, there are other contributions VCSU has made. The Osmon Fieldhouse was initially opened as an emergency shelter for potential evacuees from the Fargo-Moorhead area. We ultimately did not end up housing any evacuees, but we were in close contact with the Emergency Operations Center in Bismarck and remain fully prepared. A number of VCSU students traveled to Fargo over the past couple weeks for sandbagging, and VCSU donated the PeopleMover bus for transportation. Students and staff moved a couple dozen beds from the VCSU campus to Legacy Place providing additional bedding for elderly evacuees from Fargo. Our students also assisted unload a truck of hospital beds at the Sheyenne Care Center for elderly evacuees. VCSU provided temporary housing in Robertson Hall for caregivers and staff tending to the evacuees.
The contributions made by VCSU faculty, staff, and students have been many. However, in particular I want to publicly thank and recognize our student-athletes and their coaches. Our athletic teams have provided much of the proverbial 'muscle' required in not only filling sandbags, but also for physically building the sandbag levees. These students put in long hours throughout the year not just in the classroom, but also in the gym and on the field. We are grateful for the additional hours they have contributed in this community effort, and the outstanding leadership shown by their coaches.
The flood fighting effort and preparations made thus far have included involvement from a broad spectrum of entities. City officials, City Commissioners, the Mayor and Administrator, the Fire Department, the Police Department, the Army Corps of Engineers, Valley City High School and their students for their tireless sandbagging efforts, Valley City Public Works, the Salvation Army, the contractors building clay dikes, engineers designing the levees, the National Guard, Barnes County commissioners and officials, local church groups, state and federally-elected officials, VCSU, and many other groups along with every citizen who has volunteered. I am sure there are many others as well. The point is this – it clearly takes a huge contribution by a large number of groups working cooperatively to successfully face a major challenge such as an historic flood.
There is certainly much more work and significant challenges ahead of us in the coming days and weeks, but we will all continue working closely together and successfully face this challenge. It truly should make all of us proud of the community in which we live. It is not the material things or buildings that make a great community, but rather it is the people. I am proud of VCSU's contribution in this flood-fighting effort, proud of the great people of the Valley City community, proud of the citywide response by everyone involved, and proud to call Valley City home!
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For many people, retirement income may come from a variety of sources. Here’s a quick review of the six main sources:
Social Security is the government-administered retirement income program. Workers become eligible after paying Social Security taxes for 10 years. Benefits are based on each worker’s 35 highest earning years. If there are fewer than 35 years of earnings, non-earning years are averaged in as zero. In 2019, the average monthly benefit was estimated at $1,461.1
Personal Savings and Investments
Personal savings and investments outside of retirement plans can provide income during retirement. Retirees tend to go for investments that offer monthly guaranteed income over potential returns.2
Traditional IRAs have been around since 1974. Contributions you make to a traditional IRA may be fully or partially deductible, depending on your individual circumstances. Under the SECURE Act, in most circumstances, once you reach age 72, you must begin taking required minimum distributions from a Traditional Individual Retirement Account (IRA). Withdrawals from Traditional IRAs are taxed as ordinary income and, if taken before age 59½, may be subject to a 10% federal income tax penalty. You may continue to contribute to a Traditional IRA past age 70½ under the SECURE Act as long as you meet the earned-income requirement.
Roth IRAs were created in 1997. Roth IRA contributions cannot be made by taxpayers with high incomes. To qualify for the tax-free and penalty-free withdrawal of earnings, Roth IRA distributions must meet a five-year holding requirement and occur after age 59½. Tax-free and penalty-free withdrawals also can be taken under certain other circumstances, such as a result of the owner’s death. The original Roth IRA owner is not required to take minimum annual withdrawals.
Many workers are eligible to participate in a defined-contribution plan such as a 401(k), 403(b), or 457 plan. Eligible workers can set aside a portion of their pre-tax income into an account, which then accumulates, tax deferred.
Under the SECURE Act, in most circumstances, you must begin taking required minimum distributions from your 401(k) or other defined contribution plan in the year you turn 72. Withdrawals from your 401(k) or other defined contribution plans are taxed as ordinary income, and if taken before age 59½, may be subject to a 10% federal income tax penalty.
Defined benefit plans are “traditional” pensions—employer–sponsored plans under which benefits, rather than contributions, are defined. Benefits are normally based on factors such as salary history and duration of employment. The number of traditional pension plans has dropped dramatically during the past 30 years.
Continued Employment
In a recent survey, 68% of workers stated that they planned to keep working in retirement. In contrast, only 26% of retirees reported that continued employment was a major or minor source of retirement income.3
Expected Vs. Actual Sources of Income in Retirement
What workers anticipate in terms of retirement income sources may differ considerably from what retirees actually experience.
Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2019 Retirement Confidence Survey
1. Social Security Administration, 2019
2. Insured Retirement Institute, April 2018
3. Employee Benefits Research Institute, 2018
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Portland News and Events for Oct. 9 Through Oct. 25, 2014
PHOTO: Portland Parks & Recreation’s first-ever permanent nature-based play area is now open at Westmoreland Park, SE McLoughlin and SE Bybee Boulevards. The Westmoreland natural play area is the first such permanent playscape across the PP&R system and features play elements made of logs and boulders, sand & water play, plants, hills, and opportunities for building with “loose parts” such as branches, sticks, pinecones and more. From left, 7 year-old Dori Bond and her grandfather, Amir Fathizadeh, play in the sand feature, one of the most popular spots in the new playground. Photo courtesy Portland Parks & Recreation
Teaching With Purpose Conference Friday Oct. 10 and Saturday Oct. 11
Chris Edmin an expert in using conscious Hip Hop to educate youth and Geneva Gay, an expert in culturally responsive teaching will headline the 5th Annual Teaching With Purpose Conference. The conference will take place Oct. 10-11 at Roosevelt High School in North Portland.
The theme of the conference is A Call to Culturally Responsive Teaching. Edmin and Gay are nationally recognized for their pioneering work in culturally responsive education in mathematics, science, literacy, and leadership. Breakout sessions will focus on preparing students to become leaders.
When: Friday-Saturday, October 10-11, 2014
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Friday, and 8:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Saturday
Where: Roosevelt High School, 6941 N. Central St., Portland, Oregon 97203
Cost: $165, includes 10 PDUs or CEUs
The conference collaborates with the Teaching With Purpose Leadership Institute at Lewis & Clark College. It will also feature a town hall discussion with Oregon State Superintendent Rob Saxon and Oregon Department of Education’s Equity Department.
PAALF Accepting Applications for 2015 African American Leadership Academy
The Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2015 African American Leadership Academy, a year-long training program that address the personal, cultural, civic and professional needs of emerging Black Leaders in Portland.
Through the Academy, PAALF works to build a group of transformative Black leaders who hold a lifelong commitment to fighting for racial justice and creating lasting change in their community. Applications will be accepted through Oct. 13.
Although there are many training programs available to emerging leaders, PAALF’s African American Leadership Academy seeks to fill a critical gap by addressing not only the professional skills necessary to succeed, but the culturally-specific needs of Black people, including racial pride, psychological development, collective consciousness and community building. AALA was designed in conjunction with the Coalition of Communities of Color, who has prioritized the development of culturally specific leadership trainings for other diverse populations in Oregon.
Through training, fellowship, mentorship and project-based learning, AALA participants spend twelve months, exploring what it means to be a transformative Black leader rooted in a historical context of the African Diasporic experience. They also gain the specific skills necessary to actualize this concept in the everyday work they are doing in the community. Specific elements of transformative leadership that are addressed include: racial and cultural identity development and pride, collective consciousness vs. individual gain, our history of innovation and improvisation, navigating the contradictions of double consciousness, value-based decision making and the need to avoid tokenism and co-option.
How to Apply: For more information, or to download an application, please visit www.aalfnw.org/portland/leadership-academy.
Basic Rights Oregon Launches Ad Campaign
More than 140 leaders and organizations have signed on in support of Basic Rights Oregon’s “Come Out for Our Families” ad campaign. This series of ads published in local ethnic media throughout Oregon on or around Oct. 11, celebrates National Coming Out Day, a day of awareness for people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
The ads feature straight leaders of color and organizations that work in communities of color. Endorsers state that they believe communities are strongest when all families—extended families, multi-generational families, single-parent families and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families—have the resources, respect and love they need to thrive.
The ad campaign is led by Our Families, an education and advocacy volunteer team that is part of Basic Rights Oregon’s racial justice program. The volunteer team works to raise the visibility, experiences and public support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families of color. The team does this work within predominately-straight communities of color, within racial justice organizations and within lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender justice organizations.
Read more on their work at www.basicrights.org/ourfamilies.
State Job Fair for Disabled Workers
The Department of Business and Consumer Services in partnership with Incight and Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Services (OVRS) will host an informational and networking event to introduce job seekers with disabilities to career opportunities with State of Oregon agencies.
The event is Thursday, Oct. 9, from 1 – 5 p.m., at the The Labor and Industries Building, 350 Winter Street NE, Salem. Fifteen to twenty State of Oregon agencies will participate.
Find out more at http://meetstateagencies.eventbrite.com.
Clark County Free Flu Vaccinations
Flu vaccine is widely available in Clark County, and health officials are recommending everyone six months and older get vaccinated soon.
Flu occurs primarily from October through May. A contagious respiratory disease, flu kills more people in the U.S. than any other vaccine-preventable disease. On average, nearly 24,000 people die each year of flu, and more than 200,000 are hospitalized.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends flu shots for everyone six months and older, with rare exceptions. Vaccination with a live, nasal-spray flu vaccine (FluMist) is an option for people two to 49 who are healthy and not pregnant. FluMist is the preferred vaccination for children ages two to eight.
People at greatest risk of complications from flu are especially urged to get vaccinated. They are young children, pregnant women, people 65 and older and people with asthma, diabetes, heart disease and other long-term health conditions.
To get vaccinated, call your health care provider or pharmacy. If you don’t have health insurance, call Sea Mar Community Health Centers at (360) 852-9070 or the Vancouver Free Clinic at (360) 313-1390 to make an appointment for a low-cost flu shot.
For more information, see http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/index.htm.
Portland Rescue Mission Hosts Free Flue Shot Clinic For Uninsured
Portland Rescue Mission, Immunize Oregon and The Portland Clinic are partnering to host a free flu shot clinic for uninsured people at the Mission's Burnside location, located at 111 W. Burnside St. on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
Up to 100 flu shots will be administered by The Portland Clinic from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Any person who currently does not have health insurance is eligible for a free flu shot.
For more information visit www.theportlandclinic.com.
Voter Registration deadline is October 14th for November General Elections
The voter registration deadline for Oregon’s Nov. 4 general election is Tuesday, October 14. New voters must register before the deadline. Oregon voters can register online at www.oregonvotes.gov. To register you need a valid Oregon driver’s license, permit or ID card. The system allows new registrations, changes in address and party changes. Voters can also check their registration status online.
You can also register at: the Multnomah County Elections office, 1040 SE Morrison St. in Portland; or at Department of Motor Vehicles offices, post offices and libraries. Deadlines to register are as follows: 5 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Multnomah County Elections office, a US Post Office postmark of October 14 for mail submission, or online registration by 11:59 p.m. Oct.14.
Ballots for the November 4 Oregon general election will be mailed to voters on October 15. Multnomah County voters who have questions should call Multnomah County Elections at 503-988-3720.
Dancing Zombies Take Over the World; Portland Hosts 8th Annual Thrill the World
Thrill the World, where hundreds of locals dress like zombies and dance Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” choreography, is coming up Oct. 25, for the eighth year in a row.
Each year, all proceeds from Thrill the World Portland benefit the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC), a local organization that provides services and a drop-in center for queer youth.
Dancers will have to learn the dance ahead of time. Practices will be at Fremont UMC, 2620 NE Fremont in Portland (practices are optional; dancers can learn at home with instructional videos on youtube).
Practices occur Sundays from 2-4 p.m., and Fridays from 6-8 p.m., through Oct. 25.
For more information go to http://www.facebook.com/thrilltheworld.portland or email ttwpdx@gmail.com
RACC Seeks Applications for New Public Art Murals
The Regional Arts & Culture Council is now accepting applications for mural funding through its Public Art Murals Program. Applications are due the first Wednesday of every month through June 2015.
Applications and guidelines are available at racc.org/public-art/mural-program. Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month. RACC’s review and approval process takes 4-6 weeks, and all proposals are reviewed by the Public Art Murals Program Committee, whose members include artists, arts advocates and other creative professionals. For more information, contact Peggy Kendellen, public art manager, at 503-823-4196 or kendellen@racc.org.
On Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 am to noon, RACC will offer a free workshop to help artists understand the mural application process at the Rosewood Initiative, 16126 SE Stark St. For more information and to RSVP, contact Peggy Kendellen, public art manager, at 503.823.4196 or kendellen@racc.org.
Another route for painting a mural in the City of Portland is through the city’s Original Art Mural Permit, which has different requirements and a fee of $50. Funding is not available through the City’s permitting process. Visit www.portlandoregon.gov/bds/50737 for more information.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2014 Light the Night Walk
The Light the Night Walk, a fundraising event for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. starts at 5 p.m. on Oct. 25 at the Oregon Convention Center.
The LLS’s Light the Night Walk honors survivors and patients but it’s also a chance for anyone whose life has ever been touched by blood cancer to share their story.
Directly before the walk, a remembrance ceremony will take place to remember all of the loved ones who have been lost to cancer and pay tribute to their lives and legacies. Once the walk starts, lanterns will be held high in the air as supporters march down the Portland Waterfront. Entertainment, food and beverages will be provided throughout the 1.75-mile non-competitive walk.
For more information, or to register, visit the walk online at www.lightthenight.org/oswim, call 971-230-2291 or visit the group’s Facebook page.
Find more events in the Portland and Seattle areas on The Skanner News Community Calendar
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CASH DWIGHTMARE
Former Manchester United star Dwight Yorke facing bankruptcy as company assets dwindle to £2
It is a far cry from the ex-footballer's glittering 20-year career during which he helped the Red Devils to the treble and earned millions of pounds
Michael Hamilton
Updated: 3 Jul 2017, 4:39
FORMER Man Utd star Dwight Yorke faces a bankruptcy hearing tomorrow after his company’s assets dwindled to £2.
The 45-year-old, dad to Katie Price’s son Harvey, has a case listed at the High Court.
Ex-Man Utd star Dwight Yorke faces a bankruptcy hearingCredit: Getty Images
The hearing is one of 13 to be held at the Rolls Building, which handles voluntary bankruptcy applications and creditors’ demands.
It also deals with companies being struck off, although the former striker is named in person on the court list.
No details are given as to who is bringing the case.
A source said: “When you think of how successful Dwight was as a player, it is hard to believe it has come to this.”
Yorke's career spanned 20 years where he won plenty of silverwareCredit: Reuters
It is a far cry from Yorke’s glittering 20-year football career during which he helped United to the treble in 1999 and earned millions of pounds.
Yorke, who retired in 2009, set up his company Dwight Yorke Promotions in 1997.
Its latest records, from September 2015, show its held assets of £6,094, down 73 per cent on the previous year.
But the company owed £6,092 in bank overdraft fees and long-term loans, meaning it had net assets of just £2.
An application for it to be struck off was lodged at Companies House last month.
Land Registry records also show a string of charges against Yorke’s £3million home in Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
The source added: “Life has not been so easy off the pitch.
The 45-year-old dated Katie Price and is father to her son HarveyCredit: Getty Images
“His company has not done very well recently so the hearing could be to do with the company and not just his personal finances.”
Yorke, who also played for Aston Villa, Blackburn and Sunderland, has worked as a TV pundit since retiring.
His spokesman denied he faced a bankruptcy hearing but declined to say what the High Court case was about.
Dwight Yorke
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Smart Homes: the future of living?
To mark the start of Smart Home Week, which runs 21st May, to 27th May, supported by leading brands including, Amazon, Philips Hue, Ring, Samsung SmartThings, tado°, Yale and BSI, the first Smart Home Week forum took place on 3rd May. The event brought together key figures from the smart home world to discuss market predictions, challenges and consumer attitudes towards smart home technology
By Charles Arthur
When it’s time to enjoy a movie in your home, how much effort does it take to get everything set up just right so that you can enjoy a movie and relax? For Fabrice Rousseau, it just takes one phrase: “Alexa, it’s movie time.” Alexa kicks off a routine that turns the lights off in the kitchen, dims the lights in the living room, turns on the TV and nudges the thermostat up slightly.
Rousseau works at Amazon as the general manager of Alexa Skills—the team that helps smart home manufacturers integrate their devices with Alexa to enable seamless voice control. Rousseau believes this is just the beginning. “The future is that people will be able to connect more and more devices to Alexa, and to control them in a way that feels natural and is customised to their usages and needs” he says.
Certainly, more and more of us are living in homes that a decade ago would certainly have been described as “smart”. Our TVs connect to the internet (66% of the UK’s 28 million residential households have at least one), our “smart” thermostats (12%) can be controlled while we’re away, our smart lights (10%) can be programmed to dim or brighten or change colour, and increasingly we are buying “smart speakers” such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod which can play music and run kitchen timers and even order services purely through voice control.
Duncan Chamberlain, UK and Ireland sales director for smart thermostat maker tado°, says the definition of a “smart home” is one which has smart products to improve your life. “We shouldn’t talk about a smart home; it’s not an entertainment product. It’s products, plural, that improve or enhance your life – that’s how to think about it.”
In fact, although a new survey by OnePoll for the Smart Home Forum found that 21% of people thought that homes of the future would have robot servants, it’s more likely that the house itself will become the robot. After all, a robot servant would take ages going around turning off lights and tweaking the thermostat for movie time; if the house itself can do the job, it’s a lot faster.
And we’re getting used to the idea. The OnePoll survey found that 75% had heard of a smart home, with recognition highest among the over-55s at 78%, and lowest among those aged 18-24 (at 57%). The number of people with a “smart device” in the home has rocketed to 43%, up from 27% in 2017.
A study by Futuresource published in May 2018 found that “smart speakers” such as Amazon’s Echo or Dot, Google Home devices or Apple’s HomePod, are the most-adopted smart home devices, followed closely by smart thermostats, and then security (such as “smart locks” and video monitoring), smart lights and smoke detectors. Notably, people liked smart speakers because they were “entertaining, knowledgeable, helpful, creative, efficient and timesaving”.
Two themes emerge from the survey: people are eager either for convenience, or reassurance about security. Sometimes, both come together, in products such as video doorbells and security cameras by home security company Ring, recently acquired by Amazon, or Yale’s new Smart Locks, which since October 2017 have come fitted as standard on all new front doors provided by home improvement company Everest.
Smart locks are a fast-growing segment of the market, as people of different ages grapple with a variety of new requirements. Home deliveries which arrive unpredictably – and for which you might not be at home – require the ability both to check who is there, and possibly to open the door (if you trust them), or at least have a conversation. While video intercoms have been around for some years, the ability to control your door and view video over the internet hasn’t – and nor has the ability to unlock the door remotely, or provide a passcode that will let someone (such as a sanctioned meter reader) in. When they’re inside, of course, you might want a video monitor that will check they go where they say: nothing deters thieves more thoroughly than knowing they’re in view.
“We’ve always been about security and standards, but this is about lifestyle, so that it becomes seamlessly part of your life,” says Nigel Fisher, managing director of Yale UK. “Hotels all have card access – you don’t use keys. Why wouldn’t that be part of the future for our homes?” Similarly, the home security company Ring, makes a point of describing itself as on a mission to reduce “neighbourhood crime”.
Abbie Byron is the director of global partner marketing at Samsung SmartThings. SmartThings is the ‘brain’ behind the smart home, connecting a wide range of smart devices to make them work together seamlessly. Abbie recalls a recent burglary in her neighbourhood that demonstrates the positive impact smart technology can bring: “it was all caught on Ring. The footage went to the police, it was on the news – within 12 hours they had caught them.”
Equally, though, those with elderly relatives can get peace of mind by knowing who has come to their door, and who has been let in – or again, to let them in as required. Bas van Bergen, Ring’s commercial director in Europe, says: “we see security as the main driver. People get a video doorbell, and often they show their relatives; they then get peace of mind to be confident when an elderly relative is at home, because they can see and speak to whoever is at the door for them.”
The help can even extend to yourself. Dave Herbert, business development director for Yale recalls one case of a person who was having a heart attack in their house; they were alone and the front door was, of course, locked. He was able to call the emergency services – but also unlock the door, (thanks to his smart lock being connected to the Samsung SmartThings ecosystem), so they didn’t have to break it down. “People are thinking about security now where they didn’t before – about whether there’s an alarm and sensors in their home,” he says. “But that can bring benefits to the wider community.”
Claudia Fellerman, who works at Ring’s European communications division, says the company does work with police forces: “it’s about looking after your community. If someone’s suspiciously trying your car door, and maybe your car is locked, you can share your Ring footage to warn the other people in your street. “
Sometimes though the improvements have a subtle health benefit. George Yianni, head of technology at Philips Hue, which makes smart lights, says: “the fact of being under artificial light affects us. You can help people concentrate by having the correct shade of light. We are managing to get more awareness of this. It’s well known in the Nordic countries that you don’t get the right amount of blue light in the day during winter. But we can do this with smart products, in a way we couldn’t before.” (The blue light affects the pineal gland, increasing alertness.) Abbie Byron, points out the usefulness in the new ranges of smart bulbs which can display any colour at any brightness. “You can put the lights on ‘homework level’ – a bit brighter and very slightly more blue,” she explains. But then in the evening, you program the lights to lose the blue tint and shift to a yellower tone: this is both relaxing and helps you sleep.
“What’s important is that if they do the job properly, they should be invisible,” says Yianni, head of technology at Philips Hue, which makes smart lights. “It’s not about controlling things, it’s about making your home more beautiful.”
Furthermore, you don’t always have to make your home temporarily ugly to make it beautiful in that way. Smart lights can be controlled from your phone, from switches that you stick onto walls or tables, or even with your voice.
Even so, there are still hurdles for smart device vendors to overcome. One is that people are wary: when asked if they trust smart home technology, 33% said no, and only 23% said yes. (The rest were uncertain.) At the same time, 33% think the rise of smart home tech is positive, against only 20% saying it’s negative.
Some manufacturers thus look forward to a “kitemark” to certify that Internet of Things (IoT) devices meet at least minimum security and update standards. BSI is working closely with manufacturers, such as Yale to achieve kitemark status. David Mudd, the business development director for IoT at the British Standards Institute, says the government is also working on a code of practice for IoT manufacturers, which would include best practice guides on passwords. “That’s why it’s so important to have certification programs such as ‘Works With Alexa’ [for Amazon’s system],” says Byron. “It tells consumers that these devices are put through rigorous and stringent security standards, using those to build the education that it’s safe and secure.”
In many cases, vendors say, what really convinces people is the experience of using such systems. Retail outlets can be an unsatisfying experience there, because they are so unlike homes; it’s hard to get the idea of what smart lighting will look like in your home, though Hue’s Yianni reports some success using virtual reality headsets to simulate the effects.
But stays away from home, particularly in AirBnB outlets, can offer people the best chance to immerse themselves in a “smart home” without having to take the plunge immediately themselves. “It’s about seeing it being used in other houses,” says Yianni. “Then it becomes compelling rather than just intriguing. That will cause it to snowball.”
People are optimistic about the future: they see homes that are fully voice activated, have robot servants and eye sensors, and which learn your habits, likes and dislikes. But they think it’s some distance off: to the question of when the majority of the UK’s 28.1 million residential properties will be “smart”, 50% put the date at least ten years away.
Van Bergen points out that as mobile data costs fall, as connectivity outside the home improves, and as voice assistants become available in cars or in the office as well, it becomes simpler to monitor or control what our home is doing. Turn on the dishwasher, turn off the lights, turn up the heating: you can do it on your commute or in the office. And soon we’ll take it completely for granted.
“Twenty years ago, you didn’t know who was calling you on the phone,” says Van Bergen. “In twenty years from now, you’ll be surprised if someone doesn’t know exactly who’s at their doorstep.” Welcome to the smart home.
For more information on Smart Home Week, or to sign up for the latest updates, head to www.smarthomeweek.co.uk. Alternatively, check out @SmartHomeWeek on Twitter, and Facebook /SmartHomeWeek.
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Data-sharing initiative will mean fewer consumers taking off-the-peg financial products says the bank’s Nick Harrison
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Sri Lanka’s whalewatching season starts in November
by admin-unique | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
The whale watching season in Sri Lanka is fast approaching – commencing November and going on until the end of April (outside of this time, the seas are too rough).
The boats leave Mirissa on the southern Sri Lankan coast at approx. 7am and will be out for between 3 and 5hrs (depending on sightings and sea conditions). It is pretty much guaranteed that you would see Blue Whales, but you would be likely to see Spinner Dolphins too and if you are lucky, a Sperm Whale. Your first sighting of a Blue Whale is breath-taking – the magnificent creature can be up to 100ft (30m) (of which you will see a third) long and weigh 200 tons, living between 80-90yrs. Before diving, the whales emit a single spout of up to 30ft (9m) high, and their tail (fluke) will then appear out of the water. Each dive will last about 10mins and the whales will dive to depths over 100m eating approx. 3.5 tons (600 kgs) of krill in a single day. That’s a whole lot of krill!
Whale watching is included in our 15 Day Sri Lanka Itinerary for Groups or can easily be included in a Tailor-made Sri Lankan Tour!
The whale watching season in Sri Lanka is fast approaching - commencing November and going on until the end of April (outside of this time, the seas are too rough).
The boats leave Mirissa on the southern Sri Lankan coast at approx. 7am and will be out for between 3 and 5hrs (depending on sightings and sea conditions). It is pretty much guaranteed that you would see Blue Whales, but you would be likely to see Spinner Dolphins too and if you are lucky, a Sperm Whale. Your first sighting of a Blue Whale is breath-taking - the magnificent creature can be up to 100ft (30m) (of which you will see a third) long and weigh 200 tons, living between 80-90yrs. Before diving, the whales emit a single spout of up to 30ft (9m) high, and their tail (fluke) will then appear out of the water. Each dive will last about 10mins and the whales will dive to depths over 100m eating approx. 3.5 tons (600 kgs) of krill in a single day. That’s a whole lot of krill!
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Us Troop Withdrawal from Northern Syria
– in the House of Commons at 12:41 pm on 8th October 2019.
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Tobias Ellwood Conservative, Bournemouth East 12:41 pm, 8th October 2019
(Urgent Question): To ask the Minister for the Middle East and North Africa if he will make a statement on the US troop withdrawal from northern Syria.
(Citation: HC Deb, 8 October 2019, c1633)
Andrew Murrison Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development)
We are consulting the US on its response to the proposed Turkish military action in north-east Syria. The Foreign and Defence Secretaries both spoke to their US counterparts yesterday. The US position, including any movement of US troops, is of course a matter for the US Government. However, the US Department of Defence said in a statement yesterday that the US does not endorse a Turkish operation in north-east Syria. We have been consistently clear with Turkey that unilateral military action must be avoided, as it would destabilise the region and threaten efforts to secure the lasting defeat of Daesh. As members of the global coalition, our focus remains on securing the enduring defeat of Daesh. We will continue to work with the US and other international partners to that end.
Tobias Ellwood Conservative, Bournemouth East
I first declare an interest: I am a dual-US national.
The US is our most trusted and valued ally. We share the same vision in wanting to shape the world around us to defend international standards and values. It is why we stepped forward in the first place to form the international coalition to defeat Daesh, to which the Minister referred. That bond—that friendship, that trust—means that we have a privileged relationship with the US that enables us to be honest and speak out if there are differences of opinion. Today is one such case.
The President’s decision to remove US troops from northern Syria goes against official and congressional advice and will leave the Syrian Democratic Forces exposed to the expected Turkish offensive to establish a 30-km safe zone in northern Syria. These are the same Kurdish forces who worked with us to defeat Daesh. Essentially, they were our boots on the ground. Now it seems we are turning our backs on them. If this goes ahead, it will be no orderly handover. The Kurds will fight to defend their land. If the zone is secured, Turkey intends then to move over 3 million refugees who are currently in Turkey into the zone, fundamentally altering the ethnic makeup of the region.
If anything must be learned from previous interventions, it is that we do not abandon the very people who stepped forward to help before the job is done. General Petraeus has said that it is no longer good enough to defeat the enemy; we have to enable the local. We need to learn from Iraq in 2003, Afghanistan—Charlie Wilson’s war and after 9/11—and Libya. If we create a vacuum, it is quickly filled by stakeholders who pursue a very different agenda.
Further to the Minister’s or the Secretary of State’s conversations, will the Prime Minister be speaking to the President on this matter? Has the Minister or the Foreign Secretary spoken to our coalition allies about this fundamental change in US foreign policy? The Minister says that the placement of US troops is a matter for that country, but the US is part of an international coalition. We will only defeat the challenges around the world if we work and stick together. What impact will this decision have, therefore, on our efforts—Department for International Development efforts—to help provide aid to this war-torn country?
The Minister talks about discouraging Turkey from crossing the border in some form of invasion and creating that safe zone. What actions will the international community, or indeed Britain, take if such an action does, in fact, take place?
More generally, does the Minister acknowledge that the character of conflict has changed? These are not soldiers in uniform, but radicalised extremists committed to pursuing their jihadist agenda. Many of these fighters come from across Europe, including from the UK. Simply denying dual nationals the ability to return to the UK is not enough to keep our nation safe. Does the Minister therefore agree that the international community must design a better long-term legal solution to this challenge, which will not go away?
Neither the SDF nor Turkey has the desire to properly process the number of detainees and foreign fighters. If Turkey invades, the SDF will fight back, and these camps, such as that at al-Hawl, will get caught in the middle, with thousands deliberately released or able to escape. We will then see the emergence of Daesh 2.0.
We must have the strength and resolve to ask our closest ally to reconsider. Let us also exhibit our own international leadership by energising the same international community that so swiftly came together to defeat Daesh militarily and that now needs to stay the course to stabilise the region we helped to liberate. Otherwise, why did we step forward in the first place? Our world is getting more dangerous, and the threats more complex. The international community must stick together.
Several hon. Members:
John Bercow Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion Committee
Order. The right hon. Gentleman speaks with very considerable authority on these matters, and that was part of the rationale for granting him his urgent question. He rather gently pointed out to me that it was his first urgent question, so I granted him some latitude, because I think the House wanted to hear from him, but other colleagues cannot expect comparable latitude. Two minutes does not mean four minutes.
Nevertheless, Mr Speaker, I think the eloquence of my right hon. Friend probably justified the time he took.
I will try to address some of the points my right hon. Friend made. I absolutely agree with him about this being primarily an issue about Daesh. To answer his question about foreign fighters and others, my worry would be that this will divert the SDF from its activities against Daesh in the Euphrates valley—absolutely, 100%.
My right hon. Friend will understand that we are talking to all our interlocutors at the moment. This situation is very kinetic and very fast-changing, and we of course need to ensure that, so far as we can, we influence our partners in the way that he has just described.
As I understand it, the US withdrawal, if it happens, will be fairly small-scale. It will involve a small number of troops in the immediate vicinity of the border. That is our understanding. We do not support any incursion by Turkey into north-west Syria.
My right hon. Friend will know from previous outings at the Dispatch Box of the extent, breadth and depth of support for the crisis in Syria. We are among the top few in terms of our financial contributions to that awful humanitarian disaster. I hope that that begins to address some of the points he raised.
Emily Thornberry Shadow Foreign Secretary
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I thank Mr Ellwood, along with all those other Members who sought to pursue this issue today, including my hon. Friend Lloyd Russell-Moyle.
The number of UQ applications you had on this issue today reflects the range of concern and, indeed, anger across the House about the Trump Administration’s decision to open the door to a Turkish invasion of northern Syria and to the subjugation of the Kurdish people in Rojava— the very people who led the fight against Daesh and who lost 11,000 brave fighters in the process. Donald Trump is not just abandoning those Kurdish allies; he is betraying their sacrifice. Of all the great and unmatched ways in which he has shamed his office over the last three years, this is one of the very worst.
However, simple expressions of anger will not help the Kurdish people now, so I have four specific questions for the Minister. First, in answer to critics of the decision, Donald Trump said yesterday:
“The UK was very thrilled at this decision …
many people agree with it very strongly.”
Will the Minister make it clear today that that is a lie? Can he explain what, if anything, the Foreign Secretary said yesterday to Mike Pompeo that might have given Donald Trump that impression?
Secondly, will the Minister agree to table emergency resolutions at this afternoon’s UN Security Council meeting and tomorrow’s North Atlantic Council meeting prohibiting Turkey from taking any action on the ground or by air to increase its military incursions into northern Syria? Will he redouble our efforts through those bodies to reach a genuine peace settlement, a political solution and the negotiated withdrawal of all foreign forces?
Thirdly, will the Minister also work through the UN Security Council and the High Commissioner for Refugees to make it clear to Turkey that it must not use the American withdrawal as a green light to forcibly resettle non-Kurdish Syrian refugees in the Rojava region in an effort to change its ethnic composition?
Finally, will the Minister insist, as a matter of urgency, that Kurdish representatives are finally invited to join the Syrian committee on constitutional reform so that they are able to stand up for their own rights?
An old rule of middle east conflict is that, one way or another, the Kurds will always get sold out. Donald Trump may be following that rule in the most brutal of fashions, but we must unite today, both here and at the United Nations, and say that this time we will not let it happen.
I thank the right hon. Lady for her questions. As for the tweet, I have no idea where that came from. It certainly is not based on the conversation that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary had with Secretary Pompeo last night. Let me be quite clear that we would be opposed to any incursion by Turkey into Syria. The right hon. Lady refers to what is technically called refoulement, which is proscribed under international law, and we would most certainly be against any attempt by any state to engage in social engineering, ethnic cleansing or demographic change.
The right hon. Lady referred to the constitutional committee, and she will be aware that Geir Pedersen led on that at the UN General Assembly and that it will be stood up on 30 October in Geneva. It will be three pillared, with the pillars being the opposition, the regime and independence. Our position would be that all citizens in Syria should be fully represented. There is only one way of making progress in Syria, and that is through an inclusive political process.
Iain Duncan Smith Conservative, Chingford and Woodford Green
I rise to support the urgent question of my right hon. Friend Mr Ellwood. This is surely an issue on which we should be, in many senses, bolder and more public about our disagreement. In America, as the Minister will know, General Petraeus has made it absolutely clear that this is the wrong move and the Republicans themselves in Congress are absolutely opposed to it, so this is not an issue about Trump versus just the usual political sources. It is a real problem that we could abandon a key ally in the destruction of the caliphate and then release them to the mercies of Turkey. Can we make it clear, publicly, that we disapprove of this—not just to the Americans but, more importantly, to the Turks? Will we also make it clear that if the Turks do carry out their threat, we would consider it to be an aggressive act against ourselves as much as we would one against the Kurds?
I have said in plain terms that we would resist any incursion into Syria, and the reason for that—well, there are many reasons for it—is that it will divert attention away from the principal threat to this country in relation to this conflict, which is Daesh. It would potentially divert efforts by the SDF from its operations along the Euphrates valley to the north-west of the country. That would not be helpful and would destabilise the situation, and I think that that is probably behind a lot of concern that has been expressed in Washington. We will continue to work with our allies to push that agenda, because it is right, and if we are going to restore any sort of equanimity in Syria, we need to be united in this particular fight.
Stephen Gethins Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
I thank Mr Ellwood for securing this question and for his comments, and I thank other colleagues for theirs. The SDF has been critical in the defeat of the murderous death cult Daesh. One of my concerns relates to what this move says about our future commitment to allies and about UK foreign policy when we are seeking those boots on the ground. President Trump’s policy is ill-thought-out, with one Pentagon official describing it as a blatant betrayal. What does this mean for UK forces still on the ground? Will he comment on reports that the SDF was compelled to demolish defensive fortifications? Finally, what discussions is he having with his Turkish counterparts, particularly on the humanitarian impact? We know from Save the Children that thousands of children and other refugees need access to food and medicine, so what is he doing to secure that? Is now the time to repatriate the innocent British children who have been stuck in Syria?
The US has to answer for itself. I cannot answer for the US or for President Trump—
Give it a go.
The right hon. Lady tempts me, but I am going to resist.
The US, I believe, is talking about seeking to redeploy 50 servicemen at the moment. I have no information on forts, so I cannot answer that question. As for boots on the ground, we need to be careful. The UK does not have regular boots on the ground in Syria; we do not do that. The hon. Gentleman was right to raise international development and Turkey, and he will be aware that we have been a major donor to this particular crisis through the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey. We are also considering at the moment what our response to FRiT 2 will mean, particularly in the context of our imminent departure from the European Union.
Andrew Mitchell Conservative, Sutton Coldfield
My right hon. Friends and the right hon. Lady spoke for the entire House on the important issue raised in this urgent question. Does the Minister understand that Britain must take responsibility for its own nationals and not use some device to evade that responsibility, nor must we leave them swilling around in ungoverned space where they can do ill in countries less well governed than this, but where they are also a danger to the people in this country? Does he understand that we may well be talking about approximately 40 people, of whom maybe as many as 30 are children? Will he raise this matter immediately with the Foreign Secretary and with his colleagues in Government to see whether we can get a change of policy and an urgent resolution of that particular issue?
My right hon. Friend is obviously an expert in such matters. There are two categories of individual: those in detention camps and those in al-Hawl, who are, in the main, the families of detainees. It is important that justice is served as close as possible to any alleged crime, and we are taking that forward with those in the region. As for the minors, it is the Government’s intent that innocents should be protected at all times. He will appreciate the difficulties that that poses in the context of Syria, but we are quite clear that minors need to be handled properly and humanely, and that will be our intent.
Ann Clwyd Labour, Cynon Valley
I am afraid that the Kurds are being stabbed in the back once again, as they have been so many times in the past. We have a responsibility, and we should stand up. We need to know what is going on day by day. We cannot wait for the Queen’s Speech and all that; we need to know what is happening today and what the Minister will be doing today. Otherwise, the Kurds are going to be left to die, as they have been so often in the past.
I understand the right hon. Lady’s frustration. We must be clear that we cannot act alone and that we have to act with our partners. That is the reality. The Kurds are not being stabbed in the back by the United Kingdom, but US actions are obviously a matter for the US. I hope that my remarks have provided my understanding of the extent and scope of what is in the President’s head, so far as I can, and it seems that some of the more exaggerated claims have probably been overdone. However, the right hon. Lady is right that the situation is highly kinetic and that things change from moment to moment. If things do change further, I rather suspect that I will be back in his place before too long.
Thomas Tugendhat Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee
The Minister will be aware that one principle of military action is the need for surprise, but we normally try to surprise the enemy, not our friends. Here we find ourselves surprised by the actions of our most important ally, and our allies on the ground have been surprised by the possibility that they may find their homes under serious threat from another of our important military allies—Turkey. Will the Minister please assure me that our other allies in the region are being assured that the UK will not make a pattern of being a fair-weather friend but will commit to our allies seriously and properly?
The only point I would make about surprise is that President Erdoğan has, of course, threatened this on a number of occasions, and he has previous in relation to Afrin. This has not come out of the blue, but I agree that we need to ensure that we do everything we can to understand our colleagues’ thinking on these matters so that we can act in a relatively joined up way, if possible.
Stephen Twigg Chair, International Development Committee
As ever, it is innocent civilians who will suffer the consequences of the humanitarian disaster that will follow this decision. May I press the Minister to respond to the question of my right hon. Friend Emily Thornberry? It really is time for us to table this at the United Nations Security Council.
I cannot give the hon. Gentleman that commitment at the Dispatch Box, but the point has been well made and will be considered. I am sure what he suggests has merit, but we will have to examine it fully.
Mary Robinson Conservative, Cheadle
There have been ongoing concerns about the safety and welfare of Syrian refugees on or near the Turkish border. There is the prospect of a safe zone being set up, but how can the Minister guarantee that these people will be safe? There are fears about forcible repatriation or relocation from Turkey into Syria, which will be challenged. What representations are being made on their behalf?
My hon. Friend refers to the forcible repatriation of refugees, and clearly we would strongly oppose such a thing. I made it very clear to Emily Thornberry that we would oppose anything that looks like ethnic cleansing or demographic change. All those things are absolutely not appropriate, and we will resist them.
My hon. Friend will be aware of our effort in support of Turkey through the FRiT process, which will endure on our departure from the European Union. Turkey has done a good job in supporting refugees on its territory, and we will continue to support it in doing that. Turkey has a strong tradition of humanitarian assistance and, so far, it has acted well for refugees, and we want to encourage it in that process.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle Labour/Co-operative, Brighton, Kemptown
I am chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on north-eastern Syria, and we were in al-Hawl a month ago. I do not want to disagree with the Minister, but this is not primarily an issue of defeating ISIS; it is also about defending an area that has promoted democracy and gender equality, and that has been an ally, too. Will we now suspend the sharing of security and intelligence information with Turkey so that it cannot use that information against one of our allies? Will we bolster support for the SDF to ensure it has the resources it needs? And will we go to NATO to ensure that Turkey cannot invoke article 5 if there is a backlash?
I do not think we are into article 5 territory. We continue to support the SDF and the coalition. The principal intent here is the fight against Daesh, which is a clear and present danger that threatens us all. We will do everything in our power to ensure that fight continues and is unaffected by this latest news. It is important that we keep our eye on the ball in that respect. As the hon. Gentleman may be aware, there is a lot of ongoing work against Daesh along the Euphrates valley, and it is important that that work continues. This latest news risks destabilising that work.
Alistair Burt Independent, North East Bedfordshire
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend Mr Ellwood for raising this question.
Security depends on stability and consistency, and the decision taken by President Trump does not help that. It is a reminder, if any is needed, of the dangers of the United Kingdom pivoting too close to United States foreign policy at a time of inconsistency, rather than staying close to our European allies.
May I ask for further reassurance on the global coalition against Daesh? The communications cell, which does the vital work of dealing with the ideology, is based in the United Kingdom. Anything that might give Daesh supporters a sense that the United States is weakening in its commitment against Daesh could be used against the coalition and will materially affect those who are carrying on the vital communications work here. Can the Minister assure me that the United States realises that that coalition work is essential and that it will remain committed to it, no matter what its decision in this case may be?
My right hon. Friend’s point is well made. I cannot give him that assurance because I am not the US, but I am sure his point will have been heard by our interlocutors. He refers to our allies in the coalition and elsewhere, and he will be aware that we are working very closely with our E3 partners—probably more closely than we have for some considerable time. Some might think that is something of a paradox, given our imminent departure from the European Union, but it remains true nevertheless. Particularly in the region for which I have geographic responsibility, I have been struck by our close working relationship with France and Germany.
Alison McGovern Chair, Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Syrian civilians have suffered again and again in this conflict. Further to the question asked by my hon. Friend Stephen Twigg, may I ask the Minister what we will do? Will we review all the Government’s policies at this crucial point to see whether we can do a little more to accept more refugees from the region?
I have alluded to our support for the humanitarian situation. I suspect I will be quizzed on this further when I appear before the Select Committee on International Development in a few minutes’ time. I am proud of the contribution made by the British people. We are in the top few countries in our support for the humanitarian situation in Syria.
I am also proud that, by 2020, we will have resettled 20,000 Syrians, including in my constituency. That is a sign of the generosity and big heart of the British people. It is a fair contribution, and it is an indication of the UK punching above its weight on international development.
Crispin Blunt Conservative, Reigate
I was in north-east Syria just three weeks ago with Lloyd Russell-Moyle and my hon. Friend Adam Holloway and, at least then, it would have come as news to the leaders in the region that there was any engagement on the justice measures apparently being taken forward on the ground.
I am sure the Minister understands the scale of Kurdish resentment following the operation against Afrin, and therefore the scale of Kurdish resistance that there would be if there were a Turkish incursion. He has just said that we would resist any incursion into Syria and that we support the SDF and the coalition. What will we actually do to deter Turkey from making the profound mistake of this planned intervention in north-east Syria?
Turkey is a major NATO ally, and it is a good friend of this country. We have some leverage with Turkey, as a friend and as a partner, and my hon. Friend will understand that this is currently in the diplomatic space. He is tempting me to make all sorts of contingency preparations, which I certainly will not do at the Dispatch Box. This is clearly a dynamic situation, and we will have to respond to whatever happens, but our message to Turkey is, “Please don’t do this. It will deflect attention from what really matters here: first, defeating Daesh, and secondly, restoring this poor, benighted country to some sort of equanimity.”
Joanna Cherry Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice and Home Affairs), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Justice), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Home Affairs)
The Kurdish diaspora has a sizeable presence in Scotland, with a community centre at Dumbryden in my constituency. I know they would wish me to remind the UK Government of the debt we all owe the Kurds in relation to defeating Daesh, so can the Minister confirm that the United Kingdom Government recognise that they have a moral obligation to help the Kurds, rather than just leaving them to their fate?
Of course, the SDF is part of the coalition against Daesh. I admire our Kurdish friends and partners enormously, and our posture has not changed at all. We are talking here about the possibility of Turkey moving into north-west Syria—we do not know how far that incursion is going to be—and the fact that the US has said that in those circumstances it would withdraw 50 of its people from the immediate area. So we need a sense of proportion on this, but of course we have to react to circumstances.
Julian Lewis Chair, Defence Committee
I am sorry to disagree with my friend the Minister, but saying, “Oh well, it is only a withdrawal of 50 people” is like saying, “Oh, well, it is only the withdrawal of HMS Endurance before the invasion of the Falkland Islands.” Is it not a fact that if the green light is given to Turkey, under its Islamist regime, to attack our allies, it will be an act of treachery and betrayal not dissimilar to what happened in 1944 when Stalin basically gave the green light to Hitler to crush the Warsaw uprising?
I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that. I disagree with his analogies, although we will be able to discuss that in some depth, perhaps when we have more time. The Government have been clear where we are on this: we would oppose any incursion by our good friend and NATO ally Turkey into Syria. He is tempting me to speculate on what we might do in the event that this happens. A lot of his remarks are probably better addressed to the US, and no doubt the US, which I am sure listens carefully to him, will have heard his remarks.
Jamie Stone Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Scotland), Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Armed Forces), Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Defence)
Mr Ellwood and others have rightly spoken about getting international co-operation on persuading President Trump of the error of his ways. We have friends in the US; we know that General Petraeus and elements of the Republican party disapprove of Trump’s activities. Could we not use a back-door approach, via our friends and parking our tanks in his back yard, to get the President to change his mind? With an eye on the next election, that might work.
I am not sure which election the hon. Gentleman is referring to, but it certainly would not be the UK Government’s job to interfere in US elections, presidential or otherwise. He has rightly referred to opposition to this particular thing in Washington, and I am sure that, as his voice is no doubt influential on the Hill, he will be listened to carefully.
Adam Holloway Conservative, Gravesham
When Lloyd Russell-Moyle, my hon. Friend Crispin Blunt and I were on the ground in Syria three weeks ago, the SDF was clear in its appreciation for the help of coalition countries, including the UK and US. Given the resurgence of ISIS, particularly around Deir ez-Zor, and the fact that after nightfall great swathes of north-east Syria are no-go areas for the SDF, will the Minister confirm that we will redouble our efforts in supporting the Syrian Kurds?
We do support the SDF, which is an important part of the coalition—it is clearly central to it. As I said in my earlier remarks, the worry is that this recent news, if it is carried forward, will detract attention from Daesh along the Euphrates river. That would be extremely bad for the stability of Syria and for the rest of us.
Thangam Debbonaire Opposition Whip (Commons)
The Minister rightly says he is proud of DFID’s support in the region and he rightly speaks of the vulnerable persons resettlement scheme, but that is 20,000 people from Syria over the course of five years, and we have only one year’s commitment from the Government so far about what is going to happen after the end of that scheme next year. With 12 million displaced people from the Syrian war so far, and the possibility of refoulement and new refugees from this action ahead of us, will he not now consider asking his Government to redouble efforts and increase the number of people coming to this country for resettlement? Why should we not want to be the best country in the world for welcoming refugees, and allow them to come through safe and legal routes?
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that. She talks about being the best, but I think we probably are that. If we look at the sum total of our contribution to this, we see that it is extraordinary, and I am really proud of it. I am proud of it on behalf of my constituents and hers, because they are the ones who ultimately provide this contribution—she and I do not. If she looks at the humanitarian package in Syria objectively—I am more than happy to sit down to discuss it with her—she will share my view that we are doing extremely well, and we will continue to do so.
Bob Seely Conservative, Isle of Wight
I wish to declare an interest: I have worked alongside the peshmerga—men and women—in northern Iraq, and I consider them to be impressive soldiers and incredibly generous hosts. My question to the Minister is: if this is just about a redeployment of 50 servicemen, is he saying that this crisis is overblown? It seems to me—I am not trying to trap him into a trick question—that if the Turkish army and the Syrian Kurds are at each other’s throats at any point along their extensive border, it is a potentially extraordinary state of affairs both in respect of ISIS soldiers, and the stability and humanitarian aspects of this problem.
Yes, we are obviously responding to events and what we are being told, but the information available to us is that this is envisaged as being relatively modest. I have to say to my hon. Friend, whose experience in these matters is broad and deep, that he will know that the matter is extremely kinetic and may very well change. However, we have to be consistent; we oppose any move into Syrian territory by Turkey—that is the wrong thing to do. I would probably leave it at that, but obviously this matter is evolving and we are going to have to respond as we find the situation at the time.
Mike Gapes Independent, Ilford South
The Turkish President has recently improved his relations with Putin, and the Russians and the Iranians who are fighting on the side of Assad will also have views and interests in respect of what is happening. Is not the danger of what President Trump has done that it reduces the influence of other forces in the region and means that the autocrats and demagogues are dominant in this conflict?
We want to make sure that autocrats and demagogues are not dominant in this conflict. The hon. Gentleman talks as though action has been taken, but my understanding is that that is not the case yet, so we are talking about what might happen. What we have done is say that we do not believe that what has been discussed is the right way forward. We believe we have to ensure that Turkey does not go ahead with this, as it would be unhelpful. If it does not go ahead with it, presumably the US will not carry out the action that has been talked about and which the President has been tweeting about.
Richard Drax Conservative, South Dorset
The only way to stand firm against this recent scourge that is Daesh, ISIS, call it what you will is by doing just that—standing firm. As a former soldier, I must say that to withdraw now seems like an act of betrayal to the Kurds, who are brave allies and whom I do not want to see on our TV screens fighting for their lives in the days to come. Will the Minister assure me that if there are any British soldiers on the ground, they will not get caught up in the fighting—if there is some—between the Kurds and the Turks?
I think I can give that reassurance. As I said in response to an earlier question, we do not have boots on the ground. Let me be clear: that means we do not have combat soldiers on the ground. I am grateful for the opportunity that my hon. Friend has given me to clarify that point. We have others, as part of the coalition, who engage, for example, in training, and across the middle east we have UK servicemen engaged in the fight against Daesh. That will continue. Our No.1 imperative is the defeat of Daesh, and we have to celebrate the fact that the coalition has been very successful against Daesh in achieving a substantial degradation in that malign organisation. That will continue.
For the benefit of those observing our proceedings, let me explain that I now call the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, otherwise known as President Moon.
Madeleine Moon Chair, Defence Sub-Committee
I thank the Minister for his statement, which has been very clear. He said that the issue has now moved into diplomatic discussions; this weekend, and over the next few days, it will also be moving into parliamentary discussions, as the NATO Parliament will be meeting here in London. I assure the House that parliamentarians from across NATO—the alliance is not involved in Syria but allies within it are—will be discussing this issue and talking to the Turkish representatives and the American representatives who will be at the conference. Across Parliaments throughout the alliance, discussions such as this one are taking place, and they are so important to the sending of clear, concise messages to the Governments who will be making decisions that will impact on all our countries and on the Turkish and Kurdish communities within them.
I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. She serves with great distinction as chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. No doubt conversations will be had over the next few days and will particularly note Turkey’s status in NATO.
Henry Smith Conservative, Crawley
I, too, have had the privilege of seeing the work of the peshmerga combating Daesh on the frontline—for me, it was in northern Iraq—and also the work of the Kurds supporting internally displaced persons in the region. Will the Minister assure me that, in addition to speaking to officials at the top of the US Administration, our interlocutors will engage with officials in Ankara to say that any Turkish incursion into northern Syria is unacceptable?
Yes, of course. My hon. Friend will be aware, because he knows how these things work, that those conversations happen all the time. There can be no room for confusion in the minds of our Turkish interlocutors as to where we stand on this matter. We clearly have something of a privileged position with our good friends the Turks, given their status as a firm ally of this country and as a member of NATO.
Kate Osamor Labour/Co-operative, Edmonton
Many of the 50,000 Kurds who live in this country live in my constituency, and they are in a state of absolute anguish about what is about to happen to their families in Rojava. Will the Minister of State agree to meet Kurdish representatives from my constituency in the next 24 hours, so that he can hear what they are going through?
The hon. Lady needs to help us to reassure Kurds in this country about the extent of what, as we understand it, is being proposed. This has been threatened before, so I suspect that Kurds will live their lives in a state of constant anxiety, given the very difficult part of the world in which they and their loved ones live. So far as I know, nothing has happened yet, so I do not think we should do anything that would heighten their anxieties. The information we have is that if it happens, Turkey’s incursion into Syria is going to be modest in scope and that the US response to that is going to be similarly modest. Obviously, we have to watch and await events, but I do not think we should do anything that is going to cause Kurds resident in the UK too much anxiety. That would be the wrong thing to do, and I hope the hon. Lady will assist us in making sure that people are given an accurate view of what is going on.
Matthew Offord Conservative, Hendon
How many British-born Daesh supporters does the Minister believe remain in Syria?
I do not know and I am not going to speculate.
Luke Pollard Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Fisheries, Flooding and Water)
There are thousands of Kurds in Plymouth who are equally as concerned as those we have heard about from other Members. They are also concerned about the UK’s role. As well as making it clear that a Turkish invasion is unacceptable, will the Minister specifically look into the military hardware that Turkey will be using, to ensure that no British-built weapons are potentially used in any invasion?
The hon. Gentleman will be aware that this particular matter is the subject of a great deal of work in the Departments of State that have responsibility for this policy area. A great deal of heart searching—if I can put it like that—is going on right now to make sure that what we have done in the past is correct and that what we do is correct going forward. He will also be aware that the basis for what we do in this space is governed very strictly by the EU consolidated criteria. That has to be the fundamental way in which we deal with these matters. Notwithstanding the recent past in this respect—the hon. Gentleman will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade has established a committee of inquiry—we are confident that, fundamentally, our processes are correct and that they comply with the eight or so articles of the EU consolidated criteria.
Bob Blackman Conservative, Harrow East
The clear impression is that our closest ally, the United States, is abandoning an ally, the Kurdish forces, to be attacked by another ally, the Turkish forces. Not only is this a strategic and humanitarian error, but it will send a signal around the world that if people trust the United States or the UK, they might be abandoned. Will the Minister undertake to speak to his opposite number in the United States and impress upon them that this is not only a bad move now but a bad strategic move?
It really is not for me to be an apologist for the US, but my hon. Friend needs to be a little bit careful about conflating the US and the UK in the way he has. That would be unfair. Let us be clear: the focus of what we understand to be happening at the moment is the 110 km stretch of border covered by the previous US-Turkey security mechanism agreement. It is a fairly narrow strip of land. That is not to justify anything that has been said in recent times, but nevertheless I hope that puts it into some sort of perspective. It would be wrong if we gave any message about the UK—I can speak only for the UK—abandoning our partners in the coalition. That is clearly not the case—it is definitely not the case—and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them in the battle against Daesh, which is undiminished.
Kevin Brennan Shadow Minister (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) (Arts and Heritage)
The Minister is assiduous and sincere, but does he understand that hearts sink in all parts of the House when he uses phrases such as any incursion might only be “modest in scope”? Essentially, we will be complicit in the US President’s decision to stab our Kurdish allies in the back. It is not just a moral betrayal but a strategic error to do what the United States is proposing. Do we not need to speak out more strongly at this stage? Otherwise, it will look as if we are complicit.
No. The hon. Gentleman, whom I respect very much, needs to be careful. We are not complicit in any action that the US may or may not take. This is a matter for the US. We have made our position absolutely clear—I do not think I could have been clearer from the Dispatch Box than I have been: we are shoulder to shoulder with the SDF and our coalition partners in the battle against Daesh, which is undiminished.
Jonathan Edwards Shadow PC Spokesperson (Treasury), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Transport), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Foreign Intervention), Shadow PC Spokesperson (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
It seems to me that the British Government have two points of leverage against Turkey: first, the licensing of arms exports to Turkey, and secondly, a review of Turkey’s NATO membership. If there is a ground offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria, will the British Government explore both avenues?
With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think I would put it in the terms in which he put it. That is not where we are at the moment. He invites me to speculate; he would expect me to resist speculation. Clearly, we keep matters under review, but what he has suggested is a very severe penalty, either to threaten or to carry out in respect of Turkey. Let us be clear: Turkey is a long-standing and very close ally of this country. With that comes diplomatic leverage that we can exert, and we will continue to do that with our friends and allies the Turks. We have made clear that we think that any incursion into Syria would be wrong. It would be wrong in principle, and in practice I think it would be disastrous in relation to the fight against Daesh.
Catherine West Labour, Hornsey and Wood Green
Even a small incursion into the region by Turkey could have a detrimental effect on the Kurdish fighters there and for the communities there. What specific recommendations or representations can the Minister make in relation to women? Kurdish women in that area have suffered terribly through the war, including because of sexual violence.
There is some sunshine in this is terrible situation, and that is the establishment of the constitutional committee and the work of the special envoy, Geir Pedersen. It is important that when that committee is set up at the end of this month in Geneva, it includes comprehensive representation. That is clearly an issue in relation to what is currently happening in the Idlib governorate and the north-west of the country. Nevertheless, I agree with the hon. Lady on the importance of the involvement of women; my experience is that when that happens, better outcomes are procured. I hope very much that the committee will include proper representation.
Peter Grant Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Europe), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Exiting the European Union)
It is now just under four years since this House agreed to UK airstrikes in Syria, and it is worth reminding ourselves that, first of all, we were assured that that was part of a strategy that was expected to restore civilian transitional Government to Syria in about six months. The Foreign Secretary who gave that assurance is now Prime Minister, so he is in a position to do something about it, but the success of the airstrikes against an organisation that was accepted to be a grave threat to our lives and to our security could only be achieved because of the involvement of Kurdish soldiers on the ground. Those Kurds have paid a terrible price: around 11,000 of them lost their lives and several times that number were seriously injured. They died not only to protect their territory, but so that British troops did not have to die protecting our way of life. Will the Minister accept that the very least we can do in recognition of the debt we owe to the Kurdish soldiers is to give an assurance that we will not stand back and let things happen to them if we could have prevented it?
I think I can give an assurance that the Government will do everything they can to resolve the situation. The hon. Gentleman would expect me to say that, as a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I put my faith principally in diplomacy, which is what we are trying to roll out in relation to this situation. It is not pretty—it is messy, it is dirty, it is complicated, and it is sometimes very difficult to plot a sensible way forward, particularly as we are buffeted by events, but we will be quite clear that this is principally a fight against Daesh; it is a fight that we share with our Kurdish friends and allies, and we are shoulder to shoulder with them. We do not let people down, but we are also, I have to say, the victim of perhaps being rather less powerful than once we were in traditional terms, and we must be realistic about what we individually can achieve. What is undiminished is our ability, very often, to exert diplomacy for maximum effect. I like to think that we are extremely good at that, and we will deploy it, so far as we possibly can, in relation to this situation.
Jessica Morden Opposition Whip (Commons), Chair, Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee), Chair, Statutory Instruments (Select Committee)
On Saturday, I met representatives of the Welsh Kurdish community in Newport, who, like other hon. Members’ constituents, are obviously extremely worried and concerned about this news. I simply ask the Minister again to give reassurances directly to my constituents that we will do absolutely all that we can to influence partners and to protect the Kurdish people against any action by Turkish forces.
Yes, I can give the hon. Lady that assurance. We are doing everything we realistically can to try to bring some equanimity to this situation. That has been our position from the start, but we also have to be realistic about what we can individually achieve. We are influential, but we are one of several, and we will continue to work with our friends and partners within the coalition to try to ensure that this goes in an appropriate direction. As I have said on repeated occasions during my remarks, that does not involve an incursion by Turkey into Syria.
Chris Stephens Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Fair Work and Employment)
I refer the Minister to early-day motion 2772, which reflects the strong feelings that have been expressed in this House today and by the Kurdish community, many of whom are in Glasgow South West. May I say to the Minister that, obviously, pleas have been made to Turkey, but pleas in the past have been ignored—and I am thinking particularly of the situation in Afrin last year—and ask him to reflect on that? Is it not time that the Government now immediately suggest to the Trump Administration that they must reverse this policy to protect one of the stable regions in Syria?
I think it is important to say—this is what we understand to be the case—that the US is not agreeing with Turkey by potentially withdrawing from this piece of territory, so it is not endorsing Turkey’s action at all. I hope that it will be joining the UK and the rest of the coalition to impress upon Turkey that this is not the best way forward in our principal aim for Turkey and others, which is to defeat Daesh, which poses a threat to Turkey, a big threat to Syria and a threat to the UK and the US, too. As Turkey’s reputation is on the line in this matter, I hope very much that it listens to its friends and allies and desists from this particular course of action. That is the line that we have taken, and I am hopeful that we will have some success in getting it to revise its position in this particular matter.
Jim Shannon Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights), Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Health)
Along with others, I also express great concern over the decision of the President of the United States of America to remove US troops. No one should ever betray our allies—the Kurds—who helped to cleanse Syria of Isis fighters. Turkey’s history of response towards the Kurds in the past has been all-out war, so what discussions has the Minister had with Turkey to prevent its aggression and the threat to democracy and freedom in that area, which will mean potential casualties among women, children and the innocents?
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He tempts me to talk about wider issues relating to the Kurds, and he will know that we have in the past discussed these matters, and will continue to do so, with our Turkish interlocutors at every level in support of our Kurdish friends and allies. It is important that the rights of Kurds, of all groups, of all minorities and of all ethnicities are respected. That is contained within international humanitarian law, and all the conventions to which Turkey is a code signatory. We will use every opportunity to stand up for the rights of Kurds where we see them being abused.
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Opinion: Fact checking the President’s remarks on the Diversity Visa Program and “Chain Migration”
It did not take long for President Trump to capitalize on the terrorist attack which took place several days ago in New York City, to attack the Diversity Visa Program and the process by which US Citizens, and in some cases green card holders, can petition for extended family members to immigrate to the United States.
Following the terrorist attack in New York City, which claimed the lives of 8 Americans, the President fired off a series of tweets calling on Congress to terminate the Diversity Visa Program, claiming that the perpetrator of the attack, Sayfullo Saipov, had gained admission to the United States seven years ago through the diversity immigrant visa program, a congressionally mandated program made possible by section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). According to CNN, the Department of Homeland Security has said that Saipov came to the United States in 2010 on a diversity visa. Department of Homeland Security archives confirm that Uzbekistan was a country participating in the Diversity Visa program as early as 2007, and continues to participate in the Diversity Visa Program.
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a program enacted by Congress, which allocates up to 50,000 immigrant visas per fiscal year to a special class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants.” Each fiscal year diversity applicants register for the visa program electronically at no cost. Applicant entries are selected at random through a computerized “lottery” system to allocate the 50,000 available immigrant visas for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program. Only diversity immigrants who are natives of countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States qualify for the Diversity Immigrant Visa program. In other words, to qualify for a diversity visa, essentially a green card, you must be a native of a country participating in the diversity visa program. Countries with historically high rates of immigration to the United States DO NOT qualify.
A person is considered a native of a participating country if they were born in that country. An immigrant may also be “charged” to their spouse’s country of birth, or the country of birth of their parents, if the applicant was born in a different country of birth or lives in a different country of residence.
Allocation of the 50,000 available diversity immigrant visas is divided among 6 geographic regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America, Central America, and the Caribbean are grouped as one geographic region.
Uzbekistan is, and as far as our research is concerned, has been a country participating in the Diversity Visa Program since as far back as 2007, according to the U.S. Department of State archives. Therefore, Saipov could have entered on a diversity immigrant visa. However, it is puzzling why no evidence has been released by the Department of Homeland Security to corroborate this information, or at least provide more details regarding his entrance.
Uzbekistan Participates in DV Program
While speaking to reporters, the President said that Saipov had brought relatives with him to the United States and that he was the “primary point of contact” for 23 people that came or potentially came in with him to the United States. The President made this statement to justify his stance on ending “chain migration” to the United States. This statement by the President seems far-fetched. What exactly does the President mean when he says Saipov was the “primary point of contact” for 23 people? Does the President mean that Saipov signed 23 affidavits of support to assist relatives financially in immigrating to the United States or had he himself petitioned for 23 other people to obtain immigrant visas?
It is highly unlikely that Saipov, a green card holder, and not a US Citizen, would petition 23 other people. Even if that were the case, it is well known that Congress has capped the number of immigrant visas available to qualifying relatives of green card holders. Due to these congressionally mandated caps, relatives of green card holders who qualify for an immigration benefit must wait enormous backlogs for an immigrant visa to become available to them. It is not uncommon for relatives to wait decades before an immigrant visa becomes available to them, in accordance with visa projections found in the Visa Bulletin. If a green card holder wanted to petition for a relative to come to the United States, the relative would first have to have a qualifying relationship with the green card holder (spouse, child, unmarried son or daughter), then the green card holder would first have to file the I-130 petition, and once the petition is approved, the beneficiary would need to wait until an immigrant visa would become available to them. Even spouses and children of permanent residents must wait several years before an immigrant visa becomes available to them, while more distant relatives fare worse. Thus, the possibility of Saipov having petitioned for 23 other people as a green card holder is simply impossible given our current immigration laws.
Speaking to reporters the President retorted, “Congress must end chain migration, so we can have a system that is security based, not the way it is now, and we want a system ultimately that is merit based so we can bring in people that can help our country, grow our country, and be safe for our country. We want to select people based on their ability to contribute to our country, not choose people randomly, we have no idea who they are. We’re based on extended family connections. We have people bringing in 24, 25, 26 people when they come in. We have to end chain migration,” adding “the people put in that lottery are not that country’s finest. We know that the program presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. It is a very unsafe program for our country.”
Claims the Diversity Visa Program is Unsafe
Having already discussed the impossibility of a green card holder petitioning for 24, 25, or 26 people, we move to the President’s assertion that the diversity visa program is “very unsafe” and that “the people put in that lottery are not the country’s finest.” It is deeply troubling that the President would make such remarks without having any facts to support this statement. Over the years, our office has helped hundreds of diversity immigrants apply for permanent residence through the program. Many of these individuals were business owners in their own countries, physicians, engineers, and the like.
In addition, to qualify for a visa, diversity immigrants must attend a rigorous in-person interview whereby an immigration officer will assess the immigrant’s admissibility to the United States, and their qualifications. Applicants are also vetted for any criminal history, using fingerprints obtained by USCIS during the biometrics appointment. During the interview, the officer has an opportunity to probe the applicant regarding their criminal history. If the beneficiary has been arrested, the beneficiary is required to provide copies of all arrest records. The beneficiary must also present a medical examination, and supporting documents to prove that they possess the minimum academic or qualifying work experience to qualify for the diversity immigrant visa. There is simply no evidence to suggest that current safeguards for the program are inadequate. Moreover, Saipov was radicalized after he entered the United States, not before. An immigration officer could not predict his future actions.
Merit-Based Immigration
Lastly, in regard to chain migration the President said, “We will be asking Congress to start working on that immediately. There are bills already about ending chain migration. We have a lot of good bills in there. We are being stopped by Democrats, because they are obstructionists, and honestly, they don’t want to do what is right for our country. . . We are going to get rid of this lottery program as soon as possible. He came in through the Diversity program as you know and we are going to stop that. We are going to as quickly as possible get rid of chain migration and go to a merit based system.” The President has said that he will call upon Congress to implement immigration reform that focuses on admitting only highly skilled foreign nationals based on a point system that takes into account the individual’s education, specialized skill sets, employment experience, language proficiency, and age, and eliminates the family-based immigration system.
The problem? Our employment-based immigration system already awards visas based on merit. For example, the H-1B work visa is awarded only to highly skilled individuals who possess a Bachelor’s Degree in a specialized field or its equivalent. Take another example: The O-1 visa is awarded to foreign nationals of extraordinary ability and like the H-1B creates a path to permanent residency. The merit-based system Trump envisions is already in place, however highly skilled individuals holding these visas must go through a slow and outdated process to obtain a green card. This area of the law certainly needs improvement.
As it relates to “chain migration,” as we have already mentioned, immigrant visas for extended family members of US Citizens and green card holders, are limited and subject to backlogs as imposed by numerical limitations. Only immediate relatives of US Citizens receive permanent residency on an immediate basis meaning that their visas are not subject to numerical limitations.
We fear that the President’s remarks are not well-founded in the law, and are representative of a President who does not understand the immigration system currently in place, and who frankly does not care to understand how it truly works. The President is simply trying to appease his conservative base by acceding to their demands.
See what the President is tweeting about immigration
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Presented By: Soundwell
At: Soundwell
149 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Hailing from North Bergen, New Jersey at just 19 years old, this female artist is a force to be reckoned with. Shake, a moniker inspired by her quickness on the basketball court, is an artist in its truest definition. September 2015 was her first time in a booth and she hit the ground running. From teaching herself to play the piano, with no formal voice training or writing background, it's evident that she is a star. The power of Shake's music comes from her unapologetic honesty. Drawing from her life experiences, her raw emotional perspective is exemplified in her writing, her unique sound and her creations with the 070 Crew. In a culture where many millennials are more focused with building a brand rather than the message they're creating, 070Shake strays from the rest. Her music speaks for itself...get to know the singer behind the name.
Location: Soundwell
Address: 149 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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Jeff Koons to Be Evicted!
By Carl Swanson
Jeff Koons. Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
Jeff Koons is one of the most popular and successful artists in the world, and he has never had any sort of reluctance about the pleasures of capitalism. But just because global capitalists love you doesn’t mean you can’t get pushed out by gentrification (apparently). The family that has for the past century owned the cluster of low-slung, garagelike buildings on 11th Avenue and 29th Street in which Koons makes his studio has just leased the property to Douglaston Development for the next century. Pending a rezoning, it should be an apartment tower or two in a few years. (Douglaston already owns a 34-story rental building across the street at 312 11th Avenue.)
This isn’t the first time this has happened. In the late 1980s, Koons had his studio on the corner of Houston and Broadway, where meticulous young artists produced his paintings (which look like no human hand ever touched them). But that area became too expensive. And now, as the windswept, formerly industrial area he moved into in 2004 — between West Chelsea and the Hudson Yards — fills in with high rises, he’s on his way out.
Koons’s studio takes up almost a quarter of a city block: Inside, there’s a big, open-plan office, a room full of scaffolding for the painters, and extending around that are various other fabrication areas, including an industrial paint shop for his sculptures (which looks like a place to repair your dinged-up battle robot) and places where half-complete pieces from his various iconic series are in storage.
It hasn’t all been hard real-estate luck for him, though: This past summer, he got approval to combine the side-by-side townhouses he owns at 11 and 13 East 67th Street into one supermansion. He paid a total of $32 million for them both in 2009 and 2010; it’ll cost $4.85 million to merge them. At over 19,000 square feet, it ought to be big enough to kennel at least one Balloon Dog.
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‘I Looked at Bran Like a Cake’: A Conversation With Game of Thrones’ Night King
This week’s episode of Game of Thrones saw the infamously rude Night King meet his violent, glass-shattering end at the hands of Arya Stark. It was a victory for most viewers, who watch the show hoping that the humans will win and somebody will take the throne and free the commoners from eating bugs for dinner, or something. For me, it was devastating. I love the Night King. He is a fabulous bitch and a fashion icon. I love his tiny smirk. I love his chainmail shoulder pads. I love his little brooch. I love his chic walk. I love how he is the only person who makes Bran Stark change his facial expression. I love that his crown is built into his head.
Which is why, when I was offered ten minutes of phone time with the man behind the ice-blue mask, I couldn’t say no. Slovakian stuntman Vladimír Furdík has played the Night King since season six, when he replaced Richard Brake. He is also, according to his Instagram, somebody who kisses horses directly on the mouth. I couldn’t wait to talk to him.
My best friend from Malaysia
A post shared by Vladimír Furdík (@vladimir_furdik_) on Mar 22, 2019 at 3:00am PDT
Thank you for taking the time. I’m a big fan!
How long does it take you to get into costume and makeup?
Six hours makeup, 30 minutes costume.
What do you do while you’re sitting in the makeup chair?
Listen to music, chat with the people who do the prosthetics, and then I do, like, yoga. I cannot move. I sit straight. It’s an exercise that I do in my apartment, then I have a very nice yoga exercise every morning on the chair.
Do you find your costume fashionable?
Season six and seven both weren’t so comfortable because the front of the costume and the back was metal. I ask [director] Miguel [Sapochnik] and production if they can change the metal because during the day, it’s so cold, and it’s not very comfortable to move. And they make me a kind of leather that looks like metal.
Do you ever get spooked looking at yourself?
If I spook myself? Yes. It’s a very hard question. And a very hard answer. I’m joking. No.
Do you think the Night King has an internal life?
Yes. I think yes.
What do you think about while you are playing the Night King? What are his motivations?
So do you think about revenge while you play him?
What specifically do you think about?
When somebody puts a costume like this, and makeup, you completely change to be the character. You don’t need to be thinking. Hair and makeup change you into this creature. And then you have a director who tells you what to do, and you just follow his direction.
Why did the Night King smirk at Dany in that last episode?
She would like to bully him, and it doesn’t happen. He throws the spear at her and I think he says, “Go away, don’t — I don’t have the time for you. You are not for me. I don’t need to fight with you, so go.” When he throws the spear and she flies out, and he makes the smile, it’s like, “Ah, you see? Just go, go home and stay there. Leave me alone.”
What was the direction that you got in that last scene with Bran?
Because Miguel is a great director, he gave me very good direction. I remember a couple of times when I did the walk, and I go for my target, which was Bran, and he said, “Bran, he is not man. He is a cake. And you would like to eat this cake. And I would like to see you acting, you’re walking to him, you’re walking like you’re looking for that cake, which is waiting for you under the tree.”
So you were imagining Bran was a cake?
Yeah. If you have a child, and you said, “Hey child, there’s a cake, in the kitchen! Go there!” They’d go, “Ahh, cake, cake!” But adults never run for the cake. They walk. You can see from an [adult’s] body — they’re going for a cake from grandmom, and they’re looking forward to eating this cake. When I walk, you can see what Miguel said: “Don’t be a soldier. No. Just walk, confident. There’s a cake.”
The walk is very specific. It’s sort of high-fashion. How’d you decide on that walk?
We shot the scene many, many times, until Miguel got exactly what he wants. Not easy days. Every take was a different walk. Until we found exactly what it should be.
How do you not blink for that long?
This is so difficult. It’s not easy. It’s not easy. But if you put in your mind that information, “Don’t blink,” I don’t blink. It’s training.
Were you sad that the Night King died?
I can’t even tell you — I was supposed to hold so many [secrets], say nothing about this episode. Not even my family knew. For me, when he died on the TV, I said, “Now I am free.” I can say anything on the street. But when I saw how she killed him, I had many different feelings inside. Me as myself, I said, “No, no, why! Don’t kill him!” I’d like to stop her. “Don’t, don’t kill him! He’s not so bad.”
You think he’s not so bad?
Look, we think he’s going to kill Bran, but who knows if he’s going to kill him? He doesn’t rush. Maybe he had different [plans]. Maybe he wanted to do something else. You know? Then she kills him. But maybe he was gonna show them, “No, no, no, wait, I’m here for something else!”
What’s up with that photo of you kissing a horse on your instagram?
I was filming in Malaysia, I did a [show], Marco Polo, season one. And this horse was like a child. This horse wanted to play. He was very young, three years old. He was in the stable, and I looked at him, and I opened the door, and he wanted to go out and just play. One day I played with him, and I put him very slowly on the floor, on his side, and I grabbed him, and I turned him on his back. And he didn’t want to go away! He loved it, this horse. It’s not a horse’s instinct — inside of him is a young child, somebody who liked to play. I never saw a horse like this in my life.
The Game of Thrones Creators Always Knew It Would Be Arya
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‘Bran Was a Cake’: A Convo With Game of Thrones’ Night King
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A Partner Of The Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency
Coal Tipple Brewery tips its glass to county’s mining history
Michael Bradwell
Observer-Reporter
The menu on the wall of Coal Tipple Brewery makes it clear where the inspiration came from for Washington County’s first microbrewery.
Under a heading of “Run of Mine,” a term for the output of a coal mine, are four brews named to commemorate the county’s mining history: Nippy Tipple Ale, Longwall IPA, Fossil Fuel Stout, and Pump Jack Spiced Ale.
The brews and the name of the place are also a tribute to several members of the Kramer family who worked in the county’s mining industry.
And the output of Coal Tipple, owned by Chris and Dawn Kramer, will expand shortly.
Coming soon will be the highly hopped Dead Canary IPA, as well as a Go Devil Red Ale, whose name is drawn from early days of the natural gas industry, when shallow wells dotted the local landscape. It relates to when workers would open up a new well by dropping a charge of dynamite down the hole.
“You’d drop the charge in and run like the devil,” Chris said.
Chris said his connection to the coal industry runs deep.
“My whole family worked in a strip mine” at one time or another, he said, “and I actually worked in a coal tipple.” He explained that the tipple is where a coal’s mode of transportation changes.
Coal Tipple Brewery itself also represents a change, or more accurately, an addition of beermaking to a third-generation family business on Steubenville Pike that includes Kramer’s Greenhouse, started in 1945, and since 2009, a winery featuring mostly fruit-based wines under the Raccoon Creek Winery label.
Brewing inspiration
It was a hike in the Adirondack Mountains a few years ago that first got Chris and Dawn thinking about microbreweries.
Along a trail they hiked several times during their visit, they passed a small microbrewery.
The first couple of times they passed it, the place was closed.
But then, at 10 a.m. on a weekday, Chris said, the brewery was open “and you couldn’t get into the place.”
Chris said Dawn liked the rustic look of the place, and commented “that this is what our winery should look like.”
A year after their mountain hike, the couple was on another vacation, this time at a beach, when Dawn read an article about the process of evolving a home brewing hobby into a microbrewery that moved them closer to the idea of starting one.
The couple decided that if they were going to explore the idea further that Chris should check out an existing microbrewery.
He spent a week volunteering at Boxcar Brewing, a West Chester microbrewery, whose owner had written the article that Dawn had read.
“I found it was really hard work,” Chris said. “At the end of the day, you were really tired, but there was free beer.”
As the Kramers’ business plan evolved, Chris noted that his good friend, Dayne Crowley, a hydrogeologist who had been making beer at home for some time, was tapped to be brewmaster.
“Winemaking is a little forgiving, but beermaking isn’t,” Chris said, adding that his friend’s scientific background is necessary for meeting the more exacting standards of crafting beer.
Coal Tipple is also ramping up slowly. Chris showed a brewing area in the basement that is in the process of enabling the brewery to move from one-barrel batches to seven barrels.
The brewery will feature a total of six beers, with four on tap at any time, but the brewing area is large enough to go to 10-barrel batches as demand grows, Chris said.
There’s a good chance that will happen, as Coal Tipple is the first microbrewery to appear in Washington County. Its location, on the edge of Hillman State Park and not far from Raccoon State Park, is also expected to be a draw for cyclists, hikers and campers.
When he and Dawn opened the brewery a month ago, “No one else was doing it out here between Pittsburgh and Steubenville, Ohio,” Chris said.
That could change soon though, as what will become the county’s second microbrewery, Rusty Gold Brewery, opens in Canonsburg sometime in January, according to owner E.J. Kleckner. And last week, owners of Washington Winery/A&M Wine and Beer Supplies and Upper Crust Italian Bistro, as well as homebrewer and co-owner Patrick Buckley, confirmed they’ll open a 15-barrel microbrewery in Washington next summer.
But for now, Coal Tipple is enjoying a following all to itself.
“It’s surprising how far people will drive,” Chris said, noting that an early indicator of success is the sale of take-home units of the brews.
“We’re selling a lot of growlers, and I’m pleasantly surprised by that.”
He added that the business also has diversification on its side, with the greenhouse still the primary business, selling bedding and vegetable plants in the spring and fall.
And besides the wine and beer made on the premises, the business sells both winemaking and beermaking kits and related supplies, as well as a number of gift items.
Coal Tipple is also a beneficiary of recent changes to Pennsylvania’s law governing wine and beer sales, with a license that covers both type of beverages.
“We can sell any alcohol made in Pennsylvania now,” Chris said. “We were able to put everything under the same license.”
Coal Tipple Brewery, 1905 Steubenville Pike, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Telephone is 724-899-3344.
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SpaceX delivers 'mighty mice,' worms, robot to Space Station
A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/John Raoux) more >
By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press - Sunday, December 8, 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering super muscular “mighty mice,” worms and a smart, empathetic robot.
The station commander, Italy’s Luca Parmitano, used a large robot arm to grab onto the Dragon three days after its launch from Cape Canaveral. The two spacecraft soared 260 miles (420 kilometers) above the South Pacific at the time of capture.
“Whenever we welcome a new vehicle on board, we take on board also a little bit of the soul of everybody that contributed to the project, so welcome on board,” Parmitano told Mission Control.
The capsule holds 3 tons (2,720 kilograms) of supplies, including 40 mice for a muscle and bone experiment. Eight of them are genetically engineered with twice the normal muscle mass - and so are considered “mighty mice.”’ There also are 120,000 roundworms, or nematodes of a beneficial variety that are part of an agricultural study.
The capsule also has a large, round robot head with artificial intelligence and the ability to sense astronauts’ emotions. Named Cimon, it’s an improved version of what flew up last year to be tested as an astronaut’s helper.
NASA has tucked some Christmas presents in the shipment for the station’s six-person crew, as well.
It’s SpaceX’s 19th delivery to the space station for NASA over the past seven years.
The astronauts have another delivery coming Monday - this one launched by Russia from Kazakhstan on Friday.
• The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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Jackson 32°
Southern Miss Opens Fall Camp with Championship Expectations
by: Jeff Haeger
Posted: Aug 5, 2016 / 05:58 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 5, 2016 / 05:58 PM CDT
The following is an official press release courtesy of Southern Miss Athletics.Southern Miss Football Practice Report: Friday, Aug. 5
Venue: Joe P. Park Practice Facility
Format: Shorts
Upcoming: Practice (8 a.m., shorts)
Report: Southern Miss opened fall camp Friday morning at the Joe P. Park Practice Facility on the Golden Eagle campus in shorts and helmets. Sunny skies and temperatures in the low-80s greeted the team for their first practice that went 2 ½ hours. Southern Miss started the practice with special teams drills, before going into individual periods and ended with 18 team periods.Head Coach Jay HopsonOn the team’s goals
“Our goal is to win a Conference USA Championship, to compete for that. Last year was a great year, but it’s in the past. This year is the year that we want to win a championship. I told them, ‘On that Eagle Walk they only put the champions up there.'”On the Southern Miss history he’s familiar with
“We gotta go to work. We can’t rest on our past laurels. We can’t look at four years back, we can’t look at last year, we can’t look at 10 years back… We can’t look back. You just got to look forward. That’s all we can do. That’s all we can control.”On what it will take for the Golden Eagles to reach their goals
“You go to work to do things right and be successful. If you don’t? You don’t do things successful. We know the journey we got. We just gotta go to work.”Julian Allen, redshirt-junior tight end
On his spring thoughts
“Went through the spring. I felt good. I’m back now. This offseason I just tried to do as much as I could to make sure I put myself in the best position to stay healthy and continue to stay healthy.”
On being with his teammates again
“It’s awesome. At the end of the day that’s what I’m here for, that’s what I came here for to play football. Now that I finally get the chance to do that and be out there with my brothers and my teammates; that’s a great feeling.”Nick Mullens, senior quarterbackOn the start of camp
“Overall I thought it was a great start. The process of communication, getting plays in and out, subbing, the extra parts of the game, went really smooth. Execution went well. The receivers worked hard all summer. It’s pretty cool to see how that work and that chemistry built in the summer as a transition to the fall camp. The defense is always going to give us challenges, especially Eljah [Parker]. I swear every play is like puzzle match with him.”On his preseason accolades barrage
“I credit a lot of that stuff to last year, and as a player you really can’t worry about last year. I’ve said it a couple of times, it’s all about 2016 Southern Miss. It’s my senior year. Brandon Farmer, Cameron Tom, D.J. Thompson, it’s those guys’ senior years as well. For us to be successful we gotta go all in on this year and that’s what we’re really excited to do.”
Ricky Parks, fifth-year senior tight end
On how the first day went
“Today was a great day. We got after it today. We ran a lot of deep routes. We just ran a lot of routes today. Flew around on the offense and the defense, so today was a good day. Everybody pushed through it. The gasses at the end were tough, but we all made it through.”
On his physical appearance
“When I was here last year, I was like 280 coming in playing defensive end and I made a transfer to tight end last season. I dropped about 20 pounds at the end of the season last year but coming into this season, I’m like 240 now. I dropped 80 pounds, not 80 pounds but 40 pounds in the last year and a half. It’s been a great transition for me. I’m moving better, I feel better and I’m running faster so I like the way I’m at right now.”
Tickets: Season tickets for the 2016 Southern Miss home season can be purchased by going online at SouthernMissTickets.com, or by calling the Athletic Ticket Office at 1-800-844-TICK (8425) as well as visiting the Pat Ferlise Ticket Center on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Golden Eagles open the 2016 season at Kentucky on Sept. 3. Game time is set for 6:30 p.m.
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Civil Rights Lawyers Stake Claim In Confederate Statue Case
By Martha Waggoner/The Associated Press • Dec 13, 2019
RALEIGH — A national civil rights group has warned the leaders of the University of North Carolina that they should reconsider a $2.5 million settlement involving a statue of a Confederate soldier that protesters toppled last year at the system’s flagship campus.
Students At School Dorothy Counts-Scoggins Integrated Celebrate Her Courage
By Gwendolyn Glenn • May 31, 2019
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Dorothy Counts-Scoggins Day held at school she integrated in 1957.
Sixty-two years ago, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was ridiculed, spit on and heckled as she walked through the front doors of Harding High School on Irwin Avenue, the first African American to enroll there. Things became so bad for Counts-Scoggins, that her parents withdrew her about two weeks later out of fear for her safety. Today, Counts-Scoggins received a different welcome at Harding—now the Irwin Academic Center—a day in honor of her historic walk to break down racial barriers.
State Finds No Injustice With New Coal Ash Landfills; Activists Unimpressed
By David Boraks • Sep 28, 2016
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says coal ash ponds and landfills disproportionately affect poor and minority communities across the U.S. But that’s not what North Carolina officials found when they conducted their own “environmental justice reviews” of two sites this year.
Convictions Of Friendship 9 Vacated After 54 Years
By Gwendolyn Glenn • Jan 28, 2015
The convictions of nine black men jailed for staging a sit-in at a Rock Hill, SC, segregated lunch counter in 1961 were overturned Wednesday. The men became known as the Friendship 9 because they were students at Friendship Junior College.
50th Anniversary Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964
By WFAE • Jul 2, 2014
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the result of years of efforts and turbulence in America. Freedom rides, sit-ins, and open racism in education and employment were commonplace. The success of the act was the bipartisan work of many now- iconic American figures, including two presidents. We’ll hear the dramatic details about the effort to ensure freedom for all.
With Charlotte Checked Off, 'Ban The Box' Campaign Will Expand
By Kevin Kniestedt • Mar 4, 2014
Nearly all of us have filled out a job application that asks if you’ve ever been convicted of a crime. Check the box yes, and you need to explain yourself. Well, that’s now a thing of the past for most potential city of Charlotte employees. City Manager Ron Carlee has decided to “ban the box.” We were joined this morning by the man who got this movement started in Charlotte a couple years ago. He’s Jason Huber, a law professor at the Charlotte School of Law, where he heads the school’s Civil Rights Clinic.
Union Schools Accused Of Discriminating Against Immigrant Youth
By Lisa Worf • Feb 19, 2014
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Union County is one of two North Carolina school districts accused of making it difficult for youth who are in the country illegally to enroll. The Southern Poverty Law Center along with other groups filed the complaint with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Soledad O'Brien On 'Black In America' & Documentarian Steve Crump's Series On 1963
Part One: Soledad O'Brien on 'Black in America.' Soledad O'Brien is an award-winning journalist, documentarian and author. You may remember her as an anchor for CNN, she also does work for Al Jazeera, HBO and National Geographic. She is responsible for CNN's 'Black in America' documentary series, which is intended to be a conversation starter about race in America. Now she's taking that conversation on the road in the form of a town hall and she's bringing it to Charlotte. As a person of mixed race, with a black Afro-Cuban mother and white Australian father of Irish descent, she has faced complicated questions about race herself, on camera and off. She has often had to answer questions like, "what are you?" Ahead of her 'Black in America Town Hall' tonight at Knight Theatre, Soledad O'Brien joins us to share her story and discuss the challenging and often divisive issues of race, class, opportunity and social change.
Civil Rights Activist Dr. Benjamin Chavis
By all accounts, Dr. Benjamin Chavis is a North Carolina legacy. The civil rights leader was not only on the forefront of civil rights protests in the state as a student at UNC Charlotte but he went on to serve in national leadership roles for the NAACP, the Million Man March and more. In 2010 a major feature film was made in North Carolina titled Blood Done Sign My Name. Dr. Chavis’ life and career was a focus of the film. Dr. Chavis returns to UNC Charlotte for a slate of events, including a screening of the film. He’ll share highlights of his career and discuss civil rights in our time.
On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched to Washington DC to demand their civil rights. Among those activists were Charlotteans who sought justice. They were there to hear Dr. Martin Luther King deliver his 'I have a dream' speech. It would become one of the most famous speeches in American history. On this 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we visit with our own historic activists. They will relive those events of long ago and share with us their continued vision for civil rights in America, when Charlotte Talks
Julius Chambers Fondly Remembered, Honored
By Lisa Worf • Aug 9, 2013
Charlotte commemorated a civil rights heavyweight Thursday. Julius Chambers fought for equality through the courts and argued some of the cases that helped integrate this city’s schools and businesses.
He had a lot of hatred directed at him as an African American challenging prejudice, but he never let that make him bitter. Instead, Chambers set up North Carolina’s first law firm to employ both black and white lawyers, partly to serve as an example of the integration he fought for. He died last week. His funeral was held Thursday.
Civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers dies at 76
By David Boraks • Aug 4, 2013
Charlotte civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers has died at age 76. Chambers' law firm said he died Friday after months of declining health. In 1964, Chambers opened a law practice that became the state's first integrated law firm. He and his partners won cases that shaped civil rights law, including the Swann versus Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education case on school busing. Chambers argued eight cases before the US Supreme Court, winning all.
The Kinseys And The Kinsey Collection
Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are more than just art collectors. They own one of the largest and most diverse private collections of African American artifacts and artwork in the world. Their wide-ranging collection examines 400 years of the African-American experience from nineteenth-century slave documents and an early copy of the Emancipation Proclamation to letters written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and works by artists Romare Bearden and Henry O. Tanner. Now, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Kinseys have brought their passion for art and history to Charlotte where their collection will be on exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center. We'll talk with Bernard and Shirley Kinsey and their son Khalil about their collection, their philanthropic vision and what they hope new generations will learn from four centuries of African American art, history and culture, when Charlotte Talks.
50 Years Since Desegregation In Charlotte
From Carolina Room, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, courtesy of Levine Museum.
Fifty years ago, a Charlotte Civil Rights activist led a march through Charlotte to call for desegregation in the city. That march triggered an "eat-in" at Charlotte restaurants with African American leaders, led by then Mayor Stan Brookshire. That action in Charlotte helped set the stage for the nation's 1964 Civil Rights Act. Fifty years after that action, we'll gather with historians as well as people who were there to talk about those historic events, how Charlotte has progressed since, and where we still need to go to fully achieve desegregation in Charlotte, when Charlotte Talks.
Former Charlotte Mayor Gantt's Civil Rights Victory Featured In New Film
By Julie Rose • Feb 8, 2013
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Charlotte newcomers may recognize the name "Gantt" because it's on the Center for African Arts and Culture Uptown. They may even know Harvey Gantt was the city's first African American mayor. But the name carries even more weight in South Carolina, where Gantt had a major role in desegregation. That is the subject of a new documentary airing this weekend on ETV – the South Carolina public television station. WFAE's Julie Rose explains:
Taylor Branch On Civil Rights
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Taylor Branch's most famous body of work is his trilogy chronicling the history of the American Civil Rights Movement and the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. His most recent work distills the trilogy into a smaller volume that is meant to be used by history teachers to help educate students about this defining period in our nation's history. We'll talk with Mr. Branch about the Civil Rights era and what led him to write so extensively about it, about race today, and more, when Charlotte Talks.
Church Integration And Martin Luther King (Rebroadcast)
By WFAE • Jan 21, 2013
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote "worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels" His vision for more integrated churches has not truly come to fruition but several area religious leaders hope to change that. We'll meet a Sociologist studying the divisive nature that can pervade churches in our region as well as two Pastors working to diversify their own congregations. On the week of the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we look at his hope for integration of the church experience in America.
Kids And Race
Martin Luther King, Jr. said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." There is evidence that children form attitudes and opinions about race as early as six months old. In a recent study by our guest Dr. Melanie Killen (commissioned by CNN), a white child and a black child look at the exact same picture of two students on the playground and see very different things. How do children interpret our differences and form racial attitudes? We'll find out how to talk to kids about race with a researcher into children's social development and the author of a children's book about race.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's announcement: what the language, timing and tone reveals
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Yahoo Style UK• January 10, 2020
Harry and Meghan have announced they are stepping back as senior royals [Photo: Getty]
The dust is just beginning to settle following Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s bombshell that they will be stepping down as “senior” members of the Royal Family.
The couple made the shock revelation both on their new website and on Instagram, explaining how they would be splitting their time between the UK and North America and intend to become “financially independent”, raising questions as to what - if anything - taxpayers will be contributing to.
While there has been much speculation about what the move will mean for the couple and the impact it will have on the royal family, experts believe some clues can be sought from the language used and timing of the announcement itself.
Popular culture expert, Nick Ede, found the tone of the revelation quite cold and matter of fact.
“I think that not giving much indication of the reasoning and not referencing prince Charles or William in any family way rather coldly speaking about Royal responsibility it makes this all look very calculated,” he explains.
“To say they have been thinking of this for two years basically means from the day they got married this was their intention.”
READ MORE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepping down as senior royals: What's next?
Anthony Burr, who runs PR consultancy Burr Media agrees that the tone was to the point.
“The statement from the Sussexes is as bold as it gets,” he says.
“They want ‘out’ and the language they have used paints that picture for us in no uncertain terms.”
READ MORE: Meghan Markle's blog designers create new Sussex Royal website
Emma Serlin from London Speech Workshop believes that the message was very clever and well thought out.
“This message is well written, careful and very clear,” she explains. “Firstly there is no apology whatsoever. Every phrase near the start of a sentence is considered and creates a firm message using verbs which are final eg. 'chosen', 'we intend'. It's not 'we are thinking about' or 'we're considering'.”
Serlin believes the couple will have chosen their words and tone carefully to strike a balance between outlining their intentions, while being respectful.
“The language is very non-aggressive and positive and about a 'progressive new role' and nothing about 'we are struggling with negative attention' or anything like that,” she explains.
But could a little bit of disingenuity have crept into the statement? Burr believes so.
“The statement did read: ‘we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties,’” he explains.
“But according to media coverage, Her Majesty The Queen, the Prince of Wales and even his brother, the Duke of Cambridge have been blindsided by the announcement.”
Serlin agreed that there was something of a contradiction between the respectful language used and the lack of information provided to the royal family in advance.
“The tone is incredibly respectful of the Royal Family even though not telling them their plans - as apparently is the case - is not that respectful in reality - as it would not be in any family.”
But she has a theory about why the couple decided to do this.
“I suspect that it was done strategically so that Harry didn't become embroiled in political and emotional negotiations with other members of the Royal Family or their internal bureaucracy to deviate from their chosen path. As might happen within any other family too.”
READ MORE: Meghan Markle’s father “disappointed” by their decision
What does the language and tone of the announcement reveal? [Photo: Getty]
For Burr signs of a potential split from Royal protocol have always lingered.
“The couple set up their own Instagram account, used different media advisors and even broke off from William and Kate's charity with their new charitable foundation, which they mention with ‘the launch of our new charitable entity’,” he says.
“Harry has always seen himself as a Royal with a licence to do things his way and his partnership with Meghan has now compounded this further,” he continues.
“With her influence and the closeness of their young nuclear family, they are determined to move away from the ‘institution’ of the Royal Family as they see themselves as more ‘progressive’ – two key words used in the very first sentence.”
Serlin agrees that Meghan’s influence can be seen within the announcement itself.
“I sense that Meghan has been hugely influential in this and the tone of setting the scene where the chance for negotiation has gone is very 'American'.
“She has clearly made her view known that they can build the life they want for themselves - especially now that they have a child and probably want more children, while trying to remain respectful of the deeply embedded respect for the Royal Family.”
The couple also seem to have given consideration to the public’s role in the move.
“The sentence 'it is with your encouragement...make this adjustment' - while I don't understand it from a psychological point of view it is very clever,” explains Serlin.
“It suggests that it's the public support which has led them to feel they can make this decision, an almost 'fait d'accompli' that the public will support them - before that's known to be the case.”
Xanthe Vaughan Williams Director and Co-founder at Fourth Day PR notes that the statement is very much addressed to the general public.
“[It is] more like a note from a band to its fan base, referring to the encouragement they have received,” she says.
“Also, they've chosen language that wouldn't usually apply to a formal statement - I don't think "exciting next step" would make an appearance in any correspondence from the Buckingham Palace press office.
“It is very much in contrast to the Buckingham Palace response, which doesn't disguise its irritation.”
And what about the timing of the announcement?
Is it possible that Harry’s uncle, Prince Andrew’s recent headlines have played a part?
“When Prince Andrew was side-lined following his car crash interview on ‘BBC’s Newsnight’, this may just have presented the opportunity the Sussexes were looking for,” he suggests.
“Harry may have thought: “If Uncle Andrew is allowed to not carry out his full Royal duties then why shouldn’t I be?”
But Burr also suspects Harry and Meghan may have joined many others in hopping on the new year, new start bandwagon.
“January is a time for New Year’s resolutions and we have seen reports of family lawyers being inundated with record spikes in divorce filings this week after strained relationships are exacerbated over Christmas and New Year,” he explains.
“It seems that now is the time the Sussexes have decided that they are ready to begin the long winded ‘transition’ and ‘adjustment’ to prepare for an amicable separation and even a potential future divorce from the Royal Family.”
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Home US Bolton warns North Korea of more sanctions if it does not denuclearize
Bolton warns North Korea of more sanctions if it does not denuclearize
US national security adviser John Bolton
US national security adviser John Bolton warns of tougher sanctions on North Korea if it does not scrap its nuclear weapons program.
Speaking on Fox Business Network Tuesday, Bolton said the United States would see whether Pyongyang was committed to giving up its “nuclear weapons program and everything associated with it.”
However, he said, “If they’re not willing to do it, then I think President Trump has been very clear … they’re not going to get relief from the crushing economic sanctions that have been imposed on them and we’ll look at ramping those sanctions up in fact.”
The new threat came after the second summit between President Donald Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam ended without any agreement late last month.
The summit collapsed over differences on how far Pyongyang was willing to limit its nuclear program and the degree of US eagerness to ease sanctions. Trump abruptly walked away from the talks and held a press conference shortly afterward.
During the presser, Trump told reporters that “he had to walk away” from the talks because of North Korea’s demands to lift all economic sanctions against Pyongyang as a prerequisite to denuclearization.
However, a few hours later, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho offered a completely different breakdown of the summit, telling reporters in a separate presser that Pyongyang never asked for the removal of all sanctions, but only the partial removal of them.
Bolton said the US would not “buy the same pony that they’ve sold to previous administrations” and called on Pyongyang “to go back and reassess their strategy.”
Accepting Kim’s offer, he claimed, would have “given North Korea a lifeline, giving them a chance to get their breath back economically while potentially still concealing a lot of nuclear weapons capabilities, missiles and the rest of it.”
Trump and Kim met at a historic summit for the first time in June 2018 in Singapore, where they agreed to work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Subsequent diplomacy between the two sides, however, made little progress, mainly because the US refused to lift its crippling sanctions.
Bolton’s remarks also came a few hours after South Korea said that the North began to restore a ballistic missile launch facility it had torn down.
South Korea’s Yonhap news agency cited on Tuesday a report by the country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) as saying that North Korea “appears to be putting back a roof and a door (to a Dongchang-ri facility).”
The site, located in North Pyongan Province, is said to be served as the engine test site and missile launch facility for liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).
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An innovative inpatient program at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital (YNHPH) makes weekday mornings a busy time. That’s when many of the adult patients in the hospital’s four different care units are allowed to choose which group-therapy session to attend that morning. They can opt for the one held just for patients in their unit or for one of two specialized “Treatment Mall” groups that include patients from all four units: general adult, dual diagnosis (psychiatric and substance abuse), adolescent and geriatric.
“We want to be able to provide specialized treatment to all patients, regardless of which unit they are in,” says Beth Klink, LCSW, the hospital’s Assistant Director of Clinical Affairs. “Through the Treatment Mall program, we offer two groups simultaneously so that the patients can select which group best meets their needs, as opposed to us prescribing which group they go to based on what we think they need.”
Launched in May 2011, the unique Treatment Mall initiative grew out of reacting to feedback elicited from routinely administered patient-satisfaction surveys. “They told us they wanted several things,” Klink reports, “such as more privacy in treatment groups, more time off the unit and access to more sophisticated groups.” Using that information, YNHPH developed two new treatment groups in addition to the existing groups within each unit. One provides specialized substance-abuse treatment; the other offers dialectical behavioral therapy, which emphasizes the value of a strong and equal relationship between patient and therapist.
“We start each day with a check-in, during which we ask patients how they’re doing and what they would like to focus on in group treatment that morning,” says Sandra Daignault, LCSW, the clinician who conducts the Treatment Mall’s substance-abuse group. “The patients decide on a daily basis whether they want to attend one of the two specialized groups.”
Based on those discussions, the clinicians put together discussion topics for each day’s groups. “We allow for a lot of autonomy,” Daignault explains, “because sometimes in those morning organizational meetings, we build a good sense of community. We don’t impose what we think would be a rigid structure to follow.”
The Treatment Mall brings together patients who might not otherwise interact. “We find that they’re people of similar motivational levels,” Daignault says. “This program allows for people with common goals to come together, and they enjoy that opportunity.”
The patients also appreciate the staff’s willingness to let them have an active voice in their own treatment. “In surveys, patients mention the level of respect they feel in being allowed to drive the treatment, and us responding, rather than the other way around,” Klink states.
The Treatment Mall is indicative of the patient-centered care that has become the treatment model philosophy at YNHPH. “We’re willing to think out of the box and deliver exactly what people need,” Daignault says. “We have a short-term care program, between seven and ten days, and we don’t want anyone to leave without having their needs met or having coping skills they can utilize afterward for their particular situation. That’s our job and obligation to people.”
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2019-11-25 YOKOHAMA repeats Dakar experience with SsangYong and Spanish Team
YOKOHAMA back to Dakar with SsangYong and Spanish Team
YOKOHAMA joins the most demanding rally-raid challenge in the world once again, with the help of the SsangYong Spain team and its new Korando DKR vehicle. The Óscar Fuertes-Diego Vallejo partnership, which achieved success in 2018 with a second place among the debutants, fourth in T1.3 category and 30th overall and a meritorious third place in category T1.3 and 33º overall in 2019, returns with a new specialised vehicle to meet the new challenges, this time in Saudi Arabia in early 2020.
The team will once again fit the spectacular “GEOLANDAR M / T G003” tyre, which has had a magnificent performance in the previous editions.
From January 5 to 17, the DAKAR will be held in the Middle East, with a heavily demanding route that sets off from Jeddah and concludes in the new mega-centre Al-Qiddiya, just 40 kilometers from the capital Riyadh, where the rest day will take place. The planned route is divided into 12 stages with a total of over 12,000 kilometres including timed stages. The Dakar will go through a wide range of landscapes with diverse challenges.
According to the car manufacturer, with respect to its predecessor - the Rexton DKR of 2019, the new Korando DKR is wider, taller and longer: it measures 4,800 mm long (+100), 2,300 mm wide (+100) and 2,050 mm (+100 ) High. The wheelbase increases from 2,900 to 3,100 mm, although the width of the front and rear tracks remains unchanged (1,880 mm). In race configuration, the SsangYong Korando DKR is around two tons in weight, but is capable of reaching a top speed of 195 km/hr. It also has a new multitubular chassis that significantly reduces the center of gravity, increases stiffness and reduces weight; In addition to other modifications that have enhanced the vehicle.
Meanwhile the YOKOHAMA “GEOLANDAR M / T G003” is an off-road of the GEOLANDAR range for SUVs and Pick Ups. It provides extreme performance in off-road scenarios, from mud to rock, earth and gravel. The tread of the “GEOLANDAR M / T G003” includes a large mesh of blocks and sequential lamellae that help the achieve excellent traction on various off-road surfaces. In addition, the “GEOLANDAR M / T G003” has a thickened side with an aggressive block at the top of the side of the tyre. This block increases resistance to cuts and wear.
In the last edition, driver Óscar Fuertes declared: “The YOKOHAMA GEOLANDAR have driven more than 80% of the time at really low pressures, and have not suffered any deformation. Perhaps the most incredible thing is that in more than 3,000KM of sand, stones, mud and track, we have not suffered a single puncture. ” We are sure that in the 2020 challenge the performance of these tyres will be equally successful.
“GEOLANDAR” is the global brand of YOKOHAMA for SUVs and Pick Ups. Given the global growth in the demand for SUVs and Pick Ups in recent years, YOKOHAMA has accelerated its development and the introduction of new additions to the “GEOLANDAR” range.
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#246 WP-Tonic Wednesday Show:With Special Guest Chris Rogers
This week, Jonathan Denwood and Kim Shivler interviewed Chris Rogers of CraftYada.com. Chris is an actor and WordPress developer who is launching a business to teach people in the Entertainment Industry how to create WordPress websites in order to promote their careers.
He has a niche market that he fully understands. As he explained, part of helping entertainers with their website includes helping them with Social Media. While many of us just think Facebook, Twitter, and maybe LinkedIn, Chris pointed out that for actors you need to have an IMDB profile and make sure you are in directories like Actors Access (http://www.actorsaccess.com/) and Casting Frontier (https://castingfrontier.com/).
Chris also owns a digital media company that includes video production. He explained the importance of having high quality video on your website, and teaches people how to create clips and easily place them on their sites.
While his media business is more established, the classes to help entertainers create websites are part of a new endeavor. He will be targeting entertainers who currently use a Facebook page as their sole website to help them create a true branded site. We look forward to having Chris back in the future to explore his progress.
Find Chris at the following locations:
https://www.chrisrogerstheactor.com/
https://www.chrmedia.com/
https://craftyada.com/
Here’s a Full Transcript of Our Interview Chris
Kim: Hello everybody. Welcome to episode 246 of the WP-Tonic Podcast. Today we are going to be talking to Chris Rogers about building your websites for your entertainment business career. He works with actors and other people in the Entertainment Industry on building sites to promote themselves. And this is going to be a great topic to discuss because it’s something new that we haven’t talked about before on WP-Tonic. I’m going to go ahead and give the team a chance to introduce themselves and then we’re going to jump right into it. Chris, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Chris: Hi, good morning. Thank you so much for having me. I’m originally from real small town in Kentucky. And while I was pursuing my career in LA, I got the chance to go back to school and got a Degree in Multimedia from West LA College, which is right next to Sony Studios in Culver City. And when I first got out of school, I learned how to transfer all my skills as an actor, singer, dancer from in front of the camera to behind it. While I was there, well, I mean, when I first got out of school, that was when the Web was huge. Well, I mean, it still is. But I mean when it was really becoming huge, big. I did like a per project basis on most of the studios around LA. So I got a chance to see both sides of the camera. I got to work on both sides of the camera both as a performer and also as a Web Designer.
And I saw where a lot of the problems where a lot of performers, where they tripped themselves up, where some things that are really important that they just kind of blow off that they don’t really learn in school, but you see where they are so vitally important when you’re on the other side of desk. Just stupid things like showing up on time, knowing your lines. It’s not rocket science. But they don’t really stress that as much when you’re in Acting school. So this is my attempt at showing people, everyone knows that they need a website for their career. But they’re either intimidated by the technology or they don’t want to take the time to learn it or whatever. And so, I’m showing them the path of least resistance, the keep it simple stupid approach to building a website. This is not rocket science. We’re not solving world hunger here. We’re just doing a basic informational website that’s got a couple pictures up there, a resume, some video clips and a way to contact them. If Steven Spielberg is walking through the Web and then decides, “Hey. I need an actor. I need a cop for my next Tom Cruise movie”, or something.
Kim: Excellent. Thank you. And we are going to come back and dig into each of those pieces and what it means for them as we come back. Jonathan, would you please introduce yourself?
Jonathan: Thanks, Kim. I’m the founder of WP-Tonic. We’re a support maintenance company, specializing only in WordPress. We have a specialty with Learning Management Systems. We’re really into that. And before I pass it over back to Kim, I’d like to quickly talk about our sponsor for the show today and that’s IntelligenceWP. And what is that? It’s an amazing plugin that helps you with Google Analytics. Yes, I know, either if you’re doing a site for yourself or for a client, you set up Google Analytics and then you probably, yourself or the client, never goes back to Google Analytics. Where this helps, it gives a fantastic backend interface. It gives an amazing amount of in-depth information and guidance. And backing it are the founders. They will give you free training and support to get the most out of this amazing plugin. To find more, go to the WP-Tonic website. I’ve got it on the WP-Tonic website myself and it’s amazing. Back to you Kim.
Kim: Thank you, Jonathan. And I’m Kim Shivler. I’m a Communications and Technology Instructor and also the co-host now of WP-Tonic. Let’s jump into, I’d like to start really talking about the website for the Entertain Industry. Then talk about some of the choices you made with as you decided to build out an online learning platform around this Chris. And then, also, I think one of the things that’s going to come up through our thread today is how important video is. You’ve already kind of hinted to that as far as helping people with video and it’s just getting bigger and bigger and bigger as we go forward. So I think that will be something we do touch on. So from an entertainer’s perspective, when you’re working with people and you are giving them not just the technical how to, but the strategy of what they specifically need on their website. Are there any specific things that like niche wise are different for them or are there super checklist items that they have to make sure of that maybe you wouldn’t think of if you were working with a restaurant, for example or another type of business?
Chris: Sure. Well, first of all, I have to thank you and to let the audience know that this whole idea came from an inspiring WordCamp presentation that you gave at WordCamp Las Vegas in like 2015 or so, where you talked about the different Learning Management Systems and the options that are out there and membership sites and things like that. I’d never met you before in my life and you just gave a, I just thought a fantastic talk. I think it was a matter of me being at the right place at the right time in my path of WordPress learning as far as being ready to hear what I needed to hear. So I’m a big believer in the WordCamp system and learning from other people that know more than you. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you need to get up and get into a different room. So, the question about the differences between video, as far as, I think with my thing that everybody in the business knows they need a website. But they’re either intimidated by the technology or they don’t want to take the time to learn it.
What I found was that with a lot of the training that I would find, and there’s some great stuff on YouTube, is that they make it so generic that it’s so broad that they talk about so much that doesn’t have any real world, practical implications to what I’m trying to do as a performer. And also, the website is not just for performers. Although I anticipate probably 80 percent will be or a costume designer or a gaffer. Anybody that works in Entertainment business that they could take this class and learn how to create a website for no matter what their profession is. But I do anticipate that 80 percent probably will be actors, is my guess. I’m interested in getting the analytics for that. Hopefully, like within the next couple days or so, I want to have the website to be looked over by my Web Designer. I did all the content, but I had to get someone that is way more uber computer geek than I am in order to do all the supercomputer stuff, the super WordPress heavy stuff to help me with that. So making it more specific instead of talking about your audience saying when a potential Casting Director is looking at your website. So you can’t really do monetization on it. That would be tacky. People do it, but it’s not very business friendly.
Making sure that you have an IMDB presence because that is the industry standard for everything in the business as far as detailed information about your project or you as an actor or whatever. Like with social media, yes Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Yeah. They’re huge. But there’s more of an emphasis on like your casting profiles, like on Actors Access or Casting Frontier or whatever. In fact, I’ll probably write a plugin that’s specifically for the business. Just like how you have a social media plugin for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, I’ll probably do one for IMDB and Actors Access and all the different profiles that as an Entertainment business, you have a profile up there.
Kim: Nice. Okay. So there are very specific things then, as far as entertainers, that are going to be very different than just a generic WordPress. From a content perspective, I just picked up on something. This was not in my list of questions that I already had. But I pick on it as you were saying it. As opposed to writing to, a lot of times what we’re thinking of is our business audience. You might be writing specifically to a Casting Director or that type of person. Are there any keys to copywriting that you would tweak or help them tweak for that through your course?
Chris: Sure. So the basic class, that should be launching in the next couple of days, we just go over the generalities of, this is how you get a blog working. I don’t talk about, in the specifics in this class. But I do in the future will have a specific class for social media and blogging. You don’t want to say anything negative. It’s okay to have an opinion. I love Cate Blanchett. I doubt I would ever say anything against her because she’s just a fantastic actress. But there are other actors that sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re bad. Like my reviews, I always post reviews for the SAG Award movies. Those will be coming out like the next couple weeks or so. And unfortunately, there is, and it’s a valid opinion that you don’t want to say anything negative about a movie. But then, how do you review a movie without, you’ve got to say the positive and the negative.
So I always try to do it from a positive perspective and say why this movie was so great. And then instead of saying like, “Oh, this guy sucked. How did he ever get cast?”, I would say something like, “I’ve seen him better in other movies such as A, B, C, D”. Unfortunately, that does come back to bite you in the behind. Trying to make this PC here. Casting Directors and Agents, they do go back and look at your social media profile. I’ve seen many people post in the Actor Facebook groups that I belong to that when they’re being interviewed for an Agency to make sure there’s no drunken horror pictures on their profile or saying something like, “I just worked with Amy Adams and she came to set drunk every day here”. Something crazy, stupid like that. People do that because they’re actors. They don’t think about the long-term implications of what they’re saying. You could write it today. But then, two years from now, you are interviewing at the same Agency that Amy Adams is at and they would go back and they find that and they think, “Why would I ever want to represent an actor that would say something about someone as fabulously talented as Amy Adams”. So that’s a very real thing. You have to tread that fine line between being honest and being an idiot.
Kim: And then, I know this is something that has happened to me because I’m a trainer and a strategist and I don’t actually provide services anymore. Do you actually provide built for or done for you services? Or if not, do you have someone you’ve partnered with that you can send people to? Because some people just don’t want to build their own site. They want people to at least get the structure for them and then they could possibly blog or something else.
Chris: Sure. I’m sorry. To go back to that previous point about never saying anything bad. But, see, that’s also part of the acting process is that you have to have a coach or a director or somebody that you trust because your acting is not always great. In fact, it’s often bad. And you need someone that you trust to say, “Hey. This is not good. I didn’t believe you when were yelling at this person. That does not look like real life behavior”. So you do need to learn when you’re not good. It’s kind of the opposite of the acting process.
I’m known for being an honest person. I try to live with integrity. And if someone is not good, but you have to tell them in a constructive criticism kind of way, in a positive constructive criticism kind of way. So I didn’t mean that you can never say anything bad. I just mean that you have to put it in a constructive way so that they can learn from it, not to make yourself feel better about putting somebody down because of their acting or whatever. Anyway. I’m sorry. So you were saying, the question was about, who have I worked with?
Kim: Well, no. It’s actually, you’re teaching now. You’re teaching the entertainers how to do this. What is your process for when someone approaches you and says, “I don’t want to learn to do it. I want someone to do it for me”. Do you offer those services? Or if not, do you have someone you’ve partnered with who can offer those services to build the site out for them?
Chris: Yes. I will, in the future, do, first of all, I would do it for them, if that’s an option they want and they don’t want to know. Because I do anticipate doing that for other people because they’re so busy auditioning and running away to Europe to shoot the next Tom Cruise movie or something like that. I’m hoping that, I mean, not hoping, but I’m anticipating that there are working actors that just don’t have the time to do it. And so, because I put so much time in it, I know where all the pitfalls are, where the common problems are. So WP Engine, which is my hosting company, they have a great platform where you can do like a generic version of a site. And then, you can export that site and someone can then import that into their hosting platform and upload the photos and resume and all that jazz. Or I can use that as a starting point to develop generic placeholders, just placeholders of photos and placeholders for video and things like that. And then, I plug in the individual person’s information. That’s another service that I will offer.
Kim: Okay. Very nice.
Chris: So then, all they would do going forward if they want to, is doing a blog. Like talking about their audition for 42nd Street or whatever, so that every day they write something constructive, positive about their career, not, “I went to Starbucks and got a bagel today”. I don’t want to read that crap. And Casting Directors don’t want to read that crap either.
Kim: Put that on Facebook.
Chris: Right. Right.
Kim: Right. Well, first, I want to thank you for …
Chris: But, if you bumped into Cate Blanchett, that would be something worth talking about.
Kim: Yes. Absolutely.
Chris: And give her my phone number.
Kim: Yes. That would be, absolutely. Thank you for the shoutout to me. Yes. We met at that WordCamp and I was speaking about online courses. And I believe that you selected to use Sensei to deliver your training. Is that correct?
Jonathan: But before that Kim, before Chris answers that, we need to go for our break folks. And we’ll be back and Chris can answer that fascinating question in a few moments folks. We’ll be back in a few moments.
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Jonathan: We’re coming back. We’ve had a great conversation with Chris. Hollywood meets WordPress. So, go for it, Kim. Get your question answered.
Kim: So, yes. I remembered that you had selected Sensei to use for your LMS and I was wondering what made you choose that? Were you already a WooCommerce shop, that type of thing.
Chris: Well, there could have been easier solutions like maybe Digital Downloads or there’s a couple of the other ones. But I chose Sensei because one of the other guys that runs a WooCommerce meetup here in Las Vegas, Michael. He knows Sensei very well and I know him personally. So I figured if I had a problem, I could pick up the phone and call him immediately because he knows Sensei very well. And I also rationalized that it’s part of the WooCommerce, I’m sorry, the Automattic family. So Automattic owns Woo and it also owns Sensei. So they are guaranteed to play well together in the sandbox. So that’s another part of my approach to WordPress is that you try to keep it in the family. So like I’m a big proponent of Jetpack. That’s a Swiss Army knife. It’s one plugin that does so many different things well and it’s by the Automattic family. So I figured that all of those things are going to play well together and they’re going to be supported well together. And I also thought that another company could hire me to do their Learning System and Sensei is a huge, there’s so many robust options to it. So I rationalized, even though Sensei could be overkill for my immediate needs, I could see being hired by company to develop their training. And in fact, I do have a food and beverage company here in Las Vegas that has approached me about it. But I haven’t heard back to be a trainer for them to teach how to do their approach to all of their paperwork and their onboarding process. So that’s still a possibility. But I haven’t heard back from them in a month or two so I’m guessing that they went on to somebody else. But that’s how I rationalized choosing Sensei over any of the other learning platforms.
Kim: That actually makes a lot of sense. I would still circle back to them. I like follow up. When I hear you say, “Well, I haven’t heard from them in a couple of months”. That’s when you pick up the phone and you call them. All right. I will get down off of my business coaching soapbox. When you built that first course and then I need to hand this over to Jonathan. I know he’s got some questions. But when you build that first course, as you know, I’m an Education strategist also. That’s actually more my strength than technology even. Were there any challenges you ran into that kind of surprised you? Like you, “You know that piece was a little harder than I thought it was going to be”. Whether it was the technology or something else.
Chris: I would say probably if I had to do this all over again that it’s a time management issue. I’m surprised that it’s taking me this long to get all of this done. Even though I know the subject very well, but it’s like life gets in the way. You’ve got to work. You’ve got to make money. It’s your kid’s birthday. All of these time issues take precedence and it’s so easy to blow it off saying, “Oh, well, I’ll get back to it. I’ll get back to my training tomorrow”. That would probably be one of the things that I was surprised the most about. But also, because I’ve already done it once, now I can see where the pitfalls are, where the time sucking things are and how to plan when I do my next class, which will probably either be the Social Media class or the Video and Graphics class, that I will apply all those things that I’ve learned.
Kim: Excellent. Jonathan, let me hand it over to you.
Jonathan: Thanks, Kim. So Chris, what’s the competition like in this area? I would imagine totally hosted solutions. Are there any other players doing something similar than what you’re proposing?
Chris: Well, the problem is that no one is specifically Entertainment oriented. That’s what I’ve chosen as my vertical niche. I do anticipate, in fact, just a week or so ago, I’ve had so many people say, “You know, you should handle the hosting because that’s really so uber computer geek that it stresses people out”. So I’ll probably offer that like, “Let me handle the hosting issues for you”. But as far as other competitors, because when you call up and have a problem and like, “Why is this not working with the website?”, or whatever, they’re dealing with everybody, every website and whatever business niche that they’re in.
Jonathan: Yeah. Well, I was thinking more and I might be totally wrong here Chris, but are there not kind of websites that have sections for specific actors that you can do searches on particular characters or type of characters and you can do search and find certain groups of actors and look at their profiles. Aren’t there a few websites like that?
Chris: Not so much websites, but there’s like profiles like IMDB, Internet Movie Database. I think that’s kind of what you mean.
Jonathan: Yes.
Chris: But then, there are other industry specific profiles. I guess like Actors Access where every actor has a profile up there and you have your video clips but it’s contained. You can’t, as an actor, come in and look at Amy Adam’s profile. I can’t do that. Casting Directors can and Directors but the individual actor can’t.
Jonathan: Right.
Chris: They wouldn’t be able to really learn or see other clips or the resume or anything like that. They wouldn’t be able to see those kind of profiles.
Jonathan: Yeah. So I think what you’re saying is that they’re out there but they’re quite locked down in feature set. Is that what you’re saying?
Chris: Yeah. And it’s written for those sites or programs for Casting Directors and for Directors who have to log in and get permission to use the process. But just a normal, us mere normal actors, we don’t get access to that.
Jonathan: So do you propose like to have kind of different sections, sections like Invite Only, where the actor could invite people, access to and then have a more public facing side of their website?
Chris: Yes. I do anticipate putting a membership site aspect to the training site. So it would kind of be like an actor could upload their headshot and then everybody in the, and say, “Hey. What do you guys think about this new headshot?”. And then people would give some feedback to it. Or, “What do you think about this new demo reel? Do you like if the reel is 3 minutes long and there’s like 4 different scenes on there? Do you think I should put the first one where I’m on Bosh? Should I put that in the middle or should that go at the end?”. So getting some kind of very specific industry feedback. Yeah. That’s where I plant to head in that direction like in the next 6 months or so.
Jonathan: So, to kind of recap, because I was following the conversation with Kim. The reason why we had Chris on folks is that we thought it’s a fascinating insight about somebody who’s planning, who’s got really a lot of experience in their particular industry, that’s got into the WordPress community and is looking to do something that’s, I feel pretty interesting. And how they’re trying to get all these different parts together into a coherent strategy like dealing with the technology, WordPress plus all the business. And we thought it would a great insight to you the listener. So, when I was listening when Kim was talking to you Chris, there’s going to be various elements to your platform. You’re using WordPress as the key technology. But it’s a platform, isn’t it, really that you’re envisioning to develop. And it’s got the website element, but also, you’re going to provide a lot of training. Because what I think you’re saying is, yes, we get the website up, but they don’t actually know what that really means to get effective results. I’m on the right track there?
Chris: Sure. Because people, actors, they’re not computer geeks like you and me. They don’t think about the broad picture. And I try to tell them how you would use this website. So I usually describe it as a hub that you upload your picture, your resume, some video and all that. So it’s all up there in this hub for you. And then, you blast that central image out to your Casting Director, your Agent, friends and family, your followers, things like that. And it’s not something just kind of hodgepodge put together. But it’s something that you’re actually proud of and that you want to send people. Because so many people are like, “Oh, yeah. I’ve got a website, but it’s not very good”. And so, I want to put together something that they are not just kind of okay with, but they’re proud of and take ownership of to blast out to everybody.
Jonathan: So, do you envision also offering, because you just said that it would have a membership section. I think that was a little bit to the thing I was talking about where you have specific sections that are protected within the owner of that particular website could make public so only certain people can view it. The membership site, are you envisioning then that, not only do you build the website out for your client base, but you also offer a continuous education as a membership set up where you’re continuingly giving up information about how to these actors should market themselves online.
Chris: That is another way of looking at it. I had originally thought that there would be like 6 or 7 different classes that people could log in and take like online classes like a track on Video and Graphics. Like, say you did a movie with Tom Cruise, now how do you get that clip on to the website? Or a Social Media class, how to set up the different profiles for you as an actor and then, or a blog. How do you blog? How do you write articles? How do you optimize it using Yoast? Things like that. There’s like 5 or 6 different classes that I had anticipated doing them like $99 for the whole class for like access for maybe a year is what I was thinking. But the other option would be doing it like on a monthly basis and have access to everything for like $5 or $10 a month or so. That is another way of looking at it. I’m not sure which is the right direction to go yet. But that will take quite a bit of time to develop all of that content. So I probably would do the pay for it and then you get access to it for like a year because I can concentrate on that. And then, I also have to update the other classes, like the basic class, the basic WordPress class. I’ll have to update that or I should after January when the new WordPress comes out and possibly the new theme, the Twenty Seventeen or 17, 20, Twenty Eighteen theme comes out.
Jonathan: Yeah. So I think we’re going to wrap it up for the Podcast folks. But if Chris is up for it, we’ll probably do a kind of mind dump in the bonus content and I’ll put some ideas to Chris, things that you might not have considered. Well, hopefully, if he’s up for that, have a really good conversation.
Chris: Sure. I would be glad to talk more about myself.
Jonathan: Yeah. So, you’ll be able to see that folks on the WP-Tonic website and on our YouTube channel. Before we go, I’m going to let Chris, Chris, how do people get hold of you and learn more about what you’re up to?
Chris: Sure. The website is craftyada.com. That’s craft like you and then the tagline is “You’ve got the Craft – We give you the Yada”. So the idea is that you learned in College or Trade school or whatever how to do your craft, but no one teaches you how to get a job. So this is all of the tools that you need to apply to the Directors or Casting Directors or Unions or whatever. And that’s craftyada.com. And then, if you want to hire me to be in your next movie, my actor profile is chrisrogerstheactor.com. And then, my just basic video production company is chrmedia.com. Those are my initials Chris Roger, chrmedia.com.
Jonathan: That’s great. And Kim, how do people learn more about you Kim?
Kim: You can find me on Twitter @kimshivler or find me online at kimshivler.com.
Jonathan: Oh, that’s great. And if you want to find more about WP-Tonic, that’s the WP-Tonic website, you’ll find all our interviews on there. We have a full transcription of what was said. We’re also in the near future going to be starting a Facebook group and hopefully, we’ll be able to give you details about that soon and you’ll be able to join us in some great discussions on there. Or you can twitter @jonathandenwood. And if you’re really feeling generous, if you could give us a review on iTunes. That really does help the show. We’ve had some good reviews lately and it’s much appreciated. And we’ll see you next week where we’re going to be interviewing somebody doing something interesting with WordPress. We’ll see you next week folks. Bye.
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Bucks roll past Indiana
December 23, 2019 By Bill Scott
The Milwaukee Bucks started slow but came around in the second quarter and pulled away in the second half for a 117-89 win over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday night at Fiserv Forum.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, 19 rebounds and nine assists, falling just short of a triple-double. Wes Matthews led the way with 19 points, while Brook Lopez and George Hill added 17 points each.
The Bucks hit 15 of their 44 three-point attempts and won for the 21st time in their last 22 games.
Domantas Sabonis had 19 points to lead the Pacers. Doug McDermott came off the bench to score 15 points, but the Pacers saw their five-game winning streak come to an end.
Former Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon struggled and finished with 10 points on five of 19 shooting to go along with 10 assists.
The Bucks return to action on Christmas Day at Philadelphia against the 76ers.
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Bucks knock off Lakers in battle of the NBA’s best
The Milwaukee Bucks jumped out to an early lead, led by 19 at halftime and went on to knock off the Los Angeles Lakers 111-104 on Thursday night at Fiserv Forum.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 34 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and made a career high five three pointers. George Hill poured in 21 points off the bench for the Bucks.
Anthony Davis had 36 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Lakers. Lebron James added 21 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, but the Lakers lost their second straight, falling to 24-5.
The Bucks are 25-4, which is the best record in the NBA.
Milwaukee is off today and will travel to New York to face the Knicks on Saturday night.
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Bucks win streak ends at 18 (AUDIO)
The Dallas Mavericks put an end to the Milwaukee Bucks’ 18-game winning streak with a 120-116 victory on Monday night at Fiserv Forum.
Kristaps Porzingis led Dallas with 26 points, 12 rebounds and two blocked shots. Seth Curry had 26 points off the bench, as Dallas improved to 7-2 in their last nine games. The Mavericks played without their top player, Luka Doncic, who was sidelined with an ankle injury.
Giannis Antetokounmpo poured in 48 points and pulled down 14 rebounds for the Bucks, who lost for the first time since November 8th. Kyle Korver hit five three-pointers and finished with 17 off the bench. [Read more…]
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Bucks push win streak to four, knock off Bulls
November 19, 2019 By Bill Scott
Giannis Antetokounmpo compiled 33 points and 10 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks knocked off the Chicago Bulls 115-101 at the United Center in Chicago. The Bucks extended their win streak to four with the final game of their road trip in Atlanta on Wednesday night.
Brook Lopez added 19 points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots and George Hill came off the bench to add 18 for the Bucks (10-3), who improved to 7-2 on the road this season.
Antetokounmpo spent the night in foul trouble and played the final half of the fourth quarter with five fouls but avoided fouling out.
Rookie Daniel Gafford led the Bulls with 21 points off the bench. Coby White added 13 for the Bulls, who lost their third straight, falling to 4-10.
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Bucks pull away to beat Cavaliers
October 29, 2019 By Bill Scott
Khris Middleton – File Photo Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Milwaukee Bucks moved back above the .500 mark with a 129-112 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night at Fiserv Forum.
Khris Middleton led seven Bucks players in double figures with 21 points. He also added eight rebounds. George Hill added 19 and Pat Connaughton added 17 on 6 of 8 shooting off the bench.
Brook Lopez also added 16 points and Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with 14 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists.
The Bucks turned a nine point lead late in the fourth quarter into a 21 point lead, pulling away for the win.
Collin Sexton had 18 points to lead Cleveland. Kevin Love had 15 points and 16 rebounds while Tristan Thompson finished with 17 points and 13 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who fell to 1-2.
The Bucks are off today before facing the Celtics in Boston on Wednesday night.
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Bucks open preseason with victory over Bulls in Chicago
October 8, 2019 By Bill Scott
Brook & Robin Lopez – Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images).
Playing without a number of their regulars, the Milwaukee Bucks opened the exhibition season with a 122-112 win over the Chicago Bulls at the United Center.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Eric Bledsoe, George Hill, Ersan Ilyasova and Kyle Korver all skipped Monday night’s game, as did D.J. Wilson who missed the game with a strained left hamstring.
Both Brook and Robin Lopez did suit up and play for the Bucks. Robin Lopez led the Bucks with 14 points, 5 rebounds and 3 blocks in 19 minutes. Brook Lopez had 13 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in 18 1/2 minutes.
The Bucks also got 12 points and 9 rebounds from Sterling Brown. Point guard Frank Mason III started at point guard and scored 14 points with six assists and four steals in 27 minutes.
Thanasis Antetokounmpo had nine points and 10 rebounds.
The Bucks return home to host the Utah Jazz at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday night.
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Bucks re-sign George Hill
July 9, 2019 By Bill Scott
George Hill – Copyright 2019 NBAE (File Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Milwaukee Bucks announced on Tuesday they re-signed free agent guard George Hill.
Hill was acquired by the Bucks from the Cavaliers in a three-team trade in December and went on to average 6.8 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists over 47 games with the Bucks. He also played in all 15 of Milwaukee’s playoff games, averaging 11.5 points on 53.4% shooting while knocking down 41.7% of his 3-point attempts in addition to 3.5 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 26.3 minutes per game.
The 33-year-old Hill played in 726 games (447 starts) over 11 seasons with San Antonio, Indiana, Utah, Sacramento, Cleveland and Milwaukee after being selected with the 26th overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft out of IUPUI. The Indianapolis native holds career averages of 11.2 points, 3.2 assists and 3.1 rebounds while shooting 45.3% from the field and 37.8% from three. He’s also appeared in 117 playoff games in his career and is averaging 12.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists in the postseason.
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Bucks part company with Malcolm Brogdon
Malcolm Brogdon – Copyright 2016 NBAE (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Milwaukee Bucks were active with the official start of free agency underway on Sunday.
All-star Khris Middleton will sign a five year, $178 million dollar deal to remain with the Bucks. The negotiating period started Sunday and the contracts can become official on July 6th.
Bucks center Brook Lopez agreed to a four-year, $52 million deal.
Veteran guard George Hill was released by the team earlier, then agreed to a lesser deal, three years worth $29 million.
Those deals came at a price. With guard Malcolm Brogdon set to become a restricted free agent, the Bucks sent him to the Indiana Pacers for a first and pair of second round draft picks next year. Brogdon gets a four year deal worth $85 million from the Pacers.
The Bucks could have matched any potential offer from another NBA team for Brogdon, who was a restricted free agent. But the salary cap was going to be an issue and to a certain extent, still is. Somebody had to go and to the Bucks ownership, it made the most sense to deal Brogdon.
Brogdon will certainly be missed, signing Hill helps. They’ll need to get last seasons top draft pick, Donte DiVincenzo, as well as returning players Sterling Brown and Pat Connaughton to step up their game to make up for Brogdon’s departure.
Getting Middleton to return, as well as Lopez in the middle, will go a long way towards helping the Bucks take another run at an NBA title.
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Bucks crushed by Raptors, series tied 2-2
May 22, 2019 By Bill Scott
Khris Middleton – File Photo / Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images).
The Milwaukee Bucks dropped back-to-back games for the first time in the playoffs and just the second time all season, falling to the Raptors 120-102 in Toronto on Tuesday night.
The Bucks shot out of the gate playing well offensively, but that didn’t last long. Defensively, the Bucks didn’t stop the Raptors all night.
Kyle Lowry finished with 25 points, 12 of them coming in the first quarter. Kawhi Leonard had 19 points, Norman Powell added 18 points, Marc Gasol and Serge Ibaka added 17 and Fred VanVleet added 13 for the Raptors.
Khris Middleton led the Bucks with 30 points and dished out seven assists and Giannis Antetokounmpo added 25, with 11 of the 25 coming in the first quarter.
That was it for the Bucks, who got little from Eric Bledsoe again. His minutes dropped to 20. But his replacements, Malcolm Brogdon and George Hill struggled as well, giving the Bucks little from the guard position.
Brogdon, after scoring 20 points in game three, had just four points and missed his first eight shots. George Hill took just two shots.
Ersan Ilyasova picked up four fouls in just 10 minutes and never got into a rhythm. He finished with just seven points.
Whatever coach Mike Budenholzer tried didn’t work as the series draws even at two. Now the Bucks have another quick turn-around, trying to figure out how they can get back on track. Milwaukee hosts game five on Thursday night at Fiserv Forum.
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Bucks grab commanding 3-1 series lead (AUDIO)
May 7, 2019 By Bill Scott
George Hill – Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Milwaukee Bucks struggled early and then saw shooters Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton take a third quarter seat on the bench with foul trouble. But like they’ve done all season, the Bucks bench came to the rescue and outscored Boston 33-23 in the period, on the way to a 113-101 victory over the Celtics.
The win gave the Bucks a 3-1 Eastern Conference semifinal series lead with a chance to wrap it up in five games on Wednesday night at Fiserv Forum.
With the bench mob on the court, the Bucks rallied to take a 10-point lead and took an eight-point lead into the fourth quarter.
Giannis Antetokounmpo returned and scored 17 of his game high 39 points in that final period as the Bucks pulled away for the win. Antetokounmpo also added 16 rebounds to his total. [Read more…]
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Police believe driver passing Montgomery County school bus strikes, critically injures 17-year-old in crosswalk
Walter Johnson High School student taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, officials say.
Author: Khalida Volou (WUSA9)
Published: 8:33 AM EST December 13, 2019
Updated: 1:28 PM EST December 13, 2019
ROCKVILLE, Md. — A 17-year-old Walter Johnson High School student who was in a crosswalk was seriously injured after being struck by a Jeep in Montgomery County on Friday morning, police said.
The incident happened around 7 a.m. in the area of Montrose Parkway and Jefferson Street in Rockville, Md., officials said.
Police believe the driver went past a stopped school bus and struck the teen in the crosswalk. The victim was taken to a hospital with trauma and life-threatening injuries, police said. The condition of the victim was not immediately known.
The driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene, police said.
Investigators are expected to check cameras on the school bus and that of Montgomery County Ride-On bus that was behind the school bus during the incident.
Friday's incident comes one day after another child was struck in Montgomery County.
A 9-year-old girl was struck by a Montgomery County School bus in a residential neighborhood on Thursday. The girl, a student at Bradley Hills Elementary School, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. She later died. She has not yet been identified.
The circumstances around the accident are not yet clear. Authorities continue to investigate the incident.
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Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App
By Kate Payne & Miles Parks • Jan 14, 2020
Precinct leaders across Iowa will use their own smartphones to transmit the results of next month's Iowa caucuses.
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Iowa's Democratic Party plans to use a new Internet-connected smartphone app to help calculate and transmit results during the state's caucuses next month, Iowa Public Radio and NPR have confirmed.
Party leaders say they decided to opt for that strategy fully aware of three years' worth of warnings about Russia's attack on the 2016 presidential election, in which cyberattacks played a central role.
Iowa's complicated caucus process is set to take place Feb. 3 in gymnasiums, churches, recreation centers and other meeting places across the state.
As opposed to a primary in which voters cast ballots in the same way they would for a general election, Iowa's caucuses are social affairs; caucusgoers gather in person and pledge their support for a candidate by physically "standing in their corner" in designated parts of a room.
Iowa's Democrats hope the new app lets the party get results out to the public quicker, says Troy Price, the chairman of the state party.
In an interview, Price declined to provide more details about which company or companies designed the app, or about what specific measures have been put in place to guarantee the system's security.
But security is a priority, he says.
The state party worked with the national party's cybersecurity team, and with Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, but Price declined to answer directly whether any third party has investigated the app for vulnerabilities, as many cybersecurity experts recommend.
"We as the party have taken this very seriously, and we know how important it is for us to make sure that our process is secure and that we protect the integrity of the process," Price says. "We want to make sure we are not relaying information that could be used against us."
Unlike many states in which local and state officials oversee the presidential primary election, in Iowa the state party is responsible for administering, staffing and funding the caucuses, relying primarily on trained but unpaid volunteers.
Cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said that the party's decision to withhold the technical details of its app doesn't do much to protect the system — and instead makes it hard to have complete confidence in it.
"The idea of security through obscurity is almost always a mistake," says Doug Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa and a former caucus precinct leader. "Drawing the blinds on the process leaves us, in the public, in a position where we can't even assess the competence of the people doing something on our behalf."
Cyber concerns
The Iowa Democrats' plan is for caucus leaders to compile the results from participants and submit them to the central party via their smartphone apps. In the past, the leaders might have called in the results over the phone.
Because caucusing is an in-person process, verified by witnesses, there is virtually no risk that a cyberattack on the app could change the results of the caucus and go undetected.
If the wrong results were reported because of a hack, there would be people from each precinct who could correct it, and paper records.
But the damage to public confidence would be catastrophic, Jones says, if a hack caused the wrong winner to be called on caucus night and then that announcement had to be retracted.
"Once you report something, it's really hard to undo it, no matter how many retractions you print, no matter how many apologies you say, it's too late," Jones says. "From that point of view, someone hacking the reporting process, even though its purpose is entirely informal, not intended to have any permanent importance, is something that could be very disruptive."
A number of other potential vulnerabilities could also be introduced by using the technology, experts say.
If the app doesn't work, either because a denial of service attack clogs the system or for any other reason, then there could be confusion at precincts across the state, and a potential delay on a winner being announced.
State Dems promise contingency plan
Price, the state chairman, says Iowa Democrats have "redundancies built into the system," including a hotline to accept results, but declined to further detail those as well.
Should the app go down for any length of time, the party would need to receive hundreds, if not thousands, of phone calls from the state's 1,679 precincts.
Still, Price says he's confident in their contingency planning.
"If there's a challenge, we'll be ready with a backup and a backup to that backup and a backup to the backup to the backup," Price says. "We are fully prepared to make sure that we can get these results in and get those results in accurately."
It's unclear how similar this year's app is to one developed by Microsoft and a private contractor that was used by both parties in 2016.
Price did confirm that the app again would be downloaded onto the personal smartphones of the caucus precinct and party leaders, and not onto party-provided hardware.
That could make the system a more appealing attack target, according to Betsy Cooper, director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub at the Aspen Institute, because peoples' phones also may contain sensitive messages, emails and passwords.
"I sure hope the engineers building it are among the best on the planet," Cooper says.
Price said when designing the app, the developer considered the close proximity to potentially sensitive information, but he again didn't detail exactly how that information would be protected.
Four years ago, Russian attackers hacked into the email accounts of prominent Democrats and weaponized the information they stole throughout the election year.
Cooper said that the party could, if it wished, disclose who developed the app or the types of testing that had been done on it without "giving away the keys to the kingdom and making it easier for hackers to get in."
"Basic transparency about how it was built, how up to date the security of the app is and how it's been tested all could be made publicly available with little cost to the DNC," she says.
Price said that some details would be unveiled about the app to reporters and the public in the days leading up to the caucuses, but he did not commit to revealing the identity of the developer. Less than three weeks before the caucuses, precinct chairs have not yet gotten access to the app.
Questions beyond security
Internet connectivity and tech literacy in Iowa have improved over the past four years. Local party leaders say they expect that more precinct chairs will own smartphones and be more comfortable using an app this cycle than during the previous one.
Still, in more rural parts of the state, some Iowans have been slow to adopt to technology, according to Gary Gelner, who chairs the Hancock County Democratic Party in north central Iowa. There may be some lingering skepticism.
"At least everybody with smartphones is gonna do it, I know that," Gelner says. "You'd be surprised how many people up here got the old flip cellphones."
Gelner was skeptical of the party moving to a caucus night reporting app in 2016. Though he's more optimistic this year, he's still wary of a process that he says could delay the release of the closely watched results.
Gelner said one of his precinct chairs in 2016 resorted to phoning in his results, only to find he couldn't connect.
"He called in and he tried for half an hour and he couldn't get through," Gelner said.
An insecure ecosystem
The Iowa Democrats' app will theoretically allow the state party to report the results much quicker than a phone-based system, and it may also help local party leaders with what's referred to as "caucus math."
A party manual says the app will "automatically calculate the number of delegates" presidential contenders are awarded, based on a formula involving the number of supporters for each candidate, the total number of delegates awarded and overall turnout.
But as is the case with much in the world of voting technology, things that make voting easier or more efficient can also introduce new unforeseen issues.
Travis Weipert is the top elections official in Iowa's most Democratic County, Johnson County, and this cycle he'll also be volunteering to oversee a caucus site as a precinct chair.
He says his experiences as an elections administrator make him skeptical of any system that mixes democracy and the Web.
"As long as you're staying off the Internet, then there's no connectivity, your chances of an issue are almost zero," Weipert said. "It's when you get on the Internet and security patches haven't been made that you open yourself up [to hacking]."
Weipert says there is a tendency for some local officials to underestimate the interest that foreign powers or bad actors may have in their elections. While he says he's doubtful "rogue states" would target the caucuses, he says it's something party leaders have to consider.
This is the second time in the past few months that the Iowa Democratic Party has had cyber experts questioning its commitment to security.
Last year, under pressure from the Democratic National Committee to increase accessibility at its famously arcane caucuses, the state party proposed a plan to allow Iowans to caucus remotely.
Internet and phone-based voting systems are considered notoriously insecure however, and the national party said there wasn't a system available secure enough to support such an idea.
So that plan was scrapped.
Jones, the University of Iowa cybersecurity specialist, says transmitting results from precincts to the state party through a smartphone app isn't as insecure as the virtual caucus plan — but that it's still insecure for the same reasons.
"The entire ecosystem of smartphones is extraordinarily poorly secured," Jones said. "And resting security functions on that ecosystem is something I don't trust at all."
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Watch Bill Murray, John Prine and the SteelDrivers’ Surprise Opry Collaboration
Actor and comedian Bill Murray made his Grand Ole Opry debut on Tuesday night (Sept. 25) -- a surprise to the crowd gathered for the evening's show. Unannounced, Murray joined bluegrass band the SteelDrivers and another surprise guest, John Prine, for a performance of Prine's song "Paradise."
Readers can press play above to watch the SteelDrivers, Prine and Murray harmonize on "Paradise." Written by Prine, the song appears on his 1971 self-titled debut album.
Murray has been known to show up in seemingly random places: at karaoke in New York City, at an ice cream social and for engagements and weddings. The Tennessean reports that Murray was spotted at the Nashville airport on Monday, helping travelers to their cars.
Murray and the SteelDrivers' relationship goes back to 2009, when they both appeared in the movie Get Low. The actor and the band have reportedly remained good friends since. In 2017, Entertainment Weekly reports, Murray bought up the remaining tickets to one of the band's shows in Charleston, S.C., and handed them out to fans in line at the box office.
Tuesday was also the night of up-and-coming country singer Tyler Rich's Grand Ole Opry debut. On Twitter, the artist shared a photo from the big night and joked, "It was both mine AND Bill Murray’s #opry debut tonight."
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All Blogs, Articles, Author Articles, Current Affairs, Economics, History, International Affairs, Middle East, Military History, Politics May 8, 2012
The Forever Wars: Author David Keen discusses how global conflicts are deliberately sustained
David Keen
David Keen is the author of the controversial new book Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them. Here he discusses conflicts in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and investigates the way these conflicts are wilfully sustained and the methods used to perpetuate them.
Article by David Keen
My book Useful Enemies is really an exploration of the nature of war, and some of its origins lie in an investigation I conducted in the late 1980s into a human-made famine in central-southern Sudan – an area suffering at the time from a bitter civil war and still subject to violence and famine today.
The famine in 1988 saw some of the highest mortality rates ever recorded, and had a number of additional characteristics that were profoundly disturbing. First of all, it was driven by government-supported militias who were being used by Khartoum to conduct a cheap counter-insurgency operation (against the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army) whilst also avoiding the necessity of a politically-unpopular draft. It was a tactic that has been repeated several times since then – not least in Darfur.
Second, the famine areas correlated significantly with those areas that were richest in oil. Famine represented a way of depopulating resource rich areas so that the Khartoum government, weighed down by international debts that reflected in part the surging price of oil in the 1970s, could gain forcible access to this oil even in the face of rebel opposition.
Third, the price movements that surrounded – and helped to create – the famine were also yielding beneficiaries. Army officers and merchants were colluding to restrict flows of grain to the south, sometimes bribing railway workers so that they would not deliver this aid. Meanwhile, the officers and traders were involved in selling overpriced commercial grain in famine-stricken towns and in prioritising the delivery of military supplies on what were supposed to be ‘relief’ trains. Meanwhile, livestock traders – some of them involved in funding the militia – were buying Dinka cattle at drastically reduced prices; and the labour of captured Dinka was also sometimes available for free – effectively a re-birth of slavery.
A fourth notable and disturbing aspect of the crisis was that the militia raiding was often directed against areas that had little or no connection to the rebel SPLA (but nevertheless significant resources, whether cattle, grazing land or oil). These raids tended to be militarily counterproductive insofar as they created rebel recruits, but the raids nevertheless served important economic functions. Even the expansion of the SPLA may have conferred some surprising benefits, since it provided a growing pretext for this exploitative economic system.
Finally, the international community was afflicted by damaging ‘blind spots’. One was the Cold War lens that posited Khartoum as an ally and the rebels as ‘Communist’. Another was the prevailing technical approach to relief – essentially a matter of counting numbers of ‘needy’ and numbers of displaced people, dispatching an equivalent amount of food to the general area, and hoping that they would receive it. In circumstances where famine was being artificially and intentionally fostered by the government, this strategy was not only doomed to failure; it also ended up playing into the government’s hands – particularly when relief was effectively positioned right on the edge of the zone that Khartoum wished to depopulate. Meanwhile, even a failed relief operation, I came to realise, could be made to look like a success – for example, by covering up information on relief diversion or by presenting the non-arrival of relief as a successful attempt to prevent ‘dependency’!
My interest in the paradoxical nature of modern war – and the proliferation of goals other than winning – was further stimulated by research in Sierra Leone at the height of the civil war there (in 1995) and again when the situation was calming down (in 2001). The Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone had been widely – and rightly – condemned for their brutality against civilians, which included amputations and rape. But what most actors – including the major ‘players’ in the international community – seemed to be missing was just how pervasive was the complicity of a variety of powerful actors in the rebellion that they claimed to be opposing or suppressing.
One element of this complicity was when politicians from the ousted single party regime (the All People’s Congress) gave covert support to the rebels. Another was when families aspiring to the post of village chief supported rebels that were attacking their local rivals. A third element (and the most significant) was when government soldiers – generally poorly trained, poorly paid and poorly equipped – were drawn into a strange kind of symbiotic relationship with the rebels that included selling weapons to rebels in exchange for diamonds. Government soldiers would also engage in attacks on civilians (sometimes dressed as rebels with red bandanas) and they frequently proved more interested in taxing agricultural produce and in diamond mining than in confronting the elusive rebels. Battles were rare, and ‘both sides’ engaged in widespread attacks on civilians that predictably attracted support for ‘the other side’. At the same time, a climate of violence to which many government soldiers were contributing helped to legitimise the troops’ lucrative presence in resource-rich areas. Meanwhile, siphoning off international aid also became a significant part of this exploitative economic system.
SPLA fighters posing with a downed fighter jet
A psychological element to the war also began to suggest itself. By talking with civilians, ex-rebels or ‘rogue’ government soldiers, I got a sense of how their self-righteousness and of how the violence of fighters on ‘both sides’ had been intensified when these fighters – particularly some government soldiers who had started with good intentions – were subjected to blanket criticism by civilians (who were increasingly arming themselves in opposition to the army and the rebels). In his book Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, psychiatrist and prison reformer James Gilligan draws on his interactions with violent criminals in the US and observers that nearly all of them were using violence in response to a perceived threat of humiliation or shame. Exploitation in Sierra Leone generated a threat of shame, which tended to redouble the violence.
Meanwhile, even the civil defence fighters, nurtured as a valuable counter to the ‘twin threat’ of rebels and government soldiers, were sometimes sucked into this whirlpool of abuse. So too were many West African peacekeepers, sent by countries such as Nigeria in an attempt to restore some kind of order. Civilians began to recount how the lure of diamonds was encouraging both the civil defence and the West African peacekeepers to ‘take their eye off the ball’; meanwhile, a gathering chorus of civilian criticism was helping to harden the hearts of even those civil defence members and international peacekeeperes who had initially been well intentioned.
Within and beyond Sierra Leone, the dangers in assuming that war is ‘all about winning’ seemed to me to be more and more pressing. It became more clear to me that the aim in a war may not be to win so much as to maintain a state of emergency in which the pursuit of economic exploitation and political repression can take place with a high degree of impunity. In that sense, the enemy may be profoundly useful – and the incentive to eliminate the enemy may be surprisingly weak. Meanwhile, tactics that predictably create new enemies (like attacking civilians) become more explicable. Rather than dismissing them as ‘irrational’ or as ‘mistakes’, it may be possible to explain them.
If war has important political and economic functions, these are likely to spill over into peacetime. This became especially clear to me during a research visit to Guatemala in 2003. Strictly speaking, the country’s long civil war was over. But various actors associated with the counterinsurgency – especially the military and a number of retired Generals – found cover for repression and renewed exploitation under the cover of a ‘war on crime’ and a ‘war on drugs’. When you take seriously the many functions of war (rather than assuming that the only aim is to win), the boundaries between war and peace begin to blur.
Information coming out of diverse crises around the world – from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Afghanistan, for example – was making it increasingly obvious that many local actors have benefited from the impunity provided by a publicly (and often internationally-backed) war against this or that ‘demon’ enemy. Such enemies included the militias linked to the Rwandan genocide (the demon enemy in DRC), the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in Uganda, and the Taliban rebels in Afghanistan.
In the DRC, the major role of the Rwandan and Ugandan governments in fuelling conflict (a conflict that killed perhaps 5.5 million people in the decade from 1998) was obscured by an international focus on reviving post-genocide Rwanda and on the need to confront groups linked to the Rwandan genocide. Yet Rwandan and Ugandan troops often proved much more interested in making money than in confronting the ‘genocidaires’.
In Afghanistan, conflict and aid have been manipulated for the benefit of actors linked to the Afghan government, and this mirrored an earlier manipulation of conflict and aid during Vietnam War (where aid similarly served as an incentive for prolonging armed conflict). Yet aid continues to be posited as something that can ‘win hearts and minds’ in the midst of a ruthless insurgency confronting a deeply corrupt government – an example of wishful thinking that would be crazy if it were not also serving to legitimise unwinnable wars and to protect the budgets of official Western aid agencies. These agencies have defended themselves against government cuts by insisting that aid is a key route to security (whether Western security or security in a country like Afghanistan).
Al Qaeda, meanwhile, has proven to be an extremely useful enemy for many powerful players – not least for repressive governments in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Uzbekistan and elsewhere. We have heard about the failure of the Pakistan government to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when he was living a short distance from a major military base. Rather than being an isolated example, this ‘failing’ seems to reflect a surprising (and often functional) ‘incompetence’ in relation to demonized enemies in many parts of the world. Expressing hostility towards a given enemy may be far more useful than actually capturing him.
Taliban fighters – a useful enemy?
Even the Sudan got some benefits from expressing a readiness to help with operations against bin Laden. The Khartoum government got some degree of impunity for its abuses in Darfur from cooperating with Washington over the ‘war on terror’ (including tracking the finances of bin Laden, who had earlier lived in Sudan). Meanwhile, with the Cold War waning, a huge military and numerous related industries in the US in particular found a renewed justification for their existence in the new threats of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ and (particularly after 9/11) al Qaeda. My research among US veterans disillusioned with the Iraq war underlined the futility of this enterprise – again, a predictably counterproductive one when it came to ‘winning’ – as well as the diverse functions that such a ‘failing’ enterprise appears to be serving.Meanwhile, influential writers (like Thomas Barnett in The Pentagon’s New Map) have been peddling their vision of ‘endless war’, a world where the US has the right to declare ‘pre-emptive’ war on pretty much anyone in the name of confronting demon enemies. It is as if the US, like many repressive governments in poorer countries, has declared a permanent ‘state of emergency’ that gives it great leeway to do whatever it wants.
The impunity generated by a ‘war on terror’ was underlined when I visited Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan government’s ruthless military campaign against the rebel Tamil Tigers and associated civilians in 2009. The Tigers had been labeled as ‘terrorists’ in the US and the European Union and in the ‘war on terror’ tactics like indefinite detention of terrorist suspects had been embodied at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. In this context, it became very difficult for Western governments to object to the ruthless elimination of the Tigers and perhaps 40,000 civilians in 2009, and the Colombo government found an opportunity to present the indefinite detention of some 290,000 Tamil civilians as somehow normal and a necessary ‘anti-terrorist’ measure. Meanwhile, the intensified war yielded major electoral pay-offs for Mahinda Rajapakse (who became President in 2005) as well as for nationalist Sinhalese parties.
Significantly, when the war against the Tamil Tigers was declared over, the state of emergency continued and the government actually increased the size of the army – saying it was necessary to deter terrorism and to promote development. Whether you can actually defeat a separatist movement by humiliating and incarcerating virtually an entire ethnic group (as well as wiping out thousands of civilians) is very much open to question – particularly since any revival of violent protest among the Tamils is likely to get strong support from an incensed (and often wealthy) Tamil diaspora.
Looking at all these crises together, it becomes possible to discern a pernicious ‘war system’ where abusive and exploitative wars at the local level are reinforced by self-interested global wars. Counterproductive tactics (whether it is attacking civilians in Sierra Leone or attacking Iraq in the ‘war on terror’) have been so prevalent and so persistent that one eventually has to abandon the assumption that the aim in a war is to win.
Useful Enemies by David Keen
Where a particular enemy is reviled as the embodiment of evil (whether Communism during the Cold War or terrorism today), the opportunities for abuse and enrichment by those who claim to eliminate this evil are manifold. And these abuses, for the most part, have been systematically covered up. Meanwhile, analysis – like that of Paul Collier – which pins virtually all the blame for civil war on rebel groups risks feeding this damaging impunity. It is high time we moved beyond pointing the finger at some readily identifiable ‘evil’ and began to recognise that many different groups – often linked to governments, including our own – have benefited from abusive war systems.
In other words, we need to recognise just how useful ‘the enemy’ has become – both in a practical sense and as a means of not taking responsibility for our own role in global violence.
David Keen, professor of complex emergencies at the London School of Economics, is also the author of Endless War?, The Benefits of Famine, and Complex Emergencies. He lives in Oxford.
Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them is available now from Yale, and has been chosen as one of the 21 Books to Read in 2012 by Foreign Policy Magazine
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Digital Tools to Sift Through WikiLeaks’ 9/11 Messages
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Programmers are introducing tools to analyze the hundreds of thousands of pager messages, supposedly dating from Sept. 11, released last week by WikiLeaks, an organization that releases sensitive documents and materials.
More than half a million messages were released by WikiLeaks, which has not disclosed who turned over the messages. Jeff Clark, a data visualization research who is not involved in WikiLeaks, interpreted the data in the aggregate, creating a video that shows the most commonly used terms that day, like “complex has evacuated” or “possible terrorist act.” The words grow brightest when they hit their peak and are sized by how frequently there were used.
“I recognize the pager data was very much like Twitter data, because it’s basically a time stamp with a bit of text,” said Mr. Clark, who had done work with Twitter.
He also created small time lines showing when certain key phrases hit their peaks, and then ordered the phrases by the peak time to create a moving narrative of the day.
Over the weekend, another programmer, Colin Keigher, created a searchable database of the messages, which makes them much easier to parse than the original 40-megabyte file. “I made it in a format that was easier for everyone else,” he said.
There is no way to verify the authenticity of the messages, and the programmers say their data comes entirely from WikiLeaks.
Daniel Schmitt, a spokesman for WikiLeaks, said that the organization would not reveal the source of the intercepted messages, but that the messages represented the traffic on the top four pager services at the time. The pages were identified by message number, but it was not clear from most of the messages who was the sender and who was the recipient. The messages come from a program that was monitoring such messages before Sept. 11 attacks even took place, and Mr. Schmitt said the organization believed it had been given the information to raise awareness around issues of privacy and data retention.
The search tools allow people to find the individual messages, which are chilling — especially ones from the front lines of the emergency personnel and airline employees who were watching everything unfold in real time. Of the voluminous mass of messages, a few stood out. (The messages cited below are quoted verbatim, including errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation.)
After the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, crashed at 8:46 a.m. into the World Trade Center’s north tower, the initial impression at 8:50 a.m. was that the explosion may have been a bomb:
1)BOMB DETINATED IN WORLD TRADE CTR. PLS GET BACK TO MIKE BRADY W/A QUICK ASSESSMENT OF YOUR AREAS AND CONTACT US IF ANYTHING IS NEEDED
The first, spartan message sent out by New York police officials was no more alarming than numerous emergencies that the police had dealt with before:
“NYPDOps Div” < |1 PCT WORLD TRADE CENTER|--- 1 PCT -- WORLD TRADE CENTER -- POSSIBLE EXPLOSION WORLD TRADE BUILDING
But it soon became clear that it was a plane crash, and news organizations from NBC to CNN began reporting the story — initially described by many as an accident involving a small plane. But a message sent at 8:58 a.m. — four minutes before the second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, hit the World Trade Center’s south tower — apparently revealed that someone understood that American Airlines 11 had been hijacked.
Initialreports indictate that AAL11, B767, after initial hijacking on flight from BOS-LAX, has crashed into the side of the World Trade Center in ATCSCC/bl
Another message at 9:02 a.m. showed that the news was traveling.
BREAKINGNEWS: PER OPB, IT APPEARS AA 757 HIJACKED AND RUN INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. THIS IS NOT A JOKE AND JUST BREAKING RICK-Rick
Minutes later, at 9:04, one of the first reports of the second plane crash was sent, though many were watching on television at the time.
anotherexplosion wtc!!!.
At that point, terrorism started being raised as a possibility.
But one of the most chilling messages was one apparently sent at 9:12 a.m. as internal United Airlines communication:
AAL757 has crashed into the world trade center… were missing UAL 175.(767) and a 2nd aircraft has crasshed into the other twr of the World Trade Center. Barber
By 9:16 a.m., both airplanes had been identified:
EWRarpt clsd by PONYA: 2nd a/c has impacted WTC; ZNY ATC 0 due events; unable to confirm but believe aircraft were AAL11 BOS-LAX; and UAL175 NY ATCSCC/bl
Within a minute of the 9:37 a.m. plane crash into the Pentagon, pager messages trickled out, many from Defense Department employees or visitors: “Explosionat Pentagon too,” “anexplosion at the Pentagon Bldg. This bizzare!” “PENTAGONMAY HAVE HAD TROUBLE,” “Blast@ Pentagon|Just a few ago.”
At 10:01 a.m., reports of the south tower collapse appeared: “Southerntower collapse,” “Oneof the towers has now collapsed,” “heENTIRE Tower has collapsed. All 110 floors GONE!!!”
And by 10:02 a.m., the possibility of a fourth hijacked plane was raised: United Airlines 93, which crashed 80 miles southwest of Pittsburgh just seconds before the message below was sent.
ANOTHERPLANE INBOUND FROM PITTSBURGH HIJACKED NO OTHER DETAILS JOC
Within hours of the initial attacks, some messages raised the possibility that Osama bin Laden might be behind the attacks: “Ben Laden most likely responsible,” “Justchecking in. They don’t know who is responsible yet (they think Laden),” “Osama bin Laden top of suspect list for Robyn” and “OsamaBin Louden gave a report to an Arabic newspaper that the US was going to suffer attacks.”
The messages were also full of early misinformation. One message repeated a false report that the military had brought down United Airlines 93 in Somerset County, Pa., while others echoed reports of a fire on the Washington Mall.
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Hey....
Hi..... has anyone found any 'juicy bits' amongst all those messages....?? Let us all know...
you know something along the lines...... "Agent Keith here.. it's a balls-up, WT7 still standing"
Mr D on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 6:19pm.
But there was a shoot down
" In response to: One message repeated a false report that the military had brought down United Airlines 93 in Somerset County, Pa., while others echoed reports of a fire on the Washington Mall."
But I thought the video evidence showed that a shoot down did in fact take place--the video footage near that white garage which shows impact holes from the jet engines and various other parts.
Ferric Oxide on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 6:34pm.
Skytel [003262470] B ALPHA Hard to believe, after all the "dry" runs , it actually happened. Call you when the smoke clears. RAS.2001-09-11 14:00:05 Skytel [002375330] A ALPHA proot at iaces.com||F:
On the 11th day, of every month.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9nRs8cu5Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftruthaction...
Robert Rice on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 1:32am.
And therefore, whoever sent that, appears to have been
directly complicit in an act of mass murder of American innocents, on behalf of hte likes of Dick Cheney and others.
I was having a hard time finding this because of the time stamp on the beginning of the next message you have posted, but this is incredible. It looks like it was sent at 21:58:31, which I think would equate to 9:58:31 pm. I only wish we could determine sender and receiver from this data.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry
Dave Nehring on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 9:09am.
That message is ambiguous
The "dry runs" could refer to WTC 1993 bombing, and the presumption that terrorists did it.
simuvac on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 9:51am.
After "ALL" the "dry" runs?
everyone knows damn well what those dry runs means, and it's not the first WTC bombing, singular.
Robert Rice on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 10:38am.
All of those messages, and there are more, from that ID number are by IT people at Fidelity. Though there is insufficient evidence to say with absolute certainty, "dry runs" almost certainly refers to numerous terror drills that Fidelity, like all the big banks, made their employees go through after the '93 bombing and Okla City.
If you had bothered to do just a tiny bit of research, like searching the ID number and reading other pages from that number, you could have figured this all out by yourself. But instead, you took the slightest suggestion of what you wanted to hear, and declared that it should be "an article on 911blogger's home page".
And people wonder why the 911truth movement has faltered. I see this crap constantly. "Wirt Walker is related to the Bush Walkers". Why? Because they share the same last name? Apparently, despite the fact that Walker is one of the most common surnames. It took some effort, but I was able to ascertain with absolute certainty that Wirt Walker is NOT related to the Bush Walkers in about 2 hours.
And yet this bullshit is repeated on the internet constantly.
metalious on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 7:36am.
Please show your research
for that claim, and I'll be happy to admit I was wrong.
Robert Rice on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 10:35pm.
It doesn't even take that. Just open the pager intecrpts text file and hit Ctr F (Cmd F Mac) and search the message ID number you posted above (003262470). There are dozens of messages from the same number and you can simply read them by hitting "Next" in the search window.
Here's one though:
2001-09-11 10:57:31 Skytel [003262470] B ALPHA Upd-CSC/7777: NY update. All non-essential Fidelity employees are being sent home for the day. Updates to follow. (KRC 10:52)
metalious on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 1:49am.
I was wrong
I made a false assumption, and if something is "debunkable" then it most certainly should not "lead", but I'm sure you can understand how I and others jumped to the wrong conclusion as to the source of that message and its meaning.
BUT, you may have also drawn a false conclusion from a false assumption by indicating that it was surely just a statement in relation to terror drills, conducted by banks and financial institutions, because of the first WTC bombing or in the wake of the Oklahoma City boming. You may be right, or, it COULD be an 'insider' who was referring to the many dry runs in the lead up to 9/11 which involved the use of hijacked airliners being used as misssiles, to target the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, among other scenarios, and those particular "dry runs" did occur, were many, and appear to have increased and intensified during the six months before the 9/11 event.
So we cannot be certain as to the intent of the message writer, but you could be right.
Robert Rice on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 1:45pm.
... that's a good one..... cheers.
Mr D on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 7:51am.
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Awesome find!!!
You're the man, Robert!
And you're right, this wasn't a ref to 1993. The "dry runs" (plural) are clearly the war game exercises simulating the exact same scenario.
Bumped to the top for the tracker...
Adam Syed on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 4:25pm.
I didn't find it
it was a forum member of letsroll911forums who found it
http://letsrollforums.com/suspicious-messages-skytel-9-t19821.html?t=19821
It's an amazing and very telling find. Someone should go ahead and do more research on it and then create a post for the front page news of 911blogger, and maybe get it posted as a story over at Prison Planet and Rense as well - fire it out like a little truth bomb. Have at it! It's important that people hear about it I think.
This is JUST the kind of thing the PTB are scared shitless over, and it's always nice to put pressure on the perps.
Could the author of this text message possibly be indentified for example, and what sector of government was on the Skytel network..? Lots of questions.
I too thought that it was an amazing and incredible find when I first saw it. So I'm just passing along the info, but it sure wasn't my discovery.
Robert Rice on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 10:06pm.
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Alexia Coppini is a Maltese painter who creates fantastic seascapes and ethereal skies.
The common thread in Alexia's paintings is representations of big skies and vast seas. They represent the natural environment in the most tranquil manner. Alexia lives by the sea and is therefore easily absorbed by the beauty of the sea and the natural environment. Alexia's paintings evoke a sense of the spiritual as well as the fluid nature of the sea, and the light in the air creates a play with memory in timelessness.
Her interest in art started when she was at school and continued later in life. Alexia studied art under the guidance of Ms Margaret Chircop, her art teacher at the Convent of the Sacred Heart. During these years she developed her talent and later discovered that life could be better fulfilled through artistic expression that gives satisfaction not only to herself but also enjoyment to whoever shares in her work. Later in life Alexia attended art courses by Mr Anton Calleja and Ms Debbie Caruana Dingli. The artist is versatile in various subjects, which include portraits, still life and animals. For her the natural environment is a great source of inspiration.
Alexia's attitude to her art and to creativity is two-fold: an intimate eye for what is beautiful and appealing in nature and her emotional connection with the world.
Through her art Alexia is lives in times of joy and serenity. It is another artistic statement in her continuous exploration of nature. The artist's pictorial vocabulary is made of imaginative harmonies which are not difficult to forget. And yet her canvases have another function, which is to make us escape from our modern crises, and which ultimately reveal an aesthetic sensibility towards nature.
Alexia has exhibited in various collective exhibitions and no less than 22 most successful solo shows at: Artitude Gallery, The Malta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on board The MS Hera, The Royal Malta Yacht Club, The Malta Maritime Authority, Hilton Olbia - Sardinia, Brown's - Valletta Waterfront, The President's Palace, San Anton, The Art Lover's Gallery in Porto Cupecoy, St Maartin, The Caribbean, The Plaza Mall, Sliema, The Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Alexia Coppini Fine Art Gallery, Sliema, Casa Ellul, Valletta, Le Meridien Hotel, St Julians, Spinola Terrace, St Julian's Malta, Sonesta Maho Resort, St Martin, The Caribbean and The Phoenicia Hotel, Malta, The Monestary of Ochsenhausen, Germany and Gallery 23, Malta. These exhibitions have aroused interest in her works and introduced her to an ever widening clientele.
She has personally presented two paintings, a seascape and an abstract, to the Board of the Royal Academy of Arts in London for inclusion in their regular Summer exhibition. Alexia has been entrusted with various important commissions in Malta, and apart from exporting numerous works has also travelled to Holland to carry the execution of large murals.
In July 2019, she was invited to exhibit 5 of her seascapes in the Anton Schranz exhibition held in Ochsenhausen, Germany.
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Woodward Reveals Obama Wars Truths
Wednesday - July 13, 2011
In his book Obama’s Wars (September, 2010), Robert Woodward describes in great detail the process by which President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Gen. David Petraeus, Chief of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and their respective staffs and advisers negotiated a strategy and time line for the Iraq-type “surge” and ultimate withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Through Woodward’s narrative, the president made it clear the domestic political outcome was more important to him than the ultimate military outcome in Afghanistan.
Woodward describes the December 2009 scene where the president has summoned moderate Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham to the Oval Office to solicit his support in closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo. Graham told him, “I don’t know if I can.” And furthermore, that to try any of the 9-11 suspects in civilian courts would be “a strategic blunder.” While leaving the Oval Office, Graham complimented the president on his speech at West Point, in which he had said U.S. troops would begin withdrawing from Afghanistan in July of 2011. He went on to ask, “But tell me about July, 2011. Is it a goal, which I would share, or is it a withdrawal date no matter what?”
Woodward, of Watergate fame, writes: “Obama didn’t answer immediately.”
“Let me tell you what Secretary Clinton said,” Graham explained standing in the doorway to the Oval Office. “She said it’s a policy based upon conditions.”
“Well,” the president said, “if you’d asked me that question, what I would say is, ‘We’re going to start leaving.’ I have to say that. I can’t let this be a war without end, and I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”
“Mr. President,” Graham said, “let’s just don’t let that statement get so much attention.” (Woodward: “That acknowledgement would make it difficult for the president to get Republican support.”)
“This is tough,” Obama replied, repeating his concern. “I can’t lose all the Democratic Party. And people at home don’t want to hear we’re going to be there for 10 years.”
“You’re right,” Graham said, “But the enemy is listening too.”
“Thank you,” the president replied.
End of scene!
Woodward makes it quite clear the president’s goal was to weaken the Taliban to the point they would be willing to stop fighting and negotiate a role in the Afghan government. Then elaborating further on the West Point speech: “The plan was for Afghanistan to eventually stand on its own two feet so the U.S. could ‘begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011,’ he said. Without irony, Obama held up what was happening in Iraq as a model. ‘Just as we have done in Iraq, we will execute this transition responsibly, taking into account conditions on the ground.’
“There was no talk of victory or winning.”
“Responsibly?”
Just as Graham implied, to give the enemy the impression that we are going to withdraw in a certain time frame is the most irresponsible thing we can do. They will simply bide their time. Any strategy that does not honor the sacrifices already made ensuring they were not made in vain is even more irresponsible; a strategy aimed at victory. And negotiating with the Taliban is like negotiating with a cobra. The Quran gives them permission to promise anything in the furtherance of Islamism. (The concept of Altaqiyya allows lying to one’s enemies in wartime ... which would be always in the extreme Taliban view. America learned this the hard way in trying to negotiate with Muslims on the release of captured ships’ crews in Tripoli in the 1800s.)
And using Iraq as a model of success is still “iffy.” As should have been expected, emboldened by the drawdown of American troops, Iran is now training sectarian fighters and suicide bombers to cross back into Iraq to raise havoc, seriously complicating the government’s effort to provide the necessary security for the consolidation of that nascent democracy.
What the president fails to understand is what the American people do understand: This war against fanatical Islamic terrorism has no end in the modern historical sense. Victory is measured not in peace or surrender treaties, but in the minimization of the threat by eliminating its roots, and lengthening times between successful major terrorist attacks, by whatever means necessary.
Mr. President, the American people of all political stripes are prepared to support you. The consequences of losing the war in Afghanistan would be far greater than “losing the Democratic Party.” And winning it would be the best re-election campaign strategy possible.
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Emily Henochowicz
Readers of this web log are no doubt aware that the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of six civilian ships in international waters on Monday, May 31, 2010. The ships were attempting to break the three-year long Israeli blockade on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the 1.5 million people who live there. The Israeli commando raid took the lives of at least nine people and wounded dozens, sparking global calls for an independent investigation into the deadly operation and the lifting of the blockade. On June 3 the U.S. State Department confirmed that one of those killed was a 19-year-old American – shot four times in the head and once in the heart. In this article I would like to mention a part of the story that has received comparatively little attention.
On the evening of May 31, international TV channels showed people around the world protesting the Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla.” A brief video clip of a West Bank protest depicted a chaotic scene of Palestinians running in the streets as tear gas canisters rained down upon them. The final seconds of the film showed a small cluster of people carrying a young woman, her hands covering her bleeding face as she screamed in perfect English, “My eye!” Who was the young woman? What had happened to her?
A Palestinian woman cries for help as she holds a cloth to the head wound suffered by Jewish American art student, Emily Henochowicz, who had just been shot in the face with a tear gas canister by an Israeli soldier. Associated Press photograph by Majdi Mohammed.
The young woman in the film was 21 year old Jewish American art student, Emily Henochowicz. Ms. Henochowicz is currently enrolled as an art student at Cooper Union in the East Village of Manhattan. She took part in the protest at the Qalandiya Checkpoint as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). That group defines itself as a “Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent direct-action methods and principles.” ISM members come from the U.S., Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, England, Spain, and many other countries.
Hundreds of Palestinians took part in the Qalandiya Checkpoint demonstration, including a number of foreign nationals from the ISM. The Associated Press reported one witness saying that some Palestinian youths threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, but that Henochowicz and other ISM members were not involved in the violence – in actuality, according to the witness, they were standing at a distance from the melee.
Regardless, Israeli troops fired volleys of tear gas projectiles at the crowd of demonstrators. The ISM alleges Israeli troops fired tear gas projectiles “directly at the heads of Emily and another ISM activist.” On the ISM website, Sören Johanssen, the ISM volunteer that had been standing with Henochowicz, insisted the Israeli soldiers “clearly saw that we were internationals and it really looked as though they were trying to hit us. They fired many canisters at us in rapid succession. One landed on either side of Emily, then the third one hit her in the face.”
Ms. Henochowicz was carried from the scene by fellow protestors and members of the ISM, and rushed to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. On May 31 she underwent two surgeries. Her left eye, destroyed by the tear gas projectile, had to be removed. Surgeons inserted three metal plates into her head and face, as the bone surrounding her eye socket, cheekbone, and jawbone suffered severe fractures. Ms. Henochowicz is now recuperating in Hadassah Hospital.
"The Tribe of Levi" - Marc Chagall. 1960. Stained glass. One of twelve windows, each measuring 11 feet high by 8 feet wide. Located in the synagogue of Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. Photograph - Creative Commons, Wikimedia.
When I read that the young artist was rushed to Hadassah Hospital, where the good Israeli doctors and staff did their best for her, I was dumbstruck by the irony of it all. Hadassah Hospital is where the 12 magnificent stained glass windows created by the famed Russian-born Jewish artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) are housed.
Starting in 1960, Chagall began creating windows for the hospital’s synagogue, stained glass that would depict the twelve tribes of Israel. Chagall donated the windows to the hospital free of charge, and I would agree with those that say they are the artist’s greatest creation in the medium of stained glass.
On February 6, 1962, Chagall attended the dedication of the synagogue, where his windows were permanently installed. At that ceremony, the artist made the following statement: “This is my modest gift to the Jewish people who have always dreamt of biblical love, friendship and of peace among all peoples. This is my gift to that people which lived here thousands of years ago among the other Semitic people.” The heart breaks when contemplating the full meaning of those words, truths that also now include a young Jewish artist in a Hadassah Hospital bed, recovering from a terrible wound.
"Sheikh Jarrah" – Emily Henochowicz. Pen and ink, watercolor. May, 2010. The artist captioned her drawing with the following words, "Amongst the chaos of the military and settler’s attempts to squander our ability to paint a mural, a little girl sadly sits on the swing set." Sheikh Jarrah is an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem that is undergoing an official Israeli government policy of judaization. Palestinian families are forcibly evicted from their homes, which are then awarded to Jewish settlers. The Palestinians are of course resisting, and Israeli students have been protesting the evictions along with them. As recently as May 26, 2010, hundreds of Hebrew University students chanting "We won’t sit in class while rights are being trampled," marched from their Mount Scopus campus to rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah.
I discovered the works of Marc Chagall when I was but a child, and he remains one of my favorite artists to this day. His delightful modernist prints and paintings were my very first introduction to Jewish life and culture, and his works no doubt have had that same affect on untold millions.
Chagall once said that it was an artist’s duty to keep “awake the sense of wonder in the world,” but he also warned that in life’s long vigil the artist must always be “striving against a continual tendency to sleep.” It appears many have fallen into the deep slumber the visionary Chagall cautioned against.
Some will no doubt call Emily Henochowicz naïve, but I believe that in her own youthful way, she was struggling against the “continual tendency to sleep.”
Looking at her past sketches, one can plainly see a young artist fascinated with humanity, and reaching to find a means of expressing the complex realities of our time. She was grappling with the human figure, form and color, just as all art students do, and was perhaps a bit too reliant on whimsy, but she obviously has the necessary spark one needs for the serious pursuit of art.
I pray that the thuggery displayed by some goon with a tear gas gun will not deprive us of Ms. Henochowicz’s artistic talents; that she will overcome what may now seem like an insurmountable obstacle, and help to bring some beauty into this troubled world – for it is sorely in need of that.
Visit Emily Henochowicz’ web log and flickr gallery.
Click here for information about Sheikh Jarrah.
A video that shows the shooting of Emily Henochowicz can be found on the Lede news blog of the New York Times.
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Access, Advocacy, College Admission in the News
NACAC Briefs Congressional Committee After Bribery Scandal
March 29, 2019 Ashley Dobson Leave a comment
Pictured: David Hawkins, NACAC’s executive director for educational content and policy, Daniel Saracino, retired dean of admission at Notre Dame (IN) and former NACAC president, and Mike Rose, NACAC’s director for government relations.
The recent bribery scandal has captured the attention of the media, the nation, and the US Congress.US Rep. Donna Shalala, a former president of the University of Miami (FL), hosted a Congressional briefing Thursday afternoon. The briefing was intended to inform members of the House Committee on Education and Labor and their staffs about the dynamics that led to the scandal, as well as broader concerns about access and equity in college admission.
“I thought I had seen everything in higher education,” she said. “…I realize higher education would like to isolate this — I certainly would’ve as a college president – to a small group of people who basically used money to bribe people. But it really goes down to the integrity of higher education.”
Shalala stressed that she did not necessarily see a role for federal legislation in this matter but did see a need for “broader discussion.”
NACAC was represented on the panel by Daniel Saracino, retired dean of admission at Notre Dame (IN) and former NACAC president, and David Hawkins, NACAC’s executive director for educational content and policy. Tiffany Jones, director of higher education policy at the Education Trust, and Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, rounded out the panel.
Read the transcript of Hawkins’ opening remarks:
Thank you Congresswoman Shalala, committee members, and staff for inviting me to participate in today’s briefing on behalf of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Our association is comprised of more than 15,000 school counselors, college admission officers, and other professionals committed to a code of ethics based on core values that include equity, fairness, trust, and social responsibility in the college admission process.
The occasion for today’s briefing is shocking in scope, though it recalls a familiar dynamic. We recognize that while the behavior revealed in the high-profile bribery indictments is extreme, this scandal has elicited strong currents of concern about access to higher education and the integrity of the admission process. We condemn the behavior described in the indictments and are watching closely as these cases make their way through the criminal justice system. We are also committed to working with our members as they seek to further protect the integrity of the admission process.
College admission has changed a great deal over the last century, becoming more open and transparent along the way, and it continues to adapt with each passing year. We are aware of concerns that the admission process is ‘broken,’ but the process overall, however imperfect, functions reasonably well, given the structural inequities that surround and permeate all of education. As a result, we should examine the questions arising from this scandal carefully and deliberately. It is important to keep in mind that colleges and universities recruit and enroll millions of students every year through processes tailored to each institution involving an evaluation of academic achievement and many other contextual factors, with the aim of assembling a class that reflects the balance of priorities that each institution establishes.
It is helpful to consider a few framing points to put the discussion about college admission into context:
Each year, more than two million students make the transition between secondary and postsecondary education at more than 3,300 non-profit colleges and universities;
At four-year non-profit colleges, the average acceptance rate is 70 percent; 65 percent if open-enrollment four-year colleges are excluded from the calculation.
Finally, admission decisions are made with many different institutional considerations in mind. It is important that students are academically qualified, but also that the students admitted comprise a class that is of sufficient depth and breadth to sustain the institution and its goals.
Of primary concern, though, is that persistent challenges that place postsecondary education out of reach for many students remain unsolved, and this moment provides an opportunity to underscore our collective priorities for addressing these challenges. The range of policy considerations for which our members advocate is broad, including more equitable K-12 school funding; more school counselors to assist students making the transition to college; and more funding for public postsecondary education and student financial assistance.
Our hope is that we can take this opportunity to examine our collective concerns to take another step toward solving persistent challenges related to fairness and equity in higher education.
Watch a recording of the briefing.
Ashley Dobson is NACAC’s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at adobson@nacacnet.org.
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By Overstreet, December 11, 2008 in Film
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Seems a semantics discussion. Sin is sin is sin, no matter what form it comes in.
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The fact that Aronofsky's Noah apparently concludes that God thinks the earth would be better off without people at all and wants to stop people from reproducing entirely, to the point of plotting to kill his female grandchildren, aligns much more with the overpopulation anxieties of non-biblical creation-destruction myths than with the biblical text.
The biblical text is anthropocentric; the Aronofsky scenario outlined by Godawa is terrocentric, much like other ANE creation-destruction myths. Genesis emphatically cites wicked thoughts ("every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually") as well as violence — i.e., against other men, as the Noahide covenant makes clear ("Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image").
The Genesis story shows no interest at all in the "good" of the earth itself, or of species other than man, whom it clearly privileges above other creatures ("Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything"). In this light, and in light of other scriptural texts, we may say that Genesis essentially depicts the flood as a punishment for sins (cf. Isa 54:9, Wis 18:9, 2 Pet 2:4ff); in other ANE texts, the flood/catastrophe is essentially solving a problem.
The absolute center of the Noah story, the eye of the chiastic structure, is Genesis 8:1: "But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark." God's fidelity to Noah, even more than the punishment for wickedness, is the point of the flood story. Godawa makes it sound as if Noah's survival were an afterthought or a concession.
Edited October 30, 2012 by SDG
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Taliesin wrote:
: Seems a semantics discussion. Sin is sin is sin, no matter what form it comes in.
It's not "semantics" to distinguish between different kinds of sin. Some sins are more grievous than others. And some things that some people regard as sin are not regarded by other people as sin. These are important distinctions, and they do have consequences (again, see above re: the varying interpretations of the sin of Sodom, which is never spelled out in Genesis itself... much like the sin of Noah's day is never spelled out in Genesis).
SDG wrote:
: The fact that Aronofsky's Noah apparently concludes that God thinks the earth would be better off without people at all and wants to stop people from reproducing entirely, to the point of plotting to kill his female grandchildren, aligns much more with the overpopulation anxieties of non-biblical creation-destruction myths than with the biblical text.
Yes. But just because Aronofsky's Noah makes this assumption, does it necessarily follow that Aronofsky's God is of the same opinion?
: Genesis emphatically cites wicked thoughts ("every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually") as well as violence — i.e., against other men, as the Noahide covenant at the end of the story makes clear ("Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image").
You can infer that the Genesis 9 covenant refers back to the general wickedness of Genesis 6 if you want, but I don't think there's anything "emphatic" about that link. One of the striking features of Genesis 9 is the way it begins with God telling Noah and his family (and thus all of humanity) that they are permitted to eat any animal they like, so long as they don't consume its blood (it is for this reason that the early Christians ruled, in Acts 15, that Gentiles *didn't* have to abstain from eating certain kinds of animals, but they *did* have to abstain from consuming the blood of said animals), and *then* God moves on to say that, just as animal lifeblood is sacred, so too is human lifeblood, thus there should be no killing, etc., etc. One thought leads to another, but it doesn't necessarily follow that any of those thoughts refers back to the way things were before the Flood came along.
Having said that, note, too, how God says in Genesis 9:3, "Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." That "now" is rather interesting, and has been interpreted by some to mean that humans were vegetarian prior to the Flood -- though that admittedly might not square with God's command to take 2 of every non-kosher animal and 7 of every kosher animal aboard the ark. (Why take far more of the kosher animals unless you were going to eat them aboard the ark?) In any case, if Aronofsky is postulating that the "good" people who lived before the Flood did not eat meat, then we certainly can't argue that there is no biblical basis for this.
: Godawa makes it sound as if Noah's survival were an afterthought or a concession.
He does, yeah. But Godawa's review of the script is not the script. And the draft of the script that he read is not the movie. And the perspective that Godawa brings to the script is not necessarily correct in all its particulars either (a la his objection to Noah's vegetarianism). So there are certain buffers there that need to be taken into account.
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Godawa, who has read the screenplay, suggests so ("Noah is more loving than God"). I can only comment on Godawa's characterization of the screenplay, so obviously I'm speaking provisionally within that constraint.
You can infer that the Genesis 9 covenant refers back to the general wickedness of Genesis 6 if you want, but I don't think there's anything "emphatic" about that link.
"Emphatically" refers to the relentless language of 6:5 ("EVERY imagination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY evil CONTINUALLY").
Violence is a separate point. Despite some classroom exposure, I'm not even a Hebrew beginner, but from a little word study looks to me like the word for "violence" may imply or presuppose violence toward other persons, and certainly the preceding chapters of Genesis give us examples of violence against human beings, and no contrasting examples of any other kind of violence with which God might be concerned. Both lexicographically and contextually, I'm inclined to propose that "violence" means violence against people.
Granted that the Noahide permission to eat animals comes after the flood story, not before, we have no textual basis for assuming that wrongful killing or eating of animals was taking place prior to this -- and we do have the J (i.e., non-P) bits of the story calling for seven of every "clean" animal, which at least anticipates if not presupposes the liceity of eating animals.
: "Emphatically" refers to the relentless language of 6:5 ("EVERY imagination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY evil CONTINUALLY").
Well, yes, but this continues to beg the question of what 6:5 means by "evil" in the first place.
: Violence is a separate point.
Whoops, just realized that you were thinking of 6:11 on that particular point, even though you only quoted 9:6.
Interestingly, both of those verses are embedded in passages that refer to God as "Elohim", whereas 6:5 refers to God as "YHWH". So, following the source critics, do we have a single narrative here or two? -- a single casus diluvi or two? Not that that necessarily matters when talking about a storyteller like Aronofsky who takes the already-conflated Genesis account and conflates it with yet other materials.
Not exactly. My point is more that from the picture Godawa paints, it doesn't sound as if moralistic concerns about the "imagination of the thoughts of man's heart" are likely to be much of a concern for the God of this new retelling. The concerns here seem to be more practical—the actual havoc that man's actions are having on the larger ecosphere—and less moral/existential. Genesis 6:5 seems almost to anticipate the spiritual moralism of Matthew 5—the morality of the heart—whereas it sounds as if Aronofsky's screenplay is preoccupied with the unsustainable environmental consequences of man's actions. (Again, this is of course all predicated on Godawa's characterization.)
"Violence" was an allusion to verses 11 and 13. Sorry if that was unclear.
It doesn't really matter from the perspective of my critique either.
: Not exactly. My point is more that from the picture Godawa paints, it doesn't sound as if moralistic concerns about the "imagination of the thoughts of man's heart" are likely to be much of a concern for the God of this new retelling. The concerns here seem to be more practical—the actual havoc that man's actions are having on the larger ecosphere—and less moral/existential.
Ah, gotcha.
My apologies, BTW, if yesterday's posts were a little rushed or jumbled. I've been meaning to blog Godawa's post since at least a day before you linked to it here, but I just haven't had time to sit down and give it the formal attention it requires. A&F being a place for brainstorming and thinking out loud, on the other hand, I did let myself dash off some quick comments between picking kids up from their various schools etc.
Thanks SDG for saying what I was trying to say better than I did.
I loved one of Aronofsky's 1st films, The Wrestler, for its morality. The equation of the stripper and the wrestler was for me, a pure evocation of how we desecrate Gods' image in each other and in ourselves - how we settle for being used in place of being loved. For all I've read about objectification and commodification - often in film studies - I never quite got the idiom of people being turned into things till I saw it distilled in a plastic toy in a little boy's hand. So that movie was vital to me in how its cliches struck home.
I came to it late because I didn't know his work and when I heard what the film was 'about' - a professional wrestler's comeback - I dismissed it. I'm not saying Aronofsky's new film will be anyone's epiphany, it might be a mess and it might distort its source material irredeemably. But I'd hate for Christians to shun it because a man who's read an undated script waxes prophetic and dire:
All in all, the script for "Noah" is an uninteresting and unBiblical waste of a $150 million dollars . . . . This movie will be rejected by millions of devoted Bible readers worldwide because once again it subverts their own sacred narrative with a political agenda of pagan earth religion that is offensive to their Faith . . . . The real story will be that "Noah" was made by someone outside of their community that was insulting, degrading, and contrary to their deeply held beliefs and values.
With all respect to SDG, I felt the article was less about Christian apprehension about 'Noah' than Conservative mistrust of environmentalism. I don't want to impugn either, but I had a hard time with their conflation. Also with the charge that the film is 'pagan'.
To Godawa, environmentalism is incompatible with Biblical truth and love for humanity. I read the full version of his piece and think I understand why. But to me, it simply isn't (any more than Christianity is reducible to its radical fringes.) Unlike him, I do see it as plausible for Christians.
I don't actually think of myself as an environmentalist, but I believe in human exceptionalism and also believe that it confers the obligation of stewardship: that the natural world is a gift from God and therefore and because life depends on it, we honour God's image in using it well. Far from seeing that the Genesis creation account 'divests nature of deity', I think it imprints the whole of nature with God's hand and will.
Against those myths, the biblical version insisted that the problem was not mankind, but sin.
To mar the gift that makes life possible could be a desecration of God's image in man. The film's departures from the Bible could still incorporate sin - contemporary perceptions of sin. The ark story is one of life on the cusp of extinction, about a (super)natural disaster that has overtaken the planet. If 'Noah' makes a connection between present fears and Biblical events, on the face of it, I don't see the egregious, pagan assault on Scripture.
You may think those fears are overwrought. They are still manifest and urgent in our collective psyche. If you could remove them from their political sleeve, from the war between liberals and conservatives (at whose intersection I think the site and article live) . . . are they false to the chilling lessons of Scripture: that we are our own worst enemy, capable of bringing about the destruction of life as we know it?
Which is an inefficient way of saying this:
A storyteller has to fill that gap with *something*. We may not like how Aronofsky has filled that gap, but I don't think we can say he's ignoring sin just because he focuses on a different set of sins than you or I might pick.
These words gave me pause:
. . . it doesn't sound as if moralistic concerns about the "imagination of the thoughts of man's heart" are likely to be much of a concern for the God of this new retelling. The concerns here seem to be more practical—the actual havoc that man's actions are having on the larger ecosphere—and less moral/existential.
I felt this degree of subtlety was missing from Godawa's verdict.
I liked the point about the irony of the ark as a toy. I can't always easily reconcile the God who feels the death of one sparrow with the God who drowns the entire world. Or in Genesis 22 (which I thought might also enter the film) who brings another patriarch within a knife's edge of sacrifice.
Godawa is scathing about the 'treehugging' genocidal God, less loving and merciful than Noah. I wish I had the script in my hands. To cast Noah as the weak link in the divine plan of extinction implies a God so distractable that he's mislaid his original plan, or so feeble that human acts can derail it. I can't tell if this God springs from Godawa's imagination or Aronofsky's, but I like what Peter writes here:
I hope the film is more nuanced and sensitive. If the scene with the newborn twins is kept, I hope it turns out to be about self-loathing - the altogether human dread that our sins are past forgiving - and not a God who hates and deserts us. Doubt and mistrust are the dark underseam of faith.
In spite of his long opening caveat about wanting the opposite, I felt Godawa wanted the movie to fail. I think that's what troubles me most. And I couldn't figure out why it's OK, ethically, to reveal so much of a movie's potential plot?
Josie wrote:
: In spite of his long opening caveat about wanting the opposite, I felt Godawa wanted the movie to fail.
I'm not so sure of that. Call me cynical, but, since Godawa has a Noah novel of his own -- and since he complains in his review that Aronofsky's film "will ruin for decades the possibility of making a really great and entertaining movie of this Bible hero" -- one is almost tempted to say that Godawa would hope this movie *succeeds* so that someone will option his own book some day. (Frankly, I'm surprised as it is that a major studio went ahead with Aronofsky's film so soon after Evan Almighty turned out to be a significant commercial disappointment.)
: And I couldn't figure out why it's OK, ethically, to reveal so much of a movie's potential plot?
Well, there are lots of websites that read screenplays and give away major plot points years before the movies came out. Drew McWeeny basically revealed that Vulcan would be destroyed in the last Star Trek movie two years before it came out. The fact that he did it doesn't make it okay, of course, but it's certainly one of those things that the Internet just *does*. Plus, note how Godawa's post is headlined "Sucker Punch"; it was posted as part of Big Hollywood's recurring feature, where BH reads the screenplays of movies that are in the works and exposes how movies that *seem* to be aimed at conservatives are *actually* going to "sucker punch" them with liberal politics.
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As much as I admire Godawa, and as much as I believe this particular story must be important to him, I find his 'review' to be too sarcastic and presumptuously condescending to take seriously. Perhaps I'm too quick to defend Aronofsky, but I have an impossible time imagining that he would ever create a movie matching Godawa's hasty description.
Edited November 1, 2012 by Jeremy
Fair enough. Even if Godawa's characterization is only about, say, 70 percent accurate, that's still potentially pretty troubling.
As much as I admire Godawa, and as much as I believe this particular story must be important to him, I find his 'review' too sarcastic and presumptuously condescending to take seriously.
Yes, and I wasn't prepared for its tenor. I don't think I've even seen Godawa's name before or heard of BH. From the internet, I gather he helps (Conservative?) Christians to watch movies defensively and deliberatively. That sheds light on the piece and so does this:
it was posted as part of Big Hollywood's recurring feature, where BH reads the screenplays of movies that are in the works and exposes how movies that *seem* to be aimed at conservatives are *actually* going to "sucker punch" them with liberal politics.
I wish Bible-based movies were not presumptively aimed at conservatives (or even Christians) and a film about environmental stewardship wasn't presumptively liberal propaganda. That's my least favourite part of the review. If he had stuck to spiritual worth and legitimacy - like the CDS did in this thread - I would have listened harder because I respect that approach to culture.
I imagine the headings 'Noah' Preaches Environmentalism, Hatred of Humanity and 'Psycho Noah' are editorial touches, but the language is drawn from his review. There's just so much of it: 'great tree hugger in the sky', ' Noah is like the Mother Teresa of animals' and 'like a magical Mesopotamian Dr. Doolittle'. It's funny with a bitter edge. I kept thinking of St. Francis of Assisi, but more of Bill Maher narrating events of the Bible to ridiculous and twisted effect. Which made me more predisposed to give the script the benefit of the doubt. Some of the most spiritually graceful and earnest art I know, handled roughly, could sound to have been made by and for lunatics.
Call me cynical, but, since Godawa has a Noah novel of his own . . . .
Oh, he has a personal stake in Hollywood Noahs. I thought he was just declaring a noble motive so he could be harsh with impunity. I was more cynical.
Drew McWeeny basically revealed that Vulcan would be destroyed in the last Star Trek movie two years before it came out. The fact that he did it doesn't make it okay, of course, but it's certainly one of those things that the Internet just *does*.
I guess I'm not surprised it happens. And movies are so actively anticipated, they don't always keep themselve s under wraps. Still. Would you and your friends do it: give away the entire plot?
It surprised me in a screenwriter who, even if I wasn't comfortable with his review, clearly cares a whole lot about integrity. If Noah tries and fails to kill h is own grandchildren - believing it's God's will - it sounds like a moment on which the whole film might pivot, thematically, dramatically, spiritually. Something to be held in reserve.
I came away from that characterization feeing that if I could strip away the interpretation and interpolation - the psycho Noah, pagan, postmoderns, leftists, and radicals, propaganda stuff - down to the bare bones of plot and dialogue - if I could read what Godawa read . . . well . . . if the film's ultimate conclusion is hatred of humanity (as ancillary to cherishing the earth and all other lifeforms) it will absolutely play Scripture false. Of course. But if it manages to be about guilt and sin and God's purification of what we've despoiled . . . even about the emergence of love . . . that's a different story.
Though if I knew Godawa's work and had learnt to trust his take on films I'm sure I would be pessimistic and troubled too.
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He's also a writer/producer/director. To End All Wars is quite good; I haven't seen any of his other projects, and don't really want to.
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I'm still wondering how Grace Hill Media/As1's promotion fits into this. From what little I know of them, I wouldn't see them signing on to promote the film Godawa describes. And they have definitely signed on. Then again, we've already established that Godawa's description might not be remotely accurate. I wonder if Aronofsky's people had to offer Grace Hill some sort of "assurances" that the film wouldn't be too subversive before they signed on?
Oh possibly. That quote from Aronofsky about Noah being the first environmentalist definitely made me wince. I don't deny that environmentalism is a legitimate topic, but it seems a damn shame to turn the character of Noah into a Gladiator-esque Lorax.
: I wish Bible-based movies were not presumptively aimed at conservatives (or even Christians) . . .
Indeed, especially when the maker of this particular film is not Christian but Jewish. Expecting this film to present an evangelical Protestant view of Noah would be as silly as expecting a heavily Catholic film like The Passion of the Christ to present an evangelical Protestant view of Jesus. (That being said, evangelicals and other Protestants *do* make up a huge chunk of the moviegoing public, so you can hardly blame the marketing departments on either of these films for targeting that audience.)
: Still. Would you and your friends do it: give away the entire plot?
Maybe, sure -- especially if I gave a spoiler warning at the top of the article, as Godawa (or his editor) does. I've been tracking news about this film fairly closely at my blog, and I haven't shied away from passing along anything that I've picked up anywhere else.
In fact, Godawa's synopsis sheds no light whatsoever on certain elements that interest *me* -- such as what role Tubal-Cain (the Ray Winstone character, originally described in the trade reports as Noah's "nemesis") or Og might play -- and it introduces at least one name that I had never come across before, namely the "evil warlord Akkad", who sneaks aboard the Ark. As I have mentioned at my blog, there are Jewish legends to the effect that Og, being a giant, might have lived in the days before the Flood, and that he might have survived the Flood by sneaking aboard the Ark. So there may be an overlap of some sort between Akkad and Og; maybe they are the same character, but with different names in different drafts of the script? And if Tubal-Cain was originally touted as Noah's "nemesis", then who is this Akkad character?
So there are still some mysteries as to what, exactly, will be in this movie.
I've not heard of that film either but one of his books actually sounded interesting to me.
That being said, evangelicals and other Protestants *do* make up a huge chunk of the moviegoing public, so you can hardly blame the marketing departments on either of these films for targeting that audience.
And I would see more than just a financial loss if the film is unable to reach that audience.
Indeed, especially when the maker of this particular film is not Christian but Jewish. Expecting this film to present an evangelical Protestant view of Noah would be as silly as expecting a heavily Catholic film like The Passion of the Christ to present an evangelical Protestant view of Jesus.
To roughly paraphrase Godawa, 'Noah' is being developed for faith-friendly viewers and is destined to fail because Aronofsky is an outsider who does not understand them.
That premise saddens me in the same way it would sadden me to think that being a Protestant could be an impediment to enjoying the best Catholic art.
I didn't even notice the spoiler alert. And now I'm not sure why I thought revealing the plot before a film's release was wrong . . . .
In fact, Godawa's synopsis sheds no light whatsoever on certain elements that interest *me*.
The revelation of characters and their identities might not spoil the viewing experience quite like knowing the denouement. But I see the point: there's still plenty of mystery.
Maybe it's meant to be warlord *of* Akkad?
: To roughly paraphrase Godawa, 'Noah' is being developed for faith-friendly viewers and is destined to fail because Aronofsky is an outsider who does not understand them.
That may be how Godawa sees things. But I'd be really surprised if Aronofsky, who has wanted to make this film for *years*, were somehow tailoring it to appeal to evangelical audiences, now. Then again, I was surprised when Grace Hill began promoting this film several months ago.
There's no question that Aronofsky will need to appeal to a much wider audience than usual to make this film a success. He's never had a budget of this size before; I can't find figures for Pi and Requiem for a Dream, but, according to Box Office Mojo, The Fountain cost $35 million (and ended up grossing only $16 million worldwide), while The Wrestler cost $6 million (and grossed almost $45 million worldwide) and Black Swan cost $13 million (and grossed a whopping $329 million worldwide) -- and now Noah is said to cost somewhere in the $130 million range, or about double the budgets for all of his previous films combined! With the exception of Black Swan, none of his films have ever grossed more than $45 million worldwide, so it's not like he has a proven *track record* of connecting with audiences, not on this scale.
: Maybe it's meant to be warlord *of* Akkad?
Yeah, I wonder if maybe this character is going to turn out to be the guy who founded the Akkadian empire or something like that. (The Akkadian empire dates to between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, according to Wikipedia -- or around the time the Flood took place, if you follow Bishop Ussher's chronology.)
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It's been a couple of days since I first saw this story. Since then, I haven't seen any follow-ups regarding the conditions of the set.
Did Hurricane Sandy Sink 'Noah's' Ark?
Perhaps someone else has caught a tweet or blurb with further updates.
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On Thursday, Aronofsky tweeted: "work restarts tomorrow on #Noah. excited to shoot. hope everyone is doing all right." So it sounds like the set -- or part of it, at least -- might be in good-enough condition to resume shooting. (Unless, perhaps, they've decided to shoot some *other* parts of the film while the set is fixed.)
That may be how Godawa sees things. But I'd be really surprised if Aronofsky, who has wanted to make this film for *years*, were somehow tailoring it to appeal to evangelical audiences, now.
Me too. I would be stunned, and not because Aronofsky's Jewish. i would find it equally strange if he tailored the film to Jewish viewers.
It's rather that I can't imagine the desire to woo a niche audience leading him, creatively, or undergirding his art. He doesn't strike me as that sort of director.
With so much money at stake for this film and films to-be, I do imagine the pressure to reach this audience is very high indeed. But I'm ignorant of the industry and how far such pressure shapes a film, from inception to release.
I'm not sure if this came out in my other post, but I feel a treatment that secularized the story and left it spiritually barren (which I think is Godawa's real plaint) would be abysmal. Only I don't understand the insider/outsider divide. I'm just very resistant to the idea that art's capacity to touch us spiritually is coterminous iwith religion.
There's no question that Aronofsky will need to appeal to a much wider audience than usual to make this film a success. . . . With the exception of Black Swan, none of his films have ever grossed more than $45 million worldwide, so it's not like he has a proven *track record* of connecting with audiences, not on this scale.
Well, do you know what kind of track record he has in alienating or connecting with evangelical audiences?
Then again, I was surprised when Grace Hill began promoting this film several months ago.
That's at least the 3rd time Grace Hill has come up in this thread. I know very little about the firm, even though I copyedit for a site they own, HJ. When I first discovered that link, i was surprised too and deeply uneasy. I looked for parity between HJ's coverage and GH's promotion: PR work posing as journalism. What helped was to ask Greg and to recognize that the reviews were sincere and unscripted. Since then, the only time I've really been aware of GH is from a few posts when they took on full ownership - at about the same time As1 was launched. They seem very approachable and open to questions.
As for why 'Noah', my wonder is prompted by all of yours. I wonder why not? Godawa's review fits the pattern As1 is trying to shake - where Hollywood is guilty till proven innocent and evangelicals shun films for not mirroring their values. I don't remember the details of As1's plan to embrace Bible-based projects, but it agrees with Godawa on at least one point, that 'Noah's' failure at the box office will have wider repercussions.
Edited November 7, 2012 by Josie
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Josie said:
:I've not heard of that film either but one of his books actually sounded interesting to me.
Both the film and the book are quite good and worth taking a look at I think. That being said I don't necessarily agree with all of his conclusions in the book, but I certainly agree with the basic premise.... to engage film with thoughtful discernment.
Peter T Chattaway said:
:Indeed, especially when the maker of this particular film is not Christian but Jewish. Expecting this film to present an evangelical Protestant view of Noah would be as silly as ....
This fits with something I've been wondering about for awhile. I expect that from a Jewish perspective, expecting a film from a Jewish director to have to present any sort of Christian view would probably be insulting. I agree with the general consensus that the main thrust of the flood story is about sin (specifically, I think, violence.) But I'm wondering what the Jewish community would think of a more environmental take on the story? Of course, like Christianity, there are different factions of Judaism which would have slightly different views. So I guess I wonder how much input he's getting from the Jewish community and if so how much regard he has for this input?
As mentioned I agree with the idea that the main thrust of the flood story should be about sin. But I also find any idea that caring for the environment in a deep way is pagan and therefore of no value as being problematic. I don't think that kind of view is going to attract a whole lot of pagans, we sometimes tend to forget that the environment is a big concern to a whole lot of people. Plus... as I've touched on here before, whose to say that a deep connection with nature and care for nature is only pagan and not compatitable with Christianity. After all God is the creator.
Also when one looks at the whole flood story through a lense of the main sin problem in humanity at the time (surely amongst others) as being violence, or that which leads to violence, then why does it have to be that the flood was solely a wrathful punitive genocidal act on God's part. I mean if the people were so far lost as the story suggests, wouldn't their violent self destruction over a period of time have been more horrific than a flood. More full of pain. Might not it also be reasonable to view the flood as God refusing to give up on the human race. As God intervening to save a remnant and start again, and put a quibosh on any even more horrific extended human suffering through our own violent self destruction.
But in this one could also find environmental care in the fact that in the story God DID have concern to make sure that there were some of every animal on the boat, no easy task. In other words he wasn't about to let our sin completely wreck the planet and its creatures. Also of note, in the story after the flood, it says that the animals were then afraid of humanity, because they knew that it all happened because of humanity, meaning because of our sin (I know it sounds crazy but it's there.)
So what I see here is the potential to have sin as a major aspect of the story, but also have environmental aspects related to this. The destruction of the flood and any related environmental connections happened because of sin, whether it be directly or indirectly. There's a good story in that somewhere, I think. It leads to some thought provoking questions.
We've got a story where violence and sin is connected with environmental destruction, but where God cares enough about humanity and the creatures of the world to save some of each of them. Yet afterwords the animals realize (sense?) that humanity is so deeply connected to the course of things, that our sin is capable of causing (leading to?) worldwide catastrophe.
Which leads to another question. Is not caring for the world and environment a sin? Or even... Is it violent? Is our neglect of caring for the environment, when Genesis more or less says that we are to tend to it, a sinful, destructive and therefore violent act against God's created world? Those are questions worth exploring, I think.
I mean. There are other parts in scripture that connect violence and sin with the environment. The ground cries out when blood is shed on it. The earth is in birth pains as mentioned in Paul's writings. etc.
Yet I'd be surpised if this film does this. It certainly would be a challenging task to pull off properly.
Edited November 4, 2012 by Attica
: It's rather that I can't imagine the desire to woo a niche audience leading him, creatively, or undergirding his art. He doesn't strike me as that sort of director.
Oh, I agree. And I wouldn't want him to tailor his film to any particular audience either. I want it to be *his* film and I want to be able to evaluate it as such, instead of having to always guess at what was *his* input and what was studio interference.
: Well, do you know what kind of track record he has in alienating or connecting with evangelical audiences?
I'm not sure he *has* one. I mean, I don't think evangelical audiences have been particularly "aware" of him. I wrote about him (and interviewed him) when Pi came out in the late '90s, but that was a very-low-budget indie. And I guess there was some talk about possible Christ-figure elements in The Wrestler, though again, I heard a lot of that from non-evangelical sources. He's been pretty under the radar, I think, until now -- apart from the movie-geek crowd, of course.
: That's at least the 3rd time Grace Hill has come up in this thread. I know very little about the firm, even though I copyedit for a site they own, HJ.
Incidentally, does *Grace Hill* itself actually own HJ now? We had a thread on HJ's acquisition by Jonathan Bock etc., but at the time, a very sharp distinction was made between "owned by Grace Hill" (not true, at least at the time) and "owned by the owners of Grace Hill" (true, at least at the time). (Note: most or all of the posts by at least two of that thread's participants have since been deleted, so the thread's a little choppy, now. Oh, and the formatting's all messed up -- especially where the "quote" feature is concerned -- because the board has gone through a few software upgrades since then.)
: As for why 'Noah', my wonder is prompted by all of yours. I wonder why not?
I certainly understand the connection as far as "Bible story" and "Christian audiences" is concerned. But, generally, Grace Hill has promoted films that have some sort of pro-faith element, for lack of a better term; the one major exception to this (that I can think of) was The Da Vinci Code, where Grace Hill was hired by the studio to set up a website for *discussion* around an obviously controversial film. It almost sounds like Noah *could* be the kind of controversial film for which it might be necessary to frame the discussion in certain ways... but so far the film has not been promoted that way at all. So far, the studio's official synopsis has called the film "a close adaptation of the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark", while the promotion has been virtually indistinguishable from the promotional work that Grace Hill did on Evan Almighty, a film that very much pandered to Christian audiences in its own way.
as I've touched on here before, whose to say that a deep connection with nature and care for nature is only pagan and not compatitable with Christianity. After all God is the creator.
To me, a connection with nature seems profoundly Christian.
Might not it also be reasonable to view the flood as God refusing to give up on the human race.
Yes. And just as narratively the story of the flood bears the story of the ark, the Ark itself is held afloat by the waters of destruction. I'm not sure mercy and the preservation of life are isolable from punishment.
As God intervening to save a remnant and start again, and put a quibosh on any even more horrific extended human suffering through our own violent self destruction.
I do think of the flood as arresting our painful descent into sin.
Those are questions worth exploring, I think.
I do too, and won't be alarmed if the film raises them.
I wrote about him (and interviewed him) when Pi came out in the late '90s, but that was a very-low-budget indie.
Could you possibly link your interview? I would really like to read it.
And I guess there was some talk about possible Christ-figure elements in The Wrestler, though again, I heard a lot of that from non-evangelical sources.
I don't remember if I read any criticism of The Wrestler, but for me, those Christ-figure elements were sort of fractured across the film - very distinct and harrowing.
Incidentally, does *Grace Hill* itself actually own HJ now?
Oh no, I'm pretty sure Grace Hill doesn't own HJ! That's just me being sloppy. The distinction of 'owned by the owners of' still holds and I imagine it's legally and financially meaningful. The change is that the owners of Grace Hill have moved from co- to full ownership of HJ.
It almost sounds like Noah *could* be the kind of controversial film for which it might be necessary to frame the discussion in certain ways...
Without ever seeing The Davinci Code, the backlash was still very intelligible to me. And from the 'facts' of this script (minus Godawa's embellishments ) I can imagine some viewers unhappy that the adaptation is not more Biblically 'faithful'. But TDC drew accusations of blasphemy and defamation. I know your opinion is tentatively, conditionally put, but I wonder what 'Noah' controversy would look like. And I'm not exactly sure what 'pro-faith' means, but I think it might be shorthand for 'panders to a Christian audience'.
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Royal Tranquille Sanatorium
“Tranquille”, also referred to as Padova City, was the “King Edward VII Tuberculosis Sanatorium”. The area itself was named “Tranquille” after the Indian Chief “Sanquil”. Tuberculosis or consumption or the white plague, was an epidemic at turn-of-the-century. The land just outside Kamloops city limits, where the North and South Thompson meet and flow into Kamloops Lake, was purchased in 1905 and the tuberculosis hospital began taking patients by 1907. The site is approximately 191 acres and by the 1950s had at least 40 buildings. Tranquille was operated as a tuberculosis sanatorium from its inception until 1958 when it was closed.
The facility reopened in 1959 as a home for the mentally challenged, and was shut down permanently in 1984; a victim of government budget cuts. Tranquille has changed hands several times since then. In 1991, A&A Estates bought Tranquille, intending to turn the property into an Italian "homeland" called Padova City. But the project fell through a couple of years later. It has been envisioned as an exclusive resort and a small, completely self-sufficient, sustainable city.
Today it is an urban farm with plans to become a sustainable village community on Kamloops Lake
Website for the current plans of the property
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E. Guigal Red Rhone Blend Côtes du Rhône-Brézème Château d'Ampuis 2007
Bright ruby. High-pitched aromas of raspberry, cherry and potpourri, with a note of spice cake that gains volume with air. Lively and focused on the palate, which offers sweet red fruit and floral pastille flavors as well as hints of cracked pepper and smoky herbs. Shows plenty of complexity now, with very good finishing clarity and spicy persistence. This wine displays the elegant, approachable character of the vintage. --Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar
Region: France » Rhône » Northern Rhône » Côte-rôtie
Winery: E. Guigal
Varietal: Syrah
E. Guigal:
The Guigal domain was founded in 1946 by Etienne Guigal in the ancient village of Ampuis, home of the wines of the Côte-Rôtie. In these vineyards of over 2400 years old you can still see the small terraced walls characteristic of the Roman period. Etienne Guigal arrived in this region in 1923 at the age of 14. He made wine over 67 vintages and, at the beginning of his career, par... Read more
The Guigal domain was founded in 1946 by Etienne Guigal in the ancient village of Ampuis, home of the wines of the Côte-Rôtie. In these vineyards of over 2400 years old you can still see the small terraced walls characteristic of the Roman period. Etienne Guigal arrived in this region in 1923 at the age of 14. He made wine over 67 vintages and, at the beginning of his career, participated in the development of the Vidal-Fleury establishment. Despite his young age, Marcel Guigal took over from his father in 1961 when the latter was victim to a brutal illness rendering him blind. Marcel’s hard work and perseverance enabled the Guigals to buy out Vidal-Fleury in 1984, although the establishment retains its own identity and commercial autonomy. In 2000, the Guigals purchased the Jean-Louis GRIPPAT estate in Saint-Joseph and Hermitage as well as the Domaine de VALLOUIT in Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage. In the cellars of the GUIGAL estate in Ampuis, the northern appellations of the Rhône Valley are produced and aged. These are the appellations of Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Hermitage, Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage. The great appellations of the Southern Rhône; Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas, Tavel and Côtes-du-Rhône are also aged in the Ampuis cellars. Today, Philippe Guigal, oenologist, is the third generation to continue the family endeavour to be at the service of the greatest wines of the Rhône Valley. United as a family, Bernadette, Marcel and Philippe work together to develop this family owned and run enterprise. The headquarters of the GUIGAL estate are situated at the Château d’Ampuis whilst the offices and cellars remain in the small ancient village, cradle of the CÔTE-ROTIE appellation. The Château d’Ampuis is an ancient 12th century fort which was then prettified and developed into a Renaissance Château in the 16th Century ; set amongst the vines and bordered by the king of rivers; the Rhône. This imposing Seat, today classified as an historical monument, was constructed by the powerful Maugiron family and has welcomed several French kings over the centuries. Lovingly restored by the Guigal family since 1995, this jewel of the Renaissance lives again amongst the vineyards of the Côte-Rôtie; its prestigious past and future assured. Sometimes, in magical places, a dream can endow reality with great beauty. HOMMAGE TO ETIENNE GUIGAL Philippe, remember your grandfather who made wine for 67 vintages with such passion. Each day he went down into the cellars and you, as a child, loved to follow him holding his glass and pipette. Slowly, he made a tour of all the barrels and racks looking lovingly at these bottles which triumph over demons, sadness, boredom and time. His greatest joy was to share, as widely as possible, the emotions and pleasures of wine tasting. Your truly marvellous grandfather smiled upon these bottles and you thought to yourself: how he loves his cellar. But no son, it was us he loved because he knew that he himself would never taste these rare wines, produced to achieve a grand old age. THE VINEYARD The GUIGAL family owns vineyards in Condrieu and in the Côte-Rôtie with illustrious plots producing wines such as ‘La Doriane’ in Condrieu, the famous growths of the Côte-Rôtie ‘La Mouline’, ‘La Turque’ and ‘La Landonne’, Côte-Rôtie Château d’Ampuis, Hermitage ‘Ex-Voto’, produced only in the great vintages and Saint-Joseph ‘Lieu-Dit Saint-Joseph’ in red and white, as well as the famous Saint-Joseph red « Vignes de l’Hospice ». These wines have each become flagships of their appellations. In the cellars of the GUIGAL estate in Ampuis, the northern appellations of the Rhône Valley are produced and aged. These are the appellations of Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Hermitage, Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage. The great appellations of the Southern Rhône; Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Gigondas, Tavel and Côtes-du-Rhône are also aged in the Ampuis cellars. The methods of viticulture are practised with total respect for the environment. Natural methods of combating parasites and disease ensure that the grapes cultivated in the domaine's vineyards fully express the complexity of the greatest terroirs of Condrieu and the Côte-Rôtie. Thanks to the meticulous selection of the grapes and the application of the highest standards of quality in the winemaking process, the Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie Brune & Blonde wines of the Guigal estate have become flagships of these two prestigious appellations. The vineyard of the Côte-Rôtie covers approximately 215 hectares comprising the Côte Brune, situated uphill from the Reynard stream and the Côte Blonde, which is situated below. These vines were originally planted over 24 centuries ago by the Romans. The Côte Brune, exclusively planted with Syrah vines, is recognisable by its virile vegetation. The Côte Blonde is more serenely feminine due to the inclusion of Viognier vines which add refinement to the Syrah. A sort of ‘fertile museum’, the yield from this vineyard is naturally limited. In the Côte-Rôtie, the GUIGAL house owns several jewels including the Côte-Rôtie « La Mouline » situated on the Côte blonde, distinguished by its form which resembles a Roman amphitheatre. Situated on the Côte Brune, La Turque benefits from full Southern exposure and from a complex terroir made up of shale and iron oxide which lend finesse and strength to this wine. La Landonne is impressive with its breathtaking slopes of nearly 45 degrees. La Landonne is planted exclusively with Syrah. Last but not least, the Côte-Rôtie Château d’Ampuis is produced from ancient plots which are amongst some of the finest of the Domaine GUIGAL. The Condrieu appellation covers about 100 hectares. Overhanging the right bank of the Rhône, this vineyard is planted exclusively with Viognier, a varietal imported from Dalmatia at the beginning of our era. La Doriane is one of the jewels of the Condrieu appellation. The GUIGAL estate also owns vineyards on illustrious plots with exceptional terroir in the appellations of Hermitage, Saint-Joseph and Crozes-Hermitage. On the famous hill of Hermitage, the Ex-Voto reds and whites, produced only in the greatest vintages, come from plots with evocative names such as Bessards, Hermite, Greffieux, Murets... a hand picked selection of grapes from these precious terroirs are blended to produce, as if by magic, THE great wine of a chosen vintage. In a mirror image, on the right bank of the Rhône, are the vineyards of the Saint-Joseph appellation the majority of which belonged previously to the Jean-Louis GRIPPAT estate. The Lieu-Dit Saint-Joseph is planted mainly with old vines which produce classic red and white wines, true flagships of this up-and-coming appellation of the northern Côtes-du-Rhône. Finally, the Saint-Joseph « Vignes de l’Hospice » is cultivated on this unique slope composed of granite where the vines are literally suspended on the breathtaking slopes which hang over the town of Tournon. This vineyard is a treasure producing precious and rare nectar. In total, the vineyards of the GUIGAL estate cover over 45 hectares. Read less
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How many people’s names were changed by God? Is the antichrist known to be on the earth today?
Is Isaiah 9:6’s “Wonderful counselor” related to Isaiah 7:14 and 8:8’s “Immanuel”?
Answered by Steven · 29 December 2013 · Add Comment
Most readers familiar with the book of Isaiah are aware that the “Immanuel” prophecy in 7:14 and 8:8 has a short-term prophetic application to someone in the days of the prophet Isaiah, as well as secondary long-term application to Jesus in Matthew 1:23.
10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 “Ask the Lord your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask; I will not put the Lord to the test.” 13 Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. 15 He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, 16 for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.” [Isa. 7:10-17]
This is fairly straightforward. The “two kings” whom Ahaz dreads are Rezin, king of Damascus, and his ally, Pekah son of Remaliah king of Samaria who besieged king Ahaz in Jerusalem in Isaiah 7:1 (see also 2 Kings 16:5). The two kings are named in Isaiah 7:1 and 7:4 and again in the second “Immanuel” prophecy. Isaiah 8:
5 The Lord spoke to me again: 6 “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezinand the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore the Lord is about to bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria with all his pomp. It will overflow all its channels, run over all its banks 8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it, passing through it and reaching up to the neck. Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel!”
Ahaz’ request to the king of Assyria, Tiglath Pileser, for rescue — and the consequent invasion of the northern kingdom of Israel and Aram by the Assyrian Empire — are recorded in 2 Kings 16:7-9. Rezin was assassinated in a coup; Pekah was killed by the Assyrian king around 732 BC.
So, according to the text, the first Immanuel was someone who was shortly to be born when Isaiah made the original “virgin will conceive” prophecy to Ahaz, and who was an infant when Assyria laid waste to the lands of the two northern kings, but who would be an adult at the full tide of Assyria’s power when Assyria will “sweep on into Judah”. There is general agreement among Jewish and Christian commentators that since Isaiah’s wife was not a “maiden” this could not be Isaiah’s own child, and the preferred identification of Immanuel is Ahaz’ own son to be born from his betrothed, Abijah, daughter of the High Priest, mother of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles 29:1.
Isaiah 9:6 also related to Rezin and Pekah?
The question is whether the Isaiah 9:6 “Wonderful counselor” prophecy also has a first application in the days of Isaiah, or applies only to Jesus. Although 9:6’s “Unto us a child is born” is not quoted in the New Testament, Matthew 4:15-16 cites Isaiah 9:1-2: “The people walking in darknesshave seen a great light”.
The answer comes immediately after the “child is born” prophecy in Isaiah 9:11-13:
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
“Israel” here means, again, “Israel, the northern kingdom” with Pekah reigning in Samaria, the enemy of Judah the southern kingdom with Ahaz reigning in Jerusalam. So the “child is born … Wonderful counselor” prophecy, like the “virgin will conceive … Immanuel” prophecy, is related to the destruction of Ahaz’ enemies Pekah and Rezin.
‘Wonderful counselor’ and ‘Immanuel’ are both the child Hezekiah
Comparing the three prophecies, Isaiah 7:14, 8:8 and 9:6, it should be clear that only one prophetic child is meant, not two. In this case the “He will reign on David’s throne” in Isaiah 9:7 makes explicit what is not explicit in 7:14 and only hinted at in Isaiah 8:8, that the prophetic child is to be king in Jerusalem at the time of the coming Assyrian invasion, which means that the child can only be Ahaz and his bethrothed Abijah’s son, Hezekiah.
The predicted invasion of Immanuel’s land took place in 2 Kings 18:17, and culminated in the Angel of the Lord destroying the besieging Assyrian army while they slept in 2 Kings 19:35.
The names “Wonderful counselor” and “Immanuel”
Despite the prophecy that the child would be “called” Immanuel and “his name will be called” Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (in Hebrew Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom), the king Ahaz and his betrothed Abijah did not give their son the prophetic name Immanuel (God with us) given by Isaiah. The name Hezekiah contains a reference to God in the ending -yah (literally, “Strength of Yah”, or “Yahweh has strengthened”) but is not equivalent to Immanuel.
This is perhaps because “his name will be called” in Hebrew does not have to imply an actual name; the Hebrew term name (shem) may only indicate a title. Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom is so long as a name that understanding it as a series of four titles “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” is more common, and usually reflected in translation, although some older Jewish translations (such as the 1917 Jewish Publication Society version1) leave the four titles as one long Hebrew name out of concern for calling a man “Mighty God”.
Even Isaiah’s own children, given prophetic names Shear Jashub (“Only a remnant will return”) and Maher Shalal Hash Baz (“Quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil”), may not have carried these names throughout their lives after their prophetic role was fulfilled in 732 BC.
The four titles in Isaiah 9:6
Most readers of the Old Testament prophecies are familiar with how prophecies and, in particular, Messianic prophecies often have both a short-term fulfillment related to Israel and a long-term fulfillment related to Christ. Examples are the frequent use of Psalms originally about David in the Old Testament, applied in a deeper sense to Christ in the New Testament.
But with these names it is perhaps easier to understand how the four titles could apply in long-term prophetic fulfillment to Jesus than to understand how they could apply to Hezekiah. Some background of Hezekiah’s history is required:
• Wonderful Counselor (pele joez) — This relates to Isaiah 1:26 and the promise to restore Jerusalem’s counselors at the beginning. Making Jerusalem wise again. The application both to Hezekiah and Jesus is straightforward.
• Mighty God (el gibbor) — There is a difference between “Almighty God” (El Shaddai) and “Mighty God” in the Old Testament. This term is rendered “A mighty hero” in some sources (such as Gesenius’ Hebrew Lexicon) but occurs in Isaiah 10:21 as Mighty God, referring to God.
• Everlasting Father (abi ad) — This title is often misunderstood by Christian commentators to mean everlasting in the sense of preexisting, based on theological views that Jesus was “Father” prior to creation of Adam — although, in fact, the orthodox Trinitarian doctrine has Jesus preexisting as Son, not preexisting as father. In fact, the Hebrew (ad) here is forward-looking, so is translated “of the age to come” in the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament used in Jesus’ day, and “of the age to come” in the Latin Vulgate. In this sense, then, Hezekiah could be called “Father of the age to come.”
• Prince of Peace (sar shalom) — This title applies to Hezekiah in that, after the destruction of the Assyrians, Hezekiah would rule over Judah in peace for the remaining fifteen years of his reign. These were notably fifteen extra years granted to Hezekiah after God had told Isaiah to tell Hezekiah he would die.
Application to God himself
The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament edited by G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, Heinz-Josef Fabry (1999) Volume 10, page 459 has this to say about the word ‘ad (everlasting) in the name:
It is worth noting, however, that Isa. 9:5(6) is referring not primarily to the savior himself but rather to Yahweh, whose rule the savior actually represents, and that in this context the word ‘ad refers to the consistent, irrevocable implications, from Yahweh’s perspective, of election as manifest even in God’s judgment on Israel, emphasizing God’s fatherly love, love revealed in this context in the forgiveness of sins (Isa. 63:16; 64:7 Hos. 11:1-9).
This is only an opinion of course, but is a reasonable opinion since it is backed up the contrast in the two “Mighty God” (el gibbor) passages, with the LORD Almighty as the actual power behind events:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God (el gibbor), Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty (Yahweh Tsabaoth) will accomplish this. [Isa. 9:6-7]
21 A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God (el gibbor). 22 Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. 23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty (Adonai Yahweh Tsabaoth) , will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land. [Isa. 10:21-23]
A comparison of these two “Mighty God (el gibbor) …. LORD Almighty (Yahweh Tsabaoth)” passages confirms the opinion above that the real actor in the Wonderful Counselor prophecy is the power behind the throne — God himself.
The above should demonstrate that the answer to the question is yes, the Isaiah 9:6 “Wonderful counselor” child prophecy is a continuation of the Isaiah 7:14, 8:18 “Immanuel” child prophecy. It is the same child, whether in first application to Hezekiah, or in second application to Jesus. But behind both stands Yahweh Tsabaoth, Almighty God himself. In this context it is also worth noting that Hezekiah’s mother’s name Abijah means “My father is Yahweh”.
See also answer: Why does Isaiah 9:6 call Jesus “Mighty God, Everlasting Father”? and Doesn’t the name “Immanuel” show that Jesus is God, and therefore proves the Trinity? (Isa. 7:14, Mat. 1:23)
1. The JPS 1917 translates Isa. 9:6 (v5 in the JPS 1917) like this:
For a child is born unto us, a son is given unto us; and the government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom
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Late to the Party: Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate is a landmark in computer roleplaying games. With its initial release in November of 1998 and the expansion (Tales of the Sword Coast ) in April of 1999, Black Isle/Bioware put their name on the map. With the ability to create your character from scratch, as well as unprecedented freedom in dialogue and game completion, Baldur's Gate and its expansion makes the work of Bioware and Black Isle seem almost genius.
The story starts you off as a young character with a mysterious side, and as you develop this character (using the 2nd edition rules of Dungeons and Dragons), you meet many NPCs throughout your journey that teach you about yourself and your heritage. You're able to control up to 6 characters at one time, and you're able to control everything about the characters, including their class and the weapons and armor they have equipped. All these NPCs that you encounter have their own background and class, and you can choose either to support their cause or to leave them behind. Another mage doesn't really go with your party? Well, just leave him for another point and time in the game.
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Our Fantastic Week Ahead: September 12
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Happy Friday! We hope that those of you who started school this week had a great first week, and that for everyone in education, the semester is off to a great start!
Now, I know we linked to a Woot! shirt last week to celebrate the start of our Doctor Who series, but we're going to do it again this Friday because it fits so well with our "Back to School" theme this week:
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The Keys to the TARDIS: An Unearthly Child
In this installment of "The Keys to the TARDIS," Peter McClean reminisces about the anticipation he felt for the very first Doctor Who episode ever and how this episode is key to charting his trajectory as a lifelong Doctor Who fan. He also identifies the Daleks as the key to the series as a whole, which he will talk about more in next week's column.
If I were to identify one single thing that most signifies Dr. Who for me it would be Daleks. They are the one thing from all the Dr. Who series that has had the biggest effect on me. Dr. Who without the Daleks would never have been what it is today; and that’s speaking as someone who saw the start of the first ever episode when it was first broadcast on BBC on Saturday, 23rd November, 1963.
It took me forty-seven years and two months to watch that episode.
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The Fantastic in the Fine Arts: "Joan"
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen's work was recently the subject of a glorious exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled Savage Beauty. Elements of the fantastic ranging from the sublime to the grotesque can be found throughout his work, and many of his collections were directly inspired by works of the fantastic. It's Only a Game (spring/ summer 2005) was inspired by the wizard chess scene in the film version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Eshu (autumn/ winter 2000-01) was inspired by the trickster god of the same name. McQueen also showed collections inspired by Dante, and by angels and demons.
This column focuses on a specific dress from McQueen's autumn/ winter 1998-99 collection, Joan, inspired by Joan of Arc. It is the final dress in the collection, a vivid reminder that it was a young French peasant named Jehanne, not Katniss Everdeen, who was the original girl on fire.
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Amanuensis Monday: Running for State Rep
I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.
In honor of election day tomorrow, this week I transcribe some election results from a 1932 primary for State Representative in the fourth district of St. Louis. This comes from the Official Manual of the State of Missouri. The volumes from 1878 to 2000 are online, and searchable, at Missouri Digital Heritage.
Pardon me as I also praise the Secretary of State who oversaw the creation of Missouri Digital Heritage - Robin Carnahan. It is my fervent hope she earns a seat in the Senate tomorrow, but she has already left quite a legacy here in Missouri.
Official Manual of the State of Missouri – 1933-1934 – pages 441-442
PRIMARY ELECTION RETURNS
OFFICIAL PRIMARY VOTE, AUGUST 2, 1932, FOR CANDIDATES OF ALL
PARTIES FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVES.
Fourth District
(Four to be elected.)
Name, party and address...........................Vote
Andrew F. Blong, D, 3710 Evans Ave............... 4,369
Edward M. Brady, D, 4216 St. Louis Ave........... 4,084
Harry H. Brake, D, 3030a N. 21st St.............. 4,189
Martin Bresnahan, D, 919a Warren St.............. 2,287
James J. Carroll, D, 3856 Easton Ave............. 4,241
William M. Clancy, D, 5001 Enright Ave........... 1,804
George P. Corrigan, D, 1492 Stewart Place........ 3,280
Fred W. Emig, D, 4224 W. Page Blvd............... 1,823
Joseph Frankel, D, 3437 Morgan St................ 979
David M. Grant, D, 4476a Cook Ave................ 1,988
W.P. Hennesey, D, 1312 St. Louis Ave............. 2,753
Eugene F. Kenefick, D, 5469 Maple Ave............ 1,602
Con. J. O’Brien, D, 2740 Cottage Ave............. 8,067
Ted Pearline, D, 1349s N. Garrison Ave........... 3,021
Robert J. Rowe, D, 4489 Washington Blvd.......... 2,263
Frank J. Sonnenberg, D, 1114 Madison St.......... 2,216
Thomas J.R. Wilson, D, 4330 St. Ferdinand Ave.... 2,181
James L. Wren, D, 3923 Evans Ave................. 4,039
Carl H. Goener, R, 2210a University St........... 5,780
Walter W. Kuhlmann, R, 3112 Cass Ave............. 7,041
Thomas M. Madden, R, 4049a Olive St.............. 3,740
Freeman L. Martin, R, 4122 Cook Ave.............. 5,286
Joseph Moran, R, 1204 Chambers St................ 3,846
M. M. Newmark, R, 4416 Easton Ave................ 5,071
Miss Georgina Raby, R, 4756a Cote Brilliante Ave. 2,801
Fred E. Reckert, R, 818 Clinton St............... 3,922
Louis A. Riener, R, 1452 St. Louis Ave........... 6,348
Herman Schachter, R, 5046 Maple Ave.............. 5,942
Joseph J. Schultz, R, 2119 N. 10th St............ 5,732
[Note: I have emboldened the top four Republican vote getters, and placed my one relative in italics.]
1) The top four vote getters in both parties proceeded to the general election. M.M. Newmark came in seventh in the Republican vote.
2) This was most likely Maurice M. Newmark (1906-1949), a first cousin of my paternal grandfather. Maurice was the son of Solomon and Sarah (Nathan) Newmark, whose marriage I mentioned in yesterday's post. Maurice's death certificate confirms his middle initial was 'M', and there are no other likely candidates. I hope to verify his 1932 address in the city directories on a future trip to the local library.
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Princess Anne Save the Children speech (1977)
Princess Anne, as President of the Save the Children Fund, addressing Northern Ireland members and paying tribute to the work being done by the Fund both there and in other parts of the world.
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Before the sports news with Bob Morrison, we talk to Twyford Roller, who is training in Picadilly, London, to raise funds for Save the Children. [Box 2]
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Princess Anne, Princess Royal appeals for people to donate money to help child refugees. Speaking as President of the charity Save the Children at the launch of an appeal to raise one million pounds by...
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Dickie Arbiter reports on a speech made by Princess Anne, Princess Royal at the launch of Save the Children week to try to raise money for the organisation (of which she is President).
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Unidentified male speaker on the abduction by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of six Save the Children Fund famine relief workers in Ethiopia. Male interviewer not identified.
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Interview with a Save the Children spokesman about an ITN report and letter for one of the hostages predicting the release of a group of their aid workers held hostage for over a month by the Tigre...
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Unidentified Save the Children spokeswoman outlines the workings of a charity auction. Called an American auction, it depends on people sending in cheque donations towards a target figure; the writer of the...
Princess Anne on business donations to Save the Children (1986)
Report on a speech by Princess Anne hitting out at British industry for the small amount of money given to her charity, Save the Children. Includes excerpt from her speech (audio quality poor due to her...
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You are hereB.C. power producers have high number of compliance issues
B.C. power producers have high number of compliance issues
Canadian Press, Globe and Mail, May 2 2013
Internal government documents show a startling number of compliance issues with British Columbia’s independent power producers and say the province does not have the staff to monitor the projects.
A memo circulated within the Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations ministry says 90 per cent of projects as of September 2011 had incidents and non-compliance with environmental requirements.
“The frequency of ‘incidents’ and (minor or otherwise) ’non-compliance’ is high,” said the memo, obtained by the Wilderness Committee using freedom of information laws.
Of the dozens of independent power projects that had been built at the time, 45 per cent had permit or legislative non-compliance, said the email memo, written by the section head of water allocation for the ministry’s South Coast region.
Others had incidents that occurred during construction or during commissioning and operations, ranging in severity from potentially stranding fish during water diversion to failing to leave behind enough water in diverted rivers and streams.
“We have not had sufficient staff resources to monitor permit condition compliance,” said the memo.
That meant the department had not been reviewing weekly environmental-monitoring reports submitted by the project proponents who were required to self-report incidents, he said.
Nor had they been reviewing annual environmental-monitoring reports. Rather, they were limited by staffing to the final five-year summary reports, which consistently deviated from approved monitoring programs, said the memo.
It was a “critical issue,” the memo said.
As of the beginning of April, BC Hydro had 55 electricity-purchase agreements with independent hydro power producers and 35 agreements for hydro projects in development.
Vivian Thomas, spokeswoman for Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, said all of the recommendations in the memo have been or are being acted upon.
The province, Clean Energy BC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada are working on updating guidelines for ramping rates — the rate of discharge from a dam — and the province has developed a document that sets out guidelines on a number of issues, she said.
The province has an active monitoring and inspection program, Thomas said, and requires companies to submit complete information before issuing a water licence.
“The vast majority of compliance issues referenced were administrative in nature, i.e. late submissions of required monitoring reports,” Thomas said in an email response to questions.
Compliance information for last year was not available, but Thomas said the ministry is developing a database and tracking tools.
“Post-licence monitoring is an identified priority of the province, and resources are allocated accordingly,” she said.
The internal documents detail fish kills and enforcement recommendations at several of the hydro power projects, including Lower Mamquam and Ashlu projects near Squamish, and the Upper Clowhom and Lower Clowhom projects near Sechelt.
Gwen Barlee of the Wilderness Committee said the situation could only have grown worse in the past 18 months, with cuts to the federal Fisheries Department and legislative changes that have eased environmental oversight federally.
“You’re seeing an industry that’s largely not playing by the book,” Barlee said.
While hydro power is viewed as a greener alternative to fossil fuels, the projects can have an impact on fish for kilometres downstream, said Barlee.
There is little environmental oversight, and what is there is understaffed, she said.
“It’s a chaotic situation and people should be extremely worried about the projects that are coming online in the coming months,” she said.
Last month, a coalition of conservation groups was in B.C. Supreme Court asking a judge to overturn a decision allowing a private hydro-electric development in northeastern B.C. to proceed without an environmental assessment.
The Holmes River hydro project consists of 10 generation sites along a 40-kilometre stretch of the river near McBride, B.C. The company was permitted to file each as a separate, smaller-scale project that falls under the 50-megawatt threshold for a provincial environmental assessment.
In addition to the environmental concerns, there are financial concerns, Barlee said.
BC Hydro documents released in January as part of the environmental impact statement on the proposed Site C hydroelectric dam showed financial losses at the Crown corporation, due in part to power contracts with independent power producers that see the corporation paying more for power than it fetches.
The New Democrats said at the time that the Liberal government had signed 20-year contracts with independent power producers to buy power at $94 per megawatt hour, while Hydro forecast the sale price at $37 per megawatt hour. Barlee said power is trading for even less now.
At the time, Liberal Energy Minister Rich Coleman said the situation will change in the target markets of California, Alberta and Washington state.
The Forests, Lands and Natural Resource ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Simi Heer, spokeswoman for BC Hydro, said the public utility relies on the environment and natural resources ministries to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
“As for cost, our job is to ensure we have enough reliable energy in this province to meet the needs of residents, businesses and industry,” Heer said in an email response to questions.
“The electricity purchase agreements we have with independent power producers ensure we have clean, reliable power at predictable prices for the long-term. Market prices vary and can fluctuate greatly from year-to-year, while long-term agreements provide certainty.”
Last year, the average energy price paid for all independent power purchases was $68 per megawatt hour, Heer said, and this year the average cost is estimated to be $71 per megawatt hour.
Barlee said the Crown corporation, and ultimately B.C. taxpayers, could be on the hook.
“This was an experiment that’s gone bad in a whole bunch of different directions. It was how to do green energy the wrong way and it’s driving BC Hydro right to the point of bankruptcy — or it will be — and it’s also putting scores of wild rivers into pipes.”
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23/05 By susanna
Beautiful Tomorrow, the solo exhibition by Joseph Klibansky in Palazzo Franchetti has finished. It has been a enormous success as more than 25.000 people from all over the world have visited it.
The exhibition, curated by Luca Berta, Francesca Giubilei and Demetrio Paparoni, has been organized thanks to the support of the BVDS Gallery.
The prestigious Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti on the Gran Canal in Venice was the venue of the exhibition. This building is the marvellous headquarter of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, which is focused on the promotion of culture and arts.
Beautiful Tomorrow featured more than 30 works by Klibanksy, both sculptures and digital paintings, which were displayed either outside the palace or inside of it, within the main floor.
Miffy and Spaceman were the two giant scupltures outside the palace, which were sited in the garden. These two artworks were considered as public installations, due to the big dimensions that had characterised them. They could be seen even from the Accademia Bridge, becoming therefore part of the Venician landscape.
The other works were displayed along the baroque main rooms of the first floor. For instance, the marvellous entrance was covered with most of the artworks belonging to the series of urban digital landscapes entitled New Urban Wonderland, that were displayed on a tapestry, creating in this way an example of an environmental installation and a beautiful sense for the audience to be in front of a scenography. Other sculptures were exhibited following this idea, such as Baby we made it, which was installed inside a jungle room, and the bronze gorilla called Big Bang, which was sourrounded by black balloons.
The exhibition can also be considered as a great success of art critique within the italian art scene, and has been published on artwebsite and magazines, such as Exibart, Artslife, Artribune, Icon Magazine, Segno, The Post Internazionale, and many more.
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Building the Future of Manufacturing
By Mark Kleszczewski
Game changing technology and new career paths require community support and investment.
The U.S. economy has been shifting from manufacturing to services for decades, but making tangible products still underpins the country’s ability to innovate, compete and create high-value jobs. American manufacturing has even begun enjoying a rebound in recent years, driven by a surge in low-cost energy production, a growing emphasis on quality and proximity to customers, and advances in technology.
The benefits of digitization and additive manufacturing — which creates three-dimensional shapes from the fused layers of materials ranging from polymer resins to metals — are increasing for today’s manufacturers. Rapid prototyping technologies have been in use for more than 20 years, but new developments in hardware and software are allowing them to be used for actual production, tooThe capabilities of an additive and digital manufacturing environment are going to be a game changer, says Ed Morris, vice president, NCDMM and director, America Makes – National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII). “As additive manufacturing continues to accelerate and foster innovative product applications, digital manufacturing will also proliferate further.”
While most companies are still at the early stages of adopting next-generation techniques, some have aggressively embraced additive manufacturing for rapid, low-cost tooling, metal forming and manufacturing components used in major assemblies, Morris explains. Additive manufacturing to produce final products is also now a reality, especially in aviation parts, medical items such as braces and hip implants, and even integrated electronics.
Additive Becoming Big Business
According to Wohlers Associates, the greatest long-term impact of additive methods is expected to be in highly-customized manufacturing, where additive techniques can be more cost-effective than traditional methods. In its 2013 industry analysis, the consultancy notes that final part production rose to 28.3 percent of the $2.2 billion spent in 2012 on 3-D printing products and services worldwide, up from only 3.9 percent of revenues in 2003.
It took the 3-D printing industry 20 years to reach $1 billion in size. In five additional years, the industry generated its second $1 billion and is expected to double again, to $4 billion, in 2015. In less than four years, Wohlers Associates believes that the sale of 3-D printing products and services will approach $6 billion worldwide and $10.8 billion by 2021.
That kind of growth has major implications for domestic sourcing and distribution, particularly in the aerospace, defense, auto, and energy industries where weight, speed and efficiency are essential. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that 10 percent to 30 percent of the total goods now imported from China alone could be made in the United States, boosting domestic output by $20 billion to $55 billion annually.
“CNC is the vast majority of machining nowadays, but while a machine is often highly automated, it almost never knows other machines exist. Even in large or highly-automated factories, machines essentially perform a carefully coordinated, but blind ballet to make parts. The bulk of communication is along the lines of ‘go ahead’ or ‘I’m ready.’ The machines are ‘dumb’ and still require smart people to tell them what to do.” – Nick Pinkston, founder, Plethora
New Techniques, New Thinking
Today’s manufacturers may have mastered the production of high-value goods in an industrial environment, but to keep pace with tomorrow’s trends, they will have to adapt in everything from CNC milling to factory floor automation, all the way to system-wide integration at the production level, suggests Nick Pinkston, founder, Plethora.
“Specialization will continue to occur as factories get ever more unique,” Pinkston says. “A look at Apple is a look into the future; they lead their product categories by developing new and custom processes to produce lighter parts, higher-quality finishes and unique designs which are unachievable with off-the-shelf machinery and techniques.”
As competition increases, speed of development and speed to market will increase, product lifecycles will continue to shorten and the connection between engineering and manufacturing will grow tighter. “CAD software will become a lot more than just design with some simulation,” Pinkston predicts. “It will be a whole engineering environment that will let you not only design parts, but cost custom and off-the-shelf components and automate repetitive engineering tasks.
“CNC is the vast majority of machining nowadays, but while a machine is often highly automated, it almost never knows other machines exist,” Pinkston continues. “Even in large or highly-automated factories, machines essentially perform a carefully coordinated, but blind ballet to make parts. The bulk of communication is along the lines of ‘go ahead’ or ‘I’m ready.’ The machines are ‘dumb’ and still require smart people to tell them what to do.”
“Manufacturing is not all going to be automated — there’s still the human side of it,” adds Debbie Holton, managing director, SME. As the ‘industrial Internet’ grows, understanding how systems work together in the field will be important, so manufacturers will have little choice but to build up their IT capabilities and knowledge.
“The ability to interpret cloud-based predictive maintenance and manipulate the ‘digital thread’ of products — from initial design to final disposal — are just two examples of the skills growing in demand,” Holton continues. “Companies are going to go where the skills are, so in terms of economic development, education and training are going to be key for creating future growth in manufacturing.”
Communities Get Involved
A recent example of state-level attention aimed at supporting next-generation manufacturing is in Rhode Island, where back in December, the Rhode Island Commerce Corp. partnered with Bryant University, Rhode Island Manufacturing Extension Services and the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association to host a conference entitled, “3-D Printing: Promoting a Maker Culture in RI.”
“3-D printing is the next trillion-dollar industry,” says Andrew Coutu, president, R&D Technologies, a 3-D manufacturer based at Quonset Business Park. “If Rhode Island manufacturing companies want to be around in five years, they have to lean into it. We need to find ways to promote apprenticeships and learning programs to develop talent — and keep talent from leaving this state. Soon, everyone will have a 3-D printer in their home — it’s time to ride the wave of this new revolution in the manufacturing process.”
National attention and initiatives such as America Makes and the newly-launched Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute will certainly help, but investment and cooperation at the local level will help small and medium-sized manufacturers transition into additive and digital manufacturing technologies even more effectively.
Partnerships are also forming at the regional and local levels to help inventors, smaller manufacturers and suppliers take advantage of fast-changing additive and digital technologies. In Wayne County, Ohio, local leaders are collaborating to establish a manufacturing commercialization center and help manufacturers design new products, make hard-to-get items, hire trained staff and stay competitive in an evolving marketplace.
“Ohio is going through a manufacturing renaissance, so this is a concept we can all gather around,” says Rod Crider, president, Wayne (County, Ohio) Economic Development Council. “This is going to be a revolutionary technology for manufacturing and for the educational community, an opportunity for training.”
Crider says the effort took on even greater momentum after the council and other stakeholders including MAGNET (Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network), Ohio State University, and Wayne County Schools organized a 3-D Manufacturing Roundtable last October to plot a course for the future.
In addition to the production of actual goods, new economic activity is also being generated by additive and digital manufacturing OEMs themselves, as the sector grows. A notable example is 3-D Systems Corp. which announced a $10 million investment in October 2013 to expand its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Rock Hill, S.C.
Supported by state-approved job development credits and local property tax relief, the multi-year project is expected to generate 145 new jobs. The plans follow the company’s earlier move to expand local manufacturing of new personal and professional 3D printer models, and blending of proprietary print materials.
“To accommodate unprecedented demand for our products, we are expanding our manufacturing operations in the Charlotte region,” said Avi Reichental, president and CEO, 3-D Systems Corp., in a public statement. “We are literally manufacturing the future in Rock Hill and deeply appreciate all the support we’ve received from state and local officials.
“We are excited about the opportunity to expand our production capacity and services to our customers,” Reichental continued. “Rock Hill has been the perfect fit for our business, and we look forward to continuing to grow here.”
While public incentives helped offset the costs of relocating from California and Colorado, one of the biggest assets that attracted 3-D Systems Corp. to the region was York Technical College, which partnered with the company to create a 17,000-square-foot center for training in 3-D printing, rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing skills.
Getting to the Cutting Edge
“Electricity was so transformative to American manufacturing that it made the development of steam technology pale by comparison,” says Victor Schantz, president, Schantz Pipe Organ Co. in Orrville, Ohio. “What’s going on now in manufacturing is at least as revolutionary. However, when small manufacturing businesses like mine try to take on a new technology by themselves, they have to come up with the capital to invest in expensive machinery that quickly goes obsolete.
“They also have to train their own people and experiment with their own ideas, yet there’s nothing really to cushion them from failure,” Schantz continues. “In the next several years, what we hope will change is that collaboration between our educational institutions, government and businesses will provide a career path for the trained technicians that we need, and a less expensive way to access the latest in technology. The rust belt needs to bounce back and this is one way to do it.”
For complete details on the organizations featured in this article, visit:
3-D Systems Corp.
America Makes – NAMII
Nick Pinkston – Plethora
Schantz Organ Co.
Wayne (County, Ohio) Economic Development Council
Illustration by Stuart Miles at Free Digital Photos.net
Mark Kleszczewski
Mark Kleszczewski is president and CEO of GoBusiness Group LLC and a freelance writer on critical business topics. He can be reached at mark@gobusinessgroup.net.
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Bollywood Actress Priyanka Chopra wants to give Sikkim its own film industry like other states
Priyanka Chopra says that she has done nothing more than what she has done in Hindi films, when asked about doing sex scenes in Hollywood
Priyanka Chopra’s mandate with her production company — Purple Pebble is quite clear. At an event where she was promoting Baywatch in Mumbai, the actress took a moment to talk about how she is venturing into regional cinema first to encourage talent. Apart from Punjabi, Bhojpuri and Marathi film industry, Priyanka’s outlook is to also give Sikkim it’s own film industry. The north eastern state doesn’t have a film industry of its own unlike the other states.
Priyanka, while talking about the work that she wants to do in terms of cinema said:
“I made it big on my own in the industry. Of course, I was Miss World and therefore I got offers but I always had to introduce myself in front of people. I have seen that struggle and therefore my company is always in search of fresh talent whether actors, writers, technicians or musicians. In Sikkim as well, we have roped-in people who are completely new but very talented. We want to give them that first push and make them self sufficient, so that tomorrow when have left, they can run their own film industry with their own talents.”
Priyanka, who is now an international face with her TV show Quantico and the Dwayne Johnson film also talked about her ‘standards’ of dealing with sexuality in films. When asked how does she agree to do bold scenes in the West, the actress said:
“I haven’t done anything more than what is shown here in Hindi films. I am an actor and I don’t like sensationalising stories into sexuality… so, it just becomes a big deal. I have my limitation and people over there know that. In Hollywood, I have only done what I have done in Hindi films. I keep my standard same for everything.”
While talking about the treatment that Hollywood gives to the female actors as compared to the male ones, the former Miss World said:
“I feel the world is male-dominated, whether it’s in India or abroad. Outside India, there is also same fight of equality for women as much as it is here in India. Entire world… over the years has told women that they are second class citizens all their lives. Even in films, male actors are given reverence but with female actors, we have reached a stage where female actors have crossed Rs 100 crore-mark at the Box Office. It was achieved by Kangana Ranaut and it is the biggest achievement.”
She also highlighted that earlier, women-centric films never got good openings but things are changing now. She explained:
“My films Fashion and Mary Kom did extremely well at the Box Office. Today, female actors are having their best time in the film industry. In the coming years, there are chances that female-centric films touch Rs 200 crore mark but for that, the audience’s mindset has to change. People should come and watch good films and shouldn’t think whether it’s a male or female-centric film.”
Meanwhile, the rumours have it that Priyanka’s next Bollywood film will have her essaying the character of famous Indian astronaut, Kalpana Chawla. While the Bajirao Mastani actress refused to give away any detail, she said that she has read a few scripts and the announcements will be made soon.
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Movie Review: Ready Player One
The Lowdown: What Ready Player One lacks in depth it makes up for in dazzling visual effects and thrilling action.
These days imagining a future where everyone lives life in a virtual world isn’t all that hard to imagine. Based on the novel by Ernest Cline, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One navigates a virtual world known as the Oasis. While full of excitement and fun, Spielberg’s take on living in a made-up reality is missing much of the depth that made Cline’s novel a cautionary tale of the future.
Ready Player One is an ode to Gen X pop culture. Set in 2045, society has become so obsessed with ‘80s nostalgia they’ve abandoned any artistic endeavors of their own. Everyone lives their lives in the Oasis. It’s where they go to work, school, and find all forms of entertainment. The reason for all of this? James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the creator of The Oasis. Born in 1972, he crammed all of his favorite childhood movies, video games, and music into his creation so he could live in a perpetual state of nostalgia.
In perhaps an homage to Willy Wonka, Halliday is bequeathing his fortune, along with control of the Oasis, to a worthy successor. In this world controlling the Oasis pretty much means controlling the entire world. It’s no small prize. What makes a worthy successor? In the land of video games it’s the person who finds Halliday’s deeply hidden Easter Egg first.
In Cline’s book this meant someone so familiar with Halliday, and the things he loved, they would be able to solve his riddles to find a set of keys that would lead to the mystical egg. That element is somewhat lost in the film. In the film this becomes more of a literal race to the finish line. Here we meet Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teen suffering in his sub-lower-class neighborhood and sees the egg as his only way out.
Also competing for possession of the egg is Innovative Online Industries (IOI) an evil corporation, bent on converting the Oasis into nothing but a money-generating world of advertising. IOI is a fairly stereotypical corporation led by a soulless executive named Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn). Unfortunately Sorrento doesn’t come across with enough menace to make IOI the intimidating threat it should be. He’s so bumbling as a leader it seems obvious he will be beaten.
There are a lot of great action sequences in this film. The car race that opens each quest for the first key is particularly thrilling. It’s full of some pretty cool Easter eggs of its own, so keep your eyes open. Wade faces a whole new set of challenges in the film than in the book, which adds and extra element of surprise for fans of the book.
I only wish we could have gotten to know the characters themselves a little better. Why do we care about Wade Watts? When it comes to the heroes and villains in this film, Spielberg relies on what audiences already know about these types of characters rather than showing us what truly makes them tick.
That being said, Ready Player One has a lot going for it in its visual presentation and fast-paced story. It’s certainly worth checking out, especially if you’re a fan of the book.
Ready Player One Images: Warner Brothers
April 4, 2018 Sherry Lipp
Action, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Sci-fi, Ticker Action Movies, ernest cline, Movie Adaptations, ready player one review, Sci-fi, Simon Pegg, Steven Spielberg
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Cold Reads: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Submitted by Jose Cruz on Sat, 2010-08-28 00:40
Cold Reads celebrates Writer of the Month! Throughout August, we will be studying the works of Edgar Allan Poe and celebrating his massive contributions to the horror genre.
Perfect in every possible way, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" remains to this reviewer a tour de force of horror and literature. In some ways it exceeds "The Tell-Tale Heart" in its greatness and beauty, making it the perfect tribute to end this month of appreciations to a master.
The hideous Red Death may be ravaging the land, but this mere trifle does not disturb Prince Prospero in the least. Gathering his closest of friends in his secure abbey, the prince holds a magnificent costumed ball to alleviate the minds of his guests from the bothersome reaper who knocks at the door. But as the music swells and the great ebony clock rings out its eerie chimes, a mysterious guest makes himself present amongst the crowd...(read more...)
The Terrorphile: Corman, Price, and Poe -- A Video Tribute
Submitted by Nate Yapp on Tue, 2010-08-24 21:17
I grew up on two kinds of horror movies: Universal creature features and Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films. I have very specific memories of watching Vincent Price going mad in Pit and the Pendulum and cheering on the magic duel in The Raven. These are formative experiences in my life as a film aficionado, so when Jose Cruz decided to devote a month of his Cold Reads column to celebrating Poe's short stories, I felt it was the right time to pay tribute to the cinematic triumvirate of Corman, Price, and Poe.
Review: It Conquered the World (1956)
Submitted by Nate Yapp on Sun, 2010-08-22 20:36
In the 1950s, the Cold War was steaming up and alien invasion movies were making big bucks at the box office. Combining the two was a natural pairing that emerged throughout the decade . One of the more intelligent efforts to come from that era is Roger Corman's It Conquered the World. Written by Corman's friend and frequent collaborator Charles B. Griffith, the film uses its alien antagonist to play on the fear of Communism as a external force bent on brainwashing and depersonalizing humanity, while simultaneously exploring a very human debate about the pros and cons of the "Red Menace." The result is a deeply satisfying, thought-provoking viewing experience. (read more...)
Cold Reads: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Well, I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition! *Diabolical music* No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! This week's creepy classic is Poe's immortal "The Pit and the Pendulum," a devilish descent into the tortures of the Inquisition minus the soft pillows and comfy chair of Monty Python's hilarious skit. Poe drenches his short tale in a palpable sordidness that will instill a bad taste in the reader's mouth and a tangible shiver in the skin.(read more...)
Shout! Factory Announces More Gamera Goodness
Man, those folks at Shout! Factory really push the nostalgia buttons, don't they? After their releases of Gamera the Giant Monster and Gamera vs. Barugon in DVD special editions, they're returning to the giant turtle with a pair of double features -- Gamera Vs. Gyaos / Gamera Vs. Viras and Gamera Vs. Guiron / Gamera Vs. Jiger . All four films will be presented in their original Japanese versions. Both double feature DVDs will be released on September 21, 2010 and carry a suggested retail price of $19.93 (you can pre-order them from Amazon.com by clicking the set titles above). Below you'll find the film descriptions from the press release to further whet your appetite for kaiju carnage.(read more...)
Review: The Last Winter (2006)
Submitted by Chris Justice on Mon, 2010-08-16 11:30
The popularity of horror films set in polar settings is hard to ignore. In the 1950s, during one of horror's most misunderstood subgenres - the creature feature film - polar landscapes were a common setting that harbored dinosaurs, aliens, and mutant insects. However, those landscapes assumed roles subordinate to their narratives' focus because more pressing geopolitical issues related to the Cold War dominated the day. (read more...)
Cold Reads: The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
Throughout the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, there is a recurring theme of murder and the agonizing guilt that soon follows afterward. "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" are the exemplary stories of this common theme. I chose "The Black Cat" because I think that almost everyone and their grandmothers have read "The Tell-Tale Heart." I felt that hardly any attention was given to the tale up for this week's review and, having never read it myself, I decided to give it a go. What I discovered was an excellent tale of the supernatural that, while not quite matching the intensity of "Tell-Tale," deserves to be read by any fan of the master.(read more...)
Shiverin' 6: Horror from 1960
Submitted by Nate Yapp on Thu, 2010-08-12 19:06
Another Shiverin' 6, folks, this time focusing on some of the best horror flicks released fifty years ago in 1960. They come from all around the globe and from all sorts of genres, but they're all highly recommended. As always, the Shiverin' 6 represents some of the best from a given category, not necessarily the best. As such, the entries aren't ranked but listed alphabetically. Be sure to let us know in the comments what some of your favorites from 1960 are!(read more...)
Review: Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
Submitted by Bruce Jordan on Sun, 2010-08-08 20:55
In 1968, the British production company Tigon had found a measurable degree of success with the release of Michael Reeves' classic tale of greed and corruption, Witchfinder General. In a concerted effort to provide audiences with a film along the same lines a screenplay by Robert Wynne-Simmons was commissioned, Piers Haggard was brought on board to direct, and The Blood on Satan's Claw took root. In most cases, when a film is made by a studio hoping to cash in on a previous effort, the resulting film comes across as mere imitation. In this instance, however, a perfect combination of accurate period details, overwhelming atmosphere, and convincing central performances help provide the basis for one of the finest British horror films of the 1970s.(read more...)
Cold Reads: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
Submitted by Jose Cruz on Fri, 2010-08-06 21:03
Cold Reads celebrates Writer of the Month for August! For the next four weeks, we will be studying the works of Edgar Allan Poe and celebrating his massive contributions to the horror genre.
Edgar Allan Poe is known for many things, one of which is being one of the leading voices in American Gothic literature. But his work in creating detective fiction as we know it today (along with the likes of Voltaire and E.T.A. Hoffman) is usually overlooked in favor of his more macabre pieces. Without Poe's help, sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade may never have come into existence. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" marks the first appearance of Poe's famous detective C. Auguste Dupin in a tale of homicide gone completely wild.(read more...)
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A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets. The overall strength of a magnet is measured by its magnetic moment or, alternatively, the total magnetic flux it produces. The local strength of magnetism in a material is measured by its magnetization.
The north-seeking pole of such a magnet, or any similar pole, is called a north magnetic pole. The south-seeking pole, or any pole similar to it, is called a south magnetic pole. Unlike poles of different magnets attract each other; while like poles repel each other.
Poles of a Magnet:
A magnet has two poles, viz. North Pole and South Pole. The magnetic power is concentrated on the poles of a magnet. When a bar magnet is suspended to move freely, it always points in the north-south direction. The north pole of the magnet points towards the north and the south pole of the magnet points towards the south.
Interaction Between Poles of Magnet
Like poles repel each other. This means when north pole of a magnet is brought near the north pole of another magnet, both repel each other. The same holds true for the south poles of two magnets.
Unlike poles attract each other. This means when north pole of a magnet is brought near the south pole of another magnet, both attract each other.
Like poles repel and unlike poles attract
When we bring close two opposite ends of magnets we can see that they attract each other but when we bring the same ends closer they repel each other. This phenomenon is used by modern technology and it has always puzzled people.
Magnetism can explain the reasons behind this strange attraction and repulsion that acts between two poles. The attraction or repulsion force that acts between two magnets or a magnet and a neutral object is called magnetism. A magnet has the power to attract other objects made of nickel, iron, steel and cobalt. It does so by the magnetic field around it.
Every magnet has two poles – North Pole and South Pole. Earth also has its magnetic field and if a magnet is hung from a point to rotate freely , its one end will point towards north and the other towards south. The magnetic force is a result of the electrons that are loose and move freely inside the magnets.
At one end of the magnet there is a density of negatively charge ions and at another there is lack of negatively charged ions. When the opposite poles are near each other they attract each other because one of the poles is negatively charged and the other pole is positively charged.
Magnetic force is driven to make successful exchange of electrons and bring the poles to a neutral state. The same poles repel each other because they are both negatively or positively charged. The same poles cannot exchange electrons and become neutral. This is why magnets attract neutral objects like iron or nickel towards them.
All objects ultimately want to lose thier charge to become stable and neutral.
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Don Barkley and Kevin Lovett
Posted on October 17, 2019 November 4, 2019 by BrewHaHa
Brew Ha Ha with Steve Jaxon today features Don Barkley and Kevin Lovett. Mark Carpenter and Herlinda Heras are both traveling. Don was last on Brew Ha Ha back in March of this year. Don Barkley tells the story of how he was there the day that Kevin was born, on the 4th of July. Kevin’s dad Michael and Don Barkley have been friends for a long time. They worked together at the New Albion Brewery then they moved to Hopland at the same time to start the Mendocino Brewing Co. and the Hopland Brewery and Kevin Lovett was born soon after that. Kevin was one of Don’s first employees at the Napa Smith Brewery, where he worked for about five years. Then he got an offer from Brian Hunt who owns and operates Moonlight Brewing Co., which also happens to be where Don’s son works. Kevin says, “I got to work for two of the godfathers in this industry, Don and Brian.” Then after Moonlight, Kevin was the head brewer at Stumptown for two years, then became the Master Brewer at Cloverdale Ale Company. He has now bought the brewery, just three weeks ago, and is going to reopen it at the beginning of the year, as the Wolf House Brewery. He is opening two spots at the same time, one in Glen Ellen, the Jack London Historical Village, on the south side, right up against the Jack London Park. Both places will be a full brew pub, but their main production facility will be in Cloverdale. Glen Ellen is known as a wine town but there are few breweries and no tasting rooms, except for Cloverdale.
We get a phone call from Herlinda Heras who is visiting Belgium, where it is 2:29 AM the next day. She began the trip in Amsterdam. Everywhere she goes there are separate containers for recycling glass and plastic. She also visited two breweries in windmills.
Kevin’s business partner and bro-in-law is a chef who also runs a food truck called Got Balls Meatball Factory. that specializes in meatballs and he will manage the food provisions there. The Glen Ellen location is being rebuilt from scratch, including all the local permits.
Herlinda describes a Belgian monastery where the beer that the brothers produce was for a while the number one rated beer on RateBeer.com. When crowds of beer lovers showed up there, the monks were unhappy with the interruption to their life, which includes a vow not to earn more money than they need to run their monastery. Herlinda describes going to some Trappist breweries there.
Herlinda is touring breweries on Bon Beer Voyage Beer Tours. They have rooms on flat-bottomed canal barges that go through the canals in the Netherlands and Belgium. They visited Antwerp, which is gorgeous. She will also attend the Smithsonian ceremony on November 8 in Washington DC, for the opening of the Beer History Museum, where some famous American brewers like New Albion, Anchor Brewing Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head will be inducted. Fritz Maytag and Ken Grossman will be there. Herlinda wonders why Dogfish Head is in such company.
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Trump aims to ‘even playing field’ for faith-based groups seeking grants
Overcome racism that clouds hearts, archbishop urges nation
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Jeff Rauenhorst
(CNS photo/courtesy Jeff Rauenhorst)
By Dennis Sadowski • Catholic News Service • Posted May 17, 2018
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Most people who tackle Spain’s famous 500-mile “Camino,” whether in whole or in part, do so at an unhurried pace.
Not so for Nevadan Jeff Rauenhorst.
Rauenhorst, 39, planned to run the meandering route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, beginning May 29.
He told Catholic News Service that he wants to raise awareness of the Catholic Climate Covenant’s Catholic Energies program and environmental concerns overall, while continuing a spiritual journey that is leading him to more deeply connect with his Catholic faith and understand God’s call in his life.
Rauenhorst expects he will complete the arduous trek in 17 to 19 days. He’s seeking sponsors for the excursion, asking people to donate from 1 cent to $1, or more, for each mile he runs. He planned to blog about his experiences at www.catholicclimatecovenant.org/el-camino-run. The website also will accept financial pledges. The goal: $60,000.
As an ultrarunner — someone who covers at least 50 kilometers, or about 31 miles in a single outing — Rauenhorst understands the mental and physical challenges ahead.
“It’s a journey with my faith and with God. I’ve got to put my trust in him,” said the member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Incline Village, Nevada, north of Lake Tahoe.
For Rauenhorst, the effort allows him to take advantage of his professional background in energy management for the benefit of the church’s call to care for creation.
Until recently, Rauenhorst was a vice president of Vigilent, an energy management firm in Oakland, California. In April the University of Notre Dame graduate started his own consulting business.
He also serves as an adviser to Catholic Energies. The Catholic Climate Covenant initiative works with parishes, schools, hospitals and institutions to reduce energy consumption and costs.
The journey to the Camino began with a papal audience in April 2017. The audience with Pope Francis came through the Papal Foundation, to which Rauenhorst’s parents belong. His wife of 15 years and two school-age children were alongside.
“Pope Francis spoke with us and we were able to individually shake his hand as part of the audience,” the Minneapolis native recalled. “That was a tremendous experience. I was a little nervous and not sure what to expect. While I have been Catholic my whole life, to be able to be that close to the pope was pretty intimidating actually.”
Upon meeting Pope Francis, a feeling of peace enveloped Rauenhorst. “His presence filled me in a way that I never really understand,” he said.
The Rome visit lasted four days and included a Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, during which his family carried the offertory gifts to the altar. Rauenhorst said he felt like a tourist during an earlier visit to the Vatican, but he found the most recent visit “felt more like a pilgrimage.”
At home in Nevada a few weeks later, Rauenhorst began seeing Mass and his faith differently and having a great awareness of God in his life.
“Right before Communion, when the priest was holding up the consecrated host, I had this overwhelming sense of emotion, almost to the sense of crying,” Rauenhorst told CNS. “I didn’t understand what was going on. In good traditional fashion, I ignored it.
“The next Sunday, the same thing happened, but during the Our Father. It was like I was hearing the words for the first time. I guess I had what most people would call a conversion experience.
“Since then, the way I experience Mass, the way I experience my faith, it’s hard for me as a guy to explain,” he added. “It’s almost like going through Catholic school. I understood what it meant to be Catholic intellectually, but now it touched me in my heart.”
Rauenhorst connected with the climate covenant soon after returning from Rome through his aunt, Amy Goldman, chief executive officer and chair of the Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation, which focuses on health, education and global development.
He’s hoping his rapid-paced excursion will raise awareness of the need to preserve the environment and to incorporate the vision of Pope Francis as expressed in the 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”
As he develops his consulting business, Rauenhorst wants to spend “half time with corporate energy clients and half time with the Catholic Church.” The new arrangement will allow him to spend more time with family as well.
“I really want to help the Catholic Church be more energy efficient and living what Pope Francis has written in ‘Laudato Si’,'” he said. “By helping (the church) save money on energy consumption, they can spend more money on their mission.”
Plans call for Rauenhorst to be greeted by his wife and children, ages 8 and 11, for the last couple of miles of the Camino.
“Hopefully,” he said, “through this story of this crazy guy running the Camino, it’s enough to raise attention to the environment.”
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Prion disease - kuru
Kuru is a disease of the nervous system.
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue.
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual. This practice stopped in 1960, but cases of kuru were reported for many years afterward because the disease has a long incubation period. The incubation period is the time it takes for symptoms to appear after being exposed to the agent that causes disease.
Kuru causes brain and nervous system changes similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Similar diseases appear in cows as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called mad cow disease.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a form of brain damage that leads to a rapid decrease in movement and loss of mental function.
The main risk factor for kuru is eating human brain tissue, which can contain the infectious particles.
Symptoms of kuru include:
Coordination problems that become severe
Difficulty walking
Swallowing difficulty
Tremors and muscle jerks
Difficulty swallowing and being unable to feed oneself can lead to malnutrition or starvation.
Malnutrition is the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients.
The average incubation period is 10 to 13 years, but incubation period of 50 years or even longer have also been reported.
A neurologic exam may show changes in coordination and walking ability.
There is no known treatment for kuru.
Death usually occurs within 1 year after the first sign of symptoms.
See your health care provider if you have any walking, swallowing, or coordination problems. Kuru is extremely rare. Your provider will rule out other nervous system diseases.
Bosque PJ, Tyler KL. Prions and prion diseases of the central nervous system (transmissible neurodegenerative diseases). In: Bennett JE, Dolin R, Blaser MJ, eds. Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, Updated Edition. 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2015:chap 181.
Geschwind MD. Prion diseases. In: Daroff RB, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, Pomeroy SL, eds. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 94.
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Like most, it has pay walls for certain activities if you feel like paying for it. Skout Learn more about the Skout app experience on Android in the video review above. Neatly tuck the wire into the box and attach the switches to the box. Featured in a about hookup apps, Coffee Meets Bagel is an interesting take on dating apps. The interface is organized well, easy to use and has a fair amount of security. It's otherwise free to download. For combined control, connect the black wire from the ceiling fan box to the common lug of the three-way switch.
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Please note that with all subscriptions: — No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. This rule sort of encourages you to meet the person face-to-face instead of keeping them on the hook that eventually results in a futile connection. Fetish websites, clubs, and events have been around for a while now. Plenty of Fish Install: I Plenty of Fish is a rather an apt name for this app as it has a user base of over 90 million people as of last year. It is automation of the home, housework or household activity. But regardless of the success of the posting, you will have to spend a ticket each time. Why not try something new that ensures greater safety, security and convenience? You have to pay to access the ad-free version of the app.
It has only a small user base at the moment. Three-way switches are always used in pairs. Like many other apps on this list, your potential matches are based on your Facebook connections. Connect the red and black wires from one cable from the other switch box to one three-way switch and connect the red and black from the other cable to the other three-way switch. A great way to meet people who visit the gym or restaurant you go to. Rules of chatting are quite similar to the two aforementioned apps.
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While Grindr has been greatly acclaimed for enabling gay men to mingle, it has also been in controversy for serving as a passage to solicit drugs. These people are sex positive, open-minded. Simple interface and good measures of privacy and security. In fact, Tinder sued Feeld for Copyright Infringement. Threesomes and group sex appear to be less taboo and more of a viable option to try out something new in the bedroom, yet trying to arrange a ménage à trois can still be difficult. You just have to click a button by 6 pm to show that you would like to go on a date tonight and there will be other people who want to go on a date that night as well. But this app is also used for hooking up extensively and is for more than just romantic connections.
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Like most, the app has its flaws and its pay walls aren't very appealing. So you will be matched with each other and you can select people you would like to go out with. There are bots, though, so keep that in mind. The Home Automation Network Home automation is the residential extension of building automation. If you are being an ass you will be banned. It supports over 200 cities all over the world and includes all kinds of events. Transvaal won the competition in beating Auckland at Ellispark in the final after winning all four their pool games and were finalists again in, for each individual criteria.
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I have several cans on a switch, and one tap puts them at the desired %dim. Local bars, concert halls, clubs, and other entertainment is yours at the tap of a button. We update our app frequently to make it more user-friendly. The design is very minimalistic with even the profiles containing only the essential information. Learn more about Skout and other hookup apps in our giant Looking for love over 50, or prefer a mature partner? Once you make it to one of these events, the world is your oyster when it comes to meeting new people. Since women make the first move, the ladies have some amount of control over who gets to talk with them and can thus avoid harassment and stalking to some degree.
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The app is reminiscent of Tinder, except it goes a bit further and helps break the ice with preselected questions and a bit of a different selection process. Eventbrite is a local events app. It combines the ease of swiping through a dating app with the concept that three can play. I will keep varying the site, to park, and manners are private chatting works. When a mutual attraction hits, you're given a chat room to talk further. It comes with features packed to support this bold claim. It does have a ton of people using the service so it shouldn't be too difficult to find people who aren't bots.
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Unlike other similar sites, 3rder never discloses your personal information to any third party. By being upfront in the search for threesomes, all involved parties will hopefully be able to match. There are no apps that can guarantee a hookup. Feeld originally got considerable media attention when it first debuted as 3nder in 2016, but it soon rebranded after being. Any variation of this arrangement is possible while maintaining one three-way switch common wired to the black of the power leg and the other three-way switch common wired to the black of the light or fan leg. Any photo with lewd, sexually explicit, copyrighted content will be removed from the 3rder app. The app looks for your potential match based on factors such as your lifestyle, shared interests, religion, location, etc.
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Indigenous Rights are Human Rights
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Danielle Steenwyk-Rowaan
My favourite part of my job is leading the Blanket Exercise. I love seeing a light go on for people as they learn parts of Canadian history that they never learned in school and realize how we came to the broken place we are today. I love learning from participants in the sharing circle afterwards, especially when they speak about Indigenous people that they know. I love how it helps our intellectual, brainy denomination to learn with our hearts as well. I love seeing people take a step towards seeing the image of God shining through Indigenous people. Perhaps more than anything, the Blanket Exercise reveals the fundamental lack of respect that Canada has shown for that image of God in Indigenous people and Indigenous cultures.
One of the many things I’ve learned about from the Blanket Exercise is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, endorsed by Canada in 2010. It’s quite a mouthful, but the meaning of the Declaration boils down to this: Indigenous peoples are entitled to the same human rights as everyone else. Pretty simple, isn’t it?
But did you know…
…that 50% of First Nations children live in poverty, compared to 17% of other Canadian children?
…that young Indigenous women in Canada are five times more likely to die under violent circumstances than other Canadian women of the same age?
…that the funding gap for education on- and off-reserve is 30-50%, depending on the province?
….that in 2015, Canada ranked 6th in the world on human development, but if First Nations communities were considered separately from other Canadians, they would rank 63rd in the world? (UN Human Development Index, 2015)
Or if you’re American, did you know that at least 40% of the people living on the Navajo Nation reservation don’t have access to clean running water? Or that the Declaration of Independence refers to Native Americans as “merciless Indian savages”? Or that Native Americans are the racial group most likely to be killed by police?
Indigenous rights are human rights. It may seem self-evident, but it needs to be said. Indigenous peoples are still not being treated as equals in our societies. We need the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
So what should you know about the Declaration? Here are the basics:
Written by Indigenous peoples — Written by Indigenous people for Indigenous people, the Declaration communicates a consistent message—Indigenous peoples have the same rights and freedoms to make choices for themselves and their communities as other peoples do. Indigenous people aren’t voiceless—they’re speaking. The Declaration is one way others can listen.
It’s a roadmap forward – After following along with the stories from survivors of Canadian residential schools told at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Canadians and especially Christian Canadians want to know: how can we turn away from the broken ways that our peoples have related and live together on this land in a better way? One of the Commission’s answers, woven throughout its 94 calls to action, is living out the respect for Indigenous peoples outlined in the Declaration.
This is what mutual respect looks like — What might new respect for Indigenous peoples mean for our churches? Unfortunately, the North American church has habit of automatically dismissing any expression of Indigenous cultural and spiritual practice as pagan and savage. Indigenous Christians have often been met with accusations of syncretism when praying in their own Indigenous way or drumming. When we safeguard religious freedom for Christians, we must realize that Indigenous peoples are also entitled to choose their spiritual practices and that some of those practices may have much to teach us. Thankfully, we have a beautiful model for appreciating Indigenous cultures and their contributions to our understanding of God in the urban aboriginal ministry centres in Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Regina.
Adopted by the CRC in Canada — Following the recommendations of the TRC, the Christian Reformed Church in Canada has just adopted the Declaration and is putting plans in place to implement it. The CRC in Canada has been involved in ministry to and with Indigenous people for more than 40 years and adopting the Declaration flows out of what we’ve learned together, as well as previous statements the CRC has made about the need for renewed covenantal relationships with Indigenous peoples in Canada. What will implementing the Declaration look like? CRC leadership has promised to begin working together with churches to understand and appreciate the Declaration; continuing to discern what the Declaration means for the way we practice mission and social justice; and honour Indigenous self-determination, diversity, and rights through education and advocacy work. But that’s just a beginning--how do you think we can better honour Indigenous rights?
Shalom: we can only truly flourish when we all flourish. When one part of the Body suffers, the whole Body suffers with it.
So listen to the Declaration Imagine what our churches and countries could look like if it were fully implemented. Indigenous peoples already contribute in beautiful, imaginative ways to our societies—imagine how much more we would all benefit if more Indigenous children grew up well-fed, well-respected, well-educated, well-rooted in their cultures.
Imagine what Shalom—a true, just peace—could look like in our churches and countries.
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March 15, 2019 / danmaycock / Comments Off on The Hidden Ingredients of a Beer
When you think of a beer, what ingredients come to mind? Water, a source of starch such as malted barley, yeast, and hops all may be on the list. Different types of beers, of course, all have different types of ingredients along with the many varieties of ingredients such as hops (around 130 varieties exist currently, for brewers to chose from).
Regardless of how it’s made though, there are several hidden ingredients in beer that you might not know about. Recently I’ve had the chance to move back to Yakima, Washington from Seattle after 15some years living and working there. I grew up in eastern Washington, about an hour east in the town of Prosser so it was in a lot of ways me coming home.
What I wasn’t aware of, though, was just how vibrant the culture of hop growing and beer making was in the valley. Did you know Washington grew 77 million pounds of hops last year, bringing in $427 million dollars and its all within driving distance to Yakima? That’s 77% of the total hops grown in the United States, on 75% of the total US hop acreage. Yakima even has shirts available on iheartyakima.com that proudly declares “We Grow Your Beer”.
It was in getting to know the folks at Bale Breaker, a craft brewery here in Yakima with a heritage in hop farming dating back into the early 1900’s that I really got to know craft beer. In so doing, those hidden ingredients that lie within each beer became evident.
So what are those hidden ingredients?
The first hidden ingredient is community
If there’s one thing you can pick up on walking into any tasting room is the close friendships that form between the patrons, and employees of a craft brewery. It’s really community that makes beer something that brings folks together, to share in good times and bad. You don’t have to know a brewer for very long before you come to feel like family. Beer, I’ve learned, is not only is great for bringing friends together, but helping make new friends at the same time.
The second hidden ingredient is love
There’s something special about hearing a brewer describe the beer they make. It’s the passion and pride they have for a job well done, combined with a love for making something that others can enjoy. Not only does a brewer, along with the team that supports them, love what they do but they love seeing people partake and are always willing to share how and what they do to anyone that asks. It’s a love and passion seen rarely in the office place and is evident anytime you encounter someone that works in the craft brew industry.
The third hidden ingredient is legacy
In learning about the history of beer, I discovered that there is early evidence of beer from a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing which contains the oldest surviving beer recipe. Monks further refined the concept of brewing dating back to the 16th century, where people around the world have been refining and experimenting since then. In the Yakima Valley, Leota Mae moved to Yakima in 1932 and began cultivating hops on land still farmed by her family today (some of those Smiths went onto start Bale Breaker located on lot 41 of that very same farm). Multi-generation families grow hops all throughout the Yakima valley, with several more families growing other ingredients that make beer great. It’s a profession chock full of legacy, with more history added with each crop year.
The fourth hidden ingredient is creativity, along with innovation
Though there’s several more “hidden ingredients” I could chose from, the last one I’ll talk about is creativity combined with innovation. There’s nothing that demonstrates rapid prototyping, experimentation, and feedback better than beer. Bale Breaker has an “imagination station” where they are making small batches trying out new kinds of recipes and collaborations each day. They share it via their tasting room for instant feedback and aren’t afraid to totally fall on their faces while cranking out new experiments. The ones that make it, get their own can and sold all across the pacific northwest while the rest are shelved for the time being till they’re brought out to experiment with once again. Some experiments are seasonal, some are collaborations with other folks in the beer industry, and some are just for fun. It’s evident though, in how Bale Breaker goes about inventing new flavors though that they truly understand the importance of innovation and creativity to keep a business thriving.
At the end of the day when you add all this up, it comes down to the fact that beer is more than just the beverage. It’s the hard work, passion, and community that comes together crafting each and every type of beer that makes it greater than the sum of its parts. And that alone, is worth spending time getting to know and enjoy.
So head over to Bale Breaker if you’re ever in Yakima, or any of the other amazing craft breweries nearby. Or if you’re not nearby, you’re no doubt within driving distance to someone’s passion and hard work ready on tap and available to share with you and your friends.
Go smell, sip, and enjoy! And when you do, think about those hidden ingredients that truly make beer more than just a drink.
February 2, 2017 / danmaycock / Comments Off on Fixing America Starts With Small Businesses. Here’s Why
I just read an article written by Joan Williams in Harvard Business Review titled “What So Many People Don’t Get About the Working Class.” She discussed reasons the nation is in the political state it’s in, and the reaction the middle class has had after years of job losses and an overarching sense of being left behind.
The article resonated with me because I grew up in a conservative farming town of 8,000, attended a university known for its agricultural programs, and then went on to work at The Boeing Company for five years. I now live in liberal Seattle. I left Boeing to start a company, then worked in technology and management consulting in cities across the world, and now have started another company.
Having spent half my life on one side of the conversation and half on the other, I see entrepreneurs as the ones standing in the middle. What it takes to start, run, and grow a small business requires a multitude of skills, including but not limited to:
Managing teams with empathy and understanding
Making strategic hiring decisions
Building a compelling story to get buyers in the door
Following local policies, demographic shifts, and labor issues
Keeping a national perspective when it comes to supply chain issues, taxes, and trend shifts
And so many people are impacted by a small business each day, whether as customers, employees, or founders. From an FAQ article written by SBA.gov in Sept, 2012:
“Small businesses make up: 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms, 64 percent of net new private-sector jobs, 49.2 percent of private-sector employment, 42.9 percent of private-sector payroll, 46 percent of private-sector output, 43 percent of high-tech employment, 98 percent of firms exporting goods, and 33 percent of exporting value.”
Although this information is almost five years old, the significance of small business hasn’t changed much. From stories of Radiator Springs in the Pixar movie “Cars” to popular books like “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance, it’s not hard to find insights into the middle class struggle and see how it ties to small business ownership.
In Dr. Williams’s article, she talks about the dream of owning a business and the scarcity-driven fear of feeling left out as blue-collar workers have found it harder to take care of their families, let alone take risks to get ahead.
So what does this mean for you? As a current or future entrepreneur, you have an opportunity (perhaps obligation?) to reach out in your community and help shape our nation in the coming years. The rest of this article contains some suggestions that will go a long way toward undoing the divisive rhetoric and populism facing all of us today.
1. Entrepreneurial viewpoints are contagious, so get to know someone you don’t agree with
Too often we surround ourselves with perspectives and inputs that support what we already believe. As an entrepreneur, you get even less time to take in what’s going on outside of your business, which means it can be harder to invest in a diversity of perspectives. Yet, finding at least one relationship–an actual person, please–that can help balance out bias means you’ll be able to see where others are coming from more easily.
We all want to be heard and valued. As an entrepreneur, you can reflect that balanced perspective with the business community, employees, and customers you interact with every day. Imagine the impact of treating everyone with respect and common understanding. That can begin with you.
2. Focus on employee ownership
Scarcity, fear, and the instinct to survive drive people to make decisions against their own long-term interests. Many people in the U.S. have been feeling increasingly left out of the American dream. They feel left behind and without opportunity.
Creating a path for every employee to own a piece of the business is one way to help counter that. Whether it’s allotting equity in your company or sponsoring employees to start their own ventures, ownership breeds a sense of purpose and pride that can be matched by few other things in a professional’s life. From the pride of owning something, to the additional revenue that can come from the business succeeding, degrees of ownership can help rid individuals of that sense of scarcity.
3. Volunteer for small business workshops and literacy programs
Unemployment is historically low, but underemployment can be a bigger issue for people trying to provide a future for themselves and their families. Not only that, but job satisfaction has been shown to impact everything from health and energy, to community participation and healthy family life.
I’ve had the chance to meet with people all over the world, talking about innovation and discussing people’s goals to create new things. Of the hundreds of people I’ve spoken to, many weren’t happy in their jobs and wished they had the tools or abilities to do their own thing.
Barriers to making a change can include lack of education or skills, inexperience, or lack of knowledge about existing sources of funding. The right mentorship from people who have catapulted over similar obstacles may be part of the answer. Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, but equipping more people with a path toward becoming one will help them create their own opportunities.
Furthermore, children of disadvantaged homes often struggle in school due to issues surrounding basic literacy. Those same children often grow up struggling to compete in everyday work environments. Consider volunteering your time to help kids get caught up. It can have a lasting impact and help each child feel like they have a shot at success.
4. Engage with your local government
Local issues lead to national campaigns. This election was won because small-town issues outweighed the opinions of urban populations. Wherever you live, there is a local community where people across many walks of life engage in issues that affect them. As an entrepreneur, you’re a part of that conversation each day, possibly without knowing it. Consider then, how you can take a more active role in supporting initiatives that help everyone succeed. These may include:
Fundraising for a new school
Participating in a business plan competition
Getting involved in ballot measures that locally could have a positive impact on economic growth.
Ridding your community of opportunity scarcity means we’re all better off. It also helps reduce the effectiveness of fear mongering and hate.
5. Stop considering college as the only path to entry
Education is a traditional barrier in professional environments. Yet, I’ve worked with many smart people with only a high school education. Treating college as just one route to success rather than the only one is an important step. You can do this by:
Supporting a trade school by volunteering for mentoring, guest speaking, and participating in hiring fairs
Advocating for blue collar workers (ex: consider incorporating local fabrication shops into bids for product prototypes vs outsourcing everything).
Considering skilled people for employment regardless of their backgrounds
People are feeling a divide, where those with formal educations are perceived as the “haves” and those without are the “have nots.” As an entrepreneur, you may have insights into how to break down this divide within your own organization.
Consider how you might use these approaches in your own community, and leave comments below on other ideas that might help heal our country and world. As an entrepreneur, you’re more equipped than you know to encourage change and help fix some of what is broken in our society.
November 10, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on How to Sell People on Really Big Ideas
I was recently talking to someone about his plans to launch a new concept focused on data analytics in the B2B space. He walked me through his models, his research, and all the great ideas he had on where he wanted to go.
I felt like he wasn’t going to be successful, though, because through most of the meeting, he talked to me in a monotone his head down. He didn’t have the kind of jump-out-of-your-seat enthusiasm or passion behind his idea that made me say “Wow, this really is something different.” And sadly, when it comes to breaking people out of their patterns, passion matters more than ability.
Investors may say it’s all about the numbers, and that’s true. It’s table stakes. However, if an investor doesn’t think you can sell the product, or yourself, then getting the cash is going to be a long shot.
If you’ve ever sold something or been sold to, you understand what I mean. The person that comes in with enthusiasm, whether it’s a TED talk or a sales pitch, will often surpass people with more knowledge and abilities. If you’re telling me something is amazing, I want to feel like you’re amazed by it yourself. If you’re telling me something is revolutionary, I expect you’ll show that in your body language.
A failure to connect with your audience is often a question of your emotional state, of how you interact or don’t interact, and how much enthusiasm you’re able to communicate to get other people excited as well.
Here are some tips then, on how to surface passion when it comes to launching something new and innovative–no matter how much of an introvert you might be.
1. Develop questions, not lecture notes.
When it comes to a conversation on a concept no one in the room has heard of before, don’t go in with a 50-slide PowerPoint deck. Instead, focus on preparing good questions ahead of time about the audience’s pain points and other things that matter to them. If you have a strong context for your audience, you’ll be able to adapt the pitch around them.
2. Don’t talk about the product or solution, talk about the problem you’re solving.
Anyone, from an investor to an executive to the person selling flowers on the corner, would give you a dollar if the person knew he or she would get two dollars back. Since there’s no such thing as a sure bet, it takes trust and confidence to get people to part with time or money. The only way you make that connection is by helping them see how they make two dollars by spending less, or by your helping them generate more. Assume your audience knows more about their business than you do, and focus on solving the pain points that are in their way to save money or generate revenue. If your product does neither of those things, you’re probably pitching the wrong people.
3. Numbers matter, but save it for the ask.
If you’re pitching investors, numbers are king. If you’re selling an executive on the benefits of your platform, you’re going to have to quantify that in some way. Passion does matter most, but it’s a nonstarter if you don’t have numbers to back up what you’re saying.
4. Practice, practice, practice.
Passion often comes through when we are feeling our most confident. To get there, practice how the pitch going to go. Get your questions down and your talking points committed to memory. Recite whatever good-luck quotes, prayers, or mantras to feel relaxed enough to pivot in the moment.
If you do these things, you’ll not only connect with your audience more effectively but also feel better coming out of the meeting, nine times out of 10, a great feeling in and of itself.
September 19, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on 3 Ways to Ensure That Your Idea Takes Root
When it comes to ideas, most disappear in the first hour they’re created because bringing something into the world takes serious effort. But no new thing can exist without real determination, struggle, and the effort of multiple people to see something come to life and flourish. Yet, some of the world’s best ideas disappear as quickly as they’re thought of because people shoot themselves down before telling another person what they’re thinking.
The simple truth is that often times our ideas don’t even get past the first handful of people because negative feedback is taken as justification to not do anything with the idea. What should happen of course, is that you take that feedback as a means to improve your idea and continue to iterate til it takes root.
How to do that though, can be easier said than done. Here then, are just a handful of steps that should help:
Tip #1 – Don’t let criticism get to your head
There are many successful people today living exciting lives built on their ideas, who had to fail at getting traction several times before they succeeded at getting their ideas to take off.
Akio Morita’s first rice cooker sold fewer than 100 units, because it burned the rice instead of cooking it. You may not have heard of him, but you’ve probably heard of his company, Sony.
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor, because the editor felt “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas”
During his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh only managed to sell one painting but painted 800 anyway, during his lifetime.
The potential and ideas were there in each of these people all along the way. These ideas they had just had to either go through several iterations, or wait until everyone around them caught onto the idea themselves. In each case though, these people refused to let the ideas and concepts they had die at the hands of themselves or anyone else they encountered along the way. That’s what separated them from people with good ideas who you and I haven’t ever heard of before.
Just like getting a car out of a ditch, it takes real effort to get your idea moving initially until it takes off on its own momentum. Be careful to not be your own worst enemy, by failing to get the idea off the ground because you weren’t willing to conquer your own fears and insecurities to get the idea on paper and begin sharing it with people, while using that feedback to refine / shape the idea along the way.
Tip #2 – Don’t be afraid to alter your plan of attack
The hardest ideas to surface can sometimes be around questioning something already agreed to, or pushing back on something half way built. The truth is though, that the most difficult ideas to surface can end up leading to the biggest improvements, as those ideas can help reveal blind spots missed along the way.
I’ve worked with companies that have had to choose between incorporating the next idea, shipping the product as is, or pivoting altogether because something drastic changed since the product road map had been put in place. Though it’s never an obvious choice which direction to go, shipping something they knew would be flawed always turned out worse in the end than delaying shipment to get the product right. It’s important to consider new ideas at every stage of product development in order to ensure that the right product ships every time.
Tip #3 – Continue sharing the idea, re-calibrate with user input, and persevere
Only through doing difficult things multiple times does it become easier, and being innovative and driving new ideas certainly is a muscle we must flex multiple times to get better at it. Repeating the process of developing ideas, refining them, and getting those ideas into meaningful outcomes is certainly worth the effort, but will always take effort (either internally or externally). It will also require dedication and determination, but will produce meaningful outcomes each and every time.
You need to always be willing to bring something up and share freely so that your company can continue to reinforce a culture of innovation and collaboration.
July 19, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on 3 Steps to take Data Analysis from “Well, That’s Interesting” to Revenue Impacting
Data is hot right now, and it seems everywhere in business these days there is another tool or framework on how to leverage data to drive a real difference in your business.
A good metaphor to understanding data effectively though, is training for an Olympic event (great timing for the metaphor, eh?). Most athletes train, not for the sake of training, but most likely because they want to stand on the podium with a medal as a statement to how good they are at the event. Anyone can train for the sake of training, but competing and winning is really the whole culmination of 4 years of tireless preparation and training.
The same is true for data visualization, in that the real goal should not be building dashboards and pretty charts, but pointing to the direct impact that data had on driving a top or bottom line impact on the company’s revenues. Yes, in larger companies it’s very hard to make a difference on the overall number, but every piece of data should tie to some positive contribution or else what is the point?
Yet, with so much data being made available, and so many people learning how to mine data for insights, there’s a lot of very pretty pictures out there which don’t move the needle at all. Yes, it’s great to hear about athlete’s and how they train, but the credibility isn’t there to the same degree as it is if they’e wearing an Olympic medal. If you’re a budding data analyst, or seasons chart builder, imagine if everything you built had a number next to it that said “this piece of data drove this quantifiable business impact”.
Though data visualization can serve qualitative benefits, such as monitoring a key business process or helping change a perspective on a topic, there should still be some way to tie even those things back to the difference it made (or could make) on the business.
Here’s three steps then, to help that mindset along
1. Understand the Reliability and Structure of the Data You’re Using
All because you have data, and have access to data, doesn’t mean it’s useful or all that important. You having access to log files from a server, which spits out information on usage patterns of your e-commerce system throughout the day only matters if you’re able to impact that usage in some meaningful way, then tie it back to a positive revenue lift. More importantly though, you have to know the data is reliable and understand how to model it in a way that it produces accurate conclusions. Build some baseline metrics, and measure against numbers you know are correct before going into any complex modeling exercise. Once you put a chart in a slide, it’s out there. So make sure you’re starting from the right data set to begin with.
2. Develop a Series of Hypothesis about Your Business
Once you know the data you’re working with, and have a good sense of how reliable it is, think about the business as it relates to parts you can actually control / influence. If you’re in advertising, don’t focus on product improvements. If you’re in product development, don’t worry about retention patterns on the website. Think about 3-5 gut instincts you have about how the business could operate differently, then use the data to test out those theories. Don’t simply mine the data, hoping the magical insights just pop out at you. Data, like a car, helps you get to where you’re going – it won’t take you there on it’s own. You need to at least have a rough idea of what you’re looking for, so you can build worthwhile visualization to help vet that hypothesis into an actual conclusion.
3. Focus on Low Hanging KPIs, then Expand from There
It’s easy today, with technology making more data accessible with less effort, to try and go after ground breaking insights. However, you no doubt have areas of your business you can directly impact and know will make a sizable difference to the bottom line, that you need help in influencing. Start with thinking through 3-5 KPIs coming from your hypothesis that you can build from the data you’ve vetted, to influence key business people or back up your assertions with a new direction you’re moving your team in.
If you can measure it, you can prove it (as long as it’s reliable and true), but remember that it’s never a silver bullet or the whole story. Data can be powerful, but it can also lead people astray or get people focused on the wrong things. When done right though, using validated data tied to a hypothesis and measured in a way that drives a meaningful revenue outcome, it can make a big difference.
Why Tableau is Worth Billions: A Case Study on Becoming a Digital “Port City”
July 19, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on Why Tableau is Worth Billions: A Case Study on Becoming a Digital “Port City”
It’s appropriate that Tableau is located in Seattle, as they both became popular for similar reasons.
Seattle, started as a logging town shipping lumber down to San Francisco, then hit a big boom during the Klondike gold rush followed by a big shipping boom. It then moved into a big boom in aerospace followed by the growing influence of technology – starting with Microsoft. Access to resources, and a connector between multiple places. Seattle was big on logging, because there was an ocean that made it easier to transport lumber south, with the means to make it accessible and useful. Seattle was big during the Klondike gold rush, because you could take a ship from Seattle over to Alaska, and provided the resources and shipping to get there. Seattle was big into aerospace, because William Boeing got things kicked off here so there was the resources and buyers to set up a shop and build an aerospace business. Seattle then became big into technology, because Bill Gates changed the world with Microsoft Windows and people could come and leverage the resources that created.
Now lets look at Tableau – From wikipedia: “In 2003, Tableau was spun out of Stanford [9] with an eponymous software application. The product queries relational databases, cubes, cloud databases, and spreadsheets and then generates a number of graph types that can be combined into dashboards and shared over a computer network or the internet. The founders moved the company to Seattle, Washington in October, 2003, where it remains headquartered today”
Tableau then, wasn’t famous because it invented data or created a better way to store data. Rather, the platform made that “digital lumber” we know as data more accessible. It became a way for an average user to reach out into the data space and extract useful information, which they can then use. In effect, Tableau is the digital “port” city for many business owners, that provides access to that raw material and the capability to make it useful.
Becoming a digital port city then, isn’t all about what the platform provides in and of itself but the material it helps you gather / process / leverage. Social media is billions of messages, but Adobe’s Marketing Cloud promises to make quantifiable sense of it all. Server log files are completely useless in and of themselves, but Splunk helps turn all that into a meaningful dashboard.
Lots of tools exist out there, promising to mine assets and turn them into something useful. But as data became a boom, and the trend grew, you could also see the rise of companies like Tableau growing along with that tide. If cities in the 1800’s decided to use clay instead of lumber, perhaps Seattle may never have taken off.
What’s important to note then, is that becoming a digital port city can produce a tremendous amount of value as long as the resource you’re accessing is growing in popularity. However, everything (even data) only stays a popular trend for so long. The hope is, then, that you’ve grown enough to sustain yourself until the next wave takes off and you can successfully adapt along with it. Tableau is in it’s first major boom cycle, as Seattle grew with lumber. As history has shown though, Seattle had many boom and bust cycles as time goes on. How many companies also rise and fall within a single hype cycle (ex: Detroit) ?
Becoming a digital “port city” and staying that way really comes down to 3 things
1. Don’t oversell the hype (to yourselves or your clients)
No matter how on fire your company might be today, every marketing pitch or slogan only has so much gas in the tank. Focusing on the broader industry issue (ex: revenue growth vs access to data) means you’ll continue to stay relevant long after the initial hype has passed. Take advantage of a trend’s popularity, but don’t so closely associate yourself to that one thing that you can’t exist without it – what if Kodak had focused on better living through chemistry vs film? As film declined, chemistry surely didn’t go out of style. And as it turned out, Kodak had some of the most talented chemists in the world working for them because film is a hard thing to make. What would have changed, if Kodak’s brand became focused around something that wouldn’t ever go out of style, vs a single product focus?
2. You’ll have to think of the post-hype at some point
Yes, it’s important to stay hyper-focused on your core competency and capability during a big sales cycle, but long term planning focusing on “what do we do when people don’t care about X trend any more” is important. Google will have to figure out ways to make money, after online advertising. Facebook may not be the hot social network 100 years from now it is today, and Microsoft is already starting to evolve in a world that cares less about personal computers. Tableau, too, has the talent and revenue to think about what’s next in the data space long after people stop caring about 2D data visualization in the form of accessible dashboards. Though we have examples, every company has to overcome it’s own culture and leadership challenges to continue to evolve and adapt.
3. Build a foundation around the longer term trend, while capitalizing on the current hype
Say you’re Boeing, and you’re contemplating life after airplanes, or perhaps investments that build a platform of services focused on a single brand element of your company. Do you diversify, by extending your reach into other areas of aerospace, or do you step back and say “well, our real purpose is to connect people, so lets invest in other ways to connect people outside of just flying them together”. It’s a tricky question, with no easy answer, which could mean botched acquisitions and a confusing marketing plan if you’re too broadly focused. However, tying in telepresence as part of the “connecting people together” strategy may mean infrastructure investments in aerospace communications networks, that you wouldn’t otherwise make, to allow video chats in airplanes while investing in smaller start-ups that focus on video codecs and compression algorithms that might net you a decent return down the line.
Focusing on just building airplanes though, Boeing would never invest in a Skype, but down the line will it be too entrenched to see a decline in aerospace with the will to shift their focus? Skype would have been a bad idea for Boeing, but what about investments in technologies that make it easier to transmit video which is entirely something they could leverage today? It’s not easy to do, and a lot of companies get it wrong here, but focusing your core message and internal alignment on something bigger than the immediate trend or fad is important, if you want to build a company that’ll be around 30+ years down the road.
If you do those three things successfully, whether you’re a city near the Ocean or a data analysis tool helping unlock value, you’ll no doubt continue to justify the value you bring long after that initial wave has past. It’s why Seattle continues to thrive, whereas cities like Detroit have struggled, and why Tableau is worth billions as a tool that accessed data without developing/ hosting/ managing most of the backend infrastructure that makes up those data systems. Stay beholden to only one path, or one product and you could go from the top of the pile to getting buried by your competitors. Toyota would say it’s not a car company, but a transportation company – because cars are only relevant for a period of time, but people will always need a way to get transported.
Become a digital “port city” by making a useful resource accessible and useful, then focus on continually evolving as the thing people need access to changes.
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3 Reasons Why You Need a Chief Analytics Officer
March 25, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on 3 Reasons Why You Need a Chief Analytics Officer
Data has exploded in a way that rivals mobile’s explosion ten years ago. Everyone is out there buying masters degrees, data visualization licenses, and data scientists by the truck loads in a way that mimics corporations buying mac laptops, mobile developers, and app store branding when iPhones blew up the smart phone space.
The Analytics ‘Trend’ Isn’t New
There are a lot of great things taking place right now with all the interest around data analysis, but the funny thing is that data analysis is nothing new (neither is data science). There’s a good 30-40 years of work on data, from data architecture to database administration (not to mention the millions of excel spreadsheets that corporations are running critical business functions on) that live inside companies and create a legacy layer that this latest wave of data analysis is building on.
Other new trends, such as big data analysis and the cloud computing revolution, have further spurred companies to consider ways to extract usefulness from their existing data and move away from churn or ARPU and develop distinctly competitive analysis with phrases like “regression analysis” and “predictive analytics” becoming much more common in corporate board rooms.
Translating Data
The big problem is, as was the case with mobile, is that you have to be able to translate interesting technology into impacting ROI-laden investments that drive top or bottom line revenues (or create efficiency and lower costs of course, as well). There’s a good deal of buzz around big data being an overused term, and a hundreds of millions of dollars spent on visualization tools will, at some point, taper off when the average business user turned dashboard builder runs out of things to visualize due to saturation, bad data, etc.
So Who / What Is This Chief Analytics Officer?
A Chief Analytics Officer could be a Director of Data, or a VP of Analytics, but having someone at an executive level that can drive a centralized data strategy for the company should exist for these three reasons.
Centralizing Your Data Resources Will Help Avoid Silo’ed Capabilities
To turn all this hype into profit, it means building a centralized capacity. A capacity which sites outside of the IT-to-business politics and hype to buy visualization tools, and instead focusing on building a stack of capabilities, from the data lake to the dashboards, geared around revenue generating use cases taken from business partners who need more usefulness from their data without having to build silo’ed data science teams that rely on fractured data sets.
When anything is this pumped up, every department is going to want to get involved and build capabilities, since every business group uses data in some form or another. The problem is that it takes a variety of experiences and backgrounds, along with investments, that need to be built at a corporate level with a plan to centralize some capabilities and decentralize others with a clear data strategy that everyone can get behind.
Centralizing this capability means one strategy, one leader, and limitless opportunities for everyone to participate without each department deciding their own game plan for riding this data wave.
Consolidating data to maximize usefulness, while aligning that effort under a single leader
The topics around big data, and data lakes are growing overwhelming, with more and more companies working to consolidate all their data in one place to allow for both advanced analytics & traditional business intelligence functions. At the same time, a data lake built in the wrong way can cause latency along with too many executive peers building extensive requirements which ultimately brings any progress to a halt.
Bringing your data consolidation effort under a single leader, tied to a data strategy that brings the bigger outcomes into focus and alignment while leaving the smaller day to day details up to a single org unit means your company can spend less time planning & debating, and more time driving value from your data lake.
Impact is prioritized, over ‘interesting trends’
Much like the millions of dollars spent on corporate mobile apps that never got traction, companies today are spending millions of dollars on real time streaming, data visualization, and corporate education on DAX programming all in an attempt to capitalize on the data analytics hype and create a stronger bottom and/or top line revenue stream through the use of data analysis.
The thing is, data isn’t a new domain for technology, nor is investing in Big data going to revolutionize your company.
There’s a good deal of effort being spent on building impressive looking visuals, which add no incremental value over the same data displayed in an excel chart. Furthermore, companies investing in hiring legions of data scientists without clear revenue-driving hypothesis will find they spend a good deal of time figuring out just what to focus on.
As is the case with any over-hyped technology, whether it’s enterprise wide tableau licensing or infrastructure to support web traffic analysis for real time personalization, the tools are only as good as the capabilities on the team and the business cases they are actively working towards.
Focusing on a single leadership structure to come up with the real tangible value for investment in data analytics means there’s a common set of goals that’s driving the spend, and a clear idea of what each department and employee is focusing on.
It’s not so much that a single team owns every analyst, but rather each instrument is calibrated so the whole company sounds like a beautiful concerto vs a number of instruments playing at different rhythms.
Furthermore, when it comes to the vendor onslaught and procurement nightmares that naturally arise in the midst of a technology boom, there’s a clear investment strategy for how the company plans to leverage capabilities such as big data or advanced analytics. This can influence everything from recruiting and training, to infrastructure and software licensing, and help ensure each investment is additive vs expensive and lacking in impact.
There’s a good deal of interesting happenings in the data space right now, but companies need more impact to back up the cost.
There are no doubt other benefits I’ve missed out on taking data seriously, and putting someone in charge who is somewhat removed from the politics and inefficiencies that come from burying the capability inside an existing org (similar to the CIO coming of age, and now no longer reporting to CFOs in most companies).
The aim is however, to ensure your data analytics efforts are making a meaningful impact, and driving the kinds of returns most companies never experienced during the mobile app boom almost ten years ago now. And in so doing, benefiting every company that invests in the great capabilities a data-driven org has at its disposal.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Explaining The New Brand for DanMaycock.com
February 15, 2016 / danmaycock / Comments Off on Explaining The New Brand for DanMaycock.com
So I changed the look / feel of my social media all around a single image – the evening skyline for Seattle, but there’s a bigger meaning behind it.
For the new brand, the focus is around four core themes
Data (Water) – Thought leadership on Analytics, Data Science, and Visualization along with the platforms and infrastructure to support that analysis.
Strategy (Lit Skyline) – First hand experience, and best practices around both corporate and start-up strategy, from company fundamentals to marketing planning and best practices on sales / branding.
Innovation (Space Needle) – Understanding of what meaningful innovation looks like, how it can help both SMBs and Corporations, along with first hand experiences taken from my book, and consulting background.
Leadership (Night time) – Stories, best practices, and advice on leading teams in corporations, to helping build and launch start-ups based on my work advising and starting companies.
The new brand then, incorporates these four themes in the photo
The Space Needle represents Innovation, as it’s a symbol built during the World’s expo in Seattle to represent America’s pursuit of an Innovative future. My book “Building The Expo” is all based on the premise of companies looking to build their own “World’s Expo” to showcase innovation to the world, but many companies end up building symbols without the results and follow through to back it up.
The Water represents Data, as data really is a vast ocean of bits collected across companies that can help companies as much as it can hurt them, based on how it’s managed and used. Just as good data analysis can grow a company’s revenues, bad data can lead to worse decisions that can have the opposite effect.
The Nighttime represents leadership, or rather the need for leadership as people often find themselves in the dark without it. Strong leaders can guide any company through even the darkest of nights with the right guidance and best practices, along with proven experiences.
The Lit skyline represents Strategy, in that it takes several bright ideas to help drive companies from failure to success. At the same time, too many ideas can be blinding without the right actions and results to go hand in hand with a good strategy.
These elements not only work together to make a beautiful image, but what they represent can help people, regardless of their role and company.
It’s for those reasons, that I chose this image to represent my new personal brand. If you’re interested in learning more about how I can help you with any of these areas, please subscribe to my newsletter, or contact me at dmaycock@gmail.com
Dan Maycock
How to Handle Defeat
December 1, 2015 / danmaycock / Comments Off on How to Handle Defeat
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Maxwell Maltz
Defeat is something that can come to many different people and look very differently when it arrives. It’s sometimes absolute, sometimes partial, and sometimes shared and sometimes individualized. Regardless of how it comes to you, it most likely represents a sinking feeling in most people that causes you to stare deeply and question what to do next, what perhaps you should have done, and how to handle moving forward.
Perhaps you’re 10 years into a career you feel is a failure to pursue what you really wanted to do, which can represent it’s own kind of defeat. Perhaps you lost out on a job opportunity, or promotion, and were defeated by the competition which you may or may not ever stare in the face.
Defeat though, short of one that results in a loss of life, means you’ll have a tomorrow to wake up to and experience. It’s not for someone to act like it isn’t there (deflect / deny), or blame someone else (projection), or sulk about your lot in life (victim mentality). Instead, accept that yes you did in fact taste defeat today and it’s a horrible taste that no one enjoys in the moment.
Yet, it’s the ultimate lesson you can carry forward, and present you a learning opportunity much more significant than most any other lesson in life can teach you. Don’t become bitter and jaded, but instead, understand that defeat is part of what makes you human and is something you can embrace and carry forward, or chose to stay on that battle field and suffer the real defeat – that of your ambition, sense of self, perhaps your very spirit.
It’s entirely possible you may have one defeat after the next, until you’re defeating yourself and becoming the biggest attacking force you have to cope with. That defeat goes to the core of who you are, and it’s only you that can convince yourself that you’re less than you are and have no chance for victory.
The true defeat then, is you vs yourself, and letting in the lesser defeats to define who you are as an individual. You are a miracle in nature, just being alive and functioning with a set of lungs and a heart. You exist in a time where measles is being eradicated, racism is being addressed at every level of society, and the world isn’t run by a handful of bratty kings keeping everyone in a state of subjugation. There is so much wrong in the world, and you’ll run into defeat from any number of places – but hope must be the stronger force in your life.
Hope is what keeps you moving forward, and is the thing that picks you up and dusts you off. Hope is the champion that comes to fight any force beating you down, from the worst defeats that happen quickly to the long drawn out defeats against your self-esteem or self-worth.
You build hope in good times, where you take in what’s around you and appreciate, as a snap shot, what good things exist in your life. Those snap shots are what can sustain you past the worst things in life, and it’s a battle you’ll fight against yourself to see if those snapshots can build up the hope against despair and resignation.
Because life won’t always be a defeat, everything has ups and downs. If you feel in a constant state of defeat, then consider where hope could potentially enter in and reach out to someone to help you get some perspective.
Embrace hope, and remember you have the most complicated machine in existence working for you 24/7 (your brain), and a working set of functions to support that machine with whatever direction is prompted.
Embrace hope, even when you don’t want to – when it’s more painful to be hopeful then sulk and live in hurt.
Embrace hope, because you’re in a rut and you need to get the car moving forward again. No matter who you are, and how you were defeated, embrace hope and know that for even the greatest falls – there’s an opportunity to get back up, only if you’re hopeful enough to want to get up in the first place.
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Guerrilla war in the Middle East
Print version Material posted: Publication date: 16-06-2014
Modern war in Afghanistan is not only a place of application of the efforts of the U.S. and NATO, but also directly affect the interests of such an important region such as Central Asia, is closely related to the security of Russia. To understand how this war will affect the world situation, we should first of all to soberly assess the capacity of the parties involved in it. Of course, the main and determining force in this war is the American army.
In Afghanistan it became clear that the war against "Islamic ideological partisan" installation at disrupting enemy cords "observation-orientation-decision-action" John Boyd simply does not work, because of the absence of a traditional enemy of the "civilized" world command centers. Tribal areas represented an important political factor in the war in Afghanistan and was actually part of the theater of hostilities, however, outside the direct control of the U.S. army and NATO forces.
The fall of 7 December 2001 Kandahar, it seemed, destroyed the power of the Taliban. In December 2001 the Taliban had only a third of their army, about 15-20 thousand. The strength of the "al-Qaeda" consisted of ten thousand men - since then to the rescue came three thousand Pakistanis.
However, the leadership of the Pakistani intelligence Agency ISI in Afghanistan led a double game: formally agreeing with the policy of the United States, in fact, it did not want to destroy the Taliban. The attempt by the US arms Benazir Bhutto to reduce the influence of ISI over for her first loss of the post of Prime Minister, and then and death. Significantly, ISI was created by the British, and Pakistani intelligence Agency decades pursued a policy of hands of Islamic fundamentalist organizations in Kashmir, East Pakistan (Bangladesh) and in India itself. In fact, ISI was the organization of the Islamic fundamentalists, simply put, the Salafis, did not rule out that it conflicts with other fundamentalist organizations.
The war in Afghanistan ensured the inflow of new ISI - already Afghan — frames, and it is not surprising that the Taliban movement was created directly with the help of the border forces of Pakistan. The first big success of the Taliban Mullah Omar was the seizure in 1995 of the city Doorhe Afghanistan - when Mullah Omar was only two thousand fighters. "Al-Qaeda"
Pakistani was part of the project is the fact that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri understanding of the guerrilla war, unlike their opponents. They made a bid for the training through constant combat "break" in those wars, which wore any Islamic character. Creating camps in Afghanistan, they have produced not just combat coordination, but the religious-political spike their fighters. But once more on new fronts, were performed by the same spike and coordination with the local staff, often reversing the usual "kuffar" in the real Mujahideen.
In staffing the management of "al-Qaeda" was head and shoulders above the leadership of the intelligence of their opponents. In the Afghanistan camps of al Qaeda trained many of the current commanders of the Mujahideen, including later lost the "Deputy" of Osama bin Laden on Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a native of Amman, a native of the Palestinian environment, and the leader of the Somali movement "al-Shabaab" Adan Hashi iroh.
Usama bin Laden was a very real person, and a special mystery is not that his way is "up" due to very trivial reasons. His family was quite rich and influential and, of course, had connections with the secret services of Saudi Arabia, which even before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was prepared by the Mujahideen. With the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, saudity made a Pact with the Americans and the British about fighting against the Soviets. In Afghanistan in the coordination of special services of the USA, the UK and Saudi Arabia and with the support of the former ally of the USSR - Egypt established the office of "Maktab the Hida - Mat al-Mujahedeen", the head of which stood the Palestinian Abdullah Azzam. The last after his death and was replaced by Osama bin Laden. A major role in the recruitment and training of the Mujahideen played the representatives of the Pakistani and Saudi intelligence services, and partly of Egypt. The Americans then had to put the USSR the maximum loss, in order to avenge Vietnam, and how Americans traditionally tend to be short-term solutions, and they went to support Islamic guerrillas. In the end the United States as "partners" got radicals in the face of Saudi Islamic fundamentalists, or Salafis.
However bin Laden is pure saudische phenomenon, and to say that it did the Americans, wrong. Of course, in the USA, in France and in the UK there are forces that support the movement of Islamic fundamentalism in the world. The first Congress of the "al-Qaeda" was held in London, but the modern world is multipolar, and geopolitics in the conventional sense has lost its role.
It should be understood that al-Qaida is an organization, managing people, primarily through religious — fatwa, and only then - military and economic. Over and bin Laden were religious leaders, had such right. In this way al-Qaeda and reached its influence in the world, providing the support of money and weapons. Due to this fact, even Saudi Arabia, the country is rich and therefore independent, in which king Fahd relies on a strong enough army, is facing the danger of guerrilla warfare.
With the war in Afghanistan, the resignation of the ISI chief General Mahmoud in November 2001, almost nothing has changed, because most of the officers of ISI professed views that only slightly differs from the views of the Taliban. It is not surprising that some of the forces of al - Qaeda left in 2001 from Afghanistan with the help of the Pakistani ISI service.
After the overthrow of the Taliban regime of Afghanistan for some time was a relatively peaceful place, there were mainly factional fighting between warlords, held under the Pro-Western government of Hamid Karzai. The Hamid Karzai quickly quarreled with most of his allies from the campaign 2001-2002. For example, the head of Herat province Ismail Khan, received the post of Minister of energy, cut ties with Karzai. The successor to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the head of the Tajik Mohammed Fahim was Karzai sent in his resignation from the post of defense Minister, and General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who controlled in the campaign forces of the Uzbeks, was forced to emigrate to Turkey.
The Taliban is quite a monolithic structure, well-organized and cemented the ideological factor, and the emergence of opposition groups among the Taliban was not observed. In addition to the Taliban's guerrilla war against the Karzai government and the beginning of the movement "Hizb-I-Islami" Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the most influential commanders during the war against the Soviet army. However, the reliance on local Afghan forces has led to the fact that the bulk of Taliban forces were able to escape and move to guerrilla warfare. The clean-up operation of the massif Tora Bora, held from 3 to 17 December 2001 special operations forces, the US and the UK, relied on local allied Afghan forces, did not bring tangible success.
New operation "Anaconda" was held from 1 to March 18, 2002 against Taliban forces in the valley of Shahi - kot under the Character. The plan was to smash the Taliban in a place where they wintered. The campaign was carried out not only by U.S. special forces, but also forces 101st air assault and 10th mountain divisions, which formed the basis of task force Hammer ("Hammer"), who played a key role. While Afghan allies that formed the basis of a tactical grouping Anvil ("Anvil"), played a supporting role. Due to some tactical errors mostly Taliban managed to escape, though they suffered heavy losses.
The U.S. army already existed the developed model of the fight against the guerrillas - agile operation "circle", "Ring", "Hammer and anvil", "Double jump".
In August 2003, under U.S. pressure, NATO took over command of the International security assistance force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The ISAF joint command ultimately controlled except that the centre of Kabul and its own base, giving the rest of the territory of Afghanistan at the mercy of the warlords, cajoled through the Karzai government - with impunity to plunder foreign aid. A large number of foreign companies, which was transferred to the main part of the development programs of Afghanistan, overcharging for their services, were not interested in the correctness of the chosen strategy, and the very meaning of their activities.
With the rise of internecine strife grew and the number of international forces. With 8 thousand people in 2002, it was increased by 2005 to 15 thousand troops, and troops were not enough to control the country. All of this was trying to repay financial investments. In January, re 2002 in Tokyo, the international community has allocated for the economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan 4.7 billion US dollars. The financial management was entrusted to the world Bank, the timeframe for their submission up to the beginning of 2005. In March 2003, the second conference of donor countries in Berlin, it was decided to allocate for the next three years and 8.2 mil-liard dollars. In October 2004, elections were held for President of Afghanistan. However, in practice it only helped the Taliban, who through their tribal ties, in the end, prove to be one of the users of this assistance.
While the international conference was put forward the idea of creating security zones on borders with Afghanistan, it was not implemented in life. In the end, using the powerful factor of Islamic fundamentalism, the growing discontent of the population in extortion and looting warlords, the Taliban have been able in 2005 to dramatically increase their activities.
In the second half of 2005, the Taliban has raised a real revolt against the Americans and NATO by shooting down several helicopters, shutting dozens of armored vehicles and trucks with fuel and supplies for the allied troops and killing several hundred Afghan police, soldiers and fighters of NATO and the United States. British tactical group "Helmand", created on the basis of the 16th parachute brigade, since April 2006, was embroiled in heavy fighting in Helmand and Kandahar. In the small town of Sangin in Helmand the British from June 2006 to April 2007 were actually surrounded by the Taliban.
I must say that the Americans had no thought-out strategy to combat the guerrillas in Afghanistan. Did not help them and the experience of the war in Iraq. In Afghanistan the Americans are unable to use a "strategy for Iraq", because they do not have large numbers of local allies.
However, even without a clear strategy, command of ISAF was able to show better results using the proven tactics of creation of posts, preparation of new efficient special forces units of the Afghan army and active measures for search and destruction of Taliban forces and al-Qaida. But in practice commanders of various contingents chose to sit out on the bases either were obviously meaningless operations, to avoid casualties in their ranks. Forces American special forces, with no support from local, highly heterogeneous, army of Karzai, had been unable to consolidate the achievements of its aircraft and, eventually, themselves become ambush.
Thanks to the creation of a network of al-Qaida, the Taliban got the opportunity to get new staff trained professionals — not only from the Islamic but also from the European countries and also the former USSR. The Taliban themselves in 2007 directly controlled 54 percent of Afghanistan, and in 2008 this figure stood at around 72 percent.
In the future southern Afghanistan has become the main venue of the military operations of ISAF, such as "Strike of the sword" and "eagle Claw", in 2009. While Oruzgan province - where he had been born as himself, Mullah Omar and many of his commanders - strangely remained outside the zones of these operations.
In this case, is evident the existence of agreements between the Taliban and Hamid Karzai, who is in most control of the police. The latter served as a kind of buffer between the Taliban and the army of Afghanistan covered by the control system by the US army and ISAF, and then there's the question of in whose interests was the existence of this buffer.
An open secret in Afghanistan was that the Ministry of internal Affairs of Afghanistan controls the crop of raw opium in the country, and purchasing in big amounts is carried out by the Iranians.
In the rest of Afghanistan hold military operations were shifted to the Afghanistan army and police, whereas the strength of the security service were involved mainly to escort convoys, training of the Afghan army, providing reference for various construction work and "humanitarian" programs.
It was known that the troops separate armies practiced bribing the commanders of the Taliban forces, that they not carried out attacks on their forces, and such practices could not allow the influence of these contingents in the local environment. Thus, maintained a fragile equilibrium based on mutual interests, and because the Taliban until 2012 could not be compared with past armed the Mujahideen of Afghanistan. Unlike the past the Taliban had no artillery, first towed 130-mm guns and 120 mm mortars. Own defense, in particular MANPADS and anti-aircraft artillery, was presented in single samples. So the primitive nature of their weaponry based on light infantry weapons, antitank hand grenade launchers and improvised explosive devices, could not be compared on these indicators with any more or less large guerrilla movement of the late twentieth century. Because the security forces and ISAF could afford to sit out on the bases - providing conduct offensive operations against the Tali-BOV on special forces of their armies and the army and police of Afghanistan.
In 2012, a portion of the units of the army of the USA and France troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. The Taliban forces have virtually operational freedom — which was not slow to take advantage. The Taliban attacked the base of the Bastion and destroyed six fighter-bombers, AV-8B marine Corps of the United States.
The army of Afghanistan was not able to fight against the Taliban, as represented legkotekuchie counterinsurgency forces, who have mainly small arms, man-portable anti-tank systems and towed artillery, as well as a limited number of wheeled armored vehicles. By December 2011 it consisted of 170 thousand soldiers and had six buildings - with headquarters in Kabul, Gardez, Herat, Kandahar, Lashkar Gah and Mazar-I-Sharif.
As for the air force, they consisted of helicopters Mi-17, Mi-35 and MD-530F, whose total number reached by the end of 2011 fifty. In addition, there were another 14 light transport aircraft C-27 and Cessna aircraft communications. Combat planes in the army of Afghanistan was not available, attempt purchasing in the former USSR warplanes failed. It opposed military advisers from the United States, who did not want to spend a American financial assistance for the purchase of non-U.S. samples of military equipment.
The practice of training the Afghan army forces groups of the military advisers of the U.S. army and ISAF security force had no intended effect due to the large employee turnover, which was chosen, according to Afghan tradition, kinship and clan relations, without any checks and examinations. Soon all this came to light when the cases of killings of U.S. military personnel and security forces by members of the army of Afghanistan.
The Americans were not able to control the processes occurring within Afghan society, thus violating their own doctrine of "observation-orientation-decision-action" and let the Taliban then forwarded unhindered public to deal with their opponents within Afghan society. The struggle against foreign occupation was simply a pretext to facilitate the "sweep" enemies of the Islamic revolution, which in this case was to kill as traitors of Islam and supporters of the occupiers. This is consistent with Islamic law, condemning those who violate the law in an Islamic state, but justifying the murder of those who, violating the laws of Islam service "infidels", he is an apostate. In fact, any revolution is directed not against external enemies but against internal enemies. Meanwhile, this important factor was not taken into account by the Americans in Afghanistan where they were "on top" installation launched for the construction of a "democratic" society - in its Western sense, regardless of the fact that the company needed a military dictatorship. Thus opened the door to Islamic fundamentalism.
The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan as a strategy of "leading countries" have failed in the area of police reform, for which Germany was responsible, and justice, for which he was responsible Italy. Provincial reconstruction team reconstruction has not gained influence because of local politics of Afghanistan have resisted them.
Because of this, the Taliban has managed in recent years to gain influence in the provinces - as, for example, in Wardak, is not just where you stand, but has gained influence in "apostolski" environment.
Equally serious weaknesses evident in the manner of military contingents of the European NATO countries, requiring lengthy procedures, inappropriate for "protivoprotosana" action. Although in the armies of Germany and France had prepared the forces, their troops stationed in Northern Afghanistan, frequently avoided active participation in combat operations and supported the Taliban conditional neutrality.
According to the Group human rights when the UN mission for assistance to Afghanistan for eight months of 2008 in Afghanistan have died 1455 people, 800 of them killed by the Taliban.
February 11, 2009 the Taliban have already attacked the center of Kabul, at the Ministry of justice, and killed several dozen people. Although Kabul itself was stationed a few army units, including brigade of special purpose, placed near the former presidential Palace. When you consider that the Afghan army and police were trained in various private and public companies in the US, the UK, South Africa and France, according to Western logic, we can assume that if its not taught, then the Taliban in Central Kabul could ride on the tanks. How was the selection process in the police of Afghanistan, is seen on the example of 2009 when an Afghan policeman shot dead five British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand province.
In Afghanistan, the war gathered momentum, and in the battle in September 2009 in one day killed up to fifty people, including five us soldiers - down from September 2009 in Afghanistan killed 36 American soldiers and one salt-dates NATO.
After in 2012, operations were transferred to the Afghan army and local police, the Taliban in one way or another were present in all areas of the country.
In practice, joint NATO operations with the army of Afghanistan was the fact that the command of the contingent of a country hired a group of local fighters, which then, together with his special forces, were sent on operations, not caring too much about the result, or just through the Afghan officers, paid money to Taliban commanders, so they did not attack units of the contingent.
In the same Afghanistan commercial entities take control of one of the activities of the army, forcing the government to various projects in the field of "reconstruction" of the country - for the sake of obtaining new profits, regardless of the problems of the state budget.
The U.S. war in Afghanistan are extremely costly, because of the nature of the U.S. army. In fact, the American army is a kind of Corporation, a huge bureaucratic machine is devoid of flexibility and opportunities in time to respond to changes in the political and military situation. This army is a very expensive machine, even for the American economy. Because of this the main task of the army is maintaining its own body - regardless of external factors. The war itself Americans understood this: first I have someone to buy, and then use it to win. However, everything here is about money, and if money printing is impossible, and the war America can't win you can. Of course, the American economy is run by intelligent people, and what they obviously are, but what is happening in Afghanistan shows that there were processes that could lead to the collapse of the efforts of the U.S. army.
If simulate possible ways of development of the crisis in the Middle East in conditions of a deep global financial crisis and the withdrawal of American army from Afghanistan, here the picture may be quite unexpected - and not for all participants of the crisis it will be optimistic. In October 2008 the Sunday Times published an interview with the commander of the British 16th air assault brigade, said: "We are not going to win this war... Disputes should be allowing us not through the barrel of a gun, and through negotiations."
Source: "Men's work", No. 46, 2013, p.16-21
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Sr Rita Marie
Sr Christine Marie
SR. HELEN’S STORY
The expression “God speaks to us through people and the ordinary events of life” sums up the reason why I am a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth today.
My journey to religious life began in my family, where prayer and weekly Sunday Mass attendance were a priority. For several years my older brother, two younger sisters and I, together with our parents, prayed the rosary as a family and, at times, rather reluctantly when favourite television programmes competed for our time and interest.
At seven years of age I remember being in awe of a young Sister of Charity whose kindness and gentle manner motivated me to stay behind after school hours to clean the classroom, carry sister’s bag to the convent or just chat for a while. At that time I recall a strong desire within myself to be just like her…God was at work!!!!
The story of my call to religious life would be incomplete without mentioning the role Mary played. While trying to discern my life’s direction at the ripe old age of twelve, I turned to Mary for guidance. Having heard about the weekly novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which was held in our parish church every Thursday evening, I decided it was time for me to do some serious praying. Like most other people who attended the novena I wrote my weekly letter to Mary, deposited it safely in the box in front of her picture, and waited for an answer to my prayer.
Since my family background is Polish, I attended Polish classes, joined the Polish girl guides and participated in many Polish cultural activities. A highlight of the year for our family was to attend the celebration of Our Lady of Czestochowa Chapel in Marayong. This was a highlight because it was one of the few times we had a ‘family’ outing. The celebration at Marayong consisted of an outdoor Mass, procession and a picnic…in a truly rural setting. The attraction for the children was not so much the Liturgy but rather checking on the turkeys and other animals on the property.
These annual visits brought me in touch with the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Up until the age of 12 my desire was to become a Sister of Charity. However, God had other plans.
During the summer holidays, at the age of 14, I was invited, by a very zealous sister, to spend a two week holiday at the orphanage at Marayong where I helped the Sisters look after the few children who remained in the Orphanage during the Christmas vacation period. Here, once again, I experienced the kindness of the Sisters and enjoyed the company of the children.
At the end of the two-week vacation period another invitation was extended to me…to become an aspirant (affiliate) with a group of four girls in Brisbane, in February. What an unbelievable answer to my prayers!!!!! Without any hesitation on my part I broke the news to my parents. My father was not too keen for me to leave home at such a young age, but my mother was happy for me to go.
All this took place over 50 years ago!!!!!
During my life’s journey God’s ways have been sometimes mysterious, but never dull.
As I reflect on these past forty years it is easy to see God’s hand leading me…sometimes to places I would rather not go…but never alone.
I thank God and the congregation for the numerous blessings and opportunities which I have experienced in being able to continue and deepen my relationship with God, and serve God’s people …….the children, families and the elderly…and so… the journey continues…..praise God!!!!!
Sr. Helen Tereba
SR. ROSANNE’S STORY
My name is Sister Rosanne Sinclair. I have been a member of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth for more than 30 years now. I first met the Sisters the day I started high school at Holy Family High School in Marayong, N.S.W. I was struck, from my first days there, by the way that the Sisters related to us and reached out to us as “real people”. It actually felt like they enjoyed being with us and I soon began to sense that there was something special in the way that they treated us. My life in community has been a coming to understand the source of what I felt, when in school with the Sisters, back in those days.
The heart of the message handed on from generation to generation of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, by our Foundress, Blessed Frances Siedliska, is that each and every person is important in the scheme of things. Each one of us is part of the human family and as such, we possess a dignity that is to be recognised and respected. This is the challenge of our life…this is the challenge of my life as a Sister of the Holy Family of Nazareth… to reach out to each person, in their uniqueness, as a valued member of the human family and as part of a basic family unit…each person is first and foremost a member of the family of God. This vision of Blessed Frances has given my life meaning and purpose in a way that enables me to walk through the joys and sorrows, the celebrations and the commiserations of everyday life. All in all, I guess it gives me perspective for my life. This sense of perspective is pure gift.
Many people have asked me over the years if I regret giving up being married and having my own family in order to be a religious sister. As the years pass, I can answer with deeper and deeper conviction that I honestly believe and feel that I have been given far more than I can ever give up. I have a loving family in which my mother, my sister and five brothers, together with their respective families, continue to love and support me despite the business of their own lives. I have been blessed to know my own Sisters living in a number of countries and here in Australia. I have been blessed by being invited into the lives of many people with whom I have worked, studied and lived during my life in community. Most of all, I have found a loving and faithful companion in my God. It doesn’t mean I don’t have my bad days and my times of doubt…but, in the end, if life is meant to be lived….God has certainly given me an amazing life.
SR. RITA MARIE’S STORY
As I gaze upon the story of my own vocation it seems that it was only yesterday when I began this journey. It has been like a dream, so far beyond my reach and comprehension. God in His goodness and Love, made me realise and understand the meaning of His wonderful call, a call to Life, Love and Service.
It was the 3rd of February 1998, when I went from Iloilo to Manila in the Philippines, together with the pious group named the Missionaries of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Composed of 2 women and 3 men, the purpose of the group in going to Manila was to study and learn about Mission. Luckily, we met Sister Gemma Pepera, the Regional Superior of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth at that time. Upon hearing that Sister Gemma belonged to the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, we asked her if she could give us a seminar about Mission.
Through God’s intervention I believed, that was the starting point in my life to discover my own call to Nazareth.
On May 17, 1998 I entered the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, based in Manila, as an Affiliate. Through the help of Rev. Father James Ferry, MM who was vicar for religious and confessor of the Sisters in Greenhills, Manila during that time and up to this present moment. Everything was new to me, even in eating, sleeping, talking, doing things and praying, but I was certain that God invited me to this journey, no matter how unusual the things around me appeared. I remember reading a book, in which it was discussed how Jesus said: “Come, taste and see”. That is what it felt like to me in those early days.
On May 16, 1999, I entered the Postulancy period, It was a memorable experience for me to know, to learn, and to discover myself through different kinds of studies, processing, seminars, conferences, inside and outside the convent.
In the year 2000 I entered the novitiate period. As I recall, it was an amazing encounter with God, in the daily events of my life as a novice. Reflecting on the life of Blessed Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd (Frances Siedliska), our Foundress, I began to ponder just as she always pondered deep within her heart: “What is there in life that is truly great and magnificent?”
It was on May 1st 2002, that through God’s mercy and love, I made my first profession. I was filled with excitement, and anticipation for this new beginning and hope for the future.
“God’s ways can be so different from human judgements and prediction.” (Book of the hidden life).
Sr. Rita Marie Apura,CSFN
SR. CHRISTINE MARIE’S STORY
Religious life was not one of my options before when I was a child. Like every other girl I also had an ambition to finish my studies, help my parents and have a family of my own. Without knowing that God had a wonderful plan for me.
Growing up in a farm far from the town I did not had an opportunity to meet nuns. I did not even go to Mass every Sunday except during birthdays, Christmas, Easter and the fiesta of our Patron Saint. The only opportunity I had of learning about my faith is through our Catechism classes at school and through my parents’ own faith.
I had my high school in the town and there I met new friends. I always hung out with them, went to the disco, went to the city and sometimes went to see a movie even during class’ time. We always did mischievous things at school; like asking for a gate pass from the school principal telling her that we needed to buy something from the shop outside the campus, but then, after she would sign the paper we would add our friends name on it and give it to the guard so that my friends and I could go out together. I couldn’t understand why we enjoyed doing those things but at that time it was fun.
One time I met a friend outside the campus, she invited me to come with her for a gathering and so, I went. It was an annual convention of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Youth Movement from all over the Province. They were so friendly that I easily felt at home with them. So every time they meet in our place I was also there. The member in our place increases in number so; we decided to have our own activity twice a week. Since, most of us were students and the others were working during the day we usually had it during the night. We had Bible sharing every Tuesdays, intercessory prayers during Thursdays and later on our parish priest scheduled us to sing for the six o’clock Sunday mass. However, my family were not so happy of what I was doing. They were pleased to see me serving the church but not coming home late at night. They thought I was still hanging out with my old friends and went somewhere.
Maybe the only way they can think of in order to stop me is to give me a lot of duties at home so that every afternoon as I came home from school I already had a list to things to do. I tried to finish the chores quickly so that by the time they arrived from work I was already gone to our prayer meeting. I knew it was wrong but there was something that I was longing for. At first I thought I just wanted to be with them, I thought I just wanted to belong or simply just wanted to have friends.
Until one day I realize that I wanted to do something more than I usually did. I was happy of what we were doing but I felt it was still lacking. It was not anymore a matter of service but there was something beyond that. I wanted to commit myself to God without having an idea on how can I make it possible. All I knew is that God loves me and I wanted to love Him back. I prayed over it and sought an advice then, finally, I realise that maybe God wanted me to consider religious life. I entered the convent at the age of 17. That was years ago I am now a Final Professed sister of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Religious life is not perfect. I would not say that this is better than married life or staying single, but for me it is, because I realize now that this is my life. This is what I am called to do and this is what I meant to be. Every person has his/her own purpose that gives meaning to his or her own life.
Sr. Christine Marie Ramada, CSFN
SR. GRACE ROCLAWSKA’S STORY
Country of origin: Poland a beautiful country in Europe with a strong Catholic tradition. I was born on the 21st of June 1972, by the Baltic Sea in Gdynia, which is the north part of Poland. From 2009 also an Australian Citizen.
Family: Is made up of mum, dad and my sister, who is four years older than me. My sister teaches Polish at a Primary School in Poland.
Family background: My dad worked in the shipyard in Gdynia. My mum brought up 2 children and then worked for a couple of years in the supermarket as a salesperson. Now both parents are retired and live with my sister. In 2017 we celebrated Golden Jubilee of their marriage. After I finished my High School I joined the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. While going through the process of formation and working as a teacher, I studied at John Paul II College and then University in Czestochowa. I completed my Master of Theology Degree in 1998.
When and why did you choose vocation: God knows best. What I tried and still am trying to do is to read His signs and respond to them in my life. For a few years I was really interested in becoming a missionary sister, but when it came to the final decision I was quite sure that it should be the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (which I knew from my parish). What attracted me so much to this congregation was the fact that I could be a religious sister who worked and prayed for families (which is our main charism). Looking back to over 25 years in religious life (entered in 1991) I believe God wanted me here and I find that each day is always a mystery of His ways in my life.
Where have you served: Back in Poland I taught Religious Education for 10 years in different schools – from Primary to Junior High School as well as was engaged in pastoral capacity in various parishes. I prepared children and young people for the Sacraments, led some children’s and youth choirs, prayer groups and drama groups. I also led some retreats for children and families. Here in Australia I studied Diploma in Children’s Services and Certificate IV in Training and Assessments while undertaking different congregational roles at Holy Family Children’s Centre. For a couple of months I was a Special Religious Education Teacher at Marayong Heights – St. Andrew’s Parish. I am honoured to be a Director of the board for Holy Family Services http://www.holyfamilyservices.com.au/– our sponsored ministry in Marayong, where I used to work as Mission Advancement Coordinator and the Childcare Worker and Director. For a period of almost 10 years I served as a Sacramental and Liturgy Coordinator in Mary Queen of the Family Parish in Blacktown.
Your ministry at present: I serve as Provincial Treasurer for the Holy Spirit Province. I am also a Programs and Engagement Representative at Institute for Mission http://www.ifm.org.au/ , Blacktown (Diocese of Parramatta). From 2017 I am honoured to be an Executive Member of Plenary Council 2020 http://plenarycouncil.catholic.org.au/Committee and continue my service to Australian Mission Network. This year undertook the role of the member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council in the Diocese od Parramatta. All of these to be with my sisters and the people of the church in Australia here and now?.
Sr. Grace (Grazyna) Roclawska CSFN
SR. JEAN’S STORY
Tell us about your Family.
When I was five, I began kindergarten at Holy Family School that was four city blocks from my house. I excelled in academic subjects at school, but was below average in sport and physical activities. Although while growing up, I did belong to a bowling team during the eighth grade and averaged 100 a game. I also played girls’ basketball, did ballet, tap and Polish dancing. I played the piano from five years old. I taught myself to play the harmonica and enjoyed doing craft activities at the local Community Centre. My parents were keen enthusiasts on education. They also expected Marie, and me to do well at school because they knew we could. Our summer vacations were spent in different locations or in some kind of educational activity: for example, we visited a tyre factory in Ohio to find out how they were made and Gettysburg PA because I was studying the American Civil War. Dad built a sixteen-foot motor boat which we named the “Pat Marie”. In the summer we would, as a family, don our bright orange life jackets and cruise up and down the Allegheny River.
My grandparents were Polish migrants, but my aunts, uncles and cousins were first or second generation Americans. We enjoyed visiting them, and celebrating Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Independence Day. What fun we had together!
How did you find your way to Nazareth?
My Grandmother Adamski attended Mass daily. I believe she prayed for my vocation. As a child, I would often ask St. Therese of Lisieux to pray for me and make me a Sister, too.
I was taught by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth throughout primary school and high school. I was impressed by my teachers: Sisters Dativa, Edmunda, and Ermine. I wanted to become like them! As I got older in grade school, my friend Dorothy and I would “hang around” the Sisters, stay after school, do odd jobs or just “talk”. My eighth grade teacher, Sister Bonfilia, arranged for the girls in our class to visit Mount Nazareth Academy, our High School in Bellevue at the Motherhouse of St. Joseph’s Province. I saw the aspirants cleaning up after the afternoon tea. They looked so HAPPY! A few months later, I attended a vocation prayer day in the Cathedral. The choice of Scripture was the “Call of Isaiah”. Every fibre of my thirteen year old being screamed out at God (quietly of course). ” Here I am God, send me! Make me a Sister!” I decided to change my eighth grade graduation streamers for the “Little black Aspirant Bow” that day. The trouble was to convince my parents to let me go to the Academy and board there! Once Dad said, “Let her try”, Mom gave in and agreed.
Could you share with us a brief story about your ministry?
After the Roman Novitiate, I was sent to Allen Park, Michigan to teach Grade Three in a traineeship arrangement: teaching and part time study at the University for my BA degree. That was the beginning of my over forty years of classroom practice and corresponding study to meet the needs of my students. Prior to coming to Australia, I taught in three primary schools Years 2and 3, and then emotionally disturbed teens at Holy Family Institute in Pittsburgh for one year. Two years after arriving in Australia, I added Parish youth work to the ministry experiences. Then I focussed on teaching Religion and coordinating it in primary school. Next it was teaching Music throughout the School at Our Lady of Grace, in Perth. After that I was invited to teach English, Religion and coordinate the programme at Holy Family High School, Marayong. It was while I was there that fifteen students with migrant backgrounds presented a new English teaching challenge: I needed ESL strategies! After appropriate study (Teaching English as a Second Language), the next need to be met was the one-to-one Glitch Buster Programme at St Andrew’s High School-JPII Campus that assisted average students overcome challenges to their learning. I also utilized my TESOL background to assist adults to learn English, at first through a volunteer programme, private classes and then at Northwest Community College. Although I loved every aspect of my varied teaching career, being Career Development Officer at Mater Dei College in Edgewater, WA was the most exhilarating. It was a real thrill to match a student with the “right” traineeship, job or study! Currently, I have the responsibilities of part-time pastoral care worker and English educator at Holy Family Services, but my main job is that of Provincial Secretary and Councillor. After six years as Provincial Secretary, I have retired from active ministry.
Why did you apply to come to Australia?
When I was in grade four, Sister Monica Marie, who was teaching in Australia, came to our school to talk to us about her experiences. From then on, whenever I spoke about where Nazareth Sisters ministered, I always included Australia!
About three years before I came, the Provincial was “looking” for Sisters to replace Sisters who wanted to return to the States. I simply wrote a letter of enquiry asking what Australia was like.The written response said “Australia was like America! Do Not think about it. Finish your education at the university.” Two years later, when that same Provincial came to Holy Family Institute for Visitation, she said, “We are thinking of sending you to Australia. You have three days to make up your mind”. My reply was “And you would have three days to change yours! Of course I will go! Why not? Will you tell the Sisters tonight?” I didn’t think they would believe me if I told them this! Then I rang my parents. Dad was excited. Mom was a bit apprehensive. But they wanted me to be happy! I have been!
How do you like to spend your free time?
Utilizing my free time over the years has changed: I still tutor adults and children. Over the years craft was added. I liked to make rosaries, and beaded jewellery and patchwork quilts. This was replaced by loom knitting and crocheting. The things I make usually go to some charity. I have always wanted to learn to speak and read another language. So I am currently studying Polish. I also enjoy watching or listening to our Australian international team play cricket.
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HUB Team
Miss Eaton is a Central York graduate and has worked for the district for sixteen years. She began her journey at Sinking Springs as a fourth grade teacher. She then moved to fifth grade, and before leaving Sinking Springs, she was a sixth grade teacher. In 2007, her Central journey took her to North Hills as the Librarian, where she taught internet safety, research skills, and library skills to all students in fourth through sixth grade. For the past four years she has acted as the Librarian and a teacher of the Skills for Digital Age Learners classes.
Miss Merrick
Miss Merrick started at Central York Middle School as a student teacher for Mr. Sean Potts in Language Arts. Following student teaching, Miss Merrick worked as a substitute in the building and even subbed for three weeks in the HUB for Mrs. Howell. Miss Merrick is excited to begin her third year as a Hubster and work with all the wonderful students at Central as a Skills for Digital Age Learning teacher!
Mr. Lawson
Mr. Lawson went through Central as a student and completed his Bachelor's from Penn State Harrisburg. He did his student teacher with Mrs. Groom at Central York Middle School. He has a Social Studies degree and is a second year Digital Age teacher. He recently got engaged and bought a house. In his free time he likes to play hockey, football, and exercise.
Mrs. Boothe
Mrs. Boothe went to college in Ecuadar and can speak three languages. She is married. She has one daughter and a dog. She worked in the Cafeteria at North Hills Elementary School until this year where she joined the HUB team as the library assistant. She loves to read, travel, and exercise.
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The term altcoin has various similar definitions. Stephanie Yang of The Wall Street Journal defined altcoins as "alternative digital currencies,"[20] while Paul Vigna, also of The Wall Street Journal, described altcoins as alternative versions of bitcoin.[21] Aaron Hankins of the MarketWatch refers to any cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin as altcoins.[22]
Within a cryptocurrency network, only miners can confirm transactions by solving a cryptographic puzzle. They take transactions, mark them as legitimate and spread them across the network. Afterwards, every node of the network adds it to its database. Once the transaction is confirmed it becomes unforgeable and irreversible and a miner receives a reward, plus the transaction fees.
As of November 2017, Bitcoin and other digital currencies are outlawed only in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam, with China and Russia being on the verge of banning them as well. Other jurisdictions, however, do not make the usage of cryptocurrencies illegal as of yet, but the laws and regulations can vary drastically depending on the country.
Miners are the single most important part of any cryptocurrency network, and much like trading, mining is an investment. Essentially, miners are providing a bookkeeping service for their respective communities. They contribute their computing power to solving complicated cryptographic puzzles, which is necessary to confirm a transaction and record it in a distributed public ledger called the Blockchain.
A lot of concerns have been raised regarding cryptocurrencies’ decentralized nature and their ability to be used almost completely anonymously. The authorities all over the world are worried about the cryptocurrencies’ appeal to the traders of illegal goods and services. Moreover, they are worried about their use in money laundering and tax evasion schemes.
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Until relatively recently, building blockchain applications has required a complex background in coding, cryptography, mathematics as well as significant resources. But times have changed. Previously unimagined applications, from electronic voting & digitally recorded property assets to regulatory compliance & trading are now actively being developed and deployed faster than ever before. By providing developers with the tools to build decentralized applications, Ethereum is making all of this possible.
Litecoin was one of the first cryptocurrencies after Bitcoin and tagged as the silver to the digital gold bitcoin. Faster than bitcoin, with a larger amount of token and a new mining algorithm, Litecoin was a real innovation, perfectly tailored to be the smaller brother of bitcoin. “It facilitated the emerge of several other cryptocurrencies which used its codebase but made it, even more, lighter“. Examples are Dogecoin or Feathercoin.
As a cryptocurrency attracts more interest, mining becomes harder and the amount of coins received as a reward decreases. For example, when Bitcoin was first created, the reward for successful mining was 50 BTC. Now, the reward stands at 12.5 Bitcoins. This happened because the Bitcoin network is designed so that there can only be a total of 21 mln coins in circulation.
Another type of physical wallet called a hardware wallet keeps credentials offline while facilitating transactions.[111] The hardware wallet acts as a computer peripheral and signs transactions as requested by the user, who must press a button on the wallet to confirm that they intended to make the transaction. Hardware wallets never expose their private keys, keeping bitcoins in cold storage even when used with computers that may be compromised by malware.[104]:42–45
A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency designed to work as a medium of exchange. It uses cryptography to secure and verify transactions as well as to control the creation of new units of a particular cryptocurrency. Essentially, cryptocurrencies are limited entries in a database that no one can change unless specific conditions are fulfilled.
Venture capitalists, such as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, which invested US$3 million in BitPay, do not purchase bitcoins themselves, but instead fund bitcoin infrastructure that provides payment systems to merchants, exchanges, wallet services, etc.[162] In 2012, an incubator for bitcoin-focused start-ups was founded by Adam Draper, with financing help from his father, venture capitalist Tim Draper, one of the largest bitcoin holders after winning an auction of 30,000 bitcoins,[163] at the time called "mystery buyer".[164] The company's goal is to fund 100 bitcoin businesses within 2–3 years with $10,000 to $20,000 for a 6% stake.[163] Investors also invest in bitcoin mining.[165] According to a 2015 study by Paolo Tasca, bitcoin startups raised almost $1 billion in three years (Q1 2012 – Q1 2015).[166]
China banned trading in bitcoin, with first steps taken in September 2017, and a complete ban that started on 1 February 2018. Bitcoin prices then fell from $9,052 to $6,914 on 5 February 2018.[40] The percentage of bitcoin trading in the Chinese renminbi fell from over 90% in September 2017 to less than 1% in June 2018.[64] On August 1, 2017 a fork of the network created Bitcoin Cash.
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Bìol. Tvarin, 2017, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 93–99
http://doi.org/10.15407/animbiol19.01.093
PECULIARITIES OF NON-ETHERIFIED FATTY ACIDS CONTENT IN CARP GILLS AT DIFFERENT CONCENTRATION OF COPPER AND ZINC IN THE WATER
Y. F. Rivis1, N. E. Yanovych2
1Institute of Agriculture of Carpathian Region NAAS,
5 Grushevskogo str., Obroshino, Lviv Oblast, 81115, Ukraine
2Lviv National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies named after S.Z.Gzhytsky,
50 Pekarska str., Lviv 79010, Ukraine
Copper and Zinc are essential for fishes elements with wide spectrum of biological activity; in particular, they are involved in regulation of fatty acids metabolism. Content and ratio of fatty acids in fish meat is directly influenced with its nutritive and biological value; besides, fatty acids composition of cells membranes determines their penetration for xenobiotics, including heavy metals. Thus, investigation of the influence of mentioned elements on the fatty acids metabolism in tissues of fishes has both theoretical and practical importance.
The experiment was conducted on three groups (10 fishes in each group) of two year old common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Carps were kept for 21 days without feeding in aquariums with different concentration of Copper and Zinc in the water — 0.3 and 4.2 mg/l correspondingly for control group, one maximum permitted level (1 MPL) for the 1st experimental group and 2 MPL for the 2nd experimental group. At the end of the experiment carps of each group were weighted, and samples of the gills were taken after slaughter for laboratory research. Concentration of copper and zinc in the gills was determined by spectrometric method, and concentration of non-etherified fatty acids was measured by gas chromatographic method.
Presented results shows that at 1 MPL of Zinc and Copper in the water, their concentration in carp gills increases by 9.31 % (P<0.02–0.05) and 29.54 % respectively in comparison to the fishes of the control group. At 2 MPL of Zinc and Copper in the water, Zinc increases in carp gills by 16.49 % (P<0.01), and Copper increases by 104.54 % (P<0.001) in comparison to the control group. Increasing of Copper and Zinc concentration in carp gills is accompanied by changes of the concentrations of non-etherified fatty acids in them. In particular, at 1 MPL of Copper and Zinc in the water, the increasing of total content of high metabolically active non-etherified fatty acids in carp gills was observed. At the same time, at 2 MPL of Copper and Zinc in the water, total content of high metabolically active non-etherified fatty acids in the gills of carps was decreased. Changes of Copper, Zinc and non-etherified fatty acids concentrations in the gills of carps were accompanied by changes of their live weight in the end of the experiment. Carps of the control group lost 3.90 % of live weight, and carps of the 1st and the 2nd experimental groups — 4.91 and 9.75 % (P<0.02–0.05) respectively.
Keywords: NON-ETHERIFIED FATTY ACIDS, ZINC, COPPER, GILLS, CARP, LIVE WEIGHT
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Eric Wayne Stamps was born and raised in Danville, VA, Eric graduated from George Washington High School. A gifted athlete, he played baseball, basketball, soccer, and ran cross country, as well as coaching soccer within the local community. When he attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, he continued to volunteer as a soccer coach for children. He also created and coached an intramural soccer team at the University.
It was during his time at the University that Eric developed Spasmodic Dysphonia, a disorder affecting the voice muscles. Despite being told he could not speak as part of his treatment, Eric learned to navigate the health care system. He discovered, even without a voice, that his need to advocate for others who needed health care was key to recovery.
After graduating with a degree in Web Design and New Media, Eric returned to Danville with a new voice and a calling to help his hometown. He continued his education and received his Master’s Degree in Media Design from Full Sail University. Although he worked in print shops after graduating, Eric spent most of his time volunteering for numerous political campaigns, including most recently Leslie Cockburn and Jennifer Lewis. He founded Indivisible Southside to focus on voter registration and engagement, and managed Dr. Gary Miller’s successful campaign for City Council.
Eric ran for Virginia's House of Delegates in the 14th District in 2019 and received 40% of the overall vote. He is a member of Virginia Organizing, Peoples Action Virginia, The Pittsylvania County NAACP, and The Dan River Blair’s Civic League. He is the proud son of Wayne Stamps, a Food Service Manager and Linda Stamps, a Caretaker. Eric and Shonta are the proud parents of Liam and Autumn.
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Home › News › First ever Olympic team event qualification for Ukraine
First ever Olympic team event qualification for Ukraine
Artistic Swimming Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2016
Eliana Alves, FINA Media Committee Member in Brazil
Tears of joy and tears of disappointment were seen in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) on Sunday March 6, the last day of the FINA Synchronised Swimming Qualification Tournament, the test event for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
The synchronised swiming qualification began to take shape for the first ever Olympics to be held in South America.
The last three teams completing the group of eight that will compete for an Olympic medal qualified today at Maria Lenk: Ukraine (first ever Olympic qualification for the team event), Japan and Italy. The five teams previously classified are: Brazil, Russia, China, Australia and Egypt.
Team Ukraine (gold) ©Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia
Spain, medallist in the last two editions - silver in Beijing and bronze in London – will be missing this event as the team finished in fifth position this weekend in Rio.
All ranked teams also confirmed the duet, so Italy, third in the team event, secured a spot for the team event. The first two - Ukraine and Japan - were already among the eight teams who had stamped the passport before Rio’s test event. So the eight qualified teams are: Brazil (host nation + representing the American continent), Russia (European spot), China (Asian spot), Australia (Ocieania spot), Egypt (African spot), Ukraine (gold medal at the tournament), Japan (silver medal at the tournament) and Italy (bronze medal at the tournament).*
The second round of the free duet routine was tough. A title between Ukraine and Japan, and the other for the last Olympic spot, with Italy and Canada. The Italians’ heart was stronger, with the theme "The Season of Hearth". The latter did better than the Canadians, who performed on "Fire and Ice - Guardians of the Earth." The Italians scored 92.0667 against 91.9000 for Canada. In total, with the sum of the technical routine from Day 1, Italy scored 181.7487 and Canada 181.0348.
“We love the city, the people, the pool, the organisation, everything was beautiful. Overall I'm very happy, everything was “issimo!”, as we say in Italian! This was an historic result because we weren’t the favourites but we still manage to get the spot. It is important to compete in the Olympic arena, getting used to the spaces, the points… anyway, it was great!” said Sara Sgarzi of Italy.
The rest of the podium was completed by Ukraine (gold medal of the Tournament) who performed with the classical music of "Natsnaker Tchaikovsky” and Japan.
“We are very happy. It is such an honour to grab the gold in the qualification tournament! The Olympic spot is also amazing. We are very excited!” said Kateryna Sadurska of Ukraine.
Teammate Olena Grechykhina showed gratitude for the Brazilian public: "The public is so kind! And although we are accustomed to an indoor swimming pool, we loved the outside pool."
When the team competition finished, the Brazilian duet, formed by Luisa Borges and Maria Eduarda Miccuci, presented their free routine, with the theme "Amazon", and soon after spoke about the event.
“It was a great experience, although we know that in the Olympics, the crowd will be more intense. We are a little bit anxious for the arrival of the Games, and we are evolving from the world, and we will do everything to further improve our technique up to the Games. We are training hard, on average eight hours a day, with final goal to reach the Olympic final.” Eduarda Miccuci (BRA) said.
After the team event and the second round of the duet free, the duets qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia,Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and USA. *
Test Event participating countries were:
Argentina, Austria, Aruba, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, Peru ,Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, USA, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Venezuela.
*all qualified teams and duets are subject to their NOC/NF confirmation to FINA that they will use their allocation quota place by April 15.
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Comet Lights Off Huge Solar Explosion?
A comet falls into the sun, which then ejects a billion tons of mass. Click on the image above to see the movie.
This movie/video is from the Space Weather website, May 12, 2011.
Here, also from SpaceWeather.com, is a two-second video of the same billion-ton coronal mass ejection.
CME stands for "coronal mass ejection." Here's the May 12 write-up from Spaceweather.com:
"A comet goes in; a CME comes out. Coincidence? Probably, yes, the sequence was coincidental. The comet disintegrated as much as a million kilometers above the stellar surface. There's no known way that the wispy, vaporous remains of a relatively lightweight comet could cause a billion-ton cloud of hot plasma to fly away from the sun at 400 km/s (the observed speed of the CME). Moreover, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory photographed the eruption that did propel the CME into space. There's no comet in the field of view of this must-see movie."
That speed, 400 km/second, is nearly a million miles per hour. At that speed, the ejected material would take about a hundred hours to reach the earth -- if it were aimed in our direction.
The energy expended in such a billion-ton ejection is roughly equivalent to all the energy that all human beings could use at our present rate in 200 years.
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation -- Wikipedia.
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The Younger generation
Age calls the tune, Youths over soon
that is the natural law
there's a younger generation knock knock knocking at the door
- Noël Coward
It's very interesting to see how many 'ex pros' children end up working in the theatre or the entertainment business. Of course there are not the opportunities now as there used to be, as every seaside town had a summer show running for about 5 months, and some had four or five – or in the case of Blackpool about fifteen! Then pantomimes were about three to four months, so pros had quite a bit of work. However, some of the 'Fols' children have got the 'bug' and are working or have worked in the entertainment industry.
Peter Felgate's son Nicholas (Nick) by his wife Phillis Harcourt (a talented dancer who did several seasons in the Fols) had a very illustrious start in life, as his Godfather (also a Fol) was Leslie Crowther. He began his career by working at Lloyds in the city, but also worked in Cabaret, building up many connections. When he married a Cypriot girl Lena they went to live in Cyprus and he became firmly established as an entertainer working in hotels and Army bases. His son, Ritchie, works out there with him as a professional singer, guitarist and composer. So both carrying on the 'Felgate' name and tradition of performers.
Norma Arnould, Principal Dancer in the show in the late 50's and early 60's, married Mark Macdonald, an Australian TV and film camera man who went on to have his own production company. They had two children, Guy and Victoria (Vicky). Vicky trained at the Phyl and Norma Arnould School. Norma was now teaching with her mother and the school was very successful. Vicky went to 'finish' her training at Bush Davies School at East Grinstead (now no more) and then began her career in professional theatre. She worked mainly dancing on TV for the choreographer 'Lud' doing shows with Marti Caire, Val Doonican, Lena Zavaroni, among others, and many 'Seaside Specials' and Royal Variety Shows. She became a hostess on the TV Quiz show 'Winner Takes All'. Vicky now teaches with her mother at the 'Arnould School' and is married with three children, the youngest two – Olivia and Benjamin – dance and have appeared in the school show and Olivia in many 'Old Time' Music Hall Shows, in and around London.
Pamela Cundell, comedienne in the Scarborough 'Fols' 1957, has a daughter Katherine (Kissy). She trained with Phyl and Norma Arnould Dance School and then went on to work in the professional theatre, doing several pantomimes at Boreham Wood for 'Charles Haley Productions'. She is now married with children and runs a 'Stagecoach' Performing Arts School in Hertfordshire.
Jennifer and Philip had two boys, Noël and Léon, who both danced, sang and played piano and violin. They carried on the 'Charles' theatrical and musical talent, and both appeared in many pantos and shows whilst growing up. They both went to the 'Purcell School for Musically Gifted Children' and then went on to Oxford (Noël) and Cambridge (Léon) where they both were Organ Scholars at their colleges, and both took 'Firsts' when they graduated. Noël now runs the 'London Piano School' and has been playing for the Royal Ballet at the Opera house for two years, and Léon has been playing for West End Musicals and Concerts and is writing several musicals. Their granddad 'Hughie' would be very proud.
It's good to see that the next generation are still waving the theatrical flag!
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The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks:
Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 1-3
THE ADAMS FAMILY
Compiled by Dr. Charles Banks, c. 1925.
Transcribed and prepared for the web by C. Baer 1999.
[Comments in brackets added by C. Baer, 1999. Sources upon request.]
34. ELIASHIB ADAMS, (Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), the first of this name to reside on the island, was the son of Edward3 of Barnstable and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Walley of the same town, and was b. May 1699. He came to C. about 1728, and is called a cordwainer. He m. RELIANCE MAYHEW (110) 15 Feb. 1728-9; who was b. 1696 and d. 8 Jan. 1729- 30, in childbirth, her first and only child. "She was a pious prudent woman of blameless conversation," wrote Parson Homes. The date of his death is not known to the compiler, but he was living in 1768. The genealogy of the Adams Family has been published (1898), and reference to it may be made for particulars of his ancestry.
(Recent investigation by the compiler in England prove that Henry Adams, the emigrant ancestor, was a native of the parish of Barton St. David, Co. Somerset, and son of John Adams. His wife was EDITH SQUIRE, daughter of Henry Squire of Charlton Mackrell. This was the Adams family from which Presidents John and John Quincy Adams, descended. His relationship to the Adams presidents is through their common descent from Henry Adams: Pres. John Quincy,6 Pres. John,5 (John,4 Joseph,3 Joseph,2 Henry1).)
40. MAYHEW, b. 22 Dec. 1729.
40. MAYHEW ADAMS, (Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 22 Dec. 1729, res. C., master mariner. He m. REBECCA MAYHEW (191) 27 Dec. 1750, who was b. 27 May 1730 and d. 11 June 1819. He d. 10 Sept. 1823, and his will dated 2 June 1818 was proved 19 June 1824.
45. ELIASHIB, b. 15 Sept. 1751; d. 15 Nov. 1771, unm.
46. RELIANCE, b. 5 Nov. 1752; m. WILLIAM NICHOLS.
47. JAMES, b. 30 Sept. 1754.
48. REBECCA, b. 18 Aug. 1756; m. JOHN COTTLE (94), 22 Dec. 1774.
49. PARNELL, b. 15 Dec. 1757; m. THOMAS WADE MAYHEW (233), 21 Dec. 1780.
50. MAYHEW, b. 11 Mch. 1759.
51. ABIGAIL, b. 11 Aug. 1760; m. EBENEZER BASSETT (92), 21 May 1780.
52. MOSES, b. 6 Dec. 1762.
53. LOVE, b. 6 May 1764; m. SHUBAEL NORTON (210), 11 Jan. 1791.
54. SUSANNAH, b. 31 Aug. 1765; m. SAMUEL ATHEARN (90), 21 Apr. 1791 [in Chilmark.]
55. OLIVER, b. 5 Mch. 1767; d. y.
56. MARY, b. 31 Mch. 1769; d. unm.
57. WILLIAM, b. 15 Aug. 1770.
58. DIANA, b. 21 Apr. 1772; d. unm.
59. ELIZABETH, b. 6 May 1774; m. URIEL HILLMAN (363), 21 Dec. 1797.
47. JAMES ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 30 Sept. 1754, res. C., mariner. He m. DINAH ALLEN (320). She was b. Aug. 1764 in C. and d. 13 Oct. 1844, in T. of typhus fever. He d. 31 July 1800 [in Chilmark of "Savanna fever." Dinah was called a "seamstress" in her death record.]
60. JAMES, b. (1785); d. 27 Aug. 1814.
61. LOUISA, b. (1787); m. THOMAS NORTON (1023), 26 Oct. 1806.
62. MAYHEW, b. (1789).
63. JOSHUA ALLEN, b. 1791; m. ADELINE ATHEARN (169), 12 Apr. 1821.
64. PRUDENCE, b. 14 July 1793; m. ASA JOHNSON, 1 May 1814. [She d. 1885 in Tisbury.]
65. LUCRETIA, b. 22 Apr. 1796; m. HENRY ROBINSON (125), 15 Mch. 1827.
66. _____, b. Oct. 1799.
50. MAYHEW ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 11 Mch 1759, res. C., master mariner. He m. LYDIA RUSSELL (32) 13 Dec. 1792 who was b. 21 Jan. 1768. Capt. Adams d. at sea sometime before 1818. This family removed to New York State after his death. She d. in Cazenovia, N. Y.
70. ELIASHIB MAYHEW, b. (1794); he was a physician and removed from N.Y. State to Wis. where he died.
71. ELIZA.
72. LYDIA.
73. BETSEY.
52. MOSES ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henryl), b. 17 Jan. 1762; res. C., master mariner. He m. MARTHA LOOK (86) 24 Mch, 1799; who was b. 24 Aug. 1770, d. 6 Oct. 1857. He d. 17 Apr. 1843.
80. CALVIN C., b. 24 Dec. 1799; m. LYDIA ATHEARN; int. 10 Oct. 1835.
81. DAVID L., b. 28 Jan. 1801; m. PHOEBE MAYHEW; int. 26 May 1826. [He died Dec. 1869 in Chilmark. She died Mar. 1862 in Chilmark.]
82. MOSES, b. 5 Nov. 1803; m. (1) SUSAN REDFIELD, (2) SUSAN P. BUTLER. [He probably died in Feb. 1874 in West Tisbury. His first wife died 13 Dec 1842 of chlorosis in Chilmark.]
83. JOHN, b. 16 Apr. 1807; d. unm.
84. MARTHA A., b. 9 Nov. 1809; m. MATTHEW POOLE, 27 Aug. 1834.
85. MAYHEW, b. 14 Nov. 1812; m. MARY C. DAVIS, 20 July 1845.
86. MARY C., b. 24 Oct. 1816; d. unm.
57. WILLIAM ADAMS, (Mayhew,5 Eliashib,4 Edw.,3 Edw.,2 Henry1), b. Aug. 1770; res. C. and T., mariner. He m. THANKFUL LOOK (86) 14 June 1795, who was b. 23 June 1774. He d. 30 Mch. 1831. [She died Apr. 1859 in Chilmark.]
90. REBECCA, b. 27 May 1796; m. WILLIAM LOOK (183), int. 6 Sept. 1817.
91. WILLIAM, b. 1798; m. LYDIA CLARK. [She died a widow in Boston on 25 Jan 1863. She was the daughter of Capt. William Clark of Chilmark.]
92. FANNY, b. 28 Aug. 1803; m. MATTHEW MANTER (184); int. 17 Aug. 1822.
93. HIRAM, b. Jan. 1806; d. 11 May 1830. unm.
94. WASHINGTON, b. 8 July 1808; m. CASSANDRA HANCOCK, 10 Oct. 1833. [He d. 3 Apr 1868 in Tisbury of "disease of brain." He was a farmer. Cassandra was b. 1809 and died 1881.]
95. REUBEN, b. 17 Jan. 1811; m. (1) SOPHRONIA G. NEWCOMBE, 16 May 1839; (2) FANNY WEEKS, 30 Jan. 1847. He was a master mariner and d. 8 Jan. 1856 of yellow fever [on board schooner Golden Gate, while on the passage from Jeremie, St. Domingo, to Holmes Hole. Sophronia died of consumption in Tisbury on 13 Sep 1846. Fanny Weeks was the dau. of George and Susan Weeks.]
96. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. 27 Oct. 1818; d. unm.
[William Adams evidently had two more children whose deaths were recorded on 7 Dec 1813 and in Jan. 1815 in the Chilmark Congregational Church records.]
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Malvaceae Family
Hibiscus Genus
Malvales
Order of Mallows
Eumalvids
Real Mallows
Mallow Class
Eurosids
Real Rose Class
Rosids
Rose-Like Class
The genus Hibiscus comprises plants also commonly called hibiscus and less widely known as rosemallow. The large genus of about 200–220 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae (the mallow family, along with members like cacao, cotton, okra, baobab and durian) native to warm, temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. The genus includes both annual and perennial herbaceous plants, and woody shrubs and small trees.
Many species are grown for their showy flowers or used as landscape shrubs. Hibiscus is also a primary ingredient in many herbal teas.
One species of Hibiscus, known as Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus), is extensively used in paper making. Another, roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is used as a vegetable and to make herbal teas and jams (especially in the Caribbean).
In Mexico, the drink is known as agua de Jamaica and is quite popular for its color, tanginess and mild flavor; once sugar is added, it tastes somewhat like cranberry juice. Dieters or persons with kidney problems often take it without adding sugar for its beneficial properties and as a natural diuretic. It is made by boiling the dehydrated flowers in water; once it is boiled, it is allowed to cool and drunk with ice.
In Egypt and Sudan, roselle petals are used to make a tea named after the plant karkade.
Certain species of hibiscus are also beginning to be used more widely as a natural source of food colouring.
Hibiscus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Chionodes hibiscella, Hypercompe hambletoni, the Nutmeg moth, and the Turnip Moth.
The Hibiscus is used as an offering to Goddess Kali and Lord Ganesha in Hindu worship. The Gumamela or Hibiscus rosa sinensis linn flower has antifungal, emmenagogue, emollient and refrigerant effect.
The bark of the hibiscus contains strong fibers. They can be obtained by letting the stripped bark sit in the sea in order to let the organic material rot away. In Polynesia these fibers (fau, pūrau) are used for making grass skirts. They have also been known to be used to make wigs.
Hibiscus, especially white hibiscus, is considered to have medicinal properties in the Indian traditional system of medicine, Ayurveda. Roots make various concoctions believed to cure various ailments.
The natives of southern India use the Red hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) for hair care purposes. The red flower and leaves, extracts of which can be applied on hair to tackle hair-fall and dandruff on the scalp. It is used to make hair-protective oils. A simple application involves soaking the leaves and flowers in water and using a wet grinder to make a thick paste, and used as a natural shampoo. its petals are used to cure fever while its roots are used to cure cough.
In the Philippines, the gumamela (local name for hibiscus) is used by children as part of a bubble-making pastime. The flowers and leaves are crushed until the sticky juices come out. Hollow papaya stalks are then dipped into this and used as straws for blowing bubbles.
Dried hibiscus is edible, and is often a delicacy in Mexico.
The hibiscus flower is traditionally worn by Hawaiian women. A single flower is tucked behind the ear. Which ear is used indicates the wearer's availability for marriage.
National symbol
Hibiscus syriacus is the national flower of South Korea.
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis is the national flower (Bunga Raya) of Malaysia.
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What Will Communication Look Like in 2027?
This fall, we’re going to be thinking about the future on Advancement Live. For a strategic planning process to work, you need to focus on three things:
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In this second episode in our 2027 series, we’re exploring communications. As we peer down the road and imagine our work ten years from now, we need to uncover the opportunities. We also need to know the challenges. We’ll discuss things we can stop doing and how we position our organizations now to thrive in the future.
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Andrew Gossen
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Since arriving at IC in the fall of 2015, Campbell has been leading a number of major initiatives, including evolving the college’s brand identity, overhauling the web experience, increasing news and media visibility, improving transparency and visibility for the administration, and reshaping the communications team’s staffing and operations as it continues its shift from service delivery to strategic alignment.
Campbell previously served as senior director of communications for Cornell University’s Division of Alumni Affairs and Development and as director of public affairs within Cornell University Communications. She oversaw advancement communications during its most recent comprehensive campaign, which raised more than $6 billion, and during the university’s year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary.
She earned bachelor’s degrees in English and philosophy, and a master’s degree English, from West Virginia University. Prior to her move to the “dark side” of higher education administration, Campbell had been pursuing a PhD in English at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Most recently, Charlie served as associate vice chancellor of development and alumni relations communications at Vanderbilt University. He also served on the CASE Commission on Communications and Marketing, CASE District III Board of Directors, and co-chaired the Task Force on Social Media. He is a past chair and current member of the Executive Committee for PRSA Counselors to Higher Education.
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Two centuries of Viking raids into Europe tapered off following the adoption of Christianity by King Olav TRYGGVASON in 994. Conversion of the Norwegian kingdom occurred over the next several decades. In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that was to last for more than four centuries. In 1814, Norwegians resisted the cession of their country to Sweden and adopted a new constitution. Sweden then invaded Norway but agreed to let Norway keep its constitution in return for accepting the union under a Swedish king. Rising nationalism throughout the 19th century led to a 1905 referendum granting Norway independence. Although Norway remained neutral in World War I, it suffered heavy losses to its shipping. Norway proclaimed its neutrality at the outset of World War II, but was nonetheless occupied for five years by Nazi Germany (1940-45). In 1949, neutrality was abandoned and Norway became a member of NATO. Discovery of oil and gas in adjacent waters in the late 1960s boosted Norway's economic fortunes. The current focus is on containing spending on the extensive welfare system and planning for the time when petroleum reserves are depleted. In referenda held in 1972 and 1994, Norway rejected joining the EU.
Bærum - Norway on a small scale
It is often said that Bærum is Norway in miniature. Here, examples of most of Norway's varied nature can be found.
The municipality enjoys a sheltered position, protected from the north and open towards the sun an the sea to the south. We have it all: the fjord with its spell-binding islands and small island communities, wide, open verdant valleys, cultivated land, rolling landscapes, challenging rock faces and dense woodland. In short, an ideal place to seek peace and quiet, but at the other extreme - also a place to enjoy a bustling town life.
Bærum covers an area of 191.3 square kilometers and borders on Norway's capital to the east. An idyllic coastline stretching from Oslo to Asker, forms the municipality's southern boundary. The border with Asker, further inland to the southwest, is characterized by steep hills. To the northwest, beyond Sollihøgda lies the Municipality of Hole in Ringerike
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Confirmed speakers so far:
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Alan Melcher, MD, PhD
Professor Alan Melcher graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford in 1989, and trained in Clinical Oncology (Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy) in Cardiff, London and Leeds.
Caroline Robert, MD, PhD
Caroline Robert, M.D., Ph.D., is the Head of the Dermatology Unit at Gustave Roussy and co-director of the Melanoma Research Unit at INSERM 981 Paris-Sud University.
Eric Vivier, DVM, PhD
Eric Vivier, DVM, PhD, is a professor of immunology at Aix-Marseille University, France. He graduated with the highest honors (silver medal) from the Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort and received his doctoral degree in immunology from Paris XI University.
Eric Deutsch MD, PhD
Eric Deutsch, MD, PhD, full-Professor in Radiation Oncology at South-Paris University, head of the Inserm Unit 1030 « Molecular Radiology Laboratory » and Head of the Radiation Oncology Department in Villejuif, France.
Silvia C. Formenti, MD
During the past twelve years, Dr. Formenti has introduced a paradigm shift in radiation biology, by elucidating the role of ionizing radiation on the immune system, and demonstrating efficacy of combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy in solid tumors.
Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD
His work has had far reaching implications for the comprehension, detection and therapeutic manipulation of cellular demise. His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the prestigious Descartes Prize of the European Union, the Carus Medal of the German Academy of Sciences, the Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix of the French Academy of Sciences, the Lucien Dautrebande Prize of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine, the Gallet & Breton Prize of the French Academy of Medicine and others.
Sandra Demaria, MD
Dr. Demaria is internationally known for her studies demonstrating the synergy of local radiation therapy with different immunotherapeutic agents in pre-clinical models of cancer. She was the first to show that radiotherapy can convert tumors unresponsive to immune checkpoint inhibitors into responsive ones, a finding being translated in several clinical trials at multiple institutions.
Florent Ginhoux, PhD
As a postdoctoral fellow, Florent Ginhoux joined the Laboratory of Miriam Merad in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), New York where he studied the ontogeny and the homeostasis of cutaneous dendritic cell populations, with a strong focus on Langerhans cells.
Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD
During the lecture, Prof. Zitvogel will discuss the association between the gut microbiota and therapeutic effectiveness of alkylating agents, platinum salts, and immune checkpoint inhibitors. Additionally, Prof. Zitvogel will cover the latest findings that support the diagnosis of dysbiosis in patients with cancer and the predictive gut biomarkers of sensitivity or resistance to PD-1 blockade.
Lorenzo Galluzzi, PhD
Prior to joining Weill Cornell Medical College (2017), Lorenzo Galluzzi was a Junior Scientist of the Research Team “Apoptosis, Cancer and Immunity” at the Cordeliers Research Center (Paris, France; 2012-2016). Lorenzo Galluzzi did his post-doctoral training at the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center (Villejuif, France; 2009-2011), after receiving his PhD from the Paris Sud University (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France; 2005-2008).
Jérôme Galon, MD, PhD
Dr. Galon was trained as an immunologist at the Pasteur Institute and at the Curie Institute (Paris, France). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Immunology (Jussieu University, Paris, France, 1996). Between 1997 and 2001 he worked at the NIH (National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA) on functional genomics, bioinformatics and immunology on fundamental and clinical research.
Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD
In 1994 he moved to Seattle, WA where he worked on tumor immunology and immunotherapy, studying T cell ignorance of tumor antigens and the role of T cell costimulation in mouse models of cancer. His studies of that time on CD137-mediated co-stimulation of curative antitumor immune responses have received much attention by the immunotherapy of cancer community and have resulted in therapeutic agents undergoing phase II clinical trials.
Udo Gaipl, MD, PhD
Since 2007 he heads the Radiation Immunobiology and is head of the Experimental Radiation Oncology of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO). Since 2015 he his Professor for Experimental Medicine and has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers on immune modulations by radiation and stressed cells.
Vassili Soumelis, MD, PhD
His team combines expertise in immunology, computational biology, and medicine. Vassili Soumelis coordinated a European FP6 Excellence Grant (2005-2009), participated in a EuroTransbio project (2007-2009), coordinated bioinformatics and systems biology in the European consortium MAARS (FP7), and received ERC consolidator and proof-of-concept grants.
Jean-Luc Perfettini, PhD
Jean-Luc PERFETTINI is currently developing an integrative research program in the field of radiation oncology that aims at characterizing ionizing radiations-induced cell death and senescence modalities, developing preclinical mouse models to study the immune responses elicited by anti-cancer treatments, and identifying innovative therapeutic approaches that could improve the effectiveness of anticancer treatments.
Michele Mondini, PhD
Scientific and managing executive of an early stage biotech start-up. Lecturer in Clinical Diagnostic. Mentoring of students. Specialties: Research in the field of radiotherapy, immunotherapy and virology.
Patrick Roth, MD
He has managed the Neurosurgery Residency Program at HUMC for nearly twenty years, served as a perennial teacher of third year medical students, and regularly mentors high school and college students interested in a career in medicine. He is currently attending the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University where he will obtain a Masters in Healthcare Administration.
Ruth J. Muschel, MD, PhD
She continued on staff at the NCI before taking an academic position at the University of Pennsylvania, where she advanced to the rank of Professor.
Sergey Nikolaev, PhD
He worked as a postdoctorate researcher at the King’s College in London (UK), at SPINTEC in Grenoble (France), and at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba (Japan).
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Jah9 to embark on U.S. East Coast tour
The roots reggae genre continues to evolve every day from contributions of artists all over the globe, but especially out of the movement's epicenter of Kingston, Jamaica. Although most Jah-loving musicians are pushing for equality and tranquility, the message is shrouded by the definite lack of female voices among the masses. Female rootsy protagonists do exist, but they are few and far between and the ones who have made an impact are often judged more critically than their innumerable male counterparts. Herein lies the struggle of women versus men to break into mainstream mania. With the odds stacked against women of reggae, some have risen to the challenge without having to compromise their values and Kingston's own Jah9 is an illustrious example.
Moving from the Jamaican countryside to the metropolis of Kingston, Jah9 grew up on music to salvage her creativity and individuality. Her family encouraged her to be socially conscious and Jah9 quickly became an advocate for social justice as an adult. Even now – as her career escalates ever higher – Jah9 remains an avid community activist, campaigning for the non-profit youth and arts group “Manifesto JA” as well as the “Healing of the Nation” public awareness program for Kingston's at-risk youth. Not only is Jah9 healing her hometown with charitable work, she is healing the minds and spirits of her yoga followers by being a devout yoga enthusiast. Needless to say, Jah9 is a well-rounded woman of reggae, preaching a positive directive to all who will listen.
Jah9's music follows the Jazz on Dub style – often compared to the likes of the late blues queen Ella Fitzgerald. Her first album “New Name” debuted in February 2013 after her “Mr. Right” single spiraled into the spotlight. Even before the release of her premier album, Jah9 caught the attention of reggae greats such as Beres Hammond among others, and is now making her way to the United States to spread her sound. Starting on July 25th, Jah9 will take part in Delaware's Festival 4 Peace in Wilmington and will stop in nine other east coast cities before her last gig on September 6th in Norfolk's Virginia Reggae Fest. If you are interested in catching Jah9 live, please see her complete U.S. Itinerary below or visit http://www.jah9.com.
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AT KOSSUTH
Our Gathering
Small Acts of Mercy
by Drew Humphrey
As a follower of Jesus, I have been called to be an agent of justice in a battered world. And if you’re a follower of Jesus, then so have you. We’re not meant to sit around and watch as the needy are neglected and the vulnerable are exploited. We’re meant to step into the fray, speak up for the voiceless, and make a difference for the kingdom.
But although I long to be faithful to this call, I find it easy to be overwhelmed. The need is staggering. Here’s just a taste:
There are approximately 9 million people on this planet who die of hunger every year.
15 million children are navigating life in the aftermath of having lost both of their parents.
In this country alone, 2.3 million people are locked up in prisons, jails, and correctional facilities.
Over half a million homeless Americans will spend tonight with no permanent shelter.
Some 65 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
In keeping with God’s requirement for his people expressed in Micah 6:8, I sincerely want to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with him. But like a novice climber staring up at the towering slopes of Mount Everest, this task seems impossibly daunting. I have no clue where to even begin addressing the manifold wounds of the world.
But what if God isn’t asking me to conquer the summit? What if he’s just asking me to take a step?
In Matthew 25, Jesus teaches about the final judgment. It’s a contentious passage that has made plenty of Bible readers uncomfortable through the years. But if we set aside the controversies for just a moment, I think we can see in this apocalyptic forecast a liberating description of what acceptable acts of justice truly look like. After describing a great separation of all people, Jesus says:
Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.”
Did you catch that? Those who inherit the kingdom aren’t exterminating world hunger or solving the problem of mass incarceration. They’re simply offering a meal. Pouring a drink. Sharing the guest bedroom. Giving away a coat. Paying a visit to the hospital. Keeping prisoners company.
A skeptic might look at this list and be unimpressed. After all, what difference will any of it make? With 9 million people starving to death, what good is one meal?
But Jesus doesn’t invite the skeptics to judge between the sheep and the goats. He reserves that job for himself. And if these simple, small acts of mercy register on his scale as meaningful manifestations of true faith, then that’s all that matters.
They say that all politics is local, and I tend to agree. But perhaps what’s even more local than politics is justice. While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with dreaming big and confronting the large-scale oppressions and inequalities of the day, we can’t forget that changing the world all starts with exercising faithfulness in the seemingly insignificant opportunities right in front of us.
Our presence in this world should be an informed one. This entails, among other things, nurturing an awareness of the global need for justice—no matter how overwhelming it may seem. But we need not let this information paralyze us with fear or hopelessness. Jesus isn’t looking for superheroes to fix everything all at once. He’s looking for unadorned acts of mercy in the ordinary lives of those who follow him.
These acts of mercy may seem meager. They may even seem meaningless. But insofar as we do them to the neighbor down the street, we do them to Jesus. And there’s nothing small about that.
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Powell, McLeod, VCB win in Atlanta
Competing for the first time since he failed to finish at a meet in Hungary in early July, national 110m hurdles champion Omar McLeod clocked 13.28 (-0.1) to win ahead of fellow Jamaican Andrew Riley, 13.39, and American Ronnie Ash, 13.46. Campbell-Brown was busy, winning the women’s 200m in 22.82 (-0.1) ahead of the United States’ Charonda Williams, 23.25, and Semoy Hackett, 23.37, from Trinidad and Tobago. Earlier, Campbell-Brown was also fastest in the 100m, winning in 11.22 (-0.1), with Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle Lee- Ahye, 11.29, crossing the line in second place and another Jamaican, Simone Facey, 11.30, finishing third. Shevon Stoddart, 56.40, and Samantha Elliott, 56.49, were second and third, respectively behind Leah Nugent (USA), who clocked 55.63 to win the women’s 400m hurdles. Natoya Goule, 2:02.16, was third in the women’s 800m, which was won by American Maggie Vessey, 2:00.30, ahead of Canada’s Melissa Bishop, 2:00.43. Competing at the Dutch Championships, Olympic and World Championships medallist Warren Weir was second in the men’s 200m with a time of 20.68, running behind Liemarvin Bonevacia, 20.62, with Solomon Bockarie, 20.81, finishing third. Mcleod comes back Jamaicans Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Omar McLeod were among the winners at Saturday evening’s American Track League meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, while Warren Weir was second, competing in The Netherlands. Powell stopped the clock at 10.01 seconds (+0.1 metres per second wind) to win ahead of St Kitts and Nevis’ Jason Rodgers, 10.23, with American Walter Dix taking third place in 10.25. It was Powell’s first clocking over 10.00 seconds since the semi-finals of the National Senior championships in late June and his 12th win in 13 starts this season. Powell is not expected to compete again until this month’s World Championships in Beijing, China (August 22-30), where he will be looking to improve on his two bronze medals won at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships. read more
‘Shelly’ keen to provide helping hand – to assist Namibian sprinters
Schedule for Jamaicans ZURICH: SHELLY-ANN Fraser-Pryce says being able to inspire others is what will keep her motivated in the run-up to the Olympic Games in Rio next year. Having won everything there is to win on multiple occasions, the diminutive sprinter would be forgiven for feeling like she has done all there is to do in the sport. However, the 28 year-old told The Gleaner that remembering where she comes from and being able to inspire others from her community is what keeps her going. “I get to inspire so many young girls and boys. I get to inspire the community where I am from and I get to do a million things that I can only do because of where I am and what I have done. “Those are the things that keep me motivated. To be able to help and give back; to be able to show the girls in my community that no matter where you are from, what matters is what you believe in and how hard you work for it. To be able to show them that you should always have faith in what you want to do.” Having achieved all of the goals set for this year, Fraser-Pryce is looking forward to taking her first-ever vacation as an athlete by heading to Africa. Rather than stepping away from athletics totally, however, the Olympian will be assisting Namibian sprinters in their quest to emulate the feats of the Jamaicans. “Two years ago, we started a programme with Namibian athletes who came to Jamaica as part of an exchange programme. “So I had always said to them that one day I would come and visit where they are from. You can really get them to try anything in Jamaica, and I really want to go and see where they are from and take in their culture.” She added: “There are two ladies with us training and things are a bit different for them. Our programme is very different from what they are used to in Namibia. So now they have been a part of our camp they see the things that we go through, especially when it comes to our facilities. It’s not the greatest, but it works for us. “I am hoping that after two years with us they will be able to send one of their sprinters to an Olympic Games, and who knows, maybe this will spark some great things for Namibians moving forward.” – J.C. 10:55 a.m: Men’s discus Jason Morgan 12:10 p.m: Women’s 100m B race Kerron Stewart, Elaine Thompson, Sherone Simpson 1:05 p.m: Women’s 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer, Janieve Russell 1:29 p.m: Women’s 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Natasha Morrison 1:56 p.m: Men’s 200m Nickel Ashmeade, Rasheed Dwyer 2:36 p.m: Men’s 400m hurdles Annsert White 2:55 p.m: Women’s 4x100m read more
Thompson, Richards eager to improve after Brussels efforts
BRUSSELS, Belgium:Not even the motivated pair of Elaine Thompson and Allyson Felix could stop the bustling locomotive that is Dafne Schippers from running away with their high-profile 200m clash – not yesterday, not in front of a pro-Schippers crowd.Still, the fast-rising Jamaican, fresh from her silver medal won at the recent IAAF World Championships in Beijing, left the series -closing AG Memorial Van Damme IAAF Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium, as encouraged as ever and eager to start working again towards a season that promises more for the MVP charge, with the Olympic Games ever nearer on the horizon.Schippers, the world champion, showed that her Beijing gold medal was no fluke – and perhaps made it clear that Felix or not, nothing was going to stop her in China – producing a frightening burst in the last 50m to frankly overpower the others, stopping the clock at 22.12 in still wind.Felix, who was consoled by the glistening Diamond Race trophy and the accompanying US$40,000, was second in 22.22, with Thompson crossing the line in 22.26. Sherone Simpson was sixth in 23.12.”I’m not disappointed. I was looking forward to competing with these ladies,” said Thompson. “I knew it would be a challenge, and it will only push and motivate me to work harder.”Gatlin’s Diamond streakSpeaking of working hard, American Justin Gatlin – the Diamond winner – was made to dig deep for his win in the 100m as he protected his unbeaten run on the circuit, which dates back to 2014 with a laboured 9.98 win. Femi Ogunode (Qatar), who also came in at 9.98, was second, with Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, 9.99, closing out an almost inseparable top three.It was a bad day for Jamaican pair Nesta Carter, who looked for an early advantage and was ejected after a false start, and Asafa Powell, who finished fifth in 10.04.In the men’s shot put, World Championships bronze medallist O’Dayne Richards registered a 21.37m mark for second place, but his real target was 22m, leaving the ever-improving Jamaican slightly disappointed.The event was won by New Zealand’s Tom Walsh, 21.39, with Diamond Race winner and world champion American Joe Kovacs (21.35) finishing third.Richards, who fouled on his last three attempts says, he will be going all out to meet his target at his last meet for the season in Berlin on Sunday.”I have to give God thanks even when I lose. I have to learn that is part of the sport. Assessment-wise, I wanted to hit 22m today. I have one more chance. I kept missing the shot, not applying all the force on the shot, so it kept slipping and didn’t go as far as I wanted it to go, but (it is) my best performance outside of a championships, so I’m happy for that,” Richards told The Gleaner after his event.Kimberly Williams got off to a good start but slipped to fourth in the women’s triple jump, taking advantage of world champion Caterine Ibarg¸en’s (Colombia) slow start, with her second effort 14.22m keeping her in the top two for much of the competition.The Jamaican would eventually improve to 14.28m, but by then, she was already out of the top three, with Ibarg¸en taking her third straight win in Brussels and ensuring she won all but one of the six Diamond League competitions with a 14.60m mark. World Champs silver medallist Hanna Knyazheva-Minenko (Israel), 14.42m, was second, with Russian Ekaterina Koneva, 14.37m finishing third.Stephenie-Ann McPherson, 51.00, was third in the women’s 400m behind winner Shaunae Miller (Bahamas), 50.48, and Diamond Race winner Francena McCorory, 50.59. Christine Day, 51.96, was sixth, with Novlene Williams-Mills, 52.04 finishing seventh.In the male equivalent, national record holder Rusheen McDonald seems to still be suffering from his 43.93 run in Beijing, finishing ninth here in 47.89, while Peter Matthews took third place in 45.74. The event was won by Renny Quow (T&T), 45.29, ahead of Belgian Kevin BorlÈe, 45.43.Rasheed Dwyer, 20.27, was third in the 200m, with Antiguan Miguel Francis, 20.22, finishing second to the winner, Qatar’s Femi Ogunode, who clocked a personal best and area record 19.97. Nickel Ashmeade was fifth in 20.59. read more
McCarthy slams big hundred in trial match
Top-order batsman AndrÈ McCarthy, highlighted the opening day of the fifth and penultimate Jamaica Scorpions regional four-day trial match between John Campbell XI and Paul Palmer XI at Sabina Park yesterday.The 28-year-old, who had a lukewarm season last year and was in and out of the team, hit an unbeaten 159 as John Campbell XI, sent to bat, closed on a healthy first innings total 346 for nine.McCarthy, a former West Indies Under-19 representative, stroked 13 fours and five sixes during his knock, which has so far accounted for 203 balls.Wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh Jr, who made an unbeaten 54 in the previous trial match, almost scored a century as he provided strong support with 96.Part-time off-spinner Tamar Lambert took two for 19; left-arm spinner Coi Thompson, two for 44; Rovman Powell, two for 50; and leg-spinner Damion Jacobs, two for 104, led the way with wickets.”I know I needed a good score after getting starts in the other games and today it came off. I am excited about it,” said McCarthy.”I have been training hard before the start of the season and been putting in the work and am now glad to see it coming together.”I just hope to continue in the remainder of the trials and hopefully impress the selectors to be a part of the squad for the opening game,” he expressed.McCarthy, prior to the hundred, had made scores of 53, 42, 37, 14 not out and 16. read more
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CSOs Seek Support for Residents ‘Victimized’ by LAC, SRC’s Operations
ARD program liaison Simpson Snoh (right), reads the statement on behalf of the group.Liberian civil society organizations (CSOs) Green Advocates International (GAI), Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Natural Resource Women Platform (NRWP) in collaboration with Swiss-based development organization Bread for all (Bfa), have launched a report demanding the Liberian government to seek a remedy for community members in Grand Bassa, Margibi and Bong counties.Those community members have been reportedly harmed by activities of the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and Liberia Agricultural Company (LAC).The group’s pronouncement was contained in a statement they delivered at a press conference in Monrovia on Thursday, February 21, 2019. The statement was read by Simpson Snoh, ARD Program Liaison.The report, entitled “Struggle for Life and Land,” shows that the affected communities in the three counties have continued to suffer from the loss of their customary and deeded lands due to forceful eviction and destruction of their towns and villages, pollution of water sources, desecration of shrines and sacred places, harassment, intimidation, arrest and detention of human rights defenders.Snoh said food security has deteriorated, and therefore access to water has become difficult for many of those residing in communities around the plantations.“This situation violates the rights of local communities as enshrined in applicable Liberian laws and international instruments to which Liberia is a party as well as standards that the companies are obligated to honor,” he said.Mr. Snoh said the report shows that people in many of the communities were not sufficiently consulted about the plantations’ expansions and did not give their consent, “but were forcefully evicted from their customary lands.”“All of the subsidiary companies, including the Liberian plantation companies, have the responsibility to address and prevent human rights abuses in keeping with the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights,” he said.Mr. Snoh said where compensation payments were made for loss of crops and houses in those concessions areas, they were in most cases insufficient to compensate for the losses incurred.He said families in affected communities face difficulties in sending their children to school, because of the loss of farmland, coupled with meager employment opportunities provided by the plantations.Mr. Snoh said the findings of the report also include violence and threats, particularly against women and human rights defenders.“Women have repeatedly reported being subjected to sexual violence by subcontractors and, in some cases, by plantation security guards,” he said.“According to the report,” Mr. Snoh said, “SRC and LAC have violated the fundamental human rights and due diligence standards, which they are required to adhere to under applicable Liberian laws and international instruments, including the Liberian Constitution, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure, etc.”SRC and LAC, the report said, hold concessions of over 128,000 hectares in the country.Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) read more
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The NBN copper whispering campaign
Created: Wed, 10/23/2013 - 01:00
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The state of the copper network is now the top discussion being held around the water cooler. Joe heard that Fred heard that Misty’s father was a Telstra linesman who swears….
The situation is far from clear and Telstra is not helping matters by making a series of conflicting statements regarding the state of the copper network.
Recently Telstra CEO David Thodey told The Australian that the copper network was in good working order and "will be going for another 100 (years)”. Thodey went on to say "there is always opportunity so you have to keep things maintained. But it's perfectly OK, there is some copper a lot older than others but copper does not decompose."
Thodey’s remarks appear to be quite different to views put to Telstra shareholders in 2010 before a vote on the $11 billion NBN Co deal when the copper network was described as uneconomic due to its deteriorating state and high cost to maintain.
The true state of Telstra’s copper network must be investigated and publicly disclosed so that an open and transparent assessment can be made about the viability of using the copper for FTTN.
In August 2012 business analyst firm BIS Shrapnel produced a report titled "Maintenance in Australia 2012 to 2017" which stated that telecommunications infrastructure maintenance would decline from $2 billion in 2015 to $1.3 billion in 2021 due to the move to a fibre network.
In the report, BIS Shrapnel senior manager of infrastructure and mining Adrian Hart said:
"While it will allow for much higher levels of voice and data traffic, the technological superiority of optic fibre over Australia's ageing fixed-line copper network is estimated to reduce industry maintenance costs by between AU$600 million to AU$700 million per annum once fully deployed.”
Yet the whispering campaign to soften our minds to the possible use of the copper network for Fibre to the Node (FTTN) is in full swing.
The Australian Financial Review (AFR) recently published a story about a preliminary study using a well-known inaccurate database that found “up to 82 per cent of homes in cities are situated within 500 metres of a copper node” and the study went on to say “they are close enough to receive theoretical speeds of up to 100 megabits per second under fibre-to-the-node technology.”
To add yet another layer of hype the story went on to say that “up to 90 per cent of homes were within a kilometre of a Telstra copper node, meaning they would receive roughly at least a quarter of the maximum speed based on the technology.”
Does it matter that the study only considered cities and not regional and remote areas? Of course there is no real need to worry about anyone living beyond North Sydney or Toorak.
What about the use of theoretical speeds achievable only in a laboratory using pristine equipment to implant the idea that FTTN will be the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) technology saviour?
Is there any point advertising that customers will get “up to 100 Mbps”? The debate about this very questionable use of misleading advertising continues and it is high time that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission steps up and stops the practice.
In the UK BT has only guaranteed a minimum of 8 Mbps on their FTTN. Properties that are less than 300 metres from the cabinet can achieve 60-80 Mbps downstream but only 30 per cent of premises fall into this category. If your home is more than 300 metres from the cabinet the projected speeds drop off quickly.
If only someone would post a copy of Dodo’s ADSL2+ speed disclaimer near the water cooler we might be able to see the recent spate of media promoting the qualities of the copper network for what it is – hype and nothing more. Just in case you need reminding here is the speed disclaimer:
The actual speed you experience depends on a number of factors, including, your equipment, the quality and location of your line, including how far your connection is from the local telephone exchange, the applications you are using, the capacity and speed of our systems, the systems of our suppliers, and the Internet generally. For these reasons, you should not expect your actual speed to be at or near the theoretical maximum.
The EU recently published a report containing a snapshot of Internet connections in March 2012 which was collected from about 9000 homes server by 250 ISPs across the 30 EU countries. The research states that “on average, EU consumers receive 74 per cent of the advertised headline speed they have paid for. xDSL based services achieved only 63.3 per cent of the advertised headline download speed, compared to 91.4 per cent for cable and 84.4 per cent for FTTx.”
If it wasn’t for cable and FTTx the EU figures would be around the xDSL figure of 63.3 per cent which is not something to be extolled. Would you be concerned if you purchased a car that you were told achieves 600km per tank and you found you could only do 400km, about 60 per cent?
As the NBN reviews commence, Telstra should be called upon by the communications minister Malcolm Turnbull to provide full and frank disclosure of the state of the copper network. There can be no reasonable decision to move to include FTTN in the Australian NBN without an open and transparent analysis of the copper network.
Mark Gregory is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University
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"I didn't talk to any other county board"
Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald celebrates. ©INPHO/Tommy Dickson.
Wexford boss Davy Fitzgerald says he only ever considered staying with the Slaneysiders when the Galway managerial post became vacant back in September.
There had been strong speculation that the Model County supremo was headed west following Micheál Donoghue’s surprise departure.
However, speaking the Irish Daily Star, Fitzgerald insisted that it was never the case.
“Listen, all I’ll say to you (is), all my mind was on Wexford at the time, what I was going to do and what the story was going to be,” said Fitzgerald.
“I was just concentrating on a few personal issues and that was very important to me.”
He added: “I can’t say anything with regards to would I or wouldn’t I have gone anywhere. As I told you I didn’t talk to any other county board.”
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Born: 22 July 1973
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A singer/songwriter whose lush, theatrical pop harked back to the traditions of Tin Pan Alley, cabaret, and even opera, Rufus Wainwright was born in 1973; the son of folk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, his parents divorced while he was a child, and he was raised by his mother in Montreal. Beginning his piano studies at age six, by 13 he was touring with his mother, aunt Anna, and his sister Martha in a group billed as the McGarrigle Sisters and Family; a year later, Wainwright was nominated for a Juno (the Canadian ...
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Coming to Consensus
A powerful idea’s unexpected journey around the globe
This piece was commissioned by Contributoria in September 2015.
“It was an extraordinarily bad camping location,” DIY technologist Richard Bartlett says of Wellington’s Civic Square. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the slab of grass embedded in a concrete frame overtop of a car park in the centre of New Zealand’s capital city was not designed with camping in mind. Yet in October 2011, as the Occupy movement swept the globe, this questionable attempt at public space was repurposed and became home to the Occupy Wellington encampment for the next four months.
Among the 1,000-plus Occupy camps that scattered themselves like seeds around the globe in late 2011, Wellington’s was far from being the largest or longest-lasting. Yet it was the 40 or 50 tents in Civic Square that enabled a major development in one of the cornerstones of the Occupy experience around the world: the digitisation of consensus decision-making.
What is consensus?
Consensus is a collective decision-making process that aims to avoid the pitfalls associated with both executive decree and majority rules voting. Seeds for Change, a UK collective that offers training in consensus process, describes it as “a creative and dynamic way of reaching agreement between all members of a group. Consensus is neither compromise nor unanimity – it aims to go further by weaving together everyone’s best ideas and key concerns – a process that often results in surprising and creative solutions.” [A Consensus Handbook, pg 6]
Anthropologist David Graeber grounds this process in a much bigger picture when he argues that the consensus process – not voting – is the core of democracy:
“Voting is divisive. If a community lacks means to compel its members to obey a collective decision, then probably the stupidest thing one could do is to stage a series of public contests in which one side will, necessarily, be seen to lose… Democracy, then, is not necessarily defined by majority voting; it is, rather, the process of collective deliberation on the principle of full and equal participation.” [The Democracy Project, pp 184-186]
In many people’s minds though, the consensus process is the series of silly-looking hand signals regularly employed by activists to symbolise where people in a group discussion stand on a comment or issue. While rarely featured in most mainstream discussions of democracy and collective organisation, variations on the consensus process have been found among the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Quaker religious traditions and countless Indigenous cultures across the globe, dating back millennia. However, in 2011, the explosion of the Occupy movement breathed new life into the process, introducing it to countless new practitioners.
The growth of consensus in recent years is testament to both the efficacy of the process itself and the emergence of networked communications technology. This is part of its story.
How consensus got to Wellington
Consensus process was fundamental to the Wellington Occupy camp from its onset. There remains some contention as to whether the “jazz hands“ landed in Wellington via a two-minute clip produced by Occupy Oakland, or an eight-minute clip produced by Occupy Wall Street, but there was agreement that watching videos of others doing it was all that was needed to train up this new cadre of activists for effective collective decision-making.
CONSENSUS (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) from meerkatmedia on Vimeo.
As with so many other places, the process had a profound impact on those involved, as many experienced the ability to make group decisions without creating winners and losers, for the first time in their lives. Richard Bartlett described experiencing “radical insights” during Occupy general assemblies, in “…these moments where you have a breakthrough that takes you to a place that no individual could have got to on their own. Once you’ve seen this three or four times, you realise that the process is actually producing that, not a charismatic leader. I had a full-on, spark-of-light-to-the-eyeballs epiphany about that process!”
A fellow Occupier and web developer, Jon Lemmon, felt similarly, but had a new insight based on his elation with Civic Square consensus. “We should be able to translate this experience into software,” Jon said to Richard at the peak of the Wellington encampment.
From this initial observation came Loomio – an online consensus decision-making platform that Richard, Jon and a crew of local social entrepreneurs calling themselves Enspiral co-developed to preserve the central process of the Occupy Wellington experience after the camp had disbanded. And though dissemination of the practice from New York to Wellington happened via a YouTube channel (with a possible stopover in Oakland, en route), the process had another key step in its recent lineage, one that would become significant as Loomio began to spread around the world.
From indignation to consensus
On 15 May 2011, five months to the day before Richard, John, Ben and a few hundred other Kiwis descended on Wellington’s Civic Square, another city square was filling with citizens. In Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, an estimated 50,000 Spaniards came out in force, sparking a new movement for “real democracy”, enraged by the human fallout of the 2008 global financial collapse and the rampant cross-party corruption that plagued Spanish politics before and since.
The media termed the group indignados, or “indignants”. However, most of the participants refused to dwell on the systems they were fighting against, quickly placing their energies into something more constructive: the creation of “real democracy” in the square and beyond.
Miguel Catania had never been involved in activism before 2011, but on 15 May decided that he would add his voice to the tens of thousands of others who were fed up with how politics was playing out in his country. While Richard Bartlett and his fellow Wellingtonians are still visibly enthused when recounting their initial experiences of consensus process, Miguel is much more subdued in his descriptions of Day One in Puerta del Sol:
“The first assembly we did was very natural. Maybe there wasn’t somebody doing proper moderation to get to consensus. Anyway, in a natural way, we did it, because there were no leaders, there was nobody controlling things… it is a natural way of organising people in such situations. Like when you are among friends and want to take a decision to go to the movies, you are using this kind of process. You try to see other points of view, make everyone happy. It was a bit like this. We wanted to have a decision and of course we wanted everyone to be in the decision. It was a proper, natural process.”
In this case, the decision was to stay the night in the square. The basics of the process began to emerge via the input of a small core of veteran activists. These were largely people who had participated in the Global Justice Movement in the early 2000s and who began to introduce the hand signals that had been used in the street protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999.
What became clear within a few days in Puerta del Sol was that a pure consensus process was unlikely to work with such large numbers. The aim for 100% agreement continued, but with space to enable the group to move ahead if 100% consensus wasn’t proving possible.
In Miguel’s view, this was not in contradiction. Rather than a literal interpretation of the word, the 15-M activists moved towards a spirit of consensus that aimed to bring more and more of the group into dialogue and gradual agreement about a question, but without allowing a minority to prevent a process from moving forward. This process was about collaborative improvement of proposals through open discussion, rather than purely about the number of people who backed the specifics of the proposal in the end.
In the weeks that Puerta del Sol remained occupied, it quickly became clear that the square was not the right place to do the kinds of organising that were needed to confront the plethora of problems that Spanish communities were facing. The local nature of evictions, electricity cut-offs, food prices and other issues – along with ongoing police repression – led to the localisation of assemblies that summer, with hundreds of smaller groups forming in neighbourhoods around Madrid and most other Spanish cities.
And while many criticised the consensus process used in Puerta del Sol for its unwieldy and often epic meetings, variations on the method again became the standard process in each of the neighbourhood assemblies that emerged. Though challenging, the fundamental consequences of adopting any other system that offered less widespread input were consistently shot down.
But the processes used in Puerta del Sol and elsewhere in Spain didn’t just become more localised. They also spread like seeds on the wind, as several 15-M activists found themselves in New York City that summer, and brought a few significant hand gestures along with them.
We are the 99% (but let’s aim for 100%, OK?)
Figuring out how exactly consensus became the decision-making process of choice in Zuccotti Park, Lower Manhattan, in September 2011 is still a slightly contested chapter in recent activist mythology. David Graeber, who took part in the early days of Occupy Wall Street (and its precursor, the New York City General Assembly), in his book The Democracy Project attributes the choice to the presence of a mix of American Global Justice Movement veterans and some Spanish and Greek activists who’d recently hopped the pond and plugged themselves into the organising efforts.
Miguel Catania in Madrid distinctly recalls some fellow Spaniards – possibly named Nikky, Vicente and Angel – who had moved to NY after the Puerta del Sol occupation and had shared their learning with the New York occupiers. “It was very direct. They just took the process and said, ‘ok, this is very effective, so use it’.”
Another variation on the story suggests that a translated pamphlet produced in Puerta del Sol, entitled How to Cook a Non-Violent Revolution, and its accompanying appendix, A Quick Guide to Group Dynamics in People’s Assemblies, provided the practical training for the soon-to-be Occupiers.
More generally, Marina Sitrin, a fellow veteran of Occupy Wall Street who has documented and participated in non-hierarchical social movements around the globe, also includes the role of “movement media” in spreading images of the processes being used in other movements around the world. These images captured the imagination of activists elsewhere, who filled in the details themselves based on a cursory understanding of what was being done in other movements.
And back to Spain again…
While the dissemination of the process from Madrid to New York, and then New York to Wellington, was at least in some significant part the result of the emergent web of connections on the internet, the birth of Loomio was a significant shift. Whereas the tools of the web had enabled others to learn about consensus before, and to put it to use in the flesh from there, Loomio digitised the process, opening it up to countless more who couldn’t be or hadn’t been a part of the Occupy movement.
There are currently about 20,000 Loomio groups operating in 33 different languages, enabling more creative, inclusive and collaborative decisions to be made among a massive array of users. The Loomio platform has facilitated group decisions at a community art gallery around the corner from its office in Wellington for more than three years, while also helping aggregate public opinion to push Statistics New Zealand – a national government department – to produce the first national census in the world that offers respondents non-binary gender options (i.e. not just male or female). Current users range from schools and grocery co-ops, to activist groups, community gardens and even a few local authorities, who have seen the value of consensus process, even while stuck in stifling hierarchical bureaucracies.
In yet another unexpected twist, though, Loomio also reintroduces 15-M activist Miguel Catania to the narrative, having found Loomio while organising with Podemos, the new leftist political party in Spain that won five seats in the 2014 European elections. Podemos had emerged as one of the spin-offs of the 15-M movement. It was founded on the desire to bring the (relatively) radical perspectives and processes of the country’s massive street movement, into the corridors of power. This was always contentious among some participants, but activists like Miguel saw the transition as an important part of bringing direct democracy into new places.
Initially, Podemos spread like wildfire and many of the neighbourhood assemblies that began after the Puerta del Sol occupation, morphed into Podemos “circles” – democratic groups that continued to take local collective action while also feeding into national policy debates and priorities.
Podemos offered political opinions that were well beyond the existing political consensus, and showed signs of bridging the gap between the direct democracy of the street movements and the shambolic representative democracy of first-past-the-post elections and political parties. The party held assemblies at every level, offered countless inroads for new volunteers (not just door-knocking and making phone calls) and practised consensus process in most of its local circles.
The initial excitement around the party led to five seats in the European Parliament and a membership in the hundreds of thousands. When Miguel came across Loomio through an article in the tech press, he and fellow 15-M technologist, Yago Bermejo Abati, invited Ben Knight, one of Richard and John’s Loomio co-founders, to pay them a visit in late 2013. Ben gave a couple of small talks there and Miguel and Yago began to tell other Podemos activists and local circles about it, encouraging them to use it to support local organising efforts.
By June 2014, hundreds of new groups and thousands of new members were flowing to Loomio from across Spain. At one point that summer, 60% of Loomio’s global web traffic was coming from the country. Today there are more than 1,600 Podemos-related discussion groups on the site.
However, with its growth, a centralising force set in, gradually asserting top-down control over the party’s direction. Miguel had joined Podemos as part of its participation and outreach group, from working on technology and collective process in Puerta del Sol. But from the start he had seen elements of the party that were only interested in achieving better governmental policies, rather than also creating directly democratic structures. In some cases, there had been open high-level contempt for assemblies and the directly democratic organising processes that they represented.
This became vastly more prevalent with the creation of the National Citizens Council, a body that was in many ways rigged to consolidate support for the existing party leadership, and that, at the very least, drew power away from hundreds of thousands of regular members and into a much smaller group of elected representatives. “The power of the circles disappeared,” Miguel says over Skype, and so “most of the circles stopped using [Loomio].”
Miguel moved his efforts away from Podemos and towards one of the smaller new local parties that emerged after 2011, Ahorra Madrid. Now he finds himself in the role of “director of participation” in Madrid’s new city council, since Ahorra Madrid came to power in May. A loose network of parties that had made stronger efforts to keep the consensus-based methods of 15-M at their core, ended up winning in countless local elections across the country this spring, with Podemos’ influence far weaker than many had predicted, failing to win any local elections.
The lesson from May was clear to Miguel: “If you turn to more traditional structures where things are done in a more traditional way, people just don’t want to work anymore, if they don’t have the space to work and support… [The local elections were] a bit like proof that it was much more effective to have this more open structure, a more open way of taking decisions.”
While Miguel had put his efforts into Podemos, whose media-savvy campaigning had helped capture the national imagination, he is clear that without consensus, change is impossible:
“It’s the only way we can organise these kinds of movements, where everybody is really at the same level. It’s the only structure that can really take all the collective intelligence of a lot of people and create better ideas and better proposals and better actions, that include all the collective intelligence of the people around it.”
Fundamentally, Miguel says, consensus “is the most powerful way to get the best ideas”. It is a process that allows for better processes and ideas to emerge, so even when the process is flawed, collective deliberation can help to find, create or adapt something that works better.
While decision-making processes can seem relatively inconsequential with all the big issues and questions that the world is facing, changing the process through which decisions are made can in turn change the ways we ask and answers so many wider questions. As Richard Bartlett at Loomio so eloquently said of one of his key moments recognising the importance of the consensus process: “We used the consensus process to improve the consensus process… holy shit! This thing can fix everything!”
Photo adapted from Kate Ausburn on Flickr, used under Creative Commons 2.0.
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Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and the First Order. When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey (Daisy Ridley), a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo (Harrison Ford) to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last of the Jedi Knights.
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majority of rights sales by Finnish publishers are to publishers in Germany.
Rights sales to other countries are on the increase–in part because of the current fashion for Nordic crime fiction. But it is literary work that FILI aims particularly to promote; “literature cannot cross borders without this kind of help,” Schwanck says, referring to FILI’s translation grants. The organisation enabled 728,000 euros in grants in 2013.
She says that FILI has worked hard to
make the application process as straightforward as
possible, and adds that she welcomes the opportunity at
Frankfurt to showcase the work of translators–people
who work in minority languages such as Finnish are
especially valuable.
Asked about the aims of Finnland.Cool, Schwanck says that they are to raise awareness of Finnish literature and culture, and to boost the country’s literary exports. In Germany, the activities of the programme have attracted a good deal of coverage already. The Book Fair is likely to add a considerable boost to FILI’s aims. ■
Education will be a strong theme, featuring in various events and exhibitions.
The Agora space will display a mobile library, decorated with Moomins, the much-loved creations of Tove Jansson, the centenary of whose birth falls this year. A Moomins musical will take place on Friday.
Contemporary children’s authors including Timo Parvela and Seita Vuorela will be among the Finnish contingent at the Fair.
Iris Schwanck reports the Finnish book industry to be in reasonable health in the light of wider economic conditions. Nevertheless, there is “a decline in sales of books, and ebooks are not replacing the loss”. This is a country where the per capita consumption of books is a healthy 17 a year. But the population is 5. 5 million, and a bestselling title will have sales of about 70,000 copies. Total book sales in 2013 were worth 253m euros. “So it is very important for us to look outside Finland,” Schwanck says.
While the majority of translated titles in Finland– they account for about 17% of the country’s annual output of almost 4,000 new titles–are from English, the
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East Molesey Mill
Rowland G. M. Baker, 1980
The Manors of Molesey
Crown Property
The Andrews Family
Nielsen’s Tent-Works
Warwork Again
Notes & Authorites
In mediaeval England virtually every manor had its own mill, at which all of the manorial tenants were compelled by rigidly enforced custom, known as millsoke, to take their corn to be ground. The mill was, therefore, a valuable source of income to the lord of the manor, and water mills sprouted on every moving river and stream. Soon to grow into one of the most characteristic features of the English country scene.
From an early age Molesey was divided into two manors, which became identified respectively as Molesey Matham and Molesey Prior. These manors were not coterminous with the later parishes of East and West Molesey. In fact, both manors had lands in both parishes.
Each of these manors had its own mill, and both were worked by the river Mole. That of Molesey Matham stood where the Chartered Bank now has its sports ground, and that of Molesey Prior was about three hundred yards from the junction of the Mole and the Thames. For differentiation they were known as Upper Mill and Lower Mill, but the lower was also called Sterte Mill, which comes from an Old English word "Steorte", meaning a tail of land [1], which accurately describes its position on a narrow neck of ground between the two rivers Mole and Ember. A Reginald atte Sterte is mentioned in 1307 [2]. Since the demolition of the upper mill, about 1780, the title "East Molesey Mill" has applied specifically to the remaining one only, which is the subject of the present paper.
In the early thirteenth century antagonism between the two mill owners burst into open conflict. The manor of Molesey Prior was owned by the priory of Merton (hence of course its name), and in 1214 the prior complained that the owner of the upper mill, one Sampson de Molesey, had diverted the course of the Mole (then known as the Aqua de Mulesia, or Molesey River) and thereby deprived his mill of the water essential for its driving power. The prior said that he had sent his men upstream with picks and shovels to reinstate the river and restore the water so that the mill could turn again, and alleged that Sampson thereupon took away the men’s tools "by force of arms" and prevented them from completing their task [3].
The prior then took the case to the king’s court for settlement, and claimed damages of forty shillings. He asserted that the priory owned and could control all the river from the lower mill right up to "where the water fell from the mill-wheel of which the said Sampson was seized". Sampson denied that he had caused any hindrance or impediment to the course of the water and seems to have suggested that it was the other way round and that it was the prior who had meddled with the river’s flow to the detriment of the working of the upper mill.
The court, sitting under king John in person, listened to both sides and not being able to judge between the conflicting statements of the two, ordered a jury to sit and to establish what the course of the river had been during the reign of his father, Henry the second, and to indicate what should be done to maintain it thus.
Their verdict is a lengthy document detailing what each side could do and what each should do at the various points along the river. Although at this distance in time it is now virtually impossible to identify with any degree of certainty the names and locations mentioned in it [4].
The rest of the Middle Ages seem to have passed with nothing of moment to record. After Wolsey’s acquisition of Hampton Court, the priory of Merton was persuaded to rent the manor to the Cardinal’s gentleman usher, Thomas Heneage; and in 1518 a lease was agreed for a term of sixty-six years, at a total rent amounting to a value of £26 2s. 2d. [5].
In 1536, after Wolsey had presented the noble palace as a gift to his monarch, the ever demanding Henry began to acquire all the surrounding lands to add to his new forest or hunting chase, and annexed the manors of Molesey to his own possession. Heneage, now Sir Thomas, therefore surrendered the lease he had obtained from the prior and received a renewed one from the king [6]. He had built for himself "a sumptuous mansion" in East Molesey, which probably stood not far from the mill, alongside what is now Bridge Road, and which he would be reluctant to leave. His old master was now in disgrace, but from here he could serve the new one with ever greater reward.
However, Sterte Mill was excluded from Heneage’s new lease, and henceforth, although nominally part of Molesey Prior manor, it was let out by the crown separately from the rest of the manor, but sometimes to the same person. Usually it was granted to courtiers or servants of the sovereign, and the mill was farmed out by them on short term leases of a year or so to tenant millers who did the actual work. Thus in 1540 we find the mill in the hands of an Alice Herdynge, at a rent of seven pounds per annum [7], and in 1545 a lease of "Steretmyll, parcel of the manor of Est Mulsey and Honour of Hampton Court", was granted to "Thomas Sheparde of Mulsey", for twenty-one years [8].
Being no longer exclusively a manorial mill, the miller could, and did, grind corn for whomsoever he pleased. That this was so is borne out by a letter which was sent to Thomas Cromwell, the secretary of state, in which we find it written that "a damsel 12 or 13 years old, named Alice Haymond, servant to John Machyn of Weybridge", was stopped, robbed, ravished, and left for dead, whilst "riding on horseback with two bushels of corn under her to Mulsey Mylne" [9].
About this time the mill found itself implicated in a major scandal, a story of passion and intrigue involving no less a person than the great Queen Bess herself. Elizabeth, as is well known, had a romantic attachment to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, as a result of which, around 1562, it was widely reported that she had given birth to a son. Some twenty-five years later a young man turned up in Spain claiming to be that son, and was hospitably received by Phillip the second and given a pension. He said he had been brought up by a man named Southern, a servant to Mrs Catherine Ashley, who was a confidant of the queen, to whom she had once been a governess.
Southern, he maintained, was told one day to go to Hampton Court where he would be met by a certain gentleman, who explained to him that one of the ladies of the court had been delivered of a son, that she was desirous of concealing her dishonour for fear of bringing the wrath of the queen down upon her head, and asked him if he could arranged a nurse for the child. He searched around and found that the wife of the miller at Molesey, who had presumably given birth herself, was willing to be its wet-nurse. The next morning, significantly it is emphasised, in a corridor in the palace leading directly to the queen’s private chamber, the babe, whose name he was informed was Arthur, was handed over, and taken to the mill to be suckled. The boy was later removed to Evesham, where he was brought up as Southern’s son, and it was not until many years afterwards that he was informed by Mrs Ashley of the true identity of his real parents [10].
In 1568 the lease of the mill was granted to David Grenesmith [11], and this came into the hands of Elizabeth Crane, widow of Anthony Crane, master of the household to Queen Elizabeth, and lady of the manor of Molesey Prior, who later lost favour when she was involved with the illegal publication of the famous Puritan pamphlets known as the Marprelate Tracts. Mrs Crane surrendered the grant and was given a new one to run for forty-one years. In consideration of which she offered to rebuild the mill, which was then in a very ruinous and decayed condition, at her own expense, within five years, she finding and providing the "great timber to be expended and employed in and about the new building of the same". This she did at a cost of more than two hundred pounds [12]. The tenant miller was then Alexander Turke [13].
The lease granted to Mrs Crane passed at her death to her son-in-law, Gerrard Gore. In spite of this, however, in 1601, when it still had twenty-five years yet to run, Queen Elizabeth, who was then sixty-eight years old and very susceptible to flattery, was prevailed upon by Lady Dorothy Edmonds, the lady of the manor of Molesey Matham, who had entertained the queen to dinner in the manor house [14], to give her a grant of certain other properties around Molesey, including a mill called Sterte Mill. This double grant was bound to cause trouble, and it was not long before the two were at loggerheads.
Gore maintained that Lady Edmonds "tried by every means in her power to get possession of all and every the premises and induce him to give over all his estate right and property in the same. When she could not succeed in so doing she commanded and encouraged divers of her own servants to disturb and molest his peaceable possession of the premises and to take away from his servants his nets and other engines for fishing" [15].
From Lady Edmonds answer to this complaint it would appear that the mill granted to her was not, in fact, the ancient Sterte Mill, but another newly erected one adjoining it, which was also driven by the river Mole [16]. Unfortunately no outcome of this case seems to have survived, so we do not really know what happened, but Gore appears to have held on. The lady now tried a new tack, she had him locked out of the parish church and when he broke into the pew had him committed to the Fleet prison [17]. Whether this subterfuge worked and she managed to get hold of Sterte Mill we know not.
During the reign of James the first the sum of seven pounds a year received by the crown from the rent of the mill was given by the king to various people. Presumably in consideration of services rendered [18].
Under the Commonwealth both Molesey mills were acquired by a gunpowder manufacturer called John Samine [19], a London merchant, who had been made a freeman of the City in 1645, after having served his time as an apprentice in the Grocers’ Company [20]. When in 1640 the Long Parliament revoked the crown monopoly on gunpowder production [21] there were good pickings to be had, and Samine probably moved into the business with capital received from his marriage settlement.
His name first appears as a government supplier of powder in 1649, when he provided two hundred barrels for the use of Cromwell’s army in Ireland [22]. In the following year he received an order to provide five hundred barrels, half of which were to be ready within one month, and the rest two months later. The price contracted for, four pounds ten shillings a barrel, seems somewhat lower than that agreed with other contractors, so Samine may well have been undercutting in order to buy himself into the market. The powder appears to have been delivered on time, and he received further orders to supply the army in Scotland, which they reported to the Ordnance Committee was "very good and serviceable" [23].
Nevertheless the government on their part were very tardy in payment. They were themselves very hard up, and it was some months later that money was forthcoming from the customs received when some ships ladened with goods from India docked in this country out of which he was eventually paid [24].
It was probably about this time that Samine first leased the Molesey mills, which he adapted and enlarged, and erected others probably making at least two mills at each site. He also had a dwelling house here, most likely standing near to the upper mills, which in 1664 was the largest house in East Molesey [25]. Besides which he obtained mills at Leyton and Walthamstow in East London, which were also used for the manufacture of gunpowder, and a wharf in London for its shipment [26]. He went on to become the second largest supplier of powder to the state [27]. By 1656 he had delivered 3,686 barrels of new powder and 1,052 of repaired. Out of 1,132 barrels tried, 536 were found to be defective [28], which although it seems a high proportion, with the rather crude methods of production then available, it was considered quite good and compares very favourably with some other manufacturers, whose failure rate neared ninety per cent. All of his powder, except the repaired, was warranted for two years. He was looked on with favour by the Admiralty Commissioners, who went out of their way to point out to the Council of State that "the state owes him large sums, for want of which he has suffered much" [29].
The process of producing gunpowder involved the blending together of saltpetre(nitre), charcoal, and sulphur (usually in the ratio 75% saltpetre, 15% charcoal, and 10% sulphur) in water, allowing the mixture to dry into a cake and then grinding to a fine powder. An alternative method was to grind and sift the cake into granules, about the size of corn seed, hence this was known as corning, which allowed a much quicker firing time. A Corning House was established among the buildings at the upper mill.
The principal ingredient, saltpetre, occurs naturally only in India, Iran, and some other Eastern countries. In 1653 the Ordnance Commissioners contracted with the East India Company to provide twenty tons to Samine and some other makers [30], but this was woefully inadequate to meet the needs, as was explained, "taking into consideration how necessary it is, in this time of war, to have a constant and certain supply of Gunpowder for the supply of the Armies and Navies imployed for the defence and safety of the Commonwealth" [31].
Saltpetre, however, could be produced artificially by the refinement of a mixture of soil impregnated with animal droppings. To fill the shortfall, therefore, Parliament passed an Act by which owners of stables, dove-cotes, pigeon-houses, and the like were forbidden to floor them with brick or stone, but only with good natural earth, and were to allow commissioners to enter and grub out the guano and take it away to be rendered down into saltpetre [32].
John Samine was one of the commissioners appointed under the Act, with special responsibility to scour the towns and villages in East Anglia and the Fens for suitable sources [33].
The activities of these so-called "saltpetre men" was particularly hated, for the way they could just walk in, obstruct the work of the farm, and remove the natural compost which the farmer needed so much to manure the land. Samine received a command from Cromwell’s Council of State to report the names of any who wilfully impeded his work, that proceedings may be taken against them, and orders were posted throughout the area for mayors and other officers to assist him [34].
However, the job proved to be more expensive than had been anticipated, Samine instead of making a profit again found himself on the losing end of the stick. He poured his heart out to the Council, saying that he had lost £700 on the contract, that he had been ill for ten months due to overwork in the service of the state, and appealed to them to pay the £2,000 arrears owed to him on powder already delivered without which he stands in danger of being put in prison for debt [35]. But still begging for the government to give him further contracts to keep his mills in continual employment.
Although he served the Roundheads well during the Commonwealth, the restored monarchy after 1660 was also hopelessly in need of explosives and of his services. He supplied the new government with their requirements just as eagerly as he had the old. There is after all no sentiment in business, and Samine was nothing if not a businessman, albeit a not too successful one.
Nevertheless he had troubles in other directions. The local people, who wanted to see the ever threatening gunpowder moved as far away from their homes as possible, harassed him at every turn. In 1662 he was taken to the Quarter Sessions and fined for having "forcibly dug up the highway leading from Thames Ditton to Hampton Court Ferry, to the grave damage and common nuisance of the King’s liege people passing, in evil example and against the peace" [36]. The next year he was again before the magistrates for obstinately refusing to pay an assessment levied on him for the repair of Chertsey Bridge [37].
In 1666 they were after him again and on 23 May, thirteen of the "Tenants and other the Inhabitants of Your Majesties Manner and Village of East Moulsey", petitioned the king, stating that about fourteen years before the "late usurped powers had allowed John Samine to erect two powder mills which caused many inhabitants to let or sell their houses; also of two others which he lately erected to the danger and terror of the whole town", one of which, they were careful to point out, stood directly opposite to his majesty’s own house at Hampton Court. They besought the king in his "princely goodness to order that the said mills may be taken away or removed to such distance from the said Towne that your petitioners may quietly enjoy their habitation and not be left in such perpetual fear and terror" [38].
The first signature to this entreaty was that of Richard Eades, who probably lived in the house later called "Bridge House", which although much altered is now East Molesey Post Office. Only a few hundred yards from the mill. No wonder he was apprehensive.
After receiving this request the king was "graciously pleased to refer the petition to the Commissioners of the Ordnance to consider of their complaint and what remedy it is capable of. And to certify the same to his Majesty who will then declare his further pleasure". Unfortunately if this was done no record seems to have survived, and we have no knowledge of what "further pleasure" the king took in the matter.
That the mills were, in fact, a standing menace to the surrounding residents is manifest by the number of catastrophies which are recorded to have taken place. As early as 1655 Samine reported that he had had explosions in five of his mills [39], and in 1669 one of his stores in Molesey caught fire, and in the combustion he lost powder of his own to the value of twelve hundred pounds, a not inconsiderable sum in those days, as well as six hundred pounds worth of powder belonging to the king for which he was responsible. In this instance, because at great risk he had saved a hundred and fifty barrels of gunpowder belonging to the king during a fire at the Custom House, the crown discharged him from responsibility of repaying the loss on the royal powder [40].
Poor Samine! this fire obviously contributed to his serious money problems. Even after the Restoration the state still owed him large sums, which he tried to recoup by selling gunpowder to the Continent whilst neglecting to fulfil his contract to the government. Whereon the king ordered the customs to seize any powder of his which they might find ready to be shipped abroad [41]. All these things combined to keep Samine permanently in debt. Most of his properties were mortgaged to somebody or other, and after his death it took a private Act of Parliament to unscramble the financial tangle he left behind [42].
Whether it was because of the fire, or the petition, or the general decline in the demand for gunpowder, or some other reason, is not clear, but it seems almost certain that around this time Samine gave up Sterte Mill, and it reverted to grinding corn, although the upper mill continued to manufacture gunpowder, with some calamitous results, upto about 1780. However, at least part of the premises were used at one time for milling lead, and as late as 1819 a portion was described as "An old building, formerly a Lead Mill" [43].
It may well have been this building which was alluded to in an advertisement which appeared in 1699: "At East Molsey, near Kingston Upon Thames, in Surrey, is lately erected a Workhouse and Mill for milling of Lead (which hath always been Experienced to be much Cheaper and Lasting than Cast-Lead) and that the lead there mill’d is much Smoother, Broader, and consequently Better than any heretofore, and may be had at the Mill aforesaid, and at Mr. John Fincher’s, Plumber, at the Cock without Bishopsgate, and over against Devonshire Square. Of the Goodness and Usefulness of the said Mill’d Lead, Papers will be printed at large in a few days" [44].
As we have seen there were at times at least two separate mills adjacent to one another on the site, and it is possible that the milling of corn and of lead could both have proceeded contemporaneously side by side without interfering with one another.
After Samine withdrew from the mill his interest seems to have been acquired by James Clarke, the lord of both Molesey manors, and again let out to working millers. Thus a Pellar (Peter?) Kingum, of Lower Molesey, miller, is mentioned in 1692 [45]. Shortly afterwards the mill was in the hands of the Martin family, who continued as tenants for four generations, and to work it for over a century.
Jacob, the founder of the dynasty, died in 1708, and was followed in turn by his son Thomas, his grandson Thomas, and his great grandson William Greening Martin. They lived in a house by the side of the mill, all played a part in the life of the village and took their place in filling the parochial offices, and when it came their turn they were buried in the family vault in St. Mary’s churchyard, together with their wives and children.
In 1756 Thomas Martin insured the mill and the house with the Hand-In-Hand Fire Insurance Society, and from the entry in the policy registers a good description of the property as it was then, and at each subsequent alteration, can be obtained. First, the house was brick built, of an irregular shape, with two stories and garrets and a brewhouse, valued together at £400. The mill itself was constructed of timber, 88 feet X 38 feet, with another building 14 feet 6 inches X 6 feet by the side, which with a barn, sheds, storehouses, and stables, all built of wood, were together worth £600 [46].
By 1763 a new wooden construction had been added to the mill, consisting of a story over the wheel 28 feet X 18 feet, and a large building at the side 45 feet X 26 feet [47]. Three years later the house and domestic offices were improved by the addition of a new room 10 feet X 10 feet, a new kitchen, washhouse, and pantry, all in wood. Pushing the timber portion up to £1,000 [48].
These surveys indicate a large rambling wooden water mill, the sort of scene that was bound to find its way onto the canvases of eighteenth century "picturesque" painters. Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734), John Inigo Richards (1720-1810), Thomas Girtin (1775-1802), and John Hassell (d.l825), all set up their easels across the river and by brush and palette recorded for posterity their impressions of the scene.
All the time the Martins were involved in the mill it turned over a steady profit, which was wisely invested not only in improving and enlarging the mill itself, as we have seen, but in buying up lucrative property whenever the opportunity presented itself. Houses and farms in East Molesey, Thames Ditton, and Kingston, as well as elsewhere, were snapped up, and the Martin investment empire grew. By the time that William Greening Martin took over the business, in 1796, the family was remarkably affluent, but he still continued to run the mill. When he was coming up to his fiftieth year, however, he decided as none of his sons wished to carry on in the family tradition that the time had come to leave. The opportunity was offered when his lease came to an end in l8l7, and shortly afterwards he purchased the freehold of a large farm on the other side of Bridge Road [49], and settled down for the rest of his life as a gentleman farmer [50]. Thus ended over a hundred years connection of the Martin family with East Molesey Mill.
Throughout the eighteenth century, whilst the Martins had been the tenants, the crown lease of the mill seems to have been in the hands of the lessees of the manor of Molesey Prior. Firstly several generations of the Clarke family and later Sir Beaumont Hotham and Sir Thomas Sutton as joint proprietors.
The lords of the manor now offered a new lease for sale. The advertisement described it as "To be let upon Lease, for 14 years, by Messrs Driver, a very capital water corn-mill, with 8 pair of stones, capable of grinding, in a short season 20 loads of wheat per week, most desirably situate at East Moulsey, in the County of Surrey, with the advantage of water carriage from the Thames communicating therewith by a creek, and only 2 miles from Kingston, and 11 from London" [51]. However, it seems as if the lease was not let, and for a few years the lords of the manor themselves, who were then Lord Hotham and Sir George H.F. Berkeley, ran the mill. Presumably through a paid manager [52].
In 1816, in order to provide sufficient capital to facilitate the purchase of Claremont as a residence for Princess Charlotte, the crown decided to sell off some of its land assets [53]. Molesey Prior was offered to the sitting manorial lords, and on 12 October 1820 the purchase was completed [54].
As they were now the owners of the freehold, Hotham and Berkeley decided that the mill needed modernising. The lumbering old timber structure might look very scenic on the canvas of some landscape painter but as a commercial venture it was very inefficient. Therefore, in 1822, they had it demolished and a stark brick-built mill was erected in its stead. Once again we can turn to the fire insurance survey to tell us something of its construction. The old mill house, where the miller lived, was already built of brick, as we have seen, and this was left intact. The new mill was four stories high, 42 feet X 40 feet, with a stage in the roof. This top stage incorporated two cabin-like projections, which are a prominent feature of later illustrations. These extensions, known as lucarnes [55], were used to hoist the sacks of corn upto the top of the building to start on their journey of process through the mill to emerge at the bottom as flour. There were eight pairs of stones, driven by two undershot water wheels, each seventeen feet in diameter, and over each wheel the building protruded a further eleven feet. Besides which there were stables and a wheelwright’s shop, in which was a kiln for drying the grain. The value of the whole was now raised to three thousand pounds [56]. This rebuilding is commemorated on a stone plaque still to be seen in the present building. It was later described as "a large and factory-like and most unpicturesque mill" [57].
The first tenant of the new mill was a man named Nathaniel Cherry, but he stayed here only a few years [58], and in 1827 the lease was taken over by Thomas Andrews, an ambitious young man just twenty-three years old from Brentford in Middlesex, who was to set up a connection with the mill throughout the nineteenth century which was closely to rival that of the Martins in the previous one.
By 1846 Andrews had expanded his business and besides the milling of flour he also undertook the sawing of timber and the supply of slates [59]. It was probably to house this extra trade that-an additional building was constructed on the east side of the mill which is shown on a print of 1849 [60]. In 1851 the mill employed seventeen men and four boys [61]. However, the motive power of the river was insufficient to work both mills at the same time, when the sawmill was required the flour milling had to stop and vice-versa. The flour mill had fifteen pairs of stones but only twelve were capable of being used at any one time [62].
Business boomed, and Andrews, like the Martins a hundred years before, made considerable profit from the mill. In the 1860s the ancient mill house proved insufficient for his increasing family and his rising status in the village as local councillor and churchwarden. A handsome modern house was built on land belonging to the mill, fronting onto Creek Road, which he named "Creek House". The cost of its construction was some £2,000, which was shared between Andrews and the land owners [63]. The firm was expanded when his son, Herbert, and his son-in-law, Walker Garland, entered the business. Like the Martins, too, they invested heavily in property, particularly in the development of East Molesey Park, when that came onto the market in 1876.
Thomas Andrews died in 1892 and by special permission of the home secretary was laid to rest in the same grave as his wife in St. Mary’s churchyard, which had been closed for nearly thirty years. The last time that this right was so allowed. The firm carried on under his son, although the flour milling was discontinued and the business was concentrated on timber sawing.
Herbert Andrews was a cultured man. He composed poetry, published a rather wordy and not too serious a history of East Molesey, and was chairman of the old East Molesey Local Board. He died in 1913, but the sawmill seems to have closed a year or two before that.
After the termination of Andrews timber business the mill stood unoccupied for some time. A number of schemes were put forward for its use, none of which reached fruition. The most interesting was an ambitious proposal by Sandow’s Cocoa Company to enlarge it and turn it into an up-to-date chocolate factory.
Mr Eugen Sandow was a zealous physical health and strength enthusiast, who wrote nearly a dozen books, with titles like "The Science and Art of Physical Development", "Strength and how to obtain it", "Body Building or Man in the Making", and so on [64]. He started a "Curative Institute", which ran foul of the General Medical Council, but managed to get himself appointed as "professor of physical culture" to king George the fifth. Sandow grasped upon the health giving properties of chocolate, and initiated a campaign of "health and strength through cocoa", floating a company, with a capital of £350,000, but run by himself of course, to manufacture and market the product [65]. The sales initially increased very rapidly, but the company became entangled in a legal wrangle over the use of a trade name [66], and the grand scheme to develop Molesey Mill came to naught.
Eventually a long lease to commence from Christmas Day 1913 was arranged with the Zenith Motor Company [67], which had been started several years before with premises at Weybridge, where they manufactured motor cycles.
Zenith motor bikes earned a very good reputation. More particularly after 1908 when a patented system of gears was adopted. Called the "Gradua Gear", it gave an infinitely variable ratio between top and bottom gear, made possible by a belt drive onto a conical pulley on the rear wheel, which slid in and out to take up the slack. This was most effective, especially on heavy work such as hill climbing, and gave a distinct advantage over machines fitted with fixed gear ratios. So much so that as Zenith picked up more and more awards in competitive trials, they were barred by many clubs from taking part in these events. This was a tacit admission of the superiority of Zenith machines, which was not lost on the manufacturers, and which they were not tardy in exploiting to the full. Thereafter the word "Barred", with an allegorical design of bars was incorporated into the Zenith trade mark [68].
Before the company could move, however, considerable alterations had to be made to the mill to transform it from a sawmill into an engineering factory. Much new machinery had to be purchased and installed, and adapted to work from the mill wheel, and a number of new workshops were erected in the grounds for assembly work. The opening of the factory foreshadowed a welcome increase in the employment situation in Molesey, and the Surrey Comet predicted that "the influx of householders as a result of the advent of the Zenith Motor Company, should greatly facilitate the letting of the few remaining empty houses in the village [69].
The firm moved their production to the mill in March 1914 [70]. But it was not long afterwards, of course, that the dark clouds of the First World War descended upon the country, and the company had to think of more serious things than competing in speed racing, hill climbing, and endurance trials. Henceforth production was geared to the requirements of the army and commercial trade. Within a month of the outbreak advertisements were saying to shopkeepers and tradesmen, "If your horses have been commandeered, the Zenith Commercial Side-car will fill the bill", and along with the first landing of the British Expeditionary Force came pictures of Zenith machines being unloaded for the use of despatch riders in France [71].
After the end of the war, however, the great peace rejoicings had not long died away when the great slump followed. The motor cycle industry fell to a low level, and by the end of the twenties Zenith’s sales could no long recover their costs. At the beginning of March 1930 orders were issued, on the petition of the advertising agents, for the company to be compulsorily wound up [72].
The failure of the Zenith Company came just at the time when great changes were taking place in the environs of the mill. The construction of the new Hampton Court Bridge and its approach roads, required the filling in of the Creek between the mill and the Thames, and the diversion of the river Mole into the Ember, which necessitated a much wider weir, on the other side of the mill.
The mill and its surroundings were purchased by the Surrey County Council to facilitate the progress of the works. Creek House, the home built for Thomas Andrews, was demolished to enable Creek Road to be widened.
After the civil engineering work in connection with the bridge and the roads were completed, and the county council no longer had any use for the mill, it was sold to C. Nielson and Son, as a factory for the production of sails and tents [73].
Christian Nielson, the founder of the firm, had had a very interesting and varied life. He was born in Denmark in 1863, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, and at a very young age practised this craft before the mast in wind-jammers. He often sailed into the port of London where he met and eventually married a young lady, and settled in this country, coming to East Molesey in 1890 to find work with the local boat builders. In his spare time he made awnings for house boat owners, a side-line which developed so well that he threw up his job and opened up business in his own interest in Bridge Road, making sails, awnings, shop blinds, and tents, in fact anything which could be contrived out of canvas. Later specialising in tents and marques. From these small beginnings the firm developed into what was at one time one of the largest tenting contractors in the country [74].
The run up to the Second World War created a crash rearmament programme, and in 1938 a part of the mill premises were taken over by Messrs Gays (Hampton) Ltd., toolmakers and precision engineers. Who employed about seventy people, mostly skilled hands, producing tools, jigs and fixtures for the manufacture of Bristol "Blenheim" bomber aircraft. During the war itself the personnel was increased and reached a maximum of two hundred. The company was the first to manufacture bomb carriers for eight thousand pound "block busters", when these massive engines of destruction were introduced by the R.A.F.
After the conclusion of the war the workforce was reduced to about sixty, and a few years later the company closed the works altogether and concentrated manufacture of all products at their Hampton factory [75].
Fig. 2 - Sir James Thornhill (1675-1734). View from the Toy Inn, hampton Court, looking up the creek to the mill. Pen and ink sketch 1731. Now in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Fig. 3 - John Inigo Richards (1720-1810). "The Mill at Mouseley". Showing the rabbling wooden mill and brick Mill House.
Fig. 4 - John Hassell (d, 1825). "Old Mill on the Mole". Water-colour in the British Library. Dated 1824 but must be older than that, as the timber mill was demolished in 1822. The structure high up on the right is probably the "story over the wheel", 28 ft. X 18 ft., added in 1763.
Fig. 5 - Print by Tombleson, published in 1845. Showing the mill as rebuilt in 1822, with the two lucarnes prominent on the top story.
Fig. 6 - The mill and Hampton Court station in 1849.
Fig. 7 - The mill about 1894, from the north, showing the corn mill on the left and the sawmill on the right.
Fig. 8 - The mill about 1894. Showing the Mole flowing out from beneath the mill after turning the mill-wheel. Thomas Andrews' daughters standing on the jetty.
Fig. 9 - Advertisement for T. Andrews & Son, 1907.
Fig. 10 - title page of zenith Motors catalogue, 1920.
Fig. 11 - Advertisement for Zenith Motor Cycles, 1914.
Fig. 12 - South side of the mill and Mill Cottages, about 1960. The enlarged weir to take the Mole into the Ember is seen on the left.
Fig. 13 - East Molesey Mill, 1980.
Fig. 14 - Weir, 2008.
Fig. 15 - East side of mill, 2008.
NOTES AND AUTHORITIES
A. Mawer, The Chief Elements used in English Place Names, English Place Names Society, Vol. 1(ii), C.U.P., (1930), p.56.
Hardy and Page Papers, Surrey Record Office, Special Collections 27/10, appendix 4.
A. Heales, The Records of Merton Priory, (1898), pp. 69-70.
Hardy and Page Papers, app.1.
W.E. Brayley, History of Surrey, (1878-80), vol. ii, p. 74.
O. Manning and W. Bray, History and Antiquities of Surrey, vol.1 (1804).
Hardy and Page Papers, app. 5.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol.xx(i), (1906), p.679.
Ibid, vol.x, (1887), p.331.
Calendar of Letters and State Papers belonging to the Archives of Simancas, vol.iv, (1899), p.101; E.A.B. Barnard, Evesham and a reputed son of Queen Elizabeth, (1926); Ernest Law, The History of Hampton Court Palace, vol.i, (1885), p.288.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1566 - 1569, (1964), p.322.
Hardy and Page Papers, app. 10.
British Library, Harlian Manuscripts, 779, f.24v.
Manuscripts of Lord de Lisle and Dudley, Hist. Mss. Com., vol.77, (1934),p.404.
Manuscripts of the Marquis of Salisbury, Hist. Mss. Com., vol.9, (1923), p.279.
Victoria History of the County of Surrey, vol.iii, (1911), p.455.
Also sometimes spelled Samyne, Semaine, Semeigne, or Seamayne.
Information kindly supplied by Mr G.B. Greenwood.
Statutes of the Realm, vol.v, (1810-1828), p.131, 16 Chas. i, c.21, An Act for free bringing in of gunpowder (1640).
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1649-50, (1875), p.584.
Ibid, 1650, (1876), pp.146, 147; 1651, (1877), p.178.
Ibid, 1651, (1877), p.576; 1651-2, (1877), p.581.
Surrey Heath Tax 1664, Surrey Record Society, (1940).
V.C.H., Essex, vol.vi, (1973), pp.201, 267.
V.C.H., Surrey, vol.ii, (1905), p.323.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1655-6, (1882), p.272.
Ibid, 1652-3, (1878), p.478.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, vol.ii, (1911), p.699.
Ibid, p.370.
Ibid, 1655, (1881), pp. 28-9.
D.L. Powell and H.Jenkinson, Surrey Quarter Sessions Records 1661-3, (1935), p.151.
Public Record Office, SP/29/156, State Papers, vol.clvi, no.103.
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1655, (1881), pp.28-9.
29 & 30 Chas. ii, c.22, An Act to enable Trustees to sell lands for the raising of money to pay the Debts of John Samine, Esquire.
Sale catalogue of freehold lands in East and West Molesey.
London Gazette, no.3497, 15-18 May 1699.
J.S.L. Fulford, An Index of Kingston Quakers in the Seventeenth Century, (1971), p.21.
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Pronounced Lucam, and sometimes spelled vernacularly as Lucam, Lucum, Locum, or Lucomb.
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J. Thorne, Rambles by Rivers - The Mole, (1844), p.66.
Illustrated London News, 3 February 1849, p.76; see fig. 6.
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ink-stained wretches July 16, 2013
Richard Cohen Thinks Trayvon Martin Was ‘Understandably Suspected’ Because of Blackness, Hoodie
Photo: Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan
Aging, white Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is just going to come right out and say it: Young black men are scary. Although he claims to “hate that Trayvon Martin is dead,” he “also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.” That is, dark skin and a hooded sweatshirt. To anyone who has donned a similar “uniform” in solidarity with the dead, unarmed 17-year-old, Cohen writes, “The hoodie blinds them as much as it did Zimmerman,” which makes no sense. But onward with his dubious argument.
Cohen continues to state his case — everyone is actually terrified of black men, and that’s okay — by cherry-picking crime statistics from New York City, more than 1,000 miles north of where Martin was killed in a gated Florida subdivision. Never mind that crime rates are falling, and among African-Americans, too, but Cohen argues that “if young black males are your shooters, then it ought to be young black males whom the police stop and frisk.”
George Zimmerman, of course, was not actually an agent of law enforcement, and Martin was not carrying a gun or committing a crime. But in Cohen’s line of thinking, Martin looked like people who sometimes do: “There’s no doubt in my mind that Zimmerman profiled Martin and, braced by a gun, set off in quest of heroism,” he concludes. “The result was a quintessentially American tragedy — the death of a young man understandably suspected because he was black and tragically dead for the same reason.”
Hoodies, Cohen confirmed in an interview with Politico, are “worn by a whole lot of thugs. Look in the newspapers, online or on television: you see a lot of guys in the mugshots wearing hoodies.” (Geraldo Rivera made the same argument last year but later apologized.) And Mark Zuckerberg’s head-covering piece of fabric? “Right, so it’s the uniform of billionaires and thugs,” said Cohen “with a chuckle.” It’s all pretty amusing, you see, to take a shooting that occurred inarguably after an act of profiling only to assert that what we really need, as a society, is to be okay with more profiling.
Questlove: Trayvon Martin and I Ain’t Shit
ink-stained wretches
Richard Cohen Blames Trayvon Martin Hoodie, Race
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PITHY QUOTE FROM Smith: Works and Correspondence
If it should be found impracticable for Great Britain to draw any considerable augmentation of revenue from any of the resources above mentioned; the only resource which can remain to her is a diminution of her expence.
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Book V Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. Chapter III Of publick Debts
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. Electronic Edition.
Adam Smith. Etching by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R. C. Bell (1872). The original depiction of Smith was created in 1787 by James Tassie
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith is the definitive modern biography of Adam Smith. The collection contains the complete works and correspondence of Adam Smith, together with select reference sources to the man and his work from Oxford University Press.
Smith, Adam. The Glasgow Edition of The Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith. Andrew Stewart Skinner, Editor-in-Chief. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976-1983.
Vol. 1. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Vol. 2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Vol. 3. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Vol. 4. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Vol. 5. Lectures on Jurisprudence. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Vol. 6. Correspondence. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
In addition, the following supplementary texts are included:
Ian Simpson Ross. The Life of Adam Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Adam Smith’s library: a catalogue. Edited with an introduction and notes by Hiroshi Mizuta. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Andrew Stewart Skinner. A System of Social Science: papers relating to Adam Smith. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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1615hrs, Dec 27, 2004, a post on andamanicobar@yahoogroups.co.in; revisiting the tsunami of Dec 2004
1615 hrs
Posted by Madhusree Mukerjee
Subject: SFGate: Warning system doesn't extend to Indian Ocean nations where death toll is highest
This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate.The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/12/26/international1511EST0500.DTL
Sunday, December 26, 2004 (AP)
Warning system doesn't extend to Indian Ocean nations where death toll is highest
JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA, AP Science Writer
(12-26) 21:22 PST (AP)
The catastrophic death toll in Asia caused by a massive tsunami might have been reduced had India and Sri Lanka been part of an international warning system designed to warn coastal communities about potentially deadly waves, scientists say.
More than 8,300 people in India and Sri Lanka were among the more than 13,300 killed after being hit by walls of water triggered by a tremendous earthquake early Sunday off Sumatra. The warning system is designed to alert nations that potentially destructive waves may hit their coastlines within three to 14 hours. Scientists said seismic networks recorded Sunday's massive earthquake, but without wave sensors in the region, there was no way to determine the direction a tsunami would travel.
A single wave station south of the earthquake's epicenter registered tsunami activity less than 2 feet high heading south toward Australia, researchers said. The waves also struck resort beaches on the west coast of the Thailand's south peninsula, killing hundreds. Although Thailand belongs to the international tsunami warning network, its west coast does not have the system's wave sensors mounted on ocean buoys.
The northern tip of the earthquake fault is located near the Andaman Islands, and tsunamis appear to have rushed eastward toward the Thai resort of Phuket on Sunday morning when the community was just stirring. "They had no tidal gauges and they had no warning," said Waverly Person, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., which monitors seismic activity worldwide. "There are no buoys in the Indian Ocean and that's where this tsunami occurred."
The tsunami was triggered by the most powerful earthquake recorded in the past 40 years. The earthquake, whose magnitude was a staggering 9.0, unleashed walls of water more than two stories high to the west across the Bay of Bengal, slamming into coastal communities 1,000 miles away. Hours after the quake, Sumatra was struck by a series of powerful aftershocks. Researchers say the earthquake broke on a fault line deep off the Sumatra coast, running north and south for about 600 miles or as far north as the Andaman and Nicobar islands between India and Mynamar.
"It's a huge rupture," said Charles McCreery, director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center near Honolulu. "It's conceivable that the sea floor deformed all the way along that rupture, and that's what initiates tsunamis." Tsunamis as large and destructive as Sunday's typically happen only a few times in a century.
A tsunami is not a single wave, but a series of traveling ocean waves generated by geological disturbances near or below the ocean floor. With nothing to stop them, these waves can race across the ocean like the crack of a bullwhip, gaining momentum over thousands of miles. Most are triggered by large earthquakes but they can be caused by landslides, volcanoes and even meteor impacts. The waves are generated when geologic forces displace sea water in the ocean basin. The bigger the earthquake, the more the Earth's crust shifts and the more seawater begins to move.
Most tsunamis occur in the Pacific because the ocean basin is rimmed by the Ring of Fire, a long chain of the Earth's most seismically active spots. Marine geologists recently have determined that under certain conditions, the U.S. East Coast and other heavily populated coastlines also could be vulnerable. In a tsunami, waves typically radiate out in directions opposite from the seismic disturbance. In the case of the Sumatra quake, the seismic fault ran north to south beneath the ocean floor, while the tsunami waves shot out west and east.
Tsunamis are distinguished from normal coastal surf by their great length and speed. A single wave in a tsunami series might be 100 miles long and race across the ocean at 600 mph. When it approaches a coastline, the wave slows dramatically, but it also rises to great heights because the enormous volume of water piles up in shallow coastal bays. And unlike surf, which is generated by wind and the gravitational tug of the moon and other celestial bodies, tsunamis do not break on the coastline every few seconds. Because of their size, it might take an hour
for another one to arrive.
Some tsunamis appear as a tide that doesn't stop rising, while others are turbulent and savagely chew up the coast. Without instrumentation, so little is known about this tsunami that researchers must wait for eyewitness accounts to determine its characteristics. "It was a big tsunami, but it is hard to say exactly how many waves there were or what happened," McCreery said.
In the hours following an earthquake, tsunamis eventually lose their power to friction over the rough ocean bottom or simply as the waves spread out over the ocean's enormous surface. The international warning system was started in 1965, the year after tsunamis associated with a magnitude 9.2 temblor struck Alaska in 1964. It is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Member states include all the major Pacific rim nations in North America, Asia and South America, was well as the Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand. It also includes France, which has sovereignty over some Pacific islands, and Russia.
However, India and Sri Lanka are not members. "That's because tsunamis are much less frequent in the Indian Ocean," McCreery said. "Unfortunately, we have no equipment here that can warn about tsunamis," said Budi Waluyo, an official with Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. "The instruments are very expensive and we don't have money to buy them." The warning system analyzes earthquake information from several seismic networks, including the U.S. Geological Survey. The seismic information is fed into computer models that "picture" how and where a tsunami might form. It dispatches warnings about imminent tsunami hazards, including predictions how fast the waves are traveling and their expected arrival
times in specific geographic areas.
As the waves rush past tidal stations in the ocean, bulletins updating the tsunami warning are issued. Other models generate "inundation maps" of what areas could be damaged, and what communities might be spared. Not all earthquakes generate tsunamis. The warning center typically does not issue warnings for earthquakes below magnitude 7.0, which are still unusually powerful events.
Associated Press writer Michael Casey contributed to this report.
Copyright 2004 AP
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The Peerless Prognosticator is ON THE AIR!!! -- Game 50: Senators at Capitals, January 21st
The Washington Capitals return home on Tuesday night after a listless three game road trip in which they failed to secure a standings point. The losing streak, which has now reached five games and counting, means that extraordinary measures might have to be taken to change the range, reverse the curse, flip the slip. And no one knows more about such things than retired major league baseball superstar, Pedro Cerrano. Pedro, tanks for stopping by.
“Peerless, my great and good friend. How’r you doing?”
Fine, Pedro, and I hope things are well with you.
“So good. You tell me the Capitals are on a losing streak.”
Right you are my friend, and things are getting desperate. Five losses in a row, dropping in the standings, can’t buy a goal, and when they do score, they seem to get them disallowed for this reason or that.
“You know what problem is, don’t you?”
Well, no…that’s kind of why I asked you to stop by.
“Sticks, they are sick. They cannot make slap shot. Missed shot, blocked shot, they do it very much. Slap shot, sticks are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from sticks. I offer him cigar, rum. Tim Horton’s. He will come.”
You know, I heard that they might think about taking Sidney Crosby as their savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.
“Crosby, I like him very much… Well, no I don’t. No one does. But he no help with slap shot."
You trying to say Sidney Crosby can't make a slap shot?
Cheerless: "Yo, bartender, Jobu needs a refill."
“Ha, very funny. Is very bad to steal Jobu's Tim Horton’s. Is very bad. Maybe problem is what my great and good friend Isuro Tanaka said… ‘they have no mah-bles.’”
Mah-bles? They have no mah-bles?
“You know..mah-bles…huevos.”
Well, if not, they’d better find them, and quick!
The immediate task at hand while the Caps search for their “mah-bles” is to stop the bleeding. And that means taking a bite out of the Ottawa Senators at Verizon Center Tuesday night. It will not be easy. First, Ottawa has won the last six meetings between the clubs. That includes a pair of wins this season, a 6-4 loss to the Senators on the day before Thanksgiving at Verizon Center and a 3-1 loss in Ottawa on December 30th. The Caps have not defeated Ottawa since they took a 5-3 decision in Ottawa on December 7, 2011.
Second, the Senators come into this game on a 6-1-2 run over their last nine games. They have outscored their opponents by a 26-24 margin over that span. The narrow goals scored/goals allowed spread reflects the fact that the Senators played to six one-goal decisions in that span with a record of 4-0-2. In decisions settled by more than one goal Ottawa is 2-1, including the 3-1 win over the Caps on December 30th.
Erik Karlsson is once more doing what he did to win the Norris Trophy as the league’s top defenseman in 2012. His 1-8-9 scoring in the Senators’ recent 6-1-2 run has propelled him to the top of the scoring rankings among NHL defensemen (11-35-46). There is a certain resemblance to another offensive defenseman of yesteryear with whom Caps fans might be familiar. Those 46 points are accompanied by a minus-12 rating (including minus-2 in this recent streak of Ottawa good fortune). On the power play, though, he has been dominant. Karlsson leads all NHL defensemen in overall points (21) and has a wide edge in power play assists (19) over second place Duncan Keith (15) of the Chicago Blackhawks. Karlsson is 2-11-13 in 14 career games against Washington.
On the forward lines, Kyle Turris has been the trigger man of note in the 6-1-2 run for the Senators. With seven goals in those nine games Turris has more than a quarter of the team’s output in that span. And, with those seven goals he has doubled his goal output for the season and established a career high in his seventh season. Turris had a four-game goal scoring streak broken in the Senators’ last game, a 4-1 loss to the New York Rangers (Rangers seem to work well with that score lately). He is 3-2-5 in seven career contests against the Caps.
Here is how the teams compare, numbers-wise...
1. In Ottawa’s recent run of good fortune the power play has not been an especially important part of the success. In their 6-1-2 run the Senators are 4-for-26 with the man advantage (15.4 percent). The penalty kill is another story. In those same nine games Ottawa is 19-for-22 (86.4 percent). They are 6-0-0 in games in which they were perfect in killing penalties, 0-1-2 when they were not.
2. Part of the trick on the penalty kill has been in not having to kill penalties. In their last nine games the Senators have had three instances in which they faced one or no shorthanded situations. On two other occasions they faced only two shorthanded situations.
3. Ottawa has spread things around lately on offense. Fourteen players shared in the goal scoring over these last nine games, 27 goals in all. Nineteen players had points.
4. Only one team – San Jose, with 54 – has scored more first period goals than the 51 scored by the Senators in the opening period. That might be a good thing, except that only Edmonton has allowed more first period goals (53) than the Senators (52) so far this season.
5. Ottawa comes into this game in the middle third of the possession statistics – 15h in Fenwick-for percentage in 5-on-5 close score situations, 11th in Corsi-for percentage . The ranking difference reflects that Ottawa is not your big shot blocking team, the difference between Corsi (which includes blocks) and Fenwick (which does not). The Senators are 27th in blocked shots in the league, last in the league in blocked shots in road games.
1. The Caps have scoring problems in the micro and macro senses when it comes to this game. In the macro sense, the Caps have been held to one goal in six of their last 11 games and have just 22 goals overall in those 11 contests. In the micro sense, the Caps have been held to 11 goals in their six-game losing streak to the Senators. It is a rapid current against which the Caps are swimming upstream.
2. Strange thing, this six-game losing streak to Ottawa. The Caps have only 11 goals in those games, and those came from 10 different players. Only John Carlson has two. Two players – Mathieu Perreault and Mike Ribeiro – are no longer with the club. Twenty different players have recorded points in those six games, Jason Chimera leading with three (all assists). Five of those players are no longer with the club. In addition to Perreault and Ribeiro, there is Alexander Semin, Matt Hendricks, and Wojtek Wolski.
3. The Caps have scored a lone goal in four of their last five games and six of their last 11. They have scored one or fewer goals in 13 of 49 games this season. Last year, that was nine times in 48 games.
4. Playing within the rules has been a challenge for the Caps. Washington has taken more minor penalties (196) than all but five teams. Only three teams have been docked with more penalty minutes per game than the Caps (13.0). Perhaps uncharacteristically, the Caps are tied for fifth in the league in fighting majors (27). Last year, the Caps ranked 28th with only 16 fighting majors, and they were 26th the year before that. The Caps have not ranked in the top-ten since they finished ninth in fighting majors (40) in 2006-2007. That year included Alex Ovechkin’s first fight in the NHL, Buffalo’s Paul Gaustad being his dance partner.
5. For you possession mavens, the game against the Rangers on Sunday featured one – count ‘em, one – Corsi/Fenwick event at 5-on-5 tied situations. Yeah, that game was over early.
Ottawa: Craig Anderson
Goaltender Craig Anderson has had two quite different seasons. In the first, covering 17 appearances through November, Anderson was borderline awful He was 6-8-2, 3.52, .894. It was a far cry from his 1.69 goals against average and .941 save percentage that he posted in 2012-2013. Then the calendar flipped to December. Starting with a solid 30-save performance in a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers on December 3rd, Anderson is 9-2-4 in his last 15 decisions. It is not a case of suddenly finding his form. He has merely gone from that borderline awful to decent. In 16 appearances since the start of December is has a goals against average of 2.86 and a save percentage of .909. He has, however, received 3.20 goals per game in offensive support in his 15 decisions since December 1st. Anderson is 2-0-0 against the Capitals this season (2.50, .927) and is 10-5-1 against Washington for his career (2.43, .923, one shutout).
Washington: Braden Holtby
OK, kid, it’s you’re net again. Or so it would seem. With Michal Neuvirth in good health again and playing reasonably well, with Philipp Grubauer being reassigned to Hershey, and with Holtby looking sharper than he did in weeks in stopping 17 of 18 shots in what was, admittedly, a mop-up operation against the Rangers on Sunday, Holtby can re-assume his place as the number one netminder for the Caps. Until he isn’t. He is going to have to be sharp to help stop the bleeding the Caps have experienced in the standings the last month. It is likely to be a challenge. Holtby is 0-2-0 in two career appearances against the Senators (3.55, .909), one of those losses coming this season when he allowed five goals on 40 shots in a 6-4 loss to the Senators on November 27th.
1. Start better, better start. All those goals scored and allowed by the Senators in the first period of games has made for an unhealthy mix. Ottawa has the fourth worst record in the league when leading after one period (11-5-3). The good thing here is that they do not lead often (19 times in 49 games). On the other hand, they don’t trail much, either (16 times with a 2-10-4 record).
2. Back to basics. When in a hole, stop digging. That means no soft pass in your own zone (Dmitry Orlov, this means you), no high risk through the middle pass through your own zone (pick a defenseman), no odd drop passes, behind the back passes, or any of the other fancy nonsense that leads to 2-on-1 or 3-on-2 rushes the other way.
3. Don’t shoot just to shoot. Craig Anderson has a strange profile in his shots faced outcomes. When facing more than 30 shots he is 12-4-5. When facing 30 or fewer shots, he is 3-6-1. Make him work, but be smart about it. Lobbing grenades from outside is likely to end up being lot of duds. Get pucks in tight, make him fight for saves.
When the Caps took it in the teeth at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, it was reminiscent of their enduring the same fate at Madison Square Garden in the midst of their eight-game losing streak in 2010. In their next game that season they manned up and played the Anaheim Ducks close before dropping a 2-1 overtime decision. Then they played the Bruins tight in Boston, almost coming back from three-goals down in the first period before losing, 3-2. Then they ended their losing streak – against these same Ottawa Senators – and took off on a 6-0-2 run, including a 3-1 win in the 2011 Winter Classic in Pittsburgh.
Things can turn, but sometimes it is slow to come. The team might “play” better before the results manifest themselves in the standings. The Caps had a string of fine possession efforts with nothing to show for it before being jumped by the Rangers on Sunday. It is time to turn that kind of fundamental play into wins.
Capitals 3 – Senators 1
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