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End the resident physician abuse now
Anonymous | Physician | December 21, 2017
Let’s talk about the cycle of abuse. No, I am not referring to the very serious issue of domestic violence. Instead, I am talking about the graduate medical education system. No one is a resident forever: the duration of each residency is predetermined with a wide range of three to nine years. The self-limited nature of this experience decreases the incentive for participants to advocate for changes. And the attitude of the more senior medical practitioners of “I suffered through it in my day, so now it’s your turn” prevails. Residents are expected to swallow the abuses with the assurance that they will be able to inflict the same difficulties on their trainees once they assume positions of higher power.
But what if we took a step back, and decided that this was the generation of trainees that would end the cycle? What would it mean for the doctors and patients of generations to come? There are three changes we can make now that will result in major improvements to the healthcare system, including better, happier physicians.
First, we need to end this back-and-forth with residency duty hours. Since Libby Zion in 1984, the public has made their preference clear: they do not want sleep deprived trainees serving as primary caregivers. And there is evidence to back up their stance: study after study has demonstrated poorer cognitive function among physicians after sleep deprivation. In one example, Effects of Acute Sleep Deprivation Resulting from Night Shift Work on Young Doctors, a sleep-deprived group (which had a minimum of 12 hours of night work per week) was compared to a group that did not work any night shifts. The sleep-deprived group had poorer concentration, longer response time to simple stimuli and, unsurprisingly, higher daytime sleepiness. Do all sleep-deprived residents make errors that cause serious morbidity or mortality as a result of their fatigue? Absolutely not. But why accept the risk? In the current world we inhabit, truck drivers are mandated to have shorter shifts and more rest between shifts than residents. We will not stand for sleepy truck drivers, but sleepy doctors-in-training are OK?
Admittedly, there are certain specialties or subspecialties where such duty hour restrictions do not reflect the reality of a lifestyle of an attending in that specialty. Certain surgical specialties, particularly neurosurgeons, can have cases that go longer than 16 hours and might be the only subspecialist on-call for weeks at a time. Under such circumstances, it makes sense for trainees to be able to complete longer cases and learn to work when fatigued. Yes, you would rather a well-rested neurosurgeon than a fatigued neurosurgeon, but I am guessing you would rather a fatigued neurosurgeon over no neurosurgeon at all. Thus, I would allow certain training programs to apply for exemptions for their more experienced trainees. Anyone going into this field would be fully aware of the lifestyle implications. Presumably, there is (and would continue to be) some self-selection of those going into such fields of individuals who are less bothered by sleep deprivation.
Most debates about resident duty hour restrictions assume that by restricting duty hours, residents will necessarily see fewer patients and get less training. Accordingly, newly graduated residents would be less competent than their predecessors who put in more hours during their training. I will not deny this argument. But there is a way around it: a switch for residencies to a competency-based education system.
Currently, the requirements to complete a residency are set by the ACGME or medical specialty and consist of a certain number of weeks or months spent rotating through specific fields, such as inpatient, outpatient, ICU, etc. In some specialties, such as emergency medicine and certain surgical areas, programs elect to extend these requirements over a longer period (three versus four years for emergency medicine, for example). In contrast, under a competency-based system, those who have mastered the required skills become eligible for graduation, and those who need more practice continue as residents. A change to a competency-based system across residencies would make training standards more universal.
This is more than just a theoretical proposal. Some pediatric programs are piloting a competency-based medical education, which includes medical school and residency. The project, Education in Pediatrics Across the Continuum (EPAC), is still in its infancy, but it would allow residents to proceed at a pace that works best for their educational needs. It would also mean that residency programs would have to be more flexible about duration of residency and when residents might be promoted from junior to more senior. I hope that this study will set a precedent for competency-based medical education in pediatrics, and other specialties can follow suit.
Hospitals rely on having a certain number of residents to take care of their patients. Thus, having a competency-based medical education system with different residents taking different amounts of time to complete their training would certainly complicate house-staff coverage in hospitals. But chances are that even with the competency-based system, the average duration of residency would not change (those who take longer to complete residency would balance out those who complete the requirements in a shorter amount of time). And even if the average resident takes less time to achieve their competencies than expected, there is another solution: more residents. Today, we have the same number of Medicare-funded residency positions as we did twenty years ago. In 1997, Congress capped the number of physicians it would fund, and although various bills have been introduced to increase this cap, none have been passed. This is despite the impending physician shortage, which has been predicted to reach 100,000 or more by the year 2030. We need more doctors, and because it can take a decade or more for someone to complete medical school and residency, Congress must act now to increase the residency training spots.
By increasing the number of residents in training at any given time, we can limit duty hours and move to a competency-based education without any adverse effects on training quality or patient care. We can wait for more patients to be harmed, more residents to struggle with burnout and a worsening physician shortage. Or we can act.
The author is an anonymous physician.
Tagged as: Psychiatry, Residency
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The three-DVD package spans the years 1981-2013. It features more than four hours of newly restored music videos and over two hours of new audio commentary on specific individual clips, recorded by members of Depeche Mode especially for this release.
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Depeche Mode's Video Singles Collection, the Iconic Group's First-Ever Career-Spanning Anthology of Groundbreaking Music Films, to be Released by SONY Music Entertainment on November 18.
Definitive Depeche Mode Video Library Presents the Group's Original Music Video Singles--from 1981 to 2013--in a 3DVD DigiPak.
Depeche Mode's Video Singles Collection -- the definitive 3DVD library anthology containing more than four hours of the post-punk pioneers' groundbreaking music videos (and two-plus hours of audio commentary) -- will be released by SONY Music Entertainment on November 18, 2016.
Video Singles Collection is the first official Depeche Mode archival title to be released under the SONY imprimatur since SME acquired rights to the DM catalog in July 2015.
"We're pleased and honored to be releasing Depeche Mode's Video Singles Collection, an essential addition to the band's recently licensed catalog documenting their lasting contributions to music video history," said Richard Story, President Commercial Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment.
The 3DVD set presents more than three decades worth of Depeche Mode's international hit singles as lensed for the group's mind-blowing progression of innovative and provocative music videos directed by a who's who of cinematic visionaries including Julien Temple, Anton Corbijn, D.A. Pennebaker, John Hillcoat and others.
Throughout Depeche Mode's career, the group has placed an essential emphasis on the quality of their videos, collaborating with world-class directors and crews on some of the most influential and powerful short films in music video history."
Videos have always played an essential part in how we wanted to present Depeche Mode's music to the world," agreed the members of the band. "It's been amazing to go back and relive all the experiences and memories these videos evoke after all these years. It's incredible to have all our videos finally together in one place and we're hoping our fans enjoy this journey through time as much as we did."
Video Singles Collection is the first in a series of band-approved retrospective projects examining Depeche Mode's extraordinary career and effect on pop culture and marks the first time that DM's video singles--from 1981 to 2013--have been compiled together in a single anthology.
The set includes 55 newly restored versions of the essential video singles in the DM canon in addition to four rare alternate videos and new commentary on specific individual clips, recorded by members of Depeche Mode especially for this release.
Our Overview.
In a statement, the band said: “Videos have always played an essential part in how we wanted to present Depeche Mode’s music to the world. It’s been amazing to go back and relive all the experiences and memories these videos evoke after all these years. It’s incredible to have all our videos finally together in one place and we’re hoping our fans enjoy this journey through time as much as we did.”
Packed full of treats, including audio commentary for some of the clips from band members Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher we are certainly looking forward to it.
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Escaped psychiatric patient had fascination with ISIS, wanted to blow up building
Anthony Garver was recaptured in April
<div id="prtlt"> <p>FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Lakewood Police Department shows Anthony Garver. Garver escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital on April 6, 2016, where he was held after being found too mentally ill to face charges that he tortured a woman to death. Newly released police reports reveal Garver had threatened to kill a federal judge and prosecutor. Detectives also learned he had a fascination with the Islamic State terrorist group. (Lakewood Police Department via AP, File)</p></div> <p> </p>
SEATTLE (AP) — A patient accused of torturing a woman to death before escaping from a troubled Washington state psychiatric hospital earlier this year also had a fascination with the Islamic State group and planned to blow up a state building, newly released documents revealed.
Detectives who investigated Anthony Garver's escape from Western State Hospital south of Seattle also found that he had threatened to kill a federal judge and previously was caught with bomb-making materials.
Despite an extensive criminal history and a pattern of evading authorities, Garver lived in a ground-floor room, where he spent five months loosening his window frame before escaping through it April 6 with another violent patient.
It took almost two hours for hospital officials to report the escape to Lakewood police — a delay that concerned officers and detectives working the case, according to police reports acquired by The Associated Press.
Garver's head-start allowed him to hop a bus across the state to Spokane, where he used self-described survivalist skills to hide from authorities for two days. He was finally caught hiding in the woods near his mother's home — the same area where he was found with dozens of rounds of assault-rifle ammunition in 2006.
The other patient was found in a nearby city the next day.
The high-profile escape of two dangerous patients came at a time when the 800-bed hospital already faced federal scrutiny over safety violations and struggled with high rates of patient assaults. The agency that oversees the state's mental health system also has been the target of lawsuits over failing to provide timely competency services for mentally ill people charged with crimes.
The state has accrued about $1.5 million in fines by state judges, who held the agency in contempt of court for failing to conduct mental health evaluations in a hospital or treatment that could allow a defendant to stand trial. A federal judge followed suit last week and ordered additional fines of $500 to $1,000 per day for each patient who is forced to wait more than a week for services.
The Department of Social and Health Services didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the way the hospital handled the escapes. The head of the agency released a statement Monday saying it was disappointed with the recent contempt order and believes it has made significant improvements.
Garver, 28, was released last week from a federal detention center, where he was undergoing a mental competency evaluation, the Bureau of Prisons website said. It was not clear where he was now, but a federal hearing on his evaluation is set for Aug. 11 in Spokane.
After his escape, police discovered that Garver was a serious public safety threat.
"Garver was reported to be 'very smart,' and had tried to learn Arabic in the past, as he had a fascination with ISIS," Officer Ken Devaney wrote in a report. "He had disclosed wanting to live in the woods, and having a 'survivalist' nature."
The federal government had a warrant for Garver "because of a charge for threatening to blow up a state building and threatening to kill a federal judge and prosecutor," Devaney said. And during a previous arrest, Garver "had bomb making materials in his possession."
The documents don't reveal his targets but give more details about the escape. Garver's psychologist, Dr. Mallory McBride, said Garver's roommate knew about the plan.
"Dr. McBride thinks that over the past five months, Garver slowly worked the window open until he could jump out," Devaney said. "This theory was confirmed when that same patient said he felt a draft in the room and the draft got stronger in the past few weeks."
Devaney asked the doctor how the staff failed to realize the window was loose.
"Dr. McBride said you wouldn't be able to tell unless you physically check the window, which staff doesn't," Devaney wrote.
The documents also reveal more about Garver's criminal history.
In 2006, he was charged with possessing 100 rounds of ammunition, which was illegal because he had been in a psychiatric institution. Spokane County officials found the rounds after responding to a call by Garver's mother, who said her son threatened to kill their family and a neighbor.
Two days before his 2007 sentencing, officials found "disturbing writings" in his jail cell, prosecutors said. The notes detailed "plans for several bank robberies, two carjackings and murders, burglary, theft of firearms and shoplifting," court records said.
His cellmate reported Garver said he planned to kill the judge handling his case, the prosecutor and others.
Garver got out in 2009 but violated the terms of his supervised release by stealing a vehicle and hiding in the woods. He was found after a manhunt and jailed again. When freed in 2010, he drove to Montana and led police on a high-speed chase.
He was sentenced to a year in prison in 2011. Two years later, he befriended Phillipa Evans-Lopez.
Garver tied her hands and feet "to the four corners of her bed, gagged her with a bail of cloth, covered her face with additional cloth, stabbed her 24 times in the chest and slashed her throat," according to a probable cause affidavit.
When he failed a competency evaluation, he was sent to Western State Hospital to receive treatment. When that didn't work, the state dropped a murder charge and ordered him held as a threat to himself or others.
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South Texas nonprofits to be reimbursed $1.6M for migrant humanitarian aid
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Congress appropriat $30 for reimbursements
by: Sandra Sanchez
Posted: Oct 11, 2019 / 05:31 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 11, 2019 / 05:47 PM MDT
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — After years of trying to get millions in reimbursement funds for nonprofits and municipalities that have assisted migrants since 2014 in South Texas, Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar on Thursday announced that some federal funds are being issued to South Texas and San Antonio.
But it’s not nearly what he had hoped for, at least not yet, he said.
In South Texas, the national board of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program will distribute a little over $700,000 to nonprofits in Hidalgo County, which has been at the epicenter of a migrant surge since 2014. This includes $601,559 to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley; $108,000 to the Salvation Army Corp Center; and $2,600 to the United Way of South Texas.
Cameron County nonprofits, including those in the Brownsville area, received $428,764, while the City of Brownsville received $197,309. Nonprofits in Laredo will get $304,700.
Notably missing from the list is the City of McAllen, which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help migrants over the years.
San Antonio will receive $716,000.
Altogether, EFSP announced it will reimburse $7.8 million nationwide to nonprofits that applied. In an Oct. 10 memo, the board indicated it expects to award $21.6 million in the second round of distributions. And it said Nov. 1 is the deadline for organizations to fix application errors and resubmit.
In all, Congress appropriated $30 million for the EFSP national board to give out nationwide. The application for these funds only applies to costs incurred since Jan. 1.
“This second application period will provide additional time for agencies to engage with the EFSP National Board staff and to receive additional technical assistance in developing an application,” the memo said.
Cuellar, who is vice chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, has been working since 2014 to get federal reimbursement funds back to the communities in South Texas that have been helping migrants. But despite money appropriated by Congress several times, amounting to $100 million sent to the state of Texas, very few funds have found their way back to help cities, counties and nonprofits.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar stands inside the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, on July 17, 2019, which is run by Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. The nonprofit recently was selected to receive over $600,000 in federal reimbursement funds for helping migrants. (Border Report File Photo/Sandra Sanchez).
In August, Cuellar announced that a new distribution system was being implemented and a national board formed to help screen nonprofits and ensure the funds reach them. Read a story on the new system here.
“Even though the EFSP National Board has not awarded the full $30 million that was appropriated in the FY19 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill, this is an important step to compensating the communities that have been on the front lines in providing humanitarian services to migrants at our southern border. It is critical that the EFSP National Board proceeds with awarding reimbursements to local entities and remains transparent in the application process,” Cuellar said.
“I will continue to work with both the National Board as well as local governments and organizations to ensure our communities are all properly reimbursed for their work. I encourage local stakeholders to contact my office for questions or concerns regarding the second application process. I want to thank the local entities who remain committed to providing humanitarian assistance,” Cuellar said.
Other areas that received significant amounts of funds from this first-round of disbursements included: Maricopa County, Arizona; Yuma County, Arizona; Riverside County, California; San Diego County, California; Las Cruces, N.M., and Cumberland County, Maine, which received $864,000.
Maine has been the relocation site for many Congolese migrants coming from Africa, many of whom entered through the Del Rio area of Texas and migrated via San Antonio to the Northeast.
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LEGO to launch International Space Station set
by Nicholas Erebia / Jan 21, 2020
(WIAT) --- LEGO is shooting for the stars with a new, out-of-this-world model. The company announced that they will be launching an International Space Station (ISS) set on Feb. 1. Most of us Earth-dwellers won't get a chance to see the ISS in real-life, but this building experience isn't too far out of reach.
The set is to be part of the 10-year celebration of the LEGO Ideas program, an initiative that allows fans to submit their ideas to LEGO with hopes of their designs being more than just that. Oh, and the creators of the designs will also receive a share of the profits made from the set.
Sailor surprises daughter at school after 10 months apart
SULLIVAN, Ind. (WTWO/WAW) -- Throughout his 20 years of service with the United States Navy, Chief Petty Officer Andrew Yoakum has been through many deployments. But, the most recent one proved to be especially hard for his family back home.
Yoakum was deployed to the Middle East on April 1, 2019.
Albuquerque woman meets State Police officer who saved her life 45 years ago
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Special school minibus hit with parking fine while kids were out singing
Broadfield Special School given Blackburn town centre parking fine
By Neil Athey @NeilAtheyJourno News Reporter
A SCHOOL for children with learning disabilities was slapped with a parking fine while its pupils were out choir singing in Blackburn town centre.
Teachers from Broadfield Specialist School in Oswaldtwistle were upset when they returned to their minibus in Church Street to see a £50 fine sticker on the front window on Monday.
A group of its pupils had been singing in Blackburn Market and Lloyds Bank to help raise charitable funds in the early afternoon.
Beverley Bury, of the schools extended services team, said she had returned to the minibus to collect something when she saw the ticket.
Mrs Bury, who was driving the minibus, said the school’s disability pass had ran out on Friday, but believed it had been renewed and was eligible for use.
She said: “I was terribly upset when I came back to the bus to find the sticker.
“We’d been out trying to do a nice thing and raise some money and we’ve come back to this.
“We were aware the pass ran out on Friday, but it should have been renewed as usual and we should have been able to use it.
“Lots of people around us became very angry when they saw the fine, I don’t think it’s gone down well.”
The Fielding Lane school caters for students with generic learning difficulties aged 11 to 19.
One man who alerted the Lancashire Telegraph to the parking fine, said: “The children were singing beautifully and were doing a great job.
“I can’t believe they have been given a fine. It’s not fair at all on the school.”
On Blackburn with Darwen Council’s website page regarding parking fines, it says: “If you receive a penalty charge notice it will cost either £50 or £70 dependent upon the offence.
“If you pay the penalty within 14 days a discount of 50 per cent applies."
Martin Eden, director of environment and operations, said: “The penalty charge notice was issued for an out of date disabled badge and was therefore issued in the correct manner, however having investigated this it became apparent that the badge was in the process of being renewed, and as the badge is assigned to an establishment and not an individual we have taken the decision to cancel the charge.”
In April this year the school was left to pick up the pieces after its minibus was vandalised.
Thieves stole parts and a planned trip to Southport the following day was cancelled.
However Evans Halshaw Ford in Blackburn came forward and offered the school a replacement minibus free of charge while they got back on their feet.
The school was also targeted by thieves in February 2017 after an £18,000 Ford Transit was stolen from the school grounds.
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UC Riverside Stuns Richmond, 10-8
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Brian Walbrink’s two-run home run put UC Riverside ahead to stay in the top of the eighth inning, and the third-seeded Highlanders withstood a four-run rally in the bottom of the ninth to upset Richmond, the nation’s No. 17-ranked team, 10-8, in the first round of an NCAA baseball regional at Stanford on Friday.
Scott Powis drove in four runs for the Highlanders (41-15), who overcame an early 4-0 deficit, scoring single runs in the fifth and sixth innings, three in the eighth and five in the ninth.
Chad Decker (4-0) pitched a season-high 4 2/3 innings in relief and got the win. Brian Hoff got the final three outs in the ninth, when the Spiders scored four times to cut a 10-4 deficit to 10-8.
Jason Collette also homered for UC Riverside, which has won four in a row and nine of 12.
All-American pitcher Tim Stauffer (9-5), who had given up one earned run in his previous 21 innings, took the loss for Richmond (46-14). He gave up five runs and a season-high 11 hits in eight innings. He struck out 11, giving him a school-record 146 for the season.
Riverside starter Jaymie Torres gave up four runs and nine hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked one with no strikeouts.
Riverside, which finished third in the Big West, today will play Stanford, which defeated Illinois-Chicago, 9-2. Richmond, the Atlantic-10 tournament winner, plays Illinois-Chicago.
The Highlanders’ comeback began in the fifth, when Powis scored on a throwing error. He hit a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
Collette led off the eighth with his fifth home run of the season. After Brian Emmons reached on an error, Walbrink hit a towering drive over the left-field fence for his team-leading 12th home run and a 5-4 lead.
Riverside added five runs in the ninth, including Powis’ bases-loaded triple.
Jim Fasano’s two-run homer powered Richmond’s rally in the ninth.
Finding peace and harmony at the ‘End of the Earth’
A Spanish town plays host to religious pilgrims, but to some they are ‘hippies’ and ‘troublemakers’
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Sober-living business is taking city to court
By Bradley Zint
A Costa Mesa sober-living operator is challenging the City Council’s decision that banned the company from hosting group-counseling sessions within a Westside building it rents.
Solid Landings Behavioral Health and two of its subsidiaries filed a writ of mandate in Orange County Superior Court on Friday, contending that they didn’t have a fair trial when the city denied their request in July to host the sessions at 657 W. 19th St., a 6,710-square-foot office building across from the California Department of Motor Vehicles office.
The council contended that the building didn’t have enough parking for the group sessions.
Solid Landings argued that it didn’t need the number of spaces the city was requiring because its clients arrive in vans, not their own cars.
In court documents, John Peterson, Solid Landings’ attorney, said the city relied on “unsupported, hearsay statements” and “unsupported testimony lacking foundation with respect to alleged building and code violations.”
Solid Landings is asking the court to overturn the council’s denial and reinstate a city zoning administrator’s decision that permitted the counseling sessions.
“We have briefed the City Council on this lawsuit, and we will be taking the appropriate actions to protect the interests of the city,” Costa Mesa CEO Tom Hatch said.
Costa Mesa resident Ann Parker is also named in the case.
Parker, a critic of the sober-living industry’s influx in Costa Mesa, paid $690 for a review of the administrator’s decision in April, about a week after it was reached.
Her request brought the topic to the Planning Commission in June, which then overturned the administrator’s approval.
Solid Landings then took its next available recourse by bringing the matter to the council, which upheld the commission’s earlier denial.
Parker, at the advice of an attorney, declined to comment Wednesday.
In September, city officials said they were considering taking their own legal action against Solid Landings, which reportedly has continued having group-counseling sessions at 657 W. 19th in defiance of the council’s decision. The company has received three citations as a result.
Solid Landings sued the city in an unrelated matter in November, alleging that an ordinance regulating sober-living homes was discriminatory. A federal judge twice has dismissed it.
The case is now pending on appeal.
Solid Landings operates between 20 and 30 sober-living facilities throughout Costa Mesa, according to city staff estimates earlier this year.
Bradley Zint
Bradley Zint left Times Community News in 2018. He was a general assignment reporter for the Daily Pilot, where he worked since 2010. At the Pilot, he also was a copy editor, classical music columnist and reporter covering Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. He previously worked in Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Alaska and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, where he served as editor-in-chief of its campus newspaper, the Daily 49er.
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Recent Overview
In five seasons, Leicester City's Development Squad have enjoyed plenty of success, having won the Professional Development League 2 in 2012/13 before going on to lift the Hong Kong Soccer Sevens title later that summer.
As part of the 2013/14 Under-21 Premier League, a blistering end to the season saw Beaglehole's Foxes finish sixth and secure a spot in the first-ever Premier League International Cup the follow year.
That pitted them against the likes of Benfica and Schalke during a run to the Semi-Finals, when they were beaten in extra-time by eventual winners Manchester City.
The Foxes also achieved a top-six finish in the 2014/15 season and, with the introduction of promotion and relegation, once again maintained their elite status in 2015/16, which was a feat they would repeat the following year too - thanks to a 4-1 last day victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
In May 2016, coached by Ben Petty, the Development Squad lifted their second Hong Kong Soccer Sevens title. During the 2017/18 season, memorable victories - including a 6-1 triumph over Spurs - highlighted the progress being made as they finished third in Division 1. City's youngsters also reached the Semi-Finals of the Premier League Cup and the Hong Kong Soccer Sevens.
In the 2018/19 campaign, meanwhile, the Club's Under-23s finished 10th in Division 1, reached the quarter-finals and the Round of 16 of the Premier League International Cup and Premier League Cup respectively, while also exiting the EFL Trophy in the group stage.
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The performance of India’s public sector enterprises leaves much to be desired. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint
The perils of a larger public sector
4 min read . Updated: 15 Jun 2017, 08:26 AM IST Rohan Chinchwadkar
The government's plan to empower public sector enterprises to take over stressed assets is a dangerous one
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As the Narendra Modi government completes three years in office, there is a lot of debate on its achievements and shortcomings. While supporters point to macroeconomic stability, foreign direct investment inflows and infrastructure building, critics talk about tepid job creation, intolerance and centralization of power. However, there is unanimous agreement on both sides of the aisle about a key challenge for the Indian economy: stressed assets in the banking sector. Stressed assets on the books of Indian banks are now higher than the net worth of the entire banking sector, according to a recently released McKinsey & Co. report, “Mastering New Realities: A Blueprint To Transform Indian Banking".
One of the contributing factors in this crisis is the inability of private asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) to play a meaningful role, in spite of enabling regulations and support from the central bank. While lawyers attribute the dismal performance of ARCs to a barrage of legal issues, bankers point to one crucial factor: inadequate capital due to lack of interest among private investors.
To address this “buy-side" problem, there has been intense discussion around one solution: the bad bank. Proponents of this solution point to the success of bad banks in China. In 1999, China set up four centrally controlled asset management companies, or bad banks, to swallow toxic assets from banks. Today, China’s bad banks are “thriving as alternative lenders, evolving from bad-debt managers into some of the country’s largest financial conglomerates", according to the Financial Times.
The hope was that India too would create a bad bank, which would centralize the sale of stressed assets and lead to a quick resolution. However, that seems less likely now. NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya recently tweeted, “No plan to create bad bank to resolve NPAs." As I have previously pointed out (https://goo.gl/FknK61), several political economy factors make the bad bank an unattractive solution for the government. So, what is the government’s plan?
According to recent reports, the government is planning to provide operational flexibility to central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) to take over stressed assets and turn them around. To facilitate the takeover of stalled projects, the cabinet secretariat will coordinate between various CPSEs under different administrative ministries and banks. While this would help unburden the banking sector quickly, it may not be an effective solution, given the state of India’s public sector.
The performance of India’s public sector leaves much to be desired. Between 2009 and 2016, the market value of the Maharatna companies—so-called “crown jewels" of the public sector—declined by 33% at a time when the Nifty index grew by 9%. Between 2010 and 2014, the market value of private sector banks rose by about $30 billion, while the market value of public sector banks (PSBs) fell by about $30 billion. Today, more than 80% of stressed assets in the banking sector are concentrated with PSBs. According to the latest Public Enterprises Survey, the market value of 46 CPSEs decreased by 16.6% in the financial year 2015-16.
In spite of this, the public sector still occupies a large space in the Indian economy. As of 31 May 2017, a mere 88 listed PSEs constituted more than 20% of total market capitalization on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which has more than 5,000 companies listed on it. The most extreme example is that of PSBs, which own 70% of India’s banking assets as compared to an emerging market average of 33%.
If all major upstream and downstream public sector energy firms in India are integrated, the combined entity will have a market capitalization of close to $100 billion and will be India’s most valued firm by a huge margin. Thus, any initiative which proposes to increase the size of India’s public sector should be discouraged.
The takeover of stressed assets by CPSEs also contradicts one of the core principles of Modinomics—Modi’s economic philosophy. Modinomics initially focused on three Ds: democracy, demand and demographic dividend. In 2015, Modi added a fourth D—deregularization—which is about reducing the government’s footprint in business.
In an interactive session at Facebook headquarters, Modi had said, “I am trying to free everything from the government’s control." Modi has also said in the past that the government has no business being in business. The proposed solution will achieve exactly the opposite. Transferring stressed assets from PSBs to CPSEs will neither be efficient nor effective, since the burden will remain on the government and taxpayers. Also, the turnaround of stressed assets will be attempted by CPSE managers instead of turnaround specialists from the private sector.
Instead, the government should revisit the idea of setting up a bad bank, transferring stressed assets to its balance sheet at fair valuations and then securitizing the assets to distribute risk among a diverse group of investors. On 11 June, finance minister Arun Jaitley kept the conversation alive by saying that the finance ministry was still debating the creation of a bad bank. Whether the government sets up a bad bank or not, one thing is clear: India needs a smaller public sector, not larger.
Rohan Chinchwadkar is an assistant professor of finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Trichy.
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Liverpool planners and housing trust resolve dispute over £1m hanging in the balance
A STAND-OFF between council planners and a Liverpool housing association that could have seen £1m of funding for affordable homes lost to the city was resolved.
Marc Waddington
Liverpool Housing Trust (LHT) wanted to build around 20 homes in the County ward in Walton but the planning department recommended it be refused because the houses were to be built “the wrong way round”.
They said having the houses’ back gardens back on to Church Road would leave them vulnerable to crime, but LHT said the costs of redesign would be too great. Under the conditions of a £1m grant given by the Homes and Communities Agency the work had to begin on site by the beginning of March or the cash would be lost, although planning permission has still not been granted with just over a month to go.
But now a compromise has been reached and the bid is now likely to be recommended for approval.
A council spokesman said: “The application for this development was deferred by the planning committee due to concerns over the design.
“The council is conscious of the need for LHT to get on site as soon as possible so they do not lose the funding and our planners have been working with them on a revised scheme.
“It will be considered by a special planning committee meeting at the beginning of February.”
The application is to demolish the former Job Centre close to the junction of City Road and Church Road, and build 22 units for sale as affordable housing.
But the officers report warned: “The development would have a poor relationship with City Road where the scheme would fail to relate well to the street and to existing buildings.
“In this instance the scheme works against the grain of the area along City Road presenting a long stretch of bland fencing along the City Road frontage and houses that would rear face the street.”
But following a meeting between planners and LHT, all issues are understood to be resolved.
Jane Holley, of LHT, said: “This was a very positive meeting and amendments to the plans for City Road were agreed which we understand will enable planning officers to forward a positive report.
“We are delighted with the positive outcome of these discussions and sincerely hope that the committee will approve the application enabling LHT to take up the £1,236,000 worth of grant funding from the HCA.”
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The thing that keeps us going is we are able to see the kids benefit from all the work we do
As city charity KIND celebrates its 30th anniversary, ECHO writer Tony Barrett talks to Stephen Yip about its legacy
STEPHEN Yip has mixed feelings as the children's charity he set up, runs and fundraises for gears up for its 30th birthday celebrations.
On the one hand, he is overwhelmed by a huge feeling of pride. Pride that KIND has lasted this long. Pride that it is still going strong and still highly respected in the Merseyside communities it serves. And pride that it has had such a positive effect on so many youngsters lives.
But he recognises that, in an ideal world, KIND would not even exist because there would be no need for charities to try and bridge the gap between poverty and aspiration.
"If I could have just one 30th birthday wish," he says "it would be that what we do is no longer needed; that every child gets a week or two away every year, that every child wakes up on Christmas morning with nice presents to open and a nice meal to look forward to, and that every child can look forward in life with dreams of what is possible for them to achieve and not fears about what they might miss out on.
"The truth is that this doesn't happen anywhere near enough and while this remains the case it is vital that organisations like KIND continue with their work."
But fundraising has become tougher, a fact Stephen is acutely aware of. "Because we are not new and not 'sexy' it becomes harder to bring money in," he admits.
"The thing that keeps us going is we are able to see the kids benefit from what we do."
When Stephen launched KIND in December 1975 he didn't for one moment think it would turn into a full-time job, never mind a cause which would would dominate his entire life for the next three decades.
Since then KIND has raised millions of pounds for tens of thousands of needy youngsters and their families.
But surely there must be the odd day when, like the rest of us, Stephen wishes someone else could fight the good fight while he takes a rest?
"No, not really," he insists. "There have been times when things have been a bit difficult but you just have to struggle through.
"The way I look at it - and I know the rest of the team have exactly the same attitude - is that I couldn't live with myself if, on Christmas Day, all kinds of kids were waking up with nothing to look forward to and I hadn't done anything to help them."
KIND also operates a year-round environmental educational establishment in Back Canning Street where youngsters from schools in some of Liverpool's most deprived areas are welcomed and supported.
Now, to celebrate the charity's 30th birthday, Stephen is organising a gala variety show.
Les Dennis, a long-time supporter of KIND, has already agreed to appear, as have comedienne Pauline Daniels and former Brookside star Eithne Browne.
It is an event which Stephen is greatly looking forward to, not least because it will take him out of the spotlight for a short time.
But if anyone believes for one moment it will be the cue for Stephen to put his feet up and enjoy a well earned rest they are sadly mistaken.
"No doubt I'll be rattling a collection bucket or two by the end of the night," he admits. "I started doing this when I was 23 and I'm in my 50s now so I don't know what else I'd do if I was ever to stop."
My KIND holiday
MICHAEL* was given the KIND treatment as a 10-year-old when he was taken on holiday for the only time during his childhood.
He was born into a single-parent family living in Toxteth. Michael's mother didn't have the money to take her only child on summer breaks.
But, just before his 10th birthday, Michael's mum was put in touch with KIND by a friend.
Michael recalls: "Mum came in and told me I would be going on holiday to Scotland for a week and I was made up. The furthest I'd ever been before then was to North Wales on a day out with the school. Going all the way to Scotland was a big adventure.
"I went with a load of other kids and even though I didn't know any of them at first, we soon got to know each other and we had a great time.
"We went on long walks in the countryside, on a day trip to Edinburgh and played loads of football and other games.
"It's something I've never forgotten and I'm still friends with a few of the lads I went away with.
"I was always well looked after by my mum, but it certainly opened my eyes to the world and taught me how caring people can be." * His name has been changed
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Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African 'City of the Dead'
By Charles Q. Choi 2018-04-11T11:11:00Z
This Ataqeloula stele was discovered in November 2017 at the Sedeinga necropolis, which commemorates a woman from Sedeinga high society and prestigious members of her family.
(Image: © © Vincent Francigny/Sedeinga archaeological mission)
A huge cache of stone inscriptions from one of Africa's oldest written languages have been unearthed in a vast "city of the dead" in Sudan.
The inscriptions are written in the obscure 'Meroitic' language, the oldest known written language south of the Sahara, which has been only partly deciphered.
The discovery includes temple art of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of order, equity and peace, that was, for the first time, depicted with African features. [In Photos: Beautiful Pyramids of Sudan]
Ancient civilization of Meroe
Scientists investigated the archaeological site of Sedeinga, located on the western shore of the Nile River in Sudan, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the river's third "cataract," or set of shallows.
The Meroitic inscriptions were found during excavations in late 2017 in what is today Sudan. An aerial photo of the dig site is shown here. (Image credit: © Vincent Francigny/Sedeinga archaeological mission)
Archaeologists first heard of the site from the tales of 19th-century travelers, who described the remains of the Egyptian temple of Queen Tiye, the chief wife of Amenhotep III and one of the most illustrious queens of ancient Egypt, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Amenhotep III's reign from about 1390 B.C. to 1353 B.C. marked the zenith of ancient Egyptian civilization — in both political power and cultural achievement, according to the BBC.
The sandy area was once part of ancient Nubia, known for rich deposits of gold. Nubia hosted some of Africa's earliest kingdoms, and a few even ruled Egypt as pharaohs, according to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
The site of Sedeinga is home to a large necropolis, known as the "city of the dead," stretching more than 60 acres (25 hectares). It holds the vestiges of at least 80 brick pyramids and more than 100 tombs from the kingdoms of Napata and Meroe, which lasted from the seventh century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. These kingdoms mixed the cultures of Egypt and the rest of Africa in ways still seen in Sudan today, researchers said.
Napata and Meroe formed a civilization known as the kingdom of Kush by their ancient Egyptian neighbors. Meroitic, the language of Meroe, borrowed written characters from ancient Egyptian. [Photos: Royal Nubian Statue With Egyptian Hieroglyphics]
"The Meroitic writing system, the oldest of the sub-Saharan region, still mostly resists our understanding," Vincent Francigny, an archaeologist at the French Archaeological Unit Sudan Antiquities Service, and co-director of the Sedeinga excavation, told Live Science. "While funerary texts, with very few variations, are quite well-known and can be almost completely translated, other categories of texts often remain obscure. In this context, every new text matters, as they can shed light on something new."
Huge cache of inscriptions
Now, the scientists revealed they have unearthed the largest collection of Meroitic texts yet. The inscriptions are funerary in nature.
"Every text tells a story — the name of the deceased and both parents, with their occupations sometime; their career in the administration of the kingdom, including place names; their relation to extended family with prestigious titles," Francigny said.
From these inscriptions, "we can, for example, locate new places, or guess their possible locations, or learn about the structure of the religious and royal administration in the provinces of the kingdom," Francigny said. The texts "also tell us what kind of town or settlement was connected to the cemetery we are excavating," he said.
Based on evidence from texts, the site's context, and numerous imported goods found in the graves there, the researchers think Sedeinga was a key place for commercial roads that avoided the meandering and the cataracts of the Nile to the north "to go straight to Egypt through desert roads," Francigny said. "The town would have developed and become wealthy around this activity."
The researchers also discovered numerous samples of decorated sandstone, including chapel art depicting the Egyptian goddess Maat with Nubian features.
"Meroe was a kingdom where, among others, some Egyptian cultural and religious concepts were borrowed and adapted to local traditions," Francigny said. "We should not see Meroe as a passive recipient for foreign influences — instead, Meroites were very selective about what they could borrow to serve the purpose of the royal family and the development of their pharaonic, but non-Egyptian, society."
High-ranking women
The scientists noted that a number of artifacts at Sedeinga were dedicated to high-ranking women. For instance, one stele — an upright decorated slab of stone — in the name of a Lady Maliwarase described her as the sister of two grand priests of Amon, and as having a son who held the position of governor of Faras, a large city bordering the second cataract of the Nile. In addition, a tomb inscription described a Lady Adatalabe, who hailed from an illustrious lineage that included a royal prince.
In Nubia, a matrilineal society, the tracing of one's descent through the female line was "an important aspect in royal family lineages," Francigny said. For instance, "at Meroe, with the figure of the 'candace,' a sort a queen mother, women could, in the royal context, play an important role and be associated with the exercise of power. It is unclear if, at a lower level, women could also play key roles in the administration of the kingdom and the religious sphere."
Intriguingly, on several occasions at archaeological sites related to the kingdom of Meroe, the scientists noted that Meroites were sometimes fascinated with random items with unusual shapes.
"For example, near temples where only priests could enter, it is not unusual to find places made for popular offerings; these offerings were sometime made of oddly shaped natural stones that seemed supernatural because their shapes look like religious symbols or anatomical parts of the human body," Francigny said. "We even found some inside of the most sacred room, the 'naos,' of some Meroitic temples, near the statues of the gods."
In the future, the researchers hope to locate graves dating back to the earliest stages of the site, "during Egyptian colonization," Francigny said. "Unfortunately, in this region the Nile moves toward the east," and so slowly eats away at the excavation site, "which means that there is likely a chance that the settlement that was close to the river was completely destroyed," he said.
Original article on Live Science.
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Appian, War against Hannibal 5
Appian of Alexandria (c.95-c.165): one of the most underestimated of all Greek historians, author of a Roman History in twenty-four books.
Although only Appian's books on the Roman Civil Wars survive in their entirety, large parts of the other books, devoted to Rome's foreign wars, have also come down to us. The parts on the Third Punic War, the wars in Iberia, the Illyrian Wars, and the Mithridatic Wars are very important historical sources. The books on Hannibal that are offered on these pages, however, offer little that is not also known from Polybius or Livy.
Because these texts have to be reconstructed from several medieval manuscripts, not all editions of Appian's account of Rome's foreign wars are numbered in the same way. On these pages, the separate units of a book are counted strictly chronologically.
The translation was made by Horace White; notes by Jona Lendering.
The War against Hannibal (216)
[21] When all was in readiness on either side the commanders rode up and down the ranks encouraging their soldiers.note[216 BCE.] The Romans were exhorted to remember their parents, wives, and children, and to wipe out the disgrace of former defeats. They were admonished that this battle was the last hope of safety. Hannibal reminded his men of their former exploits and their victories over these same enemies, and said that it would be shameful to be vanquished now by the vanquished.
When the trumpets sounded the foot-soldiers raised a shout and the archers, slingers, and light-armed troops advanced and began the battle. After them the legions took up the work. Now began a great slaughter and a great struggle, each side contending valiantly. Presently Hannibal gave the signal to his horse to surround the enemy's wings. The Roman horse, although inferior in number, advanced against them, and extending their line of battle to a dangerous thinness, nevertheless fought valiantly, especially those on the left toward the sea. Hannibal and Maharbal together now led against them the cavalry they had kept around their own persons, with loud barbarian shouts, thinking to terrify their enemies. Yet the Romans received the shock without flinching and without fear.
[22] When Hannibal saw that his maneuver had failed, he gave the signal to his 500 Celtiberians. These passing out of their own line of battle went over to the Romans, holding out their shields, spears, and swords in the manner of deserters. Serviliusnote[Gnaeus Servilius Geminus.] commended them and at once took possession of their arms and stationed them in the rear, in their tunics alone as he supposed, for he did not think it best to put deserters in chains in the sight of the enemy, nor did he have any suspicion of men whom he saw with nothing but their tunics, nor was there time to take counsel in the thick of the fray.
Now some of the African cohorts made a pretense of flight toward the mountains, uttering loud cries. This was the signal to those concealed in the ravines to fall upon the pursuers. Straightway the light-armed troops and cavalry that had been placed in ambush showed themselves, and simultaneously a strong and blinding wind rose carrying dust into the eyes of the Romans, which prevented them from seeing their enemies. The impetus of the Roman missiles was lessened by the opposing wind, while that of the enemy's was increased and their aim made surer. The Romans, not being able to see and avoid the enemy's weapons nor to take good aim with their own, stumbled against each other and soon fell into disorder of various kinds.
[23] At this juncture the 500 Celtiberians, seeing that the expected opportunity had come, drew their daggers from their bosoms and first slew those who were just in front of them, then, seizing the swords, shields, and spears of the dead, made a greater onslaught against the whole line, darting from one to another indiscriminately, and they accomplished all the greater slaughter inasmuch as they were in the rear of all. Now were the Romans in great and various trouble, assailed by the enemy in front, by ambuscades in flank, and butchered by foes amid their own ranks. They could not turn upon the latter on account of the pressure of the enemy in front and because it was not easy to distinguish these assailants, for they had possessed themselves of Roman shields. Most of all were they harassed by the dust, which prevented them from even guessing what was taking place.
But (as usually happens in cases of disorder and panic) they considered their condition worse than it was, the ambuscades more dreadful, and the 500 more numerous than 500. In short, they imagined that their whole army was surrounded by hostile cavalry and deserters. So they turned and broke into headlong flight, first those on the right wing where Varronote[Consul Gaius Terentius Varro.] himself led the retreat, and after them the left wing, whose commander, Servilius, however, went to the assistance of Aemilius.note[Lucius Aemilius Paullus.] Around these the bravest of the horse and foot rallied, to the number of about 10,000.
[24] The generals and all the others who had horses, although surrounded by Hannibal's cavalry, dismounted and fought on foot. They charged the enemy with fury and performed many brilliant exploits, the fruit of military experience, being nerved by the energy of despair. But they fell on all sides, and Hannibal, darting hither and thither, encouraged his soldiers, now exhorting them to make their victory complete, now rebuking and reproaching them because, after they had scattered the main body of the enemy, they could not overcome the small remainder.
As long as Aemilius and Servilius survived the Romans stood firm, although giving and receiving many wounds, but when their generals fell they forced their way through the midst of their enemies most bravely, and escaped in various directions. Some took refuge in the two camps where others had preceded them in flight. These were altogether about 15,000, whom Hannibal straightway besieged. Others, to the number of about 2,000, took refuge in Cannae, and these surrendered to Hannibal. A few escaped to Canusium. The remainder were dispersed in groups through the woods.
[25] Such was the result of the battle between Hannibal and the Romans at Cannae, which was begun after the second hour of the day and ended within two hours of night-fall, and which is still famous among the Romans as a disaster, for in these few hours 50,000 of their soldiers were slain and a great many taken prisoners. Many senators who were present lost their lives and with them all the military tribunes and centurions, and their two best generals. The most worthless one, who was the cause of the calamity, had made good his escape at the beginning of the rout. The Romans, in their two years' war with Hannibal in Italy, had now lost, of their own and their allied forces, about 100,000 men.
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Widespread sadness at death of John Challoner
Pat Somers
The late John Challoner
Widespread sadness has greeted the news of the death of John Challoner.
The 63-year old former Teagasc adviser passed away in the early hours of this morning, Monday May 15.
Originally from Mountbellew in Galway, John commenced his career in Teagasc in Kilkenny in 1979, and then moved to Laois.
He was very involved in Mountmellick GAA Club and was a former Chairman of the club. His son, Aidan is the current chairman.
The club paid tribute to him in a Facebook post:
"John has been a member and massive part of Mountmellick Gaa since the early ‘80s giving countless hours towards the betterment of the club and was heavily involved in the development of the 2nd pitch and the new Clubhouse in Acragar.
"John was the Club rep at county board for a number of years and Chairman of the Club from 2004 to 2009 and it was during that time in particular that it seemed John was at every match and training session going, hurling and football giving encouragement and a helping hand wherever needed."
Larry O'Loughlin worked closely with John in Teagasc and was also his brother-in-law. "He was very involved in the 90s with the designation of disadvantaged areas in Laois. He also produced a booklet on animal housing, which Mary Harney launched at the time," said Larry.
John Challoner retired from Teagasc last July. In February of this year he had been involved in a car accident and had been unwell for some time.
He is survived by his wife Deirdre, sons Aidan, Jarlath, Robert and Oisin, grandchildren Aileen, Faye, Connie and Logan.
John will repose in his home from 12 noon on Wednesday, Removal on Wednesday evening at 6.15pm to St. Joseph's Church, Mountmellick arriving at 7pm. Requiem Mass on Thursday at 12 noon.
Burial after in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
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City creative group aiming to make Preston the central cultural hub in Lancashire
Preston creative group 'They Eat Culture' are looking to make Preston the central and best place in Lancs and NW for art and cultural experiences. Photos: Neil Cross.
Tom Earnshaw
Preston is set to turn into a cultural hub as part of a major programme set over 100 days in the city.
Art shows, album discussion groups, a vegan market and poetry sessions are just some of things being planned to cheer up Preston over the summer months.
Director of TEC Ruth Heritage.
The new cultural hub is the brainchild of local creative group They Eat Culture and its director Ruth Heritage - who said she is fed up of the city being referred to a ‘DePreston’.
The group is planning a series of events, aiming to bring an alternative and arty offering to Preston to put the city on a par neighbouring Manchester and Liverpool.
The overall aim is to bring inspiration from across the North West to the heart of the city, offering a fresh take on culture and art through the group’s People’s Production Lab (PPL).
The PPL is described as “four floors of creativity” by organisers, based in Guildhall Street and offering space for all forms of art including studios, workshops, live music, public talks, and cinema space.
Lee Ivett and Ambrose Gillick of Baxendale.
Director of They Eat Culture, Ruth Heritage, said: “We are developing a voice for Preston as a major part of the Lancashire narrative.
“We want Preston on the national agenda at all times, for the right reasons, for investment into the city.”
The group has organised its ‘Weekender’ sessions over 100 days, which next Saturday will see the well-respected Manchester Print Fair come to town.
The event is showcasing handcrafted printed gifts and homewares produced by local independent makers with four fairs being planned for the next few months.
A previous They Eat Culture event.
PPL Weekender Programme Producer Helen Ficorilli said: “We have been open for a few weeks now but next weekend is our first big event.
“It’s a privilege to have the Manchester Print Fair coming to Preston who will be re-visiting for events up until November.
“It feels like a relaunch of everything.”
'Stop dithering and sort out HS2'
Preston is also set for a new vegan market on July 1, with help from Liverpool-based vegan fair providers Live a Better Life.
“We’ve had huge interest and not just concerning food but products too such as toiletries,” explained Helen.
“Inquiries have been taken from Preston companies wanting to get involved including a vegan cocktail maker.”
The hub is also presenting great opportunities for the city’s artists looking to make a name for themselves in their back garden rather than having to trek to Liverpool or Manchester.
Helen said: “We are taking some really great applications from the Preston area. It gives an opportunity for designers and creators to present their work where they might have got lost elsewhere.”
And the group has a positive relationship with the University of Central Lancashire, giving students a discounted rate to showcase their work.
Helen added: “We have a very good relationship with UCLan which is very strong in its support for graduates, so it’s about working alongside them as the next progressive step for them.
The People's Production Lab logo.
“It’s another step out to get students ready to go out in the big wide world.”
Other events are being planned across a variety of artistic forms with people always at the centre of what is trying to be delivered.
Helen said: “We’re trying to work with local people to put things on how they want them to be. We will have ‘Friday night residencies’ that are low-key events for people to drop in and out of.
“There will be album-of-the-month sessions to break down, discuss, and learn from contemporary recordings.”
Poetry sessions with the Damson Poets, who regularly perform at coffee shop Ham & Jam, are also in the mix.
“We are building the programme gradually,” said Inskip-born Ruth, “but we want people to check in and make sure the events are running how they want them to be.
“We want people to be part of the long-term set up.”
Helen added: “Lots of events will start as six week sessions to then review and see how to do them again and see what people want to do different going forward.”
Who is behind They Eat Culture?
Director of They Eat Culture, the creative behind The People’s Production Lab, is Ruth Heritage.
Ruth said: “I’m a cultural activist, practice-based researcher, and filmmaker.
"I established They Eat Culture in 2009 on returning home to the UK’s then newest city, Preston, just post-economic downturn, to explore and articulate life in challenging times and understand how to benefit place, build aspirations, address social needs, and engage communities through cultural activity.
“I realised that to work here, I had to be committed – to the place and people, and to advocating for the right for everyone to access benefits and experiences afforded to those in more culturally and socio-economically advantaged places.
“We’re now about to reach 10, and see that real change takes time.”
What is the People’s Production Lab?
The People’s Production Lab is based in Guildhall Street thanks to Conlon Construction, which has provided the building for 2018.
A spokesman for the PPL said: “We will be a hive of creative activity, bringing the creative community to the doorstep of the city.
“We’ll be hosting weekenders & inviting city revellers into our home, converting our courtyard into a mini market, serving up food, drink and creative talent, showing them how we do things.
“We’ll be roasting coffee, hosting workshops, live shows & setting up our own cinema space.
We will be testing new ideas, forming new collectives, inventing new products, pushing the boundaries of new technologies.
“We’ll have the creative & social business development support in place to help all our residents and contributors bring their vision into reality.”
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Largest Pink Diamond Ever Mined in Russia Goes on Display in New York
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The largest pink diamond ever mined in Russia is on display in New York City this month. The ultra-rare 14.83-carat fancy vivid purple-pink diamond was mined in 2017 and cut and polished into an oval shape by Alrosa, one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds. When unearthed from the Ebelyakh deposit in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the gem-quality raw stone weighed 27.85 carats, the size of a large almond, and was almost free of inclusions.
“The unique characteristics of the diamond make it an extraordinary, rare stone of high value.” said Evgeny Agureev, director of Alrosa’s United Sales Organization. The mining company is conducting private viewings of the stone at its New York office through August.
Before this find, the largest pink diamond mined by Alrosa was a 3.86-carat stone found in 2012. In the last eight years, the company has only recovered three pink diamonds weighing over two carats.
“Pink diamonds… are considered to be the rarest and most precious of all, and the size and clarity of this specimen makes it one of the best to be discovered anywhere in the world in recent years,” added Yury Okoyemov, Deputy CEO of Alrosa. “I am sure that this diamond will be the most expensive in the history of Russia’s gem-cutting industry.”
Alrosa accounts for about 25 percent of global diamond production and 95 percent of all diamonds mined in Russia. It operates more than 20 diamond deposits located in Yakutia and the Arkhangelsk Region. According to the company, colored diamonds weighing more than 10 carats are recovered approximately once a year.
Rare fancy pink diamonds have consistently set records at auction. The Pink Promise, an oval-shaped, 14.93-carat fancy vivid pink diamond, was sold in 2017 by Christie’s Hong Kong for $32.5 million, or $2.2 million per carat. The Pink Legacy, an 18.96-carat fancy vivid pink diamond, sold for $50.4 million in 2018 at the Magnificent Jewels auction at Christie’s in Geneva. It was renamed The Winston Pink Legacy by its new owners at Harry Winston. The sale set a record price per carat ($2.6 million) for a pink diamond sold at auction.
Bloomberg recently reported that the closing of the Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia in 2020 could drive the price of pinks even higher.
Credit: Image courtesy of Alrosa.
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Yeardley Smith Charity Work, Events and Causes
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Remembrance Day 2019, minyip, Alexander Mackenzie, Gwen Fischer, st helen's plains, camouflage nets
It was not just the men and women who served in Australia's defence forces that contributed to the war effort. This is something St Helen's Plains resident Gwen Fischer appreciates, having seen her uncle Alexander "Sandy" Mackenzie handmake camouflage nets from cotton during World War II. Mr Mackenzie was born and grew up in Minyip, and was blinded by a farming accident when he was 16. Mrs Fischer, now 89, remembered visiting his house in Balwyn, Melbourne. "I can remember him making his nets at his house, though I was only a little girl," she said. "Aunty Dulcie used to shove them all into the car and take them into the city where the Country Women's Association headquarters were at the time." RELATED: Where to go in the Wimmera to recognise Remembrance Day 2019 During World War Two, CWA volunteers made an estimated 150,000 nets. The Australian War Memorial journal notes camouflage nets were used by Australian troops in both world wars, and covered in abstract patterns matching the colour of their surroundings, to conceal the troops and their weapons. Mr Mackenzie received recognition for making more than 150 nets in 1942 alone in Melbourne's The Herald newspaper in December of that year. "The nets he has made would stretch over three quarters of an acre. In one net alone there are 3600 meshes," it said. Mrs Fischer said: "They were made from thick-ish cotton which hurt his fingers at first, but he soon got used to it. He could do anything, he could go shopping on his own and he used to measure you with his hands, saying 'come here and let me see how you've grown since I've seen you last!'. "He had a sense of humour, and he used to come up and help on the farm at Minyip where they used to sew the wheat bags up. He would say "I'm stupid doing this in the middle of the day, I could do it just as good at night!'. "Whether he got hit in the head with a stone or something else in Minyip I'm not quite sure. These days they would have done something, but back then they didn't have the know-how to fix it." RELATED: Poppies from across Australia on display in Nhill for Remembrance Day Mr Mackenzie stayed on the farm at Minyip for 11 years after his accident as a teenager. He met his wife Dulcie, a nurse in Wonthaggi, after the hospital matron - and friend of Mr Mackenzie's - sent her to receive him at a Melbourne train station. He died in 1958 at the age of 76. Mrs Fischer was born in Willaura and grew up on a farm near Balmoral. Her father Ted Reeve served in World War I. She said it was important people remembered the efforts of people like her uncle. "He wanted to do his bit for the war and he did," she said. While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox twice weekly from the Wimmera Mail-Times. To make sure you're up-to-date with all the news from across the Wimmera, sign up below.
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Remembrance Day 2019 | Niece remembers Minyip-born man's contribution to World War II
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FAMILY TIES: Gwen Fischer with a picture of uncle "Sandy" Mackenzie, who made nets for World War II soldiers. Picture: ALEXANDER DARLING
It was not just the men and women who served in Australia's defence forces that contributed to the war effort.
This is something St Helen's Plains resident Gwen Fischer appreciates, having seen her uncle Alexander "Sandy" Mackenzie handmake camouflage nets from cotton during World War II.
Mr Mackenzie was born and grew up in Minyip, and was blinded by a farming accident when he was 16. Mrs Fischer, now 89, remembered visiting his house in Balwyn, Melbourne.
"I can remember him making his nets at his house, though I was only a little girl," she said.
"Aunty Dulcie used to shove them all into the car and take them into the city where the Country Women's Association headquarters were at the time."
RELATED: Where to go in the Wimmera to recognise Remembrance Day 2019
During World War Two, CWA volunteers made an estimated 150,000 nets.
The Australian War Memorial journal notes camouflage nets were used by Australian troops in both world wars, and covered in abstract patterns matching the colour of their surroundings, to conceal the troops and their weapons.
GWEN'S PHOTO: Sandy Mackenzie, third from left, on his wedding day with wife Dulcie to his right, Nell Mackenzie (Gwen's mother) and her brother Bill Mackenzie.
Mr Mackenzie received recognition for making more than 150 nets in 1942 alone in Melbourne's The Herald newspaper in December of that year.
"The nets he has made would stretch over three quarters of an acre. In one net alone there are 3600 meshes," it said.
Mrs Fischer said: "They were made from thick-ish cotton which hurt his fingers at first, but he soon got used to it. He could do anything, he could go shopping on his own and he used to measure you with his hands, saying 'come here and let me see how you've grown since I've seen you last!'.
"He had a sense of humour, and he used to come up and help on the farm at Minyip where they used to sew the wheat bags up. He would say "I'm stupid doing this in the middle of the day, I could do it just as good at night!'.
"Whether he got hit in the head with a stone or something else in Minyip I'm not quite sure. These days they would have done something, but back then they didn't have the know-how to fix it."
RELATED: Poppies from across Australia on display in Nhill for Remembrance Day
Mr Mackenzie stayed on the farm at Minyip for 11 years after his accident as a teenager. He met his wife Dulcie, a nurse in Wonthaggi, after the hospital matron - and friend of Mr Mackenzie's - sent her to receive him at a Melbourne train station. He died in 1958 at the age of 76.
Mrs Fischer was born in Willaura and grew up on a farm near Balmoral. Her father Ted Reeve served in World War I. She said it was important people remembered the efforts of people like her uncle.
"He wanted to do his bit for the war and he did," she said.
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About Not Afraid
"Not Afraid" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his seventh studio album Recovery (2010). It was released as the album's lead single on April 29, 2010, by Interscope Records. "Not Afraid" was first revealed as a single by Eminem via Twitter, after which the song debuted on radio. To promote the single's release, a freestyle rap, "Despicable", was released on the Internet and received attention for its tone and lyrical content. "Not Afraid" was written and produced by Eminem, Boi-1da, Jordan Evans and Matthew Burnett; keyboardist Luis Resto was also attributed with songwriting credit. According to Eminem's manager Paul Rosenberg and music critics, "Not Afraid" carries a positive message and depicts Eminem's change in direction from drugs and violence. The hip hop song features a choir that assists Eminem in a heavily layered chorus and vocals are sung over a guitar, synthesizer and piano; no Auto-Tune was used on the sung vocals, but many reverberation tools were. "Not Afraid" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who praised the song for being anthemic in nature and carrying a positive message. The song did, however, face criticism for its sudden change in theme from previous singles, and was considered to be less affecting than some of his other songs. Despite mixed reception, "Not Afraid" became the 16th song in Billboard history to debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number one; it also debuted as a chart-topper in Canada. In June 2014 the song was certified 10× Platinum by RIAA, making Eminem the first artist with digital diamond awards for two songs. "Not Afraid" has earned Eminem MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards Japan, Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards and Detroit Music Awards. more »
I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid (yeah)
To take a stand, it's been a ride
Everybody, I guess I had to
Go to that place
To get to this one
Now some of you
Might still be in that place
If you're tryin' to get out
Just follow me
I'll get you there
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em
But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em
'Cause ain't no way I'm a let you stop me from causin' mayhem
When I say I'm a do somethin' I do it
I don't give a damn what you think
I'm doin' this for me, so f*ck the world, feed it beans
It's gassed up, if it thinks it's stoppin' me
I'mma be what I set out to be, without a doubt undoubtedly
And all those who look down on me, I'm tearin' down your balcony
No if, ands or buts, don't try to ask him why or how can he
From "Infinite" down to the last "Relapse" album he's still shittin'
Whether he's on salary, paid hourly, until he bows out or he shits his bowels out of him
Whichever comes first, for better or worse
He's married to the game, like a f*ck you for Christmas
His gift is a curse, forget the Earth, he's got the urge to pull his dick from the dirt
And f*ck the whole universe
I'm not afraid (I'm not afraid)
To take a stand (to take a stand)
Everybody (everybody)
Come take my hand come (come take my hand)
We'll walk this road together, through the storm
Whatever weather, cold or warm
Just letting you know that, you're not alone
Holla if you feel like you've been down the same road
Okay quit playin' with the scissors and shit, and cut the crap
I shouldn't have to rhyme these words in the rhythm for you to know it's a rap
You said you was king
You lied through your teeth, for that f*ck your feelings
Instead of gettin' crowned you're gettin' capped, and to the fans
I'll never let you down again, I'm back
I promise to never go back on that promise
In fact, let's be honest, that last "Relapse" CD was eh
Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground
Relax, I ain't goin' back to that now
All I'm tryin' to say is get back, click-clack, blow 'cause I ain't playin' around
It's a game called circle and I don't know how
I'm way too up to back down
But I think I'm still tryin' to figure this crap out
Thought I had it mapped out but I guess I didn't, this fuckin' black cloud
Still follows me around but it's time to exercise these demons
These muh'fuckers are doin' jumpin' jacks now
And I just can't keep living this way
So starting today
I'm breaking out of this cage
I'm standing up, I'mma face my demons
I'm manning up, I'mma hold my ground
I've had enough, now I'm so fed up
Time to put my life back together right now (now)
It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me
Admittedly, I probably did it subliminally
For you, so I could come back a brand new me, you helped see me through
And don't realize what you did, believe me you
I been through the ringer, but they could do little to the middle finger
I think I got a tear in my eye, I feel like the king of
My world, haters can make like bees with no stingers and drop dead
No more bee flingers, no more drama from now on
I promise to focus solely on handlin' my responsibilities as a father
So I solemnly swear to always treat this roof, like my daughters and raise it
You couldn't lift a single shingle on it, 'cause the way I feel
I'm strong enough to go to the club or the corner pub
And lift the whole liquor counter up 'cause I'm raising the bar
I'd shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazin' at stars, I feel amazing and I'm not
Written by: Matthew Raymond Burnett, Jordan D. C. Evans, Marshall Bruce Mathers, Luis Edgardo Resto, Matthew Jehu Samuels
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, ME GUSTA MUSIC
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N-able Technologies Uses Madcap Flare To Modernize Online Help And Documentation
Flare Allows N-able to Offer Customers a State-of-the-Art Web Experience, and Provide One-Day Turnaround on Documentation Updates
La Jolla, CA, USA – December 9, 2009 – MadCap Software, the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft XPS, today announced that N-able Technologies® is using MadCap Flare to deliver state-of-the-art online Help and print documentation. With Flare’s multi-channel content authoring, N-able is providing its customers superior WebHelp navigation, customizing and updating content in a fraction of the time it previously took, and streamlining the simultaneous delivery of its print and online documentation.
“We implemented MadCap Flare documentation tools two years ago and have since seen tremendous process improvement,” said Patrick Calnan, N-able documentation team leader. “With Flare, our workflow is much easier, and I can spend more time working on content rather than extraneous tasks for output. In the past, we could only process one or two updates per week. Now with Flare, we can make those changes in one day, ensuring that our customers have the most up-to-date information available.”
Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, N-able Technologies provides award-winning remote network monitoring and system management software for managed service providers and IT departments. Before implementing Flare, N-able used a popular, much less powerful Help authoring tool to create PDF files for print documentation. As such, the documentation team had to use a third-party plug-in to prepare the content for online delivery. The resulting online Help had poor indexing and minimal navigation ability, making it difficult for customers to find the assistance that they needed.
“We provide a Web-based application, so it only makes sense for us to offer Help content that matches the sophistication of our award-winning software,” said Calnan. “It was clear that the time had come for us to shift our focus from PDF print files to online Help as our primary delivery format. With Flare, we have a complete authoring solution for delivering best-in-class WebHelp, as well as continuing to provide top-quality print documentation—all from the same source files.”
The powerful built-in search engine and simplified indexing of the Flare-based WebHelp now make it easy for customers to navigate through more than 600 Help topics to quickly reach the information they need.
Flare’s native XML architecture was also an important factor for N-able, which has a full staff of XML and Java developers building and maintaining its Web-based software. With N-able’s software and Flare both based on XML, it was easy for N-able to take its user interface format and use it as the template for the WebHelp, providing a consistent look-and-feel for customers.
Flare’s XML architecture has also allowed N-able to customize its online Help for customers. For example, one large multinational company required a fourth frame in the WebHelp so that it could display its logo across the bottom of the page. Without any major additional steps, an N-able developer wrote the XML code to add the necessary fourth frame in addition to the navigation, table of contents (TOC), and content frames. The same customer also required versions of the WebHelp in French, Italian, German and Spanish with the XML-based Flare project easily facilitating the translations and preserving the formatting.
“We might have been able to create our content with other authoring tools, but Flare has allowed us to make our documentation modern, sophisticated and professional while keeping it easy to use,” said Calnan. “Our customers have noticed and appreciate the changes we’ve made, and their high level of satisfaction has led to our senior management recognizing Flare’s value as well.”
Two other benefits of Flare are reusable content and support for cascading style sheets (CSS). The lack of duplication means that WebHelp files produced by Flare are just one-tenth the size of
N-able’s previous online Help files, significantly reducing demands on hardware. Additionally, the documentation team is seeing significant efficiencies.
“For example, if I need to modify formatting for our documentation, I can make the font size or color change in the CSS file, and it is instantly reflected in more than 600 topics,” Calnan says. “We can also catch and make changes quickly and easily.”
Recently, N-able implemented MadCap’s Feedback Server, which allows Calnan and his documentation team to gather customer input on the Flare-generated WebHelp content through its rating and tagging features. Going forward, N-able plans to post knowledge-based articles (KBAs) generated from its support calls as part of the Help content with Flare and then use the Feedback Server to allow customers to tag, rate and comment on those issues.
“Though this project is in its early stages, customers have already given us very positive feedback,” Calnan notes. “We look forward to using Flare and Feedback Server in future projects to further extend the dialogue with our customers.”
“As a global provider of leading-edge Web-based solutions, N-able recognizes that the customer experience extends beyond the software to also include the online Help and print documentation that support it,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap co-founder and CEO. “We are excited by N-able’s success in using Flare, and more recently our Feedback Server, to create a rich, interactive experience for the users of its software. And we look forward to working with the N-able team in continuing to set new standards for supporting customers through groundbreaking WebHelp and documentation.”
About N-able Technologies
N-able Technologies is the global leader in remote monitoring and management software for managed service providers and IT departments. N-able's award-winning N-central platform and complementary toolsets, backed by best-in-class business and technical services, are proven to reduce IT support costs, improve network performance and increase productivity through the proactive monitoring, management and optimization of IP-enabled devices and IT infrastructure. N-able is 100% channel-friendly and maintains operations in North America, the U.K., The Netherlands and Australia. Start a free 30-day trial of N-central at www.n-able.com/trials.
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PHOENIX, AZ (February 17, 2011) – Three prosecutors in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office have been honored by the Arizona chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) for their success in prosecuting individuals charged with driving under the influence (DUI) offenses.
Deputy County Attorney Lou Caputo and Deputy County Attorney Rene McGregor were each named Top Felony Prosecutors for Maricopa County based on their duties with the DUI Repeat Offender Program and their successful prosecution of serious cases related to impaired driving.
Deputy County Attorney Amy Diederich was awarded the Top Misdemeanor Prosecutor for Maricopa County for her outstanding work on the prosecution of misdemeanor DUI offenses in the justice court.
“The hard work and dedication of these three Deputy County Attorneys has made our community safer and underscores the commitment of our office to hold impaired drivers accountable for their actions,” commented Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. “I join MADD in applauding these public servants and recognizing the important contribution they have made to the safety of citizens in Maricopa County,” he added.
All three honorees received their awards at MADD’s recent DUI Enforcement Awards Banquet.
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Like Demi Lovato, I Relapsed. This Is What I Wish I'd Known.
"I didn’t know where I stood with the people I cared about."
By Irina Gonzalez
On Tuesday afternoon, TMZ reported that Demi Lovato had been rushed to the hospital due to an apparent drug overdose. Although the 25-year-old singer is now “awake and with her family,” according to a statement from Lovato’s representative, and heading back to rehab, relapsing must have been devastating for her. I know this because, as a recovering addict, I too have relapsed. More than once.
Demi Lovato was 18 when she first entered rehab for her “physical and emotional issues,” which included drug and alcohol addictions and co-occurring disorders of depression and an eating disorder. I was 29 when I finally recognized that I had a serious problem with alcohol and needed help. I went to rehab shortly afterwards, only to discover that, like almost eight million Americans, I, too, had a co-occurring disorder.
At rehab, I learned that my alcoholism was directly related to undiagnosed and untreated anxiety. Thanks to a therapist, I was able to get help. After four weeks in rehab and two months in sober living, I returned to my life and work. But it wasn’t long before small lapses began to occur.
I left rehab, but my stress and anxiety were still there. I thought that I was managing my sobriety just fine by finding work I could do from home and not going out with friends. What I didn’t realize at the time, however, is that I was isolating myself, as so many addicts before me have done.
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During my "active" addiction, I thought I had been drinking normally. Like many women in their 20s, I lived an exciting life in a big city, working and dating and making new friends. But my drinking had slowly increased until, eventually, I was blacking out on the weekends in order to relax. I told myself that it was no big deal because it didn’t happen often—but soon enough it was happening more and more.
After rehab, I felt isolated. I was no longer the fun girl who went out to happy hour with coworkers, had boozy brunches with my friends, or tried a new neighborhood wine bar on a first date. Without those little pleasures that made life good for so long, I didn’t know where I stood with the people I cared about.
Many of my friends had been extremely supportive of my recovery, but I felt awkward around them. When a friend invited me to a new bar that had opened in our neighborhood, I didn’t want to say “no” because it was a chance to see him and meet new people, which I desperately wanted to do. I told myself that it would be a test that I could pass. I would attend the outing but I would not drink there. And, to my surprise and delight, I succeeded. Until I didn’t.
"What I didn’t understand at the time is that relapses are often part of the recovery journey."
On the way home, I stopped at a liquor store, bought a bottle of vodka, and spent the next couple of days drinking and blacking out in the comfort of my home.
A month later, just after Thanksgiving, I met another friend at a wine bar so we could catch up and he could tell me all about his current dating woes. Once more, I didn’t drink while I was out. But once more, I went home and binged on alcohol.
I knew what I was putting my sobriety at risk, but I kept telling myself that it wasn’t a big deal—after all, it was so rare. I wasn’t hurting anyone, I told myself. Deep down, I couldn’t admit that I was slipping, over and over again. I couldn’t bear the thought that I would once again disappoint my loved ones. I kept these brief lapses to myself.
It happened again just before New Year’s and once more in February of the next year.
Still, I didn’t tell anyone.
They were lost weekends here and there. Nobody seemed to notice. The truth is that, ever since I had entered rehab the previous summer, I had distanced myself from my friends. I was ashamed of my drinking problem, and I had a growing sense of guilt about still being “weak” around alcohol.
I could control myself sometimes—why couldn’t I control myself all the time? Despite knowing that addiction is a disease, I questioned myself. I didn’t let friends into my inner life anymore, and I had long stopped going to my therapist. I had stopped working on my recovery.
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That April, I relapsed again. This time, with consequences.
I was in Miami attending a conference for a new job, and it happened again: I went out to dinner with clients and my new boss, and everyone drank but me. But when I got back to my hotel room, I ravaged the mini bar as if I had been dehydrated for days. The next day, I didn’t show up to work. A couple days later, my family came to get me help once more.
With five relapses behind me in the eight months since I had left rehab, I needed to change my life more dramatically. I packed up my bags and moved home to Florida to live with my parents while I figured things out. I reconnected with my therapist, who promptly suggested we do Skype sessions in order to continue to work on my recovery. And I tried to repair the friendships I had been neglecting since first entering rehab.
What I didn’t understand at the time is that relapses are often part of the recovery journey. I felt guilty and ashamed over my repeated attempts to stop drinking, but my therapist assured me that I wasn’t a failure and encouraged me to surround myself with people I cared about.
I don't know what Demi Lovato is going through right now, and her family has asked fans not to speculate “as her health and recovery is the most important thing right now." But if her relapse is anything like mine, I imagine she's facing the same guilt and shame I felt over hurting loved ones once more. Over not having power to control my disease. Over not being strong enough to handle this. I imagine it’s not easy for her to see fans and celebrities alike show their support on social media while others malign her and call her a “mess” and a “crackhead.”
What she needs now, and what I needed then, is continued love and support. We addicts often feel that, especially after a relapse, we don’t deserve the encouragement of those we care about and hurt. But at the end of the day, love is precisely the thing that we need.
Every addict’s story is different. They may abuse different drugs, be it alcohol or heroin or prescription medication. They may go to rehab. They may relapse once or twice or 20 times or never. They may attend group meetings or go to therapy or practice daily meditation. Whatever their recovery journey is, though, we need to take a lesson from Lovato’s book and continue to tell our stories and be advocates for mental health and recovery.
I’ve been sober for more than two years now. As my story and Lovato’s story go on, I can only hope that we addicts continue to receive the thing we need most—and the thing that can keep us from relapsing once more: support. Given the positive outpouring of emotion over Lovato’s relapse, I can only hope she hears the message loud and clear: That we love her and and that she is not alone. I wish I had remembered that message earlier in my sobriety but, thankfully, I remember it now.
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Federal Reserve chairs love to talk about their toolkit. But what’s in it?
Jana Kasperkevic, Kai Ryssdal, and Bridget Bodnar Dec 18, 2018
The Federal Reserve building. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Bonus audio: Check out the tools Federal Reserve chair, Jay Powell has at his disposal and how he can use them individually or in concert together, much like a musician writing a song. Listen using the player above. (Featuring music composed by Ben Tolliday and Daniel Ramirez.)
America’s central bankers love to talk about their toolkit. Tune in to any of their testimonies, speeches or public appearances and chances are it will come up. Ben Bernanke did it. Janet Yellen did it. Current Fed Chair Jerome Powell does it, too.
Talking about the Fed in this way makes them seem like the plumbers or construction workers of the economy. That image is not far from reality. The Fed’s main job — its dual mandate as it is often called — is to keep inflation low and to maintain full employment. That means that many of the things that fall under the Fed’s purview have to do with patching up leaks in the economy and ensuring that things are flowing smoothly. And since the Great Recession, the Fed has also been tasked with making sure that many of America’s financial institutions have a strong enough foundation to weather another economic downturn.
So is Powell walking around the Fed wearing a hard hat, tools in hand?
Let’s take a peek into the Fed’s toolkit …
All those bills in your wallet? They are made by the Fed.
“It’s a very good business to be a central bank because you can create money out of thin air,” said Frederic Mishkin, who previously served as a Federal Reserve governor from 2006 to 2008 and is now a professor of banking and financial institutions at Columbia University. “If I was the Frederic Mishkin central bank, what I could do is I could actually take pieces of paper and write Frederick Mishkin notes. I can hand them to you and buy things from you. I could buy bonds, I can buy new Federal Reserve buildings, whatever … In a sense, the Federal Reserve is actually able to do the same thing. In fact, when you look at those little pieces of paper in your pocket that you use as currency, they all say Federal Reserve Notes and the Federal Reserve can basically just print them up.”
The Federal Reserve doesn’t just make sure that we have nice fresh crisp bills in circulation. It also ensures that there is enough money flowing into the economy to keep it chugging along.
The Fed’s ability to create money out of thin air is one of its core tools – it’s kind of like the various building materials such as putty, metal or screws that are used to fix whatever is wrong.
Not only does the Fed decide how much money to print but it also decides how much it should cost to borrow money.
One of the main ways the Fed carries out its dual mandate is by setting short-term interest rates. The short-term interest rates determine how much interest banks pay to borrow from each other overnight.
Think of interest rates as a wrench that the Fed uses to either open or close a valve that controls the flow of money in and out of the economy.
If interest rates are high, fewer people are likely to take out loans and invest back into the economy. High interest rates also make saving more appealing as the money you’ve put away tends to grow faster. On the other hand, if the interest rates are low, money sitting in the bank is not really growing and low interest rates make borrowing money seem more appealing. So people and businesses are more likely to take out loans and put money back into the economy.
Usually, the Fed lowers interest rates during an economic downturn to revive the economy.
Then when the economy is doing better, the Fed has to make sure that there is not too much money in the economy because that could cause the economy to overheat – with too much money flowing into the economy, prices could go up causing inflation to rise at a higher pace. In that case, the Fed would increase interest rates in hopes of encouraging people to save and to discourage high volumes of loans, limiting the flow of money into the economy.
What if the wrench doesn’t work?
Usually lowering short-term interest rates used by the banks also has downward pressure on long-term rates.
During the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve lowered short-term interest rates from more than 5 percent to near zero percent. Interest rates remained near zero percent for about seven years, before the Fed finally raised them in December 2015.
Once the Fed got to zero on short-term interest rates, it had to come up with a different way to put pressure on long-term interest rates. Essentially, the central bankers used the wrench to open up the valve as far as it would go and had to come up with a plan B if they wanted to open it up further.
“In a way, this was like they were going and looking for different tools,” Miskin said. “They found that their usual socket wrench wasn’t working, so then they had to look for different kind of wrenches and screwdrivers and other things in order to get it to work and, in a sense, there was a lot of experimentation.”
That’s when they turned to non-conventional monetary policy, including quantitative easing.
Remember that money that the Fed can make appear out of thin air? Well, after the Great Recession, the Fed took that money and bought assets that are directly tied to long-term interest rates such as government and agency securities and mortgage-backed securities.
“The idea was that by purchasing these securities, we’d reduce the supply of the securities in the market, driving up the prices, and pushing the interest rates on long-term securities down,” Mary Suiter, the Economic Education Officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said in a “Feducation” video about the Fed’s toolkit. “The purpose was to help the economy, and, by pushing long-term interest rates down, it would benefit people buying houses or cars — long-term kinds of lending.”
It’s as if the Fed was drilling holes into specific markets and then pushing money in through them. By buying government backed securities, the Fed gave money to the U.S. government that could then be invested back into the economy. Similarly, by buying mortgage-backed securities from banks, the Fed increased their cash reserves making it easier for them to lend to their customers.
The Fed is often described as “data centric.” To figure out what to do, the U.S. Central bank looks at inflation data, unemployment, spending, lending, etc. The data — which is collected by various government agencies — serve like measurements that help to create a detailed blueprint of the economy.
“It’s like a blueprint although it would be nice if it was that easy: you just look at the blueprint and know what to do,” Mishkin said. “It’s much harder than that. There’s a real art to central banking, to what the Federal Reserve does. They get information but what they really care about is what’s going to happen several years into the future because when they set monetary policy today it doesn’t have an immediate effect. We think it takes around a year to have a full effect on unemployment and output and maybe two to three years to have its effect on inflation.”
In order to figure out what to do, the central bankers then forecast what the economy will look like in the future and use that along with the data to figure out what tools to use.
If you woke up one day to find a bunch of construction workers walking around your home tightening and loosening a bunch of screws, you’d probably be a little alarmed (fine, maybe more than a little). Same goes for financial markets. That is why one of Fed’s most important tools is forward guidance.
Forward guidance is a simply jargon for communication.
In order not to spook the markets, the Fed regularly releases notes from its meetings, holds a handful of press conferences a year and even releases its economic forecasts.
Think of the forward guidance as a work notice. Just as your landlord might notify you that the water might be shut down in a week for construction, so does the Fed try to give advance notice to the markets about how many rate hikes it expects each year, how much quantitative easing it plans to do or when it plans to start shrinking its balance sheet.
If the Fed communicates consistently and accurately, the markets should barely blink when the Fed uses any of its tools.
In addition to having monetary tools, the Fed also has regulatory tools at its disposal.
Thanks to Dodd-Frank, the Fed is tasked with making sure that financial institutions are prepared for potential future crises. Since the Great Recessions, different types of requirements have been imposed on banks. For example, banks now have to maintain certain amount of capital — or deposits — in case of emergencies. And if they have more riskier assets, they have to hold more capital. These new capital requirements were put in place to minimize the need for future bailouts.
“The other part of Dodd-Frank was that some of the big banks and systemically important financial institutions had to submit living wills and some of those have actually been rejected on the grounds that this isn’t good enough it’s not strong enough,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “So so far I think there are some encouraging signs that the Fed is taking this seriously.”
The living wills are detailed plans that outline how banks and other large financials institutions would enter bankruptcy and liquify their assets if something were to go wrong. The idea is that if these institutions have viable plans for worst case scenarios, then the failure of one financial institution might not bring down the whole economy.
Another regulatory tool at the Fed’s disposal is the stress test. Every year, the Fed takes a look at large financial institutions and their balance sheets and subjects them to hypothetical “shocks” — nightmare economic scenarios like a huge drop in housing prices, a huge jump in unemployment or a stock market crash. If the banks don’t survive the hypothetical shocks, they could receive a failing grade and be told to get more capital onto their balance sheet.
However, as the month of May came to a close, Congress passed a bill repealing parts of Dodd-Frank, including a requirement that small and mid-size banks (banks with less than $250 million in assets) be subject to stress tests.
Living wills and stress tests are like a hammer that the Fed uses to squash certain risks within the financial system.
Does the hammer work?
It’s too early to tell, according to Bivens. “It’s basically like they’ve been handed these tools and whether they use them aggressively enough to restrain genuinely speculative risky behavior, I don’t think they’ve been put to that iron test yet,” he explained. “We’re getting close. Financial markets are very much recovered. Some of them are even looking a little expensive — if not bubbles, at the moment. So in the next couple of years we might really start to see the Fed have to decide about how strict they are going to be about these but I’m afraid we have not tested them yet and I’m a little afraid it’s taken so long for financial markets to recover that people have already forgotten about the last crisis.”
There is one main difference however, Bivens said from the last crisis. This time around, the Fed won’t be able to complain that they didn’t have the tools to do something at their disposal.
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Other Corporate Information
Tax Strategy for the accounting period ended 31 December 2017
In accordance with the requirements of Schedule 19 Finance Act 2016, we have published the below tax strategy in respect of Marni Retail UK Limited (“the Company”) for the accounting period 31 December 2017.
This document is publically available on the Company’s website and was originally published on December 21th 2017.
This document provides commentary in respect of:
1) the Company’s approach to risk management and governance arrangements in relation to UK taxation;
2) the attitude of the Company towards tax planning (so far as affecting UK taxation);
3) the level of risk in relation to UK taxation that the Company is prepared to accept; and
4) the approach of the Company towards its dealings with HMRC.
The Company will only enter into transactions which would be fully justifiable should they become a matter of public record. If there is any question as to the tax treatment of a transaction the Company will obtain relevant professional advice and/or confirmation from the relevant tax authorities before proceeding.
The Company is committed to ensuring that it fulfils its social and moral obligations by operating within the requirements of relevant tax legislation.
1) Approach to tax risk management
Management of tax risk
The Company has a policy of manging tax risk to ensure that the Company does not expose itself to significant uncertainties in respect of tax policy. This is achieved by:
Ensuring a level of review and assigning responsibilities such that full consideration of the tax implications is taken into account before entering into transactions;
Avoiding entering into transactions where there is significant uncertainty over the tax treatment or where the tax treatment may be seen as controversial;
Ensuring appropriate professional advice is sought over significant tax matters; and
Ensuring that special transactions are deeply scrutinized from a tax standpoint in order to make sure they are considered in light of domestic rules, including where relevant in relation to UK tax law.
Key roles/responsibilities
The overall financial operations of the Company are overseen by the tax department of OTB SpA (the ultimate parent entity of the group of which the Company is a member (“the Group”) with the support of the Finance Director of the Company.
Systems and controls
The overriding tax principles of the Company are to ensure:
That the Company (and the Group) complies with all of its tax obligations ensuring compliance with tax law and avoiding unnecessary disputes with tax authorities.
That where alternative routes exist to achieve the same commercial results the tax efficiency and viability of each route is considered to ensure that operations are conducted in an efficient manner.
If there is significant uncertainty as to the tax risk of any transaction then relevant professional advice will be sought by the Company and (if applicable) the matter will be discussed with HM Revenue & Customs.
Governance and board oversight
The Company’s governance arrangements ensure that a review process is in place to manage tax risk. All matters which are deemed to have a significant UK tax risk are reviewed by the Finance Director of the Company and the Corporate Tax Director of OTB SpA who will conclude whether it is appropriate for the decision to be ratified by the Board of Directors of the Company.
2) Attitude towards tax planning
Details of the code of ethics which applies to the Company can be found on the OTB SpA website. The principles which underpin the code of ethics are required to be upheld by the employees and other stakeholders of the Company and apply equally in respect of matters of UK taxation as they do to any other situation. The Company (and the Group) is committed to ensuring that all business operations are conducted ethically under the following key principles:
1) To act with integrity and consistency in respect of all transactions;
2) To act honesty and in accordance with all laws and regulations in respect of all transactions;
3) To provide protection and respect of each individual with which the Company engages;
4) To respect human rights; and
5) To protect the environment.
Use of External Advice
The Company makes use of the services of external professional advisors in respect of taxation matters. It is the Company’s policy to consult with external advisors where the Company or any other member of the Group enters into transactions where the UK tax implications are material to the Company or the Group.
Tax planning motives
The commercial requirements of the Company are of utmost importance to any planning, whether tax or otherwise, undertaken by the Company. Any and all tax planning undertaken by the Company during the accounting period has been undertaken primarily with a view to furthering the commercial success of the Company’s business.
The Company’s tax planning strategy is always to act within the law. Where possible the Company will seek to maximise efficiency through available reliefs.
The Company does not consider itself to be involved in any aggressive tax planning and does not seek to enter into transactions where the primary motive is to obtain a tax advantage.
3) Risk Review
The Company considers that it is prepared to accept a low level of risk in respect of UK taxation matters.
The tax policies of the Group in the UK are monitored by the Finance Director and the Corporate Tax Director of OTB SpA to ensure that tax risk is minimised and professional advice is sought where it is considered that there is an unacceptable level of risk.
Due consideration is given to the Company’s reputation, brand and corporate identity, along with its social responsibilities, when considering taxation. It is the Company’s policy to avoid entering into any tax planning which could result in negative publicity or damage the corporate reputation of the Company or the Group.
4) Approach to dealings with HMRC
How we work with HMRC
One of the Company’s main tax principles is to develop well established relationships with HMRC through active co-operation and consultation. The Company seeks to achieve this by entering into honest and transparent correspondence with HMRC on tax matters and by co-operating with HMRC at all times.
The directors of the Company consider that the Company has a productive and sustainable relationship with HMRC.
Dealing with risk
The Company’s attitude to tax risk is set out above. Where the Company is considering entering into transactions where there is potentially a high level of tax risk, it is the Company’s policy to ensure that this risk is reduced to an acceptable level before proceeding.
Should it become apparent that a previous transaction has resulted in a high level of tax risk or potential tax uncertainty then it is the Company’s policy to seek professional advice and, if this does not provide satisfactory assurance, bring the matter to HMRC’s attention.
Dealing with tax events
The Company considers a transaction to constitute a tax event if, as a result of the transaction, there is a potentially material impact on the Company’s tax liabilities. Where such an event is likely to occur it is the Company’s policy to obtain professional advice.
Interpreting the law
United Kingdom tax legislation can be complex and therefore it is possible that differences of opinion and uncertainty over the interpretation of tax law may arise in certain scenarios. It is the Company’s policy to refer to both professional guidance and guidance from HMRC where there is uncertainty over interpretation to ensure that it has robustly considered the risk of misinterpretation of the law before entering into a transaction.
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What You Need to Know About the "Lost" 'Spider-Man' Series on Disney+
Here’s your chance to learn more about Spider-Man’s second cartoon from 1981.
by Blair Marnell
Spider-Man has had more animated series than any other Marvel Super Hero. In fact, Spidey’s cartoon legacy extends back to 1967, with the first Spider-Man animated series. Even if fans have never watched that show, they’ve doubtless heard its catchy “does whatever a spider can” theme song. But do you remember the second Spider-Man animated series?
Throughout most of the ‘80s, Spidey’s cartoon adventures were defined by Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends on NBC. But there was actually a syndicated solo Spider-Man animated series that debuted on the same day as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends in 1981. Thanks to the recently launched Disney+, Marvel fans have a chance to rediscover this lost chapter in Spidey’s history.
To the casual viewer, Spider-Man and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends have an almost identical visual style — they even shared the same musical score, courtesy of composer Johnny Douglas. What they didn’t share was Spider-Man himself. Ted Schwartz voiced Peter Parker in Spider-Man, while Dan Gilvezan provided Peter’s voice in Amazing Friends. Regardless, Amazing Friends functions almost as a semi-sequel to Spider-Man. This show was also the only series that was largely faithful to the Spidey mythos.
Spider-Man had only been around for five years when his first animated series debuted. However, the Spider-Man ‘81 animated series had the benefit of a Web-Crawler whose story and cast was fully fleshed out. The series featured supporting players like J. Jonah Jameson, Aunt May, Robbie Robertson, and even Betty Bryant as Peter’s love interest. Sadly, there’s no sign of Mary Jane Watson or Gwen Stacy in this show — but Black Cat made her animated debut here as well. The show also had character designs that really captured the look and feel of John Romita Sr.’s run on Amazing Spider-Man.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Spider-Man is that his primary enemy wasn’t Doctor Octopus or Green Goblin. While Spidey did face his traditional foes on this series, his biggest bad guy was none other than Doctor Doom. Over the course of multiple episodes throughout the show’s single-season, Doom attempted to take control of the entire world. Naturally, Spidey saved the day each time. This was also the closest thing the show had to a continuing storyline, and it actually concludes in “Countdown to Doom,” the 21st episode of the series.
Spider-Man was a little light on other heroes from the rest of the Marvel Universe. That said, he did help Captain America face the Red Skull, while Ka-Zar and Namor also made appearances. But Spider-Man really had his hands full with Kraven the Hunter, the Lizard, Kingpin, and even Magneto!
Only 26 episodes of Spider-Man were produced in its single season, but these stories perfectly captured the spirit of Spidey in the early ‘80s. It’s been locked away for far too long, but now Spider-Man’s second show is getting another opportunity to be rediscovered on Disney+. If you’ve ever loved Spidey, this is definitely a series you don't want to miss.
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Breitman Archive | Trotskyist Writers Index | ETOL Main Page
George Breitman
An ’Objective’ Biographer ‘Restores’ Leon Trotsky
From The Militant, Vol.18 No. 13, 29 March 1954.
Transcribed & marked up by Martin Fahlgren for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL) in 2012
Copyleft: Leon Trotsky Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) 2012. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 .
In the preface to his new book, The Prophet Armed, Isaac Deutscher undertakes to explain why he wrote the biography of Leon Trotsky, of which this volume is the first half.
”For nearly thirty years,” he says, “the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky’s name from the annals of the revolution, or to leave it there only as the synonym for arch-traitor ... The work of the tomb-robbers has, in this present instance, been so persistent that it has strongly affected the views even of independent Western historians and scholars.”
To counteract the lies of Stalinism and the neglect of Western historians — this is indeed a worthy and commendable aim. But there are many ways of accomplishing it. One way would be to reprint the many works of Trotsky himself, including his autobiography, and to get printed in English for the first time his many works, that have never been translated. After all, Trotsky was among other things a literary genius.
Couldn’t Deutscher have prevailed on some publisher to do this, and couldn’t he have used his influence as a “Russian expert” to start a campaign along these lines, even perhaps a money-raising program for such publication?
Whether such a thought ever occurred to him, Deutscher does not say. But he admits to feeling a trifle “apologetic” for covering material that Trotsky himself wrote about so voluminously, “for after a close and critical examination I still find Trotsky’s My Life as scrupulously truthful as any work of this kind can be. Nevertheless . . .” (This is Deutscher’s favorite technique: every statement that can be construed as favorable must be followed at once, wherever possible, by a “Nevertheless” or a “But.” That is the very essence of “objectivity” in the eyes of his liberal admirers.)
”Nevertheless, it remains an apologia produced in the middle of the losing battle its author fought against Stalin.” An “apologia” — that sounds bad, not the kind of thing any self-respecting “objective” person writes. Furthermore, an apologia produced in the middle of a battle in which the author was involved. That also doesn’t sound too good — everyone knows how hard it is to avoid subjectivity in the middle of a life-and-death battle — and detracts considerably from the favorable effect of the admission that Trotsky was scrupulously truthful in his autobiography.
”In its pages,” Deutscher continues, “the living Trotsky wrestled with his tomb-robbers. To wholesale Stalinist denigration he responded with a peculiar act of self-defense which savored of self-glorification.” We will return in a short while to the “self-glorification” charge, although we must admit that we have been utterly unable to figure out what “peculiar act” Deutscher is talking about. Anyhow, his next lines are:
”He did not and could not satisfactorily explain the change in the climate of the revolution which made his defeat both possible and inevitable; and his account of the intrigues by which a narrow-minded, `usurpatory’, and malignant bureaucracy ousted him from power is obviously inadequate.”
Here we must pause to examine another of Deutscher’s cute little tricks. Trotsky, he says, didn’t and couldn’t explain why Stalinism triumphed. Is that true? No, it is one of the biggest falsehoods of the year. Then how could Deutscher hope to get away with it? Because he is very cleverly referring to My Life, written in 1929, and expecting that most readers will take it to be a reference to all of Trotsky’s writings.
Trotsky began the explanation in the 1920’s, that is, when Stalinism was coming to power in the Bolshevik party, and part of it is contained in My Life. Then Trotsky continued and completed the job of uncovering the international and domestic social, economic and political causes for the rise and victory of Stalinism in several of the most important of his books during the next eleven years. Here we need cite only The Revolution Betrayed, Stalin, and In Defense of Marxism.
No one in the whole wide world did more than Trotsky to clarify the Soviet degeneration; this was one of his greatest contributions to Marxist theory. Deutscher himself unwittingly testifies to this fact on almost every page he writes, for almost everything he writes on this subject is borrowed from Trotsky’s analysis (a stronger word than “borrowed” could be used because he usually borrows without giving credit to the: source) — so much so, that he is sometimes mistaken for a “Trotskyist” by uncritical readers who do not realize that he bowdlerizes and distorts most of what he borrows so that it will serve his anti-Trotskyist purposes.
Deutscher, we repeat, adds nothing or nothing of value to Trotsky’s analysis, but he is not above using a device to make it appear that he, Deutscher, supplying the theoretical explanations that Trotsky “did not and could not” satisfactorily make. (The Stalinists, as we can see, are not the only ones in the tomb-robbing business. But at least they don’t make the pretense of “restoring” Trotsky’s reputation.)
His critique continues: “In My Life Trotsky sought to vindicate himself in terms imposed upon him by Stalin and by the whole ideological situation of Bolshevism in the 1920s, that is in terms of the Lenin cult. Stalin had denounced him as Lenin’s inveterate enemy, and Trotsky was consequently anxious to prove his complete devotion to, and his agreement with, Lenin. His devotion to Lenin after 1917 was undoubtedly genuine, and the points of agreement between them were numerous and important. Nevertheless ...”
In other words, Trotsky, who was a Leninist from 1917 on, and the outstanding defender of Bolshevism from Lenin’s death to his own, refuted Stalin’s lies by telling the plain truth. After Trotsky became a Bolshevik, he regarded Lenin as his comrade, teacher and leader, and acted accordingly. He never was a hand-raiser, and he had no more use for cults than Lenin had. He generally reached the same conclusions as Lenin during their six years of collaboration in the Soviet leadership, because they had a common approach to problems; when in the course of discussion they differed, Trotsky the not hesitate to express his opinions frankly in the Bolshevik tradition. He never concealed the truth about his differences with Lenin before 1917, or after; they are there in black and white for everyone to read in his books.
”Nevertheless, Trotsky blurred the sharp outlines and the importance of his controversies with Lenin between 1903 and 1917, and also of later differences.”
By this Deutscher really means that he and Trotsky have different evaluations, of the significance of Trotsky’s differences with Lenin. What those differences are, whose evaluation is correct and the political meaning of Deutscher’s evaluation will be dealt with in next week’s article.
”But,” he continues, “another and much estranger consequence of the fact that Trotsky made his apologia in terms of the Lenin cult was that in some crucial points he belittled his own role in comparison with Lenin’s, a feat extremely rare in autobiographical literature. This applies especially to the account of the part he played in the October uprising and the creation of the Red Army, where he detracted from his awn merits in order not to appear as Lenin’s detractor, Free from loyalties to any cult, I have attempted to restore the historical balance.”
Thus Trotsky, accused on the previous page of some unnamed “peculiar act of self-defense which savored of self-glorification,” is here indicted for the opposite sin of belittling himself. How fortunate the modern age is in having this even-handed dispenser of justice to set Trotsky straight on both these distortions!
After this shocking exposure, in which Trotsky is caught, red-handed and barefaced, actually attributing the first place in the leadership of the Russian revolution to Lenin (just as Engels attributed the primary in their collaboration to Marx), how can anyone doubt any longer that Deutscher is more “objective” than Trotsky? And how can anyone now doubt that Deutscher was driven to write this book by the stern necessities of historical balance?
Free from what?
But amusement over these ludicrous pretensions should not lead us to overlook the serious side of Deutscher’s preface — namely, his assertion of freedom from “loyalties to any cult,” including “the Lenin cult.”
In his book on Stalin, Deutscher also used this expression, “the Lenin cult.” In the context there it referred to Stalin’s disloyal, factional misuse of Lenin’s mantle to silence and crush the opponents of Stalinism. Understood in this sense- — as the Stalinist perversion of Leninism the term was not wholly objectionable.
But now Deutscher seems to be giving it a broader meaning (or maybe he is only explaining the meaning he originally had in mind) when he uses the term against Trotsky as well as Stalin. Since Trotsky was genuinely a Leninist, and not one who twisted quotations from Lenin to mask an anti-Leninist policy, Deutscher’s declaration of independence from “the Lenin cult” must be understood as his declaration of independence from Leninism itself.
This judgment is supported by many other passages in the book, and we will return to it in a future article. Up to now Deutscher has been careful not to state explicitly the standpoint from which he approaches his trilogy and, so far as we know, he has not answered anywhere the stupid claims of stupid reviewers that he is a “Leninist” or “Trotskyist.” His present declaration is useful because it helps the reader in “placing” Deutscher’s true standpoint.
This is a matter not only of historical but also of current political importance. Deutscher’s books can be better understood if we bear in mind that right now, while the struggle against the Stalinist perversion of Leninism is still being waged in and out of the Soviet Union, Deutscher declares his freedom of all “cults,” that is, of all groups engaged in the struggle, including the Leninists.
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Natick First Circuit Success
FIRST CIRCUIT RULES IN FAVOR OF NATICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ ACCESS PROGRAM
On May 22, 2019, the First Circuit Court of Appeals, upheld the determination of the Bureau of Special Education Appeals (“BSEA”) and the District Court that the Natick Public Schools’ (“District” or “Natick”) ACCESS program, a substantially separate program, for students with cognitive and communication deficits, was the least restrictive program that could provide a free and appropriate public education (“FAPE”) to the student, C.D. The ACCESS program offers a significantly modified curriculum, two to three grades below grade level. Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, a firm that represents over one hundred school districts across Massachusetts, represented Natick in the litigation.
The Parents argued that pursuant to the 2017 Supreme Court decision, Endrew F. ex rel. Joseph F. v. Douglas Cty. Sch. Dist. RE-1, in determining whether a student was offered FAPE, the BSEA or a court must separately consider whether the IEP is “ambitious,” or contains “challenging goals” from whether the IEP was individually designed and reasonably calculated to offer a meaningful educational benefit. The First Circuit disagreed, stating that “Endrew F. used terms like ‘demanding,’ ‘challenging,’ and ‘ambitious’ to define ‘progress appropriate in light of the child’s circumstances,’ not to announce a separate dimension of the FAPE requirement.” Given the student’s diagnosed intellectual disability and serious language deficits, she could be expected to make meaningful progress in the ACCESS program, not in the general education classroom that the Parents desired.
The Parents also argued that the IEPs violated the requirement to place C.D. in the least restrictive environment and asked the First Circuit to adopt a multi-step test that the Second, Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits have adopted. The First Circuit, joined the Seventh Circuit, and refused as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act provided an adequate framework. The First Circuit explained that the test from the other circuits took away the respect and deference owed to school officials and the BSEA.
Finally, the Parents argued that Natick erred in not conducting a formal transition assessment when the student turned fourteen. The First Circuit disagreed, explaining “there is no restriction on the means of gathering information about a student’s interests or abilities that may be relevant to the development of postsecondary transition goals.” The transition planning was based on extensive educational and psychological evaluations. Additionally, the IEP outlined educational goals and services that would have helped the student make progress towards her goal of graduating and provided for vocational services.
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Dozens of racial justice groups join immigration protests in San Diego to “free our future”
By Aaron Morrison
For roughly 10 weeks, immigrant rights activist Alejandra Pablos has been free from a detention center in Arizona. She was detained in March during a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, months after protesting immigration policies at a federal building in Virginia.
Pablos, who came to the U.S. with her parents as a child, had lost her legal resident status due to a drug paraphernalia charge several years ago. And although she acknowledges making a mistake, Pablos said she is like many immigrants who frequently worry about being targeted and deported.
“I know I deserve dignity and respect,” Pablos said in a phone interview. “We should be able to make mistakes and move forward.”
Pablos believes she hasn’t been deported because her community organized and fought on her behalf. Now, she intends to take the same fight into a new wave of protests demanding humane treatment for all migrants, even if that means risking further detention. On Monday, Pablos will be among the dozens of racial and social justice groups representing Latino, black and faith communities converging on San Diego, California, where federal authorities reportedly plan to ramp up prosecutions of migrants. Organizers have dubbed the campaign Free Our Future, which includes a broader call to abolish ICE and end the Department of Justice’s zero-tolerance immigration policies.
“[ICE agents] already have chains attached to me,” Pablos said. “What we’re trying to do is break those chains for other people.”
Alejandra Pablos, center, leads a chant at the Capitol in Washington, on April 11, 2016. J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Following several weeks of national uproar over the Trump administration’s now-halted policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents, organizers in San Diego are drawing attention to court proceedings that criminalize and incarcerate immigrants. As long as these proceedings are carried out, there is no way to ensure that family separations and inhumane treatment end altogether, Marisa Franco, cofounder of the Latino political group Mijente, said.
“If we are horrified at the image of children being interned at our border, we must urgently address the criminal prosecutions of their families,” Franco said in a phone interview. “We know that this is not the first time that our families have been separated and that our children have been taken from us. And it takes all of us to stop it.”
Mijente, along with the Movement for Black Lives, the Women’s March and over two dozen other groups, will hold a march from San Diego’s Chicano Park to the city’s downtown area. The procession will be led by a contingent of children, Franco said. Participants will also engage in civil disobedience at an unannounced location in San Diego.
Nelini Stamp, a national organizer with Working Families Party and member of Mijente, said the scale of the problem has drawn support from the Black Lives Matter movement and other non-Latino groups because criminalization and incarceration are a shared struggle. Last week, Stamp participated in protests led by United We Dream and the Women’s March near the border and at a detention center in Tornillo, Texas.
Organizers said they are trying to delay or prevent the start of Operation Streamline, which is the practice of moving large numbers of migrants through arraignment and sentencing in group hearings that started in 2005. According to a Los Angeles Times report, federal immigration officials have used mass prosecutions of up to 100 migrants per day in Arizona and Texas. But it has been decades since officials in California used the expedited proceedings.
The planned events come after a tidal wave of public pressure forced President Donald Trump to end the policy separating children from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico. On Tuesday, a lower court gave the administration a few weeks to reunite more than 2,000 children who have been separated from their families. As of Monday, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services had reunited roughly 540 children who arrived at the border unaccompanied.
But officials have yet to say how many of the families separated at the border have been reunited. In its most recent statement, HHS said the agency “knows the location of all children in its custody and is working to reunite them with their families.”
Rhetoric coming from members of the Trump administration, including the president’s referral to migrants as an infestation, has also enraged racial justice advocates, Stamp said.
“Fundamentally, I think it’s really important that we be intersectional,” Stamp said in a phone interview. “We just believe that we need to connect it all. I don’t think we’re going to get in a place where we can negotiate with folks who believe that we are animals.”
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Home » Taking control
By Joel Crews
This past April, when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced plans to implement additional process-control standards for its ground-beef suppliers, the news triggered plenty of questions and concerns among processors. In addition to complying with the retailer’s testing regimen for E. Coli O157:H7 and its prevention-based certification global standards, the company rolled out a plan requiring slaughtering operations and beef-processing plants to implement validated food-safety interventions to meet new standards by June 2011. Slaughtering facilities will be required to achieve a 3-log reduction for E. coli O157:H7 (and Salmonella) by the 2011 deadline and an additional 2-log reduction by June 2012. Ground beef suppliers must implement interventions at their plants that result in a 2-log reduction for E. coli by the 2011 date.
The implications of Wal-Mart’s mandate for meat processors is just one of the issues Dr. Jim Marsden, Regents Distinguished Professor of animal sciences at Kansas State Univ., plans to discuss at an annual conference focused on controlling E. coli. Hosted by the North American Meat Processors Association, Marsden and many other food-safety experts will focus on technologies, regulatory compliance, best practices and detection methods related to the pathogen at the conference: “Prevention of E. coli O157:H7 for Further Processors,” Sept. 28-29 at Chicago’s Four Points by Sheraton Hotel at O’Hare International Airport.
Proven technologies
Marsden has recently been consulting with a Salt Lake City-based processor, Wasatch Meats Inc., where an innovative system is being tested to decontaminate beef trim prior to the grinding process. Marsden says the system is also successfully used to treat subprimals prior to the bladetenderization process. The ultra-violet light-based system is one technology Marsden will highlight during his presentation at the NAMP event.
While traditional methods of treating subprimals decontaminates just one side, Marsden points out “on this test they’re getting a 360-degree treatment. It’s a different technology that is designed so that they get U.V. penetration on all sides,” which is critical for treating beef trim and allows for treatment of all subprimal surfaces, not just one surface that is subsequently blade tenderized. Using a tunnel equipped with U.V. panels designed to create oxidative gasses so they have the effect of the U.V. on all sides, the technology is particularly convenient because it is a dry treatment that doesn’t require chemical mixtures or spraying of water on the product, which is not permitted in ground beef. The processor has achieved 2-log reductions when using the technology to treat trimmings and more than a 3-log reduction when used on subprimals.
Another E. coli-related project Marsden plans to highlight in his presentation is one he served as a consultant on for Maid-Rite Steak Co. Inc., based in Dunmore, Pa. Like most grinding operations, the company mixes 50-lb. blocks of frozen blocks of beef with fresh beef. And, like most operations, controlling E. coli in the frozen blocks is challenging. Maid-Rite has developed a system that includes treating the blocks of beef first with acidified sodium chlorite, before the block is broken up, followed by another treatment of acidified sodium chlorite while it is exposed to U.V., which has yielded positive results. After using the system for about a year, Marsden says the company has realized significant success in controlling E. coli over a long production period and he will outline some of those improvements during his presentation.
The Wal-Mart factor
Because Wal-Mart announced new pathogen-reduction requirements for its ground-beef suppliers earlier this year, Marsden anticipates many attendees will be interested in his comments on the initiative. Before announcing its more-stringent requirements, Wal-Mart food-safety officials first contacted Marsden to ask him if their expectations were reasonable. His opinion was noted and verified by the company’s suppliers, he says.
Requiring grinding operations to be able to achieve a 2-log reduction, he says, was first met with some angst in the industry. However, “I’m going to explain how relatively easy it is to get that 2-log reduction,” pointing out that companies like Jensen Meat Co. have successfully operated with this capability using Sonova spray treatments for several years. “And now other technologies are emerging that allow you to get that 2-log reduction with a minimal investment,” he says.
Marsden will also address technologies available, including some that address Wal-Mart’s requiring slaughtering operations to be able to document a 5-log reduction. His presentation will highlight a number of technologies that can be used as a multiple-hurdle approach to achieving that goal. One point that needs to be made relating to Wal-Mart’s requirement is that slaughtering operations are requiring a “theoretical 5-log reduction,” to accommodate cattle arriving at plants clean. If an animal arrives at the plant and doesn’t have 5 logs to remove, Wal-Mart doesn’t require achieving that reduction.
“They are saying if there are 5 logs or more, your process should eliminate that,” Marsden says. “It’s not that you have to have that reduction documented in the plant day in and day out. It just means that your process is capable of delivering that reduction.”
While the announcement by the retailer made many headlines initially, Marsden says he has heard no grumbling about the requirements among processors once they understood the specifics. “Once it soaked in exactly what it was they were looking for, especially on the slaughter side, companies like Tyson, Cargill and JBS were already in compliance. On the processing side, I think it’s just a matter of making some adjustments in the process and getting in compliance pretty easily.”
Pre-harvest approach
Controlling E. coli using pre-harvest interventions is the focus of another presentation at the NAMP event. Dr. Guy Loneragan, professor of food safety and public health in the department of animal and food sciences at Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, will provide an update of current technologies available at the pre-harvest level to control E. coli O157:H7 as well as reviewing promising technologies that will become available soon. He points out that the pre-harvest technology applications are not limited to beef production operations, but are applicable to treating dairy cattle as well.
Technologies applied prior to slaughter typically fall into one of three segments, according to Loneragan, including: biological control (including probiotic- and bacteriophage-based interventions); vaccine control; and chemical control/feed additives, including sodium chlorate “and another product that we’ll discuss at the conference.”
“I’ll also get into how these technologies contribute to an overall multihurdle approach to food safety,” he says. Future needs and contributions the technologies offer to the entire food-safety supply chain will also be addressed. The focus of his presentation will then shift to a macro level, as Loneragan will encourage attendees to consider not only “if” the interventions work and how they could be implemented, but “should” they be incorporated. “That gets into some of the future research of what is the contribution and what is their value within a production system.”
Loneragan says while many of the newer interventions to control pathogens show promise, the threat posed by E. coli cannot be eliminated by simply plugging in a technology into an operation. As the industry continues to search for solutions, he points out, “It’s not going to be a single intervention and it’s not going to be a matter of just stacking interventions on top of one another.”
Instead, developing real-world solutions involves understanding how each intervention contributes to the overall system. The food-safety goal for the industry should be to discover how to design a cross-sector system to ensure public health. “We’re trying to better understand how we can employ technologies and interventions in an informed way to make a system that ensures we continue to supply wholesome products,” he says.
The promise of vaccines used to control E. coli has gained plenty of attention dating back to 2006, when Canada’s Bioniche Life Sciences introduced a vaccine to control O157:H7 in live cattle. The vaccine has not yet been granted a conditional license in the U.S. but is used in Canada. However, Epitopix, based in Willmar, Minn., received conditional approval from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture in early 2009 to sell its E. coli vaccine to beef-cattle producers and processors. Based on field tests, the vaccine eliminated 99 percent of the pathogen among cattle testing positive for E. coli. It reduced the overall number of cattle testing positive by 85 percent. Vaccines, says Loneragan, are but another arrow in the quiver of food-safety officials. “We know how to use vaccines so this is an easy implementation to some degree,” he says, pointing out that despite some challenges, this type of control is effective . With a variety of interventions being refined and proven successful in controlling E. coli, “We’re fast approaching having a toolbox of a variety of different interventions,” says Loneragan. “In a short period of time, we hope the producers who want to implement an intervention can choose the one that best fits their production system.”
Testing technologies
Interventions designed to control E. coli represent one part of any foodsafety system, but testing and verifying the effectiveness of the technologies is the other vital step. When it comes to detection and testing for pathogens, time is money for processors.
Magnetic nanotechnology is behind the pathogen detection technologies offered by FoodChek Systems Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Specifically designed for processors of ground beef relying on fast and accurate testing methods for E. coli, the company recently launched its FoodChek E. coli O157 Test, billed as the fastest test method available for 375 gram RGB and N-60 Trim sample screening that is AOAC-approved and USDA-accepted.
Offering processors same-shift, validated test results for E. coli O157:H7 in less than eight hours, facilitates faster product-release times and limits the costs associated with holding products without compromising food safety or brand integrity. After a sample enrichment of six to seven hours, a portion is transferred to the FoodChek test cassette and placed in a reader where E. coli O157 can be detected at levels as low as 1 CFU/375 gram sample. Test results are displayed on a reader screen, printed and stored for electronic transfer.
DuPont Qualicon’s Bax System relies on a real-time assay and a one-stage enrichment to provide processors same-day results accurately for “real-world sample sizes of raw ground beef and beef trim,” says Megan DeStefano, global marketing manager with DuPont Qualicon.
Test results for E. coli O157:H7 using the DuPont technology is made faster by not requiring initial cell concentration steps.
“It is also extremely accurate, detecting all known E. coli O157:H7, including cluster A and rough strains,” DeStefano says.
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The much-awaited film Pati Patni Aur Woh has finally released on the silver screen yesterday. Starring Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, and Ananya Panday as the main lead, the movie has created a lot of buzz thanks to its quirky trailer, chartbuster songs, and rib-tickling dialogues.
While the trailer is winning hearts, we have listed down five reasons why Pati Patni Aur Woh is a must watch this weekend:
A remake of a cult classic: The original film was a hit and liked by the audience and the new version is going to be no different. As soon as the trailer was launched, it created a lot of buzz with its witty dialogues and songs. People are eagerly waiting to experience the modern take to the story.
Bhumi – Kartik – Ananya: The trio shares an amazing chemistry which can be seen in the trailer as well as promotions. Watching them sharing the screen space would be surely another fun- ride experience.
The 'Woh' Factor: The 'Woh' Factor has always been a hot topic for debate. It will surely be interesting to watch Chintu Tyagi trying hard to hide his extra-marital affair.
Music: The music of the film has been loved by all. The songs have a fresh feel and is already a chartbuster. Ankhiyon Se Goli Mare and Dheeme Dheeme has instantly become audiences’ favourite.
Aparshakti Khurana’s comic timing: Aparshakti is one of the most underrated actors. Whether it was a supporting role in Dangal or Stree, the actor has aced his comic timing. His rapport with Kartik Aaryan was widely appreciated and we cannot wait to watch them in this film.
Pati Patni Aur Woh is produced by Bhushan Kumar, Juno Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Produced under thebanners T-Series and B R Studios. The film has released in the cinemas near you.
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RMAC SECURITIES No. 1 PLC Series 2006-NS1
Announcement: Moody's: No Rating impact on 2 RMAC RMBS following swap amendments
Rating Action: Moody's takes action on Four RMBS transactions following action on The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Ulster Bank Ireland DAC
Announcement: Moody's: Older interest-only mortgage borrowers in the UK face biggest refinancing risk
Rating Action: Moody's places ratings in three UK RMBS transactions on Review
Announcement: Moody's: Moderate interest rate rises to have limited effect on UK mortgage borrowers but those in Northern Ireland, East Midlands, East Anglia and South West will fare worst
Moody's downgrades ratings of notes issued by four RMAC SECURITIES NO.1 PLC - Series 2006
Approximately GBP 2 billion of debt securities affected.
London, 18 February 2009 -- Moody's Investors Service has today downgraded the ratings of 26 classes of notes issued by RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC ("the Issuer"). The affected tranches are listed below.
Today's rating actions were prompted by the worse-than-expected collateral performance and took into account the increased loss expectations for the four mortgage portfolios backing RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-1, Series 2006 NS-2, Series 2006 NS-3 and Series 2006 NS-4 (together "the Affected Transactions"). For the avoidance of doubt, Moody's has not taken action on the A1 and A2 Notes issued by RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-4, whose ratings (Aaa) remain unchanged.
Moody's has assessed updated loan-by-loan information of the outstanding portfolio to determine the increase in credit support needed and the volatility of future losses. As a consequence, Moody's has revised its Milan Aaa CE for all the Affected Transactions, as reported below. Taking into account the current amount of realized losses, and completing a roll-rate and severity analysis for the non-defaulted portion of the portfolio, Moody's has also increased its loss expectations for the Affected Transactions. The loss expectation and the Milan Aaa CE are the two key parameters used by Moody's to calibrate the loss distribution curve, which is one of the inputs into our RMBS cash-flow model. Moody's has also factored into its analysis the negative sector outlook for UK non-conforming RMBS, the macro-economic conditions and the outlook for 2009 and 2010 for the UK with regards to GDP contraction, house price decline and increasing levels of unemployment and personal insolvencies.
RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-1 closed in March 2006 and the current pool factor is approximately 43%. In the last quarter, 90+ days delinquencies (excluding repossessions) have increased from 9.9% to 16.1% of the current portfolio balance and loans in repossession have increased from 3.4% to 3.7% of the current portfolio balance. The cumulative losses experienced since closing in this transaction amount to 0.56% of the original portfolio balance. Taking into account the current composition of the portfolio and its actual performance since closing, Moody's has increased its Milan Aaa CE to 31% of the current portfolio balance and its loss assumption to 3.2% of the original portfolio balance.
RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-2 closed in June 2006 and the current pool factor is approximately 54%. In the last quarter, 90+ days delinquencies (excluding repossessions) have increased from 10.0% to 15.4% of the current portfolio balance and loans in repossession have increased from 2.4% to 3.2% of the current portfolio balance. The cumulative losses experienced since closing in this transaction amount to 0.52% of the original portfolio balance. Taking into account the current composition of the portfolio and its actual performance since closing, Moody's has increased its Milan Aaa CE to 32% of the current portfolio balance (from 18.4%-18.8% at closing) and its loss assumption to 3.3% of the original portfolio balance (from 1.5%-1.7% at closing).
RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-3 closed in September 2006 and the current pool factor is approximately 62%. In the last quarter, 90+ days delinquencies (excluding repossessions) have increased from 8.8% to 14.3% of the current portfolio balance and loans in repossession have increased from 3.5% to 4.2% of the current portfolio balance. The cumulative losses experienced since closing in this transaction amount to 0.80% of the original portfolio balance. Taking into account the current composition of the portfolio and its actual performance since closing, Moody's has increased its Milan Aaa CE to 37% of the current portfolio balance (from 20.95%-21.35%% at closing) and its loss assumption to 4.7% of the original portfolio balance (from 1.6%-1.8% at closing).
RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-4 closed in December 2006 and the current pool factor is approximately 73%. In the last quarter, 90+ days delinquencies (excluding repossessions) have increased from 7.2% to 10.2% of the current portfolio balance and loans in repossession have increased from 1.8% to 2.2% of the current portfolio balance. The cumulative losses experienced since closing in this transaction amount to 0.43% of the original portfolio balance. Taking into account the current composition of the portfolio and its actual performance since closing, Moody's has increased its Milan Aaa CE to 35% of the current portfolio balance (from 16.9%-17.3% at closing) and its loss assumption to 4.5% of the original portfolio balance (from 1.6%-1.8% at closing).
All the Affected Transactions are also characterized by unhedged interest rate exposure, for the mortgages which are still in their fixed rate period, as well as basis risk exposure arising from the mortgages linked to the Bank of England Base Rate. During the review, Moody's has updated its assumptions to take into account the current interest rate volatility. Today's rating actions, however, are primarily a reflection of the updated loss and Milan Aaa CE assumptions and only to a limited extent influenced by the hedging structure in place for the Affected Transactions.
As a result of the worse-than-expected performance of the four mortgage portfolios and their exposure to interest rate volatility, in all the Affected Transactions the reserve fund is below its required level. More specifically, the reserve fund amounts to 3.45%, 1.53%, 0.27% and 1.07% of the current note balance in RMAC SECURITIES NO. 1 PLC Series 2006 NS-1, Series 2006 NS-2, Series 2006 NS-3 and Series 2006 NS-4 respectively. These reserve fund amounts correspond to 99%, 78%, 16% and 74% of their respective target levels.
The classes of notes affected by today's rating actions are:
Series 2006 NS-1
- Class A2a, Downgraded to Aa1; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class A2c, Downgraded to Aa1; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class M1a, Downgraded to A1; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M1c, Downgraded to A1; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M2a, Downgraded to Baa3; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned A3;
- Class M2c, Downgraded to Baa3; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned A3; and
- Class B1c, Downgraded to B3; previously on 29 March 2006 Assigned Baa3.
- Class A2a, Downgraded to Aa1; previously on 28 June 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class A2c, Downgraded to Aa1; previously on 28 June 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class M1a, Downgraded to A1; previously on 28 June 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M1c, Downgraded to A1; previously on 28 June 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M2c, Downgraded to Baa2; previously on 20 March 2008 Confirmed at A2;
- Class B1a, Downgraded to B2; previously on 20 March 2008 Confirmed at Baa3; and
- Class B1c, Downgraded to B2; previously on 20 March 2008 Confirmed at Baa3.
- Class A2a, Downgraded to Aa1; previously on 20 September 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class M1a, Downgraded to A2; previously on 20 September 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M1c, Downgraded to A2; previously on 20 September 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M2c, Downgraded to Ba1; previously on 21 December 2007 Downgraded to A3; and
- Class B1c, Downgraded to Caa2; previously on 21 December 2007 Downgraded to Ba2.
- Class A3a, Downgraded to Aa2; previously on 13 December 2006 Assigned Aaa;
- Class M1a, Downgraded to Baa1; previously on 13 December 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M1c, Downgraded to Baa1; previously on 13 December 2006 Assigned Aa3;
- Class M2a, Downgraded to Ba2; previously on 21 December 2007 Downgraded to A3;
- Class M2c, Downgraded to Ba2; previously on 21 December 2007 Downgraded to A3;
- Class B1a, Downgraded to Caa2; previously on 21 December 2007 Downgraded to Ba2; and
Moody's will continue to monitor closely the Affected Transactions. Moody's initially analysed and monitors these transactions using the rating methodology for EMEA RMBS as described in the Rating Methodology reports "Moody's Approach to Rating UK RMBS" published in April 2005, "Moody's Updated Methodology for Rating UK RMBS" published in November 2007 and "Revising Default/Loss Assumptions Over the Life of an ABS/RMBS Transaction" published in December 2008, as well as the Special Report "Interest Rate Risks in UK RMBS -- Moody's approach" published in October 2007. Please also refer to the "UK Non-Conforming RMBS Q3 2008 Indices", which can be found on www.moodys.com under the Credit Index category of Structured Finance research. Other methodologies and factors that may have been considered in the process of rating this issue can also be found in the Credit Policy & Methodologies directory.
Moody's ratings address the expected loss posed to investors by the legal final maturity of the notes. Moody's ratings address only the credit risks associated with the transaction. Other non-credit risks have not been addressed, but may have a significant effect on yield to investors.
For more information, please see Moody's research on www.moodys.com or contact Moody's Client Service Desk on +44 (0)20 7772 5454.
Marie-Jeanne Kerschkamp
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Deutschland GmbH
SUBSCRIBERS: 44 20 7772 5454
Giacomo Bonetti
Moody's Investors Service Ltd.
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Why Libertarians Are (Still) Plotting to Take Over New Hampshire
After 15 years, a plan to create a small-government utopia inches a little closer to reality.
Madison Pauly
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On February 18, hundreds of libertarians will flock to the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the ninth annual Liberty Forum, a four-day conference featuring presentations on topics such as religious freedom, school choice, and “Anarchy: Dressing for Success.” A big draw will be Edward Snowden’s keynote speech, delivered over a live video stream. As the exiled NSA whistleblower speaks, conference goers may mull their own flight from government oppression—not to Russia, but to the haven of New Hampshire.
The Free State Project, which runs the Liberty Forum, has spent 15 years trying to recruit 20,000 libertarian-minded activists to take up residence in the Granite State. By accruing a critical mass of small-government advocates in a state with just 1.3 million people, the project seeks to exert substantial influence on state politics to create a utopia of social liberties and deregulated markets. Those who sign the Free State pledge promise to make the move to New Hampshire once 20,000 participants have signed up. Now, with 19,858 signers, the project’s organizers say they are finally recruiting the last of those volunteers.
However, the organizers readily admit they don’t know how many of the would-be Free Staters will actually come to New Hampshire. “That is the million-dollar question,” says Free State Project president Carla Gericke. “It’s all speculative at this stage.” The most fervent believers are likely already in the state. Free State Project founder Jason Sorens says he expects about a third of the remaining signers to move. The group plans to track down those who may have forgotten and nudge them with direct mail, phone calls, and email reminders about their commitment.
Organizers admit they don’t know how many would-be Free Staters will actually come to New Hampshire. “That is the million-dollar question,” says Carla Gericke.
Sorens first published his idea for the Free State Project in 2001, when he was a PhD student in Yale’s political science department. In an article in the Libertarian Enterprise webzine, Soren fantasized about a place where state and local budgets would be slashed and federal highway funds would be rejected. By 2003, a community of several thousand Free State Project pledgers had coalesced online and were debating the relative merits of colonizing Idaho, Wyoming, or Alaska. Then a delegation met with then-New Hampshire Gov. Craig Benson, a Republican, who told them, “Come on up. We’d love to have you.”
Since then, 1,909 early movers have settled in New Hampshire, according to organizers. They have started a church, installed Bitcoin ATMs, and protested against an Uber ban. One Free Stater became a school board chairwoman and then used tax money to pay private school tuition for kids in her district. Free Staters in Grafton tried to declare their no-stoplight town a United Nations-free zone. In Keene, libertarian transplants upset old-timers by videotaping and challenging parking officers enforcing “the king’s tariff.”
Influencing state policy remains a major goal for many participants. According to the project, it’s gotten more than 40 “pro-liberty” legislators elected. At least 18 early movers currently hold seats in the State House. The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance, a tea-party-aligned nonprofit that Soren says was “founded by native libertarians in expectation that the Free State Project would be coming,” has become a force in state politics.
Still, it only became obvious recently that the project would hit its 20,000-pledge trigger. Last fall, after years of standing around conferences with clipboards and taking out advertisements in Reason magazine, the project’s organizers turned to Facebook. More than 2,500 new participants signed on during a four-month ad campaign targeting users who “liked” pages for Bitcoin, “voluntarism,” and George Carlin. In recent weeks, the group has ramped up its Facebook ad spending to $500 a day. Nearly 20 early movers have been arriving in New Hampshire each month—even in winter. “I really hope we can build something that’s historic,” Gericke says. “People are coming.”
A Facebook ad campaign targeted users who “liked” pages for Bitcoin, “voluntarism,” and George Carlin.
That’s good news for Mark Warden, owner and lead agent at Porcupine Real Estate in Manchester, which does about 90 percent of its business with early movers. (Libertarians have adopted the porcupine, a peaceful creature that defends itself when attacked, as their mascot.) “A lot of my clients want to be self-sufficient—whether that’s living off the grid and growing their own food, wanting to shoot and hunt on their own property, or being able tor raise pigs and chickens without zoning laws interfering,” says Warden, who shows his properties with a gun on his hip. “We speak the same language.”
Warden also offers advice to aspiring politicians, setting them up in towns where they would have a chance of winning over voters. Warden is a former state legislator whose old campaign website touts an A+ rating from the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity. He once argued for decriminalizing simple assault during a committee hearing, later apologizing for claiming that some people may “like being in abusive relationships”.
Some future Free Staters say they’re drawn by the free-market business opportunities. Nelson Aquino, a Boston-based sales executive, plans to move in a matter of weeks. Aquino says he’s looking for a community that understands his opposition to police violence and torture, and he also plans to invest: “The people who are willing to make that type of pledge are people who believe in personal responsibility, people who believe in contracts, people who follow through on their word,” he says. “Those are the people I want to do business with.”
John Bush, who tried to start a Texas version of the project called Lone Star Libertopia, intends to open a New Hampshire branch of his Austin-based bookstore, which sells volumes on homesteading and crypto-anarchism alongside nutritional supplements and water filtration systems. “We intend to build some wealth—properties and wealth,” Bush says. “The early movers are what making it all so sexy and attractive.”
Nineteen-year-old Bradley Hunt, who signed the pledge about a year ago, says he was bummed out when he heard the project was reaching its target—he’d wanted to be an early mover. He’s unhappy living in Michigan but doesn’t have enough savings to pick up and go. In the meantime, he volunteers for the local Libertarian Party, joins jury nullification protests, and tries to boycott the US dollar. He envisions himself and his girlfriend buying a little property in the northern end of New Hampshire in two or three years.
“The only thing I can see stopping me from moving is if I go to jail for my activism or if I get in a car accident or die or something,” he says. In the Free State, “I would have to start over again—but I’m okay with that.”
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DRC: "Suffering has been a part of my life. But I fight. I'm still standing!"
We meet Jeanine at her home, in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs), near Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. She tells us about her life, a life that resembles the fate of many women in North Kivu.
Like many other women in North Kivu Province, Jeanine suffered forced displacement and has since lived in an IDP camp.
"One day I was at home in my village and heard mortar fire and bombs. Looking outside, I saw our neighbours fleeing. The whole village fled. Then we walked 24 hours to get here. That was four years ago."
The pillar of her family, Jeanine works daily for her children.
"Since my first child was born, I have been working hard, daily, to support them. I’ve managed to raise my six children, although not all have had the chance to go to school."
Sarah Vuilleumier
Jeanine and her daughters at an internally displaced people camp around Goma.
"I go to bed thinking of my children. I think about what they will eat the next day. Every day I wake up early in the morning and look for work in the community. If you wake up too late, the work may already be taken."
Every day Jeanine puts all her energy into securing a job for the next day.
"Every time I find a job, I invest lots of energy into doing well, so the boss will rehire me in the future."
Her daily life is also touched by violence, "sometimes I go to the nearby Virunga Park in search of firewood, which I can sell to others to make a living. Unfortunately, the area is very insecure and park rangers and rebels can be very violent against us women."
"But I fight. I'm still standing!"
Jeanine and her daughters at an internally displaced people camp near Goma.
Eating once a day
After work, Jeanine goes home and cooks for her children, "they eat only once a day."
"Yesterday and today, I could not go to work, so I do not know yet what my children will eat. I had to take care of my oldest daughter who got very sick.
"She is at the MSF cholera treatment centre (CTC) right now. I am very concerned for her. I am looking after her daughter, Rita, who is 2-years-old. She is also sick, but it's not cholera, so I do not know where to bring her for treatment."
Jeanine tells us later that her daughter, Francine, seems to have recovered and that she plans to pick her up at the CTC. She agrees that we can come along.
At the CTC, we meet Francine, who seems to be doing well.
Incredible will and courage
For the first time that day, we see Jeanine’s face lighting up with a smile as she walks towards her daughter.
Francine tells us, "I came to the CTC yesterday. My colleagues, who work with me in the fields, brought me here because they were concerned about my condition. The nurses took great care of me. Now I feel better!"
Leaving the CTC, the women bump into neighbours who came to see Francine. Together they all return home, to the camp, to cook.
Tonight Jeanine will fall asleep thinking of her children, and tomorrow she will wake up early and search for a job, so her children will be able to eat.
Jeanine’s story is not an isolated case. It is representative of the incredible will and courage of many of the women of North Kivu, who fight every day to stay standing.
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Who Were Our 1969 Northern Premier League Heroes?
Throughout the week, we have been marking the fiftieth anniversary of our inaugural Northern Premier League success and we continue this by taking a look at at heroes who played their part in writing a memorable chapter of our history -
Frank Beaumont (Wing Half)
Frank was another player to join the club in the summer of 1966, after an illustrious career in the Football League with the likes of Barnsley, Bury and Stockport County.
Beaumont was regarded as the backbone of the side and wore his heart on his sleeve in every game he played.
A real fans favourite and a player with undoubted natural talent, Frank took over the Player / Manager role at the start of the 1968/9 season.
Dave Berry (Full Back)
Signed in the summer of 1967, "Chopper" became an instant hit with the Silkmen faithful and adhered himself to our rank and file with some tenacious and defiant performances.
Also nicknamed "Ginger" due to his iconic red hair, Dave was presented with the Sportsman of the Year award in 1968 and could often be seen spear-heading Silkmen attacks despite his position within the defence.
John Clay (Winger)
John spent six years at Maine Road with Manchester City, before he was released by the club in 1968.
The classy winger then decided to take the novel step of advertising his services in a local newspaper - in a bid to find a new club ahead of the 1968/9 season.
This is the point where The Silkmen were made aware of his availability and John went on to score on his debut against Hyde United the following August.
John went on to repay the faith that was shown in him by amassing a total of twenty-two goals during that memorable season and played a crucial role in our success.
John Collins (Full Back / Centre Half)
John played with Frank Beaumont at Edgeley Park, after starting his career at Blackburn Rovers.
He came to the club as a full back, yet despite the fact that John was only 5 foot 10″ moved into the position of centre-half.
A gutsy and determined defender, John was another strong, no nonsense character within the Silkmen rearguard.
John Cooke (Goalkeeper)
A colossal figure inbetween the posts, John was a brave and respected ‘keeper whose agility defied his intimidating size.
Having the best reflexes of any goalkeeper within the world of non-league football at the time, John was awarded the “Sportsman of the Year” award in 1967 – which was just reward for a series of fabulous performances.
A former England trialist and Port Vale youth player, John showed an incredible amount of loyalty to the Silkmen, as he turned down several lucrative offers from Football League clubs as he juggled his illustrious Macc career with that of being a plastering contractor in the Potteries.
Merrick Corfield (Forward)
Merrick was an innovative and skilful forward who possessed an incredible engine which drove him forward in a seemingly relentless manner.
A true fans favourite, Merrick made his debut for the club in December 1967 and would go on to make over two hundred and fifty appearances in royal blue - fifty-seven of which came within our historic NPL title-winning season.
Brian Fidler (Centre Forward)
Brian is one of the most iconic players to have ever worn the royal blue of Macclesfield Town and remains a much loved figure around the Moss Rose.
Fidler was a showman of epic proportions, who captivated his audience with sensational performances which left the Moss Rose faithful begging for more.
Brian signed for the club from Heanor Town and instantly became a fans favourite.
He instilled fear in all of his opponents and scored fourteen goals in our title-winning season.
Dennis Fidler (Winger)
Dennis made his Macclesfield Town debut towards the end of the 1967/8 season during an away match at arch-rivals, Altrincham.
Beforehand, he had enjoyed an illustrious career which began in the youth ranks at Manchester United.
Spells at Manchester United, Port Vale, Grimsby Town and Port Vale ensued, before Darlington paid £3,500 for his services in 1967.
A winger who boasted a deft turn of pace and a real eye for goal, Dennis hit the back of the net fourteen times during our historic Northern Premier League title-winning season.
George Forrester (Full Back)
George was a true leader on the pitch and his no nonsense demeanour was revelled in by his army of followers.
After spells at Sunderland and a variety of clubs north of the border, George signed for Accrington Stanley in 1960.
A motor engineer by trade, George signed on at the Moss Rose prior to the start of the 1966/7 season and would see out the rest of his career at the club until he retired during the summer of 1969.
Dave Lyon (Winger)
Enjoying his first of three stints at the Moss Rose, Dave amassed twenty-eight appearances for the club during our title-winning season.
Having made his debut for the club at Runcorn the previous September, the former Bolton Wanderers and Bury winger soon found his feet within our illustrious side and would become renowned for his incredible desire and work-rate.
George Sievwright (Full Back)
Much loved defender, who was a tenacious player on the field as well as being a real fans favourite off it.
A devoted Scotsman, George began his career with hometown side Dundee United, before enjoying spells at Oldham, Tranmere and Rochdale.
The Silkmen acquired George's services in the summer of 1966 and he went on to make well over 250 appearances for the club.
Dave Roberts (Wing Half)
Hailing from the Potteries, Dave began his career at Anfield before making the short move to Tranmere Rovers.
He signed for Macclesfield Town in the summer of 1968 from Northern Premier League rivals Wigan Athletic and was renowned as a hard-working and highly consistent member of the Silkmen squad.
Dick Young (Centre Forward)
An aircraft worker by trade, Dick has spells at Newcastle United, Grimsby Town, Stockport and Bangor before making his debut for the Silkmen back in 1967.
Dick was a prolific goalscorer who found the back of the net on twenty-nine occasions during the 1968/9 season, as well as being a well-liked member of the Silkmen squad.
Check back on Saturday, when we will be publishing a conversation between one of our greatest showmen Brian Fidler and Life President Geoff Findlow.
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New video highlights NIH investment in zebrafish research
From birth defects to heart disease, small fish vital to understanding disease origins.
As they strive to develop new treatments for birth defects, or to prevent them, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found a big ally in a small fish.
An NIH video shows how the zebrafish, Danio rerio, is a valuable resource for scientists trying to understand the intricate process by which a fertilized egg develops into a fully formed individual, and the numerous diseases and conditions that can result when even a tiny part of the process goes wrong.
“Our institute supports research to ensure that human beings get the best start possible, so all people have the chance to reach their potential, regardless of disease or disability,” said Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., Director of the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). “Many disorders and conditions arise early in embryonic life, when we can't directly observe them in humans. For this reason, we rely on animal models to stand in for humans to provide insight into the developmental process.”
In the new video, "Zebrafish: A Key to Understanding Human Development," Dr. Guttmacher describes the role zebrafish play in the study of developmental processes. The new video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BtcjgOay4&feature=plcp.
Unlike human embryos, which develop in the mother, usually in nine months, Zebrafish eggs are fertilized outside the mother, and the embryos develop in the water, and development is rapid. The eggs and embryos are transparent, and so scientists can observe them under a microscope as they develop.
Because zebrafish have many genes in common with human beings, researchers can extrapolate what they learn from studies of zebrafish to human disorders and conditions. Like human beings, zebrafish are vertebrates — animals with backbones. Other common model organisms, such as the fruit fly, Drosphopila melanogaster, and the nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, do not have backbones, so information from studying these organisms is less applicable to human development than is information from zebrafish studies.
Popular in home aquariums throughout the world, zebrafish are native to south Asia. They reach about 1 ½ inches in length and have alternating horizontal blue and white stripes.
The video includes footage of the NIH zebrafish facility. The facility is the largest in the world, with enough space for 19,000 tanks to accommodate 100,000 fish. Zebrafish females can produce hundreds of eggs in a single mating. Many studies require large numbers of fish, to test different compounds, to test varying doses of a compound, or to allow scientists to search for an uncommon genetic variation.
“Answering the most important questions in science requires a facility of this size,” Dr. Guttmacher said.
The facility uses 25,000 gallons of water, only about 40 percent of which circulates through the tanks at any one time. The remainder flows through a high tech filtration system to remove wastes. The water temperature is maintained at 82 degrees Fahrenheit and the water chemistry is rigidly controlled. Before entering the tanks, the water is pumped past ultraviolet light to kill any bacteria or other organisms with the potential to cause disease. Lighting simulates a 24- hour day, with dawn and dusk. The fish are fed a variety of foods, including a dry, prepared mix as well as live brine shrimp.
The facility is operated jointly by the NICHD and the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute. A number of other NIH institutes also conduct research at the facility, including the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Eye Institute, and the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
In addition, the National Institutes of Health also funds research studies employing zebrafish at a number of research institutions around the country and in other parts of the world, explained Lorette Javois, Ph.D., of NICHD's Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Teratology Branch. Dr. Javois is cochair of The Trans-NIH Zebrafish Initiative , which coordinates funding for research involving zebrafish among the NIH institutes. It also serves as a resource for scientists involved in research with zebrafish.
In the video, NICHD scientist Brant Weinstein, Ph.D., describes his work using zebrafish to study blood vessel development. Dr. Weinstein is the director of the program on Genomics of Differentiation.
“The detail is incredible — we can observe the formation of new blood vessels, down to the level of individual blood cells traveling through a vessel,” Dr. Weinstein said.
Studies of blood vessel development in zebrafish may provide information on how to stimulate blood vessel development after a heart attack or on how to block the formation of blood vessels that supply tumors.
The video also includes an interview with Harold Burgess, Ph.D., of the Unit on Behavioral Neurogenetics. Burgess studies the zebrafish startle response — a reflexive swimming motion that 5-day-old zebrafish display when frightened by a sudden noise or vibration. Burgess is identifying brain cells that control this behavior, in hopes of finding clues to the development of the comparable behavior seen in human beings after sudden exposure to a loud noise. Understanding the startle reflex may lead to advances against conditions involving the startle reflex, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders.
About the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): The NICHD sponsors research on development, before and after birth; maternal, child, and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation. For more information, visit the Institute's website at http://www.nichd.nih.gov.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Weapons vs. Treaties
By Geoffrey Norman
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Miz Nancy neglects.
If polls are any indication, it is better than even money that Nancy Pelosi will be the next Speaker of the House. She seems confident, anyway. So it is prudent to take her seriously. For one thing, Congress sometimes does serious work. Also, she will be second in line of succession to the White House. And, then, her status will validate the stands she takes on various issues: She won’t be some crackpot representative from a district no one cares about; she will be … “the Speaker.” If she comes out in favor of banning hamburgers, it will be time seriously to consider selling any shares you own in McDonalds.
#ad#On the old reliables, like raising taxes and expanding the welfare state, there is no mystery about where she stands and what the damage will be if her views prevail. We’ve been there before, though, and the American economy has survived even Congress.
Pelosi’s positions on social and cultural issues are also fully predictable, and, safe to say, those struggles will outlast her. No matter where you stand, she won’t matter much. Forces far larger than she are in motion here.
This leaves the big eternal — war and peace. Or, in the modern vernacular, “national security.”
Let’s do something eccentric in today’s politics and take Mrs. Pelosi at her word.
Three years ago, on the matter of anti-missile defense, in a congressional debate, her exact words were:
The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.
What we need is a strong nonproliferation policy with other nations to combat the most serious threat to our national security and to the safety of the world — weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists who would smuggle them into our cities.
No ambiguity there. Fair to say that between weapons (even defensive weapons) and treaties, she’ll come down on the side of treaties every time. It’s an old preference — good, in its time, for a handful of Nobel Peace Prizes — with a pretty dismal track record.
In 1929, the American secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, and a Frenchman named Briand ginned up a treaty that bore their names. This modest little document simply outlawed war as an instrument of national policy. You have to wonder why nobody had ever thought of it before. Sixty-two nations ultimately signed up for no more war, Germany and Japan among them. We all know, of course, how that one turned out. Fifty million dead in World War II, which began, depending on how you look at it, when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1933 or Germany invaded Poland in 1939. But if the treaty was bad for the world, it was good for Mr. Kellogg, who copped the 1929 Peace Prize. Briand already had one.
In 1931, incidentally, the award went to Nicholas Murray Butler, who was a strong influence on Kellogg and is best remembered for his robust anti-Semitism and as a longtime president of Columbia University, where he would be right at home today.
It is easy to mock Kellogg-Briand — though it was not the work of cranks — as abstract and unrealistic. Of course you don’t just outlaw war, someone with Pelosi’s views would argue. You have to get specific and go after the things you can control. Like arms.
Well, we tried that, too. It was after World War I and America’s secretary of State hosted a conference in Washington that was aimed at limiting naval construction. The august Charles Evans Hughes electrified the world when he announced that the U.S. was prepared not merely to quit work on new battleships but to scrap some that were already in existence. The conference then went on to hammer out an agreement about relative strengths of various nation’s fleets, the permitted tonnages for certain classes of ships, permissible strengthening of bases, and so forth. Since it had emerged from World War I rich and unscathed, the U.S. gave up the most to clinch the deal. America could have out-built the world in warships. It chose not to. Not, anyway, until after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which Hughes’ treaty had done so littleto defend against.
Hughes later became chief justice of the Supreme Court, but for some reason, he never bagged a Nobel.
When, and if, Pelosi becomes speaker, she will bring with her a faith in treaties and disdain for weapons. The argument against anti-missile systems — since Reagan’s opponents first disdained them as “Star Wars” — is that the technology is just too complicated. But eventually most engineering problems are solved; what once looked impossible soon seems routine. Why is it that the same people who believe that larger appropriations will result in a cure for AIDS can’t imagine engineers working out a system that could intercept an incoming missile from — just to pick a nation at random — North Korea?
As a result of follies like the Washington Naval Treaty and Kellogg-Briand, the U.S. and Great Britain lost valuable time that could have been spent preparing to defend themselves and deterring their enemies. John F. Kennedy dealt somberly with this lapse in Why England Slept.
A faith in treaties and international organizations allowed people who should have known better to pretend that everything was jake and to slumber on.
These days, when it is dangerous to nod off even for a minute, Nancy Pelosi is asleep at the switch.
— Geoffrey Norman writes for NRO and other publications.
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F1: Lewis Hamilton talks informal, says Ferrari chief Louis Camilleri
Updated: Dec 13, 2019, 12:25 IST | AFP | Milan
But 2021 will in any case be "too early" for one of the young drivers to move up from the Ferrari Driver Academy, the Italian said
Milan: Ferrari chief executive officer Louis Camilleri said Thursday that it was premature to talk about a possible move of six-time world champion Lewis Hamilton to the Italian team. Camilleri confirmed that Mercedes driver Hamilton has had "conversations" with Ferrari chairman John Elkann, but not with him nor Team Principal Mattia Binotto. "It is common knowledge that Lewis has had conversations with (Elkann)," Camilleri told reporters at Ferrari headquarters at Maranello. "(But) that was a little exaggerated. While it was at a social event, they have mutual friends," said Camilleri, adding that "it would be premature to decide anything today."
The 34-year-old Hamilton, who comes to the end of his Mercedes contract next season, will be bidding for a record-equalling seventh world title in 2020. Meanwhile, Camilleri pointed out that Ferrari have a "long-term agreement" with Charles Leclerc, the 22-year-old driver from Monaco who joined the team in 2015 and is under contract until the 2022 season. Leclerc is the junior driver to four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, whose contract at Ferrari ends after the 2020 season. "We need to see both the performances, the way he adapts to the car (for the 2020 season) and his motivation for the future," said Binotto of 32-year-old Vettel. "It's not about whether he'll make mistakes or not," he continued, "it's really about how he sees his future and how we see our team."
But 2021 will in any case be "too early" for one of the young drivers to move up from the Ferrari Driver Academy, the Italian said. "It will be important to have drivers with some (Formula One) experience because the cars will be completely new," added Binotto. Among these is 20-year-old Mick Schumacher, son of Ferrari legend Michael, who finished 12th in his first season in Formula 2. "We're expecting a lot from him next year because he'll have a season behind him and we're pretty sure he is a good candidate for F1 in the future," added Binotto. "Will he be a good candidate for Ferrari? It really is to early to say."
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https://www.middletownpress.com/business/article/On-the-Move-Much-heralded-100th-Durham-Fair-14459060.php
On the Move: Much-heralded 100th Durham Fair opens this weekend
By Larry McHugh
Published 9:20 am EDT, Sunday, September 22, 2019
Larry McHugh
Welcome to Durham Fair week in Middlesex County!
The 100th annual Durham Fair will be held on the famous Durham Fairgrounds beginning Thursday, and will run through Sept. 29. We are so fortunate to have this large-scale, all-volunteer-run agricultural event right here in Middlesex County.
The Durham Fair, which remains the largest fair in the state of Connecticut, continues to provide four terrific days of good, clean wholesome fun. It kicks off Thursday with an antique farm equipment demo, demolition derby, outstanding entertainment from a number of country musicians, and a fireworks show to close out the evening.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday feature full days of events and activities, including entertainment headliners like Little River Band and Big & Rich, monster truck rallies, livestock barns featuring prize-winning animals, the educational discovery tent, arts and crafts, rides and games on the midway, a laser show that will light up the sky, and a number of outstanding shopping and culinary options.
The Durham Fair is one of the largest fairs in North America managed entirely by unpaid volunteers, and it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to our region every September. In recent years, the fair has received the Connecticut Governor’s Tourism Volunteer of the Year Award for being a 100-percent volunteer-led event, and the Best Country Fair by Connecticut Magazine, something we have all known for many years.
I am very proud of Durham Fair Association President Dan Miramant and the entire committed team of volunteers who have been hard at work preparing for this year’s fair. I am also proud that Sunday has been designated as military appreciation day, and all active duty U.S. military personnel and veterans will receive free admission.
The chamber will be right there with Dan and his team as they continue to move the fair forward, and I congratulate them again on 100 amazing years.
For information, visit durhamfair.com. See you on the fairgrounds!
This week also features a number of other important meetings and events. The main chamber event of the week is scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Red Lion Hotel in Cromwell as we welcome new UConn President Tom Katsouleas to a member breakfast meeting.
Sponsored by Pratt & Whitney, the event will focus on President Katsouleas’ efforts to spark innovation and expand UConn’s impact on the state’s economy. After previously serving as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia, Tom began his new role at UConn Aug. 1.
We look forward to welcoming him to Middlesex County, and look forward to working with him on STEM, workforce development, and other efforts as we move forward. I also want to once again thank Pratt & Whitney for sponsoring this important chamber event. Pratt & Whitney is not only a critical employer in our state and region, but it is a strong corporate citizen that supports a host of community initiatives.
We are very lucky to have Pratt & Whitney in Middletown and Middlesex County, and we look forward to welcoming Vice President of Engineering, Engine Design & System Integration, John Wiedemer, who will introduce our speaker.
Thursday afternoon features a grand opening celebration for Fork in the Road in Higganum Center. I look forward to joining chamber Chairman Don DeVivo, Haddam First Selectwoman Lizz Milardo, and the owner of this new Middlesex County business, Lori Lloyd, for this exciting occasion. Fork in the Road carries locally-sourced quality prepared meals, soups, pastas, breads and bakery items, including cupcakes, cookies, mousse, tarts, chocolates and more.
Thursday evening features a plaque dedication ceremony for former state senator Eileen Daily at the Dickinson Bottling Plant at Essex Station. The unveiling of a large bronze plaque in honor of Eileen’s many contributions to Middlesex County is a fitting tribute to an excellent community servant who passed away in 2015.
Eileen was a strong supporter of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce throughout her illustrious career in state and local government. In September 2014, we honored her with the prestigious Governor William A. O’Neill Public Service Award, and I am so happy that we did. I applaud Essex Steam Train and Riverboat for putting this event together, and look forward to attending.
On Friday morning, I look forward to a meeting of the Middlesex County Substance Abuse Action Council’s Advisory Committee at the chamber office. MCSAAC, a council of the Business Industry Foundation of Middlesex County, works to reduce the incidence of alcohol and other drug abuse in our region.
This meeting will focus on the chamber’s recently launched recovery employment program, designed to support individuals working through recovery. A job coach is provided to help guide them through the process of job training and eventual employment.
Charles Mitchell, a new chamber employee and REP job coach, is off to a great start with this important new program. I thank him for his efforts and am thrilled to have him as part of the chamber team. MCSAAC, under the leadership of Board President Tony Salvatore, will continue to focus on these critical substance abuse-related issues affecting our region.
Looking ahead to Saturday, two important events are scheduled in Middletown and in Cromwell.
The first, Sept. 28 at Harbor Park, is the Middletown Middle Passage Ceremony and Port Marker Project. It has been 400 years since the first kidnapped Africans were enslaved in English-claimed America. UNESCO has designated Middletown as a Site of Memory because, in the 1700s, two such slave vessels sailed into Middletown's riverfront with their abducted human cargo.
The ceremony will remember and honor these and other enslaved Africans who contributed to the building of this community. The event will feature African Drumming and a Libation Ceremony, Native American and youth elements, and the unveiling of the Middle Passage commemorative plaque.
That evening, the Cromwell mayor’s gala will be held at TPC River Highlands Tournament Players Club Ballroom. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit Adelbrook Behavioral Services of Cromwell, a longtime community stakeholder in Cromwell. I also want to congratulate Heather and Jeff Polke, who are receiving the volunteerism award, and Richard F. Donohue, who will receive the civic duty award.
Despite all of the great things happening in our region this week, I must close this chamber column on a sad note after the recent passing of Dr. Edward Drysgula at the age of 93. Ed Drysgula led an incredible life, which included great success in business as a longtime local dentist, service to our country in the U.S,. Army during the Korean War, time as a standout basketball player at Georgetown University, and most importantly, a wonderful family.
His sons were students at Xavier High School while I was there, and they were always great to work with. I am grateful for his commitment to our community, his service to our country, and for the impact that he had on so many of us.
Our thoughts are prayers are with his sons, Edward S. Drysgula Jr. and Michael A. Drysgula, who both followed in their dad’s footsteps by going into dentistry, and his entire family at this difficult time. Edward S. Drysgula will be missed.
Larry McHugh is president of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce in Middletown.
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Central off to Arizona
NEW BRITAIN -- The NCAA announced the field of 64 for the 57th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Monday and the CCSU Blue Devils received a trip to the regional in Tempe, Ariz, hosted by Arizona State University.
JEREMY DOMINICK
Published 12:00 am EDT, Tuesday, May 27, 2003
"We're extremely excited," CCSU manager Charlie Hickey said. "We have the opportunity to go to one of the great collegiate baseball places in the country. There is a lot of tradition at Arizona State."
The Blue Devils received a number four seed in regional and will face the host Sun Devils, who received the top seed in Tempe, in the first round on Friday. Number two seed University of Nevada-Las Vegas and number three seed New Mexico State University face off in the other first round game.
The double elimination tournament will continue on Saturday, with the championship game slated for Sunday. The winner of the regional advances to the Super Regional tournament, which will begin Friday, June 6 and plays in a best two-of-three format. Each of the eight Super Regional tournament winners will play in the College World Series.
Arizona State (50-12) is one of just two teams in the tournament with 50 wins. Florida State University (50-10-1), the overall number one seed in the tournament, also recorded 50 wins this season.
CCSU earned the trip to Tempe via an automatic bid with a Northeast Conference Championship. The Blue Devils defeated Monmouth 4-0 in the NEC title game on May 18.
Last year, CCSU (31-15-2) traveled to Austin, Texas to face off against the University of Texas Longhorns in the first round. The Blue Devils lost to the eventual national champions and then lost to Lamar University in the elimination round.
"Obviously, we had an opportunity last year to see another team with great tradition as well, in Texas," Hickey said. "(ASU) is one of the ones that you have in the back of your mind when you think about placement in the tournament. It just is a great collegiate program."
While last season the Blue Devils lost 7-2 to Texas and 9-4 to Lamar, Hickey said he will make sure his team keeps upbeat.
"We're happy to go back to the tournament," Hickey said. "We had a special year. But there's also nothing wrong with enjoying it and having fun, and I'm going to make sure that the guys do that.
To be honest, I think we are in a position where we are an extremely better baseball team than we were last year. I think the guys are focused and they won't be glassy-eyed like we were a little bit last year. I think at the end of the Texas game, we felt like we didn't play like we were capable of. But the game against Lamar, I think we loosened up a little bit and not one person left the regional thinking we hadn't played our best baseball."
Hickey and his staff will take the next couple of days to learn as much as they can about ASU before making a decision about who will start on the mound. But Hickey stressed the importance of his team enjoying the experience.
"We're going to make sure we just go out there and have fun," Hickey said. "There is certainly nothing wrong with having fun. I sure know that I'm going to enjoy it. All that the coaching staff is going to ask of the team is that they go out and play like they're capable of playing."
Jeremy Dominick can be reached by e-mail at jdominick@newbritainherald.com or by calling (860) 225-4601 ext. 255.
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'Stronger, hungrier' Phillips ready for new role with Sun
Published 12:00 am EDT, Friday, June 5, 2009
UNCASVILLE -- The mere mention of Erin Phillips' name conjures up a multitude of reactions, a plethora of images to the casual basketball fan.
Some may recall the photos of a scantily-clad Phillips in an Australian magazine last year, or perhaps the interview in the same publication where Phillips proclaimed that Australia was "not going to be team USA's little bitch" in the upcoming Olympics.
Then, when it came time for the actual Olympics, Phillips was little more than a glorified spectator. She never had a chance to back up her bravado, playing barely more than 30 minutes in six games. The ultimate indignity came when she was the only Australian player not to get into the gold-medal game against the U.S.
These days, Phillips is still as quotable as ever, but she is eager to let her game do most of the talking.
Heading into today's season opener against Washington (4 p.m., Mohegan Sun Arena), Phillips, the Connecticut Sun's third-year guard, is getting her wish.
The leading scorer in the preseason, she will start at shooting guard and play the most significant role of her young WNBA career.
"I'm going to say she is one of the most improved players in the league," Connecticut coach Mike Thibault said. "Her shooting confidence is really good, her toughness has always been there. She has grown up. She is at peace with herself this year and what she is doing."
Phillips has every right to walk around with a sense of tranquility. After playing in just eight games with the Sun in the last two seasons, she not only was able to report on time for training camp this year, but she also arrived a week and a half early to work out with good friend and backcourt partner Lindsay Whalen.
"Last year, I came in with eight or so games to go, and I only knew three people on the team," Phillips said. "That's tough when you have to jump in, meet with everybody and bond with everybody and try to play in the playoffs after eight games.
"It is the best situation possible for me to come to Connecticut. Getting to work out with Lindsay and the team before the (training camp) gets started has been a huge bonus for me."
When last season ended with a first-round playoff loss to New York, Thibault made it clear that his team needed to land "a stone-cold shooter" to complement Whalen and Asjha Jones and make the step from contender to WNBA champion. He went out and signed former FIBA Europe women's player of the year Anete Jekabsone-Zogota, who is expected to join the team either later this month or in early July.
While Thibault will welcome the explosive Jekabsone-Zogota to the fold when her commitments with the Latvian team in the EuroLeague championship are over, he didn't have to look to Latvia to find another 3-point threat.
In three preseason games, Phillips was 6-of-8 from 3-point range and has never had more confidence shooting the ball.
She credits offseason work with former Australian national team standout Sandy Brondello for helping extend her shooting range and add more consistency to her perimeter game. Then there are the memories of being relegated to mop-up duty in the Olympics to make Phillips take a look at how she approaches the sport.
"I am one of those players who hates to sit and watch, but at the same time, it was a big learning curve for me, because that was just my role," Phillips said. "It was tough in the Olympics, but at the same time, it makes you stronger, it makes you hungrier. My goal is to be the starting point guard or starting off guard in the London Olympics. At the time, it was definitely difficult, especially when we were getting beat pretty bad.
"But that is in the past, and there is nothing you can do about it now. You just have to move on and take responsibility yourself, go back to the drawing board, work on your game a bit more and become a better player. That is what I have done."
The Sun finalized its opening-day roster by cutting second-year forward Danielle Page and rookie frontcourt players Lyndra Littles and Carrem Gay.
Thibault, who also makes all player personnel decisions, chose to keep forward/center Lauren Ervin, the team's third-round pick in the 2008 draft, and guards Kiesha Brown and Kristi Cirone.
Jessica Moore, a member of three national championship teams at UConn, was cut by Los Angeles on Friday. The other nine former UConn players survived cut-down day.
Connecticut (Jones, Barbara Turner), Minnesota (Renee Montgomery, Charde Houston), Phoenix (Ketia Swanier, Diana Taurasi) and Seattle (Sue Bird, Swin Cash) have two ex-Huskies on the roster, and Ashley Battle will begin her fifth season with the New York Liberty.
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US Navy to Run Rare 3-Carrier Military Exercise in Pacific
President Donald Trump meets opera performers at the Forbidden City, Nov. 8, 2017, in Beijing, China. Trump is on a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
The Associated Press | By Robert Burns
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy said Wednesday it will launch a rare military exercise involving three aircraft carrier strike groups in the western Pacific starting this weekend, coinciding with the final stops of President Donald Trump's Asia tour.
The maneuvers are to begin Saturday and end Tuesday. It will be the Navy's first three-carrier exercise in the western Pacific since 2007.
The U.S. 7th Fleet, which announced the exercise, did not say where in the western Pacific the exercise will be conducted, but officials have said recently that it is intended to demonstrate U.S. resolve with allies Japan and South Korea during the ongoing crisis with North Korea.
"Multiple carrier strike force operations are very complex, and this exercise in the Western Pacific is a strong testament to the U.S. Pacific Fleet's unique ability and ironclad commitment to the continued security and stability of the region," the Pacific Fleet commander, Adm. Scott Swift, said.
The announcement made no mention of the exercise coinciding with Trump's Asia trip, but the maneuvers are connected with a string of U.S. moves to showcase U.S. military strength as Washington and its allies put diplomatic pressure on Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons program and cease the testing of ballistic missiles.
U.S. strategic bombers have recently flown off the coast of Korea, and Trump mentioned this week in South Korea that U.S. submarines operate in that area.
Trump began his trip in Japan and currently is in China. He also is scheduled to visit Vietnam and the Philippines.
The carriers involved are the USS Ronald Reagan, based in Japan; the USS Theodore Roosevelt, based in San Diego; and the USS Nimitz, based at Naval Base Kitsap at Bremerton, Washington.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Hawaii in late October, before the dates of the exercise had been made public, that the three carriers were not targeting North Korea. He called their convergence in the area a "routine demonstration of our commitment to the region."
--This article was written by Robert Burns from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.
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Supplying horizontal drilling machines to help the drought-hit Cape Town provincial government search for fresh water resources in the Hottentots Holland Mountains was no big deal for Master Drilling, but it generated excellent publicity. The company is perfectly positioned to surf the wave of technological and safety innovation hitting the mining industry. Pretorius’ dream is to have Master Drilling at the centre of a non-blasting mine environment. It has been testing a mobile tunnel boring machine which excavates tunnels faster than traditional drill and blast methodology and continues to work on its blind shaft boring technology, which should be launched in the first quarter of 2019. Unfortunately, mines in its home territory of South Africa are not exactly spending lavishly on exploration and development, with a couple of exceptions. Pretorius said that outside South Africa, the group is picking up new contracts in copper, polymetallics, and gold. In South Africa, the only flourishing sectors are iron ore, coal, manganese and some diamonds. But he’s positive about a better outlook for 2019 reflecting that 2018 was still better than 2017 for the South Africa mining industry. Global expansion continues: in 2018 Master Drilling completed the purchase of Swedish company Bergteamet Raiseboring Europe and it recently bought a Western Cape based company, Atlantis Group, which expands the group’s presence in India, Brazil and Zambia.
“We dodged most of the storms in the last six months.”
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Honor Flight is “Thrill of a Lifetime”
By Amanda Raus • Published at 10:55 pm on May 23, 2009
Hundreds of family and friends gathered at the gate at Bradley International Airport with flags waving over the weekend.
They wanted to be the first to welcome home the World War II veterans who went down to Washington, D.C. to see the memorial put up in their honor.
"Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. It was the biggest, just a thrill of a lifetime," said Robert Fitz of Bristol.
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The thrill of a lifetime can only begin to describe the journey the World War II veterans made. They visited several war memorials, including the one dedicated to them and their fellow soldiers.
Charlotte Patros' husband George served in World War II.
"He was in one of the first battalions that went into Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped," Charlotte Patros of Windham said.
George Patros started serving his country right after high school. Through this trip, he realized what his service meant to his country.
"I did not realize that most Americans really appreciated what they did during World War II. In Washington, D.C., no matter where you went, they came up to you and thanked you. It really brought tears to my eyes. I must have shaken 1,000 hands today and that’s awesome," George Patros said.
Frank Lantini, 91, of Durham served for four years. His wife remembers writing letters to him while he was overseas. She said this trip was a dream come true.
"He never thought he would go, but he was happy to go this time," Phyllis Lantini said.
"It was very good. I enjoyed every minute of it," said Frank Lantini.
They also enjoyed the hero's welcome they got when they returned. So many people lined up, cheered them on and honored the veterans this Memorial Day weekend.
"It makes me feel very proud. And all that we went through, was worth it," said George Patros.
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US Soldier Dies in Non-Combat Incident in Afghanistan
The military said the incident happened on Thursday and is being investigated
Published at 4:41 am on December 14, 2018
The U.S. military says an American service member has died in a non-combat-related incident in Afghanistan, without offering further information.
The military's statement says the incident happened on Thursday and is being investigated.
The service member's identity was being withheld until his family could be notified.
About 14,000 U.S. military personnel are serving in Afghanistan, training and assisting Afghanistan's beleaguered national forces, which come under near daily attacks by the Taliban who hold sway over nearly half the country.
The U.S.-led NATO mission handed off Afghanistan's security to Afghan troops in December 2014, but they have struggled to quash the insurgency, which has grown to include an Islamic State affiliate.
Washington has spent nearly $1 trillion in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster in 2001.
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Justin Grey
10 February 2015 — 1 minute read
The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 0.2 per cent in December following a rise of 0.1 per cent in November.
The latest ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover rose 0.2 per cent in December following a rise of 0.1 per cent in November and a rise of 0.4 per cent in October 2014, seasonally adjusted.
In seasonally adjusted terms, the largest contributor to the rise was clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing (2.7 per cent). Food retailing (0.3 per cent) was the only other industry to rise in December. Other retailing (0.0 per cent) and cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services (0.0 per cent) were relatively unchanged whilst there were falls in household goods retailing (-0.4 per cent) and department stores (-0.9 per cent).
In seasonally adjusted terms the states that displayed rises were Queensland (0.6 per cent), NSW (0.2 per cent), WA (0.5 per cent) and the ACT (0.4 per cent). Victoria was relatively unchanged (0.0 per cent) and there were falls in SA (-0.4 per cent), Tasmania (-1.3 per cent) and the Northern Territory (-0.1 per cent).
The trend estimate for Australian retail turnover rose (0.2 per cent) in December 2014. This followed a (0.3 per cent) rise in November and (0.3 per cent) rise in October. Through the year, the trend estimate rose 3.3 per cent in December 2014 compared to December 2013.
In volume terms, turnover rose (1.5 per cent) in the December quarter, seasonally adjusted, following a rise of (0.9 per cent) in the September quarter 2014.
Online retail turnover contributed (2.8 per cent) to total retail turnover in original terms.
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Next Women’s World Cup a big chance for U.S. soccer
The 1999 Women’s World Cup final remains the highest-rated soccer game ever on U.S. English-language TV.
Next Women’s World Cup a big chance for U.S. soccer The 1999 Women’s World Cup final remains the highest-rated soccer game ever on U.S. English-language TV. Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1wn8e4J
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United States’ Brandi Chastain celebrates after kicking the game-winning overtime penalty shootout goal against China during the Women’s World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., in 1999. For all the viewership records set by the 2014 World Cup, one didn’t fall: The 1999 Women’s World Cup final remains the highest-rated soccer game ever on U.S. English-language TV. The Women’s World Cup kicks off in Canada in June 2015 _ and if the favored U.S. squad advances far, expect some more massive TV audiences. (Photo: AP )
The chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” can rev up again next summer.
And this time, they won’t conflict with the workday.
A year after the World Cup transformed millions of Americans into red-white-and-blue-wearing soccer fanatics, another chance to cheer for a national team will arrive.
The Women’s World Cup kicks off in Canada in June — and if the favored U.S. advances far, expect some more massive TV audiences.
“Any time you get to wrap yourself in the flag and root with other Americans, it doesn’t really matter if you know what offsides is,” Fox Sports President Eric Shanks said.
The biggest games will air in prime time in the U.S., unlike this year’s men’s tournament. While Brazil’s time zones also were favorable, matches took place in the afternoon to ensure that they ended before bedtime in the lucrative European markets.
But for the women’s event, the U.S. market is the most valuable.
American fans were going crazy for their women’s team long before they jumped on the bandwagon for the men. The 1999 Women’s World Cup final remains the highest-rated soccer game ever on U.S. English-language TV.
When the United States beat China on penalty kicks at the Rose Bowl — and Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey to celebrate — the ABC broadcast was watched in 11.4 percent of American homes with televisions. This year’s U.S.-Portugal group-stage match on ESPN, which broke another record with 18.2 million viewers, was on in 9.6 percent.
The last Women’s World Cup final, when the Americans lost to Japan on penalty kicks in Germany in 2011, was watched by nearly 13.5 million people on ESPN on a Sunday afternoon. At the time, it was the highest-rated soccer telecast on the network.
A year later, the U.S. and Japan met again for the 2012 Olympic gold medal in London. In the middle of a workday in the U.S., the match was seen by almost 4.4 million viewers on NBCSN, then the largest audience in the cable network’s history — bigger than any of its prime-time Stanley Cup Final games.
Many sports fans may be able to name more players on the women’s team than they could for the men before last summer’s World Cup. Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux all appear in prominent commercials.
On top of all that, next summer’s story lines are especially intriguing.
—The domestic violence case against goalkeeper Hope Solo has been much-discussed in the context of NFL star Ray Rice’s punishment.
—Star players are suing to compel organizers to install grass at all the stadiums, saying the plan to use turf is discriminatory because the men don’t play World Cups on artificial surfaces.
—A testy rivalry is simmering between the top-ranked Americans and host Canadians, who are still rankled by calls that went against them in their Olympic semifinal overtime loss. Fans north of the border have booed the Canadian-born Leroux for her choice to play for the U.S.
—Wambach, the top scorer in the history of women’s soccer, has yet to win a World Cup. Hard to believe considering all of the Americans’ success, but they haven’t raised the trophy since that 1999 run.
“The planets are aligned perfectly,” said David Neal, the executive producer for Fox’s World Cup coverage.
Fox has little experience airing women’s sports in the United States, so there’s not much precedent to predict the tone and vigor it will use in its coverage. Neal, though, produced nine Olympics in his three decades at NBC.
Fox hired him more than two years ago after the company won U.S. English-language World Cup rights from ESPN. Its first men’s World Cup isn’t until 2018 in Russia.
Neal said the dedication of Fox’s top executives to covering the women’s tournament is “breathtaking.”
“It’s not meant to be a boutique event. It’s not meant to be a lab for the event in Russia,” he said.
“Is there a deep history of covering women’s sports? No, there’s not,” Neal added. “But there’s a deep and abiding commitment.”
That includes the unprecedented coverage of the current CONCACAF qualifying tournament, in which the U.S. faces Mexico in Friday’s semifinals. Every game from the event is airing live on a Fox Sports network. There’s a pregame show before each U.S. match and an embedded reporter covering the Americans.
Women’s soccer is benefiting from the company’s desire to boost Fox Sports 1, its fledgling cable sports channel. Live events are the best way to draw new viewers to the network.
Soccer neophyte Gus Johnson was originally supposed to call the Women’s World Cup along with the 2018 men’s tournament. But he recently decided to step down as Fox’s lead announcer for the sport.
The network has yet to announce its new plans.
John Strong, also NBC’s lead announcer for Major League Soccer, and former U.S. defender Cat Whitehill will call Sunday’s CONCACAF final. Tony DiCicco, who coached the Americans to that ‘99 World Cup title, is among the other analysts.
Qualifying is the first of many steps for the U.S. team to potentially reach another final — and the attention that would come with that.
“It’s been fascinating to watch the excitement get wrapped into these World Cups,” Wambach said. “So we know we have an opportunity. We know we have a responsibility to do the very best we can.”
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'A Texas legend': Reactions to the death of H. Ross Perot
Reaction to the death of H. Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate.
Author: Marjorie Owens
Published: 2:43 PM CDT July 9, 2019
Updated: 6:24 PM CDT July 9, 2019
Less than two weeks after he turned 89, a "Texas legend" has died.
H. Ross Perot was born in 1930 in Texarkana, Texas. He became a billionaire in Texas and ran for president twice while living in the state. Tuesday, he died at his Dallas home.
Not surprisingly, a large number of reactions to his death came from Texas leaders.
Here are some of those reactions:
“Texas and America have lost a strong patriot. Ross Perot epitomized the entrepreneurial spirit and the American creed. He gave selflessly of his time and resources to help others in our community, across our country, and around the world. He loved the U.S. military and supported our service members and veterans," Bush said. "Most importantly, he loved his dear wife, children, and grandchildren. Laura and I send our heartfelt condolences to the entire Perot family as they celebrate a full life."
“Ross Perot exemplified what it means to be a Texan and an American. Born into extreme poverty, he rose up to become one our nation’s most successful entrepreneurs and an exemplar of the American dream. More importantly, however, Ross Perot was a devoted husband, family man, and servant of God. His charitable work and his support of the United States Military and its veterans will forever be remembered. I ask that all Texans join Cecilia and me in remembering one of the Lone Star State’s greatest sons and keep him and his family in their prayers.”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
"Jan and I extend our deepest condolences to the Perot family. Ross Perot, Sr. was a great Texan, a great patriot, a legendary entrepreneur and a friend. He was a man of faith and a U.S. Navy veteran whose life exemplified the American dream. His grit, his ingenuity and his fearless and courageous spirit will inspire Texans and all Americans for generations to come."
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz
“Our hearts are heavy as we bid farewell to Ross Perot. In his 89 years on earth, he lived the American dream to the fullest. Ross is a Texas legend. He will be remembered as an outstanding entrepreneur, philanthropist, and dedicated husband and father. A fierce patriot, Ross fought for what he believed in, and his national grassroots movement changed politics forever. Heidi and I send our heartfelt prayers and condolences to his wife Margot and the entire Perot family as they grieve the loss of a loving husband, father, and grandfather. May he rest in peace.”
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson
“We have lost a true Dallas icon. Ross Perot was a veteran, successful businessman, and philanthropist who spent his life working hard to make our city, state, and country better. He personified the American dream and will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.”
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of Ross Perot, Sr., a visionary who left his mark on our state and nation. Mr. Perot was a trailblazer who saw Fort Worth’s potential and invested heavily in our city through numerous economic development endeavors. Above all, Mr. Perot was a patriot who selflessly served our country in many capacities. Mr. Perot will be missed, but his legacy will continue to positively impact Fort Worth and change lives for the better. We extend our condolences to the entire Perot family as they mourn the loss of an incredible husband, father and grandfather.”
More reactions:
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens
“Ross Perot was an incredible individual, patriot, entrepreneur and visionary business leader. He was underestimated much of his life and leaves behind a larger than life legacy. He epitomizes all that is great about America. Humble beginnings and a great work ethic are stepping stones to incredible success.”
Dr. Linda Silver, the Eugene McDermott chief executive officer of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science
"With the city and the nation, we at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science mourn the passing of Ross Perot, a Texas giant, just as we celebrate his life among us.
Mr. Perot was an engineer at heart. He saw in this Museum a way to make STEM education accessible and appealing to children at the critical period when capturing their imagination and confidence establishes their trajectory into science and technology. He wanted for this city and state an educated, innovative workforce and saw the Perot Museum of Nature and Science as one expression of that. For that, we remain grateful.
Mr. Perot enlivened the Museum with his generous and caring spirit and served as an example of kindness, compassion, and innovation. His legacy as leader, independent thinker, technological trailblazer and American patriot will endure and continue to serve as inspiration in fulfilling our mission. Our heartfelt thoughts are with the entire Perot family at this time."
"H. Ross Perot had a special place in his heart for The Salvation Army since childhood. Over and over while growing up, he heard the story about how the brother he never knew, Gabriel Ross Perot Jr. – who died of spinal meningitis before Ross was born – would pass a tambourine through the crowd in downtown Texarkana on Saturday nights to collect donations for The Salvation Army.
Everyone from the farms and rural areas around Texarkana would come to town on Saturdays to meet and stock up on supplies. Gathering around town square on Saturday nights was a big part of life for the Perot family in those days.
'The story we all heard about through our childhood was when The Salvation Army band would come down and play,' Perot said. 'They would give him the tambourine at the end of the concert and he would pass the tambourine. It was the high point of the Saturday night.'
In addition to his lifelong fondness for The Salvation Army stemming from these childhood memories, Perot had another reason to support the organization: His wife Margot was a member of The Salvation Army’s local advisory board and a Life Member of the National Advisory Board.
Ross and Margot were financial supporters of The Salvation Army since the early 1980s. The couple was instrumental in the fundraising efforts for the “Impact on the Future” campaign benefiting The Salvation Army Southern Territory College for Officer Training. Later, they made a grant to the College for Officer Training to build the Perot Family Residence for married student housing. They were presented the distinguished William Booth Award, named for the founder of The Salvation Army, in Dallas, and the Evangeline Booth Award at The Salvation Army National Advisory Organizations Conference in 2003.
Perot also gave the lead gift to a capital campaign for The Salvation Army in Texarkana to build the Gabriel Ross Perot Center of Hope transitional housing shelter.
Through the years, Ross and Margot’s children have also become supporters of The Salvation Army. Last holiday season, Ross Perot, Jr. and his wife Sarah matched every dollar donated to The Salvation Army red kettles across DFW up to $500,000 during the home stretch of the annual campaign. And two years ago, they gave $1 million to support local services of The Salvation Army of North Texas following a $1 million gift from Ross, Margot, and their daughters for Hurricane Harvey relief.
The Perot family has been so important to The Salvation Army and it’s humbling to know The Salvation Army has been so important to them.
'There’s just such a wonderful work that goes on, and so many varieties of work, reaching so many people,' Margot said.
The Salvation Army is honored to have had the admiration and support of H. Ross Perot during his entire lifetime. We extend our sincerest condolences to his family, friends, and all who loved him.
RELATED: Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot dies aged 89
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The Mare’s Tale
Catriona Urquhart
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
In 2001, Newport Museum and Art Gallery housed a major exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Though partly retrospective, the main part of the exhibition was a sequence of work entitled The Mare's Tale.
This centred on the mumming figure of the Mari Lwyd used symbolically and especially to explore the artist's journey toward acceptance of his father's death. Poems by Catriona Urquhart, which were inspired by these works, were exhibited beside them.
The book, here published by The Old Stile Press, presents these poems and, in turn, has images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins specially prepared for the purpose.
Copies of the Main Edition are Numbered and signed by the poet and artist.
Octavian type. All-rag paper from St Cuthbert's Mill. Line images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins throughout and on the cased binding.
The Mare's Tale
180 copies were printed of the Main Edition and copies are available to buy at £50 each.
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Messene Theater Athens 2004 Olympic Pin
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SKU: 03-021-003 Category: Ancient Greek Theaters Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Theaters
Messene Theater – Ancient Theater
Ancient Greek theatre has been fascinating millions of people. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and others, have been the teachers of morality, nobleness, courage and patriotism across the centuries. The stories of Oedipus, Medea, Antigone etc, seem to despise the passage of time.
The ancient Greeks loved live theatre. Every town had at least one open air theatre. These theatres attracted crowds of 15,000 people. per performance. At first, Greek theaters were not used for plays. They were used for music, songs, and dances in honor of the Greek gods. Songs were sung by a chorus.
The Greek architects built theatres on hillsides. That let them position long benches in rows, one above the other, so that everyone could see what was happening on the stage. The stage was located at the bottom of the hill. They could also hear. Greek theatres had great acoustics by design.
Messene Theater:
The first monument one encounters on the way from the Museum to the archaeological site is the theatre. The theatre was used for large scale assemblies of political character. In this theatre was held the meeting between King Philipp V Macedon and Aratos the Sikyonian in 214B.C, the day following the revolt of the Messenian people. According to the testimony of Livius (39.49.6-12), many Messenians preceeded to the theatre of Messene and demanded that the great general of the Achaean League Philopoimen from Megalopolis captured by the Messenians in 183B.C. be transferred there and exposed to common view. Stone blocks belonging to the retaining wall of the theatre seem to have been built into the nearby fountain house Arsinoe during its last phase of constructions in the time of Diocletian; thus the theatre must have been abandoned around that time, that is, in the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 4th c. A.D.
The cavea of the theatre sits on an artificial fill supported by a strong semicircular wall. A large part of the western retaining wall of the cavea survives. The wall is interrupted at regular intervals by entrances with pitched arches which led via stairways to the upper corridor; from there, other stairways provided access to the orchestra and also defined the wedge-shaped divisions of seats. The exterior of the retaining wall is built in exactly the same way as the fortification walls and towers of the city. The fort like impression is accentuated by the arched entrances and ascending stairways. These elements and the fact that the retaining wall of the cavea visible and accessible from the outside make the Theatre of Messene an exceptional building anticipating the theatres and amphitheatres of the Roman period.
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 110: In search of Pocahontas
She was a star of London society, but ended her days in Gravesend
Victor Keegan
Pocahontas was an unlucky princess. She wowed London when she arrived from Virginia with a retinue in 1616 on the arm of Norfolk adventurer John Rolfe. She had reputedly saved the life of Captain John Smith, one of the earliest settlers in Virginia, in 1607. She was brought to London as a kind of ambassador for the Virginia Company, hoping to attract new investment. She was feted by London society and met Queen Anne, wife of James I several times.
A lovely nude statue of her by David McFall, which once graced the front of 38 Red Lion Square in Holborn, hasn’t been heard of since it was sold at auction at Christies 1996. The actual body of Pocahontas was buried at St George’s Church, Gravesend, in 1617 where she died of a disease – possibly pneumonia or smallpox – which struck her at the very start of what was meant to be her voyage home.
A century later, the church was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt on a different site. No-one knows for certain where the old church was located. It is thought her body might be lying beneath nearby Domino’s Pizza. There is a more recent statue of Pocahontas in the church yard, donated by the people of Virginia.
Why was the statue in Red Lion Square? It was commissioned in 1954 to grace the new head office of Cassell Publishers. The spot was chosen because their previous head office had been in Ludgate Hill on the site of an ancient inn called the Belsavage or Belle Savage where Pocahontas had stayed during her visit to London. In 1575, the poet George Gascoigne referred to the “veine delights” of Belsavage fayre”.
In the 18th century the essayist Joseph Addison renamed it “La Belle Sauvage” (“The Beautiful Savage”) in praise of a heroine nurtured in a natural environment, but the actual name can probably be traced back to a proprietor of the inn called Savage.
McFall’s statue was moved from Red Lion Square to Greycoat Place, Victoria and then to Villiers House in the Strand before being auctioned. No-one seems to know where it is now. It could be in a private house or a gallery or maybe even in America. It would be fitting if this lovely sculpture could be displayed once again as a public sculpture in London to commemorate a historic happening.
All previous instalments of Vic Keegan’s Lost London can be found here.
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Categories: Culture, Lost London
Tags: Ludgate Hill, Red Lion Square, The Strand
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Electoral statistics, UK
Electoral statistics, UK: 2013
People registered to vote in Parliamentary and local government elections as recorded in the electoral registers published on 1 December for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Email Pete Large
UK electoral statistics, 2013
Parliamentary electors
Local government electors
Other electoral statistics
1. UK electoral statistics, 2013
The total number of UK parliamentary electors in 2013 was 46,139,900, a fall of 0.5% from 2012
The total number of UK local government electors in 2013 was 47,691,800, a fall of 0.1% from 2012
Between 2012 and 2013, the number of both parliamentary and local government electors declined in both England and Northern Ireland, while the number of parliamentary electors declined in Wales. In Scotland, the number of both parliamentary and local government electors grew by approximately the same percentage as seen between 2011 and 2012
The number of parliamentary electors has declined in all regions of England between 2012 and 2013. The largest decrease (-1.7%) was in the West Midlands
Between 2012 and 2013, the number of local government electors has declined in five of the nine English regions. The other four have recorded growth, but less than that experienced between 2011 and 2012
In England, a factor in the decline in the number of both parliamentary and local government electors recorded between 2012 and 2013 is likely to be changes in administrative practices for including people who have failed to complete the annual voter registration form on the electoral register (known as ‘carried forward’ electors). It is also possible that administrative differences between local authority areas are contributing to the recorded regional variation
Electoral statistics are used by Boundary Commissions, the Electoral Commission, and central government to help with the improvement of electoral policies and for statutory reviews of parliamentary constituency boundaries
Electoral statistics are put together by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and published for the UK and its constituent countries, local government areas and parliamentary constituencies. They provide annual counts of the number of people who are on the electoral registers, usually at 1 December each year.
To make sure that the electoral register was as complete and accurate as possible ahead of the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER) in summer 2014, the annual publication of electoral registers in Great Britain, normally due on 1 December 2013, was delayed until spring 2014. Electoral registers were published on 17 February 2014 in England and 10 March 2014 in Scotland and Wales. Registers for Northern Ireland were published as usual on 1 December 2013.
References in this release to electoral statistics for 2013 should be taken to mean electors included on the registers published on 1 December 2013 (in Northern Ireland), 17 February 2014 (in England) and 10 March 2014 (in Scotland and Wales). See background note 5 for further details on comparing electoral statistics for different years.
Electoral statistics are available for the two main groups of voters:
Parliamentary Electors – those entitled to vote in Westminster Parliamentary elections
Local Government Electors – those entitled to vote in local government and/or European elections1
The difference in who is entitled to vote at parliamentary and/or local elections largely depends on residence and citizenship conditions. Local Government Electors for example, include those European Union citizens resident in the UK who are not entitled to vote in Westminster Parliamentary elections, whilst Parliamentary Electors include British citizens resident overseas who are not entitled to vote in local government elections. Further information on the eligibility criteria can be found in a Quality and Methodology Information paper from our Quality Reports for Government Statistics page.
There are three key reasons why the registered numbers of electors in an area can change from year to year:
a change in the size of the population who are entitled to vote; for example, due to international migration
a change in the proportion of the eligible population who actually register to vote; for example, more people registering as a result of better canvassing
differences in administrative practices; for example, the extent of use of the ‘carry forward’, which allows for an elector to be retained on the electoral register for a year when they have not responded to an annual canvass. In particular, restricted application of the ‘carry forward’ in some areas has resulted in a decrease in the number of registered electors between 2012 and 2013
Methods, quality and uses
For England and Wales, electoral statistics are taken from data supplied to ONS by local Electoral Registration Officers. Data for Scotland are similarly collected by National Records of Scotland (NRS). Data for Northern Ireland are collected by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland (EONI). ONS then bring together statistics for the UK using the data supplied by NRS and EONI.
More information is available from our Electoral Statistics Information page.
Electoral statistics are gathered and published by ONS. They are used by Boundary Commissions, the Electoral Commission, and central government to help with the improvement of electoral policies and for statutory reviews of parliamentary constituency boundaries. The statistics are also of interest to Members of Parliament and the general public.
Electoral statistics represent the most accurate count possible of the number of people on electoral registers each year. They are subject to full quality assurance procedures and are reliable and comparable across the UK constituent countries. Information on the quality of these statistics is provided in a Quality and Methodology Information paper available from our Quality Reports for Government Statistics page.
Notes for introduction
To be entitled to vote in European elections in the UK, European Union (EU) citizens are required to request the right to vote in this country rather than their home country. Those persons who do not make this request will not be included in the European Parliament electorate.
4. Parliamentary electors
The total number of UK parliamentary electors in 2013 was 46,139,900, a fall of 0.5% from 2012.
The total number of parliamentary electors in each of the UK constituent countries and the percentage changes between 2012 and 2013 are:
England - 38,597,100, a fall of 0.6%
Wales - 2,297,300, a fall of 0.2%
Scotland - 4,027,200, a rise of 1.1%
Northern Ireland - 1,218,400, a fall of 1.0%
Over the last five years the total number of UK parliamentary electors has risen by an average of 0.4% each year. However, this figure hides very different patterns of change at UK constituent country level, as shown in Figure 1.
The number of electors in England has grown by an average of 0.4% each year over the five-year period. However, between 2012 and 2013, the electorate has decreased by approximately 240,000 people (or 0.6%). This is the first fall recorded since 2003 and is likely to be due, at least in part, to a reduction in the overall number of electors ‘carried forward’ onto the register in 2013. These are electors who have failed to respond to the annual canvass but have been allowed to remain on the register for the following year. The change in the number of ‘carried forward’ electors is not consistent across the country, in some local authority areas the majority of ‘carried forward’ electors have been removed from the register while in others the number of ‘carried forward’ electors has increased.
The number of electors in both Scotland and Wales has risen on average by 0.7% and 0.3% each year respectively; however both showed a fall between the 2008 and 2009 registers and Wales fell again between 2012 and 2013. Of the four UK constituent countries, Northern Ireland had the highest growth in the number of parliamentary electors every year between 2008 and 2012, but had the largest decline between 2012 and 2013.
Figure 1: Annual percentage change in parliamentary electors for UK constituent countries, 2008/09 to 2012/13
Source: Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
Figure 2 however shows that there was large variation between English regions in 2012 to 2013, with the East of England, North West, South East and London showing declines of less than 0.2%, while the West Midlands declined by 1.7%. This is in contrast to the changes recorded last year when all English regions had growth in their number of parliamentary electors. It is possible that differences in administrative practices between local authority areas in different parts of the country are contributing to these regional differences.
Figure 2: Percentage change in parliamentary electors for English regions, 2012/13 compared with 2011/12
Parliamentary Constituencies
There are at present 650 Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in the UK made up of 533 in England, 59 in Scotland, 40 in Wales and 18 in Northern Ireland. These boundaries came into force at the May 2010 General Election. Electoral statistics provide counts of the total number of parliamentary electors for all Parliamentary constituencies in the UK.
The typical size of constituencies differs between the constituent countries of the UK with a median total parliamentary electorate across constituencies of about 72,400 in England, 69,000 in Scotland, 66,800 in Northern Ireland and 56,800 in Wales.
In 2013, the parliamentary constituency with the smallest sized electorate at 22,100 was Na h-Eileanan an Iar and the largest electorate at 111,800 was the Isle of Wight. These unusual electoral sizes are explained by these areas being island constituencies.
The total parliamentary electorate grew in 285 constituencies (44%) between 2012 and 2013. In total, 15 constituencies had growth of more 3% in their parliamentary electorate including two which grew by more than 8%.
Table 1: Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies with greatest percentage increase in parliamentary electors between 2012 and 2013
Rank Parliamentary Constituency County (C) or Borough (B) Total Parliamentary Electorate (thousands) % Change
2012 2013 2012/13
1 Bethnal Green and Bow B 73.2 79.7 8.8
2 Poplar and Limehouse B 71.9 77.9 8.2
3 Wycombe C 71.9 76.4 6.3
4 Louth and Horncastle C 73.8 76.9 4.2
5 West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine C 69.8 72.6 4.0
6 Basingstoke B 78.4 81.3 3.6
7 Cambridge B 73.6 76.2 3.6
8 Huntingdon C 80.0 82.9 3.6
9 Manchester Central B 92.3 95.4 3.3
10 Dundee West B 62.0 64.0 3.2
Source: Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Electoral Office for Northern Ireland
Eight of the constituencies with the greatest percentage growth in parliamentary electors between 2012 and 2013 are in England, with two constituencies in Scotland also in the top ten. Six of these top ten areas are borough constituencies, which are mainly urban areas. The remaining four areas are county constituencies which are partly or mostly rural. The labelling of a constituency as a borough or county is made by the relevant Boundary Commission.
Note that the constituencies of Bethnal Green and Bow; Poplar and Limehouse; Louth and Horncastle; and Cambridge all appeared in the list of constituencies with the greatest percentage fall in parliamentary electors in the previous year. This turnaround for these constituencies may in part link to changes in population size or the population entitled to vote, or administrative differences in how the register was put together between the years.
The greatest percentage growth in parliamentary electors for a constituency in Wales was 3.2% for Swansea West (ranked 13th), and the constituency of Lagan Valley (ranked 71st) showed the greatest growth in Northern Ireland at 1.4%.
The total parliamentary electorate fell in 364 constituencies (56%) between 2012 and 2013. However, 52 constituencies had a fall of more than 3% in their parliamentary electorate including one (Northampton South) which fell by more than 10%.
Table 2: Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies with greatest percentage decrease in parliamentary electors between 2012 and 2013
1 Northampton South B 63.9 57.5 -10.1
2 Taunton Deane C 84.2 77.0 -8.5
3 Leeds West B 67.2 61.8 -8.1
4 Workington C 60.4 55.5 -8.1
5 East Ham B 91.2 84.1 -7.8
6 West Ham B 88.7 82.4 -7.2
7 Leeds North West B 62.9 58.5 -7.0
8 Maidstone and The Weald C 73.8 68.8 -6.7
9 Bath B 65.7 61.5 -6.4
10 Leeds Central B 82.7 77.5 -6.3
All of the constituencies with the greatest percentage fall in parliamentary electors between 2012 and 2013 are in England. The constituency with the greatest fall in parliamentary electors in Scotland was Paisley and Renfrewshire South at 4.8% (ranked 25th). In Northern Ireland and Wales the greatest falls were in Foyle (4.0%, ranked 37th) and Pontypridd (2.6%, ranked 68th) respectively.
5. Local government electors
The total number of UK local government electors in 2013 was 47,691,800, a fall of 0.1% from 2012.
The total number of local government electors in each of the UK constituent countries and the percentage changes between 2012 and 2013 are:
Wales - 2,328,500, a small rise of <0.1%
Over the last five years the total number of UK local government electors has risen by an average of 0.7% each year. However, this figure hides very different patterns of change at UK constituent country level, as shown in Figure 3.
The number of electors in England has grown by an average of 0.6% each year over the five-year period. However, between 2012 and 2013, the electorate has decreased by over 100,000 people (or 0.3%). This is the first fall recorded since 2003 and is likely to be due, at least in part, to a reduction in the overall number of electors ‘carried forward’ onto the register in 2013 (as described in the Parliamentary Electors section). The patterns seen for local government electors are quite similar to those for parliamentary electors.
The number of electors in Scotland fell between 2008 and 2009, but has since seen average growth of 1.3% per year. In contrast, Northern Ireland had the highest growth of the four UK constituent countries between 2008 and 2012, but recorded a fall of 0.5% in the year to December 2013. However, the number of electors in 2013 (1,241,000) remains higher than the 1,227,100 recorded in 2011. Wales has displayed an annual average growth of 0.4% over the last five years and so has had the lowest growth of all UK constituent countries over that period.
Figure 3: Annual percentage change in local government electors for UK constituent countries, 2008/09 to 2012/13
Figure 4 shows that the -0.3% change in the number of local government electors in England, between 2012 and 2013, hides large variation between different regions. London had an increase of 0.6%, while the East of England, South East and North West had increases of 0.3%, 0.2% and 0.1% respectively. The remaining regions all had sizeable decreases in their local government electorate, with the largest being the change of -1.5% seen in the West Midlands. It is possible that differences in administrative practices between local authority areas in different parts of the country may be contributing to these regional differences.
All regions, with the exception of London, have large differences between the percentage change recorded between 2012 and 2013 and that recorded between 2011 and 2012.
Figure 4: Percentage change in local government electors for English regions, 2012/13 compared with 2011/12
Local government areas
Local government areas are unitary authorities, London boroughs and district councils in England; unitary authorities in Wales; and council areas in Scotland and Northern Ireland. At December 2013 there were a total of 406 local government areas in the UK; 326 in England, 32 in Scotland, 26 in Northern Ireland and 22 in Wales.
In 2013, the size of local government electorates ranged from the 1,600 electors in Isles of Scilly to 735,700 in Birmingham. The typical size of local government electorates varies between the constituent countries of the UK with a median across local government areas of about 98,800 in Wales, 98,600 in England, 94,100 in Scotland but only 40,900 in Northern Ireland.
The total local government electorate grew in 215 local government areas (53%) between 2012 and 2013. This compares to 343 areas, or 84%, between 2011 and 2012. However, only 39 areas had growth of more than 2% in their electorate; while four areas had growth of more than 4%, including one (Tower Hamlets) which grew by more 11%.
Table 3: Local government areas with greatest percentage increase in local government electors between 2012 and 2013
Rank Local Government Area Total Local Government Electorate (thousands) % Change
1 Tower Hamlets 161.5 179.8 11.3
2 Wycombe 123.4 130.0 5.3
3 Cambridge 88.4 93.1 5.3
4 East Lindsey 101.7 106.6 4.9
5 Edinburgh, City of 344.9 358.5 4.0
6 Huntingdonshire 125.4 130.2 3.8
7 Aberdeenshire 193.6 200.8 3.7
8 Hertsmere 76.0 78.7 3.7
9 Moray 69.7 72.1 3.4
10 Basingstoke and Deane 128.9 133.2 3.3
Seven of the local government areas with the greatest percentage growth in local government electors between 2012 and 2013 are in England and three areas are in Scotland.
Tower Hamlets, East Lindsey and Cambridge were the three areas with the largest percentage falls in local government electors last year. Their turnaround this year may be due to changes in population size, the population entitled to vote or administrative differences in how the registers were put together in 2012.
The total local government electorate fell in 190 local government areas (47%) between 2012 and 2013, compared to only 63 areas (16%) in the previous year. Fifty areas had a fall of more than 2% in their local government electorate including eight which fell by more than 6%.
All of the local government areas in the top ten for the greatest percentage fall in local government electors are in England, including Taunton Deane which has the largest percentage fall at 8.8%.
The local government area with the greatest fall in local government electors in Scotland was Inverclyde at 4.5% (ranked 17th). In Northern Ireland and Wales the greatest falls were in Derry (3.7%, ranked 25th) and Gwynedd (2.2%, ranked 47th) respectively.
Table 4: Local government areas with greatest percentage decrease in local government electors between 2012 and 2013
1 Taunton Deane 85.8 78.2 -8.8
2 Allerdale 74.9 69.0 -7.9
3 Maidstone 120.3 111.0 -7.7
4 Northampton 159.3 147.4 -7.4
5 Isles of Scilly UA 1.8 1.6 -6.5
6 Newham 205.8 192.6 -6.4
7 East Devon 104.3 97.7 -6.3
8 Wellingborough 55.6 52.2 -6.0
9 Tonbridge and Malling 91.4 86.0 -5.9
10 Hastings 65.0 61.2 -5.8
6. Other electoral statistics
Other electoral statistics produced for areas in the UK include:
Statistics for parliamentary electors for electoral wards in England for 2010 have been published by the Boundary Commission for England. These statistics are produced from data collected from Electoral Registration Officers by ONS and were those used for the cancelled 2013 boundary review process.
This data can be obtained from the Boundary Commission for England on request by emailing information@bcommengland.gsi.gov.uk.
Statistics for National Assembly for Wales electors by Assembly Constituencies are published by the Welsh Government. Those electors who are eligible to vote in local government elections in Wales are eligible to vote in National Assembly for Wales elections. These statistics are produced from data collected from Electoral Registration Officers by ONS.
The data are available from StatsWales.
The Boundary Commission for Wales also publish statistics for the parliamentary electorate by Electoral Divisions.
Electoral statistics for Scotland are produced and published by National Records of Scotland (NRS). Additional statistics not included in the overall UK publication cover Scottish Parliament Constituencies, Scottish regions and electoral wards.
The data are available from the electoral statistics section of the NRS.
Electoral statistics for Northern Ireland are produced and published by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland (EONI). Monthly electoral statistics for both the parliamentary and local government electorate are available at electoral ward level from the electoral statistics section of the EONI website.
7 .Related information
Comparing population estimates and electoral statistics
The electoral statistics in this release give information on the number of people who are registered to vote in the UK - there is no similar collection of data on the number of people who are eligible to vote but who choose not to register.
ONS provides mid-year estimates of the resident population, and these have sometimes been used as an estimate of the total number of people who are entitled to vote. These estimates will include some people who are not eligible to vote and so care must be taken in using these data.
ONS has also published some research looking at the scope and quality of the Electoral Register as a likely supply of data for measuring population, which is available in the Administrative Data Sources Report on the Electoral Register (554 Kb Pdf).
Individual electoral registration
The current electoral registration system in Great Britain is at household level, with one person in the household returning a registration form on behalf of all eligible voters resident at that address. The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013 allows for a new Individual Electoral Registration (IER) system, which is planned to be introduced from summer 2014. Under the new system, voters will register separately, each providing their own unique identifiers, such as National Insurance number and date of birth, so that their information can be verified.
ONS will work closely with the relevant government organisations to make sure that future electoral statistics fully reflect user needs after the start of IER.
Further information on IER is available from the Cabinet Office website.
National Statistics are produced to high professional standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. They undergo regular quality assurance reviews to ensure that they meet customer needs. They are produced free from any political interference.
Electoral statistics for 2013 are available from the electoral statistics section of the ONS website.
Published tables include counts of local government electors and attainers by local government areas and parliamentary electors and attainers by parliamentary constituency. An attainer is a person who attains the age of 18 during the currency of the register, and is entitled to vote at an election on or after his or her eighteenth birthday.
A report describing the methodology used to create the electoral statistics estimates can be found on our Electoral Statistics Information Page.
Electoral statistics usually relate to registers published annually in December. Time series comparisons of electoral statistics in this release use figures for December each year, with the exception of 2012 and 2013 for England, Wales and Scotland. The 2012 electoral statistics relate to October 2012 instead of December 2012 in England and Wales (excluding London). The 2013 electoral statistics relate to February 2014 in England and March 2014 in Wales and Scotland. This means that changes between the 2012 and 2013 electoral statistics may not exactly reflect annual change, as the actual time difference between the two sets of figures may be up to 18 months (the maximum difference is in Wales – October 2012 to March 2014).
Information on previous elections held in the UK or its constituent countries and a list of upcoming elections and referendums is available from the Electoral Commission "Elections and referendums".
This is the first release of 2013 UK electoral statistics. No revisions of this dataset have been made.
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Maroon 5, Big Boi and Travis Scott to play SuperBowl halftime show
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Pop band Maroon 5 will provide the halftime entertainment at next month's Super Bowl in Atlanta in a show also featuring rappers Travis Scott and Big Boi.
Maroon 5, a three-time Grammy Award-winning group led by Adam Levine, will be joined by rising star Scott and Atlanta native Big Boi, who was previously one half of rap group Outkast.
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The show will feature "the broadest range of musical genres ever seen on the Super Bowl stage", the NFL said on Sunday.
Levine on Sunday tweeted a video, showing the band preparing to go on stage. It also featured images of Scott and Big Boi.
US media reported in October that superstar Rihanna had declined an offer to headline the show because she supported former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice.
The annual Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most high-profile entertainment events in the United States, drawing tens of millions of television viewers.
Previous performers have included Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and Prince.
The 2018 Super Bowl when Justin Timberlake performed at halftime was watched by a television audience of 103 million, the biggest by far for any TV event in the US.
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'110 Stories' brings message of unity in Sept. 11 play
John K. Craft directs a powerful play about the people whose lives were changed forever by the Sept. 11 attacks.
'110 Stories' brings message of unity in Sept. 11 play John K. Craft directs a powerful play about the people whose lives were changed forever by the Sept. 11 attacks. Check out this story on newsleader.com: https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/2019/09/05/sept-11-play-110-stories-sarah-tuft-shenanarts/2219072001/
Monique Calello, Staunton News Leader Published 12:55 p.m. ET Sept. 5, 2019 | Updated 1:06 p.m. ET Sept. 5, 2019
Clarence Finn rehearses "110 Stories" by Sarah Tuft at ShenanArts theater in Staunton, Virginia. (Photo: John K. Craft/Submitted)
STAUNTON – “My daddy works in New York. My daddy works in New York.”
These are the words that Clarence Finn remembers. Finn was in middle school on Sept. 11 in a town two hours away from New York City. When the planes hit the World Trade Center, his school closed immediately while he sat with his classmates. No one had any idea what was going on, he says. Everyone was in shock.
But the words of a little girl sitting near him on that day are now a part of who he is today. And she was afraid that something happened to her daddy.
Finn is one of many actors coming together on stage at ShenanArts to share “110 Stories” from people whose lives were changed forever from the Sept. 11 attacks. Written by Sarah Tuft, the play is a message of hope, resiliency and unity.
Finn and other cast members sitting in the theater’s auditorium think this message is needed now more than ever.
“I think it's a good example of what life draws out of you,” says Bill Martin. “The capacity for compassion. I think it revealed that about us. Be nice to get back to that without a tragedy wouldn’t it?”
Bill Martin and Joanne Thompson rehearse "110 Stories" by Sarah Tuft at ShenanArts theater in Staunton, Virginia. (Photo: John K. Craft/Submitted)
Allison Sprouse remembers how we felt the day after Sept. 11.
“We weren’t Democrats or Republicans,” she says. “We were Americans. And the kindness of people — it was just amazing. And it’s so sad that a national tragedy would have to make us be decent to each other. And we fall away from that.”
Directed by John K. Craft, a pastor who has worked in law enforcement for 25 years, when Craft read the script, he said to himself, I have to do this play. It resonated deeply with him for many reasons.
“We need the story now. The unification message we need now. Some of us have allowed ourselves to digest so much that it has distracted us. Whether it’s politics. Whether it’s small, pedantic, ridiculous arguments with other people.”
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We have forgotten who we are at our core, says Craft, and like Sprouse, fallen away from that decency and kindness.
“Everything that surrounds us tends to put us in boxes,” says Craft. “You fit in this box. You fit in that box. I’m from south Alabama. If you went down there tomorrow, they would ask, ‘Which one?’ Are you an Auburn fan or are you an Alabama fan? Because you gotta be one of them if you’re gonna be here.”
The actors know these 110 individuals are still out there in the world. And this play is very personal to them, and to the writer. So personal that Tuft is going to work with the cast during their final week of rehearsals. So personal that when they shared the play on social media, a few of those people they are portraying made comments.
“Now we’re seeing their name pop up and comment,” says Craft. “It gave me a moment of pause to think about the gravity of how important this is. These are real stories. I think there’s some luxury when you’re telling a story-story, that if you don’t get it exactly right, it’s still a story. But when it’s a walking around living, breathing human being, it matters. It matters that you represent them for who they are.”
Allison Sprouse rehearses "110 Stories" by Sarah Tuft at ShenanArts theater in Staunton, Virginia. (Photo: John K. Craft/Submitted)
At the time when Sept. 11 happened, it became very polarizing in the media, says Craft.
“It became about terrorism. It became about the Middle East. It became about revenge to some degree. This play is more about resiliency. It’s about being unified. People came together.”
Tribute show for emergency services
For Craft, it is rare that anyone has thanked him for being a law enforcement officer. After Sept. 11, that’s when it happened. People thanked him for what he did. And he wants to pay tribute to all the first responders who came to help that day by having a special show on Sept. 11 for all emergency services personnel in the area.
There a few reasons why this story connected with Craft. Why it's so important to him. One of those reasons is that Sept. 11 is a day that connects with everyone and brings forth a feeling of unity.
“I think people need that,” says Craft. “This is a day no one forgets. Everyone remembers where they were, and I felt like it was an opportunity to bridge out and bring people together as a community.”
Another reason is to thank everyone who works in emergency services.
“Remind them that we see them and thank them for their service and sacrifice.”
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The hardest part was walking away, Craft remembers about all of the people who came to help. All of us felt helpless and wanted to do something, he says. People came from all over the country.
“The people you hate anonymously are the same people you give your life for in a tragedy.”
Dr. Jim Snyder, '110 Stories'
“You wanted to help until you collapsed. It’s that overwhelming sense that maybe I can do something.”
Finn remembers that it was a day we all bonded together.
Martin remembers that it was a day that everyday people became heroes.
Sprouse remembers that it was a time we became kind and decent.
Joanne Thompson wonders when are we going to learn these lessons? Thompson thinks about one of the questions asked in the play.
“Do we get it yet?”
Craft doesn’t want to wait until the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 to ask this question. Because we got it on Sept. 11, 2001.
It didn’t matter who that person was, what they did, where they lived, who they loved, voted for, favorite team, none of it. All that mattered was that we could do something, anything to help one another. And we came running into the gunfire, into the rubble in the hopes that we could find that one person who needed our help and carry them to safety.
Show dates include:
Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. — Free for anyone who works emergency services
Sept. 12-14 at 7 p.m. — general public
Sept. 15 at 3 p.m. — general public
Tickets are available online at shenanarts.org, or at the door. ShenanArts is located at 300 Churchville Ave. in Staunton.
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https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Better-days-ahead-2463.php
Better days ahead
Greater Danbury's spirit of optimism will help lead much-needed comeback
Published 9:04 pm EDT, Monday, August 31, 2009
Everyone in the Greater Danbury area -- and all across the country -- is rooting for the economy to rally, and for a spirit of optimism to rise up once again.
On the premise that success begets success, and that a positive attitude fosters such a rally, Danbury and its neighboring communities are well-poised to help lead the comeback.
To be sure, the Greater Danbury area has struggled with the deep recession that began last year.
But in relative terms, this neck of the woods has hung in there pretty well. In confirmation of that, statistics released this week show that unemployment in Danbury, while up over a year ago, remains the state's lowest.
Danbury, as the hub of the area, has a lot of other reasons to be upbeat -- and to be optimistic about the future.
The city, which just built a state-of-the-art police station on Main Street, remains the safest city in Connecticut.
Danbury's relative economic strength is reflected in the city's No. 1 ranking in retail sales in 2008, with $4 billion spent here.
Word just arrived that the Connecticut Film Festival, a wonderful event hosted the past two years by Danbury, nearly doubled its attendance in 2009, and the city has put itself squarely on the map with that event.
Danbury's image -- and self-image -- have also flourished as the city has successfully hosted the Connecticut Special Olympics and the Nutmeg Games and increasingly become a destination city.
It has gained widespread respect as the home of Western Connecticut State University and the Charles Ives Center, as well as other educational, recreational and cultural offerings.
There is a renewed focus on downtown Danbury, and it is good news that the Palace Theater has launched a comeback and that two professional ice hockey teams are vying to make the Danbury Arena their home, making it likely that professional hockey will continue in the city.
In more human terms, the Danbury community continues to show its compassion and caring for others in reaching out to those in time of need -- from the victims of the New Street fire to professional golfer and Danbury native Ken Green following the terrible tragedy of his highway accident that took the life of his brother, his girlfriend and his dog and cost him part of his right leg.
In balance, the days are already pretty good in the Greater Danbury area, and there are better days ahead.
You can count on Danbury and its neighboring communities to help make that happen.
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Photos: Scots Celebrate and Mourn the Independence Vote
By Lucy Westcott On 09/19/14 at 2:40 PM EDT
Photos: Scots Celebrate and Mourn the Independence Vote Dylan Martinez/Reuters
There are broken and relieved hearts across Scotland today after a victory for the country's "No campaign" saw 55 percent of voters deciding to stay part of the 307-year-old union with the United Kingdom.
Despite high turnouts, a set of fiery bagpipes that led a march for independence through the streets of Edinburgh on Thursday and reports of the polls being too close to call for the past week, the "No" vote eventually pulled ahead and won with 55 percent to 45 percent for yes.
The independence referendum saw a turnout of 84.6 percent, the highest of an U.K. election since 1951. Fifty-three percent of voters in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, voted yes, but it wasn't enough to swing the vote after 61 percent of voters in Edinburgh voted no.
On Friday, Alex Salmond announced he will step down as First Minister of Scotland won't accept the nomination for leader of the Scottish National Party at the group's annual conference in November.
"The party, parliament and country would benefit from new leadership," Salmond told reporters on Friday.
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Remote, Barely Inhabited Islands Are Drowning in Millions of Pieces of Plastic Trash, Scientists Discover
By Kashmira Gander On 5/16/19 at 10:30 AM EDT
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Almost 1 million shoes and hundreds of thousands of toothbrushes are among the millions of pieces of plastic waste that have washed up on the beaches of a remote island in the Indian Ocean, a study claims.
Scientists who surveyed the sparsely populated Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, estimate it is dotted with 414 million pieces of plastic weighing up to 262 tons. The research was published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The researchers documented the number of microdebris—measuring between 2 and 5 millimeters—and larger pieces, like wood, metal and plastic, on 25 beaches in 2017. The detritus littering the islands included approximately 977,000 shoes and 373,000 toothbrushes. Other disposable items, such as straws and plastic bags, were found to make up around a quarter of the total debris. And some 93 percent of all pieces were buried up to 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) under the sand.
"Small, buried items pose considerable challenges for wildlife, and volunteers charged with the task of cleaning-up, thus preventing new items from entering the ocean remains key to addressing this issue," the authors warned.
To highlight the severity of the problem plastic poses, the team pointed to past research showing an estimated 14 million tons of plastic polluted the oceans in 2010 because it was not disposed of and dealt with properly. Almost half of the plastic made in the last six decades was produced in the past 13 years, they wrote, and around 40 percent of plastic products ended up being disposed of in the same year they were created. Another study indicated there were more pieces of plastic in the ocean than stars in the Milky Way.
"Unfortunately, unless drastic steps are taken, the numbers and challenges will only grow, with the quantity of waste entering the ocean predicted to increase ten-fold by 2025," the authors warned in their paper.
As the researchers collected samples down to a depth of 10 centimeters on the beach, and were unable to access some debris "hot spots," the estimate is likely to be conservative, explained Jennifer Lavers, the lead author of the study and a research scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, in Australia.
Lavers explained in a statement that only a few hundred people live on the islands, and so the sheer volume of plastic present there reflects how the material moves around the oceans.
"Islands such as these are like canaries in a coal mine and it's increasingly urgent that we act on the warnings they are giving us," said Lavers. "Plastic pollution is now ubiquitous in our oceans, and remote islands are an ideal place to get an objective view of the volume of plastic debris now circling the globe."
In 2017, Lavers in a separate study showed that the beaches of Henderson Island in the South Pacific had the world's highest density of plastic garbage, at an estimated 38 million pieces.
Lavers said: "Unlike Henderson Island, where most identifiable debris was fishing-related, the plastic on Cocos (Keeling) was largely single-use consumer items such as bottle caps and straws, as well as a large number of shoes and thongs."
Annett Finger, a researcher with Victoria University in Australia who co-authored the study, expressed concern that, despite such findings, the amount of plastic being produced worldwide was climbing. "Plastic pollution is a well-documented threat to wildlife and its potential impact on humans is a growing area of medical research," she said.
"The scale of the problem means cleaning up our oceans is currently not possible, and cleaning beaches once they are polluted with plastic is time consuming, costly, and needs to be regularly repeated as thousands of new pieces of plastic wash up each day.
"The only viable solution is to reduce plastic production and consumption while improving waste management to stop this material entering our oceans in the first place."
The team are among the latest scientists to warn of the threat posed to the environment by plastic pollution. Last month, the authors of separate research published in the journal Nature Geoscience studied pollution in a remote area in the mountains of France and concluded tiny pieces of plastic can travel up to 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, through the air.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month With the New Yorker Poetry Bot
By The New Yorker
Just in time for National Poetry Month, the New Yorker Poetry Bot is back! Launched in 2017, to celebrate the magazine’s ninety-second anniversary, the bot offered readers a daily dose of poetry on Twitter and Facebook Messenger, cycling through ninety-two poems that were chosen to represent every decade of our archive. With this reboot, we’ve expanded that selection, adding poems by Tracy K. Smith, C. P. Cavafy, Grace Paley, and many more; the bot feed will now send excerpts of different poems to read, listen to, and share each and every day of the year. In a time when many of our social-media feeds are saturated with the kind of language meant to persuade or to sell you something, the poetry bot invites a different sort of engagement.
“Digging into our archives yields favorites but also surprises,” Kevin Young, the magazine’s poetry editor, says. “Poetry is all about the experience of discovery, which we’re delighted to share with readers in this innovative way.”
The bot’s first release is from 1962: “The Sun,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton.
https://twitter.com/tnypoetry/status/1114186645845225473
Some poems, like this one by Monica Youn, feature audiograms of readings by their authors.
Follow the New Yorker Poetry Bot using the instructions below.
Click here to install the bot. When prompted, select the Messenger App. Click “Get Started” and you’ll be asked what time of day you’d like to receive your daily poem—morning (9 A.M.), afternoon (1 P.M.), evening (7 P.M.), or night (10 P.M.). Once you select your delivery time, you’ll receive your first poem excerpt, with a link to read and/or listen to the poem in full on newyorker.com. The next poem will arrive at the time you selected.
To stop receiving messages, respond with the word “Stop,” at any time. If you want to continue to receive poems, do not delete this conversation.
Follow @tnypoetry. Once you follow the bot, you’ll see tweets from the bot in your Twitter feed once a day, with a link to read and/or listen to the poem in full on newyorker.com.
Does “Late Style” Exist?
By Max Norman
“The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t
By Katy Waldman
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Jia Tolentino on poetry as a refuge, and finding meaning in Tracy K. Smith’s “Solstice.”
Poetry in a Time of Protest
At an airport protest in Miami, my thoughts kept returning to poets whose words are providing me with inspiration and guidance.
By Edwidge Danticat
When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin
The poet was somewhat frail but still hearty. His work was nearly the opposite: at once sturdy and rhythmic, steady in the best way.
By Kevin Young
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Waiting for the Garner Grand Jury
By Jonathan Blitzer
Marchers at a rally in honor of Eric Garner, in Staten Island.Photograph by Nina Berman/NOOR/Redux
Update: On Wednesday afternoon, a Staten Island grand jury voted not to charge the N.Y.P.D. officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
On July 17th, New York City policemen wrestled a forty-three-year-old man named Eric Garner to the ground in front of a beauty salon on Staten Island. They claimed to have seen Garner selling cigarettes illegally, something he’d been known to do. But not this time, he protested. “I did nothing,” he said. “I’m just here minding my own business, officer. ... Please, just leave me alone!” Despite Garner’s pleas, Daniel Pantaleo, a plainclothesman wearing cargo shorts and a baseball cap, came up behind him and put him in a chokehold; while Garner writhed on the pavement, three other cops rushed in to cuff him. Garner was a large man—six feet three inches tall and three hundred and fifty pounds—and asthmatic. Within seconds he was unconscious, and within minutes, dead. He gasped his last words: “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.”
Many of us have watched this scene, in a widely circulated video shot by a bystander. When Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr, found out about the video on the night of her son's death she felt, for a moment, a sense of relief. “I said to myself, ‘There is a God,' ” she told me when we met at her Staten Island home this past weekend. At least there was clear evidence of what had happened to her son, Carr thought, although she could not bring herself to watch it.
Five months later, the video is at the center of the deliberations of a New York City grand jury, which is expected to decide any day whether there is enough evidence for prosecutors to bring charges against the police officers and proceed to trial. New York is one of some thirty states that usually rely on a grand jury to decide whether a felony case should go to trial. (Other states tend to have a judge make that determination.) The threshold for going to trial—probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed—is low, but prosecutors have notoriously wide latitude in terms of what they choose to present to a grand jury. Carr told me that her main concern, particularly after Ferguson, is that protracted deliberations mean that the prosecutor is essentially trying the case before the grand jury.
Unlike in Ferguson, where accounts conflicted as to what, exactly, happened between Michael Brown and Darren Wilson, the evidence in Eric Garner’s case is plain to see. Pantaleo clearly put Garner in a chokehold, which N.Y.P.D. protocol forbids, although its use is notoriously hard to prosecute. (In 2013, the Civilian Complaint Review Board logged two hundred and thirty-three allegations of chokeholds by police; more than sixty per cent of the cases were thrown out for lack of evidence.) Garner’s wails (“I can’t breathe”) are conspicuously unheeded. He never resists arrest, and appears not to have been told he was being arrested in the first place. In the footage, he looks confused, and staggers as the police converge on him. When the coroner’s report came out, a month later, the cause of death was unequivocal: compression of the neck and chest.
Gwen Carr, who works as a train operator for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was on her break, on a subway platform in Astoria, when she heard that her son had a run-in with the police. She had received a flurry of calls, from people “who don’t usually call me,” she said. Nobody she spoke to had witnessed the assault, but they’d all heard some account of what had happened. They told Carr about “some confrontation with the police ... something with his heart.” Carr panicked and called her husband, who knew no more than she did. Her break ended, and rather than leave work and ride the train home, she decided to operate it back to Coney Island, as scheduled. “If I operate, I’m back in the cab, by myself," she said. "I wanted to be alone.” Her husband was waiting for her with the news that their son had been killed. He tried to get her all the way home before telling her, but couldn’t. At one point, a policeman stopped them for speeding, but then, on hearing what happened, let them rush off. “I just lost my mind. I tried to kick the windshield out of the car,” Carr said. “I didn’t know anything. I didn’t know about the video. All I knew was that he told me my son was no longer here. ... I think I blanked out after that.”
Hours after Garner’s death, the Daily News got hold of the video recording, and it circulated widely that night. Pantaleo had to surrender his badge and gun, and the E.M.T.s who were called to the scene and had gingerly prodded Garner but had not administered oxygen or tried to resuscitate him were immediately suspended without pay. Later that week, dozens of protesters gathered on Staten Island to call for justice; soon after, there were slightly larger crowds in Times Square. Once Garner’s autopsy was made public, in August, thousands of protesters took to the streets on Staten Island.
The twenty-three-person grand jury convened the following month; its proceedings are secret, and little is known about what has transpired so far. The last time that a New York City police officer was charged for using a chokehold was in 1994. The officer, Francis Livoti—who killed a twenty-nine-year-old man named Anthony Baez—was acquitted in a state trial, but later convicted in federal court and sentenced to seven years in prison for criminally negligent homicide. Pantaleo, the officer who choked Garner, has a troubled history of his own. Pantaleo has been sued twice over the past two years for harassing people during arrests. According to the Staten Island Advance, the city paid plaintiffs thirty thousand dollars to settle one of the suits, in 2012, in which Pantaleo and other officers were accused of strip-searching two men.
Last week’s news from Ferguson was especially hard for the friends and family of Eric Garner. The parallels are easy to draw: two black men killed by white police officers, public outrage at their deaths, and belabored grand-jury proceedings. Carr was with Garner’s widow, Esaw Garner, when the Ferguson grand-jury announcement came in. “Our eyes were glued to the TV and, as we heard the prosecutor explaining everything, I knew we weren’t going to get anything good,” Carr said. “But, you know, we were still hoping. Then, when he said there was no probable cause found, it just took the wind out of me.” The next two nights, thousands of protestors walked the streets and bridges of New York. At one point, Esaw got stuck in the traffic caused by the protests on the Lower East Side. She stepped out of the car and told passersby who she was. “People were saying, ‘We’re marching for you; we’re marching for justice,' ” she told me.
Carr’s apartment, which she shares with her husband, Ben, is filled with photographs of her family. By the door are photos of Carr’s parents, who were from North Carolina and Georgia (Carr herself grew up in Brooklyn), and along the walls are images of her children and grandchildren. Along a shelf above her couch are a string of Christmas stockings bearing the names of her great-grandchildren. Carr’s other son, Emory, died nineteen years ago, at the age of twenty-four, when he was robbed in Troy, New York. His death “really took the starch out of me,” she said. “That got me down for a long, long time." In one corner of the apartment, between the kitchen and the living room, Carr has created a small memorial to Eric, with a painting of him sent by a sympathetic stranger and a poster from a demonstration fringed with marchers’ signatures. Resting on a ledge is a small chest with some of his belongings, as well as his asthma pump and medications.
“I’m just hoping they give us a fair decision,” she told me. “If you’ve seen the video, you’ve seen that my son has done nothing—nothing!—to cause this to happen to him,” she said. “I always taught my children to respect the police. I always respected them.”
In anticipation of the grand-jury announcement, the New York Police Department has started preparing for large-scale protests. As police commissioner William Bratton told the press, “We have the ability to have a level of tolerance—breathing room, if you will.”
Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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Youth Hotshot Earns Scholarship
In-form youth team striker Colby Bishop has earned a scholarship with Notts County Football Club after an impressive trial.
Bishop has scored a remarkable nine goals in four appearances for the youth team.
The goals have seen the young Magpies put together a run of four consecutive wins and climb to sixth in the North East Youth Alliance.
Academy manager Mick Leonard was full of praise for the promising young striker and believes he can continue to improve as a full-time scholar.
He told the official site: “Colby was only training with us one day a week before so he now needs to work on his fitness and get up to speed.
“He’s a good lad who works hard and he fully deserves to join us because he has made a big difference to us as a team and his stats speak volumes.
“If he applies himself correctly, things can only get better for him.”
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Grand piano played by British rockers Black Sabbath and Oasis sells for $20,000 in online auction
By Laurie Hanna
Feb 20, 2016 | 7:41 AM
British rock group Oasis played the instrument on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
A grand piano played by British rockers Black Sabbath and Oasis has sold on eBay for $20,000.
The instrument starred on several albums recorded at the Monnow Valley Studios in Monmouth, Wales.
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The instrument starred on several albums recorded at the Monnow Valley Studios in Monmouth, Wales. (Monnow Valley Studio/eBay UK)
But studio bosses made the decision to sell the 40-year-old black Yamaha because it wasn't staying in tune, reported Mirror Online.
"It's been used by some of the great British bands and it's got the beer and wine stains to prove it," said studio owner Jo Riou.
"It's still a stunning instrument even with its bumps, scrapes. Each one tells the story of a moment in rock'n'roll."
Rowdy rockers Oasis used the piano on their 1994 album "Definitely Maybe" and it was pictured on the cover of their debut single "Supersonic."
Riou, 44, now plans to spend the proceeds from the sale on a new mixing desk at the studio.
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LSU rallies for No. 3 in national-title hunt
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South Florida's loss was LSU's gain.
The once-beaten Tigers jumped back into the national-championship hunt with a last-second win over Auburn on Saturday that followed USF's 30-27 loss at Rutgers last Thursday.
That defeat sent the Bulls (6-1) tumbling from No. 2 to No. 10 in the second Bowl Championship Series standings released Sunday.
Ohio State (8-0) held on to the No. 1 spot, and idle Boston College (7-0) climbed to No. 2 as it prepares for a huge Thursday night matchup with Virginia Tech.
But LSU (7-1), one week after a stunning overtime loss at Kentucky, is back in the national-title conversation thanks to a rousing 30-24 win over Auburn that was secured by a Matt Flynn-to-Demetrius Byrd touchdown pass with one second to play.
The No. 3 Tigers have a week off before a titanic showdown at SEC West co-leader Alabama, led by former LSU coach Nick Saban.
Survive that, and the remaining schedule -- Louisiana Tech (2-5), at Ole Miss (2-6), Arkansas (4-3) -- appears favorable for a berth in the SEC title game at minimum.
It will be interesting to see how the remaining unbeatens fare.
Ohio State still must navigate a road trip to Penn State (OSU's last regular-season defeat came at Happy Valley in 2005) this week, home games against Wisconsin and Illinois and the annual season finale vs. a resurgent Michigan.
The combined record for the Buckeyes' remaining opponents: 23-9.
Boston College has the aforementioned road trip to No. 8 Virginia Tech (6-1), and still also must play FSU (4-3), at Maryland (4-3), at Clemson (5-2) and make a road trip to Miami (5-3) for the Hurricanes' finale in the Orange Bowl.
Keep an eye on No. 4 Arizona State (7-0). The Sun Devils' brutal next month features games against No. 21 Cal (5-2), at No. 5 Oregon (6-1), at UCLA (5-2) and No. 12 USC (6-1).
Come through that stretch unscathed and Arizona State could vault to No. 1.
Kansas (7-0) fattened up on a soft nonconference slate but has a Big 12 schedule that would not include either No. 6 Oklahoma or No. 19 Texas before the league championship game.
A game this week at Texas A&M; (6-2) figures to be KU's toughest challenge to date.
Hawaii (7-0) is moving closer to earning a berth in a BCS bowl.
The Warriors are ranked 17th, and would need to reach No. 16 to be considered. Hawaii must reach No. 12 to earn an automatic berth.
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Fighting to Fight: Questioning the Battle of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
by Gabrielle Korn
On September 20, 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military -- will officially be repealed. Created by President Clinton in 1993 as a compromise between the existing ban on homosexuals in the military and his campaign promises to allow anyone to serve, regardless of sexual identity, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," or simply DADT, had been seen by gay rights activists and allies as forcing gays and lesbians in the military back into the closet. Its repeal has been on the forefront of LGBT activism in the past few years, and DADT made major news headlines, so much so that it became one of the defining issues of the contemporary gay rights struggle to those outside the gay community.
While, of course, the military should never have been an institutionalized closet, as a lesbian activist concerned with society's treatment of members of my community, I have been disturbed by the way this issue has been portrayed as essential to the LGBT movement.
As the U.S. continues to inch towards equality, I feel that it is important to think critically about the political context of the particular rights that lesbian and gay Americans have recently been bequeathed: marriage equality in New York as the economy withers and wavers around us, and permission to serve openly in the military during wars that are increasingly opposed by Americans. By April 2008, 63 percent of Americans thought the U.S. made a mistake sending in troops to Iraq, compared to 32.3 percent in 2003, according to the Gallup poll, and by late June 2011, 72 percent favored troop withdrawal plans in Afghanistan.
The Center for American Progress reported in 2009 that, for the military, the biggest problem presented by DADT was that it sent "the wrong signal to the young people -- straight or gay -- that the military is trying to recruit." It continued, "Military recruiters face generalized hostility and opposition everywhere from high schools to colleges and law schools over the issue of discrimination against gays." Seemingly, a more tolerant-appearing military would make the job of recruiters easier if young people thought that the military had the same interests they described -- "namely, diversity, fairness, and equality," the report said.
In this light, gay rights appear to be granted when they fulfill a larger purpose for the government. It's a special sort of narcissism that weighs individual struggles against the political agenda of the government, granting rights only as they become relevant to those in charge. I believe that empathy should transcend, not rely upon, personal relevancy, but it seems to happen frequently on both micro- and macro-levels. Just as many straight people start supporting gay rights only when they have a gay family member, the government wants gays in the military when it needs more people to support its wars.
And this strategy works. While previous generations have been defined by the way they rallied for peace, the most public voices of my generation of recent college grads and my community are rallying for the right to fight in wars.
Considering how unpopular the current wars are, I question why the right to serve openly in the military is at the forefront of LGBT activism. Why are gays and lesbians eager to join an institution that has traditionally upheld the rigid gender roles against which the LGBT movement has been rebelling? Why seek membership in an institution that takes advantage of the poor to fight battles that serve the goals of the elite? And what of the civilians whose rights are infringed and cast aside by a U.S. invasion? � are we trading their civil rights for our own?
I'm attracted to sentiments from queer liberationists, who are against the repeal of DADT because they are anti-military. Queer liberationism teaches that queer issues should be examined not just as they relate to the LGBT population, but to all aspects of social justice. This view is in opposition to gay assimilation, which seeks to normalize queerness and codify LGBT people as the same as their heterosexual friends and family. By striving for blanket acceptance, gay assimillationists fail to analyze the implications of participating in certain institutions -- achieving sameness is the most important goal.
Queer liberationists strive to to keep the LGBT population out of the military. As Cindy Sheehan, peace activist and the mother of a slain soldier, says, there is no celebration in "the capacity for increased carnage." There are other downsides, as well. The military remains unsafe for many women; about one third of homeless people in the U.S. are veterans; and, one in four veterans end up disabled.
This new right to serve openly in the military doesn't feel like a "right" at all. If anything, gay people in America have been distracted from protesting the wars by protesting to join something we've been told by the government is an honorable cause. The mainstream LGBT desire for inclusion has replaced what should be the most important big-picture goal of all activist movements: peace.
Gabrielle Korn is the Editorial Assistant of On The Issues Magazine. She is an activist, writer and artist.
Also see "Good News for Trans Veterans: New VA Healthcare Guidelines" by Autumn Sandeen in the Cafe of this edition of On The Issues Magazine.
See "Paradoxes of Women in Uniform Take Deep Listening" by Chris Lombardi in this edition of On The Issues Magazine.
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21 Amazing Benefits of Cauliflower
by Meenakshi Nagdeve last updated - January 21, 2020 Medically reviewed by Emily Borth
The health benefits of cauliflower include a reduced risk of cancer, heart and brain disorders, relief from indigestion, supporting liver health, increased iron absorption, and weight loss. This superfood also helps boost eye health, maintain hormonal balance, and prevents diabetes, colitis, respiratory papillomatosis, hypertension, and the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. It is packed with nutrients and antioxidant power which helps in strengthening the immune system, maintaining bone and cellular health, electrolyte balance, and optimum cholesterol levels.
What is Cauliflower?
Cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable that belongs to the Brassicaceae family, which includes broccoli, kale, and cabbage. It derives its name from the Latin word ‘caulis‘ which means cabbage with a flower. The florets on the head of the cauliflower, also known as curd, are tightly clustered and consist of immature flower buds attached to a central stalk. To protect the flavor and softness of the cauliflower heads, they are kept away from sunlight to prevent the development of chlorophyll pigment and over-maturity.
It is considered to be ancient Asia but it re-emerged in the Mediterranean region, Turkey, and Italy in 600 BC. Around the mid-16th century, this vegetable achieved recognition in France and Northern Europe. Today, India, China, Italy, France, and the United States are among the top producers of cauliflower throughout the world.
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Cauliflower Nutrition Facts
Cauliflower, raw
Serving Size : 100 g1 cup chopped (1/2" pieces) (107 g)1 floweret (13 g)1 head large (6-7" dia.) (840 g)1 head medium (5-6" dia.) (588 g)1 head small (4" dia.) (265 g)
Carbohydrate, by difference [g] 4.97
Fiber, total dietary [g] 2
Sugars, total [g] 1.91
Magnesium, Mg [mg] 15
Sodium, Na [mg] 30
Niacin [mg] 0.51
Vitamin D (D2 + D3) [µg] 0
Vitamin D [IU] 0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) [µg] 15.5
Fatty acids, total saturated [g] 0.13
Caffeine [mg] 0
Cauliflower is a rich source of vitamin C, folate, vitamin K, B complex vitamins and vitamin E. It provides vital minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, sodium and iron without adding any harmful cholesterol. It contains some protein. It also provides dietary fiber and contains smaller amounts of natural sugars as compared to the other members of its botanical relatives, such as broccoli.
Carbs and Calories in Cauliflower
The carbs and calories in cauliflower are mentioned below.
100 g of raw cauliflower contains 5 g carbohydrates and 25 calories
100 g of boiled cauliflower contains 4.1 g of carbohydrates and 23 calories
100 g of cauliflower greens contain 6 g of carbohydrates and 31 calories
Types of Cauliflower
Cauliflower is available in four major groups: Asian, Italian, northwest European biennial, and northern European annuals, represented by more than a hundred varieties. Apart from white, it also comes in several other colors mentioned below.
Green: Green cauliflower is referred to as broccoflower. It can be found in a normal curd-shaped form as well as in a spiky variant called Romanesco broccoli.
Purple: The antioxidant group, anthocyanins, present in the purple cauliflower provides the color of this variety.
Orange: Orange cauliflower is highly nutritious and contains an immense amount of vitamin A, as compared to the white variety.
Health Benefits of Cauliflower
Let us look at some of the important health benefits of cauliflower in detail:
Prevents Oxidative Stress
Cauliflower contains vitamin C, manganese, vitamin E and other potent antioxidants that help in imparting nourishment to the body. It also contains phytochemicals, called indoles and glucosinates, namely glucobrassicin, glucoraphanin, and gluconasturtiin. These components stimulate helpful enzymes that protect the body cells from the oxidative stress and damage caused by free radicals.
Improves Cardiovascular Health
Regular consumption of cauliflower can help with blood circulation and helps maintain the proper functioning of the blood vessels, which can be attributed to the presence of glucoraphanin. Glucoraphanin is converted into isothiocyanates that activate anti-inflammatory activities and prevent the accumulation of lipids in the blood vessels. This aids in the unobstructed flow of blood, which reduces the risk of conditions like atherosclerosis and promotes cardiovascular health. Research has also proved that the antithrombotic and antiplatelet function of Indole-3-carbinol, found in abundance in cauliflower, contributes significantly towards a healthy heart.
Anticancer Potential
Studies have shown that indole-3-carbinol present in cauliflower has chemopreventive and anti-estrogen effects that help in hampering the growth of uterine cancer cells.
Research published in The Journal of Nutrition has provided supporting evidence for the fact that consumption of brassica vegetables such as cauliflower helps in suppressing cell proliferation, especially in terms of breast cancer.
Prevents Stomach Disorders
Cauliflower is a source of dietary fiber that aids in digestion and promotes the elimination of toxins from the body. The presence of glucosinolate, glucoraphanin, and sulforaphane in this vegetable protects the stomach lining and helps in resisting the growth of Heliobacter pylori bacteria. In addition to this defense mechanism, dietary isothiocyanates in cauliflower reduce the risk of various abdominal disorders such as stomach ulcers and other gastric diseases.
Iron Absorption
Vitamin C present in cauliflower helps to better absorb iron in the blood. This helps to increase the production of hemoglobin in the body.
Slows the Progression of Respiratory Problems
Respiratory papillomatosis is caused by the human papillomavirus that affects the vocal cords in the larynx, trachea, lungs, and bronchi. Studies conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have shown that increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables, such as cauliflower, aids in reducing the severity of respiratory papillomatosis.
Improves Bone Health
Cauliflower contains vitamin C, which plays an important role in the production of collagen that protects the joints and bones from inflammatory damage, and can even help in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Furthermore, an association has been identified between increased levels of vitamin C and greater bone density. Also, it contains vitamin K, which “attract[s] calcium to the bone.” This may help in preventing bone loss in both men and women.
It is rich in vitamin C and antioxidants and thus, may slow the progression of age-related macular degeneration, which can lead to blindness, particularly in the elderly. The sulforaphane protects the retinal tissues from damage caused by oxidative stress by acting as a free radical scavenger and preventing cell death, which can help prevent vision impairment.
Detoxifies the Body
Cauliflower contains indole-3-carbinol, a phytonutrient that, along with sulforaphane, helps in activating and regulating the function of detoxifying enzymes responsible for metabolizing and eliminating harmful compounds from the body.
Studies have shown that sulforaphane present in cauliflower is effective in protecting the skin against the damage caused by ultraviolet radiation. The protective action of sulforaphane defends the body against UV radiation-induced inflammations and skin cancer, against UV-induced erythema, and cellular damage. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America indicates that this protection against cancer in humans is long-lasting.
Cauliflower, along with healthy skin, also promotes hair growth due to the presence of sulfur-containing amino acids (precursor for making hair keratin proteins), and silicon (responsible for promoting growth and shine).
Reduces the Risk of Nervous Disorders
The sulforaphane present in cauliflower plays a key role in reducing the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. According to a 2018 study by Lee S et al., consuming it has the potential to decrease the accumulation of amyloid-beta and tau proteins in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
Reduces Hypertension
The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of the glucoraphanin and sulforaphane present in cauliflower help in reducing oxidative stress, along with the levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. It also promotes the stimulation of HDL (good) cholesterol and lowers blood pressure. Certain compounds in cauliflower show potent angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitory activity, the same mechanism used by an entire class of medications used to treat high blood pressure. In addition to this, the fiber and omega-3 fatty acids present in cauliflower also prevent the hardening of the arteries.
Maintains Electrolyte Balance
The potassium content in cauliflower helps in maintaining the electrolyte balance in the body, which is essential for blood pressure control and nervous system function including the transmission of nerve impulses and muscle contractions.
Cauliflower is rich in antioxidants and immune-strengthening nutrients. Along with other healthy components, the presence of vitamin C in it inhibits various infections and strengthens the defense mechanisms of the body by hampering the growth of disease-causing inflammation.
Prevents Obesity
Cauliflower contains indoles, which possess anti-obesity effects. Studies have supported the fact that the consumption of cauliflower is beneficial in preventing various inflammatory and metabolic disorders in the body. It also helps in the stimulation of fat-burning thermogenesis, aids in weight loss and prevents obesity.
Helps Fetal Growth
The inclusion of cauliflower in your diet is beneficial during pregnancy due to the presence of essential folate, which helps in the healthy neural development of the baby preventing neural tube defects.
Improves Brain Health
Cauliflower contains choline and phosphorous, which are both effective in repairing cell membranes. This is essential for the efficient functioning of the brain and nervous system for transmitting nerve signals. In addition to this, the presence of potassium and vitamin B6 in cauliflower plays an important role in maintaining brain health and promoting proper communication in the nerves.
Helps Manage Diabetes
Regular intake of cauliflower may help in reducing the risk of diabetes due to the presence of vitamin C and potassium. Research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed an association between low serum potassium and the development of diabetes. The potassium content in cauliflower helps in regulating glucose metabolism. It affects the pancreas’ secretion of the hormone insulin which combats high blood sugar in the body. In addition to this, studies have supported that the vitamin B6 present in cauliflower is also effective in enhancing the tolerance of glucose in patients with gestational diabetes.
Heals Colitis
Studies in animal models suggest that extracts from cauliflower exert anti-inflammatory effects on the symptoms of ulcerative colitis. This protective effect can be attributed to the presence of phenethyl isothiocyanate, which exerts a healing effect on the damage that occurred in colon tissues and the colon epithelium.
Prevents Stroke
The consumption of white flesh fruits and vegetables such as cauliflower protects the brain from injury associated with stroke due to the presence of compound- allicin. These effects may be due to allicin’s anti-inflammatory properties and its ability to prevent programmed cell death (apoptosis).
How To Select And Store A Cauliflower?
Cauliflower with clean, tightly bundled, creamy white florets with bright green leaves are the best ones to pick. Yellow, spotted florets with saggy leaves are more likely to be degraded and won’t taste as fresh. the ones devoid of nutrition and freshness. Dark-colored patches on it may also indicate the presence of a disease known as downy mildew.
This vegetable can be stored in the refrigerator for 5 days. Cut florets needs to be consumed within 4 days as it doesn’t keep as long.
Healthy Cauliflower Recipes
Cauliflower is a versatile vegetable that has become a favorite in health circles. Here are different ways to serve it:
Side Dish: The florets can be steamed or roasted with spices, or can be made fancier into garlic parmesan roasted cauliflower.
Cauliflower rice: When grated and roasted, it can be used as a low-carb substitute for rice.
Cauliflower crust or wraps: Pizzas and wraps can be made healthy with a crust made of this cruciferous vegetable.
Vegetable and dips: Cauliflower florets, salted and blanched, can be served with hummus or yogurt-based dips as a healthy alternative to chips.
Meat substitute: The vegetable is roasted whole with spices and served as a steak. It can also be dipped in a batter of eggs and fried can be served with rice or as nuggets.
Mashed cauliflower: Mash boiled cauliflower with yogurt to get an antioxidant-packed and lighter substitute for buttery mashed potatoes.
Cauliflower can cause side effects such as allergies, kidney stones, and excess gas. As with all foods, avoid excess intake.
Gas: Cauliflower contains fiber and complex carbohydrates that do not get broken down entirely in the digestive tract. These carbohydrates are then fed upon by the intestinal bacteria. This can sometimes result in bloating and the release of odorous gases such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
Uric acid: Cauliflower contains purines which can cause various health concerns if consumed in excess. Purines break down to form uric acid and the excessive intake of purine-rich foods can lead to a build-up of uric acid in the body. This can further pave the way for uric acid-related problems such as kidney stones and gout.
Anaphylaxis: Cauliflower may prompt anaphylaxis in some people, which means it can cause a severe bodily allergic reaction to a substance. Warning signs of such allergic reactions include swelling of certain body parts, itching, dyspnea, and breathing complications. It is always advisable to discontinue the intake of cauliflower in the occurrence of such critical symptoms and seek medical attention immediately.
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Warfarin: Cauliflower contains some vitamin K, though not nearly as much as found in dark green leafy vegetables such as kale, collard greens, and swiss chard. Vitamin K is utilized by the body for normal blood clotting. It can interact and reduce the effectiveness of anticoagulants like warfarin and coumadin which are prescribed to prevent the clotting of blood in the body. If you are taking anticoagulant drugs, it is always advisable to discuss the dietary intake of foods containing vitamin K with your doctor or dietitian.
Cauliflower is a versatile vegetable that brings a pleasant flavor along with low-calorie nutrition to the diet. The inclusion of cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower in the diet would go a long way in providing ample benefits for almost any lifestyle!
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The Espace Dalí, located in the heart of the artistic district of Montmartre, is the only place in France that is entirely dedicated to the Spanish master of Surrealism, with over 300 of his works including some very famous paintings, sculptures and even furniture
Address 11 Rue Poulbot, 75018 Paris
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The largest Dali collection
In the heart of Montmartre, the Espace Dalí is the only place in France entirely dedicated to the master of Surrealism, with mostly sculptures and engravings of the Spanish artist.
Over 300 works of art are displayed at the Espace Dalí and show a fragment of all his artistic sides: sculptor, illustrator and even designer.
He spent a lot of time in Montmartre, the artistic district of Paris were countless artists still gather on Place du Tertre, also known as the Artists Square. Some artists are regularly invited at the Espace Dalí to draw a parallel between their work and the work of the Salvador Dalí.
Dali: in the shadow of his brother
Salvador Dalí is an emblem of Surrealism. He was born in 1904 in Figueras (Spain) and studied arts at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid.
Kicked out of this prestigious school after being accused of encouraging scholars to rebel against classicism, Dalí follows the advice of fellow artist Miró and joins the surrealist movement in France in 1928.
The following year, Dalí exposes his first 11 paintings for the first time… With World War II raging in France, Dalí and his wife Gala leave to New York and in 1941, the Museum of Modern Art of New York (MoMA) exposes the first retrospective, followed by other major cities such as London and Paris.
Parisianist Fun Fact: His narcissism and notorious unstable temper are surely due to the fact that his parents never got over the death of his brother, diving the future artist the same name.
The Museum; Dali and Montmartre
The area where the Espace Dalí is located is not a coincidence. In 1920, Salvador Dalí fell in love with Paris and especially the Artist’s Square, always full of artists drawing and painting.
He therefore decided to live at 7 rue Becquerel, in the northern part of Montmartre. At that time, Montmartre still had some of the famous windmills, which were a great inspiration for his Don Quixote series of paintings.
The Espace Dalí is a relatively small museum which consists of 1 large space with different compartments, where some of Dalí’s most notorious works can be found.
Parisianist Fun Fact: When painting his Don Quixote series on the Artist’s Square (Place du Tertre), he explicitly asked for rhinoceros horns and bread soaked in ink.
Highlights: the sofa with Mae West's lips
Dalí always considered that art should invade life. Art materializes our unconsciousness, our desires, our fears and our joys which are usually soft and fragile.
With this in mind, Dalí decided to design furniture, like the lamp with crutches. But his most famous furniture design is the sofa in the shape of Mae West’s lips, which is visible at the Espace Dalí. Mae West was an American artist famous for her very sensual and plump lips. In fact Dalí designed furniture for a whole room using her face as a model.
Conclusion: a great stop in Montmartre
A stop at the Espace Dali is a great way to discover something new and interesting in Montmartre, and get away from the hordes of tourists on the Place du Tertre (Artist’s Square).
It will take you through the amazing and surreal world of the artist for about 1 hour before you get back down to the real modern Paris with pictures of melting watches in mind.
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Filtered Bills 39th Parliament, 1st Session
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An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Firearms Act (non-registration of firearms that are neither prohibited nor restricted)
Minister of Public Safety
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (age of protection) and to make consequential amendments to the Criminal Records Act
Second Reading in the Senate (2007-06-20)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal procedure, language of the accused, sentencing and other amendments)
First Reading in the Senate (2007-06-14)
An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence
Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Act, 2006
An Act to amend the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and the Income Tax Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal interest rate)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (dangerous offenders and recognizance to keep the peace)
Second Reading and Referral to Committee in the House of Commons (2007-05-04)
A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on May 2, 2006
Budget Implementation Act, 2006, No. 2
An Act to amend the Air Canada Public Participation Act
Air Canada and Its Affiliates Act
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An Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the Energy Efficiency Act and the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act (Canada's Clean Air Act)
Canada's Clean Air Act
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Committee Reporting the Bill with Amendments in the House of Commons (2007-03-30)
An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Public Service Employment Act
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (impaired driving) and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
An Act to amend the Income Tax Act, including amendments in relation to foreign investment entities and non-resident trusts, and to provide for the bijural expression of the provisions of that Act
Income Tax Amendments Act, 2006
An Act to provide for jurisdiction over education on First Nation lands in British Columbia
First Nations Jurisdiction over Education in British Columbia Act
Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (reverse onus in bail hearings for firearm-related offences)
An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act
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An Act to amend the law governing financial institutions and to provide for related and consequential matters
Appropriation Act No. 2, 2006-2007
An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act, the Excise Act, 2001 and the Air Travellers Security Charge Act and to make related amendments to other Acts
Sales Tax Amendments Act, 2006
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Voice-over is one of the most specialized, competitive, and lucrative fields an actor can break into. It requires skill with character voices (both “straight” and “cartoon”); dialects such as British (Irish, Scottish, and Cockney), American regional (New York and Southern) and foreign-language accents (French, German, Russian, Spanish, etc.); and skill in “acting with an accent.” A voice-over artist’s gigs include:
Radio and TV commercials.
Industrial films and internet advertising.
Animated films and cartoons.
Over-dubbing foreign-language films.
“Looping,” also known as ADR in post-production for feature films.
Audio Books.
The successful voice-over artist has a host of character voices and dialects in his or her repertoire. This is where Paul can help, not only with the dialects and accents, but with all aspects of performance. As a long-time voice talent and proud member of AFTRA/SAG, he has engaged in all these activities:
He was a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company in London in the 1970s, acting in over 100 radio dramas alongside figures such as Derek Jacobi, Richard Burton, and Paul Scofield. Much of this work has since been re-published on CD all over the world.
He has voiced national radio and TV commercials for such clients as Coca-Cola, Ford, Blockbuster, and Bayer; and was the voice of the Walmart icon “Smiley” for 2003.
He has been engaged to re-voice many foreign films dubbed into English.
He has recorded nearly fifty audio books starting with Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men for the BBC in 1975, and, more recently, Ayn Rand’s famous novel, Anthem, released as a 2-CD set by HighBridge Audio, The Bhagavad Gita, A Christmas Carol, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. A major part of his audio book record are the over thirty titles in the Knowledge Products’ Audio Classics series, in which he worked with Ben Kingsley, Walter Cronkite, George C. Scott, Lynn Redgrave, Charlton Heston, and others.
Listen to Paul’s voice-over demo ( Voice-over Demo ) a three-minute tour of over a dozen character voices and dialects he has used in his many radio and TV commercials. We also invite you to hear a brief extract from his audiobook recording of Of Mice and Men: Of_Mice_and_Men
Whether you are an established voice-over talent with an audition or gig in an accent you’re not quite sure of, or whether you’re seeking to break into that lucrative field and need to develop your repertoire of voices and dialects, Paul can help.
He’s coached scores of actors in the art of voice-over, often producing their all-important demo reels.
Listen to the following demos from a few of Paul’s clients:
Lynsey Becher: Lynsey Becher
Amy Virginia Buchanan: Amy Virginia Buchanan
Matt Crooks: Matt Crooks
Cali Gilman: Cali Gilman
Laurie Hamilton: Laurie Hamilton
Alex Haynes: Alex Haynes
Lawrence Henderson: Lawrence Henderson
Erin Jevons-Lee: Erin Jevons-Lee
Mary McNulty: Mary McNulty
Paula Richer: Paula Richer
If you like what you hear, Paul will be glad to produce your voice-over demo. Thanks to the latest technology, you don’t even have to be in the same city anymore! And Paul also coaches general public speaking for non-actors.
For the details of our procedures, costs, and a sample script, download the demo production document. Then e-mail Paul to talk things over.
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The uncertainty of death and taxes
David McManus | Personal Tax Manager
Thursday 28th Nov, 2019
Does anyone remember a Chancellor of the Exchequer called Philip Hammond? Seems that much has happened since he introduced the idea of an Autumn Budget and a Spring Statement to rationalise the tax raising and public spending announcements for the forthcoming fiscal years. It seemed a sensible thing to do and everyone quickly adjusted to it.
Subsequent events, as we know, have now turned things on its head and we’re back to where we started! The calling of a general election led to the cancellation of the Conservative Budget set for mid-November and we now face the prospect of a Spring 2020 Budget and spending forecast just before the start of the new tax year in April 2020.
Let’s take a look at some of the consequences of recent political events and how they could impact on the contracting industry.
Civil Service in purdah!
During the run up to a general election it’s impossible to get information from government departments like HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs. Work doesn’t stop in those departments but no announcements on policy or consultations are permitted. For contractors anxious to hear about the outcome of the review of the Loan Charge it’s going to mean a further wait until we have a new government.
Where is the Finance Bill 2020?
The legislation introducing the detailed rules around the introduction of off payroll working in the private sector from April 2020 has stalled. Many people are wondering whether this means there will be a delay in the implementation of the new rules. We think this is unlikely unless there is a political decision to do so. Incoming governments pay particular attention to finance bills to get them through as quickly as possible to maintain public revenues.
What tax changes might be delayed?
There are automatic roll-overs of the basic tax –raising mechanisms from year to year, but there is still a need to get a Finance Act in place to renew our annual taxes. Unfortunately there is no chance that Income tax, VAT, Corporation Tax or any of the existing taxes will not be rebooted from April!
What may be at risk is the possible introduction of measures such as the reform of Inheritance Tax and the Digital Services Tax aimed at the online multi-national giants. It’s unlikely that HMRC’s Making Tax Digital initiative, which affects VAT registered traders and is now well underway, will be materially delayed.
What could we have expected from The Budget That Never Was?
Budget predictions are rarely correct! 2019 was likely to have been no exception with the final predictions coming from the Conservative Party leadership campaign including:
Raising the higher rate tax threshold for individuals from £50k to £80k
Raising the National Insurance Contributions threshold
Further reducing the rate of Corporation Tax – scheduled to go down to 17% in 2020
Other, less palatable rumours in the lead up to The Budget That Never Was, included a limitation of or even abolition of Entrepreneurs’ Relief which would have affected PSC contractors looking to close their companies and further pressure on pension tax relief.
What’s on offer now for the next Budget?
With a new government in place following the 12 December we would expect a Budget in January 2020 but we may have to wait until March 2020! Whichever date it is, what headline tax offerings are we being promised by the main political parties from their manifestos?
The Liberal Democrats are proposing an additional 1p on all Income Tax rates; Corporation Tax to be raised to 20%; Capital Gains Tax Annual Allowances to be scrapped along with the Marriage Tax Allowance.
The Labour Party are promising no increase in VAT; a crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion; new national levy on holiday homes; an increase in Corporation Tax to 26% by 2022; a 45% income tax rate on earnings greater than £80k and 50% on incomes over £125k; abolition of Entrepreneurs’ Relief and reduction of the Capital Gains Tax Annual Allowance to £1000 (from £12k).
Whilst the Conservative Party give us a promise not to raise Income Tax, National Insurance Contributions or VAT; to raise the NI threshold to £9,500; increase the Employment Allowance for small businesses; review and reform Entrepreneurs’ Relief and consolidating HMRC’s existing anti-evasion and tax avoidance measures and powers.
We think that, in this extraordinary year we can justifiably misquote, in part at least, Benjamin Franklin’s well known statement “…. has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
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Nier: Automata’s Androids are like Dark Souls bloodstains, next livestream on Feb 23
In one of a few announcements made by Square Enix in a weekend livestream, Nier: Automata will have a Dark Souls-style ‘android’ mechanic and DLC. The new Nier game will be streamed again on February 23, which is its PlayStation 4 release date in Japan. Fingers crossed we hear more then about when it’s due on PC.
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To begin with the android mechanic: when the player dies, an android will be left behind. Various data remains in that android (e.g. plug-in chips), and if you can reach it before dying again, you can recover that data. As in Dark Souls, you can only have one android at once, but there’s an added wrinkle in that androids can also expire on a time limit.
It seems you’ll also be able to ‘repair’ rather than simply recover your android, causing it to fight alongside you for a given period of time. If you’re playing online, you can discover and repair other players’ androids, and have them assist you too – a much more interesting idea than just watching how other players died. Squeenix are keeping quiet about whether you’ll get other players’ plug-in chips if you decide to recover, rather than repair, their androids.
The livestream also confirmed that NieR: Automata will get DLC. According to Gematsu, this decision was taken “under the request of 9S voice actor Natsuki Hanae,” who “hopes for a costume of Caim from Drakengard for 2B”, but it’s not confirmed whether he’ll get his wish. 9S and 2B are two of the three playable characters in Nier: Automata.
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Texas Property Tax Code 2017 Chapter 23 Subchapter H
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
The Texas Property Tax Code available on this website are current through the Regular Session of the 84th Legislature, June 2017. The Texas Constitution is current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2015.
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TITLE 1. PROPERTY TAX CODE
SUBTITLE D. APPRAISAL AND ASSESSMENT
CHAPTER 23. APPRAISAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
SUBCHAPTER H. APPRAISAL OF RESTRICTED-USE TIMBER LAND
Sec. 23.9801. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
(1) “Aesthetic management zone” means timber land on which timber harvesting is restricted for aesthetic or conservation purposes, including:
(A) maintaining standing timber adjacent to public rights-of-way, including highways and roads; and
(B) preserving an area in a forest, as defined by Section 152.003, Natural Resources Code, that is designated by the director of the Texas Forest Service as special or unique because of the area’s natural beauty, topography, or historical significance.
(2) “Critical wildlife habitat zone” means timber land on which the timber harvesting is restricted so as to provide at least three of the following benefits for the protection of an animal or plant that is listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. Section 1531 et seq.) and its subsequent amendments or as endangered under Section 68.002, Parks and Wildlife Code:
(A) habitat control;
(B) erosion control;
(C) predator control;
(D) providing supplemental supplies of water;
(E) providing supplemental supplies of food;
(F) providing shelters; and
(G) making of census counts to determine population.
(3) “Management plan” means a plan that uses forestry best management practices consistent with the agricultural and silvicultural nonpoint source pollution management program administered by the State Soil and Water Conservation Board under Section 201.026, Agriculture Code.
(4) “Regenerate” means to replant or manage natural regeneration.
(5) “Streamside management zone” means timber land on which timber harvesting is restricted in accordance with a management plan to:
(A) protect water quality; or
(B) preserve a waterway, including a lake, river, stream, or creek.
(6) “Qualified restricted-use timber land” means land that qualifies for appraisal as provided by this subchapter.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 631, Sec. 5, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.
Sec. 23.9802. QUALIFICATION FOR APPRAISAL AS RESTRICTED-USE TIMBER LAND. (a) Land qualifies for appraisal as provided by this subchapter if the land is in an aesthetic management zone, critical wildlife habitat zone, or streamside management zone.
(b) Land qualifies for appraisal as provided by this subchapter if:
(1) timber was harvested from the land in a year in which the land was appraised under Subchapter E; and
(2) the land has been regenerated for timber production to the degree of intensity generally accepted in the area for commercial timber land and with intent to produce income.
(c) Land ceases to qualify for appraisal under Subsection (b) on the 10th anniversary of the date the timber was harvested under Subsection (b)(1). This subsection does not disqualify the land from qualifying for appraisal under this section in a tax year following that anniversary based on the circumstances existing in that subsequent tax year.
Sec. 23.9803. APPRAISAL OF QUALIFIED RESTRICTED-USE TIMBER LAND. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the appraised value of qualified restricted-use timber land is one-half of the appraised value of the land as determined under Section 23.73(a).
(b) The appraised value determined under Subsection (a) may not exceed the lesser of:
(1) the market value of the land as determined by other appraisal methods; or
(2) the appraised value of the land for the year preceding the first year of appraisal under this subchapter.
(c) The chief appraiser shall determine the market value of qualified restricted-use timber land and shall record both the market value and the appraised value in the appraisal records.
Sec. 23.9804. APPLICATION. (a) A person claiming that the person’s land is eligible for appraisal as provided by this subchapter must file a valid application with the chief appraiser.
(b) To be valid, an application for appraisal under Section 23.9802(a) must:
(1) be on a form provided by the appraisal office and prescribed by the comptroller;
(2) provide evidence that the land qualifies for designation as an aesthetic management zone, critical wildlife habitat zone, or streamside management zone;
(3) specify the location of the proposed zone and the quantity of land, in acres, in the proposed zone; and
(4) contain other information necessary to determine the validity of the claim.
(c) To be valid, an application for appraisal under Section 23.9802(b) must:
(2) provide evidence that the land on which the timber was harvested was appraised under Subchapter E in the year in which the timber was harvested;
(3) provide evidence that all of the land has been regenerated in compliance with Section 23.9802(b)(2); and
(d) The comptroller shall include on the form a notice of the penalties prescribed by Section 37.10, Penal Code, for making or filing an application containing a false statement. The comptroller, in prescribing the contents of the application form, shall require that the form permit a claimant who has previously been allowed appraisal under this subchapter to indicate that the previously reported information has not changed and to supply only the eligibility information not previously reported.
(e) The form must be filed before May 1. However, for good cause shown, the chief appraiser may extend the filing deadline for not more than 15 days.
(f) If a person fails to file a valid application on time, the land is ineligible for appraisal as provided by this subchapter for that year. Once an application is filed and appraisal under this subchapter is allowed, the land is eligible for appraisal under the applicable provision of this subchapter in subsequent years without a new application unless the ownership of the land changes, the standing timber is harvested, or the land’s eligibility under this subchapter ends. However, if the chief appraiser has good cause to believe the land’s eligibility under this subchapter has ended, the chief appraiser may require a person allowed appraisal under this subchapter in a previous year to file a new application to confirm that the land is currently eligible under this subchapter by delivering a written notice that a new application is required, accompanied by the application form, to the person who filed the application that was previously allowed.
(g) The appraisal office shall make a sufficient number of printed application forms readily available at no charge.
(h) Each year the chief appraiser for each appraisal district shall publicize, in a manner reasonably designed to notify all residents of the district, the requirements of this section and the availability of application forms.
(i) A person whose land is allowed appraisal under this subchapter shall notify the appraisal office in writing before May 1 after eligibility of the land under this subchapter ends. If a person fails to notify the appraisal office as required by this subsection, a penalty is imposed on the property equal to 10 percent of the difference between the taxes imposed on the property in each year it is erroneously allowed appraisal under this subchapter and the taxes that would otherwise have been imposed.
(j) The chief appraiser shall make an entry in the appraisal records for the property against which the penalty is imposed indicating liability for the penalty and shall deliver a written notice of imposition of the penalty to the person who owns the property. The notice shall include a brief explanation of the procedures for protesting the imposition of the penalty. The assessor for each taxing unit that imposed taxes on the property on the basis of appraisal under this subchapter shall add the amount of the penalty to the unit’s tax bill for taxes on the property against which the penalty is imposed. The penalty shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as the taxes on the property against which the penalty is imposed. The amount of the penalty constitutes a lien on the property against which the penalty is imposed and on delinquency accrues penalty and interest in the same manner as a delinquent tax.
(k) If the chief appraiser discovers that appraisal under this subchapter has been erroneously allowed in any of the 10 preceding years because of failure of the person whose land was allowed appraisal under this subchapter to give notice that the land’s eligibility had ended, the chief appraiser shall add the difference between the appraised value of the land under this subchapter and the market value of the land for any year in which the land was ineligible for appraisal under this subchapter to the appraisal records as provided by Section 25.21 for other property that escapes taxation.
Sec. 23.9805. ACTION ON APPLICATION. (a) The chief appraiser shall determine separately each applicant’s right to have the applicant’s land appraised under this subchapter. After considering the application and all relevant information, the chief appraiser shall, based on the law and facts:
(1) approve the application and allow appraisal under this subchapter;
(2) disapprove the application and request additional information from the applicant in support of the claim; or
(3) deny the application.
(b) If the chief appraiser requests additional information from an applicant, the applicant must furnish it not later than the 30th day after the date of the request or the chief appraiser shall deny the application. However, for good cause shown, the chief appraiser may extend the deadline for furnishing the information by written order for a single period not to exceed 15 days.
(c) The chief appraiser shall determine the validity of each application for appraisal under this subchapter filed with the chief appraiser before the chief appraiser submits the appraisal records for review and determination of protests as provided by Chapter 41.
(d) If the chief appraiser denies an application, the chief appraiser shall deliver a written notice of the denial to the applicant not later than the fifth day after the date the chief appraiser makes the determination. The chief appraiser shall include with the notice a brief explanation of the procedures for protesting the denial.
Sec. 23.9806. APPLICATION DENIAL BASED ON ZONE LOCATION. (a) Before a chief appraiser may deny an application under Section 23.9805 on the ground that the land is not located in an aesthetic management zone, critical wildlife habitat zone, or streamside management zone, the chief appraiser must first request a determination letter from the director of the Texas Forest Service as to the type, location, and size of the zone, if any, in which the land is located.
(b) The chief appraiser shall notify the landowner and each taxing unit in which the land is located that a determination letter has been requested.
(c) The director’s letter is conclusive as to the type, size, and location of the zone for purposes of appraisal of the land under this subchapter.
(d) If the land is located in a zone described in the determination letter, the chief appraiser shall approve the application and allow appraisal under this subchapter if the applicant is otherwise entitled to have the applicant’s land appraised under this subchapter.
(e) The director of the Texas Forest Service by rule shall adopt procedures under this section. The procedures must allow the chief appraiser, the landowner, and a representative of each taxing unit in which the land is located to present information to the director before the director issues the determination letter.
(f) Chapters 41 and 42 do not apply to a determination under this section by the director of the Texas Forest Service of the type, size, and location of a zone.
Sec. 23.9807. CHANGE OF USE OF LAND. (a) If the use of land that has been appraised as provided by this subchapter changes to a use that qualifies the land for appraisal under Subchapter E, an additional tax is imposed on the land equal to the sum of:
(1) the difference between:
(A) the taxes imposed on the land for each of the five years preceding the year in which the change of use occurs that the land was appraised as provided by this subchapter; and
(B) the taxes that would have been imposed had the land been appraised under Subchapter E in each of those years; and
(2) interest at an annual rate of seven percent calculated from the dates on which the differences would have become due.
(b) If the use of land that has been appraised as provided by this subchapter changes to a use that does not qualify the land for appraisal under Subchapter E or under this subchapter, an additional tax is imposed on the land equal to the sum of:
(B) the taxes that would have been imposed had the land been taxed on the basis of market value in each of those years; and
(c) A tax lien attaches to the land on the date the change of use occurs to secure payment of the additional tax and interest imposed by this section and any penalties incurred. The lien exists in favor of all taxing units for which the additional tax is imposed.
(d) The additional tax imposed by this section does not apply to a year for which the tax has already been imposed.
(e) If the change of use applies to only part of a parcel that has been appraised as provided by this subchapter, the additional tax applies only to that part of the parcel.
(f) A determination that a change in use of the land has occurred is made by the chief appraiser. The chief appraiser shall deliver a notice of the determination to the owner of the land as soon as possible after making the determination and shall include in the notice an explanation of the owner’s right to protest the determination. If the owner does not file a timely protest or if the final determination of the protest is that the additional taxes are due, the assessor for each taxing unit shall prepare and deliver a bill for the additional taxes and interest as soon as practicable after the change of use occurs. The taxes and interest are due and become delinquent and incur penalties and interest as provided by law for ad valorem taxes imposed by the taxing unit if not paid before the next February 1 that is at least 20 days after the date the bill is delivered to the owner of the land.
(g) The harvesting of timber from the land before the expiration of the period provided by Section 23.9802(c) constitutes a change of use of the land for purposes of this section.
(h) The sanction provided by Subsection (a) or (b) does not apply if the change of use occurs as a result of a:
(1) sale for right-of-way;
(2) condemnation; or
(3) change in law.
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Reports: Entire 'Days of Our Lives' cast released from contract
The entire cast of "Days of Our Lives" have been released from their contracts, according to reports.
TVLine.com reports the show will go on an indefinite hiatus, but it has not yet been canceled.
The show shoots eight months in advance, so when the show halts production at the end of the month, it could have enough episodes to last through next summer, according to TVLine.
The show is currently in its 55th season.
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Posted on November 5, 2011 by Michael Stern
The Solyndra Subpoenas and the White House Response
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has issued subpoenas to the White House Chief of Staff and the Chief of Staff to the Vice President, seeking documents relating to the Solyndra loan scandal. Specifically, each subpoena asks for “[a]ll documents referring or relating in any way to the $535 million loan guarantee issued to Solyndra, Inc. by the Department of Energy.” This is the only request made by the subpoenas. Although they provide a non-exclusive list of examples that would be responsive to the request, they ask for no other documents.
In this letter, the White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler responds that the subpoenas are “unprecedented.” Unprecedented in what sense? Obviously, congressional committees have issued numerous subpoenas to prior administrations, including subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from White House officials. Such subpoenas were rare before Watergate (and virtually unheard of before World War II), but they have become rather commonplace since. Here are some examples of congressional subpoenas issued to the Bush Administration. During the Clinton Administration, House Government Reform Committee Chairman Dan Burton became something of a legend for the number of subpoenas he issued (reportedly over a thousand), including many to the White House.
Perhaps there is something about these particular subpoenas that makes them, in Ruemmler’s view, “unprecedented.” But nowhere in her letter does she explain what that might be.
Instead, her primary objection seems to be that the subpoenas are “overbroad.” She characterizes the document request as “extremely broad” because it “encompasses all communications within the White House from the beginning of this Administration to the present that refer or relate to Solyndra,” and she suggests that “any document that references Solyndra, even in passing, is arguably responsive to the Committee’s request.” She contends that responding to such an “expansive request” would place “an unreasonable burden on the President’s ability to meet his constitutional duties.” As an example, she cites the fact that the subpoenas would require producing “thousands of pages of news clips” literally responsive to the requests.
It is hard to characterize this objection as anything but silly. Asking the White House to produce all documents relating to a single small company is hardly placing an undue burden on the presidency. Federal agencies routinely respond to subpoenas and FOIA requests that are far broader in scope. All that needs to be done is to identify those locations most likely to contain responsive documents and to conduct a reasonable search thereof. Since most if not all of those locations will consist of electronic databases, a single search containing the word “Solyndra” would likely suffice.
One wouldn’t think that reviewing and copying all of the White House documents that refer to Solyndra would be that burdensome either. Just how often was Solyndra discussed in the White House, anyway? There presumably are fewer such documents in the White House than there were in the Department of Energy, which has already searched for and produced documents requested by the committee. I am sure that the White House is just as capable as DOE of responding to congressional requests.
I find it difficult to understand what Ruemmler means when she says the subpoenas are “overbroad.” A subpoena that sought all documents related to green energy, or all documents related to loans by DOE, might arguably be characterized as overbroad, but these subpoenas are narrowly targeted to one particular company. Contrary to Ruemmler’s characterization, moreover, they do not even seek all documents that relate to Solyndra. Instead, they are focused solely on documents that relate to the $535 million loan guarantee given to Solyndra. It is difficult to see how the subpoenas could have been any more narrowly drawn.
The only element of overbreadth one can infer from Ruemmler’s letter has to do with the time frame of the documents requested, which stretch back to the beginning of the Obama administration. This hardly seems like an unreasonably long period (less than three years), and it seems unlikely that compressing the period would have much impact on the burden of responding. Furthermore, if there are responsive documents from the beginning of the administration, they would seem to be clearly relevant to the committee’s investigation.
As for Ruemmsler’s concern about the thousands of pages of news clippings responsive to the subpoenas, I have a suggestion. She can withhold these documents and offer to let the committee inspect and copy them if it wishes. Or she can assign the job of copying them to an intern. I hardly think the problem rises to a constitutional level.
The only serious objection that the White House could make to these subpoenas would be one of executive privilege. Ruemmsler’s letter makes no mention of that doctrine, although it does allude to “longstanding and important Executive Branch confidentiality interests.” But the consistent and bipartisan position of the House is that this is the only legitimate ground for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. See Letter of May 16, 2008 from House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman to OIRA Administrator Susan Dudley (“’[T]he only privilege under which the President may withhold subpoenaed documents is executive privilege.’”) (quoting Letter of Apr. 18,1997 from John Rowley, Chief Counsel to Chairman Dan Burton, to Lanny Breuer, Special Counsel to the President).
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Posted on June 15, 2013 June 21, 2013 by Michael Stern
Will the New Jersey Special Senate Election Survive Judicial Review?
Update: the answer to this question is apparently yes, as the New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to hear the challenge.
A three-judge panel of the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division has issued this opinion rejecting a legal challenge to Governor Christie’s writ of election setting an October 16, 2013 date for the special election to fill the Senate seat that became vacant as the result of Senator Lautenberg’s death. The case, however, has been set for a fast track review by the New Jersey Supreme Court (hat tip: Rick Hasen), with briefs challenging the writ to be filed on Monday, June 17, and the Governor’s response due on Tuesday, June 18.
The appellate division opinion does not do a whole lot to clarify the meaning of the relevant New Jersey law, IMHO, but it does raise what appears to be another significant legal and practical problem with holding two elections in such a short period.
The court begins its analysis with the proposition that “[b]ecause Senator Lautenberg died on the day prior to the primary election, N.J.S.A. 19:27-6 governs.” Under this provision, the vacancy would be filled at the “second succeeding election” (i.e., in November 2014) unless the Governor calls a special election. The court states that “[w]ithout question, the Governor was authorized to call a special election in this circumstance, where the vacancy occurred one day prior to the primary.”
But what about N.J.S.A. 19:3-26, which appears to require that the vacancy be filled at the next general election (i.e., in November 2013) unless the vacancy occurred less than 70 days before that general election (which it did not)? The court does not attempt to reconcile this provision with 27-6 nor to explain how one would resolve the conflict between the two provisions if the Governor did not call a special election. It does state at one point that “[w]ithout a special election, this seat would be filled by an appointee for the remainder of the term.” That suggests that 27-6 would control (although, even then, the appointee would only serve until November 2014, not until the expiration of the term in January 2015). But the court offers no explanation as to why that would be the case.
The court also rejects the plaintiffs’ argument that 3-26 precludes the Governor from calling a special election. It evinces some sympathy for the Governor’s position that 3-26 permits the calling of a special election under any circumstances, not merely where the vacancy occurs less than 70 days before the general election. The Governor relied on the punctuation in 3-26, which (you may recall) provides:
If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this State in the United States senate, it shall be filled at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within 70 days next preceding such election, in which case it shall be filled by election at the second succeeding general election, unless the governor of this State shall deem it advisable to call a special election therefor, which he is authorized hereby to do.
According to the Governor, “the comma preceding the authorizing clause” (i.e., the comma immediately preceding the second “unless”) demonstrates “the Legislature’s intention to authorize a special election whether the vacancy occurs fewer or more than seventy days before the general election.” Maybe this is right, although it seems to me that the Legislature would have more clearly expressed this intention if it had used the word “or” instead of the comma, but I suppose this might have created an ambiguity as to which “unless” clause governs if both apply.
In any event, the court did not seem to be completely convinced by the Governor’s argument because it stressed that it was limiting its holding to the situation in which the Governor was already authorized to call a special election under 27-6: “In this circumstance, it would be wholly absurd to conclude that the Legislature intended to authorize a special election in N.J.S.A. 19:27-6 and preclude it in N.J.S.A. 19:3-26, even if the punctuation the Legislature chose did not support a contrary reading, as the punctuation used plainly does.” In other words, if Lautenberg had died the day after the primary election, instead of the day before, the court is not deciding whether Christie would have had the authority to call a special election under 3-26, although it seems to be leaning toward the conclusion that he would.
As for the timing of the special election, the court held that this was a matter within the Governor’s discretion. Although 27-6 tightly constricts the Governor’s discretion as to dates for the special primary and special elections once he issues the writ, there is no specific time set for issuing the writ. According to the court, the Legislature therefore must have intended the Governor to have a wide discretion in selecting the date of the special election:
Without question, the Legislature has authorized the Governor to select the date of the special elections, which can be accomplished by assigning the statutory dates backward from the date for a special general election that the Governor deems advisable before issuing the writ. The Legislature could have, but did not, limit that discretion, and its breadth must have been as obvious to the Legislature at the time it was written as it is now. Because of the date of Senator Lautenberg’s death, this special election could have been scheduled for the same date as the general election.
The court seems to be saying that the Governor can indefinitely delay the issuance of the writ of election in order to set whatever date he wants for the special election. This seems to me to be a less than obvious conclusion. An equally if not more plausible inference from the legislature’s failure to specify a date for issuing the writ is that the legislature intended that it be issued either forthwith or within a reasonable time of the occurrence of the vacancy. In this case that might have allowed the Governor to set the special election on the same date as the general election. But the court’s assumption that the legislature intended for the Governor to have a broad discretion in choosing when to issue the writ seems to be in some tension with the very limited discretion it gave him once the writ issues.
Finally, the court declined to second guess the Governor’s decision to hold the special election on October 16, rather than on the date of this year’s general election, November 5. The issue of the cost of holding a separate election was a policy issue, the court sensibly concluded, that was not for judges to decide. However, the court did express a serious concern with the logistical difficulties involved in using the same voting machines in two statewide elections in such close proximity. It noted that the machines by law must be impounded for a 15 day period after the October 16 election, which would seem to make it extremely difficult to have them ready in time for their use in the November 5 general election. Although the court did not believe that the evidence provided by the plaintiffs warranted invalidating the writ, it left open the possibility of future challenges on this ground:
We view the potential for problems it may create in conducting the general election at this point as a matter committed to the Governor and relevant to his determination as to whether the date of this special election, dictated by his writ, is “advisable.” In our view, there is no question of statutory or constitutional violation that is ripe, and, as the State’s Chief Executive Officer, the Governor’s policy decision and assessment of the feasibility of accomplishing it is not reviewable.
(emphasis added).
This issue strikes me as raising a greater danger, both legal and practical, to the viability of Christie’s action than the attack on his authority to call a special election in the first place. But I guess we will see what the New Jersey Supreme Court thinks.
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Canada GP: Preview - Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton: I still can't quite believe I've got my 44th Formula One win. It's taken so much hard work from so many people throughout my career to reach this point - way too many to name - and it's a very special landmark for me and my family. I have to say how grateful I am to my mechanics for sticking at it and sticking with me after what's not been an easy start this year. It felt great to be back on the top step after a tough run and hopefully it was a big confidence boost for them too, because they've been doing a great job all season. There's a long way to go yet, though. We've seen from these opening six races that anything's possible and these swings inevitably go both ways. We are the greatest team - but we have more pressure from our rivals than ever before, so it's important we keep pulling together and refining any weak areas. I've proven that I'm just as strong as I've ever been and I will be for the rest of the year, so I'm looking forward to the next chapter. Montreal has always been a good track for me, so hopefully I'm able to shine like I did the first time I went there in that great city atmosphere.
Nico Rosberg: I expected and prepared myself for some difficult races after the awesome start to the season. This is where experience helps me. In the last Grand Prix I hopefully got all of my bad luck out of the way in one race, so onwards and upwards again from now! I'm looking forward to heading over to Boston for a sponsor event first and then on to Canada. It's an awesome track and I'm sure our car will be great there too. It will be interesting to see where Red Bull are this time. We are hoping to get a little bit ahead of them again, so let's see.
Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport: Monaco brought us mixed emotions. For Lewis, it was just what the doctor ordered. For Nico, a whole lot of bad luck in one race made it a tough afternoon. But the main thing we took away was the very real threat from Red Bull. It took a bold strategy, a big push from Lewis and an even bigger slice of luck with Daniel's slow pit stop to get us that win. I've said this many times before - but we have no breathing space in this Championship. Maintaining any advantage is a constant battle - and the pressure is only getting bigger. This unpredictable season has been great for the sport and shows that Formula One is alive and well. But, for us as a team, there is clearly work to do. There remains room for improvement in our reliability - but the push for more performance has become increasingly important too. We saw the 50th Formula One win for the Silver Arrows in Monte Carlo, which is a great achievement. But if we are to build the long-term success that puts Mercedes-Benz up there with the iconic names of this sport, we will need to push harder than ever.
Paddy Lowe, Executive Director (Technical): We came away from Monaco pleased to have won there for a fourth consecutive year - but not entirely satisfied after a tough afternoon for Nico. We've put a lot of effort into understanding why that was and have some good insights to take forwards into future races. Montréal is an unusual circuit, with plenty of low-speed corners linked by a good number of straights. It's a track that is therefore very demanding of both the Power Unit and the brakes. It's also a tricky circuit in terms of tyres. We'll see the second appearance of the UltraSoft compound this weekend - which should mean a notable drop in qualifying times relative to 2015. However, the track is far more aggressive on tyres than Monaco, so understanding how best to use the UltraSoft for the race will be one of the main challenges. We're all looking forward to being back in Canada. It's always a great event - one where the city really comes alive - and it's good to see so many North American Formula One fans. Lewis has a fantastic record at this circuit, we saw arguably one of Nico's greatest drives there in 2014 and the team secured a fantastic 1-2 in 2015, so we should be set for an exciting weekend.
Hamilton thanks "gentleman" Rosberg
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Monaco GP: Thursday Press Conference
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Classic Graphics Obtains Harperprints Inc. Assets
CHARLOTTE, NC—Classic Graphics has acquired certain assets of Henderson, NC-based Harperprints. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
David Pitts, co-owner of Classic Graphics, believes that in an industry where many smaller companies are falling by the wayside and mid-sized competitors are consolidating to remain viable, this is a logical move.
"Classic has enjoyed tremendous organic growth during our 28-year history," noted Pitts. "Combining operations with a prominent, industry-leading company like Harperprints will help us sustain, and hopefully extend, our growth ambitions."
While Pitts did not reveal financial terms of the transaction, Classic's sales for 2011 were approximately $50 million, and sales for 2012 are expected to be in the $55-$60 million range. The Triangle Business Journal reported that 22 of Harperprints' 40 employees were joining Classic's Morrisville, NC, facility. Pitts told the newspaper he hopes to bring aboard more Harperprints employees in the future.
Mike Harper, president and co-owner of Harperprints, has assumed the role of executive vice president, Triangle Division, in the combined company.
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GILTRAP GORDON - Visionary (plus bonus tracks)
Remastered edition with 3 bonus tracks
Format: CD / Cat No: ECLEC2400 / Released: 12/08/2013
Track Listing: 1. AWAKENING / 2. ROBES AND CROWNS / 3. FROM THE FOUR WINDS / 4. LUCIFER'S CAGE / 5. REVELATION / 6. THE PRICE OF EXPERIENCE / 7. THE DANCE OF ALBION / 8. THE TYGER / 9. THE ECHOING GREEN / 10. LONDON / 11. NIGHT / 12. CONCERTO (Previously Unreleased) / 13. ON WINGS OF HOPE / 14. VISIONARY (Origanal Version)
More information: A newly remastered and expanded edition of the classic album “VISIONARY” by GORDON GILTRAP. For over forty years Gordon has enjoyed the well-deserved reputation as one of Britain’s greatest guitar players. He made his first recordings in the 1960s as a folk artist, but by 1976 he had crossed into the Progressive Rock genre, backed by a band of outstanding musicians such as JOHN G. PERRY (Bass), ROD EDWARDS (keyboards) and SIMON PHILLIPS (drums).
“VISIONARY” was the first of Gordon’s “Progressive” albums and was released on the Electric label in 1976. This edition is newly remastered from the original tapes and includes three bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased 13-minute composition “Concerto”. The reissue also features a lavishly illustrated booklet with new essay and interview with Gordon Giltrap.
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Peace Silver Dollars | NGC MS65
Following the conclusion of World War I, there was groundswell of support throughout the American numismatic community for the minting of a new coin to commemorate the restoration of peace. Simultaneously, the passage of the Pittman Act of 1918 required the Treasury Department to produce millions of new silver dollars to replace the more than 270 million silver dollars that were melted and sold as bullion to the British immediately after the war. The silver dollar that was designed to accomplish both of these tasks has come to be known as the Peace Dollar.
Peace Dollars were minted from 1921 through 1928, and again from 1934 through 1935, in Philadelphia (no mintmark), San Francisco (“S” mintmark), and Denver (“D”). Each Peace Dollar is composed of .900 fine silver, yielding a total silver content of .77344 troy ounces per coin, and measures 38.1mm in diameter. To arrive at a design, the federal Commission of Fine Arts held a competition among some of the country’s greatest sculptors and medalists which was won by a young Italian immigrant named Anthony de Francisci whose submission was modeled upon his wife Teresa. The obverse of the Peace Dollar depicts the strong profile of a crowned Lady Liberty, facing left, hair flowing behind her. The reverse captures an American eagle at rest upon a rocky outcropping, peering at the sun through a pattern of its rays. The eagle stands upon a rock and upon that rock is written a single word: Peace.
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Fickle Pickle – “A Complete Pickle” (2018) review
Fickle Pickle – A Complete Pickle (Morgan Blue Town Music, 2018)
A North-West London studio based quartet consisting of members best known as producers, engineers and session players, Fickle Pickle was actually a bit of an English psych pop supergroup consisting of Cliff Wade (lead guitar, rhythm guitar and bass guitar) and Geoff Gill (drums) from The Smoke, best known for their late 60’s acid classic “My Friend Jack” along with Wil Malone (piano, organ and electric piano) from Orange Bicycle and Steve Howden (lead guitar, rhythm guitar and bass guitar) from Red Dirt. Vocals for the band were supplied by all four members. The three bands had in common that they recorded at Morgan Studios in London, so it was rather inevitable that the four combined their talents and recorded a handful of singles as well as an LP that received very limited distribution. Luckily for fans of the band, albeit some fifty years later, the complete works of Fickle Pickle have been lovingly compiled and annotated by David Wells in a three CD box set aptly titled “A Complete Pickle” released on Morgan Music Co. Ltd.’s Morgan Blue Town imprint.
The three discs comprising “A Complete Pickle” are thematic. Disc one contains the twelve tracks from Fickle Pickle’s 1970 album “Sinful Skinful” which was released only in The Netherlands on the Explosion Records label along with nine non-LP single sides issued on various labels between 1970 and 1972. Disc two has twenty six tracks recorded, all but five previously unreleased, taken from the Morgan Blue Town tape library, while the box set’s real treat is disc three which contains fifteen previously unreleased studio tracks recorded during rehearsals for a Dutch tour, making for a total of sixty two tracks, thirty six of which make their debut on “A Complete Pickle” and making for an exhaustive document, nearly three and a half hours in length, of a finely tuned band who most certainly deserved a much better fate than they received.
Disc one begins with the LP tracks which unlike their singles, consist of only band originals, with Gill, Wade and Malone contributing the lion’s share of tunes. Throughout the band exhibits its ability to combine gorgeous melodies and beautiful vocal harmonies with skillful musicianship. Produced by Geoff Gill and Cliff Wade, the albums opens with “California Calling” co-written by Gill, a jazzy keyboard driven number that was a mainstay in Fickle Pickle’s live set. Originally released as a medley, the album’s title track, a Wade, Gill and Malone composition is a piano led tune with delicate vocal harmonies and a tastefully restrained lead guitar line, while the medley’s other half “Sandy” is a beautiful ballad featuring exceptional acoustic guitar work. “Doctor Octopus” hints at the heavier side of the band as well as serving as an example of the band’s Monty Pythonesque humorous element. “Let Me Tell You” the opening track on side two of the album begins with more delicate piano and gorgeous vocals before a fuzz guitar enters building to a mid-tune solo giving the tune a much heavier feel. “Down Misty Lane” is the LP’s longest tune at about four and a half minutes and has a Move like vibe with its 12 string guitar fitting perfectly. Two other tracks in particular stand out. The vocal intro of “Sunshine Pie” brings to mind “Western Union” a smash hit by the US band The Five Americans before its tastefully restrained lead guitar line and solo take over, showcasing the rockier side of the band, and the album closing, Beatlesque “Our Time Is Thru” with its fuzzed out guitar leading to another hot solo, the tune being the album’s heaviest without question. As a finishing touch the band’s sense of humor shows once again as at the three minute mark the albums’ credits are read off. A very solid piece of melodic power pop one can only wonder why “Sinful Skinful” was a Dutch only release. With its combination of original material, masterful musicianship and excellent production there was certainly a place in music shops for an album of its quality. Disc one closes with nine non-LP single sides and includes some potential big sellers. The band’s take on Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed” is a prime example, with its piano intro and gorgeous vocals giving way to an uptempo lead guitar leading to a hot solo that plays the song out. With McCartney having not released the song as a single it seems Fickle Pickle’s label missed the perfect opportunity for a hit. The strongest track, however, may well be the band’s red hot cover of the Paul Williams classic “Just An Old Fashioned Love Song” a huge hit in the US for Three Dog Night. From the outset, the lead guitar is to the fore, with the piano, bass and drums all pushing the beat and the vocals much less prominent in the mix. This might just be the best recording of the song to date, and definitely another missed opportunity for a hit. One other single of note was “Millionaire” with its sitar-esque intro, delicately gorgeous vocals and lyrical social commentary.
Disc two consists of twenty six tracks, twenty one previously unreleased, taken from the Morgan Studios tape vaults. While the majority of tunes showcase the melodic side of Fickle Pickle and are dominated by keyboards and luscious vocals, there are five tunes in particular that remind the listener that the band was quite capable of rocking and deserve individual recognition. “Playing With Magic” opens with a heavy guitar intro before settling into a driving riff, supplemented by trippy phasing and an especially nice lead line. “Like A Good Man Should” has a driving beat as well as a stunning lead guitar line and solo complemented by Malone’s gorgeous piano interlude. “Ride Ride Ride” has plenty of punch supplied by its heavy guitar intro and stinging lead line, making for quite a snappy rocker. The group’s cover of Neil Young’s “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” features fine piano and organ work by Wil Malone with a smoking lead guitar line and an especially impressive solo, in addition to the band’s ever present melodic vocals. Malone’s “Everyday” is a moody tune which adds strings for texture, while containing even more impressive guitar work. The tunes found on this disc also show the close relationship between The Smoke and Fickle Pickle, as “Guy Fawkes” for instance, was indeed recorded by both bands. In addition, two cover tunes in particular stand out. America’s “I Need You” is especially fitting as it is centered around the band’s vocal harmonies with melodic piano accompaniment. The disc closes with a reggae flavored take on “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” a huge hit for Manfred Mann and another wonderful fit for Fickle Pickle’s luscious vocals. All in all, the tracks found on this disc stand as evidence of the vocal, arrangement and production talents of Fickle Pickle and hint at the possibilities had the band only been able to break through in either the U.K. or U.S. market.
The third and final disc of “A Complete Pickle” contains fifteen tracks, all previously unreleased, recorded in the studio in preparation for a tour of The Netherlands, and as such is an incredible document of the band’s musicianship and showmanship. The material is a wonderful mix of band originals and covers, and includes tracks from “Sinful Skinful” and the group’s single sides as well as tunes that had not been previously dedicated to tape but were part of Fickle Pickle’s live repertoire. The disc offers an opportunity to experience one of the band’s gigs, something previously only available to those lucky enough to have seen them on their Dutch tour. The set opens with a laid back, keyboard oriented take on “Maybe I’m Amazed” which may lack the fiery guitar work of the single release, but stands up well thanks to its gorgeous vocals. “Sinful Skinful” likewise relies on keyboards and vocal harmonies but is incredibly pleasant to the ear. A six minute version of Cliff Wade’s “People I Know” makes its debut in any form and does not disappoint, opening with gentle keyboards and vocal harmonies before the lead guitar takes over and delivers a memorable solo. A cover of Carole King’s “You’ve Got A Friend” fits the band perfectly with its mix of keyboards and vocal harmonies. As with the King cover, another track found only among the tour rehearsals is a ten minute plus take on Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” best known for the highly charting single release by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The song differs greatly from typical performances by the band straight from its intro. The sound is dominated by its incendiary guitar and heavy beat and includes an impressive mid-tune solo, with Malone’s keyboards, especially his electric piano interlude, adding flavor to what is undoubtedly the heaviest song in the band’s live set. Two tracks taken from the group’s LP “Sandy” and “Down Sandy Lane” return the band to its more mellow, melodic side, showcasing the vocal abilities of the quartet. One of the songs from their unreleased studio demos, “Buena Vista” is a gorgeous mix of tastefully restrained guitars and beautiful vocal harmonies. The group’s humor is present once again on “California Calling” taking the band full circle to the opening track of “Sinful Skinful” and adds a delightfully light hearted break in the action. Following “Let Me Tell You” a track which fluidly moves from its gentle keyboard intro to its more uptempo guitar section highlighted by yet another spright, yet somewhat restrained solo. The set ends with the aptly titled show closer “Time To Go” an uptempo keyboard driven tune yet again showcasing the band’s vocal harmonies and employing percussion in the form of drums and handclaps as an outro. A delightful mixture of up and mid-tempo numbers the rehearsal recordings serve as a teaser of what a joy it would have been to see these four incredibly talented musicians live. Rare indeed is a combo consisting of members, all proficient on their instruments as well as capable of delivering distinctively gorgeous vocals. But such was the quartet which bore the moniker Fickle Pickle.
“A Complete Pickle” comes in a tri-fold digipak with each of the three discs tucking into a panel of the digipak. Also included is a twenty four page full color booklet with a detailed essay by David Wells. The booklet contains photos of the band members, artwork of the album and singles releases, as well as press clippings and other memorabilia. The music on this box set sounds crisp and clean thanks to the mastering job by Pete Reynolds. An incredible documentation of a band that was comprised of great songwriters, musicians and producers “A Complete Pickle” has a place in the collection of any fan of early 1970s pop psych music and will be of special interest to those familiar with the band’s who gave birth to Fickle Pickle, namely The Smoke, Orange Bicycle and Red Dirt and comes most highly recommended.
– Kevin Rathert
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Black Bombaim and Joao Pais Filipe – “Dragonflies with Birds and Snake” (Lovers & Lollypops, 2019). “Dragonflies with Birds and Snake” was born out of an invitation from Curtas of Vila do Conde to Black Bombaim and Joao Pais Filipe to provide the soundtrack of ‘Dragonflies With Birds And Snake’, a film by Wolfgang Lehmann.
Dragonflies with Birds and Snake by Black Bombaim & João Pais Filipe
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From the Archives: Matthew and Lesley Holleman
Mary Lee Hyer
Cities are the sum of their parts, large communities built up by the many smaller communities of people who call a place home, and Ridgeland is no different. One of these such communities in Ridgeland is its flourishing fitness community, which is able to thrive because of both convenient access to various trails and gyms in the city as well as the passion of individuals helping to build the community. Two of these such individuals are the current owners of Fleet Feet Jackson, Lesley and Matthew Holleman.
With a background in exercise science, it makes sense that Lesley gravitated toward the running world. After graduating from Delta State, she came to Ridgeland to work at Fleet Feet for the store’s original owner, Jeff Wells. “It started as something to do while I figured out what I wanted to do,” says Lesley. “I quickly learned that is was so much more for me!”
Lesley took over running the business in 2006 when Jeff moved away, then began a program to buy the store in 2008. By January of 2011, Lesley officially became the owner of Fleet Feet.
Matthew found Fleet Feet slightly more serendipitously. He always knew he wanted to be in the business world but wasn’t sure where he wanted to focus his career. He earned a bachelor’s degree in general business and worked in sales for almost twelve years, gaining an appreciation for good customer service and quality management skills.
Throughout all of this, Matthew remained active in the running community. “I grew up running for punishment,” he admits, “But after I ran with the no boundaries training and speed training, I started to love running as I never thought I would.” Naturally he found his way to Fleet Feet and, consequently, to Lesley. They met at Lesley’s first Pub Run organizational meeting, and Matthew was immediately interested in her and her love of running.
The rest is history. The Hollemans are now married and have two sons, and they are continuing to foster the growth of Ridgeland’s running community through their work at Fleet Feet. “Lesley has surrounded herself over the years with good people, and those people attract more good people, and that’s how things grow,” says Matthew.
This community of runners wasn’t created overnight. Lesley admits that the store’s first group run had only one participant, but it quickly grew. “We worked hard to make it more about friends, having fun and including everyone than about who was the fastest,” she says.
This atmosphere of inclusivity remains the cornerstone of Lesley and Matthew’s philosophy. Even just a quick look at the tag #fleetfeetfam on Instagram and Facebook shows how diverse and tightly knit the Ridgeland running community is and how much running has done for Ridgeland’s community as a whole.
For those “outsiders” looking to get involved with the running community, Matthew’s advice is “don’t be scared.” And, according to Lesley, “EVERYONE is welcome! If you are moving forward, you are ‘one of us.’”
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Home News A Brief Look at Provincial Approaches to Vaping Regulations
A Brief Look at Provincial Approaches to Vaping Regulations
With the growing popularity of e-cigarettes, or vaping, health organizations across the country have been pressing for action to limit what they see as a health threat — particularly to young Canadians. The following is a brief summary of the regulatory measures provinces and territories have enacted in an attempt to deal with the situation.
The B.C. government introduced a 10-point plan on Nov. 14 that includes cutting nicotine content in vapour pods, restricting flavours aimed at young people, increasing taxes and supporting youth-led anti-vaping campaigns. The plan also includes requiring health warnings on packaging and prevents advertising in areas where youth spend time, including bus shelters and community parks. The government said the new regulations will take effect in the spring of 2020.
Alberta has no provincial legislation to address vaping, however, some of its municipalities have bylaws that restrict e-cigarette use in public places. The province’s health minister, Tyler Shandro, has also asked for a review of tobacco and smoking legislation, with a focus on regulating vaping, as soon as this fall. The government says the review will help it develop strategies to protect Albertans from the harms of vaping, tobacco and tobacco-like products, and assess the effectiveness of current legislation.
The Saskatchewan government has passed amendments to its Tobacco Control Act to bring regulation of vaping in line with existing tobacco legislation. The new rules will restrict the sale of vaping products to people 18 and older and prohibit the promotion of such products in businesses frequented by young people, such as arcades, theatres and amusement parks. The use of vape products will also be restricted in and around public buildings, including schools and school grounds. The province says it expects the new regulations to be in force early in the new year.
The Manitoba government’s Non-Smokers Health Protection and Vapour Products Act prohibits vaping by people under the age of 18. It also bans vaping in indoor public places like schools, libraries, hospitals, malls, restaurants and indoor workplaces. The province’s ban on the advertising and promotion of tobacco products covers e-cigarettes as well.
Ontario has announced that as Jan. 1, 2020, it will ban the promotion of vaping products in convenience stores and gas stations. The government said the decision was made in response to new research that shows vaping is on the rise among the province’s youth. However, the promotion of vaping will still be allowed in specialty vape and cannabis shops, which are open to people 19 and older.
In Quebec, the sale and supply of vape products to anyone under the age of 18 is illegal, and photo ID is required to buy such products. The online sale of vape products, as well as their use, is banned wherever tobacco smoking is banned. Electronic cigarette advertising — except ads in newspapers or magazines that have an adult readership of not less than 85% — is prohibited, as is the display of e-cigarettes in stores accessible to people under age 18. However, adding flavours to the liquids used in e-cigarettes remains legal, whereas it is not for tobacco products.
New Brunswick bans the sale of e-cigarettes and e-juices to people under age 19, and no one under that age is allowed to enter a vape shop unless accompanied by an adult. Outdoor advertising by vape shops is prohibited and promotional material inside the shops cannot be viewed from the outside. Restrictions on promotional materials that apply to tobacco in other retail shops also apply to e-cigarettes. The sale of flavoured tobacco, including menthol, is also banned in New Brunswick.
Health Minister Randy Delorey has announced the province will ban sales of flavoured e-cigarettes and juices as of April 1, 2020. Nova Scotia banned the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under 19 in 2015. Vaping is also prohibited in any venue where tobacco smoking is banned, and vape shops are not allowed to display e-cigarette advertising outside their businesses.
The P.E.I. legislature passed a bill in November raising the legal age to buy tobacco and e-cigarettes from 19 to 21 — the highest age limit in the country. The legislation also bans certain flavours of e-cigarettes. E-cigarette sales are already banned wherever tobacco sales are prohibited. Vape shops are not allowed to display e-cigarette devices in a way that makes them visible from outside the premises. Vaping or product sampling in retail outlets is prohibited, as it is in a public place or workplace. Any advertising that is misleading regarding the characteristics, health effects and health hazards of vaping products is also illegal.
Newfoundland and Labrador bans the sale of vaping products to people under age 19. Sales of such products are also banned wherever tobacco sales are banned, and promotional materials for vaping products cannot be visible inside or outside the shop where they’re sold. Vape shops are allowed to operate in the province providing they only sell vapour products.
Yukon does not currently have any laws dealing with vaping. However, a bill was introduced in its legislative assembly in October that would, if passed, set the minimum age for buying vape products to 19 and prohibit the display or advertising of such products.
In the Northwest Territories, the Smoking Control and Reduction Act was passed in August but is not yet in effect. The rule changes would regulate the sale, display and advertising of vape products and the substances used in e-cigarettes. It would prohibit the use of these products by people under the age of 19 and ban the sale of food items that are designed to resemble vape (and tobacco) products. The sale of vape products at locations such as schools, hospitals, pools and recreational facilities would also be banned.
In Nunavut, current regulations only dictate where people can vape, but the territory’s chief medical officer of health has said amendments to the territory’s Tobacco Control Act to put stricter restrictions on vaping will likely be implemented sometime in 2020. Dr. Michael Patterson said the new rules would likely mirror tobacco regulations, which ban flavoured tobacco and flashy packaging aimed at enticing young people.
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El Pollo Loco Introduces New Fire-Grilled Chicken Burritos
Industry News September 5, 2017
El Pollo Loco, a leading fire-grilled chicken chain, announced the launch of a new line of Fire-Grilled Chicken Burritos that deliver Los Angeles-inspired flavors in every bite. The four new burritos are available for a limited time at participating El Pollo Loco restaurants.
“As we continue to focus on increasing convenience for our customers, we’re excited to introduce new Fire-Grilled Chicken Burritos, that are perfect to eat on-the-go without sacrificing flavor,” says Ed Valle, Chief Marketing Officer at El Pollo Loco. “We have a strong connection to our Los Angeles heritage and we wanted to highlight some of the flavors reminiscent of our sunny and vibrant hometown. Ingredients like creamy avocado, pickled jalapenos, sweet carmelized onions and homemade pico de gallo complement our signature citrus-marinated, fire-grilled chicken for a delicious burrito.”
The new line of Fire-Grilled Chicken Burrito includes the following options:
Farmer’s Market: Grilled chicken, avocado, cheese, cabbage, carrots, avocado salsa, cilantro, pico de gallo
Spicy L.A. Chicken: Grilled chicken, guacamole, pickled jalapenos, cabbage, cheese, beans, rice, avocado salsa, pico de gallo
Chicken Bacon Cheddar: Grilled chicken, avocado, bacon, caramelized onions, cheddar, beans, pico de gallo
Double Chicken: Double grilled chicken, cheese, cabbage, beans, pico de gallo
El Pollo Loco is passionate about creating Mexican entrées that are made with fresh ingredients and provide a healthier alternative to typical fast food. The brand's menu features its signature citrus-marinated, fire-grilled chicken and authentic, hand-crafted items inspired by the culinary and cultural traditions of its hometown Los Angeles.
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Academic journal article The Middle East Journal
The Notion of a "Pre-Emptive War:" the Six Day War Revisited
By Kurtulus, Ersun N.
The article presents a critical assessment of the widespread conceptualization of the June 1967 War between Israel and its neighboring Arab states as a pre-emptive war both in academic and non-academic writing. Tracing the origins of the notion of pre-emptive war to international law, the article identifies three necessary conditions for such a war to be classified as pre-emptive: acute crisis combined with high alert levels; vulnerable offensive weapons; and strategic parity as regards to offensive capabilities. On the basis of a re-interpretation of the evidence produced by previous research, this article argues that the circumstances surrounding the Six Day War did not fulfill some of these necessary conditions. This conclusion also is supported by evidence related to the Israeli decision to launch a first strike.
The June 1967 War1 is not only a turning point in the contemporary history of the Middle East, but also a milestone in a conceptual development: namely, the gradual broadening of the concept of "pre-emptive war" that culminated in the use of this term to depict the war conducted by the United States and its allies in Iraq, and later to refer to a possible attack, at the time of writing, on the nuclear facilities of Iran.
On June 5, 1967, after three weeks of tension, the Israeli Air Force attacked air bases in Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and destroyed approximately 80% of the warplanes of these states on the ground. During the military operations that followed the initial strike, Israeli troops swiftly occupied the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of Jordan, and the Golan Heights. In what was probably one of the first employments of this concept to describe a conventional war, the Israeli attack was regarded as a pre-emptive strike, first in the minutes of the Israeli government,2 and later by the general public. This view is now rather well established3 and, as a general conceptualization of this war, it has been presented in various contexts: books on weapon systems;4 textbooks on international law;5 scholarly study of surprise attacks;6 monographs of political philosophers;7 quantitative research on war;8 reference books;9 and even travel guides.10 Leaving aside issues emanating from the normative justification and the defensive connotations embedded in the notion of a pre-emptive war, such a conceptualization of the Six Day War raises two important questions:
* What is a pre-emptive war and on what basis or criteria can it be differentiated from other types of first strikes, such as surprise attack, preventive strike, or unintentional war?
* To the extent that it is possible to identify a set of criteria that would enable identification of pre-emptive strikes, to what extent do the circumstances surrounding the Six Day War fulfill these criteria?
On the face of it, certain factors could be pointed out to support the view that the June 1967 War was a pre-emptive war. Deployment of some 80,000 Egyptian troops on the Sinai peninsula," agitation of the Arab opinion with calls for the destruction of Israel, the ensuing fear and alarm among the Israeli public,12 and perhaps most importantly, conclusion of a defense treaty that comprised all of Israel's neighbors with the exception of Lebanon just before the war, easily could give the impression of an imminent attack by the Arab states and thus open up the way for the interpretation of the Israeli first strike as a pre-emption of that attack. However, in-depth analysis of the circumstances surrounding the Israeli strike produces a different and more complicated picture. In what follows I shall first map out the difficulties involved in the concept of pre-emptive war and, by means of logical deduction, develop a set of criteria on the basis of the use of this concept in the nuclear strategic thinking of the Cold War period. This will be followed by an evaluation with reference to these criteria of the evidence produced by previous research about the circumstances surrounding the outbreak of the Six Day War. …
Publication: The Middle East Journal
Kurtulus, Ersun N.
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$10M and a lot of elbow grease to refurbish Casa View $10M and a lot of elbow grease to refurbish Casa View https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=21019 2018-09-10T05:00:00Z 2018-09-10T23:00:00Z
DALLAS – The 64-year-old Casa View Village at the intersection of Ferguson and Gus Thomasson roads is in the midst of a $10 million-plus makeover.
Shop Cos. bought the shopping center late last year in partnership with Dallas' Hunt Realty Investments and CrossTie Capital.
Construction work on the northeast Dallas shopping strip is expected to wrap up early 2019.
The new owners will restore the buildings and bring in new retail and restaurant tenants.
The storefront canopies will be restored, lights and signage upgraded, and the central plaza reworked with new paving and landscaping.
When the retail center was built in the early 1950s, it was described as a "new downtown for far east Dallas" following thousands of new homes springing up on the edge of the city.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2018/09/06/dallas-mid-century-casa-view-village-shopping-center-gets-major-makeover
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RH Line calls printed March 2
Private Gun Sales
“The caller says background checks for buying guns have to be for every sale, like screening is at 100 percent at airports. I don’t agree but I get the point. The caller should explain how are they going to enforce background checks on private sales. Who would know if a private sale occurred except the buyer and the seller. What good is an unenforceable law?”
School Attacks
“I find it shameless that people seemed the feel to need to attack such a wonderful organizations as the public school system that we have here in Loveland. These people work tirelessly. They work nights, they work weekends. They love the kids and they work hard to get them in the right frame of mind for learning. We should be praising them and supporting them. Not knocking them down all the time.”
“… I do not understand the sudden rage against fracking as there is nothing new. We have been fracking wells right here in Larimer County for more than 20 years. It doesn’t need to be studied because it has been. There’s a reason the EPA doesn’t need to regulate it.”
“I was so inspired by the article about Margaret Zierdt. We owe so much to the women who fought for the vote. I urge every mother to teach your children about the suffrage. My mom did and I love her for it. I love Margaret for marching and still fighting for justice.”
Parks Thanks
“I just want to thank the Loveland Parks and Recreation Department for getting out to Loveland High School, and clearing all the tennis courts there. The Loveland Tennis Association is going to Las Vegas to play in sets of tournaments in one week and it helped us greatly to have this court cleared so they can practice before they go.”
Keep Chopin
“The today in history column omitted the birth of the history’s greatest pianist, Frédéric Chopin, March 1st, 1810. Happy birthday, Frédéric.”
“I was just shopping and there was a dog in two out of the three stores that I went to. I love dogs. I have one myself. But I thought dogs aren’t allowed in stores. The clerk at the last store rolled her eyes and said, ‘They told me it was a service dog.’ Come on people. If a dog is less than 12 pounds and smaller than a bread box, it is not a service dog.”
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Alexander Betts
Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs
Alexander Betts is Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs and a William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College. He received his MPhil (in Development Studies, with Distinction) and DPhil (in International Relations) from the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on the international politics of asylum, migration and humanitarianism with a geographical focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime (Cornell University Press, 2009), Refugees in International Relations (with Gil Loescher, Oxford University Press, 2010), Global Migration Governance (Oxford University Press, 2011), UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (with Gil Loescher and James Milner, Routledge 2012), Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement (Cornell University Press, 2013), Implementation and World Politics: How International Norms Change Practice (with Phil Orchard, Oxford University Press, 2014), Refugee Economies: Forced Displacement and Development (with Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, and Naohiko Omata, Oxford University Press, 2016), Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism (with Will Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System (with Paul Collier, Penguin Allen Lane, 2017).
Email: alexander.betts@qeh.ox.ac.uk
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> Interference
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What is Interference in Football?
Interference in football is a type of penalty in which a player interferes with an opposing player while trying to complete an action involving the ball, usually when trying to catch the ball. This is known as pass interference and can be initiated by an offensive or defensive player.
Offensive Pass Interference
Offensive pass interference occurs in one of two ways:
The receiver pushes off the defender in order to create separation and make a catch
One receiver sets a blatant "pick" for another receiver, bumping the defender such that the offensive player becomes open for a pass
Defensive Pass Interference
Defensive pass interference occurs when the defender performs an action that inhibits the receiver from catching a pass. This includes bumping, grabbing or pushing the receiver while the ball is still in the air.
Yard Loss
When a player is flagged for interference, his team is given a penalty in the form of yard loss. Offensive pass interference results in the offense having to back up 10 yards from the line of scrimmage and replay the down in which the penalty took place. The penalty assessed for defensive pass interference varies based on whether the game is being played at the collegiate or professional level.
At the collegiate level, the offense is given an automatic first down and the ball is moved forward 15 yards. At the professional level (NFL), the ball is placed at the spot of the foul. In other words, if defensive pass interference occurs on a pass 30 yards down the field, the offense is given an automatic first down and begins the next play 30 yards further down the field.
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by Vienna McGrain Follow @viennamcgrain
RIT to host statewide Game Dev Challenge
Contest is open to college students and indie game developers; $25,000 in prize money up for grabs
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Rob Mostyn, New York State Game Challenge administrator and Digital Games Hub Coordinator at RIT, announces the winners of last year’s Game Dev Challenge at The Strong National Museum of Play.
Rochester Institute of Technology’s Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) will host the kick-off event for its second New York State Game Dev Challenge. The event is at 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 19, in RIT’s Student Innovation Hall.
The challenge is an opportunity for students enrolled in New York state colleges and universities and indie developers residing within the state to bring their game ideas to production. Winners in two categories will be awarded up to $25,000 in funding to aid in the development and production of their game; will be included in an on-site incubator at RIT, New York University or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for up to one year; and will have access to a mentor network. Entrants will be judged on their game idea pitch, game prototype, business plan, mentorship plan and development timeline.
RIT’s MAGIC Center held the inaugural challenge in 2017. Forty entries were received, including 18 from college students and 22 from indie game developers.
The challenge is officially underway starting Jan. 1, with submissions being accepted until March 1. Winners will be announced at a ceremony at The Strong National Museum of Play on April 12.
Students, faculty, community partners and local game developers have been invited to attend the kick-off event, which also features a keynote address by Simon Ebejer and Michael Bukowski from New York-based game development studio Vicarious Visions.
The challenge is an initiative supported by Empire State Development and created by RIT, which was named one of three Digital Gaming Hubs in New York state. The objective for the Digital Gaming Hubs—which also include RPI and NYU—is to increase the economic impact to New York state by fostering innovation and creating collaborative activities that spur new games or companies as well as providing resources and mentoring to encourage students and entrepreneurs to enter the growing gaming industry. In addition, the gaming hubs will assist existing companies with gaming concepts, technologies and trends and host events focused on assisting the gaming community.
“I am beyond thrilled to announce the return of the Game Dev Challenge for 2018,” said Robert Mostyn, New York State Game Challenge administrator and Digital Games Hub Coordinator at RIT. “The quality and amount of submissions that we received last year only reaffirms the fact that New York state has an enormous amount of talent and that we are producing incredible games. We are all anxiously looking forward to what our local and regional game developers will bring to the competition this year.”
RIT’s MAGIC Center is a nonprofit university-wide research and development laboratory and a commercial production studio that assists in efforts to bring digital media creations up to marketplace standards and commercialization. Faculty, staff and student researchers, artists and practitioners come together to create, contextualize and apply new knowledge in a multitude of related fields and disciplines as appropriate not only to STEM or the arts and humanities, but their intersection. RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios, which will move into a new building in fall 2018, focuses on nurturing and growing new companies and publishing and distributing their projects.
A Ustream app is available for both Android and iOS mobile devices; after downloading, search “RIT Events” to find the stream.
For more information on the New York State Game Dev Challenge, including contest rules and submission information, go to http://magic.rit.edu/nysgamechallenge.
RIT’s online degree programs ranked among nation’s best in 2020
The 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs rankings, released today, featured RIT on its lists for business, computing, engineering and undergraduate online education.
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Vocational Training and Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Azaz
Posted by raffaella biondo on November 7, 2018
As an active member of the Early Recovery Cluster, Roia in partnership with other local NGOs, namely Bonyan, URC and Sons of War is responsible to facilitate two pilot projects in Azaz. The project is part of the UN Syria Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). The innovation dimension introduced by UNDP is to prioritise data collection and analysis. The aim is to provide solid data and information to the Cluster member NGOs to design better livelihood and early recovery projects in the future humanitarian response. Vocational Training Rehabilitation of Community Centres Responding to local needs as defined in a pre-treatment market assessment, this pilot project consists of the design and delivery of locally requested vocational services. Together with a local training institution, Roia is providing vocational training sessions in sewing and tailoring for local beneficiaries in Azaz. Tailoring was mentioned as main gap in the local market most by consumers, with women consumers in particular complaining about tailoring products being low quality. With this vocational training, Roia aims to increase competition between firms in Azaz’s tailoring sector and generate increases in product quality. Responding to a dire need for rehabilitation of basic (social and economic) infrastructure, this pilot project consists of the rehabilitation of two centres. Our project design involves furnishing these buildings and equipping them with solar power facilities and laptops. Roia is rehabilitating two buildings and turn them into functioning community centres: one that was previously a cultural centre located near the city centre; and one located within the Aleppo University campus. The main objective of this rehabilitation project is to improve the capacity of civil society by providing a space for training sessions and workshops. Rehabilitation efforts enable the conference rooms in the buildings to become usable for civil society organisations and the wider community. The costs of the rehabilitation are planned to be covered by the subsequent renting of the facilities, with additional subsequent rent being accrued to the Planning Commission of the Interim Government.
Posted by raffaella biondo on October 24, 2018
ICT is a powerful tool to improve prospects for people of all ages and backgrounds. Maharat Academies provide ICT vocational education and livelihood opportunities to disadvantaged youth in hard-to-reach communities. Our Academies provide young women and men with competitive ICT skills, guide them towards dignified, inclusive and sustainable employment and prepare them for the freelancing market. The courses focus on mastering computer fundamentals as well as web design, graphic design and data entry. Combined with soft skills in communication, idea incubation and job search we enable young Syrians to earn a living from remote work and become change makers in their communities. This mean an important improvement to their self-reliance and their livelihood situation. Our approach reduces aid-dependency and enables beneficiaries to quickly stop being beneficiaries and start earning a living themselves, in fully dignity and with agency. OUR SOLUTION PROJECT BACKGROUND HELP NEEDED At Roia we make an effort to put beneficiaries at the heart of our program design. Our market assessments have revealed that especially the unemployed have high hopes of office jobs. Community's stakeholders have expressed the desire to get skills in accounting and financial management or marketing, communication and advertising. Keeping this desire in mind, Maharat Academy enables job seekers to gain valuable office, IT and English skills to offer their services locally or on freelance platforms. The Maharat ICT Academy is designed to provide youth with lifelong ICT vocational skills and immediate, improved access to livelihood opportunities in both the local market and globally through work opportunities and online freelancing. Project activities include comprehensive and meaningful ICT training as well English training and direct livelihood opportunities. The courses focus on mastering computer fundamentals as well as web design, graphic design and data entry. Flexibility in training level is provided through three different training tracks to mobilize young and old, novice and geeks to join the Academy. The livelihood component includes an internship program in partnership with IT and non-IT companies and induction to online freelancing platforms, such as the in-house platform Subul.org we developed in partnership with Microsoft. The Academy provides also a safe and fully equipped place to learn, experiment and collaborate. Given the patchy electricity supply and costly mobile data packages, a lab and co-working space is needed for students to practice their newly acquired skills and start their careers. Keeping those needs in mind, Maharat Academy aims to provide beneficiaries with improved access to income-generating opportunities, open paths to satisfy basic needs and reduce economic barriers. While the training component prepares the participants with technical skills training for ICT and freelancing work, the livelihood component offers them the necessary tools to facilitate their entry into the ICT job market. The conflict in Syria has critically deteriorated the state of education. Schools lie in ruins, and those still stand are overcrowded and under resources. An entire generation has grown up knowing nothing but war and left unchecked this could have profound consequences for the future stability and prosperity of the country. Our ICT Academies are delivering training to help prevent the emergence of a "lost generation". Across the whole of Syria, an estimated 69% of people now live in extreme poverty and support themselves on less than US$2 a day. Of these, it is estimated that 35% live in abject poverty, unable to afford the basic goods necessary to survive. Among young people, who make up over half the population, unemployment rates are estimated at 78% with the figure significantly higher among young women. Such figures are reflected across the north of Syria, in Western Aleppo and Idlib regions. The violence in Syria over the last 7 years has severely affected the regular economic cycle of communities . In normal circumstances, there exists a circular economic flow between households and firms. Households provide firms with labour while firms provide wages in exchange. With these wages, households in turn buy goods and services from firms, thus providing firms with the income for wages and other factors of production (e.g. raw materials for goods and services). However, a consequence of the conflict, this circular flow is broken by violence, instability and destruction of communications and infrastructure. Firms have been destroyed or forced to close due to fleeing owners, and fewer firms means fewer jobs. Meanwhile, those firms that have remained open have fewer goods and services to offer due to the inaccessibility and unaffordability of raw materials. With fewer jobs, there is less income in local households to buy goods and services—a problem exacerbated by the now higher cost due to scarcity. With fewer goods and services being bought, firms cannot afford to hire labour and, overall, the flow becomes a negative cycle. The concept of sustainable livelihoods depends heavily on the state of education and, due to the on-going crisis in Syria, the education system faces many challenges in terms of resources and financing. In the north of the country, several communities report being unable to afford basic goods and food. Accordingly, a high risk of negative coping mechanisms has been recorded, with child labour, meal skipping, debt, and high-risk/illegal work being resorted to by many community members in order to survive. Young women and men in Syria urgently need your help! 8 years of war have exhausted the people of Syria. Young women and men are among the most affected. Millions of Syrian youth are deprived of a proper education. They have little hopes of improving their livelihood situation. Their future is plagued by problems such as poverty, recruitment, child marriage and extremism. All they can remember is the war. We provide alternative ICT vocational and education training and livelihoods. This education has changed the lives of hundreds of young women and men in Syria. It provided our beneficiaries with employment opportunities enabling them to improve their livelihood situation and increase their resilience. However, the success of our ICT programs depends on donors. Without the urgently needed funds, we will be forced to suspend our activities in May 2019. Your crucial donations will help hundreds of young Syrian women and men. We at ROIA have the vision that together we can improve lives through ICT education. No matter how much the war has destroyed, we will keep rebuilding from the ashes. The Syrian youth deserves an education, they deserve a future, they deserve your help. With your contributions, we can keep improving hundreds of young lives. Its time to make a change, it’s time to become visionary! Donate or sponsor a student! Our Academy in Atarib Maharat News Roia launches a Fundraising Campaign to support Syrian Youth! Continue reading Maharat ICT Academy Report – Eastern Ghouta Continue reading Roia to set up ICT vocational training in Atarib Continue reading
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SpeakLoud is a service amplifying the voices of the vulnerable and those who work with them. Activists, non-profits, NGOs and community-based organisations working in human rights, humanitarianism and development are all eligible to receive free webhosting. OUR SOLUTION PROJECT BACKGROUND Over the past few years, an online presence, including social media, has emerged as an important medium of communication for reaching a vast audience on a global scale. Leveraging the power of the Internet, messages, pictures, and stories can be spread in a fraction of a second and be absorbed quickly and easily by people all over the world. For those responding to disasters and emergencies, the ability to reach out can be exceptionally powerful. In the past, crises would pass unnoticed and organizations would struggle in obscurity and isolation to help those in need. The Internet offers the ability to connect to potential donors, recruit volunteers, spread awareness, and inspire action at all levels. Nonetheless, for organizations working to provide vital assistance, the decision to invest in a web presence can be a real dilemma. Even though it can ultimately improve their effectiveness, every cent spent on a website is one less cent spent on helping the vulnerable. SpeakLoud removes this dilemma by offering free web hosting, domains, and online storage to organizations, community groups, and individuals. SpeakLoud is about empowering both those that work with vulnerable people and vulnerable people themselves; as a service, it seeks to give agency to those who have been affected by crisis.In any given crisis there are countless local, regional, and international organizations of all sizes working to save and improve the lives of those who are affected. Yet, in the chaos of disaster and war, the narrative that reaches the world rarely depicts the experiences of these actors, and the voices of the victims—the voices that matter most—are too often lost. An online presence can do so much to improve the effectiveness of organizations providing protection, relief, or development. Websites and social media are valuable tools to spread awareness about abuses or emergencies, galvanize a response, and raise funds for vital activities. However, many of these organizations spring up from the grassroots level and have limited resources, which they must prioritize for those in need. By offering free web hosting, SpeakLoud gives a voice to those who would otherwise have difficulty being heard, helping them make a bigger impact.
Skills Under Siege is an online platform for crowdfunding the livelihood projects of Syrian communities and sharing their stories with the world. With over half the Syrian population unemployed and 69 percent living in extreme poverty, the destruction of war has left few opportunities to make a living. Despite such hardship, Syrians across the country are engaged in initiatives to improve their lives. From internet cafes to renewable energy production to eco-friendly dairy farms, the resourcefulness of the population knows no bounds. Skills Under Siege is an online hub showcasing these projects, inviting support from the global community. Project Background Our Solution Years of conflict have left Syria's infrastructure ruined, its logistics networks devastated, and its economy crippled. For those living in a country torn apart by warring factions and pounded by aerial bombardment since 2011, everyday life is a struggle. Over half the country has been forced to flee from their homes, while approximately 2.3 million Syrians are living under siege or siege-like conditions, completely cut-off from the rest of the world. In such circumstances, there are few opportunities for Syrians to make a living. Overall, over half the population is unemployed and an estimated 69 per cent of people live in extreme poverty, supporting their families on less than $2 USD per day. Without an adequate income, families cannot afford basic goods and services; food insecurity and lack of access to education, healthcare, and safe water are widespread. Yet even in the worst circumstances, the resilience demonstrated in Syria is profound. Communities are finding ways to adapt, innovate, and make the most of their scarce resources, even in the midst of conflict. It's possible to find Syrians developing alternative construction materials, designing communications technologies, installing renewable energy, and launching new farms and business ventures. Skills Under Siege gives these projects a global platform while offering the world a way to engage and contribute.A crowdfunding platform intent on changing lives, Skills Under Siege connects Syrian grassroots projects with a global audience. Under the guidance of an expert steering committee, livelihood projects from across the country are identified and strictly vetted before being hosted on the platform. Once accepted, the projects receive support to improve their operations and media presence, including a dedicated media team to work with stakeholders to accurately document the project, its activities, and the community it is active in. Projects are unpacked on the site with their objectives, activities, and beneficiaries available for all to see. As the projects develop, regular media updates keep contributors abreast of the impact being made and how lives are being changed for the better. Skills Under Siege allows people all around the world to witness Syrian projects first-hand, giving them an opportunity to contribute to their success and really see how their contribution makes a difference.
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LALS “Local Administration Linkage System”
The Local Administration Linkage System is a telecommunications network designed to help local authorities in Eastern Ghouta govern effectively, even among the challenges of country in conflict. With the national telecommunications infrastructure damaged by war and blockaded by government authorities, LALS allows authorities to communicate and coordinate to provide goods and services to Syrians in a free, secure, and effective manner. PROJECT BACKGROUND OUR SOLUTION The conflict that broke out in Syria in 2011 resulted in the retreat of the state in large parts of the country. New civilian governing bodies have emerged to fill the vacuum and provide the goods and services needed for everyday living. Yet, in the chaos of war, these new administrations face incredible challenges in maintaining civil life. Eastern Ghouta has been under siege since 2012 and is subject to regular and indiscriminate attacks from artillery and warplanes. Cut off from the world, there is a critical shortage of basic goods and civilians struggle to access clean water, food, sanitation, and medicine. While the local authorities do their best to meet the needs of constituents, their duties are severely hampered by consistent disruption to telecommunications by government forces. Infrastructure is routinely and deliberately targeted and mobile and Internet networks are closely monitored. Over the last 6 years the government has regularly enforced total communications blackouts, completely shutting down all communications in the region. Without the ability to communicate, the provincial and local councils cannot coordinate and govern effectively. Lacking effective governance, the vulnerability of the region’s people was exacerbated and the legitimacy of the local authorities was being eroded, in turn threatening the stability and resilience of the regions. Roia launched the Local Administration Linkage System (LALS) in Eastern Ghouta in December of 2015 as an alternative telecommunications infrastructure, allowing the local administration to communicate freely, securely, and effectively. A hybrid system combining radio frequency communications with digital wireless technology, LALS provides a crucial alternative to the national communications grid, which has been severely compromised by the conflict. LALS is a four-part solution to create a closed, secure, and effective area-wide communications service across Eastern Ghouta. A wireless base station connects the region’s administrative offices together in an intranet, where all staff can communicate through voice, video, text, and regular GSM calls. The intranet operates with tailored software that enables council staff to securely and easily store and share data between offices. A radio system complements the intranet, allowing for instant communication between the council and its partners. Emergency services and civil society organizations keep in contact with councils via radio transmitters and handheld receivers, meaning that services can be coordinated and resources effectively allocated. The LALS network also gives the councils open access to the Internet. With Eastern Ghouta relying heavily on the support of international NGOs, access to the wider world beyond Syria’s borders is vital. Internet access also gives councils a voice, allowing them to share their stories and experiences with the global media and international community.
EMS “Emergency Medical System”
The Emergency Medical System (EMS) is a communications platform enabling emergency services to respond effectively to distress calls in Eastern Ghouta. A comprehensive and centralised system, EMS gives the public the means to request assistance while simultaneously allowing emergency services to coordinate their response. With EMS, paramedics, ambulances and firefighting teams can work in concert with field hospitals and clinics to ensure that the needs of the community are met. PROJECT BACKGROUND OUR SOLUTION Since conflict broke out in Syria in 2011, telecommunications inside the country have been subject to heavy disruption and surveillance. For regions like Eastern Ghouta, which lie outside government control, communications have effectively been cut. No communication means no coordination, which means that the services needed to sustain the hundreds of thousands of people in these areas simply cannot function properly. In Eastern Ghouta, the effect was particularly profound for the medical organizations tending to the extreme needs of a war-stricken community. These organization run multiple field hospitals and clinics, operate dozens of ambulances, and manage hundreds of medical staff. Without a means to organize these resources, their ability to respond to the frequent emergencies of the conflict was limited. At the needless cost of innocent lives, they were unable to report emergencies, direct ambulances, monitor staff levels at clinics, or manage inventory. Medical organizations reluctantly turned to armed groups out of sheer desperation, requesting use of their communications facilities. Not only did this critically undermine their neutrality and independence, but it was also functionally ineffective. The communications facilities were not designed for emergency response, were in short supply, and were always requisitioned by the armed groups in times of heavy fighting—precisely when the medical organizations needed them the most. In September 2012, Roia set out to help remedy this situation. Working in cooperation with several health organizations in Eastern Ghouta, Roia successfully established an area-wide telecommunications system to allow medical services to coordinate and operate effectively. Simple, secure, and reliable, EMS is quite literally providing a lifeline inside Eastern Ghouta.Elegant in its simplicity, EMS is a secure, reliable, and efficient telecommunications service tailored to Eastern Ghouta's medical organizations. As an independent system, it operates free from threat of disruption and surveillance and allows emergency services to coordinate with confidence. Operational since September 2012, EMS currently coordinates the work of 31 field hospitals and clinics, 31 ambulances, and over 400 doctors and paramedics. EMS consists of 3 elements: an emergency dispatch centre, a UHF radio network, and a wireless IP communication system. The dispatch centre is at the heart of the solution and is where emergency calls are received and managed. Here, qualified staff monitor and handle information about each emergency, dispatching the appropriate services according to the severity of the call and the available resources at local medical facilities. The UHF radio network enables instant communication between and among medical professionals, the dispatch centre, and the people of Eastern Ghouta. It is composed of two frequencies: one private frequency for coordinating field staff and one open frequency for receiving emergency calls from the public. The radio network allows Eastern Ghouta's medical teams to respond and adapt to emergencies as they develop. The final component of EMS is the wireless IP system, which functions as a secured intranet and is used by the dispatch centre to connect to the region's clinics and hospitals. Through this intranet the dispatch centre can access shared databases containing information about inventory levels, available specialists, and current staff numbers at Eastern Ghouta's medical facilities.
Maharat ICT Centre
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Maharat Centre empowers Syrian youth through vocational ICT training, providing them with the tools and opportunities to make a better future for themselves and their communities. PROJECT BACKGROUND OUR SOLUTION The conflict in Syria has completely devastated the country's educational infrastructure and impoverished its people. Over 50% of the Syrian population is unemployed and 4 in 5 people are classified as living in poverty. What exists is a vicious cycle of unemployment, diminishing resources, and increased levels of poverty, forcing overwhelming number of Syrian into negative coping strategies. Missing meals, early marriage, begging, borrowing, and child labour are widespread. The young people of Syria have been disproportionately affected, with youth unemployment at 78%—a figure that is estimated to be significantly higher among young women. For young men and boys, poverty and the desperation to provide for their families and loved ones have been identified as key drivers pushing them into joining armed groups. Trapped in severe poverty, parents and caregivers can no longer consider their children’s education a priority. Even those households able to keep children in school are faced with a decimated educational infrastructure that is overcapacity and under-resourced. Since the war began, the formal education system has lost over 150,000 personnel and one in three schools have been damaged, destroyed, or occupied. A third of Syrian children between the ages of 5 and 17 are out of school, and a further 1.35 million are at immediate risk of dropping out. Many of Syria's children have known nothing but war, and, for most young adults, higher education is completely inaccessible. Consequently, UN agencies, experts, and humanitarian organizations all warn of a “missing generation,” which poses serious negative ramifications for the overall resilience of the country and its future prospects. Image Source: Human Rights Watch The Syrian youth possess incredible talent and drive, but are in desperate need for opportunities to apply these in education and work. The Maharat ICT Centre was established in Syria in early 2016 to supply these opportunities. A Roia initiative, it was completed with the support of UKaid, Expertise France, and the Blossom Hill Foundation. The Centre offers comprehensive vocational courses in competitive ICT skills and English language to equal numbers of young men and women. They are provided with laptops and Internet access and taught such relevant skills as web design, application development, and business management. Taking this work a step further, the Centre matches students with local, regional, and global businesses to provide real work experience and employment opportunities. The Syrian conflict, which has devastated the country since 2011, has placed barriers around the lives of young people. With the country's education infrastructure in ruins, rampant unemployment, and widespread poverty, there are few prospects for young people to make a living. Despite possessing enormous talent, young people struggle to provide for themselves and loved ones and are often forced to turn to negative coping strategies such as begging, theft, or even joining armed groups. In partnership with UKaid and Expertise France, the Maharat Centre gives young Syrian men and women the opportunity to overcome the barriers imposed upon them by war. Students who attend the centre are trained in truly marketable skills and learn digital literacy, software development, IT infrastructure, web design, and English language skills. Roia arranges internships and distributes micro-grants for student-led initiatives to help put these newly acquired skills to work. Most importantly, students learn the tenets of entrepreneurship and are taught how to capitalize on the global ICT freelance economy, which offers a resilient income stream for embattled communities. Complete with fully equipped computer labs and a qualified faculty, the Maharat Centre is a safe space for all students to pursue their futures; this includes vulnerable groups and women who are disproportionately affected by the conflict. Gender quotas and monthly allowances ensure that both young women and men can benefit from the program. This can be especially important for women facing frequent employment discrimination, as ICT work can be a powerful empowerment tool, allowing them to work independently. The community impact of specialized training and income-generating opportunities can be profound. Operating under the Pareto principle, or “80/20 rule,” Maharat works with a relatively small number of youths, but does so with a focus on quality. Positive results with this group results in multiplied benefits across whole communities. For example, added income leads to increased consumer spending, which supports local business and livelihoods. The success stories of Maharat’s students inspire others, and empowered youths hire others to assist them with their freelancing projects.
Meaning of Roia
Roia is the Arabic translation of vision—the kind of vision that sees the world as a better place and inspires an active contribution to helping people attain basic human rights.
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National Education System
Singapore's education system aims to nurture every child and help all students discover their talents, realise their full potential, and develop a passion for life-long learning. We want to nurture in our young the willingness to think in new ways, solve problems and create new opportunities for the future. Equally important, we want to help our young acquire sound values and develop the strength of character to deal with future challenges. National Education aims to foster strong bonds among students and develop in them a deep sense of belonging and commitment to family, community and country.
Thinking Schools, Learning Nation (TSLN}--adopted in 1997 as our vision in education-describes a nation of thinking and committed citizens, and an education system capable of meeting the challenges of the 21st century. Since 2003, we have also focused on nurturing a spirit of Innovation and Enterprise (I&E) among our students and staff. Teach Less, Learn More (TLLM), a call made by PM Lee Hsien Loong in his inaugural National Day Rally speech in 2004, was a call for our schools and teachers to teach better, improve the quality of interaction between teachers and students, and equip students with the knowledge, skills and values that prepare them for life. Teaching will be focused on developing understanding, critical thinking and the ability to ask questions and seek solutions.
A cornerstone of Singapore's education system is the bilingual policy which allows each child to learn English and his Mother Tongue to the best of his abilities. Being proficient in English allows them to plug into a globalised wor1d. Being proficient in MTL provides a link to their heritage and Asian roots, and provides them with a competitive edge with the rise of China and India, and integration of ASEAN.
There are opportunities for every child in Singapore to undergo at least ten years of general education. The school system features a national curriculum, with national examinations at the end of the primary, secondary and junior college years. In recent years, we have also moved towards a more flexible and diverse education system, aimed at providing students with greater flexibility and choice. Upon completion of their primary education, students can choose from a range of education institutions and programmes that cater to different strengths and interests. To allow a greater range of student achievements and talents to be recognised, selected secondary schools, junior colleges, polytechnics and universities have the flexibility to admit a percentage of their intake using school-based criteria in the direct or discretionary admission exercises.
At the primary level, students go through a six-year course aimed at giving students a good grasp of English, Mother Tongue and Mathematics. In addition, students will learn Science, Social Studies, Civics & Moral Education, Music, Art & Crafts, Health Education and Physical Education. They are also encouraged to participate in Co Curricular Activities (CCAs) and Community Involvement Programme (CIP).
Starting from the 2008 Primary 5 cohort, primary schools have introduced Subject based Banding to replace the EM3 stream. With Subject-based Banding, students can offer a mix of Standard or Foundation subjects depending on their aptitude in each subject. Previously, at Primary 5 and Primary 6, students in the EM3 stream offer all academic subjects at the Foundation level, while students in the merged stream1 offer all academic subjects at the Standard level.
At the end of Primary 6, students take the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE), which assesses their suitability for secondary education and places them in the appropriate secondary school course that will match their learning pace, ability and inclinations.
At the secondary level, students undergo one of three courses designed to match their learning abilities and interests:
Express Course. This is a four-year course leading to the Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) '0' Level Examination. In this course, students leam English and Mother Tongue, as well as Mathematics, the Sciences and the Humanities.
Normal (Academic) Course. This is a four-year course leading to the GCE 'N' Level Examination. Students who do well at the 'N' levels will qualify for an additional year to prepare for the GCE '0' Level Examination, or progress to Higher Nitec courses at the ITE (starting from 2007). Selected students may offer '0' level subjects at Secondary 4, or, bypass the 'N' levels and progress directly to Secondary 5 to take the '0' levels. In the Normal (Academic) course, students leam a range of subjects similar to those in the Express courses. Starting from 2013, students who do very well at the 'N' levels will have two new "through-train" pathways to the polytechnics: (i) a new one-year Polytechnic Foundation Programme (PFP) and (ii) a two-year Higher Nitec pathway. The latter builds on the existing ITE Direct Entry Scheme (DES).
Normal (Technical) Course. This is a four-year course leading to the GCE 'N' Level Examination. In this course, students leam English, Mother Tongue, Mathematics and subjects with technical or practical emphases. Since 2005, schools have also been offering Elective Modules, which cover a wide range of subjects including nursing, hospitality, digital animation and precision engineering. To enhance experiential and practice-oriented learning, a revised Normal (Technical) curriculum has been implemented in all schools from 2007.
Since 2006, secondary schools have also been offering Advanced Elective Modules in collaboration with polytechnics, to allow students to experience and benefit from practice-oriented learning in fields as diverse as digital media and entrepreneurship. Upper secondary students in participating schools are eligible to offer these modules.
SPECIALISED SCHOOLS
To better cater to students who can benefit from a more customised and vocational curriculum, Northlight School was established. The school, which began operation in 2007, offers a 3 or 4-year enhanced vocational programme. Graduates of the school can progress to further education at the ITE, employment or apprenticeship with the industries. In 2009, the remaining vocational training centre, Assumption Vocational Institute, was remodeled to form the Assumption Pathway School to offer a similar vocational programme. From 2013, two new specialised secondary schools for Normal (Technical) students will be set up. The schools will adopt a strong focus on interactive, practice-oriented and ICT-enabled teaching methods.
SPECIALISED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
The Specialised Independent Schools - NUS High School of Mathematics and Sciences, School of Science and Technology, School of the Arts and Singapore Sports School - offer programmes to develop students in areas such as the arts, sports, mathematics and sciences.
INTEGRATED PROGRAMME
Students who are academically strong and prefer a more independent and less structured learning environment also have the choice of the Integrated Programme (IP), which spans secondary and junior college education without intermediate national examinations at the end of secondary school. lime previously used to prepare students for the GCE '0' Level Examination would be used to engage them in broader learning experiences. Selected schools also offer alternative curricula and qualifications (e.g. International Baccalaureate).
POST-SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION
After Secondary 4 or Secondary 5, most pupils proceed to one of the following postsecondary institutions for further education/training.
Junior Colleges I Centralised Institute. Pupils who are academically inclined and have the necessary GCE '0' level qualifications may apply for pre-university education at the junior colleges (two-year course) and centralised institute (three-year course). This course of studies leads to the GCE '/!1\ Level Examination. If they do well, they can opt to join the National University of Singapore, the Nanyang Technological University, the Singapore Management University or the Singapore University of Technology and Design for degree courses. They can also undergo teacher-training at the National Institute of Education.
Polytechnics. Pupils who prefer a more applied tertiary education and have the necessary GCE '0' level grades can take up diploma courses in the Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic or Republic Polytechnic. Polytechnic graduates who perform well in their diploma studies have the opportunity to pursue further tertiary education at the universities. From March 2010, these graduates can also apply for degree programmes offered by the Singapore Institute ofTechnology (SIT).
The polytechnics offer a wide range of courses in the fields of engineering, applied sciences and biotechnology, info-communications, health sciences, business studies, accountancy, social sciences, mass communications and digital media.
Institute of Technical Education (ITE). Pupils with GCE '0' or 'N' level certificates can opt for full-time courses offered by the ITE. Courses at ITE lead to the National ITE Certificate (Nitec) or the Higher National ITE Certificate (Higher Nitec). Those who do well in these courses can proceed to the polytechnics to pursue diploma studies. Apart from full-time institutional training, students can also acquire skills certification through traineeship programmes conducted jointly by companies and ITE.
Arts Institutions. Pupils interested in the creative arts can choose to enrol in the
LASALLE College of the Arts or the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) which offer diploma programmes in visual and performing arts such as music, theatre, dance, interior design and fashion design. Funded degree programmes at LASALLE and NAFA are also available since 2011.
Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT)
The Singapore Institute of Technology has commenced offering of degree programmes from AY2010. These are offered together with reputable overseas universities in areas such as Applied Sciences and Engineering, Digital Media, Hospitality, Health Sciences and Design.
SIT will become another "peak of excellence" in the increasingly diverse higher education landscape. With the five polytechnics as its strategic partners, SIT programmes will build on the training that our polytechnic graduates receive today, and will be mostly conducted in the polytechnic campuses. It welcomes not only fresh polytechnic graduates, but also values those with some working experience as it brings a fresh perspective to the classroom.
Singapore's university education aspires to prepare students not only for today's economy but also for a future one where there will be jobs that have yet to be invented and challenges not yet foreseen. Today, there are four publicly-funded universities in our higher education landscape.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a research-intensive, comprehensive university with 14 faculties and schools. Both undergraduate and graduate programmes are offered at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS Business School, School of Computing, Faculty of Dentistry, School of Design and Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Law, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and Faculty of Science. More graduate programmes are provided through the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School offers a graduate entry model programme for students to obtain the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Finally, the University Scholars Programme offers an inter disciplinary academic experience for undergraduates.
NUS also has many collaborative university partners that help to enrich the studenfs educational experience and student life - offering dual degree or joint programmes, research opportunities and student exchange programmes.
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a comprehensive research-intensive university organised into four Colleges, with Engineering as one of its key strengths. It is organised into four Colleges and four Autonomous Institutes (Ais). Schools under the four Colleges offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Business, Biological Sciences, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Art, Design and Media, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Communication and lnfonnation. The four Als are the Earth Observatory of Singapore, National Institute of Education, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering. The National Institute of Education (NIE) conducts professional training for teachers while the the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) offers postgraduate degrees in international and strategic studies. NTU is collaborating with Imperial College London to establish the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. The medical school is expected to admit its first batch of students in AY2013.
NTU has many collaborations with overseas institutions such as the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Imperial College London, offering dual degree or joint programmes, research opportunities and student exchange programmes.
Singapore Management University (SMU) is styled after an American university and has Business and Social Sciences programmes at its core. It has six schools-the School of Accountancy, the School of Business, the School of Economics, the School of Social Sciences, the School of lnfonnation Systems and the School of Law. In addition to offering single degree programmes with a second major, SMU also allows its undergraduates to combine a double degree from any of its six schools.
SMU offers undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in Business and Management-related areas, ranging from Professional Accounting, Economics, Finance, Wealth Management, and lnfonnation Systems. SMU also hosts a wide range of research activities focusing on the social sciences including Research Institutes such as the Behavioural Sciences Institute.
Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD) is the youngest player on the higher education landscape, and is established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University. SUTD will matriculate its first cohort of undergraduates in AY2012 and offer undergraduate programmes in the following four areas - Architecture and Sustainable Design, Engineering Product Development, Engineering Systems and Design, and lnfonnation Systems Technology and Design. The university will also house an International Design Centre (IDC) that will conduct world-class research on technologically intensive design. The IDC has identified three Design Grand Challenges, that of Sustainable Built Environment, Design with the Developing World and ICT-enabled Devices for Better Living. IDC faculty, staff and students will work together to design devices, systems and services that address strategic needs of Singapore, the region and the global community.
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN POST-SECONDARY AND TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
The post-secondary and tertiary institutions offer courses that provide working adults opportunities for continuing education and training (CET), so that they can keep their skills and knowledge abreast with the rapid shifts in the economic landscape.
The polytechnics and ITE offer part-time diplomas and Nitec I Higher Nitec courses respectively. These programmes are equivalents of full-time qualifications, but are designed to be modularised, more compact, and for part-time study, so as to be more
flexible and accessible for adult learners. The courses offered cover fields such as Engineering, Energy, Chemical Processes, Electronics, Construction, Aerospace, Marine and Offshore, Logistics, Business, Security, lnfocomm Technology and Digital Media, Earty Childhood Education, Retail and Tourism.
For diploma holders already in the workforce, the polytechnics offer post-diploma courses that are shorter in duration and tailored to needs of individuals and industries for skills upgrading. These are the Advanced Diploma (AD) courses for those seeking to deepen their skills and knowledge in their trained or practising field, the Specialist Diploma (SD) courses for those seeking to acquire skills and knowledge in a specialised area of their field, and Diploma Conversion or Dip(C) courses for those seeking training in a different discipline to facilitate career switches. Most of these courses can be offered part-time. The coverage broadly mirrors that of part-time Diplomas, with additional offerings in Accounting
and Finance, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Sports.
The universities offer opportunities for CET through part-time degree courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. SIM University (UniSIM), a local private university, specifically caters to the CET needs of working adults, offering a range of part time undergraduate and postgraduate programmes from four schools - the School of Arts and Social Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Human Development and Social Services and the School of Science and Technology. NUS and NTU also offer equivalents of full-time degrees in Engineering for part-time study.
Government subsidies and financial assistance schemes are available to support eligible adult learners pursuing CET through part-time courses at ITE and the Polytechnics, post-<liploma courses in the Polytechnics, and part-time undergraduate courses.
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Security Token Insight: Expert Interview with
Aryeh Friendman, General Counsel at SeedInvest
Interview Video Section
Watch Tomorrow at 5pm EST / 2pm PST
In this episode of Security Token Insight:
Hear from Aryeh Friedman, General Counsel at SeedInvest, as he discusses security tokens at our NYC Security Token Meetup. SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform linking issuers to angel and venture capital.
An expert interview with Howard Marks, CEO of StartEngine. Start Engine is a platform allowing companies to raise money through a Security Token Offering (STO) via Reg CF, Reg D, and Reg A. Start Engine Secondary is a FINRA approved broker-dealer and ATS. Hear what steps companies should take when they want to launch a campaign with StartEnging.
In your security token investing news, Binance acquires India’s Wazir X, Polymath moves it’s Polymesh blockchain to Substrate, and Coinbase announces a patent for a new KYC tool.
SeedInvest and StartEngine are gold corporate members of the Security Token Academy.
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Alfred Ritter
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Eric Gravengaard
Founder,
Athena Blockchain
Panel & Keynote Highlights:
Security Token Regulations
Dana Farbo
Chief Operating Officer,
Augmate
Security Token Meetup LA
Market Lead, Financial Services
Hedera Hashgraph
Jed Halfon
Director of Crypto Investments & Diligence,
Republic Crypto
Alon Goren
Co-founder,
Crypto Invest Summit
Aryeh Friedman
An entrepreneur at heart, Aryeh enjoys learning how startups operate and leverage technology in creative ways to craft a successful business model. Prior to joining SeedInvest, Aryeh worked at FINRA where he reviewed hundreds of IPO's, follow-on, and secondary offerings. During law school Aryeh worked at FINRA, the FDIC, USAO, New York Attorney General's Office and the New York State Supreme Court. Aryeh enjoys traveling to Israel and is especially interested in the Israeli startup and biotech scene. Aryeh graduated magna cum laude from Queens College with a B.B.A. in Corporate Finance and cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
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SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform that provides individual investors with access to pre-vetted startup investment opportunities. SeedInvest has funded over 150 startups and boasts a rapidly growing network of over 200,000 investors. SeedInvest has had over 30,000 startups apply to raise capital since inception and has accepted less than 1% of those companies to feature on the platform. All securities-related activity is conducted by SI Securities, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SeedInvest, and a registered broker-dealer, and member FINRA/SIPC.
Howard Marks
Howard Marks is the co-founder and CEO of StartEngine, the leader in Security Token Offerings and Online Public Offerings. Marks founded StartEngine with the mission to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games, a publisher of online games now part of The Walt Disney Company. Before Acclaim, Marks was the co-founder of Activision Blizzard and Chairman of Activision Studios from 1991 until 1997. As co-founder, former Board Member, and Executive Vice-President of video game giant Activision, he and a partner took control in 1991 and turned the ailing company into the $50B market cap video game industry leader. As a games industry expert, Marks built one of the largest and most successful games studios in the industry selling millions of games.
Marks is the 2015 "Treasure of Los Angeles" recipient awarded for his work to transform Los Angeles into a leading technology city. Marks is also named one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Marks is a member of Mayor Eric Garcetti's technology council. Marks has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is bilingual and is a triple national of the U.S., United Kingdom, and France.
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StartEngine is a leading security offering platform that tokenizes securities for more efficient issuance and trading. Utilizing its expertise in regulated exempt offerings under the Securities Act, StartEngine has helped more than 160 companies raise capital and has over 150,000 registered prospective investors. Based in Los Angeles, the company was created in 2014 by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Ron Miller. StartEngine is committed to revolutionizing the ways companies raise capital and to helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. StartEngine Crowdfunding is a not a broker-dealer, funding portal or investment adviser. StartEngine Capital, LLC is a funding portal registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Adam Chapnick:
Welcome to Security Token Insight, brought to you by the Security Token Academy. The security token industry is here, and will provide a key foundation for the evolving financial internet. The Security Token Academy provides insights about this new era for security token enthusiasts, investors, and issuers. The security token industry is here, and you can get involved.
Hi, I’m Adam Chapnick. Coming up on today’s episode of Security Token Insight: in your Security Token Investing News, Binance acquires India’s WazirX. Plus, we’ve got an expert interview with Howard Marks, CEO of StartEngine, and a special one-on-one interview with Aryeh Friedman from our New York City meetup. That and more is coming up on this episode of Security Token Insight.
Now it’s time for your Security Token Investing News. Up first, Binance announces that it has acquired WazirX, an India-based crypto exchange, which will now allow the trading of cryptocurrencies. This new move now gives Binance access to the over one billion residents of India. WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty, had this to say: “The next phase of our mass adoption for crypto will arise from developing nations around the world. India, with more than a billion people, is primed for massive crypto adoption, and this acquisition by Binance gives us the opportunity to not only cater to India, but every developing nation where Fiat on-ramps have to be built.” That’s a quote.
In other news, Polymath moved their Polymesh blockchain on to Substrate. Developed by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood’s Parity Technologies, Substrate supports multiple and custom consensus algorithms, which was a major factor in the decision to move to Polymesh. Wood’s company, Parity, has agreed to create specific business logic features on Polymesh’s base layer, which will also include smart contract communication and runtime modules.
And finally, Coinbase announced that it has patented a KYC tool which automatically removes bad user accounts, which are suspected of engaging in illegal activities. The new tool operates by assigning an overall compliance score, which incorporates a variety of factors, as well as measuring the level of due diligence that has been performed on the respective account.
The Security Token Academy is proud to present an expert interview with Howard Marks, CEO of StartEngine. I sat down with Howard to discuss what steps companies should take when they want to launch a campaign with StartEngine. Take a look.
Tell us how you do work with an issuer of a young company that’s looking to raise money. What’s the process? How can they work with you?
Howard Marks:
Well, the process is pretty simple. We have two product lines, really, that are important. The one is what we call the $1 million rule, is regulation crowdfunding, you can raise a million dollars from the crowd. The good news with that is you don’t need an audit, so you just need your financials to be reviewed by a CPA. That’s really inexpensive. We file the offering, it’s called Form C, we file it with the SEC, we do all the review, check, due diligence, make sure it’s okay, and then it goes live on our platform, and the company can raise up to a million dollars, and we help them with the marketing. We help them figure out how to engage the community, advertising, all the different elements, as soon as the offering is live and it goes over $45,000, an email goes out to the entire StartEngine community so they can be aware of it as well. That’s working great, we’ve done a lot of them.
Oh really?
And we’re pretty excited. We’ve raised, actually between regulation crowdfunding and Regulation A, over a hundred million dollars for companies.
Tremendous.
So Regulation A, as we discussed, it is $50 million, but you need the two year audit, and you have to have the attorneys, and you have to have the SEC qualification, but regulation crowdfunding is actually very accessible, and very, very well put in place by the SEC. So we’re very happy about that, and our customers are happy, but however, once they get to that million or close to that number, they need more capital. So they have to switch over to the Regulation A+, which is now where the broker-dealer fits.
So for the regulation crowdfunding, that’s The Funding Portal, StartEngine, Capital LLC, and then once you want to go to Regulation A+, that’s the broker-dealer, which is StartEngine Primary LLC.
Got it. And how does that appear? Is that a seamless transition, that as far as the investor community understands, it’s just more is available, or is there a whole new offering? What’s the experience to an investor of an offering, that shifts from reg CF into an A+?
Right. So there are two different offerings. That’s the answer. So it’s the same company, two different offerings, and we explain clearly on the screen, where this offering is being issued. Is it StartEngine Capital? So it’s basically a $1 million maximum, or it’s actually StartEngine Primary, you have that 50 million or whatever the company chooses to raise.
And we’re very clear, and we want to make sure that the investor understands when they put their money in, which company they’re working with.
Yeah, that makes sense. So from where you’re sitting, how difficult is it now for early stage companies to raise money, in any of these sort of methodologies?
Well, my opinion is this. So we look for three things for a company, and everybody’s welcome to come and raise money, but we look for three things.
So the first thing is we want a CEO that is willing to put themselves out there, that really engaged-
Front man.
Front man or woman, but really engaged, really willing to go out there, no barriers.
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
The second thing is we want a compelling offering, and compelling offering doesn’t mean the company is necessarily compelling, the offering is compelling. They have to offer something that is really unique, interesting to investors. And the third one is they need a well-defined audience. Really clear who the audience is, because that’s how you do the marketing, right?
Once we have those three things in place, we believe they will be successful. The first one, the CEO willing to put themselves out there, is probably the most important one, because it really drives the energy and the day-to-day actions that a company’s going to undertake to raise the money.
Sure. So what are the steps now? Now, people have heard what you’re talking about. I’m sure they’re all getting excited, because it sounds possible, and a lot of people in the early stage community that we talked to, a lot kind of throw their hands up. It’s like this alchemy that they can’t figure out how to get from here to there, to get to raising the money they need. What are the actual steps if someone is working with you to get started launching a campaign?
Well, we believe it’s pretty simple. However, it’s not easy, but the process is they contact us, they go on our website, let’s startengine.com, they fill in some questions, we have a conversation, and once it looks like they’re interested, they sign an agreement with us, and then we onboard them.
We have a full interview with Howard Marks on our website. Be sure to check that out.
StartEngine is a gold corporate member of the Security token Academy. To learn more, go to our website, securitytokenacademy.com, click on the directory tab, and then corporate members.
Did you know that you can get the latest industry updates in our free weekly newsletter, The Security Token Edge? Well, the newsletter is packed full of insightful information about, what else? The security token industry. To subscribe and get your free weekly copy, go to our website, securitytokenacademy.com.
We also invite you to check out The digital Wrapper on Medium. It’s our new behind the scene series with the teams building out the security token industry. These are in-depth interviews covering a wide variety of topics. You can view these when you follow us on Medium. You can find more information on our website, securitytokenacademy.com.
The Security Token Academy held another successful meetup, this time in New York City, and we want to thank everyone who attended. We had a big crowd inside the Sunset Terrace at Chelsea Piers. Security token experts and financial services professionals were on hand for an evening of informative discussions, networking, food and drinks. The Security Token Academy had the opportunity to speak to our panelists one-on-one to get their insights on the security token industry. Let’s take a look at what Aryeh Friedman, general counsel at SeedInvest had to say.
Aryeh Friedman:
I think there’s a lot being done, especially post 2018, where you saw the market take a big decline, and I think the one thing that’s happened is the market is maturing, and people are quickly realizing that they have to work with regulators and embrace regulations. So I think a lot of that’s being done, especially in the US, I know Commissioner Clayton’s generally been very supportive of private companies and expanding their access to capital. However, he’s not the biggest fan of blockchain and security token, so that’s been a challenge, and there’s been a lot of efforts to kind of work with regulators in a very collaborative effort, to try to get regulators comfortable with security token offerings and the benefits that it can provide to small capital, small business capital formation. I think there’s been a lot of issues and unanswered questions that a lot of people in the industry are trying to work with regulators to get answers to.
Yeah. From SeedInvest’s perspective, selfishly, we’d like to get guidance on the custody issue, so that’s been a big thing that’s been holding regulated entities like SeedInvest who operate through broker dealers, that’s been holding them back from really being able to be active and push the industry forward. And the reason why custody is important, is for a lot of these issuers, they do these raises and they’re looking for their investors to be able to be custody at, and normal custodians like you would for registered offerings in an IPO, whether it’s a clearing firm or a brokerage account. And so, there’s a similar need for it in the private space in order to push the industry forward, and what that really is trying to get towards, is secondary markets and that’s where the industry really sees the utility of blockchain technology.
They’ve said a lot without saying much, so they recently put out a joint statement with FINRA, which didn’t give any particular guidance, in the sense they just acknowledged that they’re aware of the issues and are working towards it. It did point out some of the challenges and issues that they’re thinking about, but at the same time, it didn’t give anybody in the industry real guidance to act on. One of their biggest concerns is one, cybersecurity generally in the space. It’s a new space that they’re still learning, and there are a lot of people within the SEC and FINRA who are very sophisticated on the issue. The other issue is customer protection, so things around protecting customers, funds and assets at broker-dealers, and understanding how they can truly protect customers due to the uniqueness of the security tokens.
There’s a lot of demand, a lot of pent up-demand, and to be honest, what you’re starting to see is a lot of that demand actually moved overseas, which is setting the US behind. And so, one thing we’re trying to hammer home in our deregulators, is that it’s important to get guidance, so we could push the industry forward in the US, so we don’t lose market share overseas.
So there’s certain jurisdictions that are just opening the flood gates, and anything goes. I don’t think that’s the best long-term strategy, and so what we’re looking towards is jurisdictions that are thinking about it in a very progressive approach, that this is a new asset class and a new type of security, and we can’t treat it like traditional security that’s been around for the past eight years. We need to have a new approach and a new regulatory framework towards security tokens, and really be thoughtful about it, versus trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
I think ideally, we’d like to tear it up and start from scratch, and really build something that’s built for the 21st century and blockchain technology, as well as traditional security issues, and this has worked for a while, but just not suited for the new technology, as well as additional guidance, so things around custody and around cybersecurity. So we could really start to push the industry forward, and actually start to progressively work on some of these digital asset offerings, and it’s not going to be perfect, and one of the critical things to achieving that is a very active and robust feedback loop. So practitioners in the industry could give feedback directly to regulators in real time, and also see real time changes and updates as things happen, versus the traditional way of how laws and congressional action works, where it may take years to see even incremental changes, let alone significant ones.
Be sure to check out more interviews from our New York City meetup on our website, securitytokenacademy.com. Click on interviews tab, and select the video you’d like to watch.
I want to remind our viewers that if you have any questions about security tokens, be sure to email us, and we could answer them right here on a future episode of Security Token Insight. The address is [email protected] Be sure to include your name with your question, and one more time, the address is [email protected]
You can also learn more by visiting the frequently asked questions page on our website by clicking on the FAQ tab. You can also find a glossary of helpful terms as well.
Today’s term of the day is custodian. What’s a custodian? Custodians are third party service providers that custody security tokens on behalf of their legal owners. Custodians safekeep digital assets, and minimize the risk of their theft or loss.
All right, that’s it for today’s episode. Be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and Medium, and don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube page, so you don’t miss out on any of our videos or our expert interviews, and big thank you to all of our gold corporate members. We invite you to learn more about our corporate members by clicking the directory tab, and click corporate member. I’m Adam Chapnick. For everyone here at Security Token Academy, thanks so much for watching.
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Be sure to check out our live online videos and panel discussions, featuring security token experts from around the world. Visit securitytokenacademy.com and click on the interviews tab.
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> Arranging or facilitating the commission of a chil...
Arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence
Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.14
Effective from: 1 April 2014
Maximum: 14 years’ custody
For offences committed on or after 3 December 2012, these are offences listed in Part 1 of Schedule 15B for the purposes of section 224A (life sentence for second listed offence) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
These are specified offences for the purposes of section 226A (extended sentence for certain violent, sexual or terrorism offences) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
In accordance with section 120 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, the Sentencing Council issues this definitive guideline. It applies to all offenders aged 18 and older, who are sentenced on or after 1 April 2014.*
Section 125(1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 provides that when sentencing offences committed on or after 6 April 2010:
unless the court is satisfied that it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so.”
Sentencing children and young people: sexual offences
Structure, ranges and starting points
For the purposes of section 125(3)–(4) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, the guideline specifies offence ranges – the range of sentences appropriate for each type of offence. Within each offence, the Council has specified different categories which reflect varying degrees of seriousness. The offence range is split into category ranges – sentences appropriate for each level of seriousness. The Council has also identified a starting point within each category.
Starting points define the position within a category range from which to start calculating the provisional sentence. Starting points apply to all offences within the corresponding category and are applicable to all offenders, in all cases. Once the starting point is established, the court should consider further aggravating and mitigating factors and previous convictions so as to adjust the sentence within the range. Starting points and ranges apply to all offenders, whether they have pleaded guilty or been convicted after trial. Credit for a guilty plea is taken into consideration only at step four in the decision making process, after the appropriate sentence has been identified.
*The maximum sentence that applies to an offence is the maximum that applied at the date of the offence. See Sexual offences - historic for more information.
Sentencers should refer to the guideline for the applicable, substantive offence of arranging or facilitating under sections 9 to 12:
Sexual activity with a child, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.9
Causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.10
Engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.11
Causing a child to watch a sexual act, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.12
The level of harm should be determined by reference to the type of activity arranged or facilitated. Sentences commensurate with the applicable starting point and range will ordinarily be appropriate. For offences involving significant commercial exploitation and/or an international element, it may, in the interests of justice, be appropriate to increase a sentence to a point above the category range. In exceptional cases, such as where a vulnerable offender performed a limited role, having been coerced or exploited by others, sentences below the starting point and range may be appropriate.
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How This Activewear Store Opened to $80K in Sales With $0 in Advertising
In a digital world, offline touchpoints are still invaluable for growing a business—even when you're building an email list.
Look no further than Nate Checketts—the founder of Rhone, a premium activewear brand designed and built specifically for men.
In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear how he built a pre-launch email list manually through one-on-one conversations, and how it helped him launch his store to $80,000 in sales.
How to identify if an idea can actually be a profitable business.
Why you don’t need to create a completely innovative idea, but just make an existing one marginally better.
How to get into an industry that you know nothing about.
Store: Rhone
Social Profiles: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Recommended: Klaviyo, Upwork
Felix: Today I’m joined by Nate Checketts from rhone.com, that’s R-H-O-N-E.com. Rhone makes premium active-wear designed and built specially for men and was started in 2013 and based out of New Canaan, Connecticut. Welcome, Nate.
Nate: Hey Felix, how you doing?
Felix: Good, good. Tell us a little bit more about your story. What are some of the most popular products that you sell?
Nate: The company was started back, the idea came in 2013 and really, it was like most things, it was a result of an issue. My brother in law and I, we were both very active, he and I both live in Connecticut but commuted to New York City on the train every day, and so we just got to talking about the state of men’s workout clothing and how most of the stuff was really cheap and would fall apart easily and we were generally working out right before we got on the train, so it was a natural part of the conversation.
His wife, which is my older sister, had once said to me at a family get together that my shirt, which was freshly laundered, smelled bad. Nobody likes to be told that they smell bad, that’s just a terrible thing to hear. We were talking about it and started doing some research, and what we found is that most active and performance clothing is treated with chemicals that wash out over time. In fact, there’s an industry accepted standard, which is 15 to 20 washes. You can imagine, if you spent real money on this workout clothing, it’s kind of shocking to know that the company that makes that clothing plans for it to fall apart after 15 to 20 washes, that it’s actually going to absorb your sweat and the bacteria, and 90 percent of odor is caused by bacteria.
We started asking ourselves, is there anything better out on the market? What we found is that the US military and NASA used this encapsulated silver thread, the way it works, this silver was actually melted down and extruded into a polyester based yarn, and blended with certain fabrics to permanently fight odor and bacteria. What we started doing is we started reaching out to all the different groups that manufactured this on a commercial level, and asked the question, “Why is no one doing this for workout clothing targeted specifically at men?” That’s really how the company was born, it was just by asking those questions.
We started, very simply, just selling to friends and family, built a Shopify store with a basic theme, and now the company’s grown quite a bit since that point. Our most successful products, to answer your other question, are really our shorts and our short sleeved T-shirts. We’ve got a lot of different styles now and we’re very, very proud of the product and company that we’ve built.
Felix: Very cool. Like you were saying, this is a result of a personal issue you had that you guys worked out, but the clothing still smelled even after it was freshly laundered, like you said, and you started asking these questions. Did you guys have the intention of starting a business, or were you just looking for a solution for yourself? Tell us about how this problem that you had personally, how did it evolve into actually thinking that “Maybe we can turn this into a business.”
Nate: I’ve always kind of been an entrepreneur, and that sounds cliché to say nowadays, because I feel like it’s become popular to just be an entrepreneur, but that’s how my mind works. When I was younger, I was always the kid doing the lemonade stand and quickly evolved into going and finding the nearest golf course and jumping in the lakes and picking out golf balls and selling golf balls back to the golfers and we did car washes. When I was 15, my parents said, “You need to save up some money so you can pay for the summer camps and activities that you have going on.” I actually built my own summer camp for little kids, ages three to six.
Felix: Nice.
Nate: That’s how I made my summer living. I actually earned enough money that that’s how I bought my first car and had saved enough money that eventually, when I proposed to my wife, that’s how I bought the engagement ring. I really believed in this idea of if you want something to exist in the world, you’ve got to go build it. It was a very natural progression for me while we were having these conversations of something like this truly didn’t exist, that we felt was targeted and really meant for men.
It was a natural evolution to say, “Can we make it?” The next, more important question to ask is, can we sell it? Can we get people to buy it? Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to find manufacturers and build something, the real question is, can you sell it, can you convince people that it’s worth spending their hard earned money on? That’s a question we have to ask ourselves every day. We want this to be valuable, and provide real value to our end consumers. It’s not just, can we get them to buy it once, it’s can we get them to come back and buy over and over again?
Felix: Let’s talk about this a little bit more, because I’ve heard you say this a couple times already now, about how you just started asking questions and it seems like it’s a natural maybe curiosity for you to figure out what kind of questions to be asking, and then what kind of answers to look for. How do you begin this approach, then, of having an idea for a business, having an idea for a product, and what kind of questions do you ask yourself to determine if it can be a profitable business or not?
Nate: I think there’s a lot of different types of businesses out there. I was actually speaking recently at a university, and a girl raised her hand and she said, “What do you do if you feel like all the good ideas are taken?” This class was an entrepreneurship class, so I didn’t really know quite what to say, but my first reaction was, “Well you’re probably in the wrong class, right?” I then reminded her that the US patent and trademark office actually closed at one point, because at least as it was explained to me, when the toaster came out, the patent office kind of said, “Well, that’s everything. We’ve invented everything there is to invent so not sure that we should keep on going.” Obviously, we know that so many things have come since the invention of the toaster and the reality is is that innovation breeds innovation and new ideas create more ideas.
You think about how many businesses were invented just off of social media alone. Not just the platforms, but all the tools and the apps, and Shopify’s a good example of this, the whole app community and ecosystem that exists off of Shopify. I think it really is about asking questions and not just always about inventing new things, sometimes it’s just about making things marginally better. A great example of this is Trunk Club which built an automated personal shopping platform, basically. Really, they weren’t doing anything new or had really good IP around it, but what they did do is they found a way to remove friction from the shopping process. I think for me, when I evaluate and assess businesses, it’s always just a question of, “Can I make it incrementally better? Can I create value?” Oftentimes, it’s self motivated, is this something I would want or something that I would be interested in?
Felix: This idea of marginally better, rather than trying to become completely innovative, is something that I’ve heard a lot from, especially seasoned entrepreneurs that have seen new products, that have taken existing products and just made small improvements over them and created million dollar businesses off of it. How do you figure out what that thing is, what that particular feature that you can improve, that particular feature that you can add? Not necessarily how can you figure out what it is, but how can you figure out that by doing this, it could actually create a business for you that will actually win customers from the alternative that does not have these marginally beneficial value adds?
Nate: I think there’s a couple of practical questions that you have to ask yourself, and the first is, and people have ideas all the time, so really, you have to ask yourself some hard questions. Even if you have a really great idea on how to improve something, you have to ask yourself, am I ready to put the time, effort, energy, commitment, heart ache, ups and downs, into building and selling a product? Some people just aren’t built for that.
The other thing is that now there are so many tools to help you take something from concept to selling that just didn’t exist before. Once you get past that point in your mind, then you need to start asking yourself some really practical questions. What is the total addressable market size for whatever idea I’ve come up with? Take any widget out there, let’s say that you create a new tool for farmer’s to improve their growing season. Now you’ve got to ask yourself, how many farmers can I practically reach with this new widget or tool?
There’s research tools, we’ve got the biggest accessible research library available to all of us in the form of Google, you can just go start asking yourself questions and researching and then you can find, “All right, well, I’ve identified that there’s 500,000 farmers that fit the need of this widget, what percentage of that population do I think I can meaningfully reach and convert?” If you start getting into the neighborhood of, well, in order for this business to be successful, I have to convert five, or even 10, or 15 or 20 percent of my total addressable market, that’s a hard business. That kind of market share takes a long time to earn.
What I liked about this business in particular is, there are going to be many billion dollar winners in this category. It is a massive, massive market size. The US sportswear market is an 83 billion dollar market, from the research that we did. We felt, “Okay, if we could go and we could carve a niche for ourselves in premium men’s active, we could still build a billion dollar company.” For us, that was a pursuit that we looked at. Even if we failed reaching that, we could still build a very meaningful sized business, because the market size was so big.
Oftentimes you hear the idea of you go small, go niche, and I think that’s important, but you also need to pick your head up and say, “Am I creating something for a market size of a hundred people, and if so, can I realistically reach 50 percent of those people, and if I reach 50 percent of those people, how much money am I making per person?” You can figure out whether or not you really have a product or a company or something in between, or neither. You really need to do that work up front. I’m amazed how many people just say, “Oh, I’ve got this great idea and I’ve started spending time, and I’ve engaged this factory.” It’s like, you haven’t done any work in thinking about whether or not this is a good idea and if there’s a big enough market out there to reach it.
Felix: I think that there’s this honeymoon phase, it almost seems, with entrepreneurship where it’s so exciting to think about all these ideas, think about pursuing these ideas, but then I’m not sure if it’s fear or just ignorance and ignoring these, the hard data, the actual numbers, the math behind, is it going to be an actual business, can it become a company, or is it just a product? These questions that you were talking about. After you think through all this, and do the math, and do the homework, and realize, “Okay, there is a potential here to build a very profitable, maybe million, maybe billion dollar business.” I’m assuming next you have to actually validate this in the real world. Did you go through a process like this with Rhone?
Nate: We did. We did the research and we came back and said, “There is absolutely a void in the marketplace for anything like this.” Nobody was doing what we felt needed to be done in the space. We started asking ourselves the question, we say we can build it, can we actually build it? We started very simple, and we looked at sites like oDesk and Elance which are now joined together as this great outsourcing community. We started trying to find apparel manufacturers. Neither me nor my brother in law came from fashion or from apparel or from manufacturing. He was an investor in retail companies, and I was working at the NFL at the time in a sponsorship strategy group. Neither of us had any real, relevant experience, and so we had to just ask a lot of questions.
It was funny, sometimes the questions we asked, it was like, they were very, very obvious. The people, it almost discredit us to ask these questions to the people we were talking to, but we quickly learned by asking these questions, and not being afraid to ask those questions. We found a couple of providers and we started interviewing them. One provider, in particular, was led by the former head of the first head of innovation at Nike. We said to him, “Hey, we’ve got this great idea, and this company that we want to build, and we want you to help us manufacture the clothing.” I’ll never forget, he said, “Well, I don’t really work with start ups.” We said, “Well, we’re different. Listen to us, we have this great pitch and we’ve got a marketing deck.” He’s like, “Okay, well you can come and pitch me on what you’re doing.”
We walked him through our thinking, we walked him through our market validation, and we finished the presentation and it was kind of quiet. He said, “You know, I have been waiting for somebody to go after this segment.” I think they had 30 companies that they were helping, and big companies too, they did work for Lululemon and Nike and NorthFace and Bodybuilding.com and [inaudible 00:16:54] so big companies in the active-wear space, and he said, “You’re right, nobody is going after this space the right way. I personally want to help design your first line.” That was a game changing moment for us, because to have somebody with that kind of credibility and pedigree get involved so early on was really, really helpful.
Even still, after we were working with a credible group, we were getting prototypes back and we just kept asking questions. “Why does it feel this way? Why is this fabric more expensive than this fabric over here? Why does it take so long to manufacture, are there ways of shortening that time? Are there ways of increasing or decreasing the number of quantities we need to make, how does that impact pricing?” Again, so many questions. That slowly built a knowledge set. We started to surround ourselves with really smart, great advisors that we trusted and could help us call BS with our partners if we felt like that needed to be done. It really came in incremental steps, but asking a lot of questions.
Felix: Clearly, you and your brother, was it brother in law?
Nate: Brother in law, yeah.
Felix: You and your brother in law clearly had, like you’re saying, no relevant experience, knew nothing about it, and taught yourself. Hindsight, looking back at all that you’ve went through, whenever you start a business, start a company, you always want to stack the odds in your favor, you want to make sure you have all the advantages on your side. One big disadvantage right off the bat, was what you’re saying is that you did not have any relevant experience. Looking back, would you be hesitant next time, to go to an industry that you didn’t know anything about? Would you lean towards looking at what you might already, looking back at your experience and trying to find something that overlaps with your previous experience, or do you think it doesn’t matter that much?
Nate: I feel like saying, “I don’t know that.” Or, “I don’t come from that industry.” Is really more of a giant excuse than anything else. The pathway to knowledge, maybe not mastery, but the pathway to knowledge is so short now, and it’s shorter than it’s ever been, because you can really, in an hour, I can find the 30 experts in the world on astrophysics and how it applies to marine biology. Whatever it is, you can find experts in any given field just by doing some quick searching. I really believe that ignorance is often times an entrepreneurs best friend, because if you came from an industry, and you knew how difficult it was to accomplish a certain task, you’d likely be so paralyzed with that fear that you wouldn’t even take the first step.
If I truly came from retail and manufacturing, I’m not sure I would have ever started this company to begin with, because I would have been afraid about all the complexities and all the things that can go wrong and getting fabric to the cut and sew manufacturing and getting the seams right and the fit dialed in and the color to come through the right way, and the margins to be right. There’s just so many complex things in any given industry that I think, often times, when you see innovation, it comes from somebody who didn’t come from that world, because one, they think about it differently, and two, they’re not afraid. They don’t have these preconceived notions of what’s right and what’s wrong and what to do. It does help to have that relevant industry experience, but I certainly don’t think it’s a prerequisite to be successful in a given field.
Felix: Like you were saying, you guys really put yourself out there, made yourself very vulnerable by exposing your ignorance so that you could get answers, so that you could get help, so that you could ask these questions. I think sometimes the concern for a lot of entrepreneurs is that, I think one of the concerns, at least, is that they don’t know how to figure out who’s actually an expert, and who’s just BS’ing, I guess, essentially, because you don’t have that context, and you are looking to other people for their expertise, but then because you know so little. Was it hard for you to figure out who’s an expert, who’s not, did you ever run into those kind of issues?
Nate: Totally, that is a very real issue and I think one that entrepreneurs really face, because it’s hard when you don’t come from the field for you to be able to call somebody out, and to really hold them accountable on their opinion. When we first got started, if somebody told us they were an apparel expert, we had no way of validating or verifying that. Part of it was just asking people within our network and trying to validate people that way and if somebody was going to be an advisor or was going to be compensated for it, then we really tried to do extra homework and ask for references and call people and say, “Have you worked with this person? How knowledgeable of the industry would you say they are?”
The great news is that we were able to find a lot of advisers who weren’t looking to make money off of us, but were just trying to be helpful. I was amazed at how many people were so willing to give up both their time and their expertise without any expectation whatsoever in return, they were just trying to be good and helpful. Generally when you came into situations like that, I found that people were pretty genuine. If they didn’t know the answer to something, they would tell you, because they didn’t have any perverse incentives. It’s the situations where you have an adviser or somebody’s trying to get something in return for helping you, those you need to just have both eyes wide open.
Felix: You do your homework, do your own research, look to your trusted network, and then look at people’s incentives, right? See well what could they be motivated by? Like you were saying, if they were just trying to make a buck off of you, then you should be more suspicious than someone that’s just trying to help and not expecting anything in return.
The second, I think, concern, that some entrepreneurs might have about talking to, especially talking to these providers early on that have a lot of resources, is the fear of getting their ideas stolen. Was this ever a fear that entered your mind, you know approaching someone that has a resource like you were saying, this provider you worked with worked with 30 other companies, Nike being one of them. Was it ever a concern in your head that maybe they would just take this idea and run with it without us?
Nate: I started a company right out of college, and it was a very unique idea. It was basically building a mobile point of sales system on your cell phone that allowed you to order food and merchandise from your seat at sporting events. At the time, the iPhone wasn’t even out yet when we first put the business plan into existence. I remember being terrified of sharing that idea. If I ever spoke to anyone, it was like, “Oh, I need an NDA.” That was really such a mistake. There are very few ideas that are just so unique that people will steal them. Most of the time, anybody who’s worth their salt, they’re usually busy doing something else. They wouldn’t have the time, the resources, or the bandwidth to even take your idea and really do something with it.
There are situations that come up and things that happen that way, but I think far more often there are ideas that die because people over-complicate the business starting out. They require, “I’m not going to tell you my idea, because I need NDA’s.” This happens to me all the time, I have entrepreneurs reach out, “Can I get a couple minutes of your time, I’d like your help with something.” I get on the phone with them and they say, “Well I can’t really talk to you until you sign an NDA.”
I just say to them, “I totally appreciate that, but it’s not that I’m unwilling to sign an NDA, but it’s hard to know and look at all these forms, and if I need to mark it up, I’d rather just not talk about it. Rather not learn your super secret, million dollar awesome idea that nobody’s ever had before.” You need to be careful, you need to be smart, but I would err on the side of being more open and transparent, and even vulnerable, because that’s generally what leads to help and people willing to, especially good people, people being willing to dive in and help you out.
Felix: This is one of the key things that I’ve learned, too, is that in order for people to trust you, you have to put your trust in them first and one of the biggest steps towards that direction is to be vulnerable, to say, “I’m willing to open this up to you because I trust you.” Then in return, they’re much more likely to give you their trust as well.
One important thing that I also want to get you to elaborate more on, is this idea of over complication. I totally agree with this, too, where a lot of businesses tend to stall out. It’s not like they can’t eventually be successful, but they add so many road blocks, so many hurtles, into their own path, that they stumble over their own obstacles that they put out there. Are there other examples that you can think of that you see other entrepreneurs adding friction or over complicating, that makes you want to rip your hair out just seeing how much work they’re putting on themselves, that they don’t need to be putting on themselves?
Nate: By the way, in all of this, the only reason I have any perspective on these things is because I probably made every mistake that was possible. You talk about over complicating, it’s a natural tendency for all of us to do and one of the things that always makes me laugh is when people spend a lot of time on their logo and their business card and the name, and it’s like, that’s what everybody wants to spend time on up front. It’s not that those things aren’t important, a good or a bad business name can certainly have an impact, a good or a bad logo can have an impact, but those things don’t matter if you don’t do the fundamental things of creating value in the first place.
When we started Rhone, we didn’t have a name, we just called the company Newco. Every time we talked about it, we just said, “What should the Newco’s product be, or how many styles should Newco have?” Eventually, once we felt like we had a business that was worth building and building and developing the marks for, we said, “Okay, now let’s take the time to do that.” Rather than start off and say, “We need to have company email addresses, and we need to have the logo.” That stuff’s fun, but my friend, Noah Kagan, he calls these people wantrapreneurs instead of entrepreneurs. It’s people who spend time on the idea of being an entrepreneur rather than on the things that actually create value.
A good example of this is, I spoke to these guys who were really clevre and they had this concept of basically, a very creative concept of turning cemeteries into a social network, if you will. Obviously, these people are dead, so they can’t create their own profiles. The idea is that friends and family members could create profiles for people that were buried and then if you were visiting a deceased friend or loved one, you could, in theory, go around and learn about the lives of people in the cemetery and this very clever idea and they had this idea about using QR codes. At the time, nothing like this existed. I think Ancestry and others have built out something like this, but they were so focused on getting people to pay for it up front. I said, “Rather than getting people to pay for it, and then going and building it, are there ways that you could create value in the short term that cost you and them nothing?”
A good example of this is getting letters of intent. They started going around, I think, or at least this is what I encouraged them to do, I don’t know if they ever did it, but going around to all the cemeteries and just asking, “If a product like this existed, would you be willing to install it or offer it up as an option to your patrons?” I guess they’re not offering it up to their patrons, but you know what I mean, the people who were making those decisions. That’s what you need to focus on as an entrepreneur, is what can I do to create value, create real value so that eventually, either I can sell this or I can get somebody to give me some money to put some money into the business. We often focus on the things that really don’t matter in building value.
Felix: This is, I think, an important way that you’re phrasing it, too, because you’re not talking about finding ways to sell, finding ways to pitch your product, you’re talking specifically about creating value. Creating value for, obviously, your end customers. I think a potential fear of entrepreneurs is that they might spend so much time on what they think is valuable, creating that thing, and then it not paying off for them in the long run. Is there ever a chance that that could happen? I guess there’s a chance for anything to happen, but is it a real fear that people should have, that they might spend a lot of time creating value but then not have it set up, I guess, in the right way for them to benefit from it, or at least to be able to fund a company to build a company off of it?
Nate: I guess they should have a healthy amount of skepticism but welcome to the world, right? So many jobs are like this. You talk about real estate brokers, they could show somebody 50 houses and those people might not ever buy a house. That’s real time and money that this real estate broker has spent driving around and there’s opportunity cost there. Most businesses have a component of that and the reality is is there’s no problem or challenge so big that sitting there being afraid of it is actually going to fix the problem in and of itself.
I think people should have a healthy amount of skepticism and make sure that they’re spending time on high priority, high value tasks, but not overly concern themselves with, “Well this might not pay off.” The reality is you’ve got to hustle, you’ve got to drive so hard. I can’t even tell you, we’ve raised some great money but there were plenty of conversations that were dead ends. “So and so’s got a wealthy uncle who knows a friend.” I just spoke to everybody, just spoke to everybody. Eventually, I’ve gotten better at discerning, but I only built that expertise by failing a lot of times and trying a lot of different things.
Felix: Very good point. I want to go back to your experience with Upwork or I guess oDesk and Elance at that time, which is now called Upwork. When I hear about Upwork, it’s usually for hiring things like assistants, designers, or basically very computer technical kind of work. You went to Upwork to find somebody that was a manufacturer, or provider? Tell us a little bit more about that experience. Was there a category for this type of provider that you were looking for?
Nate: Once I discovered Upwork, which, at the time, I was using oDesk but now Upwork, I couldn’t believe it. I was obsessed with this idea. I had a full time job, but I was doing research and so I actually hired some part time research assistants and I was paying them like less than five dollars an hour and they were sending me PowerPoint charts and Excel spreadsheets and I was like, “Oh my gosh, what else can I find and see and really outsource?”
I had read some great articles about it, so it was kind of challenging myself and the ultimate pinnacle of what I did is I was coming up on the five year anniversary of when I had proposed to my wife. I had this idea of “What if I could get a beautiful oil on canvas painting recreating this moment?” I had a photograph of it, so I went to Odesk and started looking for oil based painters. Lo and behold, apparently Vietnam is like a specialized country for painting and I found someone and they sent me some samples and I sent them the photo and I said, “This is how I would tweak it.” I have the most gorgeous painting of one of the most important parts of my life, and I think I paid like 200 dollars for it, and it’s huge. It’s gigantic. I was so blown away about the amount of things that I could outsource.
My wife and I, we built an iPad application using outsourced designers and developers and so for me, it was a natural instinct to go there. We did, found some people but as you pointed out, on the manufacturing side, I think the talent pool is less deep than it is on obviously website design and programming and some of these other things, but you can find resources there. It’s a good way to start, it’s also a good way to learn how to manage people and give very clear directions about what you want.
It’s so easy to fall into the trap of, “Oh, that looks good, yeah, no, I think you did a good job here.” We’re so worried about offending people rather than again just saying, “I like that, but why did you put the button there?” Or “Why did you use a snap button versus a regular button.” Or "How come the seam doesn’t stretch in the back. No, I really want it to look exactly like this, and here’s these three pictures, and let me point arrows and just be very, very clear about what you want, because most of the time when you’re dealing with Upwork providers, English is a second language to them, so you have to be very clear about how you speak to them and I think it’s not that they’re not brilliant, because many of them are, it’s just that English is their second language.
I think the rule of thumb that somebody had said to me is, “Write clear instructions as if you were giving instructions to a first or second grader.” If that’s the kind of instructions that a first or second grader could understand, then it’s going to come through really clearly. That’s kind of the case, also, with speaking to people where English is their first language, you need to be very clear about what you want. If you give vague directions or vague instructions, you’re going to get the amount of difference that you can get in return is, it’s input, output. What you put in comes out. That was a great lesson. It’s a long winded answer to your question.
Felix: I think that’s great advice and even like you’re saying, explaining it simply is a great exercise. Not just for non English speakers and not just for even English speakers, but it also forces you to think through it completely.
Nate: That’s exactly right.
Felix: I think Einstein had that quote about something about, “If you can’t explain something simply, then you don’t understand it well enough.” I think that’s an important thing for you to understand before you try getting everyone else to understand it. This experience at Upwork, then, I think one of the issues people run into when they hire remote workers or from other countries is finding high quality workers. Not necessarily because like you were saying that they’re not intelligent or anything, but there’s just so many workers on, there’s so many potential candidates, and a lot of times it is advantageous for them to carpet bomb, I guess, all of the listings out there. You might get generic applicants that might not fit exactly what you’re looking for. Tell us about your hiring process, how do you filter for great candidates, how do you conduct your interviews to make sure that you’re hiring the right people?
Nate: I don’t know if this was right or wrong, but what I did, and I felt like I had really great results on there, so many I did do something right. What I did is I would look for as close a match from a category perspective of what I was looking for. Once I got the pool of candidates and let’s say that you get it to eight or ten thousand candidates, then I would start going and being very specific. “I want a candidate who had put in a hundred hours on Upwork.” I wasn’t willing to spend my time and resources towards helping somebody learn the Upwork platform. I wanted somebody who already knew it, was already comfortable using the Upwork platform, and had ratings. I wanted somebody who had a hundred hours in and was at least four and a half stars.
There are certain tests that you can do. For programming, for example, if you’re looking for an IOS developer, you can say, “I want them to be in the top ten percent of the IOS testing.” Or, “I want them to be in the top ten percent of C+ and I want them to be in the top ten percent of English speaking.” You can filter all of these things, and generally, I would try and get the pool down to like two to five hundred applications. Then I would start clicking through and going into their profiles, and then I would personally invite them to apply to the job. I would generally invite 20 to 50 candidates and I would ask them, I would be very clear, “This is what the job is, or here’s a brief description of what I’m trying t odo. Tell me why you think you’re the right candidate for this, and include any relevant portfolio samples.” I would further narrow it down, and then I tended to have a gut feeling based on previous experience, and I would just try and make a quick decision.
In some cases, I would do tests. I remember we were for our iPad application, we needed a song. I went to sound engineers and I said, “This is the type of song that I want.” It was almost like a 99 designs process, right? I said, “I want you to submit a 15 second clip.” For some people, they were like, “I’m not going to do that, I’m busy enough on Upwork, and I don’t need this guy.” I would get five to ten samples and I was like, “Man, I really like this one. I already know I’m going to like it.” I’ll continue to build this out and then I would go and I would hire them. That was generally the process, no magic pill to it, but just taking the time to interview and do the work up front, because that saves you a lot of time on the back end.
Felix: Makes sense. I wanted to talk a little bit about the growth of the business, the marketing behind this. I think earlier you were talking about first starting off by selling to friends and family and what happened after that? How did you start selling to strangers? What kind of marketing channels worked best for you early on, and is it still what’s working today?
Nate: I think what we focused on in the early days was, it was all about email. Before we even launched our Shopify store, we had built a splash page and I can’t remember the tool we used off the top of my head, but it was really easy. We basically uploaded a photo that we had designed and then we were capturing emails. Everybody we talked to, we were like, “Go sign up for our email list.” One of my friend’s who’s the CEO of a company called Love Sack, he said to me, he gave me some great advice in the early days, he said, “Whatever you do, you’ve got to be proud to wear your own T-shirts, so to speak.” In my case, it actually was a shirt, but in whatever business you’re doing, you’ve got to be so proud about it that you’re telling everybody about it. That’s what we did.
In fact, me and my brother in law, we used to challenge ourselves, if we ever got in an airplane, how many people could you tell about the company? By the time we launched, we had, I don’t know, 5,000 emails that we had collected over the course of a month or two. A lot of those people were one degree connections, people that we had met or knew personally or were a friend of a friend. When we launched, we actually did quite well. We probably did, neither of us were doing this full time, we probably did about 80 thousand dollars in the first two months of the business. Again, with zero, we didn’t spend anything on Facebook or Instagram or Google or any of those channels that we use and leverage today. It was really just about email.
Still, to this day, email is without a doubt the highest return on investment from the marketing perspective, because it doesn’t cost very much time, or doesn’t cost very much money. You build a template, you use a service. We use [inaudible 00:44:04] as our email service provider and we send these emails out and inevitably, every email we send out comes back in the form of revenue. Now, we use a lot more channels, everything on the digital side to also doing things on the physical side like pop up retail events and on the digital side, we use all your basics, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google. We’re always trying to tweak and get the most effective spend, the most effective return on our spend in those channels.
Felix: It’s interesting that you essentially manually built your email list. There’s a lot of talk when people are building their mailing list about how to get this done automatically or [inaudible 00:44:53] trying to push as many people through the funnel as possible, [inaudible 00:44:58] collect their email addresses but it sounds like you guys just talked to people and then got them onto the mailing list that way. Obviously, a very effective strategy, to get 5,000 subscribers within you say it just took a month to do this?
Nate: I think it was one or two months from the time we had the splash page to the time we put the site up. The thing is that just think about your own experience. Even though people are transacting digitally more than they ever have before, they’re still making those decisions based on their experience in the real world. If you meet somebody online, and that’s a cliché phrase, but if you have a Facebook friend and you see that they posted something versus a friend in person tells you, “I’m building this really cool thing.” That in person experience is still so strong, such a strong motivating factor and it’s very real. Think about the relationship to build in person versus building online. We try and have physical touch points with our customers, or our prospective customers by doing events and getting out and talking to them and meeting them in retail stores. It makes the brand tangible for them. Obviously, you still need those digital channels to help people remember and continue their conversion funnel.
Felix: I don’t want to boil this down to just numbers, but you are essentially saying that the people that you do meet in person, even though it might be a more manual process, even though it might not be as scalable, it’s still, per person, still much higher converting than finding someone online, so it’s worth investing the time into running these events, these pop up shops and actually meeting, [inaudible 00:46:53] physical touch points like you’re calling it, because they are high converting, even though they’re not as scalable as running ads online.
Nate: [inaudible 00:47:02] question, and that’s the other thing that we love about Shopify. I know we’re not supposed to, that’s not the point of this, but I really believe in the platform. We have this point of sales system that ties directly into our database. We go and do these events, and even if the event only does a couple grand in sales, it’s like well think about the customers that we just made, and that we created a touch point with them. Our head of events is so awesome, she always says to me, "I got these business cards, and I’m going to email them and tell them how grateful I am that they came and stopped by and learned about the brand.
That interaction builds brand loyalty and as many people have pointed out, you don’t need to think about the millions of dollars that you’re going to make. You need to think about how you’re going to create one thousand loyal fans of your product or your store. That’s what we just kept hitting our team over the heads with, how can we get a thousand loyal people, that we know are going to come back over and over again? We got a thousand, how are we going to get ten thousand? How are we going to get a hundred thousand? For me, that means wearing that T-shirt proudly and saying, “We’re proud of the product that we make and we can’t wait to tell you about it, and we can’t wait for you to try it and realize that you love it, too.”
Felix: Amazing. For anyone out there that wanted to take this similar approach that doesn’t have a mailing list, maybe doesn’t even have a store yet and wants to build their mailing list and is ready to do it manually like you did it, how were you approaching this, were you just going up to friends and family and telling them about the product doesn’t exist yet, and [inaudible 00:48:43] check out the splash page [inaudible 00:48:46] what was the, I don’t want to call it pitch, but what was the process of getting people that you met offline onto an online mailing list?
Nate: We built what we called pass along cards. It was very simple, had the website on there, so it was at least memorable, because our first website was longer than just rhone.com, it took us a while to acquire that domain. We’d interact, we’d tell people about it, people would ask questions, and then we’d leave them behind with this card that they could go and put it in to their phone or their computer when they had a second. Sometimes we would be there with people and be like, “Oh, go on right now, sign in, put your email in.” I’m trying not to make it a high pressure sales pitch, but we were just very passionate and enthusiastic.
I give my brother in law a lot of credit, I learned from his example this way. He will tell everybody about what we’re doing and what we’re building and that enthusiasm rubs off. It’s so funny, you spend so much time building a product or a store, but it’s easier to become an introvert, whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, it’s easier to become an introvert about your own product, you don’t want to seem boastful, you don’t want to feel like you’re pitching friends, but really, you’ve got to be proud of what you’re doing and say, even if you have to do it in a shy way, be so sincere, “It would mean so much if you would go to the store and sign up and I’d really appreciate your support.” Don’t be afraid to ask people and say, “Oh, you should check it out, I’d love for you to learn more. You’re the perfect customer.”
Felix: I think that’s a good point about how you have to be proud to wear the shirt or wear the logo, wear the brand out there, because you also have to think about, am I building a company or building businesses, or building products that will actually give value back to people? If you had some cure to some disease out there, you wouldn’t be meek about it if you know you’re giving value to people out there by giving them this cure. Obviously this is an extreme example, my example that is, but if you do have a product that is going to generate value in people’s lives, you should be excited to talk about it.
I think it’s important to think about businesses, and think about your product in that way, that you don’t even want to think about you being intrusive by talking about your product or your company, but think about you want to share what’s valuable, what could add values to their lives, and once you start thinking that way, hopefully you can build a company and business that way to begin with and when you do that, I think it becomes a lot easier to talk about it, because you’re not just being boastful, you’re actually trying to bring value to people’s lives.
Nate: That’s exactly right, we talk about all the time, you know the friend who is just kind of asks, asks, asks, asks, all they do is ask for things. “Can you help me?” They only talk to you when they need something. Nobody likes that person, right? Rather than the friend who’s always giving, giving, giving, and then when that person finally asks you for something, you can’t wait to help them. Where we think about ourselves as a brand personified, we want to be like that second friend. We want to be always giving value, are we giving the best product that really meets expectations, are we providing content that’s relevant for our customers, are we building a great customer service team that gives back?
If we’re giving, then when customers think about buying active wear, they’re only going to want to come to us, versus saying, “Oh, here’s this promotion, here’s this thing, did you know about this thing about our product, oh it’s so great, we’re so awesome, just buy from us.” It’s so easy to fall into that trap. When you look at people’s social media feeds, it’s me, me, me, me, me, versus how can I give back to you? I think your point is really well taken.
Felix: Awesome. I want to talk about one last thing before we close this out, which was brought up in the pre interview question about some marketing strategies. It has here that you guys have launched some pretty unique and funny campaigns, April Fool’s as well as lime day instead of prime day, so tell us a little bit more about this, how does coming up with unique and funny campaigns actually help, I guess, help with your marketing, help you actually drive traffic and sales to your store?
Nate: I think people, again this comes back to exactly what we were just talking about, people like to laugh, they want to have fun. If we can provide value in the form of humor, then I think again, it builds customer loyalty. Recently, on April Fool’s Day, it’s not uncommon for stores to come up with a product that they’re not actually selling, but we came up with this idea of what we called the never nude short. It’s a reference to Tobias Funke from Arrested Development, when he decides he’s going to be a never nude and wears these jean shorts all the time.
We took some pictures of this like we were actually launching this product. It was amazing, because I think people got it, they got the email, and for at least some people, they were like, “Are they really making this? Are they actually building this product?” It got them to click through. When they got to the splash page, there were some funny pictures there and some gifs and it made them laugh and then we said, “Obviously, we’re not actually making this short, but since you clicked through, here’s a code to get free shipping.” Or something like that, and it ended up being one our all time best sales days.
We took that same thing, Amazon has built this new Black Friday in July, or is it June? I don’t remember the exact day, but it’s essentially black Friday in the middle of the summer. It’s an incredible strategy, but we asked ourselves, “How can we capitalize on that?” We had read that online shopping as a whole increased on prime day, not just on Amazon. Clearly, people were out with their wallets open, how could we capitalize on it?
One of our main competitors is Lululemon and we’re not afraid to talk about the fact that we don’t think men should be wearing a brand called Lululemon and that guys don’t want to be shopping at the same store as their mom or their sister, so we created what we call lime day, so that you didn’t have to be stuck in a lemon costume and had some clever copy and some good imagery and it was great and it went so well and we received some positive press on it. Some thought and energy and I give the team, our team, all the credit, because I had nothing to do with either of these ideas, and they were brilliant.
Felix: Very cool, it sounds like a key to this, too, is tying it to an existing current event so that you can ride that wave as well, so I think that’s a very unique way to do that. What’s planned for the future for Rhone, what do you guys have lined up for the next year or so?
Nate: We’ve got a lot of things coming, we are launching our first retail store ever next year. We are also currently doing something that I’m very proud of, called the 12 weeks of Rhone. What this is is you hear all the time, black Friday just becomes this unbelievable day of shopping and focus, but really, we wanted the holiday season to start earlier and offer things up, again, offer value up to our community before just black Friday. Not just in the form of discounts, but in the forms of other things like we’ve got some really cool new products that we’re launching, some e-touch gloves that are made from this luxurious polar tech fabric and are built for running. We’ve got this water flask that will keep your drinks cold for 24 hours or hot for 12.
Really cool, new products that we’re talking about and people who participate get access to these deals but in addition, we’re also issuing our community a weekly challenge. The challenges are as basic as go and have coffee with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time, to as hard as go and meet a homeless person and have a meal with them. Don’t just bring them a meal, have a meal with them and talk to them and learn about their life. Part of our messaging and brand is really about becoming better in our daily pursuits and so we wanted to again, to give value and inspirational stories and things like that led up to the holiday season so that we kind of all collectively got in that spirit. That’s something that I’m really proud of and we’re working hard on right now.
Felix: Very cool, so thanks so much Nate. Rhone.com again is the site, R-H-O-N-E.com. Anywhere else you recommend the listeners go and check out or is there a way for them to find out or sign up for this upcoming events that you guys have?
Nate: If they go to the website, that’s the best place to sign up. Our products are also sold at [inaudible 00:58:32], Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and [inaudible 00:58:36] Equinox. We’ve got some great retail partners that we also sell to.
Felix: Awesome, thanks so much again for your time, Nate.
Nate: Thanks, Felix.
Felix: Thanks for listening to Shopify Masters, the e-commerce marketing podcast for ambitious entrepreneurs. To start your store today, visit shopify.com/masters to claim your extended, 30 day free trial.
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SocketLabs is Now GDPR Compliant: Here’s What Email Senders Need to Know
SocketLabs, the GDPR and Privacy Shield. What Email Senders Need to Know.
We are writing this article to let you know about the upcoming GDPR regulations, what we are doing at SocketLabs regarding our own compliance and ways that we may be able to help you with yours. As a trusted email delivery service, we hope to educate you on issues involving the use of our email marketing and email API services and hope you find this article useful. Before we begin however, we must warn you that we are not lawyers, and this article is not legal advice. We strongly suggest that you consult an attorney to learn how GDPR may affect your business.
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
The GDPR is a new privacy and cybersecurity law which takes effect on May 25th, 2018. As perhaps the world’s most comprehensive data protection law, the GDPR reinforces and improves the privacy rights of EEA residents (that is, residents of the EU, Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Norway). This is accomplished by imposing strict obligations on companies which process personal data of EEA data subjects (the individuals that personal data is about), and potentially imposing steep fines for noncompliance. Generally speaking, personal data is any data that alone, or in connection with other data, can identify a natural person.
How does this apply to my use of email marketing or email delivery services such as SocketLabs?
The GDPR does not only apply to email, however there are important considerations when sending email. For example if you are using our SMTP or HTTP Email API to send email through our delivery platform you will need, among other things, to ensure that you have proper consent and include the appropriate options in your email as applicable for recipients to opt out or set preferences. Now would be a good time to review your address acquisition and unsubscribe practices. Continue reading for more information on the requirements of GDPR.
I am not based in the EU, why should I be concerned?
The GDPR has a worldwide applicability. Even if you are based in the U.S., China, or anywhere else in the world, if you process the personal data of EEA residents, the GDPR likely applies to your company, too. This is particularly true if you target your marketing efforts to any part of the EU.
What are the key changes in the new law?
The GDPR introduces new requirements for companies that process (collect, transmit, change, erase, store, or use in any other way) personal data. Some of the most important requirements are:
Records of Processing Activities: companies need to keep records of their data processing activities. This includes keeping evidence of the consent the data subject has given (if aplicable – note that consent isn’t always required in every case), purposes for which the personal data are processed/used, categories of data being processed, information about any transfers of personal data to third countries, technical and organizational measures implemented in order to keep the data safe and other similar information;
Rights of Data Subjects: data subjects need to be informed, using plain and clear language, about the way their personal data are being processed. Companies will also need to provide mechanisms for data subjects to easily, and without charge, update, delete, and access their personal data or object to processing;
Appointment of an EU Representative and a Data Protection Officer: If you are based outside of the EU, and you process EU personal data, in most cases, you will need to appoint a representative in the EU to represent you in data protection matters. Depending on your circumstances, you may also need to appoint a neutral data protection officer, who will be responsible for cooperation with EU data protection authorities and data subjects. SocketLabs has appointed VeraSafe to serve as our Article 27 Representative in the EU;
Investigations and Audits: EU supervisory authorities will be able to investigate your business in order to determine if you are processing the data in accordance with the GDPR;
Fines: breach of these obligations may incur a fine of up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 million (whichever is greater).
What is SocketLabs doing to prepare for the GDPR
SocketLabs processes personal data on behalf of our customers (who are typically data controllers) when they user our email delivery API, SMTP server, email marketing and other services, and therefore we are data processors under the GDPR. We’re actively working on bringing our policies and contracts up to the level of the GDPR. SocketLabs has engaged a team of privacy experts to ensure our compliance by May 25th, 2018.
SocketLabs is currently preparing a GDPR-level Data Processing Addendum to offer our customers who are affected by the new law. At the same time, we’re upgrading the contracts with our small pool of trusted vendors, to ensure that everyone who processes our customers’ data are implementing and respecting their obligations under the GDPR.
Update May 9, 2018: SocketLabs is now offering a GDPR compliant Data Processing Addendum to its customers. Please visit our GDPR page for more information.
Last but not least, to help our customers comply with the GDPR, we are identifying and developing additional, related product features that our customers might benefit from.
What is the Privacy Shield and how is it connected with the GDPR?
The GDPR and the Privacy Shield are conceptually related, however, they are not the same. While the GDPR aims to regulate the processing of EU personal data anywhere in the world, the Privacy Shield is concerned with one specific thing: the transfer of personal data from the EU (or, more specifically, from the European Economic Area and Switzerland) to the U.S.
Privacy Shield is a self-certification program authorized by the EU for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the U.S. Companies that wish to certify under the Privacy Shield must adhere to the Privacy Shield Principles, which extend European-style privacy rights to the processing of EU personal data in the United States. SocketLabs is in the process of self-certifying under the Privacy Shield, because we want to do our part to help make it easier for our customers to comply with complex EU data protection laws.
Update April 11, 2018: SocketLabs is now Privacy Shield certified. Please click here to view our certification.
If you would like to learn more detailed information about the GDPR, this link may help.
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Watch: X1 Shares Exciting Details For Debut Reality Show With Teaser Video
by J. Lim
X1 has shared a teaser video for their debut reality show “X1 FLASH.”
“X1 FLASH” will follow the members as they prepare for their debut, and will also give a glimpse into their real lives and honest emotions.
The new teaser introduces each of the eleven members and ends with an image of all of them standing together, raising anticipation for how they will grow and become one team. According to the teaser, the new reality show will premiere on August 22 at 8 p.m. KST, and there is intrigue around what the “Flash” in the title stands for.
The production staff stated, “‘X1 FLASH’ will give an honest look at the members’ daily lives, and the process they go through to prepare for their debut. It will show the most honest and real emotions the members have. We hope fans will find comfort and hope, and identify with the members as they have overcome difficult times and are preparing to make their dreams come true.”
Check out the teaser below!
X1 will make their debut with their first mini album on August 27.
X1 Flash
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