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The Faulty Towers Dining Experience in London - November 2011
The Faulty Towers Dining Experience is happening in November of 2011 on a restaurant ship in London called Hispaniola. It is an interactive theatre show where the guests become part of the show. Guests are given a three-course lunch or dinner to dine on while the cast acts out scenes from the British TV show Faulty Towers. Sybil and Basil Faulty are the stars of the show, along with their waiter, named Manuel. The interactive experience runs two hours. The show began touring Australia in 1997 and began touring Europe in 2008. The cast of the London production stars Michael Davoren, Alison Pollard-Mansergh and Andy Foreman as Basil, Sybil and Manuel respectively.
The Faulty Tower Dining Experience has been receiving awards at festivals since 2009. The lines heard in the Dining Experience are somewhat based on the TV series' 13th episode. Characters that have been made famous by Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs and John Cleese are further developed in The Faulty Towers Dining Experience. The British Theatre guided declared The Faulty Towers Dining Experience "a once in a lifetime dining experience."
As a five-star production, The Faulty Towers Dining Experience can be performed for the general public, for private showings or for corporate showings. Those that act in The Faulty Towers Dining Experience are impersonators and have no connection to the actors that played the roles in the original TV show.
The Faulty Towers Dining Experience is an international show and a critically acclaimed hit. Star Alison Pollard-Mansergh, who plays Sybil, has been a drama teacher in Australia and New Zealand. Michael Davoren, who plays Basil, is an actor and also does voice-overs. Andy Foreman has worked with stars such as Bing Crosby and works in film, television and theatre. The Faulty Towers Dining Experience is a unique stage show so book yourself one of the many hotels in London and experience it for yourself.
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Criminal Sentencing and Records
How Does a Judge Decide on a Sentence?
The judge will sentence the accused (give a penalty or punishment) if he or she is convicted of a criminal offence or if the accused pleads guilty to a criminal charge. The sentence could be probation, fines, or a jail sentence. The length of the sentences depends on the crime.
In giving a sentence, the judge wants to:
Discourage the accused and others from committing future crimes
Keep society safe and prevent another crime from happening
Make the offender responsible and acknowledge the harm he or she has done to victims and the community
Provide reparation (fix) the harm done to victims of the community
Consider the accused’s rehabilitation
The judge will consider these things when deciding on an appropriate sentence:
The sentence should be similar to the sentence given to other offenders for similar crimes
The sentence should not deprive the offender of his or her liberty (freedom) if there is an alternative to jail
All other reasonable punishments other than going to jail should be considered (especially for Aboriginal (First Nations) offenders)
The accused might not go to jail
Getting a sentence after being convicted does not always mean that the accused will go to jail. The accused might be given:
- A discharge
- A conditional sentence order
- A suspended sentence and probation
- A fine
- Restitution (make right or pay money)
Absolute or Conditional Discharges
A discharge means that the judge finds the accused guilty, but lets him or her go free. This usually only happens when the offence is not serious and the accused has not been in trouble before.
An absolute discharge means that the accused has no criminal record.
A conditional discharge means that the accused will be on probation, with certain conditions, for a period of time. If the accused follows the rules, he or she is treated as if there were no conviction. The accused will not have a criminal record.
Suspended sentence and probation
Probation means that the accused has to follow certain conditions that the judge sets. For example, the accused will have to stay out of trouble, report to a probation officer (someone who keeps track of the accused), follow other rules that the judge has set. The accused is still convicted of the crime, but the sentence is suspended (on hold) while the accused is on a term of probation.
A suspended sentence is not a final sentence. If the accused does not follow the probation order, he or she might be sentenced to a breach of probation as well as having the suspended sentence cancelled and being sent to jail.
A judge can order that the accused pay a fine in addition to going to jail or a term of probation. The accused could be fined up to $5,000 for a summary conviction offence or more for an indictable offence. The accused must also pay a victim surcharge fine, which is an extra 15% of the fine imposed.
An order for restitution means that the accused must make things right. For example, the accused might have to repair property damage or replace stolen property.
Conditional Sentence Order
A conditional sentence order means that the accused spends his or her jail time in the community. The sentence must be under 2 years or there is a minimum sentence. It is not available if the accused has committed a very serious crime, like terrorism.
The word “conditional” applies to the rules the offender must follow in order to stay out of jail. If the accused does not follow the conditions (rules) that the judge sets, the accused may have to spend the rest of his or her sentence in jail. For example, the accused may be given a sentence, conditional on her not taking drugs for 18 months. If she is found to be taking drugs after trial, she will spend the rest of her 18-month sentence in jail.
If it is a summary conviction offence, the maximum jail sentence is 6 months. If it is an indictable offence, the maximum sentence is 5 years, unless the Criminal Code states that the maximum sentence can be higher.
If an accused is convicted of two crimes, a judge can order that the sentences be served consecutively (one after the other) or concurrently (at the same time).
A prisoner in jail might be allowed to spend part of his or her sentence out of jail. This is called “parole”. A prisoner can ask a parole board (a committee) for parole after serving two-third of his or her sentence. There are always rules that the prisoner must follow, like staying away from drugs and alcohol.
The prisoner must report to a parole officer and be supervised when returning to the community.
An adult (a person over the age of 18) who has been convicted of a crime will have a criminal record. The police, Crown prosecutors, customs offers and other government officials can read criminal records. Members of the public cannot read them.
A person with a criminal record might not be able to travel outside of Canada. For example, a person with a criminal record may be stopped at the airport when he or she is taking a trip to the United States. It may also prevent someone from getting a job.
A conviction stays on a person’s criminal record for a long time. The length of time depends on the type of crime that was committed.
Pardons are sometimes given by the federal government of Canada. A pardon allows people who were convicted of a criminal offence to have their criminal record kept separate and apart from other criminal records. They can do this if they have completed their sentence and shown they are law-abiding citizens.
Source URL: https://www.justiceeducation.ca/legal-help/crime/going-court/criminal-sentencing-and-records
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2020 Membership Sign Up
Katy Triathlon Club Waiver of Liability Form
I certify that I am aware that the participant is taking certain risks by participating in the Katy Triathlon Club (KTC), including but not limited to those associated with swimming, biking and running. I understand that during participation in these activities one may be exposed to physically and psychologically stressful and challenging situations, including but not limited to risks and dangers inherent in the activity itself.
I understand that, although the KTC has taken precautions to provide proper organization, supervision, instruction, and equipment for each activity, it is impossible for the KYTC to guarantee absolute safety. I understand that I share responsibility for the safety of the participant and assume that responsibility. The participant agrees to comply with all instructions and directions of the KTC, or designated outside experts during his or her participation.
I hereby assume all risks and dangers and will hold harmless to the fullest extent permitted by law KTC, its officers, agents, employees, and volunteers, and all groups and persons connected herewith, from all actions causes of actions, suits, and any claims, demands, and liabilities whatsoever, both in law and equity.
The parties agree all disputes and claims regarding the terms of this agreement and arising from the participant’s experience with KTC, including but not limited to any claims for personal injury, will be brought exclusively in arbitration.
The terms hereof shall be binding on participant’s executors, heirs, administrators, and assignees, and shall serve as an assumption of risk and general release for the participant while participating in the KTC.
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The undersigned parent or guardian does hereby represent that he/she is, in fact, acting in such capacity, has consented to his/her child or ward’s participation in the KTC, and has agreed individually and on behalf of the child, to the terms of the waiver and release of liability set forth above. The undersigned parent or guardian further agrees to save and hold harmless and indemnify each and all of the parties referred to above from all liability, loss, cost, claim, or damage whatsoever which may be imposed upon said parties because of any defect in or lack of such capacity to so act and release said parties on behalf of the minor and the parents or legal guardian.
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Abe Flores
Abe Flores | KCET
Abe Flores, advocacy field manager for Arts for LA, organizes and liaises with arts advocacy teams throughout LA County. He leads advocacy workshops to create networks of arts advocates and increase local capacity to effectively advocate for the retention of arts programs and infrastructure. Abe graduated from California State University, Los Angeles, in 2011 with an MS in public administration. In 2006, he received his BA in political science from Cal State Long Beach. He served as the executive assistant at the Learning Rights Law Center, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to education equity, where he assisted in day-to-day management and worked with parent groups. He then worked as the deputy campaign manager in a candidate's run for Montebello USD Board of Education. Abe interned with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Arts for All initiative, where he facilitated a data-collection project that mapped arts provision equity in the County. He is the first in his family to graduate from college, a proud parent of a three-year old boy, a music lover, and lives with his family in Boyle Heights.
Can Schools Provide Arts Education on a Tight Budget?
In the face of budget cuts to arts education in the LAUSD, Abe Flores of Arts for L.A. argues that advocacy for arts education is advocacy for a complete 21st century education.
Promise, Pitfalls and the Boyle Heights Arts District
The arts district and other revitalization holds much promise but does have hazards. Knowing the potential ill effects should continue to guide the process for a promising arts district.
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Jerry Brown Responds to Criticism for Indigenous Activist Comment at Climate Summit
President of StubHub Sukhinder Singh Cassidy joins Hari to discuss diversity in tech.
Friday on the NewsHour, how Iran is responding to internal pressure from mass protests and external pressure from U.S. sanctions.
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Thursday on the NewsHour, how months of mass protest have contributed to political gridlock in Iraq.
Jerry Brown Responds to Criticism for Indigenous Activist Comment at Climate Summit | KCET
AMY GOODMAN: Yes, we are broadcasting live from the U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany, where representatives from nearly 200 nations have gathered for negotiations aimed at bolstering the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord. This year, Fiji has made history by becoming the first small island nation to preside over the U.N. climate summit. The event itself is being held in Bonn because of the logistical challenges of hosting 25,000 people in Fiji at the start of the South Pacific cyclone season. But it’s still being called the “Island COP.”
Climate change poses a particularly devastating threat to low-lying island nations like Fiji. A new report says Fiji would have to spend four-and-a-half billion dollars over the next decade to adapt to climate change—a sum equivalent to its entire annual gross domestic product. Meanwhile, a new report released today shows climate change threatens one in four natural World Heritage sites, from the Florida Everglades to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
This year’s climate change conference comes after President Trump has vowed to pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord. Last week in Bonn, Syria signed on to the Paris deal, meaning that if President Trump fulfills his vow to pull the U.S. out of the deal, the United States would become the only nation on Earth that is not a party to the agreement.
There are, in fact, a number of U.S. delegations here in Bonn, though. One is a coalition of U.S. lawmakers, universities, companies and faith groups that are staging an anti-Trump revolt by rejecting Trump’s action and declaring “We are Still In.”
Well, on Saturday, a group of protesters, many of whom were Native American, disrupted California Governor Jerry Brown’s speech here in Bonn, calling on California to ban fracking. The protesters yelled “Keep it in the ground!”
PROTESTERS: California’s fracking spreads pollution!
GOV. JERRY BROWN: Yeah, I wish—I wish we could have no pollution, but we have to have our automobiles.
PROTESTERS: In the ground!
GOV. JERRY BROWN: In the ground.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: I agree with you. In the ground. Let’s put you in the ground so we can get on with the show here. Anyway—
AMY GOODMAN: That’s California Governor Jerry Brown Saturday saying, “Let’s put you in the ground.” Well, I questioned Governor Brown about his comments, just before we went to broadcast today.
AMY GOODMAN: On Saturday, a group of protesters, mainly Native American—
GOV. JERRY BROWN: Yeah.
AMY GOODMAN: —disrupted your event and called for a ban on fracking.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: No, they called for a ban on all oil production.
AMY GOODMAN: So they said, “Keep”—
GOV. JERRY BROWN: All oil production.
AMY GOODMAN: So they said, “Keep it in the ground.”
AMY GOODMAN: And you responded by saying, “Let’s put you in the ground.”
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain what you meant?
GOV. JERRY BROWN: That was a joke. Now, Amy, don’t use your media outlet for this kind of silliness. That was an ironic remark in the face of a noisy demonstration when it’s very hard to even hear, much less keep your thought there. And—
AMY GOODMAN: But it was Native Americans, and they took it very seriously. Do you—
GOV. JERRY BROWN: Look, no one has been more—
AMY GOODMAN: Do you apologize for that comment?
GOV. JERRY BROWN: No. Come on, you know that, in California, we have the strongest Native American policy of any state in the country. And we have the most environmental, and we have toughest rules on oil. I don’t think we should shut down oil in California and then take it from Venezuela or take it from places where the rules are even worse. We have to stop the cars. We have to get electric. We have to get public transportation. We need better land use. We’ve got to solve the problem. And I understand, because we deal with protest all the time. But California, we are cutting our oil consumption. We’re cutting our greenhouse gases. That’s what we have to do, not just a slogan or a march around or talk talk. I’m talking about reality. And California has the strongest oil reduction rules in America. We’re the ones—we’re the leader. If someone wants to say, “Oh, get rid of oil,” you mean get rid of our cars. If you got rid of cars, you would have a revolution, and there would be shooting in the streets.
AMY GOODMAN: They were—
GOV. JERRY BROWN: No one is serious about it.
AMY GOODMAN: They were calling on a ban on fracking, like New York and Maryland.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: No, they were calling on a banning of all oil production.
AMY GOODMAN: But also fracking. What is your approach to that?
GOV. JERRY BROWN: My answer is: I don’t think it makes sense to import oil by train. It’s very dangerous. And people who say, “Hey, don’t take oil out of your ground. Bring it by train or by boat,” that’s far more dangerous. The answer is stop using oil in cars, in trucks. You need a renewable vehicle grid. That’s the answer. And I think to say anything else is not intellectually honest and is not helpful.
AMY GOODMAN: Are you considering a ban on fracking?
HANDLER: OK, we’re actually moving. Thank you. Let’s go.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: We’re considering a ban on oil over the next 25 years. We’re reducing it. That’s pure rhetoric. Pure rhetoric. What are you going to do if you’re—
AMY GOODMAN: New York and Maryland did it.
HANDLER: You know, we’ve got to go. We’ve got to get going.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: Yeah, because they don’t have the same situation. Pennsylvania didn’t do it. It’s—this is just kind of a little left-wing routine here.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I don’t—I don’t think fracking is.
HANDLER: Let’s go.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: No.
AMY GOODMAN: Fracking is a very serious issue, as you know.
GOV. JERRY BROWN: Fracking is very serious. And horizontal fracking is very dangerous and uses 10 times the water. And in California, it’s a very small part. What I’m talking about, we’d like to get rid of all oil drilling. But we have to do it in a systematic way, reducing the demand and not just the supply, because if we don’t reduce the demand, we’ll get the supply by boat and by train, and that is really dangerous to human beings. People die from the training of—bringing in of oil. So that’s the honest truth. I don’t know whether that is something you’re going to want to deal with, but I’m telling you the way it is.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that was California Governor Jerry Brown.
"Democracy Now!" broadcasts live from the U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany, where representatives from nearly 200 nations have gathered for negotiations aimed at bolstering the landmark 2015 Paris climate accord. This year’s climate change conference comes after President Trump has vowed to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, but there are still a number of U.S. delegations in Bonn. One is a coalition of U.S. lawmakers, universities, companies and faith groups that is staging an anti-Trump revolt by rejecting Trump’s action and declaring, “We are still in.” On Saturday, a group of protesters, many of whom were Native American, disrupted California Governor Jerry Brown’s speech at Bonn, calling on California to ban fracking, yelling, “Keep it in the ground!”
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An estimated half a million Puerto Ricans took to the streets of San Juan Monday to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló.
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British police forcibly removed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been living since 2012.
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Journalist and "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman stopped by Link TV studios to discuss the significance of independent media and the roadblocks preventing many Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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Home » Bollywood News » Andhadhun: Ayushmann Khurrana & Tabu’s Crime Thriller To Release In Japan On THIS Date
Andhadhun: Ayushmann Khurrana & Tabu’s Crime Thriller To Release In Japan On THIS Date
Earlier this year, the film was released and appreciated in various parts of the world such as China, Korea, Russia and Kazakhastan.
Sriram Raghavan’s thriller “Andhadhun“, which won Ayushmann Khurrana a National Award as Best Actor, is now all set to release in Japan.
The film, also featuring Tabu and Radhika Apte, opened to rave reviews in India on October last year and went on to become a big hit, raking in over Rs 95.63 crore.
Apart from an award for Ayushmann, the film also won the National Award for Best Hindi Film this year.
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Produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Matchbox Pictures, film has been distributed internationally by Eros International.
On releasing Ayushmann Khurrana – starrer “Andhadhun” in Japan, Kumar Ahuja, President of Business Development, Eros International Media Ltd, said: “Eros Now’s legacy of entertaining the masses with the best of Bollywood films is a well-established territory. We are keen on sharing this exciting and highly captivating narrative with the audience of Japan and hoping they will enjoy and embrace the film it just as much as the viewers did from the other parts of the world.”
Currently Ayushmann Khurrana is enjoying the praises coming in his way for his recently released film, Bala. Directed by Amar Kaushik and produced by Dinesh Vijan, the film also stars Bhumi Pednekar and Yami Gautam in the lead roles.
On the other hand, Tabu was last seen in the rom com, De De Pyaar De.
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Home » News » 2019 » King's Fellow wins prestigious biomedical award
King's Fellow wins prestigious biomedical award
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Professorial Fellow Azim Surani has been awarded the prestigious Canada Gairdner International Award in recognition of his contribution to the field of biomedical science. Professor Surani, who is Director of Germline and Epigenetics Research at the Gurdon Institute, has been jointly awarded the honour alongside Dr Davor Solter of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, “for their discovery of mammalian genomic imprinting that causes parent-of-origin specific gene expression and its consequences for development and disease”. In 1984, both scientists published pioneering studies demonstrating the concept of "memory" and lineage in chromosomes, with Surani coining the term "imprinting" to describe the concept. This idea has since been shown to have a number of effects on embryonic and foetal development in mammals, as well as roles in regulating body temperature, metabolism and behaviour among adults. Their work is one of the key discoveries that started the field of epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene function without changes in the DNA sequence. The Gairdner Foundation announced: "Together, the work of Dr Solter and Dr Surani contributed to the understanding of the developmental consequences and molecular mechanisms of genomic imprinting… Their work is one of the key discoveries that started the field of epigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene function without changes in the DNA sequence." On receiving the award, Professor Surani said: "I am very pleased that the discovery of genomic imprinting and its significance has been recognised in the long term. I send my thanks to all my colleagues who believed in it and worked hard to advance the field”. Professor Surani has been a Fellow of King's since 1994, and was appointed CBE for services to science in 2007. Along with the other laureates, he will be formally presented with his award on October 25, 2018 at the annual Canada Gairdner Awards Gala in Toronto.
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Cuomo helps rescue man from crash on highway
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Cuomo helps truck driver
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was seen helping a man out of the wreckage of an overturned truck on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway on Jan. 6, 2020. (New York Governor's Office via Storyful)
NEW YORK - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped remove a man from the overturned cab of a truck on the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway on Monday.
Video shared by the governor's office shows Cuomo holding the man's left leg as he is helped down from the driver's seat of the vehicle. State troopers in Cuomo's security detail also helped.
The FDNY told the New York Post that no one was hurt.
The truck appeared to be on its side on the barrier dividing the east and westbound lanes.
The exact cause of the crash was unknown.
Cuomo's vehicle appeared to have been traveling in the opposite direction and was not involved in the incident.
He and his staff were heading to catch a flight after the governor spoke at the Association for a Better New York luncheon.
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Boston’s Sale reaches 2,000 career strikeouts in record pace
by: TOM WITHERS, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 13, 2019 / 07:20 PM CDT / Updated: Aug 13, 2019 / 09:40 PM CDT
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Chris Sale delivers in the first inning of the team’s baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Boston Red Sox lefty Chris Sale has reached 2,000 career strikeouts faster than any pitcher in history.
Sale entered Tuesday’s game against the Indians with 1,995 strikeouts. He struck out the side in the first and reached the milestone in the third when he fanned rookie Oscar Mercado.
According to information provided by the Red Sox, Sale broke Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez’s mark by getting to 2,000 in 1,626 innings. Martinez did it in 1,711 1/3 innings. Randy Johnson reached the plateau in 1,733 1/3 innings, and Max Scherzer got there in 1,784.
Sale has struggled this season. He entered his 25th start at just 6-11 with a 4.41 ERA. Still, he has the best strikeout-to-walk ratio in the majors since 1920.
The 30-year-old is in his third season with Boston after spending seven with the Chicago White Sox. He opened 2019 with four straight losses and didn’t get his first win until May 3.
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Man accused of murdering family member given court-appointed attorneys
Posted: 8:55 AM, Feb 13, 2019
By: Action 10 News
A man that is accused of shooting and killing a family member appeared in court this morning.
Bond was set this morning for Jesus Alberto Gamez, 57, at $1.5 million for a murder charge. Gamez was appointed two local attorneys to represent him in the case.
Gamez got into an argument with a family member just before 7 p.m. Sunday on the 300 block of Baker Drive, according to officials with the Corpus Christi Police Department. When the family member tried to drive away, Gamez fired a gunshot, police said.
Investigators said the victim was struck by the bullet and drove his truck a block away before crashing into another vehicle in the 400 block of Brooks Drive.
Police officers and an ambulance crew arrived at the scene and the man was transported to a hospital where he died.
Gamez was arrested Monday afternoon. He was later booked in the Nueces County Jail Monday night.
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Espace presse Real estate capital follows innovation
Real estate capital follows innovation
JLL’s report reveals innovation plays a key role in driving cities’ economic growth by attracting investors and companies
CHICAGO, May 15, 2019 – JLL’s (NYSE: JLL) latest research indicates that real estate capital flows to cities with the strongest innovation and talent characteristics. In addition to drawing capital, these tech-savvy cities with highly skilled workforces also attract corporations interested in hiring the best employees.
Capital follows innovation
Innovation-oriented cities have a strong competitive advantage in today’s technology-driven world. Of the 109 cities analyzed, the nine leading global markets – Boston, London, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose, Sydney and Tokyo – accounted for around 37 percent of total annual real estate investment volumes over the past decade. Cities that rank just below these leaders, outperforming on either talent or innovation, have seen a significant uplift in transaction volumes since the global financial crisis. For example, real estate investments in Washington, DC, a talent-rich city, have grown by 260 percent while in Stuttgart, an innovation-centric city, volumes have almost tripled.
“Targeting innovative cities has now become an explicit part of investment strategies,” says Carol Hodgson, Director, Global Research at JLL. “Our research also shows that innovation-centric cities appear to be more resilient to economic shocks. During the last downturn, these cities saw average real estate capital values fall less and bounce back more quickly. These include cities such as Seoul, Berlin and Chicago.”
Attracting corporate occupiers
Like real estate investors, corporate occupiers also search for locations that have advanced innovation ecosystems. These cities sustain highly skilled workforces and are best placed to succeed in the future. The mature markets of Europe, the U.S. and Australia are the world leaders when it comes to talent. Cities like London, San Francisco, Washington, DC, San Jose and Seattle are home to cutting-edge universities along with well-qualified, growing populations.
For cost-conscious businesses, the most affordable hubs relative to their innovation and talent offerings are smaller cities like Austin, Helsinki and Melbourne. Second-tier Australian cities such as Brisbane and Perth also perform well, offering a significant discount with more attractive yields and rents up to 67 percent lower than in Sydney.
East versus west – the increasingly global nature of innovation
Although San Francisco is still the world’s most tech-savvy metro area, U.S. cities no longer dominate in innovation. Three of the top five most innovative markets – Tokyo, Singapore and Beijing – are now in Asia Pacific.
Asian cities have made rapid progress toward developing sophisticated future-looking business ecosystems, while China’s government is committed to bringing the country’s higher education up to par with the U.S. and Europe. Shanghai, Shenzhen, Seoul and Bangalore continue to expand their capabilities and global reputations as leading tech hubs.
For more information, download the Innovation Geographies report here
Top 20 innovation geographies
JLL’s Innovation Geographies study covers over 100 cities globally and tracks a broad range of factors to assess a city’s innovation capacity and the relative strength of its talent pool. Innovation is defined by the level of foreign direct investment in high-tech industries; research and development expenditure; the number of patents awarded and venture capital activity. The strength of a city’s talent pool is determined by its demographics, the quality of its higher education institutions, the proportion of people with a bachelor’s degree and employment in high-tech industries.
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Report: Native Americans Most Likely to be Killed by Police
LPLP Staff
The Lakota People’s Law Project sent out a press release on Wednesday with a 15-page report detailing the unequal treatment of Native Americans under the United States criminal justice system. The report is comprised of key findings and proposed steps of action to alleviate issues such as extraneous violent crime against Natives and unfair police treatment. Following this important release, key players in the fight against such discrimination led a Native Lives Matter march in Rapid City, South Dakota which attracted 100 people.
Facts show Native Americans are the racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement or violently victimized by non-Natives in general. This vicious treatment starts young, with Natives making up 70% of the youth admitted into the federal bureau of prisons–a number entirely disproportionate to the mere 1% of our nation’s youth population constituted of Native Americans.
South Dakota’s foster system continues to threaten steady upbringings and weaken ties to community and culture and this surely plays into issues such as substance abuse and crime on reservations. The Lakota People’s Law Project remains committed to the implementation of autonomous, tribe-run child and family service programs to ensure cultural preservation and limit instances of familial trauma within Native American communities.
70% of of jailed Native Americans convicted for violent crime claimed to have been drinking at the time of their offense. The establishment of tribe-run drug rehabilitation centers would greatly decrease the possibility of Native recidivism.
Native mistreatment must be incorporated into the current societal discussion regarding injustices under the hands of law enforcement. It is due time for these problems to be addressed in order to reduce government expenditures and heal the broken relationship between Native Americans and the law enforcement purported to serve them.
Further, an effort must be made to build up a police force fit to serve Native populations. While Natives account for 12% of Rapid City’s population, they hardly make a dent in the ranks of local law enforcement. There are just three Native police officers and no sworn deputies or corrections officers on the city’s team.
According to KOTA News, progress is on the horizon. The force’s current hiring cycle is in full swing and they claim to be committed to diversifying.
“We would welcome any Native American and any other cultural group to come and apply with us. Obviously we are looking for for the best qualified candidates we can hire,” said Rapid City Police Sgt. Andrew Becker.
Becker’s department is taking a variety of measures in order to attract these indigenous applicants–collaborating with Native publications, recruiting through the United Tribes Technical College, and making an appearance at Pine Ridge High School’s annual career day.
“Certainly it is ideal for any police organization to reflect the community that it serves,” stated police chief Karl Jegeris. This reflection is vital to a healthy relationship to a squad and the people it serves. A level of trust necessary for smooth operation is currently missing in areas such as Rapid City.
The persistence of injustice in South Dakota is an ugly stain on the American fabric and until this country confronts its cruel treatment of indigenous peoples both past and present, it will remain unable to live up to the values of liberty and justice for all that it continues to espouse.
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Legacy Cremation & Funeral Services – Lawrence
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Paul R. Wilson
Indianapolis - Paul R. Wilson passed away on January 13, 2020 at the age of 96. He was born on December 12, 1923 in South Bend, Indiana. Paul was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from Howe High School. He served in the U.S. Air Force during WWII in the Jolly Rogers Squadron. Paul was a firefighter for the Indianapolis Fire Department for 38 years, along with being the owner of Accent Advertising. He was a founding member of the Firefighter's Credit Union and a Commodore of the Indianapolis Yacht Club. Paul was also active in the Murat Shrine and the Eastside Exchange Club.
Paul is survived by his wife of 37 years, Margaret Ann (Coffin) Wilson; children, Lou Anne Willis and Becky Spudic; step-children, Margaret Ann Hock, David Joseph Fletcher, Bill Ray Fletcher, Donna Marie Fletcher and Bonita Kaye Davis; along with 4 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, 15 step-grandchildren and 23 step-great grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 10am to 10:45am on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at Legacy Cremation & Funeral Services, 5215 N. Shadeland Avenue, with a service to start at 10:45am. Burial to follow with military honors at Memorial Park Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Cat's Haven, 2603 N. College Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46205 or www.catshaven.org in Paul's memory.
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Conservatorship in Springfield, MO
Contact an experienced conservatorship service provider in Springfield, Missouri
Do you require conservatorship if you have power of attorney in Springfield, Missouri?
In case they do not have this capability, you will require to submit a conservatorship to handle their personal and monetary affairs. Second of all, producing a conservatorship requires a public case while a power of attorney does not. A power of attorney is a voluntary act by the person signing the file.
What is a mental health conservatorship in Springfield, Missouri?
Mental Health Conservatorship. A mental health conservatorship is different from a probate conservatorship. It is used only for individuals who have a psychiatric condition so extreme that it prevents them from attending to their most fundamental individual requirements such as food, clothing, and shelter.
Does power of attorney end at death in Springfield?
Powers of attorney do not survive death. After death, the executor of the estate handles all monetary and legal matters, according to the arrangements of the will. A person can designate power of attorney to his attorney, relative or good friend and also name that same person as administrator of the estate.
Can I have 2 power of attorneys in Springfield?
Yes. You can select more than someone to work as your power of attorney agent. However, you must make certain to specify whether they can act separately or whether they must act collectively. A basic power of attorney is valid only as long as you have the capability to handle your own affairs.
How does a conservatorship work in Springfield?
If a court appoints someone to take care of financial matters, that individual is normally called a “conservator of the estate,” while a person in charge of medical and individual decisions is a “conservator of the individual.” An incapacitated individual may require just one type of agent, or both.
What is the distinction in between guardianship and conservatorship in California in Springfield, MO?
In California, a legal guardianship for a grownup is called a conservatorship and can just be established by an order of the probate court. A conservator is designated for another adult when the probate court concludes that the adult, or conservatee, can not manage his financial resources and individual affairs.
What is the distinction in between a conservator and an executor in Springfield, MO?
Conservators in Wills. A conservator is usually called in a last will in addition to a guardian for any minor kids that the individual making the will leaves. Like your administrator, a person you call as a conservator for your kids in your will has no power up until after you pass away.
Do guardians get paid in Springfield, MO?
When selected by the court, a guardian makes choices for the ward to ensure that the ward’s medical, social and psychological needs are fulfilled. Normally, a guardian is entitled to reasonable compensation. A guardian is generally paid a quantity which is not more than 5 percent of the ward’s yearly earnings.
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About Conservatorship
Conservatorship is a legal concept in the United States. A guardian or a protector is appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of another due to physical or mental limitations, or old age.[1] A person under conservatorship is a “conservatee,” a term that can refer to an adult. A person under guardianship is a “ward,” a term that can also refer to a minor child. Conservatorship may also apply to corporations and organizations.
The conservator may be only of the “estate” (financial affairs), but may be also of the “person,” wherein the conservator takes charge of overseeing the daily activities, such as health care or living arrangements of the conservatee. A conservator of the person is more typically called a legal guardian.[2]
About Springfield, Missouri
Springfield is the third-largest city in the state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County.[5] As of the 2010 census, its population was 159,498. As of 2018, the Census Bureau estimated its population at 168,122. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which has a population of 462,369 and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, Webster.[6]
Springfield’s nickname is “Queen City of the Ozarks” and it is known as the “Birthplace of Route 66”. It is home to three universities, Missouri State University, Drury University, and Evangel University.
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Details: C2005A00024
Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Amendment (National Relay Service) Act 2005
- C2005A00024
In force - Latest Version
Act No. 24 of 2005 as made
An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999, and for related purposes
Administered by: Communications and the Arts
Originating Bill: Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Amendment (National Relay Service) Bill 2005
Registered 24 Mar 2005
Date of Assent 21 Mar 2005
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No. 24, 2005
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 2
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 2
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 3
Schedule 1Amendments relating to the National Relay Service 4
Part 1Amendments commencing on Royal Assent 4
Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999 4
Part 2Amendments consequential on item 437 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2005 6
[Assented to 21 March 2005]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Amendment (National Relay Service) Act 2005.
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Provision(s)
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table
The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1, Part 1
Immediately after the commencement of item 437 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2005.
However, the provision(s) covered by this table item do not commence at all if:
(a) item 437 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2005 commences before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent; or
(b) item 437 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2005 does not commence.
Does not commence
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.
(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1Amendments relating to the National Relay Service
Part 1Amendments commencing on Royal Assent
Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999
1 Section 94 (definition of NRS contract)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
NRS contract means a contract under which the whole, or a part, of the National Relay Service is provided.
2 Section 94 (definition of NRS provider)
NRS provider means a person who provides the whole, or a part, of the National Relay Service.
3 Paragraph 95(1)(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(i) is provided by a person under a contract with the Commonwealth; or
(ii) is provided by 2 or more persons under contracts with the Commonwealth (with each of the persons providing a part of the service).
4 Subsection 95(2)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(2) Each NRS contract must provide for the relevant NRS provider to prepare service plans for so much of the NRS as is covered by the contract. The service plan must include at least the following matters:
(a) timetables for the supply of so much of the NRS as is covered by the contract;
(b) performance standards to be met by the NRS provider.
5 Section 96
Repeal the section, substitute:
96 Publication of costs of providing the NRS
(1) Before the start of each levy quarter, each NRS provider must give the Minister a written estimate of the total cost of the provider in providing the NRS (or part of the NRS) during the quarter. The estimate must be prepared in accordance with the relevant NRS contract. The Minister must cause to be published in the Gazette the total amount notified to the Minister under this subsection for the quarter.
(2) On or before the 21st day of the third month after the end of each levy quarter, each NRS provider must give the Minister a written statement of the total cost of the provider in providing the NRS (or part of the NRS) during the quarter. The statement must be prepared in accordance with the relevant NRS contract. The Minister must cause to be published in the Gazette the total amount notified to the Minister under this subsection for the quarter.
6 Subsections 97(1) and (2)
Omit the NRS provider, substitute each NRS provider.
7 Subsection 100(2) (note)
Omit 1997, substitute 1998.
8 Subsection 102(3)
Omit the NRS provider under the NRS contract, substitute NRS providers under NRS contracts.
Part 2Amendments consequential on item 437 of Schedule 1 to the Financial Framework Legislation Amendment Act 2005
[Ministers second reading speech made in
House of Representatives on 10 February 2005
Senate on 7 March 2005]
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Safety & Sustainability
HeidelbergCement Group
Quarry Life Award
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Ready Mixed Concrete
Stabilized Materials
Houston Employees Help with Hurricane Rescue & Relief Efforts
When Hurricane Harvey struck the Houston area in late August, a number of our employees stepped in to help their community. Darryn Lindsey, Area Operations Manager, Hanson Aggregates worked with fellow Hanson managers, Sean Steagall and Jake McCurry, to rescue people in a nearby flooded neighborhood. The team used a boat from the Brazos plant to pick up and evacuate more than 25 people.
“We knew the neighborhoods in the surrounding area were going to get flooded, just based off the weather forecasts,” said Darryn.
Ready for the worst, Darryn knew that he had to take action to help those in need. “We thought there might be an opportunity to help,” said Darryn. “The need was so great that there just weren’t enough emergency responders to evacuate everybody that needed to be evacuated.”
Darryn and his team also worked hard to prepare area locations for potential flooding. As a result, damage to the Houston sites was minimal and the facilities were able to resume operations quickly.
"We’re pretty good at anticipating floods,” said Darryn. “We’ve learned a lot of lessons over the years, mining along these rivers.
Darryn was awarded the Agg Man of the Year 2017 award by Aggregates Manager magazine for his efforts and leadership.
In addition, Steve Wild, Vice President & General Manager of Campbell Concrete and Materials, worked closely with the team from a nearby Martin Marietta facility to coordinate the shipment and distribution of three 50-foot trailers loaded with donated supplies from Florida. The items were transported to a central location and distributed to those in need.
“These items were mostly things like baby formula, sanitary products, sheets, towels – the types of things that really help people to feel normal after a tragedy,” Wild said. “We may be competitors with Martin Marietta in the business world, but the thing about this industry is that we’re all good people who look out for one another first.”
Thanks to Darryn, Sean, Jake and Steve, for helping their communities during this time of need. Their efforts are an outstanding example the company’s and the industry’s dedication to giving back to the communities where we do business.
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HomeEntertainmentCelebrities & PersonalitiesBrazilian singer Yann sings against anti-LGBT violence
Brazilian singer Yann sings against anti-LGBT violence
Yann, a rising Brazilian pop singer-activist, is set to release a new single that supports the LGBT community against hate crimes.
Yann: Singing against hate
The single, “Igual,” which translates to “Equal,” is meant to raise awareness of the high LGBT murder rate in Brazil.
Currently, Brazil doesn’t have any laws that protects LGBT people against hates crimes.
The Brazilian singer will release the song on November 8 and has managed to gather support from an international cast of artists and celebrities just for the video.
These include not only LGBT personalities but also LGBT allies like Céline Dion and Demi Lovato, among others, who will appear in his video.
Yann: Support for the Brazilian LGBT community
The song, which was composed by Yann, is about the freedom to love.
“This project is more necessary than ever before, as Brazil’s the country with the highest LGBTQ+ murder rate in the world and there are no laws criminalizing hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people in Brazil,” he said in a press release.
The song “Igual” is set to be the theme song for 22nd Rio Pride Parade this year in Rio de Janeiro. Likewise, he promised that he would be participating in the parade.
The proceeds from the single’s sales and streaming will be donated to the Grupo Arco-Íris, a non-governmental organization that promotes LGBT rights in Brazil.
The artist has cited the influence of the following bands and singers like Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Kate Bush, INXS, David Lynch, and David Bowie in his music.
You can check out more about the artist here.
Update: November 8 release
With its release today, the accompanying video to Yann’s single is dedicated to the 343 LGBT people who were killed in Brazil in 2016.
Likewise, the singer cited the support not only of Dion and Lovato but also pop artists like Lorde, Britney Spears, and Boy George, comedian Chelsea Handler, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, and Melanie C of Spice Girls fame in the making of the video.
Other LGBT artists like our favorite, Tegan & Sara, have pitched in their support via Twitter.
You can check out the video below:
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Lists of high-risk countries remain important even though the objective indicator for high-risk third countries no longer applies
NautaDutilh
Global November 22 2019
The objective indicator for high-risk countries in the Implementing Decree for the 2018 Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act has been withdrawn. This means that a transaction involving a country on the European Commission’s list of high-risk third countries no longer needs to be reported automatically to the Financial Intelligence Unit in cases where that was previously required. The high-risk list does continue to be relevant, however, for the subjective indicators. When assessing whether a transaction may involve money laundering or terrorism financing, account must be taken of the factors listed in Annexes II and III to the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4AMLD). It follows from Annex III that there is a higher risk of money laundering or terrorism financing if a transaction involves a country without effective AML/CFT systems.
Besides the European Commission’s high-risk country list, there are a number of other country lists that can be taken into account by institutions that are subject to the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Prevention) Act (the “Wwft”)when drawing up a risk assessment within the framework of the Wwft and filling in the subjective indicator.
One example is the European Commission’s list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. That list contributes to on-going efforts to prevent tax avoidance and promote good governance principles such as tax transparency, fair taxation, or international standards against tax base erosion and profit shifting. It was most recently updated on 10 October 2019. There are currently nine names on the list of non-cooperative jurisdictions: American Samoa, Belize, Fiji, Guam, Oman, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, and Vanuatu. The European Comission notes that this “taxation” list may sometimes overlap with its high-risk countries list, but that the lists have different objectives, criteria, and adoption procedures. The two lists are intended to complement one another in the sense that they provide markets with double protection against external risks.
On 7 October 2019, the Netherlands also provided a taxation list of “low-tax states 2020” for consultation purposes. That list of low-tax and/or non-cooperative states is drawn up annually by the Dutch State Secretary for Finance in order to implement measures to combat tax evasion. Low-tax states are states with no profits tax or a statutory rate of less than 9%. Non-cooperative states are those on the EU’s list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. It follows from the consultation document that the State Secretary intends designating the following states as low-tax states: Anguilla, the Bahamas, Bahrein, Barbados, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Qatar, Turkmenistan, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Vanuatu, and the United Arab Emirates.
Other country lists that are useful for risk assessment include the two lists drawn up by the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF"). The FATF’s first list comprises countries that refuse to adapt their AML systems, namely North Korea and Iran. The FATF’s second list comprises those that are cooperative but still have shortcomings in their systems, such as Iceland, Mongolia, and Syria.
Finally, one can examine the list of countries on Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index. Countries are scored on a scale from 0 to 100, with 0 standing for “highly corrupt” and 100 for “very clean”. Denmark tops the list with a score of 88/100, while Somalia is at the bottom with 10/100. Countries with a score of less than 50/100 can be considered susceptible to corruption.
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Check your privilege
There are broadly three types of legal privilege - legal advice privilege, litigation privilege and “Without Prejudice” privilege.
In Malaysia, legal privilege stems from both the Evidence Act 1950 (“Evidence Act”) and common law. Issues arise as to which of these laws provide the basis for legal advice privilege and which for litigation privilege and the application and reach of these two types of privilege.
In brief, legal advice privilege is codified in section 126 of the Evidence Act. Litigation privilege remains substantially within the realm of common law save for when section 129 of the Evidence Act applies to remove the protection of privilege in very limited circumstances. “Without prejudice” privilege cloaks written or oral communications which were genuinely made in an attempt at settlement negotiations.
This article will consider the recent developments in the law of legal privilege, specifically legal advice privilege and litigation privilege in Malaysia. Where relevant, comparisons will be made to the position in Singapore. “Without Prejudice” privilege falls outside the scope of this discussion.
LEGAL ADVICE PRIVILEGE
Legal advice privilege arises out of the relationship between a client and his lawyer. As is evident from the name, this type of privilege relates to the provision and receipt of legal advice. No legal proceedings need to exist or be in contemplation for legal advice privilege to apply.
Legal advice privilege is codified within section 126 of the Evidence Act. The extent of the protection rendered by section 126 of the Evidence Act has been extensively elucidated by the Malaysian Federal Court in Dato’ Anthony See Teow Guan v See Teow Chuan & Anor [2009] 3 MLJ 14. Our apex court referred to and relied on the Singapore Court of Appeal judgment of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (PUBL), Singapore Branch v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd and other appeals [2007] 2 SLR 367 (“Skandinaviska”). Skandinaviska considered section 128 of the Singaporean Evidence Act which is identical to section 126 of the Evidence Act. In short, legal professional privilege under section 126 of the Evidence Act concerns legal advice or communications between a lawyer and his client with a view to obtaining legal advice. This privilege is absolute and can only be waived by the privilege holder, i.e. the client, save where protection into such privilege has been eroded by legislation. This will be further discussed below.
Litigation privilege extends further than legal advice privilege, to communications which is for the purposes of or leading to evidence for use in legal proceedings. This applies to such communications with third parties as well.
The Malaysian position is set out in Tenaga Nasional Bhd v Bukit Lenang Development Sdn Bhd [2016] 5 MLJ 127 (“Tenaga Nasional”) and Wang Han Lin v HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd [2017] 10 CLJ 111 (“Wang”). Both are judgments of the Court of Appeal.
Tenaga Nasional seemed to imply at the time, that litigation privilege did not exist any longer as a matter of common law due to section 3 of the Civil Law Act 1956. The Court of Appeal was of the view that section 126 of the Evidence Act codifies the law on privilege. Due to this codification, common law privilege no longer existed. As section 126 of the Evidence Act only describes legal advice privilege and not litigation privilege, the court opined that litigation privilege could no longer be relied upon.
The Court of Appeal in Wang subsequently straightened out matters. It clarified that litigation privilege continued to exist based on common law principles as the application of common law litigation privilege does not conflict with the sections 126 to 129 of the Evidence Act. Wang also sets out the two-fold test for determining how litigation privilege is established. First, whether litigation was pending or apprehended when the information or document was obtained; and secondly whether litigation was the dominant purpose for the preparation of the document.
The Singaporean Court of Appeal in Skandinaviska also preserved litigation privilege as a matter of common law. The Court of Appeal determined that common law litigation privilege is consistent with sections 128 and 131 of the Singaporean Evidence Act when read together. Hence, as there was no inconsistency between common law and statute, litigation privilege continued to exist by virtue of common law and was not struck down by section 2(2) of the Evidence Act of Singapore which repeals the rules of evidence that are not contained in written law only if such rules are inconsistent with the provisions of the Evidence Act of Singapore.
In addition, our Court of Appeal in Wang confirmed that section 126 of the Evidence Act deals with legal advice privilege, but that section 129 of the Evidence Act is broader and expands into the realm of litigation privilege. Reference was made to Skandinaviska which referred to section 131 of the Singaporean Evidence Act which at the material time was identical to section 129 of the Evidence Act. The example scenario given to demonstrate the reach of section 129 of the Evidence Act was where a client offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to make certain disclosures.
A point for consideration that arose out of Wang is the question of whether legal advice privilege, where not codified within the Evidence Act, continues to exist in common law. In response, there are two points for consideration. First, the Court of Appeal in Wang stated that sections 126 to 129 of the Evidence Act deal with the full scope of legal professional privilege and that such privilege covered both legal advice privilege as well as litigation privilege. Hence, if litigation privilege was also dealt with by sections 126 to 129 of the Evidence Act and yet still existed as a matter of common law, the same may be applied to legal advice privilege. Secondly, consideration ought to be given to what alternative principle governs legal advice privilege when it does not come under the ambit of the Evidence Act, for example, in arbitration proceedings or simply where a matter is not the subject of “… judicial proceedings in or before any court”.
POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS TO THE PROTECTION UNDER PRIVILEGE
Section 46 of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (“MACC Act”) and section 47 the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 (“AMLATFA”) both contain similar provisions governing disclosure by advocates and solicitors.
Both sections provide that an application may be made to a Judge of the High Court, in relation to an investigation into offences under the respective Acts, to order disclosure by an advocate and solicitor. Such disclosure is limited to information available to that advocate and solicitor in respect of any transaction or dealing relating to property liable to seizure under the respective Acts.
However, both provisions contain a proviso, in subsection 46(2) of the MACC Act and subsection 47(2) of AMLATFA, that limit the extent of disclosure that can be required of the advocate and solicitor. Both provisions do not permit disclosure of “privileged information or communication which came to his (the advocate and solicitor) knowledge for the purpose of any pending proceedings”.
The protection of subsection 46(2) of the MACC Act has been upheld by the Court of Appeal in Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia & Ors v Latheefa Beebi Koya & Anor [2015] 6 CLJ 476 with the court stating that “sub-s 46(2) categorically excludes any privileged information or solicitor-client communication”. Section 47 of AMLATFA has yet to be tested.
It is critical to note that the wording of both the above-mentioned subsections potentially limit the protection to information that is the subject of litigation privilege. The question as to whether such protection can be extended to documents that are the subject of legal advice privilege has yet to be considered by the courts.
IS A BREACH OF SECTION 126 ACTIONABLE?
The issue of whether a breach of section 126 of the Evidence Act is actionable arose very recently in the case of Tan Chong Kean v Yeoh Tai Chuan & Anor [2018] 2 MLJ 669. The Federal Court was of the opinion that a breach of section 126 was tantamount to breach of a principle of fundamental justice. This would entitle an aggrieved party to commence an action for an order to “safeguard the confidentiality of the client-solicitor communication”. As a note of caution, in mounting such an action, it is sufficient to merely mention the privileged documents as any disclosure of their contents may be construed as a waiver of privilege.
EXTENDING SECTION 126(1) TO THIRD PARTIES AND IN-HOUSE COUNSEL?
In Toralf Mueller v Alcim Holding Sdn Bhd [2015] MLJU 779, Wong Kian Kheong JC (as he then was) confirmed that section 126(1) of the Evidence Act does not apply to communications between in-house counsel and his employer. However, K.K. Wong JC went on to comment on the need for a provision similar to section 128A of the Singaporean Evidence Act which provides that legal advice privilege protects communications between an entity and its in-house legal counsel.
While there is justification in ensuring that all the material facts of a case are not clouded by privilege or such a provision is not abused to prevent material facts from being disclosed, nonetheless an entity ought to be freely able to discuss its concerns with its in-house counsel without fear of disclosure of any internal legal advice given.
In addition to the above, in an increasingly international world, K.K. Wong JC also expressed his hope that the legislature would extend privilege to communications between Malaysian and foreign lawyers.
Section 128A of the Singaporean Evidence Act was introduced in 2012 to provide for the application of legal advice privilege to in-house counsel. In the wider scope of litigation, the Singaporean courts have generally taken a broad approach in interpreting legal advice privilege. Hence, legal advice privilege encompasses both advice by a lawyer to his client on the law, as well as advice of what should be done in a legal context. It remains to be seen whether the Malaysian legislature will consider an update of the Malaysian position to bring us more in line with other jurisdictions.
EROSION BY THE INCOME TAX ACT?
Section 142(5) of the Income Tax Act 1967 (“ITA”) purports to erode the protection generally afforded by all the above-mentioned types of legal privilege. As both types of privilege could relate to the relationship between a client and his legal advisor, it is possible that section 142(5) could apply to either scenario.
The reach of section 142(5) of the ITA has been considered in the case of Bar Malaysia v Ketua Pengarah Hasil Dalam Negeri [2018] 9 MLJ 557.
There the High Court determined that on the following three reasons, section 142(5)(b) of the ITA does not defeat section 126 of the Evidence Act. First, the wording in section 142(5)(b), at the most, is intended to remove protection from “practitioners” or “firm of practitioners”, such as tax accountants and tax agents. The High Court was of the view that the term “practitioners” does not extend to “advocates and solicitors”. Section 126 of the Evidence Act, on the other hand, specifically refers to an advocate. Section 126 of the Evidence Act being more specific would override section 142(5)(b) of the ITA, hence maintaining the protection afforded by section 126 of the Evidence Act. Secondly, the qualification in section 142(5)(b), namely “Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law …” does not operate to exclude common law. Therefore, common law principles of privilege would not be overridden by section 142(5)(b) of the ITA. Thirdly, as the Evidence Act is more precise, Parliament did not intend to apply the ITA to advocates and solicitors and thus, the provision should not stray beyond Parliament’s intentions. The High Court then highlighted sections 126(1)(a) and 126(1)(b) of the Evidence Act to emphasise circumstances which would permit disclosure.
This case is now on appeal to the Court of Appeal.
The Malaysian courts have, insofar as the law permits, upheld the sanctity of legal advice privilege and litigation privilege. We now look to the legislature to ensure that Malaysia is on equal footing with other commonwealth jurisdictions when it comes to the protection of privileged information.
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Penalties for Tax Evasion
Tax evasion refers to attempts by individuals, corporations or trusts to avoid paying the total amount of taxes owed through illegal means, known as tax evasion fraud. This may include underreporting income, misrepresenting deductions, offshore tax evasion strategies, or or failing to file returns in a timely manner. Tax evasion penalties can have serious repercussions. The government imposes serious tax evasion sentence and penalties on offenders, including prison terms and hefty fines, for tax evasion.
Cost of Tax Evasion
The U.S. government estimates that approximately 3 percent of taxpayers do not file tax returns at all. While not filing taxes can involve both civil and criminal penalties, these are usually related to the amount of tax owed. For example, if a taxpayer does not owe any taxes, the penalties for not filing are less serious. However, failing to file a tax return for a year in which you do owe taxes is a crime. For each year a taxpayer does not file a return, the penalty can include a fine of up to $25,000 and a prison sentence of up to one year. If the IRS can demonstrate that the individual or company willfully did not file in an attempt to evade taxation, the IRS can pursue a felony conviction, which could include a fine of up to $100,000 and a maximum prison sentence of five years.
Although incarceration is rare, the threat is very real. Therefore, the best course of action is to file an accurate tax return on time every year. This is true even if you don’t have the money to pay the entire tax bill. In these cases, the IRS will work with you to set up a payment plan. If you need for more time to prepare an accurate tax return, such as owing to insufficient records, you can request an extension of time to file.
If individuals or corporations file tax returns late, the IRS can levy a penalty or a “late filing fee” of 5 percent for every month the return is late up to a maximum of 25 percent of the total tax due. However, the IRS usually does not pursue criminal charges against taxpayers who file their tax returns late. It also tends to extend more sympathetic treatment in collecting taxes to those who file on their own before the IRS “catches up with them.”
Even if you have not filed taxes for many years, it is best to file missing returns late. The IRS computers do not automatically search for a taxpayer’s history, and the IRS wants to encourage non-filers to begin filing taxes.
Tax Filing Errors
A similar situation applies to those who have file erroneous returns that may include underreporting income or overstating deductions. Individuals, corporations or trusts can file amended returns at any time to correct errors and avoid criminal prosecution.
The IRS has nearly 3000 special agents trained to detect tax evasion. These agents have access to tax returns, the ability to gain access to further financial information, and the right to seize or freeze assets in an attempt to collect taxes.
While the IRS selects some taxpayers at random to be audited every year, most audits arise as a result of tax forms that appear to be unusual. For example, if a person claims a level of deductions that is high in proportion to his or her income, the tax return may get flagged for an audit. In most of these cases, the IRS will simply increase the tax due if an error is discovered. However, if the agent finds that the individual, corporation or trust has purposefully filed a false return to intentionally evade taxes, the IRS can pursue criminal charges, which can result in a prison sentence of up to three years and fines of up to $100,000.
Notification from the IRS
The IRS usually uses one of four ways to notify taxpayers of suspected criminal behavior, and the manner it uses can be seen as an indication of how seriously it views the particular case.
First, you may receive a non-threatening written request from the IRS asking you to file or correct a tax return.
Second, you may receive a letter or phone call from an IRS representative stating a specific deadline (usually about 30 days) to file or correct a tax return.
Third, you may receive a phone call or a personal visit from an IRS agent giving a specific deadline by which to file a tax return directly with that agent. In these cases, the IRS agent may even offer to help you prepare the missing tax return.
Finally, in the worst case, you may be notified by an IRS agent that you have become the subject of a criminal investigation. Learn more on how to deal with the IRS.
Anyone that is suspected of being involved in a case of tax evasion has the right to meet with the IRS and present his or her case. Should you find yourself in such a situation, you should immediately consult with a qualified tax attorney.
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Colorsmart Com Inc Sample Contracts
Colorsmart Com Inc – CONTRACT EXTENSION (May 17th, 2000)
EXHIBIT 10.53 [DISPLAY ARTS LETTERHEAD] CONTRACT EXTENSION This is to confirm the closing date for closing the acquisition contract between ColorSmart.com, Inc., and Display Arts, Inc., has hereby been extended until such time as ColorSmart completes its IPO. It is our understanding that ColorSmart.com has filed its SB2 registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and completion of the IPO should be conducted on or about April 15, 2000. We hereby consent to the extension as stated. /s/ [ILLEGIBLE] ------------------------------------- Seller's Signature /s/ Pamela M. McNamee ------------------------------------- Seller's Signature Date: February 29, 2000 -------------------------------------
Colorsmart Com Inc – 10% FEE PROMISSORY NOTE (May 17th, 2000)
Exhibit 10.56 ColorSmart.com, Inc. 10% FEE PROMISSORY NOTE $350,000.00 Madison, Tennessee February 29, 2000 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, ColorSmart.com, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Maker"), hereby promises to pay to the order of Roger D. Finchum, Sr, (the "Lender"), at Lender's address at 135 North Country Club drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075, or such other address which Lender may specify by written notice to Maker, in Federal or other funds immediately available at the Lender's address, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($350,000.00), together with the flat fee of 10% as described below. This Note has been executed between the maker and the lender and delivered and executed in counterparts, via facsimile.
Exhibit 10.55 ColorSmart.com, Inc. 10% FEE PROMISSORY NOTE $300,000.00 Madison, Tennessee December 28, 1999 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, ColorSmart.com, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Maker"), hereby promises to pay to the order of Herzog Max in Bayern, (the "Lender"), at Lender's address at: 83681 Tegernsee, Germany, Postfach 1165, or such other address which Lender may specify by written notice to Maker, in Federal or other funds immediately available at the Lender's address, the principal sum of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($300,000.00), together with the flat fee of 10% as described below. This Note has been executed between the maker and the lender and delivered and executed in counterparts, via facsimile. This note is governed by t
EXHIBIT 10.51 CONTRACT EXTENSION This is to confirm the closing date for closing the acquisition contract between ColorSmart.com, Inc., and Magnum Digital Services, has hereby been extended until such time as ColorSmart completes its IPO. It is our understanding that ColorSmart.com has filed its SB2 registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and completion of the IPO should be conducted on or about May 15, 2000. We hereby consent to the extension as stated. /s/ [ILLEGIBLE] ------------------------------------- Seller's Signature ------------------------------------- Seller's Signature Date: 4/5/00 -------------------------------------
Colorsmart Com Inc – AGREEMENT (May 17th, 2000)
EXHIBIT 10.49 AGREEMENT Between TOP COPY CC ("Seller") and COLORSMART.COM INC. ("Purchaser") WHEREAS the agreement entered into for the sale of the business of the Seller to the Purchaser and concluded on 20 May 1999 (The "Sale of Business Agreement") has lapsed due to the non-fulfillment of the condition precedent contained in clause 2.3 thereof, the Parties wish to reinstate the Sale of Business Agreement and effect certain amendments so as to accommodate the Purchaser's delays. NOW THEREFORE THE PARTIES AGREE: 1. REINSTATEMENT OF SALE OF BUSINESS AGREEMENT The parties agree that the Sale of Business Agreement is hereby reinstated with full force and effect from date of signature hereof save that, and subject to, the terms of this agreement which hereby amend, where applicable, the Sale of Business Agreement. 2. INTEREST ON PURCHASE PRICE The parties hereby agree that inte
EXHIBIT 10.50 [VIRTUAL COLOUR CC LETTERHEAD] AGREEMENT Between VIRTUAL COLOUR CC VIRTUAL PRINTING CC VIRTUAL PROPERTIES CC VIRTUAL SUPPORT CC "Seller" And COLORSMART.COM INC. "Purchaser" REINSTATEMENT OF SALE OF BUSINESS AGREEMENT The parties agree that the Sale of Business Agreement is hereby reinstated with full force and effect from date of signature hereof save that, and subject to, the terms of this agreement which hereby amend, where applicable, the Sale of Business Agreement. CHANGE OF EFFECTIVE DATE AND IMPLEMENTATION DATE The definition of "effective date" is now amended to read "means the close of business on 15 May 2000". SIGNED on behalf of Virtual Colour Group CC at Cape Town on the 28th of March 2000. for: Virtual Colour Group /s/ [ILLEGIBLE
Exhibit 10.54 ColorSmart.com, Inc. 10% FEE PROMISSORY NOTE $170,000.00 Madison, Tennessee October 26, 1999 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, ColorSmart.com, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Maker"), hereby promises to pay to the order of Roger D. Finchum, Sr, (the "Lender"), at Lender's address at 135 North Country Club drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee 37075, or such other address which Lender may specify by written notice to Maker, in Federal or other funds immediately available at the Lender's address, the principal sum of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($170,000.00), together with the flat fee of 10% as described below. This Note has been executed between the maker and the lender and delivered and executed in counterparts, via facsimile.
Colorsmart Com Inc – [LOGO] First American Security Agreement FORM [ILLEGIBLE] (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.38 [LOGO] First American Security Agreement FORM [ILLEGIBLE] Professional Displays Inc. (hereafter called Debtor) a (an) Tennessee corporation organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee whose chief executive office (or, if none, residence) is located at 1425 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, Tennessee 37210, hereby assigns and grants to FIRST AMERICAN National Bank (hereinafter called "Bank") a security interest in the following described property and in all proceeds and products thereof and accessions thereto (all of which is called the ("Collateral"), subject to all applicable conditions, representations, warranties, and agreements hereinafter set forth: |_| EQUIPMENT All equipment of every kind and description owned by or in the possession of Debtor, whether now owned, he
Colorsmart Com Inc – AGREEMENT (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.23 AGREEMENT entered into and between COLORSMART.COM INC. and KEITH REDMAN (Identity Number: 591120 5006 00 3) TABLE OF CONTENTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLAUSE NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. INTERPRETATION AND PRELIMINARY ........................................ 2 2. APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYEE AND FURTHER BRANCHES .......................... 6 3. PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT .................................................. 6 4. EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT ................................
Colorsmart Com Inc – MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT OF LEASE (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.06 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT OF LEASE made and entered into between CONSTANTIA COURT YARD (PTY) LTD REG NO. 98/23232/07 (hereinafter called "the Landlord") of the First Part herein represented by DAVID PETER BUNCE (duly authorised hereto) COLOUR SMART.COM.SA REG NO: herein represented by REGINALD BURROWS (hereinafter called "the Tenant") of the Second Part The Landlord hereby lets to the Tenant who hereby hires the premises described in Section 3 of the Schedule annexed hereto on the terms and conditions as set out in the said Schedule and General Cond
Colorsmart Com Inc – Lease Agreement (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.10 Lease Agreement THIS LEASE, dated as of the 23rd day of October, 1998, is executed by and between the hereinafter defined Lessee and Lessor. In consideration of the rental stated below and the mutual Covenants and agreements contained herein, Lessor hereby leases to Lessee, and Lessee hereby leases from Lessor the Premises described herein. 1. FUNDAMENTAL LEASE PROVISIONS - The following shall be defined terms throughout this Lease: LESSEE: Steve Kress and Don McNamee Jr. d/b/a Graphic Transfer/Display Arts. LESSOR: Enos Reed PREMISES: The leased Premises identified and described as follows: Being a 25,273 Sq. Ft. building and land located at 1207 Faydur Court, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, further described as Parcel of that County's Property Map TERM: Original Term Five (5) years Commencing on November 1, 1998 and expiring on October 31, 2003.
Colorsmart Com Inc – EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.17 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement',) is made and entered into as of the 16 day of September, 1999 by and between ColorSmart.com Inc. ("Company") and Roger D. Finchum Jr.. WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Roger D. Finchum Jr. as the "Vice President" of the Company; WHEREAS, Roger D. Finchum Jr. has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Employment. Company shall employ Roger D. Finchum Jr. as Vice President during the term of this Agreement and Carrier hereby accepts such employment. Roger D. Finchum Jr. shall be responsible for US operations on a daily basis, and shall have such other duties regarding
EXHIBIT 10.25 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT COLORSMART.COM, INC., a Nevada Corporation (the "Company") and GREG E. DUKOFF (the "Employee") hereby enter into this EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") dated as of December ___, 1999, as follows: 1. EMPLOYMENT. The Company shall employ Employee, and Employee shall be employed by the Company upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement. 2. TERM OF EMPLOYMENT. The period of Employee's employment under this Agreement shall begin as of the Closing Date of the Company's Initial Public Offering (the "Employment Commencement Date"), and shall continue for a period of three (3) years thereafter (the "Initial Term") and shall be automatically renewed for successive one (1) year terms thereafter, unless Employee's employment is terminated in accordance with Section 5 below. 3. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (a) Employe
Exhibit 10.42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEASE AGREEMENT IKON Capital P.O. Box 9115 Macon, GA 31208-9115 800-800-1060 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lease Agreement Lease Number 254623 99.44 Thank you for choosing IKON! This lease agreement has been written in clear, easy to understand language. Please take time to review the terms. If you have any questions, please ask us. When we use "you" or "your", we are referring to you, our customer. When we use "IKON", we are referring to IKON Office Solutions, one of the largest distributors of the office solutions in the world. When we use "we", "us", and "our", we are referring to to IKON Capital, owned by IKON and created exclusively to support them. IKON is committed to providing you quali
Colorsmart Com Inc – COMMERCIAL GUARANTY (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.31 COMMERCIAL GUARANTY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Principal Loan Date Maturity Loan No Call Collateral Account Officer Initials RNRF3126 07672 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ References in the shaded area are for Lender's use only and do not limit the applicability of this document to any particular loan or item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Borrower: DISPLAY ARTS INC. (TIN: 631031415) 1425 ELM HILL PIKE NAHSVILLE, TN 37210 Guarantor: DONOVAN MCNAMEE SS# ###-##-#### 3425 ANDERSON RD. #114 NASHVILLE, TN
Exhibit 10.07 LEASE AGREEMENT This Lease Agreement, made and entered into by and between ROLLINS ASSOCIATES hereinafter referred to as "Landlord," and Professional Displays, Inc., a Tennessee Corporation hereinafter referred to as "Tenant"; WITNESSETH: Landlord hereby leases to Tenant, and Tenant hereby takes from Landlord the following described premises: Approximately 5,000 square feet at 1425 Elm Hill Pike (Building C) together with all rights, privileges, easements, and appurtenances belonging to or in any way pertaining to the said premises and together with the building and other improvements situated upon said demised premises. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same for a term of Five (5) years, commencing on April 1, 1993 and ending on March 31, 1998, upon the following covenants, terms and conditions: 1. RENT AMOUNT - Tenant
Colorsmart Com Inc – LEASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS: (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.45 3M Financing Services Master Lease Agreement THIS MASTER LEASE AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is effective as of the date executed by Lessor ("Effective Date") and is entered into by and between 3M FINANCING SERVICES having an office at 55 Federal Road, Danbury, Connecticut 06810 (together with any successor or assignee, "Lessor"), and 1199 Mac, Inc. dba Electronic Computer Imaging, a Corporation with its principal place of business at 6601 Lyons Road Suite C-2, Coconut Creek, FL 33073 (together with any successor or permitted assignee, "Lessee"). LEASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 1. LEASING. (a) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Lessor agrees to lease to Lessee and Lessee agrees to lease from Lessor the new or equivalent of new equipment (the "Equipment") described in any schedule (each, a "Schedule") signed by Lessee and executed by Lessor. Each Schedule will incorporat
Exhibit 10.12 Fedsure Properties (Pty) Ltd. Revised Version - 25 June 1999 MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT OF LEASE made and entered into between NORWICH LIFE SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED REG NO. 87/03755/06 VAT NO. 4250102227 (hereinafter called "the Landlord") of the First Part (herein represented by FEDSURE PROPERTIES (PTY) LIMITED) REG NO. 94/09029/07 VAT NO. 4110151380 (duly authorised hereto) and COLOUR SMART.COM SOUTH AFRICA REG NO. .......... VAT NO. .......... (herein represented by ...................................) (h
Colorsmart Com Inc – QUANTITY DESCRIPTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF EQUIPMENT LEASED (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.44 [LOGO] Mart Financial Group, Inc. 1430 N. Meacham Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173 o 708-882-2800 NAME AND ADDRESS OF LESSEE SUPPLIER OF EQUIPMENT (COMPLETE LEGAL NAME) (COMPLETE ADDRESS) 1199 Mac, Inc. dba/ GBC/Protech Magnum Digital Services 3300 Univerity Blvd. Suite 142 6601 Lyons Road, Suite C-2 Winter Park, FL 32792 Coconut Creek, FL 33073 EQUIPMENT LEASE AGREEMENT Lease No. 11032 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUANTITY DESCRIPTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF EQUIPMENT LEASED -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 GBC/Protech DS6O Transfer Laminator THERE
Exhibit 10.04 Memphis LEASE AGREEMENT Parties THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into on this the 13 day of Aug, 1996 by and between the [ILLEGIBLE], hereinafter called "Landlord", and DISPLAY ARTS, INC. hereinafter called "Tenant"; Premises WITNESSETH: The Landlord leases to Tenant as its demised premises office space containing an approximate 3,500 usable square feet as outlined on the Floor Plan attached hereto (Exhibit "A") (hereinafter called "Premises") on the Ground Floor of the William Len Apartments (hereinafter called "Building"), located at 30 South Main, Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee for the 1. Term term of Five (5) years, and six (6) months, with an option for two (2) additional Five (5) year terms at a rental rate not to be
Colorsmart Com Inc – COMMERCIAL RENTAL AGREEMENT (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.02 COMMERCIAL RENTAL AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT MADE THIS 1 DAY OF March 1999 BETWEEN CHRIS ENGLAND ("management") AND ATW ("tenant") MANAGEMENT LEASES TO TENANT RENTAL UNIT LOCATED AT: 1402 Willingham 1. TERM: THE TERM OF THIS LEASE SHALL BE 24 MONTHS, BEGINNING April 1, 1999 AND ENDING March 31, 2001. 2. OCCUPANCY: IT UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED THAT UNDERSIGNED WILL USE PROPERTY FOR COMMERCIAL / RETAIL BUSINESS ONLY AND THAT AT NO TIME WILL TENANT PERMIT OTHERS TO SUB LEASE THE PREMISES WITHOUT FIRST HAVING OBTAINED WRITTEN CONSENT FROM THE MANAGEMENT. 3. RENT: RENT IS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE AT A RATE OF $450 PER MONTH ON THE FIRST 1st. DAY OF EACH MONTH PAYABLE AT THE OFFICE OF THE MANAGEMENT LOCATED AT: CHRIS ENGLAND, 3067 MAIN STREET, EAST POINT, GA. 30344 4. DISCOUNT: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF THE RENT IS PAID ON OR BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THE BUS
Exhibit 10.39 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 23rd day of June, 1999 by and between COLORSMART.COM, INC. ("Company") and Donovan J. McNamee, Jr. ("McNamee"). WHEREAS, the Company has entered into an agreement to purchase the stock of Display Arts Inc., a Tennessee corporation ("Display Arts"); WHEREAS, McNamee is a shareholder and employee of Display Arts; WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ McNamee following the closing of such stock purchase as the " " of the Company; and WHEREAS, McNamee has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as f
Exhibit 10.13 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 15 day of October, 1999 by and between ColorSmart.com Inc. ("Company") and Greg Stooksberry. WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Greg Stooksberry as the "Network Administrator" of the Company; WHEREAS, Greg Stooksberry has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Employment. Company shall employ Greg Stooksberry as manager during the term of this Agreement and Greg Stooksberry hereby accepts such employment. Greg Stooksberry shall be responsible for Network Administrator, and shall have such other duties regarding the Company as shall be
Colorsmart Com Inc – AGREEMENT TO LEASE (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.26 FREEDOM LEASE(R) Closed End Vehicle Lease Agreement Consumer Paper [LOGO] BANK ONE(R) AGREEMENT TO LEASE You agree to lease the Vehicle from us subject to the terms and conditions of this Lease. The terms and conditions of your Lease are stated below and on the reverse side. This Agreement ("Lease") covers your lease from us of the motor vehicle ("Vehicle") described on the reverse side with all equipment, parts and accessories. The words "you" and "your" mean each Lessee who signs the Lease, jointly and severally; the words "we," "us" and "our" mean the Lessor who signs this Lease. The Vehicle you selected for this Lease has been (or will be) purchased by the Lessor from the Seller who arranged for this Lease. VEHICLE USE AND AUTHORITY TO OPERATE Unless otherwise provided in this Lease, you agree that the Vehic
Exhibit 10.09 LEASE AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this first day of January, 1999 between the Raymond G. Guay Revocable Trust its successors and/or assigns, herein after called the LESSOR and Display Arts, hereinafter called the LESSEE. WITNESSETH PREMISES: LESSOR does hereby lease to the LESSEE the premises (hereinafter called "PREMISES") known as "Suite 10016 Emory Place", consisting of approximately 3,700 square feet on the First (1st) floor, of the Office Building (hereinafter called "BUILDING") being located at 16 Emory Place, situated at Knox County in the City of Knoxville, Tennessee, to be occupied and used by the said LESSEE as a commercial use, and for no other purposes described in paragraph No. 6, with the right to use the halls in said building for purposes of ingress and egress, and to use the water clos
Exhibit 10.11 AGREEMENT Entered into between COLORSMART.COM OR ITS NOMINEE and DIMITRI HARALAMBOUS (Identity No. 5912035073080) [LOGO] TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLAUSE NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 INTERPRETATION AND PRELIMINARY ........................ 2 2 APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYEE AND FURTHER BRANCHES .......... 6 3 PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT .................................. 6 4 EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT .........
Colorsmart Com Inc – CONTRACT FOR SALE OF REALTY (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.03 CONTRACT FOR SALE OF REALTY August 16, 1995 The undersigned Buyer agrees to buy, and the Seller agrees to sell for all that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot 158 of the 14th District of Fulton County, Georgia, and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING at a marble monument located at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly right of way line of Center Avenue and the northwesterly right of way line of South Main Street; running thence northeasterly along the northwesterly right of way line of South Main Street 220.4 feet to an iron pin; running thence north 86 degrees 21 minutes 10 seconds west 196.7 feet to a point; running thence north 59 degrees 43 minutes 30 seconds west 10.4 feet to an iron pin; running thence north 86 degrees 32 minutes 10 seco
Colorsmart Com Inc – COMMERCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.33 COMMERCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Principal Loan Date Maturity Loan No Call Collateral Account Officer Initials $32,150.00 05-20-1999 05-20-2002 RNRF3126 RNRF3126 07672 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ References in the shaded area are for Lender's use only and do not limit the applicability of this document to any particular loan or item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Borrower: DISPLAY ARTS INC. (TIN: 631031415) 1425 ELM HILL PIKE NAHSVILLE, TN 37210 Lender: First American National Bank Plus Park Fourth and Union Fi
Colorsmart Com Inc – NOTE (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.36 U.S. Small Business Administration NOTE -------------------- SBA LOAN NUMBER -------------------- PLP 942-352-3005 -------------------- (City and State) Nashville, Tennessee -------------------- $ 200,000.00 (Date) August 15, 1996 -------------------- For value received, the undersigned promises to pay to the order of
Exhibit 10.15 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 16 day of September, 1999 by and between ColorSmart.com Inc. ("Company") and Roger D. Finchum Sr.. WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Roger D. Finchum Sr. as the "CEO/President" of the Company; WHEREAS, Roger D. Finchum Sr. has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Employment. Company shall employ Roger D. Finchum Sr. as CEO/President during the term of this Agreement and Currier hereby accepts such employment. Roger D. Finchum Sr. shall be responsible for overseeing all operations both foreign and domestic, and shall have such other
Colorsmart Com Inc – AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE INSURANCE (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.34 AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE INSURANCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Principal Loan Date Maturity Loan No Call Collateral Account Officer Initials $32,150.00 05-20-1999 05-20-2002 RNRF3126 RNRF3126 07672 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ References in the shaded area are for Lender's use only and do not limit the applicability of this document to any particular loan or item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Borrower: DISPLAY ARTS INC. (TIN: 631031415) 1425 ELM HILL PIKE NAHSVILLE, TN 37210 Lender: First American National Bank Plus Park Fourth and Union F
Exhibit 10.18 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 16 day of September, 1999 by and between ColorSmart.com Inc. ("Company") and Erich Fischer. WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Erich Fischer as the "Vice President of Marketing" of the Company; WHEREAS, Erich Fischer has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Employment. Company shall employ Erich Fischer as Vice President during the term of this Agreement and Erich Fischer hereby accepts such employment. Erich Fischer shall be responsible for US marketing operations on a daily basis, and shall have such other duties regarding the Com
Colorsmart Com Inc – AGREEMENT FOR (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.08 AGREEMENT FOR ASSUMPTION OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER LEASE THIS AGREEMENT is executed effective October 23, 1998 by Display Arts Inc., a Tennessee corporation ("Display Arts") and Donovan J. McNamee, Jr., a resident of Davidson County, Tennessee. R E C I T A L S: WHEREAS, on October 23, 1998, McNamee, who is an officer and shareholder of Display Arts, entered into that certain lease agreement (the "Lease"), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A, to lease for the benefit of Display Arts space situated at 1207 Faydur Ct., Nashville, Tennessee (the "Premises"); and WHEREAS, Display Arts desires to utilize the Premises in its business operations. NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree that in consideration of permitting Display Arts use of the Premises during the entire term of the Lease, Disp
Colorsmart Com Inc – BUSINESS LINE PLUS AGREEMENT (December 6th, 1999)
Exhibit 10.35 First American First American National Bank -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUSINESS LINE PLUS AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT is entered into as of AUGUST 15, 1996 by and between DISPLAY ARTS INC (individually and collectively, "Borrower"), and FIRST AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK "FANB"), Nashville, Tennessee 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this Agreement: (a) An "Advance" is any advance of funds or payment by FANB under this Agreement. (b) The "Line" is the line of credit granted by FANB to Borrower under this Agreement. (c) The "Collateral" is; S/A COVERING A/R, INV, EQUIP (d) The "Credit Limit" is the maximum principal balance that may be outstanding under this Agreement during the Draw Period and is initially $50,000,00.
Exhibit 10.14 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made and entered into as of the 16 day of September, 1999 by and between ColorSmart.com Inc. ("Company") and Robert McDowell. WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Robert McDowell as the "Manager" of the Company; WHEREAS, Robert McDowell has agreed to provide such services in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement; NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows: Employment. Company shall employ Robert McDowell as Manager during the term of this Agreement and Robert McDowell hereby accepts such employment. Robert McDowell shall be responsible for overseeing of operations in the Coconut Creek, FL. facility, and shall have such other duties regarding th
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Because I am a little obsessed with superhero films, I thought it would be fun to imagine what kind of will someone like Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) might need. As a superhero, he faces a high degree of peril every day. It would therefore be particularly important for him to have arranged what should happen in the event of his death so that his family, friends, employees and team mates were all provided for in accordance with his wishes.
There are a number of considerations that should be taken into account when creating your will, and I have highlighted below the special considerations that would need to be taken into account in Iron Man's case. Please note that for the purpose of this blog, I have assumed that the will would be created under and be subject to English Law.
Business & Personal Assets
Tony Stark, presently unmarried, is one of the richest superheroes in the superhero universe, with an estimated wealth of $12.4 billion according to the Times (more than Batman!). This level of wealth makes things easy in the sense that Tony can probably give tremendously generous gifts to everyone he has ever met and still have plenty left over.
However, this level of wealth will also result in a high level of tax liabilities. This means that it would be sensible for Tony to review how he holds his assets to ensure that he minimises the potential tax bill. Assuming that he has to pay inheritance tax on the whole of his estate under the usual rules and that no assets are held in trusts or owned by his company, he would have to pay inheritance tax at 40% of the value of his assets over the threshold of £325,000 (i.e. nearly $5 billion!). However, given Tony's philanthropic nature, he would likely want to take advantage of charity relief by donating 10% of his estate to charity (roughly $1.2 billion), resulting in a tax rate of 36%.
I considered whether Tony might have more nil rate band to play with after the introduction of the Residence Nil Rate Band in 2017/18. However Tony's wealth is so great he would be disqualified from using this new allowance.
Special Assets
Probably the most interesting and important asset that Tony owns is his armoury of iron suits. Tony also assumedly owns the intellectual property rights to the technology behind his suits and other gadgets.
He will need to think carefully about what should happen to these when he is no longer around. Would he want to bequeath the suits and technology to a trusted ally such as James Rhodes? If he did, would he want Rhodes to have complete control of the suit and be able to give or leave it to anyone? What would he want to happen if Rhodes died before him? He could of course leave a long list of heroes who will inherit the suit if their predecessor passes away.
It might be easier to instead create a trust with the power to award the suits to whoever is worthy and to equally take them away from those who are not. He would have to think carefully about who the trustees should be in order to ensure that they would be able to carry out his wishes.
An alternative would be to leave instructions that all of the suits and technology should be destroyed immediately following Tony's death. He would have to ensure that clear instructions were given as to how the suits should be destroyed and that he provided the executors with access to whatever resources were needed to destroy the suits.
Obviously Tony would want to ensure that his long-term girlfriend Pepper Potts was well-provided for. He also seems to be the principal funder of the Avengers and will probably want to ensure that they continue to be provided for after his death. This would raise a number of difficulties as he would have to define what 'the Avengers' are. He could choose to list the specific team members that should benefit in the event of his death. He would then need to consider what should happen to that team member's share if they died before him. For instance, assuming that he awarded $1 billion to the Avengers consisting of Hawkeye, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Captain America and then Hawkeye died, would he want the $1 billion to be split between the surviving members or for Hawkeye's share to go to Hawkeye's children?
Listing all the individual members would also not allow for the continual changeover of members that is traditional with the Avengers. Assuming that Tony's aim is to ensure that the Avengers continues to function as a well funded organisation, rather than to give specific gifts to his team mates, it would probably be sensible to set up a trust for this purpose, the terms of which could allow for the change of members/beneficiaries, including the power to add additional members to the Avengers Team where appropriate.
It would also be worth finding out whether the Avengers could be considered a charitable organisation. To claim charity tax reliefs and exemptions, an organisation must be established for charitable purposes only, subject to either a relevant Court in the UK or EU, registered with an appropriate regulator (where applicable), run by fit and proper persons and recognised by the HMRC as a charitable organisation. There are 12 possible charitable purposes set out in the Charities Act 2011, which include pursuits such as preventing or relieving poverty, advancing education and crucially in this case, the advancement of health or the saving of lives. It could be argued that the crime fighting pursuits of the Avengers would be considered a charitable purpose as their main goal is to prevent unnecessary loss of life and/or human suffering. If Tony could successfully argue that the Avengers are a charity then there would be no inheritance tax due in relation to the gifts for them.
However, we might not be able to successfully argue that the Avengers are a charity. After all, the Charity Commission recently decided that the Temple of the Jedi Order should not have charitable status (see LB blogs passim).
We also have not set up anything to help Tony make adequate provision for his girlfriend. My colleagues came up with a clever real world solution to this fictional problem. This would involve Tony marrying Pepper Potts, which would mean he could leave her his estate and this would be exempt under the spousal exemption. If the property left to Pepper Potts was placed in a trust and she was given a revocable life interest in the trust funds, it would initially benefit from the spousal exemption. Later on, the trustees could revoke Pepper's life interest and 'drop down' capital from the Trust funds to particular beneficiaries (e.g. Captain America, Hawkeye etc). These would be potentially exempt transfers. Assuming that Pepper lived for at least 7 years following these gifts being made, no inheritance tax should be due.
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YW+: Kars for Kids, full moon events and hikes, more
The 17th annual Kiwanis Kars for Kids is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. Free to attend. Advanced registration is $25, or $30 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the gate. The event is a fundraiser for Jardín de los Niños.
YW+: Kars for Kids, full moon events and hikes, more The 17th annual Kiwanis Kars for Kids is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. Free to attend. Advanced registration is $25, or $30 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the gate. The event is a fundraiser for Jardín de los Niños. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/1tr5y9r
Published 11:34 a.m. MT June 15, 2016
Robin Zielinski – Sun-NewsErnest Lawson, of Las Cruces, picks up his son Eli, 2, for a better look at a 1922 Ford Model T Roadster on Saturday during Kiwanis Kars for Kids at Young Park. The owner of the roadster is BT Guerrero, of Las Cruces.(Photo: Sun-News File Photo/Robin Zielinski)Buy Photo
Kars for Kids marks 17 years, benefits Jardín de los Niños
The 17th annual Kiwanis Kars for Kids is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. Free to attend. Advanced registration is $25, or $30 from 7 to 10 a.m. at the gate. The event is a fundraiser for Jardín de los Niños. There will be a pancake breakfast at the pavilion from 7 to 11 a.m. for $5. The 4 Key Clubs in Las Cruces will sell hotdogs and hamburgers. The New Mexico Department of Fish and Game will host a children’s fishing clinic from 8 a.m. to noon for children 11 and younger. There will be vendors and a live DJ. Trophies will be given in classic, custom, hot rod, low rider, vintage and motorcycle categories. Jardín will award its annual “Kids Choice” prize.
Music in the Park Series continues Sunday
The city of Las Cruces’ Music in the Park series will continue with performances by Jason D. Williams from Memphis and Espuelas de Plata at 7 p.m. Sunday at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. Free to attend.
las-cruces.org/departments/parks and recreation.
Hike as full moon rises over White Sands
The White Sands full moon hike begins at 8 p.m. Sunday, at the White Sands National Monument. Join a ranger for a full moon hike and see firsthand the dunes in a whole new light. Reservations are required and can only be made online. The hike is limited to 40 participants. $8 per person 16 and older. $4 per person 15 and younger. Monument entrance fees also apply.
nps.gov/whsa.
Enjoy live music as the moon rises over White Sands
The full moon night featuring Dana Falconberry and her three-piece band will present rusticated chamber music at 8:30 p.m. Monday, at the White Sands National Monument. Programs are held in monument’s amphitheater and are free. Monument entrance fees apply: $5 per person 16 years and older.
575-479-6124 and nps.gov/whsa.
Mesilla Summer Music Series begins Friday
Mesilla’s Summer Music series begins with a performance by Unlyshed at 8 p.m. Friday on the Mesilla Plaza. Vendors and food. Some shops open late on the plaza. Free to attend.
mesillanm.gov.
Movies in the Park series continues Saturday
Movies in the Park continues this week with a showing of “Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens” at 7 p.m. Saturday at Young Park, 1905 E. Nevada Ave. Free to attend. The series runs through September.
Street Fest brings Goo Goo Dolls, Seether, Neon Trees
A pair of power trios, Goo Goo Dolls and Seether, are set to headline the El Paso Downtown Street Festival, on Friday and Saturday. Tickets for Street Fest are $16.25 plus fees for single-day passes, $37.86-$64.96 plus fees for a two-day combo pass and $140.75 plus fees for VIP passes. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster outlets.
ticketmaster.com and 800-745-3000.
Moonlit zip tour special for Father’s Day
There is a Father’s Day zip tour at 8 p.m. Sunday at Ski Apache in Mescalero. Reservations required, 30 person limit. Individual tickets are $99.95 or purchase a daylight, moonlight and country buffet for $110.
Camping, picnicking open at Aguirre Spring
Camping or picnic at Aguirre Spring daily, through September. The entrance gate is open from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The area includes 57 sites, two group sites, a horse corral and two recreational trail heads. Located on the eastside of the Organ Mountains. The access road is 14 miles east of the I-25/U.S 70 interchange. $5 day-use or $7 camping.
Hike under a full moon at the Gila Cliff Dwellings
The Cliff Dwellings full moon hike is from 9 to 11 p.m. Sunday. Hikers will meet at the Monument Trail Head, Gila Cliff Dwellings. Hike the Cliff Dweller Canyon Trail at night. Ranger led. The trail is moderate, just over 1 mile round trip. The Dwellings will be partially illuminated. No extra fee will be charged for the special tours.
575-536-9461 and nps.gov/gicl.
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Man arrested in apartment shooting
LAS CRUCES - An 18-year-old Las Cruces man suspected of shooting a 20-year-old man multiple times last month was arrested Sunday, more than a week after police say he opened gunfire at an apartment complex near New Mexico State University.
Man arrested in apartment shooting LAS CRUCES - An 18-year-old Las Cruces man suspected of shooting a 20-year-old man multiple times last month was arrested Sunday, more than a week after police say he opened gunfire at an apartment complex near New Mexico State University. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2dWafou
Carlos Andres López, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 6:01 p.m. MT Oct. 3, 2016
Joshua Jones(Photo: Courtesy photo)
Joshua Jones, of the 3900 block of Lilac Drive, was booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center at 10:19 p.m. Sunday and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon resulting in great bodily harm, a third-degree felony, jail records show.
Jones’ arrest came after the victim, Steven De La Paz, identified Jones as the suspect who allegedly shot him on Sept. 24 at The Verge apartments, 320 E. Union Ave.
Las Cruces police officers were dispatched to the apartment complex, formerly known as The Grove, around 1:30 a.m. Sept. 24 after gunfire had been reported.
By the time officers arrived on the scene, De La Paz had been transported by private vehicle to Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, police reported Monday. He had injuries on both legs and on his right arm, police said, and was subsequently airlifted to University Medical Center in El Paso.
De La Paz’s injuries were described as non-life-threatening, and he has since been released from UMC.
The investigation revealed that De La Paz and several friends had gathered inside an apartment at The Verge for a party around 10 p.m. Sept. 23.
Police said Jones and several other men arrived at the apartment around 1 a.m., but they were told that the party was over and weren’t allowed inside.
Jones and other men became upset, according to a female witness who gave a statement to police. Her statement was one several included in Jones’ criminal complaint filed Sunday in Doña Ana County Magistrate Court.
The witness also said that De La Paz and another man went outside of the apartment “to get the males to leave.” She said she stayed in the apartment and heard “raised voices,” followed by several gunshots. She looked out the doorway, she told police, and saw that De La Paz had been shot. She then looked down the stairs to the first floor and saw a man, described as a “light-skinned Hispanic,” pointing a gun up the stairwell, she said.
De La Paz told police that a light-skinned Hispanic man fired the first gunshot into his right arm, using a black semiautomatic gun. De La Paz then attempted to rush and tackle the shooter, but more shots were fired. The shooter and the other men scattered soon after the shooting, De La Paz said.
A black truck then was seen leaving the apartment complex “at a high rate of speed," according to information the Mesilla Valley Regional Authority Dispatch that was contained in the complaint. The truck was seen driving on a sidewalk and was involved in a crash near the intersection of Union Avenue and Stern Drive, the complaint said.
Jones appeared before Judge Richard Jacquez on Monday afternoon for an in-jail arraignment. Jones waived a formal reading his criminal complaint through a public defender.
Jacquez later denied a request to lower Jones’ $20,000 cash-only bond to $3,000 secured. The judge instead set Jones’ bond at $5,000 secured after a prosecutor from the 3rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office argued for that amount, saying Jones’ charge is a “very violent offense.”
It is likely that Jones’ case will get transferred to 3rd Judicial District Court before a preliminary hearing, which are usually held within 10 days of an arrest if the defendant remains jailed.
Court records show that Jones does not have any prior charges or convictions. He is not the Joshua Jones who is currently serving time in prison for shooting two brothers on Feb. 14, 2015, on Delano Drive in Las Cruces.
Carlos Andres López can be reached 575-541-5453, carlopez@lcsun-news.com or @carlopez_los on Twitter.
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Retired Four-Star General & Former Commander, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea
Led 650,000 Korean and American soldiers as Commander of US Combined Forces Command
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First African American cadet ever chosen to be “First Captain” at West Point
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General Vincent K. Brooks is a career Army officer who recently retired from active duty as the four-star general in command of all US Forces in Korea, where he concurrently commanded United Nations Command as well as the Republic of Korea—US Combined Forces Command comprising over 650,000 Koreans and Americans under arms.
In 2003, while serving in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, Brooks was chosen to serve as the deputy director of operations and primary spokesperson for the America's fighting force in the Middle East and Central Asia, the United States Central Command as it conducted combat operations against the Iraq. Due to his charisma and speaking ability, the media, and international viewing public preferred Brooks' daily update briefings to those of other spokespersons. During this time, Brooks was often referred to as "the face of the US military. The Central Command is one of nine US combatant commands that answer directly to the President and the Secretary of Defense. Its territory includes 25 nations in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Brooks also served as the commander for the US Third Army, the US Army portion of Central Command from 2011 to 2013, critical times in the reduction of forces in Iraq, the increase of forces in Afghanistan, the "Arab Spring," and the standoff against Iran.
Highly experienced in command of increasingly larger and more complex organizations over his forty-two years of service spent mostly in leadership roles, Brooks led in assignments completed with the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Infantry Division, the 3rd Infantry Division, the Third Corps, the Third Army, and the US Army in the Pacific. In his final assignment, he served both the President of the United States and the President of the Republic of Korea. He also served at the Pentagon with both the Army headquarters as well as with the Joint Staff overseeing all the US military operations around the world.
General Brooks, who goes by “Vince,” is a 1980 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the first class to include women, and he led the 4,000 cadets as the cadet brigade commander or “First Captain.” A history-maker, Brooks is the first African American to have been chosen for this paramount position, and he was the first cadet to lead the student body when women were in all four classes (freshman or “plebe” to senior or “first classman”). He is also the eighth African American in history to attain the military’s top rank—four-star general in the United States Army.
Widely respected as a speaker and leader of cohesive, innovative organizations, within and beyond the military, his areas of expertise include leadership in complex organizations, crisis leadership, and building cohesive trust-based teams, national security, policy, strategy, international relations, military operations, combating terrorism and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, diversity and inclusion. He is a combat veteran and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the US Military Academy at West Point; a Master of Military Art and Science from the prestigious US Army School of advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; was a National Security Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government; and holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the New England School of Law.
Vince is from a career military family and claims Alexandria, Virginia as home given the long roots in maternal and paternal branches of the family tree. He is married to Carol P. Brooks, MA, DSc. a retired physical therapist and currently an adult educator. Brooks recently retired from the US Army after over 38 years of service and the two currently reside in Austin, Texas.
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With over forty-two years in military service, General Vincent K. Brooks is familiar with complex organizations and the leadership required to demand attention and respect. In General Brooks speeches, he emphasizes the importance of the three L's—listening, learning, and leading—which prepared him for many of the positions he held within the military. Although he is currently retired from the military, he has not retired from leadership. Every day he continues to stand out for excellence and inspire others to do the same.
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Ask LH: What Are My Consumer Rights With Refurbished Products?
Angus Kidman
Dear Lifehacker, What are my consumer rights when buying a refurbished product from a business in Australia? How does it affect the warranty? I'm looking at some refurbished TVs from a reputable Australian dealer. The stated warranty is for 3 months, which doesn't really seem "reasonable" for a TV, especially if you are still paying $1500-$2000 for it. What would the options be if the TV developed a fault which wasn't listed in the description outside of that period? Thanks, Warranty Worries
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Dear WW,
The Australian Consumer Law applies to products whether they're new, refurbished or second-hand. One important feature of those laws is that companies can't set an arbitrary limit on how long a warranty applies for. As the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) explains:
Warranties are separate from your automatic consumer guarantees. The consumer guarantees which apply regardless of any warranties suppliers sell or give to you, apply for a reasonable time depending on the nature of the goods or services. This means consumer guarantees may continue to apply after the time period for the warranty has expired.
What does this mean in reality? The company selling you a TV can state that a three-month warranty applies, but if that television stopped working completely after three months and one day, it can't use that warranty to escape the consumer guarantee.
The potential sticking point here is what constitutes a "reasonable time". The ACCC doesn't offer any fixed guidelines here — we're not told that a TV must last for five years, for instance. What we are told is that "acceptable quality takes into account what would normally be expected for the type of product and cost". If you have paid $2000 for a television, it seems reasonable to expect that it will last for more than three months. Conversely, after five years you'd have a tougher time making the same case.
The other caveat with refurbished goods or seconds is that you can't complain about any faults which you were made aware of at the time of purchase. If there's a scratch on the casing of the television and the seller points that out, it isn't grounds for complaint (or a refund). Not can you seek free repairs for something that's your own fault — if you smash the screen with a Wiimote, that's your problem.
Assuming that doesn't apply, however, and a major fault develops, you're fully entitled to contact the seller and ask for a repair or a replacement, depending on the nature of the fault. If the seller argues that the warranty has expired, point out the relevant consumer law. If they still won't budge, contact the consumer agency in your state. The ACCC site has a much more detailed explanation of the process. Remember: it's OK to be firm, but you won't get anywhere being rude or abrasive.
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Birthing the Ne. . .
Birthing the New Age
By Suma Varughese
Sages, saints and savants are unanimous in their contention that the new age of love, peace, harmony and brotherhood can only be birthed by women. Here’s why
A few days back I watched an old film on TV: Yentl. Barbra Streisand essayed the role of an ardent Jewish religious scholar in the early 19th century in Europe. Only she belonged to the wrong sex. Leafing longingly through the pages of a book, she asked a peddler of secondhand books how much it would cost, to be roughly informed that any woman who wanted to study the Torah (the primary Jewish religious text) was a demon!
Closer home, I had once signed up for yoga with a man near my house. All went well until one day he divulged that women cannot hope to be enlightened in their present gender. They would have to take rebirth as men to do so. That was the end of my yoga class.
It is bad enough that women were debarred from participation in so many aspects of temporal matters, until they took steps to set that right, but that they should be declared ineligible and unfit for salvation or enlightenment is a telling testimony of the male ego’s compulsive need for superiority.
Indeed, the history of the world can well be attributed to this powerful drive to be on top, the winner, the conqueror. Innumerable wars have been fought to satisfy this need, and societies have been constructed on the basis of haves and have-nots. In the West, aristocracy ruled, followed by intellectuals, tradesmen and the poor. In India, the priestly community called the shots followed by the aristocracy, trade and servitors. Inequity, injustice, exploitation and destruction have been the inevitable outcomes.
Can the world be re-envisioned? Is there a different way to be? Can we move from the win-lose equation to a win-win one? Can we progress from positions of superiority and inferiority to one of equality? Must destruction and conquest follow our footsteps or can unity and harmony do so?
The questions attain an urgency in the present times. Our world is dying. Natural catastrophes are peaking, with an increase in earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, fires and so on. Even as I write, Japan is convulsed in a national crisis brought on by an earthquake, tsunamiand a nuclear disaster. Environmental degradation has reached such a pitch that illnesses are rampaging, and thousands of species are dying. The cost of living is making bare survival difficult for millions. The climate is shifting treacherously, causing farming failures and escalating food prices. The rampaging capitalistic system is swallowing land, people and environment in their greed to make more and more.
Stress levels are rising as recession hits and jobs disappear. Everything seems to be at odds with everything else. Never has life seemed so difficult, so bleak. And yet, we are not without hope. It is useful to remember that breakdowns lead to breakthroughs and that it is never darker than before the dawn. The very extremes we are enduring are leading to a solution. A solution that can only come about through a paradigm shift.
‘The qualities of surrender,
non-judgement, an openness that
allows life to be instead of
resisting it are are closely
related to the female principle
We are talking, of course, of a rise in consciousness. And this paradigm shift, more and more sages, thinkers and seekers feel, will be birthed by women.
It is ironical, is it not, that the despised and even today, downtrodden gender, holds the keys to our collective rise in consciousness. How so?
Eckhart Tolle, the well-known spiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now, offers clarity: “The energy frequency of the mind appears to be essentially male. The mind resists, fights for control, uses, manipulates, attacks, tries to grasp and possess. To go beyond the mind and reconnect with the deeper reality of Being, very different qualities are needed: surrender, nonjudgement, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it, the capacity to hold all things in the loving embrace of your knowing. All these qualities are much more closely related to the female principle.”
A New Age stands on the threshold but to get there we must be willing to transcend the mind that has caused us so much suffering and embrace the qualities of spirit, or Being, as Tolle puts it.
In other words, the world is badly in need of woman’s consciousness. Because our lives have been powerfully dominated by the male principle and all our systems and ways of operating bear its imprint, women are needed to come into the world and rebalance it
What exactly does this consciousness consist of? To elaborate, men and women form two opposites of a spectrum. One part stands for life and the other for death. Neither is better than the other. Death is an imperative part of the cycle of life, a release from old, outdated and decayed systems into new life. Because women stand for life, the qualities they stand for are lifeaffirming. For instance, women are naturally inclined towards conciliation rather than competition, towards peace rather than war, towards allowing processes to unfold rather than enforce them, towards nurturing rather than controlling, towards humility rather than aggression, towards egolessness rather than ego, towards inclusiveness, rather than exclusiveness, towards heart rather than head.
Towards the New Age
Out in the world
Women’s immediate task is to come forward and play their part in the world – to have a presence in all areas of life and through the dissemination of their precious life-giving properties influence and change the very systems themselves.
How equipped are women to do so? Women seem to be on target. Their rise in the last few decades has been nothing short of phenomenal. Thanks in great measure to the pioneering role played by the Suffragette Movement in the mid-18th century and the Women’s Liberation Movement of the ’60s and ‘70s, enlightened legislation paved the path for women to venture into education and the workforce. Today, there are few areas of work that women have not forged into, including the armed forces. In the field of education, year after year, women have been scoring better in the SSc and HSc results.
What women’s impact has been in the area of work, few studies will tell us. But we need to remember and make allowance for the fact that the early entrants into the workforce had to sacrifice their womanly qualities in an attempt to win the respect and approbation of men. We have been so heavily indoctrinated by a belief in male superiority that women themselves have only a faint idea of their own merits.
It is only since the ‘90s or so that women are becoming sufficiently comfortable in their own skin to consider the possibility of succeeding in the work field on their own strengths.
Still, the most important achievement through entering the work force has been economic independence. Could this perhaps be the most important power that men held? As long as women were dependent on men for their upkeep, they were forced to submit to their authority. As they entered the job market in larger and larger numbers, they have simultaneously challenged the male stronghold both at work and at home. This has caused tremendous upheavals on the domestic front. Divorces have soared and conflict in households are endemic.
Long-faced traditionalists mutter about the horrors of allowing women a free rein, and while all will agree that the shake-out is regrettable, it is clearly necessary. A system based on inequity and oppression requires the victim’s consent to keep it stable. It is bound to topple over once the victim shakes herself free.
What we are seeing is a process that will bring together the male-female energies in a more equitable and harmonious way that guarantees optimum freedom to both the sexes. Who will argue that there could be no better environment to bring up the young?
In the outside world too, the woman’s influence can be felt, if not overtly then subtly. There are no figures to bandy but anecdotal evidence must suffice.
A woman’s touch
Whichever office a woman enters into, especially smaller, more intimate spaces, inevitably become more familial, home-like. There will concern over someone falling ill, there will be the sharing of snacks and home-cooked meals. In all likelihood, there will be shared meals. Personally, wherever I have gone, I have initiated the practice of celebrating birthdays and other special events through pot-luck lunches. Delicious, home-cooked meals that introduce us to the other’s cuisine is the happy outcome.
Brahmaprakash Gaur, a Mumbai-based income tax official, recalls the training period he underwent in Nagpur in 1976. At night, he and his friends would be famished after a vigorous game of table tennis. He says, “We always tip-toed to the hostel room of one Sarojini Lal, who was the only married lady probationer with us, and knock. She wouldn’t ask any questions. She knew what the knock was about and would invariably push out a tin of biscuits or snacks through the door and go back to sleep. We never thought of buying back anything for her. But she never complained or made a fuss about the knocks at unearthly hours.”
My ex-colleague Megha Bajaj, worked at an inter national school headed by Life Positive contributor Harvinder Kaur. Says Megha, “Harvinder added meditation in the morning assemblies to make the kids and teachers begin the day in a more meaningful way. And she addressed all issues by speaking, which is a very womanly thing to do. She would call for meetings, talk, discuss and solve our issues.”
Swapna Raghu Sadanand, a Delhi-based lawyer, says that an organisation she worked with headed by a young woman, has from the inception focused on addressing the personal issues and problems faced by the staff through counselling and only then setting operational deadlines. She says, “Mentoring and guidance transcended project deliveries based on the realisation that for someone to work with passion, their personal issues must first be settled to their comfort.”
Writer and editor Anita Vasudeva talks about the experience of participating in a trade show abroad: “The organisations would have tiny budgets for display and promotion, and once we were there, the men used to get really bugged and sometimes demoralised about how we were going to attract delegates (surrounded as we were by stunning stalls from other countries).
Creating a world where men can cry
And there was this wonderful woman at BIT Milan who was posted there who just brought in 10 of her Kanjeevaram sarees and the Indian art she had in her house and transformed the space half an hour before the event. It wasn’t just about making the work space beautiful – it was about ‘let’s think innovatively and creatively and make magic with what we have to get the results we want.’ Successful business at the end of the day too!”
Facebook friend, Chander Uppal makes a sweeping conclusion: “A woman brings soul to even a dead office environment. Her energies are contagious enabling her otherwise dry male colleagues to reciprocate in a positive, constructive manner. This is so if the woman is positive.”
Changing systems
It may be too soon to say that women are transforming systems but their approach in maledominated work areas is certainly shifting the way work gets done.
Consider: Our housing society has always had male office bearers, none of who were approachable or receptive to solving problems. A few women, including myself, would be part of the committee but we could never make our voices heard above the vociferous voices of the men. Quite recently, we have elected a woman chairman and the contrast is striking. She is receptive, caring and takes action. No matter what the problem, she has a rational and kind approach. Not all women, let me hasten to add, are as evolved as she is but it is also true that by and large women are more caring.
Consider this too: My mother is a paralytic. Recently, she fell badly ill and the physician who has been treating her would not come home as is his wont. My GP therefore introduced me to a female physician who lived in the next building and who agreed to pay a home visit. I was charmed by the modesty and simplicity of this young girl, who smilingly refused a seat or attention of any sort, and diagnosed my mother with visible competence. Later, at the hospital, we were witness to the heartbreaking and unexpected death of a patient. My sister overheard her tell another colleague the next day that she wanted to cry along with the distraught relatives. I could not help recalling the writer-physician Rachel Remen’s disclosure in her wonderful book, Kitchen Table Wisdom, about her own internship in a hospital. When a baby in her care died, she cried along with the parents, only to be admonished by her senior male colleagues that the doctor must never be seen to be emotional and must always be a picture of strength. Accordingly, she swallowed her feelings until a spiritual awakening brought her back in touch with them.
Is it so bad to cry in sympathy with the pain one witnesses? Does it reduce us in anyone’s eyes? Perhaps, this too is part of the male myth we need to sweep away to establish a more feeling world, where tears will wash away the pain dealt by life.
I recall being part of an enriching conference called Making Way for the Divine Feminine organised by the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW), an organisation focussed on bringing peace upon the world.
Their approach is novel and perhaps feminine and showed a cameo of what a world run by women could be like. Instead of scholarly treatises on the subject, they brought about representatives from countries in dispute with each other such as Israel- Palestine, US-Iran and so on. The representatives were invited to present their state of view which was heard respectfully. At the end, the chair asked them, “If there is one thing you would want us to do, what is it?” This open-ended question powerfully shifted the atmosphere towards the positive, towards healing. At the end of it, one of the participants said something so true and beautiful that I have always remembered it. He said: “So much blood has been shed, mostly by men. And for every drop of blood, there have been many tears shed by women. And in a way, it is the tears that have washed away the blood.”
Tears heal, comfort, and bring together. Perhaps this is one of the gifts women can offer to the world.
Looking now at the journey women have made, one can only wonder at the distance travelled. To me, it signifies the strength of the underdog. Because the pain and suffering of oppression is so high, women have been motivated not just to take back their power but even travel a little more. Thanks to economic freedom, the pill and in vitro fertilisation, a woman has, to all extents and purposes, freed herself of any essential need for a man. Today, she manages her house, her family and her work without skipping a beat. In order to survive this demoralising state of affairs, the male sex too must evolve, renouncing their comfortable status quo and be willing to embrace their feminine side.
Dena Merriam
‘If the human community is to
survive, if our Mother Earth is
to survive, we must begin to come
together and have our mother’s
love lead the way
A woman’s work
But does this mean women have arrived, and that there is no more work to be done? By no means. Women, like men, have to heal from the wounds and conditioning of the patriarchal culture they have been immersed in for centuries and take back their self-determination. Most women have a common journey and that is to find the keys to their confidence, power, assertiveness and strength, all of which have been drained by the societal compulsion to be submissive, obedient and pliable. They must learn to love and appreciate their own powerful gifts and qualities.
In her book, Women Who Run with the Wolves, psycho-analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estes, sums up the many psychic tasks left for women to do: “Taking on the task of being on one’s own, developing one’s own consciousness about danger, intrigue, politics. Letting die what must die.” Urging women to let go the safety of the tried and tested, she says, “Sometimes a woman is afraid to be without security or without certainty, for even a short time… she must simply dive in and stand not knowing what will happen next.”
The work is hard and ongoing, but the rewards are precious.
My friend Aruna called me recently to rejoice over the fact that she had finally had the gumption to firmly but lovingly put an over dominant friend in her place. I sympathised. As someone who has had a lifelong history of being passive and without the ability to safeguard her boundaries, I consider it my life work to grow in these areas – to learn to be firm but kind. Women must also work on their selfesteem. Learning to love themselves unconditionally, to achieve self-respect, self-reliance and self-worth are all that is needed for a woman to become her own person and to move away from the hold of society or patriarchy. Yes another task that confronts women is to balance their over emotional dispositions. How can we do this without sacrificing our capacity to feel which is our greatest strength? Achieving self-esteem will solve a great deal of the problem, for emotions linger only because we do not have the capacity to accept them. Accepting all aspects of ourselves including our emotions will enable us to achieve the stability and strength to take rational and wise decisions unhindered by negative emotions.
The world needs us today. Changing ourselves and bringing our male and female energies into greater balance will help us make a greater contribution. Dena Merriam, the founder of GPIW, once made this impassioned statement at a talk given at Mata Amritanandamayi’s ashram, “For her children, a mother will move mountains. As mothers, we can move mountains. As mothers, we must. If the human community is to survive, if our Mother Earth is to survive, we must begin to come together and have our mother’s love lead the way.”
The woman’s great strength is her capacity to keep her family together. She coaxes, she cajoles, she loves, she heals, she solves. No matter what it takes, a woman will strive and struggle to keep her family together. Does she have the capacity to do the same for the world? Will she be able to bring the world together, and knit all its differing strands of class, community, colour, caste into one cohesive whole? Can she find space for the welfare of the animal and mineral kingdom within her world? Can she emanate the love, care, compassion and service that is her particular strength and through it bring the world back into sanity? Can she bring into being the one-world family that our sages have long dreamt of?
For all our sakes, we had better hope so.
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Deaf British Girl Prepares for the Oscars
Short film 'The Silent Child' has been nominated.
Maisie Sly, who was born profoundly deaf, has been invited to the awards show after impressing critics and audiences with her performance in the short film 'The Silent Child' - her first film role, the UK's Daily Mail reports.
The 20-minute film tells the story of a deaf girl born to hearing parents who struggle to cope with their daughter's condition.
Maisie landed the role after her dad, who is profoundly deaf in one ear and uses a hearing aid, responded to a Facebook ad looking for deaf four- and five-year-olds.
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Proving a clinical negligence claim: the role of causation
In order to prove a successful clinical negligence claim, the person who is bringing the claim is required to satisfy a two-stage test for breach of duty and causation.
The first thing the claimant needs to show is that the medical or dental treatment they received fell below a standard that a reasonable body of medical opinion would find acceptable. This is the test to establish breach of duty, as set out in Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] and subsequently modified and interpreted in Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority [1997] and other cases.
The second part of the test is for causation: the claimant has to establish that ‘but for’ the breach of duty, the damage or injury would not have occurred: this article will focus on this second stage of the test.
Traditionally, the test for clinical negligence has as always involved the ‘but for’ principle: for example, ‘but for’ the swabs being left in during an operation, the claimant would not have required additional surgery.
However, the complex nature of medical treatment means that it is not always easy to apply this test. The courts have been considering the standard tests for many years in relation to this difficulty and have clarified that, in certain circumstances and under certain conditions, they are willing to apply a modified ‘but for’ test. These circumstances include issues of ‘material contribution’ and where there are multiple causes giving rise to a compound injury.
Material Contribution
The issue of material contribution has been ruled on a number of times in the higher courts over many years. It has mainly centred on cases where the injury could have been caused by both negligent and non-negligent acts or omissions. For instance, in the case of Bailey v Ministry of Defence [2008], the claimant choked on her own vomit, causing brain damage, after a failed procedure to remove a gallstone. She also developed pancreatitis following the failed removal. The court found that the claimant was unable to clear her own airways as a result of inappropriate care (i.e. negligence) and the onset of pancreatitis (ruled as non-negligent).
In this case, had the ‘but for’ test been strictly applied, the claim would have failed on the basis that the claimant’s representatives would have been unable to prove it was the negligent act that caused the choking and subsequent brain damage.
However in Bailey (as in previous cases), the courts considered the issue of material contribution. It was clear in this case that medical science would be unable to put a percentage value on how much each of the acts contributed to the injury. However, they ruled on the basis that, even though it was impossible to establish probability, providing it could be found that the inappropriate care was “more than negligible” in contributing to the injury, then the test would be satisfied. In these circumstances, the claimant would be in a position to recover full damages.
The conclusion, therefore, is that consideration would be given to all negligent and non-negligent causes of any injury; if it were found that the negligent causes were more than negligible in contributing to the damage, then the modified test could be used.
Septic athritis
As with the case of material contribution, there have also been many cases that have considered multiple causes and the issue of causation. One case that was recently in the courts, Wright v Cambridge Medical Group [2011], involved a young child who suffered septic arthritis in her hip (which would eventually lead to lifelong mobility problems) as a result of a failure to refer from her GP and the negligent treatment by a hospital.
The GP surgery argued that, given the child’s previous experience with the hospital, it would have still treated her negligently, even if she had been referred a few days before. The court said that the assumption in advance should always be that any treatment will be appropriate, even if it is found to not be the case at a later date and every incident should be addressed in turn on the basis that all subsequent treatment will be appropriate. The court also ruled that, as a result of the GP’s delay, the child lost the opportunity to be treated as she should have been, in a non-negligent way, and found that causation had been met, with judgment going against the surgery.
The case of Wright illustrates that the court is happy to apportion responsibility between multiple parties when there are multiple causes, as long as the claimant can satisfy that each party provided treatment that amounted to a breach of duty.
‘But for’ test
While the traditional application of the ‘but for’ test is always preferable in clinical negligence matters, there are circumstances where the test can be modified. It is therefore vital that each claim is thoroughly investigated to determine the correct defendants and any competing factors that could have resulted in the injury. However, it must always be remembered that clinical negligence is very difficult to prove in any event and modification of the causation test will not necessarily mean that the claim will be successful or that it is necessarily for the benefit of the claimant.
If you think that you may have a medical negligence claim and need advice, please speak to a member of our specialist Clinical Negligence team on 0117 904 6000.
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But it's just starting to get good: Liveblogging the last day of public hearings at the Oliphant Inquiry - Macleans.ca
But it’s just starting to get good: Liveblogging the last day of public hearings at the Oliphant Inquiry
by Kady O'Malley
Um, guys? This inquiry that has been the focal point of ITQ’s existence for the last two months? It’s about to be — over. I know. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the rest of my life either.
Okay, in fairness, it’s not really over, per se. I mean, there’s still a report to be written, which requires conclusions to be arrived at, and the second phase of hearings, which will cover policy recommendations, and get underway in a couple of weeks — oh, and Schreiber still has to show up for a final round of cross-examination by commission counsel, and apparently, there’s also a slight possibility that one of the other parties will pop up today with a motion to subpoena more witnesses. But it’s still the very last day of public hearings according to the schedule, at least, so please excuse your liveblogger if she starts to get a bit maudlin towards the end.
As for today’s hearing, it’s a bit of a mixed bag, as far as the witness list goes: Salpie Stepanian from the PMO correspondence unit; another CRA official, who will testify about the voluntary disclosure program, and Fred Bilt, who was Canada’s Ambassador to China when Mulroney allegedly discussed his United Nations group buy concept with the Chinese leadership, but who was not, according to the former prime minister, actually present during the conversation.
Good morning, Oliphantophiles!
With just a few minutes to go until the last! public! hearing! ever! (okay, not really), we’re all aboggle over the revelation that the government is picking up the tab for Team Mulroney’s legal bills, to the tune of $2 million.
More precisely, we – we, the media, that is – are baffled and confused over the somewhat dubious decision not to get ahead of the story by releasing that tidbit weeks ago, rather than let the timebomb tick away until detonated by the Canadian Press the very same day that they’re doing damage control over how much their right honourable client paid — and didn’t pay — in taxes under the voluntary disclosure system.
We’re still not in session yet, but based on the nameplate, it would seem that the first witness to take the stand will be Salpie Stepanian, who hails from PMO correspondence. At one point, it looked like former special assistant Lannay Cardow would *also* be testifying, but his name doesn’t appear on the most recent list. There is much hopeful speculation that we may be done by noon, but you know, last time ITQ confidently predicted an early end to the day, we would up sitting til 5pm, so she’s not going to risk jinxing us today.
All rise!
First order of business is the SchreiberHealthWatch; apparently, his lawyer has been in touch, and he has a medical appointment tomorrow, and – barring any new developments – his appearance has been adjourned until June 3, at which point his motion for an order requiring him to stay in Canada will also be heard.
Wolson then hands the floor over to Nancy Brooks, who will be handling the Stepanian interview, but who also has two new exhibits to table: An interview with Jean-Pierre Kingsley, and an interview with Jean Charest. Ooh. Those might actually be interesting — unfortunately, ITQ won’t be able to peruse them until the break. Brooks also files the full Canada Border Services Agency handwriting analysis report — you remember that one; it found no indication that the writing on the mandate letter was not, in fact, that of Karlheinz Schreiber, despite his claim that it was a “miracle” that it appeared there.
With that out of the way, the registrar swears in the witness, who is wearing a rather subdued deep mauvey-rose jacket, and looks only the tiniest bit nervous. She’s here to talk about how the correspondence from Schreiber to the *current* prime minister was handled, and she was here all day yesterday, waiting patiently to enlighten us all, so let’s pay attention, shall we?
Stepanian tells the commission that she has been the manager of the PMO correspondence unit for three years – she was on the job when the Schreibergrams started to arrive.
According to Stepanian, there are approximately six people working in PMO correspondence – editors and writers – which handles personal and political mail — that related to party or caucus matters, as well as the prime minister’s role as a Member of Parliament, and issues in which he has a “personal interest” (ie hockey). When something comes up that PMO wants to handle, that is conveyed to PCO by PMO correspondence, and – wait, didn’t we already hear all about this, in excruciating thorough detail, from the last correspondence-related witnesses?
In any case, we get a refresher course on handling mail, and WebCIMS. There were 37,000 items of mail handled in 2007, but Stepanian notes that the number also encompasses mail passed on from ministers’ offices. She seems uncertain about Brooks’ suggestion that such a vast volume of mail means that most gets just a cursory scan, what with imagining the ensuing headline (which she probably shouldn’t worry too much about, given the skeleton crew of reporters in the room at the moment), but Brooks points out that the witnesses from PCO correspondence confirmed that this was the case.
Finally, we’ve gotten to the Schreibermail — four pieces thereof, to be exact — that was forwarded from PCO to PMO, starting on June 16, 2006. When that first letter arrived, Stepanian recalls, “we recognized the name”, so it was forwarded to a senior staffer – the executive assistant to the chief of staff, in fact, which – if memory serves – would have been Lannay Cardow, who instructed the office to file it without response. Two subsequent letters got the same treatment, and Stepanian notes that she filed the fourth one herself, without being told to so, based on past practices.
And – hey, turns out that’s it for Salpie Stepanian; the judge dismisses her, noting that the volume of correspondence requires her presence back at PMO, and jokingly asks that she make sure *his* letters get through; Pratte, meanwhile, wonders if this is why his correspondence *doesn’t* — oh, ITQ is sure that isn’t the case — and after a bit of jocularity, we adjourn for fifteen minutes. Next up: Tax law! Again! In French! Hey, where are y’all going? This is fascinating stuff!
So, not surprisingly, there was a mad dash to the media room to see the new exhibits – the interviews with Kingsley and Charest, in particular. Unfortunately, they’ve not yet been photocopied, but we’ve put in a frantic request to the commission, so they should be available by the time we break for lunch.
And – wow, that was efficient: As I was typing that last paragraph, the crack commission communications cadre was hard at work over the photocopier, because we now have copies of the Kingsley interview, or at least a summary thereof. So far, he seems to be backing up Mulroney’s position that he wasn’t involved in negotiating the waiver, although he does state that Doucet called him to discuss it — I believe that was one of the many events related to this case that witness couldn’t recall, but please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Anyway, “in accordance with his usual approach”, Kingsley “did not inquire into whether there were specific files or matters that would raise concerns.” Ahh, those were the days.
Really, why did they even *bother* having a conflict of interest code if that was the standard practice for granting waivers? I mean, Kingsley apparently negotiated “some 60 agreements” — termination agreements, I gather — on behalf of the government. How many other cooling-off period freebies did he hand out? Not that I’m blaming *Kingsley* — I mean, this was the system. He was a civil servant; it would have been up to the politicians to change the rules.
Alright, we’re back, and Battista is questioning Christiane Sauve, an official with Canada Revenue Agency’s voluntary disclosure program. She gives her background – she’s a CGA, and has been with the government for several years – and explains the benefits of the program — it allows taxpayers to avoid penalties, and gives the government an opportunity to get money it wouldn’t otherwise have received, through the taxes that are paid on money that wouldn’t have otherwise been reported. It also “reintegrates” the taxpayer into the system.
Battista wonders how a taxpayer registers for the program – by phone, letter or in person, as an individual, or through an authorized representative; most files are opened anonymously, Sauve tells him. This launches a discussion, and then a negotiation, and finally, the identification of the individual, and the filing of amended returns.
There are three criteria that apply – it has to be voluntary, verifiable, and the tax has to be paid. Wait — “verifiable”?
Anyway, as per Sauve, “voluntary” means that the taxpayer is not under investigation – criminal or otherwise – or subject to any government measure; in Quebec, that would mean the provincial government as well.
Ooh! I’ve just been handed my very own copy of the Charest interview — thanks, crack commission communications cadre! — so if it’s okay with y’all, I’m going to flip through it while listening to Sauve’s testimony. I promise not to miss any critical points. She’s just finished up with her explanation of the eligibility requirements, as listed above,
Also, as per his interview with the commission, Charest has “no recollection” of meeting with Schreiber, or “having dealt with the project”; the project, of course, being Bear Head.
Sauve, meanwhile, explains why the total amount on which a VDA claimant might pay tax could have been reduced by up to fifty percent — in 2000, that is; apparently, the procedure has changed.
She notes that sometimes, not all the income is taxable – it may involve money received as a gift, or declarable expenses, that sort of thing. After the amount had been agreed to by both the CRA and the taxpayer, the agency requested amended forms, and the tax would be paid. Battista wonders why the process used to work that way, and Sauve tells him that at the time, there were no discretionary powers to negotiate interest, which led to amounts owing that were so high as to be punitive, and taxpayers would frequently withdraw from the program. That has subsequently changed, Sauve says — the interest is now negotiable. It is also the *real* income that has to be taxed, and – oh, the 50 percent deal is no longer available either. He
And – that’s it for Battista. Does anyone else have any questions? Pratte may — he needs a five minute break to confer with his client, apparently — but this sparks a memory jolt for Battista, who returns to the lectern to ask what the difference is between an involuntary omission — an “oopsie, I forgot to declare a whole pile of cash” mistake — and an ordinary tax return, which – as per Sauve – always has to be filed.
So the fifty percent tax discount is no longer available — sorry about that, y’all.
Five minute break, and then Guy Pratte on taxes, and finally — Fred Bilt!
Charest Interview Speedreading Update:
(Pretend these are bullet points — I forget the exact html code and don’t want to break the entire site by making a guess.)
-He remembers almost nothing of the meetings he apparently attended on the Bear Head project
-He and Fred Doucet were acquaintences — peripheral acquaintences, you might say — but didn’t have the sort of relationship where he’d pick up the ministerial phone if Fred was on the line; he would mostly have dealt with Charest’s staff
-He does recall that there were some — problems with the Thyssen proposal — the lack of a business plan, the fact that General Motors made similar vehicles, that sort of thing, and that his department – Industry at the time – did not eventually support the proposal.
-By June 1993, he was “heavily involved” in the PC leadership race, and he wasn’t having a lot of meetings on “any substantial issues”
And now, Fred Bilt! For some reason, I’ve been really looking forward to this witness — well, compared to the adventures in tax law. Oh, and in case you wondered, none of the other lawyers had questions for Sauve, so she has been excused, although she may have to run a mini-gauntlet of media seeking a bit more clarification on when the fifty percent discount program ended, and, more importantly, why.
Anyway, Bilt – who seems delighted to be here – gives a brief recap of his career, which involved all sorts of thrilling postings in glamourous locales, including Thailand and Vietnam, which, Roitenberg – for yes, it is he who is handling the questions for the commission – notes was a period of time “close to his heart”. Why? Because it coincided with the crisis of the “boat people” – exiled Chinese citizens who were cast adrift, literally, in ill-equipped ships. This, Bilt recalls, was during what turned out to be the brief tenure as prime minister of Joe Clark, and Canada – which was apparently back even back then – stood up to take in 50,000 of these refugees, which forced the rest of the world to humanitarian-up, and the rest was history — the kind of history of which Canadians should be proud, even today, according to Bilt. *His* job was to coordinate the immigration process, as well as negotiate the exodus with the Vietnamese government.
Aw, I’m glad Roitenberg gave him the chance to tell that story, even if it wasn’t *strictly* relevant.
After heading home to Ottawa, Bilt took up a senior post at Foreign Affairs, where he organized summits — hey, wasn’t that what Doucet was supposed to be doing when *he* was an ambassador at large? — and took part in the successful campaign to win a seat for Canada on the UN security council, and in 1990, he was appointed Ambassador to China.
Roitenberg notes that, based on his — Bilt’s — experience, he can confirm that the United Nations security council never considered buying military equipment, although there was no rule or protocol that forbade it; Bilt agrees that this was the case, and notes that, in 1994, the UN did set up a peacekeeping-centric military base in Bruni – warning, spelling alert – which was a place to *store* equipment, quite a bit of which the world body had “inherited” over the years. It was also good for giving poorer nations a training ground for peacekeeping.
So there. Maybe Mulroney’s idea *wasn’t* so crazy.
And now — the China trip, which Bilt recalls well; he had a chat with Mulroney before he left Canada, and participated in many of the ensuing events.
And – oh, it’s Vickery, popping up with an observation; he is acting for Bilt at this hearing, he notes, and was concerned over whether he is allowed to identify the members of Mulroney’s delegation, which were redacted from the documents filed by the former prime minister. Pratte would prefer to keep the identities anonymous. Olihant wonders if that’s the case “even though we’re talking about something that happened eighteen or nineteen years ago?” but eventually agrees that it’s not really relevant to the commission, so the identities of Mulroney’s other two clients will remain secret. (We do know one of them had something to do with hydroelectric power!)
In response to a question from Roitenberg, Bilt says that Mulroney did not give him specifics on what he would be discussing, but he definitely didn’t mention military equipment, peacekeeping or otherwise — it would, according to Bilt, have sent up a big red flag at the embassy, and changed the nature of the trip entirely.
Roitenberg begins to go through Mulroney’s agenda from the China trip, starting with a “possible” breakfast with Bilt, which he — Bilt — doubts actually took place, since he doesn’t remember it. That’s refreshing — a witness who doesn’t leave everything open to be rebutted by subsequent evidence.
He does recall a meeting with a Chinese official that he had actually helped to arrange, as well as one with an official in charge of electric power — oh, and at the banquet, which was given at the Great Hall of the People.
He did not attend the first meeting of the *next* day, although he knew one of the invitees well, as he was a former Chinese ambassador to Canada, but he did make it to the lunch meeting, and at *another* banquet that night, which was hosted by the leader of the delegation, and — wait, actually, couldn’t some of those people — the mystery representatives of the unnamed clients — actually confirm whether the Bear Head project came up during meetings with Mulroney and those members of the Chinese leadership he claims to have buttonholed? That would make them at least a *little* relevant.
Just as we’re getting into Bilt’s notes from Mulroney’s 1994 trip to China, something prompts Oliphant to check to make sure that there are no concerns about redactions to this particular document, thereby making ITQ wildly curious to check out the exhibit binder to find out what caught his attention.
Oh, a story! I love stories. Anyway, there’s one thing that Bilt recalls from the 1993 trip — since Mulroney and his delegation were flying in on a private jet, the embassy was supposed to get clearance, but two days before he was scheduled to arrive, it turned out that the embassy official who was supposed to get that clearance hadn’t done so, and – oh, it was a big mess, but apparently, it all ended well.
Anyway, once again, Bilt makes it clear that if Mulroney had even mentioned the possibility that he would be discussing military procurement, it would have put the embassy on high alert — it would have required Bilt to check with his political section, and assign one of his officials to follow that aspect of the trip — “a whole new phase opening up in our relationship with China”, basically, even if the possibility of procurement wasn’t explicitly stated.
No, there was no *law* requiring a private citizen to give the embassy notice, but ultimately, the government of the day would have to get involved — even if it was in the context of the United Nations.
Roitenberg can’t quite get how a “private citizen” simply “broaching the topic” would be the catalyst for such a response, and Bilt reminds him that this was a private citizen who was also a former prime minister; this isn’t something that he would just do as a doddle. He would have consulted with Foreign Affairs — “the people next door”, as Bilt puts it — to find out how China would react. “Everyone was extremely careful,” he recalls — and the Chinese would have reacted as well, and would have been instantly in touch with the embassy.
Okay, I think it’s safe to say that so far, Bilt’s testimony is not exactly backing up Mulroney’s claim to have brought the Bear Head project up with the Chinese leadership.
“The Chinese, just as we knew, would realize that this would involve governments,” Bilt tells Roitenberg — and the more vague it was, the more questions they would have had.
Onto October 5, 1993 – a meeting at which Bilt was present, he confirms, and at which he remembers nothing being discussed about light-armoured vehicles. On the plus side, the Chinese official who was at the same meeting is still alive! Although, Bilt notes, he’s probably retired.
A Chinese banquet is not a “jovial dinner” where people “hang around and have a good time,” Bilt notes. There weren’t more than thirty or forty people there, and while he didn’t hear every single conversation going on, he didn’t pick up on any serious discussions — although he does remember Mulroney “going on at length” about certain appointments he had made, and oh, I bet *that* was a corker, but Bilt gives no further details, since it isn’t really relevant to the matter at hand.
Roitenberg wonders if there was a meeting that preceded the banquet, and he does not — although he notes that there is a pre-dinner chat between the guests, but it isn’t as informal as it sounds — you sit down, for one thing, and if business is discussed, it can be heard by everyone else in the room.
That’s all for Roitenberg, but Oliphant wants to be sure that he understood Bilt correctly: If Mulroney had brought up military sales, the Chinese officials would have been in touch with the embassy? Yes, most likely, Bilt confirms – I mean, he can’t be absolutely sure, but based on his time there, he would have expected it to come back, whereupon the red flags would have gone up.
Pratte has a few questions for Bilt, as it turns out — he wonders about the meeting with Juranjee — yes, that is *hideously* misspelled; I’m sorry, I just don’t have the document with the correct version handy — and Bilt kinda sorta suggests that Mulroney may have taken a little more credit than deserved for arranging that meeting, although he does confirm that it took place, and was a big deal.
Pratte wonders if there was any rule that would have required Juranjee to disclose a conversation about military purchases, if Mulroney had asked him to keep it private, and Bilt reminds him that Juranjee was an “old party member” – Communist Party, that is – and yes, there *would* be notes made of the meeting. “There’s no such thing as private when you’re talking to a vice-premier,” he reminds Pratte, who seems to be sorry that he opened up *that* line of questioning, and decides to quit — possibly while he’s ahead.
Auger also has a few things to ask Bilt, it turns out, and he begins with a quote from Bilt that appeared in the Globe and Mail, in which he apparently stated that he “would have got wind of” any discussions of military sales. He also told the Globe that there was no record of him telling the embassy anything about putting forward such a prospect. Bilt confirms that the quotes are accurate — “certainly” — and that he stands by that position.
Auger finishes up – mostly just getting Bilt to restate his position, which is that any such discussions would have gotten back to the Embassy.
And – that’s it for the day, and, as per Wolson, very nearly the end of the public portion of phase one, which – as noted earlier – will resume again on June 3, as well as final submissions by counsel on June 10 and 11th. Closing arguments? Possibly! Oh, that will be fun.
Yes, I’ll be back — provided my bosses continue to indulge me in this obsession, of course, and the government isn’t in imminent danger of falling.
And with that, the judge adjourns for the day — he’ll see us all back here on June 3. So really, this isn’t so much a goodbye as an adieu, right?
That’s all for ITQ for the moment — I’ll dig through the rest of the Charest transcript, of course, and report back on what I find, but as far as the liveblogging goes, we’re adjourned until June 3.
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The Formula for Success
Three powerful women, among the best in their fields, reveal what it really took to get ahead—and what the view looks like from the top. (Hint: It's spectacular!)
Lisa Randall Theoretical physicist, Harvard University
WHY DO WOMEN STILL lag behind men in science and math? Not because they have less aptitude, as dated stereotypes suggest. Rather, studies show that young girls tend to be steered elsewhere by social and educational forces that shake their confidence.
Somehow, Lisa Randall never got that memo.
"I was always good at math, but I was good at everything," says Randall, a professor at Harvard University who is widely regarded as the nation's pre-eminent theoretical physicist — which means she's an ace in an über-wonky branch of science that uses math to unlock the mysteries of nature. "It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids."
She discovered physics early on, while a student at Manhattan's elite Stuyvesant High School. "It definitely seemed an odd career path," acknowledges Randall, who grew up in a middle-class family in Queens, the daughter of a salesman and a teacher. "But I liked the idea of doing something that applied to the world, not just doing abstract problems. I liked the idea that you're solving a problem that hasn't been solved before."
Randall, who earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard in just three years, has always been exceptional. She was the first female theoretical physicist to receive tenure at MIT and Harvard, and in 2007, she earned a spot alongside Tina Fey and Warren Buffett as one of Time magazine's most influential people in the world. But Randall insists she never set out to crack any glass ceilings. "I just don't think in those terms," she says. "The fact that I was first meant there was no one before me — but it wasn't an active thing I was doing."
A gifted teacher, Randall, 49, is so articulate at dissecting physics' most brain-bruising concepts — from the nature of minute subatomic particles to the vast reaches of cosmology — that she's become a regular on TV talk shows ranging from Charlie Rose to The Colbert Report. "We so much want science to say, 'This is the way it works,' that we lose sight of the fact that this uncertainty is actually interesting," she told Jon Stewart during an appearance on The Daily Show last October. (She was there to plug Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, her third book.) "My hope is that if people learn more about physics and are aware of it, then they won't be so afraid of it."
While Randall's appealing TV persona and Jodie Foster-ish good looks haven't hurt her publicity efforts — last summer she was named one of the hottest female professors in the country by a college webzine — she's still an anomaly in a profession that is, without question, a boys club. (An estimated 90 percent of physics professors are male.) Randall is smart enough to know that all the publicity she generates — "When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter" — helps crack the door open a little wider for other women. "If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it," she adds.
Last year, she was among only a few women to attend the prestigious Solvay Conference, an international gathering devoted to questions in physics and chemistry. "I joked on Twitter that the ratio of X to Y chromosomes at Solvay had stayed the same for the last century," Randall says, laughing. OK, so it's a joke that might not resonate with those who don't count a scientific calculator among their must-have gadgets, but name another physics professor who tweets more than 3,500 followers messages like, "Natalie Portman, first non-blonde female physicist in a movie" (referring to Thor).
Randall, who isn't married and doesn't have children, spends the bulk of her time teaching, writing, and promoting her books. Her personal life is inextricably tied to her work — for which she is unapologetic. "There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it," she says. "It just wasn't as much a priority for me." But lest you think she's holed up alone in a windowless office somewhere, Randall also writes operas in her spare time. In 2009, she collaborated with composer Hector Parra on an opera that premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and cocurated an exhibition for the Los Angeles Arts Association called "Measure for Measure," an exploration of our perception of scale.
Still, her first love is science. "I'm happiest when I'm just doing a project," she says. "When you're actually doing physics, there are moments when things click into place and you see things you didn't see before. It's just fantastic."
LISA RANDALL'S TIPS FOR SUCCESS
1. DON'T LOOK FOR GLASS CEILINGS. In male-dominated professions, sometimes it's best to hunker down, work hard, and pay no mind to the challenges. "The fact that I was first meant there was no one before me—but it wasn't an active thing I was doing," Randall says of her accomplishments.
2. DON'T UNDERSELL YOURSELF. Too many women downplay their skills. Not Randall. "I was always good at math," she says. "But I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart."
3. LOOKING POLISHED PAYS OFF. Randall's fashion sense and good looks help sell her message: to demystify physics and get more women into the profession. "When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter," she says.
Meryl Poster
President of television production, The Weinstein Company
AT HER 32ND BIRTHDAY PARTY, Meryl Poster realized that her Hollywood career had really taken off. When she looked around the room at Delia's, a Manhattan supper club, she saw famous faces everywhere. "Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow were there, Sylvester Stallone, Matt Dillon, Jon Stewart, and John F. Kennedy Jr.," recalls Poster, now 47. "I guess that's when it dawned on me: I think I'm kind of successful!"
Fifteen years later, Poster is decidedly less fazed by celebrities in her midst. It's par for the course when you are the consigliere to famed movie producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein (the former hailed as "God" by Meryl Streep at this year's Golden Globes). Last year, Poster was named president of The Weinstein Company's lucrative television division, where she oversees hit shows like Project Runway and its spin-off Project Runway All Stars, along with more than 20 series in various stages of development, including a much-anticipated television adaptation of The Nanny Diaries. "When I decide I want something, I go for it. I'm totally persistent," Poster says. "My boyfriend says that if I were a superhero, I would have a big R on my chest for relentless."
The daughter of a swimsuit manufacturer, Poster grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where her grandmother would sneak her out of school to take her to the movies. Watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Poster was bitten by the fame bug. "When people would say, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' she recalls, "I knew I wanted to walk in somewhere and have people know who I was."
She landed a gig in the legendary mail room of the William Morris Agency, famous for turning out Tinseltown rainmakers, including Michael Ovitz and David Geffen. After just three months, she was plucked from mail to work for the firm's then-president Lee Stevens, to whom she made it abundantly clear that she was no career gofer: "One day I was spilling coffee as I walked across the room, and my boss said, 'Uh-oh.' I told him, 'I don't want to get too good at this.'" Soon after, she got a call from Miramax Films, then a hot foreign- and indie-film distribution company helmed by two brash no-name brothers. Did Meryl want the job as Harvey's assistant?
At first she balked at leaving a powerful Hollywood agency for an upstart company, but ultimately she took the job, itching for a chance to carve out her own niche. "The company grew quickly. I wasn't his assistant that long," Poster explains. "I grew and took on responsibilities as the company grew. Harvey always encouraged us to take as much opportunity as we possibly could."
Poster spent 16 years at Miramax, ultimately working her way up to co-president of film production, where she oversaw the development of critical darlings like Chocolat and Chicago. The pace and responsibility were relentless—at any given moment, hundreds of people around the world would be hanging on her decisions.
She left in 2005 for a less demanding development job with NBC Universal—"I needed that time to recharge my batteries"—but returned to the Weinstein fold last year to head up their television division. "She is the ultimate," Harvey Weinstein told Marie Claire. "Meryl's taste is impeccable, and her vision is extraordinary."
Poster, divorced for five years, lives in Manhattan with her 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, juggling the way all working moms do. She's taken her kids to castings, and they often tag along on her business trips to Los Angeles. "My son fell in love with Rachel Roy on the set of Project Runway," says Poster, who spends downtime taking her kids to movies and plays. That is, when she's not locking herself in the bathroom to do an uninterrupted magazine interview. "My son is outside, stalking me," she laughs.
Poster thrives on the adrenaline only a high-octane career can generate. "I'm more comfortable having power than not," she acknowledges. It also has its perks—like being an Oscar voter and getting Academy member DVDs to watch at home. "I'm always able to get a reservation at Nobu," she says. "And I still get a thrill when Robert De Niro says, 'Hi, Meryl!'"
MERYL POSTER'S TIPS FOR SUCCESS
1. BE PERSISTENT. Despite initially being turned down for a job, Poster hounded the well-known William Morris talent agency until she landed a spot in its legendary mail room. "When I decide I want something, I go for it," she says.
2. SMALLER FIRMS USUALLY OFFER MORE OPPORTUNITIES. Poster left William Morris to work as an assistant at Miramax, then an unknown movie studio. "I grew and took on responsibilities as the company grew," Poster says. "I wasn't an assistant that long."
3. KNOW WHEN IT'S TIME TO STEP BACK. After 16 years building up Miramax into a Hollywood powerhouse, Poster felt burned out and accepted a development job at NBC Universal. "I needed that time to recharge my batteries," she explains.
Shawn Holley
Celebrity defense attorney
LAWYERS AREN'T USUALLY SUBJECT to "a star is born" moments, but Shawn Holley had hers in the early '90s while working in the Los Angeles public defender's office. She'd always liked representing the underdog and saw firsthand what fair legal representation could mean to someone in trouble. "You could make the difference between someone going to jail or being able to keep their job and provide for their family," she says. "You could keep someone's life from going into a downward spiral."
One day, Holley was in the courtroom for a complicated preliminary hearing. In the gallery: legendary attorney Johnnie Cochran. "I was feisty and fought really hard," Holley recalls. Cochran liked what he saw and poached her to work for him. Six months later, she was a part of O.J. Simpson's legal dream team, defending him against murder allegations. Though Simpson's acquittal was widely seen as a miscarriage of justice, Holley isn't troubled by it. "It's the job of the prosecution to prove someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt—if he was guilty and got away with murder, then the prosecution failed," she says plainly.
Holley went on to head Cochran's criminal division, where she defended rappers like Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. She's also represented other high-profile clients like Sara Jane Olson, the Symbionese Liberation Army bomber who evaded capture for 23 years by reinventing herself as a doctor's wife. Holley performed so effectively that she was again poached, this time by Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP, a boutique entertainment and business litigation firm in Santa Monica. Her practice "grew into what some people call Celebrities Behaving Badly," she says wryly.
In the years since, Holley, 50, has become the go-to attorney for stars in a fix, including indiscreet starlets like Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, the Kardashians, and, most recently, Lindsay Lohan. Holley sees these women as underdogs—albeit famous ones—besieged by a media that delights in their missteps. "From the moment I pull up to court with Lindsay, there are cameramen jumping out of the bushes, and you can see helicopters overhead," Holley says. "You get the sense that they want to watch her go down. She's like a little girl who's in a scary place, and there are a lot of people rooting for her to fail." She's grown so attached to Lohan, in fact, that Holley says Lohan "calls me her West Coast Mom."
Surely Holley has issues securing a pass for clients so cavalier about flouting the law? "The Constitution protects us all," she explains. "It can't be a system where we pick and choose who gets a defense. I'm making sure the system is fair, and I really see that as an honorable role."
As a female partner at a law firm, Holley is a rarity. Though almost half of all law students are women, only 19 percent ever make it to partner, largely because the profession, with its emphasis on billable hours, can be ruthless to women looking to squeeze a family into the mix. Holley started hers late in life. "I always thought, One day I'll have a baby—just not right now," she admits. "By the time I was 40, I had just taken a five-year lease on a two-seat convertible and resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't going to be a mom."
And then she discovered she was pregnant. Before the year was out, she had a husband—Dorian Holley, vocalist for Jay Leno's house band—two stepdaughters, and a baby girl. As one of the few working mothers at her daughter's "fancy school," Holley has felt conflicted at times about the professional demands on her time. But her own mother had worked as a legal secretary, and Holley says she never wanted it any other way. "I admired her for going to work and getting her master's at night," she says. "I really do see the value in showing my daughters what it is to go to work and do something you think is important."
SHAWN HOLLEY'S TIPS FOR SUCCESS
1. EVERY CLIENT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. Holley relished defending even petty-theft cases. "You could make the difference between someone going to jail or being able to provide for their family," she says of her years as a public defender.
2. DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR SUCCESS. Holley was part of O.J. Simpson's defense team. "It's the prosecution's job to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt—if he was guilty and got away with murder, then the prosecution failed," she says.
3. EMPATHY IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS. Holley, who has represented Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, calls even her rich, sometimes reckless clients underdogs. "I'm making sure the system is fair," she says. "And I really see that as an honorable role."
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Published: Feb 10, 2011 10:16 a.m. ET
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. GT, -2.14% shares gained more than 6% to $13.29 early Thursday after the tire giant reported an unexpected fourth-quarter profit of 7 cents a share, excluding several one-time items. Analysts were looking for a loss of 7 cents a share. Unadjusted, Goodyear swung to a loss of $177 million. Sales rose to $5.1 billion from $4.4 billion, topping Wall Street targets. Goodyear also announced plans to close its plant in Union City, Tenn., which employs 1,900, by the end of 2011. The stock has added 12% in the past year.
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Bandit Hits Broadway with Barry Manilow and Martin Vipers
Bandit Lites is pleased to announce it is lighting Grammy Award-winning superstar Barry Manilow’s triumphant return to the world’s most famous street. After more than two decades, Manilow brings his colossal collection of hits to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Opening night for Manilow on Broadway was Tuesday, January 29, 2013 and the show will run until March 2.
Lighting designer Seth Jackson worked diligently with Manilow to create an elegant and polished environment for the intimacy of a Broadway house. While some lighting designers could be daunted by the compact environment, Jackson adapted his design to fit the traditional venue with legs, borders and proscenium.
“Cues can have more subtly and precision, color choices can read much clearer, and the kind of looks and focus choices you make are much more contained,” said Jackson of the smaller space. “We did our best in the process to forego the ‚usuals‘ of the concert look and paint with a much finer brush.”
That finer brush yielded what Jackson refers to as stylized one-man show, rather than a concert. The trusses are covered, and everything is masked. A video screen sits against black and all of the content has masks around it, giving the appearance the imagery is floating in the air.
“We never once let you see the edges of the video screen,” Jackson explained, “and we decided to use no live cameras. This is storytelling, not larger than life stardom.”
With the exception of front of house positions with Source 4s and scrollers, the rig is completely automated and made up of a combination of Martin MAC Viper Profiles™, MAC Auras™ and other automated fixtures.
Jackson attributes his success to the show to the team he had surrounding him, including his associate designers Brent Sandrock and Nathan W. Scheuer.
“They each bring so much to the table and help add such creativity and originality to everything we work on that I don't care to ever do a show alone,” Jackson said. “Having this team surrounding me just pushes me farther creatively. Additionally, both of them bring so much expertise in terms of programming, networking, video content, you name it. We were also able to have our assistant, Jack Rushen, along for the entire process which was a huge help in keeping us organized.”
After a twenty year hiatus from Broadway, it was apparent that Manilow’s return held many expectations. After the incredible opening night, Jackson and his team were pleased to hear how rather than a “flash and trash rock show”, people found themselves commenting on the accurate and appropriate look of the show for a Broadway house, a compliment Jackson (who is from a theatre background himself) says he takes with a lot of pride.
“It has been our honor to work with Seth and the entire Manilow organization for well over a decade,” said Bandit Lites’ vice president Mike Golden. “I admire the work and attention to detail Seth and production manager Sacha Bambadji put into the Barry Manilow show, and it’s an honor to be associated with all involved. I am very humbled to represent Bandit Lites to this legendary artist, his manager Garry Kief and their entire staff.”
“Mike Golden and the team at Bandit have been instrumental to the success of this project,” Jackson said. “They have gone out of their way to help in every area. Additionally, enough can't be said to lighting director Jason Workman's contribution to this process. He and Barry have a great relationship, and he keeps the show up and running every night.”
Boasting more than 80 million records worldwide, Manilow is known for his pop/rock hits “Could It Be Magic”, “Mandy”, “Can’t Smile Without You”, and “Copacabana (At the Copa)”. Five of his albums have been on the best-selling charts simultaneously, and his last Broadway show in 1977 earned him a Special Tony Award.
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Mr. Ruaidhrí McVey
Mr. Ruaidhrí M. McVey
Colposcopy. Gynaecological Oncology. Laparoscopic / Minimally Invasive Surgery. Robotic Surgery. Hysterectomy. Complex Pelvic Surgery (Masses). Ovarian Cysts. Cervical & Endometrial Polyps. Risk Reducing Surgery. Ovarian Cancer Risk Assessment & Management.
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Mr. Ruaidhrí McVey, Consultant Gynaecologist and Gynaecological Oncologist.
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In 2002, Mr. McVey graduated with honours from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland MB BCh BAO LRCP&SI (Hons). Prior to commencing his training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology he completed basic surgical training at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2005 and was awarded MRCSI. Subsequently Mr. McVey was awarded dual Memberships of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, MRCPI, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists UK, MRCOG. Mr. McVey received his academic Doctorate, MD, from the National University of Ireland in 2013 for his curriculum development work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland [RCSI]. This work continues to form the keystone to the delivery of medical education across the RCSI faculties and campuses worldwide.
Having commenced his obstetrics and gynaecology training in Ireland, Mr. McVey was accepted onto the National Higher Surgical Training Scheme for obstetrics and gynaecology in 2009. At the end of his surgical training in Ireland, he received his Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Specialist Training (CSCST), indicating proficiency in all aspects of obstetrics and gynaecological surgery.
In 2015 Mr. McVey was the only person to successfully complete the internationally renowned three year Gynaecologic Oncology Fellowship program through the University of Toronto based at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Canada. This is the only gynaecological oncology fellowship worldwide, that holds dual accreditation by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in UK and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada. Mr. McVey was trained in the most advanced surgical techniques for the management of gynaecological cancers. In particular, Mr. McVey was trained in up front primary surgery for ovarian cancer and minimally invasive surgery [Laparoscopic and Robotic surgery]. Specifically, Mr. McVey is the only gynaecologist in Ireland who has completed a Robotic Surgery training program as an integral component of a gynaecological oncology fellowship.
Mr. McVey is actively involved in the training of our future Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ireland, where he is a member of the Board of Examiners. In addition, he was awarded a Masters in Clinical Education from University College Galway and a Masters in Healthcare Leadership and Management from the RCSI.
In 2015, Mr. McVey returned from Canada to the role of Assistant Master at the Rotunda Hospital prior to commencing independent practise at the Mater Hospitals and the National Maternity Hospital.
Mr. McVey is pleased to assist in the management of general gynaecological conditions. In addition, his specialist interests include: Minimally Invasive Surgery [specifically Robotic Surgery] for uterine, cervical, vulval cancers and upfront Primary Debulking Surgery for ovarian cancer, as well as Prophylactic Risk Reducing Surgery for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers and colposcopy.
In his spare time, Ruaidhrí attempts to positively influence his three daughters.
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2015 - Assistant Master at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
2016 - Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.
2016 - Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin
In addition to General Gynaecology Mr. McVey provides Special Interest Clinics:
Complex Pelvic Surgery
Giant ovarian cysts
Surgical staging for gynaecological malignancies
Minimally Invasive Surgery / Robotic Assisted Surgical Techniques
Risk Reducing Surgery for patients affected by hereditary cancer syndromes –BRCA 1 & 2, Lynch Syndrome
Fertility Sparing Surgery
Radical Hysterectomy
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Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie: NFC championship win is for the fans
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"We have the most passionate fan base in the NFL, if not all of sports. You want to win so badly for them. So when you win a conference championship, it’s for them,” said Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie after the team's win in the NFC championship game Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018.
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Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019
Source: PRS India
The Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was passed by Parliament. The Bill amends the Special Protections Group Act, 1988. The Act provides for constitution and regulation of the Special Protection Group (SPG) for providing security to the Prime Minister, former Prime Ministers, and their immediate family members.
Key features of the Bill
Provisions of Special Protections Group Act, 1988. Proposed amendments under the Special Protection Group (Amendment) Bill, 2019
Under the Act, the SPG provides security to the Prime Minister and his immediate family members.
It also provides security to former Prime Ministers and their immediate family members for a period of one year from the date on which they cease to hold the office.
Beyond this period, the SPG security is provided based on the level of threat as decided by the central government.
The threat must: (a) emanate from a military or terrorist organisation, and (b) be of a grave and continuing nature.
The Bill amends this provision to state that the SPG will provide security to the Prime Minister, and members of his immediate family residing with him at his official residence.
It will also provide security to any former Prime Ministers, and his immediate family members residing with him at the residence allotted to him.
This security will be provided for a period of five years from the date on which he ceases to hold the office of Prime Minister.
The Act provides that if the SPG security is withdrawn from a former Prime Minister, it will also be withdrawn from his immediate family members, unless the level of threat faced by the immediate family member warrants such security.
The Bill removes this condition to state that if the SPG security is withdrawn from a former Prime Minister, it will also be withdrawn from his immediate family members.
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Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019
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What is a Diamond?
Diamond forms under high temperature and pressure conditions that exist only about 100 miles beneath the earth’s surface. Diamond’s carbon atoms are bonded in essentially the same way in all directions. Another mineral, graphite, also contains only carbon, but its formation process and crystal structure are very different. Graphite is so soft that you can write with it, while diamond is so hard that you can only scratch it with another diamond. Diamonds are the hardest material on earth, 58 times harder than anything else in nature.
Description of a Diamond
Diamond is the only gem made of a single element: It is typically about 99.95 percent carbon. The other 0.05 percent can include one or more trace elements, which are atoms that aren’t part of the diamond’s essential chemistry. Some trace elements can influence its colour or crystal shape. The way a mineral forms helps determine its identity. Diamond forms under high temperature and pressure conditions that exist only within a specific depth range (about 100 miles) beneath the earth’s surface. Diamond’s crystal structure is isometric, which means the carbon atoms are bonded in essentially the same way in all directions. Another mineral, graphite, also contains only carbon, but its formation process and crystal structure are very different. The result is that graphite is so soft that you can write with it, while diamond is so hard that you can only scratch it with another diamond. Without any one of these factors, diamond might be just another mineral. Fortunately, though, this special combination of chemical composition, crystal structure, and formation process gives diamonds the qualities that make them extraordinary.
Diamond as we know it.
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Diamond Desire, A History
Diamonds have a long history as beautiful objects of desire. In the first century AD, the Roman naturalist Pliny stated: “Diamond is the most valuable, not only of precious stones, but of all things in this world.” The earliest diamonds were found in India in 4th century BC, although the youngest of these deposits were formed 900 million years ago. A majority of these early stones were transported along the network of trade routes that connected India and China, commonly known as the Silk Road. At the time of their discovery, diamonds were valued because of their strength and brilliance, and for their ability to refract light and engrave metal. Diamonds were worn as adornments, used as cutting tools, served as a talisman to ward off evil and were believed to provide protection in battle. In the Dark Ages, diamonds were also used as a medical aid and were thought to cure illness and heal wounds when ingested. The country’s resources yielded limited quantities for an equally limited market: India’s very wealthy classes. Gradually, though, this changed, Indian diamonds found their way to Western Europe in the caravans that traveled to Venice’s medieval markets. By the 1400s, diamonds were becoming fashionable accessories for Europe’s elite. In the early 1700s, as India’s diamond supplies began to decline, Brazil emerged as an important source. Diamonds were discovered in the pans of gold miners as they sifted through the gravels of local rivers. Once it reached its full potential, Brazil dominated the diamond market for more than 150 years. While sources changed, the diamond market experienced its own evolution. The old ruling classes—diamonds’ biggest consumers—were in decline by the late 1700s. Political upheavals like the French Revolution led to changes in the distribution of wealth.
The 1800s brought increasing affluence to western Europe and the United States. Explorers unearthed the first great South African diamond deposits in the late 1800s just as diamond demand broadened. In 1866, 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs was exploring the banks of the Orange River when he came across what he thought was an ordinary pebble, but turned out to be a 21.25-carat diamond. In 1871, a colossal 83.50-carat deposit was unearthed on a shallow hill called Colesberg Kopje. These findings sparked a rush of thousands of diamond prospectors to the region and led to the opening of the first large-scale mining operation which came to be known as the Kimberly Mine. This newly discovered diamond source increased the world’s diamond supply substantially, resulting in a significant decrease in their value. The elite no longer considered the diamond a rarity, and began to replace this “common” stone with coloured gemstones. Emeralds, rubies, and sapphires became more popular choices for engagement ring stones among the upper class. In 1880, Englishman Cecil John Rhodes formed De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd in an effort to control the diamond supply. Although DeBeers was successful in their efforts to control the supply of diamonds, demand for the stone was weak. By 1919, diamonds were devalued by nearly 50%.
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Diamond Engagement Ring History
The use of rings as a symbol of commitment dates back to ancient history, specifically to the betrothal (truth) rings of the Romans. These early rings, often formed from twisted copper or braided hair, were worn on the third finger of the left hand. The placement of the ring was significant, as Romans believed that a vein in the third finger (vena amorous) ran directly to the heart. For Romans, betrothal rings were given as a sign of affection or friendship, and did not always represent the rite of marriage. The history of the engagement ring began in 1215, when Pope Innocent III, one of the most powerful popes of the Middle Ages, declared a waiting period between a betrothal and the marriage ceremony. The rings were used to signify the couple’s commitment in the interim. It was around this same time that rings were introduced as a major component of the wedding ceremony, and it was mandated by the Roman government that all marriage ceremonies be held in a church. In addition to serving as symbols of an intention to marry, these early rings also represented social rank; only the elite were permitted to wear ornate rings or rings with jewels. The first recorded presentation of a diamond engagement ring was in 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria proposed marriage to Mary of Burgundy. Although engagement rings were common at this time, diamonds were a rarity and were reserved for royalty and the upper elite class.
The use of rings as a symbol of commitment dates back to ancient history, specifically to the betrothal (truth) rings of the Romans. These early rings, often formed from twisted copper or braided hair, were worn on the third finger of the left hand. The placement of the ring was significant, as Romans believed that a vein in the third finger (vena amorous) ran directly to the heart. For Romans, betrothal rings were given as a sign of affection or friendship, and did not always represent the rite of marriage. The history of the engagement ring began in 1215, when Pope Innocent III, one of the most powerful popes of the Middle Ages, declared a waiting period between a betrothal and the marriage ceremony. The rings were used to signify the couple’s commitment in the interim. It was around this same time that rings were introduced as a major component of the wedding ceremony, and it was mandated by the Roman government that all marriage ceremonies be held in a church. In addition to serving as symbols of an intention to marry, these early rings also represented soIn 1947, DeBeers commissioned the services of leading advertising agency N.W. Ayer, and the slogan “A diamond is forever” was coined. The premise of this large-scale marketing campaign was the suggestion that diamonds should be the only choice for engagement rings. The DeBeers advertising campaign was wildly successful, and was a contributing factor to today’s widespread embracing of the tradition of diamond engagement rings. In today’s fine jewellery market, more than 78% of engagement rings sold contain diamonds. With the surge in popularity of the precious stone, many companies and organisations began campaigns to educate jewellers and consumers about what to look for when selecting a diamond. As jewellers experimented with ways to enhance the diamond’s visual appeal and presentation, new cutting techniques were adopted to help increase the stone’s brilliance. Over time, several prominent shapes emerged as the most popular varieties, including round, oval, marquise, square (princess), and rectangular (emerald). Today, the world’s diamond deposits are slowly becoming depleted. Less than 20% of the diamonds mined are of gem quality; less than 2% are considered “investment diamonds.” 75-80% of mined diamonds are used for industrial applications, such as grinding, sawing, and drilling. Typically, more than 250 tons of ore must be mined in order to produce a one-carat, gem-quality stone. The diamond’s rarity, beauty, and strength make it a fitting symbol of the resilience and longevity of marriage. In addition to engagement rings, diamonds are traditionally given as gifts to commemorate the milestone of the sixtieth anniversary. With their rich history, sense of permanence, and lustrous brilliance, diamonds are a natural choice to signify a lasting union.
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Options for Dividing Retirement Plans in Divorce
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When contemplating divorce people sometimes withdraw funds from a retirement plan or take a loan against it before seeking competent legal advice. This is not recommended and there are other options for dividing retirement plans in divorce. This law provides a method to divide most retirement plans without any penalty or effect on your taxes.
Before you make any changes to your retirement account, it’s important to consult a lawyer familiar with family law and the intricacies of retirement plans.
ERISA and QDRO
Most retirement plans are subject to a federal law known as ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) which has a provision that allows the benefits to be divided in a divorce without a penalty or additional tax consequences.
ERISA plans are required to comply with a detailed order from a family court that divides the benefits in a divorce. That type of specialized order is referred to as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order or QDRO. The QDRO is usually separate from the divorce decree and requires specialized knowledge. It must comply with Federal law and regulations, state law, and also the peculiar requirements of the plan.
Some executive level plans are not ERISA qualified and not subject to a QDRO. Whether or not a plan is subject to ERISA can be determined relatively easily by contacting the plan administrator. If it is not, then the plan may or may not permit part of it to be awarded to a former spouse. Those plans usually have a small number of high-income participants (executives) and create their own rules.
Individual Retirement Plans (I.R.A.s) are not ERISA plans and do not require a QDRO. Funds withdrawn from an I.R.A. may be repaid or deposited to another I.R.A. within 60 days, but only once per year.
When a plan administrator first receives a QDRO, a determination is made as to whether or not the administrator agrees that the order qualifies under ERISA. If it does, the plan administrator will create a new account in the plan for the employee’s former spouse and he or she will be treated as a participant in the plan. The former spouse is called an “alternate payee”. The former spouse, or alternate payee, does not receive any further employer matching provisions.
401(k) Plan
With a 401(k) (“defined contribution plan”) the employee’s former spouse has a new account created within the 401(k) in his or her name and the portion of the account that he or she was awarded in the divorce is moved to that account. Taxes will be assessed when the former spouse withdraws those funds. The taxes are assessed against the portion that was awarded to the employee’s former spouse, the alternate payee. The taxes will have no effect on the portion of the plan retained by the employee spouse. If an employee simply withdraws money from the plan, without a QDRO, and gives his spouse some of that cash, the employee will receive
If an employee simply withdraws money from the plan, without a QDRO, and gives the spouse some of that cash, the employee will receive the 1099 at the end of the year and will be liable for the taxes and penalties. The I.R.S. will not be sympathetic to an argument that the employee’s former spouse actually received the money and should be liable for those expenses.
Pension type plans (“defined benefit plans”) are not as common as they used to be, but when one is to be divided in a divorce, it is also subject to a QDRO. That QDRO will usually contain information about how to calculate the portion of the pension that was earned during the marriage and the percentage of that portion to award to the former spouse. The former spouse will not receive any funds until retirement age.
Often, retirement plans are the biggest portion of a marital estate and care should be taken when dividing them in divorce. Simply sending the plan a do-it-yourself divorce decree from the internet will not result in the outcome that the spouses had hoped for.
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Kate Thompson joined Meadows, Macie & Sutton, P.C. in early 2016 after serving as Staff Attorney to Judge Kelley S. Powell of the Probate Court of Henry County for two and a half years. Using her vast knowledge of the intricacies of estate and probate law, Kate is now representing individuals in all types of cases over which probate court has jurisdiction: decedent’s estates, guardianships of incapacitated adults, and guardianships and conservatorships of minors. She is prepared to represent and offer advice to individuals in uncontested probate matters as well as contested probate matters which result in litigation. Kate also offers general estate planning through drafting Wills, financial powers of attorney, and Georgia Advanced Healthcare Directives.
Additionally, she is currently working closely with Terri Sutton in providing a full range of family law services including adoption, divorce, separate maintenance, custody, child support and visitation modifications, prenuptial agreements, grandparent visitation, legitimation, and family violence protective orders.
Kate earned her law degree, cum laude, from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in 2013. In law school, she also earned a certificate in Advanced Legal Writing, Research, and Drafting, the CALI Award for Excellence in Legal Research, was a member of the Mercer Law Review, received a merit scholarship, and was recognized on the Dean’s List. Kate also earned her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in History and Political Science from Georgia State University in 2008 where she was recognized on the Dean’s List and received the Faculty Scholarship Award.
A lifelong Georgian, Kate grew up in Suwanee, Georgia and moved to McDonough in 2013 following her graduation from law school. Over the past two years, Kate has enjoyed volunteering in the community by serving as an attorney coach for the Luella High School Mock Trial Team through the State Bar of Georgia’s High School Mock Trial Program. Kate has also been appointed to serve as Guardian ad Litem in the Probate Court of Henry County to represent the interests of children and incapacitated adults who are involved in probate matters.
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Facebook says it blocked 100 malicious accounts just in time for the midterm elections
By Xavier Harding
Facebook says it blocked over 100 accounts with ties to Russia just in time for the midterm elections on Tuesday. This news follows reports from Monday where the company said it blocked 115 accounts suspected of election tampering.
According to CNBC, Facebook said in a statement that it removed pages from both its site and Instagram. The social network didn’t release details surrounding the pages it removed from its site, but reported it had concerns that all of the sites may have had ties to Russia’s Internet Research Agency, CNN noted.
“We had already blocked most of these accounts yesterday, and have now blocked the rest,” Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in the company’s statement. “This is a timely reminder that these bad actors won’t give up — and why it’s so important we work with the U.S. government and other technology companies to stay ahead.”
The fake news problem has been a hydra for Facebook, with new malicious accounts appearing right as old ones are eliminated. At one point, the social media network denied it had an impact on the 2016 election. Now the company has taken steps to address the problem by enlisting the help of employees to spot malicious groups or fake news on its platform.
While Facebook has blocked numerous accounts in time for the midterm elections, there were other instances of misinformation that spread on Election Day. According to BuzzFeed News, a video on Instagram alerted many people to supposed voter fraud happening in Franklin County, New York. The truth was that a machine at the polling place was simply experiencing a paper jam. Facebook took the video off of Instagram after BuzzFeed alerted the site of this error.
Facebook isn’t the only social network susceptible to misinformation. On Twitter, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp shared a Breitbart article with his followers in a tweet that claimed his opponent, Stacey Abrams, was too extreme for Georgia. Kemp supporters used the image to suggest that Black Panther members were intimidating voters at polling places. Wired noted, however, that the image is being taken out of context. The four men in the photo belong to a Facebook group called the New Black Panther Party. The photo of them standing in front of a Stacey Abrams sign was taken at a small gathering on a street corner the Saturday before Election Day.
Facebook’s removal of 100 suspected IRA-linked pages are both a step in the right direction for the company and just the start of an ongoing battle against fake, attention-grabbing stories on its site. Future elections, both in the U.S. and around the world, will continue to test Facebook and other social media networks’ abilities to curb the spread of misinformation.
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Ghana’s health system has undergone major trans-formational changes during the early 2000s, which resulted amongst other in the introduction of the national health insurance scheme in 2003. These reforms have brought numerous challenges for the health system, including challenges to assure the quality of care, improving capacity of providers, developing efficient payment mechanisms, prioritizing resources to the poor, and improving information systems. To address these challenges, stakeholders need sufficient capacity in health systems research and management but capacity is currently limited in Ghana.
The ultimate aim of this project is to support the strengthening of the health system in Ghana through improved capacity in health systems research and management. The project has four main objectives, which together will achieve this aim. More specifically, the objectives are:
To establish a Master’s programme in health systems research and management at KNUST.
To establish two network of researchers, students, alumni, and policy-makers.
To establish a network of researchers working in similar areas at KNUST and at TU Berlin.
To strengthen capacity of researchers at TU Berlin to engage in development cooperation.
Overview of activities
The project consists of a mix of activities, which will be carried out between January 2017 and December 2020. Most importantly, this includes a series of (1) workshops, (2) short courses, (3) teaching on the new Master’s programme, (4) project work, and (5) KNUST staff consultations.
Workshops: The new master’s programme will be developed during several workshops, held in Germany and Ghana. The curriculum will draw on existing course modules taught at TU Berlin and at KNUST. Teaching material adjustments workshops will allow to tailor the courses to the needs of students in Ghana.
Teaching on the Master's programme: TU Berlin will contribute at least four modules to the new Master’s programme, which will initially be taught by TU Berlin staff in collaboration with KNUST staff. KNUST staff will progressively take over teaching of original TU Berlin modules. For further information on the Master's programme please follow this link.
Project work: At least three students from each cohort will have the opportunity to do internships and research projects at TU Berlin. This will contribute to strengthening links of future researchers and policy-makers in Ghana with TU Berlin.
Short Courses: One short course in Managing and Researching Health Systems taught at TU Berlin will be offered to KNUST staff and German MPH graduates intending to work in Africa. This will prepare KNUST staff for teaching and contribute to networking. KNUST staff will also participate in a TU Berlin seminar on Good Scientific Practice, which will contribute to improved capacity in the area.
Health Policy Dialogues: Dialogues are organized annually in Ghana to establish strong links between students of the Master’s programme, alumni of German universities working in health system related fields in Ghana, researchers and policy-makers – including mainly the Ministry of Health, health services departments, hospitals and health facility managers, health practitioners and managers of health care programmes.
KNUST Staff Consultations: With the support of TU Berlin, KNUST staff in Ghana will engage in year-round small-size stakeholder meetings. The purpose is to allow them to develop capacity in communicating effectively with policy-makers and to develop a strong network.
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Prof. Dr. med. Reinhard Busse, MPH
Dr. med. Wilm Quentin, MSc HPPF
Daniel Opoku, MScPH
Dr. Peter Agyei-Baffour, MA
Dr. Anthony K. Edusei, MPH
[Translate to English:] Acknowledgments
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[Translate to English:] The project is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with 420,000 EUR from the budget of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as part of the DAAD-PAGEL programme. Project ID: 57336173
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MINI-SERIES: TERRORISM IS WHAT WE MAKE IT
How me, you and Western media empowered ISIS
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PART II of III
Accepting the Unacceptable: a Little Bit of Terrorism Is Inevitable
life can't be drained of all its risks
Disclaimer: This article is the second part of a mini-series titled “Terrorism Is What We Make It”, consisting of three pieces to be seen as a whole. The idea is to show how skewed our Western view on terrorism oftentimes is, what psychological and public phenomena are responsible, and how our emotional reaction deals right-wing populists into play. The way many of us use the term “terrorist attack” nowadays is in itself terribly flawed, which is further elaborated in the third part of this series. For the sake of argument I will use it for now, as it is commonly used: Jihadist terror killing Western civilians on Western soil. I want to touch on three misconceptions (dedicated one article each), and while I’m sure there are many more, these seem most crucial to me.
If one of these 90s sales agents in ocher suits would arrive at your doorstep with a briefcase full of bubble wrap, targeting a significant chunk of your household’s money by frightening you with the possibility of getting killed by a piece of your own furniture, all the while telling you that even with his bubble wrap there wouldn’t be an absolute guarantee for your safety – would you bite? Possible answers that I entertain you mumbling in your head are:
“Yeeeah right” with an undertone soaked in sarcasm;
“Mhmhmh, I see where this is going, haha, very well, very well indeed”;
Or “Shut your pie hole and get to the point.”
This one is no toughie. It’s a rhetorical question, so obvious in its intent, so undeserving of an answer. What are the odds after all and who would spend a lot of money on the prevention of something so unlikely, especially if utter security was never part of the twisted deal in the first place?
And yet, this rhetorical query lost its sharp and smug edge, when we all started buying into something just as far-fetched and ominous, and when our government depraved its household of a huge chunk to minimize a risk that is negligible.
Since 9/11 Western governments have pumped trillions of dollars (yes, that’s your tax money) into the war on terrorism; a war that, if it were ever to successfully rid the world of terrorism, would have accomplished as much as eliminating the risk of us getting killed by our own fridge or TV. Indeed, that’s the likelihood-neighborhood we’re talking about here. But there’s another hook:
There is no such thing as absolute security in this world (which is actually a good thing as I will argue later on).
The first article of this series revolved around likelihoods and statistical evidence that renders the threat of dying in a terrorist attack on Western soil as minuscule (less probable than winning the lottery). Moreover, I elaborated how the response to terrorism we’re experiencing is unjustified and fully out of proportion: from a ubiquitous fear of (Muslim) immigrants and the swift ascent of the Trumps of this world to millions of casualties during the war on terrorism. And, while emotion deports the rationale we’d so desperately need at the verge of rising right-wing populism, so very few people have shed light on the actual facts.
The fact that there is no total security in this world, however, has basically gone by completely unacknowledged. Only one small sentence in John Cassidy’s New Yorker article hints to this:
“They want absolute assurances, which no government can provide.”
But it’s not only the government that can’t provide it; such certainties are simply not granted by the universe we live in. No matter how much we want this world to be predictable and safe, we have to accept that this kind of security is a mere illusion. It’s just a matter of fact, chiseled in the very fundament of our universe, that there is no such thing as absolute certainty. Even physicists, who live off predictability and stringent formulas, have to admit at the end of a day in the lab that coincidence and probabilities guide and guard the most fundamental realms. But let’s not get too theoretical here. We are all familiar with the human dimension of narratives and know that a bus could hit us tomorrow, that a cancer diagnosis might await us next year, and that a lightning bolt could end our story some day.
We know these things. We know and we accept. Why do we have such a hard time accepting that we could get killed by terrorism, even though it is far less likely than all of the above (even lightning)? Why do we cling so desperately to the eradication of any last tiny terrorist threat, instead of just accepting the reality that there will always be some bad guys out there and that a handful of us will die in extraordinary and cruel ways? To think terrorism is easier to contain than other random acts or that a war on terrorism is more justified, is an illusion as argued in part I of this series.
We’re more likely to prolong our lives, if we try staying out of heart attacks rather than terrorist attacks.
It all comes down to a matter of likelihoods and that’s all we can build our security-efforts on. But, instead of doing the obvious and focus on the avoidance of perils with higher probabilities, we get carried away by our shuddering hearts and spend trillions of dollars and many soldiers’ lives on further minimizing a tiny risk that could never be eradicated in its entirety to begin with. After 9/11 commercial air-travel changed radically. We invested huge sums and inaugurated myriad new regulations to make it safer so that no one could ever hijack a plane and fly it into a skyscraper again. But to assume that terrorists won’t find another way to hurt us is just naive.
It’s like cops and robbers (excuse the benign example): we can be nifty and make the vault safer, but robbers will find a new method to get in. Then we’ll respond to that and so on. You see, it’s ever just a reaction when it’s too late already. And the terrorists did find other ways after 9/11. They used bombs and machine guns, blew up trains and airports. No matter how much you raise the security bar there will be no complete warranty for your safety in this life. That’s not to say that we shouldn’t react at all, but we shouldn’t be delusional about the outcome. The sooner we accept that this world doesn’t offer guarantees, the sooner we can focus on threats with higher risks, may that be on a personal scale or on a public policy level.
We’re more likely to prolong our lives, if we try staying out of heart attacks rather than terrorist attacks. Heart disease is the number one cause of death worldwide and claims the lives of many millions. There’s more: heart disease and its runner-ups like diabetes or car accidents are actually well within the domain of our control and something we can actively change anytime by altering our diet or driving slower.
As for the public breadth, we’d do good to redirect the money the war on terrorism gulps towards heart-disease related research or marketing campaigns advertising healthier diets. Now, that could save a significant amount of lives. Even if we can’t completely weed out the risk of disease either, there’s just more leeway in the numbers of salvageable lives. Don’t worry, I understand. I’m not on that healthy diet either and avoiding a heart attack isn’t as newsworthy as fighting “evil” itself. But if we don’t change our focus, we’ll just keep being emotional wusses who will die a million unnecessary ways, while we chase to eliminate a death that is only meant for a handful of us anyway.
Whenever we voluntarily allow perils in our lives, when we climb a ladder, or cross a street, or smoke and drink, we accept the risk. Sometimes we even seek the risk for adrenaline’s sake, we embrace the thrill when we jump out of a plane or go deep-sea diving. It’s the other side of the same risk-adrenaline medal that has terrorism on it. And while I wouldn’t go as far as to say that we should embrace terrorism, I’m a firm believer of cherishing our world’s uncertainty. I think if everything in life was foreseeable and set in stone, this planet would be a pretty dull place. German philosopher Leibniz minted the idea that we live in the best possible universe, even though there is evil. He believed that a universe with free will and evil is still better than one of pure good but determinism. I agree. But, even if wouldn’t agree, that’s the universe we live in. Like it or not, beggars can’t be choosers. It is a universe of free will and as such it gives odds instead of guarantees. We have to accept it. Let’s fight the fights we can fight.
This is not to say that we should ignore terrorism. But we shouldn’t react to it based on emotions instead of rationale, we shouldn’t do it by means that make the problem worse, we shouldn’t by completely overreacting, as discussed in part I. You might find the word “overreacting” inappropriate, but our answer to terrorism is the very definition of the word: “respond more emotionally or forcibly than is justified”.
At the end of the day we have to accept that throughout history there have always been people who were as harmless as to think differently, that political activists have sometimes gone too far, and that at the far end of the spectrum terrorists have wreaked havoc upon innocent civilians. More importantly though, the situation demands our coming to terms with the fact that this will probably never change. It might, but in a universe with free will, there’s ultimately no warranty. What’s the alternative anyway? Big Brother? Again, let me make this perfectly clear: this is not to say that we shouldn’t minimize risks or try to save lives. But we should focus on doing it by the right means, putting up fights that are worthwhile (rather preventing genocide in Syria than saving a handful of lives in Europe), and all the while in acceptance that uncertainty will remain.
Most of us spend our whole lives on a quest to universal answers, may that be in the happiness department or in the creed realm. It’s a hunt defying the simple notion that our condition is human and as such mostly hidden in grey-zones of subjective intangibility. But that’s not the irony here. The irony is that whenever we do encounter a universal truth, an absolute certainty, we try escaping it like crying toddlers in denial of the inevitable diaper change. We actually hate the inevitability of a certainty, like the one of our pending ending. We make up whole religions and fairy tales in our denial of death’s somber certitude.
In the end, the terrorist threat comes down to exactly these jitters that death causes us. Unfortunately, due to the architecture of our psyche, the logic of numbers doesn’t befriend our dread, and so it gets magnified by the cruelty of an event and not by its likelihood (as discussed in part I).
Still, we know this much: death will get a hold of us eventually. And some of us will meet it in extraordinary ways, highly unlikely and surprising; may that be due to asphyxiation during an atomic wedgie, being beaten to death with a bible, or even laughing. I didn’t make these up. Yes, sitting under a swaying palm tree in some worldly Eden, a handful of us will inevitably get killed by a falling coconut. Actually quite a lot of us will die by the hand of another human being, but hardly ever will the motive be Jihadist terror.
Puerto Viejo / Costa Rica dangerous Eden
So what can we do me and you?
We can make peace with the fact that there are no guarantees (of safety) in life. We can even embrace this notion as the beauty of life or as the best possible universe, like Leibniz did. Then we can focus on problems with higher likelihoods. We can’t fully empty the world of these perils either, but to work on minimizing them is more worthwhile than minimizing the almost non-existent terrorist threat. There’s much more personal wiggle-room to reduce the risk of a heart attack than the risk of a terrorist attack. You can change your diet but you cannot hide in your house for the rest of your life (and anyway a piece of furniture could crush you).
How me, you and Western media empowered ISIS & Co. and fueled the Trumps of this world
tags | terrorism, media, psychology
reads | life
Part I of III
Just Another Day Without Terrorist Attacks
our poor judgement of likelihoods has dire consequences
... our response to terrorism has been but an emotional one, blinded by the media’s crooked spotlight... read more
Part III of III
Of Muslim Victims, White Terrorists and Faceless Strangers Perishing Unconsidered
how we overlook the real victims and perpetrators of terrorism
...after all we’re talking about human beings that are quite literally in a predicament between the devil and the deep blue sea... read more
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Hall of Fame broadcaster Jaime Jarrín to return for 55th season
Jarrín will broadcast for the Dodgers through the 2015 season
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today that Hall of Fame Dodger broadcaster Jaime Jarrín,“the Spanish Voice of the Dodgers,” will return to the Dodgers’ Spanish-language broadcast booth for a 55th season in 2013 as part of a three-year contract and will remain at the helm of the Dodgers’ Spanish-language radio broadcast on Univision America KTNQ 1020 AM Los Angeles.
“I am honored to extend my career during such a thrilling time in Dodger history and under new ownership that has demonstrated a strong commitment to the Latinos in Los Angeles and in revitalizing the Dodgers throughout Latin America,” Jarrín said. “I am confident this leadership can bring a championship back to Los Angeles and I am happy to be a part of it.”
Jarrín will broadcast most of the Dodgers’ 162 regular season games, eight Spring Training games and all potential postseason games through the 2015 season. Jarrín holds the second-longest tenure in MLB broadcasting history behind his colleague and fellow Hall of Famer, Vin Scully, and the longest tenure ever in MLB’s Spanish-language broadcasting history.
“Jaime is a Dodger institution and is a big reason why the Dodgers have such a strong Latino fan base,” said Dodger Owner Earvin Johnson. “The Dodgers are the only club with two Hall of Fame broadcasters on staff and I’m excited that Jaime will continue to instill a love of Dodger baseball in Spanish-speaking Angelenos.”
“We’re committed to the Latino community in Los Angeles and knew that one of the most important things we could do right away was to ensure that Jaime would continue to lead the Spanish-language broadcast,” said Dodger President and CEO Stan Kasten. “We’re happy to have him here with us and are grateful for his insight and the foundation he laid in this community that we can now build upon.”
A native of Ecuador, Jarrín arrived in the U.S. on June 24, 1955, the same year that Dodger great Sandy Koufax made his Major League debut. Jarrín began his professional baseball broadcasting career in 1959 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the same year the club won the World Series, the first in Los Angeles franchise history.
He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998 as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. Jarrín became just the second Spanish-language announcer to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. During his unprecedented Spanish-language broadcasting career, he has called three perfect games, 15 no-hitters, 26 World Series and 21 All-Star Games. Jarrín called the Dodgers’ World Championships in 1959, ’63, ’65, ’81 and ’88.
Since broadcasting his first game on April 14, 1959, Jarrín has called many of the iconic moments in Los Angeles Dodger history including Sandy Koufax’s perfect game (Sept. 9, 1965 vs. the Cubs), Don Drysdale’s six consecutive shutouts in 1968, Fernando Valenzuela’s first start on Opening Day 1981 launching “Fernandomania,” Orel Hershiser's 59 consecutive scoreless innings in 1988, Kirk Gibson’s Game 1 homer in the 1988 World Series and the Dodgers’ historic comeback with four consecutive home runs against San Diego on Sept. 18, 2006, which was capped off by Nomar Garciaparra’s walk-off home run for the 11-10, extra-inning win.
Jarrín is a pioneer in Spanish-language sports broadcasting and as such has collected numerous accolades, including the first Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association's President's Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the highest award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, induction into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame, and its foreign-language broadcaster of the year award and Golden Mike Awards. Last year, Jarrín was honored by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) Foundation with an AFTRA Media and Entertainment Excellence Award and was the Hall of Fame recipient for the Associated Press Television-Radio Association (APTRA).
Forty percent of Dodger fans are Latino and each season the Dodgers host nearly one million fans of Hispanic descent. The Dodgers were the first MLB club to implement a Spanish-language radio broadcast in 1958, which is now the longest running in all of baseball. The Dodgers’ official Spanish-language web site is www.losdodgers.com and Jarrín’s official Twitter handle is @JaimeJarrinHOF.
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'Amazing Homeland: Cheng-Hsiung Chen's Collection of Taiwanese Indigenous Artifacts'
The National Museum of History will showcase Taiwanese aboriginal artifacts from the personal collection of veteran abstract artist Chen Cheng-hsiung (陳正雄) from June 24 through Sept. 10.
Known as "the father of abstract art in Taiwan,” Chen is a renowned Taiwanese artist who has dedicated over half a century to the research of abstract art. Active since the 1970s, Chen has been featured in exhibitions in Japan, France, and the United States. He was also the first Asian artist to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florence Biennial.
As Chen sought new stimuli from nature and everyday life, he soon encountered the wearable and unique schools of art practiced by Taiwan's indigenous peoples. Their cultures became a major source of inspiration for Chen.
"Amazing Homeland: Cheng-Hsiung Chen's Collection of Taiwanese Indigenous Artifacts” will reveal how Chen appreciated art from an early age and how he achieved the prime of his artistry by "pursuing the beauty of human nature.”
Over 280 aboriginal artifacts spanning clothes, sculptures, pottery, and woven containers will be showcased to highlight the aesthetics of aboriginal art and the unique culture of each tribe. Each group developed diverse skills to adapt to different environments by recruiting natural materials such as rock, wood, bamboo, and rattan to build houses and pavilions and craft tools and containers.
Weaving also plays a big role in indigenous cultures, and each tribe has specific patterns, symbols, and colors. Ramie fiber is also dyed and then garnished with glass beads, sea shells, pearls, and knitted accessories to convey status and individuality.
From clothing and sculptures to pottery and woven art, aboriginal artifacts are part of Taiwan's cultural heritage. These artifacts preserve historic memories and a way of life that embodied indigenous traditions such as ancestral worship, social hierarchy, and cultural identification.
Date: June 24 - Sept. 10, 2017
Venue: National Museum of History
Address: No. 49 Nanhai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)
Site: www.nmh.gov.tw/en
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The Benefits of Comprehensive Support Services for Mesothelioma Families
Written byDr. Raphael Bueno, M.D.on November 20, 2017
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At the time of the patient’s first appointment, the IMP hosts a new patient orientation that offers patients and their families, many of whom are from out of town, a comprehensive overview of the program and an opportunity to better understand the journey ahead of them. Patients and family members also meet others who may share the same diagnosis which can provide additional support, so that patients and their families don’t feel alone in battling this disease. We learned that the new patient orientation offers people hope and enables them to better understand their diagnosis and treatment options. They meet our support team and we allot ample time to address their questions and concerns.
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Theo van Doesburg Study for Composition VIII (The Cow) (recto); Untitled (verso) c. 1917
Gouache, oil, and charcoal on paper (recto and verso)
15 1/2 × 23" (39.4 × 58.4 cm)
226.1948.a-b
Theo van Doesburg has 47 works online.
Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection May 27, 1964 2 other works identified
From Naturalism to Abstraction: Three Series; Contemporary Sculpture and Constructions November 2, 1970–February 1, 1971
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture May 17, 1984–August 4, 1992 1 other work identified
Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013 1 other work identified
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
The artist, Holland and France, c. 1917 - 1931
Nelly (a.k.a. Petro) van Doesburg (the artist's widow), Paris, 1931 - 1948
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from the above, 1948
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Monett Times
Stories from Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Pittsburg State University releases fall honor rolls (02/13/19)
Pittsburg State University has released the honor rolls for the 2018 fall semester. To qualify for Dean’s Scholastic Honors, a student must complete at least 12 semester hours, receive a grade point average (GPA) of 3.6 for all credit course work that semester and have no grade lower than a B and no grade of I in any course during the semester. ...
College of the Ozarks announces Fall 2018 President’s List, Dean’s List (02/13/19)
College of the Ozarks has recognized students for earning a high level of academic distinction during the fall 2018 semester with inclusion on the President’s List and/or Dean’s List. To qualify for the President’s List, students must maintain a 4.0 minimum grade point average during the semester and carry at least 15 credit hours. ...
Making Memories Tours owner elected to NTA Board (Business ~ 02/13/19)
A Missouri tour operator has been elected to the board of directors of the National Tour Association (NTA), a worldwide organization of travel professionals. Jerry Varner is owner of Making Memories Tours based in Washburn. With pick-up points in Bella Vista, Ark., Washburn, Monett, Springfield, Harrison, Ark., Mountain Home, Ark., Tulsa, Okla., Claremore, Okla., Vinita, Okla., and Joplin, Making Memories Tours plans about 30 tours each year that visit destinations in Canada, the U.S. ...
Betty Haynes (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Betty Ann Haynes, 72, of Seligman, died Saturday, Feb. 9. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville. Visitation will be held from 5-7:00 p.m. Wednesday, at Fohn Funeral Home in Cassville.
Jeannie Moncrief (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Jeannie Moncrief, 68, of Shell Knob, died Tuesday, Feb. 5. A private memorial service was held Friday, Feb. 8. Arrangements are under the direction of Fohn Funeral Home, Shell Knob.
Homer Walker (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Homer Howard Walker, 77, of Verona, died Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Lacoba Nursing Home in Monett. A graveside service, under the direction of the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home, in Aurora, will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at the Zion Cemetery north of Aurora on Hwy. 39...
Thelma Wood (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Thelma L. Wood, 88, of Rocky Comfort, died Saturday, Feb. 9. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Union Cemetery in Stella, under direction of McQueen Funeral Home in Wheaton.
Glen Wormington (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Glen Allen Wormington, 60, of Monett, died Saturday, Feb. 2, at his home. Memorial visitation will be held from noon until 2 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at Buchanan Funeral Home. Graveside services will immediately follow at I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Monett. Arrangements have been entrusted to Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett...
History in the making for Monett wrestler (High School Sports ~ 02/13/19)
With a third-place finish at the district tournament, Janeth Quinones became the first ever female Monett wrestler to qualify for the state tournament. “It feels like an honor to represent Monett as the first one ever,” Quinones said. “People tell me it’s historic, but I’m just excited.”...
Lady Cubs swimming for gold this weekend (High School Sports ~ 02/13/19)
The consideration time cuts announced Sunday for the state girls championships were kind to Monett, as all three relay teams and several individuals qualified for the state swimming meet. “I am pleased with the number that we have going to state,” said Dan Janssen, Monett coach. “I thought with our times, we were in good shape. We had a couple on the bubble that just missed the cut, but I think we have some medal potential.”...
Hard fought title (High School Sports ~ 02/13/19)
It was not hypocritical. It just could not be helped. On Saturday, Daryl Bradley, Monett wrestling coach, found himself checking the 42-inch monitor that listed the wrestling standings to see where his team’s point total was and what they needed to do to win a district title...
Big 10 headed to state (High School Sports ~ 02/13/19)
The talk is starting to build, and there are even coaches around the state openly talking about this year’s Class 2 state wrestling title running through Monett. The Cubs head to Columbia with nine boys and one female in hopes of bringing home the team’s second title under Daryl Bradley...
News in brief (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Lawrence County Retired School Personnel will meet at 10 a.m. on Feb. 14 at the First Baptist Church, 201 S. Jefferson Ave. Following a business meeting, the group will visit Craze Glaze Pottery. The Kings Prairie Special Road District commissioners will hold their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at Angus Branch Steakhouse in Monett...
Senior Center hosts Valentine Dinner (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Volunteers with the Pierce City Senior Center hosted a Valentine Dinner for area residents on Saturday at the center.
Carrasquillo, Hillhouse tapped as Verona royals (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Verona students elected Twilah Carrasquillo as homecoming queen and Caleb Hillhouse as homecoming king last Friday.
‘John Lennon and Me’ raises spirits, funds through show (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Madeline Williams, playing the lead character of Star in “John Lennon and Me,” faced off with light sabers against the sadistic physical therapist Ina Tortunesky, played by Neva Welters, as Emily Pitts, playing Star’s roommate Courtney, watched, one of the light moments during the Monett Artists’ Guild’s production...
Wheaton Valentine’s dinner marked with food, fun (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
The Wheaton Historical Society held its 12th annual Valentine’s Dinner on Saturday at the Wheaton Community Center.
High stepping, close moments at Father-Daughter Dance (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Russell Ellis introduced his daughter McKinley to dips as part of their dancing at the Father-Daughter Dance on Saturday at St. Lawrence Catholic School in Monett.
Technology staff at Monett schools report upgrades (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Technology coordinators for the Monett school district reported constant review has led to improved service and a better system throughout the district. Stephen McMillin, technology director, and Weston George, technology assistant based at the high school, reported the program's goal remains improving student learning through the use of education technologies. ...
Wheaton police buy vehicle (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Wheaton Police Department will be rolling up in a new ride soon, as the department will hopefully be purchasing a 2017 Police Interceptor for $15,000. David Shockley, Wheaton mayor, said he had heard of vehicles from lots in both Diamond and Fairview for sale...
Purdy man charged for threatening with axe (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
A Purdy man is being held in the Barry County jail after allegedly threatening a person with an axe. Brian Coleman, 31, of Purdy, is charged with first-degree harassment and unlawful use of a weapon. According to a probable cause statement filed by Russ Nichols, officer with the Purdy Police Department, the incident occurred at a store on Business Highway 37 in Purdy...
Barry-Lawrence Library receives grant (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Young patrons of the Barry-Lawrence Regional Library system will be happy to know that funding for the summer reading program has been awarded through a $12,663 grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services federal program through Library Services and Technology Act, disbursed through the state...
Dick Gibson new president at Monett Senior Center (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Dick Gibson is the new president of the Monett Senior Center board of directors, and sees his new role as helping to promote good services available in the community. Gibson, who had been on the board for a year and a half, became president following the death of Jon Suit in December...
Monett city crews busy on various fronts (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Monett city employees have reported a wide range of activities conducted in the last two months. In December, police responded to 220 calls for service, continuing the trend that showed 37 percent more calls for the year. The most striking trends for the year showed domestic assaults nearly quadrupling, rising from 15 in 2017 to 56 in 2018. ...
Monett signs new power contracts (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
After a year of planning and negotiations, the city of Monett has signed new contracts for the purchase of electricity when the current purchasing agreement with what had been Empire District Electric expires in 2020. The new Southwest Missouri Public Energy Pool (SWMPEP), a joint venture at this time between the cities of Monett and Mt. ...
Wheaton looks to limit animal ownership (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
Wheaton has decided to revise a city ordinance to allow each household to have a combination of three pets. Clint Danforth, Wheaton police chief, said there is a leash law in the city limits of Wheaton. “Dogs can’t run loose without being on a chain, lead or fence,” he said. “The city is looking into revising the city ordinance that determines how many pets a household can have.”...
Monett schools see gains in annual report (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
The Monett school district saw gains in the Annual Performance Review (APR), based on state standardized tests taken in April 2018. On February 1, school districts across the state released the APR, calculated by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). ...
Former teacher faces 4 felonies for sex with student (Local News ~ 02/13/19)
A Washburn woman is facing four felonies after allegedly having sexual intercourse with a student while serving as a substitute teacher and drama teacher at Southwest High School. Chelsie Leroy, 23, of Washburn, is charged with two counts of second-degree statutory rape and two counts of sexual contact with a student...
Lloyd George (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Lloyd Daniel George, 57, of Monett, died Friday, Feb. 1, at Cox South Hospital in Springfield. A Celebration of Life service will be held from 2-5:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Monett South Park Casino. Arrangements have been entrusted to Buchanan Funeral Home, Monett...
Rose Denayer (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Rose Etta Denayer, 75, of Carthage, died Sunday, Feb. 3, at Mercy Hospital in Joplin. A visitation was held Monday, Feb. 11, at the Crafton-Cantrell Funeral Home in Aurora. A graveside service was at the Spring River Cemetery in Verona.
Dorothy DeCoursey (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Dorothy Mae DeCoursey, 91, of Mt. Vernon, died Friday, Feb. 8, at the Mt. Vernon Place Care Center. A graveside service, under the direction of the Fossett-Mosher Funeral Home, in Mt. Vernon was held Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Myetta Cemetery in Camdenton...
Clarabel Julian (Obituary ~ 02/13/19)
Clarabel “Claire” Dennis Julian, 89, was born Jan. 14, 1930, in Greene County, and died on Jan. 16, at Jefferson-Abington Hospital in Abington, Pa. Mrs. Julian, a classically-trained violinist and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drury College, Springfield, (1952), had a distinguished career as a high school math and physics teacher, then became the first female athletic director (boys and girls sports) of a major high school athletic district in the U.S...
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Tags: celebrity smiles thumb sucking
It's no secret that many of Hollywood's brightest stars didn't start out with perfectly aligned, pearly-white teeth. And these days, plenty of celebs are willing to share their stories, showing how dentists help those megawatt smiles shine. In a recent interview with W magazine, Emma Stone, the stunning 28-year-old star of critically-acclaimed films like La La Land and Birdman, explained how orthodontic appliances helped her overcome problems caused by a harmful habit: persistent thumb sucking in childhood.
“I sucked my thumb until I was 11 years old,” she admitted, mischievously adding “It's still so soothing to do it.” Although it may have been comforting, the habit spelled trouble for her bite. “The roof of my mouth is so high-pitched that I had this huge overbite,” she said. “I got this gate when I was in second grade… I had braces, and then they put a gate.”
While her technical terminology isn't quite accurate, Stone is referring to a type of appliance worn in the mouth which dentists call a “tongue crib” or “thumb/finger appliance.” The purpose of these devices is to stop children from engaging in “parafunctional habits” — that is, behaviors like thumb sucking or tongue thrusting, which are unrelated to the normal function of the mouth and can cause serious bite problems. (Other parafunctional habits include nail biting, pencil chewing and teeth grinding.)
When kids develop the habit of regularly pushing the tongue against the front teeth (tongue thrusting) or sucking on an object placed inside the mouth (thumb sucking), the behavior can cause the front teeth to be pushed out of alignment. When the top teeth move forward, the condition is commonly referred to as an overbite. In some cases a more serious situation called an “open bite” may develop, which can be difficult to correct. Here, the top and bottom front teeth do not meet or overlap when the mouth is closed; instead, a vertical gap is left in between.
Orthodontic appliances are often recommended to stop harmful oral habits from causing further misalignment. Most appliances are designed with a block (or gate) that prevents the tongue or finger from pushing on the teeth; this is what the actress mentioned. Normally, when the appliance is worn for a period of months it can be expected to modify the child's behavior. Once the habit has been broken, other appliances like traditional braces or clear aligners can be used to bring the teeth into better alignment.
But in Stone's case, things didn't go so smoothly. “I'd take the gate down and suck my thumb underneath the mouth appliance,” she admitted, “because I was totally ignoring the rule to not suck your thumb while you're trying to straighten out your teeth.” That rule-breaking ended up costing the aspiring star lots of time: she spent a total of 7 years wearing braces.
Fortunately, things worked out for the best for Emma Stone: She now has a brilliant smile and a stellar career — plus a shiny new Golden Globe award! Does your child have a thumb sucking problem or another harmful oral habit? For more information about how to correct it, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more in the Dear Doctor magazine article “How Thumb Sucking Affects the Bite.”
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Unintended consequences: UBUAs become focal points for growth
Neptis has found that some municipalities are planning to direct significant amounts of subdivision-style development to UBUAs and to count these developments as intensification. They include municipalities in Simcoe County, which has the largest amount - about 38 percent -of unbuilt land in UBUAs in the Outer Ring (see Figure 2). Simcoe County's Official Plan states:
Where a settlement area has an undelineated built-up area by the Province, the entire settlement area is considered to be a built-up area, and all new residential units within such settlement areas contribute towards the intensification target [emphasis added].[1]
Figure 2: Unbuilt UBUA in Outer Ring
Figure 2: Distribution of unbuilt land in undelineated built-up areas among Outer Ring municipalities
Simcoe has planned for almost 40 percent of its growth to be in the form of intensification. But rather than directing intensification to locations with well-established urban infrastructure, institutions, and amenities - such as Collingwood, Midland, Alliston, or Wasaga Beach - a review of the County's land budgets shows that about 65 percent of the units that have been approved as intensification in Simcoe County are being directed to UBUAs; 83 percent of these units are in the form of single detached housing units.[2]
This type of scattered development, on this scale, undermines the goals of the Growth Plan while allowing the County, on paper at least, to meet and even exceed its minimum intensification requirement (which, for Simcoe County as a whole, was adjusted to 32 percent[3]). Figure 3 shows how intensification units have been allocated in Simcoe County.
Figure 3: How intensification units are allocated in Simcoe
Figure 3: How intensification units are allocated in Simcoe County
Some of the development being planned in the UBUAs in Simcoe County reflects leapfrog development pressures first identified in the early 2000s.[4]
[1] Simcoe County Official Plan, Policy 3.5.24. Retrieved from http://www.simcoe.ca/Planning/Documents/SimcoeOfficialPlanText.pdf
[2] Neptis studied the land budgets of all 16 Simcoe County municipalities for the period 2011-2013 (http://www.simcoe.ca/dpt/pln/growth) to understand how much growth is being directed to the UBUA. The gross land budget does not identify how many intensification units are being assigned to the delineated built-up area relative to the undelineated built-up area. To understand that breakdown, Neptis looked at Registered and Draft-Approved development applications, which make up about 13,200 intensification units or 51% of all planned intensification units in Simcoe County; 8,500 unit or 65% of Registered and Draft Approved units were being directed to the UBUA, of which 83 percent were single detached houses.
[3] Rian Allen and Philippa Campsie, Implementing the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe: Has the strategic regional vision been compromised? Neptis, 2013. Retrieved from: https://www.neptis.org/publications/how-will-growth-be-accommodated/chap...
[4] Leah Birnbaum, Lorenzo Nicolet, Zack Taylor, Simcoe County: The New Growth Frontier, Neptis 2004. See section 3.2.1.
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On September 4-5 of this year, the final event of the International Specialized Exhibition EXPO-2017 / Future Energy Forum "CREATING THE FUTURE" was held in Astana, at which the MANIFEST EXPO-2017 project was adopted.
Within the framework of the forum, the Scientific and Educational Center "Green Academy" jointly with the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan and JSC "Samruk-Energo" held a session on "Institutional and economic mechanisms for transition to low-carbon development". The conference was moderated by Member of the Council on the transition to a green economy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Director of the SEC "Green Academy", Doctor of Economic Sciences, Bakhyt Yessekina and Adviser to the Chairman of the Board of JSC "Samruk-Energo", Maxat Touzelbaev.
At the opening of the session, welcoming remarks were made by: Deputy Chairman of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Erkin Sadykov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Republic of Kazakhstan Francis Etienne, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Kazakhstan Rolf Mafael, Adviser to the Chairman of the Board of JSC "Samruk-Energo", General Director of LLP "Samruk-Green Energy", Doctor of Economics Zhomart Mominbaev.
The session discussed political-economic and institutional measures to promote "green" energy and the transition to low-carbon development at the national and global levels, in particular, the prospects for the development of “green” energy and decarbonization in the UAE (pro-rector of the Institute MAZDAR (OAU) Behzhat al-Yusuf) and Germany (Director of the Representative Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Kazakhstan Thomas Helm), priorities and instruments of the low-carbon development strategy in the Russian Federation (Director of the Climate and Energy Program WWF (Russia) Alexey Kokorin), projects of deep decarbonization in developed countries (expert on decarbonization projects IDDR (France) Henry Vaisman) and countries of Central Asia (director of the Center for Environmental Economics and Nature Management of the Higher School of Economics (RF) Georgy Safonov), CTCN opportunities for the transfer of "green" technologies (Head of the Subregional Office of UNEP Nataliya Alekseeva), initiatives and achievements on clean coal technologies in the European Union (Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Fuel Cells and Co-Enrichment of Hydrogen EU (Romania) Eden Mamut).
The discussion was attended by representatives of government agencies, the directorate of the administrative buildings of the Administration of the President and Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs "Atameken", JSC "Karachaganak Petroleum", BI-group, scientists, experts, NGOs from the participating countries EXPO-2017.
Within the framework of the event, on September 5, in partnership with LLC «Termotechnika» (Russia), a training was successfully conducted under the supervision of the Director for Research and Development of Valentin Kim on the topic "Smart technologies for improving the energy efficiency of buildings" for the staff of the RSE "Directorate of Administrative Buildings of the Administration of the President and Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan" Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan", representatives of business companies.
The participants of the training got acquainted with new Russian and European developments and achievements in the field of energy saving and promotion of "green"; engineering technologies, as well as the creation of infrastructure eco-projects.
Following the session, recommendations were adopted for inclusion in the final document - MANIFEST EXPO -2017.
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Members of the Research Team
Dr. Danielle Cooper, Director of Research, Tow Youth Justice Institute
Dr. Danielle Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and the Director of Research at the Tow Youth Justice Institute at the University of New Haven. Dr. Cooper received her BS in Justice Systems (with a minor in Business Administration) in 2009 and her M.A. in Criminology from the University of Florida in 2011. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology (with a minor in Organizational Leadership for Nonprofits) from the University of Florida in 2015. During her time in school, she was selected to serve as a McNair Baccalaureate Scholar (as an undergraduate) and a McKnight Doctoral Fellow (as a graduate student), both of which are programs focused on increasing minorities in academia. She currently conducts research in the areas of youths and young adults, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, criminological theory, and sex offending. In addition to her work as a Professor and the Director of Research at the University of New Haven, she is also a Certified Prevention Professional who works with nonprofits and community organizations as a prevention trainer and evaluation consultant. Through her work in the community, she has collaborated with key stakeholders, such as youth and their parents, law enforcement, mental health professionals, and youth serving organizations.
Sarah J. Giarrusso is a Ph.D. Fellow (Criminal Justice) who plans to graduate in December of 2019. Sarah was working as a Fellow with forensic research when she was recommended to the TYJI based on her interest in juvenile justice. She has been a Research Fellow for the TYJI for the past two years. Sarah has a dual career plan: 1to pursue a career in academia within the fields of criminology/criminal justice with a special interest in youth justice and 2to work as an analyst for the government. The exposure to practitioners through the TYJI has shaped her future career goals.
Sara R. Jefferies is a Criminal Justice Ph.D student who is expected to graduate in the year 2020. Sara has been a part of TOW for four years, she I started as a volunteer and developed the first webpage for TYJI at the University of New Haven, and then moved into a Fellowship/Student Research position. TYJI has enabled Sara the ability to build research, writing and policy skills in juvenile justice to aid in her future career plans. After graduating from the University of New Haven, she plans to research, become a professor and obtain a position in policy reforming.
Lanmeng Ma is a Criminal Justice, Ph.D. student who is expected to graduate May of 2019. Lanmeng was assigned to the research team as a Ph.D. fellow for two semesters. Outside of TOW, she teaches and researches with other professors here at the University of New Haven. Lanmeng has much experience with studying juvenile justice related issues and got chances to attend JJPOC and its workgroups' meetings to have first-hand information of juvenile justice system reforms in Connecticut. Her experiences as TOW has enhanced her interests in preventing juvenile delinquency. In the future, she hopes to conduct additional research related to Criminal Justice issues and become a professor.
Melissa Pierre is a graduate student who is expected to receive her M.S in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Forensic Psychology in May of 2018 and has been serving as a graduate intern here at Tow Youth Justice Institute for three semesters. She is also a part of the nationally known Criminal Justice Honor Society, Alpha Tau. Melissa has been working on multiple research projects and is also part of the social media team for the Development and Communications content of TYJI. In the future, she plans to receive her Ph.D. in hopes that she will be able to advocate, advise, and counsel children and families. Juvenile justice is important to her, and she enjoys learning about the mental health aspect of criminal behavior and plans to integrate at-risk youth back into their communities with adequate treatment.
Yasmin Ramadan is a graduate student who is expected to graduate in May of 2020. She has been a part of TYJI research team for two semesters and joined TOW because she found the institution to be of interest to her future career goals. Yasmin prior job experiences involved working with the Center for Analytics. Yasmine future endeavors include volunteering with the FBI or police department and focusing on investigating crimes that are relevant or not so relevant to youth. Yasmine believes being on the research team has given her many opportunities and has also given her the ability to open her eyes to many different perspectives when it comes to dealing with youth and thinking about ways to rehabilitate them and divert them in the right direction.
Victoria Cone is an undergraduate student studying Criminal Justice (Family and Juvenile Justice) and minoring in Psychology. She is expected to graduate in May of 2018 and has been a part of TOW for two semesters. She is an active member of Alpha Lambda Delta First Year Honor Society, a sister of Phi Sigma Sigma, on the E-Board for Gamma Sigma Alpha Greek Honor Society, and a member of the Honors Program here at the University of New Haven. Victoria’s ultimate goal is to be a Juvenile Probation Office. She has also recognized that working at TOW has affirmed for her that working with juvenile offenders is the path I want to take/continue.
Other research contributors
Dr. Kendell L. Coker, J.D., Assistant Professor
Dr. Kevin Barnes-Ceeny, Assistant Professor
Dr. Kento Yasuhara, Associate Professor
Sarah J. Giarrusso is a Ph.D. Fellow
"I've learned advanced analytic skills from the projects I've worked on - skills that go beyond the classroom. I've managed undergraduate interns on a research project; been a note-taker for numerous focus groups; assisted in the department's revision of the juvenile justice course; led video review sessions on restraint in juvenile facilities; and worked other various projects for the TYJI. The TYJI has provided field exposure to practitioners I would not have received through my studies."
Melissa Pierre
"Tow Youth Justice Institute’s (TYJI) research team has given me many transferrable skills such as coding data, oral presenting, contributing to manuscripts, and researching. As a master student, I have had the opportunity to work besides undergraduate and Ph.D. students, as well as with faculty and staff at the University of New Haven and TYJI. Many of the tasks I worked on involved analyzing data and written reports, I was also granted the opportunity to present my research on "Mental Health Symptoms, Delinquency and Recidivism among Justice-Involved Minority" at the American Criminology Society (ASC). TYJI has given me the opportunity to work with many people in the field of Criminal Justice. I hope to use research as a way to implement behavioral plans that will help children and families transition and ultimately succeed in life despite psychological, developmental, or behavioral issues they may face."
Victoria Cone
"Being a part of the research team has taught me and helped me develop so many valuable skills, including time management, effective communication, and has helped me develop critical thinking skills. Within my position, I have been a part of various research projects where I have needed to search for relevant information, provide outlines, enter data onto SPSS, review others' work, and more. Working with the Tow Institute and learning so much more about the juvenile justice field has benefited me in the sense that it has affirmed that I do, in fact, either want to work with justice-involved youth or continue to do work that impacts them."
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Posted in Expected or Intended, Life insurance
If you’re involved in the legal business for any length of time, every once in a while, you’ll come across a case in which the facts are so horrible, and the result so seemingly wrongheaded, that you can’t help but feel that our entire system has failed. A recent decision from the Third Circuit, Arena v. RiverSource Life Insurance Co., which you can read here, sadly falls into that category.
Christine Arena was a successful in-house attorney for Time Warner. She had a wonderful family, with four healthy children, and was active in the Catholic Church and in her community, including serving as the President of a charitable foundation.
Because of some issues with anxiety, possibly caused by financial stress, Christine made an appointment to see a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist prescribed Klonopin and Zoloft. These medications have the potential for serious side effects, including depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. There are also concerns that Zoloft can lead to anxiety and impulsivity. Christine’s anxiety didn’t abate, so the psychiatrist increased the dosage, and added another antidepressant to the mix.
Christine continued to work, but not long after being prescribed the drugs, and when her family was not home, she took two of her husband’s leather belts, wrapped them around her neck, and hanged herself. She was discovered by her eleven-year-old daughter. She died nine days later. The police report listed the incident as a suicide attempt, and the medical examiner listed her manner of death as suicide, although neither the police nor the M.E. made any inquiry into her state of mind.
Christine had two life insurance policies from RiverSource, but both contained a suicide exclusion clause. The clause in one of the policies, for example, provided: “If the insured, whether sane or insane, dies by suicide within 2 years from the Policy Date, our liability is limited to an amount equal to the total premiums paid.” The other policy contained a similar clause.
The insurance company denied coverage, based on the suicide exclusions. Christine’s husband Gianfranco then filed suit in state court, and the insurance company promptly removed the case to federal court (of course), which is generally considered to be a more hospitable forum for carriers.
The federal court granted summary judgment to the insurance company, and the ruling has now been affirmed by the appeals court. This is so, despite the fact that New Jersey law requires, as an element of suicide, that the decedent had an actual intent to end her life. Here, Mr. Arena had expert medical evidence that Christine suffered from a medication-induced disorder that altered her state of consciousness to the point that she was unable to understand the consequences of her actions. He also had testimony from Christine’s treating physicians, who confirmed that, because of the ill effects of the drugs, Christine was not capable of understanding the consequences of hanging herself. Lastly, Mr. Arena had testimony from Christine’s family, friends and colleagues, all of whom said that she would never have intended to end her own life had she been thinking clearly.
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin once supposedly said: “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Which is another way of saying, you may think you have a decent case. But the only thing that matters is who’s really making the decision.
In the view of the federal appeals court judge, the medical evidence was not “legally material,” so there was no need to allow a jury trial. The Court wrote: “The parties do not dispute that Christine took two of her husband’s leather belts, moved a chair from another bedroom into a bathroom, fastened the belts together and wrapped one around her neck, and arranged the belts in a manner to effect a hanging. Nor do they dispute that she in fact stepped off the chair and hanged herself. These actions are sufficient circumstantial evidence to establish not only that Christine had ‘awareness’ that those actions would end her life but also that she intended to do so.”
They are? That seems circular. The question isn’t whether she did those things. The question is whether she consciously knew what she was doing. In my non-judicial opinion, a jury should have been allowed to assess the credibility of the medical evidence. I note that the Court waited until page 11 of a 12-page decision to write, dismissively: “True enough, in actions for insurance benefits, the insurance company bears the burden of proving that an exclusion to coverage applies.”
As someone who’s practiced in New Jersey for 30 years, I can tell you that a state court judge would’ve been far more likely to allow this case to go to a jury.
I obviously do not wear judicial robes, and I mean no disrespect to the highly regarded federal judge who wrote the opinion. But we are all a product of our experience and background. Here, the judge was a former prosecutor, and also, while in private practice, a Delaware corporate lawyer who had specialized in intellectual property law. He was appointed to the bench by President Bush in 2006. In short, someone who may not be fond of gray areas. And, sadly for Mr. Arena and his children, getting a federal appeals court decision overturned is nearly impossible.
The bottom line is this. Insurance companies want to litigate their claims in federal court for a reason. The judges there tend to be more conservative and more insurance-company-friendly. (That is not even remotely suggesting that anything improper took place here. I am only saying that judges are people too, and they have a worldview that informs their decisions.) Any time you allow a judge or jury to decide your case, whether in state court or federal court, though, you’ve just given up control of the matter, and you have no idea what will happen. So, if you can settle a claim, you should seriously think about it. Some claims, like this one, are difficult to settle, because the insurance company knows it has no real financial incentive to compromise. The carrier figures, from an economic perspective, why not file for summary judgment, which will likely be granted, and if we lose, then we can talk settlement? But as a policyholder, you should still try to push settlement talks at the appropriate time. See whether you can get the numbers into a range where you have a decision to make.
I know that’s unfair. You paid for the coverage. Why should you have to compromise?
But it’s the real world.
Tags: life insurance, suicide
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Woman outraged by Kmart’s ‘disgusting’ customer service response
Sydney woman Georgia Rochelle emailed Kmart with a complaint. The “disgusting” response from the retail giant left her shocked.
Zoe Simmons
news.com.auMarch 19, 20192:29pm
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Georgia knows she's ’fat’ but doesn't think that gives people the right to bully her.Source:Supplied
Georgia Rochelle, 23, is no stranger to negative comments about her body, but even she wasn’t expecting the “fat-shaming” comments a Kmart customer service representative sent her in a “disgusting” email.
Georgia, a size 24, had been searching for the plus-size section in her local store and was disappointed to find it consisted of “half a rack of ugly clothes” concealed behind rows and rows of smaller size clothing.
When it came to activewear, there was nothing that would fit her at all, so she decided to message Kmart’s Facebook page to voice her complaints.
Initially, she received a welcoming response, asking for more feedback to improve Kmart’s range. But when a follow-up email came early Monday morning, she was sickened by what she read.
“While we try to cater for as many people as possible please understand people come in all shapes and sizes and we can’t cater for absolutely everyone,” a customer service representative wrote.
“It is not entirely our job to make you feel good about yourself.”
Kmart's 'disgusting' email to Georgia.Source:Supplied
“Honestly, I was shocked,” Georgia told news.com.au. “I asked a simple question and his words made me feel like I was in high school again.”
Georgia says she does feel good about herself. In fact, she loves her body, and all it’s done for her. She’s not embarrassed — she’s angry.
“It’s so insulting I can say something about there being a limited range for plus-sized people, and they acquaint that with feeling bad about my body, which isn’t the case at all,” she says.
“I don’t think your size is something to be embarrassed about. All it shows is that prejudice (against fat people) doesn’t go away — even when you’re supposed to be professional.”
Georgia knows she's "fat" but doesn't think that gives people the right to bully her. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
Georgia loves her curves and is proud of what her body has done for her. Picture: The Photo StudioSource:Supplied
Shortly after receiving the shaming response, Georgia posted it onto her social media page, receiving swells of support.
“That is so beyond not okay!” one person commented.
“It’s not even got anything to do with not feeling good about yourself. It’s literally about not having anything to f***ing wear because big companies only care about selling straight-sized clothes.”
“You don’t deserve any of this. All you wanted was to know where to find your size.”
Some, however, took the post as an opportunity to make fun of Georgia’s size — something she’s used to but has zero tolerance for.
“Stop pretending it’s our health you’re worried about,” she says. “If you really cared about our health, you wouldn’t be making disgusting comments, and you’d take mental health into consideration. Someone else’s health is none of your business anyway.
“Let people live and let people feel good about themselves. Stop assuming that fat people hate themselves, just because you think we should.”
Georgia was ‘disgusted’ by Kmart's response to her complaint.Source:Supplied
Georgia hates that everyone assumes she dislikes her body when she is proud of it.Source:Supplied
A Kmart spokesperson issued the following statement to news.com.au on the incident:
“We are truly sorry for these comments and have spoken directly to this customer to apologise. This does not reflect Kmart’s views at all. We want every customer that interacts with Kmart to have a pleasurable shopping experience, and on this occasion, we have not lived up to this commitment.”
Unfortunately, bullying and snide comments are nothing new to body-positive Georgia.
“I’ve had strangers stop me in the supermarkets and tell me I’m going to die because of my size, completely unsolicited,” she says.
“It’s not about ‘promoting obesity’. It’s about treating others with respect and kindness, recognising the blatant hatred overweight people face on a daily basis. It costs nothing to be kind.
“All I’m doing is existing as a fat person and asking to be respected as a human being.”
Georgia wishes people would stop trying to make her feel bad about herself. Picture: The Photo StudioSource:Supplied
Georgia says that since raising her concerns, Kmart has offered her a personal apology and invited her to join a special focus group to improve the brand’s plus-size range — which Georgia intends to do.
“Fat people deserve better,” she said. “It’s 2019. Let’s have clothes that make us feel good and happy.”
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Gender justice with open eyes
Associate Professor Lillian Artz is director of the Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit (in the health sciences faculty).
Science and advocacy need not be mutually exclusive, argues Associate Professor Lillian Artz
Science' and 'advocacy' are two terms not often associated with each other. Some argue that the two should be completely divorced: science is the objective, systematic and testable study of 'things', while advocacy is thought to be 'motivated' and pre-determined, even specious in its supposed subjectivity and inclination towards pragmatic reform of social policies, projects and interventions.
Significant criticism has been levelled against certain (largely social science) research that aims to use 'evidence' to shift human rights law and discourse.
Evidence-based advocacy is often misinterpreted to mean 'policy research', which has been viewed as something less academic and atheoretical than conventional scientific research. In turn, policy research is considered something for the state, rather than about the state, and is thought to be too closely allied with state or lobby-driven research priorities.
There are, of course, justifiable cautions against evidence-led policy reform research, where researchers tread the delicate line between being policy-led technicians of reform, and building sound evidence that may promote social change. Within these tales of caution is a heightened concern over 'subjectivity' and lack of rigour. Also inherent in this contention is that policy work is devoid of critical analysis. Yet there are many examples of how scientific evidence has supported policy development, and contributes to transformation and social change. There are ample examples of this at UCT. Pioneering research focusing on children's rights, the environment, land redistribution, labour, women's equality and gender-based violence, access to health care, social development and poverty alleviation, education, HIV - just to name a few - have had immeasurable and lasting impact on social justice policies in South Africa. They reflect 'socially responsive' scholarship, in which research, social policy reform and nation [re]building become interdependent and mutually reinforcing projects.
Reflecting for a moment on the work of the Gender, Health & Justice Research Unit - an interdisciplinary Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences that conducts progressive research on access to health and justice services for survivors of gender-based violence as well as violence prevention - I am continually challenged about whether our reform-minded tendencies remain outside of what is considered critical, scientific and theoretically-grounded scholarship. We have deliberated at length whether research aimed at the reform or development of social policy is intrinsically 'motivated', and whether it can contribute to theory-building as well as promote democratic accountability.
Yet we are also swayed by the notion that given the extraordinary levels of violence against women, we do not have the luxury of positioning the 'theoretical vs. the pragmatic' nor juxtaposing epistemological projects with socially transformative ones.
Part of our research and (evidence-based) advocacy has included(re)shaping notions about how the state should respond to crime and violence, about shifting social and cultural conceptions of violence, as well as providing concrete illustrations of women's structural inequality in relation to it. Empirically rigorous critique has also been necessary in order to hold the state accountable, not only in terms of law and policy reform, but in ensuring its enforcement through monitoring research.
Our 'science' has contributed to crucial debates surrounding the substance of the law and policies, as well as how violence against women is defined and responded to. We have used our research to provide the state with compelling arguments for the need for critical changes in the treatment of victims of gender-based violence.
Our research has also supported the drafting of legislation, monitoring its implementation and efficacy, submissions to government departments about the handling of cases, training of criminal justice and health practitioners, and public interest litigation; all to ensure that women's constitutional right to be free from violence are realised in law, social policy and in practice. We have done this through empirically-based statements about the reality of women's lives and their engagement with criminal justice and public health services.
For the unit, scientific research and advocacy have been compatible projects. We have seen how ethnographic research with women in prison has made some impact on prison conditions for women, as well as on the gradual implementation of the UN Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (the Bangkok Rules); we have illustrated that monitoring the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act has decreased the attrition of cases in the criminal justice system and improved access to justice in some districts; we have seen how evidence-based socio-legal submissions to government have completely reformed the law on sexual offences; and we are starting to see the gradual domestication of the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT) in South and East Africa, through the creation of instruments to assist these states in implementing these international norms and obligations.
We are not only starting to witness how evidence-based efforts to reform legislation, policy and approaches to violence prevention are instigating and building theoretical and social discourse on crime and violence; we are gradually demonstrating that research can be both rigorous and transformative.
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Giant’s Causeway souvenir shop ‘pushed aside’ for public toilets after 70 years
Picture courtesy of Tommy McConaghy
Published: 09:00 Tuesday 09 January 2018
A small, family business popular with visitors to the Giant’s Causeway says it is being pushed aside by an uncaring National Trust.
The family who run the small but popular McConaghy’s Souvenir Shop has been told they must vacate the premises to make way for public toilets.
Tommy McConaghy, who runs the shop, said it has been a family business for 70 years and that his family’s connection with the Giant’s Causeway goes back even farther.
“The business has always been in the family,” Mr McConaghy told the News Letter. “My grandfather was caretaker-manager at the stones from 1912 and my father built the first store in 1947.
“It is not right the way we’re being treated.”
He added: “They have plenty of room here for toilets. I don’t know how they can say they can’t build toilets anywhere else. We’re just being pushed to one side.
“We gave them (the National Trust) a lot of information about the site and we supplied them with old photographs, and this is how they treat us.”
A spokesperson for the National Trust said: “The current lease on McConaghy’s shop expired in November 2017 and the National Trust advised the leaseholder that due to current and future visitor needs they were not in a position to renew the lease.
“The National Trust submitted a planning application for change of use of the space adjacent to the Causeway Hotel, in order to provide baby changing facilities and additional male, female and accessible WCs.
“This is in response to growing visitor numbers and requests for facilities to be available outside visitor centre opening hours.
“The National Trust acknowledges the contribution that the McConaghy family has made at the site and confirms the decision to submit the planning application was not taken lightly, but with good intent to address increasing visitor pressures.”
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"Momo" Suicide Game: Teens Targeted on WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube
By Jenni Fink On 8/3/18 at 2:06 PM EDT
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Authorities in multiple countries, including the United States, have issued warnings about a new "game" spreading on social media called Momothat encourages people to physically harm or kill themselves.
The game asks Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp users to add to their contacts one of several numbers, according to CBS affiliate KXMD. The person behind the contact, known as the "controller," then sends violent images and messages asking the person on the receiving end, or the "player," to kill themselves and post images or videos of them doing so. The controller also often claims to know things about the player and threatens to release the information if he or she doesn't do what the controller says, according to KXMD.
The avatar used in the game is a sculpted image of a woman with bulging eyes and a thin, creepy smile spreading from ear to ear. The work is taken from Japanese artist Midori Hayashi, who nicknamed the sculpture Momo. Hayashi is not in any way associated with the game.
In Russia, the game has allegedly been linked to at least 130 deaths, and Argentinian authorities are investigating whether a 12-year-old girl who recently killed herself was prompted to do so by the game, according to the Buenos Aires Times.
"The phone has been hacked to find footage and WhatsApp chats, and now the alleged adolescent with whom she exchanged those messages is being sought," police said in a statement to the Buenos Aires Times.
On Thursday, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida tweeted that it has not received any reports of the game but explained that officials wanted to share the warning about Momo with the community. "We want to remind parents to always be aware of what their kids are doing on social media," the tweet concluded.
Spain's Civil Guard law enforcement agency also warned about the game and tweeted for people not to download Momo.
This photo illustration shows apps for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai, India, on March 22. The “Momo” challenge involves an anonymous person sending messages to someone else encouraging the recipient to kill themselves. ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty Images
Authorities are comparing Momo to the Blue Whale Challenge, which popped up in 2015. That game also took place over social media and involved an administrator and a victim. Each day for a total of 50 days, the administrator set up a different task for the participant to do, with tasks becoming increasingly difficult. It included the participant carving a whale symbol into his or her arm, according to Forbes.
The last task the administrator of the Blue Whale Challenge requested the participant do is kill themselves. Participants were threatened with the release of personal information or photos if they did not complete each task. The challenge resulted in hundreds of deaths in Russia, according to KXMD.
If you have thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255. The line is available 24 hours, every day. If someone you know appears to be contemplating suicide, visit Bethe1To.com for assistance.
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Westgate Capital Fund Manager Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to $133 Million Ponzi Scheme
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JAMES NICHOLSON—the President, Senior Portfolio Manager, and sole managing member of investment firm Westgate Capital Management LLC—pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court before United States District Judge RICHARD J. SULLIVAN to three felony charges, including securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, and mail fraud, involving losses of approximately $133 million.
According to the Complaint and Indictment previously filed in this case, as well as statements made during NICHOLSON's guilty plea proceeding:
Starting at least in 2004, NICHOLSON, among other things, represented to investors that Westgate Capital, a money management firm he founded in New York City, had assets under management ranging from $600 to $900 million. In truth and in fact, however, the true value of its assets was materially less. NICHOLSON also provided a private offering memorandum to investors in one of Westgate Capital's funds, Westgate Strategic Growth Fund, LP, that falsely stated that the Fund was audited by an independent accounting firm located in New York, New York. Marketing brochures for the Strategic Growth Fund also claimed positive returns for each month from January 2004 through August 2008, and a similar brochure for another Westgate fund showed uniformly positive returns for every month (except September 2001) from October 1999 through December 2007. In truth and in fact, however, performance of the funds was materially lower than represented. As a result of NICHOLSON's Ponzi scheme, investors suffered losses of approximately $133 million.
NICHOLSON pleaded guilty to the offenses set forth below, which contain the following maximum penalties:
COUNT OFFENSE COUNT OFFENSE MAXIMUM PENALTY
One Securities Fraud 20 years in prison; fine of greater
of $5 million or twice gross gain
or loss from offense
Two Investment Adviser
Fraud 5 years in prison; fine of $10,000
Three Mail Fraud 30 years in prison; fine of greater
In addition, NICHOLSON admitted to allegations in the Indictment seeking forfeiture of the proceeds of and property involved in the charged crimes.
NICHOLSON, 43, of Saddle River, New Jersey, is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge SULLIVAN on April 30, 2010.
"James Nicholson swindled his victims out of $133 million by making false assurances and claiming false profits," said United States Attorney PREET BHARARA. "Today's guilty plea is another important step in our ongoing effort to bring justice to victims of Ponzi schemes."
Mr. BHARARA praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and thanked the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for its assistance in the investigation of this case.
Assistant United States Attorneys MARIA DOUVAS and JOSHUA KLEIN are in charge of the prosecution.
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Trump Claims UN Just a Club for People to ‘Have a Good Time’
"As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th," the president-elect said.
By Vivian Salma • Published at 4:29 am on December 27, 2016
Donald Trump is questioning its effectiveness of the United Nations, saying it's just a club for people to "have a good time," after the U.N. Security Council voted last week to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem,
The president-elect wrote Monday on Twitter that the U.N. has "such great potential," but it has become "just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!"
On Friday, Trump warned, "As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th," referring to the day he takes office.
The decision by the Obama administration to abstain from Friday's U.N. vote brushed aside Trump's demands that the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a climax to years of icy relations with Israel's leadership.
Meanwhile, the billionaire businessman took to Twitter Monday evening to say he believes his election as president has benefited the economy.
"The world was gloomy before I won — there was no hope," he said in a verified post on his Twitter account. "Now, the market is up nearly 10 percent and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars."
Markets are up since Trump won the general election, although not quite by that much. The Standard & Poor's 500 is up about 6 percent since Election Day, while the Dow has risen more than 8 percent.
As for holiday spending, auditing and accounting firm Deloitte projected in September that total 2016 holiday sales were expected to exceed $1 trillion, representing a 3.6 percent to 4.0 percent increase in holiday sales from November through January.
Trump also used social media to complain anew about criticism of the Donald J. Trump Foundation. In one post, he said, "The DJT Foundation, unlike most foundations, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. 100 % of the money goes to wonderful charities."
He also tweeted that "I gave millions of dollars to DJT Foundation, raised or received millions more. ALL of which is given to charity, and media won't report."
Trump had said Saturday that he wanted to dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month.
He said in a statement that he has directed his counsel to take the necessary steps to implement the dissolution of the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
The Democratic National Committee criticized him for what it called "a wilted fig leaf to cover up his remaining conflicts of interest and his pitiful record of charitable giving."
A 2015 tax return posted on the nonprofit monitoring website GuideStar shows the Donald J. Trump Foundation acknowledged that it used money or assets in violation of IRS regulations — not only during 2015, but in prior years. Those regulations prohibit self-dealing by the charity. That's broadly defined as using its money or assets to benefit Trump, his family, his companies or substantial contributors to the foundation.
The tax filing doesn't provide details on the violations. Whether Trump benefited from the foundation's spending has been the subject of an investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
On the Middle East, Trump told The Associated Press last December that he wanted to be "very neutral" on Israel-Palestinian issues. But his tone became decidedly more pro-Israel as the presidential campaign progressed. He has spoken disparagingly of Palestinians, saying they have been "taken over" by or are condoning militant groups.
Trump's tweet Monday about the U.N. ignores much of the work that goes on in the 193-member global organization.
This year the U.N. Security Council has approved over 70 legally binding resolutions, including new sanctions on North Korea and measures tackling conflicts and authorizing the U.N.'s far-flung peacekeeping operations around the world. The General Assembly has also approved dozens of resolutions on issues, like the role of diamonds in fueling conflicts; condemned human rights abuses in Iran and North Korea; and authorized an investigation of alleged war crimes in Syria.
Trump's criticism of the U.N. is by no means unique. While the organization does engage in large-scale humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts, its massive bureaucracy has long been a source of controversy. The organization has been accused by some Western governments of being inefficient and frivolous, while developing nations have said it is overly influenced by wealthier nations.
The president-elect is spending the holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Trump: A Fool or a Liar on Climate? Take Your Pick.
The president either completely misunderstands the Paris Agreement or has chosen to flagrantly mischaracterize it.
Jeff Turrentine
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Of all the mistruths, misapprehensions, and misrepresentations put forth by President Trump as he announced our nation’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement last week, perhaps none is more jaw-dropping than his assertion—stated numerous times and in various ways—that living up to our end of the treaty would somehow harm the United States economy and sacrifice American jobs.
People lie and dissemble for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes out of desperate self-protection. Sometimes for self-enrichment. Sometimes to make one look smarter than one actually is.
None of those rationales, in this instance, seem to apply. The president, plagued by the growing Russia scandal and smarting from his inability to further his legislative agenda, needed to deliver on a campaign promise, no matter how ridiculously ill-considered that promise may have been. And so he reached for his favorite punching bag—America’s environmental policy—and smirkingly abused it once more, this time from the White House Rose Garden, in front of TV cameras.
If we define “the short-term” as half an hour or so, then President Trump’s pathetic spectacle was a short-term victory, in that no one in attendance audibly booed him as he slinked back to the safety of the Oval Office. But fact-checkers soon kicked into gear and solidly refuted the president’s stated reasons for pulling out. Surprise, surprise: Nearly every one of them appears manifestly falsifiable. And in several instances, the reality of the situation is in fact the exact opposite of what the president says it is.
TRUMP ASSERTION #1: “The Paris climate accord is simply the latest example of Washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers—who I love—and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production.”
REALITY: Sticking with the Paris climate agreement would help create jobs, boost investment, spur innovation, and stimulate the economy. More than three million Americans work in a renewable energy sector that employs almost ten million people worldwide—up from seven million just four years ago—and that is currently valued at $1.4 trillion a year. In 2015, 68 percent of all new power generation in the United States came from renewables, which have comprised more than half of all new power capacity in this country for nearly a decade. That same year, American investment in renewables approached $44 billion, making our country the second-largest investor in clean energy on the planet.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris basically ignores these astounding numbers—and, for all intents and purposes, cedes the dynamic and rapidly expanding clean energy market to other countries (ahem, China). These other nations recognize this once-in-a-century opportunity, and are busy building up the resources and workforces to seize it.
TRUMP ASSERTION #2: “I cannot in good conscience support a deal that punishes the United States—which is what it does—the world’s leader in environmental protection, while imposing no meaningful obligations on the world’s leading polluters.”
REALITY: Oh boy. This is one of those statements that almost—almost—makes you pity the president for not being able to depend on his support staff, which any other major world leader would be able to consult with before making such a huge announcement. If Trump had just spent 20 minutes talking to anyone familiar with the mechanics of the Paris Agreement before his Rose Garden appearance, he would have presumably learned why this “deal” isn’t like others that he’s been a party to in the past. As a real-estate tycoon, Donald Trump likely defined the word “deal” as two parties doing whatever they can to get the most out of one another without destroying the relationship altogether. To him, a successful deal is one that allows him to take advantage of someone else: to pay less than he’s expected to, to get more than he’s entitled to, to neutralize a rival.
The Paris Agreement was a very different kind of deal. For one thing, our emissions-reduction commitments were calculated and derived by us, without coercion or pressure from any other signatory or international body. Those commitments were not only voluntary but also flexible enough to withstand modification, if modification was deemed necessary. Other countries approached their own climate commitments in the same way.
The climate agreement isn’t about one guy trying to squeeze the other guy or bleed him dry but rather about a bunch of parties coming together, in a spirit of cooperation and good faith, to generate a positive outcome that benefits all within a framework of shared, realistic effort. Which brings us, alas, to:
TRUMP ASSERTION #3: “The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement— they went wild; they were so happy—for the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage.”
REALITY: Of all Trump’s despicable untruths, this is the most despicable. There is one reason, and one reason only, why the rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement. The United States is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet and the largest historically. In addition to making its sizeable carbon-reduction commitment in Paris, our country was also instrumental in persuading other nations to make their own. In doing so, the Obama administration was exhibiting its understanding that the agreement couldn’t work unless every nation (or almost every nation) had a stake in its success, and that its stake was proportional to the size of its economy and carbon footprint. And so the United States pushed other countries hard, after pushing itself even harder.
In other words, we were exhibiting leadership. That’s why the other nations applauded so loudly that day, Mr. President: They were witnessing leadership. Perhaps it’s a sound you’ve yet to hear.
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DevOps is Reshaping IT and Fueling Dynamic Learning Organizations
Best-selling author and technology workplace researcher Gene Kim talks about his new book, The Unicorn Project, and how the DevOps movement is revolutionizing how IT organizations bring business value.
By Ken Kaplan October 01 2019
DevOps has been described as the realignment of IT around business value. Gene Kim sees it as a management approach that’s more agile and boundary-crossing than traditional command-and-control methods built around siloes. He said this new DevOps approach helps developers and operations professionals work faster while maintaining secure and reliable IT systems. But it’s also much more than that.
Kim is an author, researcher, former CTO and founder of security company Tripwire, and a devoted advocate for IT best practices. He thinks the world is still a long way from exploiting the true promise of technology, and this drives him to find answers everywhere he goes.
He co-authored the bestseller, The Phoenix Project, a fiction book that describes the challenges of dealing with legacy IT and rebellious human nature that sparked the rise of DevOps. His non-fiction The DevOps Handbook is a go-to guide on the subject. His 2019 release, The Unicorn Project, is a fictional tale about developers and business leaders who join forces in a race against time during a period of unprecedented uncertainty and opportunity.
Decades of research show high-performing technology organizations collaborating across teams with different specialties. This is at the core of DevOps, and he said it’s playing a bigger role as companies deal with digital transformation.
“DevOps is a set of cultural and technical practices and cultural norms that allow us to deliver application services quickly to customers while preserving world-class reliability and security stability,” said Kim, at the Nutanix .NEXT 2019 DevOps event in Anaheim.
Gene Kim on How DevOps is Reshaping IT
Ten years ago, most people believed that was impossible.
“These days, it’s increasingly commonplace in not just the tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, but in every large, complex organization out there.”
The Phoenix Project outlined what the world was like before DevOps. Kim said new software and hardware releases are scary now, but were much worse a few decades ago. IT teams would take months to prepare and often weeks to execute properly.
“It was a risky activity that would cause fear and tsunamis of unplanned work, if not a catastrophe,” he said. “Often, it came at a huge cost and took a toll on everyone involved.”
That meant the people inside technology organizations and their company’s customers.
He said whenever updates don’t take or digital releases go wrong, they inflict bad experiences on customers, and this must be avoided.
Always in a Deployable State
Things have improved even as new technologies and updates occur more frequently than ever before. Software and hardware companies are better at preparing and delivering new updates. And IT implementers now make new releases part of their daily work, said Kim.
“The notion is that we can deploy when we want to, multiple times a day, without drama, chaos, confusion and disruption,” he said. “It might not be something that the customer sees all the time, but it means that we're always in a deployable state.”
Kim said every day, DevOps teams are deploying or staging new applications and services. Maybe it’s a test environment, where customers or users can try things out before they’re generally available.
“It becomes really a business decision whether to release or not,” Kim said, “as opposed to a technology decision where the question was always, ‘Can we?’ or ‘When are we able to?’”
Kim sees enterprise software evolving to become more like Gmail, where things are changing behind the scenes all the time with little or no downtime for users.
“No more big patch updates. We're living in a world of more real-time updating.”
He said consumers are already used to this. Whenever a mobile device manufacturer or wireless services provider pushes an update, they just accept with a click of a button.
“Sometimes it might baffle us and it's like, ‘Where did my button go?’ But I think we now have accepted it as a part of daily life: software updates. In general, that’s a good thing.”
The Unicorn Project
In The Unicorn Project, Kim describes the feelings and motivations that drive DevOps today. The book outlines five ideals: locality, outcomes, culture of innovation, psychological safety and focus on customers.
A sense of locality, that everything is at our fingertips, is critical.
“Everything that we want to work on is at hand within our team, within the small area of code, as opposed to scattered everywhere,” said Kim.
He said shifting to DevOps puts the focus on outcomes, workflows and joy for the work, as opposed to boardroom drudgery, fear and panic that comes from having to recover from failure.
The third ideal is creating a culture of innovation.
“That means prioritizing the improvement of daily work over daily work itself,” he said. “The opposite of that is accumulating technical debt for decades and then we go slower and slower.”
The fourth ideal is ensuring a culture of psychological safety.
“Just as psychological safety is important to the knowledge worker, physical safety is important to the manufacturing worker. You can't do great things if you have a culture of fear.”
The fifth one is a ruthless and relentless focus on the customer.
“This is in contrast to focusing on our silo,” he said. “In that mode, we think and act more like union leaders than we do business leaders. Greatness comes from really focusing on those customer needs.”
Future Shaped by DevOps
When he watches his kids learn to code and build webpages in a matter of minutes, he sees them adept at handling very fast feedback. They're used to a kind of freedom and joy that comes from using new, responsive technologies. He said this is increasing expectations for systems and work environments that make almost anything possible.
“That's great for productivity,” he said. “It's great for employee engagement. It's better for the customers we serve. This is a good thing.”
In a decade from now, Kim believes academics will say DevOps was something genuinely transformative beyond technology itself. He sees DevOps as the next mode of management, beyond command and control approaches that have dominated management for the last hundred years.
“I think they'll say it was a subset of dynamic learning organizations, of which the most famous is Toyota,” he said. “The Toyota production system is the most famous example of a dynamic learning organization, where learning is part of everyone's job and the job of the leadership is to make sure that they create a workforce that can out-learn the competition. I think that's magnificent and really sets our sights on how great this will be.”
He said it’s no secret that everyone wants less hierarchy and fewer rules, yet most organizations still cling to old ways.
“A whole bunch of schools of thought say that this (DevOps approach) is the way we're going to create genuine organizational learning.”
Ken Kaplan is Editor in Chief for The Forecast by Nutanix. Find him on Twitter @kenekaplan.
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California boy killed trying to protect younger sister from mother's abusive ex-boyfriend
Sep 25, 2017 | 9:40 AM
An 8-year-old boy in California was killed trying to protect his younger sister from their mother's ex-boyfriend.
Dante Daniels, who had just started the third grade at South Sacramento's Oakridge Elementary, was brutally beaten with a hammer during the early morning of Sept. 1. He died from his injuries six days later.
A criminal complaint states that 23-year-old Deandre Chaney Jr. was performing a criminal lewd act on Dante's 7-year-old sister when the little boy stepped in to help, Fox 40 reports.
Chaney, who pleaded no contest last year to a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, was the ex-boyfriend of Dante's mother, 28-year-old Elizabeth Salone.
"The guy beat my grandson with a hammer," Monique Brown, the children's grandmother told Fox 40. "Down to his spine. They couldn't save his brain."
The criminal complaint states that Chaney used lighter fluid during the attack, and at point turned the hammer and a knife on Dante's sister.
Dante Daniels was trying to protect his sister when he was killed. (gofundme.com/wtmdy-tragedy)
"Trying to save his sister from this child molester and that's why he was beat the worst." Brown said.
According to an arrest warrant, the children were home alone with Chaney when the attack happened. Salone had asked him to watch her children while she took her brother to work, the Sacramento Bee reports.
When she returned home, she heard one of her children crying. Salone told detectives that she was "struck at least three times" with a hammer from behind as she went to check on her child. Chaney then tied her up and poured lighter fluid on her.
Police said he grabbed her car keys and some other items and left in Salone's vehicle. Chaney was captured a day after the attack in Nevada hiding in someone's backyard.
Both Salone and her daughter survived, but Salone's left eye was damaged during the attack.
Deandre Chaney Jr. killed his ex-girlfriend’s son with a hammer. (Police Handout)
"She will probably never see out of her left eye," Brown said. "My granddaughter will need a lot of help."
Brown said even after Dante's death, he's continuing to help people. A 4-year-old boy in California received Dante's heart.
Chaney was arraigned on murder, attempted murder and charged with lewd acts with a child under 14.
The family started a GoFundMe as Salone and her daughter recover.
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Blanche Stuart Scott
Born: 8-Apr-1885 [1]
Birthplace: Rochester, NY
Died: 12-Jan-1970
Location of death: Rochester, NY
Remains: Cremated, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY
Occupation: Aviator, Daredevil
Executive summary: Auto and air daredevil
Blanche Stuart Scott was raised in an upper-income family, and her father gave her a new automobile for her 13th birthday. A license was not yet required to drive, and over the next several years Scott became a local celebrity as Rochester's only girl driver. As a young woman she moved to New York City, where she made headlines as the first auto saleswoman, and at 24 she was contracted by a major automaker, the Willys-Overland Motor Company, to drive across America in a publicity stunt. Accompanied by a female reporter, Scott drove 5,393 miles from New York to California (of which only 220 miles were on paved roads) making stops all along the way at Willys-Overland dealerships.
By the end of her journey she was nationally famous, and to extend her fame Scott enrolled in Glenn Curtiss's Curtiss Flying School. While practicing ground taxiing, a gust of wind lifted Scott and her 33-horsepower biplane about forty feet into the air, making her arguably (see Bessica Raiche) the first American woman pilot to fly solo. The exact dates are obscured, as contemporary news accounts differed and many of Scott's papers were destroyed in a fire, but she is widely credited as the first woman to pilot a long-distance flight (1911) and the first woman test pilot (1912), after she was hired to fly Glenn L. Martin's experimental planes. She spent six years barnstorming as a stunt flier on the aerial exhibition circuit, before retiring from air shows after being seriously injured in a daredevil mishap. She later worked in radio, and as a public relations spokeswoman for the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio. On 6 September 1948 she became the first woman to fly in a military jet, riding with pilot Chuck Yeager in an Air Force T-33. She never applied for a pilot's license, and was said to have never had a driver's license either.
[1] Scott frequently lied to publicists and reporters about her age, and some sources cite her birth year as 1889.
Father: John Scott (hoof paste manufacturer)
Mother: Belle Scott
Husband: (three marriages)
Plane Crash Madison, WI (31-May-1913)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #C99 (28¢, depicting Scott in front of biplane, issued 30-Dec-1980)
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Northern Vertex is supported by a team of requisite professionals experienced in all aspects of mining finance, precious metals development and strategic operations. Drawing from this depth of expertise will be paramount as the Company advances its flagship Moss Mine project from the initial mine construction phase through to commercial gold-silver production.
Kenneth Berry, BComm
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Ken Berry, B.Comm, Chairman and CEO is co-founder and has played an instrumental role in acquiring the Moss project as well as helping to raise in excess of $98 million to advance the Company's now 100% owned Moss Mine Gold-Silver project in Western Arizona from the exploration stage to final feasibility. Mr. Berry brings over 20 years of senior level experience in capital markets and mine exploration and development. Among his accomplishments, as a co-founder and current Chairman of Kootenay Silver Inc., over the past two years Mr. Berry has helped guide Kootenay through a major transitional period that included the strategic acquisition of Canadian based Northair Silver Corp. and a carried interest to production option agreement with Pan American Silver Corp.
Joseph Bardswich. P. Eng.
Director and President of Golden Vertex Corp
Mr. Bardswich has been a mining consultant since 1994 and was formerly President, CEO and Director of Gentor Resources Inc. from 2004 to 2010. Mr. Bardswich previously served as President and Director of BRC Diamond Company and Director of United Bolero Development Corp. and Verbina Resources Inc. He is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, a life member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIM) and is a "Qualified Person" as defined in NI 43-101 Standards for Mineral Disclosure. Mr. Bardswich is a graduate of the University of Windsor (B.A.Sc.,Civil Engineering) and received his Masters Degree (M.Eng. Mining) from McGill University. He has extensive experience in all facets of mining from contract miner, through production supervision, mining engineering, heavy civil engineering and mine management in underground, open pit and alluvial operations in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Africa.
Christopher Park, CPA CGA
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Mr. Park brings to Northern Vertex Mining Corp. several years of senior financial management experience within the mining industry and encompasses financial reporting, internal controls, taxation and treasury management with companies ranging from grassroots exploration to mine development and production. He has held Corporate Controller positions with a number of mining companies, including Imperial Metals where he worked closely with senior operational management to ensure accurate internal reporting for two operating mines including construction and commissioning of the $660 million Red Chris mine in Northern British Columbia. Mr. Park is a Chartered Professional Accountant who started his career with a local accounting firm in Vancouver and holds a Diploma in Financial Management from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
James M. McDonald, PGeo
Mr. McDonald brings Northern Vertex over 25 years experience in the international mining sector. He has a proven track record developing and advancing projects from the start-up phase to production. Among his credits, he co-founded and successfully developed National Gold (which merged with Alamos Minerals) to form Alamos Gold for which he was a Director and served on the technical committee until June 2012. He also formerly served as President of Genco Resources, during which time it operated the La Guitarra Mine, an underground silver mine located in Mexico. Mr. McDonald, P. Geo. is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.
Michael Haworth
Michael Haworth is a Senior Partner at Greenstone Resources L.P., a private equity fund he co-founded in 2013 that specializes in the mining and metals sector. Together with colleague Mark Sawyer, Mr. Haworth oversees all aspects of the management of Greenstone Resources. Specifically, Mr. Haworth serves as a director of Greenstone Management Ltd; the fund’s General Partner and is a member and co-chairman of the Investment Committee.
Ivan Fairhall, B. Eng., B. Bus.
Ivan Fairhall is a Senior Investment Manager at Greenstone Resources LLP, a private equity that specializes in the mining and metals sector. Mr Fairhall is a chartered engineer with 15 years of mining experience in the mining industry across both technical and financial disciplines. He has completed study, construction and commissioning assignments for junior and major mining clients across the globe working for Hatch Associates and GBM Minerals Engineers. During his tenure at Greenstone, Mr Fairhall has lead the execution of investments and sits on several technical advisory committees. Mr Fairhall holds a B.Eng (Hons, Mech) and a B.Bus.
Geoff Burns
Geoff Burns is Chairman of Maverix Metals Inc. (“Maverix”), an emerging precious metals royalty and streaming company he co-founded in 2016. Prior to Maverix, he served as President, CEO and Director of Pan American Silver Corp. from May 2003 until December 2015. Mr. Burns has more than 35 years experience in the precious metals mining industry, which includes extensive experience throughout North and South America in project development and mine operations. Throughout his career he has led or been a part of numerous capital market transactions raising in excess of $1.2 billion in equity, debt and convertible debt. During his tenure, Mr. Burns was instrumental in completing a number of key transformational acquisitions and oversaw the growth in Pan American’s annual silver production from 7.0 million ounces to in excess of 25 million ounces. Mr. Burns holds a BSc. Majors in Geology and an MBA.
David Farrell, B.Comm., LL.B, ICD.D
Mr. Farrell is President of Davisa Consulting, a private consulting firm working with junior to mid-tier global mining companies. He has over 20 years of corporate and mining experience and has negotiated, structured and closed more than US$25 billion worth of M&A and structured financing transactions for natural resource companies. Prior to founding Davisa, he was Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, at Endeavour Financial working in Vancouver and London. Before his 12 years at Endeavour Financial, David was a lawyer at Stilkeman Elliott, working in Vancouver, Budapest and London. Mr. Farrell graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Comm (Honours, Finance) and an LL.B and was called to the bar in both British Columbia and England. David also serves as Lead Director of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc., director of Luminex Resources Inc. and for 12 years was a board and finance committee member of Yaletown House, a non-profit, critical-care seniors’ residence in downtown Vancouver.
W. Perry Durning, M.Sc.
Exploration Advisor
Mr. Durning has been active in mineral exploration for over 43 years. He graduated with a B.Sc. in geology from San Diego State University and a M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Durning has worked extensively throughout the western U.S.A., Mexico and Central and South America. During his career he worked for Amax Exploration, SAGE Associates and Occidental Minerals, before becoming Exploration Manager and then President of Fischer-Watt Gold Co., Inc. Mr. Durning cofounded La Cuesta International, Inc. in 1993 and has worked primarily in Mexico since that time. Much of his career has focused on grassroots exploration in pioneering areas. Mr. Durning and Mr. Hillemeyer were selected by the PDAC as the 2010 co-award winners of the Thayer Lindsley Award in recognition for La Cuesta's multiple grassroots discoveries in Mexico.
F. L. "Bud" Hillemeyer, M.Sc.
Mr. Hillemeyer has been actively involved in mineral exploration in the United States and Latin America for more than 27 years. Mr. Hillemeyer has conducted extensive exploration programs in the western U.S., Mexico, Honduras and Costa Rica. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in Geology and from San Diego State University with a M.Sc. in Geology. Mr. Hillemeyer co-founded La Cuesta International, Inc. in 1993 and has worked with an extensive array of clients including Kennecott, Meridian Gold, BHP, MIM, Hecla Mining, Crown Resources, Monarch Resources, Silver Standard Resources, Canplats Resources and others. Mr. Hillemeyer was recognized for his success in mineral exploration as the co-recipient of the 2010 Thayer Lindsley Award for an international mineral discovery. The award recognized Mr. Hillemeyer and his partner, Perry Durning, for their grassroots discoveries in Mexico including the San Sebastián, San Agustin, Pitarrilla and Camino Rojo projects.
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Cabot Oil & Gas Expands Share Repurchase Program
in Canada / Closing Bell Story / Earnings / Exploration and Production (E&P) / Finance / Oil and Gas 360 Articles by— Oil & Gas 360
July 30, 2018 Share Print
Current COG Stock Info
Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) announced Q2 results, showing net income of $42.4 million, or $0.09 per share.
Daily equivalent production of 1,895 MMcfe/d
Adjusted net income of $57.9 million
Net cash provided by operating activities of $273.9 million
Discretionary cash flow of $196.5 million
Returned $239.6 million of capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases
Improved operating expenses per unit by eight percent YOY
Current operations and outlook
Cabot is currently operating three rigs and two completion crews in the Marcellus Shale and plans to place 37.0 net wells on production in conjunction with the anticipated in-service of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project during the second-half of August 2018.
Cabot in Q2 closed on the sale of its oil and gas properties in the Haynesville Shale for net proceeds of $29.2 million, which included a $5.0 million deposit that was received in the fourth-quarter of 2017 making Cabot a pure play E&P focused on the Marcellus.
Cabot Oil & Gas Assets; Source: Cabot Oil & Gas
The company has also updated its 2018 daily production growth guidance range from 10 – 15 percent to 10 – 12 percent and increased its full-year capital budget by $10 million to $960 million to reflect additional spending associated with its equity ownership in the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project.
Share repurchase program expanded
Cabot repurchased 11.6 million shares at a weighted-average share price of $23.54, including 1.6 million shares that were previously reported in the first-quarter 2018 earnings release. Over the past year the company has repurchased 20.0 million shares at a weighted-average share price of $24.09 and since reactivating the share repurchase program in Q2 2017, Cabot has reduced its shares outstanding by over five percent to 441.2 million shares.
Additionally, the board of directors has authorized an increase of 20.0 million shares to the share repurchase program, bringing the current remaining authorization to 30.1 million shares. Based on the closing share price on July 26, 2018, the program implies approximately $745 million of additional share repurchases.
Selected Q & A from Cabot Oil & Gas’ Q2 earnings call included below:
Q: Dan, in your prepared remarks, you’d talked about the Upper Marcellus tests that you’ve drilled in the past. I know it’s not been the focus of yours right now. Can you just talk about what assumptions you’ve made in that? You guys have laid out before like a 20-year production forecast. What assumptions are made in that forecast for the Upper Marcellus?
Chairman, President, and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, Dan O. Dinges: The 20-year forecast that you’re talking about, we’ve assumed the – where we are today and what we’ve seen, Drew, with the 30 completions that have been completed in our old technique. We’ve assumed the 2.9 Bcf in that forecast.
Q: Okay. And I guess just looking at share repurchases, obviously, you guys came out and increased the program here. But I guess if I just sort of look at that high level, we have kind of seen some weakness in NYMEX gas prices. I know you guys also had this debt repayment that you had to recently make here over the last couple of weeks. Irrespective of that stuff, I mean, do you guys still plan on being pretty aggressive here in H2 with the buyback program?
Chairman, President, and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, Dan O. Dinges: Yeah, Leo, the conversation again at our board meeting this week was specifically along the lines that I have mentioned in the past. And that was that our authorization is not optics, it is for action. And that is our intent to execute on the authorization that the board has granted. So, the takeaway would be that we fully intend to continue our program that we’ve implemented.
Q: I know in the past you said all of the Atlantic Sunrise, when it comes online, are going to be taking volumes that go from – that are in the local market on to Atlantic Summers. But is it possible that you’re not actually going be delivering your Bcf a day on within a couple of weeks of startup, that you’re going to ramp to that?
Chairman, President, and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, Dan O. Dinges: On Atlantic Sunrise?
Q: Right.
Chairman, President, and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, Dan O. Dinges: Charles, we’re planning on utilizing the capacity available in Atlantic Sunrise as soon as it is available. The connection to our gathering system of the upstream portion of Atlantic Sunrise is designed to take the volume of gas that we committed to, and it is our full intent to deliver the gas as soon as Atlantic Sunrise will take it.
One of the things on our conservatism, I wasn’t trying to be cute on the comment on conservatism, Charles, but one of the things that, I think, is relevant, the ramp-up and shifting in a small area, a Bcf of gas and coordinating two power units that are coming on at the same time and moving gas around in a small geographic area is done with the switch of the valves, I guess, but it’s multiple valves, it’s multiple coordination, to get it done and get it all smoothed out.
So in light of the time of year, which the shoulder month time of the year, when you get a little bit of the early cooler weather, it ramps up the pressure in the pipes, the pipes that are within the basin and the amount and volumes that the pipelines will accept at the higher pressure starts creating some reduction in the volumes that you’re going to be able to put into the pipe. That has happened every year back-to-back, back-to-back without exception.
Q: Okay. And then, I guess, the other side is just kind of following up a little bit on the exploratory programs, but in the context of the dividend – I’m sorry, the buyback. You talked about one thing that has been a kind of gating item for the buyback has been getting the infrastructure up and running and commissioned, as expected. Just wondering to what extent has – or have the exploration programs also been kind of governors on committing even more in a way of buybacks? And to the extent you did see or you did move on, let’s say, from the second program, would it be fair then to assume you’d see another big step-up in buybacks, or any commentary along those lines?
Chairman, President, and CEO of Cabot Oil & Gas, Dan O. Dinges: Well, the exploratory portion of our available cash has not influenced our decisions on the level of buybacks. We anticipate our buyback program to be, as we’ve laid out, opportunistic. And it dovetails now – along with the comment I made on dividends, it dovetails now with our anticipation of both in-basin power demand and our commissioning of Atlantic Sunrise. So, the amount of money compared to Cabot’s available capital and cash that’s being allocated to the exploratory effort is de minimis. And it does not impact our decision on buybacks.
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Phillips & Associates OKLAHOMA LAW BLOG
OKC Man Guilty in Wife's Murder
An Oklahoma City man who claimed to have accidentally shot his sleeping wife while fighting off an intruder has been found guilty of her murder.
Kinney J. Glasson, Jr., 36, was charged with first degree murder after his wife was shot to death in the couple's home in the early morning hours of November 19, 2014. Glasson reported to police that he awoke to find an intruder in his bedroom, and reached for a gun to protect his family. He said that when he pointed the gun at the intruder, the unknown man pushed his arm down, causing him to accidentally shoot his sleeping wife, Erin Glasson, 41.
Throughout the trial, Glasson maintained that the shooting of his wife was an accident, and that he was trying to protect her, not kill her. Prosecutors, however, painted a much different story.
They pointed out that there was no evidence of a break-in, and said there was no DNA evidence to support the presence of anyone else inside the home. Additionally, they uncovered a sordid story of Glasson's affair with a stripper.
Prosecutors say Glasson was living a double life as the married father of a 5-year-old girl, and as the boyfriend of Reva Ann "Heaven" Smith, a woman he met at the Double D Saloon, an Oklahoma City strip club. Smith testified that Glasson initially told her that he had never been married, but when she discovered that he was married and a father, he told her he was planning to divorce his wife.
By November 2014, Glasson and Smith were looking for engagement rings, and the man told his girlfriend that his divorce would be final in January 2015. However, Glasson never filed for divorce from his wife, and within weeks, he "accidentally" shot her in the back as she slept. Prosecutors say he was hoping to gain $500,000 in life insurance and retirement benefits from his wife's death.
An Oklahoma County jury deliberated for about two hours before returning a guilty verdict. They recommended a sentence of life in prison. For parole purposes, a life sentence is calculated at 45 years. This means that a person sentenced to life for murder, which is an 85 percent crime, is not eligible for parole until 38.25 years of the sentence have been served. With credit for time served, Kinney Glasson will not be eligible for parole for at least 36 years.
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McKenna, Robert
Robert McKenna
Seattle, Washington, D.C.
Robert M. McKenna, partner in Orrick's Seattle and Washington, D.C. offices, leads the state Attorney General team in the firm's Public Policy Group and is a member of the Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation practice. A former Washington State Attorney General and President of the National Association of Attorneys General, Rob is accomplished in all areas of public policy, appellate law and investigations. He is a Chambers USA Band 1 Partner in Government Relations: State Attorneys General.
Rob represents a wide range of technology and other companies in matters involving cyber security, data privacy, litigation, appellate litigation, regulatory proceedings, state attorney general investigations and legislative issues. His experience, stature and expertise add essential capabilities for clients seeking coordinated policy advocacy, regulatory compliance and litigation strategies in state capitols across the country and in Washington, D.C., where he has testified before Congress and assisted clients who have been called to testify before Congressional committees. While at Orrick, Rob has represented clients in both state and federal court, typically in cases centered on constitutional questions.
Rob served two terms as Attorney General of Washington, from 2005 to 2013. He successfully argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and helped negotiate three of the largest consumer protection settlements in national history, all involving mortgage lending and servicing. He is a recognized leader in the development of data protection and privacy regulation. Rob was the first state Attorney General to build a computer forensics lab to collect evidence of Internet fraud, and passed one of the nation's first anti-spyware laws.
Rob served as President of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) from 2011-12 where he co-launched the NAAG Intellectual Property Task Force to advance the national fight against counterfeiting and piracy. While serving as NAAG President, he created and led a national initiative to combat human trafficking which continues to this day. The NAAG human trafficking summit he hosted in Seattle in 2012 led AGs to launch state-level initiatives around the country. His fellow attorneys general honored him in 2011 with the Kelley-Wyman Award for “Outstanding Attorney General” in America.
National Alliance for Jobs & Innovation, passage of Defend Trade Secrets Act in U.S. Congress.
Microsoft, passage of LEADS Act in U.S. Congress to reform and update federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Microsoft, litigation with U.S. Government to protect customer emails stored abroad from unlawful search and seizure.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, asbestos liability reform legislation in U.S. Congress, including testimony before U.S. Senate.
Mitigating Municipality Litigation: Scope and Solutions
Consumer Privacy Protection Party Grows – State Legislators Introduce CCPA-Like Bills
Orrick Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2019 Guide
Orrick Team Secures Important Ruling for International Adoption Agencies
October.30.2018
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Columbia Center
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Supreme Court of the State of Washington
United States Courts of Appeals
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1988
University of Washington, B.A., Economics, with honors
University of Washington, B.A., International Studies, with honors
Chambers USA, Nationwide: Government Relations: State Attorneys General Band 1 Partner - 2019:
Kelley-Wyman Award for Outstanding Attorney General in America, National Association of Attorneys General
Member, The University of Chicago Law Review
President, Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America
President, National Alliance for Jobs & Innovation
Chairman, Data Quality Campaign for Public Education
"Will Regulation Slow Financial Services Innovation?," Columbia Business School's Frontiers of Digital Finance conference, October 2-3, 2017
"Introduction & Overview," The 2nd Annual Conference on Cybersecurity Law, January 12-13, 2015 (Conference Co-Chair)
"Self-Regulatory Developments for Data in the Cloud: How Technology Companies Are Responding to the NSA's Data Mining Program," 23rd Annual Seattle Conference on Technology Law, December 8, 2014
"The Interplay Between Government Regulatory Activity and Consumer Protection in Class Actions," The 10th Annual Comprehensive Conference on Class Actions, June 12-13, 2014
"Introduction and Overview," Conference on Cybersecurity Law and Strategies, January 27-28, 2014 (Conference Co-Chair)
"Internet Usage and the NSA," 22nd Annual Seattle Conference on Technology Law, December 12-13, 2013
"Privacy in the Digital Age," U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform's 14th Annual Legal Reform Summit, October 23, 2013
"Cloud Computing Legal Issues," 2nd Annual Data Protection and Security Conference, June 5, 2013
Co-author, "Mitigating Municipality Litigation: Scope and Solutions," U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, March 2019
"Fighting Human Trafficking In A Digitally Transformed World," The Prosecutor, Volume 53/Number 1, March 2019
Contributor, "Torts of the Future II: Addressing the Liability and Regulatory Implications of Emerging Technologies," U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, April 2018
"Arbitrary and capricious: Rule of law binds agencies," The Olympian, November 17, 2017
Co-author, "Targeting Harm From a Data Breach: Federal Judge Lets Plaintiffs Get Away With Kitchen-Sink Pleading," Legal Backgrounder, March 27, 2015
Co-author, "Targeting Harm From A Breach: Plaintiffs' Lawyers Get Creative In Data Privacy Suits," Legal Backgrounder, February 7, 2014
Quoted in "Microsoft Security Unit Files First Theft Case," Seattle Times, December 18, 2013
"Attorneys General are the New Sheriffs in the Battle Against Software Pirates," ABA Section of Antitrust Law, State Enforcement Committee Newsletter, Fall 2013
"New Strategies in the Battle Against IP Theft," Corporate Counsel, November 18, 2013
"Data Privacy Litigation," U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, October 2013
Co-author, "Don't Forget about Manufacturing," The Boston Globe, October 3, 2013
Co-author, "Don't Forget about Manufacturing," The Podium, October 3, 2013
Co-author, "Data Privacy Litigation: A Growth Industry for Plaintiffs' Attorneys," U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, September 2013
Quoted in "State AGs Developing Groundbreaking Solutions to Battle IT Theft and Unfair Competition, ABA Panelists Report," The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2013
"Defending US Intellectual Property," Washington Times, April 26, 2013
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Navajo Nation to lower flags in honor of tribal lawmaker
Updated 12:07 am EST, Thursday, January 16, 2020
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — A former Navajo Nation Council delegate is being remembered for his years of public service and inspiration to others.
Tribal officials say a funeral for John Perry Jr. is scheduled Thursday morning at Cope Memorial Chapel in Gallup. Meanwhile, flags will be lowered across the Navajo Nation.
Perry died Jan. 8 at the age of 71.
Originally from Crownpoint, Perry served several terms on the Tribal Council between 1983 and 2003. He is the father of Jonathan Perry, another former council delegate.
The Navajo Nation said two other former tribal lawmakers also died this month.
Delegate Benjamin Hogue, who served between 1963 and 1979, died Jan. 3. He was 88.
James Tomchee, who served on the council in the 1990s, died Jan. 7. He was 86.
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Usain Bolt proves that humans can fly
August 17, 2009 | Sport
Congratulations to Usain Bolt who has consolidated his position as the world's fastest man. Taking just 40 strides, he re-writes the record books for the third time. Isn't it amazing how the human body can move, when it has a clear purpose. In the graph below, I have plotted how the ...
Halfords bike sales power ahead from Beijing bounce
April 28, 2009 | Health, Sport
Following Team GB's cycling success in Beijing when they won a total of 14 Olympic medals, bike sales at Halfords has been impressive. The company now sells in excess of one million bikes a year and has just announced like-for-like sales growth for the period ending March 2009. This means ...
Wimbledon Organisers send players to the slaughter
July 7, 2007 | Sport
Why have the Wimbledon organisers been so fixated on the Men’s Final finishing this Sunday when the schedule has been wrecked by rain? I have never known so many world-class players to be injured in the space of a few days. I was at Wimbledon for the first Saturday - ...
Dying to be a Football Manager
December 4, 2005 | Health, Research, Sport | 2 comments
I’ve often had a little chuckle to myself, when three matches into the start of the new British football season, managers start to get sacked for delivering poor results – yes, that’s the grand total of 270 minutes of football! Now the League Managers Association has just released some health data ...
Sierra Leone to bid for 2024 Olympics
November 30, 2005 | Opinion, Sport | 2 comments
For those that don’t know, Sierra Leone is the poorest country one earth. I’ll come clean and say that they won’t be bidding, but I wanted to make a point about the growing trend of smaller nations bidding to host global sports events. Today I was participating in the Global Sports ...
Farewell George Best
November 25, 2005 | Sport
George Best, one of the world’s greatest ever footballers (Pele’s words, not mine) died today at the age of 59, following a long battle with alcoholism. George Best, an iconic British sportsman, has never been out of the media even though he retired many years ago. A liver transplant three years ...
Olympics comes to London…and all because someone pressed the wrong button!
I was at the Business in Sport & Leisure Conference today held in London with an array of high profile speakers including The Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP, UK Minister for Sport. It was fascinating listening to Philip Beard, Commercial Director of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games ...
What Price For Success?
There has been significant controversy following Mathew Pinsent’s visit to China and his observations that young Chinese gymnasts were being unfairly treated in pursuit of excellence. This followed his visit to the Shichahai Sports School, a boarding school in Beijing that trains gymnasts. He said: `I've been thinking about it a ...
Yes, its true…Roger Federer has lost a tennis match!
In fact he’s now lost a grand total of…wait for it…four matches this year! In a fantastic final, David Nalbandian just pipped him in five sets to take the Tennis Masters final in Shanghai. To put this into perspective, Federer had won his previous 24 finals! I never thought anyone ...
A Lovely New Stadium for Brighton
So finally, Brighton & Hove Albion has planning permission to build a new 22,000-seat stadium. The farcical background to this saga, is that the previous club board decided to sell their previous stadium and land to allow the development of a rather large toy shop! That was eight years ago and ...
I first met Ray when we were co-presenting at the IHRSA track at the Rimini Wellness Conference in Italy May 2007. Ray has an enormous insight in the fitness industry and can take both an analytical and practical approach to all issues, which gives him high credibility as a service consultant and as a commentator of the industry.
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Dubroff: Retiring Cuesta president predicts big changes for higher education
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, September 1st, 2017 / Comments Off on Dubroff: Retiring Cuesta president predicts big changes for higher education
Cuesta College President Gil Stork
As the longest serving employee in Cuesta College history, Gil Stork knows a thing or two — which means that, with apologies to the folks at Farmers Insurance, he has seen a thing or two.
So, with the announcement in late August that he’d be stepping down on June 30, 2018, it seemed a good time to visit with him on the phone and hear what he thinks about the future of higher education and economic development on the Central Coast.
During his 50-year tenure as a teacher, athletic coach, administrator and president since 2010, one thing that Stork has seen is a mammoth change in the role that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo plays in the regional economy. It has become a job generating machine that’s turned SLO into a magnet for tech firms looking to grow; it’s also a constant source of graduate students for research universities such as UC Santa Barbara and increasingly a hub for startups.
For Cuesta, the rise of Cal Poly to national and global prominence is what he calls a “two-edged sword.” Cuesta gets a big chunk of Cal Poly transfers, roughly 200 out of 800 this past year, but that pales in demand for baccalaureate degree programs. Cuesta has turned to expensive private universities, including Brandman University and Columbia College of Missouri, to set up satellite facilities on its campus.
Another big development is the emergence of North SLO County as an economic powerhouse in viticulture, agritourism and a mix of software and other tech firms. A bond issue passed on Stork’s watch in 2014 — a landmark development — will allow Cuesta to build out much of its campus in Paso Robles, offering advanced agribusiness classes and a greater range of opportunities. He said North SLO County is an example of “an economic development plan that’s well thought out with access to education as a real factor.”
Amid good times for SLO County and the Central Coast, Stork is worried about the fact that the community colleges from Santa Barbara to Santa Cruz don’t have the kind of political clout shared by large districts in urban areas.
He’s been working with colleagues up and down the coast, creating an informal consortium that can speak up on issues like enrollment caps and the need for housing. They’ve been meeting with state Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel).
Stork also thinks that community colleges can play a bigger role in providing ongoing education to retirees moving into their communities.
“We have an ever-growing retirement population and a lack of young families with school age children,” he said.
Over the longer term, Stork thinks big changes are coming to traditional higher education, to wit:
• Certification programs will be on the rise: Stork said that for every 10 jobs, only one requires professional training and only two require a bachelor’s degree. The other seven require either an associate’s degree or a certification – whether it is for computer coding or a construction trade. “We need to work with local businesses and see what people are looking for in a worker,” he said.
• Online education will get better and better: Services provided to online students are performing at equal to or better levels than traditional classes, Stork said. “We have to be prepared, ready and nimble,” he added. “Millennials have a different set of expectations” about how higher education should be delivered.
• Community colleges will offer four-year options: Stork said that “California is going to have to follow suit with 26 other states with community colleges offering baccalaureates.” Service areas and majors will have to be defined but demand for four-year degrees, particularly for students already in the workforce, is outstripping supply.
• Promise programs are a game changer: Stork said that offering a cost-free first year of college has had a “big impact on first generation students, especially Latina females,” altering economic prospects for a generation. Cuesta wants to expand its program to a second year via a $10 million campaign.
After 45 minutes on the phone, it was obvious that Stork, at age 75, still has a powerful voice on education and economic development issues.
His next gig after he retires, he said, will be chairing the Monday noon Rotary at the Madonna Inn starting in 2018. But I have a feeling there’s a lot more to come.
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My Fertility Treatment Ended My Closest Friendship
My best friend and I were going through fertility treatment at the same time. I thought it would bring us closer. But she feared I would get pregnant before her and that destroyed our longtime friendship for good.
By Angela Hatem
Illustration by Eva Vázquez
It had been almost a year and a half of near silence from one of my dearest friends. Zilch from someone I spoke to every day on my way home from work since we met in 2002. Crickets from the girl at whose wedding I served as the maid of honor. Dead air from the person who was the emergency contact on my alarm system and for my gynecologist.
And then out of the blue, I received an email from her with five opening words: "I was a shitty friend." It was barely a sentence, but enough of a statement to explain what had happened to one of the most significant friendships of my life.
Truth is, I did feel she had been a bad friend. But I've learned, coping with infertility can bring out an unexpected side in people and, as it turns out, can destroy friendships.
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Trying to Conceive Simultaneously
Here's a bit of the backstory: Rachel and her husband had been trying for two years to have a baby. They were struggling to keep themselves together through the process. At the same time, I was also struggling to conceive as a single mother by choice. I had gone through eight failed intrauterine inseminations (IUI) and reached a fork in the road and opted for in vitro fertilization (IVF).
I viewed our shared infertility struggle as a way to bring Rachel and I closer together. But for Rachel, our shared struggle caused her to retreat and distance herself. Her actions left me shattered and confused.
Rachel's email was an honest account of her heartbreaking fertility journey. It was an admission that she pushed me away out of fear—and perhaps jealousy—that I might become pregnant before she did. Rachel's email also disclosed the fact she was currently pregnant, meanwhile I was the one who continued to struggle at that time.
RELATED: How to Help Someone Struggling With Infertility
It was a lot to read. Some of it I had assumed. Some of it blew my mind. Majority of it broke my heart.
How Infertility Can Ruin Friendships
I wish I could say our situation was a unique one, but it's not unusual for infertility struggles to wreak havoc on an individual and their relationships, according to Anne Malavé, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and fertility counselor based in New York City.
"When people go through infertility, it's a life crisis or a trauma. For many people, it's one they have trouble recovering from. Some women have described an infertility diagnosis to be worse than a diagnosis of cancer," says Dr. Malavé.
Infertility causes losses both seen and invisible.
About 12 percent of women in the United States struggle to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It's not easy and can be isolating. Barbara Collura, the president and CEO of Resolve: The National Infertility Association, says she felt she had no one to turn to when she went through IVF, not even her close friend who went through it before she did. She knows now it's normal to feel that way. "Don't feel bad because you don't know how to tell people how to support you," says Collura. "We need to educate ourselves and give ourselves some breathing room."
RELATED: Coping with the Stress of Infertility
In order to cope with infertility issues, some choose to do just that. That can be simply because of a need for privacy during an infertility journey or a struggle to deal with perceived insensitivity from friends and family who may say things like "adopt" or "relax," says Dr. Malavé.
Others can't help but begin to feel left out, especially when those around them are celebrating pregnancies. "If you are going through a parallel experience, drifting away can happen. When someone else becomes pregnant and you don't, you feel like you no longer belong, and you can no longer relate," says Dr. Malavé. For some, it can also lead to jealousy.
A fertility struggle doesn't always have to mean the end of a friendship. Setting boundaries and creating a pregnancy- or fertility-free way to stay in contact can help save these relationships, says Dr. Malavé. But there is a very real possibility that a friendship could be collateral damage of infertility. "Sometimes in life you can't be there for other people," says Dr. Malavé. "If you know in your soul that you have done all you can do, if you have tried to preserve the relationship, there is value in that."
RELATED: 6 Things Women Struggling With Infertility Want You to Know
Rachel couldn't be there for me. It doesn't make her a bad person. And I know under the wreckage there are the remains of a beautiful friendship with a wonderful person. To me she is still the girl with superb taste in music. The gal with an insane ability to remember everything. A woman so hilarious that she had to wait until I was finished taking sips of my drink before telling her joke.
Infertility causes losses both seen and invisible. I feel those losses even today. I wish I could say our friendship could be salvaged from the mangled mess, but for me, there is just too much hurt to get over. Still, I see past what we went through and find comfort in the fact that Rachel and I have survived and we were lucky to both end up with beautiful sons.
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Toddlers and Preschoolers
Everything Kids
How on Earth Did a Three-Year-Old Girl Break an Archery Record?!
By Ellen Sturm Niz
Ever wondered what skills a preschool-age Katniss Everdeen might display in a Hunger Games prequel? Just check out tiny Dolly Shivani Cherukuri, an almost-three-year-old girl in India who is crushing archery records. She recently scored almost double the previous record by shooting 52 arrows at targets 15 and 21 feet away. Though I'm sure Katniss was a bada$$ as a little girl, I might have to bet on Dolly's chances of success as a mini Tribute in the arena. This kid means business.
Coincidentally, just earlier this week I took my daughter to the toy store to spend some of her Christmas money on a bow and arrow set—the foam kind, because she's only eight and I'm worried enough already about a pencil poking her eye out. Meanwhile, little Dolly has an itty-bitty specially made bow and arrow, which looks like it has quite a pointy tip. We took my daughter's foam version to the park where she and a friend launched arrows for about 20 minutes before they were ready to move on to the swings. Dolly practices for two to three hours a day. Sure, sure, her dad runs his own archery school, but my husband and I both work in publishing and our third-grader hasn't written any Pulitzer Prize-winning books yet.
How on earth do parents get kids to do these things? I can barely get my daughter to practice piano for 10 minutes a day, and even doing homework is a painful experience that usually makes me wish they hadn't outlawed Mommy's Little Helper. I guess some kids are more driven, or some parents push harder, but that's just not me and my family. Sometimes I worry that I'm not pushing my daughter enough—maybe she could be a child star if I weren't so lacksidasical. Or maybe she'll be at a disadvantage later in life because I didn't insist on ballet lessons when she said she wasn't interested. But forcing kids to do things that aren't really necessary to be an everyday, well-adjusted adult, well, it's hard for me to justify. I've gotta pick my battles, and getting her into the Guinness Book of World Records isn't one of them.
Power to Dolly, though. What she has accomplished before the age of three is super impressive. It's a lesson to all of us, kids and adults, about what is possible if you try hard enough. And have a dad who runs an archery school.
Ellen Sturm Niz is a New York City-based editor and writer who has thought about taking archery lessons but, unsurprisingly, hasn't actually followed through with it yet. Follow her on Twitter and Pinterest.
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MIZORAM MUSINGS!
Prof. T K Thomas
“Contact OCS” the telephone operator responded when asked to book an urgent call to Aizawl. One politely reminded the lady that Aizawl was in India and was the capital of the union territory of Mizoram. I was under orders of transfer from Bombay [now Mumbai] to Aizawl and was trying from Bombay to tell the AIR station in Aizawl about the date and time of my arrival at the Kombigram airport in Silchar. This was in the month of October or November in the late 1970s. Actually no one among my friends and acquaintances knew about a place called Aizawl where I was going to spend the next couple of years or more. A colleague helped in locating the tongue-shaped union territory of Mizoram, sandwiched between Burma [now Myanmar ] and Bangladesh.
When we reached the Silchar airport there was no one to receive us from AIR, AizawI. As I later realized that my letter and telegram had reached two or three days after my reaching there. I had to get an inner-line permit from the local administration to enter Mizoram! It was more of an adventure to travel with my wife, a four year old daughter and son below three years by the insurgency -ridden road from Silchar to Aizawl by bus with “inner-line permit” in an army convoy. Forty years later, even today most people have no idea as to where Aizawl is; the roads have improved, insurgency is a thing of the past and there is an airport in Lengpui, a little over 30 km from Aizawl.
So, last week when one heard about the appointment of the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] of Kerala, P S Sreedharan Pillai as the Governor Mizoram, one was reminded of Mizoram. Interestingly this is the second Kerala BJP chief within a year to be posted as the governor of the state. Kummanam Rajasekharan had resigned the governorship of the state in March this year on the eve of the General Elections to contest the election. Another Kerala politician Vakkom Purushothaman, a Congressman was also governor of Mizoram from 2011 to 2014.
There seems to be many commonalities between people of Mizoram and Kerala, a fact about which the new governor may feel happy. Both the states have very high literacy rates and women have equal status. Both are football crazy. During my stint in Mizoram even in the remotest villages of Champhai or Lunglei there were teachers from Kerala married to Mizo women. I came across many such couples. One of the richest businessmen in Aizawl was from Kerala married to a Mizo lady. Women enjoy a prominent position in Mizo society and the bride groom has to pay a ‘dowry’ to the bride. If Mizoram has over 87% Kerala has a 20% Christian population. In one of the farthest corners on the Myanmar border there were priests from all religions at the inauguration of a central government project and the Catholic priest was from Kerala. Tapioca grows wildly in Mizoram!
This column is not about the politics behind gubernatorial appointments but about the beautiful, but rather obscure Mizoram- a brief account about its people, culture and society.
My little daughter, the morning after we settled in the Mizoram government guest house, made a few observations-that there are no plain lands but only hills there; that the local people looked different from ‘us’ [she was referring to their physical features], and why there were no crows there! I explained to her that it was an entirely hilly area but there are not many tall mountains. When I said that the people there look different from ‘us’ because they belong to another group or race-the Mongoloid race, she could not understand properly. I didn’t have an answer to her question on crows; later I understood that all birds were scared of coming out in the open as the boys won’t spare them!
Mizoram has a fascinating history. I have no pretension of being a scholar in history and whatever is written here is from books or based on my conversations as a media person with different people familiar with Mizo history. It is believed that Mizos originally migrated from the Chin state of Burma [Myanmar]. There is no recorded written history and whatever information gathered is from legends and oral history. One such legend is that the Mizos originated from “Chhinlung or Khul” which has been interpreted as a cave/rock or hole in the earth. The widely accepted theory however is that they belong to the Tibato- Burman stock of the Mongoloid race. It is also said that there were a large number of tribes like the Lusei or Lushai , Hmar, etc. among the migrants. The generic term for such a group is Mizo and the land they inhabited is Mizoram.
I happened to interview a tribal chieftain Sangliana Raja who was in his eighties or nineties. He sang an ancient song taught by his grandmother which had references from the Bible of Terah, Abraham’s father, who was a son of Nahor, a descendant of Shem [Genesis 11:26-28] and the parting of the ‘’big river’’. This, he claimed was proof enough for the Mizos being one of the lost tribes of Israel. I wrote a tongue in cheek piece on this in The Times of India in 1989 or ’90. Years later, it was reported that the Israel government has accepted that some of the Mizos indeed were from one of the lost tribes of Israel! Interestingly, a large number of Mizos have migrated to Israel and continue to migrate.
The British annexed the Lushai Hills by subjugating the tribes there. After independence, the territory came to be known as Lushai Hill district of Assam and became a Union Territory in 1972 /1987 and a full -fledged state on 20th February 1987.
When bamboo flowered in Mizoram, then Lushai Hills in 1958-’59 a terrible famine locally called “Mautam” hit the area. It was so severe that the Mizo population was devastated. Relief work by the government was considered totally inadequate even as people starved. And people were disenchanted with the government. Therefore, Laldenga, a former Indian Army jawan started relief work as a reaction to alleged government apathy. His relief outfit picked up guns to start a violent insurgent underground movement, the Mizo National Front [MNF] which was banned. The Indian security forces used strong arm measures to quell the indiscriminate killings. This went on till 1987 when the then government led by Rajiv Gandhi signed the Mizoram Peace Accord with Laldenga’s MNF. Without an election Laldenga was installed as the Chief Minister of the state. This ended the bloodiest episode in Mizoram’s history, ushering in enduring peace. Today, interestingly, the MNF is the ruling party of Mizoram, the most peaceful state in the north-east.
One of the most important influences on the people and the state of Mizoram is Christianity. The church is the most powerful institution in the state and plays a pivotal role in the spiritual, social and political life of the Mizos.
I was really impressed by the voluntary community action in Mizoram. There are organizations for youth like the Young Mizo Association [YMA] and women’s organization MHIP. For any social or even political event the members of the YMA do voluntary work. For example during an Assembly election in 1979 at an all party election programme where candidates from different political parties spoke, I had seen the YMA volunteers preparing and serving tea to whoever present there.
Christmas and New Year were the only two festivals which had sanction of the church. During my stay there observation of pre-Christian tribal festivals or ‘Kuts’-like ‘Chapchar Kut’ or ‘Mim Kut’ were considered unchristian by the Church. Christmas and New Year therefore were celebrated with great gusto which started very early in October and went on till January. Men were in three piece suits. Ladies in the latest western attires minus skirts and trousers and invariably used a hand woven traditional “Puan”, a wrap around. Everyone had the latest, imported footwear.
Mizos are natural singers and music reverberates in the hills and valleys. Almost everyone can sing and play the guitar. I found that a small group could sing impromptu in unison and in parts and decide who could sing soprano, tenor, alto or bass. Some of the Mizo choirs are internationally acclaimed.
I had a special invitation for a community feast arranged by the local community during Christmas. A tent was pitched in the open. Almost all the residents of the area including the Chief Minister Brig. T.Sailo and few of his cabinet colleagues were present there. Preparation of the meal comprising pork/chicken curry, cooked with just garlic and ginger, and rice were a joint effort with all the required materials including firewood being contributed by one and all.
Sitting on haunches on the floor around huge heaps of rice on which curry was poured; everyone ate from the same heap. The group sitting next to us included the Chief Minister and our office driver. Unlike elsewhere in the country there was no social stratification or special arrangements for anyone. This exemplifies the social life of the Mizos.
The facts and views expressed in the article are those of the writer.
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The structure of the late-18th-century and early-19th-century designed landscape at Abercairny remains largely intact. There is parkland with specimen trees, a re-stocked early-19th-century flower garden and a mid-19th-century arboretum. Statuary and other ornamentation is a feature of the gardens.
Abercairny has been associated with the Earls of Strathearn and the Moray family since the 13th century. The present designed landscape was laid out partly in accordance with an improvement plan prepared by Thomas White Senior in 1793. Lewis Kennedy laid out the flower garden in about 1812 and there were further additions in the latter part of the 19th century. The property is now available for exclusive-use hire.
The following is from the Historic Environment Scotland Gardens and Designed Landscapes Inventory. For the most up-to-date Inventory entry, please visit the Historic Environment Scotland website:
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A spacious landscape park incorporating avenues from the previous formal layout, two lochs, specimen trees and clumps, a late 18th century walled garden, early 19th century woodland structure, flower gardens, with terraces and lawns, laid out c1812 and an arboretum established mid-19th-century.
Location and Setting
Abercairny is situated on the north side of the broad vale of Strathearn some 3 miles (5km) east of the town of Crieff and 12 miles (19km) west of the city of Perth. The A85 forms the northern boundary of the policies from which point the landscape slopes southwards to the flat plain. The Pow Water flows through this park to the south of the house in a roughly north-east/south-west direction on its way to the River Earn some 2.5 miles (4km) south-west of the house. The surrounding landscape is predominantly in agricultural use with some afforestation. Fine panoramic views can be gained north to the Grampian Hills and south to the Ochil Hills. The former house of Abercairny was considered by J.P. Neale to present 'an object seldom equalled in splendour' when 'viewed at a distance amongst the venerable trees in the park'. The policies still present a fine prospect today although many of the fine trees described by Neale are gone. The parks are of some scenic significance from the A85 although clear views into the park are blocked by the northern boundary wall. Views from the south can presently be gained since the boundary wood here has been felled but this view will be lost once the new planting matures.
Abercairny House stands amid some 1,429 acres (578ha) of designed landscape which extends north to the A85, south to a minor road at Long Plantation, west to Inchbrakie Lodge and east to Auchlone Lodge. Documentary evidence of the development of the designed landscape is provided by Roy's map of c.1750, an improvement plan by Thomas White Snr of 1793, the 1st edition OS map of c.1860, the 2nd edition OS map of c.1900 and the modern edition. Roy's map indicates an extensive formal layout existed in the mid-18th century which was overlaid in informal style in the first half of the 19th century. Comparison of the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps indicates that the policies were extended to the south- west in the latter part of the 19th century to include the lands of Inchbrakie, following the demolition of Inchbrakie House. The site of the former Inchbrakie Castle thus became included in the parks of Abercairny.
An earlier Abercairny House is thought to have been sited on the south side of the loch which was formed after 1793. The present house commands a higher position and takes advantage of the extensive panoramic views across Strathearn.
Landscape Components
Architectural Features
Abercairny House is a neo-Georgian design by the Hon Claud Phillimore. It was built to replace the previous mansion Abercairny Abbey which was a Gothic Revival building designed by Richard Crichton between 1804-9 and 1814- 17, completed by R.& R. Dickson between 1820-23, 1826-35 and 1841-42 and demolished in 1960. The stable-block, listed category B, is a one and two storey block with a round internal courtyard and large archway on the west elevation. It was built in 1841-2 by R.& R. Dickson and re-used the materials of the previous stables which had stood adjacent to the house.
Crieff Lodge, listed category B, is a single-storey building of Gothic design built c.1800. Garden Lodge, also listed category B, is a single- storey building, dating from c.1840 by architects R.& R. Dickson. Mid North Lodge stands at the main north entrance of the policies off the A85. North Lodge is situated in the north-east corner of the policies at the end of a more picturesque drive through woodland which is no longer used. South Lodge and Auchlone Lodge also remain. The Doocot, listed category B, is a tall, rectangular lean-to building which is thought to date from the 17th century.
A sundial, situated in the garden, is thought to date from the 17th century and is listed category A. The Statue Avenue is composed of six classical statues, one of which is dated 1728. They were brought to Abercairny after the Battle of Waterloo and are listed collectively category B. Two Marble Busts on pedestals which flank the west gate of the garden are listed category B. The Avenue of Busts, one portrait and four classical, is also listed category B. Decorative stone seats stand adjacent to the south- facing wall of the flower garden, and nearby are free standing seats of ornate wrought- iron work. There are several other pieces of ornamentation in the formal and flower gardens including cherubs, urns and vases.
The park was laid out in its present form following an improvement plan which was prepared by Thomas White Snr in 1793. Avenues from the previous formal pattern were incorporated in the new layout and the most prominent of these, the Beech Avenue, which previously formed part of the boundary with Abercairny and Inchbrakie, remains although it appears to have been replanted c.1800 and successively since then.
The White plan suggested two lochs, one directly south of the present house to the north of his suggested location for the new house, and another on the east boundary. Both lochs were serpentine on plan and had islands as central features. The lochs are fed by water from the Muckle Burn which flows into the policies by Crieff Lodge and drains into the Pow Water, which runs through the park to the south of the lochs. The Pow Water is a significant local feature which is vital for the drainage of the Abercairny Parks; it was constructed by monks in the 17th century and was one of the earliest drainage schemes in Strathearn. The west side of the large loch in front of the house had been drained at the time of our visit in preparation for silt clearance and subsequent restocking with fish. The park formed the setting for the many drives which converged on the house from five directions in the policies; today only one drive is maintained as the main access, the Mid North Drive which was the Back Drive, whilst others are retained for farm access.
The parks between the house and the driveway to the south of the main loch are kept in permanent grass and are well stocked with beautiful specimen trees including species of oak, beech and lime. South of the drive, most of the individual park trees have gone, although some original clumps do remain.
The woodland structure which remains today was established as part of the early 19th century designed landscape. Reference to Roy's map indicates that woodlands were well established on the site prior to this time but were mainly felled in the course of the improvements. Some additional woodland areas were added in the late 19th century in the north-east corner between the north drive and Newmill, and in the south-west corner over the site of Inchbrakie House and gardens following their demolition.
The woodlands are now commercial, with conifers as the main crop, although hardwoods are incorporated in the species mix. The gales of 1951, 1968 and 1981 seriously affected the Abercairny estate and resulted in the loss of many trees. Planting is currently being carried out with the aim of re-establishing these areas.
The flower garden was laid out by Lewis Kennedy c.1812 and contained an arbour, trellis work and bridge a la Suisse.* The 1st edition OS map of c.1860 shows a Broad Walk extending from the house up to the roughly rectangular area of some 12 acres, which was terraced to accommodate the natural south sloping landform. An account of 1884** describes the garden as being 'distinguished by its simple effectiveness that is far more pleasing than many more elaborate and correspondingly formal arrangements'. The central broad width of the garden was lined with beds of rhododendrons, azaleas and other shrubs. Other turf walks opened up off this main walk and the vistas formed were often closed on the specimen conifers in the adjacent arboretum. The Broad Walk climbed to a Bowling Green which extended the width of the garden. On the terrace above it was the flower garden which was described as 'homely in design'* with roses, petunias, violas, carnations and many others, all of which were overlooked by a range of glasshouses.
* A.A. Tait. The Landscape Garden in Scotland** Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener; Dec 25 1884
Today, this garden is still kept up as a flower garden; although the formal flowerbeds have gone. The iron trellis work which was part of the original design remains and the flowerbeds have been restocked with mixed shrubs and heathers. The borders are lined with mixed rhododendrons and azaleas. There are several pieces of ornamentation, including large vases and urns in the upper garden, and clipped trees stand amid the lawns. The lower terrace on which the Bowling Green was sited was later planted with specimen trees and shrubs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Broad Walk has been embellished with statuary, many pieces of which were originally sited within the Abbey prior to its demolition in 1960. Gates lead through the high walls to the shrubbery and arboretum to the west of the garden.
Formal lawns surround the house on all sides and, according to 19th century accounts, these were ornamented simply by a mature specimen Cedar of Lebanon and many clipped yew trees as well as some statuary. The trees remain today although the yews are clipped in a more conical form than in previous years. Some new ornamental trees and shrubs have been established on the perimeter by the present owner. On the north side of the house the ground rises to a steep bank to the south of the flower garden which is clothed with daffodils in spring. The high terrace to the south of the house is ornamented with urns; a sundial and cherub statue stand on the grass terrace. Further cherub statues are erected to the west of the house near the tennis court which has been built on the former croquet lawn.
The walled garden was constructed after the 1793 plan to the west of the house. It was laid out over four acres on a regular plan, with intersecting paths converging in the centre as shown on the 1st edition OS map. It is enclosed by high walls on four sides, and greenhouses some 300' in length were said to line the walls. The garden was managed for over 30 years by the gardener, Mr James Brown, who was a frequent prizewinner for vegetables at national horticultural events. Fruit crops were also a speciality of the garden and the account of 1884 lists all the main varieties of fruit grown.
The garden was maintained during World War II and thereafter managed as a commercial concern. In 1955 it was grassed down and is presently used for grazing. The south wall of the garden has been lowered and the derelict remains of a storehouse stands in the centre.
The arboretum at Abercairny was established by James and William Moray in the mid-19th century on a site to the north-west of the house between the flower garden and the walled garden. In the latter half of the 19th century, additional planting was carried out to the south and east of the flower garden.
An account of the arboretum in 1884* describes it as including 'a large number of conifers, mostly represented by fine examples varying in age from 12 years to half a century'. It records a number of notable specimens but notes the grandest of all to be the Silver firs, many of which lined Lady Fanny's Walk which ran from the flower garden to the kitchen garden. Today, much of the ornamental woodland along this route has reverted to commercial forestry. Measurements were made of some 40 remaining specimens in 1956, 1974 and again in 1978 by Alan Mitchell. It is an impressive list and includes the mature Cedar of Lebanon which grows on the lawn to the east of the house.
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Detailed History
Reason for Inclusion
A late 18th / early 19th century designed landscape that has high historic value and plays an important role in the surrounding scenery.
Main Phases of Landscape Development
Mid-18th-century, with late-18th-century (1793) to early-19th-century (c1812) additions and improvements in the mid to second half 19th century
The present designed landscape was laid out partly in accordance with an improvement plan prepared by Thomas White Snr in 1793. Other designers include Lewis Kennedy who laid out the flower garden c.1812.
The earliest records of Abercairny date from the 13th century when it was the property of the 3rd Earl of Strathearn. In 1320, the 7th Earl gave the estates of Abercairny and Ogilvy to his daughter, Mary, on her marriage to Sir John Moray of Drumsargard and since that time it has been retained by successive generations of the family.
William Moray and his son James, although loyal to the Stuart cause, were not active in the 1715 and '45 uprisings and appear to have been involved in improvements to the original house and policies in the middle years of the 18th century. A record of the structure of the designed landscape is provided by Roy's map of c.1750 which shows a large formal field pattern with five main woodland blocks. Avenues from this original layout remain today.
In 1784 Colonel Charles Moray inherited Abercairny from his elder brother, Alexander. By his marriage to the heiress of Sir William Stirling of Ardoch, the Ardoch estates were acquired and the name of Stirling adopted by Colonel Charles. He began improvements to the grounds and commissioned Thomas White Snr to prepare an improvement plan of the policies, dated 1793. The architect John Paterson was requested to provide drawings for a new house in 1796 but he eventually submitted designs for only a new oval drawing room for the old house in the following year. Architects Archibald Elliot and Charles Tatham were asked in turn to prepare designs for the new house but the commission eventually went to Richard Crichton in 1804 for his Gothic Revival building, which became known as Abercairny Abbey.
Colonel Charles died in 1810. The house was incomplete and considerable debts were inherited by his son, Colonel James Moray. He was a spirited figure who was able to resume construction and fitting of the house by 1814. Lewis Kennedy was commissioned to lay out the flower garden on the slope to the north of the house. Richard Crichton died in 1817 and the architectural work was continued by his successors, R.& R. Dickson, over the following years. They were retained by James' brother, William, who inherited Abercairny and Ardoch in the 1830s. He was responsible for the addition of the port-cochere and the stable-block between 1841-2.
On William Moray's death, the estates passed to his sister, Christian, who was married to Henry Home Drummond of Blair Drummond. In 1864 their son, Charles Stirling Home Drummond Moray, inherited. He carried out many improvements, particularly to the gardens, and he was responsible for the Tower which was added to the house in 1869 to the design of R. Thornton Shiels. An account of Abercairny described its 'magnificent park, well kept flower gardens and rich Arboretum' as well as 'a magnificent kitchen garden which few estates can surpass'.*
Abercairny Abbey was used as a hospital during World War II and by 1960 was in poor condition. Major W.S. Drummond Moray, grandson of Charles Drummond Moray, took the decision to demolish the Abbey and a new house was built on the site. Statuary from the house was used to further embellish the gardens which remain today within the structure of the early 19th century landscape.
* Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener, Dec 25, 1884
People associated to Abercairny
Claud Stephen Phillimore
Thomas White The Elder
Richard Dickson
Lewis Kennedy (2)
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Blacklight studio has licensed Unreal Engine 4; is developing "psychological thriller game"
By Shaun Prescott 2012-12-19T03:07:58.353Z
Seattle-based developer Zombie Studios - the folk responsible for Blacklight: Retribution - has licensed Unreal Engine 4 for a forthcoming PC-only "psychological thriller game". Due in the second quarter of 2013, no other details are confirmed on the as-yet-untitled game, though we do know that it will be thrillingly psychological.
In a statement, Zombie Studios' creative studio head Jared Gerrtizen said the developer's interest was piqued at the 2012 Game Developers Conference, which saw the first unveiling of the engine to selected studios. "We've been able to work in ways we have only dreamed about with UE4, which will be a fundamental benefit to our studio as we move into the next generation of games and take our studio to the next level."
Shaun Prescott
Shaun is PC Gamer’s Australian editor and news writer. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather obsessively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.
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This hypnotic rhythm game was the best thing we saw at IndieCade 2017
By Luke Winkie 2017-10-13T21:45:58.285Z
Plus, why the 'International Festival of Indie Games' is now one of our favorite gaming conventions.
The best thing I saw at IndieCade this year was a rhythm game called Overpass. It was one of those magical demos where you’re sure that maybe five percent of the actual game exists, and you’re running through the same proof-of-concept an eager developer is going to shop around to publishers—but it doesn’t matter, because you're sold.
Shows like IndieCade are tough, because it’s hard to sit down with a patient visual novel like, say, A Case of Distrust and expect to get an all-encompassing feel for it. Overpass, on the other hand, is immediate, tactile, and beautiful. It’s made for these things. So perhaps that’s an unfair advantage.
But still, goddamn. I love Frequency and Amplitude, Harmonix’s early tributes to candy-coated club music, and I still ride for DJ Hero, which forced you to buy a ridiculous turntable controller to spin along with Daft Punk. And in a lot of ways Overpass goes to the same church. Three tracks are stretching off into infinity, and you switch lanes by nudging the analog stick left or right. There are short notes you activate by tapping the A button, long notes you activate by holding the A button—pretty standard stuff.
The difference is that Overpass is played from an extraordinary perspective. You’re in a car, staring out the windshield at a constant cadence of archways and overpasses, each fixed with one of those notes. Some of these are far off in the vertical distance, like a massive skyscraper shadowing the road. Others are much closer, like the top of a narrow tunnel.
Rhythm games have always been played on a two-dimensional plane, but Overpass breaks that crucial rule. The notes are still coming at you in a clear, musical measure, but the depth of the geometry means your eye level is changing constantly. It’s a fascinating, maddening sensation, and it kinda needs to be experienced in order to be understood.
Developer Michael Molinari tells me Overpass was inspired by road trips where, as a kid, he would daydream out the window and imagine Samus Aran jumping through the buildings and highways. IndieCade was its first public unveiling. A brave new venture, upstairs in the cleared out foyer of a Japanese history museum.
On the floor at IndieCade
This was my first time going to an unabashed indie gaming expo. I’ve been to PAX, which has taken its humble webcomic-derived founding principles past the stratosphere, and I’ve covered E3, a show in the first tentative steps of opening its floor to paying customers. IndieCade, on the other hand, isn’t really in the business of making money. You will not get stuck in the Microsoft booth, you will not have to give up your email and phone number to play Uncharted. In fact, the biggest name on the floor might’ve been Glittermitten Grove, the rope-a-dope sleeper agent that gives way to Frog Fractions 2 if you know what buttons to push.
But despite the complete absence of big-budget representation, IndieCade’s dominant customer base seemed to be dads, moms, and their kids. Yes, there are flocks of indie developers migrating between panels and workshops, and yes, there was a small cadre of press people trying to get work done, but I saw so many families in between those margins.
I’m not sure how much videogame star power means in 2017.
The show’s offerings were radical and abstruse (an ARG encoded in the writings of Ida B. Wells, a narrative focused on the dehumanizing Syrian refugee situation) and yet, to the average guest, that didn’t matter. The sales pitch wasn’t anything greater than a cheap, local show with some interesting games, and that worked beautifully.
This is something the indie scene has learned to do exceptionally well. The major expos, like the aforementioned E3 and PAX, are expensive and stressful. IndieCade, on the other hand, is extremely casual, simply because showfloor real estate gets a lot more open and navigable when you purge the megabooths. That means that IndieCade wasn’t hosting all-star independent developers like Supergiant or Playdead, but frankly, I’m not sure how much videogame star power means in 2017.
I think people (and kids specifically) are more inclined to fall in love with something weird, cool, and freshly uncovered than ever before. I think of Unturned, the cartoony zombie survival romp pioneered by a teenager in Canada. That game has been added to Steam accounts 24 million times, all without the slightest whiff of publisher support.
Those of us who’ve been around games for a long time might subconsciously sequester the indie scene—even if PC gaming started with small devs—but the kids don’t see the industry in the same way. They grew up in the era of the indie game success story. The story of Minecraft is indistinguishable from the Mass Effect saga. For them, there’s no reason IndieCade can’t be E3.
That’s what I kept thinking about during my time with Overpass. Right now it’s a hot-off-the-presses prototype that’s desperate to flirt with prospective publishers, but there’s absolutely a chance I was playing something that’s primed to take over the world, or at least someone’s world. We’ve inherited a games industry without a ceiling. The grand campaign can begin at the end of a public corridor, next to the Diaspora exhibit. The kids have seen through the corporate veneer and are prepared to be thrilled by anything, from anyone. As long as that stays true, it’s a great time to be making games.
All our coverage of IndieCade 2017 is collected together here.
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Tape Wyrm VII – Writing About Music is Like…
Review by Kaptain Carbon in Features, Tape Wyrm on 08 20th, 2011 | no responses
Metal Literature
The line “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” is a common quote used by people to express the banality of musical criticism. The quote dates back to 1918 from the essay “The Unseen World” by H. K. M printed in the publication The New Republic. The quote has become misattributed to a variety of sources including Martin Mull, Miles Davis and Elvis Costello. The original quote “writing about music is like singing about economics,” still expresses the illogical act of representing an auditory art with a literary one. The common use for this quote is mainly perpetuated by artists, musicians and pundits who see little value in music criticism. There is a latent context within this quote as it suggests music should be felt and not discussed as it crosses some sensuous boundaries. Nevermind that all the aformentioned practices are related to thought, creativity and reflection, the quote now stands as an automatic response from assholes who rely on cliché phrases to sum up their arguments. If my previous statement seemed a little harsh, it only stems from my continual love for discussing music as well as my library of metal books.
The musical arts and histories surrounding different styles have been the subject of wonderful books, essays and online music columns. The same can be said about heavy metal as it is the subject of wonderful books, essays and online music columns. Whenever entering into a new style of music, it is not uncommon to desire knowledge. In fact, I would argue that an unquenchable thirst for understanding is the cornerstone to any fascination. While the internet has certainly taken over a large part in the dissemination of information, books have also and will continue to play an important role in musical education.
If anyone remembers going to book stores, the music section was inhabited by one or two useful books along with 100 other books about Nirvana, The Rolling Stones and Beatles encyclopedias. This is not to say those bands do not deserve books dedicated to their memory rather there is little more to say regarding Woodstock and AC/DC. The fact that bookstores will soon be placed in the historical annals alongside Walkmans, 35 mm film and PDAs has only given rise to its faster more efficient digital marketplace. Buying books online allows the consumer to bypass four Motley Crue biographies for something more informative and possibly dangerous. Below are my recommendations for anyone interested in expanding their literary comprehension related to metal. Since the internet has rendered some users incapable of paying attention during a 300 page book, the act of reading without any hyperlinks, comment boxes or streaming video may seem daunting. If a reader requires a base level of interaction, they are always free to write notes in the margins. Stop being a fucking wimp.
Precious Metal (2009)
25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces
Edited by Albert Mundrian
Every so often, Decibel Magazine inducts an album into their Hall Of Fame. The series, which is now at 79, celebrates milestones in heavy metal and lauds certain albums which have become influential not only for the time but for the course of history. With each entry in the Hall Of Fame series comes a lengthy expose on the album with interviews and stories related to the writing and recording. Precious Metal takes 25 albums from their list and arranges them chronologically according to release date. Perhaps most engaging aspect of this book is its scope which does not rest in the highlights commonly associated with heavy metal. There will be no mention of Metallica, Judas Priest or Iron Maiden. When these obvious entries are removed, other albums of equal value can fully be recognized. To be fair, Decibel has the “every band member rule” where by every participating member must be interviewed despite their mortal status. This excludes, Pantera, Metallica and Death from ever entering the Hall Of Fame. Though intended to give full coverage on albums, Decibel’s Hall Of Fame does not lend itself kindly to departed band members nor bands with internal conflict. The result, however, are lengthy pieces done on bands who are more approachable and possibly more connected to their original fanbase. Precious Metal recognizes significance within the world of extreme metal by including albums by Repulsion, Kyuss, Darkthrone, Entombed and Sleep. This book should be viewed as a check list regarding mandatory metal albums and should give the reader things to talk about at their next dinner party.
Lords Of Chaos (2003)
The Bloody Rise Of the Satanic Metal Underground
Written by Michael Moynihan and Dirdrik Soderlind
And now we come to this book. To be honest, this book got me into black metal. My copy of Lords Of Chaos is creased, highlighted and annotated with various pens. Moynihan and Soderlind fully investigate the homicides and church arsons related to the 1990’s Norwegian black metal scene. While this book could have just been a sensational true crime piece, the authors dive headfirst into the scene with illuminating interviews, philosophical connections and convincing essays. Lords Of Chaos gives a setting and context for a dozen albums recorded during the early 1990’s. There are, of course, also downsides. Lords of Chaos is riddled with grammatical mistakes, poor instances of writing and uneven content. There is a large portion of the book dedicated to Varg Vikerness and his incarceration following the murder of Mayhem guitarist Euronymous. While it is interesting the first time, almost every book and movie spends a great deal of time on Euronymous murder leaving other subjects to relative obscurity. Regardless, anyone interested in a bizarre piece of history and the possibility of leaving with a list of albums will not be disappointed.
Choosing Death (2004)
An Improbable History Of Death Metal and Grindcore.
Written by Albert Mundrian
I was debating between two death metal books for this section. The other book in contention was Daneil Erkeroth’s Swedish Death Metal. Erkeroth’s book is a fantastic dive into an often overlooked form of metal history. Swedish Death Metal also comes with a wonderful A-Z guide regarding essential Swedish Death records. While Erkeroth’s book is fun and delightful to read, Albert Mudrian’s history of death metal is so comprehensive, is its intimidating. Albert Mundrian, editor for Decibel Magazine (and editor for Precious Metal) investigates the flowering of death metal and grindcore as it stemmed from the early 80’s. The book discusses the tape trade which perpetuated the underground as well as the formation of now legendary bands. The book also comes with an introduction by famed DJ John Peel and is one of the last things Peel would write before his death in 2004. The book, like any good musical books comes with, what the author, to be a definitive list of essential death metal and grindcore records. Mundrian’s list begins in 1987 and spans nearly 20 years. Choosing Death for all its textbook entries also comes with half page spreads of promo pictures and various ephemera from the glory days of death metal. When the universities eventually realize my talents for teaching college level courses on metal, Choosing Death will be a required book and most certainly will be on the test.
Sound Of The Beast (2003)
The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Written by Ian Christe
If you are thinking of purchasing an encyclopedia of heavy metal for your coffee table, just stop now. If you desire a condensed history of heavy metal which inevitably leaves out 75% of contributions, then make it the Sound of the Beast. This may sound negative but it is not, well maybe a little. When writing a history of anything, it is impossible to include everything important as well as making it interesting and easy to understand. Sound of the Beast skips along heavy metal’s history admirably hitting major milestones. Christe, like other metal authors, has a focus. While Precious Metal, Lords of Chaos and Choosing Death focused on the deep underground, Sound of The Beast soars along heavy metal’s mainstream and midground. If it was discussed in Rolling Stone, it is covered here. This again, may sound negative but it is not … well, maybe just a little. Heavy metal’s mainstream can be as interesting as its moody underground brother. Sound of the Beast occasionally dips into the underground with black and death metal but is mainly more concerned with music most commonly associated with the general term of metal. Black Sabbath, Slipknot, Van Halen, Kiss, Twisted Sister and Metallica all have large roles in the development of Christe’s metal history. In fact, the largest criticism is the author’s love for Metallica and his world where all things come from Metallica. Regardless, If you know nothing regarding the world of heavy metal and a comprehensive history of grindcore does seem like your thing and you do not want to take the time read Wikipedia articles then this book is for you. If you know who Venom is then you may be better off somewhere else.
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Alright this is it. Thanks for coming out. Turn off the lights before you leave, I need to go now. Releases by bands who have already had tremendous success in the previous years always come with a short intake of breathe. If you read Tape Wyrm Volume V, then you might have noticed Wolves In the Throne Room’s enormous role in the development of a distinct black metal style dominant in the Pacific Northwest. Releases by Wolves In the Throne Room always comes with a certain sense of weight and pause. The band’s newest release Celestial Lineage will bring to a close a thematic trilogy started in 2007 with Two Hunters. The only single released thus far is the above track which also debuted on NPR. “Woodland Cathedral” does not showcase the blistering black metal side rather the calm and collected chants of guest vocalist Jessika Kenney. If this track interests you then the whole of Celestial Lineage will be surprising and rewarding. currently, the band is embarking on a long North American tour which will, finally, reach the east coast. There should be no reason why you would pass up this opportunity.
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8/31/2011 The Medusa – Minneapolis, MN
9/01/2011 Reggie’s Rock Club – Chicago, IL
9/02/2011 Rudyard Kippling – Louisville, KY
9/03/2011 The Mockbee – Cincinnati, OH
9/05/2011 Jamestowne Hall – Saginaw, MI
9/06/2011 Soybomb HQ – Toronto, ON
9/08/2011 Death Church – Montreal, QC
9/10/2011 The Kave – Bucksport, ME
9/11/2011 Providence, RI [check wittr.com for location]
9/12/2011 The Bell House – Brooklyn, NY
9/14/2011 Washington, DC [check wittr.com for location]
9/15/2011 Broad Street Ministries – Philadelphia, PA
9/16/2011 TBA – Bethlehem, PA
9/17/2011 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
9/18/2011 Legitimate Business – Greensboro NC
9/20/2011 JD’s – Sheffield, AL
9/21/2011 The Little Hamilton – Nashville, TN
9/22/2011 Magnetic Theater – Atlanta, GA
9/23/2011 The Chop Shop – St Petersburg, FL
9/24/2011 The Farside Collective – Tallahassee, FL
9/25/2011 New Orleans, LA [check wittr.com for location]
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Unkind – Harhakuvat
Holy shit. If one ever needed the musical equivalent to being thrown out of a large window then Unkind has all the requirements to be the one throwing. Unapologetic, brash and aggressive as a pissed off grizzly bear, this Finnish d-beat outfit has the tenacity to suplex your grandmother at Thanksgiving. What? Does this sound ridiculous? So does Harhakuvat. Relapse Records has unleashed one of the most furious albums of the year along with the band’s back catalog which also possess zero downtime. Grab that whiskey bottle because that motherfucking television is starting shit again.
Yob – Atma
Bands which take psychedelic music into its most heavy potential are merely fulfilling the style’s capability. I mentioned this concept (Tape Wyrm V) with Greek Stoner doom pantheon known as Brotherhood of Sleep. Yob is very much like Brotherhood yet with more of a penchant for doom and ridiculous mythology. Yob’s journey into the marshy lands between psychedelic rock and sludge metal come with a driving force which emanates energy and slight pessimism. Atma is the band’s sixth record and second release on Profound Lore. In 2009, following a four year hiatus, the band came back with roundhouse kick of an album with The Great Cessation. Atma is cut from the same sludge cloth and could be considered apart of their very deep second wind.
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The Examined Year - 2012
A new year offers an opportunity to reflect on the significant events of the previous year. But what ideas and events took shape over the past twelve months that have prompted us to question our assumptions and to think about things in new ways? Join John, Ken, and their special guests as they celebrate the examined year with a philosophical look back at 2012.
• The Year in Philosophy: Barbara Grosz from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences discusses the legacy of Alan Turing, whose centennial was celebrated in 2012.
• The Year in Politics: Jason Stanley from Rutgers University explores the precarious place of Truth in the presidential election and beyond.
• The Year in Science: Hank Greely from the Stanford Law School talks about the ethical and legal implications of the year's advances in genetics.
Listening Notes
Ken and John introduce the main events of the year 2012 to be examined through a philosophical lens: truth in politics, advances in the biosciences, and the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing. The guests who will be joining Ken and John in each segment are introduced. They are, respectively, Jason Stanley, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, Hank Greely, Director of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, and Barbara Grosz, Professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and the Applied Sciences.
Ken and John are joined by Barbara for the first segment of the show. John asks Barbara to explain the state of computer science and artificial intelligence in the year 2012, particularly in relation to Turing’s hopes for the two fields. Barbara says that were Turing to see the state of these fields today, he would be tremendously excited. Many widely used systems utilize artificial intelligence, and Barbara explains why she believes we are in a golden age of artificial intelligence. Ken asks Barbara to discuss the extent of intelligence that computing systems exhibit. Barbara explains that while computers can use statistics and collected data to answer a command, computers cannot yet reply to questions or commands that they have not been specifically prepared to reply to. The Turing Test and its impact is also discussed.
Ken and John welcome Jason to speak of the relevance of truth in politics, especially in light of the 2012 presidential election. John asks Jason whether he believes the notion of telling the truth in politics was worse this year than in past elections. Jason says that he does, as one side of the political debate believed that the truth was no longer relevant to the assessment of a candidate. In contrast to the McCain campaign, the Romney/Ryan campaign, explains Jason, was relatively open about its inconsistencies and expected its public to be understanding of them. Jason explains that there has been a change in the degree that people trust politicians and speaks about the use of sarcasm in delivering political news. This use of sarcasm, Jason explains, may be a sign that stating one’s opinion in an honest fashion in a public forum is no longer possible and must be done via indirect means. Jason then speaks of the confirmation bias that exists in news outlets such as FOX News or MSNBC and of the idea that people like to feel as though they are rooting for their own team when watching these channels.
In the short segment that follows, Ken asks John whether there are philosophical implications to gun laws and restrictions. John says that in order to answer this question, we ought to look at the metaphysics of guns. A gun is a method used to make a hole in something from a distance. But substitute the hole for another effect, says John, such as cancer, and think of the laws that would ensue. We must forget symbolism and heroism, says John, and think about, at their core, what guns really are and what reasonable people would do about them.
Ken and John welcome Hank, and Ken asks Hank to explain some of the highlights in the field of the biosciences in 2012. Hank says that the lowered cost of DNA sequencing is leading to a greater understanding of DNA. He predicts that once the cost of sequencing is even lower and more accessible, everyone will have had their entire genome sequenced. John asks Hank what the use of DNA sequencing is, and Hank explains that from a sequence, one is able to approximate the risk for developing certain illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s or colon cancer. Ken asks Hank to speak of the downsides of DNA sequencing, including the potential power of companies to refuse to hire a person or an insurance company to refuse insurance. Hank says that there are several laws that serve to protect from genetic discrimination, and he also speaks about the risks of potential pre-natal fine-tuning. Hank also speaks about another breakthrough regarding genetics that occurred this year: using stem cells to make sperm and eggs in mice. Hank explains his prediction that in the near future, babies will be conceived via IVF and, based on specific genome sequences, parents will have the option to select a specific embryo out of many. The implications of this matter are further discussed and include the potential of a single-gender culture and the elimination of certain illnesses.
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Piccadilly Bookshop
A Game of Birds and Wolves
Author(s): Simon Parkin
It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are lying to the country about the number of ships sunk. You are lying about the number of men killed. Without the supply ships Britain will starve. The tide of the war is turning in Germany's favour. This is the story of the game of battleships that won the Second World War. In 1941 Prime Minster Winston Churchill gathered a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and eight brilliant young women, the youngest only seventeen years-old - to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a ramshackle HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spent day and night playing war games to crack the U-boat tactics. A Game of Birds and Wolves takes us from the steamy fug of a U-boat as the German aces coordinate their wolfpack, to the tense atmosphere of operation room as the British team plot battles at sea on the map. The story of Operation Raspberry and its unsung heroines has never been told before. Investigative journalist Simon Parkin brings these hidden figures into the light in this gripping tale of war at sea.
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Dimensions : 2.5 Centimeters X 15.5 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
Dewey classification : 940.548641
Author : Simon Parkin
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Christian Bale doesn't think he is right for Steve Jobs role, drops out of film
Elyse Betters · 3 November 2014
Mere days after several reports - including the film's screenwriter - confirmed actor Christian Bale was set to portray Steve Jobs in Sony's upcoming biopic about the Apple CEO, it appears Bale has had a change of heart.
The Hollywood Reporter has claimed Bale withdrew his name from the lead. He apparently deliberated after experiencing conflicted feelings and ultimately came to the conclusion he was not "right for the part". Last week, Aaron Sorkin, the film's screenwriter who also penned The Social Network, told Bloomberg TV that Bale was playing Jobs.
Bale was the automatic choice to play Jobs, according to Sorkin. He said the actor, perhaps best known in more recent times as Batman, didn't even have to audition, because Bale was the first name on a very short list: "We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale. He didn’t have to audition," Sorkin said.
Seth Rogen was also being considered to play Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, opposite Bale as Jobs, though it's unclear if Rogen is still in the running now that Bale is out. It's further been reported that Jessica Chastain is being considered for a role too. It's also worth noting that DiCaprio had been previously tipped to play Jobs.
The upcoming film is being directed by Danny Boyle, and the whole thing is being based on the famous authorised biography by Walter Isaacson. Sorkin has publicly said his Jobs movie will be divided into three long scenes, with each scene focusing on notorious Apple product launches like the first Macintosh in 1984 and the 2001 debut of the iPod.
Filming was expected to begin in the next couple of months.
READ: Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for Steve Jobs role
Source: THR
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BBC Sport mobile app brings news and results to iPhone, Android coming in weeks
Chris Hall · 7 January 2013
1/3 Pocket-lint
The BBC has today launched a BBC Sport app, bringing all the latest sports news and results to your mobile device. The Apple iPhone and iPod touch are first to see an app, with an Android app expected within weeks.
The app builds on the success of the BBC's Olympic app, which was nominated in the best app category of the Pocket-lint Gadget Awards 2012. Lucie McLean, executive product manager for Sport at BBC Future Media, told us that the experience gained from the Olympic app helped guide the creation of the new all-inclusive BBC Sport app.
The app breaks down content to cover all sports, with greater emphasis on the more-prominent sports. Football, for example gets a huge range of options, from breaking news to live scores to fixture listings, and also has features such as one-page-per-match pages where you can see information unfolding on that crunch match.
In many cases, sports content has been repackaged for the app, but where content hasn't been completely integrated, the app links through to a simple browser window to display content from the recently reworked BBC Sport mobile site.
The app also links to other outside sources, utilised heavily in the Gossip section. Rather than repeating gossip verbatim, it simply deploys that light browser again to let you glance at the source, read the story and then return to the app.
Navigation around the app is simple and we had no problem getting to the stories we were looking for in our quick play with the app before launch. There's a right-hand menu that can be customised to a certain degree, so you can add or remove sports for quicker access. It uses familiar iOS app components, so it's simple to customise in a flash, with easy to recognise controls.
McLean also told us that individual teams would be added to the selection in the future, so you'll have quick access to whichever teams you choose, and not just the one. So if you support West Ham and Leyton Orient, you'll be able to get news on both.
There's a link through to BBC 5 Live radio, with plans to make this background compatible in the future, so you can start it up in the app and then navigate away and continue listening.
One of the big elements of the BBC Olympics app was the video content. Video will be coming to the BBC Sport app in the future, but it's heavily tied into rights for each sport so there's none at present. However, with Wimbledon coming in June, we should see plenty of video content, so you can watch live matches, switch cameras and so on all through the app.
Android users needn't fret, as there will be a version hitting Google Play in the coming weeks. McLean told us that the Android app has been designed to accommodate the differing sizes of Android displays, specifically catering for screens up to 7-inches, but is in the final stages of development.
We had the chance to play with an early release of the Android app and can confirm that it's much the same as the iPhone app. The look and feel is mostly the same, except that navigation switches to the left, accessed quickly with a swipe, although the app isn't final and may change before launch.
The BBC Sport iOS app is available here on iTunes.
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Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.
— Donald Trump on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 in the CNN debate
Trump: Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 budget shortfall
By Jon Greenberg on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 8:39 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes part in the presidential debates at the Reagan Library on Sep. 16, 2015 in Simi Valley, Calif. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The CNN moderators aimed to get the Republican presidential candidates to go head-to-head in the second GOP debate and the contenders complied. Frontrunner Donald Trump and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got into verbal tussle over who had a worse fiscal track record. Walker charged that Trump had taken four projects into bankruptcy. Trump fired back that Walker had ruined his state’s budget.
"You were supposed to make a billion dollars in the state," Trump said. "You lost 2.2 (billion). You have, right now, a huge budget deficit. That’s not a Democratic point. That's a point. That’s a fact."
Trump is partly right on the money, but he’s mixing apples and oranges, and his use of the word deficit is problematic. PolitiFact Wisconsin covered much of the ground before.
By law, Wisconsin’s two-year budgets must be balanced -- revenue equalling expenditures.
So, unlike the federal government, Wisconsin can never run an actual budget deficit by borrowing money that piles up as debt.
That said, the state does various projections of what revenues and expenditures will be for the upcoming two-year budget cycle. Those projections can show a surplus or a deficit -- although "deficit" is more accurately termed a projected shortfall, since there is no actual red ink.
But the two figures he cited were projections that received plenty of attention when they were made.
The two figures
In January 2014, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau projected Wisconsin would see a surplus of about $1 billion by June 30, 2015 -- the end of the 2013-15 budget cycle. At the time, revenues were coming in higher than expected.
Walker and the GOP-run Legislature adopted a series of tax cuts later in 2014, making good on a Walker promise to return such surpluses to taxpayers, but drawing criticism for not using the money for other purposes, such as boosting the state’s rainy day fund.
Along the way, however, tax collections grew at a slower pace than had been projected.
By November 2014, there was a reversal of fortune: Walker’s own Department of Administration projected a $2.2 billion shortfall for 2015-17.
Once again, that figure was not an actual deficit. Indeed, even as a projected shortfall it was overstated.
That’s because the standard for projections made in the months leading up to the next budget cycle is to include all the funding requests made by state agencies -- even though, in reality, those requests always get trimmed. That serves to temporarily inflate the actual picture.
In the end, the 2015-17 budget approved by the Legislature and signed by Walker in July 2015 was balanced -- just as every other Wisconsin state budget is.
Mixing apples and oranges, Trump said that under Walker, "You were supposed to make a billion dollars in the state. You lost 2.2 (billion). You have right now a huge budget deficit. That’s not a Democratic point. That's a point. That’s a fact."
There was in early 2014 a projection of a $1 billion surplus heading into the 2015-17 budget period. Late in 2014, there was a projection of a $2.2 billion shortfall -- the difference between expected revenues and the amount of money being requested by state agencies. But the shortfall was never a deficit -- and some of the surplus was consciously spent by Republicans, as tax cuts.
Trump’s statement has an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Published: Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 8:39 p.m.
Researched by: Jon Greenberg, Tom Kertscher
Subjects: Economy
CNN, Republican presidential debate, Sept. 16, 2015
PolitiFact-Wisconsin, Donald Trump says that under Scott Walker, Wisconsin budget went from projected surplus to a deficit, July 28, 2015
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Virginia Edition
The Virginia Truth-O-Meter
Virginia was named "best managed state, best state for business and best state to raise a child" while I was governor.
— Tim Kaine on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 in a YouTube video
Tim Kaine says Virginia named best managed state, best for business while he was governor
By Jacob Geiger on Thursday, April 7th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Tim Kaine ended months of speculation with his April 5 announcement that he was running for Senate.
Democrat Timothy M. Kaine launched his 2012 U.S. Senate campaign on April 5 by touting his record as Virginia’s governor.
Kaine said Virginia was named the "best-managed state, best state for business and best state in which to raise a child" during his term from 2006 to 2010. (Virginia law bars governors from serving consecutive terms).
We wondered if Kaine had his facts right.
We turned to Governing magazine. Since 1999, it has been publishing a report by the non-partisan Pew Center on the States that grades each state on the strength of its management.
Under Kaine in 2008, Virginia was one of three states to earn an "A-" grade, topping the rankings alongside Utah and Washington.
The Pew report does not assign one-to-50 rankings to the states, meaning Utah and Washington can also claim to be "best managed."
Virginia’s reputation for well-managed government hardly begins with Kaine, however. Each of the four governors who preceded Kaine also claim credit for having run the best-managed state. That includes Republican George Allen, who is also running for Senate in 2012.
The state earned the best grades in Governing in 2005 when Democrat Mark Warner was governor and in 1999 under Republican Jim Gilmore.
Financial World magazine researched and published similar ratings -- independent of Pew -- in the 1990s. Virginia received the top management grade in 1995 and 1996 under Allen, and in 1992 and 1993 under the governorship of Democrat Doug Wilder.
The Pew report looks at a state’s performance and resources in four major categories: money, infrastructure, people and information. The diverse topics means a state’s record is dependant on many people, including elected officials and state employees. The state’s 2008 mark under Kaine was unchanged from the "A-" grade received in 2005 under Warner.
Virginia’s ranking as the top state for doing business comes from Forbes, the financial magazine. The state took first place each year from 2006 to 2009. In 2009 the publication said Virginia earned the top spot thanks to a highly-trained workforce, a favorable regulatory environment and high quality of life.
As governor, Kaine had only indirect control over most of these factors. Although he certainly had a say in tax rates and regulations, he had little sway over how many Virginians earned college degrees during his term and many quality-of-life issues.
But the facts match Kaine’s claim about the state being rated best for business during his tenure.
Last year the state surrendered the top spot to Utah and placed second in the Forbes survey. Despite the drop, the magazine still had high praise for Virginia’s business climate. Utah had narrowly trailed Virginia in 2009.
The claim about Virginia being the best state to raise a child comes from a 2007 report by Education Weekand the Pew Center on the States. The survey examined education test scores, high school graduation rates, family income and even the education level of Virginia parents. Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Maryland rounded out the top five.
Like the other categories, Kaine can’t claim credit for all of these successes. He certainly didn’t play a role in how many Virginians went to college during the years or decades before he became governor.
Let’s review our findings.
Virginia has long-earned top marks for state management, finishing at or near the top of virtually every survey in that category for 20 years. Kaine built upon a strong legacy of management established by his predecessors from both parties. He deserves credit, however, for keeping the state near the top. He was handed a Cadillac and drove it well.
We rate his statements True.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.
Researched by: Jacob Geiger
Edited by: Warren Fiske
Subjects: Children, Economy, Education, Elections, Small Business
Kaine for Virginia, Best decision I ever made, April 5, 2011.
Forbes, The best states for business and careers, October 13, 2010.
Forbes, The best states for business, Sept. 23, 2009.
Pew Center on the States, Overall performance grades, March 2008.
Pew Center on the States, Grading the states, March 2008.
Pew Center on the States, Grading the states, Virginia, February 2005.
Deseret News, Utah No. 1 for governing, March 4, 2008.
Education Week, From cradle to career, Jan. 4 2007.
Interview with Brandi Hoffine, press secretary, Kaine for Virginia, April 6, 2011.
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New Yorkers turn out for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade
Posted on Friday November 29th, 2019 by Sandra Municio in Featured, World, Level B1, News
Fotografía de Agencia EFE firmada por Porter Binks para EPA del desfile de globos por Acción de Gracias en Nueva York
New York / “Hey Astronaut Snoopy, we are clear for take-off!” With that Twitter message, the New York Police Department gave the green light for the start of the traditional Thanksgiving Day Parade with its enormous balloons organized by Macy’s department store, although this year heavy winds in the Big Apple may make the event more challenging than normal.
Thousands turned out in Manhattan – authorities expect some 3.5 million to line the streets to view the parade – between Central Park and 34th Street for the 93rd annual turkey-day event.
The tradition is geared – above all – to children and the central focus is on the 16 huge and colorful balloons representing the most popular characters from comic strips, cartoons and animated series, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Snoopy – who is the character who has appeared in the most parades (40) of any and this year is wearing an astronaut suit for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing – Olaf from “Frozen” and the well-known Smokey the Bear.
The parade includes 26 floats, 1,200 dancers and balloon handlers, more than 1,000 clowns and 11 musical bands.
This year, weather forecasts led organizers and the public to fear the worst, given that heavy winds were predicted that could prevent the balloons from flying.
New York has had a strict regulation regarding the flight of these balloons since 1997, when one of them was swept by the wind and hit a lamppost, injuring several people including a woman who was in a coma for almost a month.
Maneuvering an enormous helium-filled balloon along the parade route – which runs for two miles through Manhattan – can be a challenge even under the best of conditions.
NBC News reported that the balloons range from 31 to 67 feet high and require teams of up to 90 handlers. They can be flown up to 55 feet over the parade route, but according to city regulations they cannot be flown in sustained winds of greater than 23 mph of if there are gusts of greater than 33.5 mph.
The Thanksgiving Day Parade is a custom dating back to 1924 and, once again, it is being staged amid special security measures, with thousands of cops deployed along the route.
Since 1924, the parade has only been cancelled four times – from 1942-1945, during World War II. Although animals appeared in the parade in the early years, balloons began to be used in 1927.
In 1971, on a windy Thanksgiving Day, the balloons had to be kept at ground level but tens of thousands of fascinated children were able to view them up close, according to local media reports.
Televisions in many households around the country will be tuned to the event, which is being broadcast live, and people will be able to enjoy musical performances by Celine Dion, Black Eyed Peas, Billy Porter, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots and Idina Menzel, as well as an appearance by none other than Santa Claus. (November 29, 2019, EFE/Practica Español)
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Maarten Post appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Radio Holland Group
Per 13th March 2017, Maarten Post has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the General Management Team of the Radio Holland Group. With his extensive and versatile international management experience Maarten will be responsible for the management of the global operations of the Radio Holland Group and further building the global service network.
Within RH Marine Group over the past years, Maarten Post has had several managerial positions, amongst others Managing Director of Elkon (Turkey) and Imtech Marine Canada. Before that he worked in several senior management positions in Public Transportation and at DHL. Maarten started his career as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, after completing Royal Netherland Naval College. Maarten holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
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Home » Chancellor announces bursary for Indigenous students
It was a conversation that challenged Chancellor Jim Leech (MBA’73), and made him wonder what he could personally do to help.
Approximately a year and a half ago, then-Governor General David Johnston convened a first-ever gathering of all Canadian university chancellors. One of the topics of conversation at that meeting: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the responsibilities of universities and of those in leadership positions to help.
That call to action built on what Chancellor Leech had been hearing and seeing for himself since he started his three-terms as chancellor in 2014. He had participated in a breakfast at the Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, attended some of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force sessions, took part in a blanket exercise with the Aboriginal Council of Queen’s University, and got to know then-Director of Four Directions Janice Hill.
“All of those things came together and I started thinking about what I could do to mark the end of my first term,” says Chancellor Leech. “We know that for all students unplanned events happen, such as family issues or community issues, which may cause a student to drop out. If we’ve got someone who’s come here and worked two or three years, it’s a shame that they might have to drop out for financial reasons.”
So, working with Advancement and Four Directions, the chancellor set out to establish a bursary for Indigenous students. The $15,000 need-based bursary is “awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to Aboriginal students in any year of any faculty or school at Queen’s University.” Recipients may be full- or part-time students.
“I remember when I was a student having friends who were towards the end of the year starting to get short on cash and a few hundred dollars might have made the difference between staying in school and dropping out,” says Chancellor Leech. “The objective of this bursary will be to attract more students and give more students opportunities so that we have more graduates who can contribute to society in their communities, acting as role models in our Canadian society and economy.”
The creation of this bursary fund aligns with the recommendations of Queen’s University’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Task Force Report. It will assist Indigenous students in fully participating in the academic and extra-curricular life of the university and will promote inclusion, retention, and success.
“I am very pleased and honored that the chancellor chose this for his contribution,” says Kanonhsyonne (Janice Hill), Director of Indigenous Initiatives. “It is a pretty significant signal from the chancellor, and it is consistent with his efforts, dating back to the beginning of his term, to reach out to the Indigenous community. It is also very much filling a need – we have a lot of entrance scholarships but not a lot for those who are more senior students.”
Applications are to be made via SOLUS to the Office of the University Registrar, Student Awards by Oct. 31, 2017. Please visit www.queensu.ca/studentawards for information on Student Awards at Queen’s.
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Academic journal article International Journal of Business
The Influence of Organizational Capital on the Conception of the Enterprise Project
By Pare, Jean-Louis; Redis, Jean; Hikkerova, Lubica
According to Shane and Venkataraman (2000), an entrepreneurial project consists of two processes: discovery and exploitation of opportunities. For the project to succeed, the entrepreneur must assemble two types of resources: know-how, represented by human capital, and social capital.
The success of entrepreneurial projects is a central question that is of interest, of course, to the entrepreneurs themselves but, more broadly, to the set of stakeholders, including the financiers such as business angels, venture capitalists and bankers. In France, the five-year survival rate of newly created enterprises is approximately 50% (1). From this perspective, a certain number of works have sought to identify the criteria that could explain the success or failure of an entrepreneurial project. For example, Tyebjee and Bruno (1984) and MacMillan (1977) listed the criteria used by venture capitalists to select the entrepreneurial projects in which to invest. Other studies have themes of understanding the success of projects ex post (for example, Lasch et al., 2005). Meanwhile, a few works have examined the chances of success of projects ex ante, based on the characteristics of the projects, particularly as a function of their degree of ambition and degree of realism.
The object of the present research is to understand how the human capital and the social capital of founders affect the conception of the enterprise project, particularly the degree of ambition and realism of the project. Thus, this article provides two novel elements. First, the research question is asked in the very early stage, that is, from the conception of the business plan. Next, this research uses the theories of human capital and social capital to understand how they contribute to explaining the conception of the enterprise project.
This research study therefore seeks to show how the characteristics of the founder, together with other external factors, can explain the characteristics of the creation of the project, particularly its ambition and its realism.
We shall first present the theoretical framework, followed by the hypotheses of the research. Then, we shall present the methodology. Finally, the results will be analyzed and discussed.
II. THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CAPITAL OF THE ENTREPRENEUR
Entrepreneurship can be considered to consist of two processes: the discovery of business opportunities and their exploitation (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). Recent conceptions of entrepreneurship are based on resources (Alvarez and Barney, 2004, Alvarez and Busenitz, 2001). To exploit an opportunity when it appears, the entrepreneur must assemble the necessary resources and find a way to organize these resources to extract the value of the opportunity. This process requires having access to these resources to generate the profits associated with a market opportunity and doing so in a way that enables the economic actor to collect at least part of the profits that have been generated (Alvarez and Barney, 2004). Among the resources available to the entrepreneur are his human capital and his social capital.
A. Human Capital
The theory of human capital postulates that individuals who have more or better-quality human capital achieve better performance in the execution of certain tasks (Becker, 1975). From an entrepreneurial perspective, human capital refers to the knowledge and skill sets that enable a person to engage successfully in the creation of activities or enterprises (Davidsson and Honig, 2003; Snell and Dean, 1992). Human capital is composed of both generic and specific human capital.
1. Generic Human Capital
Generic human capital consists of the knowledge, skill sets and ability to solve problems that are transferable to different situations. Generic human capital typically corresponds to education (Rauch and Frese, 2000). …
Publication: International Journal of Business
Pare, Jean-Louis
Redis, Jean
Hikkerova, Lubica
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Probiotics Reduce Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
A series of probiotic studies on mice have presented positive results in protecting newborns from intestinal infections and reducing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), research by Institut Rosell suggests.
The Canadian company will present the work at the 4th Probiotics, Prebiotics & New Foods Congress this month. It looks at the use of the Lacidofil preparation and the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential of Lp299v in combination with rosehip drink in an animal model of IBD. If the results also hold for humans, the studies point to a potential for probiotics to be used in the direction of colonic surgery, organ transplantation and vascular injury, as well as boosting gut health in newborns.
They also add further backing to the use of probiotics in reducing IBD, which is said to affect about one person in every 500, which equates to over half a million people in the US, and 150,000 people in the UK.
Lacidofil is formulated using Lactobacillus Rosell 52 and Lactobacillus Rosell 11, and previous studies have linked its effectiveness for antibiotic associated diarrhoea and dysbacteriosis, and for reducing lactose intolerance.
Two other studies look at the use of Lp299v and were conducted in Sweden by Lund University's and Malmö University Hospital's Department of Surgery. Both promote a better understanding of the effects of L. plantarum 299v observed in patients, further substantiating the existing evidence of this probiotic strain's effectiveness in helping to maintain the integrity of the intestinal barrier, Institut Rosell said.
Strains of the Lp299v bacteria have already been linked to preventing iron deficiency and boosting heart health.
The second study also highlights the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory potential of Lp299v in combination with rosehip drink in an animal model of IBD.
The researchers said that overall disease activity index decreased significantly with the treatments within a week, as compared to untreated control. The study shows the efficacy of Lp299v, either alone or with Rosehip drink, in attenuating inflammation and improving the intestinal barrier function (reduced bacterial translocation in the gut), as well as its antioxidant capacity, they said.
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U.S. Legal News
Allergan signs $750 million settlement with purchasers of Alzheimer's drug Namenda
Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Purchasers of Allergan Plc’s Namenda asked a federal judge on Tuesday to approve a $750 million settlement of claims that the drugmaker conspired to keep generic versions of the Alzheimer’s medication off the market.
FILE PHOTO: The Allergan logo is seen in this photo illustration November 23, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the preliminary settlement, which requires a judge’s approval, would be the largest amount paid by one defendant to resolve a class action brought by “direct purchasers” under the federal Hatch-Waxman antitrust law, which encourages the manufacture of generic drugs.
The purchasers accused Allergan’s Forest Laboratories unit of paying a rival to delay selling generic Namenda IR and encouraging them to switch to an extended release medication, Namenda XR, before generic Namenda IR became available.
Allergan denied wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, which its lawyers signed on Dec. 20.
The Dublin, Ireland-based company previously took a related $750 million pre-tax charge in its third-quarter results.
Forest was acquired in June 2014 by Actavis Plc, which changed its name to Allergan in June 2015.
Namenda treats moderate to severe dementia in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Sales of generic Namenda IR began in July 2015 and generic Namenda XR in March 2018, Allergan has said.
The settlement covers those in the United States who purchased Namenda IR, Namenda XR or generic Namenda IR directly from Forest, Actavis or Allergan from June 2012 to September 2015.
It requires approval by Chief Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
The purchasers’ lawyers may seek legal fees of up to one-third of the settlement fund, including interest but net of expenses and other sums, court papers show.
The case is In re Namenda Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 15-07488.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Dan Grebler
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EU: Brussels To Set Up Defense Agency
November 18, 2003 00:00 GMT
By Ahto Lobjakas
The European Union yesterday took an important step toward consolidating its evolving security policy, approving a joint defense agency for capabilities development, research, and armaments. Although less controversial than some other EU defense plans, it appears that much will depend on what becomes of the new agency's currently vague mandate.
Brussels, 18 November 2003 (RFE/RL) � The main concern behind the drive toward an EU defense agency is often summarized in the observation that while the bloc's defense spending is about half of that of the United States, its returns amount to only 10 percent of what the United States gets for its money.
Antonio Martino, Italy's defense minister, who spoke for the current EU presidency yesterday, said that while the spending "deficit" was harder to reduce in the current economic conditions, Europe's "capacity deficit" with the United States has largely been the result of duplication -- or as he put it, "every country wanting to do its own thing."
Thus, the agency is attempting to at least stop the capacity gap from growing, if not reverse it. The EU's defense ministers yesterday set up a team which will submit proposals by April next year on the necessary legal, financial, and administrative measures, as well as the internal organization of the agency. The ministers hope to formally seal the creation of the defense agency in June, and officials say it should be "up and running" by the end of the next year. The task force, as well as eventually the agency itself, will be run by EU security policy chief Javier Solana.
Among other things, the agency will be tasked with building up additional defense capabilities for the EU. Martino said yesterday that this should not be seen as another attempt to compete with NATO, which is also in the process of reforming its capabilities:
"You should not look at the agency as antithetic to participation in NATO," Martino said. "Each country will have one force, and that force will be deployed either under NATO leadership or European Union leadership. So, the question is not that of looking at the two institutions as being in competition or antithetic. In a sense both will pursue missions of general interest and we will have to decide on a case-by-case basis which is better through NATO and which is better through Europe."
The capabilities in question, Martino said, will not be duplicated, as none of the European allies can afford two sets of capabilities.
Important questions remain, however. Martino seemed to suggest last night that the agency could become the "venue" for regular meetings of defense ministers -- who until now have not been formally empowered to take decisions binding on the EU.
It is also not clear if all member states will participate in the work of the agency. Martino yesterday said he believes all 25 member states should take part. Some, however, may not want to -- Denmark has the option to decline participation in EU defense cooperation, and the neutrals may feel reluctant as well. Some officials from the new member states have voiced fears their countries might yet find themselves shunned.
It appears the defense agency will allow for "horizontal cooperation" between a limited number of member states without necessarily involving all 25 member states.
A number of defense ministers, led by Britain's Geoff Hoon, yesterday also warned that any commitment to harmonize defense industries must not amount to a compulsion to "buy European." This is in contrast to the United States, where a new law obliges the administration to direct a certain part of its defense acquisitions to domestic companies.
The EU's defense ministers yesterday avoided open discussion on the controversial issues of how to organize "structured defense" cooperation among a limited number of member states, or whether to go ahead with setting up an operational planning headquarters separate from NATO.
Diplomats say French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was alone in raising the issue of the headquarters in her speech, affirming once again that France backs an autonomous EU planning capability.
Hoon, however, told journalists afterwards that Britain retains a "principled objection" to a separate EU planning headquarters. He said he remains concerned that such a venture would be "inconsistent" with attempts to improve the EU's military capabilities:
"I think it would be expensive, it would be unnecessary, and, indeed, that it would duplicate existing capabilities. But crucially, and I think that this is the key to all of the arguments in this area, we don't judge that it would be militarily effective."
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Iraq Report: February 20, 2004
20 February 2004, Volume 7, Number 6
INSIDE IRAQ
IS IRAQ SLIPPING TOWARDS CIVIL WAR? A recent surge of attacks in Iraq such as the 14 February attack on an Iraqi police station in Al-Fallujah (see this issue) and two attacks on Iraqi police and military last week (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 12 February 2004) have sparked more debate on whether Iraq might be slipping towards civil war.
The precarious security situation in the country was probably summed up best by UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Baghdad last week, when he said: "I have appealed to members of the [Iraqi] Governing Council and to Iraqis in every part of Iraq to be conscious that civil wars do not happen because a person makes a decision, 'Today I'm going to start a civil war.'" Brahimi went on to say that civil wars erupt, "because people are reckless, people are selfish, because people think more of themselves than they do their own country." The fact that Brahimi was addressing the possibility of civil war in Iraq is in itself a startling revelation. But, ordinary Iraqis and aid workers also warn that sectarian strife may be just around the corner.
One foreign aid worker in Al-Nasiriyah, who asked not to be identified, told "RFE/RL Iraq Report" this week that the situation on the ground appears to be worsening every day. "Many bad scenarios could happen with the June deadline approaching. Terrorists are really targeting any indication of stability and normality," he said. "More dangerously, [they] are playing the game of inciting and creating hatred among already antagonized ethnic and religious groups." Another international aid worker stationed in Baghdad, who asked not to be identified, said that even Iraqis working for the coalition have begun making plans to leave, out of fear that a civil war may erupt as the 30 June handover date approaches.
The CIA also remains pessimistic that sovereignty can be returned to Iraqis without ethnic strife or even civil war, one senior U.S. official has said according to an 18 February Knight-Ridder report. The CIA is reportedly concerned about Iranian attempts to influence Iraq, as well as the possibility that Iraqi Sunni militants will turn their violence on Shi'ites if they gain power.
"The Miami Herald" reported on 17 February that Iraqis conveyed their fears of sectarian violence to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz in Kirkuk earlier this month. Sunni Arabs at the meeting complained that they were being abused and mistreated by the Kurds. The Shi'ites insisted that they would only be satisfied once free and open elections were held, while other Iraqis reportedly complained that local militias, who owe no loyalty to the central government, are intimidating and frightening people, the newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, even the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) leadership appears fractured. IGC members Shaykh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawir and Nasir Kamil al- Chadirchi told London-based "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" that the Sunni voice inside the council is "weak" and that there are unpublicized alliances among the members of the council "that we should stay away from," the daily reported on 15 February. Both men are Sunnis. "What worries us most is the sectarian problem in Iraq," al-Yawir said. "The issue of nationality between Arabs and Kurds is simple and can be surmounted. Sectarian sedition, however, is extremely dangerous, particularly since some neighboring countries or some regional and international forces are encouraging such sedition."
IGC member Iyad Allawi downplayed the 14 February attacks in Al-Fallujah, telling reporters, "This is a war that is being waged against Iraqis, and we are going to wage a war against them," implying that the attacks may have come from foreign fighters rather than Iraqis, ft.com reported on 16 February. IGC Spokesman Hamid al-Kifa'i echoed Allawi's statements saying Iraqis "never fought each other." "We are one nation and we will stay united."
U.S. military officials continue to report on the arrest of foreign fighters in Iraq, and this week the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) reportedly dispatched some 800 troops to northern Iraq to prevent infiltrators from entering the country from Iran (see this issue). Nonetheless, reports from blast sites in recent days indicate that rumors circulated amongst residents that Iraqis from other sects might be behind the violence -- and it is not just Sunni militants who are being blamed. In a part of the world where conspiracy theories abound, such talk is not that uncommon. However, it can also lead to untold consequences if such violence continues. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL OPENS DEBATE ON TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION LAW. Some Iraqi Governing Council members met on 17 February to discuss three drafts of the Transitional Administration Law, also known as the "fundamental law" due to be ratified by 28 February, London-based "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" reported on 18 February.
Three drafts were presented: one by council member Adnan Pachachi, who heads the Independent Democrats Movement; a second by the Iraqi Communist Party; and a third drafted jointly by the two Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). The leaders of the two Kurdish parties did not attend the meeting. Instead, high-level KDP and PUK officials met in Salah Al-Din with U.S. civil administrator L. Paul Bremer and senior U.K. representative in Iraq Sir Jeremy Greenstock, reportedly to discuss "current issues." A representative of the Independent Democrats Movement, Faysal al-Istirbadi, told "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" that other drafts were submitted for consideration but the drafting committee "chose three plans that we are working to combine so as to come out with a law that is respected."
IGC member Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i told "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" that much progress was made during the 17 February meeting. "We discussed, for example, the Iraqi citizens' political, religious, ethnic, and cultural rights, and agreed on banning and proscribing the revocation of the citizenship of any Iraqi under any conditions, whether they [be] ethnic, religious, or political," al-Rubay'i said. "We considered it one of the Iraqis' rights to hold another citizenship."
Asked why the Shi'ites did not put forth their draft for consideration, al-Rubay'i said: "We decided that three drafts were quite enough." Meanwhile, Kurdish council member Mahmud Uthman told the daily that while progress was made, the meeting did not address more controversial issues such as a federal system, religion, the distribution of resources, elections, and the formation of a new leadership. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
COALITION FORCES REPEL ATTACK ON ABU GHURAYB PRISON. Militants launched 33 mortar rounds and five rockets at the Abu Ghurayb Prison in western Baghdad on 18 February before being repelled by coalition forces, international media reported the same day. The attack took place around 6:30 p.m., a U.S. military official said. U.S. forces killed one militant and arrested 55 others at the scene, Reuters reported. The Abu Ghurayb Prison, renamed the Baghdad Central Penitentiary by coalition forces, was refurbished following the U.S.-led war in Iraq (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 7 August 2003). The prison was notorious under the Hussein regime because so many of its prisoners were tortured or executed. It now houses coalition detainees. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.S. FORCES ARREST SEVEN MILITANTS SUSPECTED OF TIES TO AL-QAEDA. U.S. forces on 18 February arrested 22 militants in Ba'qubah suspected of carrying out armed attacks against coalition forces in Iraq, BBC reported the same day. Seven of those captured are suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda, Reuters reported. Ba'qubah, located some 65 kilometers north of Baghdad, is located within the so-called Sunni Triangle, where the coalition has faced the greatest resistance from insurgents. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
WOMEN'S RIGHTS CENTER OPENS IN KARBALA. U.S. civil administrator L. Paul Bremer attended on 16 February the opening of the Zainab Al-Hawra'a Center for Women's Rights. Based in Karbala, the center provides assistance to widowed, impoverished, and vulnerable women, according to a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) press release (http://www.cpa-iraq.org).
The center includes an Internet cafe, sewing room, library, day-care center, and a restaurant. The center will offer a variety of educational classes on subjects including literacy and computer skills, health care, democracy and advocacy, as well as English-language training. One unidentified Iraqi woman said the opening of the center has changed her life. "I used to be depressed," she said. "Now I am excited when I wake up in the morning."
Many of the women attending the opening lost husbands, fathers, and sons at the hands of the former Hussein regime. According to the CPA, so many men were killed by the regime in south-central Iraq, that women comprise 60 percent of the population. The center is named after Zainab al-Hawra'a, the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad. The women's center is the third of its kind to open in the south-central region. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
DOUBLE SUICIDE CAR BOMBS HIT COALITION MILITARY BASE IN AL-HILLAH. Suicide car bombers using two automobiles struck a coalition military base in Al-Hillah on 18 February, international media reported. "At 7:15 [a.m.] local time near the logistics base there was a terrorist attack using two cars," Lieutenant Colonel Robert Strzelecki, a spokesman for Polish-led troops, told Reuters. "We found the bodies of the two drivers, and two Iraqis standing in the street were killed."
Meanwhile, Coalition Provisional Authority spokeswoman Hilary White told Reuters that "we can confirm that more than 11 Iraqis were killed" in the attack, including "men, women, and children." At least eight coalition soldiers were also injured in the attack: six Poles, a Hungarian, and a U.S. soldier. Al-Hillah is located some 100 kilometers south of Baghdad. Soldiers from the Philippines, Romania, and Thailand are also stationed at the coalition base. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
AL-SISTANI'S REPRESENTATIVE SAYS BREMER SHOWS U.S. IS 'FEARFUL' OF ISLAM. A representative of Iraqi Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani told Beirut's Al-Manar television on 18 February that comments made by U.S. civil administrator Bremer this week show that the United States is fearful of Iraq becoming an Islamic state. Bremer suggested to reporters during a visit to a women's center in Karbala on 16 February that he might veto a constitution that is based on shari'a law. "The Transition Administrative law will establish equal rights. The text of the current draft established Islam as the state religion, but says it will be a source of inspiration for law," AFP quoted Bremer as saying. "Our position is clear. It can't be law until I sign it," he added.
Al-Sistani representative Shaykh Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbala'i told Al-Manar that Bremer's statement "reflects the fear of the U.S. administration about the adoption of Islam as [an] important source [for] legislation in Iraq.... This administration knows that the Iraqis are Islamic-oriented and want the application of Islamic shari'a" law. He added that the United States fears "that this Islamic phenomenon among average Iraqi citizens might extend to Iraqi politics and Iraqi laws." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
TALABANI CLAIMS BREAKTHROUGH WITH AL-SISTANI ON ELECTIONS. Iraqi Governing Council member and head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani reportedly told Germany's "Spiegel Online" in a 17 February interview that he and Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have reached an agreement on when elections should be held in Iraq.
"We came to an agreement," Talabani said. "We both favor electing this country's first democratic government in seven or eight months." Talabani said the agreement came during weekend meetings with the ayatollah, adding that al-Sistani pledged to support Kurdish claims in Iraq. Asked if that meant that al-Sistani would support Kurdish autonomy, Talabani implied that was the case. "Sistani is no Ayatollah Khomeini, he is moderate, he wants no Islamic regime, and he wants no clerics in ministerial posts," Talabani said. "[Al-Sistani] has not founded a party and he assured me that he does not even want to support a party."
Meanwhile, Voice of the Mujahedin radio reported on 19 February that al-Sistani's office in Beirut has denied that the two men discussed the issue of federation during their meeting. The office further denied that al-Sistani pledged support for a Kurdish entity, the radio reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
MILITANTS LAUNCH BRAZEN ATTACK ON POLICE, ICDC IN AL-FALLUJAH. Militants attacked the main police station in the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah on 14 February, killing as many as 25 police officers and wounding forty. International media reported that between 20 and 80 prisoners were released by the 30-50 militants, who launched their brazen attack at around 8:00 am.
A simultaneous attack occurred at the nearby Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) station in the city, in an apparent attempt to stave off ICDC units from aiding the police in fighting the insurgents.
U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters in Baghdad on 16 February that there were indications that the attackers may have had inside help in coordinating the attack. "We understand that there may have been some communications lines that had been cut intentionally to ensure that the [ICDC] personnel were not able to reinforce the Iraqi police," Kimmitt said. "We have taken some people in the city of Al-Fallujah into custody for interrogation as part of this investigation," he added.
Asked about reports that the mayor of Al-Fallujah was in coalition custody in relation to the attacks, Kimmitt said, "I know that he was brought in -- asked to come in for questioning. If those question[s] lead to the coalition forces to suspect that he may somehow have been involved in the loss of life of 25 Iraqi police service members inside the town.... I would suspect we're going to be holding him for quite some time."
Kimmitt denied media reports that some of the attackers might have been of foreign -- specifically Lebanese and Iranian -- origin. "I can tell you that the reports that we've gotten from the 82nd [Airborne Division] indicates that they were all Iraqi citizens. With regards to who conducted the attack at Al-Fallujah, it would appear to us that the size of the attack and the tactics that were used, that these were an organization, possibly paramilitary, possibly former regime elements in the former Iraqi army," he said. "Here you had a case with a large number of paramilitary forces that looked like they had prior military training and used some level of skill in military tactics. That would cause us to lean first towards former regime elements, former military." But, he conceded, "At the same time, some of the people that we captured, some of the people that were killed, gave indications that they may have belonged to some -- had some affiliation with terrorist groups. So I'm not sure in the case of the Fallujah incident we're really going to be able to pin this down."
Asked about a motive for the attack, Kimmitt said that the militants may have been trying to free four individuals being held on suspicion of attacking an ICDC bus the week before. Asked about the identity of the scores of prisoners released in the attack, Kimmage described them as "common criminals." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
FORMER IRAQI PARLIAMENT SPEAKER RELEASED BY COALITION. Sa'dun Hammadi, the former speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly, was released on 14 February after nine months in coalition custody, international media reported. Hammadi's son Ghassan confirmed to Al-Jazeera television on 16 February that his father was released. He added that his father is in good health, but remains tired and was unavailable to speak to the press.
Regarding his father's time spent in coalition custody, Ghassan Hammadi said that "he was treated with great respect, but the conditions for all of them [prisoners] were extremely bad; bad services, bad food, bad medical treatment," Reuters reported on 16 February. Sa'dun Hammadi served under the Ba'athist regime in Iraq for nearly four decades, holding various posts, including foreign minister, oil minister, and prime minister. In his early 70s, he was not included on the list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis from the deposed Hussein regime, and reportedly faces no formal charges. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI POLICE CAPTURE ANOTHER 'MOST WANTED.' Iraqi police on 15 February captured No. 41 on the list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis from the deposed Hussein regime, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) announced the same day (http://www.cpa-iraq.org).
Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sa'dun served as a Ba'ath Party chairman and commander of the Ba'ath Party Militia in the Al-Ta'mim and Ninawa governorates. Al-Sa'dun was hiding from police in an upstairs room of a residence in Baghdad, according to the CPA. His arrest reportedly came as the result of an Iraqi police investigation and "a series of coordinated raids" by the National Iraqi Police Service Emergency Response Unit.
Iraqi Interior Ministry Under Secretary Ahmad Kazim spoke to reporters on 15 February about the arrest, Al-Jazeera reported. Kazim asserted that al-Sa'dun's arrest exemplifies how far the Iraqi police have come in their attitudes towards the "humanitarian" treatment of criminals since the Hussein regime was in power. "When we arrested him and brought him to the designated headquarters, with all respect, we offered him tea, coffee, and cigarettes. We asked him very simple questions. We released his son...because he was not wanted. This is the difference between the current regime and the criminal regime of [Hussein]. You all know that in the time of Saddam, when any person was arrested, all those with him would be arrested as well and would be considered accomplices," Kazim said. "This is also a sign to his family that the Iraqi police force -- the police of freedom -- is operating well and in a merciful manner." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI CIVIL DEFENSE CORPS DEPLOYS 800 MEN TO SECURE NORTHERN BORDERS. The Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) deployed 800 soldiers to secure a 100-kilometer stretch of highway linking the northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk and Al-Sulaymaniyah on 16 February to prevent foreign terrorist groups from infiltrating the rest of the country from northern Iraq, AFP reported on the same day.
"The ICDC's 4th Regiment in Kirkuk, which counts 892 troops, has deployed along the highway between Kirkuk and Al-Sulaymaniyah in order to prevent the entry of Al-Qaeda and Ansar Al-Islam members coming from northern Iraq," Kirkuk ICDC chief General Anwar Hamad Amin said. The foreign fighters reportedly entered Iraq from Iran in recent days. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
FIVE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN KILLING OF IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBER. Five suspects have been arrested for the 20 September shooting of Iraqi Governing Council member Aqilah al-Hashimi, who died five days later from wounds sustained in the attack (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 22 and 25 September 2003), agencies reported on 17 February. An Interior Ministry official said the suspects were "paid money from a Ba'athist" to carry out the assassination.
Meanwhile, Beirut's Al-Manar television reported on 14 February that Major Abd al-Karim Husayn Abbud, assistant to the public relations officer at the Maysan police department, said that a detainee from Al-Najaf in police custody confessed to having taken part in al-Hashimi's assassination along with the other four individuals, who are reportedly from Al-Amarah.
The killers were reportedly planning to assassinate Iraqi Governing Council member Abd al-Karim al-Mahmadawi at the time of their arrest. Al-Mahmadawi, also known as the "Prince of the Marshes," led a resistance movement against the Hussein regime from the southern Iraqi marshes and was imprisoned by the regime for six years for his activities. He is from the city of Amarah and leads a small Islamist political party. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
LABOR MINISTRY OPENS UNEMPLOYMENT CENTER. The Iraqi Labor and Social Affairs Ministry opened an unemployment center in Baghdad on 29 January, according to a 14 February CPA press release (http://www.cpa-iraq.org). The office is the "first official establishment allowing Iraqis the opportunity to seek employment," according to the CPA. It also offers English-language, computer, and business classes. Two more employment offices will open in Baghdad by March, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Sami al-Majun said. The unemployment center currently services around 500 jobseekers per day, down from the 1,000 per day who sought help from the ministry last summer. The center reportedly still has more jobs available than it can fill daily. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
11,000 IRAQI TEACHERS GRADUATE FROM TRAINING PROGRAMS. Approximately 11,000 secondary-school teachers in Iraq graduated on 16 February from a weeklong teacher-training program that was designed to provide teachers with insight into the latest instructional methods, the Coalition Provisional Authority announced the same day (http://www.cpa-iraq.org).
The nationwide training sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was a vast undertaking. Since September 2003, some 830 secondary-school "master trainers" throughout Iraq's 18 governorates have received training on methodologies, lesson planning, student assessment, student rights, and classroom management. The trainers then facilitate weeklong training programs such as the one that graduated 11,000 teachers this week. To date, some 33,000 secondary-school teachers and administrators in Iraq have been trained under the program. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
BROTHER OF FORMER ANSAR AL-ISLAM LEADER KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ. The brother of the former leader of the terrorist group Ansar Al-Islam was kidnapped in Iraqi Kurdistan on 11 February, Oslo's NRK reported on 16 February. Sayf al-Din Faraj Ahmad, brother to Ansar leader Mullah Krekar, who remains jailed in Oslo, was kidnapped in broad daylight in his hometown of Sulaymaniyah.
Ahmad's family members have accused the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) for playing a role in the abduction. "We have received clear indications that the PUK is behind the kidnapping. We have spoken to several people in the organization and they all say that we should just take it easy and wait -- then our brother will come back," Khalid Faraj Ahmad said.
The PUK has long-battled Ansar Al-Islam in northern Iraq. Coalition and PUK peshmerga forces struck an Ansar stronghold at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, destroying 18 villages (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 25 March 2003). According to NRK, the reason for the abduction is unknown. Sayf al-Din is reportedly not politically active in Al-Sulaymaniyah. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
FORMER IRAQI INTELLIGENCE CHIEF SAYS HE WAS TARGET OF ROADSIDE BOMB. The former head of Iraqi intelligence told Dubai's Al-Arabiyah television on 16 February that his vehicle was targeted by a remote-controlled roadside bomb placed on a road near his home in Samarra on the same day. Wafiq al-Samarra'i, who now leads the National Salvation Movement, blamed foreign fighters for the attack. "The explosion took place two or three meters away from my car," he said, adding that while he was not injured in the blast, three children and an adult on the street were injured.
Asked why he suspected foreign fighters, al-Samarra'i said, "I am familiar with methods followed both by the regime and other people." He added that "Two weeks ago I published two issues of a newspaper calling on citizens in central areas and...on my brothers Arab Sunnis to halt all forms of operations since they greatly harm" Iraq. Asked whether he thought the attack was related to media reports linking him to the new Iraqi intelligence apparatus, al-Samarra'i would neither confirm nor deny the reports. He said, "I am ready to assume any role the Iraqi people want. I only serve the Iraqi people, including Kurds, Arabs, and Turkomans. I do not seek a post. I do not need a post...I did not move against or harm anyone. However, although I do not like to use the language of challenge, I can confidently say that I challenge those cowards."
Al-Samarra'i stressed to Al-Arabiyah that he only served as deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's intelligence chief for 38 days before rebelling against the regime and joining the resistance. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
SPOKESMAN FOR DEMOCRATIC ISLAMIC TREND DISCUSSES HIS PARTY'S ASPIRATIONS. Muhammad Abd al-Jabbar al-Shabut told Baghdad's "Al-Qasim al-Mustarak" in an interview published on 15 February that his party seeks to establish a democratic government in Iraq based on Shari'a law, saying, "The mechanisms of democracy cannot be actualized if we do not take into consideration its sound and correct place in the civilized Islamic domain."
Al-Shabut said that his party sees national elections as the "only legitimate mechanism to restore authority to the people" of Iraq. Asked whether Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's calls for early national direct elections represents a view of only some Shi'ites in Iraq, al-Shabut said: "Democracy is not a Shi'ite demand but the real demand of all democrats irrespective of their political, ideological, or denominational affiliations." "It is regrettable that the essence of democracy is being dealt with from a sectarian perspective.... If some are looking at the principle of elections from a sectarian perspective they are pronouncing the death sentence on democracy in Iraq."
Al-Shabut also discussed his party's proposal for the establishment of a shadow government in Iraq. He said that the proposal is the embodiment of a political democratic process that would give Iraqis a political alternative to attain their interests. "This alternative is made up of two elements, namely, the political program and the shadow government." He did not specify however, on what that "political democratic process" might look like. Al-Shabut did say that his party's proposal was being discussed with its "allies" including "several prominent Iraqi political currents inside and outside the [Iraqi] Governing Council." He added that his party had signed "several written political agreements with some parties," namely with Dr. Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i's Al-Da'wah Party and the Hizb al-Fadilah or Virtue Party. Al-Shabut also claimed that his party has put forward an unofficial draft constitution for review --presumably by the Iraqi Governing Council -- and plans to submit an official draft constitution in the near future.
Asked how he would define his party, he said: "The Democratic Islamic Trend is not a Shi'ite political entity. It is a framework that is open to all the Iraqi people irrespective of their religion or race or sect." Asked what could be done to raise the democratic process in Iraq, al-Shabut called for a broad awareness campaign to educate Iraqis on democracy, the actual exercise of democracy, and the establishment of a social security system "in order to provide the citizen with his basic needs for housing medical care, schools, food and security." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBERS SCRAPPING CAUCUS IDEA. A number of Iraqi Governing Council members are reportedly moving away from a proposed U.S. plan to hold caucuses in Iraq to elect an interim Iraqi leadership, AP reported on 13 February. Several council members from different factions are now supporting a plan that would expand the Governing Council, which would assume power on the 30 June handover date. Nationwide direct elections would then be scheduled for later this year.
The plan has the strongest support among the council's 13 Shi'ite representatives, according to AP. However, Sunni council member Samir Shakir Mahmud told the news agency that the proposal has not been finalized or discussed at length with UN adviser Lakhdar Brahimi. The news agency later reported on 18 February that Sunni Kurd Governing Council member Mahmud Uthman also objects to the idea of caucuses. "I think that the caucus system doesn't suit the Iraq situation," AP quoted Uthman as saying. "This system is used in the United States, and Iraq is different from the United States. The Americans now think that the caucuses might be not the best solution in Iraq."
Meanwhile, Shi'ite Governing Council member Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i told AP that the caucus idea is "gone with the wind" and the only viable solution that Iraqis would support would be a general election, AP reported on 18 February. Al-Rubay'i earlier said that Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who has pushed for early national direct elections, would support an expanded-council formula, AP reported on 13 February. Al-Sistani previously objected to the idea of an expanded council. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.S. COMMANDER'S CONVOY ATTACKED IN IRAQ. A convoy carrying U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commander General John Abizaid was attacked on 12 February as it approached the headquarters of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) in Al-Fallujah, the Coalition Provisional Authority's website (http://www.cpa-iraq.org) announced the same day.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters during a weekly press briefing in Baghdad that militants fired three rocket-propelled grenades at Abizaid's convoy from nearby rooftops as the convoy approached the ICDC compound. "A local mosque was thought to be harboring the attackers, and [ICDC] soldiers conducted a search of the mosque without result," he said. Asked whether he believed the attackers had any prior knowledge that General Abizaid would be at the compound, Kimmitt said, "Whether we can directly link this attack to any foreknowledge...is a bit of a leap that we're not prepared to make at this time." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
FORMER AL-MAJID BODYGUARD REPORTEDLY GUNNED DOWN IN BAGHDAD. Former Iraqi Brigadier General Marwan al-Samarra'i, who served as the bodyguard of Ali Hassan al-Majid, cousin of President Saddam Hussein and the apparent architect of the 1988 genocidal Anfal campaign against the Iraqi Kurds, was reportedly gunned down in Baghdad on 13 February, Baghdad's "Al-Furat" reported on 14 February.
Al-Samarra'i had reportedly been in hiding at a relative's house in the 9 Nisan district of Baghdad since fleeing his own home in Baghdad last spring. According to the report, unidentified gunmen arrived at the house in a new Land Cruiser bearing no license plates, and opened fire on al-Samarra'i with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The newspaper reports that al-Samarra'i played a major role in the 1988 gassing of the Kurds at Halabjah. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
COALITION ANNOUNCES NEW REWARD PROGRAM. U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt at a 17 February press conference in Baghdad announced a new reward program for information leading to the "capture of terrorists and noncompliant members of the former regime" the Coalition Provisional Authority announced (http://www.cpa-iraq.org).
The new, three-tiered program offers a reward of $1 million for the capture of any of the 10 individuals remaining on the coalition's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis from the deposed Hussein regime. The second tier offers $200,000 for information leading to the capture of any "members and personnel formerly associated with the [Hussein] regime who had regional responsibilities." The third tier offers a reward of $50,000 for information leading to the capture of individual operatives running local terrorist cells. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS MEET IN KUWAIT. Iraq's neighbors and Egypt gathered in Kuwait on 14-15 February for their 5th annual meeting on Iraq, international media reported. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari led an Iraqi delegation to the meeting. UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi also joined the foreign ministers from Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey at the meeting.
Zebari told AP prior to the start of the meeting that he would try to allay fears amongst Iraq's neighbors that Iraq might break up. "We understand their fears...we have come to reassure them that the Iraqi people are committed to national unity, to Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said. "No group or faction has any extra agenda to divide Iraq. We are all united to build a democratic Iraq." Saudi Prince Saud al-Faysal had told reporters before the meeting: "Everybody has concerns about the partition of Iraq," AFP reported.
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Muhammad al-Sabah opened the conference saying: "There is no doubt that all our countries agree that the only way we have to follow is the way leading to new, free, unified, Iraq that guarantees security and stability for the regional states," KUNA reported.
In a speech delivered to the conference, Zebari said that Iraq is prepared to sign a non-aggression, security pact with its neighbors, KUNA reported on 14 February. "We confirm that the new Iraq is trying best to achieve harmony with neighboring states instead of the past experience of contradiction and opposition that prevailed during the [Hussein] regime's era," Zebari said. He later told Al-Jazeera on 15 February that he received a good response on his proposal to form bilateral security committees to monitor cross-border infiltrations into Iraq. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAN'S DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER PROPOSES OPEN BORDER BETWEEN IRAN, IRAQ. Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Ali Asghar Ahmadi has reportedly proposed that Iran and Iraq cancel the use of passports for travel between the two states, Al-Sulaymaniyah's "Hawal" reported on 14 February. Speaking of the proposal, Ahmadi said: "We want to create conditions in [the] future for Iranians and Iraqis to visit both countries without a passport." He added that since tens of thousands of Iranians are traveling to Iraq daily to visit the Shi'ite holy sites in Al-Najaf and Karbala, he hoped that citizens from both states could have the opportunity to travel between the two states using only an identification card. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
THE UN AND IRAQ
UN SAYS ELECTIONS CAN'T BE HELD BY 30 JUNE. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told reporters at UN headquarters in New York on 19 February that national direct elections cannot be held in Iraq before the 30 June deadline for the transfer of power, the UN website (http://www.un.org) reported on the same day.
Annan's comments came after he briefed 46 delegations comprising the so-called "group of friends on Iraq" on the UN elections assessment team's recent trip to Iraq (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 12 February 2004). "We hope that as we move forward we will be able to work with the Iraqis and the coalition to find a mechanism for establishing a caretaker or an interim government until such time that elections are organized. But we shared with them our sense of the emerging consensus or understanding that elections cannot be held before the end of June, that the June 30th date for handover of sovereignty must be respected, and that we need to find a mechanism to create a caretaker government and then help prepare the elections later, some time later in the future," Annan said.
UN envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi told the same group of reporters at the UN on 19 February that Secretary-General Annan will be sending his recommendations to the Iraqi Governing Council and to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq "on the basis of the facts that we have assembled" in order to forge a plan on how to proceed towards elections. "The United Nations will be resuming its work to help the political process, first of all up to the 30th of June and then after the 30th of June when sovereignty will be restored to Iraq," Brahimi said. "When elections take place, all Iraqis from the south, the north, and in the middle, all Iraqis must participate," Brahimi added, in a possible move to dispel rumors that partial elections might take place in Iraq. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
UNHCR EXAMINING ISSUE OF REFUGEES DISPLACED BY IRAQ WAR. The United Nations Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Kamel Morjane was in Jordan on 17 February to discuss the plight of refugees displaced by Operation Iraqi Freedom, the UN News Center reported on the same day.
Some 400 refugees are currently housed at the Ruwayshid refugee camp, and another 1,200 are living in a nearby makeshift site "in no man's land," UNHCR Spokesman Ron Redmond said. "UNHCR is working to find a solution for the refugees in the two camps, particularly more than 400 Palestinians, many of whom would like to go on to other countries in the region since fleeing Iraq last year," he added.
Morjane also met with Iraqi officials in Amman this week to develop a national strategy for the protection, care, and assistance of refugees, returnees, and other displaced persons, the UN News Center reported. "Intensive brainstorming sessions were conducted during the two-day meeting on issues such as assistance needs, capacity building, coordination, property rights, and housing requirements," Redmond said of Morjane's meetings. Some 6,800 Iraqi refugees -- mostly from the 1991 Gulf War -- were repatriated to Iraq from Saudi Arabia and Iran during the past six months with the help of UNHCR. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
EUROPE, THE U.S., AND IRAQ
INTERNATIONAL MONITORING BOARD FOR IRAQ SETS UP WEBSITE. The International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 24 October 2003) that was established to monitor the use of donor money held in the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) has set up a website (http://www.iamb.info). According to a 13 February press release posted on the site, auditors have yet to be appointed to oversee the spending of funds.
"The IAMB continues to attach the highest priority to finalizing the appointment of external auditors for the audit of the export sales of Iraqi oil, petroleum products and natural gas, and the operations of the Development Fund for Iraq, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483 (22 May 2003). The IAMB agreed to the Statement of Work for such audits with the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and the CPA has invited proposals by February 18, 2004. The IAMB will work with the CPA to approve expeditiously the appointment of duly qualified external auditors," the press release stated.
Membership of the IAMB includes one representative each for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the director-general of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD), and the president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank). In addition, the IAMB in consultation with the CPA may appoint up to five observers, including Iraqi nationals nominated by the Iraqi Governing Council. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
CITIGROUP, OPIC PROPOSE FINANCING IRAQI IMPORTS. Citigroup Inc and the U.S.-run Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) have proposed a $200 million joint venture that would allow both entities to back letters of credit issued by some Iraqi banks, agencies reported on 17 February.
Under the plan, Citigroup would contribute $50 million and OPIC $150 million, OPIC spokesman Larry Spinelli said. The Trade Bank of Iraq is currently paying cash for Iraqi imports. The plan would allow Citicorp and OPIC to instead issue letters of credit against Iraq's oil revenues held in the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) on behalf of the Trade Bank of Iraq. If an Iraqi bank failed to honor the letter of credit, OPIC and Citigroup would guarantee its value, Spinelli said, and then recoup their funds from the U.S.-run DFI.
In order to be initiated, the plan needs to be submitted through the Congressional notification process. It is unknown however, whether the plan would remain in place once power is handed over to Iraqis on 30 June. The interim Iraqi government is slated to take over DFI on that date. "There is no future commitment of any kind, either of oil revenues or commitment that binds any future government to continue this facility," Spinelli said. "Our hope is that whoever comes in, the Iraqi provisional government that follows, will see this as a good, positive thing and continue it. That is our hope, but there is nothing that binds them to that," he added. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.K. TO GIVE $3.8 MILLION TO REBUILD IRAQI JUSTICE SYSTEM. The British government announced in a 17 February press released that it will provide more than 2 million pounds ($ 3.8 million) to rebuild Iraq's judicial system, according to the 10 Downing Street website (http://www.number-10.gov.uk). The funds will go toward training some 1,000 judges, prosecutors, and lawyers beginning this month. It will also fund "study tours" and partnerships between institutions. "Over the last 30 years Iraq's judicial system was deeply politicized," U.K. International Development Secretary Hilary Benn was quoted as saying. "Corruption, torture, and other abuses by law enforcement agencies were widespread. This assistance will provide much-needed help to the reform process which is so critical to the wider rebuilding of Iraqi society." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
HUNGARY VOWS TO CONTINUE IRAQ MISSION DESPITE CASUALTIES. Reacting to an 18 February incident in which 10 Hungarian soldiers were injured by truck bombs in Iraq, Defense Minister Ferenc Juhasz said Hungary remains committed to carrying out its mission in that country, AP reported the same day. At least 13 people were killed and more than 60 injured when two explosive-laden trucks blew up outside a military camp in Al-Hillah, some 100 kilometers south of Baghdad (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 18 February 2004). The incident marked the first Hungarian casualties since their deployment to Iraq in August 2003. "Instead of making us think about pulling out, [the attack] has given us a strong incentive to continue our job," Juhasz said. Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy stressed that Hungarian troops are in Iraq "for the right reasons," according to reports in the Hungarian media. The opposition FIDESZ party demanded an urgent meeting of the parliamentary Defense Committee following news of the incident. (Michael Shafir)
SOUTH KOREA COMMITS TROOPS TO IRAQ. The South Korean parliament voted in favor of sending some 3,000 troops to Iraq on 13 February, Reuters reported. The deployment was approved by a wide margin -- 155 in favor and 50 against -- with seven members abstaining. Sixty-one members of parliament reportedly did not show up for the vote.
South Korean officials said that they would now go ahead with a plan to send some 1,600 engineering troops and medics and another 1,400 combat troops to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk by late April. Kirkuk has been racked with tension in recent months as Arabs, Kurds, and Turkomans vie for dominance in the city. Tens of thousands of Arabs were relocated to Kirkuk in the 1980s under the Hussein regime's Arabization policy. They now accuse Kurds of attempting to change the demographic composition of the city by moving Kurds back to Kirkuk.
South Korea already has nearly 700 noncombat troops in Iraq. The new troop deployment will make South Korea the third-largest contingent of foreign troops in Iraq behind the U.S. and U.K., Reuters reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
REFORMING THE IRAQI ARMY
Fotini Christia
"If the Americans want to leave, they have to first build up our security forces," says Nasir Chaderchi, a Sunni member of the Iraqi Governing Council. With the 30 June deadline for the transfer of authority to a transitional Iraqi government fast approaching, the reform of the Iraqi security forces has indeed become a vital concern. As a result, the training of local security forces has been accelerated, and the 2,000-strong Iraqi army is expected to number 40,000 members in less than a year.
With violent resistance on the ground, strict financial constraints, and strong ethnic cleavages, the ambitious reform process has been set back. The recent attacks against police and army recruitment posts in Al-Iskandariya, Baghdad, and Al-Fallujah, which claimed the lives of over 100 Iraqis, constitute the culmination of a series of events that have plagued the reform of the Iraqi security forces.
First came the backlash from laid-off former soldiers. Considering the new army will not be anywhere close in size to its 500,000-strong predecessor, only a small fraction of former Iraqi soldiers can hope to get readmitted into the military structure, leaving the rest to rebuild their lives in their capacity as civilians. In Iraq's currently unruly and insecure economic environment, this move has made thousands of Iraqi men financially and emotionally vulnerable targets for recruitment by the insurgents. As a result, many have taken part in raucous protests due to unpaid allowances, while others have been arrested for active involvement in the insurgency.
The provision of financial security to laid-off soldiers has thus been a challenge -- a challenge that has also plagued the army recruits currently on board. Initial salaries, ranging from $60-$180 a month based on rank, proved to be broadly insufficient and led more than a third of the first graduation class to quit the service after their nine-week basic training. Salaries have been supplemented by a $72 hazardous duty allowance, but attrition rates among the recruits are still at a high 20-25 percent. In light of the serious financial constraints, high attrition rates, and pressing deadlines, a number of future Iraqi police and army officers have been training in Jordan so as to ensure that the 40,000-strong Iraqi army is ready by October.
Apart from the financial hurdles and time constraints, the ethnic diversity of Iraq has been an additional impediment to creating a unified army. In order to reflect proportionately the multiethnic character of Iraq, the new army consists of 54 percent Shi'ites, 15 percent Sunnis, and 12 percent Kurds, with other groups -- including Turkomans and Christians -- accounting for the rest. Given these tribal and sectarian divisions, a unified army has to inspire a sense of cohesion that surpasses loyalty to family, faction, and tribe, and must render the new oath to "voluntarily serve in the cause of freedom from oppression for my country, Iraq" meaningful. This is particularly difficult considering past strained relations among the different groups, stemming from a history of unequal status and violent repression.
Despite these hardships, the coalition authorities appear aware of the fact that a multiethnic army -- with its hierarchical structure, discipline, and chain of command -- is considerably easier to attain than the self-enforcing power-sharing democratic institutions required for a free and democratic Iraq. This process poses a serious test for the coalition authorities: if they cannot create a functional army, they certainly cannot aspire to a democratic Iraq. Therefore, the authorities appear determined to accomplish a successful reform of the Iraqi army as an important step toward the establishment of a democratic Iraqi state.
However, there seems to be a fine line as to how powerful they would like the Iraqi army to be. Iraq, which has no history of a functioning democracy, has plenty of history of military interference in domestic political affairs. Judging by Iraq's history of coup d'etats and President Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the army has traditionally been Iraq's strongest institution. The interim administration appears aware of that risk and has worked hard to encourage the formation of a decentralized defense structure that nurtures rather than challenges the democratic structures and institutions that are slowly being put in place.
Apart from the police and the army, the security forces consist of a facilities' protection service, a border and customs police, and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps. With the purported goal ultimately being the creation of a democratic Iraq, which will spread democracy in the Middle East, the lack of monopoly on the means of violence on the part of the army will hopefully lead to the establishment of a body able to protect Iraq, while providing enough internal checks and balances to constrain potential future abuses of power.
Fotini Christia is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at Harvard University.
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About RIDCC
Pre-jury
Contestants 2018
Meet the contestants of 2019:
Mattheus Paul van Rossum (NL),
Rebecca Laufer (US/IS)
Maramu
Choreographers: Mattheus Paul van Rossum (NL), Rebecca Laufer (US/IS)
Dancers: Mattheus Paul van Rossum, Rebecca Laufer
The choreographers
Mattheus Paul van Rossum was born in 1993 and grew up in Den Helder, Holland. He graduated from the Amsterdam School of Arts in 2016. Currently he is based in Israel as a dancer, choreographer and music composer. He has worked with a wide range within the fields of dance, theater and music. He worked with choreographers such as Lotem Regev, Maya Gelfand, and was a soloist for the Israeli Opera under the choreographer Itzik Galilii. He is currently employed with the Avshalom Pollak Dance Company in Tel Aviv. He worked with physical theater artists such as Jason Danino-Holt. He composed and produced music for the Gerleen Balstra Artistic Director of the Urban Contemporary Department of the Amsterdam school of Arts, Lotem Regev and his own work.
Rebecca Laufer was born in 1994, she grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Point Park University Dance Conservatory in Pittsburgh, USA. Rebecca is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Tel-Aviv. After finishing a ten month intensive program with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, she went on to work with choreographers such as Itzik Galili, the Israeli Opera many many other freelance artists. Rebecca is currently giving masterclasses and workshops in Israel and America teaching and choreographing.
The choreography
The piece talks about the bond between two individuals and all that comes with it: the love, the anger, the joy, the pain, the intimacy, the comfort and discord and the ambition to make everything work. By exposing ourselves we invite the viewer to take part in our journey while having the opportunity to reflect and look within himselve. When you strip everything else away, this piece is about love; the intense, unconditional and sometimes irrational need we all have for each other.
What are the highlights from your career up till now?
Their work together was most recently commissioned and performed as part of the prestigious Curtain Up Festival in Israel for two years in a row and was selected for the International Exposure Festival in Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv.
Why did you register for RIDCC?
We registered for RIDCC because we have seen the high standard and quality that the festival curates. Having the opportunity to perform our own work within this platform is a true privilege.
What do you think RIDCC will bring you?
RIDCC will bring us the opportunity to share our work with a new audience. It will offer us new insights, a different view on our art. A chance to push our creative boundaries and most of all a chance to challenge and develop ourselves as choreographers.
What do you wish to cause with your choreography?
We wish to create a 12 minutes experience of just drifting away. A moment which is so delicate that it creates a complete focus, where nothing can mean everything. Allowing ourselves to be completely present and dive into this moment together. A space where the viewers and the performers share an experience as one.
Luca Signoretti (IT)
Dereck Cayla (FR)
The Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition (RIDCC) is a platform to discover emerging choreographers.
Register for the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2020 until 1 March 2020.
© RIDCC – Design & development Maarten Mieras.
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Ri Trustees appoint Professor Sarah Harper as Director
The Trustees of the Royal Institution (Ri) have appointed Professor Sarah Harper to lead the organisation as its Director.
The Trustees of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri), which has been at the forefront of public engagement with science since 1799, have appointed Professor Sarah Harper to lead the organisation as its Director.
Professor Harper is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford and founder of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, having previously held senior academic positions at universities across USA and Asia. She has worked extensively with the Government Office for Science, serving on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and contributing to UK government and European-wide strategies on issues such as ageing, population change and education.
Professor Sarah Harper will be the new Director of the Royal Institution (Ri).
Credit: Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Announcing the appointment, Ri Chair Sir Richard Sykes FRS said: “Forging deep connections between science and the public has been the Royal Institution’s core purpose for over two centuries. In today’s political and economic climate, the need for open and critical public debate on the practical, ethical and moral aspects of science is more pressing than ever before.
“As an internationally recognised and respected researcher, communicator, and policy advisor, Sarah is the right person to take this legacy forward as the charity embarks on an exciting new vision and strategy.
With its ability to connect science, culture and society at all levels, from primary education to advanced study and cutting-edge research, the Royal Institution has a global role to play in creating such a dynamic forum.
Professor Sarah Harper
Forging deep connections between science and the public has been the Royal Institution’s core purpose for over two centuries.
Sir Richard Sykes
I am honoured to have the opportunity to lead this ambitious team and I look forward to being part of its dedicated community of staff, members, supporters and volunteers.
Professor Harper said: “Science is key to solving many of the significant challenges the world now faces, such as climate change, disease and demographic change, but scientists cannot work alone. I believe it is essential that the wider public are encouraged and supported to participate fully in evidence-based debates and discussions.
“I am honoured to have the opportunity to lead this ambitious team and I look forward to being part of its dedicated community of staff, members, supporters and volunteers."
A passionate communicator, Professor Harper trained with the BBC as a News and Current Affairs Reporter and Producer and is an expert commentator on demographic change and its social and economic implications. Her public engagement record is extensive including giving speeches at World Economic Forums in China and Australia, presenting TED and TED linked talks for a global online audience, contributing to museum outreach programmes and literary and science festivals, such as Hay, Cheltenham, Oxford and Edinburgh, and appearing on radio and TV programmes, and panels for popular public events.
Professor Harper will take up her new position as Director of the Royal Institution on 1 May 2017.
Sarah Harper, MA Girton College, Cambridge; DPhil, St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Sarah is Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing which she founded in 1997 with funding from the US National Institute of Aging.
Sarah has a background in anthropology, population geography, and population studies and her early research focused on migration and the social implications of demographic change. After her undergraduate studies at Cambridge, and her doctoral work at Oxford, Sarah trained with the BBC as a News and Current Affairs Reporter and Producer, working in both TV and Radio for BBC News and BBC Newsnight. After leaving the BBC she took up a lectureship at the University of London, and subsequently moved to the USA where she was professor in public policy at the University of Chicago. Her current research on demographic change addresses the global and regional impact of falling fertility and increasing longevity, with a particular interest in Asia and Africa. Recent research has focused on women’s education and empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact of this on falling fertility rates. Her latest book is How Population Change will Transform our World, (Oxford University Press 2016) and she is working on her next book for Cambridge University Press on the interaction of population, environmental and technological change.
Throughout her academic career, Sarah has combined academic research with external professional commitments. Sarah was appointed in 2014 to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, which advises the Prime Minister on the scientific evidence for strategic policies and frameworks. She chaired the UK government’s Foresight Review on Ageing Populations, and the European Ageing Index Panel for the UNECE Population Unit. She is a Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute. Sarah was the first holder of the International Chair in Old Age Financial Security, at the University of Malaya (2009/10) and her research was recognised by the 2011 Royal Society for Public Health: Arts and Health Research Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropology Institute and of the Royal Society of Arts.
Internationally, Sarah represented the UK on the European Science Academies’ Demographic Change in Europe Panel, serves on the Council of Advisors of Population Europe and on the Advisory Board of the World Demographic Association. Sarah represents Oxford on the Ageing and Demography Collaboration of the International Association of Research Universities. She served on the Royal Society’s Working Group on People and the Planet, the Wellcome Trust Health Consequences of Population Change Panel and on the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Ageing Societies. Sarah served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Natural England and is on the Advisory Board for the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Sarah also serves on the Editorial Advisory Panel of Nature Sustainability.
Sarah is a frequent speaker at literary and scientific festivals, including World Economic Forums, TED talks, Hay, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Festivals.
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