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Network of Experts for Sustainable Development in Central Asia
In 29-30 June, 2017 in the platform of International exhibition EXPO-2017 in the framework of Forum «Future Energy» took place international conference «Promotion of the «Green Bridge» Partnership Program for the implementation of the Paris Agreement», organized by Scientific-educational center «Green Academy» with Committee on Ecology and Nature Management of Mazhilis Parliament RK and Ministry of education and science RK supported by FEF. The conference was moderated by the Member of the Council on the transition to a "green economy" under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the director of the SEC "Green Academy", Doctor of Economics, Professor Bakhyt Yesekina.
One of the directions of the global environmental initiative of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev - The «Green Bridge» Partnership Program (hereinafter "GBPP") is the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to restrain climate change. In this regard, the conference participants - deputies of the Parliament of RK, representatives of state authorities, who represents diplomatic missions and international organizations, scientists and experts from Russia, Tajikistan, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, representatives of business associations and NGOs discussed the mechanisms for the transition to low-carbon development and implementation of the GBPP and The Paris Climate Agreement.
On the first day at the opening of the conference, a welcome speech was made by: Bakhytgul Khamenova, a deputy and member of the Committee on ecology and nature management of the Mazhilis of Parliament RK, and Jonathan Weinberg, secretary, head of the Economics Department of the German Embassy in Kazakhstan. Deputy, member of the Committee on Ecology and Nature Management of the Mazhilis of Parliament RK, Marat Bopazov also spoke at the conference.
Speakers of the conference presented presentations on the role of the PEP in the transition to a "green economy" (the head of the Working Group on the development of the GBPP Bulat Yessekin), the experience of implementing the Paris Agreement in Russia (director of the Center for economics of environment and natural resources of the Higher School of Economics Georgy Safonov), in EAEU (Deputy Director of the Institute of Economy of the CS of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Nailya Nurlanova), on the mechanisms of carbon trade in Poland (head of JSC "OCTANT Sp.zo.o" Pavel Victor) and projects of low-carbon development of Latvia (Chairman of the Board of the Latvian Biogas Association, Member of the Board of the Latvian Federation of Renewable Energy Sources, Andis Karklins), the role of NGOs in promoting GBPP (head ULE "International Organization" Partnership Program "Green Bridge" Ludmila Shabanova). The program of the first day was completed by the training on the standards of "green" construction, which was conducted by representatives of LNEC (Portugal) Dana Galiyeva and Pedro H. Martins.
The program of the second day was opened with a welcoming speech by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France in Kazakhstan Francis Etienne. Participants discussed the development of ETS, the assessment of the carbon footprint, green climate financing and the development of scientific research in the field of low-carbon development, improving energy efficiency and modernization of the water sector, introducing innovations in the example of the city of Astana. Speakers were: director of Department on national emission system regulation JSC «ZhasylDamu» Botagoz Ahmetova, international expert on sustainable development (Poland) Justina Wysocka-Golec, technical adviser to the Secretariat of the Pilot Program on adaptation to climate change in Tajikistan, member of the Secretariat of the Green climate fund in Tajikistan Anvar Khomidov, head of the Kazakhstan USAID climate control program Alexei Sankovski, director of the research institute "Energy Saving and Energy Efficient Technologies”, doctor of technical sciences, professor Altai Alimgazin, head of JSC "Sublemerito", representative of LNEC in Kazakhstan (Portugal) Pedro H. Martins, Director of the Department of Introduction of Urban Technologies of JSC "Astana Innovations" Bakytzhan Ualikhan, Deputy Director for Business Development LLP JV “KAZMI” Schlumberger / KazMunaiGas Berik Zhankubayev. The discussion was concluded and summed up the results of the conference by Director of the Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan Rashiddin Kokenov.
As a result of the conference, recommendations were adopted for the further implementation of the GBPP and the Paris Climate Agreement at the global and national levels for inclusion in the Manifesto Forum.
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‘Stronger’ at 10 – how the Daft Punk-sampling track was the turning point in Kanye West’s career
Kanye West in his video for 'Stronger'
10 years to the day since its release, ‘Stronger’ stands as a pivotal moment in both Kanye West’s career and popular music as a whole. It was also a turning point in how we now view his talents, propelling him from good to great and making it difficult for even the rapper’s most ardent detractors to see him as “just another rapper”.
Issued in the summer of 2007, the track – which heavily borrowed from Daft Punk’s turn-of-the-century single ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ – stands as the star’s last Number One hit in the US (the song also reached the top of the charts in the UK, West’s only single to date to do so). On his first two records, ‘College Dropout’ and ‘Late Registration’, West had turned the tide on the gangster rap that generally ruled the hip-hop scene at the time, with the soul samples and social commentary of his ‘backpack rap’ more reminiscent of the genre’s early spirit.
Come 2007, West stood at his commercial peak – who else could make shutter shades cool? – but what came next was the first of several stylistic shifts and departures throughout his career that have positioned him as more of a pioneering visionary of culture than a musician, both honing in on underground movements of the time, bringing them into the mainstream, and influencing endless peers and a whole new generation of rappers in his own right.
‘Stronger’ stood as a bridge between what now even Kanye calls the “Old Kanye” and the more avant-garde, era-defining and zeitgeist-defining music that he would later produce. Concluding his education-themed album trilogy with ‘Graduation’, West turned to more diverse influences, drawing inspiration from the indie and electro scenes emerging on both sides of the Atlantic. ‘Stronger’ flipped an admittedly well-known Daft Punk track, quoting Nietzsche in the process and changing the sound of hip-hop altogether. It was the first instance of Kanye’s Midas-like touch, his ability to epitomise an era with a simple sleight of hand.
Not only did Kanye change the course of rap with ‘Stronger’, but the track also dictated the meandering road he has since taken. If the ‘Old Kanye’ was more true to the star’s personal roots and tastes, post-’Stronger’ has seen the rapper constantly shape-shifting. 2008’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ made it acceptable for rappers to be open and vulnerable – without it, there would be no Drake. 2010’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, widely considered as Kanye’s best, helped propel pop music into the realms of high art. Since, ‘Yeezus’ saw West purposely retreat from his own success, while ‘The Life Of Pablo’ has changed how we listen to albums in this modern age, with Kanye constantly drafting and tinkering with the release.
It could have all been so different though, as Kanye apparently hadn’t even heard of Daft Punk just 12 months prior to the release of ‘Stronger’. Producer A-Trak has explained how the sample came about: “It sort of happened because Swizz Beats sampled ‘Technologic’ for that Busta Rhymes record, ‘Touch It’. We were on tour in Europe in 2006, spending a lot of hours on the bus listening to the radio. Kanye heard ‘Touch It’ and thought that beat was cool. I said, ‘He just swooped up Daft Punk’. And Ye said, ‘Who?’. I just couldn’t believe that Kanye had never heard Daft Punk.”
A-Trak continued to say of Kanye: “When something falls in his lap, he knows if it’s dope, and knows when to make a beat out of it.” And good thing that he did, for Kanye’s output, and rap music overall, has been better (as well as faster and stronger) for it.
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Auteur:Nina Rappaport, Erica Stoller
Uitgever:Yale
Ezra Stoller's iconic photographs of 20th-century architectural masterpieces, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, are often cited in aiding the rise of modernism in America. Stoller (1915–2004) elevated architectural photography to an art form, capturing the mood of numerous buildings in their best light.
Living and working in New York from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s, Stoller photographed buildings by such architects as Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, and Louis I. Kahn. His striking images earned him the admiration of critics and contemporaries, but few people are aware of the stunning breadth of his oeuvre, which also included domestic and industrial spaces and important editorial depictions of American labor in the 1950s and 1960s. Ezra Stoller, Photographer, a long-awaited and lavishly illustrated survey of Stoller's artistic accomplishments, examines the photographer's full range with a fresh eye and unprecedented scope, offering a unique commentary on postwar America's changing landscape.
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New York|After the Storm, 20 Months in Limbo
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After the Storm, 20 Months in Limbo
Steve and Kathy Terwilliger, their daughter Deirdre, 13, at their Gerritsen Beach home, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The family turned to local nonprofits for aid.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times
By Liz Robbins
One after another, caseworkers entered the small, stuffy Downtown Brooklyn conference room — the court of last resort.
There, the panel members of something called the New York City Unmet Needs Roundtable, managed by New York Disaster Interfaith Services and financed by private donors, reviewed requests for overlooked victims of Hurricane Sandy.
“First time here? Nervous?” Peter Gudaitis, the panel leader, asked one of the waiting supplicants, laughing to cut the tension. On cue, the air-conditioning in the room stopped.
A caseworker from the Red Cross advocated on behalf of a woman in her 90s who needed a new refrigerator and a washer-dryer to replace those ruined by the storm.
“I’m good for that,” said Richard Vernon, disaster recovery specialist at the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Another caseworker presented a client who had maxed out 10 credit cards, nine of which had been opened to pay for home repairs after the storm. The client needed $40,000 in debt relief. The Salvation Army stepped up to assume $15,000 of it, and five other donors said they would make up all but $14,000 of the debt. “Wow, that’s terrific, thank you,” the caseworker said, surprised at how quickly help had come.
Mr. Gudaitis, the chief response officer for the disaster interfaith group, then set the conditions: The client could get this help only if the cards were canceled once they were paid off. “You need to demonstrate to us that you are partnering with us in your sustainability,” he said.
As the second summer since Hurricane Sandy begins, the storm seems like the distant past to many New Yorkers, its most public damage largely erased. But 20 months later, in pockets of the city, there are communities, including several in Brooklyn, where homes still have tarps on their roofs, plywood over their windows and gaping floorboards inside.
After the storm, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg promised to come to desperate homeowners’ aid, eventually creating the program called Build It Back, for which $1 billion in federal funds was allocated. More than 20,000 people applied for the program. But it built no houses while Mr. Bloomberg was in office.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to do better, and in late March he revamped the program, hiring Amy A. Peterson, a no-nonsense, empathetic engineer who had most recently come from the nonprofit sector, as Build It Back’s third director. The mayor promised to start work on 500 houses by Labor Day and to send 500 reimbursement checks. As of Thursday, Ms. Peterson said, Build It Back had issued 283 reimbursement checks totaling $4.27 million, and had started work on 72 homes. The city said it had rebuilt 14 homes — a drop in the bucket, but progress nonetheless.
But while devastated New Yorkers have been waiting for help, faith-based, community and other nongovernmental organizations have stepped into the void left by a stalled city government to rebuild people’s homes and lives. They work with disaster case managers to funnel aid to those who still need it.
“Common sense says there’s not enough federal money to do it all,” said the Rev. Craig Miller, the chairman of the Brooklyn Long-Term Recovery Group, made up of volunteer and community groups founded in the storm’s aftermath. “In terms of expediency, the work of the voluntary sector is critical, and crucial to a good recovery.”
The charitable organizations are not restricted by the same rules that have delayed the city. Because the Department of Housing and Urban Development supplied Build It Back’s funds, the city must follow federal regulations regarding insurance and workers’ protections, building regulations and rules on income and immigration status.
But with private money, nonprofits can be more flexible. Still, in the disaster relief business, as Mr. Gudaitis and others learned after Sept. 11, it is wise to be wary. “Everybody is trying to scam more money for themselves,” he said.
Although there is no central database for the number of homes volunteer organizations have rebuilt, it exceeds 1,000, several groups estimated. The New York City Unmet Needs Roundtable has distributed $5.8 million from its donors, Mr. Gudaitis said, and served 1,553 households since April 2013.
“ ‘Just wait for us, we’re getting to you,’ ” Crystal Dobbs said Build It Back told her, even as she sat in her house in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, without heat for two winters, and came down with pneumonia. “And you wait and wait. Your life is at a standstill. You can’t move forward because there’s no place forward to go. And you can’t move back because back is such a disaster.”
In Gerritsen Beach, a low-lying Brooklyn peninsula of bungalows and narrow streets, this is what limbo looks like: a first floor stripped to the studs, walls of black concrete and warped floor beams. A Red Cross blanket covers a folding table.
Steve and Kathy Terwilliger, both 47, and their three teenage daughters live on the second floor in three rooms. The makeshift kitchen — a hot plate and a microwave — is on a table in their youngest daughter’s room. Tarps decorate the ceiling.
“I’d rather go through another Sandy again than go through this,” said Mr. Terwilliger, a boiler man for the city’s Environmental Protection Department. “I feel like they just left me by the wayside.”
In the aftermath of the storm, Rapid Repairs, a city program designed to get residents back into their homes quickly, fixed the Terwilligers’ boiler. But when the family’s insurance company came through with just a fraction of the funds the family needed to rebuild, they put their faith in Build It Back. “We thought, ‘Our government will take care of us,’ ” Ms. Terwilliger said.
A worker in the program’s Coney Island office filled out the application with glaring errors, including listing one of Mr. Terwilliger’s daughters as a co-owner and listing the house as a multifamily dwelling with six units. He asked the worker to redo it; the worker made the same mistakes the second time.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency told Mr. Terwilliger soon after the storm that he had to apply for a Small Business Administration loan to be eligible for future city money. Mr. Terwilliger did, but he never completed the process; he remains mired in a bureaucratic dispute over whether the funds should be included in the assets available to repair his home.
Build It Back told him last summer that he would be listed as the highest priority to receive aid. By this winter, he had dropped to Priority 2, with no explanation.
Mayor de Blasio had recently said he was eliminating those categories so that Build It Back could examine needs on a case-by-case basis. Nobody has informed Mr. Terwilliger.
“We produced anything they wanted,” said Ms. Terwilliger, a special-education teacher for the city. “They had all our information. I feel like they know my bra size.”
The Terwilligers were one of 935 families in Gerritsen Beach who turned to one man to help them navigate the maddening process: Jameson Wells.
An artist and former executive at a design company, Mr. Wells was living in East Williamsburg when he heard about the need in Gerritsen Beach from a friend of his, the actor Steve Buscemi, who had visited the area after the storm.
With the initial financial help of Mr. Buscemi and his wife, Jo Andres, the Gerritsen Beach Long Term Recovery Project was formed in November 2012, with Mr. Wells as the executive director. He wrote grants to help secure more than $750,000 and helped coordinate disaster relief from a network of community and national nonprofits.
Mr. Wells, 54, walked residents through the paperwork. Last September, he moved into the parsonage at the local St. James Lutheran Church.
Through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, based in Staten Island, and the organization Gerritsen Beach Cares, Mr. Wells organized a mold remediation program for more than 300 residents, including Mr. Terwilliger. New York Cares gutted his house. But he’s still waiting for an estimate of the cost to rebuild.
“Without exception on his entire journey, Steve has tried to do the right thing, every single time,” Mr. Wells said from the storefront office of Gerritsen Beach Cares.
“It’s gotten me nowhere,” Mr. Terwilliger said, sighing.
This month, when Build It Back asked him to recommend urgent cases, Mr. Wells sent Mr. Terwilliger’s name to a Brooklyn liaison.
Mr. Terwilliger hasn’t heard anything yet. “I can’t go through another winter like this,” he said. “I’m bare bones.”
When the most vulnerable Brooklyn residents are in dire need for construction help — and have fallen though the Build It Back cracks — they can now appeal to another kind of roundtable.
Brian Steadman, a pastor leading rebuilding efforts for Resurrection Brooklyn, a Presbyterian group, also heads the volunteer, construction and donation committee of the Long-Term Brooklyn Recovery Group.
Until May, the committee was split into three groups and, not unlike the city, was hamstrung by restrictions on what certain groups could do.
But urgency has taken over, so one Thursday this month Mr. Steadman stood at the whiteboard at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Coney Island, ready to match volunteers with unmet needs.
“I’ve got 30 plumbers and 29 carpenters,” said Lindsay Einhorn, the project manager for World Cares Center, a group that has trained 15,000 volunteers since Sandy.
Shagufta Shah, a disaster case manager from the Arab-American Family Support Center, presented the case of Crystal and Phillip Dobbs. They needed new walls, a new roof and a floor in their home flooded by Sandy. Who among the assembled could help?
“I will talk to somebody,” said Stephanie Gillette, a recovery manager for the city, who offered to fast-track the case.
“I can have someone there by tomorrow to take a look,” said Joshua Weber, the Hurricane Sandy project director for Habitat for Humanity New York City. Habitat, which had rebuilt 36 homes in Staten Island, has now directed its resources to a Coney Island pilot program, planning to move its first homeowner back at the end of the month.
Mr. Weber did go to the Dobbses’ house two days later. But the job had the kind of complex issues that have often stalled Build It Back’s work: The homeowner, Ms. Dobbs said, was her son. The roof had been damaged in a 2011 fire, then badly repaired, though Ms. Dobbs said Hurricane Sandy had damaged it further.
Ms. Gillette sought to have Build It Back complete a design consultation for Ms. Dobbs. But Ms. Dobbs said she was dismayed when the city told her it could fix the walls, flooring and electrical issues — but not the roof.
Now Ms. Shah is scrambling to prepare an application for the Unmet Needs Roundtable to at least provide her clients with kitchen appliances and other goods. “I am not giving up,” she said.
Susan Fox, the executive director of the Shorefront Y in Brighton Beach, calls it the “You got to be kidding me rule” — the moment of absurdity when government bureaucracy seems blind to common sense and the challenges of people’s complex lives.
There is, for example, one of her program’s clients, Lucy Parascandola, 74, who applied to Build It Back to get help fixing the roof and basement of her Coney Island home.
Since the home is in a flood zone, in order to get affordable flood insurance, she will probably need to elevate the house she has lived in for 37 years. But it is attached. And the homeowner next door has been unresponsive, Ms. Parascandola’s caseworker, David Cohen said. How, Ms. Parascandola and many other homeowners are wondering, can the city elevate one house and not the one attached to it?
Mr. Wells worked with a Gerritsen Beach resident, Maureen DeWitt, 65, who was told by Build It Back that she needed to ask her ex-husband to sign over power of attorney to get rebuilding money. But Ms. DeWitt was afraid to approach him because, as court records from their 1978 divorce indicate, he had been abusive.
Mr. Wells contacted a lawyer from the New York Legal Assistance Group, who wrote a 78-page document contending that Build It Back was putting Ms. DeWitt at risk. After eight months, the city relented. Ms. DeWitt, whose house is gutted and who is living in a friend’s basement, is still waiting for Build it Back to proceed.
Perhaps the most perplexing paradox is the rebuilding process itself. To get their houses fixed, some people need to leave their homes. But some have no way to pay for temporary housing. In its initial program outline, in May 2013, Build It Back said it would provide money for that. The clause mysteriously disappeared when the program debuted a month later.
Build It Back said unspent checks from FEMA or insurance companies that are supposed to count against a homeowner’s rebuilding costs — called transfer funds — could be used for temporary housing. In addition, federal funds are being released for renters.
But not every resident has transfer funds. And given the pace of construction, temporary housing could be an expensive proposition.
Mr. Gudaitis said the roundtable had not had donors willing to pay for temporary housing. Instead, he would like to continue to focus on the underserved who have less than $25,000 in needs.
Some single-family homeowners have left Build it Back in frustration. While Ms. Peterson is encouraging them to re-enroll, the city is also referring them to Local Initiatives Support Corporation, a national nonprofit community development group that is financing the repairing of single-family homes up to $80,000.
In the meantime, Ms. Peterson is trying to make the bureaucracy more personable. At hearings held recently by Scott M. Stringer, the city comptroller, whose office is conducting an audit of Build It Back, Ms. Peterson sat on the dais taking notes.
She later made home visits, including to Phyllis Cion, a Brooklyn cancer patient who recounted her experience with a Build It Back operator. When Ms. Cion said she might have trouble keeping an appointment because she was getting treatment that day, “they told me that if I died before the scheduled meeting, my husband could come instead,” Ms. Cion said.
“The homeowners have every right to be angry and to not have hope,” Ms. Peterson said. “It’s the city’s job to give them fair, respectful, honest service and to help them get through this process.”
Ms. Peterson said that already Build It Back was relaxing rules on the most urgent cases, and hired staff members instead of consultants. The staff had already made more than 10,000 damage assessments.
“I didn’t fix everything on Day 1, and I’m not fixing everything today,” she said. “This is a big ship, and we’re turning it.”
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Privatize the State Compensation Insurance Fund
By The Editorial Board | opinion@scng.com |
PUBLISHED: January 9, 2020 at 12:03 am | UPDATED: January 9, 2020 at 9:08 am
The Los Angeles Times recently published a scathing article about claims of excessive executive salaries and nepotism at the State Fund, a quasi-governmental agency that is one of the largest providers of workers’ compensation coverage in the state.
At first glance the story seemed like business as usual: more waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer money. A deeper read actually suggests a less serious problem.
But it is still time for the state to consider the very future of this agency that’s spent much of its history engulfed in controversy.
As the Times reported, salaries for seven executives at the State Fund exceeded $500,000 annually, making them some of the highest-paid public employees in California. By contrast, the governor gets paid $210,000 a year.
Throw in some light claims of nepotism, critics calling the salaries “beyond the pale” and a lawmaker calling for an oversight hearing and you have the makings of a standard Sacramento scandal.
Looking deeper though, we find the salaries are not paid by the government, which lets some air out of the outrage balloon. As far as the nepotism was concerned, one son of the CEO was making $50,400 annually as an underwriter and another son had previously made $16 an hour as an intern.
Inappropriate? Probably, but as far as scandals go, it lacks the criminal investigation that serves as the State Fund-scandal benchmark. It’s doesn’t even come close the scandals surrounding Ricardo Lara, the state’s insurance commissioner. But it does raise a good question about why the State Fund is still attached to the government in any way.
The State Fund is considered quasi-governmental because its board is publicly appointed (it’s often a cushy landing spot for former lawmakers and other well-connected types) and because it has a mandate to provide insurance no matter what, a market of last resort.
The State Fund exists because California is a no-fault state where employers must pay workers’ comp claims and, in exchange, workers can’t sue the employer for fault. Someone needed to insure the previously uninsurable.
But times have changed. There are other options. West Virginia, for example, moved to a competitive market with an assigned-risk pool and it seems to be working fine. And that’s a state that was previously dependent on coal mining. In other words, an expensive place to provide coverage.
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The State Fund wants to pay its executives like executives in the private market and has asked for waivers from certain civil service requirements. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider its quasi-governmental status and privatize this agency, which really wants to be private. This would give lawmakers one less cushy place to go after life in the Legislature, but the state would survive.
Public employee unions would have a fit because State Fund’s approximately 4,200 employees are eligible for public pensions, but the state would survive that, too.
Lawmakers would argue that the State Fund’s quasi-governmental status makes it subject to scrutiny, like legislative oversight and sunshine laws. But if there’s one thing both the Times story and recent history have shown, it’s that oversight isn’t really happening and if it is, it’s not effective.
Maybe it’s time give the State Fund its wish and privatize it.
The editorial board and opinion section staff are independent of the news-gathering side of our organization. Through our staff-written editorials, we take positions on important issues affecting our readership, from pension reform to protecting our region’s unique natural resources to transportation. The editorials are unsigned because, while written by one or more members of our staff, they represent the point of view of our news organization’s management. In order to take informed positions, we meet frequently with government, community and business leaders on important issues affecting our cities, region and state. During elections, we meet with candidates for office and the proponents and opponents of ballot initiatives and then make recommendations to voters.
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Oklahoma Voters Prefer Rehabilitation to Long Prison Sentences
Oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation, and it locks up more women than any other state. This is largely due to tough anti-drug laws which send people to prison for relatively minor crimes.
For example, simple drug possession--the possession of a controlled substance for personal use rather than for distribution or sale--has been, in most cases, a felony crime in Oklahoma and subject to mandatory minimum sentences. Marijuana possession, though a misdemeanor on the first offense, was a felony for second and subsequent convictions.
Additionally, nonviolent property crimes like theft and fraud were also prosecuted as felonies if the value of the property involved was $500 or greater. The Oklahoma legislature took a step in the right direction when it passed House Bill 2751, which raised the threshold for felony prosecution of property crimes from $500 to $1,000.
On Tuesday, when Oklahomans cast their votes for president and state leaders, they were also asked to weigh in on several issues facing the state. Among those were two companion state questions regarding criminal justice reform.
Oklahoma voters resoundingly demonstrated that they were tired of a "tough on crime" approach that led to overcrowded state prisons and offered little chance of rehabilitation. When voters approves SQ 780 and 781, they showed that a "smart on crime" approach is better for Oklahoma.
So what do SQ 780 and 781 do?
SQ 780 is a criminal justice reform law that reduces certain nonviolent drug crimes and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. Many of the property crimes addressed in this question were already covered under HB 2751; however, because SQ 781, which addresses funding for community rehabilitation, was tied to the passing of SQ 780, the question necessarily remained on the ballot.
Because nearly 70 percent of Oklahoma voters approved SQ 780, simple drug possession becomes a misdemeanor. Other drug crimes, such as possession of a CDS with intent to distribute and trafficking in illegal drugs, remain felonies.
Additionally, SQ 780 raises the threshold for felony prosecution of nonviolent property crimes from $500 to $1,000. Property crimes included in SQ 780 include false declaration of a pawn ticket, embezzlement, larceny, grand larceny, theft, receiving or concealing stolen property, taking domesticated fish or game, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, and issuing bogus checks. If the value of the stolen, concealed, or misappropriated property or funds is less than $1,000, these crimes will be charged as misdemeanors. If the value is $1,000 or greater, they are charged as felony crimes.
SQ 781 is intended to take the savings the state should see from reducing the prison population and roll them into community rehabilitation programs, including substance abuse treatment and mental health services.
Both new laws become effective July 1, 2017.
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Dunford Getting to Know The Workforce
Michael Dunford on his return to Plymouth Argyle as Chief Executive after nine years away.
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MICHAEL Dunford says he has enjoyed his first few days back at the helm of Plymouth Argyle after a nine-year absence.
Michael returned to Home Park this week for his second stint as the club’s Chief Executive, and though there are differences to his previous tenure, he says he is pleased to see everyone so keen to see success.
“It’s been hectic but thoroughly enjoyable,” said Michael. “I’ve been made to feel very welcome as you would expect. The first couple of days is just a case of bedding in and talking to members of the staff, understanding how the club now ticks because it is a different club to which I left nine years ago.
“There’s a good attitude within the workforce, they’re good people and very professional as well which is encouraging so hopefully we can build on that.“
Michael, whose previous clubs include Everton, Birmingham and Derby, feels that having experience will help him in the role and it is possibly the attribute which landed him the job in the first place.
“When I was appointed I think that was one of the reasons I got the job,” he said. “I’ll bring that wisdom and experience to the benefit of Plymouth Argyle and the staff. I feel I can encourage the staff and build them as well to be more professional, so they can progress and so they can see a plan of succession within the club. The board are equally keen to see that as well.”
As anticipation builds for the commencement of the new League One season there is a sense of optimism around the place, and that we can achieve “something special.”
Michael said: “If the first two days are any indication then I hope we can create something special here. Hopefully we can get smiles on the faces of the public and the staff as well. We’ve already sold 6,000 season tickets, we haven’t kicked a ball yet in a competitive game yet. I’m confident that Derek and his team will make the supporters proud again and it’s nice to be part of that.
“When I wake up in the morning I want to go to work and having spoken to other members of staff they very much feel the same way. It’s a special place, it’s a special club and hopefully special things are ahead of us.”
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Old Sleningford Hall 2501
Mickley, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, North Yorkshire, Harrogate
Old Sleningford has a landscape park associated with a hall. Features include a lake with islands, woodland, a walled kitchen garden and herbaceous borders. There is also a mill and associated buildings.
Old Sleningford was created in the early 19th century. The current owners carried out further work in the late 20th century.
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Ornamental Lake
Description: An ornamental lake with islands.
Earliest Date: 31 Dec 1799
Latest Date: 31 Dec 1832
Description: A summerhouse with trompe-l'oeil decoration.
Description: Stables.
Detailed History
The current site was created largely in the early-19th century. The estate was originally part of the lands belonging to Fountains Abbey. The abbey was a Benedictine and later a Cistercian monastery which was dissolved in 1539. After the dissolution the site became a seperate estate.
General Kitchinman Hutchinson carried out much of the work in the early-19th century. A beech wood, a terrace walk, a small lake with islands and a mill was created. The General's daughter, Miss Staveley was responsible for the trompe-l'oeil decoration of the summerhouse. This art technique creates an optical illusion through the use of extremely realistic painting. It is usually used to create a sense of space.
During the late-20th century further work was carried out in the gardens with some guidance from the late Brenda Colvin.
People associated to Old Sleningford Hall
Mrs Brenda Colvin
Thomas Kitchingman Staveley
Landscape Park
Locality: England, North Yorkshire, Harrogate
Mickley, Ripon, North Yorkshire
HG4 3JD
SE 265 767
Historical Location: West Riding of Yorkshire
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Home | Announcements | Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase Returns to Fargo
Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase Returns to Fargo
Post Date: Nov 14 2017
More than 125 companies selling Pride of Dakota merchandise will take up all available space at the Fargo Scheels Arena during Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 17-19.
“Holiday shoppers can choose from an outstanding selection of North Dakota-made gourmet food, wine, art, books, jewelry, apparel, children and pet items, and more,” said Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring.
Showcase hours are 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday. Admission is $2 per adult.
“Shoppers will get a free reusable bag with their paid admission,” Goehring said. “These bags can be used for other holiday shopping, trips to the grocery store and more.”
The bag giveaway is sponsored by the Bank of North Dakota, Great River Energy, Common Ground and the North Dakota Corn Growers Association.
Shoppers who bring their own reusable bag get $1 off their admission.
Goehring said paid admission also includes a Pride of Dakota Passport.
“Take your Passport to each of the Passport Stations in the Scheels Arena,” he said. “A volunteer at each station will stamp your passport which you can enter in a drawing for $250 in Pride of Dakota bucks. This prize money can be spent at the Showcase, online or directly through a Pride of Dakota member company.”
The drawing will be held at 1 p.m., Sunday. Participants need not be present to win. The Passport prize is sponsored by the North Dakota Wheat Commission. A second drawing – for a Pride of Dakota gift basket valued at $100 – will be held at 4 p.m.
Goehring said as a measure of appreciation for service men and women, all active and retired members of the armed forces and their families save $1 on admission with military identification.
Additionally, retailers can also receive $1 off their admission by presenting their sales tax license at the door. The Showcase offers the opportunity for retailers to try products from North Dakota small businesses and establish wholesale orders.
A Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase is also scheduled for Dec. 1-3, in the Bismarck Event Center.
Administered by the Marketing and Information Division of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture, the Pride of Dakota program provides member companies with cooperative marketing and promotional events, such as in-store demonstrations, Pride of Dakota Day and the Harvest and Holiday Showcases. The program also provides educational opportunities and representation at regional, national and international marketing expositions. More than 500 North Dakota companies are Pride of Dakota members.
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At only 15 years old, Bob Champion won his first horse race. After his initial taste of victory, he continued to race on the National Hunt circuit. His skill in the saddle won him plenty of races, as well as respect. He also proved skilful with the ladies too. His tempestuous love affairs were well-known and sometimes amusing to those around him.
Bob tried his luck racing in America and enjoyed success. Though his career really took off back to Britain, where he had dreams of winning the Grand National. He raced over the famous Aintree fences eight times after returning to Britain, always keeping his eyes on the big prize. However, his career and life was about to take a major detour.
In 1979, Bob Champion was diagnosed with testicular cancer. In true Champion fashion, Bob refused to believe that his doctors were correct. He stubbornly insisted that there was a mistake in the diagnosis.
The diagnosis wasn't wrong. Doctors gave Bob a maximum of eight months to live, with only a 40 percent chance of survival. In the late 1970s, survival rates in Britain for many forms of cancer were 50% lower than today. Things looked grim, but he was given a second chance. An extremely aggressive program of chemotherapy, if begun immediately, might just beat the odds. Champion agreed to begin the treatment the very same day.
Most people who have been diagnosed with cancer and told that they will most likely die within months would take some time away from work. Not Bob Champion. He returned to training and racing while still in treatment and set his sights on winning the 1980 Grand National.
Unfortunately, Bob’s treatment had not been easy on his body. A large-scale infection nearly claimed his life and he was forced to put off his Grand National ambitions temporarily.
Bob was soon recovering from his various hardships and back in training. In 1981, he rode Aldaniti in the Grand National. The two were a perfect pair: both hard-working, stubborn and recovering from serious health problems. Bob’s cancer and Aldaniti's three leg injuries caused some to speculate that the team would be lucky to get round the course, nevermind win! However, even before the start of the race the public had taken Bob and Aldaniti to heart and backed the duo into 10/1 second favourites narrowly behind the favourite Spartan Missile who went off at 8/1.
The two survivors melded on the Aintree Racecourse that April day in 1981. Their victory is one of the most memorable and emotional moments ever to be recorded in horse racing. Coming in four-and-a-half lengths ahead of the competition, Champion and Aldaniti beat the odds and made history.
Bob continued to race and win until 1983. By that time, he had approximately 500 wins to his credit. After leaving racing, he focused his energy on training horses and running the Bob Champion Cancer Trust. The charity has raised millions of pounds for cancer research and Champion continues to raise funds for it to this day.
They taught us that, even when things look desperate, success is just over the next fence for those who choose to make the jump.
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Eldridge Industries appoints operating partner
SPECIAL REPORT INVESTMENT CONSULTANTS
Consultants weighing impact of global financial challenges
Danielle Walker
Michael A. Marcotte
Stephen Cummings called the booming market against a volatile political landscape ‘an interesting juxtaposition.’
Investment consultants are focusing on the lasting impacts that macroeconomic trends — the growing wealth gap, longer life expectancy and political uncertainty in an unprecedented bull market — will have on institutional investors and the asset management industry at large.
Stephen Cummings, Chicago-based CEO of Aon Hewitt Investment Consulting Inc. and global investment officer, head of North America investments at parent Aon PLC, said his top concern is the stock market approaching an 11-year bull run.
"Everyone is holding their breath wondering how much longer will this bull market run," Mr. Cummings said. "To be in the longest sustained bull market that we've ever known, while also being in an unsettled political environment — it's just an interesting juxtaposition."
Adding to that are concerns about global wealth inequality and the fact that governments and employers need to grapple with the possibility of many people outliving their wealth. Additionally, a "sandwich generation," which often refers to those simultaneously caring for elderly parents and their children, is emerging, Mr. Cummings added.
"Inequity and longevity will have big implications on how we think about investing," he said.
As of mid-2019, the bottom 50% of wealth holders collectively owned less than 1% of total global wealth, while the top 1% owned 45% of global wealth, an October report from Credit Suisse found.
"These are global macro trends that I believe investors ignore at their own peril," Mr. Cummings said.
As consultants serve in the capacity of advisers — and increasingly as discretionary managers under the growing outsourced CIO trend — these are "big-picture trends" firms should be looking at, he said.
Data from Pensions & Investments show that worldwide institutional investors are increasingly turning to consultants for both advisory and OCIO services.
For the year ended June 30, institutional assets under advisement grew 9.2% to $41.4 trillion, P&I's annual survey of investment consultants found. During the same period, U.S. institutional tax-exempt AUA also grew 9.2% to $22.67 trillion.
OCIO pace quickens
OCIO, or discretionary, assets grew at a quicker pace over the year, rising 15.2% to $1.42 trillion as of June 30.
Over the five-year period ended June 30, OCIO assets near doubled, growing 94.8% from $731.5 billion. In comparison, institutional AUA and U.S. institutional tax-exempt AUA grew 16% and 19.2%, respectively, over the same period.
The growth of OCIO use brings forth other considerations for investment consultants, which have historically had low client turnover in their traditional investment advisory businesses, said Tyler Cloherty, senior manager and head of the knowledge center for Casey Quirk, a practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York.
While consultants have generally had client turnover of around 5% per year, money managers see higher turnover, around 17% per year, among institutional investor clients, Mr. Cloherty said.
Consultants have targeted growth through their OCIO businesses, but Mr. Cloherty believes there's "an underappreciation for the revenue volatility this could cause" for consultants since they "are moving into a more performance-dependent relationship" with institutions.
"As the investment consultant business shifts more toward OCIO, there could be a potential for relationships that were long in duration (to be) shortened," he said.
This year, 52 investment consultants in the survey reported offering OCIO services, inclusive of two firms that did not offer them the year prior: CBIZ Inc., which acquired Memphis-based investment consultant Gavion LLC in July; and Fiduciary Investment Advisors LLC, Windsor, Conn.
Despite the growth of OCIO assets, P&I's survey showed that investment consultants still garner the majority of their annual revenue from traditional investment management consulting services for institutional asset owners, which on average accounted for 80.7% of their revenues. In comparison, investment outsourcing services accounted for 7.8% of firms' total revenues.
The revenue breakdown was similar in 2018 among reporting firms, with 79.6% of annual revenues derived from investment management consulting services for institutions, while 9.3% came from investment outsourcing, on average.
Downturn worries
Michael C. Patanella, a New York-based audit partner and asset management sector leader at Grant Thornton LLP, said the consultant industry's move toward OCIO services could also introduce risks when the extended bull market comes to a halt.
"We will see how (OCIOs) do in a downturn," Mr. Patanella said, explaining that investors will be watching whether OCIOs do a better job of selecting external money managers.
Richard Nuzum, the New York-based president of Mercer's global wealth business, said that as other consultants have shifted their focus to OCIO, the trend "left some openings" for Mercer in the traditional advisory space.
Mercer retained its position as the largest consultant by worldwide institutional AUA, with $15.04 trillion as of June 30, P&I's survey found. Over the year, Mercer worldwide institutional AUA grew 29.3%, widening its lead over the second-largest consultant, Aon, which reported $3.52 trillion in worldwide institutional AUA as of June 30, up 13% year-over-year.
Mercer's assets were boosted in part by its acquisitions of Pavilion Financial Corp. and most of Summit Strategies Group in deals that were completed in the fourth quarter of last year. With the acquisitions, Mercer acquired the investment consulting, alternatives consulting and wealth management operations of Pavilion, which had around $716 billion in AUA as of June 30, 2018, according to P&I data. With the Summit Strategies deal, Mercer acquired all of Summit's businesses except for its public defined benefit plan consulting unit.
The Summit and Pavilion businesses had a combined $5.5 billion in discretionary AUM as of Dec. 31, a Mercer spokeswoman said.
"We see a lot of our competitors focusing on OCIO at the expense of focus on consulting. Probably the best way to grow your OCIO business is to do a good job in your (non-discretionary) consulting," Mr. Nuzum said.
Mercer's managed assets in discretionary products as of June 30 were $282.9 billion, up nearly 17% from a year earlier. The firm ranked second in assets in this universe, following Russell Investments, which had $297.8 billion in managed assets in the No. 1 spot, up 2.7% from last year.
ESG and manager culture
Moving forward, consultants can expect to focus more of their manager research efforts on environmental, social and governance issues, which often includes assessing implementation of ESG in the investment decision-making process as well as vetting firm's corporate culture and diversity and inclusion practices, multiple sources said.
"In general, and this is particularly for their endowment and foundation-type clients, (institutions) are interested in ESG support other than just a negative screen on the underlying investment," said Laura Levesque, senior analyst for the institutional practice at Cerulli Associates, Boston.
Not only that, consultants are being asked to research "how many women and minorities are on the senior management team" at money managers.
"They are looking at the culture of the entire firm" and how managers are integrating ESG throughout the organization and not just on investment teams, she added.
Steve Carlson, head of investment, Americas, at Willis Towers Watson PLC in Chicago, said that over the past couple of years the firm has done much more talking with money management firms to see how they are thinking about a range of factors that can impact culture, such as workforce diversity, pay structure and hiring practices.
Over the year ended June 30, Willis Towers Watson's worldwide institutional AUA grew by 18.2% to $2.6 trillion, propelling the firm to the No. 3 spot in the ranking of the largest consultants, up from No. 7 last year. Willis Towers Watson reported $536.3 billion in U.S. institutional tax-exempt advisory assets as of June 30, down 15% from the year prior.
More due diligence
The tough competitive landscape for managers today also means that consultants' clients are often invested in products that might be subject to consolidation, which creates additional due diligence for consultants and can also impact a manager's culture, said Gregory Allen, CEO and chief research officer at Callan LLC, San Francisco.
Callan was the fourth-largest investment consultant ranked by worldwide institutional AUA, moving up one spot from No. 5 last year. The firm had $2.51 trillion in worldwide institutional AUA as of June 30, up 7.6% from the year earlier.
"We do have to be cognizant more so than in the past of the risk of a firm closing a product because it doesn't make economic sense for them (to keep it open)," Mr. Allen said.
Money managers are focusing company resources on products with a competitive advantage, and have "limited time and money to spend on promoting products," he said. This can all carry its own impact on organizational culture, he added.
"It's much easier for everyone to be happy when there's more than enough to go around. The really talented people are going to be attracted to growing organizations," Mr. Allen said, adding that a firm that is getting smaller every year "can create (staff) turnover, and clients don't want that."
Consolidation among money managers, which is ramping up in the industry, can also have this same effect. When mergers and acquisitions occur, money managers will often "merge" similar products together, resulting in closures, requiring consultants "to go in and look at each one of those situations individually," Mr. Allen said.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP recently predicted that 2019 will be a year of record merger and acquisition activity for asset and wealth management firms, according to an October report. So far, total deal value for the first nine months of 2019 was $13.7 billion, nearly three times the total during the same period in 2018, the report said.
"Generally speaking, clients feel more comfortable when there's not change. … All of that creates the potential for negative outcomes. Every time there's one of these mergers, our manager research people are (looking), so that's actually creating new work," Mr. Allen said.
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Home » State Plane Coordinates vs. Surface Coordinates, Part 2.
State Plane Coordinates vs. Surface Coordinates, Part 2.
James P. Reilly Ph.D.
When the state plane coordinate system was established, the authors described the system in simple terms, easily understood by users. Figure 1 shows a two-dimensional coordinate system familiar to just about everybody. Today we would call this an x, y rectangular coordinate system or a two-dimensional right-handed Cartesian coordinate system. The authors of the state plane coordinate system called it a grid. The following quote from Coast and Geodetic Survey Special Publication No. 235, "The State Coordinate Systems," shows how they described it.
As with any plane-rectangular coordinate system, a projection employed in establishing a State coordinate system may be represented by two sets of parallel lines, intersecting at right angles. The network thus formed is termed a grid. One set of these lines is parallel to the plane of the meridian passing approximately through the center of the area shown on the grid, and the grid line corresponding to that meridian is the Axis of Y of the grid. It is also termed the central meridian of the grid. Forming right angles with the Axis of Y and to the south of the area shown on the grid is the Axis of X. The point of intersection of these axes is the origin of coordinates. The position of a point represented on the grid can be defined by stating two distances, termed coordinates. One of these distances, known as the x-coordinate, gives the position in an east-and-west direction. The other distance, known as the y-coordinate, gives the position in a north-and-south direction; this coordinate is always positive. The x-coordinates increase in size, numerically, from west to east; the y-coordinates increase in size from south to north. All x-coordinates in an area represented on a State grid are made positive by assigning the origin the coordinates: x = 0 plus a large constant. For any point, then, the x-coordinate equals the value of x adopted for the origin, plus or minus the distance (x') of the point east or west from the central meridian (Axis of Y); and the y-coordinate equals the perpendicular distance to the point from the Axis of X. The linear unit of the State coordinate systems is the foot of 12 inches defined by the equivalence: 1 international meter = 39.37 inches exactly.
The linear distance between two points on a State coordinate system, as obtained by computation or scaled from the grid, is termed the grid length of the line connecting those points. The angle between a line on the grid and the Axis of Y, reckoned clockwise from the south through 360°, is the grid azimuth of the line. The computations involved in obtaining a grid length and a grid azimuth from grid coordinates are performed by means of the formulas of plane trigonometry.
The state coordinate system was developed so there would be a direct relationship between geodetic coordinates, latitude and longitude, and grid coordinates, x and y. This is explained as follows:
For more than a century the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey has engaged in geodetic operations which determined the geodetic positions - the latitudes and longitudes -of thousands of monumented points distributed through the country. These latitudes and longitudes are on an ideal figure - a spheroid of reference which closely approaches the sea-level surface of the Earth. By mathematical processes, the positions of the grid lines of a State coordinate system are determined with respect to the meridians and parallels of the spheroid of reference. A point that is defined by stating its latitude and longitude on the spheroid of reference may also be defined by stating its x- and y-coordinate on a state grid. If either position is known, the other can be derived by formal mathematical computation. So too with lengths and azimuths: the geodetic length and azimuth between two positions can be transformed into a grid length and azimuth by mathematical operations. Or the process may be reversed when grid values are known and geodetic values are desired.
In general, any survey computations involving the use of geodetic position data can also be accomplished with the corresponding grid data; but with this difference: results obtained with geodetic data are exact, but they require the use of involved and tedious spherical formulas and of special tables. On the other hand, results obtained with grid data are not exact, since they involve certain allowances that must be made in the transfer of survey data from the curved surface of the Earth (spheroid) to the plane surface of a State coordinate system; but the computations with the grid data are quite simple, being made with the ordinary formulas of plane surveying; and with the State coordinate systems, exact correlation of grid values and grid values and geodetic values is readily obtained by simple mathematical procedures.
In modern geodesy the expression "ellipsoid of revolution" has replaced "spheroid." Notice the statements about the direct relationship between geodetic coordinates and state plane grid coordinates. That relationship doesn't exist if one uses surface coordinates.
Some people are confused when the expression "map projections" is used. The state coordinate systems put an ellipsoidal-shaped Earth on a flat plane at an accuracy acceptable for surveying, and in order to do this the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey selected map projections that cartographers use to put a round earth on flat paper.
By using a conformal map projection as the base for a state coordinate system and limiting one dimension of the area which is to be covered by a single grid, two things are accomplished [this is a repeat from Part 1, but worded differently].
On a conformal map projection, angles are preserved. This means that, at a given point, the difference between geodetic and grid azimuths of very short lines is a constant, and angles on the earth formed by such lines are truly represented on the map. For practical purposes of land surveying, this condition holds for distances up to about ten miles. For longer lines, the difference varies, and the correction to be applied to an observed (geodetic) angle to obtain a corresponding grid angle is the difference of the corrections to the azimuths of the lines, separately derived.
"The limitation in the width of the projection or grid permits a control of deviations of grid lengths from geodetic lengths. When the width of an area covered by a single grid is 158 statue miles, the extreme difference between geodetic and grid lengths will be 1/10,000 of the length of a line, which is quite satisfactory for most land surveys.
"Deviations of grid lengths from geodetic lengths will be a maximum along the margins of the longer dimension of the grid and midway between those margins. Along the margins, the grid length of a line will be greater than its geodetic length; along the center line, the geodetic length will be the greater. Between these limits are two lines along which grid and geodetic lengths are equal: these are lines of exact scale. The quantity by which a geodetic length is multiplied to obtain the corresponding grid length is termed a scale factor. It is greater than unity [one] outside the lines of exact scale; decreases to unity along those lines; and continues to decrease to a minimum about midway between them. The magnitude of the scale factor at any point depends upon the position of the point with respect to the lines of exact scale. It is constant along a line - any line - which is parallel with the lines of exact scale. These lines of equal scale correction are grid lines on the transverse Mercator grid, being parallel with the central meridian or Axis of Y; on the Lambert grid they are curved lines, being parallels of latitude. Scale factors [are simple to calculate]. For any given survey line, the scale factor may be readily ascertained and applied to the geodetic length of the line to obtain its grid length; or in an inverse operation, employed in obtaining a geodetic from a grid length. Where the exact length of a line is desired, it is thus easily obtained. It must be remembered that a geodetic length is a distance on the spheroid (sea level surface of the Earth), whose relationship to the corresponding ground-level distance may be expressed by very simple formulas and accurately illustrated by a geometrical figure. On the other hand, a grid length is a distance on a plane which is mathematically related to the spheroid, so that the relationship between corresponding lengths on the two surfaces can be expressed by mathematical formulas, but [cannot be graphically demonstrated]. The commonly used examples of a developed cone for the Lambert grid and a developed cylinder for the transverse Mercator grid are inexact and serve only as illustrations.
While a width of 158 statue miles was adopted as a standard in devising the State coordinate systems, departures from that width have been made where geographic conditions permitted or surveying requirements justified the change. If the width of a State is less than 158 miles, the width of the grid was decreased and the effect of the scale factor thereby also decreased. The narrower the strip on the Earth's surface which it is desired to portray on a plane, the smaller will be the distortion involved in the process. The north-south dimension of Connecticut is less than 80 miles: the maximum scale factor for the Connecticut coordinate system, (Figure 2 on p. 18) along the northern and southern boundaries of the State, expressed as a ratio, is around 1:40,000. Midway between the lines of exact scale it is 1:79,000. Where a state is too wide to be covered by a single grid, it is divided into belts, called zones, for each of which a separate grid is adopted. The boundary lines between zones follow county lines. The limiting scale factors for the various zones of a State coordinate system need not be the same. For example, the Illinois Coordinate System, (Figure 3 on p. 18) comprises two zones. The eastern zone, in which Chicago is located, has much smaller scale factors than the western zone. One thing sought in devising the State coordinate system was to keep the number of zones in any State to a minimum, consistent with the requirements of scale accuracy. For example, by allowing the scale ratio to go slightly above 1:10,000, the entire State of Texas was divided into five zones.
Long article. Because of the length, I eliminated at least two sketches that might have made the description clearer; these will be included in the next column. Remember, the state coordinate systems discussed refer to the NAD 27, the North American Datum of 1927. Changes were made for the North American Datum of 1983.
Recent Articles by James Reilly
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The GPS Observer: Glonass Joins the 21st Century
The GPS Observer: Satellite launches and orbits.
James P. Reilly, PhD., is a past president of ACSM and retired department head of the Department of Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State University.
V01D -State Plane Coordinates (CD)
Basic GIS Coordinates, Second Edition
V08G - 2007 National Readjustment of the North American Datum 1983 (CD)
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In The Arena
Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect
By JOHN PODESTA
John Podesta is counselor to President Barack Obama. Today marks his final day at the White House.
Last week, Barack Obama, delivering the clearest and most powerful economic policy speech of his presidency at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, identified “the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility” as “ the defining challenge of our time.” The week before, in his first papal exhortation, Pope Francis robustly criticized “ trickle-down theories” of economic growth as having “never been confirmed by the facts” and as leaving behind the poor and vulnerable. Soon after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, Robert Shiller told the Associated Press that inequality was “the most important problem that we are facing now today.”
These concerns are serious. For the last three decades, the U.S. economy has been growing dramatically more unequal and less mobile by nearly every measure. The fact is that we don’t know nearly enough about what high inequality means for economic growth and stability. We need a better understanding of how inequality affects demand for goods and services and macroeconomic and financial imbalances. We are in the dark on whether and how inequality affects entrepreneurship, or whether it alters the effectiveness of our economic and political institutions, or how it affects individuals’ ability to access education and productively employ their skills and talents.
Who’s in Washington Purgatory?
By GLENN THRUSH
The Last Taboo
By JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT
Why Is Katie Couric Promoting Vaccine Skeptics?
By TARA HAELLE
That’s why we’ve established the new Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG), a long-term effort to support serious, sustained inquiry into structural challenges facing our economy. Our aim is to enable rigorous research on the relationship between inequality and growth through a competitive, peer-reviewed, academic grant program; to elevate the work of young scholars and new voices; and to help make sure cutting-edge research is relevant and informative to policymaking debates.
The basic facts bear repeating. Income inequality in the United States today has reached levels last seen during the Roaring ’20s. Over the last three decades, the top 1 percent of incomes have risen by 279 percent, while the bottom fifth of workers have seen an increase of less than 20 percent. In 1979, the middle 60 percent of households took home 50 percent of U.S. income. By 2007, their share was just 43 percent.
These trends have continued since the end of the Great Recession. Ninety-five percent of income gains since 2009 have gone to the top 1 percent of earners. In 2012, the top 10 percent took home more than 50 percent of the nation’s income— a record high. After a brief period in the late 1990s during which incomes rose across the board, median wages stagnated during the 2000s, and have remained depressed during the economic recovery.
These trends are aided and abetted by a dominant narrative defining how the economy grows. According to conventional wisdom, inequality may upset or offend us, but it’s a necessary part of a competitive economy. Economic growth is driven by the wealthy few, who make investments, build businesses, and create jobs—ideally, according to some, in an atmosphere of small government, low taxes and limited regulation. Policy interventions to reduce inequality or support lower and middle-class Americans are assumed to hurt job creation or harm growth.
“Over the years, as I’ve looked for the evidence behind this story, I’ve found it to be flimsy,” Nobel Prize laureate Robert Solow says in a video that premiered last month at WCEG’s launch. “Sometimes there’s not much evidence there at all.”
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.
With the guidance of distinguished academic economists and thinkers from around the country, WCEG will start by asking questions about the relationship between inequality and economic growth—questions for which we dont purport to have the answers.
But we know asking the questions is important, because inequality matters to Americans. About half of public school students in the South and West today live near, at or below the poverty line. At the same time, the educational achievement gap between low- and high-income students has increased by about 40 percent since the 1960s, even as the black-white achievement gap has shrunk.
And while life expectancy has continued to increase, albeit at different rates, for most demographic groups, it has declined by 5 years for white women who do not have their high-school diploma. It’s an unprecedented drop for a prosperous, modern, industrialized economy, and researchers can only speculate on why it is happening.
We need to understand what the impact of these and other trends will be on our economy in the long term, and how policymakers should respond now. Over the course of the 20 th century, many countries produced great wealth, but no combination of economic and political systems has resulted in shared prosperity or economic dynamism to rival the United States. As we move forward into the 21 st century, understanding how to sustain that prosperity and dynamism is in the interest of us all. A clearer understanding of how today’s levels of inequality affect growth and stability—and how to best promote a more equitable economy—is a critical place to start.
John Podesta is chair of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and the Center for American Progress. He served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001.
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Latinos in the 2016 Election: Michigan
This profile provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters1 and other major groups of eligible voters in Michigan.2 All demographic data are based on Pew Research Center tabulations of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey. 3
Hispanics in Michigan’s Eligible Voter Population
The Hispanic population in Michigan is the 20th largest in the nation. About 477,000 Hispanics reside in Michigan, 0.9% of all Hispanics in the United States.
Michigan’s population is 5% Hispanic, the 38th largest Hispanic statewide population share nationally.
There are 231,000 Hispanic eligible voters in Michigan—the 18th largest Hispanic statewide eligible voter population nationally. California ranks first with 6.9 million.
Some 3% of Michigan eligible voters are Hispanic, the 33rd largest Hispanic statewide eligible voter share nationally. New Mexico ranks first with 40%.
Some 49% of Hispanics in Michigan are eligible to vote, ranking Michigan 20th nationwide in the share of the Hispanic population that is eligible to vote. By contrast, 79% of the state’s white population is eligible to vote.
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The terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” are used interchangeably. References to other races and ethnicities are to the non-Hispanic components of those populations. ↩
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Phillips CME Celebrates 150th
Phillips Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2015. Organized in 1865, around the close of the Civil War, the church is five years older than its denomination, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. It was assigned to the first Annual Conference in the denomination. It is the second oldest African American congregation in Huntsville.
The Reverend Keith Ellison says he is excited about leading Phillips through this unique celebration of its rich and storied history. “We pay homage to the vision, hard work, courage and ministry of our forbearers,” he said. “We rejoice in a heritage made possible by the grace of God and dedicate ourselves to use our gifts and talents more fully to do God’s will.”
The church launched its celebration with a revival in January 2015. Among the culminating activities was a Black Tie Gala held at the Jackson Center at 7 p.m. on August 21st, highlighting actress, Robin Givens. Ms. Givens and her cast presented excerpts from her stage play “Joy in the Morning.” On September 20, Bishop Lawrence L. Reddick III, son of former Phillips Pastor Reverend Lawrence Reddick, Jr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Reddick, preached at a special 10:30 a.m. worship service. Bishop Reddick is senior Bishop of the denomination.
Phillips has been a cornerstone in the Huntsville community. Known through the years for its unique Vacation Bible Schools, summer enrichment programs, kindergarten, day care center and model after-school tutorial-mentoring program, it continues a tradition of service through its Phillips Brotherhood Community Outreach. Church members have collaborated with CASA, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Blossomwood School, First Stop and numerous other agencies to fulfill their mission.
In addition to Bishop Reddick, former Pastor Charles L. Russell was elected 21st Bishop of the denomination in 1938. The Reverend Robert O. Langford, who launched his ministry at Phillips, was the denomination’s first General Secretary of Evangelism. He organized Langford CME Church in Monroe, North Carolina in 1912 and Brown Temple C ME Church in Ashville, North Carolina in 1924. Mary Lula Shepherd, also a member of Phillips, was a charter member of the Connectional Women’s Missionary Society organized in 1918. Numerous other members have served at all levels of the Church.
In the CME tradition, Phillips has been served by itinerant ministers. Most were builders. Some built churches. Others built up the body of Christ.
Website: www.phillipscmechurch.org
Phillips CME Church Facts
Phillips CME Church was organized in 1865, the year the Civil War ended and five years before the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. It is the second oldest African American Church in Huntsville, Alabama.
In 1954, the General Conference changed the name of the denomination from “Colored Methodist” to “Christian Methodist.”
The early years of the church were marked by a series of relocation. Worship services were held in homes, lodge halls and the Fred Davis School, all located in “the Grove” an African American community located in the area where the present church stands. Later, the congregation moved to a converted broom factory on West Clinton Street.
The congregation purchased Rison Chapel, an edifice located on Church Street, at a cost of $1,200 in 1908.
The frame building burned in 1916. Pastor A. D. Avery, also an instructor of brick masonry at Alabama A. & M. College, and his students built a new edifice with financial help from Bishop Charles Henry Phillips.
In 1922, the new edifice was named in honor of Bishop Phillips.
The congregation moved to its present site, 200 Davis Circle, in 1973.
The mortgage on the Davis Circle site was burned on Palm Sunday, 1994.
Bishop Teresa E. Snorton, the first and only female bishop of the CME Church, presides over the Fifth Episcopal District.
Mrs. Mary Lula Shepherd, a member of Phillips, was a charter member of the CME Connectional Women’s Missionary Society organized in 1918.
Attorney Robert Jones, a member of Phillips, served on the site Selection Committee for Councill High School in the 1890's.
Attorney John Kemp, a member of Phillips was an advocate for the establishment of Councill High School in the 1890s.
The Reverend Charles Lee Russell, Pastor of Phillips from 1913 to 1914, was elected 21st Bishop of the CME Church in 1938.
The church has fed homeless people through the years and provided for some of their other needs.
The Reverend Robert O. Langford, who launched his ministry at Phillips, served as the first General Secretary of Evangelism for the CME Church from 1922 until 1930.
Reverend Langford planted Langford CME Church in Monroe, North Carolina in 1912. The church celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2012. He also organized Brown Temple CME Church in Ashville, North Carolina in 1924.
The Reverend Lawrence L. Reddick III, son of former Phillips Pastor L. L. Reddick, Jr. and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Reddick and a native Huntsvillian, served as editor of The Christian Index, the official publication of the CME Church for 16 years.
In 1998, the Reverend Lawrence L. Reddick 111 was elected 51st Bishop of the CME Church. Today, he is Senior Bishop of the denomination.
Outreach has been and continues to be a strong focus in Phillips’ mission.
The Church served as a voting site until the Councill Court Community was dislocated.
In the early 1950s, Mrs. Elizabeth Reddick organized a productive kindergarten at the church.
In the 1970s, the church operated a day care center.
During the late 1980s and the ‘90s, Phillips organized and operated a model after-school tutorial/mentoring program.
Funding for the tutorial program was generated through dinner theaters and banquets featuring nationally known speakers such as Journalist Tony Brown and Mrs. Mary Shy Scott, International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Additional funds were secured through grants from United Way and the State of Alabama.
The Phillips Brotherhood Community Outreach (PBCO) has ministered to at-risk boys for nearly two decades. The organization collaborates with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, CASA and Blossomwood School. One highlight of the ministry is the annual enrichment trip for the boys to nearby cities.
In collaboration with First Stop, members and auxiliaries have provided sleeping mats, snack packs, hygiene bags and other items for homeless people.
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The Examined Year - 2013
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 2013.
• The Year in Philosophy and Gender: Linda Alcoff from City University of New York looks at events in 2013 that have higlighted the evolving but still-fraught nature of gender in academia.
• The Year in Whistleblowing and Hacktivism: Peter Ludlow from Northwestern University examines the ethics of leakers like Edward Snowden and Pvt. Manning (sentenced in 2013) who have claimed the moral high ground in their actions.
• The Year in Dysfunctional Democracy: Jon Elster from Columbia University explores the breakdown of democratic process in the US, including the work of political scientist Juan Linz, who passed away in 2013.
Listening Notes
Ken and John introduce the main events of the year 2013 to be examined through a philosophical lens: the underrepresentation of women in philosophy, hacktivism and whistle-blowing, and the future of democracy in light of events such as the government shutdown.
2013 was a landmark year for women fighting for a series of rights, including reproductive rights, as was illustrated by Wendy Davis and her 13 hour filibuster. In philosophy, women have been concerned with severe underrepresentation. Ken and John are joined by Linda Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, for the first segment of the show. John wonders if there may be undercurrents of sexism present in philosophy departments which are responsible for the low percentage of women faculty representing said departments. Linda explains that the progress in numbers of women faculty has stalled over the past 20 years, so that women form a mere average of 17% of department faculty. This is not the case for other departments in the social science and humanities, where the percentage of women is almost equal to that of men. Ken wonders if it is an intrinsic fault of philosophical methodology, and Linda suggests that the low numbers have to do with the sociology and institution of the profession. John asks Linda whether the confrontational or aggressive style of discussion that often takes place in philosophy seminars may be off-putting to women, but Linda disagrees, comparing the example to equally challenging law school discussions which are well represented by women. The potential of implicit bias in philosophy departments is further discussed.
Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, joins the conversation for a new segment. John poses to Peter that in a speech given after the Edward Snowden NSA leaks, President Obama encouraged conversation about surveillance. Peter explains that it may be too late for a conversation on the subject which should have happened when the surveillance system was first being implemented. Did Snowden carry out a valuable task, and was he right in working individually, Ken asks? Peter recognizes that Snowden’s independence undercuts the system, and that is not necessarily a negative thing. The position of David Brooks, who Peter responded to in a paper, is also discussed. Ken then brings up the hacktivist movements, where individuals hack information for public use. Peter explains that there are no easy ways to determine whether a hack is moral or not. Ken, John, and Peter elaborate on the morality of hacking, bringing forth examples such as the Stratfor global intelligence hack.
A short interlude on selfies, the word of the year, takes place. Ken explains why he thinks that the concept of selfies is narcissistic, and the pair reveal their favorite words of the year.
Jon Elster, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, joins John and Ken to discuss the state of democracy in the U.S. in 2013. John asks Jon whether the governmental problems of the U.S. in 2013 are due to events that took place during the year or whether they are the fruition of a long-term structural problem, perhaps running back as far as the writing of the Constitution. Jon brings forth the idea of counter-majoritarian and political extremist views that prevail in the country. Too many checks and balances are in place, argues Jon, and the political culture in the states is unlike that of many other countries. Ken asks Jon for a sketch of a new constitution, granting it could be re-written, and invites participation on the newly launched Community of Thinkers.
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Local Government & Politics
Norfolk councilwoman says casino land vote is being rushed
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This artist rendering provided by the Pamunkey Indian Tribe shows a proposed casino, right, in Norfolk, Va. Virginia's Pamunkey Indian Tribe said Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, that it's in discussions with the city of Norfolk to build the state's first casino along the Elizabeth River. (Pamunkey Indian Tribe via AP) (AP)
Some Norfolk residents, including a councilwoman, are raising concerns about unanswered questions and what they call a rushed vote on a deal that could pave the way for a casino near downtown.
The City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday evening on a proposal to sell 13.25 acres of land near Harbor Park for nearly $10 million to the Pamunkey Indian Tribe to build a casino resort. The terms of the deal were only made public two weeks ago.
There will be a public comment period before the vote on Tuesday.
In a lengthy post on Facebook Sunday morning, Councilwoman Andria McClellan raised several questions about the deal.
McClellan said the idea of a casino has been discussed in private by the council for the past year, but in that time the city hasn’t explored many of the potential impacts. Public safety officials hadn’t weighed in on the potential impacts of a new casino on emergency services, she wrote, and there hasn’t been enough discussion about impacts on Norfolk State University and other surrounding neighborhoods.
She also pointed out the city is funding a study on how an arena near downtown Norfolk would impact tax revenues and local businesses, but that no such study has been done for a potential casino. Multiple studies have either been floated or are in process, she said, but the results won’t be available until well after the vote.
The Virginian-Pilot analyzed dozens of existing studies and found that there are some well-established drawbacks to casino development, including an increase in crime, while economic benefits tend to be inconsistent.
City spokeswoman Lori Crouch said in an email Monday that “staff from several departments provided input which helped frame the project recommendations. Staff also received information from the tribe on their economic impact study and presented those findings to Council on 9/17.”
She did not immediately respond to questions about whether police and fire officials specifically had been involved in discussions.
In his own Facebook post, Councilman Tommy Smigiel said the council isn’t rushing into anything. He noted the council publicly backed a resolution supporting a tribal casino in January and said members have had ample opportunity to ask questions and share information with residents.
Kurt Krause, who leads the tourism group Visit Norfolk, said he had talked with officials in March about commissioning a study of areas with casinos to learn what Norfolk should do and what the city should avoid. He said they all agreed to wait until a state study on casinos, mandated earlier this year by the General Assembly, was completed. That report is expected to be issued in November.
Krause said it doesn’t worry him that the council might make a decision paving the way for the casino before either the state study or Visit Norfolk’s analysis is done.
Other residents, however, are concerned.
Norfolk’s Downtown Civic League has talked about the casino at multiple meetings, including one last week that included Norfolk’s director of economic development, Jared Chalk, and Councilwoman Courtney Doyle.
“It really came across as people were skeptical ... and that they were being railroaded on a deal that they quite frankly don’t have enough information on," said civic league secretary Lorraine Connaughton. The civic league expects many of its members to attend Tuesday’s meeting to speak about the deal.
According to McClellan’s Facebook post, the council never saw the terms of the land sale deal until Aug. 27 in a closed session. Those details weren’t made public until Sept. 10.
“Interestingly, after the ‘best and final’ details were shared with us on 8/27, the Tribe agreed to several additional items I requested on 9/10,” she wrote.
The agreement between the city and the tribe was updated on Sept. 19 to include several items, including that if the tribe opens a casino, it will give local gambling addiction programs $60,000 up front, then $30,000 a year.
“This suggests that input and negotiation is not final,” McClellan wrote.
Ryan Murphy, 757-446-2299, ryan.murphy@pilotonline.com
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Borders, Guns, and Freedom
Like the pioneers two hundred years before him, Mark Romano recently decided to head West. Like those pioneers, Mark—a white, unemployed electrician ...
By Harel Shapira
Like the pioneers two hundred years before him, Mark Romano recently decided to head West. Like those pioneers, Mark—a white, unemployed electrician from Pennsylvania with a military background—was driven by a combination of economic hopes, racist beliefs, and masculine desires. And like those pioneers, Mark moving West was at once a personal, as well as a national, project. But unlike those pioneers, Mark headed West not to expand America, but rather to set its limits.
These twin projects—both expanding and limiting—form the basis of Greg Grandin’s new book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. To these projects, Grandin commits a tremendous amount of work because, as he convincingly demonstrates, expansion and limitation are the key to understanding America itself. Where once America defined itself through the project of expanding into a mythically “limitless” and “empty” frontier, today America defines itself through the project of hunkering down behind a mythically “dangerous” and “out-of-control” border.
While Trump has expressed a particularly dramatic focus on building a wall, the truth is that American politicians over the past few decades—Republicans and Democrats alike—have been engaged in the project of wall building. In fact, the first extended conversation I ever had with Mark Romano happened back in April 2006, shortly after the US passed its “Secure Fence Act” and the militarization campaign was in full swing.
We were at a gas station located in a stretch of otherwise empty desert, about an hour south of Tucson, Arizona. I was in the back seat of Mark’s pickup truck. Mark had driven to Arizona all the way from Pennsylvania, some two thousand miles, in order to patrol the border with the militia group known as the Minutemen. As Mark got out of the car to pump gas, I was struck by the remarkable number of people at this gas station in the middle of nowhere. There were roughly 10 Border Patrol agents alongside about six Border Patrol vehicles, as well as some 40 migrants, almost all young men, all in handcuffs, standing in a line outside a bus. (This bus belonged to the private security firm Wackenhut, which had been contracted by the US government to transport apprehended unauthorized immigrants.) There was also a truck driver pumping gas into a long flatbed truck, which contained pallets of metal and steel being used to build new fencing. Finally, there were about 20 men in camouflage, members of the national guard who had been deployed by then president George W. Bush to help “secure” the border. Months later, when I interviewed the Pakistani immigrant who owned the gas station, he would tell me how this gas station, which for years seemed like “a bad investment,” was now constantly packed. Times had changed. Business was booming. The border was coming to Arizona.
American history, Grandin says, is a history marked by two distinct periods: one of expansion—beginning in the early 19th century and extending until the 21st century—and one of setting limits. Today, of course, we are in the period of limitations.
These historical periods are marked by distinct mythologies. We can understand America’s historical arc as the shift from one mythology to another. First, America was possessed by a national mythology of the frontier, one dominated by a belief in the potential for universal freedom and boundless prosperity through continual Westward expansion. Today, America is possessed by a national mythology of the border, one dominated by a belief that the world is, and ought to be, unequal. Although Grandin does not directly name it as such, the language of dialectics threads his account, with the frontier representing America’s thesis, and the border representing its antithesis.
As a sweeping historical portrait whose main figures are presidents and military figures, Grandin’s book leaves unexamined how the lives of everyday individuals are shaped by frontiers and borders, either as subjects of their violence, or, as in the case of Mark Romano, agents of their violence.
Mark Romano did not come from a military family. His grandparents were working-class Italian immigrants who arrived in New York as part of the large wave of Italian migration in the early 20th century. The owners of a small household goods store—who always used to can their own food out of fear of potential scarcity—Mark’s grandparents, in his telling, were examples of “the American dream: hardworking immigrants who came to America to make a better life.” And he adds, no more than a breath later, “not like today’s immigrants who have no respect for this country.”
Mark says that his own “respect for this country” developed at a young age and that he always knew he wanted “to serve our country.” However, Mark’s poor grades in high school—coupled with limited alternatives and the potential for upward mobility through military service—had as much to do with his decision to enlist as any ostensibly patriotic feelings. And when reflecting on his military experiences, Mark repeatedly talks about gaining a sense of self-worth, purpose, and masculine pride. “I was the smallest guy in bootcamp,” Mark tells me, “but I did the best. All these big guys failed cause they had the wrong attitude, but for me, it was a breeze.” This sense of self-security was attained from a combination of factors: his learned proficiency with firearms, friendships with politically conservative men, and—after serving in the Gulf War and the 1991 invasion of Iraq—a strong belief that Muslims presented an existential threat to America.
While Trump has expressed a particularly dramatic focus on building a wall, the truth is that American politicians over the past few decades have been engaged in the project of wall building.
One cannot understand today’s border, Grandin convincingly and often beautifully argues, without first understanding the frontier that preceded it. Such historicizing of the border (as previously accomplished by scholars ranging from Joseph Nevins to Saskia Sassen) reveals that the US-Mexico border has only recently become a militarized space and the focus of our conceptions of national security, rather than a timeless bastion of American sovereignty. But more importantly, Grandin’s historicizing pushes this argument forward: by arguing that the border can only be made sense of by understanding it specifically as the closure of the frontier.
To understand the border, therefore, one needs to understand not what it does, but what it undoes. Specifically, the invention of today’s “border” is actually the undoing of a vast and violent history: a past rooted in the belief that American greatness equaled Westward expansion.
Such a history, undesirable as it may be, has taken many forms throughout the nation’s past. It is a history articulated by Andrew Jackson, who used the frontier myth to legitimize the slaughtering of Native Americans. In the early 20th century, Woodrow Wilson used the metaphor of the frontier to legitimize the necessity of fighting imperial wars abroad. Decades later—when physical expansion reached its limit, and when, in turn, those wars reached their own end points—John F. Kennedy talked about outer space as the final frontier. But even he was outdone by Bill Clinton, who spoke of expansion into “global markets” as the new frontier.
It was the 19th-century historian Frederick Jackson Turner who made the earliest and most famous argument for the frontier as a central feature of American life. In his famous 1893 essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American Life,” Turner conceptualizes the frontier primarily in geographic terms, and sees constant expansion into ostensibly uninhabited territory as the very basis of American identity. From Turner on, American politicians used and relied on the frontier—as both a physical space, and then, later, as a metaphor—not only as a source of political legitimacy, but also as a symbol and embodiment of the very idea of freedom and progress throughout most of American history. “The poetry stopped on June 16, 2015,” Grandin eloquently puts it, “when Donald J. Trump announced his presidential campaign by standing Frederick Jackson Turner on his head. ‘I will build a great wall,’ Trump said.”
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Why is the closure of the frontier so consequential? Because, Grandin reveals, frontiers and borders are not things, but projects; not objects, but actions. Borders, then, are political projects that actively produce economic and racial inequalities (all while naturalizing those artificial differences).
For America, according to Grandin, the action that the frontier performed was that of a “safety valve.” That is, political elites employed the project of the frontier—whether expressed through the logic of territorial or market expansion—to address America’s internal racial and economic problems. The frontier functioned by “dissolving class conflict” and “helping vent extremism outward,” thereby “stabilizing the country” and negating any potential progressive, class-based politics. As a project instigated by elites to preserve the status quo, the frontier, you might say, worked.
But the frontier myth, Grandin explains, has now imploded; consequently, the safety valve has come undone. “Instead of peace, there’s endless war,” warns Grandin. “Instead of critical, resilient, and progressive citizenry, a conspiratorial nihilism, rejecting reason and dreading change, has taken hold. Factionalism congealed and won a national election.” By “negating” the frontier, the border negates America’s mythological expulsions; not only do America’s racist undercurrents now turn back and face inward, so too does the myth that a better future lies around the corner, just past the next expansion.
Just as Mark’s grandparents sought a better future by moving to America, Mark sought a better future by moving to the border.
In 2016, about a decade after he first started patrolling the border with the Minutemen, Mark, unemployed and uncertain about the future, picked up and moved from Pennsylvania to Arizona full-time in order to start a small business, just like his grandparents. Except, instead of selling household goods, Mark is teaching people how to use guns. Together with a former Border Patrol agent, Mark now co-owns and acts as the primary instructor of a firearms training school. He teaches not only civilians but also police officers: those looking for, as he calls it, “the stuff that they won’t teach you in the academy.”
Armed with the myth that guns will save him, Mark says that, while his grandparents were “survivalists who knew life skills, like canning their own foods, the new generation doesn’t know anything about survival.” Continuing with eugenic language, he explains: “All that stuff has bred out of the new generation.” Mark believes he stands apart from the weak, unprepared citizens of today. And so, once again, his sense of masculine self-worth is rooted in proficiency in violence. For example, he proudly explained, “This cop had never seen this technique I teach about how to exit a vehicle being shot at … now he says he trains his own men to do it.” Again, at the border, Mark believes he stands alone.
One cannot understand today’s border, Grandin convincingly and often beautifully argues, without first understanding the frontier that preceded it.
The trick of myths, as Roland Barthes tells us, is that they reverse the order of nature and society, giving what are, in fact, socially constructed texts the appearance of natural order. In asking us to consider both the frontier and the border as national mythologies, Grandin is asking us to recognize the tricks they play on us.
Whether it is Andrew Jackson’s claim that America had a natural and God-given mission to slaughter Native Americans, or Trump’s invocation that a nation without borders is not a nation—Grandin allows us to recognize them as political constructions: as socially constructed texts that only appear to be immovable features of the landscape. And in telling the history of how America transformed from a nation of frontiers to a nation of borders, Grandin allows us to see the political dynamics at play when borders are reified: when the divisions between legal and illegal, inside and outside, citizen and subject, are presented as the natural order.
While Grandin does a wonderful job of unmasking the mythology of the border, he also appears to have partially fallen for one of its tricks. Borders only suggest a limit; in fact, they are fully capable of furthering a project of expansion.
Consider the gas station where Mark and I first talked: located a good 50 miles from the territorial edge of America, it was far away from the actual “border.” Indeed, the place where the Minutemen patrolled was not at the “border,” but many miles north of it. And back home in Pennsylvania—far, of course, from the border—Mark went to surveil the parking lots of places such as the Home Depot, intimidating and reporting “illegals” searching for work. Now, he does the same in Phoenix and Tucson.
When he is patrolling the “border,” whether it be in Southern Arizona or urban Pennsylvania, Mark does so armed with his 1911 semiautomatic handgun. And Mark can have his gun with him, thanks not to the frontier’s lawlessness, but, instead, to a wave of legislation. Starting with Shall-Issue Laws in the 1990s, and moving on to Arizona’s “constitutional carry” law passed in 2010, men like Mark can carry their guns with them nearly everywhere they go, without any kind of formal licensing. Should Mark—who always talks about how dangerous the people coming across the border are—find himself feeling “reasonably afraid” and shoot someone, America’s constantly expanding “use of force” laws would make Mark’s violence much more legitimate and defensible in the eyes of the law. “It is,” as Mark tells me, in reference to Arizona gun laws, “a place that does not restrict my freedoms like back up North.”
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Grandin himself acknowledges that borders are located not merely at the territorial edges of America, but, in fact, everywhere: checkpoints are found throughout America’s Southern highways; ICE raids take place thousands of miles away from “the border”; airports around the world are chock-full of America’s border guards; and a combination of multinational alliances and financial threats allow America to instill its own interests and policies on the borders of not only “nearby” countries like Mexico and Guatemala but those as far away as Morocco and Thailand. And yet he does not recognize the ways in which the border—as part of the broader project of American militarization of everyday life—continues to expand what the frontier was about: the capacities of certain people to engage in violence. Indeed, through laws such as constitutional carry and stand-your-ground, it expands these capacities to the public sphere itself. The border, then, didn’t just negate the frontier; in many ways, in fact, it has expanded the frontier.
America, then, is expanding, but through the logic of borders. Part of what the mythology of borders accomplishes is that it reinscribes the very project of expansion, and the violence and lawlessness associated with it, with a new legitimacy, precisely by denying that it is being undertaken.
By erasing the frontier, the border has only brought all the dangers of the frontier into the presumed safety of the home. It wasn’t just the border that came to the remote Arizona gas station: it was also lawlessness, militarism, detention, and violence.
This article was commissioned by Caitlin Zaloom.
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Sally Fisher was instrumental in starting the Recycled Arts Festival in Clark County and has been coordinating the event for the past twelve years. We sat down to reminisce with her about the first Recycled Arts Festival and how far it has come.
What inspired the first Recycled Arts Festival (RAF)?
There was a group of people; we worked together as the Environmental Information Cooperative. In a brainstorming session, we all thought it would be fun to do an art show at the park. We talked about it for years before we actually did one. It was a meeting of the minds.
What was the first RAF like?
A lot smaller than the current Recycled Arts Festivals. We had about 30 artists, and I think about three thousand people came. People didn't really buy anything, they didn't realize it was a sale, and the artists were frustrated. Many of the artists didn't show up on Sunday, so then we had to start charging a deposit on those spots if they didn't come back.
Why do you think RAF has become so popular?
I think the main thing people like is just the creativity. It's got a lot of WOW factor because you walk up to an artist's booth and they've made something out of something recognizable that you wouldn't have thought could have been art or something functional. Most of us recycle or throw it away. So people like looking at every little part and trying to figure out what it is. And the event is family-friendly. It's a place where people can come, spend the day for free. It's the beginning of summer—everyone wants to be outside.
What is your funniest story of something that happened at a RAF?
When we did our Toss and Found—which saves things that get taken to the transfer station but could have been taken to a thrift store or given to a neighbor—one year, we found a taxidermy raccoon. We kind of adopted it as our mascot, even though mice had eaten off its little feet and it was pretty gross. A photographer of The Columbian came by and he took pictures of it and put it in the paper. My phone rang first thing the next morning, and it was the wife of the man who had stuffed that raccoon. He didn't know she had gotten rid of it, so when he opened the paper that day, here was that raccoon, and she was in a lot of trouble. So we convinced them to let us keep the raccoon for the festival since it had been in the paper and we had been advertising with it. Then, I personally delivered the raccoon back to them after the festival.
What has been your favorite part of RAF?
All the wonderful people I've met and the creative people. It's become a little family of the people who come year after year. It is something that brings the community together where everyone can enjoy it.
Sally recently stepped up to the position of Program Coordinator II of the Solid Waste and Environmental Outreach team at Clark County Public Health and is passing the 13th annual RAF to Jill Krumlauf, Clark County Green Neighbors Environmental Coordinator. How does it feel to be passing RAF into someone else's hands?
It feels bitter-sweet. It's nice to know that it's going to a good place and can continue. And I know Jill cares a lot about the Festival. But, it's hard to let it go, too. It's kind of been my baby from the beginning. But it's good; it's time. It's always good to have new energy and ideas, and that's what we'll have this year.
Some Q&A with Jill K:
You assisted Sally with RAF last year, how does it feel to be taking the lead this year?
It's very exciting! The festival was one of the reasons I was interested in this position with the county. I first visited RAF in 2014, shortly after moving to Vancouver. I never thought I would one day be organizing it! I was lucky to have the opportunity to "shadow" Sally last year. She made sure to keep me in the loop and involved in all of the logistical aspects, which helped for a smooth the transition this year. I'm lucky Sally continually organized the event so well, that it's a well-oiled machine and a respected legacy.
What do you like about RAF?
I love that people are so surprised to see what is actually possible from something that they would normally toss. Who knew you could create beautiful jewelry from disposable plastic gift cards? Well, you can! And that's the type of art we showcase at the festival. Art that inspires, art that is useful, and especially, art that does not waste. Showing real people tangible ways they can reduce and reuse is always better than just tossing something away, whether in the recycle bin or garbage. The festival focuses on this side of waste reduction education: rather than just telling someone to recycle a plastic bottle, here's what you can do instead to continue the lifecycle of this item and prevent the creation of new waste. In addition to our message, the community support and volunteers are wonderful, and the festival is just plain fun. I mean, who doesn't like outdoor celebrations with live music, roaming entertainers, and food…
Are you working on anything new for the Festival this year?
Yes! We are very excited to have The Falconer, a wildlife conservation organization, who educates about how our wasteful and toxic habits are affecting our birds and their habitat. Live birds of prey will be on display both Saturday and Sunday – you might get to see an owl and vulture up close! Portland Taiko and Recycle Man will also be performing Sunday morning leading up to the Procession of the Species, which begins at 11am.
To stay updated on performer schedules and Procession of the Species workshops, visit our Facebook page or website!
This year we have over 130 art vendors and have become one of the most popular events in the area with thousands of visitors every year. Our artists have a variety of items from home décor and garden art to jewelry and clothing with everything made with at least 75% recycled materials. Don't miss out!
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Rufus Wainwright Working With Mark Ronson on Poppy New Album
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Rufus Wainwright hit a New York studio with producer Mark Ronson this week to start recording a new album – and it’s shaping up to be the poppiest music he’s made in years. “We’ve been in for three days, and I already look 20 years younger,” Wainwright told Rolling Stone. “I have to start looking around for motorcycle outfits or something, I feel so damn cool!”
After spending the last few years working on an opera, Prima Donna, and last year’s dark piano cycle All Days Are Nights, Wainwright is looking for a new sound. “The main objective – not for the entire [album], necessarily, but for portions of it – is to be danceable,” he said. “I just want to make something that you love, driving around in your car listening or losing your mind to on a dance floor. Something to serenade us through these very, very troubling times.”
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Ronson, who has worked with pop acts including Amy Winehouse, Adele and Lily Allen, was an obvious choice. “One is that he’s made a lot of hit records,” Wainwright said, listing the reasons he wanted to collaborate with Ronson. “Two, the records sound amazing. And three is that he’s really good-looking.”
Among the 15 or so songs currently in contention for the album are “Candles,” a tribute to Wainwright’s late mother, Kate McGarrigle; an untitled song about Montauk, where Wainwright and partner Jorn Weisbrodt have a house; and “I’m Out of the Game,” about giving up stardom. “Hopefully it’s a sarcastic number – but who knows,” he said.
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After wrapping this week’s sessions with Ronson, Wainwright will head to London in July for five dates at the Royal Opera and release an extras-packed 19-disc retrospective box set titled House of Rufus the same month. He’ll take the rest of the summer off to spend time with his infant daughter, Viva, then resume work on the album this fall.
Speaking of Viva, who was born in February, she’s already starting to inform Wainwright’s songwriting. “There’s nothing like impressing a little girl – nothing quite as lovely, and sometimes nothing quite as difficult,” he said. “I’ve written three songs about her already.”
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The recently released Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report has laid bare a detention and interrogation program that was even more brutal than most observers expected. Some politicians and pundits have said that the program has long since ended, and should be relegated to the dustbin of history. But the effects of torture remain seared into the victims’ bodies and minds – even if virtually no one in the U.S. ever sees those scars firsthand.
On various reporting trips to Guantanamo Bay, I’ve seen, in a small way, the lasting effect that torture has had on at least one person. Mustafa Hawsawi is one of the five co-defendants in the 9/11 case currently in the pre-trial phase at Guantanamo Bay, and when he appears before court there he sits on a pillow. Many observers assumed that was related to the torture he suffered while held at a CIA black site, but we never had the details.
Now we do, and they are gruesome. Following what the report refers to as “allegations that rectal exams were carried out with ‘excessive force,'” the “CIA records indicate that one of the detainees, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, was later diagnosed with chronic hemorrhoids, an anal fissure, and symptomatic rectal prolapse.” Numerous other detainees were also subjected to “rectal rehydration” and “rectal feeding” as a “means of behavior control.”
Attorney Walter Ruiz represents Hawsawi before the military commission at Guantanamo, and, like many Americans, was shocked at the brutality described in the report. In a phone interview with Rolling Stone, he described his reactions to the treatment his client suffered and continues to be plagued by. The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. A spokesperson for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has not responded to a request for comment. [UPDATE: In a statement to RS, a Guantanamo spokesperson says: “All detainees at JTF Guantanamo receive the same level of medical care provided to service members here. The JTF mission remains focused on conducting safe, transparent, humane and legal detention operations. The JTF does not comment on specific reports regarding detainee allegations.”]
What is your reaction to the torture that your client suffered, as laid out in the report?
I was shocked, in a way – even though I already had some knowledge of the facts. The manner in which it was described, and some of the language that was used in those cables and emails, just made it even more horrible. It was so callous. Particularly, there was that one comment about the food tray. [Ruiz is referencing a line in the report that reads: “Majid Khan’s ‘lunch tray,’ consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts, and raisins was ‘pureed’ and rectally infused.”] Clearly that conduct would be considered war crimes. And even I didn’t have the full extent of those details.
Were you aware of your client’s rectal prolapse as a result of CIA torture?
I knew about his medical issues. You’ve seen him sitting in court on that pillow. He’s had this very painful and chronic condition ever since I’ve represented him, but I never really understood what precipitated that. And I think part of that is it’s so difficult to talk about that. Even though I have a relationship that spans over five years with Mr Hawsawi, we’ve never discussed such specific and graphic details. I’ve talked with him a little bit [since the release], and I haven’t had a chance to go through the entire report with him, but it’s clear this is what happened to him. I think he’d been too embarrassed to discuss it fully. That’s shocking.
Could Hawsawi have told you about the torture he underwent if he felt comfortable?
There were no restrictions on him telling me about the extent of his torture. He has discussed certain aspects of the torture he underwent, but he had not gone into graphic detail about the rough rectal examinations. And my read of that is – I mean, we call that sodomy. That’s the equivalent of sodomizing someone. When you piece together the report and look at the different comments that were made – one comment was that they used the largest tube they could find – it’s not surprising he would not talk openly about something so horrific. It’s not uncommon for victims of crime not to talk about the most gruesome details of their victimization. So while we have talked about torture, and we have talked about some of the things referenced in this report – you saw sections where they talked about the water dousing technique. The CIA’s position is that wasn’t actually waterboarding, despite the fact that there was a waterboard, and buckets, and solution that were in the facility. That’s no surprise to me. And I’m aware of some other issues that are not in the report, and that’s probably because they weren’t referenced in cables or documented by the CIA. Those, I definitely can’t talk about. I’m aware of other instances of torture, but I can’t tell you about them because they haven’t been declassified.
Do you think the release of this report means you’ll be able to further discuss your client’s torture in public?
Well, the report is unclassified, so anything in the report we can talk about. But right now the guidance remains the same. As it stands, he could not communicate or elaborate on those details that you’ve seen in the Senate report. Or, for that matter, go to a human rights commission court and seek some redress or accountability. By the same token, I don’t think I can discuss with you what Mr Hawsawi had to specifically say about the facts [in the report]. We’re still very much in the dark when it comes to what guidance we follow and what it is that we can say. I was in one way surprised by the amount of detail the report did include, because based on the rules we’ve been laboring under, Mr Hawsawi and I would not have been able to say that to you.
And we don’t have the entire report. This is the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, and Senator Feinstein said in her comments yesterday that this was just a brief sample, that there are more details in that 6,000-page investigation. So we’re going to continue to press for the release of that information to us, at least. I expect that report will yield even more gruesome details – if it can get any worse.
Part of the government’s case against your client is that he helped facilitate 9/11 through money transfers. What do you make of the quote in the report that Hawsawi “doesn’t appear to be a financial mastermind”?
You’ve heard me say that in one way or another many times. I’ve always tried to communicate the fact that Mr Hawsawi’s role was overplayed. For me it just affirms what we’ve known privately, and tried to communicate publicly. But of course, I’m his lawyer, his advocate, and so that’s what people expect me to do. This just confirms that from an independent source.
Is your client getting adequate care now for his medical condition?
It has never been appropriately addressed. He hasn’t had the appropriate doctors or medications with which to do that. It hasn’t received the attention it should have received. Mr Hawsawi was [recently] involved in an incident where he was the victim of a rough take-down, where at least eight guards threw him down on the ground when he was shackled. He’s down to 117 pounds, he’s not eating, so we’re very concerned about his medical condition. But the policies in place at Guantanamo prohibit us from speaking to the doctors, or the doctors speaking to us. We need to remedy at least that much. If nothing else, they should provide him the adequate medical treatment to relieve that. And I can tell you now, that’s one of many reasons he won’t come and sit in court all day. That affects his defense.
Does he have other lasting physical ailments?
This is the most significant one. He also has a condition in his neck. And I can’t tie that into why that specifically is, but I think it’s a lasting result of the treatment he’s undergone.
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It’s time again for football fans to get excited to come together for the biggest event of the season, as Super Bowl XLIX waits just around the corner! This year, Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt & Amrany is proud to be a part of the festivities at the renowned University of Phoenix Stadium, where the studio’s monument to distinguished Arizona Cardinals safety and Army Ranger Pat Tillman awaits fans for a historic day of celebration and remembrance.
Opened in 2006 and host to such past events as Super Bowl XLII, Wrestlemania XXVI, and numerous Fiesta Bowls, the 63,400-seat University of Phoenix Stadium is itself a monument to the modern sports arena, a celebrated marvel of architecture that employs a retractable roof, a natural roll-in grass playing surface, and state-of-the-art display systems. These features, among many others that showcase a dedication to ultra-modern facilities and artful architectural planning, have helped to earn the University of Phoenix Stadium recognition among the most lauded arenas in the world, and even praise from publications like Business Week.
For all these reasons, Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt & Amrany is more than pleased to showcase a work of tribute to standout Cardinals defensive player and outspoken American serviceman and former Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman, installed permanently at the University of Phoenix Stadium in 2007. Capturing a powerful moment in time on the playing field, the life-sized work in bronze and stone, created by artists Omri Amrany and Gary Tillery in collaboration with architect Peter Eisenman, effectively expresses the insurmountable spirit that not only defined Pat Tillman, but which inspires new players to greatness and fans to celebrate.
In May of 2002, after three exemplary seasons with the Cardinals, 1997 Pacific-12 Defensive Player of the Year Pat Tillman turned down a lucrative three-year contract to enlist in the United States military, compelled by the events of September 11, 2001. Distinguishing himself again as an Army Ranger, Tillman’s life was tragically cut short by friendly fire on April 22, 2004, while on duty in Afghanistan. In the time since his death, Pat’s indomitably independent spirit, his willingness to serve others as an integral team player, and his unflinching intellectual courage have been memorialized time and again by those who knew him, on the field and off. Through a life of service and dedication, Pat Tillman left a legacy inarguably worth remembering, and The Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany is honored to contribute both to his legacy and to the history of great football players.
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Whittingham: Two must-win games
The midfielder is targeting six points from matches against Plymouth and Portsmouth this week
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Rovers midfielder Peter Whittingham is raring to go ahead of Tuesday's League One meeting with Plymouth, and believes it's a game the Blues have to win.
Tony Mowbray's side will be looking to bounce back, with consecutive home games to come this week, having lost 1-0 to Oldham at the weekend.
Speaking to iFollow ahead of the game, Whittingham is glad to have the chance to atone for the defeat to quickly, and is targeting two victories at Ewood Park.
“This is a league where if you don’t play well on the Saturday, you have to go and play well on the Tuesday," he said.
“Games come thick and fast. You can pick up six points in a week and it can completely change the outlook.
"That’s something we have to do. It’s part and parcel of what Blackburn are and something we want to be doing.
“Let’s be honest, we should be winning the next two games. We feel like we’re good enough at home and that’s what we should be doing."
Whittingham twice came close to scoring his first goal for the club on Saturday, and feels it's only a matter of time before he opens his Rovers account.
“Yeah, it was really disappointing in the end," he added. "We had a few chances; we didn’t play our best but even so, you want to be picking up points.
“We’d had a couple of chances just before their goal, it looked like we would be the ones to score, so to come away with nothing was tough to take.
“The first one could have gone in but just went wide, the second one I hit hard and unfortunately it hit the bar.
“I feel like I’m getting closer and just need that first goal to kick-start me. Unfortunately it didn’t go in, and that’s the way it went on Saturday.
“It’s up to us at the minute, we need to be scoring more goals. We're quite resolute at the back, but we’re not scoring many and that’s the problem."
JRC's dream weekend
It's not often that you make your league debut, get an assist and help your team to a biggest league win in just over 18 years.
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News: MIGHT Collaboration with UK & Japan to Fund Science, Technology and Innovation in Malaysia
Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) is working to collaborate with both the United Kingdom (UK) and Japan in financing projects related to science, technology and innovation (STI) in Malaysia.
According to MIGHT Joint-Chairman Professor Tan Sri Zakri Abdul Hamid, the Malaysian government has been working closely with the British government to establish the Ungku Amar Newton Fund. For this fund, the British government allocated £4 million a year for five years and the same amount will be matched by the Malaysian government. Tan Sri Zakri, who also acts as the Science Advisor to the Malaysian Prime Minister, stated that a memorandum of understanding for collaboration between Malaysia and the UK would be signed soon.
For its partnership with Japan, MIGHT has sign an agreement with Japan-based Asian Energy Investment Pte Ltd in order to create a fund management company called Putra Eco Ventures. According to MIGHT president and Chief Executive Office Dr. Mohd Yusoff Sulaiman, the main objective of the fund is to invest in efficient and renewable energy assets and businesses. He also stated that a few potential targets for funding from Putra Eco Ventures would be smart grid, energy-saving activities and smart buildings.
The United Kingdom and Japan are two technologically advanced countries; forming a partnership with them is apt, particularly if Malaysia is to achieve its goal of becoming a developed country in the future. It is hoped that international collaboration in science is not restricted to just these two countries, but also expanded to include other scientifically advanced countries such as the United States, Germany and France.
MIGHT Working with UK and Japan to Fund STI Project – TheEdge, 13th of June 2014
Might To Work With UK & Japan To Fund Science, Technology And Innovation Projects In Malaysia – MiGHT News and Announcements
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UK-Malaysia project generating bioelectricity from wastewater wins RM635,000 Newton Prize
Citizen scientists discover 6 new species of beetles in Borneo
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What Is a "Nuanced" Stance on Abortion Anyway?
Yesterday I posted about Tom Groome's New York Times article arguing that the Democrats need to stop being the "abortion party," and noted the two Religion Dispatches articles criticizing Groome. After the article posted, Charlie Camosy chimed in on Twitter to argue:
It is pro-lifers (of mutiple parties) who have nuanced policy positions. Democratic party has utter lack of nuance. https://t.co/1CvFcQz78N https://t.co/Sl6SRGLDFa
— Charlie Camosy (@CCamosy) March 30, 2017
This led me to respond that I'd never found the pro-life position particularly nuanced, and that Groome's article reinforced that opinion. To which Camosy responded:
@ScottPaeth 20 week ban with exceptions vs #shoutyourabortion as a social good paid for by pro-lifers. which is more nuanced?
And then it was on. You can go read the whole exchange on Twitter, but since it's very difficult to carry on a ... well nuanced conversation 140 characters at a time, I thought it would be worth thinking at a bit more length about the subject here.
As I read Camosy's defense of the "nuance" of a 20-week ban on abortion, I kept thinking I needed Inigo Montoya to show up and chime in "You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means." And this, it seems to me, was indeed part of the problem. We both understood by the word "nuance" something very different than the other did, though I have to say that, re-reading the thread this morning, I still don't think the word means what Camosy thinks it means, and it's certainly not very nuanced to portray "Shout Your Abortion" as representative of the default position of most pro-choice folks.
First of all, it seems to me that Camosy was repeatedly misrepresenting the current Democratic party platform on the issue, and Hillary Clinton's own words on the matter. To be clear, I was defending what for me has always been the best liberal approach to the question of abortion, as encapsulated by Bill Clinton back in the 1990s, that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare." Camosy, citing himself, kept referring to an LA Times article in which he asserted that the Democratic Party platform "betrayed millions of party faithful." But that article is hardly an example of nuance. It criticizes the platform for insisting on the removal of state restrictions on abortion, and insisting on it as a core element of reproductive health, while eliding all of the ... well nuance of the reason why those provisions were included in the first place: Repeated conservative attempts to throw up insurmountable roadblocks to abortion under any circumstances.
Even a passing familiarity with the ways in which Republican state legislatures have sought to do end runs around the Supreme Court rulings on abortion by, for example, requiring doctors working in abortion clinics to have residency at a local hospital, and then refusing them that residency, or creating expensive and unnecessary zoning and construction requirements for abortion clinics. These tactics have sought to create circumstances in which abortion, even if technically legal, became impossible to actually procure in some states. Ignoring those particular circumstances is not very nuanced.
But more generally, it's worth noting that the Democratic platform actually did a pretty good job of accomplishing the goal of ensuring that abortion was both safe and legal on the one hand, and rare on the other. The planks insisting on the right to access to abortion, and its importance for a general policy of reproductive health serve to ensure the first two criteria. The third is accomplished through platform language that ties the right to abortion to the right to health care generally and, most particularly to the right to have a child. Here is the particular language:
We will address the discrimination and barriers that inhibit meaningful access to reproductive health care services, including those based on gender, sexuality, race, income, disability, and other factors. We recognize that quality, affordable comprehensive health care, evidence-based sex education and a full range of family planning services help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions.
And we strongly and unequivocally support a woman’s decision to have a child, including by ensuring a safe and healthy pregnancy and childbirth, and by providing services during pregnancy and after the birth of a child, including adoption and social support services, as well as protections for women against pregnancy discrimination. We are committed to creating a society where children are safe and can thrive physically, emotionally, educationally, and spiritually. We recognize and support the importance of civil structures that are essential to creating this for every child.
And indeed there is ample evidence to demonstrate that, if your goal is to reduce abortions, these are the policies that you should be advocating. So when Camosy complains that the platform kept the "safe and legal" while abandoning the "rare," it seems to me at least that he didn't read the platform with sufficient ... nuance.
There is also evidence that, in terms of implementation of these policies, abortion rates decline under Democratic administrations. When I made that case to him, Camosy responded by linking to a Snopes article that he claimed labeled the assertion "False." However, a more ... nuanced ... reading of the Snopes article shows that what was false was something that I wasn't arguing, and what wasn't false was what I was claiming. The Snopes article addresses the question of whether abortions both go up during Republican administrations and decline during Democratic administrations. And, since Roe v. Wade, it is apparent that abortion rates do not in fact increase under Republican administrations, but they do decline (and decline more) under Democratic ones. This chart illustrates the point:
Charlie contended that a "Stats 101" analysis of the data would show something else, though he didn't elaborate. But while the trend line seems to either hold stead or decline only slightly during the Reagan and Bush years, it drops precipitously under both Clinton and Obama. So perhaps Charlie will get around to elaborating on his point in some other venue, but it still seems to me that the evidence does demonstrate that if your goal is to make abortion rarer, Democratic policies do the job better than Republican ones, though of course it's always worth remembering that correlation does not equal causation.
OK, so then, is a 20-week ban, as Camosy advocates, "nuanced"? Well it's certainly far more nuanced than the position taken by the Republican party, but a getting hit in the face by a brick in a gym sock would be more nuanced than anything in the Republican party these days. However, what the 20-week ban fails to account for is the situation of woman who, late in pregnancy, discovers a fatal defect in the gestating fetus, and the emotional and moral turmoil that women in that situation face. I suppose the response is that such instances are fairly rare, but then, late pregnancy abortions are rare to begin with. Camosy does of course note that the ban would come "with exceptions," but there the devil is in the details, and if the exceptions were sufficiently broad, it would basically make the ban worthless as policy anyway. A 20 week ban would almost certainly not make most abortions more rare in any respect, while increasing the suffering of families in genuinely tragic circumstances. Whether or not you think that abortion should be available in those cases, it remains the case that at the ban Camosy proposes once again fails the nuance test.
In the end, both Groome's and Camosy's complaints seem to amount to the same thing: They want the Democratic party to move closer to their position on abortion. That is of course a totally fair position for them to take. But to argue that the current Democratic Party policy isn't precisely what I said above -- to make abortion safe, legal, and rare -- suggests at a minimum a lack of charity in how the democratic position is understood and interpreted. And it certainly represents a failure of nuance.
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First $9 Million Sales Tax Check Delivered to Hillsborough Schools
Hillsborough Residents Overwhelmingly Voted for Major Improvements at Schools Benefiting Students and Staff
Tampa, Fla. – (April 2, 2019) – It’s an exciting day in Hillsborough County Public Schools as the first multi-million dollar check from the Education Referendum has been delivered to Hillsborough Schools, paving the way for major projects at traditional district schools in every area of the county.
A check in the amount of $9 million, from January sales tax collections, marks the first wave of tax money from purchases in Hillsborough County. Voters spoke up back in November, with an overwhelming approval of the half-penny sales tax to support students, teachers and school staff.
Today, at 2:30 p.m., Superintendent Jeff Eakins, School Board members and members of the Citizen Oversight Committee will be at Mitchell Elementary School, located at 205 Bungalow Park Ave., Tampa for a media availability with the $9 million check in hand, to thank residents for their trust and update reporters on the first phase of hundreds of upcoming projects set to begin within days of the check being deposited.
Reporters will also be able to see the needs at Mitchell Elementary, which will undergo major work this summer.
The projects across the district will be spread over the next ten years as the district receives the money. Our facilities and maintenance teams have been working behind the scenes for the last five months to select companies who will carry out the work and begin initial planning and design for the first phase of projects. Our district teams created a plan of 1,785 total projects, focusing on high priority needs.
The first of the largest projects, including 21 air conditioner replacements and millions of dollars in roof repairs, will begin over the summer, when students and staff are off campus—as crews of sometimes more than 100 workers complete the work. Other, smaller projects will begin soon after depositing this check.
The independent Citizen Oversight Committee, led by former State Education Commissioner Betty Castor and Sheriff Chad Chronister, has been reviewing each of the projects and spending before the work is submitted to the School Board for final approval.
Referendum Tax Projects
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The Welcome Wall honours and celebrates all who have migrated from around the world to live in Australia.
The Welcome Wall is one of the museum’s most important and visible tributes to our migration heritage.
Over 30,000 names already appear on the 81 bronze panels that are joined together and run down the northern promenade of the museum, facing Pyrmont Bay.
Find a name and read the stories of people who struggled against poverty or those who struck it rich - from the involuntary convict migrants of the First Fleet, unaccompanied migrant children, post-war refugees to more recent migrants who’ve chosen modern Australia as a place to call home.
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The museum's Welcome Wall recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and to coincide with this, we're pleased to announce that the Welcome Wall is now open for new registrations. Adding a name to the Welcome Wall involves gifting $500 to the museum that will go towards preserving our Australian maritime and migration heritage.
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Welcome Wall unveiling ceremony, 7 May 2018. Guests in the crowd seated during the event.
From left, guest speaker Ken Shipp, Director of Sport at SBS (who spoke about Les Murray's contributions to Australia), Tanya Bush (ANMM Deputy Director), Ian Connell (son of Duncan Connell), Tania Murray (daughter of Les Murray), Mary Lagana (daughter of Giuseppe and Caterina), and Donna Ingram (Indigenous Cultural Representative.
Welcome Wall unveiling ceremony, 7 May 2018. Ian Connell (son of Duncan Connell) and the newly unveiled name panel.
Welcome Wall unveiling ceremony, 7 May 2018. Mary Lagana, daughter of Giuseppe and Caterina from Calabria, Italy, and the newly unveiled name panel.
Welcome Wall unveiling ceremony, 7 May 2018. Mary Lagana, daughter of Giuseppe and Caterina from Calabria, Italy
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Welcome Wall unveiling ceremony, 7 May 2018. Tania Murray (daughter of sporting legend and Hungarian migrant, Les Murray) and the newly unveiled name panel.
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Firefighter’s death caused by retardant drop from 747
Originally published September 14, 2018 at 11:27 am Updated September 14, 2018 at 7:02 pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter battling the largest wildfire in California history was killed last month when thousands of gallons of flame-suppressing liquid were dropped from an aircraft flying barely above the treetops because spotters mistakenly sent it on a route too close to the ground, according to state investigation findings released Friday
The pilot and a supervisor flying ahead in a small guide plane led the giant modified Boeing 747 nearly into the trees on Aug. 13 because the pilots failed to recognize that there was a hill in the flight path, according to the Green Sheet report by the state’s firefighting agency.
Because of the near ground-level release, the retardant struck with such force it uprooted an 87-foot (27-meter) tree that fell on Matthew Burchett, a 42-year-old battalion chief from Utah helping with the Mendocino Complex Fire north of San Francisco.
Another large tree was snapped by the force of nearly 20,000 gallons (75,700 liters) of liquid and three firefighters were injured, one seriously.
Global SuperTanker Services LLC, which operated the 747, said in a statement that it thought the area was clear of firefighters and “acted within procedural and operational parameters.”
Two supervisors — one in the air and one on the ground — potentially face discipline or loss of their current positions because of multiple compounding mistakes, said Cliff Allen, president of the union representing California’s wildland firefighters.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Scott McLean said there are ongoing internal investigations into what went wrong.
“We definitely don’t want this to ever happen again,” McLean said.
The 747 was flying only 100 feet (30 meters) above the treetops, at least 100 feet too low, officials said. The goal is to fly high enough for the retardant to disperse and fall like rain, but at such a low level they said the slurry would have hit the trees at nearly the same speed as the aircraft — more than 160 mph (260 kph).
The guide pilot “made a ‘show me’ run” for the 747 pilot over the intended path for the retardant drop, and marked the path for the jet with a smoke trail, according to the report.
“Obscured by heavy vegetation and unknown to the (747) pilot, a rise in elevation occurred along the flight path.” The ground sloped up about 170 feet (50 meters) in the middle of what otherwise was a flat area, according to the report.
The guide planes have two people aboard, a pilot and an “air tactical supervisor,” a specially trained firefighter who directs the pilots of both the guide plane and the airtanker trailing behind.
“He laid down the line and he was directing the tanker and the tanker was following direction,” said Allen, the union president.
McLean said spotters have a difficult job because “the ground is very deceptive and very hard to read.”
The retardant drops were intended to help secure a firebreak cut through the trees by a bulldozer to stop advancing flames. Burchett and the other three firefighters were working on the hill next to the firebreak when the drop was announced over a radio and firefighters were told to “Clear the area out.”
The four did not respond to the warning, though the report says that “when personnel are working under a tree canopy, supervisors must ensure the drop path is cleared.”
Allen said the supervisor could face discipline for not getting an acknowledgement that the firefighters were evacuating.
It is not uncommon to have firefighters under retardant drops, McLean said, though he could not say if the four firefighters knew they were in the flight path or why they didn’t acknowledge or act on the radioed warning.
A firefighter who can’t move out of the way is trained to lie spread-eagled, face down, toward the oncoming aircraft, one hand holding the top of the helmet as it takes the brunt of the impact from the falling slurry and air turbulence that can threaten to lift a firefighter off the ground.
Burchett, a suburban Salt Lake City firefighter, was crushed by the uprooted tree, while the others were stuck by falling tree debris. Two had deep muscle contusions and ligament damage. One also suffered broken ribs, while the fourth firefighter had scratches and abrasions.
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Jim Brunner
2019 Seattle City Council Elections
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Democrats now have big new majorities in Olympia. What do they want to get done?
Originally published January 13, 2019 at 6:00 am Updated January 13, 2019 at 10:54 am
From left, House Minority Leader J.T. Wilcox, House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan, Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig and Senate Minority Leader Mark Schoesler take part in the Associated Press Legislative Preview on Thursday at the Capitol in Olympia. (Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press)
State Democratic lawmakers are walking into the 2019 legislative session eager to mold Washington into the more progressive version they have for years talked about.
Joseph O’Sullivan
OLYMPIA — As state lawmakers stream into Washington Capitol building from points near and far, Democrats boast their strongest majorities since 2010.
Many of those legislators are walking into the 2019 legislative session fired up over what they see as President Donald Trump’s adversarial presidency and eager to mold Washington into the more progressive version they have talked about for years.
Many state Democrats in recent years have proposed or campaigned on implementing a capital-gains tax, passing aggressive policies to fight climate change, expanding health-care and education programs and spending more on social programs.
Despite their proposals, pleas and the promises, several years of divided government — a Republican coalition held the Senate between 2013 and 2017 — and last year’s razor-thin Democratic majorities forced Democrats to set aside many ambitious proposals.
But November’s elections shifted the scales in Olympia. Democrats picked up 10 seats in the Legislature, giving them a 28-21 majority in the Senate and a 57-41 edge in the House.
“Now the troops have arrived,” Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday in an interview. The governor has for years seen many of his signature priorities on climate change wither away in Olympia due to opposition or disinterest.
The governor already has laid out an ambitious $54.4 billion 2019-21 state operating budget proposal. It includes Democratic priorities to fight climate change and save killer whales, fund state-worker raises and expand education spending.
It also includes a plan to reshape Washington’s deeply-troubled mental-health system and improve K-12 special-education funding, two areas that Democrats and Republicans broadly agree must be a priority. Lawmakers in both parties are also talking about efforts to address the crises in homelessness and housing affordability, both of which have spread far beyond Seattle.
To fund his priorities, the governor proposed a tax package of more than $3.7 billion for the two-year cycle, which drew swift condemnation from the GOP and consternation from some Democrats.
Inslee’s State of the State address is scheduled for Tuesday.
Republicans come to Olympia this year alarmed about the scope of proposed spending and taxes — and about the big Democratic majorities.
“In a one-party state, there is a tendency to crush dissent,” said Republican House Minority Leader Rep. J.T. Wilcox of Yelm.
“There’s no effective government and agency oversight, because one party doesn’t investigate itself,” he added. “You hear a lot of complaints about that at the national level, and we have that issue here, to some extent.”
As lawmakers tackle these issues in the 105-day session that begins Monday, they have a governor actively exploring a 2020 presidential bid. Inslee has started a political action committee to fund those efforts. He traveled to Nevada on Saturday and is scheduled to fly to New Hampshire later this month. Both are early key states for candidates.
Though it’s natural for politicians to be running for higher office, Wilcox said he hoped the governor would do his best to focus on Olympia as “his first job.”
“I also think it does make it more difficult to really concentrate on good government when you’ve got a lot people looking for the next position,” Wilcox said.
The governor pointed to his proposals on early-childhood education, and environmental issues including climate change — longtime priorities of his — as reason for him to stay engaged in Olympia.
“These are things that I am intensely, personally committed to,” Inslee said. “So you can be assured I am going to do what’s necessary to do everything possible to get them across the finish line.”
Here’s a look at a few of the big issues lawmakers are facing:
Lawmakers and Inslee in recent years have poured roughly $900 million into the state’s mental-health system in response to court orders and federal inspections highlighting the shortage of psychiatric beds and qualified workers, as well as unsafe conditions for staff and unlawful treatment of patients.
The money and attention couldn’t stop the decertification of Western State Hospital, Washington’s largest psychiatric facility, which has for years struggled with severe safety and staffing issues. That cost the state $53 million in annual federal funding, and state officials say getting the hospital recertified by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid would be too expensive to justify for its aging campus of buildings in Lakewood.
“Right now, we’ve got a two-pronged problem, we don’t have beds, and we don’t have people to work” in mental health facilities,” said state Rep. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax. “So we’re going to have to build both as we move ahead. And I agree the Legislature probably hasn’t done a good job. That’s why we need a plan moving ahead.”
Inslee has proposed a $675 million blueprint to add hundreds of new mental-health and supportive housing beds, partnering with the University of Washington to build a teaching hospital focused on behavioral health, and proposals to train and attract more workers. The governor has also proposed building several state-run hospitals, as well as a replacement for Western State Hospital.
Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on the size of all the facilities or whether they should be run and owned by the state or privately staffed and operated.
But lawmakers in both parties have said they agreed with the need to build a replacement facility for Western State Hospital.
Last June, the state Supreme Court ended its oversight of the multiyear, high-stakes K-12 school-funding order that stemmed from its 2012 McCleary decision.
Funding that court order — which ruled that the state had violated its constitution by underfunding basic education costs — has for years dominated the agenda in Olympia.
Even with the court’s oversight ended, legislators in both parties say they have to do more to fund K-12 special-education programs.
The governor and Democratic lawmakers also want to spend more money to expand early childhood education.
Compared to recent investments in K-12 education and college affordability, “We haven’t done as much as the third leg in the stool, on early learning,” said Senate Democratic Majority Leader Andy Billig of Spokane. “Which is actually probably the place where you get the biggest bang for your buck.”
The days of Inslee’s bold, overarching carbon-reduction plans are done for now.
State voters rejected carbon-fee initiatives in 2016 and 2018, and the governor’s cap-and-trade and carbon-fee proposals failed in recent years to advance through the Legislature.
Now, the governor has proposed $268 million package to fight climate change. That is spread across several smaller proposals that he says will add up to “a clean-energy smart deal” that would cut greenhouse-gas emissions 25 percent below their 1990 levels by 2035.
The proposals include a clean-fuels standard targeting auto emissions, the gradual elimination of “super-pollutant” hydrofluorocarbons that are used in air-conditioning, more electric-vehicle incentives and stricter energy-efficiency regulations for buildings.
Inslee has also proposed a plan to save the southern resident population of killer whales, and Democratic lawmakers have also discussed the idea of more oil-transportation safety legislation.
Republicans have been broadly skeptical of more environmental regulations, arguing they could hurt the state’s economy.
For a different approach, Rep. Richard DeBolt, R-Chehalis said he is preparing legislation similar to a bill he sponsored last year that focuses on incentives to encourage utilities to phase out fossil fuels.
A booming economy has brought Washington big windfalls in projected revenue from existing taxes.
Lawmakers in the summer of 2017 approved a $43.7 billion two-year operating budget, and added to that in a supplement budget last year.
Even without any new taxes, the state will have roughly $50 billion to spend over the upcoming two-year budget cycle.
To pay for his ambitious budget proposal, Inslee has proposed a 9 percent tax on some capital-gains earnings. The governor is also pushing for a hike in part of the business-and-occupation tax, as well as a restructuring of the real estate excise tax.
But a handful of Democratic senators are already opposed to that package, making it very unlikely for that package to pass the Senate.
Lawmakers will need some new revenue to fund existing programs and new priorities, according to Sen. Christine Rolfes, D-Bainbridge Island.
But Rolfes, the Senate’s chief Democratic budget writer, said her party doesn’t have the votes — or necessarily the agreement — to “unilaterally do a lot of radical things.”
For new revenue, Rolfes said eliminating some tax preferences or a version of the governor’s real estate excise tax plan, could work. She also said a smaller version of the governor’s proposed business-and-occupation tax might gain traction. That plan would raise the rate for some services, including accountants, architects, attorneys, janitorial services, massage therapists and beauticians.
In addition to opposing most big tax proposals, Republicans have also expressed concern at the increase in government spending in recent years.
The state has gone for many years without an economic downturn. Wilcox, the GOP House minority leader, said the state could get into a situation like it did when the Great Recession hammered Washington’s tax collections.
In response, lawmakers then had to cut deeply into the budget — decisions that officials to this day say caused ongoing problems in Washington’s mental-health and social-service systems.
Said Wilcox: “The people that are most in need of help get hurt the most when you lose control of budget growth.”
Joseph O’Sullivan: 360-236-8268 or josullivan@seattletimes.com; on Twitter: @OlympiaJoe. Seattle Times staff reporter Joseph O’Sullivan covers state government and the Legislature.
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Deceased man identified in Howe Avenue home
Published 1:01 pm EDT, Friday, August 14, 2015
Shelton police detectives, with assistance from the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad, are currently investigating an untimely death of an unidentified male at 62 Howe Avenue, Shelton.
Shelton Police found 46-year-old Richard Briercheck dead on the second floor of the home.
State Police initially withheld the identity of the man until they notified next of kin, but on Friday night they said he was Briercheck, a resident of the home.
According to public records, the current owners of the Colonial style home are Janet Livingstone and her late husband, 75-year-old Richard E. Briercheck.
The initial call was reported to police at approximately 6:45 a.m. this morning.
Police and EMS responded,” Captain Robert Kozlowsky said. “They found a male at the residence. The male was later pronounced deceased.”
When Shelton PD arrived on the scene they found the male victim deceased on the second floor of the one family home on Howe Avenue. No other victims were located after searching the entire home.
Detectives are processing the crime scene and conducting interviews with the assistance of the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Squad, according to Kozlowsky.
On Aug. 14, at about 2 p.m., at the request of the Ansonia/Milford Judicial District State’s Attorney’s Office, detectives from CDMC assumed the investigation.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) also responded to the scene and will assist in the investigation. The OCME will conduct a post-mortem examination to determine cause and manner of death, according to a press release sent out by State Police.
This investigation remains ongoing and more details are to be released.
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World Cup Countdown: 1 Day to Go - Germany's Mild-Mannered Goal Machine, Miroslav Klose
In 2001, German football was at its lowest ebb in decades. Disappointment at the 1998 World Cup and disaster at Euro 2000 had triggered a top-to-bottom overhaul of the country’s footballing identity, which wouldn’t start bearing fruit until 2006.
Miroslav Klose was exactly the sort of player the system had been failing. A Polish immigrant living in a small town, he wasn’t spotted by a Bundesliga team until he was 20 years old. As the restructuring commenced, its mastermind Jörg Daniel promised that the best players would be discovered even if they were “born in a tiny village behind the mountains”. He could almost have been talking about Klose.
If he had broken through five years earlier or five years later, Klose might never have become a Die Mannschaft legend. A dearth of attacking talent meant that a decent – but not brilliant – season for Kaiserslautern was enough to get Klose his first international call-up in 2001. He scored 15 minutes into his debut against Albania, and the rest is legend.
Or rather, it should be. But the tale of Miroslav Klose has been told in statistics, not in the loving tributes reserved for some of his more stylish contemporaries. The adjectives often used to describe him are clinical, lethal, precise. The language of a sniper, not an entertainer.
Yet nobody has defined the World Cup in the 21st century quite like Klose, who has more goals at the tournament than any of his eulogised peers. His trademark somersault celebration has become a regular sight ever since he scored a hat-trick of headers on his World Cup debut against Saudi Arabia in 2002.
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Acclaim has been surprisingly hard to come by. Klose has often been labelled a flat-track bully, with most of his World Cup goals coming against weaker opposition. His record at club level has also been criticised. He scored more than 20 league goals in a season just once, otherwise maintaining a steady average of about one goal every three games. Not bad, but not world class.
Klose was World Cup top scorer on home soil in 2006, but Germany’s tournament was remembered not for him but for the likes of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Philipp Lahm, the first fruits of the revolution. Klose joined the pair at Bayern Munich in 2007 but never prospered there, scoring just 24 league goals in four seasons.
He was included in the 2010 World Cup squad on reputation alone, but scored more goals at the tournament than he’d managed all season in the Bundesliga. He finally had a rival in the form of Thomas Müller, who outscored him in South Africa. Müller’s success in a modern 4-2-3-1 formation was the herald of a new generation.
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Klose didn’t belong to that generation. As Germany moved towards a more fluid Spanish model, often employing a false nine and starting matches with no established striker, he started to seem like the relic of a bygone era.
But no matter how much Germany’s philosophy changed, there was still no-one who could put the ball in the net like Klose. He was a classic centre forward more comparable to Gerd Müller than to any current German player, though Klose himself has always balked at such comparisons.
“It’s an absolute joke to compare myself with him,” he said after joining Müller on 68 Germany goals in 2013. He broke the record on the eve of his final World Cup, but there was significant scepticism about the inclusion of a 36-year-old in Germany’s youthful squad – had Joachim Löw picked him on sentiment alone?
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Klose provided the answer in the only way he knew how, equalling Ronaldo’s World Cup goals record less than 120 seconds after coming on against Ghana. He failed to stick the landing on the somersault celebration, but his predatory instincts in front of goal had not been dulled by age.
Ronaldo’s record was one of many to fall in Belo Horizonte on 8 July 2014. Klose made history with the second of Germany’s seven goals against Brazil, but all the headlines the next day were about the enormity of the hosts’ collapse. Hardly a word for the World Cup’s greatest goalscorer.
Again, Klose quickly rubbished comparisons to Ronaldo, despite congratulations from the man himself. “For me, he was the most complete player ever,” said Klose, always magnanimous. At full-time against Brazil, he was one of the first to commiserate with Luiz Felipe Scolari, the disgraced opposition manager.
Klose has always been a model of dignity and fair play. In 2005 he refused a penalty wrongly awarded to Werder Bremen, requesting that the referee overturn his decision. He received an award for his honesty, but it was tinged with irritation that this behaviour was the exception. “For me, it was something you should always do. I would do it again," he said.
Seven years later, the cynicism of modern football had not corrupted his moral compass. He admitted to handball in the build-up to a Lazio goal and the referee shook his hand before chalking it off. “There are many youngsters who watch football on TV and we are role models for them," said Klose, again reluctant to be praised for simply telling the truth.
It is said that cheats never prosper, but in football they often do. Klose’s fair play was rewarded at last in his final game for Germany. Mario Götze’s winning goal against Argentina signalled that this was a group of players to whom Klose could safely pass the torch. He lifted the World Cup, and retired from international football a month later.
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He briefly considered moving to the MLS after his last Lazio game in 2016, but his young family convinced him to call it a day. The 2018 World Cup will be the first since 1998 in which Klose will neither play nor score, but he will be in Russia as part of Joachim Löw’s coaching team. It wouldn’t be the World Cup without Miroslav Klose.
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Kansas team to study transport technologies with new planning grant
Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Engineering are envisioning the future of American roadways
Headquartered at the University of Kansas (KU) School of Engineering, a research team is envisioning what U.S. roads, highways, bridges and supporting infrastructure could look like in coming decades—a time when autonomous vehicles, more traffic and harsher weather driven by climate change could stress the American transportation system.
The work is taking place under a planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and includes multidisciplinary researchers from multiple institutions. The researchers hope the one-year, $100,000 project might result in establishment of an Engineering Research Center at KU to advance basic science that will underpin next-generation transport technology.
“The focus of the planning grant is to develop a center that will be the leading basic science and enabling technology center to drive the intelligent infrastructure for safe, efficient mobility for all,” said Anil Misra, professor of civil, environmental & architectural engineering, who is leading the effort, in a release. “It will be centered at KU and involves four other universities—the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, the University of California Berkeley and the City College of New York.”
In workshops, panel discussions and retreats this year, the team will assess emerging technologies that could improve U.S. roadways and infrastructure with an eye toward making them friendlier to the environment, and more resilient to higher traffic volume and a spike in severe weather. Boosting safety will also be a primary focus of the work.
One emphasis of the team’s work will be on developing “active structures” with sensors to analyze traffic conditions and alter road conditions or communicate with vehicles to boost safety.
The KU research team would assess a range of other technologies to cut vehicle emissions and fuel consumption.
Much public discussion of transportation and road infrastructure in the U.S. focuses on systemic disrepair and inadequacy, but Misra said the center would focus on transformative possibilities that could save taxpayer funds.
Source: KU News Service
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Tim Rowan was born in 1967 in New York City and grew up in Connecticut along the shore of Long Island Sound. His art education began during college, receiving a BFA from The State University of New York at New Paltz before journeying to Japan for 2 years to apprentice with ceramic artist Ryuichi Kakurezaki. Upon his return he worked briefly in studios in Massachusetts and New York before receiving his MFA from The Pennsylvania State University.
He established his kiln and studio deep in the woods of the Hudson Valley in 2000, where he lives with his wife and son. He has worked as an artist-in-residence at several studios, including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, and the Fuping Ceramic Art Village, Shaanxi Provence, China. His works are are seen internationally in solo and group exhibitions and in museum collections, including the Currier Art Museum in Manchester, NH, and the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton, MA. Tim was awarded the prestigious Janet Mansfield Ceramic Award from the International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association in 2013 and most recently the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant, 2015.
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Kasparov Trades Chess For Politics
March 13, 2005 17:54 GMT
By Julie Corwin
Garri Kasparov For the last two decades, one man -- Garri Kasparov -- has dominated the world of chess. But now the world's number one says he has played his last professional game, and he's going into politics instead.
Washington, 13 March 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Kasparov had just won another chess tournament on 10 March when he made his announcement.
The former world champion says he'll continue to play -- but only for fun, not professionally.
"I have done everything in chess that I could, even more," he says. "Now I intend to use my intellect and strategic thinking in Russian politics."
Aleksandr Roshal, editor-in-chief of a popular chess magazine 64.ru, says Kasparov realized he could no longer compete at the same level as when he was young man.
"Garri finally understood that there was [no longer] a direct route [to victory], only bypasses. But he didn't have the time [or the patience] for round-abouts. [He has] no desire. And don't forget that he will be 42 years old in a month. He won more than 40 super tournaments. And he could win more professional chess matches, but what else could he do other than what he has already achieved before?" Roshal said.
At 22, Kasparov became the youngest world champion ever. He repeatedly defended his title and suffered only two real defeats in his career.
The first was in 1997 when he lost to a computer -- IBM's "Deep Blue." And in 2000, he lost his world title to the younger Vladimir Kramnik.
But Kasparov is still ranked number one by the World Chess Federation.
In national politics or in the politics of chess, Kasparov's record has not been as victorious.
Kasparov twice tried to launch alternative world chess associations, but both folded.
And in Moscow politics, Kasparov has frequently picked the losing side.
In 1991, Kasparov made his political debut when he participated in the creation of Nikolai Travkin's Democratic Party of Russia.
That party foundered, and Kasparov later hitched his star to the Congress of Russian Communities, whose party list was topped by the late General Aleksandr Lebed and Dmitrii Rogozin. That party failed to enter the Duma.
More recently, Kasparov together with independent State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov launched the Committee-2008. The group aims to ensure that President Vladimir Putin steps down by the end of 2008.
Kasparov says Russia under President Vladimir Putin is moving in the wrong direction. At the group's launch last year he spoke of what he said was the growing threat to democracy.
"We see a clear danger, a clear and present danger, for the current constitution, for our democratic rights and that is why we are bringing [together] all different people, citizens, on the basis of our citizenship, that believe in democracy as an institution," Kasparov said.
Meanwhile, some of Kasparov's old chess associates wonder if he has the right temperament for a career in politics.
Roshal believes that so far Kasparov has displayed just enough control over his incendiary nature.
"His impulsiveness is such that he never quite goes over the edge. If he can [continue] to do this in the future then his good fortune will continue," Roshal said.
(RFE/RL's Russian Service contributed to this report)
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Iraq Report: May 7, 2004
7 May 2004, Volume 7, Number 16
FIVE-WEEK OLD STANDOFF BETWEEN COALITION, AL-SADR CONTINUES. No end appears in sight in the five week-old standoff between U.S.-led coalition forces and radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, despite attempts by Iraqi leaders to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 8 April 2004). Militiamen from al-Sadr's Imam Al-Mahdi Army have attacked coalition forces in Amarah, Al-Najaf and Karbala this week (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 3, 4, and 5 May 2004) leaving some 40 Iraqis dead.
Al-Sadr's militiamen first launched attacks in April against coalition forces after the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) ordered the cleric's "Al-Hawzah" newspaper closed on 28 March for two months on charges of incitement to violence. The same week, the CPA revealed that an Iraqi judge had issued an Iraqi arrest warrant months earlier for al-Sadr due to his involvement in the 10 April 2003 killing of Iraqi Shi'ite Ayatollah Abd al-Majid al-Khoi (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 April 2003).
A spokesman for al-Sadr interviewed on Al-Jazeera television on 4 May claimed that U.S. forces were "trying to escalate [the] military situation" with al-Sadr forces in and around the Shi'ite holy city of Al-Najaf, where the cleric has been holed up since early April. "What was noticed in the past two days in the holy cities of Al-Najaf, Al-Kufah, and Karbala is that the occupation forces are heading to escalation," Sheikh Ahmad al-Shaybani said.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) newspaper "Al-Ta'akhi" reported on 4 May that a committee has been formed to collect heavy weapons from al-Sadr militiamen in Al-Najaf, particularly weapons being stored at holy sites. Meanwhile, senior Shi'ite clerics in Al-Najaf have reportedly called on al-Sadr and his followers to abandon their positions in Al-Najaf and Karbala, washingtonpost.com reported on 5 May. The Washington daily reported that a 21-member committee composed of Shi'ite tribal, religious, and political figures is working to broker a deal that would allow the cleric to leave Al-Najaf.
Al-Sadr's aides have dismissed the committee's proposal, which was also not approved by the United States. Al-Sadr and his followers "do not occupy the holy shrines in the holy cities," said Qais Hazaali, an al-Sadr spokesman in Al-Najaf. "Any calls issued by the Governing Council, or any members of the Governing Council, do not represent Iraqis. They represent the occupation forces," he added. Some Shi'ite members of the Governing Council sit on the 21-member committee.
The young cleric did appear to receive some support, however, from secular-turned-Shi'ite political leader Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi Governing Council member who heads the U.S.-funded Iraqi National Congress (INC). Chalabi told a 4 May new conference that announced the above-mentioned 21-member committee that "sovereignty is not to be given, it is to be seized," washingtonpost.com reported on 5 May. Speaking about members of the Imam Al-Mahdi Army, Chalabi defended them, saying: "Most of them have parents in the mass graves, and they became fed up with the current situation, which the occupiers have ignored. But it is time to reject every military invasion and nonmilitary invasion of the two holy cities."
Al-Sadr criticized Iraqi Shi'ite political parties, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and the Islamic Al-Da'wah Party in his 30 April Friday prayer sermon in Al-Kufah for not taking a stand against the U.S.-led civil administration in Iraq, Dubai's Al-Arabiyah television reported. "I advise these [parties] which are defending the West and canceling and invalidating jihad, to think about the judgment of God," al-Sadr told thousands of worshippers at the Al-Kufah Mosque. Tensions have been on the rise in recent weeks between SCIRI's militia, the Badr Brigades, and al-Sadr loyalists. Abu Hasan al-Amiri referred to al-Sadr loyalists as extremists, Baghdad's "Al-Ittihad" reported on 29 April. An al-Sadr loyalist in Baghdad told the daily that relations between his group and the Badr Brigades constituted a longstanding struggle between the Arabs and Persians. SCIRI and its Badr Brigades are supported by Iran.
Meanwhile, Iranian-based Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Kazim al-Ha'iri, who serves as religious guide for the low-level cleric's movement, appeared to distance himself from al-Sadr on 2 May. Al-Ha'iri's younger brother, Muhammad Husayn al-Husayn al-Ha'iri, speaking on behalf of the grand ayatollah, said in Qom: "His eminence has not issued any fatwa to engage in military confrontation with the U.S.-led occupying forces," AP reported. "The time is not ripe for that," he added. Also on 2 May, coalition forces reportedly arrested al-Sadr aide Adnan al-Unaybi in Al-Hillah, according to Al-Jazeera. Two Iraqis were killed during the raid, according to the cleric's spokesman. That same day, the U.S. military set up roadblocks around Al-Najaf in an attempt to impede movement by al-Sadr's militiamen and their weapons to and from the city.
It appears that the people of Al-Najaf are also growing tired of the cleric and his militiamen, who have brought unwanted tension to the holy city. A group calling itself the Dhu al-Fiqar Battalions distributed leaflets in Al-Najaf last week promising to break the wall of fear which has haunted residents, "Al-Ittihad" reported on 29 April. Another group, calling itself the Al-Najaf Battalions, attacked al-Sadr militiamen, injuring two on 27 April, the daily reported. The two battalions also reportedly carried out joint attacks against al-Sadr's Imam Al-Mahdi Army in Al-Kufah, burning vehicles belonging to al-Sadr's militia and firing rocket-propelled grenades at the al-Sadr base. A third group calling itself The Faithful Youths in Al-Najaf also clashed with al-Sadr forces on 28 April in the city, "Al-Ittihad" reported.
Also this week, the Iraqi Defense Ministry issued a statement calling on all parties' militias to join the new Iraqi army. A ministry spokesman said that the ministry would not accept any party's militia unless it joined the new army, "Al-Mashriq" reported on 4 May. Meanwhile, some 150 Shi'ite leaders met on short notice in Baghdad on 4 May to discuss options on reining in the cleric, nytimes.com reported on 5 May. One tribal leader from Al-Najaf, Taqlif al-Farnoun, proposed allowing the U.S. to enter the holy city to go after al-Sadr. "Najaf is not Mecca," he said, adding, "The Americans don't want to go into the shrines. They want to get rid of criminals and thieves. So what if they enter the city?" According to nytimes.com, a number of men responded approvingly to al-Farnoun's proposal. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.S., U.K. ABUSE OF IRAQI PRISONERS UNCOVERED IN IRAQ. The revelations in recent days that Iraqi detainees were abused at the hands of United States and British soldiers in Iraq has sparked outrage in Iraq, which suffered years of brutal treatment at the hands of Iraqi security services working for deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. The reports of prisoner abuse first broke when the U.S.'s CBS television broadcast photographs taken by U.S. soldiers while they were committing the abuses.
It was later revealed that the U.S. military had been investigating allegations of prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghurayb Prison west of Baghdad since last fall, newyorker.com reported on 30 April. The first of two military investigations into the allegations was completed in November, while the second, a classified report obtained by the website and written by U.S. Major General Antonio Taguba, was completed in February. Taguba reported that between October and December there were numerous instances of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" at the prison, which he characterized as a systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, the website reported.
The alleged abuses include: breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees; beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair; threatening male detainees with rape; sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broomstick; and allowing military dogs in at least one incident to bite a detainee. The website listed the names of all six suspects linked to the abuse and described how the U.S. investigation unfolded following reports by a U.S. serviceman who witnessed inappropriate treatment of prisoners and later viewed a CD containing the now-widely reported photographs depicting the abuse of detainees. That serviceman's report led to the first investigation, which was launched on 1 November, AFP reported on 3 May. AFP also reported that a seventh U.S. military officer was given a more lenient reprimand than his six cohorts, while another six U.S. military policemen are facing criminal charges.
The military policemen involved in the incident told Taguba that they participated in the alleged abuses at the orders of U.S. military intelligence, according to newyorker.com on 30 April. "We were told that they [military intelligence] had different rules," Sergeant Javal Davis was quoted as saying. The most senior enlisted man charged following the investigation, Staff Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick II, who previously worked for six years at the Virginia Department of Corrections, reportedly wrote in e-mails home that he "questioned" procedure but added, "This is how military intelligence wants it done."
Taguba also claimed in his report that Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who headed the Iraqi prison system, apparently did not recognize that the flaws in the prison system were due to poor leadership "and the refusal of her command to both establish and enforce basic standards and principles among its soldiers." Karpinski was removed from her position and suspended in January. Major General Geoffrey Miller, her replacement, formerly served as commander of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention center.
As the allegations surfaced in the United States, two British soldiers provided London's "The Daily Mirror" with evidence of prisoner abuse at the hands of British soldiers stationed in southern Iraq. Part of the evidence included a photograph of a British soldier urinating on an Iraqi prisoner. The soldiers said that the photographs in their possession represented only the tip of the iceberg. "Maybe the officers don't know what is going on but everybody else does. I've seen hundreds of pictures," one of the soldiers contended. He added that many of the soldiers carried digital cameras in Iraq, some of which were issued by the British Defense Ministry. Many of the pictures were reportedly destroyed in September when an investigation was launched into the death of an Iraqi detainee. One soldier said he had even destroyed pages from his diary, noting, "I had written things down I shouldn't have." "If the world thinks they were shocked by these pictures they haven't seen anything," another soldier contended. "You ought to have been there, to have seen the things we've seen."
British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said on 1 May that "such wrongdoing besmirches the good name of the...armed forces," BBC reported. Ingram added that there was no "culture of abuse" in the British Army although five separate inquiries into prisoner abuse are under way, the BBC reported. However, Amnesty International said that it has uncovered a "pattern of torture" of Iraqi prisoners by coalition troops," AP reported on 3 May. Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed the issue on 2 May, saying: "Let me make it quite clear. If these things have actually been done, they are completely and totally unacceptable. I mean, we went to Iraq to get rid of that type of thing. Not to do it." There were also claims that the photos had been doctored and were not authentic.
U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the Iraqi people in separate interviews with Dubai's Al-Arabiyah television and the U.S.-funded Alhurra television on 5 April. "I have told our secretary of defense and I have instructed him to tell everybody else in the military I want to know the full extent of the operations in Iraq -- the prison operations. We want to make sure that if there is a systemic problem -- in other words, if it's a problem system-wide -- that we stop the practices," Bush told Al-Arabiyah. "It's very important for the people of the Middle East to realize that the troops we have overseas are decent, honorable citizens who care about freedom and peace, that are working daily in Iraq to improve the lives of the Iraqi citizens. And these actions of a few people do not reflect the nature of the men and women who serve our country," he added. White House spokesman Scott McClellan told the press that Bush only learned of the allegations in January, Reuters reported on 4 May.
U.S. officials announced on 4 May that two Iraqi prisoners were killed by Americans and 23 other deaths are being investigated in Iran and Afghanistan, Reuters reported on the same day. Army officials revealed that 25 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan have been investigated, adding that most of the deaths occurred in Iraq. An unnamed Army official said that a soldier was convicted of homicide by a U.S. military court for shooting a prisoner to death in September at an undisclosed detention center in Iraq. He added that a private contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency was determined to have committed the other homicide.
Meanwhile, Major General Geoffrey Miller, the new head of the Iraqi prison system, said on 4 May that physical contact, hooding, stress positioning, and questioning naked detainees are not authorized U.S. interrogation techniques in Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) noted in a press release posted on the CPA website (http://www.cpa-iraq.org). Miller added that civilian contractors acting as interrogators are held to the same standards as the military. "If they do not follow our standards, then we discharge them. If there are acts that are beyond the level of discharge, then we will take the appropriate action to hold them accountable," he added. International media has reported this week that contractors are not subject to the same standards applied to a military force under the Geneva Conventions. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
AS IRAQI LEADERS REACT WITH SHOCK. Iraqi leaders reacted with shock to the allegations of prisoner abuse by coalition forces in the country, according to international media reports. Iraqi Interior Minister Samir Shakir Mahmud al-Sumaydi'i called for Iraqi participation in the running of prisons, Dubai's Al-Arabiyah television reported on 1 May. "We will seek to make the Interior Ministry take part in the measures and in the administration of the affairs of prisoners," he said. Iraqi and coalition forces should "agree on a method of treating prisoners in the wake of the [30 June] transfer of authority so that the Iraqi authorities will have a primary role in treating them," al-Sumaydi'i added.
Iraqi Governing Council member Muhsin Abd al-Hamid criticized coalition forces over the purported photographs of prisoner abuse published in the Western press, telling Al-Jazeera television on 1 May: "These photos show a flagrant aggression against the Iraqi people's dignity, because most of the prisoners are innocent. How can the army and soldiers of a modern country that claims that it came to liberate Iraq commit these crimes against citizens and prisoners?" KUNA reported on 4 May that the Iraqi Governing Council has sent an investigative team to the Abu Ghurayb prison west of Baghdad to investigate the allegations. The council also demanded in a statement that the justice, human rights, and interior ministries be allowed to visit Iraqi prisons on a continuing basis to ensure that prisoners are being treated fairly.
Meanwhile, former Iraqi Human Rights Minister Abd al-Basit Turki, who resigned on 8 April, said that he was aware of human-rights violations taking place in Iraqi prisons and had addressed the issue with CPA head L. Paul Bremer in November, AFP reported on 3 May. "I told [Bremer] the news. He didn't take care about the information I gave him," Turki contended. The coalition had no comment on Turki's allegations, AFP reported.
Turki conceded, however, that while he knew of prisoner abuse, he was not aware of the extent of the abuse at the time of his meeting with Bremer. "The prisoners I spoke to, they told me how Iraqi prisoners were left in the sun on U.S. bases for hours, prevented to pray and wash...left for two days on a chair and kicked at Abu Ghurayb," he said. Meanwhile, the Justice Ministry has called for an independent inquiry into the allegations, "Al-Sabah" newspaper reported on 4 May. The ministry also demanded that control over the prison system be transferred to the Directorate of Reform, and that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red Crescent be allowed to visit prisons and conduct their own inquiries. The allegations have sparked large public protests outside Abu Ghurayb prison this week. Reaction to the allegations was equally harsh in the Arab world. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
CONTROL OVER AL-FALLUJAH HANDED TO IRAQIS, BUT GOVERNING COUNCIL OBJECTS. A number of Iraqi Governing Council members objected to a U.S. decision this week to place former Ba'athists who served in the military under deposed dictator Saddam Hussein in charge of the volatile Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah. The decision came as the U.S. tried to bring several weeks of fighting between anticoalition militants in the city and U.S. forces to an end. The U.S.-led operation was impeded when Iraqi army soldiers refused to work alongside U.S. forces in fighting the militants and, in some cases, joined the militants in battling U.S. troops there. Al-Fallujah is a Sunni stronghold, and many residents welcomed the appointment of former regime elements, who are Sunni, to command Iraqi forces in the city.
At the center of the controversy was the proposed appointment of former Iraqi General Jassim Muhammad Salih al-Muhammadawi, who has been accused of quelling the 1991 Shi'ite and Kurdish uprising that followed the Gulf War that year. General Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed the proposed appointment on 2 May, saying that Salih, who served under former President Saddam Hussein, would almost certainly not command the Al-Fallujah Brigade, Reuters reported the same day. "My guess is, it would not be General Salih.... He will not be their leader," Myers told ABC Television's "This Week" program. "He may have a role to play, but that vetting has yet to take place."
Meanwhile, Kurdish council member Jalal Talabani said on 2 May that Salih's appointment would be acceptable to the Governing Council, Reuters reported the same day. "Because the people of [Al-] Fallujah choose this man and this man will do his best; we must forget something that happened in the past," he said. In the end, former Iraqi General Muhammad Latif was successfully vetted and placed in charge of the brigade. Latif served under Hussein, but eventually opposed the dictator and was jailed for seven years in the 1990s after he disobeyed an order from Hussein on the movement of his troops, nytimes.com reported on 3 May. U.S. troops subsequently lifted a security cordon around the city on 5 May and allowed traffic flow in and out of the city, Reuters reported on the same day.
Iraqi Defense Minister Ali Allawi told Al-Arabiyah television on 1 May that the Al-Fallujah Brigade was formed under an agreement between U.S. Marines and Al-Fallujah dignitaries. Asked about contacts with "senior members of the former regime," Allawi said: "We did not meet with officers of the former regime. We met with former army officers. This does not mean that all of them are necessarily Ba'athists or involved with the former regime in terms of security. The officers who were present are professionals and have their own visions and views...We took their ideas and views into consideration and we hope that this good and professional section of the old army might play an important role in establishing the core of the new army," he added.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Governing Council spokesman Haydar Ahmad told Al-Arabiyah on 2 May that the Defense Ministry was not consulted on the formation of the Al-Fallujah Battalion, saying, "The tragedy of Al-Fallujah cannot be ended by forming a force without consulting the authority in this country." Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi told Al-Jazeera television in a 3 May interview that the council objected to the appointment of former Iraqi military personnel who served under Hussein, claiming, "The Al-Fallujah Brigade was formed at an initiative from the [U.S.] Marines. Neither the Iraqi Army nor the Iraqi government is responsible for them.... The issue is that those who carried arms and the terrorists who fight against the new situation in Iraq are from the Ba'athists and the remnants of Saddam's regime. They should not be given legitimacy to control any area in Iraq by force," Chalabi added. He said the "presence of elements and officers" from the former Republican Guard would also obstruct Iraqi Major General Latif's ability to command the force.
Chalabi, Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum, and SCIRI member Adil Abd al-Mahdi signed a joint statement supporting Defense Minister Allawi in refusing to consider what they called "The Republican Guard brigade" in Al-Fallujah as part of the new Iraqi Army, Al-Jazeera reported on 3 May. A number of Iraqi clerics also opposed the return of Ba'athists to the Iraqi military, including a spokesman for Shi'ite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Jalal al-Din al-Saghir said: "Members of the Ba'ath Party committed the most heinous crimes and created bloodbaths and the biggest mass graves in the history of mankind," Voice of the Mujahidin radio reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
GROUP THREATENS TO BRING 'RESISTANCE' TO BAGHDAD. The anticoalition terrorist group Al-Mujahidin Brigades has reportedly been circulating statements in Baghdad calling on Iraqis to refrain from leaving their homes, attending school, or walking in markets as the group prepares to launch attacks against the coalition in the Iraqi capital, London-based "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" reported on 1 May. "Your mujahidin brothers in Al-Ramadi, Al-Khalidiyah, and Al-Fallujah will bring the fire of the resistance to the capital Baghdad and lend support to our mujahidin brothers in the Al-Mahdi Army with the aim of liberating you from the injustice of the occupation. Forewarned is forearmed," the statement reads. The statement also calls on all business owners to close their establishments. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
SCIRI MEMBER DENIES LINKS TO IRAN, DEFENDS IRAN-IRAQ RELATIONS. Muhsin al-Hakim, a representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), denied that his organization is supported by the Iranian regime, according to an interview with the Iranian Students News Agency published on 22 April. SCIRI was based in Iran for some 22 years and was known to have been funded by the Iranian regime. When the group returned to Iraq following the ouster of the Hussein regime, SCIRI leadership was quick to distance itself from Iran but its radio station, Voice of the Mujahidin, still reportedly broadcasts from Iran.
"The Badr Organization [the armed wing of SCIRI] is a purely Iraqi organization, with Iraqi administrators and an Iraqi general secretary and Iraqi members," al-Hakim said during the interview. "This is a proven fact, and we follow no foreign countries," he added. Asked about the state of relations between Iraq, Iran, and the United States, al-Hakim said: "We invite every country to cooperate [in Iraq], but we do not want the land of Iraq to become a land where old scores are settled. We oppose turning Iraq into an instrument to confront regional neighbors."
Al-Hakim added that the deportation of Saddam Hussein-supported Iranian opposition group members belonging to the Mujahidin e-Khalq, the increase in the number of Iranian pilgrims being allowed to enter Iraq, and the release of Iraqi prisoners of war from Iran "are evidence of our peaceful relations with Iran." On statements made by State Department spokesman Adam Ereli regarding Iranian interference in Iraq, al-Hakim said: "During this time, we have witnessed a very positive role on the part of Iran with regard to humanitarian support, the development of religious tourism, and job creation." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI UNDERSECRETARY OF CULTURE KIDNAPPED. Jabar al-Jabari, the undersecretary of Iraq's Culture Ministry, was kidnapped in Al-Najaf on 4 May, KUNA reported. A source at the ministry said al-Jabari was abducted by members of an unidentified militant Islamic group opposed to SCIRI, to which al-Jabari belongs. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQI WATER MINISTER DISCUSSES REVITALIZATION PROJECTS. Water Resources Minister Abd al-Latif Jamal Rashid told the British daily "Al-Sharq al-Awsat" of 4 May that Iraq is undertaking a series of projects to revitalize its water system after years of neglect under the Hussein regime. Rashid said that a major project is under way to restore some 80 percent of Iraq's marshlands within three years. "This year we had a good rate of rainwater and surplus water, which we diverted to the marshlands. This water covered more than 50 percent of the area of marshlands," Rashid said, adding, "This rate may fall in [the] summer." The ministry is also looking into a number of regional and international agreements on water sharing. While no agreements exist between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria on a fixed share of water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, all of Iraq's neighbors have diverted water from the rivers for their own use. "In the past, the volume of water that used to flow into Iraq totaled 27 billion cubic meters. This volume represents Iraq's legal share of water from the two rivers," Rashid said. "Now around 11 billion cubic meters of water, or one-third [of the previous amount], flows into Iraq." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
IRAQ GETS A NEW FLAG. A flag to represent the new Iraq was unfurled this week in Baghdad. The flag, chosen from 30 submissions, was designed by Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirchi, brother of Iraqi Governing Council member Nasir Kamil Chadirchi. In a dramatic shift from the previous Iraqi flag, which carries the pan-Arab colors of red, black, white, and green, the new flag has a white background with an Islamic crescent in blue, and two horizontal lines symbolizing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as well as the Sunni and Shi'ite sects of Islam. A third, yellow-colored stripe represents Iraqi Kurds.
Iraqis do not seem to have taken to the shift. Iraqis protested against the flag for three days in Mosul this week, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reported. Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi told Abu Dhabi television on 2 May: "I do not like the new flag." Pachachi added that the rush to design a flag was undertaken too quickly. "For instance, there was an idea to make the crescent green so that the Arab colors will continue to appear, and to have two red lines with a yellow line between them instead of the two blue lines," he said. He added that he believed that the flag would not remain Iraq's permanent flag. Governing Council member Mas'ud Barzani agreed. "It will stand for a few months until we decide on a flag for Iraq," nytimes.com quoted him as saying. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
QATARI FOREIGN MINISTER SUPPORTS BA'ATHIST RETURN TO IRAQI GOVERNMENT. Hamid bin Jasim bin Jaber al-Thani called on the U.S. administration on 3 May to allow former members of the Ba'athist regime of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein to work in the new Iraqi government, Reuters reported on the same day. He contended that many Iraqis joined the now defunct Ba'ath Party in order to secure jobs and feed their families, and thus should not be excluded from working for the Iraqi army or police. The foreign minister, who also serves as Qatar's prime minister, added that the U.S. decision to exclude Ba'athists from serving in the new Iraqi government had turned many Iraqis into enemies of the United States. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
KHARRAZI SAYS IRAN TRYING TO DIFFUSE SITUATION WITH IRAQI CLERIC. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi told a press conference in Brussels on 4 May that his country is continuing to help resolve the standoff between U.S. forces and Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Al-Najaf, Reuters reported on the same day. "Of course we have tried our best to defuse the situation in Iraq. We had some contacts with Muqtada al-Sadr as well in the past to calm him down and to a certain extent it was successful," Kharrazi said. Asked about the current role of Iran in the standoff, he added: "We are in contact with different sides in Iraq and we will continue with our efforts to resolve this Iraqi problem." Kharrazi said that the U.S. government had not solicited any mediation by Iran in resolving the conflict. "What the Americans have been expressing is that they are looking for a continuous, positive role of Iran and this does not mean they are looking for any specific action or asking for mediation," he said. He also criticized the U.S. decision to arrest or kill al-Sadr, telling reporters: "I believe that the question of Muqtada al-Sadr has to be put in the hands of religious leaders in Najaf. They have established a committee and should be allowed to settle it." (Kathleen Ridolfo)
ARAB WORLD REACTS TO PRISONER ABUSE ALLEGATIONS IN IRAQ. As expected by the U.S. administration, reaction to the photographs alleging abuse of Iraqi detainees held by U.S. and U.K. forces this week was harsh. By and large, editorial pieces lay blame on the United States for the alleged abuses at the Abu Ghurayb prison west of Baghdad. Most editorials failed to mention the allegations of abuse at British-run prisons altogether.
A commentary by Sultan al-Hattab published in Amman's "Al-Ra'y" on 2 May asked those who admire the United States: "What is [your] opinion of the crimes that project the image of the horrid American as he indulges in his hobbies and cultures in the Abu Ghurayb prison?" Al-Hattab likens the abuse of Iraqi detainees to the well-documented -- and similar -- interrogation style prevalent in the Israeli prison system, and calls the U.S. "perpetrators" "Nazis in every sense of the word." He further claims that the alleged acts of prisoner abuse expose "the fallacy of the alleged liberation and shows the true face of a criminal. There is no white occupation and black occupation, but only one criminal occupation," al-Hattab says.
Meanwhile, an opinion piece written by Adham al-Tawil in Syria's "Tishrin" claimed that the U.S. government reacted to the allegations by showing a "false interest" in the purported crimes that were committed by U.S. military personnel. "The fact that its soldiers violated laws of war as well as human rights has never been a concern that preoccupied it because it has made itself immune to any international questioning in this regard by categorically refusing to join the International War Crimes Tribunal," al-Tawil writes. He adds that the crimes carried out in Iraqi prisons by the coalition were committed because there was no one to deter the perpetrators. "Perhaps the worst thing about what happened, in addition to the fact that it was committed within the sight and hearing of the occupation forces' command, is that it did not serve a specific objective. It was carried out by military men and mercenaries who do not appreciate the value of humanity because they lack humanity."
An editorial published in Doha's "Gulf Times" on 1 May said the alleged abuse equates to "a calamity that destroys the dubious claims to legitimacy that the White House advanced in support of the war and the occupation." "U.S. troops were supposed to be liberators, not occupiers. Last year they proudly showed off Saddam Hussein's torture chamber in Abu Ghurayb jail as evidence of what they were liberating Iraq from. Then they refilled the cells and took up where Saddam's torturers left off," the newspaper wrote.
The editorial further criticized the appointment this week of Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention center, to take over administration of the Iraqi prison system. "We are supposed to be reassured by news that the concentration camp commander from Guantanamo Bay will now take full control of the prison system in Iraq. Yet, there are allegations of sexual abuse and torture from former inmates of his camp – allegations that the U.S. simply ignores because, after all, anyone who was thrown into the cages there and stripped of all rights was one of 'the worst of the bad guys,'" the paper contends. The editorial goes on to cite reported incidents of prisoner abuse by U.S. military policemen and Marines in July and October, refuting claims by U.S. officials that what happened at Abu Ghurayb was an isolated incident.
Meanwhile, Ahmad al-Rab'i wrote in the London-based "Al-Sharq al-Awsat," which is widely read in the Arab world, that the purported abuse by a few Americans should not reflect on the American people as a whole. " However, al-Rab'i contended that the Arab and Muslim world should be afforded the same kind of consideration. "It is our right, however, to take advantage of this incident to stress that extremists and sick people in all societies do not necessarily represent the culture of their societies. We note that as soon as the names of the terrorists who carried out the 11 September crime were released, and as soon as other crimes were committed in Africa and Spain and the perpetrators' affiliation with Islam was declared, influential circles in the United States launched an ugly campaign against Islam and the Islamic culture."
He continued: "The barbaric practices of the U.S. brigadier general [Janice Karpinski, under whose watch the purported incidents took place] do not reflect the culture of the American society. Similarly, the practices of Muslim terrorists do not represent the Islamic culture, nor do they represent the people of this region who call for peace and reject terrorism," al-Rab'i said. "Therefore, we must believe President Bush when he says that these abnormal practices by the U.S. brigadier general do not represent the American culture. We, however, want the president to believe us too when we say that terrorists and murderers do not represent our societies, people, and cultures."
The Arab public is familiar with such acts, which are often perpetrated by state security agencies against civilian detainees, and many in the region hold the United States to a higher standard. The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor annual, "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which highlights the abuses across the world and was to be released this week, has now been delayed, presumably because the release coincided with this week's reports of abuse in Iraq. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
THE UN AND IRAQ
UN COLLECTING DATA FOR HUMAN-RIGHTS REPORT ON IRAQ. The United Nations human rights office has begun collecting data for a report on civil liberties in Iraq, the UN News Center announced on 4 May. Jose Luis Diaz, spokesman for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said that Acting High Commissioner Bertrand Ramcharan expressed revulsion about the reports and photographs depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
A press release posted to the unhchr.ch website said that the report, due to be completed by 31 May, will examine the period between April 2003 and May 2004, and address the military/security situation, the protection of civilians, the treatment of detainees, displacement, civil and political rights, including the freedom of religion, economic, social, and cultural rights, and human-rights institutions -- including the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry.
Ramcharan has requested that the Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraqi Governing Council, and foreign ministers of coalition member states provide him with information relevant to the inquiry. He has also requested the assistance of nongovernmental and international organizations working in Iraq. The OHCHR plans to visit Amman, Beirut, and other neighboring capitals to conduct interviews with persons wishing to provide relevant information as well, the press release stated.
Meanwhile, the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called on the CPA and the Iraqi Governing Council to respect international human-rights law and grant Iraqi detainees access to the courts. The working group also urged both bodies to clarify the legal status of each detainee. "The Working Group's Chairperson-Rapporteur is seriously disturbed by the fact that these persons have not been granted access to a court to be able to challenge the lawfulness of their detention, as required by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," the UN News Center quoted Rapporteur Leila Zerrougui as saying. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
UN OPENS DISCUSSIONS ON NEW IRAQ RESOLUTION. The United Nations Security Council opened informal talks on 6 May on a resolution that would support a new Iraqi provisional government and the status of U.S. forces in Iraq after the 30 June transfer of power, Reuters reported on 6 May.
No text will be circulated at the session until UN envoy to Iraq Lakhdar Brahimi submits his report on efforts to establish an interim government. A vote on the resolution is not expected until June. The Security Council is also expected to debate the possibility of a UN-sponsored multinational force for Iraq that would be included in the resolution. Another issue to be dealt with in the resolution is the CPA-run Development Fund for Iraq, which is expected to be transferred to Iraqi control on 30 June. The United States reportedly wants a U.S.-approved international board which currently monitors the accounts, to remain in place, Reuters reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
EUROPE, THE U.S., AND IRAQ
NATO CHIEF SAYS ALLIANCE WILL NOT SEND TROOPS TO IRAQ WITHOUT UN RESOLUTION. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that he would not send NATO troops to Iraq without a new UN resolution and an invitation from a new Iraqi government, Danish Radio P1 reported on 30 April. Sixteen NATO countries are currently contributing forces to Iraq on an independent basis. "There must be a new Iraqi government which approaches NATO after 30 June, when it is planned that power will be transferred to the Iraqis. But NATO participation in Iraq will also depend on whether a new UN resolution, which I believe is important, has been passed," de Hoop Scheffer said. He added that while Afghanistan remains NATO's "top priority," there is no doubt that "Iraq will be a topic" discussed at the NATO summit in Istanbul scheduled for 28-29 June. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.K. BANKER OVERSEEING OIL-FOR-FOOD PROBE DEMANDS MORE U.S. ASSISTANCE. A U.K. banker heading the inquiry into allegations of corruption within the UN-administered oil-for-food program (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 12 February 2004) has reportedly claimed that politically motivated delays are obstructing the investigation of some $14 billion squandered by the deposed Hussein regime in Iraq, London's "The Times" reported on 1 May. Claude Hankes-Drielsma says that the accounting firm Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG) has traced hundreds of millions of dollars to bank accounts in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, calling it "one of the most sophisticated money-laundering operations they've ever seen." The investigation has been held up, however, by Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) head L. Paul Bremer, who questioned KPMG's appointment to investigate the allegations and then failed to pay for the inquiry, "The Times" reported. Hankes-Drielsma said that he raised the issue with the U.S. Congress during a recent visit. Those taking part in the inquiry are reportedly worried that the delay will allow time for those involved in the scandal to destroy evidence. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
EU RELEASES 160 MILLION EUROS FOR PUBLIC SECTOR REHABILITATION. The European Union announced on 3 May that it was releasing 160 million euros ($191 million) to improve public services, living conditions, and human rights in Iraq, AFP reported on the same day. The funds are part of the 200 million euros pledged for 2003-2004 at the October Madrid donors' conference (see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 31 October 2003).
"Although the security situation continues to impose limits on all those who want to help with the reconstruction of Iraq, the European Union is determined to play its part in building a better future for the Iraqi people," EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten said. Ninety million euros will go to public services, specifically to primary and secondary education, health and immunization programs, and access to clean water and sanitation. Ten million euros will go to civil society projects such as election assistance, judicial reform, and human rights, while 60 million euros will go to help fight poverty through boosting local employment and agricultural production, AFP reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
U.S. TO MAINTAIN 138,000 TROOPS IN IRAQ. The United States military said on 4 May that it is notifying 47,000 active duty troops, reservists, and national guard members that they will be sent to Iraq this year, after the military decided to keep troop levels at 138,000, Reuters reported on 4 May. Among those receiving notification will be 10,000 active-duty U.S. Army soldiers and Marines, and 37,000 Reserve and National Guard troops. The Pentagon cancelled a plan in April to reduce troop levels to 115,000 as early as this month and will maintain its current level for at least additional three months -- and possibly into the winter. Some 20,000 U.S. troops who were due to return to the United States in April will now leave in July, Reuters reported. (Kathleen Ridolfo)
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RATT at the Wellmont Theater – Montclair, NJ (December 20th, 2019)
By Michael Dinger December 24, 2019 1 Comment
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As a 12-year old boy in 1984, and as a 47-year old man in 2019, I could not, and still cannot, listen to enough music. The first cassette tapes I ever owned, and still own to this day, are The Who’s “It’s Hard”, The J. Geils Band’s “Freeze-Frame”, Def Leppard’s “Pyromania” and Ratt’s “Out Of The Cellar”. Although my musical tastes have expanded over the past 35 years, they have not changed.
This past Friday night, the historic Wellmont Theater was filled to the rafters with “Ratt Pack-ers” of all ages (the majority of which were in the same age range of the band members themselves) who welcomed back their SoCal hard rock idols to the Garden State. With more than an hour remaining until ‘doors’ at 7:00 pm, I counted at least 40 devoted fans who had braved the bitter cold temperature to stand in line – many looking to secure a prime viewing spot within the warm confines of the 1920s-era theater, while others were excited and ready to celebrate the holiday season with a drink or two. I spoke with one loyal fan, Lorraine from Pennsylvania, who had already logged more than 5 hours behind the steering wheel in hot pursuit of seeing her favorite band perform live as many times as possible before tour’s end.
Along with their friendly rival Mötley Crüe, Ratt is recognized as a pioneer in the formation of the 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene, also known as “hair metal.” The reunited hard rock legends are in the midst of a 12-date run, part of their “In Your Direction” tour, that kicked-off in Buffalo, New York on December 12 and will end in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 29. The “new breed” quintet lineup of Ratt is led by original front-man Stephen Pearcy, “classic era” bassist Juan Croucier, and three newcomers who joined in 2018 – Jordan Ziff (lead guitar), Chris Sanders (rhythm guitar) and Pete Holmes (drums).
War For The Crown
In support of the headliner were two opening acts, both local and hailing from New Jersey, but each with their own raw and distinctive rock sound. Taking the stage first was War For The Crown (WFTC), a quartet formed in 2016. WFTC is self-proclaimed to have a “sound [that]is a rugged and hostile with sludge metal influence. Our lyrics aren’t for the weak.” Next to take the stage were The Revel, two brothers from N. Caldwell, NJ, Dean and Dillon D’Antuono. Having already opened for Bon Jovi at the Prudential Center in April 2018, these young rockers are clearly headed for the “big time,” as was witnessed by this photojournalist firsthand.
The Revel
Once AC/DC began to play over the house speakers and the venue went dark, the anxious crowd knew what came next. The first band member to appear, Holmes, took his position behind the kit. He was soon followed by Croucier, Ziff and Sanders. Lastly, Pearcy dressed in black leather and armed with his signature red “Mic Knuckles,” emerged stage right from a thick veil of theatrical smoke as the hard-driving guitar sound of “Wanted Man,” from “Out Of The Cellar”, perfectly completed the scene. The opening number was followed by two more choice offerings, “Dangerous But Worth The Risk” and “You Think You’re Tough,” from “Invasion of Your Privacy” (1985) and “Ratt” EP (1983), respectively.
Ratt’s fourth tune of the night included an absolutely ‘killer’ version of Rufus Thomas’s “Walking The Dog” (1965). Having undergone knee surgery earlier this year, Pearcy appears to have made an excellent recovery, hopping up and down onstage and showing no signs of discomfort. Before launching into their next gift of the night, the 1989 smash hit “Way Cool Jr.” from “Reach For The Sky” (1988), Pearcy explained to the crowd, “This is our Christmas run, which used to be a tradition. We made it a tradition again, except we wanted to start on the east coast, so here we are. Let’s party people!”
Stephen Pearcy and Chris Sanders
In addition to performing six classic tracks from “Out Of The Cellar”, the next ten songs were perfectly allocated across three albums released by Ratt within a six-year span – “Invasion of Your Privacy” (1985), “Dancing Undercover” (1986) and “Detonator” (1990). Highlights from this portion of the set included “I’m Insane” (which along with “Round And Round,” was featured in the 2008 film starring Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler) and the heavy metal classic “Lay It Down.” A notable moment of the night, among many, is when Pearcy instructed the venue’s lighting technician – “Alright, let me check these people out, give me some lights. Oh yes! I WILL remember these faces, FUCK YES!”
Before the nearly 8-minute long closing number of their 16-song set, you know, the all-time classic ‘rocker’ that put Ratt squarely on the map nearly four decades ago, Pearcy announced, “I think it’s about time people, to go Round And Round.” The band is presently working on a new album for a 2020 release . . . so get ready to Ratt n’ Roll again soon!!!
Ratt Set-list
Wanted Man / Dangerous But Worth The Risk / You Think You’re Tough / Walking The Dog (Rufus Thomas cover) / Way Cool Jr. / I’m Insane / In Your Direction / Lack Of Communication / Lay It Down / You’re In Love / Lovin’ You’s A Dirty Job / Slip Of The Lip / Nobody Rides For Free / Body Talk / Back For More / Round And Round
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SoulBounce Honors 2012’s Man Of The Year: Frank Ocean
Was there any other man that this honor could've gone to this year? Ending 2011 with numerous accolades, including sharing last year's SoulBounce Man of the Year title along with everyone's favorite rapper Phonte, Frank Ocean started 2012 with nowhere to go but up. Still riding high from "No Church in the Wild," his collaboration with Jay-Z and Kanye West's dynamic duo The Throne, the beginning of 2012 didn't see much from Frank outside of the occasional leaked track or his appearance on spare projects with his Odd Future cohorts. But then the months started to turn warmer and by summer we had a cryptic viral video playing a then-unheard track that would be the first taste of his incredible debut channel ORANGE. That track, which we would eventually discover was the near-ten minute epic "Pyramids," was just the beginning. Soon after, you couldn't have a conversation about modern music, especially R&B, without bringing up Christopher Francis Ocean.
Surprisingly enough, though, it wasn't music which got the majority of the world anticipating Frank's debut. It was Frank's deeply personal open letter commenting on his sexuality that got everyone talking. While Frank didn't deign to conveniently label himself gay, bisexual or otherwise, the earnest and heartfelt note touched on the unrequited love he felt for another man. While the most optimistic of us applauded Frank's bravery and honesty and the most cynical felt it was a shameless marketing ploy, it was a move that got the masses to tune in to channel ORANGE, helping the album to sell 131,000 copies in its first week -- a majority of which were iTunes sales after the crooner and his label, Def Jam, smartly decided to release the set one week early digitally.
And those smart enough to tune were in for a ride. With songs like "Sweet Life," "Pilot Jones," "Super Rich Kids," "Sierra Leone" and the album's emotional core "Bad Religion," channel ORANGE was a unique look at the world through the singer-songwriter's sometimes clouded lens. Touching on issues like romance, sexuality, drugs and generational apathy and excess, ORANGE crafted an engaging tapestry that couldn't be easily dismantled into serviceable singles. Instead, it was meant to engage as a whole, taking in the experience from start to finish and finding new things with each listen.
But, as if launching his debut wasn't enough to have on his plate, Frank also found the time to contribute to other projects as well. Working again with Brandy, Frank's haunting "Scared of Beautiful" was one of the standout tracks of her slightly uneven Two Eleven. And, when it came time for Alicia Keys to ignite her Girl on Fire project, she enlisted Frank's help for the heartfelt "One Thing." Even director Quentin Tarantino came calling on Frank to write a song for his slavery revenge tale Django Unchained. And though the song Frank wrote, "Wiseman," eventually didn't make the film (for some odd reason), it was still an inspired work that, like all of his songs, highlighted the human experience in his own unique way.
It seems that, after being a very busy man for quite a few years now, Frank is finally going to take some much needed time for himself in 2013. While I can't say what direction he'll go in after, I know for a fact that whenever he decides to come back, we'll all be eagerly anticipating what comes next.
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Professor Peter Cochrane I Keynote Speaker
A seasoned professional with decades of industrial and institutional hands on management, technology and operational experience augmented by a career as a Business Angel, Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur with an extensive start up portfolio.
During his time with BT he progressed from linesman to Head of Research and CTO at BT. His 1000 strong team engaged in studies spanning optical fibre, fixed and mobile networks, complex systems, AI, AL, future products, human behaviour and interfaces. On leaving BT in 2000 he formed his own consultancy company and an investment career involving eBookers and Shazam Entertainment along with a raft of smaller starts in the UK and USA.
As a consultant Peter has also been employed by numerous fortune 500 companies spanning the defence, logistics, travel, retail, energy, healthcare, transport and Pharma sectors. As an advisor he has been engaged by UK, USA and Singapore government departments; he has also advised The MoD, DoD, HP, CSC, NetApp, Motorola, 3M, Dupont, Ford, Jaguar, Sun, Apple, Cisco, Shell, Rolls Royce, BMW, BP, HSBC, Mahindra, PWC, EY, Pirelli et al.
Peter currently advises FaceBook and the Qatar Foundation, and in 2017 he was appointed as a visiting Professor of Sentient Systems to the University of Suffolk UK where his mission is to change the way we teach science and technology, and to bring the PhD degree and associated research process into the 21C.
As the UK's first Prof for the Public Understanding of Science & Technology @ Bristol in 1998; Peter also received the Queen's Award for Innovation & Export in 1990; numerous Honorary Doctorates; and an OBE (1999). He has published over 1000 articles and papers, a number of books and book chapters, appeared on national and international radio and TV and given 1000s of talks and lectures.
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Dr. Erica Williams Contributes to Influential Anthropologists Anthology
Erica Lorraine Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is the co-editor of the recently published book, "The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology."
A collection of biographies, the book explores 15 second-generation and accomplished African-American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s to 1960s who studied and specialized in the African Diaspora.
The profiles include scholars such as former Spelman president Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Dr. James Lowell Gibbs Jr., and Dr. Diane K. Lewis.
“One of the things I like about Spelman is that we center on the contributions of African Americans,” said Dr. Williams. “It’s good to make sure the work of these scholars and their place in history is maintained. By bringing these voices back we ensure they don’t get lost in history.”
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Reptiles are tetrapod vertebrates, creatures that either have four limbs or, like snakes, being descended from four-limbed ancestors. The earliest known reptiles originated around 315 million years ago, having evolved from advanced reptile-like amphibians.
Today, three living reptile subgroups are recognised in Sri Lanka's marine enviroments:
Testudines: sea turtles - 5 species
Squamata: sea snakes - 16 species
Crocodilia: crocodiles - 1 species
For more online information on Sri Lanka's amazing reptiles see:
A Guide to Reptiles of Sri Lanka by Wild Reach Trust.
Experience the Amazing World of Sri Lankan Reptiles by Ruchira Somaweera.
'Sea Snake Toxinology' by P. Gopalakrishnakone.
'An Overview of Sri Lankan Sea Snakes with an Annotated Checklist and a Fileld Guide' by Ruchira Somaweera and Nilusha Somaweera
Five out of the seven species found in the world are native to Sri Lanka. Kemp’s ridley is found only in the Atlantic Ocean and the flatback turtle is found only in Australia and surrounding seas. Nesting in Sri Lanka occurs throughout the year. March to May is considered the high season with a peak in April.
Most of the coastline beaches south of Colombo and around the south to Arugambay in the East are known nesting grounds for sea turtles. They are found at sea all around in Sri Lankan waters. Sea grass beds and coral reefs are important foraging grounds.
Under the Fauna and Plora Protection Ordinance in 1938 and amended in 1972, it is an offence to capture, kill, injure or posses sea turtles or their eggs. Furthermore, All five species of turtles are strictly protected by the Fauna and Flora Protection (Amendment) Act No. 22 of 2009. They are all included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals and listed under CITES Appendix I (most endangered).
Discovering Sea Turtles
Sea turtles, sometimes called marine turtles, are air-breathing reptiles that inhabit the tropical and sub-tropical oceans of the world. They belong to the order of Testudines and represent an ancient and distinct radiation of reptiles that appeared more than 100 million years ago. There are seven species of sea turtles living in the world representing two families, Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae. These are the only extant families of marine turtles descending from a large diverse marine radiation of cryptodiran turtles.
Cheloniidae is characterised by an extensively roofed skull with well-developed rhamphothecae while Dermochelyidae is characterised by the extreme reduction of bones of the carapace, plastron and the neomorphic epithecal shell layer consisting of a mosaic of thousands of small polygonal bones (Prichard 1997).
Plastics are easily mistaken for their favorite foods. Plastic shopping bags look like squid or jellyfish to turtles so please be careful that the bags don't get into the rivers or the sea. Many plastic bags have become stuck in sea turtle intestinal tracts causing serious health problems and death.
Poaching for eggs and meat.
Conflict with fishermen, fishing line and net entanglement.
Vessel strikes.
Habitat destruction due to human development of nesting areas such as beach-front construction, land "reclamation" and increased tourism. This includes beach erosion, beach activities and artificial lighting.
Pollution: Chemical pollution may create tumors; effluent from harbours near nesting sites may create disturbances; and light pollution may disorient hatchlings.
Nest and hatchling predation on land by ants, feral dogs, wild boar, jackals, mongoose, water monitors, crabs, raptors and seabirds.
Sea Turtle with Remora
Nesting Olive Ridley Turtle, Kumana
Mating Green Turtles
Why Protect Sea Turtles
Sea turtles play key roles in supporting ecosystems in the ocean as well as on land. Besides being a source of protein and nourishment to well being of wildlife at sea as well as on the beaches there are other benefits to ecostems.
Sea turtles and dugongs act as grazing animals that constantly cut the grass short and help seagrass beds spread across the sea floor. Sea grass beds provide breeding grounds for numerous species of fish, shellfish and crustaceans. Without sea grass beds, many marine species harvested by fishermen would be lost, as would the lower levels of the food chain. This could result in many more marine species eventually becoming endangered or extinct.
Sea turtles have been found to support healthy reefs by controlling sponges which would otherwise out-compete reef-building corals for space.
Dune and beach vegetation are nourished and grow healthier and stronger as a result of nutrients from egg shells, unhatched eggs, trapped hatchings and carcasses. Healthy vegetation with strong root systems prevents beach erosion.
The sea turtles' life cycle starts when a female lays its eggs on a nesting beach. From six weeks to two months later, hatchings make their way to the surface and quickly heads to the sea and then swims out to the open ocean. It may take up to ten years before juveniles return to inshore waters to forage.
It may take decades (varies by species), for sea turtles to reach sexual maturity. Once they reach sexual maturity they may migrate thousands of kilometers to reach breeding grounds. After mating at sea, adult female sea turtles return to land to lay their eggs. They will come ashore to lay eggs, generally in the area where they were born. Most species will nest several times during a nesting season and every 2-4 years in maturity over the course of their lifetime.
It is not known exactly how long sea turtles live in the wild, but scientists think their life span may be as long as a century.
Be AWARE! Plastics of any kind that make their way out to sea will finally disintegrate and be consumed by turtles and other marine life that will never digest in their stomachs.
Sea Turtle Species
Family: Cheloniidae
Family: Dermochelyidae
Turtle watching involves some waiting and some walking on the beach because as with all of nature, it is the turtle (not us) that sets the time and place of the event! The whole process of a nesting turtle can take up to 3 hours and can include ‘false crawls' (non-nesting emergence). A female turtle can only be approached once she starts laying eggs because by then she is engaged in a very mechanical, almost trance-like behavior and it is unlikely for her to be frightened by spectators.
Of course there is no guarantee that turtles come to nest every night, but sitting on a deserted beach under the open starry Sri Lankan sky is an incredible experience in itself.
At sea, turtles can rest or sleep underwater for several hours at a time but must surface to breathe. This provides an opportunity to see them when they surface for a breath and if lucky may rest for brief periods and even bask at the surface.
Turtle Nesting Sites
Sea turtle nesting locations stretch from Pottuvil on the east coast, along the southern coastline through to Mount Lavinia just south of Colombo. Rekawa beach was declared a sea turtle sanctuary in 2006 and is known to have the largest rookery in Sri Lanka. The second largest rookery is in Kosgoda where five species are known to nest. Although there are several sightings, strandings, catch and bycatch of turtles off the Kalpitiya peninsula there are hardly any records of nesting.
Sea Turtle Nesting Sites
Sea Turtle ID Chart
Sea Turtle Comparison Chart
Sea snakes belong to the Elapidae family of highly venomous snakes. They mainly inhabit coastal marine environments for most of their lives. Although they are mostly known to be non aggressive towards humans, few unprovoked incidents have been recorded. The beaked sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa), Stoke's sea snake (Astrotia stokesii) and ornate sea snake (Hydrophis ornatus) tend to be more aggressive and may bite humans unprovoked.
Antivenom administration is indicated for any patient with signs of envenomation. The agent of choice is polyvalent sea snake antivenom. We do not have sea snake antivenom and the available land snake antivenom is not effective for sea snake envenomation.
Ceylon Medical Journal 2012; 57: 174
Be AWARE! Stay well clear from sea snakes and any attempt to kill them is not worth the risk if you have not got bitten.
Sea snakes are well adapted to aquatic life so most of them have flattened streamlined bodies. They can remain underwater for several hours and some are capable of extracting oxygen that is dissolved in the water. One intriguing adaptation is that sea snakes can remove nitrogen through their skin while diving which prevent nitrogen bubbles forming in their body.
They are charaterised by a paddle-like flattened tail, muscular flap in their nostrils, a single lung that extends within its body, bent beak-like rostrum, and receptors which can sense changes in salinity. There are two immovable fangs at the back of the upper jaw.
Currently, sixteen species of sea snakes have been recognised in Sri Lankan waters, mostly in the Gulf of Mannar. They range in length from 75 cm to the 3 m narrow-banded sea snake, which is probably the longest sea snake in the world. Accurate identification of sea snakes to the species level is very difficult, especially if dealing with live animals. Most species (especially Hydrophis species) show wide interspecific variation which makes it difficult to exclusively use external characters for identification.
Legend: In the species table below
* indicates species or subspecies taxonomy not fully elucidated.
# indicates presence in Sri Lankan waters unconfirmed.
Humans wanting to kill them on sight.
Conflict with fishermen and net entanglement.
Habitat destruction (coral reefs and mangroves).
Compared to terrestrial reptiles, sea snakes are not under any severe threats in Sri Lanka.
Sea snakes are not listed as “protected” in the Fauna and Flora Protection Act (FFPA) of Sri Lanka and are also not listed by Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES).
Why Protect Sea Snakes
Unfortunately their importance for maintaining a healthy ecosystem in balance is not well understood and are mostly killed when encountered.
Sea Snake Species
Family: Elapidae
Crocodylus porosus
Crocodylus palustris
Crocodile Species
Family: Crocodylidae
Both species of crocodiles are strictly protected by the Fauna and Flora Protection (Amendment) Act No. 22 of 2009.
The saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus, is the largest of all living reptiles, with an adult body length ranging from 4.5-5.5m and can weigh over 1,000 kg. It is also the most widely distributed crocodile species as it can travel long distances by sea and colonize new locations. It mainly inhabits estuarine deltas in coastal areas and may sometimes travel long distances up river particularly during the dry season. Males are strictly territorial and solitary, unlike the mugger crocodile, which normally occur and bask in groups. Although the mugger is unlikely to be found in marine environments, their habitats can overlap due to the wide distribution of saltwater crocodiles.
Convenient locations for observing saltwater crocodiles include: Mahaweli ganga, Verugal river and Kumana on the east coast, Yala, Bundala and Nilwala ganga in the south, and Bentota river and Muthurajawela Wetlands near Negombo on the west coast.
Crocodile Safety
BE CROCWISE!
While crocodiles may be more active during the wet season, it should never be assumed that it is safe to enter the water where crocodiles may be present at any time of the year. They are potentially dangerous to humans. Marsh crocodiles have been known to vary in their temperament, from being ferocious to allowing people to bathe in their abode. On the other hand the saltwater crocodile is usually a man-eater. Fortunately, crocodile attacks are not spontaneous but rather calculated.
Some of the ways to stay safe in areas that may have saltwater crocodiles include:
Never swim in water where crocodiles may be present even if there is no warning sign.
Only bathe in Crocodile Excluding Enclosures (CEEs).
Always be vigilant for crocodiles particularly at night and during the breeding season.
Never provoke, harass or interfere with crocodiles, even small ones.
Never feed crocodiles!
Avoid approaching the edge of the water and don’t paddle or wade at the waters edge.
Stay well away from crocodile slide tracks. Crocodiles may be near by.
Always stand a minimum of 5m from the water’s edge when fishing.
Be especially vigilant when launching or landing your boat.
Do not lean over the edge of a boat or dangle your arms or legs over the side of a boat.
Distinguishing between saltwater & mugger crocodiles
Dorsal osteoderms are ellipsoid, and separated from one another by epidermis.
Neck is wider than the head.
Snout is tapered and elongate.
Neck is normally covered with indistinct granular scales.
Dorsally brassy yellow in colour, spotted and blotched with irregular transverse dark bands. Adults become a dark dull green, the head and jaws yellowish, and densely speckled with black.
Marsh crocodile
Dorsal osteoderms are rectangular and aligned to form transverse rows.
Head is usually wider than neck
Snout is relatively short but wide.
Neck has a set of 4 large scales and a few indistinct scales.
Dorsally dark olive green to greyish in colour, sometimes having darker bands and spots on the tail. There are large scales on the sides of the body.
Be AWARE! Saltwater crocodiles are "sea going" animals.
Saltwater crocodiles are found at sea for several reasons:
They get washed out to sea from rivers during the rainy seasons due to strong currents.
They travel by sea to circumvent travelling longer distances by land.
They may get disorientated and are found many kilometres from land.
They are known to use open ocean currents to travel large distances and may spend weeks at sea.
Poaching.
Habitat destruction (polluted drainage, deforestation, landfill, and land use conversions).
Nest and hatchling predation by land monitors, dogs and birds.
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Bad winter weather? Not in Utah.
(Wilson Ring | AP) Temperatures will remain relatively mild in Utah over the next few days, while New Englanders — like this Vermont resident — are dealing with snow, and slick conditions. The National Weather Service says record cold could follow the snow in the east.
By Scott D. Pierce
You know all that terrible weather they’re getting in the eastern two-thirds of the country? We’re not going to see anything even close to that in Utah for the foreseeable future, according to the National Weather Service.
Well, it’s not like the 200 million-plus people affected by the early blast of cold arctic air were worried about Utahns when we were getting hit with record-breaking cold at the end of October.
Hundreds of low-temperature records are expected to be broken from Montana to Texas to New York to Florida, with snow in some areas and heavy rain in others. But temperatures are expected to be relatively mild and there's little chance of any precipitation in Utah.
Forecast highs in the Salt Lake City area are in the mid- to upper 50s through Friday, and overnight lows will be in the upper 30s and lower 40s. It will cool down a bit over the weekend — the forecast high on both Saturday and Sunday is 49 — but rise back into the low 50s on Monday.
It's not like Utah's weather is going to be perfect, however. The inversion isn't going away until Saturday at the earliest, when there's a “slight chance of rain,” according to the NWS. And that also means there's only a slight chance that air quality will improve.
Because of the inversion, temperatures in Park City are expected to be a few degrees warmer than in Salt Lake City this week, although nighttime lows will dip below freezing at higher elevations.
And in St. George, weather records will continue to be broken in a way that locals wish they weren’t. It’s a perfectly pleasant forecast through Monday, with lots of sun, highs in the upper-60s and low-70s and lows well above freezing.
But there's no precipitation at all in the forecast through the beginning of next week. And as of Tuesday, St. George has gone 148 days without rain, smashing the previous record of 121 days set in 1929.
For more weather news, visit www.sltrib.com/weather.
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Polar progress: We ignore Beijing's Antarctic ambitions at our peril
By Clive Hamilton
February 23, 2018 — 6.33pm
Australia played an active role in the 1959 Antarctic Treaty. It indefinitely bans all mineral resource exploration, mining and drilling and includes strong protocols to protect the natural environment for the benefit of present and future generations. Military activities other than "peaceful" ones are prohibited.
The Australian Antarctic Territory covers 42 per cent of Antarctica, the largest of any nation, and we have a long and proud history of scientific endeavour and wilderness protection. Six countries have recognised our claim to the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT), although the rest of the world has not.
Over the last 10 to 15 years, the People's Republic has become heavily engaged in the Antarctic, building bases, laying down airstrips and acquiring ships fitted out for the purpose. Most of its activity is within the Australian sector. Building on its physical infrastructure, China maintains a permanent presence there and has been actively mapping out geographical sites. It is also establishing a base station for its BeiDou satellite navigation system. The Antarctic base station will give any Chinese missile strike greater precision.
Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation Office, introduces the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Wuzhen in December. Credit:Sanghee Liu
Chinese-language sources reported by Anne-Marie Brady show that China is preparing the ground to enable it to mine resources in the vast pristine continent. After concerns about China's intentions were raised in Western news media several years ago, Chinese officials now use the language of environmental protection and scientific research embedded in the international discourse. When asked about its resource exploitation plans, the Chinese government denies it has any.
Yet in materials aimed at Chinese audiences (and uncovered by Brady), Chinese polar officials clearly state the real goal. The internal newspaper of the Polar Research Institute of China, for example, writes that the main tasks of its new, fifth Antarctic base would be "resource exploitation and climatic studies". The same institute describes the continent as "a global treasure house of resources".
President Xi Jinping himself seemed to give the game away when, on a visit to Hobart, he said that the PRC would work with Australia and other nations "to better understand, protect and exploit the Antarctic".
Beijing has been an energetic participant in international Antarctic processes, culminating in the hosting in May 2017 of the pre-eminent Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Australia and New Zealand have been actively assisting China to establish itself as a major Antarctic player. The PRC's main logistics base is in Hobart.
Liu Cigui of China's State Oceanic Administration and Environment Minister Greg Hunt shake hands after signing a Memorandum of Understanding on Antarctic collaboration. Credit:Handout
It's not feasible to tell the history here, but in the Antarctic community of nations, scientific research is power. China has been spending big to acquire this power.
China now spends more than any other nation on scientific research in the Antarctic. In 2016, the CSIRO entered into a partnership with China to establish in Hobart a new centre for research into Southern Hemisphere oceans. China will contribute $20 million. CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall, who in the same year was widely excoriated for slashing climate science research, was excited to announce the new collaboration.
The icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) on a mission in the Antarctic in December 2016, part of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CHINARE). Credit:CCTV screengrab
Through its largesse and growing role in the Antarctic, China seems to have cultivated a cohort of scientific and policy boosters for its efforts. The director of the Australian Antarctic Division, Nick Gales, finds the growing collaboration "incredibly exciting" and is enthusiastic about expanding the PRC's work in the Australian territory.
Nengye Liu, a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide, has taken a recent interest, resulting in a string of articles praising Australia-China cooperation
and describing the PRC as historically a rule-taker rather than a rule- maker (avoiding mention of instances where it is a rule-breaker). China sees the Antarctic as resource-rich but, he reassures us, it will not start mining "in the foreseeable future".
China's Great Wall Station on King George Island in the Antarctic. Credit:Paul Fearn / Alamy Stock Photo
David Leary at UTS's law faculty believes that, while stories of future conflict make good newspaper copy, a "sober analysis of international law" suggests a new era of cooperation. Just like other states, China's interests lie in strengthening international law. Against all of the evidence, including the PRC's manifestly illegal annexation of territory in the South China Sea, Leary believes that "China is no different to any other state".
Another lawyer, Julia Jabour from the University of Tasmania, lent support in an address to the Confucius Institute at the University of Adelaide. She began by saying she had never heard of the Confucius Institute before but was happy to speak about China's intentions in Antarctica (and advise the Australian government accordingly).
Vincennes Bay in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Most of China's Antarctic activity is in the Australian sector, which covers 42 per cent of the continent. Credit:TORSTEN BLACKWOOD
We demonise China because we don't understand it, she said, just as we did over its actions in the South China Sea. Her entire lecture was devoted to defending China against those who doubt the sincerity of its public posture. Because the PRC is "legally bound by the rules of international law", those doubts are not justified, she said. Mining could only occur if all treaty parties agreed to overturn the ban, and that is not going to happen.
In Jabour's world, what is not possible legally is not possible and "provocative, dramatic headlines" about China's mining intentions are alarmist.
Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton.
Australia's Antarctic policy wonks appear not to want to know what Chinese experts and officials are saying among themselves.
The Communist Party regime has allowed the ruination of China's natural environment, and takes a cynical view of international law, ignoring it when convenient. It attacked the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea when an international tribunal deemed unlawful China's annexation of islands in the South China Sea. The decision was dismissed by China as "nothing more than a piece of waste paper". It is violating the Hong Kong Basic Law guaranteeing the city political autonomy. And it is already ignoring the 1991 protocol banning mineral explorations.
Despite efforts by the major powers to welcome China into the international system as a "responsible stakeholder, it must be evident that at bottom the PRC does not accept laws and norms that don't suit it. In Canada, The Globe and Mail editorialised that China "plays along with the international system" but then acts as if it wants to overthrow it: "What China wants, it gets."
If the PRC has overridden the internationally endorsed sovereign claims of its neighbours to its west, south and east, why on earth would we believe it will respect international law in the Antarctic, where sovereignty claims are agreed only by convention? After all, the PRC regards the Antarctic Treaty as part of the world order created by the postwar powers, and it has said it wants to make a new global order.
Brady argues that although the Antarctic Treaty will serve the PRC's interests for the next 20 to 30 years, it will seek to rewrite it when it comes up for review in 2048. By that point it will be fully prepared to begin extracting the continent's resources.
This is an edited extract from Silent Invasion by Clive Hamilton, published by Hardie Grant Books, RRP $34.99.
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Apr 25, 2014, 08:13AM
Piddling 1970s Teenage Capers
Russ Smith
“Papering” a house and mostly innocent cruising.
I’ve no idea what sort of pranks teenagers pull in the 21st century—and might be horrified or amused, depending upon where the Red Sox sit in the A.L. East standings—but in my hometown of Huntington, New York, festooning the property of a friend/foe with reams of toilet paper around midnight was, in the early 1970s, a hilarious expenditure of free time. As I recall, the chief instigator for what passed as mayhem was a witty friend named Richard Hoblock, which figured, since he was named “class clown” in ninth grade at Simpson Jr. High School and could crack up a bunch of us almost at will. As is often the case with such characters, Rich occasionally crossed the line with nasty jokes and was banished to no-man’s land in our clique, the penalty box, for a week or so. Several years later, a year or two after college, Rich met up with mutual friends Dave Cicale and Elena Seibert at the latter’s uptown Manhattan apartment, and dramatically told us that he was gay. I think he was disappointed when the three of us shrugged off the news—at least for his benefit—and moved on to another subject.
Anyhow, sometimes the recipient of a TP barrage was undeserving: he or she just happened to a live in a house that was surrounded by dozens of old and very tall trees, perfect for the mission. In hindsight, I’m appalled that the target of the papering was often one of my best friends, Howie Nadjari, a guy who didn’t have a mean bone in his body, and today is a respected doctor living on Long Island. It might’ve been that Howie would get so pissed off, rather than sloughing off the “attack,” which usually immunized you from repeated TP hijinks.
In fact, on a spring morning in 1970, after falling out with some longtime buddies who were—rather puritanically, I might add—displeased that I’d started hanging out with a “stoner” crowd, I awoke to find a rather feeble papering of my family’s house. It didn’t really work since the trees on our quarter-acre plot were hardly majestic, and it took all of a half hour to clean up the mess. My dad, leaving for work at his car wash on Sunrise Highway, commented on the incident, smiled, and told me to take care of it before my mom had a chance to stew and burn up the telephone wires. I did, and then later on got a $1 Italian hero at the great deli Monaco’s on New York Ave., and went to see a matinee of The Beatles’ so-so Let It Be (Paul McCartney’s obnoxious behavior in the film was off-putting, but you have to remember that news of the band’s break-up was still fresh, and shocking, so fans took whatever was on offer). Later I picked up the second Flying Burrito Brothers’ album, Burrito Deluxe (which, aside from Gram Parsons’ mournful vocal on “Wild Horses,” was a huge letdown from the band’s classic The Gilded Palace of Sin) at a Sam Goody’s in the Walt Whitman mall, so it was actually a pretty cool day.
Back to Mr. Hoblock. One night, several of us, gathered at Howie’s large (by Huntington standards) house on LaRue Dr., were chugging too many cans of Rheingold beer, and, as amateur drinkers, met with unfortunate consequences. At one point, about a half hour before Howie’s parents were due back from dinner, I spewed forth a blast of puke that fouled most of the kitchen. We did a (very) hasty clean-up, and, as none of us were driving yet, were picked up by Mary Stilwell, mom of Mark and Teddy, and, as she was a street-smart tough cookie, the jig was up, especially since I ralphed once more while in the front seat. Mary was steaming—who could blame her—and demanded an explanation, as if one was really necessary. Rich, with a straight face, simply said, “I admit, Mrs. Stilwell, we did each have one beer.” She muttered “bullshit” in a low voice and the short journey home was not pleasant, although it made for can-you-believe-it? fodder at school the following Monday.
I don’t know if the phrase “cruising” is still popular among the youth, but as my friends and I, one by one, received our driving licenses at 16, that was a prime weekend activity. One of Rich’s favorite lapses into minor juvie behavior when he was behind the wheel was to drive around the neighborhood of Halesite and purposely knock over garbage cans, after which he’d laugh and say, “Oops, had to swerve to miss a cat!” And then, four doors down, it’d happen again and we were all in stitches. One time wasn’t so funny: Hoblock’s beat-up VW Bug, upon hitting four metal cans at once, got stuck somehow and within minutes lights flashed and an angry homeowner, clad in pajamas, started running towards us. But the luck of the young prevailed, Rich gunned the car and we got away scot-free.
A joke Bobby Ringler liked to pull—and he was normally an excellent, if speed-obsessed, driver—was terrifying the six or so of us in his station wagon when driving down a steep hill by slumping his head down, mimicking a stroke, and not “recovering” until we were about 20 seconds from flying into the Harbor. I liked the garbage can bit a lot better.
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commented Apr 25, 2014, 01:01PM
Oh yeah, "cruising" is most certainly alive and well. What else do high school kids with licenses and under-age IDs gonna do? Smoke cigarettes in parking lots, drink vodka out of gatorade bottles in movie theaters, toilet paper houses… papering is antiquated, at least where I grew up, but it's pretty classic/timeless.
Oddly enough, the tee-peeing of homes has taken on a prep rally tone here in the Big D. The night before a big game, kids will tee-pee their school team stars homes. I don't get the logic but it is difficult to drive around on a Thursday night and not see at least one such prank. One that my friends and I would pull was to re-create Wonders of the World in the driveway of irritating neighbors using the rocks that some line their property with in order to keep cars from driving onto the lawn.
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Two chapters that are historically important to debate about the history of East Timor, the timing and rationale for Australia being there, were not published. David has provided them to Suai Media Space and they have been translated by Alarico da Sena into Tetun. ‘All They Got was Misery’ and ‘Japan the Reluctant Invaders.’ Tetun links: Timor-oan Hetan Terus and Japaun-relatante-Invasores. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "I was never going to play the weeping widow! I never did any more than demand whatis the right of every Australian citizen". "I don't care what people think about me - when the leaders of this country defamed me my friends would reassure that I must be doing something right"! Interview with Shirley Shackleton about her struggle for justice for the Timorese and her husband together with the other four journalists killed by Indonesian military in Balibo on the 16th October, 1975. Here is one tenacious woman - an inspiration to all Australians. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Bill Armstrong became involved with East Timor’s journey into independence in 1975 when he was working for Action for World Development. The Timor Information Service became a part of AWD after it had been set up in the Australian Council of Churches by John Waddingham and Mary Considine.In the 70’s and early 80’s while working with the Ecumenical Centre for Migration he worked closely with Joaol Gonsalves trying to help Timorese fleeing from Timor into Australia. More ... Bill joined other people he knew when he became Chairman of the Friends of Suai in 2004. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paul’s brother Tony Stewart was killed by the invading Indonesian military in Balibo when he was only a young journalist. He was 21. Paul first became famous as a member of the Painters and Dockers a popular Melbourne band. He became a founding member of the Dili Allstars who kept the music going in the independence movement in Australia. See his band still hard at it at the launch of their CD 'Increase the Peace' in 2006 when East Timor's dreams of independence and futures for the young was threatened by political violence and singing with Timorese friends at the launch of the Friends of Suai in March, 2000 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jean McLean was a Labour politician during East Timor’s struggle for independence and was one of the few who kept the ‘flag flying’ for independence withinthe Australian Labour Party. Jean continues to work for East Timor . _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Patsy Thatcher is an anthropologist. Patsy interviewed all the men of the 2/2nd Company and researched World War 2 for a book about this chapter in the history of East Timor. Patsy has also extensively researched the Timorese in the diaspora in Melbourne and continues to work for East Timor on Boards and Committees. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Louise Byrne began working with East Timorese people living in Melbourne in 1991. Louise’s knowledge of Timorese culture stems from her study and her work and friendship with Timorese people. When East Timor won the ballot for independence in 1999, Louise had Jacob Rumbiak living with her working for West Papua's self-determination. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Carmela bought a second hand camera in early 1999 and went to East Timor to find out what was happening there. Her footage 'Scenes of Independence' became the programs we saw on SBS television that showed Indonesian military intimidation mounting through out the year. More ... _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Graham Pitts is a playright and resident of Port Phillip who has been involved with East Timor since 1991. He wrote and directed the play ‘Tour of Duty’ in Theatreworks in St Kilda. in 2001. ‘Tour of Duty’ is a play about the relationship between Australians and Timorese in WW2. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Port Phillip resident and community artist Julie Shiels, has worked with the Timorese Community since 1991. In 2000 along with Michael Buckley Julie published a CD ROM titled ' Dreams of Return' which was developed in collaboration with a community theatre project with the Timorese community in Melbourne.
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It's almost impossible to imagine the practice of dentistry without x-ray technology. Radiographs (x-ray pictures) allow dentists to diagnose and treat problems not yet visible to the naked eye, including early tooth decay, gum disease, abscesses and abnormal growths. There is no question that since x-rays first became available a century ago, this diagnostic tool has prevented untold suffering and saved countless teeth. Now, state-of-the-art digital x-rays have made the technology even safer and more beneficial.
Digital x-ray technology uses a small electronic sensor placed in the mouth to capture an image, which can be called up instantly on a computer screen. When digital x-rays first became available about 20 years ago, they immediately offered a host of advantages over traditional x-ray films, which require chemical processing. Most importantly, they cut the amount of radiation exposure to the dental patient by as much as 90%. While faster x-ray films have been developed over the years that require less exposure, making that difference less dramatic, a digital x-ray still offers the lowest radiation dose possible.
Advantages of Digital X-Rays
Besides minimizing radiation exposure, digital x-rays offer numerous advantages to dentists and patients alike. These include:
No chemical processing & no waiting. Because there is no film to process with digital x-rays, there is no waiting for pictures to develop — and no toxic chemicals to dispose of. Your dentist can immediately show you the pictures on a computer screen for easy viewing.
A clearer picture. It's possible to get more information from digital x-rays because they are sharper and can be enhanced in a number of ways. The contrast can be increased or decreased, and areas of concern can be magnified. It's even possible to compare them on-screen to your previous x-rays, making even the minutest changes to your tooth structure easier to detect.
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Bankruptcy in Slovenia
When are you declared bankrupt?
In Slovenia, bankruptcy is declared against a debtor who has become insolvent. A debtor has become insolvent if he is unable to fulfill his liabilities in longer time period that are due in that period (f. e. if he is at least 2 months late in fulfilling his obligations that represent at least 20% of all of his obligations; or if his account equity does not suffice to enforce a writ of execution and it remains unchanged for at least 60 days; or if he has no bank account in either Slovenian banks and has not fulfilled his obligations deriving from writ of execution against him) or if he is permanently unable to fulfill his liabilities as they are due (f. e. if the value of his obligations exceed the value of his assets).
A petition for the bankruptcy can be submitted by a creditor, who has to pay an advance for bankruptcy costs of aprox.EUR 3.500 (if the creditor is debtors’ employee, he is exempted from paying an advance) or by the debtor himself without any costs (no advance needs to be paid).
How long does it take to process a petition for bankruptcy in Slovenia?
The petition for bankruptcy must be processed without unnecessary delay in 8 days. Usually the duration of the process varies from some days to 2 – 3 weeks. The process is faster when the petition has been filed by debtor himself. If the petition comes from a creditor, the petition must be served to the debtor, giving him the possibility to object in 15 days.The creditor holds the burden of proof considering the debtors insolvency.
What can you do if you disagree with the bankruptcy order by the court?
The debtor has an option to object his insolvency in 15 days after the petition for bankruptcy has been served to him.
Bankruptcy decisions by court can be appealed to higher instance courts, where itis mandatory to be represented by an attorney or a person that has passed bar examination.
What happens if you are declared bankrupt?
The bankruptcy is declared by the court that appoints a trustee. The trustee takes over control of the bankruptcyestate and the company/debtor loses control of his assets. The trustee will sell the assets and distribute the proceeds in accordance with the legal rules.
What duties and powers does the trustee have?
The trustee performs his tasksin order to protect and realize the interests of joint creditors. The trustee falls under the supervision of the delegated judge appointed by the court issuing the bankruptcy order. Instructions, given to the trustee by the delegated judge are mandatory. The role of the trustee is to sell all the assets of the bankrupt at the highest possible price and to distribute the obtained amount correctly to the creditors in the manner prescribed by law. He also draws up an inventory and estimates the bankruptcy estate, draws up a liquidation plan in which he proposes ways to sell assets, an estimate of expenses and a sales plan. In matters relating to the bankruptcy estate, he always performs acts on behalf of the bankrupt. Every three months, the trustee has to present a progress report to the court. The trustee shall act with due diligence, in a manner enabling optimum utilization of the debtor’s assets in order to satisfy creditors to the greatest possible extent.
What kind of obligations do I have as a bankrupt?
The bankrupt has several statutory obligations, including a duty to provide information to the trustee and to deliver up documents relating to his activities, including books of account.
In personal bankruptcy, the debtor is obliged to cooperate with the court and the trustee, to respond to everysummon and to provide contact details where he can be reached at any time. Further he is obliged to submit a report on his property for the last 5 years prior to bankruptcy. In process for remission of liabilities, he is obliged to fulfill his obligations under the employment contract, if he is employed, or apply for a job, if he is not employed. He is forbidden to refuse any job that he is capable to perform and is obliged to monthly report to the trustee regarding the actions made in pursue of employment.
How can I monitor the progress of the bankruptcy?
Every bankruptcy order or proceeding is published by the court and is open for public. You can find the insolvency register on the website www.ajpes.si on which the trustee will publish bankruptcy reports.
How long does a bankruptcy last?
Every bankruptcy is different, there are no rules that regulate this. The duration of the procedure depends on the complexity of the case (f.e. weather there are any assets to sell). In practice, bankruptcy lasts for at least 12 months. If legal proceedings are involved, the bankruptcy may last longer.
Can I make arrangements with my creditors?
The arrangements between the debtor and the creditor are possible before the bankruptcy process, however they are not possible during the bankruptcy process.
How can an employee collect outstanding salary from his bankrupt employer?
After the bankruptcy of the employer is announced, the employee has to register his claim within 3 months. Outstanding salaries for the last six months prior to bankruptcy are regarded as privileged claims.
What important advice can be given to a company director in the event of imminent bankruptcy?
It is important that a proper administration has been kept and can be provided to the trustee. When a company becomes insolvent, it is prohibited to make payments or to undertake obligations other than the ones that are necessary for ordinary operations. Further, it is prohibited to act in such manner that would put some creditors in privileged position in comparison to others. One month after the company becomes insolvent company director has to submit a report on the financial restructuring measures to supervisory board including its opinion weather it can be executed successfully. If that opinion is negative, he has to file the petition for bankruptcy within 3 days.
If this has not been complied with, the director of the company is guilty of mismanagement and may be held liable for the damage, caused to a creditor for not receiving full payment of its debt during the bankruptcy process.
Is there a special arrangement for a private person who is in danger of going bankrupt?
A private person has a possibility to file a petition for personal bankruptcy. He has to submit a report on his property for the last 5 years prior to bankruptcy. During the personal bankruptcy the debtor has limited legal capacity. Creditors are not limited to 3 month deadline to register their claims. Unpaid debts transfer to private person when the personal bankruptcy ends, however a private person has the possibility to file a request for procedure for remission of liabilities within the procedure of personal bankruptcy. If the court allows the procedure for remission of liabilities, it also determines the length of test period (2 – 5 years), after which a private person is no longer liable for its unpaid debts. During the test period, the debtor must try to obtain as much income as possible and, if this is not possible, the debtor must apply for a job. In addition, all the debtor’s assets, with the exception of normal household goods, are sold. During the test period, the debtor must live at social assistance benefit level.
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Tier 4 Final, Stage IV emissions regulations
Lake Forest, Illinois, March 23, 2015 - Tenneco (NYSE: TEN) today announced that it is supplying key aftertreatment technologies to Kubota, a leading global manufacturer of engines and equipment for agricultural and industrial applications. The company is in serial production with a complete selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that meets both Tier 4 Final and Stage IV emissions regulations for Kubota’s 3.8L diesel engine and all-new 6.1L engine for new agricultural equipment, slated for production later this year. This is the first SCR system to be produced at Tenneco’s manufacturing facility in Osaka, Japan.
Tenneco’s SCR system includes a high-performance dosing technology that features a compact airless injector, a pump that enables unique return flow cooling, technology for rapid thawing, and complete control and diagnostics that seamlessly integrate with the engine management. Additionally, the company is providing full system integration capabilities to Kubota, supporting enhanced fuel economy and aftertreatment performance through weight reduction, optimized thermal management and efficient system design.
“We’re proud to support Kubota by providing aftertreatment solutions that deliver improved engine performance,” said Jeff Jarrell, vice president and managing director, Tenneco Japan and Korea. “Tenneco’s SCR technology and systems integration expertise are helping Kubota successfully meet stringent emissions targets for its current and future agricultural tractor as well as construction equipment platforms.”
Tenneco is a leading emission control supplier to the global commercial truck and off-highway market with a full suite of aftertreatment solutions tailored to any engine size or powertrain strategy. The company currently supports customers in North America, Europe, Brazil, China, India, South Korea and Japan in meeting increasingly stringent emissions standards taking effect worldwide.
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Now Reading: ‘Fascism is America’s Biggest Enemy’: Election Day for Homeless Texans
‘Fascism is America’s Biggest Enemy’: Election Day for Homeless Texans
Gus Bova Nov 9, 2016, 6:47 pm CST
The ARCH center in downtown Austin. Gus Bova
AUSTIN — When asked about the presidential election, a man who identified himself only as Zion responded, “Didn’t you hear about the guy on the corner with the ‘Fuck Trump’ sign? That was me.”
Zion was one of many people clustered in an alley overlooking Waller Creek near Austin’s largest homeless shelter, the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH). Most of them are residents of the shelter and are among more than 19,000 Texans who are homeless.
“Clinton’s untrustworthy, like all politicians,” said Zion, a young veteran who cast his ballot two weeks ago, “but fascism is America’s biggest enemy.”
Jay Laughlin, a 50-year-old former manual laborer, told me he tried to cast the first vote of his life today at a nearby bookstore but was discouraged by an hour-and-a-half-long line. Laughlin said he would have voted for Trump.
“I see Hillary as a baby-kissing politician,” he explained. “Trump is a businessman, and that’s what America needs instead of another baby-kisser.”
A young man who identified himself as Lee Jung Cox said he would have voted for Hillary but believed he couldn’t since he had no ID.
Sitting apart from the group with a friend was John Simmons, a veteran who served in the 1980s. Simmons said he remembers voting for Perot and both Bushes but didn’t see the point this year.
“There’s no one to vote for,” he said. “Actually, what’s your name? I’ll write you in.”
Latonia Hill said that if she “voted for someone, I’d vote for Clinton, because she’s a woman and Trump’s a racist.” Gus Bova
Latonia Hill, a young black woman sitting next to Simmons, initially refused to talk with me, saying only, “I don’t vote.” But, as Simmons went on, she grew interested and chimed in.
“If I voted for someone, I’d vote for Clinton,” Hill said, “because she’s a woman and Trump’s a racist.”
Hill said she couldn’t vote, however, because she had felonies on her record.
Follow the rest of the Observer’s Election Day 2016 coverage here.
Gus Bova reports on immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border and grassroots movements for the Observer. He formerly worked at a shelter for asylum-seekers and refugees. You can contact him at [email protected]
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Medicaid issue looms over Arkansas fiscal session
LITTLE ROCK — Despite receiving approval in last week’s special session, Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s plan for the future of the state’s Medicaid expansion program continues to hang in the balance as legislators prepare to convene Wednesday for a session devoted to budget issues.
The three-fourths hurdle
One of those budget issues will be an appropriation for the state Medicaid program, including Arkansas Works, Hutchinson’s reconfiguring of the Medicaid expansion program that has been known as the private option. More than 267,000 low-income Arkansans have obtained government-subsidized private health insurance under the private option since it launched in 2013 as an alternative to the expansion of Medicaid rolls envisioned in the federal Affordable Care Act.
Hutchinson has said that while he opposes the Affordable Care Act, continuing Medicaid expansion is the best path forward for the state. The program is projected to save Arkansas $757 million over the next five years and help rural hospitals stay afloat.
Thirty House members and 10 senators, all Republicans, voted against the bill to create Arkansas Works last week. Their objections include concerns about the national costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, philosophical objections to expanding social welfare programs and complaints that the reforms in Arkansas Works, such as referral to voluntary work training for unemployed recipients, will not do enough to encourage recipients to work and ensure that only the truly needy receive benefits.
The opponents’ votes were not enough to stop the legislation from passing during the special session, but they would be enough to block an appropriation bill. Most appropriation bills in Arkansas require at least a three-fourths majority vote in each chamber for passage, or 75 votes in the 100-member House and 27 votes in the 35-member Senate.
Uphill battle for opponents
The Arkansas Works appropriation is expected to be included in a bill containing the entire Medicaid budget, so defeating the bill would block funding not only to Arkansas Works but also to the traditional Medicaid program as well. Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, said last week that opponents hope to present an alternative budget bill that would fund all of Medicaid except Arkansas Works.
Could that approach work? It’s doubtful, according to Senate President Pro Tem Jonathan Dismang, R-Beebe.
"For the opponents that are against appropriation, it’s an uphill battle in the other direction," he said, noting that an alternative budget bill also would require at least a three-fourths majority vote.
"At some point, 75 percent of both chambers are going to have to agree to move forward. At this point, a significant majority … wants to move one direction; the minority does not," Dismang said.
Hutchinson said the Legislature does not need to vote separately on Arkansas Works during the fiscal session.
"That vote has been taken," he said. "We have voted on Arkansas Works, and it was adopted by a majority of both parties in both chambers."
Hutchinson said that "a minority should not derail the expressed will of the majority" and said he does not want a Washington-style government shutdown "under my watch."
Hester said he is willing to defund all of Medicaid if that is the only way to stop Arkansas Works, but he said he believes some sort of deal will be reached to avoid that possibility. He also said there is nothing wrong with a minority exerting its power in the appropriations process.
"The constitution says if we’re going to spend the people’s money, 75 percent need to agree, and we don’t have 75 percent agreeing on spending it that way," he said.
It is unclear what kind of deal could prevent an impasse on the issue. Some have suggested the governor could yield on his proposal to let a private company or companies manage parts of the traditional Medicaid program, a proposal that Hutchinson dropped from the agenda for the special session at the last minute because of resistance from some lawmakers.
Asked Friday if he might use the issue of managed care as a bargaining chip, Hutchinson said that "I have a lot of tools in my pocket" but said that is not the way he works.
"I deal pretty straightforward with folks," he said. "I make the case on its merits. I try to separate the issues."
Yielding on managed care likely would not be much help to Arkansas Works anyway, according to Dismang and House Speaker Jeremy Gillam, R-Judsonia.
"Those concerned about the federal deficit are the ones I think are more inclined to look in that direction" and support managed care, Gillam said.
Rep. Bob Ballinger, R-Hindsville, one of the opponents of Arkansas Works, said that "I’ve been promised there will be no deals offered from the other side, and I have nothing to offer."
"The real thing is going to be, how are you going to deal with this with your constituents?" he said.
Several other legislators who oppose Arkansas Works also said they are thinking about their constituents.
"If you put this before a vote of the Arkansas people, it’d go down in flames. I’ll vote what my people tell me," said Sen. Terry Rice, R-Waldron.
The House and Senate will convene at noon Wednesday.
Dale Ellis contributed to this report.
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Caught on camera: Milwaukee man's home broken into in seconds, his warning to others
Posted: 10:24 PM, Aug 09, 2019
By: Rebecca Klopf
One Milwaukee man's important warning for why you should listen to every single warning your home security system gives you.
MILWAUKEE — A Riverwest homewoner got a call his security system was going off but did not take it seriously. His warning now to others.
Matt, who did not want to give his last name, sets his home alarm every day. This Wednesday was no different, but around 1:00 p.m. he got a call from the alarm company that his front door was open.
"It's the middle of the day. It's broad daylight," said Matt. "I'm thinking that doesn't make any sense at all."
He had had false alarms in the past, so he turned off his own alarm. What was actually happening was caught on surveillance camera. A burglar pried open his window with a crowbar and was getting ready to steal his stuff.
Burglar uses crow bar to get into Riverwest home
After Matt reset the alarm, it went off again, so he checked his cameras a second time.
"I didn't see any movement. The camera I have is primary [sic] to watch my dog. And my dog didn't seem spooked at all."
However, he did notice the front camera had been turned.
"The camera was looking at the ceiling and I said, 'Yeah, there is somebody in my house,'" Matt said.
Surveillance video outside home
Fortunately, the burglar left without taking anything. But when Matt reviewed his camera footage, he saw something even more alarming. The burglar and his partner had been in a silver Dodge Caravan outside his house for a while.
"It was like a half an hour. Three different positions. He rang the doorbell two or three times separately before he decided he was going to break in," Matt said.
TODAY'S TMJ4 reached out to Milwaukee Police multiple times to see if they have made any arrests in the case, and we have not heard back.
Neighbors say this is the fourth break-in for the area in a matter of weeks.
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Une certaine idée de l'Europe
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Building an intellectual debate on a continental scale
Six great conferences in Spring 2018
Europe, during most of its history, has been an idea.
This idea was used to signify a profound desire for circulation and freedom, as much as a concern for rigour and controversy. As it has been shown by Marc Fumaroli in his classic work on the subject, the “Republic of Letters” did not care about the regimes, despotic or not, that intersected and divided it in different countries. In Paris or Milan people read other passionately, in between Brussels and Vienna they copied each other tempestuously.
Now that Europe has become an institution, this idea seems to have faded. The intellectual class who is building Europe is not made of intellectuals anymore, but of excellent experts in law, administration, management or economics. So much so that one may asks: Did Brussels become a Forbidden City, to which public debate and the people who support it cannot really have access to anymore?
It is now obvious that today it is possible for an internationally known intellectual to have cast light on many problems of the contemporary world without having had the opportunity to bring it into the European debate. What is worse is that no one is there to set the tone of these debates, and that controversies in Europe are graciously left to the new nationalists who are taking advantage of the caricature of a cold, poorly embodied and badly thought institution.
The height of irony is that, at the digital age and the arrival of the first ERASMUS generation to offices, the ideas have never moved so little between European cities. Torn apart between ones’ patriotic crusades and other’s Atlanticism, it seems that European thinkers and intellectuals do not have the time to write to, read or even copy each other.
Next Spring in Paris and in ten other cities in Europe, six internationally known thinkers will be brought to speak, for the first time in their work, of their idea of Europe, thus opening new perspectives and new paths through which we will be able to rejoin an ideal Europe, fully politic—a certain idea of Europe.
Six conferences in Paris
Elisabeth Roudinesco
Myriam Revault
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A debate on the continental scale
A certain idea of Europe intends to reinvent the transnational dialogue by involving the european thinkers at a continental scale.
In order to contribute to the constitution of a meeting place for the european public debate we offer the live broadcasting of each of the conferences in more than a dozen other european cities.
During each conference a scholar or a thinker will be here to answer to the master classes of the participants.
To these well thought reactions the parisian speakers will answer as they receive the transcript translated in french of each of the contributions of its correspondents. Each correspondence will be established from the suitable interface : the public interview (published on Le Grand Continent), the paper version or even, the private letter.
This system of links offer to the invited thinkers the unique occasion of recreate and rewrite Europe as an idea, by inaugurating a continental debate, often absent inside the political and intellectual areas.
The Group of Geopolitical Studies is an association domiciled at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rue d’Ulm, which gathers more than a hundred of students, young scholars and journalists.
From a singular assertion of the “géopolitique à la français”, we support the necessity of a pluri-linguistic, interdisciplinary and multi-scalar approach in order to analyze the social, economical and political contemporary crises.
Starting from the premise that the nowadays Europe has been built as an aggregate of Nation States, and that its model seems to struggle against the emerging of new nationalisms, the GEG proposes to analyse and think the Europe, searching for a way to deal with the recent wave of rejection of its institutions.
The Group of Geopolitical Studies seeks to conceive Europe as a geopolitical entity, questioning the relevance of the Nation State model and the one of a post-national beyond the frames that could damage it today.
The question at the heart of our thinking is the one of the relevant scale which allows the illustration of the european concept.
We are trying to enrich it thanks to four projects which offers theoretical elements and analysis of the news (La Lettre du dimanche, Le Grand Continent), as well as proposing new unique places for debate (Les Mardi de l’Europe et Une certaine idée de l’Europe)
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THE FIFTH HOUSE
The Fifth House is bringing their new sound to fans with the release of their long-awaited second album. The forthcoming EP, a follow-up to their 2017 album Sinking Reality, is set to be released this summer.
The Fifth House is comprised of siblings Julia Crow (bass/vocals) and Wes Crow (guitar/vocals) along with lifelong friends Nick Weber (drums) and Brandon Clarkson (rhythm guitar/keyboard).
The EP was recorded in Cleveland, Ohio at Superior Sound Recording and was produced by Jim Wirt (Fiona Apple, No Doubt, Incubus). While each song varies in tone, dreams are a recurring theme. The final result is a catchy collection of ethereal, groovy, sassy and gritty tunes.
The Fifth House is labeled as a rock act, but their eclectic style meets at a juncture of many different genres such as blues, funk, psychedelic, and rock and roll.
Follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The music is available on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, and all other music platforms.
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I wrote on December 7, 2009 that a Florida jury had awarded $300 million to an ex-smoker with emphysema. Cindy Naugle’s case was one of many formerly involved in a class action against Philip Morris.
On February 25, 2010, law360.com reported that the trial judge reduced the judgment to $30.9 million, finding that the original award was “excessive” and “shocking,” and the result of passion on the part of the jury.
In the initial award, the jury found the ex-smoker 10% at fault and a subsidiary of Philip Morris 90% at fault for the emphysema, resulting in a compensatory damages award of more than $56 million and $244 million in punitive damages.
An appeal is expected.
“Florida Jury Awards Ex- Smoker $300 Million in Damages.”
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Claddagh Village Galway
Galway is a very small city centre but benefits from a large pedestrianised area leading from the Spanish Arch to Eyre Square where Hotel Meyrick is located. The Spanish Arch was built in 1584 and was originally part of the medieval wall of Galway. The name is a reference to the former merchant trade with Spain, whose galleons often docked in Galway during the height of its trading with Spain, Portugal and the West Indies. Galway Museum is based at Spanish Arch offers free admission to its exhibitions showcasing the history of Galway and the Claddagh area in particular. Please note the museum is closed on Mondays. Its opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm and Sunday, 12pm to 5pm (from Easter Sunday to September only).
The Claddagh was originally a fishing village outside of the Galway City Walls and is one of the oldest areas in Galway. This is the area that gave its name to the famous Claddagh Ring created in Galway and an iconic symbol of Ireland. The ring consists of a heart representing love, hands representing friendship and a crown representing loyalty. There are many Claddagh jewellers in Galway city and also a tiny museum on Quay street dedicated to the history of the iconic ring. Today The Claddagh marks the start of a scenic walk towards Salthill, 2km west of Galway City centre and Hotel Meyrick on Eyre Square.
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Old manja hurt doctor, say police
CHENNAI , December 29, 2018 01:04 IST
M. Saravanan, a 37-year-old neurosurgeon at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, was injured after a manja (thread coated with glass powder for flying kites) string cut him on the neck while he was riding a motorcycle near the Perambur Loco Bridge on Thursday. He admitted himself at the Perambur Railway Hospital.
However, the ICF police said that it was an old manja string and its use has been banned in the city.
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February 29, 2016 EPCOT, Main Street Mouse News, Walt Disney World No comments
Re-posting for leap day history!
Most of us remember Davy Jones as the front man for the group The Monkees, a teenage heartthrob, from the Brady Bunch, etc. For true Disney Fans, we remember Davy as one of the most beloved performers during the Flower Power Concert Series at Epcot’s yearly Flower and Garden Festival. He was a fan favorite, and a staple for the concerts each year. The fans loved him, and he truly loved his fans back. On February 29th 2012, Davy Jones unexpectedly died of a heart attack. He was 66. It’s a little ironic that Davy passed on the 29th, being that Disney pushed their “one more day” campaign that year in honor of Leap Year. Very sad.
In addition to the loss felt for Davy Jones through the Disney Community, I think a lot of us lost a piece of our childhood that day too. Davy Jones was the first big teen dream for young girls everywhere. He was my first crush too. I remember when I was 6 years old, I went on a vacation to Clearwater Beach with my family. Even at that age, I refused to join everyone down at the beach until after The Monkees were over on tv. As a little girl, watching Davy Jones, I had no idea the series was old, and Davy Jones wasn’t that cute 20 something boy anymore. In my mind, he was that guy, and still is when I think of him. In the 80’s, MTV used to run Monkee Marathons on Saturday’s, where they would show back to back episodes of the short lived television series. This was a chance for my generation to get familiar with what The Monkees show was all about. Was it silly humor? Yep. Did people love it? Oh yes.
The Monkees never really went away. They always had a dedicated fan base. In addition to his long career in music – with a string of hits that included “Daydream Believer” and “I’m a Believer” – as I said previously, Jones was a Disney fan favorite at the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival concerts. Davy Jones was a regular part of the lineup, where he would play a combination of Monkees’ hits and his own music. As a matter of fact, he was also slated to appear at last year’s Flower Power concerts May 18 – 20, 2012. Because of his untimely and shocking death, Disney had to suspend the concert lineup temporarily. Shortly after his passing, Disney replaced Davy Jones with his band mate and longtime friend, Micky Dolenz, to play the concert in May. Micky Dolenz payed tribute to Davy Jones during his performance, fans were touched, as well as saddened from the loss.
Jones found an enthusiastic audience for his performances in the Flower Power concert series. People still loved him, even after all of these years. He brought nostalgia and memories to so many. Davy Jones lived in Florida, and truly loved performing at Epcot. It must have made him feel good to get that kind of response from his fans, and to still have screaming girls coming to see him at Epcot! I know for me, his death hit home. When I found out that Davy Jones had passed away, I didn’t believe it. I had to go look it up to see if it was true and what had happened. When I saw that it was confirmed, I cried. My first crush was gone. So many of us had a little bit of hurt in our hearts that day. Twitter messages ran rampant through the Disney Community. Facebook too. The response was amazing and touching to see.
When I was younger, I never thought that two of my favorites, Disney and Davy Jones, would ever have a connection. But they do, and that’s pretty awesome. My only regret is that I never got to see Davy perform in person at Epcot. I watched the videos, but it’s not the same. Now being in my 30’s, I think that I look at things so differently, and take things to heart more. Life is short, and every day is a gift that shouldn’t be taken for granted. I never knew Davy Jones personally, but in a certain sense, I did. A lot of us did. He represented so much, and made so many people feel happy. Micky Dolenz performed that year at Epcot in Davy’s honor, but it of course wasn’t the same. There was only one Davy Jones, and I think I speak for many former teenage girls when I say that he will always be missed. Thank you Davy Jones, for being part of the soundtrack of my youth, and for being part of the magic that is Disney.
Michele Atwood is the Owner/Editor of The Main Street Mouse and it’s subsidiaries and author of the book “Moving to Main Street U.S.A.” Michele also contributes Disney news to the Joe Kelley Morning Show on 96.5 WDBO in Orlando. She and her family made the move from Michigan to the Orlando area to pursue their Disney dreams. Michele is a life long Disney fan, and has two sons who have followed suit, each going on their first Disney trip before their first birthday’s. Part of the goal Michele has for The Main Street Mouse is not only to keep members informed, but to create somewhat of a Disney Family by relating to others through personal experiences and opinions. Also, Michele is making it a priority to share stories of inspiration and hope to other Disney Fans in an effort to share the Magic and hopefully make a difference in the lives of others.
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With James Mattis gone, the last of the grown-ups has left the Trump administration
The defence secretary's resignation after the president's reckless decision to withdraw US troops from Syria is to his credit, but the world's detriment
In his resignation letter, James Mattis outlined clear ideological differences between himself and Donald Trump. Bloomberg
The resignation of defence secretary James Mattis last week bears the hallmarks of a significant turning point for the Trump administration. What it stands for in foreign policy, and how it is likely to conduct itself for the second half of its term are now much clearer – and the implications are alarming.
Mr Mattis cited a broad philosophical disagreement with President Donald Trump. In his resignation letter, he wrote of “treating allies with respect”, “being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors”, and doing “everything possible to advance an international order” as core principles to which he is committed. His letter left no doubt that Mr Trump does not share these commitments.
The Trump administration has been steadily shedding the “grown-ups” – seasoned and accomplished professionals and practitioners, such as Rex Tillerson, HR McMaster, Gary Cohn and John Kelly – and now no one with the will, credibility and gravitas to challenge or restrain Mr Trump is left.
Worse, "America first" – the amorphous phrase Mr Trump uses to describe his policies – is finally starting to become clearly defined, in a disturbing manner.
The Trump administration has thus far been Janus-faced, especially in foreign policy.
At times, it has pursued a kind of robust internationalism recognisable from Republican Cold War traditions. But at other times it has appeared to be neo-isolationist and, at best, mercantilist, by emphasising the expansion of exports at the expense of all other goals.
Mr Trump's idiosyncratic views – such as hostility to trade, multilateral alliances, and traditional partners, his commitment to bilateralism in all things, and his strange affinity for dictators rather than the elected leaders of other democracies – were often held in check during his first two years in office by the dwindling cadre of “grown-ups” around him.
Now that they are all gone, there is no one left who is either willing or able to tell the president when he’s about to make a colossal blunder.
The proximate cause of Mr Mattis's resignation – Syria – is a perfect case in point.
Mr Trump has long wanted to pull American troops out of Syria and Afghanistan. He has said so many times, and he has tried to order the withdrawal of US forces from Syria in the past.
But Mr Mattis and others repeatedly confronted him with the implications of such a reckless action, and each time he capitulated.
Apparently, he’s no longer willing to do that.
It is widely reported that a week ago Mr Trump called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to warn him not to attack US-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria. His staff had created a well-thought-out agenda and carefully constructed talking points to try to achieve that uncontroversial goal.
Then Mr Trump went wildly off script.
When Mr Erdogan urged him to withdraw US forces from Syria, Mr Trump shocked both his own staff and the Turkish leader by readily agreeing, leaving Mr Erdogan as the one suddenly warning about the dangers of a precipitous US exit.
But it was too late. Mr Trump was determined to follow through with this folly, no matter what.
Almost no one supported his decision among his own senior staff or knowledgeable Republicans in Congress. Many pointed out that this would be a huge victory for the Assad regime, Vladimir Putin and, above all, Iran, and noted that ISIS is by no means defeated and could well stage a major comeback in the vacuum left by US forces.
They also pointed out that this was an unconscionable betrayal of the Kurdish and Arab fighters who have been the main US ground forces against ISIS, and are now being offered up to their Turkish and Syrian regime enemies.
Mr Mattis went to see Mr Trump in a last effort to convince him to avoid this historic strategic, political and moral misstep.
He was unsuccessful, and therefore resigned.
The lessons are unmistakable and deeply alarming.
Following this episode, and with no “grown-ups” left, there is no one to restrain Mr Trump's worst impulses. And "America first" now plainly involves some mixture of irresponsible neo-isolationism and an almost wilful disregard for the interests of allies.
It’s understandable that Mr Mattis can no longer, in good conscience, be part of this fiasco.
Major foreign-policy decisions made on the basis of delusions (that ISIS has been thoroughly defeated), disregard of consequences (huge victories for Iran and ISIS), historical amnesia (how ISIS emerged from a similar rushed withdrawal from Iraq), and against the advice of all experts, officials and, especially, allies, can only lead to disaster.
It is to Mr Mattis’s credit that the betrayal of Washington's Syrian allies in this case, and the global system of alliances in general, underpins his resignation.
Mr Trump keeps handing US enemies, including Russia, North Korea, China and now Iran, extraordinary and undeserved victories. It's no wonder his defence chief wants nothing more to do with it.
How much more the country as a whole can take is becoming an increasingly open question too.
With reckless incompetence at this scale combining with mounting scandals and criminal investigations, the answer may not necessarily be two more years.
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Bank of the Tech Stars: a Great Stock to Own
JPMorgan Chase analyst Steven Alexopoulos says SVB Financial is not only a growth play, but an excellent defensive play.
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SVB Financial
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has been on a loan-growth tear, which sets the company apart during a time of major challenge for the banking industry.
JPMorgan Chase analyst Steven Alexopoulos on Tuesday said that "in the backdrop of a slowing economy and the fiscal cliff, as people and companies continue to innovate, we see SIVB as one of the few banks positioned to post strong loan growth, with a 3-year avg loan
compounded annual growth rate of 20.3% (vs. peers at 0.3%) likely to remain intact."
That's an amazingly strong loan growth rate during a sluggish economic recovery, and "with loan growth being one of the very few remaining tools left in the industry's toolkit to combat the
net interest margin, or NIM storm, SIVB is also well positioned from a NIM perspective," according to Alexopoulos.
SVB Financial is the holding company for
, which has offices in the United Kingdom, Israel, China and India, in addition to 27 offices throughout the United States.
The company focuses on lending to technology companies, providing multiple services to venture capital and private equity firms that invest in tech and biotech, and also on private banking services for high net worth individuals, in its home market in the Silicon Valley area.
SVB Financial had $21.6 billion in total assets as of Sept. 30. The company reported third-quarter net income available to common shareholders of $42.3 million, or 94 cents a share, declining from $47.6 million, or $1.06 a share, in the second quarter, but increasing from $37.6 million, or 86 cents a share, during the third quarter of 2011.
Earnings were down sequentially because SVB in the second quarter booked "pre-tax gains of $5.0 million from the sale of certain available-for-sale securities and pre-tax gains of $4.2 million from the sale of certain assets related to our equity management services business." Excluding the gains, second-quarter earnings would have been $42.1 million, or 94 cents a share.
The company's total loans grew 5% sequentially and 29% year-over-year, to $8.2 billion, as of Sept. 30.
Third-quarter net interest income was $154.4 million, increasing from $151.9 million the previous quarter, and $135.5 million, a year earlier. The net interest margin -- the difference between the average yield on loans and investments and the average cost for deposits and borrowings -- was a tax-adjusted 3.12%, narrowing from 3.22% in the second quarter, but down only slightly from 3.13% in the third quarter of 2011. The company said that the narrowing of the margin was "primarily due to a decrease in the overall yield of our loan and available-for-sale securities portfolios," and that "the decrease in yields was partially offset by growth in average loan balances, which has resulted in a favorable change in our mix of interest-earning assets."
Third-quarter noninterest income declined to $69.1 million, from $80.4 million the previous quarter, and $95.6 million a year earlier, reflecting higher gains on securities and derivatives in the prior periods.
SVB Financial's third-quarter return on average assets was 0.77% and its return on average common equity was 9.44%.
Alexopoulos rates SVB Financial "Overweight," with a $68 price target, implying 25% upside over the stock's closing price of $54.33 on Monday.
After meeting with SVB Financial CFO Michael Descheneaux, The analyst said that "the key message we walked away with is that not only is SVB Financial well positioned as a niche growth story within the regional banks, but more specifically, its growth model may actually prove to be uniquely positioned for these uncertain times at hand given its leverage to the innovation sector."
"The key to SIVB's loan growth will be staying with innovation companies as they grow," Alexopoulos said. "With SIVB being one of the very few early stage lenders in the country, the company has a significant growth opportunity in staying with these companies as they become larger."
Alexopoulos went on to say that "SIVB currently has 50-60% share of early stage companies but only 15% share of later stage companies and less than 10% share of global companies, representing a significant opportunity. On global growth, this represents a longer-term opportunity."
When discussing the risk of an investment in SVB Financial's stock, Alexopoulos said that "while items such as the fiscal cliff could result in a further slowdown in economic growth, a larger risk for the company is some type of event (such as the Lehman bankruptcy) that causes investors and companies to pull back on acquisitions and investment. Although it's hard to argue that a slowing economic backdrop is a good thing for SIVB's core clients, so long as companies continue to innovate to solve modern day problems and these innovations provide a good return to investors, then the momentum within the food chain of the innovation cycle should continue, providing SIVB with an opportunity to post well above peer growth."
SVB Financial's stock returned 14% year-to-date through Monday's close, following a 10% decline during 2011. The shares trade for 1.4 times their reported Sept. 30 book value of $40.10, and for 15 times the consensus 2013 earnings estimate of $3.60 a share, among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The consensus 2014 EPS estimate is $3.79.
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Irish whiskey and an interview with Tim Herlihy for St. Patrick’s Day
In late February, I headed to Piper Down in Salt Lake City to meet up with Irish brand ambassador, pub historian and whiskey expert Tim Herlihy from Tullamore D.E.W. His mission: visit all 50 states in the 30 days...
High West Distillery at Blue Sky Ranch opens to the public
Raise your glass to Monday, September 7. That’s the day that High West Distillery’s new facility in Wanship, Utah opens to the public. “We felt Miner’s Day was appropriate given the role that mining played in Utah’s history and we...
High West Unveils A Midwinter Night’s Dram
Merry wanderers of the night, take heed! High West Distillery & Saloon, Park City’s award-winning, ski-in gastro-distillery, is proud to announce the release of its latest spirit, A Midwinter Night’s Dram™. Named after Shakespeare’s comedy about love “A Midsummer...
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True North Initiative News Scan 11 20 2017
Morneau issue flagged for ethics czar weeks before she launched probe
Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson was warned as far back as September that Finance Minister Bill Morneau could be in a conflict of interest over a bill he was spearheading that benefits his family firm, but the federal watchdog didn't launch a formal examination until November when controversy over the matter had dominated the House of Commons for weeks. A group representing retired Canada Post workers hand-delivered a letter to Ms. Dawson's office on Sept. 18, outlining its concern about the Finance Minister's shares in Morneau Shepell and his involvement in drafting legislation to rewrite federal pension law. (Globe and Mail)
15,000 on Canada's deportation list, but some 'uncooperative' countries won't take their citizens back
More than 15,000 foreign nationals are on Canada's deportation list, but some can't be removed because their home country won't take them back. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirms some countries either delay or refuse to repatriate their citizens who are here illegally, but will not divulge which ones as it might "impact diplomatic negotiations." (CBC)
Windsor man sentenced related to indecent act at aquatic centre
A Windsor man has been sentenced in connection with an indecent act at the downtown aquatic centre. Hassan Al Hariri pleaded guilty last month to the May 2016 incident. The defence was asking for a conditional discharge for the 38-year old, but Justice Lloyd Dean didn't believe that would be in the public's best interest. Al Hariri is a 37-year-old Syrian refugee, who arrived in Canada just three months prior to this incident. (CTV)
Terror Suspect Mohamed Harkat Unlikely To Commit Violent Acts, Psychiatrist Says
A psychiatrist who has treated terror suspect Mohamed Harkat for the last eight years says the refugee from Algeria is unlikely to commit violent acts. Dr. Colin Cameron told a Federal Court of Canada hearing Friday on Harkat's release conditions that his patient supports democracy and expresses revulsion about terrorist attacks. (Huffington Post) (Toronto Star)
Australian publisher drops book on Chinese influence; author warns Canada is also at risk
Alarmed by creeping Chinese influence on Australian political life, Clive Hamilton set out to investigate. Businesses and people connected to China had already become the biggest foreign financial contributors to the country's political parties. But "it seemed to me there was much more going on" said Prof. Hamilton, a scholar at Charles Sturt University. He found much to write about – only to become, himself, the subject of China's efforts to promote its agenda around the world, after fears of retaliation by Beijing caused his publisher to back away from a book containing his findings. (Globe and Mail)
Venezuela is close to unleashing a Syria-like refugee crisis in Latin America
As Venezuela’s financially strangled dictatorship and the opposition prepare for a possible new round of talks Dec. 1 on whether they can agree on rules for credible 2018 presidential elections, there are reasons to fear that Venezuela’s collapse will escalate into a regional refugee crisis. Unless Western democracies step up their diplomatic and financial sanctions against President Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the next few weeks, there will be a bigger mass exodus of Venezuelans. Many U.S. and Latin American officials fear a Syria-like situation, in which millions more Venezuelans will flee to other Latin American countries, much like Syrian refugees have flooded European countries. (Miami Herald)
Canadian troops in Latvia warned their social media accounts and cell phones could be 'manipulated or misused'
Canadian troops in Latvia are being warned about their cell phones and social media accounts being co-opted, says NATO’s secretary general. Jens Stoltenberg said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is aware of many reports a Russian disinformation campaign is attempting to sow doubt online about its intentions. (National Post)
Ottawa sets date for LGBTQ apology, but compensation not yet settled
Advocates for people criminally charged or fired from their government job simply because they were gay are celebrating news that, on Nov. 28, Justin Trudeau will deliver a historic apology in the House for their mistreatment. "I never thought I'd live to see the day," said Douglas Elliott, the lawyer who led a class-action lawsuit on behalf of those who lost their jobs. Mr. Elliott has been advocating for the rights of sexual minorities since the 1970s. (Globe and Mail)
OTHER STORIES (Domestic and International)
Cpl. Nolan Caribou ID'ed as reservist who died on Manitoba Canadian Forces base
The Canadian Armed Forces has released the name of the soldier killed during a training exercise at an army base in Manitoba over the weekend. Cpl. Nolan Caribou, who was an infantryman with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, was killed at CFB Shilo, about 205 kilometres west of Winnipeg, around 7 p.m. Saturday. (CBC)
Canada's top general pushes back against critics of peacekeeping plan
Canada's top general is forcefully rejecting the notion that Canada's new peacekeeping commitment isn't in line with the Liberal government's initial promise. Gen. Jonathan Vance, Canada's Chief of Defence Staff, argues that the plan outlined days ago by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Vancouver is consistent with what was first discussed 14 months ago, when the government committed to providing up to 600 troops and 150 police officers for United Nations operations. (CBC)
Justin Trudeau set to head to China in December to open free trade talks
Justin Trudeau is expected to announce he is heading to Beijing early next month to launch free trade talks with China. The trip has not been finalized but diplomatic sources suggest he will head east in the first week of December. (National Post)
U.S. prop-up of coal is 'wrong,' but Canada will continue to export it: McKenna
While rebuking U.S. President Donald Trump's push to revive the coal power industry, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the federal government has no plans to shutter Canada's coal exports. "They have got it wrong," McKenna said in an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CTV's Question Period, of America’s commitment to fossil fuels. "We share a border with the U.S. but air doesn’t know any boundaries, water doesn’t know any boundaries," she said. Though, McKenna -- fresh off her trip to COP23 where she focused her attention on extolling the virtues of decommissioning coal -- said Canada has no plans to ban coal exports to the U.S. (CTV)
'Tears of joy' for Filipina caregiver who can be reunited with her children after 8-year wait
Jocelyn Godroy hardly ever smiled in the years since she left her three children in the Philippines in 2004 to work as a live-in caregiver abroad. After 13 agonizing years away from her family — during which her marriage broke down and her mother passed away, Godroy finally managed to put up a genuine smile earlier this month when she got her immigration papers after a final interview at the immigration office in Etobicoke. (Metro)
'Critical shortage' of daycare workers forecast after immigration error
Anna-Kay Clarke is cleaning clothes out of her dresser, hoping someone will buy the furniture she has posted to Kijiji. After being unable to legally work since October, she's trying to raise enough money to cover the rent on her Halifax apartment. Clarke is a trained early childhood educator who graduated in June from the private career college Nova Scotia College of Early Childhood Education in Halifax. (Yahoo)
Swing ridings with high visible minority populations will tilt 2019 federal election, says politicos
Some 41 “swing” ridings with visible minority populations of 50 per cent or more, including five constituencies in the Greater Toronto Area that have 80 per cent or more visible minorities, will be key battlegrounds for all major parties in the 2019 election, say politicos. “These ridings will elect the next government,” said rookie Conservative MP Bob Saroya (Markham-Unionville, Ont.) in an interview with The Hill Times. “These are the swing ridings.” (Hill Times)
Afghanistan looks to Canada for more training support
One of the leading figures in Afghanistan's national government insists his war-torn country must be put back at the forefront of NATO's efforts to defeat terrorist groups in the Middle East and South Asia. Abdullah Abdullah, the government's chief executive and one of the featured speakers this weekend at the Halifax International Security Forum, says the new NATO focus on Iraq left his country vulnerable to greater terrorist activity. (CBC)
Dozen of Liberians in US Face Deportation
Reports reaching Globe Afrique say about 200 Liberians are allegedly in prisons in the state of Minnesota, the USA awaiting deportation. Four Liberians were deported yesterday, November 17, 2017, leaving behind young children. About 55 Liberians could be deported from Minnesota soon, according to unconfirmed sources. (GNN Liberia)
Charles Manson is rotting in hell
Charles Manson, the ’60s cult leader behind one of the most notorious killings in American history, died Sunday in California after a prolonged illness, officials said. He was 83. Manson – housed at Corcoran State Prison since 1989 – died at 8:13 p.m. local time at Kern County Hospital, the California Department of Corrections said in a press release early Monday. (NY Post)
Saudi Arabia vows to take on Iran amid warnings region in ‘a dangerous abyss’
Fears of World War 3 have increased in recent weeks amid a spiralling fallout between the Saudi monarchy and Tehran. It came following the surprise resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a close ally of Riyadh. At an emergency meeting in Cairo today, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir stepped up his rhetoric against the Islamic regime. (Express.co.uk)
EDITORIAL AND OPINION PIECES
Candice Malcolm: Rick Mercer rant on GSAs is dishonest analysis
CBC comedian Rick Mercer jumped into an Alberta provincial debate, and in doing so, dragged the whole country in with him. In one of Mercer’s “rants,” he attempts to tackle the issue of gay-straight alliance (GSA) clubs in Alberta schools. Unfortunately for Mercer, and for all Canadians, his rant was riddled with errors, partisan jeering and a dishonest analysis. To make matters worse for this once-great comedian, it wasn’t the least bit funny. (Toronto Sun)
Mark Bonokoski: Kill them before they come home? Too un-Canadian
As the front line war against ISIS appears to be nearing its end, a British cabinet minister knows exactly what should be done with Britons who joined the barbarism and now want to come home. And that’s kill them before they set a foot back on British soil. (Toronto Sun)
Douglas Todd: High migration can suppress wages … in some places, some jobs
Critics counter that large numbers of immigrants and temporary workers “steal jobs” and reduce the wages of the host population. The truth, it is turning out, is somewhere in the middle. The answer to one of the most controversial political questions in Canada — does high in-migration depress wages? — is complicated. There is little doubt that Canadian politicians’ decision to create arguably the most open border in the world increases Canada’s gross domestic product, the total volume of goods and services. (Vancouver Sun)
Anthony Furey: A big test looms for lacklustre Ont. PC Leader Patrick Brown
Next weekend Ontario Progressive Conservative members will gather for their last big event before next year’s provincial election, the one where they hope to finally emerge victorious after 15 years of scandal-plagued Liberal rule. While talking together in the halls or huddled at social functions, both insiders and grassroots members will complain about one politician in particular – one who they fear goes along with the green agenda and won’t stand up for the small government principles that draw attendees to such an event in the first place. (Toronto Sun)
Mark Kersten: How should Canada handle criminals cloaked as refugees?
Two crises define the world today: the perpetration of mass atrocities against civilians, and the movement of peoples, often in direct response to those very same atrocities. This poses a distinct challenge for countries such as Canada that welcome refugees, some of whom may carry with them criminal pasts. It is not uncommon for perpetrators of atrocities to cloak themselves among refugees. Due to effective screening procedures, the number of war criminals amongst refugees is tiny. But they do sometimes slip through. When they do, they present an opportunity to achieve justice – and shouldn't be used to cast a pall of criminality over migrants. But how should governments approach this dilemma? (Globe and Mail)
Josh Rogin: The U.S. must prepare for Iran’s next move in Syria
While the Trump administration celebrates a new deal meant to freeze the battlefield in southern Syria, the Assad regime and Iran are preparing for the next phase of the long-running war, in which they will attempt to conquer the rest of the country. Whether Iran succeeds depends largely on whether the United States acknowledges and then counters that strategy. Tehran is pouring thousands of fighters into newly acquired territories and building military bases. Although U.S.-supported forces hold territories east of the Euphrates River in Syria’s southeast, as well as along the borders of Israel and Jordan in the southwest, Iran has stated its intention to help Bashar al-Assad retake all of Syria. (Washington Post)
Jonathan Montpetit: That time conservatives saved the planet from climate change
You'd be forgiven for a doing a double-take when noticing it is two conservative leaders who are responsible for the world's most successful environmental treaty, the Montreal Protocol, signed 30 years ago. Climate change skepticism, let alone downright denial, has become such a hallmark of contemporary conservatism in North America that the efforts of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan in 1987 now seem like a historical anomaly. (CBC)
REPORTS, COMMITTEE HEARINGS, LEGISLATIVE UPDATES
- Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development meet tomorrow to study Bill C:47
- Standing Committee on National Defence meet later today to study Canada’s involvement in NATO
- Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security meet tomorrow to study Indigenous People in the Correctional System
- Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration meet later today to study the medical inadmissibility of immigrants
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Accessory Brand Launch: Tom Ford
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Eyewear is often one of the last categories a designer building a brand launches, but not for Tom Ford.
After departing as creative director of Gucci Group in 2004, Ford returned to fashion by unveiling an eponymous collection of sunglasses. He called the move, which was accompanied by an announcement that he would introduce a cosmetics and fragrance line with the Estée Lauder Cos., a small leap back into the world in which he built his reputation.
But the spring debut has made huge strides, putting Ford’s name back on consumers’ lips. It has also carved out space at high-end department stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, with Bergdorf’s citing the collection as one of its best-selling lines.
“I may be one of the first designers to do things backward,” Ford said of introducing the sunglass collection, which is produced under a license with Marcolin Eyewear. “But there were reasons. I was shell-shocked when I left Gucci and I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to fashion in a big way. I loved eyewear and cosmetics, so I thought they would enable me to take a small step back in that direction. And in the end, it took care of a lot of practical considerations for me, as well.”
Those considerations have ranged from building up funding to launch additional products, which include his men’s wear line to roll out in April, to raising Ford’s profile with a wider demographic.
“Select people may know who I am from my work at Gucci,” Ford said. “But I’m not sure everybody knows who Tom Ford is, which is important if you’re building a brand. And eyewear and cosmetics can reach a broader group of people because they are more accessibly priced.”
The eyewear line also suits Ford’s creative side. Ford said even when he had a team of assistants helping him conceptualize pieces at Gucci, he always sketched the designs for the eyewear himself, and he realized in retrospect that he missed it.
“Even if it’s only an accessory, it’s a very potent accessory,” Ford said. “It’s like a car. It makes a statement about what design is at any given time. It’s sculptural in that way.”
The Tom Ford collection features women’s and men’s styles that offer bold interpretations of classic silhouettes, like aviators and wayfarers. Luxurious touches include discreet logo treatments at the temples and accents such as a gold metal wire that highlights an acetate rim. Prices range from $220 to $500. An ophthalmics collection is also available.
“When you start a company with your name on it, you are forced to figure out what you like,” Ford said. “When you are really doing anything that has to do with design, if you rely on your own taste, a character will evolve. And it’s been gratifying to see that so far in eyewear, at least, that character has been responsible for amazing sales, and such success and recognition.”
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The Jack Pine
Alternate title: Jack Pine: Lake Cauchon
Winter 1916–17
50 3/8 x 55 1/16 in. (127.9 x 139.8 cm)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1519)
Estate of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1519). Purchased 1918
1918 St. Louis
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Paintings by Canadian Artists, Loaned by the National Gallery of Canada, November, 1918, no. 32. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, February, 1919. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 4–May 1, 1919. Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, May 17–April 12, 1919. Hackley Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan.
1920 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 2.
1922 Thomson NGC
1922 Thomson Owen Sound
1922, no. 28.
1924 Wembley
British Empire, Palace of Fine Arts, Wembley Park, London, British Empire Exhibition, Section of Fine Arts, April 23–October 31, 1924, no. 240, ill. in b/w. Traveled to: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, November 12–December 12, 1924. Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December, 1924–January 17, 1925. City of Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 30–March 31, 1925.
Palais des Fêtes, Parc de la Citadelle, Ghent, Belgium, Exposition Triennale de Gand, June 7–August 2, 1925, no. 729.
1926 AGT Inaugural
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Inaugural Exhibition, January 29–February 28, 1926, no. 260.
Musée & du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d'art canadien, April 10–May 10, 1927, no. 236, (repr.).
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 2.
1938 Tate
Tate, London, A Century of Canadian Art, October 15–December 15, 1938, no. 213.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January, 1941.
Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Public Library & Art Museum, London, Ontario, Milestones of Canadian Art: A Retrospective Exhibition of Canadian Art from Paul Kane and Kreighoff to the Contemporary Painters, from 9 January 1942, no. 41.
1949 Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Forty Years of Canadian Painting: From Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven to the Present Day, July 14–September 25, 1949, no. 89, (repr.).
1949 Toronto
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Fifty Years of Painting in Canada, October–November 1949, no. 29, (repr.).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, Canadian Painting: An Exhibition Arranged by the National Gallery of Canada, October 29–December 10, 1950, no. 78, (repr.). Traveled to: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, January 5–30, 1951. Fine Arts Society of San Diego, San Diego, February, 1951. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, March, 1951. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, April 4–May 6, 1951. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 15–June 11, 1951.
1954 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Group of Seven, March 29–April 25, 1954, no. 65, (repr.).
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.
1967 NGC (2)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, May 12–September 17, 1967, no. 196, (repr.). Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 20–November 26, 1967.
1968 Owen Sound
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, First Anniversary Exhibition, May 24–June 9, 1968, no. 6, (repr. col.).
1970 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 69, (repr.). Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no XV (repr. col.). Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972. Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.
1973 Madison
Elvehjem Art Centre, Madison, Wisconsin, Canadian Landscape Painting 1670 - 1930: The Artist and the Land, April 11–May 23, 1973, no. 51, (repr.). Traveled to: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 15–August 1, 1973. University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, August 20–October 7, 1973.
National Gallery of Canada, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine, September 12–October 5, 1975, no.11. Traveled to: Nova Scotia Museum of Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 20–November 2, 1975. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 31–April 25, 1976. Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, May 28–June 20, 1976. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, October 5–December 5, 1976.
1984 AGO
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890 - 1940, January 13–March 11, 1984, no. 117, (repr.). Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, March 31–May 13, 1984.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Cosmos From Romanticism to the Avant-garde, June 17–October 17, 1999, (repr. col.). Traveled to: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 23, 1999–February 20, 2000. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, 2000 (Title as Cosmos: From Goya to de Chirico, from Friedrich to Kiefer, Art in Pursuit of the Infinite).
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 132, (repr. col.). Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003. Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, February 6–April 3, 2003. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003. Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.
2004 St. Petersburg
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 55, (repr. col.).
2011 Dulwich
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, October 19, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 6, Fig. 1 (repr. col. det.), p. 10, Pl. 10 (repr. col.). Traveled to: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, January 29–May 13, 2012. The Groninger Museum, Groninger, the Netherlands, June 3–October 28, 2012.
MacCallum 1918
MacCallum, J.M. "Tom Thomson: Painter of the North." Canadian Magazine 50, no. 5 (March 1918), p. 381 (repr.).
Mortimer-Lamb 1919
Mortimer-Lamb, Harold. "Canadian Artists and the War." The Studio 65, no. 270 (September 1915), pp. 125 (repr.) as The Jack Pine, Lake Cauchon.
Fairley 1920
Fairley, Barker. "Tom Thomson and Others." Rebel 6, no. 6 (March 1920), pp. 244–47.
Mail and Empire 1920a
"Beauty of North Shown in Colour." Mail and Empire (Toronto), 14 February 1920.
Toronto Daily Star 1920a
"Memorial Exhibition to Artist of North." Toronto Daily Star, 18 February 1920.
Ottawa Citizen 1922
"A Canadian Artist." Ottawa Citizen, 22 February 1922.
Ottawa Journal 1922
"Fine Pictures Added to National Gallery." Ottawa Journal, 18 February 1922.
Brown 1922a
Brown, Eric. "The National Gallery of Canada: A Story of Struggle and Achievement in Establishing a Little-known Institution." Arts & Decoration (New York) 17, no. 1 (May 1922), p. 28 (repr.).
Canadian Magazine 1924
"Fine Arts From Canada." Canadian Magazine 63, no. 3 (July 1924), p. 136 (repr.).
Hind 1924
Hind, C. Lewis. "Art and Artists: Canadian Landscape Painters at Wembley." The International Interpreter (New York) 3, no. 8 (24 May 1924), p. 250.
Lee 1924
Lee, Rupert. "Canadian Pictures at Wembley." Canadian Forum 4, no. 47 (August 1924), pp. 338–39.
National Gallery of Canada. A Portfolio of Pictures from the Canadian Section of Fine Arts, British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1924, (repr.).
National Gallery of Canada. Press Comments on the Canadian Selection of Fine Arts, British Empire Exhibition. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1924, pp. 7, 15, 20.
Canadian 1925
"Canadian Art at Wembley; Other Exhibitions." Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1924-1925 (1925). Toronto: The Canadian Review Company, p. 486.
MacTavish 1925
MacTavish, Newton. The Fine Arts in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd, 1925, p. 150 (repr.).
Richmond, Leonard. "Canadian Art at Wembley." Studio 89, no. 182 (January 1925), pp. 21, no. 182 (repr. col.).
Chassé 1926
Chassé, Charles. "L'Exposition Canadienne à Paris." Le Figaro Hebdomadaire (Paris) (13 April 1927), (repr.).
Christian 1926
"Inaugural Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto." Canadian Science Monitor (8 March 1926).
Harris, L 1926
Harris, Lawren. "Review of the Toronto Art Gallery Opening." Canadian Bookman 8, no. 2 (February 1926), p. 46.
Housser 1926
Housser, Frederick Broughton. A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1926, pp. 117, 120–21.
National Gallery of Canada. Press Comments on the Canadian Section of Fine Arts, British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1926, pp. 5, 13, 17, 34, 38, 41.
Lismer 1926b
Lismer, Arthur. "The Art Gallery of Toronto." The Journal, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 3, no. 2 (March/April 1926), p. 71.
Brown, Eric. "La jeune peinture canadienne." L'Art et les artistes 21, no. 75 (March 1927), p. 192 (repr.).
Dick, Stewart. "The National Gallery of Canada: Tom Thomson." Saturday Night 43, no. 42 (1 September 1928).
Grayson 1929
Grayson, E.V.K. Picture Appreciation for the Elementary School. Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1929, pp. 196–98, 275–76 (repr. col. frontispiece).
Davies 1930a
Davies, Blodwen. Paddle and Palette: The Story of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1930, p. 23 (repr.).
Salinger 1930c
Salinger, Jehanne Bietry. "Peinture et litérature: L'exposition d'art canadien aux Etats-Unis." La revue populaire 23, no. 5 (May 1930), pp. 7–8 (repr.).
Onward, 1931
Onward. "Famous Canadian Pictures: The Jack Pine by Tom Thomson." Onward (Toronto) 41, no. 36 (5 September 1931), (repr.).
Robson 1932
Robson, Albert H. Canadian Landscape Painters. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1932, p. 145 (repr. col.).
Barbeau 1932a
Barbeau, Marius. "Tells Remarkable Story Progress and Achievement." Ottawa Evening Citizen, 27 July 1932.
Lismer 1932a
Lismer, Arthur. Outline for Picture Study: The Jack Pine. Series 1, no. 1. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1932.
Barbeau 1932b
Barbeau, Marius. "Morrice and Thomson." New Outlook 8, no. 3 (August 1932), (repr.).
Davies 1935
Davies, Blodwen. A Study of Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for Truth in the Wilderness. Toronto: The Discus Press, 1935, pp. 96,107, 110–11 (repr. col.).
Robson, Albert H. Tom Thomson. , Canadian Art Series. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1937, pp. 20–21 (repr. col.).
Burgoyne 1937a
Burgoyne, St. George. "Tom Thomson, Painter of the Wilds, Lost to Canadian Art 20 Years Ago." Gazette (Montreal), 25 September 1937, (repr.).
McInnes 1940
McInnes, G.C. "Tom Thomson." New World Illustrated 1, no. 1 (March 1940), p. 27 (repr. col.).
Buchanan 1945
Buchanan, Donald W. Canadian Painters from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven. Oxford & London: Phaidon Press, 1945, fig. 43 (repr.).
Buchanan, Donald W. "Tom Thomson - Painter True North." Canadian Geographical Journal 33, no. 2 (August 1946), p. 99 (repr. col.).
Saunders 1947
Saunders, Audrey. Algonquin Story. Toronto: Department of Lands and Forests, 1947, p. 173.
Huntsville Forester 1948
"Tom Thompson [sic] and One-Tree Island." Huntsville Forester (ON), 18 November 1948.
Department 1957
The Arts in Canada. Ottawa: Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 1957, p. 75 (repr. col.).
Atherton 1958
Atherton, Ray. "The Man in a Canoe." Canadian Art 15, no.1 (January 1958), p. 20 (repr. col.).
Hubbard 1960b
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 294 (repr.).
Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, pp. 7, 11, pl. 3 (repr. col.).
Hubbard, R.H. The Development of Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1963, pp. 89–90 , pl. 154 (repr. col.).
Brown, M 1964
Brown, Maud. Breaking Barriers: Eric Brown National Gallery. Ottawa: Society for Art Publications, 1964, p. 72.
Harper 1966
Harper, J. Russell. Painting in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, pp. 279, 282 (repr.).
Davies, Blodwen. Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for Truth in the Wilderness. Vancouver: Mitchell Press Limited, 1967, page facing 24, 76, 87–88 (repr. col.).
Addison 1969
Addison, Ottelyn, Elizabeth Harwood. Tom Thomson, The Algonquin Years. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969, pp. 54, 59, 76, 81 (repr.).
Boggs 1969
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. "The National Gallery of Canada." Canadian Art 26, no. 1 (February 1969), p. 4 (repr.).
Mellen 1970
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd, 1970, pp. 49, 60–63, 198, 208 (repr. col.).
Reid 1970
Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 106–107.
Boggs, Jean Sutherland. The National Gallery of Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1971, pl. XXVIII (repr. col.).
Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 45, 59, 63 (repr. col.).
Dumas 1972
Dumas, Paul. "Exposition rétrospective de Tom Thomson." L'Information medicale et paramiedicale (Montreal) (6 June 1972).
Hubbard, R.H. "Landscape Painting in Canada." In Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930: The Artist and The Land. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 138–139 (repr. col.).
Reid, Dennis. A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973, p. 145.
Lord 1974
Lord, Barry. Painting in Canada: Towards a People's Art. Toronto: NC Press, 1974, pp. 128–29.
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, pp. 17–33 (repr. col.).
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 124, 125, 193 (repr. col.).
Mellen, Peter. The Landmarks of Canadian Art. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd, 1978, pp. 9, 172 (repr. col.).
Boulet 1982
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp. 210–211 (repr. col .).
Murray, Joan. The Best of the Group of Seven. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig, 1984, p. 49 (repr. col.).
Nasgaard 1984
Nasgaard, Roald. The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940. Toronto, Buffalo, London: Art Gallery of Ontario and University of Toronto Press, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 180, 184 (repr.).
McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc, 1986, pp. 109, 164.
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, pp. 78–79 (repr. col.).
Burnett 1990
Burnett, David. Masterpieces of Canadian Art from the National Gallery of Canada. Edmonton, AB: Hurtig, 1990, pp. 86–87 (repr.).
Walton 1990
Walton, Paul H. "The Group of Seven and Northern Development." RACAR 17, no. 2 (1990), pp. 173,175, 206 (repr.).
Murray, Joan, pp. 32–33.
Bordo 1992
Bordo, Jonathan. "Jack Pine - Wilderness Sublime, or the Erasure of the Aboriginal Presence from the Landscape." Journal of Canadian Studies 27, no. 4 (1992), pp. 108–25 (repr.).
Porcelain Artist 1994
Porcelain Artist (May/June), p. 32 (repr. colour).
Murray 1994b
Murray, Joan. Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1994, pp. 74–75 (repr. col.).
Booth, David. Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and The Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995, p. 19 (repr. col.).
Newlands 1995
Newlands, Anne. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson: An Introduction. Willowdale, ON: Buffalo, New York, 1995, pp. 36–37 (repr. col.).
Davis 1998a
Davis, Ann. Thomson, Thomas John (Tom). Vol. 14 1911-1920, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 998–99.
MacHardy 1999
MacHardy, Carolyn Wynne. "Inquiry into the Success of Tom Thomson's The West Wind." University of Toronto Quarterly 68, no. 3 (summer 1999), (repr.).
Wistow 1999
Wistow, David, and Kelly McKinley. Meet the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1999, p. 18 (repr. col.).
Murray, Joan. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1999, p. 25 (repr. col.).
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 112–13 (repr. col.).
Newlands, Anne. "Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000." Canadian Art: From its Beginnings to 2000. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2000, p. 305 (repr. col.).
Murray, Joan. The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canadian Art, c. 1900-1920. Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. 134.
Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, cover (repr. col. det.), 32, 83, 140–41, 149, 288 (repr. col.).
Hill 2003
Hill, Charles C. "The Jack Pine." In Treasures of the National Gallery of Canada, David Franklin (ed.). Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada in association with Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 50–51 (repr. col.).
Silcox 2003
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 3, 45, 49–50, 209, 212 (repr. col.).
Grace, Sherrill E. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, Frontispiece, Pl. 2 (repr. col.).
Newlands, Anne. Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings. Toronto: Firefly, 2007, pp. 318–319 (repr. col.).
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, pp. 221–22, 364, 403, 404, 415, 420, Pl. 23 (repr. col.).
Whitelaw 2010
Whitelaw, Anne, Brian Foss, and Sandra Paikowsky eds. The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 4, 38, 43, back cover (left) (repr. col.).
Dejardin 2011
Dejardin, Ian. Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 10–11 (repr. col. det.), 18, 51–52, 73 (repr. col.), 81.
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 130–131, back cover (repr. col.).
Letters from E.E.Godin, 15 June 1931, and T.W. Dwight, 2 February 1932, to Blodwen Davies, concur in the opinion that the sketch was done on Grand Lake (Library and Archives Canada, Blodwen Davies fonds (MG30 D38)). R.G. Tozer, Algonquin Park Naturalist, Parks Canada, adds that the background is clearly Carcajou Bay (Tozer to Murray, September 13, 1995). Charles C. Hill suggests that the sketch was painted in the north of Algonquin Park, most probably at Lake Cauchon, in the spring of 1916.
Record last updated February 16, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. "The Jack Pine, Winter 1916–17 (1916-1917.16)." Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. https://www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=635 (accessed on January 22, 2020).
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Tikamgarh is a city and a tehsil, in Tikamgarh district, Madhya Pradesh, it also the district headquarter. The earlier name of the town was 'Tehri' (i..e. a triangle) consisting of three hamlets, forming a rough triangle.
In the Tikamgarh town there is muhalla still known as 'Purani Tehri'. Until Indian independence in 1947, Tikamgarh, formerly called Tehri, was part of the kingdom of Orchha, which was founded in the 16th century by the Bundeli chief Rudra Pratap, who became the first Raja of Orchha. In 1783 the capital of the state was moved to Tehri, about 40 miles south of Orchha, which was home to the fort of Tikamgarh, and the town eventually took the name of the fort. The district is famous for the old fort of Kundar known as Garh Kundar, which was built by Khangars and remained the capital of kshatriya Khangar rulers from 1180 to 1347. The district is named after its headquarters, Tikamgarh. The original name of the town was Tihri. In 1783, the ruler of Orchha Vikramajit (17761817) shifted his capital from Orchha to Tihri and renamed it Tikamgarh (Tikam is one of the names of Krishna).
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UFS professor recognised as one of Africa’s exceptional young scientists
22 February 2018 Photo Johan Roux
Prof Abdon Atangana is from the University of the Free State’s Institute for Groundwater Studies.
Prof Abdon Atangana from the University of the Free State’s Institute for Groundwater Studies was recently announced by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) as one of 25 early career scientists who were elected to form part of the third cohort of the AAS Affiliates Programme, which recognises exceptional young African scientists.
The Affiliates will be part of the AAS membership pool from 2018 to 2022, during which time they will be supported to attend conferences, symposia and workshops and other activities that will improve their skills in proposal development, grant writing and pitching innovations to help them win more grants, improve their publication records and ensure that their research impacts their communities.
Brilliant minds
“We welcome the new cohort that represents some of the brilliant minds from the continent. The AAS is committed to ensuring that they are provided with the opportunities they need to develop their careers and contribute to the development of the continent,” said AAS Executive Director Prof Nelson Torto.
The third cohort saw the most competitive pool yet with an overwhelming number of nominations from across the five regions of the continent of PhD holders below the age of 40. This year’s Affiliates are also drawn from countries not covered in the previous two cohorts including, Ethiopia, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Other countries from which the 25 were selected are Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Tunisia, South Africa and Uganda.
Besides mathematical sciences, Affiliates also represent disciplines that include cultural sciences, humanities and social sciences, medical and health sciences, agricultural sciences, biosciences and geological, environmental, Earth and space sciences.
World class research leaders
The AAS is a pan-African organisation headquartered in Kenya, that aims to drive sustainable development in Africa through science, technology and innovation. The AAS set up the Affiliates programme in 2015 to recognise, mentor and help early career professionals develop into world-class research leaders.
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News mexico: the new middle way
Mexico: the new middle way
Mexico is an economy in transition. It will take a generation or more for the transition to become complete. But, make no mistake, Mexico is on the move, empowered not just by large modern firms but small to medium-sized (SME) traditional businesses that are stepping up to take advantage of economic growth.
To date, transition among SMEs has been hard to find. But in pockets of enterprise, slowly but surely, they are benefiting from fiscal reform and professional support — and moving forward into a new Mexican era of increased effectiveness, productivity and international competition.
Research by the McKinsey Global Institute points to the long haul ahead. Productivity has grown by 5.8% a year in large, modern Mexican firms, but has fallen by 6.5% a year in traditional firms. In 1999, small traditional firms were 28% as productive as large modern ones, but by 2009 they were only 8% as productive.
For example, the 0.5 per cent of baking-industry employees who work in the very large, best-in-class corporates generate half of the industry’s added value. The vast majority of baking employees, however, work in traditional neighbourhood panaderías (bakeries) and tortillerías (small-scale tortilla factories), which achieve just one-fiftieth of the productivity of the best-in-class, large bakeries.
These ‘old versus new’ businesses reflect the dualistic nature of the Mexican economy as a whole. On one hand, ‘modern Mexico’ is a high-speed, sophisticated economy with cutting-edge auto and aerospace factories, multinationals that compete in global markets and universities that graduate more engineers than Germany.
In fact, Mexico has become one of the world’s top five auto producers. Annual production at the 10 largest Mexican plants rose from 1.1 million vehicles in 1994 to nearly 2.9 million in 2012. Many Mexican plants are regarded as world-class; some exceed average US productivity levels.
In food processing, Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo is a highly automated global player that has become the world’s largest baking company, with modern-format stores adopting the latest supply-chain management practices.
By comparison, ‘traditional Mexico’ is small-scale, low-speed, technologically backward and unproductive, often operating outside the formal economy (thereby avoiding taxes and other business costs).
What makes this gap frustrating, is that, so far, three decades of government economic reforms have failed to boost the country’s GDP growth.
Without capital to invest in new technology, the traditional sector has relied on manpower and a rising share of employment, creating jobs at a faster rate than the modern economy — the opposite of what typically happens as economies develop. Hence, GDP growth has stagnated. It fell to 1.1 per cent in 2013 (compared with annual average growth of 4.3 per cent between 2010 and 2012). Deceleration was driven by weaker export demand and a contraction in domestic investment, according to the World Bank.
Mexico’s GDP per capita has been similarly weak, rising by just 0.6 per cent per year on average (only 0.4 per cent during 2013) because of weak labour productivity, which fell from USD 18.30 per worker per hour (in purchasing power parity) in 1981 to USD 17.90 in 2012.
Key reforms for growth
Yet, the government – working towards mid-term elections in July 2015 – is pursuing with determination reforms in areas such as labour market regulation, education, telecommunications, financial sector regulations… The World Bank predicts a gradual recovery over the next few years, with more dynamic exports as the US economy gains pace, propelling economic growth back to the range of 3-4 per cent. Private investment, particularly in the liberalised energy sector, is expected to be key in enhancing economic growth.
Financial reforms, meanwhile, are aimed at promoting higher lending, particularly to SMEs at lower rates through development banks – to counteract Mexico’s low credit-to-GDP ratio, which lags far behind international standards. The reforms are designed to:
• Increase the role of development banks
• Encourage more lending by private sector banks
• Increase competition among commercial banks
• Strengthen the stability of the financial system.
Currently, in a Central Bank of Mexico survey, more than 80 per cent of Mexico’s capital-starved SMEs quote their credit sources as ‘suppliers’ (suggesting informal arrangements) rather than banks. Research shows that an important determinant of access to formal credit is to have had that access before – which automatically excludes firms with no credit history. The World Bank estimates that, as a result, more than half of Mexico’s SMEs have insufficient access to financial services.
Government reform of development bank support is aimed at increasing financial inclusion for smaller businesses. The government’s finance minister has given examples of how development banks could be utilised. One example is a guarantee by a development bank to underwrite commercial banks that give credit to firms with no credit history. According to the Ministry of Finance, in just one month the programme supported 6,000 firms.
Increasing credit to firms, particularly SMEs, will increase growth through more investment and through more consumption, creating a virtuous circle between credit and economic growth in Mexico, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch, welcoming the moves. However, for development bank credit to fuel growth, loans need to be directed to projects that create more jobs – projects created through SMEs that create about 70% of total employment.
Till now, however, government reforms have been enthusiastically adopted by modern businesses, many with global ambitions, but have barely touched ‘the other Mexico’, where traditional enterprises have operated in ‘the same old ways’, informality has risen, and productivity has been plunging, says McKinsey Global Institute. Overall, the productivity gains of modern companies have been all but offset by the decline in traditional businesses, leaving economy-wide productivity growth at about 0.8 per cent a year since 1990.
“For Mexico to get closer to its pre-1980 buoyant GDP growth rates, raise per capita income, grow the middle class, and bring more people out of poverty… the government must find a way of narrowing the gap between the ‘two Mexicos’ “, says McKinsey Global Institute.
Policies and practices that discourage traditional businesses from formalising in order to qualify for financing and invest in growth need to be rethought. More companies and workers need to move into the modern economy, creating a vibrant and globally competitive SME sector. More companies need professional support to grow and develop.
UHY’s member firm in Mexico, UHY Glassman Esquivel y Cía S.C., is at the forefront of supporting SMEs as they modernise. “We’re looking to create a business environment that encourages entrepreneurship and growth and removes economic barriers and short-sighted incentives, which, in the past, have encouraged businesses to remain small and informal,” says managing partner Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel.
Falling productivity in traditional firms – which account for 42% of employment – is offset by gains by modern firms.
Value added per occupied person.
(Many companies have remained small and continued to operate informally because of these economic incentives. The regulatory cost of establishing and operating a formal enterprise in Mexico is relatively high, and enforcement is weak and too often tainted by corruption, enticing companies of all sizes to conduct all or part of their business beyond the strictures of the formal economy.)
“More viable regulatory enforcement would also help companies join the formal economy,” says Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel. Currently, it costs twice as much (as a percentage of average income) to register a business in Mexico as in Chile — and seven times as much as in the US.
(Not only is it far costlier to start a formal business in Mexico than in peer countries, but it also costs more to expand: construction permits cost three times the average income per capita compared with 67 per cent in Chile. There are also wide variations in regulatory processes and regulations within Mexico: it takes six days to start a business in Monterrey and 49 days in Cancún.)
Despite reforms, requirements in Mexican labour regulations also discourage the hiring of full-time employees. Companies have limited flexibility to lay off workers or hire part-time employees. They must also contribute to profit-sharing plans.
To skirt these requirements, more and more employers are hiring even core personnel through contractors.
Broad measures needed to support growth across the Mexican economy include reducing electricity costs, upgrading infrastructure, improving labour-force skills and continuing to improve security. These ‘enablers’ will be important for continuing productivity improvements of modern and traditional companies alike — steps that are critical to reaching overall productivity goals.
How the two-speed economy came about
For three decades from the early 1950s, Mexico urbanised and industrialised at a rapid rate. GDP rose by an average of 6.5 per cent annually. From 1950 to 1970 productivity rose by 4.3 per cent a year on average. The ‘Mexican Miracle’ was hailed as a model for economic development.
That era passed, however, and growth has never fully recovered. An expansion of public spending under the ‘shared development’ programme in the 1970s led to financial imbalances that proved unsustainable when oil prices plunged, resulting in a financial crisis and devaluation in 1982.
Since 1981, GDP growth has averaged 2.3 per cent a year — mostly due to the expanding labour force — and GDP per capita has grown by just 0.6 per cent a year. Labour productivity, which fell sharply from its 1981 peak, has yet to recover completely in purchasing power terms. In 1980, Mexican GDP per capita was 12 times China’s GDP per capita. At current growth rates, China could surpass Mexico by 2018.
Volatile energy prices and financial crises have been part of the explanation, but stagnation among traditional enterprises, that limits GDP and productivity growth, has been at the heart of this malaise. Traditional enterprises employ 42 per cent of all workers, yet in 2009 contributed just 10 per cent of the total added value to the Mexican economy.
Lack of capital compels traditional companies to rely excessively on labour-intensive methods to raise output (often using family or informal workers), rather than making capital investments — thereby exacerbating the productivity problem. Lending in advanced economies, as a share of GDP, is 4.5 times higher than in Mexico. At 33 per cent of GDP, Mexico‘s lending places it behind Ethiopia, a nation with much lower GDP per capita.
To raise GDP growth to 3.5 per cent, the Central Bank of Mexico’s growth projection for 2014, productivity would need to rise by 2.3 per cent annually — almost three times the rate between 1990 and 2012. To meet the government’s 6 per cent goal would require raising productivity by 4.8 per cent annually, or about six times the rate of the past two decades.
Opportunities for increased productivity
“We see abundant opportunities to raise Mexican productivity to rates that would accelerate GDP growth,” says Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel.
“Mexico has many of the ingredients in place for both productivity improvement and accelerated GDP growth. It has not stinted on investment — roughly one-quarter of its GDP goes into fixed capital investment, a rate that is among the highest in Latin America. And Mexico’s macroeconomic environment has become increasingly stable over the past decades.
“Mexico has adopted many important market-opening reforms that have enabled the success of highly productive modern companies. As these large private corporations have been exposed to global competition at home and have expanded abroad, they have sharpened their operating skills. Such success is being translated into the SME sector, creating a new middle layer of entrepreneurial businesses focused on growth.”
With professional support, such enterprises are introducing labour-saving equipment and improving basic business processes. “Some strategies, such as investing in productivity-improving equipment and technologies, may be beyond the reach of some traditional enterprises that lack scale and access to capital,” says Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel. “However, companies of all sizes can introduce improvements such as adjusting product mix to include more high-value-added items. In addition, small enterprises can join buying consortia to qualify for discounts and gain access to better raw materials. In this way, for example, small bakers might raise quality and generate higher profits to invest in productivity-improving equipment.”
Food and beverage stores, the largest sub-segment of the retail industry, present an enormous opportunity for productivity improvement. Today, modern-format chains account for 65 per cent of sales. Yet traditional mom-and-pop stores, market stalls and counter stores continue to proliferate. They employ 84 per cent of workers in food and beverage retailing but have only 20 per cent of the productivity of modern stores. Many small stores have limited display space, requiring workers to take orders or suggest items to customers and fetch merchandise from storerooms, lengthening transaction times and hampering productivity.
“More small companies need to grow into modern mid-sized companies, and more mid-sized companies need to grow into large modern corporations,” says Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel. “By helping traditional enterprises evolve into modern, formal SMEs, with appropriate government actions to make informality less attractive, assistance from the private sector, and efforts by small business owners, many of Mexico’s traditional enterprises can evolve into the new breed of modern companies in the new middle-sector, ‘middle way’ economy.”
UHY’s member firm in Mexico offers consultancy services to support SMEs. The firm advises clients on how to develop their businesses, such as through human resources, financial resources and equipment. The firm also prepares business plans using a simulator that diagnoses the feasibility of the business through a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis and training in key areas.
Oscar Gutiérrez Esquivel
Email: oge@uhy-mx.com
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UJ’s Prof Tshilidzi Marwala explores the impact of machine-learning algorithms
Publishing Date: 1/21/2019 8:00 AM
Should we ensure that machine-learning algorithms are designed to be fair, unbiased and are driven by the principle of fairness rather than the principle of maximisation of profit, asks Prof Tshilidzi Marwala.
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and the author of Handbook of Machine Learning, recently penned an opinion piece published by the Sunday Independent.
Should machine learn the world as it is or as we wish it to be? - Prof Tshilidzi Marwala
Last week I spoke at the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Summit in Doha in Qatar on whether machines should learn from the real world or the imagined world. As I was preparing for this talk, I remembered the trip I took to Singapore with three of the academics of the University of Johannesburg whose names are Mkhuseli Baloyi, John Smith and Peter Jones. These are not their real names so I have used fictitious names in order to protect their identities.
When we left Singapore at the airport, I noticed that there was no one who was assisting us to depart but a machine. What we did was to put the pages of our passports with our pictures on the machine. There was a camera, which captured our faces and a machine-learning algorithm compared the picture in the passport with the picture captured by the camera. If the two pictures matched, then the gate automatically opened allowing a passenger to enter. If the two pictures did not match, then the person takes her/his credentials to a human entry controller. Furthermore, the machine is able to match images to the InterPol database. Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that uses statistics and the mechanism of the human brain to construct an intelligent machine.
I was the first one to arrive and I put my passport on the machine, and the camera captured my face. The machine-learning algorithm could not match the picture on my passport to my face as captured live on camera so a human controller had to assist me. The second person to arrive was John and he presented his credentials as I had done and the system could match the picture on his passport to the picture captured live by the camera. The third person to arrive was Mkhuseli who presented his credentials as I had done and the machine-learning algorithm could not match his passport photo to the photo captured live by camera and he was also denied automatic access. Then the last person to arrive was Peter and the machine-learning system allowed him to pass. What was common between Mkhuseli and I for us to be denied access by the machine-learning algorithm? It was that we were black Africans. What was common between John and Peter for them to be given access by a machine-learning algorithm? They were of European descent. Why is this machine-learning algorithm discriminating people of Sub-Saharan African descent?
It is because machine-learning algorithms that are currently in use are largely trained using data gathered in North America, Europe and Asia and not by data that is gathered in Empangeni where Mkhuseli comes from or Duthuni where I come from. Of course, in the Singapore case – the specific data of Mkhuseli and I is now recorded. This recording means that, in future, the Singapore entry for us is likely to be fine. The point, however, remains. Why is it that more data is gathered in Tokyo or New York or London than is gathered in Lagos or Johannesburg or Kinshasa? It is because an average person in Lagos, Johannesburg and Kinshasa is poorer than an average person in Tokyo, New York and London.
Companies that seek to maximise shareholder returns by maximising profit create machine-learning algorithms that are used to automate these tasks. In economics, companies that act in order to maximise profit are known as rational companies. Because these companies are driven by profit maximisation, they invest more resources to data gathering in Tokyo, New York and London because the average person in these cities is wealthier than they invest in Lagos or Johannesburg and Kinshasa. This wealth distribution is real and, therefore, these companies are investing based on economic data, as it exists. Therefore, these machines are learning the world as it is but by doing so they are inevitably discriminating against me, Mkhuseli and other Sub-Saharan Africans.
How about if we can imagine a world where we assume that the economic differences between Tokyo, New York and London nexus and Lagos or Johannesburg and Kinshasa nexus do not exist. If this is the case, then these machine-learning companies will gather as much data from Tokyo, New York and London as they gather from Lagos or Johannesburg and Kinshasa. If this is the case, then these machine-learning systems will no longer discriminate against people of Sub-Saharan descent. However, from an economic perspective these machine-learning systems have to be trained on economic unreality of economic equality for them not to discriminate. If they are trained on economic reality of economic inequality then discrimination is inevitable. How do we untangle this dilemma between reality and unreality, which, respectively, leads to discrimination and fairness?
Firstly, we need to understand that technology follows the characters of its makers. If its makers create technology without regard to human safety, then it can easily become a danger to society. When the Nazis created technology with the intention to murder people because of their race and religion, the result was genocide. When Dr Wouter Basson created technology with the sole purpose of murdering people, the result was death of innocent people. Therefore, it is important that we ensure primarily that technology is regulated to protect people. The first principle that we should adopt as far as technology is concerned is that it should not kill or harm people.
The second principle we should adopt is that technology should not go against the principles of human rights and dignity. The concept of discrimination whether done by humans or intelligent machines is against the Universal Declaration of Humans Rights. For us to enforce this principle, we should adopt an additional principle that ensures that economic interests should not supersede the principle of human rights. In the first industrial revolution, machines were used to improve the means of production. This made Britain a very wealthy nation and because of this revolution, Britain overtook China and India as the wealthiest country. Nevertheless, what is not put to the fore when we talk of the first industrial revolution is the use of child labour to help maximise profit.
The third principle is that we should embed into technology our values. A classic example to illustrate this a self-driving car that is travelling at 120 km/h and it encounters a pedestrian. If it can possibly only do two things, should it save a pedestrian and kill a passenger or should it save the passenger and kill the pedestrian? What should this self-driving car do if the passenger is a 60 years male person and the pedestrian is a girl who is 8 years old? To answer these questions, we need to interrogate our core values and embed these values into these self-driving cars. How about if as a country we do not have the means to design these self-driving cars, how do we ensure that we embed our values into the cars that we import?
In conclusion we should ensure that these machine-learning algorithms are designed to be fair, unbiased and are driven by the principle of fairness rather than the principle of maximisation of profit.
The views expressed in this article are that of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect that of the University of Johannesburg.
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Effect of Estrogen on Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts
Osteoporosis is a disease that afflicts many people, especially women. This disease is very debilitating and is characterized by excessive bone loss which results in severe fractures. There are two types of osteoporosis: Type I and Type II. Type I is the more severe type and is prevalent in post-menopausal women. There have been numerous hypothesis and studies as to the cause of osteoporosis and it’s relation to menopause (Riggs, 2002). The findings suggest that estrogen plays a major role. Estrogen receptors have been identified in bone and are involved in the production and maintenance of both osteoclasts and osteoblasts (Eriksen, 1988; Girasole, 1992). Osteoclasts function in bone resorption, and osteoblasts function in synthesizing new bone, hence these two cell types have opposite effects on bone (Saladin, 2010). Studies have shown that a decrease in estrogen levels in post-menopausal women is the primary cause of this reduction in bone density (Girasole 1992; Menolagas, 2002).
Estrogen is a steroid hormone that has many different functions. It is primarily involved in sexual differentiation and maturation, but also has some less obvious effects including thermoregulation and the maintenance of bone mineral deposition. Estrogen is a lipophilic hormone and therefore is capable of diffusing through the cell membrane and binding its two intracellular receptors, ERα and ERβ There are three female sex hormones: estrone (E1), estradiol (E2) and estriol (E3), however, estrogen is the common name used to refer to all three, though estradiol is the main form of estrogen (Carlsten, 2005).
Estrogen is mainly synthesized in the ovaries, though its synthesis is not limited to the ovaries. Some peripheral tissues, such as adipose tissue, are capable of producing estrogen by way of steroid precursors (Nelson, 2001; Simpson 1981). Synthesis of estrogen involves many different precursors the first of which is cholesterol. Cholesterol is converted in the ovarian follicle to pregnenolone which can be converted to 17α-hydroxypregnenolone. 17 α-hydroxypregnenolone is then converted to dehydroepiandrosterone which is converted to androstenedione which undergoes a conversion to the androgen, testosterone. Aromatase then converts testosterone to esradiol (E2). Estradiol is then secreted from the follicle and can either act on its target tissue or undergo another conversion to estrone (E1) and estriol (E3) which takes place in the liver.
Estrogen has two main receptors ( ERα and ERβ) that mediate its primary effects. These receptors belong to the nuclear receptor family and are transcription factors that are regulated by ligands (Carleson, 2005). Estrogen receptors require numerous coregulatory proteins that have cell-specific expressions. These cell specific expressions delineate some of the specific actions of estrogen in its various target tissues (Heldring, 2007).The two estrogen receptors maintain some highly conserved regions such as their DNA binding domains; both ERα and ERβ bind the same DNA response elements. Other domains are not at all conserved, such as the amino-terminal which exhibits significant variability in sequence as well as in length. The ligand-binding domain is located at the C-terminal and is a multifunctional domain. Both the N-terminal and the C-terminal contain activation functions, AF-1 and Af-2, respectively. These activation functions, work to activate transcription by recruiting coregulatory proteins to the DNA-binding domain. Though ERα and ERβ are fairly homologous, they are actually derived from separate genes which are located on separate chromosomes. ERα and ERβ also give very different splice variants (Heldring, 2007). ERα and ERβ regularaly act as antagonists of each other when expressed in the same cells; hence, estrogen signaling functions as a balance between these two contradictory receptors (Carleson, 2005). It appears as if ERβ works to inhibit the effect of ERα by not only altering the recruitment of transcription factors essential for of ERα-dependent transcription, but also by increasing the degredation of ERα by way of ERβ2, a splice variant of ERβ (Heldring, 2007). Estrogen receptors have been found in many non-reproductive tissues including bone. This fact lends credence to the theory of estrogen’s involvement in the maintenance of bone.
Estrogen Signaling
There are a few distinct pathways that are involved in estrogen signaling. Three of these signaling pathways are ligand-dependent, the fourth is ligand-independent. The first ligand-dependent pathway is the classical or direct pathway (Fig. 1a.) in which the ligand (usually estradiol) binds the receptor and this ligand receptor complex then dimerizes with another ligand-receptor complex in order to bind estrogen response elements in the promoters of target genes (Carleston, 2005).
The second ligand-dependent pathway is referred to as the tethered pathway (Fig. 1b.). The tethered pathway involves protein-protein interactions with transcription factors. These interactions occur after the receptor has been activated by the ligand. Hence, the receptor activates transcription by an indirect DNA binding mechanism (Carleston, 2005).
The non-genomic pathway (Fig 1c.) is also ligand-dependent but is not as well understood as the previous two. It is known that the receptor is activated by the ligand, which then initiates a signaling cascade resulting in the activation of second messenger systems (Heldring, 2007). Studies have shown that the activation of these second messenger systems display some common effects including an increase in the production of cAMP levels as well as the activation of the MAPK pathway (Lim, 2006). This activation of second messenger systems ultimately leads to a rapid physiological response without involving gene regulation (Heldring, 2007).
The fourth signaling pathway is ligand-independent (Fig.1d.) and involves activation by way of other signaling pathways such as that of Growth Hormone which ultimately leads to the activation of gene regulation. This activation of gene regulation occurs due to the activation of protein kinases that work to phosphorylate the estrogen receptor. This phosphorylation causes receptor dimerization which allows the receptors to then bind the DNA and activate gene transcription (Carleson, 2005; Heldring, 2007).
a.) The direct ligand dependent pathway in which the ligand directly binds the receptor which dimerizes and binds the DNA promoter region.
b.) The tethered pathway is indirect and involves protein interactions with transcription factors that allow for the binding of the transcription factor to the promoter region
c.) The non-genomic pathway involvs activation by the ligand which then can cause a signal transduction pathway resulting in activation of second-messenger systems.
d.) The ligand-independent pathwayin which activation occurs by other signalling pathways (i.e. GH) and eventually leads to activation of gene transcription.
Source: Heldring, Pike, Andersson et al. Estrogen Receptors: How do they signal and What are Their Targets. Physiol. Rev. 87: 905-931. 2007.
Estrogen and Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease that is characterized by a decrease in bone mineral density and hence an increase in the frequency of bone fractures (Though osteoporosis is often associated with post-menopausal women, the disease is not necessarily limited by gender. Osteoporosis was separated into two classes in 1983 by Riggs and Melton. The two types of osteoporosis (Type I and Type II) differ in regions of bone mineral density, patterns of fracture, causal mechanisms and hormonal changes. Type I osteoporosis is the more severe form of osteoporosis, however, type II is more common especially in the elderly (70+) (Riggs, 2003).
Type I Osteoporosis is prevalent in post-menopausal women. It usually arises within 20 years after menopause and is associated with excessive cancellous bone loss. Fractures occur at sites that are rich in cancellous bone. Type I osteoporosis is associated with an increase in osteoclast function and a decrease in osteoblast function. This is thought to be due to a decrease in the levels of estrogen present in post-menopausal women (Girasole, 1992; Ribot, 1997). Osteoporosis has been found to occur in men also; primarily elderly men. The underlying explanation for osteoporosis is that the sex steroids play a role in the remodeling process of bones. Hence, when ovarian function ceases due to menopause in women, estrogen levels decrease and bone remodeling is therefore disrupted in a deleterious fashion. Osteoporosis in men is associated with a loss of androgens which is generally due to either castration or aging (Manolagas, 2002).
Type II osteoporosis is prevalent in both men and women and can occur at any age, though it is more often associated with the elderly (above age 70). Type II osteoporosis is characterized by the loss of trabecular bone. It is generally due to aging effects such as hyperparathyroidism and impaired bone formation, and also a decrease in vitamin D and PTH levels. There is some speculation as to whether or not Type II osteoporosis may also be due to late effects of decreased estrogen levels (Riggs, 2003).
Evidence for estrogen’s involvement in osteoporosis and its actions on maintaining bone mass can be seen in the study conducted by Riggs et al. which involved 36 women with vertebral fractures due to type I osteoporosis. These women all displayed a high bone turnover rate. The women with type I osteoporosis were compared with 36 normal women (women who did not exhibit Type I osteoporosis) after they were given small amounts of the sex steroids: estradiol, estrone, and testosterone. Blood and urine samples were continuously taken (about every 24 hours) and analyzed to reveal that the levels of the sex steroids were equally apparent in both groups of women. However, the amount of all bone biochemical markers (involved in bone turnover) appeared higher in the osteoporotic women. Though the experiment did not detect a difference in the sex steroid concentrations between the two groups of women, post-experimental power calculations were done to show that there are differences between the two groups when α = .05 and 1-β = 0.8. The differences for serum estrone, estradiol and testosterone were as follows: 6.3%, 9.9%, and 4.4%, respectively. Some of the women with osteoporosis then underwent another study in which they were split into two groups. One group of osteoporotic women received one-year’s worth of treatment with transdermal estrogen while the other group of osteoporotic women received a year’s worth of treatment with a placebo. The women who underwent estrogen treatment displayed a remarkably larger decrease in bone turnover markers than the women treated with the placebo (Riggs, 2002).
Osteoclasts, Osteoblasts and the Estrogen Connection
Osteoclasts are cells involved in maintaing bone homeostasis and are located on the bone surface in the anterior portion where they work to digest old bone (Manolagas, 2002). Osteoclasts are derived from macrophages, and are very large multinuclear cells formed from the fusion of multiple stem cells (Saladin, 2010). Osteoclasts function in digesting bone; hence they are involved in bone resorption. Bone resorption is a process that releases calcium back into the circulatory system by digesting bone tissue (Saladin, 2010). The function of osteoclasts is essential to the broader process of bone remodeling.
Osteoblasts are also involved in maintaining bone homeostasis and are active in the process of bone remodeling. Osteoblasts are located in the posterior portion of the bone surface and work to produce new bone in the areas that underwent excavation by osteoclasts (Manolagas, 2002). Osteoblasts are derived from mesenchymal stem cells (Zallone, 2006). The mesenchymal stem cells give rise to osteogenic cells which give rise to most other bone cell types including osteoblasts. Osteoblasts are immature bone cells that are located beneath the endosteum and periosteum of the bone. Osteoblasts synthesize the components of the bone matrix. The matrix undergoes mineral deposition which causes it to harden, and hence the osteoblasts become trapped within the matrix. When osteoblasts mature, they become osteocytes which function in maintaining bone (Saladin, 2010).
Osteoblasts function in making new bone. They deposit calcium salts into the bone matrix in order to make hydroxyapate which is the calcium reserve in bone. Osteoblasts fill in the cavities that were excavated by osteoclasts with new bone. Osteoblasts may be stimulated by various signals and hormones such as calcitonin and estrogen which both function in decreasing blood calcium levels and maintaining calcium levels in bone (Saladin, 2010).
Estrogen receptors (ERα and ERβ) as well as androgen receptors (AR) have been identified in both osteoblasts and osteoclasts and their parental cells. The presence of these receptors indicates that estrogen has a direct effect in mediating the process of bone remodeling (Eriksen, 1988; Girasole, 1992; Manolagas, 2002). Estrogen and androgens also have an indirect effect on the process of bone remodeling via the cytokine, interleukin-6 (IL-6) which is an important factor in the process osteoclastogenesis in bone marrow stromal cells (Carleston, 2005; Manolagas, 2002). The Study conducted by Girasole et al. has shown that estrogen has an inhibitory effect on IL-6, which results in a decrease in the production of osteoclasts. This decrease in osteoclastogenesis ultimately causes a decrease in bone resorption (Girasole, 1992).
Estrogen and androgens inhibit the production of IL-6 in vitro by inhibiting Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor-necrosis factor (TNF)-α. IL-1 and TNF-α are involved in the synthesis of IL-6 (Ribot, 1997). Some studies suggest that estrogen has more of an effect on TNF-mediated production of IL-6, than on IL-1 mediated production (Girasole et al. 1992). The expression of the IL-6 receptor subunits, gp130 and IL-6-Rα, are also suppressed in bone marrow stromal cells and in osteoblast progenitor cells (Manolagas, 2002). Studies done in mice have shown that when the IL-6 gene is knocked out or neutralized (via antibodies) the upregulation of colony-forming unit-granulocyte/macrophage (CFU-GM) (which osteoclasts are derived from) in bone marrow is prevented. Hence, there is not an increase in osteoclast production. The results showed that the antigen caused the estradiol-induced inhibition of bone resorption to itself be inhibited (Ribot, 1997).
A decrease in estrogen (as well as androgens) also has an effect on osteoblasts. One mechanism by which osteoblasts are regulated by estrogen can be observed in bipotential stromal cells; these cells express the estrogen receptors. The bipotential stromal cells are parents to both adipocytes and osteoblasts. A study conducted by Okazaki et al. in mouse bone marrow stromal cell lines, found that estrogen works to mediate the differentiation of the parental bipolar stromal cells towards the production of osteoblasts (Okazaki, 2002). Post-menopausal women who exhibit bone loss have been observed to have an increased amount of lipid concentration in their bone marrow. Hence, a decrease in estrogen would cause an increase in adipogenesis and a decrease in osteoblastogenesis (Okazaki, 2002). This decrease in osteoblastogenesis would result in a decrease in bone formation.
A study that was conducted on post-menopausal Chinese women by Sun et al. was also useful in determining the effects of estrogen treatment for osteoporosis. These women all ranged from 41-58 years of age and had undergone menopause for more than a year. The women were split into 4 different groups. Each group received different levels of 17β-estradiol (E2) gel along with a form of progesterone, either micronized progesterone (MP) or medroxyprogesterone (MPA). The progesterone was added along with the estrogen in order to prevent endometrial hyperplasia which may occur as a result of estrogen replacement therapy. The dosages differed in both progesterone type and concentration as well as in estrogen concentration. The exact dosages for each group were as follows: group 1 received 1.5 mg E2 and 100 mg MP, group 2 received 1.5 mg E2 and 2 mg MPA, group 3 received 0.75 mg E2 and 100 mg MP, and group 4 received 0.75 mg of E2 and 2 mg MPA. These dosages were administered once a day, 25 days a month for at least a year (some of the subjects were studied for two or three years). Blood and urine samples were taken from these women and monitored for bone mineral density (BMD). The results showed that after about a year of this treatment, the average increase in BMD in cancellous bone of the 4 groups ranged from 4.6%–6.4%. After 36 months an increase in the BMD of the bones in the neck and the lumbar vertebrae were observed; the averages ranged from 4.3%-7.5% and 4.2%-6.2%, respectively. This study also found that the BMD in the hip (an area that is prone to fractures), had significantly higher levels than the baseline levels. The main purpose of the study was to determine an appropriate dosage of estrogen and progestin for post-menopausal Chinese women; the results of the study indicated that either 0.75 mg or 1.5 mg of E2 daily is sufficient for prevention of bone loss in Chinese women. The study suggests that hormone replacement therapy has a significant effect on bone, especially during the first two years of treatment (Sun, 2002).
The knowledge of estrogen’s actions on bone and the inhibitory effect it has on osteoclastogenesis, has led to the utilization of estrogen as a treatment for osteoporosis. Estrogen’s ability to maintain bone mass in post-menopausal women has made estrogen replacement therapy a valuable form of treatment. This treatment utilizes the protective properties of estrogen on bone and functions in increasing bone mineral density (BMD) in post-menopausal women (Sun, 2002). Estrogen’s positive effects on bone are amplified during the treatment; hence, estrogen induces stimulation of osteoblastogenesis and inhibits osteoclastogenesis via IL-6 (Girasole, 1992; Okazaki, 2002). The type of estrogen administered (other than estriol) seems to have no difference in effectiveness; hence, synthetic estrogen, 17β-estridiol, and equine estrogen all have equal effects on the maintenance of bone mass and all work to decrease the amount of bone turnover (Ribot, 1997). The method by which estrogen is administered (i.e. transdermally, percutaneously, etc.) also does not appear to make a difference in its effectiveness. The dosages of estrogen as well as the duration of the treatment seem to be the only variables involved in determining the effectiveness of estrogen replacement therapy (Ribot., 1997). In order for estrogen replacement therapy to have a long term effect, estrogen must be administered for about 5-7 years (Cauley 1995; Ribot, 1997). Estrogen replacement therapy is also most effective if it is initiated early after menopause. A study conducted by Cauley et al. found that women who started estrogen treatment within 5 years of menopause and/or underwent treatment for 10 years or more, had the most effective and long-lasting results (Cauley 1995).
Though Estrogen Replacement Therapy is a promising and effective mechanism for treatment of osteoporosis, it is associated with some serious physiological risks. Long-term usage of estrogen has been known to cause endometrial cancers. However, when estrogen is administered in conjunction with progestins, the risk of endometrial hyperplasia is significantly reduced. (Ribot, 1997; Sun, 2002). Many studies have been conducted to determine whether or not there is a relationship between estrogen and breast cancer. Some studies suggest that there is a correlation between the risk of breast cancer and use of estrogen (Lim, 2006). Other studies suggest that there is no correlation (Ribot, 1997). Though estrogen replacement therapy is associated with a few serious risks, it also has other positive physiological effects on other areas of the body, not just bone. For example, estrogen is thought to have a preventive effect on Alzheimer’s disease and also on Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in post-menopausal women (Ribot, 1997; Tang, 1996).
The onset of type I osteoporosis is generally characterized by a loss of ovarian function which therefore results in a loss of estrogen in postmenopausal women. (Manolagas 2002). Estrogen can be used as a treatment for osteoporosis due to the presence of estrogen receptors in osteoclasts, osteoblasts and their precursors, as well as in bone marrow stromal cells (Zallone, 2006). The positive actions of estrogen on bone are mainly due to the suppressive actions of estrogen on bone resorption by osteoclasts (Okazaki, 2002). When Estrogen levels are decreased, the normal regeneration process, which involves bone resorption followed by an appropriate amount of bone formation, is disturbed (Zallone, 2006). Various in vitro studies have been conducted that demonstrate that the presence of estrogen (as well as androgens) increases the action of factors that work to inhibit the process of osteoclastogenesis (Bellido, 1995). The decrease in the production of osteoclasts due to estrogen would therefore cause a decrease in the process of bone resorption (Okazaki 2002). Estrogen also has an effect on the production and differentiation of osteoblastic cells. However, it has the opposite effect on osteoblasts and thereby stimulates their production by shifting the mechanism of bipolar stromal cells towards the production of osteoblastic cells rather than that of adipocytes (Okazaki, 2006). Hence, estrogen works to decrease bone resorption and increase bone formation, thereby creating a protective effect on bone which can be utilized to treat such debilitating diseases as osteoporosis.
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8 search results for “comparative indo-european linguistics” in the Public website
The EUROLITHIC project Research project
Why do we have the languages that we speak in Europe today? When in European prehistory did these languages establish themselves, and what where the prehistoric mechanisms behind the formation of the historical European linguistic landscape?
Indo-European etymological dictionary Research project
This project aims to identify and describe the common lexical heritage of the Indo-European languages.
The development of the Proto-Indo-European syllabic liquids in Greek Research output
Ancient Greek was spoken in a large number of different dialects. Although we do not find direct evidence for syllabic liquids in any of our sources, comparative evidence shows that these sounds must have been present in Proto-Greek, and that they were retained until comparatively recently in the prehistory…
The Tocharian subjunctive (2004-2010) Research output
In this study, the formation of the Tocharian subjunctive is described, its use and meaning are analysed and its origins are investigated.
The Hittite Inherited Lexicon Research output
This dissertation attempts to describe the linguistic history of Hittite on the basis of a systematic etymological treatment of its entire inherited lexicon, precisely analyzing the phonological and morphological developments.
Studies in Armenian Etymology with Special Emphasis on Dialects and Culture Research output
This dissertation provides an up to date description of the Indo European lexical stock of Armenian (ca. 500 entries) with systematic inclusion of unused data that are found in Armenian dialects.
Consonant and vowel gradation in the Proto-Germanic n-stems: an investigation of Germanic morphophonology Research output
This dissertation focuses on the systematic vowel alternations displayed by the Proto-Germanic n-stems. The fact is, that many of these nouns now appear to have preserved the ablaut system of the Indo-European proto-language spoken some five millennia ago. In this respect, the n-stems are truly comparable…
Alwin Kloekhorst receives Vidi grant News - 23 May 2014
Alwin Kloekhorst, working at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has received a Vidi grant for his research on the break-up of the Indo-European language.
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Max Savage
Camp Cope, Gang of Youths & Tkay Maidza rack up nominations for the 2016 National Live Music Awards!
The nominees for the National Live Music Awards have been announced around the country today, with 51 categories being unveiled across the board. Winners are to be announced on November 29th at events being run nationally, with both national and state-specific categories being voted on by a judging panel of industry professionals from right around Australia. […]
Max Savage and The False Idols announce Australian east coast tour!
Rock n’ roll frontman Max Savage and his band The False Idols will be hitting the road in April to celebrate the release of True Believers, which comes out on April 9. Leaving their Americana influences behind, True Believers delivers a rock sound unique to the Aussie band, evoking sounds from the Go-Betweens, Noiseworks, Paul Kelly and The Church. […]
Single of the Day: Max Savage “Baby Don’t Cry” (2015)
Adelaide’s Max Savage presents his latest effort in new single, “Baby Don’t Cry”, an earnest and gorgeous track that sees the songwriter pursue a more intimate and stripped back vibe – just vocals and the aid of an electric guitar. Fans will be aware of the raucous rock and roll type shows and music Savage […]
Grenadiers, SKIES, Timberwolf and more revealed as SA nominees for the 2nd Annual AU Live Music Awards!
This afternoon via Radio Adelaide, the South Australian artists, events and venues up for awards in this year’s AU Live Music Awards were revealed. Coming off the back of a huge night of recognition at the South Australian Music Awards this week, we’ve been stoked to have teamed up with Radio Adelaide in bringing the […]
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Science Falsely So-Called
Hunt, Dave
"Friendship of the world is enmity with God" (James:4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
See All...). It would be both illogical and unscriptural to imagine that those in whom the One now lives who was "despised and rejected of men" and through whom He now expresses Himself on this earth would not themselves be despised and rejected by the world. Popularity with the ungodly requires a compromise of faith.
It is an insult to God to modify Christianity to reflect worldly wisdom. He who does so forgets that "the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God" (1 Cor:3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
See All...) and imagines that God's Word needs supplementation with human ideas. To adjust the gospel in order to make it appealing to the ungodly is dishonest; while to supplement the Bible with worldly wisdom as though it were inadequate where it claims to be fully sufficient is to deny the faith. Yet such fatuous adjustments are being made increasingly, causing unbelievers to despise and ridicule Christians—not for our Christlikeness, but for our folly.
The cause of Christ is not discredited by failure to keep up with modern science (which has nothing to do with spiritual reality), but by the substitution of "science falsely so-called" for God's unchanging truth. This is a modern abomination.
A prime example of such dishonor to the cause of Christ took place at the 1988 Christian Booksellers Association annual convention held in Dallas last July. The scene was one of CBA's biggest events, the Evangelical Publishers Association banquet. Author Gary Smalley, the featured speaker, was a humorous and a polished communicator, but his speech was humanistic nonsense. His entire talk was based upon today's popular left-brain/right-brain myth spawned by pop psychology—a myth which brain researchers call "whole-brain half-wittedness."
I was embarrassed because of the many non-Christians present who knew that what Smalley was saying was ludicrous. Yet they observed hundreds of Christian leaders, representing the cream of evangelical publishing, applauding in enthusiastic approval. I was angry because I knew this event could only make the unsaved present even more cynical of "Christianity." Moreover, instead of biblical truth that sets free, a deluding lie that would enslave was being passed off upon trusting Christians who thought that the "expert" addressing them knew whereof he spoke.
How bad was Smalley's information? An Omni article recently said, "Everyone knows that the left [brain] hemisphere is rational, logical and Western, and the right is creative, intuitive, and Eastern. Everyone knows, that is, except the scientists who did the research on which the whole notion of left and right brains is based." The determined efforts by brain researchers such as Jerre Levy of the University of Chicago "to undo the 'mythology' that has sprung up around right and left brain" have had little effect. As one writer explains: "...the left/right brain myth has a lot of pizzazz." Smalley used that "pizzazz" to dazzle and delude his audience.
Showing the contempt with which brain researchers view this fad, another article in Psychology Today was titled "Left Brain, Right Brain, Broccoli Brain?" In a third magazine, Sally P. Springer, co-author of Left Brain, Right Brain, writes, "The concept that the human brain is divided into two halves or hemispheres, each with specialized functions, is now firmly entrenched in popular culture....[Yet] by all of our current measures...both hemispheres are active and involved in any situation. ...Those who seek to modify our educational systems and implement assessment and training programs based on our knowledge of brain asymmetry are indeed on shaky ground....their ideas receive no [scientific] support."
Then what must be said for those who reinterpret the Bible and counsel Christians based upon this humanistic myth! 2 Timothy:4:3-4 [3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
See All... warns, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." The fulfillment of that prophecy seems to have come upon today's church with a vengeance.
Unlike some of the more devious theories of humanistic psychology honored in the church today, the left/right-brain error is obvious and easily refuted. It deals not with the soul/psyche but with the physical brain. That people favor or use only one side of their brains is as absurd as the notion (also promoted by "Christian psychologists") that we use only 10 percent (or less) of our brains and thus have a huge untapped potential. It is ludicrous to imagine that most brain cells lie unused—or that husbands need to "develop" or "activate" the right side of their brains in order to communicate with their wives. Yet such myths, couched in Christian terms, are more appealing to the carnal mind than biblical truth.
Instead of sound doctrine, Gary Smalley's talk offered a series of humorous anecdotes presenting an oversimplified perspective on the communication problems husbands and wives experience—all explained by the myth that males are left-brained while females are right-brained. The solution he offered was to paint "emotional word pictures," which allegedly activate the dormant right side of men's brains and communicate with the dominant right side of their wives' brains. There was nothing of spiritual value, no teaching from God's Word. Men and women were depicted as stimulus-response mechanisms whose failures to love and forgive were simply due to poor communication caused by brain hemispheres being out of sync.
The only reference to Scripture was to tell us at the end of the talk that he had explained left/right-brain thinking so that we could fulfill the admonition in Ephesians 5 for husbands to love their wives. Then he prayed. For the first time in my life I did not close my eyes and could not join in a prayer. It seemed an insult to God to seek His blessing upon this deceitful and harmful mixture of misinformation and pop psychology.
Smalley's talk at the CBA Convention was based upon his new book (co-authored with John Trent), The Language of Love, published in 1988 by Focus on the Family and distributed by Word Books. The prestigious Focus on the Family magazine for November 1988 featured Chapter 4 from that book, sending out to hundreds of thousands of trusting Christians such false statements as, "By using the power of emotional word pictures to open his right brain, a man can move beyond 'facts' and begin to achieve total communication with a woman....If a woman truly expects to have meaningful communication with her husband, she must activate the right side of his brain....Indeed, a world of colorful communication waits for those who learn the skill of bridging both sides of the brain." This is pure nonsense and is condemned by the very brain research which Smalley and Dobson naively imagine supports it.
There are almost no references to Scripture in the entire Smalley/Trent book. The very few there are consist of attempts to use the Bible to support the fallacious humanism being presented. For example, it is suggested that Nathan the prophet activated the right side of King David's brain by using "an emotional word picture that would change the course of a kingdom and echo throughout the ages....shattered by the blow of one emotional word picture... [David] was forced...to feel...." Talk about a trivialization of Scripture! It was the Holy Spirit who convicted David!
Not only does a technique (activating the right brain and thereby arousing the emotions through the use of "word pictures") become the key, but its appeal is not to conscience or truth but to feelings. The technique is self-centered and independent of the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin and the power of truth to reach the conscience. There is no moral obligation or motivation by the fear of God and His love, but it is all feelings- and experience-oriented. The fact that such techniques, like placebos, often work for a time makes them doubly dangerous.
While Smalley's book does point out the necessity for communication, it promotes a feelings-oriented pseudospirituality unrelated to truth. The only "faith" it offers is divorced from fact and vulnerable to further delusion. From church leaders we are increasingly getting pop psychology under a Christian label but with basically no biblical content. Thinking non-Christians recognize this folly and belittle the gospel and Christianity on that basis.
Take for example the following from The Association for Humanistic Psychology's October 1988 AHP Perspective: "Christians claim to know that Jesus died for their sins because they experience relief and new life when they 'accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.' They fail to grasp that such a sense of renewal flows naturally from releasing guilt feelings and experiencing acceptance, no matter whether the belief that brings us to this new freedom is based on fact or fiction." This is a valid criticism of a psychologized and self-centered "Christianity," that justifies itself not on the basis of truth but as a means of producing a more positive self-image and greater sense of self-acceptance and self-worth. Such "Christianity" has no valid claim to superiority over other humanistic methods that produce similar placebo effects. Today's pop "Christian" psychology is setting a generation up for a huge fall. The only hope is a return to propositional truth (sound doctrine).
The same issue of AHP Perspective also comments, "Many of us grow up with little or no awareness of how often and how much we adjust our perceiving to accommodate our needs for acceptance, approval and belonging." Certainly a valid point. Yet these very "needs" are placed ahead of objective truth in the church today—and catering to them is the foundation of much Christian psychology. Substituting psychology's latest fads for solid biblical exegesis will produce a new generation of "Christians" whose "faith" makes them feel good and may even temporarily help their marriages, but has no moral/spiritual/biblical content. Such "faith" will fail them in times of real crisis.
The popularity and pernicious influence of fallacious humanistic theories in the church is indicated by the fact that even before publication, bookstores had ordered more than 100,000 copies of Smalley's book. Yet this "Christian" book published by one of the most trusted and influential Christian leaders today gives to millions the false impression that the reason husbands and wives have problems is not that their hearts are evil and selfish but simply that there has been a failure to communicate one's feelings adequately. While communication is indeed important, it must convey not only feelings but commitment based upon God's truth.
Jesus was the perfect communicator, yet there were multitudes who heard His parables (which Smalley says are designed to activate the right brain), experienced His miracles and rejected Him. He was crucified by those He healed and fed and taught, because they would not accept His admonition: "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (Jn:8:31-32 [31] Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; [32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
See All...). That truth is absent from Smalley's book.
Let us not shrug our shoulders and go on about our business when we see obvious and serious error promoted by Christian leaders. Ask God what he would have you do in each specific instance and do it.
The cross of Christ and our crucifixion to the self life, so missing from popular evangelicalism, is the only way to heaven and the only basis of joy and genuine victory in this life and of His "Well done" in the life to come. Let us remain true to our rejected Lord in spite of popular fads and the reproach attached to His cross. TBC
Postscript: Dave Hunt met with Smalley and Trent and their pastor in Phoenix at their request as a result of their article. They subsequently removed from Language of Love the references to left-brain and right-brain mythology. Unfortunately, however, they have continued to promote other myths from psychology.
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The 10 Best Movies of 2018: K. Austin Collins’s List
Vanity Fair’s film critic picks his top 10, which venture from the moon to the other side of the wind to the soul of a particularly tortured reverend.
From left, courtesy of Annapurna Pictures, courtesy of Universal Pictures, courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.
A lie critics tell themselves too often is that a year in movies has been particularly good or especially bad. But this year, I’m echoing it as well: it was an unusually rich year for movies. Here are the very best of them. (For another view on 2018’s greatest films, read chief critic Richard Lawson’s own top 10 list here. For the best of 2018 in TV, read TV critic Sonia Saraiya’s top 10 list here.)
10. Sollers Point
Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Matthew Porterfield’s fourth feature is, like his previous work, a subtle, razor-sharp portrait of working-class Baltimore—this time told through the striking blue eyes of 24-year-old Keith (McCaul Lombardi, in a star-making performance), a small-time drug dealer consigned to nine months of house arrest. What unfolds is, in part, what you’d expect for a jobless, wandering hero with no immediate prospects. Working class but not working, Keith verges dangerously close to resuming that life of crime, ankle bracelet be damned. Rather than merely a tamped-down portrait of downtrodden white-guy criminality, however, what emerges from Porterfield’s extraordinarily poised study is a wide-angle, all-encompassing sense of community: of fractured social and personal ties reinforced by a sense of shared fate, geography, and broke-ness—but not brokenness. Minor characters are painted here with more detail and sympathy than the main characters in many other films. One of the great overlooked indie films of the year, and a testament to the enduring urgency of local, low-budget filmmaking.
9. First Man
Courtesy of Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.
With respect to A Star Is Born—the other major 2018 release that was originally slated to be directed by Clint Eastwood—this year’s best big-budget studio release is Damien Chazelle’s startling, formally overwhelming depiction of Neil Armstrong and his historic 1969 moon landing. “Great man” stories are passé, but First Man is more pointedly a film about the terror of the technological unknown. Every step leading up to the Apollo 11 mission, as depicted here, was a suicide mission—and better than almost any film depicting space travel that I can think of, Chazelle realizes that terror in some of the most disorientingly subjective scenes of flight I’ve seen in a movie. Ryan Gosling’s Armstrong may be frustratingly taciturn, and he may hold the center of the film as an indomitable genius of engineering and piloting savvy. But First Man isn’t a naked ode to that genius; it’s a fascinating study of the costs.
8. Zama
From Strand Releasing/Everett Collection.
Argentine master Lucrecia Martel’s wonderful 18th-century farce, adapted from Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 novel, stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer stranded at a distant colonial outpost. You’d think that’d be high living for a man of rank, but Zama is miserable, and his routine requests for transfer back to Buenos Aires—civilization—are constantly deferred or ignored. So he wanders, mopes, falls in lust, and wastes away. It’s a form of power that somehow, despite itself, withers right before our eyes—somewhat tragically, somewhat humorously, but above all with a grotesque sense of uncertainty. Martel’s hawkeyed sense of detail and her penchant for unpredictably mobile frames make you feel as if the movie, too, is slipping away. You don’t watch Zama so much as you wander through it, nipping at Zama’s heels, taking in a scene that includes some of the most unusual depictions of slavery and colonialism committed to screen in recent memory.
7. Minding the Gap
By Bing Liu/Kartemquin Films.
Bing Liu’s first documentary couldn’t be more personal. In the broadest sense, it’s a chronicle of Rust Belt adolescence told from the bird’s-eye view of a skateboarder and his close friends. Zack and Keire, Liu’s partners in crime—though he barely knew one of them before he began filming—were drawn to skateboarding for the same reasons that Liu once was: troubled home lives, questionable future prospects, and a need to commune with other troubled men. As these young men grow closer, the ties that bind them strain under the fraught realities of unemployment and cyclical violence. Turning his camera on his friends and their tumultuous personal lives, Liu manages to create a portrait of none other than himself. And he fills that portrait with visually lyrical testaments to the sport that brought them together in the first place.
6. The Other Side of the Wind
Courtesy of Netflix.
Orson Welles’s last movie may have been filmed between 1970 and 1976, and edited intermittently until Welles’s death in 1985, but—unluckily for almost everyone else who made a film this year—it wasn’t officially released, after a massive postproduction effort, until this fall. The Other Side of the Wind stars famed Hollywood director John Huston as a titan in decline who, unknowingly nearing the end of his life, throws a party where he can screen clips from his disastrous upcoming project to investors, friends, and frenemies. It’s a Hollywood story, in other words, as well as a mockumentary that may just have invented the form, with a playfully jazzy, whip-pan conversational style that predates and handily outpaces most contemporary sitcoms. There’s a mock Pauline Kael winkingly stirring up rumors of the great director’s homosexuality, nagging father-son anxieties, and an excessively stylish movie-within-a-movie that’d make Michelangelo Antonioni blush.
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
I love a good, long Western yarn, but there’s something almost criminally appealing to going the short-story route—sticking a pin in the usual Western themes (nationality, prosperity, renegade justice, and the like), but with a concentrated dose of that good old Coen brothers cynicism. Joel and Ethan Coen have assembled a sterling cast (including Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Tom Waits, and the exceptional breakout Bill Heck) into six miniature tales which, though unrelated by plot, are united in their fixations on death and money. Per usual, the Coens have fashioned a genre landscape into a closed-circuit confrontation with fate and history. But because of their unobtrusive length, the stories in this anthology have a more immediate sense of pleasure and danger, a more biting sense of irony, than the pair’s usual tales. It’s a film almost too entertaining to be seen as the harsh, unforgiving chronicle that it is.
4. If Beale Street Could Talk
By Tatum Mangus/Annapurna Pictures.
The love story of the year. Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of James Baldwin’s beloved novel is a lush, inventive melodrama of the kind American directors rarely make anymore. Stephan James and newcomer KiKi Layne star as a lovestruck pair of Harlemites in 1970s New York, torn asunder when Fonny (James) is wrongly accused of sexual assault and sent to prison. So begins a fervent, muscular drama of love and injustice, shot through with an unabashed embrace of color, style, sweeping music, and sentiment. It’s rare that a movie shoots for the stars and clears them so handily, skillfully.
3. You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really HereCourtesy of the Cannes Film Festival
The first time I saw Lynne Ramsay’s masterpiece, I hated it. The second time, I realized what I’d missed. Though You Were Never Really Here—with its chaotic sound design, constant traumatic flashbacks, elliptical emotional structure, and coy sense of extreme violence—feels like a film about trauma, it is more accurately a film about compulsion. Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe, an ex-soldier with memories—including from childhood—he’d rather not have. He’s a mercenary of sorts, hired out to save young women from violent prostitution rings at a high expense. His own past, seen in bits and pieces, grows to clarify what makes him the man for the job. Ramsay’s filmmaking is, as always, fluid and impressionistic. What’s new here is the steep sense of genre awareness. Everybody knows this is a film about a man with a hero complex, trying to survive a world that hates women. Ramsay, a director of immense imagination and offbeat taste, forces you to wonder whether that complex is worth it.
2. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
From Grasshopper Film/Everett Collection.
Director Travis Wilkerson, who’s white, is the great-grandson of a man who got away with murder. Specifically, it was the murder of a black man in 1940s Alabama—and as this astonishing documentary shows, Wilkerson’s great-grandfather more than merely got away with it. He effectively made a man vanish from history. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? is Wilkerson’s radical attempt to recover that history, and to tell the story of the black man whose history was lost to a racially unjust murder. In the process, Wilkerson—using a stripped-down voice-over, brash music cues, exceptionally detailed interviews with loved ones and strangers, and a close-up tour of the modern day setting of the murder—gives us a front-row seat to his own startling revelations about what white supremacy can do to the history of a people. As he eventually learns, and as his documentary proves, whiteness has the power to set that history up in flames.
1. First Reformed
Courtesy of A24.
Paul Schrader’s masterpiece stars Ethan Hawke as the disgruntled Reverend Toller, who feels he’s lost contact with God and, under strain of grave illness, decides to write a daily testament to that absence. That, at least, is where things start. But as Schrader’s airtight, deceptively simple film unfolds, that personal quest to document daily grievances grows into a disorienting depiction of a modern man of the cloth’s unlikely radicalization. What starts off as an almost humorously grim inner monologue expands to encompass visions, dark detours, and maybe even a miracle. It’s the most intellectually enriching film of the year, but even more urgently, it’s a slick tour de force, prepared to push its miniature premise to extremes that even those well versed in Schrader’s spiritually tortured work won't see coming.
Honorable mentions: BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee); A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang); Burning (Lee Chang-dong); The Day After (Hong Sang-soo); Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher); Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis); Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker); Mandy (Panos Cosmatos); Mom and Dad (Brian Taylor); Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson); The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery); The Rider (Chloé Zhao); Roma (Alfonso Cuarón); Shirkers (Sandi Tan); Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda); Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski); A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper); Thunder Road (Jim Cummings); Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco); Unsane (Steven Soderbergh).
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Good Patents: Everything You Need to Know
Good patents, in the United States, protect for 20 years starting from the date an inventor applies for any invented products, processes, or designs that meet specific requirements of utility, non-obviousness, and novelty.3 min read
Good patents, in the United States, protect for 20 years starting from the date an inventor applies for any invented products, processes, or designs that meet specific requirements of utility, non-obviousness, and novelty.
When a country grants an inventor a patent, he or she has exclusive rights. Others are prohibited from selling, making, or using the invention, unless permitted by the patent owner. Such rights last for the duration of the protection period. Good patents do not get issued to a company — only to an individual inventor. In many cases, employees may assign a patented product or process to their employer.
When Can You File for a Patent?
In the U.S., no later than one year following the public or published disclosure describing the invention or whenever it is first made available for purchase or commercial use, a patent application needs to get filed with the Patent & Trademark Office. Disclosing the invention's description under a confidentiality agreement that you and another party have signed does not qualify as a public disclosure. With the one-year rule in place, inventors can test market their invention before deciding to invest in filing for the patent.
On the contrary, for most countries, getting protection under the patent law is not available for inventions that have had a public disclosure before an inventor applies. Further, whereas being the first to invent prevails in the United States, being the first to submit a patent wins in many other countries.
What You Should Know About Foreign Filing
When a person files for a patent in the U.S., under international treaties, it is also filing for foreign protection, starting the date of the domestic application. Therefore, to retain your ability to get foreign rights, it is safer to register with the Patent & Trademark Office first before disclosing publicly. However, you still have to file for an international patent within a year of your United States filing.
Foreign patent filings get made under one of the following two international treaties:
The European Patent Convention
The Patent Cooperation Treaty
Although you limit required upfront filing fees and preserve your rights by filing under the above provisions, you are still required to pay the filing fees for each country where you want to get the patent.
The Limitations of Filing a Patent Application in the U.S.
Only after 18 months have passed following the filing of your patent application is it made available or published by the United States Patent & Trademark Office. To get a patent, it takes 18 to 24 months. That means your competitors could be in the process of getting a patent and you would not know while you are waiting. The better the inventor does writing out the description, the higher the chances of getting protection closer to the 18-month mark.
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U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR FOUR-BALL
Girls' Junior Champ Shepherd, Furtney Headline Semifinalists May 1, 2018 | Tarzana, Calif. By David Shefter, USGA
Reigning U.S. Girls' Junior champion Erica Shepherd (left) and Megan Furtney won two matches on Tuesday to reach the semis. (USGA/J.D. Cuban)
4th U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship | #USWFourBall
El Caballero Country Club, Tarzana, Calif.
Round of 16/Quarterfinals, Match Play: Par 72, 6,234 yards | Hole Locations
Championship History | Media Center
Reigning U.S. Girls’ Junior champion Erica Shepherd, 17, of Greenwood, Ind., and partner Megan Furtney, 17, of Chicago, Ill., played the equivalent of 13-under-par golf in winning a pair of matches on Tuesday to advance to the semifinals.
On another unseasonably chilly Southern California day – temperatures hovered in the 50s with wind gusts as high as 14 mph – Shepherd and Furtney, both Duke University commitments for 2019, registered eight birdies in defeating Pepperdine University teammates Momoka Kobori, 19, of New Zealand, and Hira Naveed, 20, of Australia, 2 and 1, in the afternoon quarterfinals.
Earlier in the day, Shepherd and Furtney eliminated University of Arizona teammates Haley Moore, 19, of Escondido, Calif., and Gigi Stoll, 21, of Tigard, Ore., by the same 2-and-1 margin. With the usual concessions for match play, the two sides combined for 10 birdies and two eagles.
Meet the 2018 semifinalists
“Yeah, it was a hard-fought match,” said Shepherd of the quarterfinals victory. “We had some good birdies. We had three birdies in a row [on Nos.] 8, 9 and 10, and the chip-in on 9. I think that was really the turning point where we knew we had good control of the match.”
Shepherd and Furtney will face Colorado State University teammates Ellen Secor, 20, of Portland, Ore., and Katrina Prendergast, 20, of Sparks, Nev., in the first of the two semifinal matches on Wednesday, beginning at 7 a.m. PDT.
The other semifinal match at 7:15 a.m. pits Southern Californians and No. 2 seeds Leila Dizon, 18, of Los Angeles, and Irene Kim, 17, of La Palma against Yuchan Chang, 17, of Chinese Taipei, and Lei Ye, 16, of the People’s Republic of China, who opened stroke play on Saturday with a championship-record-tying 8-under-par 64.
Secor and Prendergast, who have qualified for next week’s NCAA Division I regionals in Austin, Texas, as individuals, were taken to the 18th hole for the first time in three matches in the quarterfinals by Kansas State graduates Katherine Gravel-Coursol, 24, of Canada, and Paige Nelson, 23, of Farmers Branch, Texas, before prevailing, 1 up. Secor holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th for what proved to be the difference, as the sides halved No. 18.
Ye and Chang, both students at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., broke open a tight quarterfinal match against future University of Oregon teammates Briana Chacon, 17, of Whittier, Calif., and Ty Akabane, 17, of Danville, Calif. The side made three birdies and a clutch par save on the inward nine in a 3-and-2 victory.
Ye, who has committed to attend Stanford University in 2019, stuck her approach on the par-4 11th hole to 10 feet to set up a birdie to go 1 up. She then made a 25-foot par save two holes later to maintain the side’s narrow lead. Ye had made a similar putt for birdie in the side’s 3-and-2 Round-of-16 victory earlier on Tuesday over Lauren Gomez and Olivia Yun.
Chang, headed to the University of Arizona this fall, closed out the match with 21-foot birdie putts on 15 and 16.
Dizon, a former Drive, Chip & Putt national finalist who is headed to the University of Pennsylvania this fall, and Kim, closed out their match against Chloe Schiavone, 16, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Izzy M. Pellot, 13, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., in dramatic fashion. Leading 1 up on No. 18, Kim, who has committed to attend Northwestern University in 2019, holed out from a greenside bunker to clinch the match.
Earlier in the match, Kim chipped in for birdie on No. 13 to give the side a 3-up lead. This ended a stretch of four consecutive birdies. Schiavone closed the gap with wins on Nos. 15 and 16, but after winning their first two matches in extra holes, they could not complete the comeback.
The semifinals and championship match will be contested on Wednesday. The semifinal matches will begin at 7 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., with the 18-hole final scheduled for 1 p.m. All of the semifinalists are exempt into next year’s championship at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., provided the sides remain intact. The runners-up receive a three-year exemption and the champions earn a 10-year exemption.
The 21-hole Round-of-16 match won by Katherine Gravel-Coursol and Paige Nelson over four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Meghan Stasi and Dawn Woodard equaled the longest in championship history. Izzy M. Pellot and partner Chloe Schiavone also went 21 holes in the Round of 32, and the inaugural championship in 2015 at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort also produced a 21-hole match.
No mid-amateurs (25 and older) advanced past the Round of 16. Woodard, 43, and Stasi, 39, lost in extra holes, as did Cammie Bentley, 25, of Northport, Ala., and her partner Alison Hovatter, 24, of Meridianville, Ala. Hovatter turns 25 on July 21.
Lei Ye, 16, of the People’s Republic of China, on mindset for the semifinals: “Keep it simple. We made it all the way here. Let’s just enjoy ourselves.”
Ye on playing in the unseasonably cool weather after coming from Florida: “I didn’t bring enough layers. [My partner Yuchan Chang] did. I didn’t think it would be this cold.”
Irene Kim, 17, of La Palma, Calif., on holing out from a greenside bunker aon18 to seal the 1-up victory: “I kind of aligned my ball to the hole, and I was like, I just have to follow through, and I did, and it went in.”
Leila Dizon, 18, of Los Angeles, Calif., on how being a Drive, Chip & Putt finalist in 2015 helped prepare her for this championship: “Tremendously. It was three years ago, but with Drive, Chip & Putt, I practiced my putting, chipping and driving nonstop, and that really helps with this course, especially because you have to have your drives in the fairway. You have to be able to putt, and you have to be able to chip, so those three aspects really helped.”
Megan Furtney, 17, Chicago, Ill., on the mentality of playing two matches in one day: “I think it helped a lot playing that second match, just already kind of having awareness of where the pins are and knowing how certain shots might roll off of different ridges.”
Ellen Secor, 20, of Portland, Ore., on how the side managed to pull out the 1-up victory: “I think staying within ourselves. We've never been down in this tournament, so the fact that we were really close to being 1 down, I don't think we ever got worried. We knew 16, 17 and 18 were gettable holes, so when it got to all square after 14, I put in my mind, this is a gettable course and we can beat this team on these last four holes. I think that's how we did it. Just down the stretch, I think we stuck with our game plan and kind of stayed within ourselves.”
David Shefter is a senior staff writer for the USGA. Email him at dshefter@usga.org.
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Pilot dies after Carroll County plane crash
Critically injured pilot suffers cardiac arrest in flight to hospital
Updated: 3:03 AM EDT Jun 16, 2012
SkyTeam 11 SOURCE: SkyTeam 11
A pilot injured in a Carroll County plane crash has died, Maryland State Police said Friday.The plane crashed at about 10:15 a.m. at the Carroll County Regional Airport just north of Westminster.State police identified the pilot Friday evening as Henry Judkins, 64, of Rockville. No others were aboard the Remos GX, a light sport aircraft, at the time of the crash.Sky Team 11 Capt. Roy Taylor reported that the pilot made a radio call saying the plane was having issues with the elevator system and was in the process of making an emergency landing when it crashed.Taylor said the wings of the plane were sheared off, and the fuselage settled about 20-40 yards past the wings.State police said Judkins reported mechanical issues about a mile away from the runway. The plane had crashed some 30 to 40 feet away, and debris landed in a grassy area next to the runway.Witnesses told state police that they saw the plane bobbing up and down in the air before it crashed.State police said a helicopter was to fly Judkins to Shock Trauma, but the helicopter experienced mechanical problems. An ambulance began taking Judkins to the hospital and later stopped at Mitchell Golf Course Center in Reisterstown, where another state police helicopter stood by to take Judkins the rest of the way to Shock Trauma, where he was pronounced dead.State police said Judkins went into cardiac arrest while the helicopter was in flight.The airport has been closed since the crash. Airport officials said the facility could re-open some time Friday evening. Flights originally scheduled to land at the airport were being rerouted.Taylor said at noon that the plane's ballistics parachute system hadn't yet deployed and it needed to be disarmed before crews could remove the debris.A cause remained under investigation by investigators from the Maryland State Police, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. Federal investigators were set to return to the scene to investigate on Saturday.Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more details as they become available.
WESTMINSTER, Md. —
A pilot injured in a Carroll County plane crash has died, Maryland State Police said Friday.
Small plane crashes at Carroll County Airport
The plane crashed at about 10:15 a.m. at the Carroll County Regional Airport just north of Westminster.
State police identified the pilot Friday evening as Henry Judkins, 64, of Rockville. No others were aboard the Remos GX, a light sport aircraft, at the time of the crash.
Sky Team 11 Capt. Roy Taylor reported that the pilot made a radio call saying the plane was having issues with the elevator system and was in the process of making an emergency landing when it crashed.
Taylor said the wings of the plane were sheared off, and the fuselage settled about 20-40 yards past the wings.
State police said Judkins reported mechanical issues about a mile away from the runway. The plane had crashed some 30 to 40 feet away, and debris landed in a grassy area next to the runway.
Witnesses told state police that they saw the plane bobbing up and down in the air before it crashed.
State police said a helicopter was to fly Judkins to Shock Trauma, but the helicopter experienced mechanical problems. An ambulance began taking Judkins to the hospital and later stopped at Mitchell Golf Course Center in Reisterstown, where another state police helicopter stood by to take Judkins the rest of the way to Shock Trauma, where he was pronounced dead.
State police said Judkins went into cardiac arrest while the helicopter was in flight.
The airport has been closed since the crash. Airport officials said the facility could re-open some time Friday evening. Flights originally scheduled to land at the airport were being rerouted.
Taylor said at noon that the plane's ballistics parachute system hadn't yet deployed and it needed to be disarmed before crews could remove the debris.
A cause remained under investigation by investigators from the Maryland State Police, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. Federal investigators were set to return to the scene to investigate on Saturday.
Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more details as they become available.
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Webnames.ca Co-Founder Receives UBC Honorary Alumnus Award
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Nov. 20, 2014) - Webnames.ca congratulates Co-Founder John Demco for receiving the University of British Columbia's Honorary Alumnus Award on November 19th, 2014.
Mr. Demco received the award at the University of British Columbia Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver. Mr. Demco and six UBC alumni were honoured for their various achievements and contributions.
Recognized as "Godfather" of the Canadian Internet, John Demco is an innovator and a key player in establishing Canada's online presence. Having had the foresight to establish an early online presence for Canada, he founded the .CA domain registry from his UBC office in 1987. For the next 13 years, Mr. Demco managed the .CA registry on a volunteer basis creating infrastructure and policies, and processing up to 5,000 .CA domain registrations per month.
By 2000, more than 100,000 .CA domain names had been registered by Mr. Demco and his team of volunteers. That same year, the responsibility of managing the .CA domain was transferred to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), a not-for-profit organization Mr. Demco helped establish with Industry Canada and other stakeholders. Today, Mr. Demco still serves as on CIRA's Board of Directors and continues to be an active supporter of technology in British Columbia and Canada.
"I am honoured to receive the UBC Honorary Alumnus Award. I am thankful for the great support and encouragement of many individuals and organizations," says Mr. Demco. "One never knows what might happen, especially in an environment as dynamic as the Internet. However, .CA has performed well and is recognized as the symbol of Canada's identity on the Internet. While technology doesn't concern itself with nationality, the .CA domain's success is proof that the .CA strongly resonates with Canadians."
In 1997, John Demco was recognized by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as a founder and builder of the Canadian Internet. In 2008, the University of British Columbia's Department of Computer Science honoured Demco by naming its undergraduate computing learning facility as the Demco Learning Centre. Some of Mr. Demco's past awards and recognitions include a Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013) and a Lifetime Achievement Canadian New Media Award (2006).
About Webnames.ca: Webnames.ca Inc. is Canada's original .CA domain registrar and a leading provider of internet solutions in Canada. Webnames.ca's services include a growing list of well over 250 generic top level domains (gTLDs) and country code Top Level domains (ccTLDs), web hosting, business email services, domain portfolio management, SSL certificates, website design and more. Webnames.ca will have launched closed to 300 new domain name extensions by the end of Q4 2014. Webnames.ca is committed to supporting its customers with industry leading systems and amazing every customer with exceptional service.
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Glasgow West End Hub
What is the platform for?
West End Hub is an online platform that gives the community: (a) a central hub for all aspects of West End life – it does that by including LISTINGS for the businesses, clubs and other community organisations in the West End, as well as easy and direct access to other useful information; and (b) a free-to-use communication channel to the mobiles, tablets and desktops of residents and visitors.
What is included in the platform?
It is made up of (a) an Apple approved App which runs on iPhones and iPads - this version of the App is available for download from the App Store; (b) a Google approved App which runs on Android devices - this version of the App is available for download from Google Play; (c) a mobile-enabled, public-facing website that can be viewed on all smartphones, tablets and desktops (called the Community Website); and (d) a mobile-enabled website that is the content management system for the Community Website (called the Manager Website).
What types of listing are available on the platform?
The types of listing to be made available on an installation are chosen from a menu of available listing types. You will find details of the types that the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has chosen for this particular installation from the dropdown menu at "Account Type" when creating a new ACCOUNT on the Manager Website.
The menu of available listing types includes:-
(a) free COMMUNITY listings for clubs, schools and other not-for-profit organisations;
(b) free STANDARD listings for commercial businesses; and
(c) paid-for ENHANCED listings for commercial businesses.
If a commercial business has an ENHANCED listing, it can choose to increase its profile further by having that ENHANCED listing appear as a PROMOTED listing or as one or more SPONSORED listings. If the platform is divided into sub-regions, a commercial business with an ENHANCED listing can also have that ENHANCED listing appear as a LOCAL+ listing in one or more additional sub-regions.
How can the platform be used as a communication channel?
When a DEAL EVENT or POST is added to an ENHANCED listing, or an EVENT or POST is added to a COMMUNITY listing, the platform automatically sends a (free and immediate) push notification/email about it to every user that has that LISTING in his/her FAVOURITES.
In addition, the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) can use the platform to send (free and immediate) push notifications/emails at any time, both to users and to listers.
An App user who is not receiving push notifications should do two things. Firstly, navigate to “My Notifications” in the App and confirm the correct settings are recorded in there. Secondly, navigate to “Notifications” on the mobile phone/tablet itself and confirm the correct settings are recorded in there.
What is a COMMUNITY listing and & how do I set one up?
If the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has opted to allow it on the platform, a free COMMUNITY listing is available to most not-for-profit organisations. It features (a) an image (which can be a photograph or a logo); (b) one touch phone dialling; (c) one touch emailing; (d) one touch access to the lister’s website; (e) a long description (of up to 2,000 characters); (f) the ability to advertise EVENTS (including associated imagery); (g) the ability to make POSTS (including associated imagery) to communicate with members, etc; (h) a full postal address; (i) relevant times information; (j) a link to Google Maps showing the lister’s location; (k) links to the lister’s own social media on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube; and (l) sharing functionality (enabling users to share details of the lister’s offering).
To set up a COMMUNITY listing, the lister first applies to open an ACCOUNT of the corresponding type via the Manager Website (a link to that appears as “Manager” in the footer of the Community Website). Details about the lister and the principal point of contact (called the Account Administrator) are entered and submitted to the Area Administrator for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the application, the ACCOUNT is opened and the lister is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the application, the lister is advised automatically by email.
Once the ACCOUNT is open, the Account Administrator can sign into it from the Manager Website, compile the COMMUNITY listing and submit it to the Area Administrator for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the COMMUNITY listing, it is published on the platform and the lister is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the COMMUNITY listing, the lister is advised automatically by email.
After first publication, all responsibility for the content of the COMMUNITY listing is with the Account Administrator. Save for any EVENTS that the lister may apply to include in the WHAT'S ON, no content is subject to pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator after that time.
Will EVENTS that I add to my COMMUNITY listing also be included in the WHAT'S ON guides for my region and sub-region?
If the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has opted to allow it on the platform, EVENTS submitted by listers with COMMUNITY listings may appear in the WHAT’S ON subject to pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator on an EVENT by EVENT basis. If that facility is available on this installation, it will be offered as an option when a new EVENT is being added to a COMMUNITY listing.
Can the Account Administrator add other users to the ACCOUNT and set different authority levels for them?
Yes - this is done via the "Users" page of the ACCOUNT.
The Account Administrator simply adds the details of each new user and selects the appropriate "Role": (a) ADMINISTRATORS have full editing rights on the ACCOUNT and all LISTINGS in it - they also have full approval rights, allowing them to authorise changes that will appear on the platform (b) USERS+ have no editing or approval rights on the ACCOUNT or LISTINGS, but they do have full editing and approval rights on DEALS, EVENTS and POSTS (c) USERS have no editing or approval rights on the ACCOUNT or LISTINGS and, although they have full editing rights on DEALS, EVENTS and POSTS, any additions or changes they make will not go live on the platform until they have been approved by an Administrator or a User+.
What is a STANDARD listing and & how do I set one up?
If the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has opted to allow it on the platform, a free STANDARD listing is available for commercial businesses. It features (a) one touch phone dialling; (b) one touch emailing; (c) a full postal address; (d) a link to Google Maps showing the Lister’s location; and (e) sharing functionality (enabling users to share details of the lister’s offering).
To set up a STANDARD listing, the lister first applies to open an ACCOUNT of the corresponding type via the Manager Website (a link to that appears as “Manager” in the footer of the Community Website). Details about the lister and the principal point of contact (called the Account Administrator) are entered and submitted to the Area Administrator for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the application, the ACCOUNT is opened and the lister is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the application, the lister is advised automatically by email.
Once the ACCOUNT is open, the Account Administrator can sign into it from the Manager Website, compile the STANDARD listing and submit it to the Area Administrator for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the STANDARD listing, it is published on the platform and the lister is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the STANDARD listing, the lister is advised automatically by email.
After first publication, all responsibility for the content of the STANDARD listing is with the Account Administrator. No content is subject to pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator after that time.
What is an ENHANCED listing and & how do I set one up?
If the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has opted to allow it on the platform, an ENHANCED listing is available as a premium-level listing for commercial businesses on the platform. It features (a) an image (which can be a photograph or a logo); (b) one touch phone dialling; (c) one touch emailing; (d) one touch access to the lister’s website; (e) a long description (of up to 2,000 characters); (f) the ability to advertise DEALS (including associated imagery); (g) the ability to advertise EVENTS (including associated imagery); (h) the ability to make POSTS (including associated imagery) to communicate with customers/potential customers; (i) a full postal address; (j) opening hours information; (k) a link to Google Maps showing the lister’s location; (l) links to the lister’s own social media on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube; and (m) sharing functionality (enabling users to share details of the lister’s offering).
To set up an ENHANCED listing, the lister first applies to open an ACCOUNT of the corresponding type via the Manager Website (a link to that appears as “Manager” in the footer of the Community Website). Details about the lister and the principal point of contact (called the Account Administrator) are entered and submitted to the Area Administrator for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the application, the ACCOUNT is opened and the lister is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the application, the lister is advised automatically by email.
Once the ACCOUNT is open, the Account Administrator can sign into it from the Manager Website, compile the ENHANCED listing and make payment at the secure online checkout. The ENHANCED listing goes live immediately, without pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator. All responsibility for the content of the ENHANCED listing is with the Account Administrator. Save for any EVENTS that the lister may apply to include in the WHAT'S ON, no content is subject to pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator.
The subscription fee for an ENHANCED listing is payable monthly in advance. There are no set-up costs and the subscription can be cancelled at any time. If that happens, no further subscription payments will be due and the ENHANCED listing will be deleted from the platform at the end of that calendar month.
Will EVENTS that I add to my ENHANCED listing also be included in the WHAT'S ON guides for my region and sub-region?
If the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) has opted to allow it on the platform, EVENTS submitted by listers with ENHANCED listings may appear in the WHAT’S ON subject to pre-publication approval by the Area Administrator on an EVENT by EVENT basis. If that facility is available on the platform, it will be offered as an option when a new EVENT is being added to an ENHANCED listing.
Will DEALS that I add to my ENHANCED listing also be included in the consolidated DEALS section for my sub-region?
What is a PROMOTED listing and & how do I set one up?
A PROMOTED listing is an ENHANCED listing that, in addition to its normal placement on the platform, is given a “top of page” position (immediately underneath the SPONSORED listing if there is one) on a listings page and added prominence by being coloured green.
There is only one position for a PROMOTED listing on each page of listings and that position can only be occupied by a business whose ENHANCED listing appears further down the same page.
PROMOTED listings can be booked by calendar month (up to 12 months ahead) and are paid for at the time of booking.
To set up a PROMOTED listing, log in to the Manager Website, select your ENHANCED listing, click on the “Promote” button, complete the form that appears and proceed to the online checkout.
What is a SPONSORED Listing & how do I set one up?
A SPONSORED listing is an ENHANCED listing that, in addition to its normal placement on the platform, is given a “top of page” position (immediately above any PROMOTED listing) and added prominence by being coloured yellow.
A SPONSORED listing can appear at the top of a page of listings but, unlike a PROMOTED listing, it can also appear on a page that (i) has a menu, not listings, on it (and given that many of these menu pages rank amongst the highest traffic pages on the platform, this offers a great opportunity to commercial businesses to raise their profile in the local community); and (ii) relates to a business sector different to that in which the lister operates – that being so, a local plumber can place his SPONSORED listing on the high traffic “Cafes & Coffee Shops” page in his home sub-region.
There is only one position for a SPONSORED listing on each page.
SPONSORED listings can be booked by calendar month (up to 12 months ahead) and are paid for at the time of booking.
To set up a SPONSORED listing, log in to the Manager Website, select your ENHANCED listing, click on the “Sponsor” button, complete the form that appears and proceed to the online checkout.
What is a LOCAL+ Listing & how do I set one up?
LOCAL+ listings can be added if the platform is divided into geographical sub-regions. It is an ENHANCED listing that, in addition to its normal placement within the lister’s home sub-region, appears in one or more other sub-regions. This functionality allows (eg) a plumber based in the sub-region of Kensington to have its ENHANCED listing also appear in the sub-region of Chelsea. As an alternative, of course, that plumber could subscribe for a second ENHANCED listing (this time, in Chelsea) but the cost of that would be higher and it would necessitate DEALS, EVENTS, POSTS and other content being added/maintained in two separate listings.
A LOCAL+ listing cannot be used as the basis for a PROMOTED listing or a SPONSORED listing in another sub-region, nor will any EVENTS or DEALS included in it appear in the WHAT’S ON or consolidated DEALS section for that sub-region. In addition, a user will remove a LOCAL+ listing from view if he/she uses the “show local” filter on a list of listings.
The subscription fee for a LOCAL+ listing is payable monthly in advance. There are no set-up costs and the subscription can be cancelled at any time. If that happens, no further subscription payments will be due and the LOCAL+ listing will be deleted from the platform at the end of that calendar month.
To set up a LOCAL+ listing, log in to the Manager Website, select your ENHANCED listing, click on the “Local+” button, complete the form that appears and proceed to the online checkout.
What is a BANNER AD & how do I set one up?
A BANNER AD is a form of display advertising that can be placed within any of the headline “Explore” categories. It appears at the foot of each page within the chosen category that has a menu or a list of listings on it. A BANNER AD can be set-up with a “click-through” to the advertiser’s own website or splash page. The cost of a BANNER AD varies depending upon the “Explore” category chosen.
BANNER ADS can be booked by calendar month (up to 12 months ahead) and are paid for at the time of booking.
To set up a BANNER AD, the advertiser first applies to open an ACCOUNT via the Manager Website (a link to that appears as “Manager” in the footer of the Community Website). Details about the advertiser and the principal point of contact (called the Account Administrator) are entered and submitted to the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) for approval. If the Area Administrator approves the application, the ACCOUNT is opened and the advertiser is advised automatically by email. If the Area Administrator rejects the application, the advertiser is advised automatically by email.
Once the ACCOUNT is open, the Account Administrator should sign into it from the Manager Website, click on the “+ Banner Ad” button, complete the form that appears and proceed to the online checkout.
What is a PARTNER’S LOGO & how do I set one up?
A PARTNER’S LOGO is a form of display advertising that sits at the bottom of the Community Website and the HOME page of the Apps. It can be set-up with a “click-through” to the advertiser’s own website or splash page. It is not necessary to have a listing to be able to have your PARTNER’S LOGO included.
To set up a PARTNER’S LOGO and for pricing information, please contact the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) by clicking on “Contact” at the foot of the Manager Website.
Do I need to have an ACCOUNT or LISTING if I just want to publicise a one-off Public Event in the WHAT’S ON guides for my region and sub-region?
No. Navigate to the WHAT’S ON section of the Community Website, click on the “Add Public Event” icon and follow the onscreen instructions.
Normally, there is no cost involved for including a one-off Public Event in the WHAT'S ON guides but the Area Administrator (whose details can be found in the Privacy Policy) will contact you about that before any charge is incurred.
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Monique's Story
Patricia Calhoun
Patricia Calhoun | January 15, 2007 | 11:44am
The car that rolled through the McDonald's parking lot on the night of April 3, 2005, belonged to Monique Trujillo. Outside the fast-food restaurant stood Trujillo's ex-boyfriend and another young woman, Terra Ramirez. Before Ramirez could finish her orange soda, Trujillo's car was back at McDonald's, with another car following it.
Three young men jumped out of that second car. A barrage of bullets followed, with one bullet hitting Ramirez in the leg.
Just a few months later, Ramirez's car led another car to the home of a girl Ramirez was fighting with. A young man jumped out of that second car and a barrage of bullets followed -- one of which hit two little girls sleeping in a nearby house.
These two shootings, as described in "Girl Crazy," led to another cycle of legal proceedings. Ramirez was sentenced to ten years in prison for her role in the second shooting; the shooter got 180 years.
As for the perpetrators of the shooting that landed Ramirez in the hospital, one guy got two years, another got away, and one is set to be sentenced March 30.
But Monique Trujillo won't be going to trial. "It's likely that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Pam Russell, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County District Attorney.
At the trial of one of the young men who shot Ramirez, Trujillo testified that she'd had no role in the shootings -- and her testimony was credible enough for the jury to believe her. As a result, Russell explained, the evidence against Trujillo wasn't strong enough to assure a conviction if the DA took Trujillo to trial.
Meanwhile, Ramirez is serving out her ten-year sentence. "Where's the justice?" asks Ramirez's mother. "This whole thing has been unfair." -- Luke Turf
Patricia Calhoun co-founded Westword in 1977; she’s been the editor ever since. She’s a regular on the weekly CPT12 roundtable Colorado Inside Out, played a real journalist in John Sayles’s Silver City, once interviewed President Bill Clinton while wearing flip-flops, and has been honored with numerous national awards for her columns and feature-writing.
Twitter: @calhounwestword
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Author: Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), the author of America’s national anthem, was a Washington lawyer and amateur poet. During the War of 1812, Key was inspired to pen the verses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by the unlikely success of American troops resisting the British attack on Baltimore’s Fort McHenry on September 13, 1814, two days after the burning of the capital. (In the fourth stanza of the anthem, Key urged the adoption of “In God Is Our Trust” as the national motto, which the United States officially adopted in 1956.) In addition to writing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Key defended Sam Houston during his trial in the US House of Representatives for assaulting a Congressman, and served as United States District Attorney from 1833–41.
Francis Scott Key
Why sing about a flag? Why should such a song be the American anthem? Examine Francis Scott Key’s lyrics and explore the meaning of the flag and its relation to the motto “In God is our trust.”
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Category Archives: Gay History
Arts, Bo Young, Community, Culture, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Friends, Gay Health, Gay History, Gay Wisdom, History, Homophobia, Men, Religion
New from Sandi Dubowski…
May 20, 2008 Editors Leave a comment
A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Opens Wednesday, May 21!
May 21 – Tue May 27:
11:20am, 1:15pm, 3:10, 5:05, 7:00, 9:30pm
"Revealing and moving… a gifted filmmaker." – Wall Street Journal
A groundbreaking look at Gay and Lesbian Muslims, A JIHAD FOR LOVE uncovers a hidden face of the world’s fastest-growing religion. Shot over five years in 12 countries and produced by Sandi Simcha Dubowski (Trembling Before G-d) this moving documentary explores reconciling faith with sexuality in societies where "debauchery" can be punished by imprisonment and even death.
Embodying the literal meaning of jihad as "inner struggle," the film’s subjects reveal the hopes of a community fighting for its place in the heart of Islam.
Arts, Bo Young, Culture, Current Affairs, Entertainment, Gay Health, Gay History, Homophobia, Men
Don’t Ask…Don’t Tell
In case you missed Grey’s Anatomy’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell episode…
Arts, Bo Young, Community, Culture, Current Affairs, Elders, Entertainment, Friends, Gay History, Gay Wisdom, History, Humor, Men, Music, Radical Faerie
The Cockettes Are Coming! The Cockettes Are Coming!
Oh no they’re not…they’re just breathing hard!
A COCKETTE SYMPOSIUM
Thursday, June 5. 7:30 – 9 p.m.
LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, Kaplan Assembly, First Floor
Admission: FREE, no reservations required.
Join the largest New York gathering of Cockettes since their theatrical catastrophe at the Anderson Theater in 1971. In 1968 this psychedelic-fueled gender bending troupe of men, women, children, Gay, straight and in-between became legendary for their performances at San Francisco’s Palace Theater. At the cultural forefront of Gay Liberation, these bearded hippie drag queens showed generations to come the creative potential within us all. Moderated by Steven Watson, chronicler of the American avant-garde and author of Factory Made, The Beat Generation and The Harlem Renaissance, and hosted by John Waters’ superstar Mink Stole and HRH Lee Mentley of the Hula Palace, the evening promises to be historic. Cockettes scheduled to appear include Scrumbly, Sweet Pam, Rumi, Fayette, Harlow, Jet, Tahara, Sebastian, Toots Taraval, Jim Campbell and Dolores DeLuce.
Contact: Robert Croonquist at rcroon@nyc.rr.com
A Cockette Symposium is one of a series of events in New York the first week in June will bring a dozen of the original Cockettes together on the East Coast for the first time since 1971 to mark the donation of the Martin Worman Cockettes / Gay Theater Archives to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theater Division at Lincoln Center.
The other events include:
The Northeast Radical Faeries and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Present
THE COCKETTES ARE COMING:
AN EXTRAVAGANZA TO BENEFIT FAERIE CAMP DESTINY
Monday, June 2. Bazaar, Refreshments and Films from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Performances at 8 p.m.
At Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue at 10th Street.
Admission, $30. Bake Sale and Bar, Faerie Wares and Services—Priceless
For tickets go to: http://www.faeriecampdestiny.org
For further info contact: Jeff Huyett, NYDayZee@aol.com , 646 263 9137
Rumi Missabu of the Cockettes & the Camaraderie Art Salon present:
A COCKTAIL OF GLAMOR AND ANARCHY
Wednesday, June 4. 8 p.m. with a possible second show at 10 p.m.
At Monkeytown, 58 North 3rd Street between Wythe & Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bedford subway stop.
Admission FREE with two drink minimum. Dinner reservations encouraged, 718 384-1369
Further info at: mailto:camaraderieartsalon@yahoo.com
The Cockettes emerged from the communal movement in San Francisco in the late 1960’s. Founded by Hibiscus and other members of beat writer and publisher Irving Rosenthal’s Kaliflower commune, the Kitchen Sluts, as they were first known, would entertain as they delivered food and newsletters from Rosenthal’s Free Press to an intercommunal food network of over 300 households. Known for their outrageous bearded drag, sequins, glitter and camp, the queerly androgynous troupe made street theater and performance history on the stage of the Palace Theater at the Nocturnal Dream Shows, midnight showings of camp film classics. Word of their shows spread by word of mouth and through San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. The Cockettes were officially discovered by Rex Reed, Truman Capote and Joanna Carson and were whisked off to New York where they were feted by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland and held court at Max’s Kansas City. Their cockeyed optimism was welcomed by many but at odds with the irony and cool of New York during the Warhol era. Those who flocked to see their premiere at the Anderson Theater included Anthony Perkins, Allen Ginsberg and John Lennon. As Sylvia Miles said, “Everybody who was anybody was there.” And they were not amused; the evening was a catastrophe. Angela Lansbury is said to have risen from her seat midway through Act One and exclaimed, “Get me the fuck out of here,” and Gore Vidal quoted Arthur Laurents’ Gypsy, “Having no talent is not enough.” After the glitter settled, the Cockettes returned to San Francisco where they created their most successful shows. Cockettes who became famous in their own right include disco diva Sylvester, Café Society pianist Peter Mintun and Cockette guest star Divine.
The Martin Worman / Cockettes / Gay Theater Archives
Martin Worman was a playwright, director, actor and lyricist during the height of the Gay Liberation movement in the 1960’s through his death of AIDS in 1993. A Vietnam Era veteran from Paterson, New Jersey, Worman left Fort Dix for a life in the theater in San Francisco where he was a member of the legendary troupe known as the Cockettes. He wrote book and lyrics for several of their most renowned shows including Hot Greeks and Vice Palace which featured John Waters’ superstars Divine and Mink Stole. He was known as “The Cockette Who Can Read” because of his multiple academic degrees, a secret he carefully guarded from the street-based, anti-professional ethos of the time.
Worman continued his musical collaboration with Cockette Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn, writing musical revues and plays, most notably the 1972 musical Rickets: A Day in the Life of the Counterculture. Influenced by the theater of Bertolt Brecht, Worman viewed himself as a cultural worker and saw theater as a weapon in the struggle for Gay Liberation. In 1975 he co-founded the San Francisco-based Gay Men’s Theater Collective whose award-winning play Crimes Against Nature was brought to New York. There Worman assisted Robert Wilson and Jack O’Brien, directed Lola Pashalinski in her Obie winning performance of Steven Holt’s Cold, Lazy and Elaine and adapted Sherwood Anderson’s The Man Who Became a Woman for Steven Keats at Theater for the New City. At his death he was Associate Professor of Theater at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he adapted Meridel LeSeuer’s Midwest populist writings to the theater. The 90 hours of interviews he conducted with Cockettes in 1987 during the height of the AIDS epidemic include a deathbed interview with disco diva Sylvester. His unfinished dissertation at NYU on the history of the Cockettes became the basis for David Weissman and Bill Weber’s acclaimed documentary The Cockettes.
Worman created extensive archives of his work in the theater, including 600 pages of Cockette interviews transcribed by his partner Robert Croonquist who safe-guarded the archives and is now donating them to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theater Division at Lincoln Center.
Ancestors, Arts, Bo Young, Community, Culture, Elders, Friends, Gay History, History, White Crane Institute programs
April 24, 2008 Editors Leave a comment
White Crane is collected in numerous libraries and scholarly collections in the U.S.
We’re proud to announce that we are now in the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison.
Ancestors, Culture, Dan Vera, Gay History, Radical Faerie
James Brougton’s This Is It
This lovely film from 1971 has been called James Broughton’s "creation myth." It’s an absolute delight. It runs at about 9 minutes and with the sitar background becomes a bit trancelike in parts. The title "This Is It" comes from a poem of James Broughton’s that I had the good fortune to come across years ago while in Port Angeles. It was printed on a little handcard and I remember thinking, Wow. Who is this guy James Broughton. A woman’s voice recites the poem at the 3 minute mark. Fits beautifully with this film.
Ancestors, Arts, Bo Young, Books, Community, Culture, Entertainment, Fellow Travelers, Friends, Gay History, Literature, Men, Music, White Crane Institute programs
What kind of Gay man are you…?
April 8, 2008 Editors Leave a comment
Because we publish both this blog and the "hard copy" magazine, White Crane, we get on a lot of press lists for various publicists in the entertainment, publishing, recording and fashion business. The sheer stereotypical nature of the kinds of press releases we receive is stunning, really. The only metric that seems to make any difference whatsoever to whoever is sending out the press releases is that they see the word "gay" somewhere in the search, and their feeble little minds automatically assume "fashion" "sex" "consumers" "vacuous dance music" and the most superficial kind of idea of "beauty" imaginable. In fact, using any variation of the term "imagination" in the same sentence is a stretch. Actually having looked at a copy of the magazine, or exploring our website to determine something of what our interests might be seems to be too much to ask.
This morning was a perfect example of the stark dichotomy of choices with which we are presented virtually every day. In yesterday’s mail we received the first run of Mark Thompson’s newest book, a beautiful book of his own photography. More on this in a moment.
[Full disclosure: White Crane Institute helped with the production of this book, and we have been sponsoring a touring exhibit of some of the photography in the book, providing it to LGBT communities around the country.]
We were also in receipt of a press release…the second one, now…about some pretty boy cranking out monotonous "dance music" (I love to dance, but what passes for ‘dance music’ these days is, quite simply pathetic.) Shirt open to his six pack, sexuality ambiguously alluded (I’m not big on "sexual allusion" myself…Rosie O’Donnell "alluded" to Tom Cruise for years…and that’s just too weird for words).
Anyway, silly me, I decided to give it a listen, since the publicist (a little more full disclosure here…yours truly was a publicist in the music industry, and a band manager at one point, no less…so I have a soft spot in my heart — not my head, though — for music publicists, and artist trying to break into the biz) had gone to the trouble to send a MP3 file.
The lyrics say it all: Hey…you remember when / I read your mind? / Thoughts of you run through my head / and make me want to touch myself / The odds are so right / I know you know I’m the special one…Let’s make love like / we’re strangers…
Like strangers. Wow. Great. With HIV/AIDS making a comeback like it’s a viral Taliban, I hope they use a condom. What a great musical message to put out to young Gay men…a population that is seeing a significant uptick in sero-conversion, we should note. What really burns my admittedly senior citizen ass is the marketing of this cookie-cutter pretty boy, all pumped and smooth like every other cookie-cutter pretty boy, draped in female flesh (used like skin props) and expecting that just because this fellow is (debatably) a) young and b) attractive, that every red-blooded Gay man is going to run right out and buy his drivel music because he has digital abs. Let’s be clear here: his voice is unremarkable. The music is indistinguishable from any other cut on just about any other current "dance music" disc. There is nothing about this–and I use the term very loosely here–"singer" that recommends him other than his shaved body. If you like that sort of thing.
Look at the photos accompanying this post…one is the cover of Mark’s book, Fellow Travelers: Guides & Tribes [Fluxion Editions, 2008] and "the Stranger" with the models who are so weak from hunger they have to lean on him for support. Tell me…which huddle would you want to be in? You want to "make love like we’re strangers," like this bimbo (I really think "bimbo" ought to be the male version and "bimba" the female) suggests? So OK…maybe you don’t want to get all muddy…but those are definitely not "strangers" in that picture. You might actually connect with someone…your own self, for instance… your own history as a queer, like Mark Thompson is documenting in his beautiful book Fellow Travelers?
I hesitated to even talk about the singer, who shall remain anonymous here. Why give shallow exploitative product placement any kind of publicity at all? But the contrast between this dreck, and Mark Thompson’s new book was so dramatic to me, I thought they ought to be thrown into contrast. Mark’s Fellow Travelers book is available in limited edition at http://www.markthompsongayspirit.com/
The empty nutrition of the mess of potage with the six-pack is available…anywhere. In a word: feh.
Bo Young, Community, Elders, Gay Health, Gay History, Gay Wisdom, Health, History, Men, Nature, Science, White Crane Institute programs
Gay Men’s Leadership Academy 2008 – West Coast edition
March 26, 2008 Editors Leave a comment
Not to brag or anything…but we were a busy Institute this weekend.
This weekend was also the fourth Gay Men’s Leadership Academy, a sponsored program of White Crane Institute.
We alternate the academies between the west coast and the east coast to make attendance and subsequent networking easier. And, you know…we get bored easily.
East coast academies are held at Easton Mountain and the west coast academies are held in Guerneville at the Wildwood Retreat Center. Both beautiful facilities. Add handsome men, cute young guys and a multitude of bright minds…and you’re talking AWE & WONDER!
We invite you to visit the GMHLA blog set up by the Academy alums. And even more importantly, consider attending. We’re moving Gay Men’s Health into the 21st Century.
Ancestors, Arts, Books, Culture, Current Affairs, Gay History, Literature, Science, Toby Johnson
Arthur C. Clarke: The Visionary I Knew
March 19, 2008 Editors 1 Comment
By Toby Johnson
March 18, 2008, at the age of 90, renowned writer and futurologist Arthur C. Clarke passed away. His death made national news in America—of course. His name, arguably, has been one of the most recognizable in the world, if only as creator (with Stanley Kubrick) of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was a leader in consciousness evolution, an expert on space science, and author of over a hundred books.
What won’t be mentioned in most of the news stories, though, is that he was Gay. Of course, that’s using the term inaccurately. He wasn’t a Gay man like the post-Stonewall generation in the U.S., but he was certainly one of us.
Speaking personally, let me report that Clarke had a tremendous influence on me as a young man. I read all his books, emulated his writing style, and even to some extent adopted his post-religious “spiritual” vision of human consciousness. So in the late 1990s, when I learned my friend Kerry O’Quinn, a Gay Austinite and also a science fiction writer, told me he’d met Clarke and carried on a correspondence with him, I jumped at the opportunity to be introduced by mail. I corresponded with Clarke for several years. I wrote about his post-religious spirituality in a couple of my books and cleared my acknowledgement of his sexual identity with him. So I have no qualms about my including him in the pantheon of homosexual seers.
An ex-patriate Englishman, Clarke lived most of his adult life as what English society might call a “confirmed bachelor” in an intentional, extended family in the Theravada Buddhist land of Sri Lanka (in fable, the mystical island of Serendip where good fortune and lucky coincidence reign). Though married for a time as a young man, Clarke offered a marvelous example of the contributing, participating life, lived free of the conventions of marriage and childrearing.
He demurred about coming out publicly as Gay, he wrote, because he felt this fact would be used to discredit his ideas. He was 61 at the time of Stonewall, already past the sexual prime in which it’s meaningful to identify oneself as Gay. And, indeed, in 1997, a British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, ran a story accusing him of having moved to Sri Lanka in order to buy sex from underaged boys, something he found offensive and the accusation distressing. He thought the accusation was really aimed at Prince Charles who was scheduled to knight him—as Sir Arthur—that same year. (At the same time as Sir Elton John, by the way.)
He had a cute quip about not being Gay: "At my age now,” he said, “I’m just a little bit cheerful." He wrote that he was quite fascinated with the role homosexuals have played down through time as revolutionary thinkers. (In our correspondence, he expressed great interest in C.A. Tripp’s book about Abraham Lincoln as Gay.) He kept a private collection of writing which is not to be published until 50 years after his death. I’d wager the world is going to receive the open acknowledgement of his homosexuality and of his theory about gay consciousness as revolutionary come 2058.
Science fiction is one of the ways in which the mythmaking function of human consciousness appears today. 2001, with its final psychedelic imagery and apotheosis of astronaut David Bowman into the Star Child, described human consciousness transcending individuality and merging into some sort of greater consciousness, all explained in scientific sounding terms.
In his renowned novel, Childhood’s End, as scientific prophet, Clarke described a planetary progression to a collective mind (in the novel called “the Overmind”) that is foreshadowed by “psychic powers”: telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and memory of collective, cosmic events. In that sense, one might say he hypothesized such paranormal powers, long elements of religion and mysticism, to be forerunners and hints at humankind’s future evolution.
Even in the 1950s, when Childhood’s End appeared, he called himself an “agnostic Buddhist,” so he probably didn’t believe in a personal afterlife. Still we might imagine that in his dying, Sir Arthur experienced rising into the Overmind.
In his modern/futuristic way, he has surely been a visionary and “Enlightened Being,” a scientifically-minded prophet who had foreseen, and helped bring about, the modern transformation of consciousness. He was surely an incarnation of the archetype of the homosexual seer.
Writer and multiple Lambda Literary Award-winner Toby Johnson was the second publisher of White Crane Journal. He lives in San Antonio, Texas and reviews books for White Crane magazine.
Bo Young, Dan Vera, Entertainment, Gay History, History, Humor
Tim Gunn on J. Edgar Hoover – REDUX
Dan first put this on the blog way back in March of 2008. But because Tim Gunn's story relates to a Thanksgiving in his family, I thought it was a worthy piece of humor for this Thanksgiving. Enjoy…
I recently came across this video of Tim Gunn being interviewed at the 92nd Street Y by Budd Mishkin.
If you're a fan of Project Runway than you know Gunn for his sartorial wit and this clip presents an excerpt from what seemed to be a lovely conversation. Gunn speaks sweetly about the awkward relationship with his father who worked for the FBI.
Gunn also tells a great story about his father perhaps enabling J. Edgar Hoover's cross-dressing. It involves Vivian Vance and is quite funny. You've got to watch it!
Dan Vera, Gay History, WC74 - Lovers, White Crane Interviews
WC74 – Dan Vera speaks with Gay Egyptologist Greg Reeder
October 29, 2007 Editors Leave a comment
A WHITE CRANE CONVERSATION
Dan Vera chats with Egyptologist Greg Reeder about the Importance of Honoring the Past of Same-Sex Love.
In 1964 in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, the Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Moussa discovered a series of tombs with rock-cut passages in the escarpment facing the causeway that lead to the pyramid of Unas. Soon after, the Chief Inspector Mounir Basta reported crawling on his hands and knees through the passages, entering one of the Old Kingdom tombs. He was impressed with its unique scenes of two men in intimate embrace, something he had never seen before in all the Saqqara tombs.
Meanwhile, archaeologists working on the restoration of the causeway of Unas discovered that some of the stone blocks that had been used to build the causeway had been appropriated in ancient times from the mastaba that had originally served as the entrance to this newly discovered tomb. The archaeologists reconstructed the mastaba using the inscribed blocks found in the substructure of the causeway. It was revealed that this unique tomb had been built for two men to cohabit and that both shared identical titles in the palace of King Niuserre of the Fifth Dynasty: “Overseer Of The Manicurists In The Palace Of The King.”
Inside the tomb the names of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep are inscribed as one name over the doorway. In the deepest part of the tomb the identical pair are shown in the most intimate embrace possible within the canons of ancient Egyptian art. The tips of the men’s noses are touching and their torsos are so close together that the knots on the belts of their kilts appear to be touching, perhaps even tied together. Here, in the innermost private part of their joint-tomb, the two men stand in an embrace meant to last for eternity.
The scholar Greg Reeder has done a great deal of writing about the importance of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. White Crane spoke with him about these ancient forebears.
Dan Vera:
What do you think the significance of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep is to Gay people? What can we learn from the ancient world?
Greg Reeder:
It is important for Gay people to know that love between two men was beautifully portrayed in an ancient tomb of the 5th Dynasty in Old Kingdom Egypt. We need to understand that family could be more diverse than so-called normative, present day definitions. Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were both married to women and had children, but they were still able to share a degree of intimacy that in other circumstances was only shown between husband and wife. Their family not only included their wives and children, but each other. The images of them embracing and kissing are stunning reminders that the ancient world has much to teach us about where we have come from; the ways people adapted to the rules of society and yet were still able to express their same-sex devotions.
Vera:
How did you get involved with his area of study?
Reeder:
In 1981 I made my first trip to Egypt with my friend Michael Crisp. We spent two months there in the hopes of gathering material for a book on Egypt’s “sacred geography” – a book that never happened. Before I went to Egypt I was interested in the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep because I had seen it referenced in a travel book, which declared that there were scenes of two men embracing each other. We tried unsuccessfully to visit the tomb in 1981. Sometime in the year or so following our visit, I approached Mark Thompson about the possibility of doing a story for the Advocate about the tomb. He was enthusiastic in reply and I set about writing the article and gathering some photographs. The article was published May of 1983. So Mark Thompson gave me my first opportunity to write about the two manicurists.
You’ve also written about Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep in KMT, the modern journal of Ancient Egypt. Have other publications carried your research?
My friend Dennis Forbes, who also had worked for The Advocate, started KMT in 1990 with Michael Kuhlmann. I was involved as staff photographer and then as a contributing editor. Dennis asked me to write a piece for KMT on Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, which was published in KMT in 1993. I also published a paper on the tomb in World Archeology titled “Same-Sex Desire, Conjugal Constructs, and the Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep.”
Do you think the case for Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep as lovers is a solid one?
I think it a good one but one that needs to be discussed and debated. The ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom had a canon of art they used to depict the conjugal relationship between husband and wife.
My paper for World Archaeology goes into much detail about this. But, simply put, the ways the two men were portrayed embracing has its best parallels to those scenes of husband and wife embracing in other tombs of the period and I use examples from these other tombs to make the case. No matter what the biological relationship of the two men, there can be no doubt that they were expressing a profound intimacy and attraction that may best be described as “lovers.”
This is just an excerpt from this issue of White Crane. We are a reader-supported journal and need you to subscribe to keep this conversation going. So to read more from this wonderful issue SUBSCRIBE to White Crane. Thanks!
For more on Greg Reeder and to see more images from the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, please visit www.egyptology.com
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Obituary of Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
Please write the details of Rajesh Khanna's obit here. Please also tell us as much as you can in the biography wiki below.
Rajesh Khanna (born on December 29th, 1942) was a UnCategorized who was best known for being a celebrity. Rajesh Khanna died on Wednesday January 22, 2020 and his death was possibly because of an accident.
Rajesh Khanna's Biography Wiki:
Full Name: Khanna, Rajesh
Birthplace: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Birth Date: December 29, 1942
Also Known As: Rajesh Khanna, RajeshKhanna
Spouse/Partner: Dimple Kapadia? (1973–1984)
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Rajesh Khanna has an obituary on WikiObits.com
~ It ain't over till it's over.
Wikipedia.org: Rajesh Khanna
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LIAM GALLAGHER announces his biggest Belfast show to date at Boucher Road Playing Fields on August 19th 2020
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Following his two SOLD OUT Dublin 3 Arena shows, Liam Gallagher has announced his biggest ever Belfast show to date at Boucher Road Playing Fields on August 19th 2020 Liam Gallagher’s eagerly anticipated second album […]
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS announce an exclusive outdoor London show for summer 2020
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have announced an exclusive outdoor London show for summer 2020 in the stunning setting of London’s Kenwood House, the English Heritage site overlooking Hampstead Heath. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds […]
LIAM GALLAGHER reveals his third album will be called ‘Come On You Know’
Liam Gallagher has let slip that his third album will be titled ‘Come On You Know’. The former Oasis star only dropped ‘Why Me? Why Not.’ a month ago, but he’s already chosen the title […]
LIAM GALLAGHER believes brother Noel is ‘desperate’ to reunite with him
Liam Gallagher has admitted he believes his brother Noel Gallagher does want to make up with him and claimed his wife Sara MacDonald is getting in the way of a reconciliation. The former Oasis stars […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Liam Gallagher – Why Me? Why Not
September 13, 2019 Ben P Scott 0
We all know the story so far. Well, you should do, unless you’ve been living under a rock since the mid-90s. A decade ago, the biggest band of our generation breaks up after a blazing […]
‘Listen Up’ OASIS podcast launched as seminal debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’ turns 25
Marking the 25th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, ‘Listen Up’ is brand new podcast series offering an eye-witness account of the remarkable events leading up to and following the release of Oasis’ iconic debut album. The […]
LIAM GALLAGHER unveils the video for new single, ‘One Of Us’ – Watch Now
Today Liam Gallagher looks back at his past with his brothers as he unveils the video for ‘One of Us’ the latest track to be released from his upcoming second album ‘Why Me? Why Not’. […]
OASIS release ‘Fade Away’ lyric video to tie in with the 25th anniversary of Definitely Maybe
With two days to go before the 25th anniversary of the release of Oasis’ seminal debut album ‘Definitely Maybe’, a brand new eye-catching lyric video is unveiled for ‘Fade Away’, the B side to single […]
OASIS’ to release two limited edition vinyl formats of ‘Definitely Maybe’ to celebrate its 25th anniversary
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“In 20 years’ time, people will buy Definitely Maybe and listen to it for what it was. That’s what is important.” Noel Gallagher, August 1994. With today marking 25 years since Oasis released their third […]
LIAM GALLAGHER Announces 3ARENA, DUBLIN Show, SUNDAY 24th NOVEMBER + Shares New Track, The River
Liam Gallagher’s eagerly anticipated second album ‘Why Me? Why Not.’ is shaping up to be one of the album events of the year when it’s released on September 20th on Warner Records. The reaction to […]
REVIEW: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing EP
June 17, 2019 Ben P Scott 0
Resurgent former Oasis chief Noel Gallagher surprised quite a few listeners and critics with his excellent 2017 album ‘Who Built The Moon’. Leaving behind the well-trodden path of stadium anthems and indie rock singalongs was […]
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS release a brand new track ‘Rattling Rose’ – Listen Now
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds release a brand new track ‘Rattling Rose.’ The track follows the release of single ‘Black Star Dancing’, which is currently on the Radio 2 A-List. ‘Rattling Rose’ is taken from […]
NOEL GALLAGHER jokes kids are ‘lucky’ to have him as a dad at London Palladium gig
Noel Gallagher joked that his three children, sons Donovan and Sonny and daughter Anais, are “lucky bastards” to have him as a dad as he dedicated his song ‘AKA… What A Life!’ to them at […]
Alan McGee (Creation Records) will be doing an exclusive Q&A session in The Sugar Club Dublin on May 28th.
Alan McGee – one of the most important names of the music industry of the last 30 years and now the subject of a film by Trainspotting creators Danny Boyle and Irvine Welsh, will be doing an exclusive Q&A […]
NOEL GALLAGHER gives away his awards and gold discs
Noel Gallagher has revealed he has given away his awards and gold discs and only kept a single of his Ivor Novello awards. The former Oasis rocker has topped the charts with every album he’s […]
LIAM GALLAGHER will premiere documentary AS IT WAS with live performance – Watch Trailer
Liam Gallagher’s new documentary film ‘As It Was’ will receive its world premiere at London’s Alexandra Palace on Thursday, June 6 and the singer will give an “exclusive performance” on the night. Liam Gallagher is […]
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS release brand new single ‘Black Star Dancing’ – Listen Now
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds release a brand new single – ‘Black Star Dancing’. The single, which is produced by Noel, is taken from the EP of the same name released on 14th June, the same […]
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS announce exclusive ‘WAIT AND RETURN EP’ for Record Store Day 2019
February 28, 2019 Mark Millar 0
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds today announce the ‘Wait And Return EP’ – a special remix collection of tracks which will be released exclusively for Record Store Day 2019 on Saturday 13th April. Released as a limited edition 12” pressed on […]
Oasis… The Real Story Launches in Sheffield, Celebrating 25th Anniversary of ‘Definitely Maybe’
Sheffield’s O2 Academy will be the first to experience an evening with Iain Robertson and Tim Abbot. The band’s former Tour Manager and Head of Security, and the former Managing Director of their label Creation […]
NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS currently in studio + announce new UK tour dates
Noel Gallagher is recording new material in studios in London and LA, he’s also announcing a short run of all-seated shows in Britain before heading to the Far East on tour in May. Noel Gallagher’s […]
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How Did the Soviet Union React to the Events of the Holocaust?
International Conference Hosted by Yad Vashem’s Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
On Monday-Tuesday, 2–3 December 2019 , Yad Vashem's Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union will host an international two day conference on “The Holocaust as Reflected in Public Discourse in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist Period, 1941-1953.” Leading international scholars of the Holocaust, will address an often less known aspect of the Holocaust: how intellectuals in the Soviet Union reacted to the tragic events taking place during that time. Discussions will focus on the reporting of the Holocaust by the Soviet Press, how information was disseminated through photography and museum exhibitions during that period and how Yiddish folklorists wrote about the Holocaust.
Experts from various academic institutions including Tel Aviv University, New York University, University of Toronto, Columbia University and Hebrew University will present their latest findings at the conference. Scholars and historians from Israel, North America and Europe will also be in attendance.
Dr. Arkadi Zeltser, Director of the Mirilashvili Center at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, and Institute Head Prof. Dan Michman, Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair for Holocaust Studies, will offer opening remarks.
David Shneer (University of Colorado, Boulder) will present his lecture titled, “Grieving Women and Dead Men; Dmitri Baltermants – Early Images of Holocaust Liberation Sites, and the Tension between the Universal and the Particular. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) will discuss, “What Did Polish Jews in the USSR Know about the Holocaust in Poland?” Diego Rotman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) will present, “The Soviet Union in Dzigan and Shumacher’s Theater.”
"Jewish intellectuals in the Soviet Union, especially those who wrote in Yiddish, deemed it their social and intellectual duty to take a public stance vis-à-vis the mass murder of Jews, information on which had been pouring in since the fall of 1941” explains Dr. Zeltser. “The conference will address such important issues, ‘Which ways did they find, in the peculiar conditions of the Soviet Union, to express their response to these unprecedented events in Jewish history?”
The conference sessions will be held in English and Hebrew, with simultaneous translation into English, Hebrew and Russian.
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Tom Ford’s Most Tom Ford Tips for Looking as Good as Tom Ford
by Stephanie Eckardt
"Beauty gives me great joy, but it also gives me great sadness," Tom Ford says in his new profile in the September issue of Vogue. But that seems to be just as well: "I always felt that if you’re happy, you’re just stupid," the self-described "hyper-hyper Virgo" added in between sharing tidbits like the fact that he's still vegan, though he now makes exceptions for sweets, and that he can't think when he's inside houses that are too vibrantly decorated. ("Color distracts me," he explained, simply.)
Of course, this being Tom Ford, the ultra-perfectionist designer was far from casual while delivering this latest batch of bon mots. (Even that time he did an interview "legs wide open, completely naked" was highly orchestrated—to teach the reporter a lesson about sexuality, no less.) This time around, Ford took a different, far less revealing approach: He not only sat down with Vogue fully clothed, but also went to great lengths to ensure that the left side of his face wasn't exposed. Read on for more of the designer's beauty-related quirks that he's unabashedly shared over the years, here.
Choose one side of your face, and stick to it.
Have you ever noticed that you've practically only ever seen Tom Ford's face from its right side? Probably not, which is part of the genius behind the strategy that Vogue witnessed the designer expertly employ. Ford, who turns 58 at the end of the month, explained that he's come to think of himself as an image, or a product. And, like any other image or product he's produced, he's learned how to display it at its most favorable angle over time.
Ford isn't alone in this approach: "Kate Moss will give you only one side," he added. (For another example, please examine the lack of photographic evidence of Victoria Beckham's right arm.)
Avoid cameras at noon, no matter where in the world you are.
"I don’t like the middle of the day," Ford told the New York Times of why he chooses to avoid events as elite as Bary Diller and Diane von Furstenberg's annual Oscars lunch. "Take a picture at noon, anywhere in the world. You’re going to look like hell—hell. Everybody looks like hell. Unless you’re 18, maybe, or under. Even then you don’t look your best. I like daylight, but not to go out in public."
Avoid overhead lighting at all costs.
"Why, oh my god, overhead light, where your brow is going to create shadow right there, your nose is going to create a shadow like this, you look like hell, you look like you have no hair, even if you have a lot of hair," Ford recently fumed to the New York Times. "Nobody looks good in overhead lighting," he continued. Hence why, if you make a trip to Tower Bar in Los Angeles, you'll find that the corner table where he usually sits is blacked out: "I told them, 'You have to get rid of that spot or I’m not going to come here. No overhead lights.'"
Extreme as that may sound, Ford isn't the only outspoken celebrity vampire hiding in plain sight. Mariah Carey claims to have "an extreme aversion" to overhead lighting, and once proclaimed that elevator lighting is "toxic."
Make sure your pockets aren't overstuffed.
This one comes courtesy of Tom Hanks, one of Ford's newfound (wannabe) disciples. While they enjoy a good chat about film, "of course I still ask him fashion questions like a pilgrim who has climbed a mountain in search of wisdom" Hanks told Vogue. "He has imparted the most simple of answers: Button the jacket, as it slims your form. Use the pockets, as a jacket is like a man’s purse—just don't get bulky."
Beware your suit's cut.
Just because Ford is a "huge fan" of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg doesn't mean he's about to let Mayor Pete off easy. Shortly after first meeting Buttigieg, Ford texted his husband to point out that the mayor's generously cut suit made him appear rather small. (Buttigieg's campaign appears to have politely rejected the designer's advice.)
When in doubt, strip down.
"Being naked is the great equalizer; there are just less ways to screw up," Ford told W in 2005.
Tom Ford photographed by Steven Klein, styled by Camilla Nickerson, for *W* magazine, November 2005.
Tom Ford. Photo by Steven Klein, styled by Camilla Nickerson. W Magazine, November 2005.
Related: Tom Ford Doesn't Get Why We Still Won't Objectify Men
A Brief History of Fashion's Most NSFW, Controversial Ad Campaigns
For their first large-scale campaign, the designers behind Eckhaus Latta enlisted a diverse group of 30-something couples to not only wear their spring 2017 collection, but have real sex in front of the camera for the photographer Heji Shin, who had produced a similar series of images for a German sex education book for teenagers.
YSL, 1971
In 1971, a nude (and largely hairless) Yves Saint Laurent posed nude for Jeanloup Sieff to debut his first-ever perfume for his namesake label, Pour Homme.
CK, 1980
A 15-year-old Brooke Shields caused a sensation in 1980 when she asked “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing,” in one of a series of steamy videos shot for the brand by legendary Richard Avedon, which were then banned by TV networks CBS and ABC.
Other than her controversially “heroin chic” ads for Calvin Klein, a topless, 17-year-old Kate Moss also starred in this 1992 campaign for the brand with Mark Wahlberg—one that made her so uncomfortable, she later said it prompted a nervous breakdown.
Wonderbra, 1994
Rumor has it that Wonderbra’s billboards of Eva Herzigova caused traffic build-ups and car crashes when they went up in 1994.
It didn’t take long for controversy to erupt after Steven Meisel and Calvin Klein cast a crew of apparently underage models, including Kate Moss, for a 1995 Calvin Klein campaign; eventually, CK responded to the outcry over the ad with another ad, a full page in the New York Times announcing it was pulling the original advertisement.
This infamous 2000 campaign from Yves Saint Laurent, featuring a nude Sophie Dahl, drew 948 complaints to the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority, making it the eighth most complained about advertisement in recorded history.
Yves Saint Laurent again pared things down for one of his perfume ads in 2002, this time swapping out the designer’s likeness for a chiseled model to go full frontal.
Gucci, 2003
Tom Ford and Carine Roitfeld both solidified their reputations as provocateurs when the designer and stylist drove down the fact that they were working for Gucci by shaving a “G” into a model’s pubic hair for this 2003 campaign shot by Mario Testino.
American Apparel, 2006
American Apparel, whose founder Dov Charney has faced a litany of sexual harassment lawsuits, began its run of controversial ads depicting highly sexualized and barely clothed women—an approach that was highly successful in creating conversation, but hardly saved the brand from bankruptcy—with this 2006 campaign.
Tom Ford, 2007
The concept of “sex sells” barely gets more explicit than in Terry Richardson’s 2007 campaign for Tom Ford’s men’s fragrance, an ad that was banned in Italy.
Diesel, 2010
“Stupid is as stupid done” is how some critics responded to Diesel’s 2010 “Be Stupid” campaign, which featured images of models flashing security cameras, among other suggestive poses. Some felt the images were needlessly sensationalistic while others described them as youthful and rebellious.
Marc Jacobs, 2011
Dakota Fanning’s 2011 campaign for Marc Jacobs’ Lola campaign was banned in England after the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority deemed it too “sexually provocative” for the then 17-year-old actress, who was photographed by Juergen Teller.
Benetton, 2011
Thanks to a little Photoshop, Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez were just several of the world leaders found making out in a 2011 campaign by United Colors of Benneton, which has a long history of provoking with their ads.
Alexander Wang, 2014
The model Anna Ewers has long been one of Alexander Wang’s muses, but the pair ended up in hot water with this 2014 campaign, in which Ewers is only just barely wearing Wang’s clothes.
D&G, 2015
This 2007 campaign by Dolce & Gabbana’s came to be known as the “gang rape advert” not only then, when several magazines refused to run it, but when it resurfaced online in 2015.
Miu Miu, 2015
The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Agency also banned this 2015 Miu Miu campaign, shot by Steven Meisel, for being “irresponsible” in sexualizing an apparently underage (but actually 22-year-old) Mia Goth.
Calvin Klein, 2016
Calvin Klein courted controversy again last year with a campaign that featured a model photographed from under her dress, but the acclaimed British female photographer Harley Weir, whose work has long been interested in youth culture and sexuality, defended the campaign.
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Airlines In Turkey And Dubai Cleared From Laptop Ban
By Chris Benderev • Jul 5, 2017
Emirates passenger planes at Dubai International Airport. The airline announced it is now exempt from the laptop ban imposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in March.
Kamran Jebreili / AP
Originally published on July 5, 2017 10:47 am
Two airlines in the Middle East say they have been exempted from a 2-month-old ban on carrying large electronic devices aboard direct flights to the United States.
Emirates, the Middle East's largest long-haul airline, said in a statement Wednesday that the ban was lifted, "effective immediately," on Emirates' flights from Dubai International Airport to the U.S. Also on Wednesday, Turkish Airlines announced the ban was no longer in place for its travelers departing the Istanbul Ataturk Airport for American destinations.
U.S.-bound flights out of Etihad Airlines of Abu Dhabi International Airport were cleared Sunday. (Etihad is the only airline with direct flights to the U.S. out of Abu Dhabi International.) The news suggests all three airports have met newly heightened standards by American security officials, according to the Associated Press.
Turkish airlines CEO Bilal Eksi tweeted Tuesday that he also believed a similar ban on large electronics on U.K.-bound flights would be lifted soon.
As NPR has reported, the Department of Homeland Security instituted the rule against bringing electronic devices larger than a smartphone into airplane cabins in March, citing no specific threat but pointing to continued efforts by terrorists to target aviation by installing explosives in consumer products. The ban did allow for larger electronics to be stowed in checked luggage.
The Department of Homeland Security order affected 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa (Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco). As NPR's Greg Myre noted, unlike the list of largely poor and troubled countries included in the Trump administration's controversial travel ban, the laptop ban targeted eight stable, in some cases wealthy, American allies. "You think of these countries on the airline list, and you're talking about a wealthy businessman, jet setting around the world," Greg said.
The ban did not affect U.S. carriers flying from the 10 airports. In the cases of the airports in Istanbul and Dubai, Turkish Airlines and Emirates are, respectively, the only airlines operating direct flights to the U.S.
Shortly after the United States instituted its ban in March, the United Kingdom followed suit, with a similar ban on large electronics affecting a slightly altered list of airports and countries. The U.K.'s ban did include British-based airlines.
In June, the Department of Homeland Security raised the possibility of expanding the laptop ban to direct flights from Europe to the U.S. However, the Department of Homeland Security ultimately avoided such a move and instead announced new security standards in late June for all commercial flights from abroad into the U.S. The standards include everything from improved screening equipment to better explosives-detecting dogs. At the time, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly cited the downing of a Russian Metrojet plane in 2015 as it departed from Egypt as an example of terrorists' sustained focus on air travel.
Kelly warned any international airport that did not meet the new standards "could be subject to other restrictions, including a ban on electronic devices on aircraft or even a suspension of their flights into the United States."
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabian Airlines said it expects the laptop ban to be lifted on its U.S.-bound flights by July 19.
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After making 26,000 crosses to honor victims of mass shootings, Greg Zanis is moving on
Updated: 6:04 AM CST Dec 27, 2019
Eliott C. McLaughlin and Steve Almasy, CNN
Greg Zanis needs a change. The man who for decades has brought white crosses, Stars of David and crescent moons to the sites of mass shootings is overwhelmed, and it's time to hand over his ministry to someone else.The retired carpenter, who is 69, will teach others to make the memorials, then turn his attention to restoring an old, old limousine he's had for a while."I am tired," he told CNN on Thursday night. "I suffer a lot when I do (the crosses). It's very hard on me. I had the weight of the world on my shoulders."He will be handing over the ministry to Lutheran Church Charities, whose 135 churches will take over the building and distribution of the crosses."It's a great day for the Lord," he said.Zanis began building the crosses in 1996, when he found his father-in-law murdered. When he talked with CNN in August, he said he has built 26,680.He estimates 21,000 were for shooting victims. He's also taken his white crosses to the aftermaths of tornadoes and wildfires, bus and boat crashes and to Martha's Vineyard after John F. Kennedy Jr. and his relatives died in a plane crash.Each one took about an hour to make."I feel like I've united people to love each other," he said. "I feel that I brought the country together. Instead of these shootings being full of hate, we made them about love. ... I've broken down a lot of barriers."Zanis is a religious man. He grew up Greek Orthodox and spent many years as a Baptist, though he's quick to chuckle about his delinquent days "smoking pot and sleeping in the van" in Key West and racing his Pontiac Trans Am in the cross-country Cannonball Run made famous in the Burt Reynolds film.The shootings, he believes -- and he knows the belief is unpopular -- are the consequence of a country that forgot God, beginning in 1962 with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw official prayer in school, he said."When you take God out, why should God help us?" he asked. "I think it's real simple: a second generation of godless people. We don't have to have a conscience. ... You think any of these people were men of any kind of faith who do the shootings? No."The victims' religions, however, didn't matter to Zanis. He'd scans their obituaries to determine whether he should bring crosses, Stars of David or crescent moons. He's memorialized Buddhists and atheists, as well.The breaking point for Zanis came in February when a gunman killed five people in his hometown of Aurora, Illinois.He knew something was wrong when dozens of law enforcement vehicles, sirens screaming, rocketed by his house. About 15 minutes later, Zanis' daughter called saying there was a shooting.He would make five more crosses for that tragedy."I was blindsided, and I didn't think it could happen," he said. "I've been living in a curtain of darkness since it happened in my hometown."His final trip was to Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, a city north of Los Angeles, where he delivered two crosses. He dropped off 100 crosses at a Lutheran church in Las Vegas on the way home, so they could begin taking over his duties.Zanis plans to turn a trailer into a mobile workshop so he can travel around the country teaching members of the Lutheran church how to build the memorials.Tim Hetzner, president and chief executive officer of Lutheran Church Charities, told CNN that Zanis called him Thursday to inform him of his decision. They still need to work out some details."God must have a plan because I sure don't," he quipped. "To further what Greg has done for 20 years, we're honored to be able to do that."Hetzner said 135 Lutheran churches in 26 states train comfort dogs and take them to various tragedies.He said those churches will continue and expand Zanis' ministry. They also don't care about religious affiliations."We serve people in all situations and all of types of backgrounds, and we're not called to judge people," he said. "We're there to bring comfort and mercy to people who have suffered a loss."While the charity takes over, Zanis will move on to restoring a shot-up 1927 Cadillac Imperial stretch limousine of a Chicago gangster.Asked whether he thought it was strange to spend years honoring victims of violence, then restore a car that once belonged to a violent man, Zanis said, "It is odd, but it's the Mona Lisa of Cadillacs, a rare classic."His original intent was to start working on the car when he retired, but he took up cross-building instead.Now, he'll finally work on the car, which has smokescreen capability and drop-down metal curtains with gun ports and full armor, including on the roof, radiator and gas tank. It had 22 bullet holes in its armor when he first got it 45 years ago."It will help me get my mind off this," he said, explaining it will be a full-time job more than a hobby. "I'm a workaholic."
Greg Zanis needs a change. The man who for decades has brought white crosses, Stars of David and crescent moons to the sites of mass shootings is overwhelmed, and it's time to hand over his ministry to someone else.
The retired carpenter, who is 69, will teach others to make the memorials, then turn his attention to restoring an old, old limousine he's had for a while.
"I am tired," he told CNN on Thursday night. "I suffer a lot when I do (the crosses). It's very hard on me. I had the weight of the world on my shoulders."
He will be handing over the ministry to Lutheran Church Charities, whose 135 churches will take over the building and distribution of the crosses.
"It's a great day for the Lord," he said.
Zanis began building the crosses in 1996, when he found his father-in-law murdered. When he talked with CNN in August, he said he has built 26,680.
He estimates 21,000 were for shooting victims. He's also taken his white crosses to the aftermaths of tornadoes and wildfires, bus and boat crashes and to Martha's Vineyard after John F. Kennedy Jr. and his relatives died in a plane crash.
Each one took about an hour to make.
"I feel like I've united people to love each other," he said. "I feel that I brought the country together. Instead of these shootings being full of hate, we made them about love. ... I've broken down a lot of barriers."
Zanis is a religious man. He grew up Greek Orthodox and spent many years as a Baptist, though he's quick to chuckle about his delinquent days "smoking pot and sleeping in the van" in Key West and racing his Pontiac Trans Am in the cross-country Cannonball Run made famous in the Burt Reynolds film.
The shootings, he believes -- and he knows the belief is unpopular -- are the consequence of a country that forgot God, beginning in 1962 with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to outlaw official prayer in school, he said.
"When you take God out, why should God help us?" he asked. "I think it's real simple: a second generation of godless people. We don't have to have a conscience. ... You think any of these people were men of any kind of faith who do the shootings? No."
The victims' religions, however, didn't matter to Zanis. He'd scans their obituaries to determine whether he should bring crosses, Stars of David or crescent moons. He's memorialized Buddhists and atheists, as well.
The breaking point for Zanis came in February when a gunman killed five people in his hometown of Aurora, Illinois.
He knew something was wrong when dozens of law enforcement vehicles, sirens screaming, rocketed by his house. About 15 minutes later, Zanis' daughter called saying there was a shooting.
He would make five more crosses for that tragedy.
"I was blindsided, and I didn't think it could happen," he said. "I've been living in a curtain of darkness since it happened in my hometown."
His final trip was to Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, a city north of Los Angeles, where he delivered two crosses. He dropped off 100 crosses at a Lutheran church in Las Vegas on the way home, so they could begin taking over his duties.
Zanis plans to turn a trailer into a mobile workshop so he can travel around the country teaching members of the Lutheran church how to build the memorials.
Tim Hetzner, president and chief executive officer of Lutheran Church Charities, told CNN that Zanis called him Thursday to inform him of his decision. They still need to work out some details.
"God must have a plan because I sure don't," he quipped. "To further what Greg has done for 20 years, we're honored to be able to do that."
Hetzner said 135 Lutheran churches in 26 states train comfort dogs and take them to various tragedies.
He said those churches will continue and expand Zanis' ministry. They also don't care about religious affiliations.
"We serve people in all situations and all of types of backgrounds, and we're not called to judge people," he said. "We're there to bring comfort and mercy to people who have suffered a loss."
While the charity takes over, Zanis will move on to restoring a shot-up 1927 Cadillac Imperial stretch limousine of a Chicago gangster.
Asked whether he thought it was strange to spend years honoring victims of violence, then restore a car that once belonged to a violent man, Zanis said, "It is odd, but it's the Mona Lisa of Cadillacs, a rare classic."
His original intent was to start working on the car when he retired, but he took up cross-building instead.
Now, he'll finally work on the car, which has smokescreen capability and drop-down metal curtains with gun ports and full armor, including on the roof, radiator and gas tank. It had 22 bullet holes in its armor when he first got it 45 years ago.
"It will help me get my mind off this," he said, explaining it will be a full-time job more than a hobby. "I'm a workaholic."
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Cllr Ann Reid appointed MBE in 2018 New Year's Honours list
Posted by Chris Twells | Updated 2017-12-30
Cllr Ann Reid, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Dringhouses and Woodthorpe, has been appointed an MBE in the New Year's Honours List, as recognition for her service to local government and the City of York.
Ann was first elected to represent the Foxwood ward at a by-election in 1986. Following boundary changes in 2003 she was elected to represent Dringhouses and Woodthorpe ward. For over 30 years Ann has served the people of York with dedication and enthusiasm.
In 2015 Ann became the first person in the history of the City of York unitary authority to poll more than 3,000 votes in a local election.
In addition to helping hundreds of residents every year with local issues, Ann served as Lord Mayor of York (1993-94), as Master of the Company of Cordwainers and as a long serving school governor. She was only the fifth woman to serve as York's Lord Mayor, an office that stretches back to 1217.
Cllr Ann Reid MBE said: “I am surprised and delighted to have been proposed for this honour. It has been a privilege to represent the residents of Dringhouses and Woodthorpe for so many years.
I am grateful to my family and fellow councillors who have given me great support over the years and I am so lucky to have been able to give something back to this wonderful city.”
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Winner of Sheikh Zayed Book Award talks about the power of literature on reality
Abu Dhabi, 09 Jun 2013
Abu Dhabi, Marina Warner, critic and author of “Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights” has won the AED 750,000 prize for her contemporary retelling of the legendary mythical tales of the Arabian Nights Published by Vintage Books (2012), the top award in the “Arab Culture in Non-Arabic Languages” category. Marina is one of the distinguished cultural historians in the world on the subject of myth, fairytale and folk narrative and art. Her book tells the story of the Arabian Nights in Western Civilization from a thoroughly new and, until recently, little understood angle. Warner retells a number of the tales in her own words with a verve that brings them to life in contemporary idiom. Upon these retellings she constructs a nuanced view of the ways in which the benign magic and enchantment of the stories affected the reception and ideas of magic and enchantment in the West, even during the period of the Enlightenment – a period more naturally associated with reason and science. She is thoroughly versed in the complex history of the Nights corpus and constructs upon this foundation a new vision of the way the West has been in thrall to images and ideas from Arab, and more generally Eastern culture in the 18th through to the 20th century. “Above all, the book is about the power of the word and literature’s effects on reality; stories are not simple mirrors of what happens but engines of possibilities. Shahrazad’s Tales are known as ‘ransom tales’ because she tells them to save herself and all other women and to bring about a transformation in the murderous Sultan. Stories are themselves illuminating. Several of the most influential and distinguished writers and thinkers in Europe – Voltaire and Goethe turned to this form of storytelling – oriental fabulism – to express their most profound vision of how things might be. In an era of mass communications, the power of the word has never been stronger.” “It is wonderful to be given this mark of recognition from this part of the world. Wonderful and unexpected. I loved writing about the Nights – they have given me the most enjoyable years of research I have ever had and it is very encouraging if I have managed to convey some of that pleasure and interest I found in them” Warner is a Fellow of the British Academy and currently works as a Professor of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Marina Warner is a writer of fiction and cultural history. She is specialized in mythology and fairy-tales, with an emphasis on the part women play in them. Her award-winning books include” Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary” (1976), “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism” (l982), “From the Beast to the Blonde” (1994). Actively the richest literary competition in the world, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award was established in memory of Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan who served as the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE for more than 30 years. Since its launch in 2007, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award has succeeded in fostering greater scholarship and creativity by recognising and rewarding significant cultural achievements to Arabic culture, actively changing the Arab literary landscape. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is an independent cultural award established under the patronage and support of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) and is now celebrating its 7th year. This year has seen 1262 nominations across all 9 categories, doubling over last session’s record. Since 2007 the Award witnessed more than 42 winners representing literary and cultural figures or institutions from around the World. China, UK, Germany, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, South Korea are some of the winners' country representatives. Categories of the award include Contribution to the Development of Nations, Children’s Literature [including adolescents books], Young Author, Translation, Literature, Literary and Art Criticism, Arab Culture in non-Arabic Language, Publishing and Technology, Cultural Personality of the Year.
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Germany's privacy leaders gather to discuss suspending US Safe Harbor
In Germany, data watchdogs will meet this week to debate the future of the Safe Harbor agreement in the post-Snowden world.
By Sara Zaske for The German View | January 27, 2015 -- 09:48 GMT (01:48 PST) | Topic: Security
On Wednesday, German data privacy commissioners will meet in Berlin for their annual conference. On the agenda will be discussions on one thing: whether the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and the US should be scrapped.
The meeting will allow the German regulators to voice their ongoing frustration over the lack of reform that followed the recent revelations that the US' surveillance agency, the NSA, was collecting German citizens' data.
Safe Harbor is a critical agreement for US-based businesses - and particularly tech companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter - as it allows them to legally transfer commercial data from the European Union to the US if they agree to uphold EU citizens' rights over how the data is collected and handled. Even a short suspension of the agreement could mean serious disruption to those US companies' business.
For many German officials and politicians, the NSA's ongoing ability to access the data of European citizens held by US companies violates the privacy principles of the agreement - principles that companies can self-certify they uphold.
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"I, as well as several of my German colleagues, have serious doubts whether the US companies that have self-certified under the agreement can be considered to be in a safe harbor," Alexander Dix, Berlin's commissioner for data and information, told ZDNet. He called the NSA's data monitoring "aggressive" and "disproportionate".
Following the NSA spying scandal, there have been many calls across Europe to suspend the Safe Harbor agreement - with some of the loudest calls coming from privacy-conscious Germany. Instead of suspending the agreement, however, in November 2013 the European Commission sent the US a list of 13 reforms it would like to see made to Safe Harbor. The US government has still not fully responded to the request, even though it promised to do so by last summer.
The delay is weighing on many privacy regulators like Dix, who believes that if Safe Harbor doesn't provide adequate protection, alternative measures that do should be considered.
It's unclear what the full impact of suspending Safe Harbor would be. Not being allowed to transfer data outside the EU would certainly cause major problems for companies like Twitter whose servers are all in the US. For companies that do have European servers, it would affect their back-office business, where local data may be transferred across the Atlantic for processing by algorithms, profiles, fraud detection, and other data services that are part of their day-to-day operations. It would also be fundamentally disruptive to cloud service providers that have datacenters in multiple countries and constantly move data among them.
Few think Safe Harbor will be revoked due to the value of the business at stake. As well as hitting US-based firms, a suspension would also impact many European-based companies that have a global reach, such as Siemens and SAP - even car companies like BMW have an interest in moving data in and out of the EU.
One possible alternative to suspending Safe Harbor is a measure already making its way through the European legislative system as part of the European Commission's Data Protection Regulation package.
One of the provisions in the package would require outside companies to obey EU privacy laws when providing services in the EU, regardless of where the company is based. So, for example, US-based Apple would have to adhere to the EU regulations regarding data collection and retention when a customer in Munich or Paris buys something from iTunes.
According to German MEP Birgit Sippel, who will be participating in a panel discussion at the Berlin conference, the provision could potentially make the Safe Harbor agreement unnecessary.
However, the entire Data Protection Regulation package is still being debated, so it's unclear whether that provision will make it into to the final legislation. And, even if it does, Sippel admits it's not cut and dried whether it will solve the NSA problem in its entirety, given the pressure the US government can put on US companies to provide access to data.
That's one reason Ben Scott, program director at the non-profit thinktank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, believes that Germany should look at other ways to approach the issue.
"I don't think you can solve intelligence and law enforcement debates with economic legislation," Scott said. "I understand why they are doing that. It seems like the only tool in the toolbox that has a chance of working."
Scott, an American who's a former innovation advisor for the US Department of State, believes that the EU and US should move toward a common set of privacy regulations that are more relevant to today's technology. "There is no realistic alternative but to harmonize policy between the EU and the US," he said."We need a modernization of privacy and security policy that reflects democratic values."
Scott plans to tell Germany's data protection commissioners at the conference that they could be the ones to envision what that policy might look like.
However, both Scott and Sippel feel that Germany lacks the moral high ground to ask the US government to change its surveillance activities when it comes to data, when its own policies are not very different in practice.
"If it's unacceptable for the US government to reach into data from Google to spy on a German citizen, why can the German government do the same thing with a German company? Why is it that Germans are doing the same thing to the Turks and that's OK?" Scott said. "These kind of inconsistencies make it difficult to negotiate."
Sippel, a member of Germany's social democrat party (SPD), said the political conversation around data privacy has also changed dramatically following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
"Unfortunately at the moment, it is not easy to talk to the US and say they shouldn't do this [collect German citizens' data] because at the same time some people in our own government are thinking of similar ideas," she said.
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WIZ KHALIFA FEAT. TY DOLLA $IGN
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Brian Barber
Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla $ign's R&B track, "Something New," was the first official single off of Wiz’s highly anticipated studio album and earned a coveted spot in multiple international music charts, such as US Billboard Hot 100, Hungary Single Top 40, Canadian Hot 100, and more. The music video, which takes place at a star-studded house party in the hills, has racked up over 48 million views on Youtube and includes cameos from Demi Lovato, Jamie Foxx, Jason Derulo, O.T. Genasis, G-Eazy, Juicy J, Lil Dicky, and more.
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The individual California State Colleges were brought together as a system by the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960. In 1972 the system became The California State University and Colleges and in 1982 the system became The California State University. Today the campuses of the CSU include comprehensive and polytechnic universities and, since July 1995, the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus.
The oldest campus—San Jose State University—was founded in 1857 and became the first institution of public higher education in California. The newest campus—California State University, Channel Islands—opened in fall 2002, with freshmen arriving in fall 2003.
Responsibility for the California State University is vested in the Board of Trustees, whose members are appointed by the Governor. The Trustees appoint the Chancellor, who is the chief executive officer of the system, and the Presidents, who are the chief executive officers on the respective campuses.
The Trustees, the Chancellor and the Presidents develop systemwide policy, with actual implementation at the campus level taking place through broadly based consultative procedures. The Academic Senate of the California State University, made up of elected representatives of the faculty from each campus, recommends academic policy to the Board of Trustees through the Chancellor.
Academic excellence has been achieved by the California State University through a distinguished faculty, whose primary responsibility is superior teaching. While each campus in the system has its own unique geographic and curricular character, all campuses, as multipurpose institutions, offer undergraduate and graduate instruction for professional and occupational goals as well as broad liberal education. All of the campuses require for graduation a basic program of "General Education-Breadth Requirements" regardless of the type of bachelor's degree or major field selected by the student.
The CSU offers more than 1,800 bachelor's and master's degree programs in some 357 subject areas. Many of these programs are offered so that students can complete all upper-division and graduate requirements by part-time late afternoon and evening study. In addition, a variety of teaching and school service credential programs are available. A limited number of doctoral degrees are offered jointly with the University of California and with private institutions in California. In 2005, the CSU was authorized to independently offer Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree programs for educational administrators.
With almost 460,000 students, who were taught by some 47,000 faculty, the system awards about half of the bachelor's degrees and a third of the master's degrees granted in California. The CSU has awarded nearly 2.9 million bachelor's, master's and joint doctoral degrees since 1961.
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The Story of Beate Sirota
(This is an unedited, uncorrected transcript.)
Beate Sirota Gordon is an American woman who has become a Japanese icon. A young American woman found herself writing the Japanese Constitution.
Hundreds of hours of television time have been consumed, barrels of printers ink have been spilled these last few months marveling over the wisdom of the American constitution and over its durability. More than 200 years old now and functioning as well as ever.
There is another national constitution also drafted by Americans, not quite as old, but nearing its 53rd birthday and doing very well, thank you. The fact that this constitution was cobbled together by Americans was actually a state secret for a number of years. Immediately after the Second World War it might have been more than the Japanese people could have taken had they known that their new constitution, the one debated in the Japanese privy council and then passed by both chambers of the Imperial Diet or parliament, the constitution promulgated by the emperor himself had actually been drafted by members of General Douglas MacArthur=s staff.
They wrote the famous article under which Japan renounces war and arms. They drafted the language under which the emperor was defined as merely a symbol with no governing authority. But there are also in the Japanese constitution two paragraphs dealing specifically with the rights of women, paragraphs that were researched and written and passionately defended by a very young American woman who has now, late in life, become something of a heroine in Japan. It is her story, gathered and compiled by Nightline Producer Matliqa Siqa that we tell tonight.
(VO) When Beate Sirota was five, she embarked on a journey that would literally change history. Her father, Leo Sirota, an accomplished musician, had been invited to Japan to perform and teach at the Imperial Academy of Music. The Japan that young Beate saw was mainly the exotic side as extolled in travelogues.
LEO SIROTA
To us it was the land of Fujiyama, of cherry trees, exquisite gardens, geisha girls.
BEATE SIROTA
My memories are wonderful. It was a country for children, really. They did everything for the children. Mothers, aunts, grandmothers, all they thought about is how to make children comfortable.
TED KOPPEL (VO)
But even as a young child what she was struck by was the way that women in Japan were treated.
Women walking on the street behind their husbands, women preparing dinners that the husband had arranged for his friends, preparing the dinner, serving the dinner but never entering into conversation with the men and eating dinner by herself in the kitchen. That is the Japan I knew as far as women were concerned. Women never came to my mother=s parties. The men came. The Japanese men came. They didn=t bring their wives. I knew a little bit also about the Geisha and the mistresses Japanese men were keeping, sometimes in the same house as their wives.
Beate spent her formative years in Japan. It was the late 1930s when it came time for Beate to go to college. Hitler=s troops were marching through Europe so her parents decided to send her to college in America.
It=s very strange but my father, being a musician, really didn=t know much about politics and international relations and all that and I don=t think that he thought that there was going to be a war. He kept on saying that it is impossible for such a small nation as Japan to get into a war with such a powerful nation as the United States. And so when my parents brought me to America in 1939 to enter Mills College, they had no notion that there would be a war.
Then came December 7th, December 7, 1941.
I had been to a movie and I came back to campus and people were sitting around radios and one girl called to me oh, did you know that war has been declared? Of course I was terribly shocked because my parents had just gone back to Japan. They had been in the States visiting me in the summer of =41. And they went back on the last ship, on the very last ship, again, because my father just did not believe that there was going to be a war.
That visit from her parents was the last contact she would have with them until the end of the war. As soon as the war with Japan ended, her priority became to get back to Japan any way that she could in order to find her parents.
So I went to Washington and the Foreign Economic Administration interviewed me and gave me a job immediately because, again, I spoke Japanese and I had lived in Japan and there were so few of us. I was told that I would be working for the government section in GHQ, general headquarters of the, of General MacArthur=s supreme command.
Little did she know that the job she was about to take would change things not just for her, but for the Japanese women she had admired so much.
I got there in December 1945, Tokyo was completely devastated. I=d been on the plane I would say, I guess I was the only woman. There were other, a few other civilians who were also going to work, but the rest of the plane was filled with soldiers. And as we approached Atsugi, the air base, there was great excitement, of course, to see what Japan was like. It was just not to be believed what it looked like. There was nothing left. I realized, you know, what this war had meant to the Japanese. They were in lines, the men and the women, to get food. The clothing was torn. They looked as if they had not had had enough to eat, of course. And in general it was a very sad picture.
What General MacArthur had come to do was to rebuild Japan, but as it turns out, not just to rebuild it physically.
General MacArthur had certain ideas in mind, certain goals he had for the occupation and of course one of the big goals was to democratize Japan. And the government section was his liaison with the government of Japan. He wanted to rule through the Japanese government, through the emperor of Japan. He thought it would be a more peaceful occupation if he could do that. And then one day, February 4th, I came to -- early in the morning, it was a very cold day -- to the government section and we were called in at 10:00 by General Whitney to his conference room. There were about 25 of us who were called in. And he said to us, you are now the constitutional assembly. This meeting is top secret and what you will be doing is top secret. You shall write the draft of the new Japanese constitution. General MacArthur has ordered that it be written in seven days. When you=re in the army if you=re given an order, you don=t have much time to think about it. You just do it. We had no time to think, you know, were we qualified, how would we do it.
Beate was only 22 years old but as the only woman on the team, she found herself as the obvious choice to write one particular section.
We just sat down immediately and Colonel Rousse said to us well, there are three of us and there is a lot to write for civil rights. So let=s divide it. And the two men looked at me and Colonel Rousse said well, you=re a woman so why don=t you write the women=s rights?
Tokyo was devastated, but so seriously did Ms Sirota take her task that she commandeered a jeep, combing the city for libraries, looking for constitutions of other nations.
I found that in the European constitutions, contrary to the American constitution, there were a lot of women=s rights detailed and, also, social welfare rights.
All the inequalities she had seen as a child came back to her.
I remembered the women around my mother and I remembered the conversations they had had. These were women who were some from the aristocracy, from, some from among the literati who had gone to Europe and had seen what was going on in Europe as far as women=s rights were concerned and who brought this knowledge back to Japan and discussed it with my mother and were saying to her how much they felt deprived not having these rights in Japan. And I finally decided that I must give rights that were very detailed and explicit so that they could not be misinterpreted.
So that is what she set out to do.
Expectant and nursing mothers shall have the protection of the state. There shall be no full -- time employment of children and young people. Freedom of academic teaching, study and lawful research. And they looked at my draft and Colonel Cadeys said the fundamental rights you have written are fine. But all these social welfare rights, we don=t even have those in the American constitution. You=ve gone way beyond the American constitution. And I said Colonel Cadeys, if they are not included in the constitution the bureaucrats who are going to write the civil code of the Japanese constitution will not write those into the civil code. They will not write it into law because I know the bureaucrats in Japan and they are certainly not for women=s rights. And Colonel Cadeys said don=t worry and the other two men with him agreed. And I burst into tears because I was very emotionally involved in the women=s rights.
Eventually, her early draft was boiled down to two revolutionary paragraphs.
Marriage shall be based only on the mutual consent of both sexes and it shall be maintained through mutual cooperation. Laws shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equality of the sexes.
Her contribution was just one of 103 articles in the constitution that the Americans presented in hours of painstaking discussions with the Japanese that Beate helped translate.
It was about 2:00 AM when we got to the women=s rights. We had worked from 10:00 AM the morning before and now it was 2:00 AM the next day. And we came to the women=s rights and they were furious, the Japanese representatives. There were three of them. This does not fit into a Japanese constitution. This is against our culture, against our customs. And I think Colonel Cadeys thought my god, this is going to go on for hours again and it=s so late. And he said to them, gentlemen, Ms Sirota has her heart set on the women=s rights. Why don=t we pass them? And I think they were stunned, the Japanese, first of all that he would say such a thing in this top secret, very important meeting and secondly that it was I who had written the women=s rights. They had no inkling about it. They thought I was just an interpreter. And I think they were so stunned that they just passed it. And thus history is made and thus the women got their rights in the Japanese constitution.
Nine months after that feverish week of activity, the constitution that Beate helped write became law.
I remember sitting in the diet building and watching the emperor and I remember him opening the document and it was a scroll. And I remember his hands trembling as he read it. The Japanese who were there did not know that we had written the original draft. Nobody knew, really. We kept it as secret as we could even, of course, after we had written it because MacArthur wanted very much for the Japanese to accept this document as a Japanese document.
It was decades before Beate=s involvement in that historic event would become public knowledge. But in recent years, her visits to Japan have been marked by her celebrity status. Since the story of her contribution to the Japanese constitution became known, she has become something of a feminist icon.
1ST JAPANESE WOMAN
You are the best person, I want to say, in the world.
She has traveled across Japan speaking to gatherings mainly of women.
They always want their picture taken with me. They always want to shake my hand. They always tell me how grateful they are. I=m always on a high when I=m in Japan. I=m surrounded by so much love and it=s really inspiring.
CAROL GLUCK, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Women today are admiring and disbelieving that this young woman did this all by herself. So the fact that women regard Beate both as a heroine to women and also as quite an incredible personage who managed to do this.
So enamored are some women in Japan that they formed a Beate Appreciation Society and have designed this scarf commemorating Article 24 to raise money to have a movie made about her story. The scarf and her autobiography have been selling briskly. She has also been the focus of numerous television documentaries, a stage play performed in Tokyo and Japanese comic books known as manga, which are ready by millions of Japanese both young and old.
CAROL GLUCK
Here is this woman who knew Japanese, was so strong minded and as the only woman in the room made the most she could out of that position. And so Japanese women owe her a lot. And that=s why they are fascinated, as we are, with her story.
She receives fan mail from Japanese women that is positively gushing. AWe Japanese women owe you so much,@ writes one. AThe savior of Japanese women,@ says another. And this from a school girl. AWe take for granted the tremendous efforts you have taken to free the women of Japan.@
And they look to her, I think, for her force of personality, not for her aura of political ideology or agenda. It=s Beate Gordon as an individual woman and what she managed to do that people find so irresistible.
That is clear among the women who come to hear her speak.
2ND JAPANESE WOMAN
She encouraged me and all of the Japanese women.
And for this young woman not much older than Beate was when she wrote the constitution, nothing but respect. If she wasn=t around at that time, you know, I don=t know how things would be now, she says. And this woman was struck by Beate=s benevolence. You know, we Japanese lost the war, she says, but we received a great gift from Beate.
Many things happened to me through my education, through my parents, through the women that I met in my life to enable me and enabled me all along to do the kind of work that I did. Oh, I don=t feel like an icon. I think I just, I feel that in my life I was very lucky in that I was at the right place at the right time.
What is especially refreshing about tonight=s story is what it says about expertise. If the Japanese constitution had been drafted at any other time under any other circumstances, who would have dared suggest that anyone but a group of Japanese men could be qualified? In 1946, no Japanese woman would have been invited to join such a group. But as a defeated nation, Japan had no choice. Even though Japanese experts were consulted, the constitution was authored by a bunch of Americans, including a 22-year-old woman. And today, the Japanese people would be among the first to concede that it=s a constitution that has served them remarkably well.
Content and copyright 8 1998 ABC News. Transcript by Federal Document Clearing House, Inc.
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Disease Screening in Public Health
日内瓦大学
Current and future public health is characterized by the increase of chronic and degenerative diseases, corresponding to the worldwide ageing of the population. The increasing prevalence of these conditions together with the long incubation period of the chronic diseases and the continual technological innovations, offer new opportunities to develop strategies for early diagnosis. Public Health has an important mandate to critically assess the promises and the pitfalls of disease screening strategies. This MOOC will help you understand important concepts for screening programs that will be explored through a series of examples that are the most relevant to public health today. We will conclude with expert interviews that explore future topics that will be important for screening. By the end of this MOOC, students should have the competency needed to be involved in the scientific field of screening, and understand the public health perspective in screening programs. This MOOC has been designed by the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne. This MOOC has been prepared under the auspices of the Ecole romande de santé publique (www.ersp.ch) by Prof. Fred Paccaud, MD, MSc, Head of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Lausanne (www.iumsp.ch), in collaboration with Professor Antoine Flahault, MD, PhD, head of the Institute of Global Health, Geneva (https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/) and Prof. Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant (McGill University, Quebec/ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne).
very interesting. I learned a lot about diseases. Very informative course.
This course made my foundations for public health.
Screening Metrics
The second module, provided by Dr. Idris Guessous, will address the metrics of screening with concepts related to robustness, validity and impact. A quiz on screening metrics will complete this module.
Module 2 Introduction_new video2:26
Robustness of Tests5:05
Validity5:53
Sensitivity and Specificity6:09
Predictive Values6:11
Outcomes and Study Design5:26
Number Needed to Screen5:45
Presentation of the 2-by-2 Table3:25
Ethics5:19
Shared Decison Making_ new video10:31
Antoine Flahault
Professor of Public Health and Director of the Institute of Global Health (Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) and co-Director of Centre Virchow-Villermé (Université Paris Descartes)
Fred Paccaud (In Partnership with UNIGE)
Professor of epidemiology and public health and Director of the Institute of social and preventive medicine
Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant
Professor of Epidemiology and Research and Graduate Program Director and Associate Chair for the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University.
[MUSIC] The general concept of screening has to include ethical considerations, why? Because you are targeting asymptomatic participants. So as previously discussed, usually medicine relies on taking care of individual subjects that are expressing signs or symptoms. Screening is targeting people who are asymptomatic. They have no pain, they have no signs. They just fulfill some criteria such as gender and age category. For example, breast cancer screening, just being a woman more than 50 years old makes you « at risk » of being invited or enrolled in a screening program. And we know the primum non nocere of medicine, train first not to hurt, if hopefully you can improve the health of someone, but first, do not harm someone. And although some screening programs are clearly showing an improvement in terms of mortality, less mortality in the screened population compared to the non-screened population. Each time a screen program is considered, we must remember what would be the side effects of screening. We discuss the false negative and the false positive. And I would use what Alan Morrison presented in his book, saying that no matter what, you will end up with these five groups of people when you use screening. The first one is the true positive, and hopefully the death has been postponed, there's a large benefit. Some people would be a true positive, but without any real benefit in term of mortality. This question is, or the value of this is questionable. So they were enrolled, you found the disease. But eventually, the person died at the same time as someone who would have been not screened. There are even other categories such as the false positive and the false negative. These people would have the adverse effects of your program. This people would not have had the adverse effect if you have not implemented the screening program. And you have the last category, which is the true negative, which basically where the value or the benefits is for them are questionable, because they are negative. They would never experience the disease, yet they have participate to different screening invitations, screening test, with some anxiety before receiving the test. So ethical consideration are really important because of the asymptomatic nature of the participant. They will include huge resources that are necessary to monitor and to maintain the quality of the program. That will be discussed in detail in other modules of this screening book. The equity of access to screening is fundamental. Usually we screen people that are healthier than people who do not participate to screening, because participating in screening is already an attitude. And people who tend to participate to screening are usually non-smokers, healthy people who already have the healthy behaviors. So being able to invite disadvantaged or vulnerable population is really a key ethical consideration in screening. And the resources you would put on screening are not available for other medicine or care, so there will be a shift of resources, sometimes it is well thought, but sometimes you may miss some resources, economic resource, if you have large screening program. And you do not have any more resources to improve treatment, to improve awareness, such as primary prevention, for example. [MUSIC]
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Hardware (1990) ***
I kind of love living in a world where movies like Hardware can get double-disc, special edition DVD releases. Chances are you don’t remember Hardware, and if you do, you probably remember it mainly as that post-apocalypse thing where Iggy Pop plays a manic radio DJ and Lemmy Kilmister plays a surly cab-driver. The movie didn’t last very long in theaters, and although its home-video distribution back in the VHS era was initially solid, it quickly became patchy for reasons I’ll go into in a bit. Hardware started life as an extremely modest (as in, budgeted at about £200,000) British production, based on a screenplay by South African-born writer/director Richard Stanley, which exhibited a suspicious, uncredited resemblance to a 2000 A.D. comic strip called “SHOK! Walter’s Robo-Tale.” Specializing in weird documentaries and weirder music videos, the latter primarily for bands associated with the goth and industrial scenes, Stanley had more or less given up on breaking into feature filmmaking by the end of the 1980’s. In fact, when Paul Trijbits and JoAnne Sellar, two independent London cinema owners who had lately expanded into film production, decided that they wanted to bring Stanley’s Hardware script to the screen, he was running around Afghanistan with the Mujaheddin, documenting the waning days of the war against the Soviet Union. Apparently Stanley was reluctant to come back to England, but he did eventually allow himself to be persuaded; the eclectic programming at Trijbits and Sellar’s Scala Cinema had been instrumental in molding Stanley’s directorial sensibilities, and the knowledge that those two were Hardware’s would-be backers was no doubt a factor in his decision. Stanley’s faith in the producers was well-placed, too, for while many in their position might have pulled the plug on Hardware when more detailed and realistic assessments of the project’s budgetary needs pushed the movie’s cost up first to £300,000 and then to half a million, Trijbits and Sellar called for backup instead. Palace Pictures, their company, had ties to Miramax, and £500,000 (or its dollar equivalent) was pocket change for the Weinsteins. American involvement allowed Stanley to spend nearly five times what was originally planned making the film, and access to the Miramax distribution network permitted not only theatrical release, but also a respectable 700-screen opening. By normal Hollywood standards, Hardware was scarcely a runaway hit, but it did well enough in proportion to its trifling cost to become a victim of its own success. The various stakeholders (including the publishers of 2000 A.D.) quickly fell to arguing over who deserved what share of the profits, and Hardware became a difficult movie to see within just a few years. Meanwhile, a much more ambitious sequel, Hardware II: Ground Zero, was smothered in its cradle by the rights disputes. Somebody must finally have agreed to something, though, because Hardware is now back in circulation, in a far more lavish presentation than I ever would have imagined it getting.
The most distinctive thing about Hardware is unquestionably its take on life after the apocalypse. At first, it looks like the usual routine, as a man (Carl McCoy) dressed up very much like one of Death’s minions in Six-String Samurai stalks through the inhospitable dunes of a red-tinged desert beneath a stormy and filthy-looking sky. Eventually, the black-clad nomad comes upon a barbed wire fence enclosing a field littered with metallic junk, and after cutting the wire to let himself in, he digs up the hand and skull-like head of some manner of robot. Irradiated desert setting? Nomadic scavengers? Wreckage of advanced military technology lying around for the taking? Looks like we’re hitting all the traditional beats, right?
The next scene, however, takes us to a bustling if also rather cruddy city. This is a fully functioning population center, with industry, commerce, modern conveniences like electricity and running water— even several TV channels and a somewhat haphazardly run local radio station. In other words, it’s a pretty far cry from Bartertown. Furthermore, this functioning city is part of a functioning nation-state, with a legislature that debates bills, a chief executive who harangues politicians and public alike about the need for this or that policy, diplomatic agencies to engage with the leadership of other states, and a standing military embroiled in a war that we never get to hear too much about. And as we learn once we’ve spent some time in the company of the central characters, this post-apocalyptic society even manages to maintain a manned space program! Again, no details are forthcoming, but the man who calls himself Shades (Alien Hunter’s John Lynch) is an astronaut, and it’s apparently a pretty busy job. His friend, Mo (Dylan McDermott), on the other hand, seems to make his living patrolling the nuked-out desert on whose edge the city stands, supplementing his military wages by selling whatever junk he can salvage out there to a trader named Alvy (Mark Northover, of Willow). Mo and Shades are at Alvy’s place when that nomad from the intro swings by to sell his robot parts, and Mo contrives to buy them before Alvy has even had a look. That’s an odd thing, too, because not only is Mo willing to pay the nomad five times what Alvy gives him for his own latest haul, but he resells only the hand, and is seemingly untroubled about the loss he takes on the deal.
Mo knows what he’s doing, though, whatever it may look like. His girlfriend, Jill (Stacey Travis, from Phantasm II and Dracula Rising), is a sculptor who works mostly in scrap metal, and the robot’s head would be quite a prize for her. Furthermore, Mo knows well that Jill isn’t terribly happy with him just now, nearing the limit of her tolerance for the extended absences dictated by his career. The droid’s head, in other words, is a peace offering as well as a thoughtful gift. It works, too, for although their latest reunion is visibly strained at first, Jill warms up considerably when Mo dumps out the contents of his big sack of salvaged junk. By the time the sun sets, the couple are coupling vigorously— although they’d probably do so in a slightly different spot in the apartment if they knew that they were being spied on from two directions. On the one hand, Jill’s across-the-street neighbor, an amazingly skeezy vendor and installer of home security equipment by the name of Lincoln Wineberg Jr. (Dust Devil’s William Hootkins, who is probably best remembered for his tiny but conspicuous role as the fat X-wing pilot during the climactic attack on the Death Star in Star Wars), has his night-vision telescope set up just right to peek through the girl’s bedroom window, fueling what looks to be turning into an increasingly threatening obsession. And on the other, there’s a bit of life, for lack of a better term, still present within that steel skull from the desert, and the fragmentary machine switches itself back on just in time to get quite an eyeful.
Meanwhile, Alvy has grown curious about the nature and origin of the robot whose hand he bought as part of Mo’s junk consignment that afternoon. Some digging around on what I’d be tempted to call the internet had this movie not been made way back in 1990 reveals the existence of a recently suspended military project called the M.A.R.K. 13. The M.A.R.K. 13 is an artificially intelligent battle droid capable of repairing itself from virtually any form of mechanical or electronic equipment. It has a multitude of retractable limbs outfitted with as many varieties of both ranged and melee weaponry, and its hands and head carry injection syringes for a deadly nerve agent called trifilobim morphate; the drug induces euphoria and hallucinations even as it reduces the victim’s neurons to jelly. The machines were designed to be pretty close to invincible, and they would be were it not for a defect in the insulation that makes them extremely vulnerable to shorting out in the presence of water or even high humidity. That’s why the project was put on hold, as the military isn’t exactly eager to spend a fortune on robot shock troops that can’t handle a little rain. And as you’ve all no doubt surmised by now, there’s every indication that those parts the nomad dug up and sold to Mo came originally from one of the M.A.R.K. 13 prototypes. Alvy calls Mo at Jill’s place, urging him to come out to the shop to discuss the possible financial ramifications of what he’s just learned, and while Mo doesn’t like Alvy’s timing, he does grudgingly leave the apartment after Jill has fallen asleep. That means the pervert across the street will be the closet thing Jill has to an ally when the M.A.R.K. 13 finishes building itself a new body (or the upper half of one, anyway) out of her sculptures and kitchen appliances, and commences the rampage of slaughter for which it was designed.
Hardware is unusual among cheap post-apocalypse movies for the amount of effort and attention that it devotes to world-building. Despite the monster-on-the-loose conflict that dominates the second half, it is a true science fiction film, as opposed to just a horror or action movie with a vaguely developed nuclear war looming over the back-story. In fact, it’s easy to get the feeling that Richard Stanley intended the robot rampage apparently lifted from 2000 A.D. as little more than an enticement to producers, who might have seen it as a cheap and convenient way to ride the last few inches of The Terminator’s coattails. Certainly there’s every sign that the environment he had created interested Stanley far more than Jill’s rather routine travails against the M.A.R.K. 13. The most striking feature of that environment, as I’ve already mentioned, is the markedly incomplete and provisional nature of the world’s “end.” Although it’s plain enough that large sections of the globe were rendered uninhabitable by “the Big One,” modern civilization has survived anyway, at least in places that were of too little strategic importance to be worth nuking directly. This may or may not have been deliberate, but Stanley’s conception of life after a major nuclear war dovetails neatly with the changes in real-world war-planning that went into effect during the 70’s and 80’s. By the middle of the Reagan era, the increasing flexibility, reliability, and precision of nuclear weapons, together with three decades’ worth of mounting political pressure, had led war-planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain to abandon the old city-incinerating paradigm in favor of a primarily counter-force strategy. Advances in delivery systems (the shift from manned bombers bearing single, unguided, multi-megaton H-bombs to ballistic missiles carrying several lower-yield warheads, each with its own independent targeting system, being the most obvious example) had made it fairly clear that the nuclear phase of an all-out war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was going to be over in a matter of hours if not minutes, and it therefore made very little sense to treat population centers per se as strategic targets; henceforth, destroying government headquarters, military bases, and— to an almost farcical extent— the other side’s nuclear arsenal itself would be the main objective. That would almost necessarily imply a higher short-term survival rate for civilians and non-military infrastructure (the long-term effects of a hemisphere’s worth of fallout would obviously be another matter), and Hardware is the only sci-fi movie I can think of to reflect that new reality in its vision of a post-nuclear future.
That’s important for reasons far beyond giving military nerds like me something to appreciate, too. Maybe this doesn’t apply to anybody else, but I find the question of how people behave when they understand that they’re more or less totally fucked to be an inherently interesting one, especially when they’re more or less totally fucked in a way that does not necessarily preclude or eliminate the need for attempting to carry on some kind of normal life. Mo and Jill are in just such a situation. Their future looks almost unimaginably bleak, but the fact remains that they and the society of which they are a part do have a future. And somehow or other, they have to figure out a way to face that future, even though their options are limited and all of them kind of suck. Just as it did in Mad Max, having all that in the background roots Hardware firmly in reality; the specific forms they take may be different, but the characters in this film face the same fundamental problems that have confronted all humans since the High Neolithic, and that gives this movie a level of credibility that is lacking from DEFCON-4 or Logan’s Run. Furthermore— and this is really the crucial thing— the background material in Hardware stays in the background, informing the story of Mo accidentally giving his girlfriend a homicidal robot as a making-up present without ever overpowering it. This is no Soylent Green, in which the filmmakers go desultorily through the motions of a threadbare A-plot while lavishing all their attention on the setting. Hardware may turn into a by-the-numbers monster movie at the 45-minute mark, but it turns into a competent and often smartly crafted by-the-numbers monster flick— and even then, Stanley makes the setting he’s already established credibly relevant to the battle between Jill and the death-droid. The reemergence of Hardware into the home video market has provoked a certain amount of hyperbole from fans who have been kept waiting far too long for a chance to see it again (or to see it at all in its uncut form). I’m not willing to join the small but vociferous chorus proclaiming it a work of unappreciated genius, but it definitely is a film that deserved far better than it got up ‘til now.
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Savage Streets (1983) -***
I recently took a friend of mine, a newcomer to the world of exploitation movies, to see The Exorcist. After the movie was over, she asked me if I thought being in a film like that at the age of twelve had warped Linda Blair in any way. Today, I’d like to draw your attention to a picture that could be construed as the answer to that question: Savage Streets.
This is pretty much the quintessential 80’s exploitation movie, in that it tries to operate within just about every single exploitation subgenre that was active at the time simultaneously! At its core, it is a Death Wish-style vendetta flick, but it also has features that the experienced bad-movie connoisseur will recognize from the slasher, gang war, post-apocalypse, women’s prison, and high school nudie genres. The only thing we’re missing here is a horde of flesh-eating zombies! Brenda (Linda Blair, who perversely was a better actress at 12 than she was at 22) is the leader of a small, all-girl gang called the Satins (or at any rate, the synopsis on the video box says they’re called the Satins-- I honestly don’t remember the subject coming up in the film itself). There are five other girls in Brenda’s crew: Francine (Lisa Freeman, who played a piece of Expendable Meat in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter), her sister Maria (Luisa Leschin), token black girl Stella (Ina Romeo, who would not be seen again until Escape from L.A.), Rachel (Debra Blee, from The Malibu Bikini Shop, which should tell you a thing or two about her qualifications for this role), and Stevie (Marcia Karr, who had recently appeared alongside Linda Blair in Chained Heat). None of those girls, however, is as important to the story as Brenda’s deaf-mute sister Heather (everybody’s favorite 80’s scream queen, Linnea Quigley). Heather isn’t really part of Brenda’s gang, but she often tags along with them when they go out on the town looking for action, and she’s there on the night that the Satins get themselves embroiled in rather more action than they would have asked for, had they known what it would ultimately mean.
On this fateful night, the Satins run afoul of an even smaller, all-male gang called the Scars. This bunch of hooligans-- leader Jake (Spaceship’s Roger Dryer), strongman Fargo (Sal Landi, who would show up later in Xtro 3: Watch the Skies), reluctant new recruit Vince (Johnny Venocur, who was slightly better served by Lord of Illusions ten years later), and designated weasel Red (Scott Mayer, who never worked in film again)-- are out riding around in Jake’s ‘57 Belair convertible looking for trouble when they almost run Heather down. Fargo, who is behind the wheel, honks the horn at her when she starts straying into the road, but she, of course, doesn’t hear that. To make a long story short, the Satins spot Jake’s car parked by an alley a while later, while its occupants are off someplace selling coke to teenagers. So Brenda and her buddies steal the car and take it for a joyride right past the site of Jake’s drug deal, ultimately ditching it in another alley and filling it with trash from a nearby clutch of garbage cans after they lose the pursuing Scars, who have about as much luck catching up to them on foot as you might expect. The point is that all six Satins, plus honorary Satin Heather, are now on Jake’s shit list.
So Jake sets about taking his revenge with the utmost dispatch. Only a few days later, he and his boys corner Heather in the high school gym and gang-rape her while her sister is busy with a catfight in the shower room. (I’ll get around to the subplot that justifies this eventually, I swear.) The poor girl is close to death when one of the Satins (Francine, maybe? Apart from Stella, they all look the same to me...) finally finds her, and Brenda vows the expected revenge on the perpetrators, who are at this point unknown to her.
They won’t be for long, however, because the Scars pick that same night to stop by the Satins’ favorite hangout, the MX Club, where they try to force themselves on Francine, starting a full-fledged riot. In the process of making her escape, Francine slashes Jake in the face with his own switchblade, singling herself out for later retaliation-- retaliation which comes in the form of her being thrown to her death from an overpass the following afternoon. (Oh, by the way, did I mention that Francine was both pregnant and engaged to be married to the father of her fetus? In fact, she was walking home from the store with her wedding dress when Jake caught her.) Murder proves to be too much for neophyte Vince’s conscience, which had been bothering him anyway ever since Jake forced him to partake in Heather’s rape, and he decides that the time has come to break with the Scars and leave town. But first, he feels compelled to stop by Heather’s hospital room to apologize to his comatose victim. Just his luck that he does so right when Brenda also decides to check in on Heather. Brenda overhears his confession, kicks him around the hospital room for a moment, and then tracks him down later at his house to extract from him the identities and whereabouts of his accomplices. But first, Brenda puts on a skin-tight neoprene catsuit, dons some of the skankiest makeup you’ll ever see Linda Blair wear, and buys herself a set of bear traps and a crossbow with a telescopic sight from the nearby sporting goods store. (In Savage Streets’ first scene, while the opening credits are still rolling and the Satins are out painting the town red, we see them inexplicably stop in front of said store’s window to ogle the wide selection of bear traps and crossbows; this has got to be the most inept piece of foreshadowing I’ve ever seen.) Then, while Jake goes to kill Vince (I guess the guy has psychic powers, or something-- he sure as hell didn’t have time to learn that he’d been ratted out through the usual channels!), Brenda lures Red and Fargo into the big warehouse building in front of which the Scars like to hang out to plan the evening’s delinquencies, and we are treated to the spectacle of Savage Streets turning into a textbook slasher movie for a good ten minutes. When Jake returns to the warehouse and finds his lackeys trussed up Jason-style, with bear traps and crossbow bolts stuck all over them, his tough-guy act gets him only a little farther than it got his boys in the last scene-- he ends up covered head to toe in flaming paint, barbecuing to death as the cops surround the hardware store down the street from the warehouse, the place where Brenda makes her final play to avenge her sister. I tell you, it’s a good thing for Brenda that this is an 80’s vendetta movie, because if you or I had just killed three people and not managed to escape before the cops showed up, we’d have some serious jail time in our future. (Personally, I think the filmmakers passed up a wonderful opportunity here to do a sequel to Savage Streets as a straight-ahead women’s prison flick, but does anybody ever listen to me? Of course not…)
That’s the main thrust of the movie, anyway, but while all that’s going on (see, I told you I’d get around to it!), we’ve got this fucked-up subplot happening that allows Savage Streets to cover a few more of the 80’s exploitation bases than it would have had it stuck to the basic storyline. At the same time that Brenda is gearing up to give Jake and his boys (all of whom look like they got turned away from the casting call for Toe Cutter’s gang in Mad Max) the Charles Bronson/Jason Vorhees treatment, she’s also squaring off against her schoolyard arch-rival Cindy (Rebecca Perle, from the 1988 remake of Not of this Earth). This not only allows the filmmakers a chance to play the Porky’s card (as when Brenda rips off the other girl’s shirt in science class right after the clueless teacher discovers that somebody has vandalized his chart of the human reproductive system), it also gets us that all-important shower room catfight in the proud tradition of The Big Doll House. Of equal significance, it gets Brenda a visit to the office of the stern, warden-like Principal Underwood (John Vernon, who played the warden opposite Linda Blair in Chained Heat only a year before this was made!). This subplot is integrated into the main story by the somewhat inelegant means of having Cindy’s boyfriend Fadden (Judgment Night’s Sean O’Grady) owe Jake lots and lots of money for cocaine.
You see what I mean about Savage Streets playing every card in the 80’s exploitation deck? The more I think about it, the more amazing it seems to me that the people responsible couldn’t find a way to squeeze a pack of zombies in here somehow. (Maybe they could have located the school right next door to a breeder reactor like Nuke ‘Em High...) And the amazing thing is that it’s all completely serious! The only irony involved here is that which you bring with you! So to bring this review back around to where it started, yes-- I suspect Linda Blair came out of The Exorcist just a little bit bent. After all, something made her think Savage Streets sounded like a good idea.
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Anthony Hilder and Ted Gunderson: Damage Control Propaganda Video
Ted Gunderson and Anthony Hilder
Last month Sherri Kane published an article titled CIA/FBI Film-faker and Famous Church of Satan Agents Exposed in Mind Control Black-Op to Neutralize "Dissidents".
http://www.healthyworldmessage.com/archive.php?view=html&id=132
Also see my commentary (published on this site) on Sherri's article, in which I further expose some of the criminals connected to the conspiracy, most notorious among them, predicate felon, psycho stalker Tim White, one of the lackeys and "attack dogs" of Ted Gunderson et al who has been harassing and threatening Sherri Kane and Dr. Leonard Horowitz for at least the past year.
CIA/FBI Film-faker and Famous Church of Satan Agents Exposed in Mind Control Black-Op to Neutralize "Dissidents"
Sherri Kane's article exposed former FBI chief Ted Gunderson, his longtime crony, Anthony Hilder, and others who are operatives and minions of the COINTELPRO, of which Gunderson has been the Kingpin, going all the way back to his service in the FBI. As I've often stated, Ted Gunderson: Ex officio COINTELPRO, De facto COINTELPRO.
And although I personally did not participate in the writing of this article, Sherri Kane used some of my material as a source, which happened to corroborate her own conclusions, drawn from her personal experience and investigations.
For over a decade, Ted Gunderson, my former friend and professional colleague, has been libeling and slandering Barbara Hartwell in both electronic and print media, as well as at public speaking engagements on the lecture circuit. Ted claims I am a "CIA disinfo agent" (among other slurs).
Now, in response to Sherri Kane's article, Gunderson and Hilder have made a video, posted on You Tube. I watched the video twice, and took notes from the audio. Here's my review.
Anthony J. Hilder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cNZmsARqUw
Hilder's video opens with a voice-over of himself speaking to Ted Gunderson. Next, Gunderson's outraged face appears on the screen, in a dramatic denunciation of poison falling from the skies!
That was "the hook".
The actual topic of the video is the purported "libel and slander" by Sherri Kane against Hilder, Gunderson and their colleagues. But "the hook" is designed to generate outrage in the audience, so that when they hear Hilder's testimony against Kane, they will continue feeling outraged, though there is no connection between the two topics. It's one of the oldest propaganda tricks in the book.
Following Gunderson's speech, this text comes up on the screen:
"Concerning the Attacks Upon my Friends Ted Gunderson, Alex Jones and myself by Dr. Len Horowitz's Lady, Sherri Kane."
The entire video (roughly one half hour) is comprised of a close-up (too close) of Anthony Hilder talking, with occasional still photos of the individuals being discussed, including Ted Gunderson, Alex Jones, Dr. Horowitz and Sherri Kane.
Near the beginning of the video, Hilder sets the stage with a dramatic announcement: "We're in another war, World War Three --for the minds of America's masses."
Hilder then segues into a glowing report about Ted Gunderson's FBI credentials, and states that Ted is an old friend who has "joined with me in many ventures". "Air Crap" (what a name!), being one of them.
But as Hilder presses on, he does not really address any of the issues brought up by Sherri Kane in her article. Instead, he attacks the messenger.
Hilder presumptuously launches off into what seems to be an amateur psychoanalysis of Dr. Horowitz and Sherri Kane, with emphasis on denigrating Sherri Kane. He insults her appearance, her intellect, her character, and uses gratuitous vulgar language to describe her relationship with Horowitz, making her out to be some sort of brainless bimbo out to snare a man, namely Dr. Horowitz. His brazenly misogynistic attitude is absolutely appalling!
In the beginning of the video, Hilder pretends to have forgotten Sherri's name. He calls her "Shelly"..."Shelly, is that her name?... Or is it "Sherri"? A voice in the background "corrects" him, stating that her name is "Sherri". This was obviously contrived to make it appear that Sherri is so inconsequential that he doesn't even remember her name. But then, why take the time and trouble to make a video denouncing and insulting her?
The video goes on...and on... in this vein (personally, I found it quite tiresome and kept hoping it would end) and contains little more than Hilder's attempts to discredit Sherri Kane, NOT by presenting facts, evidence or even reasonable arguments, but by sensationalizing the issue and trying to turn it into some sort of 'sex scandal'.
Hilder, absurdly, even compares Sherri Kane to Monica Lewinsky! As if Dr. Horowitz were a Bill Clinton, seduced and taken in by a designing woman.
With lots of dramatic affectations (eye-rolling and derisive snorting) Hilder tries to dismiss any allegations made by Sherri Kane, as if they are not worthy of his time to comment upon. In this way, he hopes to marginalize her, without ever really addressing the issues.
Another ploy used by Hilder is to boast of his accomplishments. He boasts that "my films initiated this movement" (presumably the "truth" movement). He also claims that he was the FIRST, "in the history of the world", to expose the existence of the Illuminati, in 1967. Which is laughable to those of us who have known all about them (from personal experience), even since childhood. In 1967, I was 16 years old, and the Illuminati weren't news to me. Nor did I need the likes of Anthony Hilder to "expose" them.
Hilder dramatically states that he and Ted Gunderson are "trying to save this country!" He says that it's just "crazy" that anyone could believe that he or his buddy Ted, could possibly be "infiltatrators" for the FBI or CIA.
Hilder wraps up by looking directly into the camera, now having dismissed the very idea of what he has tried to represent as the foolishness of Sherri Kane, and intoning:
"We need your help to change it." "Save the world. Awaken the world. Prepare to win or prepare to die."
My assessment? I wasn't impressed. The hokey propaganda was not even remotely convincing and his ploys were far too transparent to take seriously.
Maybe Mr. Hilder should stay behind the camera instead of presenting himself as the "talent" in front of it.
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Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of a Minoan Presence Among Ancient Canaanites (Greek)
A recent and ongoing excavation at the remains of an expansive Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace in the western Galilee region of present-day Israel is opening a new window on the possible presence of ancient Minoans at an ancient Canaanite palace, revealing what may be the earliest known Western art found in the eastern Mediterranean. Known as Tel Kabri (located near its namesake kibbutz not far from historic Acco and the resort town of Nahariya on the coast of Israel), the site features an early Middle Bronze Age (MB I) palace dated to the 19th century B.C.E., making it, along with ancient Aphek and possibly Megiddo, the earliest MB palace discovered in present-day Israel. This conclusion was drawn as a result of excavations conducted there as recently as December 20, 2010 to January 10, 2011. But the tell-tale signs of an Aegean presence or influence at the site show up in a later developmental phase of the palace structure some 150 to 200 years later in the overlying MB II palace dated to the 17th century. Reports Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University and Co-Director of the excavations along with Assaf Yasur-Landau of Haifa University, "Excavations conducted by [Aharon] Kempinski and [Wolf-Dietrich] Niemeier from 1986 to 1993 at the site of Tel Kabri -- now identified as the capital of a Middle Bronze Age Canaanite kingdom located in the western Galilee region of modern Israel -- revealed the remains of a palace dating to the Middle Bronze (MB) II period (ca. 1700 - 1550 B.C.E.). Within the palace, Kempinski and Niemeier discovered an Aegean-style painted plaster floor and several thousand fragments originally from a miniature Aegean-style wall fresco."(1) The new excavations under the direction of Cline and Yasur-Landau have added to the discovery. Reports Cline, et al., "During the 2008 and 2009 excavations at Tel Kabri more than 100 new fragments of wall and floor plaster were uncovered. Approximately 60 are painted, probably belonging to a second Aegean-style wall fresco with figural representations and a second Aegean-style painted floor."(2) Three other archaeological sites in the Middle East are known to have yielded Aegean-style frescoes and paintings: Tell el-Dab'a in Egypt, Qatna in Syria and Alalakh in Turkey. The Tel Kabri fresoes and paintings are, however, the only evidence of Minoan or Cycladic-style artwork in present-day Israel (or among the ancient Canaanites) and they are dated as significantly older than those found at Tell el-Dab'a and Qatna. They are roughly contemporary with those at Alalakh, although, because it is still early in the investigations at Kabri and recent excavations have revealed an earlier palace structure 150 years older, the ultimate age relationship is still uncertain. To be sure, identification of the painted plaster and fresco artifacts as distinctly Aegean in style hinges upon careful diagnostic analysis of the finds. Clear examination is blurred by thousands of years of time and the effects of their earthen environment context, including possible effects of their reuse by the ancient inhabitants for fill and floor patching during reconstruction or renovations by a later remodeling of the palace. But the process and features evident from physical examination alone point to unmistakeable conclusions that the artwork is Aegean. Aside from the style and colors of the fragments themselves, (closely resembling others found at the site of Knossos in Minoan Crete and on the Cycladic island of Santorini or ancient Thera, home to the ruins of Minoan Akrotiri), Cline emphasizes trademark Aegean or Minoan processes of production that are not normally found at typical ancient Canaanite sites. "This technique of painting on a plaster wall while it is still wet is an Aegean technique," he maintains. "It is rarely found in the ancient Near East where they typically painted after the plaster was dry. Secondly, they applied a technique of using strings to help in the painting process. They took strings and just tightened them and, upon contacting the wet plaster, created a perfectly straight line. We have evidence of that in plaster. Another technique was to take a string and dip it in, for example, red paint, and then tighten it quickly against a surface to make a perfectly straight line. And we have found evidence of that here." Another Aegean technique seen in Kabri was the use of knife marks to delineate the border of painted bands. Additionally, the excavations during the summer of 2009 and the winter of 2010/2011 have revealed emerging clues of a possible Minoan influence on the architecture of the site. A stone structural feature unearthed outside of the northern wall of the palace in 2009 shows a configuration characteristically attributable to Minoan construction. "It's only one level of stones thick," says Cline. "But it zig-zags. You usually see that on Crete, where it is a ceremonial walkway around a palace. It is either a walkway or the bottom of a wall......I think it is a roadway or walkway and that it may well be going around the palace. This roadway may be headed toward the missing west entrance to the palace." The excavations at Tel Kabri are still young, but the finds to date have set the stage for much more to come. All indications thus far point to the probability that more frescoes will be found, further supporting the Minoan connection. Looking at the larger picture, researchers hope to be able to reconstruct the life-cycle of the Canaanite palace, determine its actual size, and find answers to a host of new questions that have emerged as the investigations have progressed. "It's like no other site I have seen because it [the palace] is so huge yet it was really only occupied during the Middle Bronze Age," says Cline. "There is a lot more to learn. I think that we've only just begun to scratch the surface." Read More: Popular Archaeology: http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-uncover-evidence-of-a-minoan-presence-among-ancient-canaanites
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1982. *Adams, Herbert Baker. S. of Nathaniel Dickinson and Harriet (Hastings), b. Shutesbury, Ap. 16, 1850. M. A., A. C., 1875; Ph. D., Heidelberg U., 1876; LL. D., U. of Alabama, 1891; LL. D., A. C., 1899. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Amherst H. S. and Phillips Acad., Exeter, N. H. Taught Latin and Greek Williston Sem., 1872-73; studied Lausanne, Paris, Rome, Heidelberg and Berlin, 1873-76; fellow in history Johns Hopkins, 1876-78; assoc. and assoc. prof. in history, 1878-91; prof. of Amer. and institutional history, 1891-1901; prof. emeritus, 1901-. Lecturer on history, Smith Coll., 1878-81; Chatauqua, 1889-92, 1895, 1897; corresponding member Mass. Historical Soc., 1883-; a founder Amer. Historical Assoc., 1884 and sec., 1884-1900; trustee A. C., 1889-99. Ed. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 1883-1901; Contributions to Amer. Educational History, 1883-1900; author The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks; Educational Extension in the United States; numerous magazine articles. D. Amherst, Jy. 30, 1901.
1983. *Bailey, Harrison. S. of Ebenezer F. and Dorothy S. (Kimball), b. Fitchburg, Jy. 12, 1849. LL. B., Harvard, 1874. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Fitchburg H. S. Studied law Harvard, 1872-74; admitted to bar, S., 1874; practised Fitchburg, 1874-. D. Whalom, F. 6, 1926.
1984. Bailey, Herman Augustus. S. of Henry W. and Susan (Webster), b. Freeport, Me., O. 24, 1851. M. D., U. of Mich., 1879.
Prepared Andover. Prin. Montague H. S., 1872-75; studied med. U. City of N. Y., 1876-77; U. of Michigan, 1877-79; practised Pittsfield, 1879-80; taught Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 1880-; practised Faribault, Minn., 1893-.
Married D. 14, 1874, Carrie J. Chandler, Montague. 1 Ch.
Address, unknown.
1985. *Bancroft, Bernadotte. S. of Rev. David (A. C. 1835) and Sarah R. (Perrin), b. Willington, Conn., a. p. 24, 1851. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Taghconic Institute, Lanesboro and Williston Sem. In banking house of Messrs. Allen, Stephens & Co., N. Y. City, 1872-75; with Richardson, Hill & Co., bankers, Boston, 1875-78. D. Brooklyn, N. Y., D. 30, 1878.
Married Je. 21, 1876, Mary H., da. of Rev. George Harrison Hewhall (A. C. 1845), Walpole, who d. Ap. 26, 1878.
1986. Barrows, Nathan Dickerman. S. of Hiram and Mary (Conant), b. Hebron, Me., D. 5, 1848. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Hebron (Me.) Acad. In business Knoxville, Tenn.; with building and loan assoc., 1895-1905; in real estate and insurance business.
Married Je. 16, 1875, Marrietta R., da. of Chauncey Knapp, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Ch. Clarence (d.); Mary L. (Ogden); Alice T. (Trent).
Address, 609 Market St., Knoxville, Tenn.
1987. *Bartholomew, Elisha Parks. S. of Dr. Hiram and Sophia (Parks), b. Montgomery, May 11, 1847.
Prepared Wilbraham Acad.; A. C., 1866-67, 1868-70, 1871-72. Studied law with Judge Soule, Springfield; admitted to bar, 1877; practised Springfield, 1877-, as member E. P. and H. A. Bartholomew. Represented W. Springfield in legislature, 1878. D. W. Springfield, Jy. 23, 1902.
Married Jy. 31, 1888, Alma, da. of Charles White, W. Springfield, who d. Jan. 29, 1901. 1 s.
1988. Benedict, Arthur Jared. S. of Andrew L. and Ruth Newell (Allen), b. Bethel, Conn., Mch. 12, 1849. M. A., A. C., 1875; B. D., Yale, 1875. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Olmstead School, Wilton, Conn. Yale D. S., 1872-75; ordained May 25, 1875; p. Berlin Falls, N. H., 1875-76; Gorham, N. H., 1876-82; Kensington, Conn., 1882-89; St. Paul, Minn., 1889-92; Housatonic, 1892-1900; So. Natick, 1901-; Pearce, Ariz., 14 yrs. and ranching Cochise, Ariz.
Married Je. 4, 1879, Ida, da. of William Raiguel, Philadelphia, Penn. Ch. Ruth A.; William R. (A. C. 1905); Helen S.; Arthur A.; Howard L.
Address, 509 East 2nd St., Tucson, Ariz.
1989. *Bonnell, Spencer Randolph. S. of John Ball and Adelaide F. (Randolph), b. Worcester, D. 29, 1846. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared with Rev. James Tufts, Monson. Instructor in Japanese Government Coll. Nagasaki, Japan, 1873-75; Andover T. S., 1875-77; post-grad. course Auburn T. S., 1877-78; ordained Jy. 2, 1878; p. Cong. Ch. So. Deerfield, 1878-79; p. various Chs., Vt.; O.; Minn.; Providence, R. I.; Detroit; Milwaukee; Chicago, 1879-90; studied painting and fine arts N. Y. City, 1890-93; ed. The Connoisseur, N. Y. City; artist Unionville, O.; in insurance business Denver Col., 1908-12. D. Denver, Col., Ap. 9, 1912.
Married May 11, 1883, Ada R., da. of George W. Jones, Cleveland, O. (d.). 1 ch.
1990. Cary, Otis. S. of Otis and Mary Dodge (Torrey), b. Foxboro, Ap. 20, 1851. D. D., A. C., 1904. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Foxboro H. S. Andover T. S., 1874-77; ordained N. 15, 1877; miss'y Kobe, Japan, 1878-79; Okayama, Japan, 1879-89; Osaka, Japan, 1889-92; Kyoto, Japan, 1892-; prof. of homiletics and practical sociology Doshisha T. S. Kyoto, Japan, 1892-1918; prof. emeritus, 1918-; independent miss'y among Japanese in Utah, 1919-. Author (English) The Regeneration of Japan; History of Christianity in Japan; Manual for Evangelists; and other works. Director Doshisha U., Japan; president B. D. of Managers Kobe Girls' Coll., Kobe, Japan.
Married D. 18, 1877, Ellen M., da. of Kimball W. Emerson, Nashua, N. H. Ch. George E. (A. C. 1907); Walter C. (A. C. 1909); Frank C. (A. C. 1911); Alice E.
Address, c/o Rev. George E. Cary, 6 Church St., Bradford, Mass.
1991. *Church, George Everett. S. of Jeremiah and Ludentia (Ashley), b. W. Woodstock, Conn., Jan. 27, 1846. M. A., A. C., 1878. Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Phillips Acad., Andover. Taught Providence, R. I., 1872-1913; prin. Thurber's Ave. School, 1872-77; Oxford St. School, 1877-79; Peace St. School, 1889-1913. D. Providence, R. I., S. 28, 1913.
Married N. 23, 1875, Abbie Green, da. of Leonard Dudley, Providence, R. I. Ch. Elizabeth D. (d.); George D.; Frederick A.
1992. Clancy, William Patrick. S. of William and Margaret (Sullivan), b. Glenworth, Ireland, O. 27, 1844. B. D., Yale, 1875.
Prepared Kimball Union Acad., N. H. Yale D. S., 1872-75; ordained evangelist, S. 1, 1875; p. Staffordville, Conn., 1875-77; Hockanum, Conn., 1877-81; home miss'y Central City, Dak., 1881-82; Joplin, Mo., 1882-83; Fort Scott, Kans., 1883-85; Arlington, Neb., 1885-87; p. Cong. Ch. Epping, N. H., 1887-93; Troy, N. H., 1893-96; Gilead and Hebron, Conn., 1896-1900; Brimfield, 1900-01; in business Northampton, 1901-03; p. So. Royalston, 1903-05; Becket 1906-.
Married Aug. 13, 1872, Alice Emeline, da. of Edward Williams, Amherst. Ch. Lota N. (Curtis); George C. (A. C. 1902); Agnes W. (Smith); Carl S.
Address, 434 Cajon St., Redlands, Cal.
1993. *Clark, George Larkin. S. of John and Elizabeth R. (Trull), b. Tewksbury, Aug. 16, 1849. M. A. (hon.), A. C., 1917. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Lowell H. S. Yale D. S., 1873-75; Union T. S., 1875-76; ordained Shelburne, D. 22, 1876; p. there, 1876-84; Westerly, R. I., 1884-88; Farmington, Conn., 1888-89; Hartford, Conn., 1899-1900; Wethersfield, Conn., 1900-19. Author Notions of a Yankee Parson; Life of Silas Deane; A History of Connecticut. D. Buffalo, N. Y., O. 28, 1919.
Married D. 19, 1876, Emma F., da. of David T. Kimball, Lowell, who d. Mch. 22, 1902. Ch. Webster K.; Florence E. (Buck); Grace S. (d.); Eliot R.; Leonard T.
1994. Clark, John Bates. S. of John Hezekiah and Charlotte Stoddard (Huntington), b. Providence, R. I., Jan. 26, 1847. M. A., A. C., 1878; Ph. D., A. C., 1890; LL. D., Princeton, 1896; LL. D., A. C., 1897; U. of Christiana, 1911. Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Providence (R. I.) H. S.; Brown, 1865-67; A. C., 1867-68, 1872. Studied Heidelberg, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland, 1873-75; prof. of political economy and history Carleton Coll., 1877-81; history and political science Smith Coll., 1882-93; political economy A. C., 1892-95; political science Columbia, 1895-; lecturer Johns Hopkins, 1892-94; director of division of economics and history in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1911-. Member Swedish Royal Soc. of Arts and Sciences; member and senior ex-president Amer. Economic Assoc. Author The Philosophy of Wealth; The Distribution of Wealth; Essentials of Economic Theory; The Problem of Monopoly; several other works and many articles.
Married S. 28, 1875, Myra A., da. of Jotham Graves Smith, Minneapolis, Minn. Ch. Frederick H. (A. C. ex 1899); Alden H. (A. C. 1900); John M. (A. C. 1905); Helen C. (Lancaster)
Address, 321 West 92nd St., N. Y. City.
1995. *Cornish, Emerson Davis. S. of Emerson Seymour and Caroline (Jones), b. Barkhamsted, Conn., N. 17, 1844. Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared with private teachers. Taught Northampton H. S., 1872-73; prin. Bridgewater H. S., 1873-77. D. Hartford, Conn. Je. 29, 1878.
1996. *Dingwell, James. S. of James and Rose A. (Arbuckle), b. Providence, R. I., Je. 11, 1838. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Kimball Union Acad., N. H.; A. C., 1859-60, 1868-72; Brown, 1861-62. In business Detroit, Mich., 1863-65; Bangor T. S., 1865-68; ordained Aug. 28, 1872; p. Cong. Ch. Ashfield, 1872-77; Danielson, Conn., 1877-89; Rockville, Conn., 1889-95; w. c. Rockville, Conn., 1895-98; New Haven, Conn., the West, and in Barre, 1898-1901; r. Leicester, 1901-12. Priv. Co. I, 11th Regt. R. I. Vols., 1862-63. D. Leicester, Je. 11, 1912.
Married (1) Jan. 12, 1865, Mary Carpenter, da. of Thomas Lewis, Pawtucket, R. I.; (2) D. 22, 1896, Laura Hale, da. of John N. Stickney, Rockville, Conn.
1997. *Doolittle, Charles Andrews. S. of Charles Hutchins and Julia Tyler (Shearman), b. Utica, N. Y., S. 22, 1850. LL. B., Hamilton, 1875. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Utica, N. Y.; Yale, 1868-69; A. C., 1869-72. Studied law with Adams and Swan, Utica, N. Y.; Hamilton Coll., N. Y.; admitted to bar, 1875; member firm Adams, Swan and Doolittle; practised Utica, N. Y., 1875-1921. U. S. commissioner of jurors; mayor Utica, 1883-84. D. Utica, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1921.
Married S. 2, 1875, Mary Adams, da. of William C. Johnson, Utica, N. Y., who d. D. 25, 1920. Ch. Julia T. A. (d.); William C. J.; Charles A.; John Q. A. (d.); Ebenezer B. S.
1998. Dowd, Pascal Monroe. S. of Albert J. and Malvina (Porter), b. New Haven, N. Y., Jy. 21, 1845. M. D., U. City of N. Y., 1877. Phi Beta Kappa; Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Falley Sem., Fulton, N. Y. Studied med. with Dr. Dubois, Camden, N. Y., with Dr. Byron De Witt, Oswego, N. Y. and U. City of N. Y., 1875-77; interne Bellevue Hospital, N. Y., 1877-78; practised Oswego, N. Y., 1878-.
Married D. 4, 1889, Katherine Van Dyck, da. of Philo Bundy, Oswego, N. Y. Ch. Margaret L.; Katherine B.
Address, 181 W. 2nd St., Oswego, N. Y.
1999. *Fowler, George. S. of Henry and Ellen Douglass (Phelps), b. Hammond, N. Y., S. 8, 1846. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Wesleyan Sem., Grouverneur, N. Y. and Antwerp Liberal Literary Institute; A. C., 1867-68, 1869-72. Taught Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 1872-73; Madison Square Military School for Boys, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1873-76; studied law, 1873-76; admitted to bar, 1875; lawyer Antwerp, N. Y., 1876-79; taught State Normal School, Emporia, Kans., 1879-85; law firm Fillette, Fowler and Sadler, Emporia, Kans., 1885-88; manager Seattle branch office Washington Loan and Trust Co., 1888-97; conducted law business for same firm, 1897-1908; farmer and president State Bank, Duvall, Wash., 1908-. D. Seattle, Wash., N. 8, 1923.
Married (1) O. 10, 1877, Charlotte J., da. of George W. Spooner, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., who d. Jan. 17, 1901; (2) F. 22, 1908, Emma Fyr, Seattle, Wash. Bro. Edwin (A. C. 1883).
2000. *French, Solon Tenney. S. of Rev. James and Nancy Sibley (Tenney), b. Exeter, N. H., O. 15, 1881. M. A., A. C., 1875. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Phillips Acad., Exeter, N. H.; Rochester U., 1868-69; A. C., 1869-72. Prof. of Latin and Greek Colorado Coll., 1874-75; with Rock Isdland, Nortwestern and Grand Trunk railroads in succession, 1875-96; general western agent White Star line of Atlantic steamers Chicago, Ill., 1896-1903; r. Philadelphia, Penn. and Los Angeles, Cal., 1903-08. D. Los Angeles, Cal., D. 27, 1908.
Married (1) Jy. 13, 1878, Mathilde Hachnel, Berlin, Germany, who d. S. 13, 1886; (2) O. 13, 1887, Laura, da. of Lowell Shumway, Philadelphia, Penn. Ch. Mathilde; Cecile (d.).
2001. *Garman, Charles Edward. S. of Rev. John H. (A. C. ex 1836) and Elizabeth (Bullard), b. Limington, Me., D. 18, 1850. M. A., A. C., 1875; D. D., A. C., 1896. Phi Beta Kappa.
Prepared Athol H. S.; A. C., 1869-72. Prin. Ware H. S., 1872-76; Yale D. S., 1876-79; Hooker Scholarship New Haven, Conn., 1879-80; Walker instructor in mathematics A. C., 1880-81; instructor in philosophy, 1881-82; assoc. prof. of moral philosophy and metaphysics, 1882-89; prof. of mental philosophy, 1889-92; prof. of moral philosophy and metaphysics, 1892-1907. Letters, lectures and addresses, prepared with the co-operation of the class of 1884, by Eliza Miner Garman, 1909. D. Amherst, F. 9, 1907.
Married Aug. 24, 1882, Eliza N., da. of Dr. David W. Miner, Ware. (Portrait in possession of A. C.) Bro. Frederick H. (A. C. ex 1884).
2002. *Gaylord, Henry Arthur. S. of Henry N. and Phoebe (Smith), b. Jefferson, N. Y., Jy. 10, 1845.
Prepared Cooperstown Sem., N. Y. Taught New Paltz, N. Y., 1872-74; Union Acad., Belleville, N. Y., 1874-79; prin. there, 1884-90. D. Belleville, N. Y., Mch. 11, 1890.
Married Je. 9, 1881, Harriet L., da. of Frank Teeas, Belleville, N. Y. 2 ch.
2003. Glidden, Lewellin Middletown. S. of Horace H. and Cornelia A. (Moore), b. Panama, N. Y., F. 28, 1850. M. A., A. C., 1881. Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Prepared Jamestown Union School and Collegiate Institute, N. Y. Taught Jamestown, N. Y. and studied in law office; admitted to bar, 1876; tutor, 1879-80; prin. Westfield (N. Y.) Acad., 1880-83; in real estate business Tacoma, Wash., 1883-; lawyer, and clerk in house-renting dept. of John Davis & Co., Seattle, Wash.
Married O. 25, 1876, Helen R., da. of William Harrison Robertson, Jamestown, N. Y.
Address, 4227 Baker Ave., Seattle, Wash.
2004. *Hall, Gordon Robert. S. of Rev. Gordon and Emily Baldwin (Merwin), b. Wilton, Conn., S. 28, 1849. M. A., A. C., 1878; M. D., Columbia, 1880. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Round Hill School, Northampton. Studied L. I. Coll. Hospital, 1 yr.; Columbia Med. Coll., 1878-80; interne Mt. Sinai Hospital, N. Y., 1880-82; practised Binghamton, N. Y., 1882-83; Brooklyn, N. Y., 1883-. Assoc. prof. of practice of medicine L. I. Coll. Hospital, several yrs. D. Brooklyn, N. Y., O. 23, 1923. Bro. George A. (A. C. 1882); Alfred M. (A. C. 1885).
2005. *Henshaw, John Handy. S. of J. Sidney and Jane (Handy), b. Utica, N. Y., F. 9, 1850. LL. B., Columbia, 1874.
Prepared with Prof. Sawyer, Harvard Coll. and Utica Acad., N. Y. Columbia Law School, 1872-74; with Judge Charles Kirkland, Luther R. Marsh and Coudert Brothers, 1874-79; practised N. Y. City, 1879-1924. D. Rye, N. Y., N. 25, 1924.
Married (1) D. 8, 1880, Jessie, da. of John T. Allen, N. Y. City who d. Aug. 3, 1886; (2) N. 24, 1896, Mary Ann (Mc Keon), Hecker, da. of John Mc Keon, N. Y. City. Ch. Richard; Sidney P.
2006. *Hitchcock, Loranus Eaton. S. of Rev. Harvey and Mahala (Ward), b. Rochester, Vt., F. 3, 1851. LL. B., Columbia, 1874., Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Chicopee H. S. Studied Columbia Law School, 1872-74; admitted to Mass. and N. Y. bar, May, 1874; practised Chicopee, 1874-75; clerk in office of William Robinson, Springfield, 1875-; member firm Robinson and Hitchcock; judge of police court Chicopee, 18777-; practised Springfield, 18(?)-1903; appointed to superior court bench, 1903-. Author New England Sheriffs and Constables. D. Cambridge, Mch. 15, 1920.
Married O. 5, 1875, Ella Asenath, da. of George S. Goldthwaite, Chicopee. Ch. Raymond H.; Bessie M. (Whitman); Alice E. (Redstone).
2007. *Hobart, Moses Montague. S. of Edmund and Esther (Montague), b. Amherst, Mch. 26, 1846. M. A., A. C., 1875; LL. B., Columbia, 1875. Chi Psi.
Prepared Williston Sem. Columbia Law School, 1872-73, 1874-75; admitted to bar, N. Y. and Mass, 1875; practised Cleveland, O., 1875-1904. Supervisor of U. S. census for sixth district of Ohio, 1880; clerk to mayor of Cleveland, 1881-82; president Cleveland city council, 1888. D. Cleveland, O., May 13, 1911.
Married D. 5, 1882, Elizabeth W., da. of James M. Peckham, Lebanon, Conn. Ch. Marion M.; Harold P.
2008. *Hodgman, Constant Cook. S. of Lansing D. and Abby (Cook), b. Bath, N. Y., S. 6, 1850. Chi Psi.
Prepared Canandaigua (N. Y.) H. S. In business, 1872-75; asst. cashier 1st Nat. Bank, Bath, N. Y.; agent Tompkin's coal mine Pittsburgh, Penn., 1878; president N. Y. Stamping Co., 1879-80; manufacturer and president Newark (N. J.) Stamping Co., 1882-88; in business N. Y. City, 1888-1902; r. Bath, N. Y., 1902-05; Yonkers, N. Y., 1905-08. D. Yonkers, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1908.
2009. Holbrook, David Leverett. S. of Leverett H. and Susan A. (Jones), b. Penn Yan, N. Y., Je. 5, 1848. B. D., Chicago T. S., 1877. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Chicaco (Ill.) H. S. Chicago T. S., 1874-77; ordained, Jy. 19, 1877; p. Lake Geneva, Wis., 1877-92; Fond du Lac, Wis., 1893-1900; Union City, Mich., 1900-.
Married S. 5, 1876, Sarah H., da. of Rev. James I. Helm, Sing Sing N. Y. Ch. James L. (d.); David H.; Charles W.; Frederick S. (d.); Franklin F.; Eliza S.; Marjorie A.
Address, 409 East Sullivan St., Ripon, Wis.
2010. Lambert, Alonzo Stockbridge. S. of Joshua, b. Durham, Me., F. 4, 1850.
Prepared Auburn, Me. Bowdoin, 1868-71; A. C., 1871-72. Engaged in agriculture Durham, Me., 1872-. Address, unknown.
2011. McElhinney, John William. S. of Alexander and Martha J. (Hibler), b. Manchester, Mo., F. 4, 1851. LL. B., Washington U., 1876. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Wyman's Acad., St. Louis, Mo. and with Prof. H. B. Richardson, Amherst. Taught St. Louis County and Washington, Mo., 1872-74; St. Louis Law School, 1874-76; admitted to bar, Je. 10, 1876; practised Clayton, St. Louis Co., Mo., 1876-1901; judge of circuit court there, 1901-.
Married Je. 8, 1887, Mary E., da. of John J. Suter, Palmyra, Mo. Ch. Lucy R.; Robert W.; Herbert G.
Address, 7752 Henderson Ave., Clayton, Mo.
2012. *Mallary, Raymond DeWitt. S. of Lyman and Theresa (French), b. Fulton, N. Y., S. 28, 1851. M. A., A. C., 1875; D. D., Howard U., 1896. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Genesee Wesleyan Sem., Lima, N. Y.; Genesee Coll (Syracuse U.), 1868-69; A. C., 1869-72. Studied law with Fullerton, Knox and Crosby, N. Y. City, 1872-73; Union T. S., 1873-76; ordained Williamsport, Penn., O. 12, 1876; p. there, 1876-78; Woodward Ave Cong. Ch. Detroit,Mich., 1878-79; Lenox, 1880-89; Housatonic, 1899-1908; president Amer. International Coll., Springfield, 1908-11. Author Country Parish Life. D. Springfield, Jan. 29, 1911.
Married (1) Ap. 15, 1879, Alice M. Davis, who d. F. 24, 1881; (2) Jan. 16, 1883, Lucy A., da. of Richard Walker, Lenox. 7 ch.
2013. *Metcalf, George Reuben. S. of George Putnam and Harriet E. (Munson), b. Brattleboro, Vt., D. 17, 1848. M. A., A. C., 1875; M. D., Columbia, 1874. Phi Beta Kappa; Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Providence, R. I. and Wilbraham Acad. Columbia Med. School, 1872-74; Bellevue Hospital, 1874-75; studied Berlin and Vienna, 1875-76; practised Syracuse, N. Y., 1876-82; instructor in materia medica and therapeutics, curator and librarian Syracuse Med. School, 1876-78; prof. of materia medica, therepeutics and clinic med. there, 1878-82; practised N. Y. City, 1882-83; St. Paul, Minn., 1883-1904. D. Orvieto, Italy, F. 28, 1905.
Married O. 21, 1875, Julia B., da. of George G. French, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1 s.
2014. *Morse, Charles Fitch. S. of Amasa and Sarah Ann (Thomas), b. Union, Conn., S. 5, 1844. Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Monson Acad. Yale T. S., 1872-75; s. s. Cong. Ch. Brookfield, 1875-76. D. Brookfield, Aug. 24, 1876.
Married Mch. 1, 1876, Susan Elizabeth, da. of Eleazer Hodsdon, Moultonboro, N. H. Bro. Nathan (A. C. 1874).
2015. *Negley, Walter. S. of Peter and Laura (Rickenbaugh), b. Hagerstown, Md., May 10, 1850. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Marshall Coll., Mercersburg, Penn. Studied architecture with F. Davis, Baltimore, Md., 1872-75; managed sheep ranch Eagle Pass, Tex., about 10 yrs. D. Hagerstown, Md., O. 19, 1890. Bro. Charles (A. C. 1873).
2016. *Packard, Frederick William. S. of Noah W. and Fanny (Cheney), b. Orange, N. 5, 1850. M. A., A. C., 1875. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Williston Sem. Studied law with uncle, William H. King, Chicago, Ill., 1872-75; admitted to bar, 1875; practised Chicago, Ill., 1875-1913. D. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 25, 1913.
Married Jy. 25, 1877, Stella C., da. of Lauriston A. Williams, Amherst, who d. Jan. 19, 1914. Ch. Fanny.
2017. Paine, Albert George. S. of John and Mary Ann (May), b. E. Woodstock, Conn., Ap. 10, 1848. M. A., A. C., 1875; M. D., U. City of N. Y., 1877. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Woodstock Acad., Nichols Acad. and Williston Sem. Studied med. U. City of N. Y., 3 yrs.; practised Chicago, Ill., 1878-1916; tree feller, 1916-.
Married Aug. 25, 1881, Mary Martha, da. of Archibald L. Colwell, Verbank, N. Y. Ch. John C. (A. C. ex 1904). Bro. Lyman M. (A. C. 1872).
Address, 382 No. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, Cal.
2018. Paine, Lyman May. S. of John and Mary Ann (May), b. E. Woodstock, Conn., Mch. 6, 1850. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Nichols Acad., Dudley and Williston Sem. Studied law with C. C. Bonney, Chicago, Ill., 2 yrs.; admitted to bar, Jan. 11 1876; practised Chicago, Ill., 1876-. President Chicago Law Institute, 1907; on bd. of managers, 1902-12. Author 4 vols. of briefs; My Ancestors.
Married Aug. 31, 1881, Geneva, da. of George B. Carr, E. Woodstock, Conn. Ch. Ralph C. (d.); Ruth (Norton); Olive; Norman C.; Merlin. Bro. Albert G. (A. C. 1872).
Address, Rm. 1414, 105 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Ill.
2019. *Parker, Francis. S. of John and Anna M. (Center), b. Gloucester, Jy. 19, 1847. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Monson Acad. Andover T. S., 1872-75; a. p. Cong. Ch. Enfield, N. H., 1875-78; ordained D. 5, 1878; p. there, 1878-81; a. p. Albany and Craftsbury, Vt., 1882-85; p. Enfield, N. H., 1885-88; No. Craftsbury, Vt., 1888-89; Waterbury, Vt., 1889-91; No. Troy, Vt., 1891-92; Little Haddam, Conn., 1892-1909; w. c. Enfield, N. H., 1909-11; p. Hartland, Vt., 1912-18. D. Hartland, Vt., Aug. 3, 1918.
Married Jy. 11, 1878, A. Jennette, da. of Samuel Williams, Enfield, N. H.
2020. *Pelton, George Samuel. S. of Christopher Beebe and Mary Irene (Rockwell), b. So. Windsor, Conn., N. 18, 1845.
Prepared Monson Acad. Hartford T. S., 18(?)-77; ordained as evangelist So. Windsor, Conn., May 15, 1877; p. Glyndon, Minn., 1877-80; Deadwood, So. Dak., 1880-83; Omaha, Nab., 1883-86; Worcester, 1887-89; Higganum, Conn., 1889-93. D. Higganum, Conn., S. 6, 1893.
Married O. 20, 1879, Jennie, da. of Eugene Grant, Glyndon, Minn.
2021. *Siebert, Charles Albert. S. of William and Margaret A. (Wilderman), b. New Orleans, La., Aug. 29, 1851. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared City Acad., St. Louis, Mo. and with Prof. H. B. Richardson, Amherst. Studied law, Göttingen U., Germany, and St. Louis, Mo., 1872-74; admitted to bar, 1874; practised St. Louis, Mo., 1874-88; Chicago, Ill., 1888-1916, also in real estate business. D. Chicago, Ill., May 19, 1916.
Married Je. 23, 1883, Alma L., da. of Jonas Bowman, Barnard, Vt. Ch. Robert T.
2022. *Spaulding, Timothy Gridley. S. of Samuel Thompson (A. C. 1839) and Maria Savage (Gridley), b. Ware, Jy. 30, 1851. Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Williston Sem. Taught private school for boys Westchester, N. Y., 1872-73; studied law with father Northampton, 1874-77; admitted to bar, Greenfield, Aug. 20, 1877; practised Northampton, 1877-1917. Representative Mass. legislature, 1878. D. Northampton, Aug. 28, 1917.
2023. Stevens, Harry Sidney. S. of H. B., b. New Market, N. H., Aug. 10, 1850. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Chicago (Ill.) H. S. Studied law with father; admitted to bar; manufacturer Chicago, Ill., 1882-.
Address, University Club, Chicago, Ill.
2024. *Thompson, Albert Henry. S. of Edward Kneeland and Elizabeth Dearborn (Smith), b. Chelsea, Jan. 27, 1849. S. T. B., Yale D. S., 1875. Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha Delta Phi.
Prepared Phillips Acad., Andover. Yale D. S., 1872-75; a. p. Georgetown, Conn., 1875-76; Bingham, Me., 1877-79; ordained, F. 26, 1879; p. Cromwell, Ia., 1879-80; Wakefield, N. J., 1880-87; Raymond, N. J., 1888-1916. D. Raymond, N. H., Jan. 29, 1916.
Married Jan. 13, 1885, Mrs. Arvilla Pitman, da. of Loammi Hardy, Ossipee, N. H. Ch. Elizabeth H.; Rose S. (d.); Arvilla H. (Ewell).
2025. Thompson, Walter. S. of John Leland and Mary (Perkins), Troy, N. Y., Jan. 12, 1851. M. A., A. C., 1875; S. T. D., Hobart, 1888. Chi Psi.
Prepared Round Hill School, Northampton. Berkeley D. S., Middletown, Conn., 1872-75; ordained deacon, May 22, 1875; priest, Je. 11, 1876; rector Cambridge, N. Y., 1876-77; Waterford, N. Y., 1877-82; Rome, Italy, 1882-83; St. Philip's in the Highlands, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1883-98; St. John the Divine, N. Y. City, 1891-92; St. Paul's Ch., Rome, Italy, 1903-04; chaplain Lucerne, Switzerland, 1904-.
Married Jan. 28, 1878, Jessie, da. of J. W. Fuller, Troy, N. Y. Ch. J. W. Fuller; Walter; Jessie F.; Dorothy F. (Curtis).
2026. *Thurlow, Steven Alvah. S. of Robert and Nancy (Smith), b. Raymond, Me., Jy. 18, 1842. M. A., A. C., 1879. Delta Upsilon.
Prepared Hebron (Me.) Acad. and Edward Little Institute, Auburn, Me. Taught Gould's Acad., Bethel, Me., 1872-74; prin. Freeport (Me.) H. S., 1874-78; supt. of schools, 1877-78; prin. Union Acad. Belleville, N. Y., 1878-81; Pottsville (Penn.) H. S., 1881-1906; supt. of schools, Pottsville, Penn., 1906-12. Served with Co. K, 5th Regt. Mass. Vols., 1864. D. Pottsville, Penn., Jan. 4, 1912.
Married Jy. 9, 1891, Mary E., da. of Rev. John N. Chase, Saybrook, Conn.
2027. *Tuckerman, Louis Bryant. S. of Jacob and Elizabeth (Ellenwood), b. Rome, O., F. 15, 1850. M. A., A. C., 1875; M. D., L. I. Coll. Hospital, 1877. Phi Beta Kappa.
Prepared Farmer's Coll., College Hill, O.; A. C., 1870-72. Yale D. S., 1873-74; ordained, S. 30, 1874; taught Austinburg, O., 1874-76; a. p. Lenox and Eagleville, O., 1874-76; studied L. I. Coll. Hospital, 1876-77; practised Williamsfield, O., 1877-79; Austinburg, O., 1879-81; Cleveland, O., 1881-1902; prof. of physiology Med. Dept. Wooster U. Cleveland, O., 1882-; pub. The Workman, 1884-88; exchange ed. Cleveland Medical Gazette, 1897-1900. D. Cleveland, O., Mch. 5, 1902.
Married Je. 29, 1875, Mary Ellen, da. of Warner W. Hopkins, W. Andover, O. Ch. 4 s., 2 da.
2028. *White, Willard. S. of Selden and Diadama H. (Barbour), b. Canton, Conn., May 30, 1844. M. A., A. C., 1875; LL. B., Boston U., 1875. Psi Upsilon.
Prepared Williston Sem.; A. C., 1869-72. Studied law Boston U., 1872-75; admitted to bar Boston, 1875; practised Boston, 1875-80; in business of producing petroleum oil, Penn.; constucting electric power plants Boise, Idaho, 1899-. Member Conn. Legislature, 1874; Idaho Legislature, 1910; Commandant Soldiers home miss'y, Idaho, 1912; City Magistrate of Boise, Idaho, 1909-12. Co. I, 22nd Conn. Regt. Vols., 1862-63. D. Boise, Idaho, May 17, 1923.
Married Je. 21, 1876, Emma Frances, da. of James W. Nightingale, Boston, who d. Aug. 20, 1912. Ch. Willard F.; Lawrence A.; Miriam; Herbert H.; Kingsley B.; Phillip; Frances.
2029. *Wilkins, Frank Melville. S. of James W. and Julia A. (Gould), b. Peabody, F. 16, 1850.
Prepared Peabody H. S. Studied law with W. W. Wilkins, Brockton; admitted to bar, 1875; practised Brockton and Boston, 1875-77; Sherman, Tex., 1878; cattle raising Picos River, Southwestern Tex., 1878-90. D. Texas, D. 18, 1890. Bro. William W. (A. C. 1867).
Alexander, Gid. S. of David. Chi Psi. Registered from Chapel Hill, Tenn. A. C., 1868, one term. Grad. Law School Labanon, Tenn.; practised Baltimore and Charles Sts., Baltimore, M. D. In Confederate Army.
*Bagg, John Sullivan. S. of Aaron and Lucy (Mather), b. W. Springfield, D. 31, 1848. M. A. (hon.) A. C., 1880. Chi Psi. Prepared Wilbraham Acad.; A. C., 1868-69; M. D., U. of Penn., 1873; practised Springfield, 1873-; surgeon U. S. N., 6 or 7 yrs. D. Jy. 9, 1887.
Burley, Clarence Augustus. S. of Augustus Harris and Anna M. (Force), b. Chicago, Ill., O. 10, 1849. Alpha Delta Phi. Prepared Miles Military Acad., Brattleboro, Vt.; A. C., 1868. LL. B., Northwestern U., 1876; practised Chicago, Ill., 1876-. Address, 79 W. Monroe St., Chicago, Ill.
*Chase, Charles Wells. S. of Wells and Maria (Bailey), b. Charlestown, May 27, 1850. Psi Upsilon. Prepared Charlestown H. S.; A. C., 1868-70; grad. Harvard, 1872. In Pernambuco, So. America, 1872-73; in business Boston, 1874-80; admitted to Mass. bar, Jan., 1884; practised Boston, 1884-88; with Forum magazine, 1888-93; director Press Division U. of Chicago, 1893-96; r. Chicago, Ill., 1893-1901; with C. A. Nichols & Co., Springfield. D. Jan. 8, 1911.
Dale, George Walter. S. of John, b. Jan. 31, 1849. Registered from Indiana, Penn. A. C., 1868, one term.
Dick, Charles Peter. B. May 8, 1844. Registered from Latrobe, Penn. A. C., 1868, one term.
*Fincke, Frederick Getman. S. of Charles and Anna N. (Mann), b. Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 28, 1850. LL. B., Columbia, 1875. Psi Upsilon. Prepared with Prof. John Overheizer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; A. C. 1868-70; Harvard, 1870-73. Columbia, 1873-75; practised Utica, N. Y., 1875-1912. D. Utica, N. Y., N. 5, 1912.
*Hale, John. S. of Luke and Sophronia (Wyman), b. Winchendon, S. 17, 1848. Prepared with Rev. A. P. Marvin, Winchendon, and Monson Acad.; A. C., 1867-68, 1869-70. Member of engineering corps which constructed water works Fitchburg, 1871-72; in charge of construction of water works Arlington, 1872; civil engineer Somerville and Arlington, 1873-74; with Des Moines Valley R. R. and build Des Moines Rapids canal for U. S. government Keokuk, Ia., 1874-77; supt. construction of levees, Miss., and locks at Muscle Shoals, Tenn. River, 1877-78; contractor on railways, Ia., 1878-79; Wellington, Kans., 1879-80; Denver and Rio Grande R. R., 1880-82; Idaho, 1882-83; Oregon, 1883-84; Northern Pacific R. R. near Yakima, Wash., 1885-87; contractor for construction of Gray's Harbor jetty, 1898-. Member firms Hale & Kern Contract Co., and Hale & Smith. D. Portland, Ore., Mch. 15, 1902.
Hosmer, Oscar. S. of Asa and Lucy P. (Bryant), b. Baldwinsville, Jan. 29, 1849. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Prepared Phillips Acad., Andover; A. C., 1868-70. Journalist with Boston Herald, 1872-; for many yrs. financial editor.
*Howard, Wiley Coleman. B. Aug. 19, 1847. Chi Psi. Registered from Centreville, Ala.; A. C., 1868-69; Grad. Law School Lebanon, Tenn. Soldier in Confederate Army. D. near Nashville, Tenn., 1873.
*Johnston, James Edwin. S. of John Edward and Catherine L. (Baldwin), b. Warsaw, Ill., Ap. 12, 1850. Prepared with Rev. William Reynolds, Warsaw, Ill.; A. C., 1868; Iowa Coll. In custom house and P. O. St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; real estate dealer Wichita, Kans. D. Warsaw, Ill., D. 6, 1887.
*Kirk, Hyland Clare. S. of David, b. Phelps, N. Y., Mch. 8, 1846. Psi Upsilon. Prepared Canandaigua (N. Y.) Acad.; A. C., 1868. Teacher and writer. Author Heavy Guns and Light; Vladimir the Mystic; The Revolt of the Brutes, and other works. Served in Co. D, 11th N. Y. Vols.; Co. F, 4th N. Y. Vols., 2nd Lieut., 1863-65. D. Washington, D. C., May 6, 1917.
*Langley, James Edward. S. of Richard and Sarah B. (Maddy), b. Gallipolis, O., S. 14, 1849. Psi Upsilon. Prepared Gallia Acad., Gallipolis, O.; A. C., 1867-68, 1868-69. Prin. Gallia Acad., short time; bookkeeper and manager Singer Manufacturing Co., Gallipolis, O., 1886-. D. Gallipolis, O., Je. 4, 1909.
Miller, Ernest Parker. S. of Alfred and Elsie L. (Kibbing), b. Ashburnham, Jan. 4, 1851. Psi Upsilon. Prepared Fitchburg H. S.; A. C., 1868-70; Harvard, 1870-72. Taught Fitchburg H. S., 1872-74; Harvard Med. School, 1874-77; M. D., there, 1877; practised Fitchburg, 1877-. Address, 843 Main St., Fitchburg.
Murray, Chester Paul. B. Washington, Penn., Ap. 23, 1845. Prepared Mercersburg, Penn.; A. C., 1868; grad. Princeton, 1872. Princeton T. S., 1875; ordained as Presbyterian, May 4, 1875; p. Lower Valley, N. J., 1875-77; s. s. Groveland, N. Y., 1877-79; p. Springport, Union Springs, N. Y., 1879-98.
*Parkhurst, Louis Henry. S. of Henry and Sarah (Wakefield), b. Boston, Jan. 30, 1851. Psi Upsilon. Prepared Leominster H. S.; A. C., 1868-70; grad. Harvard, 1872. Studied music Boston, 1872-73; financial clerk, dept. of public instruction, Boston, 1872-78; junior master Boston Latin School, 1878-81; with Chickering & Sons; leather business, 1881-84; piano business, 1884-92; partner banking firm Webster & Putnam & Co., 1892-1914. Trustee and treasurer City Realty Trust and Shawmut Realty Trust, Boston, 1914-22. D. Cambridge, Jan. 8, 1922.
*Prince, John. S. of Dr. William H. and Elizabeth L. (Parker), b. Salem, Jy. 24, 1850. Prepared Cleveland (O.) H. S.; A. C., 1868-69. Teller Northampton Nat. Bank, 1869-94; treasurer Nontuck Savings Bank Northampton, 1899-1911. D. Northampton, Jy. 22, 1911.
Putnam, Washington Irving. S. of George P. and Victorine (Haven), b N. Y. City, F. 4, 1852. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Prepared Mt. Washington Collegiate Institute, John MacMullen's School and Columbia Grammar School, N. Y.; A. C., 1868-71. With firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers, N. Y. City, 1871-; vice-president. Chairman Bd. 126 N. Y. City Selective Service Draft, 1917-20. Address, 2 West 45th St., N. Y. City.
*Riley, William Herbert. S. of James and Caroline (Bryant), b. Dartford, Kent, England, Mch. 26, 1849. Prepared Northampton H. S.; Wabash Coll., 1 yr.; A. C., 1868. In Lawrence Bookstore Northampton; proprietor news, book and art store Florence; proprietor W. H. Riley & Co., plumbing and heating concern, Northampton, 1895-1918. D. Florence, Jy. 3, 1918. S. Herbert E. (A. C. 1896).
*Robertson, Fred Crosby. S. of Osgood Robertson and Louise (Noyes), b. Minot, Me., Mch. 14, 1848. M. A. (hon.), A. C., 1886. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Prepared Hebron (Me.) Acad. and Edward Little Institute, Auburn, Me.; A. C., 1868-69, 1870-71. In business Boston, and Philadelphia, Penn., 1871-78; studied oratory Boston U. School of Oratory, 1879-80; taught Bates Coll., 1880; Colby Coll., 1880-82; New Church T. S. Cambridge, 1881-84; Trinity Coll., Hartford, Conn., 1883-87; private school Boston, 1887-1900. D. Harding, Mch. 1, 1916. Bro. Lucius O. (A. C. ex 1871).
Robinson, Nalbro Frazier. S. of Caroline, b. Aug. 23, 1851. A. C., 1868-69. Address, unknown.
*Robinson, Thomas. S. of Amos and Mary A. (Pontin), b. Salisbury, England, May 30, 1843. M. A. (hon.), A. C., 1877. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Prepared Kimball Union Acad., N. H.; A. C., 1868-70, 1871-72. Miss'y Labrador, 1870-71; Andover T. S., 1872-74; prof. of natural philosophy and chemistry Howard U. Washington, D. C., 1874-87; prin. of Normal Dept., 1875-81; asst. civil engineer U. S. Eng. Dept., Ga., Ala. and Fla., 1887-98; Cushing's Island, Portland, Me., 1898-1902; in charge of reservoirs at head waters of Mississippi River, Minn., 1902-09; r. Grand Rapids, Mich. and Irving, Tex., 1909-10. Member U. S. Christian Commission during Civil War. D. Irving, Tex., F. 1, 1910.
*Smith, Samuel Finley. S. of Samuel and Mariett (White), b. Granby, Jy. 17, 1847. Prepared Wilbraham Acad.; A. C., 1869-70. U. of Mich., 1870-73; M. D., there, 1873. Practised Indian Orchard, 1873-91; California, 1891-97; Indian Orchard, 1897-. D. Indian Orchard, Jan. 22, 1923.
*Tiffany, Fayette Buel. S. of Chauncey and Ruth A. (Turner), b. Barkhamsted, Conn., O. 2, 1848. Prepared Stamford Sem., N. Y.; A. C., 1868-70. Studied law Tecumseh, Neb., 1878-79; admitted to bar, S., 1879; practised Albion, Neb., 1880-83; judge of district court of Neb., 1883-90; r. Omaha, Neb., 1891-95; Colorado Springs, Col., 1896-1909; Denver, Col., 1909-21. D. Denver, Col., S. 19, 1923.
*Williams, Frederick Jerome. S. of Jerome J., b. S. 21, 1849. Psi Upsilon. Registered from Augusta, Ga.; A. C., 1868-69; Emory Coll., 1870-72. In business, 1872-83; ed. The Constitutionalist Augusta, Ga., 1874-76; farmer Brookfield, 1876-83. D. Brookfield, 1883.
Wood, Edward Clarke. S. of Rev. Charles W. and Susan C. (Clarke), b. Ashby, F. 19, 1849. Prepared Brockton H. S.; A. C., 1868-69. Pharmacist Boston, 1870-; with C. L. Hathaway & Co., Middleboro. Address, 25 Webster St., Middleboro.
Wyman, Henry Harrison. S. of Harrison and Jane W., b. Westminster, Mch. 6, 1849. Prepared Gardner H. S.; A. C., 1868-69; grad. Brown, 1871. Instructor in English St. Louis Coll., N. Y. City, 1871-72; Theological Institute of Paulist Fathers, N. Y. City, 1872-; ordained priest, Mch. 8, 1876; Paulist miss'y in different parts of U. S. and Canada; rector St. Mary's Ch. and Superior of Paulist missions on Pacific Coast, San Francisco, Cal., 1895-1910; rector emeritus, residing Chicago, Ill., 1910-. Chaplain of state senate, Cal. Author Certainty in Religion; The Story of My Religious Experiences. Address, 415 West 59th St., N. Y. City.
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