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Archive for War
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake's own brother among them.
Drama | History | War
Jojo Rabbit 2019
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Midway 2019
MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome the odds.
Action | Drama | History | War
T-34 2018
In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Action | War
Fury 2014
In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
War | Drama | Action
The Imitation Game 2014
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Inglourious Basterds 2009
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Dracula Untold 2014
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | War
Dunkirk 2017
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Action | Drama | War
Apocalypse Now 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Drama | War
First Blood 1982
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
Action | Adventure | Thriller | War
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
Adventure | Drama | War
Battle of Jangsari 2019
Based on a true story of Jangsari Landing Operation, 772 student soldiers – whose average age was 17 and who received just 2 weeks of boot camp training – were tossed into Korean War effort in order to pave the way for Incheon Landing Operation, which turned the tide of war.
Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Schindler's List 1993
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Allied 2016
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Action | Drama | Thriller | Romance | War
Saving Private Ryan 1998
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Braveheart 1995
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
300: Rise of an Empire 2014
Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistokles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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The Hazards of McMindfulness by Claire Wheeler, MD, Ph.D
Mindful this, mindful that. The mindfulness industry is getting out of hand, and far removed from the ancient philosophies that created it. “Showing up, ” and “being present” is only the first step to mindful living – and it can make you anxious and angry if you don’t work on step two – radical acceptance of what is. In this workshop, we’re going to practice being here now with meditative techniques, but we’re also going to explore what it’s like to go deeper. To say, “Yes.” Yes to everything just as it is. We’re going to talk about the difference between accepting and condoning, and how to move from resistance to surrender. The greatest strength you have is your ability to perceive, allow, and participate in this life you’re living. If you can’t accept the universe as it is, with all its danger and paradox and loss, you can’t fully participate in its unfolding. Mindfulness, in its original form, is the cultivation of expansive awareness and loving, ecstatic equanimity. Through various exercises with vocalization, interaction with each other, and other forms of expression, we will show each other what it’s like to be present, be aware, and to abide peacefully with what we find here, and now.
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Claire Wheeler was an Emergency Medicine physician for several years before she earned her Ph.D. in psychology and certification in Mind-Body Medicine. For the past 18 years, Claire has been a faculty member for the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, teaching people from all over the world how to use meditation, guided imagery, mindfulness, expressive arts, movement, and other techniques for happier, healthier lives. Her book, “10 Simple Solutions to Stress,” is based on this work and her training in the psychology and neurobiology of stress and resilience. Claire has been a full time instructor in Portland State University’s School of Community Health for ten years. In addition to this and her work with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, she conducts workshops, seminars, and gives speeches for many different groups, organizations, and communities. Mind-body medicine isn’t a job, it’s a way of life, one that is grounded in mindfulness and enriched by powerful scientific evidence. For Claire, it’s more than a professional field – it’s a way of life that influences everything, every day, every moment. Her passion for the transcendental nature of mindful practice comes through in all of her work.
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Inez Vincent *
Inducted on October 25, 2003
Inez LeBlanc Vincent was born in rural Vermilion Parish to Etienne and Rita Leleux LeBlanc on September 16, 1922. Her formal education began at a Catholic school in New Orleans where her father worked in the furniture business. When her family returned to Vermilion Parish, she completed her elementary education at the LeBlanc School. After graduating from Erath High School in 1939, she entered Southwestern Louisiana Institute, S.L.I. (presently, U.L.). She received her B.S. in Home Economics in the fall of 1943.
Mrs. Vincent’s first teaching assignment was a home economics class at Morganza High School in Point Coupee Parish. The following year, she was assigned to Erath High School where she taught Home Economics for twenty-nine years. She retired from teaching in May 1974.
In fall of 1957, Inez was invited to be a guest cook of Town and Farm Journal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with all expenses paid. She presented a feature story on shrimp and prepared all of the dishes in their test kitchen. This presentation was published in their magazine. The school board gave her a two-week leave to participate in this event.
After retirement, Inez became involved with the U.S.L. (U.L.) Home Economics Alumni. From 1987-89 she served as president of this organization. In 1995 she received the outstanding Home Economics Alumni Award in the College of Applied Life Sciences.
In spite of retirement, Inez has continued her work as an educator even to this day as a substitute teacher especially for teachers taking maternity leave.
. Mrs. Vincent continues to be invited to judge the cooking categories at festivals and fairs in the area, including the Cattle Festival in Abbeville and the Yambilee Festival in Opelousas. She also judges social studies and science fairs in the area schools.
In community service, Inez is a volunteer at the Erath Museum. In 1997 and 1998 she helped the U.S.L. Folklore Department with some very interesting programs featuring our Cajun heritage.
Mrs. Vincent has served as vice president of La Famille de LeBlanc since 1997. She was program chairman for the International LeBlanc Family Reunion held in August of 1999 in Erath. Relie LeBlanc and Simon LeBlanc took a trip to Canada to personally invite the Governor General, Romeo LeBlanc, to attend the reunion. It was an awesome moment when Presley LeBlanc, the LeBlanc president, introduced the governor General at the reunion.
While serving as vice president of La Famille de LeBlanc, Inez attend a French Immersion course at the University of St. Anne in Church Point, Nova Scotia, Canada. She received le Pris d’Houneur, Prize of Honor, presented at a banquet held at the end of the course.
In 2001, Inez was the Grand Marshall of the Erath 4th of July Parade. This honor is given to one who has worked in and promoted the Erath community on a volunteer basis.
Inez is an active member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. This organization promotes professional and personal growth of women educators. She also belongs to the Vermilion Parish and State Retired Teacher’s Association.
Mrs. Vincent’s hobbies include traveling, gardening and baking. Inez has been an avid walker for many years, who has been known to walk many miles on the streets of Erath. She can also be seen playing a good game of Bourre with friends.
Mrs. Vincent is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Catholic Daughters of America, and the Ladies Alter Society.
Inez married to the late J.D. Vincent, Jr. She has two sons, Tommy and Timmy Vincent, three grandchildren Leigh Vincent Collier, Bryant Vincent (deceased), and Jacques Vincent, and one great-grandchild, Cameron Bryant Collier. Her sisters are Irene Dronet, Leona Poche’ and Lois Boudreaux and one brother Guy LeBlanc(deceased).
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Return to Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails.
07/21/94 Transport Corporation of v. International Business
[Editor's note: footnotes (if any) trail the opinion]
[1] UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
[2] Transport Corporation of America, Inc., a Minnesota
[3] corporation, Appellant,
[4] International Business Machines Corporation, Inc., a New
[5] York corporation; Innovative Computing Corporation,
[6] an Oklahoma corporation, Appellees.
[7] No. 93-1918
BLUE BOOK CITATION FORM: 1994.C08.835 (http://www.versuslaw.com)
[8] Date Filed: July 21, 1994
[9] Date Reported: Rehearing Denied August 19, 1994 at: 1994 U.S. App.
[10] Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. District No. CIV 4-91-615. Honorable James Rosenbaum, District Judge.
[11] APPELLATE PANEL:
[12] Before McMILLIAN, WOLLMAN and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.
[13] DECISION OF THE COURT DELIVERED BY THE HONORABLE JUDGE MCMILLIAN
[14] McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge.
[15] Transport Corporation of America, Inc. , appeals from a final order entered in the District Court*fn1 for the District of Minnesota granting summary judgment in favor of International Business Machines Corp. and Innovative Computing Corp. . Transport Corp. of America, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., No. 4-91-CV-615 (D. Minn. Feb. 16, 1992) (order). For reversal TCA argues that the district court erred in holding that (1) the economic loss doctrine bars its tort claims, (2) IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties is effective against TCA as a [16] subpurchaser, (3) IBM's limited remedy of repair and replace did not fail of its essential purpose, (4) ICC effectively disclaimed liability for consequential damages, and (5) the limited remedy provisions by IBM and ICC are not unconscionable. For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
[16] TCA is a Minnesota corporation that operates a national trucking business, with its principal place of business in Minnesota. IBM is a Delaware corporation that manufactures and sells computers, with its principal place of business in New York. ICC is an Oklahoma corporation that produces software and resells IBM computers, with its principal place of business in Oklahoma.
[17] In 1989 TCA decided to update its computer system, which is used to process incoming orders, issue dispatching assignments and store all distribution records. The information entered into the computer system is stored onto a backup system at 2:00 a.m. every day. TCA entered into an agreement to purchase an IBM computer system from ICC for $541,313.38. TCA subsequently executed a lease agreement which assigned to IBM Credit Corporation its right to purchase the IBM equipment from ICC, but TCA retained possession and use of the computer system. The [19] computer system was installed at TCA's offices in Minneapolis on December 29, 1989.
[18] On December 19, 1990, almost a year later, the computer system went down and one of the disk drives revealed an error code. TCA properly contacted IBM, and IBM dispatched a service person. Although TCA requested a replacement disk drive, the error code indicated that the service procedure was not to replace any components but to analyze the disk drive. TCA had restarted the computer system and did not want to shut it down for the IBM service procedure. IBM informed TCA that replacement was not necessary under the limited warranty of repair or replace, and agreed to return on December 22, 1990, to analyze the disk drive. On December 21, 1990, the same disk drive completely failed, resulting in the computer system being inoperable until December 22, 1990.
[19] TCA alleges that the cumulative down-time for the computer system as a result of the disk drive failure was 33.91 hours. This includes the time to replace the disk drive, reload the electronic backup data and manually reenter data which had been entered between 2:00 a.m. and the time the system failed. TCA alleges that it incurred a business interruption loss in the amount of $473,079.46 ($468,514.46 for loss of income; $4,565.00 for loss of data and replacement media).
[20] TCA originally brought this action against IBM and ICC in Minnesota state court, based on the failure of the disk drive purchased through IBM and ICC, alleging strict liability, negligence, breach of implied [23] warranty, and breach of express warranty. IBM removed the action to the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota on diversity of citizenship grounds. 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a)(1), 1441(a). IBM and ICC then moved for summary judgment on all counts. The district court granted the motions in favor of IBM and ICC on all counts. The district court applied Minnesota law and held that the economic loss doctrine barred TCA's tort claims, the terms of IBM's remarketer agreement with ICC "passed through" to TCA, IBM effectively disclaimed implied [24] warranties, the remedy of repair or replace in IBM's express warranty did not fail of its essential purpose, and ICC's disclaimer of liability for consequential damages was not unconscionable. This appeal followed.
II. ARGUMENT
[21] We review a grant of summary judgment de novo. The question before the district court, and this court on appeal, is whether the record, when viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, shows that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c); see, e.g., Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23, 91 L. Ed. 2d 265, 106 S. Ct. 2548 (1986); Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 249-50, 91 L. Ed. 2d 202, 106 S. Ct. 2505 (1986); Get Away Club, Inc. v. Coleman, 969 F.2d 664, 666 (8th Cir. 1992); St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. FDIC, 968 F.2d 695, 699 (8th Cir. 1992).
[22] We review de novo the district court's determinations of state law. Salve Regina College v. Russell, 499 U.S. 225, 231, 113 L. Ed. 2d 190, 111 S. Ct. 1217 (1991).
[23] A. Economic Loss Doctrine
[24] TCA argues that, under Minnesota law, tort claims are not barred by the economic loss doctrine if two conditions are met: there is damage to other property and the parties are not "merchants in goods of the kind." Because TCA is not a merchant in computer systems and the loss of data due to the failed disk drive constitutes damage to other property, TCA argues that the district court erred in holding claims for negligence and strict liability are barred. IBM argues that TCA did not suffer damage to other property because the data on the disk drive was integrated into the computer system. IBM also argues that the risk of failure of the disk drive (and the risk of loss of data due to failure of the disk drive) was reasonably contemplated by TCA. Thus, IBM argues that the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted in Minnesota controls the remedy in a transaction between sophisticated commercial parties.
[25] The economic loss doctrine in Minnesota bars recovery under the tort theories of negligence or strict liability for economic losses that arise out of commercial transactions, except those involving personal injury or damage to other property. Superwood Corp. v. Siempelkamp Corp., 311 N.W.2d 159, 162 (Minn. 1981) (Superwood), overruled in part, Hapka v. Paquin Farms, 458 N.W.2d 683, 688 (Minn. 1990) (Hapka) (holding U.C.C. controls exclusively with respect to damages in commercial transaction which involves property damage only). There are two issues in applying this doctrine to TCA's claim: whether the damages arose out of a commercial transaction and whether the damages claimed fall under the "damage to other property" exception.
[26] In interpreting Superwood, the Minnesota Supreme Court has held that the U.C.C. controls exclusively with respect to remedies for property damage in a commercial transaction. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. In Hapka, the plaintiff and the defendant were both commercial farmers who grew seed potatoes. When contaminated seed potatoes sold by the defendant to the plaintiff infected other seed potatoes owned by the plaintiff, the plaintiff brought an action asserting negligence and strict liability. In applying Superwood to bar the tort action for economic loss based on damage to other property caused by the defective product, the Minnesota Supreme Court emphasized that the U.C.C. is intended to displace tort liability, and that tort exceptions for economic losses are applicable to consumer transactions only. Id. at 688.
[27] TCA argues that because it does not buy and sell computer systems, the purchase was not between "merchants in goods of the kind" and therefore not a commercial transaction within the meaning of Hapka. Lloyd F. Smith Co. v. Den-Tal-Ez, Inc., 491 N.W.2d 11, 17 (Minn. 1992) (en banc) (Den-Tal-Ez). TCA further argues that the loss of data on the disk drive constitutes damage to property other than the computer system, and that under Den-Tal-Ez the tort remedies of negligence and strict liability are therefore available. Id. at 17.
[28] In Den-Tal-Ez, a motorized dental chair caught fire and allegedly caused substantial building damage. The plaintiff brought suit both in tort and for breach of warranties against the chair manufacturer for damage to other property (that is, damage to property other than the allegedly defective dental chair). Den-Tal-Ez, 491 N.W.2d at 13. The court stated:
[29] when there is a claim by a buyer for damage to the defective product itself (and this includes consequential damages), the U.C.C. remedy is exclusive and tort will not lie. . . . A subpurchaser is also limited to the U.C.C. remedy. In this situation . . . the product lacks its bargained-for value and fails to meet the buyer's or sub-buyer's performance expectations. This is exactly the kind of loss that the Code and its warranty protections are designed to cover. This economic loss includes the consequential damages for repair and loss of profits resulting from inability to use the defective product during the period of its replacement or repair.
[30] Id. at 15. As the district court correctly noted, this pronouncement from Den-Tal-Ez applies directly to the instant case.
[31] TCA is not a dealer in computers and thus not a merchant in goods of the kind. Therefore, the transaction between TCA and IBM and ICC was not a commercial transaction for purposes of the economic loss doctrine. However, we hold that the economic loss doctrine does apply here because TCA did not experience damage to other property within the meaning of the doctrine. Under Minnesota law, "where a defect in a component part damaged the product into which that component was incorporated, economic losses to the product as a whole were not losses to 'other property.'" Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts v. Parker-Klein Assocs. Architects, Inc., 354 N.W.2d 816, 820 (Minn. 1984) (citing cases) (Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts), overruled on other grounds, Hapka v. Paquin Farms, 458 N.W.2d 683 (Minn. 1990).
[32] In Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, a claim was made that defective bricks damaged the building into which they had been incorporated. In discussing the economic loss caused by the allegedly defective bricks, the court stated that "to hold that buildings constitute 'other property' would effectively overrule Superwood as to every seller of basic building materials . . . because the 'other property' exception would always apply. The U.C.C. provisions as applicable to component suppliers would be totally emasculated." 354 N.W.2d at 820 (footnote omitted). Thus, damage to other components integrated into a single unit are not considered damage to other property for purposes of the economic loss doctrine.
[33] Here, the electronic data stored on the disk drive was integrated into the computer system. If the disk drive had started a fire that caused damage to property outside of the computer system, then the exception to the economic loss doctrine as applied in Den-Tal-Ez would be applicable. 491 N.W.2d at 15, citing Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688 (if defective coffee pot starts a fire which burns down a building, the coffee pot purchaser could sue in tort as well as for breach of warranty for damages to the building).
[34] Furthermore, TCA was aware of the risk of computer system failure and possible loss of data. In applying Superwood, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota held that "tort claims [are] allowed only in limited situations where the nature of the defect or damage is other than that which could ordinarily be contemplated by the parties to a commercial transaction." Holstad v. Southwestern Porcelain, Inc., 421 N.W.2d 371, 375 (Minn. Ct. App. 1988) (Holstad). The fact that TCA backed up the disk drive at 2:00 a.m. every day objectively demonstrates that TCA realized the risk of its failure. TCA argues that Superwood and Holstad were expressly overruled by the Minnesota Supreme Court in Hapka, and that under Den-Tal-Ez tort claims are never barred in commercial transactions so long as the parties are not "merchants in goods of the kind." We disagree. Hapka overruled Superwood and its progeny only to the extent that they are contrary to the U.C.C.'s exclusive damages in commercial transactions involving property damage only. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. Minnesota courts have consistently held that the U.C.C. should apply to commercial transactions where the product merely failed to live up to expectations and the damage did not result from a hazardous condition. Den-Tal-Ez, 491 N.W.2d at 15; Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 687-88; Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 354 N.W.2d at 820-21; Superwood, 311 N.W.2d at 161-62; Holstad, 421 N.W.2d at 375. Because failure of the disk drive was contemplated by the parties and the damage was limited in scope to the computer system (into which the disk drive and its data were integrated), TCA must look exclusively to the U.C.C. for its remedy.
[35] TCA also argues that Independent School Dist. No. 622 v. Keene Corp., 495 N.W.2d 244 (Minn. Ct. App. 1993) (school district allowed to sue in tort for cost of asbestos removal), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 511 N.W.2d 728 (Minn. 1994), supports its tort claims. That case does not support TCA's argument because the court held that the claim for the costs of asbestos removal was not one for economic loss. 495 N.W.2d at 247, citing 80 South Eighth Street Ltd. Partnership v. Carey-Canada, Inc., 486 N.W.2d 393, 397 (Minn.) (claim is for contamination of buildings, not for damages caused by defective product), amended in part, 492 N.W.2d 256 (1992).
[36] B. IBM's Disclaimer of Implied Warranties
[37] TCA next argues that because it was not a party to the negotiations between ICC and IBM, it is not bound by the terms of the remarketer agreement, including IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties. TCA also argues that any disclaimers of implied warranties by IBM are not binding because they were not delivered at the time of the sale. IBM argues that the remarketer agreement between IBM and ICC included a valid disclaimer of implied warranties, and the U.C.C. as enacted in Minnesota operates to extend the disclaimer as a matter of law to TCA as the ultimate purchaser or end user.
[38] The U.C.C. as adopted in Minnesota has a privity provision that operates to extend all warranties, express or implied, to third parties who may reasonably be expected to use the warranted goods. Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-318 (West Supp. 1994).*fn2 The seller can disclaim implied warranties. Id. § 336.2-316.*fn3 Disclaimers of implied warranties are extended to third party purchasers by operation of § 336.2-318. Hydra-Mac, Inc. v. Onan Corp., 450 N.W.2d 913, 916 (Minn. 1990) (Hydra-Mac); see also SCM Corp. v. Deltak Corp., 702 F. Supp. 1428, 1432-33 (D. Minn. 1988) (applying Minnesota law).
[39] The remarketer agreement between IBM and ICC included a disclaimer of "ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE." As the district court correctly noted, this language complies with the requirements of Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-316(2) (that is, it was in writing, conspicuous and mentioned merchantability) and thus effectively disclaimed all implied warranties.
[40] Even assuming that TCA did not receive a copy of the warranty disclaimer, TCA's claim of breach of implied warranties by IBM fails as a matter of law. TCA argues that the disclaimer must be delivered at the time of the sale. See, e.g., Noel Transfer & Package Delivery Service, Inc. v. General Motors Corp., 341 F. Supp. 968, 970 (D. Minn. 1972) (Noel Transfer) (burden is on party asserting the disclaimer to establish disclaimer was delivered at time of sale and constituted an integral part of the transaction). Noel Transfer is distinguishable from the present case because it did not involve a third party transaction. Thus, operation of Minn. Stat. Ann. §§ 336.2-316, .2-318 extends IBM's disclaimer of implied warranties to TCA as a matter of law. Hydra-Mac, 450 N.W.2d at 916.
[41] C. IBM's Limited Remedy of Repair or Replace
[42] TCA next argues that the district court erred in holding that IBM and ICC effectively limited the remedy to repair or replace. TCA argues IBM's limited warranty of repair or replace failed of its essential [47] purpose because there was a latent defect and the remedy provided for in the warranty was not provided.
[43] Under Minnesota law, "an exclusive remedy fails of its essential purpose if circumstances arise to deprive the limiting clause of its meaning or one party of the substantial value of its bargain." Durfee v. Rod Baxter Imports, Inc., 262 N.W.2d 349, 356 (Minn. 1977) (Durfee), citing Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-719, U.C.C. Comment 1. A repair or replace clause does not fail of its essential purpose so long as repairs are made each time a defect arises. Durfee, 262 N.W.2d at 356.
[44] It is undisputed that IBM repaired the disk drive after it failed. TCA argues that latency of the defect in and of itself mandates that the limited remedy of repair or replace fails of its essential purpose. TCA cites no cases that hold that a remedy of repair failed of its essential purpose when, after a single failure, the system was fully repaired within one day, and so the rule from Durfee controls and the remedy is adequate.
[45] TCA further claims that IBM's failure to replace the defective disk drive before the malfunction occurred caused the remedy to fail of its essential purpose. The computer system was fully operational between the time the computer system first revealed an error code for the disk drive and the time the disk drive failed. The drive failure occurred two days after the error code was revealed and one day before IBM was scheduled to perform diagnostic service. When the disk failed, IBM provided warranty service on the disk drive and repaired it. Given these undisputed facts, IBM's remedy of repair or replace did not, as a matter of law, fail of its essential purpose.
[46] D. ICC's Disclaimer of Consequential Damages Liability
[47] TCA next argues that ICC's disclaimer for consequential damages fails of its essential purpose. A seller may limit or exclude consequential damages unless the limitation is unconscionable. Minn. Stat. Ann. 336.2-719(3).*fn4 The U.C.C. encourages negotiated agreements in commercial transactions, including warranties and limitations. Hapka, 458 N.W.2d at 688. "It is at the time of contract formation that experienced parties define the product, identify the risks, and negotiate a price of the goods that reflects the relative benefits and risks to each." Id. An exclusion of consequential damages set forth in advance in a commercial agreement between experienced business parties represents a bargained-for allocation of risk that is conscionable as a matter of law. American Computer Trust Leasing v. Jack Farrell Implement Co., 763 F. Supp. 1473, 1489 (D. Minn. 1991) (American Computer) (applying Minnesota law), aff'd and remanded, 967 F.2d 1208 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, 113 S. Ct. 414 (1992).
[48] In the agreement between ICC and TCA, TCA expressly agreed to an ICC disclaimer that stated in part "IN NO EVENT SHALL ICC BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SUCH AS LOSSES OF ANTICIPATED [54] PROFIT OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS IN CONNECTION WITH . . . THIS AGREEMENT."
[49] We agree with the district court that the disclaimer of consequential damages was not unconscionable and that the damages claimed by TCA, for business interruption losses and replacement media, were consequential damages as defined by Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-715(2).*fn5 Furthermore, TCA and ICC were sophisticated business entities of relatively equal bargaining power. ICC's disclaimer was not unconscionable and TCA is therefore precluded from recovering consequential damages. American Computer, 763 F. Supp. at 1489.
III. HOLDING
[50] In sum, TCA's procurement of an IBM computer system through ICC, for purposes of conducting its business, was a transaction between sophisticated parties. Potential failure of the disk drive was contemplated by the parties, and any property damage was to property integrated into the computer system. The economic loss doctrine therefore bars TCA's tort claims and limits TCA's remedies to those provided by the U.C.C. as enacted by Minnesota. IBM properly disclaimed implied warranties in its remarketer agreement with ICC, and this disclaimer passed through to TCA as a matter of law, limiting TCA's remedy to the warranty provision of repair or replace, which did not fail of its essential purpose. Finally, ICC properly disclaimed consequential damages in the agreement between ICC and TCA.
[51] Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is affirmed.
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[52] *fn1 The Honorable James M. Rosenbaum, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.
[53] *fn2 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-318 (West Supp. 1994) (Third party beneficiaries of warranties express or implied) states: "A seller's warranty whether express or implied extends to any person who may reasonably be expected to use, consume or be affected by the goods and who is injured by breach of the warranty. A seller may not exclude or limit the operation of this section."
[54] *fn3 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-316 (West 1966) (Exclusion or modification of warranties) states (in relevant part):
[55] (1) Words or conduct relevant to the creation of an express warranty and words or conduct tending to negate or limit warranty shall be construed wherever reasonable and consistent with each other; . . .
[56] (2) . . . to exclude or modify the implied warranty of merchantability or any part of it the language must mention merchantability and in case of a writing must be conspicuous, and to exclude or modify any implied warranty of fitness the exclusion must be by a writing and conspicuous. Language to exclude all implied warranties of fitness is sufficient if it states, for example, that "There are no warranties which extend beyond the description on the face hereof."
[57] *fn4 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-719(3) (West 1966) provides: "Consequential damages may be limited or excluded unless the limitation or exclusion is unconscionable. Limitation of consequential damages for injury to the person in the case of consumer goods is prima facie unconscionable but limitation of damages where the loss is commercial is not."
[58] *fn5 Minn. Stat. Ann. § 336.2-715 (West 1966) provides (in pertinent part):
[59] (2) Consequential damages resulting from the seller's breach include
[60] (a) any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and
[61] (b) injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.
***** END FOOTNOTE(S) HERE *****
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Twin Lights Opens New Exhibit
Category: History and Happenings
PHOTO: 1828 Monmouth Banknote
Museum goers can get a closeup look at the year the first set of Twin Lights was built with the opening of the newest exhibit at the Twin Lights Museum, the 1820s.
The 1820s were also the time of primaries and presidential elections, mud-slinging and politics, notably with the 1828 election of Andrew Jackson when he defeated incumbent John Quincy Adams. That election is widely regarded as the beginning of the down-and-dirty “mud-slinging” tradition in United States politics. What might it have been like to live in Monmouth County during that pivotal year?
The new exhibit at the Museum explores that question and transports visitors back nearly two centuries through a group of rare artifacts from the 1820s.
The year 1828, in addition to the highly controversial election, marks the completion of the first set of Twin Lights atop the Navesink Highlands. The two towers were not connected as they are today (the current building was erected in 1862) but served as a vital beacon to shipping in and out of New York harbor, which grew dramatically in size and importance during that era. The 1828 towers used polished parabolic metal disks to amplify their illumination; the first Fresnel lenses did not go online until the 1840s.
Through its collection of artifacts, the 1828 display transports visitors to a time when fewer than 30,000 people lived in Monmouth County. Even so, it had a robust economy and even its own bank. Part of the exhibit includes a $2 note issued by the Bank of Monmouth, located in Freehold. Added to several copper and silver coins bearing a date of 1828, it represents what a laborer would have had in his pocket for a week’s work. Along with the coins and currency is a list of everyday items available in stores at that time, as well as the prices.
“Although three dollars and change doesn’t seem like much, you can clearly see that a typical working person could have fed a small family with what he made in a week,” said Jeff Tyler, President of the Twin Lights Historical Society.
“The new display also includes several items that would have been treasured by a boy or girl, including a lovely sampler that formerly belonged to the Newark Museum and a colorful little book that teaches American history through rhymes. You realize as you read the verses about the Revolution that this was a story that was also being told to children in 1828 by their grandparents, who lived through those times.”
Among the other features of the 1828 exhibit are items that tell the story of that year’s election—the most contentious in U.S. history to the time—and foreshadow the worst of modern political campaigns. A newspaper from that year overstates the positions and accomplishments of Jackson on its front page. The publication took its talking points from Jackson, who then repeated them as facts in his campaign rhetoric. A graphic poster produced by Adams supporters accused Jackson of mass murder and claimed that he had stabbed a business partner during a dispute.
“Jackson supporters accused Adams of having funneled underage girls to the Czar while he served as a diplomat in Russia,” said trustee Mark Stewart, who helped assemble the artifacts for the 1828 exhibit. “Throughout the campaign, supporters of the president besmirched Jackson’s wife, Rachel, suggesting that she was a prostitute—a relentless attack that may have led to her death shortly after election day. Jackson never forgave Adams.”
Why suddenly all the craziness? According to Stewart, there were two catalysts for the heightened anger that served as a backdrop for the 1828 campaign.
Jackson had actually defeated Adams in the popular vote in the election of 1824 (an election when all four presidential candidates come from the same political party) but did not have sufficient electoral votes. For the first and only time in history, the final decision was left to Congress, which dealt Jackson out of the presidency. In the four years that followed, Jackson railed against Washington and burnished his image as an outsider, a man of the people who was not part of the ruling elite. Also during that time, the eligibility rules for voters were loosened, bringing more small farmers and working Americans into the campaign. Most intended to vote for Jackson.
“Imagine living in Monmouth County that year,” says Tyler. “New Jersey had gone for Jackson in 1824, but in 1828 they voted for Adams by a narrow margin. I imagine the political discourse got pretty heated in the taverns and drawing rooms around here.”
Jackson won the national vote by a landslide but refused to pay Adams the traditional post-election visit at the White House. Adams, in turn, decided to skip Jackson’s inauguration.
The Twin Lights Historical Society will be adding a video on the election of 1828 in January. The display will be up through the spring and is slated to be replaced by an exhibit on life in Monmouth County in 1862 sometime later in the year.
The Twin Lights recently hosted a traveling exhibit, “Guns Blazing!” which featured the maritime paintings of Maarten Platje. The exhibit, which occupied Galleries II and II, increased museum attendance dramatically during its 12-week run. A new exhibit of historic paintings is being planned for these galleries in 2020; currently they house lifesaving, maritime and technology exhibits. An original of the first printing of the Pledge of Allegiance is also on display adjacent to the 1828 exhibit.
The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays from 10am . to 4pm., the grounds are open from 9am.. to 4:30. Gates close promptly at 4:30pm - vehicles should not be left unattended on the property. For further information contact the Museum at 732-872-1814.
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Tag: Phil Lapsley
There are a few books I wanted to mention here at the height of the holiday season, not because they’re new or even necessarily recent but because, selfishly, I simply wish more people had read them. If you’re looking for an extra gift, or just a last-minute surprise, for anyone with an interest in architecture, landscape, archaeology, acoustics, geopolitics, history, and more, here are eight titles to consider.
(1) The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western History by Daniel Jütte (Yale University Press)—This is an academic work, in both tone and approach, but of the ideal kind: nearly every page had something I wanted to underline, write down, or scramble to look up elsewhere. Put simply, The Strait Gate is a history of the door, but, as Jütte shows, this ultra-quotidian architectural detail—the dividing line between inside and outside—has political, psychological, Constitutional, philosophical, mythological, narrative, cultural, and even material implications that are easy to overlook. Whether it’s a controversial order that “all door handles and knobs be removed from homes and shops” so that the metal could be melted down for war materiel, divine gateways as described in the Book of Revelation, or the resonant phenomenon of Torschlusspanik—“panic of gate closure,” aka a fear of being locked out—Jütte’s book is a superb example of how we can still look at architecture afresh.
(2) The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor (Princeton University Press)—What did cultures without the benefit of modern scientific knowledge think of the monstrous skeletons and fossilized bones they occasionally unearthed? Quite a lot, as it happens. It turns out that huge chunks of human mythology, including the existence of dragons and the idea of an extinct race of titanic super-human ancestors, can all be traced back to misinterpretations of paleontology. Mayor’s writing is casually engaging—even quite funny, at times—and the book’s many examples of ancient human societies encountering monstrous, inexplicable, and possibly otherworldly things hidden in the earth stuck with me long after reading it.
(3) The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox (W.W. Norton)—If you have even a passing interest in sound, this is the book to read. Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer, introduces readers to sonic phenomena around the world, both naturally occurring and artificially induced, from the frozen surface of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Stone Age tombs in rural England. There are examples of sound art, acoustic science, and even landscape-scale auditory effects that easily justify the subtitle, “sonic wonders of the world.” This would pair well with David Toop’s Ocean of Sound, for those of you interested not just in acoustics but in avant-garde composition and ambient music, as well.
(4) The Tomb of Agamemnon by Cathy Gere (Harvard University Press)—This slim book, part of classicist Mary Beard’s excellent (but, sadly, now hibernating) “Wonders of the World” series for Harvard University Press, hit so many sweet spots for me. Author Cathy Gere convincingly shows how Mediterranean archaeological discoveries over the course of the 19th century helped to shape an emerging European mythos of the glories of war and historical empire. These same emphases lent themselves extremely well, however, to tragic and grotesque distortions that soon fed into the twin ideologies of Nazism and 20th-century fascism. Along the way, Gere writes, Classical discoveries misinterpreted by modern biases helped to justify British involvement in World War I. Gere’s book includes a brief, beautiful, and monumentally sad description of young, Homer-quoting scholars being shipped off to war to fight a rising evil from the East—only to be annihilated in the sodden trenches of the Somme. The Tomb of Agamemnon is probably one of my favorite ten books of the past decade; no other book I’ve read in that time conveys the true political stakes of archaeological research and the clear and obvious risks in distorting history for ideological ends.
(5) Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Anchor)—It’s a little disingenuous to suggest that this widely publicized book has been overlooked, but Lawrence in Arabia is nonetheless an uncannily well-timed history of the post-World War I Middle East and well worth taking the time to read. I was utterly absorbed by it for nearly a week. Part military adventure, part geopolitical biography of Lawrence of Arabia, part soul-crushing alternative history of a region that could have been—complete with agonizing descriptions of the infamous assault on Gallipoli—this book will make you see the entire 20th century differently, up to and including our own century’s Iraq War and the rise of ISIS.
(6) Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt (Granta)—I mentioned this book in a recent post and I would recommend it again. Map of a Nation tells the story of the British Ordnance Survey, the institute’s original geopolitical context, and the experimental cartographic tools it used to make its imperial surveys more accurate. For anyone interested in geography, maps, landscape, or British history, Hewitt’s book is a must-read.
(7) Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley (Grove/Atlantic)—You don’t need to be interested in the wonkish details of the telephone system to be amazed by the weirdness of Exploding the Phone, Phil Lapsley’s introduction to so-called phone phreaking. On one level, it’s a story of bored teenagers using synthesized sound and DIY home electronics to hack the global telephone network; on another, it’s a story with hugely metaphoric, almost occult undertones. The phone system’s diffuse and labyrinthine system of “inward operators,” robotic mechanical test numbers, and secret military phone exchanges—to name only a few ingredients—takes on the air of something invented by Alan Moore or Grant Morrison: teens encountering a world of numerological connection and mechanical intelligence through handheld receivers in the long afternoons of the 1960s and 70s. So good.
(8) Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest to Live and Work on the Ocean Floor by Ben Hellwarth (Simon & Schuster)—The only thing that makes me pause before recommending Ben Hellwarth’s Sealab right now is that a brand new paperback edition is due out in June 2017; but, that aside, I heartily endorse this one. Imagine Archigram teaming up with a secretive branch of the U.S. military to invent an utterly bonkers new version of human civilization on the ocean floor, and you’ve roughly pictured what this book is about. Whether it’s describing what were, in effect, moon bases at the bottom of the sea or bizarre experiments with farm animals, submerged ecological research stations or Cold War espionage in the Sea of Okhotsk, Sealab is as much outsider architectural history as it is a maritime geopolitical thriller. At the very least, preorder the forthcoming paperback if you want to wait before diving in.
Finally, it’s super-obnoxious to end with my own book, but if you’re looking for something to read this winter—or if you need a gift for someone who can be hard to shop for—consider picking up a copy of A Burglar’s Guide to the City. It’s a mix of true crime, architectural theory, and first-person reporting, from a Chicago lock-picking club to flying with the LAPD’s Air Support Division, from an architect who became the most prolific bank robber of the 19th century to fake apartments run by the British police. A Burglar’s Guide includes interviews with a Toronto burglar known for using the city’s fire code to help pick his next target, with renowned architect Bernard Tschumi, with game designers, and with FBI Special Agents, among others, and the whole thing is currently being adapted for TV by CBS Studios. Check it out, if you get the chance and let me know what you think.
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Is Awakening a Gradual Process or a Sudden, Spontaneous Shift?
a message from Eckhart Tolle
Thursday, 21 April, 2016 (posted 8 July, 2016)
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For most people awakening is gradual. A very drastic and sudden transformation is rare, and usually occurs only in the face of extreme suffering—suffering that either comes from within or from a real-life situation such as serious illness, loss, or some other form of pain. Then there is the possibility for a sudden and radical shift.
But for most people it is a gradual awakening and a going back and forth, so to speak. There may be a falling back into unconscious patterns triggered by situations, then a coming out again into more presence. But on the whole there is a gradual increase in presence that then flows into more and more areas of your life.
There can also be a sudden burst in awareness triggered by some kind of event—usually one that would not be called “pleasant.” For example, I’ve met people who’ve been practicing for some time and have shown slow but wonderful growth in presence; and then suddenly a serious physical condition arises that brings about a very rapid intensification of awareness. In some people it brings about a reaction into deep fear, so they lose awareness; but in many others I have observed an intensification of awareness—especially if the possibility of mortality comes in. So there’s suddenly an enormous influx of presence—but that only occurred because they’ve already been practicing living in awareness, perhaps for several years.
There’s really no end to the deepening that’s possible. Be happy with what’s happening to you, and if anything else is needed, life will give it to you. On the whole, for those who voluntarily embrace the arising new consciousness the need for pain to serve the function of spiritual teacher or to break down the ego, diminishes greatly
Now for those who don’t open themselves to the emerging new consciousness, it’s as if there were an egoic shell around something within them that wants to grow but can’t; it’s pushing up against the shell, and that begins to become quite painful. In many people, this ego shell may also be experienced as a deep inner longing for something they cannot name.
And then what life tends to do is to break through the shell through some kind of event, whatever it may be—losing a job, your home, or your spouse. It could also be something physical; whatever it is, there’s a shock, a crack appears, and then the light can come through. At first the crack is, of course, painful and there’s some degree of suffering; then suddenly, “Ah!”—an intensification of aliveness.
I’ve met so many people over the years who have had some kind of blow dealt to them by life, the universe, fate—whatever you want to call it—and retrospectively they reported, “that was the best thing that could ever have happened to me.” So many people have told me, “I wouldn’t be here talking to you if that hadn’t happened to me.” And I’m sure there are people reading this who could say the same. I know that I could say the same! Without intense suffering, I wouldn’t be here.
There’s always grace hiding behind seemingly negative events. (And if you listen to the news there’s no shortage of extremely negative things that are happening.) But all these challenges are potentially awakening experiences. The ego demands security, saying things like, “wouldn’t it be great if I didn’t have to worry about my job and I could really pursue awakening and presence.” But no, if that were the case you would most likely go to sleep. With 100% security, almost everybody would go to sleep, having everything mapped out as if nothing can go wrong.
Life isn’t like that anyway, so even if there were some security on the financial or professional level, you would, of course, still be faced with the insecurity of your physical vehicle—and the insecurity or unpredictability of the people around you!
So, to live with the insecurity or uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you—and to actually embrace it—is a wonderful thing. Rather than fearfully thinking, “oh, I don’t know what’s going to happen to me” and about the uncertainty of it all, surrender into that uncertainty or insecurity, because it is life. Life actually flows more powerfully when there is uncertainty.
The essence of every human journey is that it’s uncertain what’s going to happen tomorrow. Yet it’s there where transformation becomes possible. If you always deny uncertainty, thinking, “I want certainty,” then it’s like closing the valves through which life and the possibility of transformation enter.
That’s why the traditional idea of pilgrimage is universally important in all cultures. The real purpose behind it was never the arriving—it was the uncertainty of the journey itself, which has a transformational effect. People knew that, perhaps, intuitively, and they would become transformed by their pilgrimage.
To embrace the uncertainty of life, to live with it and begin to love it, has another interesting effect in terms of creativity. Creativity is stifled by excessive security. If you look at the lives of history’s great artists and writers, most of them didn’t have secure income; survival was uncertain. But that’s when creativity arises and when awakening becomes possible.
So, what the world calls “negative” is not necessarily negative. When you listen to the news, remember there’s always another side to everything. And the difficulties being experienced collectively these days are also potentially an opening into awakening.
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Spiritual Teacher and author was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey.
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By Dafe Oputu / News March 20, 2013
SSMU Executive Candidates Clash Over Student-Admin Relations
Candidates for executive positions in SSMU took to the Lev Bukhman room on March 13th to introduce themselves and debate their positions. The debates lasted for about two hours and touched on topics ranging from the proposal for a student-run café to relations between students and the administration.
Those running for each position had one minute to introduce themselves before being faced with a series of surprise topics prepared by the moderators. Candidates also faced pre-screened questions from the audience, which were passed to the debate desk or sent via twitter. “We’re going to have to screen them beforehand just because there have been arbitrary questions in the past,” said one moderator.
Debates for the position of VP External were scheduled first and passed quickly. With the withdrawal of Daniyal Naqvi, Sam Harris is running unopposed for the position. Harris noted that he plans to increase the visibility of the student federation TaCEQ and that he wants to work with student residences to make first-year students more considerate of the Milton-Parc community.
Tyler Hofmeister and Thomas Kim, the two candidates running for the position of VP Finance and Operations, debated in a discussion that largely focused on the accessibility of SSMU funds and the planning of a student-run café.
The establishment of a student-run café has been a popular cause on campus since the closing of the architecture café in 2010. Hofmeister said that the café would be a good opportunity for students to gain work experience and would provide a new study space on campus. “I really hope it isn’t a quiet study space just because it’s a cafe,” Kim countered. “The student-run café should add to campus life, not necessarily in a rowdy and rambunctious way but in a fun good way.”
Kim said his mandate would be making the position of VP Finance and Operations “more engaging” and improving face-to-face communication with SSMU clubs. Hofmeister agreed but argued that the main problem was making resources such as budget creation guides available online and having them be more up-to-date.
In the VP University Affairs debate, Sam Gregory and Joey Shea clashed over SSMU relations with the administration. In his introduction, Gregory promoted himself as a candidate with “realistic goals and solutions” who could “repair our relationship with the administration.” Shea, on the other hand, called for “better representativeness and real dialogue with the administration.”
Gregory called for more consultation fairs and less antagonism with regards to relations with the administration. Shea questioned the efficacy of consultation fairs and proposed that the new administrators be invited to SSMU general assemblies where they could speak and listen to students in a less contrived environment. “We can’t lose sight of our role to represent students while talking with the administration,” noted Shea.
Chris Bangs and Katie Larson capped off the night with the presidential debates, where the candidates were asked how they would balance the need to represent students with their need to work collegially with the administration as the only student on the Board of Governors.
Bangs suggested that SSMU should find methods of allowing for direct representation for student organizations on the Board of Governors, which became a point of contention between the candidates.
“I do agree that it is important to talk to the student organizations you mentioned,” explained Larson. “However, I think at the end of the day, as students there is a limit to how much we can force our way into things like the Board of Governors. That would be taking a hardline stance and that’s not going to work. I would prefer to work in a collaborative way.”
“I disagree,” countered Bangs. “I don’t think that just because we’re here for only three or four years or because we don’t have a degree yet that we’re any less valuable members of the community.”
The ongoing SSMU Building lease negotiations between SSMU and the administration were discussed in terms of which methods are most effective for negotiating with the administration. “I don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors, but three years is a long time to wait,” said Bangs. “And if McGill is going to pull the rug out from under us again, I’m not interested.”
“It is going somewhere,” Larson assured. “Obviously it’s frustrating but you have to know the reality of the space you’re working in. […] You have to compromise.”
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the most effective methods to deal with the administration were discussed by the presidential candidates in terms of the student-run café, when they were in fact discussed in the context of the SSMU Building lease negotiations.
Voting in the SSMU elections is ongoing until Friday March 22nd. Make your voice heard at: https://ssmu.simplyvoting.com/
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La Marq – A Home away from Home
From communal bathrooms in Residence Halls, to dilapidated but pricey Ghetto apartments, it would be generous to call university housing…
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We have heard about child marriages in South Asia. Unfortunately this is also widely practiced in Africa. Read more here and other news about women that made it to the headlines.
Africa’s child brides expected to double by 2050
When Fatimetou was 13-years-old she was forced to marry a much older man. She kept running away, but her family kept sending her back. “I could not look at him,” says the girl from Mauritania, in west Africa. “And then when I saw his face I thought: ‘I really hate that man.'” Her story is not unusual in this part of the world.
Read more here from CNN.
Women facing fines of up to £6,500 for wearing burkas in Swiss region
Wearing a burka or niqab in public has been banned in the Swiss region of Ticino, with offenders facing a fine of up to £6,500. The region’s parliament approved the law on Monday, thereby banning full-face veils worn by women in many Muslim countries, in the wake of heightened terrorist alerts across Europe.
Read more here from The Independent.
Four shocking statistics on the day the world tries to unite to end violence against women
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is marked on November 25. Here is one of the things you may not know: One in three women experience some form of violence in their lifetime.
Muslim woman thanks ‘Geordie angels’ who defended her from racist abuse on Newcastle Metro
A Muslim woman who was racially abused on the Metro in Newcastle has thanked the “Geordie angels” who defended her and her sister. Ruhi Rahman, 23, from Newcastle, said sh had been travelling on the train with her sibling for about ten minutes when a man approached them and began shouting at them.
100 Women 2015: The small band of pioneering women farmers in India
Eighty percent of all economically active women in India work in agriculture but few own the land. Farms are traditionally passed down through the male line even though women can inherit equally by law. For the BBC’s 100 women season, Rupa Jha and Neha Sharma travel across India to meet a pioneering community of women landowners.
Read more here from BBC
Tampon tax: men should share the burden of ending domestic abuse
Women’s Aid is feeling extremely fortunate. The chancellor has just announced that we will be sharing a fund of £2m to work with another domestic abuse charity, SafeLives, to improve early intervention in domestic abuse: something we have long argued is essential. This work is being funded through the proceeds of the tax on sanitary products. There is good in this, but questions are inevitable and we are glad the government will continue to work to get rid of this tax. However, we must take every opportunity to loudly and clearly affirm that women alone are not responsible for ending domestic violence.
Read more here from The Guardian
Could You Have a Thyroid Disorder?
Your thyroid, a thumb-size gland, rules your waistline, energy level, and mood. And for 10 million women, this regulator is on the fritz. Are you one of them?
Read more here from Women’sHealth
Hair Shedding: What It Is & What You Can Do About It
Hair loss is probably one of those things you only think about when you’re arguing with your roommate about who plugged up the shower drain again. (It was totally not you, right?) But if you’ve been noticing a few extra hairs in your brush, you may be questioning how much hair loss is normal.
Read more here from Refineri29
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Women in India’s Kerala fight taboos to climb mountains January 25, 2019
Legend has it that the world will come to an end if women scale the Agasthyarkoodam peak in India's southern state of Kerala. But these women want to take a chance and prove tradition wrong.
In God’s name: Indian girls forced into sex work despite ritual ban January 22, 2019
Young girls in south India continue to be “dedicated” to village temples and then forced into prostitution despite laws banning the ancient ritual, researchers said. The devadasi system, which involves putting a beaded necklace around girls and often leads to a life of sex work and slavery, goes unchecked in Karnataka state, according to two reports released this month.
Children Living on Railway Stations January 18, 2019
Deepa (who only has one name) is sitting desolate in the corner of the busy Thane railway station in Mumbai. She looks exhausted, weary and frightened after a long train journey that lasted 8 hours .
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Did the Civil War really start in Kansas?
BALDWIN CITY, Kansas — Fireflies beckon to each other in the darkness accentuated by the trees and the rural countryside. But rough-spoken men break the fairy-tale cheer with threats that reek of hatred — hatred of each other and what the others stand for.
These men are on the frontier of the still young United States — indeed, their looming confrontation is based on whether the barely settled swath of rolling prairie and forest known as the Kansas Territory should be admitted to the Union as a state where slavery is legal or is forbidden.
And tomorrow at daybreak, these men will stage what many historians consider the true first battle of the Civil War — almost 5 years before the Confederates will fire on Fort Sumter, more than 1,150 miles back east.
History a few miles away
This re-enactment, along with others plus museums and an active Army base, recount not just the tortured history of what became known as “bleeding Kansas” but also the state’s role in the challenging creation of the frontier in the mid-19th century. A driving trip of less than 150 miles reveals a rich vein of America’s history. But few sites are as dramatic as the Battle of Blackjack Springs, just a few miles from quiet Baldwin City.
The re-enactors include those angry men and one woman — now a sorrowful widow and grieving mother victimized by the blood lust along the Kansas-Missouri border. They re-create events before and during a three-hour firefight on the grassy hillsides split by a creek along the Santa Fe Trail.
The re-enactment is held on the anniversary of that battle on June 2, 1856, when an estimated 75 Missourians ultimately would surrender to about 25 Kansans led by John Brown, an Easterner who would become a lightning rod for abolitionists.
On the night before the re-enactment, visitors sit on hay bales on the site of the actual three-hour battle, to hear Brown — cradling a rifle, his eyes blazing — decry the “abomination” that is slavery.
He recounts the history of thousands of pro-slavery Missourians moving across the Missouri River into Kansas, where fewer thousands of anti-slavery Easterners and Northerners had already settled.
Battling the Jayhawks
Many arrived just to take part in the vote that would decide Kansas’ status. Many of the Missourians terrorized the settlers — called Jayhawks, after an imaginary combination of those two birds — robbing and beating them.
The raiders also set fire to the town of Lawrence, a hotbed of abolitionists. Five townspeople were killed.
Brown, leading a group that included some of the five sons who had preceded him into Kansas, crossed into Missouri. On May 26, 1856, the group committed what is known as the Pottawatamie (cq) Massacre, using swords and pistols to slaughter five farmers.
The showdown at Blackjack Springs abut a week later was to avenge the massacre, but Brown’s vastly outnumbered forces were victorious. Oddly, no one was killed in the firefight before the Missouri force, led by a deputy U.S. marshal, surrendered.
For the annual re-enactment just yards from the actual battlefield, Brown briefly summarizes the reasons for the fight. Then for about 20 minutes, a few dozen re-enactors including some on horseback have at each other, firing their rifles and pistols.
When it’s time for the surrender, firebrand John Brown (enactor Kerry Altenbernd (cq) tells the crowd: “Everyone heard of Blackjack — it was civil war!”
Later, Altenbernd, the law librarian for Douglas County (site of Blackjack Springs and Lawrence), tells me in a surprisingly soft voice, “I feel I understand Brown. He was dedicated, not crazy” — addressing a concept most people have when they hear of the massacre.
“There were 4-million of his brothers and sisters in bondage, and he couldn’t free them.”
Different play, different troupe
Another set of folks offers their version of the history that led to the nickname “bleeding Kansas” in the tiny town of Lecompton, briefly the territory’s first capital and just 30 miles from Baldwin City.
A repertoire troupe of about 30 takes turns portraying Brown, as well as the sheriff who torched Lawrence, the Pottawatomie widow and several more historic figures, in a play written 17 years ago by a resident.
Their preferred venue is in the main hall of a former college building, now the Lane Museum. There, the re-enactors send visitors into either side of the main aisle and encourage them to shout out huzzahs or boo the actors, depending on whether the visitors are sitting on the Missouri or the “Free State” side. This group, which also bought or made their costumes and props, performs up to 50 times a year, often for school groups around the state.
On the road west
Less than an hour’s drive southeast, in Olathe, more of Kanssas’ history — without the emphasis on the bloodshed — is recounted by costumed docents at the Mahaffie (cq) Stage Coach (two words cq) Stop and Farm. Occupying original and recreated buildings, plus a 4-year-old museum, the story of America’s westward growth is told through artifacts — from a child’s plate to farm implements to a Colt revolver – and reproductions and a timeline mural that begins in 1845. That’s 12 years before James Beattie (cq) Mahaffie arrived in Olathe with his wife and five children and created a 600-acre farm along the Santa Fe Trail.
That wagon path was used by Midwesterners as the trade route when Mexico won its freedom from Spain. It went from Missouri’s Mississippi River towns to what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Uncle Beattie” Mahaffie first built his stone farmhouse, which still stands, and operated an inn and then a stop for stagecoaches. His wife and daughters would feed 75 to 100 passengers daily — the coaches rolled 24 hours a day between 1865 and 1869.
Owned by the city of Olathe and covering 11 of the original 600 acres, the attraction includes a blacksmith shop, livestock barn for oxen and horses that pull the reproduction stagecoach that carries visitors around the buildings. In the farmhouse, they can watch a docent cook using authentic kitchen equipment and even try their hands at churning butter.
But 30 years before the Mahaffies arrived, the federal government needed to protect the traffic along the Santa Fe and Oregon trails and the early settlers from attacks by Native Americans. The government erected a series of forts about 100 miles apart along the frontier, and one of them is the oldest, continuously operating, military base west of the Mississippi. It has a familiar name: Leavenworth.
Touring an Army base
Laid out on the tree-covered bluffs high above the Missouri River, Fort Leavenworth opened in May 1827 and as usually happened, a village grew up nearby.
It wasn’t long before a 14-year-old from the village named William Cody began working for a freight shipper, riding along the trails to help protect the wagons and to provide the drovers with fresh meat. His prowess with a rifle earned him a nickname he cherished: Buffalo Bill.
Nowadays, visitors to Fort Leavenworth are passed through a security checkpoint and can follow a self-guided tour of the base, a handsome facility of red brick buildings that date back a century but are also are as new as the 21st century.
Immediately after the Civil War, newly freed blacks comprised about a fifth of the U.S. Army, By 1867, Leavenworth was home to one of the regiments of African-American cavalry known as the Buffalo Soldiers. When he was commander of Leavenworth in the early 1990s, Gen. Colin Powell had erected two handsome statues commemorating those units.
Visitors learn that the famed Leavenworth prison now has both military and civilian components. Prohibition-era gangsters such as Machine Gun Kelly were imprisoned here. So was Robert Stroud, a murderer who gained fame because he kept birds in his cell, Thus he was later — but incorrectly — referred to as the Birdman of Alcatraz, where he did serve time.
While the prison buildings are not open to the public, the base does hold the Frontier Army Museum, which traces America’s growth even before there was a United States. Among the artifacts are a1763 French musket, surveyors’ tools from the late 18th century and on to the 20rh century — including a biplane like those used to chase Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in 1916-17.
Among the extraordinary pieces on display: a Medal of Honor awarded in 1875, and a paymaster’s ledger showing that in 1881, the highest paid non-commissioned officers were chief musicians, who earned $228 total for a five-year enlistment.
End Bag, the new book from Bob Jenkins, collects his best stories from 19 years as travel editor. Available now on Amazon.com. View a sample at Smashwords.com. Read more about End Bag here.
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Dagsboro man arrested in Clarksville shooting
John Barnhard, 60, of Dagsboro was arrested last week in connection with a shooting that occurred on March 27 in unincorporated Clarksville.
Around 9:24 p.m., police said, Delaware State Police troopers were dispatched to Irons Lane and Old Mill Road for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, a 16-year-old boy who had sustained an apparent gunshot wound to his upper torso was located near the roadway, police reported.
The 16-year-old victim was transported to Beebe Hospital in serious condition and later transported to A.I. DuPont Hospital, they said.
As of Coastal Point’s Wednesday news deadline, Delaware State Police Public Information Officer MCpl. Melissa Jaffe said there were no additional updates regarding the incident or the status of the victim.
Through their investigation, police said, troopers learned that, prior to the shooting, the victim — whose identity was still being withheld by police due to his age, which is also in line with Coastal Point editorial policy — was reportedly a passenger in a vehicle, along with the driver and three other men.
The four men were traveling eastbound on Old Mill Road from Irons Lane, police said, when the vehicle was allegedly flagged down by a motorist, later identified as Barnhard, who was driving a Ford F-150 pickup truck.
Police said Barnhard proceeded to stop and, once he exited the truck, words were allegedly exchanged and the four men also reportedly exited their vehicle.
Barnhard then, police reported, allegedly proceeded to pull out a handgun and fire a shot, striking the 16-year-old victim in the upper torso, before allegedly fleeing the scene in his vehicle.
Once troopers were able to identify Barnhard, they said, he was found within close proximity to the scene and taken into custody without incident,
Barnhard was charged with Assault First Degree; five counts of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony; Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Person Prohibited; and four counts of Reckless Endanger First Degree.
“Barnhard was prohibited from possessing a firearm or ammunition,” said Jaffe. “He was convicted of a felony or a crime of violence involving physical injury where he was charged with Reckless Endangering 1st Degree.”
After his arrest in the March 27 incident, Barnhard was committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $317,000 secured bond.
Jaffe said the incident remained under investigation mid-week. If anyone has any information regarding the incident, they are being asked to contact Detective Grassi at (302) 365-8441.
Information may also be provided by calling Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333 or via the internet at www.delaware.crimestoppersweb.com.
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Record Sales: 25,000+
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Laura Wright's story began in 2005 when she won BBC Radio 2's Chorister of the Year and found herself a member of classical girl group All Angels shortly after. She achieved great success with the vocal quartet; gaining Classical Brit Award nominations, record breaking sales, platinum status and performing in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the London's O2. After three albums, Wright left the group in 2010 and has since been signed as a solo artist under Decca. Her debut album, The Last Rose, emphasises the fusion of classical and folk music. Her second solo album, Glorious, celebrated the Queen's Jubilee and the single 'Stronger As One' was used as the official Jubilee song and featured on Gary Barlow's number one EP 'Sing'. Vocally (and to put it simply) Wright has an incredible sound. Trained as a choirgirl, Wright is not operatic but is not restrained by the traditional choral inflexibility and her tone is appealing and pure. All Angels fans will be pleased to have her back whilst fans of Hayley Westenra and Jackie Evancho will enjoy getting to know her as a soloist.
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Thames Water ordered to pay record £20 million for river pollution
Thames Water Utilities Ltd sentenced in the largest freshwater pollution case ever taken by the Environment Agency
(Press Release First published:22 March 2017).
Environment Agency officers worked around the clock responding to reports of pollution
Thames Water Utilities Ltd (Thames Water) has today (22 March 2017) been fined an unprecedented £20,361,140.06 in fines and costs for a series of significant pollution incidents on the River Thames. These offences were caused by negligence and led to the death of wildlife and distress to the public
The prosecution saw 6 separate cases – which caused widespread, repeated, sustained and avoidable pollution at a number of sites from 2012 to 2014 – brought together in one hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court. It is the biggest freshwater pollution case in the Environment Agency’s 20 year history.
The court heard how TWUL’s repeated illegal discharges of sewage into the River Thames, and its tributaries, resulted in major environmental damage including visible sewage along 14 kilometres of the river, and the death of birds, fish and invertebrates.
The multiple incidents from the company’s wastewater sites in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire caused significant distress and disruption to the public. Riverside residents, farmers, local businesses, anglers, and recreational river users were all affected. Sailing regattas and other events on the River Thames were also disrupted.
Investigations carried out by Environment Agency officers revealed a catalogue of failures by TWUL management. This involved repeated discharges of untreated or poorly treated raw sewage into rivers, disregarding risks identified by their own staff and failing to react adequately to thousands of high priority alarms used to alert them to the serious problems.
The Court heard how for weeks, untreated sewage, amounting to millions of litres per day, was diverted to the rivers and away from the treatment process, although the incoming sewage flow was well within the designed capacity of the treatment works. In many instances less than half of the incoming sewage was sent for treatment.
It was pointed out to the Court that local residents impacted by the pollution were also customers of TWUL and were paying the company to have their sewage treated to the legally required standards – standards which protect the environment.
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, said:
Water and sewerage companies provide a vital service to the community. Where they experience problems through no fault of their own we will always work with them to resolve them but where negligence causes serious pollution, or a serious threat to the environment, we will seek the strongest possible penalties.
This case sends a clear signal to the industry that safeguarding the environment is not an optional extra, it is an essential part of how all companies must now operate.
His Honour Judge Sheridan, condemned the “disgraceful conduct” of Thames Water Utilities Limited, which he said was “entirely foreseeable and preventable.”
It was “a very dark period in the history of Thames Water” who demonstrated “scant regard for the law, with dreadful results for people who live in the area.”
He congratulated the Environment Agency for their “painstaking and thorough investigation”, and added that he hopes the courts never see the like of such a case again.
When commenting on the level of the fines, His Honour Judge Sheridan, noted this was a record breaking fine for record breaking offending. He asks that the fines must be met by Thames Water, and not be passed onto customers; it was the company, not the customers, who broke the law.
Anne Brosnan, Chief Prosecutor for the Environment Agency said:
Thames Water was completely negligent to the environmental dangers created by the parlous state of its works. Our investigation revealed that we were dealing with a pattern of unprecedented pollution incidents which could have been avoided if Thames Water had been open and frank with the Environment Agency as required by water company industry protocol.
Members of the public are our eyes and ears so if you see any signs of pollution in a watercourse near you please report it to the Environment Agency Incident Hotline on 0800 80 70 60.
The offences caused officers to work around the clock for lengthy periods, responding to reports of pollution, attending to clean up and river recovery and in undertaking very detailed and complex investigations. The ongoing investigation included intelligence gathering, monitoring, interviews and analysis by the Environment Agency and resulted in bringing the company to court to face the consequences.
Fines and costs:
Fines for each charge
Little Marlow: £8,000,000
Aylesbury: £9,000,000
Henley: £1,000,000
Littlemore: £800,000
Didcot: £800,000
Arborfield: £150,000
Costs: £611,140.06
TWUL had already been fined £1million and £380,000 in 2016 for similar problems in 2013 at 2 of their other sewage treatment works at Tring in Hertfordshire and Princess Risborough in Buckinghamshire in earlier cases brought by the Environment Agency.
The Court was informed that TWUL had already been convicted, in individual prosecutions, of pollution offences at six other sites in the same period of time as the six cases before the court – mid 2012 to early 2014.Thames Water have attempted to maintain that these offences are the result of unprecedented wet weather and also the result of the public putting products such as wipes and condoms down the loo. Firstly, the Environment Agency were careful to exclude the periods of wet weather as a cause of the offences charged and, secondly, modern sewage equipment, properly maintained, can and does cope with the contents of foul sewers – as the operation of the same works with properly operating equipment is now demonstrating.
List of charges:
Aylesbury STW polluted the River Thame, a tributary of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, between January 2013 and November 2013. TWUL had previously been prosecuted in 2004 for offences at this STW in 2002. There were 2 distinct and repeated illegal actions at Aylesbury STW which resulted in pollution of the River Thame. One was the by-passing of the treatment process by up to half of the incoming flow of untreated effluent and its discharge, untreated, into the river. The other was the diversion, at the end of the treatment of process, of poorly treated effluent away from the only permitted outfall and sampling point into the river, through a disused and unauthorised land treatment area and thence to the river. Amongst the persons affected were a cattle farmer who lost the value of a prime beef cow due to a human tape worm and a professional crayfish fisherman who suffered losses of £25,000 in 2013 and further losses in the next 3 years.
Little Marlow STW, polluted the River Thames, Thames Path and farmland both directly and via the Spade Oak Brook in Buckinghamshire between November 2012 and December 2013. The most serious pollution incident ever recorded in the River Thames from Little Marlow Sewage Treatment Works (STW) resulted in over 100 complaints from the public about sewage in the water. The water company’s inadequate investment, maintenance and poor management caused months of misery for local communities and visitors and affected the River Thames for over 1km.
Henley Sewage Treatment Works (STW), polluted the River Thames via the Fawley Court Stream in Oxfordshire between May 2013 and June 2014. Pollution from Henley STW caused the death of fish and had a detrimental and long term impact on Temple Island Meadows a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), in particular aquatic invertebrates.
Didcot STW, polluted the Moor Ditch, a River Thames tributary in Oxfordshire, in April 2013. Pollution from Didcot STW was spotted by a cyclist who saw a black cloud of polluted water containing toilet roll, sanitary towels and other solids. Environment Agency officers spotted extensive sewage fungus in the watercourse. TWUL managers were regularly made aware of issues by their own staff including that the storm tanks were ‘black and septic’ and that ‘if storm tanks discharge to stream fish kill imminent.
Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station, polluted the River Thames in Oxfordshire between February 2013 and April 2013.’Pollution from Littlemore Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) created a visible plume of brown raw sewage. The TWUL ‘clean-up’ was not adequate, leaving sewage debris and black colouration to the channel and causing months of misery for local communities.
Arborfield STW, pollution of Barkham Brook, tributary of the River Loddon in Arborfield Berkshire on 29 September 2013 untreated sewage discharged from the storm tanks due to faults with the inlet pump systems and failure to heed alarm and telemetry systems, causing a significant water pollution incident, resulting in the deaths of a significant number of fish in the river, as well as other flora and fauna.
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The 6 Booking Zones. Pete hotel (1) Ticketing (1) travel (2) virtual (1) walt disney world (1) wikipedia (1) This ‘s the best way to consider doing it. History of allegiant Air. 1. allegiant Air was set up in 1997 under the title WestJet Express. [1]Following a trademark dispute with West Jet Air Center of Rapid City, South Dakota, and with the name’s similarity to WestJet Airlines of Calgary, Alberta, the airline adopted the title allegiant Air and received its operating certificate for charter and scheduled national operations in 1998.
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Should you don’t mind the extra cost, the benefit of purchasing early is accessibility to more flight choices and a better chance of securing your desired flight. The airline was not able to earn enough revenue to cover its own costs and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 13, 2000. 2. In More about the author June 2001, Maurice J. Peace of Mind: 4-6 months beforehand. Gallagher, Jr. joined the airline and became President and Chief Executive Officer. This window is lower cost than Dibs. Having previously worked with WestAir and ValuJet Airlines, Gallagher led the airline’s transformation into its current form, moving the base to Las Vegas and focusing on smaller niches that bigger airlines did not function with mainline aircraft. Though you might pay $20 more than discounted fares, you are still going to have a broader selection of flights and seats.
By 2001, they have grown from two destinations to over 50 from vegas, Orlando/Sanford, Florida, and St Petersburg, Florida. 3. On November 20, 2006, allegiant Air announced that it had filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in anticipation of a planned initial public offering of its Common Stock. Prime Booking Window: 3 weeks -4 months beforehand.
It’s listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol "ALGT". Attention bargain shoppers: this is your window. On July 31, 2007, the airline announced plans to start a fourth focus town and operations base at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona, connecting the Phoenix metropolitan area to 13 destinations already served by allegiant and a new destination. This is when you will discover the best fares. The airline began service from the new focus town on October 25, 2007. [5] The airport declared a 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) expansion in August 2008 which will increase the amount of passengers from two to four and allow allegiant to triple the amount of flights from Phoenix. This window, normally, sees fares range within 5 percent of the cheapest cost.
The expansion will be funded by a loan from allegiant which will be paid back by passenger charges. [6] 4. On August 1, 2007, allegiant also announced plans to start their fifth attention town and produce an operations base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, connecting the South Florida area to destinations already served by allegiant. Push Your Luck: 2-3 weeks in advance. The airline began service within this focus town November 14, 2007. You’re getting near, and this is the next best choice after the Prime Booking Window. On January 29, 2008, allegiant opened their sixth base at Washington’s Bellingham International Airport. Watch out as your initial choice for seats might not be accessible.
The airline is basing two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft at Bellingham as a portion of this expansion. [7] Routes served only from Bellingham include Las Vegas, Reno, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco, and Phoenix. 5. Expansion in Bellingham has been largely driven by its proximity to Vancouver, Canada. Playing With Fire: 1-2 weeks beforehand.
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UAE, Indonesia Discuss Further Defense Cooperation
WAM16.12.2019 UAE
Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs, has met with General Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs of Indonesia, to discuss bilateral cooperation and friendship relations between the two countries.
During the meeting, which was held in Jakarta Friday, the two sides exchanged talks on opportunities to further develop cooperation in various fields with the aim of enhancing the partnership between the two countries.
Al Bowardi also reviewed means of bolstering defense cooperation with Prabowo Subianto, Defense Minister of Indonesia, according to Emirates news agency WAM.
During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation relations in the defense field and defense industries between the UAE and the Republic of Indonesia.
The two sides discussed ways to enhance bilateral relations as well as exchanging views on regional and international issues of mutual concern.
Al Bowardi highlighted the importance of developing bilateral cooperation between the two countries and opening new horizons for joint action in various fields, especially the defense field.
The Minister of State for Defense Affairs also opened the UAE’s new Military Attaché office in Jakarta in the presence Abdullah bin Mutlaq Al Ghafli, UAE Ambassador to Indonesia, along with a number senior officers of the armed forces.
Meanwhile, Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the UAE Ministry of Defense, received Thursday the visiting Prime Minister of Mali, Boubou Cisse.
The meeting, which took place at the Ministry’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, entailed discussions on the friendly relations between the two countries and means to further develop cooperation in various fields, especially in the defense and military sectors.
The two sides exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual interest as well as current regional and international developments.
Al Dhaheri welcomed the visit of the Prime Minister of Mali, expressing his hope that the visit would contribute to opening new horizons for cooperation and joint work between the two countries.
The meeting was attended by a number of senior officers and officials at the Defense Ministry, Boukary Sidibe, Malian Ambassador to the UAE, and members of the delegation accompanying the Prime Minister Cisse.
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A Trip to Jacob’s Pillow
Jacbob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012
Skybetter and Associates (July 26)
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company (July 25-29)
Jessica Lang (July 25-29)
There’s a happily revolving door at Jacob’s Pillow every summer, as dancers and dance companies come and go and audiences have the chance to sample from hundreds of performances. The dance festival in Western Massachusetts, has now been running for 80 years, since Ted Shawn freed himself from a vaudevillian past (and a dancer wife, Ruth St. Denis), bought an old farm on a hill in the Berkshire Hills, and founded an all-male dance company. He brought together men recruited at Springfield College PE classes, and dedicated himself to the idea of promoting dance as a virile, athletic activity. His dancers built cabins and dance studios when they weren’t rehearsing, some of which are still in use today. Early on, they began offering performances to well-heeled audiences of New Yorkers and Bostonians, who summered in the cool, verdant hill towns of the area.
In 2012, the Pillow is one of the most active presenters of touring dance companies in the U.S. Every week, a new batch of artists is seen onstage at the barn-like Ted Shawn Theatre, a smaller black box theater, the Doris Duke, and a stunning hillside platform where emerging artists and student dancers offer al fresco performances. More than three hundred performances featuring artists from Australia, China, France, Finland and American companies well-known and soon-to-be-well-known offer a variety show that would have made Ted Shawn very pleased.
The weekend I visited, Bill T. Jones was there with his group, there was a young freelance ballet choreographer, Jessica Lang, offering a first glance at her new company of dancers, and a four-person company from Brooklyn, Skybetter and Associates, was supposed to perform on the Inside/Out stage on Thursday night, July 26. Unfortunately, it rained.
Sydney Skybetter’s group was moved to a small rehearsal studio, where folding chairs were lined-up and the audience limited to the first 50 or so who showed up to claim tickets. Watching his multi-part 2012 piece, “For Want of Sleep,” up close and intimately, may have been a unique opportunity to watch costumes and dancers slowly becoming soaked in sweat, but it robbed the audience of the physical space that might have let the movement breathe and register over a distance. As it was, the piece, presented with a collage of recorded music by Johánn Johánnsson, Arvo Pärt, and Sxip Shire, was a flowy, circling suggestion of intimacies and partnerships that didn’t ever ignite into anything engaging. Kristen Arnold, Kile Hotchkiss, Jordan Isadore and Barbi Powers were attractive performers, technically strong, but never breaking out of the lyrical blandness of Skybetter’s choreography.
Costumes, by Karen Young, changed, from movement to movement, as the men arrived shirtless in one section, then dressed in long black skirts in another. It was as if lights, music and costuming might have been intended to provide more contrast than the movement offered, at least in a theatrical setting. Here, not even outdoors, but crammed into a tiny studio, the circumstances didn’t allow for any of that. There was plenty of subtlety to Skybetter’s efforts, just not dynamism, or much originality for that matter.
Bill T. Jones is touring the world with a new piece, “Story/Time” (2012) intended as homage to John Cage, the composer known most widely for his collaborations with Merce Cunningham, and his use of the principals of chance. According to the program notes, Cage’s 1958 piece, “Indeterminacy” featured no music. Rather, he sat by himself on a small stage, and read an “unbroken stream of one-minute stories.” Thus, Jones was planted center stage at the Ted Shawn Theatre, sitting at a desk lined with green apples, a digital timer flashing behind him, telling stories.
For those who have followed the work of Jones (and Arnie Zane, his original collaborator, who died of AIDS in 1988), the idea that he might dispense with dancing altogether, just as Cage did with music, would not be surprising. “Story/Time,” however, had a lot of dancing. It wasn’t always easy to see, however, because Jones, with his magnificent voice and ever-fluent way with words, offered such a magnetic stage presence that was hard to stop watching him. Multi-tasking was called-for, but not easily accomplished.
Jones followed the Cage/Cunningham principle of chance for this event. Apparently, the order of the show was put together just for this performance—stories and dances were combined in ways that would never be seen again. Composer Ted Coffey, who sat at a digital control panel and “played” various recorded bits of sound, also manipulating Jones’ live feed, added to the sense of a disjointed, but possibly cumulative, power to the work.
Stories ranged from memories of life with Zane (being called faggots when they walked down a street together by a man in a passing car), a conversation with a sushi chef at a Japanese restaurant, taking his grandmother to see the movie, “Titanic” and answering a post-performance question about what possible through-point Jones might have had in a career with such incredible variety (“Doubt, burns like fire,” he answered).
Jones’ fine cast of dancers exemplifies not just the diverse approach he takes to his work, but his philosophy about dance. There are tall and short, black, Asian and white, thin and not-so-lanky dancers. All of them move with a consistently strong sense of physical commitment yet retain their individuality—each has a persona that adds to the stew of humanity that the choreographer is commenting on. Although Jones no longer appears regularly as a dancing soloist, it is clear that his movement approach and vocabulary continue to live, even grow. Janet Wong is listed as co-choreographer, and although she never appears alongside him to take a bow, clearly her movement imagination is helping to keep things fresh.
Meticulous and interesting stagecraft in Jones’ works exemplifies how much he has worked in the worlds of theater and opera, and how far he has moved beyond his beginnings in the grittier world of “downtown” modern dance. Every aspect of the setting is typically striking and effective, with, in this case, a grid-marked floor, sofas and room-dividers which are manipulated depending on the scene, and lighting (by Robert Wierzel) that creates a luminous glow around the players, not a darkness that communicates cynicism or sadness—but the opposite really.
The only downside to all of this beyond the temptation to ignore the dancing in order to take in Jones’ aura all by itself is the danger of chance. At the performance I attended, the final story told was about Jones’ sister Rhodessa, who was attending to her dying father at his hospital bedside. The father said he had to urinate, and the daughter found herself in the uncomfortable situation of holding the old man’s penis with his permission, in order to allow this. It was a quiet and weird way to end an otherwise powerful evening.
Jessica Lang, who appeared with her newly formed company, Jessica Lang Dance, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, a veteran of Twyla Tharp’s company (THARP!) and a prolific freelance ballet choreographer. While professional dancers (especially ballet dancers) rarely take the time out from their short-lived careers to attend college, the Juilliard School is an exception, offering students a degree as well as training in New York City with some of the top teachers and choreographers in the world. A high percentage of the graduates go on to careers in some of the biggest modern and ballet companies in the world.
The Juilliard education features equal attention paid to both ballet technique as well as various styles of contemporary dance. Lang, and many of the dancers in her company, share that background—and the movement they embody has that blend of styles. It’s a look becoming more and more prevalent in ballet companies, where traditional pointe work and tutu’s are being cast aside for edgier explorations by people like John Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, and Nacho Duato—Europeans (or, in the case of Forsythe, an American who has made a career in Germany) all.
Lang describes her choreography as a fusion of contemporary and modern, and one ventures to guess that her success with ballet companies (she has set more than 75 works on companies like the Joffrey Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, ABT II and American Ballet Theatre) has to do with the fact that she is fluent in the language of ballet, and familiar with pointe work. At the Pillow, the one dancer who donned pointe shoes, Maggie Small, was given some of the most interesting choreography of the evening. The bad news is that the rest of the evening fell short of that.
The best new ballet choreographers, like Christopher Wheeldon, have a knack for embodying the essence of the music they explore. Lesser talents, like Lang, get stuck in the trap of merely illustrating music. Back in the early days of modern dance, “music visualization” was a term that described that tendency. These days, ever since Balanchine, basically, it is not enough just to “do” music.
Lang’s pieces were either so short that they didn’t explore the possibilities set up by the use of props or costumes, or the use of props and costumes was something that gave Lang an excuse to fill up phrases of music with empty manipulations—not dance, not steps, not images.
“Lines Cubed,” a world premiere for nine dancers, had sections named after the colors of the costumes the dancers wore, with the yellow section a perky daffodil-colored exercise in sprightly movement for three women, the red section featuring an Asian dancer, the blue section a slow and soulful (blue, get it?) movement, and so forth. The music, by John Metcalfe and Thomas Metcalf, had a “modern” industrial sound to it, a clangy, rhythmic score that Lang filled with sharp kicks, robotic, jutting arms, and, regrettably, long sections of collapsible tubing, like accordion bellows, which the dancers folded, unfolded, hid behind and moved.
“The Calling,” an excerpt from the 2006 piece, “Splendid Isolation II,” featured former Alvin Ailey dancer Clifton Brown in a dress. The striking imagery of the lengths of fabric spreading out around him like a pool of cream had the potential to offer an interesting voyage in movement, yet Lang decided to cut the journey short—the piece was a few minutes of gesture and the visual interest of Brown’s muscular back, facing the audience, but the excerpt ended before there could be any investigation of movement, use of the fabric, or exploration of the space.
“Solo Bach,” (2008) was a happy, virtuosic dance for Shu Kinouchi, who was smiling and seemingly effortless in his quick jumps and turns. It was the sort of light, fluffy piece designed for galas, or summer audiences, where the mood is fueled by champagne or picnics, and the dance is designed to please—not think, not feel.
Perhaps Lang’s programming was not representative of her actual talent as a choreographer, but the pieces on display at Jacob’s Pillow offered some attractive dancers an opportunity to smile and move props around, to pose in lengths of well-lit fabric, and to change their costumes a lot. What was missing was the kind of movement invention and emotional investment one looks for in a serious artist. Lang’s works seem to be pleasant enough, but judging from these dances, she is just another ballet choreographer playing it safe. Champagne gives me a headache.
Michael Wade Simpson Santa Fe ,
Mr. Simpson has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and worked as an advertising writer in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue a different passion: dance. He danced professionally in New York and Boston before founding a community-based modern dance company, Small City Dance Project, in Newburyport, MA. His fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. He was a teaching fellow at Smith College, where he received his MFA in choreography. While living in the Bay Area for 15 years, he wrote about dance for the San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals. In 2005, he was a NEA Fellow at the Dance Critics Institute, American Dance Festival. For culturevulture.net, he reviews dance, theatre and film. He moved to Santa Fe in October, 2008. He writes for "Pasatiempo," the Arts magazine of the "Santa Fe New Mexican."
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2. What's the history of Curve?
Pre-Curve
Dean Garcia's early career during the '80s was spent playing bass for several artists including Mick Jagger, Michael Kamen, Tom Petty and Eurythmics, The Blockheads and Sinead O'Connor. Toni Halliday started her music career singing in various bands (her first was called Incest back in 1978 but her first signed band was The Uncles in 1984). She was discovered by Dave Stewart after he saw her on a local TV programme saying she was a fan of The Tourists (his and Annie Lennox's current band before they split and formed Eurythmics). Through Stewart, Dean and Toni met backstage at a Eurythmics gig in 1983.
They first worked together when they formed State Of Play (along with Julie Fletcher & Olle Romö) in 1985 and signed to Virgin Records. The label invested several million pounds in them but the resulting two singles and album flopped badly and the band split acrimoniously...*
"We were just bunged loads of money, loads of gear... We were chucked into this mega-studio and none of us knew what the f*** was going on really... It was a disaster."
(Dean Garcia : Melody Maker interview, March 1991)
For three years Dean and Toni had no contact (except through solicitors). Dean emigrated to Spain and got married, while Toni released a solo album - Hearts And Handshakes - on Dave Stewart's Anxious label. It also failed to chart and the singles from it fared little better...
* "Metropolis" (a b-side of all things!) is the only State Of Play track that Curve still regard as worth listening to these days...
Curve : phase #1
Dean returned to the UK in 1989 and he and Toni sorted out their differences... The following year they formed Curve and signed to the Anxious label. Their first release - the Blindfold EP (which cost just £300 to record) - was a surprising success. Promoted with just a white label 12" and an anonymous photo of the band, it became a Melody Maker Single Of The Week in February 1991 (even though it wasn't due to be released for another six weeks!) Curve rapidly became The Next Big Thing - appearing on the cover of pretty much every music magazine in the UK. The follow up EP's Frozen and Cherry were huge indie hits (and also reached the Top 40) and their live shows were sellouts... As is typical in the UK though, the backlash started quickly. Toni and Dean's failed 'pop' past was continually referred to and they were accused of being contrived, manufactured and of cashing in on the current "shoegazing" scene. In 1992 their debut album Doppelgänger was released and received mixed reviews - mostly criticising that it sounded too similar to the three EP's released over the previous year...
"...so should they have done a couple of reggae numbers, or what?"
(Robin Gibson : Volume, May 1992)
To promote the album (and the singles taken from it - Faît Accompli & Horror Head) they toured the world. Afterwards, they returned to the UK and commenced work on their second, more experimental album Cuckoo. In Autumn 1993 the two-part BlackerThreeTracker single was released in the UK and was another hit - a month later the album followed. Once again, the band toured to promote it but during this time, Toni and Dean became increasingly disillusioned with the music business. Shortly after the tour, they split the band and disappeared as quickly as they'd arrived three years earlier...
"We weren't happy with the way everything was going. It had stopped being fun and we couldn't do what we wanted any more. We just wanted to jump off that treadmill."
(Toni Halliday : New Musical Express interview, August 1996)
'Post' Curve
While Dean spent time with his family and experimented in his home studio writing soundtracks, Toni worked with The Future Sound Of London, Freaky Chakra and also scored a UK Top 40 hit with Original - her collaboration with Leftfield. She also formed an all-girl band called Scylla though not much is known about them except that they recorded a few tracks but only one - Helen's Face - was ever released.
Toni and Dean made a low-key return as Curve in 1996. Forming their own record label - Fatlip - they released the Pink Girl With The Blues single. Many cynics believed that they'd returned to cash in on Garbage's recent success - an ironic claim considering that Garbage could easily be accused of the same thing, as their musical style could be interpreted as a more polished, radio-friendly version of Curve's old sound...
"Good luck to them. I can see our influence. I'm actually quite
chuffed - I know Butch Vig. He's a big Curve fan - he wanted to
produce our third album. I'm not bitter. If we helped to open
doors then that's good."
(Toni Halliday : Select interview, August 1996)
Curve later signed to Universal / Estupendo and in Winter 1997 released the Chinese Burn single - the track was also used on an advert to promote the new Sony MiniDisc format. Around the same time they returned to the live scene and were rapturously received by the press and fans alike.
"...Curve have established that they can still play the old songs with frightening intensity, that they can still make noises like coughing seagulls actually sound melodic, and that their new songs boast the grinding beats, morose basslines and atmospheric whooshings that made them so good years ago..."
(April Long : New Musical Express, November 1997)
A few months later in 1998, their third album Come Clean was released after several delays... It proved popular overseas but the UK press were as cynical as ever...
"...a band unique in the world of hi-tech, low-calorie goth music for never having chanced upon a tune... they split up a few years ago in the face of universal indifference - while still releasing identically-flawed records."
(James Oldham : New Musical Express, May 1998)
Once again they toured the world to promote the album while another single Coming Up Roses was also released in the UK (though it failed to dent the charts). Afterwards, they vanished again leaving their official website untouched and many fans fearing the band had split again just as before... Dean released an internet-only CD under his Headcase alias in 1999. Finally, in mid-2000, Curve re-surfaced with a brand new official website (created by Dean himself) plus an update from Toni...
"Keep it together everyone, Dean is working as fast as his little hands will allow, yes some things are still not right but the main objective of this site is going to be to get music to our fans as quickly as possible... Dean and I are in long drawn out negotiations with the record label but we fully expect a release later this year of our new album "GIFT" . Until then we are quite happy to update this site and offer "you" free music that we love in the hope that you will too..."
The site featured the first of many exclusive MP3 tracks to be regularly released online plus a message forum where Toni and Dean responded to fan questions. In January 2001 another announcement was made...
"Finally we have some news regarding our recording commitment with Estupendo Records. As of this week we have been formally released from our contract without the last record we recorded for them being released. So sorry to all the fans out there that have been waiting for "Gift" but it seems unlikely that this record will ever see the light of day since they technically own the recordings and have no intention of allowing us to use them. Unfortunately the music business has changed to such a degree that it no longer feels the need to support bands like us, leaving you the consumer with limited access to the wealth of music that is made...
As for the future of Curve..... that will depend on you and how willing or receptive you would be to buying music directly from us via our site. At the moment we are getting between 15-17 thousand hits per day or around 500 thousand hits a month. If just 5% of those people bought our records it would allow Dean and I to make the next record. Both of us have worked hard at making our music available to you through this portal for free. If you would like Curve to continue ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
On a lighter note... We're Free... We're Free... We're Free... Hip Hip Hooray."
2001 was Curves' most prolific in years, though the year actually started with Dean releasing a second Headcase album - Crosseyedrabbit. On the Curve site, four tracks from Gift were tantalisingly released as MP3's, while a new CD - Open Day At The Hate Fest (a collection of the previous online tracks plus 3 new songs) - was released exclusively through the site. The biggest event of the year though was Gift finally being released in September - but in the US only.
In 2002, with their new found freedom, Toni and Dean recorded an entirely new album - The New Adventures Of Curve - and released it though the site... Also, Gift was finally released in the UK and Australia along with two singles - Perish in the UK and Want More Need Less in Australia. The band then rounded off the year with a remix of Gary Numan's "Down In The Park" which was released on his 25th anniversary album...
The Way Of Curve
In June 2003 a message was posted on the official site:
"We've been working on our own and more recently with Flood. The tracks are sounding good so we want to do more. Alan is mixing 4 new tracks to be cut in a few days time. QuickTime clips of todays recording are posted here and here of Alan playing some guitar and mixing one of the new songs...In Disguise. We hope to be able to post more footage as we've recently got a cool digicam...so you never know we may actually crop up here and there, better get the smoke and strobes out. Hope you like the clips and thanks for the continued support. love and all that."
Dean Toni Alan Turkey and Flood
The band were hoping for a September release of the new material but, apart from an MP3 of Some Good Some Bad nothing else materialised...
In July, the release of a compilation CD was announced and Curve asked their fans to choose tracks which they felt should be included. In October, the discovery of some old stock at the Church Studios finally allowed a few lucky fans to get hold of the Superblaster CD...
The Way Of Curve was released in May 2004. It featured re-mastered versions of material covering the whole of Curve's career and also included the new track In Disguise.
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
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Volume 73 - Issue 3 - August 2014
Plenary Session 3: Fatty acids and health and disease
Conference on ‘Transforming the nutrition landscape in Africa’
Dietary PUFA and cancer
S. Abel, S. Riedel, W. C. A. Gelderblom
The aim of the present paper is to give a brief overview on the role of dietary fat in carcinogenesis and as possible anticancer agents. Dietary fat is an essential nutrient and important source for the essential fatty acids (FA), linoleic and α-linolenic acids, which contribute to proper growth and development. However, dietary fat has been associated with the development of colorectal, breast, prostate, endometrial and ovarian cancers, with the type and quality of fat playing an underlying role. Tumour growth is the disruption of the homoeostatic balance regulating cell differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis and is associated with altered lipid metabolism. Animal cancer models and human cancer biopsy tissue demonstrate that a characteristic lipid profile is associated with the growth and development of neoplastic lesions. This entails alterations in membrane cholesterol, phospholipid and PUFA metabolism. Particularly, alterations in cell membrane FA metabolism involving the n-6 and n-3 PUFA, are associated with changes in membrane structure, function, cellular oxidative status, activity of enzymes and signalling pathways. These events are a driving force in sustaining the altered growth of cancerous lesions and provide unique targets for intervention/cancer modulation. Challenges in utilising FA in cancer modulation exist regarding intake and effect on cell structure and biochemical interactions within the cell in the prevention of cancer development. Therefore, utilising dietary PUFA in a specific n-6:n-3 ratio may be an important chemopreventive tool in altering the growth characteristics of cancer cells.
Symposium 1: Global challenges related to sustainable diet
Conference on ‘Sustainable diet and food security’
Seasonality and dietary requirements: will eating seasonal food contribute to health and environmental sustainability?
Jennie I. Macdiarmid
Eating more seasonal food is one proposal for moving towards more sustainable consumption patterns, based on the assumption that it could reduce the environmental impact of the diet. The aim of the present paper is to consider the implications of eating seasonal food on the different elements of sustainability (i.e. health, economics, society), not just the environment. Seasonality can be defined as either globally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season but consumed anywhere in the world) or locally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season and consumed within the same climatic zone). The environmental, health, economic and societal impact varies by the definition used. Global seasonality has the nutritional benefit of providing a more varied and consistent supply of fresh produce year round, but this increases demand for foods that in turn can have a high environmental cost in the country of production (e.g. water stress, land use change with loss of biodiversity). Greenhouse gas emissions of globally seasonal food are not necessarily higher than food produced locally as it depends more on the production system used than transportation. Eating more seasonal food, however, is only one element of a sustainable diet and should not overshadow some of the potentially more difficult dietary behaviours to change that could have greater environmental and health benefits (e.g. reducing overconsumption or meat consumption). For future guidelines for sustainable diets to be realistic they will need to take into account modern lifestyles, cultural and social expectations in the current food environment.
Symposium 4: Food for the future
Opportunities to enhance alternative sources of long-chain n-3 fatty acids within the diet
Jacques Delarue, Nathalie Guriec
Health benefits or advocated health benefits of long-chain (LC) n-3 PUFA are better known by medical doctors as well as by consumers, so that consumption increases. In addition, the development of aquaculture requires more fishmeal and fish oil. Humanisation of care of companion animals is also associated with addition of LC n-3 PUFA in pet foods. The risk of the increased demand for LC n-3 PUFA is the excess harvesting of natural sources, especially of marine origin (oily fishes, krill). In order to improve sustainability, alternative sources of LC n-3 PUFA have been developed. These alternative sources are: (a) terrestrial plants naturally or genetically enriched in stearidonic acid (SDA), which bypasses the first limiting step of (i.e. ∆6 desaturase) of the biosynthesis of LC n-3 PUFA; (b) single-cell oils rich in LC n-3 PUFA (microalgae, Escherichia coli) and krill. Currently, plants rich in SDA are expensive, metabolic engineering is unfavourably accepted by consumers in many countries, cultivation of microalgae is very expensive even though their ability (for some of them) to synthesise biofuels could induce a decrease in industrial costs, and Antarctic krill harvest must be restricted. Thus, it is difficult to predict their real development in the future.
Symposium 5: Cultural diversity of sustainable diets
Nutrition transition and food sustainability
Rekia Belahsen
The aim of the present paper is to review nutrition transition (NT) ongoing in low and middle income countries and the associated dietary changes. NT is accompanied by demographic and epidemiological transition associated with economic development and urbanisation. In these countries, while the problems of hunger and undernourishment persist, there is an escalation of diet-related non-communicable diseases; making them face both problems of malnutrition, under and overnutrition. Indeed, in addition to protein energy malnutrition underweight and micronutrient deficiencies affect a high proportion of children and women. Conversely, changes in dietary habits and physical activity patterns have led to emergence of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, hyperlipidaemia, CHD and cancer. One possible explanation of weight gain and its associated health consequences is the trend of the consumption of already prepared meals and the restaurants that are in continuous development leading to high consumption of foods rich in sugar and fat. The health problems associated with NT have not spared populations in the Mediterranean area where the type of diet is reported to be healthy and to protect against cardiovascular risks. This is seen in North Africa that belongs also to the Mediterranean basin, where the nutritional situation raises the problem of traditional foods sustainability. Accurate nutritional policy and education are needed to redress the effects of malnutrition related to NT on health.
Symposium 3: Effects of early nutrition on later health
Conference on ‘Childhood nutrition and obesity: current status and future challenges’
Childhood obesity: the impact on long-term risk of metabolic and CVD is not necessarily inevitable
Sarah McMullen
The worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity in the adult population is estimated to be 35 %. These trends are reflected in childhood obesity prevalence, and the potential impact of early-onset obesity is of great concern. The aim of this review was to investigate the long-term implications of childhood obesity for metabolic and cardiovascular health, focusing on the independent contribution of childhood obesity to adult disease risk, as distinct from associations mediated by tracking of obesity across the lifespan. The data systematically reviewed provide little evidence to suggest that childhood overweight and obesity are independent risk factors for metabolic and cardiovascular risk during adulthood. Instead, the data demonstrate that the relationships observed are dependent on tracking of BMI between childhood and adulthood, alongside persistence of dietary patterns and physical activity. Adjustment for adult BMI uncovers unexpected negative associations between childhood BMI and adult disease, suggesting a protective effect of childhood obesity at any given level of adult BMI. Further work is required to explain these findings, both in terms of pathways and statistical artefacts. To conclude, it must be stressed that it is not suggested that childhood obesity is without negative consequence. Childhood obesity is clearly associated with a range of adverse physical and psychological outcomes. However, the data are important in supporting a positive message that the long-term consequences of childhood obesity are avoidable; and that there remains opportunity for intervention across the lifespan. This nuance in understanding long-term risk is important when considering the effectiveness of interventions at different stages of the lifespan.
Symposium 4: Strategies for reducing childhood obesity
Influencing and modifying children's energy intake: the role of portion size and energy density
L. Kirsty Pourshahidi, Maeve A. Kerr, Tracy A. McCaffrey, M. Barbara E. Livingstone
Childhood obesity is of concern worldwide. The portion size (PS) and energy density (ED) of food are two major determinants of children's energy intake (EI). Trends towards increasing PS are most apparent and best documented in the USA, where PS of numerous food products have increased in the marketplace over the past three decades, particularly high-energy dense foods. Analyses of population-level dietary surveys have confirmed this trend in children for both in- and out-of-home eating, and a plethora of observational evidence positively associates PS, ED and adiposity in children. A limited number of intervention studies provide clear evidence that children, even as young as 2 years, respond acutely to increasing PS, with some studies also demonstrating the additive effects of increased ED in promoting excessive EI. However, most of the evidence is based on children aged 3–6 years and there is a paucity of data in older children and adolescents. It is unclear whether decreasing PS can have the opposite effect on children's EI but recent acute studies have demonstrated that the incorporation of lower energy dense foods, such as fruit and vegetables, into children's meals down-regulates EI. Although a direct causal link between PS and obesity remains to be established, the regular consumption of larger PS of energy dense foods do favour obesity-promoting eating behaviours in children. Further research is required to establish the most feasible and effective interventions and policies to counteract the deleterious impact of PS and ED on children's EI.
Plenary Lecture I: The John Waterlow Lecture
Conference on ‘Nutrition and healthy ageing’
When longevity meets vitality
Rudi G. J. Westendorp, Frank H. Schalkwijk
Alarmed by the sustainability of our health and social security systems, longevity has become a great societal challenge. In line with evolutionary logic we see a continuous increase of average life expectancy and maximal lifespan. Striving for a healthy old age, however, is an infelicitous expression as for human subjects the ageing process cannot be ultimately postponed. Not disregarding the huge variation in health trajectories, in old age we will all suffer from frailty and infirmity. As yet efforts of the biomedical arena are almost exclusively focused on stalling the ageing process and preventing dysfunction. Too little effort is spend on how to inspire and coach the great majority of people who still feel relatively well notwithstanding the presence of multiple age-related disorders. There is a strong rationale to separate the quest to live in good health for longer from actively and effectively negotiating the challenge of functional decline in old age. In particular, we emphasise a focus on adjusting the environment in order to correct the gene–environment mismatch that contributes to ill health. An additional strategy is to empower people to set ambitions and to realise appropriate goals, in spite of infirmity. Striving for vitality presents a striking opportunity to achieve subjective feelings of life satisfaction when ageing.
Symposium 1: Biology of ageing
DNA methylation, ageing and the influence of early life nutrition
Karen A. Lillycrop, Samuel P. Hoile, Leonie Grenfell, Graham C. Burdge
It is well established that genotype plays an important role in the ageing process. However, recent studies have suggested that epigenetic mechanisms may also influence the onset of ageing-associated diseases and longevity. Epigenetics is defined as processes that induce heritable changes in gene expression without a change in the DNA nucleotide sequence. The major epigenetic mechanisms are DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNA. Such processes are involved in the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression, cell differentiation and genomic imprinting. However, epigenetic dysregulation is frequently seen with ageing. Relatively little is known about the factors that initiate such changes. However, there is emerging evidence that the early life environment, in particular nutrition, in early life can induce long-term changes in DNA methylation resulting in an altered susceptibility to a range of ageing-associated diseases. In this review, we will focus on the changes in DNA methylation that occur during ageing; their role in the ageing process and how early life nutrition can modulate DNA methylation and influence longevity. Understanding the mechanisms by which diet in early life can influence the epigenome will be crucial for the development of preventative and intervention strategies to increase well-being in later life.
Biomarkers of healthy ageing: expectations and validation
Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Thomas von Zglinicki
The challenge of devising a set of biomarkers capable of measuring the ageing rate in human subjects was articulated long ago. In recent years, progress in the basic biology of ageing suggests the realistic possibility of preventive or restaurative interventions that may extend healthy lifespan in mammals including human subjects. Specifically, frailty is being increasingly recognised as a clinically relevant syndrome that may be therapeutically addressed. This greatly enhances the need for sensitive and specific biomarkers of healthy ageing that are validated in both experimental animals and, importantly, in human subjects over the whole age range. Here, we will discuss the present challenges and requirements for biomarker validation in human subjects. We propose the central requirements for a validated biomarker of healthy ageing as: (i) better predictive power than chronological age for multiple dimensions of ageing; (ii) identification of the age range in which the marker is informative; (iii) establishment of sensitivity/specificity as indicators of its predictive power at the level of the individual; (iv) minimisation of methodological variation between laboratories.
The 2013 Summer Meeting Postgraduate Winners
Oxidative stress, protein glycation and nutrition – interactions relevant to health and disease throughout the lifecycle
Antonis Vlassopoulos, Michael E. J. Lean, Emilie Combet
Protein glycation has been studied for over a century now and plays an important role in disease pathogenesis throughout the lifecycle. Strongly related to diabetic complications, glycation of Hb has become the gold standard method for diabetes diagnosis and monitoring. It is however attracting attention in normoglycaemia as well lately. Longitudinal studies increasingly suggest a positive relationship between glycation and the risk of chronic diseases in normoglycaemic individuals, but the mechanisms behind this association remain unclear. The interaction between glycation and oxidative stress may be particularly relevant in the normoglycaemic context, as suggested by recent epidemiological and in vitro evidence. In that context nutritional and lifestyle factors with an influence on redox status, such as smoking, fruit and vegetable and antioxidants consumption, may have the capacity to promote or inhibit glycation. However, experimental data from controlled trials are lacking the quality and rigour needed to reach firm conclusions. In the present review, we discuss the importance of glycation for health through the lifecycle and focus on the importance of oxidative stress as a driver for glycation. The importance of nutrition to modulate glycation is discussed, based on the evidence available and recommendations towards higher quality future research are made.
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Cyhi heads to West Chester University to open up for Wiz Khalifa’s Green Carpet Tour. He previews his verse for the remix of YC’s club anthem “Racks On Racks” and speaks about being boo’ed during a show in NYC. Shot and edited by Decatur Dan. Royal Flush Mixtape 2 coming soon!
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Captain Marvel official, plus What We Left Behind documentary, Alita, Wong Kar-wai news, and more
All right, today’s update is a bit of a catch-all, but I assure you that we’ve got a little something for everyone this afternoon...
First, I’ve posted my in-depth review of Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down in 4K Ultra HD. It’s available now from Sony and I have to say, I think it’s one of the most significant picture and sound upgrades yet on this format, especially when you consider that the existing Blu-ray was an early title on the format and that the Extended Cut has only been released on DVD previously. The set even carries over most of the previous Deluxe Edition DVD extras. Best of all, it’s only $20 on Amazon right now. Definitely check it out – it’s a must have UHD title.
Now then, the big news today is that Disney and Marvel have just officially announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s Captain Marvel. Look for the discs to be released on 6/11, just as we’ve been expecting for a while now, with the Digital release due on 5/28. You can see the official 4K artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Captain Marvel 4K
Captain Marvel 3D
What We Left Behind documentary
Alita: Battle Angel 4K
Wong Kar Wai
Black Hawk Down 4K review
Toy Story 4K
From the Earth to the Moon BD
Sacrifice of Angels
Bill McClelland Rest in Peace
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Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Smart Grid / Energy Efficiency
Thermoelectrics
Advanced Photovoltaics
Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors
Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium
Schumer Seeks Pentagon Work For STC Center In Canandaigua
By: Tom Tobin, Staff Writer
Source: Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Sen. Charles Schumer has made a pitch to the Department of Defense to direct some its high-tech and state-of-the-art optics funding to upstate New York and the micro-processing facility in Canandaigua.
The STC Center in Canandaigua, formerly the Infotonics Center, is a manufacturing facility for nano-sized, or ultra-small, devices used in sensors and other military equipment. The STC Center is a partner with SUNY Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The U.S. Navy has a major program in the works to upgrade its military hardware. American companies and politicians are lobbying for a share of the lucrative military contracts.
In a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Albany-based College of Nanoscale Science and Technology has developed a network of research and development units, including the Canandaigua center, that fits the military’s needs.
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Fifth Caspian Summit
Vladimir Putin attended the Fifth Caspian Summit in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The summit participants have considered key issues of cooperation in various spheres and discussed the implementation of the decisions taken at the previous meetings of the 'Caspian five.'
The heads of state have adopted the Convention On the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea and signed a number of intergovernmental documents.
Protocols have been signed on fighting terrorism and combating organised crime as they pertain to the Agreement on Security Cooperation in the Caspian Sea of November 18, 2010, as well as the Protocol on Cooperation and Interaction of Border Services to the Agreement.
In addition, agreements have been signed between the governments of the Caspian states on trade and economic cooperation, cooperation in transport, as well as the Agreement on Prevention of Incidents in the Caspian Sea. The Communique of the Fifth Caspian Summit has been adopted.
The presidents of participating countries also made press statements.
Speech at the Fifth Caspian Summit
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Nazarbayev, colleagues, friends,
I agree with those colleagues who have spoken before me: this summit is indeed extraordinary, if not historic.
Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
The Convention On the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, a document that we have been negotiating for over 20 years, at last formalises our exclusive rights and the responsibility each of us carries to protect the future of the Caspian Sea, and it establishes clear guidelines for its collective use.
I want to thank everybody involved in this major project, heads of state, negotiators and experts alike.
Based on consensus and consideration for our mutual interests, we have produced a modern and balanced international agreement. The convention will replace the Soviet-Iranian agreements of 1921 and 1940.
It is important that the Convention regulates the issues of necessary delimitations, regimes of navigation and fishing, establishes the principles of political and military interaction of member states, and ensures the use of the Caspian Sea solely for peaceful purposes and the non-presence of the armed forces of non-regional states in the sea.
Regulating the legal status of the Caspian Sea creates the necessary conditions for taking the level of cooperation between the countries to a brand new level and will serve to develop closer interaction in various areas. The six specialised agreements in the economic, transport and security areas that were signed today, among others, will provide the necessary legal foundation for this. It is Russia’s aim to work jointly with all Caspian states on the implementation of these agreements.
In particular, the agreement on economic cooperation in the Caspian region will serve as basis for paying priority attention to boosting regional, trade and economic ties, as well as enhancing close and mutually beneficial cooperation.
Statement by Vladimir Putin following the Fifth Caspian Summit
I should note that the volume of trade between Russia and the Caspian states constantly grows. In 2017, foreign trade increased by over 20 percent and amounted to $22 billion, while in January and February this year it grew by over 10 percent.
The decisions being adopted on establishing the Caspian economic forum will allow us to reinforce contacts between our countries' business communities.
Russia suggests that the 'Caspian five' states focus on cooperation in the digital economy, actively introducing information and communication technologies and e-commerce, and engaging in the digitisation of foreign trade operations, cargo transportation and logistics.
We expect that the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in transport in the Caspian region will serve to develop a common integrated infrastructure. Transport interconnection is one of the key factors for securing sustainable growth and strengthening our countries' cooperation.
In this regard, I would like to inform you that Russia has adopted and is currently implementing the Strategy for the Development of Marine Ports in the Caspian Sea until 2030. It defines the prospects for comprehensive modernisation of the Caspian sea communications and related railway and motor transport infrastructure.
In particular, there are plans to construct a new deep-water port near Kaspiysk that will receive large-capacity ships with actual loads of 15,000–25,000 tons.
We are taking strides to integrate Russia’s port capabilities into global and Eurasian transport and logistic networks, increase the competitiveness of cargo and passenger transportations, and multiply the volumes of processed cargo.
We support the project of the International North–South Transport Corridor, which provides for rail, ferry and automobile services, which we intend to develop.
Its launch will allow for a 2.5-fold increase in the speed of transporting cargo, which will amount to 25 million tonnes delivered annually via Iran from European countries to the Middle East and South Asia.
The development of a five-party agreement on cooperation in marine transport could go a long way in developing international transportation and providing equal unified conditions for transit across the Caspian Sea. Experts from the five countries can now more closely engage in drafting such an agreement.
I should note that tourism is a promising area of cooperation as well. According to available estimates, Caspian Sea resorts could receive over one million vacationers annually. Yet, this requires a modern tourism infrastructure.
Russia is building the cruise ship Pyotr Veliky (preliminary commissioning deadline is 2019), which, once built, can be used for circuit cruises in the Caspian Sea, stopping in all five Caspian states, and also carry out cruises in the Caspian and Black seas as well as in the Sea of Azov.
We also plan to boost the development of tourist clusters in coastal areas, building new hotels and recreation centres. The relevant authorities of the five countries should draw up a programme for such joint projects in tourism.
We deem it equally important for the Caspian states to interact in preserving the environment and biological resources. The five states already are successfully implementing a number of beneficial agreements, such as the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, Agreement on the Rational Use of the Biological Resources of the Caspian Sea, and the Protocol on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
These documents provide for strict environmental control over infrastructure projects that may create potential risks for the Caspian Sea.
Last year, a specialised intergovernmental commission of the 'Caspian five' adopted an important decision on extending a ban on commercial fishing of sturgeon. Russia welcomes the temporary ban on fishing for this valuable species and is ready to support a longer moratorium. It is advisable to quickly complete work on documents that will regulate our joint fight against poaching.
Colleagues, we are well aware of the responsibility of the Caspian states to provide security in the region. There are spots of instability in close proximity to the Caspian Sea, such as the Middle East and Afghanistan, and therefore our core interests and even life itself require that we cooperate closely.
It is important for the 'Caspian five' states to further boost consistent interaction in fighting terrorism and organised crime and to expand the joint efforts of our special services and border agencies. Corresponding protocols to the agreement on cooperation in security of 2010, to be signed today, are aimed at this.
Russia fully supports these decisions and is ready to actively engage in their implementation. In the future, we should also think about developing a separate document on cooperation to stop drug trafficking in the Caspian region.
We deem it important to develop partner relations in the area of our naval forces, in particular, to implement regular reciprocal visits of our ships, expand the mutual participation of ship crews in various events, such as the Sea Cup international competition as part of the International Army Games in the Caspian region.
The intergovernmental agreement on prevention of incidents in the Caspian Sea is very important, as it will considerably strengthen the system of confidence-building measures in the region.
Regular consultations as regards our countries' navies and regular meetings of our naval commanders could serve as an efficient mechanism of cooperation in this field.
And of course, joint efforts should be continued under the agreement on cooperation in emergency prevention and response.
Our rescue services hold joint exercises, and act out special scenarios of incidents and possible disasters to rehearse joint actions. This practice must undoubtedly be continued.
In conclusion, I would like to thank Mr Nazarbayev for the major efforts Kazakhstan has made to prepare this important meeting.
Thank you for attention.
Publication date: August 12, 2018, 13:45
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On September 15, 2018, the world celebrated Cleanup Day. In Russia, many cities hosted Clean Games, an event that combines cleaning and recycling efforts in a game format. MSUBS Bachelor students traditionally participate in Clean Games in September, and the games that took place in Zhulebino Park this time were no exception: 13 out of 40 participating teams were made up of MSUBS students.
The game was opened by its traditional sponsors, Gazpromneft Oil Refining Factory and Hometowns, a Gazprom social investment programme. The teams did an impressive job, gathering about 3 tons of recyclable waste within the three hours of the game. Moreover, all trash was sorted to be recycled later on. The competition at times yielded surprising results: among the unusual finds was a purse with a passport and a Rosneft Staff ID. The find was passed into the game headquarters and, with the help of local police, the owner was located before the game was over.
The competition was tough and we are proud of the two MSUBS teams that took the first two places. The main outcome of the game, however, is in the fact that after such major cleanup efforts none of the participants would ever be careless with their own trash and will watch out for others as well.
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McDonald Controversies
There have been a number of public controversies concerning the ways in which some historians and museums have portrayed the life and work of refugee advocate James G. McDonald.
McDonald kept extensive personal diaries in the early and mid-1930s, portions of which have long been housed, along with his correspondence and other documents, at Columbia University. In 2003, previously unknown portions of the diaries were discovered by a family friend, and were donated by the McDonald family to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The Museum’s leaders hailed the diaries as a “landmark acquisition.” They held programs about McDonald, published brochures, and printed a James G. McDonald Calendar, with each month featuring a different photo accompanied by a quotation from McDonald.
FDR’S “WARNING MESSAGE”
In early 2004, the Holocaust Museum announced plans to publish the complete diaries, and provided advance excerpts to the New York Times.
In a prominent news article on April 22, 2004, the Times quoted senior USHMM historians Richard Breitman and Severin Hochberg as claiming that the diaries showed President Franklin D. Roosevelt was “very concerned” about the persecution of German Jews “early on.” In particular, they cited a diary entry dated May 1, 1933.
According to the Times, that entry described how McDonald, having just returned from Nazi Germany, told the president about the plight of the Jews. FDR “seemed deeply concerned and said he wanted to find a way to send a warning message to the German people over the head of Hitler,” the article asserted.
Prof. Hochberg was then quoted as saying that “this picture is very different from the claim that [President Roosevelt] was indifferent to the fate of the Jews.” Likewise, Prof. Breitman later wrote, “In this diary Roosevelt is not the indifferent figure depicted in some of the scholarly literature about America and the Holocaust.”
An excerpt from that May 1 entry about FDR’s “warning message to Hitler” was also used as one of the featured monthly quotations in the museum’s McDonald calendar.
The full text of the May 1, 1933 entry was not accessible by the public at that time, because the diaries were closed to all but USHMM staff members from 2004 to 2017.
In 2007, the first volume of the diaries, Advocate for the Doomed, was published. It covered the years 1933-1935. The May 1, 1933 entry turned out to be different than it had been previously represented. McDonald wrote there that what “deeply interested” President Roosevelt was Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht, not the plight of the Jews. FDR wanted to know from McDonald “what sort of a person [Schacht] was.” The entry, which occupied almost three full pages in the published volume, did not mention German Jews.
In addition, the “warning message” to which Roosevelt referred was not related to German’s Jews. It concerned the military situation in Europe and two upcoming conferences on disarmament and the world economic order. On May 16, 1933, FDR sent identical telegrams to the 54 countries represented at the disarmament and economic conferences, outlining America’s hopes for peace and progress.
Prof. Breitman later reversed his position on the matter. In his 2013 book, FDR and the Jews, Breitman wrote that the May 1 diary entry showed that McDonald “inferred correctly that, despite Roosevelt’s concern, the Administration would not publicly reprimand Germany and jeopardize international economic negotiations and disarmament efforts.” He did not explain why his view of the episode had changed.
EVIDENCE DISPUTED
In 2009, the USHMM and Indiana University Press published the second volume of the McDonald diaries, Refugees and Rescue, covering the years 1935-1945. The Museum’s press release announcing its publication was headlined “New Evidence Challenges Widely Held Opinions About FDR’s Views on the Rescue of European Jews Prior to the Holocaust.” In their introduction, conclusion, and footnotes, Breitman and Hochberg argued that information in the diaries demonstrated that President Roosevelt did his best to aid German Jewish refugees.
In response, the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies published a report titled Not New, Not Evidence: An Analysis of the Claim that Refugees and Rescue Contains New Evidence of FDR’s Concern for Europe’s Jews. It argued that Breitman and Hochberg had exaggerated the significance of a private statement by FDR about helping refugees, and that they erroneously claimed to have discovered information about Roosevelt’s interest in 1930s resettlement schemes that was actually first published by Prof. Henry Feingold.
Feingold, who wrote extensively on the resettlement schemes in his book The Politics of Rescue in 1970, issued a statement that “when it came to projects that actually had some practical potential, [Roosevelt] was unwilling to cross swords with restrictionists…The Jewish issue was peripheral to him. FDR was unwilling to confront powerful restrictionists and isolationists, and take the political risks involved.”
The Wyman Institute subsequently issued a second report, titled James G. McDonald, FDR, and the Holocaust, 1943-1944. Based on documents located in the McDonald Papers at Columbia, the report found that in eight articles and addresses in 1943-1944, McDonald strongly criticized the Roosevelt administration’s positions with regard to the plight of European Jewry.
FILM AND EXHIBIT
In 2010, McDonald’s daughter, the historian Dr. Barbara McDonald Stewart, authorized Shuli Eshel, an Israeli-American filmmaker, to produce a film based on her father’s diaries. Members of the McDonald family provided nearly all the funding for the film and approved the script. In early 2014, Eshel completed the 54-minute documentary, A Voice Among the Silent: The Legacy of James G. McDonald. It included interviews with four USHMM historians, who appeared on screen 21 times, and three Wyman Institute scholars, who appeared a total of 10 times.
Dr. Stewart provided USHMM officials with an advance copy of the film and asked that the Museum host its premiere. The officials objected to the fact that Eshel had included brief interviews with historians who were critical of President Roosevelt. As a result, the Museum declined to host screenings of the film. It premiered on Capitol Hill on Holocaust Memorial Day in April 2014, under the auspices of the Wyman Institute, with the McDonald family and members of Congress in attendance.
In a letter to Dr. Stewart on March 24, 2014, USHMM director Sara Bloomfield wrote that even though the Museum would not host the film, it “will feature [McDonald] in our upcoming exhibition on Americans and the Holocaust.”
The 5,000-square foot exhibit, titled Americans and the Holocaust, opened in April 2018. It did not include any mention of McDonald. Eshel, together with a number of scholars who have written about McDonald, sent a letter of protest. Bloomfield and the exhibit’s chief curator, Daniel Greene, replied that there was not enough room in the exhibit to mention McDonald. In January 2019, twenty-nine Holocaust historians signed a petition to the USHMM, organized by the Wyman Institute, protesting the museum’s decision to omit McDonald from the exhibit.
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New rugby programme to tackle youth unemployment
Wasps has launched a programme to ‘tackle’ youth unemployment, crime and disillusionment in Coventry.
The award-winning HITZ programme, overseen nationally by Premiership Rugby, uses the game of rugby to increase young people’s resilience, self-reliance and confidence.
The programme, which will be delivered at the Coventry Sports Foundation-managed Centre AT7 in Bell Green Road, aims to give 16 to 19-year-olds the skills they need to stay in or get back into education, vocational training, apprenticeships or employment by providing practical training alongside educational workshops covering employability and financial skills.
Educational rugby initiative Engage! Coventry, hosted by Coventry Sports Foundation and supported by the Millerchip Family Fund, has been commissioned by Wasps to deliver its Premiership Rugby community programmes across the city.
Anthony O’Reilly has been appointed as Wasps’ HITZ officer and will be looking to recruit around 40 young people to join the programme during its first year.
Young people can sign up to join the programme and referrals will also come from youth offending teams, police and probation services and social and youth services in Coventry.
Anthony has a wealth of experience supporting children with learning and behavioural difficulties having previously worked at a Pupil Referral Unit and as a sport and leisure activity leader for Charnwood Borough Council in its priority neighbourhoods.
The 26-year-old is also a Sports Development and Coaching graduate from Staffordshire University and plays for Syston RFC in Leicestershire.
Anthony said:
“I am delighted to have been appointed as Wasps’ HITZ officer. The project will help young people across Coventry to realise and fulfil their potential, giving them the best chance to find work or start further education.
“Not only will they learn key skills of the game, they will also enter a personalised study programme which will teach numeracy, literacy, IT and employability skills.
“Integrated discussions will also look to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing youngsters today by focusing on issues such as drugs, sexual health, anger management and communication.
“Our aim is to recruit over 120 young people throughout the three year programme and empower them with the skills and confidence they need to progress positively back into education, employment or training.
“Rugby is an inclusive game and its core values of teamwork, respect, integrity, enjoyment and discipline can be used as a vehicle to inspire young people and help them develop into healthy, well-rounded and confident individuals.
“I am looking forward to welcoming the first group of young people and to helping them to reach their full potential.”
The HITZ programme is funded by national partners Barclays, Comic Relief, Land Rover and Wooden Spoon.
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