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How to Update
How to Easily Update Drivers in Windows 7 / 10
Before you start talking about how to update drivers in Windows operating systems, you need to know what that word means. Not everyone really knows what a driver is and the needs they have within a computer. Therefore, the first thing to do is to define what a driver is and what it is used for on a computer.
A driver is nothing more than a file that tells the operating system of our computer, how to use the components, devices and peripherals that we have connected to it. In other words, it is the link between a component or hardware and the core of the operating system.
Without the specific controllers, the operating system would not be able to detect the peripherals that we have connected to the equipment and there will not exist an interface that allows to use them, since no type of action will be emitted to be able to make them work. Therefore, the drivers must always be in their latest version so that there are no problems of recognition of the elements in the system.
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How to update drivers in Windows 7?
When we have a driver or driver in poor condition installed on our computer, there can be a situation of instability in the system itself, and even one of the much feared blue screens of Windows.
Do not despair, because in principle these drivers are updated automatically, but you must suspect that they are not in their most current version, when these bugs appear for no reason. Be that as it may, it is essential that you know how to install the latest driver updates on your computer.
The easiest way to get all the drivers updated in Windows 7 is through the “Device Manager”, which corresponds to a list of all the hardware that is installed on that computer. Next, we will give you a few simple steps to be able to update the drivers automatically using this tool:
First, you must click on the “Start” menu to go to this section. As you probably won’t find it, we recommend that you type in the search bar, which is at the bottom: “Device Manager” to access directly. The computer hardware is shown as a list of different categories: screen adapters, image devices, sound…
If you click on the arrow for each category, you can see the devices associated with it.
Enter the category that matches the driver you want to update, and double-click the one you need to update.
A configuration window will appear. In this window, click on the “Controller” tab and click on the button where it says “Update driver”.
Now click on the option “Automatically search for updated driver software”. This will locate and download the most current drivers for that driver, if it is not already in the latest version.
Note: In principle, this Windows procedure does it in a unilateral way, making updates of the equipment little by little and staggeredly in the time. But if you detect failures in some device, it could be that the update of one of its drivers has not been carried out or it has finished badly and for that reason, it is preferable to carry out it manually.
How do I update drivers in Windows 10?
In Windows 10 the driver or driver update system is very simple, as everything is done from the “Control Panel”. There are programs that can do this update in a simple way, but we would lose the feature that Windows gives us to do it directly. The steps that we must follow are those that are indicated next:
First of all, as indicated above, go to the “Start” menu and click on the “Control Panel” option or, as shown above, type “Control Panel” in the search bar.
Then search for “Device Manager”.
You will see a list of devices corresponding to all the hardware connected to your computer.
Double-click on the device you want to update.
Now, right-click on the device whose driver you want to update.
A drop-down list of options will open, select “Update driver software”.
To always search automatically, click the “Automatically search for updated driver software” option. This way, you won’t have to worry about doing this on future occasions.
From then on, Windows will take care of the rest and finish doing the complete update.
Download and install the drivers for my Windows computer for free
If you want to get rid of worries, we’re going to show you a list of programs that allow you to better maintain the drivers installed on your computer. These are the following:
Driver Talent: In its PRO version, it allows you to recover drivers from old devices. In addition, it allows you to repair drivers that are corrupted or misconfigured or installed.
Device Doctor: This is the ideal program. It allows you to search for and update drivers automatically. Perform an analysis of the components and peripherals of your computer and check that they are all in the latest version available. Come on, just a couple of clicks and you’re ready to go.
Driver Pack Solution: Contains all the drivers that your computer may need and installs them without you needing to have an Internet connection available at that time. This program also allows you to update other software contained in your computer.
Driver Identifier: It is a very easy to use program that has a portable version so you can run on different computers without having to install it. It can be included in a toolkit for repairing computers.
Snappy Driver Installer: This program has the advantage that it can update drivers offline. After an exhaustive analysis of your computer to check the status of the drivers, it allows you to select on a screen all the updates you want to make with a stroke of a pen.
With any of these softwares, you will have under control and continuously analyzed and updated all the drivers or controllers of your computer.
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Procedures and challenges of adapting an existing public health intervention for use in another setting : the ToyBox-Scotland preschool obesity prevention programme
Malden, Stephen and Reilly, John and Gibson, Ann-Marie and Bardid, Farid and Hughes, Adrienne (2019) Procedures and challenges of adapting an existing public health intervention for use in another setting : the ToyBox-Scotland preschool obesity prevention programme. SAGE Research Methods Cases. (In Press)
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Childhood obesity is a major public health issue, which is reflected in the high number of interventions which have been developed to target the behaviors which cause obesity in childhood such as a lack of physical activity, poor diet, and sedentary behavior. The ToyBox programme was originally developed and tested in mainland Europe, and has now been adapted for use in Scottish preschools. This case describes the systematic approach that was taken to adapt the ToyBox programme. The intervention mapping protocol was used to guide the adaptation process in the absence of guidelines for adapting existing interventions. A Co-creation approach was used to involve stakeholders in intervention adaptation procedures. Preschool practitioners participated in workshops, where proposed intervention components were discussed and agreed upon. Proposed intervention activities were trialed out in a volunteer preschool, and an experienced preschool practitioner assisted in the adaptation of classroom materials, intervention content, and methods of delivery in order align the intervention with Scottish preschool practice. The adaptations resulted in the ToyBox-Scotland intervention being significantly different from the original European programme, whereby two major components of the original intervention were removed, and substantial adaptations were made to the delivery and content of the remaining components. Involving stakeholders in the adaptation of an existing intervention is important to ensure the programme is suitable for those who will be delivering and receiving it. However, it is currently unclear as to how much adaptation should be undertaken, highlighting the need for the creation of evidence-based guidelines for intervention adapters.
Malden, Stephen, Reilly, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6165-5471, Gibson, Ann-Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-7985, Bardid, Farid ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-0596 and Hughes, Adrienne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-1299
childhood obesity, public health, health interventions, ToyBox programme, Scotland, Child Health. Child health services, Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
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Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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Moran requests funds for alternative medicine center
by Ryan Sibley
Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has requested a $1.5 million earmark to fund an alternative medicine center in Washington D.C. run by a doctor with an alternative past. The request is for the FY 2011 Department of Defense budget and will go to the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, run by Dr. James Gordon.
The money would fund a program that is aimed at helping health professionals in the military maintain their mental and physical abilities in order for them to effectively and continually help troops suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal thoughts. The program consists of drug-free therapies.
Gordon specializes in alternative medicine. A passionate advocate of the field, he believes his work is very effective. “We help people help themselves. [The patients] are horribly traumatized,” Gordon said.
But Gordon has been criticized by traditional practitioners. According to Quackwatch.org–a website run by medical professionals that investigates claims made for various of alternative treatments–Gordon studied in the 1970s under an eccentric Indian guru named Shree Rajneesh, a man the State Department identified as a cult leader. Gordon supported Rajneesh for years and through many scandals. In the 1980’s the guru was prosecuted for poisoning residents of an Oregon town who opposed his commune. Rajneesh originally moved his commune to the United States due to an investigation by the Indian government for tax evasion. Gordon went on to teach Rajneesh’s methods, which include twirling to the point of hallucination.
Gordon says his critics come from a profession that attacks anyone who wants to “enlarge the medical model,” and that his past has been taken out of context. The bottom line for Gordon is the work he’s done. “It’s peer-reviewed and stands on it’s own merits,” Gordon said.
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine has already received $411,000 from the Department of Defense in 2008 to conduct experimental, drug-free, mental health therapies on soldiers returning from combat. According to Gordon, that DOD contract trained hundreds of medical professionals to help themselves through war-related trauma so they could go on to treat others.
The program Moran is seeking funding for in the upcoming budget is not related to this contract, but for a similar program.
Moran has favored other organizations whose scientific credentials have been questioned. He earmarked funds for the Samueli Institute, an organization that, the Washington Post reported, was criticized by Stanford University medical professor and Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine editor Wallace Sampson. The Samueli Institute was funded by two of Moran’s campaign contributors, Susan and Henry Samueli. Henry Samueli was convicted for his role in engineering a $2.2 billion stock fraud.
Moran also requested money, year after year, totaling $37 million to fund a company, Vibration & Sound Solutions Ltd., whose technology “kept failing to solve any problems the Navy had,” according to a report in the Washington Post.
Moran’s office declined to discuss the earmark to the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
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CBIC clarification on various matters including e-way bill, servicing of cars, moulds and dies etc. vide Circular No. 47/2018 dated 08 June 2018.
Circular No. 47/2018 dated 08 June 2018.
clarification under GST.
CBIC issued clarification on various matters under GST vide Circular No. 47/2018 dated 08 June 2018.
Circular No. 47/21/2018-GST
Representations have been received seeking clarification on certain issues under the GST laws. The same have been examined and the clarifications on the same are as below:
1) Whether moulds and dies owned by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) that are sent free of cost (FOC) to a component manufacturer is leviable to tax and whether OEMs are required to reverse input tax credit in this case?
1.1 Moulds and dies owned by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) which are provided to a component manufacturer (the two not being related persons or distinct persons) on FOC basis does not constitute a supply as there is no consideration involved. Further, since the moulds and dies are provided on FOC basis by the OEM to the component manufacturer in the course or furtherance of his business, there is no requirement for reversal of input tax credit availed on such moulds and dies by the OEM.
1.2 It is further clarified that while calculating the value of the supply made by the component manufacturer, the value of moulds and dies provided by the OEM to the component manufacturer on FOC basis shall not be added to the value of such supply because the cost of moulds/dies was not to be incurred by the component manufacturer and thus, does not merit inclusion in the value of supply in terms of section 15(2)(b) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (CGST Act for short).
1.3 However, if the contract between OEM and component manufacturer was for supply of components made by using the moulds/dies belonging to the component manufacturer, but the same have been supplied by the OEM to the component manufacturer on FOC basis, the amortised cost of such moulds/dies shall be added to the value of the components. In such cases, the OEM will be required to reverse the credit availed on such moulds/ dies, as the same will not be considered to be provided by OEM to the component manufacturer in the course or furtherance of the former’s business.
2) How is servicing of cars involving both supply of goods (spare parts) and services (labour), where the value of goods and services are shown separately, to be treated under GST?
2.1 The taxability of supply would have to be determined on a case to case basis looking at the facts and circumstances of each case.
2.2 Where a supply involves supply of both goods and services and the value of such goods and services supplied are shown separately, the goods and services would be liable to tax at the rates as applicable to such goods and services separately.
3) In case of auction of tea, coffee, rubber etc., whether the books of accounts are required to be maintained at every place of business by the principal and the auctioneer, and whether they are eligible to avail input tax credit?
3.1 The requirement of maintaining the books of accounts at the principal place of business and additional place(s) of business is clarified as below:
(a) For the purpose of auction of tea, coffee, rubber, etc, the principal and the auctioneer may declare the warehouses, where such goods are stored, as their additional place of business. The buyer is also required to disclose such warehouse as his additional place of business if he wants to store the goods purchased through auction in such warehouses. For the purpose of supply of tea through a private treaty, the principal and an auctioneer may also comply with the said provisions.
(b) The principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of auction of tea, coffee, rubber etc., or the principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of supply of tea through a private treaty, are required to maintain the books of accounts relating to each and every place of business in that place itself in terms of the first proviso to sub-section (1) of section 35 of the CGST Act. However, in case difficulties are faced in maintaining the books of accounts, it is clarified that they may maintain the books of accounts relating to the additional place(s) of business at their principal place of business instead of such additional place(s).
(c) The principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of auction of tea, coffee, rubber etc., or the principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of supply of tea through a private treaty, shall intimate their jurisdictional officer in writing about the maintenance of books of accounts relating to the additional place(s) of business at their principal place of business.
3.2 It is further clarified that the principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of auction of tea, coffee, rubber etc., or the principal and the auctioneer for the purpose of supply of tea through a private treaty, shall be eligible to avail input tax credit subject to the fulfilment of other provisions of the CGST Act read with the rules made thereunder
4) In case of transportation of goods by railways, whether goods can be delivered even if the e-way bill is not produced at the time of delivery?
As per proviso to rule 138(2A) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Rules, 2017 (CGST Rules for short), the railways shall not deliver the goods unless the e-way bill is produced at the time of delivery.
5) Whether e-way bill is required in the following cases-
(i) Where goods transit through another State while moving from one area in a State to another area in the same State.
(i) It may be noted that e-way bill generation is not dependent on whether a supply is interState or not, but on whether the movement of goods is inter-State or not. Therefore, if the goods transit through a second State while moving from one place in a State to another place in the same State, an e-way bill is required to be generated.
(ii) Where goods move from a DTA unit to a SEZ unit or vice versa located in the same State.
(ii) Where goods move from a DTA unit to a SEZ unit or vice versa located in the same State, there is no requirement to generate an eway bill, if the same has been exempted under rule 138(14)(d) of the CGST Rules.
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10 Insanely Successful Hardware Startups
John Teel February 25th 2016 1:15 pm
If you are a hardware entrepreneur I'm betting you could probably use a little inspiration. I mean, everyone knows that hardware is really hard, right?
So to give you a little motivation boost I'm going to share with you 10 examples of other hardware entrepreneurs, just like you, that have founded startups worth millions, or even billions of dollars.
So prepare to be inspired!
1. Nest Labs
Nest produces smart thermostats, smoke or carbon dioxide detectors, and remote video monitoring systems. It was founded by two former Apple engineers in 2010.
They released their first product, the Nest Learning Thermostat, in 2011. By the end of 2012 it had grown to 130 employees.
In 2014, Nest was acquired by Google for an impressive $3.2 billion!
2. Fitbit
Fitbit produces a line of activity-tracking devices with wireless capabilities. The devices can measure the number of footsteps, quality of sleep, steps climbed, and other personal fitness metrics. Their first product was known as the Fitbit Tracker.
The company was founded in 2007 by James Park and Eric Friedman, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. In 2015, the company announced it had filed for an IPO valued at $358 million dollars on the New York Stock Exchange.
Fitbit currently has a market valuation of $3.2 billion!
3. Square
Square Inc., a San Francisco based company, offers financial, merchant and mobile wallet services. It specializes in marketing payment programs based on their Square Reader device.
Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey founded the company in 2009, launching the company’s services and app the following year. In November 2015, Square began trading on the NYSE.
Square now has a market value of $3.2 billion.
4. Oculus
Oculus is a virtual reality technology company founded in 2012. Later that year the two founders raised a record-breaking $2.4 million on Kickstarter. Their first product is a virtual reality headset called the “Oculus Rift” which is due to release in Q1 2016.
Somewhat surprisingly, long before it even completed its first product, Oculus was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion!
5. GoPro
GoPro produces action cameras which are often used in extreme-action videography. The company was founded by Nick Woodman in 2002. Woodman worked on the first camera model for two years releasing the film-based GoPro 35mm Hero in 2004. In its first year, GoPro reported $150,000 in sales.
In 2006, GoPro introduced its first digital camera, the GoPro Digital Hero, which generated $800,000 in first year revenue. By 2007, GoPro revenues quadrupled to $3.4 million.
In 2014 GoPro filed for an IPO on the NASDAQ with a stock valuation of $2.95 billion. The stock was extremely hot and within a few months the market value shot up to $11.8 billion.
GoPro now has a market valuation of $1.7 billion.
6. Jawbone
Jawbone sells wearable devices like wristbands, mobile audio gadgets, speakers and Icon Bluetooth headsets. In 2013 it acquired Body Media, a renowned company that manufactures wearable devices that monitor health.
In 2016 they announced raising $165 million which gave Jawbone a valuation of $1.5 billion.
7. Dropcam
Dropcam makes Wi-Fi video streaming cameras that allow users to view live feeds through Dropcam's cloud-based service.
Dropcam received seed funding from tech investor Mitch Kapor. In 2012 it secured $12 million in venture funding from Menlo Ventures. In 2013 they raised an additional $30 million from Felicis Ventures.
Google’s Nest Labs acquired Dropcam in 2014 for $555 million.
8. Makerbot
Makerbot was founded in 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Smit to produce 3D printers. They started shipping printers in 2009, and by 2011 they had sold approximately 3,500 units.
In 2011 they received $10 million in venture funding from The Foundry Group.
MakerBot was acquired by Stratasys in 2013 for $403 million.
9. Pebble
Pebble had long been making smart watches before Apple Watch was released. It had one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time. For their first product they were able to raise over $10 million in about 30 days on Kickstarter. Within their first year it had sold over 400,000 watches!
They are definitely not a one hit wonder – Pebble raised a record-shattering $20 million on Kickstarter for its second generation watch.
10. Jibo
Jibo, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based startup founded in 2012 is the developer of the first “social robot” for homes.
The initial funding was crowdfunded where the company was able to raise $3.7 million and sold around 6,000 units.
The robot, which is also called a “family robot”, has generated keen interest within Asian markets and hence the investments from companies like Samsung, LG, Acer and Denstu Ventures.
Currently Jibo is valued at $128.5 million and recently closed a $16M Series A extended funding at the end of 2015.
These are just a few of the hardware startups out there that have been a huge success. All of the media attention is usually placed on successful software companies, but there are numerous hardware startups that have also made it big. In fact, hardware startups see exits twice as large as seen in other tech sectors.
Now it's your turn to make your hardware startup a runaway success.
John Teel
@JohnTeelEE
John Teel is an electronics design engineer, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Predictable Designs. He has developed products for tech companies that now sell in the millions of units. John now helps other entrepreneurs, startups, and small companies bring new electronic products to market. Download his FREE cheat sheet - 18 Steps to Market for Your New Electronic Product.
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Mega Man’s Creator Turns To Kickstarter To Fuel His New Game (Which Looks A Whole Lot Like Mega Man)
Greg Kumparak @grg / 6 years
It’s becoming almost formulaic at this point: An iconic game designer, backed by a legion of dedicated fans, turns to Kickstarter to allow them to break out on their own. See: Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Grim Fandango), who raised over $3M for his studio, DoubleFine, or Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim), who raised just shy of $1M to build a spiritural successor to his earlier game, The Neverhood.
The latest gaming giant to turn to the crowd is Keiji Inafune, creator of one of gaming’s most classic icons, Mega Man. In news that probably comes to many of his fan’s delight (but presumably not his former bosses), his new game looks and sounds a whole lot like Mega Man.
In October of 2010, Inafune publicly quit Capcom after a 23-year stretch with the company. “I’m leaving Capcom with the intention of starting my life over,” he wrote on his blog.
Two months later, he launched a new development studio called Comcept.
Though Inafune never comes out and directly calls his new game a spiritual successor to Mega Man, they’re also not trying too hard (or, really, at all) to hide that it’s about as much of a spiritual successor as could be. I mean, come on — look at this description:
You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages (or more, via stretch goals) you can tackle in any order you choose,using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!
Let’s go through the Mega Man checklist, here. Humanoid robot? Check. Stealing special powers from your enemies? Check. Levels you can go through in any order you want (presumably using gained powers to exploit the specific weakness of each boss)? Cheeeeck!
Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you. Sure — if I were Capcom’s lawyers, I’m sure I’d be all sorts of riled up about this. But I’m not. I’m just a dude who grew up playing Mega Man and has been waiting for a great, modernized Mega Man game since around 1995… so I can’t wait.
Not surprisingly, there’s a whole lot of Mega Man/Capcom blood running in the veins of Inafune’s new team. The game’s lead designer, Naoya Tomita, did much of the design for Mega Man 1, 2, 5, and 6. Its lead musician, Manami Matsumae, is the same composer who came up with all of the music and sound effects of the original.
Mighty No. 9 is trying to raise $900k on Kickstarter. With over $700k raised in just 24 hours, it’s clear that they’ll smash through that goal without much trouble. The only bummer: no matter how quickly they hit that goal, we won’t be seeing Mighty No. 9 until 2015 at the earliest. They’re only promising that the game will run on the PC, at first, though they pledge to port it elsewhere if they raise enough cash.
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by Richard Bolt
Category: IAU, Trail Running, Ultrarunning, USATF, World Trail Championships
Tyler Sigl led from the start to win the USATF 50 Mile Trail Running Championships in Ithaca, New York, today – Saturday, June 4, setting a course record of 6:44:12 in the process.
Men’s Race
Sigl pocketed $1500 for the victory, $500 in course incentives, and $1000 to support his travel to the IAU World Trail Running Championships as a member of Team USA. (The full team of five men and five women will be named by August 1).
The 30-year-old from Seymour, Wisconsin set a blistering pace early on, and by the halfway point, was 12 minutes ahead of his nearest competitor. He would go on to extend his lead to nearly 20 minutes by mile 38, a lead that would eventually be reduced to an eleven-minute advantage over second-place finisher Jared Burdick, 29, Fayetteville, New York who posted a time of 6:55:15.
Rounding out the top three was Matt Flaherty, 30, Bloomington, Indiana, who finished in 7:06:53. Top master was Ben Nephew, 40, Mansfield, Massachusetts, in sixth place with a time of 7:40:45.
“My goal was to make the World Team,” said Sigl. “It was go big or go home. I wanted to get into the red, white, and blue and represent our country.” Sigl earned a spot on the 2015 US 100km Team, but had to decline his spot due to the birth of his second daughter.
To get the spot on the US Ultra Trail Team, Sigl decided he’d go from the gun, “I knew the other guys were really strong on the climbs. I used the flats to my advantage and the cooler start, and I hung onto it,” said Sigl. “It was a little bit of Zach Miller racing (who is known to take a race out hard and accelerate throughout).”
Asked if there were tough spots, Sigl said, “I biffed it twice really bad. The first time near the Lakewood Split, the second time coming down Buttermilk Falls on the pavement. That one burned a little. I don’t feel horrible for a 50-mile race, but definitely feel a 50-mile race. It was a course record so I was getting after it, so it won’t feel great. Mentally it was a very strong race, a smart race.”
Looking forward to Geres, Portugal, site of the IAU World Trail Running Championships on October 29, Sigl said, “My first goal was to make the team, now I have to analyze the course (in Portugal), and plan.”
Burdick commented on Sigl’s race effort, “Tyler ran like crazy. I thought I ran the best that I could, but he was way out there. I was hoping he would come back. He ran a really great race.”
Burdick seesawed throughout the race with eventual fourth-place finisher Dylan Bowman, “Dylan was running a little better on the flats and downhills, and I was catching him on the uphills. I guess I’m more of a rolling hills kind of person. We don’t have a lot of long climbs (where I live). This was a pretty tough course with all the stairs too.
“I knew it was going to be a pretty competitive race. I just wanted to go a little conservative to the halfway point, but not too conservative…like 3:20. I went about 3:18 and I kind of wanted to cruise to Buttermilk and see where I was there. (My plan) was to pick it up, or stay where I was. My legs cramped a bit and may have held me back a little bit. I wanted to finish strong and improve on last year (he finished in seven hours). I felt 6:55 would be a good day. Mario won with that time last year and that’s what I was shooting for. But, Dylan just had a great day. He’s super talented. He’s capable of that (the time he ran) so he was on his game today,” said Burdick.
Asked if he would submit a resume for the final spot on the US Ultra Trail Team, Burdick said “I definitely want to compete for that spot. Any time you can represent the US, It’s a great honor.”
Burdick had high praise for the event, “It’s a great course and the crew was awesome. Ian (Golden) does a great job putting it on.”
For his second-pace finish, Burdick earned $1000 while third-place finisher Flaherty won $500.
Flaherty felt it wasn’t his best race, “I didn’t feel like I had a great day, but I ran well based on how I felt. I said I’d be happy with a podium spot. I was a bit slower than I wanted. You take what you’re given and you do the best you can with it. A podium finish is solid.
“Based on Sonoma, I didn’t have a lot of confidence,” Said Flaherty. “I didn’t have a really good training block. I was just kind of holding steady. But, it worked out all right.”
Flaherty was fourth at the halfway point, running 3:23 behind Sigl, Bowman, and Burdick. “I was probably feeling the roughest in the third quarter, then chasing Dylan down gave me some motivation. I would have liked to go under seven hours, but tough conditions. It was really hot.”
Bowman, who finished in 7:12:45, said of his effort, “Beggars can’t be choosers. I gave it my best shot today. It could’ve been better, it could’ve been worse. I gotta be happy with what I had…it was hard.”
On the women’s side, Corrine Malcolm, 26, Bellingham, Washington, in just her second race over 50 kilometers, had a simple goal – to smile more than anyone. “I think I did,” said Malcolm. “The boys running with me said, ‘Wow, you’re happier than anyone.’”
The former national team biathlete found herself in an unexpected position…in the lead at mile 19.
“I thought I could be top three. I did my first ever 100 mile training week two weeks ago and I definitely felt recovered from that. I had antsy legs last night trying to sleep,” said Malcolm, who for the past year and a half has been coached by David Roche. “I tried to go out conservatively. It’s trial and error with this distance. I had no intention to be in the lead. It was a race of attrition.”
Kelsey Allen led for much of the first loop, but had dropped to third by the halfway point and ended up finishing fifth among the women. Caitlin Smith, running in fifth at the halfway point, dropped out at about the 30-mile point.
“I definitely had some low spots,” said Malcolm. “But when I ran with Ben Nephew, that really helped. He just tucked in behind me and we chit chatted. In a lot of these races you end up running by yourself so it’s great to run with someone who is enthusiastic and wants to chat. Ben was amazing.”
Malcolm wasn’t confident of the win until she could see the finish line, about 800 meters out. “I run panicked,” she said. “I like being the chaser, not the chasee.”
Racing for a spot on Team USA was the reason Malcolm came to Cayuga, “It was 100% the reason I came to race here.
“The women on the team right now are really strong. I don’t have the leg speed of the others,” said Malcolm. “My strength is the harder the course, the rougher the course, the worse the weather…that’s where I excel. This course was really runnable. The RUT (a 50-kilometr race in Montana), is my spirit animal of races.”
Like the RUT, the 85-kilometer course in Portugal should play to Malcolm’s strengths. With 5000 meters of climbing, it’s sure to provide a challenging route.
Running to a second place finish with a time of 8:24:10, Sabrina Little, 29, Waco, Texas, had to shift gears from her road training to race on the trails. Little said, “I realized two miles in I was way over my head. I don’t have access to this type of trail. I do most of my running on the road. Every two weeks I get on the trails.
“It’s so beautiful out there, it’s hard to feel bad for yourself,” said Little. “I have a pretty good aerobic phase which helped, plus I’m a bit of a Kamikaze on the downhills. At about mile 43 I started running with Zach (Ornelas). He was having a bad patch. He only trains on roads. We were just consoling each other, but we were cruising right along and did some seven-minute miles. It’s just fun to have someone with you to talk to and run with. He’s pretty gregarious – a fun person to run with.”
Little’s goal was to race to a top-three finish. “I honestly did want to podium,” said Little. “But I knew it was going to be a tall order coming into it from my road training. I wasn’t thinking about time, I was trying to run within myself. I was going to push it in the second half.”
Little, who, represented Team USA at the World 24 Hour Championships in 2012 said she didn’t think she had a chance to make the trail team. But with one open spot, and perhaps additional openings should one of the four automatic selectees decline their spot, Little can submit her resume for consideration. “I’m always interested in getting on the teams. It is special to run for the United States.”
In third place was Laura Kline, 38, New Paltz, New York. “I ran way better than last year and that was my main goal,” said Kline who moved up a spot from 2015 and shaved 20 minutes off her time to finish in 8:28.
Her strategy was to take the first loop a little bit slower than in 2015. “I planned to run about 4:10 and I was about 3:52. I’d relax on the downhills, save it for the uphills and run hard on the flats. I felt super relaxed on the first loop. I knew that I was better prepared than last year.”
With runners jockeying for position, it was a challenge for Kline to keep on task. “It took a lot of will power, but I knew I had to race my own race.”
Her favorite parts of the course were easy to pinpoint. “Buttermilk Falls,” she said. “Even though there’s a lot of climbing, I always get recharged in that section. It’s a bit cooler, and there’s a bit of a breeze. I take it easy on the steps. Today, the water crossing was great. I definitely lingered more there.”
Kline is training for the World Duathlon Championships to be held in Switzerland this September, where she hopes to better her ninth-place finish from last year.
The top three women today earned prize money equal to that of the men. USATF awards were presented to the top ten men and women overall with age group awards in five-year increments presented to masters winners 40 and over.
Masters’ Race
Nephew, as the top master to finish, won the 40-44 age division. Other age group winners included Philip Vondra, 47, New Paltz, New York, timed in 8:47, Gene Dykes, 68, Bala Cynwd, Pennsylvania, with a time of 10:30, Todd Baum, 58, Fayetteville, New York, timed in 10:47, Charles Leonard, 60, Freeville, New York with a time of 12:21, and Eliot Lee, 54, Croton on Hudson, New York, timed in 14:24.
Olga Huber, 45, Macedon, New York, was first among the masters’ women posting a time of 10:31 finishing ninth among the women. Sarah Schlaack, 43, Hillsboro, NH, was timed in 13:13.
Winning the women’s open team competition was the Western Mass Distance Project comprised of Kehr Davis, Amy Rusiecki, and Kelsey Allen. There were no other teams competing.
Of the 320 registered runners, 264 checked in on race morning for the 6:00 a.m. start, 70 of whom were USATF members. The companion event, the inaugural Cayuga Trail Marathon, had 125 registered runners who started two hours later running the same loop as the 50 milers with an additional 1.2-mile section.
About the Cayuga Trails 50, race director Ian Golden said, “It’s scenic and a cool place. I try to bring in top tier athletes, offer good prize money and I wanted to host a race that reflected what a national championship should be.” In order to fund the prize purse Golden received a grant from the local tourism office.
This is the 3rd year the 50 Mile Championships has been hosted by the Cayuga Trails 50. The 2017 USATF 50 Mile Trail Championships will again be hosted by the Cayuga Trails 50 Mile. For complete results, visit: http://rednewtracing.com/CayugaTrails/Leaderboard
Written by Nancy Hobbs. Photos by Richard Bolt – USATF Championship Liaison, Cayuga Trails 50.
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By David Panter November 18, 2019 Reading time:
When the first Cobb and Co coach ran from Melbourne to Bendigo, it left the Criterion Hotel in Collins St every morning promptly at 6:00am (Sundays excepted).
They overnighted in Castlemaine and were off at 6:00am the next day for Bendigo. A timetable en-route may well have read “Cobb and Co to Castlemaine will be here at 12:30”.
If you were in Keilor, Gisborne or Woodend, you had a pretty good idea when the daily coach was coming through and you would get to the stop with time to spare.
Speed was important, so drivers would sound a bugle one mile out and groomsmen would ready the next team of horses to minimise changeover time. If you were a passenger and you happen to miss the coach, there was always tomorrow. (Unless, of course, it was Sunday.)
Having published them, we as transport professionals strive to deliver on our promise. Broken axles, muddy tracks and floods may have been replaced with rail crossings, car accidents and unrelenting peak hour delays but all these challenges must be overcome to keep services running to the timetable.
What is Headway?
As public transport demand grows, service frequencies increase.
Eventually a service becomes so frequent a passenger no longer needs a timetable; they know they can just roll up at the stop and a bus will shortly pick them up. This then removes the need for a timetable at the stop, as a notice that a bus will be at the stop in less than 10 minutes will suffice.
This situation portrays a 10-minute headway. Running this in theory is straightforward: start a trip every 10 minutes and run all buses to time. At least, that is the plan – but unfortunately, traffic and physics failed to read the playbook, so what is delivered is often very different.
Making Headway Management Happen
Buses get delayed for many reasons: traffic, large crowds at a stop, elderly people looking for change – the list is as long as it is entertaining. Despite our best efforts to meet a timetable, certain issues refuse to go away: for example, when a bus is caught in heavy congestion, it is really hard to move it faster than the cars!
From a customer experience perspective, passengers generally have a high-level understanding of how traffic (and other circumstances beyond an operator’s control) can cause delays. What they don’t understand is why this will result in a really, really long wait succeeded by two buses showing up at the same time.
Operators try and deal with this through planning. Two common techniques are:
To keep the routes short (reducing the ability for the headway to get too large), and
To introduce more layover at timing points (giving buses the opportunity to reset).
However, these methods are at odds with high frequency services. Whilst increased layover helps get back to the timetable, it is not popular with passengers.
Sure, you could fire off a bus from the terminus every 10 minutes, but there is no way to control these services other than having a supervisor with a clipboard standing by the roadside with a watch, manually timing the services and talking to drivers as needed.
Even gathering performance data will be difficult, as resource restrictions mean you can only measure how each bus is progressing at a small number of points along the route. Compounding this, drivers will not be able to see the vehicle ahead of them on their current route.
The result is that real-time intervention is almost impossible and headway management generally happens after the fact.
It is designed to present the public with as close to a consistent arrival time as possible, even if there are service delays. It helps operators spread the buses out so that two buses on the same route do not arrive at the same stop together.
When combined with high frequency services, headway management even eliminates the need to publish timetables and gives passengers the confidence that a bus will be arriving very soon.
Although there is a lot of talk about headway-managed routes being the latest big thing, it is not new. Shuttle bus services are often run on a headway basis and a number of high frequency routes in many cities have long been advertised as ‘turn up and go’. However, they were manually controlled or not controlled at all.
Technology has reached a point where public transport authorities can now deliver on the promise. Some examples of agencies where this is done are:
There are many other progressive cities across the world where headway is used to measure regularity, including Barcelona, Milan, New York, Paris and Vancouver [3]. In Australia and New Zealand, regularity is typically measured by on-time terminal departures. However, the limitations this places on delivering better customer outcomes are now becoming more widely recognised.
The possibility of technology changing this paradigm sparked a great deal of interest at the UITP ANZ Customer Experience Roundtable in August 2018, with many attendees recognising the benefits that effectively-managed headway can bring to all stakeholders.
Choosing the Right Tools for Success
KPIs and Metrics
To track service reliability, authorities have used:
EWT,
Actual waiting time (AWT),
Standard deviations of the difference between actual and scheduled headways,
Wait assessment, and
Service regularity.
Each technique has its own benefits and drawbacks [3], but EWT has emerged as the indicator of choice. For high frequency services, EWT is an objective measure that can be calculated across routes and is relatively easy to fold into operating contracts, with a history of producing excellent results.
Passengers are the immediate beneficiary of the right metric and good headway management because irregularity in headway discourages commuters’ use of public transport [4] and increases passenger discomfort [5]. Furthermore, as passengers on high frequency routes are more likely to arrive at the stop randomly [6], a small improvement in EWT will deliver the best outcome to the most passengers.
By measuring EWT and encouraging operators to reduce this, transport authorities will consistently deliver better services that passengers can rely on.
The Right Technology
Public transport companies also benefit from the use of EWT as a metric. The core technologies used to monitor and report on EWT give operators an instant view of operations for both scheduled services and headway services. Whilst both service types are scheduled in the normal manner, once they start running there is a need to clearly identify each route by type and give operators continuous EWT statistics on all routes.
Another key tool is the development of automatic alerts on Bus Bunching. This lets operators see issues whilst they can be fixed and before they become too serious.
The right technology will bring transport authorities a real-time view of the transport network, but more importantly it will monitor and measure headway.
It should deliver the right visibility and controls to operators and allow them to adjust operations in real time to meet EWT targets. This ensures that buses arrive with greater regularity and improves the level of service delivered to the public.
To encourage operators to be proactive and course-correct services in real time, transport authorities can offer substantial performance bonuses as an incentive. Transport for London, for example, pays up to 15% of the contract value in bonuses.
Just like the Cobb and Co services from Melbourne to Bendigo, the delivery of headway is dependent on a number of factors.
Freeman Cobb saw the opportunity for improved services and filled that need with high-speed services, enabled by changing stations every 15 miles and the right technology (in Cobb’s case it was imported Concord coaches, which had been designed for travel in the American West).
Transport authorities must have a similar vision to drive service change. They need to put the right headway management technology in place to drive operators to achieve a higher standard of service delivery KPIs.
Operators then need to be focussed on making this work. Management personnel in these companies must adapt and accept that they need to be even more closely partnered with their drivers than normal, as it is the driver who must make use of the information the tools provide and self-manage the gaps between buses.
Only the passenger needs to do nothing as properly delivered, headway-managed routes will give them a better service, with less waiting and higher levels of reliability.
When Henry Lawson wrote ‘The Lights of Cobb and Co’, perhaps he could sense the excitement of the public for a better transport system. That excitement is still here today – it is up to us to deliver on the promise. Headway management can help us do just that!
[1] Transport for London, “London’s Bus Contracting and Tendering Process, lbsl-tendering-and-contracting.pdf,” Transport for London, London, 2015.
[2] B. S. C. t. I. S. T. t. BCM, “Bus Services Continue to Improve Since Transition to BCM,” 04 09 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=752cc877-00a8-4e0c-8732-11e3d8ffa126.
[3] M. Trompet, X. Liu and D. J. Graham, “Development of key performance indicator to compare regularity of service between urban bus operators,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transprotation Research Board No. 2116, pp. 33-41, 2011.
[4] A. Polus, “Modeling and Measurements of Bus Service Reliability.,” Transportation Research, Vol. 12, pp. 253-256, 1978.
[5] M. Simeunovic, M. Lekovic, Z. Papic and P. Pavle, “Influence of vehicle headway irregularity in public transport on in-vehicle passenger comfort,” Scientific Research and Essays Vol. 7(32), pp. 2874-2881, 2012.
[6] D. R. a. G. C. Csikos, “Investigating Consistency in Transit Passenger Arrivals: Insights from Longitudinal Automated Fare Collection Data,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2042, pp. 12-19, 2008.
Author: David Panter
David Panter has over 20 years of experience in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) with a focus on public transport, emergency services, and taxi. With a strong engineering and commercial background, David understands the issues involved with developing, delivering, and maintaining a modern ITS platform. David is responsible for helping the Trapeze ANZ Government customers realize the value inherent in Trapeze ITS solutions.
Juggling All the Variables of Customer Satisfaction
A Smooth Ride with Multimodal Connections
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1995: January 28-February 3
All fired up! Working in steamy Queensland, wearing heavy fire-fighting gear all day and filming among real flames, you can hardly blame Georgie Parker for describing the five-month making of her new series Fire as “a nightmare”. “It was extraordinarily difficult,” she told TV Week. “The conditions affected everyone’s mood. There were a lot of tempers …
1995, A Current Affair, E Street, Eleven AM, Fast Forward, Fire, Full Frontal, Funniest People, Gladiators, Heartbreak High, Home And Away, Homicide, Neighbours, Nine News, Real Life, The 7.30 Report, Today Tonight, Tonight Live, TV Week Logie Awards, Wildlife With Olivia Newton-John
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The 4th AACTA Awards
Producer and writer Andrew Knight (pictured) has been awarded the Longford Lyell Award for his outstanding contribution to film and television at the 4th AACTA Awards, held last night in at The Star Event Centre, Sydney. Knight was writer and co-producer of comedy series Fast Forward, Full Frontal and The D Generation. His other television credits …
AACTA Awards, After The Deluge, Anzac Girls, Black Comedy, Carlotta, CrashBurn, Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Hamish And Andy, Jack Irish, Janet King, Kangaroo Palace, My Brother Jack, Please Like Me, Rake, Seachange, Tender, The Broken Shore, The Code, The D Generation, The Devil's Playground, The Flamin' Thongs, The Voice, Tripping Over, Utopia
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Jessica Rowe and Jonathan Coleman in Australia Day Honours
Studio 10 presenters Jessica Rowe and Jonathan Coleman are among the many to feature in this year’s Australia Day Honours List. Rowe (pictured) has been appointed a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia “for significant service to the community as an ambassador, campaigner and advocate for mental health policy reform, and to the …
60 Minutes, 6PM With George Negus, A Country Practice, ABC, All Saints, Always Greener, At The Movies, Blue Heelers, Certain Women, Cliffy, Dateline, Divorce Court, Foreign Correspondent, George Negus Tonight, GP, Hampton Court, Have A Go, Hey Dad, Home And Away, Homicide, Late Night With Jono And Dano, Micro Nation, Murder Call, Neighbours, Number 96, Packed To The Rafters, Phoenix Five, Police Rescue, Possession, Prime, Prisoner, Rake, Saturday Morning Live, SBS, Seven Network, Simon Townsend's Wonder World, Sons And Daughters, Southern Cross, Studio 10, Ten News, The Apprentice, The Box, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Movie Show, The Night Cap, The Project, The Strip, The Super Flying Fun Show, The Toothbrush Family, The Young Doctors, This Day Tonight, Today, Underbelly, Water Rats, Weekend Sunrise, Yellow House
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Who remembers the Australia Games?
We might have done okay at the Olympic Games and better at the Commonwealth Games… but it seems we still had to have a Games to call our own. The inaugural Australia Games were held in Melbourne in 1985. The competition was timed to feature in Victoria’s 150th anniversary celebrations. But despite the name it …
A Current Affair, Good Friday Appeal, Melbourne Cup, TelevisionAU, TV Week Logie Awards
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Networks, it’s time to go retro
The advent and conversion to digital television has opened the market right up to new opportunities and niche markets as broadcasters can now cram more digital channels in the same space that in the past used to only accommodate one analogue channel. In the United States, the conversion to digital television has opened up a …
Above The Law, Against The Wind, Anzacs, Arcade, Bangkok Hilton, Bodyline, Digital TV, Fast Forward, For The Term Of His Natural Life, Number 96, Prisoner, Punishment, Sons And Daughters, Starting Out, Sword Of Honour, The Dirtwater Dynasty, The Dismissal, The Harp In The South, The Mavis Bramston Show, Vietnam, WIN, Winners, Women Of The Sun
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50 years for Northern Rivers television
Northern Rivers Television, now part of the Southern Cross Ten regional network, was officially launched 50 years ago today. The licence to operate the commercial station in the Grafton-Kempsey market, incorporating Coffs Harbour, was granted unopposed to Northern Rivers Television Limited in October 1962. It was part of the fourth stage of the introduction of …
Prime, Southern Cross
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Prime7 to close Tamworth studios, again
The regional Prime7 network has announced that it will be shutting down production at its Tamworth studios and will relocate the Tamworth and North Coast news bulletins to Canberra. The move comes three years after Prime7 reversed an earlier decision to shut down production at its Goonoo Goonoo Road site. At the time political pressure and …
NBN, Prime, Southern Cross
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1995: January 21-27
Cover: Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) Beauty and the beast Getaway reporter Tina Dalton‘s documentary Flight Of The Rhino is to screen on the Nine Network this week. The documentary shows both the efforts to save the African black rhinoceros, which is being hunted for its precious horns, and the horrifying, yet necessary, steps to save them from the …
1995, A Current Affair, A Life, After The Beep, Better Homes And Gardens, Beyond 2000, Blue Heelers, Frontline, Full Frontal, Getaway, Home And Away, Janus, Neighbours, Nine News, Olympic Games, Over The Hill, Sale Of The Century, Seven News, Spirit 2000, Sportsworld, The Great Outdoors, The Shiralee
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TV Week Logie Awards: Who got my vote
Earlier this week, TV Week opened voting for the 57th annual TV Week Logie Awards. The awards are to take place at Crown Melbourne, on 3 May and be televised on the Nine Network. It will actually be Nine’s 20th consecutive coverage of TV’s ‘night of nights’ since Seven and Ten opted out of the …
Better Homes And Gardens, Beyond 2000, Denton, Hamish And Andy, Home And Away, Made In Italy, Masterchef Australia, Mondo Thingo, MTV, My Kitchen Rules, Neighbours, Offspring, Party Tricks, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation, The Block, The Footy Show, The Late Show, The Living Room, The Thursday Night Sports Show, TV Week Logie Awards, Upper Middle Bogan, Winners And Losers
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Cover: Jo Beth Taylor (Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show) A Hall of Fame! TV Week has announced that the Melbourne Concert Hall at the Victorian Arts Centre will be host of the 37th annual TV Week Logie Awards, to be held in April and televised on the Seven Network. The Concert Hall, opened in 1982, …
1995, Australia's Funniest Home Video Show, E Street, Fast Forward, Fire, Heartbreak High, Home And Away, Janus, Neighbours, Nobody's Children, Spirit 2000, TV Week Logie Awards, Without Consent, World Series Cricket
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Bible History Set in Stone
Posted on May 2, 2019 Updated on April 18, 2019
A few weeks ago, while leading a pilgrimage tour to Israel, I couldn’t wait to bring the group to one of the greatest museums in the world: the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Packed with artifacts from the biblical period, it’s a treasure trove for anyone interested in the material remains of salvation history.
The museum also houses one of the more important archaeological finds of recent years: an artifact that has bolstered our confidence in the veracity of the Old Testament accounts of the kingdom of David, his son Solomon, and their successors.
Biblical “minimalists” had long contended that King David did not actually preside over a kingdom that originated circa the tenth century B.C., as the Bible states. Indeed, these scholars alleged that David, Solomon, and in fact the entire line of Davidic kings chronicled in the Old Testament, are nothing more than fictional characters invented by the writers of the Hebrew scriptures.
In favor of the “minimalist” argument was the lack of any evidence of David’s existence outside the Bible.
But here’s where archaeology came to the rescue. During the 1993-94 excavations at Tel Dan, in northern Israel, a stele (a stone slab bearing an inscription) was unearthed. Made from basalt, a volcanic rock plentiful in the region, it bears an account of a military victory. Scholars have postulated that the inscription commemorates an Aramean king’s defeat of Israelite forces. It may have been commissioned by Hazael or Ben-Hadad III, his son (cf. 2 Kings 10:32, 13:3, 22; 2 Chron. 22:5).
The key line on the monument, the stunning find, is the mention of the “House of David.” There it was, written in stone—independent confirmation of David’s existence and of a line of kings so powerful that defeating armies from this “House” warranted a public brag of sorts on this stele, for all passersby to read and marvel at.
Analysis of the stele dates it to the mid-ninth century BC, right around the time when, according to Scripture, David’s dynasty would have been flourishing. It appears that the stele was broken by the Israelites after they recaptured the area some time later, and was eventually repurposed into building blocks for the city wall.
After this discovery, as chronicled by Craig Evans, the minimalists changed their approach. “Okay, okay,” they admitted, “maybe David existed after all. But he was a nobody. A local tribal chief, at best, certainly not the originator of the vast, Iron-Age kingdom described in the Old Testament.”
At this point, faced with what seems like special pleading, one is tempted to respond like Jerry Seinfeld: “Really? Really?”
But don’t despair—again, archaeology is our friend here.
First of all, if David had been merely a small-time local yokel, what on earth were his descendants doing fighting battles all the way up north, near the modern-day border that separates Israel and Syria, far from his allegedly tiny operation in Jerusalem?
Also, a vast, centralized complex of buildings—in all likelihood, a government compound—has been unearthed in the Old City of Jerusalem, and can be seen on tours today. It’s located in what’s known as the “City of David” and dates to approximately the tenth century B.C.; once more, the time when Scripture says that David and Solomon were establishing their empire. Again, this seems fairly excessive if we’re talking about an insignificant tribal chieftain, but it does fit the biblical narrative of David’s expansive realm.
To this our minimalist might say, “I’ll grant you that David existed, and perhaps he did preside over a significantly large kingdom, but we still can’t trust what the Bible says about him. The people of David’s time would not have been significantly literate enough to record his exploits or those of his descendants”.
This last objection is at least partially answered by—you guessed it—yet another archaeological discovery. In 2008, an ostracon (an inscribed piece of pottery) dating to the tenth century B.C. was disinterred at the ancient fortress city of Khirbet Qeiyafa, which was the only fortified Judahite city during the reigns of David and his predecessor, King Saul (in fact, the Qeiyafa ostracon is the only extant relic that mentions Saul).
The famed French epigrapher Émile Puech regards the inscription as the earliest writing narrating the transition of Israel from a people ruled by judges into a kingdom. It shows that the people living around David’s time were literate, and in fact, more than capable of recording (and passing on) the annals of David’s dynasty, such as we see in the biblical books of Kings and Chronicles.
The Tel Dan stele and the Qeiyafa ostracon are just two examples from the multitude of archaeological discoveries in Israel that have bolstered our understanding of, and in many cases substantiated the reliability of, biblical records of history. Since only roughly five percent of all biblical sites have been excavated to date (which is unbelievable considering how much has already been found), It’s truly exciting to think of how many more such finds may be unearthed in the years to come.
by Cale Clarke, in catholic.com
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Last will and testament, Albert L. Cheney estate investigation
Last will and testament, Albert L. Cheney estate investigation
Title Last will and testament, Albert L. Cheney estate investigation
Photographer Fowler, Perry.
Location/Accession HE box 2285
Historical Data Hazel Belford Glab's "new" wealthy fiance´, Albert Llewellyn Cheney, died mysteriously on March 13, 1935 in a Las Vegas hotel on the eve of their intended marriage. In a will penned in purple ink on hotel stationary, Cheney attested all his property, personal belongings and insurance policies, go to his future wife. After Cheney's daughter, Mrs. Catherine Taylor, contested what she termed her father's "purported will", it was surmised that Mrs. Glab forged the will over a genuine signature of Cheney's, bequeathing her his entire $400,000 estate, and then persuaded accomplices Fred and Clara Steeger to sign it as witnesses. Ultimately, Glab's luck ran out and she, along with the Steeger's, was arrested on forgery charges. During the trial, authorities reopened the investigation into the shooting death of her third husband, John I. Glab, a wealthy retired Chicago Druggist whose mysterious death seven years earlier had remained unsolved. On December 27, 1935, Mrs. Glab was found guilty and was convicted of forgery and preparing false evidence; she was sentenced to Tehachapi Women's Prison for a term of 2 to 14 years for that crime. Shortly thereafter, in April 1936, Glab was convicted of second-degree murder for killing John Glab, the sentence being seven-years-to-life. Surprisingly, though, she was out of prison in 1943 after serving only 7 years.
Description Here is the will in which Cheney left the bulk of his estate to Mrs. Glab under her maiden name of Hazel Belford. It was written on some hotel stationary Mrs. Glab had. She wrote it at Cheney's dictation with his fountain pen, containing purple ink. Fred and Clara Steeger witnessed it, signing with blue ink. Photograph dated April 6, 1935.
Subject Cheney, Albert L.--Estate.
Decedents' estates--Cases.
Evidence, Documentary.
Wills--California--Los Angeles.
Swindlers and swindling--California--Los Angeles.
Trials (Forgery)--California--Los Angeles.
Forgery--California--Los Angeles.
Trials--California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs.
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Entrance to the Plaza Church
Entrance to the Plaza Church
Title Entrance to the Plaza Church
Photographer Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID Herman J Schultheis Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession N-006-959 8x10
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937.
Historical Data Mission Nuestra Sen~ora Reina de los Angeles (Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels), was founded on September 4, 1781 by a group of Spanish settlers. The church was considered an asistencia ("sub-mission") of Mission San Gabriel Arca´ngel. Priests from Mission San Gabriel divided their time between the mission and the Asistencia site, but ultimately the installation was never granted mission status and the missionaries eventually abandoned the site. The surrounding area was named El Pueblo de Nuestra Sen~ora la Reina de los Angeles del Ri´o de Porciu´ncula ("The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the River Porciu´ncula", which is the present-day City of Los Angeles). A chapel, La Iglesia de Nuestra Sen~ora Reina de los Angeles, was later erected and dedicated on December 8, 1822, and for years served as the sole Roman Catholic church in the Pueblo. It is the oldest church in the city of Los Angeles. It was dedicated as California Historic Landmark #144.
Description Two women walk by the arched doorway to the Plaza Church.
Subject Plaza Church (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Doorways--California--Los Angeles.
Arches--California--Los Angeles.
Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles.
Catholic churches--California--Los Angeles.
Church buildings--California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments.
California Historical Landmarks.
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Schultheis Collection photographs.
Credits Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Sub-Collection Name Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Siblings with carriage
Siblings with carriage
Title Siblings with carriage
Collection ID Shades of L.A. Collection
Shades of L.A.: African American Community
Location/Accession S-001-514 120
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is a reproduction.; Published on page 37 of Shades of L.A. New York : The New Press, c1996.
Description Siblings, from left to right, Doris, Leon, Edwin, Frank, Earl and Mildred with a carriage pulled by a goat by their home at 1151 East 47th Place, in Los Angeles.
Subject Families--California--Los Angeles.
Children--California--Los Angeles.
Brothers and sisters--California--Los Angeles.
Carriages and carts--California--Los Angeles.
Goats--California--Los Angeles.
Shades of L.A. Collection photographs.
Shades of L.A. African American photographs.
Credits Shades of L.A. is an archive of photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and include daily life, social organizations, work, personal and holiday celebrations, and migration and immigration activities. Made possible and accessible through the generous support of the Security Pacific National Bank, Sunlaw Cogeneration Partners, Photo Friends, California Council for the Humanities, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Rights The contents of this collection are restricted to personal, research, and non-commercial use. The Library cannot share the personal and/or contact information of the donors, their descendants, or associates who contributed photographs and oral histories to the collection.
Reproduction Information Images available for reproduction and educational use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/orderinguse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name Shades of L.A. Photo Collection
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Literature review on van use in the UK
B Lang, L Rehm
Over the last decade the UK van1 (also referred to as Light Goods Vehicles or LGVs) population has grown by around a third and van traffic by 40% (DfT, 2005). This growth in van activity has to be seen within the context of developments in the IT sector and communication technology, especially in the area of freight management and e-commerce. In addition to vans’ classic use as tradesmen’s and construction site vehicles, vans are increasingly used by courier and express services and in delivery services. In 2004 vans accounted for 9.5% of the UK’s vehicle population and for 7% (or 11 billion tonne kilometres) of Great Britain’s freight activity. Drivers of vans are predominantly occasional van users (an estimated 4 million in the UK); 187,000 van drivers refer to themselves as professional van drivers; only 6% of these are women (ONS, 2004).
Eight percent of all UK road traffic accidents involve a van, and this proportion has been stable between 1999 and 2003. With an increase in the number of vans and their higher traffic volume between these years, this in fact represents a significant reduction (43% between 1999 and 2003) in accident rates per billion kilometres. In fatal accidents, however, vans are over-represented (Smith and Knight, 2005). A comparison of STATS19 casualty numbers in van-car injury accidents found higher numbers of fatalities in cars compared to vans. This is likely to be a result of higher car occupancy numbers, but must also be considered in the light of the mass and geometric asymmetry between the vans and cars, which puts car occupants at higher risk of serious injury.
The cost of work-related road accidents of light goods vehicles to society was estimated by Health and Safety Executive economists to be around £689 million per year (HSE, 1999). The review of the literature identified fatigue, time pressure when driving for work, mobile phone use, lack of seatbelt use, incorrect loading and lack of van maintenance as problems which need urgent the attention of businesses using vans for work to comply with their duty of car requirements.
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CBRE GROUP, INC. STRENGTHENS ITS ASIA PACIFIC PLATFORM WITH ACQUISITION OF AFFILIATE IN VIETNAM
CBRE Vietnam to Serve as Key Pillar in Service Delivery Across Southeast Asia
2012/09/28
Hong Kong, September 24, 2012 – CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG) today announced that it has acquired its affiliate company in Vietnam, CB Richard Ellis (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. (“CBRE Vietnam”). The acquisition strengthens the Company’s Asia Pacific platform, and particularly its ability to offer fully integrated services in the rapidly growing Southeast Asia region.
A CBRE affiliate for nearly 10 years, CBRE Vietnam is a leading service provider in that country, with a leading market share across most service lines. It offers a wide range of services, including property sales, office and retail leasing, occupier advisory services, residential project marketing, property and facilities management, project management, consulting, research and valuation.
Marc Townsend, Managing Director, and Richard Leech, Executive Director, will continue to lead the operations in Vietnam following the acquisition. Mr. Townsend and Mr. Leech have jointly managed the Vietnam affiliate since its founding in 2003. CBRE Vietnam has a staff of more than 160 people and serves clients from offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Hanoi.
“We are very excited to be aligning more closely with the CBRE platform,” said Mr. Townsend. “While we have been serving international investors and occupiers in Vietnam for years, we will now have more resources to enhance and expand our service offering, and further tap into CBRE’s premier global network.”
Rob Blain, chairman and CEO of CBRE Asia Pacific, said: “Although current market conditions are challenging in Vietnam, we believe the country has strong long-term growth potential as a low-cost business hub, particularly as its market-based economy matures. CBRE Vietnam will be a key pillar in our service delivery platform in the emerging economies across Southeast Asia. These operations complement our market-leading position in Singapore, China and elsewhere in the region. We are extremely pleased that Marc, Richard and their entire team have chosen to join with us to build our future in Southeast Asia.”
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30 Hours of Graduate-level Courses (With 15 hours at the 6000 level) 30 Hours of Graduate-level Courses (With 15 hours at the 6000 level) 30 Hours of Graduate-level Courses (With 15 hours at the 6000 level)
9 Hours of Required Courses:
ENGL 6393: Research Methods
ENGL 5366: Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 5360: History and Structure of the English Language
21 Hours of Electives
All must be English courses, six hours of which can be thesis hours.
21 Hours of Required Courses:
LING 5310: Educational Linguistics
WRTG 5320: Teaching Creative Writing: History, Theory and Practice
WRTG 5330: Contemporary Composition: Theory and Application
ENGL 6365: Diverse Literatures Seminar
9 Hours of Electives (chosen from the following options), 6 hours of which must be in literature:
ENGL 5325, 6306, ENGL 6307, ENGL 6321, ENGL 6323, ENGL 6325, ENGL 6394, WRTG 6310, and WRTG 6610
12 Hours of Required Courses
ENGL 5360 History and Structure of the English Language
ENGL 5366 Literacy Theory and Criticism
ENGL 6393 Research Methods in English
ENGL 6336 Manuscripts and Texts
Nine hours must be in Medieval and/or Renaissance literature.
Six hours must be in Medieval/Renaissance literature, Medieval/ Renaissance courses in other disciplines, or thesis hours.
Three hours must NOT be in Medieval or Renaissance.
Comprehensive Exam. As part of ENGL 6365: Capstone Research Paper of 25 pages utilizing research methodology in composition theory. Portfolio of self-selected assignments completed for MA courses. Comprehensive Exam, including Translation Component.
Thesis Option: In lieu of 6 of the 6000-level hours, students may elect to enroll in 6 hours of “Thesis Hours,” complete a thesis under the guidance of an advisor and committee, and sit for an oral defense of the thesis. (Students electing to complete a thesis should select a topic and assemble a thesis committee by the beginning of the first semester of their second year.) N/A Thesis Option: In lieu of 6 of the 6000-level hours, students may elect to enroll in 6 hours of “Thesis Hours,” complete a thesis on a Medieval and/or Renaissance topic under the guidance of an advisor and committee, and sit for an oral defense of the thesis. (Students electing to complete a thesis should select a topic and assemble a thesis committee by the beginning of the first semester of their second year.)
Those students on the traditional track must choose one of the following plans:
(1) Satisfactorily complete 30 hours of English and pass a comprehensive examination based upon the department’s Master’s Reading List
(2) Satisfactorily complete 24 hours of English, pass a comprehensive examination based upon the department’s Master’s Reading List, prepare a thesis for which 6 hours of credit are earned, and pass an oral examination over the subject matter of the thesis.
Visit the following links for more information about the M.A. English Comprehensive Exam: Policies and Procedures, Reading List, Sample Exams, Exam Dates, and Information Sessions.
In both plans, at least 15 of the student’s 30 hours must consist of 6000-level courses. All students pursuing the Master of Arts in English are required to pass.
____ ENGL 5360 History and Structure of the English Language
____ ENGL 5366 Literacy Theory and Criticism
____ ENGL 6393 Research Methods in English
The department strongly recommends that ENGL 6393 be taken at the earliest opportunity.
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Should the student elect the thesis option, he or she will select a professor to direct the thesis. When the thesis is submitted, an oral examination will be given by a committee composed of the major professor, a member of the graduate faculty (to be appointed by the departmental chairperson), and a member of the graduate faculty from outside the Department of English.
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New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases.
Tilahun Yilma, R. Breeze
Recent advances in molecular biology, genetics, and immunochemistry have provided the basis for a new generation of vaccines, diagnostic tools, and prophylactic substances for the prevention of infectious diseases in cattle. This article describes how these new technologies are being applied to veterinary medicine and their potential in bovine respiratory diseases caused by infectious agents.
The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice
Cattle Diseases
bovine respiratory disease
Yilma, T., & Breeze, R. (1985). New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases. The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice, 1(2), 419-439.
New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases. / Yilma, Tilahun; Breeze, R.
In: The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice, Vol. 1, No. 2, 07.1985, p. 419-439.
Yilma, T & Breeze, R 1985, 'New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases.', The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 419-439.
Yilma T, Breeze R. New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases. The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice. 1985 Jul;1(2):419-439.
Yilma, Tilahun ; Breeze, R. / New technology for prevention and control of infectious bovine respiratory diseases. In: The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice. 1985 ; Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 419-439.
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No. 64: Stevie Nicks, ‘Edge of Seventeen’ – Top 100 Classic Rock Songs
Shauna W
Modern Records
'Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)' was the third single from Stevie Nicks' debut solo album, 1981's 'Bella Donna.' And the story behind this entry in our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs is one of musical lore.
The song's name came from a conversation Stevie had with her good friend Tom Petty's first wife, Jane, about the couple's first meeting. Jane said they met at the "age of seventeen," but her thick Southern accent made it sound like she said "edge of seventeen" -- and Nicks was so taken with the phrase that she asked Jane if she could use it as a song title.
Stevie intended the song to be about the Pettys, but when her beloved uncle Jonathan and music legend John Lennon both died during the same week in December of 1980, she shifted focus.
She's since said that the "white-winged dove" in the lyrics represented the spirit leaving the body upon death, and some of the verses recount Stevie's experiences in the days leading up to her uncle's passing.
'Edge of Seventeen' peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1982, and to this day it remains one of Nicks' most recognizable tracks. In fact, the guitar riff -- played by Stevie's longtime guitarist, session musician Waddy Wachtel -- is so distinctive that it was sampled in the Destiny's Child song 'Bootylicious,' and Stevie herself even made an appearance in the accompanying video.
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Filed Under: Stevie Nicks, Top 100 Classic Rock Songs
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Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 security patch after NSA detects flaw
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) detected a flow in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system which could allow hackers to breach or surveil targeted computer networks. After getting heads up from NSA, Microsoft has now fixed the security issue with a patch.
During a press conference, NSA revealed that the “serious vulnerability” could be used to create malicious software that appeared to be legitimate. If the vulnerability had been successfully exploited, an attacker would have been able to conduct “man-in-the-middle attacks” and decrypt confidential information on user connections to the affected software, said Microsoft.
The flaw, CVE-2020-0601, was found in the usermode cryptographic library, CRYPT32.DLL, that affects Windows 10 systems. However, Microsoft reported that the library was not in active use, though that doesn’t prevent an attacker from weaponizing it now that it’s been disclosed.
Microsoft said it found no evidence to show that the bug has been actively exploited by attackers, and classified the bug as “important.”
Such reporting about the vulnerability represents a departure for the NSA from its past strategy of keeping security flaws under wraps and using the same to exploit for its own intelligence needs.
A couple of years ago, the U.S. spy agency was criticized for finding and using a Windows vulnerability to conduct surveillance instead of alerting Microsoft to the flaw. The same exploit later leaked and was used to infect thousands of computers with the WannaCry ransomware, causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage.
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Spectacles by Snap Inc. Image Snap Inc.
Top five places to use your Spectacles by Snap Inc
By Rafael Fariñas -
Last week, Snap Inc. launched its new Spectacles, a pair of glasses equipped with a video camera that automatically pairs with the Snapchat app.
The Spectacles are not only fashionable but also functional, and some people are wondering about the limits of what they can do with them.
Currently available only through the Snapbot vending machines in the U.S., Snap’s Spectacles have quickly become more than a gadget, they are now a collector’s item.
While Snapbots sell them for $129.99, sites like Ebay have the Spectacles up for as much as $600.
Given the Spectacles are not technically a camera, the device may pass some rigorous filters at the world’s most heavily-guarded places where photography is not allowed.
What is more, they could go unnoticed by the uneducated eye and pass as just a quirky pair of sunglasses.
Disclaimer: This article does not intend to foment illegal activities.
1. Kumsusan Palace of the Sun – North Korea
Getting caught taking pictures at the Palace of the Sun is more than dangerous. Image: Once in a lifetime journey.
This is by far the longest shot on this list, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could get a snap inside North Korea’s most sacred building accessible to the public?
If the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun does not ring a bell, perhaps you might know it better as the resting place of the former communist leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il.
The Palace serves as a mausoleum for both father and son, and it is the largest of its kind in the world. Like in the rest of the country, pictures and video are strictly forbidden, and the consequences of capturing images without permission are more than severe.
2. Great Pyramid of Giza – Egypt
The Great Pyramid of Khufu picture. Image: Wikipedia.
The 4,000-year-old structure is the only of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that still stands, and photography and video are entirely banned inside the pyramid.
Officials of the historical monument do not allow footage of any kind inside the legendary chambers of the Great Pyramid. What’s more, aerial shots and pictures from atop the structure are also forbidden.
It is quite hot in Egypt, so maybe a quick Snap with the Spectacles will not call a lot of attention in the ancient ruins.
3. Taj Mahal – India
Taj Mahal day picture. Image: World of Wanderlust.
Sure, we have all seen amazing pictures of the Taj Mahal and its magnificent gardens from the outside, but what about the inside?
The Indian mausoleum is an architectural wonder from afar, but the rooms and chambers of the building are, allegedly, just as beautiful.
Guards search visitors at the entrance and retain all their devices, cameras, and photo equipment. Personal belongings are allowed, so maybe the Spectacles could pass as just a pair of sunglasses for the sunny Indian weather.
4. San Fermín Festival – Pamplona, Spain
The San Fermín Festival is perhaps better known for the unusual yet exciting tradition of the running of the bulls. Enraged bulls go loose on the narrow streets of the old Spanish city every summer, and thousands of people run from them.
Just last year, Spanish authorities banned all recording equipment from the celebrations since they posed a safety hazard for tourists who participated in the running. Yes, cameras are a safety hazard, not mad bulls on the streets.
If you want to capture the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being chased by a raging bull, you might just have to wear some Spectacles to avoid the hefty fees from Spanish officials.
5. The Sistine Chapel – Vatican City
The Sistine Chapel photo. Image: Traveler Corner.
The holiest site for the Catholic Church also guards some of the world’s most iconic works of art. Needless to say, pictures and video are strictly forbidden here as well.
All photographic equipment and gadgets such as smartphones and tablets are banned from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The Swiss Guard provides extra security to ensure no tourists take photos of the centenary frescos and paintings that decorate the Chapel.
There is a legitimate reason for this, in any case. Camera flashes deteriorate the work and restoring it is extremely delicate. After all, ‘The Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Chapel is nearly 500 years old.
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Paige Patterson
Can Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Make a Comeback?
October 29, 2019 / johnfea
Christian Right leader Paige Patterson virtually destroyed Southwestern before he was finally ousted. New president Adam Greenway is trying to bring the Fort Worth seminary back. Check out Ian Lovett ‘s piece at The Wall Street Journal.
A taste:
After the Rev. Adam W. Greenway stepped to the podium during his inauguration as the ninth president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he acknowledged the tumult that had engulfed the school in recent years.
The previous president was fired. Enrollment plummeted, and the training ground for many of the nation’s most famous pastors found itself at the center of a debate over the treatment of women in the church.
“I cannot change the past,” he said. “For any way in which we have fallen short, I am sorry.”
A generational gulf is threatening to split evangelical Christianity.
While older evangelicals have become a political force preaching traditional values, younger ones are deviating from their parents on issues like same-sex marriage, Israel, the role of women, and support for President Trump.
For Southwestern to thrive again, Dr. Greenway must attract more young people without alienating their parents. At stake: not only the health of the 111-year-old school but also of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest, most powerful Protestant denomination, whose membership has been falling for more than a decade.
The shift under way at the school is dramatic. Dr. Greenway’s predecessor, Rev. Paige Patterson, was a hero of the conservative resurgence, which swung the Southern Baptist Convention to the theological and political right. During 15 years as president of Southwestern, Dr. Patterson turned the campus into a reflection of his brand of evangelicalism.
He preached that scripture is inerrant and that women should submit themselves to the leadership of men, both at home and in church. He required members of his administration to carry firearms, for security reasons, he said. His office was filled with taxidermy. Stained glass windows depicting “heroes of the conservative resurgence,” including Dr. Patterson and his wife, were installed in the chapel.
Last year, Dr. Patterson was fired following allegations that he mishandled accusations of sexual assault by former students.
Dr. Patterson, in an email, said he handled the alleged assaults appropriately. “Candidly, I have no idea why I was released,” he said.
If you can get by the paywall you can read the rest here.
Liberty University Took Some of the Old Southwestern Seminary Stained Glass Windows
May 13, 2019 / johnfea / 12 Comments
Watch this video.
Last month I wrote a post titled “Big Changes at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.” I wrote about the Fort Worth, Texas seminary’s decision to remove stained glass windows devoted to two architects of of the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention: Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler. Both men were accused of sexual misconduct last year and Patterson was ousted as president of the seminary. Jacob Lupfer wrote about this here.
In addition to Patterson and Pressler, there were also stained-glass windows removed with images of Jerry Falwell Sr. and Jerry Vines, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and a member of the conservative resurgence. Jerry Falwell Jr. now has the Falwell Sr. and Vines windows. They are on display at Liberty University.
In the video, Falwell Jr. praises the conservative resurgence of the Southern Baptist convention and mocks the “new regime” at Southwestern Theological Seminary who removed the windows. He even calls the new administration a Southern Baptist “deep state.”
As Southwestern Theological Baptist Seminary tries to move beyond a horrendous year in which multiple cases of sexual harassment were revealed, the authoritarian leadership of Paige Patterson was exposed, and financial difficulties rocked the school, Jerry Falwell Jr. wants to keep that legacy–the darkest parts of the conservative resurgence in the SBC– alive and well at Liberty University. Is it only a matter of time before the Patterson and Pressler stained glass window make their way to Lynchburg?
Here is a taste of a Liberty University press release:
At Liberty University’s Baccalaureate Service on Friday night, President Jerry Falwell made a bold statement to the Southern Baptist Convention when he displayed two stained-glass windows that were recently removed from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s chapel. The windows feature Liberty’s founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell, and Dr. Jerry Vines, who delivered the Baccalaureate address.
The two windows were part of a larger collection that honored the leaders of the Conservative Resurgence among Southern Baptist churches. Installed only a few years ago, the Falwell window was made possible by financial contributions from Liberty University.
In a SWBTS press release from 2015, the seminary stated: “In order to pass along the story of the SBC’s Conservative Resurgence, Southwestern has dedicated stained-glass windows in MacGorman Chapel to those who played a major role in turning the convention back to a high view of Scripture.”
But on Friday, just moments before black drapes were removed, revealing the two large windows behind him on the stage, President Falwell said that “unfortunately, a new generation has taken the Convention away from those values in many ways.” He said the windows have been “removed by the new regime.”
Falwell demanded that SWBTS return the money donated for the windows and sent a plane to Fort Worth, Texas, this week to retrieve them. They will go on display in the Jerry Falwell Museum on campus.
Big Changes at Southwestern Theological Seminary
April 17, 2019 April 16, 2019 / johnfea / 1 Comment
It has been a rough couple of years at Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and for the Southern Baptist Convention generally. We have learned a lot about the dark underbelly of the so-called “conservative takeover” of the Convention that took place in the 1980s. Here are just a few of my posts over the last year:
A Southern Baptist Seminary Professor Reflects on the SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal
Southern Baptist Sexual Abuse: 20 Years, 700 Victims
Evangelical Preacher Beth Moore Speaks-Out on Misogyny in the Southern Baptist Church
Paige Patterson’s World
The New Fundamentalism
Southwestern has been at the heart of many of these SBC problems. According to this article at SBC Voices, the seminary is releasing 25 faculty members and closing its Houston campus. (I wonder if this prison program will close).
Southwestern has also decided to remove stained glass windows devoted to two of the architects of the conservative takeover: Paige Patterson and Paul Pressler. Both were accused of sexual misconduct last year.
Here is a taste of Jacob Lupfer’s piece at Religion News Service:
Pressler and Patterson eventually went from a metaphorical pedestal to actual stained glass. At Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, where Patterson was president, donors raised funds to immortalize leading figures of the conservative resurgence in the school’s chapel windows. The project originally intended to memorialize as many as 70 modern-day conservative Southern Baptist heroes.
Throughout Christian history, churches and cathedrals have used the medium of stained glass to tell the stories of prophets, apostles, saints and the Lord himself. The controversial Southwestern chapel window project, overseen by Dorothy Patterson, Paige’s wife, nicely illustrates the post-takeover SBC’s ahistorical infatuation with itself.
Normally, Christians allow the weight of history or the ecumenical consensus of the ages to decide which heroes of the faith to commit to stained glass. At a minimum, they wait until the honorees have died. But the Pattersons jumped the gun, and their brethren among the SBC powerful were too blinded by their own uncritical adulation for the conservative resurgence to stop them.
With no fanfare, and to the secret relief of many, the windows came down last week. This may reflect a preference for unadorned churches by the more Calvinistic leadership at the seminary, which until recently was a holdout among the SBC’s seminaries for resisting efforts to infuse the Southern Baptist Convention with Reformed theology.
More likely, the windows are untenable amid reconsiderations of Pressler and Patterson themselves. Patterson, 76, was forced out as Southwestern Seminary’s president last year, in part for mishandling sexual misconduct allegations years earlier at another seminary, and Pressler, 88, has been accused of sexual misconduct going back 40 years.
A spokesman for the seminary offered no comment on the windows removal when I called, beyond what was reported in the Alabama Baptist newspaper. The paper quotes an April 3 letter signed by trustee chairman Kevin Ueckert, which gave no reason for the removal, saying only, “After much prayerful consideration and discussion, we have concluded that it is in the best interest of the institution to remove and relocate the stained-glass windows.”
Read the entire piece here.
Paige Patterson and Richard Land Will Co-Teach an Ethics Course
October 9, 2018 October 8, 2018 / johnfea
Yes, you read the headline correctly.
Paige Patterson, who was ousted at Southwestern Theological Seminary for dismissing women’s concerns about domestic abuse and rape (see our coverage here), is teaching an ethics course at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
But it gets better. Patterson is co-teaching the class with Southern Evangelical Seminary president and court evangelical Richard Land. In 2013, Land retired early from his post at the Southern Baptist Church’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission because he made racially insensitive remarks in the context of the death of Trayvon Martin. (Russell Moore replaced him in the post).
Here is Adelle Banks’s piece at Religion News Service:
Patterson plans to co-teach a mid-October weeklong class on “Christian Ethics: The Bible and Moral Issues” with Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, a school that is not affiliated with the SBC.
“Dr. Patterson’s one of the most significant figures in evangelicalism in the last 20 years, at least, of the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century,” Land told Religion News Service, “and we believe that there are a lot of people who would like to hear from him about living the Christian life in America. I believe he’s an asset to evangelicalism and we’re looking forward to it.”
Male Authoritarianism and the Southern Baptists
July 16, 2018 July 16, 2018 / johnfea / 3 Comments
R. Marie Griffith directs the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. Some of you may remember our interview with her in Episode 32 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. During that interview we talked with Griffith about her recent book Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics.
Over at Religion & Politics, Griffith makes some important links between Southern Baptists, religious authoritarianism, and evangelical support for Donald Trump. She draws upon her own Southern Baptist upbringing in Chattanooga.
Here is a taste:
Ironically or fittingly enough, Pressler and Patterson, the takeover titans, were themselves taken down by sex scandals of various types. Earlier this year, Pressler’s name hit the national news for disturbing accusations of same-sex sexual misconduct and assault leveled against him; shortly thereafter, Patterson was ousted by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary over substantiated charges of damaging sexist behavior against women (from counseling an abused woman to stay with her husband and commenting on the body parts of young women to mishandling rape reports). That the architects of the “wives submit graciously” addition to the edifice of Baptist theology turned out to be men tainted by sexual misbehavior and chauvinism shocked many but could hardly surprise. As more sexual abuse scandals come to light, we’re getting a sad lesson in the ways that some respected leaders have ignored, neglected, and covered up injurious and even criminal behavior against vulnerable church members.
If that sounds like a plot from a movie, this is unfortunately not fiction, and the calculated strategy for retaining power regardless of fairness or due process has persisted in the denomination to this day. That the leaders of a tradition long known for touting its tolerance of independent thought within the wide bounds of the Bible became so thoroughly intolerant, not only of difference of opinion but of mere questioning and debate, has been a painful pill for many cradle Baptists to swallow. Untold numbers of people in the pews who have been perturbed by the machinations of denominational leaders and dismayed by the church’s patriarchal entrenchment have left the church for more democratic, egalitarian climes, even as many of those remaining have apparently grown comfortable with its top-down dogmatism. As one Baptist, removed as a trustee from the International Mission Board in 2006 for trying to prevent other trustees from removing some women from leadership there, put it recently: “Southern Baptist pastors are infatuated with and captivated by authoritarianism.”
No wonder so many white evangelicals are infatuated with and captivated by the authoritarian occupying the White House. It’s been a long time coming.
The Southern Baptist Story That Will Not Go Away
July 6, 2018 July 6, 2018 / johnfea
Paige Patterson loyalists are looking for payback. Some big donors to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary are threatening to withhold their donations unless the Patterson case is reopened. Not familiar with the Patterson case? Get up to speed with these posts.
Julie Zauzmer has the story at The Washington Post. Here is a taste:
Thousands of Southern Baptist women decried the way Paige Patterson, for decades a revered leader in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, talked about women from the pulpit. Then two allegations came to light that Patterson had not gone to police when a rape was reported to him, and the trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary fired him from his post as president of the seminary.
But Patterson’s defenders are still numerous in this conservative evangelical denomination. At the denomination’s annual meeting last month, they made a resolution — which was soundly defeated — to fire all the trustees who had fired Patterson.
Now, they have fired their latest salvo: a letter from more than two dozen major donors, claiming the trustees acted improperly in ousting Patterson and vowing to withhold their donations from the seminary unless the decision to fire Patterson is reopened.
Karen Swallow Prior is quoted in the piece. She is on the mark:
What we’re seeing is people who are committed to a person rather than to an institution or to the convention, putting their loyalty to a person ahead of their adherence to the principles of the institution,” said Karen Swallow Prior, a professor at Liberty University.
She said she wasn’t surprised to see the fight continuing but that the defeated resolution at the annual meeting should have put an end to it.
“It’s ironic, actually, that this letter, which is making complaints about alleged lack of due process, is also failing to follow due process within the Southern Baptist Convention. Due process in the Southern Baptist Convention looks like what happened at the annual meeting a few weeks ago, when a motion was brought before the convention to remove the executive committee for its decision about Paige Patterson, and that motion did not pass,” she said. “Since that was defeated, now we see something else enter into the picture, which is huge amounts of money. And there’s nothing Baptist or Christian about that.”
My Latest Piece at *Sojourners*: Pence’s Visit to the Southern Baptist Convention
June 21, 2018 June 21, 2018 / johnfea
In the last several months, the #MeToo movement has found its way to one of the largest Protestant denominations in America — the Southern Baptist Convention. While this year’s annual meeting did address issues related to Paige Patterson, the former SBC Theological Seminary president, and how women are treated in the church, the SBC leadership also decided to welcome Mike Pence, who represents a presidential administration with a long track record of degrading women in public, to their meeting.
In May, over 3000 SBC women sent an open letter to the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary demanding the firing of Paige Patterson.
As one of the primary architects of the denomination’s “conservative resurgence” in the 1980s, Patterson is a living legend in the SBC. But over the course of the last few months, the world that Paige Patterson created collapsed around him.
Patterson’s indiscretions are now widely known. He made inappropriate comments about teenage girls, he told a female victim of sexual assault not to report the incident to the police, and in 2015, when a Southwestern student told Patterson that she had been raped, he said he would meet with the student alone, so he could “break her down.”
The Board of Trustees at Southwestern eventually removed Patterson from his post. He is now gone, but the problem of authoritarian and misogynistic Southern Baptist leaders remains. The Patterson case exposed the dark side of the SBC and its conservative resurgence, prompting one seminary president to declare that the “wrath of God” is now being poured out on the convention.
More on the Paige Patterson Story from *The Washington Post*
June 11, 2018 / johnfea
Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey continue to work the Paige Patterson story for the Washington Post. In their recent piece, they share additional stories of women treated poorly by Patterson. Here is a taste:
Melissa Medley was there from 2010 to 2014 for her undergraduate studies in missions work when, she says, she was groped by her favorite professor. She went to a chaplain, who reported it to Patterson.
Patterson called and was “cordial,” and told her “corny jokes” before addressing the allegation, Medley said.
“The first thing he said was, making sure I understood the severity of what I was saying. I said yes,” said Medley, now pursuing a counseling master’s at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. “He said: ‘Do you have witnesses? Do you have proof?’ ”
She said that Patterson told her he would treat it as a “he said-she said” until he spoke to the professor — who denied everything. That was the end of the process, she said.
“That crushed me, because I knew nothing would be done,” she said.
Medley said she is not angry and, in fact, she “loves” the Southern Baptist Convention and is proud to be part of it. However, “Southern Baptists aren’t taught how to handle these situations. . . . We’ve got things we need to change.”
Ueckert, the board chairman at Southwestern, said last week that he didn’t know of the allegation. The professor denied it in an email to The Post.
I also found this part of the piece intriguing:
Patterson and a Texas judge named Paul Pressler — who now faces a state lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a man in his Bible study, which he denies — met in a New Orleans cafe to sketch out a plan to get conservatives into all the leadership positions in Southern Baptist institutions, according to historians of religion.
The takeover, which lasted over a decade, was no holds barred, with Patterson keeping files on ideological opponents and cultivating spies in seminaries, according to historical accounts. A 1991 profile in D Magazine — which covers the Dallas area — said Patterson had been “likened to the Rev. Jim Jones and Joe McCarthy” by his critics in the denomination. “He’s been reviled as a power-mad fundamentalist on a witch hunt for heretics.”
Russell Moore: “The mood of the Southern Baptist Convention right now would be similar to that of the country after Watergate”
June 8, 2018 / johnfea / 3 Comments
Check out Adelle Banks‘s piece at RNS on Paige Patterson‘s decision to forego delivering the sermon at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas next week.
“The mood of the Southern Baptist Convention right now would be similar to that of the country after Watergate,” said Russell Moore, president of the convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in an interview before Patterson’s announcement.
Patterson, an architect of the 1980s Southern Baptist movement known as the “conservative resurgence,” claimed that he still enjoyed support among the delegates, known as messengers, to the annual meeting. “Many messengers have implored me to carry out this assignment, but this convention is not about me,” he said in his statement, “and I have every confidence that this decision is best and right.”
His statement was his most explicit denial of the allegations to date. “I take exception to accusations that I ever knowingly ignored or failed to follow appropriate protocols in cases of reported abuse of women, students, or staff at any institution where I have served,” he said.
Patterson’s downfall is only one of several crises, which some Southern Baptists describe as “volcanic,” that will be roiling next week’s meeting:
In March, Frank Page, the man who handled the day-to-day operations of the SBC outside of its annual meetings, resigned as the president of the Executive Committee after what was described as a “morally inappropriate relationship in the recent past.” Committee spokesman Roger S. Oldham said an internal financial audit was conducted after Page’s departure and “there was no legal impropriety that was discovered.”
In October, Paul Pressler, a retired Texas judge and another prominent architect of what critics call a conservative takeover of the denomination, became the subject of a lawsuit by a male former office assistant charging him with decades of sexual abuse. Pressler has denied the allegations. The Southern Baptist Convention and Patterson, both named as co-defendants, have rejected the charges as meritless.
Despite the harrowing headlines, Moore said leaders at all levels of the denomination — which has local associations and state conventions — are trying to determine the best way forward.
“Part of the responsibility that churches and leaders have right now is to teach people through this how to react to such horror in the right way,” Moore said in early June. He said the scandals have helped churches think about how to protect victims of all sorts of abuse.
Paige Patterson Will Not Deliver Southern Baptist Convention Sermon
June 8, 2018 June 8, 2018 / johnfea
Instead, Patterson will ride “off into the setting sun—but with a Bible in my hand and a witness from my heart until He comes for me individually or for us all in the air. ”
He also references his own place in history: “I have with stumbling step, limited ability, and stuttering tongue desired to bequeath to the world an orthodox denomination with a heart and message for a world of lost people. My part is small in the amazing history of the people we call Baptists. ”
Here is his full statement:
Dear Southern Baptist Family:
On May 22 the trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary met together in a board meeting called at my request. At that meeting, in which I briefly participated, I was asked to assume the position of President Emeritus of Southwestern, and I accepted this reassignment. One week later, May 30, the executive committee of the board met, though this time I was not asked to participate and was unable to address or answer questions for committee members since I was in Germany for a preaching assignment. While in Germany, I received a phone call informing me I had been relieved of all responsibilities with and compensation from the Seminary effective immediately.
Since much has been reported and written about these matters in recent weeks, I wanted to address briefly a few points. It is not in my spirit or my heart to debate or revisit the decisions of the trustees to whom I was accountable as president of Southwestern, other than the brief comments that follow.
Recently, I have been accused, publicly and privately, of a number of things—none of which I acknowledge as having done in the way portrayed, and others that I am confident I absolutely did not do. I’ll just speak to several examples. First, a poor choice of words has occurred, in and out of the pulpit, over decades of ministry. I regret each case in which my heart and message were not clearly presented.
On the other hand, I take exception to accusations that I ever knowingly ignored or failed to follow appropriate protocols in cases of reported abuse of women, students, or staff at any institution where I have served. Indeed, the Southwestern trustees confirmed as much in their public statement of May 23, 2018: “The board affirmed a motion stating evidence exists that Dr. Patterson has complied with reporting laws regarding assault and abuse.”
For my words, demeanor, sentiments, or disposition to have been twisted to suggest the very antithesis to who I am and the biblical message I have presented over half a century not only is crushing to me and my family but also inevitably proves hurtful to others in the process. I have never sought to inflict hurt upon a woman or man.
For the last 43 years, through service in three institutions, I have attempted to prepare pastors and missionaries academically, evangelistically, and spiritually for kingdom endeavors. Today, on behalf of my sweetheart Dorothy, who has labored faithfully by my side through both sorrows and triumphs, and on behalf of my children and grandchildren, I want to express my gratitude to God for Southern Baptists. You have often encouraged our hearts. You have prayed for us in a multitude of ways. I would ask of no one of you more than you have given. What I have given back is a pittance compared to your kindness to me.
I wish further to thank the faculties and administrators who have held high my arms during both calm and raging waters. I love you all. To all of my students, including nearly 10,000 graduates whose diplomas I have personally signed, I thank you for your uncommon love for me, and more important, your unwavering devotion to our Lord.
To those who have ever opposed me or have embraced a different vision, I would be remiss if I did not thank you also. Your opposition kept me on my face before God, reminded me of just how very human I am, and outlined in tantalizing colors the mercies of God, which I have received in profusion from our Lord. I pray for heaven’s kindness for each of you.
At age 75, while my occupation has changed, my calling and passion have not been disturbed. Soon Southwestern will have a new president. I am riding off into the setting sun—but with a Bible in my hand and a witness from my heart until He comes for me individually or for us all in the air. I ask Southern Baptists to hold the new president of Southwestern before God in earnest prayer. He will be a great man, but the level of his attainment will be dependent to a large degree on your concert of prayer. I know that you will not fail in this endeavor.
In a few days, for the first time in 66 years I will not attend the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention – having begun attending when I was nine. As many of you know, I was elected in 2017 to deliver the 2018 annual convention sermon, but I have now respectfully requested to be released from this high privilege because I do not want my role as a preacher to detract in any way from the important business of our convention and because my desire is to work toward biblical harmony at our annual meeting. Many messengers have implored me to carry out this assignment, but this convention is not about me, and I have every confidence that this decision is best and right.
Now, may I just leave you with a challenge? I have with stumbling step, limited ability, and stuttering tongue desired to bequeath to the world an orthodox denomination with a heart and message for a world of lost people. My part is small in the amazing history of the people we call Baptists. But as insignificant as it may be, I will be praying every day that you will cling to the whole Bible as the Word of the living God and at the same moment give that Word to every lost person on this globe, knowing that Christ died for all and that every man, woman, boy, and girl who comes to the Lord Jesus in saving faith will be saved. Would you join me in that endeavor? Please link your hearts with Dorothy and me in expressing thanksgiving to our Lord for His abundant mercies to us all.
The History of the “Conservative Resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention
June 7, 2018 June 7, 2018 / johnfea / 3 Comments
I am not a scholar of religion in the American South. Nor am I an expert on the Southern Baptists or the so-called “conservative resurgence” in the 1980s. But ever since I started writing posts about this whole Paige Patterson mess, people (mostly non-Southern Baptists) have been asking me for good books on the history of the conservative takeover of the Convention.
What scholarly books would you recommend on this subject? Here are a few that I have found helpful over the years:
Nancy Ammerman, Baptist Battles
Barry Hankins, Uneasy in Babylon
Barry Hankins and Thomas Kidd, Baptists in America: A History
Paige Patterson’s Attorney Says His Client is the Victim of “wide-spread misrepresentation and misinformation”
Here is the latest on the Paige Patterson mess. It comes from David Roach at Baptist Press. A taste:
An attorney for terminated Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson issued a media release late Monday afternoon (June 4) defending Patterson against alleged “wide-spread misrepresentation and misinformation…
Among Sharpe’s claims in his media release:
— “No reasonable reading of” correspondence from Patterson’s personal archives suggested Lively “reported a rape to Dr. Patterson” in 2003 when he was Southeastern’s president “and certainly not that he ignored” such a report, “as is alleged.”
— “Dr. Patterson first learned of the charges that he allegedly did not report a rape at SEBTS during the May 22 board meeting” of Southwestern’s trustees. “Dr. Patterson’s response was that he had no recollection of a rape being reported to him.”
Sharpe told BP Patterson didn’t “remember a lady reporting a rape” while he was at Southeastern, so he called Allan Moseley, Southeastern’s dean of students in 2003. “Dr. Moseley said, ‘I don’t recall the lady telling me that.’ And then the lady who became [Lively’s] accountability partner” said, when she was queried May 22, “I don’t ever remember this student telling me that.”
Sharpe alleged that Lively, in 2003, “confessed to consensual” sexual conduct and “referred to it as a sin on her part.”
— During the May 22 Southwestern trustee meeting, “Dr. Patterson explained the full context” of a 2015 email concerning a rape allegation by a female student at the Fort Worth seminary, including his alleged statement that he wanted to meet with the accuser alone to “break her down.” Patterson’s explanation was “to the apparent satisfaction of the full board, as evidenced by the fact that the full trustee board voted to name Dr. Patterson ‘president emeritus’ instead of terminating him.”
Sharpe told BP the accuser met “with Dr. Patterson and with others and report[ed] the rape. The guy was immediately expelled from school and it’s reported to law enforcement. A week later, she sends an email to Dr. Patterson thanking him for the way he handled the delicate matter.”
More than “a month later,” Sharpe said, Patterson made the “break her down” statement to express his desire to more fully understand circumstances “concerning a forthcoming meeting that had nothing to do with the reporting of the rape.”
— “Dr. Patterson flatly denies that private SEBTS archives were ever stolen,” and his personal attorney has invited Southeastern to “join with him in having Peacemakers Ministries provide an arbitrator agreeable to both parties to decide the ownership of” disputed records “in accordance with 1 Corinthians 6, which prescribes how Christians are to settle disputes rather than using the secular court system.”
Southeastern Seminary: “At this time there has been no evidence discovered that disputes or discredits our former student’s account”
June 5, 2018 / johnfea
Here is the official statement from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary:
During the last few weeks Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) has walked through a situation that began when our administration was contacted by a former student who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault in 2003. Dr. Danny Akin, president of SEBTS, communicated the institution’s willingness to assist her in any way, and began an internal review of the matter. At this time, the internal review is not complete because SEBTS is not in possession of documents deemed as being owned by the seminary. At this time there has been no evidence discovered that disputes or discredits our former student’s account.
As public conversation has continued, correspondence regarding the matter has surfaced which were not in any files possessed by SEBTS. Such correspondence should be held in student files under protection of federal privacy laws regarding education records. It is our express desire to acquire these documents as well as any others that should be held by SEBTS.
A statement released today by Shelby Sharpe, personal attorney for Dr. Paige Patterson, refers to a request that we join in an arbitration process provided by Peacemakers Ministries. The statement indicates that we have not accepted. While we do understand that mail delay or other extenuating circumstances may have arisen, to this date we have received no such request. Mr. Sharpe also references a statement provided by a former staff member associated with the Pattersons in which he verifies he only removed documents that were the property of the Pattersons. It is our understanding that these are documents that were stored in the SEBTS Library archives and are not related to the official Presidential communications of the institution.
SEBTS does not believe the official Presidential communications were maliciously removed from the property. However, we believe there is a misunderstanding on the part of the Pattersons and their attorney as to what is owned by SEBTS under the work for hire doctrine.
It is not our intention to settle this matter in a court of law, and SEBTS has never expressed the desire to pursue action in the courts regarding these documents. We have made a request to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) and are working amicably with the institution to preserve and return all documents that are the property of SEBTS to our campus in Wake Forest. We have no desire to be uncooperative. We simply cannot respond to a request that we have not received.
Our ultimate goal in this process is to provide a safe learning environment and to protect the privacy of all our students and graduates.
Get some context by reading our coverage here.
Will Paige Patterson Still Deliver the Keynote Sermon at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting?
I will be shocked if Patterson goes ahead with the sermon.
Over at Religion News Service, Adelle Banks gives us the latest. Here is a taste of her piece, “Will he or won’t he?”
(RNS) — Paige Patterson is still listed on the program as giving the sermon at his denomination’s upcoming annual convention, despite being condemned for expressing views “antithetical to the core values of our faith,” in the words of a member of a seminary board that fired him as president emeritus last week.
As the Southern Baptist Convention’s meeting approaches, the question remains: Will Patterson give the sermon or won’t he?
Denominational leaders say that the decision is up to Patterson. “It will be his call to make as to whether or not he would voluntarily withdraw prior to the annual meeting,” Roger S. Oldham, spokesman for the SBC’s Executive Committee, said Friday (June 1).
Long a lionized figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, considered a patriarch or founding father by many, Patterson was until recently best known for pushing back against feminism and the women’s movement. Last month, in a dramatic #MeToo moment, he was fired for demeaning women.
But according to the bylaws of the SBC’s meeting, to be held June 12-13 in Dallas, since Patterson was elected by the messengers, or delegates, at last year’s meeting to preach the sermon at the upcoming gathering in Dallas, that body must also vote to remove him.
“The only body that would have the authority to change that would be the messengers of this year’s meeting or he himself,” Oldham said.
If nothing else, Southern Baptists are sticklers for parliamentary rules, which can make governing the 15 million-member convention, the nation’s largest Protestant group, a knotty, difficult and sometimes taxing affair.
“The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest open meeting run by parliamentary procedure in the world,” said Wade Burleson, a Southern Baptist blogger and Oklahoma pastor. “It’s mass chaos.”
Ross Douthat on the “Baptist Apocalypse”
The New York Times conservative columnist connects the Patterson scandal at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to the age of Trump. Here is a taste:
Among Trump-supporting religious believers, the long odds he overcame to win the presidency are often interpreted as a providential sign: Only God could have put Donald Trump in the White House, which means he must be there for some high and holy purpose.
The trouble with this theory is that it’s way too simplistic about what kind of surprises an interventionist deity might have in mind. Such a God might, for instance, offer political success as a temptation rather than a reward — or use an unexpected presidency not to save Americans but to chastise them.
We’re a long way from any final judgment on God’s purposes in the Trump era. But so far the Trump presidency has clearly been a kind of apocalypse — not (yet) in the “world-historical calamity” sense of the word, but in the original Greek meaning: an unveiling, an uncovering, an exposure of truths that had heretofore been hidden.
That exposure came first for the Republican Party’s establishment, who were revealed as something uncomfortably close to liberal caricature in their mix of weakness, cynicism and power worship. It came next for the technocrats and the data nerds of the Democratic Party, who were revealed as ineffectual, clueless and self-regarding in opposing Trump’s clown-car campaign. And then it came for a range of celebrated media men, from Harvey Weinstein to Matt Lauer, who found that in the backlash against Trump’s misogyny their own sins were suddenly exposed.
But the unveiling has not been confined, as Trump’s providentialist supporters might like to imagine, to institutions and individuals that have arrayed themselves against him. It has come as well for figures whose style anticipated him (Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, that whole ménage) and for figures who have deliberately attached themselves to his populist revolt. The sins of Roy Moore were more exposed by the Trump era, and now likewise the racist paranoia of Roseanne Barr.
And lately a similar moral exposure has come to precisely the sector of American Christianity where support for Donald Trump ran strongest — the denominational heart of conservative evangelicalism, the Southern Baptist Convention.
The main case is Paige Patterson, the now-erstwhile president of a major Baptist seminary in Fort Worth, who was eased into retirement over revelations that he’d counseled abused women to return to their husbands and allegedly shamed and silenced at least one rape victim. But the outpouring of female testimony inspired by his case suggests that Patterson is a beginning, not an end. “Judgment has now come to the house of the Southern Baptist Convention,” the Baptist theologian and seminary president Al Mohler wrote in an agonized reflection last week, and “the terrible swift sword of public humiliation has come with a vengeance.”
This Paige Patterson Stuff Just Gets More Disgusting By the Day
Here is Sarah Smith of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
The fired Southern Baptist seminary leader who wanted to get an alleged rape victim alone to “break her down” also said it was a “good thing” she had been raped and that her future husband wouldn’t care if she was a virgin or not, according to the woman’s attorney.
Paige Patterson, a giant in the Southern Baptist world, was fired from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth on May 30 in response to his handling of sexual assault allegations. He had been pushed to president emeritus May 23.
The three alleged assaults took place in October 2014 and April 2015 and were reported in August 2015. The alleged assailant, according to the victim’s attorney, Stuart Cochran of Dallas, was a Southwestern student and employee.
“I am told he said it was a ‘good thing’ my client had been raped and that her future husband wouldn’t care if she was a virgin or not,” Cochran said of Paige in a statement to the Star-Telegram. “He threatened to sic lawyers on her [mother] for questioning his leadership at the school when she asked why the assailant was allowed on campus.”
Cochran said that Patterson sent around an email calling the woman’s mother “nuts.”
A request sent to Patterson for comment through his then-chief of staff at Southwestern, Scott Colter, has not been returned. Colter is no longer at Southwestern.
After the alleged assaults and Patterson’s behavior, Cochran said, the woman withdrew voluntarily from the seminary.
Read the rest here. Indeed, Paige Patterson’s world HAS collapsed around him.
“Dr. Patterson discussed meeting with the student alone so that he could ‘break her down’ and that he preferred no officials be present”
And he also took documents from Southeastern Seminary that did not belong to him.
Kevin Euckert, the chair of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Board of Trustees, published this statement today on the seminary website:
Based on a number of follow-up questions I have received this week, I am providing this additional statement related to our May 30, 2018 statement. The unanimous decision by the Executive Committee to immediately terminate Dr. Paige Patterson was prayerfully considered and warranted.
We confirmed this week through a student record, made available to me with permission, that an allegation of rape was indeed made by a female student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2003. This information contradicts a statement previously provided by Dr. Patterson in response to a direct question by a Board member regarding the incident referenced in our May 30 statement. The 2003 rape allegation was never reported to local law enforcement. SWBTS will not release the student record to the public without additional appropriate permissions.
In addition, as previously disclosed, a female student at SWBTS reported to Dr. Patterson that she had been raped in 2015. Police were notified of that report. But in connection with that allegation of rape, Dr. Patterson sent an email (the contents of which were shared with the Board on May 22) to the Chief of Campus Security in which Dr. Patterson discussed meeting with the student alone so that he could “break her down” and that he preferred no officials be present. The attitude expressed by Dr. Patterson in that email is antithetical to the core values of our faith and to SWBTS. Moreover, the correlation between what has been reported and also revealed in the student record regarding the 2003 allegation at Southeastern and the contents of this email are undeniable.
Further, SWBTS received a request from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary requesting the return of any documents taken by Dr. Patterson upon his departure from Southeastern. Counsel for SWBTS, Michael Anderson, immediately reached out to counsel for Dr. Patterson, Shelby Sharpe, on May 25 and made inquiry regarding the documents. Mr. Sharpe advised Mr. Anderson that Dr. Patterson only took documents from Southeastern that belonged to him. Yet, independent of that request, following the May 30 Executive Committee meeting, SWBTS located Southeastern documents on the SWBTS campus and began taking steps to preserve them. Mr. Anderson is in contact with George Harvey, counsel for Southeastern, and is working with Mr. Harvey regarding Southeastern’s request for the return of its documents.
The morning after the May 30 Executive Committee meeting, Mr. Sharp provided a few documents he reportedly obtained from Dr. Patterson. The documents clearly dealt with Dr. Patterson’s tenure at Southeastern and should have been previously provided in response to Mr. Anderson’s May 25 request. Shortly after these documents were provided, the wife of Dr. Patterson’s Chief of Staff published a blog and attached these documents without the permission of the students referenced in the documents or appropriate leadership from SEBTS or SWBTS. I believe this was inappropriate and unethical. Regardless, the additional documents do not alter the decision of the Executive Committee.
Ultimately, the decision of the Executive Committee to immediately terminate Dr. Patterson was clear and unanimous.
I also want to reiterate what SWBTS Interim President Dr. Jeffrey Bingham said earlier this week. SWBTS denounces all abusive behavior, any behavior that enables abuse, any failure to protect the abused, and any failure to safeguard those who are vulnerable to abuse.
In this difficult situation, the Executive Committee based its decision on the current performance of the president and did not allow the legacy of Dr. Patterson or the #MeToo pressure to steer the outcome. We did not react; rather, we decisively exercised our responsibility based on the Seminary’s biblically informed core values and integrity.
I join Dr. Bingham in his call for the SWBTS community to join the Body of Christ in praying for healing for all individuals affected by abuse.
The Latest on Paige Patterson
David Roach has a nice summary of the most recent developments at Baptist Press. Here is a taste:
Following Paige Patterson’s termination by a 12-member committee of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees, reactions have ranged from affirmation of the trustees to defense of Patterson.
The seminary has canceled planned on-campus events in conjunction with the June 12-13 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas, and at least two of Patterson’s speaking engagements at ancillary meetings have been canceled. Patterson has not said whether he will deliver the convention sermon in Dallas, a task messengers at the 2017 SBC annual meeting elected him to fulfill.
Meanwhile, the Southwestern trustee executive committee announced today (May 31) that it also “has reinstated” Nathan Montgomery “as an employee of SWBTS.” Montgomery is the student worker who was fired May 2 after he tweeted an article critical of Patterson that called for his retirement.
Patterson has been under fire since late April for statements he has made about domestic abuse and women’s physical appearance.
Read the rest here. Not familiar with the Patterson scandal? Get up to speed here.
Paige Patterson Resigns from the Cedarville University Board of Trustees
Get some context here.
April Laissle of WYSO has it covered. Here is her report:
UPDATE: Paige Patterson has resigned from Cedarville University’s Board of Trustees, according to a university official. His name was removed from the school’s website Friday. Cedarville spokesperson Clem Boyd told WYSO Patterson’s resignation is effective immediately, but declined to comment further.
The Paige Patterson Case at Southwestern Baptist Seminary Takes Yet Another Turn
This time the turn seems to be in Patterson’s favor. Over at the website “SBC Issues,” Sharaya Colter, the wife of Patterson’s chief of staff, offers a different account of what happened to Patterson. And she has documents!
I am wondering where and how she got these documents. Read her post here.
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HomeSportsLocal SportsMiami Dolphins highlights from an eight and eight season
Miami Dolphins highlights from an eight and eight season
January 5, 2015 Carma Henry Local Sports 0
Former Dolphins Defensive Tackle Manny Fernandez Honor Roll Induction at Halftime — (Opening statement) – “I want to thank everybody that’s here today and I’m looking forward to this game being a Dolphin win, they love to come from behind. This is an honor I never expected or really thought four years ago, when I went into the Walk of Fame, that’s where it was going to end. But here I am. I have so many people to thank. I want to start with Mr. (Stephen) Ross for just putting together a spectacular week for me and the other alumni and members of the Dolphin family. It’s been a great week, this is a great day and I am extremely humbled to join all of the names up there in this Honor Roll. A very, very special day in my life, only second to January 14, 1973. I’m looking forward to the day when we’re going to be back there. Thank you all for being here today. A real quick special thanks to my wife Marcia, who after 41 years is still with me, here today, and has spent so many nights with ice packs, heating pads and massages and keeping me going week-to-week, love you.” L-r: Jarvis Landry, Brandon Gibson, Samson Satele, Brian Hartline, Terrence Fede, Jordan Kovacs, Ja’Wuan James, Jason Fox, Ryan Tannehill, T.J. Heath, Mike Pouncey, Caleb Sturgis and Brandon Fields.
L-r: Miami Dolphins President & CEO Tom Garfinkel, Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver G. Gilbert III and Miami Dolphins Senior Director of Community Affairs Twan Russell.
Miami Dolphins Distribute Toys to Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach County Students — Several Miami Dolphins players, coaches, cheerleaders, Miami Dolphins Women’s Organization (MDWO) members and mascot T.D. welcomed 125 students from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach County partner schools to the team’s training camp facility for a holiday toy event. “It’s exciting to be out here, to be able to give back to the community. We’re putting a smile on these kids’ faces for a wonderful holiday,” said G Mike Pouncey. Pouncey was joined by 15 of his teammates for the event, including John Denney, Terrence Fede, Brandon Fields, Jason Fox, Brandon Gibson, Brian Hartline, T.J. Heath, Ja’Wuan James, Reshad Jones, Jordan Kovacs, Jarvis Landry, Samson Satele, Caleb Sturgis, Ryan Tannehill and Jason Trusnik. The evening concluded with MDWO members and players distributing presents. Each kid provided a toy wish list with items they would like for the holiday. Players and coaches, along with MDWO members, collaborated together to fund the entire event and provide the toys that were given. All students also received a tablet.
2014 MIAMI DOLPHINS TEAM AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED — Quarterback Ryan Tannehill was selected for the Dan Marino Most Valuable Player Award, defensive end Cameron Wake won the Don Shula Leadership Award and tackle Jason Fox took home the Nat Moore Community Service Award, it was announced recently.
GRIMES AND WAKE NAMED TO PRO BOWL — Miami Dolphins cornerback Brent Grimes and defensive end Cameron Wake have been selected to the 2015 NFL Pro Bowl squad, the NFL announced. The annual contest will be played on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., site of Super Bowl XLIX. The game will be televised live on ESPN at 8 p.m.
Miami Dolphins highlights
Christmas reflects more than the politics of political spirit
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Watch Bob Dylan Perform ‘Learning to Fly’ in Tribute to Tom Petty
Watch as Bob Dylan pays tribute to Tom Petty, performing his late Traveling Wilburys bandmate's early '90s hit song “Learning to Fly.”
The concert, held last night in Broomfield, Colo., arrived a day after what would have been Petty's 67th birthday. This cover is particularly notable because Dylan’s set lists are traditionally set in stone.
"Learning to Fly" originally appeared on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1991 album Into the Great Wide Open, and was co-written by producer Jeff Lynne, another Wilburys alum. Petty and the Electric Light Orchestra leader called themselves Charlie T. Wilbury and Otis Wilbury, respectively, while working with Dylan (Lucky Wilbury), George Harrison (Nelson Wilbury) and Roy Orbison (Lefty Wilbury).
Dylan spoke emotionally about Petty after his Oct. 2 death. "It's shocking, crushing news," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought the world of Tom. He was a great performer, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him."
Petty died while plans were still underway for a tour focusing on his 1994 album Wildflowers. These dates were to follow the Heartbreakers’ 40th anniversary road trip, which ended a week before he passed away. Norah Jones had apparently already committed to take part.
Manager Tony Dimitriades has since revealed that Petty had been diagnosed with a hairline fracture in his hip, but decided to soldier on anyway. Petty intended to address the issue once these most recent shows were completed, Dimitriades said last week.
Tom Petty Through the Years: 1976-2017 Photos
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Source: Watch Bob Dylan Perform ‘Learning to Fly’ in Tribute to Tom Petty
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Rabbi Ba’al Shivah, the Hindu Hebrew connection.
Today I am going to discuss some of the similarities between the Hebrews and the Hindus with my atheist friends and explain some of my ideas on the mind and psychology for them. Above we see the Hamsa, which was originally used by the Jains in India. Even the word Hamsa comes from the Indian word ahimsa, which means:
Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli:[1]avihiṃsā) is a term meaning ‘to not injure’. The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm.[2][3] Ahimsa is also referred to as nonviolence, and it applies to all living beings including animals according to many Indian religions.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
We see that the Hamsa is actually a stylized penis, masquerading as a hand, hands by their very nature are not equilateral, the Shiva lingam represents Shiva’s penis.
The lingam (also, linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit लिङ्गं, liṅgaṃ, meaning “mark”, “sign”, or “inference”[1][2]) is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples.[3] In traditional Indian society, the linga is rather seen as a symbol of the energy and potential of the God.[4][4][5][6][7]
The lingam is often represented alongside the yoni, a symbol of the goddess or of Shakti, female creative energy.[8] The union of lingam and yoni represents the “indivisible two-in-oneness of male and female, the passive space and active time from which all life originates”.[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Linga
Shiva being the God of Death is also at the same time the God of life.
Even if you look at the similarities between the so called “horned alphabet” and sanskrit you see similarities. Hebrew was a revolutionary language for a secretive people, it was simplified and modified from sanskrit making it easier to use, it was the language of revolt, Kabbalists have always been very secretive in their communication of revolutionary ideas.
Origins of the word[edit]
The term cabal derives from Cabala (a word that has numerous spelling variations), the Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew scripture. In Hebrew it means “reception” or “tradition”, denoting the sod (secret) level of Jewish exegesis. In European culture (Christian Cabala, Hermetic Qabalah) it became associated withoccult doctrine or a secret.[citation needed] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabal#Origins_of_the_word
Have you ever considered the meaning of Moses finding the Hebrew god on Mount Sinai?
According to some biblical scholars[who?], Horeb is thought to mean “glowing/heat”, which seems to be a reference to the sun, whileSinai may have derived from the name of Sin, the Sumerian deity of the moon,[3][4] and thus Sinai and Horeb would be the mountains of the moon and sun, respectively.
Interesting that Shiva himself is a moon god, is it not? I frankly think that the burning bush was marijuana, the Aghori shaivists smoke massive amounts of marijuana, and then meditate in grave yards.
Because the Jews were aware of psychology, when they were a warring tribe if you killed in battle you had to sit Shiva and meditate for 7 days before you were clean (kosher) and allowed back into the city. My nom de plume means, Lord of Meditation, because in my slaying of the ego I have killed more than anybody else.
The Hebrew word “shiva” means “seven”, and the official shiva period is seven days. The day of the funeral is counted as the first day of shiva, even though the practice does not begin until after the mourner(s) arrive at the designated location following the funeral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism)#Length_of_shiva
Shiva was a wandering philosopher, India was famous as being a source of wandering philosophers that went walkabout and took their traditions far and wide. When he went to a strange land he would sleep in the grave yard because he was surrounded by an entourage of disembodied spirits to which he ministered, this is not bizarre in the Kabbalist tradition, many rabbis are known to have angelic and even demonic familiars with which they can be seen conversing.
Below we see the Origins of the muslim epithet, “shayateen”.
Had you been a cartographer and geographer working for the British East India company in the 17th and 18th centuries, you would have found all over India thousands of Hebrew-like place names with similar meanings in both languages as well. The map excerpt on this page shows a small section of ancient Seuna-Desa (Zion Land) in what is now Maharashtra (to right). At the bottom right of the excerpt is the city of Paithan, on the banks of the river Godivari. The Indo-Hebrews named the part of the river passing through Paithan’s territory Paithan (Pison, Phison), according to their traditions. In the upper left-hand corner is the city of Satana. According to the legends of the Yadavas (Indo-Hebrews), Satana would have made the folks in Sodom and Gomorah envious. The Seunas and the Satanas decided to resolve their moral and religious differences on the battlefield. The forces of “Satan” lost, but their defeat didn’t dishearten them. Eventually, we came to think of “Satan” as a being who lost the battle but not the war. The bible tells us that such a peace treaty hasn’t yet been signed between these two ancient enemies.
http://www.viewzone.com/matlock.html
Later in that same article it says this:
Holger Kersten wrote in Jesus Lived in India,
“The relation between ancient Israel and Kashmiri can most clearly be demonstrated linguistically. Kashmirian is different from all the other Indian languages, the origins of which are Sanskrit. The development of the language of Kashmir has been greatly influenced by the Hebrew. Abdul Ahad Azad writes, ‘The language of Kashmir derives from Hebrew.’ According to tradition, in ancient times Jewish peoples settled here, whose language changed into the Kashmirian of today. There are many Hebrew words that are quite obviously connected with the language of Kashmir.” (pp. 68-69.)
24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.” Matthew 12: 24
The pharisees who were practicing the old Abrahamic law code essentially accused Jesus of casting out demons by the power of Satan. Are you starting to see the connection here? Instead of denying it, Jesus mentions the Temple of Solomon, and makes a reference to a house being divided against itself. Solomon built gods temple by enslaving spirits and forcing them to do his bidding. Then he turns it around on the Pharisees and asks them by what power they themselves cast out demons.
It has recently occurred to me that their is a huge similarity between the phonology of the words Shayateen and Chaitanya.
The Sanskrit word, Chaitanya, means ‘consciousness’ or ‘universal soul’ or ‘spirit’ or ‘intelligence’ or ‘sensation’.[1][2] It is the pure Consciousness or the cosmic intelligence, the consciousness that knows itself and also knows others.[3] It also means energy or enthusiasm.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitanya_(consciousness)
If you remember the Muslims hate the color saffron, which is the color of the robes of the Sarasvati order monks. Notice too the familiar phonology of the word Charlatan and what Mohammed said about Shaytan, he is the whisperer. Remember that Mary Magdalene moved to France after Jesus alleged death. Remember too that Proto-indo-european is more or less a fact. I, being a phonologist, track the movements of ideas across countries and through time.
The word comes from Frenchcharlatan, a seller of medicines who might advertise his presence with music and an outdoor stage show. The best known of the Parisian charlatans was Tabarin, who set up a stage in the Place Dauphine, Paris in 1618, and whose commedia dell’arte inspired skits and whose farces inspired Molière. The word can also be traced toSpanish; charlatán, an indiscreetly talkative person, a chatterbox. Ultimately, etymologists trace “charlatan” from either theItalianciarlare, to prattle; or from Cerretano, a resident of Cerreto, a village in Umbria, known for its quacks.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlatan
Imagine if you will the Pharisees bursting in and yelling, “Shayateen! Charlatan! Chaitanya!”. Remember that they reject thought, they reject consciousness, they avoid thinking as much as possible. They fear intelligence.
I am familiar with the word Chaitanya because my Shaktipat Initiatore, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda has a root word in her name. Her name means, Energy = chit, moves= vilas= velocity, bliss= ananda, Sarasvati order monks adopt the suffix “ananda”. The word Chit, energy, comes from Chaitanya, consciousness. The words Chi, ki, come from this root as well as the words Chan and Zen.
Now it is no secret that I think Abraham and Brahma are the same being historically, I am not the first person to think this, many others have come to the same conclusion. If you observe closely you will find many similarities between the marriages of Brahman families and Chassidic jews, what is of interest is that the Aghori, the lingayats, and the Kashmir Shaivists rejected more or less the authority of the Brahman priest class, who are very much like the muslims adhering to the old Abrahamic law code. The lingayats, were poets and mystics, they wore a shiva lingam around their neck and they had a personal relationship with god, and no mediator separating them from god. They had their own nickname for Shiva, and they visualized him in a form that was sacred to themselves. It was very much a personal relationship with god.
According to Heinrich Zimmer, whose work was edited and published posthumously by Joseph Campbell, there is only on Temple for Brahma, and the vast majority of demons worshiped Brahma. This is of further interest when you consider that the Indian demons look so much like Muslims.
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Archives for posts with tag: Frank Zappa
On streaming, 2
As promised, following last week’s rather lengthy introduction, here the first of a few rambles around recent things I’ve picked up on in the realm of streaming media. First up, I was out for dinner with my old friend, former colleague and sometimes music collaborator Chris Jones a couple of weeks back. Jones is a Frank Zappa die hard and mentioned, almost in passing, that the entire Zappa catalogue is now available in Spotify. I was frankly astonished. As far as I know, the Zappa estate, overseen by Frank’s widow Gail, had been pretty dismissive about the service, seeing it as returning poor revenues.
(For the record, Zappa himself a true visionary, proposed in the 1980s a digital network allowing the purchase of music. This widely available and quite remarkable document explains it.)
I wrote on my own blog some time ago that I thought the Zappa’s estate’s position was mistaken. I understood – and continue to understand – the potential concerns over the pitiful sums returned to musicians by Spotify (which I’ll return to in this thread). But I didn’t believe that a presence on Spotify would cannibalise income from Zappa catalogue sales elsewhere – or at least would only do so marginally. But the cost of not being available for streaming was future generations left unaware of the work of a man I personally believe to be one of the towering geniuses of 20th Century music.
I have no idea why the estate has “come round” – but I’m delighted it has. Now, if only Manfred Eicher would have the same Damascene moment – or perhaps more prosaically just do the right deal – and get the ECM catalogue onto the service.
Next up: Pink Floyd, Thom Yorke and the question of investment in future artistic careers.
Tags Frank Zappa, Manfred Eicher, Pink Floyd, Spotify, Streaming media
Categories intellectual property, music
Some thoughts on streaming prompted by recent news: 1
Yep, I know, a bit quiet here again, but we’ve been super busy organising this autumn’s run of Angel Academe Studio Events – and all that goes with them – and we’ll be reporting back on some of that activity I’m sure.
Anyhow, I wanted to have a little bit of a rant about streaming music, as a couple of bits of recent news have caught my eye. (It’s a bit of a long rant at that, so I’m going to break it up into some shorter posts which I’ll put up over the next few days.)
Anyone who’s been reading me on here or over on my own DGMFS blog will pretty much know my position on the streaming debate. It certainly makes me smile wryly when I read Bob Lefsetz talking triumphantly about the triumph of streaming. Not that he’s wrong – in fact he’s dead right – it’s just that I’ve been convinced this is the case since going on the DTI Digital Music Mission to the US West Coast back in 2001.
That was quite a moment, looking back. The DTI (now BIS) took over about a dozen of us with various involvements of digital representing radio, the record industry, music practitioners, academia and so on. (I was, at that point, the BBC’s Head of Music Online.) Now remember: this was 2001. It was years before the iPhone or iPad, the iPod had only just launched, the iTunes store was years away, as was Spotify. Furthermore, despite the advert of Napster, the record industry had only just (slowly) begun its decline, and that was from the astonishing peak at the end of the 90s (financially rather than creativity, of course). Oh, and the dotcom crash was raging.
And yet, and yet… it was obvious to me at that point that in many ways the game was up. Moreover, it was equally apparent that while downloads were the future, they were a short-term future. Once ubiquitous, mobile broadband was a reality, then no-one would need to download anything – you’d simply stream it.
But surely, people would ask, consumers would want to own what they bought? Well, yes, if what they bought was a physical thing – but not if it was intangible data. Why would they? And I said (and still say) this as a man whose walls groan under the weight books, LPs and CDs (and who got rid of his VHS and cassette collection more or less at gunpoint). I simply didn’t buy then, and buy even less now, the idea that, given the choice of access to music on a rental basis, consumers would elect to buy downloads.
Now of course the decade plus since has given us the iTunes store and Amazon’s digital marketplace and, yes, the iPad, the iPhone, the Kindle. And so a lot of people have paid an awful lot of money to download digital content. Some have suggested I should eat my words, but I’ve stuck to my guns on this, and I think I’ve been proved right.
Oh there are still some big issues here. Certainly in the UK, ubiquitous high bandwidth mobile connectivity remains, well let’s say it’s an aspiration. And frankly any compressed audio files are, once you “tune in”, something of a sonic travesty. But these are tech issues which will be overcome: ISPs and MSPs, somehow, will sort their shit out, and streaming lossless is, I’m assured, around the corner.
So the real issues, the real stumbling blocks, will remain around business and legal frameworks. And that’s where the various bits of news I discussed come in. So over the next few posts I’ll be discussing Frank Zappa, Ministry of Sound, Thom Yorke and, of course, Spotify. And jazz backing tracks on YouTube. Betcha can’t wait.
Tags backing tracks, BIS, digital music mission, downloads, Frank Zappa, monetesing anarchy, music, streaming, youtube
Categories angel academe, music
On music mastering, and what it tells us about digital culture
Turner Hopkins HQ has moved to the West Country for a week or so. So, while in the area, we took the opportunity to visit an old colleague and friend, the (genuinely) legendary mastering engineer Simon Heyworth, at his studio, Super Audio Mastering, in the extraordinary setting of the Dartmoor National Park (which is probably enough superlatives for one sentence).
I was privileged to work with Simon back in the 90s, when I was at Virgin Records, following a quite schizophrenic career path: on one hand I was overseeing general “catalogue exploitation” (think reissues, box sets, mid price catalogue marketing campaigns and the like for artists such as Bryan Ferry and Genesis); on the other I was creating a series of compilations of new (mostly electronic) underground music and newly commissioned albums which went on to be something of a cult phenomenon and even has its own Wikipedia entry (which no, I didn’t write) under the heading “Virgin Ambient series”.
Simon was a key collaborator in both these areas of activity. He cut his teeth as a studio engineer and producer in the 70s. Actually, “cut his teeth” barely does it justice: Simon mixed Tubular Bells, thus playing a pivotal role in launching a legendary musical career and an even more legendary business empire. But by the time I was working with Simon he’d carved out a role as one of the three or four best known mastering engineers on the planet.
For those not in the know, mastering is effectively the last stage in the process of getting recorded music out into the world. Once music has been written, recorded, mixed and “produced” (a pretty nebulous term in all honesty) it needs one final little bit of attention, and that’s mastering, a process which will render the finished product something that can be cut to vinyl, CD, cassette and, yes, download file. There are two clichés about mastering: that it’s about sprinkling on “fairy dust” and that it’s a “dark art”. Most clichés are a bit shonky; these ones aren’t.
First the “fairy dust” cliché. A good recording isn’t going to make a woeful piece of music anything other than woeful; a great mix won’t fix a bad recording; and great mastering won’t rectify a bad mix. But my God, it can make the mediocre sound good, and make the good sound like something you’d lie down in front of a train to hear once.
As for the “dark arts” stuff, well… All I can say on that is that I used to attend pretty much every mastering session Simon did for me while I was at Virgin and I had absolutely no idea what he was doing with all that tech, and, more profoundly, had no idea how he was able to hear what he did. And yet, and yet… the transformation he wrought on the music he worked on was palpable. The irony is that after my own personal learning curve from Hell of coming to grips with composing, recording and mixing over the last four years, I’ve learned what all the component technical parts of mastering are – say, limiting, compressing, EQing – and yet as a result, the alchemical process of mastering remains more mysterious to me than ever. Really, it does.
(Over the last decade or so, Simon has also added mastering in 5.1 surround sound to his repertoire of dark arts skills; that might seem a detail at this point, but hang in there… )
Anyhow, the whole issue of mastering has been on my mind in two very different contexts recently: my own personal music making and our report into the value of User-Generated Content (UGC) for Ofcom. And the conversation we had with Simon (and after listening to King Crimson‘s Thrak in 5.1 – oh my) took in some themes that I think are relevant here. I’ll look at them – briefly (because in truth, there are three separate essays to be written here) under the headings of Quality, Attention and Business.
Firstly there’s the issue of quality. Specifically, sound quality, although I think this applies across the digital media industries in many ways. I’m going to leave aside the issue of whether sound quality took a step back with the advent of CD (seriously, I’m not going there; a discussion of the superiority of vinyl on the World Service* this evening had me shouting at the radio, and really, I’m 46 so need to think about my blood pressure). Broadly speaking, the history of phonography from the turn of last century until, let’s say, the turn of this one, was one of continual progress**.
The age of digital has arguably been wonderful for the music fan – of any genre – in terms of access. But access has come at a price: along with the bathwater of inconvenience and artificial scarcity we’ve unquestionably thrown out the bathwater of sonic quality. Here’s the thing about the kind of alchemical transformations I’m claiming on behalf of Simon Heyworth and his brethren: does it count for diddly in the age of the unquestionably convenient but thoroughly compromised MP3 (which I use as a stand in for all compressed digital files)? And what about when those files are played back on crappy earbuds or on “docking stations” or – God help us – phone speakers?
Don’t get me wrong – I’ve been trumpeting the opportunities presented by the digital revolution for the avid music fan since 2001, as one of the participants of the DTI’s Digital Music Mission and as a co-author of the resultant report, Monetising Anarchy. At one stage I even began to ditch my CD collection as I ripped it. Thankfully I didn’t get far – a fried hard drive brought me to my senses – although, as I was perversely making my way backwards alphabetically I ditched CDs by, among others, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Yo La Tengo, Yes and Xenakis. All replaced now, but really, what was I thinking?
I grant you that the epiphany I had – that is, this just doesn’t sound that good – is one which I would like to think will come to many of us. But, but… many people don’t have the opportunities to listen to music closely as “life takes over” (see Attention below) and, more to the point, a whole generation is growing up who frankly doesn’t know any better.
I remember to this day my first hi-fi experience: my grandfather’s stepson (it’s complicated) had just acquired a Japanese hi-fi and played me Blue Öyster Cult‘s Don’t Fear The Reaper. I was 9 or thereabouts, and had literally never heard anything like it. Not so much the song – although it is, to be clear, a hard rock masterpiece – but the sound. Like something to swim in, or drown in.
Wind forward a generation and half a lifetime: I’d just recently set up a decent mid-range Cambridge Audio CD player and amp and Audio Research speakers at home. Over dinner, with some music playing away quietly in the background, my teenage daughter Lily asked if that was surround sound. “No, Lily, that’s stereo.” I don’t mean this patronisingly; it sort of breaks my heart that her sonic horizons have been, well, so severely limited by her compressed digital upbringing.
I dearly hope something hasn’t been lost forever – that would be a tragedy.
So, back at Simon’s studio we’re listening to Crimson in surround and I begin to ponder: how many people in the world have a set up at home to appreciate this? The pragmatic answer to that is: enough to make this a viable business not only for Simon but for the repertoire owners and musicians (sometimes the same thing!) remixing their back catalogues in 5.1, and producers like Porcupine Tree’s brilliant Steven Wilson who are carving out careers as 5.1 remix engineers. But more broadly, I got to wondering: does anyone actually sit down and listen to music any more?
That could sound like the question of a middle-aged man, I realise. Your life gets busier and suddenly, where’s the time to listen to a whole album, let alone all three and a third sides of The Köln Concert ? (Although we all seem to find time to watch Masterchef or Game of Thrones, but that’s something for another time.) But I don’t think it’s just that. I’ve watched my own three children, all music fans in their own way, grow up with music as seldom more than an accompaniment. There’s always something else going on. The acerbic and brilliant music business and tech commentator Bob Lefsetz has written often about how music no longer “drives the culture”. This is undoubtedly true, but why, exactly? Where I diverge from Lefsetz is that I certainly don’t believe it’s about the quality of the music being produced currently. Personally speaking, records made in the last decade by, among many others, Meshuggah, Richard Skelton, Rufus Wainright and Pat Metheny are in my metaphorical grab-from-the-burning-house scenario.
Rather, could it be that music is no longer a central part of the culture precisely because we simply don’t pay attention as closely as we once did? Is that why live is where the action is? Because the answer to the question “What is it that live music has that recoded doesn’t?” is, simply: your attention.
So here’s the final thing, and the one which relates to my personal music making and to our more general thesis about UGC. If mastering is a dark art, it’s because, like all dark arts,the principal component of its practice is experience. Remember my comment about what Simon Heyworth can hear? Well, I’m sure some of that is a gift, but I’m convinced that Simon’s ability simply comes from doing this for decades. Think about Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” and the 10,000 hours required to become really good at something. Simon’s almost certainly put in 5 times that. And then some.
That experience, of course, comes at a price.
So can Simon’s skills – the process of mastering – be acquired more cheaply? In terms of kit, well, almost. The kit in Simon’s studio is beyond the financial reach of most “bedroom” producers. But the plugins available for a relatively small amount of money are incredible – easily equivalent to “pro” studios from just a few years ago.
But can you buy those years of experience, those years of listening? I think you can answer that one.
We discussed this at a recent workshop with Ofcom, indeed, we had a bit of a testy discussion about it. The kit becomes ever more available, but the time? The experience? You can’t buy that.
The truth is, if you want your recordings to sound truly professional, to have that extra thing, you need it mastered by someone who can hear. But in a world where even Lady Gaga is allegedly making only coppers from her Spotify streams, then where do the rest of us raise the money from digital to pay for the kind of attention which might just make our efforts sound as good as records we grew up with? Well, as it it happens, Simon’s studio offers cut price deals for the growing hoards of “unsigned” artists like me. Personally, I’ll be taking up his offer.
*The context, for what it’s worth, was Record Store Day, of which, to be clear, I heartily approve. I’ll be off to Black Cat Records in Taunton tomorrow to see what they’re doing to commemorate.
** See Greg Milner’s masterful – and hugely entertaining – history of music and sound recording, Perfecting Sound Forever.
Tags audio mastering, Bob Lefsetz, Compact Disc, Dartmoor, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Simon Heyworth, Super Audio Mastering, Tubular Bells, user generated content, Virgin Ambient series, Virgin Records
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Democracy in America is an event, which can happen to France in the beginning of the game. It pays homage to Alexis to Tocqueville's famous book Democracy in America.
It gives France 3 prestige, increases relation with USA with 25 as well as make every POP in France 5% more liberal. The option says: Vive le Difference!
It can happen between 1836 and 1840 with a mean time to happen of 5 months. It requires that USA and France are not at war.
The in-game text says: In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville publish his 'Democracy in America', which was immediately recognized as a classic in both America and France. In it he remarked on the litigiousness and the religiosity of Americans, something that remains a puzzle to Europeans today. Tocqueville is one of a few historians with than one 'classic' to his credit. His other great work, 'The Old Regime and the French Revolution' was published in 1856 just three years before his death.
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International-standard GPS stations launched in Vietnam
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on December 27 launched a nationwide network of stations that constantly log and process satellite-based GPS data for better mapping and surveys.
The network is expected to vastly modernise the country’s mapping and surveying technologies and deliver accurate and timely information.
After four years of construction, installation, and staff training, with technical assistance and technology transfer from Swiss experts, the national network VNGEONET has been completed with 65 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations covering the entire country and one data processing centre in Hanoi, the environment ministry said.
Geolocation data the stations receive from satellites around the clock will be transferred to the centre in Hanoi to be processed, which will then be fed to VNGEONET users in real time via 3G or 4G networks.
The delta regions in the north and the south as well as the mid-section of the central region – the country’s three most important economic centres – will be covered by 41 stations, with the average distance between stations decreased to 50-80km to ensure higher accuracy.
Hoang Ngoc Lam, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Survey and Mapping, said this network was part of five-year project that aims to provide necessary data to build a “complete, consistent, and uniform” national mapping database that covers all mainland, seas and island territories of the country from 2020 to 2024.
He said that Global Positioning System (GPS) was used for civilian purposes in the US since the 80s and Vietnam started applying the technology in making maps and conducting measurements since the 90s.
With advancements in information technology, GPS had seen increasing use in all economic sectors, Lam said, adding that most developed nations had already built their own.
It is considered essential in promoting economic growth, promoting Earth sciences and bettering anti-natural disaster and relief efforts, as well as aiding in the upholding of national security and defence.
The department said it would build and update the national maps in 1/2,000 and 1/5,000 scales for various purposes.
So far, the 600 registered accounts on VNGEONET (https://www.vngeonet.vn) have mainly used the service for land management and map drawing, with Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh and HCM City leading the number of accounts.
The VNGEONET network is also useful in calculating and determining the speed of plate tectonic surface displacement as well as the speed of land elevation or subsidence with accuracy of changes down to the millimetres, which will help bring about timely warnings and solutions.
According to the plan, there will be about 160 stations covering Vietnam’s territory.
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Julia Mancuso Retires After Storied Career
By Megan Harrod
Julia Mancuso celebrates her silver medal in alpine combined at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. (Getty Images)
After a storied 18-year career, Olympic champion Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, Calif.) will hang up her tiara and take a victory lap on Friday, January 19th in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – which happens to be the first track she podiumed on in January of 2006. Mancuso will move on to the next chapter of her career in PyeongChang, South Korea – this time not on the mountain, but with the NBC Olympics team in PyeongChang.
As a junior ski racer, Mancuso came blazing on to the scene – grabbing an American record eight Junior World Championship medals. A four-event athlete from the beginning, Mancuso started World Cup racing and was a NorAm champion at 16, competed in the Olympics at 17, set a U.S. record for Junior World Championships medals before she was out of her teens, and then started her twenties by capturing two World Championships medals.
Mancuso’s first FIS Ski World Cup was in 1999, and her first World Cup podium was a super-G silver in Cortina. Known for her renegade style and her ability to perform on the big stage, Mancuso donned a tiara on the podium in 2006 and 2010 when she won Olympic gold and silver.
Julia Mancuso Career Highlights
Most decorated big event American female athlete (nine medals: four Olympics, five World Championships)
Most Olympic medals for an American female ski or snowboard athlete (four)
Medals in three consecutive Olympic Games
Gold, giant slalom, Torino, ITA, 2006
Silver, downhill, Vancouver, CAN, 2010
Silver, super combined, Vancouver, CAN, 2010
Bronze, super combined, Sochi, RUS, 2014
Four Olympic Teams
Seven World Cup victories across four disciplines (city event, downhill, super-G, alpine combined)
36 World Cup podiums
399 World Cup starts
First World Cup start November 20, 1999 – Copper Mountain, Colo.
Nicknamed “Super Jules” and often sporting superhero attire, Mancuso led a fun-focused, unconventional career, splitting her time between surfing in Maui and traveling the world chasing snow in the winter. In between, she captured more major event medals than any other American woman with nine – four Olympic and five World Championship medals.
For Mancuso, it wasn’t just about fun on piste, though. In 2010, Mancuso proved to the snowsports world that she was one of the most well-rounded and gifted skiers, grabbing a third in the Extreme Verbier Freeride event. Growing up in Squaw Valley, California, Mancuso was always inspired by the mountain and had a love for freeskiing too.
Mancuso’s passion for the remoteness of backcountry slopes and deep powder were a big reason she participated in friend and Austrian freeskier Sandra Lahnsteiner’s production Shades of Winter: BETWEEN. During the filming of the all-women ski film, she was able to fulfill a lifelong dream of skiing in Hawaii on Mauna Kea.
Since she was 18 years old, though, Mancuso battled issues with her hip. Hip surgery after the 2014-15 season had Mancuso sidelined from World Cup competition for two full seasons, but with an extreme fighter mentality, she made her return to competition in St. Moritz, Switzerland in December of 2017.
“It has been an epic battle with my hip injury, and the past three years I have put everything into returning to competition at the highest level and the goal to reach my fifth Olympic Games,” reflected Mancuso. “There have been really promising days during this challenging process, and I have kept my spirits up despite many who questioned or doubted me. Sadly, I haven’t found the progression to compete with the best in the world again, but I’m proud to have fought until the very end. It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to ski racing, but I do so with a full heart.”
Mancuso looks forward to the next chapter of her career, where she will join the NBC Olympics team in PyeongChang. Mancuso will contribute features on a variety of platforms including The Olympic Zone – a nightly 30-minute show that airs on NBC affiliates – and will also serve as a reporter, covering venues and locations throughout the Games. Mancuso worked for NBC in a similar capacity at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Julia Mancuso
It has been an epic battle with my hip injury, and the past three years I have put everything into returning to competition at the highest level and the goal to reach my fifth Olympic Games. There have been really promising days during this challenging process, and I have kept my spirits up despite many who questioned or doubted me. Sadly, I haven’t found the progression to compete with the best in the world again, but I’m proud to have fought until the very end. It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to ski racing, but I do so with a full heart.
I am so grateful for all the incredible opportunities I’ve been provided and the amazing friendships I’ve made along the way. I’d like to thank the U.S. Ski Team, GoPro, KT Tape, POC, Spyder, Squaw Valley, Stoeckli, and Swix for their unwavering support during the past few seasons. I’d also like to thank my family, sponsors, and my team for believing in me, my doctors and fans, and especially my husband who has supported me through these difficult times. I am happy that I get to ski my last race here in Cortina – one of my favorite stops on the tour. I had my first podium here, and now I get to say farewell. I’m excited to see where skiing and life’s adventure will take me next!
Julia Mancuso (left) earned her first FIS Ski World Cup podium, finishing second with Anja Paersoin of Sweden and teammate Lindsey Vonn in super-G in Cortina, Italy on January 27. 2006. (Getty Images)
Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso poses for a photo before appearing on NBC's Today Show during the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games on February 25, 2006. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso celebrates her victory at the FIS Ski World Cup parallel slalom on February 21, 2012 in Moscow. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso shows off her giant slalom gold medal during the Medals Ceremony at the Turin 2006 Olympic Winter Games. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso won the silver medal in super combined at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on February 18, 2010 in Whistler, Canada. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso competes during the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill in Lake Louise, Canada. (Getty Images)
Olympic bronze medallist Julia Mancuso, gold medallist Mikaela Shiffrin, silver medallist Andrew Weibrecht, bronze medallist Bode Miller and gold medallist Ted Ligety during a photo shoot with the U.S. Ski Team on March 13, 2014 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. (Getty Images)
Bronze medalist Julia Mancuso celebrates during the medal ceremony for the alpine skiing women's super combined on day 3 of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games on February 10, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso competes in the slalom portion of the women's alpine combined race at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek, CO. February 9, 2015. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso competes during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill on January 18, 2015 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Getty Images)
Bronze medalist Julia Mancuso celebrates after the flower ceremony for the alpine skiing women's super combined at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images)
Julia Mancuso celebrates with her bronze medal in the super-G at the Alpine FIS Ski World Championships on February 5, 2013 in Schladming, Austria. (Getty Images)
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Students Suspended in Confederate Flag Controversy
Bryanna Bevens
Last week, two boys were suspended from school for unfurling a Confederate flag during a multicultural assembly at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri.[Student: No racism in flag incident, Columbia Missourian, February 5, 2006 ]
Students played songs and introduced exhibits from a variety of different cultures such as Japanese, Chinese, African American and others.
During a rendition of the song The Yellow Rose of Texas, the boys held up the Confederate flag as a symbol of Southern heritage.
Then they were asked to leave and have not yet been able to return to school...that was last Thursday.
I was chatting about this with a friend of mine—which is to say I was ranting and raving over the injustice—and he offered this alternative scenario:
What if there were students in the audience who lost grandparents or other loved ones in WWII in say...Pearl Harbor? Would an exhibit about Japanese culture that included a big white flag with a red dot inthe middle be allowed...even if it was hurtful and offensive to the descendants of those bombed by the Japanese?
Hmm...my guess? If any students objected to the Japanese exhibit they would be called racists as well.
There will be a meeting Monday (tomorrow) to discuss the status of these two Missouri students. Michael Jeffers, principal of Hickman High School can be reached by email or phone should you wish to share your thoughts with him.
Happy Super Bowl Day!
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Games Exclusive
Ataribox runs Linux on AMD chip and will cost at least $250
Dean Takahashi@deantak September 25, 2017 11:00 PM
The Ataribox.
Image Credit: Atari
Atari released more details about its Ataribox game console today, disclosing for the first time that the machine will run Linux on an Advanced Micro Devices processor and cost $250 to $300.
In an exclusive interview last week with GamesBeat, Ataribox creator and general manager Feargal Mac (short for Mac Conuladh) said Atari will begin a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo this fall and launch the Ataribox in the spring of 2018. The Ataribox will launch with a large back catalog of the publisher’s classic games. The idea is to create a box that makes people feel nostalgic about the past, but it’s also capable of running the independent games they want to play today, like Minecraft or Terraria.
The new box will have an AMD custom processor with Radeon graphics. It will run the Linux operating system, with a user interface it’s customizing for TVs. Mac said that the machine will run PC games, but it will also be capable of doing streaming, running apps, browsing the web, and playing music. As far as games go, the machine will run the kind of games that a mid-range PC can do today, but it won’t run Triple-A games that require high-end PC performance.
Above: The wood version of the Atarixbox in its element.
Atari will factor in feedback from fans, particularly on things like content, colors, special editions, early access, and design options. But it has made some key decisions on the design, which pays homage to older consoles such as the Atari 2600, which debuted in 1977. Mac joined Atari for this project, and it wouldn’t be happening without his involvement. As an aside, he’ll be a speaker at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2018 event on April 9-10 in Berkeley, California.
Mac thought of the idea for the box when he saw kids and their friends connecting laptops to TVs so they could play Minecraft and other software that they didn’t have readily available on consoles. Mac has been involved in technology companies for years. His past companies include FMTwo Game, Now Computing, and MediaLab Barcelona. As Atari started talking about the project, Mac was astounded to see how much love people had for Atari.
“I was blown away when a 12-year-old knew every single game Atari had published. That’s brand magic. We’re coming in like a startup with a legacy,” Mac said. “We’ve attracted a lot of interest, and AMD showed a lot of interest in supporting us and working with us. With Indiegogo, we also have a strong partnership.”
Above: Feargal Mac, creator and general manager of the Ataribox at Atari.
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
Mac said Indiegogo will be able to offer stronger international support for crowdfunding as well as hardware support. As a Linux-based open system, the Ataribox will also promote freedom for users to run what they want. Users will have free access to the underlying OS to customize as they wish.
“People are used to the flexibility of a PC, but most connected TV devices have closed systems and content stores,” he said. “We wanted to create a killer TV product where people can game, stream and browse with as much freedom as possible, including accessing pre-owned games from other content providers.”
In an interview with GamesBeat in June, Atari CEO Fred Chesnais confirmed the company was working on a new console as part of both a retro revival and a new era for Atari. The New York company is cashing in on the popularity of retro games and Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition, which turned out to be surprisingly popular for providing a method to easily play old games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda in HD on a TV. Atari’s classics include Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, and Pong.
“People are used to the flexibility of a PC, but most connected TV devices have closed systems and content stores,” Mac said. “Ataribox is an open system, and while our user interface will be easy to use, people will also be free to access and customize the underlying OS. We’ve chosen to launch Ataribox with Indiegogo given their focus on delivering technology products, and their strong international presence in over 200 countries, allowing us to reach and involve as many Atari fans around the world as possible.”
Above: Ataribox next to a TV.
“It’s a very flexible product, and you won’t need to spend more money if you don’t want to,” he said. “In some ways, you are buying some freedom.”
Atari will discuss details on the content and partnerships later. For more info, you can sign up at Ataribox.
“With Ataribox, we wanted to create an open system, a killer product where people can game, stream and browse with as much freedom as possible. Atari games and content will be available as well as games and content from other providers,” said Chesnais, in a statement. “We also wanted to launch Ataribox with our community, and reward our fans with exclusive early access, special editions, and include them as active participants in the product rollout.”
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Staffan Widstrand: We Need to Restart the Love Affair with Nature
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Staffan Widstrand is a world-renowned wildlife photographer and a strong advocate of nature conservation, biodiversity and rewilding. His project Wild Wonders of Europe, which presented the natural heritage of Europe to the World, reached 800 million people and his photos have been published in major media like National Geographic, GEO Magazin, Der Spiegel and many others. He strongly believes that emotionally strong imagery has the power to make us protect nature, because we love it.
Staffan, you are now working on the “Wild Wonders of China”. What is that project about?
We are trying to showcase the natural heritage of China. Most people in China and even more outside China have very little clues about what the country’s rich natural heritage looks like. Most people think of China as a place of massive industrial production, environmental destruction and ancient history and art. But we are saying there is a yet untold story about its wonderful and amazingly rich natural heritage.
I must admit I have never thought about China in terms of natural beauty, either.
Most people struggle to think of even one wild Chinese mammal, besides the Giant panda. The reality is though that China is the third country in the World when it comes to the number of wild mammal species, I believe after Peru and Brazil. We plan to make more than a hundred photo expeditions all across the country and tell the story about China’s vibrant natural heritage through all kinds of media, TV-documentaries, IMAX movies, social media, books, exhibitions and magazines.
How concretely would that help conservation?
We, humans, are very emotional beings. If you want nature to be saved, you have to let people love it. But how are they supposed to love an animal, if they don’t even know it exists, and if they have never ever even seen a picture of it? We want to help restart this ancient love affair.
Photo: Staffan Widstrand/www.staffanwidstrand.se
A Love affair?
Yes, a love affair. If you love nature and feel it is a part of you, you will want to protect it. If it gets hurt, you also get hurt. We want to see people saying, “Oooh, that’s a cute animal.” “Uuh, that’s an ugly, fascinating one.” “Aaah, that is so beautiful.” We need many to feel these kinds of feelings.
How about the city people, who rarely see any animals? Can they fall in love with them?
The city people are maybe not the main problem here. Countryside people all over the world tend to be used to killing wild animals to eat them. That is more and more a problem. The fact that people who live in cities are becoming middle class is a good sign. The nature conservation idea is fully connected to the world’s middle class. The upper classes are maybe busier making even more money, and the laboring classes are often fully focused on getting food on the table. In China, the middle class is soon larger than the whole population of Europe. When they start taking more care about their own natural heritage, it will be a great success for nature conservation.
What about the Chinese government? Does it support wildlife conservation?
As opposed to many other big countries, when the Chinese leaders feel they need to change something, they just change it. China banned hunting ten years ago. If that was in Sweden, such a decision would have started a civil war. Nine years ago, China banned logging in almost the whole country. The forestry industry said, “But wait a minute. We employ several million people.” The government told them, “Find some other business.” Since the ban of logging, forest is coming back big time. Due to the hunting ban, many wildlife populations are increasing by 10-30% per year. That is amazing and quick progress!
That sounds promising. Where do you see it going?
Because of the speed of their conservation efforts, China will soon be far ahead of us. Ten years from now, I bet Chinese nature conservation will be held up as a showcase for the rest of the world to learn from.
We are talking nature conservation, not environmental protection. The environmental measures are mainly technical, it is not quite the same thing as protecting the wonders of nature. Conservationists and environmentalists often have different opinion about things. A lot of so-called “Green development” is actually directly destroying our natural heritage.
Can you give me an example?
In my view, Bio-energy often destroys wildlife habitats and biodiversity. We put wind farms and solar panels into the wildest natural areas and grow fields of gene-manipulated monoculture corn to produce biofuels, which leads to ruin for biodiversity. As a conservationist, you would rather have people saving energy, producing it in the cityscapes or in places where nature is already compromised. Production of energy should rather be in our backyards, on the roofs of our ugly industrial buildings for example. I think many environmentalists are interested in nature at a sort of global level, but they often have a problem seeing what it looks like on location.
This is very interesting. Does it mean that protecting environment at the global level can ruin nature at the local level?
Sometimes it does. I will give you an example. There used to be a plant to treat leukemia which grew in one forest in Madagascar, later they cut the forest and the plant is gone forever. For me biodiversity is number one. If we don’t have it, we don’t have anything. That is why I care about conservation of biodiversity in China, Europe and worldwide.
Have you seen any good examples of nature conservation across the world?
Yes, very many. Since the 1950s, wildlife has increased by 40% in Europe. A number of species have come back from the very brink of extinction. Wolves, sea eagles, wisent, whooper swans, seals, bears, for example. But at the same time, we have a loss of biodiversity, especially of smaller species, like insects, small birds, fungi and many marine species.
So, what do you think should be done?
I am a strong advocate for “wildness”. On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is a city parking lot and 10 is a pristine forest, the majority of places in the world are somewhere in between. We should let nature more run its own business. Let the owl live in the church tower and gulls breed on the factory roof. Support city gardening and butterflies, insects and bees will come. Every place can move up a step or two on that Wildness scale. Sometimes when I come from the wilderness into the civilization, it strikes me how ugly what we have created often is.
The contrast between wilderness and civilization must be so huge. How do you feel when you see degradation of nature?
It makes me furious at best, but mostly depressed and upset. We take down a pristine forest to make pellets to warm a house here. What is that? A monumental lack of respect. It fuels my engagement. I am fired up by that anger. That is one reason why I am a wildlife photographer. I am taking pictures and showing them to people so that they hopefully better connect with nature and start protecting it.
Was it your dream to become a wildlife photographer?
It was not a childhood dream, but it somehow happened along the way. I grew up with National Geographic and Audubon magazines in our home. When I was 6 years old, we moved to Tanzania. I was so impressed by the wildlife and I felt immediately at home, in spite of being in a very foreign country. Ever since I was small I have loved diversity – of people, animals, flowers, colors, cultures, languages…
Did you study biology and photography to become a wildlife photographer?
All my friends became biologists, but I did not want to study. I wanted to be out in the nature and not sit behind a desk. My father was a professor and his expectations on me were of course very high. So, he was not very happy when I became a metal worker. I worked four years working with metal before I realized that I don’t want to spend my whole working life in a factory and have five weeks of vacation per year. I thought it would be much cooler to turn it around.
What did you do then?
I became a nature tour leader and travelled the world. I was checking off my top hundred bucket list one by one – mountain gorillas, whale watching, hiking in Himalayas, Amazonian rainforest and so on. But after four years, I felt fed up with leading groups. Meanwhile I was taking more and more pictures.
Did you go to study photography then?
At that time, I wanted to study biology so that I could become a picture editor one day. But a funny thing happened. I went to promote my photos to the four biggest school book publishers in Sweden and a week later one of them called me. I thought they wanted to maybe buy some pictures, but instead they offered me a job as a picture editor. It was an easy choice. Either I study for six years and then maybe become a picture editor or I become a picture editor next Monday…
So, you said Good bye university, and started to work as an editor. How was it?
I learnt the business side of photography, which most photographers don’t know. I got to know many of the big photographers and used their best images. I learned where the professional level was. After five years there, I decided to leave. People were looking at me as if I was crazy because it is kind of a job where most stay their whole working lives. But I wanted to do things on my own. I have been an independent freelancer ever since, and I am so used to running my own projects that I am probably completely unemployable.
What is it like to be a freelance wildlife photographer?
It’s a 24/7 job, sometimes it feels like 13 months a year, but I love it. I prefer to work on long-term projects such as the Wild Wonders of China, and Europe.
How do these projects work? I mean funding, promotion and so on.
At the beginning of the project, you put in a lot of office hours at home. You pitch the story to possible funders and write applications. Then you go to meet people in their offices and go on business travel. You fly to the Netherlands, China and Singapore. When enough of that is finally settled, you come into a fieldwork period, to gather material. You shoot hundreds of thousands of pictures, shoot hundreds of hours of video and afterwards comes the editorial period, where you are more at home, selecting and editing images and creating editorial products. Out of 20 000 images maybe you keep around 2 000 and use maybe 200. Once your main products (books, exhibitions, films…) are published, you move into a very active mass communication period, where you need to promote your work and talk to media.
So, it is a lot about office work and traveling. How does it feel to move around with a small luggage half a year?
It’s been my life for 30 years and I don’t complain at all. I am enjoying every bit of it. I love to stay in a comfortable hotel, a simple bed and breakfast, a shack, or in a tent. I am a very simple person. I just try to be where I am. If I am not happy, I change. I miss my children and wife but I am not homesick. I am not going here wishing I was there. My strategy is when I am gone, I am gone completely. When I am home, I am home completely.
How does your family feel about it?
My family has been used to it. I told my wife (my almost wife, 28 years waiting for her yes), in the beginning. “If you want a guy who is at home most of the time, then I am the wrong guy. I will be gone a third or half of the year, many of the years. If you can settle for that, we can be together.” She accepted. It still does not compensate for the fact that she carries the whole load when I am gone. We have two children and when they were small, I was much more at home. I was maybe gone for a week. Now when I am home, I try to take care of much of the housework.
Aren’t they worried about you? Isn’t it dangerous to be a wildlife photographer?
You risk being without income. (laughing). Everywhere I go, one of the first questions is this one. I always say that it is much less dangerous in the nature than it is in the city. Here there can be murderers, drunk violent idiots, mental cases, robbers or thugs. Riding in a car on a road is the most dangerous thing you can do anywhere. I have been in three car accidents in my life and survived thanks to the safety belt. There are on average 14 000 drunk drivers in Sweden every day on the road. So, it is really less dangerous to be in nature than in the city. With the right respect and knowledge, you can approach almost any animal.
Really any animal?
Well, apart from tigers, lions and polar bears, who might even have you on their menus. I have been close to all kinds of animals and I have never ever felt my life was in danger. You need to know how to behave. If you see the signs, you should never push an animal. Not go too close, do not push the animal into a corner.
What emotions do you feel in proximity to animals?
I feel respect and joy. Wild animals bring happiness to everyone. When you see a squirrel or a hedgehog, it makes almost everyone happy. It has a spirit. It is there for itself, not for you. Animals are free and human beings need to feel that energy because everything around us humans is so controlled. Life could be outstandingly boring, but the wild gives us hope of freedom and liberates our spirits.
You are right, animals enrich us. Thank you for the inspiring interview and good luck.
This interview was published in Sedmá generace.
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'Matrix 4' and 'John Wick 4' are scheduled to be released on the same day
by: Callum Henderson
The upcoming fourth Matrix sequel, and the fourth movie in the John Wick franchise, both of which star Keanu Reeves, are due to come out the same day.
According to a recent report by Forbes magazine, Warner Bros have dropped the schedules for their planned movies, and the Lana Wachowski-directed Matrix sequel is coming out as the follow-up to John Wick: Parabellum. This means that, in the space of seven days, Keanu Reeves will be on our screens playing The One and the Baba Yaga at the same time.
Take a look at the trailer for John Wick 3 if you haven't seen it already:
The Forbes report also notes: "[The Matrix 4 is] on the same weekend where The Matrix Reloaded opened with a then-record $134 million Thurs-Sun debut, including a near-record $91 million Fri-Sun frame, before earning $279 million domestic and $742 million worldwide. It’s one of the best weekends of the year, as the opening weekend will be cushioned on the second frame by the Memorial Day holiday weekend."
Reeves isn't going to let his age stop him from being an action hero either. In a recent interview with GQ, Reeves stated: "[I'll go] As far as my legs can take me… As far as the audience wants to go."
He added: "[John Wick's] got this beautiful, tragic conundrum - these two selves… John wants to be free. But the only way he knows how is through John Wick. And John Wick keeps f*cking killing people and breaking rules. We're really watching a person fight for their life and their soul."
Have a gander at the trailer for the original Matrix too:
As if that wasn't enough, the creators of the John Wick franchise have announced that fans of the world's most dangerous assassin can also expect to see a TV spin-off and a John Wick videogame in the near future.
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U.S. House unanimously passes Greg Walden’s bill to lift burdens on small Internet service providers, improve service for consumers
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill authored by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) to protect consumers and small businesses by relieving small Internet service providers (ISPs) of overly-burdensome reporting requirements. The Small Business Broadband Deployment Act (H.R. 4596) was introduced in reaction to new rules that many small ISPs in Oregon and nationwide said would force them to spend resources on hiring compliance attorneys rather than improving service for consumers.
“One of my top priorities has been extending reliable Internet service to rural areas in Oregon. This bill helps do that. New rules from the Federal Communications Commission would have forced many small Internet service providers to spend time and resources on complying with overly burdensome red tape instead of extending service for consumers. By exempting small providers from these unnecessary rules, this bill allows them to focus on their core mission: providing broadband Internet access to customers in Oregon and across the country, especially in rural and hard to serve areas,” Walden said. “Today’s unanimous vote sends a strong signal that the House supports consumers and small businesses. I am pleased that the White House has said that the President would sign this bill, and I urge the Senate to quickly pass it.”
Small service providers in Oregon praised the bill. “The passage of the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act (H. R. 4596) will mean that our companies can continue to focus on spending our time and resources deploying broadband service to our customers in rural Oregon rather than spending those resources complying with overly burdensome red tape from Washington D.C. We commend Congressman Walden for sponsoring and passing this bill through the House,” said Mike Lattin, President of Eagle Telephone System in Richland and Dan Bubb, President of Gorge Networks in Hood River.
“Our company is a small, local, non-subsidized team of people that works to deliver high speed Internet in our rural communities. We deliver faster broadband service, better local customer service and do this at a price that is a fair value for our customers. We do not have dedicated staff for legal, regulatory compliance, mapping and reporting. When we actually learn of government reporting or other filing requirements it takes a lot of time to figure out the instructions, develop systems to gather the data (which we usually do not have in the form required), hope the data is what the government agency really wants and actually file the submission,” said Jeff Crews, Chief Technology Officer of Eastern Oregon Net in La Grande.
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Walden bill to improve care for Oregon veterans becomes law
President signs Walden’s VA Medical Scribe Pilot Act, which will improve timeliness of care at VA facilities
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Legislation introduced by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) to improve care for Oregon veterans was signed into law today. President Trump today signed the VA MISSION Act, a legislative package that includes the VA Medical Scribe Pilot Act, a bill co-authored by Walden to help unburden VA doctors by bringing medical scribes into the VA system, which will allow them to see more patients in a timely manner.
“This legislation will help improve the care for veterans all across Oregon and America because it frees up doctors to do what they do best: take care of patients,” said Walden. “One thing I’ve learned traveling throughout Oregon and talking to veterans and VA officials is that there aren’t enough providers in the VA system to take timely care of our veterans. Research in the private sector has shown that allowing scribes to handle electronic health records allows the doctor to see more patients in a timely manner, and this bill will help bring that success to our veterans at the VA. I applaud President Trump for signing this commonsense plan into law, and look forward to working alongside the Administration to ensure the successful implementation of this program on the ground in Oregon and across the country.”
Medical scribes help relieve physicians of administrative burdens such as paperwork and record keeping, which helps doctors focus their attention on caring for patients. Studies have shown that the use of medical scribes in the private sector resulted in a 59% increase in the number of patients physicians see per hour.
Charles Schmidt, Oregon’s first National Commander of The American Legion, said of Walden’s legislation after its passage in June of 2017, “the VA Medical Scribes Pilot Act of 2017 would greatly assist VA doctors in the course of their duties by providing medical scribes to alleviate their administrative burden. This would enable VA doctors to see more veterans per day and spend more time with each patient. Providing doctors medical scribes would help the VA improve the work environment, reduce physician burnout, and recruit and retain quality physicians."
Additionally, Walden has heard from leadership at the VA in White City and Bend that implementing a scribes program within the VA system would improve the care Oregon’s veterans receive.
The VA MISSION Act also expands the VA’s Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers to pre-9/11 veterans who suffered a serious injury in the line of duty, creates a permanent path to increase veterans' access to see doctors in the community and reduce wait times, and provides funding for the Veterans Choice Program (Choice). Walden has been a longtime supporter of Choice, working to improve the program that provides veterans with needed flexibility when seeking care. The VA MISSION Act was supported by veterans service organizations across the country.
In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives in May, Walden touted his plan as an important step forward in providing veterans with the quality care they deserve. To read more about Walden’s legislation, please click here.
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IEC 60335-2-87:2016+AMD1:2018 CSV
Consolidated version
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-87: Particular requirements for electrical animal stunning equipment
TC 61/SC 61H
62713EN-FR
IEC 60335-2-87:2016+A1:2018 deals with the safety of electric animal-stunning equipment the rated voltage of which is not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances and 480 V for other appliances. Battery-operated appliances and other d.c. supplied appliances are within the scope of this standard. Dual supply appliances, either mains-supplied or battery-operated, are regarded as battery-operated appliances when operated in the battery mode. This standard is applicable to electric animal-stunning equipment for industrial or commercial use, for use on farms or for use in areas where they may be a source of danger to the public. So far as is practical, this standard deals with the common hazards presented by these types of appliances. Examples of electric animal-stunning equipment within the scope of this standard are those used to stun:
- bovines such as cattle, calves, cows, heifers and bulls;
- ovines such as sheep and lambs;
- caprines such as goats;
- cervids such as deer;
- solipeds such as horses, donkeys and mules;
- birds such as chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl;
- porcines such as pigs;
- fur animals such as foxes, chinchilla, rabbits and possums;
- mustelids such as mink and polecats and other ruminants such as camels. The following types of electric animal-stunning equipment are covered by this standard: manual, semi-automatic and automatic. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2002 including its Amendment 1 (2007) and its Amendment 2 (2012). This edition constitutes a technical revision. The principal changes in this edition as compared with the second edition of IEC 60335-2-87 are as follows (minor changes are not listed):
- Warning sign ISO 7010-W012 has been introduced (7.1, 7.6, 7.12, 7.14).
- Reference to IEC 60068-2-32 has been replaced by reference to IEC 60068-2-31 (21.1).
- Additional requirements for battery operated stunning have been transferred to Annex S (5.8.1, 7.1, 7.8, 7.12, 11.5, 16, 22.102, 25.5, 25.7, 25.20, 25.23, 25.101, 26.5). It was established on the basis of the fifth edition (2010) of that standard. The attention of National Committees is drawn to the fact that equipment manufacturers and testing organizations may need a transitional period following publication of a new, amended or revised IEC publication in which to make products in accordance with the new requirements and to equip themselves for conducting new or revised tests. It is the recommendation of the committee that the content of this standard be adopted for implementation nationally not earlier than 12 months or later than 36 months from the date of its publication. This publication is to be read in conjunction with IEC 60335-1:2010. This consolidated version consists of the third edition (2016) and its amendment 1 (2018). Therefore, no need to order amendment in addition to this publication.
Key words: Electrical, Stunning Equipment, Animal, Electrode
TC 61/SC 61H - Safety of electrically-operated farm appliancesrss
65.060.99 - Other agricultural machines and equipment
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Sites » Girls Camps » Northeastern University Women’s Volleyball Summer Clinics
Northeastern University Women’s Volleyball Summer Clinics
The Northeastern University Women’s Volleyball Summer Clinics will be on July 24, July 25, July 27, July 28, July 31, and August 1. The July 24 to July 28 clinics will focus on hitters while the July 31 and August 1 clinics will focus on setters. Additionally, individuals may choose to register just a single clinic or four clinics. This is a high-level training program that is open to girls 14 to 18 years of age. Its venue is the Northeastern University’s Cabot Center. Furthermore, every clinic schedule will have two sessions that will run from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. This event will be under the supervision of the Northeastern University women’s volleyball coaching staff.
Northeastern University is a private, coeducational, research university in Boston, Massachusetts with a satellite campus in Ontario, Canada. It is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Northeastern University is also an affiliation of the University Press of New England and the Universities Research Association. Moreover, the Northeastern University as a whole has an accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Presently, its undergraduate student population is 13,473. It is also serving 7,453 postgraduate students. Northeastern University is also among the leading academic institutions. In fact, it is 40th in National Universities, 2018 US News and World Reports rankings. In sports, the university is participating in the Colonial Athletic Association of NCAA Division I.
Northeastern University Women’s Volleyball Summer Clinics Organizers
Leading the Northeastern University Huskies women’s volleyball team is Head Coach Ken Nichols. He is a two-time Colonial Athletic Association Coach of the Year. Coach Nichols is also the 2000 America East Coach of the Year and the 1999 BIG EAST Coach of the Year. Then, the Huskies women’s volleyball assistant coaches are Matt Soderstrom and Britta Ashman. Thomas Olson is the team’s volunteer assistant coach. And finally, completing the coaching staff is Margo Jones, the volunteer coordinator of operations.
Northeastern University,
Come and Join the Northeastern University Women's Volleyball Summer Clinics. This is a high-level training program that is open to girls 14 to 18 years of age.
July 24-25, July 27-28, July 31-August 1
http://www.gonu.com/sports/2012/5/21/VBCamps.aspx?id=2382
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Lincoln City Manager Danny Cowley and Lincoln City Manager Nicky Cowley during the The FA Cup fourth round match between Lincoln City and Brighton and Hove Albion at Sincil Bank, Lincoln, United Kingdom on 28 January 2017.
Lincoln boss praises togetherness of squad following weekend win
By Jake Tonge on Dec 18, 2017 0 Comments
Lincoln City manager praised the response of his players after victory against Accrington Stanley to make it four wins in a row.
The Imps have not tasted defeat in almost a month, losing 1-0 away to Colchester United at the end of November but appear to have put that defeat behind them.
Speaking after his side’s 2-0 win against Accrington, Cowley was full of praise for his small squad:
“I’m really proud of the way they’ve responded. They’ve got the attributed, the qualities and substance to do so. We had a tough week, but we’re not used to losing.
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“It was a really important win against a good team. I thought it was a really solid display from us and thats four wins on the trot, so we should be really pleased that back in the Football League after six years away we should be pleased to do that.”
Lincoln secured the points with goals from Matt Rhead and Matt Green with the latter hitting red-hot form having scored four goals in as many games:
“I know how hard he’s worked in that period. But class is permanent.”
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It appeared a shock when former Premier League defender Neal Eardley showed up at Sincil Bank in the summer having left Northampton Town. But a string of consistent performances haven’t gone unnoticed by Cowley who praised the former Welsh international:
“How he wasn’t snapped up earlier in the summer, I don’t know. But we’ve gained from that. He’s a player with the ability to play much higher but he’s just been unlucky with his injuries.”
Despite the club remaining in the play-off spots nearly half way through the season, Cowley is insistent that the hard work is yet to come for his side:
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“We know where we’re at in this level and we’ve got a lot to learn. We’re in a great position at the moment but we’ve got a lot of work to do to maintain that position and move on from it.
“I think we’re moving forward. We’re careful of this league because anybody can beat anybody and you win two games and then you’re in a much better position.
“We’ve got games coming thick and fast over the Christmas period and we’re a small group.”
Jake Tonge
Follow me on Twitter at: @Jake_Tonge98
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Hobnobbing with Obsession
A chronicle of my immersion into Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' and
and a healing luncheon with the show's star, George Hearn.
by Cristofer Gross, from AirCal Magazine, June 1981
This is not a review: it's an exorcism. A year ago, through the original cast album of 1979's Best Musical, I began to be possessed by a demon. The musical is Sweeney Todd and it will open this month in Los Angeles, the last city in the first-run tour, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. I had listened to the recordings of the great musicals as a youth and still knew many by heart, but I had never heard anything like this before. Not only is there a massive amount of music (almost two hours on the recording), but it is woven like a classical composition: melodies blend into recurring themes, and new themes give way to variations. The massive amount of lyrics leaves the realm of musical theater and enters the area of literature. All this worked on me until I was completely obsessed.
The symptoms were at first subtle. I'd drop lines from the show's lyrics into conversation. After reading Herb Caen's column that Sweeney Todd was doing poorly in San Francisco, and would be closing early, I got nervous. Using a line from the play, I cried, "There is a higher power to warn me thus in time!" and began my crusade. I told friends that they owed it to themselves to see and hear the show. My final act, I decided would be to confess my possession in print, hoping to spread word of the magnitude and power of the production. This might encourage a few more to investigate the music.
I soon discovered that a proper exorcism of this kind would mean working my way through research into the living theater and finally to the dark heart of my obsession – to face whatever demon was there.
I researched the legend, the composer, the period. Read the play, the book, and finally saw the performance. During this time I found more and more subtleties in the recording. Finally, I decided, the day would come when I would face Sweeney Todd.
I guess that demons are prowling everywhere, and some attach themselves to all of us. I don't know which ride with Stephen Sondheim, the show's composer, lyricist, and guiding mind. As a youth, with his parents divorced, he spent a great deal of time at the home of family friend Oscar Hammerstein II. Hammerstein wrote the lyrics for Oklahoma and many others. But it was Oklahoma that is marked as a turning point for musical theater because the lyrics moved the story line and developed characters. When young Stephen expressed interest in Broadway and showed developing talent, Hammerstein tutored him. Since then he has been surrounded with the best of Broadway, and has been responsible for changing musical theater almost as much as his mentor. Some would say more.
He was lyricist for West Side story (music by Leonard Bernstein), and Gypsy (music by Jule Styne). He wrote and composed Anyone Can Whistle, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Pacific Overtures. He has worked with a group headed by Hal Prince, whose credits are too numerous to list; orchestrator Jonathan Tunick; and Angela Lansbury who, thanks to Sondheim, has become the first lady of the musical stage.
It was in London in the 1973, during the revival of Gypsy, that Sondheim and his demons met fellow spirit Sweeney Todd. There, in Playwright Christopher Bond's version of a 100-year-old legend, was contained the angriest character in Anglo lore.
Sweeney Todd, nee Benjamin Barker, is a man sentenced to a life term in an Australian prison by a judge who wants Barker's wife. He returns to London with a new identity after 15 years to find his wife has taken poison, apparently as a result of the judge's cruelty. He also finds that his daughter, now a beautiful woman, has become the judge's ward. Teamed with a pie-maker who is landlady of his old barber shop, he vows revenge. His plan is to get the judge in his barber chair and repay the injustice served him when he sat in he judge's docket.
So it was that Sondheim came back to America with this story to make a musical of. He had found the perfect accomplice for unleashing demons, and a formidable challenge for a musical composer obsessed by games, puzzles, and anagrams. (The play Sleuth is said to be inspired by Sondheim, and the movie, The Last of Shiela is written by him.)
Six years later the thing was done.
In 1979, Sondheim, Prince, Hugh Wheeler (book), Tunick, Lansbury, Len Cariou (Sweeney) and a talented group of artists opened Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway. "Brilliant," said many. "Ghastly," said many. "But flawed," said critics. And many stayed away. Six years of embroidering a show, 90 percent music, that only a games player could conceive, and the response was cool. Some said that Sondheim only writes for a few highbrow friends anyway. He doesn't care if the public likes it.
"That's not true," says Betsy Joslyn, the beauty who plays Sweeney's daughter. "He wants everyone to like it, to like him. And he's truly surprised when his shows aren't thought to be geared to everyone." But he is a consummate craftsman, a perfectionist pie-maker – he has to forge ahead, look instead to the frontiers he's covered, not the gaping middle ground that is the territory of others.
Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote in his column on the morning after the play opened: "The musical accomplishments and dramatic achievements of Stephen Sondheim's black and bloody Sweeney Todd, are so numerous, so clamorous that they trample and jam each other in that invisible but finite doorway that connects a stage and its audience: doing themselves some harm in the process … It is necessary to give the dimensions of the event. There is more artistic energy, creative personality and plain excitement in Sweeney than in a dozen musicals."
A SAN FRANCISCAN SUMMIT
I made it to San Francisco for the last performance. The play was full of energy. A friend who had known nothing about it saw it too and loved it. The next day, full of confidence I made my way to meet Sweeney face to face. With some trouble I found Julius Castle on Telegraph Hill, where I had been told to meet him. Walking down the stairs from Coit Tower I made my way, out of breath, into the restaurant and waited.
In he came. His current embodiment is actor George Hearn, who took over for original cast member Cariou after the first year.
George Hearn is a far cry from his demonic alter ego. He looks more the turf accountant from Cork, though the cork of his youth was used to fish the Mississippi near his native St. Louis. We got along immediately as two possessed of the same spirit will. He described how he got involved with Sweeney.
"Somehow," he began, with the crispness and economy of one whose speech is his livelihood, "I was visible at that moment, and the right people had seen and heard me. I guess I've done a little over 100 plays since joining Equity. Mostly I had not done musicals (1776 and I Remember Mama two notable exceptions). For years I didn't do musicals at all. Just gave up on it. I started out wanting to be an opera singer. But I gave that up. I love words but I get disappointed in lyrics. In opera it was that over-dark, mushy sound.
"In fact, I said to Stephen when he called me at home to tell me how much he liked me in the part, 'Stephen, I just want to tell you I think you're the reason I didn't go into opera, and why I haven't found my métier. It's that I love words, and I've never found a composer who has the passion for language that you have and insists on it being there.'"
I felt my eyebrow raise as passion begin disorienting George's speech.
"When I was studying opera my voice would get darker and darker and I felt, that's not what I want – I want to talk language. That's why I like doing Shakespeare. I love language; so loving language and music together makes you pronounce words in a way that opera singers don't – it's trying to balance those two things. And after Gilbert and Sullivan, who were geniuses at the marriage of words and music, I don't know anyone who's even attempted it besides Stephen.
"And he apparently agonizes over words, always looking for the perfect choice. During rehearsals he ran in one day and said, 'I've got it, I've got it, I am sir, entirely at your disposal' (a line Sweeney says before attending to a doomed customer) and he fell about. He'd been up all night, up thinking about it for weeks in fact, the exact word for that moment. God, it's so, rich … That's what makes this piece so hard, crystalline – the constant meaning of every phrase. He stands so completely alone to me, and I think the whole face of the theater will be changed because of this piece, certainly musical theater. It's going to affect everything …"
I sat listening to George, my fellow possessed: His demon revealed. And I realized it's not by Sweeney we have been run ragged. I had found Sweeney and found him the mask for something larger, something living. Sondheim himself. And with his next projects, Kaufman and Hart's Merrily We Roll Along, then Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, I'll be happily possessed for years.
George and I parted. He to fish, then back to Sweeney in Los Angeles. I to this review and researching Sondheim. After all this, my research led me to one interesting coincidence in the March 19, 1973 issue of Time. The article ended with mention of Cutthroat Anagrams:
"Says Sondheim: 'You don't take turns. You just turn up letters, and the first person to see a word yells it out. Lennie Bernstein is a terrific anagram player. All during the work on West Side Story we would blow up our tensions at the anagram table.'.
"Since Sondheim is obviously a happily possessed man, what might the letters of his name spell out in such a game? Voila! 'His demon.'"
PHOTOS: George Hearn as Sweeney Todd in a 1980 publicity photo by Martha Swope (top); with Lansbury (middle inset); and George Hearn during "Wall to Wall Sondheim" at Symphony Space in New York (Debra L Rothenberg)
A Sondheim Summit
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Maroon 5 Headlines 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Fest
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NCAA and Turner Live Events, alongside official NCAA Corporate Champion Capital One®, announce Grammy-winning group Maroon 5 as the headliner for this year’s Capital One JamFest® on Sunday, April 3. The performance is part of the 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, to be held April 1-3, in conjunction with this year’s NCAA Men’s Final Four.
The free three-day music festival, produced by Turner Live Events, will take place at Discovery Green in downtown Houston. Additional performances for Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, as well as Sunday’s afternoon schedule of major musical acts, will be announced soon. The non-ticketed NCAA March Madness Music Festival is open to the public on a first-come basis.
Turner Sports and CBS Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV. For the third year in the event’s 78-year history, the 2016 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship National Semifinals will be presented live across three networks – TBS, TNT and truTV – to provide fans with a variety of viewing options for this marquee event. This year’s NCAA Tournament will include the National Championship Game airing on TBS, the first time the championship has ever been televised on cable television.
Over the years, the NCAA March Madness Music Festival has attracted hundreds of thousands of music fans. Last year featured Rihanna, Imagine Dragons, Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Weezer, and more. Other artists who have participated include Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jason Aldean, fun., Tim McGraw, The Killers, LL Cool J, Sting, Dave Matthews Band, Muse, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Buffett, KISS, The Black Keys, Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift among many others. The NCAA March Madness Music Festival is an activation extension of the NCAA’s Corporate Champions and Partners marketing program, which Turner Sports and CBS Sports license and collaborate on as part of a 14-year multi-media agreement with the NCAA.
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Democratic Action Updates
Editor’s Corner
Political Strategy for a Permanent Democratic Majority
How Dems Can Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time
by staff, June 14th, 2018 2:14 PM EST
The following posts, “Democrats Should Be Able to Walk Down the Street and Chew Gum at the Same Time” and “More on How Democrats Can Walk Down the Street and Chew Gum at the Same Time” by Ruy Teixeira, author of The Optimistic Leftist and other works of political analysis, are cross-posted from his blog:
The New York Times Sunday Review treated us to an article by two history professors averring that, for Democrats, “Turning Affluent Suburbs Blue Isn’t Worth the Cost“. They posit a sort of zero-sum game between reaching these voters and reaching poorer and nonwhite voters. Sigh.
Fortunately, David Atkins at the Washington Monthly has an excellent takedown of this ridiculous–and politically harmful–contention:
“In order to clamber out of the political wilderness, Democrats must….win over some Trump voters using economic arguments that many would like to dismiss as impossible, as well as continue to gain ground in many increasingly blue, well-educated suburbs that cause queasiness to many economic progressives. And they must do so simultaneously, while maintaining and increasing commitments to both social and economic justice through sentencing reform, jobs guarantees and much else.
How is this possible? It’s fairly simple, actually. The answer lies in the fact that most voters–and particularly most persuadable voters—are not pure partisans. They are often what political scientists call “cross-pressured,” which means they hold multiple strong views that don’t fit neatly within one political party or another and force them to choose what they might consider the lesser of two evils in a two-party system.
It is self-evident that Trump voters by definition didn’t see a problem with voting for a racist, sexist buffoon. But many Trump voters also proved remarkably indifferent to Republican economic orthodoxy, and many want high taxes on Wall Street, robust jobs programs and investment in domestic industry, and libertarian social policy on many issues like drugs. Neither party will give them everything they want, but a committed progressive economic agenda that rejects the muddled market-directed pabulum of education and retraining as a solution to all ills can be successful in winning many of them over, even though the progressive commitment to racial and gender equality might rankle them as just so much social-justice-warrior political correctness. This isn’t idle speculation: a very large number of registered Democrats are already just so cross-pressured. Appallingly, a full third of Democrats have a negative opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a quarter of Democrats think millions voted illegally in the 2016 election. If they register as Democrats anyway, it’s a fair bet that economics are their top priority. It stands to reason their number could be increased to regain some of the voters who chose Barack Obama twice, and then flipped over to Trump.
So, too, can cross-pressured affluent suburban Democrats be won over by a stridently economically progressive Democratic Party in spite of their potential reservations about their tax bracket, mutual fund returns, McMansion values and budget deficits. Sure, these voters might not like the idea of transaction taxes on Wall Street impacting their dividends or affordable housing being built near their bungalows, but their commitments to social equality and their desire not to have jingoists running the country’s trade and foreign policy mean that they will generally choose the party of both Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders over that of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
Republicans have understood this for decades. The three legs of their electoral stool (social, economic and foreign policy) don’t particularly like one another or mesh well together, but they have largely held together due to combined mutual interest.
A Democratic Party that takes seriously commitments to both social and economic justice can do likewise, even though some of the former may not be palatable to part of the white working class, and some of the latter may not be desirable among the well-heeled. It must do so if it wants to regain power.”
Yup, that’s why they call ’em coalitions! Time to move forward past pointless either-or debates.
David Jarman at Daily Kos Elections (don’t read the site?; you should!) provides a comprehensive rebuttal to the loony argument that Democrats trying to turn affluent suburbs blue are biting into the poison apple.
Jarman’s piece begins:
“Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a baffling and potentially harmful opinion piece by two history professors, Lily Geismer and Michael Lessner, titled “Turning Affluent Suburbs Blue Isn’t Worth the Cost.” In short, they argue that affluent suburban districts, if they elect Democrats, are likely to elect centrists who won’t pass the kind of progressive legislation that will adequately address economic and racial inequality. The short-term benefits of winning races in those districts, they say, will eventually be outweighed by the long-term harm created from a Democratic congressional caucus that’s too heavy on economic elites and not enough “real Americans.”
I’m going to propose a counterargument that may blow some minds with how off-the-wall it is: Maybe Democrats should contest as many races as possible, and try to win elections in as many places as possible, regardless of income, education, or race. There are different aspects to the Democratic agenda that can appeal to different types of people, and historically, electoral success for one party or the other has generally relied on putting up a big tent that can house a broad coalition capable of earning and sustaining a majority.
Moreover, this isn’t the right time to be writing off any seats or any capable Democratic candidates because they’re too hot or too cold. Given the existential threats to American democracy currently posed by those in charge of Washington, DC, I can’t even imagine the level of detached privilege that would lead one to say that we shouldn’t try to target some of the seats that are likeliest right now to fall into our grasp, and instead focus on the groundwork for a purer and more perfect party at some point in the future.”
He also notes:
There’s been a lot of recent research showing that college-educated whites (presumably, the authors’ vision of who lives in these affluent suburbs) are now somewhat more liberal in their policy preferences than non-college-educated whites. This is a reversal from, say, the mid-to-late 20th century. You can see this if you look at the changes in county-level election results over the decades, broken out by education level. You can also see it if you look at long-term studies that track the electorate’s views over time.
Researcher Sean McElwee has been one of the main proponents of this line of thought; he’s used data from the American National Election Studies (a long-term polling project conducted by political scientists that asks a battery of demographic and policy questions) to show that college-educated whites are now more liberal on questions about progressive economic policies than non-college whites are.
For instance, college-educated whites answer “yes” at a higher rate to questions like “Favor millionaires’ tax,” “Government should reduce inequality,” and “More regulation of banks.” Similarly, Democratic primary voters have become significantly less racist in the last decade: The number of Democrats who “strongly disagree” with the proposition that “If black people would try harder, they could be just as well off as whites” shot up between 2008 and 2016.”
After a very informative analysis of who currently represents these affluent suburban districts and who is now running in these districts, he concludes:
“Are people who’ve won the housing lottery via either privilege or simply by virtue of having gotten there first, but who are generally progressive in their values and policy preferences—who, at the national level, want a more equitable tax system, who want a higher minimum wage, who want more government involvement in providing health care to everyone, and above all, who want a non-embarrassing, non-threatening president, but who are NIMBYish in their beliefs about their own neighborhood—to be welcomed into the big tent, even though they’re imperfect? Or are they to be cast aside in pursuit of a Democratic Party unicorn that looks more like the one of old—when, it should be pointed out, they repeatedly lost presidential elections, under the banner of fellows like Adlai Stevenson, Walter Mondale, and George McGovern? I know which one I’d prefer.”
Me too. And so should you.
One comment on “How Dems Can Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time”
Victor on June 15th, 2018 - 2:34pm
The Daily Kos article (as has become so usual with them) is terrible.
With friends like this who needs enemies. Just because you lose an election doesn’t mean you are pathetic or that your ideas are outrageous. If not, why not add Kerry and Gore to the list.
The real issue is when Democrats nominate candidate after candidate that is suspect on who they are aligned with economically.
Hillary had a more comprehensive platform than Trump, but people thought she wouldn’t deliver because she came to be defined by behavior like her closed door speeches to financial institutions much like Romney was defined by his business background.
Now Democrats are trying to capture the House under the banner of someone else who is seen very similar to Hillary: Nancy Pelosi.
While I personally don’t agree with the notion (widespread even among liberals) that Pelosi isn’t progressive enough, she is blamed along with Obama for the mismanagement of the response to the Great Recession. That is, she is seen as indolent and insufficiently focused on the economy and instead playing too much attention to healthcare and even climate change.
Where is the source for?
“Appallingly, a full third of Democrats have a negative opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement, and a quarter of Democrats think millions voted illegally in the 2016 election.”
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By Ed Kilgore
January 17: 2020 Democrats Need to Focus More on What They Can Actually Accomplish
After the seventh Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, I called at New York for the turning of a corner:
[A]s the voting phase of the nominating process approaches, and the field of candidates inevitably continues to shrink, it’s time for the practical part of the debate discussions to grow a lot larger, as legal expert Jeffrey Toobin suggested earlier this week at the New Yorker:
“The Democratic debates so far have featured detailed discussions of the candidates’ competing health-care plans—none of which is likely to become law in any form close to what’s so far been described…. But one thing we know for sure is that, if a Democrat wins the White House this year, he or she will be responsible for appointing federal judges, including a few likely vacancies on the Supreme Court.”
Yes, that subject did come up in the October debate, but even then it was more about visionary ideas of how to reshape SCOTUS to protect cherished rights via court-packing or terms limits or some other unlikely-to-be-enacted scheme. More specific, short-term plans are more relevant. Will the candidates, for example, emulate Trump’s politically smart approach of setting up a vetting process for prospective SCOTUS candidates and a list of potential nominees before the 2020 election cycle ends? Bernie Sanders recently said in an interview that he’d “consider” doing that, even before the nominating contest is over. Let’s hear more about that from him and from his rivals. But that’s not the only question, even on judges: how will the candidate deal with such nominations if Republicans continue to control the Senate, which at present is more likely than not? And will she or he devote some real political capital to legal fights in the state and lower courts where reproductive rights, health care protections, treatment of immigrants, and other key issues are being litigated every single day?
As Toobin points out, a coalition of progressive groups focused on such issues (including the Demand Justice Initiative, the Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America) are sponsoring a presidential forum (not a debate, but a series of candidate interviews) on February 8 in New Hampshire. That’s the day after the eighth official candidate debate, and just three days before the New Hampshire primary. It will be a great opportunity to get into real detail on each candidate’s perspective on constitutional rights, SCOTUS, and the judiciary generally. But this questions should be on the agenda wherever candidates gather.
The judiciary isn’t the only practical issue that needs more airing before the primary ends. Given the many structural obstacles to the enactment of progressive policies in Congress, with or without Democratic majorities, candidates need to be pressed on their “theories of change,” their strategies for overcoming entrenched opposition, whether it’s Amy Klobuchar’s focus on executive orders or Elizabeth Warren’s belief that an anti-corruption push can break the power of lobbyists. The health care and climate change arenas are both high-priority areas in which there simply aren not and won’t automatically be working majorities for what has to be done. It’s not enough to say, like Joe Biden does, that Trump’s departure will change everything, or to claim, like Bernie Sanders does, that a “political revolution” will materialize to square every circle. A sustained questioning of the candidates on crucial issues of implementation, definitively nailing them down on items like filibuster reform where several have been slippery, could be worth a lot to voters who seem very hard-headed when it comes to electability but not necessarily in terms of exactly what electable candidates are expected to accomplish.
Yes, some parts of the Democratic primary electorate may feel that beating Trump and getting him and his cronies out of power is enough for one year; actually accomplishing anything is gravy. But that’s a sad and defensive posture to have, and one that voters are not likely to reward, either. Values are essential and vision can be inspiring in a president. But if that’s all a candidate offers, we need to know the next four years could become a huge disappointment and a lost opportunity.
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Rye Social Justice Week panel tackles Islamophobia
In Communities November 3, 2016 2 Comments
By Raneem Al-Ozzi
A panel on Islamophobia, migration and refugees was held on Nov. 1, 2016 as part of Ryerson University’s annual social justice week. The panel was co-hosted by the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement and Ryerson’s International Student Support focused on the effects of Islamophobia and its impact on Canadian Muslims and racialized minorities.
“The religion of Islam has been colourized,” said Kamal Al-Solaylee, an associate journalism professor at Ryerson. Al-Solaylee explained how although followers of this religion have no specific ethnic or geographic background, the image of a young brown Muslim, or a veiled woman has come to signify a source of anxiety to the western world; they are now associated with terror, extremism, and gender discrimination.
According to a survey conducted by the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), only a third of Ontarians have a positive impression of the religion, and that more than half feel that it’s mainstream doctrines promote violence.
Statistics Canada data from April revealed that the number of police reported hate crimes towards Muslims have more than doubled within the past three years.
Binish Ahmed a researcher and PhD candidate in the policy studies program at Ryerson talked about society’s preconceived notion of Canada’s “race-less” nature saying that people often get uncomfortable when race is brought up in conversations.
Anti-Muslim racism ascribes stereotypical characteristics to people, these could include where they come from, what they believe in, and how they organize or carry themselves as groups, said Ahmed.
“You don’t actually have to be Muslim to experience anti-Muslim racism. If your name sounds like what a traditional Muslim name is, then you could be targeted,” said Ahmed.
During the summer, OCASI launched a public education ad campaign to address xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant sentiments.
The ad campaign which showed a veiled woman saying that her home was North York in response to a man telling her to “Go home” sparked debates on social media.
Debbie Douglas, executive director of the council said that the campaign received multiple criticisms, however the goal was not to get everyone to agree, but to spark conversations, discussions and debates.
“We hope that we can start a shift to an environment that is more tolerant and more accepting and safer for everyone in Toronto, and perhaps to influence people to speak out when they see something that is racist, Islamophobic or xenophobic,” said Douglas.
You’re conflating an ideology with a group of people. The group of people deserve their rights as humans beings, obviously. But so what if <1/3 of ontarians view this religion in a "positive light", or more than half thinks it "promote violence"? If you've actually read the quran… it actually does – it's not a value judgement being made there, it's literally a positive statement. That's all. This is coming from someone who used to be a practitioner but left. What you people are conflating is a group of humans that deserve human rights like the rest of us, and an ideology which you are forcing others to accept even if they have solid, justifiable grounds not to. The last time I checked, that sounds a lot like facism. A great example is women, who, by all means, should not accept "religious" texts that tell them they're worth half. I don't see women as worth half of what men recieve, and no one else should. I thought we were all for gender equality..?
More: If this is what you call ‘islamophobia”, you should *really* redefine your parameters there. Being brown myself, I face the kind of discrimination those who are still a part of the faith experience. Others of the same heritage as I am who are non-muslims also face discrimination. Should this really be called “Islamophobia”, or just “brownphobia” / racism in general..? How is this term even relevant if other “brown” non-muslims are even being killed in North America based on discrimination?
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Women have played a major role in the history of France
Link to the page of articles on the Queens of France
Judith of France, Queen of Wessex and Countess of Flanders
Herleva of Falaise, mother of William the Conqueror
Matilda of Boulogne, Queen of England
Deconstructing the Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Alys of France, Countess of Ponthieu
Isabelle of Angoulême, Queen of England
Yolande de Dreux, Scottish Queen
Marie de Coucy, Scottish Queen
Marguerite of France, Queen of England
Isabel of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy
Margaret of Nevers, Dauphine of France, Duchess of Guyenne and Countess of Richemont
Jacqueline, Duchess of Bavaria-Straubing, Countess of Holland, Zeeland, Hainaut and Oostervant
Agnes Sorel, Mistress of King Charles VII
Antoinette de Maignelais, Viscountess de la Guerche and Royal Mistress
Isabella of Valois, Queen of England
Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alencon and Countess of Perche
Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France
Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford
The Wives of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais
Isabella of Bourbon, Countess of Charolais
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy
A Woman’s Justice During the Reign of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy
Anne de Beaujeu, Duchess of Bourbon and Regent of France
Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon
Philippa of Guelders, Duchess of Lorraine, great-grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots
Antoinette of Bourbon, Duchess of Guise, grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots
Anne of Brittany as Matchmaker: The Case of Anne of Foix-Candale, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
The Funeral of Anne of Brittany
Louise of Savoy, Duchess of Angoulême and Regent of France
Germaine de Foix, Queen of Aragon, Naples, Sardinia, Navarre and Sicily and Vicereine of Valencia
Marguerite of Valois, Duchess of Savoy and Berry
Elizabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain
The Baptism of Elisabeth of Valois, Princess of France
Madeleine of Valois, Scottish Queen
Marie de Guise, Scottish Queen and mother of Mary Queen of Scots
Gabrielle d’Estrees, Mistress of the French King Henri IV
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Category Archives: Scott Walker
Citizens United, Democracy, George Carlin, Michael Moore, Money in politics, Occupy Augusta, Occupy Augusta Maine, Occupy Maine TV Show, Occupy Portand Maine, Occupy Wall Street, Regis Tremblay, Scott Walker, Truth TV, Uncategorized
Scott Walker Survives – The Only Winners are Corporations and the Super-rich
June 8, 2012 Regis Tremblay 1 Comment
Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin survived a recall election on June 5, 2012 thanks to $60 million in outside money and $10 million from the Koch brothers. In what was a contentious and divisive contest that has lasted for months, a record number of Wisconsinites turned out to vote.
It all began last year when the Tea Party governor and his Republican controlled legislature passed legislation taking collective bargaining rights away from public employee unions as a way to close the state’s budget gap. As a result of the attack on public unions, tens of thousands of demonstrators filled the capital building and grounds for days and began the recall drive that collected over 900,000 signatures.
There were no winners in this election except for corporations and the super-rich. This is so for the following reasons. First, the state remains bitterly divided. Walker succeeded, in his own words, by “dropping a bomb and dividing and conquering.” This is all part of an ALEC blueprint being played out in Republican controlled legislatures across the country and in Congress where right wing radicals, the ponds in this scheme, have succeeded in bringing our government and our democracy to the brink.
Furthermore, the Democrats won back control of one senate seat in the recall and now can completely block Walker’s agenda and create gridlock. Not much good will happen to improve the lives of the working people of Wisconsin, and NO jobs will be created. People have got to stop believing this bullshit. It doesn’t trickle down. Never has. Never will.
Second, because of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allowed unlimited and undisclosed amounts of obscene money in elections, corporations (naturally bent on busting unions to increase their bottom lines), Super PACs, special interests, and the obscenely rich contributed more than $60 million to put Walker over the top. His opponent, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, trailed far behind with only $18 million raised. When factoring in the money each campaign raised, the disparity was 7-1.
This demonstrates just exactly why the super-rich and corporate dollars have trumped our voices in elections. Because “money is speech,” Scott Walker is not beholding to the people of Wisconsin but to the Koch brothers and super rich who contributed to his campaign.
Consider this: the number of registered, corporate lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000 to more than 34,750 who lavished $3.5 Billion on the 535 members of Congress in 2010 alone! That’s millions of dollars for every U.S. Senator and member of Congress. Corporations and the rich own Congress and us!
This very same agenda is being played out in the presidential election and in state elections all across this land. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars to buy politicians and to win elections.
Third, there is no shortage of money – anywhere – except in the pockets of the poor and the middle class. Productivity has risen steadily over the past 30 years. Corporations have been earning record profits. The only problem is the 1% have increased their wealth by 361% over that period while the wealth of the 99% has remained flat or decreased. More and more of the middle class are falling into poverty while the richest 1% have tripled their share.
CEOs and financial industry employees made more than all 16 million unionized employees in the United States, and they made as much as all 17.5 million full-time government workers in the United States.
And, as if to pour salt in the wound, the richest 1% pay less in taxes than the average American. According to the IRS, the wealthiest 6 families in the United States reported an average income of $202.4 million, down for the second year as the Great Recession slashed their capital gains.
In addition to the six who paid no tax, another 110 families paid 15 percent or less in federal income taxes. That is less than half what the rest of us pay!
Overall, the top 400 paid an average income tax rate of 19.9 percent. The top 400 earned five times that much every day. Corporations like G.E. and Exxon Mobil not only do not pay taxes, but receive huge government subsidies! And yet, the Republicans and their Tea Party rogues would have us believe that cutbacks in social services, infrastructure, education, pensions, and more taxes on the working class are required to balance the budget!
Corporations, Congress, and state legislatures are victimizing the working class and blaming us for all of our problems. Americans has been duped into believing that unions, government workers, and the poor are the problem in this country. This is the biggest scam in the history of the United States. No wait, it is the biggest heist in our history.
Fourth, Americans still cannot see that the Republicans and Democrats we elect do NOT represent us. We are still locked into the belief that America is a democracy where everyone has a vote and that our elected politicians represent us. This is a myth that blinds us as to who is really in control of the economy, defense, agriculture, energy, and education.
At the top of the pyramid are a small group of wealthy families who control the Federal Reserve, Wall St, and the banks, that in turn lend money to corporations. Those corporations in turn contribute billions of dollars each year buying the members of Congress, who in turn do their bidding.
George Carlin was prophetic and way ahead of his time in this famous piece on “its a big club and you ain’t in it.” It is a must watch, even if you’ve seen it before.
We’re not talking just about corporations like Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Coke, Pepsi, and Disney. We’re talking about the military industrial complex and the Department of Defense that soak up 60% of our tax dollars every year! They are the corporations that are building warships, advanced fighter jets, bombers, and drones. They are the corporations that have turned space into a giant spy network and into the battle ground of the future. They are the corporations that are manufacturing rockets and missiles and all of the weapons we sell all over the world. America’s largest export, by far, is weapons and military technology!
Here’s what the scheme looks like.
You can see this graphic and a stunning documentary @ thrivemovement.com
And for what? The answer to that question is frightening. 1) to control the world’s resources: oil, water, precious and rare metals, and food; 2) to dominate and control the planet and space; and 3) to control us by neutralizing our voices in elections and doing away with our constitutionally protected rights of free speech, peaceable assembly, and the redress of grievances to our government.
Don’t believe it. Watch this video of Paul Weyrich, the founder of ALEC, the shady, right wing organization behind the Republican assault on workers, the middle class and the poor.
The Walker recall and every other election are merely distractions that serve to continue the myth that the politicians we elect represent us and are capable of caring for the common good when, in reality, they are doing the bidding of the rich and powerful. The only thing that governments do in this scheme is to collect our hard-earned money, control our lives and keep us in check.
The recall in Wisconsin is nothing more than an expensive side-show designed to deceive and distract while the 1% continue to plunder the planet and make serfs of 99%.
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Truth, Sincerity, and a Bloody Tunic
November 16, 2015 November 13, 2015 withgodsword Andrew Roberts, Bible, Deception, Genesis, Inspiration, Jacob, Joseph, Scriptures, Sincerity, Truth, Uncategorized Andrew Roberts, Deception, Genesis, Jacob, Joseph, Sincerity, Truth, Tunic
Have you read, “Buy the truth, and do not sell it” (Proverbs 23:23)?
Sadly, Truth is not a hot commodity these days. The item flying off shelves is Sincerity – especially in religious matters. While the wise man counseled God’s people to value Truth (i.e. “buy it”), the current society prefers to question the existence of Truth. No one would dare question Sincerity, though. Today, if a person sincerely believes something to be so, who has the audacity to challenge its accuracy?
Personal perspective, individual preference, emotional response – Sincerity is the standard to go by. The mistaken notion is that Sincerity constitutes Truth. As if believing something strongly enough could make it so.
But this is as wrong as it could be. You don’t believe something to make it true; you believe something because it is true. Christians don’t believe the gospel to make it true; they believe the gospel because it is true!
Truth accords with reality. Truth is the way it is. Truth is the fact of the matter. What is True is true whether you and I know it or not. True is true whether you and I like it or not. True is true whether you and I believe it or not. Our sincerity about something will never change the truth of the matter.
A Bible event testifies to the distinction of Sincerity and Truth. In the book of Genesis, Jacob believed with all his heart that his son Joseph was dead (Genesis 37:31-35). Joseph’s eleven brothers conspired to trap him and sell him into slavery. To hide their misdeeds, they took Joseph’s colorful tunic, tore it, and dipped it in blood. Then they presented the garment to Jacob and said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son’s tunic or not?” Jacob said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him. Without doubt Joseph is torn to pieces.” Jacob tore his clothes, he wore sackcloth, and he refused to be comforted. Jacob said that he would go to his grave mourning. He sincerely believed Joseph was dead. In truth, Joseph lived. No matter how sincerely Jacob believed Joseph was dead, it did not change the truth that Joseph was alive.
We may pity Jacob because he was misled by his sons and the bloody tunic. What a shame to needlessly mourn like that. In fact, when the eleven admitted that Joseph lived, Jacob had a hard time believing them (Genesis 45:26-28). Jacob was deceived and committed to a delusion for many years. But that did not change the truth: Joseph lived.
This account shows us three things about the Truth. First, one can be ignorant of the Truth. But that does not change it. Second, one can be deceived about the Truth. People can lie and lead you astray. It happened to Jacob. But that does not change the Truth. Finally, a person can be utterly sincere in some falsehood or delusion. But that will never alter the Truth.
Religion is not exempt from the force of Truth. Thoughtful people can look at different world religions and wonder if any of them are true. Every religion presents its own cast of characters, holy books, system of salvation, stories of origin, antidotes for suffering, and visions of future life. Are they all true? It is impossible.
Yet some people would say that various religions are all true in their own way; there are many paths and many truths – even portions of Truth are sprinkled throughout them. Another popular idea is that most all religions are basically the same anyway, so people should find the one they like best or content themselves with the religion of their parents. It matters little practically.
The gospel destroys these notions because the gospel is true (Ephesians 1:13). The gospel is the true word of the Lord (1 Pet. 1:22-25). God’s word is Truth (John 17:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13). The Bible is true. So Christians are both lovers of truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10) and preachers of truth (Colossians 1:5-6; 1 Timothy 3:15).
People can be ignorant of the gospel, but that does not change it. They can be misled or deceived about the gospel, but that does not change it. They can be completely sincere in their faith and dedication to error, but that will not alter the gospel either. There is no salvation to be found in counterfeit gospels or false religions (Galatians 1:6-9; Acts 4:12).
The world would like Christians to stop pestering people with Truth. “Leave other cultures alone,” they say, “Let them celebrate their religious heritage. After all, they are sincere.”
Surely they are sincere but so was Jacob. Sincerity does not make a religion true nor does it secure a soul. The gospel says that people are lost because of their sins and there is only one savior – Jesus Christ (Romans 1:16; 3:23; 6:23; John 14:6). People must be told the Truth (John 8:31-32) and encouraged to seek the Truth. Let’s search God’s Word to discover Truth (Acts 17:11). Let’s get back to buying Truth.
By Andrew Roberts
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Kenneth Davies, of Arkport
ARKPORT – Kenneth P. “Ken” Davies, 74, of 9582 State Route 36, died Sunday evening (April 20, 2014) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a long illness.
Born in Rochester on August 1, 1939, he was the son of Leonard & Alberta (Miller) Davies.
Ken grew up in the Rochester area of Irondequoit and was a graduate of Edison Tech High School (class of 1957). He attended the University of Miami in Miami, FL where he played (as a running back) for the Miami Hurricane football team. After being sidelined by an injury on the football field, Ken joined the US Marine Corp, serving his country from 1959-1963.
Following his honorable discharge from the Marines, Ken served as an insurance investigator for 19 years for Equifax of Rochester, NY. In the mid 1980’s, he built Gazebo Golf in Hornell, featuring a miniature golf course along with a driving range. He owned & operated the business for about five years. In the late 1980’s he built another miniature golf course / driving range called PK Putters in Geneva, NY. He operated the business until the time of his death.
Ken was a true sports enthusiast. He was an avid golfer and also enjoyed fishing. In his younger years, Ken loved bowling and had been a member of several bowling leagues in Hornell. He also enjoyed watching sporting events on TV and loved rooting for the NY Yankees, Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots. His greatest joy, however, was attending his grandchildren’s sporting events.
He was married on November 23, 1968 to the former Sharon Conwell who survives. Also surviving are his daughter, Rebecca (David) Jeffery of Cheshire, CT; 2 grandsons, Michael Jeffery and Matthew Jeffery; 4 brothers, Leonard (Rosemarie) Davies of Bergen, NY, James (Alicia) Davies of Ontario, NY, Robert Davies of Webster, NY and Lawrence (Kathleen) Davies of Webster, NY; his sisters-in-law, Carolyn Conwell and Jean Coddington; along with several nieces, nephews & cousins.
At Ken’s request there will be no prior calling hours. A memorial Service will be held on Saturday at 11:00 AM at St. Michael’s Church in Penn Yan, NY with Fr. John O’Connor officiating. Final interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Fremont, NY.
Ken’s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his name be made to the American Cancer Society, 16 Beech St., Johnson City, NY 13790.
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.
Dorothy Burrow, of Alfred Station
Linda Gonzales, of Hornell
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Modern day tourism
World tourism statistics and rankings
Problems that are sometimes associated with tourism
Winter tourismus
The Franz Josef is a very small glacier, about 1,000 metres in length. What this means is that the glacier is warm enough that you can go out on it without being cold. So we went out to it on a cold winter night, and we were cold, but we were very welcomed by the glacier. But not only were we warm, we had an amazing view of the glacier.
The next glacier that we went to was the Kermadec. This glacier is my favourite one because it's the only one I've taken a picture of from the ground. It's the longest glacier in New Zealand.
It's about two kilometres long. It's also a very cold glacier. So we went to it on a cold night, and we were cold, and we were very welcomed by the glacier. But once again, it did not feel like we were going to Antarctica. It is a beautiful glacier, but also a very dangerous one. This is a glacier that is extremely steep, and it is not possible to drive through it unless you are very strong.
We are going to look at the glacier's topography, how it looks from below, and how it looks from above, and what lies below it. We are also going to look at what lies beneath it, where it is located in relation to the land, and where it would be most suitable for a tourist experience. dr. john l. leavitt L. Leavitt, a glaciologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He was the Lead Scientist for the National Snow and Ice Data Center and a professor of geography at the University of Colorado. He is a very knowledgeable person.
To digress just a little bit here, what are the risks to the glacier views? The risks are that the glacier surface can be covered in snow. It is located in the northern part of the country, about six hundred and fifteen miles from Auckland, and has a population of about one hundred and fifty thousand. It is a massive glacier and it is open to the public.
It is a beautiful glacier, but it is not a glacier you'll ever see in a glacier picture. It is a glacier that is always there, and it is a glacier that is always there in the winter and in the summer. The glacier is very famous for opening in the winter, and it is very dramatic in the winter. A lot of tourists go to New Zealand to go skiing, but they don't go to New Zealand to go to the Franz Josef Glacier. The glacier is very difficult to ski on.
It is an old glacier, and it is very steep. If you look at satellite imagery, you can see that the glacier has been slowly melting in the south-western corner of New Zealand. This is a distance of about 200 km from the nearest town, so it's very easy to get here.
This glacier is very interesting. It's only about 400 m wide. It's also much deeper than the glaciers in Norway. This means that in winter its surface temperatures are much colder than those of the surrounding areas, which means that you can go for a very long time without seeing any water (it's not as if you can skydive in the snow on this glacier). The glacier travels for about 1,000 km. In the winter, the temperature is very high and the glacier is quite cold. However, you need an ice axe or a sled to go down the glacier. The glacier is beautiful. It's a very interesting glacier, not only because of the views, but because it is the fastest moving glacier in the world. You start by going down about 50 m and then you go down another 50 m.
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Active aging group
gains new mandate
Organization hopes to better reflect
needs, aspirations of older adults
By Holli Moncrieff
With a new mandate and a new name, Active Aging in Manitoba is hoping to better reflect the needs of today's older adults.
Formerly known as the Active Living Coalition for Older Adults in Manitoba, or ALCOA-MB for short, the organization has been promoting and creating opportunities for older adults in the province for nearly 20 years, but there was a problem - few people remembered its name.
Along with the new name, the association will have a slightly different focus, according to Jim Evanchuk, Executive Director of the not-for-profit organization.
In addition to highlighting physical health, it will be promoting all aspects of healthy aging, including social, economic, cultural, spiritual, and civic connectedness. Studies have shown that people who are socially active and connected to others live longer, happier lives.
"Our new name is a moniker that better reflects what we do and how we view aging," says Evanchuk. "We're focused on all the ways older adults can remain connected to their communities. It's not just about being physically active, but also maintaining social activity and social connections," he explains. "Older adults have a whole lot of life experience, skills, and abilities that can contribute to our society in meaningful ways. We're pushing back against the notion that people have a 'best before' date."
One of Active Aging in Manitoba's main offerings is the Peer Leadership program. Its peer leaders are active older adults who are trained to make presentations, lead walking or exercise classes, or act as ambassadors to motivate their peers to become more active and healthier. Peer Leaders on average, engage their neighbours and friends in the active aging experience at least twice a week. They also encourage the older adult participants to strive for the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise each week.
"The program will continue to expand. We have over 150 active peer leaders in Winnipeg right now, and we're always looking for new partners," says Evanchuk. "We're hoping the general public will see the value of engaging older adults in a variety of ways."
Peer leaders teach Steppin' Up with Confidence classes, a program initiated by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in 2003. The program has since developed into a partnership between the Region, Reh-Fit Centre, University of Manitoba, Manitoba Fitness Council, Manitoba Association on Gerontology and Active Aging in Manitoba. Originally part of a falls prevention program for older adults, Steppin' Up now consists of peer-led exercise and walking programs.
Evanchuk says the programs support and encourage older adults to embrace an active lifestyle by offering self-sustaining, accessible, high-quality, no-cost exercise and walking programs within or near their apartment complex or home.
"I'm hoping people will think of Active Aging in Manitoba as an advocate and promoter of healthy active aging. We'll keep on encouraging people to move more, sit less, and continue to be involved for life," he says. "But we'll also be emphasizing the importance of people remaining connected."
The organization uses two catchy, easy-to-remember rhyming statements to keep its message top of mind, he adds.
"'You can thrive and be fully alive beyond 55,' and 'The more you engage, the better you age.' It's about really valuing and respecting everyone, no matter what their age. We want to make sure no one is ruled out."
Sept. 23 to 29: Active Aging Week
Sept. 25: Active Aging Day at the Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks General Hospital.
For information about activities, call 204-632-3947.
Oct. 1: National Seniors and Elders Day. The public is welcome to attend the Active Aging in Manitoba Expo, a collaboration with Sport Manitoba, held at the Sport for Life Centre at 145 Pacific Avenue, from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.
While no longer the sole focus of the organization, staying active as one ages will remain a strong aspect of Active Aging in Manitoba's message. The association became the lead organizer of the Manitoba 55+ Games in 2012, and will continue in that role.
Sixty per cent of older adults are still inactive, according to statistics gathered by the association and the World Health Organization.
Sitting or lying down for long periods of time is a serious health risk, with inactivity as harmful to one's health as smoking. Inactivity leads to a decline in bone strength, muscle strength, heart and lung fitness, and flexibility.
September 23 to 29 is Active Aging Week, with Active Aging Day held at the Wellness Institute on Tuesday, September 25. The association's new website will have launched by then, and a new Active Aging guide will be released that week. An electronic copy will be available on the Active Aging Manitoba website at activeagingmb.ca. For a hard copy, call 204-632-3947.
"There will be plenty of things to see, do, and try out at the Wellness Institute, and healthy aging organizations will be there with information," says Evanchuk. "We can certainly steer people in the right direction, in terms of opportunities and activities."
On October 1, which is National Seniors and Elders Day, the public is welcome to attend the Active Aging in Manitoba Expo, a collaboration with Sport Manitoba, held at the Sport for Life Centre at 145 Pacific Avenue, from 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.
"We're looking for ways to engage older adults meaningfully. People will have the opportunity to try out a number of different activities. There will be several 55+ games there to try, including bocce, pickleball, golf, and floor curling," Evanchuk says. "Everyone will have the chance to give it a try and test the waters, if you will. There's already a real buzz about people coming down to check things out."
Along with the new name and new, improved mandate, Evanchuk is hoping more people of all ages will take advantage of what Active Aging in Manitoba has to offer.
"Let's take a look at how we can engage the older adults in our communities," says Evanchuk. "They'll feel welcome, they'll feel encouraged, and they'll feel involved."
Holli Moncrief is a Winnipeg writer.
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Leadership Profile – Linda Taylor, AIA
An excerpt from Professional Services Management Journal (PSMJ), October 2019 issue
Among pioneering women in architecture, Linda Taylor is often overlooked. She founded Taylor & Associates Architects in 1979, when the few prominent women in the field were either husband-wife teams or second-tier leaders. Today, she remains a director of the rebranded Taylor Design, an architecture and interior design firm based in Irvine, CA, with offices in San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento.
In an interview earlier this year with marketing director Monica Seely, Taylor recalled being too busy facing the challenges of starting and running a firm to be concerned with her legacy as a trailblazer.
“It did not occur to me at the time that I was doing anything unusual, or trying to fight above my weight class. Like many women of my generation, I was brought up to believe that I could do anything I set my mind to. In the beginning, when my firm was small and doing smaller projects, there was little resistance to a woman architect in the competitive marketplace—that didn’t happen until the stakes and the projects were much bigger. Unlike some of my male counterparts, I never turned down a project because it was too small or insignificant for my perceived design skills. And I always gave 110 percent to make sure the client was happy, even if it cost me. I think women are more likely to take that approach, and rely on goodwill to be their strongest marketing ploy. The result was that I earned the loyalty of a few clients with very high-profile projects in their pipelines, who then surprised our big-name competitors (and me) by giving me a chance to prove myself on a much larger scale.”
Current Taylor Design president Randy Regier was one of those young people when he joined the firm in 1994. Shortly after she hired him, Taylor let Regier loose on one of the firm’s signature projects. “I call it sneaky leadership development; doing it through a project. That’s one of the beauties of this industry. You can work side-by-side with someone and see how they handle themselves in a lot of different situations. You can see them in action and advise them on how they may have handled something or someone differently.” In 2003, Taylor asked Regier to replace her as president. “Her’s were very big shoes to fill. She was such a good leader—calm and approachable. She has this wisdom that just spills out of her.”
Taylor sees a bright future for women leaders, and not just in architecture. “Women across the board are discovering what it means to have real control of their own lives and the confidence to follow their dreams. “As leaders, they bring an empathetic and nurturing aspect that’s born in every woman, and this may be our only possible pathway to the future,” she says. “I know that sounds like a huge thing to be tackling while we’re talking about ‘how does it feel to be a woman at the head of an architecture firm?’ because it’s hard to put those in the same bracket. But I do in a way.”
For the full article, please visit PSMJ’s website: https://www.psmj.com/
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The Legal Aid Manitoba Act
It has been in effect since November 5, 2015.
1 Jul 2014 to 4 Nov 2015 — Bilingual version (PDF)
29 Mar 2014 to 30 Jun 2014 — Bilingual version (PDF)
5 Dec 2013 to 28 Mar 2014
16 Jun 2011 to 4 Dec 2013
9 Dec 2010 to 15 Jun 2011
9 Oct 2008 to 8 Dec 2010
Note: Earlier consolidated versions are not available online.
C.C.S.M. c. L105
Table of Contents Bilingual (PDF) Regulations
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
1 In this Act,
"applicant" means an individual or group, as the context may require, applying for or receiving legal aid; (« bénéficiaire »)
"application" means an application for legal aid; (« demande »)
"council" means the management council established under section 5; (« conseil »)
"councillor" means a member of the council; (« conseiller »)
"district" means a judicial district of the province as defined on July 1, 1983; (« district »)
"eligible" means eligible for legal aid in accordance with this Act and the regulations; (« admissible »)
"executive director" means the executive director of Legal Aid Manitoba; (« directeur général »)
"Law Society" means The Law Society of Manitoba; (« Société du Barreau »)
"legal aid" means legal advice and services available or furnished under this Act; (« aide juridique »)
"minister" means the minister appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to administer this Act; (« ministre »)
"panel" means the panel of solicitors maintained under section 13; (« répertoire »)
"solicitor" means a member of the Law Society who holds a valid practising certificate under The Legal Profession Act; (« procureur »)
"youth applicant" means an applicant under the age of 18 years. (« bénéficiaire mineur »)
S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 2; S.M. 2002, c. 44, s. 107; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 3.
2(1) "The Legal Aid Services Society of Manitoba", a body corporate consisting of the persons appointed under section 5, is continued under the name "Legal Aid Manitoba".
Corporations Act does not apply
2(2) The Corporations Act does not apply to Legal Aid Manitoba.
S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 4; S.M. 2008, c. 42, s. 55.
2.1 Legal Aid Manitoba is to serve the public interest by
(a) providing quality legal advice and representation to eligible low-income individuals;
(b) administering the delivery of legal aid in a cost-effective and efficient manner; and
(c) providing advice to the minister on legal aid generally and on the specific legal needs of low income individuals.
S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 5.
Provision of legal aid
3(1) Legal Aid Manitoba may provide legal aid to an applicant who is eligible in such civil and criminal matters as are prescribed by regulation
(a) without charge, to an individual who is determined, in accordance with the regulations, to be unable to pay for legal aid; and
(b) with a partial or full charge to an individual who is determined, in accordance with the regulations, to be able to pay a portion or all of the costs of providing legal aid.
Additional powers
3(2) Subject to the approval of the council, Legal Aid Manitoba may provide legal aid requested by the minister, a judge, or an officer of a court or tribunal, including providing representation as a friend of the court, and legal information or advice to an organization or agency, or to persons within a geographic area.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 3; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17.
Legal aid to groups
4(1) Subject to this Act and the regulations, Legal Aid Manitoba may furnish legal aid in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) to any group, whether incorporated or not, that submits an application and is found eligible under section 12.
Matters qualified for legal aid
4(2) Legal Aid Manitoba may furnish legal aid to a group under subsection (1) in any matter that, in the opinion of Legal Aid Manitoba, involves an objective or interest
(a) common to the members of the group; and
(b) relating to an issue of public interest including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, any consumer or environmental issue.
Full or partial legal aid to groups
4(3) Legal Aid Manitoba may furnish legal aid to a group under subsection (1)
(a) without charge; or
(b) with a partial charge;
as Legal Aid Manitoba may determine and, where Legal Aid Manitoba determines to furnish the legal aid with a partial charge, it shall also determine the amount of the group's contribution to the cost of the legal aid.
S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17.
5(1) The management council of Legal Aid Manitoba is to consist of at least seven but no more than nine members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
Term of appointment
5(2) Councillors are to be appointed for the term fixed in the order appointing them, which must not exceed three years.
Appointment continues
5(3) After a councillor's term expires, the councillor continues to hold office until he or she is reappointed, a successor is appointed or the appointment is revoked.
Law Society nominees
5(4) Three of the councillors must be selected by the Lieutenant Governor in Council from a list of seven solicitors submitted by the Law Society at the request of the minister.
Vacancy of Law Society nominee
5(5) If a vacancy occurs on the council with respect to a solicitor appointed under subsection (4), the solicitor appointed to fill that vacancy is to be selected by the Lieutenant Governor in Council from a new list of seven solicitors submitted by the Law Society at the request of the minister.
Non-lawyers on council
5(6) At least three of the councillors must be persons who are not solicitors.
Chair and vice-chair
5(7) The Lieutenant Governor in Council must designate one of the councillors as the chair and one as the vice-chair of the council.
Duties of vice-chair
5(8) The vice-chair has the authority of the chair if the chair is absent or unable to act, or when authorized by the chair.
5(9) Legal Aid Manitoba must pay councillors the remuneration specified by the Lieutenant Governor in Council in the order appointing them and must reimburse councillors for reasonable expenses incurred in performing their duties.
S.M. 1993, c. 48, s. 72; S.M. 1997, c. 52, s. 11; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 6 and 17.
Duties of council
6 The council is to direct the business and affairs of Legal Aid Manitoba, and must
(a) oversee the financial management of Legal Aid Manitoba;
(b) manage the resources of Legal Aid Manitoba efficiently;
(c) establish operational and strategic policies for Legal Aid Manitoba; and
(d) evaluate the quality and cost-effectiveness of the services provided by Legal Aid Manitoba and the delivery of legal aid in Manitoba.
Tariff review
6.1(1) At least once every two years, the council must review the tariff of fees paid to solicitors for providing legal aid.
Consultation with advisory committee
6.1(2) The council must consult with the advisory committee when conducting the review.
Report to minister
6.1(3) The council must provide the minister with a report on the findings of the review. The report must set out any recommended adjustments to the tariff of fees and provide an explanation for any recommendation.
7 The council may make by-laws respecting the conduct and management of its business and affairs.
8(1) The council must establish an advisory committee to
(a) provide advice to the council on matters of general or regional concern respecting the provision of legal aid;
(b) provide advice to the council on the needs of individuals and groups receiving legal aid; and
(c) study and make recommendations to the council on any matter referred to it by the council.
Consultation re tariff changes
8(2) The council must consult with the committee respecting any proposed changes to the tariff of fees paid to solicitors for providing legal aid.
Considerations re appointments
8(3) When appointing persons to the committee, the council must ensure that the committee
(a) includes persons from rural and northern Manitoba;
(b) reflects the cultural diversity of Manitoba; and
(c) includes persons who are familiar with issues commonly faced by low-income individuals.
Lawyers on committee
8(4) The committee must include
(a) one appointee selected from a list of three criminal defence solicitors submitted by the Manitoba Bar Association;
(b) one appointee selected from a list of three solicitors practising family law submitted by the Manitoba Bar Association; and
(c) one appointee selected from a list of three solicitors employed by Legal Aid Manitoba submitted by the Legal Aid Lawyers' Association.
8(5) The committee must elect one of its members as the chair and another as the vice-chair of the committee.
8(5.1) The committee must meet at least four times each year. One of the meetings must be a joint meeting with the council.
Executive director and chair to attend
8(5.2) The executive director and the chair of the council must attend each meeting of the committee or send a delegate on his or her behalf.
Reimbursement for expenses
8(6) Members of the committee are to serve without remuneration, but Legal Aid Manitoba may reimburse them for reasonable expenses incurred in performing their duties on the committee.
Annual report on advisory committee activities
8.1 The chair of the council must submit an annual report to the minister about the activities of the advisory committee.
Information to advisory committee
8.2 The chair of the council must provide the advisory committee with the following information on an annual basis:
(a) the number of applications for legal aid;
(b) the number of applications approved;
(c) the number of eligible applicants who requested the appointment of a specific solicitor to provide legal aid;
(d) the number of eligible applicants who had legal aid provided by their requested solicitor.
Employment of staff
9(1) An executive director, and such solicitors, office staff and other employees as may be required for Legal Aid Manitoba's purposes, may be employed under The Civil Service Act.
Civil Service Acts apply
9(2) The provisions of The Civil Service Act and The Civil Service Superannuation Act, and the regulations made under those Acts, apply to persons employed under subsection (1).
Application of subsection 12(4) of Civil Service Act
9(3) Notwithstanding subsection 25(3), for the purposes of applying subsection 12(4) of The Civil Service Act to persons employed under subsection (1), the funds of Legal Aid Manitoba shall be deemed to form part of the Consolidated Fund.
Appointment of area directors
9(4) The council may appoint an area director, who shall be a solicitor, for each district.
Remuneration and duties of employees
10 Legal Aid Manitoba shall pay the salaries and remuneration of persons employed or appointed under section 9, and the council shall prescribe their duties.
Applying for legal aid
11(1) An application by an individual for legal aid
(a) must be made in the manner required by the regulations; and
(b) must be submitted to the executive director or the area director for the district in which the applicant lives or is charged or detained.
Authorization to disclose financial information
11(2) In order to determine whether an applicant is, or continues to be, eligible to receive legal aid, the applicant must complete a written consent form authorizing third parties to disclose financial information about the applicant to Legal Aid Manitoba.
11(3) An applicant must provide any additional information or evidence that the executive director or an area director requests to determine whether the applicant is, or continues to be, eligible to receive legal aid.
Offences re eligibility
11(4) A person who
(a) fails to promptly advise the executive director or an area director of any change in financial circumstances that may affect his or her eligibility to receive legal aid; or
(b) intentionally makes a false statement or a misrepresentation, or gives false or misleading information, for the purpose of obtaining legal aid;
is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than $10,000.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 5; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 7.
Investigating applicant's finances
11.1 In assessing the eligibility of an applicant, Legal Aid Manitoba
(a) must investigate the financial resources and obligations of an applicant who is charged with
(i) a criminal organization offence as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code (Canada), or
(ii) any other offence prescribed by regulation; and
(b) may investigate the financial resources and obligations of any other applicant.
11.2 The executive director or the area director who receives an application for legal aid under section 3 (legal aid for individuals) must determine, in accordance with the regulations,
(a) whether the applicant is eligible to receive legal aid; and
(b) whether the applicant will be required to pay a portion or all of the costs of providing legal aid, and, if so, the portion the applicant will be required to pay.
Lawyer's duty to disclose
11.3 If, in the course of providing legal aid to an applicant, information comes to the attention of a solicitor that the applicant
(a) is not eligible for legal aid; or
(b) was not, at any time since the applicant's application was submitted, eligible for legal aid;
the solicitor must promptly provide that information to the executive director or an area director.
Application for legal aid by groups
12(1) An application for legal aid under section 4 may be made to the executive director in such manner and on such forms as may be prescribed by the regulations.
Eligibility of groups
12(2) A group submitting an application for legal aid under section 4 may be found eligible by Legal Aid Manitoba notwithstanding that the members of the group or some of them would not be eligible as individuals, if Legal Aid Manitoba determines
(a) that the incomes of the members generally are at such a level that payment by the group of the legal costs in respect of which the application is submitted would work a serious hardship upon the group and would seriously hamper its activities; or
(b) that the group does not have sufficient funds to pay the legal costs in respect of which the application is submitted.
Criminal organization ineligible
12(3) A criminal organization as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code (Canada) is not eligible for legal aid under section 4 (legal aid to groups).
S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 8 and 17.
Panel of solicitors
13(1) Legal Aid Manitoba shall maintain an up-to-date panel of solicitors prepared to undertake the furnishing of legal aid under this Act.
Members of panel
13(2) Any solicitor including any solicitor who is a member of the council or is employed under section 9, desiring to participate in the furnishing of legal aid shall become registered as a member of the panel.
13(3) [Repealed] S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 6.
No right to choose lawyer
14(1) The executive director or an area director must appoint a solicitor who is a registered member of the panel to provide legal aid to an eligible person or group.
Consideration of request
14(2) In making the appointment, the executive director or area director must consider any request by the person or group for the appointment of a specific solicitor.
Solicitor may decline
15(1) A solicitor appointed to provide legal aid under section 14 may decline to act.
Delegation by solicitor
15(2) A solicitor may not delegate a legal aid matter or any portion thereof to another solicitor, whether or not the solicitors are practising in association with each other, except
(a) under exceptional circumstances, and then only with the consent of the applicant and the approval of the area director; or
(b) in respect of interlocutory or other preliminary steps in the matter.
15(3) An articling student under The Legal Profession Act may perform, as permitted under that Act, under the supervision of a solicitor the duties assigned by the solicitor in respect of the legal aid being furnished by the solicitor.
S.M. 2002, c. 44, s. 107; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 10.
Use of non-lawyers
15.1(1) Despite the other sections of this Act but subject to the Criminal Code (Canada), Legal Aid Manitoba may employ persons who are not lawyers or students, within the meaning of The Legal Profession Act, to provide under the general direction and supervision of a solicitor services that would ordinarily be provided by lawyers or articling students.
15.1(2) No person who has been disbarred, suspended or struck off the rolls or books of the law society of any province shall be employed under this section.
S.M. 1993, c. 38, s. 2; S.M. 2002, c. 44, s. 107; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17.
Solicitor's bill of costs
16(1) A solicitor who has furnished legal aid shall submit a bill of costs to the executive director for taxation.
Taxation of bill
16(2) A bill submitted under subsection (1) shall be taxed by the executive director on the basis of the tariff established under and in the manner prescribed by the regulations.
Payment of fees and disbursements
16(3) Legal Aid Manitoba shall pay to any solicitor who submits a bill under subsection (1), such fees and disbursements as are taxed under subsection (2).
17(1) In this section,
"applicant's fund" means the total of all moneys received by Legal Aid Manitoba under subsections (2), (3) and (4) in respect of a particular applicant, together with any other moneys paid to Legal Aid Manitoba by or on behalf of that applicant; (« compte de bénéficiaire »)
"expenditure incurred" means solicitor's fees and disbursements and other expenses incurred by Legal Aid Manitoba in the course of and as a consequence of furnishing legal aid to an applicant. (« dépenses contractées »)
Applicant's contribution
17(2) An applicant's contribution, as determined under section 3 or 4, is payable to Legal Aid Manitoba and, until paid, constitutes a debt due and owing to Legal Aid Manitoba recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Money paid by applicant to solicitor
17(3) Where a solicitor receives money from an applicant in respect of a matter for which the applicant is found by Legal Aid Manitoba, before or after the money is received by the solicitor, to be eligible for legal aid, the executive director may, at any time after the solicitor is authorized to provide legal aid in respect of the matter, require the solicitor to pay the money to Legal Aid Manitoba.
Moneys recovered from opposing party
17(4) All moneys recovered by an applicant from an opposing party, by way of costs or otherwise, shall be paid to Legal Aid Manitoba.
Reimbursement to Legal Aid Manitoba
17(5) Subject to subsection (6), Legal Aid Manitoba may retain out of an applicant's fund an amount equivalent to the expenditure incurred in respect of that applicant, or such portion thereof as Legal Aid Manitoba may determine, and shall pay the balance of the fund, if any, to the applicant.
Legal Aid Manitoba may retain costs recovered
17(6) Where an applicant's fund includes costs recovered from an opposing party, Legal Aid Manitoba may, under subsection (5), retain the total amount of those costs, notwithstanding that they exceed the expenditure incurred in respect of that applicant.
Garnishment, attachment, etc.
17(7) Moneys in an applicant's fund which Legal Aid Manitoba is entitled to retain under subsections (5) and (6) are not subject to garnishment, attachment, execution or seizure.
Costs against applicant
17(8) Legal Aid Manitoba is not liable for the payment of costs awarded against an applicant in any proceeding taken on the applicant's behalf under this Act.
Legal Aid Manitoba may pay costs
17(9) Notwithstanding subsection (8), where costs are awarded against an applicant, the applicant may apply to the council for payment of those costs by Legal Aid Manitoba and, if the council in its absolute discretion determines that in the special circumstances of the case the costs or a part thereof should be paid by Legal Aid Manitoba, Legal Aid Manitoba may pay on behalf of the applicant all or part of those costs as the council may determine.
Applicant becoming ineligible
17(10) Where it appears that an applicant originally found eligible is in fact not eligible or has ceased to be eligible, no legal aid shall thereafter be furnished to that applicant, and the cost of any legal aid furnished while the applicant was not eligible may be retained by Legal Aid Manitoba out of that applicant's fund, if any, and constitutes a debt due and owing from the applicant to Legal Aid Manitoba recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Costs in favor of applicant
17(11) Where in any matter costs are awarded in favor of an applicant, the costs shall be awarded and are recoverable without regard to the fact
(a) that the applicant may not be liable to Legal Aid Manitoba for payment of the expenditure incurred in respect of the matter, or for payment of some portion thereof; or
(b) that the amount of the costs awarded may exceed the actual amount of the expenditure incurred in respect of the matter.
Definition of "land"
17.1(1) In this section and section 17.2, "land" has the same meaning as it has under The Real Property Act.
Interpretation: "interest in land"
17.1(1.1) For greater certainty, a person has an interest in land for the purpose of section 17.1 or 17.2 if
(a) he or she has a homestead right under The Homesteads Act in the land; or
(b) the land is a family asset of the person, as defined under The Family Property Act.
Registration of statement in L.T.O.
17.1(2) Where an applicant who owns or has an interest in land in Manitoba receives legal aid, the executive director may register in a Land Titles Office a statement certifying that the applicant has received legal aid and setting out the name of the applicant, the legal description of the land, and Legal Aid Manitoba's address for service.
Manner of registration
17.1(3) A statement may be registered under subsection (2) without the consent of any person owning or having an interest in the land, and without fee.
Effect of registration
17.1(4) From the time of its registration, a statement registered under subsection (2) binds and forms a lien and charge on the applicant's estate or interest in the land against which it is registered for an amount equal to the cost of the legal aid provided to the applicant, before and after the date of registration; but no such statement has the effect of severing a joint tenancy or affecting a right under The Homesteads Act.
Postponement or discharge of lien
17.1(5) The executive director
(a) may discharge a lien or postpone the priority of a lien where, in his or her opinion, it is just and proper to do so; and
(b) shall, on payment to Legal Aid Manitoba of the cost of the legal aid, register a notice of discharge in the form approved under The Real Property Act.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 9; S.M. 1992, c. 46, s. 59; S.M. 1992, c. 58, s. 13; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17; S.M. 2010, c. 49, s. 2; S.M. 2013, c. 11, s. 72; S.M. 2015, c. 43, s. 29.
Definition of "parent"
17.2(1) In this section, "parent" means
(a) in a case where a biological parent, or a person declared to be the parent of a child under Part II of The Family Maintenance Act, is responsible for the care and control of a child, the biological parent of the child or the person declared to be the parent of the child under Part II of The Family Maintenance Act, as the case may be;
(b) in a case where an adoptive parent is responsible for the care and control of a child, the adoptive parent of the child; or
(c) in a case where a court of competent jurisdiction has appointed a person as guardian of the person of a child, the guardian of the child;
but does not include the Director of Child and Family Services or an agency under The Child and Family Services Act that is responsible pursuant to any Act or arrangement for the care or supervision of a child.
Responsibility of parent for legal services
17.2(2) In the following circumstances, the cost of legal aid provided to a child constitutes a debt due and owing from the parent of the child to Legal Aid Manitoba recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction:
(a) a child is charged with an offence;
(b) the child is ineligible to receive legal aid because of the income or other financial resources of the child's parent or parents, or the refusal or failure of the child's parent or parents to provide information to determine the child's eligibility for legal aid;
(c) the child's parent or parents refuse or fail to retain legal services on behalf of the child;
(d) Legal Aid Manitoba provides legal aid to the child as the result of a direction made under section 25 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada).
Registration of statement against parent's land
17.2(3) When legal aid is provided to a child in the circumstances set out in subsection (2), the executive director may register a statement in a Land Titles Office against land owned by the child's parent or in which the parent has an interest.
Form of statement
17.2(4) The statement must
(a) certify that legal aid was provided to the parent's child; and
(b) set out the following:
(i) the name of the parent whose child received legal aid,
(ii) the value of the legal aid provided,
(iii) the legal description of the land in question,
(iv) Legal Aid Manitoba's address for service.
Time of registration
17.2(5) The executive director may register a statement in a Land Titles Office only after
(a) all proceedings in relation to the offence in respect of which legal aid was provided are completed and the time allowed for an appeal has expired; or
(b) if an appeal has been commenced, all proceedings in relation to the appeal have been concluded.
17.2(6) From the time of its registration, a statement under this section binds and forms a lien and charge on the person's estate or interest in the land against which it is registered for an amount equal to the cost of the legal aid provided to his or her child. However, the statement does not have the effect of severing a joint tenancy or affecting a right under The Homesteads Act.
17.2(7) Subsections 17.1(3) and (5) apply, with necessary changes, to a statement registered under this section.
Appeal by applicant
18(1) An applicant may appeal a decision to
(a) reject the applicant's application;
(b) impose conditions or restrictions on the provision of legal aid to the applicant; or
(c) cancel the applicant's legal aid.
Appeal by lawyer
18(2) A solicitor may appeal a decision about the amount he or she is to be paid for providing legal aid.
Procedure on appeal
18(3) An appeal is to be made in accordance with the procedure specified by the regulations.
Who hears appeals
18(4) An appeal is to be heard
(a) by an appeal committee established by the regulations, if it deals with
(i) a decision made by the executive director, or
(ii) any other decision prescribed by the regulations; and
(b) by the executive director, if it deals with a decision made by any employee of Legal Aid Manitoba other than the executive director, except a decision referred to in subclause (a)(ii).
Decision on appeals
18(5) After hearing the appeal, the executive director or appeal committee, as the case may be, may
(a) confirm or set aside the decision under appeal;
(b) make any decision that could have been made by the original decision maker; or
(c) refer the matter back, with directions, to the original decision maker for further consideration.
No further appeal
18(6) The decision of the executive director on hearing an appeal under clause (4)(b) is final and may not be appealed to an appeal committee.
S.M. 1991-92, c. 16, s. 10; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 11.
Liability of Legal Aid Manitoba
19 egal Aid Manitoba is not liable for anything done or omitted to be done by a solicitor in the course of furnishing legal aid whether the solicitor is a private practitioner or a solicitor employed by Legal Aid Manitoba.
Law Society rules and code of conduct apply
20(1) A solicitor providing legal aid remains subject to the rules and code of professional conduct of the Law Society.
20(2) A solicitor employed by Legal Aid Manitoba does not commit a breach of a rule or the code of professional conduct of the Law Society relating to conflict of interest by reason only of advising or representing a person in a dispute or case involving another person who is or has been advised or represented by another solicitor employed by Legal Aid Manitoba.
Community law centres
21 For the purposes of this Act, Legal Aid Manitoba may establish and maintain community law centres as prescribed by the regulations.
Duty counsel
22 Legal Aid Manitoba may appoint counsel, as prescribed by the regulations, to attend in any court of the province on a daily or such other basis as may be required, for the purpose of advising or representing any person in a civil matter, or any person charged with a criminal offence or who is being detained or is under arrest.
Student legal aid projects
23(1) Legal Aid Manitoba may, on such terms and conditions not inconsistent with the regulations as the minister may approve, encourage and assist, by means of financial support or otherwise, the projects of any group of full-time undergraduate students of the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba having objects similar to and not inconsistent with the objects of this Act and carried on under the supervision of the faculty in a manner not contrary to The Legal Profession Act.
Undergraduate law students
23(2) Where permitted by The Legal Profession Act, and on such terms and conditions not inconsistent with the regulations as the minister may approve, Legal Aid Manitoba may make use of any full-time undergraduate student of the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba to assist in the work of Legal Aid Manitoba under this Act.
S.M. 1993, c. 48, s. 72; S.M. 2002, c. 44, s. 107; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17.
Privileged information
24(1) All information and communications in the possession of Legal Aid Manitoba relating to an applicant or the affairs of an applicant, is deemed to be privileged to the same extent that privilege would attach to information and communications in the possession of a solicitor.
24(2) Despite subsection (1), Legal Aid Manitoba may disclose information about an applicant's eligibility
(a) to a person retained by it to conduct an investigation under section 11.1; and
(b) in a civil or criminal proceeding brought against the applicant with respect to the applicant's eligibility to receive legal aid.
S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 13 and 17.
Legal Aid Manitoba not practising law
24.1 Despite The Legal Profession Act, Legal Aid Manitoba, in carrying out its objects, is not considered to be practising law within the meaning of that Act.
Funds of Legal Aid Manitoba
25(1) The funds of Legal Aid Manitoba consist of moneys received by it from any source including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, moneys granted to it for its use by the Parliament of Canada or the Legislature of Manitoba, or moneys retained under section 17.
Payment from Consolidated Fund
25(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister of Finance, on the requisition of the minister, may pay grants to Legal Aid Manitoba from and out of the Consolidated Fund with moneys authorized to be paid and applied for legal aid by an Act of the Legislature.
25(3) Legal Aid Manitoba has charge, control and management of its funds, and may disburse, expend or otherwise deal with those funds in such manner, consistent with its objects and with this Act, as it may deem proper.
25(4) Without restricting the generality of subsection (3), Legal Aid Manitoba may invest any moneys not immediately required for its purposes in any investments authorized by the Minister of Finance.
S.M. 1993, c. 48, s. 72; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 17.
Grants deemed to be under The Manitoba Assistance Act
26(1) Such moneys out of any grants paid to Legal Aid Manitoba under subsection 25(2) as are used by Legal Aid Manitoba to pay the cost of legal aid in civil matters furnished under this Act to persons who, while the legal aid is being so furnished, are receiving or are eligible to receive income assistance under The Manitoba Assistance Act are deemed to be monies paid and used for the purposes of section 8 of The Manitoba Assistance Act.
Legal Aid Manitoba as agent of government
26(2) Upon being so authorized under section 11 of The Social Services Administration Act, Legal Aid Manitoba may, as agent for the government and subject to the provisions of that section, do any or all of the things set out in that section, as the authorization may provide.
26(3) Notwithstanding subsection 24(1), Legal Aid Manitoba may release to the Executive Director of Social Security appointed under The Social Services Administration Act such information in its possession relating to an applicant or former applicant or the affairs of an applicant or former applicant as in the opinion of the executive director of Legal Aid Manitoba may be necessary for the purposes of this section and section 8 of The Manitoba Assistance Act.
27 The Auditor General shall annually audit or cause to be audited the books, records and accounts of Legal Aid Manitoba and submit a report thereof to the minister.
S.M. 1993, c. 48, s. 72; S.M. 2004, c. 50, s. 15 and 17.
28(1) The council shall submit to the minister an annual report on its affairs, and such other statistical and financial reports as the minister may require.
Tabling of annual report
28(2) The annual report submitted under subsection (1) shall, within 14 days after it is submitted, be tabled by the minister in the Legislature if it is then in session; but, if the Legislature is not then in session, the report shall be tabled not later than 14 days after the opening of the next ensuing session of the Legislature.
29 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) specifying the matters in respect of which legal aid may be furnished under section 3;
(b) respecting applications for legal aid and standards and criteria for determining an applicant's eligibility for legal aid under section 3,
(i) without charge, or
(ii) with a charge, and the amount thereof;
(c) prescribing methods for accommodating applicants under section 3 who reside in remote areas of the province;
(d) prescribing methods for accommodating youth applicants under section 3;
(d.1) respecting investigations of the financial resources and obligations of applicants;
(d.2) prescribing offences for the purposes of subclause 11.1(a)(ii);
(d.3) respecting the rejection or cancellation of legal aid and the imposition of conditions or restrictions on the provision of legal aid, including, without limitation, the cancellation or imposition of conditions or restrictions to prevent applicants from
(i) receiving legal aid in civil matters that are frivolous or have little chance of success, or
(ii) delaying matters unreasonably or using legal aid for vexatious purposes;
(e) respecting the basis for determining the amount of fees payable to solicitors for furnishing legal aid;
(f) for the establishment and revision from time to time of a tariff of fees to be used in taxing solicitors' accounts;
(f.1) respecting appeals under section 18;
(f.2) respecting the establishment of an appeal committee referred to in section 18 and providing for its powers and duties;
(f.3) for the purposes of subclause 18(4)(a)(ii), prescribing decisions from which an appeal is to be heard by an appeal committee;
(g) respecting the number, location, organization and staffing of such community law centres as may be established under section 21, and the employment therein of graduates-at-law, and prescribing the remuneration and duties of persons employed therein;
(h) respecting the manner of appointment, number, location, duties and remuneration of counsel appointed under section 22;
(i) respecting assistance for student projects and the use of law students under section 23;
(j) prescribing methods for the dissemination of information to the public and to detained persons respecting legal aid;
(j.1) respecting the organization of the operations of Legal Aid Manitoba to avoid conflicts of interest and the unauthorized disclosure of information about applicants;
(k) respecting the procedures to be followed and the forms to be used in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(l) respecting any matter necessary or advisable to carry out the purposes of this Act.
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WCS’s Karukinka Reserve Celebrates 10 Years of Conservation
Ten years after Goldman Sachs and the Wildlife Conservation Society announced one of the largest gifts of private lands ever given for conservation, Chile’s Karukinka Natural Park is celebrating a decade of accomplishments, from top-notch conservation science, to wildlife and habitat protection, to public education and engagement. This celebration is taking place as conservationists gather for the 2014 IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia – a once-in-a-decade global forum on protected areas.
Since the reserve’s creation in 2004, WCS, working in partnership with Goldman Sachs, the Chilean government, and an advisory council of Chilean scientists, academics and business leaders, has managed Karukinka to preserve its unique natural resources while making it accessible for the people of Chile.
Today, the Rhode-Island-sized reserve spans some 735,000 acres on the Chilean side of Tierra del Fuego.Karukinka protects the world’s southernmost stands of old growth forests as well as grasslands, rivers, and wetlands. Its intact forests and peatlands are estimated to sequester more than 300 million tons of carbon annually.
Karukinka contains significant wildlife: including 60 percent of Chile’s guanacos– one of the only two indigenous species of camel in the Americas. In addition, the landscape supports Andean condors and endangered Culpeo foxes. Lying seaward of Karukinka is Admiralty Sound, which supports Chile’s only breeding colony of elephant seals, its only inland nesting colony of black-browed albatross, and often receives visits from dolphins and other marine fauna.
“Karukinka is truly one of the few remaining wild places on the planet,” said WCS President and CEO Cristián Samper. “Karukinka began with one of the largest gifts toward conservation from the private sector in history. The Goldman Sachs donation of land to WCS has since grown into a unique private-public alliance where Chileans have direct involvement in the reserve’s management. While any single park’s boundaries are limited, the scope of influence of this one is significant. Since its establishment, Karukinka has become a model for conservation action and education throughout the Patagonian coast.”
After acquiring this vast tract of land in 2004, Goldman Sachs conducted an in-depth analysis of the land and realized the area was of tremendous ecological and historical importance. Goldman Sachs quickly saw that this presented a unique opportunity to preserve this pristine land, and so decided to conserve it in perpetuity on behalf of future generations.
“We realized we could create value by turning this land into a park for the benefit of the people of Chile and the world.” said Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. “The Wildlife Conservation Society has been an outstanding partner and our work together in Tierra del Fuego can be a model for other public private partnerships.”
In 2006, a public use plan for the reserve was created. This included creating low-impact tourism infrastructure including hiking trails, kayak tours, fly fishing and tourist lodges. That same year, with funding from Goldman Sachs, WCS launched an educational program for the reserve including a fellowship for conservation research on Tierra del Fuego. Since then, WCS has collaborated with 40 schools and more than 7,000 students – as much as the entire population of the Chilean portion of Tierra del Fuego.
Meanwhile, scientific output from the reserve has been impressive with more than 45 reports and 22 peer-reviewed articles published by WCS conservationists working in Karukinka. Nearly 50 seminars and graduate theses have been completed. Findings have included pinpointing migration patterns and population estimates of guanacos confirming Karukinka’s importance to this iconic South American species. Other findings showed range extensions of seals, and how elephant seals connect distant, suitable habitats sometimes traveling distances of more than 28,000 kilometers each year along the Patagonian coasts of Chile and Argentina—more than a round trip flight from Santiago to Sydney.
WCS research in Karukinka has helped inform conservation policy. In 2011, WCS developed a regional conservation vision for the entire Patagonian Coast, anchored in the model of Karukinka. For these efforts, WCS received the Forjadores Ambientales (Conservation Promoters) award by the Chilean Ministry of Environment. In 2012, the Chilean government, with scientific inputs provided by WCS, announced a landmark decision to ban salmon farming in Tierra del Fuego’s coastal waters. That same year, WCS launched a Business and Biodiversity Program in Chile, advising the Ministry of Environment on extractive industry compensation for biodiversity impacts.
To conserve Karukinka, WCS has formed close collaborations at many levels—local, national, regional, and international—and across sectors. Collectively, WCS partners with more than 50 private and public institutions to help manage the reserve.
Over the next 10 years, WCS will further its strong base of applied conservation research and collaboration. WCS envisions using the model of Karukinka to create a vast network of terrestrial and marine protected areas in Chile. This will begin with formal protection of the Admiralty Sound on Karukinka’s southern shore and expand across Patagonia to complement conservation and management strategies already in place or expanding in Argentina. WCS is working to ensure projects like mining and fisheries near Karukinka are sustainably managed.
Reflecting upon the significance of Karukinka’s 10th anniversary, Dr. Julie Kunen, Executive Director of WCS’s Latin America and Caribbean program said: “We seek a clear commitment by the private sector to no-net-loss of biodiversity throughout the region. And we ultimately aim to ensure this landscape can continue providing value to local economies and generations of Chileans to come, while serving as a model that can be replicated globally. With proper stewardship, Karukinka’s natural capital and local people can thrive for decades to come.”
Since the early 1960s, WCS has been committed to conserving wildlife and wild lands of the Southern Cone of South America. In that time WCS has helped create protected areas to safeguard populations of Magellanic penguins, South American sea lions, southern elephant seals and southern right whales.
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Made by inventive scientists the metal robots can survive on Mars without difficulty. However, can people live there? Preliminary evidence from the recent NASA stated that rover measured the level of radiation as cosmic rays are harmful to all life forms, and the main objective of NASA’s cutting-edge robot was to determine the suitability of potential Martian conditions to the existence of life forms in them. The scientists are confident that astronauts will be able without any consequences stay on the surface of Mars soon. The only question is – for how long? Regular receive of high doses of radiation can affect the health of the astronauts in the long term, so now the mission specialists beware to make statements about the radiation safety of the future Mars mission.
Mars looks like a pink disc
The researchers have noted that the MartianSea has a greenish tint, but further photometric observations showed that these color differences are small and are mainly due to the influence of the Martian atmosphere. This, in turn, leads to a leveling reflectivity seas and continents of Mars violet rays. Through the influence of the Martian atmosphere, we do not know what actually the color of the Martian surface is. However, many scientists claim, the fourth from the sun planet is the best one to live after the earth and that it could be terraforming. The main questions are: (a) to what extend is Mars similar to Earth and (b) is terraforming Mars a good or bad idea? Thus, in order to find out whether Mars is the place where it is possible to live for humans, the following things should be discussed.
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Physical Conditions
Even earlier determining the optical thickness of the Martian atmosphere has shown that it is by its overall density significantly different from the earth’s one. For the atmosphere of our planet, the meaning of such characteristic in the visible region of the spectrum is 0.30. At various times, it has been concluded the relative value of optical thickness of the atmosphere of Mars. It was found to be an average of 0.06 for 5000 %u01FA, which corresponds to the atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars (60 mmHg). Until recently this figure has remained common in discussions about the possibility of the existence of living organisms on Mars white major quantities characterizing such unsightly conditions on our pink neighbors (McKay & Haynes, 1997).
Therefore, the pressure at the surface of Mars does not exceed 15 mmHg. The investigation of chemical and aerosol composition of the Martial atmosphere has shown that the oxygen in it is probably about 0.1% and carbon dioxide – 2.2% of the total volume. Other gases that could detect by observation of the Earth’s surface, in the atmosphere of Mars are not found (McKay & Haynes, 1997).
According to the spectrophotometric observations of Mars, there cannot be found even the small traces of water vapor. The astronomers have only concluded that density of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere does not exceed 0.1 g/cm³ (about 1% of the density of water vapor in the earth’s atmosphere). First of all, the “thawing” of the polar caps presents the idea the polar regions of Mars are covered with snow. At least the polar caps defined temperature (-100 ° C) completely reject the hypothesis of carbon composition of these formations. Due to the temperature on Mars is CO it cannot be solidify. Based on the rate of reduction of the polar caps (15-20 km per day) during the Martian spring in particular hemisphere and taking into account the fact Mars receives from the Sun is 2.3 times less heat than Earth, we must conclude that there is a small thickness – a few centimeters – snow layer on the planet’s surface. In early spring, in varying hemisphere of Mars polar cap covers an area of 30 million km². During this period, on the opposite hemisphere cap has a minimum size. A number of crystals of frozen water at this time are in the planet’s atmosphere. When considering all the stocks, it appears that total volume of water on Mars is about 1,000 cubic meters. Boiling water in low atmospheric pressure on Mars can be performed with the temperature less than 20-30 ° C. The calculations of the amount of water in the Martian atmosphere have shown that our neighbor’s pink is too poor to atmospheric moisture and is about 10 microns uniformly distributed across the surface of the water film. The observations demonstrated the amount of water in the Martian atmosphere is equivalent to 40 microns. In studying the chemical composition of the planet’s atmosphere we always proceed from the assumption that initial composition of the gas cloud has formed the planets. The chemical composition of the clouds must meet the prevalence of chemical elements in space. The rate of weathering on Mars is 5.1 km / sec. It is about half that in earth. It can be argued that light gases, such as hydrogen, helium and a few others, abstain in the Martian atmosphere and cannot disappear. In fact, the kinetic theory of gas follows that when Mars is the same age as the Earth (4.5 billion years), its atmosphere could abstain only those gases for which the thermal speed is less than 1 km / sec. The temperature of the atmosphere of Mars is about -70 ° C. At this temperature, all gases, whose molecular weight is less than 6 could, do not hold on to its atmosphere. The atmosphere of Mars should consist mainly of hard, chemically inert gases such as nitrogen, argon, etc (Schubert, Turcotte & Olson, 2001).
Knowing the chemical composition and temperature of the atmosphere, we can calculate how the pressure differs with the height. The calculations show that, for every kilometer, the atmospheric pressure on Mars decreases. That is faster than on earth. This means that, at an altitude of about 30 km from earth’s surface, pressure is the same as at the surface of Mars, and at higher altitudes than the earth pressure. The similar situation is about the density of the Martian atmosphere changes with altitude. At an altitude of about 40 km, the density of the atmosphere of Mars and Earth are equalized. Perhaps meteoric phenomena, or so-called shooting stars, are observed in the Martian atmosphere at altitudes slightly larger than earth’s atmosphere. There is a reason to believe that, like Earth, the atmosphere of Mars is the troposphere, stratosphere and ionosphere. In earth’s atmosphere, absorb solar radiation is observed, in particular, due to the presence of water vapor. On Mars this role, to some extent, can be played by carbon dioxide. In the atmosphere of Mars, carbon dioxide is 10-15 times greater than in the Earth’s atmosphere, and the temperature of the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere is lower because of the thermal radiation of CO in atmosphere is cooling (Taylor, 1992).
It was found by the theoretical assumptions that the stratospheric temperature is approximately - 100 º C while believing that the temperature of the atmosphere near the surface is 50 ° C lower than the one of the surface. Thus, the most likely explanation for purple clouds and purple layer in terms of the theory is the assumption of cluster crystals of ice with a diameter of about 0.3 microns. These particles we see on earth in the freezing weather: they form the so-called freezing mist.
Philosophical and Political Merit
There is no doubt that sooner or later, Mars will be populated with people from Earth - the humans and all kinds of living organisms. What will be the consequences of this? Many philosophers are thinking about this problem now. It is today possible to speculate on the future of Martian settlement by relying on the people’s knowledge only and earthly experience of the civilization, or assumption of regular paths of development in the specific new environment.
Mars will be the area where the most people will be used to the technologically advanced countries (Russia, the USA, EU member states). A settlement on Mars will be in regard to the racial composition of Caucasoid conglomerate. The population having some differences in national origin living in compact settlements will inevitably be mixed genetically (marriage) and end up in 3-5 generations forms a mono-ethnic education. The difference in the linguistic composition of the primary ethnic groups of settlers would be forced to undergo the deep processing toward the formation of a unified voice system (language and literature) while maintaining knowledge of the primary languages (e.g. Russian, English, German, French) to keep the possibility of communication with the population of earth. The cultural exchanges between the settlers will also force to create the averaged forms of culture, and the development of principles of behavior, learning and customs. Martian civilization will be the region with over or otherwise control of the metropolis (earth). “Red Planet” will inevitably become a completely independent political and economic entity solar system. It is natural to assume that the production of Martian civilization will be developed in the sector of arms, military and space complex. In case of any external expansion of the earth (the state, multinational companies), the Martian civilization will have significant advantages with respect to the overall cost of maintaining the military conflict of any kind, as any expedition from the earth and has a high probability to be of great value and flight risks. Martian neoplasm will be enough to have an effective constellation of surface and missile bases. It is interesting the total energy cost of a ballistic missile launch from the surface of Mars significantly (by orders of magnitude) less than the cost of shipping from the Earth to the orbit of Mars (Schubert, Turcotte, Olson, 2001).
Mars is the most suitable candidate for terraforming. The magnitude of gravity would have been preferable to Venus: its gravity is 0.9 from the ground while on Mars is 0.38. Martian climate is severe but does not differ much from ours. The atmosphere on Mars is very sparse, and can be sealed, releasing bound oxygen from the compounds in the soil (peroxides and ozonides). The second smallest planet in the Solar System has significant reserves of water ice beneath the surface and in the polar caps. If the southern cap melted alone completely, the surface of Mars is covered with a water layer of 11 meters thickness. Since the thin atmosphere, it is very cold on Mars: the average temperature is about -50 ° C, and the cold winter night can be up to -125 ° C. The planet gets from the sun two times less energy than the earth (or more precisely, 43%), and most of this heat is re-emitted into space. Sealing the atmosphere will reduce these losses and raise the average temperature. Initial heating to start the process of melting and evaporation of water and the release of gases are possible in many ways: heating the planet’s surface using directional orbital solar mirrors, darkening the surface of the polar caps black or polymer films.
There are as well different philosophical and political challenges for living on Mars; therefore, it has been found that terraforming the planet is more negative than a positive process.
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Why Southern Stars' World T20 record attempt is more than a number
By Chris De Silva
Since making her debut for Australia in 2012, Megan Schutt and the Southern Stars have achieved just about all there is to achieve in the game.
Australia's women's cricket team may not be as heralded as their male counterparts, but their dominance is reminiscent of the great Australian teams led by Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting.
However, on International Women's Day in 2020, Schutt and the Southern Stars are hoping to achieve one thing they haven't, a Guinness World Record, by breaking the record for the highest attendance at a women's sporting fixture.
The current world record stands at a whopping 90,185, marking the crowd that attended the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final to see the United States prevail over China on penalties.
Schutt has become a key component in the Southern Stars' lethal bowling attack (AAP)
The Southern Stars are one of the more prolific women's sporting teams in Australia, and according to Schutt, breaking the record in Australia in next year's World T20 final will have a major impact on the country's sporting landscape.
"I guess that's the next step," she told Wide World of Sports at a Future Women Studio Session in partnership with the ICC T20 world Cup 2020 and Twitter.
"We've had plenty of personal and team success in the last 20 years to be honest but to have the support that we're hoping for in breaking that record I think will speak volumes about where women's sport is heading globally.
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"I think it'll be a cultural shift. Obviously predominantly it's been male sport that's been televised in Australia, we're on the right path to change that, but I think that record will again show the footsteps."
If the Southern Stars, who have won four of the past five T20 World Cups, are able to break the record for attendance, it'll be the second record broken by the team after wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy broke the record for the highest recorded catch of a cricket ball.
Australia will open its T20 World Cup campaign on 21 February when they take on India at the Sydney Showground Stadium.
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Romania out of rugby World Cup after losing points for fielding ineligible players
By Mitch Phillips
Romania has lost its spot at the 2019 Rugby World Cup after it was docked qualifying points for repeatedly using ineligible players.
World Rugby said it has modified the qualification results and Russia has now emerged top to take Romania's place and advance to next year's tournament in Japan.
It will be their second appearance following 2011 in New Zealand when they lost all four pool games.
Belgium and Spain were also penalised for using ineligible players, with the three nations docked five match points for each player used that shouldn't have been.
Germany, who have never been in a World Cup, now have another chance as they are promoted to face Portugal in a playoff, though the winners face a daunting final step with a two-legged playoff against Samoa.
The winner on aggregate will qualify for Japan 2019 in Pool A, alongside the hosts, Ireland, Scotland and Russia. The loser will still have a chance of progress via the Repechage competition in November.
All the decisions are subject to appeal within 14 days and Romania said they would seek to overturn the committee's ruling.
"The Romanian Rugby Federation (FFR) cannot accept a decision in which teams that knowingly violate regulations or ignorance are treated identically to those who comply with all procedural steps required," the FFR said in a statement.
"Participation in the World Cup must not be concluded by such a decision."
The Russian Rugby Federation, however, said the sanctions were fair.
"I am very glad that our arguments were heard because the federations of Romania, Belgium and Spain committed grave violations of the regulations, allowing these players (to take part in the qualifiers)," the federation's deputy chairman Kirill Yashenkov said.
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SOLD! A Sedan Chair Commanded More Than $2,300 at Bonhams
Decorative Arts Furniture December 22, 2017 August 9, 2019
Update: The French 19th century sedan chair sold for £1,750, or about $2,347.
What you see: A French late 19th century polychrome decorated and parcel gilt sedan chair. Bonhams estimates it at £1,500 to £2,000, or $2,000 to $2,700.
What’s a sedan chair, and how was it used? Sedan chairs were popular in the 18th and 19th century. They seated a single rider who was borne along by two “chairmen,” who would carry it with the help of the poles (which are visible in this shot). “People were very fond of using them in the 1700s,” says Tom Moore, head of the furniture and works of art department for Bonhams. “The streets could be very dirty and there were unsafe areas as well. With a horse [riding a horse], you were more open to the elements and you were not necessarily very safe in traffic. These were much more mobile through the streets.”
Who used sedan chairs? “A very, very small percentage of the wealthiest people owned them,” he says. “If they didn’t have their own, they’d hire them, like taxis. A lot of the ones owned by wealthy people have lovely painted scenes on them, and incredible gilding that matched the interior of the home where it would sit. People who didn’t have as much hired plainer sedans, with no decorations at all.”
Were they only used in Europe? Nope. “They were used quite widely in Colonial America as well, most famously by Benjamin Franklin,” he says. “He was a big advocate until his demise in 1790.”
What can we figure out by looking at this sedan chair? “The very wealthy would often have a silk-lined interior [in their sedan chairs]. It’s got a velvet-lined interior that’s a little bit worn, but no more than you’d expect for the period,” he says. “Looking at the decoration, it’s been refreshed or repainted over at a later date, because the condition is so good. It’s colorful as well.”
So this was a mid-range model, owned by someone who was wealthy enough to have a private sedan chair, but not wealthy enough to have a fully blinged-out one? “It’s fair to say,” he says. “There are very small bits of gilded elements. The border decorations have gilt, but it’s very minimal. On some of the best examples in the 18th century, the [painted] flowers and the foliage can be quite ornate. It’s not plain. It’s somewhere in the middle.”
How did the rider get in and out of the sedan chair? “The door is on the front, between where the poles are,” he says.
Was this sedan chair actually used? “I think it was,” he says. “If not, why would it have metal brackets for the poles?”
What was it like to ride in a sedan chair? “From what I’ve read of accounts of people traveling in them, it could be quite bumpy,” Moore says. “People carried them, and even if the rider is quite light, it’s quite a chore. But sedan chairs didn’t have to stop for traffic. It’s an efficient means of travel. That’s why they were popular with people who could afford them.”
How many vintage sedan chairs survive? “In terms of 18th century examples, there aren’t a great deal left. They tend to be in private collections or museums,” he says. “The one in our sale is a 19th century revival. They’re very decorative pieces and can be quite sought-after and very attractive.”
How often do sedan chairs come up at auction? “I’ve been with Bonhams now for over six years in this capacity and in that time, I’ve only seen one other apart from this one,” he says.
Who buys sedan chairs now? “If you buy them, you’re not going to be using them,” he says. “It’s either someone who’s a collector, or they’re probably for a decorative purpose.”
Why will this sedan chair stick in your memory? “The nature of its decoration. It’s a colorful, bright piece of furniture. It’s really interesting, historically, and it’s rare for these to come up,” he says. “Sedan chairs are fascinating things that tell us quite a lot about certain periods in our history.”
How to bid: The vintage sedan chair is lot 612 in the Home and Interiors sale at Bonhams London, Knightsbridge, on December 20, 2017.
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US-Pakistan Relations into a Downward Spiral: Implications for India
New Delhi should welcome the recent outreach of Pentagon, towards the Pakistan military, because even though Pentagon’s clout with the GHQ may have reduced of late, yet it is very tough for the latter to ignore the former. – Tridivesh Singh Maini*
Recently, the US Defence Secretary Mike Pompeo reached out to Pakistan Army Chief, Qamar Javed Bajwa through a telephonic call. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauer released a statement with reference to the key issues discussed Pompeo’s conversation with Bajwa. Nauer said that the issues raised included: “need for political reconciliation in Afghanistan and the importance of targeting all militant and terrorist groups in South Asia without distinction….ways to advance US-Pakistan bilateral relations.”
A few points are evident, that while initially the Trump Administration, especially the President has spoken tough and warned Pakistan to do more in fighting terrorism (and maybe hasn’t really changed his approach), the US does realise that it needs a working relationship with the Pakistan army, for achieving its strategic goals in South Asia (not just in the context of fighting militant groups, but also for Afghanistan). Given the fact that the military in Pakistan has a complete veto over foreign policy, and this is not likely to change at least in the imminent future, the US approach is not wrong. After the July elections, the civil-military equation is not likely to alter drastically. In fact, there is a strong speculation that the next government could be led by Imran Khan of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaaf), propped up by the military. It would be pertinent to point out that in recent months, Imran who was critical of the army has been praising the army chief.
Deterioration of Ties and Trump’s Statements
In recent times, there has been a deterioration of ties with the Pakistan army, especially after the Trump Administration’s decision to withhold military aid, and the US President’s tweet in January, where he stated: ‘The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!’
The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!
Both the army and civilian reacted to Trump’s statements. While Bajwa stated: ‘entire Pakistani nation felt betrayed over the US recent statements despite decades of cooperation’. Former Foreign Minister, Khawaja Asif while reacting to Trump’s statements had said: “We have already told the US that we will not do more, so Trump’s ‘no more’ does not hold any importance’
Khawaja Asif also said that Trump was expressing his frustration due to the US failure in Afghanistan and that Trump’s figure of 33 Billion USD was grossly inaccurate. Asif had tweeted: “Pres Trump quoted a figure of $33 billion given to PAK over last 15 yrs, he can hire a US-based Audit firm on our expense to verify this figure & let the world know who is lying & deceiving..,” Asif tweeted.
Other Reasons for Friction
After Trump’s statement, the decision to put Pakistan on the grey list of FATF (Financial Action Task Force), led to a further deterioration of ties, it was the US which had put forward the motion for putting Pakistan on the grey list), since then there have been a number of high-level meetings to put things back on track, including one by former PM, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi with the US Vice President Mike Pence in March 2018. According to a White House Statement, Pence categorically told Abbasi that Pakistan needs to do more to fight the Taliban, Haqqani Network and other terror groups operating from Pakistan.
In April 2018, relations took a further dip, after a U.S. Embassy vehicle driven by the US defence and air attache (posted in the US Embassy, Islamabad), Colonel Joseph Emanual Hall, killed a Pakistani motorcyclist in Islamabad on April 7. Both sides decided to impose restrictions on the movement of diplomats. Hall was not being allowed to fly out of Pakistan until the country’s Interior Ministry gave him clearance to fly out.
New Delhi’s Reactions
If one were to look beyond the Washington-Islamabad relationship, New Delhi too would be watching Washington’s outreach to the Pakistan Army Chief.
First, it is clearly evident that in spite of all differences between Washington and Islamabad, the Pakistan Army remains important in the context of the country’s domestic and foreign policy.
Second, Pakistan Army Chief General has been assiduously trying to cultivate the image of a pragmatist in the context of Pakistan’s ties with the outside world, including India. Bajwa has in fact, spoken about better ties with India, and so have some other senior officials in the Pakistan army recently.
In fact, Bajwa’s statements have been closely watched in India. A former Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Amarjit Singh Dulat (who was also part of an interesting book project “The Spy Chronicles – RAW ISI And The Illusion Of Peace consisting of dialogues with former ISI Chief Asad Durrani)_in fact went to the degree of suggesting, that India invite the Pakistan Army Chief given his encouraging statements. Dulat said ‘We should invite General Bajwa, the army chief. He has been talking peace and also a lot of our frustration in our dialogue with Pakistan is because we feel frustrated by the armed forces or what we call the ‘deep state’ — the ISI or the army. Therefore, why not talk to the army chief directly? He is talking reasonably now. Why not invite the army chief, just an idea’.
Bajwa had made an address in April 2018 pitching for better relations with India, through dialogue, at a passing out parade of Cadets at the military academy, Kakul. The Indian Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman had reacted positively to Bajwa’s remarks.
While not much has changed across the LoC – Line of Control (with ceasefire violations continuing), however, DGMOs from both countries have been talking to each other in recent weeks to restore peace on the LoC and International Border in Jammu and Kashmir. Interestingly, India and Pakistan will for the first time be part of a joint military drill, along with other members of the SCO.
There is not likely to be any significant progress over the next few months, only after the election results of July 2018, will New Delhi make any significant attempts in reaching out to Pakistan (that too is a minute possibility, given the fact that the general election in India is less than a year away, and there are a number of state elections in December 2018). New Delhi can hope, however, that the US along with other countries continues to pressurize Pakistan to take action against terror groups targeting India.
New Delhi should welcome the recent outreach of Pentagon, towards the Pakistan military, because even though Pentagon’s clout with the GHQ may have reduced of late, yet it is very tough for the latter to ignore the former. While China too has given some encouraging signals in the recent past, that it might push Islamabad to act against terrorist organizations, which have received support from the deep state, targeting India, this is not likely to happen in the short run – the US remains the best bet.
Tridivesh Singh Maini is a New Delhi based Policy Analyst, Commentator and Writer. He is also an Assistant Professor at Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Kootneeti Team.
This article was originally published by The Geopolitics
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A final frontier
One of the few places in present day Singapore that I am able to find myself at home in is the Sembawang area along the northern coast. It is an area which has in the last two and a half decades, as with much (if not all) of Singapore, undergone a huge transformation and also one that is still being transformed. Despite the transformation – Sembawang now plays host to a new public housing estate, it is still a place in which a Singapore we have forgotten about can still be found – at least for the time being.
An intermediate egret in flight over the canalised Sembawang River – the Sembawang area was one known in the past to be rich in bird life.
Sembawang is one of the last places left in which much of the past remains to be discovered. A past which perhaps with the planned future developments in the area, some for which preparations are already being made, is one which may soon be well forgotten. Best remembered for hosting a huge British naval base which was completed in 1938, Sembawang Shipyard which inherited the former Naval Dockyard in 1968 serves to remind us of that, as does the former Stores Basin, now used as a naval logistics base. It is however in several of the smaller reminders in which the past charms of the area can found in. These include the cluster of colonial bungalows (“black and white houses”) and in what is today Sembawang Park. Sembawang Park and perhaps the coastline east of it is where some of the old world does seem to have been left behind including what may be one of the last stretches of natural beaches in Singapore, the old jetty (sometimes referred to as the “Beaulieu”, prounounced “bew-lee” jetty, or “Mata” jetty), Beaulieu House, and a seawall which once belonged to Kampong Wak Hassan.
Sunrise along the northern coast – an undeveloped part of the beach east of Sembawang Park, and an area which despite the kampongs being cleared from it, retains much of a charm which is missing from the overly manicured and cluttered urban spaces in Singapore.
Besides traces that is associated with the former naval base, reminders do also exist of the area’s lesser known natural past. The area (as had much of the coastline around it) played host to a swamp. Much had already been cleared when the naval base was built with the course of two rivers around which the marshy ground formed altered. There were, however, remnants of the marshland that remained around an area of what is today the Sembawang River up to the 1980s when it was drained for the development of Sembawang New Town. This lay about a kilometre west of what was then Chong Pang Village, just north of the Ulu Sembawang area (an area of farms and freshwater ponds around where Gambas Avenue is today). It was known then to have been a fertile feeding ground for marsh birds, attracting herons, egrets, sandpipers and storks to it. While the swamps have all since vanished – HDB blocks of flats have risen where the wetlands had once thrived, the is today a canalised Sembawang/Senoko River which on the evidence of what we do see today, does see a return of some of the previously rich bird life. Besides the marsh birds, the area today also sees many other birds. These include common birds such as the yellow-vented bulbul, black naped oriole, pied fantail, ashy tailorbird, green pigeon, starling, Asian koel, several types of kingfisher, munia and sunbird. There have also been some less common sightings in the area including the Sunda woodpecker, brown hawk owl, milky stork, and what is perhaps an escapee, a white-rumped shama.
A yellow-vented bulbul in a Simpoh Air bush along the banks of the river.
A white-throated kingfisher in flight over the canalised river.
Sembawang is toady, a world in which the charm of a forgotten old world missing from most of the redeveloped spaces on the island, can still be found. It is a world which has thus far, managed to remain free from the crowds and clutter which now seems to dominate almost all of the urban world we now find around us. The area is one which had for a long while boasted of welcome pockets of greenery and un-manicured beauty. But all that I fear, is soon going to change. Sembawang Park for one is already in the midst of a “renewal” which I feel will see it lose the character and charm which attracted me there since the days of my childhood as it becomes just another well manicured park cluttered with paraphernalia which Singapore really has too many of.
A place where the sun would shine on an uncluttered space …
As I look around me, I also see huge tracts of land which were once held much beauty behind hoardings and in the midst of being cleared. That I understand is part of the effort to provide new homes. What that also means is that the crowds the area has hitherto been spared from would soon descend on it, attracted not just by the homes, but the inevitable as it now seems – a huge redevelopment effort which has been outlined in the recently released Land Use Plan intended to supplement the somewhat controversial Population White Paper. That speaks of “new waterfront land along the Sembawang Coastline being freed up once existing shipyard facilities are phased out” with the aim “of providing land for new business activities”. With that it will not just be the character and charm of the area that will be lost, but what it does also mean is that it will see the breaking of what may be the last links it has with its past.
… and a space where once there were trees.
Inevitable as it may seem, that future is one that I hope, perhaps for selfish reasons, is one that will never come. Development which has broken many of our links to our past as well as the more recent wave of immigration has without a doubt provided great economic benefit to us living in Singapore. For many of us however, it has also come at a huge cost, a cost which has also seen us lose the soul of who we are as a people. The country is today, one where I find it a struggle to feel at home in. Much of what once was familiar and a source of joy and comfort is no longer with us, creating in us that sense of longing for what has been lost, as well as a sense of loss … a feeling which perhaps can best be described by the Welsh word Hiraeth or the Portuguese word Saudade.
Now perhaps the final frontier?
One of the positive things that did come out of the land use plan is that it makes mention of some of the more immediate future developments to provide public housing at Bidadari, Tengah and Tampines North. What that does mean is that for the time being at least, the large parcel of land reserved for the future Simpang New Town, an area by the northern coast part of which was once a land of idyllic coastal villages and prawn farming ponds will be left undeveloped. What that also means is that while the area will certainly become more crowded over time, it will for a while, be spared from an even bigger one, remaining as a final frontier where not just the birds, but also free spirits such as myself can still find space to roam free.
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Categories : Forgotten Places, New Singapore, Parks and Gardens, Reflections, Reminders of Yesterday, Sembawang, Shipyards, Singapore
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POISON – TALK DIRTY TO ME
Happy Wednesday Metalheads! Hope your week is going well so far. This month, I wanted to shift gears a little and focus on those bands that probably did their makeup better than I did in the 80’s. Today let’s take a trip back to 1986 to the first album by Poison “Look What The Cat Dragged In” for the track “Talk Dirty to Me”.
I remember seeing this video on MTV when it first premiered and then happened to see the album cover after and I remember thinking are those the chicks that were in the video? Needless to say the song grew on me and it became one of the most popular songs off the album and was in heavy rotation on MTV. Poison are often credited for being one of the first bands to start the glam metal movement. The band has noted in interviews that they were heavily influenced by KISS and Aerosmith for their “glam” image.
The album spawned 3 more hits for the band including “Cry Tough”, “I Want Action” and the ballad “I Won’t Forget You”.
The original 4 members reunited in 1996, when guitarist C.C. DeVille returned to the band after he was fired in 1991 for his excessive drug use. DeVille eventually got clean and the band are still touring together as of last summer with no signs of slowing down. “Nothing But a Good Time” with these boys.
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Home >> Daily Dose >> Independence, Not Marriage Prompts Millennials to Move Homes
Independence, Not Marriage Prompts Millennials to Move Homes
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In 2017, 34.9 million Americans changed residence. At 10.9 percent household mobility rate, that the lowest moving rate that has been seen around the U.S. since the Census Bureau began keep track of migration trends, according to a research released by Trulia.
The research, which analyzed the reasons why people move with an eye on the millennial age-group found that 38.4 percent of 18 to 34 year olds lived with their parents or relatives, up from 28.7 percent in 1962. However, it noted that this slow movement has been seen across all age-groups and not only with millennials.
In fact, when it came to millennials it was independence, rather than traditional factors like marriage that made them think of moving out. Young women were closing the gap for job related moves, with young women moving for a job rising 5 percentage points in 2017, compared to 2000.
The research found that the proportion of moves made by each age-group has remained relatively constant over the years. It said that people under the age of 35 made up for the largest proportion of moves in 2017 and were 19 percent more likely to move than Americans aged 35 to 54 and 32 percent more likely to move than Americans aged 55 or older.
The study found that 18 percent of millennials wanted to move to establish their own households, while 16.1 percent wanted new or better housing. Around 11.9 percent millennials moved because of a new job or job transfer. At around 7 percent each, easier commute and cheaper housing ranked as one of their least likely reasons to move.
Pointing out that young Americans were twice as likely as their older counterparts to move because they wanted to establish their own households, the study said that in 2000 young adults moving to establish their own homes moved 2.5 times more frequently than they did because of getting married. This number had risen to 4.2 times in 2017.
The report also found that millennials are rebounding from the effects of the recession and moving for positive reasons such as to own instead of rent, or for better housing.
To learn more about the trends in millennial home movements, click here.
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St Eanswith Church
St Eanswith in Brenzett Church (also known as St Eanswythe) has a long history dating back to Saxon times in the 7th Century when a small church was first erected on the spot now occupied by the present day church.
Sadly no trace of the early church remains, but the 12th century medieval church that replaced it had additions in the 13th and 14th century.
St Eanswyth was a 7th century local saint from Folkestone. She was was an Anglo Saxon princess.In 630, Eanswith founded the Benedictine Folkestone Priory, the first nunnery in England. She was supported in this by her father, Eadbald, who ruled as king of Kent from 616 to 640
When the little spire was built in the fourteenth century a wooden frame had to be erected at the west end to support it, and enormous buttresses had to be built outside. The church was somewhat over-restored in the 19th century when the east window by Lavers, Barraud and Westlake was installed.
A large tomb to John Fagge and his son dominates the Lady Chapel and was the inspiration for Edith Nesbit’s ghost story Man Size in Marble. The south wall of the chancel contains some fine herringbone masonry, typical of early Norman work in Kent.
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Spiritual notes
Ice Cream Social and Blessing of the Animals
Simpson-Temple United Parish will hold an Ice Cream Social and Blessing of the Animals on the lawn of the Education Building from noon to
2 p.m. Saturday. While the event is free, organizers are collecting pet food and other pet necessities for Mending Hearts Animal Rescue. All pets must be on a lease or in a crate. Simpson-Temple United Parish is at 2212 Sixth Ave., Altoona.
— Asbury United Methodist Church festival will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the church, 1341 Grandview Road, Altoona. There will be a yard sale, live auction, silent auction, bake sale, food, drinks, crafts and children’s game.
n St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Route 53, Frugality, will its annual festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. The church is near Prince Gallitzin State Park.
A turkey dinner with noodles and sides will be served family style from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children, ages 5 to 12, and free for children younger than 5. Takeouts will be available.
The event will include bingo, games, refreshments and a bake sale. A basket auction will be held at 4 p.m. The St. Joan Praise Band will provide music from noon until the end of the basket auction.
— The 62nd Homecoming Festival will be held July 26-28 at St. Benedict Church, 100 Main St., Carrolltown. Entertainment includes bingo, a large basket auction, games, live music, bake sales, ethnic foods and refreshments. In addition, a dunking booth will be in operation all three days.
On July 26, the grounds open at 5 p.m. with ethnic foods and wing night specials. Saturday, July 27, the festival opens at noon with the third annual Cruise-In from noon to 5 p.m. Mass will be held at 4 p.m.
A chicken barbecue dinner with homemade noodle soup will be served from 11 a.m. to
2 p.m. July 28. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 for children 5 to 12 and free for children 4 and younger. Take-out dinners will be available. A kiddie tractor pull competition, for youth ages 3 to 8, will begin at 3 p.m.
In addition, $15,000 in cash prizes will be awarded July 29-Aug. 2. Tickets are available for a $5 donation. There will also be a $1,000 money ticket drawing, with tickets available for a $1 donation. The drawing will be held July 28.
For more information, contact the church at 344-6548.
— Gospel Sounds concert will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at Fourth Street Church of God, 2010 Fourth St., Altoona. Light refreshments will be served after the free concert.
— Altoona’s First Church of the Brethren, corner of Sixth Avenue and Fifth Street, will host Gospel recording artist Jim Worthing on Sunday. The 10:35 a.m. worship service will feature Worthing’s testimony in song. All are welcome. The church is handicap accessible.
— Casting Crowns and Hillsong Worship, with special guests Elevation Worship, will make a stop on their USA Tour at the Bryce Jordan Center at 7 p.m. Nov. 20. Tickets start at $23 and go on sale starting at 10 a.m. today at
ticketmaster.com.
— Riggles Gap Bible Church, 613 Lear Road, Altoona, will host vacation Bible school from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 29-Aug. 2. “Faith on the Farm” is geared to children age 4 through 12th grade. There is no charge to attend. Transportation is available. For more information, call 946-3376.
— “ROAR” vacation Bible school will be held from 6 to 8:15 p.m. July 22-26 at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 1650 Clay Ave., Tyrone. Church of the Good Shepherd, Wesley UMC and Christ UMC are sponsoring the event which is geared to children ages 3-12. Registrations will be accepted opening night beginning at 5:30 p.m.
— Juniata United Methodist Church, 808 N. Fourth St., Altoona, will host vacation Bible school for children ages 2 to sixth grade. “ROAR! Life is Wild – God is Good” will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Aug. 12-16. To register, call the church office at 942-6065 or visit Juniataumc.net for online registration.
The Nehemiah Project is offering barbecued half chicken or pork tenderloin slider dinners from 4 to 7 p.m. July 26 at The Wright Place for Kids, 1809 11th St. The meal includes coleslaw and baked beans. Cost is $8 a plate or two meals for $15. Youth dinners include two hot dogs, baked beans and chips for $5.
Drinks, chips and desserts are available for an extra cost. Tickets may be purchased in advance at The Wright Place for Kids.
Proceeds benefit The Nehemiah Project and The Wright Place for Kids.
Praise rally
Quest Haven Lodge in Tyrone will host a Praise Rally at 7 p.m. July 27 featuring guest speaker Brian Johnson from Bethel Church/Bethel Music.
Quest Haven hosts Christian outdoor camps for boys and girls the month of July and end with the Praise Rally, which is open to the public.
Angel Feet Ministry Shoe Bank
Juniata United Methodist Church, 808 N. Fourth St., Altoona, sponsors the Angel Feet Ministry Shoe Bank. Children who receive medical assistance or CHIP that are of ages birth to ninth grade are eligible to receive a pair of sneakers, socks and a book when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Fittings are by appointment only. Community agencies and area schools may also refer children to the shoe bank.
For more information, contact the church at 799-5053 or 942-6065 or visit www.juniataumc.net.
Clothing, backpack giveaway
Juniata United Methodist Church will sponsor a children’s clothing, backpack giveaway, free haircut and eye screening program for school-age children from 9 a.m. to noon Aug. 17. Backpacks will be provided on a first come, first served basis and children (elementary, junior high and senior high ages) must be present to receive a backpack.
The church is at 808 N. Fourth St., in the Juniata section of Altoona. For more information, contact the church at 942-6065 or visit the website at www.juniataumc.net.
Upper Claar Church of the Brethren, Claysburg, will serve a spaghetti supper at 5 p.m. Saturday. All proceeds will benefit Jane Musselman, who is recovering after a recent motor vehicle accident. For more information, call 239-5449. Cost is by donation. Takeouts available.
— Providence Presbyterian Church, 2401 Broad Ave., Altoona, will serve a free luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The menu will include a variety of homemade soups, sandwichs, beverages, desserts and fruit.
— Second Avenue United Methodist Church will serve a free soup and sandwich lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Soup, sandwich, drink and dessert included. Everyone is invited. The church is at 130 Second Ave., Altoona, on the corner of Second Avenue and Second Street. For more information, call 943-2072.
‘Alive in the Spirit’
The Bishop Guilfoyle student prayer group, “Alive in the Spirit,” in a joint effort with the Cathedral prayer group, will hold the second in its series of summer prayer meetings in the library of the Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School at
7 p.m. Monday.
A student will share a witness talk and the Cathedral prayer group will lead the music ministry.
Everyone is very welcome. For more information, contact Bob Sutton at 944-4014.
Food pantry open
Second Avenue United Methodist Church’s Food Pantry will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Those attending should bring a photo ID, a piece of mail with your name and address, and birth certificates for any children in the home. The church is at 130 Second Ave. For more information, call 943-2072.
Re-Creation in concert
First United Methodist Church, 801 Allegheny St., Hollidaysburg, will host Re-Creation July 27-28.
At 6 p.m. July 27, the group will present a program in the sanctuary. The musical presentation will include some of the group’s secular music that is presented in VA Medical Centers, as well as some praise and worship music. The group will also lead worship during the 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. worship services on June 28.
Re-Creation represents Re-Creation USA Inc., which provides entertainment programming for Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the United States. Re-Creation is a group of young people who present both religious and family-oriented music. The group typically consists of eight singers and one or two technicians.
The public is invited to attend the programs. There is no admission charge; an offering will be received.
Religious organizations are invited to submit upcoming events, special speakers and other items to be published free of charge. Items can be emailed to religion@altoonamirror.com or call Holly at 946-7451. Items may also be submitted online through the Mirror’s virtual newsroom at vnr.altoonamirror.com.
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Canola innovation continues
From field research and farmer surveys to genetics for disease resistance, “electrifying” new crop protection strategies and using drones to map crop inputs versus performance, much effort is going into producing a crop that Nature wants to eat or beat, whether it be through insects, fungi or weeds.
More than 250 delegates attended the Canola Industry Meetings and Canola Innovation Day which over more than 45 years has become one of the premier events in the canola industry. Held in Saskatoon November 30 and December 1, the event presented both a status report and an update on the latest research and upcoming technologies.
Presentations began with reports on the 2016 crop, which was mostly in the bin and of average yield and quality. This was despite a hot, dry spring that hampered germination and a wet summer over much of the Prairies, followed by early, heavy snow in October and much wind damage in Manitoba. The moisture brought heavy disease pressure, with scelerotinia present in 92 per cent of fields tested and blackleg at 65 per cent, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture.
One looming disease problem is clubroot, which is spreading across the Prairies. Although there are resistant varieties, delegates heard that the fungus mutates easily and there are a dozen or more variants able to overcome resistance. This makes management practices such as crop rotation crucial to the future of the canola industry.
Genetics continues to bring improved performance and more ideas are on the way. For example, a breakthrough at the University of Guelph allows Arabidopsis - closely related to canola - to triple oil production. The next step is to see if this trait can be moved into Brassica napus and other canola species.
Other presentations looked at crop pests such as flea beetles and the sometimes controversial neonicotinoid seed treatments used to control them. One study reported that the bees seemed to produce less honey when exposed to neonics, but there was no effect on reproduction or population size.
Presenters also tackled a perennial question: how much canola is too much? Delegates heard that in Sweden, oilseed rape is planted every four to five years. In parts of Canada, canola is often planted every second year - sometimes even back-to-back - since it is the most profitable crop available. As the Canola Council of Canada’s Justine Cornelson shared, “We know canola-on-canola rotation is a disaster waiting to happen,” since insect pest populations and disease prevalence increases as these pests become resistant both to pesticides and in-borne plant defences. Both are precious resources that are squandered at the peril of the entire industry.
Innovation has been the name of the game for canola since the first variety, Tower, was released in 1974. Grown all over the world (where it is still often referred to as oilseed rape), canola produces one of the healthiest edible oils available, and its meal is preferentially sought by, for example, California dairy farmers, where its high quality protein allows their cows to produce more milk. Delegates also heard the latest on Dow’s ProPound canola-meal-based feed for livestock such as hogs and chickens.
On the human nutrition side, delegates also heard that in the next four years Cargill is planning on releasing its new canola, high in both EPA and DHA. These omega-3 fatty acids, found primarily in fish oil, promise health benefits such as aiding weight control, promoting cardiovascular health and modulating blood sugar for diabetics. Being inexpensive and abundant, canola oil is available to families at all income levels.
Back in the field, information technology and geographic information systems are being used to tame the many variables, from seed and crop protection inputs, to yield history, differences in soil nutrients, moisture and landforms – even weather, courtesy of on-farm weather stations.
Experts from the University of Alberta, as well as the private company FarmEdge, shared that with the aid of today’s computing power to crunch these variables, precision farming systems are helping to take at least some of the guesswork out of farming. Such systems can, for example, guide planting, including applying fertilizer and crop protection products only where needed, lowering environmental impact, increasing efficiency and bolstering the farmer’s bottom line. Such systems are scalable from relatively modest 1,500-acre operations to the largest operators that farm many thousands of acres.
One literally “electrifying” crop protection solution comes out of Germany by way of Brazil. Matthias Eberius from Zasso told delegates how the company’s “Electroherb” solution is aimed at a looming problem: weeds are growing resistant to herbicides and no new herbicides have been discovered in decades.
The technology was first developed in Brazil to control weeds in tree and sugar plantations and soybeans. It uses electrode bars mounted on the front and back of a 100-hp tractor, reminiscent of a sprayer. As the bars sweep over the weeds, electric current travels through the plants and deep into the roots for lasting weed control. Energy costs are from three to 30 litres of diesel per hectare – and there is little danger of the weeds becoming resistant to electricity. Zasso touts the solution as ideal for organic production systems; whether it can be scaled up and adapted for Canadian canola fields is an open question.
Michael Robin is a freelance writer in Saskatoon, SK.
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ViaSat planning major inflight internet launch in 2016
By Adam Gavine on January 13, 2015 Inflight Connectivity
Satellite giant, ViaSat Inc., has announced its intention to launch ViaSat-2 in 2016 – a high-capacity broadband satellite that the company predicts will cover seven-times the geographic area and offer twice the bandwidth economics of ViaSat-1, which is already the highest capacity satellite in the world.
Planned coverage includes North America, Central America, and the Caribbean basin. The satellite will also provide a bridge of coverage across the North Atlantic, connecting North America with high-capacity coverage in the UK and Europe for high-speed in-flight internet and other mobile services.
ViaSat-2, currently under construction by Boeing, will become the fourth satellite in the ViaSat fleet. The satellite is scheduled for a late summer 2016 launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy (the world’s most powerful rocket) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
“One of the primary objectives for ViaSat-2, beyond higher speeds, is to offer more data with all of our service plans. That’s what customers want from any wireless service,” said Mark Dankberg, ViaSat chairman and CEO. “We can do that by building a network with lots more network capacity at a cost that will attract more customers, and that’s what this new class of satellite is designed to do.”
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2010 Trail Advocacy
Trail Awards
2010 Advancing Trails Awards
This award is given in recognition of successful efforts to influence public policy relating to trail planning, trail protection, trail development, or maintenance.
New York: Ivan Vamos
Ivan Vamos retired in 1993 as the Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Development for NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) where he was responsible for land and water resource management, development, planning, construction, land acquisition, and environmental programs for more than two decades.
He worked for State Parks, Conservation, Transportation agencies, the military and private firms for 48 years. During his tenure with State Parks, Ivan was more than a Deputy Commissioner but a person who was a true advocate for trails from the office and in the field.
During his decades with OPRHP, Mr. Vamos planned and implemented several new State and Federally funded programs including the initiation of the 500 mile Statewide Canals Recreationway program, completion of approximately 300 miles of “rail-trails”, relocation of approximately half of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail in NY State from “handshake” alignment agreements to trail routes owned in fee, and represented the State on Appalachian National Scenic Trails Advisory Council. He helped establish the Federal Highway Administration funded “trail” grant program in the State and the Hudson River Valley Greenway Watertrail.
The actions of other agencies too were impacted by Mr. Vamos’ involvement. When the NYS Thruway’s Schoharie Creek Bridge was tragically washed out in a flood, Ivan arranged for a then recently purchased OPRHP rail bridge to be used for the temporary emergency route (and thereby got the bridge put into top shape for a future bike trail). He also persistently advised NYS Department of Transportation that the new barrel of the I-84 Bridge required a trail crossing. Municipalities and construction unions supported this need and as result, today people can walk from Newburgh to Beacon across this Hudson River Bridge.
As an added task before retirement, Mr. Vamos donated extra personal time to call together, establish and Chair the Metropolitan NY Area Bikeway – Walkway Working Group. This quasi official body included 14 State, City and Federal representatives, a similar number of Non-governmental Organizations and well known experts. A Greenway Plan for NY City, published in 1993 was one of this group’s products, including 37 project elements and many Citywide programs. Much of this plan has been implemented by this date, leading to a nearly complete, connected City-wide Greenway. The “Bikes Belong Coalition” recognizing NY City in 2010 as a “bronze bike-friendly” City is one result of this effort. This investment is paying off in more bicyclists and pedestrians enjoying their city; New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, the NY Metro Metropolitan Planning Organization, reports city-wide cordon counts show an average of 30% more bicyclists using the City routes in each of the past two years (a 70% gain in two years!).
Also in retirement and as a Board Member and Chair of NY Rivers United, Ivan continued to advocate for improved River access, especially in the many locations constrained by ancient hydro-electric generation sites that were applying for new licenses. Another organization he supported for decades as a Board Member specializing in working with transportation agencies, the State Legislature and other entities was the NY (State) Bicycle Coalition (NYBC.net). In this capacity, he recently negotiated for bike-friendly road shoulders as well as sidewalks in the new bridge across Lake Champlain between Crown Point NY and Chimney Point VT (no such safe bicycle/pedestrian crossing existed before).
The plan for a new bridge at Tappan Zee also includes a bike/pedestrian trail, in part due to Mr. Vamos’ dedication to trail advocacy. He is currently working with a coalition of 23 other organizations to pass State legislation supporting the “Complete Streets” legislation (NYS A-8587-A, S-5711-B). As a bike-commuter for 45 years, an advocate and technical expert, Ivan has the experience needed to demonstrate the need for this Bill to the involved legislators, and possesses the administrative background to discuss practical implementation options with transportation and other agencies that will advance these Bills. He also represents bicyclists and is an active participant on NY Statewide Trails Council.
A Certified Planner (AICP), Ivan Vamos Chaired NY Rivers United and their work on Hudson River power plants and tributary issues. He served on the State’s Canals Commission, identifying projects that advance the management of several canalized rivers, and served as the State’s lead for harbor development and barrier beach protection. He is a life member of the National Ski Patrol, a life member of the NY/NJ Trail Council, ADK, the Appalachian Trails Conference and other groups. Mr. Vamos bikes, hikes, sails, kayaks and swims enjoying the resources he helped to preserve, or still hopes to help preserve. One of Ivan’s additional winter activities, distance ice skating along upstate rivers and lakes, adds yet one more trail activity worthy of consideration. Also after retirement he worked with project development, erosion control and tourism programs in the Northeastern US, Kerelia Russia (a “Blueway” tourism, waterway and campground route across Scandinavia and northern Russia), coastal and fringe coral protection in Barbados, and transacted land claims in Hungary.
Before State service, his work included serving as Port Control Officer for Reykjavik, Iceland and work as an Engineering Geologist in the US and Australia. Mr. Vamos has a Master of Science degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University School of Architecture, and completed the course-work for a Doctorate in Public Administration at the State University at Albany. He is a naturalized citizen originally from Budapest, Hungary and his wife is also a naturalized citizen from the Netherlands. They have three children and four grandchildren; who are all are equally enthusiastic about trail, bike and waterway activities as Ivan.
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Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus SERVE THE LAW, THE PEOPLE, THE FATHERLAND!
220005, Minsk, Masherov ave., 6
Front Office: +375-17 289-23-30
Duty Service.: +375 (17) 289-23-81
E-mail: info@amia.by
News sections:
Ample Opportunities - for Psychological Assistance
Meeting Participants of the Coordinating Council Talked about the Results and Work Plans
Gender Culture and Rights of Migrants
International Conference Held at China University of Police
Representatives of the Academy of MIA took part in the international conference
World Championship bronze medalist
Scientist from the Academy was awarded Presidential grant
Cadets will receive a presidential grant
Students returned 20 years later
The Ciceronium 2017: the Best Speakers are from Ukraine and Venezuela
The "Shield and Sword" Tournament: the Academy of MIA Team is the Best Among Power Universities
Vitebsk Cadet School again won the "Femida" at the Academy
The international Competition of Speakers "Ciceronium" gathered participants from 8 countries - students and cadets of 22 universities - in the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.
A total of 49 particapants, who became winners in regional, city and university tours, competed for the cherished statuette this year. In addition to speakers from Belarusian universities, cadets and students from three educational institutions of Ukraine (Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk) arrived. In a separate category, representatives of Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, China, Nigeria, and Turkmenistan, who are studying in Belarus, competed for the first place.
- "Ciceronium" is a competition that allows young people to show how a word can make any work beloved and interesting, teach them to respect themselves and those around them. I think you will do your best to prove that the modern youth is talented, smart, competent. The task of the older generation is to help them to realize themselves, "said the chief of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Major-General Vladimir Bachila, who opened this event.
The jury included highly qualified specialists in the field of voice communication: lecturers, journalists, radio and television announcers, philologists, lawyers. Despite the fact that almost all the academic degrees, it was difficult for them to assess the participants - this year the fight turned out to be serious.
Traditionally, the hosts of the event showed strong performances. The school of oratorical skill of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has long been known both in Belarus and abroad. So, cadet Ivan Bazylin began his speech with the story that at the first problem situation people turn to the police officers. Making his choice of profession, he initially set the target - to become an officer. Tradition of his family proudly carried three generations of men. And directly to the choice of the guy was influenced by his father Pavel, the lieutenant colonel of the militia. Ivan told how they saved the sinking guy and the girl on vacation.
- Thanks to him, I realized that people need help not only in the service, but also during off hours. My father is an example for me always and everywhere, - the future officer summed up.
The cadet Konstantin Volchetzky told about the Belarusian cardiosurgeon Nikolai Andreevich Manak. This year he would have turned 75. Outstanding cardiologist, head of the National Cardiology Center, MD. His main research related to myocardial infarction. He was Petr Mironovich Masherov's personal doctor and, in general, helped a lot of patients. In the hall of the academy at that moment there was a couple who celebrated the 40th anniversary of their joint life. Without Nikolai Andreevich, their story could have ended 20 years ago. He saved hundreds of hearts, and his heart could not be saved. Later, at the award ceremony, the widow of the cardiosurgeon noted the guy's prize for a heartfelt monologue.
Pavel Karnaukh though did not get into the coveted dozen of finalists, stopping just one step away from the second round, still remembered by the audience. He told about people who serve the law and protect the rule of law - about police officers. The cadet turned to history, remembered that 100 years ago in Minsk, the policeman's primer operated, according to which people who devoted themselves to the service in the militia should listen to the elders and precisely obey the statutes and rules. After all, the life of a policeman is based on this. After studying it, the guy found many interesting definitions. For example, misdemeanors are actions that cause official harm. A search is an honest way of gathering information. The militiaman is a member of a great army of order. Since that time, in the priority of the law enforcement service, there have always been, are and will be faithfulness to the law, the people, the Fatherland.
One of the strongest performances not only among cadets of the university, but also in the entire competition was Ilya Myachin.
- Who would have refused a million? - So began the monologue.
The cadet told about people for whom money was not a priority in life. About an elderly German who won 2 million euros, but refused to win. Earlier, when his wife was alive, they constantly bought lottery tickets. After her death, he continued to play not for the sake of money, but in memory of his beloved Isolde. From a million dollars in 1984, the musicians of the well-known American blues-rock band ZZ Top also refused. A branded shaving company invited them to shave their beards for a commercial. "They will get my beard only through my corpse," one of the musicians commented on the tempting offer. In March 2010, the Clay Mathematical Institute awarded Grigory Perelman with a $ 1 million prize for the proof of the Poincaré conjecture, which was the first ever award of a prize for solving one of the Millennium Challenges. The mathematician refused money, saying: "I'm not interested in money or fame. I know how to manage the universe. So why should I run after your million? " Ilya did not worry at all, he felt the audience and spoke in a well-placed voice. The judges noted this with the maximum points in the first stage of the competition.
Both participants from another police academy of Belarus - the Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - also showed a high level of oratorical skills and reached the final. Angelina Nozdrin-Plotnitskaya, who last year was the silver medalist of the contest, told about her anxious suitcase.
- Imagine if you could put in it not what you need, but what really does not suffice in our life - what would you put in it then? My something certainly would not become alarming. How? Probably, happy, - the girl reflected.
In her suitcase were a drawing of her younger brother, her grandmother-tied socks, a CD with her favorite music, a pet leash ("Zsuzsa, a mix of dachshund and poodle, did not fit into a suitcase"), pechenyushki and much more - everything that makes her a little happier.
And Vadim Zaitsev from the same university told about the hard work of a policeman. He noted that soon it will be necessary to work on weekends, holidays and "there will be no beautiful life". The cadet knows what is called anyone's eyes, but not by policemen. Communicate with thieves, drug addicts, vagrants, drunken teenagers who do not remember where they live. And there will be many, many reports, reports. But he is still pleased with his choice, knowing that he will help people.
Many people talked about the difficult service of policemen this evening. But one of the best performances was a student of the Grodno State University Andrei Viktorov, who began a monologue with the poem of Sergei Mikhalkov's "Uncle Stepa." The guy was lucky to be the grandson of such "uncle Stepa" - grandfather Vanya, lieutenant colonel of the police in reserve, the former deputy chief of the OECD of the Oktyabrsky District Internal Affairs Department of Grodno, a participant in the Czechoslovak events and the liquidator of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Andrei noted that this Uncle Stepa is not alone. Servants of the law, heroes who perform daily feats, a great many. The student read his poems dedicated to the grandfather and every employee of the Belarusian police.
For Maria Dudar of the Brest State University, her uncle Vasily, who died in Afghanistan, is an example. A few months before returning home, during one of the military operations, he was seriously wounded. Flowing through the blood, he crawled to the house from which the enemy was firing machine-gun fire, and threw grenades at him. At the cost of his life he saved his comrades. According to the girl, it is necessary to remember the feat of the soldiers-internationalists.
Good oratorical training was shown by guests from the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs - Oksana Kalyada and Vitaly Naida. The girl spoke in Ukrainian. Her emotional story about the best friend of her father - the hero who died in the line of duty, already in the first stage became one of the favorites of the contest.
The Military Academy of Belarus, which shows good preparation of speakers from year to year, did not disappoint this time either. The cadet Sergei Smolik came out in a national costume and told about his native country in a beautiful Belarusian language. About what Belarus associates abroad with - a bison, Belovezhskaya Pushcha, potatoes, a stork. I remembered also the tractor "Belarus", the image of which is on one of the notes of Vietnam. He also mentioned about the Belarusian extreme, which has become popular with us, - travel through the swamps. The future officer stressed that the symbols of the country are also people. Not only the past, but also the present. Such as Nobel laureates Zhores Alferov and Svetlana Aleksievich. The country abroad is glorified and the champions of the Olympic Games Maxim Mirny, Victoria Azarenka and Daria Domracheva. Many of the listeners learned that Hollywood can boast of Holland, such as Harrison Ford, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Douglas, as well as one of the founders of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which annually awards the Oscar ". A strict jury evaluated the fascinating performance with high scores.
Another student of the military high school Stanislav Valyaev shared his thoughts that laziness is not always a bad thing, because it was the lazy person who invented everything that makes it possible to rationally expend forces and time. Because of laziness, the teachers' favorites were never Churchill, Darwin, Picasso, or even Einstein.
"But from laziness, as from any illness, there is a medicine, but it's not a potion, but a desire to understand why I'm too lazy to do something." If you are not afraid to answer this question honestly, then you will know the true cause of laziness. And then, goodbye, lazy mother, - concluded the young man.
The strongest was also revealed among representatives of foreign countries, who are educated in the universities of our country. The peculiarity of the tour was that, although foreigners were evaluated in another nomination, they performed for the first time together with Byelorussians and Ukrainians.
By tradition, it was difficult to compete with Venezuelans this year. Cadet of the Military Academy Rodriguez Carillo Diego Alirio Jose wondered whether the spectators love football the way he loves it? With all my soul. His father, a football coach, is a friend of the famous football player Diego Maradona. And his son named in honor of the great athlete. Even the ball was bought by the child while he was still learning to walk. Because of the injury, Venezuelan Diego did not become a football player, but he hopes that this will come from his younger brother, who lives in Spain and plays for the junior team of Real Madrid. And the speaker himself is now successfully speaking for the team of the Belarusian university. By the way, his monologue was appreciated by the chief of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, major-general of militia Vladimir Bachila, who gave him a soccer ball.
Venezuela is a Catholic country and many names are given there so that they have more patrons. It is believed that the second, third, fourth name is given to the child for protection from the dark forces. If they bring damage to one, it will not work, because others will be on the defense. Not surprisingly, the Venezuelan Gragel Kaisales Joubert Ricardo Abel of the Military Academy told us about unusual names. From his speech, many learned that the full name of the famous Spanish artist - Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Martir Patricio Ruiz and Picasso. And the longest name on Earth has almost 1,5 thousand letters.
"In Latin America, the imagination of parents is very hot. Therefore, on the streets of Venezuela or Mexico you can meet Taj Mahal Sanchez, Elvis Presley Gomez Maria and even Hitler Euphele Major. Horror, yes? So let's still stick to the traditions and call our children Juanami, Carlos, Andreei, Mariam, Natasha, so that our children will not then scold us for wild fantasies," the cadet summed up.
His countryman Guerrero Rivas Estefani Dalit boasted that according to statistics, Venezuelans are considered one of the happiest peoples on the planet. In her country, even the present Ministry of Happiness has been created. Enjoy life as Venezuelans can not all. The cause for joy for them was even the falling snow, which they first saw in Belarus. And they have many beauties in the country.
"And although I am far from their parameters, but every morning, looking in the mirror, I say to myself: "Someone will be lucky how much happiness he will get." I also asked my Belarusian friend what is female happiness? It turned out that this is when a guy says three cherished words: "I love. Buy it. Let's go. " And if someone did not come to happiness, then it is huge and therefore goes to you in small steps," the girl continued philosophizing.
Everyone is remembered by the student of the Grodno State University from Nigeria Dimaku Ifunai. She introduced the Belarusians to the history of their country, its traditions and national holidays. At the end of her speech, a guest from Africa danced an incendiary dance.
Leyla Tagandurdyeva from Turkmenistan shared her impressions of Belarus. The girl told about Belovezhskaya Pushcha, "Milavitsa" and national Belarusian poets.
"And what a delicious black bread you have: a real boom of taste and aroma. And of course, draniki. Belarus is an amazing country," Leila admired. "It's worth visiting here at least once in your life." There is something for everyone here. Picturesque nature, colorful villages and for fans of folklore is always an unpredictable Belarusian language: the vyaselka is a rainbow, murzilka - dirty, kali caress - it's please.
Twelve participants entered the finals: three representatives of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, two from the Military Academy, the Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Kharkov National University of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, one from the Grodno and Brest State Universities, and the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University. The orators improvised, debated, answered impromptu on questions on one of the proposed topics: about culture, education, family, freedom of the "free world", the pace of their entertainment, about what would be preferable or police, or the police.
"The "Ciceronium" of this year was unlike all the previous ones, because according to the program it turned out to be quite different. There were many significant events in our republic: it is the century of the Belarusian militia, and 100 years of the October Revolution, and the 500th anniversary of printing, the 800th anniversary of the Belarusian nation, and 850 years of Minsk. Therefore, the subject of the current competition was broad: "Events, people and their affairs" and "100th anniversary of the Belarusian police". The Ukrainian delegation arrived, conducted a tremendous research work, in which it sought out Belarusian policemen who participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident and veterans of the Great Patriotic War on the territory of Ukraine. Ukrainian guests brought us beautiful Belarusian material. Colorful performances were also among guests from far abroad countries. The audience reacted with great pleasure to this. This year there are many participants. But not everyone was able to get together - there were a few guys who were rather weak, confused, could not finish the sentence. What does it say? The fact that they have little experience, you need to speak to the audience more often, to be able to overcome through their weaknesses. But we are happy, because competition is growing every year. The fact that students and cadets speak well, including Cicerony, is also worthy of it. Within the framework of the Bologna Process, speaking skills as a teaching discipline is one of the professional competencies. This is the final stage of speech preparation. After all, a police officer communicates with citizens, the media, explains, criticizes, demands. All this needs to be done with certain skills," said the ideological inspirer of the contest - Ph.D. in Philosophy and Education at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Associate Professor Vasily Golubev.
As a result of the contest, the best speaker was a guest from Ukraine Oksana Kalyada (Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs). Second place was shared by Ilya Myachin (Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) and Sergey Smolik (Military Academy). On the third line - Andrey Viktorov (Grodno State University), Maria Dudar (Brest State University) and Angelina Nozdrin-Plotnitskaya (Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs).
"For me this is the first contest abroad. I passed the selection in our university and came here to Belarus. The level of the contestants is very high - it was not easy to prepare such performances. I was very happy with the victory - I was hoping, but I did not expect it. For me, my friends at the university, who held my fists for me, are also happy. Next year I want to wish inspiration - to prepare good performances and win," Oksana Kalyada said. Among the foreigners, Gragel Kaisales Joebert Ricardo Abel (Venezuela) was recognized as the best. His countrywoman Guerrero Rivas Estefani Dalit became a silver medalist. "Bronze" from Dimaku Ifunai (Nigeria). "From the first year I was studying Russian. The teachers were very pleased and sent me to this contest. Prior to joining Cicero, he participated in the Zlatoust competition of the Military Academy, where he won. When I stand on stage and see that people react positively, listen carefully, somehow I gradually calm down. For his victory he is grateful to his mother, father and God. I also want to say thank you to the teachers who prepared me for the contest," said Gragel Kaisales Joubert Ricardo Abel.
The organization of the event was attended by the "primary" BRYU. The Organizing Committee awarded the winners and prize-winners with cups, diplomas, commemorative medals, valuable gifts (plasma TV, electrical appliances, radio equipment, etc.). The award ceremony ended with a concert by the Minsk City Executive Committee's orchestra.
Sergey Chebotarev,
Press Office.
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The Council of the President’s Special Fund for Social Support of talented pupils and students encouraged the youth of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
A two-day training in the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs brought together psychologists to discuss pressing issues of assisting migrants and strengthening professional skills.
A delegation of the Academy of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs took part in an international conference held at the China University of Criminal Police in Shenyang.
The world sambo championship was held in the South Korean city of Cheongju. A professor from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is among the winners.
Representatives of the Academy of MIA took part in the international conference...
Representatives of the penitentiary faculty of the academy took part in the international conference.
Today at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a training course on combating sexual and gender-based violence against migrants has opened.
US delegation visited the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
The American delegation got acquainted with the work of the International Training Center of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Issues of interest covered activities in the area of ??com...
Guests from China consider IT education important
A meeting with the delegation of China was held at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The parties paid special attention to the features of IT education in law enforcement area.
People who graduated from the institution 20 years ago visited the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
UNHCR-sponsored training course
A week-long advanced training course, organized with the support of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, was held at the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
New Year for Children! Cadets Organized a Holiday in a Boarding School
Final "Femida": the Goddess of Justice Made Her Choice
Activists of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union - Participants of the Charitable Holiday in Minsk
Excursion for Veterans at BELAZ in Zhodino
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Incorporating a Limited Company
27 May 2019 | Accounting
For a lot of people, the formation of a limited company represents the first steps towards being your own boss.
The formation of a company is a relatively straight-forward process. All companies require a name, shareholders, directors, a registered office and articles of association. Here we discuss the meaning of each and offer some practical tips.
For many, the selection of a company name is the most difficult decision in forming a company. Some will use their own name, whilst others seek to avoid it; some try to describe what their business does, others make up a word.
The name can’t be sensitive, protected, offensive or suggest a connection to the UK government and must end with the word ‘Limited’. Likewise, the name cannot be the same (or similar to) another registered company. You can check if a name is available here: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company-name-availability
If your business is going to have an online presence, or any form public presence, we also suggest checking whether the domain name is available for the website including the .com and .co.uk variants, even if you don’t need a website immediately, this could save you a headache in the future.
Shareholders are the owners of a limited company. They provide the company with its initial funding, have the right to vote for or against decisions at and the right to appoint or remove directors to run the day-to-day operations of the company.
In return they are entitled to a say in how the company is run, distributions of profit in the form of dividends, and any residual assets in the event of winding up. In the event that the company becomes insolvent, the shareholders are lowest in the creditors hierarchy and would be paid last – their investment therefore carries more risk than providers of debt or preferential shareholders, however they will often get the greatest return.
Unlike an unincorporated business, should the company face difficult times, the liability of ordinary shareholders is limited to their investment in the business. For this reason, creditors will sometimes require a personal guarantee from shareholders if introducing debt to the company to afford them a level of protection over their money.
These are appointed by the shareholders of the company to oversee the day-to-day operations of the business. For the majority of small private companies, the directors and shareholders are the same people. The directors of a company are responsible for the filing of accounts and a confirmation statement to Companies House each year as well as updating them about other changes (such as changes to directors, registered office or a change in control of the company) when they happen.
Directors must show a ‘Service Address’ on the public register at Companies House. This can be their residential address or the registered office for the company (if they wish to keep their private address anonymous). If a separate service address is used, a residential address is required at Companies House but will not be available to the public.
Directors of limited companies must file a Self-Assessment Tax Return each year.
This is the legal address of the company and will be published online at Companies House (therefore publicly available). For companies incorporated in England and Wales, the registered office must be in England or Wales; likewise, companies incorporated in Scotland must have a registered office in Scotland – companies cannot move from England or Wales to Scotland and vice versa.
For businesses that are run from home, often the owner of the business will not want this to be publicly available, or, if living in a rented property, may not have the freedom to use their residential address. Registered office addresses are offered by most accountants or company formation agents.
At Alchemy, or registered office service is £5+VAT per month. For this, we will scan and send on any important mail that is received and bin any junk mail.
The articles of association are the company’s constitution and are a legally binding document on the company’s shareholders and directors. This document sets out the process by which company decisions must be made and how and conflicts should be resolved.
Companies House provide ‘model articles’, meaning that each incorporated company does not need to draw these up. Model articles are sufficient in all but the most complicated circumstances.
As a limited company you will be liable to corporation tax on profits made by the company. Shortly after incorporation, HMRC will issue form CT41G to the company’s registered office to register the company for corporation tax. Have a look at our Guide to Corporation Tax for more information about this.
As a limited company has its own legal personality, any funds owned by the company should be held in an account baring it’s name. If company funds are held by a director, this will be deemed a director’s loan and subject to taxes. We therefore recommend establishing a business bank account as soon as possible after the company has been incorporated.
For more information about your limited company, please get in touch with a member of the Alchemy Accountancy team on 01772 965550 or email hello@alchemyaccountancy.com.
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Misery for Albania's child workers
Children as young as five are taken from their families and forced to work abroad.
by Alan Fisher
Emiliano Fayzo was taken from the
streets when he was eight
Every day, Sophia Sarja cries and wonders if her son will come home.
It has been two years since she last saw Artur. One morning he left as usual to go to the local market. The 11-year-old then simply disappeared from his home village of Elbisan, 60km south of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
"I can't explain with words, I say every day, all day 'Let's hope I will see him again'. I say to God 'please, please let him be healthy and safe'," she says.
Locals believe that Artur has been abducted by trafficking gangs, who have taken him abroad and forced him to work, making him another example of slavery in the 21st century.
An international conference organised by the Council of Europe is currently under way in Greece, to discuss ways to tackle the growing problem of human trafficking.
While media coverage of trafficking for the international sex trade is high, one abuse that often goes unreported is the kidnapping of children, by criminal gangs who then force their victims to work.
There has been an alarming increase in the trafficking of boys in south-eastern Europe. They are generally being traded for cheap labour, begging and drug-running.
Family knowledge
A report carried out by the International Organisation for Migration found that 70 per cent of trafficking cases investigated last year in Albania were male, 93 per cent of them minors.
Sadly, they are often trafficked with the tacit approval of their families.
Sophia Sarja prays every day
she will see her son, Artur, again
Emiliano Fayzo was dragged off the streets at the age of eight and taken across the border to Greece. There he was forced to work for a gang of criminals.
He still bears the scar of when he was stabbed for refusing to work. The wound has never been properly stitched or treated.
"They told me 'you're going to steal'. I said 'no I won't do it, but they beat me, they beat me every day," he says.
Unicef has filmed Albanian youngsters who have been trafficked to Greece working on the streets. Some as young as five are forced to spend up to eight hours a day selling roses or napkins to tourists.
Edisen Turshini spent six months doing just that. He was taken south from the border town of Korce after his mother was given about $300 by a relative who wanted to make the boy work.
"I was telling them I want to go back to Albania, I want to go home back to my parents," Edisen says. "But they kept telling me 'No you have to stay a bit bit longer, you have to stay to make more money to take back to your mother.'"
"Life is very hard"
In her one-roomed home in Korce, with the beans that will feed the family for the next two days bubbling on the stove, Edisen's mother tells Al Jazeera that she did not sell her son.
"We didn't have anything to eat. Here when it rains, all the water that is outside gets inside. Life is very hard. Some people sell their children because they are criminals. I did not sell my son."
"Some people sell their children because they are criminals. I did not sell my son"
Furuze Demo, Edisen Turshini's mother
The Albanian government's anti-trafficking minister has previously said the problem will never go away, but it is getting better and tighter border controls have been implemented to make it harder for the traffickers to continue their illicit trade.
But in the hills surrounding Korce and neighbouring communities, the criminals continue to transport their human cargo, often at night when it is easier to hide.
In Korce, Unicef is helping a local school give a second chance to children that have been trafficked and those at risk of being sold.
They are given the education they have missed out on before and are given training in trades that could in turn secure them full-time employment.
In the music class, one girl sings a traditional Albanian song. "Nobody should dare touch the happiness of children," it says.
It perhaps promises a better future after the problems of the past.
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Category: Crystal Palace
Get the latest Crystal Palace news, with all the latest news and analysis from Crystal Palace.
January 17, 2020 January 17, 2020 James Hill
There’s little doubt that the game between Liverpool and Manchester United is the most anticipated English match of the weekend. The Premier League leaders will face the only team that they didn’t beat so far in the campaign. Let’s take a look at both sides and see if there are any interesting bets available. Liverpool After going painfully close to the title last season, Liverpool has improved further and it seems like nothing can stop the side from winning the English Premier League this term. The Reds have the best…
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The Africa Cup of Nations 2021 will be played in the winter instead of the summer. The hosts Cameroon requested the change to avoid extreme weather conditions that might disrupt the tournament. The new schedule means that AFCON 2021 will start on January 9 and end on February 6. That’s right in the middle of the English Premier League season and will certainly hit some clubs hard. In this article, I will assess the potential effects and determine which English teams will suffer the most from the decision. Liverpool Will…
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Manchester United chase defenders with Premier League experience
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One of the top priorities for Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer this summer is to fix up his leaky defence. Last season, not many United defenders manage to make a mark, and it appears that the club has decided to target defenders with Premier League experience this summer. Firstly, United have been strongly linked with Crystal Palace full-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka. United have already seen a £40m bid rejected by Palace, but they are hopeful that a deal can be reached soon. The English youngster is also said to be…
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Manchester United transfer news: Wan-Bissaka, Bale and more
Manchester United have received encouraging news in their pursuit of Crystal Palace right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka. According to Sky Sports, Wan-Bissaka favours a move to Old Trafford this summer. United’s interest in the Palace right-back is not a fresh news, and reportedly, they have already seen their initial bid of £40m rejected by the Eagles. However, the Red Devils are expected to go back with a better bid for the England U21 international. They are also keeping tabs on PSG’s Thomas Meunier and Tottenham’s Kieran Trippier. Meanwhile, United have no interest…
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MLS Champions Atlanta United hire Frank de Boer as new head coach
December 23, 2018 December 23, 2018 Jason Bourne
Atlanta United have announced the appointment of Frank de Boer as the club’s new head coach. The former Ajax and Crystal Palace boss was only recently linked to the job vacated by Argentinean coach Tata Martino, and the club have now confirmed the hiring of only the second ever manager in its history. New chapter. Same mission.#ATLUTD name @FdeBoerOfficial as 2nd head coach in club history ? https://t.co/H2VX85UytQ pic.twitter.com/AT7rLstHHf — Atlanta United FC (@ATLUTD) December 23, 2018 “Frank de Boer has a distinguished background, both as manager and player, and…
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Video assistant referees (VAR) set to be used in Premier League next season
November 15, 2018 Jason Bourne
Video assistant referees are set to be used in the Premier League next season after clubs agreed in principle to the move. The Premier League will now make a formal request to the International Football Association Board and Fifa. VAR was used at the 2018 World Cup, is in operation in Italy and Germany’s top divisions, and has been utilised in some FA Cup and Carabao Cup games. The Premier League has been carrying out “non-live” trials this season. VAR will also be used in the Champions League from next season. There…
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Premier League clubs asked for £250,000 towards £5m bonus for outgoing Scudamore
November 14, 2018 November 26, 2019 Jason Bourne
All 20 Premier League clubs have been asked for a £250,000 contribution so that the league’s outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore can be given a £5m farewell gift. The clubs were asked for the money before a meeting on Tuesday. It is expected they will agree to Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck’s request. Scudamore, 59, who is reportedly paid £2.5m per season, is stepping down next month after 19 years at the organisation, with various names being suggested as his replacement -for more information you could visit the bet365 review on match-bonus-code.co.uk to see who…
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Wilfried Zaha signs new deal to become highest earner at Crystal Palace
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Wilfried Zaha has committed his long-term contract future to Crystal Palace by signing a new contract and in the process becomes the highest paid player in the club’s history. The new contract which contains no release clause will take Zaha until the end of the 2022/23 campaign and is believed to be worth £130,000/week. Zaha’s importance to Palace cannot be overstated with Roy Hodgson’s side failing to secure a single point in his absence last season. The Ivory Coast international scored nine times last term as Palace overcame a difficult…
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Crystal Palace vs West Bromwich Albion – Betting Tips and Predictions
May 12, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
Crystal Palace have completed a remarkable turnaround this season, and they could move into the top-half of the table with a win over West Bromwich Albion at Selhurst Park on Sunday. The Eagles are undefeated in their last five games, and this run has helped them move away from the struggle at the bottom. As things stand, they are 11th in the table with 41 points. A win on Sunday would most probably see them leapfrog Newcastle United in the tenth spot. Palace looked certain for relegation after losing their…
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Crystal Palace vs Leicester City – Betting Tips and Predictions
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Crystal Palace will go for three points against an out-of-form Leicester City at Selhurst Park on Saturday. Following a disastrous start to the season, the Eagles find themselves on the verge of securing their Premier League status. Palace are 14th in the table with 35 points. They have built up a five-point buffer between themselves and the bottom three. Another three points on Saturday would almost secure their safety. The Eagles have been in decent form and are undefeated in their last three games. Last weekend, they played a goalless…
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Watford vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
Watford are in a slump, and they would be eager to put an end to it when they host Crystal Palace on Vicarage Road on Saturday. The Hornets have picked up just one point from their last five games, and last weekend, they lost 1-0 at Huddersfield Town. Watford sit in the 12th spot with 37 points. They are in a rather comfortable position, safe from relegation and with nothing left to play for this season. However, Watford’s ongoing troubles are not good for new manager Javi Garcia, and he…
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Crystal Palace vs Brighton and Hove Albion – Betting Tips and Predictions
Crystal Palace will be aiming to get away from the relegation zone when they host Brighton and Hove Albion at Selhurst Park on Saturday. The Eagles sit on the edge of the drop zone, and they could use a win this weekend. Last weekend, Palace claimed a 2-2 draw at Bournemouth, and as things stand, they occupy the 17th-spot with 31 points, only three clear of the bottom three. Coming into this game, Palace have won only one of their last ten games. However, they played against five of top…
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Bournemouth vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
April 4, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
After an underwhelming first half of the season, Bournemouth are looking to end the season on a strong note. The Cherries will continue their league campaign with Crystal Palace’s visit to Vitality Stadium on Saturday. Last Saturday, Bournemouth needed a late goal from Jermaine Defoe to manage a 2-2 draw at Watford. The Cherries have picked up 12 points from their last eight games, and this run has helped them move into the top half. The South Coast side sit in the tenth spot with 37 points. Relegation is not…
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Crystal Palace vs Liverpool – Betting Tips and Predictions
March 29, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
Crystal Palace and Liverpool have very different ambitions at opposite ends of the table as they prepare to face each other at Selhurst Park in an early kick-off on Saturday. After four consecutive defeats in the league, the Eagles claimed an encouraging 2-0 win at Huddersfield Town prior to the international break. The win helped them move out of the bottom three, but the fear of relegation is not over yet. They are currently placed 16th in the table with 30 points, just two points clear of the danger. Palace…
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Huddersfield Town vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
In arguably the most significant Premier League fixture this weekend, Huddersfield Town will host Crystal Palace at the John Smith Stadium. Both sides are candidates for relegation at the moment; however, the Terriers find themselves in a much better situation. Huddersfield currently sit in the 15th spot with 31 points, only four points clear of the drop zone. The Terriers were unlucky to end up with a goalless draw against ten-men Swansea City at home, last weekend. Nevertheless, they have picked up form in the recent weeks and have managed…
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Chelsea vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
March 8, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
Chelsea are slipping behind in the race for top-four spots, and they must get back to the winning ways when they host Crystal Palace at Samford Bridge on Saturday. The Blues have lost four of their last five games in the league, and they come into this on the back of consecutive defeats to Manchester clubs. In the league, the Blues are placed fifth in the league table with 53 points. The current champions are already five points behind the top-four. However, they can make up some gap on their…
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Crystal Palace vs Tottenham – Betting Tips and Predictions
February 24, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
Crystal Palace will host London rivals Tottenham in a derby game at Selhurst Park on Sunday. The Eagles have been hit hard by injuries, and they are now without a win in their last four league games. Palace are currently missing 12 first team players through injuries and that has been very evident in their recent performances. In their last league game, they lost 3-1 at Everton. Ahead of Spurs’ visit, Palace are placed 15th in the table with 27 points, just a point clear of the bottom three. One…
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Everton vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
February 6, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
Everton will be looking to bounce back from their embarrassment at Emirates Stadium when they host Crystal Palace at Goodison Park on Saturday. The Toffees come into this game following the 5-1 defeat to Arsenal, but they would be encouraged by the fact that they defeated Leicester City 2-1 in their last home game. Theo Walcott scored a brace in that game, and he will be looking to increase his tally against Palace. Ahead of the game, the Merseysiders find themselves tenth in the league table with 31 points. Palace…
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Crystal Palace vs Newcastle United – Betting Tips and Predictions
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West Ham United vs Crystal Palace – Betting Tips and Predictions
January 28, 2018 Vyom Chaudhary
West Ham United will welcome Crystal Place at London Stadium in a battle between two recovering sides on Tuesday. There has been a common theme to the seasons of both sides as they both find themselves in a recovery-mode under new managers following terrible starts to the season. Both sides are separated by a solitary point in the league table, and we expect an exciting London derby this midweek. The Hammers suffered a shock 2-0 FA Cup defeat to Wigan Athletic on Saturday, but they are undefeated in their last…
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Crystal Palace vs Burnley – Betting Tips and Predictions
Crystal Palace have surprised everyone with their turnaround following the arrival of Roy Hodgson in the hot-seat. This weekend, they have another opportunity to increase their point-tally as they host out-of-form Burnley at Selhurst Park. The Eagles managed to pull off a remarkable draw against Manchester City in their last home game, and a repeat of that performance should be enough to land them three points against the Clarets. In their last league game, Palace claimed a 2-1 win at Southampton, but they did suffer a setback during the midweek…
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Leicester City vs Crystal Palace- Betting Tips and Predictions
December 15, 2017 Miheso Kihara
Leicester City vs Crystal Palace- Betting Tips and Predictions Leicester City welcome relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at the King Power Stadium in this early kick-off. The Foxes have won their last four matches and haven’t lost in the last 5 matches. Crystal Palace have not lost any of their last six matches although the Eagles have only won two matches in that period. Palace’s manager Roy Hodgson believes his side has closed in on the teams above and there are chances of surviving relegation this term. A win here would see…
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Crystal Palace vs AFC Bournemouth – betting tips and predictions
December 6, 2017 Vyom Chaudhary
After opening the season with seven defeats without scoring a goal, Crystal Place have displayed much more resilience and fight in the recent weeks. This Saturday, the South London club will host Bournemouth at Selhurst Park. The arrival of Roy Hodgson at the club has certainly had an impact, and the Eagles have lost only two of their last eight fixtures. As things stand, Palace find themselves 18th in the table and only three points behind the safety line. In their last two fixtures, Palace have managed goalless draws against…
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Crystal Palace vs Stoke City – betting tips and predictions
November 23, 2017 Vyom Chaudhary
With just one win in their 12 games, Crystal Palace are still languishing at the bottom of the table ahead of Stoke City’s visit to Selhurst Park on Saturday. The Eagles have picked up just five points this season, and they are five points behind the safety line. However, they are undefeated in their last three home games, and they would consider this game as a good opportunity to put some much-needed points on the board. After going goalless for first seven games, the Eagles have scored six in their…
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Crystal Palace vs Everton – betting tips and predictions
Crystal Palace find themselves rooted to the bottom of the league ahead of Everton’s visit to Selhurst Park on Saturday. The Eagles have firmly established themselves as early-season favourites for relegation, and with a point-total of four, they are six points adrift of the safety. Following their shock 2-1 home win over Chelsea, the Eagles have picked up just one point in their last three games. In their last fixture, they lost 1-0 at Tottenham. Everton have been equally terrible this season, but a come-from-behind 3-2 win over Watford in…
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Time to drain N.J. swamp again: Editorial
New Jersey has long had a well-deserved reputation for corruption. There is no reason to believe it has become any less corrupt in recent days.
Time to drain N.J. swamp again: Editorial New Jersey has long had a well-deserved reputation for corruption. There is no reason to believe it has become any less corrupt in recent days. Check out this story on app.com: https://on.app.com/2NIcEVg
Asbury Park Press Published 3:51 p.m. ET Sept. 14, 2018 | Updated 12:06 p.m. ET Sept. 16, 2018
U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez fights tears as he speaks to reporters outside Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Courthouse in Newark after U.S. District Judge William Walls declared a mistrial in Menendez’ federal corruption trial on Thursday.(Photo: AP)
Remember the days when corrupt public officials fell like dominoes under the gimlet eye of then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie? In the early half of the 2000s, dozens of public officials and politically connected individuals were snared in Christie's net. Later that decade, sting operations produced 29 more arrests of public figures as well as five Orthodox rabbis.
Since then, other than the Bridgegate fiasco and the Sen. Bob Menendez corruption trial, things have been far quieter on the political corruption front.
That may soon change. Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has created an Office of Public Integrity and Accountability, which will be headed by a veteran federal prosecutor with a record of high-profile public corruption convictions. Cracking down on political corruption is one of the main goals of the new unit.
Howard Birdsall, center, appears in state Superior Court in Toms River in 2013 to face criminal pay-to-play charges. (Photo: file photo)
One reason cited for the new unit by Grewal is the need to fill a void created by recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have made it more difficult for federal prosecutors to win bribery convictions. Conduct once clearly deemed illegal has been redefined as politics as usual. A higher bar has been set for proving a direct relationship between favors granted by politicians and favors received.
The greater difficulty of winning convictions is reflected in the declining number of federal public corruption convictions. Although the number of arrests has remained relatively constant over the past two decades, the number of convictions has dropped each of the past five years. In 2016, the last year for which complete numbers are available, federal convictions hit a 14-year low.
In New Jersey, high-profile corruption convictions have tailed off substantially in recent years. The exceptions include Paterson Mayor (and former Jackson business administrator) Jose Torres, Bergen County Assemblyman Robert Schroeder, eight executives from the Birdsall engineering group and former Bloomfield councilman Elias Chalet.
Former Paterson mayor and Jackson business administrator Joey Torres wipes tears from his eyes at his November 2017 sentencing for public corruption during his time as mayor. (Photo: Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com)
New Jersey has long had a well-deserved reputation for corruption. There is no reason to believe much has changed in recent days. A 2014 Harvard study “Corruption in America” rated New Jersey as one of the two most corrupt states in the nation. It ranked our executive branch No. 2 in “illegal corruption,” behind only Arizona. It also was No. 2, behind only Kentucky, in “legal corruption,” which the study defined as “the political gains in the form of campaign contributions or endorsements by a government official, in exchange for providing specific benefits to private individuals or groups, be it by explicit or implicit understanding.”
New Jersey’s legislative branch was identified as one of just seven in the U.S. in which legal corruption was “extremely common.” And it was in the top third of states where illegal corruption was deemed somewhere between “moderately” and “very common.”
That assessment of our Legislature seems far too generous. So-called legal corruption, or "soft corruption" as it is called in a book by that name by former state Sen. William E. Schluter, may be even more of a problem in New Jersey than "illegal corruption." Rooting it out won't be easy. Schluter's book, which was published about a year before his death this August at age 90, includes 44 recommendations for addressing the problem. Forty-four recommendations. Forty-four ways self-serving politicians can ride the gravy train.
We are thrilled Grewal has put New Jersey corruption squarely in his office's crosshairs. We would be equally thrilled to see Murphy and the Legislature make the same sort of commitment to rooting out "legal corruption."
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American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Pe
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
The most common personality disorder here and abroad, borderline personality disorder is often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. Left untreated, it causes marked distress and impairment in social, occupational, and role functioning, with high rates of self-destructive behavior (attempted and completed suicide). Its pervasive pattern of impulsivity and instability of interpersonal relationships, affects, and self-image begins in early adulthood and presents in a variety of contexts.
Developed primarily by psychiatrists in active clinical practice, the revised edition of this popular work offers an updated synthesis of current scientific knowledge and rational clinical practice for patients with borderline personality disorder—with the important caveat that clinicians should consider, but not limit themselves to, the treatments recommended here. The summary of treatment recommendations is keyed according to the level of confidence with which each recommendation is made and coded to show the nature of its supporting evidence.
Highly informative and easy to use, this eminently practical volume is organized into three major parts: Part A contains treatment recommendations (Section I, treatment summaries; Section II, treatment plans; Section III, special clinical considerations; and Section IV, risk management issues during treatment), Part B presents the evidence underlying these treatment recommendations (Section V, an overview of DSM-IV-TR criteria, prevalence rates, and natural history and course; and Section VI, a review of existing treatment literature), and Part C summarizes those areas in which better research data are needed.
Remarkably concise and comprehensive, this practice guideline continues to be an indispensable reference for every clinician who treats patients with this heterogeneous and complex disorder.
Guide to using this Practice Guideline. Introduction. Development process. Part A: Treatment Recommendations for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder. Executive Summary of Recommendations. Coding systems. General considerations. Summary of recommendations. Formulation and Implementation of a Treatment Plan. The initial assessment. Principles of psychiatric management. Principles of treatment selection. Specific treatment strategies for the clinical features of borderline personality disorder. Special Features Influencing Treatment. Comorbidity. Problematic substance use. Violent behavior and antisocial traits. Chronic self-destructive behavior. Childhood trauma and PTSD. Dissociative features. Psychosocial stressors. Gender. Cultural factors. Age. Risk Management Issues. General considerations. Suicide. Anger, impulsivity, and violence. Boundary violations. Part B: Background Information and Review of Available Evidence. Disease Definition, Epidemiology, and Natural History. Definition and core clinical features. Assessment. Differential diagnosis. Epidemiology. Natural history and course. Review and Synthesis of Available Evidence. Issues in interpreting the literature. Review of psychotherapy and other psychosocial treatments. Review of pharmacotherapy and other somatic treatments. Part C: Future Research Needs. Psychotherapy. Pharmacotherapy and other somatic treatments. Appendixes: Psychopharmacological treatment algorithms. Individuals and organizations that submitted comments. References.
Edited by Jon E. Grant, M.D., M.P.H., J.D., Samuel R. Chamberlain, MBBChir, Ph.D., MRCPsych, and Anthony Pinto, Ph.D. 2020
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Survey: Most People Think World is More Dangerous Than Two Years Ago
admin July 10, 2018 Health Protection
LONDON, Most people think the world is more dangerous today than it was two years ago as concerns rise over politically motivated violence and weapons of mass destruction, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Six out of 10 respondents to the survey, commissioned by the Global Challenges Foundation, said the dangers had increased, with conflict and nuclear or chemical weapons seen as more pressing risks than population growth or climate change.
The results come as NATO leaders prepare to meet in Brussels on Wednesday amid growing tensions between the United States and fellow members over defense spending, which some fear could damage morale and play into the hands of Russia.
"It's clear that our current systems of global cooperation are no longer making people feel safe," said Mats Andersson, vice chairman of the Global Challenges Foundation, in a statement.
Andersson said turbulence between NATO powers and Russia, ongoing conflict in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine and nuclear tensions with North Korea and Iran were making people feel unsafe.
A separate survey commissioned by the Global Challenges Foundation after North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un met U.S. President Donald Trump found the talks reassuring.
Less than a third of the nearly 5,000 respondents reported feeling less concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
"War is more likely," said Dr. Patricia Lewis, director of international security at the think tank Chatham House. "We have a great deal of instability and that is so often a precursor to wars."
"Two large powers are disrupting the established rules. We saw the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and we see the U.S. starting a trade war, ripping up agreements which the rest of us are trying to abide by," said Lewis.
Founded to deter the Soviet threat in 1949, NATO is based on deep cooperation with the United States, which provides for Europe's security with its nuclear and conventional arsenals.
It has found renewed purpose since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, sending battalions to the Baltics and Poland to deter potential Russian incursions.
The survey findings are based on responses from more than 10,000 people in 10 countries surveyed by polling firm ComRes in April this year.
The Global Challenges Foundation promotes discussion of the greatest threats to humanity issues that could wipe out more than 10 percent of the population in order to find solutions.
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DAVID BROOKS: Experimenting with socialism
Why it can’t compete with capitalism by DAVID BROOKS New York TImes News Service | January 5, 2020 at 1:57 a.m.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette illustration. ( John Deering)
I was a socialist in college. I read magazines like The Nation and old issues of The New Masses. I dreamed of being the next Clifford Odets, a lefty playwright who was always trying to raise proletarian class consciousness.
If you go on YouTube and search "David Brooks Milton Friedman," you can see 22-year-old socialist me debating the great economist. I'm the one with the bushy hair and the giant 1980s glasses that were apparently on loan from the Palomar lunar observatory.
The best version of socialism is defined by Michael Walzer's phrase, "what touches all should be decided by all." The great economic enterprises should be owned by all of us in common. Decisions should be based on what benefits all, not the maximization of profit.
That's not what democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders are talking about, but I get why some of their socialist concerns are popular. Why do we have to live with such poverty and inequality? Why can't we put people over profits? What is the best life in the most just society? Socialism is the most compelling secular religion of all time. It gives you an egalitarian ideal to sacrifice and live for.
My socialist sympathies didn't survive long once I became a journalist. I quickly noticed that the government officials I was covering were not capable of planning the society they hoped to create. It wasn't because they were bad or stupid. The world is just too complicated.
I came to realize that capitalism is really good at doing the one thing socialism is really bad at: creating a learning process to help people figure stuff out. If you want to run a rental car company, capitalism has a whole bevy of market and price signals and feedback loops that tell you what kind of cars people want to rent, where to put your locations, how many cars to order. It has a competitive profit-driven process to motivate you to learn and innovate, every single day.
Socialist planned economies--the common ownership of the means of production--interfere with price and other market signals in a million ways. They suppress or
eliminate profit motives that drive people to learn and improve.
It doesn't matter how big your computers are, the socialist can never gather all relevant data, can never construct the right feedback loops. The state cannot even see the local, irregular, context-driven factors that can have exponential effects. The state cannot predict people's desires, which sometimes change on a whim. Capitalism creates a relentless learning system. Socialism doesn't.
The sorts of knowledge that capitalism produces are often not profound, like how to design the best headphone. But that kind of knowledge does produce enormous wealth. Human living standards were pretty much flat for all of human history until capitalism kicked in. Since then, the number of goods and services available to average people has risen by up to 10,000 percent.
If you've been around a little while, you've noticed that capitalism has brought about the greatest reduction of poverty in human history. In 1981, 42 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty. Now, it's around 10 percent. More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of poverty.
You've noticed that places that instituted market reforms, like South Korea and Deng Xiaoping's China, tended to get richer and prouder. Places that moved toward socialism--Britain in the 1970s, Venezuela more recently--tended to get poorer and more miserable.
You've noticed that the environment is much better in capitalist nations than in planned economies. The American GDP has more than doubled since 1970, but energy consumption has risen only modestly. America's per-capita carbon emissions hit a 67-year low in 2017. The greatest environmental degradations are committed by planned systems like the old Soviet Union and communist China.
The Fraser Institute is a free-market think tank that ranks nations according to things free-market think tanks like: less regulation, free trade, secure property rights. The freest economies in the world are places like Hong Kong, the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Latvia, Denmark, Mauritius, Malta and Finland. Nations in the top quartile for economic freedom have an average GDP per capita of $36,770. For those in the bottom quartile, it's $6,140. People in the free economies have a life expectancy of 79.4 years. Those in the planned economies have a life expectancy of 65.2 years.
Over the past century, planned economies have produced an enormous amount of poverty and scarcity. What's worse is what happens when the political elites learn what you can do with that scarcity. They turn scarcity into corruption. When things are scarce, you have to bribe government officials to get them. Soon everybody is bribing. Citizens soon realize the whole system is a fraud. Socialism produces economic and political inequality as the rulers turn into gangsters. A system that begins in high idealism ends in corruption, dishonesty, oppression and distrust.
I learned the ills of socialism quickly ... and became a Whig slowly.
My first economic hero is Alexander Hamilton. He came to America with almost nothing and found an economy dominated by land-rich oligarchs like Thomas Jefferson. He realized that the solution was to make everyone a capitalist. He created credit markets so that capital would be fluid and more people would have access to investments.
My next hero is Abraham Lincoln. He grew up poor and launched his career as a Whig. He gave more speeches on banking and infrastructure projects than on slavery. That's because he wanted to spread capital and grease the wheels of commerce so poor boys and girls like him could rise. He helped create the land-grant colleges so that more people would have the training to compete as capitalists.
Another major American figure in the Whig tradition is Theodore Roosevelt. He loved the dynamism that capitalism arouses and knew that sometimes you have to limit giant corporations so millions of less established capitalists can compete.
All of these leaders understood that the answer to the problems of capitalism is wider and fairer capitalism.
Today, parts of our capitalist system in the United States are in good shape. Growth is remarkably steady, inflation is low, employment is high, wages for the poorest Americans are rising twice as fast as for high-wage workers.
But capitalism, like all human systems, is always unbalanced, one way or another. Over the last generation, capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in global income inequality in history. The downside is that low-skill workers in the U.S. are now competing with workers in Vietnam, India and Malaysia. The reduction of inequality among nations has led to the increase of inequality within rich nations, like the United States.
Also, education levels have not kept pace with technology. More people grow up with inadequate schools, disrupted families and fragmented neighborhoods. They find it harder to acquire the skills to become good capitalists. The market is effectively closed off to them.
These problems are not signs that capitalism is broken. They are signs that we need more and better capitalism. We need a massive infusion of money and reform into our education systems, from infancy through life. Human capital-building is like nutrition: It's something you have to attend to every day. We need welfare programs that not only subsidize poor people's consumption but also subsidize their capacity to produce.
We need worker co-ops, which build skills and represent labor at the negotiating table. We need wage subsidies and mobility subsidies, so people can afford to move to opportunity. We need tax subsidies for health care, to make it easier for people to switch jobs. We need a higher earned-income tax credit, to give the working poor financial security so they don't get swept away amid the creative destruction. We need a carbon tax, to give everyone an incentive to reduce carbon emissions without pretending we know the best way to do it.
Every single idea I just mentioned comes from the American Enterprise Institute or Brookings or some other institution derided as being part of the neoliberal elite. All these ideas would make capitalism work better.
A big mistake those of us on the conservative side made was to think that anything that made the government bigger also made the market less dynamic. We failed to distinguish between the supportive state and the regulatory state. The supportive state makes better and more secure capitalists. The Scandinavian nations have very supportive welfare states. They also have very free markets. The only reason they can afford to have generous welfare states is they also have very free markets.
I don't know if the Scandinavian welfare model would work in nations as big and diverse as the U.S. But its success points to a few truths: The state nurtures prosperity when it helps people become capitalists. The state causes incredible levels of misery when it gets too far inside the decision-making processes of capitalists. It creates enormous misery when it cripples the motivational system that drives capitalism. It causes enormous misery when it meddles with the relentless learning system that market mechanisms make possible.
Capitalism is not a religion. It won't save your soul or fulfill the yearnings of your heart. But somehow it will arouse your energies, it will lift your sights, it will put you on a lifelong learning journey to know, to improve, to dare and to dare again.
Last Sunday I attended a service with a young friend at a church that has quickly become a home for her. There were several hundred congregants--90 percent were under 30; 90 percent were Latino. The service was two hours of joy and exultation--glow sticks and song and balloons.
They weren't worshipping capitalism, but something higher. But still, their work lives came into view. "Look how far we've come! Look how far we've come!" different people kept saying.
I saw my own family's Jewish immigration history being re-enacted right in front of me. We, like they, started out as butchers and seamstresses and tailors, self-employed capitalists because it can be hard for immigrants to get corporate jobs. The opportunity explosion my family experienced and your family probably experienced is happening still, made possible by the ever-expanding pie that capitalism provides.
The theme that day was hope, transcendent hope and more immediate hope. "Move and miracles happen!" a young Latino woman sang. Every year, hundreds of millions of people march with their feet to capitalism.
Today, the real argument is not between capitalism and socialism. We ran that social experiment for 100 years and capitalism won. It's between a version of democratic capitalism, found in the U.S., Canada and Denmark, and forms of authoritarian capitalism, found in China and Russia. Our job is to make it the widest and fairest version of capitalism it can possibly be.
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Would an Artist’s Resale Right Help Stop Fakes in China?
February 19, 2013 by Marion Maneker
The state of Chinese copyright law isn’t terribly advanced but a new proposal wants to leap-frog into providing an artist’s resale right. The Art Newspaper explains that the proposal is receiving resistance from auction houses but a surprising new argument that is particularly relevant to the Chinese market (though not irrelevant in the West) is that Droite de Suite might also help combat fakes:
Eugene Low, a Hong Kong-based intellectual property lawyer at Mayer Brown JSM, says that the legislation could address the problem of fake works coming up for auction in China. “The auction companies will have to trace the original creator or their next of kin. In doing so, they will have to check that the work is genuine,” he says.
Rogier Creemers, an expert on Chinese copyright law at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, says that increased protection for artists reflects China’s desire to move up the value chain, away from mass-produced goods. “[China] wants to foster an ‘advanced cultural market’,” he says.
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Learning How to Be Chinese
Chinese Government to Clamp Down on the “Three Fakes”
Who Owns the Past?
Top Artists of 2011—Both Chinese—Generate $1bn in Sales
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Tarbosaurus
Discovery and naming
Paleobiology
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70 Ma
Possible Campanian record[1]
Skeleton on exhibit in Dinosaurium, Prague
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: †Eutyrannosauria
Family: †Tyrannosauridae
Subfamily: †Tyrannosaurinae
Genus: †Tarbosaurus
Maleev, 1955
†T. bataar
†Tarbosaurus bataar
(Maleev, 1955)
[originally Tyrannosaurus]
Genus synonymy
Shanshanosaurus
(Dong, 1977)
Maleevosaurus
(Carpenter, 1992)
Jenghizkhan
(Olshevsky, 1995)
?Raptorex
(Sereno et al., 2009)
Species synonymy
Tyrannosaurus bataar
Gorgosaurus novojilovi
Tarbosaurus efremovi
Gorgosaurus lancinator
Deinodon novojilovi
Deinodon lancinator
Aublysodon lancinator
(Maleev, 1955) Charig, 1967
Aublysodon novojilovi
Shanshanosaurus huoyanshanensis
Dong, 1977
Tyrannosaurus efremovi
Tarbosaurus novojilovi
Aublysodon huoyanshanensis
Albertosaurus novojilovi
Maleevosaurus novojilovi
Jenghizkhan bataar
Tyrannosaurus novojilovi
?Raptorex kriegsteini
Tarbosaurus (/ˌtɑːrbəˈsɔːrəs/ TAR-bə-SAWR-əs; meaning "alarming lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China.
Although many species have been named, modern paleontologists recognize only one, T. bataar, as valid. Some experts see this species as an Asian representative of the North American genus Tyrannosaurus; this would make the genus Tarbosaurus redundant. Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, if not synonymous, are considered to be at least closely related genera. Alioramus, also from Mongolia, has previously been thought by some authorities to be the closest relative of Tarbosaurus, though this has since been disproven with the discovery of Qianzhousaurus and the description of the Alioramini.
Like most known tyrannosaurids, Tarbosaurus was a large bipedal predator, weighing up to five tonnes and equipped with about sixty large teeth. It had a unique locking mechanism in its lower jaw and the smallest forelimbs relative to body size of all tyrannosaurids, renowned for their disproportionately tiny, two-fingered forelimbs.
Tarbosaurus lived in a humid floodplain criss-crossed by river channels. In this environment, it was an apex predator, probably preying on other large dinosaurs like the hadrosaur Saurolophus or the sauropod Nemegtosaurus. Tarbosaurus is represented by dozens of fossil specimens, including several complete skulls and skeletons. These remains have allowed scientific studies focusing on its phylogeny, skull mechanics, and brain structure.
Size comparison of specimens representing various growth stages
Although slightly smaller than Tyrannosaurus, Tarbosaurus was one of the largest tyrannosaurids. The largest known individuals were between 10 and 12 m (33 and 39 ft) long.[2] The mass of a fully grown individual is considered comparable to or slightly smaller than Tyrannosaurus, often estimated to be around 4–5 metric tons.[3][4]
The largest known Tarbosaurus skull is more than 1.3 m (4.3 ft) long, larger than all other tyrannosaurids except Tyrannosaurus.[5] The skull was tall, like that of Tyrannosaurus, but not as wide, especially towards the rear. The unexpanded rear of the skull meant that Tarbosaurus eyes did not face directly forwards, suggesting that it lacked the binocular vision of Tyrannosaurus. Large fenestrae (openings) in the skull reduced its weight. Between 58 and 64 teeth lined its jaws, slightly more than in Tyrannosaurus but fewer than in smaller tyrannosaurids like Gorgosaurus and Alioramus. Most of its teeth were oval in cross section, although the teeth of the premaxilla at the tip of the upper jaw had a D-shaped cross section. This heterodonty is characteristic of the family. The longest teeth were in the maxilla (upper jaw bone), with crowns up to 85 millimeters (3.3 in) long. In the lower jaw, a ridge on the outer surface of the angular bone articulated with the rear of the dentary bone, creating a locking mechanism unique to Tarbosaurus and Alioramus. Other tyrannosaurids lacked this ridge and had more flexibility in the lower jaw.[6]
Restoration of an adult and subadult Tarbosaurus next to a human
Tyrannosaurids varied little in body form, and Tarbosaurus was no exception. The head was supported by an S-shaped neck, while the rest of the vertebral column, including the long tail, was held horizontally. Tarbosaurus had tiny forelimbs, proportionably to body size the smallest of all members of the family. The hands had two clawed digits each, with an additional unclawed third metacarpal found in some specimens, similar to closely related genera. Holtz has suggested that Tarbosaurus also has a theropod reduction of fingers IV-I "developed further" than in other tyrannosaurids,[7] as the second metacarpal in the Tarbosaurus specimens he studied is less than twice the length of the first metacarpal (other tyrannosaurids have a second metacarpal about twice the length of the first metacarpal). Also, the third metacarpal in Tarbosaurus is proportionally shorter than in other tyrannosaurids; in other tyrannosaurids (like Albertosaurus and Daspletosaurus), the third metacarpal is often longer than the first metacarpal, while in the Tarbosaurus specimens studied by Holtz, the third metacarpal is shorter than the first.[5]
In contrast to the forelimbs, the three-toed hindlimbs were long and thick, supporting the body in a bipedal posture. The long, heavy tail served as a counterweight to the head and torso and placed the center of gravity over the hips.[2][5]
Holotype skull PIN 551-1, Museum of Paleontology, Moscow
In 1946, a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition to the Gobi Desert in the Mongolian Ömnögovi Province turned up a large theropod skull and some vertebrae in the Nemegt Formation. In 1955, Evgeny Maleev, a Soviet paleontologist, made this specimen the holotype (PIN 551-1) of a new species, which he called Tyrannosaurus bataar.[8] The specific name is a misspelling of the Mongolian баатар/baatar ("hero").[6] In the same year, Maleev also described and named three new theropod skulls, each associated with skeletal remains discovered by the same expedition in 1948 and 1949. The first of these (PIN 551-2) was named Tarbosaurus efremovi, a new generic name composed of the Ancient Greek τάρβος (tarbos) ("terror", "alarm", "awe", or "reverence") and σαυρος (sauros) ("lizard"),[9] and the species named after Ivan Yefremov, a Russian paleontologist and science fiction author. The other two (PIN 553-1 and PIN 552-2) were also named as new species and assigned to the North American genus Gorgosaurus (G. lancinator and G. novojilovi, respectively). All three of these latter specimens are smaller than the first.[2]
Cast of specimen PIN 553-1, holotype of Gorgosaurus lancinator, in death pose
A 1965 paper by A.K. Rozhdestvensky recognized all of Maleev's specimens as different growth stages of the same species, which he believed to be distinct from the North American Tyrannosaurus. He created a new combination, Tarbosaurus bataar, to include all the specimens described in 1955 as well as newer material.[10] Later authors, including Maleev himself,[11] agreed with Rozhdestvensky's analysis, although some used the name Tarbosaurus efremovi rather than T. bataar.[12] American paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter re-examined the material in 1992. He concluded that it belonged to the genus Tyrannosaurus, as originally published by Maleev, and lumped all the specimens into the species Tyrannosaurus bataar except the remains that Maleev had named Gorgosaurus novojilovi. Carpenter thought this specimen represented a separate, smaller genus of tyrannosaurid, which he called Maleevosaurus novojilovi.[13] George Olshevsky created the new generic name Jenghizkhan (after Genghis Khan) for Tyrannosaurus bataar in 1995, while also recognizing Tarbosaurus efremovi and Maleevosaurus novojilovi, for a total of three distinct, contemporaneous genera from the Nemegt Formation.[14] A 1999 study subsequently reclassified Maleevosaurus as a juvenile Tarbosaurus.[15] All research published since 1999 recognizes only a single species, which is either called Tarbosaurus bataar[5][16][17] or Tyrannosaurus bataar.[18]
Poached specimen repatriated to Mongolia from the US in 2013
After the original Russian-Mongolian expeditions in the 1940s, Polish-Mongolian joint expeditions to the Gobi Desert began in 1963 and continued until 1971, recovering many new fossils, including new specimens of Tarbosaurus from the Nemegt Formation.[6] Expeditions involving Japanese and Mongolian scientists between 1993 and 1998,[19] as well as private expeditions hosted by Canadian paleontologist Phil Currie around the turn of the 21st century, discovered and collected further Tarbosaurus material.[20][21] More than 30 specimens are known, including more than 15 skulls and several complete postcranial skeletons.[5]
Tarbosaurus fossils are only found around the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and China, both of which ban their export, though some specimens have been looted by private collectors.[22] A recent $1 million smuggling deal was uncovered when suspicions were raised about a catalog put out by Heritage Auctions for an event in New York City on May 20, 2012. By Mongolian law, any specimen found in the Gobi Desert was to rest at an appropriate Mongolian institution and there was little reasonable doubt that the Tarbosaurus bataar advertised on the catalog was a stolen one. The president of Mongolia and many paleontologists raised objections to the sale which led to a last-minute investigation that confirmed that it was a specimen that can only be found in the Gobi Desert, rightfully belonging to Mongolia.[23] During the court case (United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton), Eric Prokopi, the smuggler, pleaded guilty to illegal smuggling and the dinosaur was returned to Mongolia in 2013, where it is temporarily displayed on Sukhbaatar Square, the center of the city of Ulaanbaatar.[24] Prokopi had sold the dinosaur with a partner and fellow commercial hunter in England, Christopher Moore.[25] The case led to the repatriation of dozens more Mongolian dinosaurs, including several skeletons of Tarbosaurus bataar.[26]
The pieces of IVPP V4878, described as Shanshanosaurus huoyanshanensis
Chinese paleontologists discovered a partial skull and skeleton of a small theropod (IVPP V4878) in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China in the mid-1960s. In 1977, Dong Zhiming described this specimen, which was recovered from the Subashi Formation in Shanshan County, as a new genus and species, Shanshanosaurus huoyanshanensis.[27] Gregory Paul recognized Shanshanosaurus as a tyrannosaurid in 1988, referring it to the now-defunct genus Aublysodon.[28] Dong and Currie later re-examined the specimen and deemed it to be a juvenile of a larger species of tyrannosaurid. These authors refrained from assigning it to any particular genus but suggested Tarbosaurus as a possibility.[29]
Albertosaurus periculosus, Tyrannosaurus luanchuanensis, Tyrannosaurus turpanensis and Chingkankousaurus fragilis were considered synonyms of Tarbosaurus in the second edition of the Dinosauria, but Chingkankousaurus has been assessed as dubious by Brusatte et al. (2013).[5][30]
Named in 1976 by Sergei Kurzanov, Alioramus is another genus of tyrannosaurid from slightly older sediments in Mongolia.[31] Several analyses have concluded Alioramus was quite closely related to Tarbosaurus.[6][16] It was described as an adult, but its long, low skull is characteristic of a juvenile tyrannosaurid. This led Currie to speculate that Alioramus might represent a juvenile Tarbosaurus, but he noted that the much higher tooth count and row of crests on top of the snout suggested otherwise.[32]
Diagram showing the differences between a generalised Tarbosaurus (A) and Tyrannosaurus (B) skull
Tarbosaurus is classified as a theropod in the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae within the family Tyrannosauridae. Other members include Tyrannosaurus and the earlier Daspletosaurus, both from North America,[18] and possibly the Mongolian genus Alioramus.[6][16] Animals in this subfamily are more closely related to Tyrannosaurus than to Albertosaurus and are known for their robust build with proportionally larger skulls and longer femurs than in the other subfamily, the Albertosaurinae.[5]
Tarbosaurus bataar was originally described as a species of Tyrannosaurus,[8] an arrangement that has been supported by some more recent studies.[18][13] Others prefer to keep the genera separate, while still recognizing them as sister taxa.[5] A 2003 cladistic analysis based on skull features instead identified Alioramus as the closest known relative of Tarbosaurus, as the two genera share skull characteristics that are related to stress distribution and that are not found in other tyrannosaurines. If proven, this relationship would argue against Tarbosaurus becoming a synonym for Tyrannosaurus and would suggest that separate tyrannosaurine lineages evolved in Asia and North America.[6][16] The two known specimens of Alioramus, which show juvenile characteristics, are not likely juvenile individuals of Tarbosaurus because of their much higher tooth count (76 to 78 teeth) and their unique row of bony bumps along the top of their snouts.[32]
The discovery of Lythronax argestes, a much earlier tyrannosaurine further reveals the close relationship between Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus, and it was discovered that Lythronax is a sister taxon to a clade consisting of Campanian genus Zhuchengtyrannus, and Maastrichtian genera Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus. Further studies of Lythronax also suggest that the Asian tyrannosauroids were part of one evolutionary radiation.[33]
Mounted adult skeleton
Fossils of a juvenile specimen
Below is the cladogram of Tyrannosauridae based on the phylogenetic analysis conducted by Loewen et al. in 2013.[34]
Tyrannosauridae
Gorgosaurus libratus
Albertosaurus sarcophagus
Tyrannosaurinae
Dinosaur Park tyrannosaurid
Daspletosaurus torosus
Daspletosaurus horneri
Teratophoneus curriei
Bistahieversor sealeyi
Lythronax argestes
Tarbosaurus bataar
Zhuchengtyrannus magnus
Artist's impression of Tarbosaurus pursuing Saurolophus.
Like several other large tyrannosaurids, Tarbosaurus is known from relatively abundant and well-preserved fossil material. In fact, one-quarter of all fossils collected from the Nemegt Formation belong to Tarbosaurus.[35] Although Tarbosaurus has not been studied as thoroughly as the North American tyrannosaurids,[6] the available material has allowed scientists to draw limited conclusions about its biology.
In 2001, Bruce Rothschild and others published a study examining evidence for stress fractures and tendon avulsions in theropod dinosaurs and the implications for their behavior. Since stress fractures are caused by repeated trauma rather than singular events they are more likely to be caused by regular behavior than other types of injuries. None of the eighteen Tarbosaurus foot bones examined in the study was found to have a stress fracture, but one of the ten examined hand bones was found to have one. Stress fractures in the hands have special behavioral significance compared to those found in the feet since stress fractures there can be obtained while running or during migration. Hand injuries, by contrast, are more likely to be obtained while in contact with struggling prey. The presence of stress fractures and tendon avulsions, in general, provide evidence for a "very active" predation-based diet rather than obligate scavenging.[36]
In 2012, bite marks on two fragmentary gastralia of the holotype specimen of the large ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus mirificus were reported. The size and shape of the bite marks match the teeth of Tarbosaurus, the largest known predator from the Nemegt Formation. Various types of feeding traces were identified; punctures, gouges, striae, fragmentary teeth, and combinations of the above marks. The bite marks probably represent feeding behavior instead of aggression between the species, and the fact that bite marks were not found elsewhere on the body indicates the predator focused on internal organs. Tarbosaurus bite marks have also been identified on hadrosaur and sauropod fossils, but theropod bite marks on bones of other theropods are very rare in the fossil record.[37]
Skull mechanics
Skull seen from the front
The skull of Tarbosaurus was completely described for the first time in 2003. Scientists noted key differences between Tarbosaurus and the North American tyrannosaurids. Many of these differences are related to the handling of stress by the skull bones during a bite. When the upper jaw bit down on an object, force was transmitted up through the maxilla, the primary tooth-bearing bone of the upper jaw, into surrounding skull bones. In North American tyrannosaurids, this force went from the maxilla into the fused nasal bones on top of the snout, which were firmly connected in the rear to the lacrimal bones by bony struts. These struts locked the two bones together, suggesting that force was then transmitted from the nasals to the lacrimals.[6]
Tarbosaurus lacked these bony struts, and the connection between the nasals and lacrimals was weak. Instead, a backwards projection of the maxilla was massively developed in Tarbosaurus and fit inside a sheath formed from the lacrimal. This projection was a thin, bony plate in North American tyrannosaurids. The large backwards projection suggests that force was transmitted more directly from the maxilla to the lacrimal in Tarbosaurus. The lacrimal was also more firmly anchored to the frontal and prefrontal bones in Tarbosaurus. The well-developed connections between the maxilla, lacrimal, frontal and prefrontal would have made its entire upper jaw more rigid.[6]
Another major difference between Tarbosaurus and its North American relatives was its more rigid mandible (lower jaw). While many theropods, including North American tyrannosaurids, had some degree of flexibility between the bones in the rear of the mandible and the dentary in the front, Tarbosaurus had a locking mechanism formed from a ridge on the surface of the angular, which articulated with a square process on the rear of the dentary.[6]
Some scientists have hypothesized that the more rigid skull of Tarbosaurus was an adaptation to hunting the massive titanosaurid sauropods found in the Nemegt Formation, which did not exist in most of North America during the Late Cretaceous. The differences in skull mechanics also affect tyrannosaurid phylogeny. Tarbosaurus-like articulations between the skull bones are also seen in Alioramus from Mongolia, suggesting that it, and not Tyrannosaurus, is the closest relative of Tarbosaurus. Similarities between Tarbosaurus and Tyrannosaurus might, therefore, be related to their large size, independently developed through convergent evolution.[6]
Bite force and feeding habits
There is evidence to suggest that Tarbosaurus was both a predator and scavenger, as seen with its fossilized bite marks being found on Saurolophus remains.[38] As for its bite force, it was revealed that Tarbosaurus had a bite force of around 8,000 to 10,000 pounds per force, meaning that it could possibly crush bone like its North American relative, Tyrannosaurus.[39]
Brain structure
Side view of a skull and neck
A Tarbosaurus skull found in 1948 by Soviet and Mongolian scientists (PIN 553-1, originally called Gorgosaurus lancinator) included the skull cavity that held the brain. Making a plaster cast, called an endocast, of the inside of this cavity allowed Maleev to make preliminary observations about the shape of a Tarbosaurus brain.[40] A newer polyurethane rubber cast allowed a more detailed study of Tarbosaurus brain structure and function.[41]
The endocranial structure of Tarbosaurus was similar to that of Tyrannosaurus,[42] differing only in the positions of some cranial nerve roots, including the trigeminal and accessory nerves. Tyrannosaurid brains were more similar to those of crocodilians and other nonavian reptiles than to birds. The total brain volume for a 12 metres (39 ft) Tarbosaurus is estimated at only 184 cubic centimetres (11.2 cu in).[41]
The large size of the olfactory bulbs, as well as the terminal and olfactory nerves, suggest that Tarbosaurus had a keen sense of smell, as was also the case with Tyrannosaurus. The vomeronasal bulb is large and differentiated from the olfactory bulb, which was initially suggested as being indicative of a well-developed Jacobsen's organ, which was used to detect pheromones. This may imply that Tarbosaurus had complex mating behavior.[41] However, the identification of the vomeronasal bulb has been challenged by other researchers, since they are not present in any living archosaurs.[43]
The auditory nerve was also large, suggesting good hearing, which may have been useful for auditory communication and spatial awareness. The nerve had a well-developed vestibular component as well, which implies a good sense of balance and coordination. In contrast, the nerves and brain structures associated with eyesight were smaller and undeveloped. The midbrain tectum, responsible for visual processing in reptiles, was very small in Tarbosaurus, as were the optic nerve and the oculomotor nerve, which controls eye movement. Unlike Tyrannosaurus, which had forward-facing eyes that provided some degree of binocular vision, Tarbosaurus had a narrower skull more typical of other tyrannosaurids in which the eyes faced primarily sideways. All of this suggests that Tarbosaurus relied more on its senses of smell and hearing than on its eyesight.[41]
Fossil of a juvenile specimen
Most specimens of Tarbosaurus represent adult or subadult individuals; juveniles remain very rare. Nevertheless, the 2006 discovery of a juvenile skeleton including a complete, 290-millimetre (0.95 ft) long skull provides information on the life history of this dinosaur. This individual probably was aged 2 to 3 years at the time of death. Compared with adult skulls, the juvenile skull was weakly constructed and the teeth were thin, indicating different food preferences in juveniles and adults that reduced competition between different age groups.[44] Examination of the sclerotic rings in this juvenile Tarbosaurus suggests they may also have been crepuscular or nocturnal hunters. Whether the adult Tarbosaurus were also nocturnal is currently unknown due to lack of fossil evidence.[45]
Skin impressions and footprints
Skin impressions were recovered from a large skeleton at the Bugiin Tsav locality that was previously destroyed by poachers. These impressions show non-overlapping scales with an average diameter of 2.4 millimetres (0.094 in) and pertain to the thoracic region of the individual, although the exact position can not be assessed any longer due to the destruction of the skeleton.[46]
Phil Currie and colleagues (2003) described two footprints from the Nemegt locality that probably pertain to Tarbosaurus. These tracks represent natural casts, which means that only the sandy infill of the tracks and not the tracks itself are preserved. The better-preserved tracks feature skin impressions over large areas on and behind the toe impressions that are similar to those discovered in Bugiin Tsav. They also feature vertical parallel slide marks that were left by scales when the foot was pushed into the ground. The track measures 61 centimeters (24 in) in length, thus representing a large individual. The second track, although even larger, was affected by erosion and does not show any detail.[46]
Cretaceous-aged dinosaur fossil localities of Mongolia; Tarbosaurus was collected in area A (left)
The vast majority of known Tarbosaurus fossils were recovered from the Nemegt Formation in the Gobi Desert of southern Mongolia. This geologic formation has never been dated radiometrically, but the fauna present in the fossil record indicate it was probably deposited during the early Maastrichtian stage, at the end of the Late Cretaceous[35] about 70 million years ago.[47][48] The Subashi Formation, in which Shanshanosaurus remains were discovered, is also Maastrichtian in age.[49]
Tarbosaurus is found chiefly in the Nemegt Formation, whose sediments preserve large river channels and soil deposits that indicate a far more humid climate than those suggested by the underlying Barun Goyot and Djadochta Formations. However, caliche deposits indicate at least periodic droughts. Sediment was deposited in the channels and floodplains of large rivers. The rock facies of this formation suggest the presence of mudflats, and shallow lakes. Sediments also indicate that there existed a rich habitat, offering diverse food in abundant amounts that could sustain massive Cretaceous dinosaurs.[50] Fossils of an unidentified tyrannosaur from the older Djadochta Formation, which closely resemble those of Tarbosaurus, may indicate that it also lived at an earlier time and in a more arid ecosystem than that of the Nemegt.[1]
Restoration of Tarbosaurus in Late Cretaceous Mongolian environment
Occasional mollusk fossils are found, as well as a variety of other aquatic animals like fish and turtles.[35] Crocodilians included several species of Shamosuchus, a genus with teeth adapted for crushing shells.[51] Mammal fossils are exceedingly rare in the Nemegt Formation, but many birds have been found, including the enantiornithine Gurilynia and the hesperornithiform Judinornis, as well as Teviornis, an early representative of the still-existing Anseriformes (waterfowl). Scientists have described many dinosaurs from the Nemegt Formation, including the ankylosaurid Saichania, and pachycephalosaur Prenocephale.[35] By far the largest predator known from the formation, adult Tarbosaurus most likely preyed upon large hadrosaurs such as Saurolophus and Barsboldia, or sauropods such as Nemegtosaurus, and Opisthocoelicaudia.[6] Adults would have received little competition from small theropods such as the small tyrannosaurid Alioramus, troodontids (Borogovia, Tochisaurus, Zanabazar), oviraptorosaurs (Elmisaurus, Nemegtomaia, Rinchenia) or Bagaraatan, sometimes considered a basal tyrannosauroid. Other theropods, like the gigantic Therizinosaurus, might have been herbivorous, and ornithomimosaurs such as Anserimimus, Gallimimus, and gigantic Deinocheirus might have been omnivores that only took small prey and were therefore no competition for Tarbosaurus. However, as in other large tyrannosaurids as well as modern Komodo dragons, juveniles and subadult Tarbosaurus would have filled niches between the massive adults and these smaller theropods.[5]
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The Bat (play)
Dramatic analysis
Adaptations and legacy
The Bat
Playbill of the Broadway production
Avery Hopwood
Date premiered
Place premiered
Morosco Theatre
Mystery, comedy
A country house
The Bat is a three-act play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper in 1920. The story combines elements of mystery and comedy as Cornelia Van Gorder and guests spend a stormy night at her rented summer home, searching for stolen money they believe is hidden in the house, while they are stalked by a masked criminal known as "the Bat". The Bat's identity is revealed at the end of the final act.
The play originated as an adaptation of Rinehart's 1908 mystery novel The Circular Staircase. Rinehart and Hopwood altered the story to prepare it for Broadway, including adding the titular antagonist. The connection to the novel led to a legal dispute over film rights with the Selig Polyscope Company, producers of a 1915 film adaptation of the novel, also titled The Circular Staircase. After previewing under the title A Thief in the Night, the play opened as The Bat at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway on August 23, 1920.
The Bat was a critical and commercial success. It ran for 867 performances in New York and 327 performances in London; several road companies took the show to other areas. The play was revived twice on Broadway, in 1937 and 1953. It had several adaptations, including a 1926 novelization credited to Rinehart and Hopwood but ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét. Three film adaptations were produced: The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). The play and its adaptations inspired other comedy-mysteries with similar settings, and influenced the creation of the comic-book superhero Batman.
Mary Roberts Rinehart based the play on her novel, The Circular Staircase.
Elderly, single Cornelia Van Gorder is renting an old, isolated Long Island mansion owned by the estate of Courtleigh Fleming, a bank president who had reportedly died several months before. On a stormy evening, the electricity flickers on and off. Most of the servants, convinced that the house is haunted, have made excuses and fled. According to a news report, a mysterious criminal known as "the Bat" has eluded police in the area. Cornelia is in the house with her maid, Lizzie, and Billy, a Japanese butler who is part of Fleming's household staff.[a] They are joined by Brooks, a gardener recently hired by Cornelia's niece, Dale Ogden. Dale and Dr. Wells, the local coroner and an old friend of Fleming's, arrive for a visit. They tell Cornelia that Jack Bailey, a cashier at Fleming's bank, has disappeared and is suspected of stealing over a million dollars. Cornelia tells Lizzie and Dale that she has invited a police detective to visit because someone has been trying to break into the house at night. Wells leaves, and Detective Anderson arrives. Cornelia tells Anderson that she suspects Fleming embezzled from the bank and hid the money in the house. While Cornelia shows Anderson to his room, Dale warns Brooks (who is actually Jack Bailey, and Dale's fiancé) that Anderson is a detective. Brooks also believes that Fleming hid the money, and wants to clear himself by finding it. Dale summons Fleming's nephew, Richard (who rented the house to Cornelia), to learn about possible hiding places. Richard shows her a blueprint of the house, with a hidden room where the money might be. While they fight over the blueprint, a figure appears in the darkness and shoots Richard, ending the first act.
Cornelia calls Dr. Wells back to the house to examine Richard's body. Dale asks Wells to hide the blueprint she took from Richard because the others might think that she killed him for it. Reginald Beresford, a lawyer waiting in his car after he drove Richard to the house, comes inside. Reginald recognizes Jack, and the exposure of her fiancé makes Dale admit that she gave Wells the blueprint with the hidden room. Wells claims that he does not have the blueprint; Cornelia reveals other evidence incriminating him, and Anderson asks to question him alone. Wells knocks Anderson unconscious during the interrogation and drags him into another room. Before Wells can go to the hidden room, a stranger claiming to have lost his memory after he was attacked and tied up in the garage appears at the terrace door. When the guests try to identify the unknown man, they discover that they have been locked in the house. At the end of the second act, Cornelia finds the Bat's calling card, a black paper bat, tacked to a door.
The third act begins on the upper floor of the house, where a masked man is seen in the previously-hidden room taking a money bag from a safe. When Dale finds the room, the man flees, leaving her and the money locked inside. The others find her there, unconscious. Anderson reappears and accuses Wells of stealing the money and killing Richard. Cornelia begins to present an alternative theory, but is interrupted when the unknown man comes upstairs and Anderson asks him about his amnesia. Cornelia says that she sees a man on the roof, and most of the group leaves to look for him. Cornelia uses the distraction to tell Dale, Jack and the unknown man that she thinks the money is still in the room. When they search for the money, Jack finds the body of Courtleigh Fleming, who was killed only recently. As Cornelia, Dale and Jack argue about what has happened, the unknown man locks the door and orders them to be quiet. When the masked man sneaks in through a window, the unknown man apprehends him and reveals that he, the unknown man, is the real Detective Anderson; the Bat (the masked man) had pretended to be Anderson.
Avery Hopwood helped Rinehart complete the play.
Mary Roberts Rinehart was one of the most successful American mystery writers of the early 20th century.[3] After starting her writing career with short stories, she achieved popular success with the publication of her 1908 novel The Circular Staircase.[3][4] In 1909 Broadway producers Lincoln Wagenhals and Collin Kemper asked Rinehart to adapt her novella Seven Days for the stage. She agreed to work with Avery Hopwood, a young playwright with just one produced play, to create the script. The play Seven Days debuted on Broadway in November 1909 and became a hit. Rinehart and Hopwood each continued to write plays, but did not collaborate again until The Bat.[5]
In 1916, Rinehart asked theatrical producer Edgar Selwyn whether he thought a mystery play would be successful if it kept the mystery unresolved until the end; Selwyn replied that such a play could make a million dollars. Rinehart decided to base this play on The Circular Staircase, which had been adapted for film in 1915. Although she began work on the play in spring 1917, she was distracted by work for the United States Department of War during World War I and by fall 1918 had only written the first two acts.[6] Rinehart approached Hopwood for help completing the play while she was in Europe for the War Department.[7][8] Hopwood was interested, but did not work on the play when she was overseas.[7][9]
After Rinehart returned in 1919, Hopwood joined her in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where she lived; they worked on the play there and in New York City until they completed it. While they worked on The Bat, Wagenhals and Kemper asked them to work on a script for Spanish Love (an adaptation of María del Carmen, an 1896 Spanish play). Writing both plays required Rinehart and Hopwood to work long hours.[10][11] By early April 1920, they were working on a final, more-humorous round of revisions for The Bat.[12]
Effie Ellsler played Cornelia in the first Broadway production.
Rinehart and Hopwood finished The Bat during the afternoon of April 11, 1920. She was called away moments later when her daughter-in-law went into labor, and her granddaughter was born early the next day.[10][13] Rinehart decided to focus on family obligations and missed the reading of the play to Wagenhals and Kemper, who expressed interest in staging it after Hopwood shared a draft with them. She missed The Bat's rehearsals and its Broadway debut, although she attended preview performances.[14][15]
Before its Broadway opening, the play previewed in Washington, D.C., where it opened at the Belasco Theater on June 14, 1920, as A Thief in the Night.[16] The following week, it previewed in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[17] With Rinehart's preferred title restored, The Bat opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on August 23, 1920. The play was produced by Wagenhals and Kemper; the latter also directed. The Broadway production closed in September 1922 after 867 performances.[18] Before it closed, Wagenhals and Kemper sent six road companies to tour the United States.[19] On January 23, 1922, The Bat opened a 327-performance run in London at St James's Theatre in the West End.[18]
The play was revived twice on Broadway. The first revival, produced by Ben Lundy and directed by Benjamin F. Kamsler, opened on May 31, 1937, at the Majestic Theatre as part of a summer-stock program.[20] Scheduled to run for a week, it was extended and closed after two weeks and 11 performances.[21][22] The second revival opened on January 20, 1953, at the National Theatre and closed on February 7 after 23 performances.[18][23]
Lucile Watson played Cornelia in the 1953 revival.
The play's lead role is Cornelia Van Gorder, played in the first production by Effie Ellsler. Despite The Bat's unusually long run, Ellsler appeared in almost every performance (including the evening after she heard about her husband's death); she left the part only briefly, after collapsing onstage during the production's final week. The Bat was her last Broadway role.[24][25]
Wagenhals and Kemper cast Harrison Hunter in the play's title role. They did not show Hunter or the other cast members the final scene (in which the Bat's identity is revealed) until shortly before the dress rehearsal. Hunter, who had thought he was playing a detective, was upset to learn that his role was that of a criminal,[26] although he remained in the role for the entire Broadway run before joining a touring company for the play. At the end of 1922, while still playing the Bat, Hunter became ill and died a week later.[27]
The play's primary comic relief is provided by Lizzie, played in the initial Broadway production by May Vokes. Vokes returned to the role for the 1937 revival, where she was joined by Richard Barrows (also from the original cast, but in a different role). Minnette Barrett, an understudy in the original production, played Cornelia in the revival.
Productions of The Bat included the initial Broadway run, a production in London's West End and two later Broadway revivals, with the following opening-night casts:
Casts of the major productions
Broadway[28]
West End[29]
1937 revival[20]
Lizzie Allen
May Vokes Drusilla Wills May Vokes ZaSu Pitts
Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
Effie Ellsler Eva Moore Minnette Barrett Lucile Watson
Harry Morvil Claude Rains Arvid Paulson Harry Shaw Lowe
Brooks / Jack Bailey
Stuart Sage George Relph Norman Stuart Peter Hanson
Miss Dale Ogden
Anne Morrison Nora Swinburne Linda Lee Hill Paula Houston
Doctor Wells
Edward Ellis Alexander Scott-Gatty Robert Ober Harry Bannister
Detective Anderson / Masked Man / The Bat
Harrison Hunter Arthur Wontner Hermann Lieb Shepperd Strudwick
Richard "Dick" Fleming
Richard Barrows C. Stafford Dickens Matthew Smith Laurence Haddon
Reginald Beresford
Kenneth Hunter Herbert Bolingbroke Eric Kalkhurst Charles Proctor
Unknown Man / Detective Anderson
Robert Vaughan Allan Jeayes Richard Barrows Raymond Bailey
To adapt The Circular Staircase for the stage, Rinehart and Hopwood made changes to the characters and plot; the most significant was the addition of the flamboyant criminal whose pseudonym became the play's title. The primary villains in the novel were an embezzling banker and a doctor who helped the banker fake his death. The character names were all changed (Rachel Innes in the novel became Cornelia Van Gorder in the play, her niece Gertrude became Dale, etc.), and some significant characters from the novel were omitted from the play. Despite the changes, the play retained many elements from the novel, including the elderly spinster heroine and her niece staying at a summer house, the hidden room in the house, the conspiracy between the banker and his doctor, and the bank clerk who disguises himself as a gardener.[6][7][31]
Genre and structure
Like The Circular Staircase, The Bat combines mystery and comedy. Most of its comedy is provided by Lizzie, Cornelia's maid.[32] The mystery ends with a twist, in which a character who is supposedly a detective investigating the case is actually the villain. Although similar endings had been used in earlier stage mysteries,[33] it was unexpected enough to fool much of the play's Broadway audience.[34] To maintain plausibility, Rinehart and Hopwood checked the timing of the plot (including events taking place offstage) and rewrote as needed to ensure the timeline was realistic.[12] Hopwood told the New York World that they tried to make the play "absolutely logical and hole-proof".[35]
Claude Rains played Billy in the West End production.
With a multi-year Broadway run, over nine months on the West End and several road companies touring concurrently, The Bat was a financial success. In his 1946 profile of Rinehart, Life magazine writer Geoffrey T. Hellman estimated that the play had earned over nine million dollars.[17] It was the most successful play for both its writers and its producers, and was the second-longest-running Broadway production in history at the end of its initial stint.[36][37][b]
The original Broadway production of The Bat received positive reviews praising its writing and performances.[38][39] In his New York Times review, Alexander Woollcott described the play as entertaining and well-acted.[40] For the New-York Tribune, Heywood Broun called The Bat better than Spanish Love (which had opened the week before). Broun wrote that The Bat "provided an excellent succession of thrills", although the "interludes of low comedy" with Vokes could have been omitted.[41] A New York Evening Telegram reviewer liked The Bat's comedy and called it "the best mystery play New York has ever seen".[42] According to a Brooklyn Daily Eagle review, The Bat was "three acts full of mystery and fun" and better than Seven Days.[43]
The play's 1922 London production also received positive reviews. In The Spectator, W. J. Turner wrote that the play was thrilling and praised Moore's acting as Cornelia, but disliked Wills's "buffoonery" as Lizzie.[44] The Bystander called The Bat "most exciting from first to last".[45]
When it was revived on Broadway in 1937, reviewers said that the play had not aged well due to many imitations by subsequent plays. For the New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote that it was "not quite the shriek show it was originally" but still entertaining.[20] According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Arthur Pollock, The Bat showed its age and was more amusing than frightening.[46] Although Atkinson was more favorable about the 1953 revival and the older story's "innocence", other reviewers considered it dated.[47]
The Bat is considered a classic example of comedy-mystery;[33][48] drama critic Joseph Twadell Shipley called it "the most popular and most shiverful of our murder mystery dramas".[49] Many of its elements are now clichés.[38][50] The Bat's success encouraged imitators to set mysteries mixed with comedy in old, dark houses which some of the characters think are haunted. The Cat and the Canary by John Willard opened on Broadway in February 1922 and ran for 349 performances. Another successful imitation was Crane Wilbur's The Monster, which opened on Broadway in August of that year.[18][51] Ralph Spence's 1925 play, The Gorilla, parodied the genre; according to its advertisements, it "outbats The Bat".[52]
Film versions soon followed, including a 1925 adaptation of The Monster and multiple adaptations of The Cat and the Canary and The Gorilla. By the late 1920s, the mysteries' popularity was declining in live theater, although the genre continued in films such as James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932) and several adaptations of The Bat.[53][54]
The 1930 film, The Bat Whispers, was based on the play.
Main articles: The Bat (1926 film), The Bat Whispers, and The Bat (1959 film)
Rinehart sold the film rights to The Circular Staircase to film producer William Selig's Selig Polyscope Company in 1915, and he released a film version of the novel that year. Rinehart purchased the rights back from Selig in 1920 to avoid conflicts over potential film adaptations of The Bat. But in 1921, Selig re-released his film as The Bat to capitalize on the play's success. Wagenhals and Kemper filed suit to block Selig's use of the title.[55][56]
Three films were based on the original Broadway play.[57] The first, a silent film also called The Bat, was produced and directed by Roland West, who co-wrote the screenplay with Julien Josephson and George Marion Jr. Cornelia was played by Emily Fitzroy, and Eddie Gribbon was the Bat.[58] West's wife, Jewel Carmen, played Dale Ogden as her last film role.[59] West made the actors work at night to get them in the mood for the thriller.[60] The film was released by United Artists on March 14, 1926.[58] The year before, West had directed an adaptation of one of The Bat's imitators, The Monster. Critics considered The Bat to be an improvement over that previous film; it received positive reviews and did well at the box office.[61][62] The film was considered lost for decades, but a print was discovered in the 1980s.[62][63]
Following the commercialization of sound films, West remade the story four years later as The Bat Whispers. The remake, released by United Artists on November 29, 1930, starred Chester Morris as the Bat and Una Merkel as Dale; British actress Grayce Hampton played Cornelia.[58] West experimented with early widescreen technology by having two cinematographers film different versions of the movie, one with a standard 35 mm camera, the other with a new 65 mm "Magnifilm" camera. Like the earlier silent film adaptation, The Bat Whispers was considered lost until the UCLA Film and Television Archive restored both the standard and widescreen versions from rediscovered negatives in 1988. The film received mixed reviews and the experiment with widescreen was a financial failure.[64][65][66] Comic-book creator Bob Kane said in his 1989 autobiography, Batman and Me, that the villain in The Bat Whispers inspired his character Batman.[67][c]
Agnes Moorehead played Cornelia in the 1959 film adaptation.
Crane Wilbur wrote and directed a third adaptation of The Bat, which was released by Allied Artists on August 9, 1959. This version emphasized horror, with the Bat (played by Gavin Gordon) ripping out the throats of his victims. Dr. Wells (played by horror star Vincent Price) had a more prominent role, and Agnes Moorehead co-starred as Cornelia. This adaptation received mixed reviews when released.[58][68] It is widely available because its copyright expired, placing it in the public domain.[69]
Other adaptations
To reinforce the distinction between The Bat and The Circular Staircase, a novelization of the play was published by George H. Doran Company in 1926. Although the adaptation was credited to Rinehart and Hopwood, it was ghostwritten by Stephen Vincent Benét.[55][56]
The Bat was adapted for television several times. The WOR-TV anthology series Broadway Television Theatre aired its version on November 23, 1953, with a cast that included Estelle Winwood, Alice Pearce and Jay Jostyn.[70] On March 31, 1960, NBC-TV made The Bat the first of its Dow Hour of Great Mysteries specials. Helen Hayes, Margaret Hamilton and Jason Robards starred in that version.[71] On July 30, 1978, the West German network Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast a television movie version entitled Der Spinnenmörder. It was rebroadcast by Austria's Österreichischer Rundfunk on August 5.[72]
In August 1992, Adventure Comics published a one-shot comic book adaptation of the play. The comic significantly altered the story to make Cornelia Van Gorder younger and give her an evil twin who is the murderer.[73]
^ Plot details are primarily based on the 1932 version, reprinted in 1944.[1] In a 1945 revision of the script, Rinehart replaced Billy with a "Negro butler" named Washington.[2]
^ The longest-running show at that time was Lightnin', which opened on August 26, 1918, and closed on August 27, 1921, after 1291 performances.
^ Some film historians believe Kane may have also seen the 1926 silent adaptation, because specific images in that film resemble the Bat-Signal.[62][63]
^ Rinehart & Hopwood 1944, p. 492
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^ a b c Hallenbeck 2009, pp. 9–11
^ a b Klepper 2005, p. 345
^ MacQueen 1988
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^ Terrace 2013, p. 73
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^ Mann 2004, p. 68
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The Meeting Point Of American And Indian Cultures
Spectacular view of New Delhi at night
Though America and India are located several thousand miles apart and in different continents, there are similarities between the two countries that are hard to miss. Take a look at the similarities listed below.
Political: Both India and the USA are large countries. While the USA is among the richest countries in the world, India is still a developing economy. Before their independence both the countries were British colonies. Both the nations are democracies; the USA is the oldest democracy in the world. The countries have a diverse, multi-ethnic population, but national pride and patriotism have been instilled in the hearts of their citizens for eons. Both countries have the similar structure of state and central governments. There is a trend of dynasty-politics in India as well as the USA. Neither of their capitals, New Delhi or Washington D.C., is the financial or cultural hub of their countries.
Religion: India and the USA are tolerant countries whose citizens follow any religion of their choice. They both have a religion that the majority of the people follow (Hinduism in India and Christianity in the USA) and the people are conservative and show deference to their religion. Both Hinduism and Christianity have multiple sub sects but all of them co-exist in relative harmony. Both the countries have their share of bizarre religious cults with massive following. Indian Yogic practice is very popular in the USA, with over 700 established yoga studios. Vegetarianism and veganism are also becoming popular lifestyle choices in the USA.
White House in Washing DC
Racism: Extremely harsh form of racism had existed in the societies of both India and the USA in the past. In India, the ‘Shudra’, the people belonging to the lowest rung of society, were treated abominably. They were not allowed to enter temples or even live near the people belonging to upper caste and were referred by the derogatory term, ‘untouchables’. The case of African Americans in the USA was very similar. They were treated as slaves and had no rights. They weren’t allowed to enter restaurants frequented by white people or to reside among white communities. They were disrespectfully called Negros.
It is heartening to see that the status of these oppressed communities in India and the USA have improved tremendously over the years because of the affirmative actions taken by the respective governments. They are now accorded equal status in society.
Music and Entertainment: Film industry is huge in both the countries. Watching movies with family and friends in the movie hall is a favorite pastime of many. Hollywood and Bollywood (in India) releases are much-hyped and awaited for. Stars are given demi-God status and are considered the ultimate style gurus. Indian stars have acted in many Hollywood blockbusters. American movie stars and singers have a huge fan following in India.
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Martin lifts Blue Jays, Mazara hits big for Rangers
May 26th 2016 2:48AM
Russell Martin had two home runs and three RBIs as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the New York Yankees 8-4 in MLB action on Wednesday.
The 33-year-old ended a 124 at-bat homer-less drought, hitting his first and second home runs of the season in the victory at Yankees stadium.
Michael Saunders also went deep for the Blue Jays, with the two becoming the first Canadian team-mates in MLB history to hit home runs in the same inning.
Nomar Mazara hit a 491-foot solo homer, sparking a three-run rally that propelled the Texas Rangers to a 15-9 win that clinched a series victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
Boston Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr extended his hitting streak in a 10-3 win over the Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Cincinnati Reds with a 3-1 victory, Steven Matz helped the New York Mets blank the Washington Nationals 2-0, and the Minnesota Twins avoided a sweep by the Kansas City Royals with a 7-5 come-from-behind win.
The Chicago Cubs have now won in Jake Arrieta's last 23 starts - a franchise record - as they held on for a 9-8 win over the St Louis Cardinals, the Philadelphia Phillies were 8-5 winners over the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians edged the Chicago White Sox 4-3 and the Pittsburgh Pirates held on for a 5-4 triumph over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres for the ninth consecutive time with a 4-3 win, the Milwaukee Brewers needed 13 innings to see off the Atlanta Braves 3-2, the Seattle Mariners crushed the Oakland Athletics 13-3, the Miami Marlins downed the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 and the Houston Astros beat the Baltimore Orioles by the same scoreline.
BIG-HIT MAZARA
The Rangers' right fielder hit the biggest homer of the MLB season as Texas went on to clinch the series against the Angels.
LOVELY LIND
Left-handed Mariners slugger Adam Lind went four-for-four with two home runs and six RBIs as his side routed the A's.
BRADLEY JR. HITS AGAIN
Red Sox outfielder Bradley extended his hitting streak to 29 games meaning he is now more than halfway to Joe DiMaggio's record 56-game hitting streak.
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A pair of left-handers square off on Thursday as the Blue Jays' J.A. Happ (5-2, 3.43 ERA) takes on the resurging Yankees star CC Sabathia (3-2, 3.41 ERA), who had a great start last time out, throwing six innings of one-run, three-hit ball against the A's.
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Orchard Announces Publication by San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy of OTL-300 Clinical Data for the Treatment of Transfusion-Dependent Beta-Thalassemia in Nature Medicine
Publication Highlights Encouraging Evidence of OTL-300’s Safety and Efficacy in Transfusion-Dependent Beta-Thalassemia Patients
BOSTON, Mass. and LONDON, UK, January 22, 2019 / B3C newswire / -- Orchard Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ORTX), a leading commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and life-threatening rare diseases through innovative gene therapies, today announced that the San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) has published encouraging results from a clinical trial of OTL-300, an autologous ex vivo lentiviral gene therapy program being studied in individuals with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. The paper, published in Nature Medicine, provides an interim analysis of long-term efficacy outcomes in seven of the nine treated patients with more than one year of follow up from this ongoing trial.
“Orchard recognizes the pioneering work of researchers and clinicians from SR-Tiget that has led to this peer-reviewed publication of promising clinical data for the treatment of transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia patients in Nature Medicine,” said Andrea Spezzi, M.D., chief medical officer of Orchard Therapeutics. “Current treatments for these patients are limited and often require lifelong blood transfusions, which severely affect quality of life, or allogeneic bone marrow transplants, which have a risk of mortality. We are encouraged by this early data and by the potential for OTL-300 to transform the lives of patients suffering from transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, and we anticipate reporting data from all nine patients in this proof of concept trial later this year.”
The clinical trial conducted at SR-Tiget in Milan is led by Giuliana Ferrari, professor at The Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and made possible by the strategic alliance between San Raffaele Hospital, Telethon Foundation and Orchard Therapeutics, following the transfer of GSK’s gene therapy portfolio to Orchard in April 2018. The publication of the trial results was the result of the collaboration between basic researchers and clinicians, and in partnership with the Pediatric Immunohematology Unit headed by Alessandro Aiuti, the Hematology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Unit headed by Fabio Ciceri, and the Rare Diseases Centre at the Policlinico Hospital headed by Maria Domenica Cappellini. The trial, with the clinical coordination of doctor Sarah Marktel of SR-Tiget, has involved other Italian centers specializing in thalassemia and the cooperation of patient organizations.
About Beta-Thalassemia
Beta-thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder caused by a mutation in the beta-globin gene, a fundamental protein required for red blood cells to work correctly. Over 300 mutations in the beta-globin gene are known, which give rise to many different forms of beta-thalassemia, with variable severity. The most damaging mutations cause the almost complete absence of the protein in a patient’s blood, causing them to rely on frequent blood transfusions to survive or a bone marrow transplant from a compatible donor.
About Orchard
Orchard Therapeutics is a fully integrated commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and life-threatening rare diseases through innovative gene therapies.
Orchard’s portfolio of autologous ex vivo gene therapies includes Strimvelis, the first autologous ex vivo gene therapy approved by the European Medicines Agency for adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency (ADA-SCID). Additional programs for neurometabolic disorders, primary immune deficiencies and hemoglobinopathies include three advanced registrational studies for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), ADA-SCID and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS), clinical programs for X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD) and transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia (TDBT), as well as an extensive preclinical pipeline.
Orchard currently has offices in the U.K. and the U.S., including London, San Francisco and Boston.
About the Telethon Foundation, San Raffaele Hospital and Orchard Therapeutics Alliance
The San Raffaele Telethon Institute of Gene Therapy in Milan (SR-Tiget) was born in 1995 through a joint venture between San Raffaele Hospital, a highly specialized internationally renowned scientific, clinical and academic facility, and the Telethon Foundation, one of the main biomedical charities in Italy. SR-Tiget is now an international point of reference for gene therapy research and cell transplantation for many genetic disorders. To transform basic research results into therapies for patients, in 2010 the Telethon Foundation and San Raffaele Hospital signed a strategic partnership with GSK, to complement their research with the development capacity of a pharmaceutical industry. The goal of this alliance was to develop a therapy for seven rare diseases, including ADA-SCID (Strimvelis, the first ex vivo gene therapy for this condition, received approval in 2016) and beta-thalassemia. In 2018 GSK transferred its rare disease gene therapy portfolio to Orchard Therapeutics. This included Strimvelis, two late-stage clinical programs for metachromatic leukodystrophy (OTL-200) and Wiskott-Alrdrich Syndrome (OTL-103), and one clinical program for transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia (OTL-300).
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “intends,” “projects,” “anticipates,” and “future” or similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include express or implied statements relating to, among other things, Orchard’s programs, including the therapeutic potential of its product candidates, including OTL-300. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Orchard’s control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In particular, the risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: the risk that any one or more of Orchard’s product candidates, including OTL-300, will not be successfully developed or commercialized, the risk of cessation or delay of any of Orchard’s ongoing or planned clinical trials, the risk that prior results, such as signals of safety, activity or durability of effect, observed from preclinical studies or clinical trials will not be replicated or will not continue in ongoing or future studies or trials involving Orchard’s product candidates, and the risk ofdelays in Orchard’s ability to commercialize its product candidates, if approved. Orchard undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law. For additional disclosure regarding these and other risks faced by Orchard, see the disclosure contained in Orchard’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Norway’s hidden scandal
By Tim Whewell
The UN rates Norway one of the best countries for a child to grow up in. And yet too many children, according to a large number of Norwegian experts, are taken into care without good reason. The conviction of a top psychiatrist in the child protection system for downloading child abuse images is now raising further serious questions.
It was a winter’s day, some years ago, when two child welfare specialists – a female psychologist and a male psychiatrist – knocked on the door of a small modern wooden house on the edge of the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
A lively little girl opened the door and greeted the strangers warmly.
But the girl’s mother, Cecilie – who understood the purpose of their visit – was much less pleased to see them.
“I was very scared. I didn’t want them in my house in the first place,” she says, remembering that day.
“I was really nervous that they will find something wrong. I know this is how the Child Protection Services take away children.”
The experts had been appointed to write a report for a family court hearing which would decide the little girl’s future.
Their visit followed years of concern by the Child Protection Service that Cecilie - a single mother - wasn’t looking after her daughter properly, and had rejected offers of help.
That day, she was right to be nervous.
The experts were highly critical of what they observed at her home.
They wrote in their report that “there was no natural flow to the interaction” between mother and daughter.
They said Cecilie struggled to keep the house in order. And they commented on other details that Cecilie believes they misinterpreted.
“Everything is twisted in a negative way,” she says.
“This was not so long after Christmas, and in the local store I had found some gingerbread which they were selling really cheap, for one Norwegian krone. So I bought it just for fun, so that my daughter and I could make some gingerbread men together as an activity.
“But apparently they thought my financial situation was very bad, because I had bought it after Christmas… How can you say a person is poor just because they buy cheap gingerbread?
“When I saw the report, I was so devastated. It was just all this negativity - negative, negative, negative. There was nothing positive at all.”
The experts’ report – based on information from many health and childcare professionals as well as their own observations – concluded that the little girl’s “development would be limited” if she remained with her mother.
The report said: “This is because the mother does not recognise her daughter’s basic needs and does not perceive the mental harm she may have suffered” while in her mother’s care.
Since then, Cecilie – a lean, anxious-looking, blonde woman now in her 50s - has only seen her daughter seven times.
“I have not been able to follow her development,” she says. “I just lost my daughter’s childhood. I don’t expect really to see her until she’s an adult.”
The recommendation to put the girl into long-term foster care was approved at Oslo District Court. The report’s co-authors attended as witnesses.
Fast forward to April this year, and one of those two experts – the male psychiatrist - reappeared in the same courthouse.
This time, though, he wasn’t in the witness stand.
He was in the dock.
He was sentenced to 22 months in jail - after admitting he had downloaded nearly 200,000 images, and more than 12,000 videos, showing the sexual abuse or sexualisation of children.
The court heard that some appeared to show infants being raped.
Norwegian police were initially tipped off that the man was downloading illegal child abuse images in 2015.
But it wasn’t until early 2017 – a year and a half later – that they investigated and then arrested him.
He confessed that he had been viewing such material for 20 years.
The expert hasn’t been named in the Norwegian media – to protect the privacy of his own children.
But until his arrest he played a key role at various levels in Norway’s child protection system - as an expert witness in individual cases such as Cecilie’s, and more recently as a member of the prestigious Child Expert Commission, which evaluates all independent protection reports.
His conviction puts the spotlight back on a system which has been heavily criticised by some parents – and by leading Norwegian professionals in the childcare field – for being too quick to put children into care, splitting families unnecessarily.
The disgraced psychiatrist has had his professional licence revoked, meaning he cannot work in the same field again.
But parents who’ve lost custody of children in cases he was involved in believe all his previous decisions should be reviewed.
“What he was saying isn’t valid, because of what he has done. His judgement cannot be trusted,” Cecilie says.
If he had told the judge (in earlier cases, when he was an expert witness) that he had been downloading child pornography for years, of course he would never have been appointed as an expert.”
The local child protection agency which handled Cecilie’s case points out that he was only one of two specialists who wrote the report, that their recommendation was approved by a court, and that their observations were only part of the justification for putting her daughter into care.
But Cecilie and other parents say his crime shows he was unable to empathise with children.
The presiding judge in the case, Nini Ring, commented in her judgement that he appeared not to understand the suffering involved in the material he enjoyed viewing.
She said: “The accused has taken exception to the most serious material, which he claims not to have downloaded consciously. The Court finds, however, that the accused to a certain extent trivialises his own actions.”
The judge continued: “The defendant appears remorseful, but reflection seems to have come only after he was caught out. In court he has explained that he considered he was not harming children, since he did not take part in the production (of the images)… The Court finds it serious for somebody with his special expertise on children to express that only now has it struck him that he has subjected these children to grave violation.
“The Court furthermore sees it as serious that a professional who is supposed to be the 'protector' of children and young people has placed his own satisfaction and desires first in this manner.”
Among many other child protection cases the disgraced expert was involved in is one in the south of Norway, where a large family has now been split up for nearly five years.
Inez - a warm, round-faced woman - is the mother of eight children.
Four are grown-up. The younger four were suddenly taken away by the Child Protection Service, or Barnevernet, in September 2013. She was arrested and put into a police holding cell.
“It was so strange to find myself in a cell and I just remember being so scared,” Inez says, trying hard not to cry as she recalls that day.
“The walls were coming closer and closer and it was becoming so difficult to breathe. It was like the air was becoming less and less… I never ever thought that I would be accused of something illegal.
“At one point I was thinking if I was mad, if I had in my madness been doing things I wasn’t supposed to do, had I harmed my family without really knowing it?”
There had been an allegation that Inez had used physical force on her children, which is outlawed in Norway.
She says she was obliged to act to protect one child from another, who refused to stop biting his sibling.
“I gave him the smack in order for him to let go of his sibling. It wasn't right of me to give a smack like that. But I was just saying that there was a sibling in pain.”
A criminal court acquitted Inez of the charges against her in 2016.
Inez doesn’t criticise the authorities for following up the initial allegation of violence. But she says they didn’t then listen properly to what the children were saying.
“The problem was that every question was a leading question,” says Inez’s lawyer, Victoria Holmen.
“And when you analyse the reports of what the children actually said, if you count up how many times they said ‘My mother was violent against me,’ it’s zero.
“An example is that they were not satisfied with the answer that the youngest daughter gave them when they asked: ‘Has your mother been violent to you?’ She said: ‘No, never. She never hit me.’ But they followed by saying, ‘How many times did your mother hit you?’ And that was when they went totally wrong.
“They had already formed their opinion of what this case was about. And then they questioned the children so that they would have the answer that would match their opinions.”
The child protection office that handled Inez’s case has been unavailable to comment on this. But the same point – that investigators put words into the children’s mouths – was made by the Appeal Court when it acquitted Inez.
Soon after that verdict, two of Inez’s children were returned.
But the youngest two are still in foster care more than two years later. This is despite an independent psychological report that praised Inez’s parenting skills and recommended that the family be reunited.
It said: “The experts find it impossible to believe that so carefree, positive and undisruptive children can come from the home described in the accounts that form the basis of the child protection and police actions.”
That report was disregarded, however, after it was sharply criticised by the supervisory body, the Child Expert Commission.
The Commission said the report was “explicitly biased” in the parents’ favour.
One of the two Commission members who made that comment was the now-disgraced psychiatrist who was also involved in Cecilie’s case.
The positive report he and his colleague rubbished was co-authored by two very eminent psychologists – one of them Reidar Hjermann, a former Children’s Ombudsman, the independent official responsible for safeguarding children’s interests throughout the country.
When I meet Hjermann, he tells me this accusation of bias made him very angry.
But I discover he doesn’t know that the expert who made the accusation has been convicted – because he hasn’t been publicly named.
When I tell him, he’s shocked. “When bad things like this happen, it’s important to look at what kind of responsibilities a person has had - and see if his way of misbehaving has been having an influence on the important job he or she has had.”
But there is no sign that the Norwegian authorities are planning any general review of cases the convicted expert was involved in – or that they believe his disgrace has any wider implications for the system.
The Child Expert Commission told me they have looked into the reports he did for them – only part of his work – and could find no evidence that he had shown too little, or too much, empathy with children in his judgments.
But the Board of Health Supervision, the body which has now withdrawn his licence, said it was not planning to investigate his professional practice. It says there is no information that the convicted expert had committed any crimes in his work, or any medical malpractice.
Other agencies – local and national – that employed him have said the same.
But for Inez, those reactions are just proof of the lack of accountability in a system that needs thorough reform.
She says she’s now been assured by Child Protection that they now regard her as a “good enough” parent, and that her two youngest children will soon be returned to her.
But losing them for five years has been a devastating experience for her and her husband, Knut.
Initially, she was only allowed to see them four times a year. And each parent could speak to each child on the phone for just 15 minutes once a month.
“The house was so quiet,” she says. “And you know how parents usually want the kids to be a bit quiet? It was so strange to be on the other side: I just want lots of noise, bickering.”
She blames the negative comments co-authored by the disgraced psychiatrist for keeping her family divided until now – and, like Cecilie, she also says his past judgements should be reviewed.
“It's like constructing a building which has a major flaw in their foundation. Do you let the building stand with a big flaw, knowing that at any moment it will collapse? Or do you try to rebuild it and make it correct?
“And in cases like this, they should do it, because the outcome is a tragedy when the decision is to separate children and parents.”
The criticisms of the Norwegian Child Protection Service date back some years. Two years ago I reported on the case of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu, evangelical Christians who were accused in 2015 of breaking the law by smacking their children. Their five children – including a small baby – were put into emergency care, prompting demonstrations by sympathisers around the world.
The children were eventually returned to their parents – but the family then decided to leave Norway. They now live in Marius’s home country, Romania.
In the same year, 2015, more than 140 professionals in the childcare field – lawyers, psychologists and social workers, wrote a National Notice of Concern to the government. They said that “a long list of children – the actual number is not known by anyone – are exposed to serious failures of understanding and infringements of their rights.”
They added that “when expert witnesses submit their reports and give evidence in court, we often see that the observational basis upon which they report is very weak.”
That open letter has now been signed by a further 120 specialists. Meanwhile, a family involved in a custody battle with the state has won a rare legal victory, gaining the right to have its case heard later this year at the highest level of the European Court of Human Rights.
And, increasing the international pressure still more on Norway, several families from the country have sought refuge in Poland to avoid the threat of care orders by the child protection service.
They believe Poland places more emphasis on keeping families together.
Among those now in Poland is Leen, the 14-year-old daughter of Palestinian parents who were given asylum in Norway.
Her father, Talab, a journalist, had served five years in jail in Syria, much of it in solitary confinement, for criticising the regime there.
Talab and his older daughter, Hiba, are still in Norway, while his wife and Leen are in Poland where they are now seeking asylum for a second time.
Hiba, who works as a nurse, explains what happened to her younger sister: “One day she went to school and she didn’t come back. And my family, my parents and brother were looking for hours as her phone was turned off, going everywhere, looking like crazy on the street and we couldn’t find her.
“Then, hours later, we had two child protection officers at the door and they said Leen is with them. They asked for her belongings, because she was taken under an emergency care order. She had told the school nurse that she had been physically abused at home.”
Leen was taken first to a foster home, then to another care institution, then to a hospital. Eventually – a year after she was first put into care – she ran away. She met up with her mother, who took her to Poland, where they have lived for the past year.
Speaking from Poland, she says the original allegation of abuse was made by another child at her school, where she was being bullied. Then at her foster home, she became depressed and started self-harming. She was treated with anti-psychotic drugs – and then other medication for the side-effects, which she says made her increasingly physically ill.
But medical certificates issued following tests in Poland do not confirm all the diagnoses made in Norway. Doctors there say she is physically fit and suffering only from stress caused by her experiences over the past two years.
“When we came to Norway, we thought that this was where we would live in peace and we would forget all the traumatic and sad events,” Hiba says, referring to the family’s escape from Syria. “But we have all lived this trauma again.”
“I didn’t see the growing-up of my older children when I was imprisoned in Syria,” Talab says. “So when Leen was born here in Norway, it was a God-given present for us. How could we have mistreated her? It is a very silly joke to hear this from the Child Protection Service.
“They behave above regulations, and you can’t win any case against them in the courts, even if you bring witnesses with you. It is as in Syria – the verdict is written beforehand.
It is unbelievable in Norway, something very strange in a welfare state – a Scandinavian state.”
The family says Leen was never physically punished – and they believe the allegation of violence was taken particularly seriously because they were immigrants to Norway.
“If you’re from the Middle East you’re automatically deemed to be abusive and backward,” Hiba says.
The Child Protection office dealing with the case said it could not comment in detail. But it said it did not agree with the family’s version of events, and it denied treating children from immigrant families more strictly than others.
One journalist has calculated, however, that children with a foreign mother are four times more likely than other children in Norway to be forcibly taken from their families.
Reidar Hjermann, the former Children’s Ombudsman, says no-one should be judged to be violent without evidence. But he also says: “When a family comes to Norway with a mother and father who have themselves been brought up with violence, then I think we should assume that we need to go to help this family to understand that where they come from, physical punishment is rather common, but in Norway it is absolutely forbidden.”
He believes “the Norwegian system should do something about its reputation” by improving professional competence in a system that he thinks is currently too decentralised.
And he adds: “One of the absolutely overarching strategies is to help children in families. To remove a child from a family is something you try not to do at all.”
Katrin Koch, the head of the Child Expert Commission which the disgraced psychiatrist was a member of, says one reason for the disproportionately high number of immigrant families affected by care orders might be that Norway is “quite a conformist country in many ways.”
She says: “It might be that the child protection services are not aware enough that there are many ways of raising children.
“Another point would be that Norway is a rich country – and the richer you are, the less consideration you have to give to survival issues, and the more consideration you can give to an optimalisation of how children are to be raised.”
Child welfare guidelines in Norway, as in some other countries, specify that parenting does not have to be “good” - only “good enough.”
But Katrin Koch says: “Maybe the level for ‘good enough’ in Norway is different from other countries.”
The Ministry of Children says it’s bringing in legal changes that will strengthen children’s and family rights. It’s reviewing some care orders – though there’s no suggestion that’s linked to the conviction of the expert psychiatrist.
Like other agencies in the child protection system, the Ministry won’t comment at all on his case at all.
But Inez – who’s now become a campaigner for family rights – regards the silence over the convicted psychiatrist as a cover-up.
She and other parents who’ve lost children are also surprised by a family court decision that the disgraced expert can keep custody of his own young children.
“I’m at a loss for words, for the outrage,” she says, “knowing other parents who have had lesser allegations and have lost children.”
Thore Langfeldt, a psychologist who works with sex offenders, and who gave testimony as an independent expert in the case of the convicted psychiatrist, regards that reaction as “moral outrage”.
He says there is no evidence to suggest that people who download child pornography are more likely than anyone else to commit other offences against children.
“Sometimes moral panic takes over and empirical psychological data vanish on us,” he says.
But Inez, who has been active in her community as a local politician and lay judge, says the case has changed the way she views her own country.
“Before 2013 I considered Norway as the best country in the world. And in many aspects it still is a good country. But if the system is closed and there is no transparency, then it is so much easier to sweep things under the carpet when things go wrong,” she says.
“There has to be a willingness to fix things, because it ensures that people can trust the system.”
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India Citizenship Amendment Act: Fresh violence erupts in Delhi
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A massive protest has broken out in India's capital Delhi, as anger at a citizenship law spreads across the country.
Images from the city's Seelampur area showed stone-throwing crowds confronting police officers. Police retaliated with tear gas and batons.
Local reports say several protesters and officers were injured.
The protest comes days after clashes between police and protesters in Delhi left at least 50 people injured.
The new law offers citizenship to non-Muslims from three nearby countries.
Media captionMohammed Tameen says police shot him at close range
Seelampur, in the east of the city, has a large Muslim population. Protesters are claiming that the act will marginalise them.
There were reports of a police station being set on fire, and police said buses were vandalised.
Meanwhile on Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to hear a petition against the police action inside Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University, where they allegedly attacked students inside campus premises, including the library and toilets.
Chief Justice Sharad Bobde said the top court did not have to intervene since it was "a law-and-order problem". He also told lawyers to file petitions in trial courts.
More protests broke out, including at Jamia Millia Islamia.
A student there told the BBC that hundreds of students had joined demonstrations for the third day in a row.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the new law did not affect any citizen of India of any religion but was "for those who have faced years of persecution outside and have no place to go except India".
But some say the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is discriminatory and part of a "Hindu nationalist" agenda to marginalise India's 200-million Muslim minority.
Others - particularly in border states - fear being "overrun" by new arrivals from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
What is the law about?
The Act offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from three neighbouring Muslim-majority countries.
It amends India's 64-year-old citizenship law, which currently prohibits illegal migrants from becoming Indian citizens.
It also expedites the path to Indian citizenship for members of six religious minority communities - Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian - if they can prove that they are from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. They will now only have to live or work in India for six years - instead of 11 years - before becoming eligible to apply for citizenship.
It also says people holding Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards - an immigration status permitting a foreign citizen of Indian origin to live and work in India indefinitely - can lose their status if they violate local laws for both major and minor offences and violations.
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Opponents say the law is exclusionary, is part of an agenda to marginalise Muslims, and violates the secular principles enshrined in the constitution. They say faith cannot be made a condition of citizenship.
However, the government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), says it is only trying to give sanctuary to people fleeing religious persecution.
What happened in Delhi?
This was the third straight day of protests in the capital, after a student protest on Sunday turned violent and left dozens injured.
Many of the injured were participating in protests at universities in Delhi.
Media captionProtests are taking place all over India
Ten people, many of whom have "criminal backgrounds", have been arrested, Delhi police said on Tuesday. Amid criticism for using "excessive force" inside campus premises, they added that no students were detained.
Police said locals who lived near the campus had joined the protests and attacked officers.
A hospital spokesperson said two people were admitted with bullet wounds, according to local media - something denied by police.
The BBC has seen the medical report of a third person - who said he was a passer-by, not a protester - who thought he had been shot in his thigh.
Image caption Protesters say the law is discriminatory
The report confirmed only that a "foreign object" had been removed under sedation. The injured man told the BBC he saw police shoot at him with a pistol or revolver.
How bad are the injuries?
Apart from those who are receiving treatment in Delhi, one student from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has had his hand amputated after sustaining injuries.
Mohammad Tariq, a PhD student in chemistry, was studying inside the campus library when police stormed in.
Students present at the protest told BBC Hindi's Priyanka Dubey that Mr Tariq was hit on the hand by a piece of a tear-gas shell when he ran out of the building.
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Doctors told BBC Hindi that they had no choice but to amputate his hand - the one he writes with - because the injury was a grave one and the infection was spreading.
There is no consolidated number of how many people have been injured in protests across the country, but doctors told BBC Hindi that at least 80 students in AMU had been admitted to hospital with injuries.
This is in addition to at least 50 people who are known to have been injured in Delhi.
Where else have there been protests?
The anger has spread across the country, with protests reported at more than a dozen universities.
Many of the student demonstrations were fuelled by the perceived police brutality on Sunday.
Students in Delhi, the southern city of Chennai and Varanasi in the north protested against the government and in support of their fellow students at Jamia Millia Islamia.
Footage from the northern city of Lucknow on Monday showed students throwing stones at security forces, who threw the stones back.
Officers were also seen hitting students with sticks.
In Kolkata, tens of thousands of people joined a demonstration led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her ruling Trinamool Congress party, marching against the law itself.
What does the Indian government say?
On Monday, Mr Modi sent four tweets to defend the law.
He said it was passed by both houses of parliament with "overwhelming support", and that it illustrated "India's centuries old culture of acceptance, harmony, compassion, and brotherhood".
"I want to unequivocally assure my fellow Indians that CAA [the law] does not affect any citizen of India of any religion," he added.
But Rahul Gandhi - Mr Modi's defeated opponent in the 2019 election - said both the law and a controversial citizens' register were "weapons of mass polarisation unleashed by fascists".
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Fortune recognizes BD for its efforts in combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
This week, Fortune identified the top U.S. companies that are making a positive impact through initiatives that address societal needs while also driving business objectives. For the third time in five years, BD has been named to Fortune’s “Change the World” list. Previously, the company was selected in 2015 for its investments, innovations and successes in advancing safety for health workers; and in 2016 for BD’s global health programs and impact in areas including childhood immunization safety, strengthening laboratory systems and innovation to reduce maternal and newborn mortality. This year, the company has been recognized for its significant global efforts and investments to combat antimicrobial resistance.
What is AMR?
Antimicrobials are life-saving drugs that kill infectious bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when these drugs, which are commonly used to treat infections, stop working because the organism becomes resistant to the drug.
AMR is projected to result in 10 million deaths by the year 2050, making it among the leading causes of death, greater than cancer. 1
To slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance and to help ensure that the right drug is delivered to the right patient at the right time, a multifaceted approach to AMR is needed. Appropriate use of medical technology can help to reduce spread of infections in health care facilities, while diagnostic testing can enable the cause of infections to be more precisely identified, supporting effective treatment decisions.
Three years ago, BD mobilized a company-wide AMR strategy team which is presently comprised of 40 employees from across the company’s businesses, countries and corporate functions. This team helps to align and execute the various components of the company’s AMR strategy, as follows:
One of the most important steps to curbing the spread of antimicrobial resistance is to curb infections, as resistant infections spread easily among patients in health care facilities. This makes it imperative for hospitals to implement effective infection prevention and control programs.
BD offers training programs for customers centered around its products and solutions that are often used in environments where health care associated infections (HAIs) are common (i.e., vascular access procedures, general surgery and urinary drainage procedures). In addition to deploying these programs at an individual health facility level, BD has worked in collaboration with national governments in multiple countries, including the U.S., China, Kenya, Cambodia and India, via public-private partnerships to improve infection prevention and control capabilities in hospitals.
Diagnostics play a key role in identifying the type of infection (bacterial vs. viral) and whether it is resistant to antibiotics. This helps ensure the right drug is prescribed and that antibiotics are not prescribed for infections where they are inappropriate or unnecessary, such as viral infections.
For over a decade, BD has partnered with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the U.S. CDC to advance the capacity and capabilities of labs in Africa and India to diagnose infectious disease. The program, Labs for Life, has been acclaimed as being among the most successful public-private partnerships, and includes improving the diagnosis of the resistant form of tuberculosis (TB), which is presently associated with approximately one-third of the 700,000 annual deaths presently attributed to AMR worldwide.
BD is also engaged in a partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to strengthen lab testing capacity for TB, with the goal of increasing the presently low levels of second-line drug susceptibility testing in 10 high TB-burden countries, including India and Indonesia.
Additionally, in 2019, BD partnered with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to develop a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on AMR and diagnostics. Launch of this new educational program will begin in select countries in the coming months.
Surveillance and reporting
Control of AMR requires surveillance to ensure that the appropriate therapy is provided to patients. Surveillance tools can help identify patients at greatest risk of contracting a resistant infection by incorporating information from a variety of sources as part of routine care. The near real‐time availability of data allows clinicians to make more targeted decisions to optimize the use of antibiotics.
In addition, surveillance tools can be used to create an early warning system to detect infections before an outbreak occurs, so that action can be taken to prevent or gain rapid control of an outbreak. Electronic surveillance systems enable healthcare facilities to transmit data to public health authorities in order to monitor local, regional and national trends.
By providing hospitals with surveillance tools, BD helps clinicians identify and report healthcare associated infections, and assess AMR risks within their facilities.
BD is engaging directly with countries around the world to support infection prevention and control programs in hospitals and to advance laboratory practices, tailoring its approach to the stage of development of each country and the level of sophistication among hospitals in being able to combat AMR.
Based on the fundamental premise that a challenge and threat as large and encompassing as AMR cannot ever be addressed by one sector alone, BD has engaged in extensive cross-sector collaboration with leading health agencies, foundations and other organizations around the world, underpinned by common motives and goals.
For more information about the company’s position on AMR, visit http://amr.bd.com/ and stay tuned to the BD Blog for a deeper look at BD’s AMR strategy.
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How one young adviser is rapidly advancing her career
By Brian M. Kalish
April 05, 2017, 9:24 p.m. EDT
At just 27 years-old, Lauren Fabbri has been promoted four times and now oversees 10 people at brokerage Austin Benefits Group in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
That rapid advancement from marketing to adviser to director of new business to now director of account services is part of the nature that has always driven her. This is one reason why she is a 2017 EBA Rising Star in Advising.
In her marketing role, Fabbri interacted with potential and current clients and felt she had the aptitude to help them on a deeper level with consulting. The transition to agent was “natural,” she explains, because, when you have “a business like insurance, you need to know it and know way more than you ever thought you wanted to know.”
She learned a lot in the first couple of years, she says, adding, “so it made the transition pretty natural.” Her current book of business includes more than 25 clients in the medical, law, communications and manufacturing industries.
Despite her advancement, she knows as a young adviser there is a “stereotype of inexperience in an industry led by seasoned benefit professionals,” she says.
To overcome that experience she recalls advice she got early on in her career from Austin Benefit Group’s CEO. “He said, 'Lauren, you can’t think about it and have to trust when you go into a client. You need to be competent, be yourself and talk to them like you talk to anyone else. If you don’t acknowledge it, they won’t.'"
That conversation taught Fabbri that she can’t allow her age to slow her down. “I have a purpose and mission — to make an impact and difference in people lives. I have something to teach them and bring to table,” she says
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“It’s not about age,” she adds. “It’s about how can we help each other.”
Fabbri plans to continue advancing her career. “I have always seen myself as someone who will continue to grow,” she says. “I don’t plan on staying in the same place. I am not going to be content doing what I am doing and I always want to find new ways to grow professionally.”
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Subject: Chemistry Topic: Article
Bleach is a chemical agent used to whiten or remove color from textiles, paper, food, and other substances and materials. Chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, and hydrogen peroxide are bleaches. Bleaches remove color by oxidation or reduction. It is also hazardous because it is very reactive. Sodium hypochlorite reacts with ammonia, drain cleaners, and other acids.
Bleach works by the process of oxidation or the alteration of a compound by the introduction of oxygen molecules. A stain is essentially a chemical compound, and the addition of bleach breaks down the molecules into smaller elements so that it separates from the fabric. Detergent and the agitation of the washing machine speed up the cleaning process.
Bleaches are used as household chemicals to whiten clothes and remove stains and as disinfectants, primarily in the bathroom and kitchen. They are also used in many industrial processes, notably in the bleaching of wood pulp. It is also used for removing mildew, killing weeds and increasing the longevity of cut flowers.
Classification of Bleach
Bleach is found in nearly every household. The two types of household bleach are chlorine bleach and peroxide bleach.
Chlorine Bleach: Chlorine is a yellow-green gas at room temperature. Chlorine bleach is cheap to manufacture and effective in both warm and hot wash temperatures. However, it has strong chemical properties which can weaken textile fibers. It is produced by the electrolysis of sodium chloride.
2 NaCl + 2 H2O → Cl2 + H2 + 2 NaOH
Chlorine is used to prepare sodium and calcium hypochlorites. It is used as a disinfectant in water treatment, especially to make drinking water and in large public swimming pools. It was used extensively to bleach wood pulp, but this use has decreased significantly due to environmental concerns.
Peroxide Bleach: Peroxide bleach was introduced in the 1950s, it helps to remove stains, especially in higher wash temperatures, and it will not bleach most colored materials and does not weaken fabrics, as does sodium hypochlorite bleach. Most peroxide bleaches are adducts of hydrogen peroxide. They contain hydrogen peroxide, HOOH in combination with another material like sodium carbonate or urea. An exception is sodium perborate, which has a cyclic structure containing two O-O single bonds. All peroxide-based bleaches release hydrogen peroxide when dissolved in water. Peroxide bleaches are often used with catalysts and activators, e.g., tetraacetylethylenediamine or sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate.
Manufacturing and Applications of Bleach
The manufacture of sodium hypochlorite bleach requires several steps. All the steps can be carried out at one large manufacturing facility, or the chlorine and caustic soda can be shipped from different plants to the reactor site. Both chlorine and caustic soda are hazardous chemicals and are transported according to strict regulations. Safety is a primary concern at manufacturing plants because of the presence of volatile chlorine gas.
The raw materials for making household bleach are chlorine, caustic soda, and water. The chlorine and caustic soda are produced by putting direct current electricity through a sodium chloride salt solution in a process called electrolysis. Sodium chloride, common table salt, comes from either mines or underground wells. The salt is dissolved in hot water to form a salt solution, which is then treated for impurities before it is reacted in the electrolytic cell.
Many types of bleach have strong bactericidal properties, and are used for disinfecting and sterilizing and thus are used in swimming pool sanitation to control bacteria, viruses and algae and in any institution where sterile conditions are needed. Color safe bleach is a chemical that uses hydrogen peroxide as the active ingredient rather than sodium hypochlorite or chlorine. It also has chemicals in it that help brighten colors. Hydrogen peroxide is also used for sterilization purposes and water treatment, but its disinfectant capabilities may be limited due to the concentration in the colorsafe bleach solution as compared to other applications.
Reference: dictionary.com, madehow.com, beyondtoxics.org, wikipedia.
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HistoryAnn Ryba2019-11-18T11:41:56-06:00
In 1948 The Rev. Richard Young began to develop a vision for a new ministry in the Episcopal Church, one that sought to help graduate medical students integrate science and religion in the healing sciences. He drew his inspiration from the humanistic aspirations of the Social Gospel and the work of Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson, 4th Bishop of Chicago. Bishop Anderson had a vision of the Church as a transformer of society, an agent of change and healing in a culture where the institutions of humanity fall short of our dreams for a better world. The Anderson family remains active and generously supports Bishop Anderson House to this day.
The original “House”
Under Fr. Young’s leadership as Executive Director, Bishop Anderson House combined traditional chaplaincy duties with a ministry to graduate students in the Illinois Medical District, one of the world’s largest medical districts.
The Rev. Dr. Christian Hovde
Rush Hospital
The Rev. Dr. Christian Hovde succeeded Fr. Young as Executive Director in the l970’s, and during his tenure new approaches to providing pastoral care were adopted. He developed a relationship between BAH and Rush University which culminated in the establishment of the Department of Religion, Health and Human Values at Rush University. That relationship flourishes in research collaboration, teaching Clinical Pastoral Education students, chaplaincy and education and widening our reach to people from all faith traditions.
Pastoral Care Visitors
During the tenure of The Rev. Trenton Pitcher, Bishop Anderson House implemented chaplaincy training programs for clergy and laity, including the Pastoral Care Visitor Program. This program currently has over 600 graduates serving as volunteer spiritual caregivers in hospitals, nursing homes, congregations and other institutions across Northern Illinois.
Growth and Stability
The Rev. James Risk succeeded Fr. Pitcher in 2003. The successful Campaign for the Future established a secure financial foundation for Bishop Anderson House to thrive in the face of deep cutbacks in hospital chaplain departments. Expansion of education programs and active collaboration with the Department of Religion, Health and Human Values ensures that Bishop Anderson House continues to grow as member of the Medical District community.
(l-r) The Rev. Canon Jay Risk, The Rev. Tommy Rogers, The Rev. Canon Trenton Pitcher
Under The Rev. Tommy Rogers’ leadership, Spiritual Care Visitors Training now reaches a wider audience through online programming, and CPE supervision is a part of our partnership with Rush University, as well as a community-based CPE program facilitated by BAH. Rev. Micheal Smith is our full-time chaplain fellow at Stroger Hospital and The Rev. Rose Cicero serves as our Dianna’s Teddy Bear Ministry chaplain, serving women and children. We continue to partner with hospitals in the Illinois Medical District to offer regular Spirituality and Wellness events for medical practitioners.
Today we continue to drive the vision that Bishop Charles Anderson saw in the early part of the 20th century, creating a “house” where spirituality and medicine meet to advance healing of the whole person.
The Rev. Tommy Rogers
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The Yanks are ruining yet another overseas comedy series
Kath and Kim are the clueless, flamboyant, and extremely tacky Australian mother and daughter on the show of the same name. The Aussie series—whose cocreators, Jane Turner and Gina Riley, are also its stars—is a hysterical parody of suburban life in Australia. EVERYthing is over the top—the accents, the clothes, the props, the plotlines. And from the first time I saw the show, the thing I...
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On a lighter note...
Since I know lots of people who like this, I thought they might also like this...
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Last night I took home the galley (galleys are uncorrected proofs of books sent out by publishers) of one of Jeanette Winterson's latest novels, The Stone Gods. I love Winterson's writing, in part because of the precision with which she writes about concepts like language, gender, sexuality, power...
So it was awfully strange to read the opening sentence of the book's description...
For the love of all that is good...
If I had a list of wishes, pretty high up would be that people realize that Whole Foods Market... well... sucks.
Here are a few reasons to avoid them and support your local grocer instead (if you're lucky enough to have one, that is):
Whole Foods violates their workers' rights to unionize, including busting up a union in Madison, Wisconsin and hiring armed guards to...
Speaking of PETA
H/T to Vegans of Color...
PETA wants to advertise "Go vegan" message on border fence:
While many view the contentious border fence as a government fiasco, an animal rights group sees a rare opportunity.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual marketing pitch to the U.S. government: Rent us space on the fence for billboards...
Podcast Debate Club: Can Britney do justice to Varla?
Say what you will about the shock-schlock, soft-core oeuvre of filmmaker Russ Meyer, the man was definitely ahead of his time when it came to showcasing the hips-lips-tits-power! aesthetic that would eventually become inextricably linked to third-wave feminism. His best-known work, 1966's sinsister thrillride Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, has come to be regarded over the years as something of...
On the word bitch
Over on the post that asks folks to vote for which PETA is most offensive, someone says that by criticizing PETA, we at Bitch are just calling the kettle black.
Of course I'm offended by the PETA ad campaigns. As a long-time radical lesbian feminist, I abhor the explotation of the female body and the objectification of women as nothing more than sexual beings.
I would never...
How much money do you spend on corporate media?
This past weekend I attended a talk by Jen Angel – media activist, writer, and cofounder of Clamor magazine – whose energy and dedication to radical media activism never cease to amaze me. Jen recently published a pamphlet called Becoming the Media: A critical history of Clamor magazine (PM Press), a review of which will be running in the upcoming Loud issue of Bitch.
Jen also recently...
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Whitby Town Whitby add local talent 17 Dec 2019 By James Gordon
Whitby Town have announced the signing of local player, Adam Warrilow.
Whitby Town Whitby extend Hackett loan 15 Nov 2019 By James Gordon
Whitby Town have announced that Jake Hackett’s has extended his loan from Sunderland until January 4 2020.
Whitby Town Whitby sign striker 18 Oct 2019 By James Gordon
Whitby Town have announced the signing of Connor Bell.
Whitby Town Hardy hails best moment at Whitby 10 Oct 2019 By James Gordon
Whitby Town manager Chris Hardy hailed their FA Cup progress against Gloucester City as his best moment in charge of the club.
Whitby Town Whitby boss: We deserve to be top 17 Sep 2019 By James Gordon
Whitby Town boss Chris Hardy says they deserve their spot at the top of the BetVictor Northern Premier after a strong start to the season.
Whitby Town England international becomes Whitby ambassador 2 Aug 2019 By James Gordon
England Women’s international Beth Mead has agreed to become a club ambassador at her hometown club Whitby Town.
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Whitby joined the Northern League for the first time in 1893 only to return to the Cleveland Amateur League two seasons later. They returned to the Northern League in 1899 and won the Second Division the same season. Sadly, the cost of travelling forced the club to leave the Northern League again for a time. Whitby reverted to playing friendlies only, a step which put the club into near obscurity.
After World War One, the town of Whitby had two clubs, both playing in the Scarborough and District League, Whitby Whitehall Swifts and Whitby Town. Ever conscious of Whitby’s more illustrious past, the two clubs in 1926, decided to amalgamate as Whitby United. The new club was admitted into the Northern League and the club's name was changed to Whitby Town in 1949.
The club reached a new height in the Amateur Cup days. In 1964 they reached the Quarter finals and the following year they made it all the way to Wembley, losing 3-1 to Hendon. The Northern League Cup has been won six times and the North Riding Senior Cup won on five occasions. Whitby were also successful in the short lived Rothman's National Knockout Cup, winning it in 1976 and 1978.
Over the years, Whitby have had several illustrious managers. Dave Richardson was a former Blues' Boss before progressing through senior soccer to become Director of Coaching at the Football Association. More recently, two former Scotland Internationals and World Cup Finalists have taken charge at the Turnbull, ex-Leeds United stars David Harvey and Eddie Gray both managing and playing for Whitby Town in Northern League matches. The latter setting the foundations for the team that has become successful over recent years. Other ex-internationals to grace the Turnbull turf include Peter Lorimer (Leeds and Scotland) and Sunderland's FA Cup-winning skipper Bobby Kerr.
In 1983-84, Whitby came to national prominence when they came back from two goals down to beat Halifax Town 3-2 in the FA Cup first round proper. They were beaten by a late penalty at Wigan in the following round. The same season, Whitby reached the quarter finals of the FA Trophy for the first time losing to Dagenham in a replay. In 1992-93, Whitby Town won the Northern League Championship for the first time in their history. Unfortunately, due to circumstances completely beyond their control, the club were denied promotion to the Northern Premier League.
In December 1995 the club appointed Harry Dunn as manager. By the end of the season, he had taken Whitby to another Northern League Cup Final victory. The following season, 1996-97, the club went from strength to strength. A 0-0 draw against Hull City in the First Round Proper of the FA Cup, was played at Scarborough on police advice, in a remarkable replay at Boothferry Park, Whitby came from behind to take a 4-3 lead which was held until the dying seconds of the game. With only 49 seconds remaining, Hull levelled the score and went on to win 8-4 in extra time. Superior fitness told in the end. This was to be one of only five defeats in the entire season.
The club came from behind in the Northern League race, winning the Championship in style from neighbours, Billingham Synthonia, before completing an amazing "double" by winning the FA Carlsberg Vase at Wembley, beating North Ferriby United by 3-0. The following season, 1997-98 saw continued success at the Turnbull Ground when the club won the UniBond League First Division Championship by a margin of 7 points at their first attempt as well as beating York City 3-0 in the final of the North Riding Senior Cup to become holders for a fifth time. Whitby again reached the final of the NRSC in 1999 only for York to gain revenge by winning 4-2. In the 1999-2000 season, the Seasiders finished 12th in the UniBond Premier League and were beaten finalists in the President's Cup, losing over two legs to Trafford after a penalty shoot-out.
The 2001-2002 season saw Whitby finish in a disappointing 15th in the league, but got to the FA Cup First Round for the seventh time, only to lose out to Plymouth Argyle after a replay, 3-2. The first game was at the Turnbull Ground in front of the BBC Match of the Day Cameras. Season 2003-04 saw another excellent cup run halted at the hands of Hartlepool United. The blues put up a spirited show at Victoria Park but fell 4-0 to an excellent Pools side. Whitby also managed to finish in the play off zone for the new Conference North but went out on penalties to Radcliffe Borough, a team they had beaten 5-0, 6-2 and 1-0, in the regular season.
Long-time manager Harry Dunn was replaced by Dave Logan early in season 2004-05 after a string of poor performances. The former Blues stalwart turned the side around as they equalled a club record 19 games without defeat and in the process made the UniBond League promotion play-offs. They lost in the semi-final to Farsley Celtic after extra-time. Town also reached the final of the UniBond Challenge Cup but lost in extra time to Matlock Town. Since Logan left at the end of season 2005-06, former Reading and Wales striker Lee Nogan spent two seasons at the Turnbull, finishing 13th and leaving in October 2007, after FA Trophy defeat at Ossett Town. Phil Brumwell guided the team to safety, with Nogan showing notable class by returning to the club as a player.
Brumwell was joined by and eventually succeeded by ex-Blyth Spartans assistant Graham Clarke in summer 2009. Town would've been relegated for the first time in their history, at the end of that season, if not for victories over Witton Albion and title-chasing Ilkeston Town on the final day, plus Cammell Laird's demotion for ground issues. The following season saw Dunn succeed Clarke for a second spell, but after a mid-table finish, resigned in September 2010, claiming he'd taken the Blues as far as he could. Ex-Newcastle United and Northern Ireland midfielder Tommy Cassidy replaced Dunn, lasting almost a year exactly, before leaving by mutual consent in October 2011.
Ironically, it was a man with strong Sunderland connections who took over from the former Magpie. Darren Williams, who made 200 appearances for the Wearsiders, was given his first managerial job, despite having joined just weeks earlier, as a player. Williams famously secured Town's third last-day escape in five seasons, at Buxton, amid joyous scenes. After more than four years at the helm, the popular Williams and assistant Dave Campbell, were replaced by ex-Guisborough Town boss Chris Hardy, assisted by Lee Bullock, in December 2015.
Hardy brought a new footballing ethos to the Turnbull Ground, one that he implemented with his former club Guisborough Town. In his first-half season, Hardy steered the club aware from relegation danger, before getting to work on his plan to guide the Blues to the Conference North. He brought in a number of talented young players from his former club, Guisborough Town, and set about putting together a side that would consolidate their place in the Evo-Stik League Premier, first and foremost, before going on to challenge for silverware.
The Blues, in the end, blitzed those expectations. A successful season, that saw Whitby spearhead the Evo-Stik Premier table for a good three months, saw the Seasiders eventually tail off in the league, finishing sixth, just two points outside the play-offs. Cup success was to follow as planned, however. A fantastic run in the North Riding Senior Cup saw Guisborough Town, York City and Middlesbrough all fall to Hardy’s side, before a final showdown Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium with Pickering Town. Whitby were forced to come from behind, after a stunning Nick Thompson strike, but duly obliged, with Dale Hopson equalising just after the break, before Mikey Roberts added two goals in quick succession to ensure a 3-1 win and a sixth North Riding Senior Cup success.
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People - Ancient Greece: Aratus
An Ancient Greek didactic poet.
Arātus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities A Greek poet, of Soli in Cilicia, about B.C. 270, contemporary of Callimachus and Theocritus. At the request of the Macedonian king, Antigonus Gonatas, at whose court he lived as physician, he wrote, without much knowledge of the subject but guided by the works of Eudoxus and Theophrastus, two astronomical poems, Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα) and Prognostica (Διοσημεῖα) (aspects of the sky and signs of weather). Without genuine poetic inspiration, Aratus manages his intractable material with considerable tact and dignified simplicity. The language, while not always free from stiffness, is choice, and the versification correct. The poems enjoyed a high repute with the general public, as well as with poets and specialists, and the great astronomer Hipparchus wrote a commentary on them in four books. The Romans also took pleasure in reading and translating them-e. g. Cicero, Germanicus, and Avienus. Eng. trans. by Poste (London, 1880). (See Aratea.) Aratus is mentioned by his contemporary Theocritus in the Sixth and Seventh Idyls, and by St. Paul in his speech (Acts, xvii. 28). Recent edition by Maas. A Greek patriot, born in Sicyon B.C. 273, who expelled from his native state the tyrant Nicocles, and persuaded his countrymen to join the Achaean League, and in 244 secured the adhesion of Corinth. He afterwards had equal success with other States in southern Greece, so that the League became powerful, exciting the jealousy of the Aetolians, who made war upon it, but were defeated by Aratus aided by Antigonus, and for a time by Philip, nephew of Antigonus. This strong alliance overthrew Cleomenes, king of Sparta. Later, however, Aratus incurred the ill-will of Philip, who destroyed him by poison, B.C. 213. See Plut.
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Aratus in Wikipedia Aratus (Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς; ca. 315 BC/310 BC � 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα "Appearances"), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena. The second half is called the Diosemeia (Διοσημεῖα "Forecasts"), and is chiefly about weather lore. Although Aratus was somewhat ignorant of Greek astronomy, his poem was very popular in the Greek and Roman world, as is proved by the large number of commentaries and Latin translations, some of which survive. Life There are several accounts of his life by anonymous Greek writers, and the Suda and Eudocia also mention him. From these it appears that he was a native of Soli in Cilicia, (although one authority says Tarsus). He is known to have studied with Menecrates in Ephesus and Philitas in Cos. As a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes, in Athens, he met the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus of Cyrene and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian School. About 276 he was invited to the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, whose victory over the Gauls in 277 BC Aratus set to verse. Here he wrote his most famous poem, Phaenomena ("Appearances"). He then spent some time at the court of Antiochus I Soter of Syria, but subsequently returned to Pella in Macedon, where he died sometime before 239/240 BC.[1] His chief pursuits were medicine (which is also said to have been his profession), grammar, and philosophy. Writings Several poetical works on various subjects, as well as a number of prose epistles, are attributed to Aratus, but none of them have come down to us, except his two astronomical poems in hexameter. These have generally been joined together as if parts of the same work; but they seem to be distinct poems, the first, called Phaenomena ("Appearances"), consists of 732 verses; the second, Diosemeia ("On Weather Signs"), of 422 verses. Phaenomena The Phaenomena appears to be based on two prose works-Phaenomena and Enoptron (Ἔνοπτρον "Mirror", presumably a descriptive image of the heavens)-by Eudoxus of Cnidus, written about a century earlier. We are told by the biographers of Aratus that it was the desire of Antigonus to have them turned into verse, which gave rise to the Phaenomena of Aratus; and it appears from the fragments of them preserved by Hipparchus, that Aratus has in fact versified, or closely imitated parts of them both, but especially of the first. The purpose of the Phaenomena is to give an introduction to the constellations, with the rules for their risings and settings; and of the circles of the sphere, amongst which the Milky Way is reckoned. The positions of the constellations, north of the ecliptic, are described by reference to the principal groups surrounding the north pole (Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Draco, and Cepheus), whilst Orion serves as a point of departure for those to the south. The immobility of the earth, and the revolution of the sky about a fixed axis are maintained; the path of the sun in the zodiac is described; but the planets are introduced merely as bodies having a motion of their own, without any attempt to define their periods; nor is anything said about the moon's orbit. The opening of the poem asserts the dependence of all things upon Zeus. From the lack of precision in the descriptions, it would seem that Aratus was neither a mathematician nor observer[2] or, at any rate, that in this work he did not aim at scientific accuracy. He not only represents the configurations of particular groups incorrectly, but describes some phenomena which are inconsistent with any one supposed latitude of the spectator, and others which could not coexist at any one epoch. These errors are partly to be attributed to Eudoxus himself, and partly to the way in which Aratus has used the materials supplied by him. Hipparchus (about a century later), who was a scientific astronomer and observer, has left a commentary upon the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus, accompanied by the discrepancies which he had noticed between his own observations and their descriptions. Diosemeia The Diosemeia consists of forecasts of the weather from astronomical phenomena, with an account of its effects upon animals. It appears to be an imitation of Hesiod, and to have been imitated by Virgil in some parts of the Georgics. The materials are said to be taken almost wholly from Aristotle's Meteorologica, from the work of Theophrastus, On Weather Signs, and from Hesiod. Nothing is said in either poem about Hellenistic astrology. Later influence The two poems were very popular both in the Greek and Roman world,[3] as is proved by the number of commentaries and Latin translations. He enjoyed immense prestige among Hellenistic poets, including Theocritus, Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum. This assessment was picked up by Latin poets, including Ovid and Virgil. Latin versions were made by none other than Cicero (mostly extant),[4] Ovid (only two short fragments remain), the member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty Germanicus (extant, with scholia), and the less-famous Avienus (extant). Quintilian was less enthusiastic. Aratus was also cited by Luke the Evangelist in the second half of Acts, 17.28, where he relates Saint Paul's address on the Areopagus. Paul, speaking of God, quotes the fifth line of Aratus's Phaenomena (Epimenides seems to be the source of the first part of Acts 17.28, although this is less clear): Let us begin with Zeus, whom we mortals never leave unspoken. For every street, every market-place is full of Zeus. Even the sea and the harbour are full of this deity. Everywhere everyone is indebted to Zeus. For we are indeed his offspring... (Phaenomena 1-5). Authors of twenty-seven commentaries are known; ones by Theon of Alexandria, Achilles Tatius and Hipparchus of Nicaea survive. An Arabic translation was commissioned in the ninth century by the Caliph Al-Ma'mun. He is cited by Vitruvius, Stephanus of Byzantium and Stobaeus. Several accounts of his life are extant, by anonymous Greek writers. The crater Aratus on the Moon and the minor planet 12152 Aratus are named in his honour.
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This couple saved nearly half their income by moving 7,000 miles away to Abu Dhabi for ‘FIRE’
Kelly Anne Smith @keywordkelly
May 9, 2019 in Personal Finance
Courtesy of Brian Davis
Some people go to brunch on the weekends. For Brian Davis, 38 and his wife, Katie Leishear, 35, they go to Cairo to see the pyramids.
While the weekend getaway sounds like one reserved for those who own a private jet, Davis and Leishear aren’t trust fund babies. Instead, they’re two Americans who currently live in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Although the Persian Gulf is known for its immense wealth, opulence and high standard of living, the couple is there for one reason — to save money.
Why they moved to Abu Dhabi
Davis and Leishar are just two of the thousands of individuals pursuing the FIRE movement — a way of living that embraces financial independence and having the means to quit the traditional standards of working much earlier than most.
In 2015, the two took their passion for financial independence to another level: They moved over 7,000 miles away from Baltimore, where they’re from, to Abu Dhabi, where Leishar got a job as a counselor at an American school.
By living in Abu Dhabi, Davis and his wife are able to save roughly 50 percent of their income.
Abu Dhabi, however, is one of the most expensive cities in the world for expats. In 2018, Mercer’s annual cost of living survey found Abu Dhabi to be ranked as the 40th most expensive location for working abroad, ranking above other major cities such as Toronto, Miami, Chicago and Brussels.
So how are they saving money?
Leishar’s job provides them with free housing and the UAE doesn’t charge income tax, freeing up a significant chunk of change for the family. The couple uses the foreign earned income exclusion on their U.S. taxes, meaning they can exclude up to $105,900 in foreign earned income for the 2019 tax year.
In 2017, the Chicago Federal Reserve released a paper comparing America’s tax burden to that of other developed countries. Overall, the U.S. tax burden ranked 32nd out of the 35 countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) based on data from 2014 . The Chicago Fed describes the U.S. as a “relatively lightly taxed country,” but nonetheless, reducing the cost puts Davis and Leishar at a huge advantage.
Pros and cons of moving thousands of miles from home
Moving thousands of miles away from home isn’t easy. It’s especially difficult when moving to a region of the world that is much more conservative than the Western hemisphere.
Davis doesn’t criticize the country, but says the differences in things that are limited by the government, including press, speech and religion, took some getting used to.
“I struggled a little bit for the first year or so, but at a certain point you let go of that stuff,” Davis says. “You just enjoy living in another country and accept the fact that it isn’t your country and it does not reflect your values, and that’s OK.”
Davis adds that many of the misconceptions people had about him and his wife moving to Abu Dhabi were based upon what he thinks is a misrepresented storyline of violence in the Middle East. He points out that Abu Dhabi has been ranked as the safest city in the world since 2017 by Numbeo, a website for crowd-sourced global data.
“A lot of people didn’t understand,” Davis recalls while thinking about how their move was perceived by family and friends. “And some of those people still don’t get it, but it doesn’t matter.”
Given the distance, time and cost it takes to travel from the Middle East to back home, the couple only visits their family a few times a year. That means there are many weddings, birthdays and funerals they have missed out on — and relationships that have drifted apart over time.
“There’s a feeling of missing out on the important moments in life,” Davis says. “But in those times I’ve had to remind myself that I get something else in exchange for that — it isn’t all sacrifice. I’ve gotten to see some amazing things traveling the world, and I’ve had amazing experiences that most of my friends and family will never have. But it does come with a cost.”
Why FIRE?
Davis started his career like many others have — sitting in a cubicle, working for someone else. While working for real estate investors, he quickly realized they were making money by virtually doing nothing, and then it hit him: Why can’t he do that, too?
The prospect of generating passive income was alluring enough for Davis to venture out and purchase property of his own. His journey to becoming a landlord started with what he describes as “the worst three-year stretch to buy real estate since, well, forever” in the two years leading up to the Great Recession. His total money lost is estimated to be in the “low six figures.”
“They were expensive lessons, but incredibly valuable lessons,” Davis says.
Today, Davis is a full-time landlord and is the director of education at SparkRental, an online platform geared toward helping people reach financial independence through rent income. For him, being able to work wherever he wants and not relying on a boss to dictate his earnings makes life more fulfilling.
“[FIRE] lets you focus on doing what’s most meaningful to you personally, making work an end in itself rather than a means to an end,” Davis says.
One common misconception about the FIRE movement is the ‘RE’ part, which stands for “retire early.” Not everyone who seeks out FIRE does so with the goal of stopping work completely; instead, the “RE” aspect refers more to being able to withdraw from 9-to-5 salary jobs and take on more meaningful work on one’s own terms.
Davis says he has no intention to ever stop working. But one day, he’d like to write novels and open a wine shop with his father — two ventures he hopes to be able to do thanks to being financially independent.
Overall, Davis and his wife have enjoyed their time in Abu Dhabi. But the bug to travel has bit them again. In a few months, they’ll be making their way back to the West and settling in Brasilia, Brazil, where Leishar plans to work at another American school. They will be facing the prospect of paying income taxes again, but it’ll still be less than the amount of taxes they would pay back in the states due to lower rates.
They might miss home, but their collective longing isn’t enough to bring them back to the states.
“We’re excited to do something different,” Davis says. “It just feels like the right time to move again.”
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Book excerpt: King Hui
One of our bestselling titles from last year — King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium In Hong Kong, by Jonathan Chamberlain — was chosen by Dymocks Booksellers last month as one of their 100 great reads of the decade. Below we print the first few pages of the book.
This is the story of a man’s life. He was not an important man, if importance is measured by social position, but he was a man who was at one time rich and socially well-connected, and he might have continued to be if only he had been just a little bit different – but then this book would not have been written. Instead, like Icarus, he revelled too much in the glorious sensation that all possibilities were open to him. Then, singed, he fell headlong, tumbling down through the layers of Hong Kong society – now and then his descent was interrupted, occasionally he wafted upwards briefly on a favourable thermal – but always, inevitably, the fall continued until he hit rock bottom.
He was a man of certain uncommon gifts whose destiny it was to be drawn irresistibly to folly. His story is the living story of Hong Kong. This book is, therefore, a subjective, intimate history of this curious territory: where Shanghainese money and industry, Cantonese grit and fiery doggedness, and British phlegmatism and sense of order created a place where East and West worked out a way of living together.
Histories of Hong Kong have unanimously ignored the man in the street, concerning themselves instead with the dry bureaucratic colonial facts and particularly with the prisoner-of-war experience. But what of the local experiences of the war, and more importantly perhaps, of daily life during the peaceful years both before and after the war?
There is a smell that distils for me all the essential ingredients of Hong Kong. It is the smell of browned cubes of tofu being heated in a dry wok by a street hawker. Black heat waves vibrate upwards carrying the stench, worse than diesel fumes, of the marinade that this tofu has sat in, seemingly for days on end: vinegar, sesame oil, chilli and shrimp paste. Not for nothing is it called chow tofu, stinky beancurd. This is the authentic smell of Hong Kong. This book is a stinky beancurd history of this city.
The island of Cheung Chau lies about eight kilometres south south-west of Hong Kong’s main harbour, less than an hour by ferry from the centre of the city. It is a small but densely populated island. In the spring of 1976 I came to live on Cheung Chau. I had come for the simple reason that it had everything an island should have. It was a fishing village with a waterfront and a pier where the ferry came, and when you got off the ferry, there you were, right in the middle of the village. There was no ugly hinterland of docks to walk past.
The island was still quiet then. It is amazing to remember a deserted waterfront on a midsummer Sunday. Now, of course, it has been discovered and the ferries are packed with day-trippers. But back then it was different. It was a place discovered only by those in need of cheap rents or a quiet, unruffled life.
Peter Hui
Among the people I met very quickly was a slight, dapper Chinese gentleman who went by the name of Peter Hui. He had an easy, charming smile and a reputation for borrowing money and not repaying it. He would have been in his early sixties then. The flesh on his face was taut and he complained of ulcers or a mysterious heart complaint which seemed to prevent him from working as full-time as he insisted he had to in order to survive. Yet he did survive. No-one was really sure how he managed it.
From time to time he would hint of a past that would be worth telling – but, naturally, he said, he couldn’t tell the whole truth. In particular, he often talked about the years of the Japanese occupation. “You wouldn’t believe how rich I was in those days,” he would say to me over a bottle of Tsingtao beer. “During those years I had the largest string of ponies at the Jockey Club. Believe me, Jonathan, I’m not lying to you. I gave them brandy while people were starving.” He shook his head at the perplexing iniquities of fate.
We would be sitting at a small round table under the open sky. Girls from the fishing boats would pass by, dressed in thin cotton pyjama suits and wearing conical rattan hats. The older women had deep tanned and heavily creased faces and, as they laughed, flashed rows of gold teeth. Where have they all gone? It is an age that has slipped quietly away. Time slips past us so fleetingly. It is difficult to stop and capture the small human details.
There was a general consensus among the European community that Peter Hui was not to be entirely believed. He would say anything to get you to buy him a drink. But the stories he told over the years didn’t change. Liars need impossibly good memories. And the purple swollen knuckles on his hands were testimony enough to the kung fu prowess he claimed for himself.
The years passed. Cheung Chau ceased to be a haven from the city. Life became busier. The year 1997 loomed ahead. It seemed to cast a large shadow into the past. It posed questions. One of the questions for me was what life in Hong Kong had been like for the local people in the years gone by. It seemed to me important to capture the past now that we were still there. For the present seemed already like part of the past – and no-one knew what the future after 1997 would bring. There wasn’t a book that gave any real sense of the place in an informal way. I didn’t know that this was exactly the kind of book that was to fall to me to write.
One day, Peter stopped me in the street.
“I need to talk to you, Jonathan. Are you in a hurry?”
I shook my head cautiously. We had known each other now for coming on thirteen years.
“I’m getting old. I should tell my story. If you have time, maybe you can write it.”
As we stood in the glare of the sun I looked at Peter and it seemed he had hardly aged at all. He was still the same: alert and impish. I nodded slowly. It was true I was busy but then again, Peter’s life story might be worth listening to. I had always been curious to know more about the racehorses and the years of the Japanese occupation. It occurred to me that there would be no harm in spending a few evenings with Peter. I would get to hear a few stories. Maybe they would be interesting. Maybe not. It didn’t matter. Or maybe they would be everything that Peter had always promised they would be. I had no idea what to expect. As it turned out, Peter’s stories were everything he said they would be. Over the months and years that we talked there was never any sense of discrepancy or impossible overlap. As we talked I set him small subtle tests. He passed them all. I have no doubt at all this is a true story.
This then is the story of Hui Shen-kei, also known as Hui Tak-kwong, also known as Peter Hui, also known as Hui Lo-sze – Respected Teacher Hui. (Hui rhymes with ‘boy’). Known too, when still a schoolboy, as ‘King’ because of his kung fu prowess. This is the story of a true son of Hong Kong, a hero in his own way, though most readers will probably see him as an anti-hero. This is the life story of a Hong Kong playboy, gambler, kung fu fighter, wartime collaborator with the Japanese, CIA agent, mastermind of armed robbers, associate of triads; a man who once, for a very short time, owned all the opium in Hong Kong.
I am in Peter’s rooms overlooking the beachfront. Ostensibly it is the island’s RSPCA clinic but Peter has taken it over – he is the RSPCA man on the island. Usually the room is bare and functional but today it is bright with flowers. It is Chinese New Year. His few photographs line the walls – “I have lost so many things. I have been so careless!” This, as it turns out, is an understatement.
Although Peter professes to be a Christian there is a porcelain Buddha and another set of figures showing the folk deities: Fu’k, Lu’k and Shao – the human embodiments of Happiness, High Rank and Long Life – the three great traditional desires of the Chinese.
Otherwise the room is spartan. There is an office desk with a telephone on it and a metal table for the veterinary inspections. Under it, in separate cages, are two mynah birds. Their sharp shrieks burst out from time to time: “AAANGAANG!… Grrrek Grrrek!… Ngahwee… Ngahweeeee… Warrowarrowarrow… wooowwooo… ngeow… ngeow!” It is a wide repertoire of noises. Have they learnt them from the animals that file in every Wednesday when the RSPCA vet comes? Two dogs mill around. “Shut up! Sit down!” Peter slaps them and they obey.
Occasionally there is a loud whirr as a helicopter approaches, red lights whirling. Behind Peter’s house is the hospital – little more than an emergency out-patient clinic and a geriatric home. Two hundred yards along the beach is the helicopter landing pad. Someone has to be taken into town for serious medical treatment. There is no point talking now. The sound is deafening. Eventually the helicopter takes off and the sound drifts off into the distance and merges with the other sounds that come in from outside. There is a basketball court not far away and sounds of laughter and shouting interrupt the silence but we are at the back of the village and it is mainly quiet. Of course there are the yapping village dogs. But we can also hear the hush of waves gently slapping against the sand.
I fix the microphone to Peter’s shirt, press the record button, check the batteries, check the tape is moving, nod to Peter that we’re ready to start and then I lean back in my chair to wait.
“What shall we talk about today?” he asks.
“Tell me about your first memory,” I say.
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Find Me: A Novel (Hardcover)
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A New York Times Bestseller
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.
André Aciman is the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me. He's the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
Named an Goodreads, TIME and Vogue Best Book of 2019
Named one of the most anticipated Fall books by ABC News Online, Associated Press, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Goodreads, Huffington Post, Hypable, Lit Hub, Marie Claire, Medium, The Millions, NewNowNext, New York Magazine, Nylon, NY Post, Observer, Oprah.com, Parade, Philadelphia Inquirer, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, TIME, The Times (UK), Town & Country, Washington Blade, Washington Post, Woman’s Day, Yahoo, Vogue, Vox, Vulture, USA Today
"Dazzling" —Parul Sehgal of The New York Times Book Review at the 92nd St Y
"Aciman’s quiet, label-free presentation of bisexual life represents a minor triumph . . . Likewise, his refusal to offer easy resolution, which infuses the whole romantic enterprise with a kind of delicious melancholy. There are moments, particularly in the final chapter, that may have readers gazing tearfully into their fireplaces, real or imaginary, just like Timothée Chalamet at the end of Luca Guadagnino’s superlative film of 'Call Me by Your Name.'" —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post
“[Find Me] is a lyrical meditation on being forced to move to another location after the party’s over, on the Sisyphean task of trying to replicate the magic of young passion . . . it strikes an affectingly melancholy chord.” —Josh Duboff, The New York Times Book Review
"You don’t have to have read Call Me by Your Name, Aciman’s 2007 bestselling novel turned Oscar-nominated movie, to immediately fall in love with this sexy, melancholic follow-up. It stands entirely separate, yet connected, a beautiful ode to the passage of time, to the lasting power of true love and the ache of loneliness . . . the revelations about who these characters have become unraveling slowly like a gorgeous piece of classical music." —Buzzfeed
“Call Me By Your Name was widely praised for its treatment of the nature of love, a theme that Find Me continues with subtlety and grace. Its treatment of the characters’ psychology is astute and insightful, but what will ultimately drive reader interest is the question of whether star-crossed lovers Elio and Oliver will reunite. One can only hope.” —Booklist (Starred Review)
"Love in all its sublime iterations is at the heart of Aciman’s incandescent sequel to the acclaimed Call Me by Your Name . . . Aciman gifts readers with a beautiful 21st-century romance that reflects on the remembrance of things past and the courage to embrace the future. —Library Journal (Starred Review)
“With all of the richly painted details, emotional nuance, and deeply affecting romance as the first installment, this book will draw you in and make you believe in love again.” —Good Housekeeping
“Aciman writes about desire with blunt honesty, describing erotic and emotional interactions with equal clarity. Sex can be tender or not, the connection lasting or ephemeral, but it is almost always multilayered and complex.” —Clea Simon, Boston Globe
“The sequel is just as maddeningly seductive as the original.”—ELLE
“Elegant . . . Elio is the heart of the novel, as its core themes—including fatherhood, music, the nature of time and fate, the weight and promise of the past—are infused with eroticism, nostalgia and tenderness in fluid prose. The novel again demonstrates Aciman’s capacity to fuse the sensual and the cerebral in stories that touch the heart.” —Publishers Weekly
“[Find Me] is touching without being sentimental . . . An elegant, memorable story of enduring love across the generations.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Soulful”—People Magazine
“The focus of Find Me is the unlived life, the real life that comes to a standstill . . . Aciman's clever arrangement takes advantage of the frustrated desire of the reader to see Elio and Oliver reunited . . . Far more ambitious than Call Me by Your Name . . . great care has gone into the artistic shaping of this narrative.”—Anne Serre, The Times Literary Supplement
"A structural marvel . . . proves itself indispensable to longtime readers and newcomers alike."—Garrett Biggs, The Chicago Review of Books
"Find Me is a sensual delight . . . Throughout his nonfiction and fiction, Aciman has maintained a profound preoccupation with memory and the responsibility of history. An aching sense of vulnerability and fearlessness drives this book past any question of whether or not a sequel was warranted." —Lauren LeBlanc, Observer
“Find Me is written in the same spiraling prose . . . full of grace, with some sentences approaching page length—that Call Me by Your Name was. I devoured the novel quickly, and on rereading have found myself unable to break away from Aciman’s hypnotic rhythms.”—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic
“I’m relishing this indulgent sequel—sex, sculptures, food, villas: everything a person could want from a novel or from life.” —Richie Hoffman, Poetry Foundation
“Exquisite”—Kate Erbland, IndieWire
"Aciman had his work cut out for himself in crafting a sequel as contemplative and gorgeous as Call Me by Your Name, which ended in its own coda of Elio's and Oliver's paths crossing years and years hence. Threading that needle perfectly, Aciman continues his story, parsing its very structure in his erudite, knowing style . . . Aciman's genius holds true and makes Find Me a splendid work in its own right." —Dave Wheeler, Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)
“Stubbornly unsentimental, but nevertheless beautiful . . . Find Me is, at heart, a meditation on how love bends and warps over time, but never quite disappears.”—Kristin Iversen, Nylon
"This [book] functioned like a medical-grade SAD lamp in the dead of February. It is a lively novel about sentimental Americans in Italy who feel a wider range of emotions in seven minutes than most people do in a month." —Molly Young, Vulture
“A devastatingly honest reflection on the authenticity of love and life . . . Find Me is a truly remarkable achievement of love beyond the honeymoon teenage years.”— Tomás Guerrero Jaramillo, Harvard Crimson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: October 29th, 2019
Fiction / LGBT / Gay
CD-Audio (October 29th, 2019): $29.99
Library Binding, Large Print (March 25th, 2020): $35.19
Pre-Recorded Audio Player (November 1st, 2019): $71.49
Paperback (June 2nd, 2020): $17.00
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Discussion Guide: The Weight of Blood
1. The Weight of Blood alternates narrators, giving us many of the characters’ perspectives, but mostly going back and forth between Lila and Lucy. What did you think of this dual narrative? Did it confuse you? Could the story have been told in one voice?
2. How do you interpret the relationship between Crete and Carl? Carl consistently turns a blind eye toward Crete’s questionable behavior. Do you think this is a weakness of Carl’s character, or do you believe that Carl is rightly loyal to his brother? If you were Carl, how would you handle your relationship with Crete? Would you have covered up Cheri’s murder?
3. The Weight of Blood ends with Lucy and Daniel together on a blanket, lost in their own world. Lucy tells us, “I let myself get lost in the moment, looking neither forward nor back, seeking nothing absent but embracing what was right in front of me.” How does this ending resonate with the rest of the story and the struggles Lucy has had to face?
4. The novel is set deep in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, in a sparse and wild, dreary and deserted landscape. Describing the valley where her family first settled, Lucy tells us, “What was left of the homestead now was a cluster of tin-roofed out-buildings in various states of decomposition, a collapsed barn, a root cellar with its crumbled steps leading into the earth, and the stone foundation and chimneys of the main house. Walnut trees had sprouted in the spaces between the buildings [and there was] a single-wide trailer that looked out of place among the ruins but every bit as forsaken.” Discuss the role the setting plays in the novel.
5. Discuss the book’s title, The Weight of Blood. Ultimately, what does the novel have to say about “blood,” and the meaning of family? Did your interpretation of the title evolve from the beginning to the end of the novel? If so, how?
6. Throughout the novel, Lucy carries around the necklace she finds, a broken blue butterfly on a chain, until she leaves it with the flowers in the cave. Discuss the significance of the necklace.
8. Discuss the friendships between Lila and Gabby and Lucy and Bess. How were they similar across the generations, and how were they different?
9. The novel leaves the question of who is really Lucy’s father unanswered. Who do you think it is? Do you think it matters? Why or why not?
10. What did you think about Ransome’s role in Crete’s operation? She did whatever she could to help the girls, without actually trying to stop Crete. Do you think her actions were cowardly? Do you think she had a choice?
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Weinstein bringing Faulkner to Oprah audience
By Lindsey Meyers
If you’re an avid Oprah Winfrey fan, you’re probably familiar with Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein, who this August gave a series of online lectures to Oprah’s Book Club about enigmatic author William Faulkner.
Weinstein is the author of six books, a former Fulbright professor, a winner of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a self-proclaimed “Faulkner addict.”
Weinstein said he relished the opportunity Oprah Winfrey gave him to spread the good word about Faulkner.
He said his admiration for Faulkner dates back to his undergraduate days at Princeton, when he was “mesmerized” by Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying.” He said what intrigued him then and continues to fascinate him now is “the level of cogency that is primitive in Faulkner.”
That, he said, is why he considers Faulkner to be America’s greatest novelist, and given Weinstein’s knowledge of Faulkner and Oprah’s powerful influence, the two seemed ideally matched to bring the author’s work to the public.
“Who else besides Oprah could get so many people to read Faulkner?” he said.
According to Weinstein, any potential tension between higher learning and popular culture was not an issue while he worked with Oprah. Because she believes that “great books matter,” he said, she used her celebrity status to champion Faulkner with her book club.
Weinstein said he was able to give his audience nuanced and sophisticated lectures that did not “dumb down” the material for popular consumption.
“If you like to teach, (it is) extremely gratifying when your stuff gets disseminated ever more widely,” he said. Delivering lectures over the Internet gives him the ability to do just that, he added.
Going further, he said this method of online learning could begin to drive society toward a democratization of learning with potentially broad implications for continuing education in America.
Weinstein called Oprah’s attempts to bring great literature to the public “heroic.” Further, as Oprah is an African-American woman, he called her choice of Faulkner – whom many regard as a racist and a sexist – “gutsy.”
He conceded that Faulkner’s political views on race and women were unenlightened, especially in his early novels, but he said he did not consider these grounds to disregard the value of his works.
Weinstein said he is particularly struck by the stream of consciousness Faulkner uses, where the ordinary sequences of time and the rules of grammar are suspended. Though some might argue that the confusion brought about by these passages makes Faulkner’s work too challenging for casual readers, Weinstein said readers can draw meaning from this confusion because it illuminates the disorder that lies at what he calls the “ground zero” of human consciousness.
Lessons like these are too valuable to be restricted to the academy, Weinstein said.
“Shakespeare and Faulkner were not writing for professors but for people,” he said.
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Service Time: 11 AM
Service Location: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Lakewood Ward, 2955 E. Frye Road, Phoenix, AZ 85048
Visitation Date: 11/02/2019
Visitation Time: 10:00 a.m.
Visitation Location: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Lakewood Ward, 2955 E. Frye Road, Phoenix, AZ 85048
Interment: City of Mesa Cemetery
Jimmie JL Foster, 85, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on October 17th, 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born to John Elliot Foster and Lillian May Robinson in Amherst, Texas in 1933. Jim led a very happy, active life filled with faith, family, friends and many activities, such as: serving his church, volunteering at the temple, playing and refereeing basketball and volleyball and dancing the jitterbug.
In 1964, Jim married the love of his life, Patsy Lue, at the Mesa Arizona Temple. They lived out adventures across the country, relocating several times as Jim’s aeronautical engineering career flourished. He developed the B52 wing launch system for the Sky Bolt Missile project for the Airforce and then went into the private sector. There he was an innovator and lead engineer in the development and implementation of many of the autopilot and auto landing systems used in commercial and government planes over the past 50 years as they progressed from analog to digital and then to GPS based systems. Through these efforts he likely helped save the lives of countless airline passengers around the world. He was declared Engineer of the year by Rockwell International Inc when he worked for them.
Jim and Patsy celebrated over 40 years together before Patsy passed away in 2003. Along the way, they raised their seven children, Gary Foster, Brian Foster, Sheryl Andrew, Allen Foster, David Foster, Diane Stephens and Kevin Foster. All seven children succeed him and look to carry out his traditions. His legacy will also continue through his 22 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Known for his playful sense of humor, unparalleled work ethic, practical disposition and faith-based principals, he will be missed by all. Jim was a man of many talents, as he demonstrated that he could fix anything. He is an inspiration to all that survive him.
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, November 2nd 2019 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 2955 E. Frye Road, Phoenix, AZ 85048, with visitation beginning one hour prior to the service at 10:00 am. Flowers may be sent to Bunkers Garden Chapel, 33 N. Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201.
Scott Foster
I would just like to bring up one of my favorites memories of my cousin Jimmy. When I was bout 8 years old, my father (Ace) and I were traveling back from a trip to visit aunt Mary and uncle Marshal, aunt Cidell, Uncle Ernest, Cousin Suzie, Doyle, Jerry and Claudett in Texas. Next stop was Uncle Johnny and Aunt Lillian in Murince Arizon. Last stop on the way home my dad said he wanted me to meet my cousin Jimmy at an Air Force base,I think was in New Mexico. When we arrived at the gate, we were treated like dignitaries. The soldier at the gate sent a car for us and escorted us to a location where some other airman were surrounded with a lot of trucks and radar equipment. They all seemed to be very busy checking all their charts and equipment. I had never met Jimmy before and asked my dad which guy was him? My dad said to be quiet and pointed him out to me. As I remembered him, he was a tall man dressed in an airman’s suit, hat and black laced boots. To an 8 year old boy, he looked like a 10 foot tall General. I was very impressed how serious and important he sounded as he directed others and someone on a radio. After about 5 minutes went by, he swiftly walked over to my dad and me. As he got to us, his serious demeanor broke to great big smile as he bear hugged my dad and asked, “is this my cousin Scott?” My dad said Scott, shake hands with your cousin. Jimmy proceeded to bend down to meet me. I didn’t know whether to salute him, shake his hand or hug him. He reached down for quick hug and said he was very glad to meet me.
All of a sudden he changed back into his serious character. He put one hand on my shoulder and then pointed to the sky with his other hand. He said, “keep your eye on that area over there.” He stood up and walked back to the men who were scrambling around by the equipment and grabbed a radio. I kept my eyes peeled on the area where he told me to and within in just a few seconds, I heard a large rumbling noise. I couldn’t see where it was coming from,but I could feel it shake the ground beneath my feet. Then all of a sudden I saw it. A silver rocket with a plume of smoke from the horizon started to shoot up at an alarming rate. I took me a few seconds to figure out what the heck was going on. it was kinda scary and exciting at the same time.
I watched the rocket as it rumbled clear out of sight. It was the coolest thing I”d ever seen or heard. After the shot was over, Jimmy came over to m and said, “howed you like that!? I My mouth was still hanging open and I just started laughing and saying, Do it again. Jimmy just laughed and said, No, just one today.
after that we chatted for awhile and then he had to go. He gave me another hug and said how happy he was to see my uncle Ace and to meet his cousin.
That was the one and only time I ever met Jimmy, and I’m truly blessed to have to still have such a fond memory of him. He made that day one of the most special days of my life.
It just goes to show you how everyday one person could make someone else’s day a memory they’ll never forget. Thank you Jimmy, and travel well cousin.
Love ya, Scott
Ilene Borze
So sorry for the loss of your beloved father. I know all of his children and grandchildren made him so very proud.
Teri Thomas
Sending my deepest condolences for the entire family. Sending healing prayers and comforting hugs!
Kelsey Foster
I love and miss you so much grandpa, we will meet again one day… ❤️
Craig Glassmeyer
When I think of Br./Bishop Foster, I have nothing but fond memories. He was a giant of a man, not because of his stature but because of his love, compassion, and energetic personality! When the Foster’s lived in Iowa, I spent many days and nights in their home, as I was friends with Allen and basically the whole family. He was such a great example to me, as a young man growing up in the Church. He was always very supportive of my family with all of our problems that we faced. Jim, was always ready to play basketball, volleyball, or softball, whenever it was tournament time! I and many of us here in Iowa have been blessed by him and all of the Foster family. His Mission continues on the other side with his sweet Wife, teaching the Gospel to those on the other side of the veil.
Tessie Baldwin
Jimmy will forever hold a special place in my heart. He was a man of integrity, faith and family. Thank you for sharing him with the Foothills Ward. Sorry to miss his service. I will be there in spirit!!
Reading this obituary, it is heartwarming to know so much of this man will live on in his children and grandchildren. I’m sad for your enormous loss.
Janet Meyer
Oh Bishop Foster – The memories, we moved to Cedar Rapids in 1978, He & his wife visited my home, when my husband was not a member of the Church. I was in the Primary and played organ & piano. He & Patsy came & shared their testimony. I’ll never forget him & his influence upon my husband, and then Patsy said, “Lyle, you already have a testimony of the gospel.” He joined about 5 weeks later, and our family was sealed in the Washington DC Temple in April of 1983. Bishop Foster said we would have double blessings. We did. We had Twins the next year. He & his wife really helped me grow and blessed our family in many ways. I’m sorry I lost track of them both. we loved their family & their example. Thanks for the memories. I’m sure we’ll meet again. How wonderful to know that families are eternal .God bless your family. With love, Jan Meyer
Cindi Manwaring
We truly loved the time we knew Jimmy. His love of life and being engaged in youth sports. It kept him young. Here is one experience I haven’t shared with many that involved him. In our neighborhood there was this white elephant house which was painted a hideous yellow. I was driving west on Chandler Blvd. gaping at this monstrosity, definitely a distracted driver, hitting both left tires on the island flattening both. As I limped to the next street there sat Jimmy in his car ready to help. I was mortified but he reassured me that this could happen to anyone…yah right. He stayed with me until the tow truck came and took me home promising to keep this on the down low. It was really funny in hind sight. He will be missed for his kindness and positive attitude.
Chris Munson Merulla
My deepest condolences to the entire family. Bishop Foster was one of my all-time favorite Bishops. He was my bishop at a crossroads in my life and was always so very kind and compassionate. What a truly wonderful man!!!
Debbie Hilton
He was such a sweet and kind man. We loved being around him!
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Every single Robert Pattinson movie, ranked
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Robert Pattinson has been in a range of movies, from historical dramas to fantasy films.
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Robert Pattinson is an actor who first skyrocketed to fame with his role as Edward Cullen in “Twilight” (2008).
Insider ranked all of Pattinson’s films based on critical scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
“Good Time” (2017) and “The Lighthouse” (2019) currently stand as his highest-rated films on Rotten Tomatoes.
However, other films like “Queen of the Desert” (2017) and “Little Ashes” (2009) didn’t win over critics.
Best known for his breakout role as vampire Edward Cullen in “Twilight,” Robert Pattinson has since become recognized for his work in independent dramas and comedies.
Although Pattinson has earned praise for many of his post-“Twilight” performances, not all of his films have been a hit with critics.
Here is every movie in Robert Pattinson’s filmography, as ranked by critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes.
Note: All scores were current on the date of publication and are subject to change. Films without critical ratings were not included.
Pattinson’s lowest-ranked film is the period drama “Queen of the Desert” (2017).
Robert Pattinson in “Queen of the Desert.”
Synopsis: Based on a true story, “Queen of the Desert” follows Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) as she leaves life in England behind and travels across the Middle East, forming a love affair with a British officer (James Franco) along the way.
Robert Pattison appeared as famous archaeologist T.E. Lawrence.
Pattinson was Salvador Dali in “Little Ashes” (2009).
He played a famous artist.
Regent Releasing
Synopsis: In the period drama “Little Ashes,” renowned artist Salvador Dali (Robert Pattinson) and poet Frederic García Lorca fall in love in the Pre-Spanish Civil War era.
The two revolutionary men struggle with their love for their country as they delve deeper into their own identities.
He was lead vampire Edward Cullen in “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” (2011).
This is the third film in the “Twilight” series.
Synopsis: The first part of a two-part adaptation of the “Breaking Dawn” novel, “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” centers around Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) as they go from wedded bliss to chaos.
When Bella miraculously gets pregnant, their future child portends consequences they never could have expected.
The actor was Tyler Hawkins in the drama “Remember Me” (2010).
Robert Pattinson in “Remember Me.”
Synopsis: In the coming-of-age drama “Remember Me,” Pattinson played Tyler Hawkins, a man who struggles to connect with his father (Pierce Brosnan) following a tragic loss.
He finds solace in Ally (Emilie de Ravin) but outward influences threaten the future of their relationship.
In “Bel Ami” (2012), Pattinson played Georges Duroy.
The film is set in the 1890s.
Synopsis: “Bel Ami” is a drama about Georges Duroy (Pattinson), a clever traveler who rises through the ranks of Parisian society in the 1890s.
As he goes from extreme poverty to settings of extravagant wealth, Duroy becomes entrenched in a world of lies and seduction.
Pattinson returned as Edward Cullen in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (2009).
This is his second time playing Edward Cullen.
Synopsis: In the second adaptation of the popular “Twilight” book series, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” begins with Edward (Pattinson) leaving Bella (Stewart) behind in an effort to protect her.
Heartbroken, Bella grows closer to her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) only to discover that vampires aren’t the only supernatural creatures in their small town of Forks.
He starred opposite Kristen Stewart again in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” (2010).
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart used to date in real life.
Synopsis: Upon Edward’s return to Forks in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” Bella (Stewart) struggles to grapple with her love for him and her burgeoning attraction to Jacob (Lautner).
Amidst the love triangle that develops, Edward and Jacob attempt to put their feelings aside to protect Bella from a group of malevolent vampires.
Pattinson originated his role as Edward Cullen in “Twilight” (2010).
This was the first of four films.
Synopsis: In the first “Twilight” film, high schooler Bella Swan (Stewart) transfers to a new school in rainy Forks, Washington, and is immediately drawn to otherworldly student Edward Cullen (Pattinson).
As Bella becomes more certain that Edward is a vampire, her love for him grows as well.
The actor co-starred with Kristen Stewart once more in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2” (2012).
This was Robert Pattinson’s final turn as Edward.
Synopsis: In the final installment in the “Twilight” franchise, Bella acclimates to her new life as a vampire as she and Edward bind together to protect their supernaturally gifted daughter Renesmee, who’s very existence catches the unwelcome attention of law-abiding vampires.
With the Cullens’ help, Bella does everything possible to protect her family.
Pattinson played Officer Mandel in “Waiting for the Barbarians” (2019).
He plays a sadistic warrant officer.
Iervolino Entertainment
Synopsis: Based on the novel of the same name, “Waiting for the Barbarians” centers around Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), a magistrate who starts to question his loyalty to his empire as he oversees a colonial town.
Pattinson portrayed Officer Mandel, a sadistic warrant officer who works for Colonel Joll.
He was Reese Witherspoon’s love interest in the romantic drama “Water for Elephants” (2011).
It’s based on a book.
Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, the drama “Water for Elephants” follows the romance between veterinary student Jacob (Pattinson) and star circus performer Marlena (Reese Witherspoon).
Together, the two share affection for an elephant in their traveling circus that falls under their protection.
In “Maps to the Stars” (2015), he appeared as Jerome Fontana.
It’s a dark comedy.
Synopsis: David Cronenberg’s dark comedy “Maps to the Stars” tracks the unwieldy fortune of the Weiss family, headed by TV therapist Stafford Weiss (John Cusack).
Pattinson appeared as Jerome Fontana, a limo driver who forms a friendship with Agatha Weiss (Mia Wasikowska), Stafford’s estranged daughter.
Pattinson played Dennis Stock in the biopic “Life” (2015).
Robert Pattinson played a photographer.
See-Saw Films
Synopsis: The drama “Life” shows a snapshot look at James Dean (Dane DeHaan) through the eyes of Dennis Stock (Pattinson), the Life magazine photographer assigned to profile him.
The two men build a budding friendship as James opens up to Dennis about life in Hollywood.
The actor was Rey in the dystopian film “The Rover” (2014).
“Rover” is a sci-fi thriller.
Synopsis: Set 10 years after a devastating global collapse, “Rover” is a science-fiction thriller about a loner named Eric (Guy Pearce) who does his best to survive in a lawless society.
After his car is stolen by thieves, Eric forces Rey (Pattinson) into helping him retrieve his prized possession at any cost.
He was Eric Parker sci-fi film “Cosmopolis” (2012).
The film is set in New York City.
Synopsis: Before “Maps to the Stars,” Pattinson collaborated with director David Cronenberg in the 2012 sci-fi drama “Cosmopolis.”
Set in New York City in the near future, the film features Pattinson as Eric Parker, a privileged Wall Street financier whose life is plunged into imminent danger when he sets foot in the real world.
Pattinson appeared opposite Mia Wasikowska once more in the western “Damsel” (2018).
Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson in “Damsel.”
Synopsis: “Damsel” is a modern Western with a comedic twist, featuring Pattinson as pioneer Samuel Alabaster, a man traveling across the American Frontier to reunite with his true love Penelope (Mia Wasikowska).
With Parson (David Zellner) by his side, Samuel’s journey through the Wild West grows complicated in ways they never could have predicted.
In the drama “The King” (2019) he was The Dauphin of France.
Robert Pattinson stars in “The King.”
Synopsis: The historical drama “The King” tracks the ascension of King Henry V of England (Timothée Chalamet) as he inherits the throne from his deceased father.
Pattinson appears in the film as the Dauphin of France, an adversary who challenges the young king’s seat of power.
Pattinson re-appeared as Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (2007).
Robert Pattinson as Cedric Diggory from a previous film.
Synopsis: In “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” Pattison is credited for his reappearance as Cedric through flashbacks as Harry works through the loss of his friend and fellow student.
Pattison first appeared in acclaimed “Harry Potter” fantasy series in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005) as bright young wizard Cedric Diggory.
Pattinson was Monte in the art-house film “High Life” (2019).
The film is set in the distant future.
Synopsis: Set in the distant future, the art-house film “High Life” follows a crew of death-row inmates as their space program unravels at the edge of the galaxy.
Pattinson held the lead role of Monte, a former prisoner who is soon left on the ship with only his young daughter at his side.
The actor played Henry Costin in “The Lost City of Z” (2017).
The film is about a journey into the Amazon.
Lost City of Z Movie
Synopsis: Based on a true story, the action-drama “The Lost City of Z” delves into the life of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) and his journey into the depths of the Amazon.
Pattinson appears as military officer Henry Costin, who assists in Percy’s quest to procure evidence of an undiscovered civilization.
Pattinson first played Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005).
Cedric Diggory is one of the most beloved characters from “Harry Potter.”
Synopsis: “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” is the fourth installment in the popular “Harry Potter” fantasy series, focusing on Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Forced to contend in a magical tournament, Harry builds an unexpected friendship with Hufflepuff student and fellow champion Cedric Diggory (Pattinson).
He was Charles in the drama “Childhood of a Leader” (2016).
The film is set in Europe.
Bow and Arrow Entertainment
Synopsis: Set in Europe during World War I, “Childhood of a Leader” is a historical drama that centers around Charles (Pattinson), the son of an American diplomat navigating life during wartime.
The dark coming-of-age story allows viewers to see France through Charles’ eyes as he witnesses the Treaty of Versailles and the first gasps of fascism in Europe.
Pattinson played Ephraim Winslow in “The Lighthouse” (2019).
The film is not in color.
Synopsis: Horror film and drama in equal measure, “The Lighthouse” tells the story of two lighthouse keepers: Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson).
The two are driven to madness and delusion as they man their lighthouse post on a remote New England island in the 1890s.
Pattinson was Connie Nikas in “Good Time” (2017), his best-rated film.
“Good Time” is a crime thriller.
Synopsis: In the crime thriller “Good Time,” Constantine Nikas (Pattinson) races through the nasty underbelly of New York City’s criminal world in an effort to free his younger brother from jail.
As Constantine desperately accrues more money to save his brother, he finds himself putting his own life on the line.
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Satellite Gallery, A Beacon Of Street Art, Closing After 13 Years In Downtown Asheville
By Matt Peiken • Dec 30, 2019
It’s just before noon on a Wednesday, and Bill Thompson is behind his desk inside an otherwise empty Satellite Gallery. He had just scrolled through the hundreds of comments and likes on his Facebook post from the day before, announcing he’s about to close his gallery after 13 years in downtown Asheville.
“The outpouring of love and support comes through when you close the doors, and you’re almost like, where was everybody when we were open?” Thompson said. “If you’re going to be supportive of the arts and the local community, itr doesn’t mean liking their stuff in social media. It means being supportive financially towards those artists who you say you love their work and to that gallery who you say you love what they’re doing.”
Bill Thompson inside The Satellite Gallery
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Thompson isn’t solely or even chiefly pinning his closure on slowing business. Rather, it’s to a skyrocketing rent. When the Satellite Gallery, in 2006, Thompson paid $1,200 per month on his 1,440-square-foot space, and he praises the building’s owner for only raising the rent in all the years since to just $1,500. Starting in July, the rent stood to more than double, to $3,100. Thompson is sympathetic to the economics, both the building owner’s and his own.
Satellite is currently showing work from four female painters, and the gallery remains open during its normal hours through the end of June.
“When Asheville started to change from the arts to, say, the beer/food economy, that’s when the clientele changes,” he said. “You never know what anybody’s interested in and I’m not trying to show what anybody’s interested in. Do I compromise my own values and what I want and slip into this, ‘Oh, I’m just going to be like everybody else in town?’ Or do I push the truth of what I’m trying to do?”
Thompson’s truth, or aesthetic, is what you could call street art. He opened the gallery with $10,000 of his money, largely saved up through years of selling t-shirts and other merchandise along tours of the Grateful Dead and Phish.
Satellite primarily showcased painters and photographers from this region with work at considerably lower price points than that of other contemporary galleries downtown. It hosted artists who painted on toys, model trains and skateboards.
“Asheville was a folk, craft gallery town, and all these amazing low-brow, contemporary, forward artists, graffiti artists didn’t have a voice to show,” he said. “That’s why I opened this gallery, because I was connected to a lot of these people.”
As Satellite prepares to close, the Momentum Gallery will soon take over almost an entire block block of storefronts just across the street from Satellite on Broadway. Jordan Ahlers, Momentum’s founder, praised Satellite for paving the way to other outlets for outsider art and art-oriented shops such as Horse & Hero.
“Bill was a bit of a maverick by showing things that were a little more urban, a little bit edgier, taylored maybe towards a younger market, and in a lot of ways he was ahead of his time, for this community,” Ahlers said. “Bill’s commitment to the local art scene helped put Asheville and a number of contemporary artists on the map, and he should be commended for that.”
In addition to new exhibitions every four to six weeks, Satellite hosted an annual erotica art show that raised money for the WNC AIDS Project and the annual Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam art show, with proceeds going to the Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity.
Thompson said he’s open to finding another home in Asheville for his gallery.
“It’s like the end of an era. It’s bittersweet. I love the gallery, everybody I’ve worked with and I love this community. It’s a little overwhelming,” he said. “You know, you build something up and have it all these years. I almost felt I was failing the art community of Asheville. You have to look at it positively. Knowing what we did here and knowing how the community supported the gallery and the artists supported the gallery, anything can be positive from here. I let collectors know what was going on and they texted me back and they’re like ‘Wherever you go, we will find you, even if it’s across the country."
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